Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 05:41, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 11:01 am, Michel Leunen wrote: > | Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. > | Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log > | in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop > | and no icons and I have to leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with > | another window manager. > | How can I get KDE back? And, please, don't tell me I have to reinstall > | once again. > | > | Michel > > Can you log into kde as a different user? Maybe create one and see. If > so, rename your /home/~/.kde to .OLDkde. Logout and then back into KDE. > That will probably fix it. Beware, you may want to backup your Mail > directory and your kaddressbook, because you may lose them in the process. > Your desktop settings will also return to the default. The bright side is, > it is a relatively quick fix. > Renaming is always a good option. You can copy your addressbook over to the new directory. If you use kmail it isn't stored under .kde but under .Mail, so you don't lose that either. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpI2L87rbmm4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] another urpmi query
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 05:31, Julie Sloan wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:01 am, Smiley wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:44:05 -0500 > > > > Julie Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > when a normal update gets interrupted the partial > > > downloads seem to get stuck in /var/cache/urpmi/partial, > > > and then the packages won't install because of these > > > "missing" partials. What's the preferred way of dealing > > > with this? > > > > I think wait and try again to download later; the not installed > > packages are not deleted, so no need to download them again. > > Okay, thanks :) > Even if what's in the "partial" directory are incomplete d/ls? like 6Mb of > an 8Mb package, etc? Yes - it doesn't seem to matter. I'm not sure whether it completes the partials, or whether it starts again, but for certain the download and install completes and everything gets cleaned up. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpmvi4hDOhfP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [ml] [newbie] Strange host name
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 02:51 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: Aron Smith wrote: When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Maybe you have ntp installed and that is a time server? now that you mention it there is mention of ntp on the start up screen BTW any way to read them after startup? In a terminal do: # dmesg -- 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] devfs and udev
frengoGorgia wrote: Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 11:23, SnapafunFrank ha scritto: Er I tried reading man: fstab and that made no sense, searched for 'fstab howto' and 'fstab samples' and only got " enter into fstab the following " so does anyone know of any online howto ~ explanations of the /etc/fstab file ? try looking first to man mount later to http://www.linuxvoodoo.org/resources/howtos/mounting/ http://esm2.imt-mrs.fr/~staffelb/guide_linux/part1/fstab.html http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/usersguide/linux_ugaccessfilesys.html http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mount_MS_Windows_partitions_(FAT,NTFS) For now, the following appear to be totally different and is tying me up in knots. What do you understand about the following two entries taken from /etc/fstab : /udev/16MB1 /mnt/16MB auto umask=0,user,vfat,ext2,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,nosuid,nodev,kudzu 0 0 To me the file types are different syntax ~ which way is correct ? or better ? [ vfat,ext2, or fs=auto ( or as above fs=ext2:vfat ) ] I thought that " none " meant that that dev was a swap partition ~ obviously not ~ need this explained. "none" tells to "mount" command , to not read to a device(superblock number) , which in swap and supermount case is not needed to read. Should I be using 'supermount' ? If "umask=0" sets things to 777 then why is "user" also included ? And the real confusing one ~ In the same line of syntax I see 'auto' ~ 'noauto' ~ 'exec' ? Should this not be 'auto' ~ 'noexec' and 'noauto' removed to allow PnP with Linux ? first "auto" statement is related to filesystem-type stuff, "noauto(auto)" is a "mount "command parameter ,means that device will not be mounted at boot time (or when mount -a is called) , but device only be mounted explicitly (on the command line for example) "noexec(exec)" is a "mount "command parameter, Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system. Thanks frengoGorgia, very informative, I've got some reading to do. Couple of questions to clear things a little: If I want hotplug to work do I still use " none " and/or " supermount " ? Am I correct in assuming that I must remove " noauto " if I expect the system to mount a device upon connecting the device, ( as in hotpluging )? Again an assumption, " noexec " can be considered a security device because it would not allow autorun of inserted media, nor allow an user to use such ? If the answers to these questions are within the links you have supplied then ignore these questions as I'm now off to read them. Again, thanks, greatly appreciated. -- 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] devfs and udev
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be unmounted and will not have the files seen, but when I do mount it manually, root can see the files but user cannot, making me think at times that I have wiped the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I followed allowed me to have any device I plugged in recognized for what it is within /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot though all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was within that session. ( I used the http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6 to install udev - it's quite conclusive.) If you set up rules for udev to give specific names to USB devices, in place of the names the kernel gives them, you will break the automounting that hotplug does. You can create your own rules to handle the mounting in place of the standard ones. This allows you to control how things get mounted. For example, when you plug in a PNY memory stick, you can have it get mounted on /mnt/pny instead /dev/removable. (Don't ask for the full details yet - I am still playing with this. My link above may help ? > Well, it show me where you went wrong. I like http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php# better. ) You can get more specific, and do things like have 32MB sticks mount one place, and 64MB mount in another. Basicly, you can test any of the tags that udev know about, and build rules based on them. While mounting specific memory devices in specific places may not be real usuefull, when you start talking about USB hard drives, that is another story. If you have more then one partition on the drive, then current hotplug code will not mount it. Also, if you have requirments that different partitions on the drive be mounted in specific places, you can handle them this way. Maybe one partition needs to mount on /backup, and another on /opt/pictures, or something like that. Now, as far as users being able to access files on USB storage devices, it depends on how you mount them. If you just do something like "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable", then your users will not be able to access the files. But if you do something like "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable -o umask=0", then they will have access. Using sda1 may not be the best choice in this example, as if you plug in a USB "PEN" drive, and it uses the default device, it will get automounted, but I think you get the idea. If you have udev set to create something like /dev/pen and /dev/pen1, then use pen1 in place of sda1, and it will work. Mikkel Thanks Mikkel If you follow the above link you will be able to see what I did as I followed it precisely. And as I have said before, during that particular session it actually worked exactly as explained in the above howto ~ that is until I got a little carried away with changing all my usb memory sticks around without waiting long enough for the system to catch up ~ end result - I corrupted my .ICEauthority file and within rescue mode had to delete that and start again with all my customizing. [ Still finding stuff that needs to be updated because of this. ] Anyway, your comments above make a lot of sense so I'm off to check things out before posting this: First up: <[ snip ]---> OK. The USB devices are 16MB, 64MB, Works128MB whilst Camera1 is a Flash card from the camera. Each of them has " noauto" and three of them has "ro" whilst one has "rw". So I need a lesson here : none of them have the "-o" option Mikkel mentions ~ and what is the true meaning of "noauto" ? For now I will only change the "ro" to "rw". As to the naming convention mentioned by Mikkel, I believe that is done here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]$ cat /etc/udev/udev.rules <...snip...