Re: [newbie-it] urpmi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 14:26, mercoledì 17 settembre 2003, Germano ha scritto: Ho letto al volo la documentazione di wget ed ho capito (ma forse sbaglio) la seguente cosa: wget è già predisposto per usare i proxies (gli devi dare un opzione specifica per non farlo) sempre che trovi una variabile d'ambiente sia settata. Ora la variabile da settare nel tuo caso è ftp_proxy; non mi è ben chiaro se per ambiente lui intenda la shell o solo il suo file di configurazione (ma penso che valga per tutti e due, con precedenza per il secondo). Quindi ti consiglio di copiare il file /etc/wgetrc in ~/.wgetrc e di decommentare la riga di tuo interesse mettendo al posto del proxy che ha messo lui, il tuo con il numero di porta corretto. Insomma, vedi tu la strada è questa. Ciao, Germano Funziona grazie! Adesso ho provato a passargli l'opzione --wget ad urpmi e a funzionato velocissimo! Bene ora rimane solo il problema di far usare wget e non curl all'interfaccia grafica ( non so dove mettere le mani). Intanto ti ringrazio perché potrò sincronizzare finalmente i miei archivi con wget... Ancora grazie! Luigi - -- Personaggi Illustri [9 di 35]: Defecatore greco: Aristerco di Arrea Dentista giapponese: Tekuro Lakarie Dietologo giapponese: Kala Kili -- Da http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/9922/nomi.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/aV5vTvJtVxCNwP4RAozJAJ9lqLNCHBnYc+w4w3t3N3yZ7zupxwCgv3tb H/87RJ16KQlT1QgAAZpEjZw= =001f -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] Aiutatemi all'acquisto
Salve amici, devo acquistare, per il mio portatile Asus L3800 un modem pcmci a 56K, per la mia distribuzione Mandrake 9.1. Vi prego ditemi una vostra Antonello. P.s.: Il mio rivenditore amico mi ha proposto Digicom... Vabene???Ciao. -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Hai un problema legato al mondo del verde? Chiedi a Mr. Green! clicca qui: Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=547d=18-9
Re: [newbie-it] urpmi
il Thursday 18 September 2003 09:27, si è scritto riguardo a Re: [newbie-it] urpmi Alle 14:26, mercoledì 17 settembre 2003, Germano ha scritto: Ho letto al volo la documentazione di wget ed ho capito (ma forse sbaglio) la seguente cosa: wget è già predisposto per usare i proxies (gli devi dare un opzione specifica per non farlo) sempre che trovi una variabile d'ambiente sia settata. Ora la variabile da settare nel tuo caso è ftp_proxy; non mi è ben chiaro se per ambiente lui intenda la shell o solo il suo file di configurazione (ma penso che valga per tutti e due, con precedenza per il secondo). Quindi ti consiglio di copiare il file /etc/wgetrc in ~/.wgetrc e di decommentare la riga di tuo interesse mettendo al posto del proxy che ha messo lui, il tuo con il numero di porta corretto. Insomma, vedi tu la strada è questa. Ciao, Germano Funziona grazie! Adesso ho provato a passargli l'opzione --wget ad urpmi e a funzionato velocissimo! Bene ora rimane solo il problema di far usare wget e non curl all'interfaccia grafica ( non so dove mettere le mani). Intanto ti ringrazio perché potrò sincronizzare finalmente i miei archivi con wget... Forse sbaglio ma penso che l'unico modo sia quello di disinstallare curl, sempre che tu non abbia programmi che dipendono da esso (tipo xine). Se il problema per cui non ti piace curl è solo perchè non passa per il proxy lo puoi superare più o meno nello stesso modo che hai usato per wget. Comunque il mio consiglio è quello di usare sempre urpmi da riga di comando e non rpmdrake: rpmdrake ogni tanto da errori di firma che in realtà non esistono e poi urpmi ti permette di testare i file prima di installarli e tante altre cose. La comodità di rpmdrake è che con l'interfaccia grafica ti puoi controllare con calma quello che ti serve, vedere le caratteristiche dei pacchetti necessari all'installazione di quello che tu hai selezionato, ordinarli per gruppo, vedere a quale source appartengono e tante altre cose. Ma una volta individuati ti conviene tornare alla riga di comando ed usare urpmi come meglio credi. Ancora grazie! Luigi Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] Aiutatemi all'acquisto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 13:18, giovedì 18 settembre 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] Aiutatemi all'acquisto, Antonello Santamaria ha scritto: Salve amici, devo acquistare, per il mio portatile Asus L3800 un modem pcmci a 56K, per la mia distribuzione Mandrake 9.1. Vi prego ditemi una vostra hamlet fm560 comunque se fai un giro su linmodem vedi quali schede siano supportate, e come farle funzionare .. Antonello. - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.22 @ ASUS S1N 1330c +- R.U.#219755 -+- S.R.U.#705 -+- R.M.#110932 -+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE/acZpF/9fksDJ4y0RAsNIAJ9uHDiKZ/LUXdlA1EX9/LRWv7fkgACWNXk9 I7btH2qHukQ1r6rZaMUARg== =z36S -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] consiglio per un'installazione
Alle 22:01, martedì 16 settembre 2003, fabio ha scritto: ho notato che alcune volte, se la scheda non è correttamente rilevata o il driver fa un po' acqua, la soluzione migliore in fase di installazione è selazionare il driver per scheda VESA. bye Ti ringrazio, ne terrò conto. Per fortuna nel frattempo l'amico si è comprato una scheda video nuova. Ciao Giorgio _ Rieccomi qui e nei miei veri panni: capitano Pinky Pack delle guardie reali di PINGUNIA! da Topolino e l'ultraghiaccio Topolino n. 597, 7 maggio 1967
Re: [newbie-it] conversione formati video
Alle 06:44, mercoledì 17 settembre 2003, hai scritto: ... Ciao, ho trovato questo documento in html che riguarda avidemux, non so se può esserti utile, comunque te lo mando. Ciao Sandro Ti ringrazio moltissimo, mi sa che sarà molto utile. Alle 08:03, mercoledì 17 settembre 2003, Rev.Ferris ha scritto: ... prova a dare ./configure --help normalmente ti tira fuori le varie opzioni da passare in compilazione. Se hai la mandrake hai provato a dare urpmi mplayer? Se hai il sito del plf come orgente dovresti trovare il nuovo rpm; se non lo trovi ti posso spedire io via email il file MPlayer-1.0pre1.tar.bz2 (circa un Mega). Quando impari ad usare transcode mi fai sapere? io intanto uso il mencoder ma vorrei provare anche quello. Ciao e fammi sapere com'è andata! Luigi Ti aggiornerò senz'altro. Ora però spero di riuscire ad arrangiarmi con avidemux. Vedremo. Comunque grazie. Ciao a tutti Giorgio _ Rieccomi qui e nei miei veri panni: capitano Pinky Pack delle guardie reali di PINGUNIA! da Topolino e l'ultraghiaccio Topolino n. 597, 7 maggio 1967
Re: [newbie-it] mutt e patch per mailbox compresse [era: mutt e proporzioni]
* syd ha scritto: Nelle ultime release uso il pager non sezionato e quindi non mi sono piu' interessato all'argomento. Alla fine ho deciso di rinunciare al pager sezionato è meglio unico più semplice e riposante. Non a caso è così per default. Siccome la mailbox di newbie ha raggiunto una dimensione di circa 15 MByte ho aggiunto alla normale configurazione in .procmailrc una ad una le regole per la compressione e ho incominciato a sfoltire tutte le mailbox normali diventate ormai enormi dopo aver testato positivamente la configurazione. Ultimamente ho sentito la necessità di poter leggere direttamente con Mutt queste nuove mailbox compresse con gzip. Mi sono documentato, ho scaricato la patch relativa alla mia versione, ho modificato il file mutt.spec e ho eseguito la ricompilazione con rpmbuild come normalmente faccio. Purtroppo durante la fase di compilazione mi esce un errore per qualcosa che non va nella patch e non ho potuto così generare il file binario rpm. Ho ricontrollato tutte le modifiche effettuate a mano ma non ho trovato nessun errore da parte mia. Tu sei riuscito a compilare il tuo sorgente di Mutt con la patch per il supporto delle mailbox compresse ? Ciao, Giuseppe. -- GNU/Linux Powered Red Hat 9.A (Shrike) Kernel 2.4.20
Re: [newbie-it] mutt e patch per mailbox compresse [era: mutt e proporzioni]
* Giuseppe Ferruzzi wrote: Purtroppo durante la fase di compilazione mi esce un errore per qualcosa che non va nella patch e non ho potuto così generare il file binario rpm. Ho ricontrollato tutte le modifiche effettuate a mano ma non ho trovato nessun errore da parte mia. Tu sei riuscito a compilare il tuo sorgente di Mutt con la patch per il supporto delle mailbox compresse ? Ho una connessione adsl e quindi non ho bisogno di comprimere le mailbox delle liste; semplicemente uso gli archivi disponibili sul web. Della patch lessi qualcosina ma, ti ripeto, non l'ho mai applicata. Che errore ti restituisce? Magari e' una stringhetta contenuta nella patch sulla quale potresti provare a metterci le manine. Passami gli indirizzi che ci do' un'occhiata. -- syd - Slackware 9.0 * K 2.4.20 -
