Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Actually I thought the UK and most all of Europe was 250v. The US probly would be too, but you need to remember we invented the light bulb :) And that was so long ago, and with competing AC and DC distributions in the beginning, that now were just glad it all finally got settled ... even tho were underpowered as a result. Too damn much to change out now to switch. Ohh you got me going there. As with so many other of Edison's 'inventions' the light bulb was not invented by Edison at all. The city of Newcastle in England had public electric lighting before Edison 'invented' the lightbulb. What Edison did do was perfect a longer lasting filament for the electric lightbulb. http://www.maxmon.com/1878ad.htm And no. We do not use 250V in Europe. The UK is nominally 240V 50Hz, while continental Europe is mostly nominally 220V 50Hz The reasonably short lengths of transmission lines, few electrical storms, and very tight regulation of the generating industry here means that the supply is rarely out of spec and damage to electrical equipment is rare. I personally do not know anyone who filters their computers power supply. Except if you live in a rural or semi-rural area. Some of power lines are still overhead cables, and they are much more susceptible to storms and suchlike. The original supply may be clean, but between the overhead lines and the definite possibility of interference from motor startups (washer, spin dryer etc) I would definitely filter any machine I depended upon. 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] UPS's was Re: Complete failure
On Monday 08 December 2003 06:03 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Lanman wrote: On 12/7/2003 at 3:22 PM John Richard Smith wrote: Lanman wrote: John; The basic purpose of a UPS is to filter or condition the electrical power which your computer receives. Typically, your computer runs off of the battery inside the UPS, and a charger keeps the battery charged from the wall outlet. lanman gave you partially incorrect informtion ie that it is continuous! John be warned that this is an ideal and preferred setup. Some UPS's actually let the equipment plugged into it run run off the main supplied power that is is also using to charge the batteries, filtered of course to prevent spikes but still basically straight through. When a power outage occurs the UPS detects this and switches the computer supply from the now dead mains supply to the backup mains supplied via the battery and an inverter to transform the voltage of the battery (12volts DC) to 230v AC. Sometimes the time taken for the UPS to switch results in your computer losing power/rebooting. Nothing that a kettle would notice but a PC's nightmare. Some UPS's work as lanman described ie always off the battery but do check if the UPS you buy does this or does the 'switching' thing. It is a FAR better UPS to have than the 'switching' one. Thanks, So it's DC battery kept charged by a rectified transformer output, so then the UPS must have a means of stepping up voltage from whatever the DC battery stores it at, converts it back to mains AC supply voltage, in my case 230v AC and then supplies it to your computer, but does it just step in when needed or is it continuous ? It depends on the UPS structure. See the above explanation A UPS is usually put inbetween your computer equipment and preipherals and the mains supply coming into that part of the house ie select a plug or several, depending on the rating of the UPS, and feed your mains plug output into the UPS input. Then plug in those computer peripherls and computers you want to protect from power outages, into the UPS output. The rating of the UPS is probably the next important step. I would take the power supply rating of your computer in watts and convert it into a vA rating ie volts x amps. Unfortuneately I don't know how to convert watts to vA rating. Volts times amps equals watts. since volts is constant (ie 240) amps is what changes in the circuit as items (load) is added I think the vA rating is the same as watts enabling you to just add the wattage of your PC onto the vA total you get. Perhaps lanman can assist since he's done a varsity course on it? Then take the current drain (A) of all your computer peripherals and multiply it by the voltage they are running on. Your 230v AC is assumed here to give you a vA rating that can be added to the vA rating of the PC's you want to connect to the UPS. Going into a UPS store and asking for a certain vA rating of a UPS for the total of all the devices you want to protect will certainly get you more respect and it wil be something you can normally check yourself as it is printed on the UPS carton. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
Derek Jennings wrote And no. We do not use 250V in Europe. The UK is nominally 240V 50Hz, while continental Europe is mostly nominally 220V 50Hz The reasonably short lengths of transmission lines, few electrical storms, and very tight regulation of the generating industry here means that the supply is rarely out of spec and damage to electrical equipment is rare. I personally do not know anyone who filters their computers power supply. derek My assumption entirely until now. But My wife and my daughters all tell me that offices and schools do protect their computer banks with UPS, or at least something the like. So maybe just because the PC market in UK doesn't go in for it in general, maybe that is because most PC owners aren't regarded as caring that much about reliability and anyway would baulk at the cost. However I would agree that we in UK don't get much variable voltage, provided your domestic property isn't either in some remote country setting or perhaps sited next to some lonesome little industrial estate, your gonna get reliable voltage all the time. But it's the spikes in current, and those computer crashes due to even momentary power cuts that are the concern for me. If I can protect my computer(s) with an UPS for a reasonable cost it's probably worth the investment to save time and trouble, but if the cost of an adequate UPS is too high, then I will have to accept the risks. So for the moment I need to know how to judge what ratings to allow for an UPS John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure
On Monday 08 December 2003 10:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Lanman wrote: Some UPS's work as lanman described ie always off the battery but do check if the UPS you buy does this or does the 'switching' thing. It is a FAR better UPS to have than the 'switching' one. I take your point entirely, and oh boy am I glad I have a list to ask these question on, because it's a pound to a penny I'd buy the one the supplier wants to sell me, rather than the one , if I knew which one, I really want. First I have to understand the techies then search for the equipement, so thanks. Sure, the question here is, do I really have to fear , say, my printer being crisped ? I mean, so I get a power cut , ain't going to fry my printer is it ? On the otherhand they tell me modems can be damaged , and of course the computer itself. I'm not so sure modems are as much at risk in UK as all that, my experience so far is that they can get hung up after a powercut, or surge, but that you pass them some init strings and that resets the factory settings quite nicely, off and away she starts again.Sometimes just turning the power off and on is all you need. I've no experience of a printer being fried, on any of the systems that I have been involved with. laser printers can be pretty finicky about power. and the one consideration being ignored this go around is damage from nearby lightning strikes. the Best reason yet for UPS and surge protectors. also consider that the opening of a circuit (turning OFF the electric stove, or a moving electric motor even more) can produce an even greater spike due to the collapse of the magnetic field in the motor. however if the item you want to protect is less expensive than the ups to protect it, and it fails less often than the ups batteries, then as Alfred E. Newman says what, me worry?. Modems, however, are a different story. Last year there was a rather violent storm. Most of my friends and family lost their modems. Apparently just having them plugged in to the telephone line can put them at risk. As well as having the UPS I have a surge-protect strip that protects the telephone line as well. My modem was unscathed. True, the surge strip had to be replaced soon after - but that's very cheap and easy compared with replacing anything else. So - the UPS protects the modem from problems with power supply, and the strip protects it from problems down the telephone line. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: However I would agree that we in UK don't get much variable voltage, provided your domestic property isn't either in some remote country setting or perhaps sited next to some lonesome little industrial estate, your gonna get reliable voltage all the time. Sorry, John. This just isn't so. I'm 5-6 miles south of Huddersfield - hardly what you would call remote, and there isn't an industrial site anywhere near here. But it's the spikes in current, and those computer crashes due to even momentary power cuts that are the concern for me. If I can protect my computer(s) with an UPS for a reasonable cost it's probably worth the investment to save time and trouble, but if the cost of an adequate UPS is too high, then I will have to accept the risks. Momentary drops are more frequent that you would think. How do I know? Well, it's not unusual for my UPS to signal me that it has momentarily taken over, when not even the lights blinked! You certainly wouldn't notice it from clocks, etc., but it is enough to harm your computer. 