Re: [newbie-it] kppp e xmms dopo upgrade a 9.1
On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dopo aver upgradato da 9.0 a 9.1 ho riscontrato 2 problemi. 1) xmms prima perfettamente funzionante ora caricando una play list vedo scorrere sul display velocemente tutti i brani musicali in 1 secondo e non si sente nulla ( audio funziona ) controlla che path hai dato alla cartella dove tieni i file audio probabilmente ora con l'upgrade e stata cancellata 2) E' sparita la connessione ad internet ( KPPP ) da dove? nel desktop o nel menu? se è nel desktop la ricrei: tasto dx =crea nuovo= collegamento ad una applcazione ( e qui scrivi kppp) x menu usa la gestioine di menu di KDE (do per scontato che sia questo il wmaltrimenti x gnome nn ti posso aiutare:=) Qualcuno ha qualche suggerimento Grazie G.M. Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ nel dubbio coricati Slack 8.1-2.4.20 Linux user Tattari_manna
[newbie-it] kppp --parte 2--
Ho configurato il mio bel modem sotto la mia RedHat 8.0 ma riesco a connettermi solamente tramite la finestra della configurazione di rete cliccando su Attiva (selezionando la ppp0,ovvero quella del modem), mentre se utilizzo la solita finestra di kppp non riesco a connettermi... il modem compone il num di tel e poi sta lì come un ebete... è come se dall'altra parte non ci fosse nessuno che lo caga. Dopodichè si rompe il c***o di aspettare e ricompone il num. Cosa potrebbe essere? E' un fatto un pò strano... Grazie mille! byebyeby Davide potrebbe dipendere dalle stringhe di chiamata di kppp modifica ATDT in ATx3DT prova ma nn ne sono sicuro...i sintomi sembrano quelli... Ciao , Tom Ho provato a modificare la stringa di chiamata da ATDT a ATDx3DT ma non è cambiato nulla. Ho provato ad alzare il volume del modem dato che solitamente lo tengo spento, si sente che compone il num di tel ma poi non si mette a gracchiare. Nella finestra di kppp appare Connessione in corso al num 03954..., mentre nella finestra di log del kppp appare: ATZ OK AM1L3 OK ATX3DT1039541 Ed in basso a quest'ultima c'è la scritta In attesa di: CONNECT Altri suggerimenti? Grazie ancora! Ciao Davide
Re: [newbie-it] kppp --parte 2--
On Friday 04 April 2003 13:02, kua79 wrote: Ho provato a modificare la stringa di chiamata da ATDT a ATDx3DT ma non è cambiato nulla. Ho provato ad alzare il volume del modem dato che solitamente lo tengo spento, si sente che compone il num di tel ma poi non si mette a gracchiare. Nella finestra di kppp appare Connessione in corso al num 03954..., mentre nella finestra di log del kppp appare: ATZ OK AM1L3 OK ATX3DT1039541 Ed in basso a quest'ultima c'è la scritta In attesa di: CONNECT Altri suggerimenti? Grazie ancora! Ciao Davide altra cosa che mi viene in mente è quella di settare il tempo di attesa a 0 . prova Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ nel dubbio coricati Slack 8.1-2.4.20 Linux user Tattari_manna
[newbie-it] kppp --Log--
Ho configurato il mio bel modem sotto la mia RedHat 8.0 ma riesco a connettermi solamente tramite la finestra della configurazione di rete cliccando su Attiva (selezionando la ppp0,ovvero quella del modem), mentre se utilizzo la solita finestra di kppp non riesco a connettermi... il modem compone il num di tel e poi sta lì come un ebete... è come se dall'altra parte non ci fosse nessuno che lo caga. Dopodichè si rompe il c***o di aspettare e ricompone il num. Cosa potrebbe essere? E' un fatto un pò strano... Grazie mille! byebyeby Davide potrebbe dipendere dalle stringhe di chiamata di kppp modifica ATDT in ATx3DT prova ma nn ne sono sicuro...i sintomi sembrano quelli... Ciao , Tom Che scemo... ci pensavo solo ora, dato che cliccando su Attiva tramite la configurazione di rete riesco a connettermi ad internet non posso loggare cosa fa in quel momento il modem in modo tale da sapere quali sono i comandi esatti? Se si connette vuol dire che in quel modo invia o riceve gli esatti comandi. Può essere un idea? Come faccio a loggare i comandi del modem? Grazie Ciao Davide
Re: [newbie-it] kppp e xmms dopo upgrade a 9.1
Alle 06:24, giovedì 3 aprile 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Dopo aver upgradato da 9.0 a 9.1 ho riscontrato 2 problemi. 1) xmms prima perfettamente funzionante ora caricando una play list vedo scorrere sul display velocemente tutti i brani musicali in 1 secondo e non si sente nulla ( audio funziona ) 2) E' sparita la connessione ad internet ( KPPP ) Prova a lanciare kppp da Konsole. Può essere che ti sia semplicemente sparita l'icona... -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair -
Re: [newbie-it] Un upgrade sostanziale...
Alle 20:16, mercoledì 2 aprile 2003, Nicola ha scritto: Ringrazio tutti per le risposte! Domani pomeriggio dovrei eseguire l'upgrade! Ho ancora alcuni dubbi (per velocizzare l'avvio della mdk ho disattivato kudzu all'avvio, mi conviene ripristinarlo prima dell'upgrade?), ma sono più rincuorato. Ovviamente avrò bisogno di alcuni consigli, visto che ormai le ultime schede madri includono sk audio e lan integrate, per le rifiniture. ;-) Ancora un grazie Nicola Tienici informati. Con la 9.1 vorrei fare anch'io questo scherzetto. E' la buona occasione per scrivere un mini-mini HOWTO. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair -
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione KMail..........
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:24:04 +0200 Gaetano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrea scrive: Cerchiamo però di capirci. . Scusate, forse sono stato frainteso. Non era mia intenzione accusare gli utenti della ML, ... non era rivolto specificamente a te. Eri semplicemente l'ultimo di un thread che mi sembrava stesse prendendo una brutta piega. Cosa che peraltro succede spesso su ML e NG di Linux. Non per niente, qualche anno fa, una nota rivista americana aveva assegnato ai NG di Linux il premio annuale per il miglior servizio di assistenza. Dall'anno successivo, su protesta delle ditte commerciali, ha deciso di escluderli dalla gara ;-) ... ( veramente Andrea a te personalmente ho anche mandato dei ringraziamenti in privato che penso non hai ricevuto) ... Scusa, ma per passate esperienze, preferisco lasciar sempre cadere i messaggi relativi a NG/ML che mi arrivano privatamente. Anche a rischio di sembrare scortese. C'è il rischio di trasformare la mia casella e-mail in un NG ;-) L'importante è non dire Qui sono ma mettersi nell'ottica qui siamo. Ah, ecco perché mi ero attaccato a te. C'era quel Qui sono che si prestava ad un bel pistolotto ;-) P.S.: Spero di poter anch'io, un giorno, dare consigli utili a qualcuno! Non aver paura a buttarti nella mischia :-) Molte domande hanno risposte semplici (pensare semplicemente è spesso la soluzione) Altre volte, cercare una risposta da dare è un utile esercizio per imparare. ciao, Andrea
RE: [newbie-it] [OT] Alterare una Tabella in postgres
Salve a tutti e scusate l'OT,
Sapete dirmi come si altera una tabella in
un database postgres???
Ho la necessita' di allargare o restringere una
colonna, ho provato
Alter table nome_tabella modify nome_colonna nuovo_valore;
ma non acetta modify!!!
Ciao,
prova con RENAME . Quello che metto di seguito l'ho trovato in:
http://jamesthornton.com/postgres/7.2/postgres/sql-altertable.html
ALTER TABLE
Name
ALTER TABLE -- change the definition of a table
Synopsis
ALTER TABLE [ ONLY ] table [ * ]
ADD [ COLUMN ] column type [ column_constraint [ ... ] ]
ALTER TABLE [ ONLY ] table [ * ]
ALTER [ COLUMN ] column { SET DEFAULT value | DROP DEFAULT }
ALTER TABLE [ ONLY ] table [ * ]
ALTER [ COLUMN ] column SET STATISTICS integer
ALTER TABLE [ ONLY ] table [ * ]
RENAME [ COLUMN ] column TO newcolumn
ALTER TABLE table
RENAME TO new_table
ALTER TABLE table
ADD table_constraint_definition
ALTER TABLE [ ONLY ] table DROP CONSTRAINT constraint { RESTRICT |
CASCADE }
ALTER TABLE table
OWNER TO new_owner
Inputs
table
The name of an existing table to alter.
column
Name of a new or existing column.
type
Type of the new column.
newcolumn
New name for an existing column.
new_table
New name for the table.
table_constraint_definition
New table constraint for the table
new_owner
The user name of the new owner of the table.
