[newbie] MDK recommends a certain training center for LSI cert's. after passing exam -- possible @ home consulting job ? (disabled)
MDK recommends a certain training center for LSI cert's. after passing exam -- possible @ home consulting job ? (disabled) its $245 with oem version of latest mdk and suse. 900 page book. 5 week course ? is that possible ? nice briefcase with pen holders. (pens not included) could someone please give me some feedback ? also anyone want to give me their opinion ? support is only 30 days. http://www.epicenteros.com/ss/self_study.php thank you ! cannot leave home. have bills to pay. would like to buy chinese food every so often. hoping i can pull off a consulting job after my cert. thanks ! i am n00b Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK recommends a certain training center for LSI cert's. after passing exam -- possible @ home consulting job ? (disabled)
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 19:32, Arthur Rosene III wrote: MDK recommends a certain training center for LSI cert's. after passing exam -- possible @ home consulting job ? (disabled) its $245 with oem version of latest mdk and suse. 900 page book. 5 week course ? is that possible ? nice briefcase with pen holders. (pens not included) could someone please give me some feedback ? also anyone want to give me their opinion ? support is only 30 days. http://www.epicenteros.com/ss/self_study.php thank you ! cannot leave home. have bills to pay. would like to buy chinese food every so often. hoping i can pull off a consulting job after my cert. thanks ! i am n00b I don't have a cert and I do consulting out of the home. Hmmm...purty expensive for a briefcase and 900 page book, eh? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free - Reboot is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I'm not afraid of death -- I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
Hi. The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
Hi. On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Cheers, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
Short answer is no since the Word file format is proprietary. Abiword is another open source solution and offers similarly close compatibility. You might find that it does a better (or worse) job for a particular formatting issue. KWord doesn't do so well, but for some issues it might work. If you're looking for (nearly) perfect compatibilility you have 4 options. Wine will let you run the native Word binary under Linux, but AFAIK, Word needs to be already installed in a Windows partition on the same machine. A couple of years ago it needed to be on a W95/98 installation, but that may have been upgraded. I suspect it suffers from some of the compatibility issues that also affect the Codeweavers product and Win4Lin. Codeweavers Wine ($), will let you install MS Office (and some other Windows) apps into a fake windows directory within Linux. It is pretty close to perfect for Word 97 and Word 2K, but has some minor imperfections w/ XP. Most of the problems seem to be with documents embedded within other documents or very table/figure references within documents. They do provide good support and you will find that most bugs are at least evaluated by the staff. Win4Lin ($) is similar to the Codeweavers product, but you need Windows 98 compatibility. It requires a specially modified Linux kernel (which is generally available). VMWare ($) is a true virtual machine system. It lets you install an actual copy of Windows (or any other i386 OS) onto Linux (or vice versa) and then install MS Word into that version of Windows. As far as binary compatibility, this is the best solution, but requires at least 2Gb of free disk space and is the slowest solution to your problem (you have to boot or at least unsuspend Windows after you boot Linux), although as virtual machines go, it is almost as fast as running natively since it doesn't try to change processor architecture. All are available for 30day demos. Bochs is another open source virtual machine, but it once took me 12 hours to install W98 into a Bochs virtual machine on a Pentium II box. Perhaps it is a bit faster now. HTH Paul On Saturday 11 December 2004 05:12 am, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? Rodolfo Let's change the perspective a tad. Microsoft Word is not compatible with anything else because they refuse to stick to a standard - and it even changes in between versions of MS Word. Originally, MS Word tried to work on the standard of being backwards compatible with WordPerfect and all the rest of the word processing programs - but not. Save your MS Word documents as HTML and ditto with OO documents. You'll be happier in the long run (and you can view the documents in a browser as well). MS Word is NOT the standard in document processing even though they want you to think so. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free - Reboot is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. -- Mark Twain Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound system compatibility
On Friday 10 December 2004 23:49, Simon Roberts wrote: Sorry to ask this, as it's probably in the HW compatiblity lists if I only knew what to look for. I would like to use a USB sound system on MDK 10.1. Are these systems built to a standard, such that any USB sound card will work, or does each have it's own proprietary driver protocols, such that none of them will work? The one I like the look of is made by Edirol, and can do 24 bit conversion at up to 48Khz, it also has some funky features that I'm not so worried about if they can't be made to work. Is this likely to be workable, or are USB sound systems to freaky to contemplate? Cheers, Simon http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ says: All USB devices that are standards compliant will work. If they do not please report to the mailing lists. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Roland_Edirol#matrix lists the Roland/Edirol devices. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Cheers, Rodolfo You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free - Reboot is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time, but that had to be the 57th strangest. [footnote: he had a tidy mind] (Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
