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
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:02:07 - I can't make my hostname stick at localhost, my IP is dynamic. I've edited various files (see below) and thought I'd solved it but then I rebooted and it changed back to public1-derb2-3- The edited files :- I ran the network setup wizard in expert mode and unchecked set host name from DHCP address (or something worded like that don't remember exactly) and it doesn't do it anymore. try that. 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 Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:47:01 -0500 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:26:54 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hmm, I'd level them all out first. Otherwise you wind up with some louder than others. Can be annoying once you burn it to CD... :-) I think it would work out the same either way. Depends on the desired end result, and since he asked about *increasing* the volume, which -m may in fact *not* do... I've always used rezound to normalize in a gui environment (just cause it's point and click.. not that it does any better/worse than CLI) I think audacity also has a normalize setting. I've found the default settings to be satisfactory in rezound. 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] ** Welcome to Newbie **
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:41:34 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . People don't know what Twiki is? :) Yep... I didn't know what a Twiki was until recently. Once I figured out what everyone was talking about I found it quite useful and have even contributed to it. :-) I think an explaination of what the Twiki is would encourage others as well. 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] XADMIN
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:56:06 -0500 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wtf is Xadmin??? Is in the drakservices menu, but hit the info button thers no info. Try man xadmin no such file...nothing under help or info... I was just looking at that today as well, Femme. Lemme know if ya find out! I googled a bit and i found something on xAdmin being some kind of Debian tool but I don't think that's what this is... or if it is, what's it do? 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] OT optical mice
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:30:50 +1300 Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So can anyone tell me if your optical mouse causes a delay before the cursor moves? TIA. My logitech optical mouse (usb with ps/2 adapter) works great 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] I'm goin' mobile....
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:54:24 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my apps through there from Internet cafes. What do you guys think might work? vnc. urpmi tightvnc-server There's a version of vnc viewer for windows. Also, I'm a little paranoid of keystroke loggers in Internet cafes. I was wondering if anyone has created any kind of an application to solve that problem. Maybe an on-screen representation of a keyboard that allows you to save your click-strokes to the clipboard? character map. (usually a default part of windows boxen in the icafe's i've been to) 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] I'm goin' mobile....
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:17:02 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my apps through there from Internet cafes. What do you guys think might work? vnc. urpmi tightvnc-server There's a version of vnc viewer for windows. I've never actually used VNC. How is the lag time? Not too bad considering. I use it on my LAN mostly but occasionally from remote sites. Of course it depends on the speed of both boxen and the network connection. Also, I'm a little paranoid of keystroke loggers in Internet cafes. I was wondering if anyone has created any kind of an application to solve that problem. Maybe an on-screen representation of a keyboard that allows you to save your click-strokes to the clipboard? character map. (usually a default part of windows boxen in the icafe's i've been to) Character map, I hadn't thought of that. Good idea. - Grant Glad to be of help. -- _||_ 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] Problems with a web site...
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:52:18 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine who uses Mozilla is having trouble with a web site: http://www.qx.net so I told him I'd try it out. Like him, I can access the main page, but clicking something like the DSL link immediately crashes Mozilla and Galeon hard. Konqueror works fine. This is with the stock versions under Mandrake version 9.1 - anyone have any ideas? Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Crashes me on moz 1.4 and 1.3. Clicking on something shuts it down completely. switching to another window and trying to re-maximize mozilla causes mozilla to freeze up (1.4) and become a zombie process. 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] annoying alarm on standby.
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:34:36 +0800 Aidan Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2003 11:33 pm, Charlie M. wrote: Thanks Jerry and Charlie for your responses. I am very new to linux, and so I wouldn't have a clue how to see if I have gkrellm and lm_sensors running, but I'll certainly explore and see what I can find.One more question for you, if it is a cpu overheating, I can understand it doing it after the computer has been on for a while, but why would it stop again once i press a button on the keyboard to start working again?? That sounds like something to do with APM (power saving mode). It could still be the fan though. If it's dirty/going out it still could be the cause. Better to replace a 15 dollar fan than a processor (and the stock fans that come with most computers are really crap anyway). I just know what worked for me. Best of luck with it, Aidan. -- _||_ 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] getting rid of ads on the web
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 04:35:12 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pls be more specific. your answer is (atm) very unhelpful. rtfm/point by point step by step instructions/google Me...whatever... but your answer doesn't do me any good as it stands. sorry... :) The Lone Stoned Rangeress Rides Again! Sry, Femme, lemme get some links for ya ;-) (note to self don't try and answer emails when half asleep) This site was the one that helped me most when I first set mine up back in windows days as a n00b: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html Other sites of reference: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ (an acutal hosts file with explainations you can actually copy/paste this one to etc/hosts) They're a bit windows-centric but it still works with linux's /etc/hosts file There are also other places to get some hosts files that people have put together. (Google hosts file) 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] wallpaper
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:26:24 +0200 Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi does anybody know where to downlaod this wallpaper? http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/screenshots/mdk91-scr2.jpg remo Oh crud i used to have that wallpaper and totally forgot where i got it. It was in either texstar, plf, or contrib somewhere though. it was in with a whole collection of wallpapers. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon 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] gaim-0.71
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 07:49:25 + Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:14:33 -0600 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still seem to be having trouble acessing the archives of the newbie list.. What is your site again See the last last in my sig Oh thanks. I think that was a snake that did bite me and i didn't notice. LOL -- _||_ 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] annoying alarm on standby.