Ciao Andrea
[newbie-it] kppp --parte 3--
Ho provato a modificare la stringa di chiamata da ATDT a ATDx3DT ma non è cambiato nulla. Ho provato ad alzare il volume del modem dato che solitamente lo tengo spento, si sente che compone il num di tel ma poi non si mette a gracchiare. Nella finestra di kppp appare Connessione in corso al num 03954..., mentre nella finestra di log del kppp appare: ATZ OK AM1L3 OK ATX3DT1039541 Ed in basso a quest'ultima c'è la scritta In attesa di: CONNECT Altri suggerimenti? Grazie ancora! Ciao Davide altra cosa che mi viene in mente è quella di settare il tempo di attesa a 0 . prova Ciao , Tom Niente da fare... anche mettendo il tempo al minimo, cioè a 1 non riesco a connettermi. Il modem si comporta come descritto sopra. Ho messo online l'immagine (jpg) della configurazione dei comandi AT della mia connessione. Provate a dargli un occhio se c'è qlcosa di sbagliato. L'indirizzo è questo... http://spazioinwind.libero.it/addebito79/Finestra_comandiAT.jpg Grazie ancora Ciao Davide
[newbie-it] kppp --risolto in parte--
Non ci credo... Non lo credevo possibile!! kppp mi aggiunge davanti al num di tel un 1 ! E ci credo che il modem sta in attesa senza ricevere un caxxo !!! Tel al numero sbagliato!!! Fortunatamente essendo abbonato alla Wind posso mettere o omettere il 1088 davanti al num di tel che devo chiamare quindi ho fatto la furbata, ho messo 088 039541... l'1 me lo mette lui! Cmq è il colmo!! Perchè mi mette l'1?? Come posso levarlo di mezzo?? Ma non è finita, sarebbe fin tr bello :) Ora riesco a connettermi ma non riesco ne a navigare ne a scaricare, insomma nulla. Ho avuto lo stesso problema qnd avevo installato MDK 9.0, in quel caso era un problema di DNS, pensavo fosse lo stesso, ho messo il DNS primario della Wind 212.245.255.2 nelle proprietà di kppp ma non è servito a nulla. Ora che posso fare? Sorry se vi sto intasando le caselle di posta... grazie ancora per l'aiuto datomi fino ad ora. byebyeby Davide
[newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl
Ho bisogno di un consiglio di questo genere: sono con Alice da qualche giorno, ma non riesco a configurare il modem, che ? un IPM Datacom usb, in Mandrake 9.1. Allora vorrei chiedere alla Telecom di cambiare questo modem e di farmi avere un Ericsson HM220dp, dopo aver configurato una scheda Ethernet che mi procurer?. Dopo che sar? entrato in rete con me stesso, cosa dovr? fare: per favore ditemi tutto nei particolari perch? (si capiva) sono un ultra pivello. (per? il Mandrake mi piace proprio) Grazie a tutti
[newbie-it] Joystick Wingman Logitech
Come si fa ad installare il joystick in oggetto o più in generale un joystick? Inoltre come farlo riconoscere a xmame? La scheda audio (sulla quale c'è la porta MIDI da me usata) è una SoundBlaster16 (su bus ISA). Ciao, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] kppp e xmms dopo upgrade a 9.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie-it] kppp e xmms dopo upgrade a 9.1: Dopo aver upgradato da 9.0 a 9.1 ho riscontrato 2 problemi. 2) E' sparita la connessione ad internet ( KPPP ) A meno che non sia una sparizione di icona (lo vedi subito lanciando il kppp da console) ti e' capitato come a me che l'installazione non ti ha visto il modem e non ti ha percio' (o chissa' perche') installato la kde-network. In questo caso il modo piu' semplice per risolvere e' da una console: urpmi kppp e ti fara' installare il kde-network. L'upgrade tra l'altro a me ha dato problemi che sono poi scomparsi con un fresh install. Ora funziona benissimo direi ma la Mandrake e' lontana, secondo me, da quello che vorrebbe essere. bye - -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://www.marcob.org/go.asp?~freefred/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jIl+JoljSvtxdFkRAk96AJ9s1aTVSNDArgcQPCOUmYmayzei6ACcCsjb UfrP3ajzVJCcS1PM7hlZ3ng= =f3Ra -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Connettersi ad internet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 22:52, martedì 1 aprile 2003, Giaipur ha scritto: allora, con quale programma provi a connetterti a internet? Con Kppp che modem hai? modem esterno 56 khili/sec USB chipset non so cosa sono boh un aiutuino? ho paura che la tua connessione non vada, perchè il modem non viene pilotato dal sistema operativo.. ù contrariamente ai seriali, che sono dei veri modem, gli usb hanno alcune funzioni emulate in software, quindi necessitano dei drivers scritti dal produttore per funzionare... è inutile dire che i produttori in genere non rilasciano moduli per far andare i propri 'cosi' sotto linuccio... quindi biogna affidarsi a volontari che in modi più o meno leciti scrivono moduli per supportare tali periferiche.. quindi cerca di ottenere quante più informazioni possibili sul tuo modem, in particolare sul chipset che monta, e inizia a ricercare su internet se esistono delle informazioni , o magari, dei sorgenti da scaricare e usare... (rpm sarà difficile per il tuo 2.2.17) Giaipur - -- bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+jJyVF/9fksDJ4y0RAgvfAKC4fKLO7qs3rej9gI9wSDsJIkvg8QCgt7L9 xrPJCvKgxwEBNEn28VbcZpI= =7nEz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] Ricezione posta
Ciao a tutti! Ho un problema nella ricezione della posta tramite fetchmail: talvolta capita che fetchmail blocchi la ricezione di alcune mail, dandomi errori di questo tipo: fetchmail: SMTP 250 2.1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' ... fetchmail: SMTP: (bounce-message body) oppure: fetchmail: SMTP 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist fetchmail: can't even send to spirite! fetchmail: SMTP RSET fetchmail: SMTP 250 2.0.0 Reset state not flushed o ancora: fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Qualcuno sa spiegarmi cosa vogliono dire tutte queste simpatiche cose? Immagino ci sia qualcosa che non gli va bene negli indirizzi dei mittenti delle mail, ma cosa? E cosa vuol dire bounce message body? E, soprattutto, è in qualche modo possibile dire a fetchmail di non fare controlli di questo tipo, o comunque di mandarmi lo stesso le mail incriminate? Spero tanto che mi sappiate aiutare... Grazie in anticipo, Chiara -- == Influenzare qualcuno significa dargli la propria anima: non pensa più liberamente con i suoi pensieri, non arde più delle sue passioni spontanee. Le sue virtù non sono più reali. I suoi peccati, se esistono cose come i peccati, sono presi in prestito. (Oscar Wilde)
Re: [newbie-it] kppp e xmms dopo upgrade a 9.1
2) E' sparita la connessione ad internet ( KPPP ) A meno che non sia una sparizione di icona (lo vedi subito lanciando il kppp da console) ti e' capitato come a me che l'installazione non ti ha visto il modem e non ti ha percio' (o chissa' perche') installato la kde-network. In questo caso il modo piu' semplice per risolvere e' da una console: urpmi kppp e ti fara' installare il kde-network. L'upgrade tra l'altro a me ha dato problemi che sono poi scomparsi con un fresh install. Ora funziona benissimo direi ma la Mandrake e' lontana, secondo me, da quello che vorrebbe essere. bye Confermo la diagnosi Mandrake non ha riconoscito LtModem e quindi non ha intallato Kppp, ho provveduto Dal centro di controllo di Mandrake a riattivare le connessioni ( che dopo aver istallato Kppp mi sono ritrovato configurate come in precedenza ) ma come pensavo ad ogni upgrade per ripristinare la possibilità della connessione ad internet bisogna installare il un nuovo 'drive' per il modem bye
Re: [newbie] How do you change Regional settings?
John, Thanks! It turned out to be a problem with the Lindrivers for the Winmodem. There is a Country configuration option for Italy for the driver - which didn't solve the problem. However, if this fails, the driver FAQs recommend adding the modem command ATX3 (disabling Wait for dialling tone before dialling on KPPP is equivalent); and this has worked fine. DougB On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:24, ajx wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Sony laptop, dual boot XP/Mdk 9.0 - Gnome, winmodem working OK as linmodem in the UK. Now I'm in Italy, I have set up an account on KPPP with an Italian ISP (works fine on Win$). With KPPP - Querying the modem - OK. Connect - I hear the dialling tone of the Italian phoneline quite clearly, but after an interval KPPP reports NO DIALTONE. It may be that you need a new modem, specific to Italy. Someone who came here from S. Africa had the same problem - but it was cured by a modem bought in France. John _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do you change Regional settings?
John, Thanks! It turned out to be a problem with the Lindrivers for the Winmodem. There is a Country configuration option for Italy for the driver - which didn't solve the problem. However, if this fails, the driver FAQs recommend adding the modem command ATX3 (disabling Wait for dialling tone before dialling on KPPP is equivalent); and this has worked fine. DougB On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:24, ajx wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Sony laptop, dual boot XP/Mdk 9.0 - Gnome, winmodem working OK as linmodem in the UK. Now I'm in Italy, I have set up an account on KPPP with an Italian ISP (works fine on Win$). With KPPP - Querying the modem - OK. Connect - I hear the dialling tone of the Italian phoneline quite clearly, but after an interval KPPP reports NO DIALTONE. It may be that you need a new modem, specific to Italy. Someone who came here from S. Africa had the same problem - but it was cured by a modem bought in France. John _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France __ 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] drakfloppy bug?
Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32 version). After rebooting i tried to access linux from it, and i found out i had to have a boot floppy. So off to mandrake i go, i open the MCC and click on boot, then the drakfloppy icon. I leave everything default (there was no other choice anyways) and i hit the create button. Everything goes smoothly, and within a minute i get my linux bootdisk. So back to XP i go. I reopen VmWare, put the floppy in, and wait. This is the message i got: SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin Cold not find kernel image: linux boot: _ I've tried formatting the floppy (twice) and making another boot disk (twice) and i still got the same message defiantly staring at me. Is this a bug in drakfloppy or am i doing something wrong, again? -cF
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 07:37, John Richard Smith wrote: So if I'm to compile a purpose made nvidia driver is this going to be from tar balls or src rpms ? John By compiling from source, it's going to be FOR your system - for your everything. That's why I almost always grab the sources for NVidia's because I want it catered to MY system and not a static binary for everyone else's system... OK, so you saying I must download a tar.bz file from Nvidia, and compile with my gcc compiler ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:42 am, M X wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition. So if you want your 4)Partition for data accesible from Windows and Linux(FAT32) partition to be visible from Windows it must be the second partition on the drive. HTH derek Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows will perfectly well see any partition after the linux partitions, provided they are either fat32 or ntfs. The only partition windows does not see is any of the linux flavour file system partitions. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd
snip On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 21:54, Peter Watson wrote: In XCDRoast 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings''HD Settings' which will contain your ISO image 2)click 'create CD', click 'master tracks', select files you want to include in right hand window (File/Directory View) click 'add' and files appear in left hand window (session view) 3)click 'create session/image' tab, click 'master to image file' (this is in the directory you set up in 1) 4)click 'write tracks' (at side), click 'write tracks' (at bottom) Eh Voila, note you may also need to look through all the myriad of other options along the way to be sure they are ok, eg things like rockridge or joliet. I've had problems with XCDroast,trying to copy data files. Following all those steps (disabling all the rockridge, joliet options except the one recommended for backup CDs) I was able to write out OK only on one occasion. Ever since then, everything goes fine until the actual burning, when it terminates prematurely, having written for about 0.06s.Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I try single or multi-session, CD-R or CD-RW. Any ideas? (Sorry I can't give the exact error message - I don't have that PC here; it's about 700 miles away) DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 11:09 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip I've had problems with XCDroast,trying to copy data files. Following all those steps (disabling all the rockridge, joliet options except the one recommended for backup CDs) I was able to write out OK only on one occasion. Ever since then, everything goes fine until the actual burning, when it terminates prematurely, having written for about 0.06s.Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I try single or multi-session, CD-R or CD-RW. Any ideas? (Sorry I can't give the exact error message - I don't have that PC here; it's about 700 miles away) I've never had problems with burning data disks until I tried to burn this bootable one, which is why I thought it was linked with the boot image. I normally add directories and files to the list, excluding unnecessary ones if the collection is too big. If the last tab can calculate the sum without errors they burn fine - though it pays to burn at slowish speeds - 8x is right for most people. I don't burn to an image, I burn straight to disk, and it works. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:42 am, M X wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition. So if you want your 4)Partition for data accesible from Windows and Linux(FAT32) partition to be visible from Windows it must be the second partition on the drive. HTH derek Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows will perfectly well see any partition after the linux partitions, provided they are either fat32 or ntfs. The only partition windows does not see is any of the linux flavour file system partitions. I don't think data partitions are too much of a problem, but if you have used another partition to write, say, 'Program Files' then you probably would find it problematic. Anything that windows uses directly needs to be kept before the linux partitions, but fat32 data partitions are not as picky. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Copy To/Move To
Thanks, that's what I've been doing but I much prefer the Copy To/Move To feature. What I liked about it was the Quick Browser method of navigating through the directories. Just a matter of personal preference really :-) -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Just left click and drag to the appropriate directory and it will ask you which operation you want. Cheers Jason Martin Foster wrote: In Mandrake 9.01, The Copy To and Move To options don't seem to be available when I right-click on a filename in the Konqueror filemanager. I found this an extremely useful function in previous versions, in fact, I would say that it's a must have. Maybe I need to tweek something somewhere? 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] Burning a bootable cd
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 11:09 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip I've had problems with XCDroast,trying to copy data files. Following all those steps (disabling all the rockridge, joliet options except the one recommended for backup CDs) I was able to write out OK only on one occasion. Ever since then, everything goes fine until the actual burning, when it terminates prematurely, having written for about 0.06s.Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I try single or multi-session, CD-R or CD-RW. Any ideas? (Sorry I can't give the exact error message - I don't have that PC here; it's about 700 miles away) I've never had problems with burning data disks until I tried to burn this bootable one, which is why I thought it was linked with the boot image. I normally add directories and files to the list, excluding unnecessary ones if the collection is too big. If the last tab can calculate the sum without errors they burn fine - though it pays to burn at slowish speeds - 8x is right for most people. I don't burn to an image, I burn straight to disk, and it works. Anne Just a thought, maybe nothing, but you didn't mention doing the MB sum part of the preparation, in master tracks , I think it does more than the obvious. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:42 am, M X wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition. So if you want your 4)Partition for data accesible from Windows and Linux(FAT32) partition to be visible from Windows it must be the second partition on the drive. HTH derek Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows will perfectly well see any partition after the linux partitions, provided they are either fat32 or ntfs. The only partition windows does not see is any of the linux flavour file system partitions. I don't think data partitions are too much of a problem, but if you have used another partition to write, say, 'Program Files' then you probably would find it problematic. Anything that windows uses directly needs to be kept before the linux partitions, but fat32 data partitions are not as picky. Anne Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I would expect it to work. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:45:50 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so you saying I must download a tar.bz file from Nvidia, and compile with my gcc compiler ? John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as well use the .run All subsequent release will only be offered in this format. Charles -- Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. -- George Chapman - Mandrake Linux 9.1 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.13mdk - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:58:21 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I would expect it to work. You can have that also. When I first started running linux and lilo still had the 8GB halo I would always move Win so that it was the last Primary partition on the hd and install linux on the front of the drive,. Once it is installed Windows don't give a shit since it can't see anything but itself or it siblings. Charles -- Mind if I smoke? I don't care if you burst into flames and die! - Mandrake Linux 9.1 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.13mdk - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 12:03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 11:09 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip I've had problems with XCDroast,trying to copy data files. Following all those steps (disabling all the rockridge, joliet options except the one recommended for backup CDs) I was able to write out OK only on one occasion. Ever since then, everything goes fine until the actual burning, when it terminates prematurely, having written for about 0.06s.Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I try single or multi-session, CD-R or CD-RW. Any ideas? (Sorry I can't give the exact error message - I don't have that PC here; it's about 700 miles away) I've never had problems with burning data disks until I tried to burn this bootable one, which is why I thought it was linked with the boot image. I normally add directories and files to the list, excluding unnecessary ones if the collection is too big. If the last tab can calculate the sum without errors they burn fine - though it pays to burn at slowish speeds - 8x is right for most people. I don't burn to an image, I burn straight to disk, and it works. Anne There are two options, one is to create an ISO image on your disk and burn from that (my preference as it avoids buffer underruns), the other is to create an ISO image and burn to CD-R(RW) on the fly. In neither case do you burn an ISO image. The CD writing HOWTO explains how to create a bootable disk and in XCDRoast the 'master tracks/boot options' tab allows you to specify that it is a bootable CD ROM and identify the boot image etc. -- Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1
Just throwing in my 2 cents worth here, but I really like the new NVidia driver package. Took all of 1 minute to install and configure. Who says you can write installation systems that work? Just had to make a copy of my XF86Config-4 file, ran the shell script to install the NVidia package, and edited a few minor things in the existing XF86Config-4 file. They put together one sweet install if you ask me! Had to modify X so it wouldn't launch on start-up, backed up the X config file, ran the file they provided, and edited may as many as three lines in XF86Config-4. After that, startx did the trick. Don't know whether or not the Texstar RPM's work as nicely as this, but if not, this new install system is good to go! Thing is, this driver package is supposed to be able to compile itself for many kernels, and distributions. That's impressive! Nice to see what a company can do when they put their heads together. I just became an NVidia fan! Lanman On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 08:13, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:45:50 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so you saying I must download a tar.bz file from Nvidia, and compile with my gcc compiler ? John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as well use the .run All subsequent release will only be offered in this format. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi sources
Hi all, I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install. Everything works until I get an error that the signature is not valid, not readable. I try to install anyway, and I get a message that the file is corrupt. I removed/reinstalled the mirrors, changed mirrors, tired different packages, held my tongue a different way and crossed my fingers. Same result. I've been watching the list and haven't seen where anyone else is having this problem. Any help/guidance/suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.1 and Actiontec PCMCIA Wireless cards.
