[newbie] What happened to KWord and KSpread?
In Mandrake 8.2, I was able to use both KWord and KSpread. They seem to be missing in 10.1. KDE Help Center shows blank pages for Word Processor and Spreadsheet. -Jerry -- = Jerry Lapham Monroe, OH 45050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Walk to Emmaus: Fueling station for a spirit-filled church Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Blank LogDrake Mail Alerts SOLVED
On Monday 19 July 2004 08:39 pm, Jerry Cornelius wrote: On Monday 19 July 2004 01:35 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: -I asked about this 3 days ago and got one response which didn't help. Every -hour, about 24 times a day (though some are skipped), I'm getting an email -which says it's a logDrake Mail Alert in the subject. The body of the email -has the date and time. There is no other information. - -Is it trying to tell me something? If not, how do I disable this? Isn't -there supposed to be some text telling what the alert is about? Sounds like something from /etc/cron.hourly. I'd go in there and check out what is setup. Got this fixed, it seems, as there's been no hourly email at 0700 this morning. Ron correctly led me to /etc/cron.hourly where there was a scripty-thing that would send an email with an error message if one of 3 conditions were met, and (strangely) send an email with no error no conditions were met. Thinking about it a bit before-shower I decided to jump into Logdrake and use the wizard there to remake that file. I did. The emails stopped. I checked the file and it now has only one condition (load3) and that seems to be conditional. My sincere thanks to Ron, the only response I received. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] LogDrake Infinite Loop?
One other oddity, though. When leaving LogDrake using the Save button, the system starts chomping at 100% CPU. I watched it do that for 7 minutes and then closed the window and tried again with the same result. It has all the appearance of an infinite loop (100% CPU, then a drop to about 98%, then back to 100% at regular intervals). Seems like there's still something wrong related to LogDrake . . . I had to hardware restart the system a couple of days ago -- any way to check if critical files got munched? Known bug? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Blank LogDrake Mail Alerts
On Monday 19 July 2004 01:35 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: -I asked about this 3 days ago and got one response which didn't help. Every -hour, about 24 times a day (though some are skipped), I'm getting an email -which says it's a logDrake Mail Alert in the subject. The body of the email -has the date and time. There is no other information. - -Is it trying to tell me something? If not, how do I disable this? Isn't -there supposed to be some text telling what the alert is about? Sounds like something from /etc/cron.hourly. I'd go in there and check out what is setup. Ron, I was doubtful, but here's my logdrake_service and it DOES look like it's set up to send a blank email every hour! I know nothing about scripting, is there an if/then statement missing? I certainly didn't change anything, any ideas how this happened? Any advice appreciated -- another 24 blank emails today. grin =-=-= [EMAIL PROTECTED] cron.hourly]$ cat logdrake_service #!/usr/bin/perl # generated by logdrake use MDK::Common; my $r = *** . chomp_(`date`) . ***\n; #- check services $r .= Service postfix (Postfix Mail Server is not running)\n unless -e /var/lock/subsys/postfix; $r .= Service xinetd (Xinetd Service is not running)\n unless -e /var/lock/subsys/xinetd; #- load my ($load) = split ' ', first(cat_(/proc/loadavg)); $r .= Load is huge: $load\n if $load 3; #- report it my $email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; local *F; open F, '|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t'; print F q(Subject: logdrake Mail Alert From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ), $email\n; print F $r; [EMAIL PROTECTED] cron.hourly] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Blank LogDrake Mail Alerts
I asked about this 3 days ago and got one response which didn't help. Every hour, about 24 times a day (though some are skipped), I'm getting an email which says it's a logDrake Mail Alert in the subject. The body of the email has the date and time. There is no other information. Is it trying to tell me something? If not, how do I disable this? Isn't there supposed to be some text telling what the alert is about? Here was the latest: =-=-= *** Sun Jul 18 22:01:00 PDT 2004 *** =-=-= As someone else pointed out, I already have a clock on my screen, so I don't need an email bulletin of the time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix problem?
Nope, that didn't fix it. I'm still gettting the message hourly, but it's now going to a different email account (the one I changed it to). On Friday 16 July 2004 09:16 am, LtCdData wrote: LOL... i was sending my cron mails to my isp every 4 hours (after a reinstall ) some time back untill they mailed me as told me OOPS )) anyway i changed my aliases for root to my own account ... the end.. )) there is a line in /etc/postfix/aliases root: root -- change it to you On Friday 16 Jul 2004 H:57, Jerry Cornelius wrote: I've been getting one of these emails every hour for the last 2 days. It's not very descriptive. Can anyone tell me what's going on? =-=-= Status: R Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from me.porcupine.tld ([67.101.35.24]) by killdeer (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1bLtij4IT3NZFlr0 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by me.porcupine.tld (Postfix, from userid 0) id 858D045776; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:01:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: logdrake Mail Alert From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:01:00 -0400 (EDT) X-ELNK-AV: 0 X-Status: N X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: *** Fri Jul 16 07:01:00 PDT 2004 *** =-=-= That's it. This is under Mandrake 9.1. My domain is porcupine, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not really, these have been altered to hide the true values). Wait -- my domain used to be porcupine and now it's something different, but nothing has been changed on this system in weeks and I send many emails each day. Looks to me like my ISP is bouncing an email I wrote back to me? If so, how can I determine which email, and how can I get this to stop? Any way to get an error message which actually describes the error? Why does it say '.tld' after my old domain name? Oh, and this under logdrake: =-=-= Jul 11 08:01:02 mybox postfix/pickup[12520]: 59006457A9: uid=0 from=root Jul 11 08:01:02 mybox postfix/cleanup[12534]: 59006457A9: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 11 08:01:02 mybox postfix/nqmgr[1704]: 59006457A9: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=353, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 11 08:02:18 mybox postfix/smtp[12539]: connect to mxd.earthlink.net[207.217.125.28]: Connection timed out (port 25) Jul 11 08:02:19 mybox postfix/smtp[12539]: 59006457A9: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=mx7.earthlink.net[207.217.125.22], delay=77, status=bounced (host mx7.earthlink.net[207.217.125.22] said: 550 Dynamic IPs/open relays blocked. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]. (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) Jul 11 08:02:19 mybox postfix/cleanup[12534]: ABD804576B: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 11 08:02:19 mybox postfix/nqmgr[1704]: ABD804576B: from=, size=2217, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 11 05:02:20 mybox postfix/local[12548]: ABD804576B: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local, delay=1, status=sent (|/usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN) Jul 11 05:24:04 mybox apmd[1154]: Battery: 85%, charging, ? to empty =-=-= Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Postfix problem?
