Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) Didn't I read somewhere that DivX files require at least a 500Mhz processor? Although that was for Windoze based systems. Haven't the faintest what a DVD would need, though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 17:55, Domingo Abrego wrote: hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this websites is that it is not possible!!! but i found a driver for LTwinmodem (lucent winmodems) for linux.. in the driverguide webpage, is that possible... and maybe the main question is how do i install this driver on my system.? You can get Lucent chipset winmodems working on Mandrake (I did), but you must ensure that you have a driver that matches your kernel. As I say I got my winmodem working, but had to drop to an earlier kernel to do it. There are resources on the net which will show you how to go about this task. http://linmodems.org/ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO.html http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/ hth.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 13:52, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I do not have a dvd player, but I have heard that it is possible to use the computer dvd recorder to play dvd movies. Could somebody here please give me some directions? Thanks in advance, Paul Most of the media players in Mandrake's distro play DVDs. Xine, Totem, VLC spring to mind. Simply install them and insert the movie DVD. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 20:43, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In Konqueror - attempted to mount a CD to look at photos (which I've been able to do previously). The message I get is: mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist. Please check that the disk is entered correctly. The file or folder /mnt/cdrom does not exist. you could try changing that to cdrom1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1
On Friday 25 Mar 2005 08:42, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a package manager for 10.1 that allows me to look inside the rpm file to view folders and files. I liked kpackage in the older versions but I can't find it's equivalent. Does Kpackage do this? I know it lists installed packages and gives summary details about the rpm, but may not be what you are looking for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ADSL.
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 20:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, Can any one give me ideas on the best broadband provider for Mandrake-Linux. At present I have a dial up modem and have been so far attracted to Metronet who charge only £10 per month: although there are extra charges for heavy downloads. Can Linux work with any provider as in the case of dial up. With thanks for your time. Malcolm Candlish. As you can see ...works with Eclipse :-) Eclipse might not be cheapest, but is definitely reliable and no limits. I use a router, but I've just set up my mates box on Mandrake 10.1 and Eclipse with one of those little silver speedtouch thingys. Speedtouch suite worked like a charm. Any ISP should work with the router (even AOL?). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I'm afraid I haven't had any DVD blanks that didn't work. I presume that's down to the drive and not the software. The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows as dual layer capacity until I actually put the blank into the drive. I've used pretty much whatever is cheapest at the stockist I use and have had no problems (coasters). I could say that most drives appreciate Ritek dye disks, though. The Liteon I had before the Nec definitely preferred ritek dye disks, but again, although burning slower generally on other dyes, didn't produce coasters. Maybe I've just been lucky :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 15:37, Smiley wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:26:24 + Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows as dual layer capacity until I actually put the blank into the drive. NEC are very good at their work and as far as I know, they do not definetly have any problem with Verbatim dvd; which NEC model do you own, more specific? And have you tried with others burning program, like X-CDRoast? ND-3500AG Yes, but K3B floats my boat. I've found K3b to do anything I've asked of it..except for the Clone part of the copy menu. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 19:14, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Works fine here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.1
One of my mates is getting really cheesed off with XP ...go figure :-) I told him how much nicer, safer etc etc Mandrake is. I installed 10.1 official on a partition on his slave drive. Konqueror won't open, and MCC is taking ages as well.yet starting from root is fine. I know I read it somewhere on this list. Anyone care to remind me what the solution is? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 14:19, et wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:13 am, Ian wrote: One of my mates is getting really cheesed off with XP ...go figure :-) I told him how much nicer, safer etc etc Mandrake is. I installed 10.1 official on a partition on his slave drive. Konqueror won't open, and MCC is taking ages as well.yet starting from root is fine. I know I read it somewhere on this list. Anyone care to remind me what the solution is? Konqueror won't open on a fresh new install? or has he had a week to muck about? Yeah, it was a fresh install. no, I installed it and then logged in and tried to start Konqueror. It didn't start...either in file manger mode or as a browser. when you say starting from root are you speaking about starting X from root? starting mcc from a command line root? how about what errors you get starting what ever doesn't start, if you try to start it from a command line. Logged out, restarted the computer (windoze habits die hard), logged in as root. Konqueror started as web browser immediately. Logged out and logged back in to his account, same as before. My excuse is it was late, and I had to leave at this point. He won't go near it, so it will be the same when I go back. I'm hoping someone can tell me the steps to take before I do go back :-) I'll try starting it from bash next time. Hopefully this will shed some light on the error. I didn't even configure his router last night. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 15:26, Mr. Geek wrote: Ian wrote: On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 14:19, et wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:13 am, Ian wrote: One of my mates is getting really cheesed off with XP ...go figure :-) I told him how much nicer, safer etc etc Mandrake is. I installed 10.1 official on a partition on his slave drive. Konqueror won't open, and MCC is taking ages as well.yet starting from root is fine. I know I read it somewhere on this list. Anyone care to remind me what the solution is? Konqueror won't open on a fresh new install? or has he had a week to muck about? Yeah, it was a fresh install. no, I installed it and then logged in and tried to start Konqueror. It didn't start...either in file manger mode or as a browser. when you say starting from root are you speaking about starting X from root? starting mcc from a command line root? how about what errors you get starting what ever doesn't start, if you try to start it from a command line. Logged out, restarted the computer (windoze habits die hard), logged in as root. Konqueror started as web browser immediately. Logged out and logged back in to his account, same as before. My excuse is it was late, and I had to leave at this point. He won't go near it, so it will be the same when I go back. I'm hoping someone can tell me the steps to take before I do go back :-) I'll try starting it from bash next time. Hopefully this will shed some light on the error. I didn't even configure his router last night. Ian; If I remember correctly, the problem is due to a minor bug having to do with Konqueror profiles for the regular users. If you open konqueror as a normal user (open a terminal or console to do it, typing the command 'konqueror' - without the quotes), konqueror will open. Once you've got it open, go to SettingsConfigure View Profiles, and find the profile called File Management. change the name of it to filemanagement and save it. Close Konqueror and re-open it using the Home icon on your desktop. If the web-browser version of Konqueror gives you the same problem, repeat these steps, changing Web Browsing to webbrowsing and save the profile again. It would seem that the desktop and taskbar icons aren't willing to play nice because of these minor differences in profile syntax. It's a very minor bug and I'm sure someone will catch it in the near future but for now, that's all you should need to do. HTH's. Thanks, I'll give that a try. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] E-mail program with the possibility of deleting attachments
On Friday 11 Feb 2005 11:39, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a good e-mail program with the possibility of deleting attachments out of the messages. Is there such a thing? I have happily used Mozilla Thunderbird, but it does not have the above mentioned feature. Kontact does that . -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] E-mail program with the possibility of deleting attachments
On Friday 11 Feb 2005 16:58, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Feb 2005 14:07, Ian wrote: On Friday 11 Feb 2005 11:39, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a good e-mail program with the possibility of deleting attachments out of the messages. Is there such a thing? I have happily used Mozilla Thunderbird, but it does not have the above mentioned feature. Kontact does that . How/where? Anne Click forward, the attachments show at the bottom of the mail.simply hit delete. Well, it does here.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] E-mail program with the possibility of deleting attachments
On Friday 11 Feb 2005 19:27, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Feb 2005 19:24, Ian wrote: On Friday 11 Feb 2005 16:58, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Feb 2005 14:07, Ian wrote: On Friday 11 Feb 2005 11:39, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a good e-mail program with the possibility of deleting attachments out of the messages. Is there such a thing? I have happily used Mozilla Thunderbird, but it does not have the above mentioned feature. Kontact does that . How/where? Anne Click forward, the attachments show at the bottom of the mail.simply hit delete. Well, it does here.. Ah, yes. I've done that. I thought the OP meant the ability to delete an attachment on stored messages. A, no, I haven't seen a mailer do that. Nice trick, though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Frozen blue screen after upgrading kernel
On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 16:36, Bill Mudry wrote: This past week I worked on updating my Mandrake box from 10.0 to 10.1. Most of the application programs went well. The change over of the kernel took a bit more coaching for me from another Linux person but I got it to work (as far as I can tell). However, on the X system, all I get is a blue screen. The cursor (a plus sign with white edges) moves around but there are absolutely NO icons on the screen and no keystrokes work at all. This is even after running XFdrake (which did seem to do a bunch of configuring) and checking some things.with mcc at the prompt. The only way I got to a prompt has been through booting on Failsafe. Even another lilo entry of 2.6.3 raced to the blue screen and froze. I have been able to change it so that it now stops at the command line (whew!) so at least the machine can take commands. I still am relatively new to Linux and have a long ways to go. Since my field of specialty is in web work, I cannot work without a proper gui screen and browser. The system worked just fine under 10.0. What recommendations do you have? How long did you wait? I upgraded my daughter's pc to 10.1 from 10 and on bootup, it did the same. I left it for apprx. 10 minutes, then the graphical login appeared. Never did it again, so might just be configuring? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to keep track of passwords
On Sunday 30 Jan 2005 10:49, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to keep track, safely, of one's passwords. Any ideas? Doesn't Kwallet do all that? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to search the Internet for torrents
On Friday 28 Jan 2005 15:46, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to search the Internet for torrents. Is there such a thing for Linux? The isohunt site works with all browsers http://www.isohunt.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] the easy way?
