Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?
Cameron MacDonald wrote: Hi I feel really silly for asking this, but what command do I use to find out which kernel I'm using? I know I've done it before, but I've got so many commands rolling around in my head like ball bearings , and I forget to add them to my list of Remember this!. Thanks Cam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com uname -r -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1 Sometimes I can be reached via Skype as djash34 Disclaimer: The below quote is randomly generated and I may or may not agree with the quote. (songs-poems) % Every love's the love before In a duller dress. -- Dorothy Parker, Summary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. Give me a call if you need some help. Skype: djash34 I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is the advantage of Skype over GnomeMeeting? I've spoken to a friend in USA over GM, with video, thought it can be used without, and no problems at all with the quality on a 512 ADSL connection. I'm not meaning to be negative - it's just that I wonder what this newer product can do that the older one can't. Anne Does GnomeMeeting talk to other voip clients? I'm curious ... most of my friends use MS, and skype has downloads for both. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com That's whay I was going to say. I can use it to talk to family that is on windows. I have not yet been able to convert everyone I know to linux yet...lol. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1 Sometimes I can be reached via Skype as djash34 Disclaimer: The below quote is randomly generated and I may or may not agree with the quote. (fortunes) % Good day to deal with people in high places; particularly lonely stewardesses. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] Strange host name
Aron Smith wrote: When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Maybe you have ntp installed and that is a time server? -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1 Sometimes I can be reached via Skype as djash34 Disclaimer: The below quote is randomly generated and I may or may not agree with the quote. (knghtbrd) % Mercury emacs sucks, literally, not a insult, just a comment that its large enough to have a noticeable gravitational pull... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer
Chris wrote:
On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:09 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to
KookieJar for Windows.
Thank you,
Yes, its called fortune and I believe its installed as part of a normal
install. You can call it from a script such as this:
#!/bin/bash
echo Chris
echo Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org;
STR=$(uptime)
TIME=${STR% user}
RESULT=${TIME%}
echo $RESULT
echo Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel $(uname -r)
echo
/usr/games/fortune
echo
if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio
UK $( grep Title: /tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print $2}' )
fi
If using Kmail you can under Settings configure Kmail identies
signature then select Obtain signature text from Output of Command. For
instance mine is /home/chris/./sig. You can learn more about fortune from
man fortune
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Thanks for the tip.
I was able to get it to work in thunderbird by making a script like you
suggested and calling it via cron to generate a signature like this
every 15 minutes.
First make sig-pubmail executable like so:
chmod 0755 sig-pubmail
Then edit your /etc/crontab file and add a lines like mine below:
0 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
15 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
30 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
45 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Then of course just have thunderbird use that file as it's signature.
sigpubmail.txt
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Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Dave Ashmore wrote:
Chris wrote:
On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:09 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to
KookieJar for Windows.
Thank you,
Yes, its called fortune and I believe its installed as part of a
normal install. You can call it from a script such as this:
#!/bin/bash
echo Chris
echo Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org;
STR=$(uptime)
TIME=${STR% user}
RESULT=${TIME%}
echo $RESULT
echo Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel $(uname -r)
echo
/usr/games/fortune
echo
if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo Live - Classic Rock - From
Virgin Radio UK $( grep Title: /tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print
$2}' )
fi
If using Kmail you can under Settings configure Kmail identies
signature then select Obtain signature text from Output of
Command. For instance mine is /home/chris/./sig. You can learn
more about fortune from man fortune
HTH
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Thanks for the tip.
I was able to get it to work in thunderbird by making a script like
you suggested and calling it via cron to generate a signature like
this every 15 minutes.
First make sig-pubmail executable like so:
chmod 0755 sig-pubmail
Then edit your /etc/crontab file and add a lines like mine below:
0 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
15 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
30 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
45 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Then of course just have thunderbird use that file as it's signature.
sigpubmail.txt
A better way would be to set EDITOR to your farerate text editor, and
run crontab -e as your normal user. (If you have crontab enabled for
normal users - depends on security.) Add.
0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/djash/sig-pubmail .home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Save, and exit.
The biggest drawback with the way you have done it is that the script
is run as root. Running a script that a user can modify as root is a
BIG security risk!
Also, the signiture file will be owned by root, instead of djash.
Mikkel
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I will do what you suggested.
How do I set editor to nano?
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Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 00:23, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: (snip) I'm assuming from this you Skype up and running on Mandrake? Is it 10.1, and was it difficult to set up? I used it briefly in windows to communicate with a friend and thought it was great. Hi, it's in your installation CDs. You can also download Skype: http://www.skype.com/ Works great. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Yes I would recommend the download as I'm sure it's the latest version. Then go to konsole and type su to become root and type roots password. The type urpmi /pathto/getskype-linux-mdk.rpm You may have to play with the sound mixer settings for your mic. http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html Good luck. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1 Sometimes I can be reached via Skype as djash34 Disclaimer: The below quote is randomly generated and I may or may not agree with the quote. Frobnicate, v.: To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. Derived from FROBNITZ. Usually abbreviated to FROB. Thus one has the saying to frob a frob. See TWEAK and TWIDDLE. Usage: FROB, TWIDDLE, and TWEAK sometimes connote points along a continuum. FROB connotes aimless manipulation; TWIDDLE connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; TWEAK connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
Noel McG. wrote: Hello Dave, Do we take it from EST that you are in the US or are you Europe pleas. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Dave Ashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com; expert@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:57 AM Subject: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype Hello all. I'd like to take this chance to offer to bring a new user up to speed on Mandrake. I don't consider myself an expert but would like to give a little back to a community where I've learned so much about linux. So, If someone needs some help learning how to get around Mandrake Linux via Skype (voip application) I'm looking to help sometime tomorrow afternoon EST. (not exactly sure when) I'll turn on skype an await a call as mentioned above. Skype name: djash34 Till then take care -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 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 I'm in the US. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re:[newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
Dave Ashmore wrote: Hello all. I'd like to take this chance to offer to bring a new user up to speed on Mandrake. I don't consider myself an expert but would like to give a little back to a community where I've learned so much about linux. So, If someone needs some help learning how to get around Mandrake Linux via Skype (voip application) I'm looking to help sometime tomorrow afternoon EST. (not exactly sure when) I'll turn on skype an await a call as mentioned above. Skype name: djash34 Till then take care Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. Give me a call if you need some help. Skype: djash34 -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
Hello all. I'd like to take this chance to offer to bring a new user up to speed on Mandrake. I don't consider myself an expert but would like to give a little back to a community where I've learned so much about linux. So, If someone needs some help learning how to get around Mandrake Linux via Skype (voip application) I'm looking to help sometime tomorrow afternoon EST. (not exactly sure when) I'll turn on skype an await a call as mentioned above. Skype name: djash34 Till then take care -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
Paul Smith wrote: I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? What's wrong with KEdit or GEdit? Or vi, for that matter? -- == Dave Williams == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == then we race together / we can ride forever = '97 Bandit 1200 == wrapped in horsepower / driving into fury == DoD #978 = http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/index.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Matrox Mystique on 10.0
