Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line
Prefix it with a backslash. That overrides aliases. \rm -r /home (just kidding about the /home part) Andrew Iovannisci wrote: Ahh, I have an alias rm="rm -i" that is forcing me to confirm the deletion of every file. So, how do I get rid of the alias? -- Thanks, Andy -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers
My preferred solution has been the following... Download the .src.rpm versions of NVIDIA_Kernel and NVIDIA_GLX from the ftp site. Bring up a terminal window (or do this completely outside X). su to root. rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 rpm -Uvh NV*.rpm vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 add the line... Load "glx" ... just after Section "Module" Restart X. The nicest part of this was that the rpm install automatically renamed the MesaGL files that are known to conflict with nVidia's drivers. Joe Lore wrote: Hi, I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and wanted to use the latest drivers for Linux that are posted on Nvidia's web site for my Gforce Annihilator Pro card. I downloaded the RPM and when I double click it, I get a list of files. One of these files is called install, if I double click that I get a text message saying "Run this to install the package". Not too sure how to do this or what to do next. Can anyone give me some guidance? Thanks, j0e -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Startup annoyance
Doubtful about the winderz tech thing. The instructions I got from Cox about my lack of DHCP configuration in the face of an upcoming address reassignment included instructions for Mac OS 8.5. I have gotten DHCPCD to work sporadically with Linux, and imagine my troubles probably stem more from a misconfigured DHCP server on Cox's part. I seriously doubt the majority of their techs are much more than "bootcamped" MCSE's. Eduardo Alvarez wrote: I can't remember were heard this, but i know that the cable modems ara based on windows technology. But dont worry, in the Unix Guru Universe -- http://www.ugu.com you can find a lot of help. Just try it... - ed@r - Original Message - One of the messages I get as Linux loads is as follows: "Determining IP information for eth0 via dhcpcd ... failed" I have a cable modem working in Linux. It seems to take quite a while to determine the IP info (unsuccessfully), so how can I go about either making this work or removing it from the startup? Thanks a bunch! Dan -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: Even further off. Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)
I'm sorry for that last one. I'm going to attach a cord to my computer that gives electrical shocks when I click "reply". At least then I'll really want to respond to something.
Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8
It can be really rough doing distro beta testing. I couldn't even consider doing it if I weren't on a cable modem. When you deal with Cooker/betas, you have to accept the fact that you may download stuff that may not even be an installable OS. So you try again later in the day/week and see if the packagers fixed all the problems you hopefully found and reported from your attempt (assuming an update hasn't already been released). Miark wrote: My 30-hour download of Traktopel finished last night :-) When I tried to install it, I go a million errors related to problems with packages. I'd get the pic of the bulldozer, then a window reporting there was a problem loading bzip, info-install, libgpml, etc. I got this a couple of times, so I tried to ignore it, but then I got more errors of the same kind. Eventually I had to give up. Miark - Original Message - From: "Neville Cobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8 Vic wrote: Hello list. Upon installing the new Beta Mandrake Traktopel 8 release on a system using an AMD K6-400 cpu, 192Mb system ram, S3 Virge video card, 10Gb Quantum harddrive UDMA 33, with VIA chipset, AWE64 Soundblaster ISA card, a zip250 using the zip zoom card (aic7xxx), an old unix BTC cdrom, and lastly a Plextor 8/4/32A Cd recorder. I found the installation went ok in expert mode, one little hang up on setting up networking, it would not let you click on yes or no, BUT, you could bypass this by going on to the next step, then when it cama back, you could just click on uhh, skip or something like that, and do it later after installation finished. I had the same problem an could not connect to the internet via a modem after the installation. Following your install were you able to connect via ppp? If you could then I must be doing something wrong. Nev -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on Ebay
Romanator wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around on Ebay and noticed that they were auctioning Linux Mandrake 7.2 and RedHat 7.0 for like 3 dollars. Has anyone ever used this route before? Is it worth it or should I just go to the store and get it? ~Lance you know...there's just something wrong about that. -- Mark Are you sure it wasn't $30.00? Sounds kinda fishy... Roman Why would $3 be fishy? Have you looked at the Mandrake Linux postings there? No mention of the box set or support. It's probably a person burning them at home and printing their own CD labels (if they're even bothering with the labels). No different than the CheapBytes people selling Linux for $2 + S/H, this is just a different venue. (And the person selling these is only charging $3.99 S/H as opposed to the $10 CheapBytes charged the last time I looked.) Actually, looking further, the one for $2.98 seems to be regular CD's the person probably had mass-stamped instead of self-burned. The only problem with this whole thing I see might be the cutting and pasting of info from Mandrake's site. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] kde2.1
Your escapee's name is Zope. And I've noticed that other than security fixes, the only way to get updated Mandrake packages is to use the "unsupported" ones scattered across sites like wtfo.com. If appearances are used to judge Mandrake, then even MS has the appearances of releasing non-security related updates faster. (Fortunately, Mandrake does still blow MS out of the water on security related issues.) Kyle Baker wrote: True, true. All of L-M's sites/mirrors are slow in offering updates. They still (as of this posting) don't have the recently released CUPS security update, nor do they have today's "sudo' security fix (and one other whose name escapes me, starting with a Z). What gives? And anyone know why MandrakeUser.org has been down for at least several days? Kyle Baker --- Robin Regennitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, They just released the KDE2.1 today and I went to the site to see if they have the rpm for mandrake. the directory there is empty while RedHat, Suse, and Caldera have their RPM available. What's with the Mandrake's RPM? why are they not ready when all the other one are? Rob __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration
Everything but ReiserFS on my system going fine. Did you do anything about the non-nVidia MesaGL libraries so they wouldn't conflict with nVidia's drivers? (I'll let you know about ReiserFS someday soon, but it won't be under Mdk7.2.) abe wrote: Does this work? Any body have this working on their machines? I reinstalled to convert to ReiserFS and now X crashes everytime I start a 3d accelerated application. No messages left in the logs except that X caught a signal 11. X 4.02 Nvidia driver 0.9.6 mandrake 7.2 Please help! Abe -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Can't get eth1 up
If this is a cut-and-paste as opposed to a retype with a typo, then you should probably change 3th1 to eth1. Doug Roberts wrote: alias eth0 3c503 alias 3th1 3c503 options 3c503 irq=5,9 io=0x2e0,0x2a0 This used to work for SuSE, before it went south on me. What am I doing wrong that I cant get eth1 to work? If you need more info, I am glad to provide. Doug -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Real rm?
That's Mandrake's way of keeping new users from making grave errors.
