Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:33 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:41 am, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy For the Bible software try [as root] urpmi bibletime -a Hi guys, sorry about sending this to reply instead of to list. I dtried the above and got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# uprmi bibletime -a bash: uprmi: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# urpmi bibletime -a To satisfy dependencies, the following 3 packages are going to be installed (3 MB): bibletime-1.4.1-3mdk.i586 libsword4-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586 sword-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) Y The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/bibletime-1.4.1-3mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libsword4-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/sword-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) N What is the correct next step? thanks, andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thunderbird problem
I still have Thunderbird on my system, but when I tried to access new mail screen opened with dialog to set up an account. Somehow I lost the existing account I had been using for a few days and all folders and addresses. Is the problem with my ISP or in/on my 10.1 system? I'll try Evolution, Thanks for your help, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Evolution fails to install
Trying to install Evloution, unable to install: Due to unsatisfied libgnutls.so.11 Is there something I can do to solve this? Thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:26 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:17, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: huge snip 2) Install thundirbird urpmi mozilla-thunderbird http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010 .1md k.i586.rpm snip Avi When I typed step 2 as root I typed as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# urpmi mozilla-thunderbirdhttp://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thund erbird-1.0-4.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm I put in a space between urpmi and mozilla and got the following: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' what did I do wrong? Andy Easiest way to do this: 1. Go to: http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1//mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1md k.i586.rpm ...which will start downloading the RPM. 2.) Once it's saved, go to the place you downloaded it to and double click on it - enter in the root password and let the installation complete. 3.) Wait a few minutes whilst the menus are updated - you might even have to logout and then back in again for the change to take on whatever desktop you're running. Voilá ! You're done! stephen kuhn Hi Stephen, Before the file installed a message said it hd bad signatures. I clicked install anyway. (1) should I have not gone ahead with installation? (2) what does bad signatures mean? Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
Andy, you can install any software on your system using Mandrake Control Center. The same dialog you used for changing the resolution but this time it's on the Software Management tab. But before you do read these following links: Here is a really good intro to installing software on Mandrake linux by, Zeb, although it shows screenshots of mdk 10, IIRC, it is still relevant. http://www.zebulon.org.uk/ICML0.HTML another good link with screenshots of mdk 10.1 plus much more .. http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration101.html And, Have you had a chance to look at the Community TWiki ? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome Specifically this page titled: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Urpmi But Never Dared Asking Before http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi this will help you understand urpmi soo much more .. The TWiki has a lot more there also .. HTH some .. p.s. Anne I already added these links to the NewbieFriendly page 8) Thanks Rick, I will read all. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thunderbird mail client
Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated. Maybe in a few months I'll get some knowledge and patience. Read and read and read but still don't understand. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Opera and Konqueror
Am I correct in thinking that, even tho I use Opera (or Firefox) as my primary web browser, Konqueror remains my primary (only?) file manager? Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:58 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:51 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated. Maybe in a few months I'll get some knowledge and patience. Read and read and read but still don't understand. Andy Andy, do you want thunderbird, the mail client or firefox, the web browser? I would like both. Even tho I now have Opera on my system, I would love to tinker with both Opera and Firefox. Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. Greed, Huh? Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: huge snip 2) Install thundirbird urpmi mozilla-thunderbird http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1md k.i586.rpm snip Avi When I typed step 2 as root I typed as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# urpmi mozilla-thunderbirdhttp://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm I put in a space between urpmi and mozilla and got the following: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' what did I do wrong? Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. There is Evolution 2.0, Sylpheed-Claws, Balsa, Mozilla-Mail, Netscape-Mail - and actually a slew of other lesser known email clients. Evolution is probably already on your system - and it ain't all that bad - rather like a clone of MS Outlook (Lookout!). stephen kuhn Thanks Stephen, Would you please tell me how do I find Evolution on my system and especially how do I install it? Many thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: It should already be in your system menus - under Internet = Email; but if it's not, it's very easy to run either urpmi or rpmdrake and install it from your CD's/DVD. Example: (as root) urpmi evolution ...and sit back and wait for instructions. stephen kuhn as root I got the following: Some package requested cannot be installed: evolution-2.0.3-1.1.101mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libgnutls.so.11) Continue? (Y/n) Sorry to bug so so often Stephen, but what do i donow? A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1
Please, do not assume this is apostasy. What are the main differences between SUSE Pro 9.2 and Mandrake 10.1? My understanding of SUSE is that it includes integrated Opera 7.54, Firefox and Thunderbird on its DVD. I also understand that beginning about two weeks ago and continuing for a few weeks, one may download and burn into a DVD the Pro 9.2 version of SUSE. It is also my understanding that I would be able to run Libronix Bible Software on SUSE with its inclusion of Opera, and the addition of Cross Over from Codeweavers. I have tried to install Opera from The Club and failed miserably - undoubtedly due to my lack of know-how. Are there compelling reasons why Mandrake is still preferred? Am I misinformed? You guys are a great bunch and have already provided many of us newbies with a tremendous amount of freely and gladly given support, for which we all are grateful. I would truly appreciate your responses. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1
On Monday 24 January 2005 06:43 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 23:31, Andy Yankovich wrote: SNIP I have tried to install Opera from The Club and failed miserably - undoubtedly due to my lack of know-how. If you want Opera just click here :- http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=26339location=122noth anks=yessub=marine That will download Opera 8.0 for Mandrake 10.1 (Its a beta version but it works great) Click on the download with konqueror and it will install. You will be prompted for your root password. Ignore any messages about unknown signatures. That just means it was not packaged by MandrakeSoft. derek After downloading I clicked on 'open destination', put in my password for root, then a Konqueror window opened with 'file:/var/tmp/kdecache-andy/krun/' in the location bar. Now, how do I get the program to run? I tired clicking on the URL but nothing happens. What did I do wrong or what don't I understand? Appreciate your help very much. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Panel tabs of open windows
I lost the ability to show in the panel what open windows I have in that session. What did I mess up? Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] bash: urpmi.addmedia not found
when I go to the site easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and, at step 3, add the suggested command into a terminal/konsole I get bash: urpmi.addmedia. comand not found. Can someone tell me what went wrong and how do I fix it. Thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Panel tabs of open windows
On Sunday 23 January 2005 10:34 am, Siposs Attila wrote: 2005. január 23. 15.31 dátummal Andy Yankovich ezt írta: I lost the ability to show in the panel what open windows I have in that session. if you are using kde (of course you are :) ) maybe you removed the taskbar applet from the panel. try: right-click-add to panel-applet (or similar word, I don't remember) -taskbar applet sorry I am using the kde in my native language and I do not remember how the words were in english :( but you could find it sure. Ati Thank you Ati, that corrected the problem. Thanks for your help. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] turn off computer?
Hi guys, My computer is used only by me. Never by another person. I have a cable connection that is always on. 1. Is the recommended procedure to turn computers off at least nightly or keep them on all the time? 2. Should I install some type of firewall for security reasons? I do not have any secret formula for Coca Cola or things like that on my system, but do have credit card and other financial info, If yes, what do you recommend? 3. Ditto for anti-virus? If yes, what do you recommend? 4. Is the anti-span feature built into KMail sufficient or should I pick a second program. If yes, what do you recommend? Looking forward to both your answers and *reasons*. Andy
Re: [newbie] Cannot change font sixe or screen size/resolution in KMail
On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:09 pm, RickSisler wrote: Andy Yankovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip My attempt to change screen size or resolution is made by clicking star/preferences/control center/oeripheraals/displayscreen size/ change size/aplly/OK. then the screen goes black for a second, then screen comes up again, with settings as they should be, asking for confirmation of screen size or not. I accept and screen size or resolution apprears to be as I wanted it until I end session, or restart or shut down I just restarted (thru star/logout/restart) to verify and, yes, screen resolution is went from 1024X768 back to 1280X1024 and the actual screen corresponds to 1280X1024. The font size in toolbar/settings/kmail is still at 64, as set in first paragrah. And I still cannot read the sreen very well. I thought that, like Windows, resolution or screen size would be changed in MDK Control Center in Display. But maybe in MDK Display means something else. It sure is difficult to undersstand what happens if Display is supposed to change the screen resolution. Hi Andy, the particular way your setting this is from the KDE control center and will only effect the current session, unless you select the checkbox so it will take effect everytime you login to KDE. I think you want to change the overall system resolution to 1024x768, if this is correct, you want to do this with MDK control center, as you were guessing. Go to Star System Configuration Configure your Computer - will get you to a dialog that will ask for your root passwword. Once you login, This should be the Mandrake Control Center, select : Hardware screen resolution .. change this to 1024X768 and click OK. You will have to logout and log back in for your changes to take effect. I Hope that does the trick .. Best Regards Thank you RickS, The screen resolution problem is fixed doing it the way you suggested. How easy - when you know how to do it. Thanks again my friend, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Anyone use Bootit for backups and other utilities?
