Re: [newbie] Cannot log in as root - MD 10.0 CE
- Original Message - From: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 3:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot log in as root - MD 10.0 CE > > Problem - Cannot log in as root - it always goes straight > > into 'dave' > > > > Dave > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.665 / Virus Database: 428 - Release Date: > > 21/04/04 >What I think you have Dave is the standard Mandrake installation where you > have used all the defalts on installation. You asked for the simplist of > terms so here goes. This should be a easy fix. First go to your start menu > then up to system/ configuration/configure your computer. After entering your > root password you will be in mandrake control center. Now ckick on system, > next users and groups at the next screen you will be able to add or modify > user accounts. When you are done go back to the start > menu/system.configuration/ configure your desktop/ On the next menu click on > system then login manager/administrator mode/Users and uncheck root under > hidden users. next logout and I think that on the next login you will find > that everything is as you want. >Keep in mind it is best to eventually learn to use a console and su to root > instead of loging in as root but that is a whole other subject. >Stick with it a couple of weeks and you will start to find out that ML is > not a difficult transition from windoze. > > Good luck > > Marc > -- Marc As you might see from a previous post. The problem has now been cracked. Thanks for the encouragement. I want to get over to Linux for the same healthy reasons as you other good folk out there - it's just that it's taking a tad longer than I would like. Thanks again Dave. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.665 / Virus Database: 428 - Release Date: 21/04/04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] displaying exif comments in jpg files
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:24:55 -0400 yankl wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2004 05:00 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:40, Job Evers wrote: > > > Does anybody know of an image viewer that will also display exif > > > headers? > > > > > > I know that I can use jhead to look at the headers of each > > > individual file, but it would be nice to be able to view the image > > > at the same time. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > If you use ImageMagick's "display" to view JPG's, you can get the > > image info by clicking on the image, choosing MISCELLANY, then IMAGE > > INFO. > > > > Should be already installed on your system. > > > pixieplus Both of these are still too much hassle. I have over 1000 pictures I want to stick comments in and its a pain having to go through a couple of menus just to add a comment and then a couple more menus to rotate the picture, etc. Thanks for the suggestions though. Pixieplus has some other useful features that I'll probably dig into some other day. I did discover that qiv has a 'qiv-command' feature that will let me assign a key command to certain actions. I might try to mess around with that and customize it some. -- Job Evers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot log in as root - MD 10.0 CE
> > Problem - Cannot log in as root - it always goes straight > > into 'dave' > > Am never offered the choice of 'root' > > I am the newest of Newbies (but probably the longest serving > > Newbie on the block) so if anyone can give an answer I would > > appreciate it if given in the simplest terms. > > Dave; Ron had the exact same problem yesterday. Here's my email that > fixed it for him. Mandrake is doing this to prevent newbies from using > root as their main user, so that they don't "Bork" their systems. > Enjoy! > > Lanman > > Lanman One of those happier coincidences of life - I've already seen your reply to Ron, done it and I've now got root access - great, thanks. What a nice surprise. After lots of re-installing and then more time searching the archives of this list I finally had to post here to ask for help - which I did. I then downloaded from this list to see if my begging letter had appeared and - manna from heaven - there was your post. It's not often I get that sort of luck. By way of 'Confession from a Newbie' - yes I am using root. I've got to in order to get my Speedtouch ADSL modem to work (which it still doesn't and hasn't since MD7.2). On Ron's theme of apparent retrograde changes to Mandrake, this is my pet sulk. My Speedtouch worked on 7.2 but not on 8 or 9 and, as yet, not on 10. Probably my fault though. Anyway, thanks again Dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.665 / Virus Database: 428 - Release Date: 21/04/04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot log in as root - MD 10.0 CE
On Friday 30 April 2004 06:56 pm, idea.list2 wrote: > Have just installed MD 10.0 CE (from LinuxFormat coverdisc). > Selected default 'standard' security level and setup one > named user 'dave'. > > Problem - Cannot log in as root - it always goes straight > into 'dave' > Am never offered the choice of 'root' > Have tried to log out and back in, but still only have > option of the user 'dave' > > Have re-installed three times - always making sure that the > option to boot to a specific user is always unchecked. > > I am the newest of Newbies (but probably the longest serving > Newbie on the block) so if anyone can give an answer I would > appreciate it if given in the simplest terms. > > Many thanks > > Dave > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.665 / Virus Database: 428 - Release Date: > 21/04/04 What I think you have Dave is the standard Mandrake installation where you have used all the defalts on installation. You asked for the simplist of terms so here goes. This should be a easy fix. First go to your start menu then up to system/ configuration/configure your computer. After entering your root password you will be in mandrake control center. Now ckick on system, next users and groups at the next screen you will be able to add or modify user accounts. When you are done go back to the start menu/system.configuration/ configure your desktop/ On the next menu click on system then login manager/administrator mode/Users and uncheck root under hidden users. next logout and I think that on the next login you will find that everything is as you want. Keep in mind it is best to eventually learn to use a console and su to root instead of loging in as root but that is a whole other subject. Stick with it a couple of weeks and you will start to find out that ML is not a difficult transition from windoze. Good luck Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot log in as root - MD 10.0 CE