I've left it in place since I have made the mistake and the alias rm="rm
-i" saved my butt.
You can either remove it from /etc/bashrc or if you want to override it
on a per-use basis, type "\rm annoyingfile" (backslash overrides
aliases).
DRX wrote:
When I give the command "rm annoyingfile" I expect annoyingfile to
disappear -- not to be asked
rm: remove 'annoyingfile'?
What's the point of asking that? I wouldn't have given the command rm
if I didn't want to remove annoyingfile, would I?
How do I change the function of rm to make it work the way I would like?
DRX
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[newbie] Looking for simple KDE audio player
I'm looking for something I can associate with .wav files under KDE 2.1 that will play the audio file and then close itself. Currently associated them with Alsa Player, but it doesn't close itself, and it also forgets what it was just playing meaning you can't just press play again. Ideally I'd like something the doesn't pop up a window, or closes itself if it does. It also has to work with KDE's arts daemon (which soxplay doesn't). -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready
I'm with you on that, Richard. But then, I don't have a "production" system. My current setup is to have a /, a /backup, and a swap partition. Everything that's truly important gets copied to /backup regularly so I don't have to reset everything if I do a reinstall at the next Mandrake release. (Or if I go brain dead and try another distro instead.) "Richard T. Waters" wrote: Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a full install, rather than an upgrade. Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information. I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best for an install, and I notice there are (as usual) varying opinions. Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to set up /; /boot and /usr? What should be a good rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions? -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] hosts.allow/deny configuration
Since you've just started using Linux, I'm going to assume you don't intend to use it as any kind of server. That makes this rather easy actually. Your /etc/hosts.deny should be nothing but the following line... ALL : ALL (Lines starting with # are okay, too.) And your /etc/hosts.allow should be blank or just comment (#) lines. To be even safer, try running ntsysv and unchecking any services you don't need. Typically, amd, anacron, atd, autofs, crond, cups (if you use it for printing), drakfont, gpm, harddrake, ipchains, keytable, kheader, kudzu, netfs (if you need NFS access - not to be confused with nfs, the server), network, numlock, sound, syslog, and usb. "Jason D. Williard" wrote: I just started using linux meaningfuilly. I would like to make my machine as secure as possible. The first thing that I would like to do is configure my hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. I am not exactly sure as to how to configure them though. Could someone please send me an example or give me a few good ideas of what I should do? As well, if there are any other things that I should do to secure my machine, please let me know. Thank you, Jason D. Williard -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] hosts.allow/deny configuration (clarification)
Just to clarify, the list I give for ntsysv are services that are OKAY. Digital Wokan wrote: Since you've just started using Linux, I'm going to assume you don't intend to use it as any kind of server. That makes this rather easy actually. Your /etc/hosts.deny should be nothing but the following line... ALL : ALL (Lines starting with # are okay, too.) And your /etc/hosts.allow should be blank or just comment (#) lines. To be even safer, try running ntsysv and unchecking any services you don't need. Typically, amd, anacron, atd, autofs, crond, cups (if you use it for printing), drakfont, gpm, harddrake, ipchains, keytable, kheader, kudzu, netfs (if you need NFS access - not to be confused with nfs, the server), network, numlock, sound, syslog, and usb. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Correct NIC module for Realtek8029?
Yes. Unless it's a PCI card, in which case, it should /possibly/ be ne2k-pci. Bill Barto wrote: Linux keeps wanting to use NE2000/ne2k for my Realtek8029. Is this the correct module? -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] KB/s....kb/sec can somome explain please
I think I'd rather just pay Cheapbytes.com than worry about dropping my connection over 5.5 days. Thomas Webster wrote: ROFL! I just downloaded the ISO files for L-M at an average download speed of less than 2.0 KB/s so, brother, I think I understand slow connections. It took 5.5 days to get all the data in the two ISO files and another day to figure out how to commit them to a CD. Now.. what the heck do I do next? g Sum check them and pray to god that the files downloaded correctly. I downloaded both the files in about an hour with total bandwidths of up to 2Mb/s... :) -Tom Webster -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] KB/s....kb/sec can somome explain please
You're getting 12KB/sec because of hardware compression by the modem. You're connection is likely somewhere around 48Kb. Now the difference in terminology here is that the capital B means bytes, and lower case b means bits. Modem connection speed is measured in bps, while most browsers and network programs report Bps. So without hardware compression kicking in, a 48Kbps connection will only receive close to 5KBps (8 bits/byte, plus stop and start bits for async connections). Never mind the confusion added to the mix when you realize that your modem is still talking at 9600 baud, and they've packed more bits per transition. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When connected through a V90 56k modem using kppp, when I view a website through konqueror I see numbers in the bottom left of the konqueror window that say such as 3.6KB/s , 7.9KB/s etc, the kppp statistics window shows a line at the top of it's graph which says for example max.12.0 kb/sec. Am I right in assuming that the first example shows the download speed and the second shows the connection speed, if so does 12.0kb/sec really mean that I am only connecting at 12 kilobits ? -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] KB/s....kb/sec can somome explain please
Only if the server allows resumes. NCFTP for Linux and FTP Explorer for Windows will do it, too. Dave Burrows wrote: Ahah! I'm one up on someone here, at least! I use a download manager called GoZilla! (a Windows app) which will: a) re-establish a broken connection, say, when I'm working, sleeping or when I'm.. oh, never mind g b) resume the download exactly where it left off. The shareware can be had here: http://www.gozilla.com/ Other software like it exists but this is the one that made the best sense to me. Anything like it exist in the Linux environment? Dave Digital Wokan wrote: I think I'd rather just pay Cheapbytes.com than worry about dropping my connection over 5.5 days. -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Cue Cat
You should find quite a few listed at Freshmeat.net if you do a search on Cue Cat. -michael- wrote: Anyone have any linux apps for this Cue Cat thing from Radio Shack? -- -michael- -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] How do I set up my default to KDE rather than Enlightenment?
switchdesk (bring it up in a terminal window if it isn't in your menu) Of course, be sure you installed the RPM's for it first. Romanator wrote: Hi all, I was checking out some of the other themes in Enlightenment. However, every time I reboot, I boot to Enlightenment. How do I reset the boot up back to KDE? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Re: GNOME or KDE
Swap them off every week or so. Why choose when you can just work on whichever you're in the mood for at the moment. (And if you really can't choose at that moment, let the last decision ride.) Vic wrote: I can't decide, I like both KDE and GNOME, I use them interchangeably, so if I had to choose between them I would be stuck there like a runaway if else loop. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Switchdesk Missing in MDK7.2
Whoops. Try starting kdm then, or just switching to runlevel 5 from the command line. I don't know if gdm or xdm have it, but kdm has a drop-down list of desktops, and your choice remains the next time you do a startx from the CLI. Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason I cannot find switchdesk with Linux Mandrake 7.2. Can some one point me in the right direction for the correct rpm. Can I use the rpm from 7.1? -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...
