[newbie] modem problem (still!)
Well - I went a bought an external hardware modem which says it is linux compatible. I have attempted to install several times over but get this message each time, when I test. "The system doesn't seem to be connected to the Internet". All the cables, power etc seem to be in place. There was no prompt to install a driver, and I see there isn't one on the CD. Hmm I wonder if I have to get the driver elsewhere? The config wizard selected automatic IP parameters and DNS parameters. Should I change this? I also changed BIOS PlugNPlay setting PCI IDE busmaster to 'enabled'. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Rosemary 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?
> I used TurboTax Deluxe (freebie from American Century Investments) > with Crossover Office 4.0 and it mostly worked ok. Some of the > navigation aids don't work properly, but tax preparation and > printing seem fine. That's good to know. I haven't decide yet what to do to rid my box of dual booting. I often end up with odd progs that i want to run. Lately, even ones i used to run with wine don't work. I am sure i borked some config during an update or something, but before (for the somple ones) i was able to just run them. I have been playing with bochs, but haven't been able to get XP installed. I guess i'll try to install win98 1st, and see if xp will go in after that. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: 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] turbotax?
> >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. I may do that next year. I wonder if you can import a file from the computer version into the web version... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: 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] Installing programmes
- Original Message - From: "SnapafunFrank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: 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 ) > > > 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 I have now got Mambo installed in /var/www/ and Xampp in /opt/. I am not sure if Mambo is working however xampp is and in a terminal window starting xampp brings up this Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.4.11... XAMPP: XAMPP-Apache is already running. XAMPP: XAMPP-MySQL is already running. XAMPP: XAMPP-ProFTPD is already running. XAMPP for Linux started. I am told that I now need to create a database in MySQL for Mambo and run an install script[?] The instructions give '$ mysqladmin -u db_user -p create Mambo', db_user has to be changed to a suitable name for the system.This come up 'no such msql command' I have tried changing to /var/www but still get the same thing. Any thoughts please. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] famd
I read the man page on famd and understand what it does, however, I'm confused about the below entry. There is no cpollock.localdom, there is however, a cpollock.localdomain. Feb 13 17:48:27 cpollock famd[4547]: stat on "_uVC.Kd-DCB.cpollock.localdom" failed: No such file or directory -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 20:58:17 up 12:13, 1 user, load average: 0.93, 0.71, 0.79 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk It's simply unbelievable how much energy and creativity people have invested into creating contradictory, bogus and stupid licenses... --- Sven Rudolph about licences in debian/non-free. Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio UK Free - Wishing well - 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 February 12, 2005 09:05, 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 I ran into these types of things recently, though it was mostly my fault. I had in the past grabbed a number of useful rpms from Thac's site (http://rpm.nyvalls.se/). So I thought it would be a good idea to define him as an urpmi source. Then, when I do updates, rather than the recommended: urpmi --update --auto-select to get just the updates published by Mandrake, I do: urpmi --auto-select to the get most recent versions of all files I run (livin' on the edge 8^). Well, this ended up getting new versions of many packages from Thac, and most if not all of them were broken. When I tried to start a program from the menu, nothing would happen. From the command line I would always get an "undefined symbol" error similar to the one you showed above. I removed the offending urpmi source, and was fixing these one at a time, by doing an urpme to remove broken packages, and an urpmi to reinstall. But in the end, there were too many of them, and I just reinstalled Mandrake. I know it's unlikely that you made the same series of mistakes I did. But perhaps you got some broken packages from some source. You could try the following, after making sure you only have proper Mandrake urpmi sources defined: su urpmi.update -a urpme konqueror urpmi konqueror At worst, it will leave you in the same state you're in now. At best it might help. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing Mandrake on 9.1 on ppc
Can anyone tell me the "successful" way install mandrake on a macintosh? I can't do this to save my life and I can't tell what my problem is. It seems my issue is with the install display which I don't have the first clue how to fix. Even if I do the install via text-installer, when I go to boot up my display is still all messed up. Can anyone tell me a good way to fix this if there is such a way? I am trying to install this on a bronze G3 Laptop. I have had the same issue installing on my blue and white desktop as well. Lovell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] login problem
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 20:37, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Hey, Derek ... I've also done as you suggest above in switching to udev, but at boot I'm getting a lot of error messages reading: open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory Is there something else that must be tweaked? I've changed each instance of devfs=mount to devfs=nomount, have run lilo -v, and have checked in services running, where devfs is shown as not running, not to start at boot and udev is shown as running, to start at boot ... What am I missing here? Log-in is now lightning fast in comparison, of course, but still a long string of those errors during both boot and shutdown. ...? /dev/fb0 is the video frame buffer. That node is present on my system, but for some reason it is not being created on yours. Are you up to date with your updates? Maybe it would help if you created it manually. Try putting mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 at the end of /etc/rc.local Hmmm. No effect, at least upon the boot-up error messages after doing so. I /did/ get some interesting visual effects at shutdown time, but other than that, no noticeable difference. Thanks, will have to research it some more. It wouldn't appear to be critical, at least, as all seems normal otherwise. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at "checking for new hardware"
I've had that problem too. If the other advice here doesn't help, boot in failsafe mode, then run the following commands: chkconfig --del harddrake reboot This will disable the boot check for new hardware. The disadvantage of course is that if you then add some new hardware, Mandrake will not see it. Last few boots have been okay, but will keep your email for future reference. 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] login problem
