[newbie] Mandrake 10 Community installation problems ...
Hi, I am a REAL newbie (as you will see): I have installed Mandrake 10 Community from 4 CDs I bought from a linux vendor in Sydney. Before that, I had resized the C:drive, which was the whole hard drive and has W2K, and added a FAT32 partition (for sharing files between W2K and linux) and an unallocated space for the Mandrake installation. At the installation I went with the defaults and suggestions, including internet access configuration, etc. Mandrake boots ok, but the internet configuration is flawed. I actually have a router (NetGear RP614) which is permanently connected via an ADSL connection and serves as the gateway for our four PCs and expected the connection to just work (as it did with Knoppix). Could somebody please point me to some documentation that I can use to sort that problem out ... Alas, its not the only one: LILO list linux (2x), floppy, failsafe, and windows as boot option - but choosing windows, unfortunately, doesn't boot windows - in fact nothing happens. Again, I know there is a way to manually configure LILO, but how does one get into it at start-up? Lastly - for now - when logging out and choosing 'reboot' the process stops at the line: ohci_hcd 000:00:02:0: USB bus i deregistered and nothing happens after that whatever key or combination of keys I press - all I know to do is turning the power off Desperately yours, so to speak ... -- Cheers, Joseph Canberra, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?
On Friday 02 April 2004 08:33 am, Rory wrote: Hi folks, Well, I just discovered that when I installed MDK 10 from a freshly formatted HD that had never had Linux on it before, that it appeared to install the 2.4 Kernel, not 2.6. Here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]$ uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.4.25-2mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:39:08 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Can anyone explain why? And how can I upgrade to 2.6? You would think there would have been some huge warning/error screen when I made the selection that defaulted me to 2.4. I would suspect you chose an LSB install, which forces the 2.4 kernel because 2.6 is not LSB compliant yet. -- /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] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:11:40 +0100 Anne Wilson disseminated the following: If you can believe that you can believe anything. There are flaws in XP that have been known since the days of NT4. OK - security patches exist for most of them, but 2 releases on, why were they not fixed in the release? Very good point. I totally missed that. There is definitely some sloppy 'analysis' going on. There are vulnerabilities in IE, I'm pretty sure, that to this day have not been patched. IIRC, there was a list of these publicized on the Web, but the site was taken down. Well, I'm off to find the e-mail address of this 'Senior Analyst Laura Koetzle'! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ I don't give a hoot about what people have to say, I'm laughing as I'm analyzed, Lunatics Anonymous, that's where I belong, sure 'cuz I am one, til my strength is gone yeah this beat goes on... -- The Kings Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:58:45 -0500 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Good on you. See to it that you erase this list from your address book, as well. ROFL! How does that fish hook feel in your cheek, Marv? -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ This isn't America; the government did not invent intelligence material nor exaggerate the description of the threat to justify their attack. -- Israeli newspaper Haaretz, regarding the killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evidence of the Superior Intelligence of Canadians ;-)
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 00:50:09 -0800 Asa Rossoff disseminated the following: and weather p2p music sharing is good, bad, or immaterial to the recording industry, I don't know. It's *certainly* good for _music_ itself, and undoubtedly significantly increases distribution of music, particularly music outside of the big-label-mainstream stuff. I think the study leaves little in doubt about that, since it points out that other 'industries' have seen *increases* in revenue despite online filesharing of their product. I love this quote from a piece I just read by the General Counsel for the FSF: The music company continues to take ninety-four percent of the gross for promoting and distributing music, and the twelve-year-olds who take zero off the top do a better job. Link: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:58:45 -0500 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Good on you. See to it that you erase this list from your address book, as well. ROFL! How does that fish hook feel in your cheek, Marv? Well, nice to know I wasn't the only one taken in on this one! L 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 community ISO problem
Hi: I've downloaded the three ISO's for Mandrake Community 10, and burned them to CD's. I followed the same procedure as I have with other linux ISO's, including Mandrake 9.2, 9.0 and etc. When I popped the CD-1 in the CD drive and restarted my computer I found that the computer would not boot off the CD. Just to make sure I had the computer configured right I put CD-1 from the 9.2 version, and it booted right up into the installer. Anyone else here have a problem with the ISO for CD-1 from the Mandrake 10 Community not burning a bootable CD? Anybody have any suggestions or corrections I might try? Thanks in advance for the help. Pete Doak College of the Mainland Texas City, Texas USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evidence of the Superior Intelligence of Canadians ;-)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:01 pm, Lanman wrote: Hey Fajar; I don't think you should turn this into a political issue by laughing at our country. In case you forget, Canada is home to a large group of Indonesians. Canada is right next door to the U.S., and taking a stand on an issue such as this shows that we're using more common sense than some. Has Indonesia been taking a stand on this problem? Because I haven't heard a peep out of them about consumers rights, and I don't think many of us have. Please don't start laughing at our country unless you're ready for us to start laughing at yours. At least Canada is taking a stand on our rights, and letting everyone know that we're not going to put company profits above individual rights. What has Indonesia done to protest or contradict the DMCA lately? Who should be laughing at whom? Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Fajar Priyanto wrote: LOL, very genius indeed. Poor record industry. Yeah, why not? - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org Oh no. I haven't monitor this thread for few days I'm really sorry. I didn't mean anything bad. My bad. Damn.. I hate myself. Really sorry about it. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 21:31:13 up 29 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) iD8DBQFAbXmOkp5CsIXuxqURAuO2AJ4oOdKF3SgCG18+PjXrZ4yK514HwACfQP+G /gBhuzG4U6TagH+2WNvFZZc= =5ANu -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] OT: My bad taste of humor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just noticed tonight about what my earlier post that it was causing a polemic in this list. I'm deeply sorry about it, and I want you to know that I didn't mean any bad intention towards anybody. goddamnit I really hate myself. I have this awkward tendency to say the wrong thing and in the wrong way many times. I really need to learn how to socialize with people. Pls forgive me. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 21:38:47 up 37 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) iD8DBQFAbXwIkp5CsIXuxqURAkVXAKC6aRVMsq/QCSyNcrvOAHJ3Jb4C5wCffDzG JpKxV9WD/E54fMbLEHO6tTs= =n5Jl -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] Evidence of the Superior Intelligence of Canadians ;-)
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Oh no. I haven't monitor this thread for few days I'm really sorry. I didn't mean anything bad. My bad. Damn.. I hate myself. Really sorry about it. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org Fajar; Please follow the thread of your post. You'll see that I also apologized to you, because I took the wrong meaning from your original post. I will accept your apology, if you will accept mine. I should have known better than to take your message the wrong way! Sometimes it is difficult to understand what someone is trying to say, and this was one of those times. Lanman 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: My bad taste of humor
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just noticed tonight about what my earlier post that it was causing a polemic in this list. I'm deeply sorry about it, and I want you to know that I didn't mean any bad intention towards anybody. goddamnit I really hate myself. I have this awkward tendency to say the wrong thing and in the wrong way many times. I really need to learn how to socialize with people. Pls forgive me. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org Fajar; I hope I speak for others on the list when I say that no apology is needed. I misinterpreted your message, and made a mess of the thread, so it's my fault more than yours. Let's put this one behind us and move on. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A little April Humor
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 15:22, Bryan Phinney wrote: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040401 A classic Paul M -- And, in the beginning, Man created god. Karen Armstrong 'The History of God' 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 community ISO problem
On April 2, 2004 06:36 am, Pete Doak wrote: snippity, snip, snip When I popped the CD-1 in the CD drive and restarted my computer I found that the computer would not boot off the CD. Just to make sure I had the computer configured right I put CD-1 from the 9.2 version, and it booted right up into the installer. Anyone else here have a problem with the ISO for CD-1 from the Mandrake 10 Community not burning a bootable CD? Anybody have any suggestions or corrections I might try? Hi Pete, This is a known problem with some installations (I didn't have a problem). Just boot from CD-2, switch to CD-1 and you're off. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Title: RE: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security. Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system communicates with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some problems running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well meaning that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do please tell me. Thanks everybody, Marco
[newbie] tulip ethernet card woes...
Does anyone know of any issues surrounding use of the tulip ethernet card driver under the default 2.6 kernel in Mandrake 10? The ethernet card has worked fine with the tulip driver under 9.2. I'm using drakconnect and it is at the select network interface to configure stage that Drakconnect refuses to detect the ethernet card at all (It does show the integrated Broadcom NIC on the motherboard). If the tulip driver is chosen manually, drakconnect refuses to accept it and returns me to the select network interface to configure stage again. As a test I installed a 2.4 kernel, and drakconnect works just fine and allows me to configure my card but of course I want 2.6! any help appreciated... 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: My bad taste of humor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 10:02 pm, Lanman wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just noticed tonight about what my earlier post that it was causing a polemic in this list. I'm deeply sorry about it, and I want you to know that I didn't mean any bad intention towards anybody. goddamnit I really hate myself. I have this awkward tendency to say the wrong thing and in the wrong way many times. I really need to learn how to socialize with people. Pls forgive me. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org Fajar; I hope I speak for others on the list when I say that no apology is needed. I misinterpreted your message, and made a mess of the thread, so it's my fault more than yours. Let's put this one behind us and move on. Lanman Good to hear it Lanman. Thanks. To all, you are too great. I love this list. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 22:28:55 up 1:27, 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) iD8DBQFAbYcZkp5CsIXuxqURAjBHAJsEB0hd8ElfWG/iyYZwLDsLMHvJogCdFtas bWMxo7umLCje9FZEa7xFKF0= =xcbG -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] back to the good old Windows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:39 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:08, Lanman wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of advice: do the same. Uninstall Linux and give Windows a second chance. You have obviously forgotten the reason you came here in the first place. I guess you stayed long enough to forget all the problems you had with Windows. It's your choice, of course, but I think you'll be back. Personally, I wouldn't give up this quickly, but to each his own. We'll be seeing you soon enough. Lanman Lanman ___ April Fool !! Geez Jose, You've almost made me to consider windows back! Stop that!! :)) - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 22:43:05 up 1:41, 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) iD8DBQFAbYpskp5CsIXuxqURApNSAJ0QpiWvcKobbJLrcOrdAe7sV8jNkwCgxlp6 FeWMYgD/2dsYC6WTvHRuQlQ= =bxH5 -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] Sound Blaster Live
Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system communicates with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some problems running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well meaning that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do please tell me. Thanks everybody, Marco PS I'm sorry if some of you got this message twice, but I received an error saying that it could not be delivered to all of the users in the list, so I sent it again
Re: [newbie] tulip ethernet card woes...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 10:34 pm, Phil Vossler wrote: Does anyone know of any issues surrounding use of the tulip ethernet card driver under the default 2.6 kernel in Mandrake 10? The ethernet card has worked fine with the tulip driver under 9.2. I'm using drakconnect and it is at the select network interface to configure stage that Drakconnect refuses to detect the ethernet card at all (It does show the integrated Broadcom NIC on the motherboard). If the tulip driver is chosen manually, drakconnect refuses to accept it and returns me to the select network interface to configure stage again. As a test I installed a 2.4 kernel, and drakconnect works just fine and allows me to configure my card but of course I want 2.6! any help appreciated... Hi Phil, I'm not sure if this helps. I recently setup an IBM xseries server which has an onboard Broadcom NIC. Well, mdk9.2 recognize it as tg3 (a driver said developed by redhat). But, with the server comes a driver CD of the NIC, and in the readme it says that while the tg3 driver works ok, it's better to replace it with a driver from the manufacture (mdk recognize it then by bcm5700). Maybe you can check the manufature website? - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 22:55:47 up 1:54, 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) iD8DBQFAbY2zkp5CsIXuxqURAmeNAKC0VmCug7W1GPNCEG5ixiF+xMLpZACgidFc Z3BV6dtR2c2nJSM5S1Iryw0= =2xvX -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] Getting VNCSERVER to start at boot?
Been a while since I've used linux, just to find out that init.d was replaced with xinit.d I need to remotely access the desktop on my MDK10 server. I've installed the tightvnc package, and it shows up in the rc.d directories, but until I run the command line vncserver command, I cannot connect to the service remotely. Also, is there a guide that shows how to use the package manager? I keep getting all sort of errors when I try to update. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 08:09, et wrote: note to self (cc. Aron) ... don't feed the trolls Pity you have to bring this up again and pity you yourself seem to endorse it. I had silently ignored it, as you might have noticed. I will not respond to hatred with hatred, or prejudice with prejudice. It is all people have done so far, and that's why we all live in such a happy world. -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * A diferença entre a literatura e o jornalismo é que o jornalismo é ilegível e a literatura não é lida. Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Internet sound problems
I'm running Mandrake 10 Comm. and sound is OK on e.g. MP3 CD (so soundcard mixer) is set up but when using internet sound is very low distorted - using Real Audio plug-in for Mozilla Konqueror. Any advice please? Paul M. -- And, in the beginning, Man created god. Karen Armstrong 'The History of God' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sending a packet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op donderdag 1 april 2004 23:00, schreef Marc Resnick: Is there an easy way to send a homemade packet in Linux? I Googled, and just found some C++ scripts on sending raw packets from the Kernel. I really don't know that much about this stuff. I'm just trying to learn more about the internet, networking, and packets. If anyone could share some info, I'd be very grateful. --Marc hey Mark, take a look at nmap and nmapfe HTH ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbZbpoPgG5kUDwJIRAr/6AKCOmsR/kdYB34nIfexW5aglgYa/IACeLuBn YZg7ssqqDMJBz1anr6MzDYE= =oweS -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] back to the good old Windows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op vrijdag 2 april 2004 09:37, schreef Aron Smith: On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:08 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Bryan, Thursday, April 1, 2004, 12:35:45 PM, you wrote: BP On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:52 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I agree completely, Jose. I'm in the process of doing the same thing as you are; formatting the drive for FAT32 and installing 98 again. After all, there's alot of nostalgia involved with Windows. BP Nostalgia. Try going back to DOS. How about cp/m? Do it in Hex from time to time I fire up my old ZX81.. real nostalgia ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbZlSoPgG5kUDwJIRAqOOAKCn8AUsTcG/dDFbx2G/ZhzN3OewXQCffnpf GlzPsh8AoR7Nj7GoGSJH4LM= =PUng -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] Getting VNCSERVER to start at boot?
