Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!
On Thursday 07 April 2005 09:55 am, Domingo Abrego wrote: | hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to | use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did | some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this | websites is that it is not possible!!! | | but i found a driver for LTwinmodem (lucent winmodems) for linux.. in the | driverguide webpage, is that possible... and maybe the main question is how | do i install this driver on my system.? Very likely. BUT, the driver you use must match the running kernel--it is possible you will need to compile to do this--get ready to install kernel-source or kernel-headers. And, if you upgrade your kernel it will break the modem and you will need to compile the driver again. I've gotten lucent chipset modems to work with several kernels, but you know what??? It really isn't worth the bother. Get an external serial modem (not usb!) and save yourself the frustration. If you insist,http://www.linmodems.org Also, the scanModem tool (do a Google for it) will identify your chipset and probably tell you what driver you need, if there is a precompiled one for it. Good Luck e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
On Thursday 07 April 2005 03:14 pm, Tim wrote: | Hello all, | | | Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum | requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually | running 10.1 on this pc. | | Also, | | Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on | a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. | | Cheapbytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com) has Mandrake disks back to 7.0.8.2 might also work with that system with KDE and all the eye candy turned on. But the 7.x series will fly on that old hardware. Newer distros and Xfce should work o.k., maybe excellently, but it will take some getting used to because that is quite a departure from the Winsux desktop look. I run DSL (damn small linux) on a P233 laptop with 64 megs and it works really excellent. I used DSL because I wanted the complete system and a couple hundred megs of free space on a 300 Meg partition. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Saturday 02 April 2005 11:12 am, SigmaX wrote: | Miark wrote: | On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:49:52 +0200, Philippe wrote: | Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here | ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ | | how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, | and how to disable their snooping system: | http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html | | Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, don't it? | | SigmaX Actually, from what I read, it is not Adobe that is doing this. A third party has written an app to use a feature of Acrobat 7 (the ability to run Javascript within the document) so that the IP address of whomever is opening the *.pdf can be logged. I'm not certain that Adobe will take kindly to this twisting of what was probably good intentions. In effect, it has turned a feature into a bug in Acrobat Reader, in the mind of many people. Those of us on dial-up, and those with a dynamic IP wouldn't care, but users with a static IP should be at least a little bit pissed. Before we condemn Adobe, lets wait and see how this plays out (and maybe some will want to disable Java in the Reader and install the perl script to stop the nagging). Also, does anyone know of any site, anywhere, using this? Maybe, just boycotting those sites would be effective. Time will tell. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:11 pm, Chris wrote: | On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:32 am, Q.H. Wang wrote: | Finally got it to work, first followed the directions in this link: | | http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Acrobat | | which I found in the newsgroup, netscape.public.mozilla.unix, however this | didn't work either, so, I then read further in the newsgroup and saw a | reference to having the plug-in here /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so copied it | there, restarted mozilla, and, voila, .pdf files now load within mozilla. | | HTH Someone. | | Chris HooHoo--that worked for me too. Seems strange, because all my other plugins are in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins, and the nppdf.so was there and showed up in the Aboutplugins section, but it didn't work. With the nppdf.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, now pdf's open within Moz. Thanks e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 06:35 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: | On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:20 -0600, Chris wrote: | Yes, mine did the same, Mozilla shows the plug-in installed, however, | clicking on a .pdf file withing Mozilla nets some drive action, but the | .pdf never loads. Any ideas? | | I don't know. I just closed Mozilla (1.7.6), started it again and worked | just fine. | | Adolfo I'm using Moz 1.4, and it won't work here either--same symptoms. If I right-click and save as I can open the pdf after it downloads, so it appears to be an issue with the older version of Mozilla. I tried linking to the nppdf.so first--didn't work, so I went the install route--and it still gives no joy. Does it work with Firefox 1.0? I could switch browsers, but I can't get Realplayer to work with Firefox 1 8(. This machine is still running 9.2, because, up to now, everything works, and I despise upgrading when everything works, because I know 10.x is going to break things (I've been experimenting with the 2.6 kernel and it definitely breaks things on my systems). e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture
On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a | picture. Any suggestions? | | Thanks in advance, | | Paul May I suggest ImageMagik? It is on your disks, has lots of features (resize, crop, sharpen, color balance, etc) and has a shallow learning curve. The only thing I don't like about it is saving images is somewhat clunky. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?
On Saturday 26 March 2005 09:32 pm, Tom wrote: | OOzy Pal wrote: | Dears | | I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade | to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see | a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform | better with Linux do to the Cache. Please help. | | Your AMD 1.3 vs. a Celery is a toss up in synthetic benchmarks. | | You really need to give specs for your current system, an how | you use it, for more concise appraisals. The motherboard you're | usin is as, or more important than the cpu. As is ram (brand, | cas/latency, banking, etc.) and presupposes a good quality power | supply. | | Then you can also tailor Linux to your hardware. For instance, | I'm usin 2.6.11-6mdkK74g preempt K7 gcc-3.4 (compiled for Athlon, | preempt enabled, 4gig ram ) an find it to be much more responsive | than 2.6.8 or 2.6.10 kernels compiled the same way. On a 3+Ghz | Athlon, VIA KT600, 1GB 2.5CL 4-bank ram system, mildly overclocked. | Mostly optimizations are only seen in compiling, an re-de-encoding | of large files (which I do a lot of). | | Regards, | OOzy Also, keep in mind that fast chips are bogged down by low-memory vid cards. CPU power is worth something, but waiting for the graphical interface to render is what makes a system seem to be slow. Unless you are shelling out $$$ for a high-mem video card, the real differences (as Tom wrote) are what you can't see--compiling and such. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Monday 14 March 2005 11:01 am, Michel Leunen wrote: | Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. | Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log | in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop | and no icons and I have to leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with | another window manager. | How can I get KDE back? And, please, don't tell me I have to reinstall | once again. | | Michel Can you log into kde as a different user? Maybe create one and see. If so, rename your /home/~/.kde to .OLDkde. Logout and then back into KDE. That will probably fix it. Beware, you may want to backup your Mail directory and your kaddressbook, because you may lose them in the process. Your desktop settings will also return to the default. The bright side is, it is a relatively quick fix. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Saturday 12 March 2005 08:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: | On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: | OK - that's out, then. What about the fstab line? It feels a long time | since I used a 2.4 kernel, so I may be remembering wrongly, but is the | cdrom really scd1? I would go to MCC Hardware Mountpoints and check | everything there - not forgetting the advanced tab. I usually find that | fixes any problems I have. | | Anne | | No, its really an IDE device (the Toshiba DVD reader at /dev/scd0 is truly | a SCSI device). Before when it was working fine, I had it setup as scd1 in | the /etc/fstab file, so I dunno. | You know, I've found that occasionally something will monkey with fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab as soon as I get everything working, so I can refer back to it when things go south. (The fstab backup created at changes isn't reliable, because sometimes I don't notice that stuff isn't working for a while, and several changes may have been made). K3b seems to be a big offender (as you have found out). Also, turn off harddrake--you can always turn it back on when new hardware is added. And sometimes, things seem to happen for no good reason that I can determine. I thought that I might be the only one, but I guess not. These are the fstab lines for my CD's with Mdk9.2, no scsi emulation on the reader. If there was, it might make cdrom2 /dev/scd1. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 One thing I know, if you unplug a usb device, and don't reboot when you plug it back in, a second mount point for the same device will be added (my camera does this continuously), and it drives me nuts! Anyone know how to stop this? And finally, I quit using K3b. I have a lot less problems with Eroaster because it doesn't continually lose my devices. I don't have any DVD writers, though, just CDRWs, so I don't know if Eroaster even works with DVDRW. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Saturday 26 February 2005 12:06 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: | I have, after 4 years or so, finally figured out that mdk is a | French plot to humble me. | | Fifth attempt to upgrade or fresh install 10.1 on my laptop that was | happily running 10.0. | | 14 hours after beginning this exercise I am now at the gurpmi update | dl. It named 92 progs, probably fraught with dependencies that will | no doubt require my personal approval. | | I know, gurpmi isn't the update method of choice for an old salt | like me, but I've urpmi'ed my last urpmi for the day. | | We're at a new high of 58/92 without crashing or running out of disk | space on a 20gb drive. No more than 6 hours or so before we again | have a laptop. Maybe | | I really need to get a life. Do real beginners really put up with | this shite? | | Well, maybe tomorrow I'll switch the mirrors to cooker... | | Lee Sheesh! If it works, I don't mess with it. I won't upgrade unless I put a new machine on line (except for an experimental box that gets a new distro almost weekly, last week was Ubuntu, this is Overclockix week). My main machine (this one) is still running 9.2. Everything works--I ain't gonna screw with it. My wife's machine runs 9.1 flawlessly, and I sure as hell ain't gonna mess with that one! The couch just isn't that comfortable. My motto: Never play with the main machine unless there is a damn good reason. If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /
On Saturday 12 February 2005 05:57 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd | appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through | a fix for this, if possible. | | The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / | partition. You may have been bitten by your /var/log, so you will have to delete those log archives. This happened to me on a smaller / partition a long time ago. What I did then (and still do now, out of habit), is, as root, navigate to the /etc/logrotate.conf and edit all entries that say rotate 4 and change to rotate 1, change any weekly to daily and change any monthly to weekly. That should take care of it in the future. If you're not running a server you don't need all those logs anyway. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 02:51 pm, David G Stevenson wrote: | | Your kernel and the kernel the proprietary closed source driver was | compiled against are different. Maybe different enough to cause problems | hooking the code to the newer kernel. In the first instance I would | email Motorola with your OS details and kernel version and ask them | nicely for a newer version. Exactly my thoughts. I've had this problem with the Lucent chip modems with kernel 2.6.x. The versions must match exactly (as well as the gcc version that the kernel and driver are compiled against). If you can afford an external SERIAL modem get one, because every time the kernel changes the Winmodem driver must be changed also. It is truly a PITA. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 7.1 support
On Friday 04 February 2005 12:00 pm, NE MASANGANE wrote: | - Original Message - | From: NE MASANGANE | To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com | Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:46 PM | Subject: Linux Mandrake 7.1 support | | | | | LINUX MANDRAKE 7.1 | Help | | I have linux Mandrake 7.1 and I want to install the operating system but | now I use windows xp pro ( NTFS ) I need both operating systems in one | machine. 1.. How to install the operating system in these situation ? My advice--don't. | 2.. How to do partition on the hard disk in these situation ? Not with 7.1--it's partition tool doesn't understand ntfs. You need a more modern system (7.1 is roughly equivalent to Win98). I would recommend at least Mandrake 9.1. Anything less and you will have extreme configuration problems. | 3.. Linux mandrake 7.1 can support internal modem 56 kbps ? Likely, you have a WinModem. These are WINDOWS modems, designed to use the operating system. Some of these can be configured and some can't--drivers may be available-- that work with Linux (hence the term LinModem, but if you install Mandrake 10 and above with the 2.6 kernel you may have to compile the drivers yourself. These drivers are for a specific kernel, and you may not be able to download an exact match for your kernel (I just went through this). That is another advantage of the older 9.1 and 9.2--they have the 2.4 kernel and if your modem happens to be a LinModem the drivers for whatever kernel you have will be available to download as a package--no compiling. Have a look at http://www.linmodems.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dumbest test I've ever seen
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:47 pm, jdow wrote: | | Mandrake is not ready for Aunt Tilly. I have to throw a BS flag on this. Aunt Tilly can't install Windows. While she can click an executable and install a program in Win, with Mandrake, there certainly aren't many programs she would need--everything useful to her is installed by default. Auntie has to be talked through her internet connection by her ISP, or an installer has to come over and set up her DSL for her (and with Win she will be promptly hosting spyware and adware, is my guess). So, internet setup is a wash for Windows and Linux. My wife has been using Mandrake for years (since she got hit with the Anna K worm within a couple of hours of it being released into the wild). If she can use it (as she once told a friend of ours), Anybody can. And no, she can't install Windows, either. And, I've installed Mandrake on a number of friend's computers, and most aren't very computer savvy. They are using it and they are still my friends. I get a lot fewer questions and provide a lot less support to them than I do to my friends with Windows machines--most of the Windows problems are due to spyware/adware and just plain stupidity. Stupidity is hard on Linux (unless you run as root) and the spyware and adware just aren't there. So, I ask you, Which system is really easier for Aunt Tilly? Remember, all she wants to do is some word processing, open a *.pdf once in a while, browse for recipes and send and receive her e-mail. And maybe share pics of the nieces and nephews. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem
On Monday 31 January 2005 12:20 am, Cyber Killer wrote: | Cyber Killer wrote: | Elwyn wrote: | The later versions might have new drivers that are causing problems. | | When I've been trying to sort these little problems out with PCs I try | changing the hardware around just in case... | | OK I'll try, but, I've always been using XFree4 and never had any | problems :-P | | I'll say how it came out in a couple of days | | OK, I switched the gfx cards (I borrowed a GF4 Ti from a friend) and | guess what? It didn't work :-( | | Replacing all my hardware one by one is a way of getting to the problem, | but I was hoping that someone may have a better solution. Even if I'd | find the part that is causing the problem this way, replacing it is out | of the question right now (ca$h problems ;-P ). | | Anyone has any other ideas? Drop back to a 2.4.x kernel. The 2.6 kernel seems to have a lot of problems (on Mandrake and Debian, anyway--'course Deb says it isn't ready for stable). e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:28 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Tuesday 25 Jan 2005 14:57, Lanman wrote: | Hi Gang. I've been trying to find out how to permanently modify the | KDE3.2 and 3.3 menus and I'm not getting anywhere. | | When things appear to have a mind of their own, like this, it usually turns | out to be msec. Could that be the problem here? | | Anne | - -- If unsure, as root navigate to /usr/sbin and rename the msec executable to msecDISABLE. That will stop msec from running. You can re-enable it by renaming. For the record, I hate msec and always disable it (not recommended if you don't understand permissions), and I haven't encountered this problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SOS