On Sunday 13 February 2005 20:37, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > This is possibly because you upgraded instead of installing. You are > > still using devfs instead of udev. > > > > To fix it. > > Install udev > > Edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza in the 'append' line change the > > devfs option to 'devfs=nomount' > > > > Then run 'lilo -v' to rewrite your boot sector. > > Then reboot. > > During the boot sequence you should see a message about using udev. > > > > Thats it! Your log in should now be much faster. > > Hey, Derek ... I've also done as you suggest above in switching to udev, > but at boot I'm getting a lot of error messages reading: > open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory > > Is there something else that must be tweaked? I've changed each instance > of devfs=mount to devfs=nomount, have run lilo -v, and have checked in > services running, where devfs is shown as not running, not to start at boot > and udev is shown as running, to start at boot ... > > What am I missing here? Log-in is now lightning fast in comparison, of > course, but still a long string of those errors during both boot and > shutdown. ...? /dev/fb0 is the video frame buffer. That node is present on my system, but for some reason it is not being created on yours. Are you up to date with your updates? Maybe it would help if you created it manually. Try putting mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 at the end of /etc/rc.local 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] amaroK 1.2 final
Miark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:19:10 -0500, RickSisler wrote: > > > Thx Greg, switched to xine, crossfading is ok, but I can live > > without it. Kinda wanted to get away from aRts since I don't > > run KDE. > > Amarok itself is a KDE app. Yeah, thats why I like Mandrake, it's choices and integration of different packages using these different environments. > > > Running Fluxbox actually, and I was using Juk, tho' > > now being a convert to amarok, it reminds me of Musicmatch .. > > on the other OS. They did a nice job on it, I like the cover > > manager, nice work ;) Never had that before .. > > There's a plugin for XMMS that does the same thing... "CD Cover" > or something equally obvious, IIRC. > Yeah, I've used xmms also and I have some really cools skins for it, like a Marshall cabinet and stack amp, but it was spikin the cpu when it was iconified, so I moved to juk. Anyway, I like amarok, gonna keep playing it.. thx for the tip ;) -- 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
[newbie] Mandrake and amd 64
I'm considering getting an AMD64 laptop. I understand that it is backwards compatible with 32 bit.But if I install only 32 bit applications via urpmi, will I even benefit from a 64 bit processor? I have decided not to go for pentium-M / centrino as I will not be very mobile. This is primarily a desktop replacement. I am aware of the extra memory possibilites of 64 bit, but I'm just wondering if there is any point in getting this technology when the software at the moment is still geared towards 32 bit? Thanks, Jarlath 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 final
>The guys that developed it have created a really cool >app that IMHO runs rings around anything else that currently exists. I think so too. The streamed music is great if you want to hear something different. I havent listened to music on the radio in ages! I used to use a combination of players eg. xmms / kaffeine / mplayer. Now I only use Amarok (for audio). > There is some talk of making amaroK support video playback and I am not in > favor of that. amaroK shouldn't become an operating system, it should be > the best audio player it can be. I agree totally. Projects that take this route generally fall down between two stools satisfying nobody really, and eventually being replaced with individual specialized apps. 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 final
Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 13 February 2005 02:19 pm, RickSisler wrote: > > Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: > > > > Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! > > > > > > > > What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as > > > > mp3. aRts works with no problems, but I was just curious 8) > > > > > > My personal preference is xine because it handles streams better, but > > > crossfading doesn't work with xine, so if you like crossfading, gstreamer > > > is the way to go. If you can get dmix going, which is a way to do > > > software mixing without apps like arts, you can have amaroK use xine or > > > gst and still leave arts running for systems notifications and stuff. > > > -- > > > /g > > > > Thx Greg, switched to xine, crossfading is ok, but I can live > > without it. Kinda wanted to get away from aRts since I don't run > > KDE. Running Fluxbox actually, and I was using Juk, tho' now being a > > convert to amarok, it reminds me of Musicmatch .. on the other OS. > > They did a nice job on it, I like the cover manager, nice work ;) > > Never had that before .. > > > amaroK is written to integrate with the KDE environment, but lots of people > run it on flux, xfce or even gnome. it requires libqt3 and kdelibs, but > that's pretty much it. The guys that developed it have created a really cool > app that IMHO runs rings around anything else that currently exists. > I run a few KDE and gnome apps, but have grown accustomed to tweakin' Fluxbox and have my own themes, mainly color changes, even setup amarok to match the current one .. > > Have you used it to rip cd's or do you use Grip for that ? > > > amaroK is not capable of ripping ATM, and quite frankly, I have not found > anything else to be Grip's equal for the job it does. > > I am a big fan of do one thing and do it really well apps. I really hate the > tendency a lot of apps are starting to adopt to try and do everything. > > There is some talk of making amaroK support video playback and I am not in > favor of that. amaroK shouldn't become an operating system, it should be the > best audio player it can be. > -- > /g Yeah, I thought so and agree, it plays really well. You mean, like music videos ? Hmm. no time or interest for that, so I don't favor it either. Grip has been it for me, for ripping, but I was, again, wondering. Thx again for pkg'ing these .. & cudo's to the Developers 8) -- 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] cannot launch konqueror
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:32 +0100 Michel Leunen disseminated the following: > > Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. > > It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I > don't like much the XFCE one. ROX! Homepage: http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ It's available thru urpmi (though I prefer to install it as a user in my home dir instead, easier to tweak), along with a lot of goodies to go with it. It's the best file manager on the planet. See the 'Software Index for a list of the available software that makes ROX, er, rock :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:23:35 up 42 days, 5:05, 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.20, 0.18 +++ "President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton." -- David Letterman 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 final
On Sunday 13 February 2005 02:19 pm, RickSisler wrote: > Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: > > > Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! > > > > > > What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as > > > mp3. aRts works with no problems, but I was just curious 8) > > > > My personal preference is xine because it handles streams better, but > > crossfading doesn't work with xine, so if you like crossfading, gstreamer > > is the way to go. If you can get dmix going, which is a way to do > > software mixing without apps like arts, you can have amaroK use xine or > > gst and still leave arts running for systems notifications and stuff. > > -- > > /g > > Thx Greg, switched to xine, crossfading is ok, but I can live > without it. Kinda wanted to get away from aRts since I don't run > KDE. Running Fluxbox actually, and I was using Juk, tho' now being a > convert to amarok, it reminds me of Musicmatch .. on the other OS. > They did a nice job on it, I like the cover manager, nice work ;) > Never had that before .. > amaroK is written to integrate with the KDE environment, but lots of people run it on flux, xfce or even gnome. it requires libqt3 and kdelibs, but that's pretty much it. The guys that developed it have created a really cool app that IMHO runs rings around anything else that currently exists. > Have you used it to rip cd's or do you use Grip for that ? > amaroK is not capable of ripping ATM, and quite frankly, I have not found anything else to be Grip's equal for the job it does. I am a big fan of do one thing and do it really well apps. I really hate the tendency a lot of apps are starting to adopt to try and do everything. There is some talk of making amaroK support video playback and I am not in favor of that. amaroK shouldn't become an operating system, it should be the best audio player it can be. -- /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] cannot launch konqueror
