Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
And just another thought. I found that unless you included [ actually typed ] the file extension name ( eg *.txt) then my system when within windows is not happy about it at all. To check others concerns issue the following from your command client: $su Password #fdisk /dev/hda(assuming you are using only one harddrive) At the prompt type p (exclude quotes) The result should show you exactly what that partition is. At the prompt type q to quit and return to your command prompt #exit You might already know all this but others reading this thread may need to know how to find out. Enjoy Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David I use the same config. My entry: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0 You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4 in 10.0 OE
Thomas Wilkowski wrote: The 2.4 kernel should have been automatically installed when you installed mdk10. If it was not than, yes you can install it and it will install side by side. You will also have to edit /etc/lilo.conf. But before you do please double check /etc/lilo.conf to see if the already exists a stanza for kernel 2.4.*.*mdk. No, it was not installed, but I guess it depends on the choiches you make during the instalaltion. Yes, when you install it it also updates lilo.conf. thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nvidia5336 + MDK 10.0official
Hi! I installed the nvidia driver the usual way (logout from x, kill mdkdm, X, delete x-lock from tmp, install kernel sources, runinstaller, change nv to nvidia), but upon restarting x, it simply hangs with some blueish lines at the bottom of the screen. Only reset works, and changing nvidia back to nv causes the same problem. Had to reinstall the whole thing. I mirrored the club-france ftp site and burned it to dvd... What's wrong, what's the solution? Tenchi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xmms + playlist
Hi! In 10.0 official, the xmms playlist seems to work seperately from the main window. When I try to minimize the main window, the playlist simply stays there. Choosing a k-jofol skin would be ok, but upon restart xmms forgets the k-jofol setting and shows it's main window Why? Tenchi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] tvtuner + mdk10.0official
Hi! I use a tvtuner card for years with mandrake without any problems. With 10.0 official however, when i start up - or restart - the machine, it simply forgets that I have a tvtuner. i have to start drakxtv manually each time... why? How can I make the detection permanent? Tenchi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames. I tried with mplayer, xine and totem, always the same result. Yes, it's an old mobo (AMD K6-2/550), but in 9.2 it did its job. So I successfully installed the 2.4.25 kernel provided on the 10.0 cd, but was unable to configure the ISA PNP audio card. The isapnp utility configures and enables the card without errors, but modprobe snd-azt2320 exits with an error (no azt2320 card found). Card works fine in 9.2 and 10.0 with 2.6 kernel. Next I will try installing the 9.2 version of mplayer into 10.0, just to rule out kernel issues. If it doesn't do the job, I'll have to go back to 9.2 :-( Also, while burning a CD the system does not respond to any command. It's not frozen (icewm responds fine), but application it will not even start to load it until the cd burning is finished. And, accessing a CD in 10.0 eats up all CPU, while in 9.2 it was only using a small fraction - like if it was not using DMA, but DMA is enabled for all drives. I remember somebody defining 10.0 speed daemon so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance? 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] cant synch to palm pilot; MD 10.0 OFL
Le ven 14/05/2004 à 06:51, g2 a écrit : I have tried under both jpilot and pilot. I have received the message: Warning (gpilotd) Unknown pilot- no pilots matches ID -1073745932 Use gnomecc to set pilots ID Whats that? How do I get there? gnomecc is the Gnome Control Center. It is available in the Mandrake menu, or from a shell just enter 'gnomecc', you will then be able to adjust your Palm settings in there. After nothing worked, I tried ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot as root. You can adjust this setting in the Gnome CC and then use /dev/pilot without the symlink you created. Any advice would be appreciated. yea, I'm a newbie :) Make sure the gpilot dameon is running, and nothing else (no jpilot, no kpilot). To do that enter ps -ef | grep pilot in a shell and make sure the only output is about gpilot. Then from the gnomecc (or from Evolution - Tools - Pilot settings) edit the pilot settings and hit get from pilot to get the pilot ID. Then set some conduits to enable synching (for example EAddress will synch your contacts with Evolution - you'll need the Mandrake packages gnome-pilot-conduits and evolution-pilot). If you're still in trouble, stop gpilot (and make sure it is stopped) and try invoking pilot-xfer from a shell: pilot-xfer -p /dev/usb/tts/1 -l (it will list the files on your PDA) Good luck, -- Alexandre Aractingi [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] *HELP* About where to reg no. etc.
