[newbie] RE: [XFree86] No Keyboard
I had the same problem with Mandrake 10.0 + XFree86 4.4.0: thekeyboard lockedin runlevel 5, but not runlevel 3. I finally started disabling modules using interactive boot anddisabled Mandrake's "keytable" module. Disabling it worked for me. It wasn't necessary, but you maywant to disable the "numlock" module as well. It doesn't necessarily prove that "keytable" is the culprit, but certainly there is some interaction involved.
Re: [newbie] Partition Magic 7 for Linux Native Partitions (bad partition table)
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:53 am, Roberto Ramsis sent these thoughts: For the 1st time i use Partition Magic 7.0 (Win98) to make my Linux Native partition ,I made it primary,after Uncompressing the kernel the PC just hangs . The problem is i can't let the MDK9.2 setup wizard do it,cuz this way ,both windows and partition magic can never see the partition table again and give partition table error. Using fdisk from knoppix hdb1 c win95 fat32 hdb2 f win95 Ext'd LBA hdb3 83 Linux hdb4 82 Linux Swap hdb5 b Win95 FAT32 hdb6 b Win95 FAT32 - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! It has been sometime that I used Partition Magic 7, but certainly it gives table errors when Diskdrake formats them, but if you want you can have it correct them and diskdrake will either correct them again, or do nothing and Mandrake will boot just the same. I used partition magic 7.0 to format all the partitions on the drive, the win 98, win 2000, in my case, at the front of the drive, then all the linux partition's after that as ext2 which is the only way that it can format linux natives. Then install Linux O/S and have it format the partitions you're using for those as you create and give the mount points. Then as above:- either never look at them again with partition magic or allow it to fix the errors it sees and all will be well. Red Hats diskdruid complains of Mandrake's diskdrake partitioning incorrectly as well as partition magic. But usually states that it can work within those parameters. So I really don't know how the errors affect anything, other than esoterically or pedantically? Everything still runs, but it is best to have Windows at the front of the drive in the first partition. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++ A man's real possession is his memory.In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. _Alexander Smith *** This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 10.0, KMail v1.6.1 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) 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] Partition Magic 7 for Linux Native Partitions (bad partition table)
Dnia ro 21. lipca 2004 07:26, Erylon Hines napisa: On Tuesday 20 July 2004 03:53 pm, Roberto Ramsis wrote: | For the 1st time i use Partition Magic 7.0 (Win98) to make my Linux | Native partition ,I made it primary,after Uncompressing the kernel the | PC just hangs . The problem is i can't let the MDK9.2 setup wizard do | it,cuz this way ,both windows and partition magic can never see the | partition table again and give partition table error. Using fdisk from | knoppix | hdb1 c win95 fat32 | hdb2 f win95 Ext'd LBA | hdb3 83 Linux | hdb4 82 Linux Swap | hdb5 b Win95 FAT32 | hdb6 b Win95 FAT32 The way that I would have done it: Use partition magic to move all active Windows partitions to the front of the drive and re-order the drive designations if necessary (C:, D:, E:, etc). Shrink the Windows partitions to leave free space at the end of the drive. Make the free space into a single fat32 partition. When everything looks right from windows and Partition Magic, uninstall partition magic. Boot with the Mandrake boot CD and use diskdrake to create the Linux partitions in the unused fat32 partition at the end of the drive. Do it this way, and you won't have to mess around with hiding partitions, etc., and LILO can handle your boot records. Partition Magic can be useful (I keep a copy around), but it has limitations, one of which is that it can only create Linux ext2 and I always use and recommend a journaling system (I use ReiserFS). Another is, it can interact with diskdrake and cause partition table errors. Diskdrake is a very good tool, but it can mess up the Partiton Magic tables--that's why I don't leave PM on my disks after I'm done with it. Two words, If I way. As mentioned above, move windows' partitions to the front but don't create any fat32 partition, just leave unused space over there. Then boot from Mandrake CD and create swap and linux native from that free space... It worked at my box... And the second is that Partition Magic 8 recognize and can create ext3, though changing anything with PM really messes up Diskdrake's tables... -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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 looks like KDE...huh?
