[newbie] C/C++ IDE Mandrake 9.2
On the Mandrake 9.2 download installation, does anyone remember the name of the package containing a C/C++ IDE (other than KDevelop)? I saw it a couple days ago when I was installing some other packages and thought to myself "Hey, that looks interesting, I'll have to come back and check it out." Of course, now I can't remember the name, and I've tried search by name and by description to no avail. Thanks. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] smbclient problem on 9.2 solved- It was the NIC
I have been trying to get samba fully functional for a couple of months now and it has been driving me crazy. My internet connection worked. The Samba server worked but for some unknown reason that I researched thoroughly, only some of the machines on my network could be reached from the linux box. Finally just for the heck of it I disabled the onboard nic (ASUS a7v600-3COM 3C940 )and put in another. I was so proud of the on board nic because it was my first attempt at installing something that was not in RPM form. Oh well. Anyhow, this is a great board for linux but the Asus supplied 3com2000 driver is either partially bad or I did not install it right. Thought I would just add this to the record for future reference for others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
John Richard Smith wrote: mike wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash set SPLASH=no Edit /etc/lilo.conf add to append= splash=quiet Now I know how to do it the right way instead of uninstalling the package. Thanks :-) but I'm not sure if by removing the bootslash packages one cound also achieve the same result without having to edit the above ? since I didn't have to before I reinstalled the kernel. Well I should say I'm running mdk 9.1. I had the blue splash like monitor on boot up and shutdown. When I did a "rpm -e --nodeps bootsplash" and rebooted no more blue splash. Well, I wonder why the difference. See, in using mkinitrd command, I think one is really remaking the boot image file from /boot/vmlinuz, and it is the initrd image file that is used at boot time to tell system what to do and what to load. So , when I replaced my deleted vmlinuz file from CD1, it did so, and I bet overwrote the initrd image file as well, and at the same time gave me the blue gui boot script. Now, by removing bootsplash packages, I'm guessing it removes it from vmlinuz but not the initrd image file , so you still get the blue gui boot script. But , if this logic is correct , running mkinitrd command after removing the bootsplash packages, ought to remake the initrd image file without the blue gui . I still have a /usr/share/bootsplash directory but its empty except for a /themes directory which is also empty. Also I have no /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash file my /etc/lilo.conf file has no entry it like append= splash=quiet. I would guess that when it looks for a splash or a theme it does not find one, so it doesn't use one and continues on with the process. On another note John, did you get the text resolution you wanted on boot up? Sure, never went below vga=791 ever, not interested in any lower screen resolution on standard boot up. It's a different matter on failsafe and nonFB bootups, as you may have a screen resolution , or video driver setting issue to overcome in order to get to desktop, and as such I always choose vga=ask for these type of boot script. Are you having problems then ? No, I'm good, think I got lost a couple times along the way but I arrived at the correct destination :-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS Project equivalent in Linux?
I looked hard about 6 months ago to find something, including installing MSP and some other commercial programs on Codeweavers Crossover Office. No luck. Codeweavers also isn't planning on working towards MSP compatability unless someone is willing to support them. There's apparently some heavy duty proprietary formatting in those MPP files. Bummer. It's the only app I haven't found a good Linux replacement for. Let me know if you uncover any solutions. Paul On Wednesday 17 December 2003 09:08 am, Ed Smits wrote: > Is there a Linux app that can read and write MS Project files? I looked at > MrProject, it can't read an MPP file as far as I can see. I assume that it > or another app can do an equivalent job of creating project plans, however > I am forced to use Project and need true compatibility. > > Any help or ideas appreciated. > > Cheers > > Ed Smits > (a true newbie) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 03:44, Genady Oliash wrote: > ?? . > > ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? ? > ? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? Linux, ??? > ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. > > ??? The message is in Russian my apology to the list: Genady, Voprosj na etom liste jelatel'no zadavat' na Angliskom.:) poprobuite zagruzit' module sk98lin. Iz komandnoy stroki zdelaite sebja rootom i potom "modprobe sk98lin" Esly u vas est' voprosj mjl'te na prjamuiu. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 07:39, Lanman wrote: > Maziar; Is your network cable a crossover cable or is it a > normal "straight-through" cable ? > In order to connect 2 computers directly together ( without > a hub), you'll need a crossover cable. > You should be able to buy one at your local computer shop. > > Lanman > > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > On 12/17/2003 at 6:34 AM maziar h wrote: > > >I am trying to conncet two linux boxes together > >directly via their NIC cards but they are unable to > >recognize each other. there is no connection and I > >can't ping the other one. I have set everything > >including IP address and subnet mask correctly and > >they are on the same subnet. the interfaces are up and > >running (I checked them thru ip route and ifconfig). > >I can't think of a reason why they can't see each > >other, maybe I gotta set something with ARP. I wan to > >know if someone has done this here before or this is > >only a hardware problem or incompatibility. > >BTW. both of their nic card are 3com. > > > >thank you > >maziar > > > >__ > >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 > > > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- cant u make a crosover cable by swithcing 2 of the wires // i forgot which 2 tho ... jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 08:28, Shawn Protsman wrote: > Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can > be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) > with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a > new Athlon XP proc. :-) > > On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then > > become > > tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I > > would > > suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible > > configuration > > of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better > > than > > Pheonix in this regard. > > > > Apart from that just about anything will work. > > My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. > > > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com i have the asus sk8n with nforce3 drivers the chipset is notsupported in 64 bit so if u r running 32 bit theres already new drivers out for it... but so far i had to put an old NIC in cuz the nforce3 nic is unsupported so far right now im sure it will be supported in like 3 months or less -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
