Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.
Marc Resnick wrote: Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please tell me. 1. Use Partition Magic in windows to resize my NTFS Windows Partition. 2. Boot Linux, use Diskdrake to create a partition from the free space, place it at the end of the sector.(I want to use Linux to do this so it 'knows' that I added this partition. Last time I think the problem was that it took mdk by surprise, screwing up the labels.) 3. Do ln /home/marc /mnt/nameofpartition Sound good? I would not do this. If windows and linux are on the same hard drive then use PM for all partitoning. If they are on seperate hard drives use PM on windows HD, and diskdrake on Linux HD. If you use PM on windblows HD then format all partitions initially with FAT32 and let PM give each partition a volume lable. Then, when in diskdrake of Linux install, reformat the already partitioned HD with linux formatting tools, but don't let it do any partitioning itself. If you have a linux only HD, then use diskdrake to do both partition and formatting. So plan what you are going to do and follow that scheme of things. The one thing I always avoid is mixing partition tools on the same hard drive. Others disagree with me, but I have always found this to be the case and doing this I avoid all kinds of messups that take 5 times as much time to repair than if I had taken an 'n'th more time and trouble in the first place. I believe there are good solid reasons not to mix partition tools on the same HD. It is not just the method used to calculate partition sizes, but dos naming conventions as well. Hmm, you might say , who cares about dos naming convention, dos is history. Not so, some modern OS's still need certain uptodate dos naming conventions, eg. One primary. One extended dos partition, containing any number of logical dos partitions) old dos naming convention does not follow that pattern. I believe Diskdrake does the old dos naming convention and can be the cause of grief. So Diskdrake creates, Up to 4 primary dos partitions, one extended containing any number of logicals. At the end of the day you want hard drives whose partitioning sizing is consistantly measured. Hard drives that follow modern dos naming convention. I have always followed the abovementioned rules and find them to be trouble free. No install refusals, no messed up partitions wasteful in dead HD space. I had a tiny old HD that I partition entirely with W2K just to see what dos naming convention resulted , that is how I learnt about modern dos naming convention. Then of course if I had usedthe old dos fdisk I can choose , but neither of these two partition tools can save existing data. So don't bother with them. If you have PM use it on the windblows HD to do all partitioning and initally format them with FAT32 and give the partitions a volume lable. then format the partitions allocated to linux with diskdrake during the linux install. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Part 1.1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 7BIT message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.
Marc, When creating partitions on Linux, they run with numbers, and they go in order. You fstab uses these numbers to mount the partitions. If you create a new partition at the end of the drive it will get a number after the last partition, i.e. last part is 12 new will be 13. If you create the new partition before the last partition, all partitions after the new one will increment by one. So new part is 8 and old part 8 turns to 9 etc. This will mess up fstab. You will need to manually edit this before rebooting your box if you use diskdrake. You might find that diskdrake will do this for you (not used it for ages so not sure). Hope this is clear enough. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc Resnick Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition. Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please tell me. 1. Use Partition Magic in windows to resize my NTFS Windows Partition. 2. Boot Linux, use Diskdrake to create a partition from the free space, place it at the end of the sector.(I want to use Linux to do this so it 'knows' that I added this partition. Last time I think the problem was that it took mdk by surprise, screwing up the labels.) 3. Do ln /home/marc /mnt/nameofpartition Sound good? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the postmaster 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Urpmi Strange Behavour
When I see this normally it is due to the site's being slow/down. Can you view it in a browser? Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Urpmi Strange Behavour When I try to do a urpmi .update -a it hangs like this [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# urpmi.update -a computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) examining MD5SUM file examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) examining MD5SUM file examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] for a Lng time any ideasThanks smitty -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the postmaster 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sort of OT but nice to see
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Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
1. downloaded all the 9.2 rpms to a directory (including libs and qt3.2) 2. separated out those that I didn't want to install to a subdirectory 3. cd to the directory with the rpms you want to install 4. tested the remaining rpms with rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test 5. resolved the dependencies (some were in the excluded directory, some I had to track down on rpmseek.com or rpmfind.net) by adding the appropriate rpms to the directory and retesting. 6. installed with rpm -Uvh *.rpm 7. renamed original ~/.kde directory from 3.1 installation 8. restarted kde (I boot to runlevel three so I start with startx rather than using a display manager so I can't help with that piece) This isn't as elegant as with urpmi, but in only took about 15 minutes (with a fast internet connection to deal with #5), but I've had no problems since installation. On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:09 am, Dale Kosan wrote: So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How To Go About Installing Any Distro On A G5
I am trying just to boot the install I cannot get it to load yaboot audomatically and when it does there is a kernal panic. I got the latest...2.6.11b -Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:33, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Please bear in mind I dont speak mandrake and linux poorly. What should I do to the /etc/inittab file??? Quite frankly, you don't have to speak Mandrake lingo but it would help if you read the answers you get, better. I posted about 3 answers back in this thread, how you could edit the /etc/inittab file along with some other options. I didn't repeat the process of explaining again, expecting you to have read it. Anyhow here's the part again: . As an extra resort: Boot into failsafe and edit /etc/inittab there's a line there at the beginning that reads: id:5:initdefault: Change the 5 to 3, save the file and reboot. You'll need vi to edit that file or: install the wonderful Midnight Commander (mc) with urpmi mc and then type mc to fire it up. Find the /etct/inittab file and open it for editing using F4 and saving it with F2.It's a clone of the Norton Commander so if you've ever used that (or dosshell or wincommander) you'll feel right at home:) Luck needs to be pushed, . Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian
Before you wipe off Debian, make a disk image, you may be going back to it. I recently installed 9.2 ( last week ) onto my laptop which loved MDK8.2. I wanted to know what this wonderful new version had to offer. So I ticked everything. On reboot, it wouldn't set-up my video or network. It gave me three games, yes 3!. And when I did a security update it said there was 179Mb to download, then I did a software update, that said there was 110mb to download. And after all that I went back to 8.2, installed no prob, set-up me video and network by itself. Anybody tried Knoppix, why can't MDK be anything like their install ? It set up my onboard LAN with dhcp, my wireless pcmcia via dhcp, set the correct screen resolution, all my external usb devices AND ALL THIS RUNNING FROM A CD. with NO user intervention. Now if Knoppix did a disk install version ( yes I know it can all be copied from the cd to the HD ) it would be the biz :o) -Original Message- From: Lexx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 February 2004 10:50:pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Matrix screensaver Before I go ahead and wipe Debian off my laptop and replace it with MDK I'd like to know if I can use the rather nice Matrix screensaver that is in KDE, if not where can it be found? I seem to have a rather basic graphics card and it can't handle most of the screensavers in kdeartwork. I downloaded xscreensaver-4.12-1mdk.i586.rpm, but I'm not sure if (a) I already have it or (b) it's going to contain more high-graphic content. Any help would be appreciated Thanks in advance Lexx -- The world is not #00 and #FF more a muted #CC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.
