[newbie] raid 1: hardware or software?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I remember that this topic has been mentioned before, but not in details. We've just received two new IBMs XSeries 235. We want to set it up with RAID-1. The question is: Which one is better: - use the onboard controller? - or use Linux'es software raid? Your reasoning and experience is very appreciated. Thanks. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 10:48:21 up 3:17, 10 users, load average: 0.28, 0.68, 0.57 Quote of the day: Microsoft just released a new product: Microsoft Windows for Windows(TM). The ultimate Windows emulator for the Windows platform! Only $900! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFANay/Mai9kCFqACoRArMsAKC5vAaxnSfLkZkn2juJxmOjXeCm8QCfUHXv /ATKa5OLKswfa1tTI6YxVx0= =cgky -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KGPG frontend for GPG ...
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 13:28, Simon Kitching wrote: > So if you've installed via configure/make, you will need to add the > entries to the menus yourself. > -snip->8 > These directories are normally on the "search path" for every user, so > if you start one of those dreaded command-lines, and type: > > which kgpg > > then (if you're lucky) it will respond: > /usr/local/bin/kgpg > or something like that. What I get is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chuck]$ which kgpg which: no kgpg in (/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/chuck/bin) > If the program it installed isn't called "kgpg", then at the > command-line, try typing "kg" then press the tab key. The bash shell > will display all the available commands whose names start with "kg". > Hopefully one looks familiar. [EMAIL PROTECTED] chuck]$ kg kgeo kghostview kgravity.kss kget kgpgcertmanager (the 'kgpgcertmanager' apparently being /part/ of the program, but not the applet itself). I can, however, call up the program via an icon I made on the desktop referencing '/usr/local/kde/bin/kgpg' This puts the applet down into the panel and I can access its interface and functions from there, but it seems rather a ramshackle way of going about it :-), plus I don't seem to be able to get it to auto-start upon boot. Not that that's a make-or-break thing, I guess. I'm still just so very confused by the way things work on this side of things, though I confess I'm impressed by the stability of things, the speed, etc., and I /do/ feel like I've accomplished something when I get things to work (no matter how many people I have to pester for assistance ;). Of course, I could always upgrade to KDE 3.2, since I understand KGPG is integrated into the utilities now. I guess I've got a /lot/ more reading (and experimenting) to do until I can even /begin/ to feel comfortable in Linux. :-\ THX > > Of course if you had watched the output of the "make install" program, > that would have told you what it was installing and where :-). > > Generally, installing from RPMs makes this process all a bit easier; of > course you can't get the latest and greatest releases as soon as they > are available, though! > > I hope this helps, > > Regards, > > Simon > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KGPG frontend for GPG ...
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 18:37, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
> Okay, with this question I'm endeavoring to put the "newbie" back into
> the list where it belongs :-) ... big time.
>
> Here's the deal. I made my GPG key, no problem. I've successfully
> added the key of a friend, no problem. I've got Evolution set up now to
> encrypt/decrypt and sign/verify, no problem. Works like a charm ...
> from the command line, which makes my skin crawl. LOL.
>
> So, I decided I wanted a frontend for GPG, being a GUI kinda guy, so I
> installed KGPG 1.0 from .tar via the ./configure make blah, blah, blah
> route. Apparently, again, no problem.
>
> Here's where the "newbie" comes in. WHERE THE HECK IS IT? :-)
>
> I guess I'm used to C:\Program Files still, but this kind of thing just
> throws me. I'm expecting to see KGPG somewhere in my menus and/or
> running in the tray, but I'm not.
That's really the difference between compiling from source using
configure/make and installing an RPM. The people who build the RPMs add
the nice bits like setting up desktop menu items.
So if you've installed via configure/make, you will need to add the
entries to the menus yourself.
The equivalent of "C:\Program Files" in Linux (and generally in unix)
is:
/usr/bin (for "standard" stuff)
and /usr/local/bin (for "addons" stuff).
These directories are normally on the "search path" for every user, so
if you start one of those dreaded command-lines, and type:
which kgpg
then (if you're lucky) it will respond:
/usr/local/bin/kgpg
or something like that.
You can then just add it using the menudrake program
("configuration|other|menudrake" on mdk9.2), or right-click on the gnome
panel and choose "add launcher" for a quick-launch icon. Or create a
desktop icon for it. I presume KDE has equivalents.
If the program it installed isn't called "kgpg", then at the
command-line, try typing "kg" then press the tab key. The bash shell
will display all the available commands whose names start with "kg".
Hopefully one looks familiar.
Of course if you had watched the output of the "make install" program,
that would have told you what it was installing and where :-).
Generally, installing from RPMs makes this process all a bit easier; of
course you can't get the latest and greatest releases as soon as they
are available, though!
I hope this helps,
Regards,
Simon
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[newbie] KGPG frontend for GPG ...
Okay, with this question I'm endeavoring to put the "newbie" back into the list where it belongs :-) ... big time. Here's the deal. I made my GPG key, no problem. I've successfully added the key of a friend, no problem. I've got Evolution set up now to encrypt/decrypt and sign/verify, no problem. Works like a charm ... from the command line, which makes my skin crawl. LOL. So, I decided I wanted a frontend for GPG, being a GUI kinda guy, so I installed KGPG 1.0 from .tar via the ./configure make blah, blah, blah route. Apparently, again, no problem. Here's where the "newbie" comes in. WHERE THE HECK IS IT? :-) I guess I'm used to C:\Program Files still, but this kind of thing just throws me. I'm expecting to see KGPG somewhere in my menus and/or running in the tray, but I'm not. Anyone care to point this fool in the right direction? TIA -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
KDE 3.2.6 ??? What about Kmail? Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 !
On Wednesday 18 Feb 2004 11:15 pm, Lanman wrote: > Everything in KDE ( 3.2.6! ) is working as advertised, > and actually does what it's supposed to do. No glitches, > crashes You say KDE 3.2.6? I just had a look at http://www.kde.org/download/ and they only offer 3.2 to download with a kmail patch. Maybe KDE 3.2.6 is a mandrake specific, not KDE official release of KDE.? Does Mdk 10.0 include the Kmail patch: kmail has a couple of critical bugs and I want my emails to be safe. Augustin -- In the news: Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software 1)The House of Representatives will NOT renew MS-Office licenses, but is looking at free software alternatives. 2) The free software parliamentary front was announced in congress. 3) The e-mail system of the house of representatives is being replaced by a free software one. 4) The federal government is looking at concrete measures to stimulate free software as means of saving money and stimulating the national software industry. Read more: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0122230 http://fslc.usu.edu/misc/idgnow.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:45 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:06:38 -0500 > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 > > > > > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:49 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:09 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:59:46 -0500 > > > > > > > > > > > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I get this error message when trying to run make xconfig: > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.3]# make xconfig > > > > > HOSTCC scripts/fixdep > > > > > SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h > > > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o > > > > > sed < scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h > scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h > > > > > 's/P(\([^,]*\),.*/#define \1 (\*\1_p)/' > > > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o > > > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o > > > > > /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc -i scripts/kconfig/qconf.h -o > > > > > scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o > > > > > /bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found > > > > > make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf.o] Error 127 > > > > > make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 > > > > > > > > Nevermind, just had to install the gcc C++ compiler. But I got > > > > several 'trying to assign nonexistant symbol' errors. Is this fatal? > > > > > > Nah, it just means it that some of the options available for checking > > > don't exist, but something was trying to set them. It's perfectly ok > > > and normal to have those errors. Did you use the mm patch? if so, you > > > might want to rename your source directory to compensate, ie: > > > linux-2.6.3-mm1 This may save a headache later. That's just a > > > suggestion though. > > > > > > Good luck, > > > John > > > > I'm not sure if you saw my other e-mail, so I'll send it again: > > > > My screen goes completely blank when I try to boot the new kernel. All > > the paths are correct(fixed them after I got a kernel panic error at > > first), and I've tried noapic, acpi=off, acpi=on, acpi=ht, devfs=mount > > devfs=nomount. I just can't seem to get it to boot. Also, I don't think > > the bootsplash for kernel version 2.6.3, because I noticed I got an error > > when patching, and the option to enable it wasn't there when I ran make > > xconfig. I doubt that's the problem though. > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Actually it does sound like the problem. I know this sounds like a lot > of work, but you might want to follow my steps again and not patch the > kernel with bootsplash. Or just change your lilo.conf. I suggest the > first you try is changing the lilo.conf file (remember to run lilo > afterwards). > > append="devfs=nomount noapic acpi=off hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom" > > I figured out how to make burning without scsi'em work. Make the hdb and > hdd reflect your cdrom devices. When it's time to burn, you run (replace > hdd with your burner): > > cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd > > Otherwise, if that doesn't work, save your .config from the source > directory, then delete it. Untar the sources again, patch it again with > the mm patch, and copy your .config back into the source directory. The > follow the steps in my earlier email. Make sure the append line is > similar to the one above. > > > HTH, > John Still a blank screen. I don't know if I told you, but I had gotten kernel-2.4.25 to boot fine, it's just that i messed something up when building it, and had no modules installed. Do you think I should forgot the 2.6 and upgrade to 2.4.25? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
On Thursday 19 February 2004 06:53 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:54 am, di di wrote: > > Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching > > from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more > > stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? > > > > I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in > > ramwill these requirements fullfill? > > There are still some problems with drakconnect with wireless and more > complex setups, and lots of people are reporting that the network > interfaces are not restarting on boot, but otherwise, she looks great. A > few niggles here and there, but overall in good shape. Of course, YMMV. > > If you want to try it, be prepared to deal with some hand configuration of > your net interfaces, keeping in mind that module-init-tools changes the > location of a bunch of stuff with a 2.6 kernel. Probably it's just me but.. I had the Beta runnig good tried to up grade to RC1 and completely hosed the system (so bad I couldn't even reboot two frustrating days and nights finaly went out and bought Discovery hey at least I'm back on line think I'll wait for RC2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 !