On 12/17/2003 at 6:15 PM Dennis Myers wrote: >I have two gigabyte mobos that work very well in linux using AMD Athlon >processors. One is a GA-7vrx and the other is a K7 Triton 400 GA-7vax. >They >are very configurable and you can overclock with them I am told. I don't >because they are already faster than the internet connection. HTH >-- >Dennis M. linux user #180842 *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Dennis; I heard that about GigaByte. Haven't tried one since their first Pentium versions, but I've heard good things about them. I'm embarrassed to say that I've had experience with Shuttle Motherboards as well ( what a P.O.S. they are! ), but surprisingly, they also work well with Linux, so Go Figure! Going to be doing one for a cheap client tomorrow - keep your fingers crossed, and wish me luck! Grin! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
Anne; What would you like me to add, and how do I do it? Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/17/2003 at 10:36 PM Anne Wilson wrote: >On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:37 pm, Lanman wrote: >> TE; The Asus P4S800 is very nice for Linux. Been running >> three without problems. Don't know which >> CPU you have but this takes P4's. Also handles >> Hyper-Threading with the new P4's, so that Linux sees >> one P4 as two P4's. Works very well like that too! >> >> Lanman >> >Could you add that to the TWiki, Lanman? >http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MotherBoards > >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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 08:16 am, Tango Echo wrote: > Well, I think my motherboard decided to just randomly > die the other night. Worked fine the night before, > but in the morning didn't respond to the power switch. > I checked the power cables and swapped the power > supply for a known good one - still nothing. So that > would be mobo then, I guess... > > What do you guys recommend for a motherboards that > would work great with Mandrake? I was running 9.1 but > am considering 9.2 (if you guys can recommend it now). > The ideal mobo would have an 8x AGP slot w/on board > temperature detection. On board video, sound and net > are not neccessary as I have these already. Hopefully > they still work! Cost is an issue too, unfortunately, > as the budge is somewhat limited. Heh, they probably > dont' make mobos w/lifetime warranties do they? Well > any and all advice from you all I greatly anticipate! > > Tango > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ I have two gigabyte mobos that work very well in linux using AMD Athlon processors. One is a GA-7vrx and the other is a K7 Triton 400 GA-7vax. They are very configurable and you can overclock with them I am told. I don't because they are already faster than the internet connection. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Audigy sound cards
Erix wrote: robin wrote: Didn't have what I was looking for, but thanks for the link. Are you in Turkey too? Yes. I'm a Turk living in Ankara. Güzel! 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] USB video capture: any experience?
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 5:54 pm, Paul Harrison wrote: > I have a super little gadget I picked up off eBay for a snip: a > D-Link DU-CV USB Video Grabber. Works beautifully in M$ eXPee... > > ... anyone with experience of using it (or similar) under Mdk 9.x? > > This is a great list, I'm so thankful for the distilled knowledge > here, > > Paul I have a similar sort of gizmo, and it works, though not startlingly well. I can capture stills, but didn't have much success with video. Can't remember just what I had to do, but I know the list helped me get it going. 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] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:48 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. > Can we have that one on the TWiki as well, please? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MotherBoards 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] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:37 pm, Lanman wrote: > TE; The Asus P4S800 is very nice for Linux. Been running > three without problems. Don't know which > CPU you have but this takes P4's. Also handles > Hyper-Threading with the new P4's, so that Linux sees > one P4 as two P4's. Works very well like that too! > > Lanman > Could you add that to the TWiki, Lanman? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MotherBoards 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] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 8:36 pm, Lanman wrote: > TE; If you decide to go with Asus, you'll have to pick > another board that is designed for AMD CPU's. > > Lanman They are good for AMD boards, too. This one is an A7V - quite old now - but I'd buy Asus again. 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] Restarting the internet connection
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 6:58 pm, robin wrote: > Jerry Barton wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:34:06 +0200 > > > > robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>What does HTH mean? > > > > "Hope That Helps" :-) > > Ah. I thought it meant "Happy [something] Holidays"! > > Sir Robin Happy Tippling Holidays? 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] Re: Re: Audigy sound cards
robin wrote: > Didn't have what I was looking for, but thanks for the link. Are you in > Turkey too? Yes. I'm a Turk living in Ankara. -- Erix. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 03:34, maziar h wrote: > I am trying to conncet two linux boxes together > directly via their NIC cards but they are unable to > recognize each other. there is no connection and I > can't ping the other one. I have set everything > including IP address and subnet mask correctly and > they are on the same subnet. the interfaces are up and > running (I checked them thru ip route and ifconfig). > I can't think of a reason why they can't see each > other, maybe I gotta set something with ARP. I wan to > know if someone has done this here before or this is > only a hardware problem or incompatibility. > BTW. both of their nic card are 3com. > > thank you > maziar > What kind of cable are you using? Is it the straight through patch cable as would be used to connect to a hub? or is it a crossover cable. You need a crossover cable. HTH Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
TE; If you decide to go with Asus, you'll have to pick another board that is designed for AMD CPU's. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:34 pm, robin wrote: >ro What does HTH mean? >ro >ro Sir Robin >ro oh, its one of those shortcuts, a way of saying "Hope This Helps" faster and with less typing... :-) -- /\ Dark>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 7:25 pm, Patrick Coffey wrote: > You were right! After adding the PLF software source and updating Mplayer > it worked like a charm. Thank you very much! > > --pat You're welcome Patrick. I'm happy it worked since it was the easiest possible method to effect the changes needed for you. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 13:05:57 up 3 days, 38 min, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.20, 0.11 Be incomprehensible. If they can't understand, they can't disagree. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/4LfZZqvqlrLPr5YRAusaAJ9VbwP5hdtzl/pzwDx9kAdp6j41VACgmRGa cv1LUQdyMjXELRTPEjp/1rY= =OHbH -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compex WLU11A with Mandrake 9.2 Detected but unable to surf the net. ( post #1)
