Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is misbehaving. I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I am not sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it lately -- that have been mentiond in the list so often. As root, I wrote the 2 DNS nameservers to resolv.conf. As user, I use kppp, log in fine, but can't use any app since they can't find the server. Log out, go check resolv.conf and it is entirely empty! Any suggestions? Because I can't really deal with Outlook Express much longer. ;-) Thank you, As root, open a console window, call up your favorite console-mode editor and retype your resolv.conf, making sure it's named in all lowercase letters (i.e. "resolv.conf" instead of "Resolv.conf") Here's the permissions on my resolv.conf which works perfectly: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root As you can see it's owned by user "root" and group "root." Also, ONLY root can write to it, but any user can READ it. John Here is the permission on my resolv.conf which does not work: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Nov 2 11:07 resolv.conf I also checked the permission of the kppp link for "user", and all he can do is read and execute, but not write. Even so, kppp keeps deleting the content of resolv.conf as "user". I also notice that, while the connection is open, the text inside resolv.conf is "search localdomain". Summing up: As user, the contents of resolv.conf are: nameserver x nameserver y before using kppp search localdomain during kppp usage (neither kmail nor netscape can find the server) empty after kppp usage Any help would be appreciated, /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:35:32PM -0200, Gustavo Viola wrote: Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is misbehaving. I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I am not sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it lately -- that have been mentiond in the list so often. As root, I wrote the 2 DNS nameservers to resolv.conf. As user, I use kppp, log in fine, but can't use any app since they can't find the server. Log out, go check resolv.conf and it is entirely empty! Any suggestions? Because I can't really deal with Outlook Express much longer. ;-) Thank you, Make sure that you don't set the option in KPPP to "use these DNS servers". If you do, KPPP will "append" it's information to your resolv.conf and just bring heartache and trouble. Interesting. Where can I find this option, could not see it under Kppp config tabs? Thanks, /Gustavo -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Resolv.conf
Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is misbehaving. I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I am not sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it lately -- that have been mentiond in the list so often. As root, I wrote the 2 DNS nameservers to resolv.conf. As user, I use kppp, log in fine, but can't use any app since they can't find the server. Log out, go check resolv.conf and it is entirely empty! Any suggestions? Because I can't really deal with Outlook Express much longer. ;-) Thank you, /Gustavo.
[newbie] EZ-drive
On sáb, 09 out 1999, Manny Styles wrote: Big Snip The Maxtor drive came with EZ-Drive, but that doesn't affect linux in any way since it can see large drives with no BIOS changes. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to have a drive with EZ-Drive with *both* Windows and Linux? Windows needs EZ-Drive, and the EZ-Drive documentation said Linux (or Unix) could not run over it. Any way I can enable EZ-Drive for Windows and disable it for Linux? (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before EZ-Drive and can it make EZ-Drive run only for Windows?) Thanks, /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
On qua, 13 out 1999, Art wrote: %_The type on Netscape is SOOO tiny, I can barely read it. The Font size increase/decrease menu items are greyed out. How can I make the Netscape font size readable? Hi Art, Take a look at www.mandrakeuser.org in its X-Windows fonts section. It is pretty informative and has been updated recently. Regards, /Gustavo
Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display
On qua, 29 set 1999, bay56 wrote: Ah, yes - you could try some hardware monitoring software - Sandra from scisoft, and an assortment from Entech should get you all the info you could wish for - just need to snoop the settings you use in Win - write em down, paste em in! Should be reasonably do-able. SNIP Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ Does anyone know any similiar piece of software for Linux? Regards, /Gustavo
Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1
I extracted StarOffice 5.1 RPM (as root, which has writing privileges everywhere) to the /opt, default directory in that specific *. RPM. Logged out from root and as _user_ I did a network (2MB) install (opt/SOffice51/setup or /opt/SOffice51/kde/install or something like that) in /home/user. Only in this net install I was asked for the media key for future registration. BTW, I am not in a network, just a regular desktop. This way I avoided 196 MB of StarOffice in my /home partition -- SO files are in /opt -- and a useless StarOffice "root" user. Regards, /Gustavo. - Original Message - From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1 Did you install SO51 as 'root'? If so you didn't need to. When I did my install, I was logged on as a regular user, did the download (long time) to my personal folder, put the .tar file into a folder I created under my personal folder, then did the extract. Next I did the install, and that was that. I havn't set up anything for it as root, because I can not think of any reason why I should need to. I am set up with Linux-Mandrake 6.0, on a stand alone DeskTop system. I am the only one using the system, so I only have one user, and a root account set up on my system. If you are set up as a network, or as a multi-user system, someone else will have to help, 'cause I don't know anything about those configurations. If I understand the situation, software is installed on a per user basis in Linux. This means that only the owner of a particular program can use it. If StarOffice was installed as root, it belongs to root, and only root can use it by default. There may be a way to allow other users to use the software, but I do not know how to do it. Also, if I understood the licence for StarOffice, it is a one user licence, and may require a sepatate registration/instalation for each user using the package. If your setup is similar to mine, I would suggest that you remove StarOffice as root, then re-install it as a regular user as I discribed above. Ernie Belzebub wrote: I downloaded and installed Star Offie 5.1 on my Mandrake 6.0 distribuition. I made an updated CD just before 6.1 came out, so I have a custom CD with all the last updates before 6.1. My kernel is 2.2.13. After the installation finished, I am able to run the application as root or superuser, but as a regular user. Any suggestions?
Re: [newbie] TT Fonts
At www.mandrakeuser.org you will find a link to the Font Deuglification FAQ. It can help you out with True Type fonts. Regards, /Gustavo. - Original Message - From: Frank Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 1:07 PM Subject: [newbie] TT Fonts I've got Mandrake 6.0 but despite a lot of trying, I still can't see my True Type fonts. I've followed all the suggestions on the FAQ page, all the hints at www.linuxnewbie.org and still nothing. Sigh. There has GOT to be a simple way of linking the Font server to the ttfonts directory. Any suggestions? Frank Hilliard http://hilliard.tzo.com
Re: [newbie] RPM shared libraries error
On sáb, 25 set 1999, you wrote: rpm -V glibc, says? Same error: rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory /Gustavo. On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: When I try running kpackage (or rpm, for that matter) I get the following error message: kpackage: error in loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory I did not have such probIem before - I've done a recent re-install (I had not installed devel packages in my debutant install, duh!) of the entire system. A clean install, wiping my / . What gives? /Gustavo. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] RPM shared libraries error
On sáb, 25 set 1999, Richard Adams wrote: SNIP rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory /Gustavo. SNIP When I try running kpackage (or rpm, for that matter) I get the following error message: kpackage: error in loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory SNIP and rearrange for readability I did not have such probIem before - I've done a recent re-install (I had not installed devel packages in my debutant install, duh!) of the entire system. A clean install, wiping my / . What gives? /Gustavo. Now my examples are coming from Redhat-6.0 but i would imagen there would not be much differenace in the way libs are linked or are situated. What you can do to check out what libs you have and how and where they are linked to do; ldconfig -v l ibs.list Then do; cat libs.list | grep libdb* My system produces the following. libdb.so.2 =libdb.so.2 libdl.so.1 = libdl.so.1.9.5 libdl.so.2 = libdl-2.1.1.so libdb.so.2 = libdb1-2.1.1.so libdb.so.3 = libdb-2.1.1.so libdl.so.1 = libdl.so.1.9.5 libdl.so.2 = libdl-2.1.1.so libdb.so.2 = libdb1-2.1.1.so libdb.so.3 = libdb-2.1.1.so My system produced: libdl.so.1 = libdl.so.1.9.5 libdl.so.2 = libdl-2.1.1.so libdb.so.2 = libdl-2.1.1.so libdb.so.3 = libdb-2.1.1.so If you do not see libdb.so.2 in the list then do; whereis libdb.so.2 On my system that gives libdb.so: /lib/libdb.so.2 /lib/libdb.so.3 /usr/lib/libdb.so If there not there then you dont have them installed, if they are there then add the directorys to /etc/ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Done! My /etc/ld.so.conf was: /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib Now it reads: /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib /lib/ As expected, ldconfig -v l ibs.list followed by cat libs.list | grep libdb* gives me now: libdl.so.1 = libdl.so.1.9.5 libdl.so.2 = libdl-2.1.1.so libdb.so.2 = libdb1-2.1.1.so libdb.so.3 = libdb-2.1.1.so libdl.so.1 = libdl.so.1.9.5 libdl.so.2 = libdl-2.1.1.so libdb.so.2 = libdb1-2.1.1.so libdb.so.3 = libdb-2.1.1.so Diferring from yours in the lines libdb.so.2 =libdb.so.2 libdl.so.2 = libdl-2.1.1.sok (Typos, perhaps?) In any case, kpackage and rpm worked fine. Can anyone guess why this /lib/ line was not in /etc/ld.so.conf previoulsy, since I had not messed with this file before? Thanks a lot for the answer, Richard. It's probably nightime where you are and you went through some work to solve my problems here in a bright afternoon. I am very grateful. (Sorry all for the long post, but I figured this message could help someone else who looks through the archives, as I've done so many times.) Best regards, /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] Gustavo wins No Life Award (Off Topic)
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: --On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: These links may help anyone who is into "managing microwaves" through Linux: snip That's it! Gustavo wins the all time "No Life Internet Surfing Award." Thanks!! My friends here in Brazil tell me the same, but it is the first time I got international recognition for my time-wasting efforts. I don´t like my job, have a T1, and monitor screen privacy -- what else could I do?? It must have taken you hours to find this stuff. Not really -- I am a pro. Most of the links were found with Copernic 99 (I hope it gets ported to Linux someday). The worst part is, these links really _DO_ exist. You mean you actually checked them!? I believe that makes you the runner-up for the "No Life Award" :-) David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **It was gonna be done in Septober, then Octember, now it's Novunder.** /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- People will believe anything if you whisper it.
Re: [newbie] What does Helios mean?
What about Panoramix? Is it after the druid in Asterix? - Original Message - From: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What does "Helios" mean? Sevatio Octavio wrote: Is "Helios" just a name for Mandrake 6.1 or is it some technical term? Seve Hi, Seve, Helios is the classical Greek god of the sun, know to the Romans as Apollo. He rode his fiery chariot across the sky every day, which accounts for the rising and setting of the sun. That's what they taught me in reform school. Hidong
[newbie] Microwave and Chix
These links may help anyone who is into "managing microwaves" through Linux: http://sdcc10.ucsd.edu/~swbrown/ppower/index.html http://members.home.net/ncherry/ AFAIK, these home automation software can already switch lights on and off (and even dim them!) but I could not find any specific info about microwave ovens. But if all you want to use the microwave for is making coffee, try: http://members.home.net/ncherry/common/Coffee/Coffee.html That´s the How-to Coffee homepage. Unfortunately, I could not find any info about Linux lawmowners or walk-the-dog devices. An alternative technique would be the long-term strategy of adding new family members and have them do the job for you in exchange for allowances. Allowances expenditure can be managed with Gnucash (http://www.gnucash.org/). As for "chix" I recommend: http://www.girlgeeks.com/ and http://www.geekgirls.com/mainmenu.htm Good luck, /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] Id mo
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." snip grep 'mo' /etc/inittab Thanks Axalon. Out of curiosity, where can I read/learn about this "mo"? Could not find info in the man pages or the list archives.
