Re: [newbie-it] Per installare MDK 9.1
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:39:47 +0100 Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: io scaricherò la Mdk9.1 (probabilmente) sabato o domenica: mi piacerebbe, intanto, sentire i pareri di chi la sta già provando... Impressione ultra superficiale: l'anti-aliasing è ben fatto. Una leggibilità veramente superiore. I miei occhi ringraziano :-)) ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] aggiornamnto da 9.0 a 9.1
Ciao, stamattina ho provato ad aggiornare la mia mandrake 9.0 alla 9.1. Non ho mai aggiornato la mia mandrake, e questo e' il mio primo approccio all'aggiornamento usando le ISO. Mi sono trovato una serie di menu in cui non era in alcun modo indicato che stavo procedendo ad un aggiornamento del sistema invece di una normale installazione su har disk formattato. ad un certo punto, dopo la lingua e la licenza ho interrotto per la paura di compromettere la mia installazione. E' normale avere un processo di installazione di questo tipo? a che punto appare evidente che il setup sta procedendo ad un aggiornamento e non ad una installazione su disco vuoto? Qual'e' il modo migliore di procedere all'aggiornamento? Grazie, Simone. -- Simone Cortesi http://cortesi.com/ blog * photos * PHP manual in italian Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://cortesi.com/wishlist.php
Re: [newbie-it] aggiornamnto da 9.0 a 9.1
On 28 Mar 2003 14:02:23 +0100 Simone Cortesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, stamattina ho provato ad aggiornare la mia mandrake 9.0 alla 9.1. Non ho mai aggiornato la mia mandrake, e questo e' il mio primo approccio all'aggiornamento usando le ISO. Mi sono trovato una serie di menu in cui non era in alcun modo indicato che stavo procedendo ad un aggiornamento del sistema invece di una normale installazione su har disk formattato. ad un certo punto, dopo la lingua e la licenza ho interrotto per la paura di compromettere la mia installazione. In una delle prime schermate, appare la scritta È un'installazione o un aggiornamento? seguto dall'elenco delle partizioni dove è presente la root di Linux Sicuramente non è la prima schermata. Però è senz'altro prima che tu possa fare qualcosa di pericoloso. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] boot e cdrom
At 16.43 28/03/2003, Emiliano La Licata wrote: nel bios del pc non c'è l'opzione del boot dal cdrom e il win caricato è quarda caso impallato, dunque come posso fare a far partire l'installazione? Nel primo cd usi le utility per creare un floppy di avvio e, quindi, fai partire l'installazione dal dischetto. Saluti, Andrea. -- I guai sono come i fogli di carta igienica: ne prendi uno, ne vengono dieci. Woody Allen
Re: [newbie-it] boot e cdrom
At 16.43 28/03/2003 +0100, you wrote: Salve a tutti, Scusate la domanda molto newbie Vorrei provare la mdk 9.0 in una versione molto ma molto ridotta su un vecchio pc, 64 ram 640M in C, trascurato ed abbandonato, nella scuoletta dove insegno... nel bios del pc non c'è l'opzione del boot dal cdrom e il win caricato è quarda caso impallato, dunque come posso fare a far partire l'installazione? Ciao grazie Magari dico una castroneria Da un altro PC funzionante ti puoi creare un dschetto di avvio usando RAWRITE, che trovi nel cd di Mandrake... Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] manutenzione
Alle 22:55, 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. Tieni sotto controllo anche i vari file di log, che hanno la tendenza ad ingrossarsi, se non correttamente gestiti. Parti dalla configurazione di syslog.conf (leggi il man), poi logrotate (il man pure lui). Per la gestione dei file tmp guarda tmpwatch (man), ed il file di configurazione di solito nelle dir di cron. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair -
Re: [newbie-it] Kylix
Il 00:23, venerdì 28 marzo 2003, kua79 scrisse:
Non ho la più pallida idea di come dirgli al mio bel Kylix di eseguire
un'istruzione.
Allego parte di un mio programma in cui, l'azione associata al bottone è
lanciare acrobat ed aprire un file pdf. Dovrebbe essere facilmente adattabile
ad altri comandi.
---
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
iPrg:integer;
begin
iPrg:=libc.system('acroread lezione_neutrini.pdf');
if iPrg=-1 then
ShowMessage('error executing your application');
end;
---
Importante: all'inizio della unit, in Uses, va aggiunto libc.
Per ottenere il tuo scopo dovresti cambiare la riga dopo il begin in questo
modo (gli apici sono importanti):
iPrg:=libc.system('masterizza nomefile.iso ');
NOTA: ho copiato la dritta da un sito su Kylix, probabilmente uno di questi:
http://kylix.dubaron.com/
http://www.torry.net/comp_klx_interface.htm
non mi ricordo più l'autore e mi scuso con lui...
--
Ciao ciao
[newbie-it] Installazione KDE 3.1
Un saluto a tutti, vorrei installare il KDE v.3.1 trovato su un cd allegato a Linux Magazine (ottima rivista) aprendo la cartella KDE_3.1 ho trovato vari pacchetti relativi a questo ambiente, (kdebase-3.1, che penso sia quella principale, kdeutils-3.1, ecc. ovviamente tutti con estensione .tar.bz2)! La domanda che vi faccio è semplice, adesso per installarli devo installare pacchetto x pacchetto vero? o c'è un'operazione che comprende l'installazione generale? (mi sa di no!) (sarà la mia prima installazione che farò ma con la documentazione che ho penso di riuscirci, magari vi faccio sapere) grazie tante in anticipo!
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione KDE 3.1
Gaetano wrote: Un saluto a tutti, vorrei installare il KDE v.3.1 trovato su un cd allegato a Linux Magazine (ottima rivista) aprendo la cartella KDE_3.1 ho trovato vari pacchetti relativi a questo ambiente, (kdebase-3.1, che penso sia quella principale, kdeutils-3.1, ecc. ovviamente tutti con estensione .tar.bz2)! La domanda che vi faccio è semplice, adesso per installarli devo installare pacchetto x pacchetto vero? o c'è un'operazione che comprende l'installazione generale? (mi sa di no!) (sarà la mia prima installazione che farò ma con la documentazione che ho penso di riuscirci, magari vi faccio sapere) grazie tante in anticipo! allora: mi viene da consigliarti se hai una mdk non farlo :) se hai un'altra distro pure... kde sono almeno una 20 di pacchetti ... e sono abbastanza delicati e cmq non proprio adatti ad una prima installaizone ti consiglio di scaricare la 9.1 o di connetterti al sito di mandrake e cercare li i pacchetti precompilati per mdk è la soluzione migliore. ciao francesco
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione KDE 3.1
Alle 00:00, sabato 29 marzo 2003, Gaetano ha scritto: Un saluto a tutti, vorrei installare il KDE v.3.1 trovato su un cd allegato a Linux Magazine (ottima rivista) aprendo la cartella KDE_3.1 ho trovato vari pacchetti relativi a questo ambiente, (kdebase-3.1, che penso sia quella principale, kdeutils-3.1, ecc. ovviamente tutti con estensione .tar.bz2)! La domanda che vi faccio è semplice, adesso per installarli devo installare pacchetto x pacchetto vero? o c'è un'operazione che comprende l'installazione generale? (mi sa di no!) (sarà la mia prima installazione che farò ma con la documentazione che ho penso di riuscirci, magari vi faccio sapere) grazie tante in anticipo! E' un'ardua impresa: premesso che prima devi installare Qt x KDE3.1 (e già quello rompe!) ed arts, l'installazione dei pacchetti non è a caso ma segue un ordine ben preciso. Per esempio kdelibs va compilato ed installato prima di kdebase che utilizza proprio le librerie di kdelibs per funzionare. Dovresti comunque trovare un file che ti dice l'ordine di compilazione ed installazione. Ora posso solo dirti: AUGURI. Bye.
