[newbie] Hyperterm app
Hello friends, I am looking for a hyperterminal similiar app for Unix...and so far I haven't found anything, but I am very sure that something must be out there. Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Warning was Re: [ jEdit-users ] Status
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 01:03, Richard Urwin wrote: The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment. A new virus, as of today. Rated High-Outbreak by Mcafee: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=descriptionvirus_k=100 983 (Only affects Windows, of course.) I noticed this: quote Denial of Service Payload On the first system startup on February 1st or later, the worm changes its behavior from mass mailing to initiating a denial of service attack against the sco.com domain. This denial of service attack will stop on the first system startup of February 12th or later, and thereafter the worm's only behavior is to continue listening on TCP port 3127. /quote That's _not_ the right way to fight SCO IMHO. Have fun, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hyperterm app
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:56:36 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friends, I am looking for a hyperterminal similiar app for Unix...and so far I haven't found anything, but I am very sure that something must be out there. Cheers Anders is something like minicom what you're looking for? from rpmdrake: Minicom is a simple text-based modem control and terminal emulation program somewhat similar to MSDOS Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, full ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting language, and other features. Minicom should be installed if you need a simple modem control program or terminal emulator. minicom is on your mandrake cd's HTH -- _||_ 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] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live (solved)
Josenildo - I've finally cracked why kmid would not work! I need to use kickarts before I can record anything. I never thought to try it before, but if I launch kmid when arts is killed, kmid works. Start arts again, and it doesn't work! That's the answer, then - it doesn't work when arts is running (at least, on my system). Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transcode
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 01:53 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: mprime has been running over an hour, decided to end it there for the moment, Anyway no apparent problems there. I don't agree, 1 hour is an indication, IME you pass after about 8 hours or more, ie, overnite. So now for bios reset, FSB=133 Does your board also have FSB jumpers? Better boards do, a long with bios BSB settings. MSI K7T266 Pro2 Mobo. I don't understand the question. The CPU is a 133 MHz of course. You may change the FSB between 100/133, of course, and the PCI frequency may be selected, H/W = hardware config (currently set) The CPU ratio/Vcore voltage may be altered but I have it on the default setting. I'm not into pushing my components to excess just to see what breaks. Otherwise I cannot see what you refer to. === Your choice: 17 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer. Please read stress.txt. Hit ^C to end this test. Test 1, 400 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length. ==Total Lockup== The entire system locks up tight, no keyboard,no mouse, nothing, only left to crash our and reboot with fsck's to partitions and everything. Now one might be thinking that this indicates that there is a faulty CPU(Athlon 1800) More likely motherboard and/or ram, overheating, maybe PSU. Are all those components AMD approved? http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_869,00.html I don't currently have the memory test programme installed, but I have had it on and run it thoughily with no reported problems, I doubt if anything has changed , this mencoder crashing the system on FSB=133 setting isn't new, goes back to the beginning. but for the fact that W2k and Gordian knot can run my FSB-133 setting and complete the encoding in less time than mencoder and without any stress to the cpu.This does not tend indicate a faulty cpu to my mind. I suspect the linux kernel is not particularly good at running cpu's like mine at it's maximum capacity. Actually, I believe your thinking is 180º off. W2K uses CPU/cache/ram very sloppily. Particularly motherboards, cache, ram, and harddrives. Often marginal systems will function with M$ crap, but fail Linux's greater demands on them. Well right now I wouldn't mind some of that sloppyness in my linux, if that is the case. I'm not certain it is. Mandrake makes my XP 3000+ (overclocked to over 3200+, 171Mhz FSB, ram at DDR 419) absolutely *FLY*. Mencoder or Trancode is fast and no problemo. Even for 7+Gig DVD ripping, encoding, or 800MB movie resizing. Same for mprime 17, or cpuburn's 'burnK7'. Many many kernels since 2.21.x, now 2.6.2rc1, with this hardware. Often with low latency, preempt versions. Others may disagree, but that is the feeling I have had for some time now. I noticed that there is a windblows version of mprime, it might be interesting if I downloaded it and installed in W2K and run the test again from there. But for now food for thought. John Try it, there's also a Winsux version of cpuburn. BUT, I suspect you can't use the correct FSB for your Athlon because of a marginal motherboard and/or ram. Could be ram timings in bios if you have them too tight. Try 3-3-3, banking disabled. Who makes the ram, and what are it's specs? Same ? for motherboard, PSU, video card and driver. What kernel parameters? IE, the append= line from lilo.conf. The memory stick isn't the best , but it ain't that bad either, has always passed the linux memory test OK. There's no thermistor so as far as memory stick running temperature is concerned, it's a fingers job , and it's running cool I don't have any qualms about the running temperature at all, it's OK. However the memory settings are a different matter.I have some choices, ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES Internal cache - writeback/disable System BIOS Cacheable - Enable diable C00.32k Shadow - Disable/Enable/Cached APIC FunctionAPIC Function - Enable/disable MPS Table Version - 1.4/1.1 ADVANCE CHIPSET FEATURES Configure SDRAMtiming - SPD/ EEPROM (but I have DDR memory ?) SDRAM Frequency - HCLK/HCLK+33/ HCLK-33/SPD (I have 133 MHz so SPD) CAS#Latency - 2/3 (2=increase, 3= stable) Row Precharge Time - 2T/3T RAS to CAS Delay - 3T/2T Bank Interleave - Disable/2-Way/4-Way. Burst Length - 4QW/8QW SDRAM1T Command Fast Command - Enable AGP mode - 1x/2x/4x Manual AGP Comp.Driving AGP FAST Write - enable/disable AGP Aperture size 4MB/8MB/16MB/32MB/64MB/128MB/256MB AGP MASTER 1 W/S Write - enable/disable AGP MASTER1 W/S read - enable/disable AGP Read synchroniszation - enable/disable Search for MDA Resources - (only for mono display adapter cards) PCI Delay Transaction - enable/disable Now not all those are to do with stick memory but they might affect the system performance in a mencoder type opperation, so I enclude them anyway. Frankly I don;t really have a clue about these setting, and the
Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!
