Re: [newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:30 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 08:30 am, David Reynolds wrote: Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error my machine developed on the last install). However *because* libgcc failed, there are a whole host of programs I can't install, so I'm back to the CLI for cdburning. When I try to check my cdrom burner I get this: # cdrecord -scanbus (really, cdrecord --anything) Should be 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' on a 10.1 system. If that returns x,x,x as your burner, then burn the iso's with Actually it's a 10.0 system currently (which is why I'm trying to burn 10.1 ISOs). Still no love from cdrecord after forcing the gcc packages as you suggested; is there a way to 'test' gcc from the command line to see if it's working better? Is cdrecord the only available burn 'backend' program? Maybe there's one that won't fail out...Nautilus-cd-burner wants to install a crapload of other libraries I don't have on the HD yet, so that seems overkill when I'm not even certain that it's not using the same backend... I apologize if these are stupid questions, I'm just a little confused by this whole process (as if that wasn't bloody obvious). David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?
Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error my machine developed on the last install). However *because* libgcc failed, there are a whole host of programs I can't install, so I'm back to the CLI for cdburning. When I try to check my cdrom burner I get this: # cdrecord -scanbus (really, cdrecord --anything) Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schi lling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this versio n. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-mdk '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 1,0,0 100) 'CD-ROM ' 'Drive/G6D ' '1.30' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) '' '52X32CD_R/RW' '100G' Removable CD-ROM 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Any ideas? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia
On Monday 10 January 2005 05:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 11:10, Hugh Dixon wrote: I am tempted to go ATI next time I need a card I forgot to say that my third Mandrake box has an ATi card - and I doubt if I will ever buy another. Argh, don't say that. My NVIDIA card is crapping out and I just went and picked up an ATi Radeon 9550SE; does anyone know of any verified problems/quirks with getting this to work under Mandrake 10.x? I haven't installed it yet so I could return it if necessary... http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=181931 Anne David 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: FireFox speedup
On Friday 07 January 2005 04:53 pm, Miark wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:44:12 -0600, David wrote: I've tried it for about a week now, and honestly, I can't tell any difference. Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request to a server in order to get one page. There's enough clogging the net already. But that's just me... This 'scheme' was proposed elsewhere last week to almost universal condemnation. There are pieces in it that are worthwhile (like #3), but as Kaj mentioned, there's a lot that's unethical as well: http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/1065384.html I read the whole page (without following each thread) and quite honestly, I didn't read any compelling arguments against it. If 10 people hit a page with 10 items on it, that's 100 items that have to be served. Whether those items are served in big bursts (as with pipelining) or little bursts (serving 10 items 10 times for 10 users without pipelining) the CPU and storage drives are going to work just as hard. The only difference will be the distribution of the used resources. IANASA (I am not a sysadmin), but I believe the problem is not SO much with the CPU and HD, as with the outward bound pipes and access points for the website. You're familiar with the Slashdot effect, yes? By setting up your computer to access the same site with 9x, 19x, 49x as many pipes, you're simulating the effect of 9x, 19x, 49x as many users accessing the site at the same moment. It's for a briefer period of time (theoretically, although my experience with broadband vs. dialup is that if you've got more bandwidth, you're more likely to visit more pages on any given site, and more sites), but you're crashing the processes that serve pages out to the public. So while *your* experience is improved, everyone else may be getting Server unavailable messages, and the webmaster of that site may end up blacklisting you for it (DDOS is subjective, after all), and then your experience of the site will be vastly diminished. Perhaps someone can do a better job of explaining the problem. But in the meantime, I've changed mine to 9. It's a huge difference in performance, and it's low enough not to be construed as a DOS attack. I dunno. A lot of it flew over my head, but here was the bit that decided for me that it (everything but the page refresh piece) was a bad idea: The problem is that the settings are using a lot of resource in general, it's an abuse of common courtesy by maximizing the amount of resource used by you at expense of others. A lot of the internet is dependant upon good behavior by the majority. A common example is the general TCP protocol, where you are supposed to practically stop transmitting if you detect congestion on the link. (detection is done by seeing a lost packet due to overburdened router.) Theoretically you can improve your performance by continuing to send at maximal speed and thus ignoring the congestion. As everyone else will back-off to let the routers work through the congestion and will try again from low speeds, if you do not follow the convention your speeds would be maximized. However, such behavior is considered impolite and all major implementations of TCP follow similar standard behavior. Miark Regards, David 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: FireFox speedup
On Thursday 06 January 2005 06:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 00:55, Jonesy wrote: On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:22:45 -0500, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: 1.Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves. Do 'we' know what this ...amount of time the browser waits before it acts is measured in? milliseconds, seconds, minutes, yarons? HNY Jonesy I've tried it for about a week now, and honestly, I can't tell any difference. Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request to a server in order to get one page. There's enough clogging the net already. But that's just me... This 'scheme' was proposed elsewhere last week to almost universal condemnation. There are pieces in it that are worthwhile (like #3), but as Kaj mentioned, there's a lot that's unethical as well: http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/1065384.html Kaj Haulrich. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ASCII characters
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be able to read Scandinavian characters like , and or even the Euro-symbol ___. I've got no problems seeing them in Kmail. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ASCII characters
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:55 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:25, David Reynolds wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:58, Miark wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be able to read Scandinavian characters like , and or even the Euro-symbol ___. I've got no problems seeing them in Kmail. David Well David, that's fine except you don't see the Euro-symbol (). I suppose you live in the US, so what charset do you use in KMail ? Kaj Haulrich. You're right, I guess I didn't even notice it was missing. I'm using pref-charsets=us-ascii,iso-8859-1,locale,utf-8 in kmailrc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:10 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: Sounds to me like you have simply overwritten the MBR bootloader with LILO from Mandrake which did not detect the Win installation and create a LILO boot option for it. You should be able to go into /etc/lilo.conf and create an option for Windows like this: other=/dev/hda2 label=windows table=/dev/hda Run lilo and then you should get the option to boot into Windows on next boot. Actually that seems to be exactly what I've done, but it still has the /boot partition (former C:) as the active primary partition, according to my partition table. Linux doesn't care, but Windows runs into the blinking cursor on a black screen problem when I try to choose it from Lilo. Is there (or rather, what is) a way to set the active 'bit' on your primary partition? That might save me the entire reinstall, which would be nice... David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)
I'm pretty sure I'm buggered this time around, but maybe someone here can help
me spot my error for next time:
Situation: Needed Windows on my computer to run some commercial games with my
family; Cedega isn't cutting it. So fine; my 3-year-old Linux only system is
going to be dual-boot *melodramatic sigh*. I reinstall the old 20GB HD as the
Master, set the 40GB as slave, and plot this out:
1) Install Windows2000 on the 20GB HD (hda), leaving a 250MB partition
*before* it for /boot to eventually go onto. Windows apparently formats this
as C and installs Windows on the D: partition immediately after it. So far so
good, except that my motherboard drivers try to auto-install onto C:. Don't
need 'em...
