Re: [newbie] NTP
On Friday 18 February 2005 05:19, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Thought I had installed NTP using software installer but this is what I get in terminal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ ntpd -q bash: ntpd: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ which ntp which: no ntp in (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/home /r osemary/bin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ It doesn't appear to have installed. I'll try looking at log files if I can work out how to find them Thanks Rosemary Rosemary, This is because ntpd in in the /usr/sbin directory, and that is not on the path of a normal user. You would have to use /usr/sbin/ntpd -q instead. I am not sure, but I suspect you have to be root for it to actually change the system time. Mikkel Hmmm - it is in /etc and has ntp.conf there. Instructions say to add a line to that file but I can't find how to get into it - I am a newbie! Been looking at linux command pages but stuck. Solong as I don't boot to windows the time is fine anyway! Cheers Rosemary Rosemary, Mandrake has a GUI to set up ntp so you do not need to edit text files if you do not want to. Install the package drakwizard and then open Mandrake Control Centre. You will see a new section called 'Server' in there is a wizard to set up ntp for you. And for future reference. If you do ever need to edit system files you must do it as root user. A simple way to become root user is to hit Alt+F2 end type kdesu konqueror in the box that will appear. This opens a copy of konqueror file manager as root user. Edit your files from there. 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] About SpeedStream 5200 router
On Friday 18 February 2005 03:55, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello all. I'm trying to set up an Internet server. I am connected through an ADSL, and the router is a Speed Stream 5200. The mandrake server is connected to such router, and this is connected to my phone line. However, I can't access my server's main web page (the server is Apache). Meanwhile I set up this, I'm using my actual dynamic IP address. So let's say that the IP address is 200.17.24.101. When I type this address into my web browser, it appears the web page... of the router! So my question is: does any body knows what can I do in order to redirect the access to my server? Thanks in advance, Fernando Gomez I am not familiar with that particular model, but they all work much the same. You need to go to your router configuration and disable remote administration from the internet, and to enable port forwarding to forward port 80 to your local network. See page 63 of this manual http://www.alltel.net/downloads/links/SpeedStream211.pdf 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] NTP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 Feb 2005 09:50, Derek Jennings wrote: Rosemary, Mandrake has a GUI to set up ntp so you do not need to edit text files if you do not want to. Install the package drakwizard and then open Mandrake Control Centre. You will see a new section called 'Server' in there is a wizard to set up ntp for you. If you need a list of suitable servers, go to http://www.ntp.org/ - Network Time Protocol, including lists of time servers (from the TWiki page ;-) ) And for future reference. If you do ever need to edit system files you must do it as root user. A simple way to become root user is to hit Alt+F2 end type kdesu konqueror in the box that will appear. This opens a copy of konqueror file manager as root user. Edit your files from there. Or open konsole from the tray icon, then select Session New Root Session. This is Linux - you know the old saying, ask one question of 3 linux users, get four answers, all right. 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) iD8DBQFCFb3wkFAvMr/nNX8RAl1IAJ9xahcDJt59lkySxiEvM1lH6h7iEgCfdAZQ gEQXUYkiIrPJ+YyW4ZVj8EY= =3gnl -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
[newbie] /dev/pts ???
