Re: [newbie] OT Email problems
> I think the problem is with your ISP been consider a spammer, not you. > Yes somebody told me that many people are blocking my ISP en-bloc. I beleive its because they have a very poor security policy (I suspect they have been used for relaying spam?) and the amount of spam I get in my "official account" is rediculous. I occasionally go in to it online and delete the pages of it :-( It seems that my problem arose when I upgraded my server. I did not realise that my mailer was sending my emails direct from my MX rather than using the relays of my ISP which was causing them to get caught in spam filters. I have to tell the server to send them to my ISPs relays and then everything got fixed. Don't remember having to do that last time I set up the server. Either that or it was not a feature in the last version. Anyway I assume the bounces are from somebody subbed to this list then? Regards -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 07:08:58 up 23:28, 0 users, load average: 0.16, 0.30, 0.17 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 23, 2004 11:45 am, Margot wrote: Newly installed 10 CE won't shutdown/poweroff cleanly - using either the root terminal shutdown process or the KDE logout button I get as far as this... uhci_hcd :00:11.2: USB bus 1 deregistered ... and then it hangs. I know this is a known issue, and apparently there is a kernel fix on the way, but meanwhile... Alt + SysRq + R S E I U B will give me a reboot from where the shutdown hangs - is there a similar trick which will give me a clean shutdown and poweroff? Margot Yeah, install Thomas Backlund's latest kernel from contrib. It seems to have fixed the USB glitch for most people. Including 4 of the systems I was screaming at last week. BTW adding another S to your magic keys sequence may be warranted Margot. I mean between the U and B. Just in case. Regards; Charlie Thanks Charlie, I'll give the new kernel a try once I can get my internet connection to stay up long enough to download the file! I have an 'unlimited' monthly-paid dialup package, but each session is supposedly time-limited to 2 hours - and unfortunately, I frequently get dropped well before the 2 hour limit. I can redial immediately of course, but that doesn't help when I'm trying to download a file the size of a kernel :-( Meanwhile, what does the extra 'S' stand for? Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly So Boring? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 community edition Dell Inspiron 8200 pcmcia does not find any sockets
Nothing happens when /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start I have checked and cardmgr is not running and it syslogs a message no sockets found. I tryed the 2.6.4 kernel and the same problem exsists. Machine specs Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0 G P4-M 512M ram 40G hard drive dvd/cdrw 2 batteries ATI Radeon 9000 If you need anything from the logs, just let me know! Thanks Geoffrey -- Geoffrey Deasey VP Systems Netpath, Inc. 2260 South Church St. Suite 601 Burlington, NC 27215 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare-question
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 14:05, Anders Lind wrote: > Hello folks, > > this is not a Mandrakespecific question per se but still I am wondering > im VMWare is capable of using an already existing installation of > Windows 2000 on the computer and use it as a virtual machine. > > Cheers > Anders Yes, it can, in what they call "raw" mode. This is hedged about with caveats and warnings like "for experts only!" in such a way as to make me suspect that it doesn't really work. I've not tried it. If you've got the disk space in /home, it's almost certainly easier to install another copy. -- N. B. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] OT Email problems
I think the problem is with your ISP been consider a spammer, not you. Bye El mar, 23-03-2004 a las 09:36, Inhabitant of Zion escribió: > Hi > > I seem to be having problems with my emails being rejected by loads of > different people. It would seem somebody has reported my IP as being > that of a spammer. I get this message: > > Connected to 137.205.128.7 but sender was rejected. Remote host said: > 550 5.7.1 Rejected: 82.36.99.231 listed at rbl-plus.mail-abuse.ja.net > > How do I find out why my IP has been listed as a mail abuser and what > can I do about it? > > Regards Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:24:41 -0500 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:03 am, William Warren wrote: > > just from this post..it works with windows and not with > > Linux..Bioses can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM > > license that is what most large computer vendors do to get the > > rock bottom pricing on windows. Gateway only supports windows > > and they do not and will not support Linux on that machine. The > > warranty states no third party software or hardware is not > > supported and will not be supported by gateway. Dell and most > > other vendors have similar clauses in their warranty > > agreements...they will not and do not have to replace anything > > if it will run under windows. the court case will go nowhere if > > the case is based on the machines inability to run Linux. > > FWIW, a brief search of Gateway's site led to over 100 how-to's > related to installing Red Hat and Suse on their products, which > suggests that Gateway has an awareness of Linux. I'm not familiar > with the Gateway product line, so that it is quite possible that > the references are to servers only. Marc, you might want to spend > some time poking around on the Gateway site. > > -- cmg > > > I've been somewhat half-assed following this thread, so feel free to slap me around if I missed it. Has anyone asked Gateway for specific help? Vendors are getting better about Linux support. Next year they'll be kissing up to us. You could be a trend starter. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kmail lock file
Hi, When I boot into LM10 I have been getting a 'KMail can't start because it's already on a process as shown in the lock file' type message. I initially tried to 'kill' the process but it isn't acutally running. So I just delete the lock file. I can't understand why this should be happening since I always manage a clean shut down. Has anyone else had this problem. Not major, just a nuisance. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Synaptics driver not loading after normal mouse is plugged in.
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2004 08:01 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: My synaptics driver for my touchpad will work after a fresh reboot, because I added evdev to modules.preload. But as soon as I plug my regular mouse in, the touchpad will cease to work until I reboot again. I try modprobe evdev, but there is no change. My XFree86 config is correct, because it worked fine before I upgraded from the 2.6.2 to 2.6.3 kernel. I checked it to make sure it was the same. Any suggestions? Here are my input device sections of XF86Config-4. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "synaptics" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18" Option "MinSpeed" "0.02" Option "BottomEdge" "4000" Option "SHMConfig" "on" # Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse" Option "LeftEdge" "1900" Option "FingerLow" "25" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "FingerHigh" "30" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "TopEdge" "1900" Option "RightEdge" "5400" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Here are mine: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "synaptics" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "MinSpeed" "0.06" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12" Option "BottomEdge" "4200" Option "SHMConfig" "on" # Option"Repeater""/dev/ps2mouse" Option "LeftEdge" "1700" Option "FingerLow" "25" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "FingerHigh" "30" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "TopEdge" "1700" Option "RightEdge" "5300" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection And my server layout: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse2" "AlwaysCore" Screen "screen1" EndSection I still think it has something to do with evdev, though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Synaptics driver not loading after normal mouse is plugged in.