2) Immediately install Mandrake 10.0 again onto the 40GB HD (hdb), but
put /boot on that first small partition of hda (formatted ext3).
2.1) I partitioned off a FAT32 /gaming/ chunk on the second half of hda, and
linux's /tmp on the end of hda. hdb consists of / and /home and swap. All's
running according to expectations, which means the system now recognizes
Linux and doesn't even realize Windows is there anymore.
At this point two exciting things make themselves known:
a) The 512 bytes of ntbootloader on C: or /boot have been reformatted and
overwritten, and Do Not Exist anymore. Oops.
b) Fo whatever reason, my floppy drive doesn't work, which makes creating a
bootdisk for *either* OS at this point really exciting... it is running and
running and running, like it's always mounted. This may be related to it
having its power cord unhooked when I installed the OS'es, but you'd think it
would have fixed that oversight after a reboot (post power-cord being plugged
back in, of course).
So my question is, how badly have I screwed up? Assuming I *can* get a
bootdisk to run on Linux, is it possible to do a Windows rescue, overwrite
that first section with FAT32 again, then copy/edit the /boot sector over it?
Can your /boot sector for linux even *be* in FAT32?? According to my
partition table, it still thinks that C: is the active partition for boot
purposes, but somehow linux believes D: to be an extended/logical
partition? How did that occur, when D: is now the 'oldest' partition on
either drive?? partition tables are below if you're morbidly curious
I apologize if this sounds stupid, I'm just working on my 3rd day of wrestling
with this thing, and I'm willing to reinstall if that's what it takes, but I
don't want to screw it up another time (this'll be my 4th 5th OS install in
10 days)...
Thanks,
David
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'device' = 'hda1',
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'passno' = '2',
'freq' = '1',
'end_sec' = 63,
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'end_cyl' = 31,
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'ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2',
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'end_cyl' = 255,
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'active' = 0,
'device' = 'hda3',
'start_cyl' = 0,
'size' = 0,
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'end_head' = 0,
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[newbie] libgcc?
For whatever reason, libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk.i586 failed to installed from CD#1 this last time around. Now it seems to not believe I can install it (or anything, in fact) from my tmp/ directory, and I'm trying to sort out if it's actually borked my system, or merely gotten confused. rpmdrake's Remove Media screen says that Name: libgcc1-3.3.2-9mdk and libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk are both installed, and won't let me uninstall either without removing half of my system for dependencies. When I try to install (for instance) Quanta, however, it tells me it requires libgcc_s.so.1 and libgcc_s.so.1 (GCC_3.0). What's going on here? Do I need to reinstall because they weren't available during the original install, and therefore aren't in the kernel? Newbie question I know, but this is really throwing a monkeywrench in my computer... Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mdk 8.2 + Cedega 4.1.1 = ?
I've got a fairly outdated system that I've never had great cause to update, but now my family would like it if I could play games like Diablo II with them. I've had less than fantastic luck with Winex, but I don't know per se whether that's because of my Mandrake being so old compared to the newest Cedega, or basic user errors, or what. Other people seem to have little to no trouble running the program. It's given me a variety of errors: started out with page faults/general exceptions, then locked the entire display (no Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, even) in full-screen mode once I did get it running. Pushed it to windowed 800x600 on a 1024x768 screen, it ran the install just fine (barring some FreeType errors), but then tried to load the v1.10 patch into my home directory instead of the .transgaming/c_drive folder with the rest of it, and subsequently couldn't find it. My video card is a GeForce2 MX, but Diablo isn't that power-intensive; it's just running into other errors separate from pure display issues. Processor: AMD Duron 900 MHz Memory: 256MB Video Card: nVidia geForce DDR (generic) X-Server: XFree86 4.2.0, patch level 9mdk OS release: 2.4.18-6mdk (Mandrake Linux release 8.2) Anyone have any ideas? I'm willing to upgrade this machine to 10.1 OE if it seems like it'll help, although at this point I may just try to get them to convert to NWN Thanks in advance, David -- Three followers of wisdom: imagination; purpose; endeavor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] e2fsck library version out of date?