On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please tell me. 1. Use Partition Magic in windows to resize my NTFS Windows Partition. 2. Boot Linux, use Diskdrake to create a partition from the free space, place it at the end of the sector.(I want to use Linux to do this so it 'knows' that I added this partition. Last time I think the problem was that it took mdk by surprise, screwing up the labels.) 3. Do ln /home/marc /mnt/nameofpartition Sound good? I would not do this. If windows and linux are on the same hard drive then use PM for all partitoning. If they are on seperate hard drives use PM on windows HD, and diskdrake on Linux HD. If you use PM on windblows HD then format all partitions initially with FAT32 and let PM give each partition a volume lable. Then, when in diskdrake of Linux install, reformat the already partitioned HD with linux formatting tools, but don't let it do any partitioning itself. If you have a linux only HD, then use diskdrake to do both partition and formatting. So plan what you are going to do and follow that scheme of things. The one thing I always avoid is mixing partition tools on the same hard drive. Others disagree with me, but I have always found this to be the case and doing this I avoid all kinds of messups that take 5 times as much time to repair than if I had taken an 'n'th more time and trouble in the first place. I believe there are good solid reasons not to mix partition tools on the same HD. It is not just the method used to calculate partition sizes, but dos naming conventions as well. Hmm, you might say , who cares about dos naming convention, dos is history. Not so, some modern OS's still need certain uptodate dos naming conventions, eg. One primary. One extended dos partition, containing any number of logical dos partitions) old dos naming convention does not follow that pattern. I believe Diskdrake does the old dos naming convention and can be the cause of grief. So Diskdrake creates, Up to 4 primary dos partitions, one extended containing any number of logicals. At the end of the day you want hard drives whose partitioning sizing is consistantly measured. Hard drives that follow modern dos naming convention. I have always followed the abovementioned rules and find them to be trouble free. No install refusals, no messed up partitions wasteful in dead HD space. I had a tiny old HD that I partition entirely with W2K just to see what dos naming convention resulted , that is how I learnt about modern dos naming convention. Then of course if I had usedthe old dos fdisk I can choose , but neither of these two partition tools can save existing data. So don't bother with them. If you have PM use it on the windblows HD to do all partitioning and initally format them with FAT32 and give the partitions a volume lable. then format the partitions allocated to linux with diskdrake during the linux install. John John, I'm partly afraid of using Partition Magic now. Last time I created a FAT32 partition, I couldn't delete it. I permanently(or at least permanently for my knowledge) screwed up fstab, and had to reinstall linux, then use diskdrake to successfully delete the partition. But If I just resize the NTFS partition with PM, I could safely use diskdrake to create the partition at the end of the Extended, am I correct? --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Part 1.1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 7BIT message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop????
Charlie, thanks for your answer By the way, can you give any mirror to get that new cooker? Fabian. From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:07:09 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 11 February 2004 4:53 pm, di di wrote: hello there... i just downloaded the isos of mdk 10 -3 cds- then i installed givinig no errors during it...but it doesnt load the new kde 3.2, it just appear the root login. anyone know anything about this thanks. fabian. Update to the latest cooker, you'll get 3.2 and a lot more. It will be a LOT of updates so I hope you have a broadband connection. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 17:05:42 up 2 days, 2:33, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.19, 0.15 Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. -- Christopher Marlowe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKsOtZqvqlrLPr5YRAspGAJ9qjdqCZdbGb5TZ05iILfFDqfAfrQCfXWTU ThY0e/mS1haGIKuEY9AvxEE= =f7aM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin
On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:25, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Hehe, looks you found itforget my grumble, grumble mail on the /etc/innitab issue..sorry;) Thanks I am well acquainted with vi but not mc. Anyway it worked I loged into a text screen issued startx, as me, and was automatically loged into gnome. Took a minute and 24 sec to log out (the problem with gnome). Now how do I get into KDE to reset the autologin mode? If/when youre in init 3 as su/root type init 5 which should offer you a graphical login and an option to choose the windowmanager option. You could try typing startkde but I doubt if it'll work. If you want to have a choice of windowmanagers from the console install Xtart. urpmi xtart. From gnome you should be able to open a control center session too. Open an xterm, and type mcc and you'll be prompted for the password if you aren't root. I'm better acquanted with UNIX, as a user, on a desktop.(1975 version) Luck needs to be pushed, Aint it the truth. A second question. Do you know of any text that explains how mandrake works, I'v looked in amazon and on the site? I'm looking for something mandrake specific. There used to be some tutorial demo's on the mandrake site, mostly 9.0 based. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/demos/ Take a look at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 for .pdf/html files Beside that, Mandrake is a straightforward linux distrib and most of the solutions I've offered up to now wouldn't be much different on say a Slackware box. That's not counting the Mandrake specific tools or wizards of course. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
On February 12, 2004 06:09 am, Dale Kosan wrote: So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance First, I'd like to apoligise to anyone who took my advice when installing KDE 3.2. I made a serious Boo-Boo when i said that you could un-install your old KDE 3.1 and install 3.2 instead. I've just spent the last 4 hours fixing my own silly mistake, and now I know better! Don't un-install KDE 3.1 !! Just install KDE 3.2 using Mandrake Control CenterSoftware ManagementSoftware Installer. One thing to remember though, is that you should be running MCC from a different desktop than KDE when you do this!!! I logged into GNome to do mine and had no problems, but staying in the KDE environment while you're trying to upgrade KDE is probably a bad idea. Make sure that you've added your RPM source location to URPMI, and once you're in the Software Installer, go to the All Packages, By Group, and change it to All Packages, By Medium Repository. Once the list is displayed, you should see your location for KDE 3.2. Open it up and start selecting the packages you want to install, and install them. That should work flawlessly, unless you try to force something that shouldn't be installed. As soon as that's done, run MenuDrake to refresh your KDE desktop menu listing. I'm now running KDE 3.2 and it's running perfectly. One interesting thing to mention is that these RPM's were recompiled by someone ( VoidStar ?) who intended them for Mandrake 9.2, but they seem to install on Mandrake 10.0 Beta 2 flawlessly as well, but here I did them as an UPDATE ! For some reason, Mandrake 10.0 Beta2 sees these packages as being newer that the ones it already has ! Grin! Secondly, My ISP called me to let me know that I'm getting close to my monthly limit, so I'm going to ask that anyone who has my FTP server as an URPMI source to actually download the entire folder, instead of connecting when needed. That way you can maintain your own set of packages for KDE 3.2 . I'll be leaving it available for the next 48 hours, and taking it down on Saturday afternoon, so please grab the files a.s.a.p. . Over 60 people have logged in to grab the files, and I'm already over half of my monthly limit. One final note - I've added a copy of CDBakeoven for those who would like to give it a try. Only the one package is required as long as you've installed the background software already - cdrecord, cdrdao, etc. from your CD's, and I've also added a TexStar folder which contains all the packages to install Mozilla with Java, Flash and RealPlayer, as well as their respective plugins. You'll have to un-install the Mozilla, Epiphany and libnss packages that you already have, but once you have the folder, just browse to the folder and run urpmi *rpm and it will install everything by itself. If it complains about bad or missing signatures, just ignore and continue the install. These are original, untouched packages from TexStar, and unless you already have his SIG file installed, you'll see the signature warning. Keep in mind that this will install Mozilla 1.4,so you're actually going to downgrade your Mozilla browser, but all the plugins work, and the hassles of dependancies shouldn't happen. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to setup sending the mails in Kmail
Hello, I installed the linuxant driver and know I can connect at 14000 bps (I test before upgrading to the full version)... My problem is that I tried to setup Kmail under mandrake 9.2 and impossible to send my mails but I can get them. Is there a special setup for linux because using my infos from windows are not working. Shall I contact my service provider (hope not because I have to talk in Turkish... and I'm not got at it :-( ) or is it a common problem? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian
On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:46, Ken Walker wrote: Before you wipe off Debian, make a disk image, you may be going back to it. I recently installed 9.2 ( last week ) onto my laptop which loved MDK8.2. I wanted to know what this wonderful new version had to offer. So I ticked everything. the installer doesn't work like that anymore -it expects some user intervention as the amount of options has grown. On reboot, it wouldn't set-up my video or network. It gave me three games, I bet your laptop was using Xfee86 version 3 in 8.2. You have to configure it yourself or set the default reolution down to the resolution you need. It's set too high for older hardware. yes 3!. And when I did a security update it said there was 179Mb to download, then I did a software update, that said there was 110mb to download. Yeah that sucks but then you don't have to download 'em all, just the ones you need/use. And after all that I went back to 8.2, installed no prob, set-up me video and network by itself. Yeah, 8.2 was/is the only one ever that recognized ISA soundcards during install. All the others require sndconfig and isa-pnp to be installed. Anybody tried Knoppix, why can't MDK be anything like their install ? It set up my onboard LAN with dhcp, my wireless pcmcia via dhcp, set the correct screen resolution, all my external usb devices AND ALL THIS RUNNING FROM A CD. with NO user intervention. Now if Knoppix did a disk install version ( yes I know it can all be copied from the cd to the HD ) it would be the biz You can install from the knoppix CD too you know, once you have it running. Not just CD copying. There's a script hidden somewhere (don't remember where) called something like hd_install or the likes. Works a charm:) BTW; Tried Mandrake-Move yet?? Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] python 2.3 - for 9.1?
