[newbie-it] librerie mancanti
Ciao a tutti. Ho utilizzato senza problemi la Mandrake 9.0. Ho da poco installato la versione 9.1 e qui iniziano i problemi. Si da il caso infatti che ogni volta che il computer non viene spento correttamente (black-out o blocco del pc), XFree decida di non avviarsi più. Mi spiego meglio: al riavvio viene fatto il controllo sull'integrità del filesystem (ext3) e di solito viene ritrovato un errore che viene corretto. Si avvia la modalità testuale e fin qui tutto ok. Facendo partire il server grafico con uno startx sembra che XFree si avvii, ma subito prima dello splash-screen del kde c'e un errore nel caricamento del kdeinit. Mi ritorna in modalità testuale e vedo che ci sono degli errori nel caricamento di alcune librerie (error while loading shared libraries: libkdeui.so.4: cannot open shared file: no such file or directory). Il file in questione non c'è da nessuna parte, ma in compenso c'è un libkdeui.so in /usr/lib. Ho provato a farne un link simbolico a partire da queso file, ma niente. Ho aggiunto la cartella /usr/lib nel file /etc/ld.so.conf e poi ho lanciato ldconfig, ma non funziona comunque. Lo stesso messaggio di errore lo ricevo se provo a far partire gnome solo che in questo caso la libreria è libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 e, spulciando il file /var/log/boot, vedo che anche dei servizi all'avvio non partono perchè non trovano delle librerie. Come ultimo tentativo ho provato ad aggiungere un altro utente e a fare il login con quello, ma nulla di fatto. Qualcuno può dirmi cosa posso fare (oltre reinstallare tutto)? Grazie.
Re: [newbie-it] librerie mancanti
Alle 16:16, mercoledì 28 maggio 2003, Gianluca ha scritto: Ciao a tutti. Mi ritorna in modalità testuale e vedo che ci sono degli errori nel caricamento di alcune librerie (error while loading shared libraries: libkdeui.so.4: cannot open shared file: no such file or directory). Il file in questione non c'è da nessuna parte, ma in compenso c'è un libkdeui.so in /usr/lib. dovrebbe far parte del pacchetto kdelibs. Prova a reinstallarlo. Magari prima prova un rpm -V kdelibs dovrebbe verificare l'integrità del pacchetto installato. Almeno a leggere il man di rpm. Non l'ho mai provato ;-) ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] dvd ogle sound alsa
ciao a tutti. sto tentando di far funzionare ogle (o qualunque roba per vedere i dvd) sotto 9.1. ho installato libdvdcss2 ogle ogle-gui e relative dipendenze da penguin liberation front. quando lancio ogle ed apro il supporto dvd, mi visualizza per alcuni secondi i primi fotogrammi poi si schianta. la parte significativa dell' output sembra essere Debug[ogle_audio]: decode_a52: found sync Note[ogle_audio]: Using audio driver 'alsa' [ogle_alsa]: Opening device: default [ogle_alsa]: error while opening alsa. : No such file or directory FATAL[ogle_audio]: failed opening the alsa audio driver at default forse devo dire qualcosa in configurazione? il bello è che se clicco edit -properties non succede nulla. posso editare a manina il file di configurazione con kxmleditor ma non so cosa fare. grazie.
[newbie-it] problemi audio...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciao a tutti! Oggi dopo aver finalmente risolto il problema TV e radio mi son scontrato con una cosa curiosa: L#audio funziona regolarmente per mplayer, radio, xawtv ma non funziona con xmms e xine. Posso trovare una soluzione o devo reinstallare questi programmi? (saranno le famose applicazioni che dopo la ricompilazione del kernel vanno ricompilate di cui mi parlava mike?) Ciao e bello sentire la radio... - -- Vi diro' molto del niente che so e tutto del qualcosa che sento. -- Aldo Busi -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1N4pTvJtVxCNwP4RAi+NAJ9Z26i2UVLw9JcyIY2yZ+rFS2UNVACdGER2 3ewGCx6wPCWTLF9KThzU+9E= =c8St -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] dvd ogle sound alsa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:00, mercoledì 28 maggio 2003, paolo brusasco ha scritto: ciao a tutti. sto tentando di far funzionare ogle (o qualunque roba per vedere i dvd) sotto 9.1 ho installato libdvdcss2 ogle ogle-gui e relative dipendenze da penguin liberation front quando lancio ogle ed apro il supporto dvd, mi visualizza per alcuni secondi i primi fotogrammi poi si schianta. la parte significativa dell' output sembra essere Debug[ogle_audio]: decode_a52: found sync Note[ogle_audio]: Using audio driver 'alsa' [ogle_alsa]: Opening device: default [ogle_alsa]: error while opening alsa : No such file or directory FATAL[ogle_audio]: failed opening the alsa audio driver at default forse devo dire qualcosa in configurazione? il bello è che se clicco edit -properties non succede nulla posso editare a manina il file di configurazione con kxmleditor ma non so cosa fare grazie Io lo ho installato usando il pacchetto che usa i driver oss; hai provato ad installare quella versione? I driver alsa a creano solo casini quindi non li uso! Questi sono i pacchetti che ho usato io e il tutto funziona! libdvdcss-1.2.6-fr1.i386.rpm libdvdcss-devel-1.2.6-fr1.i386.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-ogle1.i386.rpm ogle-0.9.1-ogle1.i586.rpm ogle_gui-0.9.1-ogle1.i386.rpm xvattr-1.3-ogle1.i386.rpm - -- Se non fosse cosi' caldo oggi, sarebbe piu' fresco. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1OXoTvJtVxCNwP4RAmk1AJ9BJtPFy3ugj9qOy1G3pU4id05c+wCfQttr dQFN7xzAVby/R9xCeb2gLtU= =7UUb -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] problemi audio...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 May 2003 18:04, Luigi Pinna wrote: Ciao a tutti! Oggi dopo aver finalmente risolto il problema TV e radio mi son scontrato con una cosa curiosa: L#audio funziona regolarmente per mplayer, radio, xawtv ma non funziona con xmms e xine. sorry per la domanda banale: hai provato almeno con l'xmms tutti i server sonori? (arts, oss, esd, quelli che hai insomma) 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+1PSHJoljSvtxdFkRAji5AKCaFG/ofQ+ayOQJ9fopaMppzcj4RgCferma nwDM8PmaNlLDHNZUOuSh9Y8= =c4k7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] uno scherzo da mutt
Alle Tuesday 27 May 2003 23:42, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] uno scherzo da mutt (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: Ok ti capisco il tempo è tiranno e poi ogni tanto occorre una pausa per riordinare le idee. Quando avrai sistemato, se vuoi, facci sapere a che punto sei con mutt. Se voglio? Sara' la vostra maledizione finche' tutto non andra' a dovere! La procedura è stata questa, ho preventivamente selezionato e copiato le mail sia quelle buone che indesiderate da dentro vecchie inbox di Mozilla mail con un editor e ricopiate brutalmente in una inbox, poi riformattata con formail per evitare incompatibilità di formato, e che ho nominato `test'. formail mi preoccupa... primo perche' non l'ho installato, secondo perche' devo ancora capire cos'e' e cos fa. Ma verra' il momento anche per lui (mi sa molto prima di quanto prevedessi) Se ti ricordi nei mie precedenti messaggi ho eloggiato syd per questo suo utilizzo di procmail dopo la connessione. Yes, ricordo :-) Spero che questa disquisizione ti sia servita da stimolo per trovare quel tempo che dici che ti manca per rimetterti a sperimentare. Ehm... e' che sto seguendo un altro progetto... non c'entra nulla con Linux, pero' ve lo dico lo stesso: se siete appassionati del genere fantasy (dai giochi di ruolo ai film, libri etc etc) dal primo giugno tenete sott'occhio il sito www.fantasymagazine.it -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] [Lunghetto]Era schermo centrato ora : Perch X non riesce a partire con i settaggi che gli d?
e allora mandaci pinco.pallo C'era! era il pezzo: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 12 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Mon May 26 09:43:27 2003 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Using vt 7 (II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension xf86KbdEvents Resource temporarily unavailable waiting for X server to shut down okkio questi moduli sono stati compilati per Xfree 4.0.2 quindi con gcc 2.95.3 Uso gli stessi driver sul PC Grande con la stessa relase (MDK 9.1) e non ho problemi! # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync queste modeline sono per il tuo flat panel? mi sembrano strane.. 1024x480 ?? HELP il mio flaty non 1024 * 480 ma bensi 1024 * 768 proveder a commentare la riga (tra l'altro non neanche unn Sony ma bensi un Toshiba sat pro 6100!) hai provato commentandole se l'autoprobe riesce a trovare delle frequenze utilizzabili? si freeza e non riesco a lanciarlo! hai letto quel warning nel XFree86.0.log? *(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode 1024x768 (width 1024 is larger than *(WW) NVIDIA(0): EDID-specified maximum 969) l'inghippo lo spiega qui... a naso hai delle modeline sballate.. *(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 800 x 600 ecco il risultato prova col commentarle altrimenti esistono programmini che le calcolano non ho url sottomano ma con google li trovi sicuramente Commento anche queste righe e poi vedo Grazie ancora.