Op Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:31:22 +1100 schreef Stephen Kühn: Save your MS Word documents as HTML and ditto with OO documents. You'll be happier in the long run (and you can view the documents in a browser as well). How do you handle headers and footers when you save documents as html? I notice that these are lost, among other things like the format of styles. Paul -- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VCR - PC - DVD
Since VCR appears to be rapidly being overtaken by DVD, I would like to transfer quite a few VHS tapes to DVD in anticipation of the day when my VCR dies and I need to replace it with a DVD recorder. I have plenty of HD available, AMD 2400xp 512mb so the pc should be up to it, what I don't know is what I need to actually transfer the VHS tapes to the HD in the first place. Do I need a T.V. card or do I need a graphics card with video audio in jacks ? Also, what software to use. BTW I am not pirating, these are old classics home recorded from T.V. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 22:55, Paul wrote: Op Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:31:22 +1100 schreef Stephen Kühn: Save your MS Word documents as HTML and ditto with OO documents. You'll be happier in the long run (and you can view the documents in a browser as well). How do you handle headers and footers when you save documents as html? I notice that these are lost, among other things like the format of styles. Paul If you do not want them lost, save them in older versions of MS Word - and ditto with OO. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free - Reboot is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- If you didn't have to work so hard, you'd have more time to be depressed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Totem does not load playlists
Dear All I have just installed Mandrake 10.1 and Totem 0.99.15.1. However, when I try to load a playlist (previously saved), I get the following error: Totem could not play 'file:///home/psmith/Documents/myplaylist'. There is no plugin to handle this movie. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the 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] Has anybody attempted to re-add their 10.1 distro sources?
On Sunday 21 November 2004 15:53, Glenn wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2004 12:24, mike wrote: If you use -c option for urpmi.removemedia it will clean the headers cache directory. I borked mine up before and had to remove all sources and readd them. First I urpmi.removemedia -a -c then I had to manually remove snip Thanks, Mike. I'll give that a try. Still no joy. Guess I'll have to keep working on adding these manually g. copying hdlists file... ...copying done added medium Installation CD 11 added medium Installation CD 21 added medium Installation CD 31 added medium Installation CD 32 added medium Installation CD 33 added medium Installation CD 34 added medium Supplementary Applications CD 41 added medium Supplementary Applications CD 51 added medium Commercial Applications CD 61 added medium Commercial Applications CD 62 computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Installation CD 11... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Installation CD 11.cz] examining pubkey file of Installation CD 11... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Installation CD 21... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Installation CD 21.cz] examining pubkey file of Installation CD 21... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Installation CD 31... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Installation CD 31.cz] examining pubkey file of Installation CD 31... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Installation CD 32... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Installation CD 32.cz] examining pubkey file of Installation CD 32... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Installation CD 33... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Installation CD 33.cz] examining pubkey file of Installation CD 33... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Installation CD 34... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Installation CD 34.cz] examining pubkey file of Installation CD 34... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Supplementary Applications CD 41... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Supplementary Applications CD 41.cz] examining pubkey file of Supplementary Applications CD 41... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Supplementary Applications CD 51... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Supplementary Applications CD 51.cz] examining pubkey file of Supplementary Applications CD 51... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Commercial Applications CD 61... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Commercial Applications CD 61.cz] examining pubkey file of Commercial Applications CD 61... computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) copying source hdlist (or synthesis) of Commercial Applications CD 62... ...copying done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Commercial Applications CD 62.cz] examining pubkey file of Commercial Applications CD 62... performing second pass to compute dependencies examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation CD 11.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Installation CD 11 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation CD 21.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Installation CD 21 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation CD 31.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Installation CD 31 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation CD 32.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Installation CD 32 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation CD 33.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Installation CD 33 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation CD 34.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Installation CD 34 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Supplementary Applications CD 41.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Supplementary Applications CD 41 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Supplementary Applications CD 51.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Supplementary Applications CD 51 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Commercial Applications CD 61.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Commercial Applications CD 61 examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Commercial Applications CD 62.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for
