Re: [newbie] Web page hints?
On Friday 08 Apr 2005 23:47, et wrote: have you installed drakwizard? just run the apache web server wizard from mcc, and when it asks you to put in the root, just change it to /var/www/html/Design. or are you asking about editing /etc/www/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf? as root and restarting apache? Hi, et. My small webspace is on my isp's server, so I can't do anything with apache. I;ve had some off-list help which I hope to implement over the weekend. If all goes well I'll report back in the hope that it helps someone else. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpgRn9jgl0yS.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] No Sound in Kaffeine with Mary Gauthier video
Hi folks, This music video (which is Quicktime - I think) gives me pictures but no sound when played in Kaffeine. Sound is OK with other music vids and CDs. Is there some add-on that I need to download, or any way of tweaking the program? Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla
On Apr 9, 2005 3:38 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.5/plugins/nppdf.so /home/chris/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so /root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so It automatically installed in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ when I used the (2) option when I ran the script. You were luckier, Chris: your procedure did not succeeded here! I assume that help About Plugins shows this in Mozilla: Adobe Reader 7.0 File name: nppdf.so The Adobe Reader plugin is used to enable viewing of PDF and FDF files from within the browser. MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled application/pdf Portable Document Formatpdf Yes application/vnd.fdf Acrobat Forms Data Format fdf Yes application/vnd.adobe.xfdf XML Version of Acrobat Forms Data Format xfdf Yes application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml Acrobat XML Data Packagexdp Yes application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml Adobe FormFlow99 Data File xfd Yes You assume it correctly, Chris. 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] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So I set the append line in lilo to noapic nolapic and on boot with the device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable. HTH Oh man, if I would read and not jump.. any chance you went to console and typed in as su mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk ? or look in MCC and see what harddrake calls the device. HTH Thanks, Dennis, but I do not understand quite well what you mean. Yes, if I run the command mount /media/usbdisk then, I can use my flash disk. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problems with streaming audio/video in Xine
Hi again, Just installed Xine in the hopes of overcoming the limitations i seem to have with Kaffeine. However still no sound with .mov files. Also, when I try to connect to radio stations, I get the following error: Error loading library: cook.so.6.0 These libraries are installed in /home/graham/codecs along with all the others. What, if anything, can I do about these problems? -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with streaming audio/video in Xine
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi again, Just installed Xine in the hopes of overcoming the limitations i seem to have with Kaffeine. However still no sound with .mov files. Also, when I try to connect to radio stations, I get the following error: Error loading library: cook.so.6.0 These libraries are installed in /home/graham/codecs along with all the others. What, if anything, can I do about these problems? Further to this, when starting gxine from the command line, I get the following message which may be relevant (or not): lirc: lirc_init failed. Make sure that you have lircd running lirc: and that you have the permissions to connect to the socket This occurs whether running as user or root so somehow I don't think it's a permissions issue. What is lircd anyhow? -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: ark rar
Q, if you delete your reply-to address, it would be easier for people on the Mandrake/Mandriva lists to respond to your posts. Hi Miark, Many thanks for your suggestion. Now I have removed my address from the reply-to. In fact I don't realize that. What problem does it cause? Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
Are you running KDE 3.4, Miark? Cannot it be caused by KDE 3.4? Well, it is just a suspicion, because I think I have tried everything to get the Acrobat Reader plugin working, but with no luck. Hi Paul, I guess your doubt might be sound as I use KDE 3.2 and AR 7.0 does work well with me. You got complaint it to KDE development gangs;) Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 and Skype.
Hi all, does anyone have Skype running on 10.1? If so could you help me get my microphone working? Thanks, Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 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: ark rar
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 11:52, Q.H. Wang wrote: Q, if you delete your reply-to address, it would be easier for people on the Mandrake/Mandriva lists to respond to your posts. Hi Miark, Many thanks for your suggestion. Now I have removed my address from the reply-to. In fact I don't realize that. What problem does it cause? This, and several other issues that cause problems, are explained on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Do take the time to explore the Community TWiki, while you're there. There's a huge amount of useful information, although you may have to browse the index to see where it is. The search facility is a bit primitive, but it does bring up a list of pages where your search term is mentioned. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpShLPKXZdvr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Re: ark rar
Many thanks Anne. I really don't realize it's the problem of replying posts directly to me, not the list. I thought it has caused some other problems. Now I'm clear. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:04:05 +0100 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, does anyone have Skype running on 10.1? If so could you help me get my microphone working? I don't use Skype, but let me guess: you're motherboard is nforce2 based...? If not, does your microphone work with other applications...? -- 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] 10.1 and Skype.
