[newbie] hosting my own web site
I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla desktop icon dosent work
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed mozilla 1.6 from mozilla.org a tar.gz file. When engaged from the run-mozilla.sh script it works fine. Therefore I used the path to script as the command for the icon. It generates a flopping hourglass in the kicker but dos not start mozilla. What did I do wrong? At last a question that I actually know the answer to - I think mozilla 1.6 is installed in a different part of the folder forest to 1.4. Change the execute properties of the link to : /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla and all should be well thereafter. Cheers, Graham Watkins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Richiesta aiuto per un grave problema
Buongiorno, ho bisogno di un aiuto per un problema gravissimo ed inspiegabile che sto avendo con Linux Mandrake 7.2. Mi sono accorto da ieri che per qualche oscura ragione lo spazio disco mi si sta riducendo di minuto in minuto, senza che io faccia nulla di significativo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] alberto]$ df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 4735892 4182188313136 93% / Dopo qualche secondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] alberto]$ df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 4735892 4182192313132 93% / E dopo qualche secondo ancora [EMAIL PROTECTED] alberto]$ df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 4735892 4182224313100 93% / Cosa sta succedendo ? E' possibile fare qualcosa ? Grazie di cuore a chiunque vorrà rispondermi. Alberto [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] hosting my own web site
Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Do you have a domain name? If not, head over to dyn-dns and get yourself a static IP domain from them.. (its free) Then copy your large files to /var/www/html and start apache..: service httpd start You should be good to go. all the config files for apache are in /etc/httpd/conf and they are all pretty well commented. If you don't feel up to facing manual config files, then fireup webmin and configure apache that way. you shouldn't need to do much if anything, mandrake has apache ready to go out of the box. -- 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
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Don't forget to open Port 80 on your firewall Aron, and make sure that Apache starts at boot time. Lanman 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
Re: [newbie] KDE Crash
Drew Martin wrote: 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. Drew; have a look at kcontrol . You'll need to check under Web Browsing Plugins, and you shoudl find what you need there. Be advised that you'll have to repeat the procedure for each user, as well as root. You also might want to see if you can delete nsplugins completely from the system and install a fresh copy, since yours seems to be a bit buggy. A signal 11(SIGSEGV) can be caused by a lot of different problems, but quite often it's caused by a broken package or Ram. Let's hope it's just the package. BTW, have you considered upgrading to KDE 3.2 yet? That might solve some of your problems as well. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?
As the question in the subject states, I'm looking for mandrake rpms for XPde.. I am always on the lookout for things that will make linux seem less threatning for windows users.. To that end I recently discovered XPde http://xpde.com/ which is designed to look like Windows XP, but has ended up looking like 98/2000 but will have themes available later to match XP's look. Anyway, this thing is so close to 98/2000, that I'd be surprised if newbie users would even know they were not using 98/2000 if they were to find themselves in front of an Linux/XPde machine.. Now I know all the arguements of why would you want to copy windoze, it sux and there are better wm around.. but the point is that a newbie linux/win user will feel more comfortably with this then they would having to learn their way around a completely different wm/GUI... So to that effect I am looking to find or make an rpm of XPde so that I can put it on the systems of users that are unsure about linux.. I am surprised that the likes of Mandrake, Xandros, Lindows have not been looking at this app.. not as a default desktop, but say for example they add a user class question to the install screens, and if the user selected windows newbie then it could set up XPde for them. One of the particularly impressive features is the version of windows explorer they have created. it is seriously similiar to windows explorer and would be MUCH more freindly to windows users then Konqueror or one of the others... see for yourself. http://xpde.com/shots/explorer.png While I don't believe that the windoze user interface has any particulary merits that bear copying.. I just say that for someone turning on a pc and expecting win9x, they would be hard pressed to tell that this isn't and would probably feel right at home.. then a month later you tell them they've been using linux and show them some more powerful and customizable window managers... (I had a look on rpmfind, and some googling but so far have found no rpms for any distro, let along mandrake, however it was mentioned on mandrake club as a potential rpm.. so if your a club member, you should go and vote for XPde so that those of us that spend our time at the front end trying to convert companies to Linux.. have another tool in our chest to do so.) rgds Franki 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 - SOLVED!
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 28 March 2004 07:28 am, Margot wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 02:03 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1 m dk.i586.rpm http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1 m dk.nosrc.rpm Well, some success... I managed to download and install the new kernel (without getting cut off this time), and the shutdown now goes past the original hang point, but now it gets to this: md: md0 switched to read-only mode. Power down. ...but it doesn't actually switch off! I assume that it is safe to just hit the power switch at this point, but is there some setting I could change so it will switch off automatically? Margot No sooner did I post the link to Thomas' kernel, than he released an updated version2.6.4-1.tmb.4mdk Well, I've now experimented with several kernels, and the one which works best so far is 2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk - machine still doesn't actually switch off, but everything else seems pretty stable. Perhaps now is the time to look at the acpi and apic settings that Tony suggested. I've seen these mentioned in other threads, but mainly relating to laptops. Mine's a desktop machine. I believe the general trend with 2.4.x kernels would be to disable apic and/or acpi. With 2.6.x and newer hardware, I believe it'll be to make sure they're both enabled. The only exception to that I currently know of is nForce chipset systems which don't handle them properly. You've got a VIA chipset which will. Are there any standard settings for acpi and apic for different types of machine, or is is just a question of trying various combinations until I find one that works? Yep, trial'n error I know that the settings appear in the append line in lilo.conf, but is this where I actually edit them, or is there another file for the settings which transfers the details into lilo.conf? No, edit lilo.conf, and try not to forget to run 'lilo' to write the changes before you reboot. (we all do sometimes ;) Margot, the behavior you describe is probly a hardware or bios configuration deficiency. Specially if you close all applications you don't want to start on the next boot, open a term and su to root, and type 'halt'. You might also experiment with 'reboot'. In any event, yes, you're probly OK to use the power switch, particularly if you don't see any file system warnings on the next boot. On an ATX motherboard, try either 4 sec delay or instant off bios settings to see if one works better than the other. Is ATX a brand name, or is it some sort of specification? Mine's a Shuttle Spacewalker MV42N - I don't want to start fiddling with bios settings until I have some idea of what I'm doing! Margot A specification. Your Shuttle is a micro ATX. and the system is up to date enough, that I believe with 2.6.x kernels, you should (even need/want to) enable apic and acpi. You do so by removing any 'noapic', 'nolapic', and 'acpi=off' (or acpi-=ht) from the 2.6.x kernel stanza in your lilo.conf. These features are built into the kernel, no need to explicitly enable them. After sorting out some other problems, I finally found time to look at this again. I'm now using the tmb.5 kernel, tried all the possible combinations of acpi and apic settings I could think of, and have found that with the option acpi=on and no mention of apic or lapic, the computer now switches off automatically, the way I wanted it to. Thanks for your help. Now I just have to get the sound working... ;-) 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] 10 CE Shutdown - SOLVED!
Charlie wrote: This is probably no help, but just in case? For no reason this machine would not shut off, in fact I had to use shutdown -h now as root. I could get it to work by changing the sessions, saving, then changing them back. But only once after the first reboot, then it went back to this behaviour. In trying to get sound to work, I placed this line in my /etc/modules.conf which is called something different in 10.x options snd-via82xx index=0 dxs_support=2 Why this should effect the shutdown, I have no idea, but try some variations and it might just work? Charlie. Well, I managed to sort out the shutdown problem by using acpi=on, but my next project is to get the sound working so I've saved your suggestion in case it helps - or in case getting the sound working breaks my newly-fixed shutdown! Thanks Charlie! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] minor bugs in Mdk10 community.