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:32 +0100, Michel wrote: > > You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. > > Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. > > It's already installed but what are you using as file manager > because I don't like much the XFCE one. I use XFCE, but do file manager stuff with Konqueror. If I click the little arrow beside the File Manager icon on the XFCE Panel, it allows me to choose among Konq and others. Miark 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
> > Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a > > http address? For instance, consider the following address: > > > > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ If you use Firefox, I use an extension called downTHEMall! which works kinda like FlashGet in Winblows. It'll give you a list of downloadable items, and you can check them one-by-one, or specify by extension or type (such as "images"). Quite handy. I used it today for the very same purpose. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] login problem
Derek Jennings wrote: This is possibly because you upgraded instead of installing. You are still using devfs instead of udev. To fix it. Install udev Edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza in the 'append' line change the devfs option to 'devfs=nomount' Then run 'lilo -v' to rewrite your boot sector. Then reboot. During the boot sequence you should see a message about using udev. Thats it! Your log in should now be much faster. Hey, Derek ... I've also done as you suggest above in switching to udev, but at boot I'm getting a lot of error messages reading: open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory Is there something else that must be tweaked? I've changed each instance of devfs=mount to devfs=nomount, have run lilo -v, and have checked in services running, where devfs is shown as not running, not to start at boot and udev is shown as running, to start at boot ... What am I missing here? Log-in is now lightning fast in comparison, of course, but still a long string of those errors during both boot and shutdown. ...? -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future" 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 final
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:19:10 -0500, RickSisler wrote: > Thx Greg, switched to xine, crossfading is ok, but I can live > without it. Kinda wanted to get away from aRts since I don't > run KDE. Amarok itself is a KDE app. > Running Fluxbox actually, and I was using Juk, tho' > now being a convert to amarok, it reminds me of Musicmatch .. > on the other OS. They did a nice job on it, I like the cover > manager, nice work ;) Never had that before .. There's a plugin for XMMS that does the same thing... "CD Cover" or something equally obvious, IIRC. Miark 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 final
Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: > > > > Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! > > > > What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as > > mp3. aRts works with no problems, but I was just curious 8) > > My personal preference is xine because it handles streams better, but > crossfading doesn't work with xine, so if you like crossfading, gstreamer is > the way to go. If you can get dmix going, which is a way to do software > mixing without apps like arts, you can have amaroK use xine or gst and still > leave arts running for systems notifications and stuff. > -- > /g Thx Greg, switched to xine, crossfading is ok, but I can live without it. Kinda wanted to get away from aRts since I don't run KDE. Running Fluxbox actually, and I was using Juk, tho' now being a convert to amarok, it reminds me of Musicmatch .. on the other OS. They did a nice job on it, I like the cover manager, nice work ;) Never had that before .. Have you used it to rip cd's or do you use Grip for that ? -- 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: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/")
Anne Wilson wrote: Yes - if I'm not to be red-faced for evermore I need to write a bit for the TWiki. There are good install instructions specifically for Mandrake, which should be perfect if it's a new install, but mine wasn't. In the next day or two I'll go through the thread where they helped me troubleshoot and from that come up with a TWiki entry. I'll drop a line in here to say when it's done. That would be great if you can, thanks. Yeah, for a cross-platform distribution I find PF's Linux support (in the forums there) to be somewhat sparse beyond that set of instructions for a fresh install. I think most of the folks hanging out there are just too familiar with CVS and all, and just don't realize how difficult it might be for someone else to perform an update when there's no packaged .rpm for Mdk. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. -- Russell Baker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] login problem
On Sunday 13 February 2005 11:20, Mr Steve Harris wrote: > Hello, > My son recently installed Mandrake 10.1 over 9.2 on my > machine. While most things seem to be going smoothly, > sometimes it takes a long time to log in. > > The machine has a p3 and 256MB RAM. > > It gets to the GUI login screen. I log in, but it > then sits there and does nothing for sometimes over 10 > minutes. It does it for other users as well, using > both KDE and Gnome. It doesn't do it all the time, > nor can I see a pattern. > > Can anyone help? > > Steve. > > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > http://au.movies.yahoo.com This is possibly because you upgraded instead of installing. You are still using devfs instead of udev. To fix it. Install udev Edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza in the 'append' line change the devfs option to 'devfs=nomount' Then run 'lilo -v' to rewrite your boot sector. Then reboot. During the boot sequence you should see a message about using udev. Thats it! Your log in should now be much faster. 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
Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at "checking for new hardware"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 19:33, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On February 11, 2005 05:11, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got "welcome to first boot > > window". Now boot justs stops at "checking for new hardware". I waited > > five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? > > Thanks in advance > > Rosemary > > I've had that problem too. If the other advice here doesn't help, boot in > failsafe mode, then run the following commands: > > chkconfig --del harddrake > reboot > > This will disable the boot check for new hardware. The disadvantage of > course is that if you then add some new hardware, Mandrake will not see it. Though it can easily be run either from the command line or from Mandrake Control Center when you need it. 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) iD8DBQFCD67/kFAvMr/nNX8RApZKAJ4rO9gG8aORmOV238wiHgTja/2VsACggSJD nsl55C2goYcjia4Eg/505eM= =33ka -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] 10.1 boot stalling at "checking for new hardware"
On February 11, 2005 05:11, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got "welcome to first boot > window". Now boot justs stops at "checking for new hardware". I waited > five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? > Thanks in advance > Rosemary I've had that problem too. If the other advice here doesn't help, boot in failsafe mode, then run the following commands: chkconfig --del harddrake reboot This will disable the boot check for new hardware. The disadvantage of course is that if you then add some new hardware, Mandrake will not see it. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Script for burning DVD images
On February 11, 2005 00:41, David G Stevenson wrote:
...