[newbie] Problems with toolbar settings in Mdk 10.1 CE
Hi. In Mdk 10.1 Community, with KDE: I don't manage to set the Konqueror toolbars as I want: when I open Konqueror it always shows the same toolbars, i.e. the Main and the Location toolbar. Then I tick onto the 'Show Extra Toolbar' option, but when I reopen Konqueror my choice is not saved. Such a problem does not arise with Mdk 9.1. Does anyone have the same problem? Or maybe there's something trivial I'm missing? Thanks, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Stephen Kuhn replied: You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. Thanks. My monitor is an Acer V771, and in Mandrake Control Centre it is set as 'Plug'n Play ()'. It can't be found in the list which is under the 'Vendor' item, and when I choose any model from that list the problems remains: the screen is never filled up by the image. The same happens when I select any choice of the 'Generic' item. There is the 'Custom' item left. But I don't know what the 'refresh rate' means, and there the user is alerted that changing those rates can run the risk of damaging the screen, so I don't know what to do. Any other hint? Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 11:52, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Cheers, Rodolfo You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free - Reboot is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The Librarian had seen many weird things in his time, but that had to be the 57th strangest. [footnote: he had a tidy mind] (Moving Pictures) Before you fiddle with your mandrake setup check to see if the monitor has any screen set up buttons, may be round the back on older units. I have a spare monitor which I use in my workshop when installing different o/s 's or doing fresh installs. I then move the pc into the room it will be used in and plug it back into its usual monitor, keyboard ect. I generally have to re ajust the monitor settings on the moniter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem (update)
Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more confusing. But first, I have just connected for the first time today, to get my e-mails and postings. I have found that there is nothing from the list between about eight o'clock last night (GMT, or UTC) and mid-day today. I have no idea where any postings between those times have gone to, so if anyone has been kind enough to send me a reply, I am afraid that it has gone :( I'll look in the archives to see if I can find the missing postings. I have been busy trying to sort things. I have installed several distributions in turn, on my spare hard drive to see what shutdown problems there are with other distros. There were none with two of them, so I installed Mandrake10.0 Official. That gave me the choice of several boots: Linux (no shutdown problems) Linux-smp (wouldn't shut down) linux-nonfb (no shutdown problems) 263-7 (no shutdown problems) Failsafe and floppy, which I didn't test. Before, with 10.0, I have only had the choice of Linux, 263-7, failsafe and floppy. So, I did a clean installation of 10.1. That gave me the choice of: Linux (wouldn't shut down) Linux-nonfb (wouldn't shut down) Failsafe and floppy So, I am back to 10.0 on my spare hard drive to send this, and will use that unless someone could please give me some advice about the work-around needed with 10.1. Does it still look like hardware problems? By the way, sorry if I went a bit over the top last night, but I was tired and the information I was given was a real blow. I had only got my new computer the previous day. Any help will be very gratefully received. Thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with toolbar settings in Mdk 10.1 CE
On Saturday 11 December 2004 15:41, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. In Mdk 10.1 Community, with KDE: I don't manage to set the Konqueror toolbars as I want: when I open Konqueror it always shows the same toolbars, i.e. the Main and the Location toolbar. Then I tick onto the 'Show Extra Toolbar' option, but when I reopen Konqueror my choice is not saved. Such a problem does not arise with Mdk 9.1. Does anyone have the same problem? Or maybe there's something trivial I'm missing? Thanks, Rodolfo You need to save your preferred layout SettingsConfigureViewProfiles 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] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
Op Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:52:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00) schreef Simon Roberts: Wouldn't it be more valuable to use this against them? When people send you .doc attachments in email, tell them that you can't accept them as they are a virus vector, and insist that they send you plain text (or pdf if it's something fancy that you don't need to modify readily, like a contract). RTF-format is not bad either. :) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:31 am, Stephen Khn wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? Rodolfo Let's change the perspective a tad. Microsoft Word is not compatible with anything else because they refuse to stick to a standard - and it even changes in between versions of MS Word. Hear, hear! I went through several of those conversions back in my days as a wage slave. It was made worse because the corporate practice was to unleash each new version on those of us out in the boondocks over a period of months. Originally, MS Word tried to work on the standard of being backwards compatible with WordPerfect and all the rest of the word processing programs - but not. Save your MS Word documents as HTML and ditto with OO documents. You'll be happier in the long run (and you can view the documents in a browser as well). MS Word is NOT the standard in document processing even though they want you to think so. Maybe we should start filling up the Windows lists and forums with complaints that MS Word keeps screwing up our OO documents. -- 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] Shutdown problem (solved)
