Re: [newbie] problems with 2.6.0
Tom Brinkman kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Sunnuntai 11. Tammikuuta 2004 17:20): On Sunday 11 January 2004 12:33 am, tuija t. wrote: I believe from reading cooker, he's got many of 2.6's module problems solved, proper ReiserFS support, and the latest supermount and other Mandrake specifics. Be aware tho you'll still have other 2.6 kernel hardware/software/config issues (see lkml and cooker archives). So report back and tells us how it goes. Thank you, I must try that Thomas' kernel-source too, it seems to have lot of intresting patches. Well , you should read cooker or at least the archive. There where a lot of problems that some testers experienced with his first 2.6.0, and now 2.6.1 efforts (latest is 2.6.1-3tmb). They are considered better than the regular cooker 2.6.x's tho. I'm also reading on both cooker and lkml that 2.6.1 is unstable, even more so than 2.6.0. Look here for the changelog http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.1 IMO, 2.6.x won't be ready for (newbie) user or enterprise service until late next summer. I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect I'm not. I believe Mandrake should wait til 10.1, not 10.0 to introduce this drastically new and differnent kernel. Still, in the meantime, sombody needs to be testin it. Guess that's us ;) That could be so, at least for production servers or other complex hardware. To my simple laptop (fujitsu c1020) I have tested 2.6.0 since test2 and after 2.6.0-test5 I haven't experience any real problems. I also have used 2.6.0 with several distros (debian, slackware, fedora) and now mdk9.2. I have always used vanilla source without initrd, only in this mdk's case I merged that supermount-patch to vanilla. I know that 2.6 has bring up some buggy code in many apps for example old kmail when used on reiserfs that andrew mentioned in vger and some chipset has turned out to be buggy too. I have never tried SUSE but heard some rumors they ship their 9.0 with 2.6? -- best rgds ~tt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: MandrakeMove comparison (Box and download version)
Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:28, Wan Mohamad Azren Wan Mohamad Yusoff wrote: Hi, Is there any different between MandrakeMove box set and download version? Can the download version support saving profile to usb key? To the best of my knowledge it does not. read the archives http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie-zhcn/ there is a long dis-cuss ion about it The boxed version and the version for silver club members and above are different in that they have commercial drivers included. (nVidia, ATI, etc). MM requires X to run, which makes it impossible to use on some machines if you don't have these commercial drivers. (Since you can't change the XF86config-4 file to your setup if it doesn't work) My brief attempt to test mandrake move ended in disgust, MCC was so slow to start (10 minutes on a P4 3GHz) that it stopped being usable. The network was hard work to configure, etc. Getting my USB key to work was also a PITA, but apparently MM is very selective about which key's will work. Knoppix outclasses this version of MM by a large amount IMO. we'll see what/if MMv2 will bring... Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:51, John Richard Smith wrote: Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, Well, several questions actually... I received a cd I ordered containing 6800 true type fonts. Installing them with Mandrake Control Centre goes smoothly. But: 1. Are there any drawbacks when I install the whole lot? 2. I noticed not all installed fonts are available in The Gimp (where I need them most). Is thare an easy way to make all installed fonts available to Gimp? 3. When installing 6800 is too much, is there a recommended way to manage the fonts. Is there a tool where fonts can be viewed from the *.ttf file? Thanks and regards, Marco I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. Gimp tip where you select the size of the font type a number up to 850 (you will get that size font (great for making banners) As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Not offhand if I can find Gokking the Gimp i might be able to find out. John I had a fiddle with gimp last night and found, After displaying the image file in gimp in the usual way, double LMC the T in the gimp window, up comes tool options, not sure what it does. Move cursor over image window and RMC -- tools - text . LMC image window - up comes texttools select font / size and type the required text in field provided - OK grab text on image and drag to position. Only trouble is it's Black Text only, how do you change the colour ? note; LMC = left mouse click RMC= right mouse click John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:26:36PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Add a new layer (I use the Layers, Channels Paths Dialog), make it transparent, select the text tool, select white as foreground color, How ? see image attatched Cannot see how to get text up ? click on image, type text. That will leave your text a floating selection, which you can anchor using the anchor button on the L, C P dialog. Todd John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot275.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.1
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 6:46 am, vikrant joshi wrote: Hi , I am an absolute newbie to LInux. I want to install Mandrake9.1 on my windows 98 machine. How do I go about it ? This may sound a very very basic question . But if somebody can give me a step by step approach that will be great. Vikrant Defrag your Win98 Hard Drive (Do not tick the box to 'speed up access') In your BIOS (usually accessed by hitting 'Del' during booting) Configure BIOS to Boot from CD as first boot device Reboot With Mandrake CD1 in the drive. Follow the on screen instructions Mandrake will resize your Win98 partition, create Linux partitions, install a gazillion Applications, and set up your computer to dual boot Linux and Windows. It really is quite simple. A lot easier than installing Windows IMO On line manuals can be found here :- http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 Have Fun derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Monday 12 January 2004 04:21 am, Peter Simko wrote: Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need to recognize it in order to run LILO so I can start playing around with my own kernels. you might find more help if you stop 'top posting', as it makes it rather hard to follow what has and has not been said and done. see the BOTTOM for the rest of my comments. E. Hines wrote: I see linux partitions only on /dev/hdb (hdb2,hdb3, and hdb4). You have no Linux partitions mounting on hdaX at all. You need to figure out which partition is the linux partition on hda (as root# fdisk -l /dev/hda is your friend) and create manual entries for it: /dev/hdaX /some_name ext2 rw 0 0 I have one that looks like this: /dev/hda9 /backup ext2 defaults 1 2 On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:39 am, Peter Simko wrote: As requested: # /etc/mtab /dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 #/etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # block devmount pointtypeoptionsdump pass #-- --- --- /dev/hdb2/ext2defaults11 none /dev/ptsdevptsmode=062000 none /dev/shmtmpfsdefaults00 /dev/hdb4/homeext2defaults12 none/mnt/cdromsupermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom2iso9660 iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyvfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,un hi de 0 0 /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfatdefaults 00 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_dvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_gvfatdefaults00 /dev/hda3 /mnt/win_evfatdefaults00 none /procprocdefaults00 /dev/hdb3swapswapdefaults00 I'm in the middle of playing around with my CDRW drive too, so that entry may look weird. Pete et wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) cat /etc/mtab and cat /etc/fstab well, it is pretty obvious that you don't have any entry for hda in your fstab, but the reason it would not be found by diskdrake is beyond me. are you absolutly positive that you are looking for the correct tab in diskdrake? have you tried ranish? or partition majic just to see what they say about the part table? (don't let PM fix it if you have anything other than ext2 and M$ filesystems). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 03:22 pm, many eyes noted that Troy T. Hall wrote: Also CUPS is generally used for remotely connected printers. Troy CUPS works well on my local printers, parallel and USB, is this unusual? Gives me a heap of driver options also. Charlie -- I'm not young enough to know everything. --J. M. Barrie This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before upgrading the system to MDK92. Actually, I think that this would depend on whether you have a printer connected when you do the install. If you do and it is detected by Mandrake, then it installs CUPS by default unless you tell it not to. You don't have to have CUPS, you can use lpd or one of the other printer systems but you do have to have something. The MDK91 install was default, except I disabled gnome and Koffice. Then I did the MDK92 upgrade. The above sequence is exactly what I described in my first email. Everything is fine until I choose the printer name and click OK. Instead of choosing the model, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. My guess would be that you are missing some necessary packages from the Mandrake core system. If I were trying to troubleshoot this, I would urpmi the CUPS software and try to bypass the printer drake utils and set the printer up manually in CUPS. Hopefully, that should trigger the right files to be installed because of dependencies and then the wizard should work again. