[newbie] Kooka Config
Kooka Configuration === I think you can see from snapshot403.jpg that kooka doesn't load properly. I did create the desired directory, /~/.kde/share/apps/ScanImages/kooka01 I wounder what I need to do to get the full programme? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot403.jpgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kooka Config
On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:42, John Richard Smith wrote: I wounder what I need to do to get the full programme? Well for one click on settings, go to toolviews and select all the options there. The program is there, it just isn't configured properly..it should've been configured to show most tools on install though. Strange. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad superblock
- Original Message - From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 21:00 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:06:14 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lilo. This worked but when I booted into 10.0 there was an error which I couldnt clear or get around so master reset was pushed to get out of the system. On rebooting to 9.2 several times I noticed scroll past on the Hoyt - this might be similar to my experience with 10.0. I'm on rc1 (updated through urpmi) but my 9.2 partition on /dev/hda7 had (and may still have) serious problems booting successfully. There were indications that /etc/fstab on that partition was scrambled (zero bytes interspersed with text) and the boot loader (lilo) on /dev/hda isn't all that good compared to the boot loader on /dev/hdb that boots up 10.0. Moral - don't have two bootable partitions :) as it can get confusing. If rescue could simply boot hda7 from the CDROM it would be a lot easier to get into 9.2 and/or get the fix. Thomas Backlund posted some help recently, but I don't remember the exact subject, you might want to search the archives. Other distributions I have used in the past allow this by just typing 'linux boot=/dev/hda7' on the command line of the rescue disk, but Mandrake doesn't allow this choice. I also noticed that the modules for the kernel were not accessible, which doesn't let me do all that much. I tried copying them over, but that didn't work either. And, I think you may be confusing the boot partition table with the superblock. Those are two completely different things. screen a note that said bad superblock and the boot was switched to 10.0 by the computer now that is all I can boot into even though the boot process Well, in case it really is a bad superblock (have you mounted the partitions from rescue?) then e2fsck will fix it, and if there really is a damaged superblock, the filesystem (I assume for the moment you are using ext2) stores copies every 8192 blocks, with the first block starting at 1, so then the 2nd copy is at 8193, the third at 8193+8192, and so forth. If you type e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hda (use the right partition) it should be able to clear things up. Once cooker stabilizes somewhat, I'm planning on moving it from /dev/hdb6 back to the original place, /dev/hdb7. simply because /dev/hdb7 is much bigger, and that gives me extra space to store things :). It would be kinda neat to just save the state of the system at present (i.e, all the rpms and their versions and so forth, and automatically grab any rpms that are in contrib. mklivecd may be what I'm looking for, but I haven't tried it yet. David Richard Urwin proposed a theory. With which I agree. I installed 10.0rc1 on the second disk while it was the only disk in the system (hda). Then reinstalled the main disk which had 9.2 on (hda). I then rebooted 10.0 and the system had two OS's on apparantly the same disk since the mount tables both directed the system to use different inodes on hda it got confused and did the best it could. At the same time it drove me crazy (the hidden purpose of computers). Anyway I erased the slave disk and converted it to fat32 to act as my music file. This released 9.2 to act by its self and it is indeed screwed up e2fsck repaired 6 filesystems, there shold only be 3. I will reinstall 10.0 on the main disk and that should get me back to a sort of reallity. I wish I had a program to reduce the windows part to half its size but I'll have to live with it. Thanks; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Superblock
On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 6:35 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howabout this for a theory: You installed 10.0 on the second disk while it was the only disk in the machine, and therefore was hda. Your mount table, which specifies which disk partitions are mapped to which Linux directories, refers to the partitions on disk b as if they are on disk a. You are therefore using the partitions on the 9.2 disk. The boot procedure works because you are booting from the second disk(?) or you have corrected the grub conf on hda to point to the 10.0 kernel(?) So the kernel loads OK, but the mounted partitions do not point at the 10.0 files, they point at the 9.2 files. In trying to fix it, or in just running 10.0, you corrupted something in the 9.2 files so 9.2 doesn't work either. Ok thats a reasonable explanition. So the solution is to reformat hdb and reinstall 10.0 to hda. A question if I may is there an easy way to transfer windows to hdb (dosent sound like there is). I cant reinstall windows because each time I have I have to spend 3 or 4 days because viruses sneek in while downloading the virus definations. Thanks for your input Richard I think you are right. Send us details of exactly how the two disks are partitioned - use diskdrake - and the contents of the two /etc/fstab files. I thought you said that you removed XP. It may still be possible to rescue at least one disk. I don't fancy your chances in moving Windows, but you shouldn't have to. If you don't re-partition the disks it can stay where it is. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad superblock
On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 4:36 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I wish I had a program to reduce the windows part to half its size but I'll have to live with it. The standard method is: Defragment Windows, do not select optimise layout (or similar) diskdrake now allows you to shrink the windows partition. We will know more when we get details about which partitions you have and what's on them. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB card-reader not working?
I have a Kodak USB Picture Card Reader for CompactFlash cards.When I was running Windows, I needed a driver from Kodak as far as I remember. Heres a link to the Windows driver so you know the product: http://wwwdk.kodak.com/global/en/service/downloads/dln_ekn.jhtml?ekn=EKN020812 The thing is that if I plug in the card reader to my USB port, Mandrake wont even boot. Theres no messages, it just stops during boot. If the card reader is not plugged in, I can see my USB port during boot: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 11:59:06 Sep 18 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0014 - 0015) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:10.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Enabling device 00:09.1 (0014 - 0015) PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:09.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:11.2 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have irq 9, want irq 3 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.3, have irq 9, want irq 3 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa400, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:11.3 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have irq 9, want irq 3 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.3, have irq 9, want irq 3 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa000, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver PCI: Enabling device 00:09.2 (0014 - 0016) PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:09.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:05.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0e.0 ehci_hcd 00:09.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 ehci_hcd 00:09.2: irq 5, pci mem f890 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 ehci_hcd 00:09.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected usbdevfs: remount parameter error Can I get this card reader to work somehow? Best regards Sren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad Superblock
- Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 04:39 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad Superblock On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 6:35 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howabout this for a theory: You installed 10.0 on the second disk while it was the only disk in the machine, and therefore was hda. Your mount table, which specifies which disk partitions are mapped to which Linux directories, refers to the partitions on disk b as if they are on disk a. You are therefore using the partitions on the 9.2 disk. The boot procedure works because you are booting from the second disk(?) or you have corrected the grub conf on hda to point to the 10.0 kernel(?) So the kernel loads OK, but the mounted partitions do not point at the 10.0 files, they point at the 9.2 files. In trying to fix it, or in just running 10.0, you corrupted something in the 9.2 files so 9.2 doesn't work either. Ok thats a reasonable explanition. So the solution is to reformat hdb and reinstall 10.0 to hda. A question if I may is there an easy way to transfer windows to hdb (dosent sound like there is). I cant reinstall windows because each time I have I have to spend 3 or 4 days because viruses sneek in while downloading the virus definations. Thanks for your input Richard I think you are right. Send us details of exactly how the two disks are partitioned - use diskdrake - and the contents of the two /etc/fstab files. I thought you said that you removed XP. It may still be possible to rescue at least one disk. I don't fancy your chances in moving Windows, but you shouldn't have to. If you don't re-partition the disks it can stay where it is. -- Richard Urwin No I didnt remove windows yet I have to use it to talk to you for now. I did erase the slave and converted it to fat32. I will use it for my music partition. While I would like to reduce the windows part by half I dont have anything that would do that and I cant take the chance of trashing it right now. I still have 65GB that should be enough to get 10.0 running. The 9.2 installation is trashed I ran e2fsck -b 6 times and the way I figure it there should be only 3 fs on the disk with windows 4 but it shoulnt touch a NTFS. I will reinstall 10.0rc1 on the main disk, as soon as I figure out what part's I want to create. This on balance was a learning experience and should teach me to do it right the first time. Funny it hasent worked yet. Thanks for your theory it appears to be correct. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installing mandrake from usb cd
hello! trying to install mandrake 9.2 over xp pro. but on a laptop (compaq armada 7800, 300 mhz/190 mb/3Gb) without a disk or a cd drive. don'nt have access to bios, probably it's deleted. im thinking that mayby i can change the boot.ini or autoexec.bat etc files. i do have an usb box with a cdrw it it. executed the autorun.exe from mandrake distribution, i chose install mandrake, but all it did was restarted the machine with the same xp, so i havent goten even the splash screem yet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB card-reader not working?