Re: [newbie-it] problemi audio...
freefred ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 May 2003 18:04, Luigi Pinna wrote: Ciao a tutti! Oggi dopo aver finalmente risolto il problema TV e radio mi son scontrato con una cosa curiosa: L#audio funziona regolarmente per mplayer, radio, xawtv ma non funziona con xmms e xine. sorry per la domanda banale: hai provato almeno con l'xmms tutti i server sonori? Il sonoro e midi in play mi funzia benissimo solo che appena istallata la MDK9.1 registarva benissimo con audacity e con gnomemeeting nelle prove audio dello stesso mi rispondeva bene, ora non so cos'è successo questo è il punto. (arts, oss, esd, quelli che hai insomma) 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+1PSHJoljSvtxdFkRAji5AKCaFG/ofQ+ayOQJ9fopaMppzcj4RgCferma nwDM8PmaNlLDHNZUOuSh9Y8= =c4k7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] dvd ogle sound alsa
paolo brusasco ha scritto: ciao a tutti. sto tentando di far funzionare ogle (o qualunque roba per vedere i dvd) sotto 9.1. ho installato libdvdcss2 ogle ogle-gui e relative dipendenze da penguin liberation front. quando lancio ogle ed apro il supporto dvd, mi visualizza per alcuni secondi i primi fotogrammi poi si schianta. la parte significativa dell' output sembra essere Debug[ogle_audio]: decode_a52: found sync Note[ogle_audio]: Using audio driver 'alsa' [ogle_alsa]: Opening device: default [ogle_alsa]: error while opening alsa. : No such file or directory FATAL[ogle_audio]: failed opening the alsa audio driver at default forse devo dire qualcosa in configurazione? il bello è che se clicco edit -properties non succede nulla. posso editare a manina il file di configurazione con kxmleditor ma non so cosa fare. grazie. E' evidente che hai istallato una versione di Ogle che si appoggia solo sui driver alsa, che per l'appunto sul tuo sistema funzionano male o mancano addirittura.
Re: [newbie-it] dvd ogle sound alsa
Michele ha scritto: paolo brusasco ha scritto: ciao a tutti. sto tentando di far funzionare ogle (o qualunque roba per vedere i dvd) sotto 9.1. ho installato libdvdcss2 ogle ogle-gui e relative dipendenze da penguin liberation front. quando lancio ogle ed apro il supporto dvd, mi visualizza per alcuni secondi i primi fotogrammi poi si schianta. la parte significativa dell' output sembra essere Debug[ogle_audio]: decode_a52: found sync Note[ogle_audio]: Using audio driver 'alsa' [ogle_alsa]: Opening device: default [ogle_alsa]: error while opening alsa. : No such file or directory FATAL[ogle_audio]: failed opening the alsa audio driver at default forse devo dire qualcosa in configurazione? il bello è che se clicco edit -properties non succede nulla. posso editare a manina il file di configurazione con kxmleditor ma non so cosa fare. grazie. E' evidente che hai istallato una versione di Ogle che si appoggia solo sui driver alsa, che per l'appunto sul tuo sistema funzionano male o mancano addirittura. Ogle secondo me è il migliore, ma puoi leggere i dvd con mplayer o xine (li trovi nella ditribuzione).
Re: [newbie-it] uno scherzo da mutt
* Arwan wrote: Se voglio? Sara' la vostra maledizione finche' tutto non andra' a dovere! Speriamo bene allora... Ma sono sicuro che alla fine ci supererai. formail mi preoccupa... Mah! Io non gli ho dato cosi tanto peso ho solo preso dal man la giusta regola per riformattare e basta, non mi è servito altro. dal primo giugno tenete sott'occhio il sito www.fantasymagazine.it Sarò curioso di vedere com'è. Ci risentiamo allora... vedrai che riusciremo a mettere queste ali a mutt. Ciao, Giuseppe. -- Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) Kernel 2.4.20
[newbie-it] Re: Rete Linux-Amiga e condivisione della connessione
Cosa vuol dire che non sta girando un server ftp? Dal lato Amiga non faccio nulla di particolare, se non il fatto di lanciare un client ftp, digitare l'host, il numero della porta, l'username e la pw, senza lanciare altri programmi di sottofondo. E funziona! Dal lato linux faccio lo stesso identico procedimento, con la differenza che non funzia... :°°°( Sorry avevo capito il contrario. Cioe', ricapitolando: dall'amiga a linux rieci a fare ftp ma non da linux all'Amiga? Per poter accedere in ftp a un altro pc e' necessario comunque che su quel sistema giri un ftp server, che di default appunto sta in ascolto sulla porta 21, e se non configurato diversamente ti fa entrare con username e pasword di un utente valido. A questo punto se ho capito bene, sulla Mandrake hai gia' un ftp server a cui accedi dall'Amiga. Se vuoi fare anche il contrario, devi installare sull'Amiga un ftp server. Ho confuso? Ordunque, ho trovato un ftp server (in verità ce ne sono parecchi), quello che ho scaricato si chiama ftp4all. L'ho mandato in esecuzione, e ho provato a lavorare da shell, ma il risultato è sempre quello, cioè da Amiga riesco ad entrare e visualizzare su linux, mentre se provo a fare la stessa cosa, mi dice: connection refused Probabilmente devo modificare il file di configurazione ftpd.conf, ma il manuale è scritto in inglese, e non ho capito 'na mazza. Se qualche anima pia ha tempo di guardarlo e di dirmi cosa dovrei modificare, ne sarei molto felice. Il file è: # This is an example configuration file that allows quick start # # In this example, /home/user/ftp is used as the directory under which all # other files go. The root directory of the FTP server is /home/user/ftp/root # The files needed for running the server itself are stored under # /home/user/ftp/server . These files are: # (1) ftpd - the executable FTP daemon # (2) ftps - the server invoked by ftpd # (3) ftpd.conf - this configuration file # (4) groups - the group definition file (use ./groups for quick start) and # (5) users - the user definition file (user ./users for quick start) # # The server is launched by typing ftpd in /home/user/ftp/server # It installes itself on port 2000, allows 5 anonymous and 10 registered # users to be logged in at the same time. # Timeout is 2 minutes for anonymous and 10 minutes for registered users. # The most important user commands (login/logout, transfer and file # manipulation) are logged in /home/user/ftp/server/ftpd.log # The error log file is /home/user/ftp/server/ftpd.err . These two files # will be created automatically # # Lets have a look at the setup options in particular. Modify as required. # base directory, is root directory of server basedir /home/tmp/ftp # message to display after successful login welcomemsg Welcome, %S - I have not seen you since %l ! At the moment, there are %a guest and %u registered users logged in. You uploaded %P and downloaded %D so far (u/d-ratio is %R). welcomemsg # message to show when user logges out goodbyemsg Goodbye, %S ! You uploaded %p during this session (%P total). You downloaded %d during this session (%D total). Your Upload/Download ratio is %r (%R total). See you soon ... goodbyemsg # file to read more user definitions from userfile /home/tmp/ftp/etc/users # file to read more user groups from groupfile /home/tmp/ftp/etc/groups # log user activities log del get login logout md put rd # file to log user activities logfile /home/tmp/ftp/log/ftpd.log # file to store error messages errlogfile /home/tmp/ftp/log/errlog # maximum number of anonymous users logged in at the same time maxanon 5 # maximum number of registered users logged in at the same time maxuser 10 # file to store access permissions in permissionfile .perm # file to display when directory is changed readmefile .readme # port to accept connections from port 21 # name of program, as shown by ps programname ftps # name of program to serve clients serverprogram /usr/sbin/ftps # message to be sent to client on connection startupmsg FTP4ALL FTP server ready. Local time is %t. startupmsg # timeout value for anonymous users timeoutanon 120 # timeout value for registered users timeoutuser 600 # umask for the files on the shell umask 022 Mauro
Re: [newbie-it] Re: Rete Linux-Amiga e condivisione della connessione
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 23:57, Mauro wrote: Ordunque, ho trovato un ftp server (in verità ce ne sono parecchi), quello che ho scaricato si chiama ftp4all. Sorry la domanda, ma l'hai installato sull' Amiga? il server e' in esecuzione? le directory che cerca esistono? 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/
Re: [newbie-it] dvd ogle sound alsa
Alle 21:59, mercoledì 28 maggio 2003, Michele ha scritto: E' evidente che hai istallato una versione di Ogle che si appoggia solo sui driver alsa, che per l'appunto sul tuo sistema funzionano male o mancano addirittura. Quasi tutti credo abbiamo avuto problemi con Alsa e mdk 9.1, il kernel ha un bug, quando tenti di entrare da menuconfig in alsa salta del tutto menuconfig e nella shell ci sono messaggi di errore.. Ma possbile che quelli della mdk non se ne siano accorti? Oppure su alcuni pc i driver Alsa funzionano correttamente?