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 00:08, Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote: Hello. I have made som 9.2 cds of the 3 iso files and like to know where I find the number for registering and serfication etc for Mandrakelinux 9.2. --- Hi Gert, You get a registration number when you buy Mandrake, not when you download it. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kontact problems
Hi Folks I've got several mail accounts setup in Kontact but am having a few problems with collecting email. I'm on ADSL via a router, so any machine that is on the network is on the internet. I'm using Mandrake 10 and Kontact for email, news, etc. Most times whenever I check email I get an error message that says Could not login to pop.freeuk.com The server terminated the connection immediately As I have several accounts, i get one of these error boxes per account that it fails to check. It doesn't happen all the time, but quite a lot these days. For example if I check email when it logs in, I get it, but 30 seconds later it could be fine, or not, depending on how it feels. I can't find any pattern other than that message. I don't know how to fix it, I don't know where it is getting its information from but during this time I am connected to IRC, MSN, ICQ and www ok, so the connection is there and up. Help! Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
No worries, I've embarressed myself a few times forgetting things were hidden and wondering why I couldn't find them, so it's something that now comes easily to mind :-))) John. On Fri, 14 May 2004 10:30, g2 wrote: ah yes, ok, that did the trick. Actually I did not know what the . stood for. Thank you for thinnking of the obvious, all set now ! :) GT On Thursday 13 May 2004 12:27 am, John Layt wrote: It should be in your home directory, i.e. /home/yourusername/.Mail Note that it is a hidden directory due to the . in front of the name, so If looking for it under Konqi you will need to go to the View menu and turn on Show Hidden Files. John. On Thu, 13 May 2004 14:49, g2 wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2004 11:59 pm, g2 wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:47 pm, g2 wrote: Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied my old Mail folder to my home directory. I did have a couple of new messages in kmail, before i quit and copied the old mail folder to home, but nothing I needed. Everything is working fine now, EXCEPT that each time kmail starts up, I recieved a dialoge box that announces: The directory .Mail exists. We can't move mail. I need to release this dialogue box before kmail will load. Incidently, the dialoge box is oddly covered up by another box, that announces K KONTACT groupware. I am however able to move the underlying box out in order to click ok and allow the program to continue loading. What should I do to make things right? Thanks. Gideon so why no responses folks? Was my problem not explained clearly, or did it seem like not a big enough problem for people to bother answering? G2 Thanks to everyone who responded. Where might this .mail folder exist? I cannot find it. The mail folder which actually contains my mail data is right in my home directory. I have done a file search on .mail and it doesnt find it. Thanks. G2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Floppy under 10CE
I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a 'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get it to work Rich
Re: [newbie] cdrom
On Thursday 13 May 2004 05:21 pm, John wrote: Thanks Tom and Derek for your replies. Haven't been able to connect to the internet to check mail until today. Had to borrow a connection. Followed your advice in first email,tom, and cd works. Great! Have to get modem up now. It is a conexant/riptide modem and sound system. Linuxant put out drivers for modem and sound card for 9.1,9.2 and everything worked fine. When I upgraded nothing worked even after installing the new driver. Have requested help from linuxant but if anybody has any ideas, I would appreciate help on getting connected first and then the sound. I also have a us robotics usb modem if that would be better to use. I may need to replace the sound card also to avoid future problems. Anyway thanks for all the help. John Just so you'll know I'm not avoiding you, I've never used a winmodem or one that needs a driver. Sorry, can't help. I'd suggest you close this thread and start a new one appropriately titled to the problem. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?