Sren Neigaard wrote: I have a Kodak USB Picture Card Reader for CompactFlash cards.When I was running Windows, I needed a driver from Kodak as far as I remember. Heres a link to the Windows driver so you know the product: http://wwwdk.kodak.com/global/en/service/downloads/dln_ekn.jhtml?ekn=EKN020812 The thing is that if I plug in the card reader to my USB port, Mandrake wont even boot. Theres no messages, it just stops during boot. If the card reader is not plugged in, I can see my USB port during boot: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 11:59:06 Sep 18 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0014 - 0015) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:10.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Enabling device 00:09.1 (0014 - 0015) PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:09.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:11.2 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have irq 9, want irq 3 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.3, have irq 9, want irq 3 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa400, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:11.3 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have irq 9, want irq 3 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.3, have irq 9, want irq 3 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa000, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver PCI: Enabling device 00:09.2 (0014 - 0016) PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:09.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:05.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0e.0 ehci_hcd 00:09.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 ehci_hcd 00:09.2: irq 5, pci mem f890 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 ehci_hcd 00:09.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected usbdevfs: remount parameter error Can I get this card reader to work somehow? Best regards Sren Soren, Do you have media in your card reader during boot time ? Does kde-info-usb detect your hubs correctly? Looks to me that you do have a usb hub fully configured. But is there an irq conflict, IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have irq 9, want irq 3 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.3, have irq 9, want irq 3 I wonder why ? It ought, in theory, to be possible to boot to desktop and then hot plug the card reader, but I think maybe it needs media in it as well, because as soon as the device is plugged in the system wants to not only configure the device but mount it as well.Now that also needs a line in fstab to do that, I'm wondering what line is in fstab do you have to mount the reader ? When a device like a card reader is mounted during boot time the system tries to fsck it. So if there is no media in the device it stops and often hangs, or it does on mine.If I have media in the reader the fsck is completed and the mount is successfull, always provided that there is a line in fstab to mount it. So, what is the line in fstab ? Do you include media in the reader at boot time? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad superblock
- Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 04:42 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 4:36 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I wish I had a program to reduce the windows part to half its size but I'll have to live with it. The standard method is: Defragment Windows, do not select optimise layout (or similar) diskdrake now allows you to shrink the windows partition. We will know more when we get details about which partitions you have and what's on them. -- Richard Urwin Sorry partition Disk hda #1 Windows XP(NTFS 46.57GB) #2 Boot (for 9.2 63MB) #3 Root(9.2 64.65GB) #4 Swap(518MB) Disk hdb #1 Music(formatted as fat32 27.96GB) Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Skype Client for MDK 9.2?
Hi All, Any of you know of a solution to connect to the Skype network under MDK 9.2? Thanks, .::. Amichai Rotman, The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin! Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with installing Windows fonts
Dear All I am trying to install my MS Windows fonts, by using drakfont. (I have got a dual machine - with MS Windows and Mandrake.) However, I get the following errors. Could somebody here please help me? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# drakfont Before installing any fonts, be sure that you have the right to use and install them on your system. -You can install the fonts the normal way. In rare cases, bogus fonts may hang up your X Server. Windows fonts Installation Font(s) to Install: /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/8514fix.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/8514oem.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/8514sys.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/AdobeFnt07.lst /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ANTQUAB.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ANTQUABI.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ANTQUAI.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/app850.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ARBLI___.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ARIALN.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ARIALNB.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ARIALNBI.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ARIALNI.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/BKANT.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/dosapp.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ega40850.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ega40woa.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ega80850.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ega80woa.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/FONETICA.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/GARA.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/GARABD.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/GARAIT.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/GOTHIC.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/GOTHICB.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/GOTHICBI.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/GOTHICI.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/HATTEN.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/modern.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/MTCORSVA.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/OUTLOOK.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/roman.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/script.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/serife.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/seriff.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/smalle.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/smallf.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/sserife.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/sseriff.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/symbole.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/vga850.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/vga860.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/vga863.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/vga865.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/vgafix.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/vgaoem.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/vgasys.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/WINGDNG2.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/WINGDNG3.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/wst_czec.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/wst_engl.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/wst_fren.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/wst_germ.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/wst_ital.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/wst_span.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/wst_swed.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/ZWAdobeF.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/BOOKOS.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/desktop.ini /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/BOOKOSB.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/BOOKOSBI.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/BOOKOSI.TTF /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/cga40850.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/cga40woa.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/cga80850.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/cga80woa.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/coure.fon /mnt/windows/winnt/fonts/courf.fon unknown font foundry code PFED unknown font foundry code PFED unknown font foundry code PFED unknown font foundry code PFED unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PFED unknown font foundry code PFED unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PYRS unknown font foundry code PFED sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found sh: line 1: 1: command not found mv: cannot stat `*.gsf': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `*.pfb': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `*.pfm*.afm': No such file or directory type1inst Version 0.6.1 (11th February 1998) Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) There are no PostScript fonts in this directory mv: cannot stat `*.pfm': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `*.gsf': No such file or directory mv:
Re: [newbie] Kooka Config
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:42, John Richard Smith wrote: I wounder what I need to do to get the full programme? Well for one click on settings, go to toolviews and select all the options there. The program is there, it just isn't configured properly..it should've been configured to show most tools on install though. Strange. Good luck, HarM Of course you are right HarM. However it's a little bit odd , the basic overall primary kooka window is quite detatched from all the other windows, when it suggests that they are part of the primary window. Never mind. Just odd that the primary window comes up suggesting there is much more to it when in fact the other aspects are all in quite seperate windows unrelated. Anyway be that as it may. I don't see any .pnm file types available in kooka. I chose BMP which, if my memory serves me correctly, is a windblows bitmap format ? It did make an OCR image in text file format, though I'm not sure what it does with it. It doesn't seem to call it anything I can recognise as such. I'll get the hang of it eventually. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB card-reader not working?
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 12:39, John Richard Smith wrote: Soren, Do you have media in your card reader during boot time ? Does kde-info-usb detect your hubs correctly? Looks to me that you do have a usb hub fully configured. But is there an irq conflict, IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have irq 9, want irq 3 IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.3, have irq 9, want irq 3 I wonder why ? It ought, in theory, to be possible to boot to desktop and then hot plug the card reader, but I think maybe it needs media in it as well, because as soon as the device is plugged in the system wants to not only configure the device but mount it as well.Now that also needs a line in fstab to do that, I'm wondering what line is in fstab do you have to mount the reader ? When a device like a card reader is mounted during boot time the system tries to fsck it. So if there is no media in the device it stops and often hangs, or it does on mine.If I have media in the reader the fsck is completed and the mount is successfull, always provided that there is a line in fstab to mount it. So, what is the line in fstab ? Do you include media in the reader at boot time? I now tried with a media in the reader during boot, and that worked :) But.. Can I somehow prevent mandrake from trying to mount my card on boot, so that I can only do it manually? And how do I mount/unmount it manually? Heres my fstab: none /mnt/memory_card supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudz u,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Best regards Sren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 now: 10.0 later?
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:54:36 -0700 Floyd Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to 10.0rc1 from 9.2 with urpmi without any problems. However, seeing as 10.0rc2 is about to hit the mirrors, you might as well skip the upgrade and just go straight to 10.0RC2. Unless you're waiting for the Official release, that is. Could you provide pointers on how to do this? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Get Your License Now!
Finally, SCO has made it easy for us Linux users to be all nice and legal, since we are of course using their intellectual property, which they've shown...in... Well, never mind that, get your license here: http://www.thescogroup.com/scosource/linuxlicense.html Of course, be *very careful* not to enter any *wrong info*, like made up names and accounts, and don't do it multiple times, because if everybody did that... ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 07:58:42 up 22 days, 19:43, 6 users, load average: 1.38, 1.39, 1.30 +++ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ Rule #2 (John Gilmore): The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad superblock
On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 5:52 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Disk hda #1 Windows XP(NTFS 46.57GB) #2 Boot (for 9.2 63MB) #3 Root(9.2 64.65GB) #4 Swap(518MB) Disk hdb #1 Music(formatted as fat32 27.96GB) I would: 1) copy anything you don't want to lose (like the contents of /home) to Music. 2) install 10.0 using the existing partitions, but reformatting them. when you're happy everything is stable and usable: 3) backup anything from Windows that you don't want to lose to Music. 4) defragment Windows. Do not optimise the layout. 5) boot linux from CD 6) shrink the windows partition 7) create a new partition at the end of Windows 8) that may rename all your partitions*, so edit /etc/fstab to suit. *I would guess that you have a single primary partition and an extended partition on hda, making Boot hda5. If so creating a new primary partition will not rename anything. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] canoscan D646U
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 04:04, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Anyone have any experience with this scanner in MDK? Sane says its not supported in this distro even though its on the sane list. Am I doing something wrong? Troy, You're doing nothing wrong. I had the exact same scanner and it just would not run. After a lot of headache I solved the problem by buying an Epson. I had my share of scanner problems because I also tried an Afga that was supposed to be supported according to the sane list, but did nothing. I bought the epson after consulting the newbie list. Good luck. By the way, you might want to leave your reply-to settings empty, so the reply goes to the list instead of you. Marco -- Tell me about these oppressed masses. What's got them so worked up ? They're upset, sir, because they are so poor that they are forced to have children merely to provide a cheap alternative to turkey at Christmas. Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant
On Friday 27 February 2004 11:13 pm, Ray Hogaboom wrote: My flash card reader and external hard drive have not been unplugged. If external hard drives power switch is off and a flash memory card is in the reader I boot then turn hard drives power switch on. The two devices mount as they should. If I do not have a flash memory card is in the reader and the external hard drives power switch is on When I boot the computer. The external hard drive mount to /mnt/memory_card. Well, this relates to how Linux handles usb devices since they can be either, static devices that are always on, i.e. a usb mouse for instance, or hot-plug devices that are only accessed when they are connected to a running machine. When your device is on and you turn the computer on, it is treated as a static device and mounted accordingly. When the device is off and you turn the computer on, it is not detected. If you subsequently turn it on, the computer treats it as a hot-plug device. That is because the act of turning the device on when it was not previously detected mimics the act of plugging in a hot-plug device. So, if you want the device to always be mounted to the same place, like a usb mouse would be, you need to insure that it is always connected and on. If you want to be able to move the device away and then return it to the computer while on, you need to insure that it is not on when you turn the computer on, then it will always be treated as a hot-plug device. You can change the mount point of the hot-plug device to something different, you just need to specify that in the hot-plug scripts. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB card-reader not working?