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:34 pm, Benjy wrote: > Hey there, > Here are the following. > > /etc/resolv.conf > searchhost local > nameserver 165.21.100.88 > nameserver 165.21.83.88 > > /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > GATEWAYDEV=wlan0 > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 > DEVICE=wlan0 > BOOTPROTO=static > IPADDR=192.168.168.102 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > NETWORK=192.168.168.1 > BROADCAST=192.168.168.255 > ONBOOT=yes > KEY=off > > Hey thanks, btw, 165.21.100.88 and 165.21.83.88 are both my primary and > secondary dns addresees respectively. i am able to ping my router(gateway) > but unable to surf or ping any internet sites. therefore, like what you > said, it should be the default routes or the nameserver. thanks a lot for > your help! > > cheers, > benjy snip Try adding GATEWAY=192.168.168.1 to /etc/sysconfig/network then 'service network restart' If it works then let me know so I can update the advice on my web page. 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] Re: Audigy sound cards
Erix wrote: robin wrote: Thanks (and thanks to Charlie) - I reckon I'll go for the Audigy 2, then. I was originally going to get a Turtle Beach card, but they seem impossible to get hold of in Turkey. The Audigy 2 is the only musician-friendly soundcard they have here - MIDI, jack and firewire sockets. Did you try online stores like www.hepsiburada.com ? I get all my computer parts from them and they generally have different brands. Didn't have what I was looking for, but thanks for the link. Are you in Turkey too? 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] Re: Audigy sound cards
robin wrote: > Thanks (and thanks to Charlie) - I reckon I'll go for the Audigy 2, > then. I was originally going to get a Turtle Beach card, but they seem > impossible to get hold of in Turkey. The Audigy 2 is the only > musician-friendly soundcard they have here - MIDI, jack and firewire > sockets. Did you try online stores like www.hepsiburada.com ? I get all my computer parts from them and they generally have different brands. -- Erix. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection
Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:34:06 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What does HTH mean? "Hope That Helps" :-) Ah. I thought it meant "Happy [something] Holidays"! 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] Restarting the internet connection
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:34:06 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does HTH mean? "Hope That Helps" :-) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 06:28 pm, robin wrote: ro I have wvdial set up to connect automatically at boot. The only problem ro is that if something like a powercut happens to kill my connection dead, ro when I restart it it complains that /dev/tty0 is busy, and all I can do ro is reboot the computer. Does anyone know of a way I can kill whatever ro is causing this and restart wvdial? ro ro Sir Robin ro Robin, next time it happens, as root, issue a: lsof -V /dev/tty0 and see whats holding on to it. You should be able to do a "killall -9 , then restart wvdial. HTHs! Thanks - as it turned out, this time wvdial was the culprit so as yankl told me (offlist, presumably to save me embarrassment) all I had to do was killall wvdial. What does HTH mean? 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] fyi--thunderbird and url's
> > >#/bin/bash > > >browserPath="/usr/local/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird" > > >url="$@" > > > > > >$browserPath -remote "ping()" > > > > > ># $? = false if running, true if not > > >if [ $? = 0 ] ; then > > >exec $browserPath -remote openURL"($url,new-tab)" > > >else > > >$browserPath $url > > >fi > > >exit This might work for you: It is what i used before Todd sent me his script way back. Since i don;t use thunderbird, it never mattered. if test "$(top -b -n 1 | grep -c MozillaFirebird)" = "0" ; then firebird $1 & else firebird -remote "openurl($1,new-tab)" & fi -- 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] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
--- Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TE; The Asus P4S800 is very nice for Linux. Been > running > three without problems. Don't know which > CPU you have but this takes P4's. Also handles > Hyper-Threading with the new P4's, so that Linux > sees > one P4 as two P4's. Works very well like that too! > > Lanman > > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > On 12/17/2003 at 6:16 AM Tango Echo wrote: > > >Well, I think my motherboard decided to just > randomly > >die the other night. Worked fine the night before, > >but in the morning didn't respond to the power > switch. > > I checked the power cables and swapped the power > >supply for a known good one - still nothing. So > that > >would be mobo then, I guess... > > > >What do you guys recommend for a motherboards that > >would work great with Mandrake? I was running 9.1 > but > >am considering 9.2 (if you guys can recommend it > now). > > The ideal mobo would have an 8x AGP slot w/on > board > >temperature detection. On board video, sound and > net > >are not neccessary as I have these already. > Hopefully > >they still work! Cost is an issue too, > unfortunately, > >as the budge is somewhat limited. Heh, they > probably > >dont' make mobos w/lifetime warranties do they? > Well > >any and all advice from you all I greatly > anticipate! > > > >Tango > > Thanks for the advice Lanman and Derek =) I'm not 100% sure it is the mobo as I still have to check the outlet, cable, and switch. But I need to be ready if it is! I've always heard good things about Asus. Time to shell out the $70+ and pick one up... I agree that I would like a flexible BIOS for a couple reasons: a) in case I get in a tweaky mood b) special options like internal temperature are extremely valuable. My old/current chip set is SiS. MDK 9.0 ran on it horribly, but 9.1 ran like a dream. As for the current CPU it's an AMD Athlon XP 1600. I'd like to stick with AMD if possible... Silly question, but Pentium or Intel chip sets still support AMD processors right?? Sure hope so... Thanks for pointing out the closed source issue w/Nvidia, Derek. Yes, I have and love my GeForce FX 5600 video card, but that is a must have! Tango __ 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] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
Lanman, Thanks for this news. I wasn't aware. Shawn On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 10:16 US/Central, Lanman wrote: Shawn; There's been a lot of problems with the nForce chipsets - both in Windows and Linux. The new nForce3 chipsets have also been causing problems. Since it seems to be a random problem which happens with various models and brands of motherboards, a lot of people are staying away from boards equipped with nForce chipsets altogether. Some of the issues are driver related while others are due to the design of the boards, while others are just defective. This is not a problem that exists on every single board using this chipset, but the logic would seem to be that since it's a very random problem, why take a chance? There have been good results with Intel, Via and Sis chipsets though. I'm sure that there are some people who've had problems with all the different brands of chipsets, but for the most part, these 3 brands seem to be pretty stable. For example, I've been avoiding SiS chipsets for the last 3 or 4 years, but the latest ones on Asus boards have been "BulletProof" for me. Go Figure! That's the 411 for ya. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/17/2003 at 9:28 AM Shawn Protsman wrote: Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a new Athlon XP proc. :-) On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then become tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I would suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible configuration of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better than Pheonix in this regard. Apart from that just about anything will work. My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RAID 1 on MDK91: "mkraid fail"
