[newbie-it] Linux e Fastweb
Scusate la domanda... Sto cambiando casa e vorrei far mettere l'ADSL di Fastweb (se qualcuno consiglia altro... faccia pure: non ho ancorafirimato alcun contratto...) e vorrei sapere se devo chiedere un modem in particolare o va bene qualunque mi vogliano dare. Vorrei poi, per ragioni di prese del telefono, utilizzare il loro sistema Wireless: lo conoscete? Mi sapete dire se con MDK 9.0 ci sono problemi? Dato che mi vorrei compre l'accrocchio wireless per non noleggiarlo da loro (20 al mese mi sembrano troppini...), avete una marca da consigliare? Grazie per l'attenzione Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] MultiBoot
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 02:47:59 +0200, Alessandro Vitale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mi accingo a frmattare il mio disco e con l'occasione vorrei installare la mandrake 9.1! Premmetto che attualmente uso WinXpPro. Volendo installare sia XP che Linux Come fare?Devo partizionare prima il disco e poi installare in ordine XP e dopo Linux?Che file system usare?Non si potrebbero installare entrambi nella stessa partizione (Domanda sciocca ma non si sa mai...)? Grazie a chi mi aiuta e a chi pu darmi preziosi consigli!!! Premetto che sono un utente novello di Linux che passato a Linux proprio grazie alla facilit di installazione e uso della distribuzione Mandrake, sto iniziando ora a studiare un po', ma per lo pi uso il pc n pi n meno come lo usavo quando avevo come sistema operativo Windows XP Professional. Detto questo ti consiglio se gi devi formattare di fare addirittura due partizioni, una per Windows e una per Linux, il modo pi pulito per installare tutti e due i sistemi operativi. In alternativa puoi installare prima Windows, poi partizionare il disco rigido, dopo aver fatto scandisk e deframmetazione. Tieni conto che durante la procedura di installazione di Mandrake puoi partizionare il disco rigido, ridimensionare partizioni NTFS o FAT32 MS- Windows, quindi prima fai scandisk e deframmentazione poi parti con l'installazione di Mandrake e durante la procedura di installazione poi fare una partizione per Linux nello spazio lasciato libero da Windows. Se hai pazienza e segui con calma e precisione le istruzioni viene fatto tutto automaticamente, il passaggio che ho trovato un po' pi ostico perch spiegato in modo non molto chiaro, il resto della procedura d'installazione semplicissima. Io ti consiglio per di fare due partizioni subito, in una installi Windows nell'altra Linux, cos durante la proceduta d'installazione di Mandrake devi solo scegliere la partizione e dare il comando di allocare automaticamente lo spazio scelto, fa tutto il programma di installazione. Ciao :) -- Artasersec Se vi ritrovate con un cadavere tra le braccia, mettiamo vostro marito che giace al primo piano, e non sapete proprio come uscirvene, la prima cosa da fare prepararvi una tazza di t ben forte. Anthony Burgess, One hand clapping
[newbie-it] compilazione gcc 3.3
Salve a tutti ho un problema nella compilazione del gcc... il file configure crea regolarmente il makefile, lanciando però make install si blocca poco dopo scrivendo make[1]: *** no rule to make target '../libiberty/libiberty.a' needed by gengenrtl. stop make[1]: *** error 2 Ho provato ad editare il makefile, però a parte che è immenso, è scritto generato da configure, non modificare. non lo posso allegare viste le dimensioni, qualcuno ha qualche idea? Grazie Alessandro
[newbie-it] Vmware 4.0
Ciao ragazzi, ho installato vmware su win2k, e poi attraverso vmware ho installato red-hat 9.0, tutto ok se non fosse per il fatto che il mouse all'interno di red-hat mi funziona a scatti. Qualche soluzione ? Ciao
[newbie-it] core.2023
Salve a tutti Mi sono andate in crash alcune app e mi sono ritrovato con dei file del tipo core.2049. Che devo fare? Le mando hai produttori del software? A cosa sevono? grazie
[newbie-it] gnome+pam-panel-icon
Salve a tutti Di recente ho scoperto che il desktop del cuore è gnome. Ma c'è un piccolo problema che mi sta facendo impazzire. Il pam-panel-icon, io penso sia quello almeno spero. Quando guardo la lista dei processi di questo famigerato pam-panel-icon ce ne sono una ventina attivi. Se poi uso il control center e inserisco la password di root nel pannello mi escono una ventina di mazzi di chiavi. Se mi loggo come root da console non succede niente. Se clicco su una di queste chiavi mi dice se voglio prendere l' autorizzazione o dimenticarla, e basta. Ho cercato ovunque notizie su ste chiavi ma non le trovo. Ho provato a killare i processi ma ripartono subito e con un consumo maggiore di memoria. Ho trovato l'app pam-panel-icon è sono stato tentato di cancellarla, ma mi è sembrata una cosa poco linuxiana e poco elegante. Oltre tutto se uso KDE non la trovo nella lista dei processi. Penso che ci sia una sorta di demone che contralla il processo ma non ho capito qual' è. Qualcuno mi può dare qulache consiglio? Grazie
[newbie-it] La cache in linux?
Salve a tutti Esiste in linux un equivalente della cache internet come in winzozz??? Dove è??? grazie
Re: [newbie-it] La cache in linux?
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:11:38 +0200, Giaipur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti Esiste in linux un equivalente della cache internet come in winzozz??? Dove ??? grazie Per KDE: menu configurazione centro di controllo navigazione web cache menu configurazione centro di controllo navigazione web cookie questo vale solo se usi Konqueror per navigare su internet. Se usi Mozilla, apri la finestra di Mozilla: edit preferences advanced cache edit preferences privacy security cookies Per Gnome il percorso simile, uguale se usi Mozilla, io uso KDE e ora non posso riloggarmi per controllare il percorso da seguire :) ciao :) -- Artasersec Se vi ritrovate con un cadavere tra le braccia, mettiamo vostro marito che giace al primo piano, e non sapete proprio come uscirvene, la prima cosa da fare prepararvi una tazza di t ben forte. Anthony Burgess, One hand clapping
Re: [newbie-it] La cache in linux?
