Re: [newbie] Re:Kde help
Ricardo Gmez S wrote: Hi all. I install the Mandrake 7.2, and all the times the Kde returns an error and I can't do anything. I try some variations at the install time, but all the is the same thing. What happend? What is the error message?
Re: [newbie] kde2.1
Hello, I can no longer speak for Mandrake as I am no longer working for the company, but here is my guess: There was probably a slight confusion over who is responsible for making the new RPM's. I had been creating all RPM's for the 7.2 KDE updates until about 2 weeks ago. It takes time to reassign responsibilities. I have had some email with people who know what is going on and they are working on building rpm's for kde 2.1. You have not been forgotten about. -Chris On Tuesday 27 February 2001 01:45, you wrote: hi all, They just released the KDE2.1 today and I went to the site to see if they have the rpm for mandrake. the directory there is empty while RedHat, Suse, and Caldera have their RPM available. What's with the Mandrake's RPM? why are they not ready when all the other one are? Rob Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- New England Business Services, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 860-956-9408 / 860-798-7032 (cell)
Re: [newbie] XConfig
On Monday 19 February 2001 11:28, you wrote: are there any xf86 (ver 4?) config tools for mndrake 7.2 that do not use x other than XF86Config? vi Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] FTP
On Monday 19 February 2001 12:47, you wrote: I have a L-M 7.2 at 192.168.101 and NT 4.0 at 192.168.1.100 and linksys at 192.168.1.1 I don't have samba running. ftp is there an each end. OK How do I get ftp to connect? You can by default ftp from the Windows box, to the Linux box as long as you have a user ID setup on the linux box. In IE try: ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do I have to set up some accounts? Yes, you can not do this by default as root. do I have to start a FTP server? Should be started by default. Try the above and see what you get. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready
I can answer that in one word - "Updates". It is far easier and safer to do a clean install than to do an update. Part of the clean full install includes formatting. For myself that would be deadly as my /home partition has a lot of source code, documents, etc. So that is partitioned. Also, wou will see a performance hit the larger the drive gets. IMHO. Hope that helps, -Chris On Sunday 04 February 2001 09:24, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Can someone please tell me the point of having several partitions on the same drive for one GNU/Linux installation? I can't imagine that it would be much faster, and there is not really much risk of losing data with only one partition, especially with new filesystems like ReiserFS. I simply use one partition for everything, and I have had no problems whatsoever. If I had several partitions I would be wasting space since /boot, / and other partitions would not be full, and so would be robbing space from /home. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm interested in repartitioning my drive to give more room to Linux (about 9GB in total, excluding Swap). On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:48, Christopher Molnar wrote: On Saturday 03 February 2001 17:57, Richard T. Waters wrote: Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a full install, rather than an upgrade. A person after my own heart! Of course doing a backup first of all your data is a good idea! Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information. Yup! I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best for an install, and I notice there are (as usual) varying opinions. Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to set up /; /boot and /usr? What should be a good rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions? I teach some classes for new Linux users. Here is what I tell them for a 5 Gig drive. (OK, I know I am about to be corrected, flamed, etc for this but I can handle it [sniff] - just remember this is a general suggestion and is not written in stone). Do NOT let the installer auto-partition. I have a different opinion about putting /var onto it's own partition. Don't. These are in order on how I recommend creating on a 5 gig drive: /boot = 64 meg Swap = 2 times the amount of physical memory in your machine. More if a server (probably 4 times). / = 3.5 Gig /home = remainder of all drive space. This seems to let them do a full development install and it works. (OK, let me have it!). Anyways, forgive me mailing list Gods, but if you are near New Haven, CT USA check out the Mandrake Campus courses at: http://www.innovationsw.com/training. -Chris Christopher Molnar wrote: 7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Getting Star Office 5.2 to show up under user menu on mdk7.2
or with the /NET option. On Sunday 04 February 2001 18:57, you wrote: I'm guessing that you installed it as root. I'm pretty sure Star Office needs to be installed with the user account. M. On Sunday 04 February 2001 15:51, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason Star Office 5.2 only shows up on my menu bar while logged in as root. Is there a way for me to have this on my menu bar under user? An help would be appreciated. Roman Registered Linus User #179293
[newbie] Re: egcs
Since I was sent the following question by someone with an address of localhost.localdomain I am posting the answer here: On Wednesday 31 January 2001 19:36, you wrote: What did you mean with: 9. get egcs from unsupported mirror directory Why I have to get that? If you do not install kdevelop, you do not need it. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready
On Saturday 03 February 2001 17:57, Richard T. Waters wrote: Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a full install, rather than an upgrade. A person after my own heart! Of course doing a backup first of all your data is a good idea! Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information. Yup! I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best for an install, and I notice there are (as usual) varying opinions. Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to set up /; /boot and /usr? What should be a good rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions? I teach some classes for new Linux users. Here is what I tell them for a 5 Gig drive. (OK, I know I am about to be corrected, flamed, etc for this but I can handle it [sniff] - just remember this is a general suggestion and is not written in stone). Do NOT let the installer auto-partition. I have a different opinion about putting /var onto it's own partition. Don't. These are in order on how I recommend creating on a 5 gig drive: /boot = 64 meg Swap = 2 times the amount of physical memory in your machine. More if a server (probably 4 times). / = 3.5 Gig /home = remainder of all drive space. This seems to let them do a full development install and it works. (OK, let me have it!). Anyways, forgive me mailing list Gods, but if you are near New Haven, CT USA check out the Mandrake Campus courses at: http://www.innovationsw.com/training. -Chris Christopher Molnar wrote: 7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. -Chris
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1beta2 Install
On Sunday 04 February 2001 20:32, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to update my desktop to the 2.1beta and using Chris M.s instructions, I get a conflict of kdelibs for the new 2.1 with the old KDE1.99. how do you put the --nodeps flag in the command line? Does it go in after the rpm, or after the -Uvh, or after the folder names, like "art* libart* kdelib* kdesupport* --nodeps" ? I floundering here cause the conflict message was unexpected. TIA for the help. Please tell me you are doing a rpm -Uvh *.rpm on all the files at once? There was a conflict that I can not resolve as both are betas. -Chris
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.2 update problems
On Sunday 04 February 2001 01:03, Richard Bozzato wrote: I've just updated KDE to 2.0.1 using Drake update, which has resulted in the following problems: * I can start Kmix only from root. Starting from other accounts generates the message "C-Media PCI" (my sound card is a C-Media PCI) is invalid" or words to that effect. As I can start Kmix in root I assume this is a file privalege issue, but which files?. Also attempting to add this devise to Kmix from an account other than root also causes the error; and * * desktop sounds in Gnome have defaulted to none for all users. Further I cannot change this using the control centre. After I change settings, they revert to no sound both for "sounds" and "Sawfish - sounds" Any ideas? Yup! There are some additional files. Mandrake Update does not install new packages that have been added. Here, do me a favor and drop to a command line and do: rpm -qa|grep kde rpm -qa|grep koffice rpm -qa|grep qt2 and post the results. This will help us figure it out. Please post to the list as I am traveling and someone else may be able to spot it first. -Chris
Re: [newbie] HP612A/lp0 not working
Can you post the contents of your /etc/modules.conf here? (If you have anything top sevret remove it)/. -Chris On Sunday 04 February 2001 00:52, Bill Barto wrote: OK, I've sent in some info b$ on this and nothing works. Let me try it again. After numerous tries at setting up this printer nothing happens. Have tried PrinterDrake and linuxconf from root. The most constant error message I receive is regarding lp0. Trying to run tunelp "tunelp lp0 -s" gives me "no such file or directory". Trying to print from a program I get "unable to open parallel port device file: no such device" Checking thru dmesg I do not find any reference to lp0/lp1 etc., a printer or the parallel port. I figured after disabling PlugPlay in my Bios and receiving a previous reply to also reset my BIOS to ECP I did that using the AUTO option as well. HP also says that it recommends setting this printer up on ECP. Still nothing. Why isn't lp0 recognized or setup. Where can I find the setup files. Maybe I can manually load it?