> <.../snip...> # if this is a ide cdrom, name it the default name, and create a symlink to cdrom BUS="ide", KERNEL="*[!0-9]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom" # create a symlink named after the device map name # note devmap_name comes with extras/multipath KERNEL="dm-[0-9]*", PROGRAM="/sbin/devmap_name %M %m", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="%c" # DRI devices always go into a subdirectory (as per the LSB spec) KERNEL="card*", NAME="dri/card%n" # Flash Memory 16MB BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="M-Sys*", NAME="16MB%n" # Flash Memory 64MB BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="USB*", NAME="64MB%n" # Card Reader for MyCanonCamera BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="SIIG*", NAME="Camera%n" # Flash Memory "Works 128MB" BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="OTi*", NAME="Works128MB%n" <...snip...> Hmmm I am concerned o
Re: [newbie] re: SSHD
Mrexecutive wrote: Hello Guys, I installed SSHD but forgot how to start it or can someone show me how to put it in the autoexec file for linux so it does it upon start up? Sorry im a newbie! Go into the Mandrake Control Centre (Configure Your Computer) and go into the System section, then go into Services - Look for sshd and enable it. Otherwise, from a root command prompt, type chkconfig --add sshd cheers Duncan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:00 -0500, Julie Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1. > I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its > location as > http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/ > but when I tried to add this (up to the first slash before Mozilla) as an > urpmi medium I got five minutes of 0% of 0 at speed 0. What did I do > wrong? Do I need to d/l the -0.8 and then upgrade to the -1.0.1 or d/l the > -1.0-1 rpm or is there another way? > > ty > > -- > Julie I'm not sure how you can make the source you're trying to use work, but I can direct you to a better one that I know a good number of people here on the list use. If you're running 10.1, probably the easiest way to get an up to date version of Firefox would be to use Charles Edward's mirror. You can find information and directions on how to set it up on the site: http://www.eslrahc.com/ He also offers RPMs for stuff like gaim, and other popular programs that don't get updated very frequently on the official mirrors. I hope that helps. -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ >^..^< ~~ http://deathkitten.net "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling "Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me." ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re: SSHD
Hello Guys, I installed SSHD but forgot how to start it or can someone show me how to put it in the autoexec file for linux so it does it upon start up? Sorry im a newbie!
[newbie] urpmi firefox
when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1. I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its location as http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/ but when I tried to add this (up to the first slash before Mozilla) as an urpmi medium I got five minutes of 0% of 0 at speed 0. What did I do wrong? Do I need to d/l the -0.8 and then upgrade to the -1.0.1 or d/l the -1.0-1 rpm or is there another way? ty -- Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] --noclean
how would I go about making the --noclean option default for urpmi'ing, so I don't have to remember to add it each time I d/l a program? ty -- Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] another urpmi query
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:01 am, Smiley wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:44:05 -0500 > > Julie Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > when a normal update gets interrupted the partial > > downloads seem to get stuck in /var/cache/urpmi/partial, > > and then the packages won't install because of these > > "missing" partials. What's the preferred way of dealing > > with this? > > I think wait and try again to download later; the not installed > packages are not deleted, so no need to download them again. Okay, thanks :) Even if what's in the "partial" directory are incomplete d/ls? like 6Mb of an 8Mb package, etc? -- Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Monday 14 March 2005 11:01 am, Michel Leunen wrote: | Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. | Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log | in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop | and no icons and I have to leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with | another window manager. | How can I get KDE back? And, please, don't tell me I have to reinstall | once again. | | Michel Can you log into kde as a different user? Maybe create one and see. If so, rename your /home/~/.kde to .OLDkde. Logout and then back into KDE. That will probably fix it. Beware, you may want to backup your Mail directory and your kaddressbook, because you may lose them in the process. Your desktop settings will also return to the default. The bright side is, it is a relatively quick fix. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] another urpmi query
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:44:05 -0500 Julie Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > when a normal update gets interrupted the partial > downloads seem to get stuck in /var/cache/urpmi/partial, > and then the packages won't install because of these > "missing" partials. What's the preferred way of dealing > with this? I think wait and try again to download later; the not installed packages are not deleted, so no need to download them again. -- Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] another urpmi query
when a normal update gets interrupted the partial downloads seem to get stuck in /var/cache/urpmi/partial, and then the packages won't install because of these "missing" partials. What's the preferred way of dealing with this? thanks -- Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Wireless adapter
I have this laptop I bought me recently, and the wireless adapter driver fails to install. I get the error message when I select to configure a wireless connection: "Driver ath_pci failed on /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 302". Do you think I have any hope to put this adapter (Atheros AR5005GS) to work? Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer
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On Sunday 13 March 2005 17:54, Dave Ashmore wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> >On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:09 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> >>I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to
> >>KookieJar for Windows.
> >>
> >>Thank you,
> >
> >Yes, its called fortune and I believe its installed as part of a normal
> >install. You can call it from a script such as this:
> >
> >#!/bin/bash
> >echo "Chris"
> >echo "Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org";
> >STR=$(uptime)
> >TIME=${STR% user}
> >RESULT=${TIME%}
> >echo $RESULT
> >echo "Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel $(uname -r)"
> >
> >echo ""
> >
> >/usr/games/fortune
> >
> >echo ""
> >if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo "Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin
> > Radio UK $( grep Title: /tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print $2}' )"
> >fi
> >
> >If using Kmail you can under "Settings > configure Kmail > identies >
> >signature" then select "Obtain signature text from Output of Command. For
> >instance mine is /home/chris/./sig. You can learn more about fortune from
> >"man fortune"
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
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> >Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
> >
>
> Thanks for the tip.