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] can i downgrade apache on mdk92?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, It seems that apache2 is having troubles with phpnuke. Can I downgrade my apache2 on mdk92 into apache 1.3.x? How do I do that? Thanks. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 18:43:33 up 11:14, 9 users, load average: 0.13, 0.31, 0.54 Quote of the day: Are you scared of speed? If so, try Windows NT. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAoimMai9kCFqACoRAq0UAKDHHCfqseU5keMX75FH70KlxXm/6QCeKWCz N0NZ+7XOA5uX5tvNhmWBZGg= =/uPq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can i downgrade apache on mdk92?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:44:35 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, It seems that apache2 is having troubles with phpnuke. Can I downgrade my apache2 on mdk92 into apache 1.3.x? How do I do that? Thanks. you can get rid of apache2 by urpme apache2 and then urpmi apache i had to do it before when i didnt know how to use apache2.. lol -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 05:20:55 up 10:42, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Not offhand if I can find Gokking the Gimp i might be able to find out. John I had a fiddle with gimp last night and found, After displaying the image file in gimp in the usual way, double LMC the T in the gimp window, up comes tool options, not sure what it does. Move cursor over image window and RMC -- tools - text . LMC image window - up comes texttools select font / size and type the required text in field provided - OK grab text on image and drag to position. Only trouble is it's Black Text only, how do you change the colour ? note; LMC = left mouse click RMC= right mouse click John Later = This works better, display image in gimp, double LMC T in main tool box window, insert |X| in Use dynamic text move mouse cursor over image window, LMC and the GDyn text window comes up, select font size, and colour(click on black window icon), select position from drop down menu, type text and - OK, This adds the text to picture in one of about 9 window positions.The main disadvantage, as far as I can see, is that you cannot drag the text around the image window to a customised position. Choice is limited to a few limited positions. For family snaps that would be OK, but for profesional commercial art work I cannot think that would be enough as they require a truely flexible environment to create text and add it in any position and style imageinable.I have a feeling there are more ways than one in gimp. 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
[newbie] Printers
Hi all I have a funny thing going on with my two lexmark laser printers in the office. My mdk9.2 box always alternates output to the two printers. This has been fun for everyone looking for my print jobs up 'til now, but one of the machines is down for maint today, turned off, and the print jobs are still alternating between the two printers. Printers are both shares on mdk9.2 boxes on the lan. Here is the localhost 631 history for the last two jobs. -9 was waiting for the printer before I cancelled it. LexmarkInternationalLexmarkOptraLaserPrinter-9 STDIN lee 713k completed at Mon Jan 12 07:32:07 2004 LexmarkInternationalLexmarkOptraLaserPrinter-11 STDIN lee 795k completed at Mon Jan 12 07:39:32 2004 What do I need to do to get control of my output? I have to admit it was cute until it ticked me off. TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printers
On Monday 12 January 2004 13:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all I have a funny thing going on with my two lexmark laser printers in the office. My mdk9.2 box always alternates output to the two printers. This has been fun for everyone looking for my print jobs up 'til now, but one of the machines is down for maint today, turned off, and the print jobs are still alternating between the two printers. Printers are both shares on mdk9.2 boxes on the lan. Here is the localhost 631 history for the last two jobs. -9 was waiting for the printer before I cancelled it. LexmarkInternationalLexmarkOptraLaserPrinter-9STDIN lee 713k completed at Mon Jan 12 07:32:07 2004 LexmarkInternationalLexmarkOptraLaserPrinter-11 STDIN lee 795k completed at Mon Jan 12 07:39:32 2004 What do I need to do to get control of my output? I have to admit it was cute until it ticked me off. Try printing to xpp - it needs an extra mouseclick, but you will be able to select which printer gets the file. 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] fstab and lilo
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:56:45 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: I have my fstab and lilo pretty much fouled up. Would someone who has a working cdrw and dvd please post theirs so I can figure out where I overused my delete key? Lee This is mine, where, DVD = IDEmaster= /dev/scd0 = /mnt/cdrom Writer= IDEslave = /dev/scd1 = /mnt/cdrom2 under scsi-emulation lilo.conf includes, hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi in the append line /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 with added k3b support , /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom autoro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom2 autoro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 and whare no scsi-emulation, #none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,user,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=85 0,umask=0 0 0#none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,rw,user,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=85 0,umask=0 0 0 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks John (and all others). I'll digest this when I get home this evening and get the burner working. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:28:47 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all i have to say is that i am glad someone in here talked about sylpheed because i like it better than any other mail prog i have used ... even evolution. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 00:27:33 up 3:09, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02 Try Sylpheed-Claws and you'll really flip out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:19:11 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:28:47 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all i have to say is that i am glad someone in here talked about sylpheed because i like it better than any other mail prog i have used ... even evolution. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 00:27:33 up 3:09, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02 Try Sylpheed-Claws and you'll really flip out. is there a difference because i read the descriptions and they seem to do the same thing.. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 06:23:36 up 11:44, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 0.91, 0.55 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:24:15 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a difference because i read the descriptions and they seem to do the same thing.. Claws is the Mutt of the GUI mail clients. Anything you could possible wish, and many that you have not dreamed of can be done using claws. Check this page http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/features.php Charles -- Does it worry you that you don't talk any kind of sense? - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.4.23-2.tmb.2mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Printers
is this a result of pooling? Can you simply tell it NOT to pool the printers? Seems to me I've read/heard something about that pooling will send it to whichever is next. This reminds me of DNS servers. Which alternate which one gets the request. I have no idea how to fix this, but these are the thoughts that ran through my head when I heard this. Good Luck Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 0715 N6REJ Subject: Re: [newbie] Printers On Monday 12 January 2004 13:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all I have a funny thing going on with my two lexmark laser printers in the office. My mdk9.2 box always alternates output to the two printers. This has been fun for everyone looking for my print jobs up 'til now, but one of the machines is down for maint today, turned off, and the print jobs are still alternating between the two printers. Printers are both shares on mdk9.2 boxes on the lan. Here is the localhost 631 history for the last two jobs. -9 was waiting for the printer before I cancelled it. LexmarkInternationalLexmarkOptraLaserPrinter-9 STDIN lee 713k completed at Mon Jan 12 07:32:07 2004 LexmarkInternationalLexmarkOptraLaserPrinter-11 STDIN lee 795k completed at Mon Jan 12 07:39:32 2004 What do I need to do to get control of my output? I have to admit it was cute until it ticked me off. Try printing to xpp - it needs an extra mouseclick, but you will be able to select which printer gets the file. 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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:45:59AM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:26:36PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Add a new layer (I use the Layers, Channels Paths Dialog), make it transparent, select the text tool, select white as foreground color, How ? see image attatched Cannot see how to get text up ? Use the main tool palette--the one with the File options and all the tool buttons like select, crop, colors etc. on it. You should have that palette open by default when you start Gimp. click on image, type text. That will leave your text a floating selection, which you can anchor using the anchor button on the L, C P dialog. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printers