I've been running a second monitor off a Matrox Mystique card for the last few weeks. I've been running M10.0/Official. After installing M10.1/Official, I'm getting some funky behavior on the screen the Matrox is driving. When I scroll in Konqueror, lines get doubled, images get corrupted, and I get a string of cursor images. The driver is mga, same as showed up in 10.0. Is anyone else running a Mystique with 10.1? Any troubles? -- == Dave Williams == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == then we race together / we can ride forever = '97 Bandit 1200 == wrapped in horsepower / driving into fury == DoD #978 = http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/index.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] vim error
Aron Smith wrote: Where should I look for a problem? try a reinstall of vim # That's such a... windowy solution. True but it do work and is easy to do Hmm... I just found out something interesting. Vi works fine in single monitor mode, but it gives me that odd message when I'm running both monitors... -- == Dave Williams == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == then we race together / we can ride forever = '97 Bandit 1200 == wrapped in horsepower / driving into fury == DoD #978 = http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/index.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] vim error
I recently did a full install of M10.1 onto a blank hard disk. This is the first time I've run 10.1; it's *much* faster than 10.0 Official. Everything looks good, except whenever I fire up vi, I get the following message: E575: viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: ^V4516^@ Hit ENTER or type command to continue I get the same message when I use shift-ZZ to exit. This happens in a konsole in KDE, and it also happens if I use ctrl-alt-F1 and log into a pty session. vi seems to *work* okay, it just gives me this odd message. Where should I look for a problem? -- == Dave Williams == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == then we race together / we can ride forever = '97 Bandit 1200 == wrapped in horsepower / driving into fury == DoD #978 = http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/index.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] Setting up virtual IP address
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 04:18, Antony Paul wrote: Hi all, I need to have multiple IP address for the same ethernet card for development purposes in MDK 10.1. I was unable to set up it using the Configure application. SO I googled and learned how to do it manually. I added following file to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory. ifcfg-eth0:0 Its permissions are -rw-r--r-- . The contents are IPADDR=192.168.4.174 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 Now I have it working but shorewall is not starting up it says in var/log/messages shorewall:Error: Invalid Interface Name: eth0:0 shorewall: /etc/rc5.d/S10shorewall: line 89: 1697 Terminated /sbin/shorewall check rc: Starting shorewall: failed How to fix it ? rgds Antony Paul Google is my friend See Example 7 at http://www.shorewall.net/Documentation.htm#Interfaces derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I had just recently read this if it helps you. http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/2731/print -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] RSS feeds
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've been googling and looking at kmail info to see how to add RSS feed. I'm obviously looking in wrong place - can anyone direct me thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com At command line as root: urpmi akregator It will show up under internetNews -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] p2p
-- hi all is there any software i can use to dwnload music that works on linux.use to use filetopia but looks to confusing for linux Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to keep track of passwords
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to keep track, safely, of one's passwords. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Also could try this one I use. Figaro's Password manager. As root in konsole type: urpmi fpm Assuming you have plf source configured I think or go to: http://fpm.sourceforge.net/ -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] java
hi all.ive just dwnloaded java j2re-1_4_1_01 linux i586-rpm.bin how do install it please.ive double clicked on it but nothing. -- Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re sagem
hi christian i use the sagem dsl modem and have it working 100% i just added these ip addresses to the settings in control panel for my isp tiscali first dsn 214.74.112.66 scnd dns 80.225.252.178 third dns optional 80.225.252.178 let me no how you get on -- Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re java
-- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] images in emails
when downloading and reading emails ive noticed that the pictures or images
dont load up.is ther something im missing {softwware}
im using kontact to recive emails on mandrake 10.1.
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[newbie] media manager
-- in media manager ive noticed that i have 4 catogories borgnet installation dvd updates main is this all i need or do i need to add anything else.not shore how to use it properly... Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] updates
i have just done an update through the madrake control center.3 lists security bux fixes normal updates theres a list as long as your arm but which do i need to install or do i need all of them. -- Many Thanks To All That Help Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi locked
-- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is locked. Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re unlock urpmi
-- thanks paul for your help.will give it ago... Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi
just out of curiosity when you set up urpmi for updates do i have to check once a wekk or does it do it itself automaticali.ive set it up and works 100% but what next please. dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] antivirus
do i need antivirus checker and can any one suggest which one to run and is easy to install. dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] konqueror help
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 16:52, Elwyn wrote: hi elwyn thanks for the reply.im using mandrake 10.1 and konqueror as the browser.it takes about 20+ seconds to load.just woundered if there was a way to speed it up a little. On Monday 24 Jan 2005 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can konqueror be made to load pages faster.is there any settings i can ajust. any help would be gratefull. dave... Don't think so. Usually the problem is data bottlenecks. They can be anywhere... What sort of problems and timescales are you getting for these sites that are slow ?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re konqueror
hi elwyn dont mater what i use browser wise,just takes for ages to load.now i no you can speed up firefox with settings in about config but i tryed dwnloadin firefox but couldnt get it to work.same with plugins like flash.i suppose its getting use to linux as i was with windows, dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re konqueror
thanks for the info ann and for every one else that has supplyed me with info.nothing is ever easy in life and you have to start some where.oh well i supose it will be like going to school again dave.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dwnloads
hi all,hopeing some one can help me please.im a new user to linux migrating from winxp and i will not be going back.im using the official mandrake linux 10.0. i need to learn the best way to dwnload soft ware to my pc.i mean where is the easiest place on the pc to put them and i also whant to learn how to extract them to a directory and be able to get them to work. this should keep some one buisy to explain. thanks to all that helps dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dwnloads
dave needham wrote: hi all,hopeing some one can help me please.im a new user to linux migrating from winxp and i will not be going back.im using the official mandrake linux 10.0. i need to learn the best way to dwnload soft ware to my pc.i mean where is the easiest place on the pc to put them and i also whant to learn how to extract them to a directory and be able to get them to work. this should keep some one buisy to explain. thanks to all that helps dave. Assuming you have broadband. Well start here: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Do what is says as root in Konsole. Start (star button)SystemTerminalsKonsole Type: su to become root it will prompt you for your root password. Once thats done you can at the konsole paste the commands from the url. urpmi.removemedia -a This will remove all your cds. Not reccomended if you don't have broadband. Or in the Mandrake control center (as noted below) select sofware Media manager. Unselect to disable the cd's Then you can selet the software repostiories from the url above and paste the commands from it to add the online repositories. Then you will not be prompted for cd's it will download and install. So become root in Konsole and type: urpmi mozilla-firefox That will install firefox. Or in a nice gui go to the Start (star button)Systemconfigurationconfigure your computer Then select software management install. Do some searches by group file or whatever. Hope you enjoy Mandrake. Welcome to Linux! -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dwnloads
