Re: [newbie] suggestion
I think a lot of the people that actually answer the messages won't go there... just a thought. DvB On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Kit wrote: Man, this is getting ridiculous... everytime I check my mailI get tons of linux newbie list mailings... I think we should ask for a private chatroom for newbies...so that we enter when we want and not have to put up with so many mailings...all the time...what do you think? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg http://kompukit.dyndns.org (personal webserver,does NOT run 24/7)
Re: [newbie] Real Player
A lot of people (including me) have found that, after they installed LM7, the c++ headers (libg++) wasn't installed. You should be able to get that rpm off your installation disk or off any of the LM ftp mirrors and install it. DvB On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Craig R Jameson wrote: Hi You may have seen my earlier mail concerning finding RealPlayer, well I found it eventually(it is not realplayer 7 or G2 or whatever it is the older realplayer 3). Anyway I downloaded it to /home/craig/tmp and tried to install it using kpackage but it says that libg++.so.2.7.2 is unsatisfied (like I care about that!!) anyway as a result it will not install. Any ideas (in very very simple terms) where I can get this thing from and how to install it Thanks in advance Craig
[newbie] StarOffice install
I just attempted to install StarOffice and it complained about not being able to find "libc6" (or "libc5"?) which it thinks glibc2 is going to be named... will making a symlink from glibc2 to libc5 fix this? Or do I need to install libc5? DvB
Re: [newbie] Yellow ?bomb? marked core in user folder
Ignore it. Programs often generate those files when they crash... they're sometimes useful to developers but not to regular users. DvB On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, ken wrote: I have a new item in my user folders marked "core" that looks like a yellow bomb with a fuse and its "face" is sticking its tongue out. Any ideas what it is and what I should or shouldn't do with it? Once again, made a fool by Linux: Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] libc6 library install
I just looked in my /lib directory and there already is a libc.so.6 file symlinked to glibc2 but, for some reason the StarOffice install can't find it. Is this a bug in 7.0? I remember there being a program that would look for new libraries and update the system but I can't remember what it is. Does anyone know? Thanks DvB
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor Recommendations
I use emacs... DvB On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Lance Borden wrote: Hey y'all, I'm looking for an HTML Editor for Linux. I used Page Mill in 'doze, but if I could learn to use a Linux html editor, I might just be able to remove all traces of M$ from my machine. I would like to know what y'all prefer. I've seen Webmaker, Bluefish, Coffee Cup, and KDreamsite. Haven't tried anything just yet, so I would like to get your thoughts...where should I start? Which is the easiest to use for a guy coming from Page Mill? Which offers the best features? Thanks in advance for your input! Lance
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Nope. Of the most common distros, Mandrake tends to have the newest versions of everything... furthermore, the Netscape that comes with Mandrake tends to crash less than the one that comes with Red Hat (has to do with the fact that it's compiled with glibc, I think). DvB On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Sean Geoghegan wrote: Is there a newer version of Netscape that the one that ships with Mandrake 7.0. This version is just ugly.
Re: [newbie] Netscape
It's actually 4.7 DvB On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: Latest one I believe that ships with Mandrake 7 is 4.6. If you think it's ugly there's not much you can do about it since the current Communicator is not skinnable. :3)~~ Sean Geoghegan wrote: Is there a newer version of Netscape that the one that ships with Mandrake 7.0. This version is just ugly.
Re: [newbie] Can you set up linux to let people dial in and gain access to your network?
Yeah, as long as you have the proper hardware and it's configured right. DvB On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, rharvey wrote: Can you set up linux to let people dial in and gain access to your network?
[newbie] DHCP problem
The network my computer's on was down for a while earlier. It's now up, but I can't get a stable connection under Linux. If I run dhcpcd -k and then restart the daemon, it works for a while and then dies (i.e. my telnet sessions freeze and netscape can't connect to any server). Windows under vmware seems to be working fine. I'm wondering if maybe someone is using my ip as a static ip address (I don't think it's the first time it's happened) so is there a way to force dhcpcd to get a new ip address? I've looked at the man page and can't find anything that looks like it would work. I've also tried pump and it always says "operation failed." DvB
Re: [newbie] random 'find' process
Makes sense. thanks DvB On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cron daemon. man cron man at man atq man anacron Have a look at your crontab file - it controls what starts up, how often and at what time. It's a scheduler running constantly. In your case, it may have been cleaning your /tmp directry, rebuilding your RPM database or several other things. For example, ever month, on the 1st day, at 0300 hours, my machine goes through the entire machine, moving any files which end in ~ (normally backup files from kedit) into a backup directory. On the 14th of the month, it empies this backup directory. Cron controls the running of these scripts. It's really very useful Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 02:06:21 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] random 'find' process I have noticed that my computer will often go into periods of furious disk access at very odd hours so, last time it happened, I decided to take a look and see what was going on (I also wanted to get to sleep). My search turned up a find process running as root for no apparent reason at all so I proceeded to shut down all applications that were running and kill it, after which the disk activity stopped. Any idea what may have spawned the find process? I was running, as far as I can remember, the following: -Netscape -a couple Konsoles -LICQ -Grip (the cd player) -xmms None of them should've been doing anything special (i.e. downloading, playing music, etc.) DvB
Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems
I believe there's a copy of LILO on the boot disk... at least a file that says where to boot from. Try changing that. DvB On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: well, I reinstalled The entire OS; made sure I included all the necessary packages for kernel recompilation. I was able to make the changes but now am stuck ,because the instructions say to change LILO. I didn't install LILO, I use a boot disk to boot to Mandrake. How do I change the boot disk. Thanks in advance for your help - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems Tried 'make xconfig'? Failing that, browse Makefile to see what targets are defined... targets are defined like this: targetname: stuff stuff stuff If you still can't work it out, post your makefile to me and I'll have a look - can't promise anything but I see enough Makefiles at work each day to make you barf Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15/02/2000 21:52:16 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems I went to www.thelinuxgurus.org for the how-to on configuring CD drives. I followed the instructions and when I type 'make menuconfig' I get an error message that states "No rule to make target "menuconfig" Stop. So now what do I do? - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 8:51 AM Subject: CRrom problems I'm unable to use either of my CD drives ( one is a CD burner) in Mandrake 7.0 they are both Atapi/IDE drives. I' ve read posts and articles about recompiling the kernel to change the IDE to scsi . that doesn't seem to work because I really don't have any idea what I'm doing. Anyway my question is can I reinstall Mandrake and when it ask if I have scsi devices , should I check yes? Will this clear up the problem?
Re: [newbie] xcdroast
As a side note, xcdroast should run as root so that cdrecord can run with a more favorable nice value, reducing the possibility of buffer underruns. Hence running as suid root and not changing the ownership of the file... DvB On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never used xcdroast but is it owned by root? If so, set the 'suid' bit with chmod +s xcdroast and run it from the non-root user. The program should run as though it has been called by root. I'm currently trying to do the same thing with a program trying to write to my mounted dos partitions, but not getting much luck! Time for more man pages I think! Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 12:25:02 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] xcdroast Hi to all! I have finally managed to get my EIDE burner working (I think) in Linux, but I can only seem to start xcdroast when logged in as root. What is the procedure for making it accessable for ALL users? Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
Re: [newbie] irq's
Did you type 'cat /proc/interrupts' or 'cat proc/interrupts'? This is a common mistake for people new to unix. The first will look in the 'proc' directory located in the root dir while the second will try to find a 'proc' directory in the current directory and result in a "no such dir/file" error. DvB On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, rharvey wrote: my system says there is no such dir it also says no such file i did a search what now? - Original Message - From: Audrey Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 4:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] irq's Log in as root to a console window and enter: cat /proc/interrupts rharvey wrote: is there a way to get a list of irq's. in windows you can see what irq and dma's and addresses are free so you can set an card up to work with the free resources. where can I find this info at it linux?
Re: Fw: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Denis Havlik wrote: snip after making all the necessary changes to the kernel ( i.e. scsi emulation for the cdr drive and cd romdrive) making a new boot disk, when i try to mount the drives i'm still receiving the same message " mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, ( or, /dev/cdrom2,/dev/fd0), or too many mounted file systems" I have a Plextor CDR/RW atapi/ide, and a generic CD Rom drive,atapi/ide any idea what i can do now? I'm at a loss and way past frustration. Thanks for your input After turning on scsi emulation, your cdr will appear as a scsi device so you need to mount it as such. I use /dev/sr0 DvB
Re: [newbie] Programming C
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Dan Ferris wrote: Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: snip http://www.kdevelop.org There is another programming IDE for KDE as well, but I can't remember the name, or the web page. Code Crusader? dunno if it's kde specific though... DvB
Re: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?
