Re: [newbie] Wireless mouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 03:22, Aron Smith wrote: i-one wireless mouse lynx MVII works perfectly in 10.2 hooray! The TWiki is woefully ignorant of wireless peripherals and compatibility. Could you start us off with an entry under http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility? If you're not happy about how to make a new page, I'll do that for you and you can just fill in your entry. Thanks Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5kJ0kFAvMr/nNX8RAhaLAKCQ+F5DKeWR548PIIDsNlzzRzZtbgCdEyQ2 uMDX43IwBchntG0KaIugy4o= =Q6v0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] udpate KDE using urpmi?
Ben Miller wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:42 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Is it possible to update KDE using URPMI? I've searched and haven't found the syntax fo do that. Thanks, Ben  I have done this but two things. 1. Do it from within init level 1 (? the text only mode ) 2. You must install the packages in the correct order. Thanks for the advice. What's the syntax? Is there a preferred method for upgrading KDE? = Ben All I did was to download all the components first and follow Howto's that I found on the web, having first saved ( by highlight, copy and paste ) info from html pages into text format so as to be easily readable once I had closed my X session. [ I simply logged out of the session and logged back in at the prompt, then used rpm -Uvh kde-base-3.x.x , etc. ] Rather than simply restart X, I rebooted to ensure that my defaults would be taken up. [ Carry over from Windows I think but it worked fine. ] I must reiterate however, that you must install the first two or three packages in the right order! ( If I recall correctly, there is first up a package that is not named kde - I think it was arts.) There are also some other things that you may need to update first, like the QT package for example. I have included an attachment, if it is permitted on this forum, that is one of the docs I used, along with the READMEs of course. Take your time because this one cannot be hurried. Prepare well and good luck. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Title: Chapter 4. Installation instructions Installation instructionsPrev NextChapter 4. Installation instructionsThese are the generic installation instructions for the K Desktop Environment. Please complement your reading with the READMEs and INSTALLs that come along with the package. Please read them carefully and try to help yourself out if anything goes wrong. If you need further assistance, consider joining the KDE mailing lists (see our web site instructions for joining the KDE mailing lists) or newsgroups.4.1. To the would-be converts4.2. Available package formats4.3. Prerequisites4.4. Description of the base packages4.5. Installation instructions for the different package formats4.6. Post-installation procedures4.7. Should I remove old version xyz before installing a new one?4.8. How do I start KDE?4.9. Is it possible to install KDE in a user directory?4.10. startkde fails with can not connect to X server. What is wrong?4.11. KDE on AIX?4.12. KDE on a laptop?4.13. I have a neomagic chipset in my laptop, is there anything special I should do to run KDE?4.14. I do not like the default KDE directory after installation. How do I move it without breaking anything?4.15. What files can I delete from my KDE install directory? Can all the *.h, *.c and *.o files be safely removed?4.16. Will I lose my current settings when I upgrade KDE?4.17. I upgraded KDE and it seemed to go fine, but when I start it, I get a blank grey screen, and nothing happens. There are errors in the console about DCOPserver. What's going on?4.18. Compiling kdebase gives me a bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found error!4.19. How do I uninstall KDE applications compiled from scratch?4.20. What is up with GIF support?4.21. How do I install KDE themes?4.1. To the would-be convertsSo you have heard the rumors. Or you have seen the screenshots. And you are dying to get hold of KDE. But you know next to nothing about this whole alternative OS business. Don't worry! You only need to do some (well, maybe not some) reading, that's all!KDE does not run on Windows® 95/98/NT or OS/2 (yet). To run KDE, you need to have a UNIX® system. Please refer to Q: 2.2. for more details.Decide on a platform and set it up for your system. This FAQ can not help you with this, since KDE runs on many UNIX® platforms. Finally, you are ready to commence the KDE installation. Please start reading from the next section. To get KDE, please refer to Q: 3.1. . Last but not least, if you encounter any problems while installing KDE, please do not hesitate to make use of the KDE mailing lists and newsgroups. But do bear this in mind: no question is too silly to ask, but some are too silly to answer, especially when they are already answered in this FAQ.Good luck and have fun!4.2. Available package formatsYou can find several kinds of binary and source packages for different distributions and operating systems on the ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/. The binary packages are not made by the KDE Team, but by the distributors themselves, or some dedicated individuals. Please refer to KDE Package Policy Explained for information about the KDE Package Policy. The only official release is the source tar.bz2 packages. Please refer to the READMEs and INSTALLs in the several binaries directories. For a list of the available
Re: [newbie] udpate KDE using urpmi?
