Re: [newbie] Casio QV3500 digital camera

[Len Lawrence]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:32:38 +0100
David Trethewey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Vincent Voois wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > David Trethewey wrote:
> >
> >> I have a Casio Qv-3500 digital camera. Using Mandrake Linux 10.0, I 
> >> have tried to download photos from it (by copying the files using the 
> >> command line). It recognises it as a removable drive. It will copy 
> >> the files, but very very slowly. Anyone had a similar problem?
> >
> >
> > A little add-on info to get David better on tracks:
> > Casio Qv 3500 copies the file through a serial com-port connection 
> > probably right? (I had one myself in the past)
> > In the back of my head i recall a tty default speed-setting upon your 
> > comports are being automaticly set to 9600 baud or some sort it had 
> > had to be changed somewhere in a config file...
> 
> It can operate using serial ports, but I was using usb at this time.
> 
> David
This sounds familiar.  My Fuji Finepix acted the same way recently under 9.2,
not when first installed, but later after other USB mass storage devices had
been mounted and unmounted, pen drives and the like.  They also ran slowly and
the desktop suffered from a plethora of problems which appeared to be totally
unrelated.  Some odd messages appeared in some of the system logs (don't 
remember which) indicating that there was trouble with supermount.  Ah ha I said,
let's disable that.  Disabled supermount and ALL those problems vanished, and I
had been at the point of reinstalling the whole shebang.  That may not be your
problem, but it would be worth looking at if you use supermount.

I hope you find a solution.
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Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

[Johan Sch]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:35:04 +0100
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday 11 September 2004 23:04, Johan Sch wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:13:09 +0100
> >
> > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0.
> > > >
> > > > Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be
> > > > found. Thanks
> > >
> > > I just realised you are looking for kernels later than 2.6.5
> > > The update mirrors will not have anything later than 2.6.3
> > > The mirrors for 10.1 have 2.6.8 kernels which may run OK in 10.0 but it
> > > cannot be guaranteed they will.
> > >
> > > derek
> > > --
> >
> > 
> >
> > I could try them if I can locate them.
> > Could only find the iso's but no kernels.
> > Please. Would appreciate the URL to this kernels.
> > Thanks
> 
> ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/10.1/i586/media/main
> 
> derek
> 
> -- 
>***
Hi Derek,

Thanks for kindly providing the above.
Seem some changes to install kernel has taken place in 10.1.
Downloaded the kernel. Required some dependencies. Downloaded that. Too many 
conflicts. Do not want to maybe cripple my system.
At least I tried.
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Re: [newbie] How does one print man pages.

[SnapafunFrank]

Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Thursday 29 July 2004 19:55, Chris wrote:
 

On Thursday 29 July 2004 05:28 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote:
   

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 03:56, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
 

There has to be a better way to print man pages than to use
copy/paste. Please give me a clue?
   

Here's a quick way to create a nice poscript printable man page:
man nameofcommand | col -b > nameofcommand.ps
..then simply print out the ps file, or import it into like OO or
whatever...
 

Or you can make it a pdf file:
ps2pdf "filename.ps"
   

Hadnt thought of that but might prove useful.
 

Just before I delete this I thought I'd suggest what I do.
Open konqueror and type into the address field:
$man:/sensors
Now you can print directly from konqueror.
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Re: [newbie] Kmail and Mailing Lists

[Greg Meyer]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 06:34 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > Well, I installed kontact and now the list explodes to the individual
> > addresses when sending.  Rather annoying that I have to install all of
> > kontact just to use a distribution list.
>
> Yes, I am not sure why the KDE folks did that, but I kinda like Kontact
> myself.  Since they broke the KDE set up into all those little bits it
> takes me a bit longer to do an installation, since I select individual
> packages from the long list. Oh well, fun is fun and nothing more fun than
> messing with Mandrake Linux.  :

I don't use a lot of the stuff in kontact, just kmail and the address book.  I 
use a paper calendar and todo list still and pan for my newsreader, *and* I 
don't like a lot of extra stuff installed on my Notebook to conserve disk 
space for more music ;-).
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Re: [newbie] tar.gz files

[JoeHill]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:41:34 +0200
Thereidos disseminated the following:

> > Wherever you downloaded the file to, yes. So, say you downloaded Planner to
> > /home/john/downloads, you would 'cd' to that dir, then do as advised above.
> > *Then* 'cd planner-0.12.1', ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, su to root, and
> > make install.
> 
> I'd rather suggest : #su -c "make install" (without # but with all
> quotes) rather than su'ing to root cause it is quite possible to simply
> forget that you're running as root and do something you could regret. It
> happened to me couple of times before...

Good recommendation, and yes, I've, uh, had some problems with that before too.

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[newbie] MySQL 4.1 for Mandrake?

[fajarpri]

Dear all,
Does anyone have tried to install MySQL 4.1 in Mdk 9.2?
I have downloaded the rpm from mysql.com, but it seems that I can't use the rpm
-Uvh option. So, I removed the previous version and installed the new one.
The installation process complained about some thread number, but it proceeded.
After it, when I tried to run the mysql server, it just stayed there, nothing
showed in the log.

Is there MySQL 4.1 package available from Mandrake (particularly mdk9.2)?
Thanks,
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Re: [newbie] tar.gz files

[Thereidos]

W liście z nie, 12-09-2004, godz. 00:39, JoeHill pisze: 
> Wherever you downloaded the file to, yes. So, say you downloaded Planner to
> /home/john/downloads, you would 'cd' to that dir, then do as advised above.
> *Then* 'cd planner-0.12.1', ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, su to root, and
> make install.