Re: [newbie] installing x86 update
Oh if all arguments could be so pointless. Some people prefer top posting, some people prefer bottom posting. May all your concerns be so petty and trivial. Get over it people, go and get a life. Or Filter all people who don't do it your way to the trash. But stop whinging in my ear about it. Banal pointless tripe, cease, desist, stop it, zipit, end this useless harrassment of my inbox. http://keirsey.com/Drummers.html The rest of my reply is at the bottom. On 17 Sep 2003 22:07:01 -0400 rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I don't understand about this. It's certainly understood that most people read downward. However, I'm interested in reading the test of the mail the sender posted. If there is text included from a string (to which the poster is responding), I've most likely already seen it so why would I want to read it again (reading downward). I'm actually after the new text and I'd prefer not to have to scroll down, sometimes a long way, and sometimes only to see something like thanks. :( That's why I prefer top posting and it's what Evolution, at least here, does by default. Rob On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:52, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:13:27 +0300 PhazeMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well.. now i'm posting from KMail and i don't understand why is that different where i'm posting from. I was referring to top-posting, the referrence to the mail client was an aside, a meagre attempt at humour, if you will. The preferred method, on all mailing lists, is to reply to the bottom of the post, not the top, since most people read downward, as opposed to upward, ethnic and cultural variances given. -- rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got you! -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound card problem in Mandrake 9.1
Hi, I'm experiencing some problems with my on board soundcard on Mandrake 9.1. First, it wouldn't work at all, now I found out that she works, but when I want to hear anything, I need to plug my speakers into the headphone jack :-/ When I do that I get sound with a lot of noise. My soundcard is based on the AC97 codec. Can someone help me with this problem, so I have sound through the output jacket without that noise? greets Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: top v. bottom, was Re: [newbie] installing x86 update
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 4:56 am, Todd Slater wrote: You're absolutely right. OK - point taken. But you were actually right the first time. Scrolling down isn't a problem when there are interpolated remarks. However, lack of pruning/snipping is infuriating. If people would take a moment to remove all that doesn't pertain to their answer it would help a lot. Even for a 'thanks' you can usually keep just a couple of lines to remind people of what you are thanking for. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card problem in Mandrake 9.1
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:01:40 +0200 NiTrO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing some problems with my on board soundcard on Mandrake 9.1. First, it wouldn't work at all, now I found out that she works, but when I want to hear anything, I need to plug my speakers into the headphone jack :-/ When I do that I get sound with a lot of noise. My soundcard is based on the AC97 codec. Can someone help me with this problem, so I have sound through the output jacket without that noise? greets You can be helped, try turning up the sound in aumixer (i think thats it). For more: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=105507562416728w=2 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BibleTime 9.1
On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 1:56 pm, bigrig64 wrote: However, I have no sound. 9.0 put that in without a hitch. Can anyone tell me where to start? Have you checked out kmix, aumix and AlsMixerGUI if you have it? aumix, in particular, is muted on many systems. Incidentally, the mute switch is misleading in aumix. To me, you have to do exactly the opposite of what you expect. Anyway, you can't do any harm, so experiment with all three if necessary. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 4:55 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: DO NOT GET A HP-PSC 1210 they are cheap and make great copiers but printing.. _ Agree...HP and Xerox are off my list tnx Can't speak for Xerox, but I've always used HP and been well satisfied. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 4:50 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 11:06 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Any thoughts? Well, I'd say stay away from HP since they are apparently sponsoring the SCO road show. http://www.sco.com/partners/city_to_city/oct2003/ That's a personal decision. If they had been sponsoring SCO's legal fight I would agree. Sponsoring a road show, to me, has little or no bearing on my choice of printer. They 'sponsor' linux enough to make sure that drivers are available, and that's important to me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BibleTime 9.1
SNIP However, I have no sound. 9.0 put that in without a hitch. Can anyone tell me where to start? Most sound problems are just because the sound system is muted. Run aumix to set volume levels. Also, when I install a program as a user, where does it go? and can other users run it? I guess there is no way to have the link automatically show up on the K-menu (and other manager menus)? It goes wherever you put it within your home directory. Typically ~/bin , or ~/local and No. Programs installed as a user cannot be used by anyone else. (Well not unlesss you fiddle with permissions and then force the Mandrake security system to ignore what you have done) Yes you can get a link in all your Window Manager Menus, simply by running menudrake, defining a menu entry and selecting the option for all WMs What is the application you are trying to install as a user? Any Mandrake RPM will install as root, and will automatically add a menu item. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card problem in Mandrake 9.1
I did turn up the volume. But the sound is coming out of the wrong jacket. It should not come out of the microphone jack, does it :-/, but out the audio output jacket. And that's the problem. I'm absolutely sure it is not a volume adjustment problem. The problem is that is is comin through the microphone jacket - Original Message - From: Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card problem in Mandrake 9.1 On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:01:40 +0200 NiTrO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing some problems with my on board soundcard on Mandrake 9.1. First, it wouldn't work at all, now I found out that she works, but when I want to hear anything, I need to plug my speakers into the headphone jack :-/ When I do that I get sound with a lot of noise. My soundcard is based on the AC97 codec. Can someone help me with this problem, so I have sound through the output jacket without that noise? greets You can be helped, try turning up the sound in aumixer (i think thats it). For more: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=105507562416728w=2 -- Michael 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] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:24, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 09:38, Heather/Femme wrote: ...do I need to configure it somehow ? Yes. stephen kuhn - owner Hey Stephen - just wondering - does your ISP charge you by the word Yes. grin PS Ever heard of Chuck Bradley (sp?) from Knott county, KY? He used to lead sing for a band called LaRoxx (locally). Great singer, played with some bands in Lexington. In the mid 80's he gave me a demo tape (6 songs) from his band Da'nang. I finally got those songs converted over to OGG. Would you be interested in any of them? Yes. (removing the smart arse mask now) Ya mate - friend of mine, Doug Jones, knows them well - won't go into the gory details of that, but yeah - would love to hear that stuff, mate...kinda miss going down to Whitesburg to assist with the radidio station - used to hang out with some late nighters and do some sillies on the air...also used to do a computer talk on my friend Dan Martin's show back in like '92 through '94 - was rather strange, fun, and well, strange...DID have some callers that actually DID ask questions... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] file fragmentation
Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3 filesystems get and stay fragmented? Does this degrade performance? What tools are available to defrag? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:10:08 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 20:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Any thoughts? Lee DO NOT GET A HP-PSC 1210 they are cheap and make great copiers but printing.. _ Agree...HP and Xerox are off my list tnx Lee Funny, I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have have had one or more experience with one way or another. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card problem in Mandrake 9.1
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 10:19 am, NiTrO wrote: I did turn up the volume. But the sound is coming out of the wrong jacket. It should not come out of the microphone jack, does it :-/, but out the audio output jacket. And that's the problem. I'm absolutely sure it is not a volume adjustment problem. The problem is that is is comin through the microphone jacket Try the alsamixergui (you will probably have to install the RPM) There are 'mute' buttons in there you can check. Depending on the sound card, people have reported they have had to adjust aumix, alsamixergui, or kmix before getting sound. In some cases people have had to adjust more than one mixer. There is no way the Linux driver could cause sound to come out of your microphone jack. What you are hearing is 'crosstalk' between the electrical circuits in the sound card. This indicates the sound driver is working, but the ouput is being inhibited. Hence check the mute buttons. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] file fragmentation
Paul, You should really look in the archives (last 2 months). The quick answer is not it does not fragment. Tony. -Original Message- From: Paul Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] file fragmentation Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3 filesystems get and stay fragmented? Does this degrade performance? What tools are available to defrag? TIA Paul -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] file fragmentation
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 11:16 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3 filesystems get and stay fragmented? Does this degrade performance? What tools are available to defrag? TIA Paul Answers Not to any significant degree, No, and Possibly, but why bother. To give background I will explain how files are put onto Microsoft VFAT partitions and Ext3 In VFAT partitions the disc is divided into blocks. When a file is written it is divided into block sized chunks. The first block is always written to the first available block on the HD, the second goes to the next available block and so on. This means that as files are deleted holes open up in the block allocation, and subsequent files get fragmented if they are larger than the first available hole. Eventually the HD gets hopelessly fragmented and a defrag is required. By contrast Ext3 divides the HD into inodes. When a file is written to HD it is written to an area large enough to hold it as a continuous file without fragmenting. If there is no area large enough, then it gets fragmented. The effect with Ext3 is that so long as the free space on the HD is relatively large compared to the size of individual files, then fragmentation is negligible. It is only when the HD is nearly full, or you have a lot of really huge files being written/deleted you might get fragmentation. In that case I believe XFS is a better file system to use. (but am not sure why) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 11:50 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Well, I'd say stay away from HP since they are apparently sponsoring the SCO road show. http://www.sco.com/partners/city_to_city/oct2003/ More than likely the sponsorship deals were inked well in advance of the lawsuit being filed. HP was supposed to have a keynote speaker at the show and pulled him and from what I understand, they have been noticeably absent from any of the proceedings and are not publicly commenting on the lawsuit. I think that we should all be cognizant that not every business wants to hang its future on a very public fight about intellectual property, regardless of how they might personally feel about who is right and wrong. HP is still pushing Linux openly and are helping our cause, at least by doing that. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] file fragmentation
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 20:16, Paul Kaplan wrote: Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3 filesystems get and stay fragmented? Does this degrade performance? What tools are available to defrag? TIA Paul Fragmentation for any ext file system (or any of the other unix/linux file systems) is not the same as with a FAT/FAT32/NTFS file system; you rarely if ever would require the usage of anything to reorganise the file structure as they're just not made that way. That is the one thing you can throw away for worrying, mate. Ditto with viruses. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- HOST SYSTEM RESPONDING, PROBABLY UP... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hints on mp3 CD!
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:28:37 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 September 2003 11:02 am, Miark wrote: Use Grip to rip and encode them to MP3 or Ogg. If you're playing them on a computer, I recommend OGG; if you're going to play it in a portable MP3 player, then use MP3. To use MP3 with Grip, you have to have Lame installed though, right? Or bladeenc... or similar Grip will rip the CDs track by track. From there you can use any number of CD burning apps to burn the tracks to CD. I like ERoaster. Make sure you burn it as a data CD and not an audio CD otherwise the burning software might try to convert the MP3/Ogg files back to CDDA, putting you back to square one. Miark Aye! gcombust is the program of my choice. Data tracks being the key words. (I like Gcombust but like Miark said, there are several that work fine) I was gonna send another reply to this thread but Miarks' answer pretty well sums it up - follow what he posted, you should do fine. :-) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] file fragmentation
Thanks. Nice explanation. Do you know the advantages/disadvantages of the other journalized filesystems. P On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:52 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 11:16 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Could someone please set the record straight... Do files on ext3 filesystems get and stay fragmented? Does this degrade performance? What tools are available to defrag? TIA Paul Answers Not to any significant degree, No, and Possibly, but why bother. To give background I will explain how files are put onto Microsoft VFAT partitions and Ext3 In VFAT partitions the disc is divided into blocks. When a file is written it is divided into block sized chunks. The first block is always written to the first available block on the HD, the second goes to the next available block and so on. This means that as files are deleted holes open up in the block allocation, and subsequent files get fragmented if they are larger than the first available hole. Eventually the HD gets hopelessly fragmented and a defrag is required. By contrast Ext3 divides the HD into inodes. When a file is written to HD it is written to an area large enough to hold it as a continuous file without fragmenting. If there is no area large enough, then it gets fragmented. The effect with Ext3 is that so long as the free space on the HD is relatively large compared to the size of individual files, then fragmentation is negligible. It is only when the HD is nearly full, or you have a lot of really huge files being written/deleted you might get fragmentation. In that case I believe XFS is a better file system to use. (but am not sure why) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hints on mp3 CD!
