Re: [newbie] Beware, Firefox is a spyware :)
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:23:52 -0500 Alex Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we know that image is real? It's probobly just a joke. If MS Anti-spyware actually did mark Firefox as spyware, we would have heard alot on it by now. Unless anyone else can confirm it, it's a joke. It's a joke. I tried it on my windoze partition and it didn't find firefox as spyware. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firefox not robust as mozilla?
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 12:24 +, Q.H. Wang wrote: I installed .08 no problems but icant seem yo get 1.0 via urpmi If you mean Firefox, you're right. Mine is 1.0 the rpm. I look at pdf's all the time and never had a problem. Both the Win version and the Mandrake version have never crashed, and both have several plugins. I also have no problem with Moz and others. speaking of plug ins i just got the on the web with mandrake 10.1 and says i need some shockwave plug in and a java plug in can someone tell me where i get these plug ins i know i go to shockwave.com and java.com but that file do i download and how do i install a plug in can someone tell me step by step how to do this thank you For shockwave plugin, firefox can handle its installation itself. For others, you'd have a look at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html. Actually, there is no shockwave plugin for linux. You'd have to buy Crossover Office to get Shockwave. However, you can get Macromedia Flash through firefox. Just a clarification :-) John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] GTK and KDE
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 21:47 +0200, Thereidos wrote: Hi 'all. I've just reinstalled my mdk (after crashing my partition table yesterday) and noticed that when using gtk and glib supplied from mdk's cds (2.2.4 I suppose) gtk themes works fine whilst using 2.4 series (I've used this before the reinstall) they doesn't. I've tried this with both compiled from source and rpms. You also have to recompile all the GTK engines (galaxy, smooth, xfce, industrial, metal...) And one more thing: to make themes from 2.2 series actually work under KDE I have to run gnome-control-center and click fonts. Doesn't have to change anything, all's set the way I like. I just have to click on it. What's going on with it? Try making it so that KDE runs /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon on login. That will make it so you don't have to run gnome-control-center each and every time you want the themes to work. I don't use KDE so I don't remember how to do that, but there is a way. :-) Of course there are some problems with the fonts but that's a different story :) What's wrong with them? -John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .mov sound
C. Tresenriter wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:57:13 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 Aug 2004 13:35, C. Tresenriter wrote: I'm getting no sound while playing .mov files in Totem. What should I be looking for to resolve this issue? Is it just .mov files? Possible causes may be :- Your mixer control is muted :- Play with all the sliders. Try a different sound server:- If you use KDE open KDEControlCentreSoundSoundSystem Select Alsa instead of auto detect. (KDE seems to select OSS even if Alsa is available) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org I don't use Totem much but have had the same results with .avi files Real Player works as does xmms. Tried Alsa but get a messages telling me there's no such device as /dev/dsp and it will continue to use the null output device. as root, modprobe snd_seq_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_oss john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 15:00, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mandrake 10.0 had the smoothest installation of any distro of Linux I've used. I'm really happy with it. I tried installing RealPlayer, and the system says it's installed, but I can't find it anywhere, and the browser doesn't acknowledge it. Does anyone know where that puppy would be hiding? Thanks, Tom Ewald Detroit area In a console, type : which realplay instead of using the command 'which', you could use the command 'type'. Using type also tells you if it is an embedded bash program or not. It finds more programs if you use it. Try 'type time', and then 'which time', and you'll see the difference. If it is installed, this will find it. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer
Eric Huff wrote: In a console, type : which realplay instead of using the command 'which', you could use the command 'type'. Using type also tells you if it is an embedded bash program or not. It finds more programs if you use it. Try 'type time', and then 'which time', and you'll see the difference. ~ $ which time /usr/bin/time ~ $ type time time is /usr/bin/time On s imilar note (ie shell tricks) I really do like the new extended tab functionality for bash. No need to ESC ! anymore. Well I guess that wouldn't be a good example would it? lol, didn't realize there really was an executable called time. Try 'type type' and 'which type'. Then you'll see I have come to the conclusion that which is a good program for using in scripts, in case the whole pathname has to be specified, but if you're just looking to see if the program exists, then type is the way to go. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xorg and XFree was: Xorg on a Compaq
Cezary Morga wrote: Dnia wto 29. czerwca 2004 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa: I did nothing more, everything works as usual. The expert discussion indicated that you did not have to uninstall xfree86 so I did not. HTH Dennis M. Glad to hear that. More questions: will I have to reinstall my nvidia driver to run under Xorg? And will I have to uninstall it first? What about running it? If I'll have both Xorg and XFree which one will run when I'll type startx? And one more thing - is it possible to run two sessions of XFree or Xorg at one time? I have two user accounts and on the first I use KDE 3.2 and on the other KDE 3.3... When you install Xorg, it automatically replaces XFree, so you will only have Xorg installed anyway. The nvidia driver does not need to be rebuild. Everything should work out of the box, so when you type startx, it will do just fine. As for your second question, you can run a new x server by typing: 'startx -- :1' (and 2, 3, 4, etc for as many x servers as you want) HTH, john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xorg and XFree was: Xorg on a Compaq
Cezary Morga wrote: Dnia wto 29. czerwca 2004 20:34, John Drouhard napisa: When you install Xorg, it automatically replaces XFree, so you will only have Xorg installed anyway. The nvidia driver does not need to be rebuild. Everything should work out of the box, so when you type startx, it will do just fine. As for your second question, you can run a new x server by typing: 'startx -- :1' (and 2, 3, 4, etc for as many x servers as you want) Thanx, that works... and saves me a lot of time from logging in and out of KDEs... I've also, finally, installed Xorg but I don't see any difference between XFree 4.3, which I was using previously, and Xorg 6.7.0, which I'm running now... Quick question : previously all the settings where in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, now I should look for it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, right? /etc/X11/xorg.conf is a symlink to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, so you can edit either of these files and it will still make the necessary changes. (editing the xorg.conf file in reality edits the XF86Config-4 file) john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find this, or is it not working for you? And finally (for now) the terminal icon doesn't work (although I can get a terminal by opening the manual and starting another shell). I had the same problem - it seems to try to call up a type of terminal I didn't have installed! Solution was to right-click on the icon, select properties, and change the command to konsole. Margot xfterm4 uses xterm to display the terminal. If this button does not work for you, try installing xterm.. HTH, john drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] partition suggestions?
I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Currently I have a 40 GB: /dev/hda1 275 MB /boot /dev/hda5 6.44 GB / /dev/hda6 8.64 GB /usr /dev/hda7 400 MB swap /dev/hda8 11.06 GB/home /dev/hda9 10.49 GB/misc (partition for storing downloads, backups, and other random stuff) I would like to keep the same general partitioning scheme, but I don't know whether I should have it in so many pieces. If I just have a /boot, /, and a /misc, then everything can share in one large partition and I wouldn't have to worry about being low on space for one and tons of space on another. (my /home is tight on space, but my /usr has about 5 GB free) Sorry if this is confusing, but if anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate them... thanks, john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:30:51 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:02:44 -0400 robin wrote: You might want to have another partition for /etc No, do not do that. The configuration files in /etc must be avaiable during boot and should always remain as part of / Charles Normaly, you need /bin, /sbin, and /etc all on the root partition. It is also a good idea to have /root there. There are ways around having /etc in the root partition, but they usualy are not worth the trouble, unless you are doing something like booting a diskless workstation, or running off a CD. Mikkel Ok, this is what I was thinking: /boot 500 MB / 15 GB /usr25 GB swap400 MB /home 35 GB /misc 84 GB That will give me enough room to rip a few dvd's and still have plenty of room on my home partition :-). Does this look good? john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:14:33 -0500 Randall D. Hobbs disseminated the following: I'm not so concerned about the offtopic, but the link you posted seems to automatically enter a vote for Gentoo. If you want to vote for Mandrake Linux, this link will do it: http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1135section=indexaid=7 ...did better than that: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=189893 Looks like they already figured it out and posted the correct link for gentoo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6 Issues
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 12:19, Alastair Fay wrote: Hi, I have been digging around on the net for HOW-TOs regarding recompiling the kernel (2.6 - CE, not Official)... I have found some, but they were not of any help. I get errors regarding initrd or something. When I get back home, I will try a re-compile, and report the errors... Anyone been able to recompile with no problems on the following h/w? XP2400, KT400 (MSI KT4-Ultra), 768MB DDR PC2700, 200Gb Maxtor, 9800 Pro Thanks in advance :) If you get this error when you are trying to boot your new kernel, then you won't need to recompile the kernel, luckily. You just have to make an initrd image file. To do this, boot into a useable kernel and open a terminal as root. Type in the following command: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-kernel version.img kernel version. kernel version is the directory in /lib/modules that contains the modules for the kernel you compiled. When this command is done, edit your lilo.conf to use that initrd image file. image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.3 label=linux2.6.3 root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3.img append=noapic nolapic devfs=nomount mem=nopentium hdb=ide-cd hdd=ide-cd acpi=off vga=788 read-only That for example is a stanza for a kernel I compiled. Run lilo and try your new kernel again. HTH, John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] libcrypto.so.0
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 18:52 +0300, OOzy wrote: I am trying to install glimmer but it requires libcrypto.so.0. What is this and where can I find it? $ urpmf libcrypto.so.0 libopenssl0.9.7:/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 John -- Fri Jun 11 11:04:43 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 To err is human; to admit it, a blunder. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems installing libstdc++ library?
