[newbie] My notebook's modem and kernel 2.6
Dear friends, I have a new notebook ( Fujitsu Siemens 1840 ). Its modem is smartlink 56k (onboard). Under linux ,chipset name is Sis 7013. I downloaded latest linux driver (2.9.7) from Smartlink's Site . I installed it. Bu it does not run . When running Kppp and make query modem ,system finds the modem under ttyS0 but all answers for ATI commands are empty. What can I do ?? Any help is appreciated.. Best Regards.. H.ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?
On Monday 17 May 2004 03:08, David A. Ferguson wrote: Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. One poster mentioned you could get the same effect by setting MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. I have a similar message in /var/log/messages. But, what is Network Hotplugging and where is it located? I can't find any reference to this in MCC (I'm on 9.2, remember). I have installed Linux for the first time and Mdk10 official is the only version I have ever seen. So, I have never seen any other version. For 10 you pick Configure Computer/Network Internet/Manage connections. At this point a dialog about eth0 is displayed. You can change the IP address, DHCP, etc. There is a tab 'Options' and it has a check box labeled 'Network Hotplugging'. I had to uncheck it to fix my problem. Another use told me you can get the same effect by editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and adding/modifing these line ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes I have no idea what those lines mean or if they work. HTH...David One of the nice things about Linux is that all configuration is by clear text files. No messing about with arcane registry entries is required. When you set that box in the GUI to disable 'Network Hotplugging' what the GUI does is write MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes into the configuration file for that interface. You can learn an awful lot about Linux by exploring the configuration files in the /etc folder, but of course for a newbie it is awfully conforting to be able to use a GUI to configure your system. Network Hotplugging is a daemon which looks for Ethernet heartbeats. Most Ethernet cards are able to detect electrical signals which indicate that there is another ethernet device on the other end of the cable (MII). If Network Hotplugging is enabled your system will automatically up an interface when the heartbeat is detected, and will down it if the heartbeat disappears. This is especially good for laptops because it means you can just plug in the Ethernet cable, and within a few seconds you are connected to the network. The downside of hotplugging is that there are a few devices which will get confused and end up in the wrong mode, and some devices do not support it at all. Hence the ability to disable it. 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] USB Flash memory.
Dear Friends, I have an IOMEGA 128 mb USB (1.1) flash memory. When I plug it to USB port my system ( Mandrake 10.0 - kernel 2.6. ) recognizes and mounts it under /mnt/removable but when I want to go into it and save a data and to copy files from that. System says that device is not reachable. I think , there is something wrong with the installation of this flash memory.. This device was well running unde Mandrake 9.2.. !! What do you recommmend ? Best regards H.ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?
On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56, Derek Jennings wrote: One of the nice things about Linux is that all configuration is by clear text files. No messing about with arcane registry entries is required. When you set that box in the GUI to disable 'Network Hotplugging' what the GUI does is write MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes into the configuration file for that interface. You can learn an awful lot about Linux by exploring the configuration files in the /etc folder, but of course for a newbie it is awfully conforting to be able to use a GUI to configure your system. Network Hotplugging is a daemon which looks for Ethernet heartbeats. Most Ethernet cards are able to detect electrical signals which indicate that there is another ethernet device on the other end of the cable (MII). If Network Hotplugging is enabled your system will automatically up an interface when the heartbeat is detected, and will down it if the heartbeat disappears. This is especially good for laptops because it means you can just plug in the Ethernet cable, and within a few seconds you are connected to the network. The downside of hotplugging is that there are a few devices which will get confused and end up in the wrong mode, and some devices do not support it at all. Hence the ability to disable it. Derek, I don't know your professsional occupation, but if you published a book for linux newbies, you'd become a millionaire overnight. 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] Why is my FAT always corrupted
That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal. If you need to convert a file to windows style, try importing in in ms word. Damian El jue, 13-05-2004 a las 17:53, David A. Ferguson escribi: 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 __ 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
[newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!