On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 17:47, john wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 17:12, dave needham wrote: hi all,hopeing some one can help me please.im a new user to linux migrating from winxp and i will not be going back.im using the official mandrake linux 10.0. i need to learn the best way to dwnload soft ware to my pc.i mean where is the easiest place on the pc to put them and i also whant to learn how to extract them to a directory and be able to get them to work. this should keep some one buisy to explain. thanks to all that helps dave. thanks john and to others for the info. im tryin to dwnload firefox as i was an avid user from on winxp.i dwloaded it to my desktop but from there i dont no what to do.its dwnloaded as tar gz i can extract it using ark but i have trouble locating the dir and open a terminal to get it to instal.need help please.once i learn the routine ill be happy dave... Welcome to Mandrake ! Nope, not going to be busy :-)) .it's pretty well already been done for you - depends really what sort of software you are wanting. Mandrake uses the rpm format for packages, and there are 2 ways of getting these packages which are self-extracting/installing. 1) If it's on a Mandrake mirror urpmi will download it and install it for you urpmi being Mandrake's package installer, have a look here for an in depth explanation :- http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi no, I'm not telling you to RTFM, the wiki has been written by members of these lists for the benefit of other members so it is easily understood and will explain the subject much more comprehensively that an e mail response will. 2) It's preferable IMHO, to use rpms built for Mandrake, they should install without problem but some non-Mandrake rpms will also give you no trouble. If you do need non-Mandrake rpms, make sure you download them from trusted sources, save them wherever you like, I made/use a directory called, imaginatively, downloads for this purpose, when you've got them click on them, you will be asked for the root password and they will install, if they need (depend) on other packages that are not installed you will be told, so them grab any dependent packages that it asks for, install them and go back to the package you first started with and try again. Observant readers will note that I haven't mentioned installing from source, the reason for this is that, again IMHO, for a newbie it can be daunting, when you are familiar with Linux come and ask us about it, if you need to that is, you will probably do a little reading and figure it out for yourself. As a general note, google is very much your friend in most Linux matters, go to http://www.google.com/linux, type in the keyword you are looking for and you will usually find pages of information - try it for example by putting install software in the search box - you'll be reading for weeks :-)) Have fun John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dwnloads
On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 17:49, Anne Wilson wrote: easyurpmi.zarb.org thanks anne for your info dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]# urpmi.removemedia the entry to remove is missing (one of update_source, Installation DVD (cdrom1)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]# urpmi.removemedia the entry to remove is missing (one of update_source, Installation DVD (cdrom1)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]# urpmi.removemedia the entry to remove is missing (one of update_source, Installation DVD (cdrom1)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]# please help.not sure what whent wrong... dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] help
On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 18:38, Margot wrote: dave needham wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]# urpmi.removemedia the entry to remove is missing (one of update_source, Installation DVD (cdrom1)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]# urpmi.removemedia the entry to remove is missing (one of update_source, Installation DVD (cdrom1)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]# urpmi.removemedia the entry to remove is missing (one of update_source, Installation DVD (cdrom1)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] id1davewp]# please help.not sure what whent wrong... dave Dave, What's wrong is that you aren't telling it *what* to remove! There is no need to remove your existing media, but, if you are really sure that you want to, these are the correct commands: urpmi.removemedia -a (will remove all existing media) or urpmi.removemedia xyz (will remove a single medium named xyz - you have to supply the correct name!) hi margot i think it was john or sumone to goto http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ follow instructions which was copy and paste txt which i did but i found some small print which said urpmi.removemedia -a if you had broadband which i have but i did it last after the txt so im not sure if it worked or not.now i get an error message saying media locked.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia
Kenneth Rhodes wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:34 +, Ian wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 10:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: You can download a very nice nvidia installer for Linux on the nvidia website. and it also helps if you follow the instructions put up by a user on this forum. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/nvidia.html The instructions certainly helped me! Excellent . Thanks for the links above, I have gotten to the point now where the NVidia installer reports that it has installed a driver for my kernel, but that the driver conflicts with a module called rivafb. Can anyone tell me how to disable the rivafb module in my kernel? Thanks in advance, I think (I know I did) you can ingnore that rivafb warning. Don't forget to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the modprobe.preload as per the instructions on his url. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Java VM Problems
J wrote: Hi All, I've just installed J2RE 1.4.2_06 on my machine. Trouble is, I'm trying to install LimeWire (the P2P program), and I keep getting told that there is no VM on my machine. Thats crap! I know full well there is! :-) Now, It's installed to /usr/java (where I always used to install it), and my .bash_profile has been suitably amended for the latest version of the J2RE. I'm at a loss as to why it wont work. .bash_profile is pasted below, just in case I have done something wrong whilst modifying it, although all I have done is changed j2re1.4.2_03 to j2re1.4.2_06, to bring it up to date with the latest version. export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH unset USERNAME Any ideas? I have even tried a restart (yes, I had to once after installing an older version modifying!) Thanks, Seasons Greetings etc, James I can't help ya with Java but I have found gnutella to work good for me. As root: urpmi gtk-gnutella Works for me. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Asus motherboards
Keith Powell wrote: On Saturday 04 December 2004 1:57 pm, Yvan wrote: Hello Keith, I have a P4P800 ASUS Motherboard. It has a Gigabit Ethernet controller on board. It really sucked with Mandrake 9.0, Ethernet didn't work correctly, no sound support. I recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 and now everything works with no problems. Hello Yvan. Thank you for your reply. The motherboard will be used with 10.0, 10.1, and later versions. So I should have no problems. cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Yes I have this board too and it worked fine with MDK10.1. But now it has fedora 3 and is my PVR. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader
buzz wrote: If its of any use, I use the 'sage' extension you can download to Firefox 1.0 It sits as a sidebar whilst you surf in firefox and seems fast enough. [only runs if firefox is running though i think] Paul Mooney wrote: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any suggestion? I've stopped using Evolution for the same reason. The KDE Kontact package does have a RSS along with Kmail, Knode newsreader, etc. pm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I use Mozilla mail and downloaded a plugin for newsreader it works real well. http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/ -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi keys/signatures
I know this has been posted more than a few times, but I didnt find the solution in archives or googling. I'm getting the error: === The following packages have bad signatures: pkg1. . . .rpm:Missing signature(Couldn't open file) pkg2. . . .rpm:Missing signature(Couldn't open file) Do you want to continue installation? === I click yes and then I get this: === There was a problem during the installation: Unable to install package ftp://(address)(path)(pkg1. . . .rpm) Unable to install package ftp://(address)(path)(pkg2. . . .rpm) === I know the ftp source is good because I *just* added it and got *some* rpms using urpmi --auto-select. Any ideas? A link would suffice if someone has it handy. TIA = David Steiner www.DavidLSteiner.com Proud Linux User #262493 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re:[newbie]Camera with SD card
jacques wrote: I have got a TRUST 910Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] digital Camera (plugged on USB) which works perfectly with MDK10 com. If I plug a SD 128mB card into the camera , Linux doesn't see the cam anymore . During the boot , I get sda was added , but nothing appears on the desktop . Nothing new in /etc/fstab , or in /proc/scsi/scsi (multiple LUNS ?); nothing new in /mnt/ (This camera is not supported by FLphoto ou DigiKam) What to do ?( the SD card works with Windows Me) . Thanks Jacques Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I just went through this myself a week ago or so with Digikam. My camera did not show up turns out it did show in /mnt/camera. In digikam scroll to the bottom and select USB Mass Media. You can label it anything you want then be sure and save it. When you get to the camera selection be sure you don't click on any other selection first. That seems to mess things up. After that it should work. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.0 Official Mozilla 1.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FIXED - ALSA driver not running
www.mandrakeclub.com Don't give up on xmms. There is a driver to install to use with alsa oss these are the two I remember and one of them was not installed for me and once installed it worked fine! I'm not sure what repository it came from. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.0 Official Mozilla 1.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 - How to configure Speedtouch 330 USB Modem??