Sren Neigaard wrote: I now tried with a media in the reader during boot, and that worked :) But.. Can I somehow prevent mandrake from trying to mount my card on boot, so that I can only do it manually? And how do I mount/unmount it manually? Heres my fstab: none /mnt/memory_card supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudz u,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Yep this is the supermount version, notice kudzu , this is to make it probe for a device and the rest is to mount it, I think ? I'm not 100% sure about all this. We are having to learn it all as we go along. Best regards Sren Yes, I thought as much. First, you have to understand card readers are relatively new to Mandrake, and the software to run them is not polished and finished, but they are getting there, Really, it wants a system that configures a device at boot time but does not mount it until you request it to on desktop either with a gui interface like a supermount desktop icon does for your rom drive, or on the command line in a terminal.But for now that option is not there.But if this is to be so it has to work as part of the USB hub, because that is what most card readers connect by. I should think it might be possible to let modprobe detect and configure a device at boot time and then run a line like your've already got in fstab to mount it. This would mean hashing out the current fstab line and manually doing something to mount the device in a terminal. Never tried it because I allow mine to be mounted at boot time, but I should think something like this ought to be possible. When I want to change the media in the device I put up a terminal and umount /mnt/reader(reader is what I call it in fstab) remove and reinsert new media and mount /mnt/reader. Now it doesn't always work, I don't know why. It should work and does the majority of the time, but not always. When it doesn't I have to reboot. All this is just my experience I don't pretent to know it all. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] update rc1
On Friday 27 February 2004 09:55 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: How does one go about updating rc1? I am a standard-club member. I am really not trying to be rude, but this has been discussed at least 3 - 4 times a week on both expert and newbie in the past two weeks. Simply browsing the archives should give you the info you need. You can even search them here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ You should also read the cooker howto. It has a section on keeping a cooker installation up to date. You can use the same procedure to update a rc1 to a final. Also, while I am at the list Nazi thing, would you please remove the reply-to setting in your mail client. It screws up the list replies, so a reply goes to you and not to the list. If your email setting is the same as the reply-to, it is not necessary anyway. The purpose of a reply-to is so that replies to a message go to somebody other than the sender. For instance, I always set the reply-to field to my secretary when I am sending an e-mail on policy changes that people aren't going to like. That way all the flames go to her instead of me. ;-) -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 now: 10.0 later?
On Saturday 28 February 2004 07:52 am, Patrick Dempster wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:54:36 -0700 Floyd Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to 10.0rc1 from 9.2 with urpmi without any problems. However, seeing as 10.0rc2 is about to hit the mirrors, you might as well skip the upgrade and just go straight to 10.0RC2. Unless you're waiting for the Official release, that is. Could you provide pointers on how to do this? http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#Keeping_Your_Cooker_Installation -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that you sent a message containing a suspicious attachment.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 February 2004 22:03, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 03:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: The owner of the site must have sorted it out now, because it has stopped. FWIW I got around 300 of them - I've been talking on the list for a long time :-) I got 137. I bow down before the master;-} I talk too much, Bryan. They even said so when I was at school :-) Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQJnskFAvMr/nNX8RAqoWAJ9TqN4xzmVWIc1GBq4eDLTy88fEXQCeJIte bP+PqXzxLfB3wWS2YTN3hho= =rZkG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant
Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, this relates to how Linux handles usb devices since they can be either, static devices that are always on, i.e. a usb mouse for instance, or hot-plug devices that are only accessed when they are connected to a running machine. When your device is on and you turn the computer on, it is treated as a static device and mounted accordingly. When the device is off and you turn the computer on, it is not detected. If you subsequently turn it on, the computer treats it as a hot-plug device. That is because the act of turning the device on when it was not previously detected mimics the act of plugging in a hot-plug device. So, if you want the device to always be mounted to the same place, like a usb mouse would be, you need to insure that it is always connected and on. If you want to be able to move the device away and then return it to the computer while on, you need to insure that it is not on when you turn the computer on, then it will always be treated as a hot-plug device. You can change the mount point of the hot-plug device to something different, you just need to specify that in the hot-plug scripts. OK, but, If you disconnect the reader entirely prior to boot, You get lots of warning in boot script about failed device, and when on desktop, you then hot plug it, the reader shows up in the hub nicely but when you go to mount it on either dektop icon, or CL, you get, mount /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device. so it's not really configured as a device to the system, only a usb connection in the hub, if you see what I mean. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error
Hello all, I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting. Also, my mixer settings are never restored. I'm using mdk10rc with kernel 2.6.2-3 --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting. Also, my mixer settings are never restored. I'm using mdk10rc with kernel 2.6.2-3 FWIW, I received that same error quite frequently when I had 10beta2 installed, but have never seen it after dropping down to 9.2. Beyond that observation, I have nothing helpful to add, I'm afraid. -- 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] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: 27 February 2004 18:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Uytkownik John Richard Smith napisa: I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the modules.conf looks like this. above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx if that's any help. John I think the problem with default ALSA driver lies when Mandrake's hardware detection cuts 'alias' line in modules.conf in Mandrake10.0RC1. Hmm, I wonder why? I certainly don't want my via8233 soundchip non functional in M10 when I get there. did you use the same alias line as my example ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having had this same problem I thought it was time to give something back. The switching to the oss driver works well, but you also have to make sure that all the mixer setting are right. I found that you had to go through each mixer one by one. kmix and aumix. HTH Philip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OCR software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 February 2004 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Xsane does have OCR capability. Now that I've installed GOCR it works too. so, After you have scanned the article in question and in viewer XXX scanner window there is a little tab ABC/DEF to click on, and it then asks you for a directory and filename then OK, and hey presto it creates a nice little file.txt for you. The only previso is that it does have the character recognition errors as happened to me on the GOCR CL. If they could spruce up the performance of the character recogniton it would be a real winner. John How about an entry on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/OfficeApplications, John? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQJ86kFAvMr/nNX8RAk5jAJ9Mf8SPVxZRM0y8aSyhnOj0eQHvfQCgjdCD pmoZLIZ9YqS/ca0Or6gnqTk= =Tshd -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error
On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:51 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting. Also, my mixer settings are never restored. I'm using mdk10rc with kernel 2.6.2-3 FWIW, I received that same error quite frequently when I had 10beta2 installed, but have never seen it after dropping down to 9.2. Beyond that observation, I have nothing helpful to add, I'm afraid. I would add that problems with rc and beta versions should be taken to the cooker lists, and no newbie should be using an rc or beta version. on the cooker list you will find a number of these and the solution at this time is to wait until monday, or try to change the sound configuration in MCC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad superblock
- Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 07:12 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 5:52 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Disk hda #1 Windows XP(NTFS 46.57GB) #2 Boot (for 9.2 63MB) #3 Root(9.2 64.65GB) #4 Swap(518MB) Disk hdb #1 Music(formatted as fat32 27.96GB) I would: 1) copy anything you don't want to lose (like the contents of /home) to Music. 2) install 10.0 using the existing partitions, but reformatting them. when you're happy everything is stable and usable: 3) backup anything from Windows that you don't want to lose to Music. 4) defragment Windows. Do not optimise the layout. 5) boot linux from CD 6) shrink the windows partition 7) create a new partition at the end of Windows 8) that may rename all your partitions*, so edit /etc/fstab to suit. *I would guess that you have a single primary partition and an extended partition on hda, making Boot hda5. If so creating a new primary partition will not rename anything. -- Richard Urwin I can do everything except 6, just dont know how. What is the new partition at the end of windows for [win swap, if so how about moving swap there and let both systems use it windows identifies the current swap partition as a logical part. so it should be able to use it]. I havent caught linux using swap yet but when I get on spreadsheets that may change. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:03:24 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, SCO has made it easy for us Linux users to be all nice and legal, since we are of course using their intellectual property, which they've shown...in... Well, never mind that, get your license here: http://www.thescogroup.com/scosource/linuxlicense.html Of course, be *very careful* not to enter any *wrong info*, like made up names and accounts, and don't do it multiple times, because if everybody did that...;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 07:58:42 up 22 days, 19:43, 6 users, load average: 1.38, 1.39, 1.30+++ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ Rule #2 (John Gilmore): The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. SCO IP Paid Up License - 1-CPU - $699.00 SCO IP Paid Up License - 2 CPU - $1,149.00 SCO IP Paid Up License - 4-CPU - $2,499.00 So.one box with 2 cpus would be? I'm so confused I don't know which to buy. Which one did you get, Joe? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!
On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:00 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:03:24 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, SCO has made it easy for us Linux users to be all nice and legal, since we are of course using their intellectual property, which they've shown...in... Well, never mind that, get your license here: http://www.thescogroup.com/scosource/linuxlicense.html Of course, be *very careful* not to enter any *wrong info*, like made up names and accounts, and don't do it multiple times, because if everybody did that...;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 07:58:42 up 22 days, 19:43, 6 users, load average: 1.38, 1.39, 1.30+++ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ Rule #2 (John Gilmore): The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. SCO IP Paid Up License - 1-CPU - $699.00 SCO IP Paid Up License - 2 CPU - $1,149.00 SCO IP Paid Up License - 4-CPU - $2,499.00 So.one box with 2 cpus would be? I'm so confused I don't know which to buy. Which one did you get, Joe? how much for a Beowulf cluster? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.
On Friday 27 February 2004 01:39 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 12:02 pm, Allen/gore/ SlackWareWolf wrote: Actually, it is entirely possible for you to be infected running Linux. The virii won't harm your machine much itself, but the virii CAN send itself out when you send email. Which viruses are you referring to? If any of the recent Windows worms, then this statement is, in fact, incorrect. To my knowledge, a windows worm can not send itself out from a Linux machine. Even the MyDoom must execute on the target machine to begin to propagate out. If you are referring to the sparse numbers of Linux viruses, I don't know of any that are currently in the wild. Only way to tell for sure is to send it to a Windows machine and scan it. Remember, Linux may not have a problem with virii as most can not run, but it has had a couple worms. Actually, a much better way to detect a Linux virus would be to run a Linux anti-virus scanner. There are such applications, they may not get a lot of publicity since they aren't used much, but I currently run one on my system and there are more than a few available. When I first got into security I read a website that was teaching Linux security. This was BEFORE mydoom so call the dogs of justice off me. It said their were a few virii that even though they could not infect the machine, they could be sent to people who did not run Linux or UNIX. Like they would sort of stay resident on the machine, but unless you had a virii scan you would not knowAnd yes I'm quite sure of the fact that Linux virii scanners exist.The first time I had Linux and the internetA whole year ago...I already had installed anti vrii for my box. And of course myDoom wouldn't infect Linux, it was an anti-Sco virii ;) -- __ 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] Gave up on trying to get spamassassin to work ...
