Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:19, Marc Resnick wrote: > Phil Savoie wrote: > > >On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: > > > > > >>Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't > >>remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a > >>but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. > >> > >> > >>>Todd > >>> > >>> > > > >Hi Todd, > > > >Try > > > >cat /etc/redhat-release > > > >regards, > > > >Phil > > > > > > > Errr...Phil... Generally you'd find the redhat-release in a Red Hat system ;- You will, however, find a soft-link to the /etc/mandrake-release as listed as "redhat-release" - just a bit of leftovers from Mandrake being an offshoot of Redhat, mate. Open a term and cd into your /etc/ dir and you'll find it there. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Simple home network
On Sunday 11 April 2004 12:17 am, John Wilson wrote: ->4. I've yet to run DLink equipment that doesn't work out of the box. For the record: Dlink DWL 650 pcmcia wireless card does not work, except for the very earliest release. Each new release brought different a chipset and they do not work. Other than that, all my Dlink stuff (routers) work great with Mandrake Linux. -- /\ 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] How do I know what version I'm using?
Phil Savoie wrote: On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Hi Todd, Try cat /etc/redhat-release regards, Phil Errr...Phil... Generally you'd find the redhat-release in a Red Hat system ;- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 17:26, Laura Callier wrote: > Hi, > > OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know > what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand > completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll > find out what that file is and how to check the content and get back to you. > > About USB, I am not using USB mouse or keyboard. > > I had the same shut down problem when I tried out Xandros last month...not > only wouldn't it shut down, but it wouldn't let me use the power button to > turn it off. > > Thanks, > Laura Just open any editor you have and type in the file location of: /etc/lilo.conf You'll be right. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- You can't push on a string. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems
Hi, Well, as problems go it's not a big problem...but this is the first linux distro I'm going to try to use..after trying out some others...I suppose I should have tried 9.2 first, but, oh well...this is free (for awhile) :) I guess I'll learn as I go. Laura - Original Message - From: "robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 3:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems > Marc Resnick wrote: > > Laura Callier wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > >> is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > >> things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by > >> using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does > >> anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a > >> glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience > >> other have had. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Laura > > > > > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "things shut down except for an > > arrow", but I'm having a similar problem. It doesn't bother me that > > much, because I rarely shut down, but when I click to shutdown in KDE, I > > usually have to do it 3 to 4 times before it works. I assume that it's a > > bug that should be fixed with the Official 10.0 release. > > > > I occasionally have the same problem on boot-up. I don't know why it > only happens occasionally - used to be Linux developers wrote bugs you > could rely on ;-) > > Sir Robin > > > -- > "If the lion could speak, we would not understand it." > - Wittgenstein > > Robin Turner > IDMYO > Bilkent Universitesi > 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 > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 10:16, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 05:41 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 16:16, JoeHill wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:35:31 -0500 > > > > > > Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > > > I use it as my desktop background, slide show, > > > > > > ...and we all can guess what that slideshow is, you DOM! > > > > DOM: > > Unknown word > > > > What is that ? Forbidden language ? :-) > > > Josenildo: > DOM == Dirty Old Man. Synonyms include reprobate, lecher, pervert. In Brazil, > they can be found strolling along the incredible beautiful beaches staring at > the even more incredible female occupants. Or so I've heard. > -- cmg SO YOU'VE HEARD...yeah, Carroll, starting to wonder if you're a pr0n-ster... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into super-edit-debug-compile mode? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems
I'll try shutting it down several times. And, you're right, they'll most probably fix it with the official release...maybe I'll wait until then to do any tinkering. By the arrow I meant that when I clicked on shut off, the screen became black, but there was stillthe outline of my mouse's cursor, which I could move around on the black screen. Then, I pressed the power button and shut it down from there. Laura - Original Message - From: "Marc Resnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems > Laura Callier wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > > is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > > things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by > > using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does > > anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a > > glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience > > other have had. > > > > Thanks, > > Laura > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "things shut down except for an > arrow", but I'm having a similar problem. It doesn't bother me that > much, because I rarely shut down, but when I click to shutdown in KDE, I > usually have to do it 3 to 4 times before it works. I assume that it's a > bug that should be fixed with the Official 10.0 release. > > --Marc > > > > 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] How do I know what version I'm using?
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 06:33, Todd Slater wrote: > Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't > remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a > but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. > > Todd Y'are joking, right mate? cat /etc/mandrake-release stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- "Just the facts, Ma'am" -- Joe Friday Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 06:23, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 03:23, JoeHill wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:55:32 +0100 > > > > > > LtCdData disseminated the following: > > > > am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake > > > > install ?? > > > > > > Nope, I love it too! > > > > I'm surprised that y'all ain't using ImageMagick's "display" for quick > > viewing of images...sad sad sad...speed is everything here, mates... > > > > stephen kuhn - owner > > My choice also. And, it is also a simple-to-use image manipulation program. > > e FAST AS: and it ain't quite so GIMPy or KDE-ish or Guh-Nome-ish. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN: #6 Bathrooms: A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn. The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items. Groceries: A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes to the store and buys these things. A man waits 'til the only items left in his fridge are half a lime and a Blue Ribbon. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter that the Clampett's car on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from entering the 10-items-or-less lane. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? No, I use it also. It a pretty good viewer. Fairly intuitive UI with some nice configurable options. Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mldonkey
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:21:40 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > ...any possibility someone's got the RPM for the older version lying around? > > Meantime, thanks for the tip, I'll check out xMule. I think the protocol has changed enough since the last "good" version of mldonkey that its performance would suck, but YMMV. Also, servers seem to know what version you're running, and some will not let you in if you're running old clients. I think xMule is is the better way to go, but if you try an older mldonkey, make sure you pay attention to the log so you can see how servers are reacting to your client. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 15:45, martin brandt wrote: > Quoting martin brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Quoting John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > martin brandt wrote: > > > > > > >Quoting et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 > > > >>>and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits > > > >>> > > > >>reinstalling > > > >> > > > >>>it in the usual manner > > > >>> > > > >>>What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and > > choose > > > >>>consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the > > > partition > > > >>>(cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and > > > >>>then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect > > entry > > > > > > >>>in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a > > > >>>seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first > > you > > > >>>have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor > > instruction, > > > >>>as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle > > > the > > > >>>newbie. > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, > > > >>> > > > >>>mkdir /mnt/temp > > > >>>ls /mnt > > > >>>temp > > > >>>mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp > > > >>> > > > >>>punch up vi something like this, > > > >>> > > > >>>vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf > > > >>> > > > >>>and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi > > > >>> > > > >>>John > > > >>> > > > >>-- > > > >>linux counter #167806 > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > >Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in > > > /etc/ > > > >and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it > > called > > > > > > >something else? > > > >Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > Hmmm, > > > Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not > > mounted > > > > > > You don't find /mnt/temp, > > > you create it in the rescue consule, like this, > > > > > > mkdir /mnt/temp > > > > > > then check to see that you did, > > > > > > ls /mnt/temp > > > > > > returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) > > > > > > then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, > > > > > > mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp > > > > > > where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed > > > the OS. > > > > > > then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf > > > and look at it, like this, > > > > > > cd (means change directory) > > > > > > cd /mnt/temp/etc/ > > > > > > that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, > > > and from there you can display the > > > file on screen with, > > > > > > cat /lilo.conf > > > > > > then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition > > > and report, we can take it from there. > > > > > > John > > > -- > > > John Richard Smith > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i > > found: > > other=/dev/hda3 > label="old_windows" > table=/dev/hda > > Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of > seems > to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems > > when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how? > > (P.S. Is it me or is everyone else's mail getting returned occaisionally?) > Would fdisk /mbr from the prompt of a windows boot up disk work??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
