[newbie] About Dlink DWL revP wireless card
Title: About Dlink DWL revP wireless card Anybody, I would like to know if the new version (10) of Mandrake Linux supports the DLINK DWL 650 revP (with Prism 3 chipset) wireless network card. Thanks. Pravin
Re: [newbie] Updated xfce
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:30:21 -0500 Charles A Edwards wrote: > > It just requires a dependency which will not be supplied unless you > also have the nvidia driver installed > > It is safe to ignore this dependency and install using --allow -nodeps > Ok understanding now, was a long day, and as always thanks Charles. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Mar 11 23:36:50 EST 2004 23:36:50 up 2 days, 14:16, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.07, 0.07 _ ( Beer is the answer, ) ( Now what was the) ( question? ) - o ^__^ o (**)\___ (__)\ )\/\ U ||w | || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updated xfce
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:22:42 -0500 Dan Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if you have the nvidia drivers installed it should be ok ? Or have > i got it backwards ? It just requires a dependency which will not be supplied unless you also have the nvidia driver installed It is safe to ignore this dependency and install using --allow -nodeps Charles -- "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 Registered Linux user #182463 Machine: BigBoy #184142 *http://www.eslrahc.com* -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Updated xfce
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:04:24 -0500 Charles A Edwards wrote: > > A note on the 9.2 rpms. > Because I did not adjust for the usage of the nvidia driver on the > build system it is possible that an unsatisfied X depend may be > present. This can be safely circumvented by usage of --allow-nodeps. > So if you have the nvidia drivers installed it should be ok ? Or have i got it backwards ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Mar 11 23:20:46 EST 2004 23:20:46 up 2 days, 14:00, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.13 _ ( Beer is the answer, ) ( Now what was the) ( question? ) - o ^__^ o (**)\___ (__)\ )\/\ U ||w | || || Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Updated xfce
xfce-4.0.4 rpms for both 9.2 and 10.0 are now available from my site urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/ with hdlist.cz A note on the 9.2 rpms. Because I did not adjust for the usage of the nvidia driver on the build system it is possible that an unsatisfied X depend may be present. This can be safely circumvented by usage of --allow-nodeps. Charles -- Fortune's real live weird band names #784: The Yeasty Girls -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 Registered Linux user #182463 Machine: BigBoy #184142 *http://www.eslrahc.com* -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda
Thanks to the folks who responded. Well, I just wanted to let folks know that it seems to pretty much be working now. Not sure what I did. Actually to tell the truth, I am not sure that it WASN"T working before! I may not have either had all the conduits activated nor known where to look to view the synched palm data. Its all pretty confusing to me in truth. I hope to ask more questions soon, once i have time to do more exploring! Actually on my initial test while the palm data is synching to linux, it doesn't appear that any data created in the desktop application is synching back to the palm. I think I have the conduits to synch, but I will have to look at it more closely when I have more time. I trust I can draw an all you folks more knowledgable about these things than I. Thanks again! On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:24 pm, g wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing. > I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch > with built in programs under mandrake 9.2 > I am currently using the Gnome desktop, and have tried synching with both > jpilot as well as kpilot. > > When I try to synch, this is what kpilot has to say about it: > > == > > Version: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) > Version: pilot-link 0.11.8 > Version: KDE 3.1.3 > Version: Qt 3.1.2 > > HotSync Log > > 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses > DevFS. > 22:17:02 Trying to open device... > 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) > 22:17:08 Device link ready. > 22:17:08 Checking last PC... > 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... > > 22:17:09 [Conduit abbrowser_conduit] > 22:17:09 Running with flags: > 22:17:10 No Files to install > 22:17:10 End of HotSync > > 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. > 22:17:12 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses > DevFS. > 22:17:13 Trying to open device... > 22:17:13 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) > == > > There does seem to be some communication taking place between the computer > and PDA as the PDA hotsynch log registers: > "KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSynch" and shows the proper date and time that I > tried to initiate the synch. > > I have tried various settings both on the pilot as well as in kpilot. > What does "/dev/pilot" mean? I looked in the /dev directory and found no > entry for "pilot". Do I need to create this? If so how? > > Any help would be much appreciated ! > Thanks a bunch. > Gideon Turner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Pre-install ?
On Thu March 11 2004 6:13 pm, robin wrote: > Ray Hogaboom wrote: > > HI > > I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from > > ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 > > hours to download the 3 iso files. > > > > My question is > > What Mandrake 9.2 directories should I make copies of before > > installing 10.0. (I want a complete install of 10.0 not > > upgrade.) > > Well /home, of course, plus /etc if you have configuration stuff > there you want to keep, and /opt and /usr/local if you've > installed anything that places itself there (e.g. tarball > installations of Mozilla, OpenOffice etc.). > > Sir Robin Thanks Made my copies of all but /opt nothing to copy there, but might be good to know sometime later. -- Ray Hogaboom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?