RE: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
Title: RE: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:22 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think if you turn off harddrake at boot then it will not look for new hardware. HTH Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:00 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Ok I found a fast graphical interface for slocate. In fact I found three :- xlocate - I did not find a download site, but it will be out there somewhere. klocate2 - Two versions. One for KDE2 and one for KDE3 http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/latest I tried to compile it, but so far without success. I managed to compile klocate2 for Mandrake 9.1 If anyone would like to try it out go here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Downloadsd_op=viewdownloadcid=1 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On 28 May 2003 22:22:12 +0800 Daniel Guidara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try add a song and it wont let me, it doesn't tell me if theres an error either. Any suggestions to what the problem could be? what's the file extension? if it doesn't recognize the filetype, it behaves like that. rather stupid not to at least give an error, IMO. but then i am no coder. -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 05:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I'd just like to mention something, concerning this thread, from my own personal experience. I switched from a SCSI card with DVD and CDRW to an all IDE DVD and CDRW setup. IMHO, SCSI wins...hands down. (except for price and taking up an IRQ/PCI slot). Let me explain. Using SCSI, I never saw but very litte overhead. Burning a CD with the Plextor 48/24/48A takes nearly 100% of CPU time. Sometimes, it even affects mouse cursor movement (read jerky). DVD playback was much smoother on the SCSI DVD than on the Toshiba IDE. I do have DMA enable for both IDE drives. I do have 80 conductor cables too. BTW, I replaced both SCSI drives with the same brand names, i.e., Plextor and Toshiba. My hardware is good - 512 megs of Corsair DDR Ram, AMD XP2100, Soyo Dragon MB. Tom, can you or anyone else offer suggestions as to how to get my IDE drives up to the level I'm used to SCSI? (its really during burning or duping that one really notes the difference). Thanks, as always! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:22 pm, Daniel Guidara wrote: There seems to be a problem with my xmms player. I try add a song and it wont let me, it doesn't tell me if theres an error either. Any suggestions to what the problem could be? Thanks for your time. Did you try starting XMMS from a shell to see if it gives any error messages there? -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating archive
On Wednesday May 28 2003 08:33 am, Joe Hill wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 19:10:42 +1000 _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not all Windows computers can read them (WinZip can't). we'll use bz2 for l archives just to fsck with them! mua ha ha ha h... .rar is pretty good, most Windoze machines can work with it. I believe WinZip can. It's proprietary tho. I don't use it to make archives, but I'd be lost without unrar used with File Roller when it comes to d/l'g rar's in many parts from binary newsgroups. There's an unrar rpm for Mandrake available from PLF, unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf I think archiver can use unrar too,I just prefer File Roller for this task. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating archive
On Wed, 28 May 2003 09:32:26 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday May 28 2003 08:33 am, Joe Hill wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 19:10:42 +1000 _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not all Windows computers can read them (WinZip can't). we'll use bz2 for l archives just to fsck with them! mua ha ha ha h... .rar is pretty good, most Windoze machines can work with it. I believe WinZip can. It's proprietary tho. I don't use it to make archives, but I'd be lost without unrar used with File Roller when it comes to d/l'g rar's in many parts from binary newsgroups. There's an unrar rpm for Mandrake available from PLF, unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf I think archiver can use unrar too,I just prefer File Roller for this task. If you use ROX filer and the Archive app, it has built-in support for *un-rar*, but it will not create. :) heh, I'm always pushin my ROX and my Pekwm... somebody STOP meh -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:22, Joe Hill wrote: On 28 May 2003 22:22:12 +0800 Daniel Guidara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try add a song and it wont let me, it doesn't tell me if theres an error either. Any suggestions to what the problem could be? what's the file extension? if it doesn't recognize the filetype, it behaves like that. rather stupid not to at least give an error, IMO. but then i am no coder. The file type is .mp3. I bring up load file to put a song in the play list ddbl click on the song and the load window goes away. Is there away to check if some sorta error came up under the logs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help!!!!!
Dear me, I have sent E-Mail's to nearly all the Mandrake helps and support but no one aswer me back!!! No wonder many people use (even if their software is bugged) Microsoft software, in a way or another the get an aswer!! Please help me, I am a Windows user, but I am trying to learn Linux and I was looking to find out how I can find the serial number for my Linux Madrake 9.0, what I got is the download version and I would like to register it with Mandrake can you help? Yours FAITHFULLY, Marco Flumino _ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On 28 May 2003 22:39:05 +0800 Daniel Guidara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there away to check if some sorta error came up under the logs. just follow Ronald's suggestion. -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!
On Tue, 27 May 2003 13:20:10 + Marco Flumino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looking to find out how I can find the serial number for my Linux Madrake 9.0, what I got is the download version There is no serial # for the dl edition Serial #s only come with purchased box sets Charles -- Fortune's real live weird band names #311: The Hair Skin Trading Co. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-enterprise-2.4.21.0rc1.1mdk - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:39, Daniel Guidara wrote: The file type is .mp3. I bring up load file to put a song in the play list ddbl click on the song and the load window goes away. Is there away to check if some sorta error came up under the logs. Open an xterm, run xmms from the CLI and see what happens in the xterm (output messages from xmms) when you add the song. Paul -- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -Groucho Marx http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] default wm for vnc
I run TightVNC to load a desktop on my server on occasion, and originally I set the default desktop to flux (yuk). then I installed pekwm, altered the .xinitrc, restarted the vncserver, and confirmed that the xsession script for vncserver points to the .xinitrc, yet it still loads fluxbox. WTF? no use a different program suggestions, bitte. das ist nicht ich bin vollen! -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
Hmm For some reason the 'Find' facility does not work on my Rox. When I select 'Find' the cursor changes to a cross and nothing happens. That cross is confusing, but it's asking you which directory you want to search in. Then it will prompt you for every subdirectory unless you tic Quiet. I'm not sure if it uses the database or not. It probably does a `find` rather than `locate`. To avoid the cross, you can select the directory you want to search in first. That cross gets me into trouble sometimes... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[4]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?