I don't believe it's advisable to create a partition within space that's "physically situated within an extended Windows partition." Partitions inside partitions are a no-no... if I'm understanding the situation correctly, that is. I'm surprised Disk Drake let you do that. I'd consider that a bug. DvB On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Chuck wrote: What I'd love to know is what went wrong when I had Mandrake 7.0 use a 2 GB space which was unused space but physically situated within an extended Windows partition (that was the easiest way to install Corel Linux). I didn't actually resize any FAT partitions (just had DiskDrake create the needed partitions in that space) but when I tried to run Partition Magic, it refuses to start with an error "unable to identify the Windows partition". Further investigation into PM error codes apparently reveals that I have a partition table error where "the logical drive chain is incompatible" which is a highly dangerous situation. The only solution is to delete and recreate all my partitions on this drive. Now Win98 appears to run fine (except for Partition Magic) as does Linux. I'm willing to back everything up (thank goodness for Ghost) and redo the partitions but I'm worried what might happen the next time I install Mandrake Linux. I guess I could (and perhaps should have) use Partition Magic to create all my Linux partitions beforehand and then I could avoid having DiskDrake do anything? - Original Message - From: "David Russell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 6:09 AM Subject: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ? If i doesn't, I've used Partition Magic for windoze with _great_ success.
Re: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems
Here's a message that was sent to this list a while back and which I used to get my cdrw working (the URL included in the message should help you to get scsi working). DvB Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:13:38 -0500 From: Paul Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDR-RW First you will have to login as root or at least su to root in a terminal window. Next we need to test cdrecord to make sure it is working. cdrecord is used by XCDRoast to burn the CD. At a terminal prompt type: cdrecord -scanbus This should spit back something like this: Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jvrg Schilling scsibus1: 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 7200 ' '3.01' Removable 101) * 102) * 103) * 104) * 105) * 106) * 107) * If this doesn't work either cdrecord isn't in your path or you haven't gotten SCSI emulation to work for the CD-R. There are a couple of web pages out there on getting SCSI emulation to work. Mine is at: http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm If this part is working I am at a loss because XCDRoast worked great once I got my SCSI emulation to work. Just remember that you need to be the root user to use the CD-R for burning.
[newbie] random 'find' process
I have noticed that my computer will often go into periods of furious disk access at very odd hours so, last time it happened, I decided to take a look and see what was going on (I also wanted to get to sleep). My search turned up a find process running as root for no apparent reason at all so I proceeded to shut down all applications that were running and kill it, after which the disk activity stopped. Any idea what may have spawned the find process? I was running, as far as I can remember, the following: -Netscape -a couple Konsoles -LICQ -Grip (the cd player) -xmms None of them should've been doing anything special (i.e. downloading, playing music, etc.) DvB
Re: [newbie] Programming C
emacs with menus... DvB On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: JED is a good programming editor. Very simple looking, but packs a nice punch. On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:30:07 Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm 3 days old in linux. Using ver 7.02 of mandrake (GOD THAT WAS A LONG DLOAD!). Heh, anyway my question is a simple one, what is the best programming envinronmet for coding c in linux? I'm just looking for some opinions on this one so go ahead and fire away... also to at least keep me satisified temporarily what is the procedure for coding and compiling via command line. Joe Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Rebuilding Kernel
For a newbie, something by zdnet might help... like this one, maybe: http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2213066,00.html DvB On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Erik Skapple wrote: Can anyone explain how you rebuild the kernel. I don't have access to the net through linux without my NIC working so I have been told to rebuild the kernel. I am a newbie as you can see so please be gentle and thorough. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Programming C
emacs and gcc? :) DvB On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm 3 days old in linux. Using ver 7.02 of mandrake (GOD THAT WAS A LONG DLOAD!). Heh, anyway my question is a simple one, what is the best programming envinronmet for coding c in linux? I'm just looking for some opinions on this one so go ahead and fire away... also to at least keep me satisified temporarily what is the procedure for coding and compiling via command line. Joe Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy
Do you have it set to COM2? I believe that's usually the assumed modem port. You may be doing this already, but for non pnp devices, it's usually good to run "add new hardware" from control pannel. DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: for some reason my windows won't even see it if I don't have it set to pnp, but then again that's windows for you. - Original Message ----- From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" It did for me. I used the same modem, with the same settings, under win95 and winNT a while back. I may have had to tell it the settings but how hard is that? DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: Yeah, but then windows won't find it(if you have windows, that is) - Original Message ----- From: "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote: Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and minicom . I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy . Please help me . George I've heard of that happening when people try to use isa PnP modems. It can usually be solved by setting the COM port and IRQ manually (using dip switches) instead trying to detect it automatically. DvB
Re: [newbie] Network in a window?
First you need to get Samba working (which it usually is by default under Mandrake). Then you have two choices, that I'm aware of: Gnomba under Gnome (which will also run under KDE) and LinNeighborhood which you can download from linuxberg.com or freshmeat.net, among other places. DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: Does anyone know how to open a 'network window' so that I can graphically see people on my network(kind of like win9x network neighborhood)?
[translation] Re: [newbie] No consigo instalar Linux Mandrake 6.1
He says his install of LM6.1 hangs while installing a package called "Glib.1_2.rpm." Any ideas? Jesus, trata de que no instale ese paquete que cuelga la instalacion (el glib) e instalalo luego cuando allas complatado la instalacion del sistema operativo. Eso es todo lo que se me ocurre pero he traducido, en pocas palabras, tu problema y tal vez alguien tenga otras ideas. Espero que esto ayude. DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Jesus wrote: Hola soy Jesus estudiante de 2º de ingeniería Informática y siempre me he interesado por otros sistemas operativos alternativos a Windows, me habían hablado muy bien del Mandrake así que me compré una revista donde venia la distribución 6.1. Tengo un Pentium 166 con 2 Gigas y 32 megas de Ram, y una tarjeta de Video PCI de dos megas. Tengo hechas 4 particiones en el disco duro, 2 Fat32 donde tengo Windows y otras dos linux tal como me indicaba la revista, una de 64 megas y la otra de 700. El problema está en que al instalarlo una vez que elijo lo que quiero instalar, cuando comienza a instalar los paquetes nada más comenzar instala un par de paquetes y cuando intenta instalar un paquete que se llama Glib.1_2.rpm se queda pillado el ordenador y no responde, lo he intentado todo, modificando parte de la Bios, no instalando el KDE incluso si solo selecciono para instalar el emacs pasa lo mismo, se apalanca el ordenador y no responde. Así que no se que hacer, haber si me podeis ayudar vale?, muchas gracias. Jesus Gemio, Getafe a 13-2-2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Re: [newbie]
I very rarely read messages without subjects and so those posters usually don't get any help from me... if my suggestions can be considered help :) I just happened to look at this one cuz there aren't many others in my inbox this time around. DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Paul everybody elseOf course it helps if all of the messages in the database have subjects, unlike this thread. Alan Alan Shoemaker wrote: Paulyou don't browse it you search it. Searching takes only seconds. Alan Paul Derbyshire wrote: At 10:54 AM 2/13/00 EST, you wrote: I haven't looked lately..BUT...could Mandrake staff please put in BIG BOLD LETTERS."check the archives before submitting problems". Yuck. You could browse the archives of a high volume list like this for weeks and still not find anything similar toyour question/problem, and it might nevertheless be in there. Nobody wants to turn a simple question into a week's heavy research. Maybe what's really needed is a FAQ. A way to *boolean search* the archive might do in the interim. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy
Try specifying the "make and model" manually instead of having windows try to detect it... other than that I don't know what to suggest. You can always just use linux :) DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: yeah, couldn't even find it. - Original Message ----- From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" Do you have it set to COM2? I believe that's usually the assumed modem port. You may be doing this already, but for non pnp devices, it's usually good to run "add new hardware" from control pannel. DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: for some reason my windows won't even see it if I don't have it set to pnp, but then again that's windows for you. - Original Message - From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" It did for me. I used the same modem, with the same settings, under win95 and winNT a while back. I may have had to tell it the settings but how hard is that? DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: Yeah, but then windows won't find it(if you have windows, that is) - Original Message - From: "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote: Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and minicom . I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy . Please help me . George I've heard of that happening when people try to use isa PnP modems. It can usually be solved by setting the COM port and IRQ manually (using dip switches) instead trying to detect it automatically. DvB
Re: [newbie] Urgent -- how to get back to KDE
Hmmm... now sure how to do it from the console but, if you're desperate, you can try booting in level 5 (type linux 5 at the lilo boot) and choose it from there. DvB On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote: Using Mandrake 6.1 I am typing to you from Pine in the Console. I have been having endless problems with my mouse. I thought I would try testing it in Gnome. Well, it's even worse in Gnome. In KDE, my mouse lasts about 5 to 10 minutes. In Gnome, it dies almost instantly. And now, when I try in xterm (in Gnome) to switch back and I type "switchdesk" to get into KDE, I cannot even do that. After typing "switchdesk" and trying to move my mouse over to the Switchdesk utility screen, my mouse dies on me before I even have a chance to click on the "KDE" or "Another Level" option. I am forever stuck in Gnome. How do I get into KDE or Another Level from the console in a situation like this. If I type "startx", I am taken right back into Gnome. Sounds like a vicious circle. Help! Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote: Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and minicom . I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy . Please help me . George I've heard of that happening when people try to use isa PnP modems. It can usually be solved by setting the COM port and IRQ manually (using dip switches) instead trying to detect it automatically. DvB
Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy
It did for me. I used the same modem, with the same settings, under win95 and winNT a while back. I may have had to tell it the settings but how hard is that? DvB On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote: Yeah, but then windows won't find it(if you have windows, that is) - Original Message - From: "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy" On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote: Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and minicom . I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy . Please help me . George I've heard of that happening when people try to use isa PnP modems. It can usually be solved by setting the COM port and IRQ manually (using dip switches) instead trying to detect it automatically. DvB
[OT] Re: [newbie] RE: your mail
vi is probably more powerful than pico (as is emacs, my editor of choice),
you just have to know the right commands. Pico, in my experience is enough
for most, and best for newbies.
