Re: [newbie] Griping questions
rhein wrote: 1. To get the name of the tracks do you have to be connected? I tried Yes, names are not stored on cd-audio format. When you insert an audio cd, the player (i.e. grip) calculates a 'hash' value based on the index of the cd and uses it as a keyword to retrieve the titles from e.g. freedb.freedb.org. If it manages to get them, it stores them on your local disk (typically under $HOME/.cddb) , so next time you play the cd you don't need to be connected to get the titles. 2. If I want to play the mp3 files on a music box or a TV/DVD player what riper and format shall I use? I use xmms for mp3/wav, grip to play/rip/encode audio cd. 3. What is the differences in the encoder: oggenc, mp3encoder, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, gogo, flac? You already got some answers to this. Let me add that lame is not included in the MDK cds for license issues (lame uses an encoding algo which is patented by Fraunhofer Institute). Whenever I need to install it, I download the sources from the official lame site (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) and build them. bye, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Griping questions
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 11:38 pm, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: rhein wrote: 1. To get the name of the tracks do you have to be connected? I tried Yes, names are not stored on cd-audio format. When you insert an audio cd, the player (i.e. grip) calculates a 'hash' value based on the index of the cd and uses it as a keyword to retrieve the titles from e.g. freedb.freedb.org. If it manages to get them, it stores them on your local disk (typically under $HOME/.cddb) , so next time you play the cd you don't need to be connected to get the titles. 2. If I want to play the mp3 files on a music box or a TV/DVD player what riper and format shall I use? I use xmms for mp3/wav, grip to play/rip/encode audio cd. 3. What is the differences in the encoder: oggenc, mp3encoder, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, gogo, flac? You already got some answers to this. Let me add that lame is not included in the MDK cds for license issues (lame uses an encoding algo which is patented by Fraunhofer Institute). Whenever I need to install it, I download the sources from the official lame site (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) and build them. One caution Lame is a CPU intensive app and will slow your system down noticeably bye, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Go Vincent!
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 09:39, JoeHill wrote: Four major Linux distributors have sharply criticized a recent report in which Forrester Research Inc. found that Microsoft Corp. outperformed them in responding to and fixing security flaws. ... While the data that the analysis is based on is accurate, the conclusions are not, said Vincent Danen, security update manager at MandrakeSoft. By measuring only the time elapsed between public knowledge of a security flaw and the availability of a vendor's fix, the study failed to make a distinction between the critical flaws and the not-so-severe ones, the jointly signed letter said. C'mon mate - we all know this...can't you come up with something breath taking - eh? 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 -- Excessive login or logout messages are a sure sign of senility. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:40, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 18:08, Richard Urwin wrote: My best tip: load the command line applet and add it to the panel. You'll soon wonder how you survived without it. Do you mean the Gnome command line applet ? How can you do that ? I tried to find it, but I can't find out its 'real' name. NO - there is a panel plugin for XFCE that you can get from the goodies page... 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 -- Largest Number of Driving Test Failures By April 1970 Mrs. Miriam Hargrave had failed her test thirty-nine times. In the eight preceding years she had received two hundred and twelve driving lessons at a cost of L300. She set the new record while driving triumphantly through a set of red traffic lights in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Disappointingly, she passed at the fortieth attempt (3 August 1970) but eight years later she showed some of her old magic when she was reported as saying that she still didn't like doing right-hand turns. -- Stephen Pile, The Book of Heroic Failures Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] More sound problems.
Marc wrote: I am trying to bring a old machine back from the dead and so far it has been a 100% success with the execption of the sound. I am using a old Sony ASUS MOBO with intergrated sound, 810 intel chipset AC'97 with the snd-intel8x0 driver. The sound is very distorted and also sounds like it is playing at about 1/4 speed. Doe's anybody have any ideas how to fix this or am I better off just pluging in a soundblaster card. I'm using the same Intel 810 chipset without problems. Could distorted sound be caused by too high volume? What application are you using to play sound? What files are you playing? You are not giving many details, I'll just throw some info here: lsmod on my system gives ... i810_audio 25692 0 ac97_codec 15828 0 [i810_audio] soundcore 6340 0 [i810_audio] /etc/modules.conf contains: alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio bye, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:23:09 -0500 Avi Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 28, 2004, at 9:03, Miark wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:28:58 -0500, Avi wrote: Now Comcast Internet is also available but I am hesitant to switch. While they are cheaper, it is still $62 a month for a home network (which I don't need, but this is all they currently seem to offer) How would they even know you have a home network? They don't. It is their only offer in my area. They call it the home network in which they supply a wireless AP and a cable modem and set you for up to 5 computers. I don't need it at all since I already have my own network (wired and wireless) and NAT. Maybe I should just wait for a normal offer for a single IP and no wireless AP. Avi I have to add that a supervisor got offended when I asked her about blocked ports. She said company policy from the beginning was to block nothing. Of course that could change in a blink of an eye. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Community updates in distro directory or not?
