Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:57, Charlie Mahan wrote: > I'm surprised I haven't posted this yet for February. I usually > post it once a month at least. > > classic bug sound tester: > Hi, Charlie. That's exactly what he'll find in the Troubleshooting section, so he can just take it from your mail instead, can't he? ;-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10
Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? or Gnome even IceWm is all that comes up. K mail crashes. whatv packages do I need? TIA smitty (who is more confused than ever) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Setup of ADSL modem/router (ethernet)
Thanks, Björn! My modem/router is already working fine under Linux. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good virus program?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:44:12 +1100, _nasturtium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [OT] Question: > My brother would like to know where the Tupac quote comes from > :-). To know your enemy, you must become your enemy... Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. - Sun Tzu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 22:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:06, Philip J Scott wrote: > Ok Anne did the test it was using the said driver switched to the > oss driver and still nothing > have tried to run a console but nothing there either, it either > says no such command or permission denied. > At leaset me digi cam works lol No, Philip. I think you didn't see the tests. Click the Troubleshooting button. It will give you a list of commands to run in a console. Try each one, then copy the command and the result of it into a text file, leave a line or two, then append the next command and output. When you've run all the commands, paste the text into a mail to us. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? right i get it ok will do tomorrow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screensavers
On Saturday 14 February 2004 04:51 pm, Glenn wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:30, you wrote: > > No I havent tried because while I know mandrake was likely derived from > > RH. RH-7.2 is several years old and will not install on this equipment. > > Therefore I am skittish, for that reason. As a matter of fact I couldnt > > get it to work on a 586, but the screensaver was great. I guess if I > > cant find out how to get the files I need for the other one I'll have to > > try. > > > > Regards; > > Hoyt > > I've got 20 different screen savers listed in my 10.0rc2 configuration > without having to take any special steps. Maybe I missed something way > early in this thread, but where are the KDE packages falling short? I > can't remember exactly which package(s) contained all of these savers, but > "KDE" and "art" were in the name, IIRC. > > I've even got a slide show saver cycling through a series of Rocky > Mountains shots I took last year. Something soothing about that. > > Glenn Wait, did I miss something? Did you say 10.0rc2 and mean 10.0beta2? or did I miss where 10.0rc1 was released? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screensavers
- Original Message - From: "Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 16:51 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:30, you wrote: > No I havent tried because while I know mandrake was likely derived from RH. > RH-7.2 is several years old and will not install on this equipment. > Therefore I am skittish, for that reason. As a matter of fact I couldnt > get it to work on a 586, but the screensaver was great. I guess if I cant > find out how to get the files I need for the other one I'll have to try. > > Regards; > Hoyt I've got 20 different screen savers listed in my 10.0rc2 configuration without having to take any special steps. Maybe I missed something way early in this thread, but where are the KDE packages falling short? I can't remember exactly which package(s) contained all of these savers, but "KDE" and "art" were in the name, IIRC. I've even got a slide show saver cycling through a series of Rocky Mountains shots I took last year. Something soothing about that. Glenn > I dont know what happened to the rest of the screensavers but I cant find them and cant download any from mandrake (urpmi screensaver). But that slide show saver is exactly what I want. At the same time gnome has a variety when involking screen lock, but will not engage a screensaver normally. If I knew why I'd be an expert. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:22 am, Robert Walker wrote: > Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am > >> on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have > >> hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. > >> > >> The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK > >> 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22 TMB kernel with serial support > >> statically compiled into the kernel. > >> > >> I tried the Belkin Linux software specifying ttyS0 (my MB only has one > >> RS232 port as it has an onboard VPU) for the serial connection. But > >> I get the message: > >> 1 2/14/2004 11:45:33 >> UPS.> > >> in the PRO_UPS.LOG file. > >> > >> The GTK/Gnome Monitor GUI window appears to work fine and can connect > >> to the local upsd process but I get the following problem: > >> > >> UPS Comm Disconnect > >> > >> has warning red light beside it in the UPS status window. So the upsd > >> deamon process cannot connect to the UPS. All the status UPS model > >> details, graphs and dials are blank due there being no connection to the > >> UPS... > >> > >> I have tried the RPM that someone built for the Fedora kernel > >> (with even less success). > >> > >> I have tried the NUT RPM for MDK but apparently this doesn't appear to > >> work either. (I tried making a special ups_serv user and putting the > >> device and config files under this user). The support hardware section > >> says that driver should support my hardware but needs the > >> proprietary driver installed first (which I did). Again the upsd > >> process couldn't connect to the UPS. > >> > >> Anyone had any joy getting this model (Gold Series) to work with > >> Linux? The Belkin Linux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS > >> hardware... :-) > > > > I have read that someone used the Bulldog software to get a Belkin gold > > to work. It is not a huge program and I think I could send it to you off > > list. Simple gui and looks easy to use, unfortunately I have a offbrand > > PowMax UPS and It does not configure. HTH > > Hi Dennis, > > It is the Bulldog software I am using. The Belkin driver disk does > have Linux Bulldog software on it. The software almost works but not quite > as the driver cannot find the UPS device (it seems to find the serial ports > OK). > > I have contacted their tech support to see if they can help. Oh, it was probably your post that I read then. Let me know if you get a report on how to make it work. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 14 February 2004 3:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:06, Philip J Scott wrote: > > Ok Anne did the test it was using the said driver switched to the > > oss driver and still nothing > > have tried to run a console but nothing there either, it either > > says no such command or permission denied. > > At leaset me digi cam works lol > > No, Philip. I think you didn't see the tests. Click the > Troubleshooting button. It will give you a list of commands to run > in a console. Try each one, then copy the command and the result of > it into a text file, leave a line or two, then append the next > command and output. When you've run all the commands, paste the text > into a mail to us. > > Anne I'm surprised I haven't posted this yet for February. I usually post it once a month at least. classic bug sound tester: "lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO" will tell you which driver your card use by default "grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf" will tell you what driver it currently uses "/sbin/lsmod" will enable you to check if its module (driver) is loaded or not "/sbin/chkconfig --list sound" and "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" will tell you if sound and alsa services're configured to be run on initlevel 3 "aumix -q" will tell you if the sound volume is muted or not "/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp" will tell which program uses the sound card. Lifted from the Mandrake QA site. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 15:56:11 up 4:16, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 0.49, 0.23 Guillotine, n.: A French chopping center. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALqf9ZqvqlrLPr5YRAqMGAKCql85GCsUJ7X3C7bA5pUxxU+LGVgCfWxY+ F4Mxm2AquPgFCGkUy3sbIzo= =Wrce -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 17:18, John Richard Smith wrote: I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the modules.conf looks like this. above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx if that's any help. John - my prayers are answered - I must had done something right at last . Can you try to talk Philip through this? He's been pretty persistant. It's time he got some reward. Anne Well, I haven't had to do much since M8.2 to get sound to work with via8233 chip. I'm a bit rusty myself as to what I did back in the early days to fiddle with things. What /etc/modules.conf script does Philip have, in a terminal, cat /etc/modules.conf, and report. is it the same as above(M9.1) if not # out your two lines and try mine. reboot. also, lets see what draksound says, see snapscreen376.png, what does philip's look like. also what mobo is the chip on? Have he got both kmix and aumix sliders turned up always asuming he's got kde and gnome installed. also , In kde CC - sound system, I have aRts enabled at startup. I | X | sound server enabled. I think that's it, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] <>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screensavers
On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:30, you wrote: > No I havent tried because while I know mandrake was likely derived from RH. > RH-7.2 is several years old and will not install on this equipment. > Therefore I am skittish, for that reason. As a matter of fact I couldnt > get it to work on a 586, but the screensaver was great. I guess if I cant > find out how to get the files I need for the other one I'll have to try. > > Regards; > Hoyt I've got 20 different screen savers listed in my 10.0rc2 configuration without having to take any special steps. Maybe I missed something way early in this thread, but where are the KDE packages falling short? I can't remember exactly which package(s) contained all of these savers, but "KDE" and "art" were in the name, IIRC. I've even got a slide show saver cycling through a series of Rocky Mountains shots I took last year. Something soothing about that. Glenn -- 15:44:56 up 6:06, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.6.2-0.rc3.1mdk on an Intel P4 1.8 Registered Linux user #324360 The speed of anything depends on the flow of everything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Projector
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:50, yankl wrote: > Check the http://www.linux-laptop.net/toshiba.html. Thanks for the link. I partially solved some of the problems with the NVIDIA driver. I still have to boot to switch between LCD and proyector, but it is just an annoyance. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver
On Saturday 14 February 2004 19:34, JoeHill wrote: > So how do use it as a screensaver, ie. get it to automatically trigger > after a period of inactivity (without X running). That would be cool to > just leave my machine running in text mode when I'm not doing anything... Frankly: I don't know.I don't use screensavers. I find they're anoying. I do like textboxes running this cmatrix stuff though 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] Is wine the best choice?
On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:02, Aaron wrote: > > Wine > Cxoffice > vmware > win4lin > > Wine and crossover office are hit or miss not everything runs. > vmware and win4lin offer the widest range of programs working (not > games) transgaming is for games although dosbox of freedos will get > you a lot of mileage as well > > I use win4lin and although it is a commercial product I am very > pleased with it. > Aaron > Although you can't use win4lin with W2K or XP. 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] on distributions...
