Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
Hello Melissa, Sunday, December 21, 2003, 9:47:31 PM, you wrote: MR I haven't seen *any* email client that really impresses me when I MR compare to TB!). I agree. I was also looking for this. It is really too bad they don't have a linux version. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu
I can't remember if I saw this on this list or somewhere else, but what has been working well for me in the situation that you're describing is to su to root and run "update-menus -v" from the command line. HTH, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I brought this subject up before but the conversation veered off, so I thought I would raise it independently. Each time I install a multitude of packages, my menus seem to get reset to some tiny set. For example, the entire Packaging submenu is missing from Configuration. I tried logging out of X and coming back in, then I tried rebooting the computer entirely. Neither action fixed the menus. I had to start up MenuDrake as root, and do nothing other than hit the Save button. Then the menus reappeared. This doesn't seem to happen when I install a single package, only when I install a bunch at once. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu
Guy Rouillier wrote: I brought this subject up before but the conversation veered off, so I thought I would raise it independently. Each time I install a multitude of packages, my menus seem to get reset to some tiny set. For example, the entire Packaging submenu is missing from Configuration. I tried logging out of X and coming back in, then I tried rebooting the computer entirely. Neither action fixed the menus. I had to start up MenuDrake as root, and do nothing other than hit the Save button. Then the menus reappeared. This doesn't seem to happen when I install a single package, only when I install a bunch at once. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Have you done all the upgrades from Mandrake? I don't have that problem no matter how many packages I install or uninstall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 USB configuration
On Friday 26 December 2003 02:34, Ramin M wrote: Apparantly the USB modules are already loaded in the running kernel and i did not have to recompile the kernel. I could configure and start using my multi-reader USB card under linux. I am not sure what i did! But i think it was just that i ran the hardware configuration when the card reader was connected to the computer and then Mandrade automaticly configured the USB devise. Now whenever i connect the card-reader with a card inserted, two links to the card location appear on the desktop. Regards, Ramin That sounds very likely. In my experience, the first time something is added you really do need to run harddrake. Glad you got it going, though. Multi-reader usb cards have been very difficult under previous versions. John Richard Smith will be interested in this. 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] Re: Desktop Icons
On Thursday 25 December 2003 22:36, E. Hines wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 01:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks Anne and 'e' but it woulld appear that do not have a /~/.kde/share/apps/kab directory. Will await the new year and see my Guru. I wonder if Erylon was thinking of ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail - your mail account details ? Or maybe /~/.kde/share/apps/kabc ? I see that in my old install directory I have kab but in the new install it is kabc. I don't know why, unless it has to do with whether upgrades were made before I used it. Anne I'm still on 9.1 here. The old Kaddressbook (assuming you use kmail, of course) was the /home/your_username/.kde/share/apps/kab -- If it has been changed in the newest version of kde I wouldn't know. One way to check is to open it up and see if it is an addressbook file. Kwrite can read the contents. I'm on 9.1, too, Erylon. I had to re-install after the big XFree86 debacle - I think my attempts to fix it made things worse g. I installed to different partitions so that I could see/copy anything that I needed. If I slocate kab I get, amongst other lines, /home/anne/.kde/share/config/kab2kabcrc /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf /usr/share/apps/kabc /usr/share/apps/kabc/formats /usr/share/apps/kabc/formats/binary.desktop /usr/share/apps/kabc/formats/kdeaccountsplugin.desktop /usr/share/apps/kabc/plugins /usr/share/apps/kabc/plugins/ldap.desktop /usr/share/apps/kabc/plugins/dir.desktop /OldRoot/root/.kde/share/config/kab2kabcrc /OldRoot/OldData/anne/.kde/share/config/kab2kabcrc /OldRoot/OldData/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc /OldRoot/OldData/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock /OldRoot/OldData/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf /OldRoot/OldData/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab /OldRoot/OldData/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab/addressbook.kab /OldRoot/OldData/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab/addressbook.kab.backup /OldRoot/OldData/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab/kab.config The kab lines no longer appear. I simply don't understand why things should be different when you re-install. I do remember, though, that with 8.2 I had to reinstall, and some things worked the second time that had never worked, or had been unreliable, the first time. Anyway, the upshot is that /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf is what is being used for my addressbook. 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] CD-ROM with scsi emulation
On Friday 26 December 2003 00:51, Manolo Canga wrote: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 25 22:21 /dev/scd1 - scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd Sergey Berezka Can you do text cd into cdrw?. You havent writer permissions. Altought, that isnt the problem that to you bring here. Can you do a cat /etc/fstab now?. Perphas, you havent a good supermount configuration. The default fstab line created will be ro. That will need changing, by the look of it. We'll look at the whole fstab, though, please. 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] medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file:
Copy and pasted from cooker;;; The well known message: medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method is due to a bug into urpmi.addmedia which creates a file list even if there is none on the server, and then try to update it but does not manage to download a new one. rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.media fix the problem. Warly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
On Friday 26 December 2003 04:09, Russ wrote: Thats my problem. I tried to edit it but didn't have any luck. I guess I am asking for a how to on how to edit it. Did you remember to /sbin/lilo after you edited? 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] Missing 9.1 documentation
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:22, Mike Adolf wrote: Went to the Welcom to MandrakeGalaxy screen and press documentaiton icon but only got: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Starter.html/index.html does not exist. Why don't I have this? Can I get this index and related pages somewhere? Tried google with no luck. Maybe you didn't elect to install docs? 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] Webam chat in Mandrake
On Friday 26 December 2003 05:37, Carren Stuart wrote: Hi, I am currently using Eyeball Chat for webcam chat in Windows (actually, I use Eyeball for the webcam part and ICQ for chat as it has better chat options) Unfortunately there is not yet a linux version of Eyeball. Is there anything I can use, which will still allow me to webcam with someone using a Windows system? (with BOTH of us being able to see the other) I had a quick look at Gnomemeeting, but from what I can see only one party will get video if you use it with Netmeeting. At the moment I use GAIM in Mandrake which works fine with my friends ICQ - we just need video! :-) Hi, Carren. GnomeMeeting is definitely what you need, and yes it is possible to use it with NetMeeting users, though I think the NM user may have to register with the GM user register, ils.seconix, or something like that. The best thing to do is to go along to GM's home page and browse around. There's lots of info there. Then install it and try to get it set up. Search our TWiki pages too for info about permissions etc (see my sig). Finally, joing the GM mailing list - it's active but not busy like this list. HTH 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] Books for Newbies?
Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 03:04, schreef Fig ('RL Cassidy'):
Does any one have any experience with these or any other good book? All
opinions are welcome, I can't wait to totally get rid of M$. Thanks in
advance for any/all assistance.
hey Richard,
have you looked at rute? (LINUX Rute Users Tutorial an Exposition)
it is on your system or cd's...