idea.list2 wrote: Have just installed MD 10.0 CE (from LinuxFormat coverdisc). Selected default 'standard' security level and setup one named user 'dave'. Problem - Cannot log in as root - it always goes straight into 'dave' Am never offered the choice of 'root' Have tried to log out and back in, but still only have option of the user 'dave' Have re-installed three times - always making sure that the option to boot to a specific user is always unchecked. I am the newest of Newbies (but probably the longest serving Newbie on the block) so if anyone can give an answer I would appreciate it if given in the simplest terms. Many thanks Dave Dave; Ron had the exact same problem yesterday. Here's my email that fixed it for him. Mandrake is doing this to prevent newbies from using root as their main user, so that they don't "Bork" their systems. You can log into your box as a normal user (ie; "dave" ? ), then open "KControl" (Start>System>Configuration>Configure Your Desktop), and go to the section called (What Else?)"System" ! Open that section up, and find the section called "Login Manager". You will see a button near the bottom called "Administrator". Click it, and enter the password you originally used for the "root" user. Once inside of that, click on the tab called "Users". On the left, you will see a section called "Show Users". Click on "Selected Only", and then put an "X" in the box beside each user's name that you'd like to see at the login panel. For security sake, leave all unneeded user's unchecked. Click Apply in the lower right corner, and you're done. The next time you boot it up, your Desktop Manager will show you the Login Panel like you're used to seeing, with the "root" user in the list. Enjoy! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] displaying exif comments in jpg files
On Friday 30 April 2004 05:00 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:40, Job Evers wrote: > > Does anybody know of an image viewer that will also display exif headers? > > > > I know that I can use jhead to look at the headers of each individual > > file, but it would be nice to be able to view the image at the same time. > > > > Thanks. > > If you use ImageMagick's "display" to view JPG's, you can get the image > info by clicking on the image, choosing MISCELLANY, then IMAGE INFO. > > Should be already installed on your system. > > 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 > -- > At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we > should play the fool. -- Menander pixieplus -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cannot log in as root - MD 10.0 CE
Have just installed MD 10.0 CE (from LinuxFormat coverdisc). Selected default 'standard' security level and setup one named user 'dave'. Problem - Cannot log in as root - it always goes straight into 'dave' Am never offered the choice of 'root' Have tried to log out and back in, but still only have option of the user 'dave' Have re-installed three times - always making sure that the option to boot to a specific user is always unchecked. I am the newest of Newbies (but probably the longest serving Newbie on the block) so if anyone can give an answer I would appreciate it if given in the simplest terms. Many thanks Dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.665 / Virus Database: 428 - Release Date: 21/04/04 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
Oops! I guess I forgot (or, perhaps more honestly, never really noticed) that I got that plugin from another source. At any rate, it's a must-have. ;) Sorry for the confusion. Marv -- Help in the research to fight 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. Carl J. Bauman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:15:37 -0500 Carl J. Bauman wrote: Thanks, Marv. Unfortunately the "Mini Command Line" selection that you mentioned does not seem to exist on my system. I'm now running Xfce 4.0.5 on Mandrake 10.0, installed from Charles Edward's rpm's at http://www.eslrahc.com. You need to install xfce-minicmd-plugin which is available from 10.0 contrib I will state again I do not include rpms on my site which already exist in a current mdk rpm repository Charles O! The light dawns. I guess this means I should go ahead and configure a contrib media source... Thanks, Charles. 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] KPPP - MD10.0 CE
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 17:31, John Richard Smith wrote: KPPP - MD10.0 CE BUG The default install off the discs is KPPP2.1.4 Modem time out is unchangeable from 5 second depite what whatever setting you give it. And when a connection is eventually made KPPP fails to dock into the panel despite enabling it. Does anyone know if they have an updated version ? John I am using 2.1.2 under 9.2 and it docks into the panel. I don't know about the delay. Hoyt The package MD10 CE installs is called kdenetwork-kppp v3.2-15mdk Not only is there no docking, any adjustment to the modem time out, but the dialing speed slider adjuster bar doesn't work either, but I think the pppd package may be where the fault lies. It's a pain having to live without the docking facility, it made closing down the connection easy, now I have to log out to achieve the same effect. The modem time out facility is also important with ISP's like mine, freeserve soon to be called Wannado (some wag has already christened it 'Canna do ') needs time for it's overloaded servers to let you in. One other problem is that the dialer no longer "cycles" between one telephone number and another in the phone numbers list , as my ISP like me to do, as it helps to even out the loads on their exchanges. Normally a failed connection means the next number it dials is the next in the list. That does not seem to happen anymore. What was it someone said about " K " in the name. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: home.desktop has no type
In addition to this, I've had a look at the file properties of "Home.desktop" and it's now being seen as a postscript file. I'm sure that's not correct. I've searched for answers on the web, but haven't found anything useful yet. > Oh poo, what have I done? > > I was trying to print a webpage to file (as currently I have no > printer attached). > I tried to create a folder on the desktop but it didn't appear, now > the desktop icons take forever to appear and my home icon has changed > into a KDE gear. > I also now get the following error: > > Error - KDesktop > > "The destop entry file > /home/synapse/Desktop/Hone.desktop has no > Type=... entry." > > > That sounds pretty terminal. Please tell me what has happened (if you > can) and how to put it right. > > Many thanks > Lexx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LogDrake
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 08:37, JoeHill wrote: > BTW: > > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette He's "Hitlering" again. 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 have a strong appeal for members of the opposite sex. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:02:14 +0100 Lexx disseminated the following: > Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me > :o) > > How can I screengrab? > In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into > "paint" > How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something > like Gimp, or is there a "paint" equivalent? > > Thanks in advance Easiest of all is 'scrot'. It's not in Main or Contrib or PLF, but you can find an RPM here: http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/ ...then just bind a key or create an icon with the command: scrot desktop.png (or whatever you want to call the file) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power" -- Benito Mussolini Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] home.desktop has no type