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:57:15 + "adam.halesworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've only just got Mandrake 9.2 installed *Rolls eyes* Is it possible > to do an 'update,' as it were? Theoretically possible. I've gone from release to release once or twice in the past by just using urpmi --auto-select. You could establish a cooker mirror source, and then get the hdlists (urpmi.update -a) and autoselect upgrades to all the packages you already have installed, and apart from the kernel, you'd have most of what 10.0 rc1 is. Of course, you can urpmi the kernel too, you just have to do that part separately. -- 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] ML10.0rc1
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:11:42 -0700 Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No joy. At all. 2.6 kernels just hang after being selected at the LILO > screen. No logs, no errors, no nothing at all. Zero activity. Just as a thought, have you tried the tmb kernels? I started with 2.6.2-0.pre something or other a few weeks ago, currently use 2.6.2-0.rc2.1.tmb.2mdk. I've been using it for 11 days now. > Charlie -- 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] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:02 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: ->On Thursday 19 February 2004 05:41 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: ->> On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 21:25, Steve Kaufman wrote: ->> > Thanks Derek. I hope I'm always open to learning new ->> > things. Now Iall I have to do is figure out how to load and ->> > run the RPM. Have to switch back to Linux and try. ->> ->> It's on your install CD. Just search for it using the Mandrake ->> Software Installer. Running it is just a matter of selecting ->> memtest in the Lilo boot screen ->> ->> derek -> ->Derek, ->Got it. Loaded it. ran it for 3+ hours without a blip. I will let ->it run overnight and see what happens. I think you should do a couple of other hardware torture tests as well, like mprime and cpuburn. They will stress out various aspects of your system. "cpuburn" was how I first figured out I had a heating problem on my setup. Tom Brinkman helped me with this immensely. -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /etc/resolv.conf
On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:12 pm, Tudor Vinereanu wrote: ->Hi Ronald, -> ->Thanks for the reply! -> ->> My /etc/resolv.conf looks like this: ->> ->> nameserver 192.168.0.1 (which points to my hardware router) -> ->Yes, that's what I have too (well, a different IP address, but still the ->router's). Do you experience any delays when you surf the Web, for ->instance (when you visit an URL for the first time in the session, ->afterwards I think it gets cached)? Because if you don't, then my ->problem lies elsewhere... -> ->Before Mandrake, I used LFS with the same hardware, and I had my ISP's ->DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf. Everything was fast, no delays Not here. I've got broadband (cable-modem) at around 275k average and its pretty fast. Are you sure that you don't have a hostname conflict somewhere? I've seen that slow systems way down. ->I have the same file too, it looks like this: -> ->DEVICE=eth0 ->BOOTPROTO=dhcp ->NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ->ONBOOT=yes ->MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes ->NEEDHOSTNAME=no -> ->The last 2 lines are different, but I believe they don't matter in this ->matter. -> ->As far as I can make, this file is sourced by other scripts that take ->parameters out of it (shell variables). -> ->I've been playing a bit with the scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, ->I was nearly certain that if I create a file "ifdown-eth", it would be ->executed when the Ethernet interface is brought down. It turned out not ->to be the case. -> ->So I wonder: is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-down executed when an ->interface is brought down? To me it looks like it's not, but I could be ->wrong... -> ->Any ideas? -> ->Thanks, ->Tudor I would suppose that it would depend on -how- its brought down. How are you doing it? I usually use (as root/su): ifdown eth0 service network stop or service network restart "ifup" and "ifdown" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts here are links into /sbin/ifdown and /sbin/ifup, so I'm assuming that they are run when I issue any of the above commands. -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] from OS X back to Linux (for now)
Hello All, I've been absent from the list for a while. I just got a PowerBook (about a month ago) so all of my attention had been on getting acclimated to that machine. Now that I am comfortable with my Mac, I am ready to delete my windows 2000 partition on my desktop and go full blown linux on that machine. I plan to go with the FTP install. How can I make sure I get the latest distro with the latest KDE and Gnome Desktops and all the security patches. I was having a few issues with my Linux Partition before, so I suppose I would like to start over. Thanks, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 00:24, Russ wrote: > That is what I meant. I was reinstalling XP on his Compaq laptop and I > finally found the Windows XP serial code on the bottom of his laptop. I > literally searched through everything he had several times. Why they > chose to hid that stupid thing under there is a mistery to me. Actually, Microsoft now requires that the activation key be affixed to the computer case as part of their OEM program. It's to emphasize that the OS license is tied to that particular computer or some such nonsense... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmbuild
On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the > old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building > RPMs from source tarballs. > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput
Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 09:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: Hello, I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error message. Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I get a similar error when loading Gnome. I'm running MDK 9.2. Thanks for any help you can offer! Brandon Brandon; Please do everything in your power to disable HTML encoding in your emails, as this is the prime way that many viruses are transmitted around the Internet. Many people on this list will simply not respond to your problems due to this fact alone. Sometime in the next week, you will receive an email regarding the protocols on this list. Please do your best to study and adopt those protocols to ensure a pleasrable experience for all. In the meantime, try using the MCC hardware panel to re-detect your sound card and asign a proper driver module to it. It would also be a big help if you could include additional info regarding which version of Linux and the brand and model of sound card. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron Transport ZX laptop. Vendor: ?ESS Technology Alternative drivers: ?snd-es1968 Bus: ?PCI Bus identification: ?125d:1978:144d:3240 Location on the bus: ?0:c:0 Description: ?ES1978 Maestro 2E Module: ?maestro Media class: ?MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput
On February 19, 2004 09:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: > Hello, > > I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of > days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error > message. > > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > I get a similar error when loading Gnome. I'm running MDK 9.2. Thanks for > any help you can offer! > > Brandon Brandon; Please do everything in your power to disable HTML encoding in your emails, as this is the prime way that many viruses are transmitted around the Internet. Many people on this list will simply not respond to your problems due to this fact alone. Sometime in the next week, you will receive an email regarding the protocols on this list. Please do your best to study and adopt those protocols to ensure a pleasrable experience for all. In the meantime, try using the MCC hardware panel to re-detect your sound card and asign a proper driver module to it. It would also be a big help if you could include additional info regarding which version of Linux and the brand and model of sound card. Thanks -- 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] rpmbuild
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:41:55 +0200 robin wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the > old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building > RPMs from source tarballs. I use a package called checkinstall to build RPM's from source tarballs. http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php It is a pretty simple process. ./configure, make, become root, checkinstall. and you have an RPM package. -- Job Evers gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net BECAC033 Registered Linux User #346146 http://counter.li.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Sound is kaput
Hello, I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error message. Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I get a similar error when loading Gnome. I'm running MDK 9.2. Thanks for any help you can offer! Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:06:38 -0500 Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 > > > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:49 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:09 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:59:46 -0500 > > > > > > > > > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I get this error message when trying to run make xconfig: > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.3]# make xconfig > > > > HOSTCC scripts/fixdep > > > > SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h > > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o > > > > sed < scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h > scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h > > > > 's/P(\([^,]*\),.*/#define \1 (\*\1_p)/' > > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o > > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o > > > > /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc -i scripts/kconfig/qconf.h -o > > > > scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o > > > > /bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found > > > > make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf.o] Error 127 > > > > make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 > > > > > > Nevermind, just had to install the gcc C++ compiler. But I got several > > > 'trying to assign nonexistant symbol' errors. Is this fatal? > > > > Nah, it just means it that some of the options available for checking > > don't exist, but something was trying to set them. It's perfectly ok and > > normal to have those errors. Did you use the mm patch? if so, you might > > want to rename your source directory to compensate, ie: linux-2.6.3-mm1 > > This may save a headache later. That's just a suggestion though. > > > > Good luck, > > John > > I'm not sure if you saw my other e-mail, so I'll send it again: > > My screen goes completely blank when I try to boot the new kernel. All the > paths are correct(fixed them after I got a kernel panic error at first), and > I've tried noapic, acpi=off, acpi=on, acpi=ht, devfs=mount devfs=nomount. I > just can't seem to get it to boot. Also, I don't think the bootsplash for > kernel version 2.6.3, because I noticed I got an error when patching, and the > option to enable it wasn't there when I ran make xconfig. I doubt that's the > problem though. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Actually it does sound like the problem. I know this sounds like a lot of work, but you might want to follow my steps again and not patch the kernel with bootsplash. Or just change your lilo.conf. I suggest the first you try is changing the lilo.conf file (remember to run lilo afterwards). append="devfs=nomount noapic acpi=off hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom" I figured out how to make burning without scsi'em work. Make the hdb and hdd reflect your cdrom devices. When it's time to burn, you run (replace hdd with your burner): cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd Otherwise, if that doesn't work, save your .config from the source directory, then delete it. Untar the sources again, patch it again with the mm patch, and copy your .config back into the source directory. The follow the steps in my earlier email. Make sure the append line is similar to the one above. HTH, John -- Thu Feb 19 19:33:43 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 An apple a day makes 365 apples a year. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:11 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > Greg, will check the nvida site. for the motherboard correct not > the vid card. Yes, although I believe there is an integrated installer that has the video driver and the motherboard drivers. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On February 19, 2004 08:07 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:21 pm, Lanman wrote: > > On February 19, 2004 03:44 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > > > > Steve; have you looked at the drivers you're using for the > > NVidia card? Other than that, I'd definitely look at your ram > > for the problem. Try removing the ram one stick at a time if > > possible and trying the system that way. If it beahves itself > > after one piece is removed, you've either got a bad stick or a > > bad ram slot. > > lanman > > Have not looked at drivers what shows as an NVIDA card is really > a Leadtek Winfast a340 and they don't seem to have a linux > driver for MD but the have one for free bsd, IA32, AMD64, IA64. > > Will the fre BSD one work? > > As I posted to derek ran the memtest for 3+ hours with no > problem. I have only one stick of memory. > > Thanks > Steve OK, Steve - By the numbers - here we go ! The one called IA32 IS for your system ! It stands for "Intel Architecture 32 Bit", and that's you and me and everyone with a conventional PC. All those with Opterons, AMD 64's, and FX-51's need not apply! Remember this IA32 = x86, OK? There's going to be a written test on this later, so study hard ! Grin! And NO - It will not be multiple choice ! LOL -- 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] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2004 03:44 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > > Below is my original post I had posted back to the list > > that it was fixed but it is not and I don't have any idea > > where to go. I would really like to use Linux but if I can't > > keep it up (alright no one say it is a personal problem) IT > > DOESN'T DO ME MUCH GOOD. > > I see you have an nforce2 board. Have you tried installing > the drivers available from the nvidia website. Also, you > don't say what your vid card is. This definitely sounds like > a hardware problem though. > > > What I have done was to add the acpi=off to the append > > line it was acpi=ht then I rebooted again after doing > > /sbin/lilo/. The machine then stayed up for over 18hrs but I > > only had the desktop open with no application running. I am > > going to try that again and see if it stays up. It's kind of > > hard to just let it sit there and not do anything. It seems > > like it might not be power management because it has locked > > up while I was using it and not just after setting doing > > nothing but last night at was after I left the room to eat > > dinner. > > > > I have also checked all logs from Configure you machine/logs > > in MCC and there is absolutly nothing that would indicate a > > problem. > > > > I also posted a ps -A and someone verified that there were > > no ACPI processes running. > > > > Don't know where else to look. > > > > Steve > > Linux user number 344404 > > ---Original Message--- > > > > From: Steve Kaufman > > Date: 02/17/04 15:46:20 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work > > > > Help please, > > > > This is going to be a real challange. I have installed MD9,2 > > a couple of weeks ago. Some of the people on this list have > > been very wonderfull in helping me to overcome some very > > simple but perplexing problems for a newbie > > > * System Summary * > > > >Motherboard - ASUS - A7N8X - Delux version 2.0 > > Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ 2.0 GHz > > (2500+ overclocked I have run in at 2500 and still happens. > > I have had it at 2700 in > > windows forever and no problems) > > BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG > > Phoenix-Award BIOS v6 00PG, 05/14/03 > > Bus Type: PCI, ISA, USB > > Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial > > Memory: 512 MB (42% Utilized) GEIL 400MHZ > > PC3200 Floppy Disks: 1.44 MB > > Hard Disks: 16.95 GB, 16.95 GB, 114.50 GB, 12.66 > > GB Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM > > Video: 800 x 600 in 64K Colors, NVIDIA > > GeForce FX 5200 Ver. 6.14 128meg - This is really a leadtek A340 card. > > LAN 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet > > Controller NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller < > > Any help would be appreciated. > > What info would be helpful from LINUX? > > > > > > Steve > > Linux user number 344404 Greg, will check the nvida site. for the motherboard correct not the vid card. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
On Thursday 19 February 2004 06:11 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thursday 19 February 2004 3:43 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > > Charlie, when I installed it installs two kernels a 2.4.xx and the 2.6.xx > > kernel, and the 2.4 ended up as default. When I changed lilo to boot the > > 2.6.xx, that is when I saw the speed increase. You might do a uname -v > > and see which one you have running. HTH > > Hi Dennis; > > When I made the statement; > > "Except I'm not seeing any smoking performance increase and I can't make a > 2.6 kernel boot under any circumstances on this old POS." > > I meant exactly that. I can't install from any of the cooker snapshots, I > can't boot any of the 2.6 kernels. I've tried everything I can think of and > everything I've seen suggested on this, the expert, and the cooker lists. > The system is cooker current because I did a urpmi upgrade. It's kept > current. > > No joy. At all. 2.6 kernels just hang after being selected at the LILO > screen. No logs, no errors, no nothing at all. Zero activity. > > BTW, you can see for yourself which kernel is running on this system by > checking the signature attached to my posts. > > Regards; > Charlie > - -- > Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org > Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc3.1mdk > 17:01:32 up 1 day, 18:53, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.10, 0.06 > Hacker's Quicky #313: > Sour Cream -n- Onion Potato Chips > Microwave Egg Roll > Chocolate Milk > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFANVC+ZqvqlrLPr5YRAqssAKCdTHkNyihj4Hnq0btGs1eFp2vdGACgh0yk > DfcfOTDJizAXXFTun/ieXt0= > =qleH > -END PGP SIGNATURE- oops, lack of concentration while reading. Most puzzling. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /etc/resolv.conf
Hi Ronald, Thanks for the reply! > My /etc/resolv.conf looks like this: > > nameserver 192.168.0.1 (which points to my hardware router) Yes, that's what I have too (well, a different IP address, but still the router's). Do you experience any delays when you surf the Web, for instance (when you visit an URL for the first time in the session, afterwards I think it gets cached)? Because if you don't, then my problem lies elsewhere... Before Mandrake, I used LFS with the same hardware, and I had my ISP's DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf. Everything was fast, no delays. > and I believe that the script you are looking for is here: > (and if this is not it, it should be in this area!) > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > and here, it looks like this: > > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > ONBOOT=yes > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no > NEEDHOSTNAME=yes I have the same file too, it looks like this: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes NEEDHOSTNAME=no The last 2 lines are different, but I believe they don't matter in this matter. As far as I can make, this file is sourced by other scripts that take parameters out of it (shell variables). I've been playing a bit with the scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, I was nearly certain that if I create a file "ifdown-eth", it would be executed when the Ethernet interface is brought down. It turned out not to be the case. So I wonder: is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-down executed when an interface is brought down? To me it looks like it's not, but I could be wrong... Any ideas? Thanks, Tudor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:21 pm, Lanman wrote: > On February 19, 2004 03:44 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > > Steve; have you looked at the drivers you're using for the > NVidia card? Other than that, I'd definitely look at your ram > for the problem. Try removing the ram one stick at a time if > possible and trying the system that way. If it beahves itself > after one piece is removed, you've either got a bad stick or a > bad ram slot. lanman Have not looked at drivers what shows as an NVIDA card is really a Leadtek Winfast a340 and they don't seem to have a linux driver for MD but the have one for free bsd, IA32, AMD64, IA64. Will the fre BSD one work? As I posted to derek ran the memtest for 3+ hours with no problem. I have only one stick of memory. Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:49 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:09 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:59:46 -0500 > > > > > > > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I get this error message when trying to run make xconfig: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.3]# make xconfig > > > HOSTCC scripts/fixdep > > > SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o > > > sed < scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h > scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h > > > 's/P(\([^,]*\),.*/#define \1 (\*\1_p)/' > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o > > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o > > > /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc -i scripts/kconfig/qconf.h -o > > > scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o > > > /bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found > > > make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf.o] Error 127 > > > make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 > > > > Nevermind, just had to install the gcc C++ compiler. But I got several > > 'trying to assign nonexistant symbol' errors. Is this fatal? > > Nah, it just means it that some of the options available for checking > don't exist, but something was trying to set them. It's perfectly ok and > normal to have those errors. Did you use the mm patch? if so, you might > want to rename your source directory to compensate, ie: linux-2.6.3-mm1 > This may save a headache later. That's just a suggestion though. > > Good luck, > John I'm not sure if you saw my other e-mail, so I'll send it again: My screen goes completely blank when I try to boot the new kernel. All the paths are correct(fixed them after I got a kernel panic error at first), and I've tried noapic, acpi=off, acpi=on, acpi=ht, devfs=mount devfs=nomount. I just can't seem to get it to boot. Also, I don't think the bootsplash for kernel version 2.6.3, because I noticed I got an error when patching, and the option to enable it wasn't there when I ran make xconfig. I doubt that's the problem though. Any suggestions would be appreciated. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On Thursday 19 February 2004 05:41 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 21:25, Steve Kaufman wrote: > > Thanks Derek. I hope I'm always open to learning new > > things. Now Iall I have to do is figure out how to load and > > run the RPM. Have to switch back to Linux and try. > > It's on your install CD. Just search for it using the Mandrake > Software Installer. Running it is just a matter of selecting > memtest in the Lilo boot screen > > derek Derek, Got it. Loaded it. ran it for 3+ hours without a blip. I will let it run overnight and see what happens. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find Opengroupware how to!!!
