Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:29, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:55, RAT wrote: :( I've got similar problem when accessing some https:// sites (Seems like when there's some JavaScript or even Java) Mozilla dies with segfault. I've installed Mozilla compiled with GTK1 and it works fine on these pages but I like more the visual style of GTK2 widgets~ :( WHACK Why not just download and install Firefox and alleviate all the BS problems in the first place, eh? good idea - I just downloaded it... unzipped it, and clicked on the firefox-installer file; got this error message: Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library What to do about this? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Monday 20 September 2004 14:47, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:29, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:55, RAT wrote: :( I've got similar problem when accessing some https:// : sites (Seems like when there's some JavaScript or even Java) Mozilla dies with segfault. I've installed Mozilla compiled with GTK1 and it works fine on these pages but I like more the visual style of GTK2 widgets~ :( WHACK Why not just download and install Firefox and alleviate all the BS problems in the first place, eh? good idea - I just downloaded it... unzipped it, and clicked on the firefox-installer file; got this error message: Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library What to do about this? Well, the way I do it is as follows : Open a terminal, become root, change into the directory firefox-installer, (the one created by tar -zxvf), then type : ./firefox-installer (without the quotes). Maybe it won't install from a GUI. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:45:25 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: -rw-rw-r-- 1 hoyt hoyt 6355292 Sep 19 20:16 btmgr-web.tar.gz Thats what I got where am I going wrong. Looks like you *did* download the whole site...gzipped. What's inside? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:34:54 up 47 days, 9:21, 7 users, load average: 0.15, 0.22, 0.12 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] TV/FM tunner
Hi all I have a tvfm tuner card and I am not able to configure neither the fm nor the TV. ca someone help me to stop using windows to listen to FM I did not write further details because I was not sure that the message will succeed, Best Regards. -- --Kassem Nasser-- Kassem Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] American University of Beirut [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O.Box 11 -0236/5253 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Riad El Solh Beirut: 1107 2020 WS:www.students.aub.edu.lb\~kmn01 Lebanon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TV/FM tunner
What brand and model is the tuner card? Kassem Nasser wrote: Hi all I have a tvfm tuner card and I am not able to configure neither the fm nor the TV. ca someone help me to stop using windows to listen to FM I did not write further details because I was not sure that the message will succeed, Best Regards. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [OT] More info to scare Windows users
Want more facts to convince your friends and family to switch? Try this on: In addition 95 per cent of the 1,237 new vulnerabilities discovered between January and June were rated 'highly severe'. The report claimed that 4,496 new Windows viruses and worms were detected during the same period, four and a half times more than in 2003. Link: http://www.vnunet.com/news/1158220 -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 10:12:00 up 47 days, 9:58, 7 users, load average: 0.26, 0.13, 0.06 +++ The rich control all the businesses, the newspapers and everything else. But they can no longer control the people. -- Margarita Mendoza, street vendor, Venezuela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)
On Monday 20 September 2004 08:35, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:45:25 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: -rw-rw-r-- 1 hoyt hoyt 6355292 Sep 19 20:16 btmgr-web.tar.gz Thats what I got where am I going wrong. Looks like you *did* download the whole site...gzipped. What's inside? 156 files @ 7.1 MB. Lots of screenshots. Lots of Docs and btmgr-3.7.1 in rpm, src.rpm, tar.gz. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 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] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)