Oh poo, what have I done? I was trying to print a webpage to file (as currently I have no printer attached). I tried to create a folder on the desktop but it didn't appear, now the desktop icons take forever to appear and my home icon has changed into a KDE gear. I also now get the following error: Error - KDesktop "The destop entry file /home/synapse/Desktop/Hone.desktop has no Type=... entry." That sounds pretty terminal. Please tell me what has happened (if you can) and how to put it right. Many thanks Lexx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 18:25 -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2004 06:02 pm, Lexx wrote: > > How can I screengrab? > > In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into > > "paint" > > How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something > > like Gimp, or is there a "paint" equivalent? > > > Try ksnapshot. It should be installed. ... and, if I'm not mistaken, if it's installed you need merely hit the "prt scr" button to invoke it. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 17:33:50 up 10:24, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.12, 0.09 Its hard to be graceful getting off your high horse. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LogDrake
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:01:58 +0100 Lexx disseminated the following: > Apr 28 12:53:15 saphire postfix/pickup[10632]: warning: My hostname > saphire is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in > /etc/postfix/main.cf > > > Just browsing through LogDrake I picked up several instances of this > error. Does it need correcting, or can/shall I ignore it? It's safe to ignore it, unless you plan on running your own mail domain. BTW: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ I met my maker, I made him cry And on my shoulder he asked me why His people won't fly through the storm I said "Listen up man, they don't even know you're born" -- Oasis, D'You Know What I Mean? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Friday 30 April 2004 06:02 pm, Lexx wrote: > Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me > > :o) > > How can I screengrab? > In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into > "paint" > How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something > like Gimp, or is there a "paint" equivalent? > > Thanks in advance Try ksnapshot. It should be installed. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 08:02, Lexx wrote: > Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me > :o) > > How can I screengrab? > In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into > "paint" > How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something > like Gimp, or is there a "paint" equivalent? > > Thanks in advance > -- > Lexx You can fire up GIMP and click FILE => ACQUIRE => SCREENSHOT 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 depend on me all your lives. You have to learn that there's a little Homer Simpson in all of us. -- Homer Simpson Homer Defined Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Saturday 01 May 2004 00:02, Lexx wrote: > Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me > > :o) > > How can I screengrab? > In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the > clipboard into "paint" > How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use > something like Gimp, or is there a "paint" equivalent? > > Thanks in advance > -- > Lexx Lexx, there are no dumb questions, only dumb answers. Maybe this is one : Assuming you use KDE, under Mujltimedia --> Graphics choose an application called Ksnapshot. You can make a complete screendump or just a window. 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
Re: [newbie] KPPP - MD10.0 CE
On Friday 30 April 2004 17:31, John Richard Smith wrote: > KPPP - MD10.0 CE BUG > > The default install off the discs is KPPP2.1.4 > > Modem time out is unchangeable from 5 second depite what whatever > setting you give it. > > And when a connection is eventually made KPPP fails to dock into the > panel despite enabling it. > > Does anyone know if they have an updated version ? > > John I am using 2.1.2 under 9.2 and it docks into the panel. I don't know about the delay. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen Grabbing
Please excuse the dumbness of this question and humour me :o) How can I screengrab? In Windoze I print screen and then copy the contents of the clipboard into "paint" How would I do something similar in Mandrake, do I have to use something like Gimp, or is there a "paint" equivalent? Thanks in advance -- Lexx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] LogDrake
Apr 28 12:53:15 saphire postfix/pickup[10632]: warning: My hostname saphire is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf Just browsing through LogDrake I picked up several instances of this error. Does it need correcting, or can/shall I ignore it? Thanks in advance -- Lexx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KPPP - MD10.0 CE
KPPP - MD10.0 CE BUG The default install off the discs is KPPP2.1.4 Modem time out is unchangeable from 5 second depite what whatever setting you give it. And when a connection is eventually made KPPP fails to dock into the panel despite enabling it. Does anyone know if they have an updated version ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3B
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 22:14, Ian wrote: > > Right, I'm gonna give it another try.. > > > > This Time, I have removed the letter K from every filename in the list I > > want to burn... (and for those of you that know Kevin Bloody Wilson, > > he has a hell of a lot of K's in his song titles!) :-) > > > > It took a bit of doing, but lets see what happens! > > > > JRH Well, it worked alright this time.. after I applied the no K ruling! I also knocked the burn speed down to 10x, seeing as I have a 24x writer, I decided to go sfae and go one lower than 12. took it's time though, only got an average of 4.01x... But it didnt trip up this time! 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 22:24:57 up 1:17, 1 user, load average: 0.71, 1.18, 1.46 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. I've used both the tarball and the Mandrake RPM - no difference as far as I could see. Might be worth checking bugzilla for OO, or perhaps it's time to upgrade to 10.0. OO, like most things, works faster in 10.0. I'm using OO (slowest Linux app ever) on KDE (slowest desktop ever) awnd it still opens in seconds on a comparable machine. 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] K3B