Not sure what this signifies, but I've been getting it when running fsck (after a hard reboot, for example) for quite some time: ]# e2fsck Error: ext2fs library version out of date! e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.26, 3-Feb-2002 I suspect that fsck is not working after it gets this message, which strikes me as a Really Bad Thing. But I can't find anywhere what the procedure is to get it straightened out... David -- Three operations of wisdom: taming savagery; spreading peace; improving laws. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NO LIST MAIL TODAY??
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 10:16 pm, Bob Read proclaimed: Has there been little/no mail on this list today? If there has been any volume of mail today, would someone please let me know directly? Yep. 19 messages in the last 8 hours, including yours. TIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] David -- Three purposes for the return of souls to this world: to collect into the soul the properties of all being; to acquire knowledge of all things; to acquire the power to overcome chaos. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3s
On Monday 02 June 2003 06:19 pm, Dennis Myers proclaimed: Is it safe to assume that you've checked all the mixer volumes and the likes? And you've run RPMDRAKE and double-checked that every bit'n'bob of XMMS has been installed? And I'm sure you checked that the power to the speakers is on and their volume knobs are turned up? ...just checking mate... Roger-dodger, I have the MP3s on a cd and on one comp they play dandy, in xmms with KDE desktop. On the next comp not, although regular audio cd's play fine. Volume is up and the sound is onboard via 8xxx something. All I can think is that the via onboard sound can't do mp3s? I have the opposite problem. Can play MP3's fine, cannot play audio CD's. I had to go through three or four sound mixers to check for muting problems before it all got resolved: aumix (alsa), kmix (KDE), gmix (Gnome), etc. Couldn't hurt to check them all... David -- Three things not easily found: an arrogant person generous; a young person wise; an old person mannerly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 05:45 pm, FemmeFatale proclaimed: At 10:41 AM 2/11/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:23, FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:25, Adolfo Bello wrote: After 20 years using DOS/Windows I am rather used to the A;, C:, D: schema but after working with the file system way I recognized that the DOS schema is somehow like asking yourself: In what drive this part of my data is in this RAID? Ok, I am exaggerating but I don't know how many times I have lost data because I forgot to backup a directory in another drive. I had a weird little encounter with this problem today. Was trying to get a MS Access database to shut itself down when it was launched from the sever (front-end is too huge for transmitting forms across crappy government data lines). Came across the brilliant idea of using the \\ prefix in the UNC server address. Then couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. Hmmm, what does it THINK the path is? F:\Center\...\CSS.mdb Yaargh! Another example of the maxim: Everything in Linux, from changing a font to recompiling a kernel, takes 5 hours. It then runs forever without a problem. Everything in Windows takes 5 minutes. It then takes forever to debug it and figure out why it isn't working without a problem. David -- Three joys of the lawless: gluttony; fighting; fickleness. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: NDN: Re: [newbie] File Management
What the heck is this? I get it for the last couple weeks when sending to this list. No weird email abbreviations are at fault - I'm typing the list address in raw. the message does get through after all, I just get this failure notice as well. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: NDN: Re: [newbie] File Management Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:45:36 +0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been entered correctly.) --- David -- Three kinds of people worthless to they who are just and honest: the drunkard; the perjurer; the traitor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: [newbie] Ethernet over USB?
Am I using the wrong list for this inquiry? I am not sure if I am barking down the wrong pipe, or no one knows what in the world I am smoking (to continue the mixed metaphor). Regards, David Reynolds -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [newbie] Ethernet over USB? Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:10:15 -0600 From: David Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I'm attempting to update the ROM on my new Sharp Zaurus 5000D, and having difficulty getting qtopiadesktop to connect up with it. The problem may be related to my never having used (set up?) my USB ports correctly, since I've never used them up until now. Qtopia Desktop doesn't seem to have any way to force the connection. So I go to check if the usb port is even up: [root@naeblis david]# ifup usb0 SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device Failed to bring up usb0. How odd. I can't find ANYWHERE online exactly how to deal with this, and don't even know where to begin with SIOCGIFFLAGS. I've been trying to follow the directions in http://www.ruault.com/Zaurus/ethernet-over-usb-howto.html but I got stalled at the point where I don't HAVE a directory called /usr/src/linux - I have /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/[athlon/i386/i486/i586/i686/k6/noarch]... all of which are completely empty. At this point /etc/modules.conf looks like this: pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias autofs autofs4 alias eth0 tulip alias usb0 usbdnet /*added by me today*/ alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 I'm running 2.4.18-6mdk if that helps, and here's /proc/pci: [root@naeblis src]# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xdbff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 64). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 22). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 22). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 64). Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 17). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=64.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf00 [0xdf0003ff]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 7). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe01f]. Bus 0, device 11, function 1: Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 7). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX DDR) (rev 178). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd000 [0xd7ff]. Sorry for the clueless questions, but several hours of Googling hasn't helped any... do I just need to restart the machine? I wouldn't think so, since my kernel patch was never successful. David -- Three counsels: do not grieve greatly about what has happened; do not believe what cannot be; do not desire what cannot be obtained. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ethernet over USB?