I'd rather suggest : #su -c "make install" (without # but with all
quotes) rather than su'ing to root cause it is quite possible to simply
forget that you're running as root and do something you could regret. It
happened to me couple of times before...
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Re: [newbie] tar.gz files

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:07:42 -0400
john disseminated the following:

> > tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
> > or
> > tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2
> Is this done from within the download directory?

Wherever you downloaded the file to, yes. So, say you downloaded Planner to
/home/john/downloads, you would 'cd' to that dir, then do as advised above.
*Then* 'cd planner-0.12.1', ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, su to root, and
make install.

> --prefix??=/usr  Not sure what this means--recommend "prefix". Usr--my 
> name or does this refer to usr directory.

Doing './configure --prefix=/usr' just makes it so that the application is
installed to the /usr directory. Most source packages default to /usr/local.
Nothing to do with your username.

> is there a particular directory to change to?

You want to do all of these things (./configure, make, make install) inside the
directory created when you did 'tar -xvzf planner-0.12.1.tar.gz'. Do an 'ls',
and you should see a directory called 'planner-0.12.1'. That's where you want to
be.

So, in summary:

1. tar -xvzf planner-0.12.1.tar.gz

2. cd planner-0.12.1

3. ./configure --prefix=/usr

4. make

5. su 

6. make install

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Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

[Derek Jennings]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 23:04, Johan Sch wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:13:09 +0100
>
> Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0.
> > >
> > > Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be
> > > found. Thanks
> >
> > I just realised you are looking for kernels later than 2.6.5
> > The update mirrors will not have anything later than 2.6.3
> > The mirrors for 10.1 have 2.6.8 kernels which may run OK in 10.0 but it
> > cannot be guaranteed they will.
> >
> > derek
> > --
>
> 
>
> I could try them if I can locate them.
> Could only find the iso's but no kernels.
> Please. Would appreciate the URL to this kernels.
> Thanks

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/10.1/i586/media/main

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Re: [newbie] Kmail and Mailing Lists

[Dennis Myers]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:00 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2004 02:23 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 September 2004 09:26 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > > I am on Mandrake 10.0 CE, fully updated, with a few of Charles Edwards
> > > updated packages, but with the KDE 3.2.2 that is in the main
> > > repository.
> > >
> > > I am having trouble with Distribution Lists in KMail, and if anyone
> > > else is using them successfully, I would appreciate your help.  I used
> > > to recall that you could manage the lists from the kaddressbook, but I
> > > cannot see anywhere how to do that.  The only place I see to create
> > > them is in the message addressing window of a new message.  Is there
> > > another place to manage them that I am missing.
> > >
> > > Also, when I create a list, and use it to send a new message, kmail is
> > > appending my default domain to the address, and not exploding it to its
> > > component addresses like I would expect.
> > >
> > > Can anybody help?
> >
> > Look in the Contacts folder or sidebar button and you should be able to
> > manipulate from there. I think. : P
>
> Well, I installed kontact and now the list explodes to the individual
> addresses when sending.  Rather annoying that I have to install all of
> kontact just to use a distribution list.
Yes, I am not sure why the KDE folks did that, but I kinda like Kontact 
myself.  Since they broke the KDE set up into all those little bits it takes 
me a bit longer to do an installation, since I select individual packages 
from the long list. Oh well, fun is fun and nothing more fun than messing 
with Mandrake Linux.  :)
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Re: [newbie] Kmail and Mailing Lists

[Dennis Myers]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 02:55 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2004 02:23 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 September 2004 09:26 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > > I am on Mandrake 10.0 CE, fully updated, with a few of Charles Edwards
> > > updated packages, but with the KDE 3.2.2 that is in the main
> > > repository.
> > >
> > > I am having trou?ble with Distribution Lists in KMail, and if anyone
> > > else is using them successfully, I would appreciate your help.  I used
> > > to recall that you could manage the lists from the kaddressbook, but I
> > > cannot see anywhere how to do that.  The only place I see to create
> > > them is in the message addressing window of a new message.  Is there
> > > another place to manage them that I am missing.
> > >
> > > Also, when I create a list, and use it to send a new message, kmail is
> > > appending my default domain to the address, and not exploding it to its
> > > component addresses like I would expect.
> > >
> > > Can anybody help?
> >
> > Look in the Contacts folder or sidebar button and you should be able to
> > manipulate from there. I think. : P
>
> Does that mean I need Kontact installed to use Distribution Lists?
I am not sure. I have been using Kontact with 10.0 from the start and do not 
know if you can do it with just kmail installed. Kontact seems to be integral 
with kmail in my setup. ???
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[newbie] Virus warning

[Bryan Phinney]

Someone on the Mandrake Newbie list who is running windows and has DSL or 
Cable with Verizon on the East coast, possibly Virginia is infected with the 
SomeFool virus.