> I was able to get it to work in thunderbird by making a script like you
> suggested and calling it via cron to generate a signature like this
> every 15 minutes.
> First make sig-pubmail executable like so:
> chmod 0755 sig-pubmail
> Then edit your /etc/crontab file and add a lines like mine below:
>
> 0 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail >
> /home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
> 15 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail >
> /home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
> 30 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail >
> /home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
> 45 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail >
> /home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
>
> Then of course just have thunderbird use that file as it's signature.
> sigpubmail.txt
Why don´t you save some typying and time using cron?
the following:
*/15 * * * * root /home/djash/./sig-pubmail > /home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Would have the same effect!
At least that´s how I use it!
HTH
Ricardo Castanho
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[newbie] reading Troff document
Greetings, could some kind soul tell me what program I can use to read Troff documents? A friend of mine has a Mac, and they have sent me a couple documents that I have thus far been unable to read. Is Troff a Mac proprietary format? TIA for any assistance on this. Best regards. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1- NVidia 1.0-7167 driver
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:50:03 +1000 Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don Gregory wrote: > > >Anybody tried the new 1.0-7167 driver yet? > > I successfully installed the 1.0-7167 driver today. Following your hints, I did too; but for me it wasn't necessary to edit /etc/inittab: I just opened a terminal and sent "telinit 3"; then I logged as root and sent rmmode nvidia modprobe agpart as you suggested; then i ran the nvidia scritp as usual and this time the module was compiled with no problem. I rebooted and here I am ^_^ -- Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML
> -Original Message- > From: Fajar Priyanto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:00 AM > To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML > It is *only* "word-processing document stored in a single XML file". (I've been working on a system involving spreadsheets, so am on the safe side of the 'divide and conquor' - for now) A similar patent was filed in Australia, and is now classified as 'lapsed'. This smells to me of nothing but FUD Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cleaning optical mouse
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:38 pm, Miark wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:59:41 -0600, Chris wrote: > > Question is, how is this mouse cleaned? Do I clean > > the lens on the bottom? If so, with what? > > I've had a MS optical mouse for at least 3 years and have never > had to clean it, although I blow lint out with just my mouth once > in a while. This makes me notice that there is some dust building up on the lense. And strange, when I blow air into it with my mouth, the laser lights up :) -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 07:02:07 up 12:51, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:28 am, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: > As the Merovingio said: "Disappointing... but not unexpected". > > Greetings, > Fernando Gomez. > "Give my regards to the Broad Street". Does it mean the doomsday for OpenOffice? -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 06:59:20 up 12:48, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML
- Original Message - From: "frengoGorgia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML > Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 23:35, Kaj Haulrich ha scritto: > > You won't believe this : > > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247 > > I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. > > > > Kaj Haulrich. As the Merovingio said: "Disappointing... but not unexpected". Greetings, Fernando Gomez. "Give my regards to the Broad Street". Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML
Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 23:35, Kaj Haulrich ha scritto: > You won't believe this : > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247 > I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. > > Kaj Haulrich. http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/2005/03/09/bill05land.html http://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIRBH69.html?passListId=10&passYear=2005&passListType=Person&uniqueId=BH69&datatype=Person http://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIR1217.html?passListId=10&passYear=2005&passListType=Person&uniqueId=1217&datatype=Person and later http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/2003/02/24/cx_mn_0227quiz.html?boxes=custom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] Strange host name
On Monday 14 March 2005 02:51 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > >When booting up I got this message > >host brian.cede.psu found > >Checking the etc/host.allow > >dosn't show that name > >neither does > >etc/host.deny > >what's going on ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > Maybe you have ntp installed and that is a time server? now that you mention it there is mention of ntp on the start up screen BTW any way to read them after startup? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] Strange host name
Aron Smith wrote: When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Maybe you have ntp installed and that is a time server? -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1 Sometimes I can be reached via Skype as djash34 Disclaimer: The below quote is randomly generated and I may or may not agree with the quote. (knghtbrd) % emacs sucks, literally, not a insult, just a comment that its large enough to have a noticeable gravitational pull... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange host name
When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML
On Monday 14 March 2005 05:35 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > You won't believe this : > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247 > I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. > > Kaj Haulrich. By the Gods, Kaj - don't give them ideas! :-) -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] devfs and udev
Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 11:23, SnapafunFrank ha scritto: > > Er I tried reading man: fstab and that made no sense, searched for > 'fstab howto' and 'fstab samples' and only got " enter into fstab > the following " so does anyone know of any online howto ~ > explanations of the /etc/fstab file ? try looking first to man mount later to http://www.linuxvoodoo.org/resources/howtos/mounting/ http://esm2.imt-mrs.fr/~staffelb/guide_linux/part1/fstab.html http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/usersguide/linux_ugaccessfilesys.html http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mount_MS_Windows_partitions_(FAT,NTFS) > For now, the following appear to be totally different and is tying me up > in knots. What do you understand about the following two entries taken > from /etc/fstab : > > /udev/16MB1 /mnt/16MB auto umask=0,user,vfat,ext2,noauto,rw,exec 0 0 > > none /mnt/removable supermount > dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,nosuid,nodev,kudzu > > 0 0 > > To me the file types are different syntax ~ which way is correct ? or > better ? [ vfat,ext2, or fs=auto ( or as above fs=ext2:vfat ) ] > I thought that " none " meant that that dev was a swap partition ~ > obviously not ~ need this explained. "none" tells to "mount" command , to not read to a device(superblock number) , which in swap and supermount case is not needed to read. > Should I be using 'supermount' ? > If "umask=0" sets things to 777 then why is "user" also included ? > And the real confusing one ~ In the same line of syntax I see 'auto' ~ > 'noauto' ~ 'exec' ? Should this not be 'auto' ~ 'noexec' and 'noauto' > removed to allow PnP with Linux ? first "auto" statement is related to filesystem-type stuff, "noauto(auto)" is a "mount "command parameter ,means that device will not be mounted at boot time (or when mount -a is called) , but device only be mounted explicitly (on the command line for example) "noexec(exec)" is a "mount "command parameter, Do not allow execution of any binaries on the mounted file system. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Microsoft to patent XML
