Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 00:02, JoeHill wrote: 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). I'm not sure this is true, Joe. My Matrox card has only basic drivers and can play DVDs. I doubt if the 400 MHz processor is up to it, though. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpDK5mEU75v1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Using the rm command
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:29:32 +1200
SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Regards
SnapafunFrank
Frank,
I think the find command is what you are looking for.
As root, run
find / -name acroread* -exec ls {} \;
to find the files you are looking for. (acro* gives too many false
positives, at least on my machine.)
Use
find / -name acroread* -exec rm {} \;
to remove the files..
find / -name acroread* -exec rm -i {} \;
gives you the possibility to skip certain files, and
find / -name acroread* -exec rm -r -i {} \;
also works recursively.
Then go on to search for Acrobat instead of acroread.
Björn
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Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
Hi, I remember playing DVDs on a 466Mhz Celeron with a 4MB Matrox Millenium. I suppose it sould at least play (if not smooth) on your Machine. Regards *Sebastian Martin* Heinrich - Heine - Str. 2c 35039 Marburg a.d. Lahn Deutschland / Germany Tel.: +49 6421 897200 Mobil: +49 177 232 5 686 ICQ: 19221771 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne Wilson schrieb am 10.04.2005 08:40 das Folgende: On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 00:02, JoeHill wrote: 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). I'm not sure this is true, Joe. My Matrox card has only basic drivers and can play DVDs. I doubt if the 400 MHz processor is up to it, though. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Apr 9, 2005 11:51 PM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Actually, it is not a big deal to mount manually the flash drive. 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] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
On Sunday 10 April 2005 02:25 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: 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 Mikkel, thanks a million. That did the trick. Selecting from the serial mice worked. I would not have been able to fix that without your help. Thank you again, 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] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 April 2005 05:10 am, Sebastian Martin wrote: Hi, I remember playing DVDs on a 466Mhz Celeron with a 4MB Matrox Millenium. I suppose it sould at least play (if not smooth) on your Machine. Regards *Sebastian Martin* Heinrich - Heine - Str. 2c 35039 Marburg a.d. Lahn Deutschland / Germany Tel.: +49 6421 897200 Mobil: +49 177 232 5 686 ICQ: 19221771 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne Wilson schrieb am 10.04.2005 08:40 das Folgende: On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 00:02, JoeHill wrote: 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). I'm not sure this is true, Joe. My Matrox card has only basic drivers and can play DVDs. I doubt if the 400 MHz processor is up to it, though. Anne I think joe got it part way right, I know I can play dvds all day long on a celery 366, but it also has 640 megs system memory and 128 meg video mem on an nvidia geforce ti4400, so the real answer ain't the cpu, but what else besides the cpu is in the box, and running in the background in the box.. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Citrix ICA Client 32bit on 64bit mozilla
Hi, I'm running MDK AMD64, and using Mozilla 64 bit also, can anyone tell me if I can use the Citrix ICA 32bit client with this setup ? Regards, 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] 400MHz enough video power?
