Re: [newbie] Reboot with 9.2
Dick Gevers wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:00:32 -0500, Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] Reboot with 9.2: The invalid key entry was not a problem with the packages, but you did not have the Mandrake Security Team key in your keyring. urpmi automatically adds the key when you set up a urpmi source, but you have to add it manually if you don't use urpmi. If you download the updates to a local source, also include the ../base directory, because that includes the key and then you can just use urpmi.addmedia IIRCC this was also mentioned on the errata page (not intending to be accusing, though). I have added a few notes about the new way .rpm packages are authenticated on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GnuPG HTH Cheers, =Dick Gevers= Thanks for the heads up, I will check it out. - 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] Reboot with 9.2
David E. Fox wrote: I installed 9.2 from the powerpack disks I purchased. A few quirks but it went well. I had already downloaded all the security updates and bug fixes so I skipped it during install. Finished the install and went for I imagine you're getting those invalid keys during urpmi, assuming you're installing that way. This issue is still plaguing me and probably others as well. Many RPMs pass through OK - but some on contrib or on the main repository list (so I figure it would be true of updates) come back with invalid keys. Using urpmi, you should still be able to upgrade these. How were you invoking the upgrade? machine. I had installed the updated kernel so I had to reboot. Using Grub for the bootloader. I got an error 13, no file found on both the That's nasty. I don't believe the two issues are related. Does Grub see the boot partition? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually I manually downloaded the files and then used the control center to install them. They seem to be OK. No other problems besides the reboot thing. I do believe that GRUB is seeing my boot partition, but I haven't tried to reboot since I got it up and running. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: Rebooting, Greg, my boot directory contents
I forgot to add this to the previous message. Maureen [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]$ ls boot.0300initrd-2.4.22-21mdk.img message-text config@ initrd.img@ System.map@ config-2.4.22-10mdk kernel.h@System.map-2.4.22-10mdk config-2.4.22-21mdk kernel.h-2.4.22-10mdkSystem.map-2.4.22-21mdk diag1.imgkernel.h-2.4.22-21mdkus.klt diag2.imgmap vmlinuz@ grub/message@ vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img message-graphic vmlinuz-2.4.22-21mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **
The attached bounce occurs with every message I send to the list. Roly On Friday 14 November 2003 07:27 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ > > ** > > > > >I have been getting bounce backs for days and had no idea what > > >was going > > > on. It makes any interaction to the list very laborious. Can you > > > fix me up? Roly > > > > Me too :(. Thought the issue was MAPS related but that's anyone's > > guess, and I'm still trying to find out more specifics. > > How many bounces did you get? -- "MicroSoft - The company that made the internet unsafe! Linux Counter #241069 --- Begin Message --- rake.com>" Content-Transfert-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:53:43 +0100 (CET) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Status: N X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: --- Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain To distribute the attached message in list newbie : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following subject : CONFIRM 93d506cf3b4728732430f58cebcb79f5 --- Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from fed1mtao08.cox.net (fed1mtao08.cox.net [68.6.19.123]) by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE27856A27 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:52:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([68.224.124.100]) by fed1mtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:37:13 -0500 From: Roland Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ ** Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:37:14 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have been getting bounce backs for days and had no idea what was going on. It makes any interaction to the list very laborious. Can you fix me up? Roly On Friday 14 November 2003 08:47 am, Eric Huff wrote: > Hello all, > > Sympa has all of a sudden decided that i do indeed need to see all > email bounced back to newbie. > > Of the over 1500 subscribers, ~ 400 of them were bad addys. > > Anyway, i have been unsubbing all these bad addresses. > > I deeply apologize if i nuke anyone by accident. If i do, please > let me know, and i'll resub you if you haven't beat me to it. > (I did accidentily nab a couple of you, but resubbed immediately, so > just ignore the bounce email if you are still getting list email). > > Many of the bounces are from accounts that are over quota. > Please, make sure your email address can handle the load of this > list, and if you go on vacation, please set your mail to nomail. > See 8.2 on > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette > for instructions. > > Now back to your regularly scheduled insanity, > eric -- "MicroSoft - The company that made the internet unsafe! Linux Counter #241069 --- End Message --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Firewall logging
I have Shorewall set up on my laptop, but I am finding that my logs are getting inundated with messages from Shorewall telling me about all the packets being dropped from the Windows machines on my network. How can I reduce the amount of logging that goes on and is it safe to do so. Do I really need to know about every one of these stray packets? -- /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] website test, please
On Sunday 16 November 2003 20:22, Eric Huff wrote: > Would someone test www.topica.com for me? > > On konq, opera and firebird i get almost none of the links. > Seems to work ok for me in Mozilla 1.3 and Konquerer 3.1.0 (mandrake 9.1) -- 20:36:31 up 3 days, 9:41, 6 users, load average: 0.08, 0.12, 0.25 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] website test, please
It seems to work fine for me in Mozilla and Konq (MDK 9.1) Russ Eric Huff wrote: Would someone test www.topica.com for me? On konq, opera and firebird i get almost none of the links. If i boot into windoze, it works fine on IE. I imagine it's crappy html code, but want to make sure. And, on that note, what's your favorite mailing list site? I have been on and adminned groups at topica, and it's easy to use, but it won't be it i can't get it to show up. At the moment I am not up for running one at home... thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] apache and php help needed
Running mandrake 9.1, mysql 4.0.11a, apache 1.3.27 and php 4.3.0, all right of the mandrake 9.1 CD's. I'm trying to set up PHP to view data pulled from mysql database. I have the mysql database up and running fine. (this is on a small home network) I have apache and php installed but something is not right. Apache service shows as running in Mandrake control center, but not in webmin. In webmin it says "The Apache root directory /etc/httpd2 does not exist. If you have Apache installed, adjust the module configuration to use the correct paths." Unable to determine what PHP is doing. phpinfo() command does nothing when viewed in browser. I have tried to locate info on various web pages but am still in the dark. I am totally new to Apache and PHP and could use any advise. Thanks, -- 20:22:04 up 3 days, 9:27, 5 users, load average: 1.23, 0.64, 0.45 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] website test, please
On Sunday 16 November 2003 09:22 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > Would someone test www.topica.com for me? > > On konq, opera and firebird i get almost none of the links. > > If i boot into windoze, it works fine on IE. I imagine it's crappy > html code, but want to make sure. > > And, on that note, what's your favorite mailing list site? I have > been on and adminned groups at topica, and it's easy to use, but it > won't be it i can't get it to show up. > > At the moment I am not up for running one at home... > > thanks, > eric No problem with the links in Konqueror or Mozilla. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] website test, please
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:22:57 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would someone test www.topica.com for me? > > On konq, opera and firebird i get almost none of the links. > > If i boot into windoze, it works fine on IE. I imagine it's crappy > html code, but want to make sure. > > And, on that note, what's your favorite mailing list site? I have > been on and adminned groups at topica, and it's easy to use, but it > won't be it i can't get it to show up. > > At the moment I am not up for running one at home... Seems to work fine in Galeon. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Yes, but which self do you want to be? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] website test, please
Would someone test www.topica.com for me? On konq, opera and firebird i get almost none of the links. If i boot into windoze, it works fine on IE. I imagine it's crappy html code, but want to make sure. And, on that note, what's your favorite mailing list site? I have been on and adminned groups at topica, and it's easy to use, but it won't be it i can't get it to show up. At the moment I am not up for running one at home... thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdroms: how to check firmware rev
> > Is there a way to check the firmware revison of ide cdroms? > I believe that /sbin/hdparm -I will dump a ton of information at > least for ide hard drives, and it is said to work for CDROMs too. Cool. I hadn't thought of hdparm for the cdr, but it does give most of the info cdrecord gives, and some it doesn't. > > Is there any harm in setting the ide cdrom to scsi emulation? > > (i can't see why their would be). > Not any that I have ever run across. OK. Thbanks for the tips, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install on old hardware
After several attempts to install 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 on a PT-5VMD mobo (VIA MVP3 chipset), I finally got through the formatting stage and packages began to install and then crashed with a (now) familiar message that I've seen at different stages - sometimes right after booting, sometimes when formatting failed: CPU:0 Oops: 0002 EIP:0010:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010002 eax: 07d10001 ebx: c0255460 ecx: edx: e00 esi: 000e00 edi: ebp: c0217e74 esp: c0217e4c ds: 0018 es: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0217000) Stack: ff00 c0176888 0010 0202 0008 00d02400 c02554cc (etc two more rows here) Call Trace [] [] . (and two more rows here) Code 00 83 c4 0c c7 43 60 00 00 00 00 eb a1 90 fc 06 1e 50 55 57 <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing The processor is an AMD K6 - 400 with 131 MB RAM and a Seagate 4.3 Gb hard disk. I'm guessing it's hardware related. Anyone have a clue what's happening? TIA -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems
David E. Fox wrote: I'm considering taking a look at gentoo, should prove interesting, but I think it would take a long time to bring it up on this 1.0 gig box. Let us know how it goes if you decide to go through with it. I am also interested in gentoo. I am also considering trying Suse, which i have read is a very polished distro, but not very true to RMS's ideals. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VT8237 SATA striping recognised as sda/sdb
Hi, My system consists of an AMD Opteron 142 on a MSI K8T800 Master1 (MS-9130) with a VT8237 southbridge. When I configure a new RAID0 array (press tab, little menu) using the onboard SATA controller and I boot the 9.2 it keeps recognising the sata striping as two independent disks. Should I configure software raid instead? Is there no way at all to install this 64bit OS on my 64bit PC using my two SATA WD disks at the same time? Windows XP/2K install working, so hardware should be ok. Thanks in advance for any helpful tips Vincent PC2DAY Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdroms: how to check firmware rev