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione KDE 3.1
Francesco scrive: se hai una mdk non farlo :) se hai un'altra distro pure... Veramente adesso sto utilizzando la RedHat 8.0, in attesa della fine del 3 cd della Mdk 9.1 che sto scaricando tramite ftp! Ho seguito le vostre precedenti affermazioni sulle differenza tra le 2 distro e ho deciso di provarle entrambe, e metterò la Mdk 9.1 sul Desktop ( sto aspettando un modem ethernet per lasciare definitivamente,o quasi, winzoz) e la RedHat 8.0 su Laptop! ti consiglio di scaricare la 9.1 o di connetterti al sito di mandrake e cercare li i pacchetti precompilati per mdk è la soluzione migliore. Credo che su quello di casa farò come hai detto ma sul portatile penso che proverò ad installarlo, sono nuovo di Linux ma mi piace smanettare, fare le 4 la notte, e cercare di imparare il più possibile su questo fantastici S.O. ciao e grazie
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione KDE 3.1
Fabio scrive: E' un'ardua impresa: premesso che prima devi installare Qt x KDE3.1 (e già quello rompe!) ed arts, l'installazione dei pacchetti non è a caso ma segue un ordine ben preciso. Per esempio kdelibs va compilato ed installato prima di kdebase che utilizza proprio le librerie di kdelibs per funzionare. questo non lo sapevo, avevo letto del problema delle dipendenze ma in questo caso non ci avevo pensato! Dovresti comunque trovare un file che ti dice l'ordine di compilazione ed installazione. cercherò, ma da una prima visione non c'è Ora posso solo dirti: AUGURI. grazie ne ho bisogno!
[newbie-it] filesystem criptato
Per utilizzare le funzioni di filesystem criptato, devo utilizzare il kernel-secure-2.4... e come lo imposto in fase di installazione ? Grazie a tutti. bye.
[newbie-it] Re: Per installare MDK 9.1
--- Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 17:35, 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... Ho scaricato i tre file iso corrispondenti ai tre cd rom. Si presentano con l'icona di tre file di testo, dal peso di 650 mb. Non ci sono directory da aprire Ho masterizzato il primo su un cd, settato il boot per l'avvio da cd rom, ma all'avvio i cd rom viene ignorato e parte normalmente il PC con il vecchio sistema operativo. __ 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] Re: Per installare MDK 9.1
max wrote: --- Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 17:35, 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... Ho scaricato i tre file iso corrispondenti ai tre cd rom. Si presentano con l'icona di tre file di testo, dal peso di 650 mb. Non ci sono directory da aprire Ho masterizzato il primo su un cd, settato il boot per l'avvio da cd rom, ma all'avvio i cd rom viene ignorato e parte normalmente il PC con il vecchio sistema operativo. __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html masterizzato con cosa? prova a dire il nome del programma nero? usa nuovo file iso , da immagine e seleziona ... non so prova dire qualcosw in più... non masterizzarli con opzione crea cdrom di boot ( i cd sono già di boot) ciao francesco
Re: [newbie] Gnome Talk (Mdk9.0)
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 06:11, Anne Wilson wrote: 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 Have you checked the properties of the menu entry and checked to see if the binary actually exists? -- Fri Mar 28 19:40:00 EST 2003 19:40:00 up 7 days, 6:27, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.09 -- |____ | 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 ** Marxist Law of Distribution of Wealth: Shortages will be divided equally among the peasants. 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 Fri, 2003-03-28 at 06:35, 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 Switch to runlevel 3, install Xtart, and you might find that it's already there... -- Fri Mar 28 19:40:00 EST 2003 19:40:00 up 7 days, 6:27, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.09 -- |____ | 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 ** Marxist Law of Distribution of Wealth: Shortages will be divided equally among the peasants. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Just got 9.0 in the mail...
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 09:24, eric hufstedler wrote: 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! Ya reckon you might still take a walk on down there and tell them that they can increase publicity by sending ME a 9.1 Professional set here in Aussieland - and I'll definitely tell all my friends, family, mistresses, customers and clients, and other assorted local-type people's that they NEED to purchase Mandrake 9.1 - and see if they can chuck in a coffee cup and a t-shirt and baseball cap to boot? If they DO send me that, I'll get'em a coupon for a free steak at Waffle House... -- Fri Mar 28 19:45:00 EST 2003 19:45:00 up 7 days, 6:32, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.13, 0.09 -- |____ | 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 ** Are you all right? -Leela Ah, it's nothing a a law suit won't cure. -Bender 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!!
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:31, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: I have installed 9.1 in two computers (one of them a laptop) and the experience has been the best I have ever had. Maybe someone needs to send one of these emails directly to Adolpho...(g) BTW, I just got my 9.1, and attempted to install it on my Atari 800, but the installation was a complete failure. Tomorrow I'm going to try my Commodore. -- Fri Mar 28 19:55:00 EST 2003 19:55:00 up 7 days, 6:42, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.09, 0.08 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Just got 9.0 in the mail...
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:35, Hendrik Boom wrote: The Canadian Mandrake office is not far from where I live in Montreal. But the Mandrake 9.0 I ordered came all the way from France. Was it in a Mandrake Freedom boxed set? (Very bad joke) -- Fri Mar 28 20:45:00 EST 2003 20:45:00 up 7 days, 7:32, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.09 -- |____ | 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 ** Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit... - Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 377 B.C.), The Sacred Disease Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Leadtek Winfast TV2000/XP with Bamboo
I have been unable to get my Winfast TV2000/XP to work with bamboo without problems. initially the screen is not in color and has shadow images when i select s-video. i also dont hear any sound. the leadtek uses audio out to the line in of soundcard for sound source. any help appreciated. thanks !
RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
Well.. This is what I have done. I didn't get a chance to see whether it works 100% perfect but I tried John's advice but like I thought, the terminal looked at me and shrieked with laughter. I got very, very annoyed and proceeded to do the following: In /mnt I created two new directories - DVD and CD-RW. Then I chose these as mounting points for my drives respectively. Once I realised both were recognised and working I removed cdrom and cdrom2 from /mnt. as far as I know, everything is working now. I have a mounting point for each drive which has a name which implies what the directory is for. If every thing goes according to plan Why the hell didn't I think about it before? It won't backfire on me or anything, will it? Oren -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 20:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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] 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] floppy takes horribly long to open (in mdk9.1)
it takes about a minute to open floppy; while opening it, konquerror displays 'nonemntfloppy', after that it succeeds an displays '/mnt/floppy'. Then it works OK, but if I remove floppy and put it back, it hapens again. Dou you know what might be the problem? __ 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: Well.. This is what I have done. I didn't get a chance to see whether it works 100% perfect but I tried John's advice but like I thought, the terminal looked at me and shrieked with laughter. I got very, very annoyed and proceeded to do the following: In /mnt I created two new directories - DVD and CD-RW. Then I chose these as mounting points for my drives respectively. Once I realised both were recognised and working I removed cdrom and cdrom2 from /mnt. as far as I know, everything is working now. I have a mounting point for each drive which has a name which implies what the directory is for. If every thing goes according to plan Why the hell didn't I think about it before? It won't backfire on me or anything, will it? Oren As far as naming the /mnt directories goes it matters not what you call them, if you prefer dvd and writer, so be it, I chose cdrom,and cdrom2 , but it doesn't matter which you choose, so long as you have these names set up as /mnt directories. 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
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 10:38 am, Tsur, Oren wrote: In /mnt I created two new directories - DVD and CD-RW. Then I chose these as mounting points for my drives respectively. Once I realised both were recognised and working I removed cdrom and cdrom2 from /mnt. as far as I know, everything is working now. I have a mounting point for each drive which has a name which implies what the directory is for. If every thing goes according to plan Why the hell didn't I think about it before? g How often we all say that g It won't backfire on me or anything, will it? Nah - enjoy!! Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] an error in konquerror
If I right-click on a postscript file in konquerror (in mdk9.1) it displays an error message, don't remember precisely, but something like incorrect menu entry /usr/../konqueror/../convertpstopdf.desktop (after I click OK, the popup menu appears) I don't understand the problem. If I right click on a pdf file, there is no error, though there is a very similar file convertpdftops.desktop. Here they are: convertpstopdf.dektop: [Desktop Entry] ServiceTypes=application/postscript Actions=convertpstopdf TryExec=ps2pdf [Desktop Action convertpdftops] Name=Convert PS file to PDF Exec=ps2pdf %f.ps %f.pdf convertpdftops.desktop: [Desktop Entry] ServiceTypes=application/pdf Actions=convertpdftops TryExec=pdftops [Desktop Action convertpdftops] Name=Convert PDF file to PS Exec=pdftops %f %f.ps __ 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] floppy takes horribly long to open (in mdk9.1)
I have the same problem with Mdk 9.0. My impression is that the supermount causes this. Previous Mdk versions (whithout supermount) did not have this problem. You can disable the supermount through the MCC though. Cheers, Andrei it takes about a minute to open floppy; while opening it, konquerror displays 'nonemntfloppy', after that it succeeds an displays '/mnt/floppy'. Then it works OK, but if I remove floppy and put it back, it hapens again. Dou you know what might be the problem? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
Hello I am looking for a good TV Card to use with Mandrake 9.0. I plan to upgrade to 9.1 next month. I have searched a few web sites and so far have found a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 but it is a bit pricey for my budget. Are there other recommendations for one that will work with Linux? I do not need too many bells and whistles but would like to watch TV and listen to FM radio on my computer as well as be able to record from my camcorder on CD or DVD eventually when I get a DVD burner. Many thanks in advance! Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1
Hi, this is my first try to upgrade mandrake from a previous installation, at the moment i'm running 9.0, I already have the 3 ISOs of 9.1. My filesystem is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simone]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 37233384 8610688 26731308 25% / /dev/hdc1 39076544 22893632 16182912 59% /mnt/win_c This morning I did try to upgrade this installation, during setup I did not find any reference to the fact that mandrake was upgrading the system instead of installing it new. It just seemed like a normal installation to a formatted hard disk. fearing the unknown I did abort the installation before writing anything to disk, so now I'm safely on my old 9.0. Which is the exact way to upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1? where do I read more about upgrading? is there any way I can know that mandrake is actually upgrading my system instead of installing it clean. Thanks, Simone. -- Simone Cortesi http://cortesi.com/ blog * photos * PHP manual in italian Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://cortesi.com/wishlist.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] On USB Ports
Thanks to HarM and Derek. I must confess I didn't try Dereck's advise, so, I do not know whether it might have worked or not. I'm sorry about this, it is just that my system got highly unstable due to my election of loading an NFS server on boot. The problem was that for some obscure reason, the system hanged when booting off, and the only thing left to do was to shut the power off. That caused a lot of problems and when I found the cure, and also I consulted the experts on the USB isssue and nothing worked, the system was in a very bad shape, so I decided to clean everything and do a fresh install. That gave me the opportunity to give some more space to the Linux patition which was already a bit tight. Anyway, thanks. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] On my silly question
Thanks to Anne and Thorsten. Thorsten, you got me in the right path this time, I could install, but I guess I would have to pay attention to Ann and find out what to do when I have an installer with an extension. Very indebted to both. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I disconnect an ASDL connection?
I configured my ASDL connection to start on boot and it works great. In Windows it sometimes goes down, but here it is hidden, I never see an icon indicating the state of the connection or anything, but it is always on. Thing is, I installed Mandrake in a small hp Pavillion computer wich comes with a Win Modem. Someone told me that Linux doesen't support Win Modems, so I went and got me an external USB modem. I know now that several Win modems are supported by Linux, but mine sems not to have been detected by Mandrake, I know where to find the drivers for Debian, there must exist for Mandrake, so it should be not much of a problem to make it work. But I am now mainly concerned with the USB modem. Now, if I go to the control centre, I can see the modem under USB devices. But, in the USB viewer, it appears as unknown device. I just want to test if I can dial my ISP. For that, I need to terminate my ASDL connection, how do I do that? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.1 does not work
Hi there, I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the intsller just said it's not resizeable) Can anyone please give some pointers to fix it? Many thanks in advance. BTW, even the install failed I think this version of 9.1 is very nice Wishes, QingHua 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!!
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 04:56, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:31, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: I have installed 9.1 in two computers (one of them a laptop) and the experience has been the best I have ever had. Maybe someone needs to send one of these emails directly to Adolpho...(g) Envy is what I feel lot of tears Seriously. The problem turned out to be related to the CD-R's and not to Mandrake 9.1. I took out that brand from my Memory to avoid buying it again. Before 9.1 final, I made a third install of RC2 and everything worked nicely but the keventd thing. I found some reports on this and it has something to do with APM: kapm-idled kept calling keventd like a zillion times per nanosecond which put this processor at an nice 'n' easy 5000% load (gkrellm and top showed only a 100% load) I am anxiously waiting for servers to be less busy than they are to download 9.1 final and start recompiling the kernel if the keventd problem is still there. BTW, I just got my 9.1, and attempted to install it on my Atari 800, but the installation was a complete failure. Tomorrow I'm going to try my Commodore. Don't waste your time. I tried it and it always failed during second CD. See you, pana (pana: friend, amigo, nice person. Anglicism for partner, originally used by latin american gangs. Commonly used now by teenagers in some countries) -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ 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] How do I disconnect an ASDL connection?