I like GQview, but I've been playing a bit lately with GThumb, as well. Very nicely done and well-polished-- but I favor GQview because its 'Edit with the GIMP' option doesn't fire up another instance of the GIMP, as GThumb seems to insist on doing (though I'm sure, if I were more capable, I could figure out a way to get around that). What I _really_ want to try, though, and have been trying to for months, is PixiePlus. I can't get it to run on my system, either compiled form source or installed from dedicated Mandrake 9.2 RPMs, because it insists on my having ImageMagick 5.5.4, while Mdk 9.2 came with v5.5.7. It's a bit off-topic: but can anyone suggest how I might get this thing to run? It seems to be exactly what I've been looking for in an image manager (i.e., something close to ACDSee, the only Windows app I really miss). Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. 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. Paul wrote: On 04/10/2004 06:18 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? No, I use it as well, but then Kuickshow does the slide show, which is great for getting a good look at a collection of photos. It's to be hoped they get it sorted, because I'm going to miss it. GQview has a slideshow option also. And otherwise you can use qiv. Run qiv -itsfru for a slideshow of all images in and its subdirectories. Remove the 'r' in the options to prevent images from showing randomly, and the 's' to prevent qiv from following the directory tree downwards. :-) Paul 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] Image viewer
On Saturday 10 April 2004 05:41 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 16:16, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:35:31 -0500 > > > > Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > > I use it as my desktop background, slide show, > > > > ...and we all can guess what that slideshow is, you DOM! > > DOM: > Unknown word > > What is that ? Forbidden language ? :-) Josenildo: DOM == Dirty Old Man. Synonyms include reprobate, lecher, pervert. In Brazil, they can be found strolling along the incredible beautiful beaches staring at the even more incredible female occupants. Or so I've heard. -- 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] Image viewer
On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:35, Alan Dunford wrote: > Like others on this list running Mandrake 10.0, I had a few problems with > Kuickshow - there is a bug in Qt and I could not get Qt3.3 going. > > However I have come across a very similar picturefile viewer called > Gwenview which seems to do most of the things that Kuickshow does and > although it appears to have been developed for 9.2, it does work well with > Mandrake 10.0. > > See http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/download#stable Hm. I'm not having any problem with Kuickshow under 10.1 (or previously in 10.0 or 9.2.), and I've used Kuickshow for the slideshow function twice today (looking for a T-Shirt design I'm working on). -- 18:10:22 up 12 min, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-7mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Toddlers are the stormtroopers of the Lord of Entropy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems
Marc Resnick wrote: Laura Callier wrote: Hello, New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience other have had. Thanks, Laura I'm not quite sure what you mean by "things shut down except for an arrow", but I'm having a similar problem. It doesn't bother me that much, because I rarely shut down, but when I click to shutdown in KDE, I usually have to do it 3 to 4 times before it works. I assume that it's a bug that should be fixed with the Official 10.0 release. I occasionally have the same problem on boot-up. I don't know why it only happens occasionally - used to be Linux developers wrote bugs you could rely on ;-) Sir Robin -- "If the lion could speak, we would not understand it." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi 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] vmware
I ended up doing the same to get my XP installed in VMware, using the ISO route, then discovered that I needed to set my CDrom in VMware to "Legacy Emulation", it worked like a charm. ED Klemens Arro wrote: I am installing win98. I made a ISO from win98 CD and told VMware to use this instead of CD-ROM, it worked...but my problem is still that I cant access my Cd's from VMware 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 know what version I'm using?
robin wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Does anything come up on the splash screen at boot? You could also check by looking at the version of just about any package you installed (the kernel being an obvious choice). Sir Robin $ cat /etc/mandrake-release Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux
Rory wrote: What version of LAME are you running? It should be > 3.9X. What app are you using to encode? Rory On Saturday 10 April 2004 5:50 pm, John Wilson wrote: On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 kbps(getting ready for when my iPod comes). When I play it on my MDK 10.0 system, it sounds fuzzy and like it was encoded at 16 kbps. When I booted in Windows and played it, it was fine...almost CD Quality? Can anyone lend me some tips on sound devices or this kind of problem? --Marc A little more information on your machine and setup would be helpful, Marc. :-) Also version number and kernel and that sort of thing. I'm running Mandrake 10.0 CE on a Compaq Presario 2190US, 256 MB RAM. I use KDE 3.2, and Kernel 2.6.3-4. Here's my sound info: Vendor: ?Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] Alternative drivers: ?trident Bus: ?PCI Bus identification: ?10b9:5451:103c:2a Location on the bus: ?0:6:0 Description: ?M5451 PCI South Bridge Audio Module: ?snd-ali5451 Media class: ?MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO I use Lame version 3.95MMX. The program I use to rip is Grip, as suggested to me by this list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:34:02 +0930 Stephen Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a > similar application in the Linux world? > > SR I prefer Screem. works very good. -- Sat Apr 10 19:08:30 CDT 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 "MOKE DAT YIGARETTE" -- "The Last Coin", James P. Blaylock Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems
Laura Callier wrote: Hello, New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience other have had. Thanks, Laura I'm not quite sure what you mean by "things shut down except for an arrow", but I'm having a similar problem. It doesn't bother me that much, because I rarely shut down, but when I click to shutdown in KDE, I usually have to do it 3 to 4 times before it works. I assume that it's a bug that should be fixed with the Official 10.0 release. --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] Crappy Sound, only on Linux
What version of LAME are you running? It should be > 3.9X. What app are you using to encode? Rory On Saturday 10 April 2004 5:50 pm, John Wilson wrote: > On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 > > kbps(getting ready for when my iPod comes). When I play it on my MDK 10.0 > > system, it sounds fuzzy and like it was encoded at 16 kbps. When I booted > > in Windows and played it, it was fine...almost CD Quality? > > > > Can anyone lend me some tips on sound devices or this kind of problem? > > > > --Marc > > A little more information on your machine and setup would be helpful, > Marc. :-) > > Also version number and kernel and that sort of thing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: 10.0...shut down problems
Laura Callier wrote: > Hi, > > OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know > what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand > completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll > find out what that file is and how to check the content and get back to > you. Stephen wanted you to post the output of the command: cat /etc/lilo.conf lilo.conf is a name of a file, and it resides in a directory called /etc cat will print the file on the screen. You will first have to start a console shell, and then issue the above command, and then cut and paste the output in your mail /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux
On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 kbps(getting > ready for when my iPod comes). When I play it on my MDK 10.0 system, it > sounds fuzzy and like it was encoded at 16 kbps. When I booted in Windows > and played it, it was fine...almost CD Quality? > > Can anyone lend me some tips on sound devices or this kind of problem? > > --Marc A little more information on your machine and setup would be helpful, Marc. :-) Also version number and kernel and that sort of thing. 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] Image viewer
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 16:16, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:35:31 -0500 > Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > > I use it as my desktop background, slide show, > > ...and we all can guess what that slideshow is, you DOM! DOM: Unknown word What is that ? Forbidden language ? :-) -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * "Nada é para sempre, dizemos, mas há momentos que parecem ficar suspensos, pairando sobre o fluir inexorável do tempo." José Saramago Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 03:23, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:55:32 +0100 > >sad sad sad...speed is everything here, mates... We know thats what your girlfriend said ;-) > > stephen kuhn - owner > == > illawarra computer services > a kuhn media australia company > http://kma.0catch.com > -- > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents > -- > Vulcans do not approve of violence. -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", > stardate 3842.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [ARTICLE]: Scary Stuff: The Once and Future King