Jerry Barton wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:28:37 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 September 2003 11:02 am, Miark wrote: Use Grip to rip and encode them to MP3 or Ogg. If you're playing them on a computer, I recommend OGG; if you're going to play it in a portable MP3 player, then use MP3. To use MP3 with Grip, you have to have Lame installed though, right? Yes , I believe that is so, and inside grip in preferences you must set lame as your choice. Doesn't always work though, my current, lame-20030216cvs-1mdk which I have installed doesn't seem to be working with grip at the moment.Not sure why. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 12:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have have had one or more experience with one way or another. I repeat - with one exception, around 3 years ago (when I was defeated and temporarily gave up linux), I have used HP printers without any problems whatsoever. Mandrake has found them in every version from 8.0. IIRC HP show clearly on their website which models are supported. That's how I chose my present one. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 1:12 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 12:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have have had one or more experience with one way or another. I repeat - with one exception, around 3 years ago (when I was defeated and temporarily gave up linux), I have used HP printers without any problems whatsoever. Mandrake has found them in every version from 8.0. IIRC HP show clearly on their website which models are supported. That's how I chose my present one. Anne Quote from www.linuxprinting.org Score Cards Excellent --- Epson Laser Printers (Not L and not AcuLaser C900/C1000) Hewlett Packard Laserjets (except Laserjet 1500) Hewlett Packard Inkjets Lexmark Optra Division Good --- Kyocera Laser Printers Brother HL Devices Epson Inkjets Minolta Average -- Canon Okidata Samsung Poor - Epson EPL L and AcuLaser C900/C1000 Printers Everyone Else Useless -- Brother MFC Devices Lexmark JetPrinters linuxprinting.org is run by Til Klampeter Mandrake's printer Guru. He knows what he is talking about. http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
Just thought I'd throw this in... I've had an old Cannon BJC 1000 and it has worked with 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 and now 9.1. Don't know if it's a person could find one - it's at least three years old - but it was a cheapie and has always worked flawlessly. Curt -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 05:12, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 12:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have have had one or more experience with one way or another. I repeat - with one exception, around 3 years ago (when I was defeated and temporarily gave up linux), I have used HP printers without any problems whatsoever. Mandrake has found them in every version from 8.0. IIRC HP show clearly on their website which models are supported. That's how I chose my present one. Anne The PSC series can be used under linux but not by a newbie like me.. as I said it makes a great cheap copier. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] no more dual boot
I erased that other semi-OS as I hadn't been using it. Then I created an new home directory and all my data was transferred to it automagically, as you say. Amazing what MCC can do ! In MCC I tried to make some adjustments and deleted the w* entry so that my computer boots Linux only. However, I'm not sure if I did the right thing. I see there are other options: linux-fb, failsafe and floppy (if I'm not mistaken). Is that why it still waits for me to choose one of these options ? I was asked to install a package called arpci. I'm not sure if that's its name...Maybe I checked some box I shouldn't have checked as I doubt if it is installed by default. TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:10:08 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 20:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Any thoughts? Lee Funny, I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have have had one or more experience with one way or another. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I used a HP deskjet 812C in ML easy to install and good reliable printing I then switched to a Epson C80 and latter added a Epsom C82 printer and Epson 1200U scanner Installation on all 3 was a no brainier and print quality and speed has been outstanding for the price. I did find out that it is best not to use cheep Chinese ink cartridges. What a mess The Epson ink cartridges are not bad priced if you get them on sale and we all know the real cost of a printer over the long haul is the ink, But thats a whole other topic. Marc KM5KW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no more dual boot--diskdrake warning
On Thursday 18 September 2003 14:30, Josenildo Marques wrote: I erased that other semi-OS as I hadn't been using it. Then I created an new home directory and all my data was transferred to it automagically, as you say. Amazing what MCC can do ! In MCC I tried to make some adjustments and deleted the w* entry so that my computer boots Linux only. However, I'm not sure if I did the right thing. I see there are other options: linux-fb, failsafe and floppy (if I'm not mistaken). Is that why it still waits for me to choose one of these options ? I was asked to install a package called arpci. I'm not sure if that's its name...Maybe I checked some box I shouldn't have checked as I doubt if it is installed by default. TIA By MCC I take you mean diskdrake. A word of warning though: Diskdrake has some funny quirks, I ran across one today again. Sometimes diskdrake renames partitions and writes that to /etc/fstab whereas either fdisk or cfdisk see a different naming scheme. At the worst this could prevent a successful rebootdiskdrake is wrong!! In my case diskdrake saw /dev/hda6 as my swap partition which it wasn't, it should've been /dev/hda5 and hda6 an unused ext3 partition. I only noticed because I started checking why the machine had been getting so slow to bootup:o/ This change was brought on by diskdrake due to moving and resizing existing partitions about like you just have. Double check /etc/fstab and the disk-geometry before rebooting. Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 1:26 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Quote from www.linuxprinting.org Score Cards Excellent --- Epson Laser Printers (Not L and not AcuLaser C900/C1000) Hewlett Packard Laserjets (except Laserjet 1500) Hewlett Packard Inkjets Lexmark Optra Division Good --- Kyocera Laser Printers Brother HL Devices Epson Inkjets Minolta Average -- Canon Okidata Samsung Poor - Epson EPL L and AcuLaser C900/C1000 Printers Everyone Else Useless -- Brother MFC Devices Lexmark JetPrinters linuxprinting.org is run by Til Klampeter Mandrake's printer Guru. He knows what he is talking about. http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html derek Useful, Derek. I've copied it to the TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility That page is getting a bit long, and we'll split it down shortly, but meanwhile, can I ask everyone to try to add one useful bit of info? If you want any help just ask. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Aiuto LILO/Linux/Windows
Salve a tutti, avrei bisogno di aiuto riguardo a Linux. Ho un portatile Toshiba Satellite, con un disco rigido partizionato in questo modo: hda1--- Linux MAndrake 9.0 hda3--- Windows XP Professional Ho avuto la cattiva idea di reinstallare Windows nella sua partizione, ma da quello che ho capito l'installazione di Win mi ha anche cancellato (o "confuso") il LILO, quindi adesso quando accendo il computer mi parte direttamente Windows XP senza darmi la possibilita' di accedere alla partizione di Linux. Ho provato anche con dei boot loader per windows, ma essi hanno comunque bisogno, per far partire linux, che sia innstallato e sia funzionante il LILO. Come posso fare? help me =) grazie in ogni caso Luke
Re: [newbie] Aiuto LILO/Linux/Windows
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:22, Luca Tonin wrote: Salve a tutti, avrei bisogno di aiuto riguardo a Linux. Ho un portatile Toshiba Satellite, con un disco rigido partizionato in questo modo: hda1--- Linux MAndrake 9.0 hda3--- Windows XP Professional Ho avuto la cattiva idea di reinstallare Windows nella sua partizione, ma da quello che ho capito l'installazione di Win mi ha anche cancellato (o confuso) il LILO, quindi adesso quando accendo il computer mi parte direttamente Windows XP senza darmi la possibilita' di accedere alla partizione di Linux. Ho provato anche con dei boot loader per windows, ma essi hanno comunque bisogno, per far partire linux, che sia innstallato e sia funzionante il LILO. Come posso fare? help me =) grazie in ogni caso Luke The MBR was rewritten and, of course, Win now dominates his computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
Marc wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:10:08 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 20:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Any thoughts? Lee Funny, I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have have had one or more experience with one way or another. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I used a HP deskjet 812C in ML easy to install and good reliable printing I then switched to a Epson C80 and latter added a Epsom C82 printer and Epson 1200U scanner Installation on all 3 was a no brainier and print quality and speed has been outstanding for the price. I did find out that it is best not to use cheep Chinese ink cartridges. What a mess The Epson ink cartridges are not bad priced if you get them on sale and we all know the real cost of a printer over the long haul is the ink, But thats a whole other topic. Marc KM5KW I have had two HP printers, one called appolo1200, which was terrible to set up and configure, and a Deskjet 670C which worked, but not well. These two printers are noisy,and jam the paper regularly, long since disposed of them. I have specifically bought for it's linux capability a Lexmark Z52, Z53, which both works well , has a choice of 4 drivers in ghostscript, is easy enough to set up, and what is more compared to the HP's are silent as a ghost , the paper never jams. Only drawback is cartridges are a tad expensive but last just a bit longer than the HP equivelent. I have had only the one experience with an epson, with a friend who asked me to help her install a Madrake OS(M9.0?) cann't remember the model , but it was a dream to install and really impressed her with it's performance. The printer was quieter than any HP that I have ever used. It never jams, and Ink cartridges I believe are so so priced. My Lexmark Z52 and Z53's are a bit slow by current day print speeds and I would not recommend them where that is an important factor, but for me I ain't that fussed, don't do vast amounts of printed matter if I can help it, heck that is what an electronic office is for. Now that Mandrake has a good screen save programme like Ksnapshot I don't need to print off those website pages any more as a reference in case something goes wrong. So it's just letters( a dying thing) and art work, and well I just stack the print jobs up and go away and leave them till I come back. I'm sure you all are going to tell be that the newer HP's are better now, good, but quote them and lets see, because I'm not that impressed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: top v. bottom, was Re: [newbie] installing x86 update
However, lack of pruning/snipping is infuriating. There was a post on expert today where ~50% of the lines looked like this: I'm glad the person quoted all those intermixxed blank lines -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
HP is still pushing Linux openly and are helping our cause, at least by doing that. Yepper, HP is pushing Linux. In fact, they are offering Linux as an OS option on at least one line of computers. I don't know of other major computer vendors that are doing the same. I'd agree that HP's sponsorship of the SCO roadshow is not an endorsement of the current legal tactics that SCO is embracing in reference to Linux. The Northwest Marmot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 September 2003 07:31 am, Aron Smith wrote: The PSC series can be used under linux but not by a newbie like me.. as I said it makes a great cheap copier. Depends on the model. I have a HP PSC950 and it worked out of the box with Mandrake version 9 and 9.1, with no changes whatsoever. Granted, I can't control the fax portion from Linux, but printing, scanning, and accessing smart media cards from the printer all work without any problems or configuration changes in Mandrake. I have heard other people talk about having problems but in most cases, those are related to homegrown or less friendly Linux distributions or other issues like USB support, etc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?