Boo tit was recommended in Fred Langa Newsletter for Linux backup and other utilities. Has anyone used it? What's your opinion? Extracted from Lang Newsletter: My current recommendation, BootIt, is perfectly happy imaging FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS file systems; and can directly write images to hard drives or to CD-R/RE or DVD+R+RE-R-RE drives. It's also a partition manager, letting you create/delete/copy/move/resize partitions at will; and it's a boot manager, too! Thus, this one $35 tool can replace a separate boot manager, imaging tool, and partitioning tool; typically costing over $100, combined. And it's vastly more flexible than any of the Windows-based backup/imaging/partitioning tools, because it's OS independent. See this special issue for more info, including BootIt's drawbacks: http://langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-07-03.htmc OS-independent imaging (as above) is the gold standard of backups: Nothing beats it. But if you want a traditional backup solution for Linux, there are many offerings available, both free and commercial. For example, Linspire (formerly Lindows) has this step-by-step guide that can be adapted to almost any version of Linux: http://langa.com/u/7f.htm Plus, there are classic guides like this Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOW TO ( http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-backup-recovery.php ); or animated guides like this IBM tutorial on How to back up your Linux machines ( http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linuxbu-i.html ; registration required); and lots more general info: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+backup http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=linux+backup But again, a tool like BootIt works on *any* operating system, so it can back up whatever you're running, including dual-boot or other setups. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cannot change font sixe or screen size/resolution in KMail
Hi all, Please forgive typos because I can't see/read what I am typing now. Fonts are simply too small to read. This is being typed with courier 10 pitch font, style regular, and set at 20 in size. What apprears on the screen is the same in 'size' regardless if size is set at 10, 20, or 64. 'Type' of font does change with what I desire to change to, style does not change - this phrase is typed in bold italiics but no change on my screen, and the size of fonts do not change on my screen. This sentance is typed at size 64 with no change in the actual font size on screen. The changes above are made from toolbar/settings/configure Kontact/appearance. From Kontact inbox screen I also tried to make changes using 'configure KMail'. Changing fonts through star/preferences/control center/peripherals/lookNfeel/fonts/general seem to affect all fonts *except* what I type in Kontact compose or Kmail. Changing 'screen size' or what I call 'resolution' works on icons and screen spacing but not on fonts. The resoution is always reset to 1280X1024. I try 1024X768 and settings in between those two and the change in resoution reverts back on end session or restart or shut down computer or ctrl-alt-backspace. My attempt to change screen size or resolution is made by clicking star/preferences/control center/oeripheraals/displayscreen size/ change size/aplly/OK. then the screen goes black for a second, then screen comes up again, with settings as they should be, asking for confirmation of screen size or not. I accept and screen size or resolution apprears to be as I wanted it until I end session, or restart or shut down I just restarted (thru star/logout/restart) to verify and, yes, screen resolution is went from 1024X768 back to 1280X1024 and the actual screen corresponds to 1280X1024. The font size in toolbar/settings/kmail is still at 64, as set in first paragrah. And I still cannot read the sreen very well. I thought that, like Windows, resolution or screen size would be changed in MDK Control Center in Display. But maybe in MDK Display means something else. It sure is difficult to undersstand what happens if Display is supposed to change the screen resolution. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] service configuration problem **THIRD** REQUEST
SORRY IF THIS TYPE OF REQUEST TO NEWBIE LIST BRAKES SOME RULE, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO TURN NEXT. I CAN NO LONGER LOG ON TO MDK ON-LINE NOR MDK EXPERT. MANDRAKE ON LINE HAS GIVEN ME THREE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS AND TELLS ME TO DROP THE UNUSED ACCOUNTS BUT I AM NOT ABLE TO ON THEIR SITE. I AM ABLE TO LOG ON TO MDK CLUB. THE SCREEN RESOLUTION CHANGES I WAS ABLE TO MAKE (please see forwarded messages below) USING star/preferences/control-center/peripherals/display/screen size/ SAYS IT ADJUSTS ONLY NEW APPLICATIONS. 'OLDER' APPLICATIONS , SUCH AS THE TOOLBARS AT TOP OF SCREENS AND DESKTOP, AND SOME OTHER FUNCTIONS, ARE VIRTUALLY UNREADABLE BECAUSE FONTS ARE SO SMALL.. I AM RUNNING 10.1 PURCHASED FROM MDK STORE ON AN i626 MACHINE AND USING KDE 3.2.3. THE HOST NAME IN KDE CONTROL CENTER IS 249-234-35-65.tampabay.rr.com. IS THIS WHAT IT SHOULD SAY? ALSO WHEN i SIGN IN AS ROOT THE SCREEN AT TOP READS KDE su. I DON'T REMEMBER THE su BEFORE I RE INSTALLED. MAYBE IT WAS THERE. Any further info you need will be readily given. Even my bank account numbers. I'm desperate for help. Andy -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Fwd: service configuration problem SECOND REQUEST Date: Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:06 am From: Andy Yankovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An addendum to previous message re font size: I have been able to adjust fonts/screen resolution for NEW applications ONLY. How do I permanently adjust PRIOR applications? I still cannot see what I am typing here. I need to get this fixed. Re the applet and system configuration, it still exists. I need to resolve that issue also. Please help OR direct me to another source for help. Thanks, Andy -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: service configuration problem Date: Monday 17 January 2005 10:54 pm From: Andy Yankovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried to click on the red/orange applet with the questionmark to update my re-installed system. I had previously installed a 10.1 $12.99 set of 6 CDs from Cheapbytes and reinstalled with the 10.1 Powerpack purchased from MandrakeStore. In addition to the service config problem, my screen resolution went all messed up and I can hardly read what I am now typing, the fonts are so small. I tried to fix it by clicking star/preferences/control center/peripherals/display/screen size/1024x768. Some screens were fixed by most, from desktop to many others were affected in the reverse manner and fonts got so small it is almost impossible to read. Can you help with these two MAJOR problems. If not, must I reinstall as I did before or must I reformat the Linux part of Windows C drive? the error messages from the logs follow: 1:51:34 Computing new updates... 1:51:34 Connecting to http://www.mandrakeonline.net//online3_RemoteAction.php?action=Up dateListlog=andyyankhost=249 ... 1:51:35 Wrong Action or host or login. 1:52:11 Computing new updates... 1:52:11 Connecting to http://www.mandrakeonline.net//online3_RemoteAction.php?action=Up dateListlog=andyyankhost=249 ... 1:52:11 Wrong Action or host or login. What is the reference to host mean?? Thanks for your help. Andy --- --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] addendum to third request
I would be happy to pay for telephone support. Since I an not log on to MDK online or MDK expert please tell me how to get fee-based telephone support. Thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install third-party commercial software
I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:50 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? derek Yep, sounds like it. Like Derek said there are other bits of software out there to do some of that. With the Bible software I'm not sure. It's usually engineered for a Windows environment. You might manage with Cross Office... But I don't have that installed anymore as it was effectively a small security hole :( Among other things Elwyn Thank ya'll Agent can be replace with Linux-based softwareand not lose much. But the Logos Libronix Digital Bible Library ran me several hundred dollars and I use it quite frequently. There is no other comperable bible software even for windows OS. All serious bible software packages I've come across are win compatible and integrated with IE 5 or better. Libronix won't work well without IE6! Won't work with Mac either, as far as i know. Anyone here familiar with Opera browser in a wine-based envirnment? From what I read (from Chris's post) Opera shoud work inplace of IE6. Don't know anything about wine - other than the liquid kind. Opera has three choice: RPM packages type, DEB packages type, and tar.gz, type. Info at: http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=344 Like Elwyn, maybe I'll be forced to run Linux and Windows both. Is it possible to run both OS's side by side on split screens if my Win XP and Mandrake are both on what used to be C:? Thank you all very much. You're a nice bunch. A major, huge help. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 03:09 pm, Rick Kunath wrote: Bibletime is a really great package. It's available on the club in contribs and requires some Sword packages as well, also available on the club in contrib. It works with Sword modules, of which there are tons available. I'll bet you'll be impressed with it. Make sure you have your contribs mirror setup in urpmi, then install it from MCC. Rick Kunath Thanks Rick and Pablo. sounds great. Your posts crossed my last one as I was typing (at least that's what I try to call what I do). I joined the club last night so I'm not sure where 'contrib' is or how one uses 'contirbs mirror stup in urpmi'. . Anyone know if that's covered in the manuals? Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updates Applet
