Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files
Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio file formats? TIA Paul Grip is best if you want to rip files from CD, but konqueror also can be very useful. Press the 'services' button in your konqueror sidebar and you will see the 'Audio CD browser' (If you cannot see the sidebar hit F9 ) From the audio CD browser you can drag and drop audio files from the CD in .wav, .ogg, or .mp3 format. Note: Because mp3 is covered by patent Mandrake does not support creating mp3's out of the box. You will have to declare a urpmi source for 'plf' by going to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and install the lame and liblame0 packages. As for file formats, as I mention above mp3 is covered by patent and any time you use it a gentleman from the Fraunhofer institute is entitled to turn up on your doorstep demanding money. So us geeky open source types prefer .ogg. It is 'free' software and better quality than mp3 anyway. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4416 To convert between file formats there is a neat command line utility called 'sox' Install the sox package and then enter #sox in the url line of konqueror for instructions. derek I would have thought that Grip or KAudioCreator would have done just fine. http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator -- Parko Struggling with Xorg11 and an ATI9800 Pro VGA card in *any* distribution. Not supported apparently... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 16:01 +1100, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Hugh Dixon Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 3:38 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners Hi, I'm looking to get a DVD burner, and am having trouble sourcing things from the Mandrake hardware compatibility list. I have one of these: Vendor: Lite-On Technology Corp. Model: DVDRW SOHW-1653S ...and a DVD-ROM: JLMS XJ-HD166S, both work fine. -- Gary And now for something completely different... http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/hardware.html#HWCDROM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SMB connection
Trying to mount a share on a Win server I get the following error: cli_negprot: SMB signing is mandatory and we have disabled it. 11846: protocol negotiation failed SMB connection failed How to correct this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE 3.1
Installed KDE 3.1 from Mandrake Club. No major problem with the installation. However I lost my volume control icon on the taskbar and cannot find a way to get it back. Any suggestions? Also whenever I close Konquror I get a SIG11SIGSEGV. It works but does not want to close down apparently. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1
et wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:27 am, Gary Montalbine wrote: Installed KDE 3.1 from Mandrake Club. No major problem with the installation. However I lost my volume control icon on the taskbar and cannot find a way to get it back. Any suggestions? Also whenever I close Konquror I get a SIG11SIGSEGV. It works but does not want to close down apparently. Gary K-menu, sound, kmix, configure, dock onto panel. just guessing cause it works that way in 3.05a (from 9.0), It worked, Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1
et wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 04:13 pm, robin wrote: Gary Montalbine wrote: K-menu, sound, kmix, configure, dock onto panel. just guessing cause it works that way in 3.05a (from 9.0), It worked, Thanks So having got everything working - is downloading 3.1 worth the effort, in your opinion? Sir Robin I think I will wait until I find some folks that did NOT get a sig 11 on shutdown Really haven't had a chance to explore 3.1. Had to replace the fan on my power supply. I hope that cured my PS heating. I still have not resolved or heard anything about the sig11 appearing on closing Konqueror. I am a poor one to ask about a program. If it does what I want It's great. I am not fussy or very demanding. I enjoy ML very much. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating symbolic links
FemmeFatale wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:11, John Richard Smith wrote: It confused me for a long time. ln -s destination file source file enter John -- John Richard Smith Its still confusing me! This is what I tried the error msgs: [root@Heather bin]# ln -s usr/games/fortune usr/bin Try using ln -s /usr/games/fortune /usr/bin. I think the / is necessary to deliniate a directory. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake
Well bugger me! - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 11:24 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake yeah, I'll second that.. Don't think this aussie has ever said crikey on his life... here are some good Aussie alternatives.. 1. Bloody hell!!! 2. F**k me drunk! 3. Holy Shit! 4. You bloody ripper!!! (depreciated). 5. * (Censored :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 11 January 2003 8:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 22:48, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 03:20, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:54:34 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =20 In reply to ivette's mail, d.d. Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:43:02 +0100: =20 Is there an linux equivalent for Windows Media Player? I'm using latest=20 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html We got QTs and WMV/WMA. New Mplayer v0.90rc2. Loaded it today and it works great. This pages shows all the new formats. Yeehaw!=20 (that's Oi! for the Brits and Crikey! for the Aussies)=20 ;) ~Brandon Real Aussies don't say crikey anymore. Only Steve Irwin says crikey. The rest of the Aussies usually say shit - or other extremely explicative nouns and/or verbs. They're not shy about it, neither. -- Sat Jan 11 22:55:01 EST 2003 10:55pm up 1 day, 1:06, 5 users, load average: 0.50, 0.82, 8.73 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- sounds like a Windows problem, try calling Microsoft support Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.2.1 from cooker won't run
I installed 1.2.1 about a month ago. No problem installing. However the plugins did not work and the spellchecker in E-mail did not work although it was installed. Switched to Texstar's Mozilla-xft-1.2.1 and as a browser it works great including plugins. The composer in E-mail will not word wrap properly and the spellchecker does not work. Attachments in incoming e-mail are not displayed. I am using xft-1.2.1 as the browser and Kmail for E-mail. Gary On Saturday 14 December 2002 01:30 pm, Tom Ekeberg wrote: Hi, Anybody here installed Mozilla 1.2.1 from cooker and got to work? I have tried on to separate machines and it simply doesn't work. If I try strace mozilla, it reports a --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- which does not make me much wiser. I am at a loss. I have a fairly standard 9.0 installation as far as I know, and I have never had a problem like this before. I don't know if it's related, but at about the same time OpenOffice stopped showing page previews and the help files (images are shown, as well as text larger than 16pt). Even if this is unrelated, I'd appreciate help on this as well. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake - request for support! (v9.0)
I have the same problem using 8.2. I asked a similar question a few weeks back and the consensus seems to be a motherboard issue. I am using the Tyan S1598 Trinity MB. Fortunately mine will reboot. So I reboot into Win98 and shutdown that way. M9.0 will not load. Gary On Friday 13 December 2002 10:49 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hardware - Shuttle motherboard 384 megs ram AMD Athlon 900 cpu Nvidia Geforce 2/64 megs ram SoundBlaster Xgamer Live sound card Adaptec 2930 SCSI card WinTV tuner card Linksys network card Toshiba DVD (scsi) Plextor CDRW (scsi) Iomega Zip internal/IDE This hardware configuration ran very well (small issues - easily resolved) with versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 of Mandrake Version 9.0 - installed cleanly (apparently) then refused to bootup, always hanging at checking module dependencies. Dennis suggested passing linux noapic - did that - apparently worked - was finally able to get to a desktop. Added noapic to /etc/lilo.conf. Ran /sbin/lilo. Rebooted - worked -next reboot did not work - finally worked by picking the non-fb option. I say rebooted. When I say rebooted, I mean manually reaching over and pressing the reset button or power switch because it will not shutdown or reboot otherwise. As root or normal user, if I try any combination of: shutdown -r now shutdown -h now halt ditto powerdown ditto It starts to shutdown, gets as far as: sending all processes the TERM signal OK sending all processes the KILL signal... Never get an okay there, and thats where it hangs. Forever. Needless to say, when I manually restart - the OS is not happy. Please offer suggestions - v8.2 worked great here - didn't have near this much trouble. I'm using the 3 CD download set, purchased from LinuxCentral. I don't believe its the disks - same disks installled fautlessly on my sons computer which is 3 years old (mine is only about a year - go figure!). Thanks in advance. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Find Command hangs on search
Scott wrote: Hello list I am new to Mandrake and have come on a problem that I can't solve (sure it won't be the first). I have a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 on a Dell CPI laptop with 256 meg ram. Everything is running great except when I execute a find command. I use this syntax: find / -name foo* When run as root the system just hangs and I am unable to kill the process. When run as a normal user it does scroll through a few directories then hangsTheain. THe worse is that I am not able to kill the process after it hangs. Can someone please help? Scott; How do you try to kill it? It should die if you kill -9 on the pid. I have seen find behave like you describe, when it comes across a pipe. Most implementations have an option to skip pipes. I'm at work so I can't look it up for you. HTH Gary Regards and Happy Holidays Scott __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla xft-1.2.1
Installed Texstar Mozilla -xft-1.2.1. Browser works fine. E-mail has problems. Does not line wrap in composer and no spell checker although Aspell is part of the install. Does not show attached incoming files. Not sure to tell this to so I came her. Anybody else experiencing these problems? Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla 1.2.1
Installed mozilla 1.2.1 from Mandrake cooker. Lost my spellchecker and crossover plugins. I think I will wait awhile next time. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down
Shutdown ends up in the same place using KDE or terminal shutdown. The system will reboot. In fact I reboot into Windows and then shutdown from there. It was suggested in one reply that it might be my MB is not supported. In the shutdown the script reaches Power down. general protection fault: f000, cpu: 0, EIP: then a bunch of what appears to be memory addresses finally ending with Code: Bad EIP value, /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: line 1 2829 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p. The last part of the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file is: HALTARGS=-i -d -p if [ -f /halt ]; then HALTARGS=i -d fi eval $Command $HALTARGS I have tried various combinations in the HALTARGS segment with no success. Suggestions please. Gary Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 14:08, Gary Montalbine wrote: I was thinking RAM. However I ran a memtest on it twice with no errors and I reseated the RAM. CPU temperature appeared normal but may need to check it under a load. I am dual booting with WIN 98. Netscape 7 has not been stable in Windows. May be a common problem. Gary Ray Henry wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 19:53, Gary Montalbine wrote: When shutting down M8.2 I get the following error msg: /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: Line 1: 9361 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p How can I correct it? I've seen similar errors twice (can't recall exactly), once was bad RAM, the other was poor CPU cooling. Might want to start with those. Have you tried doing a halt from the console instead of the GUI? You might be able to figure out a bit more quickly if you change the runlevel to 3 instead of 5 (graphical) - then ya should be able to view exactly everything that's happening while the halt is happening...BTW, have you seen similar while doing a restart, or is this just when you're doing a halt ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 install
Tried to install M9.0. Hung up at package install stage. Noticed in the boot up that script called for needs ide-cd and a couple of steps later the Warning: insmod failed (ide-cd (null)). Changed CD Roms. No difference. Tried M8.2. No warning about ide-cd. It found it. I am using a Tyan S1598 Trinity ATX MB with an AMD K62 MHz CPU. 1999 version. I have 128 Megs of RAM that tested good with memtest. Any suggestions? Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down
When shutting down M8.2 I get the following error msg: /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: Line 1: 9361 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p How can I correct it? Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down
I was thinking RAM. However I ran a memtest on it twice with no errors and I reseated the RAM. CPU temperature appeared normal but may need to check it under a load. I am dual booting with WIN 98. Netscape 7 has not been stable in Windows. May be a common problem. Gary Ray Henry wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 19:53, Gary Montalbine wrote: When shutting down M8.2 I get the following error msg: /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: Line 1: 9361 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p How can I correct it? I've seen similar errors twice (can't recall exactly), once was bad RAM, the other was poor CPU cooling. Might want to start with those. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.5
Hi Anthony, Did you ever get an answer to this question? I have updated to 3.0.5 and I only use rpm's. I asked about updating kde on the TWUUG list and got an answer. It might be in the archives. IIRC I downloaded all the applicable rpms into a directory and updated from there. It worked. Gary Anthony Abby wrote: Does anyone know why there are no 3.0.5 rpms available for download from either the KDE or Mandrake ftp servers? Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for an app that ...