Hi Mandrake 10.0 states that the Speedtouch 330 modem is certified hardware, but I keep getting the message that it only supports kernel version 2.4 above. I'm running 2.6, why do I get this message? If anyone can offer any advice about getting broadband access working I would be grateful!! Many Thanks Dave IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
Re: [newbie] Dockapps in Fluxbox
I don't know about that, it keeps freezing up or crashing on me. Flux has never ever crashed or locked up on me. Can't start Galeon on start-up. Can't drag a terminal or I'll lose the prompt and can't type in it. Have to wait a few seconds after it's started to do anything at all or it locks up. I just saw your post and tried urpmi fluxbox The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: XFree86-4.3-30mdk.i586 (due to conflicts with Xorg-x11-6.7.0-0.0.10mdk.i586) libxfree86-4.3-30mdk.i586 (due to conflicts with libXorg-x11r6-6.7.0-0.0.10mdk.i586) (y/N) n I'm running MDK 10 Official. As you can see it conficts with XFree. I'd like to try it but I don't want to mess up my box. Is there a way I can safely try fluxbox without turning XFree into a pile of poop? lol Thanks Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] Apollon Part 2
Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, If anyone is interested I have managed to get Gnutella to work with Apollon.I'll post talk though,anyone wants it. It may not be the most consise,walk though ever,but I'm willing to give it ago. Cheers, Drew Please post away I'm interested. Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mldonkey
bascule wrote: did you start 'mlnet'? bascule On Wednesday 07 Apr 2004 4:52 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I've always used Mldonkey cough with no problems but just recently I did the urpmi --auto-select thing and got a newer version of Mldonkey. Flashy, nice gui...and not worth a damn. It starts with this fancy screen with the penguin in the middle with all the networks around it. Greyed out. Not working. Not connecting. I tried going into settings/options but there's nothing that I can see that will help. The older version had a gui, and it was fairly straightforward and worked great here. Any ideas on how to get the new one working (or how to get back to the older version since urpmi always finds the new version now?) Thanks much. Ok, so I have to go to console and type mlnet before I start the Gui? Shouldn't this start when the gui starts? I tried Mldonkey too and got nothing then when I typed mlnet in console and then the gui it worked. Thanks Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Apollon crash
I've been trying different p2p programs and I like the easy clean interface of Apollon the best. However it seems upon the completion of every download it crashes. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I tried qtella as well but I can't seem to make any connections. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
Katinka Peter wrote: As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not supported. I`d be grateful for any suggestions. Kat I was told that the application Kopete will work but I have not tried it. Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] Apollon crash
Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 12:37, Dave Ashmore wrote: I've been trying different p2p programs and I like the easy clean interface of Apollon the best. However it seems upon the completion of every download it crashes. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I tried qtella as well but I can't seem to make any connections. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks Dave Ashmore Are you running 9.2 ? Here it is working marvellously well, connected to two networks. Try running it from a terminal and see if there are any revelatory messages there after it crashes. I'm running MDK 10 CE with the 2.4 kernel. (since I cannot get my usb mouse to work with 2.6...:( ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] Apollon crash
Dave Ashmore wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 12:37, Dave Ashmore wrote: I've been trying different p2p programs and I like the easy clean interface of Apollon the best. However it seems upon the completion of every download it crashes. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I tried qtella as well but I can't seem to make any connections. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks Dave Ashmore Are you running 9.2 ? Here it is working marvellously well, connected to two networks. Try running it from a terminal and see if there are any revelatory messages there after it crashes. I'm running MDK 10 CE with the 2.4 kernel. (since I cannot get my usb mouse to work with 2.6...:( ) OK from the terminal here is what I got: apollon QMetaObject::findSignal:KFileTreeView: Conflict with QListView::doubleClicked(QListViewItem*,const QPoint,int) QObject::connect: No such slot ApollonTransferTab::slotCheckWM(bool) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'apollon-mainwindow#1') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'ApollonTransferTab') qt KBackgroundIface KBookmarkManager-/home/djash/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml KBookmarkNotifier KDebug KDesktopIface (default) KDirNotify-1 KIO::Observer KIO::Scheduler KScreensaverIface KonqUndoManager kdesktop ksycoca KCrash: Application 'apollon' crashing... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Power outage
OK, quick question. When I get an unclean shutdown like say a power outage. When unattended of course I'm not here to press Y to run file system check. How can this be set to automatically run when it encounters an unclean shutdown? Thanks Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] package name?
I just installed Mdk on a new machine and I can't seem to remember what package it is that puts the server config page in Mandrake Control Center. Anyone know? TIA = David Steiner www.DavidLSteiner.com Proud Linux User #262493 = 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?
JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:39:50 -0800 John Wilson disseminated the following: Heh, everybody always jumps on the easy ones...in my case 'cuz those are the only ones I usually know the answer to ;-) Okay..but can you explain Stephen Harper? :-) That requires a lobotomy and heavy sedation with Thorazine, then 72 hours of David Duke speeches on video to align your viewpoint properly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com W! :o My thread has been jacked! -- = David Steiner www.DavidLSteiner.com Proud Linux User #262493 =
[newbie] This is a test
This is a test please ignore. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE restart
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:05 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: I restarted KDE one day while a few apps were running and now everytime I restart cpu/KDE these applications (totem Xmms) restart. How can I fix this it's not a real problem but it's sure is real anoying. I've already tried shutting down the apps and restared KDE only to have the problem return. Thanks for listening Hope to hear a way to correct it. Dave Dave, go into configurationconfigure your desktopSession Manager and check the restore manually saved session. Then close everything you don't want to open next time and close the session or reboot. Then go back to above and check Restore previous session so that you don't get any residual apps popping up. Then just remember to close everything from then on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks very much I'll give that a try. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] To New Yorkers (slightly OT)
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:35 am, Poogle wrote: My partner is visiting N.Y over the weekend and I am considering asking her to try to find me a Sharp Zaurus SL 5600 as I think they are likely to be cheaper in the U.S. She will be staying at a hotel on West 94th St between Broadway Amsterdam, can anyone suggest a retailer that would be reasonably nearby and easy to find please. She will be visiting her cousin who is a New Yorker so I don't need comprehensive directions, just something that another New Yorker would understand please. There is an area known as Radio Row (65th st ??) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I too am interesed in the sharp please let me know the price and vendor she finds. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Appgen Mybooks
I'm just venting here because all my attempts to reach both the Mandrakestore and Aggen on software I purchased 0n 02/07/04 all have went unanswered. They got my $100 bucks but no deliver software... ;( Can anyone else relate their experience with purchase of this software? I assume I will get to downlad it. Sorry to vent.. No phone #'s to call just write email and wait. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Appgen MyBooks
Does anyone have an experience or opinion on the accounting package from Appgen called MyBooks? Thanks looking forward to feedback. Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT test
Please forgive me for the test. Thanks Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suggestions for an email program that can be used from Linux and WIN 2000
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 02 February 2004 05:01 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Since I am still so new to this linux environment and have not even gotten past the very simplest of things I am still using my win2K system a lot. I would like to be able to read my email from either system especially this list, and be able to see my folders from either system. Does anyone have any suggestions of an email program that I could use to do this? snip Mozilla Thunderbird is the obvious candidate, but to get it set up to work in both environments will take some research and tinkering. Hopefully somebody on the list has done this before. I *believe* there is documentation on how to get Thunderbird to use the same folders from both environments on the Mozilla website. hth = David Steiner www.DavidLSteiner.com Proud Linux User #262493 =
Re: [newbie] mouse
P J Scott wrote: well this is odd, I have just come home and switched on the computer. Everything was well and 9.2 booted as normal, only my mouse is locked in the middle of the screen. I have rebooted and still the same. Any answers Philip back to being a novice... Check the physical connection. HTH = David Steiner www.DavidLSteiner.com Proud Linux User #262493 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Needed file
Whenever you need some particular file like this, go to http://rpmfind.net/, and type in the exact file name. You will get a page listing rpms (usually compatible with most/all architectures and distros) containing the file. For your convenience: http://ftp2.wss.yale.edu/rpm2html/libXm.so.3.html HTH Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E. Fox Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Needed file I tried installing a program using an rpm for 9.1 (which I am running) but it says I am missing a file libXm.so.3 I did a search and came up empty. That's Motif. Per urpmf libXm it's provided by lesstif, so install that. But here (9.2 cooker) I only see libXm.so.2. Currently (per rpm -qa | grep lesstif) I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep lesstif lesstif-0.93.49-3mdk Russ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Checking what version of kernel
I know this is probably a stupid question, and just a matter of typing a command at in the shell. Here goes any way. How do I check what version my kernel is? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] checking what mode my hard drives are in
How can I check to see if my hard drives are running in UDMA mode 5? Also, I don't believe that they are being turned off by ACPI. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet connection
Title: Message I just recently installed Mandrake 9.1, and let me say I enjoy using it much more than Windows XP. Honestly, I don't know why I didn't switch sooner. My question. When I was running windows XP, I was getting download speeds maxing out at around 250k. Now with Linux I regularly see download speeds around 300-350k. How can this be? Is it just a coincidence?