Ben Miller wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:42 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Is it possible to update KDE using URPMI? I've searched and haven't found the syntax fo do that. Thanks, Ben  I have done this but two things. 1. Do it from within init level 1 (? the text only mode ) 2. You must install the packages in the correct order. Thanks for the advice. What's the syntax? Is there a preferred method for upgrading KDE? = Ben Sorry. Add to my previous reply, that rpm -Uvh is an option. However, using urpmi you will need to do: # urpmi.addmedia -f -c mykde file:// path to your rpm packages you downloaded here ( mykde can be anything you like by the way.) If this seems to fall over then do first: # urpmi.update -a This will clean up your headers and allow the addmedia to work. Once you are ready to install from text console, then be sure that the package order is followed by listing the name of the package fully. eg: # urpmi kde-base-3.2.2 [ and so on ] If you are not sure whether or not you require other packages, download them anyway to the same directory and urpmi will find them if needed. Again, sorry about the urpmi exclusion in my previous reply, it's late and I ought to be in bed. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kde/urpmi mess
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:20 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Brett Lyon wrote: After a recent routine update (urpmi.update -a;urpmi --auto-select), I get this when calling K3B (from anywhere): [EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]# k3b k3b: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libartskde.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZTv0_n28_N4Arts16SynthModule_stub11autoSuspendEv [EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]# Before the (blind) upgrade, K3B had been running great for months. When I trace back all the packages that ultimately provide libartskde.so I find that a)they are all so embedded in the core of KDE that an upgrade would be a hefty undertaking and that b)now neither URPMI nor drakconf work for any kind of directly KDE-related (only) upgrade anyway (they both hang immediately), so it would be a lot of plain old rpming or making. Can anybody suggest a way to begin troubleshooting this? /var/log/messages, urpmi, (etc.) shows nothing significant. system info: MDK 10.1 OE, 2.6.8.1-12mdk, P4 2.66GHz, 512MB KDE 3.2.3 I tried: libk3b2-0.11.18-1.mdk10.1.thac k3b-0.11.18-1.mdk10.1.thac and: k3b-0.11.16-3mdk libk3b2-0.11.16-3mdk Other wierd things are happening too, like my konsole schema is gone, kicker crashes, xtraceroute hangs, etc. kde + urpmi = big mess. How can a proficient beginner avoid these non-productive time-wasters while staying updated? Thanks for any tips, brett Strange. I just upgraded 161 MB worth of KDE and xscreensaver coming up today, but my k3b works OK. I noticed your command : urpmi.update -a;urpmi --auto-select ^ a space is needed here urpmi.update -a; urpmi --auto-select and this semicolon shouldn't be there. Instead it is : urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select The difference between using ';' or '' is that the double ampersand says to the system, 'run this next command only if the previous one is successful.' Use of ';' doesn't use this precaution. Obviously '' should normally be preferred when the subsequent command(s) relies on the prior one(s). My suggestion : try again if your update is older than one day. You might be able to get all the new stuff as of today. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Not sure, but it sounds like you tried to update with kde running. I tried this once and ended up reinstalling from scratch. Did the update one step at a time in the order required for kde with xserver closed down and have had no problems since. As I said - not sure if this is your problem or not. I run cooker. I update KDE almost daily, sometimes several times a day. Always with KDE and X running. In the past I've updated 'final' or 'community' or 'official' Mandrake versions, always from within KDE. I have no idea who or when this fallacious advice originated, ie, logout from KDE and/or X to update. It simply isn't so. This isn't Win$ux folks. What _is_ often needed is to update the system after the updates are installed, eg, I use an alias (as root), 'upall' alias upall='rpm --rebuilddb updatedb ldconfig -v update-menus -v -n' Then log out and back into KDE to fully realize the updates. It's a good idea to use Ctrl+Alt+BkSp while logged out to restart the X server. Specially if updates were to X. If you're setup to auto-login to KDE, this step will auto log you back into KDE. I do not doubt anything you have said here, and in fact I strive for the day when this is works fully for a dumb arse like me. It is just that when I update kde from rpm packages FULLY, I have yet to succeed with a successful installation without first logging out of X session. AGAIN. I do not doubt you, it may well be that within text console, I have to be more observant and careful, therefore suceed this way. Time will tell I hope because I am through with playing with Linux, I now need to keep this box stable and in production for myself. Oh... I forgot, what is Windows again?? -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer
My brother, who works in the printer business, told me they had a history of this, and had left a trail of irate ex-customers. Since then, I won't touch them. So personally, I'd recommend sticking with HP. They seem to be the leader in printers for good reason (as opposed to being the leader due to unethical and anti-competitive business practices). Thank you all. I shall begin my search. My old HP deskjet installed wothout a hitch so I guess I shall stick with HP Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] If you have Java problems in your browser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is a link that may help: http://speculation.org/garrick/java.html Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5lhlkFAvMr/nNX8RAq7bAJwKVYnX09GcYC4OhrEr/imTUJGv2QCeNCc7 slK9QkJhHj/59EJi4lhUhU8= =/PLB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless mouse
On Thursday 13 January 2005 01:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 03:22, Aron Smith wrote: i-one wireless mouse lynx MVII works perfectly in 10.2 hooray! The TWiki is woefully ignorant of wireless peripherals and compatibility. Could you start us off with an entry under http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility? If you're not happy about how to make a new page, I'll do that for you and you can just fill in your entry. Thanks If you would please thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Konqueror weirdness.
In KDE 3.2.3 Konqueror doesn't start, whether I use menu or terminal (Terminal gives no feedback, i.e. - no messages, doesn't go back to $). This happens with all users (except root, of course) - even when I open a new user account to test it. If I go to another desktop/windows manager (Gnome, Fluxbox) konqueror will start from a terminal. I've erased .kde files and restarted (in fact I've re-named all hidden files and re-started) but the problem still remains. I've even done a complete re-install (keeping /home) and opened with a new user but no joy. Obviously, therefore, the problem is in the /home directory - but why should it affect all users? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless mouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 13:13, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 01:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 03:22, Aron Smith wrote: i-one wireless mouse lynx MVII works perfectly in 10.2 hooray! The TWiki is woefully ignorant of wireless peripherals and compatibility. Could you start us off with an entry under http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility? If you're not happy about how to make a new page, I'll do that for you and you can just fill in your entry. Thanks If you would please thanks OK - go to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/preview/Main/WirelessPeripherals I don't know what other categories we need here. Add anything that is relevant. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5nbPkFAvMr/nNX8RAts1AJ9Fz5jwah5oBaG0+JL0t4t8Uy+k/wCeJw7Y +93BzVokoOeWuCaVn/2cndY= =N3lM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Hi Tom. Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent file) by really clueless Winblow$ users. Some are redirects to WaReZ sites. Some are malicious, not a worry for Linux, as they are targeted to fsck'up Win$ux boxes. I've got 800 megs of swap, and 25 gigs of HD space free on /home. I also had the upload rate limited to 6. Using these cautions, I haven't encountered too many bad torrents.. yet. But if seeds disappear, a bad torrent could still tryin keep messin with you. IMO, torrents are the least desirable way to get movies. Without the 'bad' problems, some are only an archive of corrupt .rars, with no par files for repair. Avoid 'cam' movies too. Many Windoze user torrents are erroneously encoded (aspect ratio), and you'll need to use mencoder to fix 'em. I agree here - 99% of cam movies suck royally. :-) So next time you try a torrent, monitor memory use (top), and monitor the d/l directory's partition for disk space (df) from early on. 'kdirstat' is also useful for this. Also check your ~/.xsession-errors file to make sure it's not inflating rapidly. I'll keep all these suggestions in mind, thanks much. Don't know though - after all this trouble I think I'll just buy the darned DVD. grin If you want further opinion, you'll need to send me the torrent file. Thats just it - I don't have it - I believe it was the odd file that reiserfsck kept deleting, when --rebuild-tree ran. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] no uploads with firestarter SOLVED
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:11:32 +0100, Carsten Lissmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's something I can't figure out on my mini-lan. A Fedora C2 box makes the router (used Firestarter 1.0.1 to set it up). One of the clients is a MDK 10.1 machine (and why I'm subscribed to this list). Whenever I attempt to upload from either machine it will lock down the whole network until i cancel the request. this happens with ftp as well as http (for example fetching a mysql-dump from a remote server with phpmyadmin). Pinging from the clients results in Network unavailable then until - as said - the request is cancelled. An obvious one, but are you 100% certain the machines have different IP addresses? Miark Now it's triple checked... :) DNS and Downloading and simple surfing works well, the same setting worked out well with firestarter 0.9.x either. Carsten Looks like solved. Followed this hint from Firestarter mailing list. : Add the following line to your /etc/modprobe.conf : alias net-pf-10 off : which will disable all IPV6 negotations on network connections. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] removing iconify button in TWM xterm.