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 05:43, Troy T. Hall wrote: is this a result of pooling? Can you simply tell it NOT to pool the printers? Seems to me I've read/heard something about that pooling will send it to whichever is next. This reminds me of DNS servers. Which alternate which one gets the request. I have no idea how to fix this, but these are the thoughts that ran through my head when I heard this. Good Luck Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 0715 N6REJ Subject: Re: [newbie] Printers On Monday 12 January 2004 13:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all I have a funny thing going on with my two lexmark laser printers in the office. My mdk9.2 box always alternates output to the two printers. This has been fun for everyone looking for my print jobs up 'til now, but one of the machines is down for maint today, turned off, and the print jobs are still alternating between the two printers. Printers are both shares on mdk9.2 boxes on the lan. Here is the localhost 631 history for the last two jobs. -9 was waiting for the printer before I cancelled it. LexmarkInternationalLexmarkOptraLaserPrinter-9 STDIN lee 713k completed at Mon Jan 12 07:32:07 2004 LexmarkInternationalLexmarkOptraLaserPrinter-11 STDIN lee 795k completed at Mon Jan 12 07:39:32 2004 What do I need to do to get control of my output? I have to admit it was cute until it ticked me off. Try printing to xpp - it needs an extra mouseclick, but you will be able to select which printer gets the file. or just select the remaining printer as default 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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/04 __ 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] updating Gaim on MDK9.2
Hi guys, Has anybody out there updated to the latest version of gaim? I have downloaded the lates RPM to suit MDK9.2 but I get an error when I try to run it. Installation failed: file /usr/lib/libgaim-remote.so.0.0.0 from install of gaim-0.75-0mdk9.2 conflicts with file from package libgaim-remote0-0.68-1mdk I have tried removing the old copy of gaim using rpmdrake and have also deleted all files starting with libgaim-remote from /usr/lib/. Yet I still get the error - any thoughts??? I need to have something that will talk with MSN as all but two of my friends are from the great unwashed (Microsoft Users), I've tried Amsn and kopete works fine, but gaim looks to have the nicest user interface. Thanks - Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
Todd Slater wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Add a new layer (I use the Layers, Channels Paths Dialog), make it transparent, select the text tool, select white as foreground color, How ? see image attatched Cannot see how to get text up ? Use the main tool palette--the one with the File options and all the tool buttons like select, crop, colors etc. on it. You should have that palette open by default when you start Gimp. You mean this one , snapshot276.jpg but you click on T and all you get is snapshot277.jpg and there is nothing to help you select text, font,and colour there. Unless you refer to the dropdown list from a RMC of the cursor over the image ? click on image, type text. That will leave your text a floating selection, which you can anchor using the anchor button on the L, C P dialog. Todd John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot276.jpginline: snapshot277.jpgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card On Monday 12 Jan 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Derek, I've located the Prism2_cs module, exactly where you said it was. That means I definitely have it. But when I launch the wizard to setup the LAN, therefore detecting network cards also, this module does not show up on the list. This probably has to do with the problem. When I do modprobe prism2_cs, nothing happens. This card definitely works, because, as I said, it works fine on Windows XP. I also checked Force No APIC in the CC, and nothing changed. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia contains PCMCIA = yes I added the card to the config file also. There must be something one of us is forgetting or doing wrong, because the card works fine. Thanks for all your help so far, Marc I am not surprised you do not see prism2_cs appear in the driver list. Drivers for pcmcia cards are always autodetected. When you say nothing happens when you do a modprobe, that is actually quite positive. It implies the driver is loading, and is not being rejected. What do you see if you do lsmod | grep prism after the modprobe? That will tell us if the driver is loading. And what do you see if you do tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog ? Any entries about pcmcia or prism? And iwconfig ? There is one other thing I forgot to check. The pcmcia service has to be started. In a root terminal enter service pcmcia restart You should hear two beeps as it restarts, then do tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog again to see what it says. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Derek, To make it easier for you, I've posted some screenshots here(because the files are too big to send through the mailing group): http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss1.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss2.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss3.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss4.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss5.png I gather from those that we got part of the name of the network card wrong when inserting it in the config file. Thanks, Marc 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] Fw: 9.2
Well Anne at least there is something good, lol. Still can`t install Linux though good or not Maybee I`m just born to be a Microsoft slave.. - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: 9.2 On Sunday 11 January 2004 18:06, P J Scott wrote: I just had a thought, when I installed XP I formatted the disk to a FAT32 not NTFS.As I was looking for a solution o this problem a recuring theme keeps popping up, that is that all the installation pages all talk of NTFS I would have thought that that was good, not a problem. NTFS is problematic in that it is readable, but there are some doubts about the wisdom of writing to it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card
- Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card On Monday 12 Jan 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Derek, I've located the Prism2_cs module, exactly where you said it was. That means I definitely have it. But when I launch the wizard to setup the LAN, therefore detecting network cards also, this module does not show up on the list. This probably has to do with the problem. When I do modprobe prism2_cs, nothing happens. This card definitely works, because, as I said, it works fine on Windows XP. I also checked Force No APIC in the CC, and nothing changed. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia contains PCMCIA = yes I added the card to the config file also. There must be something one of us is forgetting or doing wrong, because the card works fine. Thanks for all your help so far, Marc I am not surprised you do not see prism2_cs appear in the driver list. Drivers for pcmcia cards are always autodetected. When you say nothing happens when you do a modprobe, that is actually quite positive. It implies the driver is loading, and is not being rejected. What do you see if you do lsmod | grep prism after the modprobe? That will tell us if the driver is loading. And what do you see if you do tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog ? Any entries about pcmcia or prism? And iwconfig ? There is one other thing I forgot to check. The pcmcia service has to be started. In a root terminal enter service pcmcia restart You should hear two beeps as it restarts, then do tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog again to see what it says. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Derek, To make it easier for you, I've posted some screenshots here(because the files are too big to send through the mailing group): http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss1.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss2.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss3.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss4.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss5.png I gather from those that we got part of the name of the network card wrong when inserting it in the config file. Thanks, Marc -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Derek, Update: After looking at the errors in the screenshots of my last post, I went to the config file, and fixed my error in the listing of the adaptec card(0x002 became 0x0021). I then got a new error about not recognizing prism2_c. Therefore, following the examples shown by the others, I added it to the device list. At first I got a syntax error when I did the service pcmcia restart again, but then I fixed it. I receive no errors now from service pcmcia restart, but linux is still not detecting my network card. --Marc 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] updating Gaim on MDK9.2