09/18/03 Low-level formatting: 1) Go to the drive manufacturer's website and get the toolset for your drive. The low-level formatting utility should be in the toolset. 2) Run all the other diagnostics on the toolset first before doing the low-level format. If it turns out you need to return the drive to the manufacturer, the returns department will be asking you for the diagnostic results before they give you a Return Merchandise Authorization. 3) low-level format the drive. 4) Do NOT use the Windows NT 4.0 setup disk to partition and format the drive. MS-Dos 5.0 or 6.2 is safe to use if you want to dual-boot the system with Windows and Linux. Or as was said before, DiskDrake or proabably any other Linux tool is fine to use. They seem to be more robust and safer than Microsoft supplied 'fdisk'. All the Best, The Other Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA - Original Message - From: Xuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk? I know it's dangerous. But I do need it now. How to? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Postfix mailserver
Thanks to those who answered the thread. ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: September 17, 2003 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix mailserver On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 6:34 pm, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone has some good resources on exactly how to configure a Postfix mail server. According to a doc that I followed I should be functional, but I'm not as of yet. I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.0 TIA Yves Arsenault Carrefour Infotech 5,promenade Acadian Charlottetown, IPE C1C 1M2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (902)368-1895 ext.242 ICQ #117650823 Try the one on my website derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some mandrake 9.1 CD's
Hi, Thanks to all responded on this matter. I have now found the sources on cd 3 due to your suggestions The 4th cd is updates and software. Yes estart is a good supplier - my main supplier All is working fine Well, what can I say - with all the facts known it seems so easy. Thanks again regards Johan May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some mandrake 9.1 CD's
Hi Paul, Kindly explain MCC please? Thanks Johan - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Some mandrake 9.1 CD's On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 23:28, Johan wrote: Hi, I use mdk9.1 - have only first 4 cd's - downloaded version. Installed antivir antivirus software. It works fine. To make it act on file open/close it need dazuko. Dazuko need the exact kernel sources to compile - which is not on the first 4 cd's. Cape Town area - anybody have all 8 cd's of downloaded version? Care to let me have copy's of the last 4 - I will pick them up - replace with blank cd's or any reasonable payment.. Kindly inform me direct by email please. ** Suggestions for any other way to get the exact sources please. Hi Johan, You only need the first 3 CDS, the others contain source code. The kernel is already on the CDs, use MCC to install. If it doesn't find it under install, check under uninstall - if it comes up you've already got it installed. You'll probably get more assistance about dazuko at: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/dazuko-help/ Paul M. 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] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 08:46, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 07:31 am, Aron Smith wrote: The PSC series can be used under linux but not by a newbie like me.. as I said it makes a great cheap copier. Depends on the model. I have a HP PSC950 and it worked out of the box with Mandrake version 9 and 9.1, with no changes whatsoever. Granted, I can't control the fax portion from Linux, but printing, scanning, and accessing smart media cards from the printer all work without any problems or configuration changes in Mandrake. I have heard other people talk about having problems but in most cases, those are related to homegrown or less friendly Linux distributions or other issues like USB support, etc. The PSC 1250 uses somthing called the HP lightweight printer langage and is supposed to work thru CUPS but I have had no luck. I have been told that what I need is the CVS version of HPIJS, but,hell I'm a dummie How do I get it? meanwhile the Samsung ML-4500 laser printer works just fine.(only BW tho. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a SB Audigy 2 in Mandrake Linux.
From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing a SB Audigy 2 in Mandrake Linux. Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:49:03 -0400 On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:53:17 + Steven Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone tell me how to install a soundblaster audigy 2 sound card in linux? Your card should work using the audigy driver. Run draksound to view/change the driver which is being used. Check your mixer settings, sound is muted by default, and adjust the volume and other settings. In the future you may want to consider installing emu10k1-tools in order to configure and activate some of the bells and whistles with the audigy2 Charles -- Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed] - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-9mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - attach3 Hi, Would you give me a more detailed installation? Here is what I have done so far. -I typed in draksound in the terminal and it said command not found. -I then ran harddrake using the control panel. It said that my sound card driver was the EMU10k2 Audigy Audio Processor. -I downloaded an mp3 and played it to see my speakers worked. The mp3 would not play. It would load and then freeze in the player. Would you tell me how to check if the sound works and what the problem with mp3 is? Is the driver installed correctly? From, Steven _ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 September 2003 21:25, RichardA wrote: The ssh exploit reminded me to update. I did urpmi.update -a, which went fine. Then I did urpmi -v --auto-select. It wanted to download 300MB +, so I let it. Then a message about bad signatures, so I said yes again. Then:: starting installing packages rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery. Can't call method create_transaction on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm line 2008, STDIN line 2. Something is broken, methinks. Richard If you are talking about Mandrake 9.1 then the answer is simple - your rpm db just broke up. It's pretty simple to fix it though. First you have to delete the old rpm db: # rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.* then just rebuild the db (without loosing the currently installed packages list): #rpm --rebuilddb I don't think i have to mention that all this should be done as root After the rebuilddb finish - go ahaead and update your sources again (urpmi.update -a). And next time you want to update something ONLY from the updates mirror - you can use the --update switch with the urpmi that tells it to use ONLY the updates. - -- Yours Phazeman - - Linux registered user #218370 Using Mandrake Linux 9.1 Mandrake Club Registered User -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ahAaMPblvdKsczYRAoc+AKDLgiO3WvgXMyfyBbqhqaWKRhAMNgCeJrGW oUb0Rg9/Joc3By8vhD3JY04= =6BFi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a SB Audigy 2 in Mandrake Linux.
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:56:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine is the original audigy, but emu10k1 tools didn't work with the audigy driver. I think that's because the audigy driver uses oss. Both the audigy an emu10k1 drivers use OSS. The version of emu10k1-tools in 9.1 does support both audigy and audigy2 as well as SBLive. Charles -- The difference between this place and yogurt is that yogurt has a live culture. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-9mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Installing a SB Audigy 2 in Mandrake Linux.
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:06:25 + Steven Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -I typed in draksound in the terminal and it said command not found. You need to su to root and then enter the command. Unless you changed something it should list the audigy driver as being used. -I then ran harddrake using the control panel. It said that my sound card driver was the EMU10k2 Audigy Audio Processor. -I downloaded an mp3 and played it to see my speakers worked. The mp3 would not play. It would load and then freeze in the player. From a terminal, as user, enter: aumix -q That will give you a listing of your audio settings . If you see vol 0, 0 then you know that it is muted, if so go to your menu Multimedia/Sound and select 1 of the mixers/volume control which you have installed and unmute it. Charles -- An optimist is a man who looks forward to marriage. A pessimist is a married optimist. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-9mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Installing a SB Audigy 2 in Mandrake Linux.