So I'm attempting to update the ROM on my new Sharp Zaurus 5000D, and having difficulty getting qtopiadesktop to connect up with it. The problem may be related to my never having used (set up?) my USB ports correctly, since I've never used them up until now. Qtopia Desktop doesn't seem to have any way to force the connection. So I go to check if the usb port is even up: [root@naeblis david]# ifup usb0 SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device Failed to bring up usb0. How odd. I can't find ANYWHERE online exactly how to deal with this, and don't even know where to begin with SIOCGIFFLAGS. I've been trying to follow the directions in http://www.ruault.com/Zaurus/ethernet-over-usb-howto.html but I got stalled at the point where I don't HAVE a directory called /usr/src/linux - I have /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/[athlon/i386/i486/i586/i686/k6/noarch]... all of which are completely empty. At this point /etc/modules.conf looks like this: pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias autofs autofs4 alias eth0 tulip alias usb0 usbdnet /*added by me today*/ alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 I'm running 2.4.18-6mdk if that helps, and here's /proc/pci: [root@naeblis src]# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xdbff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 64). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 22). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 22). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 64). Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 17). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=64.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf00 [0xdf0003ff]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 7). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe01f]. Bus 0, device 11, function 1: Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 7). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX DDR) (rev 178). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd000 [0xd7ff]. Sorry for the clueless questions, but several hours of Googling hasn't helped any... do I just need to restart the machine? I wouldn't think so, since my kernel patch was never successful. David -- Three things which do not suffer trifling: health; prosperity; time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] K-Mail Filter question
On Sunday 05 January 2003 06:21 am, Michael Adams proclaimed: On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 07:46, David Williams wrote: On Saturday 04 January 2003 01:19 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:35, Derek wrote: On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 9:55 am, Michael Adams wrote: I was trying to set up a filter on my sent-mail folder to delete anything that has been there for 2 months or more. I can't quite see how to do it as filters only seem to be applied to incoming or outgoing mail not dates in folders. Any sugestions or am i blowing smoke. kmail 1.3.2 Mandrake distro 8.2 Just right click on the mail folder and select 'expire old messages' You can then set up how long messages remain in each folder. derek Sorry Derek, Right clicking only brings up compact and empty as choices. In Settings-Configure Kmail-Miscellaneous, there is a check off box to expire old messages when closing. Nope, not in my version. I am beginning to wonder if Dolphin is the order of the day, but on the whole this box aint broken so i am reluctant to fix it over one issue. I'm using Mdk8.2 and KMail 1.4; you may not need to go to Dolphin just yet. When I right click on a folder I get the following options: Create Child Folder Properties Compact - Mark All Messages As Read Empty Remove Under Properties I get a long screen with six headings. Folder Position Folder Type Associated Mailing List Old Message Expiry Identity Show Sender/Receiver Under Old Message Expiry you can set it for both Unread messages and Read messages. Hope that helps. David -- Three marvelous deeds: to forgive a wrong done; to amend everything possible; to refrain from injustice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor setup
On Sunday 05 January 2003 09:29 am, David Robertson stated: With regard to the monitor, the manual should give the horizontal and vertical frequencies, so those can be entered in the custom monitor settings. David I have a sort of weird situation; I didn't know it was possible to overclock a monitor, but that's what I was doing to the old one. It was about 7 years old, part of a factory system with my 2nd computer, and when I switched to Linux (Mdk 8.1, 900 MHz, nVidia card, etc) I kept the monitor. It seemed to be working fine, and I didn't need the extra expense. Except... Occasionally if I actually shut the monitor down and left it overnight, the system would freeze unrecoverable. The monitor acted like it was getting no signal, and there was no way to kill the X-server and recover it; I had to cold boot, which invariably caused a fsck. The strange bit was that if I left the monitor on and let it go to standby/sleep, it would be fine the next morning. So I learned to leave it on. Uptimes stood around a month or so, barring the occasional thunderstorm or vacation. It finally started screwing around whether I shut it off or not, so I got a new monitor; I was tired of dealing with a 14 anyway. So I got a new-to-me monitor, but there is no manual. It's a Dell/Sony Trinitron 17 (Model D1726T-HS). I've found some documentation online for it but dealing with new hardware isn't something I've really had to get a grip on before (I still haven't even bothered to get my nVidia card working). I managed to completely mangle my XFree86 configuration last night, and then got it working again under 800x600x16m, which is where I was at before (though without the overclocking, thankfully). When I first set it up I got a virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable situation, and I had to resave the session a few times. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to resolve this without trashing my XFree86 setup again? Thanks in advance, David Reynolds -- There are three types of profit: from producing; from investing; from a good reputation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Where are you at? (was installing mdk rpm's)
On Saturday 04 January 2003 10:49 pm, Jason wrote: Just out of interest, where are other list members from?? Kansas City - but you probably gather that already from my email. ;) David -- Three things it is best to leave alone: a strange dog; a sudden flood; one wise in their own eyes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club (Troll)
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 11:45 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I don't know why it's so hard to concieve of people out there who can pay but don't. That is the thrust of all this. If the person doesn't have the finances, then they need the advantage of a free download and virtually no cost. That's the whole reason why the free download and virtual no cost option exists; the poor folks. I thought that was a forgone conclusion and not something that needed to be elaborated on. We aren't talking about the poor folks here. We're talking about the freeloaders. The point that is being made that free software is not free; there's blood and sweat going into this distro, there's people that loved and worked for this company, and had to be sacrificed for the sake of the survival of the distro, and there's the survivors going home every night from Mandrake wondering seriously about their future and their groceries. Plus they are working their asses off cause there aren't enough people there to handle the workloads anymore; *that* happens to be the NOT FREE part. For those that have the finances and are making use of Mandrake every day without giving anything back, that's called freeloading. The real arrogance around here is taking somebody else's hard earned blood work and using it to your advantage when you have the money to supply support but don't when people are being laid off and the Mandrake club is out there for the cost of a magazine subscription. I don't understand this either. Yes, there will be a few some people out there who genuinely can't afford it, and hardship circumstances should be a contingency. But Mandrake isn't that expensive. A magazine subscription, ONE dinner out, a couple of movies, a new hardback book... is that really so much to ask someone to give up for supporting something they believe in? Sure, it's 'free' and open source, but the economy of the 1990s that led to the huge surge in OSS isn't there anymore; business models need to be viable today in order to continue. If you like what Mandrake does, both with software and corporate policy, then support them. Otherwise - of course there are other distros out there. My next investment is either 9.0 once the boxed set arrives here in the heartland, or waiting for my gf's cd burner to arrive and burning my own copy, then using the money I would have spent on the box into the Club. Regards, David Reynolds -- Three things which bring dignity to a person: discretion in their speech; contentment in the life they lead; peacefulness among their neighbors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Viewing XML in Konqueror (or any other Linux browser)
Anyone know why Konqueror and Mozilla and Netscape 7 would all refuse to interpret XML through an XSL stylesheet? The page in question is http://www.gaiacommunity.org/fun/mishmash.xml - I'd like to know if the flaw is on my computer's settings, or the setup of the XSL. It works perfectly well in IE 5.x Thanks in advance, David -- Three things with which everything is possible, and without which nothing can be: strength of body and mind; knowledge; love of intuitive wisdom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla upgrade?