Hi, I installing MDK91 with RAID 1 (soft) and report: "mkraid fail" Form partitioning: /boot 100mb ext3 primary / 2000mb raid1extend(hda5,hdb5) /home 72000mb raid1 extend (hda6,hdb6) /var 1000mb raid1 extend(hda7, hdb7) swap256 (=RAM) primary It's a bug me??? Or a raidtools?? This problem have a solution? Thank's, Armando Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB video capture: any experience?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a super little gadget I picked up off eBay for a snip: a D-Link DU-CV USB Video Grabber. Works beautifully in M$ eXPee... ... anyone with experience of using it (or similar) under Mdk 9.x? This is a great list, I'm so thankful for the distilled knowledge here, Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/4JhEq+i2H9Bw1yoRAuGKAKCXnGYI0A0/BS4qWKrWan1RVUHz2gCdFEhl WP0mFIMK6d7wU8FoxyfXG40= =9nsq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk Can I first understand what we are doing here, I'm supposing that if I remove the bootsplash packages, I need to run the above in order to remake the /boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img file so that it knows how to boot without the gui stuff , is that it ? That is what I am saying. The gui image is actually stored in the initrd image in 9.2, so recreating it after removing the bootsplash package (or setting splash=NO), should eliminate it Yes Greg, Your approach has been correct all along, thank you for staying with me. In truth, I got confused, first the rather confusing package name, bootsplash. I thought this was to do with the initial splash screen one gets on first appearance. it might of been better named something like bootscript, or guibootscript, or something. Then as we sorted that confusion out , the need to remake the initrd.image file after the removal of boot splash became more obvious. Do you think if I did this it would automatically remove the references to splash=quiet splash=verbose, and in /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash the set SPLASH=no .or maybe it doesn't matter anyway ? Thanks. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:31:34AM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: > Todd, I'm having trouble with the script below. I put in some echoes > and ran the script from a terminal, and here is what I see: > > (1) If neither Thunderbird nor Firebird is running, the script > successfully starts up Firebird and retrieves the target URL. > > (2) If *Thunderbird* is running the script thinks that Firebird is > running. I guess because they both use the Mozilla rendering engine? > > (3) If either Thunderbird or Firebird is already running, it goes into > the if case and prints out "Failed to send command." The target URL is > not retrieved. > > Any ideas? I just tried it and notice the same thing. There's some discussion of this at mozillazine's tb forum. I got fb to launch if there was no existing instance of fb, but the second time either brought up the profile manager or the "Failed to send command" error. There's an open bug for the whole profile manager thing in general. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
Derek; I agree with you about the video cards, and installing the drivers for either the chipsets or video cards is certainly a requirement for proper operation. No Question there! It's just that I belong to a lot of groups which are hardware-related and the general concensus is to avoid nForce chipsets. Granted, most of the problems are Microsoft related, but since a lot of members are dual-booting their systems it becomes a relevant point. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/17/2003 at 4:37 PM Derek Jennings wrote: >On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 3:28 pm, Shawn Protsman wrote: >> Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can >> be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) >> with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a >> new Athlon XP proc. :-) >> >> On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: >> > I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then >> > become >> > tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I >> > would >> > suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible >> > configuration >> > of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better >> > than >> > Pheonix in this regard. >> > >> > Apart from that just about anything will work. >> > My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. > >The N-Force boards work well enough AFAIK, but you need to install a >driver >for the motherboard >(http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html >) That driver is closed source, and >while it is likely Nvidia will continue to supply it, there is no >guarantee >they will. (Like if Microsoft bought Nvidia) > >Like many other people I own an Nvidia graphics card, and use the closed >source Nvidia drivers. But if I was making a new purchase decision I would >try to avoid a product with a closed source driver. > >derek > > >-- >-- >www.jennings.homelinux.net >http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org > > > >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] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 3:28 pm, Shawn Protsman wrote: > Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can > be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) > with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a > new Athlon XP proc. :-) > > On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: > > I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then > > become > > tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I > > would > > suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible > > configuration > > of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better > > than > > Pheonix in this regard. > > > > Apart from that just about anything will work. > > My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. The N-Force boards work well enough AFAIK, but you need to install a driver for the motherboard (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html ) That driver is closed source, and while it is likely Nvidia will continue to supply it, there is no guarantee they will. (Like if Microsoft bought Nvidia) Like many other people I own an Nvidia graphics card, and use the closed source Nvidia drivers. But if I was making a new purchase decision I would try to avoid a product with a closed source driver. 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] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