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 16:14, Keith Powell wrote: Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more confusing. I have installed several distributions in turn, on my spare hard drive to see what shutdown problems there are with other distros. There were none with two of them, so I installed Mandrake10.0 Official. That gave me the choice of several boots: Linux (no shutdown problems) Linux-smp (wouldn't shut down) linux-nonfb (no shutdown problems) 263-7 (no shutdown problems) Failsafe and floppy, which I didn't test. Before, with 10.0, I have only had the choice of Linux, 263-7, failsafe and floppy. So, I did a clean installation of 10.1. That gave me the choice of: Linux (wouldn't shut down) Linux-nonfb (wouldn't shut down) Failsafe and floppy This is bordering on being ridiculous! I have run the Mandrake10.1 (the one in which I had to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file append line to get it to shut down), which is installed on my main hard drive. As an experiment, I re-edited its lilo.conf file, replacing apic=off with the default apic=ht. Then I ran lilo. It now shuts down correctly! But it definitely didn't when there was apic=ht in the append line when it was installed. I wonder if re-running lilo sorted out an installation problem? I'm probably wrong. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Stephen Kuhn wrote: You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. John Bowden wrote: Before you fiddle with your mandrake setup check to see if the monitor has any screen set up buttons, may be round the back on older units. I have a spare monitor which I use in my workshop when installing different o/s 's or doing fresh installs. I then move the pc into the room it will be used in and plug it back into its usual monitor, keyboard ect. I generally have to re ajust the monitor settings on the moniter. Thanks!! Your suggestion was right! On the bottom of my monitor there are four buttons, with which I could fit perfectly the image in the screen. For two years and a half I've been thinking it was a fault of Linux! Thanks, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with toolbar settings in Mdk 10.1 CE
Rodolfo Medina wrote: In Mdk 10.1 Community, with KDE: I don't manage to set the Konqueror toolbars as I want: when I open Konqueror it always shows the same toolbars, i.e. the Main and the Location toolbar. Then I tick onto the 'Show Extra Toolbar' option, but when I reopen Konqueror my choice is not saved. Such a problem does not arise with Mdk 9.1. Does anyone have the same problem? Or maybe there's something trivial I'm missing? Derek Jennings wrote: You need to save your preferred layout SettingsConfigureViewProfiles Thanks! Your suggestion worked fine. Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? Rodolfo MS Word is not completely MS word compatable. What version of MS Word do you want to be compatable with? Why not just install OO in Windows? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 20:26, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the screen is not completely covered by the image, a little border remains black: up, down and on the side. Can this be avoided, and how? Stephen Kuhn wrote: You need to make sure the monitor settings are correct. Open the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Hardware, then Monitor. Change the settings as per your monitor - and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. John Bowden wrote: Before you fiddle with your mandrake setup check to see if the monitor has any screen set up buttons, may be round the back on older units. I have a spare monitor which I use in my workshop when installing different o/s 's or doing fresh installs. I then move the pc into the room it will be used in and plug it back into its usual monitor, keyboard ect. I generally have to re ajust the monitor settings on the moniter. Thanks!! Your suggestion was right! On the bottom of my monitor there are four buttons, with which I could fit perfectly the image in the screen. For two years and a half I've been thinking it was a fault of Linux! Thanks, Rodolfo Glad I could be of assistance. You will have to reajust the settings when you boot into windoz though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
Rodolfo wrote: The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? Simon Roberts wrote: When people send you .doc attachments in email, tell them that you can't accept them as they are a virus vector, and insist that they send you plain text (or pdf if it's something fancy that you don't need to modify readily, like a contract). Just a thought, I know it's hard to do sometimes, but if we all push back, eventually we'll win. Carroll Grigsby wrote: Maybe we should start filling up the Windows lists and forums with complaints that MS Word keeps screwing up our OO documents. Simon, Carroll, I perfectly agree with you; nay, if it depended on me I'd never use Microsoft Word: I'm a TeX user. The problem is not much when they send you .doc attachments in emails, because 'kword' manages to read them excellently. The problem is that they *want*, e.g. curriculums vitae in .doc format, so if I want in the next future more and more do *without* MS Windows I need a tool to produce documents with Linux that MS Word will be able to open and correctly read. According to Paul Kaplan exhaustive report on the matter, I'll try Abiword and Wine, hoping they can help because the problem is really 'serious': I won't be able to avoid using MS Windows until a solution will I find. But, please: excuse my ignorance: what are OO documents? Cheers, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