On Thu March 11 2004 10:53 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. > > (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) > > As long is home is a separate partition and you have no plans to > resize, you're safe there. I would really just keep a copy of > /etc since all config info is there and my /boot/grub/menu.lst > because I use grub. The only other thing you would probably need > is /usr/local if you added anything there. Thanks for your reply It looks like you answered my Mandrake 10.0 Community Pre-install ? question here. I changed my mind. The 3 Mandrake 10.0 ISO files are now on a 120GB USB external hard drive. I can plug external hard drive into the wife's laptop. I will burn the 3 Cd's using Windows XP on her laptop. This my be better in the long run as I know MS-Windows and I am a Linux [newbie]. On Thu March 11 2004 12:21 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:06 pm, Rich and Cheryl Swanson wrote: > > I don't think you can install directly from ISO image files, > > they have to be expanded or whatever > > you do to ISO files before you can use them > > You can mount the first iso only as a loopback and boot from it > to do a basesystem install, but you cannot switch disks. If you > want to run the installer from the hard disk, you are better off > mounting the iso's as a loopback and copying the contents of all > three into one merged tree, and then regenerate the hdlists. Mounting the iso's as a loopback and copying the contents of all three into one merged tree, and then regenerate the hdlists? Easy for you to say. That would take some time for me a [newbie] to do I can burn the 3 Cd's in a lot less time. I think I will tackle this some other time after I know Linux better. My home is a separate partition, but I do plan on resizing. May be I should clarify just what I want to do and why. The why 1. My CD burner will not work with Linux. 2. Can't make computer boot to CD have boot floppy disks. 3. I have lots of room to work with on external hard drive. 4. I have no choice need Windows XP reinstall on this computer. 5. Will have to make a boot partition for Windows XP. 6. Because of 4 & 5 above all current partition will have to be changed What I think I want to do? 1. Make coppies of /home, /etc and /usr/local (done this) 2. Burn the 3 MDK 10.0 Cd's (will start this in a few min.) 3. Delete all partition on hd0 (start with a clean slate) 4. Make 4 GB partition, Install Windows XP and 2 programs I can't replace with any Linux apps. 5. Boot to floppy (this worked for MDK 9.2) 6. Install MDK 10.0 into remaining 6 GB of hd0. Now that I know a little bit more about Linux there will be a lot less stuff install with MDK 10.0 than what I installed with 9.2. Like I will install KDE and not have gnome, Icewrm, and all of the others that where installed when I had 9.2 install everything. I will see what 10.0 has to offer and take some time picking what I know I need now. I can always add other stuff later if needed. Thanks -- Ray Hogaboom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)
On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:21 pm, Poogle wrote: > Thanks, but this was bittorrent, md5sums on the ISO's said O.K, > I forgot to add in my original post that I had tried booting > from CD 2 and then changing to CD 1 when asked, that gave the > same result Your iso's are only OK, _IF_ you check them before and _AFTER_ burning. Even then, before I mail sets to friends I make sure CD1 boots an proceeds. md5sum /dev/hd?... and then compare to the appropriate md5sum in the Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-md5sums.asc If they don't exactly match, first place to look is USER choices (how did you burn?)... hardware (system, burner, media used). Is this with an nForce chipset based system? That's also a poor USER hardware choice that has many problems. That many problems such as this are often reported against. See cooker archive. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Howto select user-defined menu icon
Hi list, I tried to assign a user-defined icon to a menu item. However all files are greyed out, regardles of extension, like xpm, png etc. I use menudrake for creating menus. How can I assign a user-defined icon to a menu ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)
On Thursday 11 March 2004 11:03 am, Poogle wrote: > I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent worked for me), md5sums checked o.k and then > burnt them from the command line using cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject > /home/(path snipped)/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Powerpack-CD1.i586.iso > > CD1 boots to "press enter to install etc" then gives a message "could not > uncompress second stage ramdisk, may be a hardware error or kernel bug" > After pause I get to the select keyboard, then accept licence, then > partion, then to select packages to install now the error message "no > kernel available" followed by a string of messages about > /usr/bin/per;-install/pkgs.pm.185 and so on. At this point I can do nothing > except power off. > The problem appears to be caused when I burn the CDs, tried 4 times with > different manufacturers (700mb) media, 2 CD-R & 2 CD-RW and get the output > below. > (I have d/l CD1 iso again and get the same result) > > output from cdrecord - > BURN-Free is OFF. > Performing OPC... > Starting new track at sector: 0 > Track 01: 615 of 693 MB written (fifo 1%) [buf 21%] 1.2x.cdrecord: > Input/ > output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 2A 00 00 04 CE 31 00 00 1F 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > cmd finished after 1.853s timeout 40s > > write track data: error after 644974592 bytes > Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > Writing time: 1065.784s > Average write speed 4.4x. > Min drive buffer fill was 21% > Fixating... > Fixating time: 91.653s > cdrecord: fifo had 10223 puts and 10160 gets. -- here seems to be the problem > cdrecord: fifo was 5 times empty and 6943 times full, min fill was 0%. - > > I see it says 615 of 693mb written but when I (in konqueror) go to /mnt, > right click on cdrom and select properties it calculates it as 690.2mb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Pre-install ?