Right, I'm gonna give it another try.. This Time, I have removed the letter K from every filename in the list I want to burn... (and for those of you that know Kevin Bloody Wilson, he has a hell of a lot of K's in his song titles!) :-) It took a bit of doing, but lets see what happens! 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 21:27:35 up 20 min, 1 user, load average: 1.28, 1.16, 0.84 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] displaying exif comments in jpg files
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:40, Job Evers wrote: > Does anybody know of an image viewer that will also display exif headers? > > I know that I can use jhead to look at the headers of each individual file, but it > would be nice to be able to view the image at the same time. > > Thanks. If you use ImageMagick's "display" to view JPG's, you can get the image info by clicking on the image, choosing MISCELLANY, then IMAGE INFO. Should be already installed on your system. 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 -- At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool. -- Menander Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3B
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 05:30, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:59:40 +0100 > JRH disseminated the following: > > > I'm gonna give XCDRoast a whack and see what happens > > Try GCombust. Drag the .wav files into the Audio Files tab, arrange in the order > you want, burn. > > I'm with Todd, anything with a 'K' is going to involve way more than is > necessary. NOT to deviate too far from the true subject here, but I find that k3b and arson work heaps better under XFce, Blackbox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker, AfterStoop, Enlightenment, OLVWM and even XPde...the KDE environment, with all it's eye-candy and other hidden resource-chowing proggies and threads, seems to hinder hardcore hardware access...yet in a different, lighter environ, the proggies work quite well...IMHO, mind you. I'm probably very wrong and very stupid. 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 -- Two hundred years ago today, Irma Chine of White Plains, New York, was performing her normal housekeeping routines. She was interrupted by British soldiers who, rallying to the call of their supervisor, General Hughes, sought to gain control of the voter registration lists kept in her home. Masking her fear and thinking fast, Mrs. Chine quickly divided a nearby apple in two and deftly stored the list in its center. Upon entering, the British blatantly violated every conceivable convention, and, though they went through the house virtually bit by bit, their search was fruitless. They had to return empty handed. Word of the incident propagated rapidly through the region. This historic event became the first documented use of core storage for the saving of registers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring the USB hub
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 01:04, John Richard Smith wrote: > Umm, > A bit too much for my limited knowledge , > but at a pure guess I'd say it's the usb2 that is the problem ? > > John Strange, but. I'm going to play with this in my VM of MDK 10CE and see what I can come up with - strange. 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 -- "Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." - Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 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 Friday 30 Apr 2004 19:24, Klemens Arro wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2004 13:54, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Friday 30 Apr 2004 10:20, Klemens Arro wrote: > > > On Friday 30 April 2004 09:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > > > Klemens Arro 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. > > > > > > > > My /etc/shorewall/rules below, part relevant to samba server. It was > > > > taken from the shorewall documentation, it works for me. > > > > > > > > raffaele > > > > > > > > #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE > > > > ORIGINAL # PORT > > > > PORT(S) DEST # samba ports > > > > ACCEPT net fw udp 137:139 > > > > ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,139 > > > > ACCEPT net fw udp 1024: 137 > > > > > > This doenn't help either :( > > > My /etc/shorewall/rules looks like this (made by mcc) > > > ACCEPT net fw udp 137,138,139 - > > > > You DO NOT want this line. As I commented to Raffaele this opens the > > firewall to Windows networking over the Internet interface *very > > insecure!* > > > > > ACCEPT net fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - > > > > This line opens your computer to the internet for Web server (80), Secure > > web server (443), ftp (20,21), SMTP (25), and Windows networking > > (137,138,139) > > > > You should only have these ports open if you actually want to use them, > > and of course 137,138, and 139 should not be exposed to the Internet > > > > > ACCEPT loc fw udp 137,138,139 - > > > ACCEPT loc fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - > > > REDIRECTloc 3128tcp www - > > > ACCEPT fw net tcp www > > > > Try adding the line to /etc/shorewall/policy > > > > fw loc ACCEPT > > > > That will allow all services running on your firewall device samba, etc > > to connect to the local network. If that is too broad for you then add > > ACCEPT fw loc udp 137,138,139 - > > ACCEPT fwloc tcp 137,138,139 - > > > > to /etc/shorewall/rules instead > > > > After making any change to shorewall restart it > > with > > 'shorewall restart' in a root terminal. > > > > > > derek > > now it shows me all computers at my network, but when i try to connect it > tells me: "Connection to X failed" and nobody can't see me. You need to check that the firewall is open from 'fw' to 'loc', and from 'loc' to 'fw' If you look at your syslog you will be able to see if any packets are being discarded. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] displaying exif comments in jpg files
Does anybody know of an image viewer that will also display exif headers? I know that I can use jhead to look at the headers of each individual file, but it would be nice to be able to view the image at the same time. Thanks. -- Job Evers 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 April 29, 2004 19:11, Lanman wrote: ... > Ron; By the sounds of the desktop manager that you seem to be using > (KDE), you can log into your box as a normal user (ie; "Ron" ? ), then > open "KControl" (Start>System>Configuration>Configure Your Desktop), and > go to the section called (What Else?)"System" ! > > Open that section up, and find the section called "Login Manager". You > will see a button near the bottom called "Administrator". Click it, and > enter the password you originally used for the "root" user. > > Once inside of that, click on the tab called "Users". On the left, you > will see a section called "Show Users". Click on "Selected Only", and > then put an "X" in the box beside each user's name that you'd like to > see at the login panel. For security sake, leave all unneeded user's > unchecked. > > Click Apply in the lower right corner, and you're done. The next time > you boot it up, your Desktop Manager will show you the Login Panel like > you're used to seeing. > > Enjoy! > > Lanman Ahh, that did the trick perfectly, and without switching display managers (I'm using the default, MdkKDM). Cool! Thanks for the tip. I guess I can see the rationale for hiding this from newbies. Once they've learned enough to be able to activate it, they're more likely to be able to use it safely. And while I was at it, I discovered how to put the focus on the password field. It always bugged me that it came up with the focus in the wrong place (on the login button, requiring me to either tab twice or mouse click to enter my password). Lots of other options in there I haven't even explored yet too. -- 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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3B
