Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

[deedee E]

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:49:46 +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> >> Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
> >> make it work?

I'm not an expert because I've never really had any problems using 
wine. However, I did notice a couple of things in your post. I have 
no idea how important they are, however.

> >> I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
> >> since *unfortunately* in job applications it is usually requested and used
> >> the .doc format
> >> and neither kword nor Open Office kwriter nor even abiword manage to
> >> properly read and edit MS Word documents.

I've found that MSWord doesn't properly read and edit MSWord 
documents on Windows systems either. Check your documents out on 
another MSWord installation -- same release, same Windows, but 
maybe a different printer installed. Things move around, especially 
in-line graphics (supposedly anchored) on any document and 
pagination in large documents.

OTOH, I've had excellent results working with MSWord documents on 
Linux systems with OpenOffice.org Writer (OO). I now do all MSWord 
stuff using OO (I get it in MSWord, open the file in OO, do 
whatever needs to be done, and convert it back to MSWord). No one 
has noticed the difference. I had no problems getting MSWord to 
work under Wine. I just refuse to use it because it's such crummy 
word processing software.

> > That means just Wine: then I tried to install MS Office 2000 with WineTools
> > with no success. Here is the whole procedure I followed:
> >
> > 
> 
> > -
> >> From Wine web site: www.winehq.org I downloaded the file
> > Wine-20041201.tar.gz.

Any particular reason you are installing from source instead of 
installing the rpm? The only problems I've ever had with wine were 
connected with installing from source. I learned a lot about it 
(because it found a number of things wrong with my system which 
forced me to correct them), but now I do all the installations from 
binaries.

> > Some fake Windows directories must be created, to hold any .ini files,
> > DLLs,
> > start menu entries, and other things your applications may need to install.
> > Where would you like your fake C drive to be placed?
> > (default is /home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c)

Just for the record, is where you're trying to install MSWord also 
a C: drive from its point of view, or is it a D: drive? Remember, 
wine is going to act as if /home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c is the real 
C: drive and any time the installation process or MSOffice asks for 
something on C:, that's where it will go -- not to /mnt/windows.

> > Configuring Wine for a no-windows install in /home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c...
> > err:wave:OSS_WaveOutInit /dev/mixer1: No such file or directory
> > Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> > /home/rodolfo/.wine updated successfully.

This was one of the problems I had when installing from source. I 
was not able to get wine to run correctly until I resolved all the 
/dev issues connected with the sound system. You need /dev/mixer1.

> > Created /home/rodolfo/.wine/config using default Wine configuration.
> > You probably want to review the file, though.

The critical things in this file are to have your paths correctly 
set so that wine knows exactly where to find the mount point for 
each drive and to correctly identify your installed printers (the 
name that's in /etc/printcap). I found it had already set up the 
necessary DLLs for MSWord to work properly.

> > , and the installation was over: it lasted more than 30 minutes!

The rpm installs in just a few moments.

> > At this point I didn't know how to run MS Word. In the Wine mailing lists
> > there were two different opinions:

It's the same as from a Windows box.

> > 1) enter the directory containing the file winword.exe
> >   (that was '/mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office')
> >   and do '$ wine winword.exe'; but this didn't work;

I assume you checked this, but was winword.exe there? Also, is 
/mnt/windows really drive D: from MSOffice's point of view, or does 
it think it's on drive C:?

> > 2) use WineTools. Then I tried this second solution:
> > snip
> > After the installation your system.reg will be replaced!
> > You will loose all registry keys of installed programs (except for DCOM98)!
> > This is a full automatic installation of almost all components.
> > You can add additional components later by using the uninstaller.
> > Continue anyway?
> >
> > I chose 'no'.

This was a mistake. I assume you were installing a fake windows 
drive in /home/rodolfo again. You should have let it replace the 
system.reg you already had there. There is no big deal about 
backing it up in case you get nervous. The registry files are 
critical to getting the whole thing to work correctly.

> > If you are asked for, select drive D: for installation.

What does wine think is drive D:? Wh

[newbie] Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

[John Zoetebier]

Anne Wilson wrote:

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> On Friday 24 Dec 2004 22:57, John Zoetebier wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> > On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote:
>> >> John Zoetebier wrote:
>> >>
>> >> In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson
>> >> printer OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time.
>> >
>> > That sounds like a shared interrupt.  You may need to put an APIC
>> > statement
>> > into your /etc/lilo.conf.  Please copy to us the append line from your
>> > main boot stanza in lilo.conf.
>>
>> This is the entry from lilo.conf:
>> =>
>> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>> label="linux"
>> root=/dev/hda1
>> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>> append="noapic nolapic acpi=ht splash=silent"
>> read-only
>> =>
>>
>> I compared it with the old version, but nothing has changed.
> 
> What does cat /proc/interrupts give you?

=>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# cat /proc/interrupts
   CPU0
  0:1669557  XT-PIC  timer
  1:111  XT-PIC  i8042
  2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
  3: 166070  XT-PIC  eth0
  5:  0  XT-PIC  ohci_hcd
  9:   1666  XT-PIC  ohci_hcd, eth1
 10:111  XT-PIC  ehci_hcd, EMU10K1
 11: 122857  XT-PIC  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0
 12:  19481  XT-PIC  i8042
 14:  10754  XT-PIC  ide0
 15:   4688  XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:  0
LOC:  0
ERR:  0
MIS:  0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]#
=>

Maybe this is relevant too.
Mandrake 10.0 did not recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor.
Mandrake 10.1 did recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor and put it on eth0
I got eth0 working in the past, but it dod not work reliably under high
speed.
That's why I have removed it from the connections, but somehow it still does
show up with interrupt 3.
I added a network card, which is eth1 now.

