[newbie] Creating a website with video
Sorry this is a little off topic, I have a friend that wants to add some video to a website he has and wants me to help - but I've never done this before. So far I have been using Mozilla to edit his site and I've got no html knowledge at all. Is there someone who can point me in the right direction? -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. Rosemary, I'm no expert so this may be the blind leading the blind here. Sometimes I've had problems with the latest packages of insert program name here that I download using urpmi. I've had some luck by disabling all 'net' sources and only leaving the Mdk disks to force it to install from the CD. Of course you'll need to remove the copy you currently have installed first. -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] I'm confused about java
Hi list, I tried to view a website today that needs java to display properly. I used the 'install software' part of mcc and searched for java - the (monsterous) list has left me very confused. Can anyone tell me what package I need to install to view a website with java - I'm using firefox if that has any bearing. -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firefox gone bad
Hi all, This morning firefox asked me to look for an update for the theme I was using. I clicked the update now button and things have gone horribly wrong. All the buttons etc now appear as text. But the fonts are all too big and everything overlaps. It's a mess! It's impossible to use the firefox menus to change over to a different theme. I've tried the good'ol windows uninstall - reinstall method but the new firefox install just picks up the old preferences so the problem remains. Can anyone direct me to some preference / config files I may be able to edit to get my firefox useable again. Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad
Miark wrote: You may have to blow away your ~/.mozilla directory. Actually, I'd rename it to something else, let Firefox make a new directory, then copy my bookmarks from the old directory to the new. Miark Can't seem to find the .mozilla directory - any clues as to where to look? Since I still rely on urpmi (and can't see a good reason not to at this stage) I still have no idea where things get installed on my system. Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad
Thanks Miark and Graham for your help and for being so prompt, you're both lifesavers. Especially the tip about renaming the folder. I use the net all day at work and while I could recreate my favourites, being able to restore them to the new .mozilla directory has certainly saved me heaps of time. Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Sinux? Hmmm. porno on linuxall the filth you want for your eyes, but none for your hard drive (virus's, ad/spy/malware). I hope Micro$oft doesn't hear about this, they might spread rumours that because linux doesn't support adware it therefore encourages browsing for porn. M$ has referred to Linux as a cancer before, might it now be 'the cancer that causes the moral decline of society'? ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lexar Jumpdrive
Amy wrote: Hey guys! I have a little 128 mb jumpdrive, it used to automount it's happy little ass when I plugged it in, but that was when I still was running the cooker install. (A Newbie running cooker? *gasp* Blame my friend, I eventually got frustrated even though he never had any problems and downgraded to 10.1, we'll leave it at that.) I just plugged my little purple guy into the front usb ports on my happy little computer, and the drive didn't mount it's happy little self for me like I was used to. Now, since I've started using Mandrake (and linux in general) I've never had to manually mount something, and I haven't the first frellin' clue how to do this. I tried to be a good girl, and looked at the man pages, but I can't make heads or tails enough to know what to type in the console to make my happy little jumpdrive mount, and let me get the pictures I copied off my mom's iLamp onto my own little computer. So I guess the long and short of it, I want to know what I should do to get my jumpdrive to mount, and long term, if anyone can shine a little light onto why the automount used to work, but doesn't know, I'd greatly appreciate it! I have a suspicion about something, but I can't remember what the file is that I need to open to see if my suspicion is correct. I'll corner my friend about it tomorrow, and see if he has any ideas, but meanwhile, if any of you can help, that would be great! Amy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hi Amy, This is far from a technical answer but it may help. When I had problems with my CD drives (they refused to unmount and so would not mount any new disks that were inserted) I edited fstab as root and deleted the lines that related to the mount points concerned. On reboot I ran MCC as root and added the drives again - not sure if this step is required for a USB drive though. Are there any entries lingering in fstab that relate to your jumpdrive? -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any PDA users out there?
Noel McG. wrote: Whilst not actually answering your question this http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums may be somewhere to start. It in fact deals with GPS systems but there are write ups on various models and your glider package may be mentioned. However most of these run Windows 2002/3 PPC I do not recall anyone using a Linux setup anuless it has been installed under another name. Good luck. Noel, Thanks for your reply. The site you sent me to was great, I learned a heap of stuff I didn't know. Those SDIO GPS cards look really great, I hope I can find one without the road map software that seems to make them so expensive. Just standard GPS features would be great if I can find it. In perfect compliance with Murphy's Law, I thought to visit the Kpilot website *after* posting for help here! It was great to see it listed known working models. I now have a shiny new Palm Tungsten E on the way...can't wait. -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] any PDA users out there?