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:59:40 +0100 JRH disseminated the following: > I'm gonna give XCDRoast a whack and see what happens Try GCombust. Drag the .wav files into the Audio Files tab, arrange in the order you want, burn. I'm with Todd, anything with a 'K' is going to involve way more than is necessary. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3B
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 19:40, Todd Slater wrote: > Far as I can tell, K3B has a "k" in it. Anything with a "k" in the name > calls 50,000 other processes and leaves them running when its finished, > copies your .wav's to a tmp folder, and doesn't delete them if it > crashes in the middle of a burn Aaah.. That explains why it has just gone monumentally mammaries skyward during a burn... I was trying to burn 22 tracks. each one of them sung by Kevin Bloody Wilson.. Lots of K's there! The only way I could get the old girl back, was to hit the "missus button" (reset!). I'm gonna give XCDRoast a whack and see what happens 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 19:59:39 up 16 min, 1 user, load average: 0.44, 0.78, 0.80 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3B
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 19:25, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Have you tried burning at a slower speed? > > I've never had it fry an audio CD on my cheap and cheerful Iomega. John, I have tried knocking it down to 2x manually, and it still does it... Maybe it's something to do with my hardware config that it doesent like. 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 19:56:01 up 12 min, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 1.08, 0.89 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3B
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:02:06PM +0100, JRH wrote: > > Why oh why does K3B like to crash midway through burning an audio CD? > > It will burn data CD's all day long, with no problems. > > But, it will either crash at 50%, or just as it is beginnng to encode the > final track. > > It has done this down the line from 9.2, through cooker and now CE. > > I'm fully updated, and everything is set as it should be. I watched the buffer > status like a hawk during the latest burn, and not once did it drop below > 96%, so I'm doubting it's an under run. > > Crashing on the last track I can live with, as I always add an extra track to > what I want. But the 50% gets me steamed.. It wastes a CD! > > Any ideas? Far as I can tell, K3B has a "k" in it. Anything with a "k" in the name calls 50,000 other processes and leaves them running when its finished, copies your .wav's to a tmp folder, and doesn't delete them if it crashes in the middle of a burn. Honestly, I don't see what people love about K3B. I'm back to the old standby cdrecord--that command line, she always takes me back, as if she intuitively knows that I must wander to some younger, prettier app from time to time, and my love for her will be all the stronger for it. But I digress. I recently had a problem with burning audio cd's, too, and I fixed it by powering down the computer and unplugging it for a few minutes. It was a RAM/Cache/buffer thingy because a simple restart wouldn't fix it. Seriously, my computer is a 500mhz amd and it struggles with kde. I just tried Knoppix on a faster computer at work and I can see how nice and polished kde is, so I'm not really knockin' kde ;) When I'm in a bind for a gui burner I'll even use Arson, which I like a lot better than k3b. Do you get anything in an error log for k3b? Can you try cdrecord with the --dummy option to see if you can get a sense for the problem? 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] Samba / Shorewall
On Friday 30 April 2004 13:54, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Friday 30 Apr 2004 10:20, Klemens Arro wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2004 09:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > > Klemens Arro 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. > > > > > > My /etc/shorewall/rules below, part relevant to samba server. It was > > > taken from the shorewall documentation, it works for me. > > > > > > raffaele > > > > > > #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE > > > ORIGINAL # PORT > > > PORT(S) DEST # samba ports > > > ACCEPT net fw udp 137:139 > > > ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,139 > > > ACCEPT net fw udp 1024: 137 > > > > This doenn't help either :( > > My /etc/shorewall/rules looks like this (made by mcc) > > ACCEPT net fw udp 137,138,139 - > > You DO NOT want this line. As I commented to Raffaele this opens the > firewall to Windows networking over the Internet interface *very insecure!* > > > ACCEPT net fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - > > This line opens your computer to the internet for Web server (80), Secure > web server (443), ftp (20,21), SMTP (25), and Windows networking > (137,138,139) > > You should only have these ports open if you actually want to use them, and > of course 137,138, and 139 should not be exposed to the Internet > > > ACCEPT loc fw udp 137,138,139 - > > ACCEPT loc fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - > > REDIRECTloc 3128tcp www - > > ACCEPT fw net tcp www > > Try adding the line to /etc/shorewall/policy > > fwloc ACCEPT > > That will allow all services running on your firewall device samba, etc to > connect to the local network. If that is too broad for you then add > ACCEPT fw loc udp 137,138,139 - > ACCEPT fwloc tcp 137,138,139 - > > to /etc/shorewall/rules instead > > After making any change to shorewall restart it > with > 'shorewall restart' in a root terminal. > > > derek now it shows me all computers at my network, but when i try to connect it tells me: "Connection to X failed" and nobody can't see me. -- 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] K3B
On Friday 30 April 2004 11:02 am, JRH wrote: > Why oh why does K3B like to crash midway through burning an audio CD? > > It will burn data CD's all day long, with no problems. > > But, it will either crash at 50%, or just as it is beginnng to encode the > final track. > > It has done this down the line from 9.2, through cooker and now CE. > > I'm fully updated, and everything is set as it should be. I watched the > buffer status like a hawk during the latest burn, and not once did it drop > below 96%, so I'm doubting it's an under run. > > Crashing on the last track I can live with, as I always add an extra track > to what I want. But the 50% gets me steamed.. It wastes a CD! > > Any ideas? As a general rule burn at 1/2 the speed that your disk are rated for or 1/2 the max burner speed whchever is slower some of the cheap burners have to do a thermal recalibration on the fly > > JRH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3B