Terence Golightly wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 12:13, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 04:36 am, John Richard Smith wrote: cd to directory source of iso file cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -pad -data -eject -ignsize iso file John That's be OK for data CD's, but *without* -ignsize !! For bootable iso's, remove -pad -data and -ignsize, and add -dao cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -eject -dao iso file (from 'man cdrecord) -ignsize Ignore the known size of the medium. This options should be used with extreme care, it exists only for debugging purposes don't use it for other reasons. It is not needed to write disks with more than the nominal capacity. This option implies -overburn. Which is always a bad idea and rarely works anyhow. So that's an uneeded, very bad idea. A simple CL for burning bootable iso's is cdrecord -v -eject speed=?? dev=?,?,? -dao iso file Tom and John, I like to use a gui myself thats why my original post mentioned gcombust. So just unchecking the -padding -swab audio and -ignore size keeping -dao should allow me to burn a bootable cdrom. Does this mean that I don't have to check eltorrito selection and specify a boot image and catalog file (whatever that is) on the options tab of gcombust? Thanks, Terry Sorry Terry, I don't use Gcombust myself, and that is why I chose to give you a cdrecord CL which got around the 650MB limit on cdrcord, of course make sure you have 700MB media. As far as Gcombust is concerned, it's a question of choosing the eliments of the programme that select to write the contents of your iso image file to disc, as agains writing the iso image itself to disc. if the resulting write is not bootable as it ought to be, then you got it the wrong way around. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Standard Installation
I tried to install netscape but the installation program dont created any icon, any shortcut, any program group and when I logged as my user and tried to execute netscape from its folder a message Netspace not found came to me... Did I installed wrong??? - Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Standard Installation On Monday 26 January 2004 12:03 pm, Andr Tapxure Gabriel wrote: Hi there! I was trying to install Netscape 7.1 and when the installation program asked in what directory the software should be installed, it automatically sugested to install in /usr/local/netscape and I answered YES!. The system informed that I have no permission to create this directory... In this minute, some questions poped-up in my mind... 1 - What is the standard directory that I have to install the softwares? The installer gave you the correct directory for stuff that does not come with the distro. Like c:\Program Files in the winsux? 2 - I have to give root powers to my user to install this programs or log as root and install them? Log in as root, install and then the program should be available to all users. BTW, Windows NT/2000/XP requires this too, but it hides this fact by putting all users in an administrators group to allow anybody to install software. You can make it so that you have to log in as administrator to install software though -- /g 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] My network hates Linux ='(...how can I fix this?
On Monday 26 January 2004 08:26 pm, marc resnick wrote: The linksys is a BEFW11S4, a Wireless-B Broadband Router. I'll try the hard reset, and get back to you on that. Okay, on that router, on the DHCP tab, there is a starting IP addresses that allows you to specify the beginning IP address. I would guess that this is set to 100. There is also a DHCP Clients button, this brings up the section that allows you to assign a permanent IP address by MAC address. The reason that you would want to have a permanent IP address is for port forwarding. When you forward a port, say port 21 to enable an ftp server, you need to send it to the same machine. The easiest way to do this is to specify an IP address and make sure that the server always gets the same IP. If you were previously running servers, then you probably have at least one or two IP's specified as static. Either clear out permanent assignments or make sure that that the assigned IP falls outside the range of dynamic addresses. So, if the starting address is 100 and you have allowed 50 users, you can assign either 192.168.1.151-253 or 192.168.1.2-99. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions
- Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:25:29 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:20, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I have 9.2 installed and updated/config'd for the most part. It was a looong weekend downloading all the updates on my dialup. ;-) I seem to be encountering something that seems odd with the urpmi db. There are some packages listed as installable, which I know are already installed. The packages show as being 0bytes in size. Anyone know what is going on here? I have tried rebuilding the the db with rpm --rebuilddb. Also, concerning urpmi. I get the following warning everytime I install a software package with urpmi: There was a problem during the installation: medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method. If I just click OK, the installation goes fine. I tried deleting my contrib source and using a different one, but the same warning keeps appearing. Anyone else having this happen? What might I try to fix it? TIA for your time/help. Best regards. --Angus Angus, as always Derek answered this a few weeks ago : Go to /var/lib/urpmi and remove the offending file listfilename. That's all. Next time you update the annoying message is history. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks Kaj, I must have missed Derek's post on this. He certainly is on top of things, and a credit to this list. As are you, and all of the many others here. :-) Best regards to you. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions
On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 12:13 pm, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:25:29 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:20, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I have 9.2 installed and updated/config'd for the most part. It was a looong weekend downloading all the updates on my dialup. ;-) I seem to be encountering something that seems odd with the urpmi db. There are some packages listed as installable, which I know are already installed. The packages show as being 0bytes in size. Anyone know what is going on here? I have tried rebuilding the the db with rpm --rebuilddb. Also, concerning urpmi. I get the following warning everytime I install a software package with urpmi: There was a problem during the installation: medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method. If I just click OK, the installation goes fine. I tried deleting my contrib source and using a different one, but the same warning keeps appearing. Anyone else having this happen? What might I try to fix it? TIA for your time/help. Best regards. --Angus Angus, as always Derek answered this a few weeks ago : Go to /var/lib/urpmi and remove the offending file listfilename. That's all. Next time you update the annoying message is history. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks Kaj, I must have missed Derek's post on this. He certainly is on top of things, and a credit to this list. As are you, and all of the many others here. :-) Best regards to you. --Angus Hey you will make me blush. I was just repeating what I read on the expert list. I read some additional info on the expert list on this subject recently. Apparently the problem can come back unless you edit /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg Find the stanza for contrib, and remove the linelist: list.contrib derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transcode
