Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple of years now, with cards from the old TNT to GeForce (depending on which machine I'm using) and they've been trouble-free. Proprietary or not, Nvidia seems to have their act together with Linux support, and the installation has gotten easier over time (now it's just a .run, unless you are installing under SuSe, and then you need to jump through some relatively simple steps). I truly believe that we Linux users should buy our hardware from companies that go the extra step to fully support our systems, even if the support is in a proprietary format. e. On Saturday 20 December 2003 09:34 pm, Ramin M wrote: I have heard that nvidia graphic cards usually work better under linux and mandrake already includes them in the power pack version like the ati drivers. Do you know about if they are trouble free unlike the ati cards? I am thinking to buy one and sell out my ati card. Financially this is not much loss. Regards, Ramin --- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with the Mobility version of this card on a laptop. There is something wrong with the dri (direct rendering) implementation with the drivers, but I haven't heard that the problem extends beyond the mobility chip. My lockups would occur at shutdown, however, and only very rarely during use. Just as a test, you might try commenting out the # Load dri line in your xconfig-4 Module section, to see if the problem might go away. GLX doesn't look too good if your system acts up running gears, either, but one thing at a time. Perhaps SuSe is writing the xconfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat differently than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use Mandrake because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. e On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] firebird nukes bookmarks
Anyone else experience this? Every so often, i'll notice that firebird has nuked a bunch of my bookmarks. 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] Mozilla Flash problem
On Saturday 20 December 2003 8:55 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Two 9.2 boxes. Both running Mozilla as included in the distro. Both have the flash files in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins On one, help about plugins shows flash and it works. On the other help about plugins shows no flash and of course it doesn't. Yes, there is one specific file that is missing that urpmi caught for me, and I forget the name. Maybe you can find it in the archives, or maybe you will catch it by doing the install with urpmi. Or maybe you can find it by looking into the dependences with Kpackage and seeing if you have them all. -- 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
[newbie] What video player software?
What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more multimedia capable? My thought: .- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it. .- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-( .- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files. .- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short time. I don't know all of its possibilities. -- ··-- Iván Velamazán González --···-- http://www.ivelamazan.com --·· Si Windows es la respuesta, por favor ¿me pueden repetir la pregunta? Software is like sex: It's better when it's free (Linus Torvalds) http://www.autt.org Si sales al campo, que no se note que pasaste Suzuki Samurai 1.9TD: Speed kills, live forever! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printer recognized, not working
Steve Hammond wrote: Hey, I'm new to linux entirely and thus this listserv, too. Here's the problem: Mandrake 9.2 recognizes my printer (and it's functional scanner too), correct brand, driver, and all, yet everything fails to print. I've gone into the printer control center and made sure the brand matches (it didn't by default) in addition to the driver. I've tried the print test page option, and also a .doc through openoffice...nothing works. My hardware is listed below. Thanks in advance. -stv AthlonXP 1500 w/256 DDRRAM ATAPI CD-WRR DVD-ROM Western Digital 40gb internal hd Seacoast (? not sure about brand off the top of my head) 20 gb internal hd imation external usb floppy (onboard floppy doesn't work...not linux fault; just mobo) and the printer: Lexmark X73 printer/scanner/fax machine the sc/vc are Soundblaster 16bit pci/NVidia GForce4 64mb accordingly, if those help I take it that you are either on M9.1 or M9.2. Sometimes printer drake appears to set up correctly, but doesn't , the solution is to remove the entire configuration and set it up again, from scratch again. Sometimes it's just a simple matter of checking the port connection is set correctly, usually either /dev/usb/lp0, or /dev/lp0 , the lp numbers can vary depending on how many printers you have connected.At this stage, going from your description, I don't think it's a lexmark problem, I mean if you are not even getting a print file job sent to spooling, which you can check by running lpq in a terminal , then , even if you are getting a print file job, but it still doesn't want to print, then I would first suspect the connection as outlined above. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X font server
Anyone know anything about how the X font server works ?? take a look at, /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftCompat.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What video player software?