- Original Message - From: "Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 15:49 Subject: Re: [newbie] on distributions... > On Saturday 14 February 2004 08:29 am, lanman wrote: > > On February 14, 2004 08:27 am, Margot wrote: > > > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > > On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > > >>This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what > > > >> the hell ever is never going to go away, nor does it > > > >> seem that it will ever change the decision of the > > > >> person in charge of deciding what is included in the > > > >> disks. > > > > > I use Vi and Emacs almost daily, I'v had no problem with > either. > clink, clink (my 0.02) I use vi because I havent taken the time to learn Emacs, someday maybe. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:06, Philip J Scott wrote: > Ok Anne did the test it was using the said driver switched to the > oss driver and still nothing > have tried to run a console but nothing there either, it either > says no such command or permission denied. > At leaset me digi cam works lol No, Philip. I think you didn't see the tests. Click the Troubleshooting button. It will give you a list of commands to run in a console. Try each one, then copy the command and the result of it into a text file, leave a line or two, then append the next command and output. When you've run all the commands, paste the text into a mail to us. 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] Screensavers
- Original Message - From: "Amichai Rotman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 15:47 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers > On Saturday 14 February 2004 23:06, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Amichai Rotman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 08:25 > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers > > > > > Hello Hoyt, > > > > > > What exactly are you missing? > > > > > > Don't you have any Screensavers listed under the Screensaver module > > > in KControl --> Look & Feel? > > > > > > I know the xscreensaver package works too. > > > > > > Regs, > > > > > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:00, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > As usual I'm lost again. While researching screensavers I could > > > > find no screensaver packages on the mandrake site. But I did > > > > find some updates to files that indicated they would fix the > > > > problem(install by default). I then did an update and none of > > > > the files were installed & would not install with urpmi. The > > > > packages that were installed didnt seem to relate to the packages > > > > that were installed, The files were > > > > kdebase-3.0.3-11mdk, -23mdk, -27mdk & > > > > mandrake_desk-9.0-14mdk, -15mdk, -17mdk, -18mdk(8 files). I also > > > > tried urpmi kdebase-3.0.3, but that didnt work so I gave up on > > > > that track. > > > > > > > > Next I located a screensaver package for KDE; > > > > kdeartwork-screensavers-3.0.4-3.i686.rpm > > > > issued rpm -ivv [^^] > > > > That failed due to dependences on libpng.so.2, libstdc++.so.2.10, > > > > & fam.libs. These also wouldnt install with rpm -ivv --addfiles > > > > or urpmi . > > > > > > > > Obviously I dont know what I'm doing. How about some guidance. > > > > Regards; > > > > I have; > > Blank > > Tux > > Random > > Mandrake Toys (not correct name) > > I want one which will allow me to provide the pictures for the > > images. I have a copy of RH7.2 which has a good one but I need more > > corage. Regards; > > Hoyt > > Have you tried to install the package from RH7.2? You can remove it if > unsuccessful... > > I think the mandrake toys (or whatever) let's you do that. > No I havent tried because while I know mandrake was likely derived from RH. RH-7.2 is several years old and will not install on this equipment. Therefore I am skittish, for that reason. As a matter of fact I couldnt get it to work on a 586, but the screensaver was great. I guess if I cant find out how to get the files I need for the other one I'll have to try. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] About Kmail
On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:32, you wrote: > I'm sorry not to be specific... > I ment when I have a mail with different links in it and I want to > see them, in Thunderbird I can open them in the same window but in > different tabs. I hope this helps > Christophe > Ah - I think I see You want to open urls in a browser window. I'm still not certain whether you are asking whether you can use a different browser than Konqueror, or whether you want to be able to open the links in tabs. I suspect it is the second one. However, both these possibilities are set in kde's Control Center. In 9.2 look for Configure Your Desktop. Then find Web Browsing > Behaviour. You can configure tabs there. (I'm using 9.1 on this box, but I think it's in the same place in 9.2). To change which browser you use, you also need the Control Center, but this time it's in Components > File Associations > text > html . You will see a list of the browsers you have installed. Select the one you want, and use Move Up to put it at the top of the list. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:02:05 +0200 Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christophe Rhein wrote: > > >Me again... > > > >There are as far as I can tell three main choices > > > > > > Wine > Cxoffice > vmware > win4lin > > Wine and crossover office are hit or miss not everything runs. > vmware and win4lin offer the widest range of programs working (not > games) transgaming is for games although dosbox of freedos will > get you a lot of mileage as well > > I use win4lin and although it is a commercial product I am very > pleased with it. > Aaron > > >Is wine the best and easiest way to use windows software? > >Thank You > >Christophe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > Loving VMware here Haven't found anything that wouldn't run. Haven't looked too hard, I admit. We're down to 2 programs win dependent. Won't be long now and the old win98 disk is ready for the skeet shoot. (Always the best course.) Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 20:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On Saturday 14 February 2004 17:18, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this > thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the > modules.conf looks like this. > above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx > > if that's any help. > John - my prayers are answered - I must had done something right at last . Can you try to talk Philip through this? He's been pretty persistant. It's time he got some reward. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Ok Anne did the test it was using the said driver switched to the oss driver and still nothing have tried to run a console but nothing there either, it either says no such command or permission denied. At leaset me digi cam works lol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:31:58 +0200 robin disseminated the following: Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only available for KDE... :-( To get the Matrix screensaver, you can download the original xscreensaver tarball. I heard it's not on the Mdk RPMs because of possible copyright problems. Nice response from the configure script: configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your vendor has grown a clue. LOL! Nice attitude... I got that one first time round. I love 'nix error messages. 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] on distributions...
On Saturday 14 February 2004 08:29 am, lanman wrote: > On February 14, 2004 08:27 am, Margot wrote: > > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > >>This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what > > >> the hell ever is never going to go away, nor does it > > >> seem that it will ever change the decision of the > > >> person in charge of deciding what is included in the > > >> disks. > > > I use Vi and Emacs almost daily, I'v had no problem with either. -- __ 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] Screensavers
On Saturday 14 February 2004 23:06, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Amichai Rotman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 08:25 > Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers > > > Hello Hoyt, > > > > What exactly are you missing? > > > > Don't you have any Screensavers listed under the Screensaver module > > in KControl --> Look & Feel? > > > > I know the xscreensaver package works too. > > > > Regs, > > > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:00, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > As usual I'm lost again. While researching screensavers I could > > > find no screensaver packages on the mandrake site. But I did > > > find some updates to files that indicated they would fix the > > > problem(install by default). I then did an update and none of > > > the files were installed & would not install with urpmi. The > > > packages that were installed didnt seem to relate to the packages > > > that were installed, The files were > > > kdebase-3.0.3-11mdk, -23mdk, -27mdk & > > > mandrake_desk-9.0-14mdk, -15mdk, -17mdk, -18mdk(8 files). I also > > > tried urpmi kdebase-3.0.3, but that didnt work so I gave up on > > > that track. > > > > > > Next I located a screensaver package for KDE; > > > kdeartwork-screensavers-3.0.4-3.i686.rpm > > > issued rpm -ivv [^^] > > > That failed due to dependences on libpng.so.2, libstdc++.so.2.10, > > > & fam.libs. These also wouldnt install with rpm -ivv --addfiles > > > or urpmi . > > > > > > Obviously I dont know what I'm doing. How about some guidance. > > > Regards; > > I have; > Blank > Tux > Random > Mandrake Toys (not correct name) > I want one which will allow me to provide the pictures for the > images. I have a copy of RH7.2 which has a good one but I need more > corage. Regards; > Hoyt Have you tried to install the package from RH7.2? You can remove it if unsuccessful... I think the mandrake toys (or whatever) let's you do that. .::. Amichai Rotman Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Setup of ADSL modem/router (ethernet)
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Could somebody here please explain me how to setup a ADSL modem/router > (ethernet)? I have just bought one and I have been able of setting it up > under MS Windows, but not with Mandrake. > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul su to root service network stop urpmi rp-pppoe adsl-setup (asks a few questions) chkconfig --add adsl (to have it startup on boot) service adsl start chkconfig --del network (removes the startup of network from /etc/init.d/rc[3-5].d ) /björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] framebuffer image viewer
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:55:02 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I apologise for not being precise enough. What I'm looking for is a > CLI application for viewing images that can work without X enviroment. A quick google turns up 'fbi-1.30.tar.gz' a tarball for a framebuffer image viewer. Dunno if there's an RPM for it though, it may be in contrib. http://bytesex.org/fbi.html -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?
Christophe Rhein wrote: Me again... There are as far as I can tell three main choices Wine Cxoffice vmware win4lin Wine and crossover office are hit or miss not everything runs. vmware and win4lin offer the widest range of programs working (not games) transgaming is for games although dosbox of freedos will get you a lot of mileage as well I use win4lin and although it is a commercial product I am very pleased with it. Aaron Is wine the best and easiest way to use windows software? Thank You Christophe 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] User can't switch off...but Root can!