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:28 -0400, Jason Wilson wrote: Hello Folks, First off, I'm running the latest and greatest Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official. I seem to be experiencing difficulty getting a library installed in /usr/lib. I downloaded AIM 1.5 for Linux and I cannot install it because I have an older libstdc++ libary in /usr/lib. When I try to install the AIM RPM package, I get a message saying this: aim-1.5.286-1.i386 cannot be installed due to unsatisfied libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2). Apparently I have an older version of this library. I tried downloading this version of the library and the system refuses to let me download directly to /usr/lib saying access is denied. What can I do about this and how do I get the new library installed? Please help. Any help is greatly appreciated. Why are you installing AIM? That version came out like 5 years ago and hasn't been update since. Install Gaim which is still being actively developed on and also looks nicer than AIM's client. 'urpmi gaim' will install it for you John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 9 16:51:09 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Sic transit gloria Monday! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems installing libstdc++ library?
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:08 -0400, Jason Wilson wrote: Derek, Your explanation is MUCH appreciated. I thank you. This AIM package that I downloaded was for Mandrake 7.2 but then again, that was a long time ago. I didn't realize that there were other instant messaging programs that were far better. I am now using Gaim and am very happy with it. And how would I use urpmi? urpmi is a command line tool that you would use in a terminal. The terminal is in K Menu - System - Terminals - Konsole. Once you have loaded this, then you can type the command 'su'. This will ask you for a password. Type in you root password that you made when you installed Mandrake. Then, you can type 'urpmi program name' which will install the program, if it is in the urpmi database. Or, if you've downloaded an RPM from the internet, then you can type 'urpmi /path/to/downloadedRPM' which will install it. HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 9 21:48:05 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. -- Evan Davis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems installing libstdc++ library?
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:15 -0400, Jason Wilson wrote: Another interesting thing is this: executing grep urpmi gives me nothing. I don't think it's actually installed on my system. What then? If you want to check to see if something is installed on your system, you can open a terminal, and type 'rpm -qa | grep package name', or in this case: 'rpm -qa | grep urpmi'. HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 9 21:52:37 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS - Couldn't open audio
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 11:02 +0800, Aidan Holmes wrote: quick one for you (I think) I like to listen to my .ogg files with XMMS while at work. Trouble is about 10 times a day I get the following error message: Couldn't open audio Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly You have the correct output plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard I assume that since it all worked fine 5 seconds before the error message, and then agin once I dismiss it, the first two are OK, which leaves No other program is blocking the soundcard Is it possible to raise the priority of XMMS so that it blocks other programs from using the sound card and not vica-versa. -Aidan Do you have any other programs that may be sending sounds to the soundcard, such as Gaim login/logout sounds? I had that problem once. I'm not sure if setting a higher priority on XMMS would erase the message, but see 'man nice'. There is an option in the XMMS configuration to set XMMS to have realtime priority. If none of the above work, try using a soundserver such as ESD (Gnome) or artsd (KDE), and then setting XMMS's output plugin to whatever you started. HTH, John Drouhard P.S. Please remove your reply-to setting. It's not normally necessary and messes people up when using mailing lists. Thanks! Wed Jun 9 22:20:10 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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[newbie] ntfs write support fully supported.....kind of
I was experimenting with Knoppix 3.4 yesterday and found something of interest - Captive NTFS. I clicked on it to see what it was, and found something that many people may be looking for. It is a program type thing that downloads certain ntfs driver files directly from Microsoft, and uses the code to give linux full read-write support for ntfs partitions. I know that alot of you are completely against using any closed source stuff at all, but it works like a charm. I now have it on my computer, and have copied a bunch of music from my home directory to My Documents on the ntfs partition. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ It took me awhile to get it working correctly, so if anyone wants some step-by-step instructions on how to get it working, just let me know. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dumb Newbie Question
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 22:24 -0400, Edgars Smits wrote: OK, so I'm a real newbie. I've been running 10CE (still waiting for my 10 official DVD to be delivered), wanted to upgrade to Gnome 2.6. Decide to try it myself, using a site in Germany that had 299 RPM's. To make a long story short, I totally hosed up Gnome - to the extent that I can no longer access it, no big deal, I still have KDE, decided to remove gtk+ from the KDE side (don't ask, it seemed logical at the time), and in a moment of distraction didn't catch that a ton of other stuff would die as well - including DrakConf, Mozilla Thunderbird etc. Luckily I still had Opera and Urpmi to fall back on, I reinitialised Urpmi, installed Drakconf, Mozilla and Thunderbird, at least I can work until my new laptop arrives later this week and I can do a clean install and move my stuff over. The question - the only thing visibly missing from DrakConf is the RPM stuff - Install, Upgrade etc. For the record - can anyone tell me what I should URPMI to regain them? urpmi rpmdrake gurpmi John Drouhard -- Wed May 19 22:58:55 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:55 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames. I tried with mplayer, xine and totem, always the same result. Yes, it's an old mobo (AMD K6-2/550), but in 9.2 it did its job. What video card do you have? If it's an nvidia card, you might need to install the nvidia drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/ So I successfully installed the 2.4.25 kernel provided on the 10.0 cd, but was unable to configure the ISA PNP audio card. The isapnp utility configures and enables the card without errors, but modprobe snd-azt2320 exits with an error (no azt2320 card found). Card works fine in 9.2 and 10.0 with 2.6 kernel. Next I will try installing the 9.2 version of mplayer into 10.0, just to rule out kernel issues. If it doesn't do the job, I'll have to go back to 9.2 :-( Don't install the 9.2 version of mplayer on 10.0, there will be dependency problems. Also, while burning a CD the system does not respond to any command. It's not frozen (icewm responds fine), but application it will not even start to load it until the cd burning is finished. And, accessing a CD in 10.0 eats up all CPU, while in 9.2 it was only using a small fraction - like if it was not using DMA, but DMA is enabled for all drives. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the default mandrake kernels not include dma support? If they do, then I'm not sure what to do about the cd accessing problem. As for the system not responding while burning cd's - there is a way to lower the priority of the process, but I can't remember what it is. Also, I know for a fact the default mandrake kernels DO NOT compile preemptible support. If you know how to compile kernels, may I suggest compiling a 2.6 kernel with preemptible support and dma support both included? I remember somebody defining 10.0 speed daemon so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance? It is a speed daemon :). No but really, its fast. HTH, John -- Tue May 18 16:47:58 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. -- W.E. Hickson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:47:12 -0400 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of switching from KDE to Fluxbox because frankly, KDE crashes on me way too much, and it really reminds me of Winblows. Why Fluxbox? Just wondering, considering XFCE4 is almost as fast, and really has many more features that IMO, make fluxbox almost non-usable. (did that make sense?) Anyway, I have used both and ultimately prefer XFCE4 over Fluxbox. Anyway, I've got fluxbox up. I don't really want to use Mozilla-Thunderbird anymore, or Firefox for that matter, cause those both are a bit weird on me too. Here are my questions: 1. Can Pine get POP3 mail? If so, where do you enter the info? Go with Sylpheed Claws. It's extremely fast, and the CVS has a gtk2 branch that I am using right now. Addressbook doesn't work quite right yet, so if you need that, stick with the GTK 1.2 version. 2. Is there a battery monitor for fluxbox? There is for XFCE4. ;-) 3. Is there a simple, very stable, browser I can use? I don't see why you don't like Mozilla Firefox. There's always Galeon and epiphany which look more conventional and still support everything. 4. I can't get gaim to show up in my menus, even with the menu editor. XFCE4 uses the Mandrake menu so unless you compiled gaim from source, that shouldn't be a problem. TIA, Marc John -- Tue Apr 13 20:11:36 CDT 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. -- Spanish proverb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:34:02 +0930 Stephen Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a similar application in the Linux world? SR I prefer Screem. works very good. -- Sat Apr 10 19:08:30 CDT 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 MOKE DAT YIGARETTE -- The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 07:45:45 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:11 am, frankieh wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Do you have a domain name? If not, head over to dyn-dns and get yourself a static IP domain from them.. (its free) Then copy your large files to /var/www/html and start apache..: service httpd start You should be good to go. all the config files for apache are in /etc/httpd/conf and they are all pretty well commented. If you don't feel up to facing manual config files, then fireup webmin and configure apache that way. you shouldn't need to do much if anything, mandrake has apache ready to go out of the box. I have the Domain Name aronsmith.com already so by using a hub between the dsl modem and the 2 'puters should be no prob ? thanks smitty So your dsl connection comes in, goes through your dsl modem to a hub, which connects the two computers? Are you sure it's a hub, or is it a router? If it is a hub, you may need to get a router that can handle port-forwarding (most can). If you already have the router, connect to it by opening a webbrowser and connecting to it's IP address. (Mine is 192.168.1.1. yours could be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1). Anyway find port forwarding and make it forward port 80 to the local IP address of the computer that will host the site. HTH, John -- Sat Apr 3 14:09:00 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 All is well that ends well. -- John Heywood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound comes only though left channel
I recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 community. Everything works pretty good (I don't really see the point in upgrading though, at least not yet). Anyway, sound only comes through the left speaker no matter what I try. Any ideas? John -- Mon Mar 22 20:40:00 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. -- Titus Maccius Plautus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games Mandrake
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:54:51 -0800 (PST) Mandrake User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried games on Mandrake 9.2 as well and they were terribly slow. Currently, I am running Mandrake 10.0 Community but without games installed. Maybe you should try Mandrake 10.0? It is a big improvement to 9.2, in my opinion. --- achmad fauzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I has install Linux Mandrake 9.2 with games package. But went I execute my games (exp : in category sport) that's run too slowly. My VGAcard is Nvidia GeForce 4. Processor AMD 1700++, RAM 256. May you can tell me why it's happen. thank you. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. You must install the Nvidia drivers from their site. Go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5336.html and install them. Download the file to your computer, then do this: 1. Logout 2. Press CTL and F2 at the same time (will take you to a black screen) 3. login as root 4. Type init 3 5. go to the directory whereyou installed the NVIDIA driver. 6. type sh ./NVIDIA-Linux*run 7. Follow the instructions 8. Type vim /etc/X11/XF*4 9. Scroll down with the arrow keys until you find the section that says: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS 10. Press the insert key, and then change nv to nvidia. 11. Under Option DPMS, add Option NvAGP 1 12. Press escape, then :wq 13. Type init 5 and you should be good to go. If these instructions are too obvious, sorry. :) John -- Sat Mar 20 09:20:03 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. -- P.J. O'Rourke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:05:40 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 07:46 am, brife wrote: Hi all! When I go home tonight I'm planning on upgrading my laptop from 9.2 to 10. I've never been through this process so any advice would be appreciated. I have a relatively simple configuration: Linux is the only OS on my laptop and I have a single HD partitioned into /, sv (swap), and /home partitions. These partitions are 5, .5, and 10 gig is size respectively. Unless its necessary I don't have any desire to change the sizes. I've downloaded the 3 10.0 ISO images and was planning on booting from the first CD to do the upgrade. What I don't know is how an upgrade will affect my / and /home partitions. For the most part I have apps installed on the / partition and data installed on the /home partition. I'd like to keep some apps on the / partition if possible but if I can't its no big deal. First, put the CD's you burned in your burner, and run somethin like 'md5sum /dev/scd0' or 'md5sum /mnt/cdrom2' You'll need to adjust /dev or /mnt to what your burner actually is. Check the md5sum against those in the md5sumasc file to make sure your CD's are correct. If the numbers don't match, you may have made a set of unusable or problematic CD's. If that's the case, then ask here, an tell us how and what you used to burn the CD's. If they match, then... You can try an upgrade, but due to the large kernel an other differences (KDE/Gnome), I believe only a fresh install will be satisfactory in the end. Might as well try an upgrade first tho. Before you start read http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux10ReleaseNotes If you then decide to do a fresh install, choose use existing partitions, but don't format /home. You will need to format /. For the apps that are lost, there's probly newer, more 2.6 kernel compatible apps available anyhow. 'Sides, I always consider a fresh install to be spring cleaning ;) On some hardware the 1st CD won't boot. This is known and very close to being solved. If this happens, boot the 2nd CD and it'll ask for the 1st one. You should be able to then go on. The install/upgrade will probly ask for a 4th CD at some point, just cancel and ignore that request. After you're up and runnin, I suggest you create cooker sources and update to current cooker. Many many bugfixes. One question about this: I know about the new development process for Mandrake, but was wondering if the cooker sources remain Mandrake 10 Community + bugfixes until Official is released. Is that the case, or does cooker go on to do its normal thing once Community is released, then a separate branch is created for the upcoming Official release. Sorry, just a little confused here. John -- Fri Mar 19 13:56:04 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 You can drive a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] upgrading from 9.2 to Cooker without cd's
I have another question about upgrading to 10.0 so I thought I'd start a new thread. I have a local mirror of cooker. I would like to install it so I could have 10 + all bugfixes so far. However, I finally have my system set up perfectly, without any problems that I can see. I run my own 2.6 kernel, and a whole bunch of other stuff. That's why I was hoping to just do an upgrade - maybe catch the new versions of the programs. But on the other hand, I kind of need to start over with my spring cleaning. My /usr partition is 7.6 GB full. I am lost as to whether try to upgrade, or to start over. If I do decide to upgrade, can't I just do it with the following commands: urpmi urpmi urpmi --auto-select I don't want old configuration files from old packages lingering around though. I want the new and improved menu structure, etc. Thanks for any input - its appreciated. John -- Fri Mar 19 20:05:37 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 An idle mind is worth two in the bush. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:19:05 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ATI rant No, it IS crappy because it is working and badly with some Windows games (GeForce 256 DDR didn't have those problems), and getting proprietary drivers working well (with acceleration) is a matter of pure luck (can as well crash the entire system). I NEVER expected to have a system crash under professionally (now I know the word needs to be put in marks here) made drivers - and during a *normal* usage of system. If anybody wants to have a system crash, do these steps: - install ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card and its proprietary drivers in a system with KDE3.2 - choose Start another session - in another session, try to go back to the first one (with Ctrl+Alt+F7)... ...and the system should hopelessly crash. And no, my former graphic card (GeForce 256 DDR), didn't have ANY of these problems (with ANY of its drivers - OS or proprietary). End of my ATI rant I hope this clears my position on the crap called ATI Radeon 9200... :( Wojciech Podgórni What Frankie was saying is that both of the cards you mentioned don't perform well, even when the drivers for each card are installed and working properly. He suggested that you switch to at least an NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 or 5700, because the 5200 doesn't perform that great at all. Nvidia drivers work fine under linux, so any NVIDIA card is ok, but we suggest you get something better than a 5200. John -- Mon Mar 8 12:55:55 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Better dead than mellow. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:14:28 + Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 7:42 pm, Floyd Hagen wrote: You really don't need an RPM for it. It's got its own installation script. Grab the tarball, and there's a README file in there with clear directions. If you want an icon or entry for it in your menu, you'll have to add it yourself, but that's easy enough. On Sun, Mar 07, 2004, Keith Powell wrote: I would like to try Mozilla-Thunderbird and have found a Mandrake RPM for it on Rediris, which I have downloaded. I hope it's not a Spanish version :-( It's the only one I can find. There's nothing in the usual repositories. Hello Floyd. Thanks for the prompt reply and the information. Derek has told me where to get the Mandrake .rpm from. As I prefer to install from an .rpm rather than from a tarball, I have used his solution. I have so many problems with tarballs, that I keep clear of them as much as possible! However, your tarball suggestion is useful to have in reserve. Cheers Keith The tarball version of Mozilla Thunderbird does not need compiling. You untar it, and it's already ready to go. Untar, run. That simple. John -- Mon Mar 8 13:10:15 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Zhizn' prozhit'--ne pole pereiti. [Life's a bitch.] [Well, okay. lit., to live through life is not as simple as crossing a field. Happy now?] -- Russian proverb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5600 or 5700 and Mandrake 9.2 was: Re: [newbie] NVIDIA FX5200 and Mandrake 9.2