On Tuesday May 27 2003 10:43 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Dennis, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 7:36:50 PM, you wrote: DM I'm not sure where to look, I tried a couple of man pages and no DM luck. Try a google search on linux keyboard shortcuts or DM variations thereof. I rummaged around a bit, but couldn't find a very complete list. On one page there was a reference to 'many more' shortcuts but no pointer to where. :-) Google raising skinny elephants is utterly boring :) But that's a last resort option(s) for shutting down safely when the system in borked. As was already suggested, most of the time all that's needed is to logout of X, and then relog in. If this can't be done by your normal means (clicking on logout), then Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will kill the X server, or halt or reboot the system from there. I've never needed to use Alt+SysRqr+s-e-i-u-b, but it's a good thing to look up the process and remember that goofy phrase ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
If you downloaded an ISO-image (e.g. a linux distribution) you have to copy that big file (extension should be .iso) first to an image-directory of X-CD-Roast. You specify these directories in Setup at the HD Settings tab. These are the places where X-CD-Roast will look for audio (.wav) or data tracks. Now you enter the Create CD menu and you will see your image-file displayed nicely in the Image-Information window. Go to Write Tracks - click on Layout tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. I think that the problem was that I was trying to burn from an image stored in another data directory. I guess it's not much of a problem to temporarily copy such an image to the required directory - just didn't realise what was causing the blockage g Or couldn't you just add that directory to list of directories in X-CD-Roast? If you were about to copy several isos, you may not have the space for both copies. (i have a computer here with a smallish hard drive...) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Oops - what happened?
quoting rikona's missive of Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:02 pm: Hello Dennis, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:36:31 PM, you wrote: DM I'm not sure what happened but you can try hittine ctl-alt-F6 and DM that should take you to a console screen where you can type DM reboot. There is probably a more elegant way to recover, so DM anyone who knows jump right in here. HTH Thank you [recovering from typical newbie panic] :-)) Elegant or not, it worked OK. It rebooted to the previous state, not where I was at the 'oops'. Lost some work, I guess, but no disaster. Hi; Here's one brief 'n' basic quickie type reference to keyboard shortcuts. http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/shortcuts.html The Linux Newbie Administrator's Guide offers more under the 5.1 heading. Just scroll down from the linked page; http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/lnag_commands.html and a brief list from Red Hat docs: http://linuxwww.epfl.ch/Doc/rh-9/rhl-gsg-en-9/keyboard-shortcuts.html That should get you started; but if you really want to suffer information overload, open a terminal su (type su then type your root password) then type urpmi rute and hit enter. If you have a contrib source set up you'll get a _very_ complete documentation project installed, but bring a lunch when you click the new Howtos English (or whatever installed your language is) in the documentation menu. You'll be there a *lonnng time.* g Have fun. Charlie -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 08:40:35 up 15 days, 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.16, 0.11 First Law of Procrastination: Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline). Fifth Law of Procrastination: Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] default wm for vnc
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:51, Joe Hill wrote: I run TightVNC to load a desktop on my server on occasion, and originally I set the default desktop to flux (yuk). then I installed pekwm, altered the .xinitrc, restarted the vncserver, and confirmed that the xsession script for vncserver points to the .xinitrc, yet it still loads fluxbox. Do you start up with runlevel 3? This uses .xinitrc afaik. Runlevel 5 bypasses that one if I am not mistaken. WTF? no use a different program suggestions, bitte. das ist nicht ich bin vollen! Keine Bange, ich werde dich nicht fressen! Paul -- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -Groucho Marx http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
Are you sure it's spending a long time checking for new hardware or the step that follows (and just hasn't displayed the text of that step, yet)? This is a good point: Which is it? I would think that since the message is Checking... it is printing the message first, then doing the job. That's how i program messages... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:02:59 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or couldn't you just add that directory to list of directories in X-CD-Roast? If you were about to copy several isos, you may not have the space for both copies. (i have a computer here with a smallish hard drive...) Yes. You can add/delete as many directories to the list as you wish. Charles pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] default wm for vnc
On 28 May 2003 17:06:42 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you start up with runlevel 3? This uses .xinitrc afaik. Runlevel 5 bypasses that one if I am not mistaken. only 3, it's a p166 w/ 8MB RAM, so a gui boot would *kill* it LOL. WTF? no use a different program suggestions, bitte. das ist nicht ich bin vollen! Keine Bange, ich werde dich nicht fressen! heh, you overestimate my German, I know less than JFK did :D i'm pretty sure you're saying: see? I did not say that! or thereabouts...but only by deduction. -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] default wm for vnc
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 3:51 pm, Joe Hill wrote: I run TightVNC to load a desktop on my server on occasion, and originally I set the default desktop to flux (yuk). then I installed pekwm, altered the .xinitrc, restarted the vncserver, and confirmed that the xsession script for vncserver points to the .xinitrc, yet it still loads fluxbox. WTF? no use a different program suggestions, bitte. das ist nicht ich bin vollen! Edit ~/.vnc/xstartup to include the command which starts your Window manager. Do not forget to make it executable derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:26, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:22 pm, Daniel Guidara wrote: There seems to be a problem with my xmms player. I try add a song and it wont let me, it doesn't tell me if theres an error either. Any suggestions to what the problem could be? Thanks for your time. Did you try starting XMMS from a shell to see if it gives any error messages there? Ive run xmms from a shell and nothing is printed to screen. Im using Mandrake 9.1 on a Mac. Ive just found out that my Xmms hasn't found any audio plugins or output plugins. I used mpg123 to find out if my sound card was working and it is. So that must mean the sound drivers are running. Im wondering how i should get the plugins required. Ive also noticed on my brother machine which is running debian on an intel machine that in his Audio I/O Plugins he has: Input Plugin MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player 1.2.7 Output Plugin OSS Driver 1.2.7 I take it I will need something like this in my setup aswell. If you could tell me how I could do this, the help would be greatly appericated. -Regards Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.
On Wednesday May 28 2003 12:40 am, Franki wrote: Just checking if mozilla mail is sending in txt of html... ignore pls. Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--=_1054100310-881-2004 So no, it's not plain text. Suggestion tho, send your email to test to yourself, instead of the list. You'll be able to check the results a lot quicker ;) Usually within seconds. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: newbies and off-topic stuff
Did you try a search on mail? :) You get a hit for every page! Not quite true - I tried it. Ok, i was exaggerating :) But when you think that every page that references a subscribed member contains a mail address, as well as every topic that has any reference to it (and there are many), you would end up with a long list. Yeah, i was just giving an example similar to Lucy-Ann's troubles. I can only suggest that if you are seriously looking for anything on mail you would have to skim the list and discount personal pages. If you use tabbed browsing it shouldn't be too much of a pain to find what you want. I'm one of those that has trouble finding the odd file out of a big list, so it might be hard for me. But you are right, i'm picking on a silly instance: mail happens to be an unfortunate topic to search for. Originally, i used it because i knew one existed (famous joe's mailfilter). Incidentally, I hadn't noticed before that low down on the WebHome page there is a quick search box which searches the whole site - better than the route I suggested before. That's cool. hadn't noticed that.Quick search is what i'll need most of the time. The short route to the advanced search is the search link at the top next to the go button. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot
On Wed, 28 May 2003 11:37:19 +0200 MARTIN HENDRIK RAD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes me think: I've gone through a lot of WM's (but not pekwm) and I've more or less settled on Blackbox as the best for me. But I would like to set up a kind of launchbar for a few apps on the desktop to avoid rummaging through the menu's. Or even a kind of command line box, maybe one that remembers recent commands so you can select from a drop-down box. Regards, Hendrik Martin This is what ROX-Filer is for! I use fluxbox, which I personally think is slightly better than Blackbox, but that's just personal preference. I have a bar on the left side of my screen which lets me put launcher applications on. Here is how to do it: just type urpmi rox rox-system rox-utils, and install the necessary packages. Then, to put a launcher bar on the left side of the screen, type rox -l Default. for the right side - rox -r Default. Hope that helps! - John Drouhard -- Wed May 28 10:09:58 UTC 2003 10:09:58 up 45 min, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.14, 0.15 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 03:23 pm, Daniel Guidara wrote: Ive run xmms from a shell and nothing is printed to screen. Im using Mandrake 9.1 on a Mac. Ive just found out that my Xmms hasn't found any audio plugins or output plugins. I used mpg123 to find out if my sound card was working and it is. So that must mean the sound drivers are running. Im wondering how i should get the plugins required. Ive also noticed on my brother machine which is running debian on an intel machine that in his Audio I/O Plugins he has: Input Plugin MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player 1.2.7 Output Plugin OSS Driver 1.2.7 I take it I will need something like this in my setup aswell. If you could tell me how I could do this, the help would be greatly appericated. -Regards Daniel Open up XMMS, right-click on the main screen, it will pop up a dialog box. Pick Options - preferences. There you should see tabs for using, configuring, changing your plugins. This should help you see whats going on and what you can do... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.