vi has two modes: command mode ("read only" mode), the function of which
is self explanatory and insert mode which is invoked by typing "i" while
in command mode. F1 doesn't usually give help that I'm aware of... at
least it's not the first thing I'd try in order to get help (pico doesn't
give any help through F1 either). I think typing F1 to get help is, for
the most part, a windows thing.
If you're going to do much work with unix, it's a good idea to know vi
since it's usually the default editor and, if no other editor is
installed, vi will be.
What it comes down to is personal preference... as with operating systems
:)
DvB
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
At 10:08 AM 2/10/00 -, you wrote:
use vi, type vi filename at a command prompt, useful commands are:
:write - to save
:quit - to quit
:quit! - to force quit
btw. you will probably hate it :)
Shame on you, suggesting than a new user use vile and then giving an
inadequate warning. I stumbled on vile once on some machine or other where
I had a shell account. Yugh. It doesn't work the way you'd expect (for
example, you can't open the file, arrow around, and type new text; as near
as I can tell it opens all files in a read-only mode and expects a command
to be issued to change it) and there's no help to be had hitting F1 and no
helpful status line on the screen telling you what key you should hit for
documentation -- bad interface design, since the interface should work the
way people are used to (e.g. for an editor, arrow around and type stuff,
shift-arrows to select, etc.), and shouldn't require a mini-course from
Algonquin or thorough reading of the manual. Manuals/help files are for
reference and how-to, not for basic explaining of the interface. I think
whoever perpetrated vi was the same idiot who perpetrated Lotus Notes (see
http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.html IIRC -- if that's 404, try just
http://www.iarchitect.com and click the nice icon of a bomb ;-)).
PICO, on the other hand, is an okay shell editor.
If it's not on your system, you'll probably find it on rpmfind.net
somewhere under 'p'.
Kedit, of course, works in a way that should be familiar to users of modern
graphical systems like 'doze and MacOS. Except for a quirk in that it seems
to clobber the clipboard spuriously sometimes, especially if you select
something -- meaning if you do the usual "select in window A, hit ctrl-C,
switch to window B, select some old crud, and hit ctrl-V to replace the old
crud with the stuff from window B" it won't work in kedit or the derivative
kwrite :-(
--
.*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not
-()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a
`*' straight line."-
-- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_ | Paul Derbyshire
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Re: [newbie] kmix and /dev/mixer* properties
Have you gotten the OS to recognize your sound card? This is a possible cause for the error you got (I had the same problem a while back). Run 'sndconfig' (I think that's the correct command) to configure your soundcard. DvB On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ingo Bauer wrote: Good afternoon all I think I broke my mixer(kmix) this morning and following the instructions [root@firefight /dev]# /usr/bin/kmix kmix: Could not open mixer. Perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device. Login as root and do a 'chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*' to allow the access. [root@firefight /dev]# chmod a+rw /dev/mixer* [root@firefight /dev]# /usr/bin/kmix kmix: Could not open mixer. Perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device. Login as root and do a 'chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*' to allow the access. [root@firefight /dev]# The error still hangs around . what are the properties for the mixer entries in /dev Thank you Ingo
Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success
Welcome to the internet... no, it doesn't happen very often on this list (at least not that I've noticed). DvB On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe it. I've been on this list for 4 hours and got the first piece of Spam. Please tell me this isn't a regular occurance! Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/2000 05:52:38 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success If you have reached the point in your life where you are ready to have Financial Freedom and a Real Opportunity to Retire in 2-3 years, we would like you to continue reading. This is not a program for everyone , so if you are not a highly motivated, goal oriented person with a burning desire to be successful and wealthy, please delete this message now. The number below will give you a two minute introduction to a business that is not a franchise or MLM. I'm short on time but ready to listen if you fit the description above. **24 Hour Recorded Message: 1-800-320-9895 ext. 6579** "There is no other road to genious and wealth than through voluntary self effort." Napoleon Hill
Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success
Well, if it were a real address you could mail bomb him. However, it looks to me like he/she used a relay server (which anyone with an iq over 0 would do) so there probably isn't much you can do... it's probably the same person(s) sending all the spam to this list for all I know. DvB On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: What are some of the ways you can get back at this idiot? Seve -Original Message- From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success Welcome to the internet... no, it doesn't happen very often on this list (at least not that I've noticed). DvB On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe it. I've been on this list for 4 hours and got the first piece of Spam. Please tell me this isn't a regular occurance! Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/2000 05:52:38 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success If you have reached the point in your life where you are ready to have Financial Freedom and a Real Opportunity to Retire in 2-3 years, we would like you to continue reading. This is not a program for everyone , so if you are not a highly motivated, goal oriented person with a burning desire to be successful and wealthy, please delete this message now. The number below will give you a two minute introduction to a business that is not a franchise or MLM. I'm short on time but ready to listen if you fit the description above. **24 Hour Recorded Message: 1-800-320-9895 ext. 6579** "There is no other road to genious and wealth than through voluntary self effort." Napoleon Hill
Re: [newbie] Junk OS
This is blatant flamebait and doesn't deserve any more of a response than what I'm now giving it. Everyone please stop replying to it and let's get back to answering people's real questions. DvB On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Vincent Dickerson wrote: Hello; First of all, When you ADVERTISE "free tech support" that means FREE. not me having to pay for an internet connection. besides if i am in the middle of patitioning my hard drive, How in the hell am i supposed to email you(THINK). Secound, Your book is full of inconsistantcies, you software(installation) will not even recocgnize a generic monitor. Now with all of the problems that i have encountered with "your" software, it would take about 6 months to install it if i had to wait 24 hrs. for every question to be answered. Next, If your going to sell something, it would make good sense to spell check your manual. GEEZZZ It is easy to see why Microsoft has the major part of this market. I can exit your(junk) and repair my SCSI drive(after your OS has completely screwed it up) and one hour later it is up and running(network cards and all). I guess you are wanting to know what i am getting at here. WHO DO I SEE ABOUT GETTING MY MONEY BACK? "yea right" Signed New beleaver in MS windows
Re: [newbie] FAT Bread failed???
It happens every few hours and just shows up as a message on my console. I only noticed it after I started shutting down X and logging out when I wasn't going to use the computer for a while. I have an IDE HDD and a cd-rom. That's it. On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Lenny Shovsky wrote: 2 questions, does it happen when you try to ftp to that machine ? do you have uata controller or/and harddrive in your system? - Original Message - From: "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] FAT Bread failed??? I get the same error, except about isofs. I don't know what it is and my system works find also. I asked about it a while back and no one seemed to know. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Lenny Shovsky wrote: any idea what "FAT Bread failed" message means. The system seems to work fine (mandrake 7.0 ) but this message just won't go away. There are no fat partitions used and the filesystem is ok. thanx -- Lenny Shovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM LANWatch ICQ 608990258
Re: [newbie] RE: your mail
your favorite text editor /etc/fstab (e.g. emacs fstab or vi fstab). fstab is just a text file which mount reads when you give it a command and which, I presume, the kernel reads on bootup and issues mount commands for your main partitions. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: How do I edit the fstab without access to the xwindows system? which program? -Original Message- From: Roger Whittaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 10:52 AM To: Hill, Andrew Cc: 'Newbie Linux'; 'Mailbase Linux Uk Help' Subject:Re: your mail You need to edit /etc/fstab to make this possible On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: I have been trying to access my hda1/windows drives from a simple user, not root, when I saw someone suggest logging on to linux as a single user system, linux -s, will this give me access to the hda1/windows drives? Dr Andrew Hill BSc, FRCA Department of Anaesthesia Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton BN2 5BE 01273 696955 -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ -- 020 8387 1482 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
Netscape for Windows does it. I haven't seen NS for Linux do it though and don't think it does... DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Vic wrote: It does?!?!?!?!?? I have not ever seen nutscrape do that, it just exits and my unix box sits there like---uhh ok. On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Paul Derbyshire mewed: At 03:50 PM 2/8/00 -0600, you wrote: I think what would really rock is if when an app crashed it would run a small app triggered by the main app's segfault that would take up a bugreport and send it automatically via either e mail or remote ftp per the user's request, making bug reports eaiser Netscrap does this actually. Nothing from M$ does, though, because if it did, the mail server at www.microsoft.com would stop functioning within a day due to the load. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848| -- Linux Cat
Re: [newbie] vmware-networking
I think I read somewhere (VMWare faq?) that vmware can't participate on a samba network when in host-only mode. I believe that included the host OS too... DvB On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Simon Robertson wrote: Hi, Under a Mandrake 6.1 O/S, I have VMware 1.1.2 running with samba installed. The virtual disk I have created within VMware is Win98 SE and the configuration at both ends is set to Host-Only Networking, due to no network card. In the virtual machines networking everything is running well as it can see itself. On the other end, following the ISP addresses configured into VMware, smb.conf does not seem to be registering to VMware or the virtual machine. Restart of smb.conf comes out OK, shutdown and reboot of 6.1, samba is OK, although in system information in KDE Samba Status there is a blank screen. Does anyone have any information, assistance or even the whole smb.conf configuration process for Host-Only Networking under Vmware 1.1.2 for Win98. Thankyou, Simon.