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Re: [newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0

[Anne Wilson]

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On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 02:48, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been trying for the past week to install Java on my linux box but
> I have not yet had any luck.  Is there something I am missing?
>
> I went to java.com and downloaded the latest version of Java.  Followed
> there directions for installing the .bin file (pretty straight
> forward).  Once I did that I tried to go to a place the required java
> and it didn't load.
>
> Is there another way that I can install it or is there a directory that
> I need to reference with my firefox browser?
>
You're probably missing a link.  IIRC java does not get installed where 
Mozilla/FireFox expects it, so you have to go to the plugins directory and 
create a link to the java .so file.  Maybe someone using FireFox can give you 
more specific instructions.

Anne
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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 24 Dec 2004 23:31, Kenneth wrote:
>
> It was a message box with the text "Sorry, can't find
> mime type application/octet-stream". But I haven't
> had the problem since I defined a type - application
> - octet-stream in kcontrol - and left the pattern, \
> description, and preferred application fields blank,
> following a recommendation from the list.
>
That's worth remembering.  Are you familiar with the TWiki?  Experiences like 
this are worth noting there to help others.

> For what its worth, Kate still ran with no discernible
> problem after I clicked on the close corner of the message
> box. Likewise with KDE although I was presented with
> two of the same error message boxes - but once dismissed
> there was no problem.
>
I have noticed that error messages like this come up on konsole, for instance 
if you 'kdesu konqueror', and they seem to have no impact on running the 
application.

> And somewhere along the line here I had another problem
> with KDE - the screen would freeze whenever I passed
> the cursor over the System/terminal menu selection.
>
That one is most odd.  I've never heard of that one before.

> I uninstalled Kate and the requisite dependancies and then
> reinstalled everything again. KDE and Kate appeared to be
> working flawlessly now.
>
> Also, it appears that my XFCE problem may not have been
> a problem at all.  I upgraded to XFCE 4.2rc3, just released
> and still found that I had no panel. After studying the
> documentation, I used the "run program" from the desktop
> menu which appears when the right mouse button is pressed.
> This ran the panel. After exiting and re-running XFCE the
> panel appeared automatically.
>
There's a section on Desktops on the TWiki.  It would be worth noting that on 
there.
> Everything appears to be running up to snuff on my computer
> with the exception of BitTorrent - or more precisely,
> the Bittorrent Download GUI and frankly, I'm ready to
> chill on that for a while. :) A new beta version of
> Bittorrent has been posted and when the official version
> hits the net, I'll see if I can get it working.
>
Where are you getting your BitTorrent from?  As far as I can remember I only 
had Mandrake and plf sites set as sources when I got mine, and it was never 
any trouble.

> Thanks again to everyone for all the suggestions.

You're welcome.  Please add your experiences to the TWiki.  If you've not done 
any TWiki editing before there is a beginner's section in the Index.  It's 
very easy, and you can either copy edit styles from other bits on the same 
page, or you can add things with basic html tags if necessary.  You get a 
chance to preview and correct if necessary, and you can always ask for help 
if you need it ;-)

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Re: [newbie] Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 24 Dec 2004 22:57, John Zoetebier wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote:
> >> John Zoetebier wrote:
> >>
> >> In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson
> >> printer OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time.
> >
> > That sounds like a shared interrupt.  You may need to put an APIC
> > statement
> > into your /etc/lilo.conf.  Please copy to us the append line from your
> > main boot stanza in lilo.conf.
>
> This is the entry from lilo.conf:
> =>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label="linux"
> root=/dev/hda1
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append="noapic nolapic acpi=ht splash=silent"
> read-only
> =>
>
> I compared it with the old version, but nothing has changed.

What does cat /proc/interrupts give you?

Anne
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Re: [newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:51:26 -0500
job evers disseminated the following:

> > Okay, just checked out smb4k, that is *way* overkill for Samba shares *if*
> > that's all yer doin'.
> 
> Thanks for the script/key command suggestion.  I will definately
> implement that for some of the more common shares that i mount, but
> also need to ability to browse the network and LinNeighborhood has
> never seemed to be very good at it.  smb4k has been the best program i
> have found for browsing through a windows network and so I would like
> to get it running if possible.

...then, AFAIK, you would want to run 'kicker' as part of your Pekwm startup
script, unless they've renamed the KDE panel since 9.2. If smb4k is set up to
start with the KDE panel, then you should be good to go.

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Re: [newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

[job evers]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:05:03 -0500, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:56:52 -0500
> > Anybody have any ideas on how to run smb4k with pekwm?
> 
> ***fsckin' GMail!!!***
Yeah, sorry about that.
> 
> Okay, just checked out smb4k, that is *way* overkill for Samba shares *if*
> that's all yer doin'.

Thanks for the script/key command suggestion.  I will definately
implement that for some of the more common shares that i mount, but
also need to ability to browse the network and LinNeighborhood has
never seemed to be very good at it.  smb4k has been the best program i
have found for browsing through a windows network and so I would like
to get it running if possible.


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Re: [newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0

[job evers]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:48:20 -0500, Lovell Mcilwain
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there another way that I can install it or is there a directory that
> I need to reference with my firefox browser?

From: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux

If you installed the JRE 5.0 RPM, this plugin is
/usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so - and to
install it for Mozilla (including Mozilla Firefox), do the following:

* Open a terminal
* Change to your Mozilla (or Mozilla Firefox) plugins directory
* Issue the following command: ln -s
/usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so


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Re: [newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:56:52 -0500
job evers disseminated the following:

> smb4k automatically goes into the KDE taskbar when it is run, which is
> fine if you are using KDE, but I am using pekwm and so I don't know
> how to access the program.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas on how to run smb4k with pekwm?

Not sure what the heck smb4k is, but if you want to mount Samba shares on the
network, you can use LinNeighbourhood to mount the shares, then use the same to
export a mountscript which can be called with a menu item or key combo.