On Sunday 16 November 2003 4:15 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > Is there a way to check the firmware revison of ide cdroms? > > On scsi emulated ones, cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 tells all. > > Is there a way to do this for ide drives? I have a utility in > windows that does it, but it's not as complete, and i'd rather be > able to do it in linux. I believe that /sbin/hdparm -I will dump a ton of information at least for ide hard drives, and it is said to work for CDROMs too. > Is there any harm in setting the ide cdrom to scsi emulation? (i > can't see why their would be). Not any that I have ever run across. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, Washington Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Hanging on Boot
On Saturday 15 November 2003 08:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The boot stops at "Starting ALSA 0.9.6". This is the same problem that > I had with 9.1 which was solved with the help of this list. > Unfortunately, I don't remember what the solution was! Please help. . . > > Rich Do you have any USM equiptment attached that can stop an install dead in its tracks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed and gtk2
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:17:55PM -0600, John Drouhard wrote: > Here's a simple question: How can I make sylpheed claws compile with > gtk2 instead of gtk1.4? Gtk2 has a slicker interface and is much nicer > everyway around. John, that's a question for the developers. They'd have to write it for gtk2. No small undertaking from what I understand. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed and gtk2
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:23:41 -0500 HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:17:55 -0600 > John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's a simple question: How can I make sylpheed claws compile with > > gtk2 instead of gtk1.4? Gtk2 has a slicker interface and is much > > nicer everyway around. > > Agreed, but it's no simple matter at all, the app would have to be > completely recoded to use the GTK2 widget set. There is a Sylpheed > GTK2 project on Sourceforge, that's what I use, but I don't know about > Claws. I tried it. I complied it with Jpilot support 'cause I thought that sounded cool, but everytime I try to run it, it has a segmentation fault. I did uninstall my other installation of sylpheed-claws first, btw. Oh well, I'll keep trying. John -- Sun Nov 16 20:09:34 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] E-mail sound.
On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:15 pm, candlish wrote: > Linux must be able to do this and better than MS. The fact that it doesn't do this is one of the things that makes Linux better than MS. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remastering-with-updates HOWTO?
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:36 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: > Please excuse the cross-post but I'm hoping Greg Meyer will see this > I see it, I see it already :-) I saw your original post on Cooker, I just forgot to respond. I have had several people e-mail me on this in the past few days and I forgot who I replied to and who I didn't > On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 13:19:33 -0700 pm, Greg Meyer wrote to Cooker > > mailing list: > > On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:06 am, Warly wrote: > > > 2nd solution, remaster the CD. Use the config files into the misc dir > > > into repositories. Replace the list line with > > > > > > list -k cooker_key_file -k update_key_file 1 cooker_path/misc/download > > > cooker_path_/misc/main rpmlist -b update_RPMS/ > > > rpmlist -b 9.2_RPMS/ > > > > Do you have to replace the RPMS in the Mandrake/RPMS directory with the > > updated ones, or does this just tell mkcd to look in both the > > Mandrake/RPMS and updates/RPMS directory and then takes the newer of the > > packages for the isos? > > > > This is what those lines look like now in the 92.conf file > > > > list -k /Mandrake/base/pubkey 1 /download \ > > /main > > rpmlist -b /RPMS > > Greg, how did you get on with this? > Unfortunately, not much progress was made. I started out a few weeks ago trying to figure it out through trial and error, but quickly got frustrated because every attempt at using the config file resulted in failure. The only way I could get it to work was in auto mode, which is not what I wanted. > Did you copy the updated RPMs into the Mandrake/RPMS, Mandrake/RPMS2, > Mandrake/RPMS3 directories? > I created an update directory and then added it to the config file, and then when I reran mkcd, the resulting selections included both the old and the new versions. I was led to believe by warly's posts that only the newer one would be selected. Also, the iso images wouldn't actually get written, there was always an error and I don't recall what it was off the top of my head. > What do and actually refer to? > Not sure, and I don't know how base/rpmsrate or base/pkglist files play into this either. > I'm having a hell of a job getting this to work. I added an extra > directory for plf and contrib RPMS and ended up with 6 ISOs but many files > were rejected because of missing dependencies. Also the 1st CD ISO is not > made which contains the kernel. This will always occur from what I understand. Most of the packages I have seen get rejected are actually pretty inconsequential, but annoying nonetheless. Occasionally an important package gets left out, like the kernel. I also had to uninstall Perl because the version that comes with 9.2 is incompatible with the version of mkcd, so I had to uninstall Perla and then force the use of the Perl modules in the dist tree by using MakeCD. > > I'm not actually using Cooker but want to include all "update" RPMs. Any > advice would be much appreciated. > I think the way to go here is to *replace* the original rpms with the updates right in the dist tree and then run MakeCD in auto mode. This should give you a set of iso's. I really wanted to document this, but anybody that appeared to figure this out didn't comply with my request for feedback and I got nothing really positive to include. HTH, but I suspect not. What else can I do? -- /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] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:37:44 + SN wrote: |I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. It's supposed to be |my reader device in K3B, but right now it doesn't work. It isn't |currently set to scsi, but I don't know how to make it that way. What |could I do to get my CD Reader working in K3b? Add: hdx=ide-scsi (x being...b for the primary slave, c for the secondary master, etc...) to the "append" line in your /etc/fstab. That's it. -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dvdrw drivers
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > I think we need both approaches - and it doesn't matter (to me, any > way) that you are suggesting a suitable package that isn't completely > free. I wonder if someone would volunteer to do some cli stuff - > even if they're not ready yet, while you put the gui stuff on the > same page (or linked page) Well, I will try to add some of the GUI stuff that I know about tomorrow. I know that K3B just added dvd writer support and I am pretty sure that it is also in the current version of xcdroast, so that means at least two free packages that have it. I have had mixed results with xcdroast, however, I think that its support for dvd-r and -rw is better than for +rw. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error
On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:37 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: > I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. It's supposed to be my > reader device in K3B, but right now it doesn't work. It isn't currently set > to scsi, but I don't know how to make it that way. What could I do to get > my CD Reader working in K3b? find out what the cd-rom device is and add hdx=ide-scsi as a boot paramater in your lilo.conf, where the x is the letter of your reader. There should already be an entry for your writer. then run lilo and reboot. -- /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] sylpheed and gtk2
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:17:55 -0600 John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a simple question: How can I make sylpheed claws compile with > gtk2 instead of gtk1.4? Gtk2 has a slicker interface and is much nicer > everyway around. Agreed, but it's no simple matter at all, the app would have to be completely recoded to use the GTK2 widget set. There is a Sylpheed GTK2 project on Sourceforge, that's what I use, but I don't know about Claws. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Don't abandon hope. Your Captain Midnight decoder ring arrives tomorrow. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sylpheed and gtk2
Here's a simple question: How can I make sylpheed claws compile with gtk2 instead of gtk1.4? Gtk2 has a slicker interface and is much nicer everyway around. Thanks, John Drouhard -- Sun Nov 16 19:16:33 CST 2003 Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 20:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:23 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > > Not receiving mails from the list for a while > > Adolfo: > Perhaps the simplest solution is to resubscribe. Sympa gets forgetful from > time to time. > -- cmg Thanks, Carroll. My ISP mail server was down for about an hour. I realized that when I couldn't send the test mail. I just forgot to remove it from the outbox. Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP# players
On Saturday 15 November 2003 09:09 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > I just bought a ARCHOS Ondi0 128 > > > when i plug it in I can read the directory under /mnt/removable > > > the problem is that I can't write or copy my mp3s to that directory any > > > suggestions ? > > > thanks > > > smitty > > > > It could be a permissions problem.The /etc/fstab line for the removable drive > > should have "user" in it somewhere, similar to this: > > > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 > > > > etc, etc > > My etc/fstab for removable looks like this > /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0 I still suspect that it is a permissions problem if you can see the drive, but not write to it. A possible solution to check this would be: Try to copy a file to the drive from the command line. The error you get may give information as to the nature of the problem. If the operation fails due to lack of permission, try again as root. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdroms: how to check firmware rev
Is there a way to check the firmware revison of ide cdroms? On scsi emulated ones, cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 tells all. Is there a way to do this for ide drives? I have a utility in windows that does it, but it's not as complete, and i'd rather be able to do it in linux. Is there any harm in setting the ide cdrom to scsi emulation? (i can't see why their would be). thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:23 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > Not receiving mails from the list for a while Adolfo: Perhaps the simplest solution is to resubscribe. Sympa gets forgetful from time to time. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ATAPI 52x CD-Rom Reader error
I'm having some problems with my ATAPI 52x CD-Rom. It's supposed to be my reader device in K3B, but right now it doesn't work. It isn't currently set to scsi, but I don't know how to make it that way. What could I do to get my CD Reader working in K3b? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konq doesn't go to d/l page
When I visit http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3 in Mozilla and click on the second green button to proceed to the download page, it works fine. Konq, on the other hand, doesn't take me there (or anywhere else). Anybody else experienced this? (KDE 3.1.4) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] E-mail sound.