[newbie] MDK 9.1 and Actiontec PCMCIA Wireless cards.
I have just got and Actiontec wireless PC card and cant get it working at all. Has anyone tried these and got them working? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: WLAN, 802.11b PC CARD manfid: 0x, 0x function: 6 (network) Socket 1: no product info available TIA DAVE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what´s the best modem for Linux ?
Get a US Robotics 5610b (56K V .92 Performance Pro). It costs between fifty and eighty dollars depending on where you purchase it, it officially works with Linux. A bit expensive, but after years of modem frustrations, it seems more than worth it to me. You can't go wrong with this one. On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 06:58, K. Spress wrote: How about a 3 Com Hardware based modem. Not a Win Modem. Win Modems do not play well in Linux. some work some do not Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] == This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because, you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of marketers requesting information. If this is not the case, PLEASE accept my sincerest apologies and reply with remove in the subject field. I will remove your name immediately! == Listen to us every Sunday at 11:00 am EST at: http://www.alternacast.com EZHelp, You More Show Info http://learn.at/ezhelp http://go.to/ezhelp AIM: keniswhoiam Yahoo: kspress MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 19870108 You Finally Have A Choice In Local Telephone Service Ask Me How. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 7:53 PM Subject: [newbie] whats the best modem for Linux ? First of all, I would like to thank those who tried to help me. Unfortunately I cannot solve this riddle. I am just a simple user, with no computing skills, no computing course. I would like you to recommend me a modem that works under Linux. P.S.: the new monitor is an LG StudioWorks 501E. I cannot find it listed. How can I get the best driver ? Thank you very much. -- Dave Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?]
This is off-topic, but a characterization of free software practices and sharing as more republican or libertarian in nature is also way off. Libertarians--which are really Republicans without a desire to regulate people's private practices (drug use, sexual practices)--are primarily concerned with the defense of private property from any state intervention. Free software undermines private property by keeping software in free, unrestrained public use. Free software is communally shared property. Libertarians are not opposed to regulation universally, only state intervention. Libertarians support unfree software licensing for example, and call any state support of free software intervention in the free market. Not exactly a recipe for cooperation. While I'm sure some libertarians depart from this ruthless attack on freedom, it's important to remember that the principal interest of libertarians is not protecting freedom, it is to protect private property. Of course, they do equate private property with freedom, but that's another discussion. Sorry about the off-topic stuff. BTW, neither is better. KDE and Gnome perform differently on every machine and distribution, for some reason. Dave On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 15:22, Keith wrote: Linux users must be left wing liberal Democrats because they don't follow the norm.. Actually, the team work, freeness (freedom), open source code, free market, less breaucratic (Microsoft, goverment like monsters), less regulation, freedom (originally slavery of course), responsibility, sharing, etc. are more republican or libertarian in nature. Canadian-Bruce Cockburn's- album The trouble with normal (it always gets worse), is a leftiest ake at normal. (culture morality) I'm alternative in nearly everything I do, from Linux to organic food production, Black/White reconciliation, restoration of Constitutional law, music, simple joyfull lifestyle, and in general taking on projects work that others say are impossible... SO I'm not so sure only liberal Democrats do not follow the norm... PS...FORGET Coke, fast food (greasy salt sugar), instant, institutions like school, plastic, pop music, junk literature... Enjoy being real. :) Keith On Saturday 04 January 2003 04:54 pm, james Mellema wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:49, walt wrote: Actually the only thing republicans are doing is creating an unnecessary war but that has nothing to do with linux.. besides, Linux users must be left wing liberal Democrats because they don't follow the norm.. Walt Whose is Norm? I vote for: KDE, libertarian, mechanist, Alaskan ANWAR oil exploration. -- -- Jim --- james Mellema, CRNA ICQ # 19685870 Linux User 71650 --- The only people who like Microsoft are those who don't understand. When people understand what Microsoft is up to, they're outraged...Tim O'Reilly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Dave Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dave Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] modprobe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 07:53 am, Gil Katz wrote: ' Hi i install firewire and all the necessary files. each time i start the computer i have to do modprobe raw1394 and modprobe video1394 to start the driver. what to do so the system will do that authomaticaly? Thanks Gil Hello Gil, You could put your modprobe commands in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file as it is last looked at during boot and that should load modules fir you Merry Christmas, Dave - -- Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586 9:08am up 7 days, 2:38, 3 users, load average: 0.53, 0.52, 0.39 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David M.Kufta (n3meq) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://n3meq.dynip.com:8080 Wilmington,Delaware USA My GnuPG Public key is available at http://www.keyserver.net/ Key ID: 0xD7595A9B =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Cbxv5p+A19dZWpsRAmS/AJ4q/nedxF7g0WGop29XquM2MkwZWACfWfZv e4fwk+qLxEr4tbT40JfTsBo= =meoW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Handling time setting on a dual boot system
I am running 99% mdk9.0, 1% XP on my main workstation. My timezone is set correctly and Mandrake has been told during the install (and again since) that the realtime clock is set at local time. Despite this, when I reboot I find the time set with an offset of 10 hours corresponding to my timezone. Where are these time settings stored? I found /etc/timezone. It just contains the string: Australia/Melbourne, which is where I am. I had a similar problem on my system. Check in /etc/sysconfig/clock. I *think* that's where I found the 'clock' file anyway. I'm in Windows at the moment so I can't check. But there was a line in mine that said UTC=true which I changed to false. My clock now stays the same when I boot into one OS after using the other. Dave Nuke Krin, Randi, Karlee Roanoke, VA CUR #366 Hero's Waggin' Train Brothers and Sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. - Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] compile attempt
Okay, I'm going to show my extreme newbie-ness. :) I'm attempting to install the newest version of GnomeICU (0.98.126). I currently run version 0.98.3. When I execute the ./configure script, I get the following result: configure: error: Library requirements (libglade-2.0 = 2.0.0 libgnomeui-2.0 = 2.0.0 gnet = 1.1.3 libxml-2.0 = 2.4.7) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. If I'm reading this correctly, I'm either missing a file (or several) or I need to add something to a 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' somewhere. I have a very shaky grasp on this whole download/configure/make/install process and this is the first time I've made the attempt. Can anyone give me any pointers on what to look for/check on based on the above ./configure result? Thanx! Dave Kubasiak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] blocking popup windows using Guidescope or Junkbusters
Check out Privoxy (www.privoxy.org) - based on Junkbuster, I use it currently, works a treat. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jeppesen Sent: 26 October 2002 15:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] blocking popup windows using Guidescope or Junkbusters Hello list, I am curious if anybody is using either of these programs to block popups on a firewall/router? I am currently using MD8.2 as a firewall/router to share our cable connection with clients running MD 9.0, Win98se2 and WinMe and would like to know if anybody has any prefs or things to watch out for when installing and setting up either of those programs. My goal is to set up either of these programs on the firewall/router and have it block popups for all the clients. Is there anything else out there that someone would recommend over these programs? TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mouse wheel / third button
