Re: [newbie-it] boot da partizione HD, cerco how-to
Alle 00:46, mercoledì 5 novembre 2003, alfredo ha scritto: Salve, posto un computer senza CD-rom ma con un HD con due partizioni, una fat32 ed una ext2, voglio trasportare per intero il cd di installazione di una distribuzione nella fat32, con un CD-ROM esterno, e poi fare un floppy di boot da cui far partire l'installazione del sistema operativo sulla partiz ext2. non fai prima ad installare dal CD-ROM esterno ? Qualcuno sa dirmi come trovare un How to per fare ciò? In genere è spiegato nei file INSTALL e README che trovi nel primo CD di ogni distro. Per la Mandrake tieni conto che le traduzioni italiane non sono aggiornate. Quindi guarda i testi inglesi La procedura è sempre la stessa o varia da distro a distro? fondamentalmente si. probabilmente, cambierà però il nome dell'immagine da caricare sul floppy e qualche altro particolare. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] UID e GID - Risolto!
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 18:36, Fabio wrote: Sperando di ave capito il problema: se fai il login da un client come root, non riesci ad accedere al server co ni privilegi di root Questo è normale per le directory esportate con nfs. Infatti nel file /etc/exports , nelle varie directory esportate, dovrebbe esserci l'opzione root_squash ovvero trasforma l'uid e gid nello user anonimo. E' un buon sistema di difesa per non permetere al root locale di avere privilegi di root sulla macchina server (pensa se uno si aggancia alla tua rete con il proprio computer e conosce quindi la propria password di root..) In realta' quello che voglio io e' proprio che anche root si possa loggare (il fs che devo montare e' piuttosto minimale, e necessita di talmente tanti aggiustamenti che per il momento per forza devo potermi loggare come root). Infatti in /etc/exports avevo messo tra le opzioni no_root_squash. Controllando il suddetto file ho pero' notato che la directory era esportata ad everyone: /typen (no_root_squash,rw) Nel dubbio, l'ho esportata alla macchina client: /typen 10.40.41.100(no_root_squash,rw) e magicamente gli utenti (root e un utente chiara che avevo creato durante i vari tentativi) hanno ricominciato a funzionare come si deve! =) Grazie mille per l'aiuto! Ora posso finalmente passare al problema successivo... =) Chiara -- Darei la vita per essere morto... (Della Morte Dell'Amore)
[newbie-it] problema root nfs
Ciao! Ho un problema con il netboot della root. Il mio file fstab facente parte del filesystem nfs e' il seguente: # Begin /etc/fstab # filesystemmount fs-type options dump fsck-order 10.40.41.66:/typen / nfs defaults0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy autonoauto,sync 0 0 # End /etc/fstab Proc viene montato regolarmente, ma quando init passa a montare gli altry filesystem mi viene visualizzato questo errore: Mounting remaining file system... nfs warning: mount version newer than kernel NFS: mount program didn't pass remote address! mount: Mounting 10.40.41.66:/typen on / failed: invalid argument 10.40.41.66 e' il server, e il mount che uso e' quello di busybox. Il server nfs e' quello incluso nel cd della Suse8.1, della quale non ho ricompilato il kernel. Il kernel che viene usato dal client e' invece il kernel 2.6-test6 (ho dovuto usare questo perche' avevo bisogno del supporto integrato nel kernel per la mia scheda di rete pxe). Qualche suggerimento su quale potrebbe essere il problema? Grazie in anticipo! Chiara -- Darei la vita per essere morto... (Della Morte Dell'Amore)
[newbie-it] Router DLINK dsl500
Ciao,qualcuno di voi lo usa gia'?Dalle recensioni che ho visto è buono e dato che me lo hanno proposto a un prezzo niente male...e ci stavo pensando.. p.s Ho una serie periferiche da vendere..se qualcuno è interessato zona Milano mail in pvt Fulvio
Re: [newbie-it] Quanta: era Problemi con dcgui
Alle 22:42, martedì 4 novembre 2003, Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: Perdona la supponenza, ma posso assicurarti che con quanta + kwrite si può fare davvero tutto quello che si vuole in fatto di pagine web, a meno che non si vogliano usare le tabelle per incasellare testo e immagini. Si tratta di abituarsi a uno strumento un po' spartano ma estremamente flessibile. Non metto in dubbio, Giorgio, che lo strumento sia estremamemnte flessibile. Ma converrai con me che quando hai da scrivere righe e righe di codice, inserire immagini, tabelle, e quant'altro, è molto più versatile e veloce farlo con un editor wysiwyg che non con uno testuale. -- // ( o o ) --ooO-(_)-Ooo-- Nevermind, un newbie di Linux con tanta voglia di imparare!
[newbie-it] x session su netboot
Ciao a tutti! Ho (ovviamente) un altro problema con il linux netboot: non riesco a far partire x. Riesco a fare correttamente il boot in runlevel 3, ma quando provo a lanciare startx lo schermo diventa completamente nero e resta li' in eterno, o per lo meno fino a che non schiaccio ctrl-alt-del e ctrl-alt-backspace svariate volte, al che ritorna sulla prima console, ma non posso piu' fare niente, posso solo riavviare brutalmente il computer. L'ultima schermata e' la seguente: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ startx Using authority file /root/.Xauthority Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-24.8.0smp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 06 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.SFree86.org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Nov 5 16:57:40 2003 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Il file /root/.xinitrc contiene: xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 xclock -geometry 60x60-1+1 exec /usr/X11R6/bin/twm Allego anche il file di log. Il file XF86config e' lo stesso della macchina server, visto che le due macchine sono identiche (hanno anche lo stesso monitor). Potrebbe essere che in realta' non sono proprio identiche e quindi x non funziona? Oppure potrebbe essere la configurazione di mouse e tastiera (che sono diverse tra server e client)? Oppure sto sbagliando tutto e non e' cosi' che si puo' far partire una sessione x su un linux netboot con root filesystem nfs? Magari devo configurare un qualche server grafico sul server stesso? Ho provato a cercare un po' in internet, ma continuo a non trovare niente... Grazie mille a tutti! Chiara -- Darei la vita per essere morto... (Della Morte Dell'Amore) XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-24.8.0smp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 06 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Nov 5 18:01:28 2003 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config (==) ServerLayout Layout[all] (**) |--Screen Screen[0] (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor[0] (**) | |--Device Device[0] (**) |--Input Device Keyboard[0] (**) Option Protocol Standard (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc101 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |--Input Device Mouse[1] (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1 does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi does not exist.