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:13:06 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U__ytkownik John Drouhard napisa__: What Frankie was saying is that both of the cards you mentioned don't perform well, even when the drivers for each card are installed and working properly. He suggested that you switch to at least an NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 or 5700, because the 5200 doesn't perform that great at all. Nvidia drivers work fine under linux, so any NVIDIA card is ok, but we suggest you get something better than a 5200. John I know... But as the owner of Commodore64 I don't call something crap when it's outdated or not performing too well - only if it's falling apart (like in the case of ATI Radeon 9200, unfortunately...). But thank you for response. BTW, does anybody use GeForceFX 5600 or 5700. Do you have any problems (especially with 2.6 kernel)? I use a GeForceFX 5700 Ultra with the 2.6 kernel and I am extremely happy with it. I would highly recommend one if you like to play games that are graphic intensive. I get about 5600 fps with glxgears. I'm downloading Mandrake 10 right now (uses 15% of CPU), and get about 4400 fps. John -- Mon Mar 8 13:28:20 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 He who laughs last -- missed the punch line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Psaux with Kernel 2.6/mdk10
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:51:20 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to use psaux with kernel 2.6 and mdk10? Whatever it uses now isn't recognizing taps and scrolling on my Synaptics touchpad. It did on 2.4/9.2 though. If there is no way, I'll just use Kernel 2.4 instead of 2.6. I see you solved your 2.6 kernel problems by installing the rc. :) Anyway, does the device /dev/psaux even exist? If so, google around for other people who have gotten their synaptic touchpads to work with the 2.6 kernel. I still honestly don't think you need devfs (make your append line in lilo say devfs=nomount). I'm not sure if that's the problem but it could be. John -- Fri Feb 27 16:08:02 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:42:12 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! Yes, I held both down, and used the left ALT. I really don't need a way to shut down. I need a way to make my keyboard work. I tried error checking in Partition Magic. I get some sort of problem, but PM doesn't fix it... I'll google on locking up during rescue mode. Kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it? Heh heh. --Marc If it locks up in rescue mode off of the cd's, that means that 2.6 kernel we've been trying to get to work so hard probably works fine. I think the problem now lies in what laptop you are using. I would instead search google for the specific model laptop you have and what other users' thoughts and experiences are with linux for it. That might yield more answers than just generally searching for lockups during a rescue mode. I have a feeling your hardware got messed up somewhere. John -- Tue Feb 24 20:09:48 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise. -- William Blake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:55:03 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! Hardware messed up...you don't mean like...physical damage, do you? Because that's happened before. A week after I got this box the hard drive broke down. On tech support for two hours until they could be convinced that formatting with the restore discs isn't gonna help, and that there was nothing you could do... Shame they didn't let me keep the old hard drive...I've always wanted to disect one of those... I have seen a few articles about linux on this model. Didn't say anything about locking up. And why would the 2.6.3 kernel affect rescue mode off the boot discs? Anyway, if it does, would that mean that rescue mode on the v10 discs might help? I'm not really sure. At what point on the rescue process did it freeze? Exactly how far did you get? Were you able to get to the command line? You may have some hardware conflicts or faulty bios settings. If the rescue disks freeze your computer, then it's definitely not the kernel's problem - unless it messed with the hardware in a permanent way. (This is highly unlikely). I say try the rescue disks again, tell us how far it gets, then try resetting the bios. Then try everything once more. If that doesn't work, wait for Mandrake 10 to come out. You can choose whether you want the 2.4 or 2.6 kernel at installation time. John -- Tue Feb 24 21:01:52 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Small is beautiful. -- Schumacher's Dictum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:22:58 +1300 anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, click on Advanced on the left side of the screen. Then double click on preferred applications. The first window should be about web browsers. Change it to Custom, then type in, 'mozilla-firefox %s'. Hiya, should this work for konqueror too? It doesn't seem to... Is there any way to get konqueror to load when I click a link in mozilla mail? Cheers Anton ps, neither do any of the other suggestions... Im running mozilla 1.6 from Charles and kde3.2 from lanman. peace. I'm not sure if this is possible. Mozilla and mozilla-mail are closely intertwined. They are the same program, actually, with different interface options. You can try running the command, 'export BROWSER=konqueror'and see if that makes a difference. John -- Sun Feb 22 12:38:23 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 None love the bearer of bad news. -- Sophocles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:49:11 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 12:24 am, John Drouhard wrote: Well John, I used your .config, recompile the whole kernel. Still I get a Kernel Panic error. I looked around more when I got the error. It says a lot about not being able to mount fs ext3. I also get some sort of pivotroot error. Does this ring any bells? I forgot about something. become root and install the package module-init-tools-0.9.11a-4mdk. I'm not sure what mirror this is on, so just try urpmi'ing it. When it's done installing, type: 'generate-modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf' When it's done (it may have a few errors), try rebooting and see if that fixes it. If that didn't work, then read the man page on mkinitrd. 'man mkinitrd' has alot of good info on this problem. I suggest first trying a new initrd, but creating it as follows: 'mkinitrd --preload=ext3 /boot/initrd-2.6.3-mm1.img 2.6.3-mm1' You have to delete the old one first, or pass the -f option to the command. Re-run lilo and try once more. John -- Sun Feb 22 21:00:18 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. -- Karl Kraus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 I tried building the 2.4.25 kernel, but I have one problem. I did make dep and make clean etc. separately because make all wasn't working. But, I can't find the bzImage. I did 'make bzImage' twice, but It's not there. Any idea where it might be? Marc I don't know why you are trying to build a 2.4 kernel, unless there is a specific reason for it, but you have to type: make dep clean make modules bzImage then as root: make modules_install I highly suggest you try the 2.6 kernel first. As for your black screen problem, change the line that says vga=788 to vga=normal. Here is my entry for my 2.6 kernel (with vga=normal): image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.1 label=linux2.6.1 root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.1.img append=devfs=nomount splash=silent noapic acpi=off hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom read-only vga=normal If that still doesn't work, I guess you could try following my instructions from the beginning, skipping the parts about bootsplash. But try vga=normal with your 2.6 kernel first. John -- Sat Feb 21 11:31:17 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Cleanliness is next to impossible. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:50:21 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot I'll start from the beginning: I booted from Lilo. The progress meter quickly filled...then...went off the screen...and back on the other side. That was weird... So I rebooted, pressed esc, and booted in text mode. Since I shut down improperly, and hda5 wasn't unmounted right, it had to check whatever it checks. So it takes an unusually long time. Then it goes to boot. I see many many things I've never seen before, and it asks me if I want to run a config tool, because sdc0(my cd-rom drive/burner) was removed and hdc was added. I don't know what that was about. Then something didn't load...something with 'char' in it. Then something was 'passed'. It was 'fs', and said something about not recognizing NTFS. Then, my wlan0 device didn't load, and neither did my sound. So then I proceeded to login. Apparently /home was read-only. So I logged into root, and looked in /home. And /home/marc is gone. My sound doesn't work, as was expected, and neither did my wlan connection. So i rebooted, and booted the old kernel. Everything worked fine, and my /home/marc was there. This could have been a nerdy horror movie. =/ Okay so here's what I figure: My snd-ali5451 module isn't loading properly, and neither is my prism2_cs. I don't know why, because I did a make oldconfig, and enabled mostly everything. I guess that has something to do with the cd-rom drive too. I have no clue what was up with the original graphic boot, nor do I know why my /home/marc directory was gone, then back. Any advice would be greatly appreciated --Marc I looked into the module thing. There are no modules in /lib/modules/2.4.25/kernel. None. Why, I don't know...but there aren't any. So I moved my old modules from 2.4.22 over, to see if it would work. So far, it hasn't(don't worry I made a backup of my old kernel folder). Yes, I did make modules, and make modules_install. Then I did make all just for the hell of it. Still no modules. The modules loaded fine for 2.6.3, but I can't get that kernel to boot. I would really really like some help, as I've been trying to do this for a long time, because I need acpi for my laptop. Oh wow, I didn't know you started a new thread for this. I responded to the first thread already. Follow the suggestions in there to try and boot the 2.6.3 kernel. Change it to vga=normal, run lilo, and reboot. That will work, I'm sure of it. As long as you made an initrd for your kernel in the proper way. Like John R.S. said, post your lilo.conf and fstab here and we'll try to step you through booting the 2.6 kernel (it's much better than the 2.4 kernels) As for your 2.4.25 problem, just install the mandrake rpm for it. Update your urpmi update source and 'urpmi kernel-2.4.25' We'll get you through this, John -- Sat Feb 21 11:39:41 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 It's better to burn out than to fade away. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:13:20 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:25, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Here is what Anne sended me for changing the main browser: To change which browser you use, you also need the Control Center, but this time it's in Components File Associations text html . You will see a list of the browsers you have installed. Select the one you want, and use Move Up to put it at the top of the list. Hope this helps Christophe Thanks, I've done that, yep ... but something else (I believe it's Galeon) keeps popping up, nonetheless. -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Open a terminal and type 'gnome-control-center' If it isn't there, then install it as root with 'urpmi gnome-control-center' Now, click on Advanced on the left side of the screen. Then double click on preferred applications. The first window should be about web browsers. Change it to Custom, then type in, 'mozilla-firefox %s'. If you want improved mozilla-launching, I have attached an executable. Save the file to a temporary directory, open a terminal, become root, and copy the file into /usr/bin. Then run this command: 'chmod 0755 /usr/bin/launch_firefox'. When you are done with that, you can go back to the preferred applications window and change mozilla-firefox to launch_firefox. It will now open a new window if no running firefox process was found, and open a new tab if there is a firefox window already open. It will now open mozilla firefox from your mail client. John -- Sat Feb 21 11:54:05 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 An apple a day makes 365 apples a year. launch_firefox Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:46:24 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Just wondering...What does the 'devfs=nomount' mean, because all of my other lilo entries say 'devfs=mount'. Also, I was just trying the 2.4 kernel to see if it might work. In other words, I was in a hotel room in Delaware and I was bored. =) --Marc It just tells the kernel not to use the device filesystem. If your other entries all have devfs=mount and everything worked properly before, you can change it to devfs=mount. FYI, however, the 2.6 kernel is beginning to phase out the device filesystem in favor for the sysfs. To get that working, just do this as root: 'mkdir /sys'. Then reboot into the 2.6 kernel. You can go ahead and change it to devfs=mount. Just don't forget to run lilo when your finished. John -- Sat Feb 21 12:02:25 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 -- Neophyte's serendipity. -- Exclusive dedication to necessitious chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow. -- A revolving concretion of earthy or mineral matter accumulates no congeries of small, green bryophytic plant. -- The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation. -- Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential escallation of a lucrative nature. -- Missiles of ligneous or osteal consistency have the potential of fracturing osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:00:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 I tried building the 2.4.25 kernel, but I have one problem. I did make dep and make clean etc. separately because make all wasn't working. But, I can't find the bzImage. I did 'make bzImage' twice, but It's not there. Any idea where it might be? Marc I don't know why you are trying to build a 2.4 kernel, unless there is a specific reason for it, but you have to type: make dep clean make modules bzImage then as root: make modules_install I highly suggest you try the 2.6 kernel first. As for your black screen problem, change the line that says vga=788 to vga=normal. Here is my entry for my 2.6 kernel (with vga=normal): image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.1 label=linux2.6.1 root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.1.img append=devfs=nomount splash=silent noapic acpi=off hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom read-only vga=normal If that still doesn't work, I guess you could try following my instructions from the beginning, skipping the parts about bootsplash. But try vga=normal with your 2.6 kernel first. John Just wondering...What does the 'devfs=nomount' mean, because all of my other lilo entries say 'devfs=mount'. Also, I was just trying the 2.4 kernel to see if it might work. In other words, I was in a hotel room in Delaware and I was bored. =) --Marc Okay let's condense this into one thread now Here's my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk label=old_linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.3 label=Linux-2.6.3 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3.img append=devfs=nomount hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom vga=normal read-only And my fstab: /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 And I just noticed, something odd is happening with my cdrom drive. I just tried to install a package, with CD 2, and it didn't eject my cdrom drive like it usually does, then it didn't detect the cd. It also said insert the disk into /dev/hdc... But the device is /dev/scd0. This probably has something to do with the cdrom device config during boot that I mentioned in the other thread. --Marc What kernel are you running? If its the 2.6 kernel, then change the cdrom line in your fstab file to: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 The only problem with this is that supermount no longer works. To get supermount to work, you'd have to patch the kernel with the supermount patch and then recompile. The above line will not mount your cdrom, and you have to do it manually with this command: 'mount /dev/hdc'. Did the vga=normal thing fix your boot problem? John -- Sat Feb 21 12:19:53 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 To err is humor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:04 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Well the Kernel begins to boot fine. Then I get a Kernel Panic Error, telling me to pass the init= option to kernel. So I make a new initrd, just to see if it would work, and my new Initrd= line in lilo.conf is initrd=/boot/initrd-linux-2.6.3.img That didn't work. What should I do? in a terminal as root: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-linux-2.6.3.img 2.6.3 then run lilo and reboot into a new kernel. You will have a few problems to work out when switching kernels, make sure the directory /sys exists, and then try it out. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:25 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:00:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 I tried building the 2.4.25 kernel, but I have one problem. I did make dep and make clean etc. separately because make all wasn't working. But, I can't find the bzImage. I did 'make bzImage' twice, but It's not there. Any idea where it might be? Marc I don't know why you are trying to build a 2.4 kernel, unless there is a specific reason for it, but you have to type: make dep clean make modules bzImage then as root: make modules_install I highly suggest you try the 2.6 kernel first. As for your black screen problem, change the line that says vga=788 to vga=normal. Here is my entry for my 2.6 kernel (with vga=normal): image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.1 label=linux2.6.1 root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.1.img append=devfs=nomount splash=silent noapic acpi=off hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom read-only vga=normal If that still doesn't work, I guess you could try following my instructions from the beginning, skipping the parts about bootsplash. But try vga=normal with your 2.6 kernel first. John Just wondering...What does the 'devfs=nomount' mean, because all of my other lilo entries say 'devfs=mount'. Also, I was just trying the 2.4 kernel to see if it might work. In other words, I was in a hotel room in Delaware and I was bored. =) --Marc Okay let's condense this into one thread now Here's my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk label=old_linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.3 label=Linux-2.6.3 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3.img append=devfs=nomount hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom vga=normal read-only And my fstab: /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 And I just noticed, something odd is happening with my cdrom drive. I just tried to install a package, with CD 2, and it didn't eject my cdrom drive like it usually does, then it didn't detect the cd. It also said insert the disk into /dev/hdc... But the device is /dev/scd0. This probably has something to do with the cdrom device config during boot that I mentioned in the other thread. --Marc What kernel are you running? If its the 2.6 kernel, then change the cdrom line in your fstab file to: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 The only problem with this is that supermount no longer works. To get supermount to work, you'd have to patch the kernel with the supermount patch and then recompile. The above line will not mount your cdrom, and you have to do it manually with this command: 'mount /dev/hdc'. Did the vga=normal thing fix your boot problem? John If you mean what kernel am I trying to run, then yes it's 2.6. Would there be any way to have it mount automatically on boot? You know, make a script and have it execute when I start up. The vga=normal fixed the blank screen, but read my other reply to see the new problem. Also, any thoughts about what happened with my cdrom drive and device scd0? Ya, to have your cd mount on boot (you would have to unmount it if you want to switch cd's then remount), just remove noauto from the cdrom line of you fstab. When the 2.6 kernel gets up and running, the cdrom drive and device scd0 will go away. It's complaining because your cdrom is currently scd0, but fstab says its hdc. With the 2.6 kernel, the device will be hdc and rpmdrake will work fine. John Want to buy your Pack