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] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:31, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:59 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Besides, SATA will soon be deprecated by PCI Express. You wait for ages for a bus, then as always 2 come along together g Anne Well, IMO, I don't see any suspense to it. Sorry, Tom. Old British joke. ;-) Anne I see the truth of it. LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Lets face it if winblowz wasn't full of holes then it would probably look like Linux -- Aron Smith, Mandrake OT mailing list *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 11:35, John Richard Smith wrote: Lanman wrote: John; It's continous. But the components in the power supply onlyaccept what they can manageor what they're rated for. The battery keeps this feed stable, and as a basic nature of electricity, only supplies what is needed at the time. Since it's a batteryafter all, it simply continues to store whatever is available until needed, and is constantly recharged by the wall outlet. So in a way, you could say that it is Continous Stepping that occurs, whereby the battery is the only source of electricity to the computer, but it can step up (or down ) the watts or amps to respond to the needs of the computer at any particular time. In any case, it acts as a buffer between your PC or electrical device, and the variable power that your power company can provide. OK, things are becoming much clearer now. I guess then you buy an UPS, plug it in, and plug your compuers into the UPS. So ought I to seek an UPS that can handle 3 computers(physically awkward) , or should I buy 3 individual UPS , or more particularly one to start with so that I can figure out how it all works. Best thing probably to do is to go with a Star Trek style Borg topology with multiple redundancies; in other words seperate distributed UPS's. That will reduce your wiring requirements while at the same time insuring that you won't have all computers losing their backup power simultaneously. I wonder what power supply size is minimal for one computer ? John That depends on how long you would like the UPS to operate your computer when the power goes out, as well as the power consumption of the power supply and monitor. If you want some operating time, I would suggest taking into account the monitor's power requirements as well, so if the power goes down you can see what you are doing for an hour or more. LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Lets face it if winblowz wasn't full of holes then it would probably look like Linux -- Aron Smith, Mandrake OT mailing list *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Monday 08 December 2003 10:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Ohh you got me going there. As with so many other of Edison's 'inventions' the light bulb was not invented by Edison at all. The city of Newcastle in England had public electric lighting before Edison 'invented' the lightbulb. What Edison did do was perfect a longer lasting filament for the electric lightbulb. http://www.maxmon.com/1878ad.htm And no. We do not use 250V in Europe. The UK is nominally 240V 50Hz, while continental Europe is mostly nominally 220V 50Hz The reasonably short lengths of transmission lines, few electrical storms, and very tight regulation of the generating industry here means that the supply is rarely out of spec and damage to electrical equipment is rare. I personally do not know anyone who filters their computers power supply. derek Sounds reasonable. BTW, my lightbulb remark was meant to be tongue in cheek ;) Fact remains that residential power in the US sux. Transmission into the neiborhoods is generally 440v 60Hz, but stepped down to 110v for residential use. We'd be much better off with European or UK style residential type systems. But it's way too late to change now. An UPS is a must have here, to cover brownouts more than outages. Particularly in rural areas. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure
On Monday 08 December 2003 10:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I've no experience of a printer being fried, on any of the systems that I have been involved with. Modems, however, are a different story. Last year there was a rather violent storm. Most of my friends and family lost their modems. Apparently just having them plugged in to the telephone line can put them at risk. As well as having the UPS I have a surge-protect strip that protects the telephone line as well. My modem was unscathed. True, the surge strip had to be replaced soon after - but that's very cheap and easy compared with replacing anything else. So - the UPS protects the modem from problems with power supply, and the strip protects it from problems down the telephone line. Anne I have just the computer, speaker system and the monitor plugged into my UPS. The phone, answering machine, and my aDSL 'modem' are plugged into an APC surge protector. Which also has factility to protect the phone line. This worked fine when I had an anolog phone line and used dialup. It also works with my digital aDSL line, BUT, it severly puts a hit on thruput. With the DSL line going thru the surge protector, I get 130 to 140KB/s. With the DSL run straight to the 'modem', I get 150 to 170 KB/s. (1.5Mbit aDSL) I've opted to risk the 'modem' ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your packages are earlier than mine (for example, your kdebase-servicemenu is 1.0-6, whereas mine is 1.0-12) Umm, looks suspicious to me. Anne has no problems with spell checking in KWord, but she runs MDK9.1. Mine is MDK9.2. Again , I'm not yet on M9.2, but it lt is looking like a bug to me ? Why not try a new thread with 9.2 in the subject line, and ask if anyone is prepared to look at kword spellchecking? It would help to know Link to Application a) is anyone able to confirm that spellchecking works, and with which dictionary b) is anyone able to confirm that spellcheking is working with an English dictionary, and which one? Add any other questions you can think of to eliminate factors Anne Am running Mandrake 9.2 here. Kword spell checker works fine with a (US presumably) English Directory , Encoding is US-ASCII and the client is International Ispell. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.2 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake
Hello! I've just switched over to Mandrake from Redhat 9. My Redhat box was running Sendmail with Authentication turned on (so I don't have to re-configure my laptops every time they leave the office and not to be an open relay). I have configured my sendmail.mc / sendmail.cf files exactly the same way with the following lines--which is what I understand you must do to have AUTH. However, I'm not getting any AUTH and I'm not sure why. Is there something else that needs to be added in somewhere with Mandrake? Or perhaps there's a setting I'm unaware of that is specific to the Mandrake build? Below is my sendmail.mc file (sans most of the commentary). Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks! Corey divert(-1) include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``mail:mail'')dnl OSTYPE(`linux')dnl undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl define(`confALIAS_WAIT', `30')dnl define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl dnl define delivery mode: interactive, background, or queued dnl define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `i') MASQUERADE_AS(`localhost.localdomain')dnl FEATURE(`limited_masquerade')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl FEATURE(mailertable)dnl dnl virtusertable: redirect incoming mail to virtual domain to particular user or domain FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl dnl genericstable: rewrite sender address for outgoing mail FEATURE(genericstable)dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl FEATURE(`access_db')dnl FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl dnl FEATURE(dnsbl, `blackholes.mail-abuse.org', `Rejected - see http://www.mail dnl FEATURE(dnsbl, `dialups.mail-abuse.org', `Dialup - see http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul/')dnl dnl FEATURE(dnsbl, `relays.mail-abuse.org', `Open spam relay - see http://www.mail-abuse.org/rss/')dnl FEATURE(`delay_checks')dnl FEATURE(`stickyhost')dnl dnl SASL Configuration dnl extract from http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html dnl dnl Next line stops sendmail from allowing auth without encryption define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl dnl Next two lines are for SMTP Authentication TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl dnl dnl STARTTLS configuration dnl extract from http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/starttls.html dnl define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/ssl/sendmail')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR')dnl define(`confCACERT', `CERT_DIR/CAcert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR/MYcert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR/MYkey.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `CERT_DIR/MYcert.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `CERT_DIR/MYkey.pem')dnl dnl dnl Uncomment next lines to hide identity of mail serve define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`goaway,restrictqrun,restrictmailq')dnl dnl define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG', `$j server ready at $b')dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