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 04:45 am, Derek Jennings proclaimed: On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 5:37 am, David Reynolds wrote: I'm still using Mdk 8.2 in the interest of stability. I'm also testing out Mozilla and like what I see, but I've still got 0.9.8. What is the last stable version you can install with Mandrake 8.2? Mozilla 1.0? David Reynolds If you look in the 'unsupported' folder on a Mandrake mirror you wil find Mozilla1.01 for 8.2. For example ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/unsupported/8.2 /i586 derek Actually Mozilla 1.1 is working fine in 8.2, with the exception that I am not smart enough to decipher how to tell it to accept the Java Virtual machine as a plugin; it was working beautifully in 0.9.8. Under about:plugins it has Java(TM) Plug-in 1.3.0_02 and the plugins for java-bean and java-applet, but not the x-java-vm. Netscape 7 is still working fine. Can anyone point me in the right direction? 0.9.8 autodetected the problem and sent me for an RPM; 1.1 just tells me I need it and expects I know how to get it/set it. David -- Three who it is wise not to believe: the stranger about their possessions; an old person praising the day that was of yore; one who boasts of their wisdom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla upgrade?
I'm still using Mdk 8.2 in the interest of stability. I'm also testing out Mozilla and like what I see, but I've still got 0.9.8. What is the last stable version you can install with Mandrake 8.2? Mozilla 1.0? David Reynolds -- Three boasts of a fool: riches; lineage; dissipation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla upgrade?
On Monday 28 October 2002 05:42 pm, Todd Franklin proclaimed: I was doing that too until everybody pulled support for it :-( Oh well. It was time to make the jump anyway. So far, it's been running quite well... :-) Hey just noticed you're from KC! Cool! I live in OPKS. Good to know there's more of us here. Todd There are a few. I don't have a CD burner which has been another reason I haven't made the jump to 9.0 yet. If you have them I might borrow them at some point You don't know a Liz Franklin from SMUUCh do you, by chance? David -- Three elements of gracious accommodation: a cheerful welcome; hot sustenance; a warm bed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] difficulties hooking into internet (ethernet card, cable modem, hub)
- Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:54 PM hey David, do you realize that if I take that same logic, and apply it to your drivers License, then it would reason that you should not allow your parents to ever get a new car, or to move away from you, since the car you first learned to drive in (and even took your first drivers test in) was not your miata (that you drive now), it was your mom's Buick. once you learned to drive, you felt ready for a car that could corner, and have let that old Buick sit in the drive all these years. I don't see the similarity. I would characterize the difference as being between making my primary vehicle the tempermental Porche that has transmission glitches, or the VW Rabbit that runs smoothly if inelegantly. I then drive that to the garage and pick up the Lamborghini or Minivan or Ninja as needed. Mandrake on my machine has no sound, currently. The Nvidia video card has not been set up properly yet. Occasionally I will get up in the morning to find that the machine has locked up overnight, for no discernable reason. The display has shut off and will not come back on; I am not running any Screen Savers, or connected online overnight. There seems to be no drive activity to the Alt-SysRq-chain of command either. This is not acceptable in a gateway computer, to me or my girlfriend. I will discover these problems and fix them in time, I imagine, but I don't have the requisite 9 hour block of time this week. now, if the firewall-router is good enough, then kwel. but if it was my money, I would have rather used a box I was already running, and as long as it is (say less than 100 users) small home network, and I had a linux box running, I would configure the services and let the routing and firewall happen without my buying a firewall-router appliance. and once you get it up, unless you have crummy power, you can forget the linux box as well as you can forget the appliance I haev a P-133 that I could use for that purpose, if I put the hard drive back in (it's my old Windows data), got another two network cards, and went to the trouble of installing a small linux on it and learning the quirks of that distro. For now, my time is worth the cost of an 'appliance' that does its job well, without glitches. I don't use Linux because I'm cheap. I use it because I want the alternative to Windows. However it's not a religion for me. Thanks for your input (no sarcasm intended), David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] difficulties hooking into internet (ethernet card, cable modem, hub)
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK basically you cannot connect to the cable modem through a hub, or connect more than one computer at a time through it to be proper. The first one gets its IP address and there are no more to be given by the cable modem. If you want to connect multiple computers through a single cable modem, connect the Mandrake computer and then add a second interface to a hub for the other computers--eth0 to local and eth1 to cable then activate connection sharing The dhcp failure you are geting is most likely the connection misconfiguration. Thanks greatly for the straightforward answer. Never having had to deal with a home network before, I did not understand the difference between hub/switch and router/switch. Silly me. I'll pick up the other this week and make the switch. I'm planning on using a LinkSys BEFSR41 Router/Switch since there are three devices currently intended for connection. Aside from doing the MAC spoofing, is there anything else I should be aware of? Civileme Your advice is helpful, as always. Good luck with your employment situation. David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] difficulties hooking into internet (ethernet card, cable modem, hub)