You won't believe this : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247 I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. 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] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:34:57 -0500, Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote: > > > If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias > > directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! > > I have a Nokia 6600. It has IR and Bluetooth. I have used bluetooth quite a > lot and the connection to Linux is fine. I can send files, receive files, > contacts, etc. > > However, IIRC, your model does not support bluetooth so the only connection > method that I can see would be via cable. Also, Nokia's software is usually > freely available though it only works with Windows. You should be able to > find a lot of howto's for Linux by Googling. > > -- > Bryan Phinney Indeed, my model does not have bluetooth. I would be using the data cable to connect it up. Do you have a program you use for things like contact book backup, loading pictures on your phone, etc? Part of the reason I'm asking on the list is that I am having trouble getting answers out of Google. I've tried, but my googling skills apparently suck and I can't get anything I can make heads or tails of. Thanks! -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ >^..^< ~~ http://deathkitten.net "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling "Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me." ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] login manager
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:04, Michel Leunen wrote: > Sometimes ago, Anne wilson told me to use the Mandrake login > manager to enable/disable users in the login window: > > "Try kcontrol > System > Login Manager and check whether the user > is enabled there." > > What is the name of this Login manager? The one to type in a > terminal. Since I've lost kde, I use xfce4 and the login manager > doesn't appear in the XFCE menu. > > Thanks, > Michel Michel, as far as I understand you want to log in as a new user in order to see if KDE works, OK ? If so, just create a new user from a root konsole, like this : # adduser [username here] Then you'll be prompted for a new unix password, just choose some and carry on. When done, log out of the root session, kill the X server by pressing and log in as the new user, choosing KDE . If the problem is some setting in your old .kde directory, the new user's KDE will work just fine. HTH 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] login manager
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:44, Dan Gordon wrote: > On March 14, 2005 04:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > kcontrol is a kde app, so you won't be able to do it from XFCE I > > think, but you could try, if you have kde installed. The login > > manager is one sub-section under kcontrol. > > I run any and all KDE apps from XFCE, that should not be any problem. > I think the requirement is that kde must be installed, not in use as a desk-manager. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpnZUchZw2F3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:28, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > X isn't the problem as he can log into another windowmanagerit's kde > that's for sure. I hadn't realised about XFCE when I sent it, but you're right, of course. > Optionally he can start a kde-app (say konqueror) from a console and check > what kind of error messages come drifting by.but I'd recomend that for > a later stage. Prolly some kind of setting that got messed up when logging > out in a previous session. It does seem rather difficult to do anything about kde if you can't even get in. He should be able to try renaming .kde, but that would only work if the problem was after logging in, and as I understand it he can't even get so far. But - if he can't, how did he get XFCE working, I wonder? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpxzHKsdm60Q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] login manager
On March 14, 2005 04:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > kcontrol is a kde app, so you won't be able to do it from XFCE I > think, but you could try, if you have kde installed. The login > manager is one sub-section under kcontrol. > I run any and all KDE apps from XFCE, that should not be any problem. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Mar 14 16:43:11 EST 2005 16:43:11 up 7:47, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.05, 0.04 An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. -- Adlai Stevenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:11, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 14 Mar 2005 20:39, Michel Leunen wrote: > > eric jackson wrote: > > > You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the > > > command line, did you try startx? > > > > No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login > > tool. Typing startx from a command prompt doesn't launch KDE. Actually, > > the X server is launched. I can see the blue background image and the > > splash screen but that's all. I forgot to say that there is no peculiar > > message in /var/log/... either. > > Here's one possibility that I'd try. Try XFDrake, if you can get to a > command line. Try booting "linux-nonfb" if you can't, then try XFDrake. > If everything is still OK there you've ruled out one possibility. > > Anne X isn't the problem as he can log into another windowmanagerit's kde that's for sure. Optionally he can start a kde-app (say konqueror) from a console and check what kind of error messages come drifting by.but I'd recomend that for a later stage. Prolly some kind of setting that got messed up when logging out in a previous session. -- Good luck, HarM 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 manager
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:04, Michel Leunen wrote: > Sometimes ago, Anne wilson told me to use the Mandrake login manager to > enable/disable users in the login window: > > "Try kcontrol > System > Login Manager and check whether the user is > enabled there." > > What is the name of this Login manager? The one to type in a terminal. > Since I've lost kde, I use xfce4 and the login manager doesn't appear in > the XFCE menu. > kcontrol is a kde app, so you won't be able to do it from XFCE I think, but you could try, if you have kde installed. The login manager is one sub-section under kcontrol. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgp9c7qKdGxsT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 20:39, Michel Leunen wrote: > eric jackson wrote: > > You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the > > command line, did you try startx? > > No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login > tool. Typing startx from a command prompt doesn't launch KDE. Actually, > the X server is launched. I can see the blue background image and the > splash screen but that's all. I forgot to say that there is no peculiar > message in /var/log/... either. > Here's one possibility that I'd try. Try XFDrake, if you can get to a command line. Try booting "linux-nonfb" if you can't, then try XFDrake. If everything is still OK there you've ruled out one possibility. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgp9kNF5Tv3Wm.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] login manager
Sometimes ago, Anne wilson told me to use the Mandrake login manager to enable/disable users in the login window: "Try kcontrol > System > Login Manager and check whether the user is enabled there." What is the name of this Login manager? The one to type in a terminal. Since I've lost kde, I use xfce4 and the login manager doesn't appear in the XFCE menu. Thanks, Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
eric jackson wrote: You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login tool. Typing startx from a command prompt doesn't launch KDE. Actually, the X server is launched. I can see the blue background image and the splash screen but that's all. I forgot to say that there is no peculiar message in /var/log/... either. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:18:24 +0100, Michel Leunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SOTL wrote: Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Mandrake 10.0 updated regularly. I don't think the card installed matter. You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? I lost KDE once and I think that's what I did to get it back although I admit, I'm not sure. Eric -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