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:42:29 +0800 aidanh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody out there updated to the latest version of gaim? I have downloaded the lates RPM to suit MDK9.2 Dl the 9.2 gaim-0.75 rpms from my site and you will not have a problem. You will need to get gaim-0.75-0.1mdk.cae.i586.rpm and libgaim-remote0-0.75-0.1mdk.cae.i586.rpm though you can install all the gaim rpms if you so choose, there are 7 in all. Charles -- It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. -- Garfield - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.1-1.tmb.3mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 5:21 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card On Monday 12 Jan 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Derek, I've located the Prism2_cs module, exactly where you said it was. That means I definitely have it. But when I launch the wizard to setup the LAN, therefore detecting network cards also, this module does not show up on the list. This probably has to do with the problem. When I do modprobe prism2_cs, nothing happens. This card definitely works, because, as I said, it works fine on Windows XP. I also checked Force No APIC in the CC, and nothing changed. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia contains PCMCIA = yes I added the card to the config file also. There must be something one of us is forgetting or doing wrong, because the card works fine. Thanks for all your help so far, Marc I am not surprised you do not see prism2_cs appear in the driver list. Drivers for pcmcia cards are always autodetected. When you say nothing happens when you do a modprobe, that is actually quite positive. It implies the driver is loading, and is not being rejected. What do you see if you do lsmod | grep prism after the modprobe? That will tell us if the driver is loading. And what do you see if you do tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog ? Any entries about pcmcia or prism? And iwconfig ? There is one other thing I forgot to check. The pcmcia service has to be started. In a root terminal enter service pcmcia restart You should hear two beeps as it restarts, then do tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog again to see what it says. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Derek, To make it easier for you, I've posted some screenshots here(because the files are too big to send through the mailing group): http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss1.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss2.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss3.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss4.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss5.png I gather from those that we got part of the name of the network card wrong when inserting it in the config file. Thanks, Marc - - -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Derek and all that have been following, Linux now detects my WLAN card after who know's what I did as wlan0. The only step remaining is to configure it to my network. I entered the Mandrake Control Center, and went to the Network settings to configure it. It still does not appear on the list, and is not detected when I run the wizard. The lights on the card illuminate when I do 'service pcmcia restart', and I recieve information about wlan0 when I enter 'iwconfig'. It also now appears on the hardware list. There must be some command that I don't know. Just a little more help, Marc Great. I was just thinking you might end up compiling the driver after all. Setting up the driver is simply a matter of creating a text file called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 containing something like :- DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.43 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=8848DBjennings WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:my_key If you need to get an IP address from DHCP then put BOOTPROTO=dhcp and then you do not need an IPADDR WIRELESS_MODE=Managed is for use with a wireless access point. If you are running peer to peer (no wireless access point) use Ad-Hoc The WIRELESS_ENC_KEY is what catches everyone out. It can be ASCII like mine in which case it must be oreced3ed by 's:' or a Hex number in the format 3456-789a-bc See 'man iwconfig' for a full description of the parameters. service network restart will apply the parameters. (so will ifup wlan0 / ifdown wlan0 ) Nearly there! derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem
SNIP Derek and all that have been following, Linux now detects my WLAN card after who know's what I did as wlan0. The only step remaining is to configure it to my network. I entered the Mandrake Control Center, and went to the Network settings to configure it. It still does not appear on the list, and is not detected when I run the wizard. The lights on the card illuminate when I do 'service pcmcia restart', and I recieve information about wlan0 when I enter 'iwconfig'. It also now appears on the hardware list. There must be some command that I don't know. Just a little more help, Marc Great. I was just thinking you might end up compiling the driver after all. Setting up the driver is simply a matter of creating a text file called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 containing something like :- DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.43 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=8848DBjennings WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:my_key If you need to get an IP address from DHCP then put BOOTPROTO=dhcp and then you do not need an IPADDR WIRELESS_MODE=Managed is for use with a wireless access point. If you are running peer to peer (no wireless access point) use Ad-Hoc The WIRELESS_ENC_KEY is what catches everyone out. It can be ASCII like mine in which case it must be oreced3ed by 's:' or a Hex number in the format 3456-789a-bc See 'man iwconfig' for a full description of the parameters. service network restart will apply the parameters. (so will ifup wlan0 / ifdown wlan0 ) Nearly there! derek Oh and if there is also an eth0 on this box you will have to let Linux know which Interface to reach the Internet through. In /etc/sysconfig/network enter the line GATEWAYDEV=wlan0 Then 'service network restart' derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem On Monday 12 Jan 2004 5:21 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card On Monday 12 Jan 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Derek, I've located the Prism2_cs module, exactly where you said it was. That means I definitely have it. But when I launch the wizard to setup the LAN, therefore detecting network cards also, this module does not show up on the list. This probably has to do with the problem. When I do modprobe prism2_cs, nothing happens. This card definitely works, because, as I said, it works fine on Windows XP. I also checked Force No APIC in the CC, and nothing changed. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia contains PCMCIA = yes I added the card to the config file also. There must be something one of us is forgetting or doing wrong, because the card works fine. Thanks for all your help so far, Marc I am not surprised you do not see prism2_cs appear in the driver list. Drivers for pcmcia cards are always autodetected. When you say nothing happens when you do a modprobe, that is actually quite positive. It implies the driver is loading, and is not being rejected. What do you see if you do lsmod | grep prism after the modprobe? That will tell us if the driver is loading. And what do you see if you do tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog ? Any entries about pcmcia or prism? And iwconfig ? There is one other thing I forgot to check. The pcmcia service has to be started. In a root terminal enter service pcmcia restart You should hear two beeps as it restarts, then do tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog again to see what it says. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Derek, To make it easier for you, I've posted some screenshots here(because the files are too big to send through the mailing group): http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss1.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss2.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss3.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss4.png http://www.freewebs.com/linuxss/ss5.png I gather from those that we got part of the name of the network card wrong when inserting it in the config file. Thanks, Marc - - -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Derek and all that have been following, Linux now detects my WLAN card after who know's what I did as wlan0. The only step remaining is to configure it to my network. I entered the Mandrake Control Center, and went to the Network settings to configure it. It still does not appear on the list, and is not detected when I run the wizard. The lights on the card illuminate when I do 'service pcmcia restart', and I recieve information about wlan0 when I enter 'iwconfig'. It also now appears on the hardware list. There must be some command that I don't know. Just a little more help, Marc Great. I was just thinking you might end up compiling the driver after all. Setting up the driver is simply a matter of creating a text file called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 containing something like :- DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.43 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=8848DBjennings WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:my_key If you need to get an IP address from DHCP then put BOOTPROTO=dhcp and then you do not need an IPADDR WIRELESS_MODE=Managed is for use with a wireless access point. If you are running peer to peer (no wireless access point) use Ad-Hoc The WIRELESS_ENC_KEY is what catches everyone out. It can be ASCII like mine in which case it must be oreced3ed by 's:' or a Hex number in the format 3456-789a-bc See 'man iwconfig' for a full description of the parameters. service network restart will apply the parameters. (so will ifup wlan0 / ifdown wlan0 ) Nearly there! derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Well I think we both
Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade (does order matter?)