If you match the above description, you might want to seriously check your 
machine to see if it is infected.
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Re: [newbie] tar.gz files

[john]

Hello
I'm back again on the tar file. I am trying to install 
planner-0.12.1.tar.gz. I have a few questions on the process as 
indicated in Stephen's reply.
Generally, you download the tar.gz files to a particular dir, then in a
which directory or does it matter?
term, type:
tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
or
tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2
Is this done from within the download directory?
...then cd into the subdirectory, and then probably:
./configure --prefix=/usr
--prefix??=/usr  Not sure what this means--recommend "prefix". Usr--my 
name or does this refer to usr directory.
make
su
(password)
is there a particular directory to change to?
make install
...and you should  have a compiled binary after that.
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Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

[Johan Sch]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:13:09 +0100
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0.
> >
> > Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found.
> > Thanks
> 
> I just realised you are looking for kernels later than 2.6.5
> The update mirrors will not have anything later than 2.6.3
> The mirrors for 10.1 have 2.6.8 kernels which may run OK in 10.0 but it cannot 
> be guaranteed they will.
> 
> derek
> -- 


I could try them if I can locate them.
Could only find the iso's but no kernels.
Please. Would appreciate the URL to this kernels.
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Re: [newbie] Kmail and Mailing Lists

[Greg Meyer]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 02:23 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2004 09:26 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > I am on Mandrake 10.0 CE, fully updated, with a few of Charles Edwards
> > updated packages, but with the KDE 3.2.2 that is in the main repository.
> >
> > I am having trouble with Distribution Lists in KMail, and if anyone else
> > is using them successfully, I would appreciate your help.  I used to
> > recall that you could manage the lists from the kaddressbook, but I
> > cannot see anywhere how to do that.  The only place I see to create them
> > is in the message addressing window of a new message.  Is there another
> > place to manage them that I am missing.
> >
> > Also, when I create a list, and use it to send a new message, kmail is
> > appending my default domain to the address, and not exploding it to its
> > component addresses like I would expect.
> >
> > Can anybody help?
>
> Look in the Contacts folder or sidebar button and you should be able to
> manipulate from there. I think. : P

Well, I installed kontact and now the list explodes to the individual 
addresses when sending.  Rather annoying that I have to install all of 
kontact just to use a distribution list.
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Re: [newbie] Kmail and Mailing Lists

[Greg Meyer]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 02:23 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2004 09:26 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > I am on Mandrake 10.0 CE, fully updated, with a few of Charles Edwards
> > updated packages, but with the KDE 3.2.2 that is in the main repository.
> >
> > I am having trou?ble with Distribution Lists in KMail, and if anyone else
> > is using them successfully, I would appreciate your help.  I used to
> > recall that you could manage the lists from the kaddressbook, but I
> > cannot see anywhere how to do that.  The only place I see to create them
> > is in the message addressing window of a new message.  Is there another
> > place to manage them that I am missing.
> >
> > Also, when I create a list, and use it to send a new message, kmail is
> > appending my default domain to the address, and not exploding it to its
> > component addresses like I would expect.
> >
> > Can anybody help?
>
> Look in the Contacts folder or sidebar button and you should be able to
> manipulate from there. I think. : P

Does that mean I need Kontact installed to use Distribution Lists?
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Re: [newbie] Setting up a print server

[Ryan Steffes]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:09:13 -0700, aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have 3 boxes runing Mandrake 10.0 9.2 and (shhh win 98)
> I need to have one of the boxes act as a print server how do I set it up?
> TIA
> 
> 


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[newbie] Setting up a print server

[aron Smith]

I have 3 boxes runing Mandrake 10.0 9.2 and (shhh win 98)
I need to have one of the boxes act as a print server how do I set it up?
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[newbie] kernel updates and upgrading and so on

[Hans-Cees Speel]

Hi,

I have installed mandrake community 10.0 on my laptop dell inspiron 8600.

However, I want to update several things. One is the kernel, because the apci 
settings I need are not in the 10.0 kernel.

What will work:

- setting the urpmi to cooker or something, or 10.0 official release and updating to  
a newer kernel

I never really understood if you can just switch from community 10.0 to 10.0 official 
to cooker and so on by urpmi? Will things go wrong?

Also the rpm's on the internet of 10.0 community do not seem to change when 
security holes and so on are found. Is that correct? SAhould I use 10.0 offical for 
that?


- downloading latest 2.6xx kernel source from kernel.org or somewhere and 
compiling that? Will things go wrong if I do that?

If I would update by using a recent kernel source by Linus, must I also re-compile 
kde, or my nvidia drivers and so on?

Hope someone can explain this a bit.


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Re: [newbie] Kmail and Mailing Lists

[Dennis Myers]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 09:26 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> I am on Mandrake 10.0 CE, fully updated, with a few of Charles Edwards
> updated packages, but with the KDE 3.2.2 that is in the main repository.
>
> I am having trouble with Distribution Lists in KMail, and if anyone else is
> using them successfully, I would appreciate your help.  I used to recall
> that you could manage the lists from the kaddressbook, but I cannot see
> anywhere how to do that.  The only place I see to create them is in the
> message addressing window of a new message.  Is there another place to
> manage them that I am missing.
>
> Also, when I create a list, and use it to send a new message, kmail is
> appending my default domain to the address, and not exploding it to its
> component addresses like I would expect.
>
> Can anybody help?
Look in the Contacts folder or sidebar button and you should be able to 
manipulate from there. I think. : P
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Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 17:45, BJ Tracy wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Well I finally had to reboot my system because of something I did in the 
> console and it froze up.  On the reboot I was watching the screen and there 
> was a bunch of hd errors so I went into Mandrake Mount Points and here is 
> what I found.
> 
> My desktop has three hard drives and I can see all three in Mount Points.  
> When I loaded MDK 10.0 on my desktop I installed it on my new hard drive and 
> have been up and running great. 
> 
> Here is what I have then I will ask for advice / help.
> My new hard drive has /   swap and   /home on it.
> the other two are just journalized ext 3 but not mounted ( I guess is the 
> term).
> 
> My question is:  If I go into Mount Points and go to each hard drive and 
> choose the partition size and define it what should they be ?
> /var another /home . just what I'm not sure.  I have all this space and 
> it's not showing up usable.