Works *really* well with ROX Filer, BTW.

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Re: [newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:56:52 -0500
job evers disseminated the following:

> smb4k automatically goes into the KDE taskbar when it is run, which is
> fine if you are using KDE, but I am using pekwm and so I don't know
> how to access the program.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas on how to run smb4k with pekwm?

***fsckin' GMail!!!***

Okay, just checked out smb4k, that is *way* overkill for Samba shares *if*
that's all yer doin'.

As an example, I have a mountscript (exported from LinNeighbourhood) in ~/bin
which is called like so (from my 'keys' file):

# Samba
Chain = "Mod4 s" {
KeyPress = "1" { Actions = "exec ~/bin/node2mount" }
KeyPress = "2" { Actions = "exec ~/bin/node2umount" }
KeyPress = "3" { Actions = "exec ~/bin/node3mount" }
KeyPress = "4" { Actions = "exec ~/bin/node3umount" }

Menu entries:

Submenu = "Samba" { 
Entry = "Node2" { Actions = "Exec ~/bin/rox 
/home/joehill/mnt/NODE2/backup/" }
Entry = "Node3" { Actions = "Exec ~/bin/rox 
/home/joehill/mnt/NODE3/joehill/" }

NODE2 is the stupid Windows XP box I am forced to allow on my network, NODE3 is
my Debian web/mail server. I used SWAT to set up both shares, IIRC.

Running smb4k is very likely going to require you to run kdeinit, which entirely
defeats the dolphin of running a lightweight WM like Pek anyhow.

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Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

[mike]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Rodolfo wrote:
> 
> 
>>Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
>>make it work?
>>I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing
>>list didn't manage to solve them.
>>I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
>>since *unfortunately* in job applications it is usually requested and used
>>the .doc format
>>and neither kword nor Open Office kwriter nor even abiword manage to
>>properly read and edit MS Word documents.
>>The installation seems to have been successful, but I don't manage to run
>>WinWord nor do I really know how to run it.
>>Any help will be appreciated.
> 
   

> Sorry for such a long posting, but this way you (or anyone else can provide
> help)
> will have an exact idea of the situation.
> Any suggestions?

Try Franks corner has a lot of wine help (helped me out a few times
getting some games to run :-)

http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=office2000

> 
> Thanks indeed for your reply,
> happy holidays
> 
> sincerely,
> Rodolfo
> 
> 

Mike


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Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

[SnapafunFrank]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Rodolfo wrote:
 

Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
make it work?
I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing
list didn't manage to solve them.
I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
since *unfortunately* in job applications it is usually requested and used
the .doc format
and neither kword nor Open Office kwriter nor even abiword manage to
properly read and edit MS Word documents.
The installation seems to have been successful, but I don't manage to run
WinWord nor do I really know how to run it.
Any help will be appreciated.
   


Noel wrote:
 

When you say that the installation has been successful, does that mean just
wine or the MS programme as well?
   


That means just Wine: then I tried to install MS Office 2000 with WineTools
with no success. Here is the whole procedure I followed:

-
From Wine web site: www.winehq.org I downloaded the file
Wine-20041201.tar.gz.
Previously:
# urpmi flex
# urpmi bison
. Then I copied Wine-20041201.tar.gz into the ~/tmp directory
$ cd ~/tmp
$ tar xzvf Wine-20041201.tar.gz
$ cd wine-20041201
$ ./tools/wineinstall
During the run I got the message:
We need to install wine as root user, do you want us to build wine,
'su root' and install Wine?  Enter 'no' to continue without installing
(yes/no)
. I typed 'yes'.
Further on I got this other message:
Create local config file ~/.wine/config?
(yes/no)
. I typed 'yes', and immediately after:
Searching for an existing Windows installation... found.
Windows was found on your system, and so we can use the Windows
Drive as our Wine drive. You may, however, wish to create a clean
Wine install anyways.
Should I use the Windows drive for the Wine install? (yes/no) no
. I typed 'no', and:
Configuring Wine without Windows.
Some fake Windows directories must be created, to hold any .ini files,
DLLs,
start menu entries, and other things your applications may need to 
install.
Where would you like your fake C drive to be placed?
(default is /home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c)
. I hit 'return', and:
Configuring Wine for a no-windows install in 
/home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c...
err:wave:OSS_WaveOutInit /dev/mixer1: No such file or directory
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
/home/rodolfo/.wine updated successfully.
Created /home/rodolfo/.wine/config using default Wine configuration.
You probably want to review the file, though.
Installation complete for now. Good luck (this is still alpha software).
If you have problems with WINE, please read the documentation first,
as many kinds of potential problems are explained there.
, and the installation was over: it lasted more than 30 minutes!
At this point I didn't know how to run MS Word. In the Wine mailing lists
there were two different opinions:
1) enter the directory containing the file winword.exe
  (that was '/mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office')
  and do '$ wine winword.exe'; but this didn't work;
2) use WineTools. Then I tried this second solution:
from http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ I downloaded the file
winetools-207jo.tar.gz and copied into the ~/tmp dir. In that dir,
$ tar xzvf winetools-207jo.tar.gz
# cp -r /home/rodolfo/tmp/winetools /usr/local
# ln -s /usr/local/winetools/wt207jo /usr/local/bin/wt
$ wt
I chose 'Base setup'
I chose 'Create a fake Windows drive'
I answered 'yes' when asked: 'Remove existing Wine configuration?'
I chose 'O.k.' when asked: 'What's the mount point of the cdrom/dvd drive?
e.g. /mnt/cdrom:'
I connected to internet; then, from another console, I did
$ wt
, and chose 'Base setup', then "TrueType Arial": I got the message:
'The config file says the software you want to install is already installed.
Continue?'.
I chose 'yes', there was a downloading, after which I accepted the license,
and the installation went up to the end;
I found myself in the 'Base setup' menu again, and selected DCOM98; there
was a downloading as well, after which
I accepted the license, and the installation went up to the end;
then I found myself in the 'Base setup' menu again: all the options were:
---New Setup (past April 2004) ---
Create a fake Windows drive
True type Font Arial
DCOM98
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (plain method)
Add printcap (non CUPS) printers
I selected the 'Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (plain method)', and got the
message:
After the installation your system.reg will be replaced!
You will loose all registry keys of installed programs (except for 
DCOM98)!
This is a full automatic installation of almost all components.
You can add additional components later by using the uninstaller.
Continue anyway?
I cho