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:09:29 +0800 Aidan Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me what the annoying (and constant) dee-dah dee-dah dee-dah sound my computer is making is caused by??? I used to get that. I replaced the fan on my CPU and found that it doesn't do it anymore. Try cleaning your cpu fan or replacing it. The alarm (kinda sounds like a british police siren... h-loow-h-lowww) usually means a CPU overheating. 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] getting rid of ads on the web
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:53:44 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:46:34 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2003 08:32 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: in windows i used zonealarm pro. in linux what can i do? sides stopping popups, i got used to surfing w/out those damn annoying ads right in my face. i hate it. Femme Femme, in Mozilla : Edit -- Preferences -- Privacy Security -- Popup windows -- Block unrequested popup windows. Cheers Kaj Haulrich. -- *This mail was sent from a 100 % Microsoft free computer* popups weren't the problem it was the other ads. F Use /etc/hosts (like the windows HOSTS file. 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] Using K3B making an ISO
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:47:11 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trying to make an ISO with K3B... its not working though...I tell it to burn the image (ISO) to K3B's temp dir...and the dir isn't full but it just sits there..no cd activity or anything... I looked in the manual..which doesn't exist btw... and nothing. Don't know what to really google for either... um I be a stoned out puppy so don't hurt Me too much...k? Ty Oh Franki, I'm burning this for you..soits in your best interests to help me :D Ceiling Art, Femme Hope I'm not too late with this message... Here's how I make an ISO from a cd in k3b Open k3b To to tools/copy CD check only create image uncheck remove image I use ~/ISO as my image dir just to be a few less keystrokes to get to but the default dir. should work fine. Click Start CD Copy. Is that how you were trying to do it? 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] hints on mp3 CD!
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:28:37 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 September 2003 11:02 am, Miark wrote: Use Grip to rip and encode them to MP3 or Ogg. If you're playing them on a computer, I recommend OGG; if you're going to play it in a portable MP3 player, then use MP3. To use MP3 with Grip, you have to have Lame installed though, right? Or bladeenc... or similar Grip will rip the CDs track by track. From there you can use any number of CD burning apps to burn the tracks to CD. I like ERoaster. Make sure you burn it as a data CD and not an audio CD otherwise the burning software might try to convert the MP3/Ogg files back to CDDA, putting you back to square one. Miark Aye! gcombust is the program of my choice. Data tracks being the key words. (I like Gcombust but like Miark said, there are several that work fine) I was gonna send another reply to this thread but Miarks' answer pretty well sums it up - follow what he posted, you should do fine. :-) -- _||_ 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 release the ipnumber with dhcp
On 05 Aug 2003 18:15:42 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip ifconfig eth0 down Just curious because I come across this from time to time and that's how i've been doing it.. would service network restart work as well? Just thinking of a way to do it in one command. 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 release the ipnumber with dhcp
On 06 Aug 2003 07:17:05 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 22:38, Jerry Barton wrote: On 05 Aug 2003 18:15:42 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip ifconfig eth0 down Just curious because I come across this from time to time and that's how i've been doing it.. would service network restart work as well? Just thinking of a way to do it in one command. Jerry yep, in fact, you might find it restarts the network exactly the same as both commands together (ifconfig eth0 down , ifconfig eth0 up) but it also brings up and down any other network interfaces you may have. I was just trying to answer the 'exact' question asked, to the best of my somewhat limited ability. Thant being the linux equivalent if winblows ipconfig /release. I think the dhcpd -k (etc) answer should have even been 'more right'. Gotcha. Thanks =) -- _||_ 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] Program for joining files together
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:41:26 -0300 Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Are there any good programs for joining files together under linux? More specifically I want to join some .avi files into one big file. What is the easiest way to do this? If you're used to something like HJSplit you can try out JAxe...it's pretty easy to use. http://www.geocities.com/JAxe02/ (needs java) 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] Thanks to all
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 22:07:22 -0700 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next time (will there be a next time??), rid your home directory of the .kde hidden directory and restart kde. You'll lose all your settings (including kmail settings!), but 90% of the time the problem, whatever it was, will be cured. As you can tell, I've NEVER had a problem with kde. AH HAH! I knew I was forgetting something after upgrading KDE to 3.1.3 (in another thread) No more freeze up! 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
[newbie] LinPopUp cannot receive msgs from Win2k box
I've installed LinPopUp on the main box (this one...) and have Windows 2000 Professional on a secondary box. LinPopUp successfully sends messages to the Win2K box but does not receive messages from it. I have the message command in my smb.conf as follows: message command = /usr/bin/LinPopUp %f %m %s; rm %s Still, I don't receive any messages from the Win2k box using either Fomine WinPopUp or net send from the command prompt. Back when I was on Mandrake 8.2 I seem to remember being able to receive messages from the secondary box back when it was Win98se. Does LinPopUp not work with Win2k to receive messages? 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] Time Setting