Hello Friends, I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once more X starts normally and then can not next time (next boot ).. My gr. card is Geforce fx 5200 , and mobo is Asus a7n8x-deluxe. All help is appreciated. Best Regards. H.ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Epson printer woes
On Sun, 16 May 2004 08:39:58 -0300, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am having a bit of difficulty getting my Epson StylusColor 480SXU to work on my Mdk 9.2 system. I had managed to get it to work *OK* with the Turboprint driver (v1.86) previously, but I updated to the latest Turboprint driver (v1.87), and I can't for the life of me, get it to work with Turboprint. Even going back to v1.86 proves unsuccessful. What am I doing wrong?? I am now trying to get it to work with the CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5 setup that Mdk provides, but all I can get from my printer for output is a solid black page!! I have used up almost half of a newly filled ink tank trying to get a proper printout. :-/ Can anyone offer any help, or words of encouragement here? TIA for your time and patience. Epson printers work normally flawless on Linux. Did you have a look on linuxprinting.org ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Memory card reader shows carbage
I have a USB cardreader which is mounted automatically on Mandrake 9.2 as /mnt/hd This happens if I plug in the card reader with a multi-media card in it. However when I open de mount I see the card reader reading, red light is flashing, and see many entries with just carbage. When I use the same cardreader on SuSE 8.2 it works just fine. What can be the problem ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] spaces in samba shared forders
Haiz newbie, how to prevent in samba shares create folders and files containing spaces ore some other characters in names.?. force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!
On Monday 17 May 2004 11:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends, I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once more X starts normally and then can not next time (next boot ).. My gr. card is Geforce fx 5200 , and mobo is Asus a7n8x-deluxe. All help is appreciated. Best Regards. H.ERTAS Take a look at /etc/modprobe.conf You should have a line that reads alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia If that does not help take a look at the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log (only root can read that file) It will explain why X did not load. HTH 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] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?
On Mon, 17 May 2004 11:41:11 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56, Derek Jennings wrote: snip Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * I'll buy one right now. 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] 10
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 11:57 -0500, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:29 +0100, Phlip J Scott wrote: Hi all just installed man 10 on 3 cd`s everything went smoothly untill reboot. When it boots up it gets to looking for new hardware and will go no further just hangs. Any help on this would be greatly recieved. Try disabling USB in your BIOS and see if that will let you boot. And then stop whatever it is you've got going that's sending your message repeatedly (assuming it's not the list server hiccuping) :-) ... three copies and counting. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk 11:58:34 up 12 min, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.25, 0.22 Run away from what you want; it follows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10
Hi all just installed man 10 on 3 cd`s everything went smoothly untill reboot. When it boots up it gets to looking for new hardware and will go no further just hangs. Any help on this would be greatly recieved. Philip. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.680 / Virus Database: 442 - Release Date: 09/05/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking 2000/LM10
Thanks to both Joe and Lanman. Now to tell the poor person I asked the question for. Lucky him. :^) On Mon, 17 May 2004 10:22 pm, Lanman wrote: Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello All, On a dual boot system with Win2000 and LM10 is it possible to access the LM10 partitions from Win2000? If so, can you point me to where I could find the howto's? Regards Trevor Rhodes Trevor; Yes. Go to this link, and download whichever version you prefer, make a point to look at the version with large file support. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm#Download The only other ways to access linux in this case would be through a shared FAT32 partition, or Samba/NFS using another system. Personally, I always set up a FAT32 partition on all my dual-boot systems and remap my email and document folders, as well as OpenOffice location mappings to that partition. It also has the benefit of allowing me to store any linux and windows downloads to that partition, so I always have them available, should I ever upgrade or re-install either OS. Thunderbird has the added advantage of being able to use the exact same email folders for Linux and/or Windows, so that no matter which OS I'm currently using, all my email is available. Sorry if that's not much help right now, but ever since i started doing my setups that way, it's been pretty flawless. HTH. Lanman Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux-Mandrake 10.0 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 = Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu 94C29CF3 === 02:01:13 up 1 day, 1:19, 0 users, load average: 1.52, 1.14, 0.98 -- Never mud wrestle with a pig.. you get dirty and the pig enjoys it! Never try to teach a pig to dance. You waste your time and annoy the pig. Theoretically pigs can fly if propelled with enough force. 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 (public) download?