On Friday 14 May 2004 12:08 am, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 12, 2004 05:08 pm, Paul Smith a écrit : Dear All Does somebody here know when it is planned to have the iso CDs of MDK 10 Official for free download? Many thanks, Paul Get them at the club ;-) That's very good advice, but for those that don't have the spare cash in their budget to join the club, you can download the i586 directory tree, create your own ISO's and burn installation cd's from the ISO's. I posted this link in a previous message. Check out this thread posted at linuxquestions.org. I think you will find what you are looking for. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=926547#post926547 -- Registered Linux User: 271967 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mkbootdisk to usb zip and cd
Hi, I discovered that #mkbootdisk doesn't fit on floppy no more, because 1.44mb isn't enough space . How do I make bootimage to usb zip or/and cd-r? In cd it had to be iso-image doesn't it? But what about in usb zib, I mean pen drive. Thank you, -- best rgds tt 17:37:38 up 53 min, 0 users, load average: 0.11, 0.09, 0.09 2.6.3-9mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mkbootdisk to usb zip and cd
On Friday 14 May 2004 09:42 am, Thujan wrote: Hi, I discovered that #mkbootdisk doesn't fit on floppy no more, because 1.44mb isn't enough space . How do I make bootimage to usb zip or/and cd-r? In cd it had to be iso-image doesn't it? But what about in usb zib, I mean pen drive. Thank you, 'mkrescue --iso' (from 'man mkrescue', should be provided by lilo) --iso Create an ISO-9660 bootable CD image (El Torito Format) suitable for burning to a CD-R or CD-RW. The --device specification defaults to the filename rescue.iso, and the --size defaults to 2880. A utility such as cdrecord may be used to burn the ISO file to a recordable CD medium. I dunno if this image would also be suitable on a zip drive, but you can always just try it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David David, You may already know this but.. are you sure its FAT and not NTFS .. I dont have W2K, but IIRC it uses NTFS and Linux can't write to it. It can read NTFS .. just no writing to it. or it could be that kwrite is saving it in unix format which has a different EOL character, so you could look into dos2unix, which will convert between the 2 different types. or I could be way off with my guessing HTH .. somehow 8) RickS Thanks for the reply. I am sure its FAT. I create a 1GB FAT partition (hda1) for file tansfer. W2K is NFTF (hda2). I also boot to DOS on that partition to run some old programs that only run under DOS. Its not line endings or anything like that. It file system corruption. When I run the DOS scandisk, it complains about cross linked files, unused sectors, etc. The directory is messed up. I regularly lose data for linux writes. Its is wierd because sometimes even Linux will realize that the directory is hosed (while I am working in a Linux session). Thanks for the tips...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] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
- Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David I use the same config. My entry: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0 You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32? I thought it would have thought it was FAT16 or FAT12. I formated it with a Win98 (DOS booting) floppy and selected *no* big partions. It is only 1GB in size. Maybe I should try specifing FAT16/FAT12 in the fstab and see if I get better results? 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] Floppy under 10CE
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a 'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get it to work Rich Is the disk write protected? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
R: R: [newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery
the service Acpi is not present...the system cannot find it... And now, what can i do? Best Regards - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:37 AM Subject: Re: R: [newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery Donato wrote: i have done as you said( i have enabled ACPI from Drakconf) but when i go to Klaptop it says like this ( excuse me for my english because i 'm traslating from italian) : Your Computer has an ACPI partial installation, ACPI probabily have been enabled, but some sub-option not.You must enable AC Adaptor and Control Method Battery and recompile Kernel. Now, i'm newbie, and i can't do it.Can you tell how i can do this? There is a more simple way?? Thanks again As root, run service acpi on, and see if that takes care of the problem. If it does, then run chkconfig acpi on so that it will start when the machine reboot. You can also do this from MCC. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
David A. Ferguson wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David I use the same config. My entry: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0 You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32? I thought it would have thought it was FAT16 or FAT12. I formated it with a Win98 (DOS booting) floppy and selected *no* big partions. It is only 1GB in size. Maybe I should try specifing FAT16/FAT12 in the fstab and see if I get better results? David If you want it to support long file names, you have to use vfat. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mkbootdisk to usb zip and cd
