Re: [newbie] turbotax?
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? Turbotax Web works just fine. :) I've been using Web-based turbotax methods for the last few years using linux. One caveat though, I had a little difficulty getting the browser (konqueror or mozilla0 to automatically launch acrobat inside the browser window for printing purposes. I managed somehow to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found (it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen You can just go to http://www.irs.gov/ and click on the "Free File" link. There you will find many free web-based tax preparation software AND free e-file. This year I used the H&R Block web site and it mostly worked fine with Firefox. The important thing to remember is that in many cases you have to get in through the IRS web site in order to get the free preparation and e-file or you will be asked to pay for the service. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz 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 programmes
Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the same thing happened. Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to set up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the desktop. Did you cd to the desktop containing the file first ? ie: $ cd ~/Desktop $ tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt $ cd /opt/xamp[TabKey] - There is usually a README file within the uncompressed directory to advise before you continue. $ ./configure ( if required ) $ make ( if required ) Change to root: $ su Password # make install ( if required ) Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? I find it odd that when logged in as admin or su that I seem denied access to some files/folders. Incidentally I am very new to this so things need to be spelled out step by step. Thanks for any help. I don't mean to over simplify things believing you are unaware of the procedure, it's just that it is easier to include the lot whilst I got the time. -- 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
[newbie] Installing programmes
Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the same thing happened. Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to set up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the desktop. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? I find it odd that when logged in as admin or su that I seem denied access to some files/folders. Incidentally I am very new to this so things need to be spelled out step by step. Thanks for any help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bash3 install problem
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 21:08 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Safer way: > > rm /bin/bash2 > mv /bin/bash /bin/bash2 > ln -s /bin/bash3 /bin/bash > > Right now, /bin/bash2 is a link to /bin/bash. After running these > commands, /bin/bash2 will be the origional /bin/bash file. /bin/bash > will be a link to /bin/bash3. (/bin/bash will be highlighted blue now.) > > If using Bash 3 instead of Bash 2 breaks things, you can fix it by running: > > rm /bin/bash > ln -s /bin/bash2 /bin/bash > > or > > rm /bin/bash > mv /bin/bash2 /bin/bash > ln /bin/bash /bin/bash2 > > Mikkel Thanks Mikkel - works like a charm! :) -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put > > that "4" there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. > > No /dev/hdd would be the entire drive. /dev/hdd4 would be the 4th > partition on it. But the 4th partition on the ZIP drive normally is the > entire free space on the drive. It is a small difference, but it is an > important one. I expected the same thing here. > > Are you running 10.1 Official with the latest updates? Does the system > automaticly detect when you change cartridge in the drive? Or are you > manually mounting/unmounting the drive? > > Mikkel Hi Mikkel. I know /dev/hdd is the entire drive, but every Mandrake release I've used, up to my current, v9.2, I've had to use /dev/hdb4 for my zip drive, or its not performed like it should. I always disable supermount or anything like it, then just have an icon on the desktop that I click to mount it and show the contents. I manually (right click, eject) to remove it. I've never had good luck with supermount, or the like except on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, where it has worked great. Here are some examples of the zip entries I've used in /etc/fstabs over time (Top entry is current, last entry is a stock, default install entry): /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/hdc4/mnt/zip vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto sync,nodev,user,noauto,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Hope this gives some ideas? See ya. -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
> > > > This should eliminate the reply-to header and mailing list replies will > > now go to the list as they should. > > Yaayy! It works. -- /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] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play
On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:42:36 -0500, Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ > > > > > > but it does not play anything, since as soon as I load a playlist, I > > > get the following message: > > > > > > "Playlist finished" > > > > What engine are you trying to use? com to #amarok on freenode if you > > want an interactive discussion. > > Thanks, Greg. I have tried all the three available engines, but always > with the same result, i.e., with no success. This is often the result of not having the correct plugins installed for the type of media being played. Are you sure xine-plugins, and gstreamer-mad, gstreamer-vorbis, etc are installed? Also I highly recommend the version of gstreamer from eslrahc and xine from plf, because they are both more current -- /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] turbotax?
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my > computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. > > Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? > Turbotax Web works just fine. :) I've been using Web-based turbotax methods for the last few years using linux. One caveat though, I had a little difficulty getting the browser (konqueror or mozilla0 to automatically launch acrobat inside the browser window for printing purposes. I managed somehow to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found (it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen would come up and then it would go to sleep. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question
You can get modem cables with both a 25 pin end and a 9 pin end on trhe same cable Sorry everyone - forgot the 'reply to' and format. That's good to know about the cables. Thanks. About to try download a driver in windows, save to disk and install in linux. Will give it a go anyway! Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question
Aron Smith wrote: You can get modem cables with both a 25 pin end and a 9 pin end on trhe same cable Okay - thanks. I have found a driver for my modem and about to download in windows, hopefully! - save to disk, and install in linux. Worth a try anyway! Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question
On Saturday 12 February 2005 07:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how new the MB is. I > >haven't seen a 25 pin in a while but that doesn't mean that they are not > > out there. Last serial cable I picked up though, had both 25 and 9 pin > > connectors on it. > > Thanks. I was concerned because when lent my old external modem to > friends with new computer, it wouldn't connect because of a discrepancy > in the number of pins. Not sure now how many pins the modem had. > Rosemary You can get modem cables with both a 25 pin end and a 9 pin end on trhe same cable > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question
Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how new the MB is. I haven't seen a 25 pin in a while but that doesn't mean that they are not out there. Last serial cable I picked up though, had both 25 and 9 pin connectors on it. Thanks. I was concerned because when lent my old external modem to friends with new computer, it wouldn't connect because of a discrepancy in the number of pins. Not sure now how many pins the modem had. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question
computer. If it is a desktop, you probably have 2 of them. On older computers, you may have 1 db9 male and 1 db25 male for serial ports. The modem probably has a db25 female connector on it. Yes, my old computer had two, and this one has one. Good to know I have the backup option. Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bash3 install problem