On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:15, Todd Slater wrote: There's an app I want that requires python 2.3; anybody know if I could grab the rpm's for 9.2 and use in 9.1? Or, even better, if there's a python 2.3 package for 9.1? I've tried urpmi and rpmfind.net. Todd I think that's what I did at the time, at least I got my 2.3 from cooker. If it doesn't work you could try building your own from srpm. I did have quite a lot of fuss getting to run 2.2 and 2.3 simultaneously. Uninstall 2.2 before installing 2.3 the PATH variables tend to got messy otherwise. 2.3 should be downwards compatible in most cases, anyway. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages
Olivier Esser wrote: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Olivier Esser wrote: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi everyone, I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? TIA Wojciech Podgrni Where are you reading the man pages. You have to change to encoding of the terminal in which you read your man pages. This depend of the terminal you are using. You can try to change the encoding globally by lauching localedrake Olivier Esser I apologise for being imprecise. It looks like my problem is that man pager (or the program preprocessing man texts) is wrongly formatting Polish man pages and changing native letters to a mess like 9| instead of ?, c instead of ?, etc. I was hoping to find such settings in man.config to allow me to alter this behavour (because I cannot even read fast this thing). No success so far. And this behavour appears REGARDLESS of using CLI or terminal (or printed in PDF file). Changing the font used in terminal won't help. Even using localedrake won't fix it. I guess it must be something with man preprocessing settings (but I'm no expert here). Desperately looking for a help, Wojciech Podgrni I am not sure I can help you, but first try to lauch the following command xterm -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-2 I tried. It didn't help. and try to read a man page; if it display correctly this is a termianl problem: you should probably edit ~/.18n and have all locale (or at least LC_CTYPE) set to be something like: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-2 I tried that on global settings. Do I have to restart my system to have it work? Because a quick try didn't work. You should replace the fr_FR by the polish code (which I don't know, maybe you can change only the LC_CTYPE as mentioned above) otherwise try to localize the source of the man page: these are in /usr/share/man/. and try to see what encoding they have (decompress them in order to read them) maybe try to open these in a hexadecimal text editor. Are you sure they are written in ISO-8859-2 ? I have tried that. And the results are weird. I copied Polish version of man.1.bz2 to my home folder, upacked it. Opened it with less and oowriter and gedit and kwrite. It really IS coded with ISO-8859-2 (or at least viewer and all these editors have no problems with Polish letters here). I tried to see the content in the compressed file (used file-roller and vi) - the same results. When I view compressed man pages with mc, I see good Polish letters - and my mc is definitely set to ISO-8859-2. I tried to use man2html and got a page viewable well on lynx but a mess on the other, more modern web browsers. Conclusions: 1. Something must be wrong with my man preformatting settings. 2. man2html on my computer creates lynx (and nothing else)-compatible web pages. 3. It looks like if I really want to read Polish man pages, I have to: a) change uncompressed man page to html and b) print that page from lynx. Hoping to having help, Olivier Thank you for your help, Olivier. It's the people like you make Linux community great. Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin
- Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 06:12 Subject: Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin FYI: I think what happened I received a message posted 2 minutes before one of mine. I wasnt sure if someones clock was off or not and it was the one with edit this file without any parameters then I received the one with the parameters. Sorry for the confusion. Anyway problem solved automatic login removed. Enlightenment removed. Even gnome problem seems to be gone. All's well I think I will stay with run level 3 for a while. Thanks for your help. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dalziel-1.2
Hi,
I am a standalone user that does not have practice on networks.
I googled but there don't seem to be any good howto out there.
I would like to understand the workings and learn by it.
Please anybody on this list familiar with dalziel or rsync-plus that could possibly
change this to be effective on
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with
../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz
*
Dalziel script..
#!/usr/bin/pl -q -t mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs -f
mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs:-
[prolog/mandrake_load],
mandrake_load,
mandrake('mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs','rsync_exclude','--delete',
'rsync://ftp.sunet.se:873/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/',
'/mnt/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/').
***
Thanks
--
Johan
Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning
May this be a good day for learning
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Re: [newbie] How to setup sending the mails in Kmail
On Thursday 12 Feb 2004 12:25 pm, Christophe wrote: Hello, I installed the linuxant driver and know I can connect at 14000 bps (I test before upgrading to the full version)... My problem is that I tried to setup Kmail under mandrake 9.2 and impossible to send my mails but I can get them. Is there a special setup for linux because using my infos from windows are not working. Shall I contact my service provider (hope not because I have to talk in Turkish... and I'm not got at it :-( ) or is it a common problem? Thank you Christophe No there is nothing special about using a Linux client. So long as your ISPs server gets what it expects, then it will work. Some ISPs require authentication when sending, others do not. - If authentication is required enter it in your Kmail 'Send' settings Some ISPs will only let you send immediately after logging in to check for received mail. - In that case tick the 'Send messages in Outbox after check' button in Kmail setup. You can check that you can get through to your ISPs mail server by opening a terminal and typing telnet your.isps.mail,server 25 (insert the domain name of your ISPs mail server) You should see a response back looking something like :- $ telnet smtp.ntlworld.com 25 Trying 62.253.162.40... Connected to smtp.ntlworld.com (62.253.162.40). Escape character is '^]'. 220 mta02-svc.ntlworld.com ESMTP server (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) ready Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:13:37 + If that does not work you either have entered the name of the server wrong, or your DNS lookups are not working in which case you will not be able to browse the Internet either, and I am sure you would have mentioned it if you couldn't. HTH 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] How to clear autologin
On Thursday 12 February 2004 14:00, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 06:12 Subject: Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin FYI: I think what happened I received a message posted 2 minutes before one of mine. I wasnt sure if someones clock was off or not and it was the one with edit this file without any parameters then I received the one with the parameters. Sorry for the confusion. Anyway problem solved automatic login removed. Enlightenment removed. Even gnome problem seems to be gone. All's well I think I will stay with run level 3 for a while. Thanks for your help. You're welcome:) You could set it to init 5 for the graphical log in but I've always felt it rather daft to start X twice just to get fired up. If there are more users on the box who get the riles seeing a commandline it could be a solution. BTW. Xfce is very neat and fast ..and on top; can be started directly from the commandline as startxfce Have fun, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gartner: MS Licensing is good for Linux
Quote: ...if research from analyst Gartner proves to be accurate, Microsoft will lose desktop market share to other client operating systems such as Linux, as customers look elsewhere for additional value. Link: http://www.computing.co.uk/News/1152713 Another article actually puts a number to it: at serious risk of further alienating many of its customers with respect to its licensing terms and conditions, and could lose up to 10 per cent of its desktop market share by 2008 as a result. This is a big renewal phase for Microsoft, said Gartner research director Jon Mein. Link: http://www.vnunet.com/News/1152729 So, to all the boys in the MS marketing dept, keep up the good work! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 09:01:10 up 6 days, 20:49, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.14, 0.16 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth. -- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian
Yep, non-member download version doesn't have the usb pen bit, and it doesn't do any network set-up or video set-up or etc that works on my lappy. I would have bought it for the usb bit but the set-up from CD is just useless. And if I have to set everything up by hand, what's it going to be like going somewhere else, running it on another desktop or lappy, and having to set everything up again, and again, and again. It's not a scratch on Knoppix. Ken many thanks for your comments :o) BTW; Tried Mandrake-Move yet?? Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] on distributions...