On Thursday 19 February 2004 11:09 am, Tango Echo wrote: > > I'm thinking testing opengroupware in my org but seem > to have lost the link to the how to! It was on the > website and called the: > You might want to take a look at this http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/opengroupware.org/en/knoppix/ A livecd with a fully configured opengroupware. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 19 February 2004 3:43 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > Charlie, when I installed it installs two kernels a 2.4.xx and the 2.6.xx > kernel, and the 2.4 ended up as default. When I changed lilo to boot the > 2.6.xx, that is when I saw the speed increase. You might do a uname -v and > see which one you have running. HTH Hi Dennis; When I made the statement; "Except I'm not seeing any smoking performance increase and I can't make a 2.6 kernel boot under any circumstances on this old POS." I meant exactly that. I can't install from any of the cooker snapshots, I can't boot any of the 2.6 kernels. I've tried everything I can think of and everything I've seen suggested on this, the expert, and the cooker lists. The system is cooker current because I did a urpmi upgrade. It's kept current. No joy. At all. 2.6 kernels just hang after being selected at the LILO screen. No logs, no errors, no nothing at all. Zero activity. BTW, you can see for yourself which kernel is running on this system by checking the signature attached to my posts. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc3.1mdk 17:01:32 up 1 day, 18:53, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.10, 0.06 Hacker's Quicky #313: Sour Cream -n- Onion Potato Chips Microwave Egg Roll Chocolate Milk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFANVC+ZqvqlrLPr5YRAqssAKCdTHkNyihj4Hnq0btGs1eFp2vdGACgh0yk DfcfOTDJizAXXFTun/ieXt0= =qleH -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sreensavers
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 08:26, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I have a problem the last time I brought this question up I had 4 > screensavers listed in KDE control center. This morning I was chasing a > different problem and was in the following directory with konq: > /usr/share/applnk/settings/LookNFeel > which had an item 'screensavers.desktop' which of course I clicked on. Up > popped a configuration panel like the one in control center and it listed a > hole bunch of screensavers, not to look a gift horse etc. I clicked on > 'slide show' and could not find any images. I went to control center and > the screensavers had the same list, so I tried again to configure 'slide > show' and could not get any images. I didn't have any images present until I added them either or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying? -- 17:10:43 up 47 min, running Mandrake Linux 10.0rc2, kernel 2.6.2-0.rc3.1mdk on an Intel P4 1.8 Registered Linux user #324360 Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /etc/resolv.conf
On Thursday 19 February 2004 05:12 pm, Tudor Vinereanu wrote: ->Could anybody help me to properly setup my Internet connection? -> ->Another (somehow related) issue is: what's the Mandrake equivalent of ->if-up.eth0? The script that gets executed when the Ethernet interface is ->brought up? -> ->Thanks in advance, ->Tudor Don't know if I can help or not (I've got cable-modem here) but: My /etc/resolv.conf looks like this: nameserver 192.168.0.1 (which points to my hardware router) and I believe that the script you are looking for is here: (and if this is not it, it should be in this area!) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and here, it looks like this: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no NEEDHOSTNAME=yes I hope this helps! :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No Kcontrol
To late... I reinstalled all the system... And right now I'm updating the rpm packages so I will have no problems with the desktop. (And hope to go to bed before going to work) Thank you Christophe Le Vendredi 20 Février 2004 00:52, Dennis Myers a écrit : > On Thursday 19 February 2004 01:46 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: > > Hello, > > Thank you for your quick answer but I have no changes and I get this > > error message > > ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! > > Bye > > Christophe > > > > Le Jeudi 19 Février 2004 18:49, Lanman a écrit : > > > On February 19, 2004 01:27 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: > > > > Me again... > > > > When I open Kcontrol I have absolutely nothing in the different tabs. > > > > That's why I can do nothing... > > > > And the best thing I just open my computer! > > > > What can I do? > > > > Thank you > > > > Christophe > > > > > > > > Le Jeudi 19 Février 2004 17:37, Lanman a écrit : > > > > > On February 19, 2004 11:50 am, Christophe Rhein wrote:hing > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > More wired... > > > > > > When I click on a link in Kmail it opens it in Quanta... > > > > > > Is it me alone or what but for the 15 days experience of linux I > > > > > > have only problems... > > > > > > > > > > > > 1/ My personal folder is not accessible any more like the desktop > > > > > > configuration panel even I tried the update-menus -v comand > > > > > > 2/ I can not setup a printer > > > > > > 3/ I can not install a package like wine or Firefox because > > > > > > rpmDrake is not working anymore... > > > > > > 4/ And now the e-mail links are not opening in Konqueror... > > > > > > > > > > > > A good thing I have Win XP on the same computer to keep on > > > > > > working. So what else can go wrong? > > > > > > Bye > > > > > > Christophe > > > > > > > > > > Open kcontrol>Components>File Associations. The open "text", and > > > > > then click on "HTML. On the right hand side, move your preferred > > > > > browser to the top of the list using the "Move Up" button. Close > > > > > kcontrol and enjoy. > > > > > > Did you open it as root or as a normal user? As root, kcontrol will > > > show you a blank list, until you run menudrake once for the entire > > > system. Open a console, "su -" to root, and run "menudrake". When > > > you're asked, select "System" which will update the menu for all users. > > > > > > SAVE the refreshed list, exit , and open kcontrol as any user and > > > change the preferred browser to your selection as i mentioned earlier. > > > You will need to set the perferred browser for each user on that > > > system, as it is specific to each user. > > Did you try from a su control panel " rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && > update-menus -v" If you did that and still have the problem then some of > your KDE is messed up. You might try sticking in the 1st CDROM and doing an > upgrade. Hope this has not already been mentioned. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where can I read the old messages?
On Thursday 19 February 2004 05:23 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: > Hello. > > I couldn't get anywhere so I reinstalled completly Mandrake 9.2 and since > it is late I forgot to save my mails... > Is it possible to get the old messages from the list? > Thank you > Searchable archives http://marc.theaimsgroup.com -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No Kcontrol
On Thursday 19 February 2004 01:46 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: > Hello, > Thank you for your quick answer but I have no changes and I get this error > message > ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! > Bye > Christophe > > Le Jeudi 19 Février 2004 18:49, Lanman a écrit : > > On February 19, 2004 01:27 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: > > > Me again... > > > When I open Kcontrol I have absolutely nothing in the different tabs. > > > That's why I can do nothing... > > > And the best thing I just open my computer! > > > What can I do? > > > Thank you > > > Christophe > > > > > > Le Jeudi 19 Février 2004 17:37, Lanman a écrit : > > > > On February 19, 2004 11:50 am, Christophe Rhein wrote:hing > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > More wired... > > > > > When I click on a link in Kmail it opens it in Quanta... > > > > > Is it me alone or what but for the 15 days experience of linux I > > > > > have only problems... > > > > > > > > > > 1/ My personal folder is not accessible any more like the desktop > > > > > configuration panel even I tried the update-menus -v comand > > > > > 2/ I can not setup a printer > > > > > 3/ I can not install a package like wine or Firefox because > > > > > rpmDrake is not working anymore... > > > > > 4/ And now the e-mail links are not opening in Konqueror... > > > > > > > > > > A good thing I have Win XP on the same computer to keep on working. > > > > > So what else can go wrong? > > > > > Bye > > > > > Christophe > > > > > > > > Open kcontrol>Components>File Associations. The open "text", and then > > > > click on "HTML. On the right hand side, move your preferred browser > > > > to the top of the list using the "Move Up" button. Close kcontrol and > > > > enjoy. > > > > Did you open it as root or as a normal user? As root, kcontrol will show > > you a blank list, until you run menudrake once for the entire system. > > Open a console, "su -" to root, and run "menudrake". When you're asked, > > select "System" which will update the menu for all users. > > > > SAVE the refreshed list, exit , and open kcontrol as any user and change > > the preferred browser to your selection as i mentioned earlier. You will > > need to set the perferred browser for each user on that system, as it is > > specific to each user. Did you try from a su control panel " rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -v" If you did that and still have the problem then some of your KDE is messed up. You might try sticking in the 1st CDROM and doing an upgrade. Hope this has not already been mentioned. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Move 9.2 and the key drive
On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:54 am, Bill Lawrence wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Apparently Mandrake Move is quite picky about what USB drive one uses. > I have a San Disk Cruzer 128 MB and a Lexar Media device that accepts SD > memory cards. Move doesn't seem to automatically see either of them. > So, I have a twofold question: > Is there any non-automatic way to get Move to store its configuration > files on either device, and then on command load them from there? > What USB drives does it like? >> Bill Lawrence Bill, the best I can determine it likes only usb 1.1 compatible devices. I have a usb 2.0 device that is now locked and will not read at all. It worked the first time and then no more. I took it back to where I bought it and got another and bang, same thing.. It sits in a drawer now waiting for a magic wand. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
On Thursday 19 February 2004 11:21 am, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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> Thursday 19 February 2004 9:33 am, Lanman wrote:
> > On February 19, 2004 11:09 am, Charlie Mahan wrote:
> > > That's been a "feature" since at least 9.2. Probably earlier, I can't
> > > recall precisely when I first encountered it Maybe 9.0 or 9.1?
> > >
> > > I thought everyone knew about it.
> > >
> > > Regards;
> > > Charlie
> >
> > Not everyone Charlie. Sigh! But it IS pretty kewl, eh?
>
> When I start thinking like that ("I thought everyone knew...") it reminds
> me that I'm assembling, installing, upgrading, and configuring, _*way too
> many*_ systems again.
>
> Hobby? Yeah.sure...if you say so.
>
> Always for other people. One of these days, maybe, if I find the extra cash
> and the time
>
> I like what I've seen of Mandrake 10 so far. Except I'm not seeing any
> smoking performance increase and I can't make a 2.6 kernel boot under any
> circumstances on this old POS.
> - --
> Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org
> Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc3.1mdk
> 10:13:53 up 1 day, 12:05, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 1.25, 1.68
> "Money is the root of all money."