JoeHill wrote: 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). That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Miark, do you have the PLF versions of your players an their dependencies installed ? Particularly libdvdcss2-1.2.8-3plf 400Mhz, an 192mb ram should not pose a problem other than takin a little longer to fill the initial cache. Miark, have you tried playin the DVD with mplayer on the CL ? 'mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hd?' (fwiw, I think -dvd-device might be deprecated now, but it can't hurt) And don't try to play the DVD untill the light on your DVDrom has quit blinkin after you insert the DVD. If that light stays on or keeps blinkin, the drive can't read the media. Usually but not always the movie is title 1. You may need to try 2,3,4.. also. Will other DVD's play? I've run into maybe 1:50 commercial DVD's that just won't play on a computer. Couldn't even successfully rip to .avi with (PLF) dvd::rip mplayer will more often play problem DVD's than xine. BUT, every once in a while I've encountered DVD's that xine will play and mplayer won't. Those are the players I would recommend, not totem -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ASUS 54 Mbps 802.11g LAN PCI Card + wifi + MDK 10.1
Hi all, I wanted to create a wireless connexion under linux mdk 10.1 having the 54 Mbps 802.11g LAN PCI Card but i don't succeed in doing that. In fact, someone has indicated me the web site http://linux_wless.passys.nl/ According to this site, it is not supported by linux :-( Does someone knows if it's really impossible to have an internet wireless connexion by the way of this card ?? Thank you a lot by advance. Alexis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq
after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? after configuring konqueror and the screen resolution, installing firefox and thunderbird from mozilla.org, and not seeing my external usb harddisk, i restarted, and now konqueror does not start anymore. so i wanted to uninstall it, but software manager does not find it. is there a faq answering such questions ? 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
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 16:28, Tom wrote: mplayer will more often play problem DVD's than xine. BUT, every once in a while I've encountered DVD's that xine will play and mplayer won't. Those are the players I would recommend, not totem Side-issue, but interesting. I have one disk that was burned on the hardware, stand-alond dvd recorder, that will not play in either xine or mplayer. It must just be marginal, something about not being able to read some of the ifo files, I think. I can play the individual chapters, launching from konqueror, under xine, but not the film as a whole. On the stand-alone recorder it plays OK - and guess what it's running? Unless I'm very much mistaken that's xine with a few extra menu options. If you request the text menu it is identical to the one I see on this box using the same option! My daughter has a Mustek portable dvd player, and that appears to have the same xine software, too. I've read a lot about embedded linux, but this is the first time that I have been aware of it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpiUJCmI4nPp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] aMule (was: eMule for Mandrake
Paul wrote: Have a look at http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/a/am/amule/aMule-1.2.8-1mdk.i586.html. That is perhaps what you seek. i can't install it on my fresh mandrake 10.1 due to a dependency: libcurl.so.2 what is the best way to install that ? as i understand it we are two class citizens here, the club members and the others. i am not a member (maybe i need to label that in the subject to make reciprocal support easier ?) 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
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:23:58 up 48 days, 15:31, 7 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kde 3.4 install
Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed --- I was upgrading from 3.2 on MD10.1 desktop. Is there a fix for this or should I reinstall earlier version? Thanks in advance for help. -- John Bryant 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 Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) Didn't I read somewhere that DivX files require at least a 500Mhz processor? Although that was for Windoze based systems. Haven't the faintest what a DVD would need, though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:26:16 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) I stand corrected. Just tested it with the nv driver, and the DVD did play, fullscreen and all. I must have been thinking of trying to play movies with my onboard video chip (crap) before I got my GF. Sorry :-( -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:43:46 up 48 days, 15:50, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.08 +++ Behind every great fortune is a crime. -- Balzac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Poor graphics driver
After installing mandrake 10.1 O on a friends pc, I've noticed that his graphics preformance is a little poor. Its a little noticable when moving windows - very noticable when playing mpeg / wmv etc. Is there anything that can be done to improve this? The specs are below. Identification Vendor: S3 Inc. Description: 86c368 [Trio 3D/2X] Media class: DISPLAY_VGA Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 1 PCI device #: 0 PCI function #: 0 Vendor ID: 21299 Device ID: 35347 Sub vendor ID: 65535 Sub device ID: 65535 Misc Module: Card:S3 86C368 (Trio3D/2X) 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)
Philippe Landau wrote: 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.) now that i installed mandrake 10.1, how do i modify the mbr to be able to boot into the other linux installations ? control center:boot:boot loader says i need to specify a kernel image, but does not show the ones waiting on different partitions. 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
Re: [newbie] aMule (was: eMule for Mandrake
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:13:28 +0200 Philippe Landau wrote: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/a/am/amule/aMule-1.2.8-1mdk.i586.html. That is perhaps what you seek. i can't install it on my fresh mandrake 10.1 due to a dependency: libcurl.so.2 what is the best way to install that ? That Is Not a Mandrake rpm, it is an SF rpm done by someone possibly involved with the aMule project. As a matter of policy Mandrake does not include Any p2p pkgs in the distro. It Is avaiable though, for Mandrake from any PLF mirror in /free, amule-2.0.0-0.rc8.6plf being the latest. http://plf.zarb.org/ The easiest way is to go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and add plf-free and non-free to your rpmdrake/urpmi sources. Charles -- Well, I'm INVISIBLE AGAIN ... I might as well pay a visit to the LADIES ROOM ... - Mandrake Linux 10.2 on PurpleDragon 2.6.10-3.mm.19mdk-i686-up-4GB http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpi6bjT52zIy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)