Re: [newbie] Changing desktop

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:41:09 -0500
Kenneth disseminated the following:

> > I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up.  How do I
> > change the Desktops from the command line?  I want to try GNOME.
> > 
> > George
> 
> $ startx- usually invokes KDE or
> $ startx KDE
> $ startx GNOME   - usually invokes GNOME.

Create an executable file '.xinitrc' in your home dir, edit it like so:

exec gnome-session

Save it, then 'startx', or in your .bashrc:

alias x="startx"

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[newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0

[Lovell Mcilwain]

Hello all,
I have been trying for the past week to install Java on my linux box but 
I have not yet had any luck.  Is there something I am missing?

I went to java.com and downloaded the latest version of Java.  Followed 
there directions for installing the .bin file (pretty straight 
forward).  Once I did that I tried to go to a place the required java 
and it didn't load.

Is there another way that I can install it or is there a directory that 
I need to reference with my firefox browser?

Any help would be great.
Thanks,

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Re: [newbie] Changing desktop

[Kenneth]

George N. Conover wrote:
I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up.  How do I
change the Desktops from the command line?  I want to try GNOME.
George
$ startx- usually invokes KDE or
$ startx KDE
$ startx GNOME   - usually invokes GNOME.
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[newbie] Changing desktop

[George N. Conover]

I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up.  How do I
change the Desktops from the command line?  I want to try GNOME.

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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Kenneth]

Anne Wilson wrote:

Kenneth - I've not really understood clearly.  Are you saying this is a 
message box when Kate fails, or a message that you see in Konsole when you 
launch Kate from the command line?

Anne
Hi Anne,
It was a message box with the text "Sorry, can't find
mime type application/octet-stream". But I haven't
had the problem since I defined a type - application
- octet-stream in kcontrol - and left the pattern, \
description, and preferred application fields blank,
following a recommendation from the list.
For what its worth, Kate still ran with no discernible
problem after I clicked on the close corner of the message
box. Likewise with KDE although I was presented with
two of the same error message boxes - but once dismissed
there was no problem.
And somewhere along the line here I had another problem
with KDE - the screen would freeze whenever I passed
the cursor over the System/terminal menu selection.
I uninstalled Kate and the requisite dependancies and then
reinstalled everything again. KDE and Kate appeared to be
working flawlessly now.
Also, it appears that my XFCE problem may not have been
a problem at all.  I upgraded to XFCE 4.2rc3, just released
and still found that I had no panel. After studying the
documentation, I used the "run program" from the desktop
menu which appears when the right mouse button is pressed.
This ran the panel. After exiting and re-running XFCE the
panel appeared automatically.
Everything appears to be running up to snuff on my computer
with the exception of BitTorrent - or more precisely,
the Bittorrent Download GUI and frankly, I'm ready to
chill on that for a while. :) A new beta version of
Bittorrent has been posted and when the official version
hits the net, I'll see if I can get it working.
Thanks again to everyone for all the suggestions.
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[newbie] Re: Just installed 10.1 official from 3 ftp'd isos

[John Zoetebier]

Deep Thinker wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
>  Happy Holidays.
> 
> I have just installed Mandrake 10.1 official from 3 iso discs downloaded.
> 
> Question 1. The machine is a Gateway profile. The only
> network/Internet connection will be through a 3Com PCMCIA Card
> (3CRPAG175). What steps do I need to take to make this work, or should
> it be autodetected?

I had a 3COM PCMCIA card many years ago and it was detected straight away.

> Question 2. This machine will primarily be for kids learning about
> computers, how to type, word processing, and of course, playing games.
> I noticed that the Firefox browser is not included in this
> installation. How do I go about getting this, and the other programs I
> may need safely installed on the machine.

You can download firefox from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Just follow the easy installation instructions.

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[newbie] Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

[John Zoetebier]

Anne Wilson wrote:

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> 
> On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote:
>> John Zoetebier wrote:
>>
>> In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer
>> OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time.
> 
> That sounds like a shared interrupt.  You may need to put an APIC
> statement
> into your /etc/lilo.conf.  Please copy to us the append line from your
> main boot stanza in lilo.conf.
> 

This is the entry from lilo.conf:
=>
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="noapic nolapic acpi=ht splash=silent"
read-only
=>

I compared it with the old version, but nothing has changed.

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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 24 Dec 2004 20:32, Kenneth wrote:
> Thanks again to all who have replied to my inquiry. I haven't yet
> tried the removing or renaming #~/.KDE option. Over the hollidays
> I will work on this problem.
>
> I think I do have a serious KDE problem. I might, in the end, just
> back up the files I want to save to a CD and reinstall reformat
> my HD and reinstall MDK 10.1.  everything I want to save can fit
> on a CD easily.
>
> I also have an XFCE problem - the bottom line is that I
> eperiment a lot with beta and pre release releases.  And
> sometimes there is a price to pay.
>
Kenneth - I've not really understood clearly.  Are you saying this is a 
message box when Kate fails, or a message that you see in Konsole when you 
launch Kate from the command line?

Anne
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Re: [newbie] firefox not robust as mozilla?

