Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:11 pm, David Robertson wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 14:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three download mandrake 9.2 CD's sent to me by a friend, and there is no kernel source that I am able to find. Kernel doc, yes. Do you doubt this? I attempted to download the kernel source from the mandrake site on dial up, and if memory serves it was 40 MB or something close thereto. I had a great deal of trouble trying to download it, as it kept dropping out, and never managed to get it. My ISP cuts me off after every five hours on line. The Internet speed often drops to the 19000kbps minimum it is allowed. making it even more difficult. Do you, doubt this? Why would I want to run Mandrake 9.2 with an older kernel? Would that make it or slmodem driver run better? Keep your hat on! No, I don't doubt what you say. Just remember that it can be difficult on a mailing list - especially a newbie one - to tell a person's level of expertise. I just thought that you might have missed the kernel source on the cd's. Only trying to help David Sorry David, I wasn't wearing my hat at the time either :-) lol -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:44 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 05:50 pm, RAT wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem which works? 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? Thx Radek I have an Acer 1355LC laptop, win modem of course and haven't yet been able to compile the driver because it is running Mandrake 9.2 and this has no kernel source. Which I need to compile the driver and I am on dialup, which is much like two tin cans with a string in the middle connecting them. But worse, there is no serial port that will allow connection of a hardware modem. So I have to keep it as dual boot. Windows wins again for a while in this instance. I refuse to pay for a driver when I have already paid for the modem with the laptop, and the driver comes supplied for windows. I have also not been able to get the sound to work. Have found a terrific howto for this laptop, but it needs a compiled kernel to work. You may want to check to make sure what you need isn't already compiled as a module with the stock kernel. The touchpad works a treat without any alterations, but I think that that you can download a driver from the synaptics site I did this just in case but didn't need it. Google for it as I have kept no record of it. But possibly, you will also have to compile a kernel to get both the modem driver and the touchpad driver to work. I actually think this is a prerequisite for Linux. NO, compiling your own kernel is not a prerequisite for Linux. While I have done it before to fine-tune a kernel for a specific machine, it is seldom necessary. About the only thing I have to compile for is the PCMCIA SCSI card, because it is not susported in the 2.4.x kernels. Good luck with it, just like the rest of us, don't give up. Keep wearing away at it. If you realy want to compile your own, you will probably want to get the source for the latest kernel. On a dialup, you may want to get Netscape's download manager, or wget for windows. Both will let you resume abouted downloads. For wget, take a look at: http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/ Mikkel Thanks Mikkel, Konqueror also allows me to resume, but when the mirror site doesn't drop me off, then my ISP runs out of the time it allows me to remain connected, so its a drop off, resume. drop off, resume, reconnect, drop off, resume ad infinitum, then can't connect to the mirror or something similar then sometime later, try again, resume, drop off. I hope to have, from the same friend that I have 9.2, Mandrake 10 in my hand soon and hope the kernel source is on that DVD or CD, and then all will be well I have never had any problems with Linux, three CD's are all I have ever got in the past, and then download smaller apps from the net [ drop off, resume, etc.. ] but never exposed a lappy to Linux before. The first time that I could ever afford one, other than the first machine ever owned some 8 years ago, never even heard of Linux then. Windows 3.1 was the thing. 3 floppys to install it, what great wonder and joy. There is always something to learn when you live in the third world part of a first world country. There are others less fortunate though so I don't want to complain, other than to our government who is after all responsible for the situation we live in. But the population in the bush is to small to make an impact. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 01:54 am, John Rye wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:50:42 +0200 RAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem which works? For what is worth, I have no end of hassles with winmodems in laptops - there is quite simple if a little costly way around this hassle - It works for me everytime now and I 'look after' 8 laptops running linux. The answer is a PCMCIA modem card - about $US60 from the Shack and a whole heap of other outlets. And the PCMCIA interface is freely available as source or binary, in fact I think it's even on the 3-CD download set. Worth considering? I've had no trouble with dial-up with a Zoom V92 PC Card (Series 1003 - Model #3075, Check it out at: http://www.zoom.com/products/dial_up_pc_card.html 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? My Acer 653LCI has one of those touchpads and has worked out of the box with MDK9.2, ok the scroll buttons don't work but it is quite useable otherwise. I beleive there is a generic Synaptics driver which can enable the scroll buttons. However, IMHO it's seems simpler to use a 'standard' ps/2 or usb mouse. Cheers John Thanks John, I live in Oz but should be able to get a PCMCIA modem card even here I reckon. I don't know how it works, and the cost will be considerably more I am certain, but will give that a try, if I can't get it working with 10. Thanks for that advice. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Log-In Screen