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:22:53 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this make a difference? ie., do you literally have to install the bootloader-utils first? Apparently, it doesn't matter :-) -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux install
Well the problem is this. I have a new computer and a new distro 9.2. When I try to install it all that happens is I get the message lost interupt over and over so have to abort installation . Anne thought it might be the pnp in my bios but like you say no way to turn it off. So basically im stuck...Philip - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux install Phillip; What happens with your install that is causing you some problems? For the record,I don't think there is an option on the Asrock boards to shut off PnP. Please send us details as to the problems. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/12/2004 at 5:10 PM P J Scott wrote: Dear list please help.I have a new computer with a asrock motherboard with american megatrends bios amibios (c)2003 k7s8x bios p1.90 acpi compliant bios. It has been said that i need to turn off pnp in my bios but I can`t find anywhere you can do it, this need to be switched off to enable me to intall linux, otherwise I cant... Philip 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] linux install
Phillip; Try moving some PCI devices into different PCI slots, and try assigning or un-assigning IRQ's to your AGP or Video, and/or USB devices. Also, try turning off anything that mentions USB. You can turn it back on later. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/12/2004 at 6:23 PM P J Scott wrote: Well the problem is this. I have a new computer and a new distro 9.2. When I try to install it all that happens is I get the message lost interupt over and over so have to abort installation . Anne thought it might be the pnp in my bios but like you say no way to turn it off. So basically im stuck...Philip - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux install Phillip; What happens with your install that is causing you some problems? For the record,I don't think there is an option on the Asrock boards to shut off PnP. Please send us details as to the problems. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/12/2004 at 5:10 PM P J Scott wrote: Dear list please help.I have a new computer with a asrock motherboard with american megatrends bios amibios (c)2003 k7s8x bios p1.90 acpi compliant bios. It has been said that i need to turn off pnp in my bios but I can`t find anywhere you can do it, this need to be switched off to enable me to intall linux, otherwise I cant... Philip --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so that replies go to the list and not to your own email address, please unset the reply-to in your messages. How do i do it? Ramin In my Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.2 you go to Edit menu, Click on Mail Newsgroups Account Settings, and on the first screen you should see a box marked Reply-to Address (below the boxes marked 'Your Name' and 'Email Address'). The Reply-to Address box should be empty! There is probably something similar in Mozilla 1.5 - I haven't upgraded yet. If you can't find it, let me know off-list and I'll send you some screenshots of my setup that might help. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem
Well I think we both saw this coming, Derek. I got 5 errors after trying to restart the network. Error for wireless request Set Encode, Set ESSID, Set Mod, Set Bit Rate, Set ESSID. Then it say Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device. Here is the ifcfg-wlan0 exactly how it up, and I believe it goes according to my network settings: DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.1 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=linksys WIRELESS_RATE=11M I removed the encyption key because I'm positive that I don't have one. If all of these values are defined, why am I receiving these errors? --Marc Bear in mind Marc that I do not have one of these cards myself, so we are both learning as we go. I have downloaded the source code for wlan-ng and see this text in the README file NOTE: linux-wlan-ng does not fully implement the wireless extensions interface. This means that you can't use iwconfig and its kin to set things up. Instead, read on! As of linux-wlan-ng 0.1.16-pre5, the configuration and launch scripts have been largely re-written. pcmcia/rc/hotplug now all use a common library of routines and use the same set of configuration files. Now, everything relevant exists in /etc/wlan/* /etc/wlan/wlan.conf: This file maps between wlan devices and network IDs, and contains the names of all devices that should be initialized by the hotplug and rc scripts. /etc/wlan/wlancfg-* These files are per-network configurations. This makes it easy to switch between different SSIDs and the various settings they may require, like WEP keys and whatnot. The bare minimum you need to do to configure your system after a fresh driver install: 0) Nothing whatsoever. out-of-the-box, the driver will attempt to associate with any access point within range. However, we highly recommend setting up a configuration specifically for your network, using the following method: 0) This example assumes your network name/SSID is MyHomeNetwork 1) cp /etc/wlan/wlancfg-DEFAULT /etc/wlan/wlancfg-MyHomeNetwork 2) edit /etc/wlan/wlan.conf and change the SSID_wlan0 line to: SSID_wlan0=MyHomeNetwork 3) edit /etc/wlan/wlancfg-MyHomeNetwork, and make any necessary changes necessary to support your network, such as WEP and whatnot. -- FOR PCMCIA USERS: A) Edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file to set up your IP settings. Note: for a station, the SSID you're connecting to will be appended to the current pcmcia scheme name. You can use this to have different IP setups for different wireless LANs you connect to (e.g. home vs. work). Note2: This only applies if you are using a stock pcmcia-cs package. Most (if not all) distros use their own mechanisms for configuring pcmcia network interfaces, and thus /etc/pcmcia/network.opts may not even be present. B) Restart pcmcia-cs with the command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart C) Insert the card. For most cards, a solid LED indicates that the SSID you specified was found, a bss was joined, and the firmware completed the authenticate and associate processes. D) Run ifconfig and route to determine if your IP and route settings are listed as you wanted them. It's also a good idea to look at the file /etc/resolv.conf to see if your nameserver address has been set up correctly. It looks like although Mandrake supplies the prism2_cs driver, the scripts to configure it are not supplied. I will send the scripts direct to you. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla 1.5 Fonts
To All, I've upgraded to Mozilla 1.5 and now my fonts are crap on to many web sites. For those of you who use 1.5 what fonts do you use? Thanks. J. Kelley Jernigan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **
I was wondering why all my newbie messages just stopped, while I was still getting messages from the expert list. I've resubscribed so hopefully I will get messages again. JKJ Hello all, Sympa has all of a sudden decided that i do indeed need to see all email bounced back to newbie. Of the over 1500 subscribers, ~ 400 of them were bad addys. Anyway, i have been unsubbing all these bad addresses. I deeply apologize if i nuke anyone by accident. If i do, please let me know, and i'll resub you if you haven't beat me to it. (I did accidentily nab a couple of you, but resubbed immediately, so just ignore the bounce email if you are still getting list email). Many of the bounces are from accounts that are over quota. Please, make sure your email address can handle the load of this list, and if you go on vacation, please set your mail to nomail. See 8.2 on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette for instructions. Now back to your regularly scheduled insanity, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Formating External Hard Drive