On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 23:48, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 23:10, Ian wrote: On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 22:48, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 22:43, Ian wrote: Since the list is convinced that Home is better if it is in a separate partition, what is the best and easiest way to accomplish this. At present, Home is in the same partition as the rest of the distro (standard install). How do I ensure if I move the contents of Home to a new partition that all links will change? The easy way is simply to define your new /home partition with Mandrake Control Centre. It will recognise that there are already files in /home on the old partition and will offer to copy them to the new partition for you. I take it, the part that allows me to specify where home is in System/Users and groups? I'd really hate to screw up what is an extremely stable setup :-) But Mandrake will move release new distros and I'd also hate to make : an install harder...or even worse, lose all the data accumulated No Users and Groups is where you define new users. MandrakeControlCentreMountPointsPartitions is where you define partitions. If you have empty space on your hard drive just click on the empty space and define a partition on it. Select the mount point to be /home. If you have no free space you may resize an existing partition, but it is not possible to resize a partition that is currently already mounted. The GUI allows you to unmount a partition, but you cannot unmount a partition currently in use. If you have just a single partition consuming the whole drive then it is not easy to alter it unless you boot from a Mandrakemove Live CD, or Knoppix if you prefer. (MandrakeMove will have the more familiar tools) If you have valuable data, then make a backup first. derek Many thanks, Derek. my /home is now a new partition, and all worked well. although I did cheat and used partition magic to create it, then as above :-) Now to wait for 10.2 official .. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] the easy way?
Since the list is convinced that Home is better if it is in a separate partition, what is the best and easiest way to accomplish this. At present, Home is in the same partition as the rest of the distro (standard install). How do I ensure if I move the contents of Home to a new partition that all links will change? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] the easy way?
On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 22:48, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 22:43, Ian wrote: Since the list is convinced that Home is better if it is in a separate partition, what is the best and easiest way to accomplish this. At present, Home is in the same partition as the rest of the distro (standard install). How do I ensure if I move the contents of Home to a new partition that all links will change? The easy way is simply to define your new /home partition with Mandrake Control Centre. It will recognise that there are already files in /home on the old partition and will offer to copy them to the new partition for you. I take it, the part that allows me to specify where home is in System/Users and groups? I'd really hate to screw up what is an extremely stable setup :-) But Mandrake will move release new distros and I'd also hate to make an install harder...or even worse, lose all the data accumulated -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start page of Konqueror??
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 19:28, Graham Watkins wrote: Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? Snipped Thanks, Andy Hi, There may be better ways but this worked for me. Right-click on the KDE desktop, select create newfilelink to location (url). In the dialogue box enter the URL of the site you want to open and a name for the link. Hey Presto! A direct line to whatever web page you want to access in Konqueror. And you can have as many of them as you want. Or, simply surf to what you wish as your start page and go to settings/ save view profile webbrowsing :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia
On Monday 10 Jan 2005 10:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: You can download a very nice nvidia installer for Linux on the nvidia website. and it also helps if you follow the instructions put up by a user on this forum. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/nvidia.html The instructions certainly helped me! Excellent . -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is this possible?
On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 14:33, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 20:41, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have a question, I might have to go back to W2K for a short period of time because I cannot find a software that is similiar to DVDShrink in Windows for Linux (If somebody has an idea for a program that can do the same thing in Linux I am happy to listen. I can't get DVD::Rip to work properly), anyway at this point I have a partition in Linux called /extra which is /dev/hda8 and if I install W2K och /dev/hda1 and later go back to Linux, will the /dev/hda8 be there and just to add during the installation as /extra or whatever.I presume that this isn't a problem but I would like it confirmed before I do it Cheers Anders Anders, I'm surprised at you. You can't get DVD::Rip to work? Did you download and install all the dependencies? I just finished ripping Speilberg's Taken disk one and two (only takes a few minutes to rip to disk) - and going to convert to AVI and then to SVCD at my leisure. DVD::Rip is so much better than any of the others - especially MS Windows based rippers I'd second the request for a linux based program similar to DVD shrink. I take it Stephen has never used this ripper, it automatically reduces a dual-layer DVD to the size required to fit on a normal DVD--/+r disk , writing the vob's as well. It can also edit the disk before this to remove any parts of the disk that aren't wanted, if you only wanted the movie, without the menu or any other part of the disk including additional soundtracks. Why would anyone want to convert a DVD quality movie and downgrade it to SVCD standard? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] message composing in Kmail
On Friday 31 Dec 2004 05:44, Chris wrote: Again, this may be a no-brainer answer for someone, but I'll have to ask anyway. In 9.0 (can't remember the Kmail version) whenever I sent mail to addresses such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The next time I was ready to forward some juicy phishing msgs to them all I'd have to do is press s which would list all three addresses for me to click on and enter into the To field. However, in this version, 1.7.1, I have to select each address seperately. Is there somthing I'm missing here (probably is) The easiest way would be to create a distribution list, then simply select that. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] One click instead of two
On Friday 31 Dec 2004 16:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 10:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked through my win xp home control panel mouse things, but I didn't find it. I realize your suggestion was not for win but I thought it would be comparable. If any one knows the windows solution, I have looked several times. On 30 Dec 2004 at 15:25, Chris wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2004 03:20 pm, Ian wrote: On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 20:33, Chris wrote: I know this is probably a no-brainer answer, but I can't find it. Where do I change the number of clicks on a desktop icon from 2 to 1 to activate the program? Using KDE.. configure your desktop/peripherals/mouse:-) Thanks Ian, I was right, it was a no-brainer I just didn't look far enough. You'd be better off asking on a Windows list, but AFAIK the single click mouse option is a KDE exlusive. -- cmg Nah, I use the same settings in Windoze ME. The intervals seem to get longer and longer between running windoze (wonder why that is?), but iirc, it's in the part of the control panel where you set how your desktop operates.folder options, perchance? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] One click instead of two
On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 20:33, Chris wrote: I know this is probably a no-brainer answer, but I can't find it. Where do I change the number of clicks on a desktop icon from 2 to 1 to activate the program? Using KDE.. configure your desktop/peripherals/mouse:-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] win- linux
On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 13:07, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 5:15 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 16:09, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free program available to sample linux on a winxp system. I thought winaxe might but it is for networked systems. This being a Mandrake list I can't believe that no one suggested Mandrake Move: our very own Live CD. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#move I like the PCLinuxOS live Cd myself. Nice Mandrake feel to it...and it works wonderfully :-) Nicer than Knoppix for Mandrake users, I suppose. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 18:05, Danesh Daroui wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Thanks, Danesh Daroui Go back to FC3, then. What a nice tip ;-) Thanks it helped so much... Maybe if you hadn't described Mandrake 10.1 as garbage on a Mandrake list you wouldn't have got a reply like that Mandrake 10.1 doesn't crash here either...go figure :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 21:19, BJ Tracy wrote: SNIP I have looked for NEC but can not find any. I can get a Sony Model DW-U18A(8X speed). I used the Liteon 4X DVD/RW under 10 and then upgraded to the NEC 16X DVD/RW. No problems with either using 10.1 here :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] constant reboots
On Saturday 20 Nov 2004 23:06, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 09:28, alex wrote: i have run knoppix and freesbie on this machine and had now problems. it happens anytime i go into the mandrake config and try to change the boot or add a user, always happens in these spots then ramdomly like i said before It might not necessarily be happening randomly - you might want to check through the logfiles - and you might find that a particular application or service is causing it to puke. And if you're going into MCC and it's doing this, then there may be an issue with perl, python or other system libraries. Wouldn't be running Azureus at the time, would he? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KMail
I've searched through the configure kontact options, but when I select to forward a mail with an attachment, the attachment isn't included. What am I doing wrongly? Or have I just ignored an option? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] real newbie
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 10:23, et wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 23:44, mike wrote: Steve Chase wrote: first attempt at linux here, have 10.0 amd64 up and running,have rpms for video and motherboard on a cd but can not fiigure out how to install them, even have some rpms (bittorrent) on my desktop but cant figure out the basics. amd 3000+ asus k8n-e deluxe (onboard lan not recognized) It is here... The gigabit lan uses the sk98lin driver and the mcp network lan uses the forcedeth driver. Hope this helps. Try using the control center/ hardware part and use the drivers mentioned above. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Monday 11 Oct 2004 12:26, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm Very informative, though :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] quick question........