Iván Velamazán González wrote: What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more multimedia capable? My thought: .- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it. .- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-( .- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files. .- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short time. I don't know all of its possibilities. I've used Xine for a long time, but I've started playing around with Totem, and I'm quite impressed. Plusses: * Simple to use * Can play just about anything, including Quicktime * Nice visualisation for audio Minuses * Doesn't have the range of features that Mplayer has (there again, nothing short of video editing software like Cinerella does) * I've had occasional sound problems, though that may be more to do with my sound setup than Totem * Full-screen option for Quicktime comes out in the wrong resolution (and the Ctrl-Alt-Minus key trick won't work) * Screenshots on DVDs come out with the wrong dimensions (problem with widescreen settings?) * Doesn't have a pretty, skinnable GUI like Xine or XMMS (this is a personal thing - I hate GTK!) OK, so there are more minuses than pluses, but the minuses all look fixable in the near future. 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] speedtouch 330 usb on mandrake 9.1
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 3:25 am, S N A K E wrote: how can i support speedtouch 330 usb on mandrake 9.1 STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* You need to install the mgmt.o binary library from Alcatel and then you will be able to use the wizard in Mandrake ControlCentreNetworking to set up your modem. The mgmt.o library is available in the 'speedtouch_mgmt' RPM package on the Mandrake Powerpack CDs or available by download from Mandrake Club It can also be downloaded from various locations around the web. www.google.com/linux is your friend. In case you are wondering why it is not supplied with the Mandrake download distro, it is because this library is not 'free' ; as in published under a GPL compatible license. 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] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
E. Hines wrote: With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple of years now, with cards from the old TNT to GeForce (depending on which machine I'm using) and they've been trouble-free. Proprietary or not, Nvidia seems to have their act together with Linux support, and the installation has gotten easier over time (now it's just a .run, unless you are installing under SuSe, and then you need to jump through some relatively simple steps). I truly believe that we Linux users should buy our hardware from companies that go the extra step to fully support our systems, even if the support is in a proprietary format. I agree in general, though I wouldn't pass over a better product in favour of a less good one just because the latter provided Linux drivers. You also need to bear in mind that some companies who do not provide Linux drivers also support Linux by adopting a cooperative attitude to developers who want to write Open Source drivers. This said, Nvidia have a pretty good record. I've been using their cards for a few years (first GeForce II, now GeForce IV) and have been very happy with them. I've used the XFree86 drivers (which are fine if you don't want hardware acceleration), the download from Nvidia and, briefly an RPM from either Texstar or PLF. There should be no problems so long as you follow the instructions in the README (older versions had some problems with conflicts with stale OpenGL symlinks, but I haven't noticed that recently). 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] Ownership changes on its own
On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:16 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's where msec comes in : I always wonder why the Mandrake default is standard. First thing to do after a new install/upgrade is to set security level to high. But that is only a matter of keeping the users privacy, not the system's. I believe 'standard' is the right choice, but you are given the opportunity during the install to set it to whatever you want. IMO, it's a good idea to leave it at standard till you have used the system for a while before raising it. Even for a multi user or server system. I also think it's a good choice for users that don't bother to further explore Linux permissions and security in general. They should leave it at standard. It's especially suited to a single user desktop. Permissions do little to protect from the outside world anyhow, for that you need iptables and firewall rules. I think some users, specially the new ones confuse the two, msec/permissions vs. firewall/ports security. Another reason Mandrake's default is standard, is to tryin reduce the How come I can't ___ support questions. If I were to criticse Mandrake, it would be for not installing iptables by default when a lan and/or Net connection is configured during the install. I think a very simple firewall rule generator like Guarddog would be a good default choice too. Point'n click fairly intuitive setup for iptables, even for those very new to Linux and security. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
12/21/03 To Melissa and other The Bat! users. I'm looking into Opera 7.23 (web-email-news program), a Linux program available at www.opera.com in free download or $35USD version to remove the small banner ad. As far as I know, there is no other difference between the free and purchased versions. In the Tutorial available from http://www.markschenk.com/opera/7/m2tutorial.html by Mark Schenk, he has a quote from one of the Opera support people who used The Bat! during Opera 6, but now uses the M2 email system available with Opera 7.23. I've just started the M2 tutorial from Mark Schenk (of which there is one at the Opera web site as well), but the concept of 'accesspoints', 'views', 'contacts' to sort out known emails from junk/spam, and treating your email as a database is intriquing. Has anyone familiar with The Bat! looked into M2 and Opera 7.23? TIA, The Other PS: I like that all mouse commands in M2 and Opera 7.23 also have keyboard equivalents. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XMMS acting up
I've been unable to figure out why xmms will sometimes load a directory (/mnt/cdrom1) and sometimes it won't. There seems to be no rhyme or reason for it. Has anyone dealt with this behavior? -- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.- Albert Einstein Modern physics, quantum science and ancient traditions are now converging at this point, saying: 'The mind is ours.' That it is our collective intelligence that forms the matrix of all matter. ~Gregg Braden, Former Earth Scientist Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] security update problem