Hi guys, I just started with my first mdk10 install... during the install I went in and tried to set the network.. It gave me a message that it had already been configured to access the internet, it had a yes or no box, but it was clear that it was asking if I wanted to change it or not.. it wasn't clear whether or not I was sposed to say yes or no to configure it anyway.. so I said no, meaning no I don't care about the configured internet settings. Soon as I clicked no the install terminated.. and the system rebooted as if I had finished with all configuration optionos.. I never got to see the bootloader settings or anything else, it just rebooted.. luckily the bootloader had set itself and it all started up fine, still it was disconcerting.. The other error was when I booted to the comamnd line and typed: urpmi ntsysv as I am often want to do... It asked me to insert CD1, and when I did, it spat it out and asked again.. after inserting it 4 times, and clearning it etc. I cancelled urpmi.. I mounted the cdrom and had a look in the RPMS directory on the CD.. there was no package for ntsysv So that means that the hdlist for mdk10 community wrongly includes ntsysv when it doesn't actually have that package. Just wondered if anyone else had come accross any of these issues (incidently, my DVDrom booted install from CD1 just fine.) -- 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
Re: [newbie] KDE Crash
On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 12:07 pm, Lanman wrote: Drew Martin wrote: 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. Drew; have a look at kcontrol . You'll need to check under Web Browsing Plugins, and you shoudl find what you need there. Be advised that you'll have to repeat the procedure for each user, as well as root. You also might want to see if you can delete nsplugins completely from the system and install a fresh copy, since yours seems to be a bit buggy. A signal 11(SIGSEGV) can be caused by a lot of different problems, but quite often it's caused by a broken package or Ram. Let's hope it's just the package. BTW, have you considered upgrading to KDE 3.2 yet? That might solve some of your problems as well. Lanman Thanks, Thats sorted it out,I have turned off Scan on Log On,while sort the the plugins out. I was looking at installing 3.2,but it was going to take forever to download even with broadband.I'm going to wait until 10.0 Final is released and install that. Drew 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 Saturday 03 Apr 2004 6:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: 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 Not so fast. I still have my Science of Cambridge MK14. It's got 256 bytes of (static) memory. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
I've tried that but it doesn't work either... Point is I've got both SB and a sound card integrated in my motherboard, which uses the via82xx module. Whatever options I choose, it is the intedgrated card which plays sound, whereas the SB remains shut up. Even selecting Sound Blaster from KMix doesn't change a thing. I tried to edit /etc/modules.conf to exclude the via drivers but they are loaded anyway Does anyone know how not to let them be loaded at boot time? - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live On Friday 02 April 2004 09:54 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote: 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, s o I sent it again Marco, try this, go into the Mandrake Control Center and choose hardware and click on the sound card you have showing on the left, then on the right side click run configuration. There is usually three driver choices once it gets to that point, if it shows yours using the snd-emu10k1 choose to use just the emu10k1 and vice versa, it may show audigy, choose either of the others, one of them will work. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 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] KDE Crash
Drew Martin wrote: On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 12:07 pm, Lanman wrote: Drew Martin wrote: 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. Drew; have a look at kcontrol . You'll need to check under Web Browsing Plugins, and you shoudl find what you need there. Be advised that you'll have to repeat the procedure for each user, as well as root. You also might want to see if you can delete nsplugins completely from the system and install a fresh copy, since yours seems to be a bit buggy. A signal 11(SIGSEGV) can be caused by a lot of different problems, but quite often it's caused by a broken package or Ram. Let's hope it's just the package. BTW, have you considered upgrading to KDE 3.2 yet? That might solve some of your problems as well. Lanman Thanks, Thats sorted it out,I have turned off Scan on Log On,while sort the the plugins out. I was looking at installing 3.2,but it was going to take forever to download even with broadband.I'm going to wait until 10.0 Final is released and install that. Drew Kewl. Glad I was able to help. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] how do I kill crashed program
Haiz newbie, I have installed xing player, bt it sometimes stops responding! maybe some damaged media file or what, bt the question is how do I kill it or restart i know terminam comand kill, bt is there any lame way I'm running MD 9.1 and KDE (default version i gues) force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [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] hosting my own web site
On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 11:23 am, Lanman wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Don't forget to open Port 80 on your firewall Aron, and make sure that Apache starts at boot time. Lanman I'm not the OP, but... What is that emailing exploit that has been posted about a couple of times? Is that capability disabled out of the box? If I were to set up a web server here I wouldn't want anything too complex, but there's 700 pages of apache module documentation that I'm not going to read through, and something that I don't use but which opens a security hole is a worry. -- Richard Urwin 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 RPM for XPde?
franki wrote: As the question in the subject states, I'm looking for mandrake rpms for XPde.. I am always on the lookout for things that will make linux seem less threatning for windows users.. To that end I recently discovered XPde http://xpde.com/ which is designed to look like Windows XP, but has ended up looking like 98/2000 but will have themes available later to match XP's look. Anyway, this thing is so close to 98/2000, that I'd be surprised if newbie users would even know they were not using 98/2000 if they were to find themselves in front of an Linux/XPde machine.. Now I know all the arguements of why would you want to copy windoze, it sux and there are better wm around.. but the point is that a newbie linux/win user will feel more comfortably with this then they would having to learn their way around a completely different wm/GUI... So to that effect I am looking to find or make an rpm of XPde so that I can put it on the systems of users that are unsure about linux.. I am surprised that the likes of Mandrake, Xandros, Lindows have not been looking at this app.. not as a default desktop, but say for example they add a user class question to the install screens, and if the user selected windows newbie then it could set up XPde for them. One of the particularly impressive features is the version of windows explorer they have created. it is seriously similiar to windows explorer and would be MUCH more freindly to windows users then Konqueror or one of the others... see for yourself. http://xpde.com/shots/explorer.png While I don't believe that the windoze user interface has any particulary merits that bear copying.. I just say that for someone turning on a pc and expecting win9x, they would be hard pressed to tell that this isn't and would probably feel right at home.. then a month later you tell them they've been using linux and show them some more powerful and customizable window managers... (I had a look on rpmfind, and some googling but so far have found no rpms for any distro, let along mandrake, however it was mentioned on mandrake club as a potential rpm.. so if your a club member, you should go and vote for XPde so that those of us that spend our time at the front end trying to convert companies to Linux.. have another tool in our chest to do so.) rgds Franki I have to agree. With Linux popularity gaining new ground each day, we have to consider that the easier it is for the masses to switch to Linux, the more of them will make the switch. I've been making a point of using KDE with a Windows 2000 Look and Feel for my clients, and usually ( more often than not ), I've been getting phone calls from them after a few months, saying Hey, did you know that you can make major changes to the desktop? Of course, that usually gets a little grin and chuckle out of me, but it shows that once they have acquired a comfort level, users are usually stunned by the flexibility of the desktops alone. These conversations typically happen on a weekly basis for me, during which I often point the clients to a LUG and other websites for extra help, and to learn more. I've rarely gone back to a client 6 months later and seen the same desktop in place without some serious modificfations having been done. Of course, the client and their staff, typically have a smug little smile on their faces concerning their accomplishments. I know from having worked in large enterprises that sysadmins typically end up locking down a lot of the functionality of M$ Windows and the desktops so as to reduce security problems, to save time for the IT support staff and to minimize user dissatisfaction. But I'm actually seeing users with smiles on their faces again ! Has anyone else noticed that? The trust is back ! When users have a system that crashes or causes them problems, they usually blame the IT staff. As a result, they don't trust the IT guys, blaming the problems on them instead of an inferior O/S and desktop system. But those of my clients using Linux are smiling at me again, and now they're eager to learn new things. Of all the improvements I've ever seen in Linux and all the justifications for using it, this has to be the best of them all. Giving new users a desktop like that would just make it happen that much faster. So, if anyone here is brave enough to tackle Franki's suggestion, that would probably be the most significant contribution someone could make to help promote Linux. Now,h, if it was only capable of running on Mandrake,h! Grin! Here's to World Domination Folks! It's our turn! OK, go back to your normal stuff, now. I'm done. 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] back to the good old Windows
Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 6:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: 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 Not so fast. I still have my Science of Cambridge MK14. It's got 256 bytes of (static) memory. WoW! You ARE old! 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] Sound Blaster Live
On Saturday 03 April 2004 07:34 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote: I've tried that but it doesn't work either... Point is I've got both SB and a sound card integrated in my motherboard, which uses the via82xx module. Whatever options I choose, it is the intedgrated card which plays sound, whereas the SB remains shut up. Even selecting Sound Blaster from KMix doesn't change a thing. I tried to edit /etc/modules.conf to exclude the via drivers but they are loaded anyway Does anyone know how not to let them be loaded at boot time? - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live On Friday 02 April 2004 09:54 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote: 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, s o I sent it again Marco, try this, go into the Mandrake Control Center and choose hardware and click on the sound card you have showing on the left, then on the right side click run configuration. There is usually three driver choices once it gets to that point, if it shows yours using the snd-emu10k1 choose to use just the emu10k1 and vice versa, it may show audigy, choose either of the others, one of them will work. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Ok, one last shot, did you disable the onboard sound card in the mobo BIOS? -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 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 RPM for XPde?