On Friday 02 April 2004 11:25 am, James S. Hardin wrote: Been a while since I've used linux, just to find out that init.d was replaced with xinit.d I need to remotely access the desktop on my MDK10 server. I've installed the tightvnc package, and it shows up in the rc.d directories, but until I run the command line vncserver command, I cannot connect to the service remotely. Also, is there a guide that shows how to use the package manager? I keep getting all sort of errors when I try to update. You have to specify which user you want vncserver to start for in the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file or the server won't start. -- /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] back to the good old Windows
On Thursday 01 April 2004 09:40 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:09, Larry Varney wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of advice: do the same. Uninstall Linux and give Windows a second chance. Am I the only one to suspect the intent of your post, seeing as how it's April 1st? BINGO ! I'm disappointed Jose I figured you let it go on a LOT longer. But thanks, it was amusing -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:58:00 -0500, Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I _do_ appear to have used the Loki installer, just mirrored on another site. I suppose it's possible that the version I used was something someone else cobbled together, but the READMEs are identical (I tried the Loki installer long ago, had problems with the CD-ROM drive mounting, and deleted the installer-- but not, for some reason, the README). I've been all over what remains of Lokigames, and I can't find even a reference to the installer. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be delighted. In the meantime, I'll try Philip's suggested fix. ;) OK. Let me do it *right* this time, dammit ;) In that UT directory in your home directory, you should be looking for the 'UnrealTournament.ini' file. Now, scroll down to the '[Engine.Engine]' section. Look for the line that contains 'ViewportManager=WinDrv.WindowsClient'. Change that line so that it reads 'ViewportManager=SDLDrv.SDLClient'. (NOTE: I'm going off the original CD's contents and some guesswork here -- it *may* be that you need to use XDrv.XClient instead of SDLDrv.SDLClient, but I doubt it) This should fix it. If you can't find the .ini file in your home directory, I suppose you can go edit the one the installer put in /usr/local/ut2003/System (or wherever you installed it), and it'll get loaded up when next you start. I hope I help you out *this* time :P //philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
On Friday 02 April 2004 08:48 am, Ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 2 april 2004 09:37, schreef Aron Smith: On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:08 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Bryan, Thursday, April 1, 2004, 12:35:45 PM, you wrote: BP On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:52 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I agree completely, Jose. I'm in the process of doing the same thing as you are; formatting the drive for FAT32 and installing 98 again. After all, there's alot of nostalgia involved with Windows. BP Nostalgia. Try going back to DOS. How about cp/m? Do it in Hex from time to time I fire up my old ZX81.. real nostalgia still got my old KIM-1 ;-) ronald 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 DVDs in Mandrake 9.2
Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I am having a hard time playing DVDs. I can put in a DVD and open Totem (or Xine). It will start to play and will even give me the correct title of the DVD. Then I get an error stating: The movie 'Error reading NAV packet.' could not be read. Does anyone know what this means? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I had the same error message... So I removed Totem and installed xine and Kaffeine. Still no DVD. I could watch vcds but no DVD... I checked the Kaffeine mailing list and there they suggested to check first my packages to run the DVDs: libdvdread 0.9.4.2 mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.8 lplf libxine1-1.0 rc3.2 plf Still no dvd ... Then I had to check the pass to the dvd player since I have a combo player. So I changed this in my Kaffeine player /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0. Now I can watch DVDs and almost remove win XP. ;-) I paste here the mail I got from the kaffeine mailing list: Open kaffeine and go to Settings-xine engine parameters-input. Is the dvd device correctly set? It should be set to the drive that is used as a dvd. If you have a DVD/CDRW combo it should be something like /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0. Instead you can link /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd (ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd). Hope this helps Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD regions?
Hell His there a limitation with the DVD regions under linux like with XP? I have zone 1 and 2 DVDs. What a stupid thing this limitation since you can buy original region 1 movies in a region 2 country. I looked at Kaffeine and I can change the region in the input section of the xine config window but is there a limit of changes like in XP? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: OpenGL/Mesa broken? -- SOLVED
My messages sent over the past 24-36 hours have not made the list, as far as I can tell, so this may not, either. :-) But, in case the mail server eventually gets the enema it apparently needs, I should report that the problem below has been solved. Not sure what caused the problem/change in the first place, but I needed to go into the X Server settings within Mandrake Control Center and reselect the proper hardware (Radeon), as well as enable 3D. After a log-off and log-on, all is well. On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 21:26, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Okay, resending, as it's been a good 6+ hours or so and I think the original went pffft ... see below. Thx. On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:32, Chuck Mattsen wrote: May be something I did ... may be something that broke in a recent cooker update ... may be something else. I dunno. Apologies if this has been discussed recently (I /thought/ I'd seen a similar post, but not sure where, and a search isn't turning it up for me). Just noticed today that my OpenGL screensavers and Mesa toys (under both KDE and Gnome) are no longer functioning. Previously they worked, though not with blinding speed ... but they worked. Now, if I try to invoke the OpenGL screensavers I get just a blank screen; if I try to start the little Mesa toys the app never starts, just craps out. Everything else appears to be functioning quite well and, again, not sure if this negative change came about through my action or something else, but am not sure where to begin troubleshooting it. Anyone with a pointer for me in that regard? TIA -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 22:09:46 up 12:30, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.02 What you are, not what you have, is what makes you rich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Don't you just hate it when people send test messages to the list...