> > Anyway, I took a few minutes and turned it into a reusable script. I've
> > attached it here for anyone who might find themselves in a similar
> > situation. Maybe someday this missing feature will get added to K3b. In
> > the meantime, enjoy.
>
> Thanks,
You're welcome. A very minor contribution back to the community.
> > DVDDEV=/dev/hdc
>
> Youl need to change this to suit as hdc is probably most used for the
> first hard disk on the first IDE channel of most default systems.
Yeah, there's a note in the comments within the script that this needs to be
set for whatever drive your burner is. That's what mine is, just because it's
the first device on the second ide bus.
If anyone knows a way to make this more generic, I'd be happy to apply the
change.
> >/usr/bin/growisofs -Z ${DVDDEV}=${1} \
> > -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty \
> > -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2268160 \
> > -use-the-force-luke=dao:2268160 \
> > -dvd-compat -speed=4
>
> 2268160 = this is the real tracksize in bytes, so this would need to be
> altered for each burn.
Yeah, I was curious about those numbers, since the options are undocumented
(at least in the man page). I thought they might need to change for each disk
image. But I burnt three different images each of a different size, and they
all seemed to work. So it's not clear to me when these numbers would need to
change.
> Have a look at the URL posted yesterday...
>
> >>On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 11:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm
> >
> >Added to the TWiki on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DvD
> >
> >Anne
>
> HTH.
I didn't notice this link previously. Sometimes I don't get a chance to read
my email for a couple of days, then have to very quickly scan several hundred
messages, so I probably scanned right over it. I'll check it out.
I added another line to the script, making it version 0.2:
eject ${DVDDEV}
This makes it eject the disk when burning is done, providing a convenient
feedback that it's done, similar to K3b (though this seems to be broken for
DVDs in K3b; it only works for me with CDs).
Thanks for the feedback.
--
Ron
ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net
Opinions expressed here are all mine.
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I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: 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 Here are the partitions. Remember that this was formatted on XP as FAT32. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# fdisk -l /dev/hdd Disk /dev/hdd: 100 MB, 100646912 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 95 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 ? 379950 937327 570754815+ 72 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(379949, 11, 5) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(937326, 59, 3) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd2 ? 82368 1027695 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(82367, 59, 19) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(1027694, 14, 2) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd3 ? 913029 1858355 968014096 79 Unknown Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(913028, 3, 26) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1858354, 20, 25) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd4 ? 1409025 1409052 27749+ d Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(1409024, 0, 1) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(1409051, 6, 11) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Mike Mike, How did you format it in XP? Did you use the ZIP tools to format it, or did you right click on the drive icon, and pick format? Does XP see it as a ZIP drive, or as an IDE floppy drive? The reason I ask is because it is possible to format a ZIP drive without a partition table. When you do that, you get the kind of results from fdisk that you show here, as well as the mounting problems we ran into. It isn't a big problem doing it that way, except that if this is the case, then you will have problems if you try to use a ZIP disk that is formatted the standard way. XP probably will not care... Mikkel 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 final
On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:25 pm, RickSisler wrote: > > Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! > > What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as > mp3. aRts works with no problems, but I was just curious 8) My personal preference is xine because it handles streams better, but crossfading doesn't work with xine, so if you like crossfading, gstreamer is the way to go. If you can get dmix going, which is a way to do software mixing without apps like arts, you can have amaroK use xine or gst and still leave arts running for systems notifications and stuff. -- /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, Audacity and streamtuner
Hello Greg, Saturday, February 12, 2005, 9:01:55 PM, Greg wrote: GM> On Saturday 12 February 2005 05:31 pm, rikona wrote: >> 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? >> GM> Okay, this is much clearer. the arts engine in amarok is quite GM> buggy and unsupported I can believe that. :-) Is that the default, or does it just look around to find what's available? It would be nice to have another engine, that works, come along with Amarok during install. GM> Try the gstreamer packages from eslrahc or the xine from plf. GM> Make sure you also have all the xine or gstreamer plugins GM> installed for all the media types you are trying to play. I'll try those. Thanks for the heads-up. Actually, the pressure is off a bit since I now have xmms installed and working well. It is nice. >> Addendum - the sound level from Amarok is quite a bit lower than >> the other apps, even with kmix at the max. GM> Make sure the equalizer is not on, it will reduce sound volume by GM> about 10db. or if it is, just boost the levels. Thanks for the tip, and the help. -- 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] amaroK 1.2 final
Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test > packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and everything > seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by the amaroK team, > they would like to see the packages tested more. Since I am the only > Mandrake user on the amaroK project, I am appealing to the expert and newbie > lists for a few brave souls who will test these packages. > > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1 > > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/amarok-1.2-3.101mdk.i586.rpm > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/libmusicbrainz4-2.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/libmusicbrainz4-devel-2.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm > > A few notes. > - mysql is now a runtime option, so now there is only one package. Both > mysql > and sqlite users can use the same package. There is a configuration screen > to select the database you wish to use. > - when you first start this verson, it should drop your collection and > rescan. > This should not (and in fact did not here) screw up your stats. > - There is a small update to libmusicbrainz, so grab those packages too, but > libtunepimp and taglib did not change, so if you have been using my beta > packages and have already installed them, you will only need libmuiscbrainz. > > Please let me know about any problems. > -- > /g Hi Greg, Thx for pkg'ing these, seems to work fine ! What output engine do you guys recommend ? I have all of my files as mp3. aRts works with no problems, but I was just curious 8) -- 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] amaroK 1.2 final