John Bowden wrote: Glad I could be of assistance. You will have to reajust the settings when you boot into windoz though. John, this time you're wrong: with my pleasant surprise, this was not necessary (at least it seems so): now I can switch between windoz and linux with the screen perfectly set up in both OSs. Cheers, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with adjusting the size of the fonts
Dear All I have just done some updates and the fonts became misconfigured. I was able to reconfigure everything, except the XChat and other non-KDE programs. Any ideas? (I am running Mandrake 10.1.) Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the 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] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
Rodolfo wrote: The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? Mikkel wrote: MS Word is not completely MS word compatable. What version of MS Word do you want to be compatable with? Why not just install OO in Windows? On my PC I have Windows 98. In practically all cases, when you attach a file in an e-mail, tipically a curriculum vitae, they absolutely want it in .doc format. I've never had the problem of the version though: I've always sent my attachments in MS Word with my Windows 98 and never had problems, e.g., with Windows XP. It would be a great relief for me if I could do without MS Word, and that's why I posted this subject, but how? MS Word is enormously used worldwide (it is maybe the most used informatic tool in the world: everyone has used it): and, to be really honest, it is ugly but easy and practical: you can do a lot of things with it with little effort. I'll try to experiment Abiword and Wine, hoping they can work the problem out. I think this is a matter that Linux should soon manage to solve. Maybe the battle is won when we can produce documents with linux that can be read by MS Word, just as now we can read Word documents in linux with 'kword'. But, what's OO? (Excuse my ignorance!) Bye, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem
Tom Brinkman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip I appreciate the addition Rick. Let me take this opportunity to add a caution to your post, but more so to previous replies I sent in this thread. ** Unless you know what you're doing, don't edit kernel config files by hand and then compile a kernel ** I do, but then I'm a reckless idiot ; Many of y'all have run 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig' and noticed that when you changed somethin, some, sometimes many other options either were greyed out (disabled), or became enabled. Great advice, as always, I haven't had the guts to try to compile a kernel yet. Although I did just get an older box to break/test/ learn with. g This automatically protects you against setting conflicting compile options, and/or automatically presents others appropriately. This protection is not afforded if you edit kernel configs manually. Still as Rick has very well illustrated, you should take a look and get familiar with the kernel options, features, and capabilities which are Linux. The very heart of your system, and a good place to begin diagnosing peculiar problems. A little knowlege in this basic area will lead you to other involved processes, like various init functions that have a lot to do with booting up, or shutting down, and everything in between. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Also drawing from your experience, wouldn't *dmidecode* be of use in this case to see what a bios supports ? The reason I ask, IIRC ..was of a post about what the bios reporting information, on this list or the expert list .. arrgh ..can't find the link now 8( sorry for asking another question. Thanks Tom, you helped me find out my MB supported local apic for 9.2, thru lurkin, since I was having stability problems then. -- RickS Registered Linux user #338463 Mdk 10.1 OE - Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk@ http://counter.li.org gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with adjusting the size of the fonts
On Saturday 11 December 2004 03:55 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have just done some updates and the fonts became misconfigured. I was able to reconfigure everything, except the XChat and other non-KDE programs. Any ideas? (I am running Mandrake 10.1.) Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Try running gnome-font-properties. Just running it changes the way fonts in gtk2 apps display for some reason. If this fixes the problem, you can put a symlink to it in your kde autostart folder -- /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] Shutdown problem
On Saturday 11 December 2004 07:03, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Friday 10 December 2004 09:37 pm, care free wrote:
I wonder if it is acpi=on or set you acpi on in your bios
J.T.
According to past and present kernel-parameters.txt, acpi=on
is _not_ a valid option.
...
acpi= [HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Format: { force | off | ht | strict }
force -- enable ACPI if default was off
off -- disable ACPI if default was on
noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
strictly ACPI specification compliant.
See also Documentation/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode }
See Documentation/power/video.txt
acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt
trigger mode
Format: { level | edge | high | low }
acpi_irq_balance[HW,ACPI] ACPI will balance
active IRQs default in APIC mode
acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] ACPI will not move
active IRQs (default)
default in PIC mode
acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, Clear listed
IRQs for use by PCI
Format: irq,irq...
acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, Mark listed
IRQs used by ISA
Format: irq,irq...
acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] empty param disables _OSI
acpi_serialize [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML
methods
acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt
Override.