Re: [newbie] Question on compiling the kernel
Yes, in the /boot dir. Should be a sym link to a vmlinuz-kernel-version. I'd reccomend that you name your new kernel in the same way and redirect the sym link to this new file, then add an entry in your lilo.conf so it can boot from the old kernel in case something went wrong. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, James Luongo wrote: Hi, I have a question on compiling the kernel. I think I did it right. I got a file called vmlinuz in the right place. But where do I put it? Where is my current vmlinuz? Maybe in the /boot directory? which is the only place that I've found it so far. James __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] FAT Bread failed???
I get the same error, except about isofs. I don't know what it is and my system works find also. I asked about it a while back and no one seemed to know. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Lenny Shovsky wrote: any idea what "FAT Bread failed" message means. The system seems to work fine (mandrake 7.0 ) but this message just won't go away. There are no fat partitions used and the filesystem is ok. thanx -- Lenny Shovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM LANWatch ICQ 608990258
Re: [newbie] USB to Serial Mouse
I guess you'll either have to edit the config file or run XF86Config (my spelling and/or capitalization may be off) which has a command line interface, as oposed to Xconfigurator which is graphical. DvB On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Julian Debby Warren wrote: Dear All I have installed Mandrake 7.0 with a manually applied 7.02 patch. Unfortunately I called for a USB mouse which doesn't appear to work. How on earth do I change it back so a serial mouse without using a mouse? I need command line option for this but don't know them. Regards Julian
Re: [newbie] VMWare
d/l from www.vmware.com (or from their ftp server, anyway. whatever it is). DvB On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Vic wrote: How did you get VMWare? On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, David van Balen mewed: I had it installed on a seperate partition under 6.1. I installed 7.0 from scratch, ran vmware-config.pl and... voila, it worked. DvB On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, James W. Brodack wrote: Has anyone tried installing VMWare 1.1.2 under Mandrake 7.0? -- Linux Cat
Re: [newbie] vmware
You're supposed to dump it (unchanged) into your ~/.vmware directory. DvB On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Elizabeth Dolan wrote: how did u go with the license as iam having problems with it i got one and says that it find it comes up with hash error can anyone help me out with this problem its 1.1.2 thank you
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
MS _software_ isn't all bad, it's the fact that they're still using clunky DOS code in their operating system that makes it suck. Win NT isn't too bad. It's pretty stable in most cases... drivers tend to mess up the kernel and network apps that are "part of the os" have the potential to crash the explorer shell (i.e. Network Neighborhood, IE, etc). Also, I hate rebooting, which NT, like 98, 95, etc, likes to do. `They might possibly get their act together with Win2k... I've heard they already found a couple security holes in it though. Besides, Windows isn't near as fun to use as *nixs are. DvB On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Paul Derbyshire wrote: At 01:18 PM 2/8/00 -0500, you wrote: I have never had MS IE5 crash... You must have been charmed or blessed then, or had a priest bestow special blessings on your copy of IE5 when you played a role playing game, or something. After all, I can think of no *rational* explanation for your experiences, given the frequency of IE5 crashing or otherwise misbehaving on most installations. Mine, for example. True, it *does* crash less than IE4 did -- even the IE5 *beta* crashed less. But it is still crash prone like any M$ software. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] Mozilla M12
If you want to try Mozilla, you might as well get Milestone 14 which was just released... it's supposed to be better than 12 (notice the bigger number :) However, Mozilla is just reaching Alpha stage so you might want to stick with netscrape until a more useable version is available. Unless, of course, you care to test Mozilla and give them some constructive feedback. DvB On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Just got Mozilla M12 on a cover cd. As we all know Netscape on Linux is bad news. I usually stick to browsing from a file window resized to fit full screen (though this often crashes and takes my desktop icons with it also-is this common in MD6.1??) Anyone know what Mozilla is like and is it worth installing.
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
Notice, of course, that you're comparing IE running on WINDOWS (which, by the way, is a Microsoft product) to Netscape running on LINUX. How do you know that Microsoft won't screw their browser up when they port it just like Netscape did? Is anyone out there running IE on Solaris or HP-UX? If so, what's the verdict? DvB On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Anthony Huereca wrote: IE may crash every once in a while, but it's a whole whole lot stabilier than Linux's Netscape. That thing crashes about once a hour, whereas IE might crash once a day at most. Sure, it doesn't bring down the whole system when Netscape crashes, but it is an annoyance and sometimes after it crashes, I get repeated errors about bookmarks being reloaded or something like that, which is also really annoying. I'd take IE over Netscape anyday with it's better features and stability. You must have been charmed or blessed then, or had a priest bestow special blessings on your copy of IE5 when you played a role playing game, or something. After all, I can think of no *rational* explanation for your experiences, given the frequency of IE5 crashing or otherwise misbehaving on most installations. Mine, for example. True, it *does* crash less than IE4 did -- even the IE5 *beta* crashed less. But it is still crash prone like any M$ software. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Lothar Mandrake wrote: From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] lsd appears to be an alias and not a file since "find" turned up nil when I ran a search for it. You can probably put your script in the bindir without screwing up the system but you may not be able to invoke it except through with the full path if aliases have precedence over executables on your path... I'm not sure if they do or not. DvB Isn't there some way to remove the alias then? Not sure. It would be a matter of finding the global config file for bash. I imagine you could probably re-alias lsd to do whatever you wanted from within your local config or use your script and override it... which shouldn't cause any problems as far as I can see (though I can't always see very far :) DvB /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] interesting read
Thought some might find this an interesting read. I just learned about a couple apps for linux I didn't know about myself... http://linuxguiden.linpro.no/experience.php DvB
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
Yes, it's been discussed before, Netscape for Linux blows and there's not much else if you want to view flash or javascript content. I often end up using Windows to view web pages that make Netscape crash. As to alternatives that may be available in the future, there's Mozilla which is entering its first beta stage, there's Konqueror (for kde users) which should ship with kde2 and sun's hot java, along with quite a few others most of which don't have full java support... and, yes, there's supposed to be a port of IE in the works. However, I've heard rummors that IE isn't quite as good under *nix (currently solaris and hp-ux) as under windows which, frankly, doesn't surprise me. In short, you'll have to wait a bit if you want a decent Linux browser. DvB On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mark Sheppard wrote: What web browser does everyone use with Linux? I hate to say it, but the main reason I keep booting back to windows every couple hours is because the NS version that comes with Mandrake just totaly blows, and If I want to view any web pages I have got to have a decent browser. are there any decent bowsers available? I did see that there is an IE port to unix available, and a possible linux port in the works. Thanks zach
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
Yeah, it does sound good. They don't have a release date though... I think it's important not to stop supporting the open source browsers out there while we wait for Microsoft's vaporware. If Microsoft does release IE for Linux and it's a good product, great, but meanwhile I plan to assume that it's not going to happen. Also, I don't think we want Microsoft gaining monopoly status in the Unix browser market and further screwing with internet standards... personally, I'll migrate to a good open source browser as soon as there's one available. Just my $0.02 DvB On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mark Sheppard wrote: And here is MS's official page on it which actually says IE5 with Outlook5 which would be very nice to see for Linux too. http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp ...well give me a few on that... but a quick search on go.com turned this up: http://www.sunworld.com/swol-11-1997/swol-11-ie4.html Where did you see the IE port to unix? rgds: Mike
Re: [newbie] CVS
In simple language, CVS is where you keep your code when lots of people are working on it at the same time. When one person makes changes to the code, he/she submits them to the cvs repository so everyone else can see them/modify them. Obviously, this helps open source by making it easier for many people, spread out over a large area to work together. BTW, cvs isn't the only thing out there, it's just the most popular in the open source community. DvB On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Vic wrote: I know enough Linux to do light system administration, but my biggest newbie thing is cvs, what is it? why is it? and how can it benefit me the most if i want to start writing freeware for the Linux community? -- Linux Cat
re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE
6.5 is MacMillan's repackaging of 6.1... it's supposed to be exactly the same. DvB On 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friend bought a genuine Mandrake 6.5 boxed release .. and inside we found the cd was labeled 6.1 (as is the install wiz) Perhaps this is the release # of the fixed 6.1(?) Alan ** Original Subject: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE ** Original Sender: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:54:44 -0600 ** Original Message follows... Just to announce, Mandrake 6.1 has a bug, you cannot, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, there is NO make menuconfig in Mandrake 6.1, they screwed up, you install the kernel headers and the sources, and still will not make menuconfig or xconfig, it is BROKEN, ie DEFECTIVE, ie NON-Functional. It cannot be done. -- Linux Cat ** - End Original Message --- **
Re: [newbie] VMWare
I had it installed on a seperate partition under 6.1. I installed 7.0 from scratch, ran vmware-config.pl and... voila, it worked. DvB On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, James W. Brodack wrote: Has anyone tried installing VMWare 1.1.2 under Mandrake 7.0?