Tom Brinkman kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 14. toukokuuta 2004 18:36): On Friday 14 May 2004 09:42 am, Thujan wrote: Hi, I discovered that #mkbootdisk doesn't fit on floppy no more, because 1.44mb isn't enough space . How do I make bootimage to usb zip or/and cd-r? In cd it had to be iso-image doesn't it? But what about in usb zib, I mean pen drive. Thank you, 'mkrescue --iso' (from 'man mkrescue', should be provided by lilo) --iso Create an ISO-9660 bootable CD image (El Torito Format) suitable for burning to a CD-R or CD-RW. The --device specification defaults to the filename rescue.iso, and the --size defaults to 2880. A utility such as cdrecord may be used to burn the ISO file to a recordable CD medium. I dunno if this image would also be suitable on a zip drive, but you can always just try it. Thank you Tom :-) That did it and I all ready tried three dayz this mkbootdisk with diffrent parameters, and it didn't work. But #mkrescue did it, thanks again! -- best rgds tt 20:06:55 up 3:22, 0 users, load average: 0.30, 0.18, 0.12 2.6.3-9mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] lost display manager in 10.0
On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 21:14, Ed Chadwick wrote: Thanks, but I already checked that, and it's set to 5 as it should be. Ed. On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:12, you wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 20:47, Ed Chadwick wrote: Hello all, I've just upgraded from 9.2 to 10.0, and for the most part it went smoothly. The only trouble I'm having is with the display manager (kdm). i.e. The system boots up into a console, and I have to login and start X manually. I can't find where this is in the config to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. A suggestion : su to root, open /etc/inittab in your preferred editor. Somewhere in this file you'll find a stanza like : id:3:initdefault: Change 3 to 5, save, exit and reboot. Well, have you tried the K menu : System -- Configure Your Computer -- System -- Display Manager ? Kaj Haulrich. And Ed, please remove your reply to setting in your mailer, otherwise replies don't get to the list. And please use bottom-posting (seems I'm the list nazi today :-)). Thanks again Kaj. I looked for this in the menus but couldn't find it. The closest I have is System -- Configuration -- KDE -- System -- Login Manager, which appears to be set up correctly. I did get in a bit of a tangle with KDE during the upgrade though. I had KDE3.1 with Mandrake 9.2 previously, but I failed to remove KDE before the upgrade, which I should have done apparently. So after the upgrade I had both KDE3.1 and 3.2 stuff. I then removed everything to do with KDE (urpme -a kde) and reinstalled only the 3.2 apps. Is there something else I should have done to clean up the mess? Thanks again, Ed. -- Edward K.J. Chadwick PhD. Department of Biomedical Engineering Wickenden Building 404 Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-7207 USA phone: +1 216 368 0400 fax:+1 216 368 4872 mobile: +1 216 235 8239 email: [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] xmms + playlist
On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:35:36 +0200 Baka Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! In 10.0 official, the xmms playlist seems to work seperately from the main window. When I try to minimize the main window, the playlist simply stays there. Choosing a k-jofol skin would be ok, but upon restart xmms forgets the k-jofol setting and shows it's main window Why? I'm guessing KDE? I recently installed kde and had this problem, so I eventually upgraded to 3.2.2 and it's still there :-( My guess is it's an xmms bug, but I cannot be sure. I am glad though that KDE is behaving OK now though ... 3.2.1 has some very annoying bugs. Does the k-jofol skin help with the minimising problem? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist
Woops, wrong list ;-) .. I mean right list for the post .. but I'm using Gentoo on this system with the problems .. so it seems that MDK and Gentoo share some resemblance ;-) On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:03:06 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:35:36 +0200 Baka Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! In 10.0 official, the xmms playlist seems to work seperately from the main window. When I try to minimize the main window, the playlist simply stays there. Choosing a k-jofol skin would be ok, but upon restart xmms forgets the k-jofol setting and shows it's main window Why? I'm guessing KDE? I recently installed kde and had this problem, so I eventually upgraded to 3.2.2 and it's still there :-( My guess is it's an xmms bug, but I cannot be sure. I am glad though that KDE is behaving OK now though ... 3.2.1 has some very annoying bugs. Does the k-jofol skin help with the minimising problem? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Newbie network question
Hi, I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). I managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no problems (amazing, for a newbie klutz like me). So far I really like the system - if it wasn't for a few vital programs that have no Linux equivalent, I would wave goodbye to windows forever. Anyway, here's my question: I have two PCs in a LAN. One is my Newbie Linux machine, the other runs Windows XP. The Linux machine can see and transfer the files on the Windows machine with no trouble at all, which is great. But the Linux machine seems to be invisible to the Windows machine. I'd be *really* grateful if someone can give me any tips how to fix this. Am I right in assuming that I have to set up the Linux machine as a Samba server (if that's the right term)? As a second question, is there any easy way to make the Linux machine 'see' the windows partition on its own hard drive, so as to transfer files etc. Please be gentle with me! My total knowledge of Linux so far only comes from an hour or so looking at the manuals. Many thanks, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: R: R: [newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery
Donato wrote: the service Acpi is not present...the system cannot find it... And now, what can i do? Best Regards Did you use acpi or Acpi? It makes a difference. Also, check if you have the directory /proc/acpi because if you don't then it doesn't pay to go any farther. (Your BIOS doesn't support ACPI, or you didn't enable it correctly.) What you will need to do is to install the acpi RPM. You can do this from the package managment/add software menu. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist
The k-jofol skin didn't help as the next time I restarted, it showed the original xmms window... :-( 2004. mjus 14. 20.06 dtummal Ralph Slooten ezt rta: Woops, wrong list ;-) .. I mean right list for the post .. but I'm using Gentoo on this system with the problems .. so it seems that MDK and Gentoo share some resemblance ;-) On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:03:06 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:35:36 +0200 Baka Tams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! In 10.0 official, the xmms playlist seems to work seperately from the main window. When I try to minimize the main window, the playlist simply stays there. Choosing a k-jofol skin would be ok, but upon restart xmms forgets the k-jofol setting and shows it's main window Why? I'm guessing KDE? I recently installed kde and had this problem, so I eventually upgraded to 3.2.2 and it's still there :-( My guess is it's an xmms bug, but I cannot be sure. I am glad though that KDE is behaving OK now though ... 3.2.1 has some very annoying bugs. Does the k-jofol skin help with the minimising problem? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.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] lost display manager in 10.0
On Friday 14 May 2004 19:54, Ed Chadwick wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 21:14, Ed Chadwick wrote: Thanks, but I already checked that, and it's set to 5 as it should be. Ed. On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:12, you wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 20:47, Ed Chadwick wrote: Hello all, I've just upgraded from 9.2 to 10.0, and for the most part it went smoothly. The only trouble I'm having is with the display manager (kdm). i.e. The system boots up into a console, and I have to login and start X manually. I can't find where this is in the config to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. A suggestion : su to root, open /etc/inittab in your preferred editor. Somewhere in this file you'll find a stanza like : id:3:initdefault: Change 3 to 5, save, exit and reboot. Well, have you tried the K menu : System -- Configure Your Computer -- System -- Display Manager ? Kaj Haulrich. And Ed, please remove your reply to setting in your mailer, otherwise replies don't get to the list. And please use bottom-posting (seems I'm the list nazi today :-)). Thanks again Kaj. I looked for this in the menus but couldn't find it. The closest I have is System -- Configuration -- KDE -- System -- Login Manager, which appears to be set up correctly. I did get in a bit of a tangle with KDE during the upgrade though. I had KDE3.1 with Mandrake 9.2 previously, but I failed to remove KDE before the upgrade, which I should have done apparently. So after the upgrade I had both KDE3.1 and 3.2 stuff. I then removed everything to do with KDE (urpme -a kde) and reinstalled only the 3.2 apps. Is there something else I should have done to clean up the mess? Thanks again, Ed. Hmm... Ed, maybe your situation stems from the upgrade. When I shuffled the 10.0CE into my previous 9.2 system I chose install. But opted not to format my /home partition. I think this is the 2.nd safest route next to doing a complete wipe of the hard disk. I still have some dot-files left over from 9.2 causing weird things in 10.0, but nothing serious. Funny thing is, however, I'm absolutely sure that in 9.2 one can change display managers as well. So you should have the option preserved in 10.0. And about urpme -a kde : I don't think that's necessary. When something in KDE goes south beyond recovery, it's an easy thing just to remove your entire .kde directory. That way, the next time you log into KDE, it will use the default configurations. No big deal. My last idea : have you installed all the updates to 10.0 ? If that doesn't work, someone wiser than me : step in, please. 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] Re: CanoScan LiDE 50??
On Thursday 13 May 2004 09:14 pm, Richard McCormick wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 05:52 pm, Richard McCormick wrote: Hi, I just got Mandrake 10 and boy is it much better, the best yet but there is one problem and I was wondering if there is a way to configure my CanoScan LiDE 50 to work under XSane?? I actually found the scanner listed and when I selected it I got a message that this scanner is not supported by this version of Mandrake Linux. HUH?? It's listed but it's not supported?? That seems strange to me. Any help here?? Many thanks Richard ;-)~ the canon lide series includes models 20, 30, 50 and 80. the lide20 and lide30 are supported, wheras the lide50 and lide80 are not as they are based on a different chipset. the lide20 and lide30 are based on the National Semiconductor LM9831/2 chipset for which a driver called the plustek driver has been written. Thanks Alan for the info but is there a way to make this scanner work, like possibly using the lide 20 or 30?? no, you can't use a driver writen for chipset 'a' with chipset 'b'. Thanks Richard ;-)~ -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie network question
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:11, John wrote: As a second question, is there any easy way to make the Linux machine 'see' the windows partition on its own hard drive, so as to transfer files etc. The following worked for me on ntfs partitions (w2k). mkdir /mnt/windows Using your favorite text editor (gedit or whatever) edit /etc/fstab to add the following line: /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 Note that it mounts ntfs partition read only. Cheers, bj
[newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash
I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a directory, find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd thought this would work for i in * do if [-d $i]; then cd $i and so on, but the third line obviously has the wrong syntax, as I get [!: command not found. Any ideas? Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire 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] cant synch to palm pilot; MD 10.0 OFL
On Friday 14 May 2004 04:40 am, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Le ven 14/05/2004 à 06:51, g2 a écrit : I have tried under both jpilot and pilot. I have received the message: Warning (gpilotd) Unknown pilot- no pilots matches ID -1073745932 Use gnomecc to set pilots ID Whats that? How do I get there? gnomecc is the Gnome Control Center. It is available in the Mandrake menu, or from a shell just enter 'gnomecc', you will then be able to adjust your Palm settings in there. After nothing worked, I tried ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot as root. You can adjust this setting in the Gnome CC and then use /dev/pilot without the symlink you created. Any advice would be appreciated. yea, I'm a newbie :) Make sure the gpilot dameon is running, and nothing else (no jpilot, no kpilot). To do that enter ps -ef | grep pilot in a shell and make sure the only output is about gpilot. Then from the gnomecc (or from Evolution - Tools - Pilot settings) edit the pilot settings and hit get from pilot to get the pilot ID. Then set some conduits to enable synching (for example EAddress will synch your contacts with Evolution - you'll need the Mandrake packages gnome-pilot-conduits and evolution-pilot). If you're still in trouble, stop gpilot (and make sure it is stopped) and try invoking pilot-xfer from a shell: pilot-xfer -p /dev/usb/tts/1 -l (it will list the files on your PDA) Good luck, I had to chmod the device port (in mycase the serial I/O) so that I could read and write it. DBW -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] My school board is considering moving to Linux!
On Thu, 13 May 2004 01:06:51 -0400 Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My school board is investigating a Citrix + thin-client solution. Administrative desktop are XP and students win98. They are considering Linux Citrix is available for Linux. I was looking at it for testing purposes in a previous job at Siemens / Entex in San Jose. I've used their Windows front-end to Oracle, and also some related query tools, spreadsheets and the like. We called it Open Uptime, and the database was geared towards order management, inventory (the areas I was responsible for) and customer service/escalation issues. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist
Hiya Baka, But when you loaded it (k-jofol) ... did the playlist also minimilise? (/me is too lazy this evening to try, hehehe) On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:34:27 +0200 Baka Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The k-jofol skin didn't help as the next time I restarted, it showed the original xmms window... :-( Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, 9 May 2004 17:01:37 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Too late; I overheard something. Todd -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?
lake-wind wrote: On Friday 14 May 2004 12:08 am, Marc Lijour wrote: Does somebody here know when it is planned to have the iso CDs of MDK 10 Official for free download? Get them at the club ;-) That's very good advice, but for those that don't have the spare cash in their budget to join the club, you can download the i586 directory tree, create your own ISO's and burn installation cd's from the ISO's. I posted this link in a previous message. Check out this thread posted at linuxquestions.org. I think you will find what you are looking for. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=926547#post926547 Thanks, Marc and Lake-wind! I am patient and I can wait for MDK 10.0 Official. Moreover, I am very satisfied with MDK 9.2. I installed MDK 10 CE, but I experienced some problems with my machine's sound (I could not listen to MP3 files, for instance) and I have come back to MDK 9.2. The only problem with MDK 9.2 is that drakewizard deceives the time settings of my computer and the e-mails sent to me display a time with one hour behind... 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] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, 9 May 2004 09:56:00 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, I've used the XMMS diskwriter route to burning audio CD's here ever since the first time I saw you post it some time back... :-) Me too :), and probably longer. I'm very happy with it for two reasons - one, it's very fast, and two, it's the only method, so far that I've found, that'll decode variable-rate mp3s. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:12:37 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's actually much easier to hear with earphones, which is the only way my wife will let me listen to my music. :-) Speaking of headphone listening, have you done any experimenting with 'sox' and its 'earwax' option? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:18:32PM +0300, robin wrote: I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a directory, find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd thought this would work for i in * do if [-d $i]; then cd $i and so on, but the third line obviously has the wrong syntax, as I get [!: command not found. Any ideas? find can be your friend. You can find directories and files, and specify recursion depth using -mindepth and -maxdepth. So an easy solution (depending on what you want to do with what you find) could be something like find /home/robin/crappywordfiles -type f -iname '*.doc' by default it will recurse crappywordfiles to infinity finding all files that end in .doc, .DOC, .dOC etc. or if you really wanna cd to the directories themselves, something like for i in `find /home/robin/crappywordfiles -type d` do cd $i rm -f *.doc done hth, 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] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:01:46PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:12:37 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's actually much easier to hear with earphones, which is the only way my wife will let me listen to my music. :-) Speaking of headphone listening, have you done any experimenting with 'sox' and its 'earwax' option? I tried it and didn't like it. This was on a low-quality ogg (-q 3) I was playing though earphone on my Zaurus. It sounded really tinny to me. 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] tvtuner + mdk10.0official