...like I'm doing here? :-) I've been on an involuntary hiatus from the list, ever since smtp.mandrax.org started rejecting my messages mid-day Tuesday, first with a response (24 hours after sending) of: Message delivery to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' delayed SMTP module(domain linux-mandrake.com) reports: connection with smtp.mandrax.org is broken followed the next day by: Failed to deliver to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' SMTP module(domain linux-mandrake.com) reports: host smtp1.mandrax.org says: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [209.81.96.55] So, finally tried unsubbing and resubbing this evening. Fingers crossed. (Oddly, it didn't affect my expert list membership or send abilities). -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 21:23:59 up 15:44, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.10, 0.09 Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Test
I'm in DNS hell, apparently, and able to receive from the list, but not to send. Just talked to my ISP, so testing to see if they did anything worthwhile... :-\ As you were. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 13:18:24 up 1:10, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.09, 0.03 Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Different Panels and System Monitors
What different panels are available? I know of gnome-panel and gdesklets, but have seen a bunch of other panels in screenshots online. Gdesklets also offer system monitors, clocks, etc. What alternatives are available? Cheers -- Job Evers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE Crash
Hi All, I'm having problems booting into KDE 3.1.When I try to log on it gets to stage 3 of the log on and stops.I then get the error message nspluginscan has crashed and caused the signal 11(SIGSEGV) I can still log into Gnome and Xfce4,but I then have to kill nspluginscan,from KDE System Guard or I get the same error message.I have good idea what is the problem.I have KDE set up to look for new plugin's on log on. How do I turn this off,so I can log on into KDE?I need to this because I am trying to wean the wife and kids away from Windows,and they find KDE the easeist to use at the moment. Thank you for any help in advance. Cheers, Drew. PS MKD 9.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Test - please ignore
Test - please ignore. Kaj Haulrich -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 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] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.
Thought this might be an interesting read to some of you. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557749,00.asp The one thing I didn't get from the article was if they factored in the amount of applications that ship with Linux vs. the amount of applications that ship with windows. They did factor in at least some non-essential Linux apps (apache was mentioned), but nothing was said about the exploits in 3rd party windows applications. My guess would be that the numbers would be a lot lower for Linux if they looked at ONLY the comparable applications that ship with each OS or a lot higher for windows if they looked at comparable windows applications. And I type this from a windows box, isn't that's stupid. Josh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Painfully slow page loads
It's taking my mandrake 10 (just installed) box way too long to load a page. Doesn't matter whether I'm in mozilla, firefox or the KDE one (conqueror I think). This isn't a problem on my debian machine or on the win2K box my girlfriend uses. 9.2 didn't have these problems before I upgraded - is anybody else having this problem or am I just drunk? Thanks, Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Secure Webpages: PROBLEM UPDATE
First off let me apoligise for the way this thread is appearing but I have been checking my mail at home the have to travel to friends to access my mail account via webmail to send. Have this morning ajusted my account settings so my mail stays on the isp's server a a few days so I can click on reply to answer in future. on Fri, 02 Apr 2004 05:28:56 -0400 Adolfo Bello wrote Taylord, could you please post the entire output of /sbin/ifconfig and route -n/ These readings were taken whilst trying to access the login page of my webmail account. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin] $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:EO:18:A2:DO:FA inet addr:192.168.1.45 Bcast:192.168.1.255 mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0(0.0 b) TX bytes:11158 (10.8 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX byres:5890 (5.7 Kb) Tx bytes:5890 (5.7 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:218.101.84.3 P-t-P: 218.101.58.33 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1 RX packets:403 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:326543 (318.8 Kb) TX bytes:68685 (67.0 Kb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]$ route -n Kernal IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 218.101.58.33 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 218.101.58.33 0.0.0.0UG 0 0 0 ppp0 regards David 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: My bad taste of humor
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 22:30:30 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 10:02 pm, Lanman wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just noticed tonight about what my earlier post that it was causing a polemic in this list. I'm deeply sorry about it, and I want you to know that I didn't mean any bad intention towards anybody. goddamnit I really hate myself. I have this awkward tendency to say the wrong thing and in the wrong way many times. I really need to learn how to socialize with people. Pls forgive me. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org Fajar; I hope I speak for others on the list when I say that no apology is needed. I misinterpreted your message, and made a mess of the thread, so it's my fault more than yours. Let's put this one behind us and move on. Lanman Good to hear it Lanman. Thanks. To all, you are too great. I love this list. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 22:28:55 up 1:27, 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) iD8DBQFAbYcZkp5CsIXuxqURAjBHAJsEB0hd8ElfWG/iyYZwLDsLMHvJogCdFtas bWMxo7umLCje9FZEa7xFKF0= =xcbG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Feel the love It was a good prod. Good to wake everyone up now and then since Joe quit raising hell. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.