[John Drouhard]

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 12:24 +, Q.H. Wang wrote:
> >
> > I installed .08 no problems but icant seem yo get 1.0 via urpmi
> >
> 
> If you mean Firefox, you're right. Mine is 1.0 the rpm.
> 
> > I look at pdf's all the time and never had a problem. Both the Win
> > version and the Mandrake version have never crashed, and both have
> > several plugins.
> 
> I also have no problem with Moz and others.
> 
> > speaking of plug ins i just got the on the web with mandrake 10.1 and says 
> > i need some shockwave plug in and a java plug in can someone tell me where
> > i get  these plug ins i know i go to shockwave.com and java.com but that
> > file do i download and how do i install a plug in can someone tell me step
> > by step how to  do  this thank you
> 
> For shockwave plugin, firefox can handle its installation itself. For others, 
> you'd have a look at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html.

Actually, there is no shockwave plugin for linux. You'd have to buy
Crossover Office to get Shockwave. However, you can get Macromedia Flash
through firefox. Just a clarification :-)

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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Bart Simons]

Op vrijdag 24 december 2004 17:16, schreef Kenneth:
> I decided to submit this query again.  I think
> that if someone can tell me what there setting
> is for this mime type, I can re-enter it into
> my settings.
>
> Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
>
> Kenneth wrote:
> > Recently, when I run several programs, most notably
> > Kate and Kmess, I receive an error message -
> > "can't find mime type: application/octet-stream".
> >
> > I have no idea how I might have deleted such
> > a file or association setting. How do I
> > restablish this mime type?
>
> Thanks,

recently I had this same problem. After some googling I found a suggestion 
somewhere that helped:
Go into the KDE Configuration interface
Choose Components
Choose filetypes.desktop
Choose application
Add octet-stream
Leave everything else blank
Press OK
Done
Success

Bart


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Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo wrote:

>Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
>make it work?
>I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing
>list didn't manage to solve them.
>I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
>since *unfortunately* in job applications it is usually requested and used
>the .doc format
>and neither kword nor Open Office kwriter nor even abiword manage to
>properly read and edit MS Word documents.
>The installation seems to have been successful, but I don't manage to run
>WinWord nor do I really know how to run it.
>Any help will be appreciated.


Noel wrote:

>When you say that the installation has been successful, does that mean just
>wine or the MS programme as well?


That means just Wine: then I tried to install MS Office 2000 with WineTools
with no success. Here is the whole procedure I followed:


-
>From Wine web site: www.winehq.org I downloaded the file
Wine-20041201.tar.gz.

Previously:

# urpmi flex
# urpmi bison

. Then I copied Wine-20041201.tar.gz into the ~/tmp directory

$ cd ~/tmp

$ tar xzvf Wine-20041201.tar.gz

$ cd wine-20041201

$ ./tools/wineinstall

During the run I got the message:

We need to install wine as root user, do you want us to build wine,
'su root' and install Wine?  Enter 'no' to continue without installing
(yes/no)

. I typed 'yes'.

Further on I got this other message:

Create local config file ~/.wine/config?
(yes/no)

. I typed 'yes', and immediately after:

Searching for an existing Windows installation... found.

Windows was found on your system, and so we can use the Windows
Drive as our Wine drive. You may, however, wish to create a clean
Wine install anyways.
Should I use the Windows drive for the Wine install? (yes/no) no

. I typed 'no', and:

Configuring Wine without Windows.
Some fake Windows directories must be created, to hold any .ini files,
DLLs,
start menu entries, and other things your applications may need to 
install.
Where would you like your fake C drive to be placed?
(default is /home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c)

. I hit 'return', and:

Configuring Wine for a no-windows install in 
/home/rodolfo/.wine/drive_c...
err:wave:OSS_WaveOutInit /dev/mixer1: No such file or directory
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
/home/rodolfo/.wine updated successfully.

Created /home/rodolfo/.wine/config using default Wine configuration.
You probably want to review the file, though.


Installation complete for now. Good luck (this is still alpha software).
If you have problems with WINE, please read the documentation first,
as many kinds of potential problems are explained there.

, and the installation was over: it lasted more than 30 minutes!
At this point I didn't know how to run MS Word. In the Wine mailing lists
there were two different opinions:

1) enter the directory containing the file winword.exe
   (that was '/mnt/windows/Programmi/Microsoft Office/Office')
   and do '$ wine winword.exe'; but this didn't work;

2) use WineTools. Then I tried this second solution:

from http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ I downloaded the file
winetools-207jo.tar.gz and copied into the ~/tmp dir. In that dir,

$ tar xzvf winetools-207jo.tar.gz

# cp -r /home/rodolfo/tmp/winetools /usr/local

# ln -s /usr/local/winetools/wt207jo /usr/local/bin/wt

$ wt

I chose 'Base setup'

I chose 'Create a fake Windows drive'

I answered 'yes' when asked: 'Remove existing Wine configuration?'

I chose 'O.k.' when asked: 'What's the mount point of the cdrom/dvd drive?
e.g. /mnt/cdrom:'

I connected to internet; then, from another console, I did

$ wt

, and chose 'Base setup', then "TrueType Arial": I got the message:
'The config file says the software you want to install is already installed.
Continue?'.
I chose 'yes', there was a downloading, after which I accepted the license,
and the installation went up to the end;
I found myself in the 'Base setup' menu again, and selected DCOM98; there
was a downloading as well, after which
I accepted the license, and the installation went up to the end;
then I found myself in the 'Base setup' menu again: all the options were:

---New Setup (past April 2004) ---
Create a fake Windows drive
True type Font Arial
DCOM98
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (plain method)
Add printcap (non CUPS) printers

I selected the 'Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (plain method)', and got the
message:

After the installation your system.reg will be replaced!
You will loose all registry keys of installed programs (except for 
DCOM98)!
This is a full automatic installation of almost all components.
You can add additional components later by using the uninstaller.
  

Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Kenneth]

Thanks again to all who have replied to my inquiry. I haven't yet
tried the removing or renaming #~/.KDE option. Over the hollidays
I will work on this problem.
I think I do have a serious KDE problem. I might, in the end, just
back up the files I want to save to a CD and reinstall reformat
my HD and reinstall MDK 10.1.  everything I want to save can fit
on a CD easily.
I also have an XFCE problem - the bottom line is that I
eperiment a lot with beta and pre release releases.  And
sometimes there is a price to pay.
Thanks once more to everyone...
Happy Hollidays!,
:)


|
Have you tried deleting your #~/.kde
You will lose ALL of your kde settings (back up your address book if you use 
kmail), and the directory will be re-created at the next log-on.  This can 
fix a messed-up-beyond-all-repair KDE, and it looks as though you have a 
serious KDE problem.  If I were you, I would create a new user and log-in to 
KDE as that user first, to see if the problem clears up.  If the problem 
persists, ignore all of the above and search for another solution.

e



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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 24 Dec 2004 19:48, Erylon Hines wrote:
> On Friday 24 December 2004 10:29 am, Kenneth wrote:
>
> Have you tried deleting your #~/.kde
>
Better still, rename it,

> You will lose ALL of your kde settings (back up your address book if you
> use kmail), 

and you will then be able to copy your mail across, and also rescue 
addressbook, calendar and anything else you use.

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[newbie] smb4k on non KDE window manager

[job evers]

smb4k automatically goes into the KDE taskbar when it is run, which is
fine if you are using KDE, but I am using pekwm and so I don't know
how to access the program.

Anybody have any ideas on how to run smb4k with pekwm?

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Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

[Noel McG.]

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To: "newbie" 
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 10:37 AM
Subject: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?


Hi.

Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
make it work?
I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing
list didn't manage to solve them.
I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
since *unfortunately* in job applications it is usually requested and used
the .doc format
and neither kword nor Open Office kwriter nor even abiword manage to
properly read and edit MS Word documents.
The installation seems to have been successful, but I don't manage to run
WinWord nor do I really know how to run it.
Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Rodolfo

Hello,
When you say that the installation has been successful, does that mean just
wine or the MS programme as well?

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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Erylon Hines]

On Friday 24 December 2004 10:29 am, Kenneth wrote:
| A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick!
|
| Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet),
| I feel that the info you provided is a certain
| lead.
|
| Interestingly, though I am still getting the
| same error report when I run Kate and for that
| matter when I start KDE, I get the same results
| that you sent me when I execute the same command.
|
| I'll keep fiddling with it.. :)
|
| Thanks for your help,
| Ken
|
Have you tried deleting your #~/.kde

You will lose ALL of your kde settings (back up your address book if you use 
kmail), and the directory will be re-created at the next log-on.  This can 
fix a messed-up-beyond-all-repair KDE, and it looks as though you have a 
serious KDE problem.  If I were you, I would create a new user and log-in to 
KDE as that user first, to see if the problem clears up.  If the problem 
persists, ignore all of the above and search for another solution.

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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Bill Winegarden]

On Friday 24 Dec 2004 19:16, Kenneth wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
> > A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick!
> >
> > Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet),
> > I feel that the info you provided is a certain
> > lead.
> >
> > Interestingly, though I am still getting the
> > same error report when I run Kate and for that
> > matter when I start KDE, I get the same results
> > that you sent me when I execute the same command.
> >
> > I'll keep fiddling with it.. :)
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Ken
>
> Another request, although, at this point, I'm
> sure no one could help till after Christmas
> at least.
>
> If someone could go to Kcontrol>File Associations>application...
> and hopefully locate there under known types octect-stream..
> select octect-stream
> and then report to me the listing you have under filename patterns,
>
> Description,
>
> and application preference order.
>
>
> I'm hoping this will give me a pretty good idea of what the
> defaults are... and it appears that is what I have lost.
>
>
> Happy Hollidays to all,
>
> and thanks again,
>
> Ken

Hi,
I went to KControl as requested and listed under octect-stream is 

Description "Unknown"
Application Preference Order "none"

I then ran Kate to see if all is well and it opened just fine.

I run KDE as my desktop and I have not encountered your problem yet.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Kenneth]

Kenneth wrote:
A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick!
Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet),
I feel that the info you provided is a certain
lead.
Interestingly, though I am still getting the
same error report when I run Kate and for that
matter when I start KDE, I get the same results
that you sent me when I execute the same command.
I'll keep fiddling with it.. :)
Thanks for your help,
Ken
Another request, although, at this point, I'm
sure no one could help till after Christmas
at least.
If someone could go to Kcontrol>File Associations>application...
and hopefully locate there under known types octect-stream..
select octect-stream
and then report to me the listing you have under filename patterns,
Description,
and application preference order.
I'm hoping this will give me a pretty good idea of what the
defaults are... and it appears that is what I have lost.
Happy Hollidays to all,
and thanks again,
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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[RickSisler]

Kenneth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick!
> 
> Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet),
> I feel that the info you provided is a certain
> lead.
> 
> Interestingly, though I am still getting the
> same error report when I run Kate and for that
> matter when I start KDE, I get the same results
> that you sent me when I execute the same command.
> 
> I'll keep fiddling with it.. :)
hmm.. 
I don't run kde but I do use some apps from it and kate seems to
work fine here.

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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Kenneth]

A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick!
Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet),
I feel that the info you provided is a certain
lead.
Interestingly, though I am still getting the
same error report when I run Kate and for that
matter when I start KDE, I get the same results
that you sent me when I execute the same command.
I'll keep fiddling with it.. :)
Thanks for your help,
Ken

RickSisler wrote:
Kenneth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I decided to submit this query again.  I think
that if someone can tell me what there setting
is for this mime type, I can re-enter it into
my settings.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.