On Monday 24 January 2005 03:03 pm, teguh wrote: | | | Type of conncection (dial-up, DSL, wireless, LAN, direct etc..) | | I use dial-up connection (Kppp) but the answer always /modem does not | respond./ with XP I had no problem. | | Graphical interface (KDE, Gnome, ICEwm, Fluxbox, XFCE etc...) | | I'm not sure..KDE I guess :-) how can I find I use what | | | How did you install ( normally you set up the connection during | install) | | yesI set up the connection during install. Sounds suspiciously like a Winmodem to me. Hardware modems are usually found immediately (query your modem in kppp after changing the setting from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS0, then /dev/ttyS1, etc. If that doesn't work, consult http://www.linmodems.org for more information. If you do, indeed have a Winmodem (and you are running the 2.6 kernel), my advice is to buy an EXTERNAL SERIAL MODEM (about $25 on e-bay). Even with a supported Linmodem, kernel 2.6 drivers may be iffy, especially if you install a different kernel-version in the future. It ain't worth messing with. Winmodems are designed to use the system resources and require specific drivers to allow them to do so. External SERIAL modems are hardware-based, and stand-alone with no drivers needed. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1
On Monday 24 January 2005 03:31 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: | Please, do not assume this is apostasy. | | What are the main differences between SUSE Pro 9.2 and Mandrake | 10.1? | | SuSe isn't as cutting edge as Mandrake--the upside--most stuff works without hassles. Because it is cutting edge, things sometimes don't work as they are supposed to in Mandrake. Mandrake has far better configuration tools (IMO). Yast still sucks. SuSe has some pretty serious hardware requirements--I can get Mandrake to run fast (with KDE) on a P300. SuSe won't, and I can't figure out why--it is just slow. On the other hand, the Debian 2.6.7 kernel runs fine (KDE) on a P233. If you want to get more than just a basic system you need SuSe Pro. The download Demo disk is pretty basic. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 to 10.1 upgrade kernel panic
On Friday 21 January 2005 05:51 pm, Paul wrote: | When upgrading to 10.1 Official from 10.0 Official, I keep getting a | 'kernel panic suggest passing init= error. | | If I make a new install with the same discs, there's no problem. | | Any ideas what causes this? Sometimes, lilo doesn't get the line: initrd=/boot/initrd.img added to it. Or, the line could possibly be there, but be pointing to the old *.img, and not to the new one. Boot with a Knoppix disk and have a look at /etc/lilo.conf and /boot The initrd.img file is a link--see if it points to the right kernel. And, /boot/vmlinuz must point to the the correct kernel, too. I left this for last because I, too, have had problems, and the initrd.img link was the culprit, not the vmlinuz. You would think an upgrade would always re-create the initrd.img to point to the new kernel, but not so. OOPS--kernel panic. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: | On Wednesday 19 January 2005 03:16 pm, J. David Boyd wrote: | My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using | 256M memory. | | When I set up the system, I went with the double your memory for swap | space rule. | | Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. | | How do I double the memory size for swap space? | | Is there some easy way, or am I going to need to get some kind of | partition editor, and start moving things around? | | Any idea of the consequences of NOT resizing my swap space, but leaving | it at 500M? | | Thanks for any ideas, | | Dave | | I have 768 on this machine and have never seen it access swap. It probably | does when I'm not looking but when I have a bunch of stuff up and running | and check it does not have any swap being used. So long story short, don't | bother, you don't need the extra. Same here. I never make a swap any bigger than 256M, and I'm pretty darn sure that I really don't need more than 128M on any machine with more ram than 256M. Trust me, you have more swap space than you need already. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernal panic
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:45 am, et wrote: | On Monday 17 January 2005 05:53 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: | On Monday 17 January 2005 12:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | This morning I turned my PC on, went off to make my coffee, when I came | | back it had this message: | | | | Kernal panic: No Init found. Try passing init= option to kernal | | | | | | what happened it was going great last night when I shut it down!! | | then this :( | | | | and how do i fix it? | | More information is needed. Hardware can cause this (hd went titsup for | examp). Less extreme is a software error. Try booting to failsafe. Or, | try with the first install disk for recovery, and see if you can mount | the root drive that way. | | mkdir /mnt/hd | | chroot /mnt/hd | | cd /etc/ | | vi lilo | | and then | | Check to see that everything lilo (or /boot/menu.lst for grub) is | pointing to actually exists where lilo thinks it should be. | | You will also find the rest of your drive (if it is working) | | If so, there is an option for re-installing the boot loader while in the | recovery mode. | | If it were my system, my first inclination would be to boot with a | Knoppix disk and have a look around to see if I could figure out what | went wrong. Booting with Knoppix will show you all your drive's files and | is the quickest option, if you have a disk, that is. | | e | | if it was me, I would use the mandrake install disk 1 and when it offered | f1 for other options or enter to install, go for f1 and then go for rescue, | hit enter when propmpted about 3 times, remove the disk when told and | reboot... I did suggest this--not in so many words. But, the forensics for this sort of thing can be quite interesting, and ya ain't gonna fix it if the hd is titsup. Knoppix will discover this immediately. If the disk is good, I'd like a clue to what happened before I fix it. In my case, it would probably be a brainkeyboardsystem problem. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernal panic
On Monday 17 January 2005 12:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This morning I turned my PC on, went off to make my coffee, when I came | back it had this message: | | Kernal panic: No Init found. Try passing init= option to kernal | | | what happened it was going great last night when I shut it down!! | then this :( | | and how do i fix it? More information is needed. Hardware can cause this (hd went titsup for examp). Less extreme is a software error. Try booting to failsafe. Or, try with the first install disk for recovery, and see if you can mount the root drive that way. mkdir /mnt/hd chroot /mnt/hd cd /etc/ vi lilo and then Check to see that everything lilo (or /boot/menu.lst for grub) is pointing to actually exists where lilo thinks it should be. You will also find the rest of your drive (if it is working) If so, there is an option for re-installing the boot loader while in the recovery mode. If it were my system, my first inclination would be to boot with a Knoppix disk and have a look around to see if I could figure out what went wrong. Booting with Knoppix will show you all your drive's files and is the quickest option, if you have a disk, that is. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 'make' it gives me an error; *** [default] Error 2
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:11 am, et wrote: | I feeel very thick headed this morning,,, | I am running MDK 10.1 official, 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp or 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp | when I attempt to 'make' it gives me an error; | | make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdksmp/build | SUBDIRS=/home/et/usbvis/usbvision-0.9.8/src modules | make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdksmp/build: No such file or directory. | Stop. | make: *** [default] Error 2 | | I think I have all the packages installed, but at some point I musta | screwed up and installed a kernel or something that prevents me from being | able to run 'make'. | | any help? That looks more like a PATH problem to me. Does everything in this path exist? Build is usually a link pointing to your /usr/src/linux-kernel and you may have to re-make that link if it points to a different kernel version. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] move on internet
On Saturday 08 January 2005 05:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Can a live cd of mandrake move be used to access the net? |I was exploring this evening and, actually using the manual for | lin 8.2, I sent the command cat/proc/pci as root. It was supposed | to return an io port and irq number for my pci modem. What it did | do, was tell me there was no such file or directory. Maybe I should | have entered cat /proc,pci. Cat being the command then space and | /proc/pci being the arguments. I was try to get linux to recognize | my pci modem so I could try to go online. I have never tried | anything like using a console so any suggestions as to what I should | would need to start from scratch. First--is your pci modem a hardware or a software modem? If it is a soft (Winmodem) you are out-of-luck. Most Lucent chipped modems (and some Conexant), have LinModem drivers, but you wouldn't be able to install them if you are running from disk. Any hardware modem and any Serial modem would be auto-setup and all you need to do is open and configure the kppp dialer. Even Lucents are a PITA on an installed system, because they must be recompiled every time you upgrade your kernel. I'm going through that with a Debian install right now. My modem worked fine until I upgraded my kernel, and my recompile of the driver seems to install, but crashes my system whenever the modem is brought up. AARGH! Don't do as I do, spend $20 on e-bay and get a Serial modem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] move on internet
On Sunday 09 January 2005 08:15 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: |odem. | | Are 2.6.x kernels different in this then the 2.4.x kernels? I have used | the same driver for 4 different kernels on my laptop. The RPM with the | drivers added a directory off the modules directory for the version of | the kernel it was packaged for, and all I have done if recreate the | directory for the newer kernels, and create a links for the files in the | directory. (hard link, so I can delete the origional directory when I | clean out the old kernel's modules.) If this is going to be a problem, | then I will have to think some more about upgrading it to 10.1. | | Mikkel Debian is different--there is no pre-packaged ltmodem*.deb file for the 2.6.7 kernel (mine). And, with the various flavors of the 2.4 kernel, I've always used the binary installs because I can never find a package for my particular kernel (at least, one that works!). So, that means re-compiling the driver every time I change. And now, it appears that even that is messed up. I haven't had any problems with the modem with Mandrake, or SuSe for that matter--but the SuSe 2.6 kernel really makes a tediously slow system, for some reason. The Debian 2.6 kernel is fast--faster that Mandrake. I'm sure of this, because the development machine I'm running it on is a K6-233 with 256 megs, and KDE isn't a problem. SuSe really sucked on that one--Mandrake wasn't very good with KDE either, but Xfce made it pleasant to use. Anyway, I have several real machines here--I just use that one to test stuff. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] move on internet
Forgive me, I got rambunctious with the delete key so I have no reference post. for kppp, you probably need to install it: urpmi kdenetwork or urpmi kdenetwork-kppp would be the commands. You can change the colors for the terminal screen from the settingsconfigure consoleschema menu at the top (this may vary just a bit, depending on which console you are using). Don't forget to Save Settings when you finish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity
On Sunday 09 January 2005 02:38 pm, JR wrote: | I'm wondering which option is best to connect to my laptop to a digital | camera (which hasnt been chosen yet). | | I thought that if I got one that supported mass storage, then it would be | as simple as mounting my mp3 player. But someone else reccommended getting | one that uses CF / SD cards and getting a pcmcia card reader for the | laptop. | | Has anyone any suggestions? I'm a little confused. I expect there will be | some difficulty trying to connect the camera via usb, but the pcmcia option | might be just as difficult in itself. | | Thanks, | | Jarlath Any camera that uses the USB Mass Storage protocol is absolutely the way to go. Stay away (far-far away) from any other protocol. USB Mass Storage will be recognized as any other usb drive when you plug the camera into your Linux box, and probably you will get an icon popping up for it on the desktop. Cool, huh? I love my Olympus. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS scip problem
On Sunday 09 January 2005 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: | I'm having a problem with xmms skipping while playing streaming audio and | browsing with mozilla. I also notice this happening when switching between | folders in Kmail, I have Kmail running standalone not with Kontact. I've | attempted to change the nice setting for xmms to -10 but can't seem to get | it right. Any hints on how to do this correctly? I didn't seem to have | this problem before my upgrade from 9.0 over the holidays. Same thing here. I think it may have to do with the priority of the sound server settings, but I've had mine cranked all the way to low and all the way to high and it still does it. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning music CDs
On Sunday 09 January 2005 10:59 am, Rhein Christophe wrote: | Hello, | Since I use K3B I was never abble to burn a regular music cd that I can | play in any regular music box or car player. | The cds are playing on my computer but not even on a winBox. | What shall I setup before burning? | Thank you | Christophe Don't know about k3b, but I use Grip for copying music CD's. You will need notlame (notlame-3.x) . I use the version from the plf site. There may be a new one, but my notlame-3.93.1-2plf.i586.rpm works just fine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Back again...Booting slow
On Saturday 08 January 2005 08:40 am, John Bowden wrote: | On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 11:55, Rhein Christophe wrote: | Hello, | I'm back to the list after not knowing why I didn't access to the list a | few months?!! | I have a new ACER Aspire 1680 notebook since 2 weeks and I installed MDK | 10.1 community. | Of course I had Win XP installed on the machine and MDK installed lilo | to boot the system. | Then I decided to remove XP by erasing the HD by instqlling again MDK. | Now I have only linux on my toaster. | Question: | 1. do I still need lilo to start MDK since I don't use another system? | If not how do I remove lilo? No, lilo is the bootloader. You can, however, set the delay time in /etc/lilo.conf to almost nothing (I don't recommend zero--you may need to boot to failsafe some day). Timeout=20 should be fine. Don't forget to run sbin -v lilo after you make the changes. | | 2. When my computer starts I get an Acer page to access the BIOS (F2), | is it possible to remove that screen or not? | | Yes. If you can find out who actually made the notebook and the mother | board thats in it you can go to their site and download a updated bios if | you are lucky. To find out Do a web search for a dos program called ctbios. | It fits onto a dos bootable floppy and when run will interigate the bios | and mother board and give you lots of usefull info. I have found it most | usefull for finding old mother board manuals. | | 3. When MDK is loading and checking all the parameters it takes a long | time (I think it is after firewire control), is it the same for you | because MDK 9.1 was faster? Do you have DHCP enabled? Slow booting is often caused by the machine looking for something on the network and not being able to find it. When that happens to me the first place I go is to the network configuration tools. | | 4. When I power down the notebook I have the finish by pressing the | button to turn of the machine. I know there is a trick around but I | forgot it. | | Thanks for your help | | CHristophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB ISDN TA