On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:23 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: -... just couldn't get it to work on my system, despite the help of a few -kind souls (thanks). - -The good news, however, is that I /did/ manage to get POPFile in place -and running as a service (I used to use it on the Windows side of -things), and it works like a charm. - -Good TWiki for it... -http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PopFile Glad you got Popfile working, Anne says its great. But...what was so hard about getting Spamassassin to work. I followed one of Derek Jennings posts and it seemed pretty easy here.. Thanks! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:59 am, Greg Meyer wrote: -Last fall, I purchased an iRiver iMP-350 CD/MP3 player because they had -pre-announced that they would be supporting Ogg Vorbis format with a firmware -upgrade. Well, the second open beta was announced last week and a firmware -is available. Thats great news, thanks for the update Greg. Just out of curiosity - how much does the iRiver go for now? -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:13:26 -0800 aron Smith disseminated the following: how much for a Beowulf cluster? ROFL! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 12:00:31 up 22 days, 23:44, 5 users, load average: 1.74, 1.39, 1.29 +++ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ It was a crazed and futile effort to somehow explain the extremely twisted nature of my relationship with God, Nixon and the National Football League.''-- Hunter S. Thompson, explaining why he screamed scripture from the 20th-floor balcony of the Houston Hyatt on the morning of Super Bowl VIII Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gave up on trying to get spamassassin to work ...
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 11:04, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Glad you got Popfile working, Anne says its great. It is ... I used it in Win98 for quite some time, but thought I'd check out spamassassin as long as I was doing the learn new things schtick here in Linux. But...what was so hard about getting Spamassassin to work. I followed one of Derek Jennings posts and it seemed pretty easy here.. Thanks! Beats me ... PEBKAC of some variety, no doubt. I tried a multitude of different things, but it simply wasn't -- well -- /simple/ for this newbie to get going. I'll probably revisit it at some point down the road when I'm closer to knowing what the hell I'm doing. :) -- 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] Get Your License Now!
On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:03 am, JoeHill wrote: Finally, SCO has made it easy for us Linux users to be all nice and legal, since we are of course using their intellectual property, which they've shown...in... Well, never mind that, get your license here: http://www.thescogroup.com/scosource/linuxlicense.html Of course, be *very careful* not to enter any *wrong info*, like made up names and accounts, and don't do it multiple times, because if everybody did that... ;-) We talked about this in my Linux + class the other day. Me being a smart ass hit the table and said Darn! That's what I forgot to do today! It made my whole class laugh so I guess it was good the way I said it. -- __ 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] OCR software
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Xsane does have OCR capability. Now that I've installed GOCR it works too. so, After you have scanned the article in question and in viewer XXX scanner window there is a little tab ABC/DEF to click on, and it then asks you for a directory and filename then OK, and hey presto it creates a nice little file.txt for you. The only previso is that it does have the character recognition errors as happened to me on the GOCR CL. If they could spruce up the performance of the character recogniton it would be a real winner. John How about an entry on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/OfficeApplications, John? Anne Do you mean give a rightup of my experience ? I'm no expert at all, just feeling my way along . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!
I look like an UNIX user!!! Shall I pay a license for that and where?? mike --- Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On February 28, 2004 09:00 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: The hell with it. I say kill 'em all and let God sort them out! -- Lanman Registered Linux user #190712 Running Mandrake 10.0 RC1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kooka Config
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 13:09, John Richard Smith wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote Of course you are right HarM. However it's a little bit odd , the basic overall primary kooka window is quite detatched from all the other windows, when it suggests that they are part of the primary window. Never mind. Just odd that the primary window comes up suggesting there is much more to it when in fact the other aspects are all in quite seperate windows unrelated. On first usage they were attached but afrter some fiddling they were and stayed detachedin true unix style:) Including a non-existant back to before option.I don't mind, I prefer it detached but I suppose deleting some .rc file somewhere and starting fresh again would prolly solve that. Actually I think you are right, somehow it seems appropriate to have them all detatched. Really the main window could all be part of the scanner window anyway. Anyway be that as it may. I don't see any .pnm file types available in kooka.I chose BMP which, if my memory serves me correctly, is a windblows bitmap format ? It did make an OCR image in text file format, though I'm not sure what it does with it. It doesn't seem to call it anything I can recognise as such. I'll get the hang of it eventually. You can ocr all graphic file formats but the higher the resolution the better the result. Images from a scanner are saved as .pnm files so just scan using kooka and save the file in one of your galleries. Importing .pnm files using copy or move with your favourite file browser works fine for me. Strangely enough it doesn't produce a proper thumbnail reflecting it's content but the imageviewer reproduces it fine and it ocr's fine too. You'll get to like it eventually;) The only think that I find is that actually kooka didn't appear to create any .pnm at all. No option seemed available, unless I'm overlooking something else again. But yes, I'll get used to it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OCR software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 17:23, John Richard Smith wrote: How about an entry on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/OfficeApplications, John? Anne Do you mean give a rightup of my experience ? Yes I'm no expert at all, just feeling my way along . You don't need to be an expert, John. Just write what you did, how well it works, what its limitations are etc. Many things on the TWiki are just our experiences, but they can save hours for other people. And if you or someone else learns more about it, it's very easy to edit the entry. If you Regards Thomas need any help, ask Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQNMKkFAvMr/nNX8RAoBgAJ9zQBM2VCxWWLde9sajnV45codIFwCfSom6 b58rDABVSCMBKZ3MgJeay1Y= =ci0L -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.
On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:34 am, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 01:39 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 12:02 pm, Allen/gore/ And of course myDoom wouldn't infect Linux, it was an anti-Sco virii ;) Actually, this was not the purpose of MyDoom, it is a red herring. The real purpose is to setup infected boxes as spam relays. And the only way to pass a virus through a linux machine (other than a mail server) is to physically attach it to your e-mail program or forward a virus containing attachment. A virus cannot be resident on your machine and do anything that will infect other machines, unless you actually do the steps to make it executable, because a virus wouldn't have the permissions required to run. Not only would a user have to be incredibly clueless and stupid to do this accidentally, the user would have to have some knowledge of how to make a binary executable--I think that is mutually exclusive. Bottom line--click and run doesn't work here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
On Saturday 28 February 2004 12:07 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:59 am, Greg Meyer wrote: -Last fall, I purchased an iRiver iMP-350 CD/MP3 player because they had -pre-announced that they would be supporting Ogg Vorbis format with a firmware -upgrade. Well, the second open beta was announced last week and a firmware -is available. Thats great news, thanks for the update Greg. Just out of curiosity - how much does the iRiver go for now? These are the items that support Ogg Vorbis. I am listing the msrp off the US website. I have seen them for less at retail. SlimX CD series iMP-250 No longer available iMP-350 $129.99 == This is the one I have. I paid about $115 for it. iMP-400 $159.99 iMP-550 $179.99 Flash Memory Series iFP-300 Series iFP-500 Series Prices range from $99 to $450 depending on how much memory and features. Hard Drive Series iHP-100 $349.99 iHP-115 No longer available iHP-120 $399.99 iHP-140 $499.99 Also keep in mind that Headroom Corp., one of the well respected source for audiophile quality headphone equipment, rates the SlimX iMP series very high. http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=2subTopicID=28 -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gave up on trying to get spamassassin to work ...
On Saturday 28 February 2004 07:23 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
... just couldn't get it to work on my system, despite the help of a few
kind souls (thanks).
The good news, however, is that I /did/ manage to get POPFile in place
and running as a service (I used to use it on the Windows side of
things), and it works like a charm.
Good TWiki for it...
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PopFile
SA was extremely easy for me to setup, once I figured it out BG. The hardest
part was setting up the filter in Kmail to use it. here:
http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html
/etc/mail/spamassassin contains my *.cf files (backhair.cf, chickenpox.cf,
dnsbl.cf, local.cf,local.cfrpmsave, weedsonly.cf) part of which came from
this site: http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm
my /home/username/.spamassassin contains my user_prefs which overrides my
local.cf and has the bayes rules that came from Derek, plus a couple rules of
my own. I had to create this directory, BTW, because the install did not.