For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in
XT-PIC timer.
...
This is the mesg about ML/twiki type opinions and advice I'm
tryin to make known. acpi=on doesn't exist or is purposely
neglected and undocumented. In either case it's almost certain
to be ignored by the kernel and have no effect, or possibly an
unintended one.
Be concerned about ACPI tho. It's becoming most important on
current systems where more than the original 15 IRQ's and IRQ
sharing is needed. IMO, if you need to add 'acpi=any of the
options listed in kernel-parameters.txt' to your kernel, what
you really need to add is better and standards compliant hardware
to your system. The facts are available before you purchase,
only opinions afterwards.
APIC isn't all that big a fsck'n deal. Nice to have, might
add a slight touch of performance to ACPI IRQ handling.
This thread is the last of me being an ogre about advice and
opinions as gleaned from ML's and twiki's when it's contrary to
past and current developer's and maintainer's documentation.
Probly why after years, I hardly post anymore.
Tom, two things :
1. I sincerely apologize for having ignited your ire by posting an
inaccurate and amateurish anwer to Keith's shutdown question.
2. I certainly will become very depressed if you reduce your
activity here on the newbie list. In fact, you are a leviathan to
most of us newbies. Admittedly, the newbie list and the twiki are
not authoritative manuals or documentation, but merely opinions and
experiences. Nevertheless they provide tremendous help for most
newbies, especially when somebody like you are willing to inject
some corrections and wisdom. Your above quoted words are a proof
of just that.
Kaj Haulrich.
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Re: [newbie] Problem with adjusting the size of the fonts
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:48:07 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just done some updates and the fonts became misconfigured. I was able to reconfigure everything, except the XChat and other non-KDE programs. Any ideas? (I am running Mandrake 10.1.) Try running gnome-font-properties. Just running it changes the way fonts in gtk2 apps display for some reason. If this fixes the problem, you can put a symlink to it in your kde autostart folder Thanks, Greg. But, how can I run gnome-font-properties? I did not install Gnome; I only installed KDE. Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the 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] Shutdown problem (update)
On Sunday 12 December 2004 06:01, Keith Powell wrote: snip Also, there are no Newbie archives for December. So I can't check there. /snip Keith, there are more than one archive. Try here : http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/maillist.html Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
John Bowden wrote: Glad I could be of assistance. You will have to reajust the settings when you boot into windoz though. John, this time you're wrong: with my pleasant surprise, this was not necessary (at least it seems so): now I can switch between windoz and linux with the screen perfectly set up in both OSs. Cheers, Rodolfo Depending on the monitor, and the settings used, the monitor may remember more then one set of setting for screen size, and position. This can be especialy true when you run two different resulations/color depth settings. It is nice when it works out that way. Monitors that only remember one set of settings can be a pain. You get things like the splash screen when booting being off-center, or the command line interface or command mode not looking right. There is an X utility for tweeking the screen size, and position, but I can not remember the name. Usefull for when the monitor tries to use the same setting for Windows and Linux, and Linux is not full screen. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor
On Sunday 12 December 2004 00:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There is an X utility for tweeking the screen size, and position, but I can not remember the name. /snip xvidtune Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
Hi got Mandrake on my 1800 and I'm getting ready to install on my new 2600. Does any one know if the Pinnacle PC TV pic card can work in mandrake? It didnot work in mandrake 9 but it did detect the card. It said it had a SA something chip, can't quite remember but I know it was not a BTU chip. Any advice on compatible cards? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Manrake 10.1 Official-Powerpack
Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I have downloaded Mandrake Linux 10.1-official-Powerpack which consist of 6 CDs. It may be a foolish question, but I am not really sure if it is something extra which enhances Mandrake 10.1 Official and should be installed after Mandrake 10.1 Official has been installed, or it is a more complete version of Mandrake 10.1 Official ? Regards, Danesh Danesh, the extra CDs are additional packages and some of the commercial packages that have licenses attached to them. You can see what is available beyond what is already installed by going to Mandrake Control Center software Managementinstallall packages_alphabetical. This gives a complete list of the remaining CD s packages. If you use a terminal type in mcc without the quotes and it will start by asking for your root password. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