My guess that it might be a bridge or RAM issue. Do you mean the north bridge / southbridge stuff on my MSI board. I've written on another message about the memory. I don't mind buy better if that is what it takes, but don't want to buy unnecessaryily. Have you tried other memory-intensive things - like 'make -j 100' in /usr/src/linux? (That's a joke -- actually don't go that high, unless you have *gobs* of RAM. I have 512MB of DDR ram, but sorry I don't understand the rference, make -j 100 I'm going to be running mprime in windblows later today, will post the results. John Later = Well it seems we are all wrong. I didn't think there was any point in running FSB=100 in W2K So here is the result of my W2K mprime test, FSB=133 === Beginning a continueous self-test to check your computer. Please read stress.txt. Choose Test/Stop to end this test. Test1,400 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024 FT length Test2,400 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922943 using 1024 FT length Test3,400 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M18874369 using 1024 FT length Test4,400 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M18874367 using 1024 FT length Test5,400 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M17825793 using 1024 FT length It actually got to Test6 but hung there. Now M9.1 hung right at the beginning at the start of test1.In effect it didn't get anywhere in FSB=133, so this is a better result than in M9.1, but to be honest, not that much better, not as as much as I fondly thought, which shows the importance of having realistic demanding tests to work with. Impressions can be both accurate and misleading. So I'm left thinking that something, whether memory or cpu works somewhat better in W2K on current settings, but that these may well not be the best and most appropriate settings for the equipement. Anyway I've got a few other things to do for a while now. Back later. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus Warning was Re: [ jEdit-users ] Status
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:37:57 +0100 Frans Ketelaars disseminated the following: A new virus, as of today. Rated High-Outbreak by Mcafee: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=descriptionvirus_k=100 983 (Only affects Windows, of course.) Already picked up by everybody's fav Procmail recipe: http://agriroot.aua.gr/~nikant/nkvir/ See changelog. I noticed this: quote Denial of Service Payload On the first system startup on February 1st or later, the worm changes its behavior from mass mailing to initiating a denial of service attack against the sco.com domain. This denial of service attack will stop on the first system startup of February 12th or later, and thereafter the worm's only behavior is to continue listening on TCP port 3127. /quote That's _not_ the right way to fight SCO IMHO. Agreed. It just contributes to the image which SCO is trying to paint of the Linux community, a bunch of 'hackers' (which of course, many are, but they don't get the diff between 'hacker' and 'cracker', CNN be praised). Fighting SCO, and MS for that matter, is done most effectively by getting the truth out there. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man.-- Declaration of the Rights of Man Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 20:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 23 January 2004 06:02 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: so I tried that, and this is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# kedit /etc/hosts _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOPServer up and running. [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. Try the command gedit /etc/hosts and see if that works better. [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# gedit /etc/hosts bash: gedit: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# I'm not having a lot of luck... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MOHAA Linux Client
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:08:00 -0500 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: -There's no 'installer', but it's easy to do. - Hmm, I'm running MOHAA, and I didn't use WineX or Windoze... I used this installer: http://www.icculus.org/~ravage/mohaa/ Cool, I didn't know there was an installer! But you'll notice it does appear to be using the beta binaries that we're talking about here, IIUC. and although it took awhile, (and I've not been playing the game long - just got it yesterday) it seems to work pretty good. Note this installer is for the US version only. PS Did anyone else have fun/trouble trying to lob the damn grenade into the last box/target during training? Sheesh... :-) I haven't gone through the training part in awhile...I'm gettin' pretty good with the 'nades though. I love tossin' one through those MG42 ports, and hearin' the Oh shit! (in German of course). On a similar note, good luck trying to actually finish the game. At the very end, the boxcar doors didn't open for me, so I just got shot to shit. In any case, thanks for the tip! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache 1.3, mod_perl on MDK 9.1
I'm trying to set up an Apache module that depends on mod_perl and Apache 1.3 (does not play well with the mod_perl in Apache 2). I ran /usr/sbin/advxrun1.3 to switch to Apache 1.3, but it returns an error about Invalid command 'PerlSetEnv', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration. I am told that means the mod_perl is either not installed or enabled. I know I have the mod_perl for Apache 1.3. How can I find out if it's enabled, or how do I enable it? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!
On 26 Jan 2004 22:31:15 -0500 Terence Golightly disseminated the following: So that's an uneeded, very bad idea. A simple CL for burning bootable iso's is cdrecord -v -eject speed=?? dev=?,?,? -dao iso file Tom and John, I like to use a gui myself thats why my original post mentioned gcombust. So just unchecking the -padding -swab audio and -ignore size keeping -dao should allow me to burn a bootable cdrom. Does this mean that I don't have to check eltorrito selection and specify a boot image and catalog file (whatever that is) on the options tab of gcombust? I burn ISO's with GCombust all the time, no special options, just browse to the image on the 'burn' tab, and that's it. I don't even enable DAO... I'll have to try that CLI bit though... -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MOHAA Linux Client
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:52:39 -0500 RickS disseminated the following: There's no 'installer', but it's easy to do. Hey Joe .. thx again ... Wow! what a difference 8-) Ya, I can run it at 1024x768 now, with more model details, and it's smoth. Isn't this just the best First Person Shooter *ever*? I've played through the whole game about 8 times now, and I never tire of it. Cant wait till the sound works better. I even found Freespace 2 installer Kewl ! Ya, I snagged Freespace 2. Very cool game, but I just get lost with all the controls. I gotta invest in a decent joystick, I'm sure it's a lot more fun that way. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.-- Archbishop Helder Camara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] is there any update file to upgrade mandrake9.0 to 9.2
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Re: [newbie] Transcode
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:50:23 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I don't understand the rference, make -j 100 From the manpage: -j jobs Specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously. If there is more than one -j option, the last one is effective. If the -j option is given without an argument, make will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously. 100? Yikes! I think *my* computer would melt, poor thing. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Not only do I think marijuana should be legalized, I think it should be mandatory-- Bill Hicks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:02 am, Merlin Zener wrote: I'm not having a lot of luck... Try this link: https://localhost:1/net/list_hosts.cgi Login as root and you should be able to edit the hosts file from there. You can also try vim /etc/hosts but you need to know vi commands to edit the file. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On 27 Jan 2004 20:02:54 +0700 Merlin Zener disseminated the following: Try the command gedit /etc/hosts and see if that works better. [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# gedit /etc/hosts bash: gedit: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# I'm not having a lot of luck... Just that gedit is not installed. so, while yer root, urpmi gedit -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.-- Archbishop Helder Camara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!