Re: [newbie] video conferencing software for Linux
On Sunday 04 February 2001 02:03, Kris Kanyon wrote: I was wondering if there is any video conferencing software available for Linux?? Something similar to Net meeting, or icuii??? Someone told me about a program called SANE??? Thanks for you help. Alan. I second this, if anyone knows of anything please let me know as well. Something like CUCME open source would be nice. It must be GPL to go into the distribution. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3
7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. -Chris On Thursday 01 February 2001 02:52, Skye Louey wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know when Mandrake 7.3 is due to be released? I cannot find any information on it but going by release trends one is due quite soon. Thanks =) SkYE ? ?? ? "Zankoku na tenshi no youni." Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2
Do not forget the xinitrc package from the unsupported dir. On Saturday 27 January 2001 21:31, Romanator wrote: Vic wrote: Scuse Rex's abuse. I think I shall try the beta downloads if they will not hose out my system, I do become very upset if something bunks it up and I don't know enuf to dig into every little config file, I just re-install. Which ones have you installed onto 7.2 ? My install is on a AMDK6 400 64M ram kernel 2.2.17-21mdk installed from the download of 7.2 iso Should I download from the post that Romanator did ? I can't find the post from Chris. Thanks for all the info On Saturday 27 January 2001 01:41 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Vic, Have you done any of the KDE updates from the batch that Chris has posted to the list about? Since coming from KDE2.0 to KDE2.1beta2 I've noticed Konqueror's stability increasing. That might be a help if you haven't installed the upgrades yet. Vic, Here's the help file that I used: If you want to upgrade KDE 2 to KDE2 Beta 2, download the files from the following link: http://atik.ciril.fr/pub/linux//mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde2.1Beta2 Step 1. Log on as root and download the kde2.1Beta2 rpms. Copy the rpms to a new folder i.e. kdebeta and save the folder in your root directory. Step 2. Log out of X and log on in "console mode" Step 3. Type in: cd Type in: rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm If everything goes well, remove the -- test. The verbose command will show if something is missing. If you are missing certain rpm files or libraries, navigate back to that ftp site and download the files. Step 4. Type in: rpm --rebuilddb Give this some time and above all do not interrupt it. Step 5. Type in: update-menus -v Give this time. D o not interrupt it. Reboot you computer. That's it. Files to download: arts-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm jdk-sun-1.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeaddutils-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeadmin-2.1-0.20010122.3mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-devel-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdepim-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdevelop-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdoc-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.noarch.rpm koffice-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm koffice-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm qt2-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm qt2-devel-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm qt2-doc-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm quanta-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm unixODBC-1.8.12-1mdk.i586.rpm
Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2
Get the egcs packages from the unsupported directory. I advise NOT to use --nodeps. On Sunday 28 January 2001 13:18, you wrote: Piece of cake . I hope so I get teh following dependency error [root@firefight /root]# cd /mnt/scsi/all-tars/kde-2.1-240101/ [root@firefight kde-2.1-240101]# rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm error: failed dependencies: libg++.so.2.7.2 is needed by kdevelop-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk [root@firefight kde-2.1-240101]# Searching the box showed the following libg++ [root@firefight /root]# find / -name libg++* /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libg++.so.27.1.4 /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libg++.so.27 My question is ... Can I install the whole set with -nodeps OR which package do I need to get libg++.so.2.7.2 Thank you for you help. Ingo -Original Message- From: Romanator [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: January 28, 2001 1:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2 Piece of cake. Follow the steps and you'll be alright. Good luck! Roman Vic wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2001 08:31 pm, Romanator wrote: Many thankx for all this info, if I return to the list, I made it. If not, I have drowned in an ocean of kde poop. Wish me lucjk, see you on the other sied. screw the typos I don't wanna correct them now. sorry later, if I make it back. Vic Vic, Here's the help file that I used: If you want to upgrade KDE 2 to KDE2 Beta 2, download the files from the following link: http://atik.ciril.fr/pub/linux//mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde2.1B eta2 Step 1. Log on as root and download the kde2.1Beta2 rpms. Copy the rpms to a new folder i.e. kdebeta and save the folder in your root directory. Step 2. Log out of X and log on in "console mode" Step 3. Type in: cd Type in: rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm If everything goes well, remove the -- test. The verbose command will show if something is missing. If you are missing certain rpm files or libraries, navigate back to that ftp site and download the files. Step 4. Type in: rpm --rebuilddb Give this some time and above all do not interrupt it. Step 5. Type in: update-menus -v Give this time. D o not interrupt it. Reboot you computer. That's it. Files to download: arts-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm jdk-sun-1.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeaddutils-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeadmin-2.1-0.20010122.3mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-devel-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdepim-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdevelop-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm kdoc-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.noarch.rpm koffice-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm koffice-devel-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-devel-2.1-0.20010122.4mdk.i586.rpm qt2-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm qt2-devel-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm qt2-doc-2.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm quanta-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk.i586.rpm unixODBC-1.8.12-1mdk.i586.rpm Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Linuxworld Expo NYC
On Sunday 28 January 2001 17:23, A V Flinsch wrote: Anyone from the list going? Interested in getting together for coffee/beer/lunch whatever? Look for me at the Mandrake Booth. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2
On Monday 29 January 2001 07:48, Mark Weaver wrote: Chris, I don't remember ever needing that package. At least it never asked for it. What is it and what does it do? should I install it even though I've upgraded without it? Do you use kdm? Some users had a problem with kdm configuration that caused a problem logging in and a bunch of service ID users showing up. This fixed that problem. -Chris
[newbie] Linux World Expo in New York City
If anyone living in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut area in US would like a day pass for the exhibit hall of New York Linux World Expo next week I have 21 additional passes left after I did my required mailings. Please in PRIVATE email send me a mailing address. I don't want these to go to waste and want to get them out ASAP. Please only respond if you know you are going to attend. These passes are sponsored by MandrakeSoft. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes
Assign the default gw (gateway) address. Most likely this will be 192.168.1.1 - your pings are going to you eth0 card, but it doesn't know where to go from that point. -Chris On Wednesday 24 January 2001 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am trying to connect my box running linux-mandrake 7.2 with @Home. I am able to configure the eth0 interface and it does show up when I do a ifconfig and a netstat -r. I used netconf to assign the host name, DNS server names etc. While I am able to ping the machine with the IP address i give to the eth0 interface, I cannot reach anything outside the box. This is a short summary of what I did: # insmod rtl8139 # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # route add default eth0 after that i went into netconf and gave it the host name, DNS server address etc. I check all the related .conf files. If i ping 192.168.1.10 it goes through. But if try to ping anything else it just fails. I tried using dhclient to see if it is able to reach @Home's DHCP server but to no avail. Another thing that I noticed is that every time I reboot, the eth0 interface fails to come up and I have to manually bring up that interface. This is my setup, I have a a nic connected to a hub, connected to a cable modem. I have two other windows boxes connected to the hub, which I turned off as I first wanted to get the linux box working. The windows boxes work fine. I think I am missing some key procedure in this. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Surya
Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM
On Saturday 20 January 2001 17:07, George Czerw wrote: After I updated 7.2 with the 0118 KDE 2.1 updates, and subsequently rebooted, I have the following problems: 1. At the KDE login screen a root login is forbidden. I put a new kdebase package onto the mirrors you do not need to update all packages, just base and this is fixed. 2. Once logged in as user, I have 4 desktop applinks that no longer work, regardless of whether I delete and rebuild the applinks! However if I open up a terminal window and enter the same command-lines, the apps function properly. Please let me know which 4 this helps me come up with ideas? What is the command line you enter? Any ideas on solving either problem? update kdebase for the #1 and more info for #2. -Chris
Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM
Your the second person that reported this. Can you please open a bug about it at: http://bugs.kde.org ? I suspect a coding issue. I will update RPM's again on Tuesday most likely. Thanks, Chris On Saturday 20 January 2001 18:54, David Boles wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:05:31 -0500, Christopher Molnar said: Hi Chris, I D/Led and installed the 2001.01.19 kdebase stuff as you said to do and things have improved but it looks like something else is really, really broken. Maybe not your stuff?? smile Not being a programmer type I would think it must be something like the keybindings. Example: Kview. I was working on a simple "slideshow" of the pictures that I took of my father and where he lives, were I used to live, for my lady friends mother. The Ctrl-Alt-F key combo is supposed to give fullscreen. Nothing. The S key is supposed to start/stop the slideshow. Nothing. I used to be able to "highlight and copy" a line of text or a url from a GUI, like Netscape, and with 'Shift-Insert' paste it into a Xterm window. Now I get a ~5 and a warning beep. Any ideas?
Re: [newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1
If your a new linux user. Don't! Upgrade to 7.2. The dependencies require a bunch of additional packages and stuff. Also, 2.1 should be out in a month so this gives you plenty of time to upgrade :-) On Wednesday 17 January 2001 06:18, Cristiano de Lima Logrado wrote: Hi, I'm a new user ... and i'd like to know where can I get the KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1 ? Thanks, C.Logrado Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Xfree86 RPMs for Mandrake 7.0
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 18:49, root wrote: I have mandrake 7.0 and everytime I try to update Xfree86 to v4.0.2 it screws up my whole system so I thought if I used RPMs for Mandrake it would make sure everything worked right, well anyways where can I get the RPMs and which ones do I need? Sending email as root is not a good idea. Hint (and very strong suggestion): create a user acount and use that. As for 7.0 and Xfree 4.02, please consider updating to a more recent Mandrake version before you try. There have been packaging changes that will make it very difficult to install the current packages on a 7.0 distribution. I wouldn't even attempt it. -Chris
Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM
I just got back from a Sun Developers conference in Boston :-) (have to spy on the other people every once in a while). I am about to kick off my build scripts so let's see what happens when I put out some 20010119 RPM's in about 8 hours. I suspect this problem may be fixed. (no money-back gaurantee though.). -Chris On Thursday 18 January 2001 11:02, Dale Kosan wrote: Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebuilddb" followed by "update-menus -v" Once I went to log in I found a whole bunch of system users,no biggie,but I now only have KDE, default, and failsafe, all other window managers are gone. I have seen that this seems to be common, anyone have a fix for the bug? Should I report it and to who? Thanks for your time. Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] KDE 2.1 CVS 20010115 RPM's Available
Hello, I have just uploaded RPM's for KDE 2.1 CVS as of 2001-01-15. These RPM's are available on any Mandrake-devel (cooker) mirror site. You can find a list of the mirror sites on: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/. These RPM's are for Mandrake 7.2 and Mandrake 7.1 users. The files are in the Mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde2.1 directory on these mirrors. The files where placed on the master internal site at 20:11 EST (-05:00) so they may take a while to distribute. These will be the last Mandrake 7.2 Update RPM's prior to Beta 2 (I'll be out of town). Please report packaging bugs to me. All code and functionality related bugs should go to: http://bugs.kde.org, or choose Help-- Report Bugs from any KDE 2 application. These updates are not supported by Mandrake, which is why they are in the unsupported directories. Also, New England Business Services, LLC, at http://www.nebsllc.com , is making a limited number of KDE 2.1 update CD's available to U.S. customers. Advance ordering is required and the profit from these CD's helps defray the expenses of creating and distributing updates. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok, but if one upgrades RPM to version 4 will it have problems with packages compiled with an earlier version of RPM? Be very carefull here. This is a newbie list, and I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE IN NEWBIE UPDGRADE THE RPM PACKAGES IN 7.2 TO RPM 4. There are things that will break. For example MandrakeUpdate will no longer work. You may loose part of your rpm database. The libs have changed. You will HAVE TO update kde to the 2.0.1 or even 2.1 (better choice). My advice: DO NOT DO THIS ON A 7.2 MACHINE YOU CARE ABOUT Sorry for the caps, but it is nice to have the latest software, it is even nicer to have software that works. This is why a lot of times you do not see updates for every package before the next release, some are just to major. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Then why in the world is there even anything being compiled for Mdk 7.2 in an RPM4 format? to begin with I was mostly just curious about RPM4 packages what-nots, but now I'm absolutely convinced that RPM4 IS from the very pit of hell and one should have nothing at all to do with it. Where are RPMS's being compiled by MandrakeSoft for 7.2 in an RPM 4 format? Seriously, where are you finding these? Thanks, Chris
Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software (EVERYONE PLEASE READ!)