On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:15 pm, candlish wrote: > > I think that you are going to be very pleased with this development in > spite of your current sentiments. Malcolm: If you really want me to enjoy some music with my e-mail, send me a harmonica and I'll take it from there. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems
On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:53 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > trying to do from cooker main That's you're problems right there. Not sure why you're using KDE from Cooker as it is very broken FWIH. You should completely uninstall KDE and then reinstall from the Cooker mirrors, including the COoker QT if you want to run Cooker version. You probably have a mix of old and new on there causing your problem. -- /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] dvdrw drivers
On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 10:27 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Well, I sort of foresee this as being much less of a problem in the > coming months, or moreso depending on how you look at it. The > newest DVD burner drives that are out support almost all formats of > media, including DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW which covers the spectrum. The > biggest issue will be in explaining that depending on what media > you want to burn, you need a different toolset, including different > tools for the exact same hardware device but dependent on what > media is in the burner. > > Unfortunately, I am not the best person to do a detailed CLI howto > for dvd burning, I can do it but it is still a lot of trial and > error to get it right for me and I prefer the GUI front-ends. > > There are a couple of new GUI's that take the guesswork out of it > and support both different tools and formats and can even > autodetect the media in the drive and use the right tool for that > media. So, either newbies will go for the GUI (as I would expect) > and it will become fairly seamless for them, or they will stick > with the CLI, in which case, making the right choices and > explaining why becomes a major headache. > > I will quickly plug one of the GUI's again, it is NOT free but is > very reasonable and has a lot of nice features. WebCDWriter is a > web based GUI for CD and DVD burning that now features full support > for just about every kind of media and format that you would want > to burn. You simply configure it for the device that you have and > what it supports, Tell it what kind of disk you want to burn and it > opens the drive and prompts you to insert the media and off you go. > If you want the CD burning version, it is free and the DVD version > costs about 25 euros, last I checked. > > http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/ I think we need both approaches - and it doesn't matter (to me, any way) that you are suggesting a suitable package that isn't completely free. I wonder if someone would volunteer to do some cli stuff - even if they're not ready yet, while you put the gui stuff on the same page (or linked page) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Remastering-with-updates HOWTO?
Please excuse the cross-post but I'm hoping Greg Meyer will see this On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 13:19:33 -0700 pm, Greg Meyer wrote to Cooker mailing list: > On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:06 am, Warly wrote: > > > > 2nd solution, remaster the CD. Use the config files into the misc dir > > into repositories. Replace the list line with > > > > list -k cooker_key_file -k update_key_file 1 cooker_path/misc/download > > cooker_path_/misc/main rpmlist -b update_RPMS/ > > rpmlist -b 9.2_RPMS/ > Do you have to replace the RPMS in the Mandrake/RPMS directory with the > updated ones, or does this just tell mkcd to look in both the > Mandrake/RPMS and updates/RPMS directory and then takes the newer of the > packages for the isos? > This is what those lines look like now in the 92.conf file > list -k /Mandrake/base/pubkey 1 /download \ > /main > rpmlist -b /RPMS Greg, how did you get on with this? Did you copy the updated RPMs into the Mandrake/RPMS, Mandrake/RPMS2, Mandrake/RPMS3 directories? What do and actually refer to? I'm having a hell of a job getting this to work. I added an extra directory for plf and contrib RPMS and ended up with 6 ISOs but many files were rejected because of missing dependencies. Also the 1st CD ISO is not made which contains the kernel. I'm not actually using Cooker but want to include all "update" RPMs. Any advice would be much appreciated. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
Try Konquerer, it does large files just fine and even resumes a failed download. Just a thought Russ Jason Greenwood wrote: I HIGHLY suggest you use gFTP or another ftp client instead of Mozilla. Browsers were never designed to download large files Cheers Jason Sharrea Day wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Sorry, don't know much 'bout downloading with mozilla which I don't have much luck with anyway, but... From what I've heard, using a browser to download large files is not a good idea. Use and ftp client or a downloader app like d4x. Personally I use d4x (Downloader for X) which I've never had a problem with and supports resuming downloads. Sharrea Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dvdrw drivers
On Sunday 16 November 2003 03:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 8:13 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > Is it on the TWiki Bryan? If not, can you put it there. > > > > If someone had asked for some specific info, I probably would have. > > This is just general info about a particular writeable media > > format. > > I foresee this being something that is asked more frequently in the > coming months, which is why I thought it a good idea to put it up. > Any pointers make a good starting place, and as dvd-writers are > becoming so much cheaper, more people will be wanting to buy them. > Certainly I will want to read all I can before I buy. Well, I sort of foresee this as being much less of a problem in the coming months, or moreso depending on how you look at it. The newest DVD burner drives that are out support almost all formats of media, including DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW which covers the spectrum. The biggest issue will be in explaining that depending on what media you want to burn, you need a different toolset, including different tools for the exact same hardware device but dependent on what media is in the burner. Unfortunately, I am not the best person to do a detailed CLI howto for dvd burning, I can do it but it is still a lot of trial and error to get it right for me and I prefer the GUI front-ends. There are a couple of new GUI's that take the guesswork out of it and support both different tools and formats and can even autodetect the media in the drive and use the right tool for that media. So, either newbies will go for the GUI (as I would expect) and it will become fairly seamless for them, or they will stick with the CLI, in which case, making the right choices and explaining why becomes a major headache. I will quickly plug one of the GUI's again, it is NOT free but is very reasonable and has a lot of nice features. WebCDWriter is a web based GUI for CD and DVD burning that now features full support for just about every kind of media and format that you would want to burn. You simply configure it for the device that you have and what it supports, Tell it what kind of disk you want to burn and it opens the drive and prompts you to insert the media and off you go. If you want the CD burning version, it is free and the DVD version costs about 25 euros, last I checked. http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/ -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 16 November 2003 2:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the > 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work > right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download > dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got > broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per > ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 > percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, > its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though > Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. > > I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Yeah, I'd try gftp or one of the other ftp apps called from a terminal in the directory you want the download in. For example: gftp ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/Mandrake/iso starts the download but the message from the server is that there are too many anonymous users for the transaction to complete at this time. Try a different server. Such as one of the European ones where people are likely asleep at the moment. Or if you already have an old set of ISOs from a previous version rename them to reflect the new release name and use rsync in a terminal to "download the differences" which is the method I generally use. Or just use rsync to download them instead of an ftp front end app. If you do have the ISOs and have renamed them add --delete before the --progress flag. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nanook]$rsync -avrt --progress ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ /downloads/torrent/ All spaces are single. Of course change the source mirror and destination directory to suit you, but I know for a fact the download is fairly fast from the server in the example. Reading the rsync man page or rsync --help wouldn't hurt either. (-; HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:07:47 up 2:00, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.09, 0.08 "I'd love to go out with you, but I'm having all my plants neutered." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/t/hrG11CaRuZZSIRApOZAJ9wzSGhElIyz7bxN4ZfvdbjLwsAFwCeIXJ4 ZZSwTSPzpP98oE2tnDJ1cQA= =HN7z -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
I HIGHLY suggest you use gFTP or another ftp client instead of Mozilla. Browsers were never designed to download large files Cheers Jason Sharrea Day wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Sorry, don't know much 'bout downloading with mozilla which I don't have much luck with anyway, but... From what I've heard, using a browser to download large files is not a good idea. Use and ftp client or a downloader app like d4x. Personally I use d4x (Downloader for X) which I've never had a problem with and supports resuming downloads. Sharrea 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] Downloading ISO problem
> Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 > ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll I had a different type of issue with mozilla, but I would go to the ftp site directly with ncftp. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reboot with 9.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:00:32 -0500, Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] Reboot with 9.2: >The invalid key entry was not a problem with the packages, but you did not >have the Mandrake Security Team key in your keyring. urpmi automatically >adds the key when you set up a urpmi source, but you have to add it >manually if you don't use urpmi. If you download the updates to a local >source, also include the ../base directory, because that includes the key >and then you can just use urpmi.addmedia IIRCC this was also mentioned on the errata page (not intending to be accusing, though). I have added a few notes about the new way .rpm packages are authenticated on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GnuPG HTH Cheers, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/t/UXwC/zk+cxEdMRAkT3AKCOOeEuG8VOhNHjgq6bW7tctd56JgCgtI6j a5atSUfvpg3xh/0gv4WOJS0= =qxx4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Needed file
Well, I installed lesstif but no dice. As you noted below, it only has libXm.so.2 and I need 3. I found a version that had 3 but it was for Red Hat. I tried to install that one but too many errors. Oh well. thanks for the help Russ David E. Fox wrote: I tried installing a program using an rpm for 9.1 (which I am running) but it says I am missing a file libXm.so.3 I did a search and came up empty. That's Motif. Per "urpmf libXm" it's provided by lesstif, so install that. But here (9.2 cooker) I only see libXm.so.2. Currently (per rpm -qa | grep lesstif) I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep lesstif lesstif-0.93.49-3mdk Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download > the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work > right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the > download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've > got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 > mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box > shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the > ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even > though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. > > I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Sorry, don't know much 'bout downloading with mozilla which I don't have much luck with anyway, but... >From what I've heard, using a browser to download large files is not a good idea. Use and ftp client or a downloader app like d4x. Personally I use d4x (Downloader for X) which I've never had a problem with and supports resuming downloads. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Downloading ISO problem
Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. -- /\ Dark>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Needed file
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:15:45 -0500, "Dave-Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about RE: [newbie] Needed file: >Whenever you need some particular file like this, go to >http://rpmfind.net/, and type in the exact file name. You will get a >page listing rpms (usually compatible with most/all architectures and >distros) containing the file. Or try http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com, but I believe you should be a member, if you aren`r already ;-) Ciao, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/t+p5wC/zk+cxEdMRAl9PAKCYzWCQZebkXsGzVyrWeQ1B4phPCACffOJ1 AvIwGE8053IF0uyy03phxvE= =wEla -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gnome & authentication keys & 9.2 issues
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:07:01 +, Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about [newbie] gnome & authentication keys & 9.2 issues: >The one problem that I also have is gnome now when loading takes >forever... the splash screen stays up for ages at the bit about loading >the authentication icon... sometimes it does not load and other times >it loads twice and gnome does not seem to happy. When I started Gnome yesterday for a while via GDM I saw that ssh had also started !? When via KDM or Mdkkdm I believe it doesn`r, but I could be wrong; `cause I rarely use Gnome: IceWM is my favourite. HTH Ciao =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/t+mlwC/zk+cxEdMRAvjEAKDLaKioPCNOzVtS2ckIKBo2uT0nHQCg6mUC QJ6vv845yA0nJZcUCe7RTw4= =vUjI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dvdrw drivers
On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 8:13 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > Is it on the TWiki Bryan? If not, can you put it there. > > If someone had asked for some specific info, I probably would have. > This is just general info about a particular writeable media > format. I foresee this being something that is asked more frequently in the coming months, which is why I thought it a good idea to put it up. Any pointers make a good starting place, and as dvd-writers are becoming so much cheaper, more people will be wanting to buy them. Certainly I will want to read all I can before I buy. 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] E-mail sound.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 16 November 2003 12:15 pm, candlish wrote: > Dear Charlie, > > Thank you for your comments. You may have missed my point (the one on my head (-;) though. > E-mail sound may not have a need for html and the requirement for hugh > downloads can be avoided. E-mail sounds tend to be around 35k or 3 > seconds modem action. The only time I did anything resembling the proposal that started this diatribe was one "birthday card" that was e-mailed to the person in question the day I delivered and set up her system. I used files from her hard drive called by html because it was; a.) a much "lighter" message in terms of size, b.) I knew exactly what I could call for effect because I had placed the files on her system before I delivered it. Less than 15 minutes later all scripting in e-mail was turned off and the Outlook Express quick launch icon actually called Opera Mail. Belt'n'braces as some would say. The message was less than ten kilo bytes but the background, music and fonts were all displayed as intended. Size does matter, even though here in Canada there are few people that don't have access to broadband connections, it's not exactly effective to your intended purpose to have a person on dial up have a "card" that takes 2 to 10 minutes to load, now is it? I think my method now is a more reasonable response. By that I mean a small animated "Happy Birthday" gif for example, or just a link to a page that expresses the appropriate sentiment, as an "e-card" that I've stored on my own web space gives the flexibility that I want without having to reverse the effect of my years of screaming at people to never allow remote images, applications, or scripts to run in e-mail clients. I choose not to have to fight that battle again. Viruses, trojans, and worms, are an unfortunate reality; and having spent all of this time trying to convince people whose systems I'm responsible for not to open the door to malware, even by accident, means I'm damned if I'll condone anything more that what I've already stated. The way the last few worms have been written means that even my method is suspect, since they can be activated easily from a corrupted gif, jpeg, or a simple hyper link or through simple instant messenger connections. Or worse. None of the systems in question have anything like that level of vulnerability since I won't allow it, but who knows what the authors of malicious software are going to think up next. With Microsoft's unwitting(???) help of course. If you think I feel that this is a war, and that e-mail is one of the primary battle fields; DUH! > Not very much fun sending a Christmas card to a recipient, who has to > look up a web page to find a manufactured e-mail to get a result. Look up what Malcolm? The links I've sent to people are direct to a web page designed to convey my greetings/message. The whole page, and no external links. One click on an e-mail link versus increased vulnerability. I know which I prefer since I have to clean any resultant nasties out if and when > Linux must be able to do this and better than MS. It does, by not allowing such ridiculous abuses by default. > Best wishes, > > Malcolm Candlish. I wish you well with your idea, but I'd prefer to think safety before ear and eye candy. Just my humble opinion. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 13:14:04 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.26, 0.15 If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/t+JxG11CaRuZZSIRAkFQAJ47kcBLbpfNgt9B4GheNyKabC3mUwCfQp2O HvjuF3YRWPUuIK66+A1fv+0= =wtTY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dvdrw drivers
On Sunday 16 November 2003 01:15 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:32 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > DVD+RW drives are almost uniformly supported with a variety of > > application front-ends using the dvd+rw tools including growisofs > > that can be downloaded in several places on the net including > > sourceforge. > > > > DVD-RW is supported using the cdrecord dvdhack tool that is also > > widely supported. In most cases, hardware types are not an issue > > as these are widely publicized industry standard formats so you > > shouldn't have problems. If you want to do specific things, like > > building DVD-Video formats, you may need to look around to find > > specific tools to help you do that but writing data is easily > > accomplished, regardless of hardware. > > Is it on the TWiki Bryan? If not, can you put it there. If someone had asked for some specific info, I probably would have. This is just general info about a particular writeable media format. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems
> Are you dual-booting by any chance? No, and it's never been an issue with the unix time: Sun Nov 16 11:49:19 PST 2003 is correct. > Sounds like you are just missing the kdeaddons and kdeutils packages. I thought both were installed - I'm getting installation conflicts at the moment, trying to do from cooker main atm. libkdecore >= 3.1.91 is needed by kdemultimedia-kaboodle-3.1.93-6mdk libkdecore >= 3.1.91 is needed by libkdemultimedia1-kscd-3.1.93-6mdk libbkdecore >= 3.1.91 is needed by libkdemultimedia1-kmix-3.1.93-6mdk libbkdecore >= 3.1.91 is needed by libkdemultimedia1-kmix-3.1.93-6mdk -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] E-mail sound.