Re: [newbie] Re: Hola acabo de visitar tu pagina
Todo lo que necesitas para aprender a crear paginas de web o para usar linux lo puedes conseguir en el web. Para crear paginas de web, lo mejor es aprender HTML. Tambien se pueden crear usando netscape o internet explorer, pero el producto no va a ser exactamente lo que esperas (al menos en my experiencia). Si sabes ingles, aqui hay algunas paginas que te pueden ayudar: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3 (para Linux) http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html (para HTML) Te recomiendo que tambien uses maquinas de busqueda (como www.metacrawler.com o www.google.com) para encontrar informacion respecto a cualquier topico sobre el cual desees aprender. DvB On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, mark m wrote: Hola soy MARK, te escribo desde BOLIVIA me gusto mucho su pagina web y me gustaria si te es posible POR FAVOR me indicaras donde puedo encontrar manuales para hacer ese tipo de pagina ademas en que programa lo hiciste, te cuento que tengo que hacer una pagina algo complicada y no donde empezar, tambien te rogaria si puedes enviarme manuales sobre linux, soy principiante en linux y tengo que instalar un servidor con linux y 25 terminales con windows y no tengo ni la mas remota idea de como hacerlo , se como hacerlo en windows pero de linux no se ni papa, ya compraron la maquina para que funcione como servidor, tuve que bajar los drivers desde internet para la de video pero no puedo configuarla por eso necesito los manuales. Si puedes enviarme manuales sobre creacion de paginas web super complejas y manuales para linux y todos sus trucos te estare completamente agradecido ya que me salvaras el cuello. De ante mano te lo agradesco mucho si lo pudieses hacer Gracias MARK PD. mi correo es [EMAIL PROTECTED] mi icq es 15010878 Consigue tu cuenta de E-mail gratis y permanente en WWW.YUPI.COM
Re: [newbie] anyone see my question?
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Carrie wrote: I don't have enough information to know what's going on. It sounds to me like something went wrong when you made the boot disk or maybe it's the CD you're installing from... if you're installing from a cd. You might try making your boot disk over again or reburn your cd (if you're using a cdr). DvB Here it is again, in case you all missed it...: When I run the installation from a boot disk, i get as far as the kernel loading and then it gives me a segmentation fault and says it can't connect to something (it went by too fast, I didn't write it down). Anyone have any clue what I'm talking about and/or how to get past it??? Thanks, Carrie
Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?
lsd appears to be an alias and not a file since "find" turned up nil when I ran a search for it. You can probably put your script in the bindir without screwing up the system but you may not be able to invoke it except through with the full path if aliases have precedence over executables on your path... I'm not sure if they do or not. DvB On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Lothar Mandrake wrote: In Solaris I like to keep a little script containing merely the string "ls -Fa" in the /bin directory, enabling me to give this command merely by invoking the name of the script: lsd. In Linux-Mandrake the command lsd already seems to exist. It does not differ from the command "ls," without any options, in any way I can discern however. Nor am I able to find any lsd in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. Would it still be possible for me to put my little script in /usr/bin, or would that f**k up the system, since the command already exists? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] isofs read problem
I'm getting a message every now and then that says "isofs_read_super:bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32" and I'm not sure what it means, let alone what bread has to do with reading from my cdrom drive. There's usually not a cd in the drive at the times when I notice the message (in the morning) and they pop up even when I'm logged off (i.e. at the penguin prompt). Anyone have any idea what this message means? DvB
Re: [newbie] new user - new installation
Xconfigurator or xf86config should fix the display problem. To exit either kde or gnome, you click on the "logout" button which looks like a padlock under kde and, I believe, is under the "foot" menu in gnome and is labeled simply "log out" or something of the sort. To reboot your computer, you exit X and run 'shutdown' (minus quotes) from the command line. shutdown -r will restart and shutdown -h will turn off the computer. If you have insuficient priviledges to do this under your user account (which I think you can't), you'll have to log out and log back in as root to shut down or restart. Hope this helps. DvB On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Alan Pitts wrote: Hi, I have just installed the Deluxe Linux-Mandrake 6.0 systemapparently successfuly - Lilo boots into both windows and linux ! My problem is that the display I see in Linux is far too big for my screen ! It's like holding a magazine right up to your face so that you can't see the periphery. How do I alter this please ?? Would someone also be kind enough to tell me the correct way to close down, exit linux from either kde and/or gnome so that I can reboot into windows. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Alan ~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ Answerphone/Fax: 0207 681 2314 ~~~ ICQ: 60295665. ~~~ noi non potemo aver perfetta vita senza amici
Re: [newbie] typing in licq
It's stopped doing that for some reason. Maybe it was because I told it to "save options." I supposed it's possible that save options makes it dump all it's config to files and overwrite the faulty config... who knows. Thanks a lot though. You've been a great help. DvB On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Randall Randall wrote: David van Balen wrote: Thanks for the help. It would've taken me forever to figure out about that env variable with the new qt path if you hadn't mentioned it! Even though I have licq working now, it's complaining about my config files... I'm getting messages like [WRN] Inifile: Warning, failed to find key. File = /hone/user/.licq/licq.conf Section = [network] Key = "TCPServerPortRange" There are several of these messages, all of which are different, including one about not being able to find section [startup] in licq_qt-gui.conf. All of these things that it says it can't find really are in those files and appear, to the best of my knowledge, to have a reasonable value assigned to them. These warnings don't appear to affect licq I'd rather not see them... I did think about changing the debug level but that section seems to have been removed from the menu in this version. Hm.I didn't have this problem, but then, I didn't follow the instructions I gave you exactly. What I actually did was copy all the "users.conf" file to the new one, and let it discover the attributes of the contacts from ICQ. Probably, then, there is some spacing or punctuation difference in licq.conf. Anyway, here is my network section, if it helps: [network] AllowNewUsers = 1 NumOfServers = 3 DefaultServerPort = 4000 Server1 = icq.mirabilis.com Server2 = icq2.mirabilis.com Server3 = icq3.mirabilis.com TCPServerPort = 0 TCPServerPortRange = 0 TCPEnabled = 1 FirewallHost = MaxUsersPerPacket = 100 Errors = log.errors Rejects = log.rejects Translation = none UrlViewer = viewurl-netscape.sh Terminal = xterm -T Licq -e IgnoreTypes = 1 Yours may have different values, but it should have the same order and structure. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] typing in licq
Thanks for the help. It would've taken me forever to figure out about that env variable with the new qt path if you hadn't mentioned it! Even though I have licq working now, it's complaining about my config files... I'm getting messages like [WRN] Inifile: Warning, failed to find key. File = /hone/user/.licq/licq.conf Section = [network] Key = "TCPServerPortRange" There are several of these messages, all of which are different, including one about not being able to find section [startup] in licq_qt-gui.conf. All of these things that it says it can't find really are in those files and appear, to the best of my knowledge, to have a reasonable value assigned to them. These warnings don't appear to affect licq I'd rather not see them... I did think about changing the debug level but that section seems to have been removed from the menu in this version. DvB On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Randall Randall wrote: Ross Slade wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have exactly the same problem with licq... Haven't found a workaround/fix yet.bet someone else has though :-) Installing Licq 0.75-3a worked for me. You will have to do things in a certain order though, to keep both KDE happy and Licq happy: First, backup your ".licq" directory (to ".licq.bak" or whatever; "mv .licq .licq.bak" works). Use "rpm -e licq*" to uninstall the old Licq and the Licq-data rpm. Download Licq 0.75-3a and Licq-data 1.5.1 from the Licq home page, and follow the pointers to get qt 2.0.2 from rpmfind. It's important that you get 2.0.2, not 2.1.0, since 2.1.0 and Licq don't seem to get along (at least, they didn't for me). Then install them in order: "rpm -ivh qt..." (if you use "-Uvh" you might screw things up, since KDE depends on qt) "rpm -Uvh licq-0.75..." "rpm -Uvh licq-data-..." It should work with "-ivh" for those, too, but I didn't use it. Replace your ".licq" directory. If you run Licq at this point, it will crash. This is because it has to be pointed at the new qt version. You need to use this before you start Licq: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt-2.0.2/lib If you don't want to run that every time, you can put it in your ".bash_profile", or, if you want anyone on your system to be able to run Licq without that, you can put this in a file: #!/bin/sh export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt-2.0.2/lib /usr/bin/licq and run that file instead of Licq. If you do this, you need to make sure to call that file whenever you want to run Licq. I put that in "/usr/local/bin/licq" and use that for my KDE menu entries and in my Autostart folder. KXICQ works fine...and has the odd added feature too, lke being able to quote a message when replying. That is enabled by default in Licq, too. I apologize if this seems overly long and detailed, but I have two excuses: This *is* supposed to be the newbie list, and If *I* had had this email last night, I would have spent 10 minutes doing all this, instead of three hours and endless "Uh, oh"s, as I installed, uninstalled, and re-installed, trying to make everything work again. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
[newbie] typing in licq
Has anyone else had trouble typing in licq? Whenever I type anything that goes over a line in length, everything I've typed until that point disapears and is replaced with junk. I have to hit enter every time I get to the end of the line which is quite annoying. Any known way to fix this? DvB
RE: [newbie] typing in licq
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ross Slade wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have exactly the same problem with licq... Haven't found a workaround/fix yet.bet someone else has though :-) I'm waiting for the final version of kxicq. I'd rather not use a snapshot. Besides, it doesn't support file transfers. DvB KXICQ works fine...and has the odd added feature too, lke being able to quote a message when replying. -Ross -- -- http://www.fl.net.au/~rosco(ICQ No. 9391313) -- Lawyer - n, A cat who settles disputes between mice.