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 08:01 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > My synaptics driver for my touchpad will work after a fresh reboot, > because I added evdev to modules.preload. But as soon as I plug my > regular mouse in, the touchpad will cease to work until I reboot again. > I try modprobe evdev, but there is no change. My XFree86 config is > correct, because it worked fine before I upgraded from the 2.6.2 to > 2.6.3 kernel. I checked it to make sure it was the same. > > Any suggestions? > Here are my input device sections of XF86Config-4. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "synaptics" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18" Option "MinSpeed" "0.02" Option "BottomEdge" "4000" Option "SHMConfig" "on" # Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse" Option "LeftEdge" "1900" Option "FingerLow" "25" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "FingerHigh" "30" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "TopEdge" "1900" Option "RightEdge" "5400" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:03 am, William Warren wrote: > just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses > can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what > most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on > windows. Gateway only supports windows and they do not and will not > support Linux on that machine. The warranty states no third party > software or hardware is not supported and will not be supported by > gateway. Dell and most other vendors have similar clauses in their > warranty agreements...they will not and do not have to replace anything > if it will run under windows. the court case will go nowhere if the > case is based on the machines inability to run Linux. FWIW, a brief search of Gateway's site led to over 100 how-to's related to installing Red Hat and Suse on their products, which suggests that Gateway has an awareness of Linux. I'm not familiar with the Gateway product line, so that it is quite possible that the references are to servers only. Marc, you might want to spend some time poking around on the Gateway site. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare-question
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 03:29 pm, Miark wrote: > Nope. > Actually, yes, but there is some fancy footwork you have to do. This article may help you get started learning about whst you have to do. http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/disks_dualmult_ws.html And you need to read this if the machine running Win2K has ACPI http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_disks8.html HTH > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:05:56 +0100, Anders wrote: > > this is not a Mandrakespecific question per se but still I am > > wondering im VMWare is capable of using an already existing > > installation of Windows 2000 on the computer and use it as a > > virtual machine. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution & Refresh Rate
I had the same problem with my Intel 82855 chip. Check out this link from Intel http://support.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/sb/cs-006059-prd955.htm Click on linux drivers and download and install the .rpm file. The follow the X -configure instructions in the Readme. This should get your desktop back within your screen, but I am still working on figuring out how to get the resolution right. The desktop and program icons and text still look huge to me. Let me know if you figure out something for that. -john smith Beavers, Randy W. wrote: All, How do I tell the "Monitor" to change Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 460x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG graghics card, but all the Intel drivers doing the same thing. MM has the right monitor. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Synaptics driver not loading after normal mouse is plugged in.
My synaptics driver for my touchpad will work after a fresh reboot, because I added evdev to modules.preload. But as soon as I plug my regular mouse in, the touchpad will cease to work until I reboot again. I try modprobe evdev, but there is no change. My XFree86 config is correct, because it worked fine before I upgraded from the 2.6.2 to 2.6.3 kernel. I checked it to make sure it was the same. Any suggestions? --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord errors
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:05:51 +, RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf > to add hdc=ide-scsi. > > If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot set > RR-scheduler > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied: WARNING: Cannot set priority > using setpriority() > /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer > underruns. > > Google says to check suid on cdrecord, but it's already set. Never mind, the CDs are fine -- I'm installing 10.0 from them now. I'd still like to know what the errors are, though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kernel panic on PPC 7600/120
Hi All, I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.1 for Apple PPC on a PPC 7600 604 12 mhz 48mb 2gb the installation keeps ending with a kernel panic: mesh: double mda start I'm doing a text install from CD The installer doesn't recognize the CD by itself, I need to choose a driver which is called mesh. Non of the other drivers seem to work. what options should I try? Groet, Peter Teunissen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cd install failed
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 22:14, di di wrote: > After inserting the first cd of mdk 10 communiy in my 12x cd rom of laptop > presario 1275 -manufactured in 1998- the boot starts, ...but after doing > clic over installing start loading the program and the message of "looking > for usb devices" comes, then comes "looking for cd rom".and here > appears the error message "No CD ROM device found".what strange??it > wouldnt have booted if the cd rom didnt work?? > > I recently installed on a newer desktop pc and everything worked > perfectly > > Thanks...Fabian. > > _ > Consigue aquí las mejores y mas recientes ofertas de trabajo en América > Latina y USA: http://latam.msn.com/empleos/ Try booting from CD2 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#bootinstall derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord errors
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:05:51 +, RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf > to add hdc=ide-scsi. > > If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot set > RR-scheduler > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied: WARNING: Cannot set priority > using setpriority() > /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer > underruns. > > Google says to check suid on cdrecord, but it's already set. Never mind, the CDs are fine -- I'm installing 10.0 from them now. I'd still like to know what the errors are, though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 03:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:26, Chris wrote: > > Don't know Stephen, any way I can find out? > > Tune the system - especially the HD settings; reboot. > Stephen, I hate to sound like a smart ass but how will that take care of the problem, if it is even a problem? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:24pm up 1 day, 20:20, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.09, 0.31 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot login with mdkdm
Bryan Phinney wrote: Yes, I understand the concept of not allowing root login and why, I just don't think that it applies to console logins. Having a standard account accessible remotely eases the barrier for someone to brute force hack the box, however, that usually doesn't apply to console since most hackers trolling for vulnerable machines don't have physical access to those machines. For the record, I can think of a couple of ways to possibly accomplish denying root login from console, but for the life of me, can't imagine that doing so is a good idea. It is always possible to forget the password, lock the account, etc. Yeah, right... I agree. Well, I can only say, set your system to paranoid and test it yourself. You cannot login as root. Maybe there are some higher reasons for security which I don't know. I only see the behaviour. Maybe we should ask some experts about it... Forgetting passwords is natural, therefore you have the rescue disks ;)... /g fengler however.. I am still struggling with the strange dm behviour. I wish to use my user account and not root for writing my emails. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare-question
Nope. Miark On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:05:56 +0100, Anders wrote: > this is not a Mandrakespecific question per se but still I am > wondering im VMWare is capable of using an already existing > installation of Windows 2000 on the computer and use it as a > virtual machine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VMWare-question
Hello folks, this is not a Mandrakespecific question per se but still I am wondering im VMWare is capable of using an already existing installation of Windows 2000 on the computer and use it as a virtual machine. Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 23, 2004 11:45 am, Margot wrote: > Newly installed 10 CE won't shutdown/poweroff cleanly - using either > the root terminal shutdown process or the KDE logout button I get > as far as this... > uhci_hcd :00:11.2: USB bus 1 deregistered > ... and then it hangs. > > I know this is a known issue, and apparently there is a kernel fix > on the way, but meanwhile... > > Alt + SysRq + R S E I U B will give me a reboot from where the > shutdown hangs - is there a similar trick which will give me a clean > shutdown and poweroff? > > Margot Yeah, install Thomas Backlund's latest kernel from contrib. It seems to have fixed the USB glitch for most people. Including 4 of the systems I was screaming at last week. BTW adding another S to your magic keys sequence may be warranted Margot. I mean between the U and B. Just in case. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org When you speak to others for their own good it's advice; when they speak to you for your own good it's interference. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYIlUZqvqlrLPr5YRAjwkAJ9BkfwCLl6PptDOfU8NP0bhA7Xo2wCfQvNZ ilKQZdq9PM4e4wKjoqfavIU= =Bqde -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 -- Excellent...but...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op dinsdag 23 maart 2004 08:23, schreef John Wilson: > The second issue is more troubling. When setting up internet connection > sharing the wizard fscks all networking. I can always reach the internet > before I set it up but not after. Hallo John, the way it works for me is setup internet connection setup firewall setup internet sharing if I dont setup firewall before internet sharing it blocks the internet connection to use linneighborhood I have to add ACCEPT fw loc ACCEPT loc all to /etc/shorewall/rules HTH.Ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYIVnoPgG5kUDwJIRAk96AKCJF0pAAhmszFxS997W7q0TbB67ewCgkLCq Vh0tN+/fqCfynEjC3s/1C/I= =jXg/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10 CE Shutdown