Hi all, am considering purchasing a PDA, I've googled on the topic and I fast becoming confused with all the information out there - some of which is grossly outdated so I'm not sure what to trust. What I really need is a testimony from someone that has one... Does anyone on the list use a PDA? if so have you been able to install a distro such as familiar on it? Whether using a linux distro or its original OS, how well does it and the apps integrate with mandrake? (eg - PIM's) I feel comfortable with 'Palm' but would prefer to dual boot an iPaq if possible. (I believe there is flight management/recording software available for glider pilots on the iPaq so this would be a bonus). I see Mandrake includes Kpilot which looks to work with the Palm - is there anything similar for the iPaq? Sorry for asking so many questions - any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
Notice to any NEC Versa E600 owners: Mandrake 10.1 actually works! Just thought I'd post this as I'd had problems installing all previous versios of MDK on this machine and found a few others on this list in the same boat. Install went flawlessly, KDE works fine, inbuilt mouse and keyboard work fine and the battery level monitor works fine, all of which refused to work previously. After install I spent about another 2 hours with it installing more apps and 'playing arround' without any problems or stability issues. Only thing that remains to be done is find a driver for the software modem. I guess they were dinkum when they said 10.1 had improved laptop support. Cheers, Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
Stephen Kühn wrote: Software modems are inherently written for Microsoft Windows. Best bet is to pickup a nice used 56k external serial modem. Or get away from dodo.com.au and get broadband. Thanks for the tip, you're right I don't hold much hope for itbut i can dream hey ;) We live out in the sticks so broadband is not available to us:( yet. But there is talk of bushcom.com.au installing a wireless network out here, I just pray the reciever will use ethernet and not need any Winblows drivers! Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm too cheap to use the broadband that is available. ISDN is available as I live within the town, it is competitively priced IF you already rent a second line for the internet. But we only use one phone line so ISDN would approximately double our phone/internet costs (the wife would kill me). Satellite is available (I'm the computer dude at RetraVision and we have it here at work) but the setup and ongoing costs are more than I can justify as a home user. So I've resigned myself to doing my big downloads at work and using email and simple browsing at home.maybe I should run some cat5 from work to home - they're only 700m apart :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thank you to all
Greetings fellow Mandrake users. I'm writing this email to thank anyone who has ever helped solve another's problems on this list. Especially those members whose replys show that they are anything but a newbie. Surely their involvement in this list must be purely service to the Linux community, rather than for personal gain. I have been using Mandrake since 9.0 (I'm now on 10.1)and a good 95% of what I know about Linux has been learned from just watching this list, or asking the occasional question. I am using mandrake now at work and at home and it almost completely replaces Winblows. I very rarely have a problem I cannot solve now (probably testament to Mandrakes stability rather than my skill though). I can say without a doubt that had it not been for the newbie list I would still be using M$ Winblows today. THANKS GUYS AND GIRLS, GIVE YOURSELVES A PAT ON THE BACK. I look forward to the day I feel confident enough to help someone else out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Please help me...
ali tig wrote: snip i insert the CD into the drive and reboot the machine. i press the [Enter] key to start the installation. after that there is any thing to go on. there is a black screen. i waited about half hour but anything. what the problem can be? snip Guys, it sounds like he is booting fine from cd one and getting the press enter to install or upgrade mandrake linux screen. I wonder if it's not going any further because of a hardware incompatibility??? Motherboard or vid card perhaps? ali tig - it might be worth searching the net to double check all your hardware is linux compatible. Posting a list of your components here could help you too. I'm no hardware compatibility expert myself though, I can only vouch for the bits that are running in my computer. Hope this helps, Aidan. 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 startup folder
Sorry about the windows terminology but I cant think of any other way of describing it. Does anyone know how to set an application to run on startup like dragging the shortcut into the startup folder in Winblows? I like the volume control that used to sit in the system tray (is this correct terminology for ML?) but it's disappeared. I can easily get it back by clicking on KMix in the KDE menu but this shouldn't be necessary. -Aidan Holmes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Database Recommendations?
Hello all, Can anyone recommend a good database application for my needs? I have searched the net on the subject and just get myself more and more confused about what I need to run. MySQL seems to be the one everyone raves about, but it's far too powerful for what I want.not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but if it's too complicated then that's a problem. I'm a glider pilot in my spare time and I'd like to keep a database on my flying experience. I'd like to be able to enter data such as: Flight date, duration, type of aircraft flown, solo/instructional and so on. Then I'd like to get it to report on information such as: Total hours flown Total hours in a particular aircraft type (solo and/or dual) Total hours solo and/or dual regardless of aircraft type...etc Can anybody steer me in the right direction and let me know what packages I would need to install? Thanks - Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] best way to emulate the mac feel?