Re:[newbie-it] x session su netboot
Nel dubbio che il mio problema risieda nel file XF86Config, ho rinominato il suddetto file ed ho provato a far testare a xfree il mio hw: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ XFree86 -probeonly XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-24.8.0smp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 06 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Nov 5 18:57:46 2003 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Che significa no screens found? Che non riesce a riconoscere il monitor? Quindi il fatto che mi da' schermo nero quando lancio startx e' dovuto a questo? Ma perche', se il file di configurazione e' quello del server, che ha lo stesso monitor? Sigh, aiutatemi per favore... Bye, Chiara
Re:[newbie-it] Sempre Open Office
Utilizzando il foglio di calcolo di Open Office 1.1 ... Dato che la tabella creata è abbastanza lunga come posso fare per tenere la 1 riga, ovvero l'intestazione, fissa, in modo tale che quando scorro i dati con la scrollbar ho sempre l'intestazione della tabella di riferimento bloccata in alto, altrimenti mi perdo... Grazie ciao ciao Davide Dalla Guida OOo: «Fissa righe o colonne come intestazione Se avete righe o colonne di dati piuttosto lunghe, che si estendono oltre l'area visualizzabile del foglio elettronico, potete fissarle in modo che siano sempre visibili mentre scorrete la parte restante dei dati. 1.Selezionate la riga sottostante o la colonna a destra della riga o della colonna da includere nella regione fissa. Tutte le righe soprastanti o tutte le colonne a sinistra della selezione rimarranno fisse. Per fissare le righe e colonne sia orizzontalmente che verticalmente, selezionate la cella sotto la riga e a destra della colonna che volete rendere fissa. 2.Attivate il comando Finestra - Fissa. Per disattivare, scegliete nuovamente Finestra - Fissa.» Ciao. Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] moz
Il Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:18:19 + Arwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: E adesso direte che sono veramente un disastro. Non riesco a installare Mozilla 1.4: ho la 1.0 su, ho recuperato un tar.gz; lo scompatto, leggo le istruzioni e c'e' scritto solo di lanciare ./mozilla, dopo essersi posizionati nell'apposita cartella. Cosi' il moz 1.4 parte, ma se lancio normalmente mozilla mi va la vecchia 1.0. Ho pensato dunque che sarebbe bastato cercare una cartella con tutti i file del moz per sostituirli, ma non e' cosi', perche' sono sparpagliati in piu' directory... che cacchio devo fare? non so cosa intendi per normalmente, ma creando un link al nuovo mozzillo sul desktop o sulla barra ottieni lo scopo desiderato Arwan --- ciao beo
[newbie-it] Re: [Milug] stampante di rete
On 05.11.2003 15:08, Marco D'Amico wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho installato da poco Red Hat 9 sul mio portatile, salutando definitivamente XP. Confesso di essere un neofita di Linux... ma un passo alla volta... ;-) Ho un piccolo problema, ho una stampante di rete che vorrei utilizzare ma non so come configurarla. La stampante è una Samsung e il Print Server è della Netgear. Qualcuno è così gentile da darmi una dritta, per favore?! Ciao e grazie!!! Ciao Marco, allora per installare una nuova stampante basta andare sul menù K in basso a sx, l'equivalente a Avvio per WindozZz poi scegli Impostazioni di sistema ed infine Printing ! A questo punto se non sei root ti verrà chiesta la password, digitala e poi configura tutte le stampanti che vuoi! Però se è in rete... mi sa che hai bisogno anche di Samba. Samba ti permette di condividere file e cartelle con macchine Windows. Tu prova poi fammi sapere.. Ciao ciao Davide PS: Se devi configurare Samba c'è online, sul sito della RedHat un bel howto!
Re: [newbie-it] Sanner LG Studioworks 600U
Alle 00:01, martedì 4 novembre 2003, Corrado ha scritto: [cut] Prova con il comando sane-find-scanner ecco il risultato : # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x0461, product=0x0346) at /dev/usb/scanner0 # Your USB scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't be # detected by this program. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. Se il mio pessimo inglese non mi tradisce, mi sembra che riconosca uno scanner, ma dice anche che non e' supportato??? Cosa mi consiglite di fare Oltre che non prendere piu' uno scanner LG?? -- Se le bombe che lanciano gli americani sono tanto intelligenti però colpiscono i mercati... vuoi vedere che sono cretini quelli che le lanciano! \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://utenti.lycos.it/santarellawebmaster/index.html Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Creare un server
Alle 22:07, lunedì 3 novembre 2003, miKe ha scritto: ti servono un dominio registrato (quindi un dns che risolva il tuo nome) e una macchina sulla quale far girare apache , una macchina non dico blindata ma quantomeno configurata in modo decente per resistere ai probabili problemi che si possono trovare su internet; infine una _bella_ linea, direi un bell'hosting e risolvi.. Ok, messaggio ricevuto, ma giusto per curiosita' (e perche' sono una testa dura), dove posso trovare un po' di documentazione? -- Se le bombe che lanciano gli americani sono tanto intelligenti però colpiscono i mercati... vuoi vedere che sono cretini quelli che le lanciano! \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://utenti.lycos.it/santarellawebmaster/index.html Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] boot da partizione HD, cerco how-to
Grazie, scusami, mi sono spiegato male, il problema non mi si pone con mdk, che ha proprio l'iso del cd-rom esterno, mi sono incasinato quando ho tentato di installare su un veccho portatile: Debian/Libranet, il cui manuale di istruzioni sulla installazione da HD è criptico (almeno per me) per questo mi chiedevo dove posso imparare le procedure standard al fine di trovare una via (una cosa tipo: procedura spiegata passo passo). Ciao Alf Andrea Celli wrote: Alle 00:46, mercoledì 5 novembre 2003, alfredo ha scritto: Salve, posto un computer senza CD-rom ma con un HD con due partizioni, una fat32 ed una ext2, voglio trasportare per intero il cd di installazione di una distribuzione nella fat32, con un CD-ROM esterno, e poi fare un floppy di boot da cui far partire l'installazione del sistema operativo sulla partiz ext2. non fai prima ad installare dal CD-ROM esterno ? Qualcuno sa dirmi come trovare un How to per fare ciò? In genere è spiegato nei file INSTALL e README che trovi nel primo CD di ogni distro. Per la Mandrake tieni conto che le traduzioni italiane non sono aggiornate. Quindi guarda i testi inglesi La procedura è sempre la stessa o varia da distro a distro? fondamentalmente si. probabilmente, cambierà però il nome dell'immagine da caricare sul floppy e qualche altro particolare. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] Consiglio
Cioa, vorrei un consiglio su politiche di backup! Ho un fileserver samba su linux al quale acedono più di 100 macchine, in contenporaneo ho attivato un altra macchina speculare al fileserver ma con nome diverso (logico). Faccio la copia di tutte le aree samba nella macchina slave, in questo modo. Monto le aree sullo slave e poi con uno script lanciato da cron le copio in locale con lo stesso percorso della macchina master in modo da avere una situazione completamente uguale nel caso di rottura del master. La domanda è la seguente, esiste un modo migliore per ottenere lostesso risultoto? Via ftp è meglio o rsync? Datemi un consiglio. Grazie ciao
Re: [newbie-it] nmap (BO????)
Alle 22:04, lunedì 3 novembre 2003, miKe ha scritto: il loopback... 127.0.0.1/255.0.0.0 Ovvero? bye miKe ^ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.22--jl12 @ ASUS S1N 1330c R.U.219755 - S.R.U.705 - R.M.110932 - MajaGLUG Member -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/psLNF/9fksDJ4y0RAhSDAKCXm0kARZZh0ZNOobeMyasLWQMgrQCgpTqR kLMXAeLOt0QRxuplkzPwfSQ= =PEr1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Se le bombe che lanciano gli americani sono tanto intelligenti però colpiscono i mercati... vuoi vedere che sono cretini quelli che le lanciano! \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://utenti.lycos.it/santarellawebmaster/index.html Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Sanner LG Studioworks 600U
Il mer, 2003-11-05 alle 18:34, Santarella Benedetto ha scritto: found USB scanner (vendor=0x0461, product=0x0346) at /dev/usb/scanner0 # Your USB scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. Se il mio pessimo inglese non mi tradisce, mi sembra che riconosca uno scanner, ma dice anche che non e' supportato??? Ti dice che ha rilevato uno scanner, che potrebbe o non potrebbe essere supportato da sane e ti consiglia di lanciare scanimage con l'opzione -L. Una cosa forse un po' scontata, ma che non ho chiesto: hai provato a configurarlo tramite scannerdrake? Lanciato come root, naturalmente. Poi comunque dovresti provare a controllare il file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf e verificare che il backend del tuo scanner (il suo nome dovresti trovarlo sul sito di Sane) sia presente e non abbia il # davanti (nel qual caso dovresti toglierlo e poi salvare il file). -- Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] moz
E' inutile che tu faccia finta di nulla e ti guardi intorno, caro beo, perche' ho le prove, il mercoledì 05 novembre 2003, alle 17:33 hai scritto: non so cosa intendi per normalmente, ma creando un link al nuovo mozzillo sul desktop o sulla barra ottieni lo scopo desiderato Da qualche parte mi sembrava d'aver risposto... cmq, il fatto che Moz avesse sparpagliato i suoi file, durante la prima installazione, in diverse cartelle, mi aveva fatto sospettare che ci fosse bisogno di piu' di un semplice link. Btw disinstallato il vecchio Moz e ho messo su il firebird che mi hai passato ;-) Arwan -- There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.