Partitioning is one thing you must do yourself as far as I am concerned
because everybody has different space requirements.  One place you can
start is by analyzing the space requirements of 9.2 MDK itself.

On my system I have a pretty hefty installation, as far as number of
total mdk packages installed.  The RULE is for the /usr partition is to
be at 40% or less usage AFTER you finish a brand new MDK install.

Why?  Because as your installation grows you want plenty of room for the
upgrade/bugfix packages and more brand new packages.  Through trial and
error over the years I have found that 40% usage at installation time on
the /usr partition pretty much covers all bases until the next upgrade. 
What is that size, you ask?  Well I have a pretty loaded install and for
me that means the /usr partition is 4.6 gigs total.

The only other partitions you have to worry about as far as size goes
are /var and /home.  I don't do separate /var and /home partitions
because the file lifetimes on those partitions are very similar (and I
don't put a large number of separate hard drives in my box).  One main
criterion for separation of partitions is file lifetimes; the more files
change, the higher the probability of filesystem failure or corruption. 
Therefore file groups with high rates of change are historically grouped
on their own partitions, such as /tmp.  For that reason I symlink /home
to /var/home, and during partitioning the lion's share of the drive
space is always allocated to /var.  (var also has a habit of being
extremely variable in size, which is another important reason to give it
the lions share of the space along with /var/home.  That way your logs
will never cause the system to outstrip it's available space on /var. 
Another advantage of doing a /home-/var/home symlink setup.)

The current 9.2 MDK partition size requirements as I have determined
them are as follows:

root = not more than 540 megs

boot = exactly 43 megs(JFS and XFS filesystems require at least this
much, which is overkill)

tmp  = not more than 1.2 gig (depending on if you use it for downloading
or not.  If you download stuff to other spots, 1.2G is more than enough)

usr = not more than 4.6 gigs as long as your default install is at or
below 40% usage of /usr.  In other words at 40% usage my /usr is 1.7
gigs of program/other data.  Your usage at the end of making your
installation choices may be more; the only way to know is to install and
look.  

I myself always do manual selections (on EVERYTHING) with no group
selections except for "kde workstation" and "documentation"; and then
use the floppy save feature of the package install step to save what I
have selected.  Then on the next install I just deselect all group
selections, select individual selections, and then load the floppy save
from the previous installation.  This is a real fast way to pick your
packages, but it does require that you go through a total individual
selection install at least once.  It also requires that you know what
you like and use and what you don't like and don't use.

Floppy-style package selection during installation just plain takes
pre-preparation.  That in turn requires a little time and experience
with the distro, and ALOT of reading of the package descriptions at
installation time.

> 
> Also do I need a swap on all three drives?

Short answer:  NO, you technically do not need swap on all three
drives.  HOWEVER...*supposedly* if the kernel sees that you have
multiple swap on several drives, then (according to the docs) it will
"stripe" it's swap across those three drives.  This means a three-fold
swap performance increase, because you now have three drives doing the
work of one.

I personally don't depend on the kernel doing swap; I've got two
identical drives raided together into raid-0 partitions, and I've
soft-raided the swap partition myself at raid-0.  That way I know for a
fact that the swap is raided.  The other way I can't "see" what the
kernel is doing with swap for sure, but if I do swap with soft 

Re: [newbie] Accessing MySQL

[Bobby]

Bill Shirley wrote:
I guess I woke up cranky this morning. (Still working on 
my 1st cup of coffee.)  What is it you are wanting to do?

You can "access" MySQL from Apache, perl, C, etc.  You
can administer MySQL from phpMyAdmin (a web interface).
Bill
 Why do ppl ask for help and only give vague
descriptions? "I installed xyz and it doesn't work!
How can I fix it?" 
 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bobby
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Accessing MySQL
When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server, 
everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial 
installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated.  I 
build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the 
database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL.

I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set 
everything up including the MySQL during the installation.

Bobby
   

Sorry Bill if it seems vague, and myself I just got up about ten minutes 
before I got  on my computer. I'm not familiar with how MDK install 
MySQL during the initial installation, if it set my login name into 
linux up with MySQL or not and if I mneed to go in and setup a user name 
in MySQL. Because in windows I used Fox Serv and it set everything up.

Bobby


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Re: [newbie] Accessing MySQL

[Bobby]

Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 12 September 2004 17:04, Bobby wrote:
 

When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server,
everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial
installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated.  I
build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the
database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL.
I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set
everything up including the MySQL during the installation.
Bobby
   

Yes any application accessing the mySQL database will need a user name and 
password defined. (Do not use root)

The best way to manage MySQL IMO is to install phpMyAdmin read the 
instructions at /usr/share/doc/phpMyAdmin and then point your browser at 
http://localhost/admin/phpMyAdmin/index.php

Be careful with security. It is important to make sure the phpMyAdmin page is 
not visible from the internet

derek
 



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When ever I use phpMyAdmin I always rename it and setting it so have to 
log in whenever I access phpMyAdmin. I thought I might had to setup the 
a user just wasn't sure. Oh yeah most of the time I use MySQL Control 
Center at which both has it's good and bad point when I was dealing with 
this in windows.