Shawn; There's been a lot of problems with the nForce chipsets - both in Windows and Linux. The new nForce3 chipsets have also been causing problems. Since it seems to be a random problem which happens with various models and brands of motherboards, a lot of people are staying away from boards equipped with nForce chipsets altogether. Some of the issues are driver related while others are due to the design of the boards, while others are just defective. This is not a problem that exists on every single board using this chipset, but the logic would seem to be that since it's a very random problem, why take a chance? There have been good results with Intel, Via and Sis chipsets though. I'm sure that there are some people who've had problems with all the different brands of chipsets, but for the most part, these 3 brands seem to be pretty stable. For example, I've been avoiding SiS chipsets for the last 3 or 4 years, but the latest ones on Asus boards have been "BulletProof" for me. Go Figure! That's the 411 for ya. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/17/2003 at 9:28 AM Shawn Protsman wrote: >Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can >be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) >with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a >new Athlon XP proc. :-) > >On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: > >> I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then >> become >> tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I >> would >> suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible >> configuration >> of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better >> than >> Pheonix in this regard. >> >> Apart from that just about anything will work. >> My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. >> > > > >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] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a new Athlon XP proc. :-) On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then become tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I would suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible configuration of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better than Pheonix in this regard. Apart from that just about anything will work. My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:16 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > Well, I think my motherboard decided to just randomly > die the other night. Worked fine the night before, > but in the morning didn't respond to the power switch. > I checked the power cables and swapped the power > supply for a known good one - still nothing. So that > would be mobo then, I guess... > > What do you guys recommend for a motherboards that > would work great with Mandrake? I was running 9.1 but > am considering 9.2 (if you guys can recommend it now). > The ideal mobo would have an 8x AGP slot w/on board > temperature detection. On board video, sound and net > are not neccessary as I have these already. Hopefully > they still work! Cost is an issue too, unfortunately, > as the budge is somewhat limited. Heh, they probably > dont' make mobos w/lifetime warranties do they? Well > any and all advice from you all I greatly anticipate! > > Tango > I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then become tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I would suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible configuration of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better than Pheonix in this regard. Apart from that just about anything will work. My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. And 9.2 is just fine. So long as you get all the updates. 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] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet
Maziar; Is your network cable a crossover cable or is it a normal "straight-through" cable ? In order to connect 2 computers directly together ( without a hub), you'll need a crossover cable. You should be able to buy one at your local computer shop. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/17/2003 at 6:34 AM maziar h wrote: >I am trying to conncet two linux boxes together >directly via their NIC cards but they are unable to >recognize each other. there is no connection and I >can't ping the other one. I have set everything >including IP address and subnet mask correctly and >they are on the same subnet. the interfaces are up and >running (I checked them thru ip route and ifconfig). >I can't think of a reason why they can't see each >other, maybe I gotta set something with ARP. I wan to >know if someone has done this here before or this is >only a hardware problem or incompatibility. >BTW. both of their nic card are 3com. > >thank you >maziar > >__ >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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
TE; The Asus P4S800 is very nice for Linux. Been running three without problems. Don't know which CPU you have but this takes P4's. Also handles Hyper-Threading with the new P4's, so that Linux sees one P4 as two P4's. Works very well like that too! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/17/2003 at 6:16 AM Tango Echo wrote: >Well, I think my motherboard decided to just randomly >die the other night. Worked fine the night before, >but in the morning didn't respond to the power switch. > I checked the power cables and swapped the power >supply for a known good one - still nothing. So that >would be mobo then, I guess... > >What do you guys recommend for a motherboards that >would work great with Mandrake? I was running 9.1 but >am considering 9.2 (if you guys can recommend it now). > The ideal mobo would have an 8x AGP slot w/on board >temperature detection. On board video, sound and net >are not neccessary as I have these already. Hopefully >they still work! Cost is an issue too, unfortunately, >as the budge is somewhat limited. Heh, they probably >dont' make mobos w/lifetime warranties do they? Well >any and all advice from you all I greatly anticipate! > >Tango > >__ >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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compex WLU11A with Mandrake 9.2 Detected but unable to surf the net. ( post #1)
Hey there, Here are the following. /etc/resolv.conf searchhost localnameserver 165.21.100.88 nameserver 165.21.83.88 /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yesGATEWAYDEV=wlan0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 DEVICE=wlan0BOOTPROTO=staticIPADDR=192.168.168.102NETMASK=255.255.255.0NETWORK=192.168.168.1BROADCAST=192.168.168.255>KEY=off Hey thanks, btw, 165.21.100.88 and 165.21.83.88 are both my primary and secondary dns addresees respectively. i am able to ping my router(gateway) but unable to surf or ping any internet sites. therefore, like what you said, it should be the default routes or the nameserver. thanks a lot for your help! cheers, benjy - Original Message - From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Compex WLU11A with Mandrake 9.2 Detected but unable to surf the net. ( post #1) > I am the author of the site you found. > It sounds as if you are very nearly there. If you have a signal level then the > wireless system seems to be working. Your problem is likely to be setting up > your default routes or the nameserver.> > Could you post the contents of the following files please?> > /etc/resolv.conf> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0> /etc/sysconfig/network> > The 'service network restart' I mention on my site is a command to restart > networking. To use it open a terminal window and enter 'su' to become root > user.> > The 'Broadcast' address is a reserved IP number which all devices on a Lan > listen to. By default it is the highest address in the subnet. In your case > it will be 192.168.168.255> > derek> > > -- > --> www.jennings.homelinux.net> http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org> > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com>
[newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet
I am trying to conncet two linux boxes together directly via their NIC cards but they are unable to recognize each other. there is no connection and I can't ping the other one. I have set everything including IP address and subnet mask correctly and they are on the same subnet. the interfaces are up and running (I checked them thru ip route and ifconfig). I can't think of a reason why they can't see each other, maybe I gotta set something with ARP. I wan to know if someone has done this here before or this is only a hardware problem or incompatibility. BTW. both of their nic card are 3com. thank you maziar __ 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
[newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...