Newly installed 10 CE won't shutdown/poweroff cleanly - using either the root terminal shutdown process or the KDE logout button I get as far as this... uhci_hcd :00:11.2: USB bus 1 deregistered ... and then it hangs. I know this is a known issue, and apparently there is a kernel fix on the way, but meanwhile... Alt + SysRq + R S E I U B will give me a reboot from where the shutdown hangs - is there a similar trick which will give me a clean shutdown and poweroff? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot login with mdkdm
Well, the reason for preventing direct root logins is following thing. You always can log which user account was spoofed to gain access and then a the root account has to be hacked. So this means two barriers. However, I am not an expert about security. I just read that on the same page, once before Greg posted. /g fengler Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 10:35 pm, fengler wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 10 community edition. Now I got the following problem: I installed with mode Paranoid so root should be generally unable to login XSession or console. I don't think that paranoid level prevents root login entirely, it simply sets a default to prevent root login remotely. I am not sure why you would want to entirely prevent root login from the console, that may be the only way to get into fix problems if something were to get corrupted on the hard drives, like say, the /home partition were corrupted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
William Warren stated: the only time you get the error is when trying linux from what i can tell..which as i stated before is not supported by gateway. A point to note here; when Gateway says that third-party software is not supported, it simply means that they will not provide technical support for software they didn't install. Hardware would still be covered under warranty by Gateway. Three months ago, I sent back a Gateway laptop for repair, even stating it had Mandrake Linux installed on it. Such limitations on support are not uncommon with OEMs. Conversely, it's not uncommon for a vendor to deny support for OEM versions of a product. It used to be (not sure it still is now, as I don't call software support, in general) that Microsoft would not support a pre-installed version of their products, referring you instead to the vendor who provided your pre-installed copy. My take on the issue that Marc is having here is that it's either an incompatibility between hardware (very likely since vendors seem to buy in bulk and then assemble components to build a model) or a BIOS strictly designed for Windows. I may, if I get a chance in the next day or so, try to install Mandrake on a newer (model E-6000) Gateway here at the office to see if I see the same problem. Mark Kirschner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot login with mdkdm
Direct root Login yes yes yes no no I have read that page before and was right in saying root is generally not able to login and I asked for help with the logfile not with permissions. However, first, this is not the behaviour it should be and second the originally problem was, that I do not have access to my XWindow system as a User, which is kind of annoying. Thanks, fengler Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 10:35 pm, fengler wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 10 community edition. Now I got the following problem: I installed with mode Paranoid so root should be generally unable to login XSession or console. Perhaps this document will help you understand how msec works. http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Pgp program able to produce self-extracting archives
Dear All I am looking for a pgp program able to produce self-extracting archives. Does somebody here know whether kgpg is a program with this feature? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
the only time you get the error is when trying linux from what i can tell..which as i stated before is not supported by gateway. No analogy is going to convince a judge otherwise. you can try this court case but i do not think you are going to get anywhere..just my .02 Marc wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:03 am, William Warren wrote: just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on windows. Gateway only supports windows and they do not and will not support Linux on that machine. The warranty states no third party software or hardware is not supported and will not be supported by gateway. Dell and most other vendors have similar clauses in their warranty agreements...they will not and do not have to replace anything if it will run under windows. the court case will go nowhere if the case is based on the machines inability to run Linux. Marc wrote: My views are based on the fact that the Maxtor diagnostic software says that the hard drive suppled by Gateway is not properly supported by the BIOS on the mother board suppled BY gateway. Upgrading a operating system is a routine thing that most computer owners due themselves or hire a tech to due at one time or another. After all we all know plenty of people who have upgraded from win 95 to 98 or from win 98 to ME or XP. Upgrading is a routine thing that almost everyone expects to be able to due when purchasing a PC. Once again using the auto analogy parallel parking is something that most people would assume that any car they purchased would be able to due weather or not the manufacturer stated in their warranty that the car was capable of parallel parking or not. One would assume the manufacturer would be held responsible if a car was unable to to due such a routine function even with a skilled driver. One would also assume that if the problem with the car being impossible to parallel park was caused by a mismatch of the tires and rims that was not recommended by the maker of the tires. Would the auto maker not be responsible for using components that were designed to work together to preform basic routine functions? The BIOS in the gateway computer does NOT properly support the hard drive that Gateway installed with it. The software supplied by the maker of the HDD says so in so many words. Because of this parts mismatch the computer is unable to preform a basic routine function, a upgrade. If the HDD was able to preform as the manufacturer intended it to a simple routine upgrade would not be a issue but this machine was supplied with BIOS that is NOT able to control the hard drive properly so a routine function like a upgrade may be impossible even to the next OS that windoze comes out with. If this was a matter of the MOBO having a chipset that was not supported by linux that would be one thing but this is much more basic. One piece of gateway hardware doe's not properly support another piece of Gateway hardware supplied in the same system by Gateway. Furthermore win or loose the guy that owns the GW is retired and has nothing better to do with his spare time. He feels that it is not to much to ask gateway to supply BIOS that will work properly with the hard drive that they supplied. If they would rather waste a amount of time and effort that far exceeds the value of the computer and perhaps suffer from similar customer dissatisfaction and PR in the future he feels that would be all right also. The folks at gateway have already spent at least 4 hours of tech support time debating this issue. That had to cost a few bucks. If they want to continue to supply mismatched hardware let them also put up with the consequences that go with it. For that matter let them at least hire tech support people that the average English speaking public can understand. 2 of their tech support people had such bad English you would need a translator to understand more than half of what they said!!! I have doubts if they could understand all of what we told them. The whole situation with gateway failing to admit that they could have a hardware mismatch is nothing short of ridiculous . Marc -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cdrecord errors
This is on 9.2, before and after updates. I've edited /etc/lilo.conf to add hdc=ide-scsi. If I try to burn an iso image, in the GCombust results window I see: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted: WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied: WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority() /usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. Google says to check suid on cdrecord, but it's already set. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Marc wrote: Gateway could have a BIG problem here, possibly a class action law suit. It's about the only arguement you have, maybe a class action is possible, since in effect it's a restrictive practice bound to result in eliminating outsiders, but who will sue Gateway ? Costs millions, and they know it. If we had governments with bottle it ought to be incumbent upon them to bring actions on behalf of the consumer, but they don't, and in any case if they did tell you at the point of sale that this is a Windows only machine, like as not they might even get away with it, my guess is that it merely said something like fully supports windows OS blah blah, no other OS is supported, which is their way of saying they don't guarantee anything else, but it does not say that they have doctored the bios to prevent any other form of OS being installed, which looks very like a class action suit to me. If they want to sell third rate hardware to customers that do not know any better they deserve it. Any legal prows out there with any opinions? Marc But I am also guessing that your mobo manufacturer has a bios upgrade for your board that is neither a gateway special restrictive, and is what they would normally install on your mobo for general sale under their own name brand and will support linux OS installs.If so that is the best route for you. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT Email problems
