[newbie] Convert OGM to MPG?
Hi, I was wondering if anyone is aware of software that runs on Mandrake 10.0 that will convert OGM files to MPG? TIA, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 July 2004 01:32 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: -Well, thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt, but I'm pretty sure -I just didn't get all of the little wires from the case hooked up to the -right pins on the board. The case cable for the front USB slots has -individual leads for each USB pin on the board and I have big fingers -and bad eyes. It wouldn't be the first time I've screwed up on the -detail work. - -I haven't had time to actually crack open the box and look at it but I -did check the BIOS and everything seems to be enabled there. The mobo -manual doesn't indicate any hardware jumpers. - -Thanks again, -Carl Have you tried something like USBview just to see what it shows? Handy sometimes... :-) I wasn't familiar with USBview until you mentioned it. It does look like a handy tool. My motherboard has 4 onboard USB ports that all face the rear and it also has another USB port header that supports 2 additional ports. I hooked up the front case USB ports to this header but I'm pretty sure I need to redo it. When I plug my SanDisk Cruzer into any of the rear ports, it's immediately recognized, the data is available in /mnt/removeable, and USBview shows the new device. That's just not happening when I plug it into one of the front ports. I'll take a look at how I hooked it up after I get off of work today. Thanks, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 01:56 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: -Okay, this is in the Boy, do I feel stupid category. I was plugging -it into a front-of-the-case USB slot and I guess I didn't hook it up -correctly when I installed the mobo in this case. After reading your -response, I tried one of the rear onboard slots and it works fine. Oh, -well. Sorry I wasted everybody's time... - -Thanks, -Carl Sometimes (like my Soyo Dragon Plus) you also have to turn it on in BIOS and/or hardware jumper on the motherboard itself. Well, thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt, but I'm pretty sure I just didn't get all of the little wires from the case hooked up to the right pins on the board. The case cable for the front USB slots has individual leads for each USB pin on the board and I have big fingers and bad eyes. It wouldn't be the first time I've screwed up on the detail work. I haven't had time to actually crack open the box and look at it but I did check the BIOS and everything seems to be enabled there. The mobo manual doesn't indicate any hardware jumpers. Thanks again, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up CPAN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, the site tells me that I should do this: cpan makepl_arg: LIB=/path/to/my/site_perl but I don't know what Mandrake 10's /path/to/my/site_perl should be. You should be able to determine the path to your installations site_perl directory by issuing the following at the command line: $ perl -V | tail -20 On my Mandrake 10.0 Official installation I get: Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT Built under linux Compiled at Feb 3 2004 13:50:20 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl . In my case, my site_perl directory is /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl. HTH, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive
I've got a feeling I know the answer to this already but has anybody had any success getting Mandrake 10.0 Official to recognize and use a SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive? TIA, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl J. Bauman wrote: I've got a feeling I know the answer to this already but has anybody had any success getting Mandrake 10.0 Official to recognize and use a SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive? TIA, Carl Yes, Just plugged it and went to /mnt/removeale and it is there. Rgd Okay, this is in the Boy, do I feel stupid category. I was plugging it into a front-of-the-case USB slot and I guess I didn't hook it up correctly when I installed the mobo in this case. After reading your response, I tried one of the rear onboard slots and it works fine. Oh, well. Sorry I wasted everybody's time... Thanks, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] GAIM 0.78 RPM
Hi, I was wondering if anybody on the list knows where I could find a MDK 10.0 rpm of GAIM 0.78. TIA, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GAIM 0.78 RPM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anybody on the list knows where I could find a MDK 10.0 rpm of GAIM 0.78. Probably, the rpm for MDK 9.2 also works for MDK 10.0. Am I talking nonsense? Paul I was reluctant to try it because the MDK 9.2 rpm for 0.77 didn't work for my 10.0 installation. I'm not sure why that is and I've forgotten the symptoms that I encountered but I was able to find a 10.0 rpm for 0.77 that worked well. I keep telling myself I need to learn more about rolling my own, so to speak, but between long work hours and family, it just never seems to happen. I usually am comfortable installing from sources but GAIM upgrades so often that I prefer to use rpms with this particular app. Thanks, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GAIM 0.78 RPM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 08:08, Carl J. Bauman wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody on the list knows where I could find a MDK 10.0 rpm of GAIM 0.78. TIA, Carl Charles Edwards' site has it http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ Follow the instructions to make it a urpmi source and you can download any of the apps with your software install GUI, or urpmi. Thanks to Charles for providing this service. BTW: As Tom Brinkman (I think) pointed out yesterday, there is a new utility called urpmc which will list all packages for which an update exists. Not just the ones on the official update mirror. urpmi urpmc to install it. derek Thanks, Derek. I had added Charles' site to urpmi quite some time ago and I did a urpmq to see if there was anything available before I posted to the list but I forgot to do a urpmi.update before checking urpmq. Oops! I'm good to go now. Thanks again, Carl
Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 23:45:09 -0400 Todd Slater disseminated the following: If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. -- cmg Wasn't it just a couple of people that had problems with the political sigs? ...the usual suspects ;-) I guess I'm not clear on why anyone would have any political sigs, right, left, or middle wing, on an OS mailing list. Is Mandrake, or Linux in general, inherently political? I didn't realize I was making a political statement when I installed it on my hard drive. Is that stated some where on their website? Please, say it ain't so! ;-) Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right-click on the Xfce4 panel, slide up to 'Add new item', and select 'Mini Command Line'. It'll put a little textbox in your panel for issuing commands. Thanks, Marv. Unfortunately the Mini Command Line selection that you mentioned does not seem to exist on my system. I'm now running Xfce 4.0.5 on Mandrake 10.0, installed from Charles Edward's rpm's at http://www.eslrahc.com. Thanks again, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Linux on the Desktop Is Good For Redmond, Argues Microsoftee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/23/1957200 So, what MS is saying is that they can't think of innovations unless someone else thinks of them first? didn't we already know that? Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: {Spam?} [newbie] Seti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, What does 0 mean? Also, can you explain the meaning of the whole syntax? TIA type man 5 crontab in a console and hit enter... HTH, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you been able to do version upgrades (e.g., 9.2 to 10) and everything continue to work properly? To be honest, I had a great deal of trouble several years ago and haven't tried recently - I just format and install the new version clean. I have seen several posts here recently that claim that is still an issue. That is what I have found time consuming. Not too bad since typically I only install development tools. Well, maybe I've been doing Win installs/upgrades wrong for the past 7 or 8 years but I've found that the upgrade path doesn't work for your average Redmond product either. Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? No, I use it also. It a pretty good viewer. Fairly intuitive UI with some nice configurable options. Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] package name? - HIJACKED THREAD TIME PROBLEM
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html HTH, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 March 2004 06:21, Bill Spatz wrote: Uh..DST is next weekend! Bill Uh... the rest of the world doesn't necessarily switch over on the same day we do! g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xml and grep
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:53:50PM +, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I can't work it out on my own, and with out google (strange how easy you get attached to things) I am stuck. Please help. Thanks, Tony. So, assuming the xml fax line was something like fax123-456-7890/fax Assuming the same tags as above, this would probably work also: cat fax.xml | perl -n -e ' print $1\n if /fax(.+)\/fax/; ' HTH, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu
I can't remember if I saw this on this list or somewhere else, but what has been working well for me in the situation that you're describing is to su to root and run "update-menus -v" from the command line. HTH, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I brought this subject up before but the conversation veered off, so I thought I would raise it independently. Each time I install a multitude of packages, my menus seem to get reset to some tiny set. For example, the entire Packaging submenu is missing from Configuration. I tried logging out of X and coming back in, then I tried rebooting the computer entirely. Neither action fixed the menus. I had to start up MenuDrake as root, and do nothing other than hit the Save button. Then the menus reappeared. This doesn't seem to happen when I install a single package, only when I install a bunch at once. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A very sweet victory indeed! - OT
I guess what bugged me about Reuters coverage of the verdict was the apparent bias that they displayed with quotes like: A Norwegian teen-ager who created a computer program to copy Hollywood movies and he helped unlock a code and distribute a program enabling unauthorized copying of DVD movies when he's stated over and over again that he only wrote the thing so that he could view movies on an OS that the movie industry didn't support. Viewing and unauthorized copying are very different things in my book. But then, maybe I don't have all the facts. Carl Lanman wrote: Have a look at this one folks! You may be interested assuming you have a DVD player in that Linux box! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=569ncid=738e=4u=/nm/20030107/tc_nm/tech_norway_hacker_dc_6 Lanman 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] HELP
I get by with a little from my friends... Damian Gatabria wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 07:55, Tomas Andersson wrote: HELP - i need somebody! HELP! not just anybody! HELP! you know i need someone! HEEELP! ... 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] Linux installation Router Advice
I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's operating as a DHCP server and I'm not having any problems accessing the internet at all. But then, I also have dhcpcd version 1.3.22pl1-3mdk installed. The description from the rpm is as follows: dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-09 (when -r option is not speci- fied) and RFC1541 (when -r option is specified). It gets the host information (IP address, netmask, broad- cast address, etc.) from a DHCP server and configures the network interface of the machine on which it is running. It also tries to renew the lease time according to RFC1541 or draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-09. From that description it seems clear that I need a DHCP client if I'm expecting to receive and use a dynamic IP from a DHCP server. Personally, I think you probably would too but it's up to you. ;-) Regards, Carl FemmeFatale wrote: I've never needed a DHCP CLient before... why the hell would I need one now? The router itself acts as the DHCP server so it serves up address like: 192.168.1.100 or ... 1.101, etc... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA revisited
I don't know if this will help but it's all I got; an excerpt from the
FAQ section of the README file that comes with the NVidia driver for Linux:
#** Begin excerpt ***
Q: My X server fails to start, and my XFree86 log file contains the error:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module!