John Bowden wrote: Hi got Mandrake on my 1800 and I'm getting ready to install on my new 2600. Does any one know if the Pinnacle PC TV pic card can work in mandrake? It didnot work in mandrake 9 but it did detect the card. It said it had a SA something chip, can't quite remember but I know it was not a BTU chip. Any advice on compatible cards? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Leadtek wintv cards seem to work well. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TV tuner cards (was: Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question
On Saturday 11 December 2004 08:21 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Any advice on compatible cards? Leadtek wintv cards seem to work well. Hauppauge WinTV or Leadtek WinFast ? it would be great if everybody with a tv card made a few updates on Wiki Main HardwareCompatibility TvTuners: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TvTuners currently i find it difficult to buy one, as the ads are rosy and the fullscreen picture quality often bad ? also how much cpu does realtime encoding to mpeg4 need ? does someone use a card doing this in the chip ? are the external usb2 cards better ? why does the Mandrakelinux Hardware Database contain no TV cards at all ? http://linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 kind regards philippe -- see also: Video Hardware Issues and Compatibility http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/VideoHI OOPs, your right Leadtek WinFast TV card. It uses the bt878 with a bttv module. also shows as other multimedia devices with: Pinnacle PCTV Sat DVB PCI (based on the Bt878 PCI bridge). Don't know if that helps anyone, but there it is. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 10:52, J or M Montgomery wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:20:59 +0100 Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MS Word is enormously used worldwide (it is maybe the most used informatic tool in the world: everyone has used it): Well, not quite everyone. I have been using these computers for a lot of years but NEVER with MS Word. And something else to think about - WordPerfect and Wordstar were basically the PC standard and there was a standard for document formatting, which other wordprocessors lived with as well. Once Microsoft got on the marketing bandwagon and then killed off WordPerfect (first with pricing, then with sheer market strength) the MS document format changed yearly - so as to NOT be compatible with anything else. As holds true to this day. And in all actuality, true ASCII text is the most widely used informatic tool in the world. and, to be really honest, it is ugly but easy and practical: you can do a lot of things with it with little effort. Driving a combat jet aircraft is easy also, once you get the hang of it. I get tired of hearing that a program is 'intuitive', when what is meant usually is that it conforms with habits developed on another OS. As someone else has said, The only intuitive interface for humans is the tit. Cheers John Montgomery __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free - Reboot is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- All most people want is a little more than they'll ever get. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
On Saturday 11 December 2004 12:53 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: | Rodolfo wrote: | | nay, if it depended on me I'd never use Microsoft Word: I'm a TeX user. | The problem is not much when they send you .doc attachments in emails, | because 'kword' manages to read them excellently. | The problem is that they *want*, e.g. curriculums vitae in .doc format, | so if I want in the next future more and more do *without* MS Windows | I need a tool to produce documents with Linux | that MS Word will be able to open and correctly read. | According to Paul Kaplan exhaustive report on the matter, | I'll try Abiword and Wine, hoping they can help because the problem is | really 'serious': | I won't be able to avoid using MS Windows until a solution will I find. | | | Cheers, | Rodolfo What I do is make my documents in rich text format with OO (Open Office). Nobody has ever noticed that they are not really *.doc, because Word opens *.rtf perfectly (at least everything, including tables, that I've created with them--probably because they have the MS Word icon in Winsux). e e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Create device at boot SOLVED
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 23:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: Thanks for the responses guys. However I have stumbled across the answer to my problem. In /etc/rc.d/rc.local mknod -m 666 /dev/raw c 171 0 does not work, but /bin/mknod -m 666 /dev/raw c 171 0 works I can only surmise that this is something to do with when $PATH is set Many Thanks -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound system compatibility
Many thanks Frans, this moved me forward a lot. I've got my hands on an Edirol UA-3FX, which--as Murphy would insist--isn't on the list! Given that pretty much all the Edirols seem to be listed as working, I'm hoping this might just be a newer device that hasn't been tried yet. So I plugged it in, but I don't know how to access it. I tried some of the sound players, hoping they'd have some option that would say hey, which of these sound devices do you want to use? but they just kept on playing out of the built-in sound system that's on the motherboard. Does anyone know where I should be looking for config info to tell the audio tools to look for this thing (assuming, of course, that it's acually doing it's thing). I looked for a USB howto on the ALSA site, but haven't found any mention of it (there is a USB/MIDI howto, but I'm not into MIDI, I want to record live sound) Thanks again -Original Message- On Friday 10 December 2004 23:49, Simon Roberts wrote: ... I would like to use a USB sound system on MDK 10.1. Are these systems built to a standard, such that any USB sound card will work, or does each have it's own proprietary driver protocols, such that none of them will work? ... http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ says: All USB devices that are standards compliant will work. If they do not please report to the mailing lists. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Roland_Edirol#matrix lists the Roland/Edirol devices. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem (update)