On Saturday 10 April 2004 10:09 am, John Wilson wrote: > On April 10, 2004 06:00 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040408.html > > I happen to agree with him most of the way down the line, including his > timeline. Where I disagree, and it's only a minor quibble in the larger > scheme of things, is that open source will be there when Microsoft misses > the boat and it will be a lot more nimble and capable of adapting. > > Within that decade, too, open source, particularly Linux, will not just be > for "compilers" anymore. Indeed, it's very close to that now with good old > MDK leading the way. Like I said it only takes a two digit IQ to use Mandrake Whereas using Win$ux lowers your IQ to the single digit range ;-) > > 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] 10.0...shut down problems
Hi Dennis, Thanks for offering your info. Well, this is a fairly new computer...Dell desktop 8300 purchased last fall. Intel P4 2.8 processor. 1 g RAM. 120 g hd, radeon pro 9800. I tried 10.0 on a much older gateway Intel 2 333mhz, 64 RAM...the same thing happened. I tried them with the same monitor...maybe it's the monitor? It's viewsonic g90f...I checked a compatibility chart on the mandrake site but it hadn't been tested. Laura - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems > On Sunday 11 April 2004 02:26 am, Laura Callier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know > > what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand > > completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll > > find out what that file is and how to check the content and get back to > > you. > > > > About USB, I am not using USB mouse or keyboard. > > > > I had the same shut down problem when I tried out Xandros last month...not > > only wouldn't it shut down, but it wouldn't let me use the power button to > > turn it off. > > > > Thanks, > > Laura > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:40 PM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems > > > > > On Saturday 10 April 2004 03:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:48, Laura Callier wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > > > > > is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > > > > > things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by > > > > > using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does > > > > > anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a > > > > > glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience > > > > > other have had. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Laura > > > > > > > > It's going to have to do with your APM and ACPI functions; what's the > > > > content of you /etc/lilo.conf file? > > > > > > maybe not,,, depending on version,,, 10.0 had a kernel related problem > > > > with > > > > > USB as I recall > > > > > > > stephen kuhn - owner > > > > == > > > > illawarra computer services > > > > a kuhn media australia company > > > > http://kma.0catch.com > > > > -- > > > > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > > > > We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents > > > > -- > > > > It is important to note that probably no large operating system using > > > > current design technology can withstand a determined and > > > > well-coordinated attack, and that most such documented penetrations > > > > have been remarkably easy. -- B. Hebbard, "A Penetration Analysis of > > > > the Michigan Terminal System", Operating Systems Review, Vol. 14, No. > > > > 1, June 1980, pp. 7-20 > > > > > > -- > > > linux counter #167806 > > > > -- - > >- > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > How old is your computer? I had the same problem when I had a AMD K6 II on a > Soyo mobo with the old via 133 chip set (I think that was it). The problem > was with the mobo and not the Op Sys. Not much help unless you do have an > older Motherboard. > -- > 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] Dreamweaver for Linux?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 18:36, JoeHill wrote: > > ...anyone got some skinny on this? Kevin Lynch said during his keynote speech at the Flashforward 2004 conference that the recent addition of Flash support to CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers, undertaken with assistance from Macromedia, was being watched with interest by company insiders, and that future versions of the application would ship with Wine-specific optimisations. If this pilot is successful, Lynch said, the next step would be to produce a native version which could then lead to broad support for the rest of the company's popular application range. "What we've been investigating is, when it will be time to bring our tools to Linux," he enthused. "I think it might be now." Linux Format 53, May 2004 Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAeGO1kFAvMr/nNX8RAq6PAKCaU+s1E6aBMzlXJKdoG+PjveDS0wCfRyna Wf/MtsykAc6GPs40nNeoRTQ= =mDXM -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] 10.0...shut down problems
On Sunday 11 April 2004 02:26 am, Laura Callier wrote: > Hi, > > OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know > what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand > completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll > find out what that file is and how to check the content and get back to > you. > > About USB, I am not using USB mouse or keyboard. > > I had the same shut down problem when I tried out Xandros last month...not > only wouldn't it shut down, but it wouldn't let me use the power button to > turn it off. > > Thanks, > Laura > > > - Original Message - > From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:40 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems > > > On Saturday 10 April 2004 03:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:48, Laura Callier wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > > > > is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > > > > things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by > > > > using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does > > > > anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a > > > > glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience > > > > other have had. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Laura > > > > > > It's going to have to do with your APM and ACPI functions; what's the > > > content of you /etc/lilo.conf file? > > > > maybe not,,, depending on version,,, 10.0 had a kernel related problem > > with > > > USB as I recall > > > > > stephen kuhn - owner > > > == > > > illawarra computer services > > > a kuhn media australia company > > > http://kma.0catch.com > > > -- > > > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > > > We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents > > > -- > > > It is important to note that probably no large operating system using > > > current design technology can withstand a determined and > > > well-coordinated attack, and that most such documented penetrations > > > have been remarkably easy. -- B. Hebbard, "A Penetration Analysis of > > > the Michigan Terminal System", Operating Systems Review, Vol. 14, No. > > > 1, June 1980, pp. 7-20 > > > > -- > > linux counter #167806 > > --- >- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > How old is your computer? I had the same problem when I had a AMD K6 II on a Soyo mobo with the old via 133 chip set (I think that was it). The problem was with the mobo and not the Op Sys. Not much help unless you do have an older Motherboard. -- 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] How do I know what version I'm using?
Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Does anything come up on the splash screen at boot? You could also check by looking at the version of just about any package you installed (the kernel being an obvious choice). Sir Robin -- "If the lion could speak, we would not understand it." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi 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] How do I know what version I'm using?
On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: > Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't > remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a > but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. >> Todd Hi Todd, Try cat /etc/redhat-release regards, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin F5D6020 WLAN PCMCIA
On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone had any success getting the Belkin F5D6020 v2 WLAN pcmcia card > to work with Mandrake 9x or 10? I got the card for $10 so I figured I'd > give it a try. > > I found the following page: > > http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_howto.php > > But the above link doesn't seem to have all the information I need. Like, > what directory do I need to put the pcmf502.o file? > > Anyone had any success with this card and wish to tell me what they did to > get it to work with Linux? > > Thanks. > > Troy Sorry for falling into this thread a bit late (I've been away;)): The first port of call should've been: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca and more specifically: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NetworkCards where you would've found a link to: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/triade/linux/Belkin.html and there's a howto for mdk9.2 which'll probably go for 10.0 too on the belkinV2 card. Good luck, HJarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:33:42 -0400, Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't > remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a > but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. cat /etc/mandrake-release //philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Python Dependency Hell
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:12:51PM +0100, J.I. Evers wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Todd Slater wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:15:17AM +, Job Evers wrote: > > > I tried to build a package from source (since I could not find an rpms for > > > pypanel) and it said I needed python-Xlib. Mandrake doesn't have a python-Xlib > > > package but I found one online. > > > > > > $ urpmi python-Xlib-0.12-2.noarch.rpm > > > Some package requested cannot be installed: > > > python-Xlib-0.12-2.noarch (due to unsatisfied python-modules[< 1:2.4]) > > > > > > How or where do I get python-modules? and what does [< 1:2.4] mean?! > > > > Just get the python module and install it from source--it's really easy. > > From the PyPanel page, visit and download the python-xlib package, > > unpack it, and do (as root): > > python setup.py install > > > > Done. Next, do the same thing in the PyPanel directory. > > > > Wow, I feel like a dumba$$. PyPanel is working, and running beautifully. > Thanks. > > I am now entering a new stage of nerdiness. Eliminating desktop icons and > the desktop environment. Configuring my computer with plain text files > instead of using a GUI. Running programs from the CLI (knowing what CLI > even stands for), and rarely using a mouse except for LBreakout. Ahh, you have reached a new plane. When I first started I asked for contributions to a screenshot gallery. A few responded there wouldn't be much to see w/o desktop icons etc. I thought I would *never* do that. A few months later I was playing with blackbox and fluxbox and I was hooked. Todd 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 know what version I'm using?
Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 April 2004 04:43, robin wrote: > > > but I bet the problem is more along the lines of aRts -vs- alsa > > -vs- OSS. have you set a timeout for aRts? > > Yes (68 seconds). Is this a good thing or a bad thing? > Robin, install kickarts, add an applet icon to the tray, and you'll soon know whether arts is the problem. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAeFskkFAvMr/nNX8RAoGrAKCAgyLr8YDE6r19RV+RPBbiU5/FawCfdCdX ibsRjk4hFXDCMxPshiiuRVE= =eA/5 -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] 10.0...shut down problems
Hi, OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll find out what that file is and how to check the content and get back to you. About USB, I am not using USB mouse or keyboard. I had the same shut down problem when I tried out Xandros last month...not only wouldn't it shut down, but it wouldn't let me use the power button to turn it off. Thanks, Laura - Original Message - From: "et" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems > On Saturday 10 April 2004 03:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:48, Laura Callier wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > > > is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > > > things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by > > > using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does > > > anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a > > > glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience > > > other have had. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Laura > > > > It's going to have to do with your APM and ACPI functions; what's the > > content of you /etc/lilo.conf file? > > > maybe not,,, depending on version,,, 10.0 had a kernel related problem with > USB as I recall > > > > stephen kuhn - owner > > == > > illawarra computer services > > a kuhn media australia company > > http://kma.0catch.com > > -- > > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > > We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents > > -- > > It is important to note that probably no large operating system using > > current design technology can withstand a determined and > > well-coordinated attack, and that most such documented penetrations have > > been remarkably easy. -- B. Hebbard, "A Penetration Analysis of the > > Michigan Terminal System", Operating Systems Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, > > June 1980, pp. 7-20 > > -- > linux counter #167806 > > > > 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] Image viewer
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 03:23, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:55:32 +0100 > > > > LtCdData disseminated the following: > > > am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake > > > install ?? > > > > Nope, I love it too! > > I'm surprised that y'all ain't using ImageMagick's "display" for quick > viewing of images...sad sad sad...speed is everything here, mates... > > stephen kuhn - owner My choice also. And, it is also a simple-to-use image manipulation program. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:04, Stephen Reynolds wrote: > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a > similar application in the Linux world? > > SR I don't know if this is what you are looking for but check this http://www.nvu.com (works for my designs, but I like to program with Quanta) -- Klemens Arro My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. Using: Mandrake Linux 10 Registered Linux User#: 346118 ICQ#: 179198850 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?
On Saturday 10 April 2004 20:36, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:34:02 +0930 > > Stephen Reynolds disseminated the following: > > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there > > a similar application in the Linux world? > > Maybe I was hallucinating, but I coulda sworn I heard Macromedia was > talking about porting Dreamweaver and/or Director to Linux. > > ...anyone got some skinny on this? I heard this to, but I can't remember where :( -- Klemens Arro My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. Using: Mandrake Linux 10 Registered Linux User#: 346118 ICQ#: 179198850 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 to verify that urpmi installed?
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:06:30 -0400, Rory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to establish if urpmi actually installed the updates that it > downloaded. > > I've checked the urpmi.log, which appears to have every other detail but no > confirmation of actual install. > > Can anyone point me to the right log/file/area? In /var/log/messages: Apr 4 20:48:50 mrhandy perl: [RPM] cvs-1.11.11-1mdk installed //philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
Quoting martin brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > martin brandt wrote: > > > > >Quoting et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> > > >> > > >>>OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 > > >>>and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits > > >>> > > >>reinstalling > > >> > > >>>it in the usual manner > > >>> > > >>>What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and > choose > > >>>consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the > > partition > > >>>(cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and > > >>>then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect > entry > > > > >>>in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a > > >>>seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first > you > > >>>have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor > instruction, > > >>>as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle > > the > > >>>newbie. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, > > >>> > > >>>mkdir /mnt/temp > > >>>ls /mnt > > >>>temp > > >>>mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp > > >>> > > >>>punch up vi something like this, > > >>> > > >>>vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf > > >>> > > >>>and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi > > >>> > > >>>John > > >>> > > >>-- > > >>linux counter #167806 > > >> > > >> > > > > > >Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in > > /etc/ > > >and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it > called > > > > >something else? > > >Thanks. > > > > > > > > Hmmm, > > Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not > mounted > > > > You don't find /mnt/temp, > > you create it in the rescue consule, like this, > > > > mkdir /mnt/temp > > > > then check to see that you did, > > > > ls /mnt/temp > > > > returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) > > > > then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, > > > > mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp > > > > where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed > > the OS. > > > > then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf > > and look at it, like this, > > > > cd (means change directory) > > > > cd /mnt/temp/etc/ > > > > that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, > > and from there you can display the > > file on screen with, > > > > cat /lilo.conf > > > > then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition > > and report, we can take it from there. > > > > John > > > > > > > > -- > > John Richard Smith > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i found: other=/dev/hda3 label="old_windows" table=/dev/hda Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of seems to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how? (P.S. Is it me or is everyone else's mail getting returned occaisionally?) -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0
et wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:52 pm, robin wrote: et wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite that fact that MDK appears to recognize it. On Saturday 10 April 2004 3:30 am, robin wrote: I sit just me, or is multimedia totally screwed up in 10.0? I can't even listen to an audio CD. I sorted out my soundcard after a lot of tweaking some time ago, but now I try to listen to a CD and Xine and KsCD give me no sound, and Totem hangs the system and needs a dirty reboot. Sir Robin which kernel do you boot to? I don't know if you were asking Rory or me. I'm using 2.6 - both it gave me a lot of grief at the beginning, then I hacked /etc/modprobe.conf and it worked fine for a while, except for Totem, which has never worked for me (and a fair few others) in 10.0. hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel Sorry, that was what I meant (force of habit). but I bet the problem is more along the lines of aRts -vs- alsa -vs- OSS. have you set a timeout for aRts? Yes (68 seconds). Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Sir Robin -- "If the lion could speak, we would not understand it." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi 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] 10.0...shut down problems
On Saturday 10 April 2004 03:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:48, Laura Callier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > > is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > > things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by > > using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does > > anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a > > glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience > > other have had. > > > > Thanks, > > Laura > > It's going to have to do with your APM and ACPI functions; what's the > content of you /etc/lilo.conf file? > maybe not,,, depending on version,,, 10.0 had a kernel related problem with USB as I recall > stephen kuhn - owner > == > illawarra computer services > a kuhn media australia company > http://kma.0catch.com > -- > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents > -- > It is important to note that probably no large operating system using > current design technology can withstand a determined and > well-coordinated attack, and that most such documented penetrations have > been remarkably easy. -- B. Hebbard, "A Penetration Analysis of the > Michigan Terminal System", Operating Systems Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, > June 1980, pp. 7-20 -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10CE Updates -- Broken?