A: Nothing will work if the NVdriver kernel module doesn't function
properly. If you see anything in the X log file like (EE) NVIDIA(0):
Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! then there is
most likely a problem with the NVdriver kernel module. First, you
should verify that if you installed from rpm that the rpm was built
specifically for the kernel you are using. You should also check
that the module is loaded ('/sbin/lsmod'); if it is not loaded try
loading it explicitly with 'insmod' or 'modprobe' (be sure to exit the
X server before installing a new kernel module). If you receive errors
about unresolved symbols, then the kernel module has most likely been
built using header files for a different kernel revision than what
you are running. You can explicitly control what kernel header files
are used by building NVdriver from the NVIDIA_kernel tar file with:
'make install SYSINCLUDE=/path/to/kernel/headers'.
Please note that the convention for the location of kernel
header files is in a state of transition, as is the location
of kernel modules. If the kernel module fails to load properly,
modprobe/insmod may be trying to load an older kernel module (assuming
you've upgraded). cd'ing into the directory with the new kernel
module and doing 'insmod ./NVdriver' may help.
Finally, the NVdriver may print error messages indicating a problem --
to view these messages please check /var/log/messages, or wherever
syslog is directed to place kernel messages.
#** End excerpt ***
You may have already tried all these things but I thought I'd pass it on
to you. I've been running the NVidia drivers with my GeForce3 for
awhile now and, as I recall, I compiled the 3123 version from source
(following the instructions that were in the README file that came with
the tar.gz) with no problems. I hope something in here helps
Good Luck,
Carl
Dennis Myers wrote:
On Monday 25 November 2002 08:55 pm, Pilagá wrote:
El Lun 25 Nov 2002 23:21, Dennis Myers escribió:
On Monday 25 November 2002 07:33 pm, Pilagá wrote:
I'm sorry. I know this is a very frecuently asked question, but, after
a month, I can't still get my gforce2mmx to work under 9.0 with nvidia
drivers. The same card, with previous version of MDK always work great.
I have tested drivers versions 2960 and 3123, and package; tar.gz,
src.rpm, rpm, d'l from nvidia site, and last night te 2960 from
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake9.0/
I have installed GLX and kernel rpms whitout errors, and edited
XF86Config-4 (load glx and nv to nvidia) + ldconfig -v
I always end up with the same error: Failed to initialize the NVdriver
kernel module!
I also have installed, from MDK 3Cds d'l edition:
kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk
kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk
And Control Center report: kernel version: 2.4.19-16 Why kernel
headers and source versions are different? Could this be the problem?
Here I post the XFree86.9.log
Any idea?
Gracias
---
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: nvidia
(II) UnloadModule: vgahw
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Do you have kernel-source-2.4.*** installed? this is not always an
automatic install and Nvidia needs it for some reason. HTH
Yes, Dennis, 'kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk' and
'kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk' are installed.
Then the last thing I can tell you in hopes that it solves the problem is: Did
you comment out the two lines Load dri and Load GLcore if they are
present in XF86Config-4? Save the file after the edit? My last shot at this
one, a little help from the list if this doesn't do it.. Just jump right
in... HTH
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Re: [newbie] localhost?