Lanman wrote: franki wrote: As the question in the subject states, I'm looking for mandrake rpms for XPde.. I am always on the lookout for things that will make linux seem less threatning for windows users.. To that end I recently discovered XPde http://xpde.com/ which is designed to look like Windows XP, but has ended up looking like 98/2000 but will have themes available later to match XP's look. Anyway, this thing is so close to 98/2000, that I'd be surprised if newbie users would even know they were not using 98/2000 if they were to find themselves in front of an Linux/XPde machine.. Now I know all the arguements of why would you want to copy windoze, it sux and there are better wm around.. but the point is that a newbie linux/win user will feel more comfortably with this then they would having to learn their way around a completely different wm/GUI... So to that effect I am looking to find or make an rpm of XPde so that I can put it on the systems of users that are unsure about linux.. I am surprised that the likes of Mandrake, Xandros, Lindows have not been looking at this app.. not as a default desktop, but say for example they add a user class question to the install screens, and if the user selected windows newbie then it could set up XPde for them. One of the particularly impressive features is the version of windows explorer they have created. it is seriously similiar to windows explorer and would be MUCH more freindly to windows users then Konqueror or one of the others... see for yourself. http://xpde.com/shots/explorer.png While I don't believe that the windoze user interface has any particulary merits that bear copying.. I just say that for someone turning on a pc and expecting win9x, they would be hard pressed to tell that this isn't and would probably feel right at home.. then a month later you tell them they've been using linux and show them some more powerful and customizable window managers... (I had a look on rpmfind, and some googling but so far have found no rpms for any distro, let along mandrake, however it was mentioned on mandrake club as a potential rpm.. so if your a club member, you should go and vote for XPde so that those of us that spend our time at the front end trying to convert companies to Linux.. have another tool in our chest to do so.) rgds Franki I have to agree. With Linux popularity gaining new ground each day, we have to consider that the easier it is for the masses to switch to Linux, the more of them will make the switch. I've been making a point of using KDE with a Windows 2000 Look and Feel for my clients, and usually ( more often than not ), I've been getting phone calls from them after a few months, saying Hey, did you know that you can make major changes to the desktop? Of course, that usually gets a little grin and chuckle out of me, but it shows that once they have acquired a comfort level, users are usually stunned by the flexibility of the desktops alone. These conversations typically happen on a weekly basis for me, during which I often point the clients to a LUG and other websites for extra help, and to learn more. I've rarely gone back to a client 6 months later and seen the same desktop in place without some serious modificfations having been done. Of course, the client and their staff, typically have a smug little smile on their faces concerning their accomplishments. I know from having worked in large enterprises that sysadmins typically end up locking down a lot of the functionality of M$ Windows and the desktops so as to reduce security problems, to save time for the IT support staff and to minimize user dissatisfaction. But I'm actually seeing users with smiles on their faces again ! Has anyone else noticed that? The trust is back ! When users have a system that crashes or causes them problems, they usually blame the IT staff. As a result, they don't trust the IT guys, blaming the problems on them instead of an inferior O/S and desktop system. But those of my clients using Linux are smiling at me again, and now they're eager to learn new things. Of all the improvements I've ever seen in Linux and all the justifications for using it, this has to be the best of them all. Giving new users a desktop like that would just make it happen that much faster. So, if anyone here is brave enough to tackle Franki's suggestion, that would probably be the most significant contribution someone could make to help promote Linux. Now,h, if it was only capable of running on Mandrake,h! Grin! Here's to World Domination Folks! It's our turn! OK, go back to your normal stuff, now. I'm done. Lanman Way to go Lanman, I agree completely... I have next to no knowledge of making rpms, The closest I have come is installing rpm's, editing their spec files and the code of the src in question and then compiling them into binary rpms... but if nobody with more experiance pops up their
[newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files
Hi... Is there a way I can play the Windows Media Audio files on Linux? I've done a lot of ripping of CD's recently on Windows Media Player. Now my Linux XMMS player does not recognise this file format. 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] Mandrake RPM for XPde?
frankieh wrote: However I have to say I would feel alot better if someone that actually understands rpm's did it. Yeah, I would too. I've never had the time or patience to learn. With my luck it would turn into a Dos Batch file! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not supported. I`d be grateful for any suggestions. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Richiesta aiuto per un grave problema
Buongiorno, ho bisogno di un aiuto per un problema gravissimo ed inspiegabile che sto avendo con Linux Mandrake 7.2. Mi sono accorto da ieri che per qualche oscura ragione lo spazio disco mi si sta riducendo di minuto in minuto, senza che io faccia nulla di significativo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] alberto]$ df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 4735892 4182188313136 93% / Dopo qualche secondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] alberto]$ df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 4735892 4182192313132 93% / E dopo qualche secondo ancora [EMAIL PROTECTED] alberto]$ df . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 4735892 4182224313100 93% / Cosa sta succedendo ? E' possibile fare qualcosa ? Grazie di cuore a chiunque vorrà rispondermi. Alberto If I understand correctly, this person is asking for help because the space available on his son´s hard drive is diminishing rapidly for some unknown reason. I can´t help with the technical stuff but should be able to (have someone) translate the answer Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Apollon crash
I've been trying different p2p programs and I like the easy clean interface of Apollon the best. However it seems upon the completion of every download it crashes. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I tried qtella as well but I can't seem to make any connections. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks Dave Ashmore 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 - SOLVED!