[newbie] supermount
I installed LM7.0 and enabled supermount. Everything's was fine thus far. However, I proceeded to forget I had supermount enabled and umounted my floppy drive. When I tried to mount it again, it didn't complain but wouldn't give me a directory listing citing an "Input/Output error." Nothing I could think of (which amounted to changing fstab so the floppy drive wasn't under supermount and remounting) could fix it and I finally ended up rebooting after which it worked fine. Is it not allowed to umount file systems that have been supermounted? Is there maybe a bug in supermount? Thanx, DvB
Re: [newbie] vmware
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ralph | byte-runner | wrote: Did you upgrade to the 22-mdk kernel? If so, vmware doesn't like its headers and you'll probably have to recompile it... haven't gotten around to doing that myself so I don't know if it works or not though I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. DvB I have vmware can some one take the time to help me set it up. I'm having trouble with it finding my files. And i think the kernerl mdk is messing it up also? thanks. byte
Re: [newbie] The FREE In Linux
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, root wrote: Ok, Iv been Trying to Download Mandrake 6.1, I make a boot disk, for bootnet.img, And Start it up, I put in the FTP server, and it Starts Downloading, Then All of a sudden it starts downloading a new file and it dosnt start downloading it, I Try all the ALT Tabs, No Errors, Is Linux Really Free? Thanks, Plz Help It sounds like maybe you're having connection problems. Yes, Linux is really free; however, if you don't have a fast and stable internet connection you might be better off getting a Linux CD (only around 2 dollars U.S.). Or another way you can approach getting it off the net is downloading the distribution with a normal FTP program, and then installing from your hard drive. -Tom Or, if you have access to a cdr, you can download the iso image and make a bootable cd out of it... you may not want to do that over an unstable connection though. DvB
Re: [newbie] OT - uptime
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, you wrote: Maybe off topic, I don't know. I'll respond anyway cuz I find the subject interesting. I tend to leave mine on all the time. When you turn your computer on and off, the hardware heats up and cools down (expands and contracts). This can make them break faster. I usually turn off my monitor at night but that's mostly because the screen saver is annoying when you're trying to sleep. I haven't done any research on the subject, but I suspect turning the monitor off may be a good idea anyway... correct me if I'm wrong. My Linux box just kills the video after about 10-15 minutes of inactivity, so the screen saver isn't a problem to me. :-) John It does that automatically outside of X but I didn't think it would do it in X... although now that you mention it I remember hearing that Linux supported power management... Speaking of video, has anyone else had their screen saver "forget" their password? It happened once a couple days ago when I was running the matrix screen saver under KDE. After I'd typed in my pass for the hundredth time using one finger and looking at the keyboard I finally ctrl-alt-backspced out of X (which seems to defeat the point of having a screen saver password in the first place, IMHO...) DvB
Re: [newbie] Host only network in VMware
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Antoniou, Stylianos wrote: Hi guys, I installed VMware and I am running Windows98 in the virtual machine. I tried to configure the network between the real and the virtual machine as host only. I added the interface line in the samba.conf with the IP address of the real machine in my college network and a randomly selected IP address 192.168.0.1. The netmask was set to 255.255.255.0. In the virtual machine the components added to the network configuration in the control panel are: Client for Microsoft Networks, AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter (PCI-ISA) and TCP/IP (where I chose a static IP address 192.168.03 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0). I also used DHCP to get the IP address dynamically. When I go to the Network Neighborhood and try to open the Entire Network icon, I get a message that it is unable to browse and that the nework I not accessible. What is wrong? I don't use host only (I use bridged) so I'm not sure exactly how much host only allows you to do but I think it may not allow you to use the network neighborhood. Secondly, you're supposed to use the actual ip address assigned to windows in your smb.conf (not a randomly selected one) but this should only affect Linux' ability to see windows. You can get the ip address under windows by running 'winipcfg' (if you haven't already). Thirdly, what type of network are you on? If it's netbios running on tcp/ip, what you have installed will work but if it's some other type of network (i.e. IPX/SPX, etc) you may have to install extra software under windows. The error message you got makes me think that either host only networking doesn't let you use the network neighborhood or that windows isn't configured right (you may need to tell windows the ip for your firewall server... i.e. wins, socks, etc) Hope this helps. DvB Thanks, Stelios Antoniou
Re: [newbie] OTWAY OT WinNT Explorer won't refresh the diskette
Yeah, this really is OT but I'll take a shot anyway... what happens when you hit F5? Does the directory listing go blank and then reappear? This would indicate that it actually is refreshing. If it's not doing this, you probably need to go to the view menu and select the refresh choice from there... even if it is exhibiting the above behaviour, I would try going directly to the menu choice. Other than that I don't know what to tell you. DvB On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, M Thompson wrote: WARNING - This is way OT from Caldera OpenLinux. I don't know where else to turn for help. Recently I installed a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller and also a Quantum Fireball Plus KA 18.1 GB hard drive (connected to the Promise Ultra66). A couple weeks later, I installed an HP CD Writer Plus 9100i. After installing this hardware, my Windows NT Explorer no longer refreshes the diskette between disk changes. I have the same problems under Win95 Windows Explorer. I do not have this problem under the Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 OS. Background Info: IDE0 (master) = SONY CD-ROM IDE0 (slave) = not used IDE1 (master) = HP CD Writer Plus 9100i IDE1 (slave) = not used IDE2 (master) = Quantum Fireball Plus KA 18.1 GB hard drive IDE2 (slave) = not used IDE3 (master) = WD Caviar 1.6 GB hard drive IDE3 (slave) = not used Example: Diskette1 contains 1 file called "file1" Diskette2 contains 1 file called "file2" If I put diskette1 in the drive and view the contents of the diskette thru Windows NT Explorer it shows "file1" and I can then copy that file to the hard drives or HP 9100i. If I eject diskette1 and insert diskette2, the Windows NT Explorer still shows "file1". I hit F5 to refresh the Windows NT Explorer, but the view does not change and show the "actual" contents of diskette2. With diskette2 in the drive, I am mysteriously able to copy "file1" from the diskette to the hard drives or HP 9100i. I can take the diskettes out of the diskette drive and still mysteriously copy a file from diskette1 to either the hard drives or HP 9100i. Please help. Thanks all, Matt BTW - My wife likes the Microsoft operating systems, so I cannot nuke them. Those who have a significant other can probably relate. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 1999, you wrote: I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 powerpack from Singapore.and i have 6 CD's on it. I install mandrake. I find vmware in application 1st CD.And i going to install it by MC and i found : vmware-LinuxMandrake.tar.gz I click here to install, I find :- 05/51/52/36/32/50/49/31/09 - vmware-distrib [ may be demo version] please anybody help me how can i install vmware in my root or user account for using Win95/98. vmware IS a "demo" version. It dies after something like 30 days. If you want the full version, you'll have to purchase it directly from the manufacturer. John www.vmware.com :) DvB
Re: [newbie] Network problems...