Does any body knows what is /dev/pts I got it in the fstab and during the boot it says no device or already mountedwhen i open /dev/pts folder i got 3 devices inside marked with 0,1,2.I am suspecting on my sky star 2 card because it is the only hardware that isnt setup on my system but can any body tell me what is this device Cheers -- Chapter VIII Due to the convergence of forces beyond his comprehension, Salvatore Quanucci was suddenly squirted out of the universe like a watermelon seed, and never heard from again. Linux bsielektronik.com 2.6.8.1-10mdk #1 Wed Sep 8 17:00:52 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ GNU/Linux 11:55:54 up 52 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Recommendations on external hard drive, please
I'm looking for an external USB hard drive with 80 GB and Mandrake compatible. The MDK hardware list seems a little outdated and not very informative. And I know to avoid Western Digital ones. Recommendations ? TIA 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] NTP
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 05:19, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Thought I had installed NTP using software installer but this is what I get in terminal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ ntpd -q bash: ntpd: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ which ntp which: no ntp in (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/home /r osemary/bin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ It doesn't appear to have installed. I'll try looking at log files if I can work out how to find them Thanks Rosemary Rosemary, This is because ntpd in in the /usr/sbin directory, and that is not on the path of a normal user. You would have to use /usr/sbin/ntpd -q instead. I am not sure, but I suspect you have to be root for it to actually change the system time. Mikkel Hmmm - it is in /etc and has ntp.conf there. Instructions say to add a line to that file but I can't find how to get into it - I am a newbie! Been looking at linux command pages but stuck. Solong as I don't boot to windows the time is fine anyway! Cheers Rosemary Rosemary, Mandrake has a GUI to set up ntp so you do not need to edit text files if you do not want to. Install the package drakwizard and then open Mandrake Control Centre. You will see a new section called 'Server' in there is a wizard to set up ntp for you. And for future reference. If you do ever need to edit system files you must do it as root user. A simple way to become root user is to hit Alt+F2 end type kdesu konqueror in the box that will appear. This opens a copy of konqueror file manager as root user. Edit your files from there. derek Here's a slightly easier way ( at least for me ) to edit any file as root. Seeing as how you're now getting to grips with konsole, simply sign in as ' su ' and at the command prompt do : # kwrite [ substitute kwrite for any text editor you prefer - the ' ' allows you to run whatever you have called ( in this case kwrite ) without locking up the command prompt for ' su ' ] Within the editor opened as ' su ' you can now browse to the file you wish to edit - edit it -don't forget to save your changes - don't forget to close the editor once done ( leaving it open while you duck out for a coffee could see a curious mate corrupt your system thinking they were simply playing with a common editor ). Note: sometimes you'll see heaps of error messages and the like flash by in konsole whilst the app is loading - don't be concerned as this is usually some conflicts with not having configured most apps as su. The app should still open in un-customized mode and be just as usable as you would use it as ' user '. Should things not seem to finish in konsole once you close the app - just do the Ctrl+C thing as you would to end a normal running command. Enjoy and in your case - enjoy how it is you can control things from now on. -- 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] amaroK 1.2 final
On Thu February 17 2005 17:08, Glenn wrote: So far, that seems to have done the trick, Greg. Up to 52% of the collection built so far, and no crash. Thanks. Glenn Awesome app. And I don't even have to keep futzing with MySQL, since sqlite is taking all the mp3s I can throw at it. Loaded up ~200 songs to play last night, and it was still cranking through them this morning with nary a burp. Glenn -- 05:30:16 up 23:47, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Registered Linux user #324360 You will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MySQL
On Thursday 17 February 2005 15:04, David G Stevenson wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
SOTL wrote:
Hi All
As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data
base using MySQL.
I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions
that are not answered in the book.
This computer is set up with all data located on a separate partition
called /home/trunk/Common_Data which allows both the Linux and MS OS
to see the data.. Yea I know strange location not using
/mnt/Common_Data/{file name or directory} but I like it that way.
Anyway I would like to place my data bases in the same location.
Currently when I create a db it is located in /var/lib/mysql/{file
name} so I preceded to copy one of the db I had made called testdb
to my desired location. Then I tried to access testdb or as the db
people say connect to testdb.
Anyway I tried the following
use /home/trunk/Common_Data/testdb
plus a few variations of this eachtime receiving the response that the
db which MC says exist does not exist.
Would some kind person please explain how one creates, connects, and
uses a db in any other directory except /var/lib/mysql/*.
Thanks
Frank
All of the following must be done as root.