Xfree doesn't work due to latest update on 9.1 box. Is there a way to reload from the installation cd or another way to fix this? Would appreciate any help in getting computer back up and running. I have gotten familiar with the mandrake GUI and would prefer not to use xp. Thanks john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:41 am, robin wrote: E. Hines wrote: With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple of years now, with cards from the old TNT to GeForce (depending on which machine I'm using) and they've been trouble-free. Proprietary or not, Nvidia seems to have their act together with Linux support, and the installation has gotten easier over time (now it's just a .run, unless you are installing under SuSe, and then you need to jump through some relatively simple steps). I truly believe that we Linux users should buy our hardware from companies that go the extra step to fully support our systems, even if the support is in a proprietary format. I agree in general, though I wouldn't pass over a better product in favour of a less good one just because the latter provided Linux drivers. You also need to bear in mind that some companies who do not provide Linux drivers also support Linux by adopting a cooperative attitude to developers who want to write Open Source drivers. This said, Nvidia have a pretty good record. I've been using their cards for a few years (first GeForce II, now GeForce IV) and have been very happy with them. I've used the XFree86 drivers (which are fine if you don't want hardware acceleration), the download from Nvidia and, briefly an RPM from either Texstar or PLF. There should be no problems so long as you follow the instructions in the README (older versions had some problems with conflicts with stale OpenGL symlinks, but I haven't noticed that recently). Sir Robin I have to agree,,, I use Mandrake because it 'works best', and I use NVidia cards because they 'work best' (and I use ATI cards just as often) anything that is 'just out' will have updated drivers in a few months, no matter what OS. but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own
On Sunday 21 December 2003 14:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:16 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's where msec comes in : I always wonder why the Mandrake default is standard. First thing to do after a new install/upgrade is to set security level to high. But that is only a matter of keeping the users privacy, not the system's. I believe 'standard' is the right choice, but you are given the opportunity during the install to set it to whatever you want. IMO, it's a good idea to leave it at standard till you have used the system for a while before raising it. Even for a multi user or server system. I also think it's a good choice for users that don't bother to further explore Linux permissions and security in general. They should leave it at standard. It's especially suited to a single user desktop. Permissions do little to protect from the outside world anyhow, for that you need iptables and firewall rules. I think some users, specially the new ones confuse the two, msec/permissions vs. firewall/ports security. Another reason Mandrake's default is standard, is to tryin reduce the How come I can't ___ support questions. If I were to criticse Mandrake, it would be for not installing iptables by default when a lan and/or Net connection is configured during the install. I think a very simple firewall rule generator like Guarddog would be a good default choice too. Point'n click fairly intuitive setup for iptables, even for those very new to Linux and security. Well Tom, undoubtedly you are right. However, I've never noticed any limitations when having msec=high. The advantage is, that having multiple users on one machine, each one can have a home without fear of being disturbed by the others. For example, on my main machine I have a guest account used by neighbors without Internet. They can happily click around without doing any harm whatsoever to others. On the other hand, setting msec=higher, excludes me from doing a lot of things, can't even go outside my home. Of course, all this can be accomplished by hand, but I find msec quite reasonable. Now, if only I could find out how to stealth my ports :-( Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Guarddog (was: Ownership changes on its own)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 08:15:36 -0600, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own: If I were to criticse Mandrake, it would be for not installing iptables by default when a lan and/or Net connection is configured during the install. I think a very simple firewall rule generator like Guarddog would be a good default choice too. Point'n click fairly intuitive setup for iptables, even for those very new to Linux and security. I completely agree with you on that; however there`s no rpm for 9.2 available, so my guarddog v. 2.2.0 is compiled from tarball. In fact I was already considering putting it up for RPM voting in MandrakeClub, because I didn`t find it there yet. Your message made me decide to actually do it. Any interested members are invited to cast there votes. Thanks and regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/5c6xwC/zk+cxEdMRAk55AKCC0FD84fAjegH0Rg/RXA/oqpTkWgCgs4B0 khxuhd/xnSfyBAn7IA2zpdQ= =m3S8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GIMP on 9.2
When trying to print from the GIMP, it starts spitting out papers like a machine gun, each paper with only a few lines of gibberish on it. Only way to stop the madness, is to power the printer down. May I add, that all other applications print flawlessly. Never had this problem on 9.1, same setup with CUPS as the default printing system. In the GIMP, the printer is identified correctly, and the output is set to PostScript level 2. Ideas anyone ? 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] firebird nukes bookmarks
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:17, Eric Huff wrote: Anyone else experience this? Every so often, i'll notice that firebird has nuked a bunch of my bookmarks. Using tarball version of firebird 0.7 and haven't lost any bookmarks. Perhaps firebird is crashing? thus losing any info for that session you wanted saved?? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What video player software?