This is my entire /home/username/.spamassassin/user_prefs:
# This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.
# See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
# tweaked.
#
###
#
#rewrite_subject 0
rewrite_subject 1
report_header 1
defang_mime 0
#defang_mime 1
required_hits 4.8
spam_level_stars 3
subject_tag ***SPAM***
auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666
score FROM_AND_TO_SAME_1 3
score MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE 0
score IN_REP_TO -1
score EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION -1
score ORIGINAL_MESSAGE -1
local rules #
score HTML_10_202.0
score HTML_20_302.2
end local.cf
use_bayes 1
score BAYES_00 0 0 -6.400 -6.400
score BAYES_01 0 0 -6.600 -6.600
score BAYES_10 0 0 -6.400 -5.801
score BAYES_20 0 0 -5.801 -3.101
score BAYES_30 0 0 -1.246 -1.604
score BAYES_60 0 0 2.002 2.002
score BAYES_70 0 0 2.637 2.637
score BAYES_80 0 0 4.1 4.1
score BAYES_90 0 0 4.2 4.2
score BAYES_99 0 0 4.300 4.3
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Re: [newbie] annoying administrator messages
On Friday 27 February 2004 07:40 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 08:13 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:32:58PM -0800, John Wilson wrote: Yeah and the screwy thing is that it's citing messages I either never sent or were sent months ago. Very weird indeed. I was just getting them for messages I sent but this morning I had about 20 claiming I sent suspicious attachments for mails I never sent! I have been getting them too. I think that somebody that subscribes/posts to this list with Windows is infected with the latest and is sending messages that appear to come from the other list members. Hint, if are reading this and you are running Windows, check your machine for the latest viruses. And for the rest of us, just add a filter in your e-mail program to trash 'em. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 17:45, Greg Meyer wrote: iMP-350 $129.99 == This is the one I have. I paid about $115 for At that price I was tempted, but as usual, UK loses out: iRiver IMP350 Slim X Product ID: B-237 Delivery Time:2-3 Days Delivery Cost:FREE Price Policy Tell a Friend Win A Chilli Egg Our Price: £145.00 Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQNmdkFAvMr/nNX8RAuhEAJ4jxHBQf9m+ydsyIN4ZfyBclFBOGwCgjVdE bCvrvQWEzf2Vgym5mE6f8+w= =Zok+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
On Saturday 28 February 2004 07:59, Greg Meyer wrote: Last fall, I purchased an iRiver iMP-350 CD/MP3 player because they had pre-announced that they would be supporting Ogg Vorbis format with a firmware upgrade. Well, the second open beta was announced last week and a firmware is available. Thanks for making mention of this. I had quit looking for the IMP-250 firmware update when it hadn't appeared by the end of December. Off to download the firmware, and rip some OGG files. Glenn -- 11:14:12 up 2:04, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586, kernel 2.6.2-3mdk Registered Linux user #324360 (1) Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the furniture, shelves, and showcases. (2) Each day fill lamps, clean chimneys, and trim wicks. Wash the windows once a week. (3) Each clerk will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's business. (4) Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to your individual taste. (5) This office will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. except on the Sabbath, on which day we will remain closed. Each employee is expected to spend the Sabbath by attending church and contributing liberally to the cause of the Lord. -- Office Worker's Guide, New England Carriage Works, 1872 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Identifying people by IP
Dear All I am looking for a program to collect all the information possible about an Internet user, given the IP he/she is using. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul _ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Linux vs Windos WAS : [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux
On Fri February 27 2004 12:11 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If I remember right Gateway, Dell, IBM and I think HP will be selling new systems with Red Hat pre-install. That is one reason I tried Red Hat before Mandrake. Now if only HP would sell desktops and laptops running HP-UX :) I can get Linux and install it, hell this is an HP Pavilion running Slackware, but getting HP-UX is a bit harder ;) Another problem these hardware makers have is using integrated hardwareFor Goodness sakes I absolutly CRINGE when I see an integrated video card. When I buy a computer, dont want integrated shit in it! I want an Nvidia Video card, A Sound Blaster Live or better sound card, I want lots of RAM, a big HD, and some decent cooling for the system. Not that much to ask right? Yes I too do not like integrated stuff. But what about Laptops as my next computer will be a reconditiond laptop. -- Ray Hogaboom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Identifying people by IP
On Saturday 28 February 2004 12:23 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to collect all the information possible about an Internet user, given the IP he/she is using. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul _ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo Try whois. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.
On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:34 am, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: This was BEFORE mydoom so call the dogs of justice off me. It said their were a few virii that even though they could not infect the machine, they could be sent to people who did not run Linux or UNIX. Like they would sort of stay resident on the machine, but unless you had a virii scan you would not know Well, I have yet never heard of any virus that can manage to initiate actions to replicate themselves without being made to execute on the target machine. That would include any concepts of staying resident, etc. So, either your reading was alarmist, it was the product of an anti-virus vendor that should probably be considered suspect, or it was incorrect. I would be happy to have anyone point me to any verifiable information that proves me wrong so that I won't be mistaken about a real threat, but as of now, I have yet to hear any reliable person suggest that a virus, worm, or trojan can replicate in any fashion or even be resident on a machine without being executed on that machine. This includes all past, and present virus variants. And of course myDoom wouldn't infect Linux, it was an anti-Sco virii ;) I wouldn't propagate this type of SCO FUD even as a joke. The SCO folks have shown themselves to be universally clue resistant, thus they probably won't get that it is a joke. MyDoom was a pro-spammer virus, it was not anti-Sco anything. And, not to be pedantic, but the proper plural of computer virus is viruses, not virii. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Identifying people by IP
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:23 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to collect all the information possible about an Internet user, given the IP he/she is using. Thank you a lot in advance! whois -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mozilla configurations lost
I updated the system last night and apparently it updated mozilla. In the process all of the extensions and themes and such that I had installed are no longer active Is it possible to have mozilla search its files for all the .jars and such that are still there and rebuild itself? Or do I have to redownload/install everything over again? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] updating rc1
I updated rc1 via cooker as greg suggested, and for some reason it wants to put kde 3 on there when I am sure I read that its deprecated now. Anyone have a clue? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Identifying people by IP
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:23:00 + Paul Smith disseminated the following: I am looking for a program to collect all the information possible about an Internet user, given the IP he/she is using. As the Canadian recording industry is finding out, that requires a court order. If you want to find out about a static IP assigned to a registered domain, then of course you can just use 'whois'. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 13:47:56 up 23 days, 1:32, 5 users, load average: 1.25, 1.24, 1.23 +++ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ Proprietary Software Licenses: Duping a person into making a vow of ignorance and then selling them the fruits of knowledge is like making them believe they benefit from having their head held under water while someone sells them oxygen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OCR software
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 17:23, John Richard Smith wrote: How about an entry on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/OfficeApplications, John? Anne Do you mean give a rightup of my experience ? Yes I'm no expert at all, just feeling my way along . You don't need to be an expert, John. Just write what you did, how well it works, what its limitations are etc. Many things on the TWiki are just our experiences, but they can save hours for other people. And if you or someone else learns more about it, it's very easy to edit the entry. If you Regards Thomas need any help, ask Anne -- OK Anne, I've done it perhaps you can edit the layout a bit. I'm not that confortable with the editor on this site. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 18:44, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, I have yet never heard of any virus that can manage to initiate actions to replicate themselves without being made to execute on the target machine. That would include any concepts of staying resident, etc. So, either your reading was alarmist, it was the product of an anti-virus vendor that should probably be considered suspect, or it was incorrect. I would be happy to have anyone point me to any verifiable information that proves me wrong so that I won't be mistaken about a real threat, but as of now, I have yet to hear any reliable person suggest that a virus, worm, or trojan can replicate in any fashion or even be resident on a machine without being executed on that machine. This includes all past, and present virus variants. I wonder if he is referring to sobig, which, I understand, left a stub in the windows registry so that it could 'come back' after being disinfected? If so, it obviously has no place to hide in linux. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQOOnkFAvMr/nNX8RAoe7AJ95MJM3Adq1EdT08OB00kqSMB7yJgCffeFF +a6ICZcxPHyy/YACt6kdpGU= =oMga -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:45 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 12:07 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:59 am, Greg Meyer wrote: -Last fall, I purchased an iRiver iMP-350 CD/MP3 player because they had -pre-announced that they would be supporting Ogg Vorbis format with a firmware -upgrade. Well, the second open beta was announced last week and a firmware -is available. Thats great news, thanks for the update Greg. Just out of curiosity - how much does the iRiver go for now? These are the items that support Ogg Vorbis. I am listing the msrp off the US website. I have seen them for less at retail. SlimX CD series iMP-250 No longer available iMP-350 $129.99 == This is the one I have. I paid about $115 for it. iMP-400 $159.99 iMP-550 $179.99 Flash Memory Series iFP-300 Series iFP-500 Series Prices range from $99 to $450 depending on how much memory and features. Hard Drive Series iHP-100 $349.99 iHP-115 No longer available iHP-120 $399.99 iHP-140 $499.99 Also keep in mind that Headroom Corp., one of the well respected source for audiophile quality headphone equipment, rates the SlimX iMP series very high. http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=2subTopicID=28 I just clobbered my TDK Mojo 256 (don't ever put it in your shirt pocket at the firin range without buttoning the pocket hot brass will kill the display :-( ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OCR software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 18:51, John Richard Smith wrote: OK Anne, I've done it perhaps you can edit the layout a bit. I'm not that confortable with the editor on this site. John Done it, John. I've changed the page layout, now we're getting more entries on it. I've put in a Table of Contents, and made sure that each entry is a header (---+++ marks level 3 header). I think it's easier to read now. Take a look at the changes I made. On many pages you could just copy the formatting of an existing entry - it's unfortunate that this page didn't give you much help. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQObFkFAvMr/nNX8RAkT+AKCe1w7GJuXm3AgDJ+94c4Kb7fz+AQCdH9zF KY0bwwU1pklpnO4vRdK52Ug= =j/+Z -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:45 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 12:07 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:59 am, Greg Meyer wrote: -Last fall, I purchased an iRiver iMP-350 CD/MP3 player because they had -pre-announced that they would be supporting Ogg Vorbis format with a firmware -upgrade. Well, the second open beta was announced last week and a firmware -is available. Thats great news, thanks for the update Greg. Just out of curiosity - how much does the iRiver go for now? These are the items that support Ogg Vorbis. I am listing the msrp off the US website. I have seen them for less at retail. SlimX CD series iMP-250 No longer available iMP-350 $129.99 == This is the one I have. I paid about $115 for it. iMP-400 $159.99 iMP-550 $179.99 Flash Memory Series iFP-300 Series iFP-500 Series Prices range from $99 to $450 depending on how much memory and features. Hard Drive Series iHP-100 $349.99 iHP-115 No longer available iHP-120 $399.99 iHP-140 $499.99 Also keep in mind that Headroom Corp., one of the well respected source for audiophile quality headphone equipment, rates the SlimX iMP series very high. http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=2subTopicID=28 How about some input to the wiki page on setting it up for use under Mandrake? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:10 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Our Price: £145.00 All I can say is WOW! That's like $240 US. Does that included VAT and all that stuff? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] updating rc1