Ray Hogaboom wrote: HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. My question is What Mandrake 9.2 directories should I make copies of before installing 10.0. (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) Well /home, of course, plus /etc if you have configuration stuff there you want to keep, and /opt and /usr/local if you've installed anything that places itself there (e.g. tarball installations of Mozilla, OpenOffice etc.). Sir Robin -- "Caesar non supra grammaticos." - Suetonius Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- > I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord > (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. > > If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom > spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly > how you did it! > > Many thanks > > Keith Did it through the install for me. You have to have Aspell installed. Does auto spellcheck as well as manual. That is in Linux Mandrake 9.2 Charlie -- Though we've been dwelling together, I don't know his name: Going along accepting the flow, Just being thus, Even the eminent sages since antiquity Don't know him. How could the hasty ordinary type Presume to understand? - Shitou 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] Fixes CD
Title: RE: [newbie] Fixes CD Thanks Brian, I actually managed to figure it out, but I appreciate your response. Ron -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 9:54 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Fixes CD On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't figure out > how to use it. Anyone? > > Ron > Melbourne Hi Ron, You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in drakconf to add this as a security updates source. Mandrake Update will then look there for updates rather than going out on the net. HTH Brian << File: message.footer >>
Re: [newbie] Looking for a program to view pdf documents
On 03/11/2004 09:12 PM, Paul Smith wrote: I am looking for a program to view pdf documents, but with search facility. I know that I could use Acrobat Reader, but its Linux version looks horrible... I guess it misses anti-aliasing fonts. xpdf searches fine... -- The hardest person to awaken is the one already awake. - Tagalog saying http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: > >>On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >>>Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't >>>remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? >>>My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default >>>Encoding ISO 8859-15 >>>Client Aspell >>> >>>Anne >> >>Anne. >> >>Thanks for your prompt reply. >> >>I do have Aspell installed. >> >>Kword started with the spelling settings of >> >>Dictionary: English >>ISO: 8859-1 >>Client: International Ispell >> >>I changed the settings to the ones you gave me and typed a few >>words, some with spelling mistakes. When I tried to spell check, >>KWord crashed! >> >>On restarting, it had defaulted back to the settings I gave at the >>beginning of this reply. Nothing happens when I try to spell check >>using these settings. Ispell is installed. I have tried many >>combinations of Dictionary, ISO, and Client, but it always starts >>with the "default" settings, rather than the ones I have changed it >>to. Most combinations just don't work, but some make it crash. >> >>Very peculiar! >> > > Very odd indeed! Have you tried changing the settings, then exiting, > in the hope that they are saved? After a crash things do tend to > revert to the settings when they last closed down properly, so that > fits the pattern. > Anne I have just tried it again, changing the settings to the ones you use. I then exited the program and restarted it. Dictionary was still Aspell default, and ISO was still 8859-15. But the Client had changed back to International Ispell. Trying to spell check with these settings caused KWord to crash. I then restarted it and the settings it came up with were ASpell default, 8895-15, International Ispell. So I changed the client again to Aspell and clicked OK. Immediately opening the Spell Checking menu again, and the client had reverted to International Ispell. Just to try to cover everything, I did the same but clicked on Accept and then OK. It tells me that the font "Symbol" isn't installed, but I can't think that has any bearing on the problem. As I said earlier, I have ASpell installed and have no problems with KMail (which I understand uses it), or Abiword. However, KSpread and KPresenter both crash when I try to spell check in them. As Alice said, "Curiouser and curiouser!" Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Looking for a program to view pdf documents
Dear All I am looking for a program to view pdf documents, but with search facility. I know that I could use Acrobat Reader, but its Linux version looks horrible... I guess it misses anti-aliasing fonts. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Message to Remote Host
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 19:47, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:47:17 - > > Tony S. Sykes disseminated the following: > > smbclient -M but it does not seem to work with ip > > address's on my system. But on win2k you can use ip address's but > > not sure if it work's outside my lan. > > Ya, I can't get it to work with IP addresses either. There must be > a way, though maybe it's just best I *don't* find it ;-) Joe, have you ever tried LinPopup? I installed it, but never tried it. Isn't this what it's for? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUMV6kFAvMr/nNX8RAl+jAJ9id/NQHorgeTQltfSwB/glklTyBwCfXvF4 9lXgkquceNYIgUwQCP21C7Q= =bfMw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)
Title: RE: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Poogle Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish) I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent worked for me), md5sums checked o.k and then burnt them from the command line using cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject /home/(path snipped)/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Powerpack-CD1.i586.iso CD1 boots to "press enter to install etc" then gives a message "could not uncompress second stage ramdisk, may be a hardware error or kernel bug" After pause I get to the select keyboard, then accept licence, then partion, then to select packages to install now the error message "no kernel available" followed by a string of messages about /usr/bin/per;-install/pkgs.pm.185 and so on. At this point I can do nothing except power off. The problem appears to be caused when I burn the CDs, tried 4 times with different manufacturers (700mb) media, 2 CD-R & 2 CD-RW and get the output below. (I have d/l CD1 iso again and get the same result) output from cdrecord - BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 615 of 693 MB written (fifo 1%) [buf 21%] 1.2x.cdrecord: Input/ output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 04 CE 31 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1.853s timeout 40s write track data: error after 644974592 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 1065.784s Average write speed 4.4x. Min drive buffer fill was 21% Fixating... Fixating time: 91.653s cdrecord: fifo had 10223 puts and 10160 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 5 times empty and 6943 times full, min fill was 0%. I see it says 615 of 693mb written but when I (in konqueror) go to /mnt, right click on cdrom and select properties it calculates it as 690.2mb -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Why do you have Burn-free set to OFF? It may be that due to read-write errors your disk is not error free but looks like it has all 690.2mb. Set Burn-Free on and try again ? Dennis M.
[newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)
I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent worked for me), md5sums checked o.k and then burnt them from the command line using cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject /home/(path snipped)/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Powerpack-CD1.i586.iso CD1 boots to "press enter to install etc" then gives a message "could not uncompress second stage ramdisk, may be a hardware error or kernel bug" After pause I get to the select keyboard, then accept licence, then partion, then to select packages to install now the error message "no kernel available" followed by a string of messages about /usr/bin/per;-install/pkgs.pm.185 and so on. At this point I can do nothing except power off. The problem appears to be caused when I burn the CDs, tried 4 times with different manufacturers (700mb) media, 2 CD-R & 2 CD-RW and get the output below. (I have d/l CD1 iso again and get the same result) output from cdrecord - BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 615 of 693 MB written (fifo 1%) [buf 21%] 1.2x.cdrecord: Input/ output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 04 CE 31 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1.853s timeout 40s write track data: error after 644974592 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 1065.784s Average write speed 4.4x. Min drive buffer fill was 21% Fixating... Fixating time: 91.653s cdrecord: fifo had 10223 puts and 10160 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 5 times empty and 6943 times full, min fill was 0%. I see it says 615 of 693mb written but when I (in konqueror) go to /mnt, right click on cdrom and select properties it calculates it as 690.2mb -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: > On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't > > remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? > > My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default > > EncodingISO 8859-15 > > Client Aspell > > > > Anne > > Anne. > > Thanks for your prompt reply. > > I do have Aspell installed. > > Kword started with the spelling settings of > > Dictionary: English > ISO: 8859-1 > Client: International Ispell > > I changed the settings to the ones you gave me and typed a few > words, some with spelling mistakes. When I tried to spell check, > KWord crashed! > > On restarting, it had defaulted back to the settings I gave at the > beginning of this reply. Nothing happens when I try to spell check > using these settings. Ispell is installed. I have tried many > combinations of Dictionary, ISO, and Client, but it always starts > with the "default" settings, rather than the ones I have changed it > to. Most combinations just don't work, but some make it crash. > > Very peculiar! > Very odd indeed! Have you tried changing the settings, then exiting, in the hope that they are saved? After a crash things do tend to revert to the settings when they last closed down properly, so that fits the pattern. Apart from that, I don't have any suggestions. I've looked again, and there doesn't seem to be anything more that would affect the ability to run the spellchecker - all the other settings are just options. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAULTKkFAvMr/nNX8RAg5MAJ9rQMUyOTXOqj05iaL40FeKSmHCFwCeLBpi izZ5aynW3CKSRXhCpkfSS34= =+i+e -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Keith wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, rhein wrote: Ok now I have the the laptop power management icon on the right site of my panel but... it sais Laptop power management not available. When I open it I have this written Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM kernel drivers installed - check out the Linux Laptop-HOWTO document for information on how to install APM. How can I verify that ACPI or APM is running? (RPMdrake tells me it is installed) Thanks for your time Christophe Most likely this is a runtime service. Check your sys v editor for the modules. Like I said the 2 packages are installed but maybe not running... What do you mean by Most likely this is a runtime service. Check your sys v editor for the modules. Could you explain to a beginner like me what to do? :-) Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?
On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:06 pm, Rich and Cheryl Swanson wrote: > I don't think you can install directly from ISO image files, they have > to be expanded or whatever > you do to ISO files before you can use them You can mount the first iso only as a loopback and boot from it to do a basesystem install, but you cannot switch disks. If you want to run the installer from the hard disk, you are better off mounting the iso's as a loopback and copying the contents of all three into one merged tree, and then regenerate the hdlists. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 07:26 am, Ray Hogaboom wrote: HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) As long is home is a separate partition and you have no plans to resize, you're safe there. I would really just keep a copy of /etc since all config info is there and my /boot/grub/menu.lst because I use grub. The only other thing you would probably need is /usr/local if you added anything there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I don't think you can install directly from ISO image files, they have to be expanded or whatever you do to ISO files before you can use them Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re: compile asm in C
Chungwei Hsiung wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it.