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 04:44, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 08:36 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > > Hi > > > > I seem to be having problems with my emails being rejected by loads of > > different people. It would seem somebody has reported my IP as being > > that of a spammer. I get this message: > > > > Connected to 137.205.128.7 but sender was rejected. Remote host said: > > 550 5.7.1 Rejected: 82.36.99.231 listed at rbl-plus.mail-abuse.ja.net > > > > How do I find out why my IP has been listed as a mail abuser and what > > can I do about it? > > >From what I can see, your IP is in one or two DNSBL's as a dynamic/residential > IP range. If your IP is, in fact, a dynamic IP, then you can either contact > the admin of the server in question and ask them to explicitly whitelist your > IP range to get past the dynamic blocks, you can get a non-dynamic IP range > to get around them, or you can relay your mail through a smarthost that is > not on a dynamic IP range. He's probably a spammer nonetheless...can't trust those folks named "Inhabitant of Zion"; sounds like a spammer name...(g) stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:08 am, Aron Smith wrote: > >Also if the system that you are talking about Moureen is about 3 years > > old Gateway could have a BIG problem here, possibly a class action law > > suit. If they want to sell third rate hardware to customers that do not > > know any better they deserve it. > > > > Any legal prows out there with any opinions? > > Anyway to put Grocklaw on it? > > > Marc That Is good food for thought. The guy that owns the gateway POS may take that into consideration depending on how things go in the next few days. -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT Email problems
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 08:36 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Hi > > I seem to be having problems with my emails being rejected by loads of > different people. It would seem somebody has reported my IP as being > that of a spammer. I get this message: > > Connected to 137.205.128.7 but sender was rejected. Remote host said: > 550 5.7.1 Rejected: 82.36.99.231 listed at rbl-plus.mail-abuse.ja.net > > How do I find out why my IP has been listed as a mail abuser and what > can I do about it? >From what I can see, your IP is in one or two DNSBL's as a dynamic/residential IP range. If your IP is, in fact, a dynamic IP, then you can either contact the admin of the server in question and ask them to explicitly whitelist your IP range to get past the dynamic blocks, you can get a non-dynamic IP range to get around them, or you can relay your mail through a smarthost that is not on a dynamic IP range. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:03 am, William Warren wrote: > just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses > can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what > most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on > windows. Gateway only supports windows and they do not and will not > support Linux on that machine. The warranty states no third party > software or hardware is not supported and will not be supported by > gateway. Dell and most other vendors have similar clauses in their > warranty agreements...they will not and do not have to replace anything > if it will run under windows. the court case will go nowhere if the > case is based on the machines inability to run Linux. > > Marc wrote: > My views are based on the fact that the Maxtor diagnostic software says that the hard drive suppled by Gateway is not properly supported by the BIOS on the mother board suppled BY gateway. Upgrading a operating system is a routine thing that most computer owners due themselves or hire a tech to due at one time or another. After all we all know plenty of people who have upgraded from win 95 to 98 or from win 98 to ME or XP. Upgrading is a routine thing that almost everyone expects to be able to due when purchasing a PC. Once again using the auto analogy parallel parking is something that most people would assume that any car they purchased would be able to due weather or not the manufacturer stated in their warranty that the car was capable of parallel parking or not. One would assume the manufacturer would be held responsible if a car was unable to to due such a routine function even with a skilled driver. One would also assume that if the problem with the car being impossible to parallel park was caused by a mismatch of the tires and rims that was not recommended by the maker of the tires. Would the auto maker not be responsible for using components that were designed to work together to preform basic routine functions? The BIOS in the gateway computer does NOT properly support the hard drive that Gateway installed with it. The software supplied by the maker of the HDD says so in so many words. Because of this parts mismatch the computer is unable to preform a basic routine function, a upgrade. If the HDD was able to preform as the manufacturer intended it to a simple routine upgrade would not be a issue but this machine was supplied with BIOS that is NOT able to control the hard drive properly so a routine function like a upgrade may be impossible even to the next OS that windoze comes out with. If this was a matter of the MOBO having a chipset that was not supported by linux that would be one thing but this is much more basic. One piece of gateway hardware doe's not properly support another piece of Gateway hardware supplied in the same system by Gateway. Furthermore win or loose the guy that owns the GW is retired and has nothing better to do with his spare time. He feels that it is not to much to ask gateway to supply BIOS that will work properly with the hard drive that they supplied. If they would rather waste a amount of time and effort that far exceeds the value of the computer and perhaps suffer from similar customer dissatisfaction and PR in the future he feels that would be all right also. The folks at gateway have already spent at least 4 hours of tech support time debating this issue. That had to cost a few bucks. If they want to continue to supply mismatched hardware let them also put up with the consequences that go with it. For that matter let them at least hire tech support people that the average English speaking public can understand. 2 of their tech support people had such bad English you would need a translator to understand more than half of what they said!!! I have doubts if they could understand all of what we told them. The whole situation with gateway failing to admit that they could have a hardware mismatch is nothing short of ridiculous . Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] test
Just in case this dongle gets through. Sorry about this. Been having trouble with my IP being reported as a spam relay. All my mails to this list have been returned undelivered. Think I have sorted it now - just need to make sure. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 17:03:21 up 9:22, 0 users, load average: 0.15, 0.10, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Looking for the rpm file for PGP
Dear All I am looking for the rpm file for PGP. (Please, notice that I am not meaning GPG.) Could somebody here please help me? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:34:13 + John Richard Smith wrote: > Well maybe there is a way then. > > There is the setterm command, > > try looking at settern --help, or man setterm > and see if any of those work ? > Just a possibility > Maybe setterm -powersave off Thanks will let you know if this works Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Mar 23 09:49:28 EST 2004 09:49:28 up 22:05, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05 You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home. -- Han Solo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:47 am, Marc wrote: > > I had the same problem with a friend of mine who wanted to try Linux. I > > also had a spare harddrive that had linux already on it. We took his > > out and put mine in and it would start to boot and then just stall. > > Couldn't get into the BIOS at all. We put his old disk in and it was > > recongized just fine but had to reinstall windows. This is a 3 year old > > gateway. He tried to install linux on the original harddrive and all > > went well until reboot. Again we couldn't get into the bios. Now that > > I know what the problem is I can reformat his drive with partition majic > > and he can use the restore disk. Although it doesn't surprise me in the > > least, gateway and gates, both suck. > > Moureen I seem to be getting close to the bottom of this. From what I > have found it is NOT a problem with linux. I have spent a lot more time > troubleshooting than I really should have. If I was to put any reasonable > value on my time I could have purchased a couple of new motherboards by > now. I guess I just don't like to be beaten by a POS hardware problem or a > low life company that sells junk like this. >This is what I have found so far. I installed a old Seagate 8 geg HDD > model ST38410A in the Gateway, ML 10.0 installed , rebooted and ran just > fine. I then downloaded Powermax from Maxtor and did a low level format on > the Maxtor HDD from Gateway to insure that any and all hidden partitions > and all data that Gateway had on it was 100% removed. I then tried it again > and got the same old result. After installing ML the BIOS could no longer > see the HDD. I did another low level format and again installed the drive > in the gateway the BIOS could again detect the drive but this time I ran > the diagnostic utility on the powermax disk and got the result of a ERROR > BIOS Extension support failed. > >After this I have to conclude that Gates way is selling some models of > computers where the BIOS on the MOBO does not fully or correctly support > the hard drives supplied with the computers. > > At this moment the owner of the