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:47 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I updated rc1 via cooker as greg suggested, and for some reason it wants to put kde 3 on there when I am sure I read that its deprecated now. Anyone have a clue? What's the exact error? Current KDE in Cooker s/b 3.2 -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:00:37 -0500 Lee Wiggers disseminated the following: SCO IP Paid Up License - 1-CPU - $699.00 SCO IP Paid Up License - 2 CPU - $1,149.00 SCO IP Paid Up License - 4-CPU - $2,499.00 So.one box with 2 cpus would be? I'm so confused I don't know which to buy. Which one did you get, Joe? I couldn't figure it out. I'm not sure if even buying a license will help me, since it allows me to only use the 'binaries', not the source. Since I have to have the source to install drivers, how the heck do I comply? And which bits of code need to be licensed? The whole kernel, or just the parts that they claim were derived from their IP? As someone on Slashdot pointed out: ...their Linux license FAQ does make it clear that their IP license only entitles you to use Linux binaries, not their Linux source. Since they still refuse to identify what Linux source they own, it's unclear how you're supposed to stick to that part of the license, or indeed how you're supposed to get Linux binaries in the first place. The whole thing is a bit weird. I assume that once you have paid for the licence they will *send* you the binaries - for that price, I expect them to be hand delivered to my door, on a velvet cushion! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 19:21, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:10 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Our Price: £145.00 All I can say is WOW! That's like $240 US. Does that included VAT and all that stuff? Yes, it was all-in. Another site offered the 550 for £129. One site said it could supply the 350 for £99, but it was out of stock. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQO2UkFAvMr/nNX8RAlKTAJ4/ggFIvkYU94XL7Nid/DMEGyy6OACfe7Fa Qxm2sSrhJKH1d/RdUvbNcWo= =fYJR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] updating rc1
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:47 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I updated rc1 via cooker as greg suggested, and for some reason it wants to put kde 3 on there when I am sure I read that its deprecated now. Anyone have a clue? What's the exact error? Current KDE in Cooker s/b 3.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok, I thought it was supposed to be 4.x now. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] updating rc1
On Saturday 28 February 2004 02:54 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: What's the exact error? Current KDE in Cooker s/b 3.2 ok, I thought it was supposed to be 4.x now. Nope 3.2 is the latest and greatest. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I wonder if he is referring to sobig, which, I understand, left a stub in the windows registry so that it could 'come back' after being disinfected? If so, it obviously has no place to hide in linux. Even if, the only way for sobig to leave the stub would be to execute on the target machine. If it is possible for a virus to infest or otherwise take action on a machine without executing, I am simply not aware of it. I would find the topic to be fascinating if someone has suppositions about how such a thing could occur. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!
On Saturday 28 February 2004 02:32 pm, Margot wrote: I assume that once you have paid for the licence they will *send* you the binaries - for that price, I expect them to be hand delivered to my door, on a velvet cushion! When you pay the mob protection, they don't actually provide you with a service, they simply don't provide you with a particular service. If you want really good reading, read through the terms of the license. This is one of the few cases that I know of where buying a license actually puts you in a worse legal position than if didn't. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Identifying people by IP
I am looking for a program to collect all the information possible about an Internet user, given the IP he/she is using. Try whois. HTH Thanks, Dennis and Bryan! Paul _ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant
On Sat February 28 2004 9:21 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 February 2004 20:33, Littlefish Operator wrote: By the way the multi-card reader works great! Did you have to do anything to set it up, Scott? In the past it has been well-nigh impossible to get the multi-format readers working. You are working with 9.2, I think? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQKPgkFAvMr/nNX8RAuf0AJwJBFrSxkE3YZjXkaf5EMqr8WWRMQCeO4e/ AMAuYDJLqCO6aRD97J8M9gI= =Y603 -END PGP SIGNATURE- I do not have a multi-card reader. I have a scanDick Flash Card Reader, it plugs into a USB port. It only reads the Flash Card I use in my Camera. When I installed Mandrake Linux 9.2 I made sure that I had a 64MB card was in the reader and the reader was plugged into a USB port. It was installed and I have a icon on my KDE desk top for it. There was no problems. This card reader to me is permanent USB device I use it weekly there is no reason for me to ever unplug. But then I picked up a 120 GB external Hard Drive USB 2.0 Compliant. It was plugged into the only other USB port I have and now I have a icon on destop for it. I do unplug the 120 GB external Hard Drive. This way I can use wife's laptop to burn CDs and DVDs as I can not make my cd burner work with Linux. The problem now is I need my only Flash Card in the reader at all times or Linux can not make up it's mind as to where these 2 devices will be mounted. It is Not a big problem but when I click on memory card reader, I expect to see the pictures and files that are on the flash card. Some time it is the hard drive files not the flash card. Thanks -- Ray Hogaboom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:21:20 +, Anne Wilson wrote -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 February 2004 20:33, Littlefish Operator wrote: By the way the multi-card reader works great! Did you have to do anything to set it up, Scott? In the past it has been well-nigh impossible to get the multi-format readers working. You are working with 9.2, I think? Well, as the case may be that reader is currently plugged into a 9.0 box (which I'm hoping to upgrade this week). I didn't do anything particularly fancy to hook it up. Created an entry in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/cf vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 And a /mnt/cf directory. On the KDE desktop I created a new floppy device and pointed it at device /dev/sda1 (no supermount), called it 'ImageMate' and treat the cards like floppy disks. I don't think it involved anymore than that, but I do see I've also got: scsi_hostadapter in /etc/modules and: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi in /etc/modules/conf. I think those two entries may have been part of the deal. The card reader is a Sandisk USB Imagemate 6 in 1 card reader. I've never actually tried reading anything other than CompactFlash. I think the other card slots show up as other /dev/sd? devices. I only wish it came as an internal floppy bay mount instead of an external plug in. Never had any problems reading/writing flash cards. Just the same stupid kernel warnings when ever there's no card in it: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Additional sense indicates Medium not present sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Why, why, why keep trying to read the device when it's already apparent that there's no medium present Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant
On Sat February 28 2004 10:52 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, but, If you disconnect the reader entirely prior to boot, You get lots of warning in boot script about failed device, and when on desktop, you then hot plug it, the reader shows up in the hub nicely but when you go to mount it on either dektop icon, or CL, you get, mount /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device. so it's not really configured as a device to the system, only a usb connection in the hub, if you see what I mean. My reply was in reference to the USB external hard drive and other such devices. I have a card reader on my MOBO but don't use it. This is because I would lose some additional USB ports to plug the device in, for one, second, my reading has convinced me that the card readers are flaky at best, downright dysfunctional at worst. Card readers in Windows often require proprietary drivers to be loaded and those are probably not as forthcoming for Linux as for Windows. Ultimately, I don't really need any such device, I have a Multifunction HP printer that has slots for memory cards, I can simply plug the memory into the printer and either print the pictures or transfer them over to the hard drive, with Linux. Since I don't have much experience hooking up smart card readers, I will have to defer answers about that to someone who has done it. But MY USB Flash Card Reader has NEVER been unplugged from My computer. There for It is ALWAYS plugged into the same socket. IT DOES not have a power switch, there for IT is always on. There for it should not make any difference, as to what I do with the hard drive. The memory card reader should always be mounted to /mnt/memory_card. There for the External USB Hard Drive Should Always be MOUNTED to /mnt/removable. May be I should start a new thread as my USB 2.0 compliant question and this issue of where USB devices are mounted seam to be 2 different subjects. -- Ray Hogaboom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Concerning about viruses
Dear All Is it true that one should not worry about virus when using Linux? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 20:23, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I wonder if he is referring to sobig, which, I understand, left a stub in the windows registry so that it could 'come back' after being disinfected? If so, it obviously has no place to hide in linux. Even if, the only way for sobig to leave the stub would be to execute on the target machine. If it is possible for a virus to infest or otherwise take action on a machine without executing, I am simply not aware of it. I would find the topic to be fascinating if someone has suppositions about how such a thing could occur. The short article I copied to keep with my toolkit says that after an infection (windows, of course) not only should it be removed by an AV scan, but you should also check the registry for a SSK Service value. It then goes on to name the key likely to contain it. This article was in reply to someone who claimed that he had disinfected his machine, but it still seemed to be active. That's all the info I have. Just how that key helps it to replicate via shared network folders I don't know Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQQThkFAvMr/nNX8RAh0PAJ49MNJqfDdFQjBlhoXBhO4Bp1fujQCeNufk UIg8Xvu/tzR11ZWLyakTpvw= =oDCP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 23:12, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is it true that one should not worry about virus when using Linux? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Not strictly true, but I don't loose any sleep over them. There are virii for Linux, but they cannot do the damage that Windows virii do - unless you run as root. Most windows virii are able to propagate because MS were kind enough to give them perfect conditions to breed - they allowed them to install themselves, to take over part of the OS, to adopt your identity, to send themselves out to other machines, and so on. In addition, Windows tries to be one program that does everything, Linux is many programs that do a single thing. Only one part is likely to be compromised. When you run Linux as a user, you can only install software locally, you cannot install to root (or other users) without priveleges. Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses
On Saturday 28 February 2004 03:12 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is it true that one should not worry about virus when using Linux? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul It is true that as of now, there are no successful viruses that will propagate in linux, however you can be victim of a cracker or some trojans but you can run chkrootkit on a console and find out if any of the few trojans out there are on your computer. So short answer, viruses are always a thing to keep at the front of security but for now not a real problem. If you have a linux mail server serving windows machines as in outlook or outlook express then there are several virus scanners available to catch the nasties before they go to the mail boxes. Short none technical but hopefully some help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working?