Hi! I am freshly new in this community. Bored of ms I was looking for a new horizon. I am a developer and an user of Windows ... so far at least. My first impression on Linux is that it is great to be an open project for everybody can do something. Also, in time, I had the impression that Linux in general tries to help some new (formely windows) users by making an compromise to the GUI to be close to the ms windows in behavior. I think it is nice, but a windows user is handicaped in administering, troubleshooting or - sometimes - in even using Linux. The hardware producing companies didn't support Linux by making drivers, some others request money for that, so you need to look on the net to find a good guy that made them... I am sorry to find that MDK lose the good place in the charts. I used it since 8 version and it has been the best comparing it to others in stability (I installed it on DELL laptop, some PCs and it was the easyest to use to me). I understand that all this effort must be financially rewarded, despite if Linux is famous for being free for home use at least... I would like to support it if I'd afford this (I live in a country where the price of the average package - let's say 100euros - is the medium salary - and to buy it is some kind of alien experience - technically and as mentality). In my opinion, a support form the users - of the 98.5% that do not pay - a support form the users of 5 euros as a donation wouldn't be a big expense, but a great support for the company. Take it as suggestion. Don't you like to reward the people that provided you a great OS and support? Don't you want to have an OS as long time you need - I mean to avoid the change of it because of the company bankruptcy (it was to happen once last year)? Also, I would keep all the packages loved by users, I would provide them as much as it is possible (affordably) if I want to have them by my side. On other hand I would try to find a standard in package content. But remember: too much backward compatibility kept leads to a big expense in developing time and maintenence and in performance. There are some things that MUST be changed. Make good concepts and try to invent something, to create something new like you are trying now on Cooker and I think you will succeed. You users, leave the past behind, think to the future and try to act like you are new in this field. Use your experience in gettin rid of the bad conceived and wrong implemented things! There are things that are changing free of your will! Not all these are bad, not all these are right! Try to filter them! That's all for the moment and take this as it is : a new user's thoughs! As time goes by I hope I will get involved moreto understand you better and maybe to help you! (new)Bye! Mike __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian
On Thursday 12 February 2004 15:16, Ken Walker wrote: It's not a scratch on Knoppix. Ken Agreed, personally I think the slackware live version does a better job than Move.faster too. Though I must say, the Chines Dictionary and the games are exceptionally cool on knoppix/freeduc:) Still as somebody stated it's a one nice to test hardware when one's buying and wondering how Mandrake will run on it. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Drivers, NIC, Internet...help!
Hello, I am a returning LInux user from a few years ago and am quite rusty. I have a Shuttle nforce2 mobo with nvidia network adapter. I downloaded the mandrake 9.1 specific rpm from the nvidia site and did a rpm -ivh. It seemed to install. I am using 9.2. What else do I need to do to get this nic working. The graphical config sees the nic but says it is not installed. I have a motorola cable modem connected by ethernet. If someone would walk me through the setup and config of my internet it would be greatly appreciated!! Without the net one is handicapped in Linux. I look forward to grabbing the Red Carpet package manager- does anyone have experience with it? Reports claim it is great. Much Thanks in advance!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 12 February 2004 7:49 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 15:16, Ken Walker wrote: It's not a scratch on Knoppix. Ken Agreed, personally I think the slackware live version does a better job than Move.faster too. Though I must say, the Chines Dictionary and the games are exceptionally cool on knoppix/freeduc:) Still as somebody stated it's a one nice to test hardware when one's buying and wondering how Mandrake will run on it. Good luck, HarM I've been using Knoppix or pclos to test hardware for new systems, depending on what the end user is planning to run after assembly. PCLOS is based on Mandrake 9.2 and, to my mind, is more functional than Mandrake Move. Not quite so minimalist. It's also installable. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 10:05:24 up 2 days, 19:32, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. (By Matt Welsh) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAK7MMZqvqlrLPr5YRAvu1AJwPctF4ZFx7BC0VdAQduFERN4iTHACcCYmp 1eKfdUdxBj2+UvnGN1q9CJ8= =c9wo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box
Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK without KDE/GNOME? My experience has been that MDK would install KDE whether you want it or not. What I want is a lean installation with Window Maker/FluxBox as window managers and the ability to play sound and connect to the internet. sound = the box has a soundblaster 16 compatible. BTW, does MDK 9.1 have a PPP program to connect to the internet (other than the excellent KPPP). wvDial gave me a lot of headaches. I tried FreeBSD 5.1(Slack was plain too tough). But sound needs a kernel compile and I have reached a dead end with linking failure. (the .o files wouldn't link). thanks = -- K E S H A V T A D I M E T I -- BeOS Air You have to pay for the tickets, but they're half the price of Windows Air, and if you are an aircraft mechanic you can probably ride for free. It only takes 15 minutes to get to the airport and you are cheuferred there in a limozine. BeOS Air only has limited types of planes that only hold new luggage. All planes are single seaters and the model names all start with an F (F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, etc.). The plane will fly you to your destination on autopilot in half the time of other Airways or you can fly the plane yourself. There are limited destinations, but they are only places you'd want to go to anyway. You tell all your friends how great BeOS Air is and all they say is What do you mean I can't bring all my old baggage with me? ___ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:24:45 -0500 lanman wrote: That should work flawlessly, unless you try to force something that shouldn't be installed. As soon as that's done, run MenuDrake to refresh your KDE desktop menu listing. I'm now running KDE 3.2 and it's running perfectly. Thanks lanman that got me going, everything works well. I do have two problems. Kdm is not behaving, no matter what wm i select i end up with icewm. If i select default i get kde 3.2. Does anyone know if there are some config files i should look at? kdmrc seems to look the same as the last time i looked at it. Maybe ive not installed somthing needed? The other problem I will worry about later. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Feb 12 12:29:17 EST 2004 12:29:17 up 37 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.08 _ ( The fortune program is supported, in) ( part, by user contributions and by a) ( major grant from the National Endowment ) ( for the Inanities. ) - o ^__^ o (OO)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.