I've been getting one of these emails every hour for the last 2 days. It's not very descriptive. Can anyone tell me what's going on? =-=-= Status: R Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from me.porcupine.tld ([67.101.35.24]) by killdeer (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1bLtij4IT3NZFlr0 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by me.porcupine.tld (Postfix, from userid 0) id 858D045776; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:01:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: logdrake Mail Alert From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:01:00 -0400 (EDT) X-ELNK-AV: 0 X-Status: N X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: *** Fri Jul 16 07:01:00 PDT 2004 *** =-=-= That's it. This is under Mandrake 9.1. My domain is porcupine, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not really, these have been altered to hide the true values). Wait -- my domain used to be porcupine and now it's something different, but nothing has been changed on this system in weeks and I send many emails each day. Looks to me like my ISP is bouncing an email I wrote back to me? If so, how can I determine which email, and how can I get this to stop? Any way to get an error message which actually describes the error? Why does it say '.tld' after my old domain name? Oh, and this under logdrake: =-=-= Jul 11 08:01:02 mybox postfix/pickup[12520]: 59006457A9: uid=0 from=root Jul 11 08:01:02 mybox postfix/cleanup[12534]: 59006457A9: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 11 08:01:02 mybox postfix/nqmgr[1704]: 59006457A9: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=353, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 11 08:02:18 mybox postfix/smtp[12539]: connect to mxd.earthlink.net[207.217.125.28]: Connection timed out (port 25) Jul 11 08:02:19 mybox postfix/smtp[12539]: 59006457A9: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=mx7.earthlink.net[207.217.125.22], delay=77, status=bounced (host mx7.earthlink.net[207.217.125.22] said: 550 Dynamic IPs/open relays blocked. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]. (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) Jul 11 08:02:19 mybox postfix/cleanup[12534]: ABD804576B: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 11 08:02:19 mybox postfix/nqmgr[1704]: ABD804576B: from=, size=2217, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 11 05:02:20 mybox postfix/local[12548]: ABD804576B: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local, delay=1, status=sent (|/usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN) Jul 11 05:24:04 mybox apmd[1154]: Battery: 85%, charging, ? to empty =-=-= Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] fuji finepix 2400
On Sat, 01 May 2004 15:09:45 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:04, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I was going to try getting the fuji finepix 2400 going again in LM10. A search through the archives indicated a few threads, all seeming to indicate that 9.2 was almost an automatic install whereas 10 somewhat broke it. An inexpensive mp3 (usb) player is also not recognized. Has this usb issue been resolved in LM10 official? Has any list member been successful mounting the finepix camera on LM10 with 2.6.3-4 kernel? tia, Bill W. No problem with my finepix camera over here. It is recognized and mounted automatically. Mandrake 10, fully updated, kernel 2.6.3-9. Adolfo FWIW, it seems to be kind of hit and miss... my finepix 1300 won't work with the latest mdk 2.6 kernel but it works with the 2.4. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Samba security update?
I found this on my available updates tonight: All versions of Samba prior to 2.2.8a are vulnerable. The provided updates contain a patch from the Samba Team to correct the issue. Oddly, the filename of the update is samba-client-2.2.7a-9.3.91mdk. Was there a typo in the description or is this update not an update? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Palm sync out of the box anyone?
On Sunday 18 April 2004 04:59 pm, David Williams wrote: I had a Visor Deluxe and now have a Palm Vx. I couldn't get KPilot to work, but I haven't had any real problem with Jpilot. DBW Kpilot worked just fine here with my Palm Vx, and it's working here now with my Kyocera 7135. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Bochs under Mandrake PPC 9.1
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:56:10 -0700 John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not installed Mandrake yet but wanted the answer to this question first. I have some software that I need to run in Windows and will have to install Bochs to take care of this need. I basically wanted to see if I could do this using the software installer that comes with Mandrake. I know I could compile it and run it this way but when I have tried in the past I have never been able to get it to run. FWIW, it works for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Java in Mdk 10
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:06:46 -0500 Carl J. Bauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did an install of Mdk 10 CE and all went well until I tried to upgrade a couple of apps. I use Opera as my browser and never had a problem with java but with the new install, java won't work. I downloaded the latest from Sun and followed the install instructions and created a symbolic link in /usr/lib/opera/plugins to javaplugin_oji.so but it still doesn't work. I used to have the same problem with Netscape but never with Opera. What am I doing wrong? Rich I'm currently having the same problem with Netscape 7.1 and would like to know if there is a work around for my situation as well. Thanks, Carl The problem I had with it was the path was (not sure how to phrase this...) 'too deep.' I had it in /home/jerry/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/ and moving it to /usr/java worked. (what I did:) su root password mkdir /usr/java mv /home/jerry/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/* /usr/java/ exit then update the links: ln -s /usr/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so (yours may be a different destination dir) It's been a while since i've used opera but IIRC you can have it look for plugins in your mozilla plugin directory HTH. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Building a binary from a src RPM
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:18:03 -0400 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 01:06:28 -0500, Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It says the file /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb isn't there. So I tried a urpmi rpmb, it installed the rpmbuilder, but I still can't do it. You mean the 'rpm-build' package? What is the 'ls /usr/lib/rpm' command's output? If you installed rpm-build and rpmb isn't in /usr/lib/rpm, something funky's going on. Either that, or you don't have execute permissions on /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb? //philip Figured it out. I had installed the 'rpmbuilder' package, which is a GUI that relies on rpm-build, I think. So I installed rpm-build. Now, I get this error: error: cannot create %sourcedir /root/RPM/SOURCES And I get a very similar one when trying it as a normal user. You may need to: mkdir /root/RPM mkdir /root/RPM/SOURCES mkdir /root/RPM/SPECS mkdir /root/RPM/RPMS mkdir /root/RPM/BUILD mkdir /root/RPM/SRPMS and mkdir /root/RPM/arch where arch is the archetecture you're building for (in my case it'd be /root/RPM/RPMS/i586) (usually there are i386, i586, i686, athlon, k6, and noarch subdirs under the RPM dir) though why it isn't putting them in /usr/src/RPM/ I'm not sure. been quite a while since I've built an rpm without just using checkinstall. HTH Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:43:09 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:08:29 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New keyboard time but first turn it upside down and give it a vigorus shaking you won' believe the crap that's gonna fall out. I usually get about a year out of a keyboard.( thank God they are cheap) I used to have limited keyboard life too but luckily this cheap keyboard (Micro) purchased at Central Computer has lasted three years. It's filthy. :) The one I had before didn't even last a week :(. I used to go through keyboards faster than rolls of TP. I'd always hated those plastic covers (my mom calls them keyboard condoms) because I couldn't see the letters through the plastic after a while. After overspending my personal tech budget by 3 keyboards one month (do not let your best friends' children near your puter if they have any type of cup!) I went and got one and forced myself to learn to type correctly. It was painful for a while but I looked down the other day and took conscious notice that the actual printed letters on the keys had worn off most of them (probably quite a while ago). The Q, Z, and X were still quite readable but most others were faint if not completely gone. I thought to myself Hey! Either you've got this thing down and you're doing quite well at it! good job!. OR... you spend WAY TOO MUCH time at the computer! heh. I remember those old heavy keyboards when you could salvage them in the dishwasher... not so with these new ones, unfortunately. I had limited luck with one cheap no-name one that I spilled a beer in by taking it all apart and washing it, letting it dry, and putting it back together.. but the e key and a couple others didn't work. Ever tried typing in english without using an e? :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with urpmi
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:32:00 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting messages from urpmi to the effect that the list is bad and the mirror is not up to date. But I just ran easyurpmi and updated everything and at the end it said the list it had just updated was bad and the mirror was not up to date. Is there any way to fix this problem? what I did to fix it: (as root) rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib I no longer get those there was a problem durring installation: medium contrib uses an invalid list errors. HTH Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Attempting to install mplayerplugin for mozilla.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:20:11 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 April 2004 11:59, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 23:12, Marc Resnick wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: Why not just urpmi it from plf? Because urpmi is borked even after redoing easyurpmi the list is no good. Ergo no access. Hoyt - I'm puzzled by all this. I too get the Contrib error, but everything installs fine. It's not ideal, having an error message that can't be explained, but it doesn't stop me installing. Are you sure that it is stopping you? If so, there is something more than the outdated Contrib error problem. Anne I agree.. it should still install even if you get the contrib error. I answered the contrib error problem in a previous thread but maybe it's worth repeating. as root: rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib will stop those error messages without interfering with package installation at all. Jerry. [I have added this to the twiki at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi too :-)] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: OpenGL/Mesa broken? -- SOLVED
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 00:38:12 -0500 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I said I enabled it, I didn't mean I made it work well. :-) Somehow, the settings had defaulted to the plain Radeon selection, and I needed to select one of the settings below that one, and in the process enabled 3D, which had been totally disabled (why, I don't know) for some reason. 3D on this laptop is slow at best, but without it enabled there's nothing at all. As to how to tweak it to perform well, I've not taken a look at that yet. At the moment, I'm struggling with getting things straightened out after the latest round of cooker updates, in which KDE went to 3.2.1. and Gnome went up a version, etc., so much to get resorted out. :-) Thanks for the reply. I understand completely about the cooker updates! I'll continue tooling around a bit. I tried a couple of things but niether has quite seemed to work as well in 10 CE as it did in 9.2. (Using the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels). I'm sure it'll work out sooner or later in 10. Perhaps with 10.1 or 10.2. I usually skip .0 versions but I was excited about the 2.6 kernel :-D Jerry 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: OpenGL/Mesa broken? -- SOLVED