Turn off your mysql server process:
*# service mysql stop
*Copy your databases to the new location:
*# cp -a /var/lib/mysql /home/trunk/Common_Data/
*Rename your current mysql directory to keep it safe until you know that
your changes are working properly:
*# mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql_backup_20050217
*Create a symlink in /var/lib/ to the new location:
*# ln -s **/home/trunk/Common_Data/mysql /var/lib/mysql
*Restart the server:
*# service mysql start*
or,
stop mysql server,
edit /etc/my.cnf
change,
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
to
datadir=/home/trunk/Common_Data/
move the data to new location (including the system mysql database)
then restart mysql server
Thanks for the help
I just checked and my version of Mandrake 10.1 does not have a
file /etc/my.cnf
Is that correct or am I missing something in my installation? If so whit
should I do? Should I just generate the file with the above configuration
parameters in it? If so am I missing other configuration parameters?
Thanks
Frank
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Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final
On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:14 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On February 13, 2005 12:29 pm, 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, Thanks for packaging these. As with every version of Amarok I have tried, creating a collection causes the program to crash midway through the process. I have reported it, but it has been reported in the past and marded as 'fixed'. Another suggestion was that the problem lay with taglib, and that an upgrade would fix it - but it didn't help in my case. Anyone else having that problem? 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
On Friday 18 February 2005 07:32 am, Glenn wrote: On Thu February 17 2005 17:08, Glenn wrote: So far, that seems to have done the trick, Greg. Up to 52% of the collection built so far, and no crash. Thanks. Glenn Awesome app. And I don't even have to keep futzing with MySQL, since sqlite is taking all the mp3s I can throw at it. Loaded up ~200 songs to play last night, and it was still cranking through them this morning with nary a burp. The devs did a lot of work to optimize sqlite, so now mysql is really only necessary for one thing, sharing collection between more tha one computer. The internal sqlite works great now, it seems just as fast for me. -- /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] Recommendations on external hard drive, please
On Friday 18 February 2005 05:05 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'm looking for an external USB hard drive with 80 GB and Mandrake compatible. The MDK hardware list seems a little outdated and not very informative. And I know to avoid Western Digital ones. Recommendations ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I have an Acomdata external that works well. Only thing is I have to remount it every time I boot up the comp. Have not figured out why it does not mount automatically. Anyway I see in harddrake that it has a Samsung harddrive. Mine is a 120gig. I would think that any of the usb externals should work at the plug in. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/pts ???
Ivica Bogdanovic wrote: Does any body knows what is /dev/pts I got it in the fstab and during the boot it says no device or already mountedwhen i open /dev/pts folder i got 3 devices inside marked with 0,1,2.I am suspecting on my sky star 2 card because it is the only hardware that isnt setup on my system but can any body tell me what is this device Cheers What version are you running? If you are running 10.1, did you do an upgrade? Off hand, I would say that the entry is left over from upgrading. I know 10.1 with udev doesn't use the pts file system. I will check 9.2 later. 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] MySQL
SOTL wrote:
On Thursday 17 February 2005 15:04, David G Stevenson wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
SOTL wrote:
Hi All
As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data
base using MySQL.
I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions
that are not answered in the book.
This computer is set up with all data located on a separate partition
called /home/trunk/Common_Data which allows both the Linux and MS OS
to see the data.. Yea I know strange location not using
/mnt/Common_Data/{file name or directory} but I like it that way.
Anyway I would like to place my data bases in the same location.
Currently when I create a db it is located in /var/lib/mysql/{file
name} so I preceded to copy one of the db I had made called testdb
to my desired location. Then I tried to access testdb or as the db
people say connect to testdb.
Anyway I tried the following
use /home/trunk/Common_Data/testdb
plus a few variations of this eachtime receiving the response that the
db which MC says exist does not exist.
Would some kind person please explain how one creates, connects, and
uses a db in any other directory except /var/lib/mysql/*.
Thanks
Frank
All of the following must be done as root.