Philippe Landau wrote: Philippe Landau wrote: 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.) now that i installed mandrake 10.1, how do i modify the mbr to be able to boot into the other linux installations ? control center:boot:boot loader says i need to specify a kernel image, but does not show the ones waiting on different partitions. kind regards philippe There a several ways to do it. One way it to have each distribution install its boot loader to its root partition, instead of the MBR, and then use one boot loader to give you a menu of distributions. This boot loader just loads the distribution's boot loader, and lets it take it from there. You can use LILO, Grub, or another boot loader of your own choice for this. You would use the same format as you do for booting Windows from the boot loader. For lilo, it would be something like: other=/dev/hda1 label=windows other=/dev/hda5 label=mandrake other=/dev/hda7 label=debian You can usualy specify where you want the boot loader installed as part of the install. If you want to do it later, you have to edit the config file. For lilo, edit /etc/lilo.conf and change boot=/dev/hda to boot=/dev/hda5 if you want lilo to install to partition 5. Then run lilo to do the install. The advantage of doing it this way is that when you upgrade a kernel, the kernel install scripts will update the boot loader for you. Otherwise you have to keep track of the kernel changes for each distribution in the distribution that the boot loader is installed in. The disadvantage is that you are using 2 boot loaders to boot your Linux distribution. Another way is to have one /boot partition that has the kernels for each distribution. Each distribution mounts it, and the boot loader knows where to find each kernel/inital RAM disk. But it can be fun keeping the names steight. A third way is to mount each /boot or / partition, and give the full path to the kernel for each distribution, based on the mount point. In other words, if you mounted the Debian root directory on /debian, then the kernel would be /debian/boot/debial kernel. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installation (program) problems
Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( ... Later It helps if you change the attributes to exectuable :( :( [fx: hangs head in shame] Now installed :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems
Elwyn York wrote: Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( ... Later It helps if you change the attributes to exectuable :( :( [fx: hangs head in shame] Now installed :) Elwyn Dumb question: is the script executable? Try sh /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh. 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] Installation (program) problems
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:05:57 +0100 Elwyn York wrote: Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( use # sh /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh Charles -- But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast to the nearest gas station. - Mandrake Linux 10.2 on PurpleDragon 2.6.10-3.mm.19mdk-i686-up-4GB http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpRTSVTMOIiN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) There must be other factors, Joe. As I said, they play on my old Matrox card without acceleration, and this box has an NVidia card, but I'm using the nv driver only. Xine plays them here, too. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgphrxad92YmO.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] cant unsubscribe
Everytime i try i get an error no email from the mandrake site can you please un sub me -- AIM: FucPsSht Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cant unsubscribe
On Apr 10, 2005 10:06 PM, Positive Negative [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime i try i get an error no email from the mandrake site can you please un sub me You can unsubscribe to list by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe newbie in the body of the message. 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] mandriva quickstart guide + faq
On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? after configuring konqueror and the screen resolution, installing firefox and thunderbird from mozilla.org, and not seeing my external usb harddisk, i restarted, and now konqueror does not start anymore. so i wanted to uninstall it, but software manager does not find it. is there a faq answering such questions ? kind regards philippe I gather from your post you are very new to linux in general. Try not to expect the same handling as you did in windows. Do not (just)uninstall what doesn't seem to work for you, you might need it again later. Take your time to look around at what you've got installed...it's more than you think or can see at a first glance. Yes, I would certainly advise to _only_ install via the software managerthat will save some disappointments, depencies_wise. For tips, tricks and faq's check the twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome -- 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 3.4 install
Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed --- I was upgrading from 3.2 on MD10.1 desktop. Is there a fix for this or should I reinstall earlier version? Thanks in advance for help. probably /etc/menu/menudrakeentry was breaked by the upgrade post that file in list so we could read it. maybe this help. -- Regards, Francesco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? is there a faq answering such questions ? I gather from your post you are very new to linux in general. not really new, but not at home, right :-) Try not to expect the same handling as you did in windows. Do not (just)uninstall what doesn't seem to work for you, you might need it again later. in debian a troubleshooting trick is to remove completely, including the configuration files, through synaptic, and then reinstall. can mdr software manager remove config files too ? Take your time to look around at what you've got installed...it's more than you think or can see at a first glance. Yes, I would certainly advise to _only_ install via the software managerthat will save some disappointments, depencies_wise. i will try then. For tips, tricks and faq's check the twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome ah great, thank you. now on: http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/ Getting started points to the beautifully done http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ that i needed today. and everything done by the kind souls helping so much on these lists too. thank you all. 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] installed perl modules
Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've installed. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 18:34:39 up 20:41, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.32, 0.33 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Everyone's head is a cheap movie show. -- Jeff G. Bone 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?