Kenneth Rhodes wrote: I noticed that I had bash 2.05b installed on my Mandrake 10.1OE system and that bash3 was available. I also noticed that my software media manager did not report a version of bash as being installed. This is true of a number of other programs as well. Anyway, after successfully installing bash3, my bash version is still bash 2.05b. I can see several versions of bash in /bin/... /bin/bash* /bin/bash2@ -- highlighted a blueish color /bin/bash3* Can I just copy bash3 over bash? TIA, Safer way: rm /bin/bash2 mv /bin/bash /bin/bash2 ln -s /bin/bash3 /bin/bash Right now, /bin/bash2 is a link to /bin/bash. After running these commands, /bin/bash2 will be the origional /bin/bash file. /bin/bash will be a link to /bin/bash3. (/bin/bash will be highlighted blue now.) If using Bash 3 instead of Bash 2 breaks things, you can fix it by running: rm /bin/bash ln -s /bin/bash2 /bin/bash or rm /bin/bash mv /bin/bash2 /bin/bash ln /bin/bash /bin/bash2 Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it. Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so that the ZIP data partition becomes /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4. Did the disk you used have other files on it? Are you able to access files on other ZIP disks? If you boot without a disk in the drive, does it detect when you put in a disk? Does it detect when you change the ZIP disk? In any case, I would hold off on the Twiki entry for a while - it sounds like a bug report may be in order here. If the entry in /etc/fstab is being created for you, but is the wrong one, then that has to be fixed. One other small point - you do not have to reboot for changes in /etc/fstab to take affect. The file is read as needed. Hotplug adds entries "on the fly" when you plug in USB storage devices... Mikkel * I have one disk I formatted FAT32 on windows xp. * I booted 10.1 with disk in and wrote a text file to it. OK * I rebooted 10.1 with disk out and inserted after boot, the file was present and readable * I rebooted xp, the file was there but cr/lf screwed up. > That is normal for a text file. Windows uses CR/LF, Linux uses LF. If you open it in Wordpad, it will fix it. > * I rebooted 10.1 with disk in, file was there. * I manually ejected it and inserted a second disk containing IOMEGA written files (a new factory formatted disk) * When I open the zip, the window still showed the file from disk 1, and I could read it?? > The information was still in the disk cache. It didn't go back out to the drive. I wonder if "eject /dev/hdd" or "eject /mnt/zip" would work. Try it and see if it unmounts and ejects the disk. I think it will work as a normal user. You should also be able to use "eject zip". > * I su-ed to root, umount /mnt/zip and mount /mnt/zip with IOMEGA disk still in drive. Now all files on disk were visible. Mike I guess the driver, or udev, is translating the partition table or something, so that /dev/hdd is what would be /dev/hdd4 in 9.2. I'll have to dig out my USB ZIP drive, and see how that is handled. I suspect that that will still use the /dev/sd?4 for ZIP disks. I am not sure how it would handle a disk that wasn't partitioned yet. It could make partitioning and formating a ZIP disk a problem under Linux! What does "fdisk -l /dev/hdd" show? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:17:10 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: > My wife has a red line where her left breast used to be. Ya. Holy mufuckin' shite, that was meant to be offlist, please disregard. *Please* -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:26:16 up 41 days, 10:07, 6 users, load average: 0.22, 0.05, 0.03 +++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mike Adolf wrote: > > On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Mike Adolf wrote: > >>>After I did as you suggested, messages contained: > >>> > >>>Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide > >>>Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive > >>>Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 > >>>sector size, 2941 rpm > >>>- > >>>Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: > >>> > >>>Misc > >>>New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 > >>> > >>>Old device file: â/dev/hdd4 > >>> > >>>Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy > >>> > >>>Disk controller: > >>>- > >>>Mike > >> > >>Ok - now we are making progress. If you put "ide-floppy" in > >>"/etc/modprobe.preload", then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on > >>boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You > >>should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when > >>you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, > >>you could try doing this: > >> > >>mkdir /mnt/ZIP > >> > >>edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped > >>here!) > >> > >>none /mnt/ZIP supermount > >>dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > >> > >>This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both > >>ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will > >>also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always > >>mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change... > >> > >>Mikkel > > > > It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I > > rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in > > fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There > > is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to > > /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled > > the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and > > successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can > > make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the > > correct one. > > > > Thanks for all you help. > > Mike > > This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the > partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it. > Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so > that the ZIP data partition becomes /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4. > > Did the disk you used have other files on it? Are you able to access > files on other ZIP disks? If you boot without a disk in the drive, does > it detect when you put in a disk? Does it detect when you change the ZIP > disk? > > In any case, I would hold off on the Twiki entry for a while - it sounds > like a bug report may be in order here. If the entry in /etc/fstab is > being created for you, but is the wrong one, then that has to be fixed. > One other small point - you do not have to reboot for changes in > /etc/fstab to take affect. The file is read as needed. Hotplug adds > entries "on the fly" when you plug in USB storage devices... > > Mikkel * I have one disk I formatted FAT32 on windows xp. * I booted 10.1 with disk in and wrote a text file to it. OK * I rebooted 10.1 with disk out and inserted after boot, the file was present and readable * I rebooted xp, the file was there but cr/lf screwed up. * I rebooted 10.1 with disk in, file was there. * I manually ejected it and inserted a second disk containing IOMEGA written files (a new factory formatted disk) * When I open the zip, the window still showed the file from disk 1, and I could read it?? * I su-ed to root, umount /mnt/zip and mount /mnt/zip with IOMEGA disk still in drive. Now all files on disk were visible. 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] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:57:07 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or > > a > > masochist to go through that gate... > > > > 'Abandon all Hope...' > > Dot why we tain't been seein' ya round those ports, eh Joe? My wife has a red line where her left breast used to be. Ya. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:15:36 up 41 days, 9:56, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.07 +++ "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:05:06 +0100 Michel Leunen disseminated the following: > What's going wrong here? You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. Use Firefox to go here: http://www.eslrahc.com/ add Charles as a source and urpmi xfce Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. I'm pleased to see that 10.2 is going to come with XFCE4! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:09:56 up 41 days, 9:51, 6 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.05 +++ "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:57, JoeHill wrote: > Just tryin' to impart some good ol' Canuck wisdom on them thar 'mericans, as > per > usual. Futile effort, I know, but there's a fine line between hope and > delusion, > eh? You really DO enjoy futility, don't ya kiddo? -- 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 --- Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -- Erma Bombeck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:52, JoeHill wrote: > Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or a > masochist to go through that gate... > > 'Abandon all Hope...' Dot why we tain't been seein' ya round those ports, eh Joe? -- 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 --- Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:18:25 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > > Remember to bring your asbestos underware > > > > That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. > > Er, yer talkin 'bout ARON here mate. Limited creativity. He's stuck in a > rut. And a rut ain't nuthin but a grave with both ends kicked out. Just tryin' to impart some good ol' Canuck wisdom on them thar 'mericans, as per usual. Futile effort, I know, but there's a fine line between hope and delusion, eh? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:53:36 up 41 days, 9:34, 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.06 +++ "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:03:02 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: > > Aron Smith disseminated the following: > > > Remember to bring your asbestos underware > > > > That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. > Nomex nitie? Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or a masochist to go through that gate... 'Abandon all Hope...' -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:50:57 up 41 days, 9:32, 6 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.06 +++ Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. -- Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