On Saturday 14 February 2004 18:25, Margot wrote: > > Sorry - misunderstood. Try UserDrake, select your own account, > > groups, and add yourself to the group > > > > Anne > > In Userdrake, user 'margot' is already shown as a member of all > available groups except 'nogroup' and 'root'. > > However, in Kcontrol - System Administration - Login Manager - > Sessions - Allow Shutdown there is a choice of "Everybody", "Only > root", or "Nobody". It is currently set to "Everybody", but still > only root can shut down. User 'margot' is apparently not part of > this "Everybody"! > > Somewhere there must be a file I can edit to include myself in > KDE's version of "Everybody" - either that, or rename the file to > "Everybody except Margot" to reflect reality! > Sorry - I've never heard of this happening. It definitely needs someone with more knowledge than I have. I'd suggest a new thread to grab some fresh attention. 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] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
On Saturday 14 February 2004 17:18, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this > thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the > modules.conf looks like this. > above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx > > if that's any help. > John - my prayers are answered - I must had done something right at last . Can you try to talk Philip through this? He's been pretty persistant. It's time he got some reward. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is wine the best choice?
Me again... I need one software running with windows and that is Asymetrix Toolbook... Is there someone out there using this software with wine and linux? Is wine the best and easiest way to use windows software? Thank You Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] About Kmail
Hello, First of all thank you for your help to set up my acount in kmail. It is now working. Now I have some questions about Kmail that I discover. 1- Is it possible like in Mozilla firebird to have the links open in the same window of konqueror? 2- Is there a Junk buton or a way to train Kmail to dump all the junk mail? 3- Do I need a antivirus with linux? Those are basic questions for most of you but I'm starting with linux and I'm pleased for the moment! Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install (Compaq laptop, anybody?)
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:29 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 22:18, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Marc: > > There's a freeware program (Ranish Partition Manager) that is supposed to > > do everything that PM can do. I've never used it myself, but I've seen > > lots of good words about it elsewhere. Perhaps that might get Chuck > > going. Legally. My main reservation is if it will handle the strange > > stuff that Compaq does. -- cmg > > > > > > > > __ > > I am thinking about buying a compaq at work and following this thread > would a HP be better then? > > Walt I hate Compaq! I've done a couple of installs on them, and they pretty much suck. Installation wasn't really the problem, the hardware they use isn't very good, and Linux does not like marginal hardware. Probably the worst install I've ever done was 9.1 on a Compaq laptop--it is now working, but I call it the "Install from Hell". e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:11:51 -0600 John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That reminds me, I have a KT400 based Soyo Dragon Lite. I have an > NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. How can I tell at what speed my AGP bus > is running at? If you changed nothing then it will be running at the default value. It should be noted in the BIOS section of your MOBO manual, if not then you will need to access the BIOS to find the value. Charles -- "Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends." --Woody Allen - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.2-1.tmb.1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] ati aiw ve (radeon 7500)
any one have any success installing this set of drivers on their ati All In Wonder cards in mandrake? http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ ati says: http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html Video Capture Video capture under XFree86 is currently done using the Video4Linux2 (or V4L2) API, which should be available for 2.2.x and later kernels. It may have been included with your Linux distribution. Video capture using V4L2 should be available using xawtv for the following products: TV WONDER TV WONDER VE For ALL-IN-WONDER products, it should be available or under development by the GATOS Project. any one here have any success with this? thanks, Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!
On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:34 am, Margot wrote: > Charlie wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:09 am, robin wrote: > >>Margot wrote: > >>>robin wrote: > Margot wrote: > >I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! > > > >Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the > >Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different user; > >Turn off computer; Restart computer) select 'Turn off computer', and > >everything would gradually shut down and eventually the power would > >switch off. > > > >This doesn't happen any more! When I select 'Turn off computer' I get > >a black screen with a white mouse pointer arrow in the middle, > >keyboard and mouse don't work, and nothing shuts down - I have to > >switch off the power switch button. When I switch on next day, system > >complains that it has shut down 'uncleanly'. > > > >Only way I've found to get a clean shutdown now is to open a > >terminal, su to root (doesn't work as user!), and do 'shutdown -h -t > >10 now'. > > > >What have I done? How do I fix it? > > > >Seems ridiculous that I have to be root to shut down the computer! Is > >this some sort of permissions problem? > > Only allowing root to be able to shut down the computer goes way back > to the early days of Unix, where you didn't want ordinary users to be > able to shut down or reboot terminals. Consequently, AFAIK it is still > the default on Unix-type systems. > > Make sure that auto-login is off in MCC, then enable it in KDE (System > -> Login Manager, and click Administrator Mode). That might do the > trick. Occasionally some other system change will reset it, which > might be the cause of your problem (for example, I had to go back and > put in the settings I wanted after updating KDE). > > Sir Robin > >>> > >>>Thanks for the suggestion Robin. Unfortunately I don't have a 'Login > >>>Manager' option on the System section (or anywhere else) on my KDE menu. > >>>Can you (or some other kind person) tell me what the package is called, > >>>so I can call it up from a terminal? > >> > >>Don't go through the menu, go to the KDE Control Center (which normally > >>appears on the menu as "Configure your desktop"). Sorry, I should have > >>made that clear. > >> > >>Sir Robin > > > > or in a terminal type kcontrol for the KDE control centre or MCC for > > Mandrake control centre. > > > > Charlie. > > Well I found it, and shutdown is currently set to be allowed by > "Everybody" - trouble is, "Everybody" doesn't seem to include *me* at > the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( I had that trouble in XCDroast had to add group aron and group sandbox to get it to work > > Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:31:58 +0200 robin disseminated the following: > > Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the > > XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only > > available > > for KDE... :-( > > To get the Matrix screensaver, you can download the original > xscreensaver tarball. I heard it's not on the Mdk RPMs because of > possible copyright problems. Nice response from the configure script: configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your vendor has grown a clue. LOL! Nice attitude... -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 13:42:38 up 9 days, 1:30, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.09 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Or ... "He has weapons of mass destruction -- the world's deadliest weapons -- which pose a direct threat to the United States, our citizens and our friends and allies." One of those lies got a president impeached. -- Michael Moore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:56:07 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: > > Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the > > XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only > > available for KDE... :-( > > Heh, you should know me better by nowthat one's meant for on a console, if > need be without X. So how do use it as a screensaver, ie. get it to automatically trigger after a period of inactivity (without X running). That would be cool to just leave my machine running in text mode when I'm not doing anything... > Just type in "cmatrix" and hit . > Even runs on a 386 with only text install:) > > What you're looking for is probably gmatrix or glmatrix. Nothing on RPMFind for either -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 13:31:48 up 9 days, 1:19, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.07, 0.09 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ The United States Drug Enforcement Agency estimates pot smuggling from the western province of British Columbia alone is worth more than $1 billion a year. This is *very* bad, because Bush and his pals are not seeing one dime of that. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited
Are you using rpms made for 9.2 or cooker rpms? If the latter, you're going to have some real headaches regarding dependencies. Better to get a set of 9.2 rpms. (see pclinuxonline.com about 10 days ago for a link to a site with 9.2 rpms. If you follow the read more.. link, you'll also find a bittorrent file for them and a faster mirror.) If you download all the 9.2 rpms to a single directory, you can rpm -Uvh *.rpm from that directory and it should handle all the dependencies since you're upgrading a 3.1 installation (yes?). Any external dependencies should be minimal and you can probably track them down quickly, possibly through "Install Software". Paul On Saturday 14 February 2004 02:22 pm, Mark Annandale wrote: > Hi Folks > > Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where are > the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find up to > November last year. > > I have downloaded all the 3.2 RPM's, but having a tough time trying to > install them, lots of dependency problems. Google hasn't been much help > either. > > Please could someone point me at some means of installing 3.2. By the > way I'm running version 9.2. > > Many thanks as always. > > Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:20, Margot wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:34, Margot wrote: "Everybody" doesn't seem to include *me* at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( Margot That's priceless, Margot ;-) Glad it sorted, though Anne ...but it *isn't* sorted - I can still only shut down cleanly from a terminal, as root - me-as-user is not included in "Everybody"! Any ideas on where to look next? Margot Sorry - misunderstood. Try UserDrake, select your own account, groups, and add yourself to the group Anne In Userdrake, user 'margot' is already shown as a member of all available groups except 'nogroup' and 'root'. However, in Kcontrol - System Administration - Login Manager - Sessions - Allow Shutdown there is a choice of "Everybody", "Only root", or "Nobody". It is currently set to "Everybody", but still only root can shut down. User 'margot' is apparently not part of this "Everybody"! Somewhere there must be a file I can edit to include myself in KDE's version of "Everybody" - either that, or rename the file to "Everybody except Margot" to reflect reality! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!
Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am >> on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have >> hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. >> >> The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK >> 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22 TMB kernel with serial support >> statically compiled into the kernel. >> >> I tried the Belkin Linux software specifying ttyS0 (my MB only has one >> RS232 port as it has an onboard VPU) for the serial connection. But >> I get the message: >> 1 2/14/2004 11:45:33 > UPS.> >> in the PRO_UPS.LOG file. >> >> The GTK/Gnome Monitor GUI window appears to work fine and can connect >> to the local upsd process but I get the following problem: >> >> UPS Comm Disconnect >> >> has warning red light beside it in the UPS status window. So the upsd >> deamon process cannot connect to the UPS. All the status UPS model details, >> graphs and dials are blank due there being no connection to the >> UPS... >> >> I have tried the RPM that someone built for the Fedora kernel >> (with even less success). >> >> I have tried the NUT RPM for MDK but apparently this doesn't appear to >> work either. (I tried making a special ups_serv user and putting the >> device and config files under this user). The support hardware section >> says that driver should support my hardware but needs the >> proprietary driver installed first (which I did). Again the upsd >> process couldn't connect to the UPS. >> >> Anyone had any joy getting this model (Gold Series) to work with >> Linux? The Belkin Linux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS >> hardware... :-) > I have read that someone used the Bulldog software to get a Belkin gold to > work. It is not a huge program and I think I could send it to you off list. > Simple gui and looks easy to use, unfortunately I have a offbrand PowMax UPS > and It does not configure. HTH Hi Dennis, It is the Bulldog software I am using. The Belkin driver disk does have Linux Bulldog software on it. The software almost works but not quite as the driver cannot find the UPS device (it seems to find the serial ports OK). I have contacted their tech support to see if they can help. -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:36, Philip J Scott wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 13:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:20, Philip J Scott wrote: Well I have run alsaconf, I have also followed advice on mixer settings. Everything checks out. The one thing thats not been tried is the oss But as a novicxe i do not know what this is, I assume it is alternative drivers. I followed the link to the alsa project but when I am there it is too confusing and I dont know what i am supposed to be looking for and even if I did I dont know how to install anything not got that far yet. I did get a mail advising me to change the /etc/modules.conf but how and where I havent a clue. To anyone out there who can help this is my last hurdle if I can get my sound working I can use linux and start to learn. It is only sound in normal things I have glorious sound with the cd player the rest is dead. Thanks in advance...Philip Philip, open up Mandrake Control Center > Hardware and HardDrake. Find your soundcard, and tell us what it says about it. It should also tell you which driver it is using. The Run Config Tool should give you something similar to the attached jpg. The Troubleshooting button gives you tests that you can run from a root console. If there are alternative drivers they will be in the drop-down list. Run those tests, and give us the results. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Hve done all that I think, the sound card is onboard via vt8233 and the driver in use is snd-via82xx but the other people who have solved the same problem have done it via the alsa project with oss drivers but I do not know what to do. I think that's the also driver - someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Did you try the test in the Troubleshooting section? Please copy and paste the output from those commands. Anne I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the modules.conf looks like this. above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx if that's any help. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 11:31 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Well good John. Now next time you buy a motherboard, check around for one that has a second bios backup already onboard and doesn't need a DOS boot floppy, or Windoze runnin, to flash the bios. If for any reason the flash fails, or the bios is corrupted (Winsux virus?), the board automatically boots from the backup bios chip. Many of the newer boards are movin to this. Some have had it for years. Have you any particular makes in mind. My mobo is now 2 years old, did it have this bios backup then ? I don't remember it being the case, though it may well of been. Currently I'm usin an Asus A7V600, KT600 chipset. http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7V600&langs=01# BUT, I'll refrain from recommending motherboards. It's too much of a moving target for desktop hardware. My only advice would be to consult http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_869_4348^7923,00.html Then go to the websites for the AMD recommended boards and start makin a shortlist of those that fit your requirements. Then check for Linux compatibility. At this time, a VIA chipset board is probly the best bet, SiS might be OK. Unfortunately there's little such sources for Intel based systems, but I don't believe they've _yet_ to come up with a decent P4 chipset anyhow. I'd favor an Intel based system for production server use tho. ...and avoid hardware reviews where the test OS was Windoze. If more people did that, there wouldn't be so many Linux users tryin to run on nForce chipset boards ;) Probly a good idea to look for a board that's been out for 4 to 6 months. Both for Linux user experience, and it'll probly come with the latest bios version. IOW's avoid the latest and greatest. Usually cheaper that way anyhow ;) Sure, my sentiments entirely , let the others buy the very last word, choose the one that's been around for some months at least. I shall not be buying again until after Christmas , so sometime next February I will want to be looking to construct afresh. Whats your thinking about 64 bit architecture. I read recently AMD have a chip that runs both 32 and 64bit though I don't know what mobos will suit. Will Mandrake keep up with this developement ? Will anyone be shipping OS's for 64 bit by this time next year? I just don't have enough time to do the searching for equipement and such like, tend to leave that to others, and take advice, but I still like to keep up with general developements. Will there be cpu's of 64bit and fsb of 400 around by next year and mobo's to suit? What do you feel ? What's happening by then ? My current best computer will be my second fiddle and the oldest junked, natuarlly I'm keen to make the best buy's but just don't have the inclination to spend hours and hours reading up on it all. So I'm game for suggestions. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:46:15 -0500 Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:10:29 -0600 > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Currently I'm usin an Asus A7V600, KT600 chipset. > > > I going to chime in with a few words about the KT600. > > Be aware that the 2.4 kernel Only supports the KT600 in 2X mode for > graphics cards. > If you have a 'newer' high performance card and especially if you use > the nvidia or fglrx driver you will Not be able to have hardware > acceleration because the via_agp module can not be loaded Unless the > included BIOS allows for the selection of 2X mode. > > Don't know about others but on my Soyo Dragon I can set it for either > 4 or 8 but not 2 which meant no dri with my Radeon 9600XT and the > 9.2 kernels. > > The fact won't affect Tom as he use nv. > In my case I rebuilt the 2.6.2-1.tmb.1mdkenterprise for usage on my 9.2 > system. > > That reminds me, I have a KT400 based Soyo Dragon Lite. I have an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. How can I tell at what speed my AGP bus is running at? I just kinda put my card in and installed the NVIDIA drivers, if you know what I mean . Thanks, John -- Sat Feb 14 11:10:37 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Keep on keepin' on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] its installed
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 9:41:52 -0500 Harold E Vine III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i did the install last night. i ran all the updates this morning. > it was actually easier than a rh install, and i've run rh since the 2.0 daysup > and including fedora. at that point i gave up. the bugs were unbelievable. i tried > lindows and while the install went flawless, i didn't agree with the cnr thing one > bit, especially for softyware that i KNOW i can download leagaly and freely on any > other distro. > > so i tried mandrake, 9.2. > > i do have one small disappointment. > > real player plugins for mozilla were not installed automatically. > so i'll have to do those myself. no biggie, but i noticed that lindows had all the > video plugins already installed for mozzilla. that was a nice bonus. > But you have to PAY for it. :-) > i am downloading the ut2k4 demo that was just released. > I'll have to check into that. > i'm crossing my fingers that mandrake and i did the right install for the video > stuff and that the 3d hardware drivers will work correctly. rh was NEVER able to do > it, and i spent days, hours and weeks trying to get the right drivers installed, to > no avail. > > i've just gotten to the point where my time is valuable and i want to enjoy my > computer expeirences, not spend all my time fighting to configure something that > won't work. > > so tonight, or tommorow, i'll install my ut2k4 game and see if its a GAME, or a > slide show presentation (grin) :-) > > > thanks for the help so far, and for the points y'all gave to make this install a > particularly good one! > > in the default windowmaker environment, is it possible to add programs to the task > bar (if thats what its called) that appears on the right side of the screen when you > log in, on the desktop? i really hate digging through menus for the 6-8 programs > i'll be using ALL the time, ya know what i mean? > WindowMaker is the default environment? It was KDE the last time I checked. I personally use XFCE4. You might wanna give that a try, cause it has a task bar like thing that u can add programs to, and even menus to each program in it. That might sound a bit confusing, but visit http://xfce.org for more information. Charles A. Edwards has the RPMS for it at http://eslrahc.com. > thanks! > > Harold, a convert to mandrake :-) Nice to have you here. John -- Sat Feb 14 11:05:27 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver
On Saturday 14 February 2004 15:40, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:50:12 +0100 > > H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: > > > 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? > > > > It's called cmatrix and is available as i386.rpm > > Its on rpmfind. > > Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the > XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only > available for KDE... :-( Heh, you should know me better by nowthat one's meant for on a console, if need be without X. Just type in "cmatrix" and hit . Even runs on a 386 with only text install:) What you're looking for is probably gmatrix or glmatrix. 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 do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:20 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: > So I guess I still don't understand: > 1) Will Mandrake offer the ability to resize my ReiserFS SUSE > partition? I do not know the answer to this question. I have never tried to resize a reiserFS partition. > 2) Will Mandrake share utilize the existing SWAP partition already > setup for SUSE? Yes > 3) What should I choose at the bootloader step to get Mandrake to > appear as an option in my current bootloader menu? > There are two ways to do this, the first is to let Mandrake install it's standard LILO to the root partition of the mandrake install and not the mbr, then chainload it from your grub menu as you would windows. The second method would be to not install a Mandrake bootloader at all (I suppose you could still install to root partition) and then boot directly from the Suse menu.lst If you want to chainload, install Mandrake and then boot into SUSE and add the following stanza to your menu.lst title Mandrake root (hd0,7) chainloader +1 If you want to boot Mandrake directly from SUSE, the menu.lst stanza should look something like this: title Mandrake kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=788 splash=silent \ hdd=ide-scsi initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd > Thanks again for your patience and replies! Either way, do not let bootloader install to mbr when you install Mandrake. This will cause you not to be able to boot back into SUSE, as Mandrake will set up Windows but not SUSE as a bootloader entry. If you let Mandrake install bootloader to mbr because you want to let Mandrake boot SUSE, you have to add an entry for SUSE into the Mandrake menu.lst after installing Mandrake. In this case, you would install Mandrake's bootloader to the mbr. This IMO is more risky because you already have grub working correctly in SUSE. Also, keep in mind that the Mandrake default bootloader is LILO, so if you want to use grub in Mandrake, you would have to make sure that you explicitly select it for configuration at the installation summary screen. Bootom line is that one of your Linux distros is going to have to control the boot process and it is probably easier to select SUSE for this. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 09:42, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 > > > > > > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't > > > > > hold me to it. > > > > > > > > What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? > > > > MBR? > > > > > > The MBR = yes > > > > NO, NO, NO > > > > You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will > > not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake > > bootloader just like windows. > > > > Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux > > and add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one > > > > title WindowsXP > > root (hd0,0) > > chainloader +1 > > > > title Mandrake > > root (hd0,7) <== Put the drive partition number that you installed > > chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition > > is zero. > > As a follow up, you can make Grub boot Mandrake directly off of the MBR, but > you have to let one of the Linux distros be the Grub master so to speak. > Once you get all three booting using the chainloader, you can try booting to > Suse and then adding a stanza to boot mandrake right off of its own > partition. This is the way I do it, my Grub menu.lst This may be beyond the realm of my current understanding. Here's my current /boot/grub/menu.lst in SUSE: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Linux kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: memtest86### title Memory Test kernel (hd0,6)/boot/memtest.bin And my filesystem setup (although swap doesn't appear to be displayed??): linux:~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 65G 7.9G 57G 13% / /dev/hda1 5.9G 2.5G 3.4G 43% /windows/C tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm So I guess I still don't understand: 1) Will Mandrake offer the ability to resize my ReiserFS SUSE partition? 2) Will Mandrake share utilize the existing SWAP partition already setup for SUSE? 3) What should I choose at the bootloader step to get Mandrake to appear as an option in my current bootloader menu? Thanks again for your patience and replies! -- Cheers, Trey --- Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. --Dag Hammarskjold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!