On Monday 20 September 2004 16:30, Hoyt Bailey wrote: 156 files @ 7.1 MB. Lots of screenshots. Lots of Docs and btmgr-3.7.1 in rpm, src.rpm, tar.gz. So, say in a day or so, you'll be our expert on btmgr heh;) Iirc there's a way of just writing/coppying btmgr to mbr i.e. that's actually all the rpm and the .exe do. Nifty little gadget:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)
On Monday 20 September 2004 09:39, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 20 September 2004 16:30, Hoyt Bailey wrote: 156 files @ 7.1 MB. Lots of screenshots. Lots of Docs and btmgr-3.7.1 in rpm, src.rpm, tar.gz. So, say in a day or so, you'll be our expert on btmgr heh;) Iirc there's a way of just writing/coppying btmgr to mbr i.e. that's actually all the rpm and the .exe do. Nifty little gadget:) -- Good luck, HarM I doubt I'll get to it for a while, other considerations. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 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] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)
On Monday 20 September 2004 16:47, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I doubt I'll get to it for a while, other considerations. C'mon, can't let a 6Mb download go to waste:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)
On Monday 20 September 2004 11:32, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 20 September 2004 16:47, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I doubt I'll get to it for a while, other considerations. C'mon, can't let a 6Mb download go to waste:) -- Good luck, HarM I had no intention of letting it go to waste, but there are other things. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 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] [OT] More info to scare Windows users
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 00:15, JoeHill wrote: Want more facts to convince your friends and family to switch? Try this on: In addition 95 per cent of the 1,237 new vulnerabilities discovered between January and June were rated 'highly severe'. The report claimed that 4,496 new Windows viruses and worms were detected during the same period, four and a half times more than in 2003. Link: http://www.vnunet.com/news/1158220 ...as if we didn't know that already? -- 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 modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. -- Laurence J. Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow
On September 18, 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:02, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4 and 5 very quickly but the CD1-3 torrent is very slow. At best I get 10kbs. I have checked all the settings and do not know what to do to make it d/l faster. Any suggestions? TIA for your recommendations. Doing the same and getting the same. I've got the proper ports opened up and AFAIK the configuration is correct. Similar 10.0.2 download was 80k or better on average. I don't know how to fix. LX Dont use torrent??? Good suggestion, but I have not found the mirrors with just the iso's and thus bittorrent is the only way at the moment. I usually have had very fast response on bittorrent. : P I haven't tried bittorrent because I'v seen too many complaints like yours. Somehow its not ready for prime time. The problem with bt is just the number of others that have it running on the same torrent. It kind of works opposite to regular downloading. With a regular d/l, where everyone is hitting the same server, the more users, the slower it gets. But with bt, the more users the faster it gets. I got pretty good speed out of bt for 10.1C, but maybe it was just my timing. I left it running for a while to help out others who were downloading, but I needed the disk space, so I had to burn them and delete them. When I'm done some repartitioning, I'll put them back and restart bt. If everyone with a high speed connection leaves their bt running even after the d/l is finished, it will help out others, at a modest cost in bandwidth consumed. Even if you don't plan to use 10.1C immediately, if you have the bandwidth and the disk space, d/w with bt, and you'll help out others. -- Ron ron dot hunterduvar at shaw dot ca 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] xorg xfree