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:29, rasta rasta wrote: hi! i'm very sorry for my initial email. i forgot to set yahoo mail to send emails in plain text format. my apologies again. i want to remove the iconify button in TWM xterm but still retain the resize button. can anyone tell me how to do it? thanks for your time! TWM? Seriously? Wow. THAT is a historic window manager for sure... Have you googled on this? http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/help/doc/primer/node118.html http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/Customising.html ...are just a few... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Mm-MM!! A plate of STEAMING PIECES of a PIG mixed with the shreds of SEVERAL CHICKENS!! ... Oh BOY!! I'm about to swallow a TORN-OFF section of a COW'S LEFT LEG soaked in COTTONSEED OIL and SUGAR!! ... Let's see ... Next, I'll have the GROUND-UP flesh of CUTE, BABY LAMBS fried in the MELTED, FATTY TISSUES from a warm-blooded animal someone once PETTED!! ... YUM!! That was GOOD!! For DESSERT, I'll have a TOFU BURGER with BEAN SPROUTS on a stone-ground, WHOLE WHEAT BUN!! 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 Menudrake.
PLEASE REMEMBER, I AM A GMAIL USER, SO YOU NEED TO CHECK THAT THE REPLY IS GOING TO THE LIST. Okay, so some of you may remember that I'm trying out Enlightenment right now. I did post about it a week or three ago, asking for recommendations on where to read up on it. At any rate, I'm playing with it now, and I'm starting to get a bit more comfortable with it. I do have one problem at the moment though. For whatever reason I can't edit the menu to get to all my applications. When I try to access menudrake, I get Segmentation fault returned. And before you ask, Menudrake works fine in KDE, and I would assume it works fine in IceWM which is installed but I never use it, so I'm not sure. IceWM comes up as an option in menudrake when one is selecting which environment to edit the menu for, Enlightenment does not though. Thanks in advance! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in the same boat. Install went flawlessly, KDE works fine, inbuilt mouse and keyboard work fine and the battery level monitor works fine, all of which refused to work previously. After install I spent about another 2 hours with it installing more apps and 'playing arround' without any problems or stability issues. Only thing that remains to be done is find a driver for the software modem. I guess they were dinkum when they said 10.1 had improved laptop support. Cheers, Aidan 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 Menudrake.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:14:14 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: e16menuedit is what you want in order to properly edit the Enlightenment menus - mind you, you WILL have to get your hands dirty in doing this exercise - some of the configuration of E is simply NOT easy (heaps of config files/text files/theme files - yadda yadda yadda) - so be prepared... OTOH, if you just want to edit the menus, bounce outta E and into Guh-Nome or some other silly WM, edit said menus and let it do the update-menus for you, bounce outta that wm and back into E and you should have all nice happy warm fuzzy feelings. Hmmm, for whatever reason, the menus aren't updating from what's done in the other WMs. I suppose I'll hunt down e16menuedit, and see if I can get myself comfortable working with that. Thanks much. ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast 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 Menudrake.