No. Got 2 different results, though. The first one popped up a message box that said the document was empty. The second one said that the connection was refused. I don't know if it's important but I'm using Netscape 7.0. When I use the localhost hostname for both of those ports, it pulls up search.netscape.com. What's interesting to me is that I get the default Apache webpage whether I use http://127.0.0.1/ or http://localhost/. Is a mystery. Thanks for your help, Carl Milos Prudek wrote: yet). It's just that it gets confused when I try to access SWAT (http://localhost:901) or the CUPS configuration tool (http://localhost:631) and sends me to search.netscape.com. Try this: http://127.0.0.1:901 http://127.0.0.1:631 Does it work? 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] localhost?
I know I should know this, but, what do I need to do if localhost isn't being resolved correctly by my web browser? I'm running LM 9.0. I can't seem to use any of the browser based admin tools because Netscape 7.0 can't resolve localhost and dumps me into search.netscape.com which is of little use to me. Thanks for any help you can give me, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quick chmod question
That will chmod any sub-directories as well -- not just the files within
those directories -- which may not be what you want. You might want to
use the find command to be a little more selective:
find your_directory -type f -exec chmod your_mod {} \;
villoing wrote:
chmod your_mod -R your_directory
AndrewD wrote:
I need to chmod a whole bunch of files (under a directory), rather than
go thru them all one by one is there a quicker way to chmod them all
Thanx
Andrew
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake PowerPack 9.0 at BestBuy
Actually, Best Buy in Texas has been carrying various RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE versions for at least 3 or 4 years. I've been here for a little over 5 years and it wasn't too long after I moved down here that I noticed they were actually carrying Linux! Most people would think Texas is pretty backward compared to Indiana. ;-) Carl James Conner wrote: I was in Best Buy here in Indiana and saw Mandrake PowerPack 9.0(3 copies) on the shelf for sale. It put a smile on my face and made my day. I just thought I'd let people here know that it is beginning to proliferate throughout the US. They also have RH 8.0 and SuSE 8.1 as well as StarOffice 6.0. Jim 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] urpmi setup
Hi, Can you tell me how to correct this. I tried running: urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz and got: added medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Carl Download Area.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu.cz] retrieving description file of Distro_9.0... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of Distro_9.0... curl: (19) synthesis.hdlist.cz: No such file or directory. ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0 retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Distro_9.0.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium Distro_9.0 unable to update medium Distro_9.0 Do I need to run something else to create synthesis.hdlist.cz? Thanks, Carl Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:43 pm, Aaron wrote: Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp mirror how do I set this up. I have tried using Mandrakes control center but with no success. Thanks Aaron Remove your CD sources using rpmdrake, (but keep contrib) and then in a root terminal (while online) urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz (This command on one line) Or some other mirror if you prefer. 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
Re: [newbie] urpmi setup
Thanks, Derek. That worked. Derek Jennings wrote: Whoops.. sorry my mistake. I cannot even cut and paste properly it should be urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz I do recommend that rediris server. It is really fast. :) derek On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 6:08 pm, Aaron wrote: I did it and this is what I got root@adsl aaron]# urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz added medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD (disk1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.windowscontr.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] retrieving description file of Distro_9.0... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of Distro_9.0... curl: (19) Can't open synthesis.hdlist.cz: No such file or directory ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0 retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium Distro_9.0 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Distro_9.0.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium Distro_9.0 unable to update medium Distro_9.0 I will try another ftp also any idea what went worng?? Aaron On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:17, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:43 pm, Aaron wrote: Hi hope someone can help me. currently I have the whole mandrake 9.0 source tree plus contrib on my HD. I want to delete this, and have urpmi point to an http mirror or ftp mirror how do I set this up. I have tried using Mandrakes control center but with no success. Thanks Aaron Remove your CD sources using rpmdrake, (but keep contrib) and then in a root terminal (while online) urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz (This command on one line) Or some other mirror if you prefer. 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS Help
I'm using Mandrake 9.0, having recently upgraded from 8.2 where I had a working print system. My printer is attached to a different computer (WinXP) on my home network. In 8.2 I just used komba2 to find shared printers and everything just worked once I had located it. When I upgraded to 9.0, however, my print services went away. I really have no idea whether CUPS was being utilized with my 8.2 setup or not (it was working so I didn't mess with it) but when I saw this thread and these directions I attempted to follow them. That's when I realized my CUPS installation is probably hosed because I couldn't get past step 1. When I go to Mandrake Control Center | Hardware | Printer it shows me a pop up that says that it's looking for installed software. That quickly goes away and then the content window for Mandrake Control Center goes blank and stays that way. On the off chance that it's actually doing something, I've let it sit that way for as long as 20 minutes with no change but when I try to select a different area like