Turn off your mysql server process:
*# service mysql stop
*Copy your databases to the new location:
*# cp -a /var/lib/mysql /home/trunk/Common_Data/
*Rename your current mysql directory to keep it safe until you know that
your changes are working properly:
*# mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql_backup_20050217
*Create a symlink in /var/lib/ to the new location:
*# ln -s **/home/trunk/Common_Data/mysql /var/lib/mysql
*Restart the server:
*# service mysql start*
or,
stop mysql server,
edit /etc/my.cnf
change,
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
to
datadir=/home/trunk/Common_Data/
move the data to new location (including the system mysql database)
then restart mysql server
Thanks for the help
I just checked and my version of Mandrake 10.1 does not have a
file /etc/my.cnf
Is that correct or am I missing something in my installation? If so whit
should I do? Should I just generate the file with the above configuration
parameters in it? If so am I missing other configuration parameters?
Take a look at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/option-files.html
This will describe the my.cnf file at its available options. If the file
exist it will be read and override default mysql options.
For example, here is my file:
start example file
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib
[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
end example file
On the server this came from it is pretty default.
HTH
--
Thanks,
David
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Re: [newbie] Default Browser.
On Friday 18 February 2005 07:12 am, Lanman wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 5:39 am, Lanman wrote: The only 'bug' is that Konqueror stays open after the request has been passed to Firefox. Is there a way to prevent this? If I open hyperlinks in any other program or from any other source (ie; from documents, Howto's or links embedded in applications), Konqueror doesn't even appear. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction on this. Check out this site: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SetMailtoEvent Rob Rob; Thanks but that's not what I'm trying to solve. I've been using that particular fix for a while now. Your suggestion is designed to allow me to open my email client when I click on an email link in a webpage. What I'm trying to do is to open a web-link when it's included in an email. For instance, the link you provided above. When I click on it, Firefox should open and take me to the correct page. In fact, this DOES work, but in the process of opening Firefox, KDE launches Konqueror FIRST, (which shows the web-page link which I had previously clicked on), then it passes the link to Firefox, which also opens the link. The minor problem I'm having is that Konqueror stays open and I'm not so sure that it should be opening in the first place. That's what I'm trying to prevent, or as an alternative, I'd like to have Konqueror close itself after passing the hyperlink to Firefox. Hope that clears up the confusion and Thanks again for trying to help! Lanman, did you try looking at KDE, Components, File Associations and seeing what is listed there for Text, HTML? Another old trick I use sometimes: Right click, create a blank HTML file. Name it whatever you want, doesn't matter. Now, right click on that file, and pick Edit File Types. From that list, put whatever you want at the top - I usually delete the rest of the list if I think that I'm not going to be using any other app with this type of file. Under Embedding, I usually pick Show File In Separate Viewer as well. (this really brings up basically the same screen/settings, just from different approaches) HTHS! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommendations on external hard drive, please
On Friday 18 February 2005 17:31, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 05:05 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'm looking for an external USB hard drive with 80 GB and Mandrake compatible. The MDK hardware list seems a little outdated and not very informative. And I know to avoid Western Digital ones. Recommendations ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I have an Acomdata external that works well. Only thing is I have to remount it every time I boot up the comp. Have not figured out why it does not mount automatically. Anyway I see in harddrake that it has a Samsung harddrive. Mine is a 120gig. I would think that any of the usb externals should work at the plug in. HTH Thanks, Dennis. Unfortunately Acomdata isn't available here in Denmark, but Samsung is. And I don't care if I have to mount it manually (my USB subsystem is severely broken anyway, so I'm used to it). Going to Copenhagen over the weekend, so maybe I can dig one up in a specialized store - I don't trust those giant Computer Mart's for anything linux related. Thanks for the advice, Dennis. 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] Recommendations on external hard drive, please