On Saturday 16 November 2002 02:33 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 00:14, Gary Armstrong wrote: I'm having trouble putting a name to what I want, so not suprisingly I'm having trouble finding anything. I want describe the network of a small company. So I'm hoping to find some graphing tool that does that or maybe a general purpose tool with pre-existing symbols for computing/communication hardware. Just in case I'm thinking to small, if there is some app that would do more than draw it, I'd be very interested. As always money counts. Can anyone make a recomendation? TIA Gary There are network diagramming and diagnostic programs - there is a version of OpenView for linux (HP OpenView) - there are other network utils that will quite literally draw a flowchart of your network. Are any open source/free? I am interested. Dia for Gnome has stencils that come with it to do hand baked diagrams of networks - if you want to do it manually (yech). I probably stated my problem poorly. I'm really defining what it will be. So dia is probably ok. It would be nice, if there was a tool that would find my mistakes before I implement(and learn the hard way). I'm trying to help a start-up get started. They have about 20 Solaris sparc boxes and maybe 15 Wintel boxes. They are currently part of another company, but in about a month they need to look like their own domain/company. Costs are to be avoided, so I'm thinking linux for anything new. That most notably will be there interent capabilities. Does anyone know a good newbie list for connectivity/net design? I wouldn't want to get to off topic here. Thanks Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Looking for an app that ...
I'm having trouble putting a name to what I want, so not suprisingly I'm having trouble finding anything. I want describe the network of a small company. So I'm hoping to find some graphing tool that does that or maybe a general purpose tool with pre-existing symbols for computing/communication hardware. Just in case I'm thinking to small, if there is some app that would do more than draw it, I'd be very interested. As always money counts. Can anyone make a recomendation? TIA Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: kiosk?
Jeanie; Who's fab? I'm new to linux, but not to what you're trying to do. My experience is Solaris and most things translate. I just don't know the particulars. In Solaris, you could configure the workstation to act as an Xterm; running everything from a remote Xserver. If I understand correctly, this would be the same as spending the $6k in your post. By the way, this doesn't address the paranoia about the operators. If you're working for a semiconductor house, you probably have plenty of old sparcs that I know can be used as Xterms. Most Window managers allow you to define the menus on a per account basis. Create an account with only the production apps and logoff (no shells) defined. If you can't use a login manager, Solaris had something called a restricted shell. If linux has it, you can use that to make sure they get to your limited X setup. Hope I've helped Gary On Tuesday 12 November 2002 03:24 pm, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm not sure if a kiosk is what will solve my problem. Advice would be very appreciated. Here's the problem: I am putting a linux pc in our fab (semiconductor) as a test to prove to management that linux is a viable, inexpensive option to utilize in our manufacturing plant. (verses new xterms at $6K or more a pop, new servers, or new windows pizza boxes). I need to prevent the technicians from hacking the box, from surfing, from installing ... you name it. They need to be able to run ONLY the guis/programs that allow manufacturing to continue smoothly. What is the best way to have the machine automatically boot into a window manager that has only a background menu pick that I can program? It does not have to start any software upon restart but that would be a plus. Thanks. Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI
Installed lm_sensors1. It appears to be working. Installed gkrellm. It is not picking up the lm sensors. There is a proc/sys/dev/sensors directory. Any suggestions? Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Yikes - Java
I'm still trying to get argoUML working. I successfuly loaded j2sdk and attempted argoUML. It failed requiring 8 other modules( if that's the correct term ). Anyway, I'm not easily discourage, so I download an rpm for each of the 8. Tried installing the first, ant and yup it failed on about 10 more dependencies. It's my experience, that when it seems like I'm working to hard, I usually am. Is there some kind of package/rpm that would include all the most commonly used java modules? So far, I've found rpms for these java modules at sourceforge. Can some installer be told to search the sorceforge site? Last, have I just missed the true path? TIA Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Kesav Tadimeti Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there? Hi Gary, Why are you switching to Linux? I believe Solaris has an X86 version and version 9 is due to be released and it is more stable than Linux. Rgds, Wasn't really my choice. The place I was working no longer opens for business. 8^( I plan on using Linux + available apps to keep my skills sharp. Linux X86 is more common/ubiquitous then Solaris X86. Regards, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?
Couple of questions from a true newbie: 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a particular need? 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm trying to demo argo(is there a better one?). The home page didn't appear to have an rpm. How do I know if there is one out there in the ether? It also requires jre which doesn't seem to be installed on my mdk9.0 machine. Tried urpmi java and it doesn't appear to be on the CDs either, but not knowing what it's called, this could all be a newbie problem. 3) I've been using the Mozilla browser. Its download manager doesn't appear capable of restarting. That has already been painful. Can I get it to use a different download manager and what would that be? Is there some better way? 4) I've the seen the command to find rpms on the net go by several times, didn't think I'd need it soon. Sorry for the assumption, but what's the command to find rpms on the net? 5) How much difference is there between linux distributions? As in, does the doc for one release apply to all? Is there some kind of enormous organized FAQ out there? TIA Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Problems with C ++ compiling and LM 9
Just a guess, but I think the new style for includes leaves off the '.h'. #include iostream Good luck Gary -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Herndon Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:15 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Problems with C ++ compiling and LM 9 After upgrading to LM 9 - I tried to compile a test program using c++ and I'm getting an error like In File included from /usr/include/c++/3.2/backward/iostream.h:31, from hello.cpp:1; .#warning This file includes at least one deprecated or antiquated header.etc etc etc Does anyone know what this means? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Perl modules
Disclaimer = Brand new to linux I was looking to do some CGI work. Perl's CGI module doesn't appear to be resident(MD9). I'm a little confused because I thought CGI::* and CGI.pm were part of Perl's base release since 5.6 and this is 5.8. Anyway, I was wondering if: 1) I'm missing something? 2) Are things like Perl's modules likely to be part of some rpm or do I go through CPAN? If it's an rpm, could you point me at the appropriate doc? TIA Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] New Modem
Keith; I have USR 5610 internal and I'm having trouble getting it going. Kppp sees it but reports that it won't respond when attempting a query. I'm new to Linux(2 days) but here's what I've been able to glimmer from the docs and poking around. Lspci -vv shows it at IRQ11 and d000. I take it this is a good sign, but I notice that an audio controller is also on IRQ11. Is this a problem or is this an example of IRQ sharing? The docs suggest running setserial. Find / -print | grep -I setserial states no such animal. The docs further suggest, I might need to re-compile the kernel with the serial module. Before I go through this, can anyone tell me if I'm on the correct path? This seems like tough sledding to put a newbie through. If I'm correct, I'll probably follow with module/kernel questions. TIA Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 problem with shorewall and internet connection sharing
I just got done installing 9.0 for my home network. Im running a simple home network. I am using a standard 10/100 nic for my network. I am using a Cisco PCI 350 aironet 802.11b card for my broadband internet connection. I use to run mandrake 8.2 with no problems. I did a clean install of 9.0 and have not been able to get internet sharing to work. Prior to configuring ics under network and internet settings in mandrake control center, I could access the internet on my 9.0 box. After configuring ics i loose all internet access. After fiddling with it for a while I noticed that when I enabled ics that shorewall is installed and that the gui interface for firewall under mandrake control center shows that all setting or ports are blocked. The funny thing about it is that when i disable all firewall settings under mandrake contol center my ics is now disabled. It does it on its own. I have tried many things and have not had any luck. I'm pretty much a newbie to linux so I have not tried to manually adjust anything yet. I thought I would look for some help first with the mailing list. Any help appreciated Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test linuxconf
I'm running MDK 9 RC2 (haven't upgraded to final even though I downloaded the cd's a couple days ago... ) and both are working fine for me. I can pull up linuxconf from the kde menu but have to launch netconf from the command line. -Gary On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:53 pm, s scribbled something about: Would some kind soul test and see if their linuxconf and/or netconf will open in 9.0 for me please? Mine won't seem to function and I was wondering if it was just me. tia, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9.0
On Friday 27 September 2002 04:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled something about: At 10:56 PM 9/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: s wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 09:08 pm, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all, Just got 9.0 running after much hair tearing. d/l'd the iso's, checksum was ok on all, but install locked up on some files on cd2. Tried a number of times to no avail, finally told the installer I only had cd1, then when I got online, d/l'd some of the rpm's I needed. looks like somethings wrong with webmin and a few other files. Any idea what could be the problem, as the checksums sre ok? (can't download new copies for a while, just about used my quota) Well, the packages are fine, I would bet it's your burn. -s quite correct. you likely burned the images too fast. try burning them at 4x and I bet you find that they work falwlessly. You may even be able to get away with burning at 8x, but I wouldn't go any faster then that. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I concur, I would also bet you burned them too fast. I've done this a time or two before. 4x burn is the safest bet. although I have had iso's burned at 6x and 8x work fine too. Mudder You've had problems with iso's burned at higher speeds? That must be a problem with your burner because I've burned a lot of iso's at 12x and have never had a problem. If the burner can burn at whatever speed, than it should be able to burn anything at that speed shouldn't it??? -Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Default browser for links within KMail???
This is very strange. Up until this morning when I would click a link in KMail, Konq would open and show the page. This morning I sit down, click a link, and up pops Quanta!!! No settings were changed since last night and it was working fine when I went to bed. Can anyone tell me where the default browser is specified for KMail? I looked through the configuration options but didn't see where I could choose which browser it would send links to. I would prefer to have it use Mozilla as that is the browser I use for web surfing. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Default browser for links within KMail???