Alle Sunday 27 July 2003 17:11, in merito a [newbie-it] La cache in linux?, Giaipur ha scritto: Salve a tutti Esiste in linux un equivalente della cache internet come in winzozz??? Dove è??? tutto nella tua home però dipende da quale browser usi, konqueror mette tutto in .kde, nascosta, all'interno della stessa trovi tutti i settaggi dei programmi integrati in kde, le url dei siti visitati, i file scaricati, ecc.. grazie -- bye miKe _ Slackware 8.0 GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 313T R.U.#219755 SRU#755
Re: [newbie-it] MultiBoot
Alle Sunday 27 July 2003 02:47, in merito a [newbie-it] MultiBoot, Alessandro Vitale ha scritto: Mi accingo a frmattare il mio disco e con l'occasione vorrei installare la mandrake 9.1! Premmetto che attualmente uso WinXpPro. Volendo installare sia XP che Linux Come fare? se è un pc portatile fai per prima una partizione di ibernazione (ram + vram + 10 mb) se partizioni da fdisk dos non riesci a lasciare spazio libero, però.. dovresti usare il cd di recupero del sistema, o patizionare con fdisk/cfdisk/diskdrake dal cd di installazione; poi la ntfs per win ixxpì quindi una fat32 per l'interscambio dei dati (ixxpì non vede ext3 o reiser, da GNU/Linux non è il caso di scrivere su ntfs, usare una partizione per i documenti è la cosa migliore) lo spazio libero lo partizionerai durante il setup di mandrake, ricordaa di fare una partizione di swap, grande quanto la memoria di sistema è un buon compromesso (non meno di 256 mb, comunque) -- bye miKe _ Slackware 8.0 GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 313T R.U.#219755 SRU#755
Re: [newbie-it] Linux e Fastweb
Alle Sunday 27 July 2003 10:54, in merito a [newbie-it] Linux e Fastweb, Andrea Cecagallina ha scritto: Scusate la domanda... Sto cambiando casa e vorrei far mettere l'ADSL di Fastweb (se qualcuno consiglia altro... faccia pure: non ho ancorafirimato alcun contratto...) e vorrei sapere se devo chiedere un modem in particolare o va bene qualunque mi vogliano dare. non ho marche particolari, i modem-bridge ethernet funzionano tutti alcuni usb danno problemi Vorrei poi, per ragioni di prese del telefono, utilizzare il loro sistema Wireless: lo conoscete? Mi sapete dire se con MDK 9.0 ci sono problemi? Dato che mi vorrei compre l'accrocchio wireless per non noleggiarlo da loro (20 al mese mi sembrano troppini...), avete una marca da consigliare? se intendi il router, sono tutti compatibili con ogni sistema operativo, purchè gestibili via browser quanto alle schede, fai una ricerca in internet, io con netgear 11 mb vado benissimo Grazie per l'attenzione Andrea -- bye miKe _ Slackware 8.0 GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 313T R.U.#219755 SRU#755
Re: [newbie-it] core.2023
Alle Sunday 27 July 2003 17:13, in merito a [newbie-it] core.2023, Giaipur ha scritto: Salve a tutti Mi sono andate in crash alcune app e mi sono ritrovato con dei file del tipo core.2049. Che devo fare? servono a individuare eventuali problemi, puoi rimuoverli dopo averli letti Le mando hai produttori del software? inutile se non mandi anche l'immagine della ram e la lista dei task attivi al momento del crash per quell'analisi usa il tool del tuo DE grazie -- bye miKe _ Slackware 8.0 GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 313T R.U.#219755 SRU#755
Re: [newbie] emacs has bash builtins
On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:34 pm, Eric Huff wrote: I just stumbled on this: If you are editing a shell script (ie if it starts with #!/bin/sh) in emacs (gnu 21.2), it has helper sections for inserting for loops, if statements, etc. (insert menu) Could be useful when you're getting started with scripts. So far i have just been starting with copies of other scripts, but i'll see if this learns me faster... EMACs ? you are hard core : ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux frindly printers
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:19 am, Aron Smith wrote: Has anyone had any success setting up multi function devices? (eg. printer-fax-copier-scanners with linux) there are some great deals on refurbished HP equipment around. Check out www.linuxprinting.org and be ready with the name and model number of your device. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I use a HP OfficeJet G85 and everything works execpt the fax. I just hook the fax to my phone line when I need it. Otherwise it prints great, copies great, and scans great. Now if there was just a really good photo software for pics I would be in nirvana. Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing problem
On Saturday 26 Jul 2003 11:21 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 05:06 pm, owenb wrote: This is a recent development. When I try to print I get the following message. Catastrophe! - KNotify A print error occurred. Error message received from system. Error while reading filter description for *true. *Empty command line received. Print KGhost View gives the following: Printer HPDeskjet 855c. Comment: HP Deskjet 855C, Foomatic + hpijs (recommended) Print system currently used CUPS (common UNIX Print System) connected to local host 631 No matter what printer I designate or what print system is designated I get the same error message. Until a few days ago the designated printer would print. I must of done something, The question is now how to undo it. Owen A quick solution may be to just install the printer as a new printer. I don't think it needs this Derek. If I understand his problem correctly it is very simple to deal with. When printing from some apps (Gimp seems to be the problem on mine), a filter gets left behind. All you have to do when you see this error is to call up print again, check the properties and you will see the filter. Delete it and print away Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux frindly printers
On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 9:12 am, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I use a HP OfficeJet G85 and everything works execpt the fax. I just hook the fax to my phone line when I need it. Otherwise it prints great, copies great, and scans great. Could you add this info to the HardwareCompatibility page on the TWiki site? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility If you have not used TWiki before you may find the attached file helps. Now if there was just a really good photo software for pics I would be in nirvana. What do you want from the software? There's probably something that fits your need, though I think you will not find the one-size-fits-all app in Linux - you may need different apps for different purposes. Anne First browse the page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome then sign up as a TWiki user. Once you are signed up you will be able to add to or edit any page on the TWiki web. You always view the edits before saving them, so it is easy to go back (browser back arrow) and change anything if you make a mistake. When making additions to a page, look at the previous entries and copy the format you see. Don't forget to copy and past your sig line from the footer of the edit page and put it underneath your edit. Hope that helps AnneWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 6:41 am, Eric Huff wrote: I have been trying out a technique for ad-blocking i saw on slash-dot: someone made a huge list of common ad-sites and made a hosts file where the names get sent to 0.0.0.0 So now, almost always, i am spared the flashes, pictures, etc of ads. Less download time and less eye clutter. I'll send the hosts file if anyone is interested I've used the same here for ages and it works a treat. I can't remember the last time I saw an advert, although my list is only limited to 15734 servers/sites for now so I think *comprehensive* is a good description of it's abilities ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing on a SCSI system