Kenneth wrote:
Recently, when I run several programs, most notably
Kate and Kmess, I receive an error message -
"can't find mime type: application/octet-stream".
I have no idea how I might have deleted such
a file or association setting. How do I
restablish this mime type?
Check here Kenneth:
$> cat /etc/mime.types |grep -i octet-stream
application/octet-streambin dms lha lzh exe class
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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[RickSisler]

Kenneth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I decided to submit this query again.  I think
> that if someone can tell me what there setting
> is for this mime type, I can re-enter it into
> my settings.
> 
> Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Kenneth wrote:
> >Recently, when I run several programs, most notably
> >Kate and Kmess, I receive an error message -
> >"can't find mime type: application/octet-stream".
> >
> >I have no idea how I might have deleted such
> >a file or association setting. How do I
> >restablish this mime type?
Check here Kenneth:

$> cat /etc/mime.types |grep -i octet-stream
application/octet-streambin dms lha lzh exe class

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Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

[Kenneth]

I decided to submit this query again.  I think
that if someone can tell me what there setting
is for this mime type, I can re-enter it into
my settings.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.

Kenneth wrote:
Recently, when I run several programs, most notably
Kate and Kmess, I receive an error message -
"can't find mime type: application/octet-stream".
I have no idea how I might have deleted such
a file or association setting. How do I
restablish this mime type?
Thanks,
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Re: [newbie] Bad signatures when trying to update via Rpmdrake.

[Dennis Myers]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have been updating 10.1 OE via the rpmdrake tool with no problems till
now. On several packages I am now getting bad signature errors.
For example:- "The following packages have bad signatures:
kdebase-common-3.2.3-134.3.101mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature
(Unable to read rpm file)
Is this telling me the rpm file is screwed? Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.
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No, it just means the package sig is not there or you don't have the 
signature key. I have used all of the packages and no problems. HTH

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Re: [newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

[RickSisler]

Bryan Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:35, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> > Brian,
> >
> > I would like a copy, as my system has just been hacked by an ssh user (or
> > at least I think it has) a few days ago 100%, but was busy so disregarded
> > it at the time, then came back to the machine and it was in text only mode.
> > I logged in and the last user was not me, so I rebooted and it would not
> > come up again. I would love to post this to the list, but the list is
> > bouncing my emails all the time as undeliverable (prob something to do with
> > my employer).
> 
> I was too early.  Turns out the logic in the ignore list is not working.  I 
> need some more time to figure it out, I plan to work on it more today.
> -- 
> Bryan Phinney

Hi Bryan,
I am interested in a copy. I only allow ssh from local and drop the rest
from the internet, but it's a great learning experience to see how you
do this. 8)

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Re: [newbie] Yay Poland! Booooo Ballmer!!

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:19:14 +0100
Cezary Morga disseminated the following:

> > "On November 18th, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had warned Asian
> > governments that they would face patent litigation if using the Linux
> > operating system instead of Microsoft's Windows product."
> 
> Fu**ing Micro$oft!!

It's not all bad news, seems the courts in the EU are almost as incredulous as
we are about MS's IP/Patent claims:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2004105501273

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[newbie] Just installed 10.1 official from 3 ftp'd isos

[Deep Thinker]

Hello everyone,

 Happy Holidays.

I have just installed Mandrake 10.1 official from 3 iso discs downloaded.

Question 1. The machine is a Gateway profile. The only
network/Internet connection will be through a 3Com PCMCIA Card
(3CRPAG175). What steps do I need to take to make this work, or should
it be autodetected?

 
Question 2. This machine will primarily be for kids learning about
computers, how to type, word processing, and of course, playing games.
I noticed that the Firefox browser is not included in this
installation. How do I go about getting this, and the other programs I
may need safely installed on the machine.
 


 
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[newbie] unable to add installation cd's as sources

[Angus Auld]

Greetings, I wonder if anyone can help me? I notice that cd's 3 & 4 are not 
available as software sources for urpmi. I have tried in vain to add them, at 
the cl and with Software Manager gui. I am using Mandrake 10.1.

I get the following error:
"Unable to add medium, errors reported:
copy failed at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm/download.pm line 163."

What does this mean?

Thanks very much for any assistance.

Best regards.

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in awareness." -- James Thurber

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Re: [newbie] winsite torrent

[RickSisler]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> OK that is good information there i loaded gaim and when i try to install
> it i ran it under the run command but i could find where i can put an icon
> on my desk or i didn't see it under the menu bar i just wanted to know
> what i need to do to have programs on there so i can see them once i down
> load them also it says its installed but i don't see it no where on the
> menu list is there something i need to setup so programs will go into the
> file directory or the program bar i am very new with LINUX about a week
Hi Ne0StOrM,
Could you please read the The Mandrake Community Wiki for Mandrakelinux
Mailing List Etiquette:
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette
please send posts in text format instead of html, I think AOL can do
this.