Rick is rigth you can use aumix to adjust the volumen level. No mather if you use a simple speaker set or if you use a home treater audio sistem.. they will recive the same output from the pc. so install aumix then execute them and ajust the sound volumen levels and you are done. Cdrack. --- Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 06 December 2003 12:38 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Actually my questions are dumb questions. First: is there a master volume control in Mandrake 9.2? I can only hear sound when the amplifier of my home theatre is at its maximum. I hope you read my reply to Rick's error below before you downloaded and started attempting to install 64 bit drivers on an Athlon. Yes, I did. Happily I got two replies from you. I am nor receiving many posts from the list. I do not even get my posts. Onward and sidewise; master volume would be aumix, or kmix or alsamixer, or alsamixerGUI or what are you looking for? Which sound server are you using? Sound server? I do not follow. Do I need a sound server to get sound? One of those should work to do what you want, but if you're outing through a home theatre system amplifier you'll have to experiment to find which line adjusts what. Yes, it is a home theatre with an amplifier. If you're talking about the PC speaker system called Home Theatre by marketting weenies any of the mixers should do. No, it is not a computer with speakers attached. It is a full home theatre. In other words it's easier to figure out when you're looking at the system g Second, I want to install the NVIDIA drivers, and there are the IA32, and the AMD64, both supporting my Geoforce3 (Platinum) card. My processor is an Athlon 1.4 Ghz. I reckon the 32 and 64 refer to a 32 bit OS and a 64 bit OS respectively, but I am in doubt about the AMD bit which might refer to the processor. Thanks for allowing me to dumb-ask. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 10:49, Corey wrote: Hello! I've just switched over to Mandrake from Redhat 9. My Redhat box was running Sendmail with Authentication turned on (so I don't have to re-configure my laptops every time they leave the office and not to be an open relay). I have configured my sendmail.mc / sendmail.cf files exactly the same way with the following lines--which is what I understand you must do to have AUTH. However, I'm not getting any AUTH and I'm not sure why. Is there something else that needs to be added in somewhere with Mandrake? Or perhaps there's a setting I'm unaware of that is specific to the Mandrake build? Below is my sendmail.mc file (sans most of the commentary). Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks! Corey Sometimes on a new installation, if something borks, shorewall or the iptables scripts will block stuff that should not be blocked. What I suggest is that you run service iptables stop and thus set your iptables chains to vanilla. Then reevaluate and retest your Sendmail situation. It may not amount to anything but it will tell you were the problem is *not* at the very least. Rots of ruck, LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Lets face it if winblowz wasn't full of holes then it would probably look like Linux -- Aron Smith, Mandrake OT mailing list *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 6:14 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Sorry to reply so late. My server or the list are not behaving in a decent way for me. I appreciate your feedback. Only problem is that it seems there are no drivers for my Athlon. I seem to need an equivalent to IA32, but there is not one. What can I do? To remain with the niv (is that the provided by Mandrake?) driver? Teilhard I'm sending this to the list and CC:'ing it to you since you say you're having problems. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496 I know it says IA32. It is. But so is an Athlon, a Duron, any Pentium and any Celeron. It's the architecture, not the manufacturer. Think Intel compatible. Don't sweat that, just follow the instructions on the page. Good luck. Charlie Oh, I never thought of an Athlon as Intel compatible. Thanks so much, the video problem is, then, solved. I haven't installed the package, but I'm not contemplating any problems. I installed it long ago in another machine (with Mandrake 9.1) with P4, and everything worked just fine. I have got your post about sound (this time I only got it once, as compared to this one which I got twice). Thank you for posting and emailing your posts. I will now reply. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [TV-Card] No channels are found
Hi All, I still can't get it to work. Is there anything that needs root access or something? Sometimes I have one channel that I can't change, sometimes I don't have any channels at all. Even when I didn't change a thing. Just a reboot would do the trick. Bert Op zo 07-12-2003, om 14:31 schreef Bert Meersma: Hi, I seem to have made some progress here. Unfortunately, I haven't got a clue how I did it. But I have one channel now. The weird thing now is that when I scan for channels, every frequency that is scanned is recorded in the channel list. But when I try to change te channel to another one, nothing happens. I only can watch that one channel. Bert - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] [TV-Card] No channels are found On Sunday 07 December 2003 10:53 am, Bert Meersma wrote: Hi all, I have a Pinnacle PCTV tv card. I have tried configuring this card by putting the right lines in the modules.conf file, but I can't get any channels listed. Now I removed the lines from modules.conf and did a rmmod bttv. After that I did modprobe bttv. Dmesg than gave the following output: bttv: driver version 0.7.100 loaded bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:08.0, irq: 19, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdddfe000 bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is 11bd:0012 bttv0: using: BT878(Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Ra) [card=39,autodetected] tda9887: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005] tda9887: chip found @ 0x86 bttv0: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok] tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005] tuner: chip found @ 0xc0 bttv0: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: pinnacle/mt: id=1 info=PAL / mono radio=no tuner: type set to 33 (MT2032 universal) MT2032: Companycode=3cbf Part=42 Revision=46 not a MT2032. bttv0: using tuner=33 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found bttv0: PLL: 28636363 = 35468950 ... ok bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 I think this is correct, although I'm not sure. But no matter what I do, I can't get any channels listed. Not even get a full screen with snow. Al I get is a tv screen that's mostly black or blue or green and a little edge with snow on the upper side. Check out the screenshot on: http://members1.chello.nl/~b.meersma/xawtv.png I'm trying this all on Mandrake 9.1. And there's no problem in the cable, because in Windows it does work. Could someone help me with this please. Kind Regards, Bert Meersma have you tried to use the different 'overlay' methods (under capture in xawTV)? these are sometimes specific to your video card's (not the tv card) capabilities, but this really looks to me as if you might try a different setting for frequency table, and or video source. Let us know if you do get it working? Ok? 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 -- Groeten, Bert Meersma _ ICQ# 61969491 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters
Margot wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Mozilla 1.3 email filters I have Mozilla 1.4 (upgraded from 1.0 on Mandrake 9.0 then reinstalled on Mandrake 9.2) and have no problem with the filters. Is there any particular reason why you are running Mozilla 1.3? Could you upgrade to 1.4? I dunno how. /me hangs hi head in shame and slumps off to a lonely corner. I guess from reading the list that I would need to use urpmi but I have never used it before and asides I am, and have been for close on a year, a total newbie ie I dunno how to compile my kernel, extract from a tarball etc, etc. I have been using the newer versions of the software as they come out in a distro update ie I was running Moz 1.0 under 9.0 until I fresh installed 9.1 Updating software scares me as the last time I tried to use MCC under 8.0 it REALLY screwed me around. Asides from that I cannot spend more than about 15mins per day on the net as the costs are prohibitive. If someone could send me some details on what to download I'll hop past an internet cafe and cut a CD of the required libraries and their dependencies. Ideas on the current STABLE release of Mozilla (1.5?) appreciated. Time to get learning and learn how to install an RPM or source from an external CD. -- Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using Linux Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 6:23 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: snip Sound server? I do not follow. Do I need a sound server to get sound? Open Source Sound (OSS), or Alsa. Which? How do I tell? Is artsd controlling properly, and is it set to Auto suspend after X number of seconds of inactivity. Mine is set for 1 second and the sound works fine. I'm afraid