After the updates posted to the Mandrake secure list yesterday, I took a look at the file dates of the files in the distribution directory for 10 Community and did not see either the file date the same as the 10 Official updated files, or the .100 extension added to the file names. Are these 10 updates really added to 10 Community or not? From what I am seeing, I don't believe they are. If not, how do we get these updates? I was under the impression that these files should have made their way into the 10 Community distribution directory and have been picked up by Mandrake Update or urpmi. This apparently isn't the case this time. I have the correct Mandrake-Release file for Community and the correct Community distribution directory added as a distro entry and again as an updates directory. It looks like we aren't seeing any updates to Community now. Any idea as to why not? Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Go Vincent!
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:47:22 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: While the data that the analysis is based on is accurate, the conclusions are not, said Vincent Danen, security update manager at MandrakeSoft. By measuring only the time elapsed between public knowledge of a security flaw and the availability of a vendor's fix, the study failed to make a distinction between the critical flaws and the not-so-severe ones, the jointly signed letter said. C'mon mate - we all know this...can't you come up with something breath taking - eh? bitch -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ We're here for a good time, not a long time... -- Trooper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 08:25 am, The Other wrote: Anyone know how to change those tiny fonts in the body of the email messages? Thanks, Dan Hello Dan, for Opera 7.23 On the main menu bar: File- Preferences (or Alt-P)- Fonts (on the left side dialog box) This brings up the right side dialog box. Select the font use topic you wish to change (start with Normal, it may be the one you need) and highlight the font name. Double-click on the font name or click on the Choose button. This brings up another dialog box that lets you change the font, size, and other parameters. For my astigmatism, I like the Helvetica (Adobe) at 14. normal. in black. Regards, The Other. I'm running 7.5. preferences are under tools. Had to change the web page font. Also, setting the zoom to 120% makes it look good. Now if I can figure how to view the message instead of the source. Thanks, 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] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ pages manual very well done. Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I seem to remember it starting, loading and saving files, and other operations being faster when my 9.2.1 was fresh. But it could be my imagination. Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? 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] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:41 pm, Miark wrote: Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I seem to remember it starting, loading and saving files, and other operations being faster when my 9.2.1 was fresh. But it could be my imagination. Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes open two or three apps up at a time, and then OO.o appears slow against the others. Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know if that is fast or slow, but it is fine by me. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- Becoming a buddha is easy But ending illusions is hard So many frosted moonlit nights I've sat and felt the cold before dawn. Shih-wu (1272-1352 ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- 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] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ pages manual very well done. Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I seem to remember it starting, loading and saving files, and other operations being faster when my 9.2.1 was fresh. But it could be my imagination. Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? Miark I had the same problem. At first OOo was faster than the previous 1.0, but OOo started to become slower and slower until it became frankly unworkable. I do not know the reason for this. May be their mailing-list contains some information about that. I have been lucky than SUN decided to make their SO version totally free for education. It is a great product and I hope it will take the place it deserves. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes open two or three apps up at a time, and then OO.o appears slow against the others. Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know if that is fast or slow, but it is fine by me. 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Errors when defining sources via EasyURPMI
Hi all, I am having a difficult time adding a source that is an ftp source. I can add http sources no problem. Someone earlier suggested that maybe this was due to the ftp servers being overcrowded, but I can put in the url for the ftp site in a browser and view the directories, etc. I usually get an error message like the following: It doesn't seem to matter what time of day I try (Mountain Time Zone in US). I have tried at 6:00 am local time to 6:00 pm local time and get the same error. I am behind a firewall but I don't have problems downloading, etc. via ftp sites other than ones I am trying to set up as urpmi sources. Any ideas? Thanks! and sorry if this is a bother. -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Errors when defining sources via EasyURPMI