ronald
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Re: [newbie] rm-command
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 14:03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 16:09, Paul wrote: On 12/25/2003 04:43 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote: Well, I never do a general ./* I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt. I once deleted the content of one whole directory, and since then I never did this stupid * stuff ;-) . That is _the_ way to learn... My way was the same way, except it was my $HOME. With subdirs... *grin* That is also when my paranoia with backups paid off! Paul Allow me to quote the legendary Civileme : quote rm -r /whateverdirectoryname/and/path -f the -r is for recursive (i. e. descend into subdirectories) and the -f is for force without asking, While rm -rf /whateverdirectoryname/and/path will work to the same effect, it is considered bad form. Imagine that you type this far rm -rf / and then the household cat launches for your desktop and plops a fat paw on the enter key. Your entire filesystem(s) are bye-bye, even /mnt/windows_c if you happen to have one and it is writeable. Aside from having the household cat for supper, there is no compensation, and of course even less when you fat-finger the enter key yourself. Take it from someone who has committed that faux pas. Civileme /quote Merry Christmas all ! Kaj Haulrich. Wow! I like it. I was typing 'rm /any/dir' and adding the '-rf' switches afterward to get 'rm -rf /any/dir'. Thanks a lot, Kaj. -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Friday 26 December 2003 00:51, Manolo Canga wrote: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 25 22:21 /dev/scd1 - scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd Sergey Berezka Can you do text cd into cdrw?. You havent writer permissions. Altought, that isnt the problem that to you bring here. Can you do a cat /etc/fstab now?. Perphas, you havent a good supermount configuration. The default fstab line created will be ro. That will need changing, by the look of it. We'll look at the whole fstab, though, please. Hi This seems to be the same problem that I have. I just googled the /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd file and there are different sites listed with what may be possible solutions. I am not familiar enough with linux to know if it applies here. May be someone else could take a look and come up with something. Best wishes for the new year! John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu
There is an update that addresses this exact problem. I can't remember the exact update right now, but its rpm-something. You can't miss it. Josh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Rouillier Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 1:54 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu I brought this subject up before but the conversation veered off, so I thought I would raise it independently. Each time I install a multitude of packages, my menus seem to get reset to some tiny set. For example, the entire Packaging submenu is missing from Configuration. I tried logging out of X and coming back in, then I tried rebooting the computer entirely. Neither action fixed the menus. I had to start up MenuDrake as root, and do nothing other than hit the Save button. Then the menus reappeared. This doesn't seem to happen when I install a single package, only when I install a bunch at once. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue? -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation
On Friday 26 December 2003 12:01, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Friday 26 December 2003 00:51, Manolo Canga wrote: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 25 22:21 /dev/scd1 - scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd Sergey Berezka Can you do text cd into cdrw?. You havent writer permissions. Altought, that isnt the problem that to you bring here. Can you do a cat /etc/fstab now?. Perphas, you havent a good supermount configuration. The default fstab line created will be ro. That will need changing, by the look of it. We'll look at the whole fstab, though, please. Hi This seems to be the same problem that I have. I just googled the /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd file and there are different sites listed with what may be possible solutions. I am not familiar enough with linux to know if it applies here. May be someone else could take a look and come up with something. Best wishes for the new year! John Did you find http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=6665 ? k3b has always had the reputation of messing up your fstab. It did it to me under 9.0, and I had to uninstall and install again. Thesecond time, when it asked to amend the fstab I said 'no', and everything worked fine. I installed it under 9.1, but it didn't work immediately, and I couldn't be bothered to wrestle with it, as I never copy a cd on the fly, and xcdroast does pretty well everything else - including reading happily from my non-scsi-em dvd drive. 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] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu
On Friday 26 December 2003 12:13, Josh wrote: There is an update that addresses this exact problem. I can't remember the exact update right now, but its rpm-something. You can't miss it. Josh IOW, try MandrakeUpdate 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] CD-ROM with scsi emulation
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Friday 26 December 2003 12:01, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Friday 26 December 2003 00:51, Manolo Canga wrote: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 25 22:21 /dev/scd1 - scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd Sergey Berezka Can you do text cd into cdrw?. You havent writer permissions. Altought, that isnt the problem that to you bring here. Can you do a cat /etc/fstab now?. Perphas, you havent a good supermount configuration. The default fstab line created will be ro. That will need changing, by the look of it. We'll look at the whole fstab, though, please. Hi This seems to be the same problem that I have. I just googled the /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd file and there are different sites listed with what may be possible solutions. I am not familiar enough with linux to know if it applies here. May be someone else could take a look and come up with something. Best wishes for the new year! John Did you find http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=6665 ? k3b has always had the reputation of messing up your fstab. It did it to me under 9.0, and I had to uninstall and install again. Thesecond time, when it asked to amend the fstab I said 'no', and everything worked fine. I installed it under 9.1, but it didn't work immediately, and I couldn't be bothered to wrestle with it, as I never copy a cd on the fly, and xcdroast does pretty well everything else - including reading happily from my non-scsi-em dvd drive. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Thank's I'll see this topic. Sergey Berezka 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] win_d user rights
What I need type in the fstab in order to write on write on my windows partion win_d from user not root ? Sergey Berezka
Re: [newbie] win_d user rights
On Friday 26 December 2003 13:00, Sergey Berezka wrote: What I need type in the fstab in order to write on write on my windows partion win_d from user not root ? Sergey Berezka If win_d is ntfs it is unsafe to write to it. If it is fat32, then just making sure the 'user' is in the fstab line will allow it. Don't forget to mount -a after making changes. 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] Named question...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 23:42:52 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Named question...: When I shutdown under v9.2, I get a failed message when it comes to named. It actually gives 3 failed messages at different times. The shutdown continues okay, but I've not had these messages under any other version. Better late than never: I had the same; also at boot time. Now I upgraded to bind-9.2.3-3mdk.i586.rpm from Cooker (also requires: bind-utils-9.2.3-3mdk.i586.rpm and libidnkit1-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm) and the problem is gone. HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/7DoYwC/zk+cxEdMRAsbQAJsH4pdJsMuGkx1A5YWgA1Y28ankJgCgjfqK URep21QMymFG8xTTEQ2m4dg= =p1v6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:02:34 + et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copy and pasted from cooker;;; The well known message: medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method is due to a bug into urpmi.addmedia which creates a file list even if there is none on the server, and then try to update it but does not manage to download a new one. rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.media fix the problem. Hey thanks for reposting that et, it's been driving me up the wall trying to figure out what that was all about. :-) -- _||_ 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] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1
I've been spending a lot time trying to fix the character spacing problem with kde. It seems to boil down to fontmapping , meaning what kde thinks a font name should be and what ghostscript fonts thinks the fontname should be are sometimes two different things. So when, for arguements sake, mozilla has helvetica selected as it's font , and it sends a print file to ghostscript for printing it seems to know how to do this well enough. However when KDE does the same in the same font selection it makes a dogs breakfast of choosing the correct GS font. I don't really know why it does this, but it does and because KDE doesn't get it right, spooling seems to resolve the isue by getting GS to guess it, but it guesses it wrong. The first problem is to identify where GS stores it's font files, suffice it to say it seems to be in directories, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript but , /usr/share/fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives /usr/share/fonts/otf/mdk /usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe /usr/share/fonts /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/pdfcorefont/korean /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/pdfcorefont/japanese /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/pdfcorefont/chinese_t /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/pdfcorefont/chinese_s /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/pdfcorefont /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/examples do not seem to be ghostscript despite the appearance of GS in the path. So , [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]default/Type1]# type1inst [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type1]# type1inst type1inst Version 0.6.1 (11th February 1998) Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) There are a total of 35 PostScript fonts in this directory [10] [20] [30] --- 35 fonts found 35 were standard PostScript fonts I skipped 35 of these fonts because they already had overriding entries in both fonts.scale and/or Fontmap (X Windows fonts or Ghostscript fonts respectively). Fontmap /URWGothicL-Book (a010013l.pfb); /URWGothicL-Demi (a010015l.pfb); /URWGothicL-BookObli (a010033l.pfb); snip /NimbusMonL-BoldObli (n022024l.pfb); /URWPalladioL-Roma (p052003l.pfb); /URWPalladioL-Bold (p052004l.pfb); /URWPalladioL-Ital (p052023l.pfb); /URWPalladioL-BoldItal (p052024l.pfb); /StandardSymL(s05l.pfb); /URWChanceryL-MediItal (z003034l.pfb); A log of errors is located in the file type1inst.log type1inst.log type1inst Version 0.6.1 (11th February 1998) Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Run started at Fri Dec 26 13:13:41 UTC 2003 Reading fonts.scale Done. Reading Fontmap Done. Writing fonts.scale Done. Writing Fontmap Done. So there doesn't seem to be any problem with these as such. BUT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript [EMAIL PROTECTED] ghostscript]# type1inst type1inst Version 0.6.1 (11th February 1998) Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) There are a total of 49 PostScript fonts in this directory [10] [20] [30] [40] --- 49 fonts found 17 were standard PostScript fonts 32 were Ghostscript fonts I skipped 49 of these fonts because they already had overriding entries in both fonts.scale and/or Fontmap (X Windows fonts or Ghostscript fonts respectively). Fontmap /CharterBT-Bold (bchb.pfa); /CharterBT-BoldItalic(bchbi.pfa); /CharterBT-Roman (bchr.pfa); /CharterBT-Italic(bchri.pfa); /Shareware-Cyrillic-Regular (fcyr.gsf); /Shareware-Cyrillic-Italic (fcyri.gsf); /Calligraphic-Hiragana (fhirw.gsf); /Calligraphic-Katakana (fkarw.gsf); /Hershey-Gothic-English (hrger.pfa); /Hershey-Gothic-English-Bold (hrgerb.gsf); /Hershey-Gothic-English-SemiBold (hrgerd.gsf); /Hershey-Gothic-English-Oblique (hrgero.gsf); /Hershey-Greek-Complex (hrgkc.gsf); /Hershey-Greek-Simplex (hrgks.gsf); /Hershey-Gothic-German (hrgrr.pfa); /Hershey-Gothic-German-Bold (hrgrrb.gsf); /Hershey-Gothic-German-Oblique (hrgrro.gsf); /Hershey-Gothic-Italian (hritr.pfa); /Hershey-Gothic-Italian-Bold (hritrb.gsf); /Hershey-Gothic-Italian-Oblique (hritro.gsf); /Hershey-Plain-Duplex(hrpld.pfa); /Hershey-Plain-Duplex-Bold (hrpldb.gsf); /Hershey-Plain-Duplex-Bold-Italic
Re: [newbie] Named question...
