Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:40:56 +0700
Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Too bad you got it too Marv.
Well, I'm firing up two IBM xseries servers with Mdk and nothing's
gonna stop them. One to be placed in public, and the other in LAN.
On the other hand, Linux desktop initiative has been started, and
someday those super Linux gurus will beg for easiness once their
users start complaining that their Linux is too difficult to be used
in desktop.
the sad thing is some of these distros (cough redhat cough) make it hard
even for super Linux gurus and yet they keep discussing the state of the
linux desktop while completely ignoring Mandrake's efforts.
take for instance the whole Eric Raymond vs. CUPS thing, if he only used
Mandrake the thing would have worked out of the box.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] 10CE Updates -- Broken?
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On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:25:53 -0400
Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You just have to manually check the mirrors until you find one that
has been updated to the new structure. Try here
ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/devel
hey thanks for the link, I can't believe how impatient we are (me
included).
but it would have been better if Mandrake made some form of formal
announcement in a flash newsletter and on the club website.
10 Community was overall a great experience and I think its a good idea,
but there was a big problem in communicating what exactly it is about
and how it will be implemented.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] Taskbar in Pekwm
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On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:41:10 +
Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just installed and am using pekwm. I really like the grouped windows
feature; a big smile came over my face when I grouped my first windows
together.
I would like to have a taskbar of some sort though (ala gnome/kde)
that lets me see what windows I have open on that desktop.
you can use any ewhm compliant taskbar or panel, this includes Gnome and
KDE panels, Rox filer, XFCE taskbar etc.
if you prefer something lightweight to mach pekwm you might want to look
at hpanel http://freshmeat.net/projects/hpanel/
you'd better get this patch though
http://wiki.pekwm.org/index.php/HpanelPatch
if you want more eye candy try pypanel @ http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/
Also I would like to be able to access the mandrake main menu instead
of the limited pekwm menu.
ah yes thats one big problem with the Mandrake PekWM package, use this
menu method script http://wiki.pekwm.org/index.php/MandrakeMenuMethod
Any advice is most welcome.
get cool dynamic menu scripts :-)
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] Run remote gnome-session on local gnome
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:23:36 -0500
Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Under Windows, I can run cygwin and create a X session running in a
single window, inside which I can run gnome-session on a remote Linux.
I like that usage model. I know about and have used vnc, but I
prefer do the remote X thing. Is it possible to do the same thing
while running gnome on my local Linux system? I tried simply ssh -X
-l into a remote box and simply firing up gnome-session, and gnome
actually came up, but it got upset that I was already running a
window manager, and got totally confused since I had two panels. I
had to exit X completely to get it reset.
I haven't found a way to confine a remote gnome-session to a single
window under Linux. Appreciate any pointers.
use Xnest, the nested X server which gives you an X session in a window.
urpmi XFree-Xnest
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] rar compression software
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:19:49 +0100
martin brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to
.rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the
compression commands. Anyone know any other programs that allow me to
compress into .rar?
get unrar from plf
urpmi unrar
should do the trick.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] kdeinit and starting X
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:56:19 + (GMT)
J.I. Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-What exactly does startx do?
it starts your default desktop
essentialy what it dows is start the X server and run ~/.xinitrc
if ~/.xinitrc does not exist it starts /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
in mandrake all /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc does is run another script
/etc/X11/Xsession Xsession starts the firsttime wizard if its the first
time to run X otherwise it starts the desktop mentioned in ~/.desktop or
the default system desktop /etc/sysconfig/desktop
if all this fails it falls down to some hardcoded defaults (like trying
icewm, then trying twm, then just opening a terminal etc.)
of course these scripts do more (like set your default browser) you'll
need to read if you really want to know the gory details.
-How else can I start the x server?
you could use xinit
xinit starts an X server and runs the command you pass it (or ~/.xinitrc
if none exist).
xinit /usr/bin/pekwm
starts an X server with pekwm as the session manager, if pekwm quits the
X server closed.
or you could do it the very hard way and start the X server on your own
X
then attach some client t it,
rxvt -display :0
or something like that, I never tried it.
-What might be the problem with kdeinit?
-How would I start a different window manager (gnome, pekwm, icewm,
...)?-What does startkde, startgnome and starticewm do?
well best way to start wm's Mandrake knows about (the system knows about
a wm if it has an entry in /etc/X11/wmsession.d/) is to install the
package Xtart then run
Xtart
however you could use the xinit command to start any X session, you
could pass it a wm or even just a single X client (I run wine this way).
AFAIK startkde and startgnome are scripts that setup ad start the DE's
for you you can use these with xinit
xinit `which startkde`
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] urpmi command question
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:33:44 -0800
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 04:33 pm, Florian Ahlers wrote:
Hi everybody:
Which command option do I have to use to get more information on
a package
using urpmi?