On Sunday 27 July 2003 12:21 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: Well, that is not true for Buslogic (nee Mylex) controllers, at least the one I have (BT-948C.) There is a setting in there for bootable CD-ROM, and it must be enabled in order to boot from a CD **if the CD-ROM is SCSI**. Obviously, if the CD-ROM is IDE, this won't matter. In my case, I have a SCSI CD-ROM. The reason is that if the CD-ROM is SCSI attached, the motherboard doesn't know about it, only the SCSI controller does. Ditto for my Adaptec 2930u here. If I don't enable a bootable CD in the SCSI Bios then I can't boot from my SCSI CD. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] File icon for torrents
Hi all I'm looking for some nice KDE and GNOME icons for torrent files. Does anyone know where could i get them? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine
Lee Wiggers wrote: All this wine talk made me curious enough to install the latest and try to run the last program keeping me with a windows box. Act! Problem: I installed the RPM wine-20030618-mdk9.1.i586.rpm without a problem. Now..How do I configure and use the program? I know, RTFM. I am, but it seems like they assume I'm smarter than I am, as usual. I'm getting a complex. Try xwine - it's an all-purpose frontend for running and configuring wine. Sir Robin -- A strategy is still being formulated. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rosegarden install and Yamaha .mid file load
Very many thanks Richard, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 3:59 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I used urpmi to install rosegarden from contrib. There were a number of additional issues I think I resolved successfully though I'm not entirely sure. However on first use I get, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rosegarden Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I don't get those Yes, GLX could refer to my nvida geforce3 driver, I suppose. So maybe something needs adjusting there . AudioPluginManager::fetchSampleRate - couldn't fetch sample rate RosegardenGUIDoc::xmlParse (reader.parse()): 20ms elapsed AudioFileManager::generatePreviews - for 0 files then on loading the first yamaha .mid file doh! ran out of dots doh! ran out of dots But I do get those The GLX seems to be a feature of the screen driver that rosegarden wants to use. Don't wory unless there's a graphics problem. The next three seems to be status stuff, ie not errors. As a programmer the doh! messages smell like debugging stuff that someone has forgotten to remove, nothing to worry about. At the moment I don't think there is a graphics problem check out http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979 First off I have a via 8233 sound chip on this machine, it's not a sound blaster type of PCI device. Mandrake sets it up under ALSA, and franky I generally don't like to mess with it these days, as, touch wood, it seems fairly solid now. but, according to this, An ALSA MIDI mapper (C) 2002 David Given Introduction amidimap is a basic MIDI mapper for the ALSA sound system. It acts as a filter, receiving and transforming MIDI events and then outputting them. For example, I have an elderly and decidedly non-GM Yamaha PSR300 keyboard. How can I play GM sound files on it? Like this: amidimap -f psr300.map (starts the mapper) aconnect 128:1 64:0 (connects the mapper's output to the MIDI device) pmidi -p 128:0 thingy.mid (plays a GM file to the mapper) The psr300.map file contains all the necessary rules to turn GM into PSR300-speak. It remaps all the instruments, swaps channels 9 and 15, and remaps the notes on the drum track to match the PSR300's rather limited drumkit. but then I also note, Step 2. Get a Soundfont === Now you need to find a file, 8MBGMSFX.SF2, on your Soundblaster installation disk and move it to your hard drive. The file is in /mnt/cdrom/AUDIO/COMMON/SFBANK and it is the wavetable of instrument sounds that the Soundblaster needs for its midi sequencer. If you're the only user, it's easy to just move it into your home directory, or perhaps to /usr/share/midi (which probably already exists). This is the largest, and consequently best-sounding, of the soundfonts on the Soundblaster disk. It will be loaded into RAM, so if memory is at a premium you can use either of the smaller sf2 files. If memory is not at a premium, or if you want to experiment with even larger soundfonts, please check the section Need Midis or Soundfonts? below. If you dual boot, the soundfont is probably already installed in /mnt/win_c/Program Files/Creative/sbpci512/SFBank, and if you want you can load it from there. Step 3. Load the Soundfont == Install awesfx and awesfx-devel from your Mandrake distribution disks or from MandrakeClub Downloads (using Mandrake Control Center: Software Management or any alternative method). Then open a terminal and enter the command /bin/sfxload [space] /path to soundfont/8MBGMSFX.SF2 (The /bin is probably not necessary and the path to soundfont is the path to where you put it; [space] means hit the spacebar.) If all things are well, you will be returned to the prompt and the soundfont has been successfully loaded. If you see a message about path or file not found, you have probably made a typing mistake. If you see a message about cannot find /dev/sequencer than you are using the wrong driver, please return to Step 1, or read the note at the bottom. it looks as though maybe something needs setting up ? I came across http://www.pdamusic.com/computer/midi-qnd.html You might find it useful, but it doesn't bear on your current problem. I had assumed that there must be soundfonts out there that implemented the Yamaha maps, but just now I wasn't able to find any. With more time on your hands you may be able to. This would be the ideal way of solving the problem. Otherwise http://www.cowlark.com/amidimap.html supplies a mapping utility that will do the job, if you build a configuration file for it. There is an example configuration file that goes the other way, so just maybe it's just a matter of swapping all the lines around. I think it would help if I knew where rosegarden stores it's sound fonts and to take a look at them and see what if anything in likely to work with yamaha 's sound fonts. If there is nothing suitable installed
Re: [newbie] emacs has bash builtins
EMACs ? you are hard core : ) Kinda funny, i guess. I probably only use .01% of it's ability, but i love it. I learned emacs way back in undergrad: it was available on the vax in physics where i worked and the hp unix machines in EE where i studied. Plus, the local computer guru was an emacs user, so i learned it quickly. I have never gotten over my addiction. I install it on every windows computer i have to use, so even at work i feel a little better. Like i'm gonna use notepad. Puhhleease. There's nothing like the ability to do incremental searches with what i call forward highlighting of matches. It's been relatively newbie friendly for awhile. I hardly use the pulldowns, but it now has all the most basic functions available in the pulldown, so non-emacs users can actually exit, save as, etc, w/o having google to learn C-x C-c, etc. Whew! Please no flames. I'm sure vi is good, too. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Documentation on drakePerm?