On Friday 26 December 2003 08:39 am, Dick Gevers wrote: - On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 23:42:52 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - wrote about [newbie] Named question...: - - When I shutdown under v9.2, I get a failed message when it comes to - named. It actually gives 3 failed messages at different times. The - shutdown continues okay, but I've not had these messages under any other - version. - - Better late than never: I had the same; also at boot time. - - Now I upgraded to bind-9.2.3-3mdk.i586.rpm from Cooker (also requires: - bind-utils-9.2.3-3mdk.i586.rpm and libidnkit1-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm) and the - problem is gone. - - HTH - Regards, - =Dick Gevers= - - - Hmm, I didn't do that - but the problem is solved. Looking at /var/log/messages revealed that a directory and file were not created during the install (reasons unknown). Creating the directory and file solved the problem here. Thanks for the additional info though! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba 3
Has anyone here used Samba 3.0.*? I've got smbclient3 working, but smbtar3 seems to be broken - I get error messages about an unacceptable user-password combination, even thought the same password works in smbclient3. 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] win_d user rights
Sergey Berezka wrote: What I need type in the fstab in order to write on write on my windows partion win_d from user not root ? Sergey Berezka There are different ways to do it. umask=0 0 0 should do the trick. But unless you really need to, I recommend making changes via the Mandrake Control Center rather than by manually editing fstab. 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] Grub or Lilo
Hi All, I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to be a tricky thing to accomplish. Here is what I did: New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a 160 gig HD and made it master and the 80 a slave (XP has the whole 80gig drive). On the 160 I put Win98se on the first 40, then swap, then SuSE and finally Mandrake. Both SuSE and Mandrake are in their own single partition (I did not separate / and /Home). Steps; I installed Win98se, then I installed SuSE. The Win98 drive did not show up arigionally in Grub but I edited it and it worked fine then. My XP drive did show up but Grub will not boot it because it does not recognise the file system (is there a workaround for this?). I then installed Mandrake 9.2 and told it to skip the boot loader. Went back into SuSE and edited Grub again but no dice. Here is what I have: === # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 26 06:12:33 2003 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message timeout 8 default 0 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: SuSE### title SuSE kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Mandrake### title Mandrake kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: XP_Home### title XP_Home root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Win98se### title Win98se root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd === Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Here are the partitions: hda1 FAT32 Win98se hda2 swap hda3 SuSE hda4 extended hda5 Mandrake hdb1 XP Home NTFS Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:50 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to be a tricky thing to accomplish. Here is what I did: New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a 160 gig HD and made it master and the 80 a slave (XP has the whole 80gig drive). On the 160 I put Win98se on the first 40, then swap, then SuSE and finally Mandrake. Both SuSE and Mandrake are in their own single partition (I did not separate / and /Home). Steps; I installed Win98se, then I installed SuSE. The Win98 drive did not show up arigionally in Grub but I edited it and it worked fine then. My XP drive did show up but Grub will not boot it because it does not recognise the file system (is there a workaround for this?). I then installed Mandrake 9.2 and told it to skip the boot loader. Went back into SuSE and edited Grub again but no dice. Here is what I have: === # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 26 06:12:33 2003 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message timeout 8 default 0 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: SuSE### title SuSE kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Mandrake### title Mandrake kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: XP_Home### title XP_Home root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Win98se### title Win98se root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd === Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Here are the partitions: hda1 FAT32 Win98se hda2 swap hda3 SuSE hda4 extended hda5 Mandrake hdb1 XP Home NTFS Thanks Russ Change the Mandrake line to vga=normal and see if it works. I'm not sure what the problem is. Jim -- 10:01:01 up 15 days, 1:18, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.43, 0.27 Running Mandrake 9.2 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Registered Linux User: 181038 --http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] win_d user rights
El Viernes, 26 de Diciembre de 2003 14:00, Sergey Berezka escribió: What I need type in the fstab in order to write on write on my windows partion win_d from user not root ? diskdrake-change to expert mode-Select(with click) windows partition-options-umask=000 I m saying this of memory. I usent Windows. ¡good Lucky! -- Manolo Canga Mi Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mi web: http://bailandodesvan.webcindario.com Tu Fortuna: Windws is ine for bckgroun comunicaions Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Fw: GnuPG keys for Cooker packages not on keyserver?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:31:18 +, Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Fw: GnuPG keys for Cooker packages not on keyserver?: In connection with Anne Wilson`s request I put some changes on the twiki page: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GnuPG and as promised, I sent following request to the Cooker list. snip However, as these are so called `public keys` I wonder why they aren`t available on the usual keyservers, in particular at hkp://www.mandrakesecure.net:11371 Today Frederic Lepied [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied that the keys have been uploaded there. Anne, I will adjust the twiki page accordingly. HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/7FRNwC/zk+cxEdMRAnqbAKDi9NS4VOWZ1ef/qfSi4mG0zf1VvACg6hqf pvvkHpy9EunT3/B2k8pA5Vc= =ZDC0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 December 2003 07:39 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 12:13, Josh wrote: There is an update that addresses this exact problem. I can't remember the exact update right now, but its rpm-something. You can't miss it. Josh IOW, try MandrakeUpdate Anne This is the update advisory that addresses this. I haven't had any problems since. Mandrake Linux Update Advisory ___ Package name: rpm Advisory ID:MDKA-2003:030-1 Date: December 4th, 2003 Original Advisory Date: November 18th, 2003 Affected versions: 9.2 __ Problem Description: A bug was found in the way that rpm locks it's database in that it prevents update-menus from running properly and can cause the loss of KDE, GNOME, and other WM menus. This package provides a better locking mechanism that should prevent this improper behaviour. Update: The previous package did not properly clean up the lock file when issuing a --rebuilddb. This has been corrected by these packages Mandrake Linux 9.2: popt-1.8-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm popt-devel-1.8-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm rpm-4.2-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm rpm-build-4.2-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm rpm-devel-4.2-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm rpm-python-4.2-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm rpm-4.2-22.1.92mdk.src.rpm HTH - -- RickS Linux user #338463 Why does Microsoft keep asking me Where do you want to go today? But Linux is the one that always takes me there 8] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7Fffc8FpDuUpLEERAqh9AJwPpQGSrQM5yBrjGrUgdvWF/ANwAACfYago E4KC04HNMoL2rsW2mwm4FgE= =Byzl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1
I've been spending a lot time trying to fix the character spacing problem with kde. According to my M9.1 /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib/Fontmap.GS and, /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap have Helvetica mapped like this, /Helvetica /NimbusSanL-Regu ; /Helvetica-Oblique/NimbusSanL-ReguItal ; /Helvetica-Bold /NimbusSanL-Bold; /Helvetica-BoldOblique/NimbusSanL-BoldItal ; /Helvetica-Narrow/NimbusSanL-ReguCond ; /Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique /NimbusSanL-ReguCondItal ; /Helvetica-Narrow-Bold /NimbusSanL-BoldCond; /Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique /NimbusSanL-BoldCondItal ; But , an old M8.1 OS of mine also had an identicle mapping. So , to my mind that suggests nothing particularly wrong here with the font mapping. I might add M8.1 's KDE using Helvetica font gets it's printing correct, printing to same model printer using Helvetica, of printer, no problems at all with character spacing there. As far as I can see at the moment the problem must be the different versions of ghostscript. M9.1 uses Ghostscript 7.05, whereas M8.1 uses Ghostscript 6.51 , unless there is something else that effects ghostscript performance, like additional libraries that I don't know about. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Grub or Lilo