On Saturday 03 April 2004 07:06 am, Margot wrote: After sorting out some other problems, I finally found time to look at this again. I'm now using the tmb.5 kernel, tried all the possible combinations of acpi and apic settings I could think of, and have found that with the option acpi=on and no mention of apic or lapic, the computer now switches off automatically, the way I wanted it to. Thanks for your help. Now I just have to get the sound working... ;-) Margot Unless 'acpi=on' is undocumented, it's not a valid 2.6.x kernel parameter. See kernel-parameters.txt (you'll need kernel source installed. Any 2.6 kernel-source will do). Valid parameters are acpi=off, acpi=ht which both turn off acpi, and acpi=force, which forces acpi on. Simply not having any acpi parameter should turn acpi on, as it's built into the kernel as on by default. You can leave that parameter in tho, it's just being ignored by the kernel. .. Run 'draksound' as root in a term. Follow all the steps under trouble shooting. I'd add to also run 'll /dev/dsp'. Ouput should look like this tom # ll /dev/dsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Apr 1 23:56 /dev/dsp - sound/dsp The last '-x' means user can execute sound, and '-' that dsp is linked to sound. 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' should return nothing. This means nothing is currently tyin up sound, which is what you want. Also, I didn't need aumix installed as draksound indicates. What enabled sound in 10.0 for me was to raise all the sliders in kmix to 100% . including the ones under the 'line-in' icons on the right side. At least one of 'em is the line-in from your speaker system. -- 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: [ml] [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
Katinka Peter wrote: As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not supported. I`d be grateful for any suggestions. Kat I was told that the application Kopete will work but I have not tried it. Dave Ashmore 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 (kernel 2.6) Broadcom 4401 problem
Hi, I've downloaded the Mandrake 10 yesterday. Installed it with a 2.6 kernel: #uname -r 2.6.3-4mdk the default driver (module b44) doesn't work. I searched a bit and found that most of the people got away by installing the bcm4400 module provided by Broadcom. Downloaded linux-3.0.7.zip from the web site, unzip linux-3.0.7.zip tar xzvf ... cd linux/bcm4400/src make su make install service network stop rmmod b44 modprobe bcm4400 service network start and I get a Briging up interface eth0: SIOSCIFFLAGS: Ressource temporarily unavailable Failed to bring up eth0. As it is my first use of kernel 2.6, I was wondering if anything as to be done so that the module would be attatched to the kernel. Also as I am new to Mandrake, where do I get the latest patched/mandrake/kernel. Thanks, Alx. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how do I kill crashed program
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op zaterdag 3 april 2004 15:36, schreef hugenots: i know terminam comand kill, bt is there any lame way crtl + alt + esc and you can kill a program with your cursor... even your windowmanager :-) HTH ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbtmtoPgG5kUDwJIRAog2AJ9OXv6WWwPOTnRWry7wpDdyNFT6zgCeJ29j kniRL7C36eoV423D7f182uQ= =itpH -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] Instant Messaging with MSN
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 09:36, Katinka Peter wrote: As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not supported. I`d be grateful for any suggestions. kopete? :-) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 09:39:48 up 21:32, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.15, 0.10 Diogenes is still searching. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 09:42, Dave Ashmore wrote: I was told that the application Kopete will work but I have not tried it. Dave Ashmore It does, and quite nicely (along with AIM, Yahoo and ICQ); it's not as pretty as Gaim, but I started using it because of the problem between Gaim and Yahoo (which, I understand, was just fixed with the 0.76? release), and it's served me well so far. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 09:40:41 up 21:32, 1 user, load average: 0.62, 0.25, 0.13 Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
Katinka Peter wrote: As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not supported. I`d be grateful for any suggestions. Kat Try Kopete. It works like a charm. Very nice. 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] Instant Messaging with MSN
Kopete works fine with MSN Messenger, and Yahoo, AIM, IRC, Jabber, and ICQ. It should be installed already with Mandrake 10. Earlier versions of Mandrake will need a Kopete upgrade to work with the changes to the various instant messaging protocols. For an MSN only solution, you can't beat Kmess. It has a few more features than Kopete, but is a single protocol client. There is also a new version of Gaim now 0.76, after a lengthy period with no releases and an inability for Gaim to connect to Yahoo. I did experience the problems connecting to MSN with the new Gaim client, but eventually it did connect, and Yahoo works now. Kopete didn't have any problems connecting. My personal preference is Kopete. Rick Kunath 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, 2004-04-01 at 15:35, Bryan Phinney wrote: 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. Nostalgia. Try going back to DOS. I've got a dos box here, my friend; I still do memory management with the config.sys and autoexec.bat to keep in practice. I enjoy it. One reason I do keep it is so that I can try to find the latest sound hardware that's also backwardly compatible. The challenge is to try to keep everything as up to date as possible while at the same time not breaking any of the old dos games I used to play. Case in point is Elder Scrolls Arena, the first edition (Daggerfall was next, and then Morrowind). Here is a game that requires a contiguous 620k dos conventional memory area because of a memory leak that crashes it after about 5 hours or so. Daggerfall, another dos game, has a similar problem. Both games need contiguous areas of conventional memory in order to work at maximum. This requires that all dos drivers be loaded high, if possible. I found out the hard way that in recent years, the behavior of the upper memory area on new mobos has changed. With some mobos it is difficult to make efficient use of the upper memory area for loading dos device drivers. Some sound cards cannot be used unless they are at particular interrupts and use specific DMA channels. This is not a functional problem with the sound cards, it is a problem with the flexibility and adaptability of old dos games. LX 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, 2004-04-01 at 17:08, 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? Better yet, go back to the days of Captain Crunch and use assembler to do your own OS. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:11 am, frankieh wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Do you have a domain name? If not, head over to dyn-dns and get yourself a static IP domain from them.. (its free) Then copy your large files to /var/www/html and start apache..: service httpd start You should be good to go. all the config files for apache are in /etc/httpd/conf and they are all pretty well commented. If you don't feel up to facing manual config files, then fireup webmin and configure apache that way. you shouldn't need to do much if anything, mandrake has apache ready to go out of the box. I have the Domain Name aronsmith.com already so by using a hub between the dsl modem and the 2 'puters should be no prob ? thanks smitty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:23 am, Lanman wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Don't forget to open Port 80 on your firewall Aron, and make sure that Apache starts at boot time. Thanks smitty 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] back to the good old Windows
On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:35 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 6:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: 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 Not so fast. I still have my Science of Cambridge MK14. It's got 256 bytes of (static) memory. I walked around with a TI logo burned on my thumb from trying to reseat one of thos chips ...those suckers ran hot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] foo, master foo
Hi Everybody, I tried to search with google that what is often repeated foo? And I got even more confused when I red about master foo? http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ Can somebody explain what these terms means, foo, foo bar, master foo? -- best rgds ~tt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] foo, master foo
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 09:57, Thujan wrote: Hi Everybody, I tried to search with google that what is often repeated foo? And I got even more confused when I red about master foo? http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ Can somebody explain what these terms means, foo, foo bar, master foo? Instead of foo bar, look up fubar, which was the original acronym. :-) If that doesn't yield results, then obviously it's SNAFU. :-) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 10:00:30 up 21:52, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.28, 0.26 Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. 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 Saturday 03 April 2004 08:35 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 6:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 05:13 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 02:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: whack 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 Not so fast. I still have my Science of Cambridge MK14. It's got 256 bytes of (static) memory. Richard: According to Google, the KIM-1 came out in 1976, two years prior to the MK14, so the UPA is still Aron's pending an appeal based on date of acquisition. -- 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] KDE Crash
On Saturday 03 April 2004 07:20 am, Drew Martin wrote: I was looking at installing 3.2,but it was going to take forever to download even with broadband.I'm going to wait until 10.0 Final is released and install that. Drew If you've got 10-CE, install and update to current cooker sources. 10-Official was final last weekend, and sent to production (box sets) last Monday. Warly said last Monday that 10-Official iso's won't be posted for about two weeks. KDE 3.2.1 is in the CHRPM queue, but not on cooker mirrors yet. Actually many updates to 10-OE are in the queue. Probly show up on the mirrors next week. Maybe as early as Monday. According to KDE, 3.2.1 is mostly bugfixes for 3.2.0 Use cooker sources, not stable, if you want these updates, as stable will be un-symlink'd to cooker when they appear. -- 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] back to the good old Windows
On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:02 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:35 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 6:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 05:13 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 02:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: whack 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 Not so fast. I still have my Science of Cambridge MK14. It's got 256 bytes of (static) memory. Richard: According to Google, the KIM-1 came out in 1976, two years prior to the MK14, so the UPA is still Aron's pending an appeal based on date of acquisition. -- cmg 216.00 as an engineering evaluation kit came with 12 lb of documentation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 April 2004 16:40, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 09:36, Katinka Peter wrote: As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not supported. I`d be grateful for any suggestions. kopete? :-) or look for a later version of Gaim. Msn keep changing the protocols, to shut you out. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbuXfkFAvMr/nNX8RAvCeAKCYJil8G+kcA0XMXk2tjQRMGOq1dwCggHrh oUXVHgEvqW+4m9/V7ugptdE= =mkEi -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] foo, master foo
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 10:01:31 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 09:57, Thujan wrote: Hi Everybody, I tried to search with google that what is often repeated foo? And I got even more confused when I red about master foo? http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ Can somebody explain what these terms means, foo, foo bar, master foo? Instead of foo bar, look up fubar, which was the original acronym.:-) If that doesn't yield results, then obviously it's SNAFU. :-) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 10:00:30 up 21:52, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.28, 0.26 Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. In the Army I knew a Major Fu. Master Fu must be a karate guy. 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 RPM for XPde?