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:32, Iván Velamazán González wrote: What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more multimedia capable? My thought: .- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it. .- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-( .- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files. .- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short time. I don't know all of its possibilities. I used to use xine exclusively in MDK 9.0 but with 9.1 and 9.2 I use mplayer when I want to watch more than one video and totem for only one video - mainly short mpegs as I don't have a DVD drive. Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player. Although I must admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all that much - it just works so I leave everything apart from skins as the default. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GIMP on 9.2
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 16:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When trying to print from the GIMP, it starts spitting out papers like a machine gun, each paper with only a few lines of gibberish on it. Only way to stop the madness, is to power the printer down. May I add, that all other applications print flawlessly. Never had this problem on 9.1, same setup with CUPS as the default printing system. In the GIMP, the printer is identified correctly, and the output is set to PostScript level 2. Ideas anyone ? Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I have the same problem here. I found out that if I choose my printer as the output, it works perfectly. Try it and see if the same happens with you. The thing is every time I have to print something, I have to change it, otherwise I get that gibberish you referred to. JM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firebird nukes bookmarks
Anyone else experience this? Every so often, i'll notice that firebird has nuked a bunch of my bookmarks. Using tarball version of firebird 0.7 and haven't lost any bookmarks. Perhaps firebird is crashing? thus losing any info for that session you wanted saved?? What happens is i'll notice that right clicking on a bookmark in the sid pane doesn't work, or sometimes firebird crashes. After that, i'll notice a bunch of missing bookmarks. But i lose more that just that sessions worth. Sometimes it bookmarks from before, but they are usually near recent ones in the list... 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] firebird nukes bookmarks
Anyone else experience this? Every so often, i'll notice that firebird has nuked a bunch of my bookmarks. Using tarball version of firebird 0.7 and haven't lost any bookmarks. Perhaps firebird is crashing? thus losing any info for that session you wanted saved?? Sorry. I am using 0.7 also. 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] GIMP on 9.2
On Sunday 21 December 2003 17:52, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 16:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When trying to print from the GIMP, it starts spitting out papers like a machine gun, each paper with only a few lines of gibberish on it. Only way to stop the madness, is to power the printer down. May I add, that all other applications print flawlessly. Never had this problem on 9.1, same setup with CUPS as the default printing system. In the GIMP, the printer is identified correctly, and the output is set to PostScript level 2. Ideas anyone ? Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I have the same problem here. I found out that if I choose my printer as the output, it works perfectly. Try it and see if the same happens with you. The thing is every time I have to print something, I have to change it, otherwise I get that gibberish you referred to. Hmm... thanks, Josenildo. Funny thing is, that my printer (HP 3820) is listed OK in the printer-field, but not in the field for output. When I tried your advice, I picked another HP printer, printed OK but in a very grainy mode, far from what I'm used to. Now, to print some photos for my X-mas cards I have to use Open Office, import the photos there, and then print. Works fine. But there must be some bug in GIMP ? Thanks again, 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] firebird nukes bookmarks
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:54, Eric Huff wrote: Anyone else experience this? Every so often, i'll notice that firebird has nuked a bunch of my bookmarks. Using tarball version of firebird 0.7 and haven't lost any bookmarks. Perhaps firebird is crashing? thus losing any info for that session you wanted saved?? What happens is i'll notice that right clicking on a bookmark in the sid pane doesn't work, or sometimes firebird crashes. After that, i'll notice a bunch of missing bookmarks. But i lose more that just that sessions worth. Sometimes it bookmarks from before, but they are usually near recent ones in the list... Don't have a sidebar for bookmarks with my version. Is your sidebar from a plugin that you've installed? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't make xscreensaver
I've decided I just can't live without the xmatrix screensaver. I download the latest xscreensaver tarball from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/, unpack it, and follow the INSTALL and README. ./configure goes fine, but make dies thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xscreensaver-4.14]# make (big snip) demo-Gtk-support.o: In function `create_pixmap': /home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/demo-Gtk-support.c:165: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file' /home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/demo-Gtk-support.c:175: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_render_pixmap_and_mask' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [xscreensaver-demo-Gtk] Error 1 make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver' make: *** [default] Error 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] xscreensaver-4.14]# What should I be looking at to find and correct the problem? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.
Is this a question better asked on this list or the expert list? I just purchased a Blitzz BWP612B NetWave Point PC 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN Cardbus PC Card. The product claims to support Linux Red Hat 8.0, so I would assume that it would work with Mandrake 9.2, but I don't know what I need to do to make it work I honestly don't remember the specs on my system. It is a Gateway 400 SP series laptop. The card works just fine when I reboot and use WindowsXP, so the problem is not with incompatible hardware. I've read through some of the previous postings and attempted to follow some of the instructions there. I have installed pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools. # more /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket But whenever I startup, my card doesn't give the two beeps i am supposed to hear when the PCMCIA slot is activated. # cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available I also don't see a listing for the pcmcia slot under HardDrake, and # dmesg | grep pcmcia returns nothing. If it didn't work perfectly in Windows I would think that there was a hardware problem. As it is, I have no idea what is wrong, nor any idea what I need to do to fix it. __ 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 __ 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] Trouble mounting HDC
Thanks for the quick reply!
HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks.
{smile}
derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a
standard ATA CD-ROM, but I commented-out the line anyway, which didn't
make a difference after reboot. Symptoms unchanged. I'm afraid I
don't understand what you mean when you say use /dev/hdd instead. Do
you mean I should remove the ide-scsi line I currently have commented
out and replace it with a line pointing to /dev/hdc? This doesn't seem
correct, because the CD-ROM currently works perfectly. (If it was
plugged in and the line in /etc/fstab uncommented.)
HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is
partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc,
/dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still
doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc.
Thanks very much for your help, folks! Any other suggestions?
Schof
On Dec 21, 2003, at 1:52 PM, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 9:37 pm, John Schofield wrote:
I've recently installed Mandrake on an IDE drive (master on primary
channel). I have some files I want to get off some other hard drives
before I wipe them. I removed my CD-ROM temporarily and cabled the
IDE
HD in its place as master on secondary channel. I started out by
attempting to mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hd2 and get special device
/dev/hdc1 does not exist.
HardDrake lists both hda and hdc under the disks drop-down, but when I
select hdc and choose run config tool DiskDrake only shows me an hda
tab; there's no tab for hdc.
I have tried this with two different known-good disks; exact same
result from both.
Any suggestions for further troubleshooting?
Thanks very much!
You need to edit your /etc/fstab file to let it know /dev/hdc is no
longer a
CD drive The format should be self explanatory. You can comment out
the old
entry with a '#' at the beginning of the line. Then reboot and it
should find
your drive.
If the CD-ROM is defined as ide-scsi, then it is a bit more
complicated. If
your /etc/fstab has no entry for /dev/hdc but does have an entry for
/dec/scd0 then it is ide-scsi The simplest way around this issue is
to use
/dev/hdd instead (The alternative is to rewrite your boot sector
which is
more hassle)
HTH
derek
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Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:02, Job Evers wrote: Is this a question better asked on this list or the expert list? I just purchased a Blitzz BWP612B NetWave Point PC 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN Cardbus PC Card. The product claims to support Linux Red Hat 8.0, so I would assume that it would work with Mandrake 9.2, but I don't know what I need to do to make it work I honestly don't remember the specs on my system. It is a Gateway 400 SP series laptop. The card works just fine when I reboot and use WindowsXP, so the problem is not with incompatible hardware. I've read through some of the previous postings and attempted to follow some of the instructions there. I have installed pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools. # more /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket But whenever I startup, my card doesn't give the two beeps i am supposed to hear when the PCMCIA slot is activated. # cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available I also don't see a listing for the pcmcia slot under HardDrake, and # dmesg | grep pcmcia returns nothing. If it didn't work perfectly in Windows I would think that there was a hardware problem. As it is, I have no idea what is wrong, nor any idea what I need to do to fix it. __ 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Before inserting your card open a terminal and as su/root type tail -f /var/log/messages. Then insert the card and see what the output says about it. That way you (and us too) will have more of an idea what might wrong. If it says non supported card it's time for some googling. It's a cardbus device so you should be getting references to PCI devices as well. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 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] Trouble mounting HDC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 21 December 2003 3:25 pm, John Schofield wrote: whack Thanks for the quick reply! HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc, /dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc. Thanks very much for your help, folks! Any other suggestions? Schof Have you run detect in set up (BIOS) before you let the system boot? Some older hardware won't see any new drives unless you do so. Mandrake is usually very good about detecting new drives but on older hardware with older BIOS the system has to detect the drive first. 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 15:29:34 up 1 day, 1:17, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.11, 0.09 The bug stops here. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5h+IZqvqlrLPr5YRAlIGAJ9MyLMcIejOuqPb0MlXmqIaJ5u0lwCfVvjQ wDwrTFKqbx+XCLQi+tSwQEk= =hspZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
--- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Sorry, is this in reply to my problem? Why should i turn off this in BIOS? Regards, Regards, Ramin __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:25, John Schofield wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks.
{smile}
You're welcome (grin)
derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a
standard ATA CD-ROM, but I commented-out the line anyway, which didn't
make a difference after reboot. Symptoms unchanged. I'm afraid I
don't understand what you mean when you say use /dev/hdd instead. Do
you mean I should remove the ide-scsi line I currently have commented
out and replace it with a line pointing to /dev/hdc? This doesn't seem
correct, because the CD-ROM currently works perfectly. (If it was
plugged in and the line in /etc/fstab uncommented.)
HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is
partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc,
/dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still
doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc.