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:31 am, Steve wrote: I created 3 logins for our Mandrake 10.0 computer ( 2 users and root) but, only one of them is now showing on the login screen? How do I get the other two back (including the root user)? Thanks, Steve -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books. ...Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:14 am, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: If you want to vote for Mandrake Linux, this link will do it: http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1135section=indexaid=7 did it Don't know what it proves though? -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. ...Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:43 am, Lord Storm wrote: SNIP Storm, old china plate, Windows ALWAYS needs to be installed FIRST - no matter what - it's a Microsoft thing - it will rewrite your partition tables no matter what - and if you hose up your Windows installation after mucking around with GNU/linux, well, you're going to have to blast it all out and start again. For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then everything else after that. Can't get around it. snip Windows 2k was installed first then mandrake then partition scrambled. FIXMBR FIXBOOT did not work at all. I know that Windows has to be installed first (been using mandrake since 9.0) but this is the first time I have encountered this problem with MDK in 10. Some how it could be the bios level F4 bios its now F6 and Mandrakesoft may be configuring stuff for the F6 BIOS now. Also I do not know enough about lilo to configure it after mandrake is installed. I think ill be doing the beta run with MDK 10.1 and all candidates I just hope they anounce it on Distrowatch. This might be of interest:- See: http://basiclinux.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Basiclinux/WindowsBootLoss Be sure to see the link to the Prevention and Recovery - it's a lot easier to read then the huge bug reports. :-) Loss of Windows XP boot after Linux Install Some people are finding that they can no longer boot Windows XP after installing Fedora Core 2. I found a similar bugzilla report for Mandrake 10 and reports of this on SUSE 9.1 as well. There is a combination of ingredients that causes this problem. They are: 1. The distro uses the 2.6 kernel 2. The distro installer uses parted to repartition the drive 3. The installation is done on a large hard drive 4. Windows XP is installed on that same drive What happens to cause the problem? I am not an expert on this, but my understanding of what I've read in the bug reports is that this is it in a nutshell: 1. kernel 2.6 doesn't try to give the logical geometry, and gives the physical geometry instead 2. parted (front-ends include diskdrake and disk druid) uses the physical geometry given by the kernel to generate the CHS information during the repartitioning. This CHS information gets written to the partition table 3. the BIOS sees that the partition table uses a different CHS geometry, and adapts to it 4. Windows has the previous geometry that it keeps in its boot sector. This no works with the changed CHS that the BIOS now provides. The Windows boot fails. To read the bug reports yourself, see: * Mandrake bug report opened: 2004.02.17 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7959 * Fedora bug report opened: 2004-02-17 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980 For information on how to prevent or recover from this problem see Dual Booting Issues With Fedora Core 2 and Windows: Prevention Recovery http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ This guide should also help with other distros which have this problem. The basic idea for prevention here is to give the drive geometry as a parameter when booting the kernel during installation - for example: linux hda=14593,255,63 The guide explains that you can get the geometry using fdisk (Linux version) from a rescue disk. The explanation uses the Fedora Rescue CD, but there are a number of rescue disks available - normally the installation CD itself can function as a rescue disk. My thinking is that laying down the partitions before doing the install would solve the problem, but many new users would rightfully just use the installer to do the job and run right into this situation of not being able to book Windows XP afterwards. fdisk or cfdisk do not read the geometry in the same way that parted does. Another prevention for this would be to install Linux on a separate hard drive. I would recommend that you do not install GRUB or LILO to the MBR of the disk that Windows is on, because I have seen reports of this geometry still being rewritten in such a case. -- AnitaLewis - 19 Jun 2004 -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :
Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:35 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 19:12, martin brandt wrote: Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new rule, modifying the current rule (which i shouldnt be able to do i think i read somewhere). What am i doing wrong? Everytime i make the changes, they seem to be over written again, back to the old settings. I have entry, execute and write for User, but not for Group or other. The owner is 'root' group 'root', although if it was i would be able to change the permissons. I think it is some sort of windows permissions that are stopping me, as i have had the same problem before. I need write permission. Is there anyway to edit the permission settings manually, like in an fstab type file? To me it looks like you are getting patronized by msec, which has a tendency of bessermachen, at least if your security setting is higher and especially paranoid. Every now and then msec checks permissions, and if it finds something slightly out of the usual, it changes permissions back. So, maybe changing your security setting to high or standard will settle things. On the other hand, if your windows partition is listed in your /etc/fstab, it should contain umask=0, something like : /dev/hda4 /data vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 that way it will mount chmod 777 every time. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Maybe Kaj has it right, because I have windows FAT32 partitions to share with windows on my laptop and there is no problem writing to them. There is no way that the ownership can be changed, but they are open to be written to from Linux or the dark side. This has always been the case on the desktops as well, though it has been some time that I had a dual boot system. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe? .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:52 pm, Marc Hultquist wrote: It depends on what windows you have installed, if its a windows that uses a fat32 file system then you are fine, however if you are using a windows that uses ntfs such as XP or 2000 etc, you wont really be able to do what you want, as Linux only has read support for ntfs, while there is write support(in Debian, not sure about others), it is listed as *testing* and is not reccomended ! I.E use windows 98 ;-) I haven't followed this thread but 2000 and XP can be installed on FAT 32 file systems as well as NTFS. That also allows picking files off the windows partition while in Linux modifying and returning them to their location. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- Deep in their roots, All flowers keep the light. ...Theodore Roethke ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Modem detected but not supported
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:31 am, M.Schild wrote: There are _some_ internal modems that work quite well with Linux -- without drivers. The tricky bit is finding them. Maybe but if you are new to Linux and proudly want to install it on a new machine you get stuck. What would your next move be? Windows? Maryse That has to be my answer. I am going to our local community centre tomorrow, some miles away from our place in the bush to download the kernel source which I need to get the winmodem on my Acer 1350 lappy working. The problem is that even there, it will take some time because we are too isolated to get broadband with anything faster than dialup speed, and satellite is fairly slow as well. But here at home where the telephone system is 2 tin cans connected by a thin string, it is even slower. We are moving onto solar power and I need that lappy because it uses less power. I moved from that to real live power, but have to move back. If I can't get this modem working in Linux, I am back to windows which I haven't used for a couple of years. Fact of life. Tough but unavoidable. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A friend with sympa problems
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 05:07 am, JRH wrote: I'm still getting the delivery failure notifications I post to the group, and my message comes through, and is on the group. Then 10 minutes later, I get a delivery failure message. What is up? JRH Happens to me all the time. I thought it only happened to people that didn't really contribute anything of value. But if it happens to others that can't be the reason? Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A friend with sympa problems
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 05:20 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: robin wrote: I received this from Christophe - does anyone know what the problem is? Hello, I tried again to sign up for the newbie list and every time I get this error message... Do you know what to do? Thank you Christophe Original Message Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:15:26 +0300 (EEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the Postfix program at host labris2.ttnet.net.tr. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host smtp1.mandrax.org[212.85.147.170] said: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [212.156.4.153] (in reply to RCPT TO command) Reporting-MTA: dns; labris2.ttnet.net.tr Arrival-Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:42:14 +0300 (EEST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 4.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host smtp1.mandrax.org[212.85.147.170] said: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [212.156.4.153] (in reply to RCPT TO command) Subject: subscribe newbie From: rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 06:42:16 +0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I bet he is trying to send the mail directly, instead of relaying through his ISP's mail server. The system can not match a host name to the IP address, so it is rejecting it. You can also run into problems if the hostname your mail server uses fails DNS lookup. It is all part of what systems are doing to try and fight SPAM. Mikkel I send it through my ISP, and there might be a difficulty with the way my ISP handles the things that it should do well. They really have no idea, or so I am told by everyone. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. ...Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A friend with sympa problems