The red dot with an exclamation point in white has been showing for three days now. When I try to install the needed updates, I get an error message saying there are no updates to be installed, that all updates are installed. What is happening? I cannot get the updates through the Install Manager either. Same message. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? My broadband ISP, Road Runner, is a cable operation. The following site, http://www.rr.com/flash/;, is its home page and can be set by me to reflect the exact local news, local weather, and global headlines in which I am interested. Under Windows, I can use Tools/Options/General/Home Page/Use Current Page to open my browser to Road Runner's home page whenever I start Mozilla-Firefox or any other browser. MY question is: Is there a SIMPLE (meaning non-programming) KDE/GUI method, similar to Windows, to configure Konqueror to open to Road runner's home page whenever I start Konqueror? I do not understand programming, and at my age I don't want to have to start to learn it now. I would like to stop using Windows and I thought KDE/GUI would allow me to continue using my computer without trying to understand written commands, etc. That is the main reason I chose Mandrake. Is it possible to do what I want in Linux and specifically in Mandrake 10.1? Thank you, Andy BTW I am beginning to think I like Konqueror better than Firefox. It's appearance is cleaner, less clutter, and it is a lot faster. Also, the Road Runner start page using Windows has better fonts than when using Konqueror. I am not certain but I think the fonts in RR start page using Windows is Sans while the font when using Mandrake KDE is definitely different and much harder for me to use. Also the contrast is poor. I don't understand why this is true for Road Runner's home page under KDE - because other sites I open while using Konqueror are OK. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing kbluetooth
When I start 10.1 I get the message you may replace bluez's pin helper program with kbluepin; it is located in /user/lib/kdebluetooth now. How EXACTLY do I do this? What did it do and what will it do after the change? Sorry if these questions are so basic. Maybe I do not belong in the Linux or perhaps the Mandrakelinux operating system. What do you think? Because I do not understand *anything* about programming, should I not use 10.1? Please be honest about this because I hate to bother you all with such basic questions. I am using a $12.99 set of six CDs. I have ordered the packaged 10.1 from MandrakeStore. When they arrive should I delete what is now installed, and then install the MandrakeStore CDs Will that be preferred? Thanks again. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
I did what Dennis suggested and it did not work. My result was a bit different from Elwyn's (below). I just go to the page titled congratulations for choosing Mandrakelinux!- Konqueror. Has anyone been successful using Björn Olsson's method? Thanks for all your suggestions, Andy Elwyn wrote: I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Björn Olsson Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:23 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Success Once only
Well, Dennis, the instructions you gave DID work, but for only one time. After a complete shut down, I attempted something I never did before. At the KDE 3.2 flash screen, I clicked on the globe icon and went directly to the start page I have been trying to get. However, I tried to recreate that success five more times and could not recreate it once. I tried only restarting and booting from a totally shut down system. Couldn't recreate that success. Don't know why. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Yankovich Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 5:09 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: RE: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? I did what Dennis suggested and it did not work. My result was a bit different from Elwyn's (below). I just go to the page titled congratulations for choosing Mandrakelinux!- Konqueror. Has anyone been successful using Björn Olsson's method? Thanks for all your suggestions, Andy Elwyn wrote: I've done that but when I open Konqueror it always opens up file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html of which I cannot delete it from there and put a redirect page in or anything. Any suggestions?? TIA ;) Elwyn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Björn Olsson Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:23 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror?? Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Difference in full package Powerpack v. disks only purchase
Hi all, Is there a difference in *disk content* between the six-disk-only for $12.99 (online over web) and the MandrakeStore package for $84.00 other than hard copy manuals? If not, do I need the $84.00 version to use Mandrakeonline? Are there other benefits to buy the $84.00 full package from MandrakeStore? Thanks for your help. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thunderbird flew away??
This post confirms the newbie in me. I downloaded Thunderbird from the Mozilla site to use as my mail client. I configured it, used it, and it worked fine. I tried to right click to save link to desktop as I did with Firefox, but alas, it didn't work, so when I exited the Thunderbird screen it must have flown away because I can't find it. I know you have a simple answer to this so please, please tell me. I am using the graphic environment - at least until I learn more about Mandrakelinux - and probably longer. How do I determine where I stored this program? How do I make it my default mail client? How do I get a Thunderbird icon on my desktop? How do I make Firefox my default browser? And MOST IMPORTANT, are there good reasons why I should NOT use these two programs in place of the usual or standard Mandrake programs that come with the disks?? I did order the full MandrakeStore package with manuals, but manuals are four days away yet. Thank you for your considerable help. Well, what do you expect from a 70 year old! Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages
I installed the four CDs for the $12.99 edition of) 10.1 successfully *except* that I could not retrieve the updates during the installation procedure. When I attempt to update through Control Center I get the following error message at the point of starting download of hdlist.cz from medium 'Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.1 )ftplu)'. The error message reads, in its entirety: It's impossible to retrieve the list of new packages from the media 'Updates for Mandrakelinux 10,1 (ftplu)'. Either this update is misconfigured, and in this case you should use the Software Media Manager to remove it and re-add it in order to reconfigure it, either it is currently unreachable and you should retry later. I have re-attempted to update many times so I doubt it is currently busy. Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Many thanks in advance. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] import from Outlook 2000
Is it possible to import from Microsoft Office Outlook 2000 the (A) personal folders, (B) deleted and/or sent email, and (C) the data from contacts (name, email, and maybe phone)? Many thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ViewSonic monitor A90f+
Three day old newbie. I am verifying my hardware is linux compatible before I install 10.1 official. All hardware checks out OK except my CRT. My CRT, ViewSonic A90f+ is a win-CRT. Does anyone know if a Linix user has already writen conversion software or drivers? How can I find out? Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] ViewSonic monitor A90f+
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[newbie] Reporting a bug.
Can someone please tell me how, in very simple steps, how to report a bug/issue. I had real problems trying to install mdk10.1 on a Tyan Trinity motherboard and AMD 500 Mhz K6 II CPU. The default kernel in mdk 10.0 and 10.1 and the 2.4 kernels will not load after the install. It gets to the Bios check text message after lilo boot screen then immediately reboots. (Details are on www.mandrakeexpert.com) I got round this problem by recompiling the kernel specifically for the K6 II processor and changing a couple of other things during makemenu config process. This custom buit kernel boots up fine. (Just takes forever to build it on this hardware ;-( ). I have also since found that for mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 the Tyan Trinity 1509S motherboard is listed as a 64 bit piece of hardware. There is as far as I can see no simple way to notify mandrake or these quite serious issues. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT somewhat (sorry), Peanut linux, anyone here used it?
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:23:19PM -0600, Heather/Femme wrote: Too slow and I can't install knoppix easily... shrugs. I just want a bare bones linux install to play with for tutorials Stuff I can do while on teh couch stoned or watching tv use it tween commercials. Knoppix is too bloated for my little p2 233. I tried Peanut Linux for an even older PC. While it worked, I found that Slackware ran just fine and gave me more. See http://www.slackware.com/ andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:15:21AM -0400, Erylon Hines wrote: O.K., then Kmail isn't reading the hardware clock for the date stamp. But I thought Jan 1, 1970 was the beginning of Unix Time, so where does Dec 31, 1969 4:00PM fit into the picture? I can't answer the other problems, but I would assume that the timezone here is -8 from GMT, so Jan 1, 1970 minus 8 hours is Dec 31, 1969 4:00PM. andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] User IDs start at 500 or 501?