Oops! I forgot part of the message the first time! I'll try again... Hi all, I am having a difficult time adding a source that is an ftp source. I can add http sources no problem. Someone earlier suggested that maybe this was due to the ftp servers being overcrowded, but I can put in the url for the ftp site in a browser and view the directories, etc. I usually get an error message like the following: Forgotten part.. ftp://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist1.cz ...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Connect failed It doesn't seem to matter what time of day I try (Mountain Time Zone in US). I have tried at 6:00 am local time to 6:00 pm local time and get the same error. I am behind a firewall but I don't have problems downloading, etc. via ftp sites other than ones I am trying to set up as urpmi sources. Any ideas? Thanks! and sorry if this is a bother. -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Apollon Plugins
Hi all, Some nice gent on here sent me the GnuTella plugin. However... I try to install it, or configure it, using the ./configure command as root. However, I now have this problem: configure: error: Library requirements (libgift = 0.11.4 libgift 0.12.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2]# Now, I cant find GiFT 0.12 anywhere on the web. Maybe I have to modify something to get it to see gift 0.11? I'm a bit confused here! JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10 Community Exposing Microsoft products directly to the internet, is a bit like painting a large bullseye on your butt, and bending over, naked, in a San Francisco steam room. Except, Microsoft isnt nearly as safe Registered Linux User #340061 ICQ: #86015236 Yahoo!: v6vitanic 18:05:08 up 23 min, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.39, 0.48 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kfind Crashing....
Hello again.. Ever since I have had 10.0, be it Cooker or CE, I have major problems with Kfind. Enter your search parameters, and click find, and it just locks up. The only way to solve it, is to xkill it. Any Ideas? I'm fully updated, and have run the updatedb command.. JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10 Community Exposing Microsoft products directly to the internet, is a bit like painting a large bullseye on your butt, and bending over, naked, in a San Francisco steam room. Except, Microsoft isnt nearly as safe Registered Linux User #340061 ICQ: #86015236 Yahoo!: v6vitanic 18:18:46 up 36 min, 1 user, load average: 1.42, 0.90, 0.61 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Griping questions
Raffaele BELARDI wrote: rhein wrote: 1. To get the name of the tracks do you have to be connected? I tried Yes, names are not stored on cd-audio format. When you insert an audio cd, the player (i.e. grip) calculates a 'hash' value based on the index of the cd and uses it as a keyword to retrieve the titles from e.g. freedb.freedb.org. If it manages to get them, it stores them on your local disk (typically under $HOME/.cddb) , so next time you play the cd you don't need to be connected to get the titles. 2. If I want to play the mp3 files on a music box or a TV/DVD player what riper and format shall I use? I use xmms for mp3/wav, grip to play/rip/encode audio cd. 3. What is the differences in the encoder: oggenc, mp3encoder, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, gogo, flac? You already got some answers to this. Let me add that lame is not included in the MDK cds for license issues (lame uses an encoding algo which is patented by Fraunhofer Institute). Whenever I need to install it, I download the sources from the official lame site (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) and build them. bye, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks for all your answers now I know how to use grip :-) Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
Miark wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes open two or three apps up at a time, and then OO.o appears slow against the others. Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know if that is fast or slow, but it is fine by me. 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I posted the same problem a few days ago... I open the same file every day and now I need more then a minute to open it! Nothing else then Kde is running and I have more then 500 mb of ram! I stoped using Star office because of the price... since it is free for teachers maybe I will download it! But it still doesn't solve the ooo problem! Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:22:21 +0300, rhein wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. I posted the same problem a few days ago... I open the same file every day and now I need more then a minute to open it! Nothing else then Kde is running and I have more then 500 mb of ram! I stoped using Star office because of the price... since it is free for teachers maybe I will download it! But it still doesn't solve the ooo problem! And worse, because OOo and StarOffice are siblings, it seems likely that StarOffice will eventually suffer the same effect. 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] Errors when defining sources via EasyURPMI