I do not know what is artsd. Most importantly, and you've probably posted this in the past, what sound chip are you using? On-board, a PCI card, is the out to the home theatre's amp plugged into the correct socket? Some information about what you're using would be beneficial in trying to help The sound is controlled by a PCI Creative Sound Blaster Live! + 5.1. Onboard sound is disabled (by a jumper). The home theater is a Cambridge SoundWorks DTT3500 Digital Five Satellite/Subwoofer. Funny thing is that one of the leads (for digital output) blinks if there is no signal to the amplifier, but with Mandrake, it remains solid. That leads me to think that no complicated configuration is needed, and that perhaps it is only adjusting the volume or something like that. with this one. Post the output of this shell command from a terminal as super user: lspcidrake -v Here it goes. The complete enchilada, so you can know how my system is configured: unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:1106 device:0305) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:1106 device:8305) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super] [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:1106 device:0686 subv:1106 subd:) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] [STORAGE_IDE] (vendor:1106 device:0571) usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1106 device:3038 subv:0925 subd:1234) usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1106 device:3038 subv:0925 subd:1234) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] [BRIDGE_OTHER] (vendor:1106 device:3057) unknown : Promise Technology, Inc.|20269 [STORAGE_OTHER] (vendor:105a device:4d69 subv:105a subd:4d68) snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8061) emu10k1-gp : Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) [INPUT_OTHER] (vendor:1102 device:7002 subv:1102 subd:0020) natsemi : National Semi|DP83810 10/100 Ethernet [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:100b device:0020 subv:1385 subd:f311) unknown : ESS Technology|ES2898 Modem [COMMUNICATION_OTHER] (vendor:125d device:2898 subv:148d subd:1030) advansys : Advanced System Products|ABP940-U / ABP960-U [STORAGE_SCSI] (vendor:10cd device:1300 subv:10cd subd:1310) Card:NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic): nVidia Corporation|GeForce3 [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10de device:0200 subv:107d subd:2860) unknown : Unknown|USB UHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub] (vendor: device:) unknown : Unknown|USB UHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub] (vendor: device:) unknown : Hewlett-Packard|DeskJet 845C [Printer|Printer|Bidirectional] (vendor:03f0 device:0904) unknown : unknown (0d5c/a002//) [] Yes, it is a home theatre with an amplifier. No, it is not a computer with speakers attached. It is a full home theatre. Technically it is a computer with speakers attached, it's just not traditional computer speakers. (-: That's OK, I'm certain a lot of us have helped with much stranger beasts in the past. I see, thanks. If you have already posted the specs on your system I apologize for asking you to do so again. I must have missed it. Regardless, please do so now. I'm sure somebody around here can help troubleshoot this. No problem. It's just copy and paste. I'm still CC:'ing you to be certain you get this. Thanks so much for this. I got this post of yours only as a message for me, not as a post in the list. If you had replied only to the list, I wouldn't have got it. Also, thanks so much for taking the time to see into my problem. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 12:04 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2? Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes. I just installed K-Office to test this. The spelling check (manual) crashes when I intentionally misspell words but the auto correction does underline them. ASpell didn't work at all, I switched to the Canadian English accented dictionary and selected I-Spell. It all worked as expected. BTW don't forget that K-Office in 9.2 is a beta package. There may be glitches. (-; a) If so, which dictionary do you use? Answered above. Did you select the same dictionary as in K-Control? K menu, Configuration, Components, Spell Checker? I didn't that's the one (A-Spell) that crashes without error when I do a manual check. Auto correction is turned on here. b) Can anyone please confirm if English-GB spell checking works The only difference between that one and Canadian English w/accents should be the accents. I'll start it from a terminal and try it... OK, I tried to crash it, _honest!_ I switched the dictionary to GB -w accents and hit auto-correction. Nothing but a bunch of stops for input. I kept telling it to Ignore All so that it wouldn't correct anything 'cause the document I was checking was the load output from running k-word from a terminal. I can send you the text if you like but it seems rather pointless. I also switched to A-Spell and ran it again, same result. Hello Charlie. Many thanks for all the help you are giving me. I really do appreciate it. This gets curiouser and curiouser as Alice said. I did exactly as you had done, but all it did was to crash. Since then I have been doing other things on the computer and have tried it again. Now it doesn't crash! However. It spell checks, but I can't get it to differentiate between British and American spelling (it accepts both color and colour). Whatever I set the KWord spelling settings to, as soon as I clicked on OK to exit the settings box, it reverts to English Dictionary, Keeps the encoding I have just set, and International Ispell Client. I can't get it to save the new settings. Then I renamed all the american files in /usr/lib/ispell, just leaving the british ones, to try to make ISpell only see the British part of the ISpell_en dictionary. I assumed that the dictionary was a combined one and the spell checker just chose which country's spellings it needed. But that makes no difference - it still accepts both spellings. That is as far as I have got. A start, but not very far. Hope this explanation hasn't been too garbled! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters
On Monday 08 December 2003 14:15, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: snip Ideas on the current STABLE release of Mozilla (1.5?) appreciated. Time to get learning and learn how to install an RPM or source from an external CD. /snip Hylton, Mozilla 1.5 doesn't come as a rpm, but as an installer (bin). No big issue to use, though. Just follow the README. But be aware that you'll lose all the nice fonts, including the antialiasing ones. IMHO the Mozilla fonts are terrible. Actually I reverted to the Mozilla 1.4 that comes with MDK 9.2 as a rpm. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure
On Monday 08 December 2003 06:03 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Lanman wrote: On 12/7/2003 at 3:22 PM John Richard Smith wrote: Lanman wrote: John; The basic purpose of a UPS is to filter or condition the electrical power which your computer receives. Typically, your computer runs off of the battery inside the UPS, and a charger keeps the battery charged from the wall outlet. lanman gave you partially incorrect informtion ie that it is continuous! John be warned that this is an ideal and preferred setup. Some UPS's actually let the equipment plugged into it run run off the main supplied power that is is also using to charge the batteries, filtered of course to prevent spikes but still basically straight through. When a power outage occurs the UPS detects this and switches the computer supply from the now dead mains supply to the backup mains supplied via the battery and an inverter to transform the voltage of the battery (12volts DC) to 230v AC. Sometimes the time taken for the UPS to switch results in your computer losing power/rebooting. Nothing that a kettle would notice but a PC's nightmare. True, where I live, power spikes, outages, surges, and cuts, are very common. Just a few minutes ago, we had something which appeared to be a power spike, but contrary with my experience with UPS's, the protected computer rebooted. I think I'll have to invest in a better one. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check. (Explained)
Hoping to reach a wider audience, I have asked on the KDE list if anyone has had problems with KWord spell checking. I have received this reply from Dik Takken: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Keith Powell wrote: Is there a problem with spell checking in KWord1.2.92, please? Yes, there are serious problems with the new KWord. KWord 1.2.94 doesn't crash anymore, but spell check still not really 100% usable. Hopefully KWord 1.2.95 will be a lot better. Just stay tuned. Dik So that is the answer Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