gateway machine is on the phone with > gateway demanding a replacement MOBO or a replacement drive of the same > size that is 100% supported by his MOBO or a full refund. If he meets to > much resistance from gate way he is going to inform them that this matter > will be taken to small claims court and that the papers will be filed in > Mountain Home Arkansas the town that we live near. After doing some > research into Arkansas law if we understand it correctly a representative > from gateway will have to appear in court in Mountain Home AR or a > automatic judgment will be made against Gateway. The closest Gateway office > is in Little Rock, over a 100 mile drive so someone from gateway will have > to spend at least a full day at this or they will have to hire a local > lawyer. Yeah this guy is a bit Pod but he has been hung up on by Gateway > tech support no less than 3 times in the last few days. > >I by no means claim to understand the law but in my mind their is a > valid legal point here. Gateway is selling systems built with hardware that > is NOT supposed to be installed together. > This would be like Ford selling a car with rims that were 15" X 8" and > putting on tires that were recommended by the manufacturer to go on a rim > no smaller than 15 " X 10" , I would assume that when the tires failed to > preform correctly ford would be forced to rectify the parts mismatch. > >Also if the system that you are talking about Moureen is about 3 years > old Gateway could have a BIG problem here, possibly a class action law > suit. If they want to sell third rate hardware to customers that do not > know any better they deserve it. > > Any legal prows out there with any opinions? Anyway to put Grocklaw on it? > > Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a formula 1 game
I am looking for a formula 1 game. Could somebody here please help me? http://www.linuxgames.com/xrally/ ...there are other games out there, but you might want to try to search them out; heaps of RPG's and the likes - and FPS's - as well as being able to use a version of WINE made by Transgaming... Thanks a lot, Stephen! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on windows. Gateway only supports windows and they do not and will not support Linux on that machine. The warranty states no third party software or hardware is not supported and will not be supported by gateway. Dell and most other vendors have similar clauses in their warranty agreements...they will not and do not have to replace anything if it will run under windows. the court case will go nowhere if the case is based on the machines inability to run Linux. Marc wrote: I had the same problem with a friend of mine who wanted to try Linux. I also had a spare harddrive that had linux already on it. We took his out and put mine in and it would start to boot and then just stall. Couldn't get into the BIOS at all. We put his old disk in and it was recongized just fine but had to reinstall windows. This is a 3 year old gateway. He tried to install linux on the original harddrive and all went well until reboot. Again we couldn't get into the bios. Now that I know what the problem is I can reformat his drive with partition majic and he can use the restore disk. Although it doesn't surprise me in the least, gateway and gates, both suck. Moureen I seem to be getting close to the bottom of this. From what I have found it is NOT a problem with linux. I have spent a lot more time troubleshooting than I really should have. If I was to put any reasonable value on my time I could have purchased a couple of new motherboards by now. I guess I just don't like to be beaten by a POS hardware problem or a low life company that sells junk like this. This is what I have found so far. I installed a old Seagate 8 geg HDD model ST38410A in the Gateway, ML 10.0 installed , rebooted and ran just fine. I then downloaded Powermax from Maxtor and did a low level format on the Maxtor HDD from Gateway to insure that any and all hidden partitions and all data that Gateway had on it was 100% removed. I then tried it again and got the same old result. After installing ML the BIOS could no longer see the HDD. I did another low level format and again installed the drive in the gateway the BIOS could again detect the drive but this time I ran the diagnostic utility on the powermax disk and got the result of a ERROR BIOS Extension support failed. After this I have to conclude that Gates way is selling some models of computers where the BIOS on the MOBO does not fully or correctly support the hard drives supplied with the computers. At this moment the owner of the gateway machine is on the phone with gateway demanding a replacement MOBO or a replacement drive of the same size that is 100% supported by his MOBO or a full refund. If he meets to much resistance from gate way he is going to inform them that this matter will be taken to small claims court and that the papers will be filed in Mountain Home Arkansas the town that we live near. After doing some research into Arkansas law if we understand it correctly a representative from gateway will have to appear in court in Mountain Home AR or a automatic judgment will be made against Gateway. The closest Gateway office is in Little Rock, over a 100 mile drive so someone from gateway will have to spend at least a full day at this or they will have to hire a local lawyer. Yeah this guy is a bit Pod but he has been hung up on by Gateway tech support no less than 3 times in the last few days. I by no means claim to understand the law but in my mind their is a valid legal point here. Gateway is selling systems built with hardware that is NOT supposed to be installed together. This would be like Ford selling a car with rims that were 15" X 8" and putting on tires that were recommended by the manufacturer to go on a rim no smaller than 15 " X 10" , I would assume that when the tires failed to preform correctly ford would be forced to rectify the parts mismatch. Also if the system that you are talking about Moureen is about 3 years old Gateway could have a BIG problem here, possibly a class action law suit. If they want to sell third rate hardware to customers that do not know any better they deserve it. Any legal prows out there with any opinions? Marc -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
> > I had the same problem with a friend of mine who wanted to try Linux. I > also had a spare harddrive that had linux already on it. We took his > out and put mine in and it would start to boot and then just stall. > Couldn't get into the BIOS at all. We put his old disk in and it was > recongized just fine but had to reinstall windows. This is a 3 year old > gateway. He tried to install linux on the original harddrive and all > went well until reboot. Again we couldn't get into the bios. Now that > I know what the problem is I can reformat his drive with partition majic > and he can use the restore disk. Although it doesn't surprise me in the > least, gateway and gates, both suck. Moureen I seem to be getting close to the bottom of this. From what I have found it is NOT a problem with linux. I have spent a lot more time troubleshooting than I really should have. If I was to put any reasonable value on my time I could have purchased a couple of new motherboards by now. I guess I just don't like to be beaten by a POS hardware problem or a low life company that sells junk like this. This is what I have found so far. I installed a old Seagate 8 geg HDD model ST38410A in the Gateway, ML 10.0 installed , rebooted and ran just fine. I then downloaded Powermax from Maxtor and did a low level format on the Maxtor HDD from Gateway to insure that any and all hidden partitions and all data that Gateway had on it was 100% removed. I then tried it again and got the same old result. After installing ML the BIOS could no longer see the HDD. I did another low level format and again installed the drive in the gateway the BIOS could again detect the drive but this time I ran the diagnostic utility on the powermax disk and got the result of a ERROR BIOS Extension support failed. After this I have to conclude that Gates way is selling some models of computers where the BIOS on the MOBO does not fully or correctly support the hard drives supplied with the computers. At this moment the owner of the gateway machine is on the phone with gateway demanding a replacement MOBO or a replacement drive of the same size that is 100% supported by his MOBO or a full refund. If he meets to much resistance from gate way he is going to inform them that this matter will be taken to small claims court and that the papers will be filed in Mountain Home Arkansas the town that we live near. After doing some research into Arkansas law if we understand it correctly a representative from gateway will have to appear in court in Mountain Home AR or a automatic judgment will be made against Gateway. The closest Gateway office is in Little Rock, over a 100 mile drive so someone from gateway will have to spend at least a full day at this or they will have to hire a local lawyer. Yeah this guy is a bit Pod but he has been hung up on by Gateway tech support no less than 3 times in the last few days. I by no means claim to understand the law but in my mind their is a valid legal point here. Gateway is selling systems built with hardware that is NOT supposed to be installed together. This would be like Ford selling a car with rims that were 15" X 8" and putting on tires that were recommended by the manufacturer to go on a rim no smaller than 15 " X 10" , I would assume that when the tires failed to preform correctly ford would be forced to rectify the parts mismatch. Also if the system that you are talking about Moureen is about 3 years old Gateway could have a BIG problem here, possibly a class action law suit. If they want to sell third rate hardware to customers that do not know any better they deserve it. Any legal prows out there with any opinions? Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] cannot login with mdkdm
On Monday 22 March 2004 10:35 pm, fengler wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Mandrake 10 community edition. > Now I got the following problem: > > I installed with mode Paranoid so root should be generally unable to login > XSession or console. > Perhaps this document will help you understand how msec works. http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice with spanish corrector?