On Monday 26 January 2004 09:31 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: cdrecord -v -eject speed=?? dev=?,?,? -dao iso file Tom and John, I like to use a gui myself thats why my original post mentioned gcombust. So just unchecking the -padding -swab audio and -ignore size keeping -dao should allow me to burn a bootable cdrom. Does this mean that I don't have to check eltorrito selection and specify a boot image and catalog file (whatever that is) on the options tab of gcombust? I haven't used a GUI in so long I can't comment. As far as El Torito (floppy boot img), catalog goes, they're in the bootable iso already, no need to create or add them. -dao (Disk At Once) is needed because it exactly records the iso to CDr, and preserves the md5sum. A must for being postive you've got a good bootable CDr. Cut'n paste this into the bottom of /etc/bashrc (as root), you'll have it from then on, all cdwriter users. alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=16 dev=1,0,0 -dao' You can remove driveropts=burnfree if you want, change the speed=, and make sure of your dev= then Open a console as user, type 'biso name_of.iso' (w/o the 's and 's) (type 'nam' and hit Tab to auto complete) and you'll be burning a perfectly good bootable CDr, before most GUI's will even appear on your screen, much less get configured and ready to go. With Mandrake iso's, which include CD1, CD2, CD3 in the name, after you burn the first CD, use the Arrow up to bring up the CL again, change the 1 to a 2 and burn the second CD. So on for the third. You'll have all three CD's burned before Gcombust gets done with the first one. And you'll know what you did, rather than guessing at what a GUI might'a done ;) One further caution, 'run -checkdrive dev=?,?,?' and look at the output at the bottom. You _must_ see SAO in the Supported modes: line (SAO, Session At Once is -dao). If your burner can't do 700MB or doesn't support SAO, you really should get a better drive. The deficient ones that can't, are like havin a Betamax, when all the stores only carry VHS. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with ppp
- Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 08:32 Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with ppp - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 03:16 Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with ppp this is different in different versions, but (as root, in a text console, without the quotes) urpmi kdenetwork-kppp is a good way to get kppp, in 9.2. ET -- Thank you I'll try it out. Regards; Hoyt Well I tried and the result was the program is already installed. Ok/not. Is the pap-secrets file named differently in Mandrake and where is the documentation for ppp (or kppp). I'm pretty sure that I gave the installer the wrong login name on installation and want to check it. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with ppp
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:23 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 08:32 Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with ppp - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 03:16 Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with ppp this is different in different versions, but (as root, in a text console, without the quotes) urpmi kdenetwork-kppp is a good way to get kppp, in 9.2. ET -- Thank you I'll try it out. Regards; Hoyt Well I tried and the result was the program is already installed. Ok/not. Is the pap-secrets file named differently in Mandrake and where is the documentation for ppp (or kppp). I'm pretty sure that I gave the installer the wrong login name on installation and want to check it. Regards; Hoyt is there any reason not to create a new id in kppp? you should be able to start kppp just by typing kppp in a term an hitting enter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Saving Totem playlists
Hi, As usual, there is no documentation for Totem in KDE in Mdk 9.2. I'm confused about saving a playlist. I use Totem to listen to ShoutCast streaming audio. I open the ShoutCast web site, navigate to the genre I want, and click the station I want. Once it starts playing, I can tell Totem to show the playlist, and I have the option to save or add a playlist. Before I fubar something... 1) Should I give the file I'm saving an extension of any kind? 2) If I open a saved playlist, will Totem connect to that station and begin playing the current playlist, or will it play the song(s) in the saved playlist? -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Uptime: 1:26 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:30:03 -0600 Charles Howse disseminated the following: When I opened it from the root console, it was absolutely without content! Nothing but the menus, and a blank window. Nothing worked, won't tune in, nothing! I'd say that qualifies for inclusion in the sucks category. Of course, the documentation in /usr/share/doc is worthless, and I read man streamtuner, which didn't tell me much of anything, unless I missed something. What have I missed? Try *not* running it as root. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:30:03 -0600 Charles Howse disseminated the following: What have I missed? Actually, I'm having some trouble connecting as well, it may be that the Shoutcast network is having problems? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 19:30, Charles Howse wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 01:49 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 17:56, Charles Howse wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 12:01 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 16:11, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, As usual, there is no documentation for Totem in KDE in Mdk 9.2. I'm confused about saving a playlist. I use Totem to listen to ShoutCast streaming audio. I open the ShoutCast web site, navigate to the genre I want, and click the station I want. Once it starts playing, I can tell Totem to show the playlist, and I have the option to save or add a playlist. Before I fubar something... 1) Should I give the file I'm saving an extension of any kind? 2) If I open a saved playlist, will Totem connect to that station and begin playing the current playlist, or will it play the song(s) in the saved playlist? Here's what I do : when listening to Shoutcast I use Streamtuner. Under the stream menu, chose record. This will save the music to your /home/mp directory. You can set up Streamtuner to play in Totem, but I don't know if it can save the list. XMMS can. But why worry ? - If you click some item in your list you can choose your favored multimedia application and set that as default. Streamtuner looks interesting. It looks like the only way to get it is the tar.gz file. Does it come with all those stations I saw in the screenshots, or do you have to enter each and every one manually? Streamtuner comes as a Mandrake rpm. - If you have your sources defined, especially contrib and plf I think it's there. Just (as root) : urmpi streamtuner. It comes with a lot of predefined stations. If you can't find it in your sources, I think that http://rpmfind.net can point you to the correct .rpm Well, I downloaded streamtuner-0.10.2-1mdk.i586.rpm from rpmfind.net, and installed it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# rpm -ivh streamtuner* warning: streamtuner-0.10.2-1mdk.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 26752624 Preparing... ### [100%] 1:streamtuner ### [100%] When I opened it from the root console, it was absolutely without content! Nothing but the menus, and a blank window. Nothing worked, won't tune in, nothing! I'd say that qualifies for inclusion in the sucks category. Of course, the documentation in /usr/share/doc is worthless, and I read man streamtuner, which didn't tell me much of anything, unless I missed something. What have I missed? Hm Mine is streamtuner-0.10.0-mdk and that works excellent in my 9.2 environment. Are you on 9.2 ?? And maybe there an issue with dependencies if you install from raw rpm (rpm -ivh streamtuner) ? Suggestions : try to locate 0.10.0 first (0.10.2 could be a cooker version, not intended for 9.2). Then, download the file to some directory. Finally,as root, type : urpmi streamtuner-0.10.0-blablablabla.rpm. That should at least give you some hints about missing dependencies, if any). Good luck Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MOHAA Linux Client