Did that, didn't work. :-( Went through the install with Mandrake again so I could use it's boot loader. Now Mandrake boots but no SuSE. Although I do not understand all of what came up on the screen when I tried to boot SuSE but, there were a couple of lines that I noticed. It said something to the effect of no ext3 found. SuSE is on a Reiser file system and Mandrake is on an ext3. These were the defaults for each distro. I decided to let them do their thing. Is this a problem? Thanks Russ - Original Message - Change the Mandrake line to vga=normal and see if it works. I'm not sure what the problem is. Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 8:57 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Downloaded kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm from a Mandrake ftp server. I burned them to a cd so that I can install them from init 3. Will somebody tell me how to completely install those files from init 3? From, Steven Log in as you, then at the command prompt type su and provide the root password when requested to become super user. Then; cd /mnt/cdrom enter ls enter You should see a list (ls) of the files/packages on the cdrom. At the prompt type urpmi kern(now strike the Tab button) and you should see the word kernel and a flashing cursor, plus the choices corresponding to the kernel and the kernel-source. Pick the next two characters in the name of the package you want to install first, hit the tab button to auto complete the command, and strike Enter. After that package installs and you return to the command prompt use the Up arrow on your keyboard to page back in the bash history to the previous command, backspace out the characters that are different in the package names and use the Tab button for auto completion again, then strike the Enter key again when you have the package name at the prompt. After this package installs and you are back at the command prompt type: /sbin/lilo -v enter When you have returned again to the command prompt you could cd /the directory you saved the NVidia run file in; which I assume is why you want to do this from init 3. It won't work since the NVidia modules will only install into the running kernel. To use the new kernel you installed you'll have to reboot, this is almost the only package install that requires this. Simplest way to do this from where you are is to use Ctrl+D this will exit the super user mode (it's a shortcut to exit) and type reboot enter You'll see all the shutdown messages. After the system reboots and is running the new kernel you can then run the NVidia installer from the directory you saved it to. If my assumption is correct and that's why you wanted to do the install at a console. If you arrived at init 3 from the reboot because you have the system set not to start X automatically just type startx enter after you log-in. If you didn't you'll need to take another step or two. Let the list know, OK? 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 10:05:21 up 5 days, 19:54, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.34 Well, I'm INVISIBLE AGAIN ... I might as well pay a visit to the LADIES ROOM ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7G+kZqvqlrLPr5YRAlk1AJ9vjAMc7Zn/OjbeOtqdkuTtaYISDgCaA8PQ ADYSSJJOodF5jfbrQ9dJXYw= =9EiP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdrom failure
I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. Thanks john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I'm having difficulty understanding the proper way to configure the Software Media Manager (SMM). I was trying to install the latest Anjuta 1.2.0, and I found it here: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i 586 I started by adding the following to the sources first, as it contained files I needed: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i58 6 When I did that, it seemed to find the hdlist all by itself. I'm looking at the config for that and it claims the relative path is hdlist.cz. When I click on a file in this directory, I see descriptions for it. It also took a long time for the SMM to download it, I guess because it was downloading all the descriptions. The contrib directory on the mirrors have a synthesis.hdlist.cz file in them. In fact I think part of the reason that people have been getting warnings is there are two, a synthesis.hdlist2.cz plus synthesis.hdlist.cz in the three I browsed. Those files contain the descriptions. There is also an hdlist2.cz in (relative to the contrib tree) ../../i586/Mandrake/base that contains all of the information required if you have the GUI software manager (rpmdrake) set to show all information. That's the large one that takes forever to download. Relative sizes for the two: synthesis.hdlist.cz (in contrib tree) 275.9 KB hdlist2.cz (in base) 15.6 MB When I added the first ftp directory above, I again didn't specify the relative path to synthesis/hdlist. Editing that entry now I see synthesis.hdlist.cz. It finished very fast, and I could see it trying to find an hdlist in multiple locations (and failing, apparently.) I have no descriptions for anything in that directory, though the files themselves show up. See above. Finally, my questions: (1) Am I doing the appropriate thing by specifying the complete directory, or should I just be ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu; and it knows to look in the appropriate subdirectories? You did it correctly, but during most of the day the carroll.aset.psu.edu mirror will often not be available to anonymous ftp transactions. The bandwidth is reserved for the university, and people that have accounts, during business hours. The sub directories are required in the URL unless you're using a command line mirroring app such as rsync to mirror locally. Those kinds of applications use modules on the remote server so the instructions are slightly different. (2) What is the appropriate thing to enter in the relative path to synthesis/hdlist field? How do I know this without someone telling me? For the second ftp directory above (the one that seems to have been added completely, judging from the presence of descriptions), I don't see any hdlist file in the ftp directory (I ftp'd there directly.) Since you asked. (-; You have to specify the directory containing the files/packages that you need. To get to the rest of the information about those files you have to use the actual hdlist and not the synthesis so you have to change directories. The relative path I showed above is changing two directories upward (../../) then following the path to the base directory. As far as knowing without being told Guy, I suppose there are only a couple of ways; Go snooping on the mirror you selected as your favourite and find the files that you are interested in, then figure out the paths and how to move between them. That's the way I did it lo these many moons ago. Or: Use the automatically configured update_source path that's built for you when you run Mandrake Update as a starting point, and adapt the paths to what you need at present, for the software source you intend to use. The urpmi plain text configuration files are in file:/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and the lists etcetera are stored locally in file:/var/lib/urpmi/ (3) The install of anjuta found everything on the carroll edu site, and installed okay (anjuta runs.) But when it finished, it said installation failed, source Carroll EDU has invalid list file format. What does this mean? Note this is the source with the descriptions. It isn't anything to worry about, and has caused a mini war of words on the cooker list. It means that someone needs to regenerate the hdlists for 9.2; remove the duplicates and dead wood, and then the mirrors will have to re-synchronize to update theirs. Don't worry about it for now, it'll eventually get sorted. (3) I guess I should have asked this first. Is there a HOWTO on SMM? There are lots of man pages about all of the individual components but I don't recall ever seeing a complete How-To. You may want to look on the TWiki, both the community one http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org and the one for Cooker http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ Even if you don't find the specific article you hope for
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 1:03 am, rikona wrote: Hello Melissa, Sunday, December 21, 2003, 9:47:31 PM, you wrote: MR I haven't seen *any* email client that really impresses me when I MR compare to TB!). I agree. I was also looking for this. It is really too bad they don't have a linux version. So start whining to the developers of The Bat!; and stop feeling abused and posting about your perceived slight and disappointment over it on Mandrake mailing lists. (-; Nobody here, other than you few, seems to feel left out that this application isn't available for GNU/Linux; and since the developers of the software obviously have to eat it'll never be included in a download edition of the distribution anyway. Since that's the version of Mandrake the vast majority of the people posting on/lurking on this and other Mandrake lists use it's up to you. Offer them money to develop a port for GNU/Linux, that often works. If it ain't GPL, it doesn't get into the download release. In all seriousness; I still think it's a stupid name for an e-mail client, but that's probably just me. Peace; 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 11:18:15 up 5 days, 21:07, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.09, 0.09 There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7H1ZZqvqlrLPr5YRAn1qAJ9xFZuozrea0GBrF0kstggRbpHi1ACeJ+iB 9OX7HG0wcmky5a0YwaPwp24= =rQie -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:15 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - - (3) The install of anjuta found everything on the carroll edu site, and - installed okay (anjuta runs.) But when it finished, it said - installation failed, source Carroll EDU has invalid list file format. -What does this mean? Note this is the source with the descriptions. - - It isn't anything to worry about, and has caused a mini war of words on the - cooker list. It means that someone needs to regenerate the hdlists for 9.2; - remove the duplicates and dead wood, and then the mirrors will have to - re-synchronize to update theirs. Don't worry about it for now, it'll - eventually get sorted. I followed the advice to remove all the files with list.media from /var/lib/urpmi and then updated via the software manager and that particular error message has gone away. -- /\ 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
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:26 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - In all seriousness; I still think it's a stupid name for an e-mail client, but - that's probably just me. - - Peace; - Charlie Nope, I've been trying to figure out why they call it TB as well (I guess its my medical background - I keep thinking Tuberculosis!) grin At least most Linux names have a reason/background - somebody enlighten us poor souls - why do they call it The Bat? :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom failure
Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 19:07, schreef John: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. Thanks john is your bios set to boot from cd first? if so try cd2... if you have a working system you can also read the install.htm on cd1 and create a bootfloppy HTH ronald -- Registered Linux User #163597 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom failure
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:07 am, John wrote: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. Thanks john I'm _w_ late to this thread so if you've already posted this information please excuse me. Are either or both CDROMs LG? If so do they have the latest firmware installed *before* you try to boot from a 9.2 install disk? If not they're probably dead but may be recoverable. Is the boot order in the BIOS set to boot from CD first or from hard drive first? 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 11:36:20 up 5 days, 21:25, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.13, 0.10 To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7IOhZqvqlrLPr5YRAhCbAJ4nbNIBFtTRR2poA5pnPMLIcHTgEQCbBMOV B32fVbT3OMYh2Gk0LuH9bOI= =mOLY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:35 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:15 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - - (3) The install of anjuta found everything on the carroll edu site, and - installed okay (anjuta runs.) But when it finished, it said - installation failed, source Carroll EDU has invalid list file format. -What does this mean? Note this is the source with the descriptions. - - It isn't anything to worry about, and has caused a mini war of words on the - cooker list. It means that someone needs to regenerate the hdlists for 9.2; - remove the duplicates and dead wood, and then the mirrors will have to - re-synchronize to update theirs. Don't worry about it for now, it'll - eventually get sorted. I followed the advice to remove all the files with list.media from /var/lib/urpmi and then updated via the software manager and that particular error message has gone away. Thanks Dark Lord and Ed (et) for the reminder. (-: I hate workarounds though, especially ones for things like this that shouldn't be causing trouble in the first place. Peace; 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 11:53:50 up 5 days, 21:42, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.10, 0.09 Good day to deal with people in high places; particularly lonely stewardesses. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7ISbZqvqlrLPr5YRAnY8AJ445dbJjTFB/17ljFQ3mRGC0tDQzQCgmBwv GAHbEN1L5HIznWLEoNhNB3Y= =MN6m -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xawtv and streamer recording sound problems
I want to get my digital vcr working again but I am stumped on where to go next for troubleshooting. It all went wrong since I left Mdk 9.0 and did a fresh install of Mdk 9.2. I previously had a whole load of scripts I could just call up via cron to record various programs from my tv card. I am running 9.2 and uninstalled all xawtv and streamer related files due to having no luck getting anything to record using streamer from the console. After installing the latest xawtv-3.9 files and also streamer I once again find I cannot record anything from the TV card. I can watch TV with sound fine in xawtv. I issue the following command from a console: streamer -o /drive1/magnet/vcr/testrecording.avi -F stereo -f mjpeg -r 25 -s 320x240 -t 0:05 -j 80 -n pal ...this should record a 5 second clip of video in avi format but no such file is created, so I'm assuming that streamer is not executing correctly but is also giving no clues as to what the problem might be as a ctrl-c just returns me to a command prompt as that is the only way to escape the command. This also leaves the sound running in the background and the only way to stop that is to start xawtv and then close the program down. Hope some of you can point me in the right direction with this as I really miss my DVCR :( magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gateway config???
Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig Any suggestions Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cdrom failure
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Mahan Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom failure -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:07 am, John wrote: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. Thanks john I'm _w_ late to this thread so if you've already posted this information please excuse me. Are either or both CDROMs LG? If so do they have the latest firmware installed *before* you try to boot from a 9.2 install disk? If not they're probably dead but may be recoverable. Is the boot order in the BIOS set to boot from CD first or from hard drive first? Hi It is not an lg.It is a teac cdrw. Everything was working fine up until last week. Cdrom quit working and then the update killed X. 9.2 cd's came in and thought this would be a good time to install. System won't boot from cd. I have checked the bios and the boot sequence is cdrom,removable device(floppy), hardrive, network. I picked up a new cendyne cdrw this morning and tried it. Same results-doesn't work. All that happens is the led blinks continuously. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv and streamer recording sound problems
Doh! magnet selects muppet-mode Right, Just in case anyone else reads this in the archives, the answer is in the question, as I just discovered 2 minutes after posting this! mjpeg this wasn't installed!! urpmi mjpegtools Simple really! Streamer no longer hangs, exits and shuts off the sound after recording and the file is recorded fine. Hope this is of some help to others with a similar problem. Regards magnet :) On Friday 26 Dec 2003 7:03 pm, I stupidly wrote: I want to get my digital vcr working again but I am stumped on where to go next for troubleshooting. It all went wrong since I left Mdk 9.0 and did a fresh install of Mdk 9.2. I previously had a whole load of scripts I could just call up via cron to record various programs from my tv card. I am running 9.2 and uninstalled all xawtv and streamer related files due to having no luck getting anything to record using streamer from the console. After installing the latest xawtv-3.9 files and also streamer I once again find I cannot record anything from the TV card. I can watch TV with sound fine in xawtv. I issue the following command from a console: streamer -o /drive1/magnet/vcr/testrecording.avi -F stereo -f mjpeg -r 25 -s 320x240 -t 0:05 -j 80 -n pal ...this should record a 5 second clip of video in avi format but no such file is created, so I'm assuming that streamer is not executing correctly but is also giving no clues as to what the problem might be as a ctrl-c just returns me to a command prompt as that is the only way to escape the command. This also leaves the sound running in the background and the only way to stop that is to start xawtv and then close the program down. Hope some of you can point me in the right direction with this as I really miss my DVCR :( magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation
On Friday 26 December 2003 04:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:22, Mike Adolf wrote: Went to the Welcom to MandrakeGalaxy screen and press documentaiton icon but only got: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Starter.html/index.html does not exist. Why don't I have this? Can I get this index and related pages somewhere? Tried google with no luck. Maybe you didn't elect to install docs? Anne Hi Anne, There are many (457) dirs in /usr/share/doc just not mandrake/en. Can I run the installation disk again and just install documentation? I looked in rpmdrake but nothing jumped out? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cdrom failure
Is the boot order in the BIOS set to boot from CD first or from hard drive first? Hi It is not an lg.It is a teac cdrw. Everything was working fine up until last week. Cdrom quit working and then the update killed X. 9.2 cd's came in and thought this would be a good time to install. System won't boot from cd. I have checked the bios and the boot sequence is cdrom,removable device(floppy), hardrive, network. I picked up a new cendyne cdrw this morning and tried it. Same results-doesn't work. All that happens is the led blinks continuously. john hello again just re-installed new cdrom and changed the jumper to master on the back of the cdrom. Cd-rom worked. Am getting ready to load 9.2. Will be back. Thanks for your responses john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway config???
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 15:03, craig wrote: Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig Any suggestions Thanks /etc/sysconfig/network Parameters are GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom failure
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 12:38 pm, John wrote: whack hello again just re-installed new cdrom and changed the jumper to master on the back of the cdrom. Cd-rom worked. Am getting ready to load 9.2. Will be back. Thanks for your responses john You are quick! (-: That was going to be my next question. Have fun with 9.2. Don't forget about the update-menus errata and a few others, and if you're going to install an upgrade kernel I'd recommend the tmb or multi media ones. Or even a 2.6 but that may be a bit much. Kind of a pain in the assets. I've installed one, I just haven't wanted to reboot. 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 12:50:50 up 5 days, 22:39, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.14, 0.08 Great American Axiom: If some is good, then more is better, and too much is just right. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7JIyZqvqlrLPr5YRAhdZAJ9CyYzDpDW97/jMor1BF6sg/6+w9gCfWvZy qEIXkVS7x/ojsHBJonkqi+w= =7oHa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:57 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - Thanks Dark Lord and Ed (et) for the reminder. (-: - - I hate workarounds though, especially ones for things like this that shouldn't - be causing trouble in the first place. - - Peace; - Charlie Can't argue with that Charlie! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nvidia dir?