How do I convert an .ogm file to vcd? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake shutting down.
For the past few days, Mandrake has been shutting down with no action from me. This can happen at any time , at any duration of uptime. It can stay up for minutes..or hours..or days. The only clue I can find is from the system log as follows: Sep 22 14:19:36 Eclipse mdkkdm[1572]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Sep 22 14:19:36 Eclipse gconfd (ian-18431): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly Sep 22 14:19:36 Eclipse gconfd (ian-18431): Exiting Sep 22 14:19:39 Eclipse modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for scsi_hostadapter Sep 22 14:19:39 Eclipse modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for scsi_hostadapter The display goes back to an X login, then loads the graphical login screen, which allows me to log back in. Could anyone please point me in the correct direction to stop this happening? I'm running Mandrake 10 official with kernal 2.6.3.7 on an Athlon 750 with 512mb ram. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] fuji finepix in LM10
On Sunday 12 Sep 2004 13:47, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup my Fuji Finepix 2400 in LM10. I did not have any problem doing this in earlier versions and in 9.1 there was an automatic setup. However in 10 it seems that I have to set it up manually again. I have made a /mnt/camera directory and put a line in fstab to use it I have the Fuji Finepix2600Z and simply plug the camera in via USBit shows as a removeable storage device :-) Didn't do anything to configure it. Transfer rates are the same as under Windoze.or reasonably so. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Disk Space Left?
On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 16:34, Steve wrote: Hi, I'm using Mandrake 10.0 with KDE. Where Can I find how much disk space I have left? System/Configuration/KDE/Information/Sorage Devices works here :-) I'm sure there will be a quicker way...if its just your Home dir.right click and select properties.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD problem
On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 03:47, David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:30:55 +0100 Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone please explain to me why I can't open a mounted CD using Konqueror. I use KDE and Mandrake 10 official. If you mean you're trying to read directly from /dev using konqueror, I don't see how that would work. There are (strictly speaking) no files in a /dev, it's just a sequence of bytes. Now, if you mount the device under /mnt/cdrom, and then open konqueror and view what's in /mnt/cdrom, then that's different. No, I meant clicking on the mounted CD icon gives the KIOerror :-) Yes, I'm able to do everything /mnt/cdrom . I have no idea what I (must) have altered, but it used to work just by clicking on the icon . -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CD problem
Could someone please explain to me why I can't open a mounted CD using Konqueror. I use KDE and Mandrake 10 official. The error that is shown is KIOExec: Retrieving data from devices is not supported My system used to open all devices . I can copy/move/view data if I go to /mnt/cdrom Any help welcome... as usual... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Big prob: partition table mess
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 08:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry to keep nagging you: Would it be of help to boot into the system with the rescue-option on CD1, umount all partitions and use fdisk to rewrite the partition table without modifying it? Paul Why not boot from Knoppix first... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What have I done?
I am getting the following error when I click on either of my CDrom drives. Error -KIOExec Retrieving data from devices is not supported I realise I must have done something silly, but could someone point me to where it is? I can still access the drives by going to file:/mnt/cdrom or file:/mnt/cdrom2 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] bus speed
Since updating, I have seen that my transfer rate between partions has dropped to roughly 2 - 3 Mb/s, I was getting over 10. On bootup, moving to verbose output ,it tells me that the bus speed is 33mhz... I believe it was set at 100mhz. in Hardrake, it doesn't seem to allow me any options to alter this. How do I do it? Before anyone says anything, yeah, I'm a complete prat :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broadband for Doon Valley It's a Reality!!! Penquins ahoy! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Apollon
Anyone know if Apollon automatically updates the hosts file...or if it has to be done manually? I've got problems getting connected to Fasttrack and it looks like it is going through the hosts list.and failing to get onto any of the servers. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broadband for Doon Valley It's a reality!!! Now going penguin hunting!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: We know we suck, and we don't really care.
So, let's all just stick with Windows and *CONTINUE* to pay for what would otherwise be free with Linux That is the dumbest concept I have ever heard. Can't believe a human being actually thinks that way. I would much rather switch to something, knowing I lost money, if it would keep me from losing *more* money, than stay where I am and, knowingly, *continue* to throw lose away. On Friday 23 April 2004 1:40 pm, JoeHill wrote: Contorer wrote that end users stuck with Windows, despite the operating system's shortcomings, based on the high costs of abandoning heavy investments already made in APIs. 'The Windows API is so broad, so deep and so functional that most ISVs (independent software vendors) would be crazy not to use it. And it is so deeply embedded in the source code of many Windows apps that there is a huge switching cost to using a different operating system, instead,' the e-mail reads. 'It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO (total cost of ownership), our lack of a sexy vision, at times, and many other difficulties,' the e-mail said. 'Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, (but) it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move.' Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040422231316209 -- Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File Associations lost
I installed Mandrake 10.0 Official Edition, on a PII 450Mhz., yesterday, and, I must say, it's great - so far. Only one little annoyance: I have my file associations tweaked just the way I want them, and I realise that I want/need to install some software from the CD's using rpmdrake. When I am finished installing, I realise that my file associations have been altered. This happens every time I install somethng from the CD's. So, three questions: 1. Why does this happen? 2. How can I prevent it? If I can't, is there a config file somewhere that I can copy (before install) and restore (after install) to get my file association back without having to use the control centre? 3. Am I the only one experiencing this little annoyance? If there were a file containing the file associations/settings, I suppose I could create a bash script to restore my file associations after I install anything - this would be much easier. I found that I like bash scripts - after creating one that will back-up all my personal file in a matter of seconds. Thank you in advance for any help, Ian MacGregor -- Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Associations lost
That's OK. If enough people complain, maybe someone will do something about the problem. On Thursday 22 April 2004 7:25 am, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Le jeu 22/04/2004 à 16:20, Ian MacGregor a écrit : 3. Am I the only one experiencing this little annoyance? Same here... Sorry this is the only answer I have :-) -- Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kontact weather plug-in
I found that there ais a weather plug-in in Kontact. I tried to configure it in Setting - Configure on the Summary page in Kontact, but, can't figure out how to do it. Is there someone out there who can give me some info on how to configure this plug-in so I can have the current weather for my city? Thanks, Ian -- Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Question about remote access
I have a question concerning remote access and iptables. I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Community on a PII 450Mhz. with 256Mb RAM. I have tweaked all the settings in Mandrake Control Center, but I know nothing about iptables. I have assigned the following to the su and login commands: owner: root group: wheel PERMISSIONS: owner: read, write, execute, setuid group: read, write, execute others: forbidden And, I have added myself (the only user) to the wheel group. I have, and use, rkhunter. Even if someone had remote access to my system, they would not be able to call the su or login commands. I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms It seems that my box would be invisible to anyone trying to ping me and unavailable to anyone trying to telnet me. Is this sufficient? Or, must I learn how to deal with iptables? Ian MacGregor -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Question about remote access
Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( On Wednesday 21 April 2004 8:21 am, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:05, Ian MacGregor wrote: I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms It seems that my box would be invisible to anyone trying to ping me and unavailable to anyone trying to telnet me. Is this sufficient? Or, must I learn how to deal with iptables? I'd have a look at the IPaddress your machine has when connected to the net, send that to a good friend and see if (s)he can ping you. That would be a better test imho. If you are hesitant about IPtables, there are helpful scripts, like EasyTables, QuickTables etc, that do a great job in helping you set up a good firewall. Paul -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Question about remote access
I just sent you some info. thanks for volunteering. On Wednesday 21 April 2004 8:36 am, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:27, Ian MacGregor wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( Hmmm. Not sure if you could see me as a good friend, but I do ping once in a while. You can send me your IP through private mail, I could check for you. Paul -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 14:06, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Hi all, I'm using Mdk 10.0 and I have a USB2 drive which is detected ok by hotplug (/etc/fstab gets updated when I plug the drive), but I still have to mount /mnt/removable to have it mounted. Is there a way to have it automatically mounted? Thanks, In KDE...go to behaviour , tick the mounted hard drive partition. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broadband for Doon Valley It's a reality!!! Now going penguin hunting!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apollon