This is a stationary mouse with the big red thumb ball. Officially a USB device, it comes with the plug in PS2 adapter. Has anyone gotten this device working under Mandrake? I've been trying to get it configured (as a PS2 device) with no luck. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] canoscan D646U
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:13 pm, many eyes viewed Marco Verheul's words:- Anyone have any experience with this scanner in MDK? Sane says its not supported in this distro even though its on the sane list. Am I doing something wrong? It may be no help at all, but I have a CanonN1240U scanner that is detected automagically by Linux Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2, but as a Plustek scanning device. It may be possible to manually try to register it to the system as something it is not? I have had some success configuring printers like this, and certainly monitors. Charlie. -- If you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them. Richard Bach This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses
you can be victim of a cracker or some trojans but you can run chkrootkit on a console and find out if any of the few trojans out there are on your computer. So short answer, viruses are always a thing to keep at the front of security but for now not a real problem. If you have a linux mail server serving windows machines as in outlook or outlook express then there are several virus scanners available to catch the nasties before they go to the mail boxes. Short none technical but hopefully some help. Thanks, Dennis and Paul! Does not a firewall (I am using firestarter) prevent the action of trojans? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OCR software
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 18:51, John Richard Smith wrote: OK Anne, I've done it perhaps you can edit the layout a bit. I'm not that confortable with the editor on this site. John That is good Anne. I just didn't find the editor a familiar thing to use. Now the item scans better. Thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses
On Saturday 28 February 2004 04:12 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is it true that one should not worry about virus when using Linux? Almost all worms and viruses under Linux must use some particular exploit in order to gain enough access to propagate, or be executed as root in order to get that access. So, a much better idea is to concern yourself with patching all known exploits, rather than worrying about any particular virus. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working?
- Original Message - From: Littlefish Operator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 15:32 Subject: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working? This is a stationary mouse with the big red thumb ball. Officially a USB device, it comes with the plug in PS2 adapter. Has anyone gotten this device working under Mandrake? I've been trying to get it configured (as a PS2 device) with no luck. Scott Yes I have the same unit and during installation I select Generatic wheel mouse and 9.2 and 10.0rc1 configured it correctly. No problems and everything works. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB 2.0 compliant
Littlefish Operator wrote: Well, as the case may be that reader is currently plugged into a 9.0 box (which I'm hoping to upgrade this week). I didn't do anything particularly fancy to hook it up. Created an entry in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/cf vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 Yep , this is automount I use automount.Mine looks like this, /dev/sda1 /mnt/reader vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Not sure where I got it from. And a /mnt/cf directory. On the KDE desktop I created a new floppy device and pointed it at device /dev/sda1 (no supermount), called it 'ImageMate' and treat the cards like floppy disks. I did the same only I took the creat cdrom device route for my desktop icon. I don't think it involved anymore than that, but I do see I've also got: scsi_hostadapter in /etc/modules and: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi I didn't think this had to do with the reader. I don't know though. in /etc/modules/conf. I think those two entries may have been part of the deal. The card reader is a Sandisk USB Imagemate 6 in 1 card reader. I've never actually tried reading anything other than CompactFlash. I think the other card slots show up as other /dev/sd? devices. I only wish it came as an internal floppy bay mount instead of an external plug in. Never had any problems reading/writing flash cards. Just the same stupid kernel warnings when ever there's no card in it: My 6 in 1 reader is PQI Travel Flash multifunction Flash Drive Wasn't very expensive either. I like it. Though smart cards are on their way out in UK, It's something called XD, I think, used in newer Cameras Still, it means anyone who comes around can have their snaps done up on my computer regardless of the make of camera. No faffing around trying to make cameras recognised just for a few hours. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses
Thanks, Dennis and Paul! Does not a firewall (I am using firestarter) prevent the action of trojans? Firewalls are a good thing if the manager is always vigilant and keeps an eye on what is attacking the system. My feeling is sooner or later someone is going to come up with an exploit that works. It will take a near genius I think to do it but that is why I check logs at least once a week. I don't have a heavy traffic system so that seems to be enough for now. Anyway, what I am saying is do not worry, but do not drop your gaurd. HTH Thanks again, Dennis and Bryan! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working?
- Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 22:19 Subject: Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working? - Original Message - From: Littlefish Operator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 15:32 Subject: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working? This is a stationary mouse with the big red thumb ball. Officially a USB device, it comes with the plug in PS2 adapter. Has anyone gotten this device working under Mandrake? I've been trying to get it configured (as a PS2 device) with no luck. Scott Yes I have the same unit and during installation I select Generatic wheel mouse and 9.2 and 10.0rc1 configured it correctly. No problems and everything works. Scott I dont want to mislead you my trackman wheel PN:804360- has a PS2 connector, therefore I dont know about official USB since there is no USB connector. FWIW. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
On Saturday 28 February 2004 12:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -Also keep in mind that Headroom Corp., one of the well respected source for -audiophile quality headphone equipment, rates the SlimX iMP series very high. - -http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=2subTopicID=28 Thanks Greg. Guess I may just have to dust off the 'ole credit card now. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:06 am, et wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:51 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm getting a sporadic error that reads: Sound Server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting. Also, my mixer settings are never restored. I'm using mdk10rc with kernel 2.6.2-3 FWIW, I received that same error quite frequently when I had 10beta2 installed, but have never seen it after dropping down to 9.2. Beyond that observation, I have nothing helpful to add, I'm afraid. I would add that problems with rc and beta versions should be taken to the cooker lists, and no newbie should be using an rc or beta version. on the cooker list you will find a number of these and the solution at this time is to wait until monday, or try to change the sound configuration in MCC. I don't exactly see a problem with a newbie using a beta or rc version of Linux. After all, I am here for the experience. I don't really ineed/i Linux. I'm 13 years old and this happens to be one of my hobbies. Notice I post a lot with my various problems. It's because I fiddle around, break things, then fix them. Just something I like to do. Only on this laptop one hard drive has gone defunct(I swear that wasn't my fault =)), I've reinstalled like something like 6 times, and Windows 3 or 4, and I accidentaly formatted my hard drive once too. I've been told that there's a way to fix everything in Linux...quite the opposite of Windows, without expensive software and tools. I'm just here to learn. What's the fun of just using 9.2? --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: Hi, All ... Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail settings (identities, networks, filters etc) were not backed up ... Also, any sub directories ( their msgs) in my local folders were gone ... (Which means, say, the folder Work was still there but not, say, Work - Bob, Work - Susie, or whatever ... ) I had assumed (naively) that this info was stored either in my Mail dir or in some hidden file in my home dir ... Obviously not. Can someone please let me know where this info is saved, and how I can include it in backups so that I don't have to recreate all my settings again? Any/all help is appreciated ... Best, Adam I'm guessing that you just went into Konqueror or some program like that and copied and pasted all of the files and directories? I've tried that, bad idea =P. There are hidden directories and files that begin with a '.'. I'm sure you've noticed them. So if you want to back stuff up with a GUI, just make sure to go into properties and check the option to show hidden files and folders. It's under 'View'. I believe the Kmail settings are in .Mail, but I'm not positive so just copy them all next time. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?
On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : Hi, All ... : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a : disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my : Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail settings : (identities, networks, filters etc) were not backed up ... Also, any sub : directories ( their msgs) in my local folders were gone ... (Which : means, say, the folder Work was still there but not, say, Work - Bob, : Work - : : Susie, or whatever ... ) : : I had assumed (naively) that this info was stored either in my Mail dir : or in some hidden file in my home dir ... Obviously not. : : Can someone please let me know where this info is saved, and how I can : include it in backups so that I don't have to recreate all my settings : again? : : Any/all help is appreciated ... : : Best, : Adam : : I'm guessing that you just went into Konqueror or some program like that : and copied and pasted all of the files and directories? I've tried that, : bad idea =P. There are hidden directories and files that begin with a '.'. : I'm sure you've noticed them. So if you want to back stuff up with a GUI, : just make sure to go into properties and check the option to show hidden : files and folders. It's under 'View'. I believe the Kmail settings are in : .Mail, but I'm not positive so just copy them all next time. : : --Marc Thanks for the reply, but I believe I did grab all the hidden files, too ... To backup my user dir I always just enter it and execute tar cvf home.tar * which does grab the hidden files ... Any other thoughts? :^) Thanks again, Adam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:36 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : Hi, All ... : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a : disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included : my Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail settings : (identities, networks, filters etc) were not backed up ... Also, any : sub directories ( their msgs) in my local folders were gone ... (Which : means, say, the folder Work was still there but not, say, Work - Bob, : Work - : : Susie, or whatever ... ) : : I had assumed (naively) that this info was stored either in my Mail dir : or in some hidden file in my home dir ... Obviously not. : : Can someone please let me know where this info is saved, and how I can : include it in backups so that I don't have to recreate all my settings : again? : : Any/all help is appreciated ... : : Best, : Adam : : I'm guessing that you just went into Konqueror or some program like that : and copied and pasted all of the files and directories? I've tried that, : bad idea =P. There are hidden directories and files that begin with a : '.'. I'm sure you've noticed them. So if you want to back stuff up with a : GUI, just make sure to go into properties and check the option to show : hidden files and folders. It's under 'View'. I believe the Kmail settings : are in .Mail, but I'm not positive so just copy them all next time. : : --Marc Thanks for the reply, but I believe I did grab all the hidden files, too ... To backup my user dir I always just enter it and execute tar cvf home.tar * which does grab the hidden files ... Any other thoughts? :^) Thanks again, Adam Hmm... Did you update KDE at all? I think the folders it stores settings in changed. Not positive, but I thought I heard something like that. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working?