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:12:42 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My messages sent over the past 24-36 hours have not made the list, as far as I can tell, so this may not, either. :-) But, in case the mail server eventually gets the enema it apparently needs, I should report that the problem below has been solved. Not sure what caused the problem/change in the first place, but I needed to go into the X Server settings within Mandrake Control Center and reselect the proper hardware (Radeon), as well as enable 3D. After a log-off and log-on, all is well. where did you enable 3d? I've been having a problem with mine as well. I went into mcc / hardware / Graphical server and chose raedon but I didn't see where to enable 3d. It seems to be working a little better but not quite up to snuff. In 9.2 I could run the screensaver Atlantis, for example, quite smoothly. On 10 it is kind of choppy and flashes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 08:04:44 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also make sure I was NOT running mod_proxy... that was the 'mailing exploit' mentioned in an earlier message. Is just disabling mod_proxy in webmin enough to cover it or would one need to uninstall something? TIA 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: Follow-Up: About your Internet connection problems
QUESTION = I took this email and others like it to be a scam Is that correct ??? John Notice that the URL for the scan is one domain, the URL for the privacy policy and unsubscribing are 2 other, and completely different, URLs. Notice that the physical addresses given are in California and Illinois, but the email-to-remove address is in the UK. An unsolicited invitation to scan a random person's harddrive for something? Danger, Will Robinson! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digital Camera and Mandrake 10
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:58:55 - Sweeney, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've got a small problem with my digital camera and Mandrake 10. Before, with MDK9.0, I used to plug it into the USB port and mount it on /dev/sda1 (set as vfat) and that would work fine. When I plugged the camera into MDK10 my USB mouse stopped working and I am unable to mount the camera. Trying to create sda1, sda2, etc with mknod hasn't helped either. I've read that the sda# devices aren't really supposed to be used anymore and /dev/usb/... Should be used instead. Is this correct? The other problem is that I've also tried to get the usb-storage and usb-uchi loaded by adding them to /etc/modules but it doesn't seem to have make any effect when booting. If I attempt to mount the camera currently my system will freeze. Any advice? I had the same problem with mine. I installed the 2.4 kernel that came with mdk 10. I boot to it instead and the camera works fine. hope that helps Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ntfs read/write?
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:26:23 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll play around with this today - I can access/change stuff on mine, so somethings not right here... stephen kuhn - owner I d/l'ed the 2.6.4 kernel tonight and got looking around and saw something I think answers my question. From make xconfig... NTFS write support (NTFS_RW) This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to so you may find that some very small files (500 bytes or so) cannot be written to. While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have so far not received a single report where the driver would have damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), is not safe. This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not need its own partition. For more information see http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/ It is perfectly safe to say N here. So with the re-write it looks like maybe I can't do it, right? Or am I on the wrong track? Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ntfs read/write?
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:16:02 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to just edit the /etc/fstab and make it read-write; here's how mine is (at least the entry for the Wincrap drives) (snip) /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0 0 0 (/snip) fstab entry for windows drive is: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0 0 0 I try : [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Documents]# touch test.txt touch: cannot touch `test.txt': Read-only file system I tried also adding rw to options but still got the same result. /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,rw 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Documents]# touch test.txt touch: cannot touch `test.txt': Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Documents]# cp /home/jerry/flowers3.JPG ./ cp: cannot create regular file `./flowers3.JPG': Read-only file system windows drive is win2k if that helps any. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:32:03 +0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not listed as /dev/sda1? Strange. However, you can watch what is happening by doing: tail -f /var/log/messages when you plug-in the camera. Mar 14 09:36:35 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 4 Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: Vendor: Fujifilm Model: FinePix 1400Zoom Rev: 1000 Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found. Mar 14 09:36:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:3Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 262143 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 262143 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:3Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 262143 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Mar 14 09:36:42 localhost kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Mar 14 09:36:43 localhost scsi.agent[10473]: disk at /devices/pci:00/:00:04.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0 so is the important line the modprobe:FATAL one? This is a bit over my head. if it can't find the module how do i tell it where to find it / where do i look for it? thanks. it looks like it's trying to attach it at /dev/sda but I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# cat sda cat: sda: Input/output error Someone mentioned hotplug... hotplug is installed and running. I tried locate scsimon (yep.. i ran updatedb first) but it didn't return anything. Any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:04:34 + Patrick Dempster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 March 2004 23:40, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:25:48 + It gets better. Install streamripper, and you can record the streams to your HD as MP3. Things just get better and better :o) Is there any way to get streamripper to not split the screen into separate songs and just make one big long mp3? The stream I'm listening to doesn't seem to change the track name at the right spot and i get mp3's with the 2nd half of one song and the first half of the next. OR: is there a way to have it put a number before the filename in succession for each it saves (so i get 01-filename1mp3, 02-filename3.mpg, etc) so you could decode to .wav and cat it all together? Thanks Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding win boot to boot loader
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:59:53 + martin brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I need to add windows as a possible boot to my Linux boot loader, how might one do that? I have a linux boot (original) then i installed a windows boot which wiped my linux boot loader. After resueing the bootloader with the 1st disc, i cannot get it to recognise my windows boot and add it to the list. Any Ideas? Thanks, Martin Brandt as root: make a backup copy of /etc/lilo.conf by doing: cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.backup just in case. edit lilo.conf and you can add your windows boot then save lilo.conf and run: lilo it should output something like: Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe Added windows Added floppy just as a guideline, my windows entry looks like this: other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda HTH Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:15:26 -0500
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone been successful in building BMP? On MDK 9.2, I get the error:
FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
Even though:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share$rpm -qa | grep autoconf
autoconf-2.13-19mdk
autoconf2.5-2.57-5mdk
It was suggested on the BMP mailing list to try:
% export AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.57
% export AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.5x
but then I get:
ac-wrapper: ouch, couldn't call binary (/usr/bin/autom4te-2.13).
autoheader-2.5x: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 2
*error* autoheader-2.5x failed. (exit code = 0)
Is there something specific to Mandrake in the way these development tools need
to be called?
looks like it needs the envvar of WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 set to 1, looking at
/usr/lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl
export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1
I'll try it and see.
Jerry.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jerry]$ ls -al /usr/bin/auto*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 12 03:00 /usr/bin/autoconf -
../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5141 Aug 19 2003 /usr/bin/autoconf-2.13*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7663 Jan 20 19:11 /usr/bin/autoconf-2.5x*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 12 03:00 /usr/bin/autoheader -
../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8656 Aug 19 2003 /usr/bin/autoheader-2.13*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8123 Jan 20 19:11 /usr/bin/autoheader-2.5x*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 14 14:34 /usr/bin/autom4te -
../../usr/lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30244 Jan 20 19:11 /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Mar 12 03:00 /usr/bin/automake -
/etc/alternatives/automake*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 199561 May 26 2003 /usr/bin/automake-1.4*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15167 Jan 10 17:02 /usr/bin/autopoint*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 12 03:00 /usr/bin/autoreconf -
../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6044 Aug 19 2003 /usr/bin/autoreconf-2.13*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19057 Jan 20 19:11 /usr/bin/autoreconf-2.5x*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 12 03:00 /usr/bin/autoscan -
../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9533 Aug 19 2003 /usr/bin/autoscan-2.13*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16338 Jan 20 19:11 /usr/bin/autoscan-2.5x*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 12 03:00 /usr/bin/autoupdate -
../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3269 Aug 19 2003 /usr/bin/autoupdate-2.13*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33094 Jan 20 19:11 /usr/bin/autoupdate-2.5x*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40632 May 31 2003 /usr/bin/autozen*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] autoconf]$ cat ac-wrapper.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#