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: Joe Brault wrote: snip Hi, Joe, To network your Linux machines so that they can access each other's directories and files, you need a kernel with nfs (network file system) support. Select nfs support in the kernel configuration when you recompile your kernel. The nfs howto is really good, and so is the nfs discussion in Welsh and Kaufman's Running Linux. Good luck, If you have Mandrake installed, the kernel should already have nfs included (along with whatever else you need to interact with the local network). Most other distros should also include this, as far as I know. To "network neighborhood" your linux machine, you first need to get samba working (it should already be installed witha default config under Mandrake) and either use samba commands or ger a gui for it (LinNeighborhood or Sharity should do the trick). To share files over the network you'll have to change your samba config which can be done with one of many guis or by directly editing your /etc/smb.conf file. Good luck. DvB Hidong
Re: [newbie] kernel header files - where?
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: Thanks. Hopefully now I'll be able to figure out what's going on. DvB Click the box that says RPM on your desktop (kpackage) go down the tree to +development +system click the + by system to expand the tree - *bingo* click kernal headers, click files tab above big window, it will tell you where the files are (all 1485 of them!) -Warren. On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Peter Heckert wrote: David van Balen wrote: installed. Also, I did install the "kernel source" package when I did the update, in case that has any effect on what's in the include dir. Sorry for replying to my own thread... There is also a package "kernel headers" on my MDK 6.1 CDROM True, but that's for the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel. I upgraded to 2.2.13-22mdk and also installed the kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk.rpm package. DvB Peter -- Nur in /var/log/messages steht die Wahrheit.
Re: [newbie] kernel header files - where?
Oops, forgot to mention that vmware didn't like the headers in /usr/src/linux/include (where the linux directory is synlinked to linux-2.2.13) which is where it got the headers from when I first installed. Also, I did install the "kernel source" package when I did the update, in case that has any effect on what's in the include dir. Sorry for replying to my own thread... DvB Where does mandrake update put the header files for the 2.2.13-22 kernel upon installation? vmware made me run the config program again after I restarted with the new kernel and complained that there was a "slight difference of configuration" between the header files and the running kernel and that I should recompile the kernel... DvB
Re: [newbie] kernel header files - where?
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Peter Heckert wrote: David van Balen wrote: installed. Also, I did install the "kernel source" package when I did the update, in case that has any effect on what's in the include dir. Sorry for replying to my own thread... There is also a package "kernel headers" on my MDK 6.1 CDROM True, but that's for the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel. I upgraded to 2.2.13-22mdk and also installed the kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk.rpm package. DvB Peter -- Nur in /var/log/messages steht die Wahrheit.
Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: snip Open up the preferences and pick discwriter output plugin.. wav's will end up in $HOME as default but you can change that by configure the discwriter plugin.. have fun. Heheh... :-) I thought I recalled that being an option! :-) John Disk Writer plugin 0.9... duh! I'll try it when I get off work. Thanks, John! DvB
[newbie] kernel upgrade without rebooting?
I just upgraded to kernel 2.2.13-22 from -7 and wondered if there's any way to switch to the new kernel without rebooting. I don't figure there is but I've got 22 days of uptime under my belt and had been hoping to keep it up as long as possible :) DvB
[newbie] mp3 encoder/decoder
I'm finally getting around to messing with mp3 enconding/decoding (already figured out how to rip tracks and put stuff on a cdr) and wondered if anyone has a fav that they'd recommend. I found several on freshmeat but would appreciate some opinions before proceeding. thanx, DvB
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Took a look at Mozilla. Liked it. Haven't heard of Konqueror though. Is it any smaller than Mozilla? Can you point me to a page where I get get it? thanks :) It's KDE's browser which should ship with KDE 2.0 (it's not out yet). From what I hear it's supposed to be pretty good. Any application can be set up to run within the browser which, if implemented properly, could greatly alleviate Netscrape's current plugin problems... just what I understand. As to URLs, there's a screenshot somwhere on kde.org. A more detailed description can be found at http://www2.jorsm.com/~mosfet/screenshots.html DvB On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. Probably won't be out until MainSoft's MainWin IDE for Linux is released, if ever. Last I heard, MainWin was scheduled for next year. Pesonally, I'm hoping for Mozilla or Konqueror to beat 'em to it. DvB -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't!
Re: [newbie] ICQ
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent ICQ client? The one I just installed locked everything up for me. The good news is that it did a real good job of it :) thanks -- PadLocke the Ogre There are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't! depends what window manager ur using and what you want your client to be able to do. DvB
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. Probably won't be out until MainSoft's MainWin IDE for Linux is released, if ever. Last I heard, MainWin was scheduled for next year. Pesonally, I'm hoping for Mozilla or Konqueror to beat 'em to it. DvB
Re: [newbie] M$ windows finally Y2K safe (joke)
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Carsten M. Larsen wrote: Hi! Check this one out. Some of you might get at giggle out of this :o). Try clicking on "my computer", and "start". Also try right-click :o) You'll find something something about Linux there too (perhaps Bill's secret dream :o) By the wayyou stop by right-clicking, go under "properties", choose "stop".eventhough some of you might have thought of "ctrl-alt-del" HA! C Should this work with NT? DvB
Re: [newbie] A little OT- Memory
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Eric Mings wrote: If anyone has suggestions for places to find the best prices on memory upgrades that I can use for my PIII 450 linux box I would appreciate it. I am going to be using it as a server and need at least PC100 128 meg chips (though I would like to buy 256 if I could find an affordable source). I have looked at several mainstream mailorder places and prices vary widely. Y'all can email me directly if you think this is not of general interest to others. Thanks much. Don't know 'bout everyone else, but I'm sure interested... DvB Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] A little OT- Memory
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, pete moss wrote: Eric Mings wrote: If anyone has suggestions for places to find the best prices on memory upgrades that I can use for my PIII 450 linux box I would appreciate it. I am going to be using it as a server and need at least PC100 128 meg chips (though I would like to buy 256 if I could find an affordable source). I have looked at several mainstream mailorder places and prices vary widely. Y'all can email me directly if you think this is not of general interest to others. Thanks much. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D. as was recommended to me the other day, check pricewatch.com. i just ordered a new processor and memory for much less than the price of other sources. good shopping! :P hmmm... just the other day I saw a 128mb dimm on hardwarestreet.com for $230 or so. I believe that's less than what I saw on pricewatch... DvB
Re: [newbie] Netscape Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 - Is it worth it?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm curious as to how much of an improvement Netscape 4.7 is over 4.6. For all of you that upgraded, was it worth the time? Did it fix the problems of it suddenly shutting down and all the other annoying stuff? Seve Not really. If you've got some extra time then go ahead and upgrade but don't go out of your way to do so... don't know if it fixed the 128 bit encription problem or not. DvB
Re: [newbie] Words Of Wisdom
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Hey, is it just me? Or do you experience a renewed sense of excitement when messing with Linux that you haven't had since the early days of DOS? I know M$ will remain as a player of some sorts but the question has now evolved from "which is the better OS" to "why be confined with M$?" Seve BTW, who is Scott? Sun's CEO?
Re: [newbie] test (OT)
Check the "rejection" message, if it's a "undeliverable" message from mindspring then it wasn't the list rejecting it, it's due to whatever trouble mindspring is having and should be ignored... it is quite annoying though. DvB On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Simon Norris wrote: My last message was rejected by the list, but still arrived. I wonder if this is running on an NT server?? (couldn't resist a quick dig!!) - Original Message - From: Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 8:35 AM Subject: [newbie] test Can't seem to send messages to this list :-( trying again.. Mike
Re: [newbie] PRINTING
lprm job# where job# can be obtained with lpq If this is what you are doing, then the printer may be printing buffered data over which the OS has no control... other than that, I don't know. DvB On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello All, Now that I have got my printer working thanks to Steve I would like to know how to stop it. In Windows you can abort print jobs while they are running, but can this be done in Mandrake 6.1? I have been into printer queue while print jobs are running (as root) and tried to remove the job from the queue. I am asked are you sure? and on responding yes nothing happens and printing continues. I have switched the printer off but it cranks up the same job when restarted. I am very pleased to be able to print but does anyone know how to stop it mid-process? Thanks. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?
tin does threads really well, if only I could get it working... no hyperlinks though but there's always cut and paste into netscape which is what I usually do anyway. DvB On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: the problem with most of the newsreaders is that one they don't thread well and two if someone puts a hypelink in their post you can't follow it Jeanette Mike Fieschko wrote: "Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeanette Joe Marcom wrote: Hello, again. I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as long as I have been online. Now that I'm moving up to Linux, what do you recommend? Thanks. Joe Jeanette This newreader problem is almost as bad as the browser Jeanette problem. The best newsreader I have been able to use in Jeanette Linux is Netscape also. I have tried PINE, TRN, SLRN, Jeanette kexpress, Free Agent on Wine (runs but won't get news), Jeanette knews, krn, and Pan, and Star Office newsreader and Jeanette Netscape is still the best. If Linux can only get a [snip] Have you tried gnus? It is a mail and news reader which runs in emacs or xemacs. http://www.gnus.org Very configurable, so it might be a bit complicated to set up. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 12 St Martin I
Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?