On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 5:14 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.1 for the first time (I have used other distros for years now) and I am trying to get used to the way to do things in Mandrake. Anyway, the permissions set on my system currently make /usr/share/doc unreadable for regular users and I would like to change this. I can do a chmod and fix it but it seems to me to be the wrong way to do it. I noticed there is a drakeperm module in the security tab of the control center, but I cannot find any documentation on how to use it. I switched to the 'editable' section and changed the permissions on /usr/share/doc but the change is not reflected in the file system. How do I get the changes I make in drakeperm to be reflected in the file system? Thanks, Avi Read this http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php It was written for Mandrake 8.2 but the principle is the same derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
So now, almost always, i am spared the flashes, pictures, etc of ads. Less download time and less eye clutter. I'll send the hosts file if anyone is interested Do you use it in combination with spaam assassin or procmail? I use the hosts file to block ads during web browsing. I haven't installed any spam stuff yet. Will probably do it soon. Still trying to figure out which is best for me. Did i misunderstand? eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bin files
I just noticed that this never made it to newbie because tsyko has a reply-to set, so I am forwarding it now for future reference. After i gave up trying to tell everyone about this, i realized that kmail sylpheed (at least) have a way to get around this. I set kmail to reply to list with my normal reply key. In sylpheed, i set it to reply to a specific address if you are in a specific folder. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mbr question
i know that in order for the mbr to be rewritten properly by linux in a dual boot system, the ms-win OS of choice must be installed before doing a linux install. but if i go and format out my ms-win OS and reinstall it (i'm using win98), will the mbr be rewritten and i won't be able to get back into linux? and if that does happen, how do i get the mbr re-written so i can access linux again? i've been looking for an answer to this but can't seem to find it, and win98 needs to be re-installed as i'm having massive problems with it. (and i wish i could make this a microsoft free computer, but currently i can't) Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Logitech Marble Mouse
I tried with the generic wheel mouse and it did not work. Maybe there is a driver I will tried to search for one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: 25 juillet 2003 21:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Logitech Marble Mouse On Friday 25 July 2003 04:30 pm, Daniel wrote: I have a Logitech Marble Mouse and I did not see this hardware in the list of the Supported Hardware does anyone installed Mandrake 9.1 with this mouse. Thank you Try the generic wheel mouse worked for me;) -- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.148 / Virus Database: 259.9.3 - Release Date: 2003-07-24 -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.150 / Virus Database: 259.9.3 - Release Date: 2003-07-24 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mbr question
Here was a response i got about this awhile ago. Doesn't help you too much, but it's a data point. Hopefully someone else will have a better answer. eric I have also run XP in another partition, and crashed it often, then reinstalled it, and it has never reworked the MBR, just put itself back in with out destruction. Is it safe to reinstall 98 and XP? I was always told it would reformat your entire drive (wether you wanted it to or not). XP seems to understand partitions. 98 likes to take the whole drive.. I've had some luck doing a repair... not much... but some, with 98. On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:06:11 -0400 crak600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know that in order for the mbr to be rewritten properly by linux in a dual boot system, the ms-win OS of choice must be installed before doing a linux install. but if i go and format out my ms-win OS and reinstall it (i'm using win98), will the mbr be rewritten and i won't be able to get back into linux? and if that does happen, how do i get the mbr re-written so i can access linux again? i've been looking for an answer to this but can't seem to find it, and win98 needs to be re-installed as i'm having massive problems with it. (and i wish i could make this a microsoft free computer, but currently i can't) Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rosegarden install and Yamaha .mid file load
On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 6:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: First off I have a via 8233 sound chip on this machine, it's not a sound blaster type of PCI device. Mandrake sets it up under ALSA, and franky I generally don't like to mess with it these days, as, touch wood, it seems fairly solid now. but then I also note, Step 2. Get a Soundfont === Now you need to find a file, 8MBGMSFX.SF2, on your Soundblaster installation disk and move it to your hard drive. I think it would help if I knew where rosegarden stores it's sound fonts and to take a look at them and see what if anything in likely to work with yamaha 's sound fonts. If there is nothing suitable installed then I need to try to build a yamaha sound font of my own. I suppose there must be some somewhere on the yamaha keyboard itself , I wonder where they are and if I could access them.Just trying to think of some easy way to get it right. Anyway, the essence of the matter is that I need a workable sound font for this yamaha keyboard and get rosegarden to addopt it.Is that it ? Try the attached file. If that plays OK then you don't need a soundfont with your card. In fact the easiest way is probably to use the rosegarden mapper. Tracks-Remap Instruments-Instrument but I couldn't get it to do anything. Maybe you need to conact the rosegarden people and ask them -- Richard Urwin test.mid Description: MIDI audio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] emacs has bash builtins
On Sunday 27 July 2003 09:30 am, Eric Huff wrote: EMACs ? you are hard core : ) Kinda funny, i guess. I probably only use .01% of it's ability, but i love it. I learned emacs way back in undergrad: it was available on the vax in physics where i worked and the hp unix machines in EE where i studied. Plus, the local computer guru was an emacs user, so i learned it quickly. I have never gotten over my addiction. I install it on every windows computer i have to use, so even at work i feel a little better. Like i'm gonna use notepad. Puhhleease. There's nothing like the ability to do incremental searches with what i call forward highlighting of matches. It's been relatively newbie friendly for awhile. I hardly use the pulldowns, but it now has all the most basic functions available in the pulldown, so non-emacs users can actually exit, save as, etc, w/o having google to learn C-x C-c, etc. Whew! Please no flames. I'm sure vi is good, too. :) I dunno that would be stephen dept ..unless he has a shrimp on the barbie both EMACS and Vi are on your distro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IEEE 1394 (FireWire/i.Link) and DVD-RAM/CD-RW
Hello, My Creative Audigy soundcard has an IEEE 1394 connection, and something about it is detected when I boot [ML9.1]. www.linux1394.org (as well as Xconfig) tell me that the IEEE 1394 module is experimental, and the list of device drivers seems far from exhaustive (although this may just be my ignorance). I was thinking of getting a DVD/CD reader/(re)writer [the La Cie DVD MultiDrive (300568) DVD-RAM/DVD-RW Burner caught my eye]. What is the common wisdom about current compatability? would it be better to wait until a new realease/kernel (at which point these things might be cheaper)? With an advance of thanks, Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reply-to list was [Bin files]
On Sunday 27 July 2003 12:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: I just noticed that this never made it to newbie because tsyko has a reply-to set, so I am forwarding it now for future reference. After i gave up trying to tell everyone about this, i realized that kmail sylpheed (at least) have a way to get around this. I set kmail to reply to list with my normal reply key. In sylpheed, i set it to reply to a specific address if you are in a specific folder. I had just found a reply-to list button myself in the kmail toolbar configurator thingamagiggie (is that technical enough terminology for the newbie list?). I didn't use it in this case, but I had already added it to my toolbar. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Intro
Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mbr question
Mike ..will the mbr be rewritten and i won't be able to get back into linux? Correct. and if that does happen, how do i get the mbr re-written so i can access linux again? Pop in your Mandrake CD 1. At boot press F1 for more options. Type rescue at the prompt. You'll get a list of things you can do, one of which is restore LILO. Let us know if you need more help from here. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