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 09:46:42 -0500, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frankieh wrote: However I have to say I would feel alot better if someone that actually understands rpm's did it. Yeah, I would too. I've never had the time or patience to learn. With my luck it would turn into a Dos Batch file! Lanman Does 'checkinstall' make actual RPMs? When I get a tarball off the Internet and go through the configure and make commands, I let 'checkinstall' do the actual installation because I was under the impression 'checkinstall' will make an RPM entry into Mandrake's Software Manager section so everything can be removed from the Uninstall Packages menus. (I'm not entirely convinced that 'checkinstall' actually removes all the files off the computer.) During the installation process with 'checkinstall', it asks which type of RPM you'd like to create. I've never figured out if 'checkinstall' makes the actual RPM and there is a file somewhere on computer. Perhaps 'checkinstall' can do this job. (I was curious about this thread because I've always been on the PC side and have never developed a liking for icons in a file manager system. I'm using Midnight Commander for the file management duties.) The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
Any? Some friends of mine in IT here in this county say there are no Linux refs/books for IT - in other words, how to use Linux in the workplace. Any thing I can point them at? Thanks! -- /\ Dark 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] Instant Messaging with MSN
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 13:40, Job Evers wrote: Are you using the most recent version of Gaim? If not I would upgrade and see what happens. IIRC, the 0.76 version of Gaim which was just released is packaged for Mandrake and sitting in the cooker queue, for whenever that gets freed up again ... Monday? -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 13:11:41 up 1 day, 1:03, 1 user, load average: 0.55, 0.32, 0.15 Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
I have Yahoo Messenger running on Mandrake 9.2, I was surprised it worked. The installation guide is for RH. --- Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 13:40, Job Evers wrote: Are you using the most recent version of Gaim? If not I would upgrade and see what happens. IIRC, the 0.76 version of Gaim which was just released is packaged for Mandrake and sitting in the cooker queue, for whenever that gets freed up again ... Monday? -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 13:11:41 up 1 day, 1:03, 1 user, load average: 0.55, 0.32, 0.15 Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com = Bill Hatfield Registered Linux User #351047 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:00:05PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Content-Description: clearsigned data -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 April 2004 18:15, John Wilson wrote: On April 2, 2004 01:25 pm, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi... Is there a way I can play the Windows Media Audio files on Linux? I've done a lot of ripping of CD's recently on Windows Media Player. Now my Linux XMMS player does not recognise this file format. Thanks Install MPlayer and stop hijacking threads :-) and if you didn't know you had hijacked, read http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette for an explanation of what it is and why it matters. You're not alone, though. There's been an awful lot of hijacking lately. I think we need to start fingerprinting everybody on the list. We can't let the terrorists win!! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] menu items disappeared
Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 07:45:45 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:11 am, frankieh wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Do you have a domain name? If not, head over to dyn-dns and get yourself a static IP domain from them.. (its free) Then copy your large files to /var/www/html and start apache..: service httpd start You should be good to go. all the config files for apache are in /etc/httpd/conf and they are all pretty well commented. If you don't feel up to facing manual config files, then fireup webmin and configure apache that way. you shouldn't need to do much if anything, mandrake has apache ready to go out of the box. I have the Domain Name aronsmith.com already so by using a hub between the dsl modem and the 2 'puters should be no prob ? thanks smitty So your dsl connection comes in, goes through your dsl modem to a hub, which connects the two computers? Are you sure it's a hub, or is it a router? If it is a hub, you may need to get a router that can handle port-forwarding (most can). If you already have the router, connect to it by opening a webbrowser and connecting to it's IP address. (Mine is 192.168.1.1. yours could be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1). Anyway find port forwarding and make it forward port 80 to the local IP address of the computer that will host the site. HTH, John -- Sat Apr 3 14:09:00 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 All is well that ends well. -- John Heywood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a well-known problem with 9.2 systems. If you just updated, all you should need to do is open a terminal, 'su' to root, and enter the command 'update-menus -v'. Your menus should be back when that process is finished. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Connecting to a network with a static IP.
I'll probably go and ask linksys about this too, but first I thought I'd turn here. I want to connect to my network with a static IP. I changed my ifcfg-wlan0 file, and made sure the ip addy wasn't within the dhcp range. Then, I ifdown'ed and ifup'ed wlan0, and got the IP. Unfortunately, I had no internet connection. So then I tried pinging the router, and it went fine. Then I tried getting to the http router settings. Went fine as well. Anyone know what the problem is? --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] Connecting to a network with a static IP.
Maybe your router is only source NATting the ip addresses within your dhcp range... I'll probably go and ask linksys about this too, but first I thought I'd turn here. I want to connect to my network with a static IP. I changed my ifcfg-wlan0 file, and made sure the ip addy wasn't within the dhcp range. Then, I ifdown'ed and ifup'ed wlan0, and got the IP. Unfortunately, I had no internet connection. So then I tried pinging the router, and it went fine. Then I tried getting to the http router settings. Went fine as well. Anyone know what the problem is? --Marc -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Nitrex VirusGate, and is believed to be clean. http://www.nitrex.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
On Saturday 03 April 2004 13:28, Keith Powell wrote: I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched all through the various Internet configuration files, I can't find a way of doing it. Disconnection appears to only to be able to be done manually. If our dial-up connections could be set to be automatically terminated, it would be a help. It would mean that we could leave the computer downloading something, knowing that the connection would be terminated a few minutes after the download had finished, rather than having to watch for the download to finish. Any ideas, please, anyone? Many thanks Keith Also how about whenever a connection is required that kppp starts and auto dials the ISP in addition to the above? -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 13:28, Keith Powell wrote: I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched all through the various Internet configuration files, I can't find a way of doing it. Disconnection appears to only to be able to be done manually. If our dial-up connections could be set to be automatically terminated, it would be a help. It would mean that we could leave the computer downloading something, knowing that the connection would be terminated a few minutes after the download had finished, rather than having to watch for the download to finish. Any ideas, please, anyone? Many thanks Keith Also how about whenever a connection is required that kppp starts and auto dials the ISP in addition to the above? I think the app you're all looking for is wvdial. You can set it to log you in automatically (even with ISPs that use terminal-based authentication), reconnect automatically, disconnect if idle for a specified period of time and a whole load of other stuff. It's not on the 10.0 CDs, but is on the mirrors. Just download it and edit /etc/wvdial.conf to your needs. No GUI required. The only glitch is that it normally only runs as root. There are three ways round this (other than doing su of course): 1. Make it suid (never tried this); 2. Change permissions of wvdial, wvdial.conf and /dev/modem (or whichever device your system works); 3. Have it started automatically on boot (this used to work fine on 9.2, but is rather flaky on 10.0 - sometimes it works, mostly it doesn't). Obviously you don't want to try option 3 if you're on a pay-per-minute connection! It's probably not advisable for situations where security is a major issue, such as a server, but then how many people run servers via a modem? Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files aAAAAaahhh hijacked