For example: urpmi XX octave to get detailed information on the
octave package like version or the information shown within
rpmdrake.
http://www.urpmi.org/
thanks in advance
Florian
urpmq -i octave
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] kdeinit and starting X
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:56:19 + (GMT)
J.I. Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-What exactly does startx do?
it starts your default desktop
essentialy what it dows is start the X server and run ~/.xinitrc
if ~/.xinitrc does not exist it starts /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
in mandrake all /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc does is run another script
/etc/X11/Xsession Xsession starts the firsttime wizard if its the first
time to run X otherwise it starts the desktop mentioned in ~/.desktop or
the default system desktop /etc/sysconfig/desktop
if all this fails it falls down to some hardcoded defaults (like trying
icewm, then trying twm, then just opening a terminal etc.)
of course these scripts do more (like set your default browser) you'll
need to read if you really want to know the gory details.
-How else can I start the x server?
you could use xinit
xinit starts an X server and runs the command you pass it (or ~/.xinitrc
if none exist).
xinit /usr/bin/pekwm
starts an X server with pekwm as the session manager, if pekwm quits the
X server closed.
or you could do it the very hard way and start the X server on your own
X
then attach some client t it,
rxvt -display :0
or something like that, I never tried it.
-What might be the problem with kdeinit?
-How would I start a different window manager (gnome, pekwm, icewm,
...)?-What does startkde, startgnome and starticewm do?
well best way to start wm's Mandrake knows about (the system knows about
a wm if it has an entry in /etc/X11/wmsession.d/) is to install the
package Xtart then run
Xtart
however you could use the xinit command to start any X session, you
could pass it a wm or even just a single X client (I run wine this way).
AFAIK startkde and startgnome are scripts that setup ad start the DE's
for you you can use these with xinit
xinit `which startkde`
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200
rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I tried to install openoffice quick launch...
when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error
message.
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc...no
checking for cc...no
checking for cl...no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
What does it say in english??? :-)
that you need to install the package gcc
urpmi gcc
should do the trick, but if you truely have no development packages
installed at all there will probably be more missing dependencies.
hint, if ./configure asks for a library try
urpmi library_name-devel
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] urpmi command question
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:33:44 -0800
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 04:33 pm, Florian Ahlers wrote:
Hi everybody:
Which command option do I have to use to get more information on
a package
using urpmi?
For example: urpmi XX octave to get detailed information on the
octave package like version or the information shown within
rpmdrake.
http://www.urpmi.org/
thanks in advance
Florian
urpmq -i octave
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] Kmix setting doesn't stick?
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:30:23 -0800 (PST)
Mandrake User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Anne, I want to try tweaking aumix settings because my audigy 2
LS sound card won't work. but I got the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ aumix -q
bash: aumix: command not found
Isnt Aumix installed by default in Mandrake 10.0 community? How can I
go about installing aumix? Please help, thank you very much.
search for it in rpmdrake (System - Configuration - Packaging -
Install Software) or run this as root
urpmi aumix
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:32:06 -0500 (EST)
David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
its normal for the directory to remain even after you remove the
partition, the directory where you mount partitions is stored at the
parent partition (on the root partition in this case).
No, it doesn't show up in DiskDrake. The directory is still there, and
I can create files in it. So, do I just need to rmdir the directory?
yep thats all you need.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] howdy! solving problems this list,.....
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:10:51 -0800
Asa Rossoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just to isolate the problem and make sure if its the driver or not, I
suggest you try the vesa driver (should work on practically all cards).
and boot in non framebuffer mode for the moment (running two drivers for
the same hardware may be causing problems).
so change this line
Driver glint
tp
Driver vesa
then tell us if the problem is still there.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] DiskDrake - What Have I Done?
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:35:14 -0500 (EST)
David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro
and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard
drive that I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a single
FAT32 partition that could be read/written by both OS's. It worked! In
MDK 9.2, it is mounted as /winshare.
Now, I'm playing again. I opened DiskDrake, and (I thought) deleted
the/winshare partition, reformatted using ext3 and mounted it as
/var/servers for putting my FTP and WWW stuff. Now, when I restart, I
have a/var/servers AND a /winshare.
How come I still have /winshare? I thought I got rid of it!
what do you mean you have /winshare?? does it show up in diskdrake??
or do you just mean the directory /windshare exists??
its normal for the directory to remain even after you remove the
partition, the directory where you mount partitions is stored at the
parent partition (on the root partition in this case).