Dear Charlie, Thank you for your comments. E-mail sound may not have a need for html and the requirement for hugh downloads can be avoided. E-mail sounds tend to be around 35k or 3 seconds modem action. Not very much fun sending a Christmas card to a recipient, who has to look up a web page to find a manufactured e-mail to get a result. Linux must be able to do this and better than MS. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 10:17, Charlie M. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Saturday 15 November 2003 7:41 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:17 pm, candlish wrote: > > > Sir or Madam, > > > > > > I would like to place a small sound file in an outgoing e-mail to > > > activate on opening, as possible in 'Outlook Express'. I tend to use > > > Evolution and Mozilla in the main, but could use any e-mail client. > > > > > > What I wanted was for the sound to travel with the e-mail and to be > > > activated on opening. This may be seen as a virus however? > > > > > > This surely be made possible! > > > > > > Thank you in anticipation. > > > > > > Malcolm Candlish. > > > > Malcolm: > > > > No, no, no! Sober up, man! Take a cold shower! Forget it! > > > > Feel better now? Good. Let's begin by remembering that the Number One > > transport mechanism for Windows viruses and worms is Outlook/Outlook > > Express because they are diabolically designed to execute attached files. > > What's the very first thing that Windows users are told to do to tighten > > security? That's right, change the default settings to defeat the automatic > > execution "feature". It's also why mail filter programs strip all such > > attachments from incoming mail -- those things are potential bombs. Hell, > > most of us are paranoid about just getting HTML; your musical alerts would > > really light the place up. > > > > Possible under Linux? No. That's why you don't see postings here from folks > > who "just" opened an e-mail, and now they find that they have become a > > major distributor of spam and malware, their system is doing goofy things, > > and the mouse pointer has developed a mind of its own. It isn't be > > accident, my friend, it's by design. KMail (and others) can provide an > > audible notice that email has arrived, but it is controlled by the > > receiver, not the sender. > > > > Let's think a little further. I, for one, do not wish to hear whatever hit > > of the week accompanies your last missive, especially should you decide > > that the complete Slim Whitman collection would be exactly what it takes to > > get me to read your e-mail. Now, if I were still laboring away in a cubicle > > farm, and was subjected to the musical announcement of the arrival of > > Malcolm's latest e-mail from each of the surrounding cubes, be assured that > > I'd be at the forefront of the mob coming after you. (First offense: tar, > > feathers and a rail; subsequent offense: Nasty. Very nasty. Involves a rope > > and a tree. No jury will convict us.) > > > > Add to the above the overhead of your demonic thought -- bigger files, > > longer downloads, yada, yada... and you'll understand why the only > > acceptable medium for e-mail -- particularly on mail lists -- is plain > > text. The frou-frou is neither necessary nor acceptable. > > > > OTOH, you may have come up with a new concept here -- singing spam. Please > > do not include my name on any patent application that you may file. > > > > -- cmg > > I'll agree completely to the above comments. I've been known to design > "digital" birthday, anniversary, condolences "cards" for friends on occasion; > but I've only once succumbed to the temptation to send one through email. > That one called a musical accompaniment and "fancy background," fonts, etc., > that I knew were already resident on her hard drive because I put them there > when I built the system. > > Just an awful lot of html code in other words. > > Since that time I'll instead send an html link message, such as "Happy > Birthday" or whatever is appropriate, but stored temporarily on web space I > control. > > Never any huge downloads without prior consent in other words. > > Charlie > - -- > Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org > Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk > 03:06:36 up 5 days, 15:12, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.22, 0.19 > "Nuclear war would really set back cable." > - - Ted Turner > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/t07PG11CaRuZZSIRApd/AJ9ZQt0Ljb9SWhIB9bmtTBc+F27HAgCgr5kg > 6wavkBjkg5g9+TzS8LJEXeo= > =s/ug > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] E-mail sound.
Dear Sir, Thank you for your comments. Abuse is always possible! Should this be the reason for a lack of progress. Would you prefer to watch 'black & white' television, or limit any other technical advance? Sound is already here and slots on e-mail clients could be small to accommodate slender sound files until technology move forward. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 03:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 04:52 pm, et wrote: > > On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:41 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > >>> whack > > > > OTOH, you may have come up with a new concept here -- singing spam. > > > > > OTH, you can attach a file of what ever you wish in linux, just like in > > 'lookout excuse', but the folks at the other end would have to use lookout > > to have it open automagically > > et: > Yes, but the OP's notion was that every recipient of one of his emails would > be treated to a rendition of Slim Whitman, Brahms, the Hoosier Hot Shots, > whatever -- when they opened a message. While it was not explicit that he > planned to inflict this pain on us Linuxers, my intent was to discourage any > further exploration of this topic on his part. > > This singing spam thing has me intrigued though -- anyone know any words that > rhyme with viagra other than Niagara? He could be on to something here... And > I'm getting tired of mashed potato sandwiches 3X a day. > > -- cmg > > > > __ > 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] E-mail sound.
Dear Sir, Thank you for your comments. If the sound file were to be active as an exe file, on the opening it should trigger action. It must be possible to do, although I do realise could be anti-social if abused. Perhaps the Mozilla or Evolution people may have ideas. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 21:52, et wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:41 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:17 pm, candlish wrote: > > > Sir or Madam, > > > > > > I would like to place a small sound file in an outgoing e-mail to > > > activate on opening, as possible in 'Outlook Express'. I tend to use > > > Evolution and Mozilla in the main, but could use any e-mail client. > > > > > > What I wanted was for the sound to travel with the e-mail and to be > > > activated on opening. This may be seen as a virus however? > > > > > > This surely be made possible! > > > > > > Thank you in anticipation. > > > > > > Malcolm Candlish. > > > > Malcolm: > > > > No, no, no! Sober up, man! Take a cold shower! Forget it! > > > > Feel better now? Good. Let's begin by remembering that the Number One > > transport mechanism for Windows viruses and worms is Outlook/Outlook > > Express because they are diabolically designed to execute attached files. > > What's the very first thing that Windows users are told to do to tighten > > security? That's right, change the default settings to defeat the automatic > > execution "feature". It's also why mail filter programs strip all such > > attachments from incoming mail -- those things are potential bombs. Hell, > > most of us are paranoid about just getting HTML; your musical alerts would > > really light the place up. > > > > Possible under Linux? No. That's why you don't see postings here from folks > > who "just" opened an e-mail, and now they find that they have become a > > major distributor of spam and malware, their system is doing goofy things, > > and the mouse pointer has developed a mind of its own. It isn't be > > accident, my friend, it's by design. KMail (and others) can provide an > > audible notice that email has arrived, but it is controlled by the > > receiver, not the sender. > > > > Let's think a little further. I, for one, do not wish to hear whatever hit > > of the week accompanies your last missive, especially should you decide > > that the complete Slim Whitman collection would be exactly what it takes to > > get me to read your e-mail. Now, if I were still laboring away in a cubicle > > farm, and was subjected to the musical announcement of the arrival of > > Malcolm's latest e-mail from each of the surrounding cubes, be assured that > > I'd be at the forefront of the mob coming after you. (First offense: tar, > > feathers and a rail; subsequent offense: Nasty. Very nasty. Involves a rope > > and a tree. No jury will convict us.) > > > > Add to the above the overhead of your demonic thought -- bigger files, > > longer downloads, yada, yada... and you'll understand why the only > > acceptable medium for e-mail -- particularly on mail lists -- is plain > > text. The frou-frou is neither necessary nor acceptable. > > > > OTOH, you may have come up with a new concept here -- singing spam. Please > > do not include my name on any patent application that you may file. > > > > -- cmg > OTH, you can attach a file of what ever you wish in linux, just like in > 'lookout excuse', but the folks at the other end would have to use lookout to > have it open automagically > > > > __ > 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] E-mail sound.