On Friday 28 March 2003 07:43, Teilhard Knight wrote: I configured my ASDL connection to start on boot and it works great. In Windows it sometimes goes down, but here it is hidden, I never see an icon indicating the state of the connection or anything, but it is always on. Thing is, I installed Mandrake in a small hp Pavillion computer wich comes with a Win Modem. Someone told me that Linux doesen't support Win Modems, so I went and got me an external USB modem. I know now that several Win modems are supported by Linux, but mine sems not to have been detected by Mandrake, I know where to find the drivers for Debian, there must exist for Mandrake, so it should be not much of a problem to make it work. But I am now mainly concerned with the USB modem. Now, if I go to the control centre, I can see the modem under USB devices. But, in the USB viewer, it appears as unknown device. I just want to test if I can dial my ISP. For that, I need to terminate my ASDL connection, how do I do that? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? I created a dektop icon that runs '/usr/sbin/net_monitor'. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Creating music discs
Hi community Can anyone tell me where I can find a program which creates audio cd's. I am talking about the Nero type program which takes MP3's, converts them to cd tracks and burns them to the cd. Maybe I already have it but do not know about it. ;o() Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! 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] Creating music discs
Eroaster I believe does it all in one operation. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB (937) 904-2585 (937) 416-6378 (mobile) -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:12 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Creating music discs Hi community Can anyone tell me where I can find a program which creates audio cd's. I am talking about the Nero type program which takes MP3's, converts them to cd tracks and burns them to the cd. Maybe I already have it but do not know about it. ;o() Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! 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] RE: [newsier] Creating music discs
Thanks Brian, Where do I find it? Oren -Original Message- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 March 2003 13:31 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Creating music discs Eroaster I believe does it all in one operation. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB (937) 904-2585 (937) 416-6378 (mobile) -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:12 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Creating music discs Hi community Can anyone tell me where I can find a program which creates audio cd's. I am talking about the Nero type program which takes MP3's, converts them to cd tracks and burns them to the cd. Maybe I already have it but do not know about it. ;o() Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! 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] RE: [newsier] Creating music discs
Check www.freshmeat.net or even google.com Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:02 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] RE: [newsier] Creating music discs Thanks Brian, Where do I find it? Oren -Original Message- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 March 2003 13:31 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Creating music discs Eroaster I believe does it all in one operation. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB (937) 904-2585 (937) 416-6378 (mobile) -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:12 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Creating music discs Hi community Can anyone tell me where I can find a program which creates audio cd's. I am talking about the Nero type program which takes MP3's, converts them to cd tracks and burns them to the cd. Maybe I already have it but do not know about it. ;o() Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! 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] RE: [newsier] Creating music discs
Thanks Brian, Where do I find it? [eroaster] www.rpmfind.net -- Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner Fon/SMS 0163-2886981 Linuxuser #275535 - Linux Machine #168717 Freie Autoren schreiben: http://www.aus-satz.de Freie Texte im Netz: http://aussatz.antville.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 23:57, QingHua Wang wrote: Hi there, I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the intsller just said it's not resizeable) Can anyone please give some pointers to fix it? Many thanks in advance. BTW, even the install failed I think this version of 9.1 is very nice Wishes, QingHua Is the NTFS partition setup as a BASIC DISK or a DYNAMIC DISK? If it's setup as a DYNAMIC DISK, then you won't be able to resize it with either Partition Magic or Mandrake as the partitioning scheme is proprietary to Microsoft and partition resizing programs are unable to properly adjust the partition table. That's one scenario I've had to deal with in the past and the eventual outcome isn't nice or pretty...but overall, I've had to wipe out the initial Windows installation - reinstall Windows in a smaller partition and NOT use NTFS or Dynamic Disk, then do the linux (or Mandrake) installation. -- Sat Mar 29 01:25:00 EST 2003 01:25:00 up 7 days, 12:12, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.23, 0.14 -- |____ | 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 ** If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 12:47 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello I am looking for a good TV Card to use with Mandrake 9.0. I plan to upgrade to 9.1 next month. I have searched a few web sites and so far have found a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 but it is a bit pricey for my budget. Are there other recommendations for one that will work with Linux? I do not need too many bells and whistles but would like to watch TV and listen to FM radio on my computer as well as be able to record from my camcorder on CD or DVD eventually when I get a DVD burner. Many thanks in advance! Jim I'm running Mandrake 9.0 here with a Win TV-Go card. Viewing is via xawtv and video capture [via cron-triggered scripts that call streamer] is working a charm. I can't recommend it enough, although if I was looking for one now, I'd definately consider the one with the built-in digital decoder to pick up the FreeView channels. Hope this helps you out :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating music discs
i tried eroaster and imho k3b (k3b.sourceforge.net) is much much more better.. -- joe Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: Eroaster I believe does it all in one operation. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB (937) 904-2585 (937) 416-6378 (mobile) -Original Message- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:12 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Creating music discs Hi community Can anyone tell me where I can find a program which creates audio cd's. I am talking about the Nero type program which takes MP3's, converts them to cd tracks and burns them to the cd. Maybe I already have it but do not know about it. ;o() Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating music discs
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 00:11, Tsur, Oren wrote: Hi community Can anyone tell me where I can find a program which creates audio cd's. I am talking about the Nero type program which takes MP3's, converts them to cd tracks and burns them to the cd. Maybe I already have it but do not know about it. ;o() Oren Not to squash the monkey here, but I've found that it's more beneficial to rip the tracks to high-quality MP3 prior to creating/converting and audio CD - but then again, I'm anal retentive and very very picky. I can't have Mozart popping and squawking - very annoying... However, KonCD, K3B, eRoaster and the likes do the same thing as aHead Nero - just a matter of getting to know the applications and how they work - the front end is slightly different than Nero, but once you're familiar with 'em, you'll find they're actually a bit more powerful. Just don't set the normalise options - really sucks through and through - very harmful to Dave Brubeck. -- Sat Mar 29 01:35:00 EST 2003 01:35:00 up 7 days, 12:22, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.11, 0.09 -- |____ | 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 ** It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: [newsier] Creating music discs
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 01:02, Tsur, Oren wrote: Thanks Brian, Where do I find it? Oren You've got it on the installation CD's - so if you go to the RPMDrake, you can do a search for roast and it will come up along with whatever dependencies it has - and you're done! -- Sat Mar 29 01:45:00 EST 2003 01:45:00 up 7 days, 12:32, 3 users, load average: 0.70, 0.38, 0.20 -- |____ | 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 ** Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 586 0r 686
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a AMD Althlon Xp 1.73 gz a 686 chip? If so why does 9.1 still report as a 586 install? Thanks Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 12:54 pm, Simone Cortesi wrote: Hi, this is my first try to upgrade mandrake from a previous installation, at the moment i'm running 9.0, I already have the 3 ISOs of 9.1. My filesystem is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simone]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 37233384 8610688 26731308 25% / /dev/hdc1 39076544 22893632 16182912 59% /mnt/win_c This morning I did try to upgrade this installation, during setup I did not find any reference to the fact that mandrake was upgrading the system instead of installing it new. It just seemed like a normal installation to a formatted hard disk. fearing the unknown I did abort the installation before writing anything to disk, so now I'm safely on my old 9.0. Which is the exact way to upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1? where do I read more about upgrading? is there any way I can know that mandrake is actually upgrading my system instead of installing it clean. Thanks, Simone. During the install, I think it is after you have set up your mouse a screen appears which asks if you are upgrading or installing. In any case nothing is written to your hard drive until the partition section. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First Impression Mdk 9.1
On Thursday March 27 2003 05:19 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: 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) Search the cooker ML archive for a better explaination, but from what I remember of the situation, it's alsa that needs to be fixed, and the alsa developers that need to do it. Tho my sound chip uses OSS, I had the same deal. Fortunately I knew to check aumix and raise and save those levels. Actually it's not a 9.1 problem, it's been going on for quite awhile. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Standby mode in Blackbox/Fluxbox/XFCE
Greetings, How to set standby time in Blackbox/Fluxbox/XFCE ?. I don't see a feature to set standby time in those desktop environments. Thanks in advance. ZZ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux games mailing list ?
Hi pals, I am looking for Linux games mailing list ?. Can you inform me that mailing list ?. A little question, Can I play linux games in Wingdows with Cygwin ?. I want to play Supertux-0.0.4 in Wingdows. Thanks a lot. ZZ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
magnet wrote: On Friday 28 Mar 2003 12:47 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello I am looking for a good TV Card to use with Mandrake 9.0. I plan to upgrade to 9.1 next month. I have searched a few web sites and so far have found a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 but it is a bit pricey for my budget. Are there other recommendations for one that will work with Linux? I do not need too many bells and whistles but would like to watch TV and listen to FM radio on my computer as well as be able to record from my camcorder on CD or DVD eventually when I get a DVD burner. Many thanks in advance! Jim I'm running Mandrake 9.0 here with a Win TV-Go card. Viewing is via xawtv and video capture [via cron-triggered scripts that call streamer] is working a charm. I can't recommend it enough, although if I was looking for one now, I'd definately consider the one with the built-in digital decoder to pick up the FreeView channels. Hope this helps you out :) Does anyone know of a digital decoder tv card ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:05:49 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install, I think it is after you have set up your mouse a screen appears which asks if you are upgrading or installing. In any case nothing is written to your hard drive until the partition section. BE VERY CAREFUL HERE. In the default normal mode the 9.1 installation is nearly totally automatic. If it finds existing readable linux partitions it will ask if this is upgrade/new install, if not it will assume new install and proceed accordingly. Charles -- Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Mandrake Linux 9.1 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.13mdk - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Mustek 600 III plus
try removing sane rpm and compile it from sources. don't forget to backup the Makefile. i had to compile sane in order to get my benq 4300 w2s working under mdk 9. -- joe Ibly Piblo wrote: As the subject line says, this ios my brand of scanner. I cannot accept not supported by this version of Mandrake, I wish to install this scanner. Is there a way around this? I am using the new Mdk 9.1 It used to wlrk in version 9 Should I dump 9.1 and go back to 9? Or is there a way around it? Thank you Ibly __ 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] why permission denied ? just mount please!