Which version of kde are you using? I'm using 3.0.3 and I don't see that in the menu. I have startconfigurationkde but no file browsing within that menu. -Gary On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:43 pm, bascule scribbled something about: by experimenting i've found that kmail uses the browser that is at the top of the filetype setting, go to startconfigurationkdefile browsingfileassiciations and alter the order of apps under texthtml close kmail and restart - it did take a while to open mozilla though bascule On Thursday 26 September 2002 4:57 pm, you wrote: This is very strange. Up until this morning when I would click a link in KMail, Konq would open and show the page. This morning I sit down, click a link, and up pops Quanta!!! No settings were changed since last night and it was working fine when I went to bed. Can anyone tell me where the default browser is specified for KMail? I looked through the configuration options but didn't see where I could choose which browser it would send links to. I would prefer to have it use Mozilla as that is the browser I use for web surfing. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with...
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:00 am, robin scribbled something about: Charlie M. wrote: On Tuesday 24 September 2002 4:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip I know it won't do anything except make me feel better. However this is a copy of an e-mail I sent to the AMD hardware support address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) earlier today with the subject line: AMD, Microsoft, Palladium, and the future. Very nicely put. I suggest you post it, or better, a link to it, widely (/., kuro5hin, general press etc.). OTOH, I'm still considering buying an Athlon chip in the near future. I don't want Intel, so what other choice is there? If you want something widely supported that is based on proven technology, I think AMD is the ONLY choice. I have two dual AMD MP 1900+ boxes that work beautifully. My only regret is not getting SCSI but I'm still not sure if it would make that much of a difference in speed since I don't do anything that is i/o intensive... but it would be nice to have. Anyway, IMO if you have the cash and need a fast machine, go with a dual AMD setup. -Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stumped with Galeon KDE.=
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 03:13 pm, FemmeFatale scribbled something about: I have loaded KDE Galeon alot... but in this recent install I found an extremely strange problem. Galeon, my fave browser, will crash instantly in KDE when i fire it up. Any other WM is just dandy! If you start it on the command line, do you get any error messages when it crashes? What version of Galeon and KDE are you using? -Gary Any ideas short ofa reinstall of MDK Or Galeon? Tia --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] another one of OO's annoyances..
I believe the problem is that the minus sign (-) on the number pad can be taken as a minus or a dash by OO. Hence the (?). If you use the dash (-) on the regular keyboard you should not have that trouble. It works for me. Gary Damian G wrote: wouldn't know, miark, i never even tried. however, i doubt it, i found only minutes later that the spellchacker was, for some obscure reason only comprehensible to the maker of such feature, replacing - ( what do you call these in english? ;o)) with question marks. it was not a bug in OO, not a font glitch, the spellchecker was actually replacing the char, so probably that's what i would get. thanks anyway for your quick response. disabling spellchecker worked. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Won't boot if headless
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:21 am, Warren Post scribbled something about: This is a hardware problem, not a Linux problem. But perhaps someone has faced this problem before. I've amazed my friends by setting up a Linux-firewall-on-a-floppy in our city hall on an ancient 486 that was retired ages ago. But when I try to run it headless, it won't boot unless I plug a keyboard back in. As a workaround I've got an old keyboard that doesn't work very well plugged into the box, but that is both an inelegant solution and a temptation to idle fingers. Nor is this an idle complaint: our frequent power outages mean that the box must reboot often and reliably. I suspect that the problem is hardwired and the only solution is to change the motherboard. (I see no BIOS settings that should affect the keyboard.) But somebody prove me wrong, please. Check the BIOS and see if there is something like halt on error. I've encountered this problem before and by changing the halt on error to something else, the computer was able to boot cleanly each time with no keyboard. I realize that you said you couldn't find anything in the bios about it but the actual setting doesn't really look like it would have anything to do with the keyboard. Which bios does that machine have? -Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cool linux clothing?
I've looked all over and I haven't found anything that really catches my eye or has a catchy slogan or phrase. With all of the activity creating themes and everything else to personalize linux the way we want, I thought it would be easy to find tshirts that show my love for linux when I'm out and about... but no such luck. Thus I ask for your assistance in helping me track down some snazzy t's. I'd like t's that have something to do with Mandrake, Linux in general, anti-MS, or something along those lines. I currently have a Debian swirl shirt that I bought way back when I played around with Debian but it's getting a little faded (and I haven't used Debian in quite some time). TIA for your help!! Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes
I had this same problem on two machines running dual Athlon MP's. Earlier versions of Mandrake and other distros would lock up a lot. Some distros and versions would not even install. One thing that I tried was swapping the processors so that the voltage leveled out. I had read somewhere that there is a problem sometimes when running dual MP's where the voltage will be different to each processor. This helped a bunch on one system. Secondly, installing Mandrake 9.0 and using the default graphics drivers have caused no lockups. I have tried Nvidia's drivers and have had problems but maybe I was just setting that up wrong. But MDK 9 RC2 default everything (kernel, drivers, etc) has worked great for me. -Gary On Monday 23 September 2002 06:55 am, Tom Brinkman scribbled something about: On Sunday September 22 2002 01:09 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 09:37:15 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For more on the AMD/AGP issue see, http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/175/7626960/ Note: There *is* an Athlon/AGP issue. This issue has *not* been tied to a bug with the Athlon/Duron processors. ...and... Our conclusion is that the operating system is creating coherency problems within the system by creating cacheable translation to AGP GART-mapped physical memory. This is the same AGP 'bug' for which AMD issued a Win2k patch and this 'bug' exists in the Linux 2.4 kernel series unless the kernel has been built for Athlon optimization. I may be be mistaken but do you not build your kernel, Tom? Yes, currently 2.4.19-16k7. I only edit Mdk's default .config file and comment out i585 and enable k7, compile as usual. I had no idea this was a work-around for the AGP issue tho. Thanks for the info ;) At any rate there are numerous threads on the kernel mailing list regarding this issue when AGP is used and the always recommended solution is to use mem=nopentium. In support of my position see: http://www.kickassgear.com/athlon-linux%20bug.htm Interesting, but it directly contradicts the statement made by 'Sean Cleveland and Wayne Meritsky of AMD' (the kernel ML link I gave). I can see why AMD could release a patch for W2k, even tho the bug isn't in their cpu's. Also, I believe the Linux 2.4 kernel has been patched too, for quite some time now. IIRC, shortly after Mdk 8.0 was released. If others are desired just do a google-linux search for mem=nopentium. That's where I got the kernel ML link ;) BTW, your link is just a hardware (overclockers) webpage, and is just the authors opinion. ie, Here are the details., but then doesn't say where he got 'em. I currently use mem=nopentium on my systems and can confirm that without this option random X lock-ups will occur if using the Nvidia driver, and on systems with the ATI Rage128 using either the ati or r128 driver if DRI is used. Even should men=nopentium be only a placebo I'll still take my medicine. Charles Well, besides compiling for Athlon, I don't use nVidia's closed source drivers either. One or both are probly why I don't need the nopentium parameter, and don't experience lockups. Hardware problems, eg, mobo/PSU, ram, overheating are the most often causes of random lock-ups, spontaneous reboots. Those areas should get a real hard close look before tryin bandaids IMO. 'Course, as I infer from your experience, if lock-ups stopped, then the nopentium option is probly needed, either for your hardware or to rectify a bug in the video drivers you're usin. ...and as you seem to say, probly doesn't hurt. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TuxRacer frame rate problem.
I'm using Mandrake 9.0 RC2 and when I try to play TuxRacer, using an Nvidia GeForce 2 card, the low frame rate makes the game nearly unplayable. I've played the game before, about a year ago on a different machine and the frame rate was great. I'm using a dual Atlon MP system with 512 megs of memory so it's most likely not an issue with the speed of my machine or a lack of memory. Has anyone else experienced this problem and is there an easy solution? -Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] re Tux racer frame rate problem
Install the correct drivers for my hardware?!?!?! Are you kidding? Unfortunately, no I have not. I tried to install what I think was the correct driver package from Nvidia but I wasn't able to get it to work so I reverted back to the default, which works great for everything but TuxRacer. What are the proper steps to take to install the linux drivers provided by Nvidia? I have a GeForce 2 and Mandrake 9.0 RC2. Thank you! Gary On Monday 23 September 2002 12:55 pm, Richard Gelling scribbled something about: I take it you have installed the nvidia linux drivers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] re Tux racer frame rate problem
You can get the .src.rpm files from NVidia, get the NVIDIA-GLX and
NVIDIAkernel source rpms. I think they are still the 1.0-2960.src.rpm
files. Down load them to a directory in home named as you like it. Then
from a console su and give root password, at the prompt do rpm --rebuild
NVIDIA* and hit enter you should get a whole bunch of script and then in
the end return to the prompt. At that prompt the change directory using
cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 then at the new prompt type ls you should see
the list of two rpms you just built. then do urpmi NVIDIA* and it will
install the rpms. The Nvidia site tells what files (etc/x11/xconfig-4 or
something close to that) to edit and what to edit.
Sorry if this is more info than you need but it is hard for me to tell what
level of understanding you are at. HTH
I've tried two approaches and neither have worked. First I tried to build the
source rpm and when that failed, I tried to use the binary for MDK 8.2. That
installed but didn't work. I have an smp machine which if I understand
correctly, makes a big difference. I followed your directions above and when
I try to compile the source rpm, here is the output that I get:
[root@gary nvidia]# rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm
Installing NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.35480
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
+ cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
+ rm -rf NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123
+ /bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz
+ tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.94779
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
+ cd NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123
+ set +e
++ rpm -q --queryformat '%{VERSION}' rpm
+ RPMVERSION=4.0.4
++ echo 4.0.4
++ awk -F . '{print $1;}'
+ RPMMAJOR=4
++ echo 4.0.4
++ awk -F . '{print $2;}'
+ RPMMINOR=0
++ echo 4.0.4
++ awk -F . '{print $3;}'
+ RPMPATCH=4
+ '[' 4 -le 3 -a 0 -le 0 -a 4 -lt 4 ']'
+ make NVdriver
echo \#define NV_COMPILER \`cc -v 21 | tail -1`\ nv_compiler.h
cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts
-Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__
-DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR
-D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1
-DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX
-DNVCPU_X86 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c
In file included from /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
from /usr/include/linux/list.h:6,
from /usr/include/linux/module.h:11,
from nv-linux.h:28,
from nv.c:14:
/usr/include/asm/processor.h:55: `CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT' undeclared here
(not in a function)
/usr/include/asm/processor.h:55: requested alignment is not a constant
In file included from /usr/include/linux/module.h:296,
from nv-linux.h:28,
from nv.c:14:
/usr/include/linux/version.h:2:2: #error
===
/usr/include/linux/version.h:3:2: #error You should not include
/usr/include/{linux,asm}/ header
/usr/include/linux/version.h:4:2: #error files directly for the compilation
of kernel modules.