From: Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is it I see when i browse an offical mdk 10 dowload site such as ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586 ? Is it something that should be burnt on a dvd? Are there no iso-images anymore? I think you have to be a club member to get the three iso's, but I am not sure. You could burn a cd from i586/images/boot.iso boot from it and install from the network. You would need a fast connection though (DSL, cable modem). Alternatively, you could download i586/* to a spare computer and then install from that. 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] lost display manager in 10.0
On Friday 14 May 2004 15:06, Kaj Haulrich wrote: 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. Problem is solved now. For some reason, the Control Centre wasn't included in the default installation. Thanks, Ed Chadwick. -- 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
[newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? -- 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
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
On Monday 17 May 2004 15:09, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? I just had the same problem. Assuming you've got your sources set up, do (as root): urpmi drakconf For instructions on how to use urpmi, see: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eggnbacon/docs/urpmi-howto/ http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3460 Hope this helps. Ed Chadwick. -- 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] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? It is probably installed. You sound new to ML so I will try to make the reply detailed. I assume that you are using KDE if so this should be the easy way to find Mandrake Control Center. Click the star icon in the bottom left corner of the screen and go to systen then to configuration and then to configure your computer. You will be prompted for a root password. Enter the password and you will then be in Mandrake Control Center. -- 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
[newbie] 10OE and Speedtouch USB ADSL
Hi all.. I posted last week about the lack of functionality of the Alcatel Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem under 10 OE. I have tried everything to get it to work. With no success! It works fine under 9.2 and 10 CE, so why not 10 OE? Can anybody throw any further pointers at me? I have tried the 9.2 and 10 CE RPM's, in the hope that it worked under those 2 editions, it should work under 10 OE... not the case! Would there be any logs to indicate where the problems lie? I'm getting no error messages when I try to boot in terminal (./speedtouch.sh start), just the red failure mesage. Normally, on boot/network start, both lights on the modem begin to flash, with the USB light coming a steady green, then the ADSL light will come a steady green when connected. Now, the USB flashes, and the ADSL goes a solid yellow, and thats that. Help, I havent got much hair, but at this rate, I'll be totally bald! Many thanks, JRH
[newbie] urpmi main source
I'm running 10.0 official - updated from CE via downloaded iso's I can't seem to add a source for a main mirror. I've tried seven or eight different ones over the last two days trying both MCC and urpmi with no luck. Sources for plf, contrib, updates and a local folder were added with no problems - but main refuses to be added. I've done this a number of times in 9.2 and 10.0 CE and can't imagine what I might be doing wrong. Help! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
On Monday 17 May 2004 03:45 pm, Marc wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? It is probably installed. You sound new to ML so I will try to make the reply detailed. I assume that you are using KDE if so this should be the easy way to find Mandrake Control Center. Click the star icon in the bottom left corner of the screen and go to systen then to configuration and then to configure your computer. You will be prompted for a root password. Enter the password and you will then be in Mandrake Control Center. Actually I'm not new to linux or Mandrake. I started using Mandrake with version 8 and linux with Red Hat 5. It's not installed. Thanks for replying though. -- 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
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
still on community here but ever since 9.x ive had similar issues with stuff not getting installed that should have been... you seem to have to manually add them in at install time or the not so clever installer can decide for you not to install all sorts anyway just go through your cds and install everything you want... On Monday 17 May 2004 H:09, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] For ROX/Sylpheed users
Had an idea, and with some help (pathetic when you see how easy it is) on the ROX list: I created a new AppDir which allows one to drag a file or group of files onto it, whereupon a compose window opens with the file(s) attached. Kewl huh? http://www.orderinchaos.org/Filesend.tar.gz -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 16:32:33 up 18:45, 6 users, load average: 1.34, 1.55, 1.47 +++ 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] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
