Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Sony camcorders ?
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:33:49 -0700 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2004 03:18 am, Miroslav Skoric wrote: | Gentle folks, | | I have Sony DCR-HC85E camcorder that came with Picture Package software | for Windows. It makes me wonder if there is a similar software capable | to run on Mandrake 9.1 with similar capabilities (to 'see' a camera as | an external disk or memory device - that I could mount, to have an | automatic or manual download of still pictures from camera's memory | stick, to playback mini-DV tape via USB cable etc). Is there any kind of | a 'generic' driver for Sony camcorders for Linux? I tried to mount the | camera as a /dev/sda4 drive (the same that uses my USB flash memory | stick, as /mnt/removable, but it reported that special device doesn't | exist). Any idea what else to try? | | Regards, | | Misko My memory card reader is /dev/sdb1. Every time I've seen /dev/sda4 it was for my zip disks (I have several). If the Sony uses standard usb protocol, it should be recognized. The only suggestion I have is--have you tried a reboot with the camera plugged in? I don't have a camcorder, but my digital is mounted automatically under /mnt/memory_card (I may have created that directory originally, I can't remember) and as /dev/sdb1 in 9.1. Have you tried GTKam. It downloads the video clips from my still camera. ^ David Taylor Taranaki, New Zealand http://windwand.co.nz proudly using a 100% Linux, Mandrake OS, computer === if replying please leave the filter code,ie [] contents, in subject line === Never draw fire; it irritates everyone around you -- Murphy's Military Laws n°57 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Stolen document
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 14:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) Found virus WORM_NETSKY.P in file data.rtf .scr (in document342.zip) The file is deleted. - __ I cannot believe that. __ -- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) document342.zip is removed from here because it contains a virus. Believe what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What Ritter says
The inspection process was rigged to create uncertainty over WMD to bolster the US and UK's case for war 10 October 2004 The Independant UK http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=570477 It appears that the last vestiges of perceived legitimacy regarding the decision of President George Bush and Tony Blair to invade Iraq have been eliminated with the release this week of the Iraq Survey Group's final report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The report's author, Charles Duelfer, underscored the finality of what the world had come to accept in the 18 months since the invasion of Iraq - that there were no stockpiles of WMD, or programmes to produce WMD. Despite public statements made before the war by Bush, Blair and officials and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic to the contrary, the ISG report concludes that all of Iraq's WMD stockpiles had been destroyed in 1991, and WMD programmes and facilities dismantled by 1996. Duelfer's report does speak of Saddam Hussein's intent to acquire WMD once economic sanctions were lifted and UN inspections ended (although this conclusion is acknowledged to be derived from fragmentary and speculative sources). This judgement has been seized by Bush and Blair as they scramble to re-justify their respective decisions to wage war. The Duelfer report showed that Saddam was systematically gaming the system, using the UN oil-for-food programme to try to influence countries and companies in an effort to undermine sanctions, Bush said. He was doing so with the intent of restarting his weapons programme once the world looked away. Blair, for his part, has apologised for relying on faulty intelligence, but not for his decision to go to war. The mantra from both camps remains that the world is a safer place with Saddam behind bars. But is it? When one examines the reality of the situation on the ground in Iraq today, it seems hard to draw any conclusion that postulates a scenario built around the notion of an improved environment of stability and security. Indeed, many Iraqis hold that life under Saddam was a better option than the life they are facing under an increasingly violent and destabilising US-led occupation. The ultimate condemnation of the failure and futility of the US-UK effort in Iraq is that if Saddam were released from his prison cell and participated in the elections scheduled for next January, there is a good chance he would emerge as the popular choice. But while democratic freedom of expression was a desired outcome of the decision to remove Saddam from power, the crux of the pre-war arguments and the ones being reconfigured by those in favour of the invasion centre on the need to improve international peace and security. Has Saddam's removal accomplished this? To answer this question, you have to postulate a world today that includes an Iraq led by Saddam. How this world would deal with him would be determined by decisions made by the US, Britain and the international community in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. One of the key historical questions being asked is what if Hans Blix (who gives his own view, right) had been given the three additional months he had requested in order to complete his programme of inspection? Two issues arise from this scenario: would Blix have been able to assemble enough data to ascertain conclusively, in as definitive a fashion as the Duelfer ISG report, a finding that Saddam's Iraq was free of WMD, and thus posed no immediate threat; and would the main supporters of military engagement with Iraq, the US and Britain, have been willing to accept such a finding? The answer to the first point is that Blix and his team of inspectors were saddled with a complicated list of cluster issues, ironically assembled by Duelfer during his tenure as head of the UN weapons inspectors, that would have needed to be rectified for any finding of compliance to be made. These clusters postulated the need for Iraq to prove the negative, something that is virtually impossible to do. We now know that Iraq's WMD were destroyed in 1991. The problem wasn't the weapons, but verification of Iraq's declarations. The standards of verification set by Duelfer-Blix were impossible for Iraq to meet, thus making closure on the cluster issues also an unattainable goal. This situation answers the second point as well. Since the inspection process was pre-programmed to fail, there would be no way the US or the UK would accept any finding of compliance from the UN weapons inspectors. The inspection process was rigged to create uncertainty regarding Iraq's WMD, which was used by the US and the UK to bolster their case for war. It appears that there was no way short of war to create an environment where a finding of Iraq's compliance with its obligation to disarm could be embraced by the US and British governments. The main reason for this was that the issue wasn't WMD per se, but Saddam. The true goal wasn't
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Man. 10 will not open?