I just installed 9.1 on a new system and ran into a difference between how the installer creates new users and how drakconf does. I created a couple of users during the install and they ended up with uid = 501 and 502. As they always have on previous versions of Mandrake. Then when the system was up I created several more, very carefully creating them in the same order as on our other systems. After I spent all the time getting them created and set up, I discovered that they did not match the uid's on our other systems. It seems that drakconf starts its numbering at 500. So, using letters for the order in which I created them, the users were a=501, b=502, c=500, d=503, e=504, etc. I had to rip out all the users from c up, create a dummy at 500 and redo them. Argghhh. Why? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup]
( On the Nvidia forums, there are long-running threads related to several issues involving newer Nvida graphics cards. Just to list some suggestions: 1. If you are getting to the AGP section in your Xfree86.log file before you get locked up, in other words, the last line is Setting mode then you may have issues with AGP BIOS on your motherboard and Nvidia's card. The solution is to add this line to your XF86Config-4 file Under Section Device Option NvAGP 1 This tells Nvidia card to use internal AGP rather than kernel agpgart and sometimes fixes issues. If your XFree log does not show it locking up but you just go into powersave mode and stay there, add this line, also under Device Option ConnectedMonitor CRT - or DFP or TV depending on where you are connected. Also, Option IgnoreDisplayDevices DFP, TV - if you are using the CRT connection. This option is to avoid issues with the card taking an inordinately long time to detect the active display. Finally, I had major issues until I followed stated advice and hooked the DFP adapter to my analog connector and plugged the monitor into the DVI slot on the card. (I have a GeForce 4 ti 4600). My monitor was going into powersave mode and not coming out until I changed that connector. Let me know if any of this advice works or not, I do have a couple of more suggestions from those forums. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Georgia Technology Authority) I tried doing that, and it did not work. I looked in the log file, and it seems to be loading AGP fine. Actually, it seems to be loading everything fine, but the only error I get is the 'nVidia kernel failed to initialize at startup!' And then after that it said 'screens found, but no useful configuration' I downloaded the nv_check.sh script the nvidia site told me to (somewhere in there), and it said the nVidia kernel wasn't being loaded by the linux kernel, and I needed to fix that. I have no clue how to do this. ---BeginMessage--- On Wednesday 16 July 2003 01:09 pm, Deek wrote: Gah, sorry you guys, I've been busy soo I haven't been able to reply. When you said to change the glx, I did, and no improvements: It still gives me the black screen of death.Let me just reply to all of the messages in this one post. On the Nvidia forums, there are long-running threads related to several issues involving newer Nvida graphics cards. Just to list some suggestions: 1. If you are getting to the AGP section in your Xfree86.log file before you get locked up, in other words, the last line is Setting mode then you may have issues with AGP BIOS on your motherboard and Nvidia's card. The solution is to add this line to your XF86Config-4 file Under Section Device Option NvAGP 1 This tells Nvidia card to use internal AGP rather than kernel agpgart and sometimes fixes issues. If your XFree log does not show it locking up but you just go into powersave mode and stay there, add this line, also under Device Option ConnectedMonitor CRT - or DFP or TV depending on where you are connected. Also, Option IgnoreDisplayDevices DFP, TV - if you are using the CRT connection. This option is to avoid issues with the card taking an inordinately long time to detect the active display. Finally, I had major issues until I followed stated advice and hooked the DFP adapter to my analog connector and plugged the monitor into the DVI slot on the card. (I have a GeForce 4 ti 4600). My monitor was going into powersave mode and not coming out until I changed that connector. Let me know if any of this advice works or not, I do have a couple of more suggestions from those forums. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Georgia Technology Authority ---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Glib 2.2.3 cannot be found
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 22:55, JoeHill wrote: On 14 Jul 2003 23:41:39 -0500 Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I did install the update from a source tarball. But where do I install it then? And where do I execute ldconfig? You have to remember that I'm quite new to Linux (sorry ;p). Heh. Like I say, if yer installing glib from source, yer way ahead of some of the dunderheads around here...wait, did I just say that out loud?! When you install from a source tarball, in my experience you want to do it a bit differently for critical libraries like glib and such, because Mandrake tends to put them in non-standard locations (I think *good* ones, but that's another flame war). Instead of just ./configure, do ./configure --prefix=/usr (this is for glib). To execute ldconfig (and updatedb, just to be sure), su to root in your fav terminal and simply run the commands. su root enter password for root updatedb (go get a coffee) ldconfig then try installing Pango from the source packages and report back! The main thing to keep in mind is if you keep track of what you are doing, and don't, repeat *don't* delete the source packages once you install, you can always uninstall, go back, and start over. Ya, it's not like installng Kazaa on Windows, I'll give ya that. Awesome. It seems that worked out well; Pango found glib and continued to install whatever it needed to do. I used the prefix when I was configuring Pango, also if this is needed? And what do updatedb and ldconfig actually do? See, usually when I run ./configure and make and all of those commands, it'd show me where everything is being put, right? Well, if this was the case of say a lib (glib) and I tried to install another package that depended on that lib, it'd fail to install because I wouldn't know where to point the installation at/where the library was actually installed. Should I always point the libs at -prefix=/usr? Or should this be the only case for small applications and so? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Glib 2.2.3 cannot be found
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 22:07, JoeHill wrote: On 14 Jul 2003 22:55:24 -0500 Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But still, even if I did upgrade, I'm sure glib was already above the version 2.1.3 when I installed MDK, which is the minimum required version for pango to work (2.1.3 and up).I'm sure it's because when I run ./configure in pango's tarball, it isn't seeing the Glib. But I don't know how to fix this. Ah, yes, I am sorry, I got Glibc mixed with Glib...my bad. Did you install glib from source? If so, you may need to install to a Mandrake specific location. Also, make sure you have the glib install in your library path by running ldconfig (eh, Stephen?!). Your best bet is to always do this through Mandrake package management if you are not absolutely sure what you are doing with source packages. I did install the update from a source tarball. But where do I install it then? And where do I execute ldconfig? You have to remember that I'm quite new to Linux (sorry ;p). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install problems
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:12:22AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: Also, it's correct practice to have master on the cable's end connector, not the middle one. That I didn't know. Why? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lime Wire Java VM Problem
Just recently I tried installing Lime Wire, and when I executed the bin (which it came as) it gave me this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ./LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. I know for certain that I have java, and it works fine with Konqueror. I have no clue what this thing is talking about. Can anybody please help me? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:07:39AM +, Richard Urwin wrote: This sounds like a two phase save problem. In order not to loose your work if there is a catastrophic crash, many editors save the edited file under a temporary name, then rename the original as a backup, and rename the saved file under the original name. If any program has the file open for reading, they will still have the original file open, and not the new file. If there is a link to the old file, it will still point to the old file. No, I don't think that's it. I have now installed Mandrake 9.0 on my crash machine and the problem does not occur there. I can do 'crontab -e' quite successfully. Same version of Mandrake, same version of emacs, same .emacs file. So if it's not a hardware problem --- which seems extremely unlikely to me --- then it must be some system setting. Or something. andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop and have run into some oddities. The first is crontab. If I do 'crontab -e', it brings up my editor (emacs), but when I exit it, I get the message crontab: no changes made to crontab The only way I can create or change my crontab entry is to: edit a file, e.g., crontabstuff crontab -r crontab crontabstuff Why? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Miark wrote: Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have brought that up in Bugzilla. I just tried 'crontab -e' after changing my EDITOR shell variable to vi. And it worked! Can anybody explain this? Emacs works fine for crontab in both 8.1 and 8.2. Are we into holy war here? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Local zone time isn't sticky
On a dual boot laptop (Win98 and Mandrake 9.0), the BIOS time is set to the local zone: Pacific Standard. In Mandrake, I go into Mandrake Control Center and set the time and the time zone (PST8PDT) and answer 'No' to the question Is your hardware clock set to GMT? When I select 'OK' the screen blanks for several seconds, then comes back. But eventually over the next several hours, the date/time reverts to GMT. I set up a cron job to save the date/time each hour and this shows up in /var/log/messages: Mar 14 18:01:00 tribble CROND[3623]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Mar 14 18:05:00 tribble CROND[3638]: (andyd) CMD (/bin/date $HOME/date.out 2 $HOME/date.err) Mar 14 19:01:00 tribble CROND[3641]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Mar 14 11:53:55 tribble CROND[3666]: (andyd) CMD (/bin/date $HOME/date.out 2 $HOME/date.err) Note the sudden time change on the last line. What is going on? And how do I fix it? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:22:04PM -0700, Russ Kepler wrote: This rings a bell for me. I ran into something like it and if it's similar it's the exit value from emacs - check by editing a file using ls test; emacs test; echo $? Betcha the exit value is non-zero. Nope. It's zero. andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:11:33AM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: I don't think compression in backups is such a good idea. If there are media problems a bad spot could hose most of the backup. Not really true if you're using something like afio to pack up and compress the files. The archive format used by afio allows it to recover from read errors and go on unpacking the next file. And if you are backing up to CD-R, then compression is of great help in keeping the number of CDs down. andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LimeWire Problems
