[newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?
Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. all info (that I know of) is provided below, if need more please ask. Linux localhost 2.6.8.1-12mdk #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ unknown GNU/Linux etc]# cat /proc/modules snd-seq-oss 31232 0 - Live 0xd0bad000 snd-seq-midi-event 6080 1 snd-seq-oss, Live 0xd0b49000 snd-seq 47440 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event, Live 0xd0bb9000 snd-pcm-oss 49480 0 - Live 0xd0c84000 snd-mixer-oss 17376 1 snd-pcm-oss, Live 0xd0ba7000 snd-emu10k1 90728 0 - Live 0xd0c3d000 snd-rawmidi 19300 1 snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0b8d000 snd-pcm 81800 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0c5f000 snd-timer 20356 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm, Live 0xd0b87000 snd-seq-device 6344 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi, Live 0xd0b46000 snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0b95000 snd-page-alloc 7400 2 snd-emu10k1,snd-pcm, Live 0xd0aed000 snd-util-mem 3232 1 snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0a12000 snd-hwdep 6916 1 snd-emu10k1, Live 0xd0a1f000 snd 45988 11 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss, snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-timer, snd-seq-device,snd-ac97-codec,snd-hwdep, Live 0xd0b57000 soundcore 7008 1 snd, Live 0xd0a19000 sg 33788 0 - Live 0xd0b4d000 scsi_mod 104044 1 sg, Live 0xd0b64000 nfsd 189408 8 - Live 0xd0fdf000 exportfs 4736 1 nfsd, Live 0xd0bb6000 lockd 58344 2 nfsd, Live 0xd0bc6000 sunrpc 127652 2 nfsd,lockd, Live 0xd0af radeon 126804 2 - Live 0xd0b12000 md5 3584 1 - Live 0xd0aa2000 ipv6 230916 16 - Live 0xd0ca2000 autofs4 15268 0 - Live 0xd0c38000 rfcomm 32348 0 - Live 0xd0c56000 l2cap 19876 5 rfcomm, Live 0xd0c0c000 bluetooth 39076 4 rfcomm,l2cap, Live 0xd0c2d000 af_packet 16072 0 - Live 0xd0c0 ip_vs 90656 0 - Live 0xd0c15000 via-rhine 17572 0 - Live 0xd0ae1000 mii 4224 1 via-rhine, Live 0xd0a1c000 ide-cd 37280 0 - Live 0xd0aa5000 cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd, Live 0xd0ad6000 loop 12520 0 - Live 0xd0a94000 nls_utf8 1536 1 - Live 0xd0a0d000 ntfs 147964 1 - Live 0xd0ab via-agp 7360 1 - Live 0xd0a0f000 agpgart 27752 2 via-agp, Live 0xd09e7000 ehci-hcd 26244 0 - Live 0xd0a03000 uhci-hcd 28752 0 - Live 0xd09ef000 usbcore 103172 4 ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd, Live 0xd0a22000 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone using KDar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:09:55 +, Dick Gevers wrote about Re: [newbie] Anyone using KDar: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:31:34 +, Anne Wilson wrote about Re: [newbie] Does it work OK with DVD-RW, Dick? It should, but I have no way to tell as I have no such hardware. I assume it does, if you'll bear the same in mind as I reported in the bugs above. I realized only much later: your question seems to imply that Kdar would actually write to CD or DVD. It doesn't. It creates an archive the size of any media (bearing in mind the bugs) and the archive should be burned to media by the user. So, my answer could also have been: It works with any media, but I haven't tried any larger than 703 Mb. Ciao, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQFB6OiewC/zk+cxEdMRAlN1AKC0UGebNkJQc2JO+SMukwrPKmaGPQCfWS3k ME/d5H9CrkSH6Ai2og+H06Q= =Pd5q -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] Anyone using KDar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 09:55, Dick Gevers wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:09:55 +, Dick Gevers wrote about Re: [newbie] Anyone using KDar: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:31:34 +, Anne Wilson wrote about Re: [newbie] Does it work OK with DVD-RW, Dick? It should, but I have no way to tell as I have no such hardware. I assume it does, if you'll bear the same in mind as I reported in the bugs above. I realized only much later: your question seems to imply that Kdar would actually write to CD or DVD. It doesn't. It creates an archive the size of any media (bearing in mind the bugs) and the archive should be burned to media by the user. So, my answer could also have been: It works with any media, but I haven't tried any larger than 703 Mb. Of course. The only time I tried to use DrakBackup I found that the problem was the need for space for a huge tar file, which I didn't have. I guess that KDar will have the same need. ATM I'm still manually copying files to CD or DVD with XCDRoast. I really must get a better way sorted - it's very inefficient. 