Have you tried burning at a slower speed? I've never had it fry an audio CD on my cheap and cheerful Iomega. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 19:24:00 up 1 day, 7:20, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] K3B
Why oh why does K3B like to crash midway through burning an audio CD? It will burn data CD's all day long, with no problems. But, it will either crash at 50%, or just as it is beginnng to encode the final track. It has done this down the line from 9.2, through cooker and now CE. I'm fully updated, and everything is set as it should be. I watched the buffer status like a hawk during the latest burn, and not once did it drop below 96%, so I'm doubting it's an under run. Crashing on the last track I can live with, as I always add an extra track to what I want. But the 50% gets me steamed.. It wastes a CD! Any ideas? 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 18:58:08 up 3:42, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.27, 0.43 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 CE printing problems
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 17:32, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > I can't get my printer, an HP Deskjet 845c, to print from 10.0CE I got an old HP DJ520... It's that old, you have to wait for it to get steam up first! Mine wouldnt print, until I installed package HPOJ. It shouldnt have needed it, but it did! When you run the printer installation wizard, it will throw up a little window, asking if your printer is one of a few types, a couple of them being HP Laserjet and OfficeJet. Click yes, and it will install the HPOJ package. Give it a try, it worked for me! 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 18:57:48 up 3:42, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.24, 0.42 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 CE printing problems
On April 29, 2004 23:24, Bill Echols wrote: > Hi, > > I can't get my printer, an HP Deskjet 845c, to print from 10.0CE. It > queues up but the printer icon in the jobs it always has a red "X" on it. > If I try to print a test page, it says everything went OK, but it just gets > queued up. Sometimes when I go into CUPS I have to start the printer but > still no printing occurs. I really need my printer as I am looking for > work but I refuse to slink back to windows. I would rather not go back to > 9.2. > > Any help would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Bill Don't know if any of this helps, but fwiw... My 990Cse didn't work with CE until I downloaded and installed the driver from HP. CE knew there was a printer there, but didn't know how to talk to it. Also, hotplug didn't work for me in CE. If I booted with the printer attached, I was fine. But if I unplugged and replugged, it wouldn't find the printer again (though I discovered some way in MCC to make it connect again; can't remember now). Both the driver and the hotplug problem were fixed when I went to 10.0 Official. I recommend this. -- 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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] AC 97 sound looping
On Monday 26 April 2004 03:35 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2004 17:22, Marc wrote: > > Using ML 10.0 I have looping or rapidly repeating sound. I tried > > changing my append line in drake boot to "devfs=mount acpi=no > > resume=/dev/hdc5 splash=silent" but that did not help at all. Anyone > > have any ideas what I should try next? > > > > TIA > > Marc > > It looks like interrupts are not properly routed. Interrupt routing is > influenced by ACPI, APIC and LAPIC AFAIK. These can be configured in > the BIOS and/or append line options. You can check if interrupts are > received by the kernel with 'cat /proc/interrupts'. > > HTH, > > -Frans Thanks Frans That fixed it. No APIC fixed my sound and solved a USB problem all at the same time. Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Go Vincent!
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:47:15 -0400 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: > > 'K, try this on for size, mate: > > > > "SCO appears to have given up its claim that the GPL is unconstitutional! > > Well, that is certainly a relief. Old Darl must have been doing some serious > stuff when he came up with that one. I dunno, I tried *everything*, I mean I went all Carlos Castaneda, and I still couldn't see the logic ;-) ...like my favourite Linus quote: "There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong." -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." -- John Maynard Keynes 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!
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 11:28 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:47:22 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: C'mon mate - we all know this...can't you come up with something "breath taking" - eh? 'K, try this on for size, mate: "SCO appears to have given up its claim that the GPL is unconstitutional! Well, that is certainly a relief. Old Darl must have been doing some serious stuff when he came up with that one. -- cmg Its not a relief... I'd prefer it if they had left it in... and the invalid stuff and any other defamitory claims that they had made about the GPL.. I'd like to see them get throughly trounced in court based upon that premise. Then a precident is set and this sort of thing will be much harder for greedy losers to try in future.. SCO have no unix product that can compete with any other established unix, let alone linux, they know that, and realise that without something else to bolster the company, they will go down... so they came up with the SCO vrs IBM/Novell/redhat/autozone/damlier-chrystler as a possibly alternative to prop up the company. (or at least to bump its shares so they can sell them and make a heaps of money.) They are slowly failing, and probably don't much care, since they have sold tons of their stock and made a good profit.. I'd like to see this become a precident against money grabbers trying to get one up on OSS.. it looks like SCO are going to crumble before they get to that point, and that annoys me... (but if SCO are gonna lose, then I'll bet M$ hope that it happens without setting a precident, so they can pay someone else someday to do the same thing all over again...) your homework boys and girls, is to make sure that everyone you are close to, knows that SCO sucks, microsoft sucks even more, and never buy a bridge if its offered by anyone called darl "mcbride of mcfrankenstien" -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl & PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Go Vincent!