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 14:31, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:00:05PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Content-Description: clearsigned data -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 April 2004 18:15, John Wilson wrote: On April 2, 2004 01:25 pm, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi... Is there a way I can play the Windows Media Audio files on Linux? I've done a lot of ripping of CD's recently on Windows Media Player. Now my Linux XMMS player does not recognise this file format. Thanks Install MPlayer and stop hijacking threads :-) and if you didn't know you had hijacked, read http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette for an explanation of what it is and why it matters. You're not alone, though. There's been an awful lot of hijacking lately. I think we need to start fingerprinting everybody on the list. We can't let the terrorists win!! Todd I'm gona hijack this thread and take it to Cuba! ; Terry Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-28mdk-i686-up-4GB 14:55:56 up 21:40, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.06 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Can't get procmail to forward spam
Yes, I'm a procmail newbie trying to setup procmail to forward my spam to Earthlinks junkmail address. I've setup a $HOME .procmailrc file (below) SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # You'd better make sure it exists # DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from # LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail :0c *^X-Spam-Status: Yes |/usr/bin/reporter.pl :0a Spam/ The Spam folder is in maildir format in $HOME/Mail/Spam. I've setup a $HOME .forward file |IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #chris I've read the FAQ, printed and gone through the man pages, my question is how is procmail started. I'm running Kmail as my mailer with all mail filtered through SA. If procmail is started from the CLI, the process is shown as running, but I'm sure that this isn't the correct way to start it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. My spam folder is in maildir format, do I need to tell the procmailrc file that my mail dir is $HOME/Mail/Spam/cur before it will forward? Appreciate any help. Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 3:41pm up 4 days, 21:52, 5 users, load average: 0.98, 1.68, 1.99 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files
Apologies for Hi-jacking. I did not know. Now the question is how I set my computer to receive the e-mails in a threaded form. But I suppose nobody would be interested to explain how to do that in Outlook express, since I still don't have a working modem in linux. - Original Message - From: John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files On April 2, 2004 01:25 pm, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi... Is there a way I can play the Windows Media Audio files on Linux? I've done a lot of ripping of CD's recently on Windows Media Player. Now my Linux XMMS player does not recognise this file format. Thanks Install MPlayer and stop hijacking threads :-) ttfn John 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] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 03:42 am, many eyes viewed Paul's words:- Any? Some friends of mine in IT here in this county say there are no Linux refs/books for IT - in other words, how to use Linux in the workplace. Any thing I can point them at? Thanks! What country or planet is that? Possibly Linux has not arrived there yet, but please tell your friends it is on its way just as day after night. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 + What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ...Henry David Thoreau This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files
Weiers Coetser wrote: Apologies for Hi-jacking. I did not know. Now the question is how I set my computer to receive the e-mails in a threaded form. But I suppose nobody would be interested to explain how to do that in Outlook express, since I still don't have a working modem in linux. Delving into my memory, something like View, Sort By, Thread - depends of course on which version of OE you're using, but there should definitely be some options on the View menu. 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] foo, master foo
On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 5:01 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 09:57, Thujan wrote: Hi Everybody, I tried to search with google that what is often repeated foo? And I got even more confused when I red about master foo? http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ Can somebody explain what these terms means, foo, foo bar, master foo? Instead of foo bar, look up fubar, which was the original acronym. :-) If that doesn't yield results, then obviously it's SNAFU. :-) Incorrect. It's obviously TARFU. But then that's SNAFU. To be fair foo and bar have their own history that may not be related to FUBAR et al. Check out the jargon file. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/go01.html Also note that pilots in WWII reported UFOs as foo fighters. -- Richard Urwin 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 - SOLVED!
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 07:06 am, Margot wrote: After sorting out some other problems, I finally found time to look at this again. I'm now using the tmb.5 kernel, tried all the possible combinations of acpi and apic settings I could think of, and have found that with the option acpi=on and no mention of apic or lapic, the computer now switches off automatically, the way I wanted it to. Thanks for your help. Now I just have to get the sound working... ;-) Margot Unless 'acpi=on' is undocumented, it's not a valid 2.6.x kernel parameter. See kernel-parameters.txt (you'll need kernel source installed. Any 2.6 kernel-source will do). Valid parameters are acpi=off, acpi=ht which both turn off acpi, and acpi=force, which forces acpi on. Simply not having any acpi parameter should turn acpi on, as it's built into the kernel as on by default. You can leave that parameter in tho, it's just being ignored by the kernel. .. Run 'draksound' as root in a term. Follow all the steps under trouble shooting. I'd add to also run 'll /dev/dsp'. Ouput should look like this tom # ll /dev/dsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Apr 1 23:56 /dev/dsp - sound/dsp The last '-x' means user can execute sound, and '-' that dsp is linked to sound. 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' should return nothing. This means nothing is currently tyin up sound, which is what you want. Also, I didn't need aumix installed as draksound indicates. What enabled sound in 10.0 for me was to raise all the sliders in kmix to 100% . including the ones under the 'line-in' icons on the right side. At least one of 'em is the line-in from your speaker system. Checked the obvious first - volume was set to 0 in Aumix, turned it up - sound now working! This 10 is very impressive - just about everything so far has been easier to fix than in 9.0 or 9.2, and the only real problem has been caused by malfunctioning unit between chair and keyboard ;-) 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 - SOLVED!
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 11:10 pm, many eyes viewed Margot's words:- Charlie wrote: This is probably no help, but just in case? For no reason this machine would not shut off, in fact I had to use shutdown -h now as root. I could get it to work by changing the sessions, saving, then changing them back. But only once after the first reboot, then it went back to this behaviour. In trying to get sound to work, I placed this line in my /etc/modules.conf which is called something different in 10.x options snd-via82xx index=0 dxs_support=2 ^^ Why this should effect the shutdown, I have no idea, but try some variations and it might just work? Charlie. Well, I managed to sort out the shutdown problem by using acpi=on, but my next project is to get the sound working so I've saved your suggestion in case it helps - or in case getting the sound working breaks my newly-fixed shutdown! Thanks Charlie! Margot Though I didn't mention it here Margot, that support line:- dxs_support=2 try several numbers at the end of that I started from 0 and got to 2 before it not only made my sound work, but shut down my computer without the root command, in Mandrake 9.2 Though previous versions of Mandrake had no trouble, either shutting down or with sound. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 + The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. ...Henry David Thoreau This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 23:49:19 +0200 Weiers Coetser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies for Hi-jacking. I did not know. Now the question is how I set my computer to receive the e-mails in a threaded form. But I suppose nobody would be interested to explain how to do that in Outlook express, since I still don't have a working modem in linux. And now a top posts! Oh the shame :-) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Check out #5. Regarding threaded messages in outlook a google 'I'm feeling lucky' with outlook threaded gave: http://www.groupsense.co.nz/howtothread.html -- Job Evers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Thread view in OE, was Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:49:19PM +0200, Weiers Coetser wrote: Apologies for Hi-jacking. I did not know. Now the question is how I set my computer to receive the e-mails in a threaded form. But I suppose nobody would be interested to explain how to do that in Outlook express, since I still don't have a working modem in linux. OK, the first thing to do is stop using OE and download Mozilla or Thunderbird and use either one of those. If you absolutely must use OE, it's probably under View something or other. Don't forget, too, that many software apps have Help files built in. Try looking at the Help in the menu of OE. Todd - Original Message - From: John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files On April 2, 2004 01:25 pm, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi... Is there a way I can play the Windows Media Audio files on Linux? I've done a lot of ripping of CD's recently on Windows Media Player. Now my Linux XMMS player does not recognise this file format. Thanks Install MPlayer and stop hijacking threads :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting to a network with a static IP.