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RE: [newbie] Accessing MySQL

[Bill Shirley]

I guess I woke up cranky this morning. (Still working on 
my 1st cup of coffee.)  What is it you are wanting to do?

You can "access" MySQL from Apache, perl, C, etc.  You
can administer MySQL from phpMyAdmin (a web interface).

Bill
 Why do ppl ask for help and only give vague
descriptions? "I installed xyz and it doesn't work!
How can I fix it?" 


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bobby
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Accessing MySQL
> 
> 
> When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server, 
> everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial 
> installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated.  I 
> build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the 
> database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL.
> 
> I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set 
> everything up including the MySQL during the installation.
> 
> Bobby
> 
> 


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Re: [newbie] Samba and WinXP Ok, now Internet

[Ryan Steffes]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:04:48 +0300, EE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dears,
> 
> I am really happy. Even though I am a newbie, I managed to Setup a Samba
> server that works from WinXP. I can now access both computer from each
> other. I even can surf my local website in Linux from WinXP.
> 
> The next step is that I would like to sign on the Internet from Linux
> and be able to surf it from my WinXP. How can I do this?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> EE
> 
> 
> 
> 
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The way I've always done this before is through iptables.  See if this
Howto on IP-Masqerade helps you:
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/


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Re: [newbie] Accessing MySQL

[Derek Jennings]

On Sunday 12 September 2004 17:04, Bobby wrote:
> When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server,
> everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial
> installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated.  I
> build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the
> database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL.
>
> I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set
> everything up including the MySQL during the installation.
>
> Bobby

Yes any application accessing the mySQL database will need a user name and 
password defined. (Do not use root)

 The best way to manage MySQL IMO is to install phpMyAdmin read the 
instructions at /usr/share/doc/phpMyAdmin and then point your browser at 
http://localhost/admin/phpMyAdmin/index.php

Be careful with security. It is important to make sure the phpMyAdmin page is 
not visible from the internet

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Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3

[David E. Fox]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:19:04 +1000
John Layt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> No official rpms until after the release of 10.1 in the next month or two, 
> they claim to not have the time to do both at once.  Got to wonder where all 
> that Club money went to...

Well 10.1 is in beta right now, kde 3.2.3 on cooker, of course - but it's probably 
going to asymptotically approach 3.3 like the previous version did for 10.0 CE :).

You might want to wait, because kde like everything else is compiled for the new gcc & 
glibc. I suppose the .src.rpm's could be rebuilt on 10.0 CE, but 10.1 is coming out 
anyway.

> Just be warned it's not a straightforward upgrade, you need to uninstall a few 
> kde packages first, such as some -util packges, and Quanta (now in 
> kdewebdev). 

The kde rpms have become more and more "fractionalized" over time - by that I mean 
many things have been divvied up into many different RPMS and there's a lot more of 
them to install.

> It also depends on having the XOrg version of X11 installed, which involves 
> uninstalling XFree by brute force on the command line.  Alternatively, you 

>From reports I've read, installing X.org is not very difficult. But then it's in 10.1 
>cooker.



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RE: [newbie] eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2, etc.

[Bill Shirley]

I hope you didn't put it in rc.local.  The place for this is
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] windows.m]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.128.1
NETWORK=192.168.128.0
BROADCAST=192.168.128.255
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes

[EMAIL PROTECTED] windows.m]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0\:254 
DEVICE="eth0:254"
IPADDR="192.168.128.254"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"


Make as many ifcfg-eth0:? files as you need.

HTH,
Bill


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of EE
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 10:05 AM
> To: Bambang Gunawan
> Cc: Mandrake
> Subject: Re: [newbie] eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2, etc.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 15:09, Bambang Gunawan wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:51:08 -0400, Scott Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 07:13, MyEE wrote:
> > > > Dears
> > > >
> > > > Every time I do
> > > >
> > > > ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
> > > > ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.1.2 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
> > > >
> > > > it works fine until I restart the computer everything goes back to its
> > > > normal and I have do it again . How can I make this permanent
> > > >
> > 
> > --/* snip */--
> > > 
> > > Isn't it eth0 and eth2? Also, are you using DHCP?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > SW
> > 
> > that's just aliasing from eth0
> > you can add an alias like eth0:whatever_name_is
> > the easy way to make it permanent after reboot, put that at the end of
> > file /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> > 
> > 
> > HTH
> > Bambang
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> it worked.
> 
> 
> 


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[newbie] Accessing MySQL

[Bobby]

When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server, 
everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial 
installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated.  I 
build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the 
database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL.

I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set 
everything up including the MySQL during the installation.

Bobby

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crontab hijack: was Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

[Eric Huff]

> cron() is a lot more flexible than the example that you were give.
>  The values 
> in crontab are:
> 
> minute hour day_of_month month day_of_week command
> 
> So the example you were given was hourly:
> 
> 0 * * * * command
> 
> (meaning 0 minute of every hour, day, etc.  If you wanted it every
> half hour:
> 
> 0,30 * * * * command

Thanks for the explanation!

Now, is there any way to make sure anacron runs the stuff in this
files (which is in /var/spool/cron) ?