Re: [newbie] Modem Config
I have a USR Courier internal. It would not work under Linux if jumpered for PnP. To have it properly installed, I: 1) logged in Windows, checked under "System Settings" which COM and IRQ Win98 was using through PnP; 2) jumpered the modem for the proper COM and IRQ, disabling PnP. 3) under linux, I used setserial and modemtool to properly finish my setup. Hope it helps, /Gustavo. On dom, 19 set 1999, you wrote: Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: OK, I am now down to one piece of hardware to configure. It's a USRobotics Sportster internal modem. It is PnP with jumpers, although I currently have it jumpered for PnP. I have isapnp running at startup, but I must need to do something else. By the way, I have read the Modem HOW-TO and the isapnptools documentation and both are highly technical and unclear. Both explain very thoroughly what is happening, but neither explain how to make the modem work! It appears that isapnp has it configured as ttys3 with a IO of 03f8-03ff. But when I select /dev/modem in the setup for kppp, I get the message "Sorry, can't open modem." So I select /dev/ttyS3 and get the message "Sorry, modem is busy." That might be true. But have you ran "setserial"? Linux seems to be defaulted to com 1, com 2. If this is indeed ttyS3 ( com 4 ) you need to run setserial. At a terminal type " man setserial " and read it. Then fix it. :) ALan === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
[newbie] Id mo
Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." What is this "mo"? Why is it respawing, and how can I make it stop? I couldn't find anything about it in the list archives. Any help appreciated, Thanks. /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] Windows Manger and Umount Problem
On sex, 17 set 1999, you wrote: 1. How do I change my default window manager? You can try changing runlevels but I don't know how to do that. But from KDE you can go to System Desktop Switching Tool and choose a window manager; from Gnome there is a similar utility, can't recall the name though. /Gustavo
Re: [newbie] GO
Nope, I cheated. :-) http://udel.edu/~mm/anime/speed/startup/ /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- I tried to contain myself, but I escaped. - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] GO Somebody has wy too much time on his hands. Brian :-) -Original Message- From: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer He's a demon on wheels He's a demon and he's gonna be chasing after someone He's gaining on you so you better look alive He's busy revving up the powerful Mach Five And when the odds are against him and there's daaangerous work to do You bet your life Speed Racer's gonna see it through Go Speed Racer Go Speed Racer Go Speed Racer go He's off and flying as he guns the car around the track He's jamming down the pedal like he's never coming back Adventure's waiting just ahad Go Speed Racer Go Speed Racer Go Speed Racer Go! Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer GO Walk out the door,
Re: [newbie] Compiling/Dev Packages
Hi, Bash tells me it doesn´t recognize the "make" command. I assume that is so because I neglected to install development packages at setup... Does anyone know where to find the proper RPMs in the 6.0 dist. cd? Mandrake/RPMS -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, but I didn´t express myself correctly. I meant, "_which_ are the proper RPMs to install dev tools?" Thank you, /Gustavo
[newbie] Compiling/Dev Packages
Hi, Bash tells me it doesn´t recognize the "make" command. I assume that is so because I neglected to install development packages at setup... Does anyone know where to find the proper RPMs in the 6.0 dist. cd? Thanks in advance, /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- Ever stop to think and then forget to start again?
RE: [newbie] Mount hd on boot
Hi, I managed to work around the mounting/read-write/permission problem, and you may want to hear how I did. But first, thanks to John Aldrich, Fred PLE, Dan Brown and Ken Wilson, who helped me a lot, and to those who may have written back but I haven't got the message yet, since the list server is so slow. As root I changed my /etc/fstab as follows: /dev/hdc1 /mnt/disk vfat async,user,noauto,dev,exec,rw,nosuid 0 0 Then I went to KDE, dragged-and-dropped a device.kdelnk from templates to the desktop, linked it to /dev/hdc1 and /mnt/disk and changed the permission options so that anyone could use it (btw, there are two hdd icons in KDE, for mounted and unmounted, so that may just be the only solution KDE designers thought of). Then I copied the device.kdelnk to the user's desktop. I logged back in as user, started kde, mounted the hdd using the kdelnk icon (it worked fine! previously all I got was this message: only root can mount). Copied a few files into it just to be sure, and it even worked under console mode only. It is not the best solution, since it does not mount automatically after boot, plus I have to mount it thru KDE, but it worked anyway. /Gustavo.