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:51:29 +0200 Thereidos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W li_cie z nie, 19-09-2004, godz. 08:11, Johan Sch pisze: Hi, While updating this weekend this... ** To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (66 MB): XFree86-4.3-32.2.100mdk.i586 libxfree86-4.3-32.2.100mdk.i586 ** If yes to the above then screensfull of this... file /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/cursors/xterm from install of XFree86-4.3-32.2.100mdk conflicts with file from package xorg-x11-6.7.0-0.2.8.9mdk ** Kindly please.. How to fix this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but: It looks like you have xorg installed and are trying to update an app that was compiled against xfree86. You can switch back to xfree86 (remember to shutdown your x server before doing so) or force the installation. To do so you'll have to download the rpms and type: urpmi --allow-nodeps name-of-the-rpm this will let you decide whether to ignore dependencies or not. The reason of this is that 10.0 is shipped with xfree86 and all the rpms are compiled against it. Thankfully 10.1 will use xorg. Which of the two would be the best on the system. Does they do the same thing? Yes. They are both X servers and do the same but cannot be installed at the same time. IMHO xorg looks better. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your reply and advice. Evereything seem to work fine. I will just stay with xorg. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:15:53 -0600, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote On September 18, 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:02, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4 and 5 very quickly but the CD1-3 torrent is very slow. At best I get 10kbs. I have checked all the settings and do not know what to do to make it d/l faster. Any suggestions? TIA for your recommendations. Doing the same and getting the same. I've got the proper ports opened up and AFAIK the configuration is correct. Similar 10.0.2 download was 80k or better on average. I don't know how to fix. LX Dont use torrent??? Good suggestion, but I have not found the mirrors with just the iso's and thus bittorrent is the only way at the moment. I usually have had very fast response on bittorrent. : P I haven't tried bittorrent because I'v seen too many complaints like yours. Somehow its not ready for prime time. The problem with bt is just the number of others that have it running on the same torrent. It kind of works opposite to regular downloading. With a regular d/l, where everyone is hitting the same server, the more users, the slower it gets. But with bt, the more users the faster it gets. I got pretty good speed out of bt for 10.1C, but maybe it was just my timing. I left it running for a while to help out others who were downloading, but I needed the disk space, so I had to burn them and delete them. When I'm done some repartitioning, I'll put them back and restart bt. If everyone with a high speed connection leaves their bt running even after the d/l is finished, it will help out others, at a modest cost in bandwidth consumed. Even if you don't plan to use 10.1C immediately, if you have the bandwidth and the disk space, d/w with bt, and you'll help out others. Or... The ISOs could be distributed to many more reliable mirrors where highband width is a planned feature easily accomodated. Then we wouldn't have to all be pointed at the same mirror fighting for access or waiting on 30 dial-up bt users with an expected completion time of 300 hrs. Let the mirrors use bt to update, I believe that would suit their model best. As for the rest of us, the best case bt scenario is exactly equal to a good mirror, where as the worst case is simply laughable. I don't see that as progress, just an excuse for mirrors to shrug their responsibility. What Mandrake really needs is a centrally managed mirror list that ACTIVELY checks the status of other mirrors, listing only those that are up and properly organized. It should be a no brainer to register your mirror with Mandrake and likewise have your mirror checked for consistency automatically to be listed. Heck, do away with the whole urpmi/easyurpmi media snafu all together and dynamically pick the mirror with the least overload for every update. That would easily free up the mirrors of the world and redistribute plenty of bandwidth. Of course, that's just my opinion (slow day)... Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB
Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC. The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although it doesn't allow me to determine which port it's connected to. meanwhile, I've downloaded the source code for the driver module, but I'm receiving a lot of errors when trying to make the driver. All of this is happening on Mandrake 10.0 , so I'd appreciate any suggestions if possible. TIA -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. From a fellow anit-MS folk, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 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
[newbie] TightVNC Server... wassup??