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:40:13 -0500 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: One catch to this though, is that I didn't do any updates that you would be able to do with the Windows install before transferring it to your real computer. Me neither, probably for similar reasons... ;-) -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man.-- Declaration of the Rights of Man Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 20:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hm Mine is streamtuner-0.10.0-mdk and that works excellent in my 9.2 environment. Are you on 9.2 ?? And maybe there an issue with dependencies if you install from raw rpm (rpm -ivh streamtuner) ? Suggestions : try to locate 0.10.0 first (0.10.2 could be a cooker version, not intended for 9.2). Then, download the file to some directory. Finally,as root, type : urpmi streamtuner-0.10.0-blablablabla.rpm. That should at least give you some hints about missing dependencies, if any). Good luck Kaj Haulrich. Sorry to reply to my own reply, but from what I see on rpmfind.net, your version is a cooker one. I took the liberty to download the correct one for 9.2, and if you wish, I can mail it to you privately as an attached file ? Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 20:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hm Mine is streamtuner-0.10.0-mdk and that works excellent in my 9.2 environment. Are you on 9.2 ?? And maybe there an issue with dependencies if you install from raw rpm (rpm -ivh streamtuner) ? Suggestions : try to locate 0.10.0 first (0.10.2 could be a cooker version, not intended for 9.2). Then, download the file to some directory. Finally,as root, type : urpmi streamtuner-0.10.0-blablablabla.rpm. That should at least give you some hints about missing dependencies, if any). Good luck Kaj Haulrich. Sorry to reply to my own reply, but from what I see on rpmfind.net, your version is a cooker one. I took the liberty to download the correct one for 9.2, and if you wish, I can mail it to you privately as an attached file ? Actually, I d/l 0.10.0 and have it working, thanks to you. I would appreciate a link to the correct file for 9.2 though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving Totem playlists
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 20:28, Charles Howse wrote: Actually, I d/l 0.10.0 and have it working, thanks to you. I would appreciate a link to the correct file for 9.2 though. Charles, I got it from here (all on 1 line) : http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586/streamtuner-0.10.0-1mdk.i586.html Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My network hates Linux ='(...how can I fix this?
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 06:55 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 08:26 pm, marc resnick wrote: The linksys is a BEFW11S4, a Wireless-B Broadband Router. I'll try the hard reset, and get back to you on that. Okay, on that router, on the DHCP tab, there is a starting IP addresses that allows you to specify the beginning IP address. I would guess that this is set to 100. There is also a DHCP Clients button, this brings up the section that allows you to assign a permanent IP address by MAC address. The reason that you would want to have a permanent IP address is for port forwarding. When you forward a port, say port 21 to enable an ftp server, you need to send it to the same machine. The easiest way to do this is to specify an IP address and make sure that the server always gets the same IP. If you were previously running servers, then you probably have at least one or two IP's specified as static. Either clear out permanent assignments or make sure that that the assigned IP falls outside the range of dynamic addresses. So, if the starting address is 100 and you have allowed 50 users, you can assign either 192.168.1.151-253 or 192.168.1.2-99. There is no option to set a permanent IP in the DHCP clients table... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sceensavers in KDE
When I start the KDE Control Center and choose LookNFeel - Screen Saver there are no screen savers listed, and under the Mandrake install I did chose all X screensavers. Does this mean I cant run X screensavers in KDE? Also I installed the tux screenserver and the qstars screensaver, and i can run both manually, but none of them show up in the KDE configuration tool also. What can I do to get this to work? Best regards Søren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions
I also get this message on 2 different machines. It hasn't bothered me too much as eveything seems to work fine but I'd be interested to know the cause. Cheers Nigel --On Monday, January 26, 2004 23:20:54 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following warning everytime I install a software package with urpmi: There was a problem during the installation: medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Finally, a socially responsible virus
This story caught my eye: MyDoom Virus Could be 'Linux War' Weapon http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3304311 I wonder if it would run under Wine? :-) -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copn, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
Hi, I bought a new adsl router today, and so unplugged the old one, plugged in the new one, set it all up via the web interface using a computer with WinXP on it. Set the router to use DHCP, and a WinXP laptop and desktop both are happily using the internet. Now.. to my Mandrake 9.2 machine. Used drakconnect and tried to put in my settings.. and I just can not seem to get it on the internet. I have tried setting it to use dhcp, or with a static IP, to no avail. Worse, I can now access my mandrake box via my windows pc.. so it does have an IP address.. but the mandrake box cannot access the internet, and the internet can not access the mandrake box. Am I insane, or am I missing somehting obvious? My settings: gateway: xxx.yyy.50.104 subnet: 255.255.255.248 The windows machines pick up the DNS automatically.. and I have tried this with mandrake, and by also manually setting the DNS. Can anyone offer advise.. or slap me round the head for being stupid? -- Azrael - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE
- Original Message - From: Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:52:38 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE When I start the KDE Control Center and choose LookNFeel - Screen Saver there are no screen savers listed, and under the Mandrake install I did chose all X screensavers. Does this mean I cant run X screensavers in KDE? Also I installed the tux screenserver and the qstars screensaver, and i can run both manually, but none of them show up in the KDE configuration tool also. What can I do to get this to work? Best regards Søren ** Hi Soren, I had the same thing happening here with my 9.2, until I downloaded and installed all of the updates for 9.2. Make sure you check off in addition to 'Security updates, Bugfixes updates and Normal updates, in Mandrake Update box. I think if you install all updates available, you will have the screensavers you are looking for in KDE Control Center. HTH. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord not!