Well, I think my motherboard decided to just randomly die the other night. Worked fine the night before, but in the morning didn't respond to the power switch. I checked the power cables and swapped the power supply for a known good one - still nothing. So that would be mobo then, I guess... What do you guys recommend for a motherboards that would work great with Mandrake? I was running 9.1 but am considering 9.2 (if you guys can recommend it now). The ideal mobo would have an 8x AGP slot w/on board temperature detection. On board video, sound and net are not neccessary as I have these already. Hopefully they still work! Cost is an issue too, unfortunately, as the budge is somewhat limited. Heh, they probably dont' make mobos w/lifetime warranties do they? Well any and all advice from you all I greatly anticipate! Tango __ 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
[newbie] MS Project equivalent in Linux?
Title: MS Project equivalent in Linux? Is there a Linux app that can read and write MS Project files? I looked at MrProject, it can't read an MPP file as far as I can see. I assume that it or another app can do an equivalent job of creating project plans, however I am forced to use Project and need true compatibility. Any help or ideas appreciated. Cheers Ed Smits (a true newbie)
Re: [newbie] kroupware
--- Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This program is the last step in my office. Act! is > the only thing > running on VMware right now. > > Has anyone installed either server or client. Does > the available > rpm work on mdk? > > Should I dl the tarball and checkinstall an rpm? > > kdenetwork-kroupware-1.0.1-1 RPM for i386. > > Lee Lee, while were on the subject, have you tried phpgroupware? I am considering an office Linux mail server that will provide groupware (contacts, calender, etc). So it seems the major options right now are kroupware, phpgroupware, and opengroupware. If you or anyone else can make a recommendation I'd greatly appreciate it! I should probably start focusing on the Linux studies 1st, but it would be nice to implement such a tool... Tango __ 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] fyi--thunderbird and url's
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:31:34AM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > >That choose profile is annoying. I use this script which I called > >/usr/bin/firebird to open links in a new tab. If you prefer, you can > >substitute new-window. Everything I use that launches URL's calls this > >script. > > Todd, I'm having trouble with the script below. I put in some echoes > and ran the script from a terminal, and here is what I see: > > (1) If neither Thunderbird nor Firebird is running, the script > successfully starts up Firebird and retrieves the target URL. > > (2) If *Thunderbird* is running the script thinks that Firebird is > running. I guess because they both use the Mozilla rendering engine? > > (3) If either Thunderbird or Firebird is already running, it goes into > the if case and prints out "Failed to send command." The target URL is > not retrieved. Hmm, sorry about that, I don't use Thunderbird myself and I just assumed it would work. So much for the benefits of breaking Moz into components! How about trying this: /path/to/MozillaFirebird -remote "ping()" echo $? for each instance of 1. Firebird and Thunderbird not running (1) 2. Firebird only running (0) 3. Thunderbird only running (0) 4. Firebird and Thunderbird both running (0) My guesses of the results are in parentheses. If I'm right about #3 above, then maybe you could get around it by opening new-window instead of new-tab? Todd > >#/bin/bash > >browserPath="/usr/local/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird" > >url="$@" > > > >$browserPath -remote "ping()" > > > ># $? = false if running, true if not > >if [ $? = 0 ] ; then > >exec $browserPath -remote openURL"($url,new-tab)" > >else > >$browserPath $url > >fi > >exit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img > >>vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk > > > >This line should be: > > > >mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk > > Can I first understand what we are doing here, > > I'm supposing that if I remove the bootsplash packages, > I need to run the above in order to remake > the /boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img file so that > it knows how to boot without the gui stuff , is that it ? > That is what I am saying. The gui image is actually stored in the initrd image in 9.2, so recreating it after removing the bootsplash package (or setting splash=NO), should eliminate it. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2
Here's the best I can without understanding what your wrote The sk98lin drivers work fine with that nic, or you can go to asus' site and download the 3c2000 drivers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Genady Oliash Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ??? ? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2 Привет всем. Помогите инсталировать 3COM 3C940 network card в Mandrake 9.2. Эта карта интегрирована на плате Asus P4P800. Я только начинаю учить Linux, поэтому если кто-нибудь захочет помочь, то поподробней. Спасибо Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 02:44 am, Genady Oliash wrote: > > ?? . > > > > ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? > > ?? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? > > Linux, ??? ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. > > > > ??? Uh see: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/hardware.php3 (i'm not really sure what you're asking so that's the best I can do. hope that helps) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 02:44 am, Genady Oliash wrote: > ?? . > > ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? ? > ? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? Linux, ??? > ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. > > ??? My, my. So full of questions -- 05:05:01 up 7 days, 20:12, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-21mdk on an Intel P4 1.8 Registered Linux user #324360 MERYL STREEP is my obstetrician! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
> Would you also be able to do this by booting to rescue mode with the > MDK install disk or by booting to single-user mode? Just wondering > here if there may be an easier route since I may be encountering this > same problem as well. Thx > > Jerry. Nevermind, Raffaele answered my question further up. :) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