I have just got and Actiontec wireless PC card and cant get it working at all. Has anyone tried these and got them working? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: WLAN, 802.11b PC CARD manfid: 0x, 0x function: 6 (network) Socket 1: no product info available TIA DAVE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Mandrake 9.1 Icon Problem
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:03 am, Netsonic wrote: Hi everybody. I have downloaded and tried to install Mandrake 9.1. The install itself runs OK, but when I load up KDE, there are no desktop icons whatsoever. All the previous Mandrake versions I used had a handful of icons there for things like 'Home', 'CD Rom' etc in the top left hand corner of the screen. Also when the KDE loads, the mouse pointer changes to an egg-timer type pointer as if its waiting for something to finish. It stays like this for 5 or 6 minutes, and then still no desktop icons. The menus and taskbar are available and work OK. Right clicking somewhere in the middle of the desktop does nothing, whereas there used to be a context menu appeared for things like desktop configuration. Gnome loads with the icons OK, just nothing for KDE. Has anybody else experienced this ?? Yes, I experienced this the first time I installed 9.1 In my haste to install it, I overlooked adding a user and so therefore I was running as root. The solution that worked for me was to create a user and then login as that user. As you should know, the root desktop is different to a user desktop :-) -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT: Lanman)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried that script as well. I was wondering what you had to change in XF86config-4? Was it just the normal change of the nv driver to nvidia? I already had the nvidia drivers that I installed from the NVIDIA_Kernel.src.rpm and used the rpm for the glx. Before this one came out so I already had my XF86Config-4 was already edited. Although the update if there was one went fine. G_REEPER On Friday 11 April 2003 07:12 am, Lanman wrote: Just throwing in my 2 cents worth here, but I really like the new NVidia driver package. Took all of 1 minute to install and configure. Who says you can write installation systems that work? Just had to make a copy of my XF86Config-4 file, ran the shell script to install the NVidia package, and edited a few minor things in the existing XF86Config-4 file. They put together one sweet install if you ask me! Had to modify X so it wouldn't launch on start-up, backed up the X config file, ran the file they provided, and edited may as many as three lines in XF86Config-4. After that, startx did the trick. Don't know whether or not the Texstar RPM's work as nicely as this, but if not, this new install system is good to go! Thing is, this driver package is supposed to be able to compile itself for many kernels, and distributions. That's impressive! Nice to see what a company can do when they put their heads together. I just became an NVidia fan! Lanman On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 08:13, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:45:50 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so you saying I must download a tar.bz file from Nvidia, and compile with my gcc compiler ? John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as well use the .run All subsequent release will only be offered in this format. Charles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jD9K6UWsagwteioRAp76AJ4rr74Nuf6h9ERlBTD90bBQX2xG2QCfUaPp A9367pnrrRZRqcU1/p8OAfQ= =HyiT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)
On Wednesday April 2 2003 10:35 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:42 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Looks interesting! :-) http://linuxtoday.com/security/2003040101926NWCYNT check the date of the story . alas some things are too good to be true You cain't map a sense of humor. T. Prachett Well, I sent it with a smiley face at the endguess the intent didn't come across too good huh? I suppose I should have posted the URL's to where Microsoft bought Linux and the other one where Judges Kotelly and Jackson decided to change their verdicts bigger grin Yeah, that one was too good to be true. I like the one about M$ buying Linux too. Seems more got sucked in by the pclinuxonline deal than any of the other 4/1 stuff. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT:Lanman)
The extra sections to edit are based on whether or not you previously had an ATi video card or not. Entries in the file could include the Option line regarding dri, or DPMS. I didn't finish up with the rest of the README file, but I did catch a line that mentioned something about being able to set additional options. Since I was just looking to get it running, I didn't continue with these options once I had it running. Assuming that your config file already points to the nvidia driver module, you're probably not going to need to edit the file at all. Still, I'd suggest keeping a copy of your original driver module and XF86Config-4 file, just in case. Mine went slicker than snot off a duck's back, so I'm pretty happy. X has been rock-solid ever since. It was pretty good with the nv module, but I was planning on installing the new drivers anyway. I had previously had several problems with the old driver packages from NVidia, and wasn't looking forward to this very much. Probably the reason I was pleasantly surprised! Now, if only I could get the SVHS output working, I'd be all set. I have a 42 plasmavision screen that's dying to become a computer monitor! Lanman On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:03, G_REEPER wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried that script as well. I was wondering what you had to change in XF86config-4? Was it just the normal change of the nv driver to nvidia? I already had the nvidia drivers that I installed from the NVIDIA_Kernel.src.rpm and used the rpm for the glx. Before this one came out so I already had my XF86Config-4 was already edited. Although the update if there was one went fine. G_REEPER On Friday 11 April 2003 07:12 am, Lanman wrote: Just throwing in my 2 cents worth here, but I really like the new NVidia driver package. Took all of 1 minute to install and configure. Who says you can write installation systems that work? Just had to make a copy of my XF86Config-4 file, ran the shell script to install the NVidia package, and edited a few minor things in the existing XF86Config-4 file. They put together one sweet install if you ask me! Had to modify X so it wouldn't launch on start-up, backed up the X config file, ran the file they provided, and edited may as many as three lines in XF86Config-4. After that, startx did the trick. Don't know whether or not the Texstar RPM's work as nicely as this, but if not, this new install system is good to go! Thing is, this driver package is supposed to be able to compile itself for many kernels, and distributions. That's impressive! Nice to see what a company can do when they put their heads together. I just became an NVidia fan! Lanman On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 08:13, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:45:50 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so you saying I must download a tar.bz file from Nvidia, and compile with my gcc compiler ? John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as well use the .run All subsequent release will only be offered in this format. Charles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jD9K6UWsagwteioRAp76AJ4rr74Nuf6h9ERlBTD90bBQX2xG2QCfUaPp A9367pnrrRZRqcU1/p8OAfQ= =HyiT -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ 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] dyndns setup and apache
On Wednesday April 2 2003 03:53 pm, Jeff wrote: If someone could also check http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/ and let me know that it's not just being served in my lan I would also appreciate it. TIA Oops should have been http://bustedbox.homelinux.net I can access either one. BTW, the yellow text on black is readable, but the green on black is faint. NBD, it's probly my video card/monitor, but I believe you need to allow for old fogies like me with bad eyes and cheap monitors ;) Use more contrasting colors. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] just testing, sorry!
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Re: [newbie] urpmi sources
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:20 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install. Everything works until I get an error that the signature is not valid, not readable. I try to install anyway, and I get a message that the file is corrupt. I removed/reinstalled the mirrors, changed mirrors, tired different packages, held my tongue a different way and crossed my fingers. Same result. I've been watching the list and haven't seen where anyone else is having this problem. Any help/guidance/suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks, Linus That problem is caused by the way some sources serve up files being incompatible with curl. I think the curl available at plf fixes this, and there should be a fix from Mandrake shortly. In the meantime using urpmi from the command line with the --wget switch should work OK derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Get urpmi sources from plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 and Actiontec PCMCIA Wireless cards.