I'm trying to upgrade my nvidia display driver (http://www.linuxgames.com/),
and am misunderstanding the supposed directories: most instructions include
the following command
$ cd NVIDIA_kernel
but on my comp that directory doesn't exist. What am I missing? If I have
to create a new folder I would like your suggestions on where to put it, but
I would think it's in there somewhere already if my vcard already works. If
it helps, I've got my vcard settings from hardrake listed below.
Thanks,
-stv
Vendor: \x{200E}NVidia
Bus: \x{200E}PCI
Bus identification: \x{200E}10de:281
Location on the bus: \x{200E}1:0:0
Description: \x{200E}GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
Module: \x{200E}Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)
Media class: \x{200E}DISPLAY_VGA
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[newbie] installing cable modem
Trying to install a cable modem and do not know how. The LAN connection is Integrated Intel Pro/1000 CT Desktop Connection and is on the motherboard. Downloaded the driver for the LAN connection from support.intel.com, the driver is for Linux. Installed it, so it should be completely installed. Need to know how to configure the LAN connection so the computer will connect to the internet. I do not want to use the Mandrake Control Center. I would like to configure the LAN connection from the terminal. Will somebody tell me exactly what to type in the terminal to setup the LAN connection? From, Steven _ Working moms: Find helpful tips here on managing kids, home, work and yourself. http://special.msn.com/msnbc/workingmom.armx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I'm having difficulty understanding the proper way to configure the Software Media Manager (SMM). I was trying to install the latest Anjuta 1.2.0, and I found it here: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i 586 I started by adding the following to the sources first, as it contained files I needed: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i58 6 When I did that, it seemed to find the hdlist all by itself. I'm looking at the config for that and it claims the relative path is hdlist.cz. When I click on a file in this directory, I see descriptions for it. It also took a long time for the SMM to download it, I guess because it was downloading all the descriptions. The contrib directory on the mirrors have a synthesis.hdlist.cz file in them. In fact I think part of the reason that people have been getting warnings is there are two, a synthesis.hdlist2.cz plus synthesis.hdlist.cz in the three I browsed. Those files contain the descriptions. There is also an hdlist2.cz in (relative to the contrib tree) ../../i586/Mandrake/base that contains all of the information required if you have the GUI software manager (rpmdrake) set to show all information. That's the large one that takes forever to download. Relative sizes for the two: synthesis.hdlist.cz (in contrib tree) 275.9 KB hdlist2.cz (in base) 15.6 MB Charlie, thanks for the detailed reply. After you pointed it out, I got back on gFtp and went back to Carroll EDU. I do indeed see hdlist.cz in pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 and two sythesis files in pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i586. On this particular FTP site I can't find the base directory you identify relative to the mandrake-devel directory. Perhaps because this is a devel directory? In the non-devel contrib directory, I do indeed see a 16 MB hdlist.cz file. When I added the first ftp directory above, I again didn't specify the relative path to synthesis/hdlist. Editing that entry now I see synthesis.hdlist.cz. It finished very fast, and I could see it trying to find an hdlist in multiple locations (and failing, apparently.) I have no descriptions for anything in that directory, though the files themselves show up. See above. Finally, my questions: (1) Am I doing the appropriate thing by specifying the complete directory, or should I just be ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu; and it knows to look in the appropriate subdirectories? You did it correctly, but during most of the day the carroll.aset.psu.edu mirror will often not be available to anonymous ftp transactions. The bandwidth is reserved for the university, and people that have accounts, during business hours. Fortunately for me I'm a night owl, so I usually do this stuff after 10 pm EST. The sub directories are required in the URL unless you're using a command line mirroring app such as rsync to mirror locally. Those kinds of applications use modules on the remote server so the instructions are slightly different. (2) What is the appropriate thing to enter in the relative path to synthesis/hdlist field? How do I know this without someone telling me? For the second ftp directory above (the one that seems to have been added completely, judging from the presence of descriptions), I don't see any hdlist file in the ftp directory (I ftp'd there directly.) Since you asked. (-; You have to specify the directory containing the files/packages that you need. To get to the rest of the information about those files you have to use the actual hdlist and not the synthesis so you have to change directories. The relative path I showed above is changing two directories upward (../../) then following the path to the base directory. But how do you know that hdlist file two directories up (and over in the base case discussed above) has details on the files you are looking at? I tried downloading one of these hdlist files and they are apparently binary, so you can't just browse them. As far as knowing without being told Guy, I suppose there are only a couple of ways; Go snooping on the mirror you selected as your favourite and find the files that you are interested in, then figure out the paths and how to move between them. That's the way I did it lo these many moons ago. Or: Use the automatically configured update_source path that's built for you when you run Mandrake Update as a starting point, and adapt the paths to what you need at present, for the software source you intend to use. The urpmi plain text configuration files are in file:/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and the lists etcetera are stored locally in file:/var/lib/urpmi/ (3) The install of anjuta found everything on the carroll edu site, and installed okay (anjuta runs.) But when it finished, it said installation failed,
Re: [newbie] installing cable modem
Hi, the modem works fine. There are different reasons why I prefer to use the terminal instead of drakconnect or a program similiar to it. There are programs that I would use for configuring a LAN connection, though. Thanks for the help. From, Steven From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] installing cable modem Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:08:12 -0500 On Friday 26 December 2003 03:56 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: - Trying to install a cable modem and do not know how. The LAN connection is - Integrated Intel Pro/1000 CT Desktop Connection and is on the motherboard. - Downloaded the driver for the LAN connection from support.intel.com, the - driver is for Linux. Installed it, so it should be completely installed. - Need to know how to configure the LAN connection so the computer will - connect to the internet. I do not want to use the Mandrake Control Center. I - would like to configure the LAN connection from the terminal. Will somebody - tell me exactly what to type in the terminal to setup the LAN connection? - First off, you need to make sure your eth0 stuff is working okay. When you run: ifconfig what does it show? also, you'll need to make sure some software is installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]# rpm -qa | grep dhcp dhcp-client-3.0-1.rc12.2mdk dhcp-common-3.0-1.rc12.2mdk Now here, after installing the cable-modem, all I had to do was one of the following: service network restart ifup eth0 (you might have to do ifdown eth0 first) I think thats about all I had to do. Also, what provider are you using? Some are rather more Linux friendly than others. There is a list of providers and users experiences with them: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/ BTW, why not use the GUI? Drakconnect works great, out of the box, most of the time...YMMV... HTHs! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Expand your wine savvy and get some great new recipes at MSN Wine. http://wine.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 5:54 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: snip The contrib directory on the mirrors have a synthesis.hdlist.cz file in them. In fact I think part of the reason that people have been getting warnings is there are two, a synthesis.hdlist2.cz plus synthesis.hdlist.cz in the three I browsed. Those files contain the descriptions. There is also an hdlist2.cz in (relative to the contrib tree) ../../i586/Mandrake/base that contains all of the information required if you have the GUI software manager (rpmdrake) set to show all information. That's the large one that takes forever to download. Relative sizes for the two: synthesis.hdlist.cz (in contrib tree) 275.9 KB hdlist2.cz (in base) 15.6 MB Charlie, thanks for the detailed reply. After you pointed it out, I got back on gFtp and went back to Carroll EDU. I do indeed see hdlist.cz in pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 and two sythesis files in pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i586. On this particular FTP site I can't find the base directory you identify relative to the mandrake-devel directory. Perhaps because this is a devel directory? In the non-devel contrib directory, I do indeed see a 16 MB hdlist.cz file. There is a base directory in the trees for all releases, including for cooker (mandrake-devel). From the mandrake module on the mirror open i586/Mandrake/base. The mandrake module starts after the: /distributions/ It's where the md5sums, hdlists, and other odds'n'sods are. Click below to see it: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/base If you use a browser and shorten the URL to leave out the i586 and subsequent parts, then (in Konqueror anyway) click View, View Mode and select Tree View you'll see what I mean more clearly. Click the URL below, set your browser as suggested and then open the contrib directory and browse to the packages. - From there to get to the /base directory use the Up arrow on the navigation bar twice, then open the i586 directory, Mandrake directory, the base directory. What you did manually is the equivalent of the relative path to sub URL I showed before: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz BTW the line above can be copied and pasted into the appropriate line of the Software Source editor dialogue. You did it correctly, but during most of the day the carroll.aset.psu.edu