I'll probably go and ask linksys about this too, but first I thought I'd turn here. I want to connect to my network with a static IP. I changed my ifcfg-wlan0 file, and made sure the ip addy wasn't within the dhcp range. Then, I ifdown'ed and ifup'ed wlan0, and got the IP. Unfortunately, I had no internet connection. So then I tried pinging the router, and it went fine. Then I tried getting to the http router settings. Went fine as well. Anyone know what the problem is? --Marc -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Nitrex VirusGate, and is believed to be clean. http://www.nitrex.net Alexandre Dubois wrote: Maybe your router is only source NATting the ip addresses within your dhcp range... So how would I fix this, any settings you know of? 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] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
On Saturday 03 April 2004 12:42 pm, Paul wrote: -Your friends are clearly people of great insight knowledge. :-) -The top publishers of linux-related book are O'Reilly their site is at -http://www.oreilly.com/ Thanks Paul, I had already sent them the URL... -- /\ Dark 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] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
On Saturday 03 April 2004 11:17 am, Alexandre Dubois wrote: -Not sure what you are after, what is your current knowledge in IT in general -and Linux in particular. Oreilly (http://www.oreilly.com/) are known to be the -leader editor for opensource projects. O'Reilly is great, own several of the books myself - and I referred these friends to their web site. They responded that was great, but we don't see them here in our community/colleges... -- /\ Dark 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] back to the good old Windows
On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 5:02 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:35 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 6:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 05:13 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 02:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: whack 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 Not so fast. I still have my Science of Cambridge MK14. It's got 256 bytes of (static) memory. Richard: According to Google, the KIM-1 came out in 1976, two years prior to the MK14, so the UPA is still Aron's pending an appeal based on date of acquisition. -- cmg I found a date of 1977, which accords with my memory better than 1978, but I couldn't claim 1976 with any honesty. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] Apollon crash
Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 12:37, Dave Ashmore wrote: I've been trying different p2p programs and I like the easy clean interface of Apollon the best. However it seems upon the completion of every download it crashes. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I tried qtella as well but I can't seem to make any connections. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks Dave Ashmore Are you running 9.2 ? Here it is working marvellously well, connected to two networks. Try running it from a terminal and see if there are any revelatory messages there after it crashes. I'm running MDK 10 CE with the 2.4 kernel. (since I cannot get my usb mouse to work with 2.6...:( ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] New Mirror Structure coming soon
A couple of days ago, Warly, The Mandrake release captain, posted to the Cooker Mailing List that the structure of the mirrors will be chaning soon to accomodate the finalization of the Mandrake 10.0 release and the continued development that will be going on in the stable community branch. Here is his original post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cookerm=108084290223337w=2 The reason I am posting this is that as the mirrors start to synch up over the next few days, you may find your urpmi/rpmdrake spitting out errors when you try to istall something or update. This will simply be because the paths on the mirrors will have changed, and consequently, your urpmi sources will have to be changed to accomodate this. For instance, updates for 9.2, which is now in ../mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS will become ../Mandrakelinux/official/updates/9.2/RPMS This is going to be a welcome change as the old mirror structure stinks and this will help the Mandrake mirror system more reliable and easier to use. For those of you that are going to complain about this, please consider the long term benefit despite your short term pain. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] Apollon crash
Dave Ashmore wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 12:37, Dave Ashmore wrote: I've been trying different p2p programs and I like the easy clean interface of Apollon the best. However it seems upon the completion of every download it crashes. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I tried qtella as well but I can't seem to make any connections. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks Dave Ashmore Are you running 9.2 ? Here it is working marvellously well, connected to two networks. Try running it from a terminal and see if there are any revelatory messages there after it crashes. I'm running MDK 10 CE with the 2.4 kernel. (since I cannot get my usb mouse to work with 2.6...:( ) OK from the terminal here is what I got: apollon QMetaObject::findSignal:KFileTreeView: Conflict with QListView::doubleClicked(QListViewItem*,const QPoint,int) QObject::connect: No such slot ApollonTransferTab::slotCheckWM(bool) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'apollon-mainwindow#1') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'ApollonTransferTab') qt KBackgroundIface KBookmarkManager-/home/djash/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml KBookmarkNotifier KDebug KDesktopIface (default) KDirNotify-1 KIO::Observer KIO::Scheduler KScreensaverIface KonqUndoManager kdesktop ksycoca KCrash: Application 'apollon' crashing... 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
Thanks for the added help, Philip, but even after changing the line in the .ini file I still get the 'Can't find file for package WinDrv' business. There are only two references to WinDrv in the file; the one you mentioned, and then an entire section devoted to it: [WinDrv.WindowsClient] WindowedViewportX=640 WindowedViewportY=480 WindowedColorBits=16 FullscreenViewportX=640 FullscreenViewportY=480 FullscreenColorBits=16 Brightness=0.50 MipFactor=1.00 UseDirectDraw=True UseJoystick=False CaptureMouse=True StartupFullscreen=True CurvedSurfaces=False LowDetailTextures=False ScreenFlashes=True NoLighting=False SlowVideoBuffering=True I don't see any references to SDLDrv, but there _is_ a section devoted to XDrv. Perhaps I'll try that instead. Hey, if nothing else, I'm getting pretty good at using the nano text editor. ;) Thanks again, Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Philip Cronje wrote: 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Savage, AGP Memory
Hi folks, I hope here are some gamers who can help me. I recently installed Savage Battle of Newerth, but it won't start. I get the error message: Couldn't allocate AGPMemory. Make sure you have agpgart or some similar AGP driver support in your kernel. I run Mandrake 10CE with kernel 2.6.3-4mdk. So I think I have everything right configured in my XF86Config-4, because glxgears gives me 1534 fp/s and glxinfo|grep rendering says direct rendering. However if I attached my XF86Config-4 at the end of my mail. morprobe agpart works fine and lsmod|grep agp says: intel-agp 17372 1 agpgart31016 2 intel-agp My system is a hp pavilion zt3000 with a 64mb radeon 9200 mobility card. I don't use the ati driver only the XFree driver for my card (as you can see in my XF86Config-4). Any ideas? I found a hint in a fedora mailinglist which doesn't work for me. But maybe it says something to you. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-October/msg02781.html Thanks, fengler # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype ### Load glx # 3D layer Load dri # direct rendering Load synaptics # touchpad driver Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout en_US Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Touchpad Driver synaptics Option Protocol auto-dev Option MaxSpeed 0.18 Option MinSpeed 0.02 Option BottomEdge 4700 Option UpDownScrolling on Option SHMConfig on Option LeftEdge 1300 Option FingerLow 20 Option MaxTapTime 180 Option MaxTapMove 220 Option FingerHigh 30 Option VertScrollDelta 100 Option TopEdge 1300 Option RightEdge 5700 Option AccelFactor 0.001 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Logitech MX310 Driver mouse Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 6 7 Option Buttons 7 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Generic ModelName Flat Panel 1024x768 HorizSync 31.5-48.5 VertRefresh 40-70 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon (fglrx) Driver radeon Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Logitech MX310 AlwaysCore InputDevice Touchpad CorePointer Screen screen1 EndSection 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 Saturday 03 April 2004 05:38 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 5:02 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:35 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 6:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 05:13 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 02:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: whack 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 Not so fast. I still have my Science of Cambridge MK14. It's got 256 bytes of (static) memory. Richard: According to Google, the KIM-1 came out in 1976, two years prior to the MK14, so the UPA is still Aron's pending an appeal based on date of acquisition. -- cmg I found a date of 1977, which accords with my memory better than 1978, but I couldn't claim 1976 with any honesty. As noted earlier, my dates were based on quick googles for KIM-1 and MK14. Since it is commonly known that not everything on the web is absolutely dead accurate, I'd say that we call it even. Aron will be the North American Ultimate Packrat and Richard will be the European Ultimate Packrat. (Drum roll and fanfare.) I was somewhat astounded to get 73,500 hits on KIM-1, and 13,500 on MK14, since their heyday was long before the web came on the scene. My first computer was an Exidy Sorcerer (circa 1978) -- Z80, 16 Kb RAM, cassette I/O, Microsoft Basic, word processor, development package. A year or two later, I added another 16 Kb at a cost of $140. It got tossed about 10 years ago when my wife began to enforce her rule that all of my really neat stuff had to be kept in this one (very crowded) room. Those of you who have suffered similar losses can get a glimpse of your first loves here: http://www.tonh.net/museum/homecomputers.html -- 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] back to the good old Windows