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 13:23, Smiley wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:04:05 +0100 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, does anyone have Skype running on 10.1? If so could you help me get my microphone working? I don't use Skype, but let me guess: you're motherboard is nforce2 based...? If not, does your microphone work with other applications...? -- Smiley Hi Smiley, yes it is nforce2 and no, I haven't got the mic working with any other applications. Si. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)
if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OpenOffice Beta 2 Installation Mandrake 10.1
Hi All HELP! I am attempting to install Open Office Beta 2 m02 on a Mandrake 10.1 system and I have a few questions as I do not understand the installation instructions. A copy of the installation instruction along with my questions follows. Hope some one can help. Thanks Frank Usage: install [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST (1st format) What does DEST mean? Destination? or: install [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY (2nd format) For multiuser installation which DIRECTORY should be used? For single user installation which DIRECTORY should be used? I am assuming SOURCE means the directory the OpenOffice install file is located in. If the command prompt is in the directory does one have to include DIRECTORY in the command? or: install -d [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... (3rd format) See note under -d In the first two formats, copy SOURCE to DEST or multiple SOURCE(s) to the existing DIRECTORY, while setting permission modes and owner/group. In the third format, create all components of the given DIRECTORY(ies). Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. --backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file -b like --backup but does not accept an argument -c (ignored) What is being ignored? Does -c mean ignore all following options or is this reserved for future usage? -d, --directory treat all arguments as directory names; create all components of the specified directories If one treats all arguments as directories what does happens? -D create all leading components of DEST except the last, then copy SOURCE to DEST; useful in the 1st format -g, --group=GROUP set group ownership, instead of process' current group -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), instead of rwxr-xr-x -o, --owner=OWNER set ownership (super-user only) -p, --preserve-timestamps apply access/modification times of SOURCE files to corresponding destination files -s, --strip strip symbol tables, only for 1st and 2nd formats -S, --suffix=SUFFIX override the usual backup suffix -v, --verbose print the name of each directory as it is created --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit The backup suffix is `~', unless set with --suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be selected via the --backup option or through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values: none, off never make backups (even if --backup is given) numbered, t make numbered backups existing, nil numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise simple, never always make simple backups Report bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org.
Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:41:19 +0100 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Smiley, yes it is nforce2 and no, I haven't got the mic working with any other applications. A lot of people had (and still having) this problem with Mandrake and mike with nforce... Other distros does work, instead; alas I think the only way to solve your problem is waiting for Mandrake 10.2 (or Mandrake 2005 Limited Edition, or Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition, or... ahem...) I'm running 10.2 RC2 just now and microphone is finally OK... -- Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Email and Firefox
Hello How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Connecting parallel printer through USB - parallel converter
Hello, I have an old HP DeskJet 560C printer which I used under Mandrake through a standard parallel port connection. Now I tried to connect the printer via a USB to Centronics 36 cable connector to be able to print throgh the USB port (by the way, this works when printing under XP, WinUAE Amiga OS 3.9 and under MorphOS, so there is no problem with the converter or the printer). Under Mandrake (10.0 Kernel 2.6) I created a new printer with Harddrake2, went to the dialoque (choosing printer model, port and so on, the same stuff I did when I configured it for the parallel port in the past) and it seems to be okay. But as soon as I want to print (from any application), the print dialogue hangs, the application seems to freeze and nothing prints. I have to kill the application or to reboot Mandrake. Any ideas what it could be? Cheers Yvan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? The reason he cites for wanting windows are all areas mandrake can really soar, so I'm dying to give him his dream machine! Did the adapter come with the mouse? Does the mouse work with the adapter on other computers? Other OSs? snip Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your reply. Yes, the mouse works fine on windows so it must work with serial also. I have no idea how to get mandrake to detect it though Kind regards, 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] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:14 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So I set the append line in lilo to noapic nolapic and on boot with the device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable. HTH Oh man, if I would read and not jump.. any chance you went to console and typed in as su mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk ? or look in MCC and see what harddrake calls the device. HTH Thanks, Dennis, but I do not understand quite well what you mean. Yes, if I run the command mount /media/usbdisk then, I can use my flash disk. Paul Right, this seems to be the way 10.1 works. It must first have a removable drive mounted and then it will allow it to be read. 10.2 has changed this and works much better for hotplugging. 10.2 should be out in a few days now. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
On Saturday 09 April 2005 03:09 pm, JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? The reason he cites for wanting windows are all areas mandrake can really soar, so I'm dying to give him his dream machine! Did the adapter come with the mouse? Does the mouse work with the adapter on other computers? Other OSs? snip Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your reply. Yes, the mouse works fine on windows so it must work with serial also. I have no idea how to get mandrake to detect it though Kind regards, Jarlath I've just learned that harddrake has detected a SBLive joystick. There is no joystick so I think it is really the mouse. It is filed under 'Unknown/other' in harddrake. 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] Email and Firefox
Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:55:45 -0400 schreef john: How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. I use 10.0, hopefully things have not changed too much: Open gnome-control-center, click Advanced and then doubleclick filetypes and programs. In the new window scroll down to INternet services, click the triangle and find E-mail at the bottom. Click that, click the 'Edit' button on the right, and there point the service to thunderbird. Good luck! Paul -- What part of 'no' don't you understand? Is it the 'N', or the 'Zero'? http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox
Paul wrote: Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:55:45 -0400 schreef john: How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. I use 10.0, hopefully things have not changed too much: Open gnome-control-center, click Advanced and then doubleclick filetypes and programs. In the new window scroll down to INternet services, click the triangle and find E-mail at the bottom. Click that, click the 'Edit' button on the right, and there point the service to thunderbird. Good luck! Paul Paul Thanks for response. I changed the mailer to thunderbird but I need to know the correct command to fill in. Evolution was evolution %s (w/o quotation marks). Thanks again in addvance 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] 10.1 and Skype.