Re: [newbie] Audio streams
Yes, seems you are right. It was something I did not know, sound can be played from the IDE directly to the soundcard: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue80/tag/4.html Seems there is also something to do with scsi emulation, but that's outside of my limited knowledge. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only exception to your exposition is that you state on your system you have to have an audio cable to make Grip play audio CD, it would seem I don't, I can both rip and play a CD in Grip from the DVD without an audio analogue cable, that is via the IDE cable, but then I do have my DVD scsi-emulated, possibly that is the reason ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
I don't believe you answered the question:- Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 03:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: By means of employing gramofile I have created a set of .wav files from an audio tape. When I come to load the .wav files into Rezound I get an error message, error reading audio data from /tmp/track01.wav -- file missing data -- read 13320192 frames, should be 26460 -- keeping what was read but the rezound blue slider bar gets stuck at 5% seems that resound doesn't like what gramofile has created. Since I haven't yet figured out how to get rezound to create .wav files from audio tape I need to know what I can do with the .wav files gramofile created so that I can manipulate them in rezound. The short bit of .wav that resound has accepted plays badly, very garbled, rough, as though half the audio stream has been clipped away. Is there anything I can do about it , does anyone have the experience to advise me. John John, are you sure that you let Gramofile walk thru all its steps and complete the .wav process? Just a thought... Thanks everyone for your replies, Oh yes, I'm quite sure that gramofile completed OK, and indeed the .wav files play OK in xcdroast, well I have to check what I find, before writing to disc. The main concern here is to remove the burps and clicks at beginning and end which is the tape deck starting and stopping. I know you are ging to say , don't start gramofile before the tape has got going, but believe me the time slots between tracks on many tapes is quite small and it's exacting to time it precisely right each time, and in any case these sound manipulation apps are there to do just such a tidying up opperation, and that and other things is what I want them for. I already have audacity on, but I'm getting all kinds of error spiel in the terminal window, eg. ** (audacity:28211): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 2002 (pango_layout_get_extents): assertion `layout != NULL' failed big snip ) ** (audacity:28211): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 727 (pango_layout_set_text): assertion `layout != NULL' failed ** (audacity:28211): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 2002 (pango_layout_get_extents): assertion `layout != NULL' failed (audacity:28211): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1337 (g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed Although the .wav files do load OK, and play reasonably well too. But cannot figure out just yet how to cut surplus sound track. I tell a lie , just found out how to do that. A few questions, what is, White noise ? Sine Oscillator ? What would be the best way to filter tiny blips out ? I notice audacity creates new files , track01_data 3.3MB track01.aup 21.0 kb but how do these relate to the original track01.wav of 50.8 MB,which appears unchanged. neither -data , nor .aup can actually be the audio files as such, far too small. Seems like they refer to the alterations, but don't actually alter the main .wav file ? Rather more questions than answers but progress nevertheless. I will have to contact the author of rezound. will do so presently. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB V.90 Modem Problem
Rico Zuñiga wrote: Hello, It's a WebExcel USB modem, can't get it to work, though Mandrake seems to have detected it, the driver (USB Modem Ambient Tech...) is listed in the 'other' section of the hardware list. I am very new to linux (and mandrake) and have been trying to correct this for days, I think it's time now to ask for some help from the community. Thanks in advance... USB modems are software modems , if you have a linux driver best to contact the author as he will know how it can be made to work. A better solution is to throw your usb modem away and buy an inexpensive Hardware controlled modem, which has built in control chips , so all you have to do is get your OS to recognise it's existance. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some questions with Mandrake 9. 2 and ASUS A7N8X-deluxe
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 9:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody , I have some questions and any help is appreciated. I have installed Mandrake 9.2 on my Asus A7N8X - Deluxe mainboarded ,athlon 2500 system with ASUS FX 9560 - video suite graphic card. now the questionas are 1) I can not get sound from my SPDIF out. I opened the sound mixer panel , I also got all sound output buttons on. and again no sound. !! How can I get this SPDIF work ?? Are you using the ALSA driver? (It will begin with 'snd-' ) Also take a look at alsamixergui There are a gazillion controls there. One could be for SPDIF. It might also help if you run alaconf. Install the alsa-utils (and newt) RPMs with your Mandrake Software Installer, then type alsaconf in a root terminal. Alsaconf will rewrite your /etc/modules.conf file which defines your drivers, so you must make a backup, and reinsert all the non sound lines by hand afterwards. 2) My graphic cards chipset is Geforce FX 5600 but linux loads by default driver module for Nvidia geforce 4 . I run hardware configuration tool , I choose Geforce FX there and the tool window asks me to restart X server , in order to configuration to work. But I do this re log on X-server and see that There is still the same old driver setting. There are only 2 types of Nvidia driver, the OpenSource 'nv' driver which supports *all* Nvidia products for 2D graphics, but cannot handle 3D graphics, and the closed source 'nvidia' driver which supports 3D graphics for *all* Nvidia products. Because the nvidia driver is closed source Mandrake cannot put it into the fully GPL download edition. However it is in the Powerpack edition, and is available for download from Mandrake Club as an RPM. You can also get it from the Nvidia website. There is an installer script to install it for you. When you download the script you must make it executable first (Right click in konqueror and select 'Properties'), and you must have the 'kernel-source' RPM installed **for the version of kernel you are running**. 3) My Asus graphic card is also a Video in and Video out type. How can I get, that video out works easily. Is there an on the fly tool or script or a small applet or a program that makes this configuration for me. Never used it, but I think 'yanc' is what you are looking for. It is probably on a 'contrib' mirror. Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the instructions to add 'contrib', 'plf', and 'updates' as online software sources. Then you can search with your Software Install GUI and download apps. 4) Is there a Power vcr or Win dvr like program that I can use with my VGA Cards' video input and watch TV on my computer with composite input from my satellite receiver. And Should I install a driver or module like a WDM capture driver on windows ??? Sure, but I have no experience. Someone will point you to the solution. Thanks in advance.. Hertas HTH 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] Fw: Soundcard at ASUS P4S533-X
hello, i´m new at the list and inlinux as well... i installed the mandrake 9.1 on my pc, the motherboard is an ASUS P4S533-X, the mandrake recognize my sound card but it doensn´t work at all. i tried other alsa drivers but i don´t know how to use them. Does anyboy had the same problem and can help me? i´m not a linux user but i´m trying to be, i tried already the red hat 9 and connectiva 9 (a brazilian distribuition), and the mandrake was the only one that recongnized my soundcard... i tried the volume as well... the´re up, but no sound at all... thanks folks. Anisio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:35:05 -0800 E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: (Debian 3rd). are you quite mad?! the only reason Debian isn't wiping the floor with Mandrake is the lack of a dead-simple graphical installer and a central software-management and config tool like MCC. sorry, but apt-get is an absolute killer package-management tool, the only one that beats/matches Mandrake's. And you can install from Unstable (In Debian's own peculiar language) and have all the newest goodies like Mandrake. The only reasons I stick with Mandrake are: I'm part of the community, whether it wants me or not eg and I plan to make it part of my business plan to wipe out the use of Windows in the Greater Toronto Area, later the world EG, and I ain't gonna do that with Debian (yet). -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house. -- Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB V.90 Modem Problem
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 5:10 am, Rico Zuñiga wrote: Hello, It's a WebExcel USB modem, can't get it to work, though Mandrake seems to have detected it, the driver (USB Modem Ambient Tech...) is listed in the 'other' section of the hardware list. I am very new to linux (and mandrake) and have been trying to correct this for days, I think it's time now to ask for some help from the community. Thanks in advance... I do not have a USB modem but Google is my friend. Have you seen this? http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x332.html Essentially it is saying you need to be using the acm driver. You can check if the driver is being automatically loaded with 'lsmod' in a root terminal. If it is not being loaded automatically, then 'modprobe acm' will load it. Then look in /dev/ to see if you have the device /dev/usb/ttyACM0 If not create it, if it is there configure your kppp to use it. HTH 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] SHould I get SuSe
Thanks On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:22:50 +0100, Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:13:17 -0700 Carl Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the ignorance but what is portsystem. I googled, but the few pages I found were in German and seemed to be about FreeBSD. Yes, it is the packagesystem in FreeBSDit downloads, compiles and installs with only one command /Anders -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Qcad
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 1:24 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: In my neverending quest to rid myself of win2k I am embracing Qcad ilo autocad. I can't figure out how to adjust the thickness of a line. All else is an improvement from the cumbersome autocad commands. Lee Could you add a line or two about this on the TWiki, under desktop applications? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DesktopApplications 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] Full Version VMWARE?