Purchased 3 CD set Mandrake 10. Loaded as per directions. Got to last page, Man 10 could not find sound card(Sound Blaster 16). Message 'runsndconfig after installation'. Would not exit that page? Rebooted and every thing opened perfect (1.3 gig loaded ona clean 10gig HD), ended with, local host logon. (Never heard of it before?) tried user! local host password. Tried user password. (master @ local-host master)$ curser blinks!! Nothing I enter is accepted it always returns to the above line. Have sent Email to the distributor, zilch reply! What's to do ? TT. Nz.
Re: [newbie] Man. 10 will not open?
On Monday 11 October 2004 03:29, T Travis wrote: Purchased 3 CD set Mandrake 10. Loaded as per directions. Got to last page, Man 10 could not find sound card (Sound Blaster 16). Message 'run sndconfig after installation'. Would not exit that page? Rebooted and every thing opened perfect (1.3 gig loaded ona clean 10gig HD), ended with, local host logon. (Never heard of it before?) tried user! local host password. Tried user password. (master @ local-host master)$ curser blinks!! Nothing I enter is accepted it always returns to the above line. Have sent Email to the distributor, zilch reply! What's to do ? TT. Nz. you don't see any return when typing password, as it is a security 'feature' (no one looking over your shoulder could tell how many digits in your password) after correctly entering a password, if it was me, I would hit enter next thing I would try after a prompt came up -- would be to type 'startx' without the quotes to properly shut down the computer, try 'shutdown -h now' at the prompt. linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Stolen document
Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 14:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) Found virus WORM_NETSKY.P in file data.rtf .scr (in document342.zip) The file is deleted. - __ I cannot believe that. __ -- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) document342.zip is removed from here because it contains a virus. Believe what? Richard H. Peddie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
Thanks for your reply guys. Well, in the beginning of the thread I had a copy of the -v option but obviously got lost after few replies! Please find here the ssh messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kp]$ ssh -v -l kp x.x.x.x OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to x.x.x.x [x.x.x.x] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/kp/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/kp/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/kp/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.6 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.6 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer As I mentioned in one of my earlier postings, when running (on the same Notebook) Knoppix 3.6 Live, didn4t face any problem to connect! Thanks for your help On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 14:53 +0200, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 08 October 2004 10:14, GV wrote: I think it should be something with the 10.1 distro Any people from Mandrake ever heard of this problem?? I've got 10.1 installed on a few boxes and laptops without any ssh probs. Connecting is no big deal..I couldn't do without, actually:) Assuming that you aren't connecting as root, you do have to give the specific username to get connected or at the least prompted for a password...i.e. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]. if your BSD box uses a different port than 22, use the -p switch...i.e. ssh -p n [EMAIL PROTECTED] where n is the portnumber. There is absolutely nothing wrong with 10.1's handling of ssh so it HAS to be your settings! But if you want real help you'll have to supply more info than just I can't connect Maybe something like the output you get when running with the v (verbose) flag! Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- GV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
I do appreciate and thanks for taking the time to reply to my problem. I included the -v output in an earlier reply and hope that this will help. Cheers. On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 08:56 -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, GV wrote: The firewall isn't a problem as the same Notebook (with the same eth card etc.) does make the connection without a problem when running Knoppix 3.6 Live Linux on it!!! Besides, no firewall is activated on my Mandrake box. The known_hosts file was also deleted but no effect! I think it should be something with the 10.1 distro Any people from Mandrake ever heard of this problem?? Well, I'm from Mandrakesoft, and also happen to maintain openssh. I can assure you it's working for a variety of connections (although I don't have accounts on any BSD boxen). I'd need to see the whole post of the -v session. You could also try to force protocol 1 (-1). Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- GV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, GV wrote: debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer As I mentioned in one of my earlier postings, when running (on the same Notebook) Knoppix 3.6 Live, didn4t face any problem to connect! You don't happen to have access to logs at the server end? Looks like that end is closing the connection. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