> My story is a little bit different..
> I just copy the codes you modified to a file and I compile it.
> I have the following error message that I had before. Any other thoughts??
>
>
> $cat asmExit.c
> void main() {
> __asm__("
> mov $0x0, %ebx
> mov $0x1, %eax
> int$0x80
> ");
> }
>
> $ gcc -c asmExit.c
> asmExit.c:2:9: missing terminating " character
> asmExit.c: In function `main':
> asmExit.c:3: error: syntax error before "mov"
> asmExit.c:6:1: missing terminating " character
> asmExit.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
>
> best regards,
> Chungwei
>
It might have something to do with the compiler version.
I run mdk 9.1. Have a look at the first warning my compiler
gives. In your compiler version it migth be more than deprecated, it might
have been removd. Try having it all on one line? Perhaps not practical
in a real world situation, but there is perhaps som new switch to gcc?
/Björn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc asm_test.c
asm_test.c:2:9: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
asm_test.c: In function `main':
asm_test.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat as
asm_test.c asm_test.o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat asm_test.c
void main() {
__asm__("
mov $0x0, %ebx
mov $0x1, %eax
int$0x80
");
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$
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Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 11, 2004 05:50 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc > > So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? > > John Lots of good guesses. I _have_ answered this question on this list before though so why are you all guessing? ASC ASCII text file ASC PGP armored encrypted file Taken from a page called "Every File Format in the World" at TechTarget. http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileFormatA/0,289933,sid9,00.html Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org "Life would be much simpler and things would get done much faster if it weren't for other people" -- Blore -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUIuJZqvqlrLPr5YRAvOqAJ9pjRDyUf+gMqN8BNHbwZ/V3EBIVQCdEN1z pz9DFJVOqsgZbPSseiDI6hI= =kpKf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?
On Thursday 11 March 2004 07:26 am, Ray Hogaboom wrote: > HI > I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from > ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 > hours to download the 3 iso files. > > Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. > (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) As long is home is a separate partition and you have no plans to resize, you're safe there. I would really just keep a copy of /etc since all config info is there and my /boot/grub/menu.lst because I use grub. The only other thing you would probably need is /usr/local if you added anything there. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?
HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) -- Ray Hogaboom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Pre-install ?
HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. My question is What Mandrake 9.2 directories should I make copies of before installing 10.0. (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) -- Ray Hogaboom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc
If you like google you love this, http://www.theregister.com/content/55/36142.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc On Thursday 11 March 2004 07:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: ->On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:50, John Richard Smith wrote: ->> Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc ->> ->> So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? ->> ->> John -> ->ASCII - American Standards Code umm umm - can't remember the rest ->It's just plain text. -> ->Anne American Standard Code for Information Interchange (gotta love Google!) :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drivers for zip drive
Hello, I installed MDK 9.1 in a laptop Dell Latitude and tried to mount the zip drive using the usual /dev/sda4 driver, but couldn't find it. How can I install a suitable driver for 100 and 250Mb iomega zip drives? thanks, Gustavo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mac <-> Mandrake at the CLI
Hello All, I need to transfer some files that I downloaded on my Mandrake Box to my Mac. I am running samba on both machines, so they can see each other on the network. The problem I am having is, when I open nautilus on my mandrake box and browse to the share on my mac, the program stalls out. I was wondering if there was a way to transfer files over my local network from one machine to the next using the trusty command line. Thanks, -=Thinker Sure - Assuming OSX since you said samba - use 'scp' Requires you have ssh installed on your Mandrake machine. You'll have to turn it on in the Mac sharing preference pane. Then from the Mandrake box type (all one line) scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Users/mac_user_name/Documents/fileyouwant /home/mandrake_user_name/Desktop adjust the /path/to/file name as required Use scp -r to transfer recursively HTH Brian PS You could try using Konqueror instead of Nautilis. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Ok now I have the the laptop power management icon on the right site of my panel but... it sais Laptop power management not available. When I open it I have this written Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM kernel drivers installed - check out the Linux Laptop-HOWTO document for information on how to install APM. How can I verify that ACPI or APM is running? (RPMdrake tells me it is installed) Thanks for your time Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Hello, I did what you said and the computer started but no power indicator... When I go to the config panel I have still the message telling me to install the acpi soft. I checked again the installation and it is installed. The lilo config file has the nolapic written in it. So what did I wrong? Thanks Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Marc when you say replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic'. Do you want me to replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic' or do you want me to type 'acpi=nolapic'? Sorry but I'm starting! :-[ Thanks Christophe ps: in my config file there are 3 lines with this acpi, I suppose I change all of them? ps2: What shall I do if the computer is not stating again like last night :-( ? Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: First, download the packages acpi and acpid. Then, go into Control Center and Boot Options. Find your default image, and click modify. In the append line make sure it DOESN'T say 'acpi=off' or 'acpi=ht', and make sure it does say 'nolapic'. Then, reboot, and you should have your battery monitor in the system tray. If it still doesn't want to work, reply and we'll diagnose the problem. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com No problem Christophe. Just take out 'acpi=ht' and add 'nolapic'. If you don't add 'nolapic' your laptop will bomb out on boot. For the config file(lilo, i guess you mean) change all of them, just in case. If your computer doesn't boot, press esc at the bootscreen, and type nameofbootchoice acpi=off nameofbootchoice should be whatever choice you normally boot (i.e. linux) --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Try going to Mandrake Control Center, System, Services. That's what it is in MDK10 at least. Anyway, go to services, and find acpid. Check if 'on boot' is checked off. If not, check it. Then reboot. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Modify my home directory