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:00 pm, Dave Pucknell wrote: I have just got and Actiontec wireless PC card and cant get it working at all. Has anyone tried these and got them working? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: WLAN, 802.11b PC CARD manfid: 0x, 0x function: 6 (network) Socket 1: no product info available TIA DAVE If it is anything like their usb version, then it is Prism 2.5 based, and will need the wlan-ng driver. I do not think that driver is included in Mandrake, but you can get it here http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/ There is an item on my home page about using wlan-ng with the Actiontec USB device. It may help you with your PC card version. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Get urpmi sources from plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi sources
On Thursday 03 April 2003 15:20, Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install. Everything works until I get an error that the signature is not valid, not readable. I try to install anyway, and I get a message that the file is corrupt. I removed/reinstalled the mirrors, changed mirrors, tired different packages, held my tongue a different way and crossed my fingers. Same result. I've been watching the list and haven't seen where anyone else is having this problem. Any help/guidance/suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks, Linus Sounds more like the mirror you're connecting to isn't an apropiate one for 9.1 or you're not getting the synthesis.cz list right. Frankly I've never gotten along with setting up sources through mcc but have never had any real trouble using urpmi.addmedia. I just did a minimal install on my laptop and then the whole shebang afterwards using FTP through a proxy server using urpmi. Works wonderful! What mirror and what command did you use? Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
On Thursday April 3 2003 03:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows will perfectly well see any partition after the linux partitions, provided they are either fat32 or ntfs. The only partition windows does not see is any of the linux flavour file system partitions. John I'd say it's sometimes true, sometimes not. Depends on the Windoze version, and which subset of the version is used. Since the orginal poster mentions fat32, I'll use W98 as an example. Besides all the different versions of W98, there's also differences in the OEM and Retail, and Upgrade versions. Then there's vendor modified versions, eg, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. IOW's many different possibilities. Most of the time you'll see the 'Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition' situation with the OEM and sometimes with the 'vendor' versions. I have no experience with the 'nt' versions (W2K, Win XP, etc.). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Kernel source
Hello all, another newbie comes to the list. I am immensely happy with Mandrake Linux 9.1 and won't be looking back at Winwoes. My problem is my winmodem. It's a PCTel AMR and I have the How to and source code to install it. I need to get modversion.h onto my harddrive. The configure doesn't like the one in /usr/include/linux so I'm guessing it wants something different in /usr/src/linux. When I try to install the kernel-source rpm the installer keeps asking me to install CD2. It gets stuck and no softwarre is installed. Checksums are correct. Any suggestions? William Brown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Wine or VM
I want to run a Windows program from Linux. Which would be better to use Wine or VM. William Brown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:33 pm, pete wrote: On Thursda I've never had problems with burning data disks until I tried to burn this bootable one, which is why I thought it was linked with the boot image. I normally add directories and files to the list, excluding unnecessary ones if the collection is too big. If the last tab can calculate the sum without errors they burn fine - though it pays to burn at slowish speeds - 8x is right for most people. I don't burn to an image, I burn straight to disk, and it works. Anne Hi, Pete There are two options, one is to create an ISO image on your disk and burn from that (my preference as it avoids buffer underruns), the other is to create an ISO image and burn to CD-R(RW) on the fly. In neither case do you burn an ISO image. Semantics. IIRC both Nero and Roxio refer to the process as 'burn an image'. We both know what they mean. The CD writing HOWTO explains how to create a bootable disk and in XCDRoast the 'master tracks/boot options' tab allows you to specify that it is a bootable CD ROM and identify the boot image etc. I've been burning disks for years, so I understand the process. In this context Douglas has said that he had been unable to burn a data disk (not a bootable one, such as I was having a problem with) in XCDRoast. The point I was making was that I frequently burn data disks under XCDRoast and have always found it reliable, even though I normally burn 'on the fly'. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
Xperience -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Fox Sent: 29 March 2003 4:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; robin Subject: 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] Re: Wine or VM
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:26 pm, William Brown wrote: I want to run a Windows program from Linux. Which would be better to use Wine or VM. William Brown Depends what you want to run, and which version of windows you have. Only wine is free. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 installation a real mess
On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:36, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:34, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:13 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:58, Teilhard Knight wrote: As I posted before, I installed 9.1 on a HD on the (master) secondary IDE channel. Problem is that almost anything is loaded as read only on boot. I tried to install the NVIDIA drivers but I couldn't, because no directory could be created because it is a read only file-system. I installed twice. First, I put the bootloader in the partition and in the second at the beginning of the disk (MBR according to the installation, but the MBR is in the other disk). There was no difference. There is no problem with the machine booting, though. Any ideas of what is happenig to me? Teilhard Knight What filesystem are you using? Ext3. Coud that be the issue? Teilhard Knight Nah - has to be something else...I'm wondering if you disable msec if that will help... Actually that was the issue. I changed to Ext2 and everything worked marvelously. I do not really know what is what the installation CD's do when formatting Ext3, because, as a matter of fact, the swap partition and the Linux partition were both detected as Ext3 (Journalistic). At first, I thought that the problem was that the swap partition had been formatted Ext3, and I went and formatted it as swap, but it didn't cure the problem. When I changed to Ext2, the CD's detected it as Linux Native. I dunno, maybe this things happen only to me because I am a bad boy. :o( Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM
Depends what U wanbt to run... Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. More information can be read in the articles Why Wine is so important (http://www.winehq.com/?page=why) In VMWare u need a Windows license to install in it. VMware Workstation is virtual machine software for technical professionals. It lets you run multiple versions of operating systems simultaneously on a single computer. Quit wasting time configuring hardware, installing software, rebooting/reconfiguring systems. Spend more time developing, testing, and deploying applications and delivering support. I think this is the most important thing to say. = []'s Lucio Costa Linux user #204519 We do what we can, we give what we have Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art. ___ Yahoo! Mail O melhor e-mail gratuito da internet: 6MB de espaço, antivírus, acesso POP3, filtro contra spam. http://br.mail.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 9.1 Icon Problem
- Original Message - From: Martin Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 9.1 Icon Problem On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:03 am, Netsonic wrote: Hi everybody. I have downloaded and tried to install Mandrake 9.1. The install itself runs OK, but when I load up KDE, there are no desktop icons whatsoever. All the previous Mandrake versions I used had a handful of icons there for things like 'Home', 'CD Rom' etc in the top left hand corner of the screen. Also when the KDE loads, the mouse pointer changes to an egg-timer type pointer as if its waiting for something to finish. It stays like this for 5 or 6 minutes, and then still no desktop icons. The menus and taskbar are available and work OK. Right clicking somewhere in the middle of the desktop does nothing, whereas there used to be a context menu appeared for things like desktop configuration. Gnome loads with the icons OK, just nothing for KDE. Has anybody else experienced this ?? Yes, I experienced this the first time I installed 9.1 In my haste to install it, I overlooked adding a user and so therefore I was running as root. The solution that worked for me was to create a user and then login as that user. As you should know, the root desktop is different to a user desktop :-) -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Thanks, I will certainly give that a try later. I find it hard to believe, when all the other versions gave me the same set of icons on the root desktop though. Incidentally, Im downloading the ISOs again as I also suspect it may be a corrupted disc, though unfortunately I have no way of knowing which one. Oh well! Stevo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM
On Thursday 03 April 2003 05:53 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Depends what U wanbt to run... Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. More information can be read in the articles Why Wine is so important (http://www.winehq.com/?page=why) In VMWare u need a Windows license to install in it. VMware Workstation is virtual machine software for technical professionals. It lets you run multiple versions of operating systems simultaneously on a single computer. Quit wasting time configuring hardware, installing software, rebooting/reconfiguring systems. Spend more time developing, testing, and deploying applications and delivering support. I think this is the most important thing to say. = []'s Lucio Costa Linux user #204519 We do what we can, we give what we have Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art. ___ Yahoo! Mail O melhor e-mail gratuito da internet: 6MB de espaço, antivírus, acesso POP3, filtro contra spam. http://br.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Thanks, just want to run some Windows apps until I can get the thing on Linux. I also like the idea of making Windows subservient to Linux. Would like to never go back, ha ha, still too many people lost in M$ land. William Brown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT: Lanman)
G_REEPER wrote: John, if you are going to get their latest release, 4349, you might as well use the .run All subsequent release will only be offered in this format. Charles Say, Charles, is there some special website for 4349 I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar has nothing like it. Or is this a Mandrake version ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 installation a real mess