> - -- the moving finger
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Charlie, when I installed it installs two kernels a 2.4.xx and the 2.6.xx
kernel, and the 2.4 ended up as default. When I changed lilo to boot the
2.6.xx, that is when I saw the speed increase. You might do a uname -v and
see which one you have running. HTH
--
Dennis M. linux user #180842
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Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 21:25, Steve Kaufman wrote: > Thanks Derek. I hope I'm always open to learning new things. Now Iall I > have to do is figure out how to load and run the RPM. Have to switch back > to Linux and try. > It's on your install CD. Just search for it using the Mandrake Software Installer. Running it is just a matter of selecting memtest in the Lilo boot screen derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
On Thursday 19 February 2004 05:15 am, Lanman wrote: > On February 18, 2004 10:49 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > This is the best I have seen at rc1. I still have a bit of a problem with > > my mouse, but nothing I can not live with. It is a logitech usb wheel > > mouse hooked up to a KVM switch with a PS/2 adaptor. Some times it goes > > nuts for just a bit and then it is ok. Not often, I believe it is when > > the cpu or ram are running near 100% but not able to tell for sure. > > Anyway, lanman called it right, be afraid MS be very afraid. PS. check > > out the "Personal Information Manager" on the toolbar. Very cool. I > > really like the new menu format too. > > Dennis; I'm using the exact same mouse on mine. Trust me - it's the KVM > that's making your mouse go nuts. Mine will take off across the screen for > a scond, every once in a while, but that's just the optics in the mouse > getting a nastly reflection off the desk or table that you're using. Ok, I won't try to solve something that I can't fix. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where can I read the old messages?
Hello. I couldn't get anywhere so I reinstalled completly Mandrake 9.2 and since it is late I forgot to save my mails... Is it possible to get the old messages from the list? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 !
On Thursday 19 February 2004 10:09 am, Tango Echo wrote: > Territory, etc, stuff that requires 3d? Any ideas > what I may have been doing wrong? > Only the latest nvidia driver is compatible with kernel 2.6. Do you have the latest? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connexant modem driver
I am pretty sure it is legal to distribute the beta version of this driver. The license that comes with this driver does explicitly permit to redistribute it and do not have any mention that this license can be revocated. The section 6 of the new licence should only concerns the new driver. I am not a lawer either. I will send an e-mail about this subject to linuxant and see what they answer. Olivier Esser Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dalziel-1.2
News: dalziel is entering its third week of release, without any unresolved issues or complaints. Those who have filled the box reqesting change notification by email on the dalziel web page should by now have been notified of the recent minor updates. Others are reminded that dalziel will save you a lot of time and space in downloading Mandrake if you are only interested in an English version. So try it out!See the signature on this message for how. Further information and all support is by direct email.These Mandrake lists are no longer monitored for dalziel support questions. Ron Stodden wrote: > dalziel-1.2 is the current preferred and fastest method available for downloading the Mandrake trees for English installation.Non-English files and RPMs are not downloaded, saving considerable time and space, which is particularly important for those of you on modem connections. > > dalziel-1.2 now includes fully reconcilable file counts, and logs all exclusion decisions, what file or RPM was not downloaded and exactly > why, in an exclusions.log. > > It also logs the decision made for each pair of local and remote files as to whether to download the remote, rename the local to the name of the remote and download the remote (thus taking advantage of rsync's ability to patch in place rather than completely download), and what kind of match there is and what to do about it. > > It will now tell you quickly whether or not there is any downloading needs to be done. If not, it will save considerable time by not making the main rsync call. > > This will interest the many current users of rsync-plus, who should upgrade, but the layout of the local repository has changed to conform with the present layout of the best mirrors.The documentation tells you how to easily convert your present repository to the new structure. > > How to obtain dalziel-1.2? See the signature below on this message. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] dalziel-1.2 Mandrake English downloader. http://members.optushome.com.au/ronst/ Make sure you complete the changes notification box! Last changed: 2004 02 18 08 00 UTC. 'Dalziel' is pronounced 'DL', like 'd/l' for 'download'. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Mounting Removable drive
Job Evers wrote: > > I have a laptop that came with a flash card reader. Mandrake (9.2) > seems very inconsistent about mounting the drive. Sometimes > /mnt/removable shows up when I start up and sometimes it doesn't. When > it doesn't show up on boot I don't know how to get it mounted. > I had the same problem with an usb-stick. I resolved it by making a device-icon on the desktop, pointing to /dev/sda1 and, mounting it via the icon when I need it. By unmouting it before I pull the stick out, I think I can be sure of data written to it is commited to the stick. There's no entry for it in /etc/fstab /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with wine
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:53:06, Ray Hogaboom wrote: >On Wed February 18 2004 2:22 pm, deedee wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:14:47, Ray Hogaboom wrote: >> >I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not >> > been able to find any Application that will run in under >> > Mandrake Linux 9.2 that will replace the my 2 most important >> > MS-Window apps. >> snip > >Yes I have checked the apps database AuctionTamer or DesignCAD are >not in there. It looks like wine people spend most time working on >widows apps that can be replaced by Linux App or playing games. Wine developers spend their time on what Linux users have asked them to spend their time on. Remember, this is mostly done by volunteers. Like you, many people have a favorite application that they can't do without and for which they've not found a satisfactory Linux substitute for whatever reason it wasn't satisfactory to them. If you have an application that you can't live without and it won't work under wine, you may be able to interest a developer in getting it to work. I was able to do so with one legacy application that I was very anxious to continue using. Try joining the wine mailing list at http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users Wine developers hang out there. Also, you may find people there who have gotten the two applications you want to use to work under wine. >> snip >> >My Problem this is the message I get >> > >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ray]$ wine -v >> >wine client error:2b: version mismatch 118/131. >> >Your wineserver binary was not upgraded correctly, >> >or you have an older one somewhere in your PATH. >> >Or maybe the wrong wineserver is still running? >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ray]$ >> > >> >How do I fix this? > >I was able to fix this problem by typing ps -A in the terminal and >then kill all wine apps that where running. the I typed wine -v it >returned the version # as it should have. The when I tried to run >setup for DesignCAD I now have other errors about not have wine >installed right. Once you have installed wine from a precompiled binary, you may still have problems getting DesignCAD to work. But at that point, the likelihood is that your wine will be installed correctly, so you won't have to worry about that part of the equation. >> CVS versions are really patches on older versions. Since you >> don't have an older version on (and it should be an older version >> that you installed from source code), the package you installed >> was not able to upgrade anything. >> >> You need to remove it and install wine either from source code if >> you wish to continue with cvs versions in the future or install a >> precompiled binary package for ML. >> snip >Again thank for your help and the lesson about CVS versions are >really patches on older versions. > snip >Please tell me why I should keep pulling my hair out and banging my >head against the wall to get Linux to work for me!! > >Is Linux Better That MS-Windows? > >It sure seams to be a lot more trouble to me. For the majority of people, installing Linux from a distribution like Mandrake, SuSE, or Knoppix is really no more problematic than installing ms win. In fact, I personally found it to be a lot easier and faster than installing any ms win release. This was primarily because I didn't have to also install a bunch of drivers to get my components and peripherals to work correctly as I had to under ms win. I personally know quite a few people using Linux who have never been on a mailing list or needed to ask a question about how to get something to work. This is includes people who are rank newbies with regard to computers. I also know a lot of folks who use ms win systems, and every single one of them has experienced some problem or the other with ms win. The only time I had problems with Linux was when I went in (without knowing what I was doing) and "fixed" things. Almost in every instance, if I had understood what the issue was, I would have seen that it was fine at installation, but only needed a simple adjustment. An example was with the sound. I didn't realize that sound defaulted to muted. To get it, all I needed to do was turn the volume up. Unfortunately, I didn't go through the troubleshooting provided by Mandrake first and discover that. If I had, I could have saved myself a lot of frustration. This isn't to say that having problems with Linux systems is unusual. But then, having problems with ms win systems is not unusual either. MS certified manufacturers deliberately disable components in computers as well as install components that are meant to only work when a release of ms win is installed on the machine. Most preassembled computers, as well as preassembled components (like motherboards), are produced by MS certified manufacturers. This is part of the contract they sign with MS. An example is the winmodem. Not only do most computers come with a winmodem preinstalled, but it i
[newbie] rpmbuild
Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source tarballs. Sir Robin -- "Caesar non supra grammaticos." - Suetonius 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] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
Thanks Derek. I hope I'm always open to learning new things. Now Iall I have to do is figure out how to load and run the RPM. Have to switch back to Linux and try. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02/19/04 16:11:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way Steve Whenever anyone complains of lockups like you describe, the most common cause has usually been found to be memory. Now I know you will say it works perfectly in Windows, but the fact is Linux uses memory differently to Windows. Whereas Windows only uses as much memory as the active applications need, Linux will use *all* the available memory as a hard disc cache, so problems in the upper reaches of memory will show up much more on Linux. If you install the memtest86 RPM you will find on rebooting there is a new entry in your Lilo boot screen. Select it, and it will immediately run a continuous memory test. You should be able to run that test all night long without a single error. Any failures, then start looking at your Bios settings. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On Thursday 19 February 2004 03:44 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > Below is my original post I had posted back to the list that it was fixed > but it is not and I don't have any idea where to go. I would really like to > use Linux but if I can't keep it up (alright no one say it is a personal > problem) IT DOESN'T DO ME MUCH GOOD. > I see you have an nforce2 board. Have you tried installing the drivers available from the nvidia website. Also, you don't say what your vid card is. This definitely sounds like a hardware problem though. > What I have done was to add the acpi=off to the append line it was > acpi=ht then I rebooted again after doing /sbin/lilo/. The machine then > stayed up for over 18hrs but I only had the desktop open with no > application running. I am going to try that again and see if it stays up. > It's kind of hard to just let it sit there and not do anything. It seems > like it might not be power management because it has locked up while I was > using it and not just after setting doing nothing but last night at was > after I left the room to eat dinner. > > I have also checked all logs from Configure you machine/logs in MCC and > there is absolutly nothing that would indicate a problem. > > I also posted a ps -A and someone verified that there were no ACPI > processes running. > > Don't know where else to look. > > Steve > Linux user number 344404 > ---Original Message--- > > From: Steve Kaufman > Date: 02/17/04 15:46:20 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work > > Help please, > > This is going to be a real challange. I have installed MD9,2 a couple of > weeks ago. Some of the people on this list have been very wonderfull in > helping me to overcome some very simple but perplexing problems for a > newbie > > > This problem does not happen in windows. I can leave my machine up for days > with no problems. > > Here's todays problem and it is a big one that if I can't fix I may have to > stop using LInux. Intermittently (almost every day) if I leave my pc sit > inactive for some period of time it will just lockup to where I can not > even power off the pc with the power button. I have to turn off at the > surge protector. > > I have tried to isolate this to an application and have been unable to. The > only time it does not seem to happen is when I have no applications open on > my desktop. As long as the cursor is resting on the desktop not in an > application then the pc does not seem to lock up. > > The only application that I have installed other than the defaut ones that > come with the 9.2 install is Thunderbird but I have also tried not running > Thunderbird after a boot to see what would happen and it still locks up. > The only applications I have really been using are. MCC functions for > updates and trying to make sure my hardware is configured correctly. I read > email both with Thunderbird and Kmail. Web browsing with Konqour. > > What I have done to attempt to isolate the problem. > - I have disabled all power management in the bios and in MD (from MCC) > - I have tried leaving various applications open or closed and I can not > find a pattern. > - I have installed all updates. > - I have looked in logs but don't see anything when it hangs. The logs I > look at are the ones which can be seen in MCC. > > My hardware: > * System Summary * > >Motherboard - ASUS - A7N8X - Delux version 2.0 > Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ 2.0 GHz (2500+ overclocked > I have run in at 2500 and still happens. > I have had it at 2700 in windows forever > and no problems) > BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Phoenix-Award BIOS v6 > 00PG, 05/14/03 > Bus Type: PCI, ISA, USB > Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial > Memory: 512 MB (42% Utilized) GEIL 400MHZ PC3200 > Floppy Disks: 1.44 MB > Hard Disks: 16.95 GB, 16.95 GB, 114.50 GB, 12.66 GB > Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM > Video: 800 x 600 in 64K Colors, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 > Ver. 6.14 128meg > LAN 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller > NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller > < Operating System > > Windows:5.0 (Build 2195) > > < IBM Enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard > > > < MICROSOFT PS2 MOUSE > > > < Drive C > WINDOWS drive MAXTOR > Total space in drive: 122,934,034,432 bytes (114.49 GB) > Used space: 14,998,540,288 bytes (13.97 GB) > Available space: 107,935,494,144 bytes (100.52 GB) > > < Volume Information > > File System: NTFS > > D = LITEON 52x32x52 CD-RW > > E= LINUX drive WDC, 13GB I think. Windows has no idea what's on here. > > < Drive F > Compaq SCSI - BB01821AC3 > Total space in drive: 18,202,509,312 bytes (16.95 GB) > Used space: 11,992,743,936 bytes (11.17 GB) > Available space: 6,209,765,376
Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On February 19, 2004 03:44 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Steve; have you looked at the drivers you're using for the NVidia card? Other than that, I'd definitely look at your ram for the problem. Try removing the ram one stick at a time if possible and trying the system that way. If it beahves itself after one piece is removed, you've either got a bad stick or a bad ram slot. -- 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] Problems with wine
On February 19, 2004 04:49 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2004 13:53, Ray Hogaboom wrote: > > > > > > >I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not > > > > been able to find any Application that will run in under > > > > Mandrake Linux 9.2 that will replace the my 2 most important > > > > MS-Window apps. These are AuctionTamer I use this to manage > > > > my eBay Auctions, and DesignCAD a 3D CAD program used for > > > > drawing home remodeling, Cabinets and a host of other > > > > building project plans. > > > > Ray, I don't know about eBay Auctions, and next to nothing about > CAD, but on my box I find this drawing app, capable of doing 3D > animations, viewing and drawing strange figures and whatnot : > Its name is "Blender". > > HTH > > Kaj Haulrich. While you're at it, do a google for "QCad" and "VariCad". -- 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] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 20:44, Steve Kaufman wrote: > Below is my original post I had posted back to the list that it was fixed > but it is not and I don't have any idea where to go. I would really like to > use Linux but if I can't keep it up (alright no one say it is a personal > problem) IT DOESN'T DO ME MUCH GOOD. > > What I have done was to add the acpi=off to the append line it was > acpi=ht then I rebooted again after doing /sbin/lilo/. The machine then > stayed up for over 18hrs but I only had the desktop open with no > application running. I am going to try that again and see if it stays up. > It's kind of hard to just let it sit there and not do anything. It seems > like it might not be power management because it has locked up while I was > using it and not just after setting doing nothing but last night at was > after I left the room to eat dinner. > > I have also checked all logs from Configure you machine/logs in MCC and > there is absolutly nothing that would indicate a problem. > > I also posted a ps -A and someone verified that there were no ACPI > processes running. > > Don't know where else to look. > > Steve > Linux user number 344404 > ---Original Message--- > > From: Steve Kaufman > Date: 02/17/04 15:46:20 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work > > Help please, > > This is going to be a real challange. I have installed MD9,2 a couple of > weeks ago. Some of the people on this list have been very wonderfull in > helping me to overcome some very simple but perplexing problems for a > newbie > > > This problem does not happen in windows. I can leave my machine up for days > with no problems. > > Here's todays problem and it is a big one that if I can't fix I may have to > stop using LInux. Intermittently (almost every day) if I leave my pc sit > inactive for some period of time it will just lockup to where I can not > even power off the pc with the power button. I have to turn off at the > surge protector. > > I have tried to isolate this to an application and have been unable to. The > only time it does not seem to happen is when I have no applications open on > my desktop. As long as the cursor is resting on the desktop not in an > application then the pc does not seem to lock up. > > The only application that I have installed other than the defaut ones that > come with the 9.2 install is Thunderbird but I have also tried not running > Thunderbird after a boot to see what would happen and it still locks up. > The only applications I have really been using are. MCC functions for > updates and trying to make sure my hardware is configured correctly. I read > email both with Thunderbird and Kmail. Web browsing with Konqour. > > What I have done to attempt to isolate the problem. > - I have disabled all power management in the bios and in MD (from MCC) > - I have tried leaving various applications open or closed and I can not > find a pattern. > - I have installed all updates. > - I have looked in logs but don't see anything when it hangs. The logs I > look at are the ones which can be seen in MCC. > > My hardware: > * System Summary * > >Motherboard - ASUS - A7N8X - Delux version 2.0 > Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ 2.0 GHz (2500+ overclocked > I have run in at 2500 and still happens. > I have had it at 2700 in windows forever > and no problems) > BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Phoenix-Award BIOS v6 > 00PG, 05/14/03 > Bus Type: PCI, ISA, USB > Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial > Memory: 512 MB (42% Utilized) GEIL 400MHZ PC3200 > Floppy Disks: 1.44 MB > Hard Disks: 16.95 GB, 16.95 GB, 114.50 GB, 12.66 GB > Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM > Video: 800 x 600 in 64K Colors, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 > Ver. 6.14 128meg > LAN 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller > NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller > < Operating System > > Windows:5.0 (Build 2195) > > < IBM Enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard > > > < MICROSOFT PS2 MOUSE > > > < Drive C > WINDOWS drive MAXTOR > Total space in drive: 122,934,034,432 bytes (114.49 GB) > Used space: 14,998,540,288 bytes (13.97 GB) > Available space: 107,935,494,144 bytes (100.52 GB) > > < Volume Information > > File System: NTFS > > D = LITEON 52x32x52 CD-RW > > E= LINUX drive WDC, 13GB I think. Windows has no idea what's on here. > > < Drive F > Compaq SCSI - BB01821AC3 > Total space in drive: 18,202,509,312 bytes (16.95 GB) > Used space: 11,992,743,936 bytes (11.17 GB) > Available space: 6,209,765,376 bytes (5.78 GB) > > < Volume Information > > File System: NTFS > > < Drive G > COMPAQ SCSI - BB018222CA > Total space in drive: 18,158,800,896 bytes (16.91 GB) > Used space: 6,830,092,288 bytes (6.36 GB) > Available
Re: [newbie] Problems with wine
On Thursday 19 February 2004 13:53, Ray Hogaboom wrote: > > >I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not > > > been able to find any Application that will run in under > > > Mandrake Linux 9.2 that will replace the my 2 most important > > > MS-Window apps. These are AuctionTamer I use this to manage > > > my eBay Auctions, and DesignCAD a 3D CAD program used for > > > drawing home remodeling, Cabinets and a host of other > > > building project plans. Ray, I don't know about eBay Auctions, and next to nothing about CAD, but on my box I find this drawing app, capable of doing 3D animations, viewing and drawing strange figures and whatnot : Its name is "Blender". HTH Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way
Below is my original post I had posted back to the list that it was fixed but it is not and I don't have any idea where to go. I would really like to use Linux but if I can't keep it up (alright no one say it is a personal problem) IT DOESN'T DO ME MUCH GOOD. What I have done was to add the acpi=off to the append line it was acpi=ht then I rebooted again after doing /sbin/lilo/. The machine then stayed up for over 18hrs but I only had the desktop open with no application running. I am going to try that again and see if it stays up. It's kind of hard to just let it sit there and not do anything. It seems like it might not be power management because it has locked up while I was using it and not just after setting doing nothing but last night at was after I left the room to eat dinner. I have also checked all logs from Configure you machine/logs in MCC and there is absolutly nothing that would indicate a problem. I also posted a ps -A and someone verified that there were no ACPI processes running. Don't know where else to look. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: Steve Kaufman Date: 02/17/04 15:46:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work Help please, This is going to be a real challange. I have installed MD9,2 a couple of weeks ago. Some of the people on this list have been very wonderfull in helping me to overcome some very simple but perplexing problems for a newbie This problem does not happen in windows. I can leave my machine up for days with no problems. Here's todays problem and it is a big one that if I can't fix I may have to stop using LInux. Intermittently (almost every day) if I leave my pc sit inactive for some period of time it will just lockup to where I can not even power off the pc with the power button. I have to turn off at the surge protector. I have tried to isolate this to an application and have been unable to. The only time it does not seem to happen is when I have no applications open on my desktop. As long as the cursor is resting on the desktop not in an application then the pc does not seem to lock up. The only application that I have installed other than the defaut ones that come with the 9.2 install is Thunderbird but I have also tried not running Thunderbird after a boot to see what would happen and it still locks up. The only applications I have really been using are. MCC functions for updates and trying to make sure my hardware is configured correctly. I read email both with Thunderbird and Kmail. Web browsing with Konqour. What I have done to attempt to isolate the problem. - I have disabled all power management in the bios and in MD (from MCC) - I have tried leaving various applications open or closed and I can not find a pattern. - I have installed all updates. - I have looked in logs but don't see anything when it hangs. The logs I look at are the ones which can be seen in MCC. My hardware: * System Summary * Motherboard - ASUS - A7N8X - Delux version 2.0 Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ 2.0 GHz (2500+ overclocked I have run in at 2500 and still happens. I have had it at 2700 in windows forever and no problems) BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Phoenix-Award BIOS v6 00PG, 05/14/03 Bus Type: PCI, ISA, USB Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial Memory: 512 MB (42% Utilized) GEIL 400MHZ PC3200 Floppy Disks: 1.44 MB Hard Disks: 16.95 GB, 16.95 GB, 114.50 GB, 12.66 GB Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM Video: 800 x 600 in 64K Colors, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ver. 6.14 128meg LAN 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller < Operating System > Windows:5.0 (Build 2195) < IBM Enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard > < MICROSOFT PS2 MOUSE > < Drive C > WINDOWS drive MAXTOR Total space in drive: 122,934,034,432 bytes (114.49 GB) Used space: 14,998,540,288 bytes (13.97 GB) Available space: 107,935,494,144 bytes (100.52 GB) < Volume Information > File System: NTFS D = LITEON 52x32x52 CD-RW E= LINUX drive WDC, 13GB I think. Windows has no idea what's on here. < Drive F > Compaq SCSI - BB01821AC3 Total space in drive: 18,202,509,312 bytes (16.95 GB) Used space: 11,992,743,936 bytes (11.17 GB) Available space: 6,209,765,376 bytes (5.78 GB) < Volume Information > File System: NTFS < Drive G > COMPAQ SCSI - BB018222CA Total space in drive: 18,158,800,896 bytes (16.91 GB) Used space: 6,830,092,288 bytes (6.36 GB) Available space: 11,328,708,608 bytes (10.55 GB) < Volume Information > File System: FAT32 Drive H = CD-R 48x Any help would be appreciated. What info would be helpful from LINUX? Steve Linux user number 344404
Re: [newbie] Resolution Settings
On Thursday 19 February 2004 03:38 pm, Mike Begin wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolution Settings > > On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:58 pm, Mike Begin wrote: > > I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Virtual drive and > > messed up the screen settings (color / resolution). > > Can I change that back at the command prompt? On > > bootup? It is very hard to see the screen at the > > moment. > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > Hold down ALT and CTRL and hit backspace. Then type init > 3 > > Then xf86config > > Or just type mcc and use Mandrake Control Center. Hmmm, That's odd, try the init 3 command, that will close X completly and put you in text mode. init 3 All text. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net http://www.misfits.com http://www.onethirtyeight.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: CD problem FIXED!