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 08:03:34 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this has been covered here before, but all of a sudden my time setting resets every time the computer boots or reboots. I've used the KDE control panel, the Mandrake control panel and the command line to reset the time to no avail. This happened all of a sudden a couple of days ago. Could it be that my motherboard battery has died? Although, the calendar setting is OK. When you reboot is the time a) always a random time (example one time it's 4 hours ahead, nex time it's 3 hours 20 minutes slow) b) always off the same number of hours (example: always 5 hours too fast) c) always set to the same time (example: at boot the time is always noon) This may help in finding out the problem. If it's b then I would check your time zone setting. mcc/system/date and time/Time Zone button I'm not sure about a or c though I'm sure someone else might have some input. 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]Konqueror Crashes on changing Viewing Mode
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:18:04 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 from Texstar last night. No problems yet. I upgraded to 3.1.3 a couple of days ago as well. Unfortunately I did have problems. After about 2 hours (sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less) it locks up the entire machine. The screen goes black, the mouse (optical) goes dead and the keyboard won't respond. I don't use KDE often (I prefer IceWM) but sometimes I'm in the mood for a full featured desktop. Not sure what's causing the problem... KDE has never given me fits in the past. My first thought was hardware so I tried out a different video card, switched out RAM, stuff like that. Still have the problem but I figure I'll be doing a fresh install when 9.2 comes out so I think I can survive for a month or 2. I figure it's just a software problem... perhaps a conflict somewhere? Who knows. However, when 9.2 comes out, I'll sure give it another shot. 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 start the GUI from a command line?
On 31 Jul 2003 11:26:58 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 03:38, Aaron Burke wrote: After I initially installed Mandrake 8.2 (it's the only version I have access to), I must have chose somewhere along the line to automatically start with the KDE Interface with my personal login. However, I thought I found the place to disable that and get the GUI to choose the Interface (I wanted to try out more than KDE), but when I did that and rebooted, I get a command-line login and nothing more. My question is this: what command do I use to bring up the GUI? startx If you'd like a easy choice of GUI from the command line without using a graphical display manager you might want to use Xtart. I don't remember if it installs by default (I _THINK_ it does). If it's not then log in as root and urpmi Xtart Personally, I don't use kdm, mdkdm, gdm, xdm etc... It just seems to add an extra step that takes more time IMHO. The last time I used one I would login from the command line, startx, then log in again on the display manager, choose a GUI and hit ok. Maybe it's not like that anymore? I know if i do startx now it just goes straight to KDE but I figure that's because I don't use a graphical display manager. But... (and it's getting quite cliche to say this...) that's the great thing about GNU/Linux... choice. :-) 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]Konqueror Crashes on changing Viewing Mode
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 00:02:53 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to 3.1.3 a couple of days ago as well. Unfortunately I did have problems. After about 2 hours (sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less) it locks up the entire machine. The screen goes black, the mouse (optical) goes dead and the keyboard won't respond. I don't use KDE often (I prefer IceWM) but sometimes I'm in the mood for a full featured desktop. Not sure what's causing the problem... KDE has never given me fits in the past. My first thought was hardware so I tried out a different video card, switched out RAM, stuff like that. Still have the problem but I figure I'll be doing a fresh install when 9.2 comes out so I think I can survive for a month or 2. I figure it's just a software problem... perhaps a conflict somewhere? Who knows. However, when 9.2 comes out, I'll sure give it another shot. Jerry. That sucks. That sounds like it *could*, or not, be more than a KDE problem. Did you upgrade anything else? Oh... I'm not too worried about it really LOL. A month or two isn't too long for me to wait to use KDE which I don't use often anyway. I haven't done anything major... Really the only other things I've upgraded have been mozilla (just did urpme mozilla and used mozilla's installer to put it in usr/local/) gaim (I always build gaim from source... also in /usr/local) sun java, xchat (from source), and whatever MandrakeUpdate's thrown at me. I still haven't quite gotten around to the latest kernel (since last time I checked Win4Lin didn't have a matching kernel yet) or anything major like gcc. Could it possibly be that I used the textar rpms with rpmdrake instead of d/l-ing them all in a dir and doing rpm -Uvh *? That's been how I've upgraded KDE in the past. Just seems to me like rpmdrake would do the same thing. I didn't have any failed packages and I cross referenced to make sure that any old packages I had on there were matched with upgrade packages and selected in rpmdrake. On a side note, all of the KDE apps seem to run just fine under IceWM (albeit with a much slower startup) or at least the same as they would behave under KDE (the occasional konqueror crash, 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] 2.6-test kernel rpms available?