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) iD8DBQFB6POfkFAvMr/nNX8RAi1LAJ9OFdnllW3Mefkzk8fT6Qxyr9IXqQCeN0vH AMSyUSW0BwPQbVvwdbquRqg= =X/Od -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] Anyone using KDar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:42:39 +, Anne Wilson wrote about Re: [newbie] Anyone using KDar: Of course. The only time I tried to use DrakBackup I found that the problem was the need for space for a huge tar file, which I didn't have. I guess that KDar will have the same need. ATM I'm still manually copying files to CD or DVD with XCDRoast. I really must get a better way sorted - it's very inefficient. You can pipe the output of the tar command to the input of the cdrecord command and burn from the command line as the archive is created :) Regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQFB6QBuwC/zk+cxEdMRAkDCAJ9gpQLuPD9RzBBi0+HYeTxdDQKOfACg0r9q aAkyRio9klRzD5najHGI240= =13aG -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] Anyone using KDar
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 09:55, Dick Gevers wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:09:55 +, Dick Gevers wrote about Re: [newbie] Anyone using KDar: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:31:34 +, Anne Wilson wrote about Re: [newbie] Does it work OK with DVD-RW, Dick? It should, but I have no way to tell as I have no such hardware. I assume it does, if you'll bear the same in mind as I reported in the bugs above. I realized only much later: your question seems to imply that Kdar would actually write to CD or DVD. It doesn't. It creates an archive the size of any media (bearing in mind the bugs) and the archive should be burned to media by the user. So, my answer could also have been: It works with any media, but I haven't tried any larger than 703 Mb. Of course. The only time I tried to use DrakBackup I found that the problem was the need for space for a huge tar file, which I didn't have. I guess that KDar will have the same need. ATM I'm still manually copying files to CD or DVD with XCDRoast. I really must get a better way sorted - it's very inefficient. Anne I just had a look at KDar, and it seems to have all the features I need and it looks easy to use. I've been using DrakBackup until now, which was somewhat unwieldy, so I probably haven't been backing up as often as I ought to have been! At first glance, KDar has one enormous advantage over DrakBackup - it can be run by an ordinary user, whereas DrakBackup has to be run as root. I can understand why most of the Drak Drake functions need to be run as root - we don't want users messing with configuration options they might not understand - but backups? Surely we should be *encouraging* users to make backups, rather than preventing it? -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Mozilla on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-20mdk ~~~ I have a very small mind and must live with it. -- E. Dijkstra ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone using KDar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 11:37, Dick Gevers wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:42:39 +, Anne Wilson wrote about Re: [newbie] Anyone using KDar: Of course. The only time I tried to use DrakBackup I found that the problem was the need for space for a huge tar file, which I didn't have. I guess that KDar will have the same need. ATM I'm still manually copying files to CD or DVD with XCDRoast. I really must get a better way sorted - it's very inefficient. You can pipe the output of the tar command to the input of the cdrecord command and burn from the command line as the archive is created :) That sounds worth investigating, 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) iD8DBQFB6RChkFAvMr/nNX8RAosdAKCYip8UkQfjpUo/xVHuX+FdX4rQYACfXmlT QArxelW2q2unQjxme4F791Q= =wfEc -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] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?