# Guillaume Cottenceau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
#
# Copyright 2001-2002 MandrakeSoft
#
# This software may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU
# public license.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
#
#
# Executes the correct autoconf version.
#
# - defaults to autoconf-2.13
# - runs autoconf-2.5x if it exists and...
# - envvar WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 is set to `1'
# -or-
# - configure.ac is present
# -or-
# - `configure.in' contains AC_PREREQ and the value's 3 first letters
# are stringwise greater than '2.1'
# -or-
# - `configure' is already present and was generated by autoconf greater than '2.1'
# -or-
# - `Makefile.in' was generated by automake-1.6 or superior, which specifically
needs autoconf-2.5x
# -or-
# - `aclocal.m4' contains AC_PREREQ and it says we require a more recent than 2.1
version
#
use MDK::Common;
my $binary = $0-2.13;
my $binary_new = $0-2.5x;
if (!$ENV{WANT_AUTOCONF_2_1}) {
if (-x $binary_new # user may have only 2.13
($ENV{WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5}
|| -r 'configure.ac'
|| (cat_('configure.in') =~ /^\s*AC_PREREQ\(\[?([^\)]{3})[^\)]*\)/m ? $1 :
'') gt '2.1'
|| (cat_('configure') =~ /^# Generated by (?:GNU )?Autoconf (\S+)/m ? $1 :
'') gt '2.1'
|| (cat_('Makefile.in') =~ /^# Makefile\.in generated by automake (\S+)/ ?
$1 : '') ge '1.6'
|| (cat_('aclocal.m4') =~ /^\s*AC_PREREQ\(\[?([^\)]{3})[^\)]*\)/m ? $1 :
'') gt '2.1')) {
$ENV{WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5} = 1;# to prevent further cats and to enhance
consistency (possible cwd etc)
$binary = $binary_new;
} else {
$ENV{WANT_AUTOCONF_2_1} = 1;# for further consistency
}
}
$ENV{WANT_ACWRAPPER_DEBUG} and print STDERR ac-wrapper: will execute $binary\n;
exec $binary, @ARGV;
die ac-wrapper: ouch, couldn't call binary ($binary).\n;
# - defaults to autoconf-2.13
# - runs autoconf-2.5x if it exists and...
# - envvar WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 is set to `1'
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[newbie] ntfs read/write?
according to the PR for 10.0 it says: Server deployments also benefit from interoperability with MS-Windows® systems thanks to enhanced support of Windows' Logical Disk Manager and new read/write NTFS support. ( this at http://www.linuxmandrake.com/en/10.0/100PR.php3 ) now.. is it actually possible to write to NTFS partitions now? and how would one go about doing it? Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:32:34 +0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry, What kernel does mdk10 use? I did some googling and found out that kernel 2.6.3 has problem with digital camera. You can read it at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg20608.html HTH, Fajar. Thank you Fajar. I will try using a 2.4 kernel since it is indeed 2.6.3 that I'm using now. Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:05:21 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: harddrake shows it as a usb mass storage device named Fuji Finepix 4700 / Finepix 1400 or some such Vendor Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. Bus: USB Description: FinePix 4700 Zoom / FinePix 1400 Zoom digital camrea (actually spelled 'camrea') Module: Removable:camera Media class: Mass Storage|SFF-8070i I've tried rebooting, modprobing usb-storage (usb-uhci is already in from my usb mouse). I'm sure it's probably right under my nose but that's probably why I can't find it... it's a pretty big nose :O) TIA Jerry. Take a look at harddrake and see if it shows you anything there. Otherwise try looking at /mnt and see if there is a mass_storage device or removeable storage device listed that was not there before the camera was plugged in. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 all that's listed in harddrake is what is above. in /mnt I just have floppy and cdrom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GAIM, alternative to gaim for yahoo
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:51:05 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/13/2004 03:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same with me. Have you tried downloading and using the original ymessenger from yahoo? It's better. I did not bother. There was only 1 person I knew on Yahoochat, and that person changed to ICQ already. But thanks for the tip, might be handy later! Paul gyach-enhanced works with webcam and you can listen to voice chat though I haven't been able to get my mic to work. Needs pygtk and pygtk devel packages installed (included in the distro CD's). http://phpaint.sourceforge.net/pyvoicechat/index_gyache.html Get the binary .tar.bz2, move it to / then uncompress it. it'll be located in /usr/local/bin/gyach I've used it with both Mandrake 9.2 and 10. The rpm doesn't work for mdk though so be sure you get the one that has binary in it and is a .tar.bz2 HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:26:44 +0100 M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rote: ]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 mnt/camera/ mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Sorry, I am a complete ignoramus. I relied on the RH list to solve my problems. When you plug in you camera, don you have an icon? I found it extremely easy on 9.1 beacause the icon poppped up and I just clicked view ( I use KDE) BTW, your message only arrived here and not on the list Maryse Oops. (That's because you have your reply-to set. think i got it this time) Thanks for the help. I don't use KDE or GNOME so I don't get icons on my desktop. I don't think I even installed KDE. Just as a supplement, I plugged it into a windows 2000 box and it worked so at least I know the hardware hasn't gone bad on me. Some output from dmesg attached as dmesg.txt. Maybe someone can make some sense of it. It looks to me like maybe kernel 2.6.3 isn't quite up to snuff on usb mass storage? Is that what I can infer from it? Jerry. dmesg.txt Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi database locked
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:39:06 -0700 Tim Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was downloading the mandrake update list and lost my internet connection. Now when I use urpmi it says that my database is locked. Does anyone know how to unlock it? Tim rm /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK and rm /var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK ps you may want to unset your reply-to so replies to your message go to the list ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?