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 01:56 am, John Wilson wrote: > On April 6, 2004 07:53 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 April 2004 09:50 pm, Alaa The Great wrote: > > > 10 Community was overall a great experience and I think its a good > > > idea, but there was a big problem in communicating what exactly it is > > > about and how it will be implemented. > > > > Thi IMO, is Mandrake single biggest problem. I have theorized in the > > past it simply relates to cultural differences but who knows. > > I agree with all of the above. We're getting notices on security patches > and we can't find the blessed things :) > > I've resorted to manual downloads after cruising ftp servers because the > syn lists are out of date so urpmi doesn't work at all even with the > updates there. > > Oh well. They should have left the development stable stuff intact for 10 > until all the updates were incorporated into final or transferred to where > they will reside. AND they should update the urpmi links on the server in > the club. > > I'm hoping this is just shaking out problems and not something that will > continue. Overall I'm very impressed with MDK 10. It's their best release > ever. > > :-) > > ttfn > > John ftp://ftp.sunet.se seems to have the 10.0 updates. Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 03:23, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:55:32 +0100 > LtCdData disseminated the following: > > > am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake > > install ?? > > Nope, I love it too! I'm surprised that y'all ain't using ImageMagick's "display" for quick viewing of images...sad sad sad...speed is everything here, mates... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Vulcans do not approve of violence. -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:48, Laura Callier wrote: > Hello, > > New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by > using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does > anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a > glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience > other have had. > > Thanks, > Laura It's going to have to do with your APM and ACPI functions; what's the content of you /etc/lilo.conf file? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- It is important to note that probably no large operating system using current design technology can withstand a determined and well-coordinated attack, and that most such documented penetrations have been remarkably easy. -- B. Hebbard, "A Penetration Analysis of the Michigan Terminal System", Operating Systems Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, June 1980, pp. 7-20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:35:31 -0500 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > I use it as my desktop background, slide show, ...and we all can guess what that slideshow is, you DOM! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The United States Drug Enforcement Agency estimates pot smuggling from the western province of British Columbia alone is worth more than $1 billion a year. This is *very* bad, because Bush and his pals are not seeing one dime of that. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
Interesting - I hadn't noticed that. Nor did I know qiv, thanks. Now where is that on the TWiki? Hmm - Desktop Applications? You have such subtle ways... *grin* Paul -- A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
On 04/10/2004 06:18 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? No, I use it as well, but then Kuickshow does the slide show, which is great for getting a good look at a collection of photos. It's to be hoped they get it sorted, because I'm going to miss it. GQview has a slideshow option also. And otherwise you can use qiv. Run qiv -itsfru for a slideshow of all images in and its subdirectories. Remove the 'r' in the options to prevent images from showing randomly, and the 's' to prevent qiv from following the directory tree downwards. :-) Paul -- A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Laptop Touch Pad
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the help. I assume that you are refering to these lines: > > * Problem Tap-click does not work on Synaptics touchpad. > o Solution Install Synaptics driver from contrib. Follow the > instructions in the INSTALL file for configuring the XF86Config-4 file. You > may also need to load module evdev in your /etc/modprobe.preload file. > yes > > I can't find the name of the package I need to install from contrib. I > found a synaptic but that deals with apt-get. > > Do you, or anyone else, know what package I need to urpmi? > synaptics-0.12.4-1mdk -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.
Quoting John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > martin brandt wrote: > > >Quoting et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> > >> > >>>OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 > >>>and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits > >>> > >>reinstalling > >> > >>>it in the usual manner > >>> > >>>What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose > >>>consule and when there you will have to learn how to mount the > partition > >>>(cannot remember, possibly rescue already does that, think it does) and > >>>then type vi (the name of the text editor) and repair the incorrect entry > > >>>in /etc/lilo.conf, I cannot advise you of the entry as I do not have a > >>>seperate /home partition to give an example of, but in anycase first you > >>>have to type vi into google and print of some vi text editor instruction, > >>>as although it is a very powerful text editor it certainly will baffle > the > >>>newbie. > >>> > >>> > >>>If you do need to mount /dev/hda(X) then you do it like this, > >>> > >>>mkdir /mnt/temp > >>>ls /mnt > >>>temp > >>>mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp > >>> > >>>punch up vi something like this, > >>> > >>>vi /mnt/temp/etc/lilo.conf > >>> > >>>and I think that will display lilo.conf in vi > >>> > >>>John > >>> > >>-- > >>linux counter #167806 > >> > >> > > > >Im trying to find the lil.conf but i cantg seem to find it. Ive looked in > /etc/ > >and in mnt/temp/etc (temp doesnt exist). Where might it be? Might it called > > >something else? > >Thanks. > > > > > Hmmm, > Then I think the partition on which the /etc/lilo.conf is on is not mounted > > You don't find /mnt/temp, > you create it in the rescue consule, like this, > > mkdir /mnt/temp > > then check to see that you did, > > ls /mnt/temp > > returns, temp (amoungst other , probably) > > then attatch the device/partition to that directory, like this, > > mount /dev/hda(X) /mnt/temp > > where (X) is the number of your OS's partition, ie where you installed > the OS. > > then if you like you can navigate in consule to the /etc/lilo.conf > and look at it, like this, > > cd (means change directory) > > cd /mnt/temp/etc/ > > that puts you inside /etc directory of the OS, > and from there you can display the > file on screen with, > > cat /lilo.conf > > then make a note of the stanzas to do with /home partition > and report, we can take it from there. > > John > > > > -- > John Richard Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Ah ha! Well my linux partition is hda5, mounted that, and in the lilo.conf i found: other=/dev/hda3 label="old_windows" table=/dev/hda Now I installed windows over my old windows partition, which an image of seems to still appear in the windows boot loader, and obviously is causing problems when booting on linux. I need to remove this but how? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.0...shut down problems
Hello, New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Does anyone know if 10.0 is designed for auto shut off or if this is a glitch? It could be a bios problem, but wanted to see what experience other have had. Thanks, Laura
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:55, LtCdData wrote: > am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the > mandrake install ?? > No, I use it as well, but then Kuickshow does the slide show, which is great for getting a good look at a collection of photos. It's to be hoped they get it sorted, because I'm going to miss it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAeB5LkFAvMr/nNX8RAmy/AJ95vzCuzUc81rIqdcR5rV3EW+rE8gCfcf+H 9E0bkbE5JKBPO4f/ephq/bA= =eTmb -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Laptop Touch Pad
Thanks for the help. I assume that you are refering to these lines: * Problem Tap-click does not work on Synaptics touchpad. o Solution Install Synaptics driver from contrib. Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file for configuring the XF86Config-4 file. You may also need to load module evdev in your /etc/modprobe.preload file. I can't find the name of the package I need to install from contrib. I found a synaptic but that deals with apt-get. Do you, or anyone else, know what package I need to urpmi? Thanks. Troy Quoting Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 10:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How can I configure MDK 10 to see a tap on the touch pad as a left > mouse > > click? I have looked in the MCC, but don't see anything. > you have to install the synaptic driver from contrib. See instructions > here > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10#Proposed_Errata > -- > /g > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads
>> I'm exploring the comment early on about > > Jetaudio being able to strip the drm protection. Problem is, it's a > > windows prog and I'm trying to stay out of that side of my computer. > > Can JetAudio run in wine? Ah, I had a momentary lapse in OSs. :) Yes, I should have pointed out the JetAudio is Windows-based. I have no idea if it runs in Wine. I have to stick with using XP for all my ripping, downloading (can't get the legal non-WMA DRM site I use to work in anything other than IE - Active X, I assume) and music manipulation, as I test products for a Digital Audio Player company and need to test in an Windows environment. So, that part of my computer experience won't be migrating over to Linux with me. :( ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have followed this thread and found that mplayer will play wma files. mplayer --novideo file.wma Now I don't know if it will play all .wma files but the free one on Walmart site plays nicely. I'm exploring the comment early on about Jetaudio being able to strip the drm protection. Problem is, it's a windows prog and I'm trying to stay out of that side of my computer. Regards, Bill W. Yeah, mplayer can play wma, but its unlikely to be able to play the DRM stuff.. As for Jetaudio, have you tried it under wine? you could get lucky. then again, you'd be breaking the law to do it, so if your gonna, you might as well just download them of kazza or something.. 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] urpmi strategies
Rory wrote: > > > Secondly, I'm still deciding if I'm going to stay with Stable or > > > Community when the mirrors are back up next week. In the short term, > > > is it prudent just to update everything from "stable/official" first? > > > > > > Or, will going straight to CE (I'm not going to do cooker) cover > > > everything under Official and bring me further along, rendering > > > updating from stable first as a pointless excercise? > Response: > seems pointless to me... a lot of changing sources but then again,,, I like > to run cooker,,,kinda gives me an excuse to have so much computing power. Part of what I'm asking is wrapped up in me just orienting myself to the concept of updating a product that has three streams over public server. It's new to me. What I'm basically trying to determine is this I'm running off the 10.0 CE ISOs right now with only security updates. So, to catch up, should I be picking the Stable branch this week (which will become the Official, I assume, when the Official ISO's are released) first to "catch up" and then switch to the Community branch? Or, does just going with the CE branch fully cover the Stable branch, as well? In either case, I'm assuming that once the 10.0 Official ISOs hit the servers, that I won't have to touch them as I'll either be caught up + patches (Stable branch) or slightly ahead (CE branch), right? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? On Saturday 10 Apr 2004 H:35, Alan Dunford wrote: > Like others on this list running Mandrake 10.0, I had a few problems with > Kuickshow - there is a bug in Qt and I could not get Qt3.3 going. > > However I have come across a very similar picturefile viewer called > Gwenview which seems to do most of the things that Kuickshow does and > although it appears to have been developed for 9.2, it does work well with > Mandrake 10.0. > > See http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/download#stable Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mldonkey
On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:45 am, Miark wrote: ->On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:16:41 -0400, JoeHill wrote: -> ->> That's the ticket. They've gone and changed the whole setup for this app. I have ->> to say, I liked the old version a lot better, all those Tux icons and ->> 'eye-candy' are fscking annoying. -> ->I agree--I liked the old more. Actually, since thy pulled that ->changeroo, I've switched to xMule. I'm quite happy with that. ->It's simpler, and the interface is more intuitive. -> ->Miark I used urpmi to auto update my Mldonkey setup and since then, I've been unable to get the new/flashy version to even work. I might try this xMule that you're talking about. -- /\ 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] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users
On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:40 am, Miark wrote: ->On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:05:07 +0700, Fajar wrote: -> ->> "Because you run Mandrake, you didn't invest the 20-30 minutes that most ->> Shorewall users do in learning about Shorewall during the installation ->> process." ->> ->> Boy, I hate this. -> ->Just point out that they're elitist-pig bastards who are impeding ->the progress and success of Linux. :-) -> ->Miark I think its that same 'ole story here guys. I'm on the Shorewall mailing list. I've only posted a few questions - when I was having trouble getting NFS to work across my LAN but Tom Eastep was pretty nice about pointing out the FAQs and stuff to me. I -have- seen some pretty harsh messages there though. Not unlike here, I might add. TBH, some seemed hard, yet others seem deserved. The usual post a message, screaming for help, the world hates me, yet no pertinent info is really given as to the problem. That kind of thingy. If you're gonna use Shorewall (Mandrake or Toms version) then I'd highly recommend that you visit their website and check out all the FAQs and examples, joing the mailing list (lurk, lurk, lurk) before posting any msgs. Its solid software, IMHO...Just my 2 cents worth. :-) -- /\ 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] Wal-Mart music downloads
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:42:51 +0100, Bill wrote: > I have followed this thread and found that mplayer will play wma files. > Now I don't know if it will play all .wma files but the free one on Walmart > site plays nicely. I'm exploring the comment early on about Jetaudio being > able to strip the drm protection. Problem is, it's a windows prog and I'm > trying to stay out of that side of my computer. Can JetAudio run in wine? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mldonkey
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:16:41 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > That's the ticket. They've gone and changed the whole setup for this app. I have > to say, I liked the old version a lot better, all those Tux icons and > 'eye-candy' are fscking annoying. I agree--I liked the old more. Actually, since thy pulled that changeroo, I've switched to xMule. I'm quite happy with that. It's simpler, and the interface is more intuitive. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads
Hi, I have followed this thread and found that mplayer will play wma files. mplayer --novideo file.wma Now I don't know if it will play all .wma files but the free one on Walmart site plays nicely. I'm exploring the comment early on about Jetaudio being able to strip the drm protection. Problem is, it's a windows prog and I'm trying to stay out of that side of my computer. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 10 April 2004 09:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:10, Rory wrote: > > The poor guy working at WalMart for next to no money simply is just > > mouthing was the sales pitch is and just doesn't know any better. > > He's not trying to mislead anyone, WalMart is. > > > > http://musicdownloads.walmart.com/catalog/servlet/TourServlet;jsessio > >nid=A3ICp8GCZkSFea38f5CTunzjBJApRROBLXzjevux938VeolMTMv4!-1915370110?p > >ageIndex=0 > > > Note: Music downloads from Walmart.com will not play on the Apple > Macintosh or Linux operating systems. > > > So what package was used to play the sample song? > > Anne > - -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAd7W8kFAvMr/nNX8RAkzMAJ9Jixr5pkxGUdIqAnK1/JS3dDPt3gCdH2a+ > Wn7H/ctYP7JxpjIc85WhMAw= > =Yaby > -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] Multimedia in 10.0
> > > which kernel do you boot to? > > > > I don't know if you were asking Rory or me. I'm using 2.6 - 2.6.3 ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:05:07 +0700, Fajar wrote: > "Because you run Mandrake, you didn't invest the 20-30 minutes that most > Shorewall users do in learning about Shorewall during the installation > process." > > Boy, I hate this. Just point out that they're elitist-pig bastards who are impeding the progress and success of Linux. :-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] k3b
Hi All, How do I sort this? No support for ATAPI with cdrdao You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at least one not configured to use SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with cdrdao. Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all devices. This way you won't have any problems. I know it would better if this was put right.I'm using an IDE DVD-ROM 16x and a TEAC CD-W58E writer.The DVD drive shows up as ATAPI and the TEAC as SCSI drive,in the interface section. Cheers, 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] MDK 10 and Laptop Touch Pad