On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:15 am, Lloyd Heys wrote: | Hi All | | I am a complete newcomer to Linux and have installed Mandrake 10.1 Official | (hoping to move away from windows eventually). | | The system is up and running reasonably well (I think!) but I am having a | problem with my ISDN terminal adapter. (which works fine in Windows). | | Mandrake detects the adapter, but I am not able to configure it through | Kppd - it reports modem ready then initialising modem but gets no | further. | | I have spent some time googling this problem and have ended up totally | confused. I am not even sure if this particular TA can be used in linux. | | The details of the TA are as follows: | | Chronos USB ISDN TA - containing the Winbond 6694 chipset. || | I would be really greatful if anyone could help me get this set up. | | Thanks | | Lloyd Heys | Cape Town | South Africa It does not appear that chip is supported by any Linux driver (at least not yet). It is one of those Windows only chips because the manufacturer hasn't released the specs, and it will probably have to be reverse engineered. Windows only support is the bane of Linux, and anyone of us planning a Linux install needs to research every piece of hardware before we shell out our hard earned cash. The ACM driver may work, but I wouldn't spend much time trying to get it to go. The ACM will not work on the Winbond 6692 chip, so it probably won't on the '94 either. Anytime I see USB and modem together the hair on the back of my neck stands up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 'nother 10.1 question
On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:07 am, Chris wrote: | Where is the konqueror file manager for root located? Its getting to be a | pain to pull it up su'd to root in Eterm. | | Chris It was removed for security reasons. On a personal machine, I fail to see the point. As you have discovered, the command is: kdesu konqueror You can make a shorcut (new link to application) to this command on your desktop by right clicking the desktopcreate newlink to application, and typing it into the new link's executable box, or you can put it in your user menu with menudrake. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:29 am, Kenneth wrote: | A Hundred Thousand Thanks, Rick! | | Although it hasn't helped me fix the problem (yet), | I feel that the info you provided is a certain | lead. | | Interestingly, though I am still getting the | same error report when I run Kate and for that | matter when I start KDE, I get the same results | that you sent me when I execute the same command. | | I'll keep fiddling with it.. :) | | Thanks for your help, | Ken | Have you tried deleting your #~/.kde You will lose ALL of your kde settings (back up your address book if you use kmail), and the directory will be re-created at the next log-on. This can fix a messed-up-beyond-all-repair KDE, and it looks as though you have a serious KDE problem. If I were you, I would create a new user and log-in to KDE as that user first, to see if the problem clears up. If the problem persists, ignore all of the above and search for another solution. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of
On Sunday 19 December 2004 03:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Removing read permission from directories would indeed limit user rodolfo | as well as user alberto, but that is where sudoers can help you. sudoers | would give rodolfo permission to perform certain commands as if he were | root user. | | Yes, | | the problem with sudoers is that (as far as I know) | one can only use them from command line, not in graphical mode | (is that right?). | But it's comfortable to navigate through files and directories | with Konqueror. That's why I didn't consider this solution. | | Rodolfo | | No, in a terminal type: kdesu konqueror A pop up password logon box will appear, and after you type the root password it will open konqueror as root. Back in the old days, before 9.1, there was a shortcut in the start menu for accomplishing this, but it was removed for security purposes. Since then, I make my own shortcut for this action. I sometimes want to drag and drop files as root, because I am constantly making typos when I try to move or copy from the command line. Me Bad e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of
On Sunday 19 December 2004 09:40 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: | Another option is to run midnight commander (mc) from the terminal, | after su ing. | Not as pretty as Konqueror though | | Hth | | hugh | | That will work--and mc looks like the old Norton Commander from DOS days. It will require you to urpmi mc though, because I don't think mc is installed by default (I have it but I think I had to install it). e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of
On Sunday 19 December 2004 09:58 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: | I doubt I elected to install it - but maybe. To me it is two steps back | from geekdom than using the CLI !! | hugh | | You obviously type better than mi e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MPAA goes after BitTorrent
On Thursday 16 December 2004 12:13 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: | On Thursday 16 December 2004 12:03 pm, Amy wrote: | Granted a lot of court cases turn into a three ring circus here in the | states, but the McDonalds coffee case isn't nearly so much of one as | the media has made it out to be. | | Yeah, it was. It also happened to be at a McDonalds about 1 city block | away so I'm quite aware of the facts in the case. | | The reason the lady won the case? It wasn't just normally hot coffee, | she got ~third degree burns~ from the frellin' stuff. McDonalds used | to serve their coffee extremely hot, so much so that it was way above | whatever temperature they were legally allowed to. No one ever said | anything about it before then, because most people don't touch their | coffee right away, so they'd let it cool down a little bit, and get to | it later, and it'd be just about perfect. | | Sorry, but I have to call you on this one. Coffee makers make coffee by | boiling water and putting the boiling water through the coffee grounds. | The boiling point of water is pretty much fixed by the altitude (around | here it boils at 202 degF) so the temperature of the coffee is going to be | the same no matter what percolater it comes out of. This is actually not the way it is. Measure the temperature of your coffee makers coffee sometime--mine is 160-165 degrees. That is set by a thermostat inside the maker--and yes, I used to be a repairman for commercial cooking equipment, including coffee makers--the type that restaraunts use. The therm is not normally set at 180 degrees, much less at boiling. The way I remember the case (from a Slashdot discussion, I think), is that local McDonald's managers had complained to upper management, in writing, that the coffee was being brewed so hot that it was softening the take-out cups. Upper management decreed (in writing, to their later sorrow) that the machines would continue to be set at 180 degrees because more cups could be brewed from a pound of ground with the hotter water. This correspondence was submitted as evidence. | | I think that McDonalds was being 'burned' by the bad publicity and didn't | much defend the case, nor went with an appeal. The original judgement was | reduced considerably in any event, but the final terms are private so we'll | likely never know what they were. No, they got burned with their own correspondence. The amount of the punitive damages award was a calculation of how much money they made from brewing the coffee at a higher temperature. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] win- linux
On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:44 pm, julie wrote: | On Thursday 16 December 2004 09:25 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there any free program available to sample linux on a winxp | system. I thought winaxe might but it is for networked systems. | | The Christmas 2004 issue of Linux Format arrive here in Oregon, USA, | yesterday. Included were the usual 2 CDs and one is SUSE 9.2 LiveCD. | | I booted to it and had fun exploring a different flavor of Linux. It is | just a live evaluation CD which means it cannot be installed to the hard | drive. However it does mean you can run SUSE without it messing with your | existing operating system. | | Julie And, WHY would you want to? Seriously, I have SuSe 9.2 (full install) on one of my test boxes. HATE IT--but it is pretty to look at. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
On Saturday 11 December 2004 12:53 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: | Rodolfo wrote: | | nay, if it depended on me I'd never use Microsoft Word: I'm a TeX user. | The problem is not much when they send you .doc attachments in emails, | because 'kword' manages to read them excellently. | The problem is that they *want*, e.g. curriculums vitae in .doc format, | so if I want in the next future more and more do *without* MS Windows | I need a tool to produce documents with Linux | that MS Word will be able to open and correctly read. | According to Paul Kaplan exhaustive report on the matter, | I'll try Abiword and Wine, hoping they can help because the problem is | really 'serious': | I won't be able to avoid using MS Windows until a solution will I find. | | | Cheers, | Rodolfo What I do is make my documents in rich text format with OO (Open Office). Nobody has ever noticed that they are not really *.doc, because Word opens *.rtf perfectly (at least everything, including tables, that I've created with them--probably because they have the MS Word icon in Winsux). e e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 08:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: | On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:38 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: | Just to let you know, the Community releases are not totally stable. | They put them out to allow a much broader spectrum of hardware to test | on. Then the comments a bugs found are included in Official release. | Official had one big update even then, to fix some pesky bugs. 10.1 | Official is very stable on my computers, Three of them are running it. | All are Athlon cpu's with various other hardware. Try 10.1 and you | should be good to go. HTH | | Yeah, but community has been updated with all the packages that have hit | the update tree, and official was forked from community, so they were the | same when official was born. The only difference I am aware of is that the | updates for offical are maintained in an updates dir, while they are placed | in the dist tree for community, smae as cooker. I suspect, from the original post, that the Community version being run is NOT the updated version. The disk came as a magazine insert, the way I understand that post, and there is a long lead time with magazine publishing. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM
On Saturday 04 December 2004 05:37 pm, Peter Watson wrote: | I have two icons on my desktop for CD-RW (/dev/hdc) and DVD-ROM (/dev/hdd). | How can I get rid of them. If I right click on them there is no delete | option. | | I'm trying to get back to the good old days when I mounted and unmounted | removeable devices when I wanted to instead of having magicdev or | supermount muck it up and refuse to allow me to unmount or eject. | | Also both of these drives are listed twice in X-CD-Roast once as ATA and | once as ATAPI, they also appear twice in kwikdisk. Anyone | know why this is? | | TIA If you haven't already found the answer (assuming you are using kde): 1. right click anywhere on your desktop 2. choose configure desktop 3. click on the Behavior button 4. under the Devices section--uncheck any that you don't want 5. O.K. As far as I know, scsi emulated devices always show up twice in X-CD-Roast. At least on my system, they don't show up at all in kwikdisk. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird
On Friday 03 December 2004 05:44 am, Todd Slater wrote: | On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:12:39AM -0800, Tango Echo wrote: | Anyone?? Or is this rocket science? | | I've never used Spamassassin but I've heard that it can be a resource | hog. H--maybe, but I haven't had any problems with it. After a rather extensive learning period it becomes extremely efficient. | How much do you need it to do--virus filtering etc.? If you just | need a bayesian-type filter bogofilter is a good alternative. I'm pretty | sure SA requires you to have procmail set up and working; bogofilter can | work when called directly from an MUA but I prefer to use procmail with | it as well. Not true. I do not have procmail setup. I'm filtering KMail directly with a pipe through spamc. I haven't used bogofilter so I'm really neutral as to which is better. My hunch is that both are excellent. I began with SA because of the available rules and have stuck with it because it works. | | In any event, I don't think it's hard to set up SA. Have you read the | README and INSTALL files? | | Todd I haven't used Tbird, so I'm no help here. There are several places to go for SA setup, if you decide that is the filter you want to use, and hopefully, you can find something about running SA with Tbird. For rules, I would recommend that you peruse this site: http://www.rulesemporium.com/ | | -Original Message- | From: Tango Echo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:37 PM | To: newb-mdk | Subject: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird | | | How easy is to setup Spam assassin for Thunderbird? | I'm runnning 10.0 and have found that the spam | abilities in thunderbird are far from sufficient... Is | it easy enough for someone to supply the steps or can | you point me to a good doc for (a quick) setup? | | Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 04:14 am, Merlin Zener wrote: | Hello, | | I'm running 10.0, having recently upgraded from 9.0. I'm trying to get | my USB card reader to work, and I went to the Apacer site and they say | to edit my modules.conf file. But when I try to save the edited file it | complains I don't have permission. | | So I'm guessing I need to be root to do it; but now that I'm on 10.0 I | can't log in as root any more. It only gives me two choices [the two | usernames I set up] at login time. In 9.0 I could just type in root in | the login field and the password; it would warn me something about | running graphics as root [can't remember exactly] but it would let me in | anyhow. But now I can't - there's nowhere to type! | | I can open a text window and SU, but then edit modules.conf only gives | me: | bash: edit: command not found | | help??? Open a Terminal and type kdesu konqueror without the quotes. Or, in the KDE control center under SystemLogin ManagerUsers there is a check box for Hidden Users (root is checked by default). You can uncheck it (you have to click on an Administrator Mode box and type your password to do it). I recommend the first method for both convenience and security. e e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 04:14 am, Merlin Zener wrote: | Hello, | | I'm running 10.0, having recently upgraded from 9.0. I'm trying to get | my USB card reader to work, and I went to the Apacer site and they say | to edit my modules.conf file. But when I try to save the edited file it | complains I don't have permission. | | So I'm guessing I need to be root to do it; but now that I'm on 10.0 I | can't log in as root any more. It only gives me two choices [the two | usernames I set up] at login time. In 9.0 I could just type in root in | the login field and the password; it would warn me something about | running graphics as root [can't remember exactly] but it would let me in | anyhow. But now I can't - there's nowhere to type! | | I can open a text window and SU, but then edit modules.conf only gives | me: | bash: edit: command not found | | help??? And, simplest of all--Open a terminalsutype your root password--then: emacs /etc/modules.conf Emacs is an easy to use and powerful editor. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing default browser- help
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 05:11 pm, geoff wrote: | When I click on a URL link in an email, how can I make Mozilla open it | instead of Konqueror? I can't find anywhere in preferences to change it. | That way, I can bookmark the site if I want to keep it in my preferred | Mozilla. | Thanks | Geoff Open KDE control center Components File associations text html Move Mozilla to the top of the list (add it if you need to do so) and Apply Next: Highlight Mozilla and click the Edit box Open the Execute box The Command box should have this: soundwrapper /usr/bin/mozilla %u If it doesn't, type it in. O.K. out and that should do the job. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Network Gurus--Help
I noticed sending via smtp was really slow--like 20 seconds or more for a message this size--so I did a ping on my smtp server. What I got back is a scad of (DUP!) replys. No packets missing, but wouldn't that tend to slow my sending down? And why the DUP!s? I always thought that a lot of dup packets meant more than one machine with a single IP address, but am I wrong about this? BTW, my ISP took their mail server down a week or so ago for maintenance, and I think that is when the problem began. Before I get too adamant with them I want all my ducks in a row. It looks even worse when I ping large packets. PING mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=218 ms 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=238 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=248 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=189 ms 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=209 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=219 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=126 time=179 ms 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=126 time=199 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=126 time=219 ms (DUP!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...