On Saturday 15 January 2005 04:52 am, John Retermeyer wrote: Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. post contents of /etc/modprobe.conf Anne, you have this card, don't you? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost DVB interface
Op vrijdag 14 januari 2005 16:21, schreef Derek Jennings: Check your MandrakeControLCentreSystemServices to see which is running and try enabling the other instead. So I did. The only change I saw is that my mouse stopped working...)-: Using the older mm kernel; I don't have a unlimited broadband internet connection but a GPRS over a cellfone. (That's expensive.)-: ) And that would probably give me a problem with my Nvidia drivers... But; I saw in /etc/udev/scripts a script called dvb.sh. I executed that script, but nothing happened. Anybody knows where that script is for?? Greetz, Gerard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? My broadband ISP, Road Runner, is a cable operation. The following site, http://www.rr.com/flash/;, is its home page and can be set by me to reflect the exact local news, local weather, and global headlines in which I am interested. Under Windows, I can use Tools/Options/General/Home Page/Use Current Page to open my browser to Road Runner's home page whenever I start Mozilla-Firefox or any other browser. MY question is: Is there a SIMPLE (meaning non-programming) KDE/GUI method, similar to Windows, to configure Konqueror to open to Road runner's home page whenever I start Konqueror? I do not understand programming, and at my age I don't want to have to start to learn it now. I would like to stop using Windows and I thought KDE/GUI would allow me to continue using my computer without trying to understand written commands, etc. That is the main reason I chose Mandrake. Is it possible to do what I want in Linux and specifically in Mandrake 10.1? Thank you, Andy BTW I am beginning to think I like Konqueror better than Firefox. It's appearance is cleaner, less clutter, and it is a lot faster. Also, the Road Runner start page using Windows has better fonts than when using Konqueror. I am not certain but I think the fonts in RR start page using Windows is Sans while the font when using Mandrake KDE is definitely different and much harder for me to use. Also the contrast is poor. I don't understand why this is true for Road Runner's home page under KDE - because other sites I open while using Konqueror are OK. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
On Saturday 15 January 2005 02:23 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? My broadband ISP, Road Runner, is a cable operation. The following site, http://www.rr.com/flash/;, is its home page and can be set by me to reflect the exact local news, local weather, and global headlines in which I am interested. Under Windows, I can use Tools/Options/General/Home Page/Use Current Page to open my browser to Road Runner's home page whenever I start Mozilla-Firefox or any other browser. MY question is: Is there a SIMPLE (meaning non-programming) KDE/GUI method, similar to Windows, to configure Konqueror to open to Road runner's home page whenever I start Konqueror? I do not understand programming, and at my age I don't want to have to start to learn it now. I would like to stop using Windows and I thought KDE/GUI would allow me to continue using my computer without trying to understand written commands, etc. That is the main reason I chose Mandrake. Is it possible to do what I want in Linux and specifically in Mandrake 10.1? Thank you, Andy BTW I am beginning to think I like Konqueror better than Firefox. It's appearance is cleaner, less clutter, and it is a lot faster. Also, the Road Runner start page using Windows has better fonts than when using Konqueror. I am not certain but I think the fonts in RR start page using Windows is Sans while the font when using Mandrake KDE is definitely different and much harder for me to use. Also the contrast is poor. I don't understand why this is true for Road Runner's home page under KDE - because other sites I open while using Konqueror are OK. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Andy you can go into settingsconfigure Konquerorbehaviorand put in the URL of the home page you want where it has URL and a blank for fill in. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:47:00 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 02:23 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? My broadband ISP, Road Runner, is a cable operation. The following site, http://www.rr.com/flash/;, is its home page and can be set by me to reflect the exact local news, local weather, and global headlines in which I am interested. Under Windows, I can use Tools/Options/General/Home Page/Use Current Page to open my browser to Road Runner's home page whenever I start Mozilla-Firefox or any other browser. MY question is: Is there a SIMPLE (meaning non-programming) KDE/GUI method, similar to Windows, to configure Konqueror to open to Road runner's home page whenever I start Konqueror? I do not understand programming, and at my age I don't want to have to start to learn it now. I would like to stop using Windows and I thought KDE/GUI would allow me to continue using my computer without trying to understand written commands, etc. That is the main reason I chose Mandrake. Is it possible to do what I want in Linux and specifically in Mandrake 10.1? Thank you, Andy BTW I am beginning to think I like Konqueror better than Firefox. It's appearance is cleaner, less clutter, and it is a lot faster. Also, the Road Runner start page using Windows has better fonts than when using Konqueror. I am not certain but I think the fonts in RR start page using Windows is Sans while the font when using Mandrake KDE is definitely different and much harder for me to use. Also the contrast is poor. I don't understand why this is true for Road Runner's home page under KDE - because other sites I open while using Konqueror are OK. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Andy you can go into settingsconfigure Konquerorbehaviorand put in the URL of the home page you want where it has URL and a blank for fill in. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
On Saturday 15 January 2005 21:23, Andy Yankovich wrote: snip Also, the Road Runner start page using Windows has better fonts than when using Konqueror. I am not certain but I think the fonts in RR start page using Windows is Sans while the font when using Mandrake KDE is definitely different and much harder for me to use. Also the contrast is poor. I don't understand why this is true for Road Runner's home page under KDE - because other sites I open while using Konqueror are OK. Is there a way to fix this? /snip You can adjust the fonts in Konqueror : Settings -- Configure Konqueror -- Appearence. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 15:47, Dennis Myers wrote: you can go into settingsconfigure Konquerorbehaviorand put in the URL of the home page you want where it has URL and a blank for fill in. HTH I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mail Archiving
Hi Folks I use Kontact for all my email at the moment, but some of the mailing lists I am on I would like to keep the messages of rather than finding the information on the web again. What I want is a way to access the mail without the use of Kontact, do you see what I mean?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing kbluetooth
When I start 10.1 I get the message you may replace bluez's pin helper program with kbluepin; it is located in /user/lib/kdebluetooth now. How EXACTLY do I do this? What did it do and what will it do after the change? Sorry if these questions are so basic. Maybe I do not belong in the Linux or perhaps the Mandrakelinux operating system. What do you think? Because I do not understand *anything* about programming, should I not use 10.1? Please be honest about this because I hate to bother you all with such basic questions. I am using a $12.99 set of six CDs. I have ordered the packaged 10.1 from MandrakeStore. When they arrive should I delete what is now installed, and then install the MandrakeStore CDs Will that be preferred? Thanks again. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
I did what Dennis suggested and it did not work. My result was a bit different from Elwyn's (below). I just go to the page titled congratulations for choosing Mandrakelinux!- Konqueror. Has anyone been successful using Björn Olsson's method? Thanks for all your suggestions, Andy Elwyn wrote: I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Björn Olsson Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:23 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Odd mouse behaviour in 10.1
Yesterday I decided to try and install 10.1 on a Dell C840 laptop that's on my desk, connected via a KVM. The install went well (much better than 10.0 as it actually installed in the dock and sees the Ethernet card), but an old behaviour came back with the install - the mouse freaks and doesn't resync when I switch to and from with the KVM (PS/2 mouse, keyboard works fine). The normal 'trick' is to force the psmouse module to use one simple config for the mouse, but with the new kernel the old psmouse module is not present. Anyone know why the psmouse module is missing? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
mike wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: snip Mike - how about a board entry on the TWiki HardwareCompatibility page? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MotherBoards Anne Done. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 18:01, mike wrote: mike wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: snip Mike - how about a board entry on the TWiki HardwareCompatibility page? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MotherBoards Anne Done. Mike Thanks, Mike 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) iD8DBQFB6Wh+kFAvMr/nNX8RAgpGAJ47WcprmN+Oq989T2Nmr1XHOl6QEwCgh0pp SXoTzbPOm9dnv6TePzlYd0A= =qChD -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] Start page of Konqueror?? Success Once only