Thanks Tony, I still have the problem. This is what I did. I changed /usr to Backup Mandrake and the second partition to Backup Win2000. There seems to be a problem because instead of partitions I found these two new items in my hda listed in /files along with the /usr that I had changed. On my desktop there is a icon identified as Hard Disc (hdc1) (not mounted When I activate this icon I get the following message: Error-kio-devices-mounthelper Mount: wrong fs type bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1. or too many mounts on file system Owen *** On Monday 12 January 2004 01:08 am, you wrote: Owen, You have a /usr on your system at the moment. It thinks you are changing the config of your system and is just trying to help. Call the partition /backup or something else and you will be fine. Tony. -Original Message- From: Owen Berio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Formating External Hard Drive (I'm Using Mandrake 9.1 I have removed the hard drive from it's USB enclosure and temp. enstalled it in my dedicated Mandrake box as a second HD I want to partition it into two portions. One portion for backing up WIN 2000 on a MS dedicated box. The second portion for backing up my Mandrake material. The Mandrake Control Center identifies the HD as hdc. My primary HD is identified as hda. When I go to Mount Points and Disk Drake I set the partition to 5225 MB which is less than half of the hard drive capacity. I set the file system to FAT 32. The mount point is set to /usr And click O.K. A new Disk Drake menue says that Directory /usr already contains data (share, bin, sbin, .) It then gives me the option of moving files to the new position or hiding files. How can this be? As far as I know the drive has never been formatted. I sure don't want to screw up my Mandrake system so this is where I get stonewalled. Help! All I want to do is prepare half the Disk for Mandrake back up and the other half for MS back up. Owen -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Journalised
I have run across the term Journalised and Journalised FS.ext3. Would someone please tell me what they are and how they are used? Thanks, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] graphical login - again
Hi Bill, I believe the file you would be looking for is /etc/inittab, This is the file that specifies if you boot to the command prompt or a graphical login. The line your looking for is: id:X:initdefault: where X is the runlevel, 5 would be the graphical login so it should read id:5:initdefault: Well, I hope that helps. --Pat From: Bill W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] graphical login - again Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:18:43 + Hi everyone, I've been trying to track down the reason that my machine won't boot into a graphical login manager. Remember, my machine is set to boot graphically in MCC and it seems to trya blue screen appears for a moment then flashes offthis occurs twice. I checked the boot.log and there was no mention of any failed steps. Can anyone tell me which file contains the boot config? I should take a look and see if it is ok. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get a FREE online virus check for your PC here, from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Journalised
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:24:45 -0800 Owen Berio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run across the term Journalised and Journalised FS.ext3. Would someone please tell me what they are and how they are used? Thanks, Owen Ok, FS means filesystem, which is the method that the linux kernel stores files to the hard drive. Depending on which filesystem you have, your computer will save files, keep track of files, move them around, etc, differently. On normal ext2 filesystems (not journalized), records are not kept of hard drive activity. This means that if you lose power or the computer is not cleanly shut down, it may take a LONG time for the computer to restore itself. With a journalized FS, after the power loss, the computer can restore the filesystem structure quite easily. Ext3 is a type of Journalized FS. Other kinds of Journalized FS's include XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, and Reiser4 (still in development, but 50% faster than the others). If I did a crummy job of explaining this, maybe someone else could help me out. John -- Mon Jan 12 16:02:58 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 When we talk of tomorrow, the gods laugh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:51, John Richard Smith wrote: snip I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. John John, I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a preview is displayed of every font. The quantity is impressive! If anybody cares to give me a hint on installing them I'm still interested. Cheers, Marco -- Tell me about these oppressed masses. What's got them so worked up ? They're upset, sir, because they are so poor that they are forced to have children merely to provide a cheap alternative to turkey at Christmas. Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
Hopefully this is corrected. I was getting two of your each email. However my original problem with Mozilla is not fixed yet :-( Ramin On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, you wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so that replies go to the list and not to your own email address, please unset the reply-to in your messages. How do i do it? Ramin In my Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.2 you go to Edit menu, Click on Mail Newsgroups Account Settings, and on the first screen you should see a box marked Reply-to Address (below the boxes marked 'Your Name' and 'Email Address'). The Reply-to Address box should be empty! There is probably something similar in Mozilla 1.5 - I haven't upgraded yet. If you can't find it, let me know off-list and I'll send you some screenshots of my setup that might help. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, Margot wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so that replies go to the list and not to your own email address, please unset the reply-to in your messages. How do i do it? Ramin In my Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.2 you go to Edit menu, Click on Mail Newsgroups Account Settings, and on the first screen you should see a box marked Reply-to Address (below the boxes marked 'Your Name' and 'Email Address'). The Reply-to Address box should be empty! There is probably something similar in Mozilla 1.5 - I haven't upgraded yet. If you can't find it, let me know off-list and I'll send you some screenshots of my setup that might help. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 07:09 AM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before upgrading the system to MDK92. Actually, I think that this would depend on whether you have a printer connected when you do the install. If you do and it is detected by Mandrake, then it installs CUPS by default unless you tell it not to. You don't have to have CUPS, you can use lpd or one of the other printer systems but you do have to have something. The MDK91 install was default, except I disabled gnome and Koffice. Then I did the MDK92 upgrade. The above sequence is exactly what I described in my first email. Everything is fine until I choose the printer name and click OK. Instead of choosing the model, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. My guess would be that you are missing some necessary packages from the Mandrake core system. If I were trying to troubleshoot this, I would urpmi the CUPS software and try to bypass the printer drake utils and set the printer up manually in CUPS. Hopefully, that should trigger the right files to be installed because of dependencies and then the wizard should work again. In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Any Messages getting through?