On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:14 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 22:19 Subject: Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working? - Original Message - From: Littlefish Operator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 15:32 Subject: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working? This is a stationary mouse with the big red thumb ball. Officially a USB device, it comes with the plug in PS2 adapter. Has anyone gotten this device working under Mandrake? I've been trying to get it configured (as a PS2 device) with no luck. Scott Yes I have the same unit and during installation I select Generatic wheel mouse and 9.2 and 10.0rc1 configured it correctly. No problems and everything works. I am using a Logitech USB mouse with a PS2 adapter on it no problem configuring it as a Generic wheel mouse under 9.2 so the track ball should work. Scott I dont want to mislead you my trackman wheel PN:804360- has a PS2 connector, therefore I dont know about official USB since there is no USB connector. FWIW. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 12:48, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm just here to learn. What's the fun of just using 9.2? Good point, and the world needs more beta testers. I need a robust workstation so I don't use beta software and I don't like to fiddle. If everybody was like me how would developers find beta testers to test their software. SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?
On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:36 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : : Hi, All ... : : : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on : : a disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which : : included my Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail : : settings (identities, networks, filters etc) were not backed up ... : : Also, any sub directories ( their msgs) in my local folders were : : gone ... (Which means, say, the folder Work was still there but not, : : say, Work - Bob, Work - : : : : Susie, or whatever ... ) : : : : I had assumed (naively) that this info was stored either in my Mail : : dir or in some hidden file in my home dir ... Obviously not. : : : : Can someone please let me know where this info is saved, and how I : : can include it in backups so that I don't have to recreate all my : : settings again? : : : : Any/all help is appreciated ... : : : : Best, : : Adam : : : : I'm guessing that you just went into Konqueror or some program like : : that and copied and pasted all of the files and directories? I've tried : : that, bad idea =P. There are hidden directories and files that begin : : with a '.'. I'm sure you've noticed them. So if you want to back stuff : : up with a GUI, just make sure to go into properties and check the : : option to show hidden files and folders. It's under 'View'. I believe : : the Kmail settings are in .Mail, but I'm not positive so just copy them : : all next time. : : : : --Marc : : Thanks for the reply, but I believe I did grab all the hidden files, too : ... To backup my user dir I always just enter it and execute : : tar cvf home.tar * : : which does grab the hidden files ... : : Any other thoughts? :^) : : Thanks again, : Adam : : Hmm... : : Did you update KDE at all? I think the folders it stores settings in : changed. Not positive, but I thought I heard something like that. : : --Marc Nope, haven't updated KDE ... I also tried whereis kmail to see if it would pull up anything, but the only thing that comes up is /usr/bin/kmail ... I'm sure the answer will end up being an obvious one, but it eludes me right now! Thanks again for your suggestions ... Adam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working?
On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:44 pm, aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:14 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 22:19 Subject: Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working? - Original Message - From: Littlefish Operator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 15:32 Subject: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working? This is a stationary mouse with the big red thumb ball. Officially a USB device, it comes with the plug in PS2 adapter. Has anyone gotten this device working under Mandrake? I've been trying to get it configured (as a PS2 device) with no luck. Scott Yes I have the same unit and during installation I select Generatic wheel mouse and 9.2 and 10.0rc1 configured it correctly. No problems and everything works. I am using a Logitech USB mouse with a PS2 adapter on it no problem configuring it as a Generic wheel mouse under 9.2 so the track ball should work. Scott I dont want to mislead you my trackman wheel PN:804360- has a PS2 connector, therefore I dont know about official USB since there is no USB connector. FWIW. Hoyt Same here, logitech optical mouse, usb, with ps2 adaptor. No problem on 9.2 and none after update 10rc1. Not sure what fixed it in 10 because I am running cooker and it was a bunch of auto-selects ago. But it should work as a generic ps2 wheelmouse. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?
On Saturday 28 February 2004 07:27 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:36 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : : Hi, All ... : : : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up : : on a disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which : : included my Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail : : settings (identities, networks, filters etc) were not backed up ... : : Also, any sub directories ( their msgs) in my local folders were : : gone ... (Which means, say, the folder Work was still there but : : not, say, Work - Bob, Work - : : : : Susie, or whatever ... ) : : : : I had assumed (naively) that this info was stored either in my Mail : : dir or in some hidden file in my home dir ... Obviously not. : : : : Can someone please let me know where this info is saved, and how I : : can include it in backups so that I don't have to recreate all my : : settings again? : : : : Any/all help is appreciated ... : : : : Best, : : Adam : : : : I'm guessing that you just went into Konqueror or some program like : : that and copied and pasted all of the files and directories? I've : : tried that, bad idea =P. There are hidden directories and files that : : begin with a '.'. I'm sure you've noticed them. So if you want to : : back stuff up with a GUI, just make sure to go into properties and : : check the option to show hidden files and folders. It's under 'View'. : : I believe the Kmail settings are in .Mail, but I'm not positive so : : just copy them all next time. : : : : --Marc : : Thanks for the reply, but I believe I did grab all the hidden files, : too ... To backup my user dir I always just enter it and execute : : tar cvf home.tar * : : which does grab the hidden files ... : : Any other thoughts? :^) : : Thanks again, : Adam : : Hmm... : : Did you update KDE at all? I think the folders it stores settings in : changed. Not positive, but I thought I heard something like that. : : --Marc Nope, haven't updated KDE ... I also tried whereis kmail to see if it would pull up anything, but the only thing that comes up is /usr/bin/kmail ... I'm sure the answer will end up being an obvious one, but it eludes me right now! just a thought did you read the docbook getting started at file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kmail/intro.docbook As it has instructions for backing up K-mail Thanks again for your suggestions ... Adam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dell Inspiron 100 small screen problem resolved
Okay, it seems that since the Dell doesn't have a true soundcard that it uses shared memory. In BIOS (which it seems you can't change or at least I've not been able to figure out a way to) that its set to only 1024k. Very small. I found the 845 patch, compiled it, put it in /usr/bin, ran it with: /usr/bin/845patch 32000 I then used MCC to reset the rez and it worked! Great, now I've got a full screen. Rebooted. Back to the small screen. So...I stuck that line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local as the same: /usr/bin/845patch 32000 but for some reason, it doesn't work there. Am I doing the syntax wrong? Thanks. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 100 small screen problem resolved
On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:54 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: -Okay, it seems that since the Dell doesn't have a true soundcard that it -uses shared memory. In BIOS (which it seems you can't change or at least I've -not been able to figure out a way to) that its set to only 1024k. Very small. -I found the 845 patch, compiled it, put it in /usr/bin, ran it with: - -/usr/bin/845patch 32000 - -I then used MCC to reset the rez and it worked! Great, now I've got a full -screen. - -Rebooted. Back to the small screen. So...I stuck that line in -/etc/rc.d/rc.local as the same: - -/usr/bin/845patch 32000 - -but for some reason, it doesn't work there. - -Am I doing the syntax wrong? Thanks. - Just wanted to add that what I've read seems to indicate that this patch needs to run before the xserver starts. Could that be the problem since rc.local is the last script to run? If so, what would be the best place to put this patch? Thanks again. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 100 small screen problem resolved
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:02 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: -On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:54 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: --Okay, it seems that since the Dell doesn't have a true soundcard that it --uses shared memory. In BIOS (which it seems you can't change or at least - I've -not been able to figure out a way to) that its set to only 1024k. - Very small. -I found the 845 patch, compiled it, put it in /usr/bin, ran it - with: - --/usr/bin/845patch 32000 -- --I then used MCC to reset the rez and it worked! Great, now I've got a full --screen. -- --Rebooted. Back to the small screen. So...I stuck that line in --/etc/rc.d/rc.local as the same: -- --/usr/bin/845patch 32000 -- --but for some reason, it doesn't work there. -- --Am I doing the syntax wrong? Thanks. -- - -Just wanted to add that what I've read seems to indicate that this patch needs -to run before the xserver starts. - -Could that be the problem since rc.local is the last script to run? If so, -what would be the best place to put this patch? Thanks again. Argh. Found more info at the Dell Linux community website. Seems there's an RPM for the 845 patch. sigh and they recommend putting it (the compiled version) in /sbin instead of /usr/bin. Then issuing the following: Configure your system to start the patch automatically at bootup. Switch to the root user (type su) and then: * For a Redhat-like system. echo /sbin/845patch 1 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit I'm off to go try that now. PS So whats the record on replying to and maintaining a msg thread you started yourself? grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
Anne; Just saw this on the Iriver site. Possibly they'd have the 350 for less than you were able to find? Glenn You should see what 3dsolutions are offering. Wow! Just some of their deals Part No: IMP-550SILVER - Eighty-one pounds 08 Inc.Vat Part No: IFP-599T - Two hundred and thirty-six pounds 18 Inc.Vat Part No: IHP-120 - Two hundred and twenty-four pounds 42 Inc.Vat https://www.3dsolutions.co.uk/ASP/products.asp?step=5filter=irivergroup=page=1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:10, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 17:45, Greg Meyer wrote: iMP-350 $129.99 == This is the one I have. I paid about $115 for At that price I was tempted, but as usual, UK loses out: iRiver IMP350 Slim X Product ID: B-237 Delivery Time: 2-3 Days Delivery Cost: FREE Price Policy Tell a Friend Win A Chilli Egg Our Price: £145.00 Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQNmdkFAvMr/nNX8RAuhEAJ4jxHBQf9m+ydsyIN4ZfyBclFBOGwCgjVdE bCvrvQWEzf2Vgym5mE6f8+w= =Zok+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 00:23:23 up 6:46, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586, kernel 2.6.2-3mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Humor in the Court: Q. And who is this person you are speaking of? A. My ex-widow said it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