SOTL wrote: Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Mandrake 10.0 updated regularly. I don't think the card installed matter. -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Monday 14 March 2005 20:01, Michel Leunen wrote: > Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. > Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log > in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop > and no icons and I have to leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with > another window manager. > How can I get KDE back? And, please, don't tell me I have to reinstall > once again. > > Michel The first thing I'd do is create another user and log into KDE as that new user. If the problems don't show up it's a faulty setting in your "/home/michel/.kde/" directory.just delete it and check in as you used to. You will lose existing kde settings like those of kmail as well as bookmarks in konqueror etc etc. So if that is a major problem, say so and we'll fine tune what has to be changed/deleted. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Monday 14 March 2005 14:01, Michel Leunen wrote: > Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. > Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log > in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop > and no icons and I have to leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with > another window manager. > How can I get KDE back? And, please, don't tell me I have to reinstall > once again. > > Michel Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Did you download KDE and install or did you install from distribution? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop and no icons and I have to leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with another window manager. How can I get KDE back? And, please, don't tell me I have to reinstall once again. Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Need a GMail invitation? Send me an email. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 17:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Thanks Anne. I'm sure some of the difference reflected there is because I'm > still using v9.2 and I think you're on 10.x, right? Versions, yes, but I would think you still need the packages. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpwOM7VIdSbY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and > > > you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH > > > > libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > > k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > > k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > > > > Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > Checking under Software Uninstaller, under the Archiving group, I have > > cdrdao-1.1.9-6mdk > cdrecord-2.01-1mdk > dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-2mdk > k3b-0.11.16-3mdk > k3b-dvd-0.11.17-0.1010.1 > mkisofs-2.01-1mdk > > Anne Thanks Anne. I'm sure some of the difference reflected there is because I'm still using v9.2 and I think you're on 10.x, right? -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 March 2005 10:43 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and > > > you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH > > > > libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > > k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > > k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > > > > Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > Yep, that k3b-dvd is the one I ment. So that must not be the problem. I am > at a loss, all the k3b problems, I use it with CD and DVD and have not had > a problem ever. (knock on wood). I didn't either, until I reinstalled. After that, boom!. It still keeps giving the same error messages. Something about an opc and input/output errors. The debugging message gives this: (this version will show up different than what I posted above because its showing after I switched to Charles Edwards RPMs) System --- K3b Version: 0.11.5 KDE Version: 3.1.3 QT Version: 3.1.2 growisofs --- :-( Failed to change write speed: 8310->11080 growisofs comand: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/scd1 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -speed=8 -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.5 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.11.5 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bGYOdLb.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bGpcqTb.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bEnU4yb.tmp So I dunno. I did go back, uninstall and try reinstalling the RPMs from Charles Edwards excellent site, but that made no difference either. I'll keep on plugging at it - there's something I'm missing somewhere. Thanks for the help though! :-) -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] devfs and udev
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be unmounted and will not have the files seen, but when I do mount it manually, root can see the files but user cannot, making me think at times that I have wiped the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I followed allowed me to have any device I plugged in recognized for what it is within /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot though all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was within that session. ( I used the http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6 to install udev - it's quite conclusive.) If you set up rules for udev to give specific names to USB devices, in place of the names the kernel gives them, you will break the automounting that hotplug does. You can create your own rules to handle the mounting in place of the standard ones. This allows you to control how things get mounted. For example, when you plug in a PNY memory stick, you can have it get mounted on /mnt/pny instead /dev/removable. (Don't ask for the full details yet - I am still playing with this. My link above may help ? > Well, it show me where you went wrong. I like http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php# better. ) You can get more specific, and do things like have 32MB sticks mount one place, and 64MB mount in another. Basicly, you can test any of the tags that udev know about, and build rules based on them. While mounting specific memory devices in specific places may not be real usuefull, when you start talking about USB hard drives, that is another story. If you have more then one partition on the drive, then current hotplug code will not mount it. Also, if you have requirments that different partitions on the drive be mounted in specific places, you can handle them this way. Maybe one partition needs to mount on /backup, and another on /opt/pictures, or something like that. Now, as far as users being able to access files on USB storage devices, it depends on how you mount them. If you just do something like "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable", then your users will not be able to access the files. But if you do something like "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable -o umask=0", then they will have access. Using sda1 may not be the best choice in this example, as if you plug in a USB "PEN" drive, and it uses the default device, it will get automounted, but I think you get the idea. If you have udev set to create something like /dev/pen and /dev/pen1, then use pen1 in place of sda1, and it will work. Mikkel Thanks Mikkel If you follow the above link you will be able to see what I did as I followed it precisely. And as I have said before, during that particular session it actually worked exactly as explained in the above howto ~ that is until I got a little carried away with changing all my usb memory sticks around without waiting long enough for the system to catch up ~ end result - I corrupted my .ICEauthority file and within rescue mode had to delete that and start again with all my customizing. [ Still finding stuff that needs to be updated because of this. ] Anyway, your comments above make a lot of sense so I'm off to check things out before posting this: First up: <[ snip ]---> OK. The USB devices are 16MB, 64MB, Works128MB whilst Camera1 is a Flash card from the camera. Each of them has " noauto" and three of them has "ro" whilst one has "rw". So I need a lesson here : none of them have the "-o" option Mikkel mentions ~ and what is the true meaning of "noauto" ? For now I will only change the "ro" to "rw". As to the naming convention mentioned by Mikkel, I believe that is done here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]$ cat /etc/udev/udev.rules <...snip...> <.../snip...> # if this is a ide cdrom, name it the default name, and create a symlink to cdrom BUS="ide", KERNEL="*[!0-9]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom" # create a symlink named after the device map name # note devmap_name comes with extras/multipath KERNEL="dm-[0-9]*", PROGRAM="/sbin/devmap_name %M %m", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="%c" # DRI devices always go into a subdirectory (as per the LSB spec) KERNEL="card*", NAME="dri/card%n" # Flash Memory 16MB BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="M-Sys*", NAME="16MB%n" # Flash Memory 64MB BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="USB*", NAME="64MB%n" # Card Reader for MyCanonCamera BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="SIIG*", NAME="Camera%n" # Flash Memory "Works 128MB" BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="OTi*", NAME="Works128MB%n" <...snip...> Hmmm I am concerned on two things here, first my sys