On Thursday 29 April 2004 11:28 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:47:22 +1000 > > Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > C'mon mate - we all know this...can't you come up with something "breath > > taking" - eh? > > 'K, try this on for size, mate: > > "SCO appears to have given up its claim that the GPL is unconstitutional! Well, that is certainly a relief. Old Darl must have been doing some serious stuff when he came up with that one. -- 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] Configuring the USB hub
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 19:48, John Richard Smith wrote: Precisely so, I guess that this means there is no USB kernel support for my NVIDIA nForce2 MCP2(there is also a MCP2-T chip) chip. This chip procides, AC97 Interface Ultra ATA-133 HD USB2.0 EHCI/1.1OHCI controller Firewire (MCP2-T only) Audio Processing Unit(APU) for dolby 5:1 sound Maybe MD10 's kernels are more uptodate, Anyone know ? John Mate, as "su" do an insmod usb-core,then insmod usb-uhci and insmod usb-ohci - THEN check to see whether or not you've got USB connectivity stephen kuhn - owner OK, this is going to seem longwinded but here is what I found, but first may I inform that this is MD10 CE which I newly installed today, having only just obtained the discs.Though the same conditions apply to the situation as regards usb hubs. Incidentally Supermount appears as flakey as ever with my A drives, had to resort to the CL. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# insmod usb-core insmod: usb-core: no module by that name found [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# insmod usb-uhci Using /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/host/usb-uhci.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/host/usb-uhci.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# insmod usb-ohci Using /lib/modules/2.4.25-2mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/host/usb-ohci.o.gz insmod: a module named usb-ohci already exists I think this means I have a usb1 facility but all my ports are usb2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dmesg 07:39:08 CET 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1fff (usable) BIOS-e820: 1fff - 1fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 1fff3000 - 2000 (ACPI data) 511MB LOWMEM available. ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 On node 0 totalpages: 131056 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 126960 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia) @ 0x000f7390 ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff3000 ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff3040 ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff7700 ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x1000 MSFT 0x010e) @ 0x ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) Building zonelist for node : 0 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.4.25-2 ro root=307 devfs=mount acpi=ht r esume=/dev/hda8 splash=silent bootsplash: silent mode. Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1921.055 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 3827.30 BogoMIPS Memory: 514576k/524224k available (1603k kernel code, 9260k reserved, 1240k data , 144k init, 0k highmem, 0k BadRAM) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: ESR value after enabling vector: Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... . CPU clock speed is 1921.0209 MHz. . host bus clock speed is 334.0905 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 3340905, slice: 1670452 CPU0 mtrr: v1.41 (20040107) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbbd0, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Discovered primary peer bus ff [IRQ] PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at 00:00.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2
Re: [newbie] write access to NTFS partitions
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 13:33, David Lasry wrote: > Hi all, > I am new to this mailing list. I run Mandrake 10 and > have complete read access to all my NTFS partitions. > I was wondering how i can set it up so that i have > write access as well. > > Any help is welcome > Thanks > > DAvid Welcome Microsoft regard NTFS as a trade secret and will not release the spec. Linux writing to NTFS is experimental and could damage your partition. The best thing to do if you want to share data between Windows and Linux is to create a FAT32 partition. Linux has no problem with that. You can use diskdrake in your Mandrake Control Centre to create the FAT32 partition. derek BTW: Could you remove the "Reply To" in your webmail setting please? It is not necessary and screws up replies from mailing lists. -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] write access to NTFS partitions
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 05:33 -0700, David Lasry wrote: > Hi all, > I am new to this mailing list. I run Mandrake 10 and > have complete read access to all my NTFS partitions. > I was wondering how i can set it up so that i have > write access as well. > > Any help is welcome The conventional wisdom seems to be that it shouldn't be attempted, as it's not well enough supported and is rather risky. If you need to read and write data from both Windows and Linux, better to set up a shared FAT partition for doing so. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 07:59:11 up 50 min, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.13, 0.07 Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] write access to NTFS partitions
Hi all, I am new to this mailing list. I run Mandrake 10 and have complete read access to all my NTFS partitions. I was wondering how i can set it up so that i have write access as well. Any help is welcome Thanks DAvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0
Rory wrote: 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I just found the May PCXPERT magazine with 4 cds of Mandrake 10.0, haven't opend it yet... Must be the comunity version... And they give also some linux stickers ;-) in it... publicity, publicity! Just one problem it is sold in Turkey! Hope that in other countries they do the same thing. 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] Samba / Shorewall
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 10:20, Klemens Arro wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2004 09:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > Klemens Arro 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. > > > > My /etc/shorewall/rules below, part relevant to samba server. It was > > taken from the shorewall documentation, it works for me. > > > > raffaele > > > > #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE > > ORIGINAL # PORTPORT(S) > > DEST # samba ports > > ACCEPT net fw udp 137:139 > > ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,139 > > ACCEPT net fw udp 1024: 137 > > This doenn't help either :( > My /etc/shorewall/rules looks like this (made by mcc) > ACCEPT net fw udp 137,138,139 - You DO NOT want this line. As I commented to Raffaele this opens the firewall to Windows networking over the Internet interface *very insecure!* > ACCEPT net fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - This line opens your computer to the internet for Web server (80), Secure web server (443), ftp (20,21), SMTP (25), and Windows networking (137,138,139) You should only have these ports open if you actually want to use them, and of course 137,138, and 139 should not be exposed to the Internet > ACCEPT loc fw udp 137,138,139 - > ACCEPT loc fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - > REDIRECTloc 3128tcp www - > ACCEPT fw net tcp www Try adding the line to /etc/shorewall/policy fw loc ACCEPT That will allow all services running on your firewall device samba, etc to connect to the local network. If that is too broad for you then add ACCEPT fw loc udp 137,138,139 - ACCEPT fwloc tcp 137,138,139 - to /etc/shorewall/rules instead After making any change to shorewall restart it with 'shorewall restart' in a root terminal. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring the USB hub