To All, I stopped receiving any messages from this group for the past several days. The Expert group works find. Could someone reply to me directly if my messages are getting through? Thanks. JKJ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Messages to Newbie Linux Group
Jeff, Thanks. How to get the messages to go through though is an odd thing. For every message I send I get an email from SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to approve my own messages. After I have approved them via reply then they go through to the list. J. Kelley Jernigan On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:51, Jeff Gojkovich wrote: Messages are coming through. Are you sure they are not getting caught in an e-mail filter somewhere. The sending IP is 80.67.180.176 to whitelist. -- Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
Marco Verheul wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:51, John Richard Smith wrote: snip I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. John John, I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a previewis displayed of every font. The quantity is impressive! But are they linux fonts and isn't there somewhere one can get them free ? If anybody cares to give me a hint on installing them I'm still interested. Cheers, Marco John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
Ramin wrote: On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, Margot wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so that replies go to the list and not to your own email address, please unset the reply-to in your messages. How do i do it? Ramin In my Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.2 you go to Edit menu, Click on Mail Newsgroups Account Settings, and on the first screen you should see a box marked Reply-to Address (below the boxes marked 'Your Name' and 'Email Address'). The Reply-to Address box should be empty! There is probably something similar in Mozilla 1.5 - I haven't upgraded yet. If you can't find it, let me know off-list and I'll send you some screenshots of my setup that might help. Margot Well, you seem to have got the Reply-to sorted now - so, back to the real problem... which I probably can't help with as I've never encountered such problems myself! Although I'm no expert, it sounds as if your Moz installation is corrupted in some way. How did you install it? Did you use urpmi? I had various odd problems with previous Moz installations where I didn't use urpmi - but since I discovered urpmi I've had no problems. If nobody else has any better suggestions, I suggest you uninstall Mozilla and then reinstall using urpmi. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi/rpm error
Hi All, I tried searching the archives for something relevant but didn't come up with anything useful. Trying to update the kernel with a recently obtained RPM, I get the following messages: # urpmi kernel rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8 Can't call method traverse_tag on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Resolve.pm line 204. I presume this has something to do with the version of RPM that I'm running: 4.0.4 under Mandrake 9.0 I'd update RPM, but get similar messages about unsupported hash version there too. If there's a tarball I could grab, I'd be willing try that. Suggestions? Chris P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade (does order matter?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 January 2004 01:10 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:22:53 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this make a difference? ie., do you literally have to install the bootloader-utils first? Apparently, it doesn't matter :-) Hey Joe, there was a link to this page http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php ( Author: Vincent Danen) which suggests installing - 1st the newer Kernel , then its source and then I had to update the bootloader-utils. It worked for me. HTH - -- RickS Linux user #338463 2.4.22-26mdk i686 Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission? -- Why Why Why n°47 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAz+xTZfTYYmFuxYRAjaOAJ95ZDKoGJ564vZchLw+mVvdslcWGgCdH1kY QFSzBv+/7s8AkyeYR88RQUg= =CZFM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10 pm, Frank Bax wrote: In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load. That is always an option but you may not have exhausted the possibility of manually selecting the printer. Go to Configuration, Printing, CUPS WWW admin tool, click on Manage Printers, Click Add Printer and login as root. Enter the name, location and Description, click Continue. Select Device, I assume parallel port #1. If connected to the router, choose LPD/LPR Host. Select Make, Continue, Model, Continue and you should get that the new printer has been added successfully. Now try to print and see what happens. If you get an error, you may want to check software installation and make sure that you have the cups, cups-drivers, and cups-common packages installed. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade (does order matter?)
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:45:21 -0500 Ricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this make a difference? ie., do you literally have to install the bootloader-utils first? Apparently, it doesn't matter :-) Hey Joe, there was a link to this page http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php ( Author: Vincent Danen) which suggests installing - 1st the newer Kernel , then its source and then I had to update the bootloader-utils. It worked for me. Yep, that's the order I did it in. I was worried I should have loaded the bootloader-utils first, since on the 'advisory' page it says: Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 9.2 users should upgrade the initscripts (9.1) and bootloader-utils (9.2) packages prior to upgrading the kernel as they contain a fixed installkernel script that fixes instances where the loop module was not being loaded and would cause mkinitrd to fail. Love the way urpmi takes care of everything, just rebooted, reinstalled the Nvidia drivers under the new kernel, and so far smooth sailin'. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state.-- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?
My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Thanks, Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 08:03 PM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10 pm, Frank Bax wrote: In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load. That is always an option but you may not have exhausted the possibility of manually selecting the printer. OK, I'll defer that option for a little while... Go to Configuration, Printing, CUPS WWW admin tool An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) In case someone can determine that more packages are missing from my system, I did a list of packages (rpm -qa | sort) on a similar 9.1 system and the problem 9.2 system - then created a nice table to compare them. It will be at this site for a few days: MDK91: http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/rpmSandy.txt MDK92: http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/rpmChris.txt Compare:http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/Mandrake_rpm_list.htm Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE that doesn't run under XP, havn't tried it under wine...yet). Did a quick search on google and found this page: http://www.vamos.de/english/bootman2.html#dos It is an OS2 tool that can hide a primary partition from windows so that it sees the second partition as c: Is there a way to do this with lilo or grub? Is there an easier way? TIA for suggestions. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:21 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need to recognize it in order to run LILO so I can start playing around with my own kernels. Sorry, I was under the impression you were trying to mount a linux partition that existed on hda. Please accept my apologies. fstab shows what can be (and is, in most cases) mounted. /etc/mtab shows what is mounted. Could be a permissions problem, or could be a problem with 8.2. You've attempted to mount the windows partition from the command line, both as user and as root and have failed with an error to the effect that the partition doesn't exist? Is lilo your boot manager? Does dmesg give any errors during bootup? Could you boot with Knoppix or pclinux OS and see if the windows partition is recognized? If you are getting tired of this, it might be a good time to upgrade (8.2 came with quite a few problems, IIRC. I didn't have any, but many users did. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] network inconsistency
I think I will repost this problem in hopes that someone will come to my rescue. Installed mdk 9.2 on a friends sony vaio pcg-fx340, networking worked at first. Then it didn't and wont anymore even after a re-install (I know bad habits die hard).Windows says it is an intel pro/100 ve chip which originally worked with the eepro100 driver. I have read that this driver was broken by the kernel developers (according to its author) and that the solution is to compile and install it from source. Of course the make command failed. I was hoping maybe someone had another solution (or could offer to build an rpm hint hint) Here is a link to the authors page: http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html TIA for help and suggestions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:51:52 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Thanks, Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. I have a GameDr. I think these same devices are sold as CD-Dr and DVD-Dr. I think they are identical. Anyway, it does work. I repaired a CD that had deep scratches in it that was completely unusable, until after I ran it through the GameDr several times. Yes, I'd say that these devices do work. Good luck. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:51:52 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Thanks, Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. As long as it isn't the label side that's scratched, they work pretty good. I've repaired quite a few myself after the dog knocked over my bookshelf. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **
I was wondering why all my newbie messages just stopped, while I was still getting messages from the expert list. I've resubscribed so hopefully I will get messages again. JKJ If you don't, let me know. I don't know why they stopped. I stopped nuking people once the mandrake folks started the automatic nuking of bouncing emails... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?