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 14:18, Smiley wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:41:19 +0100 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Smiley, yes it is nforce2 and no, I haven't got the mic working with any other applications. A lot of people had (and still having) this problem with Mandrake and mike with nforce... Other distros does work, instead; alas I think the only way to solve your problem is waiting for Mandrake 10.2 (or Mandrake 2005 Limited Edition, or Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition, or... ahem...) I'm running 10.2 RC2 just now and microphone is finally OK... -- Smiley Thanks for the info Smiley. I will be looking forward to solving this problem as I hate having to go onto Windows to run Skype. Regards, Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox
Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 12:58:04 -0400 schreef john: Thanks for response. I changed the mailer to thunderbird but I need to know the correct command to fill in. Evolution was evolution %s (w/o quotation marks). Thanks again in addvance You'll then need to enter the entire path to thunderbird. I don't know where it is installed on your machine, so 'locate thunderbird' might give you a clue. Adding the %s will add the e-mail address of the person to whom you are sending e-mail that is in the link. Paul -- What part of 'no' don't you understand? Is it the 'N', or the 'Zero'? http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PGP Package
Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) that I need to access, please help :-) Reagrds, Tony. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PGP Package
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 20:18, Tony wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) that I need to access, please help :-) Reagrds, Tony. Install gnupg and KGpg. Regards, Simon -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PGP Package
Great, thanks :-)) On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 21:30, Simon wrote: On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 20:18, Tony wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) that I need to access, please help :-) Reagrds, Tony. Install gnupg and KGpg. Regards, Simon -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:14 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So I set the append line in lilo to noapic nolapic and on boot with the device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable. HTH Oh man, if I would read and not jump.. any chance you went to console and typed in as su mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk ? or look in MCC and see what harddrake calls the device. HTH Thanks, Dennis, but I do not understand quite well what you mean. Yes, if I run the command mount /media/usbdisk then, I can use my flash disk. Paul Right, this seems to be the way 10.1 works. It must first have a removable drive mounted and then it will allow it to be read. 10.2 has changed this and works much better for hotplugging. 10.2 should be out in a few days now. On my system, a stock 10.1, with the standard upgrades, but not with KDE upgraded to a newer version, plugging in a flash drive results in it being mounted on /mnt/removable, and I am able to access it without problem. But people that have upgraded KDE have run into problems because of the other packages that need to be upgraded to use the new KDE packages. It seams to break the 10.1 hotplug setup... Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 03:09 pm, JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? The reason he cites for wanting windows are all areas mandrake can really soar, so I'm dying to give him his dream machine! Did the adapter come with the mouse? Does the mouse work with the adapter on other computers? Other OSs? snip Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your reply. Yes, the mouse works fine on windows so it must work with serial also. I have no idea how to get mandrake to detect it though Kind regards, Jarlath I've just learned that harddrake has detected a SBLive joystick. There is no joystick so I think it is really the mouse. It is filed under 'Unknown/other' in harddrake. Jarlath I haven't had time to dig out a serial mouse to play with, but I hope to get a chance later today. But I don't think that the joystick is your mouse. Even if you do not have a joystick hooked up, there is still a joystick interface on the card. This is probably what you are seeing. Kind of like a serial port with nothing attached - it is there, but you cann't do much with it without a device attached. Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Using the rm command
Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only. I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at installing the later. I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by me. The README advises: To uninstall Acrobat Reader 5.0.9, simply delete the directory where it was installed. However, in doing a search : # slocate acro I have found that it is spread through quite a number of directories. Though I am prepared to track them down and remove them all individually I was wondering if there is a way to use the rm command to search and remove them all at one time ? And even better ~ if there was a way to check everything rm wanted to remove first without having to say Y to every file one by one ? Still, this is only a thought and not essential but if you know then please share. TIA -- 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] 400MHz enough video power?