[newbie] Mount hd on boot
Hello all, Every time I boot I have to tell Linux to mount my secondary master, a MS-Dos disk. I believe there is a way to do that automatically, either in one of the initialization files or in an item on the desktop (such as the ones for the CD-Rom and Floppy), but have not found a trace of that in the documentation. Can anyone help me out? Thanks, /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] Mount hd on boot
On sáb, 11 set 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hello all, Every time I boot I have to tell Linux to mount my secondary master, a MS-Dos disk. I believe there is a way to do that automatically, either in one of the initialization files or in an item on the desktop (such as the ones for the CD-Rom and Floppy), but have not found a trace of that in the documentation. Can anyone help me out? As root, edit your fstab and tell it to auto-mount at boot. I don't have a copy of a dual-boot system fstab here, but IIRC, the command is something similar to the following: /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosvfat user, auto, etc 0 0 John I read the man mount and man fsat following Frederic PLE suggestion (thanks, Fred!) and modified my /etc/fstab which now reads: /dev/hda1 / ext2defaults1 1 /dev/hda6 /home ext2defaults1 2 /dev/hda5 swapswapdefaults0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/disk vfat sync,user,auto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0 My problem is the hdc1 which does not work. I chose the "vfat" for a filesystem type according to John Aldrich suggestion, since the "msdos" type mentioned in the man fstab would not work (the HDD in question was formatted as a FAT32); also, I chose "sync,user,auto,nosuid,nodev,unhide" mount options because "defaults" did not work (so I just copied the options for my fd0 and changed noauto to auto); lastly, the "0 0" options were deemed appropriate because: 1) I don't know what "dump" is, my man files tell me nothing about it 2) I felt Linux did not need to check this specific filesystem at boot -- plus those were the options suggested in John's message. However, whenever I try to copy anything into my /mnt/disk Linux says "Could not write file. Perhaps access denied." I've checked my permission tab under KDE for /mnt/disk and everything is fine, and I can read the drive as well. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] newbie-forced to post this in Win95
If Ken´s suggestion does not work (I believe it should), check if you´re using EZ-Bios (software with bios extensions from Western Digital, that allows old bios to recognize bigger hard drives -- it is NOT Linux-compatible, only for Win95 or 98 -- [to see if you´re using it, EZ-Bios shows at boot a message like this: "loading ez-bios extensions"] ). I ran into that problem when installing Mandrake over the weekend, and found no solution to it -- or else, now I use hard drive "drawers" to decide which OS I am going to use, I love that, it´s cool. :-) Gustavo Viola I don't know if it will help but maybe try running your third hard drive as the seconday master and the cd as the secondary slave. That works on my system here. I have 3 harddrives, 4G, 8G and 11G respectively. Except for what I need to boot Linux, which resides low on my primary master, the rest resides in various partions on my primary slave. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David P. Greenberg Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] newbie-forced to post this in Win95 AAARGGGHHH!!! I've successfully set up linux several times in several different distros, and actually started using it. I recently added a new HD and a 40x CD-Rom to my system, and in so doing decided to go for fresh installs on both my Win32 and Linux systems. I now have Windows (OS only) on my 500mb primary master(/hda) and Windows programs on /hdb (6.3 gb quantum bigfoot set as primary slave). For my secondary master which would be /hdc I have the new CD-Rom, and I have a 4.3 gb Western Dig as secondary slave or /hdd. For some reason I get one of the following errors when I try to run the Mandrake 6 install. Can't mount /hdc Invalid argument or no media in /hdc or invalid media. at one point I did manage to get it to see the cd and start the install, but when I got to disk druid, It wouldn't see the hard drive. I tried putting my old CD-Rom drive back in, and now it won't work with that either. Please help, as I really want to get my Linux back Thanks in advance David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" **The falcon has heard the falconer**
Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting
Funny, I had the same problem and solved it the same way. Isn´t it great how you _have_ to learn things in KDE by clicking them, since the help files are so lame? ;-) A rather risky choice if logged in as root, might I add... I´ve learned more just by reading these posts than working at my computer for hours... /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- Frisbyterianism: When you die, your soul goes up on the roof. No I have it now if you run KDE app finder it adds the gnome stuff to the KDE menus. Jeanette - Original Message - From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 5:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting Jeanette Russo wrote: I have the KDE menu in GNOME, but I don't have the GNOME menu in KDE which is what I KDE as GNOME while beautiful doesn't seem stable Jeanette You must have not installed it. I saw it just today at work installing Mandrake for a work project. From my memory ( which is stressed! ) there is a KDE menu choice in gnome ( F1 describes it ) which is checked by default and the reverse which I think is NOT checked by default that does the same the other way. I bet this is your answer. Alan -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Brazilian keybord and Quake 1
THIS MESSAGE IS BI-LINGUAL. PURISTS STAY CLEAR ESSA MENSAGEM É BILÍNGÜE. PURISTAS DEVEM SE AFASTAR ==This is NOT a BabelFish translation= ==Esta NÃO é uma tradução do BabelFish= - Original Message - From: Joao C Agostini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 12:05 AM Subject: [newbie] Brazilian keybord and Quake 1 Hello all Hi - Olá I want to clear two subjects on keyboard: a) I am Brazilian and I use a standard keyboard for my language called ABNT2, somebody of Mandrake could tell me how I do to use this keyboard in Venus, mainly in the prompt... As root, you can use "kbdconfig" and choose "br-abnt2" or something like that. - Como usuário root, vc pode usar "kbdconfig" e escolher "br-abnt2" ou algo assim, deve funcionar. b) the version 6.1 has support, from the installation, to the keyboard ABNT2? 6.1? Is it out yet? - 6.1? Já saiu? In Brazil a magazine (PCMaster) of this month it threw Mandrake 6 and a So you bought it too. :-) I went to their web site to gripe about _my_ keyboard and it is still under construction! Bastards. - A-rá! Vc comprou também... :-) Fui para o site deles reclamar sobre o _meu_ teclado e o site ainda está em construção! Malditos. lot of people bought and liked, but she has been having problems with the keyboard that I have and with the accents, that are many in my language. I suggest you enter in contact with Conectiva (dealer Brazilian of RedHat) for us to use the correction that they use for the keyboard ABNT2. I wanted to get the "US-Acentos" keyboard configuration from Conectiva, since my keyboard is American-style but I still need the "dead keys". Do you know how I can get that? - Pois é, eu queria ter a configuração US-Acentos da Conectiva, pois meu teclado é americano mas eu ainda preciso dos acentos e cedilhas (vc viu que os americanos chamam isso de "dead keys"? Dead é a mãe deles!)... Como eu posso pegar, vc sabe? Did I install Quake I in Mandrake but does he never work, always restraint when it carries the program (many other people that are using bought Mandrake of the mentioned magazine, are they having the same problem), some suggestion of the why? Sorry, I have no idea what to do about that. - Quanto a isso, não faço a menor, desculpas. Thank you. You´re welcome. - De nada. Qualquer coisa é só perguntar, se eu puder ajudar... -- João Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil - SP ICQ - 33.965.439 usuário Linux # 106644 /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- Unprecedented performance: Nothing ever ran this slow before.