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:37 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 05:07 am, JRH wrote: I'm still getting the delivery failure notifications I post to the group, and my message comes through, and is on the group. Then 10 minutes later, I get a delivery failure message. What is up? JRH Happens to me all the time. I thought it only happened to people that didn't really contribute anything of value. But if it happens to others that can't be the reason? Charlie. Maybe we're all missing the point here, mates. Ya see, BECAUSE Sympa is spitting back these irritable messages, we're forced to either endure them and delete them manually - OR - perchance - to learn to use the features of our linux or non-Microsoft email packages - so as to use filters and rules to delete them prior to our even seeing them - so in effect, Sympa is providing us all with a learning experience and further compounding the Microsoft email clients that don't have the ability to properly filter inbound mail - and on that note as well, for those of use cluey enough to run an internal mail server, it gives us teh ability to make use of procmail filtering to delete those failed emails... ...think about it...makes sense, don't it? Hmmm? NEXT BEER! Nope, we only see them because they appear in the filtered mail in the Rubbish directory. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop choice
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:21 am, Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 04:36 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Acer 1350, with 9.2, can't get the winmodem to work, because I don't | have the kernel source. | | Depending on the winmodem, you may not need the kernel source. There | are RPMs out with the modules compiled for different kernels, as well | as modules that are set up to work with kernel familys, instead of | different kernels. | | I am using a winmodem on my Thinkpad with a stock kernel, and a driver | from an add-on RPM. | | Mikkel | | Thanks Mikkel, This is the driver I used on an IBM T28 with 9.2--worked great. Do a Google search for it. ltmodem-kv_2.4.22_10mdk-8.26a9-1.i586 Can't remember where I got it, or if I needed the kernel-source, but I'm not a club member either, so it was somewhere else. It is 3.9GB, so I suppose I could e-mail it to you if you can't find it anywhere. I'm on dial-up also, so it would take a while to upload/download. e Thanks Erylon, I will seek it out. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop choice
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 06:49 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Thanks Mikkel, I see that there is a RPM for the modem on Mandrake Club, but I am not a member so didn't look further. I am not a club member because it is too difficult to transfer money overseas [ credit card is not an option ] and being on very slow dialup, unable to download anything much, at all. So I am stymied till we in the bush of Australia also become a first world nation. But thanks for that information. Charlie For the 2.4.x kernels, try: http://www.zisos.com/linux/linux.html Mikkel Am looking at it now, thank you again. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- Water is the only drink for a wise man. ...Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:02 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Ok, flame if you want.I haven't rtfm'ed. I'm switching my cdrom in the laptop, Dell 1100 w/ 10.0mdk this afternoon to a dvd/cdrw. I have every confidence that config will go aces. XCDroast has worked well for me in 9.2 for burning. But here we break new ground. What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. BTW, anyone need a Dell (actual brand unknown at this point) cdrom? I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh Lee Some of us are on solar power and need to conserve power as much as possible, so running a lappy with a DVD rather than a television with a DVD player as well [ combined about 600 watts as opposed to 90 watts ] makes good electrical economic sense. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:17 am, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably you will have to unmount it first. In a terminal,cd /etc/mnt, su to root, type umount cdrom or whatever it is named in your /etc/fstab. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks. I'll try that. Eric I discovered, by running top, that it is fam holding onto the device, as CDROM in my experience, and when I kill that the CD is permitted to eject. HTH Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. .Ugo Betti ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Info Info
On Wed, 26 May 2004 01:05 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The Other wrote: Hello All, Anybody else been struggling working through the Info and Man pages, trying to figure out how to navigate them? I'm still not sure how to browse the Man pages with anything other than up and down, but last night I had the insight to try something new with the Info pages. info info This got me a tutorial/lesson on how to use Tab, Space Bar, Backspace, and Delete keys. I haven't gotten through the lesson yet and still don't know how to return to the exact place you were before you Tab-Carriage Return'd into a new thread (you can always Delete key and Space key back to where you were), but I finally feel like I'm making progress with the Linux command documentation. For What It's Worth The Other If you are trying to navigate man pages from the command line, or in an Xterm, try man less. The man command uses less as the default pager on most Linux distributions. You can change it to something else by setting PAGER. man man will give you more information about the man command. There are also a couple of programs for reading man and info pages under X. (Not sure what comes with Mandrake - I normaly use command line tools for that.) Mikkel In konqueror you can:- in the Location line, type man:whatever-your-looking-for say:- man:bash or rather than type man: just type #bash and it will bring up the page there. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- Unfortunately virtue may command admiration but not always affection. anon ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy under 10CE]