Go to openoffice.org and download the dico installer (it is a OOo file that spawns this nice installer). OOo website has mirror sites for all languages available. Also check out StarOffice if your are educ people (free for us!). > Hi, everybody, I just installed mdk 10...it seems to work very well, I > havent tested it very hard yet, though... > My problem is that Windows spoiled me very much as an ex-windows user I > found spanish corrector in Word as an excellent tool, but I cannot see > it in openoffice package..does anyone know anything about this? > Thanks > Fabian. > > _ > MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I need my scanner
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi All I need to use my scanner and despite my best attempts I can't get Xsane to work under MDK10. When ever I try to use it I get all kinds of silly errors (The scanner worked last week under 9.2). What I need is an alternative to Xsane that I can try to get working. Anybody seem anything that has RPMs for 10? Regards Kooka (part of KDE) Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] openoffice with spanish corrector?
Hi, everybody, I just installed mdk 10...it seems to work very well, I havent tested it very hard yet, though... My problem is that Windows spoiled me very much as an ex-windows user I found spanish corrector in Word as an excellent tool, but I cannot see it in openoffice package..does anyone know anything about this? Thanks Fabian. _ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] win2k network printer
In my local network, i use linux as a main server installed with samba. And there is windows 2k printer server, which is actually a client with shared printer (network printer) and also there is another linux client (mandrake). All the clients has been connected under the same samba domain. the problem is, i cannot install the network printer to the mandrake client. How can I connect mandrake client to network printer? Can anybody tell or show me how to do this? thank you. regards, Adi Setiawan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
Dan Gordon wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:00:18 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think it's that simple. The TCO symbol means the monitor itself can do this, I know in theory the bios ought to shut it down if you can set it as such not all bioses can. I think windblows has some other piece of mechanism to work with both the bios and the monitor to make this co-operate. I cannot speak for M9.2 + M10 because I don't have them, but up to M9.1 there just does not seem any way of turning the sleep mode off. I just live with it, it doesn't affect the important apps like mplayer etc, and since I like a blank black screen when the computer is idle , to my mind that's OK. What did I do, I set screensaver at 20 mins, and somehow I set blank black monitor at 60 minutes ( although I like a blank black screen I don't want it flicking into it all the damn time, it irritates) but I cannot remember how I set the 60 minutes . Sorry my memory fails me. But you have to have a blank black screen after some time or other regardless. Cannot completely turn it off, and as I say I came to the conclusion the monitor itself is the thing that is doing it for you, not bios, I think the monitor listens out for "events" and awakes itself should the need arrise, and that maybe what happens if you are running programmes in the background and suddenly the users attention is called for so it wakes the monitor up by listening out for this. I guess there is a technical imput back and forth between the monitor and the bus and the internet if that is on as well, I don't really know that much about it all. However, does not being able to turn off monitor sleep mode , matter ? Hehehe you know it really does not matter, it just never did this before. I have been running 9.2 since it came out and always woke up to xscreensaver's pyro. since i reinstalled 9.2 last week was the first time i ever saw this behaviour. Anyhow it really does not matter i guess. Could this be "a ghost in the machine" ? naaa Regards, Dan Gordon Well maybe there is a way then. There is the setterm command, try looking at settern --help, or man setterm and see if any of those work ? Just a possibility John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT Email problems
Hi I seem to be having problems with my emails being rejected by loads of different people. It would seem somebody has reported my IP as being that of a spammer. I get this message: Connected to 137.205.128.7 but sender was rejected. Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 Rejected: 82.36.99.231 listed at rbl-plus.mail-abuse.ja.net How do I find out why my IP has been listed as a mail abuser and what can I do about it? Regards -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 13:27:50 up 5:47, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:00:18 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it's that simple. The TCO symbol means the monitor > itself can do this, I know in theory the bios ought to shut it down > if you can set it as such not all bioses can. > I think windblows has some other piece of mechanism to work > with both the bios and the monitor to make this co-operate. > I cannot speak for M9.2 + M10 because I don't have them, > but up to M9.1 there just does not seem any way of turning the > sleep mode off. I just live with it, it doesn't affect the important > apps like mplayer etc, and since I like a blank black screen when > the computer is idle , to my mind that's OK. What did I do, > I set screensaver at 20 mins, and somehow I set blank black > monitor at 60 minutes ( although I like a blank black screen > I don't want it flicking into it all the damn time, it irritates) > but I cannot remember how I set the 60 minutes . Sorry > my memory fails me. But you have to have a blank black > screen after some time or other regardless. Cannot completely > turn it off, and as I say I came to the conclusion the monitor > itself is the thing that is doing it for you, not bios, I think > the monitor listens out for "events" and awakes itself > should the need arrise, and that maybe what happens if > you are running programmes in the background and > suddenly the users attention is called for so it wakes the > monitor up by listening out for this. I guess there is > a technical imput back and forth between the monitor > and the bus and the internet if that is on as well, I don't > really know that much about it all. However, does > not being able to turn off monitor sleep mode , matter ? > Hehehe you know it really does not matter, it just never did this before. I have been running 9.2 since it came out and always woke up to xscreensaver's pyro. since i reinstalled 9.2 last week was the first time i ever saw this behaviour. Anyhow it really does not matter i guess. Could this be "a ghost in the machine" ? naaa Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Mar 23 07:55:35 EST 2004 07:55:35 up 20:11, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02 The course of true anything never does run smooth. -- Samuel Butler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen Resolution & Refresh Rate
All, How do I tell the "Monitor" to change Screen Resolution & Refresh Rates? It's stuck at 460x480. I'am looking at a big desktop through a little window. That I push around with mouse. Running MandrakeMove on a Dell P4 MM doesn't have drivers for the Intel 82865gG graghics card, but all the Intel drivers doing the same thing. MM has the right monitor. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] playing .WMV files
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 H:32, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: mplayer plays .WMA files fine make sure you have also got the codecs for it and put them into your /usr/lib/win32 dir http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html > Hi > I have MDK 9.1, I am not able to play .WMV movie > files. Has any one had success with this? > > How about .WMA audio files? > > THanks > Tk > > > > > > ___ > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > your friends today! Download Messenger Now > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Reinstalling bad programs
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 12:31, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I have some programs XMMS, kmail, & konqueror that apparantly have some > > bad config files. I have reinstalled them but they are still not good. > > How can I reinstall and clear everything assosciated with that file from > > the computer or at least overwrite everything. > > > > Regards; > > Hoyt > > The config files are kept in hidden files/folders in your /home > Just set konq to show hidden files and you will be able to find them. > > Another useful tool is slocate and kio_locate. (kio_locate is in the > contrib mirror) > Install those packages (install anacron too) and then run updatedb as > root. You can then find any file on your computer to do with those apps. > For example from the command line use 'slocate xmms' > From konqueror enter locate://xmms/ in the url line > Sorry Typo. That should read locate:/xmms/ derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot login with mdkdm
On Monday 22 March 2004 10:35 pm, fengler wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Mandrake 10 community edition. > Now I got the following problem: > > I installed with mode Paranoid so root should be generally unable to login > XSession or console. I don't think that paranoid level prevents root login entirely, it simply sets a default to prevent root login remotely. I am not sure why you would want to entirely prevent root login from the console, that may be the only way to get into fix problems if something were to get corrupted on the hard drives, like say, the /home partition were corrupted. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Reinstalling bad programs
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I have some programs XMMS, kmail, & konqueror that apparantly have some > bad config files. I have reinstalled them but they are still not good. > How can I reinstall and clear everything assosciated with that file from > the computer or at least overwrite everything. > > Regards; > Hoyt The config files are kept in hidden files/folders in your /home Just set konq to show hidden files and you will be able to find them. Another useful tool is slocate and kio_locate. (kio_locate is in the contrib mirror) Install those packages (install anacron too) and then run updatedb as root. You can then find any file on your computer to do with those apps. For example from the command line use 'slocate xmms' From konqueror enter locate://xmms/ in the url line A cron job will run daily to reindex the locate database (that is why anacron is required) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Reinstalling bad programs