On Friday 02 April 2004 08:30 am, JoeHill wrote: It's a mildly interesting statistic that Mandrake came out not so near the top, but hey, we're competing with Red Hat, Debian and Suse here, these are tough competitors, so I'm not surprised. They have serious financial and/or human resources backing them up, much more so than Mandrake. Actually, I personally think that the more interesting aspect is that Mandrake is much more cutting edge and current regarding versions of software than either Red Hat or Debian. Debian is known for its stability and the fact that a lot of work goes into packages before they get released. Also, which version you are running. The stable version of Debian would be considered behind the times at least as far as versions of software go that are in the distribution. I don't know how Suse stacks up compared to Mandrake in regard to how cutting edge the packages are. But the more current the software, the more likely you are to put out a package before all possible exploits have been discovered. Last, I would take with several grains of salt, anything that any of the analyst companies put out regarding Linux and Microsoft products. We have seen several get bought and steer studies in the direction that MS wants as well as refusing to release raw data. These aren't exactly scientific studies that are being done, it is very easy to steer the results to reach conclusions that you want or at the least, to mediate bad results. I note that there aren't any Linux marketing funds, nor RD budgets, nor companies anxious to pay for information recommending Open Source products. -- 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] OT: My bad taste of humor
Lee Wiggers wrote: Feel the love It was a good prod. Good to wake everyone up now and then since Joe quit raising hell. Lee OOO! I'm getting a warm, fuzzy feeling ! I just have to hold my temper in check long enough to see if there's more than one way to take someone else's opinion before declaring nuclear war on them. That, and I think my sister substituted decaf for my normal brew! Hmmm,...Wonder if she was trying to tell me something? Not to worry, though. I'll make sure she gets a decent burial ! Grin! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD regions?
On Friday 02 April 2004 09:04 am, rhein wrote: Hell His there a limitation with the DVD regions under linux like with XP? I have zone 1 and 2 DVDs. What a stupid thing this limitation since you can buy original region 1 movies in a region 2 country. I looked at Kaffeine and I can change the region in the input section of the xine config window but is there a limit of changes like in XP? The limitation on setting the region on DVD drives is in the firmware of the drive, once you set the region, if you change it, you will use up one of the 5 changes allowed and after you get to 0, the drive will not allow you to change the region again. If you download and install libdvdcss2 from PLF sources, Xine should be able to play dvd's from any region without mucking with changing the region code on the drive. -- 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] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.
On Friday 02 April 2004 15:44, Bryan Phinney wrote: Last, I would take with several grains of salt, anything that any of the analyst companies put out regarding Linux and Microsoft products. We have seen several get bought and steer studies in the direction that MS wants as well as refusing to release raw data. These aren't exactly scientific studies that are being done, it is very easy to steer the results to reach conclusions that you want or at the least, to mediate bad results. I note that there aren't any Linux marketing funds, nor RD budgets, nor companies anxious to pay for information recommending Open Source products. I was thinking this analyst company sounded familiar and then it occurred to me that Forrester Research is the company who changed its policy about sponsored research studies when they got caught last year, right? http://www.linux.org/news/2003/10/07/0004.html -- 15:55:06 up 23:52, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-7mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Nietzsche is pietzsche, but Schiller is killer, and Goethe is moethe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed
Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got exactly 1GB). However, if I resume (in lilo.conf automatically resume=/dev/hda8 is set). It fails and causes a reset of the pc. So I booted without resuming (lilo: linux noresume) and removed the resume parameter in lilo.conf by hand. The problem is now: My swap partition is no longer used as swap. I get a error message like: swapon /dev/hda8 [failed] Do I have to format my swap partition to get rid of it? Or is there a acpi command which cleans up a broken hibernation swap file? /var/log/acpi dosn't tell me something usefull. Is there another logfile, which is important to hibernation, acpi, suspend etc? Cheers, Stephanus p.s. system: hp pavilion zt3000 1GB RAM Centrino 1.7 64 mb Radeon 9200 mobile ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:40:07 -0300 Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:09, Larry Varney wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of advice: do the same. Uninstall Linux and give Windows a second chance. Am I the only one to suspect the intent of your post, seeing as how it's April 1st? BINGO ! That is excellent!A most outstanding use of the April Fool phenomena. I must admit I fell for it as well. Regards, Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed
Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got exactly 1GB). However, if I resume (in lilo.conf automatically resume=/dev/hda8 is set). It fails and causes a reset of the pc. So I booted without resuming (lilo: linux noresume) and removed the resume parameter in lilo.conf by hand. The problem is now: My swap partition is no longer used as swap. I get a error message like: swapon /dev/hda8 [failed] Do I have to format my swap partition to get rid of it? Or is there a acpi command which cleans up a broken hibernation swap file? /var/log/acpi dosn't tell me something usefull. Is there another logfile, which is important to hibernation, acpi, suspend etc? Cheers, Stephanus p.s. system: hp pavilion zt3000 1GB RAM Centrino 1.7 64 mb Radeon 9200 mobile ... Exact same thing happened to me. I just went into windows and formatted it. Everything worked fine after that. --Marc BTW, I have 256 MB RAM, and it still happened. 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] Sound Blaster Live
Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system communicates with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some problems running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well meaning that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do please tell me. Thanks everybody, Marco
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?