My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Never used a kit, but used plexiglass polish once and it worked fine... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux to Windows porting
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from vikrant - Still single? Click here to find the perfect match. http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?141 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
Thanks, i will try it. My installation has been through the mandrake standard package installing which i assume is essentially a gui for urpmi. Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 06:35 pm, Margot wrote: Well, you seem to have got the Reply-to sorted now - so, back to the real problem... which I probably can't help with as I've never encountered such problems myself! Although I'm no expert, it sounds as if your Moz installation is corrupted in some way. How did you install it? Did you use urpmi? I had various odd problems with previous Moz installations where I didn't use urpmi - but since I discovered urpmi I've had no problems. If nobody else has any better suggestions, I suggest you uninstall Mozilla and then reinstall using urpmi. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. If you just want to read them, no problem. It'll be setup when you install. If you want to write to them also, you will want them on a seperate FAT32 partition. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how it performs. I am using XOSL as my boot loader which come with Ranish partition manager and i can install windows2k on the third partition while the first two partitions are FAT or NTFS! I however do not use hidden fat (it may work though, but i don´t remember what was the problem). I record the first two partitions as linux type using RPM even though they are windows type! This way is guaranteed to work for me. Windows98 is older and i think hiding FAT partitions is very likely to work. So if it was me, the first way i would try is using Mandrake partition manager to hide the first two windows partitions and write the setting to the MBR. Then i would start installing Windows98. I should repeat that i have not tried this myself before, but the Mandrake 9.2 partition manager seems very reliable (it was not the case for Mandrake 9.0 to my opinion). Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 09:45 pm, Joe wrote: A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE that doesn't run under XP, havn't tried it under wine...yet). Did a quick search on google and found this page: http://www.vamos.de/english/bootman2.html#dos It is an OS2 tool that can hide a primary partition from windows so that it sees the second partition as c: Is there a way to do this with lilo or grub? Is there an easier way? TIA for suggestions. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rename multiple folders
I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my Win2k partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital letter and I want to rename them all to all lower case. Example: rename Documents to documents Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to do all these one at a time. Thanks, -- The above rantings are the opinions of the writer only, and are not necessarily in agreement with anything that anybody else thinks, or would care to. Any resemblance to political correctness is purely coincidental, entirely unintentional and probably your imagination. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:34:48 -0500 Ramin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how it performs. I am using XOSL as my boot loader which come with Ranish partition manager and i can install windows2k on the third partition while the first two partitions are FAT or NTFS! I however do not use hidden fat (it may work though, but i don´t remember what was the problem). I record the first two partitions as linux type using RPM even though they are windows type! This way is guaranteed to work for me. Windows98 is older and i think hiding FAT partitions is very likely to work. So if it was me, the first way i would try is using Mandrake partition manager to hide the first two windows partitions and write the setting to the MBR. Then i would start installing Windows98. I should repeat that i have not tried this myself before, but the Mandrake 9.2 partition manager seems very reliable (it was not the case for Mandrake 9.0 to my opinion). Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 09:45 pm, Joe wrote: A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE that doesn't run under XP, havn't tried it under wine...yet). Did a quick search on google and found this page: http://www.vamos.de/english/bootman2.html#dos It is an OS2 tool that can hide a primary partition from windows so that it sees the second partition as c: Is there a way to do this with lilo or grub? Is there an easier way? TIA for suggestions. Joe. I used to do it ... first start blank then install 98 then install winxp pro or win 2000 then linux.. linux and windows will show up on the lilo boot when you boot windows it will take you to the nt loader and you can boot 98 from there. I think its not possible to boot 98 in the middle how you explained it. windows likes to install to the mbr ;) -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 21:51:48 up 1 day, 3:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Another fonts question
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:28 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Not offhand if I can find Gokking the Gimp i might be able to find out. John Sorry been busy and haven't followed this thread, but on the little gimp window, left mouse, double click the T then enable use dynamic text Open a pic and click the T and all will become evident, text colour, fonts installed etc.. Charlie. -- Well you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol. --Lt. Gen Boykin This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:25 pm, many eyes noted that Eric Huff wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. If you just want to read them, no problem. It'll be setup when you install. If you want to write to them also, you will want them on a seperate FAT32 partition. eric OpenOffice.org any version, but 1.1 is good -- Well you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol. --Lt. Gen Boykin This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:38:27PM -0700, Charlie wrote: I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my Win2k partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital letter and I want to rename them all to all lower case. Example: rename Documents to documents Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to do all these one at a time. man tr so, #!/bin/bash find . -type d -mindepth 1 folderlist while read line do newName=`echo $line|tr [A-Z] [a-z]` echo $newName #mv $line $newName donefolderlist rm -f folderlist [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ l -1 My Documents/ t.sh* Windows Sucks/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ ./t.sh ./my documents ./windows sucks [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ l -1 my documents/ t.sh* windows sucks/ Uncomment the mv line to actually rename folders if you're sure it won't mess anything up. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:38 pm, Charlie wrote: -I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my Win2k -partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital letter -and I want to rename them all to all lower case. - -Example: rename Documents to documents - -Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to do all these one at a time. - -Thanks, Hi Charlie. Just cp the files to where you need them, then while you are in that directory from a shell, type: for i in *[A-Z]* Now you at a prompt. Type do mv $i `echo $i |tr A-Z a-z` (note those are ` not ' , located below your tilde key) and finally: done Hope this helps! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Messages to Newbie Linux Group
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:57 am, many eyes noted that J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Jeff, Thanks. How to get the messages to go through though is an odd thing. For every message I send I get an email from SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to approve my own messages. After I have approved them via reply then they go through to the list. J. Kelley Jernigan On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:51, Jeff Gojkovich wrote: Messages are coming through. Are you sure they are not getting caught in an e-mail filter somewhere. The sending IP is 80.67.180.176 to whitelist. -- Jeff You're using a different email address? -- Well you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol. --Lt. Gen Boykin This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:51, Todd Slater wrote: My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Yes they do work up to a point. Clead the CD then using Ripperx rip it (check the rip wav box when you have finished move the wav files to a new CD most of the scratches will be gone cdparanoia catches most of it Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