quoting Franki's missive of Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:40 pm: Just checking if mozilla mail is sending in txt of html... ignore pls. rgds Franki Hi Frank; This one is plain text. Whatever you did it worked. g I suppose for anyone else that wants to use Mozilla Mail for their mail client; open the mozilla address book; click on the address for the mailing list or recipient you want, click Properties then set the Prefers to receive mail in.. to plain text for these lists, or for individuals you aren't sure of, and HTML for those you know want their messages that way. You can also select to send both plain text and HTML but that's a bit large for most. More than double the bandwidth per message and useless in most contexts AFAICS. As far as I know this will work in the Windows version as well, but I have no knowledge whether it works with A.O.(Hel)L. or other ISPs or not. Regards; Charlie -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 09:20:41 up 15 days, 1:23, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.13, 0.09 My uncle was the town drunk -- and we lived in Chicago. -- George Gobel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] default wm for vnc
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:11, Joe Hill wrote: Do you start up with runlevel 3? This uses .xinitrc afaik. Runlevel 5 bypasses that one if I am not mistaken. only 3, it's a p166 w/ 8MB RAM, so a gui boot would *kill* it LOL. Okay, that is clear! :-) Weird that flux is loaded even though you tell it differently. My knowledge ends here... Keine Bange, ich werde dich nicht fressen! heh, you overestimate my German, I know less than JFK did :D i'm pretty sure you're saying: see? I did not say that! or thereabouts...but only by deduction. It means don't worry, I won't eat you. Paul -- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -Groucho Marx http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 19:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Open up XMMS, right-click on the main screen, it will pop up a dialog box. Pick Options - preferences. There you should see tabs for using, configuring, changing your plugins. This should help you see whats going on and what you can do... Sorry maybe you have misunderstood me, I have done thing and there is nothing listed under there. Where do I get the plugins needed and how will they be installed. -Regards Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating archive
On Wednesday May 28 2003 09:32 am, Joe Hill wrote: .rar is pretty good, most Windoze machines can work with it. I believe WinZip can. It's proprietary tho. I don't use it to make archives, but I'd be lost without unrar used with File Roller when it comes to d/l'g rar's in many parts from binary newsgroups. There's an unrar rpm for Mandrake available from PLF, unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf I think archiver can use unrar too,I just prefer File Roller for this task. If you use ROX filer and the Archive app, it has built-in support for *un-rar*, but it will not create. :) heh, I'm always pushin my ROX and my Pekwm... somebody STOP meh Well, I had tried that sometime ago, and it failed on large files, eg, 80+ rar.parts, 700mb movie. But unrar from PLF used with File Roller always seems to be able to assemble the movie. So I've stuck with it. Biggest challenge left is to find _all_ the parts ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot
On Wed, 28 May 2003 10:14:45 + John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what ROX-Filer is for! I use fluxbox, which I personally think is slightly better than Blackbox, but that's just personal preference. I have a bar on the left side of my screen which lets me put launcher applications on. Here is how to do it: just type urpmi rox rox-system rox-utils, and install the necessary packages. Then, to put a launcher bar on the left side of the screen, type rox -l Default. for the right side - rox -r Default. You go my ROX brother! -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] default wm for vnc
On Wed, 28 May 2003 16:19:05 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit ~/.vnc/xstartup to include the command which starts your Window manager. sorry, right, I should have said xstartup, not xsession...duh anyway, I pointed the ~/.vnc/xstartup to pekwm directly, and it worked! h, I'm still curious as to why the default way ie. xstartup pointing to .xinitrc wasn't working... Do not forget to make it executable yep, both are and were. anyway, thanks for the help guys! love this place...:) -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: What if SCO is right?
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 04:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 10:57, William Brown wrote:
On Sunday 18 May 2003 06:49 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
On Monday 19 May 2003 00:37, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
And now for something completely different!
http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10
66
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134724,00.html :)
-Frans (who hasn't read all earlier mail about the SCO thing)
Maybe I'm lost at sea, again, but what does this have to do with the open
source Linux created by Linus Torvald?
Here's everything in a nutshell:
* SCO is once again loosing heaps of biz and money - and can't swim.
They want to claim that there's proprietary code in linux and went after
the biggest dog - IBM - go claim damages. IBM ain't even turned around
to see what's nipping at it's heels yet. Microsoft, who despises Open
Source Software and linux (which is OSS) had done the dirty dance with
SCO years ago and still have ties to SCO - and so, bought up $1 billion
worth of SCO license. If Microsoft HAS the license, it can do three
things - 1.) claim even more illegality towards OSS and linux and help
to force it off the corporate plate - OR - make sure that Windows and
linux don't play happy together by creating more proprietary ways of
dealing with information dispersal (documents, media and the likes) so
that linux doesn't have a chance to make use of such media thusly making
linux even more difficult for the public to deal with (and corporations)
- OR - they're going to start creating bits'n'bobs themselves WITH the
SCO license (they already create unix based services). Funny that,
though, a Senator from Washington is on a caucus that's aim is
supposedly to Stop IP piracy and software piracy - but in the true
wording they're attacking OSS and linux outright and want to make it
literally illegal...
Does that make more sense now? I might have mucked some stuff up in
there, but that's pretty much how I tend to see it...
Thanks. Been reading all the supplied links. The Open Source page gives a
clearer light. M$ is just making a power play and using SCO as a front.
Unfortunately legalism and PR are the tools of the deep pockets. All the
more reason to support Mandrake and others. I hope ML survives so that we
all have an opportunity to escape M$ draconian practices.
--
William Brown
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Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
eric huff wrote: Are you sure it's spending a long time checking for new hardware or the step that follows (and just hasn't displayed the text of that step, yet)? This is a good point: Which is it? I would think that since the message is Checking... it is printing the message first, then doing the job. That's how i program messages... Well I cannot be certain, because I'm not the programmer but it certainly feels like it's searching for ,or having trouble recinciling a hardware issue, but it always completes, eventually. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!
Marco Flumino wrote: Dear me, I have sent E-Mail's to nearly all the Mandrake helps and support but no one aswer me back!!! No wonder many people use (even if their software is bugged) Microsoft software, in a way or another the get an aswer!! Please help me, I am a Windows user, but I am trying to learn Linux and I was looking to find out how I can find the serial number for my Linux Madrake 9.0, what I got is the download version and I would like to register it with Mandrake can you help? Yours FAITHFULLY, Marco Flumino No serial number required , Marco, just install it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
Joeb wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:22:12 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure it's spending a long time checking for new hardware or the step that follows (and just hasn't displayed the text of that step, yet)? I don't think so, it seems to finish smartly after that., but, Also, per chance, do you have an empty memory card reader attached? If so, it might be timing out waiting for the virtual drive to come active (which it will never do, because it's empty). If so, try putting a card in it or unplugging it from the USB port and see if that speeds things up. I do have a smartcard reader attatched to a usb port and I cann't always be having a card in it, just to speed things u, and in any case it made no difference putting a card in the reader. Tom, I can turn it off in MCC , but isn't that a bit anti-deluvian ? John John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.
Charlie wrote: but I have no knowledge whether it works with A.O.(Hel)L. or other ISPs or not. you are correct. ability to set 'text/plain' has been remove from aol email. it was there up thru 6.0. 7.0, do not know. 8.0 it is removed. seems aol wants to support bandwidth hogs. but, as said before, there are other browsers to use on aol. peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.