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 04:05 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I have some programs XMMS, kmail, & konqueror that apparantly have some > bad config files. I have reinstalled them but they are still not good. > How can I reinstall and clear everything assosciated with that file from > the computer or at least overwrite everything. Did you uninstall witha urpme then reinstall using urpmi ? > > Regards; > Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] playing .WMV files
I used the mplayer rpm found at the penguin liberation front, http://plf.zarb.org/ --- On Tue 03/23, =?iso-8859-1?q?Tadimeti=20Keshav?= < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tadimeti=20Keshav?= [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:32:58 + (GMT) Subject: [newbie] playing .WMV files HiI have MDK 9.1, I am not able to play .WMV moviefiles. Has any one had success with this?How about .WMA audio files?THanksTk ___Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.htmlWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Update KDE using CD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I get this CD from a Linux magazine consisting KDE3.2. Can I update my KDE3.1 using it? How? TIA. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 19:10:58 up 49 min, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYCm/kp5CsIXuxqURAg/CAJ4oG8De8H5Ba2DD+tALAYjUunRmTgCgxcty vxx2n+yzlscaZ4jey7XGk9s= =453y -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Reinstalling bad programs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:05 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I have some programs XMMS, kmail, & konqueror that apparantly have some > bad config files. I have reinstalled them but they are still not good. > How can I reinstall and clear everything assosciated with that file from > the computer or at least overwrite everything. > > Regards; > Hoyt Hoyt, I'm pretty sure you will get kmail working again. Check the kmail thread. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 19:10:26 up 48 min, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYClOkp5CsIXuxqURAvejAJ9lthj7spmy4GD9emf8QaIu49LzrwCfUvL/ 6Pt0eKHpZarIJ6XUaSdi8Bo= =61xe -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pop services and mandrake 8.2
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 09:51, Wilson, Jack wrote: I just installed a Mandrake 8.2 server (have to use 8.2) and selected the mail and server options during install. Everything installed and I rebooted and checked in Mandrake Control Center and checked services and postfix installed, but I did not see imap installed. For my pop services, I am assuming I need imap installed, but I do not see any option to install it, nor during the initial install when I select individual packages I do not see imap listed. This server will send and receive e-mail and the clients will access via pop. 1) Do I need imap for pop services? Run rpmdrake and choose imap in the search. And no, you don't NEED imap for pop, but it's nice to have if you're wanting to "share" mail. 2) How do I install imap if I need it? Remember I am a newbie here. As above. 3) If imap is not needed what do I need to have pop services on the mandrake 8.2 system? Just postfix or sendmail. I prefer sendmail but there'll be alot of banter on the list over this configuration; it's just I've come from a Redhat background and have used sendmail for years - and on top of that, most of the antivirus packages and antispam packages like sendmail... stephen kuhn - owner Normally I agree with Stephen on all things mandrake. but in this case I don't.. postfix is just an MTA, it can't do pop or imap.. The pop3 services is provided with the imap package. (it does both.) so open a root terminal, and type: urpmi imap and it will install them. Then go to /etc/xinetd.d and look in there for the files pop3 and/or imap (depending on which you want.) open the relevant file and make sure that its not disabled. then reload xinetd with: service xinetd reload I do the same thing here, except I tunnel pop3 and imap over shh so I have only encrypted services. rgds Franki -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl & PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Reinstalling bad programs
I have some programs XMMS, kmail, & konqueror that apparantly have some bad config files. I have reinstalled them but they are still not good. How can I reinstall and clear everything assosciated with that file from the computer or at least overwrite everything. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] clean LCD of laptop
Hi there, I am just curious about how you guys clean the LCD of your laptops, or LCD monitors. Last time I did that with a soft cloth. Any other ways? Many thanks. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Intel Video Card
Wel, It works 100% on the box. Was just wandering... :) -Original Message- From: Tobias Cloete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2004 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Intel Video Card Hi, I'm installing MDK10 Community on a GX100 Dell box. It's a P3 with a Intel 810 Video card. Will the video card work? It didn't on die RC1. They say its non public video drivers? It's a onboard screen card and it works very nice. Regards, Jargon 'To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up a Windows box, you just need to work on it' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 March 2004 00:33, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > Okay, I've obviously still have a lot of learning to do before I > understand this process, as I'm at a loss at this point. Perhaps > it's more difficult and/or undoable because I'm dealing with > existing WinXP/NTFS and Linux/Ext3 partitions, and a block of free > space smack dab in the middle, and it would be a simpler process if > installing Linux from scratch at this point? > I would think so. > In short, my previous setup (prior to resizing the XP partition > downward in size was, roughly, a 40GB drive split thusly: > 25GB NTFS/XP partition, followed by a > 15GB logical partition, consisting of /, swap and /home > > I resized the XP partition down to 15GB, freeing up an > approximately 10GB block of drive, so I now have it sitting between > hda1 and hda5 ... > > Partition Manager (which I'm still learning and getting used to) > seems to only want to offer the option to create another primary > drive out of that free space -or- give me the option of extending > the logical drive containing hda5, swap and hda7. > - From the PM point of view, create your fat32 partition for data immediately after the ntfs partition - you could do this from XP instead, I think. For the rest of the drive just ignore it in PM. > Again, I'm confused and admittedly still pretty ignorant about this > whole process. Have I blundered already in my shrinking of the > NTFS position and leaving the block of "free" space in the midst > there, or am I just missing some important concept here? (A > somewhat rhetorical question, as I know I'm missing a lot in terms > of knowledge of the process). The best way, I think, once you have that fat32 partition created, is to start a new install. When you get to the partitioning tool I think you have to select 'expert' or 'advanced' or some such, to get full choice of what to do. Then you simply remove the linux partitions that have already been created (you don't normally need to do this, it's just so that you can make better use of the space you have). Then you create partitions within the free space. How big they are depends on what you want to store. This is the output from df for my partitions: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdf1 5.3G 2.5G 2.6G 49% / /dev/hde5 5.9G 5.0G 909M 85% /Data /dev/hde6 5.7G 1.2G 4.6G 21% /Graphics /dev/hde81012M 9.8M 951M 2% /boot /dev/hde9 9.7G 4.5G 5.3G 46% /home /boot is an advantage if you intend having multiple versions of Mandrake, but it doesn't need to be as big as I have it. You don't actually need it at all, it's really a convenience. You can see that for me /home needs to be around twice as big as root, but then I run win4lin, which means that a whole windows installation is in there, as well as some windows apps that I can't do without. Based on that, you should be able to make sensible choices. HTH Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYAyNkFAvMr/nNX8RArQJAJ4uBVh8CZ+wxidybJ5Gvnn/GG3IfQCffRGP baljpLyO/qEF1Y4egFQZnCw= =d8FC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
Dan Gordon wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:30:29 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Gordon wrote: Yes its definetly in a fixed interval but is a longer time than 15 minutes, more like an hour but I'm not sure exactly. I have turned off power control in kde both as user and in root. Regards, Dan Gordon Is this a CRT with TCO the energy savng thing ? John Yes its a CRT with that energy saving stuff but I have turned it off in the BIOS and in kde, xscreensaver and wherever I could find an option to do so. Ive never had this happen before, Just reinstalled everything a week ago and it started to go into suspend after a period of time at least an hour. Its got me beat all to heck. Regards, Dan Gordon I don't think it's that simple. The TCO symbol means the monitor itself can do this, I know in theory the bios ought to shut it down if you can set it as such not all bioses can. I think windblows has some other piece of mechanism to work with both the bios and the monitor to make this co-operate. I cannot speak for M9.2 + M10 because I don't have them, but up to M9.1 there just does not seem any way of turning the sleep mode off. I just live with it, it doesn't affect the important apps like mplayer etc, and since I like a blank black screen when the computer is idle , to my mind that's OK. What did I do, I set screensaver at 20 mins, and somehow I set blank black monitor at 60 minutes ( although I like a blank black screen I don't want it flicking into it all the damn time, it irritates) but I cannot remember how I set the 60 minutes . Sorry my memory fails me. But you have to have a blank black screen after some time or other regardless. Cannot completely turn it off, and as I say I came to the conclusion the monitor itself is the thing that is doing it for you, not bios, I think the monitor listens out for "events" and awakes itself should the need arrise, and that maybe what happens if you are running programmes in the background and suddenly the users attention is called for so it wakes the monitor up by listening out for this. I guess there is a technical imput back and forth between the monitor and the bus and the internet if that is on as well, I don't really know that much about it all. However, does not being able to turn off monitor sleep mode , matter ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 -- Excellent...but...