On Sunday 13 February 2005 12:42 pm, Glenn wrote: > On Sun February 13 2005 10:29, Greg Meyer wrote: > > For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test > > packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and > > everything seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by > > the amaroK team, they would like to see the packages tested more. Since > > I am the only Mandrake user on the amaroK project, I am appealing to the > > expert and newbie lists for a few brave souls who will test these > > packages. > > Greg; > I've been downloading the packages from your site since beta2 (which > was the last one that didn't misbehave for me .) I'm having some major > fits getting mysql running correctly, though, so I'm not surprised that I'm > having problems. I'll give the final a try. Thanks for packaging these up > for us. If you are trying to use mysql for the purpose of speed, you may want to try the sqlite again. The devs did some major optimizations of the sqlite engine and it is very fast now. Also, with respect to mysql, you need to create an empty database called amarok first, then load amarok and tell it to use mysql. -- /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 final
On Sun February 13 2005 10:29, Greg Meyer wrote: > For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test > packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and everything > seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by the amaroK > team, they would like to see the packages tested more. Since I am the only > Mandrake user on the amaroK project, I am appealing to the expert and > newbie lists for a few brave souls who will test these packages. > Greg; I've been downloading the packages from your site since beta2 (which was the last one that didn't misbehave for me .) I'm having some major fits getting mysql running correctly, though, so I'm not surprised that I'm having problems. I'll give the final a try. Thanks for packaging these up for us. Glenn -- 10:39:36 up 18:14, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Have a nice day! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] amaroK 1.2 final
For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and everything seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by the amaroK team, they would like to see the packages tested more. Since I am the only Mandrake user on the amaroK project, I am appealing to the expert and newbie lists for a few brave souls who will test these packages. http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1 http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/amarok-1.2-3.101mdk.i586.rpm http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/libmusicbrainz4-2.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/libmusicbrainz4-devel-2.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm A few notes. - mysql is now a runtime option, so now there is only one package. Both mysql and sqlite users can use the same package. There is a configuration screen to select the database you wish to use. - when you first start this verson, it should drop your collection and rescan. This should not (and in fact did not here) screw up your stats. - There is a small update to libmusicbrainz, so grab those packages too, but libtunepimp and taglib did not change, so if you have been using my beta packages and have already installed them, you will only need libmuiscbrainz. Please let me know about any problems. -- /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] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:54 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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 Here are the partitions. Remember that this was formatted on XP as FAT32. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# fdisk -l /dev/hdd Disk /dev/hdd: 100 MB, 100646912 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 95 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 ? 379950 937327 570754815+ 72 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(379949, 11, 5) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(937326, 59, 3) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd2 ? 82368 1027695 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(82367, 59, 19) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(1027694, 14, 2) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd3 ? 913029 1858355 968014096 79 Unknown Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(913028, 3, 26) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1858354, 20, 25) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hdd4 ? 1409025 1409052 27749+ d Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(1409024, 0, 1) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(1409051, 6, 11) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
Hello Paul, I think w3mir will do what you want. Should be included in the Mandrake distribution On 11.02.2005, you wrote: > Dear All > > Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http > address? For instance, consider the following address: > > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > > PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. > Regards Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] graphics question
>Slap the new images in a webpage and run html2pdf (I know that exists >somewhere), or perhaps even load them into OO and export that as PDF. html2pdf turns out to be some program you can buy. Better then to load the page you make in a browser, print that to a postscript file and turn that into PDF with ps2pdf. That is supplied with mandrake: [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ which ps2pdf /usr/bin/ps2pdf Good luck once more 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] trouble mounting zip drive
Ronald J. Hall wrote: 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. Hi Ronald, I have had the same experience. But working with Mike on with his IDE ZIP drive and 10.1, it is handled with the ide-floppy module, and instead of /dev/hdd4, the drive mounts as /dev/hdd, and from all appearances, is really using the 4th partition. What would be /dev/sda4 on an USB or SCSI ZIP drive appears to be /dev/hdd when using an IDE ZIP drive. This is why I wanted to know about your setup. I don't know if this is a change with the 2.6.x kernels, with udev, or if something strange is going on with his setup. I can not test this myself, as I do not have an IDE ZIP drive any more. But it would be interesting to see what would happen in you put in a disk with an ext2 partition as partition 1. When I was using ZIP drives, I used to leave the FAT partitions as 4, but when I would format ext2, I would repartition it and use partition 1. Mikkel 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 Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:07:04 -0500, Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 13 February 2005 05:09 am, Paul Smith wrote: > BTW, I have a test package of 1.2 final up if you're interested in testing. > It fixes a a lot of bugs since beta4, plus I turned debug off so it is a lot > smaller. Thanks, Greg. I have just installed your Amarok 1.2 final and it seems to work just fine. Maybe, it would be useful to make it installable with upmi from your site. 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: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/")