All you have done is created /home in what was your empty space. MCC is helping you by moving the files across so you don't lose anything. You have 2 options either use the previous suggestion or (somebody jump in if I am wrong) reinstall would be the easiest way to restructure your drive. If you take the second option you will need to back up your data first. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raffaele Belardi Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Modify my home directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But if I mount my empty space to /home > MCC asked me if I want to transfer the files to the new partition... > SO in that case I do not loose my user files? I guess that if MCC offered to move the files for you, you'll not loose them... but I seldom use MCC, I prefer the command line, so I don't really know. > But will the amount of space add up??? If you tell MCC to use the new partition for /home, the old one will be left unused. So no, the space will not add up. But again, I am not familiar with MCC, I might be wrong. raffaele > Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >> Christophe, >> >> see below. >> >> raffaele >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Me again... >>> >>> I tried to make my home directory bigger... >>> I first shrinked my windows partition (hda1) to obtain 8 Gb... >>> Then I wanted to unmount my home directory (hda8) to make it bigger... >>> When I click on unmount nothing happens... Why? >> >> >> >> You can't unmount a /home partition on a running system, because it's >> in use. You need to boot into single user mode for that (no graphic >> environment, only a shell), or boot from the MDK rescue disk into a >> shell. >> >>> What is the difference between /home and /user directories? >> >> >> >> /home contains the home directories of your users. >> Standard MDK installation doesn't have /user but /usr. /usr contains >> almost all the executables - including gnome, kde, X. It does not >> normally contain user files. >> >>> What type of file system should I use if I can not modify my /home >>> directory? >> >> >> >> Resizing the /home partition means loosing all the data there >> contained. A better option would be to format the freed up space as a >> new ext3 partition, say hda9, and then mount the new partition >> somewhere under /home. For example, you might dedicate it to a user >> (in this case you'd mount it under /home/newuser, for example), or to >> increase the space dedicated to an already existing user (for example, >> if userX needs additional space for mp3, you might create a >> /home/userX/mp3 directory and mount hda9 there). >> >>> >>> Thanks >>> Christophe >>> ps: for the moment I'm not giving up ;-) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >>> http://www.mandrakestore.com >> >> >> >> >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >> http://www.mandrakestore.com >> >> > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: > > I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in > > KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. > > > > If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United > > Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and > > find out exactly how you did it! > > > > Many thanks > > > > Keith > > Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any > specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: > DictionaryASpell Default > Encoding ISO 8859-15 > ClientAspell > > Anne Anne. Thanks for your prompt reply. I do have Aspell installed. Kword started with the spelling settings of Dictionary: English ISO: 8859-1 Client: International Ispell I changed the settings to the ones you gave me and typed a few words, some with spelling mistakes. When I tried to spell check, KWord crashed! On restarting, it had defaulted back to the settings I gave at the beginning of this reply. Nothing happens when I try to spell check using these settings. Ispell is installed. I have tried many combinations of Dictionary, ISO, and Client, but it always starts with the "default" settings, rather than the ones I have changed it to. Most combinations just don't work, but some make it crash. Very peculiar! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc
On Thursday 11 March 2004 07:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: ->On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:50, John Richard Smith wrote: ->> Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc ->> ->> So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? ->> ->> John -> ->ASCII - American Standards Code umm umm - can't remember the rest ->It's just plain text. -> ->Anne American Standard Code for Information Interchange (gotta love Google!) :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:50, John Richard Smith wrote: > Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc > > So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? > > John ASCII - American Standards Code umm umm - can't remember the rest It's just plain text. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUGGvkFAvMr/nNX8RAv6RAJ9fUYcjThwiNsVsQgUGgh7pZYZPDwCeJyDO XG64ooUEv8EgGZux8Lpzb78= =4sW1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc
Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fixes CD