Yes, I'm sure...that way you mount the whole disk i.e. all partitions.
Thanks very much for your help, folks! Any other suggestions?
Schof
On Dec 21, 2003, at 1:52 PM, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 9:37 pm, John Schofield wrote:
I've recently installed Mandrake on an IDE drive (master on primary
channel). I have some files I want to get off some other hard drives
before I wipe them. I removed my CD-ROM temporarily and cabled the
IDE
HD in its place as master on secondary channel. I started out by
attempting to mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hd2 and get special device
/dev/hdc1 does not exist.
Which makes me think: Could it be that the cd-rom was a CD-writer?
If so there are probably still lines in lilo (/etc/lilo.conf) like append
/dev/hdc=ide-scsi.
Remove those lines from /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo (as su/root) to make it
stick.
Good luck,
HarM
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Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC
Thank you, Charlie. Yes, BIOS detects it no problem. Schof On Dec 21, 2003, at 2:32 PM, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 21 December 2003 3:25 pm, John Schofield wrote: whack Thanks for the quick reply! HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc, /dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc. Thanks very much for your help, folks! Any other suggestions? Schof Have you run detect in set up (BIOS) before you let the system boot? Some older hardware won't see any new drives unless you do so. Mandrake is usually very good about detecting new drives but on older hardware with older BIOS the system has to detect the drive first. 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 15:29:34 up 1 day, 1:17, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.11, 0.09 The bug stops here. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5h+IZqvqlrLPr5YRAlIGAJ9MyLMcIejOuqPb0MlXmqIaJ5u0lwCfVvjQ wDwrTFKqbx+XCLQi+tSwQEk= =hspZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC
HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc, /dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc. Yes, I'm sure...that way you mount the whole disk i.e. all partitions. Ah, good to know. Which makes me think: Could it be that the cd-rom was a CD-writer? If so there are probably still lines in lilo (/etc/lilo.conf) like append /dev/hdc=ide-scsi. Remove those lines from /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo (as su/root) to make it stick. Yep, that did the trick. Thanks very much for your help, you nailed this one quickly! Schof Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What video player software?
Actually, you might want to give VideoLan Client a try. Have a look at their site; http://www.videolan.org Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/22/2003 at 6:42 AM Sharrea Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:32, Iván Velamazán González wrote: What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more multimedia capable? My thought: .- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it. .- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-( .- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files. .- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short time. I don't know all of its possibilities. I used to use xine exclusively in MDK 9.0 but with 9.1 and 9.2 I use mplayer when I want to watch more than one video and totem for only one video - mainly short mpegs as I don't have a DVD drive. Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player. Although I must admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all that much - it just works so I leave everything apart from skins as the default. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:36 pm, Ramin M wrote: --- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Sorry, is this in reply to my problem? Why should i turn off this in BIOS? Regards, Regards, Ramin __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca because linux is not 'a plug and pray aware OS', and you may be having conflicts with IRQs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs
Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). -- Cheers, Trey --- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 10:25 pm, John Schofield wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks.
{smile}
derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a
standard ATA CD-ROM, but I commented-out the line anyway, which didn't
make a difference after reboot. Symptoms unchanged. I'm afraid I
don't understand what you mean when you say use /dev/hdd instead. Do
you mean I should remove the ide-scsi line I currently have commented
out and replace it with a line pointing to /dev/hdc? This doesn't seem
correct, because the CD-ROM currently works perfectly. (If it was
plugged in and the line in /etc/fstab uncommented.)
HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is
partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc,
/dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still
doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc.
Thanks very much for your help, folks! Any other suggestions?
Schof
snip
Yes the subject of ide-scsi is a bit confusing to a newbie. Your CD-ROM is of
course IDE, but the Linux CD burning backend 'cdrecord' only works with SCSI
devices. So in order to be able to burn CDs with an IDE CD-RW the kernel
supports a 'scsi emulation' mode called ide-scsi.
Now you will say this is a CD-ROM not a CD-RW.
If your CD-RW and CD-ROM are both ide-scsi then it is possible to do CD to CD
copying without having to copy the data to buffer first.
So that is why Mandrake has configured your CD-ROM as ide-scsi.
If you look at /etc/lilo.conf you will see the definition for your boot sector
and you will see in the 'append' line hdc=ide-scsi
Rather than mess about with your lilo.conf file I was suggesting you connect
your hard drive to the IDE secondary slave interface instead. That way it
will be /dev/hdd and you should find that diskdrake will detect the drive and
allow you to configure it.