On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am > on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have > hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. > > The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK > 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22 TMB kernel with serial support > statically compiled into the kernel. > > I tried the Belkin Linux software specifying ttyS0 (my MB only has one > RS232 port as it has an onboard VPU) for the serial connection. But > I get the message: > 1 2/14/2004 11:45:33 UPS.> > in the PRO_UPS.LOG file. > > The GTK/Gnome Monitor GUI window appears to work fine and can connect > to the local upsd process but I get the following problem: > > UPS Comm Disconnect > > has warning red light beside it in the UPS status window. So the upsd > deamon process cannot connect to the UPS. All the status UPS model details, > graphs and dials are blank due there being no connection to the > UPS... > > I have tried the RPM that someone built for the Fedora kernel > (with even less success). > > I have tried the NUT RPM for MDK but apparently this doesn't appear to > work either. (I tried making a special ups_serv user and putting the > device and config files under this user). The support hardware section > says that driver should support my hardware but needs the > proprietary driver installed first (which I did). Again the upsd > process couldn't connect to the UPS. > > Anyone had any joy getting this model (Gold Series) to work with > Linux? The Belkin Linux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS > hardware... :-) I have read that someone used the Bulldog software to get a Belkin gold to work. It is not a huge program and I think I could send it to you off list. Simple gui and looks easy to use, unfortunately I have a offbrand PowMax UPS and It does not configure. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:10:29 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently I'm usin an Asus A7V600, KT600 chipset. I going to chime in with a few words about the KT600. Be aware that the 2.4 kernel Only supports the KT600 in 2X mode for graphics cards. If you have a 'newer' high performance card and especially if you use the nvidia or fglrx driver you will Not be able to have hardware acceleration because the via_agp module can not be loaded Unless the included BIOS allows for the selection of 2X mode. Don't know about others but on my Soyo Dragon I can set it for either 4 or 8 but not 2 which meant no dri with my Radeon 9600XT and the 9.2 kernels. The fact won't affect Tom as he use nv. In my case I rebuilt the 2.6.2-1.tmb.1mdkenterprise for usage on my 9.2 system. Charles -- Enjoy yourself while you're still old. - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.2-1.tmb.1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Monitor settings (slightly OT)
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:01:54 + Marco Verheul disseminated the following: > I can't seem to set the recommended resolution in Mandrake Control > Center. It does not show the combination of the resolution/refresh rate > I want to select. Is there another way? > > Could it be that my graphic card (riva tnt2) doesn't cut it anymore? > > Any suggestions are most welcome. Thanks. Further to Derek's reply, there was a fairly lengthy thread on setting modelines way back when. If you search google.com/linux for 'modeline calculator', and the Newbie and Expert archives for 'modelines', there was a lot of helpful info in there: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/maillist.html http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie&r=1&w=2 ...substituting 'expert' for 'newbie' as appropriate. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 10:27:42 up 8 days, 22:15, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.22, 0.09 +++ 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
JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:50:12 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: 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? It's called cmatrix and is available as i386.rpm Its on rpmfind. Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only available for KDE... :-( To get the Matrix screensaver, you can download the original xscreensaver tarball. I heard it's not on the Mdk RPMs because of possible copyright problems. 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] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Saturday 14 February 2004 10:03 am, Johan wrote: > Hi, > Well..NO NO NO or YES YES YES > > here is my menu.lst from the mbr starting various OS flavors effortlessly. > But you should know what you are doing..thats linux..various ways to reach > succes..but the choice is yours.. I agree, see my follow-up. If he didn't know what he was doing, or didn't understand grub well, he would have installed (he may have) grub (or even accepted Mandrake's default LILO install) to mbr and not have been able to boot SuSE. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited
On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:22, Mark Annandale wrote: > Hi Folks > > Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where > are the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find > up to November last year. > Mark - follow the link in my sig to get to the TWiki pages. Use Search on the blue band at the top to find Archives. There's a lot of useful information on the TWiki 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] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:36, Philip J Scott wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson > Sent: 14 February 2004 13:55 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 > sound card > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:20, Philip J Scott wrote: > > Well I have run alsaconf, I have also followed advice on mixer > > settings. Everything checks out. > > The one thing thats not been tried is the oss But as a novicxe i > > do not know what this is, I assume it is alternative drivers. I > > followed the link to the alsa project but when I am there it is > > too confusing and I dont know what i am supposed to be looking > > for and even if I did I dont know how to install anything not got > > that far yet. > > I did get a mail advising me to change the /etc/modules.conf > > but how and where I havent a clue. To anyone out there who can > > help this is my last hurdle if I can get my sound working I can > > use linux and start to learn. It is only sound in normal things > > I have glorious sound with the cd player the rest is dead. > > Thanks in advance...Philip > > Philip, open up Mandrake Control Center > Hardware and HardDrake. > Find your soundcard, and tell us what it says about it. It should > also tell you which driver it is using. The Run Config Tool should > give you something similar to the attached jpg. The > Troubleshooting button gives you tests that you can run from a root > console. If there are alternative drivers they will be in the > drop-down list. Run those tests, and give us the results. > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > Hve done all that I think, the sound card is onboard via vt8233 and > the driver in use is > snd-via82xx > but the other people who have solved the same problem have done it > via the alsa project with oss drivers but I do not know what to do. I think that's the also driver - someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Did you try the test in the Troubleshooting section? Please copy and paste the output from those commands. 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] its installed
On February 14, 2004 09:41 am, Harold E Vine III wrote: > i did the install last night. i ran all the updates this morning. > it was actually easier than a rh install, and i've run rh since the > 2.0 daysup and including fedora. at that point i gave up. the > bugs were unbelievable. i tried lindows and while the install went > flawless, i didn't agree with the cnr thing one bit, especially for > softyware that i KNOW i can download leagaly and freely on any other > distro. > > so i tried mandrake, 9.2. > > i do have one small disappointment. > > real player plugins for mozilla were not installed automatically. > so i'll have to do those myself. no biggie, but i noticed that > lindows had all the video plugins already installed for mozzilla. > that was a nice bonus. > > i am downloading the ut2k4 demo that was just released. > > i'm crossing my fingers that mandrake and i did the right install for > the video stuff and that the 3d hardware drivers will work correctly. > rh was NEVER able to do it, and i spent days, hours and weeks trying > to get the right drivers installed, to no avail. > > i've just gotten to the point where my time is valuable and i want to > enjoy my computer expeirences, not spend all my time fighting to > configure something that won't work. > > so tonight, or tommorow, i'll install my ut2k4 game and see if its a > GAME, or a slide show presentation (grin) :-) > > thanks for the help so far, and for the points y'all gave to make > this install a particularly good one! > > in the default windowmaker environment, is it possible to add > programs to the task bar (if thats what its called) that appears on > the right side of the screen when you log in, on the desktop? i > really hate digging through menus for the 6-8 programs i'll be using > ALL the time, ya know what i mean? > > thanks! > > Harold, a convert to mandrake :-) > \ Hooray! Congrats! We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming! 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] Bios upgrades
On Friday 13 February 2004 11:31 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Well good John. Now next time you buy a motherboard, > > check around for one that has a second bios backup already > > onboard and doesn't need a DOS boot floppy, or Windoze > > runnin, to flash the bios. If for any reason the flash fails, > > or the bios is corrupted (Winsux virus?), the board > > automatically boots from the backup bios chip. Many of the > > newer boards are movin to this. Some have had it for years. > > Have you any particular makes in mind. > My mobo is now 2 years old, did it have this bios backup then > ? I don't remember it being the case, though it may well of > been. Currently I'm usin an Asus A7V600, KT600 chipset. http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7V600&langs=01# BUT, I'll refrain from recommending motherboards. It's too much of a moving target for desktop hardware. My only advice would be to consult http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_869_4348^7923,00.html Then go to the websites for the AMD recommended boards and start makin a shortlist of those that fit your requirements. Then check for Linux compatibility. At this time, a VIA chipset board is probly the best bet, SiS might be OK. Unfortunately there's little such sources for Intel based systems, but I don't believe they've _yet_ to come up with a decent P4 chipset anyhow. I'd favor an Intel based system for production server use tho. ...and avoid hardware reviews where the test OS was Windoze. If more people did that, there wouldn't be so many Linux users tryin to run on nForce chipset boards ;) Probly a good idea to look for a board that's been out for 4 to 6 months. Both for Linux user experience, and it'll probly come with the latest bios version. IOW's avoid the latest and greatest. Usually cheaper that way anyhow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screensavers
- Original Message - From: "Amichai Rotman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 08:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers > Hello Hoyt, > > What exactly are you missing? > > Don't you have any Screensavers listed under the Screensaver module in > KControl --> Look & Feel? > > I know the xscreensaver package works too. > > Regs, > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:00, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > As usual I'm lost again. While researching screensavers I could find > > no screensaver packages on the mandrake site. But I did find some > > updates to files that indicated they would fix the problem(install by > > default). I then did an update and none of the files were installed > > & would not install with urpmi. The packages that were installed > > didnt seem to relate to the packages that were installed, The files > > were > > kdebase-3.0.3-11mdk, -23mdk, -27mdk & > > mandrake_desk-9.0-14mdk, -15mdk, -17mdk, -18mdk(8 files). I also > > tried urpmi kdebase-3.0.3, but that didnt work so I gave up on that > > track. > > > > Next I located a screensaver package for KDE; > > kdeartwork-screensavers-3.0.4-3.i686.rpm > > issued rpm -ivv [^^] > > That failed due to dependences on libpng.so.2, libstdc++.so.2.10, & > > fam.libs. These also wouldnt install with rpm -ivv --addfiles > > or urpmi . > > > > Obviously I dont know what I'm doing. How about some guidance. > > Regards; I have; Blank Tux Random Mandrake Toys (not correct name) I want one which will allow me to provide the pictures for the images. I have a copy of RH7.2 which has a good one but I need more corage. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