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:41 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:25 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:00:35 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:39:00 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 I tried building the 2.4.25 kernel, but I have one problem. I did make dep and make clean etc. separately because make all wasn't working. But, I can't find the bzImage. I did 'make bzImage' twice, but It's not there. Any idea where it might be? Marc I don't know why you are trying to build a 2.4 kernel, unless there is a specific reason for it, but you have to type: make dep clean make modules bzImage then as root: make modules_install I highly suggest you try the 2.6 kernel first. As for your black screen problem, change the line that says vga=788 to vga=normal. Here is my entry for my 2.6 kernel (with vga=normal): image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.1 label=linux2.6.1 root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.1.img append=devfs=nomount splash=silent noapic acpi=off hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom read-only vga=normal If that still doesn't work, I guess you could try following my instructions from the beginning, skipping the parts about bootsplash. But try vga=normal with your 2.6 kernel first. John Just wondering...What does the 'devfs=nomount' mean, because all of my other lilo entries say 'devfs=mount'. Also, I was just trying the 2.4 kernel to see if it might work. In other words, I was in a hotel room in Delaware and I was bored. =) --Marc Okay let's condense this into one thread now Here's my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk label=old_linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.3 label=Linux-2.6.3 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3.img append=devfs=nomount hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom vga=normal read-only And my fstab: /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 And I just noticed, something odd is happening with my cdrom drive. I just tried to install a package, with CD 2, and it didn't eject my cdrom drive like it usually does, then it didn't detect the cd. It also said insert the disk into /dev/hdc... But the device is /dev/scd0. This probably has something to do with the cdrom device config during boot that I mentioned in the other thread. --Marc What kernel are you running? If its the 2.6 kernel, then change the cdrom line in your fstab file to: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 The only problem with this is that supermount no longer works. To get supermount to work, you'd have to patch the kernel with the supermount patch and then recompile. The above line will not mount your cdrom, and you have to do it manually with this command: 'mount /dev/hdc'. Did the vga=normal thing fix your boot problem? John If you mean what kernel am I trying to run, then yes it's 2.6. Would there be any way to have it mount automatically on boot? You know, make a script and have it execute when I start up. The vga=normal fixed the blank screen, but read my other reply to see the new problem. Also, any thoughts about what happened with my cdrom drive and device scd0? Ya, to have your cd mount on boot (you would have to unmount it if you want to switch cd's then remount), just remove noauto from the cdrom line of you fstab. When the 2.6 kernel gets up and running, the cdrom drive and device scd0 will go away. It's complaining because your cdrom is currently scd0, but fstab says its hdc. With the 2.6 kernel, the device will be hdc and rpmdrake will work
[newbie] msec guru needed
I need to have permissions of 1777 on /var/mail, but msec (or something) keeps changing it back to the default. How can I stop this? Thanks, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] msec guru needed
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 19:20, John Drouhard wrote: I need to have permissions of 1777 on /var/mail, but msec (or something) keeps changing it back to the default. How can I stop this? Thanks, John Have you tried /etc/security/msec/permlocal ? Hmm, that file doesn't exist. Maybe it isn't msec. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:20:29 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:15:30 -0600 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well when I type across the screen, it wordwraps at the edge of my window. If I resize the window, it acts accordingly. I don't know why yours just runs of the edge of the screen. And the way to make it not Well, another thing to try is to increase the size of the font. On default, it's at 9 point which is incredibly tiny. Consequently, when composing a new message, the composer thinks I have 110+ character lines when I want 68 or 70 character ones. In 14 point it is readable and it's wrapping at about column 70, according to the ruler. I think the comment I made about wrapping in my previous point should be taken with a grain of salt, if the composer assomes the wrapping point is at the right edge of the composer window it's a moot point anyway, but there doesn't seem to be a configuration setting (or I haven't found it) that tells the composer not to go past column 72, for instance. On deletion of a message - it seems to have taken a long time for the first message. Maybe it had to do reindexing or some such. Subsequent deletes seem as fast as vanilla sylpheed, but it doesn't seem to just display the next message unless you click with the mouse. To fix that, go to Configuration -- Common Preferences -- Interface, and select Always Open Message in Summary when Selected. I'm not using gtk2 sylpheed right now (I usually do, I'm on another comp), so I'm not sure if that's exactly where it is or whether it works. Word wrapping works MUCH better on the gtk1.2 version of claws, but I'm sure this will improve. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:49 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:09 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:59:46 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get this error message when trying to run make xconfig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.3]# make xconfig HOSTCC scripts/fixdep SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o sed scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h 's/P(\([^,]*\),.*/#define \1 (\*\1_p)/' HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc -i scripts/kconfig/qconf.h -o scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o /bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf.o] Error 127 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 Nevermind, just had to install the gcc C++ compiler. But I got several 'trying to assign nonexistant symbol' errors. Is this fatal? Nah, it just means it that some of the options available for checking don't exist, but something was trying to set them. It's perfectly ok and normal to have those errors. Did you use the mm patch? if so, you might want to rename your source directory to compensate, ie: linux-2.6.3-mm1 This may save a headache later. That's just a suggestion though. Good luck, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:06:38 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:49 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:09 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:59:46 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get this error message when trying to run make xconfig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.3]# make xconfig HOSTCC scripts/fixdep SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o sed scripts/kconfig/lkc_proto.h scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h 's/P(\([^,]*\),.*/#define \1 (\*\1_p)/' HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc -i scripts/kconfig/qconf.h -o scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o /bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf.o] Error 127 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 Nevermind, just had to install the gcc C++ compiler. But I got several 'trying to assign nonexistant symbol' errors. Is this fatal? Nah, it just means it that some of the options available for checking don't exist, but something was trying to set them. It's perfectly ok and normal to have those errors. Did you use the mm patch? if so, you might want to rename your source directory to compensate, ie: linux-2.6.3-mm1 This may save a headache later. That's just a suggestion though. Good luck, John I'm not sure if you saw my other e-mail, so I'll send it again: My screen goes completely blank when I try to boot the new kernel. All the paths are correct(fixed them after I got a kernel panic error at first), and I've tried noapic, acpi=off, acpi=on, acpi=ht, devfs=mount devfs=nomount. I just can't seem to get it to boot. Also, I don't think the bootsplash for kernel version 2.6.3, because I noticed I got an error when patching, and the option to enable it wasn't there when I ran make xconfig. I doubt that's the problem though. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Actually it does sound like the problem. I know this sounds like a lot of work, but you might want to follow my steps again and not patch the kernel with bootsplash. Or just change your lilo.conf. I suggest the first you try is changing the lilo.conf file (remember to run lilo afterwards). append=devfs=nomount noapic acpi=off hdb=ide-cdrom hdd=ide-cdrom I figured out how to make burning without scsi'em work. Make the hdb and hdd reflect your cdrom devices. When it's time to burn, you run (replace hdd with your burner): cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd iso image Otherwise, if that doesn't work, save your .config from the source directory, then delete it. Untar the sources again, patch it again with the mm patch, and copy your .config back into the source directory. The follow the steps in my earlier email. Make sure the append line is similar to the one above. HTH, John -- Thu Feb 19 19:33:43 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 An apple a day makes 365 apples a year. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 !