On Monday 17 February 2003 06:57 pm, Miark wrote: Yes, I do have j2re installed. Version 1.4.0_03-fcs, to be exact. Would downloading if from MandrakeClub make any difference at all? Which Java is installed? I think you need the j2re for it to work, which you can download from MandrakeClub. Miark On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:54:01 -0600 andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I just recently installed limewire, and when i tried executing the .bin (which it came in as), it came up with this message: [deek@localhost Documents]$ ./LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. The thing is, I have Java VM installed, and I know for sure its working, it's just somehow not detecting its there. Any help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LimeWire Problems
Hi I just recently installed limewire, and when i tried executing the .bin (which it came in as), it came up with this message: [deek@localhost Documents]$ ./LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. The thing is, I have Java VM installed, and I know for sure its working, it's just somehow not detecting its there. Any help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT's on this list
At 12:22 06/01/03 +, you wrote: It was never my intention to set off such a long OT, but it is harmless. For those who find it a problem it is a simple matter to set a filter that ignores such posts - correct me if I'm wrong? ... Hi, I've been on this list for 2 days. I'm a newbie to MD, trying to convert from Windoze - Among many other things I've not got the SM56 modem going yet - guess why! BG. However I use a dial up connection, and my access time has gone up an order of magnitude with downloading 500+ emails from this list in 2 days. I haven't looked at the percentage of OTs to 'real' stuff, but it's not at all helpful to newbies. There appear to be helpful hints in there but finding them is not easy. I wonder how many other newbies are being put off by the sheer volume of OT. I am certainly wondering whether continuing here is worthwhile - the noise to signal ratio is too high at present. I shall persist for a short time to see what the norm is - or even whoG Regards, Andy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] scanner problems
Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my digital camera and scanner (or my usb in general. But i'm not worrying about that). Soo what the problem is, I suppose linux knows that I have a scanner (since theres a file on my desktop linking to it) but it cant seem to load it at all. If you wanted to know, I have a HP ScanJet 3300C, and im running Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3. The file on my desktop is called 'XSane /dev/usb/scanner0', and when i try to click on it, it opens and says that theres no devices available. Since im a big newbie at linux, I have no clue whatsoever how to fix this. When I try to open my scanner configuration in the control center, it says its downloading something, and freezes up. Can someone please help me with this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scanner problems
On Monday 16 December 2002 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my digital camera and scanner (or my usb in general. But i'm not worrying about that). Soo what the problem is, I suppose linux knows that I have a scanner (since theres a file on my desktop linking to it) but it cant seem to load it at all. If you wanted to know, I have a HP ScanJet 3300C, and im running Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3. The file on my desktop is called 'XSane /dev/usb/scanner0', and when i try to click on it, it opens and says that theres no devices available. Since im a big newbie at linux, I have no clue whatsoever how to fix this. When I try to open my scanner configuration in the control center, it says its downloading something, and freezes up. Can someone please help me with this? What happens if you just open up XSANE without a configuration attached to it - does it detect the scanner, or still freeze up? (BTW, what kinda digi-cam ya gots?) I have a Intel Pocket PC Camera. The little digits on the camera show up soo obviously it can detect that also. And with XSANE, no matter what i do, it wont open. I call it in a terminal, and it brings up a user agreement, and I agree to it. Then a error window pops up saying it cant detect any devices whatsoever. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scanner problems
On Monday 16 December 2002 07:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:38, Andy wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my digital camera and scanner (or my usb in general. But i'm not worrying about that). Soo what the problem is, I suppose linux knows that I have a scanner (since theres a file on my desktop linking to it) but it cant seem to load it at all. If you wanted to know, I have a HP ScanJet 3300C, and im running Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3. The file on my desktop is called 'XSane /dev/usb/scanner0', and when i try to click on it, it opens and says that theres no devices available. Since im a big newbie at linux, I have no clue whatsoever how to fix this. When I try to open my scanner configuration in the control center, it says its downloading something, and freezes up. Can someone please help me with this? What happens if you just open up XSANE without a configuration attached to it - does it detect the scanner, or still freeze up? (BTW, what kinda digi-cam ya gots?) I have a Intel Pocket PC Camera. The little digits on the camera show up soo obviously it can detect that also. And with XSANE, no matter what i do, it wont open. I call it in a terminal, and it brings up a user agreement, and I agree to it. Then a error window pops up saying it cant detect any devices whatsoever. ...ok...hmmm...you should be able to mount the camera as an actual file system...there was talk of this a week back - so you might want to dig through the messages and find the one pertaining to the USB camera... ...now with SANE/XSANE - this is strange. It appears to have already detected the scanner, but ain't doin' a thing now...what about when you reboot - are the modules loading - or does the scanner re-appear ? Ok, soo i reopend the part where it says it was installing, and waited it out. It asked me for the first installation disk, soo I popped it inand soon later it said my scanner wasnt supported in this version of mandrake =/ so there goes that. And for the camera, I believe I did find something about it, but I need more understanding of it =/ I know nothing about that. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanner probs
i don't know if im allowed to sorta bump this message, sorry if i do, but i really want help on this :-/ - Original Message - From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Scanner probs Well as of right now I don't have Linux installed, but if I can figure this out i'll reinstall it (if I have all of my hardware working, then why use Windows? =p) Ok, so anyways, when I had Linux, it seemed to know that I had a HP ScanJet 3300C scanner plugged in (in the hardware listing and such). But when I tried to use it, nothing seemed to happen. Does this mean I need some sort of driver for it to work for Linux? Because HP doesn't supply a driver for Linux. This same goes for my Intel Pocket PC Camera, and Intel doesn't have drivers for Linux either. Any help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanner probs
I usually try to scan images in XSane, but XSane can't capture any imaging devices what soever. And when I click the configuration for my scanner, it's says it's downloading packages to install the driver, but it just kreezes up ( and sometimes crashes KDE) - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Scanner probs On Friday 01 Nov 2002 11:19 pm, Andy wrote: i don't know if im allowed to sorta bump this message, sorry if i do, but i really want help on this :-/ - Original Message - From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Scanner probs Well as of right now I don't have Linux installed, but if I can figure this out i'll reinstall it (if I have all of my hardware working, then why use Windows? =p) Ok, so anyways, when I had Linux, it seemed to know that I had a HP ScanJet 3300C scanner plugged in (in the hardware listing and such). But when I tried to use it, nothing seemed to happen. Does this mean I need some sort of driver for it to work for Linux? Because HP doesn't supply a driver for Linux. This same goes for my Intel Pocket PC Camera, and Intel doesn't have drivers for Linux either. Any help? Did you run the 'scanner' installation GUI from Mandrake Control Centre? If so then it will install the driver for the HP3300c which is supported in Mandrake 9.0, but not in 8.2 Also how are you trying to scan images? You should either be running Kooka or XSane If they are not in your KmenuMultimediaGraphics menu then you need to install the RPMs for them. As for the camera. I do not have one of those, and the gphoto2 project does not list it( http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/proj/libgphoto2/support.php ) so it may not be supported. Many people get around this issue by using a cheap Flash card reader to read their camera images. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Scanner probs
Well as of right now I don't have Linux installed, but if I can figure this out i'll reinstall it (if I have all of my hardware working, then why use Windows? =p) Ok, so anyways, when I had Linux, it seemed to know that I had a HP ScanJet 3300C scanner plugged in (in the hardware listing and such). But when I tried to use it, nothing seemed to happen. Does this mean I need some sort of driver for it to work for Linux? Because HP doesn't supply a driver for Linux. This same goes for my Intel Pocket PC Camera, and Intel doesn't have drivers for Linux either. Any help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
Yea it seemed to work too when i typed in something like su ./file.bin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake kernels and Gateway Athlon PCs (Kadoka motherboard)
Does anyone have the answer to this? Am I on the right list? Andy snip Mandrake - Motherboard question There is a long known problem with Mandrake 2.4.x kernels in all 8.x dists and the Kadoka motherboard found in Gateway Athlon machines: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=937lang=en Basically the box just hangs on INIT 2.78 The fix was to revert to the 2.2.x kernel, which is obviously not ideal in terms of modern device driver requirements, or building from a stock kernel which I did, but which looses some of the niceties of the Mandrake kernels (e.g. patching supermount into a stock kernel is non-trivial for newbies such as myself). Has this been fixed in dist 9.0? /snip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake kernels and Gateway Athlon PCs (Kadoka motherboard)
Mandrake - Motherboard question There is a long known problem with Mandrake 2.4.x kernels in all 8.x dists and the Kadoka motherboard found in Gateway Athlon machines: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=937lang=en Basically the box just hangs on INIT 2.78 The fix was to revert to the 2.2.x kernel, which is obviously not ideal in terms of modern device driver requirements, or building from a stock kernel which I did, but which looses some of the niceties of the Mandrake kernels (e.g. patching supermount into a stock kernel is non-trivial for newbies such as myself). Has this been fixed in dist 9.0? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Recombining backup files fails
This is not exactly a Mandrake question, but since that is what I'm running, I thought I would ask here. [Mandrake 8.1, by the way.] I am making backup files (using a script that calls afio) and then putting them on CD-R disks. Since some of the backup files are greater than 640MB, I have to split the big file into pieces. I have used both dd and split to do this, apparently successfully. But now when I cat those partial files back into one big one, they seem to have errors according to 'cmp'. For example, using split, I end up with files backupaa and backupab. Do a 'cat backupaa backupab backuptest' and compare the original backup with backuptest and get backup backuptest differ: char 351289345, line 1341543 If I try the backuptest file with 'afio -T backuptest backtest.txt' I get errors, though not at the same place as cmp found. Is this enough information for someone to give me a clue what I'm doing wrong? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] console MUA recommendation