On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:38, David A. Ferguson wrote: Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters mean. But, here is a copy of my floppy fstab line and some comments. MINE none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0 YOURS none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2 ,--,umask=0,user \___/\__/ this probably lets it read DOS and Linux disks__// / this is probably your problem, the user flag turns off __/ a lot of other flags (see man mount for details) MINE ,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 YOURS ,iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850 0 0 \__/ / I think this causes all writes to occure immediately. Try removing the 'user' flag and see if that works. I would guess that the sync flag would be good for floppies since you might remove a floppy while there was still some buffered data. I made my fstab lines exactly the same as yours and still no joy! This is getting serious, I can't back up anything! Rich I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so it has always been in my systems. On some it works on others it doesn't. HTH -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy under 10CE]
On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:05 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:38, David A. Ferguson wrote: Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters mean. But, here is a copy of my floppy fstab line and some comments. MINE none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0 YOURS none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2 ,--,umask=0,user \___/\__/ this probably lets it read DOS and Linux disks__// / this is probably your problem, the user flag turns off __/ a lot of other flags (see man mount for details) MINE ,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 YOURS ,iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850 0 0 \__/ / I think this causes all writes to occure immediately. Try removing the 'user' flag and see if that works. I would guess that the sync flag would be good for floppies since you might remove a floppy while there was still some buffered data. I made my fstab lines exactly the same as yours and still no joy! This is getting serious, I can't back up anything! Rich I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so it has always been in my systems. On some it works on others it doesn't. HTH Easyest wayI found was to # out the entries for supermount floppies and replace them with, /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 that sets up automount which does work. John Very similar without supermount, mount manually and it also works:- /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,nosuid,nodev,noauto,unhide,sync,umask=0,user 0 0 HTH -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy under 10CE]
On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:05, John Richard Smith wrote: I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so it has always been in my systems. On some it works on others it doesn't. HTH Easyest wayI found was to # out the entries for supermount floppies and replace them with, /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 that sets up automount which does work. Neither of these suggestions work either. I # out any reference to mounting the floppy and attempted to mount manually after a reboot. Still no luck, the message is that fd0 is not a valid block device. If I look in the /dev directory, fd0 is there with me as the owner. What on earth is going on Rich Try this, in /etc/fstab :- /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto unhide,noauto,user 0 0 It will probably deliver error messages other than that the /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. Then adjust accordingly. The only other thing I can think of is try this, in /etc/fstab :- /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy auto rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,unhide,umask=0,user=rich 0 0 Or whatever your user name is. Or leave out the actual =rich out of the line. Try both ways. That is how my system writes it in /etc/mtab so that might be of assistance. I have got things working by following the lead of /etc/mtab. Apologies because I am still using 9.2 and not 10 of any version. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul. ..Ashley Brillaint ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Jpilot or Kpilot
On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:02 am, David B. Williams wrote: I have tried both Jpilot and Kpilot after I installed 10.0 and can't get either one to sync and had both working on 9.1 I have chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 and did a link to dev/pilot I have made sure that the Palm Vx is set to 9600 baud as well as the applications and they still won't sync. Any ideas? dev/pilot.. maybe just a typo in this missive, or when done? /dev/pilot Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less. Charles Lamb ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:41 pm, Miark wrote: Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I seem to remember it starting, loading and saving files, and other operations being faster when my 9.2.1 was fresh. But it could be my imagination. Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes open two or three apps up at a time, and then OO.o appears slow against the others. Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know if that is fast or slow, but it is fine by me. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- Becoming a buddha is easy But ending illusions is hard So many frosted moonlit nights I've sat and felt the cold before dawn. Shih-wu (1272-1352 ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:09 pm, Miark wrote: Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know if that is fast or slow, but it is fine by me. 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. Miark That does appear slow and surprises me. You are using OO.o1.1.0? I have never installed, for use, the Mandrake version, only ever the one from OO.org, into the place where Mandrake installs their version. HTH. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. .Ugo Betti ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