Marc Resnick wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: Last time I tried to make a partition to give Linux more hard drive space, I completely screwed up Linux. Here's my plan for doing it this time. If there's anything I might screw up by doing this, please tell me. 1. Use Partition Magic in windows to resize my NTFS Windows Partition. 2. Boot Linux, use Diskdrake to create a partition from the free space, place it at the end of the sector.(I want to use Linux to do this so it 'knows' that I added this partition. Last time I think the problem was that it took mdk by surprise, screwing up the labels.) 3. Do ln /home/marc /mnt/nameofpartition Sound good? I would not do this. If windows and linux are on the same hard drive then use PM for all partitoning. If they are on seperate hard drives use PM on windows HD, and diskdrake on Linux HD. If you use PM on windblows HD then format all partitions initially with FAT32 and let PM give each partition a volume lable. Then, when in diskdrake of Linux install, reformat the already partitioned HD with linux formatting tools, but don't let it do any partitioning itself. If you have a linux only HD, then use diskdrake to do both partition and formatting. So plan what you are going to do and follow that scheme of things. The one thing I always avoid is mixing partition tools on the same hard drive. Others disagree with me, but I have always found this to be the case and doing this I avoid all kinds of messups that take 5 times as much time to repair than if I had taken an 'n'th more time and trouble in the first place. I believe there are good solid reasons not to mix partition tools on the same HD. It is not just the method used to calculate partition sizes, but dos naming conventions as well. Hmm, you might say , who cares about dos naming convention, dos is history. Not so, some modern OS's still need certain uptodate dos naming conventions, eg. One primary. One extended dos partition, containing any number of logical dos partitions) old dos naming convention does not follow that pattern. I believe Diskdrake does the old dos naming convention and can be the cause of grief. So Diskdrake creates, Up to 4 primary dos partitions, one extended containing any number of logicals. At the end of the day you want hard drives whose partitioning sizing is consistantly measured. Hard drives that follow modern dos naming convention. I have always followed the abovementioned rules and find them to be trouble free. No install refusals, no messed up partitions wasteful in dead HD space. I had a tiny old HD that I partition entirely with W2K just to see what dos naming convention resulted , that is how I learnt about modern dos naming convention. Then of course if I had usedthe old dos fdisk I can choose , but neither of these two partition tools can save existing data. So don't bother with them. If you have PM use it on the windblows HD to do all partitioning and initally format them with FAT32 and give the partitions a volume lable. then format the partitions allocated to linux with diskdrake during the linux install. John John, I'm partly afraid of using Partition Magic now. Last time I created a FAT32 partition, I couldn't delete it. I permanently(or at least permanently for my knowledge) screwed up fstab, and had to reinstall linux, then use diskdrake to successfully delete the partition. But If I just resize the NTFS partition with PM, I could safely use diskdrake to create the partition at the end of the Extended, am I correct? --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Part 1.1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 7BIT message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Part 1.1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 7BIT message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit At the end of the day the decision whether to use PM has to be yours. All I can add is, that in my now fairly extensive experience I would not mix my partition tools on the same drive. If something went wrong with PM last time it has to be because you did something wrong with it. In my experience it is a fine partioning tool. I would not use PM to repartion anything diskdrake has already created though.If you create something with PM use PM to alter it, If you created a partion with diskdrake use it to undo it. So if you have this HD and it has a windblows ntfs partion with a windblows OS, I would use PM to resize it. then with the remaining disc space I would
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:14:42 + (GMT) Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK without KDE/GNOME? My experience has been that MDK would install KDE whether you want it or not. What I want is a lean installation with Window Maker/FluxBox as window managers and the ability to play sound and connect to the internet. sound = the box has a soundblaster 16 compatible. BTW, does MDK 9.1 have a PPP program to connect to the internet (other than the excellent KPPP). wvDial gave me a lot of headaches. I tried FreeBSD 5.1(Slack was plain too tough). But sound needs a kernel compile and I have reached a dead end with linking failure. (the .o files wouldn't link). thanks Yes you can install Mdk 9.1 on a 200MHz Pentium with 64MB of RAM As you knw it will not be very fast. You can install without KDE or Gnome. In the package select screen there is a tick box for individual package selection. In there you can select Window Maker/Enlightenment/IceWM/Blackbox or XFce. Fluxbox is not on the CDs but is available for download from a 'Contrib' mirror (although mirrors for 9.1 are fairly hard to find now) When selecting packages to install try to avoid anything beginning with 'k' since running any KDE application requires loading the KDE libraries which will slow you down quite a lot. There are fast light weight alternatives for most applications yoou might need. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box
You should be able to install it just do a custom install and specifiy what you want to install. If I recall I had 9.1 running on a P200 with 64mb of ram and KDE it was a bit slow but worked. From: Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 12:14:42 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK without KDE/GNOME? My experience has been that MDK would install KDE whether you want it or not. What I want is a lean installation with Window Maker/FluxBox as window managers and the ability to play sound and connect to the internet. sound = the box has a soundblaster 16 compatible. BTW, does MDK 9.1 have a PPP program to connect to the internet (other than the excellent KPPP). wvDial gave me a lot of headaches. I tried FreeBSD 5.1(Slack was plain too tough). But sound needs a kernel compile and I have reached a dead end with linking failure. (the .o files wouldn't link). thanks = -- K E S H A V T A D I M E T I -- BeOS Air You have to pay for the tickets, but they're half the price of Windows Air, and if you are an aircraft mechanic you can probably ride for free. It only takes 15 minutes to get to the airport and you are cheuferred there in a limozine. BeOS Air only has limited types of planes that only hold new luggage. All planes are single seaters and the model names all start with an F (F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, etc.). The plane will fly you to your destination on autopilot in half the time of other Airways or you can fly the plane yourself. There are limited destinations, but they are only places you'd want to go to anyway. You tell all your friends how great BeOS Air is and all they say is What do you mean I can't bring all my old baggage with me? ___ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk 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] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop????