Tom Brinkman wrote: Content-type: multipart/mixed; So no, it's not plain text. Suggestion tho, send your email to test to yourself, instead of the list. You'll be able to check the results a lot quicker ;) Usually within seconds. 'content-type: multipart/mixed;' in header is only to designate multi parts, as opposed to single. because most email thru mandrake's lists have a 'want to buy', 'message.footer', 'multipart/mixed;' will appear in header when body is 'text/plain'. for sure, your are right on, and correct with your suggestion. peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] securing postfix
Is there anything that one needs to do to secure postfix out-of-the-box configuration in 9.1? I need to allow relaying to run mailing lists, but I don't want to become a relay for spammers. Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 03:45 pm, Daniel Guidara wrote: Sorry maybe you have misunderstood me, I have done thing and there is nothing listed under there. Where do I get the plugins needed and how will they be installed. -Regards Daniel If I do understand you correctly Daniel, then you are saying that you have neither Alsa or OSS installed? If not, thats odd. You should be able to install these from the Mandrake Control Center - Software Management - Install Software (use search to find OSS or Alsa) Here, you can also do a search on xmms to see what other plugins are available. Hope this helps! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
John Richard Smith wrote: Well I cannot be certain, because I'm not the programmer but it press 'i' during boot, then note timing of displays after pressing enter. that is if you really want to know. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gFTP
On Wed, 28 May 2003 14:20:46 + Toran Korshnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gftp is not easy to configure, but it goes as follows. Connect to the FreeBSD-ftpserver. You will see how the FreeBSDserver is filled in. Change this settings towards your own settings. Connect now. Bookmark your settings. Done. Each time you want to go to your website use the bookmark. Toran The FreeBSD server in the bookmarks works, but it only fills in the kind of values I was using anyway. After all, Host, Port, User and Password are hard to misunderstand. The FreeBSD settings use 'anonymous' and my email address. Even when I put the correct username and password in for my site, the log shows it connects as 'anonymous' and my email address too, then waits 30 seconds before doing the same thing again. I suppose if a simple graphical ftp client is *this* hard to use, it's broken. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gFTP
On Wed, 28 May 2003 14:21:52 + Toran Korshnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I advise to use kBear. Toran And load all those KDE libraries? On a 128MB Celeron 300? No thanks! Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lost Evolution Again
This is the second time, I updated with Red carpet when it upgraded evolution from 1.1 to 1.2 it erased 1.1 then 1.2 failed due to failed dependencies if I, could figure a way to get a spellcheck in mozilla messenger it would not be a problem. But I do love evolution. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!
On Wed, 28 May 2003 17:53:48 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: No serial number required , Marco, just install it. This is what shocks so many Windows users when I start preaching about Linux. waddaya mean it's free? the OS, all the software, everything?! Welcome Marco, get that installed and we'll see ya again soon I hope. Just don't use KDE! ROFL, just kidding... -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Help!!!!!
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Hill Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just don't use KDE! ROFL, just kidding... -- I know you are just kidding about KDE lol but if we want to get windows users to try linux, KDE is the closest looking thing to use. I do think they should have a serial number though..maybe twice as long as a winxp one.. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:24 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 08:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks for adding that. To further clarify, the urpmi.setup config app was created to be a gui alternative to adding sources at the command line. Some people like the cli, others like the gui. I think the cli is often attractive once some confidence is gained, but the problem is that you have to know exactly what is required to achieve the desired end. At the early stages, the gui can often give you more idea of what you need to do. Still, each to his own g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 4:02 pm, eric huff wrote: I think that the problem was that I was trying to burn from an image stored in another data directory. I guess it's not much of a problem to temporarily copy such an image to the required directory - just didn't realise what was causing the blockage g Or couldn't you just add that directory to list of directories in X-CD-Roast? If you were about to copy several isos, you may not have the space for both copies. (i have a computer here with a smallish hard drive...) I don't know whether you could or not, but it's not a problem. It's just that I had on hdd an image that I had previously burned, and I wanted to burn another copy. I forgot to move it to where XCDRoast would be looking. That's all. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
On Wed, 28 May 2003 05:53:27 -0700 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:22 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John If you want to stop it (from memory). # cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ # mv XXXkudzu ~XXXkudzu The files in this dir are all run at init5 startup. The are run in numerical order, 1 - 99. The S prefix means it is a service (assumption). Not sure what the K prefix means other than they are setup executables which run then exit having finished their task. This is where so much of the personal configurability of Linux exists. You can chop and change these dirs to suit yourself. I have a dialup so i delete some services from here and start them from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local instead. That way they are only running when i am on the net. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Suggestions for a log analyzer. (?)
I'm trying to find something that's more sophisticated than the log search tool in Drakconf. Does anyone have ideas about a decent and well performing log analyzer. Maybe even something that may already be in the distro or packaged on Mandrakeclub...basically something that someone has had good personal experience with and that they like alot. Any ideas. ? --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Help!!!!!
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 21:10, walt wrote: -Original Message- I know you are just kidding about KDE lol but if we want to get windows users to try linux, KDE is the closest looking thing to use. I do think they should have a serial number though..maybe twice as long as a winxp one.. I think IceWM comes pretty close also in looks. And that is quite a tad faster than KDE. ;-) Paul -- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -Groucho Marx http://nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Ximian Evolution Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suggestions for a log analyzer. (?)
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 8:47 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm trying to find something that's more sophisticated than the log search tool in Drakconf. Does anyone have ideas about a decent and well performing log analyzer. Maybe even something that may already be in the distro or packaged on Mandrakeclub...basically something that someone has had good personal experience with and that they like alot. Any ideas. ? --LX Have you tried using the log analysis built into msec? Just enter an email address in MandrakeControlCentreSecurityDrakSec and tick the box for security alerts. You will get a daily email of suspicious activity. The other thing I use is fwlogwatch (in contrib) which sends you emails on firewall hits. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] default wm for vnc
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:51 am, Joe Hill wrote: I run TightVNC to load a desktop on my server on occasion, and originally I set the default desktop to flux (yuk). then I installed pekwm, altered the .xinitrc, restarted the vncserver, and confirmed that the xsession script for vncserver points to the .xinitrc, yet it still loads fluxbox. WTF? no use a different program suggestions, bitte. das ist nicht ich bin vollen! try creating a .desktop file in the users home directory with the following in it DESKTOP=KDE -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boy am I dumb
Got to playing around with the cli typed in evolution it asked me for permission to upgrade ,and bingo (and didn't lose a thing. (just gotta use the command line more. -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suggestions for a log analyzer. (?)
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:02, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 8:47 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm trying to find something that's more sophisticated than the log search tool in Drakconf. Does anyone have ideas about a decent and well performing log analyzer. Maybe even something that may already be in the distro or packaged on Mandrakeclub...basically something that someone has had good personal experience with and that they like alot. Any ideas. ? --LX Have you tried using the log analysis built into msec? Just enter an email address in MandrakeControlCentreSecurityDrakSec and tick the box for security alerts. You will get a daily email of suspicious activity. The other thing I use is fwlogwatch (in contrib) which sends you emails on firewall hits. derek Well..like I said, I'm curious about something other than what's available in Drakconf, and that's what you are referring to. Perhaps something that allows searches of a more sophisticated and sysadmin targeted nature. --LX P.S. Hmmm. Looks like I sent this to newbie instead of expert, like I intended. Sorry about that. -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:30 am, Joe Hill wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 07:53:41 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you knew about it, why did you make like it did not exist? If you wanted to know how to use it, ask how to use it. aaasy...take a dep cleansing breath, stretch your legs, think about a sunny meadow...then smoke a bg fat... Sorry if that came out wrong. I did not think I was being disrespectful when I posted, but I think it is a legitimate question for the OP. Why did you say you wish a tool exists, and then when someone points out it does exist you say you knew about it but didn't know how to use it? The only answer I can think of is that OP knew about urpmi but did not fully understand its capabilities, which would be a very legitimate answer. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] default wm for vnc
On Wed, 28 May 2003 16:07:58 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: DESKTOP=KDE On a P166 with 80MB of RAM?! are you quite mad sir!? LOL, but in other news, pekwm runs 5 times faster than fluxbox in a vnc window, from said P166. -- + Joe Hill (pbs.org/joehill) + Registered Linux user #282046 + See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net +The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; + the point, however is to change it --Chuck Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!