Hi, Well..NO NO NO or YES YES YES here is my menu.lst from the mbr starting various OS flavors effortlessly. But you should know what you are doing..thats linux..various ways to reach succes..but the choice is yours.. Goodluck Johan title Windows XP Home hdg1 root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 #*** title Mandrake 262-0rc22ent kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.6.2-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise.img #*** title Mandrake 260-1 enterprise hde-9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise.img # title Windows 98 hde1 root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 #*** title Mandrake linux-nonfb hde9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde9 devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img #** title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 # title Suse 9.0 kernel-121-K_delft hde5/6 kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-121-default root=/dev/hde5 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.21-121-default # title Fedora Core 1 2422-1.2115.nptl hde7/8 root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img # title Memory Test kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest.bin # ** On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:27:06 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 > > > > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't > > > > hold me to it. > > > > > > What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? > > > MBR? > > > > The MBR = yes > > > NO, NO, NO > > You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will > not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake > bootloader just like windows. > > Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux and > add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one > > title WindowsXP > root (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > title Mandrake > root (hd0,7) <== Put the drive partition number that you installed > chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition > is zero. > -- > /g > > -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited
On February 14, 2004 09:22 am, Mark Annandale wrote: > Hi Folks > > Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where > are the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find up > to November last year. > > I have downloaded all the 3.2 RPM's, but having a tough time trying > to install them, lots of dependency problems. Google hasn't been much > help either. > > Please could someone point me at some means of installing 3.2. By the > way I'm running version 9.2. > > Many thanks as always. > > Mark A Mark; Follow the thread I'm using to help someone else with this problem We're going to go through it step by step. I'm waiting for him to get back to me, and I'd rather not have to do this twice. 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] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
On February 14, 2004 09:54 am, Dale Kosan wrote: > No joy, tons of warnings about conflicts. This come from a stock 9.2 > install. Could it maybe be my choice of mirrors and contrib.? Could > you send me your urpmi.cfg file? > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lanman > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 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 OK, let's do this by the numbers. 1) Download the KDE32 rpms to your PC before i have to shut the FTP server down - it goes down in 2 hours. 2) Make a note of where you saved the KDE32 directory and let me know where you have placed it. 3) We'll move ahead after you get back to me. 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] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
No joy, tons of warnings about conflicts. This come from a stock 9.2 install. Could it maybe be my choice of mirrors and contrib.? Could you send me your urpmi.cfg file? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lanman Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 > > > > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't > > > > hold me to it. > > > > > > What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? > > > MBR? > > > > The MBR = yes > > NO, NO, NO > > You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will > not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake > bootloader just like windows. > > Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux > and add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one > > title WindowsXP > root (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > title Mandrake > root (hd0,7) <== Put the drive partition number that you installed > chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition > is zero. As a follow up, you can make Grub boot Mandrake directly off of the MBR, but you have to let one of the Linux distros be the Grub master so to speak. Once you get all three booting using the chainloader, you can try booting to Suse and then adding a stanza to boot mandrake right off of its own partition. This is the way I do it, my Grub menu.lst *Begin menu.lst timeout 5 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,5)/grub/messages altconfigfile (hd0,5)/grub/menu.once default 1 title Mandrake 9.2-update AthlonXP kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz-2.4.22-18mdk root=/dev/hda9 noapic devfs=mount \ hde=ide-scsi hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791 initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-2.4.22-18mdk.img title Mandrake 9.2-update AthlonXP Win4Lin kernel (hd0,5)/win4lin-2.4.22-18mdk root=/dev/hda9 noapic devfs=mount \ hde=ide-scsi hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791 initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-win4lin-2.4.22-18mdk.img title Cooker kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc5 noapic devfs=mount hde=ide-scsi \ hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791 initrd (hd1,0)/initrd.img title Cooker-Win4Lin kernel (hd1,0)/win4lin-2.4.22-10mdk noapic devfs=mount hde=ide-scsi \ hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791 root=/dev/hdc5 initrd (hd1,0)/initrd-win4lin-2.4.22-10mdk.img title Windows 2000 root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title Windows 98SE Light root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 title Failsafe kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz-2.4.22-18mdk root=/dev/hda9 failsafe noapic \ devfs=nomount hde=ide-scsi acpi=off initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-2.4.22-18mdk.img **end menu.lst*** Note that I use a separate /boot partition, so if you don't, your entries for the kernel image must be like this: kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-18mdk root=/dev/hda9 noapic devfs=mount -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] its installed
i did the install last night. i ran all the updates this morning. it was actually easier than a rh install, and i've run rh since the 2.0 daysup and including fedora. at that point i gave up. the bugs were unbelievable. i tried lindows and while the install went flawless, i didn't agree with the cnr thing one bit, especially for softyware that i KNOW i can download leagaly and freely on any other distro. so i tried mandrake, 9.2. i do have one small disappointment. real player plugins for mozilla were not installed automatically. so i'll have to do those myself. no biggie, but i noticed that lindows had all the video plugins already installed for mozzilla. that was a nice bonus. i am downloading the ut2k4 demo that was just released. i'm crossing my fingers that mandrake and i did the right install for the video stuff and that the 3d hardware drivers will work correctly. rh was NEVER able to do it, and i spent days, hours and weeks trying to get the right drivers installed, to no avail. i've just gotten to the point where my time is valuable and i want to enjoy my computer expeirences, not spend all my time fighting to configure something that won't work. so tonight, or tommorow, i'll install my ut2k4 game and see if its a GAME, or a slide show presentation (grin) :-) thanks for the help so far, and for the points y'all gave to make this install a particularly good one! in the default windowmaker environment, is it possible to add programs to the task bar (if thats what its called) that appears on the right side of the screen when you log in, on the desktop? i really hate digging through menus for the 6-8 programs i'll be using ALL the time, ya know what i mean? thanks! Harold, a convert to mandrake :-) \ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:50:12 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: > > 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? > > It's called cmatrix and is available as i386.rpm > Its on rpmfind. Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only available for KDE... :-( -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 09:36:32 up 8 days, 21:23, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.20, 0.09 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ "One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state."-- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 13:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:20, Philip J Scott wrote: > Well I have run alsaconf, I have also followed advice on mixer > settings. Everything checks out. > The one thing thats not been tried is the oss But as a novicxe i do > not know what this is, I assume it is alternative drivers. I > followed the link to the alsa project but when I am there it is too > confusing and I dont know what i am supposed to be looking for and > even if I did I dont know how to install anything not got that far > yet. > I did get a mail advising me to change the /etc/modules.conf > but how and where I havent a clue. To anyone out there who can help > this is my last hurdle if I can get my sound working I can use > linux and start to learn. It is only sound in normal things I have > glorious sound with the cd player the rest is dead. > Thanks in advance...Philip Philip, open up Mandrake Control Center > Hardware and HardDrake. Find your soundcard, and tell us what it says about it. It should also tell you which driver it is using. The Run Config Tool should give you something similar to the attached jpg. The Troubleshooting button gives you tests that you can run from a root console. If there are alternative drivers they will be in the drop-down list. Run those tests, and give us the results. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Hve done all that I think, the sound card is onboard via vt8233 and the driver in use is snd-via82xx but the other people who have solved the same problem have done it via the alsa project with oss drivers but I do not know what to do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics card question.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 February 2004 12:40, Greyarchive wrote: > I am looking for a graphic card that linux supports its > TV out function, I am trying to link my bedroom linux to > the 21" tv. > I have an ATI 7500 32mb card in there with TV out but > Always when I try to setup the TV it doesn't recognise and > goes into txt mode > > Pyros (Jason) I know the ATI site holds Linux driers for that card and others... Good Luck, .::. Amichai Rotman Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALjBNXY0HT3ON4ZMRAm3CAKC7JH85Lqr7URx/jzXvMgGTBkkhtwCfSEXi Y9Z3n0Z2NQ8q8q8WD/f8jls= =xH0j -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A factually correct article about Open Source
In contrast to the BBC's error-ridden efforts, an excellent summary. Particularly impressive is the author's understanding that Open Source is far from being just OSS (Open Source Software): http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/start.asp?P_Article=12404 (The "OpenCola" is no joke - see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCola) Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.thebrix.org.uk/ All Mandrake Linux 9.2 URPMI repositories listed! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Screensavers
Hello Hoyt, What exactly are you missing? Don't you have any Screensavers listed under the Screensaver module in KControl --> Look & Feel? I know the xscreensaver package works too. Regs, On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:00, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > As usual I'm lost again. While researching screensavers I could find > no screensaver packages on the mandrake site. But I did find some > updates to files that indicated they would fix the problem(install by > default). I then did an update and none of the files were installed > & would not install with urpmi. The packages that were installed > didnt seem to relate to the packages that were installed, The files > were > kdebase-3.0.3-11mdk, -23mdk, -27mdk & > mandrake_desk-9.0-14mdk, -15mdk, -17mdk, -18mdk(8 files). I also > tried urpmi kdebase-3.0.3, but that didnt work so I gave up on that > track. > > Next I located a screensaver package for KDE; > kdeartwork-screensavers-3.0.4-3.i686.rpm > issued rpm -ivv [^^] > That failed due to dependences on libpng.so.2, libstdc++.so.2.10, & > fam.libs. These also wouldnt install with rpm -ivv --addfiles > or urpmi . > > Obviously I dont know what I'm doing. How about some guidance. > Regards; > Hoyt -- .::. Amichai Rotman Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 > > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > > > > > > > > > As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't > > > hold me to it. > > > > What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? > > MBR? > > The MBR = yes > NO, NO, NO You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake bootloader just like windows. Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux and add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one title WindowsXP root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Mandrake root (hd0,7) <== Put the drive partition number that you installed chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition is zero. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good News
On February 14, 2004 09:15 am, robin wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 > > > > Greg Meyer disseminated the following: > >>The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. > >> > >>http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 > > > > Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page > > about posting links to pr0n. ;-) > > Yep, that's a sexy box alright. > > Sir Robin That one may be sexy, but these are downright horny! http://www.thermaltake.com/ Pardon the metaphor! 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] User can't switch off...but Root can!