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 05:05 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'm looking for an external USB hard drive with 80 GB and Mandrake compatible. The MDK hardware list seems a little outdated and not very informative. And I know to avoid Western Digital ones. Recommendations ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I have an Acomdata external that works well. Only thing is I have to remount it every time I boot up the comp. Have not figured out why it does not mount automatically. Anyway I see in harddrake that it has a Samsung harddrive. Mine is a 120gig. I would think that any of the usb externals should work at the plug in. HTH If you have more then one partition on a USB hard drive, then drakupdate_fstab doesn't mount it. It isn't smart enough to figure out what partitions are extended, and what partitons are data partitions, so if it sees more then one, it plays it safe and bails out. (drakupdate_fstab is called by hotplug when it gets a USB storage device, to handle mounting it.) I am working on a way to handle this using udev, and I have it working using udev, and supermount entries in fstab, but there are still a couple of problems with it. My supermount entries automaticly show up on the KDE desktop, and they always show that they are mounted. They are there even if the drive isn't plugged in. I think I have a way around it, but I have more work to do 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] Recommendations on external hard drive, please
On Friday 18 February 2005 10:49 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 17:31, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 05:05 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'm looking for an external USB hard drive with 80 GB and Mandrake compatible. The MDK hardware list seems a little outdated and not very informative. And I know to avoid Western Digital ones. Recommendations ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, I have an Acomdata external that works well. Only thing is I have to remount it every time I boot up the comp. Have not figured out why it does not mount automatically. Anyway I see in harddrake that it has a Samsung harddrive. Mine is a 120gig. I would think that any of the usb externals should work at the plug in. HTH Thanks, Dennis. Unfortunately Acomdata isn't available here in Denmark, but Samsung is. And I don't care if I have to mount it manually (my USB subsystem is severely broken anyway, so I'm used to it). Going to Copenhagen over the weekend, so maybe I can dig one up in a specialized store - I don't trust those giant Computer Mart's for anything linux related. Thanks for the advice, Dennis. Kaj Haulrich. Oh, I forgot to tell you that I also have a maxtor hd that I put in one of those store bought enclosures and it also works very well. So if nothing else you can get an empty harddrive enclosure and a new 80g hd and roll your own so to speak. 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
[newbie] gnumeric: customize toolbar
Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? I like how fast it comes up, and the fact that i was able to set the printing to fit to page (which i could not figure out in open office calc. There was a setting in presentation, but not calc). But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... Thanks, 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
[newbie] GwenView
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After my moaning on the expert list about having to use win4lin to print photos, Angelo pointed me at GwenView. At first sight this is yet another album-creating photo management application, but it's remarkably flexible, thanks to a number of plugins. Today I have for the first time used it to print a batch of 24 photos, four to a page. There is a good print wizard where you can see exactly which photos you're going to print. Inevitably there was going to be some cropping, and I was a little apprehensive about this, but as the wizard progressed I found that I could move the cropping on each photo individually, to make the best result. That is very neatly done - the same effect as on my windows app, but neater. Finally, the printout - the results are good - better than the previous set of the same pictures, produced on the other app. Best of all, I printed all 24 photos in one print job, whereas the other app could only handle one page at a time. 10/10 to the developers. If you like photo work, try this app out. (Yes I'll put a copy of this on the TWiki under Desktop Apps g) 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) iD8DBQFCFkFRkFAvMr/nNX8RAva4AJ9VxeYtqb9TNrgGuHoPA+e6wYzaAwCfXcow CASTwiFE84Uq4n070uWLero= =ypgr -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] gnumeric: customize toolbar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 Feb 2005 18:30, Eric Huff wrote: Is it really impossible to customize the toolbars in gnumeric? Don't know I like how fast it comes up, and the fact that i was able to set the printing to fit to page (which i could not figure out in open office calc. There was a setting in presentation, but not calc). But i am so used to having buttons for delete and adding rows that i miss them... They're easy. Click in the label part of the line or column and you can then add or delete lines from a right-click 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) iD8DBQFCFj9HkFAvMr/nNX8RArOrAKCIWH++zk9qIe0jrIWnRR/b7TRGiACgkxI6 c79ZcOZihDcE2mQzwwlM4XQ= =at7P -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