mirror will often not be available to anonymous ftp transactions. The bandwidth is reserved for the university, and people that have accounts, during business hours. Fortunately for me I'm a night owl, so I usually do this stuff after 10 pm EST. Well that's two of us. g Late night is almost the only time I have to do anything anyway. The sub directories are required in the URL unless you're using a command line mirroring app such as rsync to mirror locally. Those kinds of applications use modules on the remote server so the instructions are slightly different. (2) What is the appropriate thing to enter in the relative path to synthesis/hdlist field? How do I know this without someone telling me? For the second ftp directory above (the one that seems to have been added completely, judging from the presence of descriptions), I don't see any hdlist file in the ftp directory (I ftp'd there directly.) Since you asked. (-; You have to specify the directory containing the files/packages that you need. To get to the rest of the information about those files you have to use the actual hdlist and not the synthesis so you have to change directories. The relative path I showed above is changing two directories upward (../../) then following the path to the base directory. But how do you know that hdlist file two directories up (and over in the base case discussed above) has details on the files you are looking at? I tried downloading one of these hdlist files and they are apparently binary, so you can't just browse them. The hdlist and hdlist2 etc are the list of packages in the corresponding directories. hdlist is main, 2 is contrib, 3 is jpackage and so on. They're compressed files so you can't browse them but the package manager has the protocols required to parse them into human readable (mostly; in the case of the synthesis files yes, for the hdlists most of it is for those fluent in geek. ~;) form. The information includes all of the descriptions, dependencies, provides, etc from the packages themselves. The synthesis files are smaller because there's less information packed into them. I guess the answer to your question is just Experience. I know that isn't quite satisfactory but it's the best I can do for now. Sorry. There are lots of man pages about all of the individual components but I don't recall ever seeing a complete How-To. You may want to look on the TWiki, both the community one
Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager
Charlie Mahan wrote: snip Charlie, thanks for the detailed reply. After you pointed it out, I got back on gFtp and went back to Carroll EDU. I do indeed see hdlist.cz in pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 and two sythesis files in pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i586. On this particular FTP site I can't find the base directory you identify relative to the mandrake-devel directory. Perhaps because this is a devel directory? In the non-devel contrib directory, I do indeed see a 16 MB hdlist.cz file. There is a base directory in the trees for all releases, including for cooker (mandrake-devel). From the mandrake module on the mirror open i586/Mandrake/base. The mandrake module starts after the: /distributions/ It's where the md5sums, hdlists, and other odds'n'sods are. Click below to see it: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/base If you use a browser and shorten the URL to leave out the i586 and subsequent parts, then (in Konqueror anyway) click View, View Mode and select Tree View you'll see what I mean more clearly. Click the URL below, set your browser as suggested and then open the contrib directory and browse to the packages. - From there to get to the /base directory use the Up arrow on the navigation bar twice, then open the i586 directory, Mandrake directory, the base directory. What you did manually is the equivalent of the relative path to sub URL I showed before: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz BTW the line above can be copied and pasted into the appropriate line of the Software Source editor dialogue. Ok, I see what you are talking about, Carroll EDU seems to have an extra contrib directory (that had the anjuta I wanted) that is not part of cooker and appears not to be structured like the others. Under /pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel are both a cooker and a contrib subdirectory. If I look under cooker/i586/Mandrake, I do indeed see a base directory with the files you describe. However, if I look in contrib/i586, there are no subdirectories - all the RPMs are right there (including the two . And I wouldn't expect to find descriptions for those files in ../../cooker/i586/Mandrake/base, since the files in contrib are not even in cooker. My pleasure. I hope I was of some help. Absolutely, I would not have gotten this far without your insights. Thanks again. Charlie -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with video driver installation.
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 22:46:41 + Steven Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install a video card driver for an Radeon 9800. When the driver installation begins an error message appears stating this: It is not something that you fix. You need to install fglrx using rpm -ivh --force rpm -ivh --force fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.8.i586.rpm Charles -- Maryann's Law: You can always find what you're not looking for. - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.
Hi Charlie, Does this method works for GRUB as well? Regards Edward Wijaya On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:28:04 -0700, Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 8:57 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Downloaded kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm from a Mandrake ftp server. I burned them to a cd so that I can install them from init 3. Will somebody tell me how to completely install those files from init 3? From, Steven Log in as you, then at the command prompt type su and provide the root password when requested to become super user. Then; cd /mnt/cdrom enter ls enter You should see a list (ls) of the files/packages on the cdrom. At the prompt type urpmi kern(now strike the Tab button) and you should see the word kernel and a flashing cursor, plus the choices corresponding to the kernel and the kernel-source. Pick the next two characters in the name of the package you want to install first, hit the tab button to auto complete the command, and strike Enter. After that package installs and you return to the command prompt use the Up arrow on your keyboard to page back in the bash history to the previous command, backspace out the characters that are different in the package names and use the Tab button for auto completion again, then strike the Enter key again when you have the package name at the prompt. After this package installs and you are back at the command prompt type: /sbin/lilo -v enter When you have returned again to the command prompt you could cd /the directory you saved the NVidia run file in; which I assume is why you want to do this from init 3. It won't work since the NVidia modules will only install into the running kernel. To use the new kernel you installed you'll have to reboot, this is almost the only package install that requires this. Simplest way to do this from where you are is to use Ctrl+D this will exit the super user mode (it's a shortcut to exit) and type reboot enter You'll see all the shutdown messages. After the system reboots and is running the new kernel you can then run the NVidia installer from the directory you saved it to. If my assumption is correct and that's why you wanted to do the install at a console. If you arrived at init 3 from the reboot because you have the system set not to start X automatically just type startx enter after you log-in. If you didn't you'll need to take another step or two. Let the list know, OK? 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 10:05:21 up 5 days, 19:54, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.34 Well, I'm INVISIBLE AGAIN ... I might as well pay a visit to the LADIES ROOM ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7G+kZqvqlrLPr5YRAlk1AJ9vjAMc7Zn/OjbeOtqdkuTtaYISDgCaA8PQ ADYSSJJOodF5jfbrQ9dJXYw= =9EiP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2
Charles A Edwards wrote: Mandrake 9.2 rpm for xfce-4.0.2 are now available from my site. 4.0.2 is a bug-fix release. Changes: * Improve window manager responsiveness * Various bug fixes in file manager, window manager and panel * More 64bit clean up * New translations added: Azerbaijani I have not updated the webpage index yet so you will need to use urpmi. Charles Charles, you had so many great packages at your site, I added it as an update source (the 9.2 part.) I don't see galeon listed, though - might it have gotten left out of hdlist? Thanks for sharing the benefits of your hard work with all of us. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 27 December 2003 3:31 am, Edward Wijaya wrote: Hi Charlie, Does this method works for GRUB as well? Regards Edward Wijaya The boot loader shouldn't make a difference Edward. The steps are the same, the only difference is Grub versus Lilo. Just be sure there's an image of the new kernel to use after the install and it should still work. 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 19:57:11 up 6 days, 5:46, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.62, 0.68 Interchangeable parts won't. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7PWsZqvqlrLPr5YRAo4oAJ90WumAEyphIMDlO3TKqydBaL6zCwCfUato U+Hik3958W/9iiof7Bstkok= =zDOO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2
Charles A Edwards wrote: Mandrake 9.2 rpm for xfce-4.0.2 are now available from my site. 4.0.2 is a bug-fix release. Changes: * Improve window manager responsiveness * Various bug fixes in file manager, window manager and panel * More 64bit clean up * New translations added: Azerbaijani I have not updated the webpage index yet so you will need to use urpmi. Charles Charles, sorry to send one note after the other. I downloaded your galeon package, and I'm trying to install it. When I do, it complains galeon-1.3.10-3.4mdk.i586 (due to unsatisied mozilla[*][== 1.5]. I interpreted this to mean it wants Mozilla 1.5. Not sure why, as I went to the galeon site and it said this version should work with older Mozilla versions. Anyway, I downloaded Mozilla 1.5 and installed it. It runs fine, but I'm still getting the install error on galeon. The new Mozilla installs in /usr/local/mozilla, while 1.4.1 installed to /usr/bin. So I added a symlink in /usr/bin and another in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.5/plugins, but I'm still getting the error when I try to install galeon. Any ideas? -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway config???