I've been using XFCE4 for a while now after switching from KDE - much quicker to load, simple layout, does what I want it to do...until now. I set a nice simple desktop layout - panel at the bottom, icons growing up the right hand side, taskbar at the top, a plain purple background with a small picture of my cat in the middle so I have a friendly face to look at when all windows are closed - my one concession to eye candy! Last night, while I was checking my emails, my desktop changed itself! I still have the same XFCE4 layout of panel, icons and taskbar, but my purple cat background disappeared and was replaced with what looks like KDE! Blue background, stars 10 logo bottom right, and a sprinkling of icons - the very same icons that I created on my desktop when I used KDE! Too tired to deal with it last night, so closed down left it to the morning. Booted logged in this morning, got a quick flash of my normal purple cat background, then the KDE lookalike background appeared again!!! Right-clicking on the desktop itself, and selecting the Change Desktop Background option, I get the standard Mandrake choices - what I'm seeing at the moment. And I tested the icons - they work (on a double-click). Using the XFCE4 settings launcher from the panel and choosing Desktop:backdrop it shows that I have selected the purple background with the centred picture of my cat - but this is not being displayed! What have I broken? How do I fix it? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Printer config
I am trying to set up network printing through an SMC Barricade router (4 port) I have tried several configurations with no success so far. I've entered the Gateway address for the Barricade but I believe that the default port (9100) is incorrect. How do I determine what port is used for printing? Thanks Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Margot wrote: I've been using XFCE4 for a while now after switching from KDE - much quicker to load, simple layout, does what I want it to do...until now. I set a nice simple desktop layout - panel at the bottom, icons growing up the right hand side, taskbar at the top, a plain purple background with a small picture of my cat in the middle so I have a friendly face to look at when all windows are closed - my one concession to eye candy! Last night, while I was checking my emails, my desktop changed itself! I still have the same XFCE4 layout of panel, icons and taskbar, but my purple cat background disappeared and was replaced with what looks like KDE! Blue background, stars 10 logo bottom right, and a sprinkling of icons - the very same icons that I created on my desktop when I used KDE! Too tired to deal with it last night, so closed down left it to the morning. Booted logged in this morning, got a quick flash of my normal purple cat background, then the KDE lookalike background appeared again!!! Right-clicking on the desktop itself, and selecting the Change Desktop Background option, I get the standard Mandrake choices - what I'm seeing at the moment. And I tested the icons - they work (on a double-click). Using the XFCE4 settings launcher from the panel and choosing Desktop:backdrop it shows that I have selected the purple background with the centred picture of my cat - but this is not being displayed! What have I broken? How do I fix it? Margot I had a similar problem when I first started using pekwm. Everytime I fired up nautilus it also brought up the gnome background. I discovered that 'nautilus --no-desktop' fixes this problem. I am not sure if KDE/konquerer has a similar feature but it might be something to look into. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] knewsticker in LM10
Hi, I finally got my ethernet connection up and running! Thanks to all who offered suggestions. Now to get to the fine tuning. Has Mandrake removed knewsticker from the latest distro? If so, is it possible to implement the previous version? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] recording to my hard drive
Hi, I have recorded several lps to CD over the last few weeks. Yesterday when I tried to do some recording, nothing happened. To clarify, I could hear the sound but it wasn't recording. I tried using both Audacity and Gramofile and no luck with either. I have 3 mixers installed (at least). Kmix, AlsaMixer and Aumix. (Should I uninstall some?) When I look at the mixers I don't see any reason why it won't record. Anybody got a clue what the problem might be? I'm not sure if this is relevant or not but since the last time I recorded an lp I installed a DVD burner and a second hard drive. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PHP Compiler Cache
Dears, Does LM10 come with a PHP Compiler cache? If yes, what is it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ALSA driver not running
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 16:49, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: What do you mean by 'cut-up sound'? Low volume sound or no sound at all? There is sound, as loud as I want it, but in half-second bursts, if you see what I mean. I.e. the song plays, I can listen to it from start to finish if I'm feeling masochistic, but it's as if some DJ with a neuro-motor disease was trying to scratch the record from the back of a pick-up on a bumpy road, ya know? Is it an ISA card? If so, I had to do some manual work to get the drivers loaded the first time. The card is a sound chip 16 Bit Compaq PremierSound on the motherboard (I'm on a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop). I have a printout from a German Suse page (sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/laptop_daten_compaq_armada-1750.html) which says that the soundcard is detected as a Generic ESS ES1688 base soundcard or motherboard and that it is Supported by ALSA Version 0.4.2. ALSA detects the sound chip as a ESS Audio Drive ES1688. The laptop quick specs say it is a Sound Blaster Pro-compatible with 16-bit stereo Compaq Premier Sound. All this to say that I don't really know what an ISA card is :\ The required module seems to be there: #find /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/ -name *1688* /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688 /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688/snd-es1688-lib.ko.gz /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688/snd-es1688.ko.gz But is it loaded? I don't understand this: # lsmod Module Size Used by ... sound 78956 6 opl3,sb_lib,uart401 soundcore 9248 8 sb_lib,sound ... I'd have a look at the /var/log/syslog. First check if the board is recognized by the kernel. I don't see anything which would obviously be the card. Then check the lines where the system tries to start the sound system, see what errors it prints there (just search for 'sound' or 'ALSA' in syslog). No mention of ALSA in /var/log/syslog. When I search there for sound I get a load of greek-to-me: # less /var/log/syslog | grep sound Jul 21 14:27:12 laptop modprobe: FATAL: Module sound-slot-0 not found. Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: [cc956614] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: [cc956614] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: [cc956614] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Do you know which driver was loaded in 9.0. If so, you could try to load it manually with modprobe and see what errors you get. No, unfortunately I don't, but I suppose the above mentioned es1688 should work, right? But I still don't know why ALSA isn't running, or how to get it to run, or even if I really need it. Thanks a lot for helping me. Germn. 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 install problems
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:25 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: -Mark Ayares wrote: - I keep getting a Cannot find OS error after my MDK 10 install. Is - this a partitioning problem? - - I've been through three installs on this box, and it still doesn't work. - - Mark - -When I have seen this problem, it has always been that there was no -partition marked as active. The strange thing is that only some -machines requite this. Also, make sure you are installing the boot -manager (LILO) to the MBR, and not to the root partition. - -Mikkel Holy moly! I got this message the other day on my sons comp with a Soyo MB. He wanted Windows XP setup for some game or the other so I promised I'd try. I gave up on it and told him it couldn't be installed here. (of course Mandrake installed like a champ). Lets not tell him different...okay? :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree or Xorg?