I don't understand why when I try to do a nfs mount, I get permission denied! That does not compute. I opened the permissions on the directorys to be exported and the one to mount in the client, thats all I should have to do isn't it? What am I missing? I have /etc/exports to say /mnt/nfs0 192.168.1.3(rw,no_root_squash)192.168.1.2(rw,no_root_squash) I used the setup tool to mount the client which is machine 192.168.1.3 onto the server which is 192.168.1.2 In the /etc/fstab file I have: 192.168.1.2:/mnt/mew /mnt/nfs0 nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,soft 0 0 It is not split in half, stupid yahoo won't print it out on one line. I am running Mandrake 9.1 Thank you very much Ibly __ 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] 586 0r 686 (Tom's reply)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks, as I reposted I was just a little courius about the topic. I had recently upgraded my system to a AsusN266-vm board with 512 DDR and a 1.73 AMD chip. I have been waiting to see how 9.1 was going to be able to handle all the intergraded components. I knew I would have to apply a drivers for the Gforce 2 video, and the drivers for the Nforce chipset, but I was somewhat concerened that the Nvidia drivers for 9.0 would not work and I would have to wait for a few weeks while Nvidia caught up to Mandraksoft. I found that rebuilding the src.rpms drivers worked fine after a few config hacks. The athlon.rpms made me wonder about the 586 and 686 issue. Thanks again. Steven On Friday 28 March 2003 10:57 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday March 28 2003 09:04 am, G_REEPER wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a AMD Althlon Xp 1.73 gz a 686 chip? If so why does 9.1 still report as a 586 install? Because all (well, most all**) of Mandrake is compiled using i586 optimizations. It's a widely held belief that compiling for i686 actually degrades performance, and compiling for athlon (3 FPU's per cycle, instead of Intel's 2), still provides little to no benefit. That's also been my experience in many (futile) tries ;) ** the exception is glibc libraries, which are compiled for i686, and used if a i686 processor is reported. Type 'arch' in a terminal and it'll return what your cpu purports to be. I used the word purports, because some early K6 AMD's and very early Pentiums, some mobile (laptop) cpu's, and all current VIA-C3 cpu's report they're i686, but they're not. Pushing cpu otimizations to the max is not always a good idea. On some hardware combinations of PSU, motherboard, cache and ram, and other components, it can cause failures. Most often why you see some complaints that Red Hat (i386) works, but Mandrake (i586) doesn't. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hIXt6UWsagwteioRAlDrAJ9LfMOrtZzU+jEGhOCOv9dV+HmOCACfcw0o T3Ryti3nqEhtjSNi9Pmdqug= =zywS -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No selections for reboot in 9.1 X
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anyone else having this problem?? I have the security level set to standard, and to auto login a user. When I logout, this is BTW the only option I have I cannot restart or halt. If I log out I go back to the X login. If I choose reboot I am presented with a blank menu. However, if I choose an account and log in and log back out I see the options in the reboot menu. I also get presented with a the correct options while i am logged into the account to restart or halt. Steven -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hIsW6UWsagwteioRAurzAJ0XTh8keNM3isyxWLeHqkTVMPbeHgCghU7/ PCLARcUqvIzxc8JsBNph888= =8WQN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMail enhancements
I'm presently using KMail but I can't find any way to enhance text such as hi-lighting, underline, italicize, etc. Am I missing something or is this the nature of the software? Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] correct way of setting hostname and using dhcpcd?
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 4:20 pm, stormjumper wrote: i just set up a minimal installation of 9.1, using the normal install, but selecting a very limited number of packages and no X. during install, i wasn't asked for hostname and networking information, so although my network card is loaded correctly, hostname is localhost, and eth0 fails to load during boot (expected as no ip is configured). i know how to use hostname, and dhcpcd, and the system works as desired. so far, i'm dumping these commands at the bottom of /etc/rc.local, but i'm wondering if someone can tell me how mandrake keeps these settings, say if i configure networking from mcc (if i had X.) Your network settings including dhcp are stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Just put what you need in there and they will be activated when the network service starts. I have not yet worked out where the hostname gets set. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] correct way of setting hostname and using dhcpcd?
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 4:20 pm, stormjumper wrote: i just set up a minimal installation of 9.1, using the normal install, but selecting a very limited number of packages and no X. during install, i wasn't asked for hostname and networking information, so although my network card is loaded correctly, hostname is localhost, and eth0 fails to load during boot (expected as no ip is configured). i know how to use hostname, and dhcpcd, and the system works as desired. so far, i'm dumping these commands at the bottom of /etc/rc.local, but i'm wondering if someone can tell me how mandrake keeps these settings, say if i configure networking from mcc (if i had X.) You can still use the Mandrake tools even though you are using command line. Just type drakconnect and you can configure Dhcp and hostname. (Although I think you may need to install the drakxtools RPM) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] email showing up as attachments
Hi. On Thu 2003-03-27 at 18:49:31 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, Does anyone know why some emails from the list are blank, with the text of the message in an attachment? Because the mail reader is too dumb to do something sensible with (MIME) multipart types it doesn't recognize. This mail will probably have the mentioned problem, because I digitally sign my mails which results in a content-type of multipart-signed with my (textual) reply as first part and the signature as second one. The sensible thing to do for the mailer would be to simply try it's best and treat unknown multipart types like multipart-mixed and simply display the text/plain content (and put the signature, which is not text/plain, as an attachment). Btw, multipart-signed is standartized for over 10 years or so, i.e. it's not that this is about supporting bleeding-edge stuff. 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... Jupp. It's the problem and you will fix it that way. ;-) HTH, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] why permission denied ? just mount please!
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 5:16 pm, Ibly Piblo wrote: I don't understand why when I try to do a nfs mount, I get permission denied! That does not compute. I opened the permissions on the directorys to be exported and the one to mount in the client, thats all I should have to do isn't it? What am I missing? I have /etc/exports to say /mnt/nfs0 192.168.1.3(rw,no_root_squash)192.168.1.2(rw,no_root_squash) I used the setup tool to mount the client which is machine 192.168.1.3 onto the server which is 192.168.1.2 In the /etc/fstab file I have: 192.168.1.2:/mnt/mew /mnt/nfs0 nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,soft 0 0 It is not split in half, stupid yahoo won't print it out on one line. I am running Mandrake 9.1 Thank you very much Ibly Did you type 'exportfs -ra' after you edited the exports file? And if you are trying to mount as a user you need a user option in your fstab. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] help! Mandrake 9.1 installed, WinXP killed!