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 04:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Enlightenment dr16.5 - with the MacOS themes - there are a few of them - and some that look wonderfully like OS/X stephen kuhn - proprietor please excuse the ignorance, is Enlightenment dr16.5 a theme, or another gui like icewm, kde, gnome etc.. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] XMMS - Couldn't open audio
quick one for you (I think) I like to listen to my .ogg files with XMMS while at work. Trouble is about 10 times a day I get the following error message: Couldn't open audio Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly You have the correct output plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard I assume that since it all worked fine 5 seconds before the error message, and then agin once I dismiss it, the first two are OK, which leaves No other program is blocking the soundcard Is it possible to raise the priority of XMMS so that it blocks other programs from using the sound card and not vica-versa. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS - Couldn't open audio
Greg and John, Alao, please unset your reply-to when posting to the list because it screws up list addressing. thanks for your advice and the heads up on the reply to address. While I now use Linux as my primary OS, I'm still very much experimenting. I have just changed my email program (Again!) to Kontact (Kmail), and had trouble configuring things at first. So I filled in every possible field I knew the answer to untill it worked!!! Reply to address has now been removed from my accounts and I've hit apply so hopefully this message won't be a nuissance aswell. I'll try the new sound settings as soon as I get the chance and I'll let you know how I go. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mate, I am in the same boat - except I bring my customer's boxen in here to the lab and connect them to the network. I've been using ClamScan and F-Prot - both free - both updatable. Work like a charm. Clamscan: www.clamav.net F-Prot: www.f-prot.com stephen kuhn - owner That should be easy enough for me to do, thanks. As Josh pointed out though, How successful are you with cleaning an NTFS partition in this manner? -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] recieving 56K dial up connections
et wrote: yes, of course, this is GNU-linux, and GNU-linux really does work. I think I miss understood... you want to do this without using the telphone company at all this (and I ain't never considered it before, since a serial to serial cable would do the a much faster transer, as would a lpt2lpt connection so you want the customers modem to call into your modem? as far as really tranfering files, i think there are better ways,,, you might consider reading man pppd, as that seems to me to be the place that explains a few of the switches, and stuff, for ppp. et, thanks for your man pppd suggestion, I'll get stuck into it as soon as business slows down a bit. Just to clear up my intentions, this would be a good setup, (I feel), for testing customers modems (frequent lightning strikes out here in Rura Western Australia), and for small internet downloads that really don't warrant the time to set up the machine on our LAN. For example, a quick virus definition update before scanning the machine. To set up a second Dial up connection in Windows takes about 15seconds and I'm away. -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] recieving 56K dial up connections
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to configure my MDK 10.0 machine to mimick an ISP's behaviour and recieve a dial up connection request with my external modem, then sharing my LAN internet connection with this machine. I use MDK on my test computer at work, it is on the shop LAN and we are soon to install satellite broadband on our network. This will be great for getting large winblows drivers and burning them to disk, but for some things the customers computer needs to be connected to the 'net itself. Currently this ties up an additional phone, but If I could get them to dial up my machine (Phone line running direct from modem to modem) and share the net this way things would be much quicker and easier. -Aidan Holmes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)
Does anybody out there know of/use/recommend a virus scanning package for linux? I'm hoping to use one to scan clients hard drives without having to leave mandrake and boot into Winblows XP. I use a removeable HDD bay for this purpose as often once the virus is in place, I cannot install antivirus on their computers. So, at present I'm booting into Windows XP (sorry for swearing!) and using my copy of Norton System Works to knock the virus on the head first. I would dearly love to use Mandrake for this because at present it involves two reboots: One into windows to update my own virus definitions and check for any more winblows patches to protect my own system. And the second to insert the clients HDD (non hot pluggable ide bay) and scan the bloody thing. -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] scrolling text crash on 9.2 startup
Sorry if I'm being a pest, I have asked this question already under the subject of NEC versa E600 laptop install but got no answers. This is the last time I'll ask I promise :-) I'm trying to install MDK9.2 on my wifes laptop. The installation goes fine, but then when I reboot to run it for the first time things go wrong. As the system boots up, the progress bar freezes approx 2/3 of the way along. When I restart and press 'esc' for verbose mode, I see all the things I usually see on my desktop machine - all the devices and services that it starts, then a few lines after it starts alsa (it moves too fast for me to see what the last service is) it starts scrolling through lines and lines of text, too fast for me to read in any detail. The text takes the following approximate form: [cea17814] ??? [supermount] the cea17814 is constantly changing, this is just one I managed to read as it flew past. The supermount also often says kernel and as for the question marks, I can't pause the screen so I'll never know what that says. The longest I have left this screen scrolling past is half an hourwith no progress. Any ideas??? The only problem I encountered on setup was the X server, on the final options screen it has not been configured automatically like it was when I installed on my desktop. I go through and give it the following options: Flatpanel 1024X768 and graphics card radeon under ati - it had no option for the raedon 340M or anything else closer. I have also tried radeon under X4 but that does not change anything. Has this happened to anyone else? Any / all suggestions greatly appreciated. Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NEC versa E600 laptop install.