Boot or even Hardware again, it tells me that the changes haven't been saved. I usually wind up cancelling and then closing down the Control Center. Would you suggest that I attempt to reinstall CUPS or is there possibly a simpler solution? I have to admit that, although I've used Linux off and on since '95, the print system is still a black box to me. In the past, whether I was using Slackware, RedHat, or Mandrake, I've always just installed the distro and prayed that the printer worked so I wouldn't have to dive into it. I'm very comfortable with editing config files, compiling software packages, or even doing a little Perl or shell scripting if need be, but I've never been able to find a good overview of where everything is in Linux (and specifically the Mandrake distro) and how it all fits together. It may be that I wasn't looking in the right places. :-) Any pointers you have as to where I could find clear documentation on the print services for Mandrake would be appreciated. Maybe I don't know what I'm asking, but I'm interested in something that covers more than just how to use the GUI tools that are included in the distro, if possible. Thanks for any help you can give me, Carl Technoslick wrote: Tom, CUPS, in my very limited opinion, the best for easy and control in setting up an LPD printer. 1) Go into Mandrake Control Center | Hardware | Printer to set up CUPS. It may ask for CD #1 to load necessary files. 2) Click on 'Expert Mode'. I could not set-up my print server in 'Normal Mode'. 3) Click on 'Add a printer' 4) Click on 'Printer on remote lpd server' 5) Fill out printer name and description. Location can be left blank. 6) In 'Remote host name', you can either put in the IP address of the NIC in your printer, or the host name you wish to give it. Keep in mind that if you give the printer a host name (like 'xerox' or 'printer'), you will need to add an entry in /etc/hosts with the name and IP address for name resolution over the network. In the second box, you would give the specific printer's name under the server. I think that you would leave this blank. 7) Pick your printer driver. The rest is easy enough. Does this sound like what you did? If is what you did before, let me know. I am sure we can figure it out. The key is that the device is supported. What are called 'all-in-wonder' printers are those that are multi-function units. I have an HP Laserjet 3100 that must have software support to drive it. I don't use it this way, but if I did want to use it as a printer in MDK 8.2 or 9.0, there's a specific software package that comes on the distro CDs for this model. I have no idea how the others are supported, or if they are. You got it to work once before. It should now. It wouldn't hurt to make sure that 'foomatic' is also loaded on your system, and when choosing the drivers for your printer, make sure to choose one that is a combination of 'CUPS' and 'foomatic'. Does this help you any? T - Original Message - From: Tom mailto:duffer;usa.net To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie;linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] CUPS Help I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with que name lp and it worked just fine as an lpr printer. (NOT CUPS). Tried this in CUPS and it will not work on the Mandrake 9.0 machine. Am I just ingnorant or do I need to be doing something else in CUPS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?
I just wanted to say thanks to Harm, Craig, and Ronald for the Crossover suggestion. I've since installed it and it really does work well. I'm off to check out some movie trailers my son's been nagging me to look at. Carl Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 04:44 pm, you wrote: Try Codeweavers' Crossover-plugin. It has direct support for quicktime. Don't know about Netscape, but I can vouch for Galeon and the Crossover plugin. MOVs and Flash animations work great (once you d/l them, of course). :-) 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] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?
Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully, I can be forgiven for such a slight transgression... Thanks in advance, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?
I just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 about a week ago and am really loving the new version. Kudos to all who contributed to it. I didn't have any of the issues that I've seen from others on the list. I had to re-install my Nvidia drivers but other than that the only issues are relatively trivial. For instance, in 8.2, under Configuration-KDE-LookNFeel-Screensavers there were several different screensavers to choose from but in 9.0 all I see are Blank, Mandrake Slideshow, Tux, and random. Are the rest available on some package I haven't loaded yet? Thanks, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Torvalds on Microsoft
All I got at that link was a login screen for RealNetworks that I didn't have login information for. What did I do wrong? Thanks, Carl s wrote: On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:15 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Thought provoking stuff! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27512.html Here's a realplayer link to the whole interview. pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/cta/progs/02/click_online/03oct.rm -s 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] Display problems and LILO question
Matt Stegman wrote: 3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error. I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT. Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to change the default system? (I am expecting to get another hard drive in a few months, but in the meantime, I only have one) I've never used LILO with Windows NT, so I can't say. What I did use was a rather awesome boot manager called OS-BS (see http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html). The beta version is free, and works perfectly well. You could also get he new one, with gads of features, for some cash (don't remember how much). Personally, I had pretty good success just following the instructions in the "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" which should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini if you installed the docs on your system or you can find it at http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html if you like HTML; at http://www.linux-howto.com/ptHOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader if you don't ;-). Maybe this'll help? Carl
Re: [newbie] Howd to determine version of Tcl/Tk ?