First off, thanks for all your replies. On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 10:40, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip As far as El Torito (floppy boot img), catalog goes, they're in the bootable iso already, no need to create or add them. Good, that simplifies things. Cut'n paste this into the bottom of /etc/bashrc (as root), you'll have it from then on, all cdwriter users. alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=16 dev=1,0,0 -dao' You can remove driveropts=burnfree if you want, change the speed=, and make sure of your dev= then Tom I'll give this a try once I find out why I can't burn the las two isos. Open a console as user, type 'biso name_of.iso' (w/o the 's and 's) snippity snip One further caution, 'run -checkdrive dev=?,?,?' and look at the output at the bottom. You _must_ see SAO in the Supported modes: line (SAO, Session At Once is -dao). [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ cdrecord -checkdrive dev=0,0,0 Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W1210A' Revision : '1.01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ If your burner can't do 700MB or doesn't support SAO, you really should get a better drive. The deficient ones that can't, are like havin a Betamax, when all the stores only carry VHS. Looks like I'm ok with checkdrive anyway. Below is the output from a CL run of cdrecord: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -dao -dummy -nofix /home/terryg/ISOs/Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W1210A' Revision : '1.01' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1190112 = 1162 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 697 MB Total size: 801 MB (79:24.30) = 357323 sectors Lout start: 801 MB (79:26/23) = 357323 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -12444 (97:16/06) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:unknown dye (reserved id code) Manuf. index: -1 Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo. As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information, it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer coding. Trying to clear drive status. cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status. cdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on standard 74min disk. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in dummy SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is OFF. Sending CUE sheet... cdrecord: Input/output error. read track info: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 52 01 00 00 00 FF 00 00 1C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 240s cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Writing pregap for track 10 at -150 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 27 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x27 Qual 0x00 (write protected) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 200s write track pad data: error after 0 bytes BFree: 1162 K BSize: 1162 K Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 10:0 of 697 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 27 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x27 Qual 0x00 (write protected) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
[newbie] Message during startup
During boot when I hit the esc key to see what is happening I get a message that says SWSUSP - 103 Missing or invalid swap partision location (Resume = Parameter ) Disabled. Everything seems to come up normally and later I see messages that the swap file is put on line so I think all is well but thought I would ask. TIA Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Home icon on desktop not working
When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated. TIA Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:54:46 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these options correct for my system? 'mmx' and '3dnow' likely are, but what about the others? Charles wanna rebuild one for me? Rather than trying to build from the source why don't you dl the src.rpm from my site and rebuild it. That will ensure that you have the proper build environment. Direct link http://www.eslrahc.com/source/gimp1_3-2.0-0.pre2.1mdk.src.rpm 1 point though is that with gimp you will see No noticeable performance difference by rebuilding as target athlon than you would see simply using the i586 rpms. as mine are built with mmx and sse. Charles -- Never tell a lie unless it is absolutely convenient. - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.2-0.1.tmb.1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I bought a new adsl router today, and so unplugged the old one, plugged in the new one, set it all up via the web interface using a computer with WinXP on it. Set the router to use DHCP, and a WinXP laptop and desktop both are happily using the internet. Now.. to my Mandrake 9.2 machine. Used drakconnect and tried to put in my settings.. and I just can not seem to get it on the internet. I have tried setting it to use dhcp, or with a static IP, to no avail. Worse, I can now access my mandrake box via my windows pc.. so it does have an IP address.. but the mandrake box cannot access the internet, and the internet can not access the mandrake box. Am I insane, or am I missing somehting obvious? My settings: gateway: xxx.yyy.50.104 subnet: 255.255.255.248 The windows machines pick up the DNS automatically.. and I have tried this with mandrake, and by also manually setting the DNS. Can anyone offer advise.. or slap me round the head for being stupid? -- Azrael Just to add results of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:4B:04:88 inet addr:195.137.50.110 Bcast:195.137.50.111 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:10995 (10.7 Kb) TX bytes:10275 (10.0 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf000 I am not sure if the Bcast is correct. Should it not end with 255? If this is the problem, how do I edit the Bcast? thanks - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Message during startup
colour me 'talking tosh' but my guess is it's to do with stuff like hibernation, bascule On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 11:35 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: During boot when I hit the esc key to see what is happening I get a message that says SWSUSP - 103 Missing or invalid swap partision location (Resume = Parameter ) Disabled. Everything seems to come up normally and later I see messages that the swap file is put on line so I think all is well but thought I would ask. TIA Steve -- The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving. (Men at Arms) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bios problems
Here is the problems I have a Dell Inispron 4000 series the and of cores the mother board is bad but every thing works fine except the system bios dues not keep time. No problem I don't mind the clock time being wrong but every time it boots up it finds my network card and wireless network card also. So it keeps screwing up my network settings and I have to keep copying the configuration for the wireless card over every time I want to use it. Dose any one have any idea how to fix this problem? Besides replacing the mother board maybe a permission change would that work? Thanks so much Yeah I know I a cheep David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:39 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated. TIA Steve Sounds like a permissions problem. Did you change security level or add a user etc? Try resetting the permissions to you. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My network hates Linux ='(...how can I fix this?
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 03:44 pm, marc resnick wrote: Either clear out permanent assignments or make sure that that the assigned IP falls outside the range of dynamic addresses. So, if the starting address is 100 and you have allowed 50 users, you can assign either 192.168.1.151-253 or 192.168.1.2-99. There is no option to set a permanent IP in the DHCP clients table... I downloaded the manual and took a look. The screen for the DHCP clients table is missing from the pdf manual so I can't see what it looks like. I have a Dlink 624+ and you can go to dlink's site here: http://support.dlink.com/techtool/di624_revc/emulator/h_dhcp.html and take a look at the emulator that simulates the web interface on that router. You can see that there is a section to enable the DHCP server, specify the starting and ending IP address (Linksys specifies starting IP and the number of connections which is the equivalent thing), the lease time and underneath, you can see a section for static DHCP right above the section for dynamic DHCP. You can specify by MAC address which dynamic IP is supposed to go to which MAC address. My previous router was also a Dlink, prior to that one, I did have a Linksys and have specified DHCP assignments on every single one of them, so I assume that the feature is still included. Forcing a user to use a dynamic address with NAT is very limiting given that one must forward ports to a specific IP address to enable servers and the only way to do that reliably is to know in advance which IP the server machine will get from the DHCP server. Another way to do this would be to specify the starting address as 192.168.0.105 and then set your computer up to use 192.168.0.101, since the dynamic addresses always start at 105, 101 is free to be taken as a static address. It has been quite a while since I owned a Linksys device, I do not currently have one to play with to look at the settings. If you need a step by step for your router, I would suggest trying to find someone to help you in the dslreports.com forums which you can locate here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/equip,16 Someone there should be able to talk you through checking or setting permanent DHCP assignments on your router. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 06:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to add results of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:4B:04:88 inet addr:195.137.50.110 Bcast:195.137.50.111 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:10995 (10.7 Kb) TX bytes:10275 (10.0 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf000 What kind of ADSL router are you running? There are 3 IP ranges reserved for private networks 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 The address that you are showing above is not one of them. It would appear that the IP address is a routeable IP address. Normally an ADSL router would assign an IP within the private ranges specified above. Your connection rates appear quite low, 10.7 kb, 10kb on an internal (I assume 100mbs/10mbs connection) versus the connect rates that I show below. My guess, based upon looking at it is that you are getting your IP assigned, not by DHCP on the router but by tmdns with the zeroconf stuff in Mandrake Linux. You might want to disable tmdns and retry your connection config. My ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:06:99:CB inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9409459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8952324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:2527859668 (2410.7 Mb) TX bytes:721888267 (688.4 Mb) -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working
Thx Dennis. I don't know what I did but a lot of things wern't working. I lost my browser which is why the window would not open. I could not open the desktop config either. Since I had no idea what I messed up I just reloaded the entire install. I had just put this in over the weekend so it was no big thing. I need to keep track of what I play with so I can recover next time. On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:39 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated. TIA Steve Sounds like a permissions problem. Did you change security level or add a user etc? Try resetting the permissions to you. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MOHAA Linux Client
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:52 am, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:52:39 -0500 RickS disseminated the following: There's no 'installer', but it's easy to do. Hey Joe .. thx again ... Wow! what a difference 8-) Ya, I can run it at 1024x768 now, with more model details, and it's smoth. Isn't this just the best First Person Shooter *ever*? I've played through the whole game about 8 times now, and I never tire of it. Yeah, I don't tire of it either but my dad sure thinks so 8-) .. my mom wasn't to happy when I bought it for him .. Cant wait till the sound works better. I even found Freespace 2 installer Kewl ! Ya, I snagged Freespace 2. Very cool game, but I just get lost with all the controls. I gotta invest in a decent joystick, I'm sure it's a lot more fun that way. I have yet to get my joystick working 8( and Freespace is best played with one 8-) BTW .. how would/did you get yours working ? as a module or part of the kernel ? should probably start a new thread .. huh -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 06:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to add results of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:4B:04:88 inet addr:195.137.50.110 Bcast:195.137.50.111 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:10995 (10.7 Kb) TX bytes:10275 (10.0 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf000 What kind of ADSL router are you running? There are 3 IP ranges reserved for private networks 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 The address that you are showing above is not one of them. It would appear that the IP address is a routeable IP address. Normally an ADSL router would assign an IP within the private ranges specified above. Your connection rates appear quite low, 10.7 kb, 10kb on an internal (I assume 100mbs/10mbs connection) versus the connect rates that I show below. My guess, based upon looking at it is that you are getting your IP assigned, not by DHCP on the router but by tmdns with the zeroconf stuff in Mandrake Linux. You might want to disable tmdns and retry your connection config. My ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:06:99:CB inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9409459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8952324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:2527859668 (2410.7 Mb) TX bytes:721888267 (688.4 Mb) I swapped back to the old router for a while. And yes I am using routable addresses, my ISP gives me a chunk of them. How do I disable tmdns? --Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] MOHAA Linux Client
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:52 am, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:52:39 -0500 RickS disseminated the following: There's no 'installer', but it's easy to do. Hey Joe .. thx again ... Wow! what a difference 8-) Ya, I can run it at 1024x768 now, with more model details, and it's smoth. Isn't this just the best First Person Shooter *ever*? I've played through the whole game about 8 times now, and I never tire of it. Yep it is .. I don't tire of it either AND my dad sure thinks so 8-) .. my mom wasn't to happy when I bought it for him .. Cant wait till the sound works better. I even found Freespace 2 installer Kewl ! Ya, I snagged Freespace 2. Very cool game, but I just get lost with all the controls. I gotta invest in a decent joystick, I'm sure it's a lot more fun that way. I have yet to get my joystick working 8( and Freespace is best played with one 8-) BTW .. how did you get yours working ?? I run mdk 9.2 I have the 1.2.15 rpm from contrib, but I am missing the device /dev/js0 ?? I am still googling on this so far -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MOHAA Linux Client
rick, on my machine i use a cyborg3d attached to a the gameport on the motherboard, this requires the following modules in my /etc/modules: joydev analog ns558 for the gameport on my sblive i have to add emu10k1-gp, bascule On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 3:15 am, RickS wrote: that way. I have yet to get my joystick working 8( and Freespace is best played with one 8-) BTW .. how did you get yours working ?? I run mdk 9.2 I have the 1.2.15 rpm from contrib, but I am missing the device /dev/js0 ?? I am still googling on this so far . -- You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suddenly can't access internet.. DHCP problem?
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -And yes I am using routable addresses, my ISP gives me a chunk of them. -How do I disable tmdns? - ---Azrael There are a couple of ways: You can use the Mandrake control center and uncheck it under services. Use chkconfig and stop it from running. Remove it altogether (urpme tmdns). One of these should work for you. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] Samsung says: CD Writers don't work under Linux.
Almost no CD writer available in the market is compatible with Linux/Unix. The only recommended operating systems for using CD writers are Windows 95/98/2000/XP and NT. The recording programs do not support most of the other operating systems. In other words: under Linux/Unix etc. CD writers will work like a normal CD-ROM drive. Is the quote still there? I can't see it... what is the faq? Cheers Anton ps Worried Samsung people? -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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[newbie] Cant get a joystick for SBlive Sound card gameport working ..
Thx Bascule, I tried it but I thought I would start a new thread ... thread was ... ((Re: [newbie] MOHAA Linux Client)) On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 3:15 am, RickS wrote: I have yet to get my joystick working 8( and Freespace is best played with one 8-) BTW .. how did you get yours working ?? I run mdk 9.2 I have the 1.2.15 rpm from contrib, but I am missing the device /dev/js0 ?? I am still googling on this so far . Rick, on my machine i use a cyborg3d attached to a the gameport on the motherboard, this requires the following modules in my /etc/modules: joydev analog ns558 for the gameport on my sblive i have to add emu10k1-gp, bascule OK did this ... So I looked at Harddrak and the gameport/joystick shows up as unknown/others ? yet says this : Vendor: Creative Labs Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1102:7002:1102:20 Location on the bus: 0:9:1 Description: SB Live! (joystick) Module: emu10k1-gp Media class: INPUT_OTHER syslog says this when I modprobe for analog from CL : analog.c: Unknown joystick device found (data=0x1, gameport0), probably not analog joystick. -- I think its analog ? modprobe joydev gameport0: Emu10k1 Gameport at 0xd000 size 8 speed 1242 kHz So I wouldnt think I have to recompile the kernel do I ?? $ lsmod analog 9120 0 (unused) gameport3268 0 [emu10k1-gp analog] joydev 7136 0 (unused) input 5696 0 [analog joydev] so i did a $jstest input Joystick (Unknown) has 2 axes and 2 buttons. Driver version is 0.8.0. Testing ... (interrupt to exit) jstest: error reading: Is a directory Its a sidewinder precision pro joystick ... ( x-window user ) I googled .. and found the same info you indicated Bascule, but I still have no device node or is it named input Am I supposed to make one ... any help is appreciated TIA -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant get a joystick for SBlive Sound card gameport working ..