Hi, I've been trying to get my mouse (MS IntelliMouse v1.2A (PS/2)) wheel and third button working since I installed MDK9.0, but without any luck as of yet. I understand there is the 'gpm' mouse driver running the non-X environment mouse, and the mouse for X is defined in XF86Config - but I can't figure out what I need to do in order to get the wheel and button working. It's a pretty 'bog standard' old mouse, but solid and feels great to use, so i'd rather not give up on it just yet :) Thanks for any suggestions, David Gallagher Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel / third button
Many thanks, worked like a charm! Ironically, I've just ordered a MS Wireless Blue Optical Mouse - hoping that's as easy to get working as this turned out to be. Thanks again, On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 9:55 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: dave wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get my mouse (MS IntelliMouse v1.2A (PS/2)) wheel and third button working since I installed MDK9.0, but without any luck as of yet. I understand there is the 'gpm' mouse driver running the non-X environment mouse, and the mouse for X is defined in XF86Config - but I can't figure out what I need to do in order to get the wheel and button working. It's a pretty 'bog standard' old mouse, but solid and feels great to use, so i'd rather not give up on it just yet :) Thanks for any suggestions, David Gallagher Davidtry replacing the section concerning the mouse in your current /etc/XF86Config-4 file with the below: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection save the changed file and then restart your xserver. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] remove Mandrake safely
Hi Mike, Monday, July 8, 2002, 8:49:14 PM, you wrote: MS I recently had to do this myself in order to cleanly reinstall Linux. After MS several frustrating attempts to use DOS's FDISD, I went to www.fdisk.com to MS download their freebie version which works with MD as well as MS. My original query was about separate Win2000 and MD8.2 hard drives and LiLo as boot manager. I want to remove the MD8.2 hard drive and site it in a separate box so I can play around learning Apache. I want my Win2000 (single partition) to remain happy and safe as I run my business pretty much off it Anyway, I'm not sure that my original query has been answered so far ... or rather I don't yet feel comfortable about carrying out some of the suggestions made. So, did you have a similar set up and after completing where you left with a happy Win2000 disk? If yes ... PLEASE let me know exactly what you did. Thanks to people who have tried to help so far, but you're dealing with an overworked and slightly paranoid MD newbie here ;-) With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 1006660 Charity consulting: http://www.coaching-lab.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing mandrake 8.2 ...
Hi Jose, Saturday, July 6, 2002, 11:22:45 PM, you wrote: JV It's easy... with a win boot disk do fdisk /mbr that will erase lilo if JV it is on master boot record, then go into windows and with partition JV magic erase the linux partitions... that's the way I'm use to do... JV If something wrong here, someone tell me... but this with me works... Ok ... that sounds a bit scary. So, what exactly is deleted and if the master boot record goes, how does Win2000 boot? With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 1006660 Charity consulting: http://www.coaching-lab.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 June 2002 09:21 pm, Femme wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:36:04 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Dan W. Dooley wrote: snip I have been using Fluxbox for the last 5 months now or so, and it's so damn fast compared to Gnome. Simple and Sweet. This is not an andertisment for Fluxbox, as there are many simplified Desktop managers around. Maybe give another one a try, and see if your performance increases? Just my 2.2 Euro-cents ;-) Greetings Ralph Ralph, would you be willing to email me either off list or on-list to help me setup Flux box!? I followed the directions precisely on their website for installing for newbies. No joy! :( I cannot locate the Executable they tell you to find, nor do i understand how to edit the files they want me to edit. They don't exist or I cannot find them. :( Any all help would be a godsend at this point. I did compile/make it correctly I believe...however Im willing to start from scratch with better instructions *Is nearly in tears over this ... was supposed to be very simple from the Docs I found which are here: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/newdoc.starting.php#top * Ty Verymuch...and if anyone else can help, Please chime in! Sorry if this is piggybacking on another thread... I know its bad form. TIA all, Femme I assume here you are running version 8.2 of Mandrake if so from a virtual console you should be able to enter the command Xtart and get a list of all available window managers. one of which will be fluxbox: WELCOME to Sessions Selector 1 KDE 2 Gnome 3 WindowMaker 4 Enlightenment 5 blackbox 6 XFce 7 IceWM 9 fvwm2 10 Fvwm1 11 KDE 15 afterstep 16 fluxbox Which do you choose? (number) at this point you would enter the number 16 and fluxbox will start ??? Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 10:03pm up 1 day, 2:22, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.14, 0.15 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David M.Kufta (n3meq) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://n3meq.dynip.com:8080 Wilmington,Delaware USA My GnuPG Public key is available at http://www.keyserver.net/ Key ID: 6038413478BA7657 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9ArikYDhBNHi6dlcRAh/QAJwPXSQhdk6ermLCWtG5F80LxvP5xACeN4ms wSyOVgdiqngJuWFs6MbvrDM= =oFTf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
Hi Marc, Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 1:45:41 PM, you wrote: M It seemed to me that they have little to choose from but Linux and M Mac but mac machines seem overpriced and not very avalable. That M leaves very little in the way of options except linux. Consider how you're doing the analysis of value. Running a business, it's important to factor in not only the capital expenditure on the equipment itself but also the long term usage and short/mid term training factors relating to staff. I use Win2000 day to day, I have a Apple PowerBook G3 running pure OSX and play around with Mandrake. I have a slight emotional attachment to Mac's but I don't let that influence my maths. Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive up front, but has lowish support costs as most people are familiar with it (yes, there is a cost issue re. potential virus problems, etc). Mac's are easy to use, people like them and so use them more (in my experience of business buying anyway). They cost more, generally, than a equally/more powerful Win box. I'd love to recommend Macs but as a hard nosed business type I'd have to recommend Windows boxes for most people. Linux ... not even in the running for most people who have to worry about support and training. Just 2c's worth and I await friendly flames ;-) With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 1006660 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AT LAST Can get beyond user name!!!
Hi Derek, and others Well, at the final hour just as I was about to kick Mandrake into the 'can't be bothered trash can' I tried the 'hid' thing that Derek pointed me to and it worked ... this was the third time I'd tried mind you! So, spent a bit of time in the company of Mandrake and got to like it ... not up to the standard of Mac OSX, but as certainly could use it over Win2000. Now I just need to get my Alcatel ADSL modem working ... think I need to download and save to floppy or CD in Windows and then open Linux and install. I will shout if I get stuck. Meanwhile, thanks a bunch. Brilliant support! With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 1006660 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UPDATE Can't even get beyond user name!!!