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 00:04, Dan Gordon wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2004 05:56 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, Sorry this has been asked before,but I have done a clean install of MKD 10.0 CE,and Apollon has stop working when I installed it.It will not connect to any sever.What do I need to download to make it work? Drew I am having the same sort of problem, for me it seems to be a problen with the fastrack plugin, openFT works but there are not many users listed. It worked fine in 9.2 but not so in 10. Fastrack plugin is working here under 10. FastTrack: Status:Online Users: 3.6 million Files Shared: 719.4 million Total Size Shared: 8.2 million GB :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broadband for Doon Valley It's a reality!!! Now going penguin hunting!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RPM's
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 03:40, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:49:34 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RPM's Using the install software feature, I downloaded some rpm's which didn't install as it couldn't read the files. Where does it store these, so I can remove them and re-download them? Thanks for any help to a complete novice :-/ Hi Ian, you can find any rpm's or partial rpm's downloaded by urpmi in /var/cache/urpmi. They may have already been removed by urpmi, but if not, they should be therefrom one newbie to another. ;-) Thanks Angus. The problem is every time I remove the offending RPM, and try again, the same thing happens. BTW, the one that fails ends up in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms , so I reckon the system thinks it has the full filewhich it hasn't. Thanks to Kaj for his tip, I'll try that and manually dig through a mirror to get the RPM I need. I love this groupI'm finding out a helluva lot. Like the bit about archiving your home directory and thus saving everything Pity it didn't mention that File-Roller doesn't save hidden files and directories in the archive (by default?) :-( So nowafter frantically trying to reset my config back to where it was...yeah, I thought I would try it.. It's definitely a learning experience :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broadband for Doon Valley It's a reality!!! Now going penguin hunting!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
From what I understand, the majority of the problems are a result of upgrading rather than formatting the hard drive and doing a clean install. I never upgrade for this very reason. Doing a clean install aleviates many headaches. Upgrading should not even be a consideration. On Saturday 17 April 2004 12:27 am, Keith Powell wrote: Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or version 10 (Official) are having problems. There seem to be many bugs still in them. My question, and it is a serious one, is: When the boxed sets come out in a few weeks time, will they still be buggy, or will the bugs have been sorted? Or would it be better to wait several weeks before buying, if this means that all the updates to sort these bugs out are available on CD? Alternatively, I could buy the download edition on cheap CDs, and use that as a test to see how things are beforebuying the boxed set. Cheers Keith -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
I have been using a download edition which I purchased from almostfreelinux.com about 3 months ago for $10.00 US. I have never seen any adverts. And, I have never had any of the problems reported by others on theis list. On Saturday 17 April 2004 5:17 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 9:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 08:27, Keith Powell wrote: Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or version 10 (Official) are having problems. There seem to be many bugs still in them. My question, and it is a serious one, is: When the boxed sets come out in a few weeks time, will they still be buggy, or will the bugs have been sorted? As I undertand it, 'Official' is what will be in the boxed sets. Or would it be better to wait several weeks before buying, if this means that all the updates to sort these bugs out are available on CD? The greatest number of bugs have been ironed out between CE and Official. There are, of course, always bug fixes to follow. Alternatively, I could buy the download edition on cheap CDs, and use that as a test to see how things are beforebuying the boxed set. - From Mandrake's point of view, buying the cheapies and subscribing to the club is much better than buying direct from MandrakeSoft. They get all of club money, but only a bit from sales. Anne A very good suggestion, Anne. There is one thing, which I am hoping that you, or anyone else with a greater knowledge of Mandrakesoft than I, can answer. I assume that the cheap CDs I would buy from, for instance, The Libranet Emporium, would be the download edition. If I remember correctly, it was mentioned on the list some time ago that the download edition will have adverts which will pop up at any time. This inconvenience is to help 'persuade' us to buy the boxed sets, which will be free of them. Is this correct, or am I dreaming it? Knowing me, it is probably the latter! Any information will be greatfully received. Many thanks Keith -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RPM's
Using the install software feature, I downloaded some rpm's which didn't install as it couldn't read the files. Where does it store these, so I can remove them and re-download them? Thanks for any help to a complete novice :-/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] updates
Did you get a curl error? that's what I have been getting. I don't know about downloading Mandrake 10.0 Official, but, you can buy the Official Power Pack edition (5 CD's) for about $10.00 Us at: http://www.almostfreelinux.com This is how I got my current Mandrake 10.0 Community and it installed without any problems. I am very happy with it. I bought the Official 10.0 from Almost Free Linux yesterday and they shipped it the same day. I should have it arriving in the mail Monday or Tuesday - or thereabouts. I would look into downloading it, but I have dial-up and I don't feel like taking a chance on having a 20+ hour download broken ;) Ian On Friday 16 April 2004 12:50 am, Thujan wrote: Hi, I just installed mdk10.0 C and I can't get updates? Ain't 10.0C supported any more? I tried several mirrors so it couldn't be one particular mirror problem. Is this cause of official 10.0 release? Can one download official 10.0 somewhere? Thanks best rgds ~ tt -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am new to this mail list, so, it is possible that I am asking about something that has been asked already. If so, please forgive the duplication. I am using - or, trying to use - MandrakeUpdate. When I run it, I keep getting this error: Unable to add medium, errors reported: ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0 retrieval of source hdlist ( or synthesis ) failed no hdlist file found for medium update source problem reading synthesis file or medium update_source I click on OK and it tells me that the list of updates is empty. What does all this mean? And, how do I fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Ian MacGregor - -- - - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfUv51ZEuizqPRqERAmkzAJ46cBPVdFJG4eJd2RgTLShudPoutACgxlm3 X+inBbTTbukdi1PU81XMTGY= =ac7b -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Floppy problem
These mailing lists are great...everyone is so helpful. Best mailing list I've ever seen. Maybe y'all can help me too. I have a 3.5 floppy icon on the desktop which has a tiny green arrow at the bottom right corner... this means that the floppy is mounted. But this shows up as soon as I boot the computer, so the floppy is mounted from the time of boot. I can read and write to floppies and Konqueror will show the correct floppy contents when I change floppies, however, when I right-click and choose 'unmount', before ejecting the floppy, I get an error saying: umount: only root can unmount none from /mnt/floppy Please check that the disk is entered correctly. Still new to Linux and was told to never eject a floppy until it is unmounted. So, I have been leaving the darn thing mounted all the time, but ejecting the floppies anyway. Is it safe to just leave it alone and eject floppies whether it is unmounted or not? Or, is there some way I can fix this? My Mandrake 10.0 Community install does have some problems in its current state, and I have been hearing that other people have the same problems and will, hopefully, be fixed when the 'Official' release is out. However, as it is, Mandrake 10.0 beats anything else I have tried, including other distros, and I ain't going back to Windoze Ian MacGregor -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem
1. My Mandrake 10.0 Community installed without one single problem and it correctly recognised all my hardware - guess I was one of the lucky ones. 2. Is there any way to disable supermount? If so, how and where? Thank you, y'all are great! Maybe I need to join a LUG or something. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 4:14 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 00:45, Ian MacGregor wrote: These mailing lists are great...everyone is so helpful. Best mailing list I've ever seen. Maybe y'all can help me too. Maybe...at least we'll try... I have a 3.5 floppy icon on the desktop which has a tiny green arrow at the bottom right corner... this means that the floppy is mounted. But this shows up as soon as I boot the computer, so the floppy is mounted from the time of boot. I can read and write to floppies and Konqueror will show the correct floppy contents when I change floppies, however, when I right-click and choose 'unmount', before ejecting the floppy, I get an error saying: umount: only root can unmount none from /mnt/floppy Please check that the disk is entered correctly. This means that you probably have supermount enabled. If so, you can safely eject the floppy without unmounting it first. But wait a second or 3 depending on your sync frequency. Still new to Linux and was told to never eject a floppy until it is unmounted. So, I have been leaving the darn thing mounted all the time, but ejecting the floppies anyway. Is it safe to just leave it alone and eject floppies whether it is unmounted or not? Or, is there some way I can fix this? You have done your homework well. Until the arrival of a (functional) supermount exactly that was the gospel. My Mandrake 10.0 Community install does have some problems in its current state, and I have been hearing that other people have the same problems and will, hopefully, be fixed when the 'Official' release is out. However, as it is, Mandrake 10.0 beats anything else I have tried, including other distros, and I ain't going back to Windoze Ian MacGregor The Official release is out. Of course there are problems. Consider the huge variations in hardware combinations and it would be a miracle if Mandrake (or any other OS) installed without a hiccup somewhere. But that's what this list is for (amongst others). Welcome to the free community ! Kaj Haulrich. -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem
Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a LiveCD (Knoppix) and using their format floppy tool. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:28, Ian MacGregor wrote: snip 2. Is there any way to disable supermount? If so, how and where? /snip You can do it by editing (as root) /etc/fstab. But why ? Until a few months ago supermount was a pain in the ass and we all had to disable it, meaning we had to mount everything manually, such as floppies, CD's, USB devices (cameras and such) and one thing and another. Those were the good old days. We were in control. Nowadays, it's different : supermount is an approximation to the dumbded-down attitude of a very inferior operating system that assumes everyone to be an idiot. The beauty of linux is, however : YOU are in control. You can choose to mount whatever filesystem to your hearts content. Be it a network, a CD, a floppy or whatever. Supermount is OK now. But if you want to be in control, having the conn, decide for yourself and feel good, disable it. Just my opinion. Kaj Haulrich. -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem
snip Supermount is OK now. But if you want to be in control, having the conn, decide for yourself and feel good, disable i /snip I did disable it, and my system would not boot at all. I had to boot from a LiveCD and delete fstab and mtab and replace them with the old copies I made before I made any changes to them. Thank God I always make backups of files before tinkering with them. Everyone should have a copy of a LiveCD. AlmostFreeLinux.com has MandrakeMove LiveCD for, I think, $5.00 - this really saved my ass. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:28, Ian MacGregor wrote: snip 2. Is there any way to disable supermount? If so, how and where? /snip You can do it by editing (as root) /etc/fstab. But why ? Until a few months ago supermount was a pain in the ass and we all had to disable it, meaning we had to mount everything manually, such as floppies, CD's, USB devices (cameras and such) and one thing and another. Those were the good old days. We were in control. Nowadays, it's different : supermount is an approximation to the dumbded-down attitude of a very inferior operating system that assumes everyone to be an idiot. The beauty of linux is, however : YOU are in control. You can choose to mount whatever filesystem to your hearts content. Be it a network, a CD, a floppy or whatever. Supermount is OK now. But if you want to be in control, having the conn, decide for yourself and feel good, disable it. Just my opinion. Kaj Haulrich. -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem
Thank you, this is most helpful :) On Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:42, Ian MacGregor wrote: snip Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a LiveCD (Knoppix) and using their format floppy tool. /snip You cannot format anything mounted. Mounted means that a filesystem is active. If you want to format a floppy, umount it first. To do so, in a terminal (as root) type : umount /mnt/floppy. Then, you can format it to whatever filesystem you want. If I remember correctly there is an option in KDE : System -- Configuration -- Hardware -- Floppy Formatter. Or some such. Linux is about discovery. Eventually, if you are totally lost, type : man fdformat. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem
Here's a tip: Don't recompile your kernel unless you know what you're doing. Oh well, a complete re-install only takes an hour :) Live and learn... I guess. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 7:12 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:46, Ian MacGregor wrote: snip Supermount is OK now. But if you want to be in control, having the conn, decide for yourself and feel good, disable i /snip I did disable it, and my system would not boot at all. I had to boot from a LiveCD and delete fstab and mtab and replace them with the old copies I made before I made any changes to them. Thank God I always make backups of files before tinkering with them. Everyone should have a copy of a LiveCD. /snip Good heavens, Ian - How did you disable supermount ??? Never in my days, since 7.0, did I have to reboot, so I'm just curious ? -- How did you do it ??? Kaj Haulrich. -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pw prompt/sudo
Hi, I am running Mandrake 10.0 Community and ran into the same problem. I found a solution that, maybe, can help you as well. I am not familiar with Mandrake 9.2, but, maybe this can help. Click Menu-System-Configuration-Configure your computer. You will asked for the root account password, enter it, and the drakconf window (Mandrake Conrol Center) will be displayed. Choose 'Security' and then 'Levels and Checks'. You will be met with a window that has some tabs. Check that the correct settings are set for ALL these tabs. I found that Mandrake had higher security than I was used to in Fedora Core and some of these settings would not allow me to run certain programs. After adjusting these settings, I could run all my programs. I felt good about Mandrake's security. Much better than any other distro I had used. Hope this works for you. Regards, Ian MacGregor On Tuesday 13 April 2004 7:39 pm, Steve Hammond wrote: Hmmm Got a new harddrive, reinstalled Mandrake 9.2use GNOME, have a good idea of what i'm doing during install so I don't think i did anything drastically different from previous ones. However, since install, over half of my applications/launchers/etc can't be run as any user outside of root. plus, instead of just prompting me for root pws on applicable stuff, i.e. rpmdrake, harddrake, and the like, it just pops a window on me quoting insufficient rights. I thought this might have something to do with sudo (not too familiar with the program, it's just that it was suggested on a linuxhelp channel. I wasn't really sure where to start with sudo (except that I knew I had it), so I tried removing it and then recompiling it. As far as I know, it got reinstalled properly, but did nothing to change my situation. I'm thinking this lack of access to half my launchers is the reason why i can't get anything on my menu unless i recompile them. Thanks in advance, -stv _ Tax headache? MSN Money provides relief with tax tips, tools, IRS forms and more! http://moneycentral.msn.com/tax/workshop/welcome.asp -- MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MK 10 and Windows dual boot solved + partition?
I have a 9 GB hard drive and installed almost everything in Mandrake 10.0 and am still only using half of my partition. That should give you an idea of how much HD space to dedicate to a Linux partition. It will really depend on how much you will fill up with personal files. I don't know much about WindowsXP, but, I just accepted the default partitioning that MK 10.0 offered and am very happy. I have Red Hat Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 10.0 in a dual boot setup. On Tuesday 13 April 2004 7:56 pm, Laura Callier wrote: This is advice I'll certainly use. I just started to work with 10.0. I may want to partition my compter, and run xp and mandrake. I suppose I could get Knoppix...also, from what you say, I could use any other distro to set up a partition. I think I have a xandros and a fedora disc. I do have a question about partitioning. If I decide to dual boot with xp and mandrake, is there a particular size of partition that I should manke for mandrake, or should I just follow the recommended partition of the other linux distro I'll be using for the partitioning? Laura - Original Message - From: josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MK 10 and Windows dual boot solved On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:18, Owain Sutton wrote: I found the answer to the problem I was having a few days ago, installing Mandrake 10 alongside XP. It appears there's a problem with the partitioner in the Mandrake setup, which damages the existing FAT. This explains why it was impossible to recover the XP install. The workaround is simple - boot off any other Linux distro, set up your partitions there, quit and start the Mandrake install. I had the same problem, came up with the same solution. Happened to me on a machine that was dual booting, and one that was only linux. It seems that the partitioner has a problem reading some types of drives/setups. Knoppix was my friend on both of those occasions. --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem
Set the CD jumper to cable select and try again Ian - Original Message - From: S Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Cdrom problem I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i did it. At first it booted fine, maybe the first 2-3 boots and i never tried to test the cd-rom. After a few more days and 1 or 2 more boots i would get a cannot find secondary disk drive strike F1 to continue ( i have 2 hdd in the linux box). no problem to me because i havent gotten far enough to use the second disk ( i think :-/). To keep this long and boring story short I am now wanting to install mandrake 9.2 or Mandrake Move (any suggestions onto which one?) but my cd rom is not detected in the bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. This leading me to believe it may be a bad cable. Ive come up to two conclusions. 1. putting back the original roms and original cable or 2. maybe there is a floppy boot disk i can use that will enable a driver for the cdrom. Any help or hey everybody lets point and laugh at the kid withhis pants down would be greatly aprreciated thanks a billion -boardrider 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] Mandrake juice, anyone?
but we're not petrified yet - Original Message - From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:18 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake juice, anyone? My gf rented harry potter 2 today. Anyone care for any Mandrake Juice? 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] Install problems
If the master and slave jumpers are set correctly, position on the cable is immaterial. For cable select setting, end connector is master, middle connector is slave. Maxtor drives (and all Dell computers) now come set as cable select by default. Ian On June 21, 2003 11:19 am, Andy Davidson wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:12:22AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: Also, it's correct practice to have master on the cable's end connector, not the middle one. That I didn't know. Why? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
I very much doubt it http://www.browning.co.uk/ Ian On June 21, 2003 07:14 am, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:22:43 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but I get concerned that any time the government gets involved One of my favourite quotes, I still have no idea where it came from: When I hear the word 'government', I reach for my gun. Herman Goering said When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my Browning. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NOTICE: CNet no longer support LINUX download !!!