Re: [newbie] Brazilian keybord and Quake 1
The first language is English. :-) The second is Portuguese. Cheers, /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- The refrigerator light DOES go out. Now let me out of here. - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Brazilian keybord and Quake 1 On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: THIS MESSAGE IS BI-LINGUAL. PURISTS STAY CLEAR ESSA MENSAGEM É BILÍNGÜE. PURISTAS DEVEM SE AFASTAR ==This is NOT a BabelFish translation= ==Esta NÃO é uma tradução do BabelFish= It maybe obvious to some, but not me. Somebody wanna tell me what language this is :)
Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome
I have tried that, switched a number of keyboards (including the Swedish you mentioned, and Western European, which would be appropriate for my using), restarted KDE a few times, but it did not work at all. How was the keyboard setup supposed to be activated? Did I do anything wrong? On another note: I believe this matter could be addressed at a lower level, from the console itself; if I use the kbdconfig utility, I can choose an appropriate keyboard, as Swedish, Swedish latin, U.S., French... I have tried all of them, but none worked for me. What I want to do is to be able to type " ´+ a " and " á " comes out, or " , + c " to get "ç" , " ` + a " for "à" (I am using Win98 at work now, that is the reason why I can type such characters at all)... does anyone know if I can add keyboard types to the kbdconfig utility? Or changing keymaps? Any Portuguese/Spanish/French/Italian/Swedish/Any Language -speaking people who have dealt with a similar issue? /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry Curly. - Original Message - From: stephan schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome If you use KDE there is a tool there that will allow you to swich keyboard mapps. International... something. I use it to type in swedish å,ä,ö, more precicely. If you know how to type and do not have to look at the keys all the time you can just type on, otherwise you will have to lable some keys. Stephan - Original Message - From: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 1:12 PM Subject: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome Hi, 1) I frequently need to type special Latin characters such as ó, à, ç etc.; I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard (not a bad piece of hardware from a software mammoth) and, under Windows 98, I type ",c" to get "ç", " ´a" to get "á" and so on. I haven´t been able to set that up under Linux yet. Can anyone help? 2) I haven´t found a good Mandrake FAQ yet; if I had, I would probably know how to switch from KDE to Gnome. Whenever I "startx" I go to KDE, but would like to see Gnome for a change. How can I? Thanks a lot, and I apologize if these questions have been answered previously. /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- Put knot yore trussed inn spel chequers
Re: [newbie] Brazilian keybord and Quake 1
I wanted to get the "US-Acentos" keyboard configuration from Conectiva, since my keyboard is American-style but I still need the "dead keys". Do you know how I can get that? - Pois é, eu queria ter a configuração US-Acentos da Conectiva, pois meu teclado é americano mas eu ainda preciso dos acentos e cedilhas (vc viu que os americanos chamam isso de "dead keys"? Dead é a mãe deles!)... Como eu posso pegar, vc sabe? Hi, (Oi,) You asked for it and now you have it. I have downloaded it from conectiva s site.