Hi, Now Mandrake is installed within my laptop but it seems that WinXP is killed. When I try to boot into WinXP it crashes, saying unmountable_boot_volume. What can I do ? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Regards, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:47:27 -0500 Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am looking for a good TV Card to use with Mandrake 9.0. I plan to upgrade to 9.1 next month. I have searched a few web sites and so far have found a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 but it is a bit pricey for my budget. Are there other recommendations for one that will work with Linux? I do not need too many bells and whistles but would like to watch TV and listen to FM radio on my computer as well as be able to record from my camcorder on CD or DVD eventually when I get a DVD burner. Many thanks in advance! Jim My ATI TV-Wonder VE works great and was only $40 (US) where the wintv card was $129 On a side note i get 3 more channels on my computer than i do on my TV lol. jerry -- The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help! Mandrake 9.1 installed, WinXP killed!
if you boot up on the Winxp cd and choose recovery console, that will bring you to a dos prompt. you can then try chkdsk /r, fixboot or fixmbr. There is help on the web if you do a google search for unmountable boot volume that will bring up further help but the chkdsk /r worked for me. Richard G. On Friday 28 Mar 2003 19:16, qhwang wrote: Hi, Now Mandrake is installed within my laptop but it seems that WinXP is killed. When I try to boot into WinXP it crashes, saying unmountable_boot_volume. What can I do ? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated Regards, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 install problems
I have 9.1 (partially?) installed. It boots and then gives me a login dialog window listing all users. Regardless of which I pick, my only options are default or failsafe startup. That is, no desktop manager choices. So whenever I login I have a shell window only. I've tried to find a way to re-install KDE and/or Gnome, but can find none. Is there a way to recover from this situation without re-formatting my root partition? For that matter, will re-formatting help anyway? 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] Can't get ADSL with PPPoE to run on 9.1
Hello friends, it seems impossible for me to get my ADSL-connection up and running with Mandrake 9.1 (I haven't tried earlier versions of Mandrake though) but Redhat 8.0 works like a charm, there is a little program called Neat there but I cannot find it either on rpmfind.net or on Redhat installationdisks so my guess is that hides itself somewhere, I will ask on a Redhat list if somebody there might know. In the meantime is there something anyone can think of. Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help! Mandrake 9.1 installed, WinXP killed!
Thanks, Richard, It works. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Leadtek Winfast TV2000/XP with Bamboo
On Friday 28 March 2003 05:24 am, Arthur Rosene wrote: I have been unable to get my Winfast TV2000/XP to work with bamboo without problems. initially the screen is not in color and has shadow images when i select s-video. i also dont hear any sound. the leadtek uses audio out to the line in of soundcard for sound source. any help appreciated. thanks ! I have that card and it worked fine during the beta period and is not giving me a problem with fial. Did it work in 9.0? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help! Mandrake 9.1 installed, WinXP killed!
Jolly good, I have had it sort quite a few similar problems as well, worth remembering. Richard G. On Friday 28 Mar 2003 19:50, qhwang wrote: Thanks, Richard, It works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a really good question! Why am I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), receiving all of your E-mails, since early this morning? Did someone steal my account? Or is it an unwelcomed virus attack? :) Digitally Damned, WhiteLion @-,-}-- sounds like a virus to me! do you have the latest secure version of the browser you're running? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Leadtek Winfast TV2000/XP with Bamboo
i couldn't run 9.0 because of conflicts with my raid controller. maybe i will try a reinstall of mandrake. are you sure yours is the TV2000/XP and not just plain TV2000 ? - Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Leadtek Winfast TV2000/XP with Bamboo On Friday 28 March 2003 05:24 am, Arthur Rosene wrote: I have been unable to get my Winfast TV2000/XP to work with bamboo without problems. initially the screen is not in color and has shadow images when i select s-video. i also dont hear any sound. the leadtek uses audio out to the line in of soundcard for sound source. any help appreciated. thanks ! I have that card and it worked fine during the beta period and is not giving me a problem with fial. Did it work in 9.0? -- Greg 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] Icon View
Konqueror Icon view cause the CPU to ran at never 97% has any one see this to. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Icon View
I have not seen that, but on my 9.0 box with KDE3.1, viewing a webpage with a looping animated GIF does the same thing. I had to change a setting so that animated GIFs loop only once. Miark On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:52:28 + Benjamin Jeeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Konqueror Icon view cause the CPU to ran at never 97% has any one see this to. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 install problems
On Friday 28 March 2003 06:23 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: snip The easiest way to get some window manager function, assuming you have enough RAM to run one, ( 64MB will work but 128MB RAM is better to run KDE or Gnome) is to restart the comp with Install CD1 in and go into the installation and choose Upgrade as expert select only the desktop window managers like KDE Gnome and others and continue on from their. This should upgrade without changing anything else. How do you have partitions set up and how much ram do you have on the machine? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have 640MB ram, root partition 3.5GB, /home partition 10GB. The only way I found to get into expert mode is to hit F1 on initial the screen, then type expert at the boot: prompt and hit return. Is there another way? Regardless of whether I chose Install or Upgrade I am never given a choice of modules to install. How can I get to a module selection screen? If you go through the install or upgrade either one, at one point a screen should show with the selection boxes for Workstation, scientific, network computer, LSB, and some servers and then in the lower left it has KDE and Gnome for selections. This is before in installation starts. Near the bottom of that screen is a button that looks like two arrows chasing each other in a circle, click on that and you will get the complete list of packages available. If you don't get this screen then I am at a loss cause it should show up. Also see the Mandrake home page and on the right hand side it shows tutorials http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/demos/ This will give you some help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] possibly OT Feature Request for drakconf's nfs setup
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 11:27 pm, Ibly Piblo wrote: I think it would be much more beneficial to the users especially us newbies who are not well versed in nfs technology, if: 1.) drakconf would automatically set up and configure the client or server side of the machine, currently it only tries to search for what might be there, and it does not correctly set up the nfs. I think it should also have a mini text console and log the text in a file so that one can learn along with it, or for very new newbies, it can have a tutorial that you click-and-follow along with. Just some ideas for the Mandrake Team. Sorry for the OT. I sympathise with your frustration, but believe me setting up NFS is a *lot* easier now than it used to be. From the client side all you have to do is run the NFS GUI, search for advertised exports and pick a mount point. Selecting 'Expert' is useful so you can make the share user mountable, and to make it 'noauto' If NFS shares are auto mounted you can get problems with the computer 'hanging' for 5 minutes when it powers off if the server is switched off before the client. From the server side all you need to do is make sure the following services are running :- nfs netfs nfslock portmap Create an /etc/exports file. Mine looks like this :- /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.128(rw) /usr/src/RPM 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.128(rw) (I believe the use of root_no_squelch is deprecated, but I cannot remember why) Make sure there is no 'whitespace' after the subnet mask or else it will not work. Then enter' exportfs -ra' and that should be all you have to do. (hopefully) BTW: NFS is notoriously insecure, and should not be used over unprotected Lan segments. For a secure method of passing files between Linux computers that happen to be using KDE, give kio_fish a try. It is installed by default with Mandrake 9.1 http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/kio_fish.html derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing 9.1
I try to install Mandrake 9.1 and in start it ask drivers to my motherboard RAID and none of list wont work. Even my motherboard is on mandrake supported hardware list. motherboard is KT3 Ultra2-R (MS-6380E) and i have disabled RAID mode. i only have my harddrives on RAID 9.0 version can find harddisk but 9.1 dosent. How i can get that find my harddrives? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 install problems
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 06:23 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: snip The easiest way to get some window manager function, assuming you have enough RAM to run one, ( 64MB will work but 128MB RAM is better to run KDE or Gnome) is to restart the comp with Install CD1 in and go into the installation and choose Upgrade as expert select only the desktop window managers like KDE Gnome and others and continue on from their. This should upgrade without changing anything else. How do you have partitions set up and how much ram do you have on the machine? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have 640MB ram, root partition 3.5GB, /home partition 10GB. The only way I found to get into expert mode is to hit F1 on initial the screen, then type expert at the boot: prompt and hit return. Is there another way? Regardless of whether I chose Install or Upgrade I am never given a choice of modules to install. How can I get to a module selection screen? If you go through the install or upgrade either one, at one point a screen should show with the selection boxes for Workstation, scientific, network computer, LSB, and some servers and then in the lower left it has KDE and Gnome for selections. This is before in installation starts. Near the bottom of that screen is a button that looks like two arrows chasing each other in a circle, click on that and you will get the complete list of packages available. If you don't get this screen then I am at a loss cause it should show up. Also see the Mandrake home page and on the right hand side it shows tutorials http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/demos/ This will give you some help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Whatever combination of expert/install/upgrade tried, I get only one selection screen with these choices: With X With basic documentation (recommended!) Truly minimal install (especially no urpmi) This screen has a previous button that, when clicked, returns to the same screen after a few seconds. The tutorials link only has pre-9.1 stuff. Isn't there some kind of troubleshooting guide/help somewhere? -- Michael Bell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Need to format new HD?