/usr/include/linux/version.h:5:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:6:2: #error glibc now uses kernel header files
from a well-defined
/usr/include/linux/version.h:7:2: #error working kernel version (as
recommended by Linus Torvalds)
/usr/include/linux/version.h:8:2: #error These files are glibc internal and
may not match the
/usr/include/linux/version.h:9:2: #error currently running kernel. They
should only be
/usr/include/linux/version.h:10:2: #error included via other system header
files - user space
/usr/include/linux/version.h:11:2: #error programs should not directly
include linux/*.h or
/usr/include/linux/version.h:12:2: #error asm/*.h as well.
/usr/include/linux/version.h:13:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:14:2: #error To build kernel modules please do
the following:
/usr/include/linux/version.h:15:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:16:2: #error o Have the kernel sources
installed
/usr/include/linux/version.h:17:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:18:2: #error o Make sure that the symbolic
link
/usr/include/linux/version.h:19:2: #error/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
exists and points to
/usr/include/linux/version.h:20:2: #errorthe matching kernel source
directory
/usr/include/linux/version.h:21:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:22:2: #error o Now copy /boot/vmlinuz.version.h
to
/usr/include/linux/version.h:23:2: #error/lib/modules/`uname
-r`/build/include/linux/version.h
/usr/include/linux/version.h:24:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:25:2: #error o When compiling, make sure to use
the following
/usr/include/linux/version.h:26:2: #errorcompiler option to use the
correct include files:
/usr
Re: [newbie] re Tux racer frame rate problem
do
the following:
/usr/include/linux/version.h:15:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:16:2: #error o Have the kernel sources
installed
/usr/include/linux/version.h:17:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:18:2: #error o Make sure that the symbolic
link
/usr/include/linux/version.h:19:2: #error/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
exists and points to
/usr/include/linux/version.h:20:2: #errorthe matching kernel source
directory
/usr/include/linux/version.h:21:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:22:2: #error o Now copy /boot/vmlinuz.version.h
to
/usr/include/linux/version.h:23:2: #error/lib/modules/`uname
-r`/build/include/linux/version.h
/usr/include/linux/version.h:24:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:25:2: #error o When compiling, make sure to use
the following
/usr/include/linux/version.h:26:2: #errorcompiler option to use the
correct include files:
/usr/include/linux/version.h:27:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:28:2: #error-I/lib/modules/`uname
-r`/build/include
/usr/include/linux/version.h:29:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:30:2: #errorinstead of
/usr/include/linux/version.h:31:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:32:2: #error-I/usr/include/linux
/usr/include/linux/version.h:33:2: #error
/usr/include/linux/version.h:34:2: #errorPlease adjust the Makefile
accordingly.
/usr/include/linux/version.h:35:2: #error
===
In file included from nv.c:14:
nv-linux.h:31:40: missing binary operator before '('
nv-linux.h:33:42: missing binary operator before '('
nv-linux.h:35:42: missing binary operator before '('
nv-linux.h:37:42: missing binary operator before '('
nv-linux.h:39:42: missing binary operator before '('
nv-linux.h:43:4: #error This driver does not support 2.6.x or newer kernels!
In file included from /usr/include/asm/hardirq.h:6,
from /usr/include/linux/interrupt.h:45,
from nv-linux.h:64,
from nv.c:14:
/usr/include/linux/irq.h:65: `CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT' undeclared here (not
in a function)
/usr/include/linux/irq.h:65: requested alignment is not a constant
In file included from /usr/include/linux/interrupt.h:45,
from nv-linux.h:64,
from nv.c:14:
/usr/include/asm/hardirq.h:16: `CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT' undeclared here
(not in a function)
/usr/include/asm/hardirq.h:16: requested alignment is not a constant
In file included from nv-linux.h:64,
from nv.c:14:
/usr/include/linux/interrupt.h:128: `CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT' undeclared
here (not in a function)
/usr/include/linux/interrupt.h:128: requested alignment is not a constant
nv-linux.h:111:28: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
nv.c:99:65: missing binary operator before '('
nv.c:697:65: missing binary operator before '('
nv.c:1011:65: missing binary operator before '('
nv.c:1040:65: missing binary operator before '('
nv.c:1383:65: missing binary operator before '('
nv.c: In function `nv_kern_mmap':
nv.c:1386: warning: implicit declaration of function `pgprot_writecombine'
nv.c:1386: incompatible types in assignment
nv.c:2926:65: missing binary operator before '('
make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
+ exit 0
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97506
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
+ cd NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123
+ rm -f /tmp/files.lst
+ '[' -z '' ']'
++ uname -r
+ export TARGET_KERNEL=2.4.19-9mdk
+ TARGET_KERNEL=2.4.19-9mdk
+ '[' -d /lib/modules/2.4.19-9mdk/kernel ']'
+ INSTALLPATH=/lib/modules/2.4.19-9mdk/kernel/drivers/video
+ mkdir -p
/var/tmp/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0//lib/modules/2.4.19-9mdk/kernel/drivers/video
+ install -m 0444 NVdriver
/var/tmp/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0//lib/modules/2.4.19-9mdk/kernel/drivers/video
install: cannot stat `NVdriver': No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97506 (%install)
Thanks,
Gary
On Monday 23 September 2002 06:04 pm, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
scribbled something about:
Em Seg 23 Set 2002 17:18, Gary Traffanstedt escreveu:
Hi!
If you follow the link below instructions you'll be a happy tux racing
player (with gf2!)
What are the proper steps to take to install the linux drivers
provided by Nvidia? I have a GeForce 2 and Mandrake 9.0 RC2.
Thank you!
=
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 13 21:49:54 2002
From: James Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] LM 8.2 and GeForce 3 Ti 200
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:03:05 -0400
These are good instructions on installing nvidia's video drivers:
http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php .
===
Just ONE thing:
For the author... he had to use a link to the driver!
For me a plain 'glx' was enough!
Ah!. Using Mdk8.2 with gf2 integrated!
[]s Ricardo
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Re: [newbie] Burn an iso to disk
Iuse xcdroast. You need to burn the .iso image as a image file. Can't remember where I found the instructions. Try the xcdroast site. You need to configure the HD settings in xcdroast to show where your iso files are. Gary Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 17 August 2002 01:13 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 17 Aug 2002 6:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Can someone explain in simple terms how to burn an .iso image to a CD and get readable files? I have tried every burner front end available and all I get is a text copy of the .iso image. No hair left to tear out. Help is much appreciated. Well I open kreatecd Select 'Advanced Project' Drag and drop the iso file from konqueror into the kreatecd window, and then press the 'Write' button. The only problem is that the version of kreatecd on the 8.2 CD is defective, and I am not sure if it can do the job. I compiled mine from source. derek I am using 9.0 beta 3 right now and kreatecd has qt2 lib dependencies up the wazoo. I should be able to do it in xcdroast, or gtoaster, but the results are as described. I also have eroaster loaded and GCombust. What is my problem this should be easy. TIA for the Help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
I'm having troubles installing mandrake 8.2 on my dell laptop (dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500) When I get to the point of setting up my graphics card for xfree the display goes black when testing. I have tried both the 3d support set up and 2d support set up Any info appreciated Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Can FreeCell be Moved?
Hi Bob, I upgraded to 8.2 from 8.1 without losing the score in Free Cell. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem
I installed 8.2 twice. The first time the modem worked but my sound card did not work. I reinstalled 8.2. I formated the / directory each time. The second time the modem failed to work. I have a Lucent microelectronics Venus Modem (V90, 56K Flex). I am using KDE. When I try to access the internet I get the message Modem ready. Followed by Sorry, the modem doesn't respond. I tried to configure the modem and received the message I can't configure a Winmodem. It is not a WinModem. It worked in 8.0, 8.1 and the first installation of 8.2. Any suggestions before I trash it. Perhaps I can reinstall 8.1. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Organizer
Can anyone recommend a simple organizer that has a date and to do list and a telephone list. Korganizer does not have a telephone capability that I can find. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Sridhar, I am very new to Linux. I found your comments very well written and informative. Thank you, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Translation
I want to thank everyone that replied. I use Netscape and found that the Altavista site would translate OK. I tried Konquorer for the first time and found that the special tool translation was outstanding. Konquorer used Altavista as the translation source also. However it made it much easier to use because of the direct link. I shall use Konquorer for all my web page translations. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Translation
I am looking for a program that will translate German web pages into english while online. Google was not helpful. Any suggestions? Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Root in Kongueror and download
I am using LM 8.1. I am the only user. I have read and write privileges for all directories and files. However, when downloading I can only download into my home/gary directory. Once downloaded i can move them to another directory while in root. If I try to download into any other directory, it goes someplace where I can't find it. Also I can not edit any files from Konquorer. Is there some way I can correct this? I would like to edit from Konquorer. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution Qustions
Two questions about Evolution: First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, but not at all in Evolution. Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. Thank you! Gary
Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions
That's strange that the tab works for you but not me. It works fine in everything else. As for being able to add another city, I need to add one that is not on the list. There is a close one on the list, but I'd like to add my own. Was just wondering if anyone knew how to go about this. I did a search of my system trying to find the file or files that control how it retrieves weather data but wasn't able to locate it or them. -Gary On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:07, Dave Sherman wrote: On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: Two questions about Evolution: First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, but not at all in Evolution. Tab works fine for me, so I would imagine it is a problem with your setup... Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. From the Summary view, select the Tools, menu, then Summary Settings. Click the Weather tab in the resulting dialog, and add a city. Hope this helps, Dave -- Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: Imagine what it does to your TEETH! So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve ... -- Dave Barry, In Search of Excellence
Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions
I'm running the .99 RC1 release. Installed it via RPM from Cooker off of RPMFind.net. The tab key seems to be disabled somehow or that the tab amount or something is not setup. One thing I should point out is that I'm using it in KDE. I wonder if that has something to do with it. I have Gnome installed... I'll have to try it in that and see if the tab key works. Hadn't though of that 'till just now. -Gary On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 13:19, Paul Rodrguez wrote: Hi, Gary, like most programs that automatically find the weather for your area, there are only a handful, maybe 7-15 cities per state or country on average. As far as I know there is no way to add your particular city. As far as evolution is concerned, which version of Evo are you running and which version of Mandrake? I'm using 0.13 in 8.1 and tabs work fine, same for 0.11 in 8.0. -Paul Rodrguez On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 12:58, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: That's strange that the tab works for you but not me. It works fine in everything else. As for being able to add another city, I need to add one that is not on the list. There is a close one on the list, but I'd like to add my own. Was just wondering if anyone knew how to go about this. I did a search of my system trying to find the file or files that control how it retrieves weather data but wasn't able to locate it or them. -Gary On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:07, Dave Sherman wrote: On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: Two questions about Evolution: First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, but not at all in Evolution. Tab works fine for me, so I would imagine it is a problem with your setup... Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area of the summary screen? I realize that I should probably be asking these questions on an Evolution mailing list, but you guys have always offered great insight to all of my questions so I though I would try here first. From the Summary view, select the Tools, menu, then Summary Settings. Click the Weather tab in the resulting dialog, and add a city. Hope this helps, Dave -- Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: Imagine what it does to your TEETH! So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve ... -- Dave Barry, In Search of Excellence _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for Linux?