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 9:45 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:56:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine is the original audigy, but emu10k1 tools didn't work with the audigy driver. I think that's because the audigy driver uses oss. Both the audigy an emu10k1 drivers use OSS. The version of emu10k1-tools in 9.1 does support both audigy and audigy2 as well as SBLive. Perhaps I misunderstood, then. I was under the impression that audigy could only use oss, whilst emu10k1 could use oss or alsa. Sorry if I misled you. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 September 2003 02:33 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:53, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 12:35 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 08:46, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 07:31 am, Aron Smith wrote: The PSC series can be used under linux but not by a newbie like me.. as I said it makes a great cheap copier. Depends on the model. I have a HP PSC950 and it worked out of the box with Mandrake version 9 and 9.1, with no changes whatsoever. Granted, I can't control the fax portion from Linux, but printing, scanning, and accessing smart media cards from the printer all work without any problems or configuration changes in Mandrake. I have heard other people talk about having problems but in most cases, those are related to homegrown or less friendly Linux distributions or other issues like USB support, etc. The PSC 1250 uses somthing called the HP lightweight printer langage and is supposed to work thru CUPS but I have had no luck. I have been told that what I need is the CVS version of HPIJS, but,hell I'm a dummie How do I get it? meanwhile the Samsung ML-4500 laser printer works just fine.(only BW tho. I am definitely not trying to be a smart ass here, HP does not list a PSC 1250 on their site. They do list a 1205 and a 2105, but not a 1250. Can I ask you to confirm what model printer you have? PSC 1210 bought it at sears $99.00 Well, you are right in that the printer that you have is not currently well supported under Linux. This has nothing to do with Mandrake in particular, but hardware support for Linux in general. HP only just started releasing software drivers for this particular hardware architecture in 11/2002, it takes a while for the Linux community to catch up to new releases. The short story seems to be that you can print with existing drivers (hpijs) but not scan, or you can scan with existing drivers (hpoj) but not print, or you can download and compile the latest bleeding edge version of hpoj (1.3), in which case you can do both. In order to get this version, you need to pull from the CVS repository which is where the developers store the current source code as they are working on it. The version you need for both printing and scanning is simply too new to be readily available, it is not considered stable yet and that means that there are no binaries, certainly none supported by Mandrake. HP itself usually only releases drivers covering printing which is supported by the current versions of drivers available under Mandrake Linux. The open source community has been building drivers to support scanning itself, but this does tend to lag a bit behind the latest hardware releases. I could start the process of explaining how to do this stuff but I would expect major problems in getting the code compiled since there is no way to control for dependencies and no real way of knowing what tools and packages are required. It is likely that you would have to compile and upgrade other packages that the code would be dependent upon and the only way to find out would be to pour through comments and notations from the developers. For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on your system and leaving the printer-filters package installed, you should then be able to print to your printer but not scan from it. Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you will be able to both scan and print. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 September 2003 05:44 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on your system and leaving the printer-filters package installed, you should then be able to print to your printer but not scan from it. Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you will be able to both scan and print. For anyone else with an HP printer, the current latest version of hpijs which is HP's print driver is available from their site 1.4.1 and I just downloaded it, applied a patch to improve the quality of black printing when printing in color and compiled it and it worked like a champ without any extra effort. The quality is markedly better with the patch because it uses only the black ink cartridge to print in black instead of mixing from the color ink cartridge. If anyone wants links or details, just drop me a line. I might also consider building an RPM for those of you who want it with the patch installed. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 10:59 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 05:44 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on your system and leaving the printer-filters package installed, you should then be able to print to your printer but not scan from it. Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you will be able to both scan and print. For anyone else with an HP printer, the current latest version of hpijs which is HP's print driver is available from their site 1.4.1 and I just downloaded it, applied a patch to improve the quality of black printing when printing in color and compiled it and it worked like a champ without any extra effort. The quality is markedly better with the patch because it uses only the black ink cartridge to print in black instead of mixing from the color ink cartridge. If anyone wants links or details, just drop me a line. I might also consider building an RPM for those of you who want it with the patch installed. That does sound a worthwhile improvement. The quality of composite black has always been a bugbear. I'd really like to try this. If it's worth your while building the rpm I'll wait for it, but if not enough people are interested, would you please send me links/instructions so that I can do it myself? Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no more dual boot--diskdrake warning
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:07, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 14:30, Josenildo Marques wrote: I erased that other semi-OS as I hadn't been using it. Then I created an new home directory and all my data was transferred to it automagically, as you say. Amazing what MCC can do ! In MCC I tried to make some adjustments and deleted the w* entry so that my computer boots Linux only. However, I'm not sure if I did the right thing. I see there are other options: linux-fb, failsafe and floppy (if I'm not mistaken). Is that why it still waits for me to choose one of these options ? I was asked to install a package called arpci. I'm not sure if that's its name...Maybe I checked some box I shouldn't have checked as I doubt if it is installed by default. TIA By MCC I take you mean diskdrake. A word of warning though: Diskdrake has some funny quirks, I ran across one today again. Sometimes diskdrake renames partitions and writes that to /etc/fstab whereas either fdisk or cfdisk see a different naming scheme. At the worst this could prevent a successful rebootdiskdrake is wrong!! In my case diskdrake saw /dev/hda6 as my swap partition which it wasn't, it should've been /dev/hda5 and hda6 an unused ext3 partition. I only noticed because I started checking why the machine had been getting so slow to bootup:o/ This change was brought on by diskdrake due to moving and resizing existing partitions about like you just have. Double check /etc/fstab and the disk-geometry before rebooting. Good luck, HarM Yes, Diskdrake. The partitions are OK and fstab was changed accordingly. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BibleTime 9.1 - sound actually
Ran aumix and BINGO :-) I now have noise Thanks Russ Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 1:56 pm, bigrig64 wrote: However, I have no sound. 9.0 put that in without a hitch. Can anyone tell me where to start? Have you checked out kmix, aumix and AlsMixerGUI if you have it? aumix, in particular, is muted on many systems. Incidentally, the mute switch is misleading in aumix. To me, you have to do exactly the opposite of what you expect. Anyway, you can't do any harm, so experiment with all three if necessary. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BibleTime 9.1 - installing
I installed BibleTime as a user. It installed prefectly (in md9.1) but I had to create a link. I logged in as another user and I was able to run it. I simply downloaded the rpm the doubleclicked on it from Konq (I'm not sure if I was in su mode or not). Thanks Russ Derek Jennings wrote: Also, when I install a program as a user, where does it go? and can other users run it? I guess there is no way to have the link automatically show up on the K-menu (and other manager menus)? It goes wherever you put it within your home directory. Typically ~/bin , or ~/local and No. Programs installed as a user cannot be used by anyone else. (Well not unlesss you fiddle with permissions and then force the Mandrake security system to ignore what you have done) Yes you can get a link in all your Window Manager Menus, simply by running menudrake, defining a menu entry and selecting the option for all WMs What is the application you are trying to install as a user? Any Mandrake RPM will install as root, and will automatically add a menu item. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ssh question