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 20:40:23 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first computer was an Exidy Sorcerer (circa 1978) -- Z80, 16 Kb RAM, cassette I/O, Microsoft Basic, word processor, development package. A year or two later, I added another 16 Kb at a cost of $140. It got tossed about 10 years ago when my wife began to enforce her rule that all of my really neat stuff had to be kept in this one (very crowded) room. Those of you who have suffered similar losses can get a glimpse of your first loves here: http://www.tonh.net/museum/homecomputers.html -- cmg http://www.tonh.net/museum/pdp8.html Aah, a PDP 8. That was my first hands on computer (1969) as opposed to handing in jobs to the IBM Big Iron. Actually the photo is of a PDP 8i, whereas ours was an 8e which should be a bit older. You set that row of rocker switches in octal in order to boot it. The basic model had 4 k memory but ours was jazzed up with an extra 4k. Iron core memory and programs stored on punched paper tapes. Cheers John Montgomery 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 10:52:07 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Why stop there? With DOS 6.22, combined with 256 megabytes of EMS memory, you can build some really killer sized spreadsheets with Lotus 123. Imagine a 256+ megabyte RAM disk running 3.1 all in RAM sometime :). Actually, now I have 768 - just popped in another stick of 512 this afternoon. LX -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:08:17 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could do that. I've still got an old cp/m machine here, but I tossed the terminal (ADM3A) out a while back. I guess I could teach this box to handle that job... This would be a definite twist. A modern system with big gobs of memory used as a dumb terminal to connect to a CP/M machine. :) Doesn't Bochs have CP/M support? (Bochs is an emulator). -- cmg -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCO Licensee: 'Would I do it again? No,'
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:47:10 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a perfect world, it wouldn't be water that was rising. Punch line from a very old joke: It's not too bad until the Devil comes around in his Heck, if I were that company, I'd have stopped payment on the check. -- cmg -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New Mirror Structure coming soon
On Saturday 03 April 2004 06:05 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: A couple of days ago, Warly, The Mandrake release captain, posted to the Cooker Mailing List that the structure of the mirrors will be chaning soon to accomodate the finalization of the Mandrake 10.0 release and the continued development that will be going on in the stable community branch. Here is his original post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cookerm=108084290223337w=2 The reason I am posting this is that as the mirrors start to synch up over the next few days, you may find your urpmi/rpmdrake spitting out errors when you try to istall something or update. This will simply be because the paths on the mirrors will have changed, and consequently, your urpmi sources will have to be changed to accomodate this. For instance, updates for 9.2, which is now in ../mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS will become ../Mandrakelinux/official/updates/9.2/RPMS This is going to be a welcome change as the old mirror structure stinks and this will help the Mandrake mirror system more reliable and easier to use. For those of you that are going to complain about this, please consider the long term benefit despite your short term pain. Thanks, for the heads up. I am beginning to think that 10.0 is the best of the best and will want to burn some disks to hand out to friends. Don't want anything out of date to go into newbier than me hands. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 14:11:35 -0600 John Drouhard disseminated the following: So your dsl connection comes in, goes through your dsl modem to a hub, which connects the two computers? Are you sure it's a hub, or is it a router? If it is a hub, you may need to get a router that can handle port-forwarding (most can). If you already have the router, connect to it by opening a webbrowser and connecting to it's IP address. (Mine is 192.168.1.1. yours could be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1). Anyway find port forwarding and make it forward port 80 to the local IP address of the computer that will host the site. This all assumes he has a nameserver somewhere pointing to his IP, though, doesn't it? Aron would have to set up BIND somewhere on his LAN or have someone (the seller of the domain name?) point the domain name to his IP on their nameservers. No? -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this. -- Che Guevara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:43 pm, Charlie wrote: -What country or planet is that? Possibly Linux has not arrived there yet, but -please tell your friends it is on its way just as day after night. - -Charlie I know, I know, I've been trying to bring them into this century but...you know :-( -- /\ Dark 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] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
On Saturday 03 April 2004 12:40 pm, Philip Cronje wrote: I don't know whether you've gotten it to work yet, but I installed UT today to play it again, so I thought I'd pip my config file over to you. By the way, it lives in the ~/.loki/ut/System directory. //philip pip? CP/M lives. -- 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] mandrake 10 community ISO problem
Alternatively, make a boot floppy and start form that as I had to for my system. Please keep this thread going as to your installation problems so that I, and possibly others, get to understand the problems this distro may have 'cause I seem to be having heaps of things go awry that didn't happen with 9.1. Otherwise enjoy. -- Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 John Wilson wrote: 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
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:10 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 14:11:35 -0600 John Drouhard disseminated the following: So your dsl connection comes in, goes through your dsl modem to a hub, which connects the two computers? Are you sure it's a hub, or is it a router? If it is a hub, you may need to get a router that can handle port-forwarding (most can). If you already have the router, connect to it by opening a webbrowser and connecting to it's IP address. (Mine is 192.168.1.1. yours could be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1). Anyway find port forwarding and make it forward port 80 to the local IP address of the computer that will host the site. This all assumes he has a nameserver somewhere pointing to his IP, though, doesn't it? Aron would have to set up BIND somewhere on his LAN or have someone (the seller of the domain name?) point the domain name to his IP on their nameservers. No? I have a place holder $0 hosting account and aronsmith.com is registered to me so now I just want to do 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] New Mirror Structure coming soon
On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 06:05 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: A couple of days ago, Warly, The Mandrake release captain, posted to the Cooker Mailing List that the structure of the mirrors will be chaning soon to accomodate the finalization of the Mandrake 10.0 release and the continued development that will be going on in the stable community branch. Here is his original post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cookerm=108084290223337w=2 The reason I am posting this is that as the mirrors start to synch up over the next few days, you may find your urpmi/rpmdrake spitting out errors when you try to istall something or update. This will simply be because the paths on the mirrors will have changed, and consequently, your urpmi sources will have to be changed to accomodate this. For instance, updates for 9.2, which is now in ../mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS will become ../Mandrakelinux/official/updates/9.2/RPMS This is going to be a welcome change as the old mirror structure stinks and this will help the Mandrake mirror system more reliable and easier to use. For those of you that are going to complain about this, please consider the long term benefit despite your short term pain. Thanks, for the heads up. I am beginning to think that 10.0 is the best of the best and will want to burn some disks to hand out to friends. Don't want anything out of date to go into newbier than me hands. Does tis mean that we will have to alter urpmi ? 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
Hello Carroll, Saturday, April 3, 2004, 5:40:23 PM, you wrote: Richard: According to Google, the KIM-1 came out in 1976, two years prior to the MK14, so the UPA is still Aron's pending an appeal based on date of acquisition. -- cmg I found a date of 1977, which accords with my memory better than 1978, but I couldn't claim 1976 with any honesty. CG As noted earlier, my dates were based on quick googles for KIM-1 and MK14. CG Since it is commonly known that not everything on the web is absolutely dead CG accurate, I'd say that we call it even. Aron will be the North American CG Ultimate Packrat and Richard will be the European Ultimate Packrat. (Drum CG roll and fanfare.) I think CP/M might predate these by a few years. The first versions were diskless, and were taken from PL/M which ran on an IBM mainframe, I believe. I think the very first code in this development ran on a 4004 or 8008, predating even the 8080. About 1971-73 I think. Might check a bit more before the fanfare. :-) -- rikonamailto:[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] Building a binary from a src RPM
How do you build a binary from a src RPM? TIA --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] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
Philip Cronje wrote: I don't know whether you've gotten it to work yet, but I installed UT today to play it again, so I thought I'd pip my config file over to you. By the way, it lives in the ~/.loki/ut/System directory. //philip It works! Kind of, anyway-- it runs, and the speed and sound are good, but the display is awful. I seem to have only a few colors, mostly deep reds and blues; it's bad enough as to be unplayable. And I don't have the first notion of where to look to (perhaps) fix it. I'm terribly ignorant when it comes to graphics configuration. I really aprreciate all of your help, Philip-- and I's understand if you didn't feel like responding to this. It's been a ridiculously long thread. ;) Thanks again, Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Building a binary from a src RPM
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 00:35:31 -0500, Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you build a binary from a src RPM? TIA --Marc rpm --rebuild name.src.rpm //philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