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:38:42 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets > normal software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, > because my installation CDs have ceased to work. > > Could anyone give me specific details/servers to input if so? > > Thanks. > > -Original Message- > From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 March 2004 10:54 > To: newbie > Subject: Re: [newbie] Fixes CD > > > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: > > Good Afternoon, > > > > I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't > > figure out how to use it. Anyone? > > > > Ron > > Melbourne > > Hi Ron, > > You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in > drakconf to add this as a security updates source. Mandrake > Update will then look there for updates rather than going out on > the net. > > HTH > Brian > > > > Here's the link for easy urpmi that works for me today. http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php urpmi.removemedia -a will take away the cd's . Do that then use the link above to add sources. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: > I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in > KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. > > If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United > Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and > find out exactly how you did it! > > Many thanks > > Keith Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default EncodingISO 8859-15 Client Aspell Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUF/QkFAvMr/nNX8RAjEfAJ9Cehjz0ZKK/gj03ZynoWfhG22iNACfWAMh KyiOluFxhHxqJGLi/3whsH0= =mIDT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mcc 10
I'm in mdk 10 on my laptop purely by accident. (Don't ask) No Internet connection: MCC > Internet Access brings up a Warning: You don't have any configured Internet connection. Please run "Internet Access" in control center. I figure I have two choices. Go around in circles for a day or two, get berserk, then ask for ideas, or ask for ideas. BTW, 10 is quick & pretty. Any ideas? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Fixes CD
See below - bottom posting preferred on this list On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 22:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets normal > software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, because my > installation CDs have ceased to work. > > Could anyone give me specific details/servers to input if so? > > Thanks. > > -Original Message- > From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 March 2004 10:54 > To: newbie > Subject: Re: [newbie] Fixes CD > > > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: > > Good Afternoon, > > > > I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't figure out > > how to use it. Anyone? > > > > Ron > > Melbourne > > Hi Ron, > > You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in drakconf > to add this as a security updates source. Mandrake Update will then > look there for updates rather than going out on the net. > > HTH > Brian Easiest way is to use easy urpmi. Go to: http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php You can select sources for main, contrib etc. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KWord spell checking
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Fixes CD
Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets normal software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, because my installation CDs have ceased to work. Could anyone give me specific details/servers to input if so? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2004 10:54 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Fixes CD On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't figure out > how to use it. Anyone? > > Ron > Melbourne Hi Ron, You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in drakconf to add this as a security updates source. Mandrake Update will then look there for updates rather than going out on the net. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install
David B. Carter said: > I'm getting really frustrated with this sound problem! This morning I dug > up an old SoundBlaser AWE32 card I had packed away, and I installed it in > the machine I've been having trouble with. I disabled the onboard sound in > the BIOS, I removed all references to sound drivers from > /etc/modules.conf, and I restarted the machine. > > After this fresh start, I decided to see if I had any better luck with > this sound card. Well, alsaconf wouldn't detect the card, so I moved on > the sndconfig. It found the card and played that test audio file > successfully, but, when I tried to play a WAV file in XMMS using the OSS > plugin, I got no sound! > > ARGHHH! Well, I'm about to give up on this! I have gone back to the onboard soound. I cannot get anything but CD audio with ALSA no matter what I try. With OSS using sndconfig, I can get CD audio plus audio from some of the games. I still can't play a WAV file in XMMS. But I guess that's the best I can hope for right now. If anyone has any ideas, I'd still love to hear them, but I don't think I'm going to actively pursue this issue anymore (for now). Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
rhein wrote: Hello, I did what you said and the computer started but no power indicator... When I go to the config panel I have still the message telling me to install the acpi soft. I checked again the installation and it is installed. The lilo config file has the nolapic written in it. So what did I wrong? Thanks Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Marc when you say replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic'. Do you want me to replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic' or do you want me to type 'acpi=nolapic'? Sorry but I'm starting! :-[ Thanks Christophe ps: in my config file there are 3 lines with this acpi, I suppose I change all of them? ps2: What shall I do if the computer is not stating again like last night :-( ? Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: First, download the packages acpi and acpid. Then, go into Control Center and Boot Options. Find your default image, and click modify. In the append line make sure it DOESN'T say 'acpi=off' or 'acpi=ht', and make sure it does say 'nolapic'. Then, reboot, and you should have your battery monitor in the system tray. If it still doesn't want to work, reply and we'll diagnose the problem. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com No problem Christophe. Just take out 'acpi=ht' and add 'nolapic'. If you don't add 'nolapic' your laptop will bomb out on boot. For the config file(lilo, i guess you mean) change all of them, just in case. If your computer doesn't boot, press esc at the bootscreen, and type nameofbootchoice acpi=off nameofbootchoice should be whatever choice you normally boot (i.e. linux) --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Try going to Mandrake Control Center, System, Services. That's what it is in MDK10 at least. Anyway, go to services, and find acpid. Check if 'on boot' is checked off. If not, check it. Then reboot. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fixes CD
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't figure out > how to use it. Anyone? > > Ron > Melbourne Hi Ron, You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in drakconf to add this as a security updates source. Mandrake Update will then look there for updates rather than going out on the net. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewal not working...