Dear Carroll, Thank you for your comments. Please have no fear! The technology is already there and the potential for development phenomenal. Anti-virus scanners should recognise wav, ogg, or mp3 files. It only requires placing in the background of the e-mail, hopefully without the need for hmtl. I think that you are going to be very pleased with this development in spite of your current sentiments. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:41, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:17 pm, candlish wrote: > > Sir or Madam, > > > > I would like to place a small sound file in an outgoing e-mail to > > activate on opening, as possible in 'Outlook Express'. I tend to use > > Evolution and Mozilla in the main, but could use any e-mail client. > > > > What I wanted was for the sound to travel with the e-mail and to be > > activated on opening. This may be seen as a virus however? > > > > This surely be made possible! > > > > Thank you in anticipation. > > > > Malcolm Candlish. > > Malcolm: > > No, no, no! Sober up, man! Take a cold shower! Forget it! > > Feel better now? Good. Let's begin by remembering that the Number One > transport mechanism for Windows viruses and worms is Outlook/Outlook Express > because they are diabolically designed to execute attached files. What's the > very first thing that Windows users are told to do to tighten security? > That's right, change the default settings to defeat the automatic execution > "feature". It's also why mail filter programs strip all such attachments from > incoming mail -- those things are potential bombs. Hell, most of us are > paranoid about just getting HTML; your musical alerts would really light the > place up. > > Possible under Linux? No. That's why you don't see postings here from folks > who "just" opened an e-mail, and now they find that they have become a major > distributor of spam and malware, their system is doing goofy things, and the > mouse pointer has developed a mind of its own. It isn't be accident, my > friend, it's by design. KMail (and others) can provide an audible notice that > email has arrived, but it is controlled by the receiver, not the sender. > > Let's think a little further. I, for one, do not wish to hear whatever hit of > the week accompanies your last missive, especially should you decide that the > complete Slim Whitman collection would be exactly what it takes to get me to > read your e-mail. Now, if I were still laboring away in a cubicle farm, and > was subjected to the musical announcement of the arrival of Malcolm's latest > e-mail from each of the surrounding cubes, be assured that I'd be at the > forefront of the mob coming after you. (First offense: tar, feathers and a > rail; subsequent offense: Nasty. Very nasty. Involves a rope and a tree. No > jury will convict us.) > > Add to the above the overhead of your demonic thought -- bigger files, longer > downloads, yada, yada... and you'll understand why the only acceptable medium > for e-mail -- particularly on mail lists -- is plain text. The frou-frou is > neither necessary nor acceptable. > > OTOH, you may have come up with a new concept here -- singing spam. Please do > not include my name on any patent application that you may file. > > -- cmg > > > > __ > 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] E-mail sound.
Melissa, Thank you for your comments. Very sadly for Linux enthusiasts that we are, the dreaded MS does tend to lead the way. It is possible to send e-cards to recipients, not requiring them to search the web for their prized picture and sound. The sound files can easily be found in 'openoffice' and these are around 35 k. This is indeed a small download which with a dial-up connection may take 3 seconds! Technology will and must move forward. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:05, Melissa Reese wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Malcolm, > > I'm sorry I can't help you with your question, but I will offer a > comment or two anyway... > > On Saturday, November 15, 2003, at 12:17:22 PM PST, you wrote: > > > I would like to place a small sound file in an outgoing e-mail to > > activate on opening, as possible in 'Outlook Express'. > > Eek! I suppose you have your reasons for wanting such a thing, and > perhaps all your intended recipients for such a message would be > willing to accept the message(s) as you intend, but in general, this > sort of thing is best left to web pages if anywhere, and can be rather > annoying in email (just my general opinion). > > Many people, for all sorts of reasons, will *only* read email in plain > text (or at least disable all but the most basic HTML elements), and > therefore, unless they feel inclined to open up such an HTML message > into their browser, will not even "benefit" from your efforts. > > - -- > Melissa > > PGP public keys: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&Body=Please%20send%20keys > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > > iD8DBQE/tttWjVbXUvsE8ukRAlxPAKD1Jm2mXFl2rHzE03zJzeX8Ui9vOgCg2cha > WNh5E6f0ac9DtHqYbywgOHE= > =Gi1Z > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LG has posted Firmware Fixes for Bum Drives
On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:21 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2003 08:39 pm, Brian Parish wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:54, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > It looks as though LG has posted revised firmware for affected drives > > > > and also published a method for reflashing already dead ones. > > > > > > > > Point your browser to http://us.lgservice.com/ > > > > > > > > click Device Driver icon > > > > click CD-ROM link > > > > > > > > The first hit is "Emergency download for Physical Dead Drive from > > > > Mandrake Linux 9.2" > > > > > > > > There is a .gif attached that explains how to reflash the drives. > > > > > > > > There are also firmware upgrades for 9 drive models. WDYT? > > > > > > This is great but the english is so broken that I am not sure exactly > > > what to do. First problem is how to boot into MS-DOS mode? Second > > > problem is what the heck does C:W(with a bar through it)temp> mean? I > > > can get the light to come on again on the drive but have no idea how to > > > flash the firmware from the discription. Any help is appreciated. Oh, I > > > am trying to revive this drive using a K6II soyo mobo with win2K > > > loaded. > > > > Hi Dennis, > > > > It's not a class act is it! The C with the bar is a character mapping > > error - should be a "\". So this is just the DOS prompt, not a command > > you have to enter. > > > > The example assumes that you've downloaded a program called xferlg and > > stored it in C:\temp > > > > It also assumes that a file called q1iglx32 exists in the same > > directory. Where you get these files is unclear to me, but I have > > looked around their site to try to find them. > > > > The best way to do this is probably to build yourself a DOS boot > > diskette, and copy the downloaded stuff to it. Your procedure would > > then look like: > > > > A:\> Xferlg q1iglx32 [enter] > > > > I presume the CDR-8322B that follows is a response to a prompt issued by > > xferlg. > > > > If you are using W2K, then it's likely that you have NTFS which DOS > > can't read. Hence the suggestion to do all this using a boot floppy. > > > > HTH > > Brian > > Ok, I had one other LG cdrom that was not working properly, and tried the > firmware upgrade with it. Seems to have worked as instructed. I will put it > in one of my 9.2 comps tomorrow. Just wanted to let the list know that the > upgrade worked on a still functioning cdrom, at least the install did. > Tomorrow will tell. More later. Well, I installed the LG cdrom into one of the Mandrake computers and made it IDE2 master. It is currently playing Elton John and running smooth. The firmware upgrade works. This is the original kernel from the bittorrent d/l. I did not upgrade the kernel. So anyone interested can feel reasonably comfortable that the fix is a fix. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Rlogin
I am running 9.1 mdk. I have a two computer network. #1 is the one I work on and #2 (an old klunker) is to store backups. I am having problems with rsh etc. Rlogin worked at one time but it does not work now. I can ssh to and from both boxes. I thought that would be OK but I was unable to get rsync to work. Either method would be satisfactory, but I would like both to work. TIA. -- Bill O'Connor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:28, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2003 09:13, Margot wrote: > > Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:55 pm, robin wrote: > > >>Does he still start lists with "zero"? > > >> > > >>Sir Robin > > > > > > and wears old computer parts... :-) > > > > I've never heard of this, but I'm all in favour of recycling. I've got a > > couple of old 386's lurking under the bed, and a selection of keyboards > > and mouses (mice?). What sort of clothes do you think I could make? > > > > Margot > > The interview is great. I've just read it. > To me, it's inevitable to look at Mr Stallman and not to imagine a kind of > computer Jesus Christ ! :-) > (I don't mean to disrespect anybody's faith ! Please !) > > Margot, you're right. The plural of 'mouse' (i.e., the object you were > referring to) is 'mouses'. In my part of the world we refer to more than 1 pointing device as rodents :) > Although I'm not a native speaker, I've read lots of texts on Linguistics. > I recommend the book The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. It's a > wonderful read and not so full of difficult terminologies. Perhaps thats just what we should do here too. Cheers Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems
On Sunday 16 November 2003 01:29 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > > I use KDE and have found that konqueror works better than it ever used > > to. (It used to lock up for a few seconds from time to time.) I have no > > Many things don't work for me. I haev workarounds so I don't worry a > whole lot. Noatun or kaboodle hang; kscd segfaults; and konqueror > hangs when trying to play a sound file through itself. I settled for > using xine for most of that stuff as an interim. > > I am still figuring out why the time zone continues to shift all > by itself. I've had the system up since last night, and it still > shows correct - but I guarantee that it'll go to YST or HST or > something inexplicable by this evening, all by itself. I have not yet > been able to get this confirmed and haven't figured out what might > cause it - there doesn't seem to be a pattern. > Are you dual-booting by any chance? > kspread doesn't seem to find any Part that it can use. It may be the > only koffice component that does not work - kivio, kugar, kword etc > start up OK. > > I miss some of the functionality of konqueror - one used to be > able to show an archive and service buttons, links to audiocd (great > tool btw) but this functionality seems absent in 9.2. > Sounds like you are just missing the kdeaddons and kdeutils packages. -- /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] 9.2 Problems
> I use KDE and have found that konqueror works better than it ever used > to. (It used to lock up for a few seconds from time to time.) I have no Many things don't work for me. I haev workarounds so I don't worry a whole lot. Noatun or kaboodle hang; kscd segfaults; and konqueror hangs when trying to play a sound file through itself. I settled for using xine for most of that stuff as an interim. I am still figuring out why the time zone continues to shift all by itself. I've had the system up since last night, and it still shows correct - but I guarantee that it'll go to YST or HST or something inexplicable by this evening, all by itself. I have not yet been able to get this confirmed and haven't figured out what might cause it - there doesn't seem to be a pattern. kspread doesn't seem to find any Part that it can use. It may be the only koffice component that does not work - kivio, kugar, kword etc start up OK. I miss some of the functionality of konqueror - one used to be able to show an archive and service buttons, links to audiocd (great tool btw) but this functionality seems absent in 9.2. (Yesterday I d/l Latest release of Knoppix, booted it; is quite nice btw. www.knoppix.de). I'm considering taking a look at gentoo, should prove interesting, but I think it would take a long time to bring it up on this 1.0 gig box. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Needed file
On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 5:25 pm, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I tried installing a program using an rpm for 9.1 (which I am running) > but it says I am missing a file libXm.so.3 I did a search and came up > empty. > > Does anyone know where I can find this file? > > Thanks > Russ urpmf libXm will tell you which packages contain that file name. At a guess I would say you used the 'rpm -i' command to install the application, because if you had used urpmi or gurpmi, it would have altomatically installed openmotif which contains that library. 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] translation (anyone from Mandrake here ?)