Ian wrote: On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) Didn't I read somewhere that DivX files require at least a 500Mhz processor? I'd heard that rumor too Although that was for Windoze based systems. There is no reality comin from Windoze, either the users or M$ Haven't the faintest what a DVD would need, though. Ian, while not on DVD, I took some CD's burned with .vobs ripped from DVD up to my daughter an g'kids when I went up to Houston for Christmas. She has my old PII 350 (that I oc'd to 467 the whole time I had it). Mostly an experiment to see how the videos played, or even if they would. Her system has ancient ram in it, from an even older P90 system I use to have. Rated for 66mhz I guess, it was from before the PC66 standard was invented. I ran that old ram at 133+. When I gave the system to my daughter, I had to keep it at 100mhz to match the default PII 350 FSB. That ram, 64mb's (2x32), is old an 'rode hard an put up wet'. The video card is an old S3 'Virge'. Also previously oc'd to the limit, but not in her system. Which other than the ancient ram, is run at default speeds now. It's a system runnin Linux, an the last time I updated it for her, it was to 10.1, KDE, w/PLF additions. That 350, w/o 3d/accel, only 64mb overan worn out ram played the .vob's just fine usin (PLF) mplayer. So I gave her some $$'s to go to Wal*Mart and buy a DVDrom drive (ata) and some DVD's for the kids. The Cdrom was old an tired anyhow (also a carry over from my my ancient P90). Installed the DVDrom, an played the DVD's for the kids. 350Mhz, overstretched 64mb ram, no hardware accel on an ancient 2mb video card. It did take close to a minute to fill the cache an start playin the movie tho. (64mb, 250 /swap). After the wait, it played flawlessly. I suppose it is time to build another system for myself an give her an the g'kids this old XP3000+, no 3d/acell. Just with an old 512mb stick of ram I've got layin around in it ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing new monitor
I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor
Carroll Grigsby wrote: I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Run drakxconf and update the monitor settings. Then change the resolution. 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] installed perl modules
Il lun, 2005-04-11 alle 01:36, Chris ha scritto:
Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms
in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've
installed.
for an alphabetic list of module with full path you can try this script
the author page is here
http://www.perl.it/documenti/faq/view.html?pag=3faq=4lng=en
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Find;
my @file;
find sub { push @file, $File::Find::name if -f _ /\.pm$/ },
@INC;
print join \n, @file;
if you want , there is a tool named perl-pmtools packaged
http://language.perl.com/misc/pmtools-1.00.tar.gz.
and a Fedora rpm too (for mandrake don't ask me, request it to
Club-contrib packagers)
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/perl-pmtools-1.00-1.noarch.html
--
Regards,
Francesco
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Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor
On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:02 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Run drakxconf and update the monitor settings. Then change the resolution. Mikkel Mikkel: That did it -- thanks for your help. My problem was that I hadn't seen the Monitor heading and just tried changing the resolution. Just another senior moment here. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installed perl modules
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:36:52 -0500, Chris wrote: Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've installed. rpm -qa | grep -i perl Hope that helps, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