Thanks for replying. I only had the cd sources set up for urpmi and prior to my post, when I tried urpmi drakconf I got an error message stating there was no such package. So, apparently on my 5 cd set, drakconf does not exist. I took your advice, set up my sources from one of the mirrors, ran urpmi again and it installed perfectly. The only thing that I can think of is that there must have been an error when I compiled the 5 ISO discs after downloading the entire i586 directory tree. There were no error messages during the compilation. But, maybe something went awry and for some reason drakconf was not included on the discs. I wonder if anything else is missing? You stated that you had the same problem. Did you compile your own ISO's or did you download the ISO's from the Mandrake Club? Thanks for your help. On Monday 17 May 2004 03:37 pm, Ed Chadwick wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 15:09, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? I just had the same problem. Assuming you've got your sources set up, do (as root): urpmi drakconf For instructions on how to use urpmi, see: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eggnbacon/docs/urpmi-howto/ http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3460 Hope this helps. Ed Chadwick. -- 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] recording records to hard drive
Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being developed anymore. Anybody know of software I can try for this? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Confused about domain names
I'm a little uncertain about which domain name to use for my network configuration. Here's the setup: * I have a small home network. Until today, only one of the machines on it was running Linux - now I've installed Mandrake 10 Community on another. * I own a domain name - let's call it mydomain.com - so when I was installing Mandrake I chose this for the machine's domain. The machine's name is 'photo' So the FQDN for that machine is: photo.mydomain.com. * However, the other Linux machine, called 'scoop' (running SuSE, as it happens) selected for itself the domain 'local' - so that machine is 'scoop.local'. * The domain mydomain.com is actually hosted by a third party, not on my machines. Does any of this matter much? Are there advantages to having both machines using 'mydomain.com'? I thought I'd ask because I've just persuaded my better half to convert to Linux, so a third Linux machine will be joining the network. I've googled a fair bit on this, but nothing I've found really tackles the issue of whether it matters what domain name you choose - simply that you have to have one! Intuitively, I can see that it might be best if all the machines have the same DN - I don't know what it affects, but it seems sensible that they would. But should it be 'mydomain.com' or 'local'? I'd appreciate any thoughts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:28, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being developed anymore. Anybody know of software I can try for this? Eric Jackson Audacity HTH -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * O real no est na sada e nem na chegada, est na travessia. Jao Guimares Rosa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dev file question
Hello! I had my win modem working with penggy to dial up to AOL, but every time I restarted the computer I had to: rm /dev/modem because there was a different symlink in there, and then: ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 This worked great for a while, but yesterday things were acting strange and now I've got these symlinks: /dev/modem - /dev/tts/LT0 /dev/tts/LT0 - /dev/modem There doesn't seem to be a normal LT0 file in /dev/tts anymore, just the symlink. There is a weird 0 in the file listing that wasn't there before too. Does anyone know how I can get my /dev/tts/LT0 file back? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ 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
From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal. If you need to convert a file to windows style, try importing in in ms word. It is not the line endings the /file system/ is corrupt. When I reboot to Windows and attempt to access any file, Windows warns that the directory is corrupt and I should run chkdsk. When I do chkdsk reports cross linked files, unowned blocks and truncated files. David Then you should check your system for bad RAM or bad disks. FAT support on UNIX systems has been stable for many years now. (btw, do you check /var/log/syslog for weird records while writing to these partitions?) Damian 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
From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal. If you need to convert a file to windows style, try importing in in ms word. It is not the line endings the /file system/ is corrupt. When I reboot to Windows and attempt to access any file, Windows warns that the directory is corrupt and I should run chkdsk. When I do chkdsk reports cross linked files, unowned blocks and truncated files. David Then you should check your system for bad RAM or bad disks. FAT support on UNIX systems has been stable for many years now. (btw, do you check /var/log/syslog for weird records while writing to these partitions?) Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet the RAM is fine. 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] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?