On Saturday 12 February 2005 02:12 pm, Isaac Hummel wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:06:16 -0500, Isaac Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It works! Thank you! > > I spoke too soon. I can see Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com when I > pull up the message in Thunderbird, but when I hit "Reply" it still > goes to me. The reason is that Sympa didn't expunge the first (blank) > Reply-to field; it just added a second one! Maybe some clients will > choose the non-blank one, but Thunderbird either ignores both, or just > ignores the second one (with the list address). It was worth a try. Isaac: KMail handles it properly whether I use reply, reply-to-all, or reply-to-list. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 11:16, Amy wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:57:38 +1100, Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the > > freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry > > arses in there) > > > > -- > > stephen kuhn > > /me wanders into the IRC channel, and looks around. Not much to see this morning, eh? -- 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 --- If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. -- Vannevar Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:57:38 +1100, Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the > freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry > arses in there) > > -- > stephen kuhn /me wanders into the IRC channel, and looks around. ~~ >^..^< ~~ 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] To gmail users
Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:05:00 -0500, RickSisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It shows 2 headers for Reply-To in mutt ... > > And if you hit the reply command? Does it make the reply addressed to the > list? > > Paul > hmm .. No it doesn't, for mutt, I use the list-reply builtin mutt anyway, so it's never been a problem for me. -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? -- Why Why Why n°33 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
On Saturday 12 February 2005 23:45, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:13:54 +0100, Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib > > > rpms, but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for > > > contrib rpms do you use? > > > > I've got it here: > > > > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/offi > >cial/10.1/i586/media/contrib/ > > Thanks, Kaj. It is strange, but the mirror I use does not have > gwget. > > Is there a way of selecting the files to download by its > extension, i.e., can one download only rpm files, for instance? > > Paul As far as I remember one can add the option : --restrict-file-names or some such (I don't have access to the manpages right now), but it should be doable. Try man wget if you've got the manpages. 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] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 03:34, et wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:01 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > >> whack > > > > I'd like to thank all of you for reminding me why the OT list was created. > > > > -- cmg > maybe we should take a round of thanks on the other lists that so greatly > benifit from Mark Weaver's hosting of the OT list but let's do that ON > the OT list (too) How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry arses in there) -- 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 --- A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. -- Blake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] renice command
On Friday 11 February 2005 02:25 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Chris wrote: > >I'm still trying to remove the 'skip' in XMMS when getting streaming > > audio. I've got it set to a renice value of -20, Kmail to a setting of > > 15, firefox to a setting of 19, mozilla 19 and my two gkrellm stacks are > > set at 19 each. I'm still getting the 'skip'. In the snip from man > > renice, it mentions PRIO_MAX. What would that setting be? Or is -20 the > > max renice setting? > > > > The super-user may alter the priority of any process and set the > > priority to any value in the range PRIO_MIN (-20) to PRIO_MAX. > > Useful priorities are: 20 (the affected processes will run only when > > nothing else in the system wants to), 0 (the ``base'' scheduling > > priority), any- thing negative (to make things go very fast). > > I though only root could renice something higher then 0. I haven't > checked lately, but in the past, trying > to renice something to -20 as a user didn't do anything. > > Mikkel I'm running it su'd to root, I was just wondering if there was any setting higher that -20. I tried "renice -30 (pid) and it defaulted to -20 so I guess -20 is the highest there is. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 17:05:57 up 31 days, 23:42, 2 users, load average: 1.61, 1.68, 1.34 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm - Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: Misc New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 Old device file: â/dev/hdd4 Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy Disk controller: - Mike Ok - now we are making progress. If you put "ide-floppy" in "/etc/modprobe.preload", then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, you could try doing this: mkdir /mnt/ZIP edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped here!) none /mnt/ZIP supermount dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change... Mikkel It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the correct one. Thanks for all you help. Mike This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it. Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so that the ZIP data partition becomes /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4. Did the disk you used have other files on it? Are you able to access files on other ZIP disks? If you boot without a disk in the drive, does it detect when you put in a disk? Does it detect when you change the ZIP disk? In any case, I would hold off on the Twiki entry for a while - it sounds like a bug report may be in order here. If the entry in /etc/fstab is being created for you, but is the wrong one, then that has to be fixed. One other small point - you do not have to reboot for changes in /etc/fstab to take affect. The file is read as needed. Hotplug adds entries "on the fly" when you plug in USB storage devices... Mikkel Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that "4" there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. No /dev/hdd would be the entire drive. /dev/hdd4 would be the 4th partition on it. But the 4th partition on the ZIP drive normally is the entire free space on the drive. It is a small difference, but it is an important one. I expected the same thing here. Are you running 10.1 Official with the latest updates? Does the system automaticly detect when you change cartridge in the drive? Or are you manually mounting/unmounting the drive? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updates
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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:13:54 +0100, Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms, > > but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for contrib rpms do > > you use? > > I've got it here: > > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib/ Thanks, Kaj. It is strange, but the mirror I use does not have gwget. Is there a way of selecting the files to download by its extension, i.e., can one download only rpm files, for instance? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner
Hello rikona, Friday, February 11, 2005, 12:26:07 PM, rikona wrote: r> Hello Greg, r> Friday, February 11, 2005, 7:18:01 AM, Greg wrote: GM>> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:38 am, rikona wrote: >>> Hello newbie, >>> >>> I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. >>> Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, >>> but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another 'engine' >>> in Audacity it crashes. Tried adjusting levels everywhere, but can't >>> get good sound in Audacity. Any way to get rid of the distortion in >>> Amarok? >>> >>> Also tried streamtuner - very nice. When I try to run Audacity after >>> streamtuner, it tells me a copy of Audacity is already running >>> (although I may have left a copy running somewhere). I can't seem to >>> access it though. How can I do that? GM>> if you mean yo uare trying to run amarok after streamtuner, it is likely that GM>> amarok is hiodden to the sytem tray. When you hit the x on the window GM>> manager, amarok hides, but doesn't exit. You actually have to quit from the GM>> menu. I noticed it does that, but I couldn't find anything in any tray, or wherever, to actually GET to the running pgm. GM>> Also, you don't say what engine you are using in amarok and what GM>> sound card you have, but that could be a factor. It runs the aRts engine [default?]. When I try to change that to something else, it crashes. It might be that the inaccessible amarok was left over from such a crash. Sound is from the MBoard - Cmedia cm8738. GM>> I am actually a little confused, because at times when you said GM>> audacity, it seems like you meant amarok, and vice versa. Hmmm... yes... reviewing what I wrote, it seems as though I did put in the wrong name in referring to audacity instead of amarok - perhaps left the wrong word when pasting in. :-) Sorry for the confusion. Lemme try again: I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another 'engine' in Amarok it crashes. Tried adjusting levels everywhere, but can't get good sound in Amarok. Any way to get rid of the distortion in Amarok? Addendum - the sound level from Amarok is quite a bit lower than the other apps, even with kmix at the max. Thanks -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mike Adolf wrote: > > On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Mike Adolf wrote: > >>>After I did as you suggested, messages contained: > >>> > >>>Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide > >>>Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive > >>>Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 > >>>sector size, 2941 rpm > >>>- > >>>Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: > >>> > >>>Misc > >>>New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 > >>> > >>>Old device file: â/dev/hdd4 > >>> > >>>Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy > >>> > >>>Disk controller: > >>>- > >>>Mike > >> > >>Ok - now we are making progress. If you put "ide-floppy" in > >>"/etc/modprobe.preload", then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on > >>boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You > >>should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when > >>you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, > >>you could try doing this: > >> > >>mkdir /mnt/ZIP > >> > >>edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped > >>here!) > >> > >>none /mnt/ZIP supermount > >>dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > >> > >>This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both > >>ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will > >>also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always > >>mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change... > >> > >>Mikkel > > > > It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I > > rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in > > fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There > > is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to > > /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled > > the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and > > successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can > > make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the > > correct one. > > > > Thanks for all you help. > > Mike > > This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the > partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it. > Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so > that the ZIP data partition becomes /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4. > > Did the disk you used have other files on it? Are you able to access > files on other ZIP disks? If you boot without a disk in the drive, does > it detect when you put in a disk? Does it detect when you change the ZIP > disk? > > In any case, I would hold off on the Twiki entry for a while - it sounds > like a bug report may be in order here. If the entry in /etc/fstab is > being created for you, but is the wrong one, then that has to be fixed. > One other small point - you do not have to reboot for changes in > /etc/fstab to take affect. The file is read as needed. Hotplug adds > entries "on the fly" when you plug in USB storage devices... > > Mikkel Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that "4" there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
Anne Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > In kmail I didn't see any reply-to line at all (I use Long Headers for > > > style), but it was there in the full headers, and hitting reply brings = > it > > > up automatically. > > > > But, Anne, the reply-to line is empty, is not it? > > > > Paul > > No - it correctly shows the newbie list address. It shows 2 headers for Reply-To in mutt ... To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Reply-To: Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:56:03 + Subject: Re: [newbie] To gmail users As Anne said, it's working ;) -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? -- Why Why Why n°33 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm - Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: Misc New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 Old device file: â/dev/hdd4 Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy Disk controller: - Mike Ok - now we are making progress. If you put "ide-floppy" in "/etc/modprobe.preload", then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, you could try doing this: mkdir /mnt/ZIP edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped here!) none /mnt/ZIP supermount dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change... Mikkel It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the correct one. Thanks for all you help. Mike This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it. Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so that the ZIP data partition becomes /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4. Did the disk you used have other files on it? Are you able to access files on other ZIP disks? If you boot without a disk in the drive, does it detect when you put in a disk? Does it detect when you change the ZIP disk? In any case, I would hold off on the Twiki entry for a while - it sounds like a bug report may be in order here. If the entry in /etc/fstab is being created for you, but is the wrong one, then that has to be fixed. One other small point - you do not have to reboot for changes in /etc/fstab to take affect. The file is read as needed. Hotplug adds entries "on the fly" when you plug in USB storage devices... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:53:05 + schreef Paul Smith: >> No - it correctly shows the newbie list address. > >So, the problem with the reply-to issue of GMail users is solved, is >not it? For Kmail users and Gmail webmail, yes. And for Sylpheed users who set their properties right. :) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
On Saturday 12 February 2005 21:22, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:57:48 -0600, Dennis Myers > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is in "contrib" if you have a urpmi source set up for the > > contrib rpms, just do the su passwd and "urpmi gwget". HTH > > Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms, > but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for contrib rpms do > you use? > > Paul I've got it here: ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib/ 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] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:42:36 -0500, Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ > > > > but it does not play anything, since as soon as I load a playlist, I > > get the following message: > > > > "Playlist finished" > > > What engine are you trying to use? com to #amarok on freenode if you want an > interactive discussion. Thanks, Greg. I have tried all the three available engines, but always with the same result, i.e., with no success. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
> No - it correctly shows the newbie list address. So, the problem with the reply-to issue of GMail users is solved, is not it? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner
Hello Aron, Thursday, February 10, 2005, 12:29:51 PM, Aron wrote: AS> On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:21 am, rikona wrote: >> I didn't have xmms installed originally, but streamtuner uses it to >> play the stream and it got installed then. Works well. I like the >> playlist in Amarok a bit better, but having no distortion is rather >> more important. :-) I noticed there are lots of plugins for xmms - >> maybe that's the way to go in general. Is xmms what most people >> use? >> >> Thanks again, Aron... AS> I use it because there is a plugin called xmmx-diskwriter I tried to install diskwriter, but it fails and won't install. :-( AS> Some internet radio stations will let you record directly AS> (live365) streamtuner seems to only know about shoutcast. All of the other 'presets' don't seem to work. How do you get it to play or record, say, live365? A look at the live365 site wants me to sign up at $3.65+ / month. The free downloads seem to have 'demo' in the files name. :-) It also mentions use of mp3pro. Is that what you need to get their material? AS> on trjhese you use totem to play the stream Why use totem? -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 19:56, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:37:46 +, Anne Wilson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In kmail I didn't see any reply-to line at all (I use Long Headers for > > style), but it was there in the full headers, and hitting reply brings it > > up automatically. > > But, Anne, the reply-to line is empty, is not it? > > Paul No - it correctly shows the newbie list address. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCDmpAkFAvMr/nNX8RAtC0AJ0eUBxusTZWgSYNmFtE8YsntEQUEwCdGj/u +rGP9Cbavz4cR738fr2nzcQ= =zBvd -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] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mike Adolf wrote: > > After I did as you suggested, messages contained: > > > > Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide > > Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive > > Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 > > sector size, 2941 rpm > > - > > Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: > > > > Misc > > New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 > > > > Old device file: â/dev/hdd4 > > > > Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy > > > > Disk controller: > > - > > Mike > > Ok - now we are making progress. If you put "ide-floppy" in > "/etc/modprobe.preload", then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on > boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You > should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when > you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, > you could try doing this: > > mkdir /mnt/ZIP > > edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped > here!) > > none /mnt/ZIP supermount > dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > > This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both > ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will > also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always > mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change... > > Mikkel It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the correct one. Thanks for all you help. 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] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:57:48 -0600, Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is in "contrib" if you have a urpmi source set up for the contrib rpms, > just do the su passwd and "urpmi gwget". HTH Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms, but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for contrib rpms do you use? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Dennis Myers wrote: Michel, what version are you using? 10.0 if it is 10.1 have you done the latest updates including bugfixes and normal updates as well as security? Ok, that's a good idea. I tried updating everything doing an urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select but the next time I logged in, it all messed up. Now I can't even start KDE. Don't know what to do now except reinstall KDE from the beginning. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:35 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:34:22 -0500, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget? > > > > urpmi gwget or gwget2 > > Thanks, JoeHill. Could you please tell me where from can one get the > rpm for gwget? > > Regards, > > Paul It is in "contrib" if you have a urpmi source set up for the contrib rpms, just do the su passwd and "urpmi gwget". 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] To gmail users
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:37:46 +, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In kmail I didn't see any reply-to line at all (I use Long Headers for style), > but it was there in the full headers, and hitting reply brings it up > automatically. But, Anne, the reply-to line is empty, is not it? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xorg.0.log errors
On Saturday 12 February 2005 2:12 pm, Mohammed Badran wrote: > hello > The kde doesn't start i have these error messages in Xorg.0.log and i > don't unsderstand it can any one help me please > > (EE) Failed to load module "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" > (once-only module, 135962511) > (WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name > "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" > (WW) RIVA128(0): Failed to set up write-combining range > (0xe200,0x80) Whatever your problem is, this is not your problem. I get those same messages on my system, and KDE comes up just fine. When KDE fails to start, what other symptoms do you see? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 19:01, Isaac Hummel wrote: > I did as you suggested, and it does indeed result in a blank (but not > non-existent) reply-to. Now lets see what Sympa does with it. > In kmail I didn't see any reply-to line at all (I use Long Headers for style), but it was there in the full headers, and hitting reply brings it up automatically. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCDlsKkFAvMr/nNX8RAvqVAJ9egoOwkNt9by0qlUD9ba79qOOIUACgjcM9 YNUDXPu3tpNfuoAVWamL14c= =WFqA -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] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:34:22 -0500, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget? > > urpmi gwget or gwget2 Thanks, JoeHill. Could you please tell me where from can one get the rpm for gwget? Regards, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xorg.0.log errors
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:12:51 +0200 schreef Mohammed Badran: >(EE) Failed to load module "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" >(once-only module, 135962511) >(WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name >"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" >(WW) RIVA128(0): Failed to set up write-combining range >(0xe200,0x80) I don't know Xorg, but have you checked if the file mentioned exists? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:15:18 -0500 schreef Isaac Hummel: >Yes. Thunderbird didn't display the blank header so I didn't know it >was still there until I looked at the source. Does your client use the >list header when you click reply? Thunderbird doesn't, but if some >clients do it might not be a completely useless workaround. In Sylpheed I set the mailbox properties for Newbie to always reply to the list, so it does not care about any reply-to headers. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:51, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Thanks. Is the com port a nine pinned male connection? I can't > remember from last computer with external modem. > Am going to try configure existing modem first though. Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how new the MB is. I haven't seen a 25 pin in a while but that doesn't mean that they are not out there. Last serial cable I picked up though, had both 25 and 9 pin connectors on it. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:12:18 -0500, Isaac Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spoke too soon. I can see Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com when I > pull up the message in Thunderbird, but when I hit "Reply" it still > goes to me. The reason is that Sympa didn't expunge the first (blank) > Reply-to field; it just added a second one! Maybe some clients will > choose the non-blank one, but Thunderbird either ignores both, or just > ignores the second one (with the list address). It was worth a try. It seems to work if you use webmail, I mean, if you use the page of GMail. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:12:18 -0500 schreef Isaac Hummel: >I spoke too soon. I can see Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com when I >pull up the message in Thunderbird, but when I hit "Reply" it still >goes to me. I did a check with Sylpheed. That creates a reply with an empty To: field. Clearly it responds to the first Reply-To header it finds. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
Yes. Thunderbird didn't display the blank header so I didn't know it was still there until I looked at the source. Does your client use the list header when you click reply? Thunderbird doesn't, but if some clients do it might not be a completely useless workaround. On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:08:24 +0100, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting effect, though. A double reply-to header... > > >From: Isaac Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > >Reply-To: > >Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > >Subject: Re: [newbie] To gmail users > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Xorg.0.log errors
hello The kde doesn't start i have these error messages in Xorg.0.log and i don't unsderstand it can any one help me please (EE) Failed to load module "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (once-only module, 135962511) (WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (WW) RIVA128(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe200,0x80) Thanks Mohammed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