Yes, I did a regular install. I'm not sure what an LSB install is, though. It would have been useful if the install package would have pointed this out at the time. What's the best way to move to 2.6 kernel, after the fact? Through Lilo (which I've never used). Or, could there be unintended consequeces by doing this? Thanks, Rory Greg Meyer wrote: I would suspect you chose an LSB install, which forces the 2.4 kernel because 2.6 is not LSB compliant yet. On Friday 02 April 2004 08:33 am, Rory wrote: Hi folks, Well, I just discovered that when I installed MDK 10 from a freshly formatted HD that had never had Linux on it before, that it appeared to install the 2.4 Kernel, not 2.6. Here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]$ uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.4.25-2mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:39:08 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Can anyone explain why? And how can I upgrade to 2.6? You would think there would have been some huge warning/error screen when I made the selection that defaulted me to 2.4. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.
On Friday 02 April 2004 05:58 pm, Glenn wrote: I was thinking this analyst company sounded familiar and then it occurred to me that Forrester Research is the company who changed its policy about sponsored research studies when they got caught last year, right? http://www.linux.org/news/2003/10/07/0004.html Also the ones who refused to say that what they did was wrong, refused to admit after being publicly lambasted about selectively seeking data that their study was compromised, and said only that they would not accept paid studies for publication with their name attached, not that they wouldn't accept money for research. I think that they were more embarrassed by the fact that such a shoddy piece of work was publicly put out with their name on it than that they had transparently put handed over a piece of garbage study for pay. I wouldn't blindly trust a tobacco company scientist with one if his studies, even if he swore he wasn't getting paid for the study itself, I wouldn't blindly trust a government scientist who just happens to advocate greater government spending in his own area of research and I certainly wouldn't blindly trust an IT analyst firm who suggests that spending more money on software is a good bet. A harlot by any other name -- 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] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?
On Friday 02 April 2004 07:06 pm, Rory wrote: Yes, I did a regular install. I'm not sure what an LSB install is, though. It would have been useful if the install package would have pointed this out at the time. The install package does point this out. I suspect that with all the other notifications, you may not have noticed. What's the best way to move to 2.6 kernel, after the fact? Through Lilo (which I've never used). Or, could there be unintended consequeces by doing this? You can simply use urpmi to install the kernel, grpmi to install the kernel, etc. It adds it as an additional option, it doesn't necessarily replace anything although the default /boot/vmlinuz links may get replaced to the newest kernel that you select. You can still boot back into the 2.4 kernel until you remove it. -- 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] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?