On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:20, Margot wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:34, Margot wrote: > >>"Everybody" doesn't seem to include *me* > >>at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( > >> > >>Margot > > > > That's priceless, Margot ;-) Glad it sorted, though > > > > Anne > > ...but it *isn't* sorted - I can still only shut down cleanly from > a terminal, as root - me-as-user is not included in "Everybody"! > > Any ideas on where to look next? > > Margot Sorry - misunderstood. Try UserDrake, select your own account, groups, and add yourself to the group Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited
Hi Folks Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where are the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find up to November last year. I have downloaded all the 3.2 RPM's, but having a tough time trying to install them, lots of dependency problems. Google hasn't been much help either. Please could someone point me at some means of installing 3.2. By the way I'm running version 9.2. Many thanks as always. Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:34, Margot wrote: "Everybody" doesn't seem to include *me* at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( Margot That's priceless, Margot ;-) Glad it sorted, though Anne ...but it *isn't* sorted - I can still only shut down cleanly from a terminal, as root - me-as-user is not included in "Everybody"! Any ideas on where to look next? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good News
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page about posting links to pr0n. ;-) Yep, that's a sexy box alright. 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] User can't switch off...but Root can!
On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:34, Margot wrote: > "Everybody" doesn't seem to include *me* > at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( > > Margot That's priceless, Margot ;-) Glad it sorted, though 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] Good News
On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:23, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 > > Greg Meyer disseminated the following: > > The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle > > XPC. > > > > http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 > > Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page > about posting links to pr0n. ;-) I don't know who Sudhian Media are, but I've seen nice stuff on their site before. Definitely linux friendly, and reviews are positive - none of that snide attitude you so often see from reviewers. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screensavers
As usual I'm lost again. While researching screensavers I could find no screensaver packages on the mandrake site. But I did find some updates to files that indicated they would fix the problem(install by default). I then did an update and none of the files were installed & would not install with urpmi. The packages that were installed didnt seem to relate to the packages that were installed, The files were kdebase-3.0.3-11mdk, -23mdk, -27mdk & mandrake_desk-9.0-14mdk, -15mdk, -17mdk, -18mdk(8 files). I also tried urpmi kdebase-3.0.3, but that didnt work so I gave up on that track. Next I located a screensaver package for KDE; kdeartwork-screensavers-3.0.4-3.i686.rpm issued rpm -ivv [^^] That failed due to dependences on libpng.so.2, libstdc++.so.2.10, & fam.libs. These also wouldnt install with rpm -ivv --addfiles or urpmi . Obviously I dont know what I'm doing. How about some guidance. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!
Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22 TMB kernel with serial support statically compiled into the kernel. I tried the Belkin Linux software specifying ttyS0 (my MB only has one RS232 port as it has an onboard VPU) for the serial connection. But I get the message: 1 2/14/2004 11:45:33 in the PRO_UPS.LOG file. The GTK/Gnome Monitor GUI window appears to work fine and can connect to the local upsd process but I get the following problem: UPS Comm Disconnect has warning red light beside it in the UPS status window. So the upsd deamon process cannot connect to the UPS. All the status UPS model details, graphs and dials are blank due there being no connection to the UPS... I have tried the RPM that someone built for the Fedora kernel (with even less success). I have tried the NUT RPM for MDK but apparently this doesn't appear to work either. (I tried making a special ups_serv user and putting the device and config files under this user). The support hardware section says that driver should support my hardware but needs the proprietary driver installed first (which I did). Again the upsd process couldn't connect to the UPS. Anyone had any joy getting this model (Gold Series) to work with Linux? The Belkin Linux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS hardware... :-) -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail doesn't understand mime?
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:53, Charlie wrote: > > No Anne, it is plain text, and apparently it is a message that can > be ignored and these error messages also appear in c programming:- > > Quote:- > It's just a warning, ignore it. > > Same as when compiling source, you get warnings about the > possibility of a conflict or the possibility of an unreferenced > variable causing grief later down the line, this is a means to let > you know perhaps why things are *not* working. > Unquote. > Glad it's sorted for you. These things can be quite alarming when you don't know where they come from, can't they? 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] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:20, Philip J Scott wrote: > Well I have run alsaconf, I have also followed advice on mixer > settings. Everything checks out. > The one thing thats not been tried is the oss But as a novicxe i do > not know what this is, I assume it is alternative drivers. I > followed the link to the alsa project but when I am there it is too > confusing and I dont know what i am supposed to be looking for and > even if I did I dont know how to install anything not got that far > yet. > I did get a mail advising me to change the /etc/modules.conf > but how and where I havent a clue. To anyone out there who can help > this is my last hurdle if I can get my sound working I can use > linux and start to learn. It is only sound in normal things I have > glorious sound with the cd player the rest is dead. > Thanks in advance...Philip Philip, open up Mandrake Control Center > Hardware and HardDrake. Find your soundcard, and tell us what it says about it. It should also tell you which driver it is using. The Run Config Tool should give you something similar to the attached jpg. The Troubleshooting button gives you tests that you can run from a root console. If there are alternative drivers they will be in the drop-down list. Run those tests, and give us the results. 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] dev/null
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:15:36 -0800 "Lee B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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. The keyword here is "a" list. This list is "home". Actually it's the oo list. I can't unsub because the sub add doesn't exist any more but comcast is doing me a favor by forwarding the email to me, and have since they bought attbi. They won't stop and oo won't unsub me. Who would ever want to unsub "newbie"? Absurd. Lee You should be able to get the OO list owner to unsub you manually if you mail to this address and explain the problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 3 and a Half Hours left!
Just a "Not-So-Subtle" reminder folks. I have to shut down FTP access to KDE 3.2 and Texstar's Mozilla packages at precisely 12 noon today. If you're currently using my server as media source in URPMI, you're in for a bit of a dissapointment later today. Please log in and download the packages to your own PC's and store them somewhere. My monthly throughput is already sitting at 19 Gigs, leaving me 6 more for the rest of the month. Sorry, but they won't be upping my limit until next month, so I have little choice. To those that managed to get the packages, i hope things went well installing them. 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] User can't switch off...but Root can!