As long as you don't run everything as root, or change the ownership of all your files to a common user, you should be safe. Linux is not vulnerable like Windows due to a bit of common sense during the design stage. Note that Macintosh systems are not as vulnerable as Windows either. The MS way of thinking is If you can't make it good, make it look good. They don't care what goes in the box, as long as the box is pretty and will make them a quick buck. Security is very important in the Linux world. A lot of effort goes into making sure that the programs you use are secure and are not easily exploitable. Developers help this effort by making their program open source so that others may review their code and find any trouble spots that they may have overlooked. That being said, Linux is vulnerable to other types of security problems, but there are a lot of things that you can do to ensure that your system and your data remains safe such as disabling any services you don't use, using a firewall, etc. A lot more options than I can go over here and you were asking about antivirus software and not security in general anyway. -Gary On Friday 02 November 2001 10:40 am, you wrote: I read that it's not necessary to install an antivirus for Linux. Is that true? And if it wasn't, what's the best antivirus? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Anyone able to play DVD movies?
Has anyone successfully gotten dvd movies to play on Mandrake 8.1? What software works and what doesn't? I've gotten a few to try to play but all of the ones I own are encrypted so I end up seeing a bunch of garbage. I tried compiling the latest version of Xine but couldn't it get it to work. It's in two pieces and the first one works but the second part never can find the first part. Mandrake does a great job with my sound files. Now if I can just get my movies to work, I'll be able to dump WInblows for good! -- Gary Traffanstedt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.
I don't think designing sites that don't work in IE is the answer. I also don't think designing sites that are 100% cross-browser compatible is really an answer either. Microsoft has done a lot to ensure that certain things only work or work better with their products. To combat this, if anyone cares to combat this, a better product or service is need in each instance. For example, IE owns the browser market for one reason. It is simply better. Yes it has problems. It has a lot of problems but overall, it IS the best browser available for Windows users which happen to make up a large share of computer users. I primarily use Linux and on Linux I like Mozilla. I'm using .9.4 and it works great. With each new release, it only gets better. Or at least that is what I hear... haven't been able to get .9.5 to run yet but that's my own fault. Back to the point If those who are passionate about Linux and the Linux way of life, do something to show your support. Contribute to the cause in any way that you can. If you use Mozilla, and you find a problem with it, let the developers know of the problem. They can't test everything themselves and if you point out it's flaws, in a constructive way, that will assist them in making it far superior to Internet Exploiter. It's not quite a level field that we play on, but it's getting better. Two years ago I struggled to get any distro installed. Today I can slap a cd in the drive and have my choice of a variety of distros running in under 30 minutes. The installation process had greatly improved. The wealth of applications have improved accross the board. More and more people are turning to Linux, not just as an operating system, but as a way of life. I use it because it's open, not because it's free. Just think where Linux would be if only half of the dollars spent on Windows development was spent inproving Linux and Linux apps it's just a matter of time really Windows has been to the top of the mountain... they are there now... but the edge is ever closer... and the end is ever nearer. the penguin is coming, and the empire will crumble. Not because of the government or any court case, but because of the will of the people. The MS way of thinking If you can make it good, make it look good can only last so long. The truth is, MS products are more looks than substance and that shall be their downfall. -Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks
I had a similar problem. For me I just needed to manually mount the cd and then it would use it. It ejects the tray, I put the cd in, close the tray and click ok, then it ejects the tray again and repeats the same message. I finally figured out that if I simply mount the cd on the command line after inserting it, but before I click on continue in the dialog prompt, it would take it just fine. Obviously I need to do a bit more work on my fstab! So try manually mounting it after you stick it in and see if that works. -Gary On Tuesday 30 October 2001 02:08 pm, you wrote: I'm trying to install more programs from disk. I go through the list it has in the software manager then I select install. It asks for disk three I put in disk 3 it goes a couple of seconds then spits it back out. A message pops up saying: Please inster the medium named disc 3 Supplementary Applications CD (x86) (cdrom3) on device [/dev/cdrom] Now I have two cdroms, and I had troubles with the one that pops out in windows for some reason. I was wondering if there is a way to change the cdrom it uses? I'm lost please help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks
Hmm Ok, mounting stuff under MDK 8.1 isn't nearly as easy as it was under 8.0, at least not for me but I'll explain what I do on my machine and with a bit of luck, it will work the same for you. I have three cd-rom drives in my machine, well, one cd-rom, one dvd-rom, and one cd-rw. Anyway, pull up a console and login as root. You do this by typing su without the of course. Hit enter and then type your password. You now should have a root console. Next try typing: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom That may or may not work. It works on mine to mount the cd-rw drive since it's the primary drive. If that doesn't work, you can try this: mount /mnt/cdrom That might work also. You should get a message saying something to the effect of it's a read only device so it's mounting it read only. If neither of the above works, then you'll need to determine what device your machine sees your drive as. I'll let someone else explain how to do that. The fstab is a file systems tab file. It tells your system which file systems you have, where they are, and where to mount them. It is located in the /etc folder. I still haven't gotten mine just right on either machine that I run Mandrake on. Each one has a different set of problems. -Gary On Tuesday 30 October 2001 03:35 pm, you wrote: One word Huh?. Mounting cd's at the command prompt? And what does fstab mean? I am clueless to all of this. I'm newbie of newbies really. I know what the command prompt is but I don't know squat of commands. Does linux have a page of command definitions or something I could look up and print out? Sorry Rob - Original Message - From: Gary Traffanstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks I had a similar problem. For me I just needed to manually mount the cd and then it would use it. It ejects the tray, I put the cd in, close the tray and click ok, then it ejects the tray again and repeats the same message. I finally figured out that if I simply mount the cd on the command line after inserting it, but before I click on continue in the dialog prompt, it would take it just fine. Obviously I need to do a bit more work on my fstab! So try manually mounting it after you stick it in and see if that works. -Gary On Tuesday 30 October 2001 02:08 pm, you wrote: I'm trying to install more programs from disk. I go through the list it has in the software manager then I select install. It asks for disk three I put in disk 3 it goes a couple of seconds then spits it back out. A message pops up saying: Please inster the medium named disc 3 Supplementary Applications CD (x86) (cdrom3) on device [/dev/cdrom] Now I have two cdroms, and I had troubles with the one that pops out in windows for some reason. I was wondering if there is a way to change the cdrom it uses? I'm lost please help --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video cards
If you like, I'll donate you an older card thats sitting here collecting dust (older Voodoo), as long as you use you're money to buy Power Pack 8.1 when it's release. Email me back if you like to have it. Gary Chisholm MUD Just another Mandrake User ;) On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:18, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Franki, wish I was joking. Unfortunately I am unemployed right now and the only machine I have besides a 486 is this P I I got 5 years ago. The software manager is not being displayed completely under this video card and I therefore want to increase my video card. I figured the Voodoo 3 would be a good call but need some advice on the CPU drain on the P I 100 Mhz with 48 Mb of RAM. I cannot afford to buy a new system being out of work so I am looking at increasing the display to the max given the hardware I have. P.S.: A new machine will more than likely set me back R7000 whereas a video card will only be R950 so it is the lesser of the two. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
On Friday 14 September 2001 08:40, you wrote: on 9/13/01 2:44 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was saying that all resolutions are supported except for 24bpp. I could run 32bpp in both linux and windows as well as 16bpp and all lower settins but Not 24bpp. Heh heh, I feel pretty stupid. My computer (running the riva tnt2) runs at 32bpp just fine. I started at 8 and worked my way up. When 24 didn't work I just assumed 32 wouldn't either. Thanks for pointing that out. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com You shouldn't feel stupid about what happened. You assumed that if a particular setting didn't work, none higher would which seems quite logical. Hardware is still (at least for some/most of us), the hardest part of Linux. I have been using Mandrake since 7.0 and the hardware supported has greatly improved. Mandrake 8 detected my zip drive, printer, graphics and sound cards without a hitch. I've installed several versions of 5 different distros and this is the first time that all of my hardware was detected. A lot of my friends run RedHat or FreeBSD and I hear over and over that Mandrake is just a glorified RedHat distro. Maybe at one time it was, but it's not anymore. Mandrake goes way beyond RedHat for desktop use. I haven't use Mandrake as a web server other than development use so I won't say for cetain that it is better than any other distro for that type of use but for the desktop, it kicks some serious butt. Now if only we could get that nifty apt-get install feature that Debian has! Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error
On Friday 14 September 2001 08:47, you wrote: When I boot up, I sometimes get a maximal mount count error, check forced. What does this mean? How do I avoid it? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp It's not really an error and you don't want to avoid it. It's a good thing. The system is setup to allow you to mount the partitions at boot a certain number of times. Once this number is reached, it checks your disk and then resets the counter. This just helps to keep any minor disk problems from cropping up. I'm sure as with all things Linux, there is a way that you could disable it. It may require simply adjusting a setting in a config file, or recompiling something or several somethings but it could be done, unlike in the take it or leave it world of Windoze. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list