On Friday 14 May 2004 02:42 am, Baka Tamás wrote: Hi! I use a tvtuner card for years with mandrake without any problems. With 10.0 official however, when i start up - or restart - the machine, it simply forgets that I have a tvtuner. i have to start drakxtv manually each time... why? How can I make the detection permanent? Tenchi I have the same problem, been trying to find the solution. If one of us does, or someone else knows it will be a good tiwiki? later -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Howto install nvidia drivers
Hi, I installed a ready compiled kernel..but have nividia card. Ok, it boots up to a command line login..after some screen on/off's. Rebooting in original is ok. Maybe I have to install some drivers on the new kernel..because its working on the old? Is there a easy way..looking at some howto's seems that I must compile a kernel? Please some pointers. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie network question
John wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). I managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no problems (amazing, for a newbie klutz like me). So far I really like the system - if it wasn't for a few vital programs that have no Linux equivalent, I would wave goodbye to windows forever. Anyway, here's my question: I have two PCs in a LAN. One is my Newbie Linux machine, the other runs Windows XP. The Linux machine can see and transfer the files on the Windows machine with no trouble at all, which is great. But the Linux machine seems to be invisible to the Windows machine. I'd be *really* grateful if someone can give me any tips how to fix this. Am I right in assuming that I have to set up the Linux machine as a Samba server (if that's the right term)? As a second question, is there any easy way to make the Linux machine 'see' the windows partition on its own hard drive, so as to transfer files etc. Please be gentle with me! My total knowledge of Linux so far only comes from an hour or so looking at the manuals. Many thanks, John To share file on you Linux machine with your Windows machines, you will need to install the Samba server package. This is not normaly installed as part of the workstation package. On the second part, if your windows partition is FAT16 or FAT32, it is probably mounted at /mnt/windows, so it will look like part of the Linux file system. I don't know if a NTFS file system will be mounted automaticly. If it is, it will be mounted read-only because there are problems writing to a NTFS. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3gain
On Fri, 7 May 2004 00:43:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone got the Linux binary for mp3gain hanging around? The author has no Linux binaries available on his site now, and I get no response to e-mails. Joe, let me know and I'll email the binary to you, if you haven't already gotten one. I did a quick look for it, it seems that it might have been originally done for Windows and/or beos, but there was source patches available for a debian pkg, so that's what I used. A few makefile tweaks later, and out popped a 107k binary. IOW, it's pretty trivial to compile. Now whether or not it'll run is anyone's guess, but it doesn't require any extra things, so an rpm isn't strictly needed. I'm currently trying it out on a number of Suspense radio mp3s I found recently. There's potentally a lot of variation in volume on these types of things and mp3 - wav - normalize is not at least for this the best way to go as I'm burning the mp3s to data CDs, 100+ episodes at a time :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie network question
On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:45:42 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). I managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no problems (amazing, for a newbie klutz like me). So far I really like the system - if it wasn't for a few vital programs that have no Linux equivalent, I would wave goodbye to windows forever. Anyway, here's my question: I have two PCs in a LAN. One is my Newbie Linux machine, the other runs Windows XP. The Linux machine can see and transfer the files on the Windows machine with no trouble at all, which is great. But the Linux machine seems to be invisible to the Windows machine. I'd be *really* grateful if someone can give me any tips how to fix this. Am I right in assuming that I have to set up the Linux machine as a Samba server (if that's the right term)? As a second question, is there any easy way to make the Linux machine 'see' the windows partition on its own hard drive, so as to transfer files etc. Please be gentle with me! My total knowledge of Linux so far only comes from an hour or so looking at the manuals. Many thanks, John To share file on you Linux machine with your Windows machines, you will need to install the Samba server package. This is not normaly installed as part of the workstation package. On the second part, if your windows partition is FAT16 or FAT32, it is probably mounted at /mnt/windows, so it will look like part of the Linux file system. I don't know if a NTFS file system will be mounted automaticly. If it is, it will be mounted read-only because there are problems writing to a NTFS. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! And when you're ready, post those necessary Windows progs and we'll point you to the replacements. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] tvtuner + mdk10.0official