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:17:21 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:57 pm, Karl Krauter wrote: Can anyone tell me if the full version of VMWARE is included in the Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack package? I am contemplating buying the 9.2 powerpack package but want to find out more about what comes with the 7 cd's. Any information would be greatly appreciated. I am pretty sure it is a 30 or 45 trial. Same as you can get from VMWare directly. Fully functional though, just timed out. I can't imagine VMWare would let a $300 package go out in a $70 box of a Linux distro.-- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx You can easily purchase VMware on ebay for 125.00 US, download the latest demo from their site, plug in your SN from your purchased package, and VM your heart out. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Qcad
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:46:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 1:24 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: In my neverending quest to rid myself of win2k I am embracing Qcad ilo autocad. I can't figure out how to adjust the thickness of a line. All else is an improvement from the cumbersome autocad commands. Lee Could you add a line or two about this on the TWiki, under desktop applications? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DesktopApplications Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Sure, when I finish my first drawing.No sense wasting the bandwidth while I'm fumbling. Right now I need to figure out how to get a line more than 1 pixel wide. Makes for hard reading. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 4 speakers linux - ATTEN: Anne Wilson
-Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 4 speakers linux On Monday 08 Sep 2003 1:28 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Anarky, I had a hard time with rear sound on my SB Live 5.1 card. It isn't fun. But fortunately I found a fix. Here's what I did to fix it: Start alsaguimixer Mute the SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack item Control the volume of the rear speakers by the Wave Surround Item. I played with it a little - lowered the front and raised the rears. Finally it worked great! Is this new info or of any help? I don't think this is on the TWiki page about sound: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SupportSound If you could add it, I'm sure it would help others. If you need help, the attached is an intro to TWiki editing. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? tp://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Hi Anne, I was cleaning out my newbie list folder when I realized you had hoped I would post this fix to Twiki. Better late than never? =) This is my first post ever to Twiki so if you don't mind, could you look it over to see if it's satisfactory/sufficient? Do I need to add any more info? It's located at the spot you requested. Thanks in advance, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news
Tom Brinkman wrote: snip / So y'all can help, or give up. One or the other, no free rides. Join the Club, but also, tom $ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 got goin yesterday. Install an test it, specially those with ready made marginal hardware (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, any laptop, etc). Subscribe (lurk) on the cooker and change log lists, contribute when you can. When it's done in a few months, you can feel proud that you helped ... or you can resort to being one of those that sings the same old song 'Mandrake hasn't been a good release insert prior release, this one should'a had more work an testing' It's up to y'all. I'd soo love to run cooker on my laptop... (i5150) but I have to settle for 9.2. Reason is that ADSL in Australia really sucks and if I was to sync cooker from 9.2 right now, chances are that by tomorrow I'd have done my months bandwidth allocation... However, I am working on it.. we have a server network over here, WAIX that all the ISP's in the area use and don't change if you download from. (I just got the 9.2 CD's from them.) I am going to see if I can get them to mirror cooker so I and anyone else interested can get our updates for free (bandwidth wise). rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] teething problems with 9.2
I have just upgraded from 9.0 to 9.2 and My computer is now running about as well as when I ran windows :o( Firstly, In lilo if i select linux 9.2 boots ok, but into text mode. The nice pretty GUI has gone and I don't know how to start it again. If I reboot and select old_linux, the computer boots into 9.2 with a working GUI. Is this major reason for concern? If not, how do I re-configure lilo to boot old_linux as the default? Secondly, I cannot use GnomePPP to connect to the internet (does the fact that I operate in KDE have anything to do with it?) GnomePPP dials ok and then says that it's connected, but a few seconds later spits out an error message saying it's unexpectedly quit. When I go through the mandrake control centre and use DrakConnect things work OK (hence this email!). Is there an easier way to launch DrakConnect, or is there a way I can get KPPP back again? Sorry about asking so many questions, I hope somebody can help. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] teething problems with 9.2
When you are in command line/text mode, does the GUI start if you type startx? LeRoy I have just upgraded from 9.0 to 9.2 and My computer is now running about as well as when I ran windows :o( Firstly, In lilo if i select linux 9.2 boots ok, but into text mode. The nice pretty GUI has gone and I don't know how to start it again. If I reboot and select old_linux, the computer boots into 9.2 with a working GUI. Is this major reason for concern? If not, how do I re-configure lilo to boot old_linux as the default? Secondly, I cannot use GnomePPP to connect to the internet (does the fact that I operate in KDE have anything to do with it?) GnomePPP dials ok and then says that it's connected, but a few seconds later spits out an error message saying it's unexpectedly quit. When I go through the mandrake control centre and use DrakConnect things work OK (hence this email!). Is there an easier way to launch DrakConnect, or is there a way I can get KPPP back again? Sorry about asking so many questions, I hope somebody can help. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks everyone for your replies, Oh yes, I'm quite sure that gramofile completed OK, and indeed the .wav files play OK in xcdroast, well I have to check what I find, before writing to disc. The main concern here is to remove the burps and clicks at beginning and end which is the tape deck starting and stopping. I know you are ging to say , don't start gramofile before the tape has got going, but believe me the time slots between tracks on many tapes is quite small and it's exacting to time it precisely right each time, and in any case these sound manipulation apps are there to do just such a tidying up opperation, and that and other things is what I want them for. You're not letting Gramofile record the whole side then split the tracks? It worked great here, never failed once on about a dozen or so cassettes (all commercial though). -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] teething problems with 9.2
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 09:41 am, Aidan Holmes wrote: I have just upgraded from 9.0 to 9.2 and My computer is now running about as well as when I ran windows :o( Sounds to me like you have an nvidia video card and when you upgraded your kernel, you hosed your nvidia driver install. Does this sound right? If so, you have two options. 1) is to get the nvidia driver rpms from Club Commercial Downloads, or 2) head over to the nvidia website and grab their Linux driver installer. Option 2 requires you to have the kernel-source package installed, as well as some development tools like gcc and autoconf/automake. Don't worry if that sounds scary, there is loads of info on the web on how to do this and there are many on this list that would be willing to help. /g Firstly, In lilo if i select linux 9.2 boots ok, but into text mode. The nice pretty GUI has gone and I don't know how to start it again. If I reboot and select old_linux, the computer boots into 9.2 with a working GUI. Is this major reason for concern? If not, how do I re-configure lilo to boot old_linux as the default? Secondly, I cannot use GnomePPP to connect to the internet (does the fact that I operate in KDE have anything to do with it?) GnomePPP dials ok and then says that it's connected, but a few seconds later spits out an error message saying it's unexpectedly quit. When I go through the mandrake control centre and use DrakConnect things work OK (hence this email!). Is there an easier way to launch DrakConnect, or is there a way I can get KPPP back again? Sorry about asking so many questions, I hope somebody can help. -Aidan -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Smbclient lm9.2