Nope, that's kde2 final. And it seems like they did away with the centralized theme manager (it was originally a seperate add-on in kde 1.x). I don't know why they did it, and I hope it reappears in 2.1 before they finalize it. Chris Hall wrote: hey all, Is the kde 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of mandrake a beta version? I can't seem to find the theme manager in it. Thanks. Chris -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
[newbie] Netscape address book
I realize this isn't a Mandrake only question, but under Windows in Netscape, I can type a partial name and Netscape completes it from my address book. Having added several names with nicknames to Linux/Netscape's address book, I have yet to see it successfully recognize any of those entries as I compose a message. (Ex: I put newbie in as a nick to Mandrake Newbies, but NC kept insisting that there was no match and wanted to put [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anyone got a suggestion?
[newbie] RPMBuilder
This program looks rather promising, but the drop-down box for what group an RPM should be installed to is impossibly long to fit on the screen. Is there some other form of selection that would work on Linux? (And why is it such a problem for drop-downs with scrolls anyway? Is this some kind of stupid patent, or has nobody figured out how to implement it under Linux?)
Re: [newbie] Wine and Word 2000
While I currently have not been trying out WINE lately, and I don't have a copy of Word 2000 at home to try it with, I have read that the latest versions of WINE have been capable of running Word and Excel 2000. Marcia wrote: Dear All, Has anyone been able to actually use Word 2000 using Wine? I would like to do this if possible. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] LM 7.2
The LAN card issue has been a common problem, though it didn't strike me. And you are correct that LILO is using an ANSI graphics menu system. 'man lilo' and 'man lilo.conf' didn't get me anywhere as to why it now does this and how to suppress it. Larry Marshall wrote: Since nobody knows nuttin' about the C++ standard libary, I'll try another one. Tonight I decided to setup LM7.2 on another drive where I normally work with 7.1. Not problem in theory but a couple things popped up and I wonder if anyone else has had these problems. During the install 7.2 decided that it couldn't detect my ethernet card, though it's worked just peachy with 7.0 and 7.1. I'll work that out but it seems odd. More important, 7.2 LILO seems to be going graphical :-( and my machine doesn't seem to like that any more than I do. If I try to boot without a floppy, I get the most "interesting" screen of 1s and 0s that just scroll continously. This takes place BEFORE I get any boot choices so I'm assuming that it's dear old lilo that's providing this show. If I boot from the floppy I made during the installation I get a "nifty" red menu with linux as a single option and it boots me into 7.2 and all is well with the graphics. Anyone else see this? Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Linux to Linux file sharing
I've actually come to like Midnight Commander for that. I just leave MCServ running on my main box and I can connect to it from the "peripheral" boxen to get the files I need. "Wignall, Mark T" wrote: Samba is for sharing of files to/from Windoze machines. I'd suggest you look into using NFS (Network File Share). This is a normal part of linux/unix systems. Mark -Original Message- From: Riker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux to Linux file sharing Greetings, all: When networking a Linux box to a Linux box, is it necessary to have Samba in operation to share files? Or is there another method for sharing between Linux? Thanks! Riker -- Linux - The way of the future
Re: [newbie] Gaim problems
I haven't seen GAIM work on my system for months. Always some error about a missing config. So I re-located the TiK program and I've been very happy with it. (tik.sourceforge.net I think) Adam wrote: I still say GAIM is 1000x better than the AOL-AIM Linux client, and I'd rather go with GAIM regardless...I won't even list the many reasons why! - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Gaim problems Go to the AOL site and download their Linux port of AIM. You will be much happier with that one. Operates just like the windows version. Easy to install also. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, John Michael Rice wrote: ok im a windows convert and i am trying to set up gain the one that came with mandrake 7.1 well its give me some error saying thta there is no configuration file can someone help me with this -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Canon BJC-6000
I checked on that. Using the BJC-610 drivers means getting 360x360 resolution. Hardly ideal for a printer capable of 1440x720. I'm suddenly missing my BJC-4200, but not it's tendancy to eat the blue before other colors. Patti Wavinak wrote: We have 2 Canon BJC-6000 and LM 7.1 automatically found it on setup. It uses BJC-610 and up and postscript!! It works quite nicely I might add :-) Don't be TOO hard on Canon -- all three of our computers use some sort of Canon printer (even an old BJC-620) ;-) Patti Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 9/12/00, 9:39:16 PM, Digital Wokan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Canon BJC-6000: Just got one. Set your flamethrowers on high because I didn't look until afterward to see if Canon supported Linux. I know that the 600 and the 4000 series printers were supported. Anyone out there running a BJC-6000, or am I going to have to hook this thing up to a winblows box and print to it whenever it isn't busy crashing? P.S.: Any Canon people out there reading this, please direct your flamethrowers at your marketing department. I'm sure your techs are smart enough to create the drivers, but marketing hasn't told management there's profit in Linux yet it seems. -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
[newbie] Canon BJC-6000
Just got one. Set your flamethrowers on high because I didn't look until afterward to see if Canon supported Linux. I know that the 600 and the 4000 series printers were supported. Anyone out there running a BJC-6000, or am I going to have to hook this thing up to a winblows box and print to it whenever it isn't busy crashing? P.S.: Any Canon people out there reading this, please direct your flamethrowers at your marketing department. I'm sure your techs are smart enough to create the drivers, but marketing hasn't told management there's profit in Linux yet it seems. -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Can PC Anywhere work
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, PCAnywhere version 9's host can offer you remote control via a web browser's Java VM. Barry Premeaux wrote: Neil Kate wrote: Is there a thing I can load on my Linux box to let me control a MS pc running PCAnywhere? You could try running it under wine. The other alternative is vmware. -- Barry :-) -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?