mike wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash set SPLASH=no Edit /etc/lilo.conf add to append= splash=quiet Now I know how to do it the right way instead of uninstalling the package. Thanks :-) but I'm not sure if by removing the bootslash packages one cound also achieve the same result without having to edit the above ? since I didn't have to before I reinstalled the kernel. Well I should say I'm running mdk 9.1. I had the blue splash like monitor on boot up and shutdown. When I did a "rpm -e --nodeps bootsplash" and rebooted no more blue splash. Well, I wonder why the difference. See, in using mkinitrd command, I think one is really remaking the boot image file from /boot/vmlinuz, and it is the initrd image file that is used at boot time to tell system what to do and what to load. So , when I replaced my deleted vmlinuz file from CD1, it did so, and I bet overwrote the initrd image file as well, and at the same time gave me the blue gui boot script. Now, by removing bootsplash packages, I'm guessing it removes it from vmlinuz but not the initrd image file , so you still get the blue gui boot script. But , if this logic is correct , running mkinitrd command after removing the bootsplash packages, ought to remake the initrd image file without the blue gui . I still have a /usr/share/bootsplash directory but its empty except for a /themes directory which is also empty. Also I have no /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash file my /etc/lilo.conf file has no entry it like append= splash=quiet. I would guess that when it looks for a splash or a theme it does not find one, so it doesn't use one and continues on with the process. On another note John, did you get the text resolution you wanted on boot up? Sure, never went below vga=791 ever, not interested in any lower screen resolution on standard boot up. It's a different matter on failsafe and nonFB bootups, as you may have a screen resolution , or video driver setting issue to overcome in order to get to desktop, and as such I always choose vga=ask for these type of boot script. Are you having problems then ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > > >>Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to > >start back>up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot > >up say something to>the effect of (sorry not in front of the > >machine now):> > >>No room on / [0] expecting [2] > >> > >>I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded > >anything>new. > >> > >>Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my > >understanding),>but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, > >I remembered that I>still have a couple of .iso images taking up > >some space (this is a 25GB>drive). So just out of curiosity I > >deleted them freeing up a couple of>gigs. But when I restarted > >the machine I got the same message about>root (/) being full then > >taking me to the CLI login after some failed>attempts to start X. > >> > >>Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why > >this>happened. > >> > >>Thanks. > > > > > > If those iso images were on a different partition that could > > explain why deleting them did not help. > > > > There could be a few things using up your / partition. > > You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for > > any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. > > > > It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in > > /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming > > huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' > > job run daily to compress and delete old logs. > > It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will > clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g. > > tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp > > will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't > currently open and print a list of deleted files. > > 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 > > > > For future ref try kdirstat. I run it now and then to get an idea how the file system is shaping up. I just ran it and noticed that OpenOffice is a little piggy. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2
Привет всем. Помогите инсталировать 3COM 3C940 network card в Mandrake 9.2. Эта карта интегрирована на плате Asus P4P800. Я только начинаю учить Linux, поэтому если кто-нибудь захочет помочь, то поподробней. Спасибо
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g. tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files. 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] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:00 am, Martin Brandt wrote: Partition magic here i come... Why pay for Partition Magic? Have you heard of parted? It's available in an RPM package for Mandrake. It should be in the 9.2 directory on any mirror. Project information: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html Or if you prefer to do things from the Windows end, there's fips, which is what I used to use before Linux installers came with their own partitioning tools. 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] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:06 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: > Jerry Barton wrote: > >On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 + > > > >Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going > >>to boot/Drakboot then "advanced" and in the dropdown menu selecting > >>"lilo with text menu" instead of "lilo with graphical menu?" I don't > >>pay a whole lot of attention anymore what happens when I boot since > >>I've got all my issues worked out (though I can totally understand why > >>you'd not want the whole blue splash screen thing) but wouldn't that > >>fix it all? > >> > >>I hope this is of help to you. > >> > >>Jerry. > > > >Supplement: this should change the whole boot up process to the text > >boot instead of the whole graphical thing. I just rebooted with that > >option and since i have init 3 set in inittab i never got any graphical > >stuff... just the old lilo: prompt and total text boot up to a text > >login: prompt. it showed the good old scrolling init instead of the > >fancy framebuffer stuff. It was like booting my old Slack... no > >nifty eye candy and such. Is that what you're looking for? > > Yes that is basically right but with good screen resolution , ie VGA=791 > > >Sorry if > >I've missed a few points of your objective here, just trying to help you > >out. > > Oh, no , please don't be offended and if I have caused that , > unreserved appologies. > No I'm frustrated with myself because I cannot remember what controls > the switch from gui to text in the higher screen boot resolutions. Maybe > the MCC route will accomplish this for me haven't tried it yet, but I > like to know how to do this from my knowledge of how it all works, > rather that from "dumb" Control Centers methods that encourage > ignorance, but is sometimes the easy way, once you know how it's all > done, and save time. Not that it always does. It's not an init control, > I'm not trying to boot to a consul, I'm not trying to boot on some low > screen resolution with B/W text , I'm trying to to get back to where I > was with a decent boot screen resolution and B/W text, full screen > width. So the last thing I want is anything under vga=791, because that > gives me a boot script with a good screen resolution. > > John Is this what you want? I have saved this from another post, so I cannot give the author the credit, because I don't know who it was? But it wasn't me. You have to set a vga=xxx string in lilo.conf. Lets' asuume you have a lilo.conf like this: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default="linux" image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5" read-only vga=7xx ^^^ this is your vga mode You have to set it to vga=791 in order to have a 1024x768 color console. You can set this vga=791 string per kernel image, or for all kernel images - then include this line at the top of lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda vga=791 ... Then just say "lilo" as root and reboot to see your new beautiful console :-P Read the "Framebuffer-HOWTO" if you want another (non-1024x768 or with 16/256/etc colors) vga mode. -- I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create. - William Blake This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