Well, Dennis, the instructions you gave DID work, but for only one time. After a complete shut down, I attempted something I never did before. At the KDE 3.2 flash screen, I clicked on the globe icon and went directly to the start page I have been trying to get. However, I tried to recreate that success five more times and could not recreate it once. I tried only restarting and booting from a totally shut down system. Couldn't recreate that success. Don't know why. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Yankovich Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 5:09 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: RE: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? I did what Dennis suggested and it did not work. My result was a bit different from Elwyn's (below). I just go to the page titled congratulations for choosing Mandrakelinux!- Konqueror. Has anyone been successful using Björn Olsson's method? Thanks for all your suggestions, Andy Elwyn wrote: I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Björn Olsson Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:23 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Success Once only
On Saturday 15 January 2005 06:34 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Well, Dennis, the instructions you gave DID work, but for only one time. After a complete shut down, I attempted something I never did before. At the KDE 3.2 flash screen, I clicked on the globe icon and went directly to the start page I have been trying to get. However, I tried to recreate that success five more times and could not recreate it once. I tried only restarting and booting from a totally shut down system. Couldn't recreate that success. Don't know why. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Yankovich Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 5:09 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: RE: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? I did what Dennis suggested and it did not work. My result was a bit different from Elwyn's (below). I just go to the page titled congratulations for choosing Mandrakelinux!- Konqueror. Has anyone been successful using Björn Olsson's method? Thanks for all your suggestions, Andy Elwyn wrote: I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Björn Olsson Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:23 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olss that is a puzzle. I am trying to recreate the problem and now can not get past the Mandrake welcome page. Looks like something needs editing for a perminent fix. I am looking for the file now. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd mouse behaviour in 10.1
On Saturday 15 January 2005 10:47 am, Russ Kepler wrote: The normal 'trick' is to force the psmouse module to use one simple config for the mouse, but with the new kernel the old psmouse module is not present. Anyone know why the psmouse module is missing? Answered my own question by looking at the kernel config - psmouse is configured into the kernel instead of being a module (duh, and I was just getting used to the module business.) Anyway, adding append=psmouse.proto=imps to the /etc/lilo.conf (and remembering to reload the changed params) and it's back up and running. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 10:08 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: When I start 10.1 I get the message you may replace bluez's pin helper program with kbluepin; it is located in /user/lib/kdebluetooth now. How EXACTLY do I do this? What did it do and what will it do after the change? It's bluetooth, the short range wireless thingy that talks to mobile phones, (and other stuff, but mainly phones.) If you don't use it you can very safely ignore the message. The pin helper is the program that asks for a six(?) digit number when pairing with a device. kbluepin will just ask for the number with a nice window. Sorry if these questions are so basic. Maybe I do not belong in the Linux or perhaps the Mandrakelinux operating system. What do you think? Because I do not understand *anything* about programming, should I not use 10.1? Please be honest about this because I hate to bother you all with such basic questions. 1. that's not a basic question. As of 9.2, bluetooth was bleeding edge technology in Linux. (It may be more mainstream in 10.1) 1a. We really don't care how basic a question is. This is the Newbie list - many questions here are basic. We're happy to help. 2. You don't need to know anything about programming to use Linux, any more than Windows. 2a. What knowledge you need, you'll pick up over the next few weeks without noticing. The average time between someone appearing on this list as a total newbie, and answering a question themselves is about a month. 3. You need to know _less_ about computers to use Linux safely and securely than you need to use Windows safely and securely. 3a. No viruses, little or no spyware, software designed to be secure from the ground up and fantastic support. I am using a $12.99 set of six CDs. I have ordered the packaged 10.1 from MandrakeStore. When they arrive should I delete what is now installed, and then install the MandrakeStore CDs Will that be preferred? What does the label say on those CDs? If they are 10.1 Community Edition it may be worth upgrading. Since I am still using 9.2 I'll let others tell you how worthwhile it is. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] guide-blender in english?