Everyone seems to make it sound like you need to reinstall Mandrake and install it with the Developer option. This is NOT the case. I would use KFM and KPackage to find the library RPM's you need to install to put those development library files on your hard drive. KPackage has a tab for listing the files in the RPM before you select to install it. Try different lib*.rpm files until you've got the development packages installed that you need. Mark Thurston wrote: So what do I do to get the Developer version? To be quite honest, this is for a class that I am taking at school, we have to program in C++ on a Linux system, so yes I am very new at this and I can use all the help I can get. Thanks Mark - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere? Kathleen Dickason wrote: Not necessarily. This library file (iostream.h) is missing from the Standard install of drake 7.1, though it does install with the Developer version. Kathleen Larry Marshall wrote: I tried the gcc, I actually used the command g++ at the command prompt and every time it gives me an error saying "iostream.h is not found." Is You must be real new to C++. You're going to have to read a wee bit to get things set up as it's beyond the ability of a conference like this to walk you from asking the question you've just asked to successfully programming in C++. The simple answer to your question is that iostream.h is the most basic of basic class groups in the C++ language. If you've got GNU C++ installed, this file exists on your machine. Cheers --- Larry Developer install has it. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Loading the on-board NIC tulip driver
I believe it's the following steps. Try it first without the insmod
command, that may be done for you by the ifconfig step.
insmod net/tulip
In /etc/conf.modules...
alias eth0 tulip
ifconfig eth0 up {ip address}
DougC wrote:
Hello all,
I installed 7.1 yesterday but during configuration, it
did not list my 10/100 Linksys Ethernet card for my
cable modem ( not a PMCIA card - just a regular card).
Overall though,the install went generally well.
Linux seems to know it's a PCI ethernet card, just not
what kind. I skipped this portion and now I have no
internet connection.
I went to the linksys website and they explained that
the on-board (already in linux) 'tulip.o' driver is
compatible and should work.
How does one exactly 'load' this tulip.o driver?
I found this file buried under a bunch of subdirs.
Some YES/No Questions:
1- Must I be at Admin level to do this step?
2- Will any command line 'screen' allow me to do this
?
3- Must I be in the subdir where the tulip.o
file/driver is located.
4- Are there straight forward command to load it?
If anyone can detail what I need to do I would be
greatly appreciated.
FYI-I have been using the KDE interface.
Thanks in advance,
Doug Conrad
PII-350 96 megs ram
ATI 8 meg video card
Lynksys 10/100 PCI ethernet card (cable modem) IRQ9
Has Dual Boot with boot magic/master? I forget name
On board Crystal sound (doesn't work yet on linux)
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Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse
Make sure xf86config has your input device set to imps2 and not just ps2. Hammond Steve wrote: Hi. I have a Logitech MouseMan+ but I do not understand why the wheel is not working on mandrake 7.1. On the Web site it is said that it should work, so can you help?? Thanks -- Steve Hammond -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Logitech wheel mouse scrolling
Put a kdelnk to 'imwheel -k' in your KDE desktop's startup folder and it should restart imwheel for you when you fire up KDE. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked so smoothly under Sawfish. I tried setting it to start with Sawfish, but still end up having to click its icon manually to scroll. Hammond Steve wrote: Hi, So my problem was that I was not having the imwheel running. Now it is working well in netscape and KDE. The only one think I cannot do is to make imwheel start automaticaly at startup. I put the imwheel command in my /etc/rd.d/rc.local but it is not starting up. An idea?? Thanks! Le dim, 13 aoû 2000, vous avez écrit : in /etc/X11/XF86Config goto the Mouse section(pointer section) make sure you have ZAxisMapping 4 5 in the pointer section, and 3button emulation off (# comment it out) then save and you should be fine - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 10:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Logitech wheel mouse scrolling I have a Logitech First Mouse+ and it works fine except for the wheel. I can not scroll in anything. I have tried typing in 'imwheel' and 'imwheel -k' as suggested in some of the newsgroug archives, but that seems to have no effect at all. I am running linux mandrake v7.1 and any help that I get is greatly appreciated. tim -- The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. -- Mark Twain -- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home..netscape.com/webmail/ -- Steve Hammond -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Logitech wheel mouse scrolling
Your device in the xfconfig file must be imps2 instead of just ps2 as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Logitech First Mouse+ and it works fine except for the wheel. I can not scroll in anything. I have tried typing in 'imwheel' and 'imwheel -k' as suggested in some of the newsgroug archives, but that seems to have no effect at all. I am running linux mandrake v7.1 and any help that I get is greatly appreciated. tim -- The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. -- Mark Twain -- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail/ -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] WinModem
As the specs state, the 56K modems are softmodems (winmodems), and therefore aren't usable by Linux. There is some small chance that somebody has released a program for using these modems under Linux. You may want to check the websites that specialize in putting Linux on Laptops. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed mandrake 7.1 on my laptop (Compaq Armada 7400). It has an internal modem 56K V.90, but I can not configure it. Could anyone help. Thanks in advance for your help. Saadi. N.B The following text is a description of the modem. Internal Modem Support Linux has support for controller based modems. The controller-less or "winmodem" is not supported. The Armada 7400 and 7800 models with 333MHz or faster processors use a 56K V.90 winmodem and the only driver Compaq currently provides is for Microsoft based operating systems. Older 7400 and 7800 models with 300 MHz or slower processors use a 33.6Kbps controller based modem which uses the standard Hayes commands and is supported by Linux. The internal modem defaults to COM3 (0x3F8). Linux expects the COM ports to use the "standard" resources: COM1 (0x3F8, IRQ4), COM2 (0x2F8, IRQ3), COM3 (0x3E8, IRQ4), COM4 (0x2E8, IRQ3). Notice that COM1/COM3 and COM2/COM4 share IRQ's. If COM1 and COM3 are to be used simultaneously, Compaq recommends using Computer Setup for Portables to move COM3 to its own IRQ. For example, if the user wished to use the internal modem and an external serial mouse, then a good choice would be to use IRQ3. IRQ3 is free for use by the internal modem because COM2 (0x2F8), the fast infrared port, is assigned IRQ9. The latest Compaq system ROM (BIOS) moves the internal modem to IRQ3 by default, so we recommend you upgrade the BIOS prior to installing Linux. Also be aware that if a system is setup to dual boot the Microsoft Window 9.X operating system, then that OS can reassign the COM port resources, resulting in the possibility of Linux not being able to use the port(s). -- Digital Wokan Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] AMD 500 CPUs???
Bill Hudspeth wrote: Has anyone out there had a successful Mandrake operating on an AMD 500 CPU? TIA Bill I've been running Mandrake 7.1 on a K6-2/500 since about a week after the .iso's were posted. The only issue I have with it is that it insists that the CPU is an i586, while my Cyrix M2/300 properly registers as an i686. I'm assuming i686 is supposed to mean Pentium/MMX equivalent as opposed to Pentium/NoMMX. Other than that, things were fine here once I got the cards+ file fixed to configure XF86.