Marco; The download version of Mandrake linux does not have any serial numbers. You cannot register a download version. Lanman Marco Flumino wrote: Dear me, I have sent E-Mail's to nearly all the Mandrake helps and support but no one aswer me back!!! No wonder many people use (even if their software is bugged) Microsoft software, in a way or another the get an aswer!! Please help me, I am a Windows user, but I am trying to learn Linux and I was looking to find out how I can find the serial number for my Linux Madrake 9.0, what I got is the download version and I would like to register it with Mandrake can you help? Yours FAITHFULLY, Marco Flumino Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] motherboard recommendations
I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses the nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video, so i was gonna get a radeon 9500 pro and use the FireGL drivers. Does anyone know if this motherboard with an Athlon XP 2100+ is compatible with Linux? I think it may need a patched kernel with the nforce2 drivers, but I'm not completely sure. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!! - John Drouhard -- Wed May 28 16:48:42 UTC 2003 16:48:42 up 7:24, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.09, 0.15 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
On Wednesday May 28 2003 05:26 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: BTW, I replaced both SCSI drives with the same brand names, i.e., Plextor and Toshiba. My hardware is good - 512 megs of Corsair DDR Ram, AMD XP2100, Soyo Dragon MB. Tom, can you or anyone else offer suggestions as to how to get my IDE drives up to the level I'm used to SCSI? (its really during burning or duping that one really notes the difference). Not really. I have no hands on scsi experience. As to IDE CD drives, about the only optimization is to enable DMA. You can do this after installin 'hdparm' by editing /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and uncommenting, # USE_DMA=1 (remove the hash mark). Then cp 'harddisks' to 'harddiskhd?' where ? equals the drive letter for each CD drive. Notice the last 's' was removed also. You'll need to be root. All that might not be necessary tho, check first with 'hdparm -v /dev/hd?' that it doesn't already show 'using_dma' as =1 (on). Bottom line is CD drives are notoriously slow, no matter the spin rate advertised. CD-RW's make better readers than plain CDrom drives. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT sorry
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:21 pm, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Hi all I was drink a few beers and thinking about how bad the rail transport is in the UK it was on the news and it takes me two hours to get to uni and two hours back thats London for you. Now to the point is there a community like the open source one out there willing to hope any one who asks? or is it that the O/S is free and open that makes us all help each our out. They are all over the place. The closest example is probably amateur radio, but there are many others. (model-making, illegal CB radio in the UK, computer clubs in the late 70s and early 80s) IMHO the common factor is self-training. If someone askes me how do I do X? I ask myself if I want to be bothered answering, I might jot down a few brief pointers. If he says I want to do X, I've read up on Y, but I'm confused about Z, I am much more likely to see them as a kindred spirit and want to go to some lengths to help. The free bit is also an almost common factor though, in my experience. There is an exileration to being in total control of the environment that might aid the process. The sense that the answer is out there, and you can find it as easily as anyone. DECUS might be a valid counter-example. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:02 pm, Technoslick wrote: What's wrong with your preferences as a starting point? Newbies don't have a lot of preferences. That's why they come here. For answers and to get some! :-) I'm not pushing you or anything. nudge Nope. nudge I wouldn't do that to you. more nudging But, nudge, nudge I would be remiss in not nudge making my point. You should write some stuff up. nudge, nudge I won't bring it up anymore. big push OK? Well, I appreciate your confidence, but I ain't buyin it. I got a lot of my preferences from learnin from others, there's already a great how-to, and many disdain CL burning anyhow. So I decline. Many others have similar, probly better ideas. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmatrix + image
Here's a cool link provided by Stephen Kuhn. http://www.desktop-linux.net/kmatrix.htm The Read me text says it was compiled on M 9.0. I followed the instructions and it is working properly on M 9.1. I hope you'll enjoy the image, made after a little bit of Gimp'ing. JM Matrix_characters_v1.zip Description: Zip archive Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:53 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:22 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John My apologies to the list again, Sorry about the other reply, it was from my windows work station and no matter how many times I switch it to text only, it reboots with HTML mail enabled. I can not seem to remember from day to day to reset it. Lord, I hate M$ crap. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - MS to lose Munich?
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:56, Ladislav Bodnar wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:46, walt wrote: Now if sco gets its way, won't it be illegal for Munich to use linux??? That's a very big IF! I think that right now is one of the few times you're going to see this type of a revolt against a software company - or against a software mentality - SCO and Microsoft are feeling what IBM felt more than 10 years ago - history DOES repeat itself. IBM was way too big for it's britches, and now, Microsoft is in that place; SCO won't have a snowball's hope in Hell of doing much of anything with all the hot air they've been blowing - besides, they literally cut their own throats; remember they sold linux boxes just weeks ago... -- Thu May 29 08:45:00 EST 2003 08:45:00 up 1 day, 11:18, 4 users, load average: 0.36, 0.12, 0.02 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Remark of Dr. Baldwin's concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WM's in general
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:05, MG wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:44 pm, you wrote: I used Civileme's 'Xtart', too...for a while. Whether it's a matter of environment deficiencies or what...under different managers some programs won't run or come up properly. If I remember correctly, Blackbox won't allow me to exit, so I end up crashing it with CTR-ALT-BackSpace. Is there suppose to be some limitations within each of these due to environment differences from switching from one to the other? I love little applet, but the results have been frustrating at times. T Originally I wanted to explore most of the wm's easily and Xtart was recommended. But I did not explore as much as I wanted too... :-) In Blackbox if you right click desktop session windowmanagers exit should get you out it. I am not sure why programs run on some and not on others, but I am pretty green to most this anyways (but haven' a blast! learning) mike A lot of that could be due to library paths or system paths - if there's an aberration in the system paths, library paths or what-have-you, it's going to act flaky. -- Thu May 29 08:45:00 EST 2003 08:45:00 up 1 day, 11:18, 4 users, load average: 0.36, 0.12, 0.02 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Remark of Dr. Baldwin's concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:53 pm, John Drouhard wrote: I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses the nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video, so i was gonna get a radeon 9500 pro and use the FireGL drivers. Does anyone know if this motherboard with an Athlon XP 2100+ is compatible with Linux? I think it may need a patched kernel with the nforce2 drivers, but I'm not completely sure. Any help would be appreciated. Lot's of people have had problems with the ATI 9500 and higher cards with Linux. Apparently the ATI provided drivers are not very good and native XFree support is weak still. Also, many have had prob's with the combination of ATI vid card and nforce2 chipset. As for smooth Linux support I would recommend at KT400 based board with an nVidia Vid card, or at least that's what I would buy. If I was going to go with the nforce2 board anyway, I would probably get an nVidia Vid card to make it as compatible as possible. Lot's of KT400 boards run at 166fsb so they will support the barton core and Linux support is much better. If you are going to run windows primarily and like a challenge, go with your original setup. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations
On Wednesday May 28 2003 11:53 am, John Drouhard wrote: I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses the nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video, so i was gonna get a radeon 9500 pro and use the FireGL drivers. Does anyone know if this motherboard with an Athlon XP 2100+ is compatible with Linux? I think it may need a patched kernel with the nforce2 drivers, but I'm not completely sure. Any help would be appreciated. The nForce(2) chipsets are not well or completely supported by Linux kernel yet. Neither are Intel iwhatevers. VIA chipsets boards are best supported, mainly due to their popularity and cooperation with the Linux community. Their best are usually followed with an 'a', eg, kt133a, kt266a, kt333a, and kt400a ... the latter which outperforms the nforce2 chipset. nForce only derives (Windoze) rave reviews if perfectly matched, high quality DDR ram modules are used, and then only in few normal real world circunstances. If you really want an nVidia chipset board, then lobby nVidia to break their license agreements and back room deals with Micro$oft, and help out the folks at kernel.org with some better cooperation. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boy am I dumb
Just typed in evolution as root , then exited then typed in evolution and it said that files had to be removed ,typed in yes and Evolution came up running.(DIIKnow ) but it worked. On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:43, Yoel Krigsman wrote: What was the cli command to upgrade the evolution? ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com .. Original Message ... On 28 May 2003 06:13:19 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got to playing around with the cli typed in evolution it asked me for permission to upgrade ,and bingo (and didn't lose a thing. (just gotta use the command line more. -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [message.footer] __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT sorry
A little bit of both. Everyone likes to help someone. On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:21, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Hi all I was drink a few beers and thinking about how bad the rail transport is in the UK it was on the news and it takes me two hours to get to uni and two hours back thats London for you. Now to the point is there a community like the open source one out there willing to hope any one who asks? or is it that the O/S is free and open that makes us all help each our out. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations
On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:05:19 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nForce(2) chipsets are not well or completely supported by Linux kernel yet. Neither are Intel iwhatevers. VIA chipsets boards are best supported, mainly due to their popularity and cooperation with the Linux community. Their best are usually followed with an 'a', eg, kt133a, kt266a, kt333a, and kt400a ... the latter which outperforms the nforce2 chipset. nForce only derives (Windoze) rave reviews if perfectly matched, high quality DDR ram modules are used, and then only in few normal real world circunstances. If you really want an nVidia chipset board, then lobby nVidia to break their license agreements and back room deals with Micro$oft, and help out the folks at kernel.org with some better cooperation. Actually, I didn't really want an nforce2 motherboard. I just went for this one because it had AGP 8x and got high reviews. Could anyone point me to a motherboard that works well with linux, is not too terribly expensive, and has support for AGP 8x (I am going to try a Radeon with the new FireGL drivers, they are supposed to have good support with X and WineX). Thanks again! Wed May 28 18:06:36 UTC 2003 18:06:36 up 8:42, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - MS to lose Munich?