On Sunday 14 January 2001 11:11, Mark Weaver wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:02 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Then why in the world is there even anything being compiled for Mdk 7.2 in an RPM4 format? to begin with I was mostly just curious about RPM4 packages what-nots, but now I'm absolutely convinced that RPM4 IS from the very pit of hell and one should have nothing at all to do with it. Where are RPMS's being compiled by MandrakeSoft for 7.2 in an RPM 4 format? Seriously, where are you finding these? It was an assumption made on my part based on what I had been reading on this list. If I've made this assumption in error then the egg is clearly on my face. No, I think there is a common mis-understanding here that is worth clearing up. A lot of the packages people mention in any of the lists is from our "cooker" development tree. For those folks who like living on the bleading edge (dangerously) they have access to the development tree and get the updates and are able to test them as they are packaged for the next build. Unfortunatly this time the development tree is incompatable with 7.2. The version of gcc is updated, the kernel is updated, libraries are being moved around and much more. RPM 4 is another reason, any utility that uses RPM must be updated the minute you update to RPM 4, this is something most people do not think of. Does anyone realize that the "menu" package, used to generate and update the menu structure uses rpm? It will fail and you will be left without menus if you update. (I know from experience). Users have a choice here. If they want to go to the rpm 4 they need to do a total update to cooker, it is just to much problem to do anything else. Believe me, I would like to update to RPM 4 on my production machine, but I also like making kde 2.1 CVS builds available for all on 7.2 and 7.1 and if I update these rpm's would no longer work. The only update that will work on 7.2 are those that are found in the Mandrake/Update directory for 7.2 and those that are found in Mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586 on the Mandrake development trees on cooker mirrors. Anyways I hope that helps a little. Ask if your have any questions. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software (EVERYONE PLEASE READ!)
On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:20, David Boles wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:17:39 -0500, Christopher Molnar said: . BIG snip -Chris Can on still donwload source packages, IE filename-X.X.X.mdk.src.rpm, and compile them on a "stock" L-M 7.2. Or have they be changed "inside" to only compile on Cooker type setup? You can try. If they interface with rpm 4 at all they probably have been changed. As always, ask the packager if you have a question (rpm -qi package) will give you the name of the packager. -Chris
Re: [newbie] A quick cuestion
On Monday 18 December 2000 18:44, Walter Lpez wrote: hello. i am very newbie en linux world, i have LM 7.2, but i wanta know, how i install desktop themes. Wait for kde 2.1. - 2.0 does not have them management. It was not ready in time. (wait until Tuesday and update from the unsupported directory). -Chris
Re: [newbie] Getting support
Can you please post your question here? cc me in and we'll try to help. I'm not in the support department, but sometimes I can help or put you in touch with the right people. -Chris On Thursday 11 January 2001 10:03, Lionel Chan wrote: Greetings, I've registered my 7.2 and posted a question dated 12 Dec 2000. Till date I've not gotten any response from Mandrake. Anyone with a similar problem getting help from Mandrake? Tks -- CHAN Kin Poon
Re: [newbie] holy shrinking / batman!