Re: [newbie] licq qt
Which Mandrake version are you running? kdm wrote: I would love to solve this problem myself. The configure script for the qt-gui plugin can't find the 2.0 qt libraries in mandrake 8( I have tried the --with-qt-libraries flag with no success... So now I use KXICQ 8) Hi all, anyone managed to get the *latest* version of licq running (note - not the one on the mandrake cd... but the one on the www.licq.com site)? it throws up qt dependency problems.(qt = 2.1 needed).. if someone can throw some light on this solution i'd be very grateful... or even better still.. solve it :) TIA, Ger. -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Netscape problem
Or you could do something easier like check your /etc/resolv.conf file to make sure your nameserver entries are there (and are IP's, not ns1.isp.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Linux-Mandrake 7.0. I am trying to use Netscape, but after I try accessing a webpage like www.netscape.com or www.mandrake.com I get the following error messages: Netscape: Error Warning: The following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable. Perhaps there is a problem with your nameserver? If your site must use a non-root nameserver, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variavble to point at the appropriate name server. It may (or may not) be necessary to set this variable, or the socks host preference, to the IP address of the host in question rather than its name. Consult your system adinistrator. Netscape: Error 2 Netscape is unable to locate the server home.netscape.com. Please check the server name and try again. The examples above are the error messages I receive when I try to access a web page. Can anyone help me solve this problem so I can enjoy accessing web pages on Linux. I use kppp to connect. Eugene
Re: [newbie] Star Office 5.2
Isn't this how 5.1 worked? If you did the install as a user, each user doing the install ended up with their own copy of StarOffice, but if you did a multi-user install as root, only one copy of the binaries was installed with each user running a setup that copied only what was necessary for that user's personalization and data. Charles A Edwards wrote: The one thing about Windows that I liked more than in Linux was installing programs. If you are honest most will admit that installing programs in Linux can be both fustrating and exasperating. Well someone has at last shown a light at the end of the tunnel. Sun has released Star Office 5.2. I download it for both Windows and for Linux. Yesterday I installed in Win2000 and today I decided to try the install in Linux, hoping that it would not require to much hair pulling. Do you know what I had to do to get Star Office to install in Linux? I had to click on the file. It actually had it's own installation program and installed itself. The GUI was even the same as that used in the Win installation. I was shocked. Happy but shocked. I had never before seen a Linux program do this. My one hope now is that more companies and developers will follow Sun's example and treat Linux users with the same degree of concern and support as they show Window users. If you want to try it the URL is www.sun.com/staroffice The Linux download is 93MB and you need to run the installation program as user not as root. Charles :-) -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] 7.1 resolution (as in screen)
I noticed that, too. I think it has to do with the Sawmill/Sawfish WM. If there's a way of disabling/removing it to restore the alt-drag way of moving windows, that would probably solve your problem. Adrian Smith wrote: okie dokie, now that i know the correct way to post to the list... thanks David for pointing out that it's Newbie... and not newbie by the way, am i the only one alive who thinks that computers, files, URLs etc should not be case sensitive? do things really have to be made as difficult as possible? just so ya know where i'm at in the linux world - i've used apples (still have my apple IIc) macs, PCs under dos windoze. mastered all of them. done some very basic programing (BASIC and assembly). installed configured many dos/windoze systems - so i know my way 'round computers more or less. never used unix or linux before however - so i'm having to learn this new language from the bottom up. ok, but now my first real question background - my box is one of the cheaper (read junk) compaq models - it's at home, i'm at work, don't have the specs with me. anyhow, i installed mandrake 7.0 and played with it a bit. since my video card adhears to the lowest standards i can only get 640 X 480, or so it seems - i tried out some attempts at 800 X 600 in linux, none of them worked (nor can i get 8x6 in windoze) so it looks like i'm stuck. some of the linux programs open up in screens larger than my screen resolution. it seems that a linux window can only be resized with the lower right corner?? well in 7.0 there was some key/mouse combo that would let you grab a window at any place and move it around. so at least i could work around it. got my 7.1 disk and installed the new flavor. same problem - only now the key/mouse combo doesn't work. or else i can't remember it - tho i tried every possible combination that seemed obvious. since the bottom of the window is often off the screen, i can't resize it. so question must be this if i want to use linux am i going to have to get a video card that does 800x600, and will linux be able to find use that one instead of the one on the motherboard without causing problems? thanks much... expect to see a whole lot more of me Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] software question...
Check freshmeat.net, appwatch.com, and linuxberg.com for your needs. You're likely to find it somewhere in them. "John T. Seebold" wrote: Anyone know of some decent business software for Linux. Specifically I would like to bill people though it. John
[newbie] XF86-4.0.1
For those of you on the list who had trouble with XF86-4.0, 4.0.1 has been released, and if I read correctly, there's even xf86cfg - a graphical configuration program. (Personally, I didn't care if they made a graphical one or not, I just didn't want to have to manually edit any more X configuration files. Yes. I'm lazy at times.) Hopefully, the Mandrake people will have an i586.rpm of this available soon. I'm looking forward to real 3D support under a Linux windowing system.
Re: [newbie] More than 128M
I realize this answer doesn't help you. But my system has 192MB that it detected just fine when I installed Mandrake 7.1. Even when I was running 7.0, it detected the upgrade from 64MB to 192MB without any intervention on my part. It may have to do with your motherboard's method of handling RAM/RAM reporting. "Rodrigo P." wrote: Hi... A friend of my has a problem with its comp. memory... He has 196M of memory, passing as parameter during startup, linux recognizes 128M ok, but trying to pass over it, linux locks on startup. Is this a limit, or maybe he is doing something wrong ? Is there someway to make linux recognizes all the 196M mem ??? Thanks for the help. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in Netscape
I still had to go into the XFS config file mentioned in the README for the Mozilla-Fonts package and add the directory the Mozilla fonts got installed to (look at the file list in the RPM, because it's not the same directory as the readme says). Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi! I have Mandrake 7.02 and I am disapointed with fonts of Netscape. Pages do not look the same... Where are the "Windows" fonts, like arial, verdana, etc... ? Can we add more fonts to Netscape? How? On any 'cooker' ftp site such as: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ ...or any '7.1' site ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.1/Mandrake/RPMS/ you'll find 'drakfontrpm' which installs your windows TT fonts for all X apps including Netscape. NS still looks like heck, so also get the 'mozilla-fontsrpm' which installs some fonts for NS that look a lot better. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] mozilla M16
I'd like to see an RPM of M16 with the SSL capabilities available through a second RPM. Too bad so many governments have to be so uptight over encryption. Tom Brinkman wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, you wrote: I only have one for this one.AWESOME! It is WAY better than the beta release of Netscape 6. By lightyears even. If this is any indication of the final version of Netscape 6 is going to be I can't wait! It's great. Thanks Netscape. You guys are doing a fine job. On the cooker list the developers are saying that M16 is Netscape 6. I've taken a look at Mozzila a few times, the last being M16. I found it slow and buggy, more so than NS 4.7x OTOH, KDE2 and Konquerer should be here by Sept. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Free Agent for Linux?