Okay, based on your comments about the Install warning, I'm pretty sure I did not make that selection when I first installed and probably had 2.6 loaded. I think something must have happened when I was downloading a number of the developer's tools, in an effort to find a dependency so I could install the MDK Online Wizard. After I did a big install, I noticed that the last item that follows was added to my boot options. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# lilo Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe Added floppy Added 2425-2 So, it added a login option of 2425-2, which is the kernel in question. I've never booted in to it and only booted in to the first option, above, but I guess this is the root of my issue. I just downloaded 2.6.3-7 and installed it. Everything seemed to go fine. I rebooted but I still have 2.4 active. I guess both are installed and I just have to switch to 2.63 somehow. From the sounds of it, Lilo is the way to do it. Off to figure out what that it and how to set it up and use it. Yes, early days as a Linux user. I look forward to being able to look back on these posts and have a good laugh some time down the road. Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 19:03, Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got exactly 1GB). However, if I resume (in lilo.conf automatically resume=/dev/hda8 is set). It fails and causes a reset of the pc. So I booted without resuming (lilo: linux noresume) and removed the resume parameter in lilo.conf by hand. The problem is now: My swap partition is no longer used as swap. I get a error message like: swapon /dev/hda8 [failed] Do I have to format my swap partition to get rid of it? Or is there a acpi command which cleans up a broken hibernation swap file? /var/log/acpi dosn't tell me something usefull. Is there another logfile, which is important to hibernation, acpi, suspend etc? Cheers, Stephanus I had the same problem. After booting with the noresume option, the swap partition wasn't mounted. I fired diskdrake, formatted the swap partition and mounted it again with diskdrake. Everything was back to normal. After that, I haven't tried hibernation again. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of advice: do the same. Uninstall Linux and give Windows a second chance. On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:09, Larry Varney wrote: Am I the only one to suspect the intent of your post, seeing as how it's April 1st? Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BINGO ! Charles Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is excellent!A most outstanding use of the April Fool phenomena. I must admit I fell for it as well. Yes :) I must admit, though, that the part about Linux being frustrating isn't entirely ludicrous to me. Linux is clearly an amazing operating system, and more powerful and secure than the competitors... but it is also not yet the most user-friendly operating system, and still requires above average technical capacities to get it running smoothly, and to solve problems. I *yearn* for the time when those things are overcome and Linux is usable for more people... Asa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 23:17, Josh wrote: Thought this might be an interesting read to some of you. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557749,00.asp The one thing I didn't get from the article was if they factored in the amount of applications that ship with Linux vs. the amount of applications that ship with windows. They did factor in at least some non-essential Linux apps (apache was mentioned), but nothing was said about the exploits in 3rd party windows applications. My guess would be that the numbers would be a lot lower for Linux if they looked at ONLY the comparable applications that ship with each OS or a lot higher for windows if they looked at comparable windows applications. And I type this from a windows box, isn't that's stupid. Yhere's a niggling deja vu about this article. I'm certain I have seen it before, and that they did include a whole distro for linux, but only the os for windows. In fact, the report is as full of holes as windows itself, IIRC Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbkGjkFAvMr/nNX8RAoYEAJ9dq706RhGr2DqMpnlqUA4G416oRACdHcWv Y1N93fNG7m2DKgPbdk02eAk= =T1GC -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] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?
Rory wrote: Okay, based on your comments about the Install warning, I'm pretty sure I did not make that selection when I first installed and probably had 2.6 loaded. I think something must have happened when I was downloading a number of the developer's tools, in an effort to find a dependency so I could install the MDK Online Wizard. After I did a big install, I noticed that the last item that follows was added to my boot options. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# lilo Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe Added floppy Added 2425-2 So, it added a login option of 2425-2, which is the kernel in question. I've never booted in to it and only booted in to the first option, above, but I guess this is the root of my issue. I just downloaded 2.6.3-7 and installed it. Everything seemed to go fine. I rebooted but I still have 2.4 active. I guess both are installed and I just have to switch to 2.63 somehow. From the sounds of it, Lilo is the way to do it. Off to figure out what that it and how to set it up and use it. Yes, early days as a Linux user. I look forward to being able to look back on these posts and have a good laugh some time down the road. Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Well, then it's fairly easy. Check your /boot/vmlinuz files, check lilo.conf if everyone has an entry. Start your system in the different kernels and run uname -r as root. So this is 100% secure to get the right version information. Actually, I don't know if there is a way without starting the kernel to retrieve the version information. Interesting question. File -bk vmlinuz cannot do it. Cheers, Stephanus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
On Friday 02 April 2004 05:13 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 02:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 08:48 am, Ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 2 april 2004 09:37, schreef Aron Smith: On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:08 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Bryan, Thursday, April 1, 2004, 12:35:45 PM, you wrote: BP On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:52 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I agree completely, Jose. I'm in the process of doing the same thing as you are; formatting the drive for FAT32 and installing 98 again. After all, there's alot of nostalgia involved with Windows. BP Nostalgia. Try going back to DOS. How about cp/m? Do it in Hex from time to time I fire up my old ZX81.. real nostalgia still got my old KIM-1 ;-) It is modified got 4k of Static Ram (rembember static ram?) And the winner of the 2004 Ultimate Packrat Award is (fanfare, please) Aron Smith! -- 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] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?
On 04/03/2004 02:55 AM, J Tandl wrote: Did you select the LSB package group? I read (at http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5314/1/) that that will install the 2.4 kernel to ensure LSB-compliance (what ever that is ... :-[ ) LSB = Linux Standard Base project. See www.linuxbase.org. It is an organisation that promotes as many equalities between the linux distro's to make Linux a more standard OS. Paul -- He is considered a most graceful speaker who can say nothing in the most words. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Webcams...
Anyone had any luck/know resources for using a Micro Innovations Flexicam, model ic70c, working with Mandrake? Thanks! PS I've got a Logitech Pro 3000 that works great with my desktop, but this model would be nice with my laptop. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