Adam Halesworth wrote: > Ok, so heres the basics. I have an HP 8100+ CD-RW drive and basically, > every time I tried to access it, the desktop would crash (For around 15 > minutes, and then come back) and basically the entire operating system > was sluggish and sometimes programs failed to start. Today I bought a > bog standard Samsung 52x CD-ROM drive for as cheap as dirt and not only > does Mandrake run smoother and faster, I can actually access CD's! Im > guessing Mandrake just didnt like the HP CD-RW drive, because right now > everything's fine! Hi Adam! I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the old trademark 'It works for me' is appropiate here. I've been using that drive since mdk 7.0, and it has always worked (I'm with mdk 9.1 now, but a test install with mdk 10 beta2 was made with that drive too) You did use scsi-emulation? /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Resolution Settings
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolution Settings On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:58 pm, Mike Begin wrote: > I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Virtual drive and > messed up the screen settings (color / resolution). Can > I change that back at the command prompt? On bootup? It > is very hard to see the screen at the moment. > > Thanks, > Mike Hold down ALT and CTRL and hit backspace. Then type init 3 Then xf86config Or just type mcc and use Mandrake Control Center. -- __ 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 Thanks for the response! When I type Ctrl Alt Bksp it takes me to the system prompt, then immediately launches KDE again?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resolution Settings
On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:58 pm, Mike Begin wrote: > I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Virtual drive and > messed up the screen settings (color / resolution). Can > I change that back at the command prompt? On bootup? It > is very hard to see the screen at the moment. > > Thanks, > Mike Hold down ALT and CTRL and hit backspace. Then type init 3 Then xf86config Or just type mcc and use Mandrake Control Center. -- __ 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] Problem with Hotway
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am using hotway to download my Hotmail e-mail. However, whenever I send a bcc copy to myself from my Hotmail account to my Hotmail account, the message is not correctly downloaded, in the sense that the sender name and the subject are not downloaded. Could somebody here please help me with this problem? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul _ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Resolution Settings
I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Virtual drive and messed up the screen settings (color / resolution). Can I change that back at the command prompt? On bootup? It is very hard to see the screen at the moment. Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with Hotway
Dear All I am using hotway to download my Hotmail e-mail. However, whenever I send a bcc copy to myself from my Hotmail account to my Hotmail account, the message is not correctly downloaded, in the sense that the sender name and the subject are not downloaded. Could somebody here please help me with this problem? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul _ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connexant modem driver
On February 19, 2004 01:56 pm, frankieh wrote: > Thats not really fair, and I am not sure its legally possible.. > > because they shouldn't be able to change the license of software that > was already out before they took charge.. > For example, if that were possible, M$ could sell more copies of windows > XP, by telling everyone that their licences for 98, ME and 2000 are all > now invalid and they most remove them... > > doesnt' seem right to me, but then I am no lawyer. > > rgds > > Franki Franki; You're right! It isn't fair! But you're also wrong. Microsoft has the legal right to withdraw their licenses whenever they want to. Someday, have a look at the EULA on your systems that have Microsoft Windows installed on them. Then, try to read the additional EULA's that you agree to everytime you use Windows Update. By agreeing to the licenses, you give them that right! They would definitely piss off a lot of people, and they'd have a lot of court time if they decided to force the issue, but they are entitled to do it. And the weeping starts anew! -- 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] Connexant modem driver
Thats not really fair, and I am not sure its legally possible.. because they shouldn't be able to change the license of software that was already out before they took charge.. For example, if that were possible, M$ could sell more copies of windows XP, by telling everyone that their licences for 98, ME and 2000 are all now invalid and they most remove them... doesnt' seem right to me, but then I am no lawyer. rgds Franki Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Olivier Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:09:13 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Connexant modem driver The beta version of this driver was available free of charge and according to the licence was redistribuable. It support full speed modem connection but not the fax and works only on 2.4 kernel. If anyone is interested I can send him a copy of this driver by e-mail, please ask (please send your ask directly at my address, the volume of the mailing list is soo high that I could miss your email) I think we should put this beta driver on a website; but even if the licence apparently give me the right to do so, I am still afraid of the legal issue of this. Could anyone which have also downloaded ensure me that we stay on the legal side. Olivier Esser According to section 6 of the Linuxant "License/Legal Disclaimer", it appears that it is illegal to redistribute any of the previous beta versions of the driver. http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/license.php I did a google however, and I found this source being provided by someone who may be unaware of the legal implications. http://dominia.org/djao/hsflinmodem/hcfpcimodem-0.99mbsibeta02123100-1.src.rpm I am in no way advocating that anyone download or use these beta versions. Nor would I recommend anyone make them available for download. Best regards to all. -- "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** 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] No Kcontrol
Hello, Thank you for your quick answer but I have no changes and I get this error message ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! Bye Christophe Le Jeudi 19 Février 2004 18:49, Lanman a écrit : > On February 19, 2004 01:27 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: > > Me again... > > When I open Kcontrol I have absolutely nothing in the different tabs. > > That's why I can do nothing... > > And the best thing I just open my computer! > > What can I do? > > Thank you > > Christophe > > > > Le Jeudi 19 Février 2004 17:37, Lanman a écrit : > > > On February 19, 2004 11:50 am, Christophe Rhein wrote:hing > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > More wired... > > > > When I click on a link in Kmail it opens it in Quanta... > > > > Is it me alone or what but for the 15 days experience of linux I have > > > > only problems... > > > > > > > > 1/ My personal folder is not accessible any more like the desktop > > > > configuration panel even I tried the update-menus -v comand > > > > 2/ I can not setup a printer > > > > 3/ I can not install a package like wine or Firefox because rpmDrake > > > > is not working anymore... > > > > 4/ And now the e-mail links are not opening in Konqueror... > > > > > > > > A good thing I have Win XP on the same computer to keep on working. > > > > So what else can go wrong? > > > > Bye > > > > Christophe > > > > > > Open kcontrol>Components>File Associations. The open "text", and then > > > click on "HTML. On the right hand side, move your preferred browser to > > > the top of the list using the "Move Up" button. Close kcontrol and > > > enjoy. > > Did you open it as root or as a normal user? As root, kcontrol will show > you a blank list, until you run menudrake once for the entire system. Open > a console, "su -" to root, and run "menudrake". When you're asked, select > "System" which will update the menu for all users. > > SAVE the refreshed list, exit , and open kcontrol as any user and change > the preferred browser to your selection as i mentioned earlier. You will > need to set the perferred browser for each user on that system, as it is > specific to each user. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:49 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:09 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:59:46 -0500 > > > > > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get this error message when trying to run make xconfig: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.3]# make xconfig > > HOSTCC scripts/fixdep > > SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o > > sed < scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h > scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h > > 's/P(\([^,]*\),.*/#define \1 (\*\1_p)/' > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o > > /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc -i scripts/kconfig/qconf.h -o > > scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o > > /bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found > > make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf.o] Error 127 > > make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 > > Nevermind, just had to install the gcc C++ compiler. But I got several > 'trying to assign nonexistant symbol' errors. Is this fatal? > Nah, it just means it that some of the options available for checking don't exist, but something was trying to set them. It's perfectly ok and normal to have those errors. Did you use the mm patch? if so, you might want to rename your source directory to compensate, ie: linux-2.6.3-mm1 This may save a headache later. That's just a suggestion though. Good luck, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 1 minor annoyance in 10.0
On February 19, 2004 10:58 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2004 09:54 am, Lanman wrote: > > Finally found one thing in 10.0 RC1 that isn't 100%. My NIC, which is a > > Broadcom 440X card is detected, and configured by Drakconnect without a > > hitch. > > > > But if I reboot the laptop, it fails to load the driver module for the > > NIC. Does anyone have an idea where I can lock down the configuration for > > the card, or what comand I can add to rc.local to reload the driver > > module? > > > > The driver modules aren't stored in the usual places, so insmod fails to > > load the driver, but drakconnect nails it everytime. Go figure ! > > Modules.conf was replaced in 2.6 with modprobe.conf,and modules was > replaced with modprobe.preload, so you might want to start there. SOme > people have reported dealing with this successfully by making an entry in > the > modules.preload file for the nic module and then putting a alias > "nicmodule" ethx" in modprobe.conf Greg; You Crazy Whimsical Guy ! Your info helped me to solve the problem ! Thanks a bunch. I found out that all I needed to do was to do a "modprobe" for my driver module, and add it to rc.local along with a second line to bring up eth0 ( ifup eth0 ). Damned if it didn't work like a charm! Thanks for your inspirational ideas. Not a perfect hack, abd not as perfect as adding info to the preload file, but now that this way works, I'll have a look at preload ans see how I can screw that file up! Thanks again! -- 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] Connexant modem driver
- Original Message - From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:12:08 -0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Connexant modem driver > > - Original Message - > From: Olivier Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:09:13 + > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Connexant modem driver > > > The beta version of this driver was available free of charge and > > according to the licence was redistribuable. It support full speed modem > > connection but not the fax and works only on 2.4 kernel. If anyone is > > interested I can send him a copy of this driver by e-mail, please ask > > (please send your ask directly at my address, the volume of the mailing > > list is soo high that I could miss your email) > > > > I think we should put this beta driver on a website; but even if the > > licence apparently give me the right to do so, I am still afraid of the > > legal issue of this. Could anyone which have also downloaded ensure me > > that we stay on the legal side. > > > > Olivier Esser > > > According to section 6 of the Linuxant "License/Legal Disclaimer", > it appears that it is illegal to redistribute any of the previous beta > versions of the driver. > http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/license.php > > I did a google however, and I found this source being provided by > someone who may be unaware of the legal implications. > http://dominia.org/djao/hsflinmodem/hcfpcimodem-0.99mbsibeta02123100-1.src.rpm > > I am in no way advocating that anyone download or use these beta versions. > Nor would I recommend anyone make them available for download. > > Best regards to all. > >*** Correction: http://dominia.org/djao/hsflinmodem/ -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. >From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connexant modem driver
- Original Message - From: Olivier Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:09:13 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Connexant modem driver > The beta version of this driver was available free of charge and > according to the licence was redistribuable. It support full speed modem > connection but not the fax and works only on 2.4 kernel. If anyone is > interested I can send him a copy of this driver by e-mail, please ask > (please send your ask directly at my address, the volume of the mailing > list is soo high that I could miss your email) > > I think we should put this beta driver on a website; but even if the > licence apparently give me the right to do so, I am still afraid of the > legal issue of this. Could anyone which have also downloaded ensure me > that we stay on the legal side. > > Olivier Esser > According to section 6 of the Linuxant "License/Legal Disclaimer", it appears that it is illegal to redistribute any of the previous beta versions of the driver. http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/license.php I did a google however, and I found this source being provided by someone who may be unaware of the legal implications. http://dominia.org/djao/hsflinmodem/hcfpcimodem-0.99mbsibeta02123100-1.src.rpm I am in no way advocating that anyone download or use these beta versions. Nor would I recommend anyone make them available for download. Best regards to all. -- "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. >From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
On February 19, 2004 12:21 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > I like what I've seen of Mandrake 10 so far. Except I'm not seeing any > smoking performance increase and I can't make a 2.6 kernel boot under any > circumstances on this old POS. The 2.6 kernel is what makes the difference in performance, I think. Beta 2 ran like a whiz on my PC's, but like a dawg on my laptop. Now it runs fast on all of them. Go Figure! Just as an indicator, you'll see as much as 40% improvement in speed. It's like putting DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 on a P4-3.0 Ghz Hyper-threading system for me. Oh! Silly me, it IS a P4 ! Seriously though, it's much more faster-er-er than it was. -- 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] No Kcontrol
On February 19, 2004 01:27 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: > Me again... > When I open Kcontrol I have absolutely nothing in the different tabs. > That's why I can do nothing... > And the best thing I just open my computer! > What can I do? > Thank you > Christophe > > Le Jeudi 19 Février 2004 17:37, Lanman a écrit : > > On February 19, 2004 11:50 am, Christophe Rhein wrote:hing > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > More wired... > > > When I click on a link in Kmail it opens it in Quanta... > > > Is it me alone or what but for the 15 days experience of linux I have > > > only problems... > > > > > > 1/ My personal folder is not accessible any more like the desktop > > > configuration panel even I tried the update-menus -v comand > > > 2/ I can not setup a printer > > > 3/ I can not install a package like wine or Firefox because rpmDrake is > > > not working anymore... > > > 4/ And now the e-mail links are not opening in Konqueror... > > > > > > A good thing I have Win XP on the same computer to keep on working. > > > So what else can go wrong? > > > Bye > > > Christophe > > > > Open kcontrol>Components>File Associations. The open "text", and then > > click on "HTML. On the right hand side, move your preferred browser to > > the top of the list using the "Move Up" button. Close kcontrol and enjoy. Did you open it as root or as a normal user? As root, kcontrol will show you a blank list, until you run menudrake once for the entire system. Open a console, "su -" to root, and run "menudrake". When you're asked, select "System" which will update the menu for all users. SAVE the refreshed list, exit , and open kcontrol as any user and change the preferred browser to your selection as i mentioned earlier. You will need to set the perferred browser for each user on that system, as it is specific to each user. -- 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
[newbie] reading audio
recording 4391.8933 seconds stereo with 16 bits @ 44100.0 Hz ->'/root/tmp/track-01'... using lib paranoia for reading. cdda2wav: Input/output error. ReadCD MMC 12: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: BE 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 4B 10 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x48 Qual 0x00 (initiator detected error message received) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 4.504s timeout 300s cdda2wav: Input/output error. ReadCD MMC 12: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: BE 04 00 00 00 42 00 00 4B 10 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x48 Qual 0x00 (initiator detected error message received) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 2.058s timeout 300s I cannot see why is it none of the audio read programmes cannot read the audio disc in M9.1. Now I know it cannot be the drive itself, works ok with EZCD5 in windblows. Something about my setup seems to be blocking the read.But what ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
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Thursday 19 February 2004 9:33 am, Lanman wrote:
> On February 19, 2004 11:09 am, Charlie Mahan wrote:
> > That's been a "feature" since at least 9.2. Probably earlier, I can't
> > recall precisely when I first encountered it Maybe 9.0 or 9.1?
> >
> > I thought everyone knew about it.
> >
> > Regards;
> > Charlie
>
> Not everyone Charlie. Sigh! But it IS pretty kewl, eh?
When I start thinking like that ("I thought everyone knew...") it reminds me
that I'm assembling, installing, upgrading, and configuring, _*way too many*_
systems again.
Hobby? Yeah.sure...if you say so.
Always for other people. One of these days, maybe, if I find the extra cash
and the time
I like what I've seen of Mandrake 10 so far. Except I'm not seeing any smoking
performance increase and I can't make a 2.6 kernel boot under any
circumstances on this old POS.