Yes, very nice explanation. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 5:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'? On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56, Derek Jennings wrote: One of the nice things about Linux is that all configuration is by clear text files. No messing about with arcane registry entries is required. When you set that box in the GUI to disable 'Network Hotplugging' what the GUI does is write MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes into the configuration file for that interface. You can learn an awful lot about Linux by exploring the configuration files in the /etc folder, but of course for a newbie it is awfully conforting to be able to use a GUI to configure your system. Network Hotplugging is a daemon which looks for Ethernet heartbeats. Most Ethernet cards are able to detect electrical signals which indicate that there is another ethernet device on the other end of the cable (MII). If Network Hotplugging is enabled your system will automatically up an interface when the heartbeat is detected, and will down it if the heartbeat disappears. This is especially good for laptops because it means you can just plug in the Ethernet cable, and within a few seconds you are connected to the network. The downside of hotplugging is that there are a few devices which will get confused and end up in the wrong mode, and some devices do not support it at all. Hence the ability to disable it. Derek, I don't know your professsional occupation, but if you published a book for linux newbies, you'd become a millionaire overnight. 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] recording records to hard drive
On Monday 17 May 2004 02:28 pm, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being developed anymore. Anybody know of software I can try for this? I'm using audicity myself (line level output on amp (tape monitor) Eric Jackson [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] recording records to hard drive
The latest linux journal has a large write up on various sound manipulation packages. Roly On Monday 17 May 2004 02:28 pm, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being developed anymore. Anybody know of software I can try for this? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MicroSoft - The company that made the internet unsafe! Linux Counter #241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] geforce mx4000/nvidia
Hello Would appreciate any information or links that would help with installation and setup of a new video card. I am running md10 official with 2.6.3-7 kernel. I thought the nvidia drivers were included on the installation cd's but can't locate them. Thanks in advance. 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] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
On May 17, 2004, at 4:44 PM, lake-wind wrote: Thanks for replying. I only had the cd sources set up for urpmi and prior to my post, when I tried urpmi drakconf I got an error message stating there was no such package. So, apparently on my 5 cd set, drakconf does not exist. I took your advice, set up my sources from one of the mirrors, ran urpmi again and it installed perfectly. The only thing that I can think of is that there must have been an error when I compiled the 5 ISO discs after downloading the entire i586 directory tree. There were no error messages during the compilation. But, maybe something went awry and for some reason drakconf was not included on the discs. I wonder if anything else is missing? You stated that you had the same problem. Did you compile your own ISO's or did you download the ISO's from the Mandrake Club? Thanks for your help. On Monday 17 May 2004 03:37 pm, Ed Chadwick wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 15:09, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? I just had the same problem. Assuming you've got your sources set up, do (as root): urpmi drakconf For instructions on how to use urpmi, see: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eggnbacon/docs/urpmi-howto/ http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php? name=Newsfile=articlesid=3460 Hope this helps. Ed Chadwick. -- 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 Actually I didn't use ISOs at all. I had a 9.2 installation, which I upgraded to 10.0 by changing my sources and following the procedure described here: urpmi.removemedia (old sources) urpmi.addmedia (new sources) (or use your new Control Centre!) then urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select --no-verify-rpm --auto urpmi kernel I should have removed KDE3.1 first though, as I was left with a mix of 3.1 and 3.2 packages which didn't fully cooperate with one another. 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
[newbie] XFCE4
Does anyone know how I get the terminal from the task bar on Xfce4 to start in a particular directory? I have looked at all of the stuff in the .Xfce4 directory and nothing seems to have anything to do with the terminal start point. By-the-way, I am using /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt and have checked in that directory for the config info and haven't found anything that seems to correlate to what directory that rxvt starts in. And, I am using rxvt because whatever xfce4 defaults to - couldn't be found when I installed xfce4. -- ( )_( ) ( 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] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
Marc wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? It is probably installed. You sound new to ML so I will try to make the reply detailed. I assume that you are using KDE if so this should be the easy way to find Mandrake Control Center. Click the star icon in the bottom left corner of the screen and go to systen then to configuration and then to configure your computer. You will be prompted for a root password. Enter the password and you will then be in Mandrake Control Center. Or you can just open a terminal, su to root and then run: mcc thats how I usually start it.. -- 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