BTW: The new Linux 2.6 kernel dispenses with the concept of ide-scsi so we may
not see this sort of question for much longer.
derek
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Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 11:58 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). The structure of your menus is automatic and is defined by the packager of the RPMS you install. Every time you install a Mandrake RPM the RPM package will place a file in the directory /usr/lib/menu This file dictates which menu section it will appear in. If you want an application to appear in a different section you can override the default by editing /etc/menu-methods/kde3 See 'man update-menus' for a full description. You can also set menudrake to use 'user' menus instead of 'system' menus and use the GUI to define where applications appear in your menu. These settings will be stored in your /home directory and should survive a future install (So long as you do not format /home). 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] KDE Kmenu list of programs
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:27, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 11:58 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). The structure of your menus is automatic and is defined by the packager of the RPMS you install. Every time you install a Mandrake RPM the RPM package will place a file in the directory /usr/lib/menu This file dictates which menu section it will appear in. If you want an application to appear in a different section you can override the default by editing /etc/menu-methods/kde3 See 'man update-menus' for a full description. You can also set menudrake to use 'user' menus instead of 'system' menus and use the GUI to define where applications appear in your menu. These settings will be stored in your /home directory and should survive a future install (So long as you do not format /home). derek I appreciate the explanation. I like the way my menu is currently organized and assuming the same packages are installed I want to be able to go to Applications - Archiving - Cd burning to find Arson, k3b, and others. I just want to be able to print the way its set up now so I can set it up like this in other environments/distributions for consistency. Is there a way to see this or am I out of luck? -- Cheers, Trey --- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs
On Monday 22 Dec 2003 12:44 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:27, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 11:58 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). The structure of your menus is automatic and is defined by the packager of the RPMS you install. Every time you install a Mandrake RPM the RPM package will place a file in the directory /usr/lib/menu This file dictates which menu section it will appear in. If you want an application to appear in a different section you can override the default by editing /etc/menu-methods/kde3 See 'man update-menus' for a full description. You can also set menudrake to use 'user' menus instead of 'system' menus and use the GUI to define where applications appear in your menu. These settings will be stored in your /home directory and should survive a future install (So long as you do not format /home). derek I appreciate the explanation. I like the way my menu is currently organized and assuming the same packages are installed I want to be able to go to Applications - Archiving - Cd burning to find Arson, k3b, and others. I just want to be able to print the way its set up now so I can set it up like this in other environments/distributions for consistency. Is there a way to see this or am I out of luck? Like I said. Future installs will put the apps in exactly the same place they are now. If you like the way it is you do not have to do anything. If you want it different use menudrake in user mode. 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] KDE Kmenu list of programs
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:54, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 22 Dec 2003 12:44 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:27, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 11:58 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). The structure of your menus is automatic and is defined by the packager of the RPMS you install. Every time you install a Mandrake RPM the RPM package will place a file in the directory /usr/lib/menu This file dictates which menu section it will appear in. If you want an application to appear in a different section you can override the default by editing /etc/menu-methods/kde3 See 'man update-menus' for a full description. You can also set menudrake to use 'user' menus instead of 'system' menus and use the GUI to define where applications appear in your menu. These settings will be stored in your /home directory and should survive a future install (So long as you do not format /home). derek I appreciate the explanation. I like the way my menu is currently organized and assuming the same packages are installed I want to be able to go to Applications - Archiving - Cd burning to find Arson, k3b, and others. I just want to be able to print the way its set up now so I can set it up like this in other environments/distributions for consistency. Is there a way to see this or am I out of luck? Like I said. Future installs will put the apps in exactly the same place they are now. If you like the way it is you do not have to do anything. If you want it different use menudrake in user mode. derek But if I use a distribution other than Mandrake, this will not be the case. For example, if I want to mimic the KDE menu currently in use on my Mandrake box on a Debian box or Fedora box. I want to recreate the ordering as I have it now, but I need a snapshot of the current organizational structure with the associated programs. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:05:39 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I use a distribution other than Mandrake, this will not be the case. For example, if I want to mimic the KDE menu currently in use on my Mandrake box on a Debian box or Fedora box. I want to recreate the ordering as I have it now, but I need a snapshot of the current organizational structure with the associated programs. you could get all the menu info into a text file by doing cat /usr/lib/menu/* menustructure.txt... it shows the package name and section it goes in but that also puts in a LOT of other information. How you'd go about sorting out just the package name and menu section I'm not sure but there's got to be a way to do it other than manually. (an entry in /usr/lib/menu looks like this: # cat /usr/lib/menu/xmms ?package(xmms): \ needs=x11 \ section=Multimedia/Sound \ title=Xmms \ longtitle=Multimedia Player \ command=soundwrapper xmms \ mimetypes=video/mpeg;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-ogg;application/x-ogg;audio/x -mpegurl;audio/x-wav \ icon=xmms.xpm so as you can see it's shown there but has a lot of info in with it.) -- _||_ 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