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:19:00AM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:19:21 +0800 Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yup. that's right. sorry i didn't put it clearly enuff. it wasn't really a problem, but specifically, the OE users needed to click and open the attachment, to view what was essentially a text reply. Maybe the problem is OE, then? :) Hmmm. I still don't understand. I sent an email from mutt to my Win98 box, fired up OE to read it and didn't have to open any attachment. The message was shown as though it were inline text. So, I suspect Todd is right: it's an OE misconfiguration. andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install 8.2 on old laptop
I tried to install 8.2 (and 8.1) on an older NEC laptop and got the following messages: in second stage install install exited abnormally :-( sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems: /proc /tmp/image you may safely reboot your systems I suspect this is because of the limited memory, shown by these last entries in the logs (alt-F3): Total Memory: 40 Mbytes warning: ramdisk is not possible due to low mem! stage1. disconnecting life support systems second stage install running (DrakX v 1.684 built Sat Mar 16 12:21:08 2002) This is on an NEC Versa 4000C, 75 MHz Pentium (I *said* it was old! :-)) Am I doomed to install Mandrake or is there some magic boot parameter that will save me? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SCSI module error installing 8.2
I cannot seem to install 8.2 on an older PC (Pentium-MMX, so I needed the patch for the packages problem) with or without its SCSI card. Early on --- just after I choose Expert mode for the package selection --- I see a message that it is installing scsi|disk card, modules imm and ppa. All goes well until I go to test the X setup and the machine puts up the messages: /tmp/imm.o: init_module: No such device /tmp/ppa.o: init_module: No such device and hangs. I am stuck. I tried removing the SCSI card, but the same error occurs. Anybody got some idea what I can try now? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Error installing 8.2 X windows
I am trying to install 8.2 on an older machine (Pentium-MMX, so I needed the patch for the packages problem) and all goes well until I select the monitor (a Sony Multiscan 15sf hooked to an S3 Virge 375/385 video card) after which I get a screen with the following error messages: /tmp/imm.o: init_module: No such device /tmp/ppa.o: init_module: No such device and the system is hung. I have to reboot. Things seem a little strange there, too, since the boot screen shows no messages after: INIT: version 2.83 booting Booting, please wait... Press 'I' to enter interactive setup until --- after several minutes --- I get INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 Entering non-interactive startup Once I'm up in console mode, I run XFdrake as root which gives me a blank screen for about 45 seconds, then I select the Sony Multiscan 15sf, 1024x768 16 bpp and test. Screen blanks for about 90 seconds and I get several rows of penguins and say yes, that's OK [Is it? Should there be several rows?] I go back to my user account and run 'startx', the screen blanks for about 90 seconds and the desktop wizard comes up. I choose xfce and come up in that window manager. [Another problem: I can't save any xfce configuration changes. I get a Cannot create file dialog, but the problem doesn't occur when I come up in KDE, so this is probably not related to the X problems.] So, what might my problem be? Where should I look next? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No really! - I lost control of network interfaces
I seem to have done something to my Mandrake 8.2 installation on a Dell Latitude to lose control of my network interfaces. When I use netconf to check and configure the machine, it shows a total of 6 different network interface options. All I want is to use the first to set the proper IP address, name, and DNS servers for eth0. Netconf shows the first one configured as I would like, but disabled. It shows the second one enabled, again for eth0, but using the IP address of the router for this network, 10.32.10.1. The third for eth0 is enabled and configured as the first one, that is the way I want it. The rest are empty. I have reset them the way I want, eliminated any info on the second and third options, disabled them, enabled the first and saved. No matter what I do, they get reset as above. I have webmin on this machine and looking at the network settings, it seems to be OK. Mandrake Control Center also seems to show it set up as I want. I've looked through any .conf files I can think of that might be relevant and I cannot for the life of me figure out what is changing the settings. Can someone point me toward a solution? Frustratedly yours, Andy Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine
Looks like the VT82C686 so modules.conf should look something like this, I'd open up you case and have a look at the Southbridge to get the exact revision... as there are 2 versions a and B rule of thumb if I remember correctly is that a only supports ATA66 and B supports ATA100 (not sure if that helps much). alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a (for 686B, 8231) alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss This will setup OSS emulation so all you need to do is launch xine, open Tools/Audio and change null to oss and press enter. Or you can do it from bash # xine -A oss There's a good section on VIA audio drivers here http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=128 and http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=88 Cheers Andy - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine Michael Adams wrote: Ah Southbridge?... is it on this list. [root@localhost michael]# lspcidrake agpgart : VIA Technologies|VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] via82cxxx_audio : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] Card:RIVA TNT2 : nVidia Corporation|Vanta unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Virtual|Hub [] I think your sound chip is VIA Technologies | VT82C686 and not VT 8233. I would expect your /etc/modules.conf to look more like, alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via82C686 I have no experience with this chip, cannot say for sure if supported,but it might well be. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine
What Southbridge does the Epox EP-6VBA have? Could be one of following VT8231, VT82C686A, VT82C686B, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8233C, VT8235 All but the VT8235 are currently supported, although the VT8233A requires a new driver to get it working. Xine can use OSS, ALSA, ESD and ARTSD but I have only used it with OSS (ALSA emulation). Check /etc/modules.conf for lines like; alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via (X being the southbridge you have) alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss This provides the ALSA modules with oss emulation (or should do :) Try: cat /proc/pci To get an idea or what hardware is installed. Hope it helps Andy - Original Message - From: Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:03 AM Subject: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine Unlike others, my stock standard Xine install seems to be running fine... except, i have to tell it which sound server i am using. I beleive there is more than one sound server choice i could have installed. I have a standard install on onboard Epox EP-6VBA (VIA, Apollo, AC-97) How do i find which one i am running, and what do i tell Xine it is called. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fw: [newbie] microtek scanmaker 3800 USB
- Original Message - From: Andy Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] microtek scanmaker 3800 USB Hi Goto http://www.mostang.com/sane/ and check if you scanner is supportedjust checked and doesn't look like it :( Have a look in Mandrake Control Centre / Hardware / Scanner and check the list.just looked there as well and it's not supported. Only other option is to try the scanner manufacturer and see if they have a driver (good luck). USB scanners are not very well supported in Linux, problem is there is so many different manufacturers and models and so few people updating drivers for them. Andy - Original Message - From: Rick Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:38 AM Subject: [newbie] microtek scanmaker 3800 USB Does anyone have any experience making this scanner work with lm 8.2? I have this on my w2k machine. But I would like to attach it to my linux box and do away with that w2k box. Thanks Rick -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBlibe 5.1
Hi, I've only tested this using Xine but it worked straight out he box, no configuration needed. Haven't got a SB Live 5.1 installed at the moment so cant give you the configuration I used, sorry. Andy - Original Message - From: Serge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: [newbie] SBlibe 5.1 Hi! Does anybody can give me a hint on how to make the center speaker works on a SBlive 5.1 card? I think i have tried almost everything. Thank you Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hot-plug USB causes lock up
Hi, I have an USB Orb drive, which works if it's plugged in before Mandrake 8.2 is booted. If I plug it in after Mandrake is booted, then the machine appears to freeze up. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? TIA!! Andy = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] where is hdparm in Mandrake 8.2?
Hi all, I used hdparm to tune my IDE HDD when I had LM7.2 and 8.0. After I installed LM8.2, I couldn't find hdparm! Typing whereis hdparm as root turns up nothing. Am I missing something obvious? Regards, Andy = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] strange printing problem with LM8.2
I guess I can answer this one myself: I'm an idiot. I have an Epson Stylus 600, not 660. After setting the driver to the right one, it works fine now. Sorry for wasting bandwidth... Andy --- Andy Liaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm having a strange problem printing to my Epson Stylus 660 connected to local parallel port. This use to work w/o problem when I was using LM8.0. The problem is that on top of every page, two lines are *always* printed: 284.4 @EJL then it runs out of room at the bottom of the page and prints the last half inch to the next sheet. I've tried changing the drivers (there are 5~6 listed for this printer), all gave the same thing. Can anyone please help? This is really getting to my nerves TIA! Andy = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] strange printing problem with LM8.2
Hi all, I'm having a strange problem printing to my Epson Stylus 660 connected to local parallel port. This use to work w/o problem when I was using LM8.0. The problem is that on top of every page, two lines are *always* printed: 284.4 @EJL then it runs out of room at the bottom of the page and prints the last half inch to the next sheet. I've tried changing the drivers (there are 5~6 listed for this printer), all gave the same thing. Can anyone please help? This is really getting to my nerves TIA! Andy = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing LM 8.2 on a laptop
Hello, I am trying to install/update (from LM 8.0) LM 8.2 on my laptop; but it gets as far as configuring for PCMCIA and seems to stall and go no further! I don't have any PCMCIA cards installed! I can't find anyway round this and want 8.2 on my laptop to keep it identical to my desktop PC. I have looked into setting PnP OS to NO in bios; but my BIOS does not have that option! BIOS is: ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A69NC2A) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Laptop is: Chicony-MP995 Intel Celeron 333 64Mb RAM 6GB HD Thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to change language in LM82?