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 09:52 am, Lanman wrote: -Charles A Edwards wrote: - On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:13:33 -0400 - Lanman wrote: - - -I'm glad that Charle's RPM's worked for you, but as you say, there -could be differences in how Xorg works with an SiS chipset and its AGP -driver module compared to your board. In the meantime, I'm back into a -desktop running XFree86, sigh. - - - I have been up all night, 95% vampire, and I have been liberally - partaking of spirits; both literal and liquid, bit I will offer a - discourse on the elements of your dissolution as it reflects on Xorg as - soon as I can see only 1 keyboard when I attempt to type - - - - Charles - - -ROFL! No problem Charles! Take your time! LOL! Good lick finding the -right keyboard! - -LOL! - -Lanman Age old advice: pick the one in the middle. ;-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree or Xorg?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 09:52 am, Lanman wrote: -Charles A Edwards wrote: - On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:13:33 -0400 - Lanman wrote: - - -I'm glad that Charle's RPM's worked for you, but as you say, there -could be differences in how Xorg works with an SiS chipset and its AGP -driver module compared to your board. In the meantime, I'm back into a -desktop running XFree86, sigh. - - - I have been up all night, 95% vampire, and I have been liberally - partaking of spirits; both literal and liquid, bit I will offer a - discourse on the elements of your dissolution as it reflects on Xorg as - soon as I can see only 1 keyboard when I attempt to type - - - - Charles - - -ROFL! No problem Charles! Take your time! LOL! Good lick finding the -right keyboard! - -LOL! - -Lanman Age old advice: pick the one in the middle. ;-) I'd like to know the experience behind that statement Ronald. On second thought, maybe not. Grin! I'm going back to my dark hole to wait on Charles triumphant (?), yet painful return. Somehow, I think this might take a while. g Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree or Xorg?
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:09 pm, Lanman wrote: - Age old advice: pick the one in the middle. ;-) - - -I'd like to know the experience behind that statement Ronald. On second -thought, maybe not. Grin! confession mode on Yeahbeen there, done that. :-) -I'm going back to my dark hole to wait on Charles triumphant (?), yet -painful return. Somehow, I think this might take a while. g - -Lanman Me too. Think I'll go have a drink while I'm waiting... lol -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFree or Xorg?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:09 pm, Lanman wrote: - Age old advice: pick the one in the middle. ;-) - - -I'd like to know the experience behind that statement Ronald. On second -thought, maybe not. Grin! confession mode on Yeahbeen there, done that. :-) -I'm going back to my dark hole to wait on Charles triumphant (?), yet -painful return. Somehow, I think this might take a while. g - -Lanman Me too. Think I'll go have a drink while I'm waiting... lol I don't care what time it is at your end, but I hope that drink is coffee! One mention of booze and I think we won't be seeing Charles for a while longer! If you hear from him before I do, ask him how the Pink Elephants are doing. Later, gone back to dark hole. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printer config
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 18:15, C. Tresenriter wrote: I am trying to set up network printing through an SMC Barricade router (4 port) I have tried several configurations with no success so far. I've entered the Gateway address for the Barricade but I believe that the default port (9100) is incorrect. How do I determine what port is used for printing? Thanks Curt Hi Curt, If you're using the CUPS system, you need to enable port 631 HTH, -- ::. Amichai Rotman The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 --- PLEASE READ: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1A install
Hi all, I d/l'd the 10.1 alpha last night and tried an install. No go, it makes it all the way through to just before the summary screen and gives an error of printer-utils not found. Refuses to move on from there. Just in case anyone is looking to try it. Might have been the mirror I used though, so has anyone else had success? -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1A install
Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I d/l'd the 10.1 alpha last night and tried an install. No go, it makes it all the way through to just before the summary screen and gives an error of printer-utils not found. Refuses to move on from there. Just in case anyone is looking to try it. Might have been the mirror I used though, so has anyone else had success? Thanks for the Heads Up Dennis. I was about to download it. I noticed that it only includes Xorg, and not XFree86 anymore. Kinda makes me all warm and fuzzy inside g, what with my recent woes regarding my ATI card and the serious inability of the card to run with Acceleration turned on. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1A install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 21, 2004 13:07:01, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I d/l'd the 10.1 alpha last night and tried an install. No go, it makes it all the way through to just before the summary screen and gives an error of printer-utils not found. Refuses to move on from there. Just in case anyone is looking to try it. Might have been the mirror I used though, so has anyone else had success? I installed it on the last four systems I've assembled as a test Dennis. I got various errors about kdecore4 (?) and a few more files, managed to get at least a bootable system then immediately ftp upgraded to the cooker tree. Check the signature line below generated by calling /etc/mandrake-release. You probably did pick a bad mirror. Which one did you use? I've had rotten luck trying any U.S mirrors lately for rsync or for installs. I'm getting the best results for rsync from the Irish mirror and proxad for ftp installs. Btw, everything is working fine here, barring a few glitches that have already been reported. Good luck and have fun! Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.1mdk 13:38:41 up 20:42, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.29, 0.31 We come to bury DOS, not to praise it. -- Paul Vojta, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/sioZqvqlrLPr5YRAvnOAJ4vlXkRLt9U/ywslThFisecaCKvIwCgnNJF PFdahtynk5CiegFwKse267c= =qI9I -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB 2.0 flashdisk problem
I know USB drives have been discussed to death, but I just can't seem to
get to grips with this one.
I have an Imation 256MB USB 2.0 drive, a clevo 400-something laptop(it's
a different brand, but the system identifies itself as a clevo) and
Mandrake 10.0 on it. USB 1.1 drives work perfectly, automount and all,
and I can get the Imation drive working on the COMPAQ 400mhz with USB
1.1 that I have at Uni. But usb2 with usb2 doesn't do anything. It
doesn't even come up with USB view.
My dmesg gives the following:
usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using address 3
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Imation Model: USB Flash Drive Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Current : sense key Unit Attention
Additional sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
Current sd: sense key Unit Attention
Additional sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
My modprobe.conf looks like this:
alias
alias autofs autofs4
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 {
/sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-ohci; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true
remove snd-intel8x0 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r
--first-time --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
And I have to admit that my linux skills have just about been depleted
by finding these two messages based on FAQs out there.
Thanks
Andras
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[newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard
Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my right alt key no longer works, and if I choose US International, I have to hit the ' and then tap the space bar - which is getting horribly annoying. I've almost gotten to the point where I don't want to chat in IRC or even do email as it's so annoying. No where I've looked can I change this behaviour - no where I've looked can I specify what KIND of keyboard I have - HELP! stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. The Briggs-Chase Law of Program Development: To determine how long it will take to write and debug a program, take your best estimate, multiply that by two, add one, and convert to the next higher units. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?