Organization: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 2.2.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:16:22 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanman wrote: Yes, Boys and Girls; It's not only out, but it's amazing! When I tried the Beta2 version on my laptop, my NIC wouldn't stay up, and the system kept locking up during boot-up, when it was checking for new hardware - as in Harddrake. Also, Beta 2 ran slow on my laptop, while it ran my CPU in circles on my PC's! Beta 2 was at least 40% faster than Windows 2000 or XP Pro. No question! But RC1 is Smokin' on the laptop, and I mean fast! They've outdone themselves folks! Just finished the install, and everything is detected - even the Winmodem that will never work in Linux. It may not work, but it is being recognized for a change! Everything in KDE ( 3.2.6! ) is working as advertised, and actually does what it's supposed to do. No glitches, crashes, and it even accepted some of the KDE 3.2.1 RPM's re-worked by Voidstar for 9.2 . I'm in love again! If this thing keeps working like this for the next few days, I doubt that it will be giving me problems in the foreseeable future. Oh, did I mention that cdbakeoven-1.8.9-5mdk.i586.rpm installed perfectly? Hey Microsoft? Start getting afraid! Very afraid! You guys are toast! Let the downloading begin! Anyone have any success with nVidia drivers? 2.6 sounds good, but if I can't play Tuxracer, I'm not interested ;-) newest nvidia drivers has support for 2.6. i'm using them right now and it works fine. john -- Wed Feb 18 17:03:08 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Beware of friends who are false and deceitful. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:59:46 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Kernel HOWTO is 'being reviewed', so could someone kindly post a step by step on building and compiling a new kernel. I have the source, and i extracted it into /usr/src. I believe I start with make config? Ok, here we go! 1. Make sure the kernel you downloaded is a 2.6 kernel :). 2. Make sure the patches you would like are all downloaded. I usually apply the mm patches and the bootsplash patch. They aren't necessary but add nice features. The mm patch is available at kernel.org (make sure kernel and mm patch versions match) make sure you are in the kernel source directory, and apply the mm patch like so: bzcat /full/path/to/mmpatch.bz2 | patch -p1 3. download the bootsplash patch (if you like eyecandy) from bootsplash.org. As long as you download the version for the 2.6 kernel, it doesn't matter what the actual version number is. Apply this patch in almost the same way: cat /path/to/bootsplash.patch | patch -p1 4. In the source directory, type make xconfig. 5. Choose your options carefully In Block Devices, check both RAM disk support and Initial RAM disk (initrd) support. The Default RAM disk size is set to 32000 on my computer. Under Graphics Support, check Bootup splash screen under Bootsplash Configuration and UNCHECK Boot Logo under Logo Configuration. Besides those, I usually check almost everything in case there's something I need that I don't realize. 6. Save your config, and exit 7. Type make all 8. As root, type make modules_install 9. Then (still in source directory), type: cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-kernel version 10. Then type: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-kernel version.img kernel version (On my comp, i typed 'mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.1-mm1.img 2.6.1-mm1') 11. If you have the bootsplash-themes package installed, now is the time to utilize them. Go into /etc/bootsplash/themes/ and look at the config files. There should be paths to images. Look at those images and decide which theme in general you like best. When your ready, type: cat /etc/bootsplash/themes/your theme/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg /boot/initrd-kernel version.img 12. Edit /etc/lilo.conf to include your new kernel: image=/boot/bzImage-kernel version label=linux-2.6 #or whatever you want to call it root=/dev/hda5 #check other entries and make the same. should be partition that / is located on initrd=/boot/initrd-kernel version.imgappend=devfs=nomount splash=silent noapic acpi=off emulation read-only vga=791 13. on the append line above, splash can either be silent or verbose. Other than that, they can be the same as your other entries, but don't have any hd?=ide-scsi it's no longer necessary 14. Save the file, and run 'lilo' as root 15. Reboot and hope it works correctly Sorry if this was long and winded. If anything is confusing, let me know and I'll try to help. John -- Wed Feb 18 21:45:27 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 If in doubt, mumble. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] its installed
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 9:41:52 -0500 Harold E Vine III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did the install last night. i ran all the updates this morning. it was actually easier than a rh install, and i've run rh since the 2.0 daysup and including fedora. at that point i gave up. the bugs were unbelievable. i tried lindows and while the install went flawless, i didn't agree with the cnr thing one bit, especially for softyware that i KNOW i can download leagaly and freely on any other distro. so i tried mandrake, 9.2. i do have one small disappointment. real player plugins for mozilla were not installed automatically. so i'll have to do those myself. no biggie, but i noticed that lindows had all the video plugins already installed for mozzilla. that was a nice bonus. But you have to PAY for it. :-) i am downloading the ut2k4 demo that was just released. I'll have to check into that. i'm crossing my fingers that mandrake and i did the right install for the video stuff and that the 3d hardware drivers will work correctly. rh was NEVER able to do it, and i spent days, hours and weeks trying to get the right drivers installed, to no avail. i've just gotten to the point where my time is valuable and i want to enjoy my computer expeirences, not spend all my time fighting to configure something that won't work. so tonight, or tommorow, i'll install my ut2k4 game and see if its a GAME, or a slide show presentation (grin) :-) thanks for the help so far, and for the points y'all gave to make this install a particularly good one! in the default windowmaker environment, is it possible to add programs to the task bar (if thats what its called) that appears on the right side of the screen when you log in, on the desktop? i really hate digging through menus for the 6-8 programs i'll be using ALL the time, ya know what i mean? WindowMaker is the default environment? It was KDE the last time I checked. I personally use XFCE4. You might wanna give that a try, cause it has a task bar like thing that u can add programs to, and even menus to each program in it. That might sound a bit confusing, but visit http://xfce.org for more information. Charles A. Edwards has the RPMS for it at http://eslrahc.com. thanks! Harold, a convert to mandrake :-) Nice to have you here. John -- Sat Feb 14 11:05:27 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:46:15 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:10:29 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm usin an Asus A7V600, KT600 chipset. I going to chime in with a few words about the KT600. Be aware that the 2.4 kernel Only supports the KT600 in 2X mode for graphics cards. If you have a 'newer' high performance card and especially if you use the nvidia or fglrx driver you will Not be able to have hardware acceleration because the via_agp module can not be loaded Unless the included BIOS allows for the selection of 2X mode. Don't know about others but on my Soyo Dragon I can set it for either 4 or 8 but not 2 which meant no dri with my Radeon 9600XT and the 9.2 kernels. The fact won't affect Tom as he use nv. In my case I rebuilt the 2.6.2-1.tmb.1mdkenterprise for usage on my 9.2 system. That reminds me, I have a KT400 based Soyo Dragon Lite. I have an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. How can I tell at what speed my AGP bus is running at? I just kinda put my card in and installed the NVIDIA drivers, if you know what I mean grin. Thanks, John -- Sat Feb 14 11:10:37 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Keep on keepin' on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need some type of system restore!