in general I do have access to the OpenBSD server's logs but I'm wondering why closing the connection with Mandrake only??? Could it be something with Kernel 2.6 cause, if I'm not mistaken, Mandrake 10.1 is 2.6 - or not? Please notice that when running Knoppix 3.6 I'm using the version with Kernel 2.4 On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 09:21 -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, GV wrote: debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer As I mentioned in one of my earlier postings, when running (on the same Notebook) Knoppix 3.6 Live, didn4t face any problem to connect! You don't happen to have access to logs at the server end? Looks like that end is closing the connection. Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- GV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 07:26, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm __ It's more or less expected from Joseph PM Goebbels. :) LX -- Trouble with sound? Dump Alsa with an upgrade to the best: get your free high quality OSS drivers at www.opensound.com Superior features, superior API, better support. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Monday 11 October 2004 07:26 am, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm roflol! So what other list are you posting such drivel to? (and by a man who was on Saddams payroll, no less!) Good call there, PM. :-) -- /\ 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] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, GV wrote: in general I do have access to the OpenBSD server's logs but I'm wondering why closing the connection with Mandrake only??? Could it be something with Kernel 2.6 cause, if I'm not mistaken, Mandrake 10.1 is 2.6 - or not? Default is 2.6, yes. Please notice that when running Knoppix 3.6 I'm using the version with Kernel 2.4 Doesn't really mean a lot to me, I'm sure there are myriad other differences between Knoppix and Mdk10 also. Could possibly be ipv6 related. You could try -4 to force ipv4. Server logs are going to tell a lot more than any guessing I might do from where I'm sitting. The connection looks to be closed at that end. You could increase the verbosity also. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP
Just wanna tell you that I had the same problem. I installed XP after MDK 9.1, and lilo did'n start, there was some error. Even after booting from cd. boot starter(lilo or grub) did'n start. So, to fix this problem I downloaded boot manager(bootit) and install it. But even then I couldn't start linux(it started when computer starts but couldn't find linux). Inportant is that it took primat from XP, so after booting from MDK cd1 and configuring lilo everything was working just fine(lilo delated bootmanager). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Port Audio SDK on MDK 10.0
hi, I've tried to installed portaudio SDK (NOT RPM) on MDK 10.0 (IBM ThinkPad T41), after compiling the source for unix, it genenrates a ./patest. when I run ./patest, it supposed to be testing a sine wave but I didn't get any sound and get an error number : -1, error message: Host error. Anyone have experience on that? Cheers, slimboyfatboyslim http://www.slimboyfatboyslim.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] Dual booting with XP
On Monday 11 October 2004 11:29, Vlada wrote: Just wanna tell you that I had the same problem. I installed XP after MDK 9.1, and lilo did'n start, there was some error. Even after booting from cd. boot starter(lilo or grub) did'n start. So, to fix this problem I downloaded boot manager(bootit) and install it. But even then I couldn't start linux(it started when computer starts but couldn't find linux). Inportant is that it took primat from XP, so after booting from MDK cd1 and configuring lilo everything was working just fine(lilo delated bootmanager). Your problem was caused by installing mdk before xp. If you had done it the other way windows would not have overwritten lilo and lilo would have had the boot instructions for XP. -- 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] What Ritter says
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:38, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 11 October 2004 07:26 am, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm roflol! So what other list are you posting such drivel to? (and by a man who was on Saddams payroll, no less!) Good call there, PM. :-) It was accidentally posted to the Newbie list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Monday 11 October 2004 01:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:38, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 11 October 2004 07:26 am, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm roflol! So what other list are you posting such drivel to? (and by a man who was on Saddams payroll, no less!) Good call there, PM. :-) It was accidentally posted to the Newbie list. I'm re-directing this to the OT list. To be totally honest, I never noticed what list PM accidentally posted it to first. If I had noticed that it was the Newbie list, I would have redirected it then. -- /\ 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] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
how can I increase the verbosity level? On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 12:24 -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, GV wrote: in general I do have access to the OpenBSD server's logs but I'm wondering why closing the connection with Mandrake only??? Could it be something with Kernel 2.6 cause, if I'm not mistaken, Mandrake 10.1 is 2.6 - or not? Default is 2.6, yes. Please notice that when running Knoppix 3.6 I'm using the version with Kernel 2.4 Doesn't really mean a lot to me, I'm sure there are myriad other differences between Knoppix and Mdk10 also. Could possibly be ipv6 related. You could try -4 to force ipv4. Server logs are going to tell a lot more than any guessing I might do from where I'm sitting. The connection looks to be closed at that end. You could increase the verbosity also. Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- GV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, GV wrote: how can I increase the verbosity level? man pages are your friend: -v Verbose mode. Causes ssh to print debugging messages about its progress. This is helpful in debugging connection, authentica- tion, and configuration problems. Multiple -v options increase the verbosity. The maximum is 3. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Telnet