I'm running Mandrake 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6mdk (on a system that originally had Mandrake 8.0 on it). During the upgrade my modem relinquished control of itself to anything but root for dialing out, and kppp refused to work any longer. Wvdial provided a kludge, but now I have access to a cable modem. However the process is not as straightforward as I had anticipated. NIC: LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 LAN card, model LNE100TX, v 5.1. Supposedly this is no problem in Linux, but when I ran draknet it tried to assign it a 3com driver, 3c59x, when I believe it should be tulip. Changing this directly in /etc/modules.conf didn't have any effect thus far, though I have not rebooted yet. I did reboot once upon initially installing the card and driver, and set it to use DHCP via draknet. Hub: LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 5-port Workgroup hub, which works fine on the Windows 98 computer hooked into it. Cable modem: Toshiba PCX1100U ISP: Roadrunner Here's how /etc/modules.conf looks (before the driver change): pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias autofs autofs4 alias eth0 3c59x alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 When I run draknet from a console here is the relevant error messages: (in console) # draknet modprobe: Can't locate module serial Please wait while probing serial ports... I'm selecting LAN (ethernet card(s) detected), although I tried 'cable' and it had no obviously different effect. Under the network device eth0 it lists: IP Address: 192.168.1.10 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Automatic IP: Checked (bootp/dhcp) Hostname: I tried several variations thinking this was the problem, but currently it is naeblis.shayolguhl.kc.rr.com, which is my local hostname plus the standard ending, following a few examples I saw. I also tried just the local hostname and a bogus name to no good effect. (back in console when it tries to restart the network): Setting network parameters: [OK] Bringing up interface lo: [OK] Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0... failed. [FAILED] Being a failure is not very productive. I'm not an idiot when it comes to computing, but Linux requires initiation into mystical circles I'm not privy to yet. Anyone have anything to offer? I don't mind the command line but don't take for granted I know the shortcuts, please. If you need more information contact on or off list. Thanks in advance, David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror rolling up its windows?
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:59 pm, shane proclaimed: the title bar. Fiddling with their sizes did nothing but aggrevate the problem, and now the Toolbar has completely disappeared and the Address bar is only 3/5 visible so I can barely see what site I am at. I am told by a friend that this is a confirmed problem with Mandrake and KDE 3 but cannot find any verification of this online. wow, i have been using 8.2 and kde3 and browse only in konq and have never seen or heard of this one. your friend is very well informed. :) Yeah, he's not the most reliable source in the world, which is why I was getting a second opinion. i assume you have tried moving the variousbars about a bit with the small tab to the left of each bar. also try turning off/back on each bar with the settings section? That's the strange part. The tab on the left edge where you can usually move them about with was gone. No way to move them. Turning them off and on has had no effect, with the exception that toggling the 'Flat' property AND changing the Orientation on a whim brought them back into line. Now everything is working once more. Thanks for your help. I'll certainly be on the lookout for that eventual rollup of the entire desktop - it'll save me getting a new monitor! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konqueror rolling up its windows?
I recently upgraded to both KDE 3.0 and ML 8.2, so I'm not sure which is causing the problem. However after about 3 weeks of more-or-less error free operation, Konqueror has begun to display some strange behavior, no pun intended. I got home one day to find the Konqueror window I had been using in the morning strangely ... shorter. The toolbars had begun to disappear behind the title bar. Fiddling with their sizes did nothing but aggrevate the problem, and now the Toolbar has completely disappeared and the Address bar is only 3/5 visible so I can barely see what site I am at. I am told by a friend that this is a confirmed problem with Mandrake and KDE 3 but cannot find any verification of this online. Is there a solution, a file edit, or a fix? I am not adverse to trying a different WM or Browser, but I'd love to know what's going on. Any further information you need will be gladly supplied, but I am not sure what would be helpful at this point. It hasn't affected any other KDE programs as of yet but he said it would eventually roll up the entire desktop. This seems like a rather serious problem not to be fixed... Regards, David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Frontpage like application for Linux
On Monday 11 February 2002 08:46 am, Chuck Henson wrote: At 02:29 AM 2/11/02 +0100, you wrote: Now Hanan, why on earth use a mediocre WYSIWYG-editor when it's so simple to write real HTML ? As a web designer myself, I can only give one answer. There is no excuse for using a mediocre editor when there are some very good ones available. At least ones that can handle the more monotonous tasked involved in page layout. Then as long, as long as you do know how to hand code, you can shape things up as you see fit, and make things happen much more quickly in my opinion. I wouldn't throw Dreamweaver away if you paid me to. Of course, I can't get it to work with Linux so I'm forced to have a Windows/Linux partition battle. Anyhow, if I had to loose DW then I would probably still try to use NoteTab, UltraEdit, or HTML-kit to make things a little bit more automated. Thank you! I used to use UltraEdit and was quite satisfied with the way it works. I agree that Quanta has equivalent or better functionality, though, plus it runs on Linux. If that's the SOLE reason you're keeping Windows,kill it! Cathal ap Donnchadh ... Tobar naomh, ruith a steach mise! Teinne naomh, ls a steach mise! Crann naomh, fas a steach mise! ... My Gaelic's rusty. What does this translate as? Off-list is fine. Regards, David R -- Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Frontpage like application for Linux