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 29, 2004 11:06, Travis Crook wrote: ... I am having a difficult time adding a source that is an ftp source. I can add http sources no problem. Someone earlier suggested that maybe this was due to the ftp servers being overcrowded, but I can put in the url for the ftp site in a browser and view the directories, etc. I usually get an error message like the following: Forgotten part.. ftp://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrak e/base/hdlist1.cz ...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Connect failed It doesn't seem to matter what time of day I try (Mountain Time Zone in US). I have tried at 6:00 am local time to 6:00 pm local time and get the same error. I am behind a firewall but I don't have problems downloading, etc. via ftp sites other than ones I am trying to set up as urpmi sources. Any ideas? Thanks! and sorry if this is a bother. I'm afraid all I can do is commiserate. I've been trying for nearly 2 months now, without a single successful update from any server. I get the same message as you every time. I can even logon to the servers manually via ftp, but I still get the curl error. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Hi, Did you try the --wget option? It works much better than --curl (which is the default) for me. Pablo Pablo Vitoria Garcia Address:Dpto. Quimica Inorganica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU) Apartado 644, E-48080 Bilbao SPAIN e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +34 94 6012000 Ext. 5529 Fax: +34 94 4648500 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Errors when defining sources via EasyURPMI
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 29, 2004 11:06, Travis Crook wrote: ... I am having a difficult time adding a source that is an ftp source. I can add http sources no problem. Someone earlier suggested that maybe this was due to the ftp servers being overcrowded, but I can put in the url for the ftp site in a browser and view the directories, etc. I usually get an error message like the following: Forgotten part.. ftp://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrak e/base/hdlist1.cz ...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Connect failed It doesn't seem to matter what time of day I try (Mountain Time Zone in US). I have tried at 6:00 am local time to 6:00 pm local time and get the same error. I am behind a firewall but I don't have problems downloading, etc. via ftp sites other than ones I am trying to set up as urpmi sources. Any ideas? Thanks! and sorry if this is a bother. I'm afraid all I can do is commiserate. I've been trying for nearly 2 months now, without a single successful update from any server. I get the same message as you every time. I can even logon to the servers manually via ftp, but I still get the curl error. I don't know what has gone wrong with curl on 10 - used to work OK on 9.2 - but I had exactly the same problem as you two. Someone suggested using --wget in the urpmi options instead of curl, so I tried it and have had very few failures since I started using it. Try it - maybe it will work for you too. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
Miark wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes open two or three apps up at a time, and then OO.o appears slow against the others. Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know if that is fast or slow, but it is fine by me. 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. Jeez, I haven't experienced anything like that since the old days before OO split off from SO. Something is obviously borked in your installation, but I have no idea what. Have you tried running it as a different user, to establish whether the problem is in your whole installation or just in your own settings? OO is not, and never will be, a speed king, but it should not be doing this. Sir Robin -- Corruptissima in republica plurimae leges. - Tacitus 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] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:22:21 +0300, rhein wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. I posted the same problem a few days ago... I open the same file every day and now I need more then a minute to open it! Nothing else then Kde is running and I have more then 500 mb of ram! I stoped using Star office because of the price... since it is free for teachers maybe I will download it! But it still doesn't solve the ooo problem! And worse, because OOo and StarOffice are siblings, it seems likely that StarOffice will eventually suffer the same effect. no sign of trouble after some 6 months use Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:32:32 +0300, robin wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. Have you tried running it as a different user, to establish whether the problem is in your whole installation or just in your own settings? Good idea. I just su'ed to root and oowriter came up in 10 seconds, so there's obviously something wrong with my user configuration. Alright, I just nuked my .openoffice directory and now I can run it in 10 seconds as the regular user aswell. I wonder what got into .openoffice to cause such a slowdown! 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] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 19:41, Miark wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ pages manual very well done. Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I seem to remember it starting, loading and saving files, and other operations being faster when my 9.2.1 was fresh. But it could be my imagination. Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? Miark Unlike MS Office which loads most of it's core when the OS (Windows) loads, SO and OO have to initiate the java core when you fire up the application(s) - it's faster AFTER you've loaded it the first time...so, since it does not load most of it's core components as the OS loads, it's taking it's merry old time when you fire it up the first time...does that make sense? 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 -- What is the sound of one hand clapping? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kfind Crashing....