Rick is rigth you can use aumix to adjust the volumen level. No mather if you use a simple speaker set or if you use a home treater audio sistem.. they will recive the same output from the pc. so install aumix then execute them and ajust the sound volumen levels and you are done. Thank you for telling me I have to install aumix. I was looking for it, but I never found it. What I found was kmix. Seems to be very complete, but it didn't make a difference adjusting the levels. I'll look now for aumix. Thanks a lot. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v 50cycles/min. Yep, 240V, I just measured it (239V at this moment.) I strangely remembered that it had been shifted down closer to the EU levels. UK industrial is mainly 480v 3 phase, that is all the heavy stuff, everything else is single phase 240v like domestic. pedantic note: 440V, it's 120 degrees out of phase, not 180. That'll teach me to post off the top of my head. My fuses are 2x5A (lights), 2x30A (sockets) and 1x15A (water heater.) The oven is only 2.7kW, so it's on the normal ring. I misremembered the big sealed fuse too, it's 100A. Remember that in the US, the lower voltage means you will need over twice the current for the same power. Here 13A is 3.12kW, over there it would have to be 28.36A for the same power. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 11:50 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 12:22 pm, dfox wrote: df Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO df So Linus sees a connection between Darl and whoring. I'll go along df with that. -- cmg df df GPL SEX df Right. You can do it, change how you do it, read all the instructions about how to do it, and even give it away for free... By the Gods, I just love Linux! :-) In what sense? :-) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO
On Monday 08 December 2003 01:45 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: RU df GPL SEX RU df RU RU Right. You can do it, change how you do it, read all the instructions about RU how to do it, and even give it away for free... RU RU By the Gods, I just love Linux! :-) RU RU In what sense? :-) RU insmod spring to mind... wicked grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 08 December 2003 01:45 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: RU df GPL SEX RU df RU RU Right. You can do it, change how you do it, read all the instructions about RU how to do it, and even give it away for free... RU RU By the Gods, I just love Linux! :-) RU RU In what sense? :-) RU insmod spring to mind... wicked grin Also reminds me of this: http://www.d.kth.se/~d95-aso/hackers.htm WARNING: may be offensive. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Monday 08 December 2003 05:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote: DJ Ohh you got me going there. DJ As with so many other of Edison's 'inventions' the light bulb was not invented DJ by Edison at all. DJ The city of Newcastle in England had public electric lighting before Edison DJ 'invented' the lightbulb. DJ What Edison did do was perfect a longer lasting filament for the electric DJ lightbulb. Off topic, so I apologize in advance, but if you really want to get a real eye opener, go to google and do tesla vs edison (or vice versa). Both deserve kudos, but while Edison is a nuts and bolts/trial and error kind of guy, well...Tesla is the wiley coyote s genius! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO
On Monday 08 December 2003 01:55 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: RU Also reminds me of this: http://www.d.kth.se/~d95-aso/hackers.htm RU WARNING: may be offensive. RU lol Good one! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that I'm already comfortable with the idea of manually creating/editing configuration files in Linux...which I'm not. At this point, there's just one Windows program I'd like to see if I can get to work under Wine (MessageCleaner). If I can get that set up to work in my Mandrake installation, it will, at the very least, give me a little extra time to get used to some of the Linux text editors and/or email/news clients and still be able to do a few specific things with certain types of text formatting/re-formatting of email and news group messages. So...are there any good Wine for *Complete Dummies* tutorials out there you could recommend? Thanks! - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/1MqTjVbXUvsE8ukRAv22AKCpJ9SIPXDr53I8+qwvTfg2vbSg0ACdHcNJ IfR0r96Xfq0mJpBhwHgEGlM= =jUs5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
Melissa- Have you checked the Wine list to see if that program is supported? -Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melissa Reese Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:02 PM To: MDK Newbie Subject: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that I'm already comfortable with the idea of manually creating/editing configuration files in Linux...which I'm not. At this point, there's just one Windows program I'd like to see if I can get to work under Wine (MessageCleaner). If I can get that set up to work in my Mandrake installation, it will, at the very least, give me a little extra time to get used to some of the Linux text editors and/or email/news clients and still be able to do a few specific things with certain types of text formatting/re-formatting of email and news group messages. So...are there any good Wine for *Complete Dummies* tutorials out there you could recommend? Thanks! - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/1MqTjVbXUvsE8ukRAv22AKCpJ9SIPXDr53I8+qwvTfg2vbSg0ACdHcNJ IfR0r96Xfq0mJpBhwHgEGlM= =jUs5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v 50cycles/min. Cycles per second ? -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.2 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 3:34 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your packages are earlier than mine (for example, your kdebase-servicemenu is 1.0-6, whereas mine is 1.0-12) Umm, looks suspicious to me. Anne has no problems with spell checking in KWord, but she runs MDK9.1. Mine is MDK9.2. Again , I'm not yet on M9.2, but it lt is looking like a bug to me ? Why not try a new thread with 9.2 in the subject line, and ask if anyone is prepared to look at kword spellchecking? It would help to know Link to Application a) is anyone able to confirm that spellchecking works, and with which dictionary b) is anyone able to confirm that spellcheking is working with an English dictionary, and which one? Add any other questions you can think of to eliminate factors Anne Am running Mandrake 9.2 here. Kword spell checker works fine with a (US presumably) English Directory , Encoding is US-ASCII and the client is International Ispell. Thanks for your reply, Alan. As I have recently posted, mine has stopped crashing (at the moment), but still doesn't spell check correctly. I'll manage with the spell checking I am able to do, until 1.2.95 comes along, as Dik explained in his posting which I sent to the list. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, On Monday, December 08, 2003, at 11:05:49 AM PST, you wrote: Have you checked the Wine list to see if that program is supported? I didn't see it listed there, but thought I'd give it a try anyway. How else will I know if it can work or not? Or, must each program be specifically addressed by the writers of Wine before it even has a chance of working? - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/1NEMjVbXUvsE8ukRAm9UAJwOaSIzTntT3znpQhawMdhyIrqGKwCgzIvZ 9rUPQint01Q1S59a7oaSQIk= =KKKB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Margot wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Mozilla 1.3 email filters I have Mozilla 1.4 (upgraded from 1.0 on Mandrake 9.0 then reinstalled on Mandrake 9.2) and have no problem with the filters. Is there any particular reason why you are running Mozilla 1.3? Could you upgrade to 1.4? I dunno how. /me hangs hi head in shame and slumps off to a lonely corner. I guess from reading the list that I would need to use urpmi but I have never used it before and asides I am, and have been for close on a year, a total newbie ie I dunno how to compile my kernel, extract from a tarball etc, etc. Don't be scared of urpmi! It is really easy! I'm very much a newbie too - Mandrake 9.0 a year ago was not only my first Mandrake, but my first Linux. I've never even seen my kernel, let alone compiled it, and the only time I tried to use a tarball I messed up completely - but even I can manage urpmi! It sounds scary, but it really isn't. Have a look at the Twiki page on urpmi: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi and then go to the Easy Urpmi page: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php If I can manage urpmi, anybody can. If you need more help, get back to us. Good luck, Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
Hi Melissa- I didn't see it listed there, but thought I'd give it a try anyway. How else will I know if it can work or not? Or, must each program be specifically addressed by the writers of Wine before it even has a chance of working? What does MessageCleaner do? I am not familiar with it? In answer to your question: there is always a chance that it may work even if it is not on the list. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, On Monday, December 08, 2003, at 11:38:51 AM PST, you wrote: What does MessageCleaner do? Here's the MC site, which describes the various things it does: http://www.roundhillsoftware.com/MessageCleaner/ My regular Windows email client (The Bat!) does all that and more, so I only use MC with my news reader, because my Windows news reader (Forté Agent), while being pretty good in general, doesn't have a very capable message editor. I may well find some or all of these features in the various Linux email/news clients and text editors, but until I get to know all that they're capable of, I still want to be able to deal with message composition in email and news in a way more to my liking...hence wanting to be able to use a utility like MessageCleaner at the moment. - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/1NYmjVbXUvsE8ukRAv13AJ91+JjczOyL6fTVrtlC+9PRRRlGVwCcCKZm T46EoBC31sWmVYR0GvCtJT8= =uSx8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.