what is in /tmp? -Chris On Thursday 04 January 2001 19:57, you wrote: Hi folks, I'm confused. (Surprise). I'm new to 7.2 (and mandrake, generally), so I used the installation guide when deciding on partition sizes. This is what I have: / 492MB /boot 9.5MB /home 4.24GB /usr 3.17GB and then swap of 64MB (I think, same as RAM) The thing is, the guide suggested 300MB for /. I was greedy and used 492MB, but now kdf shows / as having only 99.9MB free (392 used?!). Ten days ago, there was 110MB free - at this rate, I'll run out of space on the partition. So was the 300MB a bad suggestion, or is something freaky? If I have to expand /, what's the best way to do it and not lose data (I have partition magic on a W95 partition)? and how big should I make it? Thanks (again!) John
[newbie] Fwd: KDE 2.1 CVS Update RPM's for 7.2 (and 7.1 and 7.0, with some work)
Hello, I have made a set of update RPM's for 7.2 available for KDE 2.1 CVS code. The RPM's are made from CVS code of 12-29-2000. These RPM's are NOT supported by MandrakeSoft. Please report bugs in the code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the bug reporting utilities found on Help--Report Bugs in any KDE application. Please report any packaging problems to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages posted in the mailling lists regarding these RPM's will be ignored. You can find these rpm's at: FTP: ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ (primary) ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde/KDE_UPDATE/ (mirror) HTTP: http://www.nebsllc.com/KDE_UPDATE/ (primary) The source RPM's are available as well but are 100% unsupported. I will ignore any messages regarding these, they built here but as the code is beta at this time some of them needed some help compiling. (hint: look up the --short-circuit flag). User's of MandrakeUpdate can point to any of the above directories but please remember that MandrakeUpdate can not install dependencies. The directory also includes an update to cups, qtcups, and kups which adds some dependencies. While these are NOT required for the KDE update you may want to consider doing these updates manually. Again, these are unsupported and just provided because I needed to do them anyways. For install instructions see: http://www.kde.org/install-binaries.html Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 Users: These RPM's should work for you as well but you will need to find several dependencies to get them to install. You can find the directions for these at: http://kde2.newmail.ru/mandrake_rpms.html - I have not tested this, but am told it works. -Chris --- ---
Re: [newbie] install netsaint
there is an rpm in contribs on any mirror site: Mandrake-devel/contribs/RPMS/netsaint-0.0.6-2mdk.i586.rpm -Chris On Sunday 31 December 2000 15:50, you wrote: Does anyone know how to install netsaint ? i couldn't found the rpm of netsaint in linux mandrake disc if someone know please tell me thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
[newbie] KDE 2.1 CVS Update RPM's for 7.2 (and 7.1 and 7.0, with some work)
Hello, I have made a set of update RPM's for 7.2 available for KDE 2.1 CVS code. The RPM's are made from CVS code of 12-29-2000. These RPM's are NOT supported by MandrakeSoft. Please report bugs in the code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the bug reporting utilities found on Help--Report Bugs in any KDE application. Please report any packaging problems to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages posted in the mailling lists regarding these RPM's will be ignored. You can find these rpm's at: FTP: ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ (primary) ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde/KDE_UPDATE/ (mirror) HTTP: http://www.nebsllc.com/KDE_UPDATE/ (primary) The source RPM's are available as well but are 100% unsupported. I will ignore any messages regarding these, they built here but as the code is beta at this time some of them needed some help compiling. (hint: look up the --short-circuit flag). User's of MandrakeUpdate can point to any of the above directories but please remember that MandrakeUpdate can not install dependencies. The directory also includes an update to cups, qtcups, and kups which adds some dependencies. While these are NOT required for the KDE update you may want to consider doing these updates manually. Again, these are unsupported and just provided because I needed to do them anyways. For install instructions see: http://www.kde.org/install-binaries.html Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 Users: These RPM's should work for you as well but you will need to find several dependencies to get them to install. You can find the directions for these at: http://kde2.newmail.ru/mandrake_rpms.html - I have not tested this, but am told it works. -Chris ---
Fwd: [newbie] KDevelop and Mandrake 7.2 (fwd)
It doesn't right now. I am trying to work on the problem, but am not having much luck. I currently am getting a seg. fault as soon as I start it. I am awaiting a bug fix from the kde team. -Chris -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:36:52 -0500 (EST) From: William Dorsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] KDevelop and Mandrake 7.2 Does anyone know how I can get KDevelop working in Mandrake 7.2? I used KDevelop frequently in Mandrake 7.1 (I am a computer science student), but I can't seem to get it working in 7.2. Does anyone have any idea how to get it working? I would appreciate the help! ---
Re: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working
Make sure your ethernet card is in full duplex mode. They are shipped in half duplex. Also, if you are using dhcp and @home you must still put your host name in. It's not true DHCP. -Chris On Friday 20 October 2000 19:47, you wrote: Hello All I know this has probably been discussed here before, but I can't find anything that helps me. I have @home with an SMC1211TX Ethernet Card. I have used the help files and set it up accordingly, using drake config. It tells me that everything is okay but will not connect. Also I have an extra drive so I clean installed Mandrake 7.1 on it and everything worked perfectly until I shut the machine off and then tried to bring it back up, it would not connect. I wiped the drive and clean installed again and it worked, but when I shut down same problem won't connect. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Re: [newbie] Two Ethernet Card Problem!
On Saturday 21 October 2000 07:52, you wrote: Hi all, I want to install two ethernet card, in my linux machine. The two cards, I have are of same vendor, and don't have the facility of jumper setting for irq. How will I set their irq?? Have you tried booting to DOS with the disk that came with the card? Sometimes you can use this approach to reset IRQ's. This is what I have to do. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Anything like Quicken?
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I sent about 3 emails to the group yesterday and there must be a problem since I have received nothing from this group including the emails I sent since . I hope it is resolved soon. My question : Is there something like "Quicken "already supplied with Mandrake 7.0 Complete or a place one could get a program like that for Mandrake? Thank you for your help. Marcia look at gnucash. It's good and I am slowly moving away from Quicken to that. It is with Mandrake but please consider updating to Mandrake 7.1. -- --Chris
Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 question
Wait until the next update. I am working on it now. I promise I will come back and post a message on how safe it is. -Chris On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Chris, Is it safe to just install koffice and the things that it requires? I'm really chomping at the bit to get a look at this office package. -- --Chris
Re: [newbie] KDE2
Please wait a day and I will post it in here The version currently available is pretty buggy. -Chris On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Can someone give me an up to date URL for downloading KDE2? Thanks. Harry -- --Chris
Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 question