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 07:23, John Wilson wrote: > The second issue is more troubling. When setting up internet connection > sharing the wizard fscks all networking. I can always reach the internet > before I set it up but not after. I admit I haven't had the time yet to > look too deeply into it so I don't know whether or not it's the shorewall > installation, the "transparent" proxy or if it just screws up the settings > on the NIC. What I have noticed is that the wizard insists on setting up my > eth1 card which is the one the internet connects to as static and eth0 as > dhcp. It should be the other way around. This was a problem with the older > releases up to 9.1 when it suddenly worked as I wanted it to. Ditto with > 9.2. 10 seems to have taken a step backwards in assuming that eth0 is the > one heading to the outside world. Nevertheless, it's caused some headache > and I've been wondering if anyone else has experienced this. > > It's not a big problem as I can set it all up manually if needs must. > > Incidentally, the machines installed on are an old Dell Dimension and a > newer Sony Viao desktop. Next victim will be my laptop :) > > ttfn > > (a generally very happy) > > John The Internet connection wizard has always assumed eth0 connects to the Internet. We have had many posts about this with 9.2 and 9.1. This causes problems with shorewall especially on ADSL connections using pppoa where the internet connection is ppp0 and eth0 is usually the local network. I was hoping 10.0 might be a bit smarter. Apparently it isn't :-( The workaround is to edit /etc/shorewall/interfaces by hand to correctly identify the correct interface. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:26, Chris wrote: > Don't know Stephen, any way I can find out? Tune the system - especially the HD settings; reboot. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Rule of Life #1 -- Never get separated from your luggage. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?
well I am not sure what you have done so far. I found a directory called camera under /mnt/camera I mount it and all is well. That is in my Fedora partition. At first I played around like you are but now I don't have to at all. Maybe Fedora has an automount for usb?? I couldn't get MD 10 to read my partition table so I couldn't install. But from here it seems that something isn't quite right on your system. boy I a stumped Aaron On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 17:38, Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:32:03 +0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Quoting "Troy T. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Not listed as /dev/sda1? Strange. > > However, you can watch what is happening by doing: > > tail -f /var/log/messages when you plug-in the camera. > > > > > > > > > Mar 14 09:36:35 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 4 > Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: Vendor: Fujifilm Model: FinePix 1400Zoom Rev: > 1000 > Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI > SCSI revision: 02 > Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found. > Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>Buffer I/O > error on device sda, logical block 0 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block > 0 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block > 262143 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block > 262143 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>Buffer I/O > error on device sda, logical block 0 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 262143 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel > 0, id 0, lun 0 > Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id > 0, lun 0, type 0 > Mar 14 09:36:43 localhost scsi.agent[10473]: disk at > /devices/pci:00/:00:04.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0 > > so is the important line the modprobe:FATAL one? This is a bit over my head. if it > can't find the module how do i tell it where to find it / where do i look for it? > thanks. > > it looks like it's trying to attach it at /dev/sda but I get > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# cat sda > cat: sda: Input/output error > > Someone mentioned hotplug... hotplug is installed and running. > > I tried locate scsimon (yep.. i ran updatedb first) but it didn't return anything. > > Any suggestions? > > > __ > 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 Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Intel Video Card
Hi, I'm installing MDK10 Community on a GX100 Dell box. It's a P3 with a Intel 810 Video card. Will the video card work? It didn't on die RC1. They say its non public video drivers? It's a onboard screen card and it works very nice. Regards, Jargon 'To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up a Windows box, you just need to work on it' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Fixed My Sound (MDK 10)
Hi All, I have just fixed my sound so I thought I'd share exactly what I did incase anyone else is still struggling. I'm running Mandrake 10 CE on a Vaio Laptop. The install went perfectly but KDE crashed instantly and continued to do so until I switched off the sound using Kcontrol via IceWM. Neither XMMS nor Mplayer would play nicely with the sound, so I decided to try doing a lot of stuff to sort it out (since I've heard that KDE 3.2 uses a different sound method and it buggers with other things). Basically I did the following (it is quite possible that the last step is actually the only thing that made the difference!), 1) I removed arts 1.2 (forced) 2) I removed xmms 1.2.9 (forced) 3) I installed arts 1.1.3 (forced) 4) I installed xmms 1.1.3 (forced) After a reboot I still had no joy, so I finally went into Mandrake control's hardware config tool and had a look at the sound driver, It was set to snd-via82xx, which didn't look right... So I changed to driver to the alternative via82xx driver, rebooted and now everything works. Sorry if that sounds really wooly but I'm posting this from work and can't get to my laptop to see what I used. Hope this helps some people... Now I can get on with coding Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid! :) Stevie :) -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] I need my scanner
Hi All I need to use my scanner and despite my best attempts I can't get Xsane to work under MDK10. When ever I try to use it I get all kinds of silly errors (The scanner worked last week under 9.2). What I need is an alternative to Xsane that I can try to get working. Anybody seem anything that has RPMs for 10? Regards -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 08:32:51 up 52 min, 0 users, load average: 0.05, 0.27, 0.37 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] xml and grep
Thanks everyone I will be putting this into practice asap to save my fingers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carl J. Bauman Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] xml and grep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:53:50PM +, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > >>Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I >>need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. >>Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole file is one line. I >>know this is a simple command but I can't work it out on my own, and with out google >>(strange how easy you get attached to things) I am stuck. Please help. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Tony. >> >> > >So, assuming the xml fax line was something like > >123-456-7890 > > > Assuming the same tags as above, this would probably work also: cat fax.xml | perl -n -e ' print "$1\n" if /(.+)<\/fax>/; ' HTH, Carl -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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 Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