Anacron happily runs thew "default" cron jobs, which are executable
scripts in directories listed in /etc/crontab, but it doesn't look
at the user ones at all.

thanks,
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[newbie] urpmi keys/signatures

[Dave Steiner]

I know this has been posted more than a few times, but I didnt find
the solution in archives or googling.
I'm getting the error:
===
"The following packages have bad signatures:
   pkg1. . . .rpm:Missing signature(Couldn't open file)
   pkg2. . . .rpm:Missing signature(Couldn't open file)
Do you want to continue installation?"
===
I click yes and then I get this:
===
"There was a problem during the installation:
Unable to install package ftp://(address)(path)(pkg1. . . .rpm)
Unable to install package ftp://(address)(path)(pkg2. . . .rpm)
===
I know the ftp source is good because I *just* added it
and got *some* rpms using "urpmi --auto-select."
Any ideas?  A link would suffice if someone has it handy.
TIA
=
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www.DavidLSteiner.com
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[newbie] Kmail and Mailing Lists

[Greg Meyer]

I am on Mandrake 10.0 CE, fully updated, with a few of Charles Edwards updated 
packages, but with the KDE 3.2.2 that is in the main repository.

I am having trouble with Distribution Lists in KMail, and if anyone else is 
using them successfully, I would appreciate your help.  I used to recall that 
you could manage the lists from the kaddressbook, but I cannot see anywhere 
how to do that.  The only place I see to create them is in the message 
addressing window of a new message.  Is there another place to manage them 
that I am missing.

Also, when I create a list, and use it to send a new message, kmail is 
appending my default domain to the address, and not exploding it to its 
component addresses like I would expect.

Can anybody help?
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Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

[The Other]

Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following:
If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most   
features, I
highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers  
for your sound card.  OSS is superior to Alsa.
Wha? All this time people have been telling me the opposite, 'OSS  
is old', 'ALSA is the future of sound on Linux'
Lyvim, I'm also curious why you say OSS is superior to ALSA.  From  
what I've been reading on the Linux-Audio-User list, OSS is rarely  
mentioned.  It appears all the efforts to develop sound applications  
and utilities are using ALSA.  And if I'm not mistaken, I've seen  
posts from you on the Linux-Audio-User list.

You've intriqued me.  Please explain your reasons.
Stephen.

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Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:59:32 -0600
Russ Kepler disseminated the following:

> > Meanwhile, Warren from NZ has found a much easier solution (for me,
> > at least) - Kalarm. Kalarm is a nice easy GUI that can be set to run
> > the script at any interval I want - say, every 10 minutes - might
> > even be useful for other people who want to run things more often
> > than the 'hourly' option on cron!
> 
> cron() is a lot more flexible than the example that you were give.  The values
> 
> in crontab are:
> 
> minute hour day_of_month month day_of_week command
> 
> So the example you were given was hourly:
> 
> 0 * * * * command
> 
> (meaning 0 minute of every hour, day, etc.  If you wanted it every half hour:
> 
> 0,30 * * * * command
> 
> or every 5 minutes:
> 
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * command
> 
> Midnight every day:
> 
> 0 0 * * * command
> 
> or at noon every monday:
> 
> 0 12 * * 0 command
> 
> For a reference try "man 5 crontab".

Thank you sir! Copied and pasted!

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Re: [newbie] Converting Partition from Ext2 to Ext3

[The Other]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:28:43 +1000, Brian Parish  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ext3 is just ext2 plus journalling, so you don't need to reformat  
to convert.  I presume that MCC just did a tune2fs command to add
journalling and adjusted your fstab file.  man tune2fs will tell  
you more.
Thanks Brian, for the reassurance and the pointer to the commands to  
review.
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Re: [newbie] eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2, etc.

[EE]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 15:09, Bambang Gunawan wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:51:08 -0400, Scott Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 07:13, MyEE wrote:
> > > Dears
> > >
> > > Every time I do
> > >
> > > ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
> > > ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.1.2 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
> > >
> > > it works fine until I restart the computer everything goes back to its
> > > normal and I have do it again . How can I make this permanent
> > >
> 
> --/* snip */--
> > 
> > Isn't it eth0 and eth2? Also, are you using DHCP?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > SW
> 
> that's just aliasing from eth0
> you can add an alias like eth0:whatever_name_is
> the easy way to make it permanent after reboot, put that at the end of
> file /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> 
> 
> HTH
> Bambang

Thanks, 

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[newbie] Samba and WinXP Ok, now Internet

[EE]

Dears,

I am really happy. Even though I am a newbie, I managed to Setup a Samba
server that works from WinXP. I can now access both computer from each
other. I even can surf my local website in Linux from WinXP.

The next step is that I would like to sign on the Internet from Linux
and be able to surf it from my WinXP. How can I do this?

Cheers

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Re: [newbie] S/MIME and webmail

[Margot]

Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
I am trying to use S/MIME, which works just fine with Thunderbird. 
However, it does not work with webmail, I mean, when I use the browser 
Mozilla to connect to the e-mail server at my work, through webmail. Is 
it really impossible to read encrypted e-mails with webmail?

Thanks in advance,
Paul
I occasionally use my ISP's webmail service for reading my mail if 
I'm away from my own computer - I haven't had any trouble reading 
encrypted messages sent to the Mandrake lists, but I don't know 
anybody who sends me encrypted personal mail, so I don't know if it 
is some processing by sympa before the list mail reaches me that 
makes it readable in webmail...