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 16:07, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > > I updated a few days ago to the latest version. There were some > > problems > > with the install caused by the fact that my previous install didn't put > things where PopFile expected them, but once that was solved everything is > fine. Apart from the colour of the UI page I haven't noticed much > difference yet (there may be additions that I haven't looked at) but > bug-fixes etc are always welcome. > > > I'd be interested in hearing in more detail, if you have time, about what > you needed to do to update POPFile. I know there are Linux /install/ > directions in the POPFile user space, but I don't recall seeing anything > about updating an extant install and John's always changing things around > from one database to another, moving files around, etc., so I'm hesitant to > attempt it without a walk-through. > > Any pointers appreciated. Yes - if I'm not to be red-faced for evermore I need to write a bit for the TWiki. There are good install instructions specifically for Mandrake, which should be perfect if it's a new install, but mine wasn't. In the next day or two I'll go through the thread where they helped me troubleshoot and from that come up with a TWiki entry. I'll drop a line in here to say when it's done. 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) iD8DBQFCD4AxkFAvMr/nNX8RAjm7AJ9aK//T0z9ZiTMi8COj5D5s35XHTQCffV7s JdGFxfyn87SC2KD0AmsZpnM= =9GG5 -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
Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/")
Anne Wilson wrote: >>> In any case, things seem to be running normally again /with/ POPFile in >>> place. I'm running an older version of PF (v0.20.1), as I believe you are, >>> Anne (perhaps even older?), so I thought maybe an incompatibility had crept >>> in, but apparently not. > > > I updated a few days ago to the latest version. There were some problems with the install caused by the fact that my previous install didn't put things where PopFile expected them, but once that was solved everything is fine. Apart from the colour of the UI page I haven't noticed much difference yet (there may be additions that I haven't looked at) but bug-fixes etc are always welcome. I'd be interested in hearing in more detail, if you have time, about what you needed to do to update POPFile. I know there are Linux /install/ directions in the POPFile user space, but I don't recall seeing anything about updating an extant install and John's always changing things around from one database to another, moving files around, etc., so I'm hesitant to attempt it without a walk-through. Any pointers appreciated. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. -- Johann Georg von Zimmermann 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 Sunday 13 February 2005 05:09 am, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Greg. It is working with xine. How can I install all necessary > gstreamer-xxx at once? Cool, glad to hear it. with respect to stuff like gstreamer with a lot of plugins, I find it easiest to use rpmdrake so I can scan the whole list of those available and read the descriptions. but at a minimum, you'll need gstreamer-mad for mp3, gstreamer-vorbis for ogg's, gstreamer-faad for aac, and you can do them all at once with: urpmi gstreamer-mad gstreamer-vorbis gstreamer-faad If you use any other codecs like musepack or flac, you'll see plugins for them in the list. There may also be a meta package called gstreamer-plugins that installs them all automagically. BTW, I have a test package of 1.2 final up if you're interested in testing. It fixes a a lot of bugs since beta4, plus I turned debug off so it is a lot smaller. -- /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?
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 would come up and then it would go to sleep. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I used TurboTax Deluxe (freebie from American Century Investments) with Crossover Office 4.0 and it mostly worked ok. Some of the navigation aids don't work properly, but tax preparation and printing seem fine. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at "checking for new hardware"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 12:25, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Not sure if you might have seen my other posts. Suddenly achieved > 'boot'. Not sure if related to fact scanner was not plugged in - got to > be a factor I think. So far all boots straight into Mandrake and I > feel a very real thrill each time! Silly I know, as Mandrake did all > initial config, and I have the modem to go - critical for me. Be much > easier when I don't have to logout/reboot every time I want info. It sort of reaches critical mass - when you can get 50%+ of your work done under Mandrake and you are really fed up of re-booting. By that time you have to decide whether there is anything you find essential that doesn't have a linux equivalent, and if that's so there are tools to help. Enjoy! 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) iD8DBQFCD0vEkFAvMr/nNX8RAqhsAJ44A6/kHRDmeSgjFeyTk0bSeYwC3gCeLUdM VLC5zf7AJ5OtfkdJ5YOtw/0= =m4zg -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] graphics question
>On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 1:28 pm, Omar wrote: >> Hi all, >>Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know >> where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to >> put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is >> there a way to do this in Mandrake 10.1. I recall having this kind >> of functionality in Photoshop. Any ideas suggestions?? Thanks... >> Omar Maybe you can use 'montage', part of ImageMagick. Haven't figured it all out yet, but montage -geometry 320x320 -tile 2x3 img1.jpg img2.jpg img3.jpg img4.jpg img8.jpg img111.jpg new.jpg already gives some result you might be able to work with. You'll have to play with the settings a bit though. -geometry tells montage how big the images have to be displayed in the new picture. Slap the new images in a webpage and run html2pdf (I know that exists somewhere), or perhaps even load them into OO and export that as PDF. One never knows... Good luck! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 boot stalling at "checking for new hardware"
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got "welcome to first boot window". Now boot justs stops at "checking for new hardware". I waited five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? Thanks in advance Rosemary Does it happen every time? I've had it happen to me very occasionally. When I get fed up with waiting (generally not very long) I hit the reboot switch and then the system boots up properly. It doesn't happen to me often enough to feel like a real problem. Not sure if you might have seen my other posts. Suddenly achieved 'boot'. Not sure if related to fact scanner was not plugged in - got to be a factor I think. So far all boots straight into Mandrake and I feel a very real thrill each time! Silly I know, as Mandrake did all initial config, and I have the modem to go - critical for me. Be much easier when I don't have to logout/reboot every time I want info. Cheers 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] graphics question