Hi group! I have sucessfully installed Mandrake 9.2 on the home pc, and managed to convince my wife to let me put it on her work laptop. We formatted last night and re-installed XP home on one half of the disk, then ran the mandrake disks, installing linux on the other half (10 gig each) The installation goes fine, but then when I reboot to run it for the first time things go wrong. As the system boots up, the progress bar freezes approx 2/3 of the way along. When I restart and press 'esc' for verbose mode, I see all the things I see on my desktop machine - all the devices and services that it starts, then it starts scrolling through lines and lines of text, too fast for me to read in detail. The text takes the following approximate form: [cea17814] ??? [supermount] the cea17814 is constantly changing, this is just one I managed to read as it flew past. The supermount also often says kernel and as for the question marks, I can't pause the screen so I'll never know what that says. The longest I have left this screen scrolling past is half an hourwith no progress. The versa E600 is a pentium4 1.9GHZ mobile with 256M RAM. The graphics card is an ATI raedon 340M (as recognized in Windoze). This is the only thing I can think of that would trip the computer up. On the final options screen, the X server is not configured like it was with my desktop. I go through and give it the following options: Flatpanel 1024X768 and graphics card raedon under ati - it had no option for the raedon 340M or anything else closer. Could this be the problem, and is it possible to finish setup with out configuring the X server? Has this happened to anyone else? Any / all suggestions greatly appreciated. Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Registered Linux User No.
Could someone please explain to me what the Registered Linux User No.xxx is that a few of you sport in your email signatures. I like the sound of that -Registered Linux User - how do you become one and does it give you any benefits other than a cool email signature? -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] teething problems with 9.2
I have just upgraded from 9.0 to 9.2 and My computer is now running about as well as when I ran windows :o( Firstly, In lilo if i select linux 9.2 boots ok, but into text mode. The nice pretty GUI has gone and I don't know how to start it again. If I reboot and select old_linux, the computer boots into 9.2 with a working GUI. Is this major reason for concern? If not, how do I re-configure lilo to boot old_linux as the default? Secondly, I cannot use GnomePPP to connect to the internet (does the fact that I operate in KDE have anything to do with it?) GnomePPP dials ok and then says that it's connected, but a few seconds later spits out an error message saying it's unexpectedly quit. When I go through the mandrake control centre and use DrakConnect things work OK (hence this email!). Is there an easier way to launch DrakConnect, or is there a way I can get KPPP back again? Sorry about asking so many questions, I hope somebody can help. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open GL graphics cards.
Hi Guys, Quick question for you. What is a good (and hopefully inexpensive) AGP 4X card that supports open GL. I currently have a Riva TNT2 (32Mb). This card is fine with the simpler games and office aps, but has a frame rate of about 1 every 2 seconds when I load something like Tux racer. Any suggestions??? -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open GL graphics cards.
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:37, Greg Meyer wrote: The TNT2 should perform better than that. Have you installed the hardware acceleration enabled drivers from nvidia, or are you using the free nv driver? Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to tell. No, I am just using the ones that came with my linux discs. I remember updating my drivers from the Nvidia site when I still ran windoze. Can you tell me how you install a device driver in linux? -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] annoying alarm on standby.
Thank you all for your help with this issue. I can now confirm that it's definately CPU overheating due to the fan stopping. I left the case off, and then left the computer 'till I heard the alarm again. Upon my return, the cpu fan had stopped, and the heatsink was too hot to touch for more than a second or so. An added bonus was that as i had turned the ceiling light off, i noticed that the case power light was flashing in time with the beeps ( I assume this means that it is a BIOS alarm), something I had not noticed with the room brightly lit. I plan to check out the bios options first when I get home (I'm at work now) and see what difference that makes before trying to mess with any more settings in the software. To aswer a few of your questions, The heatsink does have a pad, not thermal paste. and I have installed Mandrake myself from disks on the front of a Linux how-to book from the local newsagets. (I also bought red hat from the internet, but prefer the mandrake so far) I am running dual boot with Win XP and plan to learn linux the sam way I did windoze, by getting my hands dirty, playing arround and trying things out. It means that this is about my fifth linux re-installation in as many months but I'm learning alot. Hopefully I can completely phase out windoze soon and run a M$ free machine. -Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