Mandrake 10 Community camera: Fuji finepix 1300 kernel 2.6.3 Under Mdk 9.2 I would mount the usb mass storage (the smartmedia card in my camera) as such: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera and it would work fine. Now, however, it is not listed as /dev/sda1. Can anyone tell me either a) what the dev entry has changed to or preferably b) how to find out what it is myself. usbview shows a lot of info but doesn't tell me what the /dev entry is cat /proc/bus/usb/devices: T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=04cb ProdID=0100 Rev=10.00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=05 Prot=00 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms doesn't tell me what it's as in /dev. harddrake shows it as a usb mass storage device named Fuji Finepix 4700 / Finepix 1400 or some such Vendor Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. Bus: USB Description: FinePix 4700 Zoom / FinePix 1400 Zoom digital camrea (actually spelled 'camrea') Module: Removable:camera Media class: Mass Storage|SFF-8070i I've tried rebooting, modprobing usb-storage (usb-uhci is already in from my usb mouse). I'm sure it's probably right under my nose but that's probably why I can't find it... it's a pretty big nose :O) TIA Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:46:46 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try going into a terminal, and typing 'su', then your password. Then, from the terminal, open whatever program you were using to move the files(i.e. if you were using konqueror, type 'konqueror'.) This is a root version of the program. Also, if you want to make the folder writeable for all users, type su in the terminal, your password, then type 'chmod 777 /path/to/folder'. --Marc Just as a tip to include: the gksu package allows you to run apps as root with a little gui to type in your password like kdesu but it's not a kde app. For those who don't use KDE there is a non-kde replacement :) to install just urpmi gksu. Then you can go to Run Command (or like in icewm, use the command input on the taskbar) and just put gksu programme name. I just found it myself a few days ago. Before that I was using kdesu but it would take forever to come up. Hope that's helpful to someone! Jer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest (stable)
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:19:07 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: install. 10.0 will have 2.6.3 in it as default and 2.4.25 for those that still want to run a 2.4 series. -- /g Just as a side note, does anyone know if iptables will be working for the 2.6 kernel? Jerry. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Switch Window Managers
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:03:07 -0600 Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am debating changing from KDE/Gnome to some other, lighter, window manager. If you ever wanted a chance to brag up your favorite window manager now is the time. I don't know what options exists, nor do I know the advantages of one over another. The more input the better. If/when I do decide to switch, I'll probably be back asking how to install it. My personal favorite (and now the only one I have installed) is IceWM. It's fast, lightweight, has a taskbar that's easy to use, has a menu button. Lots of themes available. The toolbar can be customized, there's a configuration program for it that works well. Desktop icons can be added using dfm (i think that's the name of it... I don't use it anymore though I did have it at one time). I've yet to have a problem with it since I've started using it (as of mandrake 8.1). It seems to get little notice from most people. You hear a lot about windowmaker and fluxbox and, most recently, about xfce4 but not often about icewm. I've yet to find a drawback to using it. The difference in the 3d accel. on my video card between kde and icewm was astounding (gl screensavers in kde ran PAINFULLY slow but are smoothe in icewm. same with games) due to less use of resources, I suppose. That said, I used to use just twm for quite some time and have tried windowmaker, xfce (nice but takes a lot of setup if you ask me), KDE, GNOME, blackbox, fluxbox, xpde(UGH!), qvwm(UGH! again!), and a bunch of others and always come back to icewm. Ion was a fun one... confusing as all get out though. Could be just that I'm comfortable with it and that, in turn, could be because it's easy to get comfortable with. ;-) My 2 cents. Jerry (who rarely brags up anything) -- ___ / Isn't it strange that the same people \ | that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers | \ take economists seriously?/ --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:27:03 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried ctl-alt-F1, F2, Delete, Backspace. No response just that ugly green screen with two white bars and a watch. Regards; Hoyt try booting into failsafe and at the prompt type: init 3 then it'll run a few things and give you a login prompt then you can login as root and do: urpme autologin HTH -- If you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. This does not apply to users of MacOS*, Unix, or Linux. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 08:39:04 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry; Don't bother using the DrakGW package, but instead, use the Shorewall Modeule in Webmin. That way you can do your firewall and ICS at the same time. Just watch out for the RouteStopped section as that will shut down all TCP/IP traffic on your LAN until you change the routestopped rules. Other than that, it's a lot lighter than DrakGW is, and more dependable. Lanman Thanks Lanman, I'll be sure to try that next. I went back to the 2.4 kernel and an iptables rc.firewall I had before for now but now that I got a tip I'll check it out on next reboot :) Jerry. -- If you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. This does not apply to users of MacOS*, Unix, or Linux. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 20:35:59 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry, I like your signature. Can I use it too, please ? Kaj Haulrich. Sure, feel free. -- If you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. This does not apply to users of MacOS*, Unix, or Linux. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ICS-everything works but www
mkd 10 beta 2. I have Internet Connection Sharing pretty much working except for one thing. The internal network computers can access everything but the WWW. Yahoo, winmx, irc, email, etc. all work, but the internal computers cannot access the web. I've always used an iptables rc.firewall to do this and not shorewall which is what is being used now. Any pointers on where to start looking would be greatly appreciated. This is the one thing keeping me from upgrading to a 2.6 kernel permanantly. If i need to post any .confs please let me know which. Thanks in advance! :-) Jerry -- If you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. This does not apply to users of MacOS*, Unix, or Linux. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ICS-everything works but www
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 04:38:28 -0700 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevermind shorewall won't even start under 2.6 now :-/ -- If you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. This does not apply to users of MacOS*, Unix, or Linux. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:53:56 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thing SMOKES! Granted it's lacking a lot of the normal things, but WoW! Is it fast! I can hardly wait for this to go to final release! Microsoft - Take note! There's a new desktop in town, and you just became history! OK, I'm done. Lanman I have it dl/installed too. Love it! when this thing's final it'll rock. Well... as long as they fix the internet connection sharing, it seems to be borked. -- If you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. This does not apply to users of MacOS*, Unix, or Linux. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hyperterm app
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:56:36 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friends, I am looking for a hyperterminal similiar app for Unix...and so far I haven't found anything, but I am very sure that something must be out there. Cheers Anders is something like minicom what you're looking for? from rpmdrake: Minicom is a simple text-based modem control and terminal emulation program somewhat similar to MSDOS Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, full ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting language, and other features. Minicom should be installed if you need a simple modem control program or terminal emulator. minicom is on your mandrake cd's HTH -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun and Totally useless.
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:49:12 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just discovered this, apologies if it's old news. Do: urpmi cowsay Now, in a term, type: cowsay whatever want the cow to say You can also have lots of different cows as the character. they're in /usr/share/cows and the command is cowsay -f path/to/cowfile.cow what you want to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] jerry]$ cowsay -f /usr/share/cows/skeleton.cow BONE CHILLING! BONE CHILLING! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \ (__) \ /oo| \ (__)*+* / / I # \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ I \ I [ I | I | | | | | I I ` I ` I ' / / / '' I I I I I I ~ ~ ~ ~ Scowleton :0) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] audio stream: mms: unregisterd protocol
I'm trying to listen to an audio stream on http://www.crienglish.com/radio/index.htm The link to the stream is: mms://218.244.243.30/roundtheclock and the player it wants is Windows Media Player 9 (the download player on the front page is the WM9 installer). Is there a way to get this to work with xmms/mplayer/etc? When I click on the link(looks like an'eject' button) I just get an error saying mms: unregistered protocol. I tried using the CLI with mplayerlink but it didn't work. Any ideas? TIA. Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-claws - slight problem
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:34:18 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was running sylpheed. I read about sylpheed-claws and installed that. Now in folders Inbox -- CLUG -- Newbie shows in blue they have files...but click on that and nothing shows. There may have been files in there before moving from sylpheed to sylpheed-claws. What I see in Mail folder...there are files for Kmail and files in same folder but otherwise listed...take it to be sylpheed files. Any idea to correct this please. Thanks FWIW, I had a similar problem with claws. Inbox said I had 530-odd messages (I'd deleted a whole bunch of emails before installing) and the newbie(this list's) folder said 1479 (or some such) messages and I had only 4 or 5 saved in each. I found I don't really use all the extra features in claws so I've just gone back to regular sylpheed, but just confirming that it happens. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-claws - slight problem
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:06:31 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So can someone tell me is there really a difference between claws and the regular version...??? i dont want to change if its the same.. i was comparing what file descriptions say and they have the same thing... claws has stuff like spellcheck, and a few other things i don't remember. So it is different, yes. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] audio stream: mms: unregisterd protocol