Yo; I have TightVNC running on a Mandrake 9.1 box on a network with several Windows NT based computers. I've figured out how to get vncserver running... and have it running on display 2. When I access it from the remote computer, however, it starts to load the KDE desktop... then the taksbar disappears, the cursor switches to the loading (watch) icon, and it stalls. any help? Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
Those slimeballs at Microsoft would have kept us in the dark ages using typewriters if it meant money in their pockets. Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow
On Monday 20 September 2004 07:05 pm, Scott Mazur wrote: The ISOs could be distributed to many more reliable mirrors where highband width is a planned feature easily accomodated. and extremely expensive. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm really glad you joined our little group here. Now fuck off. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:18:22 up 47 days, 22:04, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.09, 0.03 +++ Behind every great fortune is a crime. -- Balzac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC. The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although it doesn't allow me to determine which port it's connected to. meanwhile, I've downloaded the source code for the driver module, but I'm receiving a lot of errors when trying to make the driver. All of this is happening on Mandrake 10.0 , so I'd appreciate any suggestions if possible. TIA Erm.. If you try telling us what the errors are and maybe the name of the driver you might get a meaningful reply. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
JoeHill wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm really glad you joined our little group here. Now fuck off. Ah yes, Once again, Joe Hill opens his yap and eloquent responses spew out. All Hail Joe Hill, or you might get sworn at and then plonked! OH, NOOooo! Not plonked by the Mighty Joe Hill? Say it isn't so! How can we manage to live without his snappy, witty, intelligent retorts and enlightened opinions! Please! Someone pinch me before I suffocate from laughing this hard! Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 03:41, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC. The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although it doesn't allow me to determine which port it's connected to. meanwhile, I've downloaded the source code for the driver module, but I'm receiving a lot of errors when trying to make the driver. All of this is happening on Mandrake 10.0 , so I'd appreciate any suggestions if possible. TIA Erm.. If you try telling us what the errors are and maybe the name of the driver you might get a meaningful reply. derek A quick Google leads me to suspect the name of the driver might be stir4200 http://tec-tech.org/?Linux%2FIrStick http://wetlogic.net/stewart/stir4200/ and a quick slocate tells me that driver is already in the 2.4.8-10mdk kernel in 10.1. Dunno about 10.0 $ slocate stir4200 /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/kernel/drivers/net/irda/stir4200.ko.gz derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 21:19, JoeHill wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm really glad you joined our little group here. Now fuck off. Lol, don't worry, I was already considering trying out debian on the server I'm about to buy, in which case you won't have to deal with me on your little group list any longer - 'cept when I need to deal with this box. :-P God Bless, Sc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC. The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although it doesn't allow me to determine which port it's connected to. meanwhile, I've downloaded the source code for the driver module, but I'm receiving a lot of errors when trying to make the driver. All of this is happening on Mandrake 10.0 , so I'd appreciate any suggestions if possible. TIA Erm.. If you try telling us what the errors are and maybe the name of the driver you might get a meaningful reply. derek Sorry for the lack of info Derek. The driver module is called stir4200 and the first lines of the error message look like this; cc -I/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build/include -I../include -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -DLI NUX -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary= 2 -include /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build/include/linux/modversions.h -DKBUILD_BASENAME=stir4200 -o stir 4200.o -c stir4200.c There's about 100 lines of error messages that result from trying to make the module. What I've posted above is just the beginning few lines. After this pre-amble, it goes on to say quite a bit about cc1: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory, and repeats several similar messages about files or directories not existing. The strange thing about it, is that there's already a driver module included with the kernel, but it won't install or load and MCC says that it's an unknown piece of hardware. Just out of curiosity, how do I determine which USB device port it's attached to? USBview had lots of info about the unit, but doesn't clearly state the device settings to use, - ie; it doesn't say anything about which device to assign for the IRDA to USB bridge like proc/dev/usb/???, so i can't accurately point it to a spcific port designation. These latest error codes are from Mandrake10.1 Community. I updated Mandrake hoping it would solve the problem, but as you can see, I wasn't successful. Any ideas? TIA Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 03:41, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC. The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although it doesn't allow me to determine which port it's connected to. meanwhile, I've downloaded the source code for the driver module, but I'm receiving a lot of errors when trying to make the driver. All of this is happening on Mandrake 10.0 , so I'd appreciate any suggestions if possible. TIA Erm.. If you try telling us what the errors are and maybe the name of the driver you might get a meaningful reply. derek A quick Google leads me to suspect the name of the driver might be stir4200 http://tec-tech.org/?Linux%2FIrStick http://wetlogic.net/stewart/stir4200/ and a quick slocate tells me that driver is already in the 2.4.8-10mdk kernel in 10.1. Dunno about 10.0 $ slocate stir4200 /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/kernel/drivers/net/irda/stir4200.ko.gz derek Yup, right on the money Derek. But my other reply to you gives you an idea of my troubles. I'm only guessing here, but I'm thinking the error is due to the fact that the dongle hasn't been assigned a USB device port yet, and the built in module is failing because it can't attach itself to that port. Thanks for any help you can offer. -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB]