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 03:20, JRH wrote: Hello again.. Ever since I have had 10.0, be it Cooker or CE, I have major problems with Kfind. Enter your search parameters, and click find, and it just locks up. The only way to solve it, is to xkill it. Any Ideas? I'm fully updated, and have run the updatedb command.. JRH Use /usr/bin/gnome-search-tool instead. It's faster BTW. 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 -- Kiss your keyboard goodbye! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installed Mandrake 10.0 Official
On Thursday 29 April 2004 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: snip o No longer any option to login to X as root. I know they discouraged this anyway, but when doing sys admin work, it was more convenient that repeatedly supplying the root password, and certainly safer than having the various admin tools remember the root password (I'm surprised they even offer such an option, since it grants root access to anyone with physical access). /snip Ron, this is not enterily true. I'll take it that you use the default display manager, something like mandkrakeDM, but if you change that to KDM (K Display Manager) you'll get the option to log in as root. When doing so, you'll be presented with a red screen, some warnings about running as root, a button to log out immidiately and no icons. By ignoring all this, you are root in X and can run whatever you like, and destroy whatever Murphy's law dictates. To change your display manager, go to System -- Configuration -- Configure your computer -- System -- Display Manager. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Samba / Shorewall
Hy, whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server or Smb4K (guess that shorewall blocks it). When I take the whole firewall down Everything (no firewall) then samba works perfectly, but then I can't share my ADSL connection. By allowing ports 193-194 doesn't help, neither by telling shorewall to allow Samba server! -- 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] Installed Mandrake 10.0 Official
On Thursday 29 April 2004 23:05, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 29, 2004 14:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: snip o No longer any option to login to X as root. I know they discouraged this anyway, but when doing sys admin work, it was more convenient that repeatedly supplying the root password, and certainly safer than having the various admin tools remember the root password (I'm surprised they even offer such an option, since it grants root access to anyone with physical access). /snip Ron, this is not enterily true. I'll take it that you use the default display manager, something like mandkrakeDM, but if you change that to KDM (K Display Manager) you'll get the option to log in as root. When doing so, you'll be presented with a red screen, some warnings about running as root, a button to log out immidiately and no icons. By ignoring all this, you are root in X and can run whatever you like, and destroy whatever Murphy's law dictates. To change your display manager, go to System -- Configuration -- Configure your computer -- System -- Display Manager. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Interesting. I'm not going to try it now because I have too much on the go to log out, but I'll try it later. The red screen and warning are exactly what I remember. So was 10.0 CE using KDM by default? Or did MdkKDM have this option and they took it out for the official release? No, no, and no. Do you know what the diffs are between the two DMs? Appearance, and the option to log in as root in KDM. Personally, I don't see how it's any harder to destroy things at the command line than at the GUI. If anything, the GUI has more are you sure? prompts than the command line does. Didn't do me any harm anyway. Anyway, thanks for the tip. You are welcome. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kmail Mandrake10.0Official
Kmail is becoming so slow... Have you encountered similar problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Recent Updates not available for Community?
After receiving the notifications of the recent updates to 10 I saw nothing in either urpmi or Mandrake Update under Community. The rpms in the distro directory for 10 Community do not have the same .100 extensions as the 10 Official Updates. Are these rpms in Community updated? The files in Community don't have the same dates as the updated files for 10 Official. I do have the correct mandrake-release installed, the system is Community, and I have proxad entries correctly setup in urpmi for the distro directory as well as an entry for the distro directory as an update source. Shouldn't these updates have appeared in the Community distro directory? Previously updated files have been available for Community in the distro directory. That does not appear to be the case this time for some reason. Any idea as to what's up? Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installed Mandrake 10.0 Official
On Friday 30 April 2004 00:35, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 29, 2004 15:36, Kaj Haulrich wrote: ... So was 10.0 CE using KDM by default? Or did MdkKDM have this option and they took it out for the official release? No, no, and no. ... Kaj Haulrich. Now ya got me confused again (not all that hard to do). In 10.0 CE, I used whatever the default DM was (didn't even know how to change it). This default DM had the option to login as root. Now I'm in 10.0 Official, and still using the default DM, which is MdkKDM. The option to login as root is gone. So either they took the option out of MdkKDM between CE and Official, or I wasn't using MdkKDM before. One of these must be true. They can't both be false. True. But what's your problem ? - Aside from your excellent, boolean logic, why not just change your display manager ? - And, I agree with your previous statements about root warnings. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:23:41 +0300 Klemens Arro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server or Smb4K (guess that shorewall blocks it). When I take the whole firewall down Everything (no firewall) then samba works perfectly, but then I can't share my ADSL connection. By allowing ports 193-194 doesn't help, neither by telling shorewall to allow Samba server! -- Klemens Arro Klemens, I maybe wrong, but I thought you had to open ports 137, 138 and 139. Double check to be sure -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 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