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:10:10 -0500 Rick Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:06 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: I'm trying to listen to an audio stream on http://www.crienglish.com/radio/index.htm The link to the stream is: mms://218.244.243.30/roundtheclock and the player it wants is Windows Media Player 9 (the download player on the front page is the WM9 installer). Is there a way to get this to work with xmms/mplayer/etc? When I click on the link(looks like an'eject' button) I just get an error saying mms: unregistered protocol. I tried using the CLI with mplayerlink but it didn't work. Any ideas? TIA. Jerry The mplayer gui will play it. Open mplayer and enter the url into the open, play URL dialog box. Make sure that you have the latest version of mplayer (1.0 pre3) and the win32 and real codecs. You can get the codecs and mplayer here - ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandrake/9.2/i586/ Also, the mplayer plugin for mozilla (1.0 pre2) will start mplayer from the web page. Rick This must be one of those incompatible sites then. it still didn't work with the plugin (still get mms:// unregistered protocol message) but I could get a couple of seconds of audio using the GUI and open URL. Then I'd get aConnection refused or some such message. Oh well. Thanks for your help, Rick. I'm sure it will come in handy on other sites! :-) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] audio stream: mms: unregisterd protocol
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:28:50 -0500 Rick Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have the mplayer plugin installed in your /usr/lib/mozilla directoty, it will open mplayer. Not all Windows formats are supported. thanks, had the old version installed upgraded, and now i at least get a couple of seconds of audio before their server craps out on me. So I know it's working on my end (well not from mozilla even with the plugin but from gmplayer it does). Thanks for your help, Rick. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:51:52 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Thanks, Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. As long as it isn't the label side that's scratched, they work pretty good. I've repaired quite a few myself after the dog knocked over my bookshelf. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live (solved)
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:33:45 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pow! Where did you find these sound fonts? Which cd? A Mandrake one? /pow! There are also a lot of them at http://www.sf2midi.com/ -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] boot messages
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:21:41 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var/log/boot.log probably... I checked in both of those, but neither one has the list of OK and FAILED services. Are you sure it isn't in boot.log? You may have to scroll around a bit, but it should be there. Well, i guess i found the equivelent lines, for example: Jan 10 07:19:22 cuda atalk: atalkd startup succeeded But it still doesn't have the phantom line i am looking for, which says something about a failure, and that i should configure something... I'll find out what it says next time i boot. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Does it say something about 'no config - file run kcontrol to generate one'? if so for lisa (mine did it and it took rebooting quite a few times and watching closely to get what it was all about.) HTH Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] boot messages
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:50:10 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran kcontrol as root, and it seemed to feel that everything was configured. We'll see if it happens next time, and if so, i'll look into lisa some more. What did you do to fix it? thanks for the info, eric I didn't. I actually ended up not needing lisa so i uninstalled it. Even then though, it all looked like it was configured properly :-/ -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after Google
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:32:30 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pow! From what I've read, the business community, and I can assume investors as a subset, are not taking SCO's shenanigans very seriously. The lure of investing in a huge potential like Google I'm sure will overcome any FUD coming from Utah. If anything, McBride saw the news of Google potentially going public and thought going after them might boost *his* stock among the few idjits who actually consider SCO a good investment. /pow First the craziness over mormons, next the craziness over the Osmonds, now this. I'll never admit to living in Utah again. SCO's the proverbial staw. At least I'm not in Lindon. X-D. Jerry (really. i'm from somewhere else!) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 John S. Chalice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there everybody.. Thanks in advance for any help with this. I searched the archive, but couldn't quite find the answer to my query... but if anyone can help me by merely pointing out the right entry, please feel free. I just as of last night put Mandrake 9.2 onto my computer, and am having a hard time getting internet to work. Like many people out there, I am connected to Comcast internet via a cable modem into a motherboard with onboard ethernet. This is, luckily, not my only OS on this system, but.. I would like to get it working. :) My internet works just fine with Windows XP, but I am uncertain as to how to make it work with Mandrake. I know it has something to do with DHCP, but I am still quite illiterate when it comes to linux, and am uncertain as to what settings and information I need to put in for it to work. Can anyone help me with this? Again.. thanks in advance. -- John/crys Steps I took for drakconnect for my comcast cable modem: 1: Drakconnect wizard: Use Auto Detection checked, Expert mode checked. click Next 2: select Cable Connection click Next 3: Which dhcp client do you want to use? select dhcp-client click next 4: Brings up which device was detected. it had my card so i chose no and click next. 5: if it asks which you want to configure choose eth0 click next 6: check Automatic IP. Uncheck assign hostname from dhcp address Check Start at boot 7: click next 8: hostname: whatever you call your computer 9: DNS server (put in IP of your dns server. mine on comcast is 216.148.227.68 you may get that one to work) Gateway device = eth0 leave zeroconf name and gateway address blank. Click next 10: if you use a proxy fill in and click next 11: do you want to apply settings? yes. Click Next 12: Network needs to be restarted. Yes. Click Next 13: click finish. Hope that helps. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:05:58 -0800 E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinkin' there be sumthin strange about the way 9.2 is handling Mozilla plugins. I just put 9.2 on a test machine, and I could not get the Flashplayer 6 plugin to appear. Both files were installed in the plugins directory, but Helpabout plug-ins didn't show them, and, of course, Flash didn't work. I've installed Flash 6 on several 9.1 machines (the very same files, in fact), and it worked flawlessly. I still had the *.so and *.class files from Flash 5, so I experimented and copied them to the moz plugins directory. Flash worked! I removed them and tried the *.so and *.xpt from known working Flash 6 machines, and they wouldn't work. Smells like a bug, to me. I got flash to work with the plf .rpm but not with the installer from macromedia's site. There's some other file needed but i don't remember what it is. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uses an invalid list file
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:00:44 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.media is what you are looking for. derek Yep that's what fixed mine. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone else used MJPEGTools?
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:44:58 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use this package as part of a script which converts DivX to SVCD. The process takes about 24 hours for a 700MB DivX file. I've been told that if mjpegtools is built when the 'nasm' package is present(MMX/SSE optimizations for i586/686) then the encoding process is much quicker, but I'm wondering if the Mandrake MJPEGTools package is built with those optimizations already present. Anyone know how to tell, or had any experience with this? Thanks! Hey Joe, I'm not sure about the nasm issue but was wondering what command you use to do the encoding from divx to svcd? I haven't quite figured it out yet and you're help would be appreciated :-) I'm not quite sure if you can tell what options an rpm was made with other than the fact that it would probably have a dependancy to it if it was built with nasm support. I know that I did not have nasm installed but I did have the mjpegtools packages installed nonetheless so I'm *guessing* it's not. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 05:04:20 + Ted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using Sylpheed and wish to upgrade to Sylpheed-claws.. Will I have to remove Sylpheed before I urpmi sylpheed-claws ?? urpmi should take care of it automatically if it does. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:02:34 + et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copy and pasted from cooker;;; The well known message: medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method is due to a bug into urpmi.addmedia which creates a file list even if there is none on the server, and then try to update it but does not manage to download a new one. rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.media fix the problem. Hey thanks for reposting that et, it's been driving me up the wall trying to figure out what that was all about. :-) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:05:39 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I use a distribution other than Mandrake, this will not be the case. For example, if I want to mimic the KDE menu currently in use on my Mandrake box on a Debian box or Fedora box. I want to recreate the ordering as I have it now, but I need a snapshot of the current organizational structure with the associated programs. you could get all the menu info into a text file by doing cat /usr/lib/menu/* menustructure.txt... it shows the package name and section it goes in but that also puts in a LOT of other information. How you'd go about sorting out just the package name and menu section I'm not sure but there's got to be a way to do it other than manually. (an entry in /usr/lib/menu looks like this: # cat /usr/lib/menu/xmms ?package(xmms): \ needs=x11 \ section=Multimedia/Sound \ title=Xmms \ longtitle=Multimedia Player \ command=soundwrapper xmms \ mimetypes=video/mpeg;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-ogg;application/x-ogg;audio/x -mpegurl;audio/x-wav \ icon=xmms.xpm so as you can see it's shown there but has a lot of info in with it.) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:09:03 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to assume that it is reading about /dev/hdb1 from fstab, and so you have to remove it there. I would try to boot and do it interactively, so then when fstab is read, you can stop it from trying to get hdb. The other option is to boot knoppix if you have a disk around or something that will let you get in and edit fstab to get rid of the hdb mention. Rob Would you also be able to do this by booting to rescue mode with the MDK install disk or by booting to single-user mode? Just wondering here if there may be an easier route since I may be encountering this same problem as well. Thx Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