On Saturday 10 April 2004 10:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I configure MDK 10 to see a tap on the touch pad as a left mouse > click? I have looked in the MCC, but don't see anything. you have to install the synaptic driver from contrib. See instructions here http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10#Proposed_Errata -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 00:17:12 -0400, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, like, we gotta wait til 2008 before this disappears from the top of the > mailing list? Lucky me: I never even got the e-mail in the first place :P pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] xD card reader
Thanks, I did navigate to /mnt/removable which was defined as a locked directory. When I attempted to open it I got this message, "file:/mnt/removable doesn't seem to exist anymore" Any suggestions on how I should proceed? Thanks, Owen On Friday 09 April 2004 21:23, you wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2004 06:22 pm, Owen Berio wrote: > > I just bought a Olympus C-740 camera and a card reader. > > Mandrake 9.2 didn't recognize the camera when connected to a USB port. > > When the xD chip was installed in the card reader and installed a icon > > labled /mnt/removable. > > "Properties" revealed that it is "nonemntremovable" > > Type Mounted Hard Disc Partition > > Location / (devices). > > > > What do I do now in order to access the images on the chip? > > Thanks > > Owen > > Owen you should be able to open konqueror and navigate to the /mnt > partition where it will show icons for cdroms floppy, zip drives, and a > removable media or some such extra device. If you click on that and then > the dcmi folder ( or whatever it calls itself with xD) it will bring up > files of all your photos stored on the chip. you can select and save what > you want to keep. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Belkin F5D6020 WLAN PCMCIA
Has anyone had any success getting the Belkin F5D6020 v2 WLAN pcmcia card to work with Mandrake 9x or 10? I got the card for $10 so I figured I'd give it a try. I found the following page: http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_howto.php But the above link doesn't seem to have all the information I need. Like, what directory do I need to put the pcmf502.o file? Anyone had any success with this card and wish to tell me what they did to get it to work with Linux? Thanks. Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10 and Laptop Touch Pad
I just got a new Presario 2100. I read online a lot of success putting Linux on this type of laptop. I first put MDK 9.1 because I didn't know that 10 was released to non members. With MDK 9.1, I can tap the touch pad and it sees that as a left mouse click. When I put MDK 10 on the laptop, the ability to just tap the pad for a left mouse click went away. How can I configure MDK 10 to see a tap on the touch pad as a left mouse click? I have looked in the MCC, but don't see anything. Thanks for the help. Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Image viewer
Like others on this list running Mandrake 10.0, I had a few problems with Kuickshow - there is a bug in Qt and I could not get Qt3.3 going. However I have come across a very similar picturefile viewer called Gwenview which seems to do most of the things that Kuickshow does and although it appears to have been developed for 9.2, it does work well with Mandrake 10.0. See http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/download#stable -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 9.2 A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [ARTICLE]: Scary Stuff: The Once and Future King
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040408.html stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- A violent man will die a violent death. -- Lao Tsu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0
On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:28 am, et wrote: > > hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... > > and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel > > modules (2.4) == modprobe.preload (2.6) > modules.conf (2.4) == modprobe.conf (2.6) > > Be careful in 10.0, because to accomodate both kernels, it is set up to > keep modules.conf and modprobe.conf in sync. This is done by a script > called generate-modprobe.conf which generates a modprobe.conf from your > modules.conf. This could cause problems if you hack your modprobe.conf to > get something working without changing the modules.conf too. The next time > something runs that triggers the script you changes will get overwritten. > So, if you need to change something like a sound driver in modprobe.conf, > change it in modules.conf also. > > > but I bet the problem is more along the lines of aRts -vs- alsa -vs- OSS. > > have you set a timeout for aRts? > > alsa is a set of kernel module drivers for sound that replaces the > deprecated OSS. aRTs is a sound server and will use whichever driver is > active. If the problem is with arts, you will most likely experience it > with both the alsa or oss drivers. thanks for the clairifactions,,, this is a 'keeper'. -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi strategies
On Saturday 10 April 2004 04:08 am, Aron Smith wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2004 11:49 pm, Rory wrote: > > So, I'm just starting to set up urpmi for the first time. Good timing > > with all the mirrors down, eh? :) > > > > I've set up the Updates, as active mirrors seem to exist for them. Is it > > okay to set up multiple FTP sites for one source? In this case, updates. > > I'm doing it in hopes that: > > 1) if one site is down, the other will be okay. > > 2) if one site is slightly out of date, the other may be more current. > > Works for me me too,,, but it ought to be noted that you need a slightly different name for each source,,, so main, main1, contrib, contrib1, (etc) > > Good strategy or not? Does this set up potential conflicts? > > longer update time really should be on unlimited broadband for this, as each update will want to read the list of files in each mirro before updating, which for me runs about 19 megs for each main source, and 23 megs for each contrib source. > > Secondly, I'm still deciding if I'm going to stay with Stable or > > Community when the mirrors are back up next week. In the short term, is > > it prudent just to update everything from "stable/official" first? > > > > Or, will going straight to CE (I'm not going to do cooker) well,, in very many ways, CE is cooker,,, at least until stable comes out, so don't let that scare you > > cover > > everything under Official and bring me further along, rendering updating > > from stable first as a pointless excercise? seems pointless to me... a lot of changing sources but then again,,, I like to run cooker,,,kinda gives me an excuse to have so much computing power. > > Any other suggestions or tips for a newbie? > > Watch out it is addictive :-D VERY addictive,,, much agreed > > Thanks, > > ~Rory -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0
On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:28 am, et wrote: > hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... > and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel > modules (2.4) == modprobe.preload (2.6) modules.conf (2.4) == modprobe.conf (2.6) Be careful in 10.0, because to accomodate both kernels, it is set up to keep modules.conf and modprobe.conf in sync. This is done by a script called generate-modprobe.conf which generates a modprobe.conf from your modules.conf. This could cause problems if you hack your modprobe.conf to get something working without changing the modules.conf too. The next time something runs that triggers the script you changes will get overwritten. So, if you need to change something like a sound driver in modprobe.conf, change it in modules.conf also. > but I bet the problem is more along the lines of aRts -vs- alsa -vs- OSS. > have you set a timeout for aRts? alsa is a set of kernel module drivers for sound that replaces the deprecated OSS. aRTs is a sound server and will use whichever driver is active. If the problem is with arts, you will most likely experience it with both the alsa or oss drivers. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 19:04, Stephen Reynolds wrote: > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a > similar application in the Linux world? Personally, I run DreamweaverMX in WindowsXP with VMWare when I *HAVE* to; otherwise, I use Netscape Composer/Mozilla Composer, Bluefish, and CoffeeCup for linux...(or gedit). stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall & VMware
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:23, Graham Watkins wrote: > Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the > Linux host by the W98 guest? > > As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut > Shorewall down. You should be able to "share" the internet connection by enabling sharing of the internet connection in MCC; I've always NOT used the suggested bridging IP DHCP server in VMware and just assigned a nice old static IP with the gateway being that of the host system and then used IPTABLES to route as ICS would. Works fine for all my virtual machines. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off. XII: It costs a lot to build bad products. XIII: There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight. XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. -- Norman Augustine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0