I think the argument of whether or not various topics should be allowed in this list or not has gotten a bit out of hand. Lets quickly look at both sides and see if we can come to a conclusion. First we have those that want to post about seemingly unrelated topics. Should this be allowed? The argument has been made that some people have to pay for access and should be spared the undue burden of paying for time to download messages of a non-relevant topic. While this may be a good reason, it's being argued by the wrong person/people. I have not read a single post from someone who is on a pay per minute/hour type account and who feels burdened by this. By allowing posts of an unrelated nature we do run the risk of this becoming an open forum to discuss anything and everything. There are better places for discussing unrelated topics if it's ongoing. Second we have those who wish to post about seemingly unrelated topics in this list for several reasons, one of them being that they feel comfortable with those that frequent this list. Trajedy affects different people in different ways. Some need to quietly reflect and work through it on their own. Others need to talk to someone, anyone about what has happened. We each have our own way of coping with sorrow and loss. Once you have been on a mailing list for a while, it starts to become familiar and you feel safe within the list. You build friendships and you start to know one another. You feel safe discussing things with other members of the list that you wouldn't want to discuss with strangers so rather than go to a different list and discuss these things with strangers, you discuss them here among friends. This list is for the people by the people and if we as a whole want to allow off topic conversations, then we should allow it. If not, we shouldn't. Either way, we need to remain respectful of each other and not let our emotions get the best of us. I've seen several postings come through that were nothing more than attacks on other members of the list. That is uncalled for. We all have (or at least we all should have) a delete key as well as most of us have filters that can block messages (to some extent) that we don't wish to receive. I don't mind receiving emails about other topics. I joined the list to offer assistance on any subjects that I am familiar with as I have often struggled with Linux over the last 18 months since my first installation. I have worked through a lot of problems and have had along the way and I'd like to help others. But that help doesn't have to end with Linux. We are all human. We all feel pain, sorrow, loss, etc. Most of us feel very bad about what happened recently and the impact that the events will have on the families directly affected as well as our nation and the world. We need to be able to express ourselves when the need arises without worrying about which list we are posting too or whether the topic is relevant. If I receive a post that I don't care about, I can hit the delete key and it's gone, end of story (I don't as I always keep everything just in case I want to refer back). I suggest that before anyone gets offended to the poing of leaving the list, we have a show of hands, or in this case a show of posts as to who wants to allow other postings, and who does not. I'll start by saying that I am in favor of allowing off topic postings as long as they do not flood the list. A few here and there don't hurt anything. We are here for Mandrake Linux but there are other things to life and sometimes we need to discuss those other things. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
On Thursday 13 September 2001 12:06, you wrote: on 9/13/01 5:48 PM, Paul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Mark's words, written Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:44:09 +0100 Looks like your hardware is not happy with more colors. So either you have to do with 800x600 or the 8bit technicolor experience. Can't recall everything. If you are not on a notebook, perhaps a different vidcard would help. I use a Geforce II Nvidia something and that works well on 16 bit 1024x768. But I cannot rule over your money, of course. What about 24 or 32? Whenever screen res comes up in linux groups--from what I can see--16 bit seems to be the norm. I'd really like to get at least 24 bit color on my machine, but I can't get beyond 16. Is this a video card thing or something about linux itself that forces this restriction? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com I have three machines running Mandrake. Two are pc's and one is an iMac. All three run 32 bit at high resolutions. The iMac is at 1024x768 and the other two have 19 monitors so I run them at 1280. I have had problems in the past with various hardware setups and for those just starting out with Linux, it really helps to have common hardware configurations. I know Linux will run on almost anything, and if you know what your doing and have several hours to kill, most graphic cards will run fine, but for the rest of us, having common setups means less frustration. I had a cheap card that I bought at OfficeMax some time back that I recently tried to use with Mandrake and had a lot of problems. I was able to get it to work but it only supported 800x600 at 256 colors which wasn't very pleasant to look at. I bought a VooDoo 3 from a friend, booted Mandrake, it detected the new card on boot and made the process of installing a new card very easy. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
I have a Riva TNT2 with 16MB of RAM. Mandrake recognized the card fine during install, but when setting the resolution it says 24bpp is not supported for this card. Also if I try to set my res to 1280x?? it will instead keep it at 1024x768 and give me a 1280x?? virtual desktop. It's one of those things I keep meaning to get around to but haven't, since 16bpp isn't at all bad for general computer use. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for me that'd be great. But I need to look into this more myself. I was more making a comment on the seeming prevalence of 16bpp displays in Linux rather than asking a question. Matt I just found this not sure if it will help but might be worth a try. Having the latest drivers usually helps. http://www.nvidia.com/us/nn/pg000588.htm Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.
I see everyone pushing everyboddy.. but I use gabber, its a jabber client very nice check out, also does msn. aim. yahoo. icq etc www.jabber.org or for the client try... gabber.sourceforge.net On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:58:15 +0400 Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Anyone on the list know if there is a Linux app that accesses the MSN Messenger system? All my daughter's friends use MSN Messenger and I am trying to find a Linux alternative that she can use to chat with her MSN Messenger using friends. Cheers, Brian -- -- Gary Chisholm Registered Linux User #184670 - http://counter.li.org
[newbie] Install problems - update
Hi all Just to let you know that I solved the problem (sticking at filesystem setup - the defrag problem..). It appears that Norton Speed disk was to 'blame'. I had forgotten that the default is to put rarely used files at the end of the disk. This of course does not show in Windows defrag. Thanks for all the helpful replies I did get for this problem. I am now enjoying the Linux experience. Now if I could only get my HP 420 deskjet to work, i'll be laughing... :-)) Gary Now Tux powered
[newbie] Install error
Hope you don`t mind - Ive just bought this distro and got as far as the file system part of install when: windows partition is too fragmented, please run defrag first at /usr/bin/perl_install/install_interacti ve.pm line 113 I have defragged using Norton speeddisk (2001) and win98se defrag. All 100% defragged. System Information Platform: Windows 98 SE Machine Type: Intel System Version: 4.10. Processor: Pentium II or III Physical RAM Installed: 89476 Kb [Settings] NC=1 Code=NC Mode=2 SeenPlugins=x515x,x2005x UserSignatures=1 SeenIntro=1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RealName=Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] DomainQualifier= SMTPServer=smtp.ntlworld.com PopServer=pop3.norton.antivirus LoginName=g.blackmore1/pop.ntlworld.com ImapDirectoryPrefix= Stationery= Signature=Standard LeaveOnServerDays=0 BigMessageThreshold=51200 IMAPMaxDownloadSize=0 TrashMailboxName=Trash CheckMailByDefault=1 LeaveMailOnServer=0 AuthenticateKerberos=0 AuthenticateAPOP=0 UseWinSock=1 AuthenticateRPA=0 UsesIMAP=0 UsesPOP=1 AuthenticatePassword=1 DeleteMailFromServer=0 ServerDelete=0 SkipBigMessages=1 IMAPMinDownload=1 IMAPOmitAttachments=0 TransferToTrashOnDelete=0 MarkAsDeleted=1 SmtpAuthAllowed=1 LastOptionsCategory=12 Commercial32Version=16 AdToolbarFloat=0 AdToolbarDock=0 MainWindowState=1 NGBase1=991293518 NGLast1=991293518 NGBase2=991293518 NGLast2=991293518 NGBase3=991293518 NGLast3=991293518 NGBase4=991293518 NGLast4=991293518 NGBase5=991293518 NGLast5=991293518 MailboxSuperclose=0 AutoOK=1 ShowTipOfTheDay=0 CurrentTipOfTheDay=28 LastWindowMax=1 ImmediateSend=0 RasCloseAfterDone=0 AutoReceiveAttachmentsDirectory=C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora\attach SetPreviewReadSeconds=1 MailboxShowLabel=0 MailboxShowServerStatus=0 SenderTimeDisplay=1 LocalTimeDisplay=0 Alert=0 OpenInMailbox=0 NewMailSound=C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA\newmail4.wav NicknameLastActivePropertyPage=0 NicknameViewByIndex=5 FileBrowserNameWidth=100 FileBrowserTypeWidth=80 FileBrowserSizeWidth=45 FileBrowserModifiedWidth=120 PersonaViewNameWidth=95 PersonaViewAccountWidth=200 TaskStatusStateWidth=120 TaskStatusPersonaWidth=152 TaskStatusStatusWidth=297 TaskStatusProgressWidth=224 RegFirstNamePro=charles RegLastNamePro=demos RegCodePro=5114-4423-7758-2037 SSLReceiveUse=1 SSLSendUse=1 TaskErrorBringToFront=0 TaskStatusBringToFront=1 LinkHistoryNameWidth=160 LinkHistoryDateVisitedWidth=140 LinkHistoryTypeWidth=50 POPPort=110 SavePassword=1 ShowCoolBars=1 ShowLargeButtons=1 ShowStatusBar=1 FixedDateFormat=%1 %2 %4 AgeSensitiveDateDisplay=0 FixedDateDisplay=1 SuccessfulSend=1 EasyOpen=1 WarnDeleteUnread=0 WarnEmptyTrash=0 StatisticsPeriodSelected=0 ShowMoreStatistics=1 NoSplashScreen=1 WarnQueueStyledText=0 SendPlainAndStyled=0 SendStyledOnly=0 UseBidentAlways=0 FindMsgsCriteria1=Any Recipient;contains;ricketts FindMsgsCriteria2=Anywhere;contains; FindMsgsCriteria3=Anywhere;contains; FindMsgsCriteria4=Anywhere;contains; FindMsgsCriteria5=Anywhere;contains; SendPlainOnly=1 [Mappings] out=txt,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=doc,MSWD,,application,msword out=mcw,MSWD,WDBN,application,msword in=xls,XCEL,,, out=xls,XCEL,XLS4,, both=xlc,XCEL,XLC3,, both=xlm,XCEL,XLM3,, both=xlw,XCEL,XLW,, both=ppt,PPT3,SLD3,, both=wav,SCPL,WAVE,audio,microsoft-wave both=grp,,,application,microsoft-group both=wri,,,application,microsoft-write both=cal,,,application,microsoft-calendar both=zip,pZIP,pZIP,application,zip both=rtf,MSWD,TEXT,application,rtf both=pdf,,,application,pdf both=ps,,,application,postscript in=eps,,EPSF,, out=eps,dPro,EPSF,application,postscript both=jpg,JVWR,JPEG,image,jpeg out=jpeg,JVWR,JPEG,image,jpeg both=jfif,JFIF,JPEG,image,jpeg both=gif,JVWR,GIFf,image,gif both=tif,JVWR,TIFF,image,tiff both=mpg,mMPG,MPEG,video,mpeg both=mpeg,mMPG,MPEG,video,mpeg both=mov,TVOD,MooV,video,quicktime both=qt,TVOD,MooV,video,quicktime both=png,,PNGf,image,png both=htm,,,text,html out=html,,,text,html out=1st,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=aif,SCPL,AIFF,, both=arc,arc*,mArc,, both=arj,DArj,BINA,, out=asc,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain out=asm,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=au,SCPL,ULAW,, out=bas,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain out=bat,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain out=bga,JVWR,BMPp,, both=bmp,JVWR,BMPp,, out=c,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=cgm,GKON,CGMm,, out=cmd,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain out=com,mdos,BINA,, out=cp,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain out=cpp,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=cpt,CPCT,PACT,, out=csv,XCEL,TEXT,, both=cvs,DAD2,drw2,, out=dif,XCEL,TEXT,, both=dl,GKON,DLdI,, both=dvi,OTEX,ODVI,, out=exe,mdos,BINA,, out=faq,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain out=flc,GKON,FLI,, both=fli,GKON,FLI,, both=fm,FMPR,FMPR,, out=for,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=gl,AnVw,,, both=gz,Gzip,Gzip,, out=h,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=hqx,BnHq,TEXT,application,mac-binhex40 both=ico,GKON,ICO,, both=iff,GKON,ILBM,, both=ima,dCpy,dImg,, both=img,GKON,IMGg,, out=ini,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=lbm,GKON,ILBM,, both=lha,LARC,LHA,, both=lzh,LARC,LHA,, out=m3,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=mac,dPro,PICT,, out=mak,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain out=me,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain both=mod,SCPL,STrk,, both=msp,GKON,MSPp,, out=out,ttxt,TEXT
Re: [newbie] LoopBack not working.