Margot

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Re: [newbie] Casio QV3500 digital camera

[David Trethewey]

Vincent Voois wrote:

David Trethewey wrote:
I have a Casio Qv-3500 digital camera. Using Mandrake Linux 10.0, I 
have tried to download photos from it (by copying the files using the 
command line). It recognises it as a removable drive. It will copy 
the files, but very very slowly. Anyone had a similar problem?

A little add-on info to get David better on tracks:
Casio Qv 3500 copies the file through a serial com-port connection 
probably right? (I had one myself in the past)
In the back of my head i recall a tty default speed-setting upon your 
comports are being automaticly set to 9600 baud or some sort it had 
had to be changed somewhere in a config file...
It can operate using serial ports, but I was using usb at this time.
David




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Re: [newbie] Casio QV3500 digital camera

[Vincent Voois]

David Trethewey wrote:
I have a Casio Qv-3500 digital camera. Using Mandrake Linux 10.0, I have 
tried to download photos from it (by copying the files using the command 
line). It recognises it as a removable drive. It will copy the files, 
but very very slowly. Anyone had a similar problem?
A little add-on info to get David better on tracks:
Casio Qv 3500 copies the file through a serial com-port connection probably right? (I had one myself in the past)
In the back of my head i recall a tty default speed-setting upon your comports are being automaticly set to 9600 baud or some 
sort it had had to be changed somewhere in a config file...



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Re: [newbie] Using a graphical terminal remotely

[Harald T ZIPKO]

...
> You need:
> 
> 1. To be running X on the local machine
> 2. To have X installed, but not necessarily running on the remote
> machine
> 
> HTH

Yes, it really helped...
It works fine now, I am impressed ;-)
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[newbie] S/MIME and webmail

[Paul Smith]

Dear All
I am trying to use S/MIME, which works just fine with Thunderbird. 
However, it does not work with webmail, I mean, when I use the browser 
Mozilla to connect to the e-mail server at my work, through webmail. Is 
it really impossible to read encrypted e-mails with webmail?

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Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

[Hoyt Bailey]

On Friday 10 September 2004 19:48, JoeHill wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:53:14 +0100
>
> Margot disseminated the following:
> > > crontab -e
> > >
> > > which gets you into your user's cron config, hit 'i' to insert
> > > text, then:
> > >
> > > 0 * * * * /path/to/script > /path/to/outputfile
> >
> > I got this far...but couldn't work out how to save what I'd
> > inserted! Checked man crontab, looked for the file in the location
> > that man said it should be in - I don't appear to have a crontab
> > file at all! Eek!
>
> Dang, sorry, forgot that part. Gotta stop...doing that...thing...that
> I do...
>
> It's Vi you are using to edit the crontab, so once you (i)nsert the
> text, hit Esc to exit insert mode, then':wq' and Enter (the ':' is to
> tell Vi you are giving a command, the 'wq' means'write, then quit').
> You should then get a message something like 'new crontab installed'.
> Vi is bloody intimidating at first, but from what I've heard, once
> you get used to it...well, like anything else.
>
> Anyhow, it's better than Emacs.
>
> /joehill ducks to avoid barrage of arrows tipped with C4
Definately something different about you joe second thing I agree with 
you on.

>
> > > Then of course just point Moz at the /path/to/outputfile.
> >
> > Managed to run it manually though, and use the output (see below!)
> > - which is probably all I need for now as I don't need to use the
> > sig on all mails, just the occasional one!
>
> Ah, go for the gusto! It's really easy to create your own file of
> quotes to randomly choose from, I got the howto from Todd Slater's
> site, but his site has gone all *political*, all kinds of *commie
> stuff* (love it Todd!), can't find the howto's anymore. If you want,
> I'll post how to go about that, or if Todd's 'listening' mayhap he'll
> post a link.
>
> > Thanks for your help :-)
>
> NP! I ought to be good for something else than yelling at hijackers
> and top posters!

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Re: [newbie] Using a graphical terminal remotely

[Brian Parish]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 18:55, Harald T ZIPKO wrote:
> ...
> >>  You could try X Forwarding in case it's not already set up.
> >>  
> >>  ssh -X destination.pc.com
> 
> How do I enable 'X Forwarding'?
> As far as I understand this feature it is possible to get a working 
> X-environment on a remote box although I am working via CLI?
> 
> So in theory it is possible to open - lets say - a terminal on my local 
> box, the run the command ssh -X nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn to the remote box and 
> the I can use on my own box the GUI?
> I just tried it but it didn't work at all :-(
> Or do I have to work on my local box with an active X-Session?
> 
> > Important point - you don't startx, you just ssh to it, then run the X
> > application from the command line.  e.g.
> > 
> > ssh -l brian remote-box-with-X-installed
> > mozilla
> Also tried this one without success...
> --
>  (o>  Best regards
>  //\Harald T ZIPKO
>  V_/_ 
> please no html - mails
> --
You need:

1. To be running X on the local machine
2. To have X installed, but not necessarily running on the remote
machine

HTH
Brian



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Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

[Margot]

JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:53:14 +0100
Margot disseminated the following:

crontab -e
which gets you into your user's cron config, hit 'i' to insert text, then:
0 * * * * /path/to/script > /path/to/outputfile
I got this far...but couldn't work out how to save what I'd 
inserted! Checked man crontab, looked for the file in the location 
that man said it should be in - I don't appear to have a crontab 
file at all! Eek!