Be VERY VERY VERY carefull. KDE2 is excellent, but just going into beta. If you grab the rpm's from the cooker mirrors (Mandrake-devel) it will replace your 1.x KDE. If you choose to do that please wait for my next update of the packages. Either later today or Friday sometime. There are a lot of bug fixes and it will save you frustration. -Chris On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, RJS II wrote: Hi, Be careful! I tried it, set up to share apps between the two. I used the graphical logon to chose which I wanted to run. Changes that I made in 2 were also done (not well) in 1. Hope this helps, Rob Saul On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Frank, I'm there! I can't wait to see it. How much is it going to effect my current KDE installation. I don't use KDE heavily, but my wife does and she really likes it's functionality. She left windows kickin and screamin and didn't stop until I showed her KDE could look and feel just like windows, but offer the strength and stability of Linux. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, frank wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: So, tell me. I've been hearing a lot of discussion here and there about KDE2 and most importantly koffice. What's it going to be like? What are it's perks and even more than that is it going to be fast and light, or heavy and combersome like Star Office? I like Star Office, but I don't like how heavy it is. the opposite of star office...quick and nimble...the present beta, which is still burdened with some debug code that it'll carry for a short while yet, already moves much faster than star, and as it comes towards release will accelerate considerably... kspread, though not yet the equal of excel, outshines any other spreadsheet i've seen in linux, and integrates into kword documents with ease...likely that 98% - 99% of users will find it fills 100% of their spreadsheet needs... kword combines the functions of a basic desktop publishing program with a word processor in a tight little package...minimal learning curve... kmail now includes nestable folders, background downloads, threaded conversations, color coded quoting, and dozens of other enhancements...for those who prefer gui based mail programs, it now sets the linux standard... the big need of the kde2 developers at this point is for many folks to download the betas, seek out and document the bugs...betas can be downloaded from: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html frank -- --Chris
Re: [newbie] test
Damn, you told it you were leaving KRRSSSHH! On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-)
[Cooker] ANNOUNCE: KDE Snapshot Binaries available 2000-07-08
VERY IMPORTANT: THESE BINARIES ARE CREATED FROM THE CVS AND MAY NOT BE IDENTICAL TO THE BETA THAT WAS RELEASED. THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL KDE BINARIES. (DEVELOPERS: The date in kapp.h is changed to 2708). A new version of the KDE Snapshot binaries are available at us.mandrakesoft.com. Please read the README file in the same directory. Just in case you missed it "READ THE README" prior to doing anything! If you need help installing please go to www.kde.org and look for directions. MANDRAKE, REDHAT, and other RPM based system users should update to the RPM's with this build. This is extremely important and will save you problems as we move forward. The file locations will change with my next build and if you are using the tar binaries you will have more work. The RPM's will do all the needed work for you. These binaries are built from CVS as of 08 July 2000 at 06:00am Eastern Standard Time (-0500). Please bring all install questions to the un-official kde-alpha list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] These binaries are built with QT 2.1.1 (-3mdk if you are a mandrake rpm user). You must have qt 2.1.1 with jpeg support compiled. Get it in the same directories as the packages or at any Mandrake-devel mirror. These files are available via ftp from: ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde or via http at: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc (follow links for kde2 Alpha binaries) You will also be able to find these at (after a few days): http://www.htw-dresden.de/~s2697 The rpm's are also available on any Mandrake-devel mirror (cooker), if you install on Mandrake please make sure you get the kde2and1scripts.rpm as well. You will have to do a --force on this one. The RPM installs have been tested by me on a Mandrake 7.1 machine. They have also been reported to work on all other distributions. The rpm's are built with Mandrake 7.1. If you are not running the most recent version of rpm, I would suggest an upgrade. If you are running prior Alpha's I highly recommend you update. There are a lot of fixes and some structural changes in the packages. You will also find Source tar.gz's in the same directory. -- --- Christopher Molnar Mandrake Software Hartford, CT USA (860)956-9408 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!"
Re: [newbie] KDE2 problems
Install kde2and1stripts.i586.rpm and reboot. the problems should go away. and you should have your menu options for kde2. Make sure that the package does over-write the /etc/X11/window-managers file. -Chris In Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Gentile, Sam wrote: I finally got KDE2 installed on Mandrake 7.0 using http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html. I followed the instructions and used the mandrake script but the only way I can get KDE2 running is WINDOWMANAGER=kde2 startx. Is this correct? How do I get a menu choice? Also, all my menus are screwed up. All the menus contain GNOME things and multiple times. How do I correct this or reset the menus? Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer Compuware NuMega Performance Coverage Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.numega.com http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?SamGentile "Love Yourself. Love Your Neighbor. Love Your COM"
[newbie] voodo card (fwd)
Somebody in one of these lists sent me a rather long message on a video card question. I am sorry but becuase of a stupid error I made while copying mail from an old machine to a new one the message bounced. Can whoever sent it please resend it to me? I did not mean to be rude and bounce the mail back at you. Lesson learned: do not use fetchmail to move mail from machine 1 to machine 2 when machine 1 already used fetchmail. It doesn't work! Lesson 2 learned: do not keep mail in your /var/spool/mail folders. move it after you read it. Thanks, Chris
[Cooker] ANNOUNCE: KDE Snapshot Binaries available 2000-06-30
A Fourth or July weekend present for all of you! (Where you wondering what you can do over this long weekend? now you know :-)) These binaries have been pretty well tested for basic functionality. The RPM's have been rebuilt to solve several dependency problems. If for some reason you have conflicts with the RPM's do a --force --nodeps on the install. VERY IMPORTANT: THESE BINARIES ARE CREATED FROM THE CVS AND MAY NOT BE IDENTICAL TO THE BETA THAT WAS RELEASED. THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL KDE BINARIES. (DEVELOPERS: The date in kapp.h is changed to 2630). A new version of the KDE ALPHA binaries are available at us.mandrakesoft.com. Please read the README file in the same directory. Just in case you missed it "READ THE README" prior to doing anything! If you need help installing please go to www.kde.org and look for directions. These binaries are built from CVS as of 30 June 2000 at 12:00am Eastern Standard Time (-0500). Please bring all install questions to the un-official kde-alpha list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] These binaries are built with QT 2.1.1 (-3mdk if you are a mandrake rpm user). You must have qt 2.1.1 with jpeg support compiled. Get it in the same directories as the packages or at any Mandrake-devel mirror. When you upgrade plese consider copying your old /opt/kde2 to an /opt/kde2.old directory and then installing. This way you have something to go back to. These files are available via ftp from: ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde or via http at: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc (follow links for kde2 Alpha binaries) You will also be able to find these at (after a few days): http://www.htw-dresden.de/~s2697 The RPM's will appear on the Mandrake-devel (cooker) mirrors in the contribs directory within the next few days. They have been uploaded to the primary host. The RPM installs have been tested by me on a Mandrake 7.1 machine. They have also been reported to work on all other distributions. The rpm's are built with Mandrake 7.1. If you are not running the most recent version of rpm, I would suggest an upgrade. If you are running prior Alpha's I highly recommend you update. There are a lot of fixes and some structural changes in the packages. You will also find Source tar.gz's in the same directory. -- --- Christopher Molnar,RHCE New England Business Services, LLC Mandrake Software Hartford, CT USA (860)956-9408 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!"