Do you have network loopback compiled in your kernel? On 11 Jun 2001 20:50:02 +0100, Frederico Figueiredo wrote: I'm trying to use loopback on M7.2! And I can't. I don't know why. When I do ping 127.0.0.1 it says Network Unreachable Can someone help me please? Thanks, Fred -- Gary Chisholm
[newbie] Recommend ftp rpm site for mandrake
I want to configure rpmdrake to check for rpms on an ftp or http server. What is a good one that I can point to? What URL? Any help appreciated.
[newbie] Question about zope default username and password
I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and want to use Zope. However, you need the username and password to log into the admin screen. I found the file, access, that contains the username, but the password is encrypted. The username for the root user is superuser. But nowhere can I find the password. Can anyone tell me since it must be a default for the new system that I will need to change after gaining access?
[newbie] New CDRW installtion problem
I am trying to add a new HP9150 IDE CD-RW drive to my L-M 7.2 system. I have an existing CDROM (now the slave) and the new cd writer (now the master). I can read both drives as IDE CDROMs in Linux, and I can read and burn CD's in Windoze. I also have an Adaptec SCSI card and a small scsi drive that I use for swap. I know (I think) that I need to use ide-scsi to make the burner appear as a scsi device. And then to change the sym link for /mnt/cdrom to /dev/scd0. I also have added a lilo parameter hdc=ide-scsi I have read the help at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html as well as at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html#toc2 If I follow the steps given in Mandrakeuser.org -- which basically say to change the sym link for 7.0 installations, it won't recognize the IDE drive as a scsi drive. If I follow the steps listed in the CD-Writing Howto, I don't have sr_mod.o module to complete the installation. Should I try and download this module? When I insmod ide-scsi the module loads without complaint. With both methods when I try cdrecord -scanbus I only see my SCSI swap drive. I'd appreciate any help you can offer. -- gvc
[newbie] Trouble installing network card
I just installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe on a HP Vectra VL. It had successfully been running Redhat 6.1, but I wanted to play. So here I am :) I can't get the network card to work. According to HardDrake 0.9.3, it's an Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Model: 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] Kernel Module: pcnet32, Bus type: PCI. When I did the installation, it came up with an error and the card was not configured. However, when booting, New Hardware recognized the card and I configured it there. The dmesg log says: "lance.c: Module autoprobing not allowed. Append "io-)xNNN" values." What does that mean? The syslog reports: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/modules.dep. It also says "isnmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/lance.o: init_module: Device or resource busy" and then goes on to note: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. I noticed when surfing google, that you are not supposed to manually configure IRQ parameters for PCI devices, so I don't know what this means. When I use Drakconf and try to configure the card, I get an "error in modprobe call: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/sktr.o: init_module: Device or resource busy. /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/sktr.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/sktr.o failed. /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/sktr.o: insmod th0 failed" Basically any attempt to bring up the interface eth0 fails and eth0 initialization delaying. I know I have my network file and network-scripts configured correctly, copying them from the past Redhat install. How can I fix this? Any help much appreciated. I must say I love Mandrake, it is a really slick Linux version and I can hardly wait to play! Thank you. Gary
Re: [newbie] the origin's of bash?
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:01:25PM -0600 or thereabouts, Mark Johnson wrote: Does anyone know where bash came from? Like most anything in Linux, it stems from UNIX. The Bourne shell was, I believe the first shell, (window to the kernel) 30 years ago. This shell was revised over the years, and it was spun off with enhanced functionality into Bash, which stands for Bourne again shell. There are several shells for use, i.e. Csh (sea shell), in which shell scripts are written in C, Ksh- Korn shell, Ash, etc... Each has their own advantages and way of script writing, etc.. HTH -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Before you criticize someone walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry he'll be a mile away -- and barefoot.
Re: [newbie] Apache CGI configuration.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: put your .html files in /home/httpd/html put your cgi files in /home/httpd/cgi-bin (you can make subdirectories if you want) Don't forget to set your permissions. use the url http://localhost.localdomain/html/yourfile.html and it should work. I want to be able to test CGI scripts on my home computer so I can write them for my web site easier than uploading waiting andtesting. I tried configuring the Apache but had no luck. Does someone know where I can find a step by step documentation on how to do this? I am also intresesting in configuring SSI. Any help would be greatly appriciated. ~Lance -- Gary Caine The Singles Cafe http://www.singlescafe.net/ Free Information on Love, Romance, and Relationships e To subscribe to the free Singles Cafe Newsletter: email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Re: KDE2.1 Updates
This message was sent from: Linux Mandrake Newbie. http://telesoft.ca/phorum/read.php?f=6i=1679t=1662 Where can I find the KDE 2.1 upgrade? Thanks. Gary de Montigny Sent using Phorum software version 3.2.11 http://phorum.org
Re: [newbie] Linux and digital cameras
Some models work very well using gphoto. On Saturday 02 December 2000 01:08, you wrote: Digital cameras dont work in linux. The manufactures all give the software for windows. Wine might run them. - Original Message - From: Fireman71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 8:09 AM Subject: [newbie] Linux and digital cameras I would like to know what experiences anyone out there has had with using various digital cameras under linux. Also any recommendations for which cameras work well with linux and which dont. I am looking into buying one to take photos from job sites to use in classes that i teach but know next to nothing about these beasts so if you have any recommendations on what to look for in a digital camera i would love to hear them as well. :) Thanks in advance, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thank you. Gary A. Garibaldi Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Registered Linux User: 188550 -- 7:15pm up 1:14, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 1.91
Re: [newbie] New Virus
Solve all virus problems delete windows, reformat the drive and install linux. No more virus. -- Thank you. Gary A. Garibaldi Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Registered Linux User: 188550 -- 7:30pm up 3 days, 2:10, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 1.91 On Wednesday 29 November 2000 19:28, you wrote: This is the MTX virus if I'm correct. There are articles of this posted on MSNBC, MSN or one of those sites. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 8:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Virus On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jon Doe wrote: I got a new virus attached to an email called "test mail" from "Mailing Server" yesterday. Anyone else? -michael- YES! Me too! I thought that was pretty obvious, eh? I took a look inside the zip file (wishyouwerehere.zip), and it was a file named Music.exe. Hmm, double click on that Music.exe and tell us what it does would you? Sure...better yet, my diagnostic skills probably aren't on par with yours, so how about I send it to you and you try? -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff
I'm not sure why it took that long for your install. It only took me about 38 minutes for a full install using the Alt-E method on the Wal-Mart package with give a person the correct Expert mode menu. What took about 3 hours was all the downloading of KDE2 and other update required for said package. Thank you. Gary A. Garibaldi Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Registered Linux User: 188550 -- 7:30am up 9:20, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.55 On Friday 24 November 2000 23:05, you wrote: On Friday 24 November 2000 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4x lmfao and you wonder why it took so long takes about 22 mins on my machine for full install ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff" ** Original Sender: eryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:59:16 -0600 ** Original Message follows... I've installed 7.2 on two different boxes, now (developmental), and both installs took 3 HOURS! WOW! Now I'm really wondering what went on with my boxes! And whatever it was, they both did the same thing. Anyone else have any insight into this? --
[newbie] login manager
How do I change the background color of log in manager with LM 7.2 -- Thank you. Gary A. Garibaldi Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Registered Linux User: 188550 -- 11:00am up 14 min, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.21, 0.15
Re: [newbie] reiserfs
Tom Brinkman wrote: /dev/hdb6 / reiserfs notail 1 1 That's the line for my drive (Linux is all in '/') Simple enough. I going to test it on my ftp drive and see what happens. What does the notail mean? Thanks. -- / Gary de Montigny / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / TeleSoft Systems / http://telesoft.ca
[newbie] Help with upgrade
I just installed LM 7.2 purchased from Wal-Mart. I've also downloaded and installed all the current updates. Most things seem to be working OK but would like to know if anyone could provide me with some information on how to correct a few problems noted in the .xsession-errors file. Running update-menus...done /usr/bin/startkde: [: too many arguments Could not dlopen library artsd.la: file not found Could not load library! Trying exec Launched ok, pid = 3640 KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kio_file') KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kmixctrl') KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kxmlrpcd') QSocketNotifier: Multiple socket notifiers for same socket 8 and type read KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kwin') KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kwrite') family == courier size == 11 KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 QToolBar::QToolBar main window cannot be 0. KLauncher doing clientStarted(`kio_file') 1. Any idea on how to fix /usr/bin/startkde: [: to many arguments ? 2 What is - Could not dlopen library artsd.la: file not found - an how do you fix it ? 3. What is - QSocketNotifier: Multiple socket notifiers for same socket 8 and type read - and how would I fix that ? 4. KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window Parameter) 9 Major opcode: 14 - What is this and can anyone help me fix it ? 5. QToolBar::QToolBar main window cannot be 0. - Again no idea what this is and how to fix it Any help in fixing the or explaining the above would be greatly appriciated. Thank you in advance. Gary
[newbie] Rpmdrake is broke!