Isn't it easier to simply suppress popups (Moz) or use smart denial of popups (Konq)? Miark On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 22:41:34 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying out a technique for ad-blocking i saw on slash-dot: someone made a huge list of common ad-sites and made a hosts file where the names get sent to 0.0.0.0 So now, almost always, i am spared the flashes, pictures, etc of ads. Less download time and less eye clutter. I'll send the hosts file if anyone is interested Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
Do you use it in combination with spaam assassin or procmail? I use the hosts file to block ads during web browsing. I'd be interested in this - do you have a URL where I can RTFM? -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 18:26:06 up 13 days, 8:04, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.06 The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. -- Stanley Kubrick pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
I use the hosts file to block ads during web browsing. I'd be interested in this - do you have a URL where I can RTFM? http://7deadlysins.ath.cx/files.php#hosts is where i got it from. More similar lists http://www.smartin-designs.com/ Here's the notes that came with the one i got originally. I use 0.0.0.0 Ad-Blocking hosts File -- Compiled by Jim Pocalyko http://7deadlysins.ath.cx jimpocalyko at earthlink dot net Released 12/28/2002 Last Revised 4/26/2003 About - This file contains a list of common webhosts that serve popup and/or banner ads on the Internet. I compiled this list from various sources, and the list is constantly growing, if you wish to help, don't hesitate to contact me. This file can replace or add to your existing hosts file. It redirects all requests that appear in the list to localhost (127.0.0.1). This will cause the least browser slowdown and shouldn't set off any security alerts on properly configured firewalls. If you are running a webserver on your localhost, you may wish to change 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.2, or another IP of your choice, else your webserver error log will fill quickly. Some UNIX users may notice errors or slowdown if the hosts are redirecting to localhost (127.0.0.1). You may want to replace all the localhost IP's with a nullhost IP (0.0.0.0). This can be easily accomplished by running the following command at a shell prompt: % sed -e 's|127.0.0.1|0.0.0.0|g' hosts hosts which will globally find and replace all instances of localhost with nullhost. If you are running a proxy server, this file will also be of use to your connecting machines, as less data needs to be downloaded. Installation Instructions - This file applies to just about any OS made in the past decade. Installation is fairly straightforward. It is recommended that you backup your current hosts file unless you intend to add the list to your existing file. WINDOWS 95/98/ME: Save the 'hosts' file to your C:\WINDOWS directory WINDOWS NT/2000/XP: Save the 'hosts' file to C:\WINNT\System32\drivers\etc directory MacOS/BeOS/Linux/UNIX: Save the 'hosts' file to /etc/hosts. I recommend appending to this file instead of overwriting it. An easy way to do this at a shell prompt is: % cat hosts /etc/hosts Notes - Most browsers will reject the invalid requests with little or no notice. However, some banner ads may appear as blank images that did not load. This is expected to happen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 12:23 pm, burns wrote: Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Welcome aboard, Larry. Looks OK to me g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rosegarden install and Yamaha .mid file load
John Richard Smith wrote: If there is nothing suitable installed then I need to try to build a yamaha sound font of my own. I suppose there must be some somewhere on the yamaha keyboard itself , I wonder where they are and if I could access them.Just trying to think of some easy way to get it right. Hello John, Does your Yamaha keyboard have a user manual that lists the instruments being mapped to which patch number? I've got an old Casio CTX1000 keyboard. In the user manual was a section dealing with MIDI and gave the list of each instrument on the keyboard with matching patch number. I then built up my own patch list for the CTX1000 that I imported into Cakewalk (a PC based Midi sequencer). If you don't have the instrument patch list in the Yamaha user manual, then do your best to define each instrument on the keyboard. for instance: Patch 0 = Normal Piano (or the Yamaha may label the first patch as Patch 1. Remember my previous warning about different MIDI sequencers using patch numbers 0-127, or 1-128.) Compile your own list of patches for every instrument on the Yamaha. Then find a General MIDI patch list and compare instruments. If your trumpet is patch #87 on the Yamaha, and it's #27 on the General MIDI (just wild guesses at these patch numbers, don't attempt to use), then tell Rosegarden or whatever MIDI sequencer you're using to use Patch #27 for the track that is playing Yamaha patch #87. The only down side to this approach is if you changed Yamaha instruments within a track. For example, track #2 may have started with the Yamaha trumpet, then changed to a Yamaha tuba in the middle of the song. (MIDI and a good MIDI sequencer will allow you to do this.) With the approach above you would have the General MIDI trumpet playing the entire length of the track and would never be able to make the tuba change mid-track. John, did you hardwire (MIDI Out from Yamaha keyboard to MIDI In on computer) the Yamaha keyboard to your computer at one time to get the Yamaha MIDI files in the first place, or is this a Yamaha keyboard that accepted a 3.5 floppy disk and wrote the music directly to floppy? Because if you can hardwire the Yamaha to your computer (MIDI Out from computer to MIDI In of Yamaha, then place Yamaha in MIDI mode), have you ever considered just using Rosegarden or another MIDI sequencer to resend the MIDI data back to the Yamaha and let the Yamaha play the music? That would allow the music to be played now for your daughter while you're working on the *all* computer solution to playing the Yamaha MIDI files. Something to consider. The Other PS: Sorry I haven't been able to respond to this for a couple weeks. My computer's BIOS eats Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo for lunch, dinner, elevensies, and late-night snacks. I'm on Redhat 9.0 Shrike right now to send this to you. If Shrike is stable on this computer, I'll be investigating MIDI and Linux myself in great detail soon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On July 27, 2003 07:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 12:23 pm, burns wrote: Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Welcome aboard, Larry. Looks OK to me g Anne I have a digital camera, (jamcam) which is listed and it seems I have activated this camera, but what programs have an *acquire* feature that I can download pic's from the camera... I have tried the image viewer programs that came with the o/s. So what do I do now? Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mbr question
On Sunday 27 July 2003 01:06 pm, crak600 wrote: i know that in order for the mbr to be rewritten properly by linux in a dual boot system, the ms-win OS of choice must be installed before doing a linux install. but if i go and format out my ms-win OS and reinstall it (i'm using win98), will the mbr be rewritten and i won't be able to get back into linux? and if that does happen, how do i get the mbr re-written so i can access linux again? i've been looking for an answer to this but can't seem to find it, and win98 needs to be re-installed as i'm having massive problems with it. (and i wish i could make this a microsoft free computer, but currently i can't) Assuming you are using lilo, all you will have to do is create a linux boot floppy disk prior to installing win98 again. So go to Mandrake Control Center and create a boot floppy and then test it to make sure it works. Then reinstall win98. Once Windows is reinstalled, reboot with the floppy back into linux and then rerun lilo from the command lie as root to restore your linux boot loader on the mbr. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla and Java
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 5:37 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Having installedMozilla1.4 off the texstar site how does on get the full pluggins as well especially Java ? John Open your Mandrake software manager and type mozilla in the search box. Now you have texstar defined as a urpmi source you will see the contents of his site. derek Oh, dear what have I done now ? I did as instructed, after a long download , I came back to find it had refused to install the updates, so I attempted to restart as follows, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi.update -a urpmi database locked [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi mozilla One of the following packages is needed: 1- mozillafirebird-0.6-3tex.i586 2- libnspr4-1.4-1mdk.i586 What is your choice? (1-2) 2 One of the following packages is needed: 1- mozillafirebird-0.6-3tex.i586 2- libnss3-1.4-1mdk.i586 What is your choice? (1-2) 2 To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (29 MB): libnspr4-1.4-1mdk.i586 libnss3-1.4-1mdk.i586 mozilla-1.4-1mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) y where upon it hung, and I'm now without mozilla in M9.1 completely. Is this going to require a complete wipe off of the OS and a start again job ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