Being new to linux, the Wiki is a good place to start for for
Newbie info, and yes I'm a Newbie, just over a year old 8)
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewbieFriendly
also check out The Linux Documentation project http://www.tldp.org/
with interest look here http://www.tldp.org/guides.html for
"Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide" 
> into but i like it a lot more then windows because its a lot more stable i
> just tried to loaded yahoo to see if it would work it went though all the
> steps and installed it but it wouldn't execute under the program directory
> i wasn't sure if there is something i need to setup under the desktop conf
I think your lookin for Menudrake, 
You can use Mandrakelinux Control Center or MCC > System > Menus
to access it and when it opens up, chose system menu and just save and
then exit. This should pick up any packaged programs you installed.
(someone please jump in an correct me if I said something wrong)

There is also a simple way to see what Is installed on your system,
from Mandrakelinux Control Center go to Software Management > "Remove" 
Our intention isn't to remove anything, so now you can click on a
package to see the information of that package.
> program on mandrake 10.1 ...i also wanted to know what is a good client to
> use to add in PC games i have a few PC games and wanting to know if i can
> load them on LINUX .. i have a background and degree in Microsoft/windows
> but LINUX is like starting all over again I enjoy LINUX a lot I see there
> is a lot that is going to be happen in the future with LINUX just waiting
> for programs to come out for it. thank you for the information and help
There are some games that can run natively in Linux, but you need the
sources from these game vendors to do this, e.g. Never Winter Nights, 
Quake2, Wolfenstein .. and a few others. 
For more, I highly recommend Transgaming http://www.transgaming.com/ 
although its not free. 

HTH
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[newbie] Quanta Fonts

[Keith Powell]

I have been looking at Quanta for the first time.

Clicking on the Fonts tag, shows the "Face" box empty. Should it be, or should 
there be a selection of fonts listed from which to chose, or do I have to 
insert the font names manually?

If there should be fonts listed, how do I get Quanta to see them, please?

I can't find an answer on Google.

Thanks

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Re: [newbie] firefox not robust as mozilla?

[Q.H. Wang]

>
> I installed .08 no problems but icant seem yo get 1.0 via urpmi
>

If you mean Firefox, you're right. Mine is 1.0 the rpm.

> I look at pdf's all the time and never had a problem. Both the Win
> version and the Mandrake version have never crashed, and both have
> several plugins.

I also have no problem with Moz and others.

> speaking of plug ins i just got the on the web with mandrake 10.1 and says 
> i need some shockwave plug in and a java plug in can someone tell me where
> i get  these plug ins i know i go to shockwave.com and java.com but that
> file do i download and how do i install a plug in can someone tell me step
> by step how to  do  this thank you

For shockwave plugin, firefox can handle its installation itself. For others, 
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[newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hi.

Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make 
it work?
I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list 
didn't manage to solve them.
I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
since *unfortunately* in job applications it is usually requested and used the 
.doc format
and neither kword nor Open Office kwriter nor even abiword manage to properly 
read and edit MS Word documents.
The installation seems to have been successful, but I don't manage to run 
WinWord nor do I really know how to run it.
Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
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Re: [newbie] Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote:
> John Zoetebier wrote:
>
> In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer
> OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time.

That sounds like a shared interrupt.  You may need to put an APIC statement 
into your /etc/lilo.conf.  Please copy to us the append line from your main 
boot stanza in lilo.conf.

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Re: [newbie] Yay Poland! Booooo Ballmer!!

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 24 Dec 2004 09:19, Cezary Morga wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:00:51 -0500
>
> JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Quote:
> >
> > "Undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asks for additional time to
> > prepare a"constructive declaration" -- Software patent debate is wide
> > open-- Software patent critics: "The Polish government deserves
> > greatest admiration for its courage!""
> >
> > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041221102644104
>
> Yeah, I was so proud to hear that :) Y'know when you're begining to
> think that your government is a bunch of worthless - don't be afraid to
> say that - thieves they come out with something like that, which I'd
> never suppose that they have enough guts to do.
>
> > "On November 18th, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had warned Asian
> > governments that they would face patent litigation if using the Linux
> > operating system instead of Microsoft's Windows product."
>
> Fu**ing Micro$oft!!

Yet another good reason for encouraging poorer countries into the EU - they 
are less 'buddies' with companies like M$.  We owe thanks to Poland.  If you 
would like to sign a letter of thanks there is one at ThankPoland.info - 
though as one person said, taking a holiday in Poland and thus supporting the 
local economy would be a great practical thanks.

Anne
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[newbie] Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

[John Zoetebier]

John Zoetebier wrote:

> My USB mouse (infrared Microsoft mouse) was working properly under
> Mandrake 10.0
> After installing Mandrake 10.1 it is not working anymore.
> Any ideas ?
> 
> This is my dmesg output:
> =>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# dmesg | grep usb
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> usbcore: registered new driver usblp
> drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
> usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
> usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse
> drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]#
> =>
> 

In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer OR
my USB mouse, but not both at the same time.
Also, my USB card reader is not working anymore.
It looks like USB in Mandrake 10.1 is terribly broken.
It was all working just fine in Mandrake 10.0
My PC has AMD 64 3400+ processor with 1024 Mb RAM.

Output from dmesg with USB mouse working and printer not:
=>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# dmesg | grep usb
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -32 received
input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse®
1.0A] on usb-:00:02.1-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse
drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]#
=>


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Re: [newbie] Yay Poland! Booooo Ballmer!!

[Cezary Morga]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:00:51 -0500
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Quote:
> 
> "Undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asks for additional time to
> prepare a"constructive declaration" -- Software patent debate is wide
> open-- Software patent critics: "The Polish government deserves
> greatest admiration for its courage!""
> 
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041221102644104

Yeah, I was so proud to hear that :) Y'know when you're begining to
think that your government is a bunch of worthless - don't be afraid to
say that - thieves they come out with something like that, which I'd
never suppose that they have enough guts to do.

> "On November 18th, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had warned Asian
> governments that they would face patent litigation if using the Linux
> operating system instead of Microsoft's Windows product."

Fu**ing Micro$oft!!
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[newbie] Bad signatures when trying to update via Rpmdrake.

[steve.goodey]

Hello,

I have been updating 10.1 OE via the rpmdrake tool with no problems till
now. On several packages I am now getting bad signature errors.

For example:- "The following packages have bad signatures:
kdebase-common-3.2.3-134.3.101mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature
(Unable to read rpm file)

Is this telling me the rpm file is screwed? Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

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