[newbie] USB Card Reader
I just bought a USB Multi-card reader. I plugged it in, expecting Mandrake to find it but it didn't. What do I have to do to get my computer to recognize my card reader? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Card Reader
eric jackson wrote: I just bought a USB Multi-card reader. I plugged it in, expecting Mandrake to find it but it didn't. What do I have to do to get my computer to recognize my card reader? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson Most show up as a SCSI device for each slot. I have only worked with 1 and 2 slot devices, but the ones I have worked with do not get automaticly mounted unless there is a card in the slot when you plug it in. You may also have a problem where it will not notice that you have changed the card. You can run ls /dev/sd* to see what SCSI drives were created. If you do not have any real SCSI drives, and you do not have any other USB storage devices plugged in, then the reader will probably show up as sda, sdb, and so on. For most memory cards, you will probably have to mount /dev/sda1. It all depends on how the card is formatted. Or you can try unplugging the card, putting a card in the slot, and plugging it back in. It should get mounted as /mnt/removable, /mnt/removable1, or something like that. You can then look at what got added to /etc/fstab or run mount to see how it was mounted. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Unable to run DVD-Rom/CD-RW Device in 10.1
Hi, I have a Lite-On Combo DVD-Rom/CD-RW Soho 5232. Recently I updated from Mandrake Community 10.0 (where this device worked perfectly) to Mandrake Official 10.1. I did this by reinstalling Linux. I have a Dual-Boot system with Windows XP SP2. In Windows I have no problem using this device and I can also boot from the device with no problems. However, when I tried to install from CD, the installer began the install process, but could not detect the device when trying to access the install packages. I then installed from HDD (where I had the iso packages stored in Windows). When I launched Linux, I again found that it will not mount or find my Lite-On drive. Can somebody please help me as I'm confused as to why it suddenly would not work going from 10.0 to 10.1. Regards, Craig Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] tar'ing dot files
I want to create a gzip'ed tar archive of all my dot files for backup purposes but I can't figure out how to select only the dot files without also getting everything else in the folder. $ tar -cvf backup.tar.gz .* This seems to get everything in the folder; not good. Thanks, Job Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to run DVD-Rom/CD-RW Device in 10.1
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:49, cbowyer wrote: Hi, I have a Lite-On Combo DVD-Rom/CD-RW Soho 5232. Recently I updated from Mandrake Community 10.0 (where this device worked perfectly) to Mandrake Official 10.1. I did this by reinstalling Linux. I have a Dual-Boot system with Windows XP SP2. In Windows I have no problem using this device and I can also boot from the device with no problems. However, when I tried to install from CD, the installer began the install process, but could not detect the device when trying to access the install packages. I then installed from HDD (where I had the iso packages stored in Windows). When I launched Linux, I again found that it will not mount or find my Lite-On drive. Can somebody please help me as I'm confused as to why it suddenly would not work going from 10.0 to 10.1. Can you boot a linux live cd such as knoppix or Mandrake Move and do stuff? There are a gazillion of these live cd things around now to suit any taste. Everyone should have one or two for troubleshooting and linux advocacy. I like MM, pclinuxos, Mempis and classic knoppix in no particular order. You can download all of these or get them cheaply from places like Cheapbytes, Linuxcentral or Linuxcd. What does the output of hdparm -iI /dev/hd(whatever the cd is) under knoppix or MM look like? Can you install using the Mandrake CDs on another machine (to test if the CDs are good)? Can you re-install 10.0? Sorry to be asking so many questions. -- N. B. Day N 30, 1.2033 W 90, 4.0460 19:53:49 up 3 days, 1:56, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Default Browser.