[newbie] XF86Config-4 question
Under versions of Mandrake/XFree before 9.2, I used to always set alternate resolutions in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so all my games could access them. Usually, I would just stick in 800x600, 640x480, 640x400, and 320x200 in the file where my default bootup settings were. If I do this now, here: Virtual 1024 768 (and put the above in) then X won't start. Anyone know the correct way of doing this now? Although, AFAICT, my games are working...some I know are at 640x480 and 800x600. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi The Other, On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 6:25:55 AM PST, you wrote: Has anyone familiar with The Bat! looked into M2 and Opera 7.23? I'm in Windows at the moment, but I don't suppose the Opera package would look and behave much differently under Linux. Next time I'm in Mandrake, I'll install Opera and have a look anyway. I haven't looked at Opera since I got my new computer, so after reading your message, I installed it, set up an account in M2, and had a look around. Frankly, I'm not impressed...not even a wee bit. :-) I've never seen a browser/email/news combination that I felt had a decent email client (or news reader). For that matter, I've never seen an email client/news reader combination that I felt did both equally well (or at least as well as I would like). The closest I've seen to a half-way decent browser connected email client is Mozilla (and even there, I would prefer the stand alone Mozilla/Thunderbird email client with the Enigmail GnuPG integration). Still though, even Moz/Thunderbird/Enigmail doesn't impress me when I compare it to The Bat! (no surprise there, as I haven't seen *any* email client that really impresses me when I compare to TB!). Even looking into the additional options in the M2 .ini file, I didn't see nearly the range of options available in most real email clients (my use of the term real is of course subjective, but so be it). Even having to manually edit the .ini file for some very basic email options is really clumsy. If you don't deal with much email, and all you want is the ability to send and receive email, and have a very basic address book, I suppose just about anything that calls itself an email client will do...including M2 (I suppose even AOL can do that much! :-)). If you want much greater functionality in terms of just about every aspect of email presentation, management, and composition, I would suggest looking elsewhere. Again, these are just my subjective opinions, so take them for what they're worth to you. :-) If you're working in Linux, I do feel that the available stand alone email clients (including Moz/Thunderbird) are all better than Opera's M2. I haven't had much of a chance to work on my Mandrake installation these past few days, and probably can't get back to it for another week or so, but when I do, I'm going to see if I can get The Bat! working through Wine. - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/5oUKjVbXUvsE8ukRAl1KAKCtIQHJ81KrwF/qC6pLzNRCHEBGoQCfRRzR mVI7wEVeaMlYCbqMTPQyC1w= =lLYV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:47, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi The Other, On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 6:25:55 AM PST, you wrote: Has anyone familiar with The Bat! looked into M2 and Opera 7.23? I'm in Windows at the moment, but I don't suppose the Opera package would look and behave much differently under Linux. Next time I'm in Mandrake, I'll install Opera and have a look anyway. I haven't looked at Opera since I got my new computer, so after reading your message, I installed it, set up an account in M2, and had a look around. Frankly, I'm not impressed...not even a wee bit. :-) I've never seen a browser/email/news combination that I felt had a decent email client (or news reader). For that matter, I've never seen an email client/news reader combination that I felt did both equally well (or at least as well as I would like). The closest I've seen to a half-way decent browser connected email client is Mozilla (and even there, I would prefer the stand alone Mozilla/Thunderbird email client with the Enigmail GnuPG integration). Still though, even Moz/Thunderbird/Enigmail doesn't impress me when I compare it to The Bat! (no surprise there, as I haven't seen *any* email client that really impresses me when I compare to TB!). Even looking into the additional options in the M2 .ini file, I didn't see nearly the range of options available in most real email clients (my use of the term real is of course subjective, but so be it). Even having to manually edit the .ini file for some very basic email options is really clumsy. If you don't deal with much email, and all you want is the ability to send and receive email, and have a very basic address book, I suppose just about anything that calls itself an email client will do...including M2 (I suppose even AOL can do that much! :-)). If you want much greater functionality in terms of just about every aspect of email presentation, management, and composition, I would suggest looking elsewhere. Again, these are just my subjective opinions, so take them for what they're worth to you. :-) If you're working in Linux, I do feel that the available stand alone email clients (including Moz/Thunderbird) are all better than Opera's M2. I haven't had much of a chance to work on my Mandrake installation these past few days, and probably can't get back to it for another week or so, but when I do, I'm going to see if I can get The Bat! working through Wine. - -- Melissa have you tried evolution?? i like evolution but i do want something better... i havent tried the mozilla one yet.. i have seen some emails people send that indent the replies in the same email that came from a diff reply, hope yu can understand what im getting at.. what do u think is the best in the linux world.. i dont like using M$ programs with wine cuz its the reason i dont use M$ programs.. heheh -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