You aren't kidding. PAN feels a lot like Agent when you're done configuring it. It's missing some of Agent's features, but the most important ones are there. It even knows some tricks Agent doesn't. Paul wrote: On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, rebel wrote: Does anyone know of a "Free Agent" clone that works with Linux? Or a similar pgm? (newsgroups reader and decoder, can check to see if all parts of message are dl'able) Thanks PAN. You can get it from linuxberg. Paul
Re: [newbie] Internet Server Question(Maybe)?
It would probably be best to find a more expert level list to post this question to. Most questions considered "newbie" in nature involve getting minor programs or the OS itself to just work. Your question concerns the equivalent of running a micro-ISP. James Little wrote: Here's the deal. I have a DSL connection that all the computers on my LAN share. We have an extra phone line that noone calls cause it used to be our dial-up internet connection. My brother is cheap and doesn't want to pay for his own internet acount, so here's what we did in windows 2000. His modem dials mine and we get a pretty good connection(44K or better). When you open network neighborhood it looks like his machine is just another computer on my network, so it gives him internet, file, and printer access just like the rest of us. Granted it is slower, but his connection is just as functional as anyone elses hanging directly on the network. The DSL modem is on it's own port on the network and has it's own IP. To connect to the net I just set everyone's machine up to use the DSL's IP as a gateway and it has worked beautifully. How do I set up Linux on my machine to answer the phone when it rings and allow him access to the network? I have kept the IP the same for all the OS's I boot to for ease of use, and have tried to simplify everything. Do I just set the machine up as an internet server, or what? Do I use IP forwarding? When I set him up as a user, does he need to be a PPP user or a general user? Since it is a local call, alot of the time we'll just connect and leave it connected for days, but since I've moved primarily to Linux it renders my machine boring to me when he wants to go onto the web. Maybe I just have my head up my but, but I'm totally lost here. I know it would be easier if I had a another machine set up that I could dedicate to this and a couple of other small tasks, but I'm still in the works on that, and I need a temporary fix. Any help would be appreciated. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] GAIM
Found it at the GAIM homepage... http://www.marko.net/gaim/ It seems that if you didn't have config data stored with AOL, you got the no config error we were discussing. 0.9.19 is supposed to solve this. While I'll be happy to install from a tarball, I wonder how long it'll take MandrakeSoft to get an updated RPM out the door. (Hear that, MdkSoft? Your new users under 7.1 can't use GAIM until you give them an update.) Jim wrote: I use everybuddy works well with AIM, Yahoo, and MSN. It's supposed to work well with icq as well but I don't have an ICQ number...kinda cool all the messangers wrapped in one package...I use it daily You can find it on TuCows Jim - Original Message - From: "Fran Parker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] GAIM I am using GAIM version 0.9.18-1 and I have it open right now and an talking with my sister who is online with AOL. Hopefully this is not something that will now affect this version as well, and just hasn't gotten to mine yet. That would be a real drag. Bambi Digital Wokan wrote: Must be AOL's end. I have tried the latest version of GAIM and receive the same error about no config. lilbambi wrote: need to get the latest version if you are getting an error with GAIM now, even though it used to work. Something changed on AOL's end I believe. the new one fixes the problem. Bambi - Original Message - From: "Hugh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 7:20 AM Subject: [newbie] GAIM Is anyone else having trouble with GAIM? It started about a week ago. Wont allow me to log in the pass word is correct. Say's I dont have a config file when I try. Any ideas? Not a big problem I admit but I hate not having an answer :) Hugh -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation
He actually had a point. You may not have found him articulate in bringing it up, but he was right. Assuming you have some knowledge in setting up a Linux system, you should not have to reinstall the entire thing. Though, I must admit, sometimes even I have found it to be the most expedient solution to the problem. Alan Shoemaker wrote: flupkebecause your opinion/solution and mine differ is no reason to be rude towards me when you expound upon your own remedy. Yelling that my suggestion to help this person was 'BAD' was simply not called for and I resent it. Yelling in general is rude, but what you said, in the manner in which you said it, was pompous and condescending in the extreme as well as just plain rude. Please contemplate and consider the above comments when composing future public messages. Alan flupke wrote: I also installed XFree4.0 while I shouldn't BUT I DIDN'T REINSTALL THE OS. Please FORGET about this BAD idea! You are in a UNIX environnement! This is NOT windows! If you have installed XFree4.O and want to install XFree3.3.6, then you just have to boot, uninstall XFree4.0 and install XFree3.3.6. And you are done. Everybody should understand that if one package has problems, then you just handle the faulty package. And you don't have to reinstall the whole thing from scratch. Could it be a problem with X, the security level, the internet connection, or anything, you can repair it. Sorry, but I had to say it. Flupke On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Carlthat sounds like what I experienced when I first installed 7.1 and chose version 4 of XF86. I reinstalled 7.1 and picked version 3.6 of XF86 and those symptoms no longer occured. Alan Carl Kehley wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, development install from install and ext. cd's, and I've got a few minor problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. First, Mandrake refuses to recognize my mouse as Logitech MouseMan+, and instead keeps calling it a generic PS2. I've changed it in the mouseconfig in DrakConf, it's recognized correctly in Lothar, but I've got no support for the wheel(even as a third button). Next, gnome-ppp--what is meant by "remote name" in the config? I've set it up exactly the same as kppp, but it disconnects about 30 seconds after the handshake, and I've got no dns, even though everything is entered correctly. Finally, there seem to be major conflicts between the RealPlayer 7 Netscape plugin and plugger in Communicator, to the point where RealPlayer freezes and I've got to reboot to get my sound back. I remember seeing something similar in the list last week, but I didn't save the message, and can't locate it in the archives. Any help, advice, creative criticism gladly accepted. Thanks in advance, Carl Kehley -- There's no place like ~ ! -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Need desparate help with linux elf error in Netscape
Lucky for you, there are web developers here. :) It isn't a problem with your OS, it's a problem with DialPad.com. They have their webserver detect what kind of browser/OS is connecting to their server and send an "appropriate" message. So they see you are using Netscape, which is fine, but it's running on Linux, which THEY do not support. (Yet another company that doesn't feed the penguin.) DialPad uses Java for their program, so what should be a painless port to Linux (Java shouldn't have to be "ported". Thank Monoposoft for that one.) ends up taking them enough time that either they haven't gotten to it or have decided that us Linux users aren't worth their advertising dollar. Perhaps there are other such phone for free systems out there who do support the penguin. Vic wrote: When I went to a web page, Netscape gave me this error linux elf not supported, I can't sdiscfipbe it good so here is a link so I don't post a little gif to the list. http://kittypuss.dyndns.org/error.gif I HATE that trash! FAQ what FAQ probably one that either does not exist or is full of lies and trash that don't work, *I really must get to* this web page I HAVE to use dialpad to contact*** someone, the phone here won't reach that number** **pleasepleasepleaseplease help me.