Hi all, I've just managed to upgrade my box from LM80 to LM82. While I was at it, I decided to tried the Chinese language. It is very impressive, but some text in dialog boxes are garbled up. Does anyone know how I can change the default language to English? I looked in Mandrake Control Center but didn't see anything relevant. Any help will be greatly appreciated!! Cheers, Andy = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 8.2 on a laptop
Hi, I am trying to install/update (from LM 8.0) LM 8.2 on my laptop; but it gets as far as checking for PCMCIA and seems to stall and go no further! I don't have any PCMCIA cards installed! That happened to me and I solved that setting PnP OS to NO in bios. Try that ;) No joy. I don't see that option in my BIOS. I have a: ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A69NC2A) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Maybe I am being dumb and have missed something... Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem
Brian, Got it sorted yesterday, The routing table had eth0 as default so it couldn't initialise ppp. Only problem I have now is that the Net works fine until I reboot. After a reboot I have to delete the default routing to eth0 and then it works fine. So my question is how do I stop this from happening in the first place :) I'll work on it this morning to try and sort it out. Cheers Andy - Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem Andy, Have you tried pinging the ISP's DNS from a consoles? i.e. ping ip-address-of-primary-dns Brian On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 21:36, Andy Napier wrote: Hi. I'm using a Conexant HSF internal modem to connect to the net, the drivers installed OK and I'm not receiving any error messages but I cant access any sites on the WWW at all. It connects fine then just sits there doing nothing DHCP seems to work as Kppp shows the IP range for my ISP. I thought it was a DNS problem so I tried manually adding the DNS for each ISP I've tried but no luck. I've tested Supanet, BT and Freeserve. I'm not running a firewall and do have a network card installed on a static IP. I've tried disabling and enabling DNS for this card but that didn't work. Thanks in advance. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet Connection Problem
Hi. I'm using a Conexant HSF internal modem to connect to the net, the drivers installed OK and I'm not receiving any error messages but I cant access any sites on the WWW at all. It connects fine then just sits there doing nothing DHCP seems to work as Kppp shows the IP range for my ISP. I thought it was a DNS problem so I tried manually adding the DNS for each ISP I've tried but no luck. I've tested Supanet, BT and Freeserve. I'm not running a firewall and do have a network card installed on a static IP. I've tried disabling and enabling DNS for this card but that didn't work. Thanks in advance. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem
Sorted it, my default routing table was set to eth0. Andy - Original Message - From: Andy Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem Hi. I'm using a Conexant HSF internal modem to connect to the net, the drivers installed OK and I'm not receiving any error messages but I cant access any sites on the WWW at all. It connects fine then just sits there doing nothing DHCP seems to work as Kppp shows the IP range for my ISP. I thought it was a DNS problem so I tried manually adding the DNS for each ISP I've tried but no luck. I've tested Supanet, BT and Freeserve. I'm not running a firewall and do have a network card installed on a static IP. I've tried disabling and enabling DNS for this card but that didn't work. Thanks in advance. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Second post: trying to mount external firewire drive
I'd like to attach an 80 gig firewire drive to a Dell laptop running Mandrake 8.1 and I'm not sure how I go about mounting the drive. I have a 1394 PCMCIA card that I'm reasonably confident work with the OS, and the drive is NTFS formatted, though I could change that as there is nothing of value on it now. Would like to be able to use it for a compleiÉM6ack up, among other things. Can someone give me some help with this? Not sure where to start. The drive shows up fine in Win2k. Andy Miller Andy Miller
[newbie] Second post: trying to mount external firewire drive
I'd like to attach an external firewire drive to a Dell laptop running Mandrake 8.1 and I'm not sure how I go about mounting the drive. I have a 1394 PCMCIA card that I'm reasonably confident work with the OS, and the drive is NTFS formatted, though I could change that as there is nothing of value on it now. Would like to be able to use it for a complete back up, among other things. Can someone give me some help with this? Not sure where to start. The drive shows up fine in Win2k. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Multi-volume floppy retrieval problem
I tarred my data and did a multi-volume save on a bunch of floppies. The floppies are raw format. Now I cannot seem to get the data back, which is stored in block files. Could somebody tell me how to do this? Thanks Andy Gay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDROM problem in GNOME, OK in KDE and console
Hi, I've been trying to work out a CDROM issue I have in Mandrake 8.1 but I'm stuck :( CDROM or DVDROM or CDRW all work fine at the console and in KDE...but When I launch GNOME I can mount the drive and view all the files on the CD, however when I try to copy any file from the CD to the Hard drive it shows a blank file with 0 bytes (but gives the file name). I'm logged in as Root and have full permission to the desktop or other directories I've tried to copy files to. I'm currently using a Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-114 (well tested in Win98 2k and XP, and works fine at console and KDE) Things I have checked and tried; dmseg reports the correct drive model Also reports - hdc: ATAPI DVD ROM drive, 512kb Cache, UDMA (33) lilo.conf - append= devfs=mount quiet fstab - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro Default was - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user, iocharset=iso8859-1, umask, sync, exec, codepage=850, noauto 0 0 cat /proc/devices - Block devices 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 cat /proc/filesystems - does not list iso9660 from boot. If I mount the drive iso9660 is then listed. I've not added or removed any programs or services from the standard install. My guess is that there must be some sort of config file for GNOME stopping it working, but I haven't a clue what or were. Hope someone can help :) Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM problem in GNOME, OK in KDE and console
Sorry forgot to mention the type of CD's Tried several CD's including CD-R and CD-RW formatted to ISO 9960 with Joliet (using Nero). Tried original CD's from various sources. Even tested the Mandrake ISO images I burnt for Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2. I know Linux use to have a problem with Joliet but this was sorted quite a few Kernels back + it wouldn't work in KDE if that was the problem. And I haven't used any of the CD's in packet format, so I'm stumped. Andy - Original Message - From: Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lista de Mailing Linux-Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CDROM problem in GNOME, OK in KDE and console El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 12:09, Andy Napier escribió: Hi, I've been trying to work out a CDROM issue I have in Mandrake 8.1 but I'm stuck :( CDROM or DVDROM or CDRW all work fine at the console and in KDE...but When I launch GNOME I can mount the drive and view all the files on the CD, however when I try to copy any file from the CD to the Hard drive it shows a blank file with 0 bytes (but gives the file name). I'm logged in as Root and have full permission to the desktop or other directories I've tried to copy files to. I'm currently using a Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-114 (well tested in Win98 2k and XP, and works fine at console and KDE) Things I have checked and tried; dmseg reports the correct drive model Also reports - hdc: ATAPI DVD ROM drive, 512kb Cache, UDMA (33) lilo.conf - append= devfs=mount quiet fstab - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro Default was - /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user, iocharset=iso8859-1, umask, sync, exec, codepage=850, noauto 0 0 cat /proc/devices - Block devices 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 cat /proc/filesystems - does not list iso9660 from boot. If I mount the drive iso9660 is then listed. I've not added or removed any programs or services from the standard install. My guess is that there must be some sort of config file for GNOME stopping it working, but I haven't a clue what or were. Hope someone can help :) Andy what kind of files is it? looks like what happens when you try to copy sound tracks from a cd, maybe that cd has some sort of anti-copy protection? just guessing here, but have you tried this with several cd's so you know the problem is in the drive and not in the media? other than that, it beats me Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rules for evolution
Go to your Tools menu and use the filters. It can build filters based on the fields in the open email posting if you wish. On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:13, Damian G wrote: hi..! does anyone know how/if i can set up rules for evolution so it shows email from different senders in different directories? thanks! damian _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx =_1014318807-13086-2229 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVDRom problem
Thanks for help so far. I have tried several things. The dmesg reported: hdc: Toshiba DVD-ROM SDC2502, ATAPI CD-DVD ROM drive I did a ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/hdc as root and got /dev/hdc already exists Doing ls -l /dev/cdrom I get lr-xr-xr-x 1 rootroot 16 Feb 14 10:09 dev/cdrom -- ../cdroms/cdrom0 Something keeps reseting /dev/cdrom back group=root after I set permissions to myself as group Here is /etc/fstab: /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/hdc,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid,exec,ro,noauto,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid,exec,noauto,nodev,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 What am I not doing? Thanks for ongoing help. Andy On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 07:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Andy Gay wrote: My DVD Rom which I use for the CD Rom functions works fine on installation and package management, but not for audio or data file access either as root or myself. I get something like Could not access /dev/cdrom or no audio cd detected. Make sure you have correct file permissions. error message when using KDE cd audio player, or any other. I have added myself as group with rw rights to /dev/cdrom and various other symbolic links of Mandrake 8.1. But I guess ownership is not the problem since root usage doesn't work either. Appreciate any help. Andy Andy, not sure about the data problem, but as far as audio goes, sometimes you have to make a symbolic link. Try this: ln -s /dev/cdrom whatever your actual device is For example, in my case my DVD drive is /dev/scd0 so mine was: ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0 Do a dmesg |less or dmesg dmesg.txt (and read the resulting text file) to see just what you DVD is listed as... Hope this helps! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVDRom problem
FINALLY WORKS with kssd As advised on list, I edited the ~/.kde/share/config/kscdrc for CDevise=/dev/hdc That did it! Thanks to everybody! Now if I can get XMMS to work. I really like that one. Andy On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 06:17, Andy Gay wrote: My DVD Rom which I use for the CD Rom functions works fine on installation and package management, but not for audio or data file access either as root or myself. I get something like Could not access /dev/cdrom or no audio cd detected. Make sure you have correct file permissions. error message when using KDE cd audio player, or any other. I have added myself as group with rw rights to /dev/cdrom and various other symbolic links of Mandrake 8.1. But I guess ownership is not the problem since root usage doesn't work either. Appreciate any help. Andy =_1013429826-23306-790 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wvdial