Re: [newbie] Installed Mandrake 10.0 Official
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 29, 2004 17:29, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 00:35, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 29, 2004 15:36, Kaj Haulrich wrote: ... So was 10.0 CE using KDM by default? Or did MdkKDM have this option and they took it out for the official release? No, no, and no. ... Kaj Haulrich. Now ya got me confused again (not all that hard to do). In 10.0 CE, I used whatever the default DM was (didn't even know how to change it). This default DM had the option to login as root. Now I'm in 10.0 Official, and still using the default DM, which is MdkKDM. The option to login as root is gone. So either they took the option out of MdkKDM between CE and Official, or I wasn't using MdkKDM before. One of these must be true. They can't both be false. True. But what's your problem ? - Aside from your excellent, boolean logic, why not just change your display manager ? - And, I agree with your previous statements about root warnings. Kaj Haulrich. No problem really, other than my own curiosity. I don't like unexplained changes. I also don't like having useful options taken away from me. I'd like to know exactly what was changed between releases. They should have at least noted such a change in the release notes (I thought that's what they were for). But I guess it is what it is, and I'll just leave it at that. No point wasting anymore bandwidth on it. Ron; Pardon me for jumping in at this point, but if I understand your problem correctly, you aren't seeing the root user in your login panel? Is that what the problem is? If so, get back to me, because this is an easy fix. I've been seeing this for quite sometime now. I'm under the impression that Mandrake has done this on purpose to deter a newbie from logging in as root. I think they've done this as a security precaution. Let me know if that's what's causing you the grief. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 2.6.3 config
Can someone point me to the kernel configuration gui used in MDK10? What options are compiled into 2.6.3? Also, is there a list of kernel boot paramers? man bootparam yields a file that is several years old. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:09 pm, Miark wrote: Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know if that is fast or slow, but it is fine by me. 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. Miark That does appear slow and surprises me. You are using OO.o1.1.0? I have never installed, for use, the Mandrake version, only ever the one from OO.org, into the place where Mandrake installs their version. HTH. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. .Ugo Betti ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- 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] Errors when defining sources via EasyURPMI
What I do is set up a security source, the only one I have been able to get working is a french site called proxad I believe. Then I check all the types security, bugs and updates and get about 3 screenfuls select all and go. Roly On Thursday 29 April 2004 10:34 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 29, 2004 11:06, Travis Crook wrote: ... I am having a difficult time adding a source that is an ftp source. I can add http sources no problem. Someone earlier suggested that maybe this was due to the ftp servers being overcrowded, but I can put in the url for the ftp site in a browser and view the directories, etc. I usually get an error message like the following: Forgotten part.. ftp://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandr ak e/base/hdlist1.cz ...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Connect failed It doesn't seem to matter what time of day I try (Mountain Time Zone in US). I have tried at 6:00 am local time to 6:00 pm local time and get the same error. I am behind a firewall but I don't have problems downloading, etc. via ftp sites other than ones I am trying to set up as urpmi sources. Any ideas? Thanks! and sorry if this is a bother. I'm afraid all I can do is commiserate. I've been trying for nearly 2 months now, without a single successful update from any server. I get the same message as you every time. I can even logon to the servers manually via ftp, but I still get the curl error. -- MicroSoft - The company that made the internet unsafe! Linux Counter #241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kmail
Kmail is becoming so slow... Have you encountered similar problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] synaptics
My synaptics touchpad does not work anymore in Mandrake10.0. The problem comes early: no sign of it with dmesg and in /proc. What can I do to have the kernel pick it up (it was working in 9.2). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0
Greg, if you downloaded 10 Community, put the 2nd CD in first, which will boot you in to Mandrake. Then, remove that CD, put in CD1 and you'll be able to install. It was a bug that's since been resolved. On Thursday 29 April 2004 10:02 pm, Greg wrote: i have a spare puter and i was thinking of trying out 10.0 is it worth it or should i wait i tried to download and burn the cd but i cant get it to work right so i was thinking of buying the cd thanks greg -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