On Saturday 30 October 2004 04:24 pm, JoeHill wrote: | On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:44:18 +1100 | | | JoeHill error: unable to locate any screams. | | Ya, ya, and I bet all his problems would be solved by 'urpmi xfce4' ;-) No, but #urpme JoeHillwould do the job. just kiddin' Joe e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1
On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: | On Thursday 28 Oct 2004 19:25, Roy Babin wrote: | Can we please get off of this. It has been going on for days now. | | It may not be important to you, but it is to us. | | Anne And me, because I have an Olympus 750UZ, and I may be upgrading to 10.x one of these days, so I'm following this thread closely. Ann, I didn't see Kaj say that he actually booted up to the log-in screen and chose to go to Gnome or KDE directly from the drop-down list (I could have missed it). I think that he may have logged out of kde and logged back into the Xfce desktop. In that case, it could be a KDE bug, because the process was still running. Did you try rebooting and choosing Gnome, to see if the problem goes away? e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Display Problem
On Thursday 28 October 2004 08:47 am, Rich Lichvar wrote: | I'm a newbie to Mandrake. I'm in the process of reinstalling 10.0 from | the PowerPack. The first time I installed 10.0 (in firewall mode, the | latter being the anticipated future use along with Nessus workstation) | the background of the display was this gaudy red and greenish stripe | display. The font was also very hard to read. Did I miss something or | did the installation choose the incorrect monitor/video card type? I'm | fairly familiar with RH and haven't had similar problems with it. This | system is running on a Belkin OmniView Pro KVM switch. | | richlich Sounds like a wrong vid-card choice, to me. Do a controlAltF1 to level 3 and run the config tool (or better yet, edit your /etc/inittab to boot to level 3 instead of 5, reboot and then run the tool). I run a KVM switch, without problems, but my latest mdk version is 9.2. I do have a SuSe 9.1 install (2.6 kernel) on the switch and it is fine. BTW, you might want to turn off the reply to for list postings. You will probably get more and better help if everyone can take part in the discussion. There are some darn knowledgeable folks on this list that should be able to expand on my suggestions. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Always ending up IceWM
On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:16 am, emir limar wrote: | Hi people, | I installed MDK 10.1 to my HP Vectra Pentium 133 MH. 64 RAM, 1.2 Gig Box. | Problem is i am not able to see any program except IceWM and some useles | 3-4 programs what ever i choose i end up the same programs. I used to | instlaled 9.2 it was working fine with KDE and GNOME now even it doesn't | work with 10.1 , even i install 9.2 again , now it goes to IceWM again. | Both 9.2 and 10.1 end up with the IceWM. I manually install additional | packages thru Mandrake Center but non of the programs seen from IceWm or | starts from comand line. Anyone have any clue, suggestions | Otherwise i have to throw away the box. It is just filling my very limited | space. thx | emin WOW! If you could get that machine to work well with 9.2 and KDE you were doing fantastic! I have an old 233 with 256 RAM that was just o.k. with KDE and 9.2. Xfce ran fine, though. I now have SuSe 9.1 (2.6 kernel) on that machine and it is really tedious to use with KDE. For an old box like yours I would probably use damn small linux. It is a run-from-disk distro based on Knoppix (debian) and rather short on features at only 50M on a CD. I installed it to HD on a 233 laptop I have (the install takes up 325 megs of my disk--total--and I have lots of room to spare) and then added some stuff I wanted for browsing--Opera, for one. I'll bet it will work o.k. with your 133--the default desktop is Fluxbox which is fine, once you get used to it. If you insist on Mandrake, I would try xfce (urpmi xfce), then Fluxbox if that doesn't work. The last Mandrake release with KDE for that machine was probably 7.2. Each release after that has required progressively more system resources, and the only way around it is more memory and smaller-footprint desktops. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: A Virus Plague
On Saturday 23 October 2004 01:40 am, Graham Watkins wrote: | Hi guys, | | This past week or so, I have been mailed a number of virus attachments. | Usually with only a smiley face in the message body. These have caused | no problem as they are Windows viruses (viri?) and I only ever download | my mail under Linux - learnt the necessity for that the hard way a few | years ago. | | What I'd like to ask here is can I do anything? i.e. make a report to | some body which can arrange for the perpetrators to be crucified without | the benefit of broken legs or at least get their accounts closed. (It | goes without saying that the addresses are spoofed). | | It is a kind of spam, so could I perhaps get spamcop or similar orgs | interested? Advice anybody? | | Cheers, I just put them in my missed_spam folder and run an sa-learn on them (I use spamassassin as my spam filter). After I did that a few times, 90+% of them are tagged as spam and go to the trash. Worked for those bounced virus messages from mail servers, too. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network question
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 02:24 am, Alan wrote: | Good day all | | | I am having a problem with my network! After about two or three hours of | linux being up I can't speak to my linux box from another machine, or from | another machine to my linux box. | | What I have noticed is that when i try and ping a box from linux it | reports an error connect: no buffer space available. Can anybody tell me | what this means? | | Thanks | | Alan Never saw that one before. BUT, when something that works stops doing so, and I haven't intervened in any way, the first thing I blame is msec. Msec has changed permissions on me so many times that I automatically disable it for a test when stuff that just works quits working after an hour or so. Go to /usr/sbin and find msec. Rename it to OLDmsec and save the file. If your problem goes away, you will know it was msec changing permissions. If it doesn't, go back and rename your msec (you need to do this in any case, if you want to use msec). Msec is your first bastion of security, and if you don't understand permissions you won't want to leave it disabled. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bootloader install failed. upgrade from 9.2 to 10.1
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 12:01 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi folks, | Since mdk10.1 finally released, I decided to upgrade my mdk9.2. | I performed it first in my desktop pc. The process went smooth, until the | bootloader stage, when it errored about: | Cannot install bootloader | DOS path in . (some hexa codes) | | This failure makes me hesitate to upgrade my mdk9.2 in the notebook where I | use for everyday work and where I store many data, especially emails in | Kmail. | | Any idea why the bootloader installation failed? | Thanks. | - -- No, but when I upgraded one of my machines from 9.1 to 9.2, LILO wouldn't install, and I tried several times. Strangely, GRUB went in with no problem. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 9.1 and Sony camcorders ?
On Monday 11 October 2004 03:18 pm, Miroslav Skoric wrote: | Well, after I did it as you have suggested, Mandrake Control Center 9.1 | has shown in Detected Hardware, a new group of Unknown/Others, and Sony | HandyCam MemoryStick Reader within that group. | | Details are: | | Vendor: Sony Corp. | Bus: USB | Description: Sony HandyCam MemoryStick Reader | Module: Removable:memory_card | Media class: | | What should be done next? I manually made /mnt/memory_card folder but | don't know how to mount camera's memory card reader. | | Btw, my desktop's icon for USB flash memory (/mnt/removable, /dev/sda4) | has got lost somewhere, although I suppose it should remain there too. | In fact, as soon as I connected the camera to the USB connector and | rebooted the system, the icon disappeared. After changing the camera | with the USB flash stick, and rebooted again, the icon came back. | | Regards, | | Misko I can't say for sure, since I'm uncertain that the Sony is actually supported. One of my machines (I have several) that mounts my Olympus digital has an /etc/fstab line: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto user, iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 My other machines have variations of this (/dev/sdb1 /mnt/memory_card) and all seem to mount the camera automatically--but then, the Olympus uses standard USB protocol, so it is known to just work. Before I got it, I checked some other cameras (not Sony, unfortunately), and some strayed from the USB standard, so mounting them was iffy. My 9.2 machines seem to do a better job with mounting the digital than 9.1--I'm never sure under what device it will be mounted when I plug it into 9.1, but it is always in the same place on the 9.2 boxes. Kind of weird. My last suggestion, if all else fails, is to get hold of a Knoppix 3.4 disk and see if you can mount it that way. My experience with Knoppix has been that it is amazingly good at identifying hardware, and if Linux can use it, Knoppix will be able to configure it. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Sony camcorders ?