If you're running it in a terminal, just do a ctrlc in the terminal. That's do it. On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 09:13, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi folks, a dumb question, I set up wvdial and it dials up just dandy but now I can't get it to shut off, and if I unplug the external modem it just redials when plugged back in. How do you turn the dumb thing off when you don't need it, I have been through the man pages and docs and don't see anything on hang up. TIA for any assistance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0
thanks, using the tar with the -M switch did the job quite nicely. Andy On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 12:42, RichardA wrote: Andy, this: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue13/floppies.html says this: == Prepare as many floppies as you think you'll need by using the fdformat(8) command. You do not need to make filesystems on them however, as you will be using them in raw mode. If you are backing up a large set of subdirectories, switch to the base subdirectory and issue the following command: cd directory tar -cv -L 1440 -M -f /dev/fd0 . This command will prompt you when to change floppies. Wait for the floppy drive light to go out of course! If you need to backup or transfer multiple files or directories, or just a single large file, then specify them instead of the period at the end of the tar command above. Unpacking the archive is similar to the above command: cd directory tar -xv -L 1440 -M -f /dev/fd0 == It might be five years old, but I'll bet it's still true. (I'm sure I've read of a command you can pipe the output of tar to, which will cut it into pieces of any size you want. Wish I could remember what it's called). Richard Andy Gay, Monday 04 February 2002 04:31: I could use a simple data backup do store nothing but a /data directory in my /home/me/data. I would like to compress (tar, I guess) it on floppies (I don't have a whole lot of data-.maybe 10 meg uncompressed) and be prompted when to change the floppies. Is there a utility for that? Thanks. Andy On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 20:20, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Saturday 02 February 2002 18:28, you wrote: Mike, I know how bad it can be when you're starting from ground zero. I had the same problems when I had to learn IBM Dos version 2 from scratch by myself. The syntax can be arcane and hard to understand at times. Plus, the man pages are not oriented to new users. The best source of information for new users are HOWTO resources, which list concrete real world examples, put forth in no nonsense easy to understand format. I appreciate these resources greatly because I did not have them 15 years ago when I got a generous crash course by an asshole administrator. There are many HOWTO's, but after checking I found precious little in the way of tar information. This was a little disturbing, as tar is a heavily used resource in the UNIX world. On discovering this, I empathized with your situation even more. To access this information locally on your system, assuming you've got a Mandrake system and I don't have any reason to assume otherwise, put the following in your browser: file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html If by chance the docs are not installed, go to the following net resource: www.linuxdoc.org Since this is a new user's list, there should'nt be any subscribers that have any misplaced preconceptions concerning a list member's foreknowledge about anything regarding Mandrake Linux. Having said that, your original question concerned backup programs. That in itself tells us alot about what you are asking. First, whenever you are talking about a script or utility that does backups, it's generally desirable to be able to grab everything in a given location, plus save permissions and ownership information; not to mention the hidden .dotdirs. That's generally what backup programs do. If you tend to back your stuff up to CDRW like I do, you might want to make a tar.gz archive of your directory. In my case, I like to save the home user's directory to a tar.gz archive, then put it on CDRW temporarily until I've upgraded the system to the next latest distro. The following command will save everything unilaterally and keep all ownership and permissions information verbatim: cd /home tar -zxpvf /tmp/storage/home_dir.tar.gz * If you then want to view what you've done after you complete this, you go to the /tmp/storage directory and type: tar -ztpvf home_dir.tar.gz This doesn't do anything but pull a list of what's in the archive. The z option on the tar command line tells the program to process the archive with gzip, which gives it a respectable compression; saving you alot of space. Hope this gets you started. Email again if you've got further questions. LX shane wrote: tar springs to mind. If I knew how to use tar to backup / or /home I would not have asked the question. would you mind to tell me how to do this ? Just smugly saying tar ( Duh ) springs to mind, doesn't really answer the question. For anyone reading this , most of us when we ask a question , we mean Ok, HOW do you do that? Mike _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free
Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0
I could use a simple data backup do store nothing but a /data directory in my /home/me/data. I would like to compress (tar, I guess) it on floppies (I don't have a whole lot of data-.maybe 10 meg uncompressed) and be prompted when to change the floppies. Is there a utility for that? Thanks. Andy On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 20:20, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Saturday 02 February 2002 18:28, you wrote: Mike, I know how bad it can be when you're starting from ground zero. I had the same problems when I had to learn IBM Dos version 2 from scratch by myself. The syntax can be arcane and hard to understand at times. Plus, the man pages are not oriented to new users. The best source of information for new users are HOWTO resources, which list concrete real world examples, put forth in no nonsense easy to understand format. I appreciate these resources greatly because I did not have them 15 years ago when I got a generous crash course by an asshole administrator. There are many HOWTO's, but after checking I found precious little in the way of tar information. This was a little disturbing, as tar is a heavily used resource in the UNIX world. On discovering this, I empathized with your situation even more. To access this information locally on your system, assuming you've got a Mandrake system and I don't have any reason to assume otherwise, put the following in your browser: file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html If by chance the docs are not installed, go to the following net resource: www.linuxdoc.org Since this is a new user's list, there should'nt be any subscribers that have any misplaced preconceptions concerning a list member's foreknowledge about anything regarding Mandrake Linux. Having said that, your original question concerned backup programs. That in itself tells us alot about what you are asking. First, whenever you are talking about a script or utility that does backups, it's generally desirable to be able to grab everything in a given location, plus save permissions and ownership information; not to mention the hidden .dotdirs. That's generally what backup programs do. If you tend to back your stuff up to CDRW like I do, you might want to make a tar.gz archive of your directory. In my case, I like to save the home user's directory to a tar.gz archive, then put it on CDRW temporarily until I've upgraded the system to the next latest distro. The following command will save everything unilaterally and keep all ownership and permissions information verbatim: cd /home tar -zxpvf /tmp/storage/home_dir.tar.gz * If you then want to view what you've done after you complete this, you go to the /tmp/storage directory and type: tar -ztpvf home_dir.tar.gz This doesn't do anything but pull a list of what's in the archive. The z option on the tar command line tells the program to process the archive with gzip, which gives it a respectable compression; saving you alot of space. Hope this gets you started. Email again if you've got further questions. LX shane wrote: tar springs to mind. If I knew how to use tar to backup / or /home I would not have asked the question. would you mind to tell me how to do this ? Just smugly saying tar ( Duh ) springs to mind, doesn't really answer the question. For anyone reading this , most of us when we ask a question , we mean Ok, HOW do you do that? Mike _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com =_1012702969-31383-139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trashing messages in Evolution
Sending to trash in not really gone. To permantly delete, use the Expunge on the Actions menu. On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 11:51, Todd Slater wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2002 12:15 pm, Andy Gay wrote: Go to Actions menu, then punch Empty Trash. Is there a way to send the message to the trash without permanently deleting it? T On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 10:08, Todd Slater wrote: After much downloading and updating or rpms, I now have Evolution 1.0.1 up and running. One stupid question: how do I get a message to go to the trash can, rather than having a strike-through? I notice that I can expunge messages, but that completely deletes them. I would like to be able to send them to the trash, just in case I need a message later. I tried moving a message to the trash folder, but it said the folder didn't exist. And I couldn't find anything under Tools-Mail settings. Thanks, Todd =_1012412563-762-4003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trashing messages in Evolution
Go to Actions menu, then punch Empty Trash. Andy On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 10:08, Todd Slater wrote: After much downloading and updating or rpms, I now have Evolution 1.0.1 up and running. One stupid question: how do I get a message to go to the trash can, rather than having a strike-through? I notice that I can expunge messages, but that completely deletes them. I would like to be able to send them to the trash, just in case I need a message later. I tried moving a message to the trash folder, but it said the folder didn't exist. And I couldn't find anything under Tools-Mail settings. Thanks, Todd =_1012406396-762-3975 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] display hash marks in tool bars problem
I get hash marks periodically in an otherwise nice display running my SVGA 56 hz 800x600 16 bit color on an Intel 815 video set up (my actual chip, not listed explicitly is Intel 82815 graphics controller) Although I can get rid of the hash marks with a 640x480 display setting, that's not what I want to be looking at 6 hrs. a day. Here's the question. What can you tweek to get rid of the hash marks without sacrificing 800x600 resolution? Can you change the hsync or vertical settings in the XF86Config file, or something? Thanks for any help. Andy Gay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XF86 Setup in non graphical mode
Thanks to all the folks on this list who offered solutions on this. I found that easiest way was to do, as someone suggested, simply run the installation in upgrade mode. Piece of cake! I have also made a copy of XF86Config in my /home/me directory. Thanks. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] autologin does run .bash_profile
Strange problem with logging in. Until yesterday I was letting the system come up in console mode, logging in as 'andyd' and then running 'startx' to get into X-Windows. Yesterday I chose the option of being logged in automatically as andyd and in KDE. When I do that, it appears that it is not a login session. At least .bash_profile does not get run. If I switch back to doing logging in manually, .bash_profile does get run. Shouldn't autologin run .bash_profile as the login shell script? The current workaround, of course, is to log in at a console first, then run 'startx'. But does anybody have any idea how I could make autologin do what I think it should? Don't know if it is related, but my PATH environment variable has duplicate paths in it: /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games: /usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games: /usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/andyd/bin andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