Hello there, I hope someone can help me with this. I'm having a hard time connecting to a friend's Mandrake box via ssh. I'm getting an error ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. Firewall is not in the way. sshd is running. It's not a routing problem. What else can I check? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake Linux 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk Resierfs and XFS | KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 19:05:00 up 12 days, 6:20, 1 user, load average: 0.71, 0.86, 0.84 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Lee Wiggers wrote: Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Epson is very Linux friendly. They support Linux probably better than any other printer. I've got a Stylus C82 that I'm very happy with. In product reviews a few people complained about the noise the paperfeed makes, and it is definite but not bothersome in my opinion. What I noticed is that it works. It's very definite and precise in feeding and positioning the sheets, and mine has never jammed (in five or six months). I think you'll find that the C82 (or probably any Epson; this is my second one) will work very well with 9.1. That's what I'm running. Mandrake will know what it is and configure it for you, although you can specify quality settings at various levels of detail and expertise (in printerdrake in mcc) if you wish. Mine cost about $100. Its quality is pretty impressive. I scanned (on an Epson scanner!) and printed one of my niece's wedding photos, and it was practically indistinguishable from the real thing. HTH, Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Palm USB sync
Fellow Mandrakers, I'm trying to sync my Palm (not Visor, not Zaire) device using a USB cradle and encountering difficulty. I had been successful in sync-ing with the serial port, but that was very, very slow (20 minutes including Avantgo). I've scoured the net using keywords such as USB Linux Mandrake Palm Sync and various permutations there-of, but without much success. I'm concerned that I may have deleted the USB driver or somesuch. Here's what happens when I follow one instruction I found (creating a symbolic link): [EMAIL PROTECTED] random]# ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot [EMAIL PROTECTED] random]# chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB1 chmod: failed to get attributes of `/dev/ttyUSB1': Too many levels of symbolic links *Here's what a listing shows (all the data after the date is white flashing letters on a red background -- alarming): [EMAIL PROTECTED] random]# ll /dev/pilot lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 12 Sep 18 03:48 /dev/pilot - /dev/ttyUSB1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] random]# ll /dev/ttyUSB1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Sep 17 19:32 /dev/ttyUSB1 - /dev/pilot *Here's what dmesg reports (snipped): Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xf460, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usbdevfs: remount parameter error EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal *[at end of dmesg, after having tried the above linking, chmod:] Splash status on console 0 changed to off hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xc88/0x21) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:07.2-2 address 2 Can anyone direct me to a working solution? Thanks, Max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh question
wild guess - is the clinet trying to do a password login but the other one doing key exchange? bascule On Friday 19 Sep 2003 12:15 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello there, I hope someone can help me with this. I'm having a hard time connecting to a friend's Mandrake box via ssh. I'm getting an error ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. Firewall is not in the way. sshd is running. It's not a routing problem. What else can I check? -- ...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring... -- Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 10:59 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 05:44 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on your system and leaving the printer-filters package installed, you should then be able to print to your printer but not scan from it. Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you will be able to both scan and print. For anyone else with an HP printer, the current latest version of hpijs which is HP's print driver is available from their site 1.4.1 and I just downloaded it, applied a patch to improve the quality of black printing when printing in color and compiled it and it worked like a champ without any extra effort. The quality is markedly better with the patch because it uses only the black ink cartridge to print in black instead of mixing from the color ink cartridge. If anyone wants links or details, just drop me a line. I might also consider building an RPM for those of you who want it with the patch installed. That does sound a worthwhile improvement. The quality of composite black has always been a bugbear. I'd really like to try this. If it's worth your while building the rpm I'll wait for it, but if not enough people are interested, would you please send me links/instructions so that I can do it myself? Thanks Well, I used checkinstall to build the RPM when I compiled it myself. So, I have the package, it should install on any Mandrake 9.1 system without any problems since all the packages are compiled into the RPM. However, I did not sign the package with a GPG key, you would have to get mine from me anyway. I will put the RPM on my ftp server and send you a userid and password in private email, if anyone else wants it, they will have to contact me and let me know so I can give them an id as well. Just to be sure, I will put an md5 sum for the package along with the RPM, you can download both and then check it yourself. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm USB sync
the white on red means that the targets of the links don't exist, in the past i bought a serial cradle for my palm because at the time there was some pronlem where sinply plugging in the cradle didn't create the device files but that only happened when you pressed the hot sync button with the pam in but when you did that the hotsync fialed because util then it couldn't 'see' the cradle, how this works now i don't know cos i just put up with the slow serial link bascule On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Here's what a listing shows (all the data after the date is white flashing letters on a red background -- alarming): [EMAIL PROTECTED] random]# ll /dev/pilot lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 12 Sep 18 03:48 /dev/pilot - /dev/ttyUSB1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] random]# ll /dev/ttyUSB1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Sep 17 19:32 /dev/ttyUSB1 - /dev/pilot -- `If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.' -- Zaphod. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh question
On Thursday 18 September 2003 07:15 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello there, I hope someone can help me with this. I'm having a hard time connecting to a friend's Mandrake box via ssh. I'm getting an error ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. Firewall is not in the way. sshd is running. It's not a routing problem. What else can I check? Check the hosts.deny file to see if he is denying all hosts. If so, he will have to explicitly allow your IP to connect. If he installed Mandrake on the Secure setting, msec will keep overwriting the hosts.deny file with one that denies all. With that setting you must explicitly allow the traffic that you want to hit the machine. If you have a dynamic IP, that will definitely be a problem. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm USB sync
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:08:03 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm trying to sync my Palm (not Visor, not Zaire) device using a USB cradle and encountering difficulty. I had been successful in sync-ing with the serial port, but that was very, very slow (20 minutes including Avantgo). I've scoured the net using keywords such as USB Linux Mandrake Palm Sync and various permutations there-of, but without much success. I'm concerned that I may have deleted the USB driver or somesuch. this is what got me going, it shouldn't matter whether whether it's a Palm or Visor, they are all supported by the same module/driver. http://www.linuxpda.com/visor/howto/current/introduction.html there's a section on how to load the driver modules if yours are either deleted (how the heck would you do that?) or not present. BTW, what version of MDK are you running? -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Palm USB sync
HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 09/18/2003 05:29:34 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [newbie] Palm USB sync On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:08:03 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm trying to sync my Palm (not Visor, not Zaire) device using a USB cradle and encountering difficulty. I had been successful in sync-ing with the serial port, but that was very, very slow (20 minutes including Avantgo). I've scoured the net using keywords such as USB Linux Mandrake Palm Sync and various permutations there-of, but without much success. I'm concerned that I may have deleted the USB driver or somesuch. this is what got me going, it shouldn't matter whether whether it's a Palm or Visor, they are all supported by the same module/driver. http://www.linuxpda.com/visor/howto/current/introduction.html there's a section on how to load the driver modules if yours are either deleted (how the heck would you do that?) or not present. BTW, what version of MDK are you running? =-=-= Mandrake 9.1 w/KDE (I know you don't like that), thanks for the link, I'll try it when I get home -- it's what I've been looking for! I'd not realized that Visor and Palm used the same module. Thanks, Max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh question
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello there, I hope someone can help me with this. I'm having a hard time connecting to a friend's Mandrake box via ssh. I'm getting an error ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. Firewall is not in the way. sshd is running. It's not a routing problem. What else can I check? Make sure that there is an appropriate entry in /etc/hosts.allow, something like the following line: sshd:ALL Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB mass-storage: HELP!
--- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried Gphoto? Yes. And, still cannot download to my computer. I confuse about mounting this camera to my computer, because my camera detected as mass-storage. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB mass-storage: HELP!
--- HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Iwan Binanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm confuse. Somebody, please help me. Someone might, if you post a new thread. Do *not* hijack existing threads. Thank you. I'm sorry if I have a mistake. But I'm not a terrorist I just a newbie who know nothing. I don't understand what you mean about hijack. Best regards. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB mass-storage: HELP!