I would guess that CNet have done this on the advice of their legal department. If this is representative of the views in the legal community, how long will it be before other organisations follow suit (suits?) Old Canadian joke: Q. What do you call 10 lawyers at the bottom of Lake Ontario? A. A good start! - Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] NOTICE: CNet no longer support LINUX download !!! On Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Here's a mistake in the making! http://download.com.com/1200-2002-997312.html Stephen: Does anyone actually download linux software from CNet? (Personally, I prefer ZDNet -- same articles, but the Talkback threads are priceless. Kinda like high tech Jerry Springer.) -- cmg 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] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.
Bugbear.B Another very good reason for not reading your personal mail on the M$ computers at work! Spent all morning getting rid of the sucker! Ian - Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie. Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It has an attachment titled Address-denon021122.WAB.scr which is 70.5k, the entire message is 96.8k. Looks like one of the rapidly spreading new virus's. Second suspicious mail I've gotten today. This didn't come in through the list however as you can see by the headers. Good thing Linux is immune to these things. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp1.cwidc.net ([154.33.63.111]) by eagle (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 19o5032123NZFji0 Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [219.52.168.63] (helo=ccc170) by smtp1.cwidc.net with smtp (Exim 3.20 #4) id 19O4zk-0005Ux-00; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:22:12 +0900 From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--YXMI19LKW1DBEQY Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:22:12 +0900 X-Status: N -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux 9.0 7:43pm up 14 days, 23:45, 3 users, load average: 0.73, 0.18, 0.06 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] dyndns setup and apache
7 pm EST - 404 on http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/ Ian - Original Message - From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:38 PM Subject: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache Hello Everyone, I am attempting to setup a personal website from my SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a dynamic ip. I am also doing network address translation, but I have access to port forwarding in the router. After signing up for dyndns.org service and starting port forwarding from incoming 80 on the router to incoming 80 on my linux box I was in shock that it seems to work. I thought that Ameritech (or SBC whoever they are now) would block it since all I have is the cheap residential service. Any way I have two questions: Is there any utility bundled with Mandrake 9.1 to update my dynamic ip with dyndns.org (it must get the address from the router). Also is there any gui tools for apache. I am reading the docs now, but I think it will be awhile before I fully grasp it. Yes I know it's a very insecure setup since I don't fully understand what I'm doing, but I must learn somehow. If someone could also check http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/ and let me know that it's not just being served in my lan I would also appreciate it. TIA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.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
Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache
That's better! Ian - Original Message - From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dyndns setup and apache --- cF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That address doesn't work for me. At 01:38 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hello Everyone, I am attempting to setup a personal website from my SBC Ameritech/Yahoo internet connection. I have a dynamic ip. I am also doing network address translation, but I have access to port forwarding in the router. After signing up for dyndns.org service and starting port forwarding from incoming 80 on the router to incoming 80 on my linux box I was in shock that it seems to work. I thought that Ameritech (or SBC whoever they are now) would block it since all I have is the cheap residential service. Any way I have two questions: Is there any utility bundled with Mandrake 9.1 to update my dynamic ip with dyndns.org (it must get the address from the router). Also is there any gui tools for apache. I am reading the docs now, but I think it will be awhile before I fully grasp it. Yes I know it's a very insecure setup since I don't fully understand what I'm doing, but I must learn somehow. If someone could also check http://www.bustedbox.homelinux.net/ and let me know that it's not just being served in my lan I would also appreciate it. TIA Oops should have been http://bustedbox.homelinux.net __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.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
Re: [newbie] No sound!
Sometimes, in addition to the BIOS setting you need to change a jumper on the motherboard. Just a thought. Ian - Original Message - From: c0ldfusi0n [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound! That's a pretty wise answer Stephen. I've disabled OnBoard sound, but i still see that CM8738 in Mandrake Control Center, and XMMS still won't play music. Would you mind telling me step by step what you did in order to make your sound work? Thanks On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 15:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: It would seem to me that your onboard sound card is conflicting with your added soundcard (Soundblaster Live!) - if you disable the onboard sound card in BIOS you should be able to get the Soundblaster working properly...same card I have, and my mobo has the same onboard sound as well - so it's just a matter of reconfiguration in the BIOS mate... 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: lspci command doesn't work [was]: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected
Among the many functions on the motherboard provided by the chipset is the CPU to PCI bridge. If the correct driver for this is not loaded by the operating system, it won't work or will work inefficiently. Sorry if you've answered this before, but what make is your motherboard (i.e. who's chipset does it use?) Someone else is going to have to jump in and tell you how to find out what you've got or how to install what you want, 'cos i'm still real new (like 3 weeks) at Linux. If you have sound in Windows but not in ML it's not a hardware problem, it's a driver for something somewhere! Ian We regret to announce that in the interests of economy the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. - Original Message - From: lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:22 PM Subject: Re: lspci command doesn't work [was]: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:07 am, et wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:51 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 03:24, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 06:06 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 01:29, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:10 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 23:33, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 03:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:14, lewis wrote: Sorry. I don't understand what 'lspci-v' is. Where do I need to look? Brenda Open a terminal windows (Konsole, Xterm or something similar) and type: lspci -v And note what is shown! You'll do right mate! I typed it in and it said: pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. 'PnP OS' is set to 'no' in the BIOS ? -Frans It was set to yes and I changed it to no, but sndconfig gave me the same messages as before. pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. Brenda But what does 'ls -l /proc/bus/pci' and 'lspci -v' say now? -Frans 'lspci -v' says the same thing and 'ls -l /proc/bus/pci' says: No such file or directory. Brenda Anyone any idea? Since the card is a SB 16 PCI this computer _has_ a PCI bus :) TIA, -Frans What does as root cat /proc/pci say? I tried this command and it said: No such file or directory. A friend was wondering if you need a bridge in the hardware. Does anyone have any idea? I do have sound in the windows partition. Thanks. Brenda 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: lspci command doesn't work [was]: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected
PS As has been said before, the Ensoniq based SB cards can be a trifle uncooperative! There are several versions of them, and the drivers do not seem to be interchangeable. I have one here that was working when I transferred it to the Mandrake 9.0 box which was then unable to see it. I solved the problem by getting a SB Live card. By the way, I haven't been able to get the 128 working on a Windows box again either! I'm about to try the 4th set of SoundBlaster 128 PCI drivers. Don't take it personally. Ian We regret to announce that in the interests of economy the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. - Original Message - From: lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:22 PM Subject: Re: lspci command doesn't work [was]: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster sound card not detected On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:07 am, et wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:51 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 03:24, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 06:06 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 01:29, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:10 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 23:33, lewis wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 03:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:14, lewis wrote: Sorry. I don't understand what 'lspci-v' is. Where do I need to look? Brenda Open a terminal windows (Konsole, Xterm or something similar) and type: lspci -v And note what is shown! You'll do right mate! I typed it in and it said: pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. 'PnP OS' is set to 'no' in the BIOS ? -Frans It was set to yes and I changed it to no, but sndconfig gave me the same messages as before. pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method. Brenda But what does 'ls -l /proc/bus/pci' and 'lspci -v' say now? -Frans 'lspci -v' says the same thing and 'ls -l /proc/bus/pci' says: No such file or directory. Brenda Anyone any idea? Since the card is a SB 16 PCI this computer _has_ a PCI bus :) TIA, -Frans What does as root cat /proc/pci say? I tried this command and it said: No such file or directory. A friend was wondering if you need a bridge in the hardware. Does anyone have any idea? I do have sound in the windows partition. Thanks. Brenda 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] HELP-BIOS can't recognize new HD
The latest beta BIOS for the P5A and the P5A-B will recognise large hard drives. I'M running one of each with 40Gb Maxtor discs (Under W98) with no difficulties.(other than the MS related ones!) The BIOS is No 1011.005 and can be downloaded from http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=P5A Be warned that the ASUS site is probably one of the most annoying that you are likely to come across - it seems to be designed to hide the information you are looking for and each page takes an eternity to load! If you can find your way into the German FTP site things go much quicker. There's also more to choose from. Ian In the interests of economy, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. - Original Message - From: todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP-BIOS can't recognize new HD On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:05 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:33:38 -0500 todd slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody knows of a good but cheap mobo that will support large hard drives and take an AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED], and at least 512MB RAM, I'm all ears. Todd, another option be to get an add-on pci ide controller card. Since they operate with there own bios they would be able to bypass the hd limitations of your mobo bios. You can find them online for $25 or less. Charles That's a great tip, thanks Charles! I'm going to check it out soon as I get some thorns pulled out! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest
You mean some folks actually have cases on their computers? Seriously though, make sure that any vents, holes etc especially those in the back of the power supply are not blocked by dust, as this is often the only way to exhaust hot air from the case. If you do have a case fan, make sure it's working. Ian - Original Message - From: Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beginners' Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 14:14, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: Hi. snip Make sure you,ve got good air circulation, esp. round your vid card - they can get real hot too. Agreed. A good test (not for the faint-hearted :-) is to run with open case and use a hair-dryer or alike (on cool setting - or whatever that might be called) in direction of the CPU and see if it makes a difference in how long it needs until the CPU locks up. snip Actually no need to be too nervous - I've been running my PC without its back for the last 18 months [but no fan], after it started repeatedly shutting down or re-booting while running Win$ or during boot-up, all because of dicey CPU cooling. Now, no problems. Good luck! -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] cpuburn and memtest
Should be fine at 50C. If your memory is in 2 sticks, try taking one out. If it still crashes, switch them! If it's ok you've found your problem. Make sure you,ve got good air circulation, esp. round your vid card - they can get real hot too. What speed and timings are you running the memory at? Try slowing it down to CAS 2.5 or set it to a safer setting in BIOS Good luck! Ian - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK-Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:02 PM Subject: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest Okay, I'm still having some hardware problems. I installed and ran memtest overnight, about 24 passes with no errors. I grabbed and installed cpuburn 1.4 last night, then ran burnMMX. It won't run longer than 2 minutes before I get a full lockup that requires a hardware reset or powerdown and back up. That from a shell with X running and without. This is an AMD XP2100, 512megs DDR (PNY) Ram, Soyo Dragon Plus MB, Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4200, etc, etc, with nothing overclocked. The CPU has a 5 1/4, 3000 rpm fan/heatsink attached to it, and BIOS reports 50 degrees celsius for it, and 27 degrees Celsius for the system. Intense games cause crashes, some with direct references to memory. Example, Warcraft 3 gives this: --- This application has encountered a critical error: FATAL ERROR! Program: C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\war3.exe Exception: 0xC005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 0023:6F58A844 The instruction at '0x6F58A844' referenced memory at '0x7FF8FE63'. The memory could not be 'read'. --- The literature with cpuburn suggests that my CPU is not getting cooled enough but from what I've read, 50 degrees Celsius should be okay, right? So what does everyone else think? Sure could use some insight. (Tom Brinkman, you around anywhere? grin) PS Note that all the hardware is basically new, less than 3 months old. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ 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] Boot problems
At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: Hi, I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes up when I try to boot from the hard drive. It gets as far as the message INIT: Loading version 2.83 (just before the interactive mode message would normally appear) and then it dies. Booting failsafe I get the same problem, but my boot disk works fine. I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at it) with 128M of RAM. Any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks, Ian Kelly Could this be anobiospnp problem, if so add it to the append= line, between the , ensuring there is a space between each seperate command. John Thanks, but this didn't help. I don't think my bios is the problem because I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just fine. (And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with the problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.) Ian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot problems
John Richard Smith wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: Hi, I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes up when I try to boot from the hard drive. It gets as far as the message INIT: Loading version 2.83 (just before the interactive mode message would normally appear) and then it dies. Booting failsafe I get the same problem, but my boot disk works fine. I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at it) with 128M of RAM. Any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks, Ian Kelly Could this be anobiospnp problem, if so add it to the append= line, between the , ensuring there is a space between each seperate command. John Thanks, but this didn't help. I don't think my bios is the problem because I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just fine. (And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with the problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.) Ian fair enough. So the boot floppy works fine but the normal lilo boot does not. Odd. Is there anyway you could look into the floppy with a text editor to see if it passes anything to the kernel for booting ? Did you change anything, maybe a bios setting , a piece of hardware, or something between M7.1 and M9.0 ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] The boot disk's syslinux.cfg file reads: default linux prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 100 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount mem=128M This doesn't contain anything extraordinary and doesn't differ significantly from my lilo settings. The kernel in /boot and the one on the floppy also have the same size and md5sum, so I don't think that's the problem. I haven't changed anything else between 7.1 and 9.0. It's starting to look like this problem is going to be very difficult to diagnose, and I'm going to have to either live with the boot disk or just switch to a different distro. But first I'm going to try reinstalling, and maybe I'll try out 9.1rc2. Ian Kelly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Please check your reply-to settings
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:59, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: About 8 times today, I replied to a message and had it go directly to the OP instead of to the list. This happens because people have a reply-to set in their mail clients. This is not necessary if your from and reply-to are the same. It is very annoying because once I realize what happened, I have to go track down the message in my sent, resend it to the listy and then send a note to the OP apologizing and explaingni what happened. Please check and see if you have a reply-to set in your mail client and unset it when posting to the MandrakeSoft mailing lists. The reply-to is meant for if you want a reply to go to an address that is different that the one you are sending the message from. I always set mine to: /dev/null Seems to work like a charm. Ahem. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) -Ian Kelly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
Thanks Derek ! Yes the card appears to have been recognised as the machine beeps twice during boot and the power light at least comes on in the card. The driver loaded is wvlan_cs and I have set the parameters you indicate, these are written to /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 I'll have another play, thanks again ! Ian -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2003 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:15 am, Ian Moran wrote: Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian A quick Google reveals that the Compaq WLAN110 is an OEMed Lucent Orinoco card. As such it ought to be recognised OK by Mandrake 9.0 When you boot you should hear some 'beeps' when the pcmcia card is recognised. Make sure you have the 'wireless-tools' RPM installed and then go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre. The wizard should recognise your card and install either the wvlan_cs driver, or the orinoco driver (they both work) When in the wizard you will be prompted for the wireless parameters. The most important ones are MODE - Managed for use with an Access Point or Ad-Hoc for no access point ESSIS - set this the same as the other wireless cards in your net. KEY - Your encryption key. Must be the same as your other cards enter as either a series of Hex numbers (aabbccddeeff or aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ) or as an ascii string ( s:ascii_string ) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
Brilliant, it works, was missing the s:string in the gui, cheers ! Ian -Original Message- From: Ian Moran Sent: 06 February 2003 17:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Derek ! Yes the card appears to have been recognised as the machine beeps twice during boot and the power light at least comes on in the card. The driver loaded is wvlan_cs and I have set the parameters you indicate, these are written to /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 I'll have another play, thanks again ! Ian -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2003 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:15 am, Ian Moran wrote: Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian A quick Google reveals that the Compaq WLAN110 is an OEMed Lucent Orinoco card. As such it ought to be recognised OK by Mandrake 9.0 When you boot you should hear some 'beeps' when the pcmcia card is recognised. Make sure you have the 'wireless-tools' RPM installed and then go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre. The wizard should recognise your card and install either the wvlan_cs driver, or the orinoco driver (they both work) When in the wizard you will be prompted for the wireless parameters. The most important ones are MODE - Managed for use with an Access Point or Ad-Hoc for no access point ESSIS - set this the same as the other wireless cards in your net. KEY - Your encryption key. Must be the same as your other cards enter as either a series of Hex numbers (aabbccddeeff or aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ) or as an ascii string ( s:ascii_string ) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lilo vanishes
I installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 on th D drive of a compaq deskpro 2000 Pentium 166 with a standard Compaq P50 monitor, and in doing so my Windows 98 installation on the C drive suffered quite a bit. However I got Linux running, it worked just fine,and at Boot up Lilo would give me the choice of Linux or Windows. Fine for a while, but then, after an accidental disconnection of the machine, Lilo disappeared, and I could not get in to Linux. At boot up Windows 98 appears as if the D drive does not exist. I had to tweak Windows a bit to get it back to complete working form, as I need it for work and study, but I don't have access to my D: drive or to Linux. I took a look at rebooting Linux from the CD, but gave this up as the setup pretends that I have a bigger monitor than I actually have, and does not give me access to some crucial parts of the setup screens, and I did not want to risk screwing up my machine any further. Can anyone help me either to rescue Linux without further risk to my Windows 98 setup, or to get access to my D: drive from within Windows again?? Thanks Ian
RE: [newbie] Gimp
Does anyone know how to save a picture as a BW bump map (2 colours)? Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in ensuring clients achieve superior value in the Digital Economy SAG Account Vision * EDS becomes the clear supplier of choice to South Australian based customers for all IT services and needs, regardless of contractual obligations -Original Message- From: Warren Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 6 May 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gimp Right click anywhere on canvas of the image window (not the tools window, the image window). A menu will appear. Select File | Save or File | Save as... It's so easy, and yet it took me a while to find it, too. ;-) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On 05 May 2002 23:31:44 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re:OT
- PERSONAL EMAIL ONLY So does that mean blind people have nothing important in their lives?? ha ha - only joking.. Seriously - Linux is about freedom - people can say whatever they damn well please - and even if I disagree with another - I will fight to the death to defend their right to say it. Go forth and be honest people - acquiesce no the brain washed - but to one's burning desire for freedom!!! Ian McLeod -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 3 May 2002 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re:OT Jon Doe wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 09:21 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of Linux Users... and almost enough to make me gag and want to wipe Linux off my Computer. Hmm, many Widnows users call linux users communists, will this make you wipe windows off your computer? Maximum PC just published an article where the author called linux people: commie, penguin-loving, free-software nuts Authers name is Dick Matthews if anyone is interested. Gee, been a while since anyone called me a commiechuckles. I don't have to worry what others call me, because all that is important is that I can look back at what is peering out of my mirror. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Eterm configuration Question.