Re: [newbie] Mouse Problem after CPU Switch
Most mice don't like being switched in/out. I'm surprised it resumes working when you switch back. Leo Stutzmann wrote: I have 2 cpus connected through a CPU switch (non-powered cheap one) to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. I have to have the switch set to the correct CPU when I power up that CPU, after the machine is powered up, everything works, including X. Once both CPUs are up, and X is running, when I switch to CPU A from B the mouse pointer does not work and is stuck in one spot. To correct this I have to shut down X and restart it. Then when I switch back to CPU B from A the same thing happens. I am running Mandrake 7.1 B3, but this happens with older version as well. I thought maybe a newer XFree86 might fix the problem, but no luck so far. This switch works when both machines are running Solaris X86, and Windows. Any help or pointers (no pun intended) would be appreciated. Leo Stutzmann
[newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)
Actually, I just tried installing KVirc 2.0.0 from the KVirc official site and it core dumped immediately under Mandrake 7.1. Perhaps I should look at the Extension CD, but it looks like MandrakeSoft may have left KVirc in the dust. In fact, I haven't seen anything but console IRC clients on the Install CD. Fran Parker wrote: hi Kevin, I am not a Wine expert..infact I am still trying to get dosemu to work on my ATI All in Wonder Card in VGA mode. Two things though. user.dat is a system file for windows, everyone has them. I think it is looking for it in the wrong place, mine is located on my c drive on the windows partition: dos_c/windows/user.dat You can locate yours within kde with find by searching the root for user.dat Then you can modify the config file for wine to represent where yours is. Second, if you like mIRC, you might want to take a look at KVirc. I love mIRC, and KVirc is a very close version of irc for linux. I really like it. http://www.kvirc.org Hope these suggestions help out. Bambi kevin wrote: Hi gang. I have been using mandrake a few weeks nows, and so far I have got everything to work well, apart from wine. I d/loaded rpm version 2526 and installed it.After I changed the wine.conf, I run wine, and I get the following error. Invalid path c:\windows\Profiles\adminustrator for profile directory cant find users.dat I looked though windoz and I dont seem to have those anyway. I am huge fan of mIRC, and that is the prime reason I wish to to wine. I loaded mIRC up, and it gave me a bunch of error messages. Too many to post on the ML I was wondering if there are any wine experts out there, and can help me in private? Many thanx Kev
Re: [newbie] Need desparate help with linux elf error in Netscape
You'd have to have a browser that lets you set the description manually so that it could "lie" to the server. I've heard of such a browser or a program that intercepted and altered such headers, but I think that was back when I used (should it be called suffering through instead?) Windows. But then on top of that, you have to hope that DialPad didn't write their Java using MS-J++. We all know how portable that PoS is. Vic wrote: Then is there any way to fool it into thinking that the user is using windows? On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, Digital Wokan wrote: Lucky for you, there are web developers here. :) It isn't a problem with your OS, it's a problem with DialPad.com. They have their webserver detect what kind of browser/OS is connecting to their server and send an "appropriate" message. So they see you are using Netscape, which is fine, but it's running on Linux, which THEY do not support. (Yet another company that doesn't feed the penguin.) DialPad uses Java for their program, so what should be a painless port to Linux (Java shouldn't have to be "ported". Thank Monoposoft for that one.) ends up taking them enough time that either they haven't gotten to it or have decided that us Linux users aren't worth their advertising dollar. Perhaps there are other such phone for free systems out there who do support the penguin. Vic wrote: When I went to a web page, Netscape gave me this error linux elf not supported, I can't sdiscfipbe it good so here is a link so I don't post a little gif to the list. http://kittypuss.dyndns.org/error.gif I HATE that trash! FAQ what FAQ probably one that either does not exist or is full of lies and trash that don't work, *I really must get to* this web page I HAVE to use dialpad to contact*** someone, the phone here won't reach that number** **pleasepleasepleaseplease help me.**** -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?
ftp.math.utah.edu But if you read some of my previous posts, you will see that I had to go fix some flubs in the cards+ file concerning three Trident video cards and I still don't have a working XF86Setup. Mandrake Account wrote: Which site did you download the iso from. I have been having trouble downloading them since it came out. I can't seem to get any of the sites on the website to connected and I have a cable modem. Eric At 01:37 AM 6/10/2000 -0700, you wrote: I haven't even tried an FTP install of Linux in my life. Of course I had a 56K and didn't want to tie up the phone for days. Now I'm on cable, so I download the .iso images and burn CD-R's of Mandrake. I'd recommend you find a friend with a fast connection and a CD-R (or CD-RW) drive. I don't really want to offer to do this for anyone online since I could get flooded with requests and have to play pick-and-choose. If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn .iso's to CD-R for a few people. I might do 1 or 2 per week like that, but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot. Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there is a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me (and probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of the categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days ago and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of the packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your time zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it). Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the second CD. Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting for mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download and install MDK 7.1 by FTP? I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem. I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE, hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without installing KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In desperation, I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left, it once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of the installation process as if nothing had happened! So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks? Thank you so much. -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Doom question...
He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size. Trevor Reynolds wrote: Ronald, When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the screen larger. Trevor "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake 7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs, as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit). Thanks! PS and what about that ultra small window? :-) -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Doom question...
My apologies. I didn't see the PS. Maybe I should hide the flamethrower in the fridge so it doesn't light up so quickly. Trevor Reynolds wrote: OK, so I couldn't answer his main problem, but at least I could handle the PS! Digital Wokan wrote: He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size. Trevor Reynolds wrote: Ronald, When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the screen larger. Trevor "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake 7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs, as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit). Thanks! PS and what about that ultra small window? :-) -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?
Or try linuxiso.org. Most distributions of Linux and a couple of BSD's
can be found there.