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:56:59 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you get the kernel-source rpm (47.5mb), or the vanilla kernel from kernel.org, it'll most likely refuse to compile. Get the docs, as the compile steps are very different for 2.6 ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS2/kernel-2.6.0-0.test1.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Bottom line: 2.6 will be ready to use sometime early next year. I'd suggest you search and read the '2.6' discussion on the cooker ML archive. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Thanks Tom, I'll read up on that. I've got a test machine I'm kinda fooling around a bit with (testing 9.2 beta and the likes) and thought I'd see how 2.6 was. I'll see what I can do with the source. If nothing else just reading the docs would be interesting for me. Thanks again! 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] OT: ad blocking
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:25:02 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will confuse your browser into thinking that these sites, like doubleclick.com lives on your own computer, and not somewhere on the internet. There were large lists on the internet of all big / known sites for these annoying adverts, and doinf a search on goole for advert blocking /etc/hosts shows up quite a few results and more info. There's a prettyy good hosts file at http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/Downloads/hosts127001.zip (it's the one I use) just unzip, open it with your preferred editor and copy it to /etc/hosts. I've added a few to it but all in all it blocks most ads. http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/how_to_use_hosts.html for reference. It's actually meant for a windows HOSTS file but works just the same on linux. 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
[newbie] 2.6-test kernel rpms available?
Hello! I finally got all the kinks worked out with the conversion of attbi to comcast and everything's finally settled in. It was kinda strange being off the list. I've been trying to keep up by reading the archives while working everything out but I've missed a lot. Good to be back. That said, I have a question (imagine that!) about the 2.6-test kernel. pclinuxonline had a bit about rpms available for mandrake on some mirrors in contrib. I've been going through the mirrors but can't seem to locate it. Does anybody know which mirror has it? 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] MDK 9.1 WINE, Gamma adjust
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:53:33 +1200 freestyle.design [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -I was wondering where WINE was buried in mdk 9.1 -Also, my monitor is so dark the in-monitor controls can´t compensate for its darkness enough. In Windows I used Adobe Gamma to adjust it, is there a Linux equivalent? in a console use the command xgamma -gamma # (substitute a numer for #) [on my old monitor i used xgamma -gamma 3 it was so dark.] Jerry -- The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation Problem
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:14:09 +0100 Sendak, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote earlier that under Mandrake 9.0 I had a message Kenel panic : No init found at boot-up. Thanks to Stephen Kuhn, dfox and Leonardo Diciolla for your advice, but I lacked the confidence and knowledge to follow your suggestions. I tried to upgrade to Mandrake 9.1. After a successful installation I got the message something like KDE not installed at boot-up. I thought I had selected KDE as the graphical interface. I upgraded again, but got the same message. I then did an install of Mandrake 9.1. Once again I had a successful installation. However, on boot-up, all I got was a screen with the message :- Mandrake Linux release 9.1 for i586 Kenel 2.4.21-0.13mdk on an i686/tty1 Localhost login: I logged in as John - the user I had set up - and, as far as I can see (being a complete beginner), I seemed to be in a full-screen mode shell. However, I cannot see any way to minimize the shell and I can't see any evidence of KDE or any other graphical interface. To check that I hadn't overridden any crucial default in the installation, I re-installed but got the same result. I am now completely stuck for what to do. Any suggestions very gratefully received. Regards John ___ Confidentiality Notice This email (and any attachment) is intended only for the attention of the addressee. Its unauthorised use, disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all copies and inform the sender by return email. Thank you This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Did you choose to have X start automatically when you boot? It sounds as though you're in runlevel 3. try doing su and enter root password urpmi Xtart exit Xtart then pick your window manager and if your video card is configured correctly X should start up HTH Jerry. -- The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:09:36 -0300 Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.pclinuxonline.com PCLinuxOffline Due to our active boycott of SCO, SCO has filed a temporary court injunction forcing our website offline. We apologize for any inconvenience. You can email us at pclinuxonline at eastwind.net. Details can be found here. - :o? Damian I love April Fools