I know the frustration. I don't know why mdk10.1 does not turn off you computer. I have an Athlon 800Mhz box with a very buggy FD11 mobo, and mdk10 turns it off after shut down, but not rh9 or any of Fedora Cores. Rh9 says that my bios has a way too old acpi, so it turns off that function automatically. I wonder if it has anything to do with the bios. J.T. From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem (update) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:14:26 + Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more confusing. But first, I have just connected for the first time today, to get my e-mails and postings. I have found that there is nothing from the list between about eight o'clock last night (GMT, or UTC) and mid-day today. I have no idea where any postings between those times have gone to, so if anyone has been kind enough to send me a reply, I am afraid that it has gone :( I'll look in the archives to see if I can find the missing postings. I have been busy trying to sort things. I have installed several distributions in turn, on my spare hard drive to see what shutdown problems there are with other distros. There were none with two of them, so I installed Mandrake10.0 Official. That gave me the choice of several boots: Linux (no shutdown problems) Linux-smp (wouldn't shut down) linux-nonfb (no shutdown problems) 263-7 (no shutdown problems) Failsafe and floppy, which I didn't test. Before, with 10.0, I have only had the choice of Linux, 263-7, failsafe and floppy. So, I did a clean installation of 10.1. That gave me the choice of: Linux (wouldn't shut down) Linux-nonfb (wouldn't shut down) Failsafe and floppy So, I am back to 10.0 on my spare hard drive to send this, and will use that unless someone could please give me some advice about the work-around needed with 10.1. Does it still look like hardware problems? By the way, sorry if I went a bit over the top last night, but I was tired and the information I was given was a real blow. I had only got my new computer the previous day. Any help will be very gratefully received. Thanks Keith 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] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
According to Paul Kaplan exhaustive report on the matter, I'll try Abiword and Wine, hoping they can help because the problem is really 'serious': I won't be able to avoid using MS Windows until a solution will I find. But, please: excuse my ignorance: what are OO documents? I hate getting involved in flame wars. OO documents are docs created OpenOffice...in your case OpenOffice.org Writer. Also a technical comment. If your goal is to create a highly formatted document on Linux that is MSW compatible, perhaps you need to use some less complex formatting. For example, instead of using a hanging indents, try using tabs. Limit your use of fonts and keep them to common ones like Arial and Times New Roman. While it's not an elegant solution, it is workable. Another alternative is to create your highly formatted document in your Linux word processor of choice and save as a pdf file, thus eliminating the need for your Windows friends to depend on Word! And back to flame wars...When your friends complain that they can't edit the pdf files without paying big bucks for Adobe Acrobat, point them to the kde3.4 version of kghostview which is supposed to solve that problem ;-) Good luck, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Manrake 10.1 Official-Powerpack
Hi all, I have downloaded Mandrake Linux 10.1-official-Powerpack which consist of 6 CDs. It may be a foolish question, but I am not really sure if it is something extra which enhances Mandrake 10.1 Official and should be installed after Mandrake 10.1 Official has been installed, or it is a more complete version of Mandrake 10.1 Official ? Regards, Danesh
Re: [newbie] Radion 9200
On Sunday 12 December 2004 03:35 am, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: Greetings All, The local WalMart here in S.E. GA USA sells the Radion 9200 129mb for about $98 - does anyone know if this will run with Mandrake 10.1 with a 2.4 kernal? The Mandrake hardware compatibility database reports only that it will work with the 2.6 kernal. However, the ATI webpage says it will run with a 2.4 or greater kernal and they have a downloadable driver. Lastly, I have an old Matrox Millenium 2400 dual head with about 32mb ram. Works fine, but I was wondering if the Radion with the X4 the ram would be a bit snappier. I'm not really interested in gaming - just trying to spruce up my system a bit. Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free! My notebook is Acer Travelmate 800Lci with Radeon 9200. It works with mdk9.2 and now 10.1. I'm not sure it is the same as what you mean. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 07:33:47 up 11:45, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