Teilhard Knight wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:36, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:34, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:13 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:58, Teilhard Knight wrote: As I posted before, I installed 9.1 on a HD on the (master) secondary IDE channel. Problem is that almost anything is loaded as read only on boot. I tried to install the NVIDIA drivers but I couldn't, because no directory could be created because it is a read only file-system. I installed twice. First, I put the bootloader in the partition and in the second at the beginning of the disk (MBR according to the installation, but the MBR is in the other disk). There was no difference. There is no problem with the machine booting, though. Any ideas of what is happenig to me? Teilhard Knight What filesystem are you using? Ext3. Coud that be the issue? Teilhard Knight Nah - has to be something else...I'm wondering if you disable msec if that will help... Actually that was the issue. I changed to Ext2 and everything worked marvelously. I do not really know what is what the installation CD's do when formatting Ext3, because, as a matter of fact, the swap partition and the Linux partition were both detected as Ext3 (Journalistic). At first, I thought that the problem was that the swap partition had been formatted Ext3, and I went and formatted it as swap, but it didn't cure the problem. When I changed to Ext2, the CD's detected it as Linux Native. I dunno, maybe this things happen only to me because I am a bad boy. :o( Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial I don't think so, because whilst my experiences are not exactly the same as yours , in that I found the embedded formatting tool made a dogs breakfast of my ext2 /root base partition, the only one it had to format, everything else was a reuse of existing usage. Mind I'm talking here of every M9.1 up to rc2 , not yet got a final release available to install to know if it continues. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday April 3 2003 03:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows will perfectly well see any partition after the linux partitions, provided they are either fat32 or ntfs. The only partition windows does not see is any of the linux flavour file system partitions. John I'd say it's sometimes true, sometimes not. Depends on the Windoze version, and which subset of the version is used. Since the orginal poster mentions fat32, I'll use W98 as an example. Besides all the different versions of W98, there's also differences in the OEM and Retail, and Upgrade versions. Then there's vendor modified versions, eg, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. IOW's many different possibilities. Most of the time you'll see the 'Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition' situation with the OEM and sometimes with the 'vendor' versions. I have no experience with the 'nt' versions (W2K, Win XP, etc.). Well I can speak for W98 2nd edition, installed on FAT32 , and W2K on ntfs, and I'm told XP on ntfs is ok, so the only one I cannot speak for is ME, which everyone I know who has ever tried it doesn't have much favourable to say about it, may not be able to rad FAT32 + ntfs after linux, but until someone can tell me definatively I'm inclined to believe it can. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
Ken Walker wrote: Xperience -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Fox Sent: 29 March 2003 4:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; robin Subject: Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake? 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. I agree W2K is the best windblows distro, my friends who have XP rate it poorly, but W98 2nd ed. is not so bad really. Mostly let down by it's file system. I hope Mandrake can servive it is badly needed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Moving directories
Since I'm getting tired of reading I was hoping someone could help me out. I installed ML in a single 2GB primary partition on my disk. I use Partition Commander to organize my drive. Windows is in the second primary partition. Linux swap is in the third primary partition. 4th p. partition is extended. I would like to create a second swap partition and move /home (and whatever else) to the extended partition. Creating the partitions is no problem, but I'm not clear how to move the /home directories and setup Linux to see/mount them and the swap. Can someone point me to the right How To or give instructions. William Brown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)
On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:23 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yeah, that one was too good to be true. I like the one about M$ buying Linux too. Seems more got sucked in by the pclinuxonline deal than any of the other 4/1 stuff. and I think it was last year (or year before last?) that Linus was supposed to give up the reins, so to speak. Sure did cause a lot of holy ! messages and consternation... grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 5:33 pm, William Brown wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 05:53 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Quote: Thanks, just want to run some Windows apps until I can get the thing on Linux. I also like the idea of making Windows subservient to Linux. Would like to never go back, ha ha, still too many people lost in M$ land. /Quote Some advice, William, to take or leave as you wish. Start by making a list of all the thing you do in windows, and prioritise them. Start with the must-have's in terms of practicalities. If a linux stand-in isn't obvious, ask us, and we'll tell you the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates. Once they are sorted, go to the wouldn't-like-to-be-withouts. Tackle them one at a time. The just-nice-to-have ones can wait. By the time you've done that you'll know if there is something that really matters to you that has to be in windows. You then have to choose between wine, win4lin and vmware (in cost order) according to capabilities as well as cost. Ask for advice when you get there. Enjoy! Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a system running Mandrake 8.0. Support for the 8.0 version was just discontinued and I'd like to keep security updates current. If you really don't want to upgrade your distro, you could strip the install down to the bare essentials and use the SRPMS to recompile the newer, patched versions of the servers and their dependencies. Also, upgrade to a newer kernel. Just download the source rpms of each, install, and then change to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS. Execute rpm -bb specfilename.spec to build the package for your system. If you get a dependency error, either install or rebuild and install the required packages. I think you will find that most of the servers have few dependencies. Don't bother trying to do this with something like KDE3.1 though. Also, read about the various vulnerabilities. Many require a user account on the machine to exploit. This might not be a problem depending on your situation. So, I'm looking into upgrading.. I tried 9.0, but whenever I try to boot from the first CD, I just get a locked up machine with blinking keyboard lights. I experienced this with one piece of hardware under 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1beta2, 9.1beta3, and 9.1rc2 so assume it is still a problem. I don't even know if it is a hardware bug, or a kernel bug. I got this on my PNY Geforce4 Ti 4600 128MB card, even though an Albatron Ti 4400 and Inno3D Geforce2 Pro 64 64MB worked fine. This turns out to be a problem between the BIOS on the video card and the framebuffer. The solution is to always boot with the vga=normal parameter. This needs to be in place during install and as an append in your lilo configuration at the top global section and then again for each kernel entry (or adapt to fix for grub, I don't use it). To get by the install part, try pressing F1 when prompted and then type linux vga=normal. Due to the memory in your machine, I think you should be running the enterprise kernel as well. I like to test things out on my workstation before migrating it to my server.. The server handles PPPoE, NAT, dhcp, email, firewall, http, squid, etc for my home network. I just downloaded 9.1, so I'm gonna try it next. M9.1 looks quite a bit different (new default theme), but I like it. The kernel in particular saves me tons of greif (laptop requiring ACPI). I still have to recompile from the kernel-source package, but can get away with no patches at all. I suggest anyone else with previous laptop problems try this. System configuration is: Workstation: ASUS P4T533-C motherboard Intel 850E chipset Pentium 4 2.53/533 1 gig 1066rdram Sapphire Radeon 9700 Server: Intel PR440FX motherboard Dual Pentium Pro 200 384 meg ECC EDO RAM TNT1 PCI video card -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jGp2UMkt1ZRwL1MRAnJbAJ9akJP3NTaAWkIHHpgdDCfr6KaUcgCeMRAI KukvWh6UWJ7yGLRfWQBrlzY= =wPVg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing host?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, c0ldfusi0n wrote: Hey. I have a stupid newbie question again. Here's the prefix of my bash console: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c0ldfusi0n]$ Is there anyway to change the 'localhost' part (and i don't mean changing $PS1)? Thanks in advance hostname myhost.example.com You can set this via the Mandrake Control Center mcc in the networking section. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jGrbUMkt1ZRwL1MRAj6CAKC0TxUomwddej1s3fqNsxMG6d5YIQCffjDN y9ooSO4xk0HggBnF3zdojTk= =wN29 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT:Lanman)
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:46:43 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar has nothing like it. Or is this a Mandrake version ? http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349 Charles -- God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. -- Kronecker - Mandrake Linux 9.1 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.13mdk - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 01:53, Lucio_Costa wrote: In VMWare u need a Windows license to install in it. = []'s Lucio Costa What's a license? (g) -- Stephen Kuhn Help Desk Professional OzIT Support PTY LTD -- www.ozitsupport.com.au Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Moving directories
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 02:46, William Brown wrote: Since I'm getting tired of reading I was hoping someone could help me out. I installed ML in a single 2GB primary partition on my disk. I use Partition Commander to organize my drive. Windows is in the second primary partition. Linux swap is in the third primary partition. 4th p. partition is extended. I would like to create a second swap partition and move /home (and whatever else) to the extended partition. Creating the partitions is no problem, but I'm not clear how to move the /home directories and setup Linux to see/mount them and the swap. Can someone point me to the right How To or give instructions. William Brown However you're wanting to move /home, you're going to have to login as root, unmount the /home partition, copy it and it's permission to it's new locale, then remount the /home partition. This can be a bit tricky, so make sure you back up your stuff prior to getting too deeply involved mate... -- Fri Apr 4 04:35:00 EST 2003 04:35:00 up 13 days, 16:22, 3 users, load average: 0.38, 0.22, 0.18 -- |____ | 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 ** Women professionals do tend to over-compensate. -- Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver, Where No Man Has Gone Before, stardate 1312.9. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT:Lanman)
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 02:46, John Richard Smith wrote: Say, Charles, is there some special website for 4349 I cannot find it on nvidia's own and texstar has nothing like it. Or is this a Mandrake version ? John It's the special Canadian version - comes with donuts and a case of Labatt's. -- Fri Apr 4 04:35:00 EST 2003 04:35:00 up 13 days, 16:22, 3 users, load average: 0.38, 0.22, 0.18 -- |____ | 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 ** Women professionals do tend to over-compensate. -- Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver, Where No Man Has Gone Before, stardate 1312.9. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT: Guardian Unlimited | Online | Governmentin free-for-all
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 03:50, Graham Watkins wrote: Some folks here may find this both interesting and heartening. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,928083,00.html Linux, famous for it's Penguin Logo Is that why I run linux? Hmmm...have to think hard on that one... -- Fri Apr 4 04:40:00 EST 2003 04:40:00 up 13 days, 16:27, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.15, 0.16 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** You will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT:Lanman)
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 23:30, Lanman wrote: Now, if only I could get the SVHS output working, I'd be all set. I have a 42 plasmavision screen that's dying to become a computer monitor! Lanman If you read through the README's and other doco's, you should find that there are numerous configurations to make to allow the TV out function. How nice to be able to use that 42 plasma screenpr0n will never be the same... (g) S. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:23 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yeah, that one was too good to be true. I like the one about M$ buying Linux too. Seems more got sucked in by the pclinuxonline deal than any of the other 4/1 stuff. and I think it was last year (or year before last?) that Linus was supposed to give up the reins, so to speak. Sure did cause a lot of holy ! messages and consternation... grin There was an excellent one a few years back, with Linus ranting about the poor standards of personal hygiene of various Open Source luminaries. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 6:48 pm, Lucio_Costa wrote: Yes... But try run Your programs in Wine, it's free. If You can't do this, VMware will be Your choise. Win4Lin is excellent for win98 programs, but not games. It is much cheaper than vmware, but doesn't do w2k. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:07, robin.bcc wrote: There was an excellent one a few years back, with Linus ranting about the poor standards of personal hygiene of various Open Source luminaries. Sir Robin Why would he rant about something that's a literal given in the case of developers and OS luminaries? -- Fri Apr 4 05:05:00 EST 2003 05:05:00 up 13 days, 16:52, 3 users, load average: 0.43, 0.29, 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 ** There seems no plan because it is all plan. -- C.S. Lewis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings
My AMI bios has a section Advance Chipset Features In there is a section BURST LENGTH with the options 4QW and 8QW According to handbook this allows you to set the size of the Burst-Length for DRAM. The bigger the size the faster the DRAM performance. I altered my bios setting to 8QW from 4QW and found everything boots fine in W2K, but that Xwindows hangs on Mandrake 9.0. It seems a pity to have to choose the slower setting just because of mandrake. Is there any way of getting Mandrake to work with the higher setting ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 installation a real mess
On Thursday 03 April 2003 10:27, John Richard Smith wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:36, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:34, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:13 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:58, Teilhard Knight wrote: As I posted before, I installed 9.1 on a HD on the (master) secondary IDE channel. Problem is that almost anything is loaded as read only on boot. I tried to install the NVIDIA drivers but I couldn't, because no directory could be created because it is a read only file-system. I installed twice. First, I put the bootloader in the partition and in the second at the beginning of the disk (MBR according to the installation, but the MBR is in the other disk). There was no difference. There is no problem with the machine booting, though. Any ideas of what is happenig to me? Teilhard Knight What filesystem are you using? Ext3. Coud that be the issue? Teilhard Knight Nah - has to be something else...I'm wondering if you disable msec if that will help... Actually that was the issue. I changed to Ext2 and everything worked marvelously. I do not really know what is what the installation CD's do when formatting Ext3, because, as a matter of fact, the swap partition and the Linux partition were both detected as Ext3 (Journalistic). At first, I thought that the problem was that the swap partition had been formatted Ext3, and I went and formatted it as swap, but it didn't cure the problem. When I changed to Ext2, the CD's detected it as Linux Native. I dunno, maybe this things happen only to me because I am a bad boy. :o( Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial I don't think so, because whilst my experiences are not exactly the same as yours , in that I found the embedded formatting tool made a dogs breakfast of my ext2 /root base partition, the only one it had to format, everything else was a reuse of existing usage. Mind I'm talking here of every M9.1 up to rc2 , not yet got a final release available to install to know if it continues. Well, I installed the dowmloaded final release. I would be interested in others' experiences with Ext3. I simply refuse to think tthat this only happens to me. There must be a bug or something in the installation CD's. I gues the problem you mention got cured, but they swaped it for another one. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No Gnome-panel when upgrading 9.0-9.1
The upgrade from 9.0 seamed to run fine, until I logged in again after the upgrade. I am a Gnome user, and when gnome had loaded, the bottom menu was empty, and the top menu was missing. I can choose New terminal from the left (or was it right) click menu on the desktop, so I can do some maintenance. How could this happen ? What should I do to get the gnome panels to show as they should ? _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 installation a real mess
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 06:25, Teilhard Knight wrote: Well, I installed the dowmloaded final release. I would be interested in others' experiences with Ext3. I simply refuse to think tthat this only happens to me. There must be a bug or something in the installation CD's. I gues the problem you mention got cured, but they swaped it for another one. Teilhard Knight Is there a reason why you chose ext3 over, say, ReiserFS or XFS? -- Fri Apr 4 06:40:00 EST 2003 06:40:00 up 13 days, 18:27, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.10, 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 ** Lisp Users: Due to the holiday next Monday, there will be no garbage collection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No Gnome-panel when upgrading 9.0-9.1
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 06:30, Ancient Computers wrote: The upgrade from 9.0 seamed to run fine, until I logged in again after the upgrade. I am a Gnome user, and when gnome had loaded, the bottom menu was empty, and the top menu was missing. I can choose New terminal from the left (or was it right) click menu on the desktop, so I can do some maintenance. How could this happen ? What should I do to get the gnome panels to show as they should ? If you did an upgrade, you might want to logoff, login as root, delete all the ~/home/usernamegoeshere/.gnome* directories and then login as yourself again...Gnome 2.2 sometimes doesn't like the leftovers from Gnome2. Being a Gnome 1.4+ person, I've become very dissatisfied with the Gnome project overall and find that they're becoming scattered in their direction and goal - they've got some great ideas, but lacking in stability and user-friendliness - but hey, that's my onion - er, opinion... -- Fri Apr 4 06:45:00 EST 2003 06:45:00 up 13 days, 18:32, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.14, 0.10 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Didja' ever have to make up your mind, Pick up on one and leave the other behind, It's not often easy, and it's not often kind, Didja' ever have to make up your mind? -- Lovin' Spoonful Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xine dvd troubles
Hello all, Anybody got xine reading dvd's on mdk9.1? I installed everything the way I did in 9.0 from PLF, but no go:o( Good hunting, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:00, Mark Weaver wrote: The first few times she did that herself I swear I saw her straighten in her chair with great pride and smile because SHE had power of the computer and not the other way around. Mine ask their M$ using friends: Don't you have xkill installed?? Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
It would suck-start a Harley, from 2 miles away, on a windy day, in snow this deep! Are we done now?? Can we kill this thread and get back to the other cool stuff? Lanman On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:55, Mark Weaver wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:31 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Micro$oft sux. Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) --LX Hehehehehehe, you wouldn't be you if you could have resisted that Lyvim! and I'll continue this very popular theme: Micro$oft sux vacuum hard. :-) all right...here's my two cents. M$ sucks so bad it could suck-start a Harley! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
Mark; That's embarrassing! A 6 year old knows that? Geesh! I didn't! Didn't know you were a grandfather either, Mark! Must be getting pretty old there, huh? LOL! Thanks for the tip about top! Or rather, thank your grand-daughter! Obviously the next generation of Guru's is getting started early at your place! Lanman P.S., Maybe you can get her to write some HOWTO's for us? I still don't have a grip on grep. Grin! Grin! On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:00, Mark Weaver wrote: Zariyan Zephyr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That is a revenge to Microsoft saying Lie-nucks to Linux ?. :). Thanks for your opinions. I hope Linux will be better in the future. So, my neighbour don't say Linux is just for programmers/professionals not for end-users !. he apparently hasn't tried it yet... my 6 year old grand daughter finds it easier to use then any windows version she's seen. Me being a programmer she's seen a few. In fact, because the menu system us actually arranged in a manner that is both logical and easy to navigate she can find her favorite games, and word processors with out having to ask for help. AND she knows what a terminal is and some of the things that can be done with it... i.e. she's got a program that isn't responding...no worries. open a terminal and type t-o-p and the one with the biggest number that looks like 97%, type k and then the number all the way at the right on the bad line, then hit enter twice and the frozen program goes away. The first few times she did that herself I swear I saw her straighten in her chair with great pride and smile because SHE had power of the computer and not the other way around. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuring Menus in KDE??
Hi everyone! Can someone tell me where the menu configs are located in MDK 9.1? Or what the console command is to bring up the Mandrake Menu Config GUI?? I had it as part of my menu, but then I switched to the standard KDE Menu and it's gone. Only one I have is the K Menu Config which doesn't allow me to switch back to MDK menu. Thanks! -R __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drakfloppy bug?
No one seems to have noticed my post so i'll give it another try. Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32 version). After rebooting i tried to access linux from it, and i found out i had to have a boot floppy. So off to mandrake i go, i open the MCC and click on boot, then the drakfloppy icon. I leave everything default (there was no other choice anyways) and i hit the create button. Everything goes smoothly, and within a minute i get my linux bootdisk. So back to XP i go. I reopen VmWare, put the floppy in, and wait. This is the message i got: SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin Cold not find kernel image: linux boot: _ I've tried formatting the floppy (twice) and making another boot disk (twice) and i still got the same message defiantly staring at me. Is this a bug in drakfloppy or am i doing something wrong, again? -cF Update: I've successfully made a boot disk using 'mkbootdisk', but DrakFloppy still has that problem.
Re: [newbie] Configuring Menus in KDE??
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:22, olive nepredofsk wrote: Hi everyone! Can someone tell me where the menu configs are located in MDK 9.1? Or what the console command is to bring up the Mandrake Menu Config GUI?? I had it as part of my menu, but then I switched to the standard KDE Menu and it's gone. Only one I have is the K Menu Config which doesn't allow me to switch back to MDK menu. Thanks! -R There are heaps of ways of editing the menus. One of the more simple manners is to make use of PsychicDrake - this is a wonderful utility that reads the alpha and delta waves your brain exerts and modifies the menus from merely thinking about how you want them. It's really buggy right now and seldom works, so instead, you might want to try menudrake - which you can either type into a terminal or just right-click the desktop, choose RUN and enter it in there... -- Fri Apr 4 07:30:00 EST 2003 07:30:00 up 13 days, 19:17, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 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 ** Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 06:12, Lanman wrote: It would suck-start a Harley, from 2 miles away, on a windy day, in snow this deep! Are we done now?? Can we kill this thread and get back to the other cool stuff? Lanman Uh - what cool stuff? -- Fri Apr 4 07:35:01 EST 2003 07:35:01 up 13 days, 19:22, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 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 ** When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:57, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, Anybody got xine reading dvd's on mdk9.1? I installed everything the way I did in 9.0 from PLF, but no go:o( Good hunting, HarM __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and just loaded all the rpm's for xine from the 3rd cd and then downloaded libdvdcss-1.2.6-2.network.i386.rpm from the link below. I've watched about 4 DVD's with no problem. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ -- Brian Craft Registered Linux User # 210286 Linux Registered machine: 97873 Yahoo Instant Messenger ID: bcraft67 ICQ id: 129672292 AIM: linuxman67 Linux..the OS of Choice! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring Menus in KDE??
Can someone tell me where the menu configs are located in MDK 9.1? Or what the console command is to bring up the Mandrake Menu Config GUI?? Menudrake under Mandrake Control Center Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drakfloppy bug?