Hi et, Saturday, May 18, 2002, 9:28:07 PM, you wrote: e hey if you want to send me that bad HD I would be more than pleased to have e it. my guess is that you did not install some network service that was not e only installed previously but was mis-configured, and since you did not e install it this time, you are not waitting for it to time out everytime e before your computer finds each file it needs to read into memory. Well I put it on another machine, formatted the Linux off it and installed Win2000 ... guess what S L O W and wasn't even on the network ;-) While taking it out the machine I noticed it had a 3 year warrantee and still valid, so logged on to Maxtor and seems I just need to send it back and two days later a replacement arrives! Anyway, latest saga ... probably the last as I'm pretty well sick of trying to get Mandrake to work on my machine ... is that the MS optical mouse won't work. Tried a work around Derek found me: you´ve got to edit the /etc/modules file, just include the hid module you must add hid into the file /etc/modules then the mouse works fine but still doesn't work. With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 1006660 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] menubar back in Opera6?
Hi shane, Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:19:06 PM, you wrote: s On Tuesday 14 May 2002 13:53, FemmeFatale opened a general hailing frequency s and transmitted to all open stations: We're going to start calling you Captain Obvious if you keep this up Shane :) Or at the least, I will. s going to? ;) With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] deny access to su
Hi Damian, Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:13:55 PM, you wrote: DG On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:21:59 -0700 DG Mike Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Viron wrote: Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel . Next, remove execute permission from other on su. I have to say I find this option kind of puzzling. What's the rationale exactly? Why couldn't an opponent who knew the root pword just execute his *own* copy of su? It seems it would have nuisance value at best. Not that nuisance value couldn't be of some practical use, provided the security admin doesn't think it's a substitute for safeguarding passwords. Or maybe it's to prevent *inadvertant* rather than malicious damage? Something like: People in our group might find out the root pword and be tempted to su to quick-fix some difficulty they're having, then they might break something and we wouldn't know who was responsible, so we'll just remove the temptation? I guess that makes a certain amount of sense, but it's not terribly flattering to your coworkers. DG hmm.. how about denying read access too? DG Damian With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?
Hi Gerald, Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:17:34 PM, you wrote: GW On Tuesday 14 May 2002 04:53 pm, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: It is not running and there is no /var/run/xinetd.pid. I installed the OS just a couple weeks ago, could something simply not have been installed? GW what happens if you start it GW /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start GW What does GW chkconfig --list | grep xinetd GW say? GW xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off GW If its off in 345 do GW chkconfig --level 345 xinetd on GW This will get it to start on boot With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UPDATE Can't even get beyond user name!!!
Hi folks, DC I will try to 'startx' and tell you what happens. Ok ... all went as usual to the command line. Took 8 minutes for the blue progress bar to reach end and shift to user/password screen. That is way too slow and why I'm considering faulty HD. Anyway, entered startx and got a load of stuff scroll up screen. Main error message I could make out was fatal server error: no screens found. Then did a dmesg and again only thing I could make out as an error was: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:09 Sector 0 Ideas? With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 DVD
Hi, Monday, May 13, 2002, 11:56:46 PM, you wrote: DO Ohh So... The latest Linux Format DVD has Mandrake 8.2 on it? Does it DO have anything else? Or just Mandrake? And is it a bootable DVD, or does it DO just have ISOs on it? This would be handier than the 3 CDs... Installs straight from DVD and it has a lot of other stuff on it. Check magazine out for details. With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution 0.13 mail program thank you nag screen
Okay.got my reiser fs files system to work and decided to try a new mail program.evolution..which I am using now. It has a thing that is bugging the hell out of me Everytime i start evolution.i get a nag box that says thanks for downloading blah blah blah. and I would really really like to get rid of it. I looked through all the file edit view actions etc on the toolbar, yet either I overlooked it...or it is somewhere else..or I can't turn it off.(which ...because this is linux and not windows...I seriously doubt the last one.) Any help would be greatly appreciated :) THIA Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution 0.13 mail program thank you nag screen
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 22:15, Damian G wrote: On 13 May 2002 20:56:16 -0500 Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay.got my reiser fs files system to work and decided to try a new mail program.evolution..which I am using now. It has a thing that is bugging the hell out of me Everytime i start evolution.i get a nag box that says thanks for downloading blah blah blah. and I would really really like to get rid of it. I looked through all the file edit view actions etc on the toolbar, yet either I overlooked it...or it is somewhere else..or I can't turn it off.(which ...because this is linux and not windows...I seriously doubt the last one.) Any help would be greatly appreciated :) THIA Dave you are using the old ( alpha ) release. get a newer release from Mandrake mirrors. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I went to : http://www.ximian.com/download/instructions.html?distribution=gognome and followed the instructions..Man that was WAY to easy! Thanks for the tip.. Works perfectly so far :) Was interesting the way you download and install thishad never done a install that way. Thanks again. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't even get beyond user name!!!
Hi Tim, Femme and Derek Sunday, May 12, 2002, 2:43:07 AM, you wrote: TH We need a little more information Dave. Thanks for the useful responses. To assist further I have posted much more detail, including what happens before things ... er, stop happening! Hope you can help as I haven't got much more hair to pull out :-( With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] UPDATE Can't even get beyond user name!!!
Hi Ed, Dave, when you get the text screen don't do anything, wait a minute and it should continue to boot to the graphical login screen. That text screen is not the last thing to pop up. Give it a minute and see what happens. HTH Ok ... gave several minutes, made a cup of tea, gave a few more and decided this wasn't the problem. Thanks 'tho. e its also worth noting that you may not see any return or echo of some e digits when you login with the password. just type it correctly and hit e ehter. Yes, I have got this far and after entering user and pass I get this: [condyk@localhost condyk]$ What does this mean? I then wait a further several minutes ... nothing. Press enter, get the same message. I actually am thinking my HD is knackered, as it takes for ever to boot even this far and clicks now and again!! But why wouldn't I at least be able to boot, 'tho slowly? With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UPDATE Can't even get beyond user name!!!
Hi, Sunday, May 12, 2002, 10:52:35 PM, you wrote: d I'm not being insulting here (I've not been following this thread - sorry!) d but are you fairly new to Linux? If so, just keep posting/asking questions, d we'll help you all we can! ;-) Short answer ... yes, a newbie in nappies. Windows and Mac easy, Linux learning from ground up. I think the last few posts from some very helpful individuals have cracked it. It's very obvious stuff when you know ... but when you don't know what you need to know, a bit trickier ;-) I will try to 'startx' and tell you what happens. With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??
Well finally have my Mandrake 8.1 back up and running with the Reiser FS file system installed. Seems to run fast enough for me.(no noticable difference from ext2). Thanks for all the input..I feel better knowing that this is a more stable fs to use. Learned a little doing the expert install for mandrake.. when you select the file type you have to choose type---i think and scroll down to reiser fs seems to work fine... I was also able to make my windows partition MUCH smaller than before = when using the recommended option. .. Making the windows partition just under 2 gig leaving me about 8 gig to play with linux on :) whee!!! Thanks again, Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't even get beyond user name!!!