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and > > you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH > > libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > > Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? > > Thanks for the reply. Checking under Software Uninstaller, under the Archiving group, I have cdrdao-1.1.9-6mdk cdrecord-2.01-1mdk dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-2mdk k3b-0.11.16-3mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.17-0.1010.1 mkisofs-2.01-1mdk Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpvU0WjbAxle.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:18, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 14:42, Tango Echo wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (snip) > > > Good question, and I would be interested in the answer > > as well... Correct me if I'm wrong here, but can PC > > to Phone calls be made for free under GnomeMeeting? > > There is a (cheap) rate for this to happen with Skype... > > Skype: 1.7 euro cents /minute > GMeeting: 0.043 euros/ minute Ah - I didn't know it had been introduced on GM yet. I knew they had been working on it. I guess if there is a significant price difference they will have to address that problem before long. Thanks for that. It's time I got it working again ;-) It will be pc to pc, so that's fine. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpQ7s7RktygZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 13:42, Tango Echo wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:34 AM > > To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone > > up to > > > speed on Mandrake via Skype > > > > On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: > > > Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get > > started on my home > > > > project. Give me a call if you need some help. > > > Skype: djash34 > > > > I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is > > the > > > advantage of Skype over > > GnomeMeeting? I've spoken to a friend in USA over > > GM, with > > > video, thought it > > can be used without, and no problems at all with the > > quality > > > on a 512 ADSL > > connection. > > > > I'm not meaning to be negative - it's just that I > > wonder what > > > this newer > > product can do that the older one can't. > > > > Anne > > -- > > Registered Linux User No.293302 > > (http://counter.li.org/) > > > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > Mandrake > > > at all levels > > Good question, and I would be interested in the answer > as well... Correct me if I'm wrong here, but can PC > to Phone calls be made for free under GnomeMeeting? > There is a (cheap) rate for this to happen with Skype... > As far as I know that is still work in progress. Where you can use pc to pc, though, it is totally cost-free. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpen62chsSJA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and > > you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH > > libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk > > Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? > > Thanks for the reply. Yep, that k3b-dvd is the one I ment. So that must not be the problem. I am at a loss, all the k3b problems, I use it with CD and DVD and have not had a problem ever. (knock on wood). -- 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] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
On Monday 14 March 2005 14:42, Tango Echo wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (snip) > Good question, and I would be interested in the answer > as well... Correct me if I'm wrong here, but can PC > to Phone calls be made for free under GnomeMeeting? > There is a (cheap) rate for this to happen with Skype... Skype: 1.7 euro cents /minute GMeeting: 0.043 euros/ minute -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you > need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? Thanks for the reply. -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Which package contains GTK+ 1.2 or higher in 10.1
Hi all, I tried to compile gcvs availiable from wincvs.org. While configuring it is saying that checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gtk-config. configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? I searched for gtk-config in Browse Avaliable Software from Packaging menu. I have GNOME installed. Which package contains this ?. -- rgds Antony Paul http://www.geocities.com/antonypaul24/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
> -Original Message- > From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:34 AM > To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > Subject: Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to > speed on Mandrake via Skype > > > On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: > > > > Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home > > project. Give me a call if you need some help. > > Skype: djash34 > > I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is the > advantage of Skype over > GnomeMeeting? I've spoken to a friend in USA over GM, with > video, thought it > can be used without, and no problems at all with the quality > on a 512 ADSL > connection. > > I'm not meaning to be negative - it's just that I wonder what > this newer > product can do that the older one can't. > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake > at all levels Good question, and I would be interested in the answer as well... Correct me if I'm wrong here, but can PC to Phone calls be made for free under GnomeMeeting? There is a (cheap) rate for this to happen with Skype... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ 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: Nokia 6800 connection
On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote: > If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias > directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! I have a Nokia 6600. It has IR and Bluetooth. I have used bluetooth quite a lot and the connection to Linux is fine. I can send files, receive files, contacts, etc. However, IIRC, your model does not support bluetooth so the only connection method that I can see would be via cable. Also, Nokia's software is usually freely available though it only works with Windows. You should be able to find a lot of howto's for Linux by Googling. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Enlarging / partition
Dear All How can I enlarge the / partition? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1- NVidia 1.0-7167 driver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 08:50, Graham wrote: I successfully installed the 1.0-7167 driver today. My box is: Could you add this info to the TWiki, on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ViDeo under the NVidia section, please? Done Anne, hope this works for others Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ?Conflict ? with video applications in KDE
I suspect this may be a KDE problem, but... I am running under the latest mdk 10.1 with kde. The applications I'm running are kdetv and kaffeine. My problem is that after running kaffeine I cannot get video to appear in kdetv without restarting KDE. I suspect there is a conflict or something between the overlays and/or chroma keys or whatever it is the apps use to generate the image. Does anyone know anything about this, and can they offer a solution to this please? Thanks, Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ?Conflict ? with video applications in KDE