On Sunday 10 October 2004 03:18 am, Miroslav Skoric wrote: | Gentle folks, | | I have Sony DCR-HC85E camcorder that came with Picture Package software | for Windows. It makes me wonder if there is a similar software capable | to run on Mandrake 9.1 with similar capabilities (to 'see' a camera as | an external disk or memory device - that I could mount, to have an | automatic or manual download of still pictures from camera's memory | stick, to playback mini-DV tape via USB cable etc). Is there any kind of | a 'generic' driver for Sony camcorders for Linux? I tried to mount the | camera as a /dev/sda4 drive (the same that uses my USB flash memory | stick, as /mnt/removable, but it reported that special device doesn't | exist). Any idea what else to try? | | Regards, | | Misko My memory card reader is /dev/sdb1. Every time I've seen /dev/sda4 it was for my zip disks (I have several). If the Sony uses standard usb protocol, it should be recognized. The only suggestion I have is--have you tried a reboot with the camera plugged in? I don't have a camcorder, but my digital is mounted automatically under /mnt/memory_card (I may have created that directory originally, I can't remember) and as /dev/sdb1 in 9.1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
On Friday 01 October 2004 12:22 am, Merlin Zener wrote: | On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 10:16, Erylon Hines wrote: | On Thursday 30 September 2004 12:24 am, Merlin Zener wrote: | | Hello all, | | | | I've just got hold of 4 Mandrake 10.0 CDs; I'll be upgrading from 9.0, | | and I wanted to ask if there's anything particular I should [or should | | not] do to ensure a smooth transition. | | Comments from the gallery, anyone? | | -- | Merlin Zener | Piano, Synthesizer | Thailand. | | ...if my calculations are correct... O.K. to carry this further. Is there any way you can get your hands on a Knoppix disk? If you can, boot with it and see if you get connectivity, and check to see if everything works. If so, you can completely trash your system and you will still be able to connect and get help/download what you need to fix it. As much as I love Mandrake for its tools and such, it is really a cutting edge distro and it is generally not as fully functional (ie--things don't always work) as the Debian-based ones. Knoppix is Deb based so it is a generation behind (an oversimplification, but a true statement, IMO) and it is extremely good at recognizing and setting up hardware. Stuff just works. I could cite examples with my own equipment that Knoppix recognizes and sets up but Mandrake (including Move and PCLinux OS) doesn't. This is all my opinion, and Mandrake has been my chosen distro since ver 7.0. Someday, I'll move to 10--but not yet--and when I do it will go on a couple of experimental boxes I keep around. Judging from the list, whether it will work out of the box will be pretty much a crap shoot--but that is the case for most Mandrake versions so far. I had no problems with 8.2 and 9.1--some users did. Right now, I think I'm waiting for 10.2, and then I'll do a clean install. Since you are having some apparently insurmountable problems with Mozilla maybe a new install of 10 is what you need to do. If it doesn't work and you can't solve the problems, you can always reformat and re-install 9.0. I have friends that are still using 8.x, because it just works, so if 9.0 works, who cares if you are a few generations behind. (I'm assuming that 9 worked for you from its original installation). Good luck e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
On Thursday 30 September 2004 12:24 am, Merlin Zener wrote: | Hello all, | | I've just got hold of 4 Mandrake 10.0 CDs; I'll be upgrading from 9.0, | and I wanted to ask if there's anything particular I should [or should | not] do to ensure a smooth transition. | It is a BIG jump from 9.0 to 10--I wouldn't even try an upgrade, myself, due to the different kernels. Is there a good reason that you want to upgrade?? Unsupported hardware or some such? I don't know much about 9.0, I went from 8.2 to 9.1 (not an upgrade--fresh install). I've since upgraded a couple of machines from 9.1 to 9.2, but I don't see much difference, except that I had to apply some fixes to get stuff that worked perfectly in 9.1 to work in 9.2. At least the upgrade didn't really break anything badly, and was actually smooth--for an upgrade. I still haven't moved any of my machines to 10.x because I have older hardware and there just isn't any point to it. Plus, judging from the topics on list, the 2.6 kernel can break stuff that is working fine for me now. If this is your only box, I would wait, if I were you. On the other hand, you can consider it a chance to learn some more about Linux 8). e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems mounting CD/DVD
On Monday 27 September 2004 01:40 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote: | Hi Bryan, | | thx for the help, but somehow it didn't solve the problem. I also got a | problem with my usb-stick, of which I have now 3 registered in fstab... | every time I insert the stick, it's getting a new registry in fstab. | Seems like I wait till 10.1 and see if the problem still exists. | | AR | Comment out all the lines for your usb-stick in fstab. Reboot your system one time. If the stick is recognized correctly, and it probably will be, and your new entry for it is added to fstab by Harddrake/kudzu, go to the MCC and turn off Harddrake--uncheck the box for starting on boot. Reboot. If the stick is still working you can leave Harddrake off, unless you install some new hardware. Harddrake is a cool tool, but I never leave it on once I get my system working because it can mess up and discover hardware that I already have installed. It is especially bad about re-recognizing USB components. As for your CD/DVD--aren't those scsi emulated?? I haven't got one, but I thought that DVD drives were /dev/scdX not /dev/hdX. Either way, you may have the wrong dev number. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...
On Saturday 25 September 2004 07:33 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: | | But for all the *newbies* here reading this, statically wounded circuits | can show weird symptoms months after installation. Sometimes weird | stuff like what Ron is seeing. That includes (especially) | motherboards. It's best to have a grounded static wrist band on when | you are inside your computer and before you remove the static packaging | from any new component. (static packaging isn't there because it's | pretty.) If you always do this, you can be sure that you've kept your | equipment in mint condition. | | LX A note on grounding. Most times when I see instructions for this it says something like, Unplug your computer. DO NOT UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER. If you do, you will remove the machine from the system ground and your box will be floating. Any time equipment is floating, there is a chance that it's potential will be different from ground potential. Turn it off, but leave it plugged in and the case will be bonded. If you are not on a workbench with a known good bond to ground, attach yourself to the metal part of the case, and you are good to go. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...
On Saturday 25 September 2004 03:37 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: | I think Which was told off and had to publish a retraction not so long | ago for publicly giving that bit of advice. | | Some things to bear in mind: | 1. If there's an earth fault the live wire is connected to you. | 2. The switch is in the live wire. If, like I did, you have an extension | cable with the live and neutral swapped, then the live parts are still | live. It may still be a problem with a properly wired connection if | your neutral is at a different potential to your earth. OK, not such a | problem with a PC because the PSU is enclosed. This in itself is a code violation. Why would anyone swap the hot and neutral--or the neutral and case ground? Anyone that would do this shouldn't be doing anything electrical at all (no offense meant, but everyone should test their equipment before they use it--your life depends on it). And remember, Never--Ever--switch a neutral. The neutral and ground go to the very same place. The difference between them is that the ground wire is bonded directly to the grounding means--the service ground, the neutral may have connections interposed between itself and the service ground. (I don't mean to be condescending about this, but it is an important distinction). | 3. Anti-static straps have 1MegOhm resistors in them. Without such they | are considered serious health and safety violations. Since every piece | of anti-static equipment has that, the actual resistance to earth of | professional gear is usually several meg ohms. For the anti-static devices, power supplies, etc.--yes. Electrical codes (at least in the U.S.) require that the case be bonded directly to ground. | | Personally, If I have my wrist strap with me I leave the box plugged in | and use it. If I don't then I still leave it plugged in, but just touch | the case frequently to keep myself at the same potential. I think very | long and hard before I decide to connect myself to the case with a | piece of wire. | | Another word of warning: some PSUs do not have an off switch. The button | on the front of an ATX case leaves power to some parts of the | motherboard. If there isn't a rocker switch on the PSU, you can not | leave it plugged in without having an external switch somewhere. In such a case, an external jumper from a known good ground would need to be applied to the metal frame of the case when the unit is unplugged. Otherwise, the box is floating with potential for static discharge, unless the repairman is floating also. This probably won't be the way it is outside of the lab. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] US Robotics Modem Driver]
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:06 am, Eric Scott wrote: | On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | U.S. Robotics 56K Faxmodem USB | Model No. USR5633 | | | My Computer is old - it's a Dell Dimension XPS T600 | 600 Mhz Sheesh, my best box is only an 850. | 20 Gig - Hard Drive | 128 Mb - Ram More Ram would help--a lot. | Dual boot with Windows 98SE I'm sorry!! | I have no idea about the Motherboard. | | I would be grateful for any advise or help. | | Sean | | Hey; don't feel bad! I'm using a home-built 233MHz comp with 96MB of RAM | and all that good stuff. :-P One of my boxen is a P200--lots of Ram, though. It's just o.k. with kde, but excellent with Xfce. I booted a P233 laptop with only 64 megs of Ram with a Damn Small Linux disk--it was great with the Fluxbox provided. | | Your modem is probably a winmodem which basically means it's a modem | made to work with Windows. Somebody out there may have come up with | drivers to make it a linmodem (Work with Linux), but even if there is | winmodems are buggy as a rule. (I should know, I've got one) Your best | bet is to get a new modem that's not a winmodem, and the majority of | external modems fit the bit. Actually, I've found the Winmodems with Lucent chipsets to be excellent and I won't hesitate to install one--but there aren't any drivers (at least officially, last time I checked) for the 2.6 kernel. PCTel and Conexant are a real PITA. Beware of USB modems--many are Winmodems. Serial modems always work, straight away--no messing around. Someone posted a link a couple of months ago for a serial for $18, US--if you are somewhere in North America. That's about the same price as a Winmodem. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: | Bob Read wrote: | I use Mozilla mail heavily. (Mozilla 1.3) | I normally use Inbox opened fully so that | I can scan the incoming files quickly. | | A couple days ago, that screen seemed to | have reduced the type font size so that it | is now difficult to read. As a check, I | counted the number of lines shown, and found | that it is now 32 lines rather than the 31 | it has had previously. I have tried every | thing I can think of to change this, but no | success. | | Any suggestion will be much appreciated. My | eyes are hurting. | | Bob | | Mozilla - edit - preferences - appearance - fonts - | Minimum font size | | Just increase that minimum font size | You can also change the font types. | you can also allow document to use other fonts. | | But I guess you have tried these ? | | John To test that it isn't Moz itself, but is something in the userconfig that's messed up, create a new user and see if the font problem exists for him, too. If no problem then, delete your /home/username/.mozilla folder and then restart Moz. Backup your bookmarks.html (and mail, if you use mozilla mail) first! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] configuer a boot floppy for mdk 10 installation
On Monday 13 September 2004 08:31 am, othman El Moulat wrote: | Hi guys; | i'm willing to upgrade to mdk 10 ...I have downloaded all the distro into a | windows folder : c:\Linux10\ now i want to be able to install mdk 10 into | my system...I guess i need first to create a boot floppy which i hope is | quit a straighforward task...The issue here is how can i configure this | boot floppy so that it could install from my windows folder :c\Linux10\...? | is there any other simpler method to install without a boot floppy ? from | my windows folder ? details would be very welcomed... | | thanks for helping From the readme on the install disk: If your computer cannot boot from the CDROM, you must make a boot floppy under Windows as follows: * insert the CDROM, then open the icon My Computer, right click on the CDROM drive icon and select Open * go into the dosutils directory and double-click on the rawwritewin icon * insert a blank floppy in the floppy drive * select D:\images\cdrom.img in the Image File field (assuming that your CDROM drive is D:, otherwise replace D: as needed) * select A: in the Floppy Drive field then click on Write. To begin the installation: * insert the CDROM in the drive, as well as the boot floppy, then * restart the computer. How I do it: Make a partition on you hd big enough for the disks and copy your Mandrake disks to that. I wouldn't use my Windows partition if Linux is already installed (this is an upgrade, right?), because you may have to re-install Windows sometime in the future, and that is inconvenient, but I would make a separate partition just for the disks. I usually make a Reiser of about 2.5 gigs and mount the partition (mine is /dev/hda8 with the mountpoint of /dev/hd). Then you can follow the instructions for a hd install and make a hd.img floppy (I think they are still on the first install disk). to make a hd.img boot floppy: * Under Linux (or other modern UNIX systems) type at prompt: $ dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 * Under Windows, follow the method described above, but using hd.img instead of cdrom.img. * Under DOS, assuming your CD is drive D:, type: D:\ dosutils\rawrite.exe -f images\hd.img -d A During the install you will have a chance to choose to upgrade. Be forewarned--some upgrades go fine, and some will totally screw your system, so backup everything you want to keep, just in case you have to go back and do a full install. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ftp server local install
On Monday 13 September 2004 09:32 am, othman El Moulat wrote: | Hi guys; | can any one desribe me in detail how i can do an ftp server install for the | mdk 10 ? i don't have a cd bunner and want to use my adsl internet | connection on a windows partition to perform an ftp server install... | thanks for helping me to get to the Linux Magnificient world ;-) Sounds like you really want to do a install from the hd.img already on your Windows partition. The instructions in my other reply should do fine, and you can Google for more information if you feel you need it. I'm still using 9.1 and 9.2 because of some hardware issues with the 2.6 kernel. Remember, 2.6 is on the cutting edge--it is new, and there are still some things that need to be worked out. A lot of people have no problems whatsoever, but some do. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ftp server local install