Lanman, did you try looking at KDE, Components, File Associations and seeing what is listed there for Text, HTML? Another old trick I use sometimes: Right click, create a blank HTML file. Name it whatever you want, doesn't matter. Now, right click on that file, and pick Edit File Types. From that list, put whatever you want at the top - I usually delete the rest of the list if I think that I'm not going to be using any other app with this type of file. Under Embedding, I usually pick Show File In Separate Viewer as well. (this really brings up basically the same screen/settings, just from different approaches) HTHS! :-) Hello I have tried both ways above and am using thunderbird. If firefox is open, it will switch to the created html file and also will try to open another firefox. Firefox will not open either way even if it is not already open. If I click on the address listed in e-mail, konq still opens. I moved firefox to the top of the list with mozilla second and deleted the rest. Mozilla works ok on the html as it opens as it should and does not duplicate. Again konq opens from email. I am downloading and installing the updates now for kde. Hopefully this will correct the issue, but is there anything else that I should look at and maybe change? Thanks for any help. 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] GwenView
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: After my moaning on the expert list about having to use win4lin to print photos, Angelo pointed me at GwenView. At first sight this is yet another album-creating photo management application, but it's remarkably flexible, thanks to a number of plugins. Today I have for the first time used it to print a batch of 24 photos, four to a page. There is a good print wizard where you can see exactly which photos you're going to print. Inevitably there was going to be some cropping, and I was a little apprehensive about this, but as the wizard progressed I found that I could move the cropping on each photo individually, to make the best result. That is very neatly done - the same effect as on my windows app, but neater. Finally, the printout - the results are good - better than the previous set of the same pictures, produced on the other app. Best of all, I printed all 24 photos in one print job, whereas the other app could only handle one page at a time. 10/10 to the developers. If you like photo work, try this app out. (Yes I'll put a copy of this on the TWiki under Desktop Apps g) Anne Do you think a newbie could learn it. I muck about with photos in Windows. cheers 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] NTP
Or open konsole from the tray icon, then select Session New Root Session. This is Linux - you know the old saying, ask one question of 3 linux users, get four answers, all right. Anne One of the fun things about linux! ;-) 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] GwenView
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: After my moaning on the expert list about having to use win4lin to print photos, Angelo pointed me at GwenView. At first sight this is yet another album-creating photo management application, but it's remarkably flexible, thanks to a number of plugins. Today I have for the first time used it to print a batch of 24 photos, four to a page. There is a good print wizard where you can see exactly which photos you're going to print. Inevitably there was going to be some cropping, and I was a little apprehensive about this, but as the wizard progressed I found that I could move the cropping on each photo individually, to make the best result. That is very neatly done - the same effect as on my windows app, but neater. Finally, the printout - the results are good - better than the previous set of the same pictures, produced on the other app. Best of all, I printed all 24 photos in one print job, whereas the other app could only handle one page at a time. 10/10 to the developers. If you like photo work, try this app out. (Yes I'll put a copy of this on the TWiki under Desktop Apps g) Anne Do you think a newbie could learn it. I muck about with photos in Windows. cheers Rosemary I hope so Rosemary, 'cause I'm looking at things now. What the plugins are and where to find them eludes me at this time but I've twigged that to get plugins sorted I will NOT be installing gwenview by urpmi. I believe I need to compile it from source with the kipi option ( --enable-kipi ) having first installed the libkipi0, and for safety, I'm installing the libkipi0-devel also. Both these by urpmi anyway. I went here to find that out. http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/overview I will possible need to wait for the TWiki posting to find out what the traps are 'cause the home site seems devoid of Documentation at present. ( Or I haven't looked hard enough yet.) -- 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] mdk 10.1 keyboard layout
Friends, I would like to develop a phonetic keyboard layout for Tamil language in mdk10.1. Already some layouts there which are not phonetic. How can I be able to create new keyboard layouts in MDK10.1 Cheerio amala singh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GwenView
SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: After my moaning on the expert list about having to use win4lin to print photos, Angelo pointed me at GwenView. At first sight this is yet another album-creating photo management application, but it's remarkably flexible, thanks to a number of plugins. Today I have for the first time used it to print a batch of 24 photos, four to a page. There is a good print wizard where you can see exactly which photos you're going to print. Inevitably there was going to be some cropping, and I was a little apprehensive about this, but as the wizard progressed I found that I could move the cropping on each photo individually, to make the best result. That is very neatly done - the same effect as on my windows app, but neater. Finally, the printout - the results are good - better than the previous set of the same pictures, produced on the other app. Best of all, I printed all 24 photos in one print job, whereas the other app could only handle one page at a time. 10/10 to the developers. If you like photo work, try this app out. (Yes I'll put a copy of this on the TWiki under Desktop Apps g) Anne Do you think a newbie could learn it. I muck about with photos in Windows. cheers Rosemary I hope so Rosemary, 'cause I'm looking at things now. What the plugins are and where to find them eludes me at this time but I've twigged that to get plugins sorted I will NOT be installing gwenview by urpmi. I believe I need to compile it from source with the kipi option ( --enable-kipi ) having first installed the libkipi0, and for safety, I'm installing the libkipi0-devel also. Both these by urpmi anyway. I went here to find that out. http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/overview I will possible need to wait for the TWiki posting to find out what the traps are 'cause the home site seems devoid of Documentation at present. ( Or I haven't looked hard enough yet.) Quick update - the plugins are listed within this doc. http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kipi/ - enjoy. -- 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] tar'ing dot files
JIE mail-list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I want to create a gzip'ed tar archive of all my dot files for backup purposes but I can't figure out how to select only the dot files without also getting everything else in the folder. $ tar -cvf backup.tar.gz .* This seems to get everything in the folder; not good. Well, if you want a g'zipped tarball, you will need to add the z to your command line. You can use a subshell with the find command: (using backticks and single qoutes) since you don't want to traverse the directories and because tar excepts the files list to tarball last, we use a subshell there: $ tar czvf backup.tar.gz `find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '.*' -print` I also got this error but it did work: tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors -maxdepth ..will stay in the current directory -iname..will ignore case sentative searches -type f ..will look for files only, no directories -print..is the default, to print match I added the *.pid so I wouldn't tar the process id for fetchmail, for my $HOME dir, you may not need this.(all on one line) $ tar czvf backup.tar.gz `find . \( -iname .* -a \! -name *.pid \) -maxdepth 1 -type f -print` man find, its got a lot of potential and check out the Bash Guide for Beginners at LDP .. http://www.tldp.org/guides.html This is only one way and the first I can think of. There's got to be a better way ;) -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights? -- Why Why Why n°16 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] gwenview
Decided to try this. Opened it and it mounted windows and I could view photos, and even printed one! Need to experiment somewhat with setting because the whole A4 page contains about one quarter of the actual image! However - it is good to know I can access my photos this way. 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] Creative Muvo player works great in 10.1
Hello Anne, Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 1:28:35 AM, Anne wrote: AW -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- AW Hash: SHA1 AW On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 06:24, rikona wrote: Just had a chance to plug in a USB Muvo player. Mounts fine, and looks like disk files -- except Konq knows they're mp3 files and displays all the info about the song - author, album, year, etc. Very nice! AW You will, of course, be adding this to the TWiki? ;-) AW http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsB I presume, under music devices? Done, plus a few more additions on other topics. Glad I can 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
[newbie] TV out?
Hello, Under MDK 10.1 how can I get A TV output with my ACER notebook Aspire 1680. I would like to show a presentation on a TV screan. Thank you Christophe Rhein Ankara - Turquie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ce portable tourne 100% sous linux. Message envoy avec Mozilla Firefox 1.0 ou Evolution 2.0, sous Mandrake Linux 10.1.