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 19:48, John Richard Smith wrote: > Precisely so, > I guess that this means there is no USB kernel support for my NVIDIA nForce2 > MCP2(there is also a MCP2-T chip) chip. > > This chip procides, > AC97 Interface > Ultra ATA-133 HD > USB2.0 EHCI/1.1OHCI controller > Firewire (MCP2-T only) > Audio Processing Unit(APU) for dolby 5:1 sound > > Maybe MD10 's kernels are more uptodate, Anyone know ? > > John Mate, as "su" do an insmod usb-core, then insmod usb-uhci and insmod usb-uhci - THEN check to see whether or not you've got USB connectivity - because you're going to need to have usb-core loaded to at least recognise the USB interface - and if it ain't loaded, well, enough said, ya? 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 -- Expect the worst, it's the least you can do. 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 Friday 30 April 2004 09:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > Klemens Arro 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. > > My /etc/shorewall/rules below, part relevant to samba server. It was > taken from the shorewall documentation, it works for me. > > raffaele > > #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE ORIGINAL > # PORTPORT(S)DEST > # samba ports > ACCEPT net fw udp 137:139 > ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,139 > ACCEPT net fw udp 1024: 137 This doenn't help either :( My /etc/shorewall/rules looks like this (made by mcc) ACCEPT net fw udp 137,138,139 - ACCEPT net fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - ACCEPT loc fw udp 137,138,139 - ACCEPT loc fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - REDIRECTloc 3128tcp www - ACCEPT fw net tcp www * Sorry, I had a spelling error, I fixed this ;) -- 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] Samba / Shorewall
On Friday 30 April 2004 09:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > Klemens Arro 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. > > My /etc/shorewall/rules below, part relevant to samba server. It was > taken from the shorewall documentation, it works for me. > > raffaele > > #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE ORIGINAL > # PORTPORT(S)DEST > # samba ports > ACCEPT net fw udp 137:139 > ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,139 > ACCEPT net fw udp 1024: 137 This doenn't help either :( My /etc/shorewall/rules looks like this (made by mcc) ACCEPT net fw udp 137,138,139 - ACCEPT net fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - ACCEPT loc fw udp 137,138,139 - ACCEPT loc fw tcp 80,443,20,21,25,137,138,139 - REDIRECTloc 3128tcp www - ACCEPT fw net tcp www -- 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] Samba / Shorewall
On Friday 30 April 2004 03:02, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > Klemens, > I maybe wrong, but I thought you had to open ports 137, 138 and 139. > > Double check to be sure Yes, you are right. But this didn't help either. -- 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] Configuring the USB hub
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 01:04, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lsmod | more Module Size Used byNot tainted isofs 27988 0 (autoclean) zlib_inflate 21156 0 (autoclean) [isofs] sg 34636 0 (autoclean) nls_cp850 4316 0 (autoclean) floppy 55132 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 25096 1 (autoclean) lp 8096 0 (autoclean) parport34176 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] ppp_async 9216 0 (unused) ppp_generic24060 0 [ppp_async] slhc6564 0 [ppp_generic] af_packet 14952 0 (autoclean) eeprom 4820 0 (unused) w83781d21872 0 (unused) adm1021 7320 0 (unused) i2c-proc9072 0 [eeprom w83781d adm1021] i2c-core 21192 0 [eeprom w83781d adm1021 i2c-proc] sd_mod 13100 0 (autoclean) (unused) vfat 11820 0 (autoclean) fat37944 0 (autoclean) [vfat] I don't see usb-core, usb-uhci, usb-ohci, usb-storage stephen kuhn - owner Precisely so, I guess that this means there is no USB kernel support for my NVIDIA nForce2 MCP2(there is also a MCP2-T chip) chip. This chip procides, AC97 Interface Ultra ATA-133 HD USB2.0 EHCI/1.1OHCI controller Firewire (MCP2-T only) Audio Processing Unit(APU) for dolby 5:1 sound Maybe MD10 's kernels are more uptodate, Anyone know ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nvidia GeForce 6800 launched
Press release from Nvidia corporate: __ NVIDIA Launches GeForce 6800! Developers, press, and industry luminaries can only begin to describe the awesome power of NVIDIA’s revolutionary new GeForce 6800 GPU: "The GeForce 6800 is my platform of choice..." - John Carmack, President and Technical Director, id Software "What NVIDIA has achieved with the GeForce 6800 Ultra makes even experienced graphics cards editors shake their head in amazement and wonder." - Toms Hardware __ John Carmack is a pretty damn strong endorsement. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 30 Apr 2004 07:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Well I hope you have another firewall further upstream from your computer, because what these lines do is to open up Windows networking directly to the Internet so anyone+dog can browse your shared folders. Yes I do, and also I use the "hosts allow" entry in smb.conf to limit access to a very limited set of co-workers' machines. Anyway, thanks for the tip, I admit I did not do much study on the samba/shorewall configuration. 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] Samba / Shorewall
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 07:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > Klemens Arro 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. > > My /etc/shorewall/rules below, part relevant to samba server. It was > taken from the shorewall documentation, it works for me. > > raffaele > > #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE ORIGINAL > # PORTPORT(S)DEST > # samba ports > ACCEPT net fw udp 137:139 > ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,139 > ACCEPT net fw udp 1024: 137 Well I hope you have another firewall further upstream from your computer, because what these lines do is to open up Windows networking directly to the Internet so anyone+dog can browse your shared folders. If you want to enable Samba to computers in your local network, the lines ACCEPT loc fw udp 137,138,139 ACCEPT loc fw tcp 137,138,139 will do the trick (assuming the local network is called 'loc' in some cases it may be called 'masq' ) As an additional precaution it is a good idea to set the line interfaces= eth1 (where eth1 is the local network) in your /etc/samba/smb.conf file. This will force samba to only use that interface instead of the default which is all interfaces. Not only will it prevent people from outside connecting to samba, but it will stop samba timing out when it sends packets to the network interface which are then dropped by shorewall. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] More sound problems.
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 06:19 pm, 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. > >TIA > Marc > KM5KW Try one of the alternative drivers. Raffaele's is the one that worked for me (the default driver--snd-intel8x0-- had the same symptoms as yours). You might get sound out of the driver your using if you set for "8 bit" sound instead of 16 bit, too. Anyway, my driver is the OSS "i810_audio" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