In my last post, I said that I had got spell checking to work with KWord, but it wouldn't differentiate between British and American spellings. I have found a work-around which appears to work. When starting spell checking and the spell checking box with the alternative spellings/words first comes up, the Language shows that it is set to English. Scroll through the list and click on English (United Kingdom). It then checks with just the UK spellings. Very simple and everyone else probably already knew this :-( Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
On Monday 08 December 2003 02:01 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that I'm already comfortable with the idea of manually creating/editing configuration files in Linux...which I'm not. Well, Mandrake comes with a wine RPM, you should just need to use the Install Software link, find wine and install it. Once you do, it should install a daemon called wineserver that should automatically pick up any .exe file that you run. You may need to edit your wine config file to actually point to your CD drive among other things, but since those settings are dependent on your system, I am not sure that there is such a thing as an easy howto to tell you how to do it. I can help you get the config setup by asking for pertinent info and sending you a copy of the proper settings to use. If you just want a sample, I can send you a copy of mine offlist, just so that you can go through and see what the settings look like but installing the RPM should get you pretty close to where you need to be. Other options would be to buy Crossover Office or WineX since both include installation routines and have built in installers for applications. So...are there any good Wine for *Complete Dummies* tutorials out there you could recommend? Thanks! My personal recommendation would be to just install the RPM and see where you are at and move on from there. You might be surprised at how quickly you can get it going by just installing the RPM and making a few minor changes to the /home/user/.wine/config file. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
Melissa- I use PAN as my newsreader and I will check out what it can/can't do. Googling for pan message cleaner brings up all kinds of things for the kitchen :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melissa Reese Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:51 PM To: Scott St. John Subject: Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, I may well find some or all of these features in the various Linux email/news clients and text editors, but until I get to know all that they're capable of, I still want to be able to deal with message composition in email and news in a way more to my liking...hence wanting to be able to use a utility like MessageCleaner at the moment. - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/1NYmjVbXUvsE8ukRAv13AJ91+JjczOyL6fTVrtlC+9PRRRlGVwCcCKZm T46EoBC31sWmVYR0GvCtJT8= =uSx8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi contrib
Hi, Thanks to those who responded. -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 08 December 2003 10:12 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: whack, snip and edit Open Source Sound (OSS), or Alsa. Which? How do I tell? Here goes another of those damned Charlie books. Sorry for length in other words. Your posting of the output for the command that I requested tells me what driver you're using. ie.: snd-emu10k1 which says you have installed and are using the proper alsa modules for your card. As am I, but mine is working and yours isn't so let's see what we can see. Is artsd controlling properly, and is it set to Auto suspend after X number of seconds of inactivity. Mine is set for 1 second and the sound works fine. I'm afraid I do not know what is artsd. Artsd is the KDE sound server. Now you know why I asked that question. Open the Configure your desktop (kde control centre) dialogue and find the Sound heading, then the Sound System sub-heading. There are three tabs. If you like I'll send you a screen shot off list to show the settings on mine since we have the same basic card. Let me know. The sound is controlled by a PCI Creative Sound Blaster Live! + 5.1. Onboard sound is disabled (by a jumper). The home theater is a Cambridge SoundWorks DTT3500 Digital Five Satellite/Subwoofer. Funny thing is that one of the leads (for digital output) blinks if there is no signal to the amplifier, but with Mandrake, it remains solid. That leads me to think that no complicated configuration is needed, and that perhaps it is only adjusting the volume or something like that. Nothing unusual there. I see in another reply you have found that you needed to install aumix. Have you? Did you then launch it (in a terminal just type aumix and strike the enter key) and adjust the settings, then click the File button, click the Save button then close it? If not try it. Keep that terminal open, preferably as super user and open the Mandrake Control centre. Find the System heading in the left column, then the DrakXservices sub-heading in the right panel and see whether alsa is running and whether it's set to start at boot. It should be the first item in the alphabetical list. Next scroll down and find sound and look for the same conditions. After being certain that both conditions are true (alsa running and set to start at boot, sound the same settings) click the OK button. Report the output of any error messages back to the list. If you still have no sound; still in the Mandrake Control Centre, click Hardware in the left column and HardDrake in the right panel. Find your sound card and click it. You should see, in the farthest right panel something similar to this: Vendor: Creative Labs Alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1 Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1102:2:1102:8027 Location on the bus: 0:b:0 Description: SB Live! (audio) Module: snd-emu10k1 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Below that there are 2 buttons, one says configure module (leave that one for now) and the bottom one says Run config tool. Click that one. Now you'll have another dialogue that has an information pane and three pull down buttons, one of which shows the driver currently being used, another says Trouble shooting, the last says Let me pick any driver. My card is configured and working with the default driver snd-emu10k1. So is your apparently. Click the trouble shooting button and follow the instructions. Post the output of this shell command from a terminal as super user: lspcidrake -v snip snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8061) Same as mine, so I'm still thinking you have a volume level set to zero somewhere. Or muted somehow. Or the cable is connected to the wrong socket. Or the volume setting on the speakers is set to off. I did that when I first got my Altec Lansings. Two volume controls, one on the sub, one on the left speaker. The sub was zeroed. Oops! g Check all the obvious (blatantly obvious?) things first and then we'll play software roulette. (-; I'm still CC:'ing you to be certain you get this. Thanks so much for this. I got this post of yours only as a message for me, not as a post in the list. If you had replied only to the list, I wouldn't have got it. Also, thanks so much for taking the time to see into my problem. Teilhard. Don't thank me unless I actually help you get sound working. g You're very welcome. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk Sometimes love ain't nothing but a misunderstanding between two fools. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1BrxZqvqlrLPr5YRAmHyAJ91by7SD8ATGDf5H/AuzsJf05cy8gCgnDXH RWjaL5p7rhKbBLgtyOtiPZk= =wlLv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 12:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: Googling for pan message cleaner brings up all kinds of things for the kitchen :) Hee hee! I already have a dishwasher, and I'm pretty sure it'll run under both Linux and Windows (maybe even Wine!). - -- Melissa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1OEXjVbXUvsE8ukRAvriAJ0RPIGNW8kDojrRbC3speviJ8qs9ACgt4/9 RL6Bi0PrnoooGvwXIMlKqfM= =l/vt -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 08 December 2003 11:21 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: snip Ideas on the current STABLE release of Mozilla (1.5?) appreciated. Time to get learning and learn how to install an RPM or source from an external CD. Hylton, Mozilla 1.5 doesn't come as a rpm, but as an installer (bin). No big issue to use, though. Just follow the README. Say what? ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/mozilla-1.5-0.91mdk.i586.rpm Same idea expressed below is applicable to 9.0 I believe. The OP did say 9.1, correct? You can add the ftp://favourite mirror/mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub to your software sources for contributors packages such as Mozilla 1.5. urpmi then will install and take care of dependencies and you wouldn't need worry about the dependency dance. (-; However the e-mail client in 1.5 is a shade wonky for me. One of these days when i have time... But be aware that you'll lose all the nice fonts, including the antialiasing ones. IMHO the Mozilla fonts are terrible. Actually I reverted to the Mozilla 1.4 that comes with MDK 9.2 as a rpm. HTH Kaj Haulrich. The latest Officially for 9.1 is the one in updates. It's 1.3. 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 Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be prosecuted. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1B3HZqvqlrLPr5YRAtCVAJ99QEe9TmpCtjgFIOOeidkqF9M4XACeMMDx Fx4TgfY+C1JnL++tMVT4M+A= =n2vo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 19:01, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that I'm already comfortable with the idea of manually creating/editing configuration files in Linux...which I'm not. At this point, there's just one Windows program I'd like to see if I can get to work under Wine (MessageCleaner). If I can get that set up to work in my Mandrake installation, it will, at the very least, give me a little extra time to get used to some of the Linux text editors and/or email/news clients and still be able to do a few specific things with certain types of text formatting/re-formatting of email and news group messages. So...are there any good Wine for *Complete Dummies* tutorials out there you could recommend? Thanks! - -- Melissa Melissa, I installed Wine last week and used the most recent package that I downloaded from sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241 Click link 20031118 to read how to install. The configuration program winesetuptk is included in the mdk package, so if you follow the instruction on the sourceforge you will be able to install and do a basic configuration. You might also want to check out Crossover Office at url http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/?cw=6dd67914bcd0018829a95261e100bf6b I tried the trail version and I think it's excellent. Very easy to use. Good luck, Marco -- Tell me about these oppressed masses. What's got them so worked up ? They're upset, sir, because they are so poor that they are forced to have children merely to provide a cheap alternative to turkey at Christmas. Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Enlightenment
As I am offering the xfce4 rpms it would be shamefully remiss of me not to pay equal homage to my favorite WM.Enlightenment. Now available for immediate delivery, and at no extra charge to you the consumer And with a full 90 day money back guarantee enlightenment-0.16.6-0.1mdk.i586.rpm This rpm is the WM itself enlightenment-conf-0.15-21.2mdk.i586.rpm This rpm offers a 1 stop Gui for configuring your E settings *This release is not yet available as a mdk rpm epplets-0.7-0.1cae.i586.rpm This rpm contains numerous epplets (applets to non E users) with which to populate your E desktop *This version release is not yet available as a mdk rpm more-e-0.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm This is a collection of 7 E16 themes from FM that I liked which Ibundled together in an rpm Happy shopping Charles -- Public use of any portable music system is a virtually guaranteed indicator of sociopathic tendencies. -- Zoso -- Mandrake Linux 9.2 Registered Linux user #182463 Machine: TallBoy #184143 http://www.eslrahc.com -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Modem troubles
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Hi,
I am another Mandrake newbie (obviously or I wouldn't be here I guess!)
and I need some help please.
My modem is evidently a winmodem according to Mandrake, which is
unsupported in Linux. It is Conexant HSF V92 56k PCI . I found a site
which provides linux modem drivers, ran their modem ID utility to
correctly ID my modem, and downloaded the appropriate driver.
Because I am unable to get online from Linux I obviously had to unzip
the driver file to a floppy. Now, can someone please tell me how I get
this driver into Mandrake? :-)
A geek friend gave me the following instructions for accessing the
file on the floppy but it didn't work when I tried it. Maybe I copied
something down incorrectly?
When you're in Linux (as root) type 'mkdir /floppy' that will make
an
obvious spot for you to mount floppies to. Insert the floppy into the
drive, type 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy' that will tell Linux to
check the floppy drive for a DOS style (fat) floppy and to mount it at
/floppy. Then type cd /floppy and type 'ls'. ls is the same as typing
'dir' under DOS/windows then look for the file that follows the format
of the file you're looking for, if there's just the one file on the
disk then it should be very easy!. The RPM command goes like such 'rpm
i filename'
The instructions for installing the driver (from the driver site) are
as follows:
METHOD A: BINARY RPM PACKAGE (*.{arch}.rpm)
If you have obtained the driver package in RPM format:
1. install the rpm with rpm -i hsfmodem-{version}.{arch}.rpm
2. if necessary, run hsfconfig to complete the installation, enter
license information, or to change your modem's configuration
Can someone please check both sets of the above instructions and
confirm for me whether they are correct? This command line stuff is
totally new to me and I am struggling to say the least! If anyone can
think of an easier way for me to do this, feel free to let me know!
:-)
Many thanks in advance!