Todd Slater wrote: How are you starting XFce4? My initial thought is that you have some program running in the background that is changing your background. Switch on computer, select user 'margot', xfce4 is selected by default, enter my password...I usually have kppp and konsole running at startup from a saved session the day before, but I close everything else - I've found that xfce4 seems unable to save sessions if I leave OpenOffice open. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by icons growing up the right hand side. Are you using some other app to get icons on your desktop? Or, are you taking about the iconbox? Are you even using xfdesktop? Yes, the iconbox - mine is set to start at bottom right and grow upwards, so it normally contains 2 icons at startup - kppp and konsole - and acquires more during the day. Anyway, check your startup script and make sure you're not starting chbg or some such. Todd Errr...I'm afraid I have no idea where to find the startup script! And what is chbg? Thanks for your help so far. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ALSA driver not running
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 18:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 16:49, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: What do you mean by 'cut-up sound'? Low volume sound or no sound at all? There is sound, as loud as I want it, but in half-second bursts, if you see what I mean. I.e. the song plays, I can listen to it from start to finish if I'm feeling masochistic, but it's as if some DJ with a neuro-motor disease was trying to scratch the record from the back of a pick-up on a bumpy road, ya know? Is it an ISA card? If so, I had to do some manual work to get the drivers loaded the first time. The card is a sound chip 16 Bit Compaq PremierSound on the motherboard (I'm on a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop). I have a printout from a German Suse page (sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/laptop_daten_compaq_armada-1750.html) which says that the soundcard is detected as a Generic ESS ES1688 base soundcard or motherboard and that it is Supported by ALSA Version 0.4.2. ALSA detects the sound chip as a ESS Audio Drive ES1688. The laptop quick specs say it is a Sound Blaster Pro-compatible with 16-bit stereo Compaq Premier Sound. All this to say that I don't really know what an ISA card is :\ The required module seems to be there: #find /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/ -name *1688* /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688 /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688/snd-es1688-lib.ko.gz /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/es1688/snd-es1688.ko.gz But is it loaded? I don't understand this: # lsmod Module Size Used by ... sound 78956 6 opl3,sb_lib,uart401 The above says you are using OSS now. You can't use ALSA until the OSS modules are removed. soundcore 9248 8 sb_lib,sound ... I'd have a look at the /var/log/syslog. First check if the board is recognized by the kernel. I don't see anything which would obviously be the card. Then check the lines where the system tries to start the sound system, see what errors it prints there (just search for 'sound' or 'ALSA' in syslog). No mention of ALSA in /var/log/syslog. When I search there for sound I get a load of greek-to-me: # less /var/log/syslog | grep sound Jul 21 14:27:12 laptop modprobe: FATAL: Module sound-slot-0 not found. Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:29:53 laptop kernel: [cc956614] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:55:52 laptop kernel: [cc956614] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: EIP is at __crc_sound_open_dma+0x556069/0x55f7f8 [sound] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: [__crc_fb_unregister_client+6189798/6829661] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Jul 21 14:57:45 laptop kernel: [cc956614] __crc_register_sound_special+0x211cdfd7/0x211ce199 [soundcore] Do you know which driver was loaded in 9.0. If so, you could try to load it manually with modprobe and see what errors you get. No, unfortunately I don't, but I suppose the above mentioned es1688 should work, right? But I still don't know why ALSA isn't running, or how to get it to run, or even if I really need it. Thanks a lot for helping me. Germn. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?
Job Evers wrote: I had a similar problem when I first started using pekwm. Everytime I fired up nautilus it also brought up the gnome background. I discovered that 'nautilus --no-desktop' fixes this problem. I am not sure if KDE/konquerer has a similar feature but it might be something to look into. Interesting...I looked into ksysguard, found that nautilus was running, killed it...and my normal desktop background is back! What is doubly interesting is that nautilus was running at all - I have never used it, so it must have started itself! I wonder why... Anyway, if it happens again, at least I know how to cure it - thanks! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:50, Margot wrote: Errr...I'm afraid I have no idea where to find the startup script! And what is chbg? Thanks for your help so far. Margot /etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. There have, in the course of decadent history, been many large wigs, often with build-in gewgaws to stop people having to look at boring hair all the time. There had been ones big enough to contain pet mice or clockwork ornaments. Mme Cupidor, mistress of Mad King Soup II, had one with a bird cage in it, but on special state occasions wore one containing a perpetual calendar, a floral clock and a take-away linguini shop. (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1A install