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2
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Hello people,
There is an abundance of software available for Linux, which is great,
but I don't have time to look through it all at the moment. So I was
hoping you could recommend me some of the best (or THE best) software
for the following things for MDK:
- Movie player.
aviplay (aka avifile player)
- MP3 player. (including playlist feature)
gqmpeg
- HTML editor / Web site construction software.
am I allowed to say emacs here??
check bluefish
- Image creating/editing.
gimp has no competition
- FTP client.
gftp but probably your file manager already supports ftp
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:53:58 -0500
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I foresee 52 responses to this post.
...we should be okay, he didn't mention 'text editors' ;-)
you trying to say HTML is not written in text editors??
next you'll be telling me people use wysiwyg tools to write memos and
reports.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:20:26 -0500
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm pissed he didn't ask about WM's...no opportunity to point out, for
example, that KDE is developed by Maoists and uses baby seals as test
subjects.
actually I was surprised to find out that among the original KDE
developers is the guy who developed LyX.
aah the irony of it, I can't hate the guy anymore.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] one software missing...
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Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hello All,
I was just reading the post on software recommendations and I
noticed
that 'file sharing' or 'p2p' was not listed.
Is there a good file sharing program for linux? I know about
Bittorrent, but it seems to be lacking in GUI and search capability.
Thanks,
-=Thinker
urpmi apollon
Uses the GiFT (KaZaa) network as far as I know.
giFT is a daemon that enables you to connect to multiple networks
including FastTrack (the kazaa network), OpenNap, Gnutella and the best
network of all OpenFT (openft is developed by the giFT team so you can
consider it the native protocol).
Apollon is a KDE gui for giFT and you can get them all from PLF mirrors.
I really recommend giFT (console lovers should try giFTcurs instead of
apollon), consider running an OpenFT searchnode there is a shortage of
those.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] Using BitTorrent for first time
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Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to use BitTorrent for the first time - and I'm
relatively/completely lost. I don't even know where to start! I
installed the rpms from the CD's (9.2). I have downloaded my torrent
file (mytorrent-me.torrent). What do I do now?
run
btdownloadgui.py mytorrent-me.torrent
this faq from the 9.2 release days should help
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1302mode=nocomments
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] one software missing...
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:28:07 -0500
Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alaa The Great wrote:
I got this error after trying to start the giFT daemon. I went through
the config and all that:
*** GIFT-FATAL: couldn't load protocol in file
/usr/lib/giFT/libOpenFT.la: file not found
*** Often times more information can be found in the log file or with
the -v command line switch.
Any ideas?
you 're missing the openft plugin install the gift-openft
package
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] md5sums file
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:37:35 -0500
Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should open a shell as root, browse to the folder with the ISO
files and run the command for each ISO as follows;
I don't think root is needed for such a simple operation.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] bit torrent
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:05:34 -0600
Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I joined Mandrake Club and as part of the bennies tried to download
the Power CD's I got a bit torrent file which isn't an rpm or a sh
executable and cant be read with less. Does anyone know what I should
do with it or what it is?
a bit torrent file enables you to download the ISO image through the bit
torrent peer2peer protocol.
you need to have the package bittorrent-gui installed then you can start
the download using the command
btdownloadgui.py torrent_file.torrent
check this for more info
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1236
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:38:29 +
Patrick Dempster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Folks,
Can anyone point me in the direction of a linux clone on winamp5, I've
been using xmms for years to play my mp3's and such. But the other day
while working on a windows machine I discovered that winamp provides
lists of radio tv stations that stream(?) their stuff and I was
wondered if such tool existed on linux?
try streamtuner from contrib
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] RPM Package Installation Issue
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Hi,
However, when I try to install some of the packages on the list it
gives me an error like The following packages... ... have bad
signatures, continue to install?
Is there any genuine reason why it is giving this error?
yes thats probably because rpm is missing the Public GPG key these
packages are signed with.
this should explain what gpg is about
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/gpg.php
so what you need is to get the relevant key and import it in the rpm key
database.
the error message contains a key id, search for this id here
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/cks/
then copy the key and paste it in a file (key.asc for instance)
then run
$ rpm --import key.asc
now the error message should stop unless the package is really damaged
or modified.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] No manual entry for XXXX for non-root users
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:04:31 -0700
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
msec will probably change it back so I will probably have to figure
out again (for the 3rd or 4th time) how to manipulate the msec tables
:-) to get it to stick
But should /usr/share/man be owned by rpm:rpm?
yeah for some strange reason /usr/share/man is owned by RPM on high
security levels.
you can fix this by modifying the msec table relevant to your security
level /usr/share/msec/perm.[0-5]
the line would look like this
/usr/share/man rpm.rpm 710
either change the permissions or change the groups
/usr/share/man rpm.man 755
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] How to upgrade versions with CLI?