I have posted in the cooker list the same problem this afternoon, but until now there is not answer. Don't know if a new drakxtools has been released. Regards El Jueves, 3 de Abril de 2003 23:33, cF escribió: No one seems to have noticed my post so i'll give it another try. Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32 version). After rebooting i tried to access linux from it, and i found out i had to have a boot floppy. So off to mandrake i go, i open the MCC and click on boot, then the drakfloppy icon. I leave everything default (there was no other choice anyways) and i hit the create button. Everything goes smoothly, and within a minute i get my linux bootdisk. So back to XP i go. I reopen VmWare, put the floppy in, and wait. This is the message i got: SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin Cold not find kernel image: linux boot: _ I've tried formatting the floppy (twice) and making another boot disk (twice) and i still got the same message defiantly staring at me. Is this a bug in drakfloppy or am i doing something wrong, again? -cF Update: I've successfully made a boot disk using 'mkbootdisk', but DrakFloppy still has that problem. -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring Menus in KDE??
On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: There are heaps of ways of editing the menus. One of the more simple manners is to make use of PsychicDrake - this is a wonderful utility that reads the alpha and delta waves your brain exerts and modifies the menus from merely thinking about how you want them. It's really buggy right now and seldom works, so instead, you might want to try menudrake - which you can either type into a terminal or just right-click the desktop, choose RUN and enter it in there... PsychicDrake works GREAT on my 1.2gig Athlon, 256RAM, Aopen 1k73pro MBK Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles
On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:44, Brian Craft wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and just loaded all the rpm's for xine from the 3rd cd and then downloaded libdvdcss-1.2.6-2.network.i386.rpm from the link below. I've watched about 4 DVD's with no problem. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Did all that, only the dvd option doesn't even show up in xine. I've a feeling I'm missing something obvious but can't put my finger on it. /dev/dvd points to my cdrom so that's not the problem. Thanks anyway, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles
On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:57 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, Anybody got xine reading dvd's on mdk9.1? I installed everything the way I did in 9.0 from PLF, but no go:o( Good hunting, HarM I tried and tried and finally gave up on Xine with DVD's. I use Mplayer now, it works much better, has an easier configuration and seems to pick up DVD navigation much better than Xine. You might want to try it, it comes with the Mandrake 9.1 distribution now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TightVNC, SSH and KDE 3.1
Has anyone been able to get KDE 3.1 desktop to load up in an SSH tunnelled VNC session. Everytime I try to do this, I get tons of GLX Extension not available on display :1.0 error messages and then all of the KDE stuff crashes with Signal 11 error messages. Eventually, it ends up in some wierd loop with KDE crashing and then trying to run again. I am beginning to think that it has something to do with the default mandrake fonts, I used to run KDE in Mandrake 9.0 but since the upgrade to 9.1 have not been able to do it. I can run Gnome and IceWM but not KDE. If anyone has any info that might help me out, I would appreciate it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TightVNC, SSH and KDE 3.1
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 12:18 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: Has anyone been able to get KDE 3.1 desktop to load up in an SSH tunnelled VNC session. Everytime I try to do this, I get tons of GLX Extension not available on display :1.0 error messages and then all of the KDE stuff crashes with Signal 11 error messages. Eventually, it ends up in some wierd loop with KDE crashing and then trying to run again. I am beginning to think that it has something to do with the default mandrake fonts, I used to run KDE in Mandrake 9.0 but since the upgrade to 9.1 have not been able to do it. I can run Gnome and IceWM but not KDE. If anyone has any info that might help me out, I would appreciate it. I have read about this on pclo You are correct it is because of the anti aliased fonts in KDE. The solution is to replace your libqt3 with the package on Texstars site. Unfortunately it will also have the effect of making your fonts worse. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?mop=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewtopictopic=982forum=7 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Deleted mail does not go to trash in kmail
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:41 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:58 pm, Poogle wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 H:57 am, Dennis Myers wrote: as the subject says, I delete a mail and it disappears. What to configure, I have been all through kmail config in the gui. Help is appreciated. In Kmail 1.5 the delete icon with the red X on it deletes (with or without confirmation - your choice which) but next to it there is a new icon which looks like a blue cylinder which moves to trash That was the answer, thanks Poogle. A new feature I didn't recognize. Dennis - do me a favour? Choose one that doesn't matter, then see if highlight+delete key deletes or trashes? Thanks Anne Highlighting the message and then hitting delete key sends the message to the trash bin. It can still be retrieved. If you hit the X tab on the tool bar it deletes instantly and not sent to the trash. Hope that clears up a bit. It is kind of handy to be able to delete instantly. Cheers -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where is KDE Edu?
Where is KDE educational package in Mandrake 9.1? I have all 3 CDs but can't find it anywhere. -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings
If you have SDRAM don't worry about it. It doesn't make a difference. However if you have DDR then setting the burst rate to 4qw instead of 8qw will make your average bandwidth the same as SDRAM (although you'll still have twice the peak bandwidth). What m/b and memory controller are you using? What brand of ram do you have? Certain brands of ram (mostly the cheap kind) don't support some bios memory options. Ryan On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:50, John Richard Smith wrote: My AMI bios has a section Advance Chipset Features In there is a section BURST LENGTH with the options 4QW and 8QW According to handbook this allows you to set the size of the Burst-Length for DRAM. The bigger the size the faster the DRAM performance. I altered my bios setting to 8QW from 4QW and found everything boots fine in W2K, but that Xwindows hangs on Mandrake 9.0. It seems a pity to have to choose the slower setting just because of mandrake. Is there any way of getting Mandrake to work with the higher setting ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] searching archives?
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:32 pm, eric huff said,: I tried searching the archives (for example: XFCE menu) but the hits i get are hard to sort thru. Sometimes, i will get a hit for a page that has a lit of emails, so in email 12 someone asks about where to download XFCE, and #23 is about KDE menus! Am i using the archive search incorrectly? I'm not usually a dolt with search engines... thanks, huff Eric, try the below link that was passed to me. I used it when I was searching for info on my new digital camera, all you have to do once you have the link in your browser is change the search term. iewords=MVC-CD250 change that to XFCE menu and it should work. Here: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=andformat=shortconfig=newbie_linux-mandrake_comrestrict=exclude=words=MVC-CD250 That took about 2 seconds. Right-click the links, do a save target as, and you're looking at a couple minutes tops. Even on dial-up that shouldn't break the bank. BTW, it's not Mandrake that doesn't support email querying of the archives, it's the mailing list manager, Sympa, that doesn't support it. Also, have you tried usenet? If you can go online to get the headers, then go offline, and go back on the get only the messages you want. I applaud you for making the effort to use the archives! Todd Thanks again for the above Todd, I'm passing this along to someone else who hopefully can use it. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org 6:39pm up 12 days, 1:36, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.06 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fn F7 freezes the window system in Sony vaio PCG-FXA47
I have a laptop with Mandrake 9.0. Everything works fine except when pressing the Fn key (which I need to redirect the video to an external monitor/projector).The system Freezes (the keys ctrl+alt+f1 don't work so I have to turn the laptop off and on again). Before 9.0 I had 8.2 and the (fn+F7 redirect) worked just fine. Any pointers as to how to solve the problem? _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
On Thursday 03 April 2003 18:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 06:12, Lanman wrote: It would suck-start a Harley, from 2 miles away, on a windy day, in snow this deep! Are we done now?? Can we kill this thread and get back to the other cool stuff? Lanman Uh - what cool stuff? Linux R00RZ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
John Richard Smith wrote: Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I would expect it to work. John Win98 won't recognize any NTFS partitions. But as you say, Win2K has no trouble seeing partitions past Linux partitions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TightVNC, SSH and KDE 3.1
On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:26 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 12:18 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: Has anyone been able to get KDE 3.1 desktop to load up in an SSH tunnelled VNC session. Everytime I try to do this, I get tons of GLX Extension not available on display :1.0 error messages and then all of the KDE stuff crashes with Signal 11 error messages. Eventually, it ends up in some wierd loop with KDE crashing and then trying to run again. I am beginning to think that it has something to do with the default mandrake fonts, I used to run KDE in Mandrake 9.0 but since the upgrade to 9.1 have not been able to do it. I can run Gnome and IceWM but not KDE. If anyone has any info that might help me out, I would appreciate it. I have read about this on pclo You are correct it is because of the anti aliased fonts in KDE. The solution is to replace your libqt3 with the package on Texstars site. Unfortunately it will also have the effect of making your fonts worse. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?mop=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewt opictopic=982forum=7 derek Thanks Derek and Greg for the help. At last I can stop racking my brain trying to figure it out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TightVNC, SSH and KDE 3.1
On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:18 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Has anyone been able to get KDE 3.1 desktop to load up in an SSH tunnelled VNC session. Everytime I try to do this, I get tons of GLX Extension not available on display :1.0 error messages and then all of the KDE stuff crashes with Signal 11 error messages. Eventually, it ends up in some wierd loop with KDE crashing and then trying to run again. I am beginning to think that it has something to do with the default mandrake fonts, I used to run KDE in Mandrake 9.0 but since the upgrade to 9.1 have not been able to do it. I can run Gnome and IceWM but not KDE. If anyone has any info that might help me out, I would appreciate it. It is a bug in libqt-3.1 that was exposed when AA was compiled in. Get Texstar's libqt-3.1-14 and this will allow you to use vnc, but it will degrade your fonts slightly on the local display. It affects all displays that do not support render, this includes vnc, Xnest, xforbserver, XFree-3.3.6 and older video cards -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