Day LOL Jerry. -- The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:47:27 -0500 Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am looking for a good TV Card to use with Mandrake 9.0. I plan to upgrade to 9.1 next month. I have searched a few web sites and so far have found a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 but it is a bit pricey for my budget. Are there other recommendations for one that will work with Linux? I do not need too many bells and whistles but would like to watch TV and listen to FM radio on my computer as well as be able to record from my camcorder on CD or DVD eventually when I get a DVD burner. Many thanks in advance! Jim My ATI TV-Wonder VE works great and was only $40 (US) where the wintv card was $129 On a side note i get 3 more channels on my computer than i do on my TV lol. jerry -- The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ftp install success
Just wanted to report a success story for anyone new thinking of installing via ftp :) Since cooker's gone 'production' I decided to try it out. I used the cooker mirrors to install today since I'm too impatient to wait for the ISO's (LOL) and it all went VERY smoothly. The new installer is quite nice and even with the bandwidth limitation it only took 3 hours to install and be up and running completely. (I selected a LOT of packages.) The process of an ftp install was pretty easy. I grabbed the network.img file from the cooker mirror (ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/images/network.img) and put it on a floppy (dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0). Rebooted from the floppy and followed through to boot to the expert install (press F1 and at boot: put expert). dhcp for my network worked off the bat when it loaded the driver for my ethernet card and all i had to put in was the ftp address of where i was installing from (ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/) and associated info to run the installer. The installer's been slimmed down a bit as far as the steps you take but it's all still accessable once you get to the summary if you need to change configuration on your video card etc. I was pretty impressed by the way they've made it a little more simple to do. Hardware detection worked much better than it did when I installed 9.0. The package selection is pretty much the same which I'm not really fond of (same packages showing up in different categories) but no big deal. I _did_ have one configuration issue (which was EASY to fix) and that was it only configured my cable connection and not the card that goes to my LAN but I fixed it in the Mandrake Control Center when I rebooted and it was probably an option I could have configured durring install which I may have overlooked. As far as internet connection sharing goes I'm still using iptables for it so I can't report on how the wizard in mcc works but if you use the rc.firewall from the iptables HOWTO it works great (though iptables is NOT installed by default, you need to select it durring install). Anyone a little too impatient to wait for ISO's with a few hours to spare, I'd suggest the ftp install. I'm not the best at this and still it was pretty painless as long as you know which driver your ethernet card needs. As far as how 9.1 will be, I can say that what I've seen I'm quite impressed with. Mozilla 1.3 is a lot faster than 1.1 was, KDE 3.1 is absolutely gorgeous (though I don't usually use it). Gnome I couldn't tell you about since I didn't install it (bleah... Gnome lost it after 1.4 IMHO... what's left of Gnome anyway, just bonobo and a panel? If they switch to mono then the only real Gnome componant left will the the panel :P ). I haven't had quite the problems with apps that I had with 9.0. The versions of apps included seem to have all had improvements at least on my machine. Anyway if you're eagerly awaiting the 9.1 ISO's I think everyone will like it. (Well, unless you're from the old rpmdrake camp... that hasn't changed.) I was getting disillusioned with Mandrake with 9.0 but I'm a believer again with 9.1. 8.2 was the 'megadistro' IMO before, but 9.1's got me re-thinking so far. This distro's going to put Mandrake back on the map as a leading contender for a desktop distro I'm sure. Jerry -- The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] disable system clock sync?
OK I really did try searching the archives for this but after going through 30+ pages of results I gave up. on boot up/shutdown how do you disable the syncing of the system clock? actually just need to know how to disable it durring shutdown since i hacked around a bit and got the startup syncing to work (it was hanging on a line of code that i commented out and now works fine) but if i need to reboot/shutodown it hangs on syncing the system clock (i let it sit once to see if it was just slow... a half hour later i used the sys req key combos to reboot). I haven't had a successful shutdown since installing 9.0 (it worked in 8.2) and have been trying to find the answer. It wasn't a really big deal since I don't shutdown or reboot often (i love linux!) but we're in the stormy season here and I shutdown durring electrical storms which will be happening frequently soon. Thanks in advance for the always excellent help you all give! Jerry. -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (o_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