Isn't it easier to simply suppress popups (Moz) or use smart denial of popups (Konq)? For popups that is probably true, assuming you are using moz or konq. But this was for ads that don't popup. Some sites i go to have flashy ads that make page scrolling jumpy just because the animation is running. Also, it's nicer to read pages w/o the ads cluttering it up. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reply-to list was [Bin files]
I had just found a reply-to list button myself in the kmail toolbar configurator thingamagiggie (is that technical enough terminology for the newbie list?). I didn't use it in this case, but I had already added it to my toolbar. When i was using kmail, i actually mapped it to the normal reply letter. If you reply-to list on a normal mail, it just goes to the normal person anyway... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
hi Larry, It seems that the camera is supported by gphoto2. If you did a multimedia install, it should be under Multimedia Graphics. Run the program and it should be fairly intuitive setting up the cam. The website is... http://www.gphoto.org Once the pics are retrieved you can manipulate them with a number of progs...all undet Multimedia Graphics My fave is the GIMP. It is a very powerful graphics editor ala Photoshop. Good luck, Bill W. On Sunday 27 July 2003 08:40 am, burns wrote: On July 27, 2003 07:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 12:23 pm, burns wrote: Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Welcome aboard, Larry. Looks OK to me g Anne I have a digital camera, (jamcam) which is listed and it seems I have activated this camera, but what programs have an *acquire* feature that I can download pic's from the camera... I have tried the image viewer programs that came with the o/s. So what do I do now? Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On Sunday 27 July 2003 07:40 am, burns wrote: On July 27, 2003 07:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 12:23 pm, burns wrote: Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Welcome aboard, Larry. Looks OK to me g Anne I have a digital camera, (jamcam) which is listed and it seems I have activated this camera, but what programs have an *acquire* feature that I can download pic's from the camera... I have tried the image viewer programs that came with the o/s. So what do I do now? Larry Is it usb connected to the computer? or serial connection. If serial the gphoto2 should pick it up and allow downloads.. if usb then the system should see it as a removable hard drive and let you check out the pics through konqueror and the /mnt partition. Let us know what your connection is or if you don't understand what I just wrote. It is hard to know what stage a newbie is truly at. Welcome to the list. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reply-to list was [Bin files]
On Sunday 27 July 2003 01:18 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had just found a reply-to list button myself in the kmail toolbar configurator thingamagiggie (is that technical enough terminology for the newbie list?). I didn't use it in this case, but I had already added it to my toolbar. Thanks for the hint. I'm glad one of us knows how to RTFM. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 21:23, burns wrote: Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Did you pay the initial MDK Newbie Email List Fee? (Payable to ME - either by cheque, money order or credit card) -- Mon Jul 28 08:45:00 EST 2003 08:45:00 up 14 days, 48 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.13, 0.09 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it. -- Dizzy Dean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bad Signutures
Any body know why the cryptographic keys are not found for so many packages from mandrake lately? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mbr question
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 03:06, crak600 wrote: i know that in order for the mbr to be rewritten properly by linux in a dual boot system, the ms-win OS of choice must be installed before doing a linux install. but if i go and format out my ms-win OS and reinstall it (i'm using win98), will the mbr be rewritten and i won't be able to get back into linux? and if that does happen, how do i get the mbr re-written so i can access linux again? i've been looking for an answer to this but can't seem to find it, and win98 needs to be re-installed as i'm having massive problems with it. (and i wish i could make this a microsoft free computer, but currently i can't) Thanks Mike One way around this is to maintain the Windows partition; just format the partition if you're going to reinstall the Win stuff - that way you're not hosing up the partition table. -- Mon Jul 28 09:00:00 EST 2003 09:00:00 up 14 days, 1:03, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.07 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * There's only one kind of woman ... Or man, for that matter. You either believe in yourself or you don't. -- Kirk and Harry Mudd, Mudd's Women, stardate 1330.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome recent open documents
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 00:27, DrewMartin wrote: Hi all, How do remove the list of recently open documents from the Gnome start menu? I'm using 2.2 with MDK 9.1 It's a One Step process. 1st step: remove Gnome -- Mon Jul 28 08:55:00 EST 2003 08:55:00 up 14 days, 58 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.10, 0.09 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * A screwdriver will always slip when in the proximity of painted surfaces--Law of Centrifugal Malfeasance -- Assembly General Shefields Corollaries n6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
gee, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't see any 'fees', but I might get a few 'foes' if I don't, eh? So how much are these 'fees' and what was the address to send them to? Will you take cash, all in coin of course, pennies to be exact.. LOL larry On July 27, 2003 10:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 21:23, burns wrote: Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Did you pay the initial MDK Newbie Email List Fee? (Payable to ME - either by cheque, money order or credit card) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On Sunday 27 July 2003 03:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 21:23, burns wrote: Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Did you pay the initial MDK Newbie Email List Fee? (Payable to ME - either by cheque, money order or credit card) what'sa matter stephen Nigerian letter not working this week ? BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
LOL How new am I? Just born! I have a USB connected JamCam, and I have installed the gtkam through Control center, in multimedia/graphics, I now have GTkam. I have set my JamCam, and gtkam says it has received 4 frames, but there are no thumbnail images, nada. So now I wait for some pablum please, I ain't old enough to chewLOL Larry On July 27, 2003 09:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 07:40 am, burns wrote: On July 27, 2003 07:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 12:23 pm, burns wrote: Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic right.. thanks larry Welcome aboard, Larry. Looks OK to me g Anne I have a digital camera, (jamcam) which is listed and it seems I have activated this camera, but what programs have an *acquire* feature that I can download pic's from the camera... I have tried the image viewer programs that came with the o/s. So what do I do now? Larry Is it usb connected to the computer? or serial connection. If serial the gphoto2 should pick it up and allow downloads.. if usb then the system should see it as a removable hard drive and let you check out the pics through konqueror and the /mnt partition. Let us know what your connection is or if you don't understand what I just wrote. It is hard to know what stage a newbie is truly at. Welcome to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] aumix not working
After I installed 9.1 a while ago, I used aumix to uncheck Mute All, and the sound worked. Next time I booted it was check on again. I unchecked it, saved, quit aumix, started it again and it was ckecked again. Went round and round with aumix with no luck. NOW it won't even come up. Run from KDE as user the hour glass just spins about 20 times and then goes away. Run from konsole as me or as root and the prompt just reappears. Can I get rid of this POC and use something else to configure sound? mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:11, burns wrote: gee, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't see any 'fees', but I might get a few 'foes' if I don't, eh? So how much are these 'fees' and what was the address to send them to? Will you take cash, all in coin of course, pennies to be exact.. LOL larry $400 USD; payable unto my personal home account; I take VISA/MC and AmericanExpress (g) -- Mon Jul 28 09:25:00 EST 2003 09:25:00 up 14 days, 1:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.10 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:05, Aron Smith wrote: what'sa matter stephen Nigerian letter not working this week ? BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; To make the doll smell more real. -- Mon Jul 28 09:30:01 EST 2003 09:30:01 up 14 days, 1:33, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.13, 0.10 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. -- Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Why doesn't msec set directory permissions properly?