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions
Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while encouraging a gang mentality on their mailing lists. dissent and open discourse is not welcome there. the PCLinux lists suffer from a lack of warmth. and MandrakeSoft/Mandriva is too commercial for me. comparing the products though, what do you recommend ? i like email, web, p2p, multimedia and simple but complete. kind regards philippe Hmmm. I've started to play with PCLinuxOS and enjoy all things there to date and you can look at it as a LiveCD first. Still, for a complete system and the most helpful list I've been on, then here, with Mandrake, remains unbeatable. -- 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] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:24:17 -0500, Mikkel wrote: On my system, a stock 10.1, with the standard upgrades, but not with KDE upgraded to a newer version, plugging in a flash drive results in it being mounted on /mnt/removable, and I am able to access it without problem. But people that have upgraded KDE have run into problems because of the other packages that need to be upgraded to use the new KDE packages. It seams to break the 10.1 hotplug setup... When you upgrade to Thac's KDE, it also installs the HAL daemon which is responsible for changing the mount points, etc. I understand HAL is a good thing, but it's really annoying if you're not expecting its changes. The good news is that after installing Thac's KDE, you can uninstall HAL without uninstalling everything else KDE. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:34:33 -0400 Miark disseminated the following: I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power? I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:58:17 up 47 days, 20:05, 7 users, load average: 0.11, 0.16, 0.35 +++ The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death. -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:30, mike wrote: Ahh... thanks Steven. Never happened to me before at least since I been using Linux. I guess I thought I was safer than I really was. Not sure how to turn that off in mozilla will look around. Again thanks, Mike Not quite sure in Mozilla Mail - but it's there somewhere. If it was Evolution I could tell you right off the bat... -- stephen kuhn I found out what the problem was, it seems to be a bug with the particular version of Mozilla I _was_ useing, tried different version with no problems.(I think anyways) Still going after the no html solution though. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using the rm command
On Saturday 09 April 2005 06:29 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only. I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at installing the later. I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by me. The README advises: To uninstall Acrobat Reader 5.0.9, simply delete the directory where it was installed. However, in doing a search : # slocate acro I have found that it is spread through quite a number of directories. Though I am prepared to track them down and remove them all individually I was wondering if there is a way to use the rm command to search and remove them all at one time ? And even better ~ if there was a way to check everything rm wanted to remove first without having to say Y to every file one by one ? Still, this is only a thought and not essential but if you know then please share. TIA Wouldn't a pipe do the trick? As in: locate string | rm string I suspect I don't have the syntax correct so you might want to test it a little before you blame me for hosing your system. 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] Using the rm command
Paul Kaplan wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 06:29 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only. I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at installing the later. I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by me. The README advises: To uninstall Acrobat Reader 5.0.9, simply delete the directory where it was installed. However, in doing a search : # slocate acro I have found that it is spread through quite a number of directories. Though I am prepared to track them down and remove them all individually I was wondering if there is a way to use the rm command to search and remove them all at one time ? And even better ~ if there was a way to check everything rm wanted to remove first without having to say Y to every file one by one ? Still, this is only a thought and not essential but if you know then please share. TIA Wouldn't a pipe do the trick? As in: locate string | rm string I suspect I don't have the syntax correct so you might want to test it a little before you blame me for hosing your system. Paul I don't think you can use a pipe, as the rm command is not expecting file names from standard in. You could probably do something like: for i in $(locate string ; do rm $i ; done or for i in $(locate string ; do rm -i $i ; done or for i in $(locate string ; do rm -f $i ; done Use at your own risk... 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] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? The reason he cites for wanting windows are all areas mandrake can really soar, so I'm dying to give him his dream machine! Did the adapter come with the mouse? Does the mouse work with the adapter on other computers? Other OSs? snip Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your reply. Yes, the mouse works fine on windows so it must work with serial also. I have no idea how to get mandrake to detect it though Kind regards, Jarlath Try logging in as root, and running drakconf. Select mouse, and then serial mouse. It will help if you know the mouse type, and the port it is connected to. Just remember: Windows Linux COM 1= /dev/ttyS0 COM 2= /dev/ttyS1 COM 3= /dev/ttyS2 COM 4= /dev/ttyS3 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