Since someone brought the subject up, my favorite newsreader has always been tin. However, I can't seem to get it workin under Linux... when I run it it clears the screen, prints a message too fast for me to read it, and dies. Any ideas? DvB On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: Joe Marcom wrote: Hello, again. I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as long as I have been online. Now that I'm moving up to Linux, what do you recommend? Thanks. Joe This newreader problem is almost as bad as the browser problem. The best newsreader I have been able to use in Linux is Netscape also. I have tried PINE, TRN, SLRN, kexpress, Free Agent on Wine (runs but won't get news), knews, krn, and Pan, and Star Office newsreader and Netscape is still the best. If Linux can only get a good browser, newsreader, install tt fonts by default, and fix the printer support problems we will have a great desktop. Right now its pretty good, but there are still some shortcomings to using Linux on the Net. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Printing problem
I get the same error when trying to print to an HP LaserJet through its JetDirect card (... connection refused jobs queued...). Been trying to get it working for quite a while. Tried configuring it as both Win/SMB and Netware and no dice... DvB On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Karen Heiby wrote: I have an Epson Stylus color deskjet 660 and I'm using the regular Epson drivers in ghostscript (configured in printtool) and my /etc/printcap shows that it is set correctly with lp0 as my printer port. I *can* print whether or not I'm in root, in a console by sending a bash command to lp0 just fine (as in "ls /dev/lp0). I can't print in any Xwindows applications, though, and I can't use the lpr command. For ex. in Netscape, the command used is lpr -Plp0. 1.) When root, I get "lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot star daemon" 2.) When non-root, I get "lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp01/.seq" Can anyone help with this? I've read everything I can get my hands on in the books, docs, and newsgroups and can't find an answer. Thank you, Karen
Re: [newbie] Monitor Trouble
run Xconfigurator or xf86config On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Christian Charles Opp wrote: When I first installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 I didn't know what the resolutions were. I know now and would like to change it. How do I do this? Thanks, chris
Re: [newbie] downloading
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, jeremy wrote: I am wondering about downloading from netscape. I click on a thing to download and the next page is a grey page with goobly-guk writing on it . is that the code? j It's opening the binary file in your browser. Netscape doesn't seem to be able to bring up the "open or save as" dialog under linux so you need to right click on the link instead of left clicking and choose "save as" from there... unless you have that type of file associated under "preferences", "applications"
Re: [newbie] alternative browser?
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote: "Brian K. Garel" wrote: "Karen M. Heiby" wrote: snip I do have Netscape 4.7 and it crashes a lot less. But I am still getting this weird bookmark error. "Bookmarks have changed on disk and are being reloaded". I have to click "OK" to make it go away. It pops up about every 5 minutes, in a window. Very annoying. But no crashes, and yes, I have 4.7. The error happens when I'm reading mail as well as browsing, and I haven't made any bookmark changes. Thanks, Karen Have you tried downloading _only_ navigator (not communicator)? I agree with you that netscape sucks but that seems to be about the only choice if you wan't to take advantage of as much of the web as possible. When I upgraded, I installed just navigator and haven't really had any trouble with it other than its horrible shockwave capabilities. DvB
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows in Virtual Consoles
That pictue's caption (at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fscreenshots.php3) says "'Helios' running Enlightenment, Eterm and Win98 under VMWare (VMWare is inluded in the PowerPack edition of Mandrake)" So, it looks like vmware is the culprit. VMware can also be downloaded from www.vmware.com. Free for 30 days, then it's $299 for commercial use and $99 for non-commercial, which includes students. On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Tom Buchok wrote: Actually, you can boot windows inside of Linux. If you go to Linux-Mandrake.com, they have some screen shots and one of them shows KDE and then an open windows booting win98, if anyone knows how to do tis, that would be great... tBuchok ps. I don't know how to do this\, i'vew just seen a screen shot of it. From: Dreja Julag [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Opening Windows in Virtual Consoles Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:16:13 -0800 Perhaps I should simplify a bit. I would certainly enjoy running Windows and Linux at the same time. It seems that I cannot do this. That makes sense. I have heard that people can start their machine with Windows and then from there boot into Linux. How is this possible. On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: Sorry I meant Xwindows, not MS Windows. No, I don't think it's possible. Karen Dreja Julag wrote: Is this possible? I have heard about it a bit, and I think I would enjoy it. The only proble I would see if it was possible is hardware confilicts and both of Linux and Win confused when a piece of hardware is used. -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 20177604 -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 20177604 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows in Virtual Consoles
You could use vmware (www.vmware.com) to boot either windows from linux or linux from windows (depending what version you get). I use it to run winNT under linux and I definitely recommend it. On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Dreja Julag wrote: Perhaps I should simplify a bit. I would certainly enjoy running Windows and Linux at the same time. It seems that I cannot do this. That makes sense. I have heard that people can start their machine with Windows and then from there boot into Linux. How is this possible. On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: Sorry I meant Xwindows, not MS Windows. No, I don't think it's possible. Karen Dreja Julag wrote: Is this possible? I have heard about it a bit, and I think I would enjoy it. The only proble I would see if it was possible is hardware confilicts and both of Linux and Win confused when a piece of hardware is used. -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 20177604 -- Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 20177604
Re: [newbie] zip files?
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll. If you're using KDE, there's an app associated with zip files that'll uncompress them (don't know the name). Just click on the file in kfm and it'll start the app. DvB
Re: [newbie] plugger's not cooperating
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, alann wrote: David van Balen wrote: I tried to install plugger under netscape 4.61 (libc5 version of both). I first tried the rpm and it appeared to install fine but then whenever I went to a page with audio files, netscape would die. Since then I have uninstalled the rpm, installed the tarball by placing the plugger.so and pluggerrc files in the right places (specified in the README file), upgraded to netscape 4.7 and reinstalled plugger, first in my user's home dir and then globally and netscape still dies. This is even worse than not having any sound. I got plugger working fine when I had LM6.0, I'm not sure what, if anything, I did then that I'm not doing now. Any ideas? DvB I've had the exact same results with plugger.. Obviously I'm ( we're ) doing something wrong.. I since marked it as a no no.. If anyone has any info as to how to make this work without crashing netscape it would be greatly appreciated.. I find it easier and better just to go into netscape and edit the apps to call a program to handle the task.. Alan Mind if I ask what programs you use? Especially for mpegs (mp3, mp2, etc). I've tried kmpg, xmms and mp3 and all of them either play the last file they played before being shut down or do nothing (xmms). I couldn't find any command line options for any of the players that might help either... DvB
[newbie] plugger's not cooperating
I tried to install plugger under netscape 4.61 (libc5 version of both). I first tried the rpm and it appeared to install fine but then whenever I went to a page with audio files, netscape would die. Since then I have uninstalled the rpm, installed the tarball by placing the plugger.so and pluggerrc files in the right places (specified in the README file), upgraded to netscape 4.7 and reinstalled plugger, first in my user's home dir and then globally and netscape still dies. This is even worse than not having any sound. I got plugger working fine when I had LM6.0, I'm not sure what, if anything, I did then that I'm not doing now. Any ideas? DvB
[newbie] problems mounting floppy
I just tried to save something to my floppy drive for the first time since I reinstalled 6.1 and when I try to mount it I get the message: mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy I'm pretty sure that fd0 isn't mounted. Catting /proc/mounts yields: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home/vanbalen/vmware ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 localhost:(pid421) /net nfs rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,acregmin=0,acregmax=0,acdir min=0,acdirmax=0,noac,addr=pid421@localhost:/net 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev 0 0 and running df on /mnt/floppy yields: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb5 20G 2.0G 17G 11% / So unless fd0 is mounted somewhere else (which /proc/mounts suggests it's not), I have no idea what the problem is. My entry in fstab also looks fine (I haven't changed the default): /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 Any help would be appreciated. I need to be able to use my floppy kind of urgently. DvB
[newbie] Re: problems mounting floppy
It works now (I rebooted). I don't know what the problem was though. DvB