The guide-blender package installed by urpmi is in french. I've also checked here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/21/year/2004/month/04/day/22 and it seems that they are all french here too. Is there an english version? Sorry, but I dont know which source urpmi installed from. It was either from the 10.1 Official updates, jpackage, plf, contrib or main sources. Cheers, Jarlath -- Copyrighting allows people to benefit from their labours, but software patents allow the companies with the largest legal departments to benefit from everyone else's work. Andrew Brown, The Guardian. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth
What does the label say on those CDs? If they are 10.1 Community Edition it may be worth upgrading. Since I am still using 9.2 I'll let others tell you how worthwhile it is. Be very careful upgrading from 9.X to 10.x. There is some hardware that 9.X will configure and 10.X will into spasms with, in particular IBM Thinkpads. Also consider that for some hardware notably IBM Thinkpads you can install the DVD version and apparently the CD version. The apparent comes from the fact that the CD/DVD reader used in Thinkpads only reads 99.9% of any given Mandrake CD correct which is enough most times for Mandrake to install and run but NOT run correct. An issue that is guaranteed to drive you nuts trying to figure out what is wrong. The issue with trying to install 10.X DVD in Thinkpads is that there is apparently some screwup in driver selection so an error message appears saying place 'Auxiliary Driver Floppie' in floppy drive. These 'Auxiliary Drivers' are located on the DVD and must be coppied to a NEW floppie which will accept 1.72 MB of data by the dd comand. If you attempt to use old floppies which would not accept 1.72 MB of data the drivers will NOT work. The assumption here is that you have a floppy and a DVD drive and a DVD drive. If you do NOT have BOTH then use some other method for installation. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 17:08 -0500, Andy Yankovich wrote: I did what Dennis suggested and it did not work. My result was a bit different from Elwyn's (below). I just go to the page titled congratulations for choosing Mandrakelinux!- Konqueror. Has anyone been successful using Björn Olsson's method? Thanks for all your suggestions, Andy Elwyn wrote: I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Björn Olsson Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:23 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olsson Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I have been playing with Gnome more than KDE, but there is an icon on the Konqueror toolbar that will enlarge the font size of the displayed page. It is in the shape of a magnifying glass with a plus sign in it. Also, did you try in Konqueror -SettingsConfigure KonquerorFonts? There is a place to specify the minimum font size and what font you want the browser to use to display text. Don't get discouraged in the learning process. I have spent almost a year in getting going, but for me the windoze Mulidysfunctional Edition was good incentive to try linux. Once you are a little familiar with it, you won't miss microsoft! HTH. ~Lorin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Archiving
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 22:43, Lorin Pino wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 16:24 +, Elwyn wrote: Hi Folks I use Kontact for all my email at the moment, but some of the mailing lists I am on I would like to keep the messages of rather than finding the information on the web again. What I want is a way to access the mail without the use of Kontact, do you see what I mean?? Cheers, Elwyn Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ___ This may not be a very convenient solution, but in migrating from windows (and checking mail with different stand alone machines) I saved any messages that I thought would be useful to a floppy. Then you can use a browser (KDE's Konqueror) to look back at saved messages. HTH ~Lorin I was rather looking for an option to save, for example, the current mailbox with about 13,000 messages in. Kontact is managing OK at the moment But TIA Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Network Traffic Meter
Looking for a program that can show a meter on the screen about the throughput of the network card selected (ie eth0) On Windows I have the use of a program called DU Meter but I can't find anything for Mandrake (10) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter
Elwyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Looking for a program that can show a meter on the screen about the throughput of the network card selected (ie eth0) On Windows I have the use of a program called DU Meter but I can't find anything for Mandrake (10) Cheers Elwyn Try gkrellm .. you can set it for any interface and even specific ports. from the menu .. System monitoring gkrellm HTH -- RickS Registered Linux user #338463 Mdk 10.1 OE - Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk@ http://counter.li.org gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] enigmail
I have a problem with decrypting my sent messages. Been expermenting with gnupg. When I send a signed and encrypted message to someone who has my key they get it and can read it fine and I have their key and can decrypt an encrypted message from them. But when I go to my *Sent* box click on a encripted message that I sent, I cannot decrypt it? Heres the error. gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available Does this mean I don't have access to my own secret key? Mdk 10.0 Mozilla 1.7 Enigmail 0.84.2.0 GnuPG v1.2.4 New to this, any ideas? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