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: Howdy all. I am going to need to install BRU2000, the tape backup software on a server. The software requires Tcl/Tk v7.6 and 4.2 respectively. How do I found out what version each currently is ? try "rpm -qa | grep tcl" and "rpm -qa | grep tk" and see what the results are (oh, and remove the quotes before issuing the commands. G) This queries the RPM database and sends it to "grep" where you are looking ONLY for the term "tcl" and then the term "tk". That's one way to do it from the command-line... ... or, "rpm -qa | egrep '^tcl-|^tk-'" would be another... ;-) Carl
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
Ken Wilson wrote: Run the linux fdisk command on each of your harddrives, i.e. 'fdisk /dev/hda', 'fdisk /dev/hdb', etc. Don't use a partition number with the command. You will get a menu asking what you want to do next. Use the 'l' menu item to get a list of each partition and it's type on each of the disks. Uhh, I think you mean 'p' rather than 'l'. 'l' gives a list of partition types. Command action a toggle a bootable flag b edit bsd disklabel c toggle the dos compatibility flag d delete a partition l list known partition types m print this menu n add a new partition o create a new empty DOS partition table p print the partition table q quit without saving changes s create a new empty Sun disklabel t change a partition's system id u change display/entry units v verify the partition table w write table to disk and exit x extra functionality (experts only)
Re: [newbie] ntfs partition
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Aug, Toshiro Viera Stalker wrote: A little question: I want to mount a NTFS partition at boot time, can you tell me syntax of the line I need to add in fstab? Toshiro. Sure- it's just like the other lines in /etc/fstab, except: fs type is ntfs, and you'll probably want to specify your own mount options (i.e. noexec, nodev, ...). For information on those, see `man mount`. Oh, and those two numbers at the end of the line should both be 0. -- -Matt Stegman Hi, I tried to mount my NTFS partition from the command line with the following result: [root@shiloh /]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /dosc mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel I was under the impression that Mandrake had NTFS support built in. Is this not so? I'm running Mandrake 6.0 with the kernel upgraded to 2.2.9-27mdk. Thanks, Carl
Re: [newbie] Diamond Fire GL 1000 AGP Xfree??
I'm not sure what the "AGP version" is but I'm definitely using a Diamond Fire GL 1000 with X-windows. You'd want to use the XF86_3DLabs server with it if you're using a fairly recent version of XFree86. Otherwise, there used to be a good 3DLabs server available from XSuSE that you may be able to find on SuSE's website (try http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html). I also use 1024x768x16 as my standard resolution/color depth. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 with kdm (runlevel 5) which requires me to add a "DefaultColorDepth 16" line to my screen section in my XF86Config in order to get the 16 bit color depth. If you're not going to be using kdm, you'd probably want something like "startx -- -bpp 16" in your .bash_profile (somebody may want to correct me on this; this is where I used to have it, I think) to achieve the same thing. Hope this helps, Carl Beacham Tim P wrote: I see the Diamond Fire GL 1000 (AGP version) under the supported list on xfree.org but I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in using it with X windows.Can I at least get 1024x768-16bit using that card? My distributor has it on sale for 35 bones and I could not lay off... Tim Beacham, HDIS ¤ Barrow Medical Center mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Infamous last words of Socrates, "I drank what?" begin:vcard n:Bauman;Carl tel;fax:(210) 592-2027 tel;work:(210) 592-4018 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation;Information Technology adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Business Analyst note:Alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;19968 fn:Carl Bauman end:vcard
[newbie] Re:
If you're using lilo you can change it at the boot prompt. For example, I enter "linux mem=128M". Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard htathat linux can only use 64MB of memory by deafault. Is this true? Where can I change this optioinn?