On Sunday 10 February 2002 06:28 pm, Hanan Z. Shargi wrote: Geee.. Thanks everyone :-) I really liked blufish boy this linux box is like a box of wonders .. u never know how FULL it is !! one more thing... why do I have the feeling that everybody is trying to sned me the message: hey ... using a WYSIWYG app is not considered a good thing The problem is that most WYSIWYG editors don't know how to code as well as the average human. HTML may be simpler than some languages out there but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its complexities. Having 47 different font tag changes in a document isn't good coding practice, but it's what I end up with after FrontPage gets ahold of my average page. (Well, they weren't there before). The computer may not understand that I really DO want to keep the same font throughout the same page. That's why I like Quanta - I can code the way I want, then see it immediately (though admittedly it doesn't do too well with Server Side Includes, but that's what Konq is for). Style sheets are also a Good Thing, though not all older browsers use them well. Another good link is the Backward Compatability Viewer at http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html - this lets you see your webpage under virtually any still-used browser out there. Heck, if you want mail me off the list and I'll send you my bookmarks for HTML editing. It took me about 4 days of crash course studying to learn most of the new tricks, and I hadn't touched HTML since about version 2.0. The three books I have on my desk, in addition to the websites, are: QUE's Special Edition Using HTML 4, Fifth Edition (probably not the most recent, but it's what the library had), by Molly E. Holzschlag. This one is good for beginner to midrange resources, sort of like a readable HTML bible. Effective Web Design, Second Edition, by Ann Navarro. This one covers the topic of XHTML/XML fairly well. JavaScript for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition, by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith. I realize not everyone uses JavaScript but I found the book pretty well written. Hope that helps, David R ?? :-) -- Hanan Z. Shargi Registered Linux User# 259916 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Translation
On Sunday 10 February 2002 09:54 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: I am looking for a program that will translate German web pages into english while online. Google was not helpful. Any suggestions? Did you try babelfish.com ? They have a pretty good list of links, last I checked. Regards, David, not a German speaker or reader -- Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] su
On Monday 04 February 2002 04:11 pm, Geoff Thomas wrote: I did. Found a fix, by editing the /etc/security/limits.conf by adding two zero's to the limit. Not sure what IIRC is. Formatting casualty. *grin* It reads as, Did you perchance suddenly install Bastille-linux, the firewall? It defaults to shutting off SUs, if I recall correctly. www.acronymfinder.com is a wealth of useless information. Cheers, David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] panel behaviour in KDE
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 06:32 am, Walter Logeman wrote: Hi, The panel (toolbar) is eratically loosing its tiptools. Minor problem but I leep opening the wrong aps. Is there a KDE list somewhere that people use. The one I subbed off the KDE site seems quite dead. http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux is pretty active, without being overwhelming. There are other lists on the same server, IIRC. David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK I got LICQ working...
On Friday 05 January 2001 03:09 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Took installing on Mandrake 8.1. I never did get it working on 8.0..the default install of Licq that is. As to what i did, i just installed the package, found my password was wrong; had to figure out where the dir. ~ was then edited the config file for Licq. Put in the correct password it works fine. I did the same thing. I had accidentally entered the wrong password when I started up LICQ the first time, and from there on out no amount of GUI menus would allow me to correct it. So I ended up deleting the .licq folder and starting over. Worked fine ever since (oh, and I'm still using 8.0). Regards, David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Open Source (was Recommended office suites? Now OT)
On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:26 am, Gonzalo wrote: Maybe we don´t need enormous software companies to do the job, just idealistic men like the ones moving the opensource world. And if someone offers free houses (and better than the one i'm paying for) wouldn`t you move?? Gonzalo It seems to me the entire 'open source' software market is predicated on the free-time meanderings of people who already make enough money doing whatever it is they do in their chosen field, be it SysOp, Flipping burgers, or working in a Steel Mill. That amount of 'leisure time' is only possible when you already have the income to allow you that freedom. Saying that the world can function without a source of income is not going to serve you in the long run, although the anti-establishment angst right now is fueling plenty of coders to try to change things. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful THEORY. I just don't think its sustainable in the long term. The last two decades of computer programming have really been halcyon days, comparatively speaking. David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to read partition table
On Tuesday 26 December 2000 10:46 pm, Antonio Sousa wrote: Hi all Antonio, your computer clock is off by a year. Check it out and fix. :) David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer busy?
On Thursday 27 December 2001 01:45 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:37:49 -0600 Can't you use HardDrake to set up your card (like, start a configuration program once your card is recognized) ? Anyway , ALSA (part of the LM8.1 distribution) supports your sound hardware. Let the list know :) I'm using LM 8.0 right now, which is what I bought. I've considered going to 8.1, but there have been a lot of complaints about how beta it still is. I'll take my chances with getting this worked out before I go into kernel updates. David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /dev/sequencer busy?