Hi Craig, What do you have in /etc/sysconfig? [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysconfig]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=aragorn.foodoo.com NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=172.16.1.1 On Friday, Dec 26, 2003, at 13:03 US/Central, craig wrote: Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig Any suggestions 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] Installing kernel and kernel source.
From: Edward Wijaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source. Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:31:48 - Hi Charlie, Does this method works for GRUB as well? Regards Edward Wijaya On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:28:04 -0700, Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 8:57 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Downloaded kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm from a Mandrake ftp server. I burned them to a cd so that I can install them from init 3. Will somebody tell me how to completely install those files from init 3? From, Steven Log in as you, then at the command prompt type su and provide the root password when requested to become super user. Then; cd /mnt/cdrom enter ls enter You should see a list (ls) of the files/packages on the cdrom. At the prompt type urpmi kern(now strike the Tab button) and you should see the word kernel and a flashing cursor, plus the choices corresponding to the kernel and the kernel-source. Pick the next two characters in the name of the package you want to install first, hit the tab button to auto complete the command, and strike Enter. After that package installs and you return to the command prompt use the Up arrow on your keyboard to page back in the bash history to the previous command, backspace out the characters that are different in the package names and use the Tab button for auto completion again, then strike the Enter key again when you have the package name at the prompt. After this package installs and you are back at the command prompt type: /sbin/lilo -v enter When you have returned again to the command prompt you could cd /the directory you saved the NVidia run file in; which I assume is why you want to do this from init 3. It won't work since the NVidia modules will only install into the running kernel. To use the new kernel you installed you'll have to reboot, this is almost the only package install that requires this. Simplest way to do this from where you are is to use Ctrl+D this will exit the super user mode (it's a shortcut to exit) and type reboot enter You'll see all the shutdown messages. After the system reboots and is running the new kernel you can then run the NVidia installer from the directory you saved it to. If my assumption is correct and that's why you wanted to do the install at a console. If you arrived at init 3 from the reboot because you have the system set not to start X automatically just type startx enter after you log-in. If you didn't you'll need to take another step or two. Let the list know, OK? 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 10:05:21 up 5 days, 19:54, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.34 Well, I'm INVISIBLE AGAIN ... I might as well pay a visit to the LADIES ROOM ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7G+kZqvqlrLPr5YRAlk1AJ9vjAMc7Zn/OjbeOtqdkuTtaYISDgCaA8PQ ADYSSJJOodF5jfbrQ9dJXYw= =9EiP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I don't know if this will help, I thought it might. I finished installing the kernel (kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm) and kernel-source (kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm) about an hour ago. I tried a different method then the one above and it worked fine. Installed the kernel and kernel-source by typing these commands in at the init 3, root command line. rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm After they installed. I went to the /etc (still root) folder by using the command: cd /etc Then ran the command: lilo -v It configured a part of the lilo config file. Rebooted and everything was fine, the kernel and kernel-source were installed. After the kernel and kernel-source were installed I installed the video driver. It built the customized kernel module, because the kernel and kernel-source were now installed. THe driver installed fine. Ran the config and the desktop loaded fine. From, Steven _ Take advantage of our limited-time introductory offer for dial-up Internet access. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.
Trying to install Macromedia Flashplayer. During installation it asks for the installation path of Mozilla. Will somebody tell me the installation path of Mozilla in Mandrake 9.2? From, Steven _ Take advantage of our limited-time introductory offer for dial-up Internet access. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.
From: Edward Wijaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source. Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:31:48 - Hi Charlie, Does this method works for GRUB as well? Regards Edward Wijaya On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:28:04 -0700, Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 8:57 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Downloaded kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm from a Mandrake ftp server. I burned them to a cd so that I can install them from init 3. Will somebody tell me how to completely install those files from init 3? From, Steven Log in as you, then at the command prompt type su and provide the root password when requested to become super user. Then; cd /mnt/cdrom enter ls enter You should see a list (ls) of the files/packages on the cdrom. At the prompt type urpmi kern(now strike the Tab button) and you should see the word kernel and a flashing cursor, plus the choices corresponding to the kernel and the kernel-source. Pick the next two characters in the name of the package you want to install first, hit the tab button to auto complete the command, and strike Enter. After that package installs and you return to the command prompt use the Up arrow on your keyboard to page back in the bash history to the previous command, backspace out the characters that are different in the package names and use the Tab button for auto completion again, then strike the Enter key again when you have the package name at the prompt. After this package installs and you are back at the command prompt type: /sbin/lilo -v enter When you have returned again to the command prompt you could cd /the directory you saved the NVidia run file in; which I assume is why you want to do this from init 3. It won't work since the NVidia modules will only install into the running kernel. To use the new kernel you installed you'll have to reboot, this is almost the only package install that requires this. Simplest way to do this from where you are is to use Ctrl+D this will exit the super user mode (it's a shortcut to exit) and type reboot enter You'll see all the shutdown messages. After the system reboots and is running the new kernel you can then run the NVidia installer from the directory you saved it to. If my assumption is correct and that's why you wanted to do the install at a console. If you arrived at init 3 from the reboot because you have the system set not to start X automatically just type startx enter after you log-in. If you didn't you'll need to take another step or two. Let the list know, OK? 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 10:05:21 up 5 days, 19:54, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.34 Well, I'm INVISIBLE AGAIN ... I might as well pay a visit to the LADIES ROOM ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7G+kZqvqlrLPr5YRAlk1AJ9vjAMc7Zn/OjbeOtqdkuTtaYISDgCaA8PQ ADYSSJJOodF5jfbrQ9dJXYw= =9EiP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I don't know if this will help, I thought it might. I finished installing the kernel (kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm) and kernel-source (kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm) about an hour ago. I tried a different method then the one above and it worked fine. Installed the kernel and kernel-source by typing these commands in at the init 3, root command line. rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm After they installed. I went to the /etc (still root) folder by using the command: cd /etc Then ran the command: lilo -v It configured a part of the lilo config file. Rebooted and everything was fine, the kernel and kernel-source were installed. After the kernel and kernel-source were installed I installed the video driver. It built the customized kernel module, because the kernel and kernel-source were now installed. THe driver installed fine. Ran the config and the desktop loaded fine. From, Steven _ Tired of slow downloads? Compare online deals from your local high-speed providers now. https://broadband.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:24 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Trying to install Macromedia Flashplayer. During installation it asks for the installation path of Mozilla. Will somebody tell me the installation path of Mozilla in Mandrake 9.2? From, Steven /usr/lib/mozilla - -- 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 23:39:35 up 6 days, 9:28, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.36, 0.57 Is a wedding successful if it comes off without a hitch? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7SlcZqvqlrLPr5YRAoj5AJ4l9VN6K+tjS/v4fVLKhM0wcOnSPQCfafcy 8mV/ewVquqDIUqyTL9BPvYU= =M/eY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.
Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do you know where else the installation path could be? From, Steven From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla. Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:40:28 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:24 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Trying to install Macromedia Flashplayer. During installation it asks for the installation path of Mozilla. Will somebody tell me the installation path of Mozilla in Mandrake 9.2? From, Steven /usr/lib/mozilla - -- 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 23:39:35 up 6 days, 9:28, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.36, 0.57 Is a wedding successful if it comes off without a hitch? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7SlcZqvqlrLPr5YRAoj5AJ4l9VN6K+tjS/v4fVLKhM0wcOnSPQCfafcy 8mV/ewVquqDIUqyTL9BPvYU= =M/eY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Take advantage of our limited-time introductory offer for dial-up Internet access. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