I am new to linux, I need to telnet into the server at school. Can someone tell me if I need a seperate telnet client or what commands might one use to telnet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet
Elliot Somers wrote: I am new to linux, I need to telnet into the server at school. Can someone tell me if I need a seperate telnet client or what commands might one use to telnet? Tere should be a shell telnet menu item in your NetworkingRemote access section You can telnet directly from a console window... telnet your.school.edu Gtelnet is another command line telnet/ssh/rlogin client. If you want something else with a split window for separating typed text and output from your school's telnet server, with double split-screen scrollback, take a look at Kmuddy. Version 0.7 pre4 was just released. You'll need to build it yourself if you want the latest version, but it's worth it. The home page for Kmuddy is here: http://www.kmuddy.org/download.php It is actually a mud client, but with the mud stuff disabled in preferences, it makes a great split-screen telnet client as well as a decent talker client. I like the separation of incoming and outgoing text, though it's probably not worth installing unless you do a lot of telnet stuff. You didn't mention what you were intending to do. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SOLVED - unable to mount/read floppy
Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks *** I think I solved this problem by myself. I tried the various suggestions from list to no avail .. thanks to respondents. Out of shear desperation I did some changes to the fstab, Now any user can mount/unmount read/write to this floppy. That is on my system. When mounted via console a floppy icon appears and can be used. umount and it disappears. can be umounted on this icon too. See relevant fstab entry as was and now... Was..#none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Now../dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 *** -- Johan Registered linux user #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Monday 11 Oct 2004 12:26, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm Very informative, though :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:34, Ian wrote: On Monday 11 Oct 2004 12:26, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm Very informative, though :-) Saddam paid him to do this stuff -- check out the OT list. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] GTK2 PDF reader
Okay, first off, if that butt ugly PDF reader 'acroread' is what Adobe has to offer the Linux community, they can kiss my ass. Ahem. Can anyone suggest a PDF viewer which is preferably GTK2 but allows one to print, unlike gpdf (shouldn't this be a standard feature?!). -- JoeHill RLU / #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:55:53 up 68 days, 21:44, 8 users, load average: 0.39, 0.41, 0.63 +++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:58:49 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: ...actually, never mind, I'll just use 'lpr' from the command line, it's a lot faster and simpler. -- JoeHill RLU / #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:04:13 up 68 days, 21:52, 8 users, load average: 0.26, 0.33, 0.49 +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth. -- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:58:49 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Okay, first off, if that butt ugly PDF reader 'acroread' is what Adobe has to offer the Linux community, they can kiss my ass. It's not pretty, but it renders PDFs more pretty and it's a hell of a lot more capable than any PDF viewer I've used in Linux. What don't you like about it? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:08:06 -0400 Miark disseminated the following: Okay, first off, if that butt ugly PDF reader 'acroread' is what Adobe has to offer the Linux community, they can kiss my ass. It's not pretty, but it renders PDFs more pretty and it's a hell of a lot more capable than any PDF viewer I've used in Linux. What don't you like about it? Well, like I said, it's *really* ugly. And it does not do as good a job at rendering as gpdf: http://www.freeyourmachine.org/acroread.png The UI *sucks*, it doesn't even let me use my scrollwheel! gpdf may be lacking in some functionality, but for what it's made for, reading PDF's, it does it very well and it's nice to look at :-) -- JoeHill RLU / #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:21:48 up 68 days, 22:10, 9 users, load average: 0.19, 0.14, 0.21 +++ There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:26:40 -0400, JoeHill wrote: [Acroread] is *really* ugly. And it does not do as good a job at rendering as gpdf: Have you tried messing with Smoothing in Acroread? If not, it does a decent job of tweaking the rendering: Edit Preferences General Smoothing The UI *sucks*, it doesn't even let me use my scrollwheel! Ya, the scrollwheel thing definitely sucks. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