On Saturday 12 February 2005 05:57 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd | appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through | a fix for this, if possible. | | The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / | partition. You may have been bitten by your /var/log, so you will have to delete those log archives. This happened to me on a smaller / partition a long time ago. What I did then (and still do now, out of habit), is, as root, navigate to the /etc/logrotate.conf and edit all entries that say "rotate 4" and change to "rotate 1", change any "weekly" to "daily" and change any "monthly" to "weekly". That should take care of it in the future. If you're not running a server you don't need all those logs anyway. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:06:16 -0500, Isaac Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It works! Thank you! I spoke too soon. I can see Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com when I pull up the message in Thunderbird, but when I hit "Reply" it still goes to me. The reason is that Sympa didn't expunge the first (blank) Reply-to field; it just added a second one! Maybe some clients will choose the non-blank one, but Thunderbird either ignores both, or just ignores the second one (with the list address). It was worth a try. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
Interesting effect, though. A double reply-to header... >From: Isaac Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com >Reply-To: >Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com >Subject: Re: [newbie] To gmail 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] To gmail users
It works! Thank you! BTW, sorry for top-posting. It's a bad habit I've picked up when using Gmail's web interface (which I don't usually use, even for mailing lists). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To gmail users
I did as you suggested, and it does indeed result in a blank (but not non-existent) reply-to. Now lets see what Sympa does with it. On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:31:43 -0600, Avi Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are a gmail user having problems with the gmail reply-to > settings, do the following: > > 1) Go to your Gmail settings > > 2) Select the other reply-to radio button (the one with the entry box) > > 3) Type into the reply-to entry box <> (in other words Less-then > followed by a Greater-then sign). > > Important: If you leave the box empty it is not going to work. You have > to type <> in the box! > > This should eliminate the reply-to header and mailing list replies will > now go to the list as they should. > > Avi > > -- > Avi Schwartz > http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm - Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: Misc New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 Old device file: â/dev/hdd4 Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy Disk controller: - Mike Ok - now we are making progress. If you put "ide-floppy" in "/etc/modprobe.preload", then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, you could try doing this: mkdir /mnt/ZIP edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped here!) none /mnt/ZIP supermount dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:39:39 + Peter Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier > > said quote " We simply download the iso and burn them for > > distribution" [snip] > > Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they are all > on the main mirrors so it's not much of a problem once you know to set > up a main source. Thanks Peter, knew that, dun that :-) Thing is I'm on dial-up here and the thought of downloading more than 1900 files for a total of around 2Gb is not a real option either. (yes, I do know I don't need them all). Nevertheless it's very frustrating to have to continnually go online to obtain libraries and applications which you expect to be on a DVD which is supposed to contain better than 3500 files if the the file-count on the main repository is to be believed, I have taken other steps to rectify my shortfall, I merely intended to see if others on the list had encountered the same problem Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:05 am, Michel Leunen wrote: > Hi, > > When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the > mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. > Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: > > $ konqueror webbrowsing > konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/kde3/khtml_kget.so: undefined > symbol: _ZN13KToggleAction15setCheckedStateERK8KGuiItem > > What's going wrong here? > > Michel Michel, what version are you using? if it is 10.1 have you done the latest updates including bugfixes and normal updates as well as security? And do you have any cooker sources for update mirrors? I seem to recall having the same problem and got it resolved by doing the latest update to the kde-xxx files. 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] cannot launch konqueror
et wrote: Aron Smith wrote: just a hunch but su to root and type updatedb?&& update-menus updatedb&& update-menus no question mark :-) Yes, that's what I've done, thanks. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:15 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > > just a hunch but > > su to root and type > > updatedb?&& update-menus > > Thanks Aron but it still doesn't work. > > Michel try this ; updatedb&& update-menus no question mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Logo in Login Manager
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: teguh wrote: Hi, I have problem with my Mandrake 10.0. I changed something in Login Manager (Users tab), if I'm not mistaken, I uncheked Enable passwordlessblahblah...blah.(it's in upper left of Users tab). And I changed the logo (the K logo) but forgot to edit the new logo into suitable measure.and now I can't even log in to my Mandrake :'( because as if the new logo covered the dialogue window to login. Anybody can help??? Please tell me step by step to fix it since I have no experience with Linux. Do I need to re-install my Mandrake? > First, you should not have to re-install. It takes a drastic problem before a re-install is required. You should be able to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and get a Command Line Interface (CLI) login screen. Here you should be able to log in with your username and password. Do you have passwords set for normal users? If you were logging in without passwords, that is probably why you don't see the login screen, there are no valid users that can log into the GUI. If this is the case, then you have two options - set passwords for the users, or re-enable passwordless logins. Personally, I think setting passwords is the better fix, but that is up to you... Setting passwords: Log in as root. passwd passwd ... logout Alt-F7 to return to the GUI. You may have to hit Ctrl-Atl-Backspace to refresh the user list. or Log in as - hitting enter when asked for a password "should" work. passwd logout Login as passwd logout ... Alt-F7 to return to the GUI. If you want to enable passwordless logins, I think you can log in as root, and run drakx to reset this option. But I will have to check on this when I am back at the Linux boxes... Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks Mikkel...thought I was going to lose my Mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:11, Paul wrote: > Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:47:28 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print > >total 912908 > >232704 -rw--- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings > >231214 -rw--- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12 08:53 errors > >231768 -rw--- 1 0 0 197160960 Feb 12 08:53 info > > That really is tremendously huge!! > Compared to what I have: > -rw--- 1 root root 151205 Feb 12 16:42 info > -rw--- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 04:02 warnings > -rw--- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 04:02 errors > > You'd better have a look in those files and see what is going on! > (su to become root and then 'less info' for instance.) > > Paul tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been 'cracked' by a spammer. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Aron Smith wrote: just a hunch but su to root and type updatedb?&& update-menus Thanks Aron but it still doesn't work. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:08 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mike Adolf wrote: > > [REMOVED earlier text] > > > >>I was just doing some re-reading of your message. Your ZIP device should > >>not be /dev/hdd. You say it is the slave on the first IDE channel? > >> > >>"Ribbon1: Lite On DVD writer and Zip 100" > >> > >>This would be /dev/hdb, not /dev/hdd. So this would be something like > >>"/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0". I am still figuring out the naming > >>conventions - I only have 1 device/cable on this machine, so I am > >>guessing at the second device. In any case, you may want to check > >>/var/log/dmesg to see wnat Linux is calling the device. It should list > >>everything detected on the IDE bus, even if it doesn't know how to > >>handle it. The names are directly from the device. Also, what does > >>"ls /dev/hd*" show? Do you have a /dev/hdb? I wish I had an IDE ZIP > >>drive here so I could check on it myself. > >> > >>Mikkel > > > > Here some IDE stuff from dmesg > > > > - > > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with > > idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:07.1 > > PIIX4: chipset revision 1 > > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > > Probing IDE interface ide0... > > hda: Maxtor 51536H2, ATA DISK drive > > hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00EVA0, ATA DISK drive > > Using anticipatory io scheduler > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > > Probing IDE interface ide1... > > hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > > - > > > > ls /dev/h* > > /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdb6 /dev/hdc > > /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb5 /dev/hdb7 > > > > I guess I need an hdd, which is what I used in 9.2, but it was their at > > 9.2 installation. > > > > How should I create hdd, and what should my fstab entry be? I am using > > fat32 format on the disk. Should I format it to something else? > > > > Mike > > Hi Mike, > Sorry to take so long to get back to you. Too much going on here... > Changing the format of the ZIP drive isn't going to help. Also, creatign > /dev/hdd, and /dev/hdd4 probably isn't going to help ether. The problem > is that the ZIP drive isn't being seen as a harddrive, but as a IDE > floppy drive. You ca try running "modprobe ide-floppy". I am not sure if > the driver will handle it properly, or not. It should at least get you > an entry in the /sys/bus/ide tree. Try it, and see what gets put into > /var/log/messages when you do - it should help. > If I get a chance, I'll see what I can find on google about this, as I > am sure you are not the first person to have an IDE ZIP drive under > udev. When we get it working, you are going to have to write it up for > the twiki web site... > > Mikkel After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm - Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: Misc New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 Old device file: â/dev/hdd4 Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy Disk controller: - 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] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:47 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > >> You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log > > Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my > mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway > (below). Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, it would appear that > this could account for the missing nearly 1 gig, no? > > Any insight appreciated. TIA. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print > total 912908 > 230380 -rw--- 1 0 0 268 Jan 10 04:02 warnings.5.gz > 229933 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 10 04:02 info.5.gz > 229914 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 10 04:02 errors.5.gz > 231201 -rw--- 1 0 0 505 Jan 16 04:02 warnings.4.gz > 231195 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 16 04:02 info.4.gz > 231186 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 16 04:02 errors.4.gz > 234247 -rw--- 1 0 0 1047 Jan 25 04:02 warnings.3.gz > 234246 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 25 04:02 info.3.gz > 234245 -rw--- 1 0 0 104 Jan 25 04:02 errors.3.gz > 232989 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 30 04:02 errors.2.gz > 232991 -rw--- 1 0 0 704 Jan 30 04:02 warnings.2.gz > 232990 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 30 04:02 info.2.gz > 232707 -rw--- 1 0 0 586 Feb 6 04:02 warnings.1.gz > 232699 -rw--- 1 0 020 Feb 6 04:02 info.1.gz > 231565 -rw--- 1 0 0 150 Feb 6 04:02 errors.1.gz > 232704 -rw--- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings > 231214 -rw--- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12 08:53 errors > 231768 -rw--- 1 0 0 197160960 Feb 12 08:53 info > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ Aha, so that's who is been sending all that SPAM over the last week, eh? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:01 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > >> whack > > I'd like to thank all of you for reminding me why the OT list was created. > > -- cmg maybe we should take a round of thanks on the other lists that so greatly benifit from Mark Weaver's hosting of the OT list but let's do that ON the OT list (too) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:05 am, Michel Leunen wrote: > Hi, > > When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the > mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. > Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: > > $ konqueror webbrowsing > konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/kde3/khtml_kget.so: undefined > symbol: _ZN13KToggleAction15setCheckedStateERK8KGuiItem > > What's going wrong here? just a hunch but su to root and type updatedb?&& update-menus > > Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway (below). Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, it would appear that this could account for the missing nearly 1 gig, no? I realize it's bad form to reply to one's own message (not only once, but twice :-), but by way of an update Thanks again, Derek; I've done the logrotate per your instructions and I now have not only 1 Gb free, but 2 Gb. :-) I'll have to watch to see what's been causing the sudden growth, but I've got some room to move again. Will check into the programs you mentioned, as well. thx. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: The words we use can compound our problems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:47:28 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print >total 912908 >232704 -rw--- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings >231214 -rw--- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12 08:53 errors >231768 -rw--- 1 0 0 197160960 Feb 12 08:53 info That really is tremendously huge!! Compared to what I have: -rw--- 1 root root 151205 Feb 12 16:42 info -rw--- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 04:02 warnings -rw--- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 04:02 errors You'd better have a look in those files and see what is going on! (su to become root and then 'less info' for instance.) Paul -- Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of having sex. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cannot launch konqueror
Hi, When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: $ konqueror webbrowsing konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/kde3/khtml_kget.so: undefined symbol: _ZN13KToggleAction15setCheckedStateERK8KGuiItem What's going wrong here? Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
Mike Adolf wrote: [REMOVED earlier text] I was just doing some re-reading of your message. Your ZIP device should not be /dev/hdd. You say it is the slave on the first IDE channel? "Ribbon1: Lite On DVD writer and Zip 100" This would be /dev/hdb, not /dev/hdd. So this would be something like "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0". I am still figuring out the naming conventions - I only have 1 device/cable on this machine, so I am guessing at the second device. In any case, you may want to check /var/log/dmesg to see wnat Linux is calling the device. It should list everything detected on the IDE bus, even if it doesn't know how to handle it. The names are directly from the device. Also, what does "ls /dev/hd*" show? Do you have a /dev/hdb? I wish I had an IDE ZIP drive here so I could check on it myself. Mikkel Here some IDE stuff from dmesg - ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:07.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: Maxtor 51536H2, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00EVA0, ATA DISK drive Using anticipatory io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 - ls /dev/h* /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdb6 /dev/hdc /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb5 /dev/hdb7 I guess I need an hdd, which is what I used in 9.2, but it was their at 9.2 installation. How should I create hdd, and what should my fstab entry be? I am using fat32 format on the disk. Should I format it to something else? Mike Hi Mike, Sorry to take so long to get back to you. Too much going on here... Changing the format of the ZIP drive isn't going to help. Also, creatign /dev/hdd, and /dev/hdd4 probably isn't going to help ether. The problem is that the ZIP drive isn't being seen as a harddrive, but as a IDE floppy drive. You ca try running "modprobe ide-floppy". I am not sure if the driver will handle it properly, or not. It should at least get you an entry in the /sys/bus/ide tree. Try it, and see what gets put into /var/log/messages when you do - it should help. If I get a chance, I'll see what I can find on google about this, as I am sure you are not the first person to have an IDE ZIP drive under udev. When we get it working, you are going to have to write it up for the twiki web site... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
>> whack I'd like to thank all of you for reminding me why the OT list was created. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