On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:52 pm, robin wrote: > et wrote: > > On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: > >>I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard > >>without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't > >> recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite > >> that fact that MDK appears to recognize it. > >> > >>On Saturday 10 April 2004 3:30 am, robin wrote: > >>>I sit just me, or is multimedia totally screwed up in 10.0? I can't even > >>>listen to an audio CD. I sorted out my soundcard after a lot of tweaking > >>>some time ago, but now I try to listen to a CD and Xine and KsCD give me > >>>no sound, and Totem hangs the system and needs a dirty reboot. > >>> > >>>Sir Robin > > > > which kernel do you boot to? > > I don't know if you were asking Rory or me. I'm using 2.6 - both > it gave me a > lot of grief at the beginning, then I hacked /etc/modprobe.conf and it > worked fine for a while, except for Totem, which has never worked for me > (and a fair few others) in 10.0. hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel but I bet the problem is more along the lines of aRts -vs- alsa -vs- OSS. have you set a timeout for aRts? > > Last night the whole audio side went doolally, but (after rebooting) > it's working fine this morning (at least KsCD is - I'm not touching > Totem any more). I think it was probably a dodgy CD causing Xine to > leave a zombie process somewhere (naturally I tested with a different > CD, but maybe the old one left some crap in the system). > > What I find puzzling about 10.0 in general is not that some things don't > work - I expect that, particularly since it is essentially a beta. > However, my experience with Linux to date has been that things either > work or they don't - there's no "works sometimes" (that's something I > associate with that other OS). My experience with trying to get wvdial > to run on boot is similar. Sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't. > > Sir Robin -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0
et wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite that fact that MDK appears to recognize it. On Saturday 10 April 2004 3:30 am, robin wrote: I sit just me, or is multimedia totally screwed up in 10.0? I can't even listen to an audio CD. I sorted out my soundcard after a lot of tweaking some time ago, but now I try to listen to a CD and Xine and KsCD give me no sound, and Totem hangs the system and needs a dirty reboot. Sir Robin which kernel do you boot to? I don't know if you were asking Rory or me. I'm using 2.6 - it gave me a lot of grief at the beginning, then I hacked /etc/modprobe.conf and it worked fine for a while, except for Totem, which has never worked for me (and a fair few others) in 10.0. Last night the whole audio side went doolally, but (after rebooting) it's working fine this morning (at least KsCD is - I'm not touching Totem any more). I think it was probably a dodgy CD causing Xine to leave a zombie process somewhere (naturally I tested with a different CD, but maybe the old one left some crap in the system). What I find puzzling about 10.0 in general is not that some things don't work - I expect that, particularly since it is essentially a beta. However, my experience with Linux to date has been that things either work or they don't - there's no "works sometimes" (that's something I associate with that other OS). My experience with trying to get wvdial to run on boot is similar. Sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't. Sir Robin -- "If the lion could speak, we would not understand it." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi 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] realtek 8139 con mandrake 9.2
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 20:26, Gonzalo L. Villarreal wrote:
> Hi. Tengo instalado Mandrake 9.2 en una pc con un mother ASUS a7-n266-VM
> (obviamente, el que tiene problemas). Tb tengo una placa PCI conectada (aparte
> de la realtek) y funcionando en eth0. El tema es que la realtek es reconocida,
> existe, pero no funciona. Probé haciendo ifconfig, pero nop. Probe con
> modprobe, pasándole nvnet, rtl8139, rlt8139 y nada. Cuando la quiero configurar
> desde el menu gráfico, no me muestra ningun parámetro para configurar. Si la
> "resinstalo" (reconfigurando la otra placa tb) y le pongo los parametros
> manualmente, me dice que no son válidos. ¿soluciones? Si la idea es recompilar
> el kernel, no tengo ni la más palida idea de como se hace eso. Gracias.
> --
>
>
> ...---===}}}>>> Gonzalo Luján Villarreal. <<<{{{===---...
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Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:44 pm, Charlie wrote: > Only a better one I think:- Quanta Thanks Charlie I'll check it out. SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:04 pm, many eyes viewed Stephen Reynolds's words:- > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a > similar application in the Linux world? > > SR Only a better one I think:- Quanta Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 + Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. ...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] Shorewall & VMware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:23, Graham Watkins wrote: > Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the > Linux host by the W98 guest? > > As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut > Shorewall down. In rules I have ACCEPT net:192.168.0.0/24,!192.168.0.1 fw all Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAd7mxkFAvMr/nNX8RAv5pAJ9EfMOniFhO1tBYFAt50gA2Gfws3ACghrzz NKfv7qP+4dsV8x0Tl6Va2KQ= =T9gs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?
I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a similar application in the Linux world? SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] realtek 8139 con mandrake 9.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 01:26, Gonzalo L. Villarreal wrote: > Hi. Tengo instalado Mandrake 9.2 en una pc con un mother ASUS > a7-n266-VM (obviamente, el que tiene problemas). Tb tengo una placa > PCI conectada (aparte de la realtek) y funcionando en eth0. El tema > es que la realtek es reconocida, existe, pero no funciona. Probé > haciendo ifconfig, pero nop. Probe con modprobe, pasándole nvnet, > rtl8139, rlt8139 y nada. Cuando la quiero configurar desde el menu > gráfico, no me muestra ningun parámetro para configurar. Si la > "resinstalo" (reconfigurando la otra placa tb) y le pongo los > parametros manualmente, me dice que no son válidos. ¿soluciones? Si > la idea es recompilar el kernel, no tengo ni la más palida idea de > como se hace eso. Gracias. -- > Gonzalo, I hope you can understand this. I have an 8139 running on an older Asus motherboard. lsmod shows 8139too17160 1 (autoclean) mii 3832 0 (autoclean) [8139too] Maybe that is what you need to look for? Hope that helps Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAd7g5kFAvMr/nNX8RAkZLAKCDk5KGHvDrAaUOUUc07C5Xsfz/DwCdGAMo f6Ts49u57+t/Ow5PZlwaAOA= =8AZj -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] Wal-Mart music downloads
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:10, Rory wrote: > The poor guy working at WalMart for next to no money simply is just > mouthing was the sales pitch is and just doesn't know any better. > He's not trying to mislead anyone, WalMart is. > > http://musicdownloads.walmart.com/catalog/servlet/TourServlet;jsessio >nid=A3ICp8GCZkSFea38f5CTunzjBJApRROBLXzjevux938VeolMTMv4!-1915370110?p >ageIndex=0 > Note: Music downloads from Walmart.com will not play on the Apple Macintosh or Linux operating systems. So what package was used to play the sample song? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAd7W8kFAvMr/nNX8RAkzMAJ9Jixr5pkxGUdIqAnK1/JS3dDPt3gCdH2a+ Wn7H/ctYP7JxpjIc85WhMAw= =Yaby -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] urpmi strategies
On Friday 09 April 2004 11:49 pm, Rory wrote: > So, I'm just starting to set up urpmi for the first time. Good timing with > all the mirrors down, eh? :) > > I've set up the Updates, as active mirrors seem to exist for them. Is it > okay to set up multiple FTP sites for one source? In this case, updates. > I'm doing it in hopes that: > 1) if one site is down, the other will be okay. > 2) if one site is slightly out of date, the other may be more current. Works for me > > Good strategy or not? Does this set up potential conflicts? longer update time > > Secondly, I'm still deciding if I'm going to stay with Stable or Community > when the mirrors are back up next week. In the short term, is it prudent > just to update everything from "stable/official" first? > > Or, will going straight to CE (I'm not going to do cooker) cover everything > under Official and bring me further along, rendering updating from stable > first as a pointless excercise? > > Any other suggestions or tips for a newbie? Watch out it is addictive :-D > > Thanks, > ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Shorewall & VMware
Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word "relationship".(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