I have been setting up 9.2 and it has been going pretty well but I am having a Samba problem. I can access the linux box from all of my other machines a mix of w98, w2k, and a laptop with XP home. My problem is with accessing some of the other machines from linux. I have lisa running. It will find all the machines. pwpatter (itself) hp (laptop with xp) jp (w2k and my gateway) shop (w99se/lm9.2). I can browse pwpatter,hp, and shop running lm9.2. jp and shop running w98 get a message unknown host from shop I can access jp with lisa. I have checked and rechecked passwords in linux and samba. I can ping by name and number. I have logged in on both machines with the user and password that works on hp. What am I missing?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:38 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong Linux supporter for several years. To the tune that they put about $75Mil into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been acquired by Novell, also a strong Linux support group, an the reason they split from SCO some time back. BUT, SuSE, IBM, and Novell also have current an prior relationships and agreements. IBM is ante'g up $50 million into these Novell/Ximian/SuSE collaboration efforts. SuSE came out smellin like a rose. I believe so did Novell. So I just view it as circlin the wagons in a more concerted effort for OSS/GNU/Linux to take over the Net and enterprise. Fsck M$ et al. The money involved is relatively peanuts anyhow for Novell, not even pocket change for IBM. For an indicator, http://news.netcraft.com/ notice that Apache's (on Un*x) gain, mirrors M$ loss. BTW, IBM involvement is significant to me. They're about 19 on the world's largest companies. For perspective, Microsoft is somewhere in the 170's. BUT... So we're still here, just the 1 or 2% of the desktop users runnin Linux. RedHat wants to go enterprise only. No surprise they always considered regular users as a nuisance (which they are) for a commercial distro. Realistically there's only two major community sponsored choices left, Mandrake an Debian. I ain't goin anywhere, but there's much less than 1 or 2% left. What to do? /snip Well said, Tom. Personally I'm not afraid of IBM taking over Mandrake eventually. The reason is that IBM here in Denmark displays a very positive attitude toward linux. They even offer free courses in linux to developers and sysadmins, provide test-versions of their WebSphere etc., etc And, as long as they respect the GPL, I think they can push linux onto the desktop in a big way here. IBM is by far the biggest provider for the public administration in Denmark and cost-savvy politicians can't ignore Open Source Software any longer - especially with the almost weekly breakdown of their Windows-systems due to worms, Trojans and vira. And I think the HP people look better wearing red hats, whereas the button-down, blue suits at IBM look better wearing top hat tails ;-). Kaj Haulrich. -- *This mail was sent from a 100 % Microsoft free computer* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smbclient lm9.2
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 8:00 am, Pat Patterson wrote: I have been setting up 9.2 and it has been going pretty well but I am having a Samba problem. I can access the linux box from all of my other machines a mix of w98, w2k, and a laptop with XP home. My problem is with accessing some of the other machines from linux. I have lisa running. It will find all the machines. pwpatter (itself) hp (laptop with xp) jp (w2k and my gateway) shop (w99se/lm9.2). I can browse pwpatter,hp, and shop running lm9.2. jp and shop running w98 get a message unknown host from shop I can access jp with lisa. I have checked and rechecked passwords in linux and samba. I can ping by name and number. I have logged in on both machines with the user and password that works on hp. What am I missing?? In your samba config file /etc/samba/smb.conf find the setting wins server set it to yes and restart samba (service smb restart in a root terminal) 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] kde
Hi I am running 9.1. On boot it boots into Gnome which is fine but I want to boot into kde as default. In the log off option I chose to have it go into kde as default, but nothing happened, so it still boots into Gnome. How can I change it so that it boots straight into kde. Thanks Philip (novice) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:29, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. use mousedrake and set mouse to generic wheel mouse __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smbclient lm9.2
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 8:00 am, Pat Patterson wrote: I have been setting up 9.2 and it has been going pretty well but I am having a Samba problem. I can access the linux box from all of my other machines a mix of w98, w2k, and a laptop with XP home. My problem is with accessing some of the other machines from linux. I have lisa running. It will find all the machines. pwpatter (itself) hp (laptop with xp) jp (w2k and my gateway) shop (w99se/lm9.2). I can browse pwpatter,hp, and shop running lm9.2. jp and shop running w98 get a message unknown host from shop I can access jp with lisa. I have checked and rechecked passwords in linux and samba. I can ping by name and number. I have logged in on both machines with the user and password that works on hp. What am I missing?? Sorry in my last post that should be wins support=yes 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] Help: I need my mouse back
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 4:29 pm, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. Log into a text console ( Ctl+Alt+F1 ) as root and enter mousedrake (Ctl +Alt+F7 to get back again) 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] Help: I need my mouse back
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:29, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is urgently requested and will be gratefully received. I spoke to soon try configuration--enter root password --Harddrake click on mouse run config tool (at bottom of right window ) set mouse to Generic wheel mouse in the pop-up window. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Weird sound problem
Hi, I have a weird sound problem. I am running Mandrake 9.1 on a new Dell desktop. My sound card is an original Sound Blaster 16 PCI (that I bought separately). After installing Mandrake, the sound card has been detected (es1371) and the module is loaded (when I check with lsmod)automatically. However, no sound and the volumes are NOT mutted. Here is the weird stuffs. Each time I run draksound, and after choosing the right module, the sound is now working, but after a reboot, no more sound. I have to rerun draksound to have sound. What could be the problem? Thanks, Sébastien Plante _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcommpgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 4 speakers linux - ATTEN: Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 2:17 pm, Tango Echo wrote: I was cleaning out my newbie list folder when I realized you had hoped I would post this fix to Twiki. Better late than never? =) Absolutely. And it looks fine to me. This is my first post ever to Twiki so if you don't mind, could you look it over to see if it's satisfactory/sufficient? Do I need to add any more info? It's located at the spot you requested. It's clear enough as it is. If you think of anything else to add you can do that later - no problem. Thanks for taking the time. 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] kde
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:03 pm, philip wrote: Hi I am running 9.1. On boot it boots into Gnome which is fine but I want to boot into kde as default. In the log off option I chose to have it go into kde as default, but nothing happened, so it still boots into Gnome. How can I change it so that it boots straight into kde. Thanks Philip (novice) There is a /etc/sysconfig/desktop file which specifies this preference. You can also have a ~/.desktop file which overrides the choice for individual users. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Organizing bookmarks
I have accumulated bookmarks in each of 3 browsers (Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon) over time and I'm ready to clean house. I'm looking to either import from one into another or find some way that they can all 3 share a common set of bookmarks. I tend to use Firebird the majority of the time, so I wouldn't mind just consolidating there. I'd appreciate any ideas from someone who's done this. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse for $210 million: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101680.html -- cmg I think this is A Good Thing for Linux. Not so good for Red Hat or Mandrake's enterprise efforts. But, the first thing that crossed my mind (actually Novell - SuSE acquisition has been rumored for a while), is how will this affect the SCO fiasco? Novell has rights to Unix code licensing, and can amend SCO's rights, which are subordinate. Or so Novell claims, and SCO is reluctant to admit. And now, what's next ? - IBM buys Mandrake ? Kaj Haulrich. What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong Linux supporter for several years. To the tune that they put about $75Mil into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been acquired by Novell, also a strong Linux support group, an the reason they split from SCO some time back. BUT, SuSE, IBM, and Novell also have current an prior relationships and agreements. IBM is ante'g up $50 million into these Novell/Ximian/SuSE collaboration efforts. SuSE came out smellin like a rose. I believe so did Novell. So I just view it as circlin the wagons in a more concerted effort for OSS/GNU/Linux to take over the Net and enterprise. Fsck M$ et al. The money involved is relatively peanuts anyhow for Novell, not even pocket change for IBM. For an indicator, http://news.netcraft.com/ notice that Apache's (on Un*x) gain, mirrors M$ loss. BTW, IBM involvement is significant to me. They're about 19 on the world's largest companies. For perspective, Microsoft is somewhere in the 170's. BUT... So we're still here, just the 1 or 2% of the desktop users runnin Linux. RedHat wants to go enterprise only. No surprise they always considered regular users as a nuisance (which they are) for a commercial distro. Realistically there's only two major community sponsored choices left, Mandrake an Debian. I ain't goin anywhere, but there's much less than 1 or 2% left. What to do? So y'all can help, or give up. One or the other, no free rides. Join the Club, but also, tom $ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 got goin yesterday. Install an test it, specially those with ready made marginal hardware (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, any laptop, etc). Subscribe (lurk) on the cooker and change log lists, contribute when you can. When it's done in a few months, you can feel proud that you helped ... or you can resort to being one of those that sings the same old song 'Mandrake hasn't been a good release insert prior release, this one should'a had more work an testing' I've never done any distro testing, since I only have a 4GB hard drive, and it's currently 93% full. However, I should be getting a new box in a few weeks' time, with enough space for a an extra Linux partition, and enough speed to make it worthwhile compiling RPMs (I've only done that once, for LyX, but I can relearn how to do it pretty quickly). I'll be happy to test anything that doesn't blow up my monitor (remembering the good old days when you edited a modeline and said a prayer before typing startx). Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:04, robin wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse for $210 million: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101680.html -- cmg I think this is A Good Thing for Linux. Not so good for Red Hat or Mandrake's enterprise efforts. But, the first thing that crossed my mind (actually Novell - SuSE acquisition has been rumored for a while), is how will this affect the SCO fiasco? Novell has rights to Unix code licensing, and can amend SCO's rights, which are subordinate. Or so Novell claims, and SCO is reluctant to admit. And now, what's next ? - IBM buys Mandrake ? Kaj Haulrich. What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong Linux supporter for several years. To the tune that they put about $75Mil into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been acquired by Novell, also a strong Linux support group, an the reason they split from SCO some time back. BUT, SuSE, IBM, and Novell also have current an prior relationships and agreements. IBM is ante'g up $50 million into these Novell/Ximian/SuSE collaboration efforts. SuSE came out smellin like a rose. I believe so did Novell. So I just view it as circlin the wagons in a more concerted effort for OSS/GNU/Linux to take over the Net and enterprise. Fsck M$ et al. The money involved is relatively peanuts anyhow for Novell, not even pocket change for IBM. For an indicator, http://news.netcraft.com/ notice that Apache's (on Un*x) gain, mirrors M$ loss. BTW, IBM involvement is significant to me. They're about 19 on the world's largest companies. For perspective, Microsoft is somewhere in the 170's. BUT... So we're still here, just the 1 or 2% of the desktop users runnin Linux. RedHat wants to go enterprise only. No surprise they always considered regular users as a nuisance (which they are) for a commercial distro. Realistically there's only two major community sponsored choices left, Mandrake an Debian. I ain't goin anywhere, but there's much less than 1 or 2% left. What to do? So y'all can help, or give up. One or the other, no free rides. Join the Club, but also, tom $ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 got goin yesterday. Install an test it, specially those with ready made marginal hardware (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, any laptop, etc). Subscribe (lurk) on the cooker and change log lists, contribute when you can. When it's done in a few months, you can feel proud that you helped ... or you can resort to being one of those that sings the same old song 'Mandrake hasn't been a good release insert prior release, this one should'a had more work an testing' I've never done any distro testing, since I only have a 4GB hard drive, and it's currently 93% full. However, I should be getting a new box in a few weeks' time, with enough space for a an extra Linux partition, and enough speed to make it worthwhile compiling RPMs (I've only done that once, for LyX, but I can relearn how to do it pretty quickly). I'll be happy to test anything that doesn't blow up my monitor (remembering the good old days when you edited a modeline and said a prayer before typing startx). Sir Robin Thank god I'm to new for that :-)) -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:38 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong Linux supporter for several years. To the tune that they put about $75Mil into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been acquired by Novell, also a strong Linux support group, an the reason they split from SCO some time back. BUT, SuSE, IBM, and Novell also have current an prior relationships and agreements. IBM is ante'g up $50 million into these Novell/Ximian/SuSE collaboration efforts. SuSE came out smellin like a rose. I believe so did Novell. So I just view it as circlin the wagons in a more concerted effort for OSS/GNU/Linux to take over the Net and enterprise. Fsck M$ et al. The money involved is relatively peanuts anyhow for Novell, not even pocket change for IBM. For an indicator, http://news.netcraft.com/ notice that Apache's (on Un*x) gain, mirrors M$ loss. BTW, IBM involvement is significant to me. They're about 19 on the world's largest companies. For perspective, Microsoft is somewhere in the 170's. BUT... So we're still here, just the 1 or 2% of the desktop users runnin Linux. RedHat wants to go enterprise only. No surprise they always considered regular users as a nuisance (which they are) for a commercial distro. Realistically there's only two major community sponsored choices left, Mandrake an Debian. I ain't goin anywhere, but there's much less than 1 or 2% left. What to do? /snip Well said, Tom. Personally I'm not afraid of IBM taking over Mandrake eventually. The reason is that IBM here in Denmark displays a very positive attitude toward linux. They even offer free courses in linux to developers and sysadmins, provide test-versions of their WebSphere etc., etc And, as long as they respect the GPL, I think they can push linux onto the desktop in a big way here. IBM is by far the biggest provider for the public administration in Denmark and cost-savvy politicians can't ignore Open Source Software any longer - especially with the almost weekly breakdown of their Windows-systems due to worms, Trojans and vira. grammarnazi It's viruses, not vira. Vira would be the plural of virum, not virus. Virii is also wrong (it would be the plural of virius). Viri would be possible, though I've never seen it in a dictionary./grammarnazi And I think the HP people look better wearing red hats, whereas the button-down, blue suits at IBM look better wearing top hat tails ;-). I think this will push Linux in two directions, both of which have their advantages. One is small, community distros like Debian. The other is projects supported by hardware companies (or other organisations such as universities and government bodies). We need both ends of the spectrum, I think. Hardware companies like IBM can be trusted to support the GPL simply because they are hardware companies - they make their money by selling actual _things_, and the software is only there to sell the machines. Look at how Star Office only released its source code after it was bought by Sun. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back
Just like what derek said, run 'mousedrake as root to reconfigure your mouse. I run into the similar condition several weeks ago. Wishes, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:13:17 -0700 Carl Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the ignorance but what is portsystem. I googled, but the few pages I found were in German and seemed to be about FreeBSD. Yes, it is the packagesystem in FreeBSDit downloads, compiles and installs with only one command /Anders Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 07:16 pm, robin wrote: snip grammarnazi It's viruses, not vira. Vira would be the plural of virum, not virus. Virii is also wrong (it would be the plural of virius). Viri would be possible, though I've never seen it in a dictionary./grammarnazi /snip Acknowledged, sir Robin. Naturally Latin doesn't have a plural form of virus (the Romans were happy). However, viruses is the anglicized version and thus appropriate here. In Denmark we use vira although I don't know why. Thanks for the correction. Kaj Haulrich. -- *This mail was sent from a 100 % Microsoft free computer* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:14:44 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Ya, if you enjoy a 3 day install process so you get 5 more FPS in Quake... ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 07:17 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Oh, and *wow*, it will automatically dual boot with Windows, MDK has been doing that since, what, 9.0? errr... my first crack at Mandrake was 7.0, and it did the dual boot tango flawlessly. I started with 7.0 too, and it was enough to make me switch from RedHat I only tried it because we had this weird box that wouldn't do a network install of RH or Slack, and I gave up reading the Debian installation manual after around page 250 ;-) Haywire makes a good point when he says it's the kernel and the other packages that are important, more than the distro. the important factors in choosing a distro are ease of installation, distro-specific configuration tools and, most importantly, community support. Mandrake does pretty well in all three areas. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xconfig
Thanks, thank you very much indeed for your information. Oder. - Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] xconfig On Wednesday 05 November 2003 07:58 am, Oder wrote: I can open menuconfig but I can't open xconfig. What do I need ? Thanks in advance, Oder. I have been unable to use xconfig since at least 2.4.21 and all my posts to cooker went ignored. There must be a bug somewhere, but I don't know where to find it. This actually brought me to the benefits of make oldconfig, which process your old config file and only asks you questions about the new options. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 21:49:11 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Haywire makes a good point I made a good point?! Drugs must be wearing off... -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
Drugs must be wearing off... I hate that. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Organizing bookmarks