Hi Linux fans, Saturday, May 11, 2002, 7:40:30 PM, you wrote: This is a classic newbuie question, but I'll ask it anyway in hope of a simple answer and Mandrake 8.2 id driving me nuts. OK, I've finally installed, after wrestling with a faulty bootable DVD and I get to a screen that asks for my user name, so I enter it perfectly correctly. I am then asked for my password; again entered perfectly, but nothing appears and I wait. Nothing. SO I press return and some routine starts and then everything stops. Is this normal or weird, or what? Maybe I need to enter some geekie command line stuff; if so, please HELP!!! With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 100666 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Noisy Processor Fans
Barran, Richard wrote: I am sure I am not alone in thinking that these current higher powered processor fans are becoming very noisy. I came across Zalman's CNP S6000-CU Cooler on the web, which is claimed to be both very efficient and much quieter. Anyone got any experiences of it to relate to us. It's a small world! I too get annoyed about the noise levels from my PC, but couldn't find much about quiet processor fans when I recently replaced mine. Lo and behold, TheRegister (that website again!) has got an item about a new fan-less NEC PC, with a link to a company that supplies gizmos to quieten your current machine. Guess what: the website address is... www.quietpc.com Right I've got experience with that particular Zalman cooler, I didn't purchase it from quietpc because it seemed somewhat expensive from there (I'm in the UK) It's used on my Audio/Video PC which sits in my front room... hence the need for something that was quiet. It's cooling a Celeron 900 and is completely silent at its slowest fan speed. It's not the highest performing cooler available, but it is one of the quietest. Now all I need is something to quieten the faint whirring noise from the harddrive... no spare 5 1/4 bay to put a drive muffler type enclosure in the tiny case that I'm using unfortunately. -- Dave Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder for MDK8.2
Hi On Wednesday 17 April 2002 08:38, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 1. Mandrake includes full support for encoding and decoding the Ogg Vorbis audio format. Ogg Vorbis is 100% open source and is better in both quality and compression than MP3. If you don't specifically need MP3, I recommend that you use it. I always find Ogg Vorbis to be really slow compared to mp3 encoding. I use gogo look in freshmeat.net and I can rip using cdda2wav and encode using gogo at like up 10x speeds. Ogg usually runs at about 1.5 X or something. -- 0 Dave Naylor | [---] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2
I had the same issue. After alittle searching on the net. I found this answer and it worked for me. For the folks having issues with the module not inserting. If so, can you change /etc/modules.conf to read /dev/nvidia* instead of /dev/nvidia/*? - Original Message - From: Gregorio Pérez Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 8:48 AM Subject: [newbie] Nvidia drivers and Mandrake 8.2 Hi everybody, When using Mandrake 8.1 I was able to install and use the Nvidia drivers from NVidia site for my GeForce2 GTS using the usual method explainded in the Nvidia README file: - Downloading the source files. - Compilling and installing: $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz $ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz $ cd NVIDIA_kernel $ make install $ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX $ make install - And modifying the X config file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 with: Device section and replace the line: Driver nv with Driver nvidia In the Module section, make sure you have: Load glx You should also remove the following lines: Load dri Load GLcore if they exist. I recently installed Madrake 8.2 and this method didn't worked for me. All these steps worked fine with no error messages. I restarted the X (via the Control + Alt + Backspace keys) and the nvidia screen was displayed before the X restarted. After this the X started and worked fine. So the nvidia driver worked. The proble is when rebooting the computer: The X was not unable to start. Does anyone knows how to solve this problem??? Thanks! Gregorio 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] Perl
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 05:54, Tonton wrote: How do I use perl programming language in linux? In a console, 'man perl' (without the quotes). I know this is a newbie list, but don't people even bother reading documentation anymore? Even a Windows user should know enough to check the readme's... Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:38, JSheble wrote: Just out of curiosity I thought I'd take a look at some of the other WindowManagers that come with LM8.1. I did not originally install them when I installed LM though. So using the Software Manager in the Mandrake Control Center I installed Blackbox. Now however, I'm completely unsudre how to change my default WindowManager when I start an X session. I type startx, and it goes into Gnome. I tried typing startx blackbox but I got the twm manager running installed. When I try typing startblackbox, blackbox or exec blackbox I get the following messages: I think the actual name of the BlackBox program is bb, so you need to either do startx bb, or put exec bb in your .xinitrc file. Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 21:50, Jeffrey Madore wrote: Greetings: I recently installed Mandrake 8.1 on my son's machine which consists of a 120Mhz processor and 84meg of ram. It now operates deadly slow. My understanding has been that one advantage of linux is that it runs fine on older equipment ; that it doesn't require the horsepower, so to speak, that other OS's like windows does. Prior to installing Linux on my son's machine he was running windows 95. That moved right along. He likes linux but it is dreadfully slow. I am running a celeron @ 700Mhz with 512 Meg of ram. The speed is much better but still slower than windows ME, which I migrated from. As others have mentioned, KDE (and Gnome) can be a real resource hog. It's not that they are necessarily bloated, but they have a lot of functionality and eye candy that just uses power. Basically, these desktop environments are designed to be run on modern hardware. Using lighter window managers like BlackBox, XFCE, etc. will definitely help. The lightest wm is probably twm, but it is so ugly in its default setup that it will likely make your eyes bleed upon first viewing. Another thing to keep in mind is hardware driver support, especially for X. I have found that if I can find an optimal X server (approximately equivalent to a video driver) for my systems, they perform much better than using the generic super vga 1024x768 X server. In fact, I would say performance/speed doubles or even triples with a good X server. Yet another issue can be if you have too many unnecessary services (especially network services, but possibly others) running. Use Mandrake Control Center to look at boot-time services, and determine which ones you really need and which ones you don't. Then, stop them on the spot and disable them from running at boot-up. I actually used to run RedHat 5.1 on an old 486 (100 MHz, so it was a fast 486) with 16 MB RAM. Using an older version of X (3.3.6 I think) and the AfterStep window manager, it was quite peppy -- wy faster than the Win95 that was installed when I got it. But that was an older distribution, *designed for older hardware* (at the time, the two would have been somewhat concurrent, so it wasn't really old hardware when RH 5.1 came out). If you really want to run Linux on that old box, try finding an older distribution releasr, like Mandrake 7.x or even an older RedHat 5.x release. You will notice a BIG difference. Finally, I've said this before and I'll say it again. The *anecdotal* evidence for Linux running faster than Windows is primarily taken from server performance, where Linux is run with no GUI (no X Windows) at all. If you take out X Windows, even an old 486 with 16 MB RAM will fly under Linux. In fact, my church uses a Pentium 166 with 256 MB RAM for a Linux Samba server (and a few other network services), and it runs great. I wouldn't even *think* of putting Windows NT on that old beast! Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 08:16, Dave Sherman wrote: I actually used to run RedHat 5.1 on an old 486 (100 MHz, so it was a fast 486) with 16 MB RAM. Using an older version of X (3.3.6 I think) and the AfterStep window manager, it was quite peppy -- wy faster than the Win95 that was installed when I got it. But that was an older distribution, *designed for older hardware* (at the time, the two would have been somewhat concurrent, so it wasn't really old hardware when RH 5.1 came out). If you really want to run Linux on that old box, try finding an older distribution releasr, like Mandrake 7.x or even an older RedHat 5.x release. You will notice a BIG difference. FYI, I still have my old RedHat 5.1, RedHat 6.2, and Mandrake 7.2 CDs. I could burn copies of one or more versions and ship them to you if you want. Let me know. Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