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Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc3.1mdk
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Re: [newbie] No Kcontrol
Me again... When I open Kcontrol I have absolutely nothing in the different tabs. That's why I can do nothing... And the best thing I just open my computer! What can I do? Thank you Christophe Le Jeudi 19 Février 2004 17:37, Lanman a écrit : > On February 19, 2004 11:50 am, Christophe Rhein wrote:hing > > Hello, > > > > More wired... > > When I click on a link in Kmail it opens it in Quanta... > > Is it me alone or what but for the 15 days experience of linux I have > > only problems... > > > > 1/ My personal folder is not accessible any more like the desktop > > configuration panel even I tried the update-menus -v comand > > 2/ I can not setup a printer > > 3/ I can not install a package like wine or Firefox because rpmDrake is > > not working anymore... > > 4/ And now the e-mail links are not opening in Konqueror... > > > > A good thing I have Win XP on the same computer to keep on working. > > So what else can go wrong? > > Bye > > Christophe > > Open kcontrol>Components>File Associations. The open "text", and then click > on "HTML. On the right hand side, move your preferred browser to the top of > the list using the "Move Up" button. Close kcontrol and enjoy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with wine
On Wed February 18 2004 2:22 pm, deedee wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:14:47, Ray Hogaboom wrote: > >I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not > > been able to find any Application that will run in under > > Mandrake Linux 9.2 that will replace the my 2 most important > > MS-Window apps. These are AuctionTamer I use this to manage my > > eBay Auctions, and DesignCAD a 3D CAD program used for drawing > > home remodeling, Cabinets and a host of other building project > > plans. > > Have you checked the wine apps database to see if someone has > successfully been able to get them to work under wine? You can > check the database at Thanks for your reply Yes I have checked the apps database AuctionTamer or DesignCAD are not in there. It looks like wine people spend most time working on widows apps that can be replaced by Linux App or playing games. Seams to be a wast to me, if you have a Linux app that will do the job then use it. As far as Games go I do not put any games on my computer. I have spent way to much time fixing MS-Windos computer for other people because of games screwing things up. > > http://appdb.winehq.com > > >After installing Mandrake Linux 9.2 I used rpmdrake to install > > Wine. But I was thinking that some thing went wrong with this > > install. After starting wine I > > I don't know which wine ML9.2 comes with, but it is likely to be > an older version than the current stable version. > > >I then used rpmdrake Software Package Removal to remove wine. > > Then downloaded wine-cvs-glibc23-opengl-20040215-1.i586.rpm > > From http://wine.dataparty.no/ This would give me the latest > > version of wine. Then used > > http://wine.dataparty.no/install.html instruction. > > If you are new to Linux and to wine, using a cvs version is not a > good idea. That's the version that developers are using, and it > may not be stable. Instead you should remove it and go to the > following site where the latest stable wine rpms are available > for ML. > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241 > > >My Problem this is the message I get > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ray]$ wine -v > >wine client error:2b: version mismatch 118/131. > >Your wineserver binary was not upgraded correctly, > >or you have an older one somewhere in your PATH. > >Or maybe the wrong wineserver is still running? > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ray]$ > > > >How do I fix this? I was able to fix this problem by typing ps -A in the terminal and then kill all wine apps that where running. the I typed wine -v it returned the version # as it should have. The when I tried to run setup for DesignCAD I now have other errors about not have wine installed right. So I will now try installing the RPM Package as you suggest. > > CVS versions are really patches on older versions. Since you > don't have an older version on (and it should be an older version > that you installed from source code), the package you installed > was not able to upgrade anything. > > You need to remove it and install wine either from source code if > you wish to continue with cvs versions in the future or install a > precompiled binary package for ML. > > deedee > --- > Registered Linux User #327485 > Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" > http://www.wordstar2.com > Also, see the WordStar Users Group > http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar > > > > > > Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/ >default.asp?SRC=lycos10 Again thank for your help and the lesson about CVS versions are really patches on older versions. -- Ray Hogaboom Please tell me why I should keep pulling my hair out and banging my head against the wall to get Linux to work for me!! Is Linux Better That MS-Windows? It sure seams to be a lot more trouble to me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
> > From: "di di" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/02/19 Thu AM 07:54:39 CST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1 > > Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching > from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more > stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? > > I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in > ramwill these requirements fullfill? I have 9.2 running on a Dell Inspiron 266MHz with 144MB ram, and KDE works well. Rob 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] Mounting Removable drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 19 February 2004 12:49 pm, Job Evers wrote: > I have a laptop that came with a flash card reader. Mandrake (9.2) > seems very inconsistent about mounting the drive. Sometimes > /mnt/removable shows up when I start up and sometimes it doesn't. When > it doesn't show up on boot I don't know how to get it mounted. > > $ mount /mnt/removable > mount: can't find /mnt/removable in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab > > The only fix I have been able to find is to stick the > flash card in the reader and then reboot. > > What would be a better way of getting my getting the drive mounted? > > Cheers, > > Job Maybe if you tried running the command below with the flash drive plugged in, as super user, you wouldn't have to reboot. mount -a That should mount anything the file system table has specified. Take a look at /etc/mtab, run the command above and have another look. mtab lists what's mounted, based on the configuration in /etc/fstab. Maybe we'll see something if you post a copy of both fstab and mtab. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc3.1mdk 09:28:16 up 1 day, 11:20, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.25, 0.30 When in doubt, do what the President does -- guess. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFANOXVZqvqlrLPr5YRApdeAJ9NDj0AOXN1khnZFIsCLkk26zMtwQCbBY4+ Bkryy6ksIV+D9K6/C5mCboU= =VPkP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
On February 19, 2004 11:09 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: > That's been a "feature" since at least 9.2. Probably earlier, I can't > recall precisely when I first encountered it Maybe 9.0 or 9.1? > > I thought everyone knew about it. > > Regards; > Charlie Not everyone Charlie. Sigh! But it IS pretty kewl, eh? -- 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] More wired... Kmail
On February 19, 2004 11:50 am, Christophe Rhein wrote: > Hello, > > More wired... > When I click on a link in Kmail it opens it in Quanta... > Is it me alone or what but for the 15 days experience of linux I have only > problems... > > 1/ My personal folder is not accessible any more like the desktop > configuration panel even I tried the update-menus -v comand > 2/ I can not setup a printer > 3/ I can not install a package like wine or Firefox because rpmDrake is not > working anymore... > 4/ And now the e-mail links are not opening in Konqueror... > > A good thing I have Win XP on the same computer to keep on working. > So what else can go wrong? > Bye > Christophe Open kcontrol>Components>File Associations. The open "text", and then click on "HTML. On the right hand side, move your preferred browser to the top of the list using the "Move Up" button. Close kcontrol and enjoy. -- 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] ML10.0rc1
On February 19, 2004 11:12 am, di di wrote: > It sounded like MR ANDERSON isnt it?? - MATRIX > > :-) Actually, it sounded a lot like "Agent Smith" ! LOL! Agent Smith - a.k.a. 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
[newbie] CD problem FIXED!
Ok, so heres the basics. I have an HP 8100+ CD-RW drive and basically, every time I tried to access it, the desktop would crash (For around 15 minutes, and then come back) and basically the entire operating system was sluggish and sometimes programs failed to start. Today I bought a bog standard Samsung 52x CD-ROM drive for as cheap as dirt and not only does Mandrake run smoother and faster, I can actually access CD's! Im guessing Mandrake just didnt like the HP CD-RW drive, because right now everything's fine! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 19 February 2004 7:25 am, Lanman wrote: > Wow! Mister Lanman ? Gee, I feel like I should be wearing a tie! Anybody > wanna buy a bridge ? Grin! This is the page where you can find the download > links. > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100beta.php3 > > I can't say for sure whether or not it will work well on your system, but > if you back up your files and home folders before starting an install, you > can always re-install 9.2 and copy your data back - if needed. > > If your install goes as well as mine did, I think you'll enjoy it! You > should see a difference in performance as well. Remember to set "/" for 2.5 > Gb's and "/usr" for at least the same amount. "/var" can live with 1.5 > Gb's, and you should make your "swap" file at least 400 Mb's. > > On a side note, I wanted to ask the list about something I just discovered. > When I did my 10.0 RC1 install, I created a 4 Gb root partition ( "/" ), a > swap and "/home" partitions as well. However, the /usr partition used up > almost half of that. > > The next time I went to install an application, I found out that I was out > of space onn the "/" partition. Having some left over space on my drive to > be used as storage, I deleted the storage partition, and added a new "/usr" > partition. > > This is where it's gets a little "sexy". As soon as I selected /usr for the > mount point, diskdrake popped up a new window asking me if I wanted to > transfer the data from the "/usr" directory ( still sitting on the "/" > partition ), to the new "/usr" partition i was creating. It then procedded > to transfer the data without a problem, updated /etc/fstab, and it was > done! > > Is this a feature that everyone knew about? Or is this a new feature in > 10.0 ? Has anyone had this happen before? This was slick! I've never heard > of an "auto-transfer" before! Almost felt like Artificial Intelligence! That's been a "feature" since at least 9.2. Probably earlier, I can't recall precisely when I first encountered it Maybe 9.0 or 9.1? I thought everyone knew about it. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc3.1mdk 09:05:18 up 1 day, 10:57, 1 user, load average: 0.47, 0.33, 0.32 "Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends." - --Woody Allen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFANN+kZqvqlrLPr5YRAvAtAKCtci6Nt+utWtlwuu4TyN6FbO0VfACeK7Mm 0qtfoW3RoLPX3Qc+EQDiVc0= =Pafz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
It sounded like MR ANDERSON isnt it?? - MATRIX :-) From: Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:25:16 -0500 On February 19, 2004 08:54 am, di di wrote: > Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching > from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more > stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? > > I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in > ramwill these requirements fullfill? > > > Saludos > Fabian Wow! Mister Lanman ? Gee, I feel like I should be wearing a tie! Anybody wanna buy a bridge ? Grin! This is the page where you can find the download links. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100beta.php3 I can't say for sure whether or not it will work well on your system, but if you back up your files and home folders before starting an install, you can always re-install 9.2 and copy your data back - if needed. If your install goes as well as mine did, I think you'll enjoy it! You should see a difference in performance as well. Remember to set "/" for 2.5 Gb's and "/usr" for at least the same amount. "/var" can live with 1.5 Gb's, and you should make your "swap" file at least 400 Mb's. On a side note, I wanted to ask the list about something I just discovered. When I did my 10.0 RC1 install, I created a 4 Gb root partition ( "/" ), a swap and "/home" partitions as well. However, the /usr partition used up almost half of that. The next time I went to install an application, I found out that I was out of space onn the "/" partition. Having some left over space on my drive to be used as storage, I deleted the storage partition, and added a new "/usr" partition. This is where it's gets a little "sexy". As soon as I selected /usr for the mount point, diskdrake popped up a new window asking me if I wanted to transfer the data from the "/usr" directory ( still sitting on the "/" partition ), to the new "/usr" partition i was creating. It then procedded to transfer the data without a problem, updated /etc/fstab, and it was done! Is this a feature that everyone knew about? Or is this a new feature in 10.0 ? Has anyone had this happen before? This was slick! I've never heard of an "auto-transfer" before! Almost felt like Artificial Intelligence! -- 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 _ Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.latam.msn.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't find Opengroupware how to!!!
Bah! Sorry, hit send to quick... here' the updated URL if ayone else is interested: http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/ffrouin/Procedures/EN/OGoMD92op/view -Original Message- From: Tango Echo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:06 AM To: newb-mdk Subject: [newbie] Can't find Opengroupware how to!!! Hi all, I'm thinking testing opengroupware in my org but seem to have lost the link to the how to! It was on the website and called the: Unofficial Mandrake 9.2 Install HowTo Sounds great, and I skimmed it before. Yet when I go to the same location, it says it cannot be found! Does anyone know where it went or how I can locate one? I prefer howtows that are geared not only to the distro in use, but also the version as well... Thanks in advance, Techo __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Connexant modem driver
The beta version of this driver was available free of charge and according to the licence was redistribuable. It support full speed modem connection but not the fax and works only on 2.4 kernel. If anyone is interested I can send him a copy of this driver by e-mail, please ask (please send your ask directly at my address, the volume of the mailing list is soo high that I could miss your email) I think we should put this beta driver on a website; but even if the licence apparently give me the right to do so, I am still afraid of the legal issue of this. Could anyone which have also downloaded ensure me that we stay on the legal side. Olivier Esser Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't find Opengroupware how to!!!
Hi all, I'm thinking testing opengroupware in my org but seem to have lost the link to the how to! It was on the website and called the: Unofficial Mandrake 9.2 Install HowTo Sounds great, and I skimmed it before. Yet when I go to the same location, it says it cannot be found! Does anyone know where it went or how I can locate one? I prefer howtows that are geared not only to the distro in use, but also the version as well... Thanks in advance, Techo __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 1 minor annoyance in 10.0
On Thursday 19 February 2004 09:54 am, Lanman wrote: > Finally found one thing in 10.0 RC1 that isn't 100%. My NIC, which is a > Broadcom 440X card is detected, and configured by Drakconnect without a > hitch. > > But if I reboot the laptop, it fails to load the driver module for the NIC. > Does anyone have an idea where I can lock down the configuration for the > card, or what comand I can add to rc.local to reload the driver module? > > The driver modules aren't stored in the usual places, so insmod fails to > load the driver, but drakconnect nails it everytime. Go figure ! Modules.conf was replaced in 2.6 with modprobe.conf,and modules was replaced with modprobe.preload, so you might want to start there. SOme people have reported dealing with this successfully by making an entry in the modules.preload file for the nic module and then putting a alias "nicmodule" ethx" in modprobe.conf -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] More wired... Kmail
Hello, More wired... When I click on a link in Kmail it opens it in Quanta... Is it me alone or what but for the 15 days experience of linux I have only problems... 1/ My personal folder is not accessible any more like the desktop configuration panel even I tried the update-menus -v comand 2/ I can not setup a printer 3/ I can not install a package like wine or Firefox because rpmDrake is not working anymore... 4/ And now the e-mail links are not opening in Konqueror... A good thing I have Win XP on the same computer to keep on working. So what else can go wrong? Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thanks linuxant and what about power manager?