I've not really tackled the problem of my sound card not working since my computer started yet, because there were other priorities. However tis the holiday season and my ecards gave me another clue as to what's going on while trying to play a midi file. Couldn't open /dev/sequencer Probably there is another program already using it I've never gotten a peep of sound, except for the computer default beep. Not as root, or my user login. Not with a midi, wav, or mp3. The sound settings appear to be on, nothing happens. This is the first time I've actually seen an 'error' message out of it. In KDE COntrol Center, there would appear to be no MIDI device selected, and the aRTs soundserver is selected to begin on startup of KDE. Under Information, no information is available about the soundcard. As far as HardDrake is concerned, it calls my sound card VIA Technologies VT82C686 (Apollo Super AC97/Audio). A possible problem seems to be under Other Devices (?), where three other VIA Technologies devices are listed. Unknown device ID 11060305, Unknown device ID 11060305 again, and another copy of what's listed under soundcard, except it's labeled Apollo Super ACPI. What the heck happened here? I'm not yet clear how much was screwed up by the guy who installed this for me, and how much is inherent Linux difficulties. TIA, David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows dual-boot after the fact?
Just out of curiosity along this thread, is there any point in trying to fiddle with a slave drive with Win98 on it to get it to dual-boot? I placed the drive off of my old computer onto the new (Linux-only) one to get the data off of it. However Linux has not been as nice as expected about compatability with Windoze-designed programs, so the option to dual-boot has become a possibility again. What I'm gathering from this thread is that this is a dead duck, however. TIA, David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] menu editing
There is a rogue entry in my KDE menu. I cannot locate the entry for it on Menudrake because it is on the 'main' listing, below the subdir for Terminals. It simply has the unknown application icon, and clicking with either button results in Sorry - KDE Panel couldn't launch. I cannot find a way to remove it, but it doesn't appear to be in the .menu directory either. Where am I missing to look? Thanks, David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lack of real estate (screen res. problems)
Okay, this seems like the place for someone with relatively little Linux experience to go with base maddening problems. I've worked with computers for years but finally made the plunge to Linux a month or so ago. The monitor I'm using is ancient, but worked fine at 800x600, 16M colors on both Win95 and Win98SE with both my previous computers; it's an ASTVision 4i. The tech who loaded my system didn't have the monitor there, so he set it up as a default SVGA monitor and it loaded fine at 800x600. However, not liking generic settings, I tried to locate the AST monitor in (I believe it was MCC, or Harddrake). Even though I went back to a default generic setting, my real estate has been screwed ever since! I cannot get more than 640x480 screen dimensions, and the computer thinks this is the _only_ setting available for a Nvidia Geforce2 MX-200 3d accelerator card (except it's listed as Geforce2 DDR (Generic) - this strikes me as a potential problem). I'm extremely reluctant to accept that I paid for a 3d card that doesn't work with this computer, so it must be operator error. I cannot even access all of the menus in MCC, etc, because the screen size is so small the control buttons (apply/try, ok, cancel, save, etc) run off the edge of the screen, and control panels cannot be resized. A console solution may be necessary for that reason, but please, go easy on the newbie. *sigh* Thanks in advance, David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] text issues
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 05:57 am, you wrote: Subject: Re: [newbie] text issues Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:55:45 + From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are a couple of things you can do to improve font rendering (I am assuming you are using LM8.1) 1/ Import your fonts from your Microsoft partition if you have one. Control Centre System Fonts get Windows Fonts For legal reasons Mandrake are not allowed to ship coyrighted fonts, so the windows ones are generally better. Actually I'm using 8.0 as 8.1 hadn't shipped when I had my computer built last month. There is a Fonts screeen in Control Center (under Look-n-Feel) but no option to import Windoze fonts. I did find it under DrakFont instead. I'll reboot this afternoon and see how the fonts look.. 2/ Enable anti aliasing in kde Look N Feel Fonts Hmmm, Anti-aliasing has never been on on this computer, maybe that's the problem. Of course, font troubles are less of an issue right now because... My monitor is stuck in 480x640 mode! I'm having a Manhattan-esque real estate problem here! When it initially got set up by the shop (I know, should have done it myself it had 800x600 which is plenty, but I tried to find the actual monitor type in the list, rather than the generic, and since then it has been unable to climb out of the dark ages (okay, 1980s). My graphic card is an nVidia GeForce2 and I am getting zero use out of it...any suggestions? No matter what generic monitor settings I choose I cannot get the test screen to go beyond 480x640. 3/ Go to http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~rbos36/mdkfreetype2.html where a kind person has posted an RPM of the freetype fonts that come with Mandrake with Byte Code Interpreting enabled. Mandrake ships with BCI disabled for legal reasons 4/ I noticed with 8.0 that fonts appearance could be improved by careful selection of font size. Some sizes looked crummy while the next size up would look fine. Can't say I've noticed that with 8.1 however. My fonts look great :-) I mostly use Tahoma (A microsoft font) I'll keep all that in mind if this doesn't work. Currently I'm using Lucidia for most of my fonts. Konq still does ugly things with system fonts sometimes, making them much too small, etc. However with my limited screen space I don't want everything in 14 font just so I can read 3 words per line. Thanks, David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] text issues
In hoping for a better encore than my last failed question, I'll pose this one to the group: What is the way to solve the horrific font rendering problems with some Linux programs. Konqueror and word processing programs seems to be the worst offenders, but it also gets into control panels, etc so that they become virtually unreadable. David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail and spell check
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:42 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:34 pm, Mark D'voo wrote: Is there an option in kmail for spell check? I don't think it'll do it automatically, but you can spell check it before you send it. If you don't see the little ABC icon in your composer toolbar - right click it and choose configure toolbar. There you can add the spell checking button. -s Didn't see this in the Toolbar possibilities for Kmail 2.1.1. Is there a newer rpm out there? David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