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:08:36 -0700
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is another newbie question:
My friend's machine I am helping with is running Mandrake 9.0. I have
done some security updates and stuff through the GUI. But the machine
is in a remote data center and so I would like to be able to update
stuff as automatically as possible with the CLI.
How does one go from 9.0 to 9.1 or 9.2, with or without the GUI tool?
Is there something similar to the FreeBSD cvsup or the gentoo emerge?
Those two are the ways I am familiar with with my own FreeBSD systems
and a gentoo system I got.
you can add rpm package sources using urpmi.addmedia (usr the wizard
in http://www.urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php) then upgrade the system by
running these commands
urpmi urpmi
urpmi --auto-select
the kernel has to be installed manualy
urpmi kernel
more info from http://www.urpmi.org/
and of course tha man pages for urpmi, urpmi, urpmi.addmedia, urpmi.cfg,
urpmi.update, urpmi.removemedia
I usually upgrade this way and it always worked for me (with little
manual tweaking), but note that mandrake claim 10.0 to be the first
release upgradable in this manner.
cheers,
Alaa
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Re: [newbie] Directory Sizes
On 18 Feb 2002 04:35:37 -0500 Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to determin the the size of a directory? totaly file size? Perferably with command line. Thanks. try du -h this will show you the size of current directory and all subdirectories, if you don't want subdirectories use this option du -h --max-depth=0 see man du for more details (few days ago there were a couple of posts on how to use du to find directories in a certain size range). cheers, Alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:35:35 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your assistance! I've got a couple of questions for you... In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, I've got the following in Section Module: # This loads the NVIDIA GLX extension module. # IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP NAME AS FULL PATH TO libglx.so ELSE # IT WILL LOAD XFree86 glx module and the server will crash. Load/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so Should I replace that with the Load glx that you suggested, or should I think you should replace it. cheers, alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File size/partition search question?
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:13:59 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: du -h /usr /home/darklord/usr-filesize.txt Now, I've got a huge (300k) text file, which is better but what I want to do is filter or narrow the search down to filesizes of say, 512k or 1 meg or bigger...can I do this with du or would I have to use something like grep? how about du -h /usr | grep [0-9]M this will show you all directories larger than 1 MB (but smaller than 1GB) or you can issue du -h /usr | grep [0-9][0-9]M this will show you all directories larger than 9 MB and du -h /usr | grep [0-9][0-9][0-9] for larger than 99MB etc. if you want only directories between 9MB and 99MB do this du -h /usr | grep [0-9][0-9]M | grep -v [0-9][0-9][0-9]M a useful du option is du --max-depth=0 /usr this will only list directories directly branching from /usr like /usr/share, /usr/bin and /usr/lib cheers, Alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uhm.. new cd-rw
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:05:09 + Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, i've got a new one. ;o) i've been borrowed a cd-rw, so when i add it to my PC it's recognised OK and i can mount cd's on it, as /dev/hdd . to use the CD you need SCSI emulation (this is when you make your programs thin you have a SCSI drive instead of an IDE one). to make SCSI emulation work you need to send an argument to the kernel. just login as root and edit the /etc/lilo.conf file mcedit /etc/lil.conf each kernel image should have an entry called append which usualy looks like this append= devfs=mount add hdd=ide-scsi to it so it would look like this append= devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi then run lilo to activate these changes lilo reboot your machine, and its working. but note that the device you should use for accessing the drive is /dev/scd0 thats the first scsi CD gcombust can detect the drive for itself. and you should write on CDRs when they are not mounted. cheers, Alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel sources
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:14:27 +0100 Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW: They are not on the installation CDs. And I tried kernel-2.4.8-26mdk.src.rpm but I guess that's not what I am looking for). the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the second installation CD. if you don't have the CD you can look for the package at rpmfind.net cheers, Alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Buss speed
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:04:53 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question comes up every so often. The 33mhz listing you see is related to your FSB and your PCI devices. 33 is the normal and Only setting for all new/newer MOBOs. Older system using only either/or 66mhz FSB could/were jumpered to a bus speed showing of 66mhz, which if you use your math, is still in actuallity 33mhz. wow and I thought I was getting to be an expert translation please cheers, Alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DelTree
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:29:19 -0500 John Alex Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rm -rf top-level derectory going to be deleted This could be very dangerously if carelessly. you could also use mc for all your file management needs mc is a console file manager that resembles the old DOS Norton Commander it has lots of cool feature like browsing rpms and tar files and viewing pdfs, man pages, htmls as formated text. you can delete whole directories from mc very easily. cheers, Alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