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:44:51PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have accumulated bookmarks in each of 3 browsers (Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon) over time and I'm ready to clean house. I'm looking to either import from one into another or find some way that they can all 3 share a common set of bookmarks. I tend to use Firebird the majority of the time, so I wouldn't mind just consolidating there. I'd appreciate any ideas from someone who's done this. I use Bookmark4u, a php/sql solution for managing bookmarks online. It'll import bookmarks from IE, Opera, Netscape/Mozilla (so I assume Firebird and Galeon as well), and can export them as well. I no longer use browser bookmark feature, except for Mozilla's keyword search which is really handy, because I'm on several different computers and browsers each day. Bookmark4u manages them nicely. If you'd like to give that a shot, I can set you up with an account--let me know off-list. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:29 pm, Sebastien Plante wrote: Hi, I have a weird sound problem. I am running Mandrake 9.1 on a new Dell desktop. My sound card is an original Sound Blaster 16 PCI (that I bought separately). After installing Mandrake, the sound card has been detected (es1371) and the module is loaded (when I check with lsmod)automatically. However, no sound and the volumes are NOT mutted. Here is the weird stuffs. Each time I run draksound, and after choosing the right module, the sound is now working, but after a reboot, no more sound. I have to rerun draksound to have sound. What could be the problem? If you have both onboard sound on the motherboard and the SB 16, it is possible that Linux is activating both but deferring to using the onboard sound as the active device and thus bypassing the SB16 until you run draksound and select the driver and then it activates the second device. I think that if you have multiple sound devices, you actually end up with multiple /dev/sound/dsp? devices on your system and since /dev/dsp is actually just a symbolic link to a dsp device in the /dev/sound directory, you should be able to pick and choose which one you want to be the primary device simply by changing the link in /dev to point to the right dsp device in /dev/sound. Can you do a ls /dev/sound and tell us what the results are? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:49, robin wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 07:17 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Oh, and *wow*, it will automatically dual boot with Windows, MDK has been doing that since, what, 9.0? errr... my first crack at Mandrake was 7.0, and it did the dual boot tango flawlessly. I started with 7.0 too, and it was enough to make me switch from RedHat I only tried it because we had this weird box that wouldn't do a network install of RH or Slack, and I gave up reading the Debian installation manual after around page 250 ;-) Haywire makes a good point when he says it's the kernel and the other packages that are important, more than the distro. the important factors in choosing a distro are ease of installation, distro-specific configuration tools and, most importantly, community support. Mandrake does pretty well in all three areas. Sir Robin When a friend gave me my first Mandrake distro he described it as Red Hat that works. worked for me. -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Yes its great if you don't mind waiting 5 days for everything to compile (even on a relativly fast machine like my dual 1Ghz wintel box - unless of course you decide to skip having KDE, Mozilla and OO):-Z Ohh and did I mention that you need to keep everything upto date or it all falls over, and you will have to wait/spend a long time for that to be all sorted out, if indeed you don't break it in the process... Trust me I've been there done it and have the scars to prove it! -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 21:00:46 up 1 day, 12:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Yes its great if you don't mind waiting 5 days for everything to compile (even on a relativly fast machine like my dual 1Ghz wintel box - unless of course you decide to skip having KDE, Mozilla and OO):-Z Ohh and did I mention that you need to keep everything upto date or it all falls over, and you will have to wait/spend a long time for that to be all sorted out, if indeed you don't break it in the process... Trust me I've been there done it and have the scars to prove it! I believe you, but *everything* is updated with a single command. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.1 does notproposes to reboot
Dear, I upgrade my 9.0 to 9.1 raised the security level from normal from Higher. I now cannot find anything looking like a reboot entry in the menus... I had to access another console invoke the REBOOT option ! Is that a mistake of mine or is it for a special purpose ... ? I now have to reboot at the end of every session otherwise my wife will not be able to reboot by herself ! Annoying ! \T, -- Thomas SMETS rue J. Wytsmanstraat 62 1050 Brussels Tel. : +32 (0)2 742 05 94 GSM : +32 (0)497 44 68 12 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 does notproposes to reboot
On 11/05/2003 10:11 PM, tsmets wrote: Dear, I upgrade my 9.0 to 9.1 raised the security level from normal from Higher. I now cannot find anything looking like a reboot entry in the menus... Doesn't Ctrl-Alt-Delete still work? It does here (although my security is not 'high') Paul -- The world needs more people like us and fewer like them. http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.4a Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
Correct but if you are doing a runner up then you may change distro every new release because one comes with always the latests nicest, collest tools (for the next two weeks). Suze is greate but there are drawbacks too. While attending a course @IBM, they provided me a Suze 9.0 which was not all that beautifull... Eventhought their KDE 3.x looks REALY nice MDK matches it up or just about ! \T, finalfiler wrote: I know this is a MDK list, but having just read http://www.open-mag.com/1726339824.shtml ... I'm tempted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Thomas SMETS rue J. Wytsmanstraat 62 1050 Brussels Tel. : +32 (0)2 742 05 94 GSM : +32 (0)497 44 68 12
Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem
The onboard sound card is normally off in my BIOS... Here is the ls /dev/sound result: $ ls /dev/sound -l total 0 crw---1 plante audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 plante audio 14, 19 Dec 31 1969 dsp1 crw---1 plante audio 14, 2 Dec 31 1969 midi crw---1 plante audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer Thanks, Sébastien Plante From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:48:43 -0500 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:29 pm, Sebastien Plante wrote: Hi, I have a weird sound problem. I am running Mandrake 9.1 on a new Dell desktop. My sound card is an original Sound Blaster 16 PCI (that I bought separately). After installing Mandrake, the sound card has been detected (es1371) and the module is loaded (when I check with lsmod)automatically. However, no sound and the volumes are NOT mutted. Here is the weird stuffs. Each time I run draksound, and after choosing the right module, the sound is now working, but after a reboot, no more sound. I have to rerun draksound to have sound. What could be the problem? If you have both onboard sound on the motherboard and the SB 16, it is possible that Linux is activating both but deferring to using the onboard sound as the active device and thus bypassing the SB16 until you run draksound and select the driver and then it activates the second device. I think that if you have multiple sound devices, you actually end up with multiple /dev/sound/dsp? devices on your system and since /dev/dsp is actually just a symbolic link to a dsp device in the /dev/sound directory, you should be able to pick and choose which one you want to be the primary device simply by changing the link in /dev to point to the right dsp device in /dev/sound. Can you do a ls /dev/sound and tell us what the results are? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Messenger with backgrounds, emoticons and more. http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/cdp_customize Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: kde
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 03:25 pm, you wrote: thanks Greg for your swift reply, but a little patience is needed with me. I do not have any idea what you are talking about with the etc/sysconfig where is this found and how do i do it... sorry as this says i am a newbie in every respect.I will not give up on linux i think it is brill but al this typing in stuff is over my head. I am happy to help. Within the filesystem, there is a directory called /etc that holds all the configuration info for your machine. Within that, there is a directory called sysconfig that holds config files related to the machine preferences. Within that directory, there is a file called desktop that holds the default desktop preference. You can learn a lot about your system by simply exploring the /etc directory. Are you using autologin? If so, just open Mandrake Control Center and go to drakboot, which is in the boot section. Just change the default desktop and save and you should be good to go. If you are not using autologin, to make KDE the default for your user, just type the following at a command prompt while you are in your home directory: echo DESKTOP=KDE .desktop Step by step to get you through it. 1) exit GNOME or whatever window manager you are in so you are looking at the graphical login prompt. 2) hit the ctrl-alt-F1 key combo to get to a console 3) log in as the user you want to set the default for 4) type 'echo DESKTOP=KDE .desktop' without the quotes 5) logout by typing 'logout' 6) hit alt-F7 to return to the gui, and try to login using the default as the desktop choice. I am copying this back to the newbie list so that others might benefit from reading it now, or from scanning the archives later. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:09 pm, Sebastien Plante wrote: The onboard sound card is normally off in my BIOS... Here is the ls /dev/sound result: $ ls /dev/sound -l total 0 crw---1 plante audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 plante audio 14, 19 Dec 31 1969 dsp1 crw---1 plante audio 14, 2 Dec 31 1969 midi crw---1 plante audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer Okay, so you have a dsp device and also a dsp1 device. Possible that dsp1 is the SB16 and that dsp is the mainboard sound. So, do a ls -l /dev/dsp and if the link is pointing to dsp, then you might want to relink it to dsp1 and then see if you can hear sound. If you can, then we know that is what the problem is and we just have to make sure that harddrake is not overwriting the link to the device each time you are rebooting. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem
Bryan Phinney wrote --- napsal:: On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:09 pm, Sebastien Plante wrote: The onboard sound card is normally off in my BIOS... Here is the ls /dev/sound result: $ ls /dev/sound -l total 0 crw---1 plante audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 plante audio 14, 19 Dec 31 1969 dsp1 crw---1 plante audio 14, 2 Dec 31 1969 midi crw---1 plante audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer Okay, so you have a dsp device and also a dsp1 device. Possible that dsp1 is the SB16 and that dsp is the mainboard sound. So, do a ls -l /dev/dsp and if the link is pointing to dsp, then you might want to relink it to dsp1 and then see if you can hear sound. If you can, then we know that is what the problem is and we just have to make sure that harddrake is not overwriting the link to the device each time you are rebooting. note that cards like for instance SB Live! has two dsp devices (mine for example /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1). -- joe Information from NOD32 This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System for Linux Mail Server. http://www.nod32.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Looking for good digital image manager
I'm looking for something like PixiePlus for categorizing and editing digital photos. PixiePlus is pretty good, but I'm looking at alternatives. I've also tried GQview. So what are the favorites out there? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Writing scripts (small) in MDK
As a former C programmer I was looking for easy, fast and portable solution to develop some SQL/WEB/etc. applications for my own. Tried PERL but personally do not like it (my problem) and moved to PYTHON. I really like and enjoy it. Easy to use, there are good libraries and also, I can run and develop the code on WINDOWS or LINUX without taking care on the op system. What is more important, I was able to develop solutions during few nights which would take few minth in C. This is strictly a personal view, however worst to spend few days with PYTHON. Regards... Bela Johan wrote: Hi, Kindly suggest a script language to use and maybe to difficult to learn. This come to mind - phyton - perl - ??? At this time I use text gedit for * dos batch like files * Thanks Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 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] 9.1 does notproposes to reboot
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 9:11 pm, tsmets wrote: Dear, I upgrade my 9.0 to 9.1 raised the security level from normal from Higher. I now cannot find anything looking like a reboot entry in the menus... I had to access another console invoke the REBOOT option ! Is that a mistake of mine or is it for a special purpose ... ? I now have to reboot at the end of every session otherwise my wife will not be able to reboot by herself ! Annoying ! Anything above normal is targeted at servers, rather than workstations. You should be able to shutdown -r now from a root prompt. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Red Hat Linux is dead
I'm not sure if everybody noted the context of Szulik's comments noted in the Redhat = traitors??? thread. But here it is: Red Hat is dropping its consumer line altogether. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33760.html Red Hat yesterday unveiled its answer to the vexed question of what it should do about its consumer line - dump it. I dunno what to think about this. My first thought is that it's a bad thing for Linux, but a good thing for Mandrakesoft. Hmmm. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem
Here is the result: # ls /dev/dsp -l lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Nov 5 01:20 /dev/dsp - sound/dsp So I have changed the link to dsp1: # ln -s sound/dsp1 /dev/dsp # ls /dev/dsp -l lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Nov 5 07:10 /dev/dsp - sound/dsp1 but still no sound after reboot... I still have to do a draksound to get sound... like I said... weird! Sebastien Plante From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:53:01 -0500 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:09 pm, Sebastien Plante wrote: The onboard sound card is normally off in my BIOS... Here is the ls /dev/sound result: $ ls /dev/sound -l total 0 crw---1 plante audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 plante audio 14, 19 Dec 31 1969 dsp1 crw---1 plante audio 14, 2 Dec 31 1969 midi crw---1 plante audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer Okay, so you have a dsp device and also a dsp1 device. Possible that dsp1 is the SB16 and that dsp is the mainboard sound. So, do a ls -l /dev/dsp and if the link is pointing to dsp, then you might want to relink it to dsp1 and then see if you can hear sound. If you can, then we know that is what the problem is and we just have to make sure that harddrake is not overwriting the link to the device each time you are rebooting. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcommpgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Download Mandrake and make discs
Hello All, I wish to download Mandrake 9.2 and make installation CD's so that I can install it on two of my machines at home and one at work. I noticed on the Mandrakelinux.com homepage that 9.2 is available for download. When I get to the information page I can't seem to find the location of the ISO's. (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#iso ) All I am seeing on any mirror is the contents of the directory. Am I supposed to download all of this and burn it to disk? If so, is there some special way I should go about burning the contents of the directory to make the disk bootable? I would much rather have the ISO's (since that is what I used last time) if they are available. Thanks in advance, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Strange happenings in my PC
Yesterday I have worked (mdk 9.1)and properly shutdown my PC. But in the evening when I started my PC, it was giving errors for filesystems for ext3 and vfat. Totally I couldn't work. I tried upgrade from mdk cd1. That also didn't solve the problem. I saw /var/log/messages. normally file closes with this line during exit localhost exiting on signal 15 and starts with the following line localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart. But in my log I had a few lines as follows in between these lines. acm 0x0003 0x2238 0x1005 0x 0x00 0x00 adiusbadsl (some numbers as above) aiptek audio -- many lines like this kaweth What does this indicates. I have adsl connection. Has somebody sneaked into my machine? if so what ports are to be closed. What ports I need to open. It is only a desktop connected to internet. I do browsing, get ans send mail and use ftp. I don't want to give access to others from outside. May be in local net in future I will connect my laptop. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:04 pm, robin wrote: I'll be happy to test anything that doesn't blow up my monitor (remembering the good old days when you edited a modeline and said a prayer before typing startx). Sir Robin It's not an LG monitor, is it? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake and make discs
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:24 pm, Thinker wrote: Hello All, I wish to download Mandrake 9.2 and make installation CD's so that I can install it on two of my machines at home and one at work. I noticed on the Mandrakelinux.com homepage that 9.2 is available for download. When I get to the information page I can't seem to find the location of the ISO's. (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#iso ) All I am seeing on any mirror is the contents of the directory. Am I supposed to download all of this and burn it to disk? If so, is there some special way I should go about burning the contents of the directory to make the disk bootable? I would much rather have the ISO's (since that is what I used last time) if they are available. Thanks in advance, -=Thinker You need to wait a few more days. They are delaying the release of the iso images due to the LG problem. The iso's will have the solution already in the OS and should cause no one any problems. That is just my take on what has been happening and messages I have seen. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:14:44 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Ya, if you enjoy a 3 day install process so you get 5 more FPS in Quake... ;-) Yea, and stupid things like a kernel and apps compiled specifically to your hardware for maximum efficiency. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake and make discs
Mandrake has wisely delayed the release of the ISO's until later in the release cycle (to encourage more people to purchase it or join the Club). In the past, it was avilable on the mirrors before retail!! That was not good for sales of course ;) Club Members can download it early via BitTorrent and of course there is retail. You can also go to CheapBytes etc. if you want them now. Alternatively, join the Club to show your support and then you'll have access that way. Cheers Jason Thinker wrote: Hello All, I wish to download Mandrake 9.2 and make installation CD's so that I can install it on two of my machines at home and one at work. I noticed on the Mandrakelinux.com homepage that 9.2 is available for download. When I get to the information page I can't seem to find the location of the ISO's. (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#iso ) All I am seeing on any mirror is the contents of the directory. Am I supposed to download all of this and burn it to disk? If so, is there some special way I should go about burning the contents of the directory to make the disk bootable? I would much rather have the ISO's (since that is what I used last time) if they are available. Thanks in advance, -=Thinker 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