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 02:48 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On July 21, 2004 13:07:01, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I d/l'd the 10.1 alpha last night and tried an install. No go, it makes it all the way through to just before the summary screen and gives an error of printer-utils not found. Refuses to move on from there. Just in case anyone is looking to try it. Might have been the mirror I used though, so has anyone else had success? I installed it on the last four systems I've assembled as a test Dennis. I got various errors about kdecore4 (?) and a few more files, managed to get at least a bootable system then immediately ftp upgraded to the cooker tree. Check the signature line below generated by calling /etc/mandrake-release. You probably did pick a bad mirror. Which one did you use? I've had rotten luck trying any U.S mirrors lately for rsync or for installs. I'm getting the best results for rsync from the Irish mirror and proxad for ftp installs. Btw, everything is working fine here, barring a few glitches that have already been reported. Good luck and have fun! Charlie Yes, I had the same kdecore4 errors and the printutils error but could not get a xserver running. I used a Wisconsin site. I'm trying again with a French ftp site. Bittorrent was way to slow, 1 to 3 kps. I will see how the French mirror does. -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ALSA driver not running
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 22:44, Frans Ketelaars wrote: # lsmod Module Size Used by ... sound 78956 6 opl3,sb_lib,uart401 The above says you are using OSS now. You can't use ALSA until the OSS modules are removed. That sounds like a very good lead. How do I know which modules I should remove to eliminate OSS? From /proc/modules: snd-opl3-lib 9984 0 - Live 0xccaf1000 snd-hwdep 8928 1 snd-opl3-lib, Live 0xccaed000 snd-es1688-lib 14224 0 - Live 0xccaca000 snd-pcm 93156 1 snd-es1688-lib, Live 0xccb09000 snd-page-alloc 11972 1 snd-pcm, Live 0xccac6000 snd-timer 24484 2 snd-opl3-lib,snd-pcm, Live 0xccae6000 snd-mpu401-uart 7072 0 - Live 0xccac3000 snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart, Live 0xccadf000 snd-seq-device 8008 2 snd-opl3-lib,snd-rawmidi, Live 0xccac snd 52484 8 snd-opl3-lib,snd-hwdep,snd-es1688-lib,snd-pcm,snd-timer, snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device, Live 0xccad1000 opl3 15276 0 - Live 0xccabb000 sb 10372 0 - Live 0xcc9fc000 isofs 33912 0 - Live 0xcca54000 zlib_inflate 22656 1 isofs, Live 0xcca43000 sb_lib 47664 1 sb, Live 0xcca23000 uart401 11364 1 sb_lib, Live 0xcc95a000 sound 78956 6 opl3,sb_lib,uart401, Live 0xcca0e000 soundcore 9248 9 snd,sb_lib,sound, Live 0xcc956000 scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod, Live 0xcc9da000 autofs4 14656 2 - Live 0xcc91b000 nfsd 173152 8 - Live 0xcc9ae000 ... (cut) I don't see a way to identify which modules are OSS and which are ALSA. I think the snd-something ones are ALSA, right? So I'm guessing sb_lib, uart401 and opl3 are OSS. Is this correct? Any others I should also remove? Thanks, Germn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1A install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 21, 2004 15:26:03, Dennis Myers wrote: whack Yes, I had the same kdecore4 errors and the printutils error but could not get a xserver running. I used a Wisconsin site. I'm trying again with a French ftp site. Bittorrent was way to slow, 1 to 3 kps. I will see how the French mirror does. Depends on the mirror. The one I mentioned is fairly fast but doesn't allow rsync connections. Have a look at either (or both) of the links below to see how current cooker mirrors are: http://home.skycon.net/~junfan/cookermirrors.php http://www.acert.pt/~fribeiro/mirrorwatch/ It's strange that the torrent was so slow. I had it running in upload only mode for 2 days. Set for 25 kilo-bytes upload limit. Oh well... the next alpha or a beta will probably be along in a bit anyway. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.1mdk 15:34:17 up 22:37, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.35, 0.34 A friend of mine won't get a divorce, because he hates lawyers more than he hates his wife. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/uL4ZqvqlrLPr5YRAs9tAKCHkIT7mEZoOAHTMHRz9Rm/tNpCggCffFFC 8kJklE0Gc2pjLFaONZO4TRg= =CfG/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:50, Margot wrote:
Errr...I'm afraid I have no idea where to find the startup script!
And what is chbg?
Thanks for your help so far.
Margot
/etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc
Thanks Stephen! Well, here's the file - does it look normal? No
mention of chbg, or of nautilus...
xsetroot -solid black -cursor_name watch
# fix broken $UID on some system...
if test x$UID = x; then
UID=`id -u`
fi
# Those are my settings, change them as appropriate...
# Xft DPI: 96
# Xft.hintstyle: hintnone/hintslight/hintmedium/hintfull
# Xft hinting: 1/0
#xrdb -nocpp -merge - EOF
#Xft.dpi: 96
#Xft.hinting: 1
#Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium
#EOF
test -f $HOME/.Xmodmap xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap
# Uncomment this if you want to load Xresources and/or Xdefaults
# test -f $HOME/.Xresources xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources
# test -f $HOME/.Xdefaults xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
# Launch xscreensaver (if available), but only as non-root user
test $UID -gt 0 test -z $VNCSESSION xscreensaver -no-splash
# Run xfce4-session if installed
xfcesm=`which xfce4-session`
case x$xfcesm in
x|xno*)
;;
*)
exec $xfcesm
# Shouldn't get there, but anyway...
exit
;;
esac
# or use old-fashioned startup script otherwise
xfce-mcs-manager
xfwm4 --daemon
# Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
# (as it seems to be the new standard)
if test -d $HOME/Desktop/Autostart; then
for i in `ls -1 -L ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 2/dev/null`; do
if test -x $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i; then
$HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i
fi
done
fi
xftaskbar4
xfdesktop
xfcalendar
panel=`which xfce4-panel`
case x$panel in
x|xno*)
;;
*)
$panel
ret=$?
while test $ret -ne 0; do
xmessage -center -file - -timeout 20 -title Error EOF
A crash occured in the panel
Please report this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list
Meanwhile the panel will be restarted
EOF
cat 2 EOF
A crash occured in the panel
Please report this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list
Meanwhile the panel will be restarted
EOF
$panel
ret=$?