Would you also be able to do this by booting to rescue mode with the MDK install disk or by booting to single-user mode? Just wondering here if there may be an easier route since I may be encountering this same problem as well. Thx Jerry. Nevermind, Raffaele answered my question further up. :) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 02:44 am, Genady Oliash wrote: ?? . ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? ?? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? Linux, ??? ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. ??? Uh see: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/hardware.php3 (i'm not really sure what you're asking so that's the best I can do. hope that helps) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:34:06 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does HTH mean? Hope That Helps :-) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:25:47 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just recently after replacing the deleted kernel that it has gone back to that sqashed into a small white window on blue background boot screen , and I don't like the presentation it's too small , too cramped a visual display of the boot script, to be of much use to me, and I would far rather have that normal vga=791 B/W full screen width boot text. Why cann't I go back to what I had ? I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going to boot/Drakboot then advanced and in the dropdown menu selecting lilo with text menu instead of lilo with graphical menu? I don't pay a whole lot of attention anymore what happens when I boot since I've got all my issues worked out (though I can totally understand why you'd not want the whole blue splash screen thing) but wouldn't that fix it all? I hope this is of help to you. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 + Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going to boot/Drakboot then advanced and in the dropdown menu selecting lilo with text menu instead of lilo with graphical menu? I don't pay a whole lot of attention anymore what happens when I boot since I've got all my issues worked out (though I can totally understand why you'd not want the whole blue splash screen thing) but wouldn't that fix it all? I hope this is of help to you. Jerry. Supplement: this should change the whole boot up process to the text boot instead of the whole graphical thing. I just rebooted with that option and since i have init 3 set in inittab i never got any graphical stuff... just the old lilo: prompt and total text boot up to a text login: prompt. it showed the good old scrolling init instead of the fancy framebuffer stuff. It was like booting my old Slack... no nifty eye candy and such. Is that what you're looking for? Sorry if I've missed a few points of your objective here, just trying to help you out. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fstab digits 0 1 2
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:48:46 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please inform me what the last two digits mean in an fstab entry. I have read it somewhere through the years and don't seem to be able to find it again. Thanks from tuxfiles.org: The 5th column in /etc/fstab is the dump option. Dump checks it and uses the number to decide if a filesystem should be backed up. If it's zero, dump will ignore that filesystem. If you take a look at the example fstab, you'll notice that the 5th column is zero in most cases. The 6th column is a fsck option. fsck looks at the number in the 6th column to determine in which order the filesystems should be checked. If it's zero, fsck won't check the filesystem. HTH -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to apply pateches (was bittorrent installation)
When i extracted the rpm other files were extracted other than BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2, BitTorrent-3.3-maketorrent-1.2.patch.bz2 BitTorrent-3.3-man.tar.bz2 BitTorrent-3.3-nonag.patch.bz2 and 3 icons do i need to install these also? there is nothing in the install readme from BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2 saying i need them... Is there a particular reason why you are using a .src rpm? Although biitorrent is written in python and does not need compiling, the .src.rpm is compressed and as you see it contains patches that need to be applied. Rather than hijack the original thread i'll quote in a new one. ;-) Just how does one go about applying patches? I've read man patch and I think I understood it better before reading the man page. Is the patch command only used with diff files? An example would sure help. I'm not out to patch BitTorrent per se, but that would be a good example to use if someone could give me some pointers. I'm quite comfortable on the command line, there's just still a lot I haven't learned even after 2 years. Thanks in advance. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reading PDF attachments from Mozilla containing spaces in the title
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:24:13 -0800 Adrian Kuepker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're having trouble opening PDFs directly from Mozilla(mdk9.2) that contain a space in the file name. put %20 in place of the space like%20this%20for%20example.pdf -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFontsel
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:59:49 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for xfontsel, which apparently comes with XFree86-tools, but I cannot find a Mandrake package with urpmi or even rpmfind.net. Anyone know where I can snag this? urpmi X11R6-contrib hth Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:43:38 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 What else need I put in this line to make it rw for all, Please. I do not like to change to su every time I want to write something there. Looking in the *man mount* it seems I done all - maybe missed some? Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning change users to user (no s) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Allow users to mount/umount the floppy
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:18:46 -0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I disable supermount the floppy icon on KDE disappear. I really need a way to the non-root user umount the floppy. Roberto This may be a helpful link for you: http://esm2.imt-mrs.fr/~staffelb/guide_linux/part1/fstab.html It's where I figured out how to do it with my cdrom drive and digital camera. Make sure you make a copy of /etc/fstab before you go and change anything just so you have a backup in case it doesn't work ;-) Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gtk debugging libraries
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:59:06 -0800 Dimitar Haralanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still no luck finding anything on this. I would be nice if Mandrake had these libraries somewhere... Any help? glibc-debug -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!
Plonk. Plonk. Fizz. Fizz. O! What a relief it is. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba help please?
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 17:51:28 +1300 Al Destiny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have MDK 9.1 setup on an old box to link with my XP box. Samba seems to work great as a server...I can browse my home dir from the XP box. But I cannot see any files on the XP box from Linux. I can browse the network. I can find the XP box. I can see the share nameddrive (I know, not very imaginative, but it does the trick..I know what it is.) That's the important part :-) After opening ddrive there are no files shown. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong??? Depending on which application you are using to browse the network, you may have to right click and choose scan group as and enter the user/password of a user set up on your windows box. I have found the easiest way is to use LinNeighborhood to mount the shares and browse them that way. In LinNeighborhood right click on the workgroup of your windows box and choose scan group as user. Hope that helps. I used to use komba as well and had to do basically the same thing. You may need to check your user/password permissions and make sure they match between boxen. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] strange process (at least to me) ?
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:22:31 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed this process when i looked in gnome system monitor kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide Anyone know what this means specially the suicide part ? Mandrake 9.2 I get those when running a kde ap from outside of kde. (for instance, starting k3b while in icewm) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] strange process (at least to me) ?
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:28:54 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok makes sense, my wm is xfce and i do run kde apps. I guess i was worryed when i saw suicide in there lol. thought maybe the os was going to check out on me hehehe. Wait until you see one of those kernel cookies like lpr is on fire! heheh. It's safe to just killall -kill kdeinit on those. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Library Path Environment Variable
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:01:51 -0600 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 12/03/03 The Library Path Environment Variable What's it called in Linux? LIBPATH worked in Windows IIRC, what's it called and how do I set it in Linux? edit /etc/ld.so.conf then run ldconfig -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linneighborhood not showing linux machines
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:55:18 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *guess* that LN will show only machines that it can connect to. Again, I might be wrong. Actually, I'm pretty sure that's correct. If there's no server running it would not detect a machine, nor list it. LN just looks for samba servers. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update won't Update-Again
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:58:36 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all and thanks for all the help. However I'm still unable to update my installation of 9.2. Clicking on the Mandrake Update Icon in software management still tells me: Open the Mandrake Control Center. Go to Software Management. Choose Software Media Manager. When this opens, highlight update_source and choose Remove then close out of that. Go to Mandrake Update. It will tell you that it needs to get a list of mirrors. Click ok. It'll bring up a list of valid mirrors for you to choose. This has always been my fallback when easy urpmi update sources didn't work. Let us know if that worked. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 - Lost my open windows applets on Gnome panel on my Desktop :-)
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:31:07 + (GMT) Robert Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its annoying have to switch between apps using ALT-TAB!! How do I get the Applets back? Is it in one of the .gnome config files in my home directory or something? Robert, Right-click on the panel and choose Add to panel utility window list. That'll get your window list back Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2-xawtv nosound.