I suspect this may be a KDE problem, but... I am running under the latest mdk 10.0 with kde. The applications I'm running are kdetv and kaffeine. My problem is that after running kaffeine I cannot get video to appear in kdetv without restarting KDE. I suspect there is a conflict or something between the overlays and/or chroma keys or whatever it is the apps use to generate the image. Does anyone know anything about this, and can they offer a solution to this please? Thanks, Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 10:42, Dave Ashmore wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: > >>>Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home > >>>project. Give me a call if you need some help. > >>>Skype: djash34 > >> > >>I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is the advantage of Skype > >>over GnomeMeeting? I've spoken to a friend in USA over GM, with video, > >>thought it can be used without, and no problems at all with the quality > >> on a 512 ADSL connection. > >> > >>I'm not meaning to be negative - it's just that I wonder what this newer > >>product can do that the older one can't. > >> > >>Anne > > > >Does GnomeMeeting talk to other voip clients? I'm curious ... most of my > >friends use MS, and skype has downloads for both. > > I haven't received this message yet - but > > That's whay I was going to say. > I can use it to talk to family that is on windows. > I have not yet been able to convert everyone I know to linux yet...lol. Yes - I have tested it against a GnomeMeeting to NetMeeting session. I think it was easier to start the session from GM than it was from NM, but that's the only issue I remember having. It certainly works without any problems. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpuJRUS5yJl9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. Give me a call if you need some help. Skype: djash34 I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is the advantage of Skype over GnomeMeeting? I've spoken to a friend in USA over GM, with video, thought it can be used without, and no problems at all with the quality on a 512 ADSL connection. I'm not meaning to be negative - it's just that I wonder what this newer product can do that the older one can't. Anne Does GnomeMeeting talk to other voip clients? I'm curious ... most of my friends use MS, and skype has downloads for both. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com That's whay I was going to say. I can use it to talk to family that is on windows. I have not yet been able to convert everyone I know to linux yet...lol. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1 Sometimes I can be reached via Skype as djash34 Disclaimer: The below quote is randomly generated and I may or may not agree with the quote. (fortunes) % Good day to deal with people in high places; particularly lonely stewardesses. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] devfs and udev
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be unmounted and will not have the files seen, but when I do mount it manually, root can see the files but user cannot, making me think at times that I have wiped the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I followed allowed me to have any device I plugged in recognized for what it is within /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot though all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was within that session. ( I used the http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6 to install udev - it's quite conclusive.) If you set up rules for udev to give specific names to USB devices, in place of the names the kernel gives them, you will break the automounting that hotplug does. You can create your own rules to handle the mounting in place of the standard ones. This allows you to control how things get mounted. For example, when you plug in a PNY memory stick, you can have it get mounted on /mnt/pny instead /dev/removable. (Don't ask for the full details yet - I am still playing with this. My link above may help ? ) You can get more specific, and do things like have 32MB sticks mount one place, and 64MB mount in another. Basicly, you can test any of the tags that udev know about, and build rules based on them. While mounting specific memory devices in specific places may not be real usuefull, when you start talking about USB hard drives, that is another story. If you have more then one partition on the drive, then current hotplug code will not mount it. Also, if you have requirments that different partitions on the drive be mounted in specific places, you can handle them this way. Maybe one partition needs to mount on /backup, and another on /opt/pictures, or something like that. Now, as far as users being able to access files on USB storage devices, it depends on how you mount them. If you just do something like "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable", then your users will not be able to access the files. But if you do something like "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable -o umask=0", then they will have access. Using sda1 may not be the best choice in this example, as if you plug in a USB "PEN" drive, and it uses the default device, it will get automounted, but I think you get the idea. If you have udev set to create something like /dev/pen and /dev/pen1, then use pen1 in place of sda1, and it will work. Mikkel Thanks Mikkel If you follow the above link you will be able to see what I did as I followed it precisely. And as I have said before, during that particular session it actually worked exactly as explained in the above howto ~ that is until I got a little carried away with changing all my usb memory sticks around without waiting long enough for the system to catch up ~ end result - I corrupted my .ICEauthority file and within rescue mode had to delete that and start again with all my customizing. [ Still finding stuff that needs to be updated because of this. ] Anyway, your comments above make a lot of sense so I'm off to check things out before posting this: First up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]$ cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 0 0 #I added to following three lines but before the reboot they were the last three entries here #And now to try to get user able to at least read the device contents I shall: # - Comment out the next three entries # - Copy the three entries below and edit them thus: # - 1st go = same as for cdrom #/udev/16MB1 /mnt/16MB vfat,ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0 #/udev/64MB1 /mnt/64MB vfat,ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0 #/udev/Camera1 /mnt/Camera vfat,ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0 /udev/16MB1 /mnt/16MB auto umask=0,user,vfat,ext2,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /udev/64MB1 /mnt/64MB auto umask=0,user,vfat,ext2,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /udev/Camera1 /mnt/Camera auto umask=0,user,vfat,ext2,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /udev/Works128MB1 /mnt/Works128MB vfat,ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0 none /mnt/dvd-cd supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/dvd-rw supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda3 /mnt/empty ext2 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2_boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5_root ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6_var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7_usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb9 /mnt/hdb9_home ext2 defaults 1 2 #Commented out the foll
Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 05:29, rikona wrote: > > I just burned a few non-crucial photos to CD using k3b, to give to > someone else. I did a quick drag and drop, and a slightly different > sets of options seemed to come up, and in this window was an option to > do a binary compare. I selected it and it did a verify/compare. I'm > not sure what was different in my first test of k3b, when it did not > seem to give me that option, but it DOES look like it will do a > verify. Whew! Makes us paranoid folks feel lots better. A happy camper > again Hi, Rikona. I tend to use k3b for somethings and XCDRoast for others. I find it easier, for instance, to backup /home/anne excluding certain things in XCDRoast, which is why I've mainly used it for backup. I couldn't see an easy way to do that in k3b. Looking at it again, though, it just does things a different way i.e. add a whole directory, expand it, then Remove the bits you don't want. Maybe it's time to move to k3b for all the work. Thanks for passing this on. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1- NVidia 1.0-7167 driver