Quick update for you Derek. The stir4200 driver module is now installed after a quick reboot, but I still don't know which usb device-port it's connected to. Right now, usbview says that it's connected to /proc/bus/usb/devices which I believe is just a reference and not an actual port. -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB]
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:47, Lanman wrote: Quick update for you Derek. The stir4200 driver module is now installed after a quick reboot, but I still don't know which usb device-port it's connected to. Right now, usbview says that it's connected to /proc/bus/usb/devices which I believe is just a reference and not an actual port. Doesn't it list the port number in dmesg when you plug in the dongle? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB]
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:54, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:47, Lanman wrote: Quick update for you Derek. The stir4200 driver module is now installed after a quick reboot, but I still don't know which usb device-port it's connected to. Right now, usbview says that it's connected to /proc/bus/usb/devices which I believe is just a reference and not an actual port. Doesn't it list the port number in dmesg when you plug in the dongle? derek According to a site I found (in Polish) it should come up as /dev/irda0 derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:34:45PM -0500, Eric Scott wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. From a fellow anit-MS folk, ES Speak for yourself, I think you're the only anit-MS folk here. Hell, I don't even know what that means. t Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 20:18, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 20 September 2004 14:47, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:29, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:55, RAT wrote: :( I've got similar problem when accessing some https:// : sites (Seems like when there's some JavaScript or even Java) Mozilla dies with segfault. I've installed Mozilla compiled with GTK1 and it works fine on these pages but I like more the visual style of GTK2 widgets~ :( WHACK Why not just download and install Firefox and alleviate all the BS problems in the first place, eh? good idea - I just downloaded it... unzipped it, and clicked on the firefox-installer file; got this error message: Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library What to do about this? Well, the way I do it is as follows : Open a terminal, become root, change into the directory firefox-installer, (the one created by tar -zxvf), then type : ./firefox-installer (without the quotes). Maybe it won't install from a GUI. thanks for your thoughts, Kaj. But that didn't work either: http://www.merlinzener.com/snapshot6.png and from the text window: [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]$ cd firefox-installer [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox-installer]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox-installer]# what am I doing wrong? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup
Brian, Called Lorin and he gave this a try. He got to the menu and could not get any of it to work with the enter key or a number of other key strokes (linux commands, I assume). I assume that this means that the install of his 9.1 is screwy in some way and he should reinstall. If this assumption is correct and I am not having a MS moment, should he reformate his HD or just reload? Or is there something else that we are over looking here? He really liked that menu. Too bad it won't work. Tom Brian Parish wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 09:42, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Welcome Tom, Can't provide you with exact settings for this mouse, but have him try this: At the boot manager prompt (I assume he's installed with lilo), press Esc to get the boot prompt, then type: linux init 3 That will boot the machine without starting X - i.e. command line only. Login as root and then type: drakconf That will produce a menu including mouse selection - probably under hardware. It's been a while since both 9.1 and using this interface for me, so I'm unable to be more specific. Hopefully that will at least get a start on fixing the problem. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup
Marc, Called him this evening and he tried this - no luck. We were hoping it would work as it is simple but this way it will be more educational. Tom Marc wrote: I had similar problems with 10.0 and I think the problem may have also been there on 9.1 and 9.2, can't remember for shure that was a while ago. I found that if I did not move the mouse at all from the time bootup started until the login screen was fully displayed the problem would not appear at all if I did move the mouse to soon the problem would be intermittant. I don't know if that will work for your son but it is so easy it is worth a try. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup
Hoyt, He is sure that he configured the mouse. He is good at following directions. I assume that he gets this trait from his mother. Tom Hoyt Bailey wrote: Sounds like a mistake I made. When I installed the system I forgot to configure the mouse during the configure phase in the installation. The only way I know to correct the problem is to reinstall and configure the mouse when able. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