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:49, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:56, Ladislav Bodnar wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:46, walt wrote: Now if sco gets its way, won't it be illegal for Munich to use linux??? That's a very big IF! I think that right now is one of the few times you're going to see this type of a revolt against a software company - or against a software mentality - SCO and Microsoft are feeling what IBM felt more than 10 years ago - history DOES repeat itself. IBM was way too big for it's britches, and now, Microsoft is in that place; SCO won't have a snowball's hope in Hell of doing much of anything with all the hot air they've been blowing - besides, they literally cut their own throats; remember they sold linux boxes just weeks ago... - -The GS factor strikes again. (Greed and Stupidity) Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations
I have the ASUS A7N8X MB and have no problems but did have to patch the kernel for the onbroad lan but that was easy as installing a driver in windows. On Wednesday 28 May 2003 4:53 pm, John Drouhard wrote: I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses the nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video, so i was gonna get a radeon 9500 pro and use the FireGL drivers. Does anyone know if this motherboard with an Athlon XP 2100+ is compatible with Linux? I think it may need a patched kernel with the nforce2 drivers, but I'm not completely sure. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!! - John Drouhard -- Wed May 28 16:48:42 UTC 2003 16:48:42 up 7:24, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.09, 0.15 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot
Thanks guys for that help. I tired yours first, Dennis, since it was simpler at it worked a charm. John I have kept yours on file aswell, just in case. Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com - Original Message - From: Gareth Qually [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot This sounds really silly, but when I start Linux, it boots to a text login not the Gnome environment I origionally had. How do i get it to boot to Gnome environment again? I am using Mandrake 9.1 on a i86 machine. Thanks Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations
At 07:00 PM 5/28/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:53 pm, John Drouhard wrote: I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses the nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video, so i was gonna get a radeon 9500 pro and use the FireGL drivers. Does anyone know if this motherboard with an Athlon XP 2100+ is compatible with Linux? I think it may need a patched kernel with the nforce2 drivers, but I'm not completely sure. Any help would be appreciated. snipped gregs... answer I know nothing about Athys. Sorry ... I do know I have an Rad 9700. Works fine but I haven't tried the ati drivers yet. Lemme reinstall linux Ill post my expereiences. Only caveat: I had to load linux using vgalo or whatever option it is in the advanced options menu when you go to install MDK. sigh...otherwise you get a black screen. :\ It sucks. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound
On Wednesday May 28 2003 06:59 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Adolf, Michael F wrote: Greetings, I just installed Mandrake 9.2 from a download. There's a 9.2? has been for quite some time tom$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 It is on a dual boot Dell with its own disk. During install, it found my crystal sound card and suggested driver cs46xx from a list of drivers. After installation, however, I have no sound. How can I debug the dirver install? Is there another driver I should have selected? Run aumix and check the settings - for some weird reason it can default to having all channels muted. Failing that, run sndconfig (when not in X). That's probly it. Otherwise it might be a Dell cs46xx and the driver doesn't quite get along with it. Run 'draksound' and see what the suggested driver is, what's being used, and what any alternatives might be. But as Robin suggested, 'aumix' is probly zeroed. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] aethera for KDE
Anyone ever try this Email client for KDE? If so, would love your opinion. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO
Hi all, I just picked this up at a dutch Linux mailinglist. It makes some interesting reading!! http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem connecting ADSL modem to the net
I have almost got the net setup working, or so I think. When I set up my ADSL modem, a Speedtouch 330, during set up, it seemed to go well. It just asked me to put this file 'mgmt.o' in the /usr/share/speedtouch directory. It gave me a web address to get this file, but the only linux drivers did not seem to have it. Can anyone shed some light on this? Will I need any more set up to get the net connection working? Thanks Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com www.fxgogo.com www.qually.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IsTwo monitors possible?
I have a Chaintech G-force 4 TI4200 128mb Graphics card. Is it possible to run two monitors in Linux using this card? Thanks Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com www.fxgogo.com www.qually.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Acqua-Graphite theme for 9.1?
Hi, Is the Acqua-Graphite theme available for 9.1? I tried to install the 9.0 theme but I get an error when I run install.sh. Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:05:19 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nForce(2) chipsets are not well or completely supported by Linux kernel yet. Neither are Intel iwhatevers. VIA chipsets boards are best supported, mainly due to their popularity and cooperation with the Linux community. Their best are usually followed with an 'a', eg, kt133a, kt266a, kt333a, and kt400a ... the latter which outperforms the nforce2 chipset. nForce only derives (Windoze) rave reviews if perfectly matched, high quality DDR ram modules are used, and then only in few normal real world circunstances. If you really want an nVidia chipset board, then lobby nVidia to break their license agreements and back room deals with Micro$oft, and help out the folks at kernel.org with some better cooperation. Actually, I didn't really want an nforce2 motherboard. I just went for this one because it had AGP 8x and got high reviews. Could anyone point me to a motherboard that works well with linux, is not too terribly expensive, and has support for AGP 8x (I am going to try a Radeon with the new FireGL drivers, they are supposed to have good support with X and WineX). I am running a Soyo KT400 Dragion Ultra Black Edition that supports AGP8x, USB2.0, 166MHz fsb and has 4 IDE channels and onboard sound (CMI 8738) and nic (VIA Rhine2). $106 at Newegg.com with free shipping. The only thing not supported out of the box with 9.1 is the additional ATA-RAID controller (Highpoint) but it works fine as additional IDE channels. Works fantastic here. FYI, I matched it with the AthlonXP 1700+ which I am clocking to 2400+ speeds only by changing the fsb to 166, no chip mods or crazy tricks to get it to work, just good case ventilation. That cpu is only like $42. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution for 9.1?
Hi, I just installed 9.1 and i want to set up my system. I was using Evolution in 9.0 but I can't seem to find the right version. Does anybody has Evolution running in 9.1? When I try to install the beta stuff I get all kinds of dependency errors. Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations
At 06:10 PM 5/28/2003 +, you wrote: snip Toms' rambling crap... :D Actually, I didn't really want an nforce2 motherboard. I just went for this one because it had AGP 8x and got high reviews. Could anyone point me to a motherboard that works well with linux, is not too terribly expensive, and has support for AGP 8x (I am going to try a Radeon with the new FireGL drivers, they are supposed to have good support with X and WineX). Thanks again! http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4c800-d/overview.htm i have that board. has more than I need + an upgrade path. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