Charles A Edwards wrote:
To find a list of sites from which you can download the ISOs go to
www.tucows.com
Click on Linux. When the Linux page loads click on the link for ISO image
files. You will find a list of about 40 or more FTP sites. The closer you
are to the site you choose the faster your download speed will be.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Mandrake Account" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?
Which site did you download the iso from. I have been having trouble
downloading them since it came out. I can't seem to get any of the sites
on the website to connected and I have a cable modem.
Eric
At 01:37 AM 6/10/2000 -0700, you wrote:
I haven't even tried an FTP install of Linux in my life. Of course I
had a 56K and didn't want to tie up the phone for days. Now I'm on
cable, so I download the .iso images and burn CD-R's of Mandrake.
I'd recommend you find a friend with a fast connection and a CD-R (or
CD-RW) drive. I don't really want to offer to do this for anyone online
since I could get flooded with requests and have to play
pick-and-choose.
If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
.iso's to CD-R for a few people. I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new
Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there
is
a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me
(and
probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of
the
categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total
of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days
ago
and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the
download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of
the
packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the
next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your
time
zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic
message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly
is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it).
Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the
first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the
second CD.
Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting
for
mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download
and install MDK 7.1 by FTP?
I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem.
I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE,
hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same
problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without
installing
KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In
desperation,
I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build
on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left,
it
once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of
the
installation process as if nothing had happened!
So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks?
Thank you so much.
--
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
--
Digital Wokan
Tribal mage of the electronics age
Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?]]
I'm in the Phoenix area, so what you mean by trading eludes me. Jaguar wrote: Well since I am waiting to get on Disability (hence NOT working), the highlight of my day is going for coffee at a local coffee shopwanna trade? Jaguar Tymanthius Rune Speak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Digital Wokan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn .iso's to CD-R for a few people. I might do 1 or 2 per week like that, but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot. I've got a faster burner (6x scsi) and could do the same. Email me privately and we'll see, but I don't promise to be fast - you may well be better off going to cheap bytes. To say my life is hectic is an understatement (I'll trade anyone who has aboring one!!).
Re: [newbie] 7.1/XF86Setup problem...
I really don't want to have to sit through another reinstall tonight. I have a perfectly operational command line environment. If I new which package contained the file that has the error, I'd promptly download and install it over what's there now. I've already downloaded XF86Setup, VGA16, SVGA, and Server-common from tux.org and RPM -Uvh --force'd them. Anthony Huereca wrote: I have a Diamond V550, and it works just fine for me. I installed from scratch like you did, and even selected the same exact resolution and color depth. I had originally started out with X 4.0; but I did something with it and now I boot to X 3.3.6 (although I'm trying to get back to X 4.0). But 3.3.6 still works just fine. I'm not sure what went wrong with X in your case. Maybe it was a freak accident or something and reinstalling will magically work now. I can supply an exact duplication of the error if needed, but I jotted down the gist of it before rebooting to winderz. Installing 7.1 did not bring up XF86 in the 1024x768x32 resolution I asked for. It was maybe 800x600 (though more likely 640x480). Ctrl-Alt-+ didn't fix this, it increased the virtual area instead. I went to fire up XF86Setup and got a segfault. The error was along these lines... Something missing from a "SERVER" (the error made server all caps) section and then three video chipsets and some line numbers were listed... ... Trident TGUI 9660 (generic) (line 2513) Trident TGUI 9680 (generic) (line 2519) Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2537) SSegmentation fault (Core dumped) Originally, this was a Mandrake 7.0 being upgraded, but after an hour futzing with that, I just moved everything to a "/backup" partition and installed 7.1 from scratch. The results of all this work? Segmentation fault (Core dumped). The video card is a Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT chipset, 16MB, AGP). My system is a K6-2/500 with 192MB. I had no problems at all with this card in 6.1 or 7.0 (using the Riva 128 chipset selection since there was no Riva TNT and still isn't AFAIK). -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] 7.1/XF86Setup problem...
Well, if you read headers, you can see that I'm writing this from Netscape 4.73 in Linux. It did require XConfigurator, but I still had to find those errors I mentioned for it to work. It seems MandrakeSoft put the SERVER directive _after_ the DRIVER directive in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards+ for the TGUI9660 and TGUI9680. And then to top that they didn't even list a SERVER directive for the Trident Cyber 9320. Once I moved/added the SERVER directives, XF86Setup no longer gave me those errors, but it did still segfault. XConfigurator did get things going though. (Oh, xf86config also errored and segfaulted before the editing and I didn't try it again afterward.) Perhaps I should try getting the source for XF86Setup and rebuilding it myself. I really prefer it for getting everything configured in the order I choose, instead of getting hearded down text menus. Anthony Huereca wrote: Hmmm, I just tried XF86Setup on my machine, and it segfaulted too. Xconfigurator works fine though, try that. I really don't want to have to sit through another reinstall tonight. I have a perfectly operational command line environment. If I new which package contained the file that has the error, I'd promptly download and install it over what's there now. I've already downloaded XF86Setup, VGA16, SVGA, and Server-common from tux.org and RPM -Uvh --force'd them. Anthony Huereca wrote: I have a Diamond V550, and it works just fine for me. I installed from scratch like you did, and even selected the same exact resolution and color depth. I had originally started out with X 4.0; but I did something with it and now I boot to X 3.3.6 (although I'm trying to get back to X 4.0). But 3.3.6 still works just fine. I'm not sure what went wrong with X in your case. Maybe it was a freak accident or something and reinstalling will magically work now. I can supply an exact duplication of the error if needed, but I jotted down the gist of it before rebooting to winderz. Installing 7.1 did not bring up XF86 in the 1024x768x32 resolution I asked for. It was maybe 800x600 (though more likely 640x480). Ctrl-Alt-+ didn't fix this, it increased the virtual area instead. I went to fire up XF86Setup and got a segfault. The error was along these lines... Something missing from a "SERVER" (the error made server all caps) section and then three video chipsets and some line numbers were listed... ... Trident TGUI 9660 (generic) (line 2513) Trident TGUI 9680 (generic) (line 2519) Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2537) SSegmentation fault (Core dumped) Originally, this was a Mandrake 7.0 being upgraded, but after an hour futzing with that, I just moved everything to a "/backup" partition and installed 7.1 from scratch. The results of all this work? Segmentation fault (Core dumped). The video card is a Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT chipset, 16MB, AGP). My system is a K6-2/500 with 192MB. I had no problems at all with this card in 6.1 or 7.0 (using the Riva 128 chipset selection since there was no Riva TNT and still isn't AFAIK).