Charlie wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:09 am, robin wrote: Margot wrote: robin wrote: Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different user; Turn off computer; Restart computer) select 'Turn off computer', and everything would gradually shut down and eventually the power would switch off. This doesn't happen any more! When I select 'Turn off computer' I get a black screen with a white mouse pointer arrow in the middle, keyboard and mouse don't work, and nothing shuts down - I have to switch off the power switch button. When I switch on next day, system complains that it has shut down 'uncleanly'. Only way I've found to get a clean shutdown now is to open a terminal, su to root (doesn't work as user!), and do 'shutdown -h -t 10 now'. What have I done? How do I fix it? Seems ridiculous that I have to be root to shut down the computer! Is this some sort of permissions problem? Only allowing root to be able to shut down the computer goes way back to the early days of Unix, where you didn't want ordinary users to be able to shut down or reboot terminals. Consequently, AFAIK it is still the default on Unix-type systems. Make sure that auto-login is off in MCC, then enable it in KDE (System -> Login Manager, and click Administrator Mode). That might do the trick. Occasionally some other system change will reset it, which might be the cause of your problem (for example, I had to go back and put in the settings I wanted after updating KDE). Sir Robin Thanks for the suggestion Robin. Unfortunately I don't have a 'Login Manager' option on the System section (or anywhere else) on my KDE menu. Can you (or some other kind person) tell me what the package is called, so I can call it up from a terminal? Don't go through the menu, go to the KDE Control Center (which normally appears on the menu as "Configure your desktop"). Sorry, I should have made that clear. Sir Robin or in a terminal type kcontrol for the KDE control centre or MCC for Mandrake control centre. Charlie. Well I found it, and shutdown is currently set to be allowed by "Everybody" - trouble is, "Everybody" doesn't seem to include *me* at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:51:52 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: > > This is what I said: > > I like your style Ann, > Short, direct and non-abusive. > > I'm applauding standing up!:) Yes, well done, though 'army' might not have been the best word to use. As far as I'm concerned, it *is* an army, but we don't want to let them in on that til it's too late, no? -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 08:26:51 up 8 days, 20:14, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.12 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth."-- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] on distributions...
On February 14, 2004 08:27 am, Margot wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: > >>This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what the hell ever > >> is never going to go away, nor does it seem that it will ever > >> change the decision of the person in charge of deciding what is > >> included in the disks. > > > > Hey Charlie, I never thought this was a pissing contest, though > > admittedly I am/was pissed of at the omittance (is this double mm > > or double tt?spellchecker doesn't say) of mc. > > I think the word you're looking for here is "omission" ;-) > > Margot Picky! Picky! Picky! Grin! 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] User can't switch off...but Root can!
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 11:10 am, Margot wrote: robin wrote: Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different user; Turn off computer; Restart computer) select 'Turn off computer', and everything would gradually shut down and eventually the power would switch off. This doesn't happen any more! When I select 'Turn off computer' I get a black screen with a white mouse pointer arrow in the middle, keyboard and mouse don't work, and nothing shuts down - I have to switch off the power switch button. When I switch on next day, system complains that it has shut down 'uncleanly'. Only way I've found to get a clean shutdown now is to open a terminal, su to root (doesn't work as user!), and do 'shutdown -h -t 10 now'. What have I done? How do I fix it? Seems ridiculous that I have to be root to shut down the computer! Is this some sort of permissions problem? Only allowing root to be able to shut down the computer goes way back to the early days of Unix, where you didn't want ordinary users to be able to shut down or reboot terminals. Consequently, AFAIK it is still the default on Unix-type systems. Make sure that auto-login is off in MCC, then enable it in KDE (System -> Login Manager, and click Administrator Mode). That might do the trick. Occasionally some other system change will reset it, which might be the cause of your problem (for example, I had to go back and put in the settings I wanted after updating KDE). Sir Robin Thanks for the suggestion Robin. Unfortunately I don't have a 'Login Manager' option on the System section (or anywhere else) on my KDE menu. Can you (or some other kind person) tell me what the package is called, so I can call it up from a terminal? Margot love did you try K->configure your computer(MCC)-->system_>boot uncheck autologon I've never had autologin enabled, but I checked to make sure it hadn't somehow enabled itself - I don't trust these machines! - but it isn't. Oh well, back to the drawing board... Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good News
On February 14, 2004 08:23 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 > > Greg Meyer disseminated the following: > > The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. > > > > http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 > > Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page about > posting links to pr0n. ;-) Down Boy! Sit! Be careful how excited you get! You'll hurt yourself ! 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] on distributions...
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what the hell ever is never going to go away, nor does it seem that it will ever change the decision of the person in charge of deciding what is included in the disks. Hey Charlie, I never thought this was a pissing contest, though admittedly I am/was pissed of at the omittance (is this double mm or double tt?spellchecker doesn't say) of mc. I think the word you're looking for here is "omission" ;-) Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good News
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: > The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. > > http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page about posting links to pr0n. ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 08:20:14 up 8 days, 20:07, 4 users, load average: 0.25, 0.23, 0.15 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ "The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!"-- Rick Mercer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a machine currently setup with Win2000 (6GB) and SUSE 9.0 taking up the remainder of an 80GB hard drive. I downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10 Beta 2 and wanted to give it a try on this machine. I'm currently using GRUB as my bootloader. How would I go about installing Mandrake such that I have a triple boot environment? Will it natively offer to resize the SUSE partition to make room or should I use something like Partition Magic to resize them? Once done, how should the bootloader be handled so that I can choose any of the three to boot into? If someone has done something like this before, I'd appreciate the input! Thanks. There are a few things you will have to decide. Where is your current SUSE /boot directory ? Are you going to convert to a /boot PARTITION. Having a /boot partition is easiest, But having seperate /boot directories , one for each OS can be made to work. I prefer to have a /boot partition, the install is all automatic, just a question of making sure grub/lilo has stanzas to boot both OS's I have to say first that I have never worked with SUSE before so maybe it does things differently from the rest of linux, I don't think so, though. Did you use PM to partition for SUSE ? is so continue to use it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Graphics card question.
I am looking for a graphic card that linux supports its TV out function, I am trying to link my bedroom linux to the 21" tv. I have an ATI 7500 32mb card in there with TV out but Always when I try to setup the TV it doesn't recognise and goes into txt mode Pyros (Jason) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > > > > > > As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't > > hold me to it. > > What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? > MBR? > The MBR = yes > Thanks > > -- > Cheers, > Trey > --- > > No lake so still but that it has its wave; No circle so perfect but that > it has a blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't, you > must take them as they are. > --Han fei Tzu > > > -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
On Friday 13 February 2004 17:18, Philip J Scott wrote: > Well Anne It didnt do anything for me at all, still all quiet here > :( But then again I really dont have any clue as to what I am > supposed to do with it. I went to the link but there are so many > options, and then if I do choose one I dont know how to install > anything in linux. Me thinks I might have to give up and stick to > windows. Sorry to hear that Philip. Is it worth one last try? A new thread, short definition of the problem and summary of all the things you have tried. Post it to this list, and also to the expert list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] KMail doesn't understand mime?
On Saturday 14 February 2004 02:23, Charlie wrote: > Below is a message that I find in the source from a Mac machine:- > > > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not > > understand > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > Is this message likely to be html? If so and it is a trusted source you may like to try my solution. I create a folder for those mails and a filter to put them there. Highlight the folder, then go to Folder in the menus and enable html - it will not affect any other folder. 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] Adobe Acrobat install
On Saturday 14 February 2004 02:21, Aron Smith wrote: > > > GPDF is pretty nice. Just: > > > > > > urpmi gpdf > > > > > > Free, and Open Source. > > > > KGhostview works fine for me. AFAIK, it's part of the Mandrake > > default installation. I also have Acrobat Reader installed, but > > that is probably because I have the PowerPack edition and, as Joe > > points out, it ain't GPL. -- cmg > > I have had some (not much) trouble with downloaded .pdf documents > using Kghostview. The various replacements for Acrobat generally work well as viewers, but are nowhere near as good as Acrobat for printing. I regularly use the option to shrink to A5 format - saves paper and storage space. Unless things have moved on very recently you simply can't do that in any of the other options. 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] [OT] The BBC and Linux.
On Friday 13 February 2004 23:35, lanman wrote: > Anne; Thanks for the trust. It's not misplaced. Here's the site > with the broadcast on it; > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/programmes/working_lunch/default.stm > > Click on the link near the upper-left corner labelled "Video Watch > programme". Once it starts, scroll the time of the show to exactly > 34:00 minutes and play through the segment. You'll see her name pop > up on the display during her segment. Enjoy! > > And here's the link to Bill Thompson's article; > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3485545.stm > Thanks, Lanman. One question, though. I don't use streaming media normally, so I've no idea how to play it. Do you save to disk? What app do you use to play it? Is there a Moz plugin to deal with it? OK - a lot of questions, but one subject 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] [OT] The BBC and Linux.
On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27, Keith Powell wrote: > The e-mail address for the program is: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yes, it was Gillian Lacey-Solymar who did the item. I'll send an > e-mail and see if it does any good. > > I am retired and we watch it while we are having our "sandwich and > piece of cake" mid-day lunch. Our main meal is in the evening. > We are a lot more antisocial - I read mailing lists and my husband plays solitaire - under Mandrake, of course > There is only one other TV program watched here during the day, > Anne. My wife is a "Countdown" enthusiast. I come up here to the > computer so that I don't have to watch it! > Don't know anything about it - never heard of it - and from your reaction that's probably a good thing 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] [OT] The BBC and Linux.
The e-mail address for the program is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it was Gillian Lacey-Solymar who did the item. I'll send an e-mail and see if it does any good. I am retired and we watch it while we are having our "sandwich and piece of cake" mid-day lunch. Our main meal is in the evening. There is only one other TV program watched here during the day, Anne. My wife is a "Countdown" enthusiast. I come up here to the computer so that I don't have to watch it! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