I feel I should know this, but I don't. I just got a new HD that I'm going to install 9.1 on. Do I need to format it, or will the MDK install take care of everything for me? (This is going to be the primary drive.) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need to format new HD?
Yes you need to format it. With a new floppy, preformatting is almost universal, but with a hard drive it's not possible to know in advance what operating system will be on it. And not only do you have to format it, you have to partition it too. If you're a total newbie, let the installer auto-partition for you; I recommend reading one of the HOWTOs on disk partitioning, though. Basically you can get by with (1) a swap partition about twice the size of your machine's RAM (2) a linux partition with a mount point of / When you know more you can fine-tune the allocations, but this will get you goin. Cheers! I feel I should know this, but I don't. I just got a new HD that I'm going to install 9.1 on. Do I need to format it, or will the MDK install take care of everything for me? (This is going to be the primary drive.) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need to format new HD?
On Friday 28 March 2003 08:33 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I feel I should know this, but I don't. I just got a new HD that I'm going to install 9.1 on. Do I need to format it, or will the MDK install take care of everything for me? (This is going to be the primary drive.) Todd, You could format it before starting the install, but there is no point -- during the Mandrake install you will have the opportunity / requirement to divide it into partitions and then format those. Easiest to do it during the install. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need to format new HD?
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:07:13 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 08:33 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I feel I should know this, but I don't. I just got a new HD that I'm going to install 9.1 on. Do I need to format it, or will the MDK install take care of everything for me? (This is going to be the primary drive.) Todd, You could format it before starting the install, but there is no point -- during the Mandrake install you will have the opportunity / requirement to divide it into partitions and then format those. Easiest to do it during the install. Randy Kramer Yeah, that's the answer I was hoping for! I had Phoenix open with 5 tabs about formatting a new hard drive. Thanks for the quick answer, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
On Friday 28 March 2003 07:21, Jerry Barton wrote: My ATI TV-Wonder VE works great and was only $40 (US) where the wintv card was $129 It depends on which WinTV you get. The one that is on about the same level as TV-Wonder VE is the WinTV Go, which usually costs around $50. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPC: program not registered
I do not know what to do, is nfs broken in 9.1 ? on the client side? /etc/fstab has the line: 192.168.1.2:/mnt/mew /mnt/nfs0 nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,soft 0 0 and on the server, the exports file has this line: /mnt/mew 192.168.1.3(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.2(rw,no_root_squash) all nfs daemons are running. This failure to operate happened when I upgraded to Mandrake 9.1 Thanks to all who help. Ibly __ 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] 9.1 does not work
Man i hate outlook. Why doesn't reply all reply to all?!? Anyway, on page 1 of chapter 1 of the startup guide, there is a warning about this (if you have 2000, NT or XP): NTFS Partitions. Windows 2000 , NT or XP users should be very careful not to resize NTFS partitions with GNU/Linux . This will damage your data. In this case, use an appropriate disk-resizing application such as Partition Magic. I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the intsller just said it's not resizeable) Can anyone please give some pointers to fix it? Many thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] My sincere apology
I apologise for all of the nfs noise on the list, I did not wish to waste bandwidth, not sure what I did wrong, I think I got it to work, by re-loading the netfs daemon on the server, must have been something to do with the newer version with 9.1 on the workstation and the older ver. on the server which is mdk 8.2 Nfs is so hard, I am sorry. Ibly __ 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
Fw: [newbie] 9.1 does not work
I think this was meant to go to the list. (name removed in case it wasn't) However, 9.1 purports to resize NTFS Partitions (via diskdrake and during install) just fine, and many have reported it doing this task flawlessly. So, perhaps something is corrupt on your NTFS partition, or one would assume that the installer could resize it. I did forget to mention that i was reading from the 9.0 manual. Luckily for me (at least on my first computer) i'm just gonna blast wind*ze away. Then, if all goes well, i'll have to decide what to do with my newer computer (with XP loaded). PS, don't blame Mandrake, blame MS for their closed filesystem implementations. Crap MS bloatware problems again... eric huff wrote: Man i hate outlook. Why doesn't reply all reply to all?!? Anyway, on page 1 of chapter 1 of the startup guide, there is a warning about this (if you have 2000, NT or XP): NTFS Partitions. Windows 2000 , NT or XP users should be very careful not to resize NTFS partitions with GNU/Linux . This will damage your data. In this case, use an appropriate disk-resizing application such as Partition Magic. I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the intsller just said it's not resizeable) Can anyone please give some pointers to fix it? Many thanks in advance. 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] Leadtek Winfast TV2000/XP with Bamboo
On Friday 28 March 2003 04:34 pm, Arthur Rosene wrote: i couldn't run 9.0 because of conflicts with my raid controller. maybe i will try a reinstall of mandrake. are you sure yours is the TV2000/XP and not just plain TV2000 ? No I have the XP. Now that I think about it, I had to explicitly define the card in /etc/modules.conf. Here is the relevant section # Leadtek WinFast TV 2000XP options bttv p11=1 radio=1 card=34 options tuner type=2 -- Greg 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!!
On Friday 28 March 2003 03:56 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:31, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: I have installed 9.1 in two computers (one of them a laptop) and the experience has been the best I have ever had. Maybe someone needs to send one of these emails directly to Adolpho...(g) BTW, I just got my 9.1, and attempted to install it on my Atari 800, but the installation was a complete failure. Tomorrow I'm going to try my Commodore. The tricky bit is moving the CD's to cassette tape. After that, it's pretty much a piece of cake. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work
Hi Everyone I have a HP Pavilion ze 1230 laptop I would like to install mdk 9.0 on it with xp ( have to keep xp for work ) I helped my bother in law install it on his laptop and we lost xp and had to start over I would like to get it right the first time help me please thanks greg Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 23:57, QingHua Wang wrote: Hi there, I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the intsller just said it's not resizeable) Can anyone please give some pointers to fix it? Many thanks in advance. BTW, even the install failed I think this version of 9.1 is very nice Wishes, QingHua Is the NTFS partition setup as a BASIC DISK or a DYNAMIC DISK? If it's setup as a DYNAMIC DISK, then you won't be able to resize it with either Partition Magic or Mandrake as the partitioning scheme is proprietary to Microsoft and partition resizing programs are unable to properly adjust the partition table. That's one scenario I've had to deal with in the past and the eventual outcome isn't nice or pretty...but overall, I've had to wipe out the initial Windows installation - reinstall Windows in a smaller partition and NOT use NTFS or Dynamic Disk, then do the linux (or Mandrake) installation. -- Sat Mar 29 01:25:00 EST 2003 01:25:00 up 7 days, 12:12, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.23, 0.14 -- |____ | 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 ** If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Linux Mandrake Rules __ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promos=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 02:33 pm, robin wrote: By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party members in the back (Paranoia being a wonderful exception that really captures the atmosphere of the IT world). And please don't answer that question by saying RTFM. We ain' gon' read no steenking Weendows manuel. XP is a piece of crap, ME is a piece of crap, W95 and W98 were pieces of crap, but W2K is not a piece of crap. When they did W2K they did something right, and even some of my hardest-core Solaris/BSD droogies admit grudgingly that W2K was a break from the mold. Re: Mandrake: I fervently hope it lives forever because I happen to really like it and of all the distros I've installed, I think it's the friendliest. I know that doesn't carry much weight in this community and I don't mean it in the sense of just click and you don't have to read any books or even watch the pretty lights, kid; I mean Mandrake makes me want to get more involved, while others like Debian seem to have a deliberately high barrier to entry for the newbie. -- Chris Fox Server Developer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 02:46, qhwang wrote: Is the NTFS partition setup as a BASIC DISK or a DYNAMIC DISK? My laptop has this only one hard disk. Since I wait for a long time to install Mandrake or some other linux within the NTFS partition, there are around 20 GB free space. I don't want to reinstall WinXP for I don't have its disc. I am not sure why I was out of lucky... Well, if Mandrake can't resize it, try Partition Magic. If Partition Magic can't resize it, then you're going to have to do a reinstallation, mate...sorry... -- Sat Mar 29 16:20:00 EST 2003 16:20:00 up 8 days, 3:07, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.14, 0.09 -- |____ | 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 ** Has anyone had problems with the computer accounts? Yes, I don't have one. Okay, you can send mail to one of the tutors ... -- E. D'Azevedo, Computer Science 372 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get ADSL with PPPoE to run on 9.1