Dang, sorry, forgot that part. Gotta stop...doing that...thing...that I
do...
It's Vi you are using to edit the crontab, so once you (i)nsert the text,
hit Esc to exit insert mode, then':wq' and Enter (the ':' is to tell Vi you are
giving a command, the 'wq' means'write, then quit'). You should then get a
message something like 'new crontab installed'. Vi is bloody intimidating at
first, but from what I've heard, once you get used to it...well, like anything
else.
Anyhow, it's better than Emacs.
/joehill ducks to avoid barrage of arrows tipped with C4
Thanks for the 'lesson', Joe - I'll save it for future reference - 
and I hope you haven't started the Vi vs Emacs flamewar again!

Meanwhile, Warren from NZ has found a much easier solution (for me, 
at least) - Kalarm. Kalarm is a nice easy GUI that can be set to run 
the script at any interval I want - say, every 10 minutes - might 
even be useful for other people who want to run things more often 
than the 'hourly' option on cron!


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Re: [newbie] Using a graphical terminal remotely

[Harald T ZIPKO]

...
>>  You could try X Forwarding in case it's not already set up.
>>  
>>  ssh -X destination.pc.com

How do I enable 'X Forwarding'?
As far as I understand this feature it is possible to get a working 
X-environment on a remote box although I am working via CLI?

So in theory it is possible to open - lets say - a terminal on my local 
box, the run the command ssh -X nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn to the remote box and 
the I can use on my own box the GUI?
I just tried it but it didn't work at all :-(
Or do I have to work on my local box with an active X-Session?

> Important point - you don't startx, you just ssh to it, then run the X
> application from the command line.  e.g.
> 
> ssh -l brian remote-box-with-X-installed
> mozilla
Also tried this one without success...
--
 (o>  Best regards
 //\Harald T ZIPKO
 V_/_ 
please no html - mails
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[newbie] Casio QV3500 digital camera

[David Trethewey]

I have a Casio Qv-3500 digital camera. Using Mandrake Linux 10.0, I have 
tried to download photos from it (by copying the files using the command 
line). It recognises it as a removable drive. It will copy the files, 
but very very slowly. Anyone had a similar problem?




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Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

[Derek Jennings]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0.
>
> Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found.
> Thanks

I just realised you are looking for kernels later than 2.6.5
The update mirrors will not have anything later than 2.6.3
The mirrors for 10.1 have 2.6.8 kernels which may run OK in 10.0 but it cannot 
be guaranteed they will.

derek
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Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later

[Derek Jennings]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0.
>
> Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found.
> Thanks
They are on the Mandrake update mirrors, but will not be installed 
automatically by Mandrake Update.

To install the latest kernel first run Mandrake Update
(Menu>System>Configuration>Packaging>MandrakeUpdate)

If this is the first time you have run it, it will ask you to select an update 
mirror from a list.

MandrakeUpdate will show you a list of available updates.
You should install at least the security alerts.
Running Mandrake Update will refresh your computers local copy of available 
kernels.

Now go to the Mandrake Install GUI at
Menu>System>Configuration>Packaging>InstallSoftware
and enter kernel in the search box. You will see a whole list of possible 
kernels. The latest kernel for a standard 10.0 system is
kernel-2.6.3.16mdk-1-1mdk.i586

Install the kernel.
New kernels are installed alongside existing kernels.  The new kernel will 
become the default boot kernel and a new boot menu item will allow you to 
boot the old kernel if you wish.


If you have an Nvidia graphics card and use the proprietary nvidia driver you 
will need to install kernel-source to match the new kernel and recompile the 
driver or else X will not work when you boot the new kernel.

HTH
derek

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Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

[Margot]

JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:03:32 -0500
Chris disseminated the following:

Ah, go for the gusto! It's really easy to create your own file of quotes
to randomly choose from, I got the howto from Todd Slater's site, but his
site has gone all *political*, all kinds of *commie stuff* (love it
Todd!), can't find the howto's anymore. If you want, I'll post how to go
about that, or if Todd's 'listening' mayhap he'll post a link.
Actually if she's using the script I sent her its already setup to call a 
random 'fortune' each time its ran.

Ya, but it's nice to have your *own* database of quotes...well, at least if
you're an unrepentant sh1t disturber like moi. Oh, and just looked what popped
up at random... ;-)
...and of course 'twould be simple to modify that script as I did:
echo `fortune /home/joehill/sigs/quotes`
I left the "fortune" bit in Chris's script, but commented out - 
haven't had time to look at the fortunes database yet, wouldn't want 
to send something inappropriate to the nice distant cousin 
@microsoft.com (!) and I might eventually create my own database, 
but that's something I can play with later!


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Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 00:13, Aldous Huxley wrote:
> When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked,
> but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap
> stereo system with the volume too high.  I tinkered
> with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I was
> doing in order to undo if problems occured (which
> did).  Um...I'd like to have sound back without having
> to reinstall everything...suggestions would be
> appreciated.  Thanks.
> 

If you want the best quality sound drivers with the most features, I
highly recommend you go to opensound.com and download the drivers for
your sound card.  OSS is superior to Alsa.

LX





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[newbie] kernel-265 or later

[Johan Sch]

Hi,

Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0.

Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found.
Thanks
-- 
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Registered Linux User #330034
May this be a good day for learning


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