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:59:23 + L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xawtv works for me ok in 9.1 in the same machine. but in 9.2 I don't get any sound. Whether it has something to do with alsa sound which is default in 9.2. if so how to solve it. Or it has anything to do with arts. If so how to solve it. My first thought is to open aumix and check the Line and/or Line1 volume levels. If this doesn't work, could you give us some information on the type of tv card, sound card, desktop you're using, etc? Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:14:29 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you playing around for? I finished that job almost a year ago! g Which reminds me - what could I do with an external Ditto tape drive that takes tapes that only Iomega made, and only for a short time? Someone must be able to think of something??? Anne if It were the internal model, the cable makes a great extension for the floppy cable when you need to mount a floppy up high in a tower case But it's not. Gotta try harder - Anne Disassemble. Remove motor. Attach 12 volt wall wart dc power supply from that old atari 2600 game console (you know you have one ) to it. Attach the pinch roller from tape drive (using a dremel if the hole's too small or super glue if it's too big) to the motor. Drill small hole near outside edge of pinch roller. Bend a fairly stiff wire (a guitar string works well) into a long L |_ slide short end through pinch roller. Disassemble a bic ballpoint pen taking the ink tube and roller point out but leaving on the black plastic piece that holds it. trim to fit length of guitar string - 1/4 inch or so. Get out the duct tape and tape it to the motor with the wire running through the pen (another pen, cut and melted/molded to shape may be needed for a bracket or pieces parts of the tape drive can come in very handy.) Voila... homebrew tattoo gun. :-) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:15:57 + Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will get that error if you are not using ../base for your contrib source. The whatever/contrib/i586/ contains a synthesis.hdlist2.cz and the rpms can be installed using such, But, it does not contain a list or hdlist as does base so you get the 'invalid list' Thanks Charles, My original contrib url is ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 path to hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz (this was the urpmi.addmedia given by easy urpmi on plf) that path to hdlist was the only /base dir i could find. So as far as I can tell it was reading the right hdlist. I'll mess around with it and see. I even tried updating the contrib source or using a different one and it still gives me that error when installing from contrib. I'll report back after trying a few things. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unninstalling packages
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:47:15 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I unninstall packages that were installed from the source? If you're lucky, there's instructions, or an option in the makefile. Otherwise, you just have to delete all the files it installed. I don't know if source compilations change menu setting, etc. eric If you use checkinstall to install from source (it's in contrib, i believe... you'd do ./configure/make then instead of make install you'd do checkinstall) it creates an rpm in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS and it can be installed and removed using rpm. otherwise you have to go a-hunting and delete any files that it installed manually. I've found checkinstall to be a great tool for trying out software. I'd recommend it to anyone building from source. Also to reduce hunting if I'm going about it the regular ./configure make make install route I prefer leaving the prefix as /usr/local and adding /usr/local/bin to my$PATH in ~/.bashrc (and /usr/local/lib/ to ld.so.conf) so finding any bits and pieces will be easier. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ssh + X forwarding to Windows
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:57:46 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: vnc server is where? I have vnc installed on the Windows side, and I'd have to do the setup remotely. urpmi tightvnc-server HTH -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts [SOLVED]
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:24:54 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 3:29 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Joe, see http://lli.linux-bangalore.org/ttfonts.php. This page explains howto install fonts with Mandrake Control Center. It appearantly takes good care of all the tricky bits, because now all fonts are available in Gimp. that's where I need them the most. That sounds a useful thing to know. Could you put together a how-to for the TWiki pages? Anne Anne, I put it in there a while back. I came too late to this thread to refer. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java 1.4.2.x
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:23:43 -0600 Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a related topic, how does one edit the Path statement directly? I have been through some of the man pages and the Running Linux book and have not spotted any way to directly edit the Path statement, like editing the autoexec.bat file in Dosor is this possible? Just add it to your path in ~/.bashrc per example... PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/bin/:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/mozilla/ export PATH HTH -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts [SOLVED]
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:01:09 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, Jerry. There's just too much in there now to keep track, so I have to settle for reminding people often that knowledge acquired is good, but knowledge shared is better :-) Anne I understand completely :-) Just letting ya know it's there so if someone was going to write up a howto they don't have to now. The TWiki's growing vastly and I've used it numerous times. It's a great tool! I'll continue to contribute when I figure out something spiffy (if i can remember my password heheh). Adding to it feels good. It gives you the feeling that you're giving back to the community that's helped you along. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb iomega cdrw
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:06:53 -0500 Dooggie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello i am having trouble installing my cdrw drive. when i plug it in and start the computer, it halts at finding dependencies. i am running mandrake 9.0 with kernel 2.4.21.0.13mdk. thanks My box always froze at finding module dependancies when booting. I waited a minute or so then hit the SysReq key and it continued (spitting out something about hwclock line such and such rc.sysinit. Something about my hardwareclock it doesn't like. I ended up having to comment out a section in rc.sysinit and halt otherwise it just plain refused to boot/shutdown cleanly. Just out of curiosity, what motherboard do you have? Mine's an ASUS A7V (amd 750 processor) Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Menu issue revisited
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:21:59 -0800 Melissa Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now on to other things... like why I can't use the Delete Article option in Knode (option is there, just disabled). Like et said.. yeah that's for articles you post. (to cancel your post) set up your filters to catch the flooder you're having trouble with that way you won't get the headers in the first place. That's one reason I like pan over knode. Deleting the headers does keep the header window cleaned up and a little easier to keep track of what you've read, which pan allows you to do. I don't post binaries or anything so pan works fine for me. As for slrn (from another post of yours) that's a consonle newsreader so to use it you need to run it in a terminal. HTH -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to stop Auto connect internet on boot?
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:50:11 -0500 Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me how to discontinue the automatic connection to the internet on boot? This is a machine that was originally Mdk 8.1 then updated to Mdk 8.2. If it fails to connect for any reason, it just keeps trying, and won't continue the boot. boot in single user mode (at lilo hit excape then at boot: put in linux 1 and hit enter) That will at least get you to a command line where you can configure your system. I'm used to using graphical tools like mcc and tksysv but if you can't get it to boot into anything but single user mode you won't be able to use those. Now as far as I can see, in /etc/init.d internet looks for /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up. if it locates it then it starts up your internet connection. else it skips that. rename /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up1. init won't find net_cnx_up now. then back at the prompt you can switch to runlevel 3 or 5 (telinit 3 or telinit 5) or reboot. I've never had to do this myself so someone correct me if I'm wrong. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:28:03 -0800 Melissa Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a program (kiconedit perhaps?) that only displays a picture file without all the editing options being brought up as well? there are quite a few. To name a few: ee gqview xzgv kwickshow (the package is called kdegraphics-kuickshow) Hope that helps :) Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:56:37 -0800 Melissa Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 05:20 pm, I wrote: Also, there's no sound. My sound card (nvidia GeForce2) was recognized during installation. Oops! That's my video card! :-) My sound card is Sound Blaster Live 5.1. So...any ideas about why I have no sound? Open up kmix (or aumix) and check your sound levels. Mine defaulted to have the main and pcm volumes turned all the way down. Turn them up and you should be set. HTH Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Macromeida flash plug-in installation on mozilla - I did something wrong !!
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:13:49 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends , I dowloaded macromedia flash plug-in from Macromedia's site and installed it. Eveything seems fine with the installation. Plug - in was installed in myusername/home/.mozilla/ . But when I enter a site including flash , still it can not be seen.!! How can I activate it ? Or is my installation faulty.??? Hertas it should be installed at /usr/lib/mozilla-1.x/ (where x is your mozilla version.. be it 1.3, 1.4, 1.5...) HTH Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] video file conversions
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:19:16 +0200 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would you recomend for converting video files in Linux? I know of avidemux .. but I'm having problems with it .. what I want to do right now is take an avi with divx raw wave and convert it into divx mp3 for audio. Any other options other than avidemux? urpmi gmencoder HTH Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reality or Urban Legend
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:40:52 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is 9.2 being difficult to install really true, or is it just an urban legend? My personal experience is that it is a piece of cake, but I leave open the possibility that others have had significant problems. I have now installed it on 3 different desktop systems and my Thinkpad and all is well. Installation went fine for me. Very easy and boring. It was actually booting it that became dificult. I have to boot into failsafe then telinit 3 otherwise it gets stuck when replaying the journal for some odd reason. (it still replays the journal when booting into failsafe but it doesn't get stuck). Anyone else had this happen? Any ideas on a fix/workaround? TIA Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 01:08:20 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you need to concentrate on then is setting the initial level so that it's well below distortion on the peaks, but not too far. rezound or audacity include meters for displaying the record levels, so using one of these to do the initial recording should allow you to manipulate the input level until the meters are bouncing up to close to the red zone on the loudest peaks. That way you are using close to the full 96dB available for 16 bit recording - far greater than the dynamic range on your original recording - and you should hear no degradation of signal compared with the original. In aumix increase the IGain. (or have you tried that already?) Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