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 08:50, Graham wrote: > > I successfully installed the 1.0-7167 driver today. My box is: > I was about to copy your message to the person on the kde list, but then saw that you had already done so. (I hadn't spotted that it was the same person asking on both lists :-) ). Could you add this info to the TWiki, on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ViDeo under the NVidia section, please? Don't forget to mention that the Mdk version is 10.1 (put '%101%' in where you want the version to show up). Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpnzryS5FlRS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: > > Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home > > project. Give me a call if you need some help. > > Skype: djash34 > > I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is the advantage of Skype > over GnomeMeeting? I've spoken to a friend in USA over GM, with video, > thought it can be used without, and no problems at all with the quality on > a 512 ADSL connection. > > I'm not meaning to be negative - it's just that I wonder what this newer > product can do that the older one can't. > > Anne Does GnomeMeeting talk to other voip clients? I'm curious ... most of my friends use MS, and skype has downloads for both. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urgent help - external hd stuff up
OK I have stuffed up I had an old 80g hd hanging around so I bought an external hd to plug it into the computer via the USB as a removable hd. Anyway I went to partitions within mandrake config selected - it had hda and sda so on the sda I selected create It appears to have moved the usr directory to the sda now how do I move it all back help Andrew D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.1- NVidia 1.0-7167 driver
Don Gregory wrote: Anybody tried the new 1.0-7167 driver yet? I successfully installed the 1.0-7167 driver today. My box is: Athlon XP2700 512 Mb Ram GeForce 4 Ti 4600 kernel Mandrake 2.6.10-1mdk I could not install from the installer as it could not find the sources. I could not install with the '--add-this-kernel' option as it could not find the sources. Remedy:- edit /etc/inittab - change init from 5 to 3 (single user mode) reboot log in as root rmmod nvidia modprobe -q agpart sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run -e Accept the default settings except name the kernel sources as /usr/src/linux(your kernel) edit /etc/inittab - change init from 3 (single user mode) to 5 (gui mode) reboot A little bit messy but works fine HTH Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: > > Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. > Give me a call if you need some help. > Skype: djash34 I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is the advantage of Skype over GnomeMeeting? I've spoken to a friend in USA over GM, with video, thought it can be used without, and no problems at all with the quality on a 512 ADSL connection. I'm not meaning to be negative - it's just that I wonder what this newer product can do that the older one can't. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpWagO9V7sm2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver
>Hi All, >Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? >Could someone please tell me where and how. Many thanks for the quick replies, Christopher, Carroll and Kaj. I'm now working on it :-) I'll let you know how I get on. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] devfs and udev
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be unmounted and will not have the files seen, but when I do mount it manually, root can see the files but user cannot, making me think at times that I have wiped the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I followed allowed me to have any device I plugged in recognized for what it is within /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot though all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was within that session. ( I used the http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6 to install udev - it's quite conclusive.) If you set up rules for udev to give specific names to USB devices, in place of the names the kernel gives them, you will break the automounting that hotplug does. You can create your own rules to handle the mounting in place of the standard ones. This allows you to control how things get mounted. For example, when you plug in a PNY memory stick, you can have it get mounted on /mnt/pny instead /dev/removable. (Don't ask for the full details yet - I am still playing with this. My link above may help ? ) You can get more specific, and do things like have 32MB sticks mount one place, and 64MB mount in another. Basicly, you can test any of the tags that udev know about, and build rules based on them. While mounting specific memory devices in specific places may not be real usuefull, when you start talking about USB hard drives, that is another story. If you have more then one partition on the drive, then current hotplug code will not mount it. Also, if you have requirments that different partitions on the drive be mounted in specific places, you can handle them this way. Maybe one partition needs to mount on /backup, and another on /opt/pictures, or something like that. Now, as far as users being able to access files on USB storage devices, it depends on how you mount them. If you just do something like "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable", then your users will not be able to access the files. But if you do something like "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable -o umask=0", then they will have access. Using sda1 may not be the best choice in this example, as if you plug in a USB "PEN" drive, and it uses the default device, it will get automounted, but I think you get the idea. If you have udev set to create something like /dev/pen and /dev/pen1, then use pen1 in place of sda1, and it will work. Mikkel Thanks Mikkel If you follow the above link you will be able to see what I did as I followed it precisely. And as I have said before, during that particular session it actually worked exactly as explained in the above howto ~ that is until I got a little carried away with changing all my usb memory sticks around without waiting long enough for the system to catch up ~ end result - I corrupted my .ICEauthority file and within rescue mode had to delete that and start again with all my customizing. [ Still finding stuff that needs to be updated because of this. ] Anyway, your comments above make a lot of sense so I'm off to check things out before posting this: First up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]$ cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 0 0 #I added to following three lines but before the reboot they were the last three entries here #And now to try to get user able to at least read the device contents I shall: # - Comment out the next three entries # - Copy the three entries below and edit them thus: # - 1st go = same as for cdrom #/udev/16MB1 /mnt/16MB vfat,ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0 #/udev/64MB1 /mnt/64MB vfat,ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0 #/udev/Camera1 /mnt/Camera vfat,ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0 /udev/16MB1 /mnt/16MB auto umask=0,user,vfat,ext2,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /udev/64MB1 /mnt/64MB auto umask=0,user,vfat,ext2,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /udev/Camera1 /mnt/Camera auto umask=0,user,vfat,ext2,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /udev/Works128MB1 /mnt/Works128MB vfat,ext2 user,noauto,rw 0 0 none /mnt/dvd-cd supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/dvd-rw supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda3 /mnt/empty ext2 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2_boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5_root ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6_var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7_usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb9 /mnt/hdb9_home ext2 defaults 1 2 #Commented out the following line to try to ge
[newbie] Can not compose mails
Hi all Today I am finding a strange problem. When I open my university E-Mail page it opens my INBOX but as soon as I press "compose" but it closes all the browsers windows. The same was happening with hotmail but now it opened first time and I am writing this mail I don't know whether I would be able to send it. I am using Mandrake 9.2. The second thing is I usually have to set 7/8 PATH variables or environment variables. I have written a script. I run this script and it runs but I need to export the variables after this otherwise my program does not work. I also tried to put it in .bash_profile and .bashrc but nothing happens and I could not set them permanantly. Any suggestion please. Thanks for your time. I am in trouble. Tahir Tahir _ Searching for that dream home? Try http://ninemsn.realestate.com.au for all your property needs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