On Monday 13 September 2004 12:59 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: | On Monday 13 September 2004 09:32 am, othman El Moulat wrote: | | Hi guys; The hd.img boot floppy will ask for the location of the source disk for your Mandrake install. For you it is probably /dev/hda or /dev/hda1 (remember, Linux looks at partitions differently than Windows, the first partition on the first hd would be hda1, the second, hda2, etc, and the first on the second disk would be hdb1, etc. Then it will ask for the Path to Mandrake, which could be /dev/hda1/windows/downloads/Mandrake or whatever. Be sure all your disks are located in the same directory. Mine is (keep in mind Linux, not on a Win partition on /dev/hda8) Hopefully, you won't run into any permission problems with your install files, and it will go from there. And, defrag Windows before you begin, because you will be resizing existing partitions during the install, I assume. And, although a bit dated, this site has a lot of info: http://fhj52.tripod.com/linux/MDK_HD_INSTALL.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LAN Question
On Thursday 09 September 2004 11:00 am, BJ Tracy wrote: | Hello All, | | This is strange. In my office I still have 2 pc's with MS on them. My | laptop and my pc have Mandrake 10.0 and all are set up on my LAN. | | Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS | pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. | They use to see each other. | | I have gone thru all the settings and everything seems to set correctly. | | Not sure why this is the way it is now. I must be missing something. | | Please advise and Thanks to all of you for your help. | bj | fyi - I have looked in drakxservices and there is smb | running. This is the only one that is there. Is that correct? Samba needs to have users and passwords configured. The users for your Win boxes must be identical, and have an identical password to the samba users on the Linux boxes. The Win boxes also have to belong to the same WORKGROUP as the Linux boxes, identified in your /etc/samba/smb.conf From here on, do everything as root. /etc/samba/smbusers needs to be written in the format you see inside--this is mine Unix_name = SMB_erylon SMB_hilary SMB_sarah SMB_eldon root = administrator admin nobody = guest pcguest smbguest The samba password needs to be set (in a console, as root) smbpasswd -a erylon would make one for me. Make one for each user (avoid hassles, just use the user system login password) /etc/samba/lmhosts gives samba a roadmap to IP/computer names of network machines. 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.101 BoxName1 192.168.0.102 BoxName2 192.168.0.103 BoxName3 etc Don't eliminate the 127.xx localhost entry. Add all 4 of your networked machines. /etc/hosts allows remote hosts to be identified by the samba box. The convention is: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.101 BoxName1.workgroup_name 192.168.0.102 BoxName2.workgroup_name The localhost entry is required.Add an entry for each box on your network (there are easier ways, but this always works) This allows specific addresses to access the samba machine. This is the way I do mine, there are others, but this is secure enough for me, and simple. On a small network an IP for each machine here is no problem. On a large network you might want to us a range of addresses. ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 You probably want to configure your /etc/samba/smb.conf file to allow a share on your Linux boxes I make a directory /home/public (directories under /home can be easily made into a share) and give it world permissions: #mkdir /home/public #chmod 2777 /home/public. With msec enabled (which it is by default), you'll have to jump through some hoops or it will change the permissions on you (I disable msec because I know what permissions I want on directories and msec irritates me to no end). The entry for the share in the smb.conf file would look something like this: [Public] comment = public folder path = /home/public admin users = @workgroup_name write list = @workgroup_name force group = @workgroup_name read only = No inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = Yes Of course, substitute your actual machine names, workgroup name, user names, and actual ethernet addresses for each box in the above examples. If you have a firewall you must open ports 137,138,139. hth e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LAN Question
On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 Sorry, I left out that the above line should be in your /etc/hosts.allow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50 pm, M.Schild wrote: | charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: | My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop as | I cannot recall for certain, but 9.2 worked everything rather well too. | HTH | | Charlie Ditto, here. 9.1 worked well and 9.2 is problem free (except for the need to download the kernel-source, which is 40+ megs and the need to get the update-db bugfixes--absolutely mandatory). If you have a Lucent chipped winmodem that will work with the 2.4 kernel, too. Truthfully, I don't see much difference between 9.1 and 9.2, and I have both systems side-by-side in my office. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question
On Friday 27 August 2004 03:45 pm, charlie wrote: | On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:26 am, BJ Tracy wrote: | Hello All, | | Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. | | Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and | Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second | time. Rebooted? I think it may not be kmail--you may have a hardware problem. Something about kmail may be accessing a specific part of your hd, or using a specific amount of cpu or memory, or ethernet, and that is the cause of the crash. The reason I say this, a few years ago, sometimes when I tried to transfer files from-or-to one of the computers on my network I would get a spontaneous reboot. Now, the weird part is, more than one computer was doing this, but one specific computer was always involved (either it would reboot or the one being transferred to or from would reboot). After a couple of months of pulling my hair out, I changed the network card in that machine and the problem went away! | | What is up with that ?? I have never had any problems with Kmail. Well, any problem I've ever had was cured by deleting my /home/username/.kde and logging back in. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail going Nuts
| On Friday 27 August 2004 05:26 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: | | | Hello All, | | While answering Hoyt's email, kmail went nuts. The first email response | just crashed my desktop and I had to reboot. The second time I tried to | respond to Hoyt's email (and of course the whole mailing list ) Kmail | crashed and rebooted WITHOUT me doing ANYTHING. Something is way wrong | here. | | Now this is where it gets real WEIRD, when ( the second time ) Kmail | rebooted by itself, the two emails to Hoyt ( and of cousre the whole | mailing list) were there and sent ! ! Is anyone having these same problems | ? ? | | Is this a bug, if so do I report it and if so to who / where? | | Looking for an guidance. | | Standing by. | All the best to you all, | bj | Linux Newbie, but loving it! I'm getting confused by the threading here, but in case you missed my post to the hijacked thread: Rebooted? I think it may not be kmail--you may have a hardware problem. Something about kmail may be accessing a specific part of your hd, or using a specific amount of cpu or memory, or ethernet, and that is the cause of the crash. The reason I say this, a few years ago, sometimes when I tried to transfer files from-or-to one of the computers on my network I would get a spontaneous reboot. Now, the weird part is, more than one computer was doing this, but one specific computer was always involved (either it would reboot or the one being transferred to or from would reboot). After a couple of months of pulling my hair out, I changed the network card in that machine and the problem went away! | | What is up with that ?? I have never had any problems with Kmail. Well, any problem I've ever had was cured by deleting my /home/username/.kde and logging back in. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Friday 20 August 2004 06:50 pm, JoeHill wrote: | ...but I'll give you this: anyone choosing KDE over XFCE needs their head | examined. Sorry dooD, but my wife would never have quit Winders if it hadn't been for the KDE interface. Anything that is too different from Windows and it would have been a no go from the get go. It's call xenophobia, and 90% of the Windows users have it. All these folks want is an OS interface that is easy to use and understand, and especially one that they don't have to learn from scratch. Xfce, as much as I like it, is too different to be of use to your average Windows convert. Ditto for Enlightenment, Ice, and even Gnome. My wife described Gnome as weird looking and ugly. Any Windows user can convert to KDE without giving it much thought, and that makes it a useful interface, in my book. The other window managers are pretty much for geeks, even though many (most) are really more intelligently designed (that, I think, we can agree on). e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Generic Sound Drivers for MDK 10
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:05 pm, lmcilwain wrote: | I ran the first command and it asked me to insert the first CD. Once I | did that and hit enter it seems to be just sitting there. I can't tell | that my cdrom is spinning or that the files are being installed. How | do I know if this is working? | | It should immediately read the disk and then start to install. Even on the old laptop, stuff should start to happen within a few seconds. If it doesn't, I would cancel out, log-out--then back in and try to mount the disk (probably via the cd icon on the desktop first). If it doesn't work then, you have a problem, most likely with your disk or your hardware. Hopefully, you've already figured this out and have actually got sndconfig installed. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE-reply to all
On Thursday 19 August 2004 08:34 am, M.Schild wrote: | Is there a ´reply to all´ option on Kmail? I cannot find it | TIA | Maryse | | In Kmail just right click and see your choices. | | Thank you. I could have found that out :-( | Maryse To add it to your toolbar: SettingsConfigure_Toolbars and move the Reply to All to the Current Actions window. cool huh, e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Generic Sound Drivers for MDK 10
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:53 am, lmcilwain wrote: | Hello all, | | I have installed mandrake 10 on my micron u360 laptop (old) but it | doesn't seem to have sound drivers installed. When I try to run | anything that requires sound it tells me that it can't find the audio | mixer or something to that affect. | | My speaker icon makes it seem like I have sound yet I get that error. | It is not X'd out. I don't know what chipset I have cause I don't have | the manual. | | Does anyone know where I can find any generic drivers that I can | install to see if I can try to get some sound? | | Thanks, I suspect that your old laptop may have a SoundBlaster or a SB clone. That would require sndconfig to locate and configure the card. It is no longer installed by default, but it is on the installation disks. As root: #urpmi sndconfig After the necessary depends and sndconfig installs, as root: #sndconfig If you are lucky, it will find your card, and you will hear the sound sample. Erylon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux / LAN Help
On Saturday 14 August 2004 08:04 am, BJ Tracy wrote: | On Friday 13 August 2004 07:38 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: | On Friday 13 August 2004 12:05 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: | | | | Slowly getting my office up and running on Linux. U | | Hmm--do you have the same username and password on the W98 machine as on | the Linux machine? | | NO First off, it has been a long, long time since I had 98 (or any windows) on my network, so I'm doing this from far distant memory. You need to go to the Control Panel and make a user for your W98 box that is identical, and that has an identical password to the samba user on the Linux box. The 98 box also has to belong to the same WORKGROUP identified in your /etc/samba/smb.conf From here on, do everything as root. | | Do you have an entry for the W98 machine in /etc/samba/lmhosts | | I'm NEW to Linux and not sure what you are talking about here. /etc/samba/lmhosts gives samba a roadmap to IP/computer names of network machines. 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 BoxName1 192.168.0.2 BoxName2 192.168.0.3 BoxName3 etc Don't eliminate the 127.xx localhost entry. I'm assuming you are using 192.xx and not 10.xx--adjust accordingly. Add all your networked machines. | | How about an entry for it in /etc/hosts | | ? Not sure /etc/hosts allows remote hosts to be identified by the samba box. The convention is: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 BoxName1.workgroup_name 192.168.0.2 BoxName2.workgroup_name The localhost entry is required.Add an entry for each box on your network (there are easier ways, but this always works) | | Does the /etc/hosts.allow entry cover the IP addy of the offending | machine? | | ?? This allows specific addresses to access the samba machine. This is the way I do mine, there are others, but this is secure enough for me, and simple. On a small network an IP for each machine here is no problem. On a large network you might want to us a range of addresses. ALL : 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.4 192.168.0.5 | You can add the name and IP addy of the Linux machine to the W98 | machine's lmhost file. | | Where do I look for this file on 98? In the Windows/System folder (I think) there is a file named lmhost.sam, or very similar. You can open Notepad and create an lmhost.txt file that follows the conventions of the *.sam sample file and save it to the same folder that lmhost.sam is located. | | I'm assuming that the W98 box shows up everywhere but on the Linux box. | | Yes that is correct. On the 98 box I can see everything in my office. | Thanks for your help | bj I always name my 8 network machines the same, and I keep a copy of the above files and just put them into any new install, so I don't really have to remake my network every time. | | Erylon | | | Also, to move or copy files from one machine to another is there | | anything that I need to do as well, ie permissions or configuring | | routes,,,please advise. The 98 machine is basically open to the whole network if you have file sharing enabled. You probably want to configure your /etc/samba/smb.conf file to allow a share on your Linux box. I make a directory /home/public (directories under /home can be easily made into a share) and give it world permissions: #chmod 2777 /home/public. With msec enabled (which it is by default), you'll have to jump through some hoops or it will change the permissions on you (I disable msec because I know what permissions I want on directories and msec irritates me to no end). The entry in the smb.conf file would look something like this: [Public] comment = public folder path = /home/public admin users = @workgroup_name write list = @workgroup_name force group = @workgroup_name read only = No inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = Yes | | | | Thanks in advance. I hope this is useful e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux / LAN Help
On Friday 13 August 2004 12:05 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: | Hello All, | | Slowly getting my office up and running on Linux. Using Mandrake 10.0 | Power Pack. MDK 10.0 is loaded and running well on my PC and laptop. I | have established LAN connections and can see three of the four computers in | my office. I can see the pc with XP on it. However the other pc that has | 98 (used for storage) on it, I cannot see. I have set my linux machines to | smb and nfs. Is there something else I'm missing. My router and hub are | Linksys. Hmm--do you have the same username and password on the W98 machine as on the Linux machine? Do you have an entry for the W98 machine in /etc/samba/lmhosts How about an entry for it in /etc/hosts Does the /etc/hosts.allow entry cover the IP addy of the offending machine? You can add the name and IP addy of the Linux machine to the W98 machine's lmhost file. I'm assuming that the W98 box shows up everywhere but on the Linux box. hth Erylon | | Also, to move or copy files from one machine to another is there anything | that I need to do as well, ie permissions or configuring routes,,,please | advise. | | Thanks in advance. | bj | | TGIF Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin(offtopic)