I found a solutiona t the forums in /etc/modprobe.preload write bttv Haven't reload yet hope it will work... 2004. mjus 14. 23.13 dtummal Dennis Myers ezt rta: On Friday 14 May 2004 02:42 am, Baka Tams wrote: Hi! I use a tvtuner card for years with mandrake without any problems. With 10.0 official however, when i start up - or restart - the machine, it simply forgets that I have a tvtuner. i have to start drakxtv manually each time... why? How can I make the detection permanent? Tenchi I have the same problem, been trying to find the solution. If one of us does, or someone else knows it will be a good tiwiki? later Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:18:32PM +0300, robin wrote: I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a directory, find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd thought this would work for i in * do if [-d $i]; then cd $i and so on, but the third line obviously has the wrong syntax, as I get [!: command not found. Any ideas? find can be your friend. You can find directories and files, and specify recursion depth using -mindepth and -maxdepth. So an easy solution (depending on what you want to do with what you find) could be something like find /home/robin/crappywordfiles -type f -iname '*.doc' by default it will recurse crappywordfiles to infinity finding all files that end in .doc, .DOC, .dOC etc. or if you really wanna cd to the directories themselves, something like for i in `find /home/robin/crappywordfiles -type d` do cd $i rm -f *.doc done Works a treat! The reason I'm messing around with evil Word files is that it is the format I usually receive essays in (I've tried teaching my students the save as function in Word, but it doesn't sink in, and besides, other formats that Word can produce are equally problematic). It's not normally a problem, since I can open them in OpenOffice, write my comments and post them back, but sometimes I also want to do some analysis on them, for which plain text is essential (see http://lists.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/cgibin/concord.cgi for something I did a few years back). Thanks a lot, Sir Robin -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire 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] Floppy under 10CE
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:34, David A. Ferguson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a 'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get it to work Rich Is the disk write protected? Nope. Rich
[newbie] Modem installation
Hello I have a external usrobotics usb faxmodem that I would like to use on MD10 official if possible. Harddrake recognizes the modem but lists it under scanner category. How would I get it setup to use? Thanks john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Howto install nvidia drivers
Uytkownik Johan napisa: Hi, I installed a ready compiled kernel..but have nividia card. Ok, it boots up to a command line login..after some screen on/off's. Rebooting in original is ok. Maybe I have to install some drivers on the new kernel..because its working on the old? Is there a easy way..looking at some howto's seems that I must compile a kernel? Please some pointers. Thanks You have to compile nvidia driver for a new kernel. Don't worry - it's quite easy: 1) Go to NVIDIA homepage (http://www.nvidia.com/). Download the latest Linux driver. 2) Install kernel source that matches your current kernel. 3) Go to init level 3. Make your downloaded NVIDIA package executable (chmod +x name_of_package). 4) Run your package as superuser. It should execute smoothly (and quickly). 5a) Modify /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use the nvidia driver if necessary (that is, if it hasn't been done before). 5b) Modfy /etc/modules (or /etc/modprobe.preload if you use 2.6 kernel) to preload nvidia module ad each start of a system. 6) You can now test it by executing commands modprobe nvidia (loading the module to memory) and service dm start (starting X server). It should work well. I hope it helps - my nvidia card (WinFastA360TDH with NVIDIA GeForce 5700 chip) works well on my machine. One more thing - each time you update kernel or a XFree86 package (the one containing OpenGL libraries - because NVIDIA driver overrides them) you should do following steps: 1) Go to init level 3 (or just execute service dm stop) 2) Uninstall NVIDIA driver (nvidia-installer --uninstall) 3) Install updated package (if it is kernel, installation of its source and a reboot to use a new one is necessary). 4) Install NVIDIA driver. If your want just to update driver, run nvidia-installer --update as superuser when connected to Internet. Wojciech Podgrni PS. For club users there is downloadable NVIDIA package with precompiled drivers (but I am not member, so I cannot help you with them). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3gain
On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:17:06 -0700 David E. Fox disseminated the following: Joe, let me know and I'll email the binary to you, if you haven't already gotten one. I did a quick look for it, it seems that it might have been originally done for Windows and/or beos, but there was source patches available for a debian pkg, so that's what I used. A few makefile tweaks later, and out popped a 107k binary. IOW, it's pretty trivial to compile. Now whether or not it'll run is anyone's guess, but it doesn't require any extra things, so an rpm isn't strictly needed. ...already snagged it from Sourceforge, thanks! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 20:04:09 up 8 days, 6:31, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.20 +++ In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