I think you can try starting Eterm with various flags - like 'Eterm -t theme directory or name and create your own .MAIN file for your own theme cloned from another file - or just try another theme full stop. The themes should be under /usr/X1186/share/Eterm/themes or something like that. Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in ensuring clients achieve superior value in the Digital Economy SAG Account Vision * EDS becomes the clear supplier of choice to South Australian based customers for all IT services and needs, regardless of contractual obligations -Original Message- From: Femme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2002 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eterm configuration Question. Apologies for the emails lately, been finding weirdness Stuff more today. I've looked in /usr/docs But I can't find an answer to this the help file for Eterm was both confusing didn't answer it either. I seem to be unable to save a setting in it. IE, I want the alien spheres background. I set it, hit save settings then exit. I return its back to beinga transparent Eterm. I know this is stupidly obvious... so... care to hit me over the head with the answer someone? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?
Try using a mail filter - it is what you should do for all mailing lists you join otherwise you will be overwhelmed. BTW - 10 points for anyone that can guess the Old English origin of 'whelmed' Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in ensuring clients achieve superior value in the Digital Economy SAG Account Vision * EDS becomes the clear supplier of choice to South Australian based customers for all IT services and needs, regardless of contractual obligations -Original Message- From: Josef Lowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2002 12:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail? Any suggestions on how to efficiently cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail? I just signed up to the newbie and expert mail lists and I am overwhelmed by the volume of email. I created a new folder named linux and set the post address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinking that perhaps that would cause new incoming mail to go to that folder instead of cluttering up my inbox, but that doesn't work. Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
I am getting a 'naked' laptop soon - what a drama to get it! Dell have been quite good though. Does anyone have any stories to share regarding purchasing naked laptops? Ian McLeod Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?
Thanks - I have been wondering what 'whelmed' means for some time. I can sleep easy now ;-) -Original Message- From: Damian G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2002 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail? On Thu, 2 May 2002 09:53:40 +1000 Mcleod, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using a mail filter - it is what you should do for all mailing lists you join otherwise you will be overwhelmed. BTW - 10 points for anyone that can guess the Old English origin of 'whelmed' whelm Pronunciation Key (hwlm, wlm) tr.v. whelmed, whelm·ing, whelms To cover with water; submerge. To overwhelm. ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
PERSONAL EMAIL ONLY I live in Australia - same rubbish here except Australia seems to be used as a non-critical (i.e. small) market testing ground for new ways of controlling customers. Ian McLeod Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers
Please let me know how you go. I had it going some time ago but can't get it going now. Check your X server and other system logs as it starts up. It could just be a GL library or something that requires a link to the location that Open Universe is looking in. Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in ensuring clients achieve superior value in the Digital Economy SAG Account Vision * EDS becomes the clear supplier of choice to South Australian based customers for all IT services and needs, regardless of contractual obligations -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2002 2:42 PM To: Newbie at MDK Subject: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers Can anybody run openuniverse _after_ you install the nVidia drivers? I can't and I miss it to death. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers - FIXED
Good to hear. I sometimes edit text files as non-root and did not pay attention to the warning message - hence the file remained unchanged although I swear I changed it. It sounds like you had already changed it though? Do you know how to get Open Universe to work in normal time? It always warps on me and I can't get it to go real time. Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in ensuring clients achieve superior value in the Digital Economy SAG Account Vision * EDS becomes the clear supplier of choice to South Australian based customers for all IT services and needs, regardless of contractual obligations -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2002 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers - FIXED Very odd--my X config file went back to the nv driver! I switched it back to nvidia and all is well again. Very odd, indeed. Well, I'm staring at Saturn again, so I'm a happy camper. Miark Mcleod, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Please let me know how you go. I had it going some time ago but can't get it going now. Check your X server and other system logs as it starts up. It could just be a GL library or something that requires a link to the location that Open Universe is looking in. Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in ensuring clients achieve superior value in the Digital Economy SAG Account Vision * EDS becomes the clear supplier of choice to South Australian based customers for all IT services and needs, regardless of contractual obligations -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2002 2:42 PM To: Newbie at MDK Subject: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers Can anybody run openuniverse _after_ you install the nVidia drivers? I can't and I miss it to death. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] X and nVidia under 8.2
Did you compile the drivers or download the binaries? Try compiling if you downloaded the binaries. Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in ensuring clients achieve superior value in the Digital Economy SAG Account Vision * EDS becomes the clear supplier of choice to South Australian based customers for all IT services and needs, regardless of contractual obligations -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 2:26 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] X and nVidia under 8.2 On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:42, FemmeFatale wrote: Brian Parish wrote: I need to get some real work done on this system, so unless someone has a REAL bright idea, I'll just leave the gaming in the Windows domain, sigh regretfully, and be resigned to the fact that M$ is going to keep it's market share as long as this sort of crap comes standard with my otherwise much-preferred OS. and yeah, I know it's probably some weirdness associated with my generic Geforce 2 MMX 400 DDR card, but guess what - that's what's out there. And of course with W$ it works just fine. Thanks for the help Femme. cheers Brian Sorry luv, I will look around a bit more for you. But as of yet, i'm out of ideas programs. I take it the little script didn't help? -- Femme No, but looking through it, all it does is exactly what I was doing anyway - it just includes the download, rpm install and adds the two required strings into the XF86 config file. Thanks anyway. Much appreciated. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kernel audit messages and weird httpd access_log entries
Hello all, I just set up a new LM8.1 machine to act as an internet connection masqerader for a small lan along with a web server. This was on Saturday morning. When I went by to check on it on Monday morning i noticed several unusual entries in /var/log/messages and /var/log/httpd/access_log. The message file entries are like the following and there were a ton of them, i just included a few as samples: Jan 12 17:16:08 router kernel: auditIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=209.58.110.227 DST=204.116.24.143 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=241 ID=64210 PROTO=TCP SPT=21 DPT=21 WINDOW=40 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jan 12 17:21:20 router kernel: auditIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=212.194.119.109 DST=204.116.24.143 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=115 ID=37628 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1647 DPT=21 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jan 13 16:04:26 router kernel: auditIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=203.69.167.151 DST=204.116.24.143 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=48 ID=21029 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4289 DPT=111 WINDOW=32120 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 In /var/log/httpd/access_log I found several entries like the following, again just a sample have been included: 148.246.25.158 - - [12/Jan/2002:22:19:02 -0500] GET /default.ida?%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u%u00=a HTTP/1.0 400 347 - - 141.238.17.66 - - [13/Jan/2002:11:25:35 -0500] GET /default.ida?N NN NN N%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u909 u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00% 31b%u53ff%u0078%u%u00=a HTTP/1.0 400 347 - - 66.82.52.10 - - [13/Jan/2002:16:03:32 -0500] GET /default.ida?NNN NN NN NNN%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090% 858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u%u00=a HTTP/1.0 400 347 - - Does anyone have any idea what these entries represent? I know the entries from access_log are GET requests but is someone attempting to break into the system via the web server with them? Thanks, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