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 9:57 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Hi. > > Weeks ago I sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where I > volunteered to translate some pages or new MDK releases to pt_br. > I've had no answer so far and I think it's not the first time. > Maybe they don't need more translators...but it is difficult to > interpret the silence. > I'm fairly sure I saw a post on the expert list from Vincent Danen asking for translators. You might try the archives. Otherwise, get his addy from the TWiki pages. 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] urpmi contrib error
> are all the mirrors wrong? anyone got a good mirror for 9.2 contribs? Hmm. urpmi.update -a now (just running it now): main - ftp.sunet.se, no go, can't find an hdlist file :(. contrib - ftp.uninett.no seems OK, downloading now David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dvdrw drivers
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:32 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > DVD+RW drives are almost uniformly supported with a variety of > application front-ends using the dvd+rw tools including growisofs > that can be downloaded in several places on the net including > sourceforge. > > DVD-RW is supported using the cdrecord dvdhack tool that is also > widely supported. In most cases, hardware types are not an issue > as these are widely publicized industry standard formats so you > shouldn't have problems. If you want to do specific things, like > building DVD-Video formats, you may need to look around to find > specific tools to help you do that but writing data is easily > accomplished, regardless of hardware. Is it on the TWiki Bryan? If not, can you put it there. 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] Needed file
Whenever you need some particular file like this, go to http://rpmfind.net/, and type in the exact file name. You will get a page listing rpms (usually compatible with most/all architectures and distros) containing the file. For your convenience: http://ftp2.wss.yale.edu/rpm2html/libXm.so.3.html HTH Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E. Fox Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Needed file > > I tried installing a program using an rpm for 9.1 (which I am running) > but it says I am missing a file libXm.so.3 I did a search and came up empty. That's Motif. Per "urpmf libXm" it's provided by lesstif, so install that. But here (9.2 cooker) I only see libXm.so.2. Currently (per rpm -qa | grep lesstif) I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep lesstif lesstif-0.93.49-3mdk > Russ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 9:55 pm, crak600 wrote: > > turns out that sound wasn't coming through the cable line. i have > a mpeg on the desktop, short clip i took of one of my dogs in REM > sleep (Rapid Eye Movement) with her paws and legs twitching. guess > i'd accidentily slide the mouse over it and it'd start, but no > media player would pop up, no image would pop up, just sound! and > here i thought i had the loch ness monster living in my computer! > (show on the loch ness monster was on TV when i shot the video > clip). DOH! > Sounds like Konq preview - really useful, but can give you some weird moments 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] Reboot with 9.2
> I installed 9.2 from the powerpack disks I purchased. A few quirks but > it went well. I had already downloaded all the security updates and bug > fixes so I skipped it during install. Finished the install and went for I imagine you're getting those invalid keys during urpmi, assuming you're installing that way. This issue is still plaguing me and probably others as well. Many RPMs pass through OK - but some on contrib or on the main repository list (so I figure it would be true of updates) come back with invalid keys. Using urpmi, you should still be able to upgrade these. How were you invoking the upgrade? > machine. I had installed the updated kernel so I had to reboot. Using > Grub for the bootloader. I got an error 13, no file found on both the That's nasty. I don't believe the two issues are related. Does Grub see the boot partition? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla freezing everything!
In truth, I think a thread is reasonably readable as long as it goes in one direction only - it gets horrific if it switches about > E: > Funny, but my stock Konq 3.1.0 had no problems. No, I don't know > why. -- cmg (not usually a top poster, but when in Rome...) > 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] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer
On Sunday 16 November 2003 10:40 am, Margot wrote: > > Browsing in my local library a few months ago, trying to find any useful > books on computing, I discovered that they stored the computer books > next to the books on...the Loch Ness Monster! The librarian explained > that it was because of the classification codes - apparently there are > plenty of other codes in between Nessie and M$, but my small village > branch library doesn't stock much non-fiction, so they ended up next to > each other on the shelf in the science section. > > Margot this is getting OT, but oh well. i havn't checked my school's library to see what they have on linux in there. i was working on scheduling for next semester, and found a class that's description said access, html, and unix. i was stoked! then i found out that the class was only availible for computer majors, of which i am not. i'm currently a psych major, until i can get my major changed to Criminal Justice and then i'll tke psych as a minor. anyway, i set an appointment to talk to the professor that teaches that course, figured if it's good enough, i'd try to get "pink slipped" into it so i could learn some UNIX and get credits for it. he was very honest with me in that he is not a unix expert, and only knows the basics, and that's all he teaches in that class, most of the focus is on access. the next class he teaches a little bit more about unix, but not much. so i was disappointed. then he gave me the real disappointment. the university used to have a professor that was a unix "expert." unfortunately, he retired a few years ago and the university hasn't replaced him. that was upsetting, as i would've loved to take a unix class as a free elective, pick up some credits for it, AND have some good knowledge to take home with me and be able to put it to use almost immediately. i tried the basic linux class online, but fell behind quick, and never completed it. if i was able to take a class at school on linux, i'd have more time to devote to it and get things done, plus i'd have what i need to learn computer stuffone-on-one help. i can't read a text book on computer stuff or read a webpage article and fully understand what's going on. i only know one person that can explain computer things to me in terms i understand, and he has taught me all i know. but he lives in florida and i live in pennsylvania, and i've only seen him once in the past 2 1/2 years, although we do keep in touch. oh well. downloaded 9.2 friday night and hoping to get it installed over thanksgiving weekend. if not then, i'll get installed over xmas break, which would probably be better, because if i make a mistake and wipe out my system, i'll be hurting, as i have a lot of school related stuff saved on one of my hard drives. it'd hurt to lose things like that 2 weeks before finals :O Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Needed file
> > I tried installing a program using an rpm for 9.1 (which I am running) > but it says I am missing a file libXm.so.3 I did a search and came up empty. That's Motif. Per "urpmf libXm" it's provided by lesstif, so install that. But here (9.2 cooker) I only see libXm.so.2. Currently (per rpm -qa | grep lesstif) I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep lesstif lesstif-0.93.49-3mdk > Russ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Needed file
Hi All, I tried installing a program using an rpm for 9.1 (which I am running) but it says I am missing a file libXm.so.3 I did a search and came up empty. Does anyone know where I can find this file? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems
> Maybe this issue has been reported many times, but only a few > times on this newbie list, as far as I can see. How many are we ? > - Maybe a hundred ? - Do we all read every post ? - I don't. Bah! There are 1101 as of this morning. It grows by ~5 a day. Haven't quite figured out the attrition rate, though. a week ago we had ~1500 with 400 of them being badd addresses... -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi contrib error
On Sunday 16 November 2003 03:25 am, et wrote: > I have tied about 5 different mirrors to set up my 9.2 contrib in > "urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp:(etc)" > I continue to get this error; > "medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file: > mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method" > > are all the mirrors wrong? anyone got a good mirror for 9.2 contribs? There is an rpms2 symlink in the main dist tree for contrib, so try urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://path/to/mandrake/RPMS2 with ../base/hdlist2.cz -- /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] Reboot with 9.2
On Sunday 16 November 2003 04:58 am, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: > I installed 9.2 from the powerpack disks I purchased. A few quirks but > it went well. I had already downloaded all the security updates and bug > fixes so I skipped it during install. Finished the install and went for > the updates. They all took and they all said invalid key. I used my > laptop and redownloaded them through 9.1. I still got the invalid key > thing but I said yes and all was fine until I had to reboot the > machine. I had installed the updated kernel so I had to reboot. Using > Grub for the bootloader. I got an error 13, no file found on both the > original kernel and the new kernel and the failsafe. I tried everything > and finaly just did an update version from the install. Now I am not > sure if the machine will reboot or not. I checked and all the files are > in boot for both kernels. Grub points to them so what is wrong? Has > anyone else had this problem? I am using an AMD 850Mhz, 2 western > digital harddrives, 1 cd rom and 1 cd burner, a USB zip 250, which all > showed up right and I can access all of them. Any help would be > appreciated. TIA, Maureen The invalid key entry was not a problem with the packages, but you did not have the Mandrake Security Team key in your keyring. urpmi automatically adds the key when you set up a urpmi source, but you have to add it manually if you don't use urpmi. If you download the updates to a local source, also include the ../base directory, because that includes the key and then you can just use urpmi.addmedia urpmi.addmedia --update updates file://path/to/updates with ../base/hdlist.cz Now keep the local directory synched with a mirror and periodically run 'urpmi.update --update && urpmi --auto-select --update' I am not sure about the boot problem, I'd like to see your /boot/grub/menu.lst and the contents of your /boot directory. -- /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] E-mail sound.