- --
Best regards,
Carren
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Re[2]: [newbie] Modem troubles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thanks for your help everyone. I ran the install and got a message saying everything installed, so I assume it worked, although I have no idea where it installed to. I never got asked to select where I wanted it installed as I would have in Windows. Unfortunately nothing works still. My modem is listed in HardDrak(SP?) but there is now no configuration tool* button available for it for some reason. I have no idea whether it is configured correctly or not, or even where to go to do that. The other question I have is, when I go into MCC and look in the Internet section. I have to re-enter my connection details in there each time I go in to try to get this working. It doesn't seem to save my connection information anywhere. I would have thought that once I hit *apply* and *OK*, those details would stay there and would still be visible next time I log in and look at them. This really doesn't work like Windows does it?! ;-) Thanks for your help people. Might be time for yet another break ... I'm finding this incredibly frustrating! - -- - Carren -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.2 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBP9UlZsqIEIT739NzEQKd/gCg+5RJ4zYJw2pzCkT/o5L7Ae601qEAoOKR YO/oIHTvZjadmDNOttAPtFZL =sh+F -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b grief
See my post and reply from a few days ago. I had the same problem (different CDR) under 9.2. After downgrading the cdrecord package to the one supplied with 9.1, I think this solved the underrun problem without having to also downgrade cdrdao. Needs more testing however. On Monday 08 December 2003 05:29 pm, Paul Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No matter how hard I try, I can't get k3b to write a CD without a buffer underrun happening (I have an Artec WRR-52Z) - in fact, I can't get *any* CD writing package to work. Are there any handy guides? I've tried k3bsetup but that didn't help either. This is holding me back from going (almost) 100% Mdk waving bye bye to ~ XP for everything but video capture. Thanks in advance, Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/1PtNq+i2H9Bw1yoRAvU0AKC9MHItKiZ4HSwZvpK64z0rB4VTHwCglnv+ puurMrvzX7Xz6Qp6k1Xra2c= =cxhg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare problems! Please Help!
Which OS is your host and which is your guest. Which version of VMW are you running? Which version of MDK are you running? How are you partitioning? I installed VMWare 4.02 4.05 onto a mdk 9.2 host in order to run W2K w/ no problems. P On Monday 08 December 2003 02:07 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: I have been trying to get VMWare working for a little bit now. I have been trying to get my Win98 OS working on my HDA parition. The problem is that every time I try to launch the OS LiLO causes and error where this: L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07, etc. is displayed over and over and over again. Does anyone know how to fix this. I've tried diabling Lilo and making a boot disk, but my disk won't boot properly. I've tried using boot floppies and CDs in VMWare and VFAT crashes. What can I do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Qwest/MSN DSL combo
Anybody running the subject combination under Mdk? I'm moving from West Texas to the Denver, CO area (finally some scenery) very soon, and am wondering if there are any gotchas I need to watch out for. Verizon DSL has been absolutely no problem and I'm hoping that this setup will work as easily. I've got Verizon's DSL modem plugged into my Linksys router, then into my various computing devices, with the router handling the DHCP negotiation with Verizon. In my mind, the Qwest setup should be just as easy, but I'm hearing that MSN insists on some sort of Hotmail web setup for email, vice a POP server. Any truth to this? Thanks in advance; Glenn -- 20:37:30 up 4 days, 4:06, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-21mdk on an Intel P4 1.8 Registered Linux user #324360 Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese computer factory! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:29:10 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: However I would agree that we in UK don't get much variable voltage, provided your domestic property isn't either in some remote country setting or perhaps sited next to some lonesome little industrial estate, your gonna get reliable voltage all the time. Sorry, John. This just isn't so. I'm 5-6 miles south of Huddersfield - hardly what you would call remote, and there isn't an industrial site anywhere near here. I have a friend from India that would consider all of these good systems! When he was growing up, they would experience hours or even days where the voltage would drop so much that the lights were dim. They had variacs (i think) to bump up (or down) the voltage to correct for it... 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] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake
I tried disabling the firewall and iptables, but still no luck on AUTH. I CAN send mail from my local network currently. It's just outside the network I can't do anything now. I can't get authentication to work inside the network, either. If anyone can tell me what I'm missing, that would be great! THANKS! Corey __ Sometimes on a new installation, if something borks, shorewall or the iptables scripts will block stuff that should not be blocked. What I suggest is that you run service iptables stop and thus set your iptables chains to vanilla. Then reevaluate and retest your Sendmail situation. It may not amount to anything but it will tell you were the problem is *not* at the very least. Rots of ruck, LX __ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 10:49, Corey wrote: Hello! I've just switched over to Mandrake from Redhat 9. My Redhat box was running Sendmail with Authentication turned on (so I don't have to re-configure my laptops every time they leave the office and not to be an open relay). I have configured my sendmail.mc / sendmail.cf files exactly the same way with the following lines--which is what I understand you must do to have AUTH. However, I'm not getting any AUTH and I'm not sure why. Is there something else that needs to be added in somewhere with Mandrake? Or perhaps there's a setting I'm unaware of that is specific to the Mandrake build? Below is my sendmail.mc file (sans most of the commentary). Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks! Corey -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Lets face it if winblowz wasn't full of holes then it would probably look like Linux -- Aron Smith, Mandrake OT mailing list *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 test ignore - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. -- Pink Floyd -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1V1NZqvqlrLPr5YRAub4AJ4wbzhLqb7+ObtIgij1afkVUqlXygCglawe e8d8+7Epvakyklq7EQXkEp0= =bmaj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b grief
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Kaplan wrote: | See my post and reply from a few days ago. Thanks for that Paul. I missed that post due to experiments with Thunderbird that went horribly wrong... | I had the same problem (different | CDR) under 9.2. After downgrading the cdrecord package to the one supplied | with 9.1, Now which version is that? I've found a page of RPMs for Mdk9.x with various versions. Also, does not changing cdrecord lead to dependency hell for all CD writing software on Mdk 9.2? Not that I can get *any *of it to work, but hey... Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/1Wv+q+i2H9Bw1yoRAoVtAKCc8S0xMIGpV6LEWb939zBdu9eauACglUKt OFytKeRC2YEtgULIA7DGkVc= =dOph -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:32, Corey wrote: I tried disabling the firewall and iptables, but still no luck on AUTH. I CAN send mail from my local network currently. It's just outside the network I can't do anything now. I can't get authentication to work inside the network, either. If anyone can tell me what I'm missing, that would be great! THANKS! Corey I hate to ask questions like this, but there's no other way. Have you checked your hosts.allow and hosts.deny for the proper permissions on both ends, firewall and clients? Understand that I am working my way to targeting your configuration as the culprit. We have to eliminate the obvious items first however. One more question. Well two. Are you familiar with how the hosts.deny and hosts.allow complement each other? Also...are you running the same distro across all machines, server and clients? LX -- ° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk He was an Angel?? Too bad. He was such a nice fellow. --Professor Wutheridge, The Bishops Wife *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* ° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with SCSI Controller
On Monday 01 Dec 2003 3:33 pm, Yvan wrote: Hello group, my PC has a SCSI-Controller Tekram DC390/AM53C974 V2.0f 2000-12-20. I use the controller only when booting Windows, I don't use it with Mandrake. But Mandrake doesn't boot because of this controller. Certainly 9.1 has no problem with the DC390 - I have it. During booting I always got the following message: ... scsi: aborting command due to timeout : pid , scsi 1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00 SCSI host 1 abort (pid 7) timeout resetting ... Could be wrong, but it seems to me that it's not the controller that's the problem, but the unit you have connected to it. Try powering down that unit if you can. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? You are right, it looks like that, there just one problem. There is no unit connected to my SCSI controller. -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Neu: Preissenkung für MMS und FreeMMS! http://www.gmx.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