On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 1:28 pm, Omar wrote: > Hi all, >Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know > where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to > put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is > there a way to do this in Mandrake 10.1. I recall having this kind > of functionality in Photoshop. Any ideas suggestions?? Thanks... > Omar Not the answer you want, but makethumbs.sh generates a page of html to index your collection. It should be easily possible to fix it to produce something that can be converted to pdf correctly. This may mean editing makethumbs.sh and learning about XML/FO, but you might get lucky and only have to configure makethumbs correctly. -- Richard Urwin 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 Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:24:52 +0100, Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way of selecting the files to download by its > > extension, i.e., can one download only rpm files, for instance? > > 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. The following works: wget -r --no-parent --accept *.rpm http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] login problem
Hello, My son recently installed Mandrake 10.1 over 9.2 on my machine. While most things seem to be going smoothly, sometimes it takes a long time to log in. The machine has a p3 and 256MB RAM. It gets to the GUI login screen. I log in, but it then sits there and does nothing for sometimes over 10 minutes. It does it for other users as well, using both KDE and Gnome. It doesn't do it all the time, nor can I see a pattern. Can anyone help? Steve. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.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] importing keys
On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:22, Aron Smith wrote: > > Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards > > site? I keep getting warnings > > Get the .asc file from his site, then > rpm --import http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/CAE.asc Thanks it worked like a champ > > Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] importing keys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 10:41, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:22, Aron Smith wrote: > >>Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards > >> site? I keep getting warnings > > > >Get the .asc file from his site, then > >rpm --import http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/CAE.asc > > > >Anne > > You seem to be 'double' posting at the moment Anne ? Sent one, received two. Isn't sympa wonderful? Don't answer that 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) iD8DBQFCDzCKkFAvMr/nNX8RAiEgAJ4truPE++op87jx4vvzRqgl9dtarQCfchpK /Ea+NMOCoYDNzFhb0J2QQNI= =ftQN -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] importing keys
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:22, Aron Smith wrote: Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards site? I keep getting warnings Get the .asc file from his site, then rpm --import http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/CAE.asc 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) iD8DBQFCDyIFkFAvMr/nNX8RAnYhAJ9+TFKB1UZ9OTYXptFfomFLV1cVZACeJHC2 hv6fKYUWuE2wQHeeyzpiynI= =7JD4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- You seem to be 'double' posting at the moment Anne ? -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
JoeHill wrote: You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I don't like much the XFCE one. Michel -- Michel Leunen mailto: see my homepage. C++Builder, BCC5.5.1 Web site: http://www.leunen.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] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:30:02 -0500, Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 Thanks, Greg. It is working with xine. How can I install all necessary gstreamer-xxx at once? 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] 10.1 boot stalling at "checking for new hardware"
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: New install Mandrake 10.1 - after first boot got "welcome to first boot window". Now boot justs stops at "checking for new hardware". I waited five minutes - is this long enough? If not what can I do please? Thanks in advance Rosemary Does it happen every time? I've had it happen to me very occasionally. When I get fed up with waiting (generally not very long) I hit the reboot switch and then the system boots up properly. It doesn't happen to me often enough to feel like a real problem. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:14, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 22:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > >For Anne > > > > > >xsane-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm > > >xsane-gimp-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm > > > > Thanks, Charles. I've got Acquire in Gimp2 for the first time. > > Wonderful. > > > > Anne > > Are these drivers for scanners? Newbie with scanner not compatible. > Rosemary 'Morning, Rosemary. XSane is the front-end for the SANE (Scanners Are Now Easy) drivers, and the other one interfaces with Gimp. I can open Gimp2, File > Acquire > and I'm given the choice of screenshot or any devices it thinks could feed it. Interestingly my video-capture card is one interface, but I haven't tried that yet - maybe it would do a screenshot type of thing from my camcorder. So yes, from Gimp2 I can scan in anything that I know is going to need some attention. That's really useful as I don't have to save it before editing. 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) iD8DBQFCDyGnkFAvMr/nNX8RAgUtAJsH5MZy8h71O8B2NcPhWRL4wl9b7wCdFhNn 9FYHcVO0Qot9UK3VZSysKUI= =e8Qv -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] importing keys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:22, Aron Smith wrote: > Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards site? > I keep getting warnings Get the .asc file from his site, then rpm --import http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/CAE.asc 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) iD8DBQFCDyIFkFAvMr/nNX8RAnYhAJ9+TFKB1UZ9OTYXptFfomFLV1cVZACeJHC2 hv6fKYUWuE2wQHeeyzpiynI= =7JD4 -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] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:31, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > > Well, I'm running a Cooker box, so it possibly wouldn't affect you anyway > unless it was a security update or one to your flavor of ML. But, I think > I spoke too soon as to the source of the problem. After shutting down > POPFile I saw that the logs were still growing fairly quickly, and another > look showed that I was getting a lot of imap errors ... I don't use imap. > I /think/ (and I use that term very loosely :-) that one of the recent > updates turned on cyrus-imapd whereas it hadn't been on before. On a lark, > I shut it down and stopped it from starting at boot, then re-enabled > POPFile and -- so far -- no more errors, so it would appear that I was > amiss when I fingered the Berekely database itself; rather, it apparently > had something to do with imap and, presumably, that daemon. > That sounds encouraging. If there's any further developments, please keep us in touch. > In any case, things seem to be running normally again /with/ POPFile in > place. I'm running an older version of PF (v0.20.1), as I believe you are, > Anne (perhaps even older?), so I thought maybe an incompatibility had crept > in, but apparently not. > I updated a few days ago to the latest version. There were some problems with the install caused by the fact that my previous install didn't put things where PopFile expected them, but once that was solved everything is fine. Apart from the colour of the UI page I haven't noticed much difference yet (there may be additions that I haven't looked at) but bug-fixes etc are always welcome. > I've been running this Cooker box for the past year, give or take, and for > the most part it's been no problem at all, but every once in awhile it > hands me a little surprise :-); I think this may have been one of those > times, though I'm not sure yet. Thanks for the info, Check. 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) iD8DBQFCDyCykFAvMr/nNX8RAiBUAJsEh4HyOfshjRbdhhN1Za1Tffd34ACfXvE+ ErWeCDGCWSaYoB1pOgjjikc= =t6u/ -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