On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:44 pm, Iwan Binanto wrote: --- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried Gphoto? Yes. And, still cannot download to my computer. I confuse about mounting this camera to my computer, because my camera detected as mass-storage. You need to mount the camera as a drive and then simply copy the files over. Once you plug the camera in, you should get a new dev called /dev/sda. You can mount that to /mnt/camera by issuing the command directly, or creating an fstab entry and then once you mount the drive you can simply open it with Konqueror. At least, that is how my Kodak works. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 09:24 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 09:38, Heather/Femme wrote: ...do I need to configure it somehow ? Yes. stephen kuhn - owner Hey Stephen - just wondering - does your ISP charge you by the word grin Based on the size of Mr. Kuhn's signatures, no. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 08:50 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:38 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: my linux clock is off by several hours (usually 4-6) everytime I reboot. bios clocks right new comp. got ntpd running automatically...do I need to configure it somehow ? what gives? If you changed the locale or timezone using the KDE menu rather than MCC, your time will continue to be switched incorrectly. The timezone on the clock on the menu panel should be set to local timezone, the real timezone should be set using the MCC set time and date icon under System. Much easier than relocating, too. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] formatting a floppy
This seems like it should be so simple, but it just won't work. Using 'Gnome Floppy' and 'Floppy Formater' completely hangs my system, so I've been trying to format a linux floppy so I can save some files. I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages. I can umount /mnt/floppy then mount /mnt/floppy without a problem. Yet when I try to copy anything to the floppy, using cp testfile.txt /mnt/floppy, I get the error message: cp: cannot stat '/mnt/floppy/testfile.txt': Input/Output error What does 'cannot stat' mean? What am I doing wrong? -- cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 14:44, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 02:33 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:53, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 12:35 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 08:46, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 07:31 am, Aron Smith wrote: The PSC series can be used under linux but not by a newbie like me.. as I said it makes a great cheap copier. Depends on the model. I have a HP PSC950 and it worked out of the box with Mandrake version 9 and 9.1, with no changes whatsoever. Granted, I can't control the fax portion from Linux, but printing, scanning, and accessing smart media cards from the printer all work without any problems or configuration changes in Mandrake. I have heard other people talk about having problems but in most cases, those are related to homegrown or less friendly Linux distributions or other issues like USB support, etc. The PSC 1250 uses somthing called the HP lightweight printer langage and is supposed to work thru CUPS but I have had no luck. I have been told that what I need is the CVS version of HPIJS, but,hell I'm a dummie How do I get it? meanwhile the Samsung ML-4500 laser printer works just fine.(only BW tho. I am definitely not trying to be a smart ass here, HP does not list a PSC 1250 on their site. They do list a 1205 and a 2105, but not a 1250. Can I ask you to confirm what model printer you have? PSC 1210 bought it at sears $99.00 Well, you are right in that the printer that you have is not currently well supported under Linux. This has nothing to do with Mandrake in particular, but hardware support for Linux in general. HP only just started releasing software drivers for this particular hardware architecture in 11/2002, it takes a while for the Linux community to catch up to new releases. The short story seems to be that you can print with existing drivers (hpijs) but not scan, or you can scan with existing drivers (hpoj) but not print, or you can download and compile the latest bleeding edge version of hpoj (1.3), in which case you can do both. In order to get this version, you need to pull from the CVS repository which is where the developers store the current source code as they are working on it. The version you need for both printing and scanning is simply too new to be readily available, it is not considered stable yet and that means that there are no binaries, certainly none supported by Mandrake. HP itself usually only releases drivers covering printing which is supported by the current versions of drivers available under Mandrake Linux. The open source community has been building drivers to support scanning itself, but this does tend to lag a bit behind the latest hardware releases. I could start the process of explaining how to do this stuff but I would expect major problems in getting the code compiled since there is no way to control for dependencies and no real way of knowing what tools and packages are required. It is likely that you would have to compile and upgrade other packages that the code would be dependent upon and the only way to find out would be to pour through comments and notations from the developers. For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on your system and leaving the printer-filters package installed, you should then be able to print to your printer but not scan from it. Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you will be able to both scan and print. Thanks I'll remove HPOJ tonite and try again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB mass-storage: HELP!
Iwan Binanto wrote: --- HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Iwan Binanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm confuse. Somebody, please help me. Someone might, if you post a new thread. Do *not* hijack existing threads. Thank you. I'm sorry if I have a mistake. But I'm not a terrorist I just a newbie who know nothing. I don't understand what you mean about hijack. iwanthere was an existing thread called 'KSCD problem'. instead of starting a new thread for your question (by creating a new message) you instead, replied to a message in the thread 'KSCD problem' and changed the subject name to 'USB mass-storage: HELP!', thus hijacking it. Best regards. -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 10:59 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 05:44 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on your system and leaving the printer-filters package installed, you should then be able to print to your printer but not scan from it. Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you will be able to both scan and print. For anyone else with an HP printer, the current latest version of hpijs which is HP's print driver is available from their site 1.4.1 and I just downloaded it, applied a patch to improve the quality of black printing when printing in color and compiled it and it worked like a champ without any extra effort. The quality is markedly better with the patch because it uses only the black ink cartridge to print in black instead of mixing from the color ink cartridge. If anyone wants links or details, just drop me a line. I might also consider building an RPM for those of you who want it with the patch installed. That does sound a worthwhile improvement. The quality of composite black has always been a bugbear. I'd really like to try this. If it's worth your while building the rpm I'll wait for it, but if not enough people are interested, would you please send me links/instructions so that I can do it myself? Thanks Anne I'm definitely interested] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 11:12, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 09:24 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 09:38, Heather/Femme wrote: ...do I need to configure it somehow ? Yes. stephen kuhn - owner Hey Stephen - just wondering - does your ISP charge you by the word grin Based on the size of Mr. Kuhn's signatures, no. -- cmg See, I have an agreement with the ISP; they have a script that validates my outbound email - so within the script, they're able to determine which part is the signature - which they discount - SO, I only get charged for each letter ABOVE the signature and not BELOW the signature - so in essence, they'd give me free email if everything I did was actually BELOW the signature, but we all know that list-nazis like HoeJill/Waymirehac and Pommie Anne will jump all over my whitebread ass for doing something like that... But I do, at times, like to have an ecomonical retort. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Idaho state law makes it illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:12, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 09:24 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 09:38, Heather/Femme wrote: ...do I need to configure it somehow ? Yes. stephen kuhn - owner Hey Stephen - just wondering - does your ISP charge you by the word grin Based on the size of Mr. Kuhn's signatures, no. -- cmgIf sigs were trucks this would be Stephens http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Oceania/photo10969.htm :-))) __ 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] USB mass-storage: HELP!
On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:50 pm, Iwan Binanto wrote: --- HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Iwan Binanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm confuse. Somebody, please help me. Someone might, if you post a new thread. Do *not* hijack existing threads. Thank you. I'm sorry if I have a mistake. But I'm not a terrorist I just a newbie who know nothing. I don't understand what you mean about hijack. Best regards. Iwan: You hijack a thread when you create a posting on a new subject by responding to an existing thread, hitting reply-to, erasing the subject line, and then sending a new message that is not related to the original message. It really messes up those of us who sort incoming messages by thread. Just create a new message with a new subject line, and you won't get any more uglygrams from Haywire. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bibletime (revisited)
It's silly to me, but you have to add the following to .bashrc: export SWORD_PATH=/usr/share/sword Miark On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:30:20 -0400, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd have a go at this - urpmi'ed it, went fine. Ran it first time - got an error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ bibletime SWMgr: Can't find 'mods.conf' or 'mods.d'. Try setting: SWORD_PATH=directory containing mods.conf Or see the README file for a full description of setup options (configPath is null) So...I figured out I needed to d/l a module to use. I d/l'ed the King James version, unzipped it, copied it into /usr/share/apps/bibletime but I still get the same message. So...I added SWORD_PATH=/usr/share/apps/bibletime to /usr/share/apps/bibletime/bibletimeui.rc Still same thing. Can anyone who got it to work help? Thx! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bibletime (revisited)
On Thursday 18 September 2003 12:45 am, s wrote: I unzipped mine to ~/.sword. -s Thanks, that did it. Where did you find that info at? I looked thru the readme 'n stuff... Or was it on the Sword website? (I never looked there - went to the bibletime site) Thanks again! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off
On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey Stephen - just wondering - does your ISP charge you by the word Yes. Thought so! :-) Ya mate - friend of mine, Doug Jones, knows them well - won't go into the gory details of that, but yeah - would love to hear that stuff, mate...kinda miss going down to Whitesburg to assist with the radidio station - used to hang out with some late nighters and do some sillies on the air...also used to do a computer talk on my friend Dan Martin's show back in like '92 through '94 - was rather strange, fun, and well, strange...DID have some callers that actually DID ask questions... Okay - you do have broadband, right? ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 10:45, Aron Smith wrote: -- cmgIf sigs were trucks this would be Stephens http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Oceania/photo10969.htm :-))) Yeah - that'd be me, mate...can't do things small - not in The Big Country here...tain't nuthin small about anything here... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- You work very hard. Don't try to think as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bibletime (revisited)
On Thursday 18 September 2003 11:20 pm, Miark wrote: It's silly to me, but you have to add the following to .bashrc: export SWORD_PATH=/usr/share/sword Miark Hi Miark! Well, I didn't have to do that. Creating a .sword directory in /home and copying mod.d and mod.conf there worked just fine. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