done
;;
esac
xsetroot -bg white -fg red -solid black -cursor_name watch
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Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:08:47PM +0100, Margot wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:50, Margot wrote: Errr...I'm afraid I have no idea where to find the startup script! And what is chbg? Thanks for your help so far. Margot /etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc Thanks Stephen! Well, here's the file - does it look normal? No mention of chbg, or of nautilus... Since you didn't know where it was we can assume you didn't change anything in it :) Check your ~/Desktop/Autostart and see if you have anything in there that might be starting Nautilus. Also, IIRC XFce4 would launch Nautilus to display its documentation. So, if you ever looked at the help for anything in XFce4, that may have been what launched Nautilus. I may be wrong on that, though. I think now it just uses the browser environment variable for displaying help, which is what has me confused, but I haven't set it up from scratch for so long that I just don't know. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing a .jar file
Hi all, I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On their website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: Execute Opcion Font Viewer ... For Linux users use the command java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar in console/terminal/shortcut. When I fire that command in the command line, I get: bash: java: command not found I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know how to install/use these kind of applications? Cheers, Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 -- * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * * Running Mandrake 10.0 * -- Tell me, Brother Baldrick, what exactly did God do to the Sodomites? I dunno, but I can't imagine it was worse than what they used to do to each other. - EB Baldrick, Blackadder's Christmas Carol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a .jar file
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On their website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: Execute Opcion Font Viewer ... For Linux users use the command java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar in console/terminal/shortcut. When I fire that command in the command line, I get: bash: java: command not found I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know how to install/use these kind of applications? Java is probably not in your path so you'll have to give the full path to its location; on my machine it's /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/bin/java. You could probably set up a link in ~/bin or /usr/bin if you wanted. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with dns name configuration
I'm having a little problem with my internet setup. In the Internet config GUI provided in MANDRAKE 10.0 I cannot force my DNS server number that i 'm using. Somehow the orignal dns kept returning. Went to LDP website and learn i have to edit resolv.conf and enter my DNS there. done it AND... Hoorray I'm on the net. but everytime i reboot the old dns number is back and even if i change it, after a while my changes get discarded. Can anyone know how to permanently changed it? Which other file i should edit in order to accomplish my mission?. I use Apache Inetshare with DHCP on a dual AMD 2000+ computer. thx. __ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sending email from a script
Anyone out there ever written a script to send email messages? I want to write a script that will send a message to a certain email address when called. I thought I could just use the mail program, but it relies on /usr/sbin/sendmail to actually send the message. I believe that means I have to install and configure either sendmail or postfix. Sounds like a lot of work for a simple script. I don't want to run my own mail server (not at the moment). I rely on my isp for sending and receiving email. Is there a simple way to do this? Can I somehow tell kmail to do it for me? If not, can someone point me to some good instructions for configuring postfix to do what I need without interfering with email to/from my isp, and without opening up security holes in my system (e.g. an open relay). Thanks, -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:20:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok now I know more than I did do you know of a reference that lists all ports and their use? check /etc/services it doesn't go into great detail, but it's a starting point. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1A install
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 04:41 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: On July 21, 2004 15:26:03, Dennis Myers wrote: whack Yes, I had the same kdecore4 errors and the printutils error but could not get a xserver running. I used a Wisconsin site. I'm trying again with a French ftp site. Bittorrent was way to slow, 1 to 3 kps. I will see how the French mirror does. Depends on the mirror. The one I mentioned is fairly fast but doesn't allow rsync connections. Have a look at either (or both) of the links below to see how current cooker mirrors are: http://home.skycon.net/~junfan/cookermirrors.php http://www.acert.pt/~fribeiro/mirrorwatch/ It's strange that the torrent was so slow. I had it running in upload only mode for 2 days. Set for 25 kilo-bytes upload limit. Oh well... the next alpha or a beta will probably be along in a bit anyway. Charlie It does seem funny that I get the print-utils error cause my md5sums all check out. Can you have a flakey iso if the md5sums are correct? -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1A install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 21, 2004 18:17:06, Dennis Myers wrote: whack It does seem funny that I get the print-utils error cause my md5sums all check out. Can you have a flakey iso if the md5sums are correct? Sure you can Dennis; I did. I stopped using the alpha disks and started just plugging whatever system I'm testing into my hub, or use a USB drive, or just plug my mirror drive in temporarily. Depends when and where. It's easier that way anyway. Same like installing from the 'Net but a lot faster 'cause I don't have to be patient with the connection. It is an Alpha release after all. Once you're up and at least have a usable system please install the testzilla-clients so you can add your hardware configuration to the database at bugzilla. I don't always remember to do it with the systems I test, but every little bit will help in the long run. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.1mdk 18:36:59 up 1 day, 1:40, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.17 Win98 is called Win98 because it is 98% slower than Linux. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/xCoZqvqlrLPr5YRAnTPAKClzpPSrJurWm6CmJ3Owcz9aEKv6ACgqwiT ko/apm/X7o32CCAasGnA710= =aUTF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1A install