- Original Message - From: Dobrescu Mihai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:29:39 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Thanks linuxant and what about power manager? > I know, but where can I find ones (restricted or not) > suitable for the 2.6.x kernel? > > --- Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: Dobrescu Mihai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > Hi! > > > > > > Have you found some Conexant modem drivers and > > where? > > > *** > > Hi, linux drivers for Conexant chipset modems can be > > had > > here: http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ > > > > You can get a free version for testing which is > > limited to > > 14.4 Kbps, there is a charge for the full version. > > These are very thoroughly tested drivers that > > perform > > well. I have used them through beta to final, with > > good > > success. > > > > HTH. Best regards to you. > > > > -- Angus >>*** Linuxant claims 2.6 kernel compatibility, but I can't verify, since I am using 2.4x. You would have to compile the driver from source package, as they do not have a pre-compiled version as of yet for the 2.6x kernels. I expect they will have pre-compiled packages soon for 2.6x. The source packages are easy to compile/install, providing you have the required development items installed on your system. I have used the source driver packages as well. HTH. Best regards to you. -- Angus PS. The Linuxant mailing list has proved very helpful to me in the past for specific issues/problems to do with installing/configuring their driver. Linuxant seems to be quick to reply, at least in my experience with them. "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. >From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
Not to sure when it started but I have seen it before in Mdk. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1 On February 19, 2004 08:54 am, di di wrote: > Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching > from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more > stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? > > I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in > ramwill these requirements fullfill? > > > Saludos > Fabian Wow! Mister Lanman ? Gee, I feel like I should be wearing a tie! Anybody wanna buy a bridge ? Grin! This is the page where you can find the download links. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100beta.php3 I can't say for sure whether or not it will work well on your system, but if you back up your files and home folders before starting an install, you can always re-install 9.2 and copy your data back - if needed. If your install goes as well as mine did, I think you'll enjoy it! You should see a difference in performance as well. Remember to set "/" for 2.5 Gb's and "/usr" for at least the same amount. "/var" can live with 1.5 Gb's, and you should make your "swap" file at least 400 Mb's. On a side note, I wanted to ask the list about something I just discovered. When I did my 10.0 RC1 install, I created a 4 Gb root partition ( "/" ), a swap and "/home" partitions as well. However, the /usr partition used up almost half of that. The next time I went to install an application, I found out that I was out of space onn the "/" partition. Having some left over space on my drive to be used as storage, I deleted the storage partition, and added a new "/usr" partition. This is where it's gets a little "sexy". As soon as I selected /usr for the mount point, diskdrake popped up a new window asking me if I wanted to transfer the data from the "/usr" directory ( still sitting on the "/" partition ), to the new "/usr" partition i was creating. It then procedded to transfer the data without a problem, updated /etc/fstab, and it was done! Is this a feature that everyone knew about? Or is this a new feature in 10.0 ? Has anyone had this happen before? This was slick! I've never heard of an "auto-transfer" before! Almost felt like Artificial Intelligence! -- Lanman Registered Linux user #190712 "Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin!" -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the postmaster immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 !
-Original Message- From: Walt Frampus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 ! On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:16, robin wrote: > > Anyone have any success with nVidia drivers? 2.6 sounds good, but if I > can't play Tuxracer, I'm not interested ;-) > > Sir Robin > running Mandrake 10 RC! right now with latest Nvidia driver installed.. tuxracer rules!!! just make sure you have the kernel source installed Walt W? What did I do wrong? I tried installing the Nvidia drives last night (using sh --update and it died. First it complained about kernel sources, which I urpmi'd after, then it refused at a later point. I wish I had the error, but I dont' have that box in front of me right now... I gave up since RC1 still lacks "3d accelleration". So are you saying you could play other games like Enemy Territory, etc, stuff that requires 3d? Any ideas what I may have been doing wrong? Techo __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
On February 19, 2004 09:53 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:54 am, di di wrote: > > Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching > > from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more > > stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? > > > > I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in > > ramwill these requirements fullfill? > > There are still some problems with drakconnect with wireless and more > complex setups, and lots of people are reporting that the network > interfaces are not restarting on boot, but otherwise, she looks great. A > few niggles here and there, but overall in good shape. Of course, YMMV. > > If you want to try it, be prepared to deal with some hand configuration of > your net interfaces, keeping in mind that module-init-tools changes the > location of a bunch of stuff with a 2.6 kernel. You read my mind Greg! Any ideas on how to force it to work? Is it possible to create a symbolic link to the driver location that module-init-tools would be happy with? -- 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
[newbie] Mandrake Move 9.2 and the key drive
Hi Everyone, Apparently Mandrake Move is quite picky about what USB drive one uses. I have a San Disk Cruzer 128 MB and a Lexar Media device that accepts SD memory cards. Move doesn’t seem to automatically see either of them. So, I have a twofold question: Is there any non-automatic way to get Move to store its configuration files on either device, and then on command load them from there? What USB drives does it like? Thanks, Bill Lawrence
[newbie] 1 minor annoyance in 10.0
Finally found one thing in 10.0 RC1 that isn't 100%. My NIC, which is a Broadcom 440X card is detected, and configured by Drakconnect without a hitch. But if I reboot the laptop, it fails to load the driver module for the NIC. Does anyone have an idea where I can lock down the configuration for the card, or what comand I can add to rc.local to reload the driver module? The driver modules aren't stored in the usual places, so insmod fails to load the driver, but drakconnect nails it everytime. Go figure ! The card works, since I'm sending this email using the laptop in question. -- 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] ML10.0rc1
On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:54 am, di di wrote: > Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching > from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more > stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? > > I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in > ramwill these requirements fullfill? > > There are still some problems with drakconnect with wireless and more complex setups, and lots of people are reporting that the network interfaces are not restarting on boot, but otherwise, she looks great. A few niggles here and there, but overall in good shape. Of course, YMMV. If you want to try it, be prepared to deal with some hand configuration of your net interfaces, keeping in mind that module-init-tools changes the location of a bunch of stuff with a 2.6 kernel. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thanks linuxant and what about power manager?
I know, but where can I find ones (restricted or not) suitable for the 2.6.x kernel? --- Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Dobrescu Mihai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:58:13 -0800 (PST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Thanks linuxant and what about > power manager? > > > Hi! > > > > Have you found some Conexant modem drivers and > where? > > *** > Hi, linux drivers for Conexant chipset modems can be > had > here: http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ > > You can get a free version for testing which is > limited to > 14.4 Kbps, there is a charge for the full version. > These are very thoroughly tested drivers that > perform > well. I have used them through beta to final, with > good > success. > > HTH. Best regards to you. > > --Angus > > "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, > but around > in awareness." -- James Thurber > > *** > ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ > *** > ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ > *** > > > -- > _ > Web-based SMS services available at > http://www.operamail.com. > From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. > > Powered by Outblaze > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
On February 19, 2004 08:54 am, di di wrote: > Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching > from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more > stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? > > I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in > ramwill these requirements fullfill? > > > Saludos > Fabian Wow! Mister Lanman ? Gee, I feel like I should be wearing a tie! Anybody wanna buy a bridge ? Grin! This is the page where you can find the download links. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100beta.php3 I can't say for sure whether or not it will work well on your system, but if you back up your files and home folders before starting an install, you can always re-install 9.2 and copy your data back - if needed. If your install goes as well as mine did, I think you'll enjoy it! You should see a difference in performance as well. Remember to set "/" for 2.5 Gb's and "/usr" for at least the same amount. "/var" can live with 1.5 Gb's, and you should make your "swap" file at least 400 Mb's. On a side note, I wanted to ask the list about something I just discovered. When I did my 10.0 RC1 install, I created a 4 Gb root partition ( "/" ), a swap and "/home" partitions as well. However, the /usr partition used up almost half of that. The next time I went to install an application, I found out that I was out of space onn the "/" partition. Having some left over space on my drive to be used as storage, I deleted the storage partition, and added a new "/usr" partition. This is where it's gets a little "sexy". As soon as I selected /usr for the mount point, diskdrake popped up a new window asking me if I wanted to transfer the data from the "/usr" directory ( still sitting on the "/" partition ), to the new "/usr" partition i was creating. It then procedded to transfer the data without a problem, updated /etc/fstab, and it was done! Is this a feature that everyone knew about? Or is this a new feature in 10.0 ? Has anyone had this happen before? This was slick! I've never heard of an "auto-transfer" before! Almost felt like Artificial Intelligence! -- 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] ML10.0rc1
Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in ramwill these requirements fullfill? Saludos Fabian --- Using MDK in Mendoza, Argentina. From: Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:15:33 -0500 On February 18, 2004 10:49 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > This is the best I have seen at rc1. I still have a bit of a problem with > my mouse, but nothing I can not live with. It is a logitech usb wheel mouse > hooked up to a KVM switch with a PS/2 adaptor. Some times it goes nuts for > just a bit and then it is ok. Not often, I believe it is when the cpu or > ram are running near 100% but not able to tell for sure. Anyway, lanman > called it right, be afraid MS be very afraid. PS. check out the "Personal > Information Manager" on the toolbar. Very cool. I really like the new menu > format too. Dennis; I'm using the exact same mouse on mine. Trust me - it's the KVM that's making your mouse go nuts. Mine will take off across the screen for a scond, every once in a while, but that's just the optics in the mouse getting a nastly reflection off the desk or table that you're using. -- 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 _ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mounting Removable drive
I have a laptop that came with a flash card reader. Mandrake (9.2) seems very inconsistent about mounting the drive. Sometimes /mnt/removable shows up when I start up and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't show up on boot I don't know how to get it mounted. $ mount /mnt/removable mount: can't find /mnt/removable in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab The only fix I have been able to find is to stick the flash card in the reader and then reboot. What would be a better way of getting my getting the drive mounted? Cheers, Job -- Job Evers gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net BECAC033 Registered Linux User #346146 http://counter.li.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Mailman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:48:58PM +1300, anton wrote: > > >>I've got some "quick-start" instructions here: > >>http://clevername.homeip.net/howto/ > >> > Hey! This is not fair! Why do you get to post questions on this list > about ... (omitted because my messages get intercepted!)? > > Do you have, by any chance, a version of this that is valid for 9.2? I > know some things have changed (like locations), any help for Anton then? > ;-0 > Cheers > Anton I'm not sure what's different in 9.2 but I can't imagine it would be too terribly different. Did they move the location of Mailman? I have 9.2 on a workstation but didn't install any network stuff except that required to get online. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla totally screwed it seems
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 23:51, Chris wrote: > Forgot to mention thats the first thing I tried. I made a mozhold > dir and moved the .mozilla dir over to it, restarted mozilla and > same thing. Just uninstalled mozilla and galeon, reinstalled > mozilla and copied all my saved profile stuff over, works like a > champ. I'm always hesitant about uninstalling something and > reinstalling it, guess I'm afraid it's going to screw something > else up. Thanks Anne for the help > Glad you got it working. I had to do the same in 9.1, I remember. 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] unison
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:11:39 + Nigel Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't actually done this but if you have a profile "default" > then > > unison -ui text -batch > > will run unison in text mode and the batch option means "do not > ask any questions" so any conflicts will not be copied. However it > still asks for the password for the remote system. To get round > that you would probably need to write a script in something like > expect in order to supply the required password. > > Good Luck > NIgel > > --On Monday, February 09, 2004 23:24:29 -0500 Lee Wiggers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know how to run Unison as a cron job? The tutorial > > indicates human intervention between the file comparison and > > copying unless I'm missing something. > > > > > > > Thanks Nigel The key was the -batch switch. Remote is win2k box so no password necessary. Works well. Now I can play with running 6 profiles with cron or organizing my file server so I can nail 'em all with one profile. Organize usually isn't in my dictionary so I'll probably opt for the hard way. Thanks again Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rooter software
Haiz newbie, can anyone advise me some rooter software! I want to get remote control and real time monitoring... something like exe in windows who can connect to rooter and I can see what's going on. sorry for my poor english, but I hope you get the message! force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
