[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] 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
[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] 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
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] 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
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