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 12 February 2004 5:07 am, di di wrote: Charlie, thanks for your answer You're welcome. The answer is at the bottom. By the way, can you give any mirror to get that new cooker? Fabian. From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:07:09 -0700 Wednesday 11 February 2004 4:53 pm, di di wrote: hello there... i just downloaded the isos of mdk 10 -3 cds- then i installed givinig no errors during it...but it doesnt load the new kde 3.2, it just appear the root login. anyone know anything about this thanks. fabian. Update to the latest cooker, you'll get 3.2 and a lot more. It will be a LOT of updates so I hope you have a broadband connection. Got to: http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php Select the distribution (cooker in your case and mine) then follow the instructions to the letter. You won't need the beta CDs any more since RC1 should be coming soon. That will be a more recent snapshot of the cooker tree. You may also want to add contrib and plf package sources since the good stuff such as DVD decoders etc. are in those directories. Best of luck, and thanks for playing. g Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 10:08:58 up 2 days, 19:36, 1 user, load average: 1.25, 0.39, 0.14 World domination. Fast (By Linus Torvalds) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAK8YeZqvqlrLPr5YRAo3jAJ9aZiCp9tKTbun7UXvAL+PUsrH1fgCfW44l QM2LgT4dFdWy1/i/UmkaBfE= =DFZM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi Strange Behavour
On Thursday 12 February 2004 06:19, Aron Smith wrote: examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] for a Lng time It sounds as though you have the same contrib mirror as I did. Try removing it and selecting another mirror. 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] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:14:42PM +, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK without KDE/GNOME? My experience has been that MDK would install KDE whether you want it or not. What I want is a lean installation with Window Maker/FluxBox as window managers and the ability to play sound and connect to the internet. You should be able to do that; you also might want to have a look at XFce4, which is nice eye candy, full-o-features, and light. I'm running it on a P333MMX with 64 RAM and it does very nicely on that. That computer also has an ISA soundcard which MDK detected and configured, which impressed me. Good luck, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:24:45 -0500 lanman wrote: That should work flawlessly, unless you try to force something that shouldn't be installed. As soon as that's done, run MenuDrake to refresh your KDE desktop menu listing. I'm now running KDE 3.2 and it's running perfectly. Thanks lanman that got me going, everything works well. I do have two problems. Kdm is not behaving, no matter what wm i select i end up with icewm. If i select default i get kde 3.2. Does anyone know if there are some config files i should look at? kdmrc seems to look the same as the last time i looked at it. Maybe ive not installed somthing needed? The other problem I will worry about later. I had similar misbehaviour with kdm, which would let me boot into KDE as root but not user. Switching to mdkdm solved the problem. Sir Robin -- Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents that they are free to emigrate. - Stephen Newman Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarDict
On Thursday 12 February 2004 21:57, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 19:39, ronald wrote: Wow! I found myself on the download page, and there are so many possibilities! The downloads are preceded by a note about reading release notes and changelogs, but these are not on the same page, and I couldn't see where to find them. Did you install from the .tar.bz2 files? Does Ark handle them? hey Anne, StarDict is on the mandrake cd's :-) HTH ronald Yes, and that was another surprise. But I think it depends on the dictionaries you choose. Hmm - that's 1.31-4, and the sourceforge one is 2.4.2. Now I've looked at it I do remember seeing it on the available software list, but it said 'English to Chinese dictionary' so I looked no further. 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] Can't change permissions of mounted partition.
On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 12 Feb 2004 9:57 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I need to be able to use an extra FAT32 partition as a regular user. In root, when I chmod it to 777, nothing happens. When I try to use Nautilus to set the permissions, I try to check off write as other(everything is checked but it) and it just flashes and unchecks. I also can't change the owner or the group. What did I do wrong now? The reason you cannot set permissions is because FAT file systems do not have any permission bits. You have to set permissions for the entire file system in the /etc/fstab line entry for that file system. If you add the option umask-0 then the perms will be 777 If you prefer to use a GUI run diskdrake and select Advanced modeOptions If you also add the option 'quiet', then you will stop getting error messages when you try to set permission on FAT32 files See 'man mount' for a full description of the available options. derek Derek, umask=0 is set in the options, but I still don't have access. What's weird is I also don't have write access in my /home(I can write in /home/marc though) or a bunch of other directories either. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A command to list running processes.
Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2004 23:58 schrieb Marc Resnick: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? ps -aux | grep NAME or ps -e | grep NAME You can kill processes by name or by PID: killall mozilla-bin kill 0815 Gruß / regards ce == Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8200: http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/ == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALAYrgCBqix845w0RAuL2AJ4qULfz00dIivOVaHQrQmwjA04OnwCfY2PV kRfx+3TS0LiJyRU78FJ8MT8= =bsbX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.
On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? You can see everything running and its pid # by typing top in a console, does not have to be root. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
How did you add it to urpmi? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Gordon Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:24:45 -0500 lanman wrote: That should work flawlessly, unless you try to force something that shouldn't be installed. As soon as that's done, run MenuDrake to refresh your KDE desktop menu listing. I'm now running KDE 3.2 and it's running perfectly. Thanks lanman that got me going, everything works well. I do have two problems. Kdm is not behaving, no matter what wm i select i end up with icewm. If i select default i get kde 3.2. Does anyone know if there are some config files i should look at? kdmrc seems to look the same as the last time i looked at it. Maybe ive not installed somthing needed? The other problem I will worry about later. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Feb 12 12:29:17 EST 2004 12:29:17 up 37 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.08 _ ( The fortune program is supported, in) ( part, by user contributions and by a) ( major grant from the National Endowment ) ( for the Inanities. ) - o ^__^ o (OO)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages
Dick Gevers wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:54:18 +0100, Wojciech Podgrni wrote about Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages: I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? Have you tried to open man pages with Konqueror? Just type man:appname in the location bar and it will show up. After that - if not satisfactory - you could try changing the settings of Konqueror to those you need. HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= Thank you, it works perfectly. It looks like my problem is solved! :) :) Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
Guy Rouillier wrote: Olivier Esser wrote: Guy Rouillier wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:09:57 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:45 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: -I just got a new laptop that has no floppy. With both Mandrake 9.2 -32-bit and the AMD64 beta, every time they boot they print out an insmod-error during checking for new hardware because the box has no floppy-disk drive. Everything appears to work fine, so the message is just-a minor irritation. How can I tell the kernel not to look for a floppy-during bootup? The only mention I could find of a floppy in startup-config files was ide-floppy in devfsd(not booted at the moment, I think-that was it.) Can I simply remove that? Thanks. Not only the kernel will gave you this error message: lauch DrakConf *from a terminal*, give the root passwoed and you will see in the terminal 2 or three times this message. This does not have any consequence except that it take a few seconds to fail each time it try to load the floppy module. The easier workaround I have found is to insert the following line insmod floppy /bin/false in /etc/modules.conf I tried this with Mandrake 9.2. Unfortunately it did not work for me. I got this during bootup: modprobe: modprobe: Invalid line in /etc/modules.conf ^Iinsmod I don't have a control I at the beginning of the line, so I don't know why it is reporting that. And once this error occurs, all my other filesystems are no longer mountable. Is there something else I need to be doing? Ouups... the line to insert in /etc/modules.conf is: install floppy /bin/false Sorry for the inconvenience. I have writen my e-mail too fast. For your information, this line tell modprobe to use the command /bin/false instead of the command insmod to install the floppy module. /bin/false is a command which do nothing but which fail to do it (sorry for being a bit vague). As I told previously you will still get error message but the system won't wast time to fail anymore. Writing /bin/true instead of /bin/false will disable the error messages but I think it won't be a good idea to do it since maybe some program have to know that the access of the floppy has failed. Olivier Esser Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down on Saturday. Once you have it on your PC, then use the following command which assumes that your KDE32 folder is in /home/dale urpmi.addmedia KDE32 file://home/dale/kde32/ with hdlist.cz Just copy and paste that line into a root user's shell or console. Modify the path if you store the KDE32 folder somewhere else. Lanman -- Registered Linux user #190712 Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop????