Boot from the MDK installation disk (CD1) and, at the splash screen hit F1, then at the prompt type rescue. This will boot the system from the cdrom and present you with a menu. Select "mount partitions on /mnt", then "go to console". From the console, cd to /mnt/etc and edit fstab to remove the whole line containing /dev/hdb1. Save the file and reboot (without the cdrom). raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had Mandrake 9.2 running fine with two disks. (hda) has the root filesystem, (hdb) had only one directory I used for Samba. Both were ext3 fs. I suspected problems with hdb, but WDDiag test results were ok, so I wiped the hdb disk with zeros anyway using the Western Digital utilities. Now I can't boot into Mandrake 9.2 with or without hdb connected. Not sure how to make Mandrake forget about the hdb disk. I get an error "Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/hdb1. The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem" I know the root disk is good (hda). I had hoped Linux would boot and allow me to re-configure hdb. How can I accomplish this? Thanks. 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] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:09:03 -0800, "Rob Blomquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I am going to assume that it is reading about /dev/hdb1 from fstab, and > so you have to remove it there. > > I would try to boot and do it interactively, so then when fstab is > read, you can stop it from trying to get hdb. > > The other option is to boot knoppix if you have a disk around or > something that will let you get in and edit fstab to get rid of the hdb > mention. > > Rob Success: The system allowed going to a command prompt when it stopped during the boot process. So I was able to edit /etc/fstab, and then the system booted into KDE. I initially tried interactive mode, but pressing "I" didn't do anything. Thanks much for the help! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:09:03 -0800 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am going to assume that it is reading about /dev/hdb1 from fstab, > and so you have to remove it there. > > I would try to boot and do it interactively, so then when fstab is > read, you can stop it from trying to get hdb. > > The other option is to boot knoppix if you have a disk around or > something that will let you get in and edit fstab to get rid of the > hdb mention. > > Rob Would you also be able to do this by booting to rescue mode with the MDK install disk or by booting to single-user mode? Just wondering here if there may be an easier route since I may be encountering this same problem as well. Thx Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's
Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:10:49PM +1300, Sharrea Day wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 05:20, Todd Slater wrote: with some easy config, thunderbird 0.4 can launch url's. http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/mozilla_thunderbird_04_released .html Thanks for that Todd... been waiting for this feature! Bit of a bummer that the script copied from the URL wants to use another profile if firebird is already running tho. I changed it to konqueror so I don't have to worry about whether or not firebird is already running. Cheers Sharrea Sharrea, That choose profile is annoying. I use this script which I called /usr/bin/firebird to open links in a new tab. If you prefer, you can substitute new-window. Everything I use that launches URL's calls this script. Todd, I'm having trouble with the script below. I put in some echoes and ran the script from a terminal, and here is what I see: (1) If neither Thunderbird nor Firebird is running, the script successfully starts up Firebird and retrieves the target URL. (2) If *Thunderbird* is running the script thinks that Firebird is running. I guess because they both use the Mozilla rendering engine? (3) If either Thunderbird or Firebird is already running, it goes into the if case and prints out "Failed to send command." The target URL is not retrieved. Any ideas? Todd #/bin/bash browserPath="/usr/local/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird" url="$@" $browserPath -remote "ping()" # $? = false if running, true if not if [ $? = 0 ] ; then exec $browserPath -remote openURL"($url,new-tab)" else $browserPath $url fi exit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:34 pm, Lee wrote: > I had Mandrake 9.2 running fine with two disks. (hda) has the root > filesystem, (hdb) had only one directory I used for Samba. Both were ext3 > fs. I suspected problems with hdb, but WDDiag test results were ok, so I > wiped the hdb disk with zeros anyway using the Western Digital utilities. > > Now I can't boot into Mandrake 9.2 with or without hdb connected. Not > sure how to make Mandrake forget about the hdb disk. I get an error > "Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/hdb1. The superblock could > not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem" > > I know the root disk is good (hda). I had hoped Linux would boot and > allow me to re-configure hdb. How can I accomplish this? I am going to assume that it is reading about /dev/hdb1 from fstab, and so you have to remove it there. I would try to boot and do it interactively, so then when fstab is read, you can stop it from trying to get hdb. The other option is to boot knoppix if you have a disk around or something that will let you get in and edit fstab to get rid of the hdb mention. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Odd Konqueror config problem
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 6:40 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: > In recent days, the behavior of the "Forward", "Back" and "Up" buttons in > Konqueror (9.2, / KDE 3.1.3) has changed. Formerly, when I clicked on any > of the buttons I would move to the previous or next page/directory viewed > or up to the parent directory. If I clicked and held down the left mouse > button, I got a dropdown list of the previous/next pages. Now, I only get > the dropdown list and I have to select from the list even if I want to go > directly to the previous page. > I haven't found any configuration options that control this behavior. Does > anyone know how to restore the button functionality? My first shot at fixing this would be to nuke the ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror directory after I saved bookmarks.html someplace else. Then reboot X and all will be restored from default. that location is where Konq has all its config files, and you just might have something scrambled there. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