I it just dies a quick death with an error "can't build the groups list " I did a grep on the rpms and the rpmdrake is there. I also rebuilt the rpm database, but nothing works. Any ideas? Thanks -- Best regards, Gary
Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake is broke!
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Paul wrote: G I it just dies a quick death with an error "can't build the groups list" G I did a grep on the rpms and the rpmdrake is there. I also rebuilt the G rpm database, but nothing works. P rpm -e rpmdrake P rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/rpmdrakerpm Paul, I reinstalled it, and am still getting the same error message on exec the program. Any thoughts? -- Best regards, Gary
Re[2]: [newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?
Hi Michael, On Sunday, September 10, 2000, 10:07 AM, you hammered out in part about "[newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?": m Does one have to disable Kmail in order to try exmh? You bring up a very good point, which I forgot about. I had the same problem initially, and the answer lies with your /home/user/Mail directory. Exmh looks to create the /Mail directory in your personal user directory. (notice the capital M). Since Kmail has already named it, and uses it, I had to rename the existing Mail directory to something else, i.e. Mail1. This will let Exmh make its Mail directory, and if you don't like it, you can delete it later, and rename Mail1 back to Mail for your Kmail. With this minor change, you will be off and running. m Although I installed the necessary packages, the initial exmh m dialogue will only come up if I'm accessing it as superuser, not as m ordinary user. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
Re: [newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, "Roman" == Romanator wrote: Roman Hi Gary, Roman Mutt sounds good. I think I'll try it out. Roman Thanks Roman, You will love it. One thing it does better than any other MUA is the way it handles threads, which makes it perfect for e-groups. This is one of the major differences between Mutt and Pine. Mutt, you can set up anything your way, and visually see threads. You can also re-list the mbox or mh anyway you want after you open it up, on the fly, same for searching. It is the most customizable MUA I have ever seen. They also have a great help email list, which is very active. The best way to get into Mutt is to go on their site and download the Muttrc file from Telsa. (I think it is in the 3rd party additions section, or something like that) She has commented just about everything, and makes customization extremely easy to do. Once you see her file, you can adapt those sections to your existing mailboxes, i.e. directories. You can pretty much just leave her muttrc file as is otherwise and use it. I can send you the colors section which will really enhance your visual experience in Mutt (either in terminal or X). Like Pine, your hands will never leave the keyboard for any function in Mutt, but once you get with the power of it, you will see the dramatic difference. When I first started with Mutt, I knew nothing about it, but her muttrc setup (and documentation within it) was so good, it was easy to get going. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans. Dictated entirely by voice with ViaVoice for Linux PGP signature
Re: [newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, "Ken" == Ken Wahl wrote: Ken I've never used Exmh so I don't know about that one. It runs in the Ken terminal but I wouldn't exactly call it command line. Exmh is the GUI version of mh. It is the overall best MUA around. It handles in-line HTML, or anything, will filter to metamail, PGP, etc. . However, given all this power, it has a longer learning curve, as it uses Tk. There are several add-ons that can be applied, like what you see for my reply - how it sets up your cited quotes. It also is extremely customizable, and it has its own editor which is really pretty good, or you can use your favorite. Spell checks on the fly also. I can send anyone a screen shot if they are interested, just drop me a line. All folders are kept in tabs in front of you. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Always yield to temptation, because it may not pass your way again.
Re: [newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, "Roman" == Romanator wrote: Roman Any thoughts on what your favorite email package is and why? Well, I have two - Exmh and Mutt. I can go through about 500 pieces of mail each morning in about 15 minutes. Both are extremely powerful, complete with all the latest goodies, i.e. PGP/MINE., key remapping, support for your favorite editor, etc. Exmh will let you read in-line html format too. Mutt supports terminal use, as well as very colorful X use, and also mh style of mail, so all are interchanable with the mail folders, as I use procmail. Mutt also has the use of very powerful hooks, which makes mail a breeze, totally automating everything. I can set up profiles based on certain criteria, to include anything from sig lines, to GPG / PGP keys, email addresses, actually anythng. I sometimes use XEmacs g also. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
Re: [newbie] FAX software
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, "Pete" == Pete Clapham wrote: Pete What would you recommend? I don't seem to have loaded the Pete send/receive programs when I loaded Linux, and I'm open to Pete suggestions. The easiest program I have found is already built in. In a terminal (as root) just type in efax. You can send or receive, or just have it wait for faxes with the addition of suffixes, i.e. efax -w will auto wait for calls, etc. Or just to answer a fax immediately, just efax. See the man page. This program works well, does not need java like Hylafax. I use it all the time. I have found that even when I start it using the su root command from my directory, all faxes are saved to my personal directory. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Re: [newbie] Yo
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, "Steve" == Steve Weltman wrote: Steve Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Steve Didn't ANYone ever explain the FINANCIAL implications of free Steve software models to you? snip in great detalil What does this thesis and response to MS as an OS versus Linux have anything to do with Mandrake specifically on the Newbie help list. Nobody on the list derived any expertise from this dead horse, which initially did not belong on the group either. You will have to forgive me, as for a moment, I thought I was in a chat room or on a news group, as there is absolutely no substantiative material here regarding Mandrake or its operation as a distro. Take it off line to the source. Some of us actually want to know about Mandrake. Get a grip people and stay focused. -- Gary Today's thought: Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.
Re: [newbie] Why are these ports open?
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, "SW" == Steve Weltman wrote: SW If you have a NEW installation of LM 7.1 and the security is set to SW low, you will have a fairly open system. I agree with Steve and if running an individual box, one of the first things that should be done is to shut down telnet. Go into /etc/ inetd.conf and mark out the telnet line. Then kill -HUP PID of the inetd process to force the inetd server to reload it. Otherwise, your telnet will be open to the world. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Gandhi
Re: [newbie] Lost passwords
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know how to find out what a lost password is? I don't think you can, as a security precation. You just have to set a new password. The way Linux is setup (unless changed by hand) passwords are shadowed and encrypted with SH-5, so there absolutely is no way to find out what the password is. Best is to over write as previously mentioned. Really, anybody with access to your box can change the superuser (root) passwd. It is not difficult! -- Best regards, Gary
Re: [newbie] Lost passwords
Does anyone know how to find out what a lost password is? Also how do you delete a user name? -- Dennis - A registered Linux user #180842 The easiest way is to type "linux single" at startup when you boot up. You will be in bash. Type passwd root then type in the new root password. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Re: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] Lost passwords
Why have I been getting these messages for the past several days. My post does get to the newbie group, but I always get this bounce. Anybody else get these? -- Regards Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lost passwords Sent:Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:26:07 +0100 did not reach the following recipient(s): [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:31:10 +0100 The recipient name is not recognized The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a= ;p=NTDOMAIN1;l=NTSERVER 10008200431QXLLCM7Y MSEXCH:IMS:NTDOMAIN1:NTSERVER1:NTSERVER1 0 (000C05A6) Unknown Recipient
Re: [newbie] Re: Undeliverable: and Repeat Messages
Don't worry, it's not you, nor I , nor anyone else in particular on this list... The mail server is having a problem, or it's someone's mailserver that happens to be bouncing everything around, including some looped mail in a bad header citing mandrax.org, etc. You notice it is from an NT box? (sorry, couldn't resist) g I read a message a day or two ago, although I can't find it now to copy in, that describes the problem in better detail (but the solution was still elusive). Just be patient, it's being worked on... Thanks Greg for your input, as well as everyone else's - Dennis, Philomena ... -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
Re: [newbie] Scanners and Linux
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 06:32:37PM +0100 or thereabouts, Paul wrote: Most decent SCSI scanners will do. I have a simple Mustek scanner and that performs great (once i have the color settings figured out.) Paul, How did you get yours to work. Sane is installed, but I have yet to get it going. It does not recognize it as a device, and I am having trouble. Can you shed some light? Thanks -- Best regards, Gary PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Re: Mail Program
I believe both Pronto! and Mahogany support graphical mail, but I can't get either one working. I get mired in Perl error messages with Pronto! and Mahogany is just inscrutable. I've passed it around the office here and nobody has been able to understand how to set that program up (and usually mail programs are dead simple--answer 3 or 4 questions and you're off). Anyway, it's frustrating. Pine of course has always been the most powerful mail program for Linux, and I used it religiously years ago, but nowadays a text-only program just isn't sufficient. CindyB This is very subjective. Pine really is not very powerful at all, and in fact is considered to be used in very simple situations. It does not support threading or scoring as does, for example, Mutt. Mutt uses very powerful hooking capabilities to really manipulate your mail for you, making your job easier. Another great one is EXMH which is absolutely outstanding for mh style of mail. I use both with procmail with great success. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem
Try this support group for Red Hat. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear how ever I am a new user of Linux. I purchased a Linux book some time a go which came with three types of Linux which one of them was RedHat 6.0. I tried to install RedHat and according to this book I had boot from A: drive?? When I boot the machine successfully from A: drive I could not get RedHat to Auto detect my CDROM? I tried manual detection and it asked for parameters that I did not know about (IRQ interrupt and etc). Can any one help me with this problem? how can I get Red hat to recognize my CDROM regards PGP signature
Re[2]: [newbie] Pine Config
Hi Denis,
On Sunday, August 06, 2000, 10:43 AM, you hammered out in part about
"[newbie] Pine Config":
DH You can use IMAP server with pine:
DH inbox-path={host}/INBOX
DH (POP is not supported)
POP is supported (one account at a time), and I have used it for a
long time before going to Mutt. I am not in Mandrake now, but please
see my email from a few days ago for the coding. I got this off of
their website. It worked well.
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Best regards,
Gary
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