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 03:39 pm, Lanman wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I d/l'd the 10.1 alpha last night and tried an install. No go, it makes it all the way through to just before the summary screen and gives an error of printer-utils not found. Refuses to move on from there. Just in case anyone is looking to try it. Might have been the mirror I used though, so has anyone else had success? Thanks for the Heads Up Dennis. I was about to download it. I noticed that it only includes Xorg, and not XFree86 anymore. Kinda makes me all warm and fuzzy inside g, what with my recent woes regarding my ATI card and the serious inability of the card to run with Acceleration turned on. It's a perfect time for yo uto try it then, and report it as a bug if it doesn;t work. If you want it to work sooner rather than later, your best bet is to give as much information to the developers as possible, -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Little bit of sig help
Actually I just need a bit of help with the last entry. Apparently when
there is a long song title part of it is cut off:
Live - From Virgin Radio UK Meatloaf - You Took The Words Right Out Of My M
However, when the song title isn't picked up the wrap is there:
Live - From Virgin Radio UK Virgin Radio Classic Tracks - The original
classic rock station
Heres the line from my sig:
if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo Live - From Virgin Radio UK $( grep
Title: /tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print $2}' )
If I remember correctly its only a problem with the one title from Meatloaf,
possibly a problem with the originating station?
--
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9:44pm up 23 days, 3:05, 2 users, load average: 0.87, 0.74, 0.90
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing
between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Live - From Virgin Radio UK The Clash - I fought the law
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Re: [newbie] Problem with dns name configuration
Tien Lam Nguyen wrote: I'm having a little problem with my internet setup. In the Internet config GUI provided in MANDRAKE 10.0 I cannot force my DNS server number that i 'm using. Somehow the orignal dns kept returning. Went to LDP website and learn i have to edit resolv.conf and enter my DNS there. done it AND... Hoorray I'm on the net. but everytime i reboot the old dns number is back and even if i change it, after a while my changes get discarded. Can anyone know how to permanently changed it? Which other file i should edit in order to accomplish my mission?. I use Apache Inetshare with DHCP on a dual AMD 2000+ computer. thx. DHCP is what keeps changing it on you. The default DHCP configuration updates /etc/resolv.conf with the name server information if it is included as part of the DHCP information. So, if you want to specify your own name server, you have to turn it off. I can not check the exact wording right now, but I believe Peer DNS is what you are looking for. Turn it off, edit /etc/resolv.conf, and you should be all set. 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] Printer config
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:53:02 +0300 Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Curt, If you're using the CUPS system, you need to enable port 631 HTH, Thanks Amachai, Haven't quite got it figured yet but I'm getting closer. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Noob question of the day
On 7/21/2004 at 8:20 AM, Hoyt Bailey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: HB Ok now I know more than I did do you know of a reference that lists all HB ports and their use? IANA maintains a listing of the well known port numbers, a short description, and who registered them at http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers. NetworkSorcery also maintains a list, with hyperlinks to more detailed descriptions of services at http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip/ports0.htm The problem is that services that use relatively arbitrary port numbers (for example, webmin uses 1 even though it is not registered) will be harder to find out. There is a command that I've posted here before that will show what processes are using what ports on your system. Hopefully someone else can post it because it escapes me at the moment :) __ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA JWG Networks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) Phone: (208) 631-5440 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re[2]: [newbie] Noob question of the day
HB Ok now I know more than I did do you know of a reference that lists all HB ports and their use? Whoops, forgot my favorite one: http://ports.tantalo.net/ It's searchable and includes a lot of unofficial port usages. __ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA JWG Networks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) Phone: (208) 631-5440 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
Op Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:54:27 -0600 schreef Ron Hunter-Duvar: Anyone out there ever written a script to send email messages? Is there a simple way to do this? Can I somehow tell kmail to do it for me? If not, can someone point me to some good instructions for configuring postfix to do what I need without interfering with email to/from my isp, and without opening up security holes in my system (e.g. an open relay). Postfix is easy, you can find all info on www.postfix.org/documentation.html. The script-way to send mail is through 'mail'. 'mail' is a program. I think it is always installed with Mandrake, I never had to look for it. E.g. cat textfile_with_message | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Here is the subject (all in one line) Another option is the here-document way, if the contents of the mail is always the same: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Subject @end This is it. @end Everything between the @end directives will be in the body of the e-mail. It really is easy as that... Paul -- Beware of computerized fortune-tellers! http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