On Monday 09 August 2004 09:33 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Monday 09 August 2004 19:48:07, Erylon Hines wrote: | On Monday 09 August 2004 03:01 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: | | Hiya | | | | Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have | | built up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The | | actually directory is: | | | | Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam | | | | Now, I've been into shell and done as it asked, ie type in the | | following string. The first one was without a dot before Mail and the | | second was with it in. | | | | It's not working. This is in Kontact by the way. Can anyone help? | | | | TIA | | | | Elwyn | | | | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox | | --spam /home/Elwyn/Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* | | | | Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). | | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox | | --spam /home/Elwyn/.Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* | | | | Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). | | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ | | Your Mail directory isn't hidden, normally. Nor would be the | subdirectorys, the /spam or /MissedSpam | | The command: | | $sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/Elwyn/Mail/spam/MissedSpam/* | | I beg to differ. The Mail directory for K-Mail since (I believe) 3.1 *is* a | hidden directory, while the sub-directories in it are not. No point hiding | those is there, they live in a hidden directory. | | The rest of what you advised is probably accurate. I wouldn't know and | don't intend to discover since spamassassin and I have never been more than | coldly cordial to one another. I use bogofilter, far less horsepower | required, easily configured, while just as accurate. | | Charlie My #kmail --version Qt: 3.1.2 KDE: 3.1.3 KMail: 1.5.3 With 9.2. #/~/Mail directory isn't hidden. For what reason would the developers hide it? ? Erylon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:01 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: | Hiya | | Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built | up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually | directory is: | | Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam | | Now, I've been into shell and done as it asked, ie type in the following | string. The first one was without a dot before Mail and the second was with | it in. | | It's not working. This is in Kontact by the way. Can anyone help? | | TIA | | Elwyn | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox | --spam /home/Elwyn/Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* | | Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox | --spam /home/Elwyn/.Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* | | Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ Your Mail directory isn't hidden, normally. Nor would be the subdirectorys, the /spam or /MissedSpam The command: $sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/Elwyn/Mail/spam/MissedSpam/* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop choice
On Saturday 31 July 2004 03:41 am, Johan Sch wrote: | Hi List, | | Looking at IBM laptops I see the following..for processors.. | | I've installed 9.2 on a couple of different IBM's, and a friend of mine put 10.0 on one. With 9.2 the laptops had a Savage vid card, and I had to download and install a different driver than the default that came with Mandrake in order to get the proper screen resolution. The Savage may have been fixed in 10, because my friend's laptop also had that card and he didn't mention that he had any problems. Another gotcha is the LinModem, which requires downloading a driver (ltmodem-kv_2.4.22_10mdk-8.26a9-1.i586.rpm). There was a thread on making the 2.4-kernel driver work with 2.6 here during the past week. My friend with 10 has broadband, so he didn't bother with the modem and I have no more info on that. Everything else worked right from the get-go. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail problem
On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:31 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: | On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:59 am, Alan Dunford wrote: | | -Thanks again Ron. Did a reinstall and the urls and jpgs burst | -into life now as before. Still have a lot of tidying up to do | -but the main problem is solved. | - | -A friend of mine (in electronics) said that when you solder | -connections on the end of a cable and when finished you find you | -have forgotten to put a fitting on the cable first, then having | -to do it again is penance for not doing it properly in the first | -place. This is the price I am paying with Mandrake right now. | -(;-) | | Hmm, wonder what caused it in the first place though? Oh well, as long as | its working, right? :-) The next time (if there is a next time), create a new user and see if everything works. If so, export your old user's address book to a directory somewhere safe, and rename your .kde directory in the /home for your old username. Restart kde and log in as your old username, and everything will probably work when kde creates a new .kde for your old username. If it does, remove your new user. Be aware you will lose all your kde settings (hence the backup of your address book--you can backup and maybe recover your mail, also). e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
|On Friday 30 July 2004 05:23 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: | On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:15, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | A lot of the problems are probably coming from not doing a clean | install. Backup /home to a cd and format /home and everything else for | a clean install. | | I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those | that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will | test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to | make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... As you'all know, I have always felt that Mandrake is a cutting edge distro. When a new release comes out, I will only install it on an experimental box, and then only if I really have the time to mess with it and find if I can get it working to my satisfaction. If anyone is interested, I still haven't installed any flavor of 10 because I don't have the time to deal with the new set of problems that seems to be cropping up (and 9.2 works perfectly for me, across numerous installs). Whether the problems are kernel-related with 2.6, or Mandrake-tools related, or a combination of the two, I don't know. 10 works perfectly for a lot of people, and is a major PITA for others. If you like living on the bleeding edge--go for it. If you only have one box, my own opinion is that you should install 9.2, unless you have a piece of hardware that will absolutely, positively not work with 9.2. Or, install SuSe, which tends to be a generation behind Mandrake, although you can still have issues that are kernel related (and SuSe tools and layout sucks, compared to Mandrake's). Just my worthless opinion e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] samba
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 09:55 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: | I'm going to get this unless it kills me. | | I've been rtfming my butt off on samba. | | smbadduser as root goes like this: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] lee]# smbadduser lee:lee | bash: smbadduser: command not found | [EMAIL PROTECTED] lee]# | | What have I overlooked? | | smb daemon is running and I can browse one win2k box from black. | | Lee As root, edit your /etc/samba/smbuser and make it look like this # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ... Unix_name = SMB_lee root = administrator admin nobody = guest pcguest smbguest Then from a root console: smbpasswd -a lee follow the prompt to add the password Also, keep in mind that lee must be a log-in on each box that you want to browse via samba, and the password must be identical for lee on every box. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Saturday 24 July 2004 04:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
|
| I need to install filters but have forgotten how they should be set up
| and at the moment I cant find my notes. I have trained spamassassin
| with enough email (spam ham) so they should be useful but cant get it
| to function.
Are you talking about filters in Kontact (Kmail), or are you talking about
rules for SA?
If filters, the uk site is an excellent step-by-step. For the *.cf rules,
just download them and copy them to /etc/mail/spamassassin. Five of my
favorites are antidrug.cf,backhair.cf, chickenpox.cf, Obfu.cf and
weedsonly.cf. Be sure to run spamassassin --lint because of a typo or
two in backhair.
I'm attaching my /home/username/.spamassassin/user_prefs as a guide to what is
working for me. Note that I am using SA 2.55, so you wouldn't want to use
the am_biz section. Also, note that I filter very aggressively at 4.0 hits,
but still, false positives are extremely rare.
# This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.
# See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
# tweaked.
#
###
#
rewrite_subject 1
#report_header 1
#defang_mime 0
required_hits 4.0
spam_level_stars 3
subject_tag ***SPAM***
auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666
score FROM_AND_TO_SAME_1 3
score MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE 0
score IN_REP_TO -1
score EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION -1
score ORIGINAL_MESSAGE -1
local rules #
score HTML_10_202.0
score HTML_20_302.2
end local.cf
more local rules
describe MY_DOMAIN_NUMBERS_ONLYDomain names has numbers only
score MY_DOMAIN_NUMBERS_ONLY 2.0
# Domain name starts with number(s)
uri MY_DOMAIN_STARTS_NUMS
/[.\/@]+\d+[a-zA-Z\-]+[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*\.(com|net|biz|info)/i
describe MY_DOMAIN_STARTS_NUMS Domain name starts with numbers
score MY_DOMAIN_STARTS_NUMS1.0
# Domain name ends with number(s)
uri MY_DOMAIN_ENDS_NUMS
/[.\/@]+[a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*\d+\.(com|net|biz|info)/i
describe MY_DOMAIN_ENDS_NUMS Domain name ends with numbers
score MY_DOMAIN_ENDS_NUMS 1.0
# Single letter hosts, like http://d.spammers.com - in my corpus
# 108 SPAM and 0 ham
uri MY_SINGLE_LETTER_HOST /(http:\/\/|@)\w{1}\./
describe MY_SINGLE_LETTER_HOST Host name single letter only
score MY_SINGLE_LETTER_HOST 2.0
#Note: this AM_BIZ_SITE rule has been superceded by a distribution rule,
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Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Friday 23 July 2004 01:25 am, SME Server Admin wrote: | Hiya | | I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email. | | At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking for | something I can use that will handle it for me, one that can learn if | that's possible? | | TIA | | Elwyn There are several, but quite a few of us use SpamAssassin. SA takes a bit of teaching, but once you parse a couple of thousand messages it gets extremely good at filtering out the junk. It is on your disks, and probably already installed. To begin your adventure go here: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=15 http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/spam.html http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html http://www.rulesemporium.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Friday 23 July 2004 10:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | On Friday 23 July 2004 10:13, Erylon Hines wrote: | On Friday 23 July 2004 01:25 am, SME Server Admin wrote: | | Hiya | | | | I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email. | | | | At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm | | looking for something I can use that will handle it for me, one | | that can learn if that's possible? | | | | TIA | | | | Elwyn | | There are several, but quite a few of us use SpamAssassin. SA takes | a bit of teaching, but once you parse a couple of thousand messages | it gets extremely good at filtering out the junk. It is on your | disks, and probably already installed. To begin your adventure go | here: | | http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewar | ticleartid=15 | | http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/spam.html | | snip | These two refrences do not resolve on the server. My apologies. Looks like my bookmarks need an update 8(. The Columbia U is a dead link now, but Derek's site is still a go and is excellent for Postfix + Spamassassin configuration, should you decide to go that route. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html I'm not doing my SA that way, but am config'd this way: http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html Be sure to download rulesets (*.cf files) from the rules emporium and place them in /etc/mail/spamassassin These sets are extremely effective! e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Partition Magic 7 for Linux Native Partitions (bad partition table)
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 03:53 pm, Roberto Ramsis wrote: | For the 1st time i use Partition Magic 7.0 (Win98) to make my Linux Native | partition ,I made it primary,after Uncompressing the kernel the PC just | hangs . The problem is i can't let the MDK9.2 setup wizard do it,cuz this | way ,both windows and partition magic can never see the partition table | again and give partition table error. Using fdisk from knoppix | hdb1 c win95 fat32 | hdb2 f win95 Ext'd LBA | hdb3 83 Linux | hdb4 82 Linux Swap | hdb5 b Win95 FAT32 | hdb6 b Win95 FAT32 The way that I would have done it: Use partition magic to move all active Windows partitions to the front of the drive and re-order the drive designations if necessary (C:, D:, E:, etc). Shrink the Windows partitions to leave free space at the end of the drive. Make the free space into a single fat32 partition. When everything looks right from windows and Partition Magic, uninstall partition magic. Boot with the Mandrake boot CD and use diskdrake to create the Linux partitions in the unused fat32 partition at the end of the drive. Do it this way, and you won't have to mess around with hiding partitions, etc., and LILO can handle your boot records. Partition Magic can be useful (I keep a copy around), but it has limitations, one of which is that it can only create Linux ext2 and I always use and recommend a journaling system (I use ReiserFS). Another is, it can interact with diskdrake and cause partition table errors. Diskdrake is a very good tool, but it can mess up the Partiton Magic tables--that's why I don't leave PM on my disks after I'm done with it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning
On Sunday 18 July 2004 03:29 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: | On Sunday 18 July 2004 23:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: | Marv Boyes wrote: | I did a bad, bad thing, and I'm hoping that someone can help me | with it. | | I used Partition Commander to wipe out the Mandrake 9.1 | partition on my secondary's machine's hard drive, then gave all | of the free space to Windows [not to worry; it's a gaming | machine. My primary box is still blissfully MS-free. ;) ]. | | The problem is that now Windows won't boot. I didn't restore my | Windows bootloader beforehand, and when I try to do so now (the | only way I know how, from the utility provided by the Mandrake | 9.1 installation CD), I can only get so far in the process | before Mandrake setup stops being able to read from the CD-ROM | drive. So when I turn on the machine, I get this: | | grub | | I have no idea what do do with that. And without a | /boot/grub/menu.lst, grub has no idea, either. I've been | through all the help that grub provides, and none of it | suggests an obvious solution. | | Is there any hope of fixing this, so that I can boot Windows-- | as installed --on that drive? Or am I facing a reinstall here? | Any help would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in | advance. | | Marv | | Try booting to DOS, and run fdisk /mbr and see if that fixes | it. (Undocumented option in DOS fdisk to restore the Master Boot | Record.) | | Mikkel | | ...and if you can't even get into DOS, get a Windows rescue diskette | from someone, boot from it and type : FDISK /MBR | | or look here : http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm | | HTH | Kaj Haulrich. http://www.bootdisk.com However, if you do go the re-install route, it shouldn't hurt anything--as long as you don't format the hd. . A simple install over a previous copy of Windows is one way to repair a fubar'd Win system. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I am now a trator