(Voce pediu e ai esta. Eu baixei do site da conectiva.) best regards, (um abraco,) Rodrigo Olá (Hello), Muito obrigado! Vc sabe em qual diretório eu devo acrescentá-lo para que o kbdconfig o aceite? (Thank you so much! Do you know which directory it should be added to so that kbdconfig will acknowledge it?) Obrigado de novo (Thanks again) /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- Calm waters do not mean the crocodile is not present. # us-acentos.map # Equivalente ao mapa us, incluindo dead_keys e composições # dos caracteres acentuados # Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] # keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12 keycode 1 = Escape Escape alt keycode 1 = Meta_Escape keycode 2 = one exclam alt keycode 2 = Meta_one shift alt keycode 2 = Meta_exclam keycode 3 = two at at nul nul alt keycode 3 = Meta_two shift alt keycode 3 = Meta_at keycode 4 = threenumbersign control keycode 4 = Escape alt keycode 4 = Meta_three shift alt keycode 4 = Meta_numbersign keycode 5 = four dollar dollar Control_backslash alt keycode 5 = Meta_four shift alt keycode 5 = Meta_dollar keycode 6 = five percent control keycode 6 = Control_bracketright alt keycode 6 = Meta_five shift alt keycode 6 = Meta_percent keycode 7 = six dead_circumflex control keycode 7 = Control_asciicircum alt keycode 7 = Meta_six shift alt keycode 7 = Meta_asciicircum keycode 8 = sevenampersandbraceleft Control_underscore alt keycode 8 = Meta_seven keycode 9 = eightasterisk bracketleft Delete alt keycode 9 = Meta_eight keycode 10 = nine parenleftbracketright alt keycode 10 = Meta_nine keycode 11 = zero parenright braceright alt keycode 11 = Meta_zero keycode 12 = minusunderscore backslash Control_underscore Control_underscore alt keycode 12 = Meta_minus keycode 13 = equalplus alt keycode 13 = Meta_equal keycode 14 = Delete Delete control keycode 14 = BackSpace alt keycode 14 = Meta_Delete keycode 15 = Tab Tab alt keycode 15 = Meta_Tab keycode 16 = q keycode 17 = w keycode 18 = e keycode 19 = r keycode 20 = t keycode 21 = y keycode 22 = u keycode 23 = i keycode 24 = o keycode 25 = p keycode 26 = bracketleft braceleft control keycode 26 = Escape alt keycode 26 = Meta_bracketleft shift alt keycode 26 = Meta_braceleft keycode 27 = bracketright braceright asciitilde Control_bracketright alt keycode 27 = Meta_bracketright shift alt keycode 27 = Meta_braceright keycode 28 = Return alt keycode 28 = Meta_Control_m keycode 29 = Control keycode 30 = a keycode 31 = s keycode 32 = d keycode 33 = f keycode 34 = g keycode 35 = h keycode 36 = j keycode 37 = k keycode 38 = l keycode 39 = semicoloncolon alt keycode 39 = Meta_semicolon keycode 40 = dead_acute dead_diaeresis control keycode 40 = Control_g alt keycode 40 = Meta_apostrophe keycode 41 = dead_gravedead_tilde control keycode 41 = nul alt keycode 41 = Meta_grave keycode 42 = Shift keycode 43 = backslashbar control keycode 43 = Control_backslash alt keycode 43 = Meta_backslash shift alt keycode 43 = Meta_bar keycode 44 = z keycode 45 = x keycode 46 = c keycode 47 = v keycode 48 = b keycode 49 = n keycode 50 = m keycode 51 = commaless alt keycode 51 = Meta_comma shift alt keycode 51 = Meta_less keycode 52 = period greater control keycode 52 = Compose alt keycode 52 = Meta_period shift alt keycode 52 = Meta_greater keycode 53 = slashquestion control keycode 53 = Delete alt keycode 53 = Meta_slash keycode 54 = Shift keycode 55 = KP_Multiply keycode 56 = Alt keycode 57 = spacespace control keycode 57 = nul alt keycode 57 = Meta_space keycode 58 = Caps_Lock keycode 59 = F1 F11 Console_13 F1 alt keycode 59 = Console_1 control alt keycode 59 = Console_1 keycode 60 = F2 F12 Console_14 F2 alt keycod
[newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome
Hi, 1) I frequently need to type special Latin characters such as ó, à, ç etc.; I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard (not a bad piece of hardware from a software mammoth) and, under Windows 98, I type ",c" to get "ç", " ´a" to get "á" and so on. I haven´t been able to set that up under Linux yet. Can anyone help? 2) I haven´t found a good Mandrake FAQ yet; if I had, I would probably know how to switch from KDE to Gnome. Whenever I "startx" I go to KDE, but would like to see Gnome for a change. How can I? Thanks a lot, and I apologize if these questions have been answered previously. /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- Put knot yore trussed inn spel chequers