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:00, Amy wrote: PLEASE REMEMBER, I AM A GMAIL USER, SO YOU NEED TO CHECK THAT THE REPLY IS GOING TO THE LIST. Okay, so some of you may remember that I'm trying out Enlightenment right now. I did post about it a week or three ago, asking for recommendations on where to read up on it. At any rate, I'm playing with it now, and I'm starting to get a bit more comfortable with it. I do have one problem at the moment though. For whatever reason I can't edit the menu to get to all my applications. When I try to access menudrake, I get Segmentation fault returned. And before you ask, Menudrake works fine in KDE, and I would assume it works fine in IceWM which is installed but I never use it, so I'm not sure. IceWM comes up as an option in menudrake when one is selecting which environment to edit the menu for, Enlightenment does not though. Thanks in advance! Amy e16menuedit is what you want in order to properly edit the Enlightenment menus - mind you, you WILL have to get your hands dirty in doing this exercise - some of the configuration of E is simply NOT easy (heaps of config files/text files/theme files - yadda yadda yadda) - so be prepared... OTOH, if you just want to edit the menus, bounce outta E and into Guh-Nome or some other silly WM, edit said menus and let it do the update-menus for you, bounce outta that wm and back into E and you should have all nice happy warm fuzzy feelings. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand hat was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was reknowned for being quite clever and quite clearly was so -- but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous. This above all appeared to Trillian to be genuinely stupid, but she could no longer be bothered to argue about. -- Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 'make' it gives me an error; *** [default] Error 2
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:11 am, et wrote: | I feeel very thick headed this morning,,, | I am running MDK 10.1 official, 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp or 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp | when I attempt to 'make' it gives me an error; | | make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdksmp/build | SUBDIRS=/home/et/usbvis/usbvision-0.9.8/src modules | make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdksmp/build: No such file or directory. | Stop. | make: *** [default] Error 2 | | I think I have all the packages installed, but at some point I musta | screwed up and installed a kernel or something that prevents me from being | able to run 'make'. | | any help? That looks more like a PATH problem to me. Does everything in this path exist? Build is usually a link pointing to your /usr/src/linux-kernel and you may have to re-make that link if it points to a different kernel version. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:10, Aidan Holmes wrote: Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in the same boat. Install went flawlessly, KDE works fine, inbuilt mouse and keyboard work fine and the battery level monitor works fine, all of which refused to work previously. After install I spent about another 2 hours with it installing more apps and 'playing arround' without any problems or stability issues. Only thing that remains to be done is find a driver for the software modem. I guess they were dinkum when they said 10.1 had improved laptop support. Cheers, Aidan Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- He had the look of a lawn mower just after the grass had organised a workers' collective. There was a definite suggestion that, deep inside, he knew this was not really happening. It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored. (Jingo) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Make kernel background graphic go away...
I can change the loader picture... However, no matter what i can NOT get rid of the back ground picture behind the kernel on boot...??? what is the deal? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
Stephen Kühn wrote: Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Thanks for the tip, you're right I don't hold much hope for itbut i can dream hey ;) We live out in the sticks so broadband is not available to us:( yet. But there is talk of bushcom.com.au installing a wireless network out here, I just pray the reciever will use ethernet and not need any Winblows drivers! Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:53, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Thanks for the tip, you're right I don't hold much hope for itbut i can dream hey ;) We live out in the sticks so broadband is not available to us:( yet. But there is talk of bushcom.com.au installing a wireless network out here, I just pray the reciever will use ethernet and not need any Winblows drivers! Aidan No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Wish not to seem, but to be, the best. -- Aeschylus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Anyone using KDar
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Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm too cheap to use the broadband that is available. ISDN is available as I live within the town, it is competitively priced IF you already rent a second line for the internet. But we only use one phone line so ISDN would approximately double our phone/internet costs (the wife would kill me). Satellite is available (I'm the computer dude at RetraVision and we have it here at work) but the setup and ongoing costs are more than I can justify as a home user. So I've resigned myself to doing my big downloads at work and using email and simple browsing at home.maybe I should run some cat5 from work to home - they're only 700m apart :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:26 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm too cheap to use the broadband that is available. ISDN is available as I live within the town, it is competitively priced IF you already rent a second line for the internet. But we only use one phone line so ISDN would approximately double our phone/internet costs (the wife would kill me). Satellite is available (I'm the computer dude at RetraVision and we have it here at work) but the setup and ongoing costs are more than I can justify as a home user. So I've resigned myself to doing my big downloads at work and using email and simple browsing at home.maybe I should run some cat5 from work to home - they're only 700m apart :) or.. a souped up wireless with good antennas at both ends :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