Thanks! I`ll try it right away! Bye. Fabian. From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:29:43 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 12 February 2004 5:07 am, di di wrote: Charlie, thanks for your answer You're welcome. The answer is at the bottom. By the way, can you give any mirror to get that new cooker? Fabian. From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] beta mdk10 doesnt give kde 3.2 new deskop Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:07:09 -0700 Wednesday 11 February 2004 4:53 pm, di di wrote: hello there... i just downloaded the isos of mdk 10 -3 cds- then i installed givinig no errors during it...but it doesnt load the new kde 3.2, it just appear the root login. anyone know anything about this thanks. fabian. Update to the latest cooker, you'll get 3.2 and a lot more. It will be a LOT of updates so I hope you have a broadband connection. Got to: http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php Select the distribution (cooker in your case and mine) then follow the instructions to the letter. You won't need the beta CDs any more since RC1 should be coming soon. That will be a more recent snapshot of the cooker tree. You may also want to add contrib and plf package sources since the good stuff such as DVD decoders etc. are in those directories. Best of luck, and thanks for playing. g Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 10:08:58 up 2 days, 19:36, 1 user, load average: 1.25, 0.39, 0.14 World domination. Fast (By Linus Torvalds) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAK8YeZqvqlrLPr5YRAo3jAJ9aZiCp9tKTbun7UXvAL+PUsrH1fgCfW44l QM2LgT4dFdWy1/i/UmkaBfE= =DFZM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.latam.msn.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] This is why I love this OS...
CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866 Intel810. Try this in XP... http://www.orderinchaos.org/burnin.png This is why when I sit down at a Windows box, I feel like I'm looking at a block of useless goo. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 19:54:48 up 7 days, 7:42, 5 users, load average: 1.27, 1.22, 1.19 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ ...we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell address Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Projector
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:42, Adolfo Bello wrote: I'm trying to use a Epson PowerLite S1 external projector with Mandrake 9.1 on a Toshiba laptop which has a NVidia card. I am using the open driver that comes with Mandrake. I am having some problem making this thing to work. .- I have to boot with the projector hooked to the laptop. This is an annoyance, not a real problem. .- Booting with the projector connected to the laptop means loosing the output to the LCD monitor, no matter how many times I use the Fn-F5 keys to switch between LCD, Projector or LCD/Projector. (I didn't expect it to work because this Toshiba laptop uses a Windows program to control the BIOS!!). .- To have any output projected, resolution has to be set at 800x600 (the projector can work at 1024x768) .- There is no mouse cursor on the projection. Googling around I have found out that these types of problem are not uncommon, but I haven't had any luck finding answers that point to the solution of these problems. No problem using the projector with Windows but I need to make some presentations with Mandrake or SuSe. Has any body had these sort of problem and solved some of them? Any hint or tip will be truly appreciated. Adolfo Check the http://www.linux-laptop.net/toshiba.html. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dev/null
Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of 'em and I don't know how. Help? Lee PS It's not an mdk list and I can't unsub. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? You can see everything running and its pid # by typing top in a console, does not have to be root. HTH How does one page down while running Top, so you can see the processes that don't fit on the first screen? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dev/null
Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of 'em and I don't know how. Look in the email header. The unsub link is in there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Need some type of system restore!
Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link to my new partition. Then I deleted /home/marc... Nothing will run =( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:58:12PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866 Intel810. Try this in XP... http://www.orderinchaos.org/burnin.png This is why when I sit down at a Windows box, I feel like I'm looking at a block of useless goo. Sweet, where can I grab a copy of that background of el Che? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dev/null
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:55:36PM -0500, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of 'em and I don't know how. Help? Do you have procmail set up? What client are you using? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ldm_validate_partition failed
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:28:46PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:50:11 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:56:20PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:39:05 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had something funky happen, probably related to a cd-burning/cache-clearing mishap and/or a power failure. Anyway, when I try to boot, I get endless ldm_validate_partition failed messages. I do a hard reset and boot into nonfb or secure and everything seems normal. Any ideas on how to fix the normal boot? I get this message on an old computer (dual Pentium 233MMX) with an external flash card reader plugged into USB. I normally only have one card in it (it has two slots for different formats) and Linux just doesn't like the missing drive. I've filed several bug reports and tried a half-dozen kernels over the last year, still no luck. Do you have a flash card reader? yes, a sandisk 2-in-1. When I log in normally I get a few of those messages, no big deal. This rebooting, though, seems to go in a loop and it never boots. Do you think the usb card reader is the problem? Strange cause it worked before. Go figure. I have the exact same device (SanDisk 2 in 1 external.) See the bug report here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1844 (and notice the link to an earlier bug 930 reported a year earlier. Sorry, I have no solution. Strangely, last time I checked, Redhat had a working solution. Don't know why these distro's can't learn from each other. Thanks, unplugging the device and rebooting worked. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sigmatel usb mp3 player
Hi all, I recently bought a cheap, 'er inexpensive mp3 player. It is described as a Sigmatel MSCN USB device and it is mounted as a mass storage device in that other OS. I don't like the looks of 2 of those letters! My Fuji 2400 mounts beautifully as a mass storage device but this item is resisting all my efforts. Does anyone have this device? Do I have to create any dir's before it will work? I'm running LM9.1 on a laptop. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need some type of system restore!
On February 12, 2004 09:40 pm, marc resnick wrote: Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link to my new partition. Then I deleted /home/marc... Nothing will run =( -- Try rebooting and when your system gets to LILO, select failsafe. In failsafe, hit Shift I to get the interactive mode, and at the proper steps do not load dm, or XFS. You'll end up at a console. log in as root, and run startx to get the root users desktop. Open konqueror and make sure that your backed up files are safe, then edit your user in userdrake, log out and log in as that new user. Restore your files from the backup or point your new user's home directory to the new location. You may need to change the permissions for the new user to match the user ID number of your old, saved content. Lanman Registered Linux user #190712 Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need some type of system restore!
On Thursday 12 February 2004 10:02 pm, lanman wrote: On February 12, 2004 09:40 pm, marc resnick wrote: Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link to my new partition. Then I deleted /home/marc... Nothing will run =( Well Failsafe hates me, so naturally, it'll never work. I'll just go through and redo all of my settings. But one thing I don't know how to reset. In a shell, it now says Bash-205$... It used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I liked that better. =) Any idea how to change it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.
On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:03 pm, Lee B. wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? You can see everything running and its pid # by typing top in a console, does not have to be root. HTH How does one page down while running Top, so you can see the processes that don't fit on the first screen? Good question, I have never bothered to look at more than the full screen shows because the lower you go the more asleep those tasks are. Notice the real technical language asleep, well I am not a programmer, just a dabbler in linux. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need some type of system restore!
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:23:02 -0500 marc resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 10:02 pm, lanman wrote: On February 12, 2004 09:40 pm, marc resnick wrote: Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link to my new partition. Then I deleted /home/marc... Nothing will run =( Well Failsafe hates me, so naturally, it'll never work. I'll just go through and redo all of my settings. But one thing I don't know how to reset. In a shell, it now says Bash-205$... It used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I liked that better. =) Any idea how to change it? Open up userdrake as root, and check your settings. You should have a user for yourself with your home directory (make sure it exists), a user ID greater than or equal to 500, a Login Shell of /bin/bash, and a Primary Group that is the same as your user name. If not, mess with the settings until it's like that, and reboot. If that doesn't work, then I'm not sure. HTH, John -- Thu Feb 12 21:55:19 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:03:22 -0800 Lee B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? You can see everything running and its pid # by typing top in a console, does not have to be root. HTH How does one page down while running Top, so you can see the processes that don't fit on the first screen? You can't. What I do is sort by different things. I'll sort by maybe CPU usage (CTL-P), then maybe Age (CTL-A), then maybe by users (press u, then type the name of the user). If I want to see all the processes, then I type ps aux | less John -- Thu Feb 12 22:04:36 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LCP timeout sending Config-Requests
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:13:16 +
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All
I have everything configured on my computer to connect to the Internet
through Mandrake 9.2. However, I always get the following message (in
/var/log/messages):
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
The username/password are not authenticated. Could somebody here
please help me?
first read the pppd man page ('man pppd' in a terminal) then edit
/etc/ppp/options to reflect the following, it should(tm) solve the LCP
timeouts.
lock
debug
noauth
defaultroute
lcp-max-configure 45
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
idle 600
cheers
John (nz)
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Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...