if it's working properly then the device files /dev/js0 etc will get created, at least they do on my system, i'm using devfs, not sure how that might change things, so you need to test using: $jstest /dev/js0 you might find that the device files exist but don't have the right permissions, esp if you have loaded the modules manually after running X, if they exist and you haven't put those modules into /etc/modules then do so and reboot, then try jstest, if /dev/js0 doesn't exist then i'm not sure, those modules are what i use for my sblive gameport (the ns558 is for the standard gameport which is on my motherboard), note that for me /dev/js0 is a symlink to /dev/input/js0 bascule On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 4:53 am, RickS wrote: so i did a $jstest input Joystick (Unknown) has 2 axes and 2 buttons. Driver version is 0.8.0. Testing ... (interrupt to exit) jstest: error reading: Is a directory Its a sidewinder precision pro joystick ... ( x-window user ) I googled .. and found the same info you indicated Bascule, but I still have no device node or is it named input Am I supposed to make one ... any help is appreciated -- WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? -- Death appeals to Azrael (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant get a joystick for SBlive Sound card gameport working ..
i note also that there is a 'sidewinder' module listed in /lib/modules/2.../kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ perhaps for your joystick you also need this? try modprobe sidewinder as root, if this creates the device files then you will need to add this module to /etc/modules bascule On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 5:16 am, bascule wrote: Its a sidewinder precision pro joystick ... ( x-window user ) -- All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional. (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant get a joystick for SBlive Sound card gameport working ..
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 12:16 am, bascule wrote: if it's working properly then the device files /dev/js0 etc will get created, at least they do on my system, i'm using devfs, not sure how that might change things, so you need to test using: $jstest /dev/js0 you might find that the device files exist but don't have the right permissions, esp if you have loaded the modules manually after running X, if they exist and you haven't put those modules into /etc/modules then do so and reboot, then try jstest, if /dev/js0 doesn't exist then i'm not sure, those modules are what i use for my sblive gameport (the ns558 is for the standard gameport which is on my motherboard), note that for me /dev/js0 is a symlink to /dev/input/js0 bascule $ jstest /dev/js0 jstest: No such file or directory /dev/input/ is empty So I am gonna read the devices.txt doc for this kernel and see how to setup the node. I cant get to it until tomorrow night, but thanks again for the help .. 8-) On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 4:53 am, RickS wrote: so i did a $jstest input Joystick (Unknown) has 2 axes and 2 buttons. Driver version is 0.8.0. Testing ... (interrupt to exit) jstest: error reading: Is a directory Its a sidewinder precision pro joystick ... ( x-window user ) I googled .. and found the same info you indicated Bascule, but I still have no device node or is it named input Am I supposed to make one ... any help is appreciated -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios problems
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:07 am, David Sexton wrote: Here is the problems I have a Dell Inispron 4000 series the and of cores the mother board is bad but every thing works fine except the system bios dues not keep time. No problem I don't mind the clock time being wrong but every time it boots up it finds my network card and wireless network card also. So it keeps screwing up my network settings and I have to keep copying the configuration for the wireless card over every time I want to use it. Dose any one have any idea how to fix this problem? Besides replacing the mother board maybe a permission change would that work? Hello, Does this only happen in, and because of, Linux? Since your clock resets on boot-up, and your BIOS configuration settings are not saved, you might have a dead CMOS battery, which is just that bit cheaper to replace than a motherboard. Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant get a joystick for SBlive Sound card gameport working ..
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 12:37 am, bascule wrote: i note also that there is a 'sidewinder' module listed in /lib/modules/2.../kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ perhaps for your joystick you also need this? try modprobe sidewinder as root, if this creates the device files then you will need to add this module to /etc/modules bascule On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 5:16 am, bascule wrote: Its a sidewinder precision pro joystick ... ( x-window user ) Well Dang I didn't see that module .. and It works now 8-) and created the node in /dev/input/js0 awright thanks bascule Happy man 8-) -- RickS Linux user #338463 - Mdk 9.2 2.4.22-26mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working
You can simply remove the icon and add a new one for your home directory. After adding the icon and opening your home directory, you probably need to run configure view profiles (in settings) to save your setting so that next time when you click on the icon, it opens you home directory. Ramin On January 27, 2004 06:39 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated. TIA Steve -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working
Before re-installation, you could try more simpler things. You could for example remove the KDE directory from the home directory. It should create a new one once you login again. If this problem is only for one specific use, you could even remove that user and add a new one. Ramin On January 27, 2004 08:08 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Thx Dennis. I don't know what I did but a lot of things wern't working. I lost my browser which is why the window would not open. I could not open the desktop config either. Since I had no idea what I messed up I just reloaded the entire install. I had just put this in over the weekend so it was no big thing. I need to keep track of what I play with so I can recover next time. On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:39 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated. TIA Steve Sounds like a permissions problem. Did you change security level or add a user etc? Try resetting the permissions to you. HTH -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ready for upgrade?
Mandrake 9.2: I now have connection to the internet and before I try to improve anything I think I should upgrade. I have some questions as to how to prepair for this. I know that some of you have done this recently. 1. How long does it take on a dialup system? 2. Is there an upgrade program like getright or simular that can be used? 3. What should I do to get ready for this? # 3 is the biggest concern. I.E. Should I uninstall the program currently installed before installing a new version? How does the system know what programs to download or do I have to do each rpm by itself? I need as much verbage as you are willing to write. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