I set my machine's security level to higher (4), however, I want to change the privileges for /usr/share/doc to be world browsable and readable. I used drakeperm to set the directory permissions and when I look at /etc/security/msec/perm.local I see the following line: /usr/share/doc/adm.adm755 I then run msec but when I check the permissions on the directory I still see: drwxr-x--- 297 admadm In /var/log/messages I do see that msec is reading the perm.local file. Any idea why is msec ignoring my permissions? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
Oh No! You don't get off that easy. It's $400 in pennies, and the receiver pays the shipping, or no deal... (:) larry On July 27, 2003 11:31 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:11, burns wrote: gee, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't see any 'fees', but I might get a few 'foes' if I don't, eh? So how much are these 'fees' and what was the address to send them to? Will you take cash, all in coin of course, pennies to be exact.. LOL larry $400 USD; payable unto my personal home account; I take VISA/MC and AmericanExpress (g) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On 7/28/2003 at 9:32 AM Stephen Kuhn wrote: BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; To make the doll smell more real. Man, I saw that one coming! Can't believe you walked into that one Aron! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:19, burns wrote: LOL How new am I? Just born! I have a USB connected JamCam, and I have installed the gtkam through Control center, in multimedia/graphics, I now have GTkam. I have set my JamCam, and gtkam says it has received 4 frames, but there are no thumbnail images, nada. So now I wait for some pablum please, I ain't old enough to chewLOL Larry If you run: kdf ...do you see the camera as a mountable device? -- Mon Jul 28 09:35:00 EST 2003 09:35:00 up 14 days, 1:38, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.10, 0.09 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried -- Murphy's Laws on Work n26 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
Why not ship him the equivalent in lead? $400.00 in USD of lead ingots should wiegh in at about 280 pounds, and will cost about $1000.00 USD to ship to Australia. Stephen, the way I see it, you owe him about $600.00 ! See what you get for not sharing? LOL! Man,...what some guys will do to be able to afford new ties! You should never have put your picture on your web-site, Stephen! Grin! Grin! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/27/2003 at 4:37 PM burns wrote: Oh No! You don't get off that easy. It's $400 in pennies, and the receiver pays the shipping, or no deal... (:) larry On July 27, 2003 11:31 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: $400 USD; payable unto my personal home account; I take VISA/MC and AmericanExpress (g) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Signutures
On Sunday 27 July 2003 05:58 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Any body know why the cryptographic keys are not found for so many packages from mandrake lately? Do you have texstars rpms loaded as a source? Could be you don't have his sig on file. Just guessing -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro
BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; Shrimp is stephen's pet name for ken. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aumix not working
alsamixergui might save you. If not, i'm not sure what to do about aumix not running. Maybe delete ~/.aumixrc ? Anyway, once you get that sorted out, here is what i did to make my sound work for my first install (the second time i installed it worked from the start...): 0. Run and save kmix 1. Run the aumix gui (i just type aumix at the cl) 2. Under Mute, Mute All is checked (despite the sliders being non-zero). Click Mute All to uncheck it (this will actually mute all: the sliders all go to zero) 3. Now go back and reselect mute all (the sliders then all go back to non-zero values) 4. Save settings 5. Sound should now work, try alsamixergui if not IF you're running ALSA drivers: after installing the alsa-utils, i ran alsactl store (as root) and rebooted. Sound worked on bootup w/o fiddling... On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:22:25 -0400 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I installed 9.1 a while ago, I used aumix to uncheck Mute All, and the sound worked. Next time I booted it was check on again. I unchecked it, saved, quit aumix, started it again and it was ckecked again. Went round and round with aumix with no luck. NOW it won't even come up. Run from KDE as user the hour glass just spins about 20 times and then goes away. Run from konsole as me or as root and the prompt just reappears. Can I get rid of this POC and use something else to configure sound? mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i'm looking for a very good WYSIWYG editor other thanMozilla composer
John Wilson wrote: On July 25, 2003 04:50 am, Robin Turner wrote: a little snip The main factor in compatibility both ways is fonts and CSS. You can get a much better appearance on Windows by using fonts that Windows handles well. Tahoma and Verdana are good choices. You should also provide a lit of fonts in your CSS, though of course you can't do that in WYSIWYG editors (well, maybe Amaya?). Set font sizes as relative, not absolute. I find a base font size of 90% gives the best overall results, Self-correction - for text, I now prefer ems to percentages. The tricky thing, as I've just found out trying to get a page to display well at different resolutions on different OSs and browsers, is making text and graphics play nice, since graphic measurement generally goes in pixels. Actually MS likes Times New Roman and the old non-serif font that was, at one point, standard with Winsucks. I usually have Times New Roman as an option for large chunks of text. but it's not actually a very nice font - it was based on newspaper fonts, which have rather tight kerning for web display. Of course you can set kerning in CSS2, but how many browsers support that? I wish Donald Knuth would design some web fonts ;-) By all means use everything suggested here to test which one you like best. I believe even Web Sphere comes with a kinda stripped down evaluation package which gives you an idea of how it works. No NOT under pain of much torture, death and abuse use Front Page or Word as your HTML editor. Just to repeat myself DON'T! :-) Absolutely. When I first got on the Web, I used to save documents I'd written in Word as HTML then upload them. People from all over the world took the trouble to e-mail me about it! Do use relative font sizes. Yes, and remember that many people have screen resolutions that will make your default fault look ridiculously large. Then there are a few people who use Konqueror, which makes everything microscopic. Do remember to use serif fonts for any text longer than one short paragraph. There are valid reasons for this. The biggest one is that the serifs make it easier for the eye to track what the user is reading. That's why you see them everywhere. Use san serif fonts for headlines, headers and little extractions only. I agree with this for print, but I'm not sure how much it applies on the web. Read bags of information on just how to design a web site. Most people haven't got a clue, to be honest. Don't take hint's on this from Portals. They are both a crime against sanity and a wonderful example of how not to design a site. Certainly. The same goes for most corporate websites. As someone said on BBC's Click Online programme, The bigger the company, the worse the website. DO read and absorb everything you find on www.useit.com. Jakob Neilsen is kinda cranky but he's usually right about what does and does not make a usable web site. But his site looks incredibly ugly. I had to check the source code to make sure he was using CSS - he seems to have written a stylesheet designed to recall the good old days of Mosaic ;-). I'd still say the best place to start is the W3C (www.w3.org). It's a bit of a labyrinth, but there is a ton of good information and advice there. Check out the CSS Zen Garden for some eye-candy! Sir Robin -- A strategy is still being formulated. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Signutures