On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:58 pm, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866 Intel810. Try this in XP... http://www.orderinchaos.org/burnin.png This is why when I sit down at a Windows box, I feel like I'm looking at a block of useless goo. Oh yea! lol. Well I'M downloading a patch for X, and then I'll be downloading the one for Mutt, not because I can't do both at the same time, but because I have respect for the people who run the Slackware FTP, and rather than slurp the bandwidth up so no one else can update, I do it one at a time, sometimes two at a time ;) I have Gaim going, which was patched too, and been on since, I have my email loaded and being read, I have web pages going, and sometimes I have music playing lightly while watching a movie while looking at websites, while looking up things for homework, and actually doing my homework, then when I run low on space in KDE, I switch to a VC and log in on all 6 of those too and have each one doing something. Like Vi open doing my homework, well at least the text part of it, and in another downloading something with Wget ;) Yea, it's hard to make Linux or any *NIX OS say please slow down. Also, if I have to much going where I'm out of room, I log in with SSH from my other boxes ;) Not bad for only having 384 MBs RAM :) And of course I have damn near a GB of Swap, and an Nvidia card, and I'm an elitist about that lol. I saw we make this the I'm proud Linux message. Raise your coffe cup, mountain dew bottle, or whatever the hell you're drinking up high, and say YAY TUX! Lol ;) -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net http://www.misfits.com http://www.onethirtyeight.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...
Yay Tux! -=-=- ... Pardon me while I laugh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
lanman wrote: On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down on Saturday. Once you have it on your PC, then use the following command which assumes that your KDE32 folder is in /home/dale urpmi.addmedia KDE32 file://home/dale/kde32/ with hdlist.cz Just copy and paste that line into a root user's shell or console. Modify the path if you store the KDE32 folder somewhere else. Lanman Or if you are allergic to the command line then just open the MCC, go to software management, software media manager, add, then type in a new name (e.g, kde32) and browse to the folder you want to add (like /home/antonovich/kde32/). If you want you can tick the hdlist box and type int hdlist.cz, or just let it find it itself (by leaving it blank). I used this method just to try it out with that very folder (cos I'm trying very hard to NOT be allergic to the commandline!)! cheers Anton -=-=- ... I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -- Bob Dylan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...
On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:33 pm, anton wrote: Yay Tux! -=-=- ... Pardon me while I laugh. Lol. Yea it does seem weird. But then again I'm an elitist about this kind of stuff. I have about 54 OSs, all of which I know how to use, and I STILL use Linux. Damn near 10,000 dollars in software and I pick the free one lol. I have Solaris, which is nice, but I have no sparc station, and the X86 version seems to be slower. I also have Windows 1.0 - Server 2003. And I also have PC-DOS 6.3 on the original floppies they came on. Not bad for someone who has only had a computer for 4 years now huh ;) I have BeOS pro 5.0 too. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net http://www.misfits.com http://www.onethirtyeight.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux Modem
I have just install Linux Mandrake 8 (kernel v. 2.4.3). my modem is a broadcom (BCM V.92 56K Modem) how can i make it work; i found something in http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-third/msg01652.html but i dont understand very well, so can somebody tell me exactly what to do? _ MSN Fotos: la forma más fácil de compartir e imprimir fotos. http://photos.msn.es/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] on distributions...
Thanks Anne! I'm really surprised that you read my letter entirely! It was provoked by the reaction of users to changes! I think also that the power of Linux consits in command line tools and we really need to have mc and memtest! --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 14:34, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Hi! I am freshly new in this community. Hi, Mike. Welcome! That's all for the moment and take this as it is : a new user's thoughs! As time goes by I hope I will get involved moreto understand you better and maybe to help you! I'm glad you're enjoying your experience. Eric sends out a weekly welcome letter and you'll find useful links there. Apart from the list, one way we try to help each other is through the Community TWiki, where we post our personal experiences with hardware/software and administration issues. Take a look at that. The link in my sig is a shortcut 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...
See below! --- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866 Intel810. Try this in XP... Don't try this at home!-) http://www.orderinchaos.org/burnin.png This is why when I sit down at a Windows box, I feel like I'm looking at a block of useless goo. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 19:54:48 up 7 days, 7:42, 5 users, load average: 1.27, 1.22, 1.19 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ ...we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell address Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...
On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:17 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:58 pm, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866 Intel810. Try this in XP... http://www.orderinchaos.org/burnin.png This is why when I sit down at a Windows box, I feel like I'm looking at a block of useless goo. Oh yea! lol. Well I'M downloading a patch for X, and then I'll be downloading the one for Mutt, not because I can't do both at the same time, but because I have respect for the people who run the Slackware FTP, and rather than slurp the bandwidth up so no one else can update, I do it one at a time, sometimes two at a time ;) I have Gaim going, which was patched too, and been on since, I have my email loaded and being read, I have web pages going, and sometimes I have music playing lightly while watching a movie while looking at websites, while looking up things for homework, and actually doing my homework, then when I run low on space in KDE, I switch to a VC and log in on all 6 of those too and have each one doing something. Like Vi open doing my homework, well at least the text part of it, and in another downloading something with Wget ;) Yea, it's hard to make Linux or any *NIX OS say please slow down. Also, if I have to much going where I'm out of room, I log in with SSH from my other boxes ;) Not bad for only having 384 MBs RAM :) And of course I have damn near a GB of Swap, and an Nvidia card, and I'm an elitist about that lol. I saw we make this the I'm proud Linux message. Raise your coffe cup, mountain dew bottle, or whatever the hell you're drinking up high, and say YAY TUX! Lol ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...
On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:17 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:58 pm, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866 Intel810. Try this in XP... http://www.orderinchaos.org/burnin.png This is why when I sit down at a Windows box, I feel like I'm looking at a block of useless goo. Oh yea! lol. Well I'M downloading a patch for X, and then I'll be downloading the one for Mutt, not because I can't do both at the same time, but because I have respect for the people who run the Slackware FTP, and rather than slurp the bandwidth up so no one else can update, I do it one at a time, sometimes two at a time ;) I have Gaim going, which was patched too, and been on since, I have my email loaded and being read, I have web pages going, and sometimes I have music playing lightly while watching a movie while looking at websites, while looking up things for homework, and actually doing my homework, then when I run low on space in KDE, I switch to a VC and log in on all 6 of those too and have each one doing something. Like Vi open doing my homework, well at least the text part of it, and in another downloading something with Wget ;) Yea, it's hard to make Linux or any *NIX OS say please slow down. Also, if I have to much going where I'm out of room, I log in with SSH from my other boxes ;) Not bad for only having 384 MBs RAM :) And of course I have damn near a GB of Swap, and an Nvidia card, and I'm an elitist about that lol. I saw we make this the I'm proud Linux message. Raise your coffe cup, mountain dew bottle, or whatever the hell you're drinking up high, and say YAY TUX! Lol ;) better belive it attachment: TUXWHOOPASS3.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