On Saturday 03 July 2004 12:37 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 04:29, JoeHill wrote: | Whoa, careful what you say about Australians, mate, there's a couple of | 'em on hear and *man* are they ill-tempered ;-) | Awww, they're o.k. when they're drunk. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD playing? :-\
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 01:31 pm, Eric Scott wrote: | On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:22, PM wrote: | On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:09, Eric Scott wrote: | I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ | 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I | have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still | doesn't play CDs. The counter runs and it does everything else it's | supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. | Anybody know how I can fix this? | I'm pretty newbie so be basic. | Thanx, | ES | | It does have the cable between Cd sound card doesn't it? | | ooo; mwehe. I'm smart when I wanna be ;-) I'm sure I | have it in | | a drawer somewhere... but I don't recall plugging it in when I replaced | it's old crappy 4x drive. :-P |Thanx! This list rocks even with *duh* stuff. lol | ES Probably because most of us have done it, at least once!!! 8) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I am now a trator
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 01:19 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 04:05, Erylon Hines wrote: | On Saturday 03 July 2004 12:37 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | | On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 04:29, JoeHill wrote: | | Whoa, careful what you say about Australians, mate, there's a couple | | of 'em on hear and *man* are they ill-tempered ;-) | | Awww, they're o.k. when they're drunk. | | e | | When AREN'T we drunk? Maybe you mean sober? | | stephen kuhn - proprietor Nope, you're mostly o.k. when you're drunk. Then you just fight amongst yourselves and leave the rest of us in peace! e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how to make k3b to use generic-mmc driver
On Thursday 24 June 2004 07:54 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi all, | I want to copy cd (data) using k3b. But it failed with unrecognize driver, | try using generic-mmc. So, I googled and they said to specify k3b to use | it. Some said that I should run k3bsetup, but, in step 3, I can't modify | the parameter of the driver. How do I specify it? | I can't remember exactly where it is, but there is a drop down menu that has it listed and you can change the default driver when you run k3b setup. Incidentally Derek Jennings has a fine how to for k3b setup. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/k3b.html e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10CE USB Printers
On Saturday 19 June 2004 03:40 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | On Saturday 19 June 2004 04:33, JRH wrote: | Hi all, | | I gotta buy a new printer, as my old HP 510 has finally died. | | I've got my eye on a Lexmark USB version (cos it's cheap!) and my | | neighbour | | has one, and it works ok for him, but on Windows. | | Has anyone had any Mandrake and USB printer experience? Will it work | | on 10CE | | without a huge amount of upheaval? | | I dont want to go buy it and find I gotta go into Windoze to use STAY AWAY FROM LEXMARK! They are pieces of %*^. The reason they are dirt cheap is because the ink is extremely costly--what you save on the printer you will pay out in ink. Get an Epson or an HP and buy aftermarket cartridges. The drivers for both are pretty good, but I think the HP is somewhat better, and the aftermarket carts are better, IMO. My 940 and 1120 work very well, and the newer ones will probably be o.k. with a driver for an older model (I set up an 1160 Photo with a dj960 driver and it worked fine--just didn't have all the functionality a real 1160 driver would have). As someone else mentioned, the Linux drivers aren't as good and lack features that the Win drivers have. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :-) Borked resume, cannot complete boot
On Saturday 19 June 2004 10:19 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | || Hoyt Bailey wrote: | | IMO. Newbie should not be using Cooker at all. | | Opinion noted. However, that wasn't the question. | Although newbie should probably not be using Cooker, Cooker questions pop up all the time. And, there are certainly people on newbie that are really, truly, EXPERT (and some of them run Cooker). Ask away--someone can probably help. And welcome, the people on this list really try to help. I've been following it on and off for years, and people leave and return, just like me (only a lot of them are far more knowledgeable). IMO, Mandrake newbie is really a community (wipes a tear). I know that without this list, I would still have some Windows machines. Windows-Free since 2000 e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs
On Saturday 19 June 2004 09:37 am, Eric Huff wrote: | Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs | from the ISO images (which I have downloaded). I presently have | Windows 98 and Fedora Core 2 on my system | | I never tried it, but here was a previous post: | | | Well, you can also install mandrake from the ISO images located on | de HDD. Just make those boot disks, than install on text mode. Then | you choose install from hdd, and write the path where the images are | located. (ie: (i dont remember, but something like that) | /dev/hda/linux/mandrake/) Almost everytime, i install from the | images on HDD. | | Milasch | Me, too. If I want to urpmi something from the install disks I don't have to shove them in the drive. Sweet. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI Detection problem
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 08:45 pm, Bernardo de Barros Franco wrote: | Hello, | | I have tried to install Mandrake 9 and 10 to no avail, they both freeze | after installing the module for the scsi controller, before (while?) | detecting the scsi hds attached to it. | The funny thing is that I got the installation cds for OpenBSD 3.3, Suse | 9 and Red Hat 7.3 all to detect my both HDs out of the box. | My configuration (as lspci and dmesg from the Suse installation): | 1 VIA-chipset motherboard with 512 RAM DDR400, a Pentium 4 1.8ghz | processor, a CDROM on ide0 and a Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D SCSI controller | (id 7) that controls 2 IBM-PSG DNES-309170W 9.1Gb hard drives on ids 0 | and 1. | After booting from the cd (Mandrake 10) and trying to install with the | 2.6 kernel I get a error when insmodding the aic7xxx. Since I've read | somewhere that that is expected with that kernel I try an alternate boot | image (the 2.4 kernel one). The module is installed ok (version 6.2.36) | and detects AIC-7881U. My controller is found correctly but then when it | should list my HDs, it just stays there forever. I have tried 2 | different medias for the version 10 install and tried once other media | with version 9 which had the exact same problem. | I am feeling particularly frustrated since Suse 9 has apparently the | same aic7xxx module version 6.2.36 and detects the HDs without any | issues. As stated above the detection also was successful on Red Hat 7.3 | and OpenBSD 3.3, but I really would ratter use Mandrake ;) | | Thanks in advance, | Bernardo de Barros Franco You probably have one of the older Adaptec 2940 SCSI controllers. They changed the drivers for their newer models a couple of years ago, and the driver that Mandrake installs is the new driver, which doesn't work with the old 2940. Last I knew, the old driver was still on the disk, however, and was listed as the aic7xxx_Old (or something similar). To install this driver you need to boot the install and type expert to get to the choices which include the old driver. The reason RH7.x works is they were still using the old driver back then. Probably ditto for BSD3--don't know about Suse. The last Mandrake distro that installed the old driver as default was 8.2. If you need more info, Google is you friend. hth Erylon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issue
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 03:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am a quite happy user of mdk 9.2. I am planning to move to mdk 10 | Official. However, sometime ago, I installed mdk 10 CE and I experienced | problems with sound. Therefore, I would like to know whether the sound | problems, typical of mdk 10 CE, are overcome. | | Thanks in advance! | | Paul Judging by the posts of the past month, the answer is NO. Depending on what you have for hardware, sound may be problematic. I'm staying with 9.2 (and 9.1) until I can install with more confidence than I have now. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Saturday 12 June 2004 04:43 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: | On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | | I have always had problems with networks in windows. I am far from being a | network administrator, but I have had some such at home from my ISPs who | rarely fix something for me in that area. I am using Mandrake 10,0 in one | of my machines, but in others I have installed previous versions. The first | time I installed the distro, I got delighted everything was working. With | 10.0 I have no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. It is here | where I find Windows more friendly to what one can do to fix the problem. | But, as you say, past the configuration, Linux is a very friendly OS. Maybe | I feel a bit lost because I am a newbie. For example, it is essential to me | the support of this list and I do not belong to any Microsoft mailing | lists. | I'm actually with you on this. Although Mandrake tools are the best (I've used Redhat, SuSe, Deb, and even Caldera, way back when), Mandrake is really a cutting edge distro. The upside is it has the latest developments, the downside is that some things don't work on all hardware. This has been ongoing with Mandrake from the 7.x series. I won't install any new version until at least several months after release because of these problems, and from what I read, I won't be installing mdk 10.0. It seems to work on most people's hardware, but a small percentage have serious problems with their sound. Now, this may be fixable (something simple like changing from your card's arts driver to the alternative OSS driver, for example), or it may be a systemic problem with the distro. If past releases are any indication, most of these problems will be worked out by the 10.1 version, and the 10.2 version will be excellent. But, for now, 9.2 and 9.1 work exactly the way that I want them to, and I can't see a single reason to upgrade. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: multipart? was Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **
On Thursday 10 June 2004 07:35 pm, Eric Huff wrote: | On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:31:25 -0700 | | Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This is a multi-part message in MIME format... | | =_1086900076-13954-3211-- | | Anybody know why this came through as multi-part mime ? | | Actually, i guess it's still the footer causing it. But for some | reason on sylpheed claws, this post comes out much uglier than | others in that it just burps up all the multiparts headers (as seen | above, meaining that is what was visible when i opened the mail) | | Does it look that way for the rest of you, or does it look like a | normal post where the message footor just shows up at the bottom? | | Thanks, | eric With Kmail it looks just like any other post, with a message footer box at the bottom. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | Teilhard Knight wrote: | snip | | | | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate | command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be | honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and | its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only | improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the | more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary, | for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold | in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the | advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving. | | Cordially, | | Teilhard | | - Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well. My wife's computer was converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using now. As she told a friend a few months ago, Linux is easy to use--it must be if I can do it. As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what Linux has now is far simpler than NT was then. I can't say about W2K or XP administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to. Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade because the administration of the system is a nightmare. I learned back in my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential application. From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that this Windows feature has changed much over the years. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ugly display with KMail composer msgs.
On Friday 11 June 2004 06:57 am, Jason Wilson wrote: | J Adam Latham wrote: | Dear All: | | Whenever I send a message with KMail it delivers the message in a wierd | and ugly format ... What it does is print a sentence of the message on | one line, then on the next line it only prints a word, then a sentence, | then a word ... (This message, I'm sure, is doing the same thing!) Yet | my messages while typed, and in my Sent folder, look just fine ... But | the receiver's copy is always a formatting disaster ... | | At first I thought it might be something related to word-wrap, but it's | set at 78, so that should be fine ... I tried reducing it to 70 but still | got the same results ... I didn't notice anything else in the Configure | KMail options to remedy this ... | | Any/all suggestions as to how to fix this will be greatly appreciated! | | Thanks, | Adam | | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com | | | I don't know exactly how to fix this but just so you know, your message | came out fine. At least on my machine. | | Jason Looks fine in my Kmail. I would suspect that your receiver has something unusual going on. If you are really concerned that the problem is a setting on your end (defaults should be perfectly fine and all e-mail programs, including Outlook and OE should show proper formatting) you can always backup (be sure to export your address book to a file so that you won't lose it!) and then delete your /home/username/.kde(the .kde is hidden--you need to check show hidden files under the View section of the toolbar in Konq). This will destroy all of your .kde user configuration files, including Kmail, and you will need to re-configure it from scratch the next time you open kde and then Kmail. I've had Kmail mess up a couple of times over the years, and have been forced to do this, but it is a last resort. One test is to create a new User, then make a Kmail account for the User and configure your smtp and POP3, leaving all other settings at the default. Send a message as your new User, and see if the problem persists. If it does, it is probably the receiver's mail program. If everything is hunky-dory with the new User, it is your user settings or a problem in your .kde. Try making your user settings the same as your new User first, then move to the last resort. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