> This singing spam thing has me intrigued though -- anyone know any > words that rhyme with v***ra other than Niagara? He could be on to > something here... And I'm getting tired of mashed potato > sandwiches 3X a day. The result of this message going to the list gave me a chuckle. You wouldn't believe the number of bounces this caused to go to the list. There are a lot of servers out there that bounce spam back. It does reinforce a little bit how silly it is to bounce this stuff: most of the ones who get the response aren't really trying to spam so much as talk about spam... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Problems
E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 06:15 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Derek, On Saturday, November 15, 2003, at 5:37:52 PM PST, you wrote: If 9.2 turns some newbies off Linux it will be a pity. Once you correct the initial bugs it actually works quite nicely. (Supermount is great now :-) After reading about all these issues with the current MDK 9.2 release, I guess I can look forward to some interesting moments as I install and try to work with my first MDK! :-) - -- Melissa I think I'll skip this one. 9.1 works--everything works, just the way I want it. I've upgraded only Mozilla and SpamAssassin, and try as I might, I can't come up with a single reason why I need 9.2. For the record, I skipped 8.1 and 9.0, also. 8.2 worked for me just as well as 9.1 does--clean and easy, but there is a point where upgrading does make sense--I just don't see that point, yet. This sort of highlights the difference between Mandrake and SuSe. Mandrake is cutting edge and stuff may not work. SuSe is a page behind, but stuff works. But God, I really hate YAST. Mandrake's user tools are so much better--when they work, anyway. And that is why I still use Mandrake, if anyone reading this really cares. There's an up and down curve with releases of any distro, with some being remembered as great versions and others as turkeys. RedHat 6.0 was a great groundbreaking distro; 7.0 was for many people a nightmare. Mandrake 7.2 and 9.1 were high points, I think. The 8.* series were OK, but I had kernel and supermount issues. Given that 9.1 was one of the best releases ever, it might have been better to delay 9.2 a little (particularly so as to catch Mozilla 1.5 and the stable release of OpenOffice 1.1) but there again, the timing of a distro is more luck than anything. With software development happening as rapidly as it does, there's no way you can time things so all major packages are up to date _and_ stable - you can have one or the other, but not both. I may upgrade to 9.2 on my office machine, as its an FTP and Samba server (who knows, I may even be able to connect to those bloody XP boxes with Samba 3.0!). Since it has no proprietary drivers, upgrading shouldn't be too hard. When I get my new home computer, I'll probably stick with 9.1 for day to day stuff, and install 10.0 from Cooker on a separate partition for fun and games and bug reporting (if my modem connection can handle it). 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] 9.2 Problems
On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:15 am, Melissa Reese wrote: > After reading about all these issues with the current MDK 9.2 > release, I guess I can look forward to some interesting moments > as I install and try to work with my first MDK! :-) > > - -- > Melissa Yes, you are in for some 'interesting moments', but put it in perspective. You're only hearing from those who have issues. The vast majority have little or no problems. I've installed 9.2 on three different systems. Everything worked right out of the box on all three. I've also sent CD's to several others who reported no problems. That's the main variable for any for any distro. The vast combinations of hardware, some of it quite marginal or just plain win-hardware. Some quality hardware that's so new, it just doesn't have (reliable) kernel support yet. Then there's user education. 'Prior to use' research. A must for running any Linux distro. EG, one of those three systems has since had it's motherboard and CD drives (DVD, CD-RW) changed. A VIA KT600 board was used, with onboard NIC and sound. Both required drivers that are not quite mature, for any distro. Probly won't be till the 2.6 kernel is ready and polished. Went ahead and used the board anyhow, just used an old NIC PCI card and a cheap currently supported PCI sound card. 9.2 booted, found all the new hardware (harddrake), and correctly set it all up. No muss no fuss. From what I've read Melissa, you're prudently lookin into these issues before tryin Linux. You should do just fine. Another opinion, don't make the mistake of rushing to get rid of Windoze like many new users do. On average, I'd say it's a good idea to keep Winblows around for several years. Migrate slowly as your Linux skills and GNU software improve. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] do 9.2 isos contain the fix for lg cdroms?
On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:07 pm, Anarky wrote: > any idea if the downloadable isos can still break cdroms or > if they have a fixed version? Well first of all it's the LG drives, not Mandrake that needs fixin. Those with LG (or rebadged drives which are actually LG's) should up date their firmware ... even if they don't install Mdk 9.2, even if they're confirmed Windoze users. The drives should not be used as is. To answer your question tho, The iso's on the mirrors are the same ones released to club members, the same ones that are sold. They can render a buggy LG CDrom as useless. The fix is to fix the LG's. http://us.lgservice.com/ click on 'Device Drivers', then 'Cdrom'. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine and Memory
The Other wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:44:47 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have 128MB of RAM. I ran Wine two different ways to see if one of my Microsoft Win95B programs would run. If it's a Windows error message (rather than wine saying something in the terminal) then your problem is probably not RAM. "Insufficient memory" is Windows-speak for "something made the program crash, but I haven't a clue what it was." === Here's what the terminal window I used to run Wine said: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft Money]$ wine msmoney fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit system modal msgbox ! Not modal yet. -- I did get a small window saying Microsoft Money, then another window opened up saying: "Not enough memory is available. If you have several applications open at the same time, you might need to close one of them before you start Money." All you can do is click the "Okay" button to close this box. Then the terminal window that had the ! Not modal yet (above) line returns to the prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Micorsoft Money]$ I don't know what the Wine error message means - you'd have to check the documentation (which at least is likely to be more helpful than the Windows error message). Does the program run OK when you boot into Windows? It's worth checking your Wine configuration to make sure swap is set up correctly. 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
[newbie] Reboot with 9.2
I installed 9.2 from the powerpack disks I purchased. A few quirks but it went well. I had already downloaded all the security updates and bug fixes so I skipped it during install. Finished the install and went for the updates. They all took and they all said invalid key. I used my laptop and redownloaded them through 9.1. I still got the invalid key thing but I said yes and all was fine until I had to reboot the machine. I had installed the updated kernel so I had to reboot. Using Grub for the bootloader. I got an error 13, no file found on both the original kernel and the new kernel and the failsafe. I tried everything and finaly just did an update version from the install. Now I am not sure if the machine will reboot or not. I checked and all the files are in boot for both kernels. Grub points to them so what is wrong? Has anyone else had this problem? I am using an AMD 850Mhz, 2 western digital harddrives, 1 cd rom and 1 cd burner, a USB zip 250, which all showed up right and I can access all of them. Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] viagra song (was E-mail sound.)
Richard: Thanks. It was meant just as a rhetorical question, though. (And I thought that I didn't have a life...) -- cmg On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:36 am, Richard Babcock wrote: > I shouldn't be surprised that when I did a search for 'viagra parody' > there was a long list. This was one I enjoyed: > > http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/thedrifters4.shtml > > R > > On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:41 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > This singing spam thing has me intrigued though -- anyone know any > words that > rhyme with viagra other than Niagara? He could be on to something > here... And > I'm getting tired of mashed potato sandwiches 3X a day. > > -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