Fwd: Re: [newbie] Updates
Sorry, I replied to Rosemary only (who hasn't cleared her "reply to" field. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Updates Date: Sunday 13 February 2005 10:31 From: Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 13 February 2005 10:14, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 22:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > >For Anne > > > > > >xsane-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm > > >xsane-gimp-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm > > > > Thanks, Charles. I've got Acquire in Gimp2 for the first time. > > Wonderful. > > > > Anne > > Are these drivers for scanners? Newbie with scanner not > compatible. Rosemary No, scanners use *sane* (Scanner Access Now Easy) as a backend. You'll have to install that in order to scan. Furthermore, look here to see if your scanner is supported : http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl Then, urpmi Charles' xsane & xsane-gimp Enjoy Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* --- -- *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] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:18, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: 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. Nah. :-) I took a look-see at Errors, and it was filled with nothing but DB errors (Berkeley database) ... my POPFile spam program uses Berkeley, and I'm assuming that one of the recent perl or other updates broke something my version of POPFile uses. Hmm - I was about to run updates today, but I'd hate to be without my PopFile. I've had this address long enough to have a fair bit of spam. I wonder how best to tackle this? Perhaps taking the errors back to the PopFile mailing list might be a good idea. At least they'd know what would give rise to such errors and give guidance. They're a very helpful lot. Well, I'm running a Cooker box, so it possibly wouldn't affect you anyway unless it was a security update or one to your flavor of ML. But, I think I spoke too soon as to the source of the problem. After shutting down POPFile I saw that the logs were still growing fairly quickly, and another look showed that I was getting a lot of imap errors ... I don't use imap. I /think/ (and I use that term very loosely :-) that one of the recent updates turned on cyrus-imapd whereas it hadn't been on before. On a lark, I shut it down and stopped it from starting at boot, then re-enabled POPFile and -- so far -- no more errors, so it would appear that I was amiss when I fingered the Berekely database itself; rather, it apparently had something to do with imap and, presumably, that daemon. In any case, things seem to be running normally again /with/ POPFile in place. I'm running an older version of PF (v0.20.1), as I believe you are, Anne (perhaps even older?), so I thought maybe an incompatibility had crept in, but apparently not. I've been running this Cooker box for the past year, give or take, and for the most part it's been no problem at all, but every once in awhile it hands me a little surprise :-); I think this may have been one of those times, though I'm not sure yet. -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. -- Elmer G. Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] importing keys
Does anyone know how to import the key signatures for Charles Edwards site? I keep getting warnings Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 22:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: >For Anne >xsane-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm >xsane-gimp-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Thanks, Charles. I've got Acquire in Gimp2 for the first time. Wonderful. Anne Are these drivers for scanners? Newbie with scanner not compatible. 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] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:18, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > 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. > > Nah. :-) I took a look-see at Errors, and it was filled with nothing but > DB errors (Berkeley database) ... my POPFile spam program uses Berkeley, > and I'm assuming that one of the recent perl or other updates broke > something my version of POPFile uses. Hmm - I was about to run updates today, but I'd hate to be without my PopFile. I've had this address long enough to have a fair bit of spam. I wonder how best to tackle this? Perhaps taking the errors back to the PopFile mailing list might be a good idea. At least they'd know what would give rise to such errors and give guidance. They're a very helpful lot. 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) iD8DBQFCDxAfkFAvMr/nNX8RAuMAAKCH4+utuHhdiRtHQwjVaKLDQYhI3QCdHjzk lbMQ+JCmBaTkyN3HuH35afM= =e38K -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] Installing programmes
If you want to open konqueror with root priveleges, you can simply: goto konsole>su>konqueror This opens konqueror with root priveleges. It's not safe, so be careful! On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:58:22 -, Noel McG. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "SnapafunFrank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM > Subject: 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. > > That's OK. Do I take it that this is as su root in a terminal window? > Before I was just clicking the tar on the desktop and following the install > instructions that Mandrake brought up. > > Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 22:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > For Anne > > xsane-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm > xsane-gimp-0.97-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm > Thanks, Charles. I've got Acquire in Gimp2 for the first time. Wonderful. 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) iD8DBQFCDw7gkFAvMr/nNX8RAhChAJ0T2iYl2DRvLhiYBqx/b0oBisxc3gCdHvuf Rgr2qnTU+2x+55nYlXmG0WY= =/Aev -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] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on "/"
Derek Jennings wrote: 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. Nah. :-) I took a look-see at Errors, and it was filled with nothing but DB errors (Berkeley database) ... my POPFile spam program uses Berkeley, and I'm assuming that one of the recent perl or other updates broke something my version of POPFile uses. I've temporarily disabled the spam filtering until I can sort it out (no biggie, since less than 0.005% of my incoming mail is spam, anyway, since I changed my address last year :-) Thanks again Derek, and all, for your help. I go into panic mode when something happens on my system, I depend upon it so, and I've got just enough knowledge to get myself into trouble, it seems, so I usually need a steer in the right direction before I muck things up royally. :) -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Registered Linux User #346519 Random Thought/Quote for this Message: Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang 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
- Original Message - From: "SnapafunFrank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: 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. That's OK. Do I take it that this is as su root in a terminal window? Before I was just clicking the tar on the desktop and following the install instructions that Mandrake brought up. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