Derek Jennings wrote: You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway (below). Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, it would appear that this could account for the missing nearly 1 gig, no? Any insight appreciated. TIA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print total 912908 230380 -rw--- 1 0 0 268 Jan 10 04:02 warnings.5.gz 229933 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 10 04:02 info.5.gz 229914 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 10 04:02 errors.5.gz 231201 -rw--- 1 0 0 505 Jan 16 04:02 warnings.4.gz 231195 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 16 04:02 info.4.gz 231186 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 16 04:02 errors.4.gz 234247 -rw--- 1 0 0 1047 Jan 25 04:02 warnings.3.gz 234246 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 25 04:02 info.3.gz 234245 -rw--- 1 0 0 104 Jan 25 04:02 errors.3.gz 232989 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 30 04:02 errors.2.gz 232991 -rw--- 1 0 0 704 Jan 30 04:02 warnings.2.gz 232990 -rw--- 1 0 020 Jan 30 04:02 info.2.gz 232707 -rw--- 1 0 0 586 Feb 6 04:02 warnings.1.gz 232699 -rw--- 1 0 020 Feb 6 04:02 info.1.gz 231565 -rw--- 1 0 0 150 Feb 6 04:02 errors.1.gz 232704 -rw--- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings 231214 -rw--- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12 08:53 errors 231768 -rw--- 1 0 0 197160960 Feb 12 08:53 info [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Patience; n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] To gmail users
If you are a gmail user having problems with the gmail reply-to settings, do the following: 1) Go to your Gmail settings 2) Select the other reply-to radio button (the one with the entry box) 3) Type into the reply-to entry box <> (in other words Less-then followed by a Greater-then sign). Important: If you leave the box empty it is not going to work. You have to type <> in the box! This should eliminate the reply-to header and mailing list replies will now go to the list as they should. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
Derek Jennings wrote: The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / partition --snip-->8 If you have more than one partition 'df' is useful to find the partition that is filling up. Definitely / [I'm back in X, BTW ... I deleted the .gz'ed log backups, which apparently gave me just barely enough free space to get back in, then I removed a few programs, giving me a bit more space, via the GUI. Yes you can delete stuff in /tmp as well as anything in ~/tmp (your home tmp folder), and can delete any core dump files you find (they are named 'core.xxx' ) You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log To make logrotate run use the command logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf Too help you in the future it is a good idea to install Midnight Commander (urpmi mc) so you can navigate the file system in the command line. Installing anacron (urpmi anacron) will ensure your log files and /tmp folder do not fill up in the future by ensuring logrotate gets run daily. Once you have X running again fsv (in contrib) is great for visualising where all your disc space has gone. hth Wonderful. Thanks. I have a few things to check out, then. I've been running with roughly the same free space on / for quite some time now, so not sure what caused it to suddenly begin filling up. Appreciate the detailed info above. Again, thx. :-) -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. -- Archimedes, 300 B.C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes. The external serial modem will hook up to one of the existing serial ports on the computer. There should already be com ports and interrupts set aside for this under Linux, so all you have to do is tell whatever application you want that com1 is a modem. That has no effect on com3, com4 or any other com port that has been created via software drivers for a winmodem. Thanks. Is the com port a nine pinned male connection? I can't remember from last computer with external modem. Am going to try configure existing modem first though. Thanks Rosemary Yes, it is the 9 pin male connection on the computer. If it is a desktop, you probably have 2 of them. On older computers, you may have 1 db9 male and 1 db25 male for serial ports. The modem probably has a db25 female connector on it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
On Saturday 12 February 2005 13:57, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd > appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through > a fix for this, if possible. > > The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / > partition. Haven't installed any programs in the interim other than a > urpmi update (which still left me showing most of that 1 gig free), but > as of this a.m. I'm showing zero free space during boot-up and cannot > get into Mandrake. I would suspect some dump or errant log file, no? I > tried logging in as root and doing a logrotate from the CLI (based on > advice I'd seen given in an earlier thread here), but apparently I'm > missing something in that equation, as a logrotate -f did nothing ... do > I need to specify a path argument there, as well, and if so, what? Any > other suggestions? Is /tmp safe to delete from willy-nilly? Other > things to look for? > > Any help appreciated so that I can at least get back in and work on this > from within the GUI (so, again, please dumb-down appropriately any > responses that require me using the CLI, if you'd be so kind). > > Thanks. If you have more than one partition 'df' is useful to find the partition that is filling up. Yes you can delete stuff in /tmp as well as anything in ~/tmp (your home tmp folder), and can delete any core dump files you find (they are named 'core.xxx' ) You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log To make logrotate run use the command logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf Too help you in the future it is a good idea to install Midnight Commander (urpmi mc) so you can navigate the file system in the command line. Installing anacron (urpmi anacron) will ensure your log files and /tmp folder do not fill up in the future by ensuring logrotate gets run daily. Once you have X running again fsv (in contrib) is great for visualising where all your disc space has gone. hth derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through a fix for this, if possible. The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / partition. Haven't installed any programs in the interim other than a urpmi update (which still left me showing most of that 1 gig free), but as of this a.m. I'm showing zero free space during boot-up and cannot get into Mandrake. I would suspect some dump or errant log file, no? I tried logging in as root and doing a logrotate from the CLI (based on advice I'd seen given in an earlier thread here), but apparently I'm missing something in that equation, as a logrotate -f did nothing ... do I need to specify a path argument there, as well, and if so, what? Any other suggestions? Is /tmp safe to delete from willy-nilly? Other things to look for? Any help appreciated so that I can at least get back in and work on this from within the GUI (so, again, please dumb-down appropriately any responses that require me using the CLI, if you'd be so kind). Thanks. -- Chuck Mattsen (Mahnomen, MN) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 11:39, Peter Watson wrote: > > Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they are all on > the main mirrors so it's not much of a problem once you know to set up a > main source. > To do that, go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and follow the instructions. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCDe2LkFAvMr/nNX8RAlj4AJsGaYL6mgrUkksLHjDWCrZl1NDSnwCfejYP jeRzutiVet/frlWW/1IUjN8= =/3BW -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] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 05:13, John Rye wrote: > Hi all, > > Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can > only be described as an "interesting" discovery > > There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst > several others: > > glibc-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586.rpm, > rpm-build-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, > rpm-python-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, > rpm-rebuilder-0.20-1mdk.noarch.rpm, > rpmlint-0.62-1mdk.noarch.rpm > > are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said > quote " We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution" > > Anyone else noted this > > Sorry to have my day ruined > > Cheers > > John Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they are all on the main mirrors so it's not much of a problem once you know to set up a main source. -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question
Yes. The external serial modem will hook up to one of the existing serial ports on the computer. There should already be com ports and interrupts set aside for this under Linux, so all you have to do is tell whatever application you want that com1 is a modem. That has no effect on com3, com4 or any other com port that has been created via software drivers for a winmodem. Thanks. Is the com port a nine pinned male connection? I can't remember from last computer with external modem. Am going to try configure existing modem first though. Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