Re: [newbie] Website
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Darryl Gibson wrote: Hi list, A club I belong to wants to create a web site to track it's membership's status, attendance, activity participation etc... The club would like the web site to have the following features: really not that tough. Accessibility to all members, but not the world. (or just the top page open to the world, and the sub pages "hidden." Use subdirs with access control. Officers and designated members, can maintain and update the site, but not the general membership. Passwords and users allow this. The web page will be on a "free" ISP providers machine. In other words the default 5 gig you get with an ISP? Our Oracle guru passed on the project, so being the clubs Linux "guru," and not knowing any better, I volunteered to take on the project. SUCKER!!! :-) So today I went in search of a Linux database on Freshmeat, and MUO, and was dismayed not to find a database application. Nor did I find any apps. in KDE that would seem to fit the bill. Take a look at MySQL. Combine that with phpMyAdmin and you have a perfect combination. Ask nice, advertise Mandrake and I may help you out further. Seriously, on your Mandrake distro disks you have almost everything you need to do this. I can probably package phpMyAdmin later this week so you can have that if you prefer an RPM. (hmmm... have to look, I may already have packaged. check cooker). Any suggestions on how I might accomplish this task? Yes, use the default tools with your distro. Install the mandrake server or develop option and you have all you need. Can Netscape Composer handle this task, or do I need something more powerful? Most of what you need to do can be done in composer. You will probably need to use a little php3 but nothing outside a day or so learning. Do I need an HTML compliant database? CGI? use php3 and save yourself a headack. Can Gnumeric function as a database? Not for what you need. Please let me know if you need any more info or suggestions. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
You probably won't like my answer :-( the update function is within a realease. That's why nothing shows up. You have a few choices, I leave to you to decide which is least painful: 1. Spend 20 bucks and buy the distro. 2. Download the iso's 3. Download each package you need. 4. use rsynce and grab the entire directory from a mirror. I recommend 1 or 2. I discrourage (bang your head against a wall and keep saying "I will not do this." a few hundred times) number 3. There are to many dependencies. 4 may take you a while. Oh, I forgot #5: 5. Beg, borrow, or steal a new modem. -Chris On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, rebel wrote: Is there a easy way to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1? I only have a 33.6k modem and tried using update "feature" but it doesn't show any 7.1 rpms. Do I have to download each rpm ? :( TIA
Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm
You can find it on any of the cooker mirrors. I updated it just after it was released. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: rpmfind.net -DavidTalbot At 01:30 AM 6/15/00 +1000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of the qt2 V2.1.1 library in rpm format I remember seeing some discussion on this a few days ago. TIA Ot 8^)
Re: [newbie] E-mail Clients
kmail from KDE2 will do everything you desire. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter wrote: Hello, everybody! I'm currently using the Netscape e-mail client along with Kmail; I'm looking for a client which features message filters and search and multiple pop accounts, better if designed for Gnome; there's a lot of programs, what would you suggest me? Thank you! Corrado
Re: [newbie] us.mandrake.com doesnt seem to exist
I just checked the server, and logged into it. It is port 6667 and it does work. BitchX nickname us.mandrakesoft.com Chris On Sun, 21 May 2000, Armand Nossaint wrote: What's the port? Apparently not 6667 -- Armand Kenny wrote: Tried logging onto us.mandrake.com but it complains unable resolve irc server?? kenny
Re: [newbie] Running KDE1.1.x and KDE2.0 Snapshots on same machine
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Hi all, I'm running MDK 7+ Is there anyone who's installed both kde's to run on the same machine ? Eric I am, and do follow the directions at http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html they work well. Chris
Re: [newbie] Acer Travelmate Notebook installation
Can you give us the exact output of what the lilo prompt was? For example did it do: LIL and then hang, or LI and then hang? We can try and give you a hand if you can pass that on. Chris On Mon, 22 May 2000, Elvis Chan @Glink.net.hk wrote: Do you have any experience in installing Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe for a Acer Travelmate 332T notebook ? Config. as follows : Intel P2 366Mhz 64Mb ram 6.4 Gb harddisk Trident 9525 DVD/PCI vga card. It hang display General Protection Fault after installation entered the LILO. Thanks, Elvis
Re: [newbie] Serial Mouse Hell
Skip the padded cell but check you BIOS setting first. Is the serial ports set up to AUTO ASSIGN IRQ's and port address? If yes, change it to a set irq/port address. Linux doesn't do well with the auto-assign on ports in bios. (talking from experience). Please let me know if that helps. Chris On Sun, 21 May 2000, Raptor wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 air on a k6-2 233. I installed it fine on my k6-III 400 with a PS/2 mouse. the 233 has no ps/2 port. So I use a serial mouse. I have both a genius ( mouse model : 3 ) and time computers mouse ( whatever that is in reality I dont know ) and I cant get either to work. I have tried wiht mouseconfig all sorts of mouses (I told its not mice when refering to computers ) on both ttyS0 1. It should be on com2 (ttyS1). But whenever I boot up the x-cursor is there, but it doesnt respond to movement or clicks. I have spend over 3 hours on this know and think I am loosing my sanity. If anybody out there knows of any tricks etc.. to check or get these mice workign I would be greatfull ( you may save me from a padded cell ) . Thanks
[newbie] us.mandrake.com doesnt seem to exist (fwd)
It's on us.mandrakesoft.com, channel is #mandrake Hope that helps Chris -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 18:19:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] us.mandrake.com doesnt seem to exist (fwd) Can you answer this? I almost never use IRC... cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 12:04:29 -0400 From: Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] us.mandrake.com doesnt seem to exist Tried logging onto us.mandrake.com but it complains unable resolve irc server?? kenny - Original Message - From: "Denis HAVLIK" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is turnaround so slow on this mail list? :~I send a message and it doesn't appear in my inbox for hours, sometimes a :~day later. Some mail lists have 5 min. turnaround... whats the deal? mail server is shitty noone bothered to clean up bouncing addresses until now (i just started doing it). We are moving to a new server in a week or so, it will be much faster (i hope). :~ :~Also, is there a mandrake IRC channel? If not, I might consider starting :~one, but would like to know the interest level in the group. Let me know. There is one: "#mandrake" on "us.mandrake.com" It is rather new, so run for it and make it live .-) cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] FTP Question
Look in the /etc/ftpaccess file and find what file it is being pointed to. - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, TRUB wrote: I cannot find where to change the "Welcome" message that appears when someone connects to my ftp server. The existing message contains my computer name, and my address. I would like to not display this information, although I realize they already have the site address if they have connected. Where and how can I modify it. I tried changing /etc/rc.d/rc.local with little success, and cannot find a /welcome.msg file anywhere?
Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! (fwd)
Did you use a "server" install or a "custom" isntall when you where installing Linux? This is really importnat to know. The server install and custom install will wipe all existing partitions. The Workstation install will leave any existing DOS partitions. Please let us know what you used during the install process. --------- Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, MERCATOR GmbH wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 06:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: MERCATOR GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jpgois [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! First of all, thanks for your FAST response! I would REALLY appreciate, if you could give me a hand in solving my problem. I will explain at what point I am... DOS is nothing else than SUICIDE if you have ext2 partition on your HD. It already has destroyed some of my partitions while I didn't ask him anything. HOW do I use the Linux fdisk program? Normally, if you let the installation program handle the LILO installation, you should just type DOS at the boot prompt, and it should boot your window partition. I tried this, but it doesn`t work. I can ONLY boot Linux with the floppy and then I have the choice between "Linux" and "rescue"! if it doesn't (and that your windows partition hasn't been destroyed!!!), you have to configure lilo, by editing the /etc/lilo.conf file. PLEASE do NOT say those things... :-)) I hope it has NOT been destroyed!! I have already edited/viewed the lilo.conf file. I will write farther down what I have in this file. PS : if you REALLY urgently need to boot your windows, you can boot with a DOS floppy disk and type fdisk /mbr to restore a windows MBR. But then you'll have to boot your linux with a LILO floppy or something to reinstall lilo and be able to boot both win and linux. I already tried this, but it does NOT work !!! :-(( so, here is what I have in my lilo.conf: __ boot=/dev/hda3 read-only pompt (and so on)... other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda other=/dev/sda1 label=windows2 table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 label=linux append="" and then the stuff for old_linux,floppy etc. _ so... HOW can I get my Windows to work??? Can I create a new partition from Linux for Windows? I can access and see ALL my files from Linux! I have two icons on my desktop, for hda1 and sda1 (my Linux is on hda3 by teh way..) and clicking on these icons, I see all my Windows stuff. Please help me!! Thanks Marc ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] @home connection
You may have to get the DOS driver dsk and boot on DOS and run the setup. There is an FAQ someplace that talks about this. I do not have it in front of me right now, but there is a FULL/HALF mode setting that may need to be changed. Also, if you have 2 cards than you will need to add them to conf.modules. The boot process only finds 1 card. - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Eric wrote: I am on athome and having one hell of a time getting the thing to recognize my 3com509b isa card. HELP... - Original Message - From: "TRUB" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] @home connection I am on @home and have no problems with it. 2 nics 1cable 1 internal if you still have problems let me know I will walk you through it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Longchamps - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 6:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] @home connection If your provider is like mine, you should let DHCP handle the info for the EXTERNAL card(ip, host, etc.). You should only have to configure the internal cards information. If you haven't already, try this and see if that helps. Bryan Raymond Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/29/2000 02:23:31 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] @home connection I have installed Mandrake 7, expert/normal install... install detected both NIC cards and when asked, I input ip, host, gateway and name servers but I have no joy connecting to my tv/cable internet provider. Anyone have any hints about connecting via a cable modem?? Ray Wells
Re: [newbie] how do i get off this list
You know what's worse than the unsubscribe questions? It's all the people calling other people idiots when a simple one line email would do. If everyone who asked an unsubscribe question would get a 1 line email from everyone on the list answering the question they would soon learn not to ask "How do I unsubscribe" in the list. - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Monte Milanuk wrote: Scott Stone wrote: please tell me how to get off this stupid list, i'm sick of getting all this waste of time mail!! If you and the rest of the idiots who cant figure out how to unsubscribe would have saved the majordomo emails you received when you subscribed, or go to the website for some instructions, or even just ask politely, you might actually get unsubscribed. Monte
Re: [newbie] linux problems
You may also want to subscribe to the kde-user list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and post the problem there as well. A lot of problems like this are solved very quickly on that list. - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Thomas Wegner wrote: Hi Christopher! Am Don, 27 Jan 2000 schrieb Chris: i dont understand what the opperating screen is supposed to look like when im done installing, but all i get is a command promt. i cant get gnome or kde or anything to come up. i type "kde" and all i get is a bunch of messages saying xserver canot be found. whats up? Try to type "startx". Perhaps you will get some error-messages which will be more informative. Perhaps there is a missing link from /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86_SVGA to /etc/X11/X. (if you are using a SVGA-Card). For more information change to another console (Ctrl-Alt-F5) and type "less /var/log/messages". -- Bitte E-Mail an: Thomas Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Kde2 PreAlpha binaries and rpm's available
Hello! I have built a new set of binary distributions based on a CVS snapshot at 8:00am EST 1-25-2000. I have created both a RPM and a -BIN.TAR.GZ distribution. To those who have downloaded QTCOPY dated 01-19-2000 - You do not need to update this. Continue using the same qt copy. (file name qtcopy-01192000). This should save you some download time. These binaries are ALPHA code so the only guarantee you have is that they will take up hard drive space. Please read the README in the FTP / HTTPD directory before downloading anything. These binaries are know to work on Redhat 6.1, Mandrake 6.1, and SuSe 6.3, and I think someone got them working on Caldera (no idea which build). If you get them working on something else other than what I just listed, please let me know so I can add them to the list. You MUST install: Qtcopy (or leave it installed) KDESUPPORT KDELIBS KDEBASE And then whatever else you desire. RPM - You will most likely need to use the --nodeps flag and the --force flags. Make sure you install qt copy first. For those upgrading from my last distribution: To be safe you make want to: Mv /opt/kde2 /opt/kde2.old Prior to doing this install. That way you still have your last version. Of course you can do what I do and just over-write it or delete it. So, where do you find this great stuff? ftp://nebsllc.com/kde2/current or http://www.nebsllc.com and follow the links for kde2 alpha code. I monitor the kde users list (mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and (mailto:kde- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) if you need help. I can not reply to all the personal emails that I get, please write to the list first.
Re: [newbie] help( i may have a virus in linux)
Not a virus, when a linux program crashes for some reason it leaves the core file, which in simple terms is a dump of all memory surrounding the program. This is usefull in debugging. When I am developing linux software I have those all over my system. Don't worry about it and just delete it. I hope that helps! - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, David Cole wrote: I found a file in the root directory called core. its icon is round yellow with eyes and a tong sticking out. it was in the root dir. then it showed up on a disk I have used in linux.