Hello, I opened port 80 by typing tcp/80 udp/80 in the advanced panel of the firewall setup. Still no access to the net. I removed all the firewall and I can connect again. What did I wrong? Christophe Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:24 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: And one more... I red the instruction to setup a firewall. I use my machine since the first MDK installation with no firewall. In my case I had just to remove the "everything" cross and install a package. No problem until I tried to connect to the net or open a website. Nothing works. I go back to the firewall and click in "everything" and I'm back on the net. What shall I do? Is the firewall not just limiting the access to my machine? Thanks for your help. Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The firewall is blocking all connections in and out, thereby limiting any internet connection. Only block what you'll never use, or specify ports instead. It happens to be a very good firewall. For instance, I was talking through gAIM once, while playing with the firewall. Suddenly, no communication. Interesting, how well it blocks connections. For a starter you will need port 80 open for the web --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Hello, I did what you said and the computer started but no power indicator... When I go to the config panel I have still the message telling me to install the acpi soft. I checked again the installation and it is installed. The lilo config file has the nolapic written in it. So what did I wrong? Thanks Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Marc when you say replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic'. Do you want me to replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic' or do you want me to type 'acpi=nolapic'? Sorry but I'm starting! :-[ Thanks Christophe ps: in my config file there are 3 lines with this acpi, I suppose I change all of them? ps2: What shall I do if the computer is not stating again like last night :-( ? Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: First, download the packages acpi and acpid. Then, go into Control Center and Boot Options. Find your default image, and click modify. In the append line make sure it DOESN'T say 'acpi=off' or 'acpi=ht', and make sure it does say 'nolapic'. Then, reboot, and you should have your battery monitor in the system tray. If it still doesn't want to work, reply and we'll diagnose the problem. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com No problem Christophe. Just take out 'acpi=ht' and add 'nolapic'. If you don't add 'nolapic' your laptop will bomb out on boot. For the config file(lilo, i guess you mean) change all of them, just in case. If your computer doesn't boot, press esc at the bootscreen, and type nameofbootchoice acpi=off nameofbootchoice should be whatever choice you normally boot (i.e. linux) --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modify my home directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But if I mount my empty space to /home > MCC asked me if I want to transfer the files to the new partition... > SO in that case I do not loose my user files? I guess that if MCC offered to move the files for you, you'll not loose them... but I seldom use MCC, I prefer the command line, so I don't really know. > But will the amount of space add up??? If you tell MCC to use the new partition for /home, the old one will be left unused. So no, the space will not add up. But again, I am not familiar with MCC, I might be wrong. raffaele Raffaele Belardi wrote: Christophe, see below. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me again... I tried to make my home directory bigger... I first shrinked my windows partition (hda1) to obtain 8 Gb... Then I wanted to unmount my home directory (hda8) to make it bigger... When I click on unmount nothing happens... Why? You can't unmount a /home partition on a running system, because it's in use. You need to boot into single user mode for that (no graphic environment, only a shell), or boot from the MDK rescue disk into a shell. What is the difference between /home and /user directories? /home contains the home directories of your users. Standard MDK installation doesn't have /user but /usr. /usr contains almost all the executables - including gnome, kde, X. It does not normally contain user files. What type of file system should I use if I can not modify my /home directory? Resizing the /home partition means loosing all the data there contained. A better option would be to format the freed up space as a new ext3 partition, say hda9, and then mount the new partition somewhere under /home. For example, you might dedicate it to a user (in this case you'd mount it under /home/newuser, for example), or to increase the space dedicated to an already existing user (for example, if userX needs additional space for mp3, you might create a /home/userX/mp3 directory and mount hda9 there). Thanks Christophe ps: for the moment I'm not giving up ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Copying Files from CDROM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 02:40, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Anne: > The 9.2 PowerPack includes the source for a number of kernels, but > they were omitted from the download and standard sets to keep them > within the 3 CD limit. > -- cmg That's what I thought, but he should be able to download the necessary (assuming it *is* necessary) using his windows box, shouldn't he? OTOH, I feel that the wrong questions are being asked, and I don't know enough about tricky modem installation to prompt the right questions. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUCQ/kFAvMr/nNX8RAj1eAJ49gPgR0MdRBXugl2iRSJWwpjVKjwCeL+bT n+QO/OtWrEyfUndjN0vqKrk= =/Sxi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Control Center Down
Hi, When I go to start Mandrake Control Center or click Configure My Computer it prompts me for the root password and after that it just hangs on the splash and just says "Loading... please wait" at the bottom, but never actually loads. It had worked fine previously. I'm not sure this has anything to with it - but I did a bunch of updates for my Mandrake 9.2 last night through the update option in the control center. Any ideas on what I should or can do to get the Conrol Center back? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