On Sunday 27 July 2003 05:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 06:58 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Any body know why the cryptographic keys are not found for so many packages from mandrake lately? You are obviously installing cooker packages. Hopefully you are installing them on your cooker box and not your stable box :-) Anyway, this is a known problem with cooker right now. It is being worked on. OOPS you mean that texstar is also cooker ! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Signutures
On Sunday 27 July 2003 05:03 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 05:58 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Any body know why the cryptographic keys are not found for so many packages from mandrake lately? Do you have texstars rpms loaded as a source? Could be you don't have his sig on file. Just guessing ** Yes I set up texstar with urpmi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?
I currently have on my system kernel-2.4.21.0.13 installed. When I am running mandrakeUpdate it tells me there are no updates yet I know that kernel 2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1 is available as a security fix. Why doesn't it tell me there is an update? Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?
On Sunday 27 July 2003 11:22 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: I currently have on my system kernel-2.4.21.0.13 installed. When I am running mandrakeUpdate it tells me there are no updates yet I know that kernel 2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1 is available as a security fix. Why doesn't it tell me there is an update? Have you run the sources update utility either in the graphical sources manager, or by typing urpmi.update update in a console as root. Even though packages are available, urpmi won't know about them until you refresh the package lists by the above methods. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Signutures
On Sunday 27 July 2003 10:52 pm, Aron Smith wrote: OOPS you mean that texstar is also cooker ! No, absolutely not. You didn't say Texstar in your initial post though. The exact quote was Any body know why the cryptographic keys are not found for so many packages from mandrake lately? Texstar is not Mandrake. He is a guy that makes packages for Mandrake the distribution, not Mandrake the company. He is not affiliated with them in any official way, although I think he is working pretty closely with Laurent on fixing up the Cooker KDE packages. You probably just need to import Texstar's public key into your root keyring. Get the key from his repository and then type gpg --import nameofkeyfile as root and your problem should go away. This is a known problem in cooker though as they migrate some of the signature authorization tools. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?
I did it before via the GUI and I just did it again via the console and I still get the same No Update message. Very puzzling. Avi On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 10:27 PM, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 11:22 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: I currently have on my system kernel-2.4.21.0.13 installed. When I am running mandrakeUpdate it tells me there are no updates yet I know that kernel 2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1 is available as a security fix. Why doesn't it tell me there is an update? Have you run the sources update utility either in the graphical sources manager, or by typing urpmi.update update in a console as root. Even though packages are available, urpmi won't know about them until you refresh the package lists by the above methods. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?
I did it before via the GUI and I just did it again via the console and I still get the same No Update message. Very puzzling. Avi I believe it also depends on the mirror that you're updating from. Some mirrors get updates several days later, so I'd wait a couple more days and try it again then ... or just change your mirror to something else :) Dmitri Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Signutures
On Sunday 27 July 2003 08:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 10:52 pm, Aron Smith wrote: OOPS you mean that texstar is also cooker ! No, absolutely not. You didn't say Texstar in your initial post though. The exact quote was Any body know why the cryptographic keys are not found for so many packages from mandrake lately? Texstar is not Mandrake. He is a guy that makes packages for Mandrake the distribution, not Mandrake the company. He is not affiliated with them in any official way, although I think he is working pretty closely with Laurent on fixing up the Cooker KDE packages. You probably just need to import Texstar's public key into your root keyring. Get the key from his repository and then type gpg --import nameofkeyfile as root and your problem should go away. This is a known problem in cooker though as they migrate some of the signature authorization tools. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Does mandrakeUpdate really work?
I ftpd into the site and I can see the rpm in there. However, and be warned that I have no clue a to what I am doing, the synthesis.hdlist file shows only 2.4.21.0.13 and not 2.4.21.0.25. Can this be the problem? Avi On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 10:49 PM, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote: I did it before via the GUI and I just did it again via the console and I still get the same No Update message. Very puzzling. Avi I believe it also depends on the mirror that you're updating from. Some mirrors get updates several days later, so I'd wait a couple more days and try it again then ... or just change your mirror to something else :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Intro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:05, Aron Smith wrote: what'sa matter stephen Nigerian letter not working this week ? BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; To make the doll smell more real. FRANKI: Stephen, you sick bastard.. your giving Aussies a bad name here. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Signutures
On Sunday 27 July 2003 09:51 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 05:03 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 05:58 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Any body know why the cryptographic keys are not found for so many packages from mandrake lately? Do you have texstars rpms loaded as a source? Could be you don't have his sig on file. Just guessing ** Yes I set up texstar with urpmi so then you probably do need to import his key to your computer, but I am sorry I can't tell you how to do that, somebody jump in here, I'm going to bed. HTH and luck, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