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 06:36, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, it seems impossible for me to get my ADSL-connection up and running with Mandrake 9.1 (I haven't tried earlier versions of Mandrake though) but Redhat 8.0 works like a charm, there is a little program called Neat there but I cannot find it either on rpmfind.net or on Redhat installationdisks so my guess is that hides itself somewhere, I will ask on a Redhat list if somebody there might know. In the meantime is there something anyone can think of. Cheers Anders ...have you tried Roaring Penquin's PPPoE for this type of connectivity? How is your ADSL setup? (Mine's connected to my network hub, so I don't have to muck with such silly stuff) - but it would help to know how y'all's stuff is setup mate... -- Sat Mar 29 16:20:00 EST 2003 16:20:00 up 8 days, 3:07, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.14, 0.09 -- |____ | 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 ** Has anyone had problems with the computer accounts? Yes, I don't have one. Okay, you can send mail to one of the tutors ... -- E. D'Azevedo, Computer Science 372 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Icon View
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 08:52, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Konqueror Icon view cause the CPU to ran at never 97% has any one see this to. No. -- Sat Mar 29 16:25:01 EST 2003 16:25:01 up 8 days, 3:12, 4 users, load average: 0.14, 0.09, 0.08 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky. -- Rainer Rilke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] funny problem with FAT32 parition
hello i just installed mandrake linux 9.1 and was configuring some stuff. i normally mount a FAT32 parition under linux to share files between windows and linux. to do this i have been adding an entry in my /etc/fstab to set up the partition. i've used this with various distros in the past like redhat, mandrake 9.0 etc. i tried setting up the same thing in 9.1 too, but encountered a funny problem. i added a line to fstab as usual. the line is: /dev/hda4 /d vfat auto 0 0 this has worked in the past. with 9.1 too, it works, but with some a wierd limitation. i am able to mount the partition as root. when i try to access files (e.g. when i do ls) as another user, i keep getting the error message pemission denied for all many normal files. even in directories, i am not able to view their contents. any suggestions ? thanx srinivas _ Vrrm Fasten your seatbelts. http://server1.msn.co.in/msnSpecials/formula2003/index.asp Get set for F1 2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LAN interface isn't working
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:37, VST Sysadmin wrote: HI, I've just have my new box and tried to install mandrake 9.1. Instalation was OK, but I couldn't bring up the lan interface card. After the instalation the ping commands gives 100% loss. First I tried with 3C905C with 3c59x module. module loads OK, ifconfig passes OK, but still there is no connection. Then I tried with via-rhune card, but the result was absolutely the same. I checked for firewall with iptables -L, but there are no rules there to stop packets :( to eliminate hardware problem I loaded slackware 9.0 from CD and there the lan card works OK with the same settings. I'll appreciate any help ! Tod Really strange mate... In the MDK installation, did you enter in your IP/network information prior to checking for connectivity? -- Sat Mar 29 16:30:01 EST 2003 16:30:01 up 8 days, 3:17, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.07 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** The closest library doesn't have the material you need. -- Hansen's Library Axiom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need to format new HD?
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 12:33, Todd Slater wrote: I feel I should know this, but I don't. I just got a new HD that I'm going to install 9.1 on. Do I need to format it, or will the MDK install take care of everything for me? (This is going to be the primary drive.) Todd Let the installation program do it for you - that way, you can be assured of a clean partition table, assured of a clean file system - and you can choose bewteen different fs's - but you know that ReiserFS is best...(grin) -- Sat Mar 29 16:30:01 EST 2003 16:30:01 up 8 days, 3:17, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.07 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** The closest library doesn't have the material you need. -- Hansen's Library Axiom 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!!
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 15:20, Carroll Grigsby wrote: BTW, I just got my 9.1, and attempted to install it on my Atari 800, but the installation was a complete failure. Tomorrow I'm going to try my Commodore. The tricky bit is moving the CD's to cassette tape. After that, it's pretty much a piece of cake. -- cmg I wrote to Mandrake and Redhat asking about providing the installation software on cassette tape - I haven't heard anything back from either, so I'll take it that it's either a foolish request, or something they're considering. If they're really going to consider it, I'm going to have to solder some more chips onto the MB of the Atari800 - cuz I don't think that 512k is going to cut the mustard here... -- Sat Mar 29 16:35:00 EST 2003 16:35:00 up 8 days, 3:22, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.04, 0.06 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Take it off or else I break it off. -Leela, with Fry's arm around her Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] funny problem with FAT32 parition
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 16:36, Srinivas V. wrote: i am able to mount the partition as root. when i try to access files (e.g. when i do ls) as another user, i keep getting the error message pemission denied for all many normal files. even in directories, i am not able to view their contents. any suggestions ? thanx srinivas Covert the partition to ReiserFS or ext3 or XFS! (joking joking joking) Meanwhile, when you're mounting via the /etc/fstab, due to the perms on VFAT drives, you're not going to be able to view/mount/whatever - as a regular user. Now, on the other hand, if you mount the partition as nobody you should be able to access the drive as any user on the system. Or, you can run a script to mount it as your username and bypass heaps of probs...or even use the Mandrake Control Centre to do the mount for you mate... -- Sat Mar 29 16:40:00 EST 2003 16:40:00 up 8 days, 3:27, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.10, 0.07 -- |____ | 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 ** Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. But it is too late to change anything. -- Calvin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
I've installed 9.1 from the ISOs that I downloaded and burnt to CD. The install went flawlessly, but once I rebooted I found that no KDE application would work. I've had to startx xdm manually to even get X11 to start up. Any KDE app I try to run once X11 is going just quits out as soon as it tries to open a window. Other apps (eg. Evolution, Mozilla, various terminals, the Mandrake RPM tools, ...) work fine - it appears to just be the KDE apps. For example, I run konsole, and get the following terminal output. Note, I nuked my ~/.kde dir, and ran konsole twice. The first has a whole bunch of KDE environment initialisation (and then dies). The second just has this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ konsole Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. I get a flash of some window, and then the app quits. I used strace to try to figure what might be going on, but it just dies with a SIGSEGV after doing some ioctl calls, then calls the KDE crash handler (which doesn't actually work, like all the other KDE stuff). Does anyone have a clue as to what might be going wrong??? Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 16:56, Richard Jones wrote: Does anyone have a clue as to what might be going wrong??? Richard You might want to check and modify your /etc/ld.so.conf to include some of the lib dirs found in your /usr/lib - including /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib as well - and make sure you run ldconfig to rebuild the cache - also - you can put KDEDIR='/usr' in your /etc/profile along with (towards the end of it) export KDEDIR so that KDE knows where it lives... Those little fixes should get KDE to play properly - but remember to delete the .kde dirs from your ~/home/usernamegoeshere directory before firing up KDE again... (You might want to install Civilme's Xtart rpm on disk three - so that you can very easily start any WM you want from a console without heaps bullshit) HTH! -- Sat Mar 29 17:00:01 EST 2003 17:00:01 up 8 days, 3:47, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 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 ** This is lemma 1.1. We start a new chapter so the numbers all go back to one. -- Prof. Seager, CO 351 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