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:23:02 -0500 marc resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 10:02 pm, lanman wrote: On February 12, 2004 09:40 pm, marc resnick wrote: Is there some type of system restore I can do? I(the genius) copied all of my files from /home/marc into a link to my new partition. Then I deleted /home/marc... Nothing will run =( Well Failsafe hates me, so naturally, it'll never work. I'll just go through and redo all of my settings. But one thing I don't know how to reset. In a shell, it now says Bash-205$... It used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I liked that better. =) Any idea how to change it? Open up userdrake as root, and check your settings. You should have a user for yourself with your home directory (make sure it exists), a user ID greater than or equal to 500, a Login Shell of /bin/bash, and a Primary Group that is the same as your user name. If not, mess with the settings until it's like that, and reboot. If that doesn't work, then I'm not sure. HTH, John -- Thu Feb 12 21:55:19 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A command to list running processes.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:03:22 -0800 Lee B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:58 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there a shell command to list running processes? I used screen to start up a game server, then detached. If I want to stop it, what do I do? You can see everything running and its pid # by typing top in a console, does not have to be root. HTH How does one page down while running Top, so you can see the processes that don't fit on the first screen? You can't. What I do is sort by different things. I'll sort by maybe CPU usage (CTL-P), then maybe Age (CTL-A), then maybe by users (press u, then type the name of the user). If I want to see all the processes, then I type ps aux | less John -- Thu Feb 12 22:04:36 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:07:37 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:18:35 -0500 Greg Meyer wrote: The package structure was changed significantly with 3.2 so that a straight upgrade from 3.1.3 will not be possible. For instance, kmail moved from kdenetwork to kdepim, so you cannot upgrade kdenetwork-kmail to kdepim-kmail. Try removing KDE 3.1.3 first and then installing 3.2. Probably 'urpme kdelibs' ought to do it. -- /g Well I tried this and still got the same error, so then i removed all of kde and tried again. LOL it was a disaster, there is some dependency I'm missing so it installed only half of the packages, kde-base and some of the more important ones just would not install. problem is aterm will only scroll back so far so i could not tell what it was looking for. To make aterm keep a whole bunch of lines, execute aterm like this: aterm -sl 5000 If you run it from the Mandrake menu, edit /usr/lib/apps/Mandrake/Terminals/ATerm/AppRun to include that option. John -- Tue Feb 10 17:49:22 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.] -- Alphonse Karr, Les Gu^epes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:23:51 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:24:01 -0600 John Drouhard disseminated the following: Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws Just did a CVS update, and folder properties are configurable now. Awesome, I tried looking at the source to fix it myself, but was totally and completely clueless. I gave up. The address book still hangs the app, and theres a weird thing when you first start it, it shows all messages in your folders as unread in the folder pane. It eventually went away when I had to kill SC because of the address book thing. I sent a bug report about the address book thing into bugzilla, but they resolved it with a LATER. I guess that means they're not working very hard on the GTK2 port. :-/ Still nice to know that the folder properties is working. That means theres still SOMEBODY working on it. :-) John D. -- Mon Feb 9 19:16:35 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full mooon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing kernel config file
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:32:53 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Missing kernel config file == OK, so, packages, kdeadmin-3-1-8mdk kdeadminkpackage-3-1-8mdk are definately installed When in kde - system - linux kernel the window complains, The kernel configuration could not be read due to the following error: cannot open /usr/src/linux/arch//config.in for reading Either your kernel sources contain invalid configuration rules or you just found a bug in the KDE Kernel Configurator. and it says path to kernel sources :/usr/src/linux but no such directory exists trouble is I cannot find any config.in file anywhere what must I do to accomplish a kde kernel configeration interface become root, then: ln -s /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux That'll make the sym link. John -- Sat Feb 7 11:22:13 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 He who laughs, lasts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:48:03 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:24:01 -0600 John Drouhard disseminated the following: Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws Very nice indeed. One thing though, the address book doesn't appear to be behaving. When I open it, as soon as I select an address, the address book dialogue 'hangs' and will not respond, forcing me to kill Claws altogether. Can you reproduce this? Actually, yes I can. I noticed that J-Pilot only imports contacts with valid email addresses. I double clicked on one, and it completely froze solid. It might be a bug with sylpheed-claws cvs. I'll try checking out later today and trying it again. And one other thing, the wordwrap doesn't work on input. I have to click the linewrap button manually to make it do this. I see you had the same problem :). John -- Fri Feb 6 10:20:31 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:06:29 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:20:51 -0600 John Drouhard disseminated the following: Very nice indeed. One thing though, the address book doesn't appear to be behaving. When I open it, as soon as I select an address, the address book dialogue 'hangs' and will not respond, forcing me to kill Claws altogether. Can you reproduce this? Actually, yes I can. I noticed that J-Pilot only imports contacts with valid email addresses. I double clicked on one, and it completely froze solid. It might be a bug with sylpheed-claws cvs. I'll try checking out later today and trying it again. And one other thing, the wordwrap doesn't work on input. I have to click the linewrap button manually to make it do this. I see you had the same problem :). Oh, ya, I never even noticed. And the irritating thing if the text doesn't wrap, it just goes off the edge of the window, no scrollbar, no way to see what's there (!?) And then, when I apply the wrap, it fscks up my sig... Well when I type across the screen, it wordwraps at the edge of my window. If I resize the window, it acts accordingly. I don't know why yours just runs of the edge of the screen. And the way to make it not mess your sig up is by pressing enter a couple times, then going back to your paragraph and pressing linewrap. Also, there's no way to set the account to send from per folder...I thought Claws was everything in Sylpheed but more... To be honest, I've never seen that feature. It would be nice to have though. John -- Fri Feb 6 11:12:06 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Cleanliness is next to impossible. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:48:09 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see, I've switched back to good 'ol Sylpheed GTK2 for now, but a big thanks for the heads up. I'll keep CVS'ing every few weeks and subscribe to the Claws list (Heaven help them), cuz this has me excited! (Geek alert...) Why? I just figured out how to make this auto reply-to and default account thing work for individual folders. Should I tell you? *ponders*. All right. The gtk2 widgets on this part of sylpheed-claws hasn't been ported over. If you manually edit the ~/.sylpheed/folderitemrc file, the settings still work fine. If you dont have one, then just right click on any folder and choose some option. It'll make one for you. John -- Fri Feb 6 15:29:45 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 22:41:21 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'. configure.ac:76: warning: AC_PROG_LEX invoked multiple times configure.ac:85: warning: AC_CANONICAL_HOST invoked multiple times configure.ac: 63: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' Line 63 should match this EXACTLY: AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) It shouldn't be plural headers, and it should be AM. Try autogen.sh after that. John -- Fri Feb 6 23:24:20 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!
Sorry for the long post, but I am happy right now. I finally got sick and tired of that horrible GTK1 version of Sylpheed. It was really the only app I still used regularly that used it. So I went on a treasure hunt to find a gtk2 port of sylpheed, and guess what I found? Sylpheed-claws's cvs holds a gtk2 branch! I checked it out, compiled it, and tried it. It's even the newest version: 0.9.8. Check my X-Mailer: header. Anyway, I may make an RPM for it once I figure a couple more things out. Here's what you can do to get it yourself: 1. cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sylpheed-claws login press enter when the password prompt comes up. 2. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sylpheed-claws co -r gtk2 sylpheed-claws ^^^That is one line 3.change into the sylpheed-claws directory. 4. Open the file configure.ac and change line 63 from AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h) to AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) 5. Then save it, and run autogen.sh. type make, then become root and type make install. Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws John Drouhard -- Thu Feb 5 20:11:30 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. -- Homer -- Thu Feb 5 20:23:46 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao Tsu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Journalised
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:24:45 -0800 Owen Berio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run across the term Journalised and Journalised FS.ext3. Would someone please tell me what they are and how they are used? Thanks, Owen Ok, FS means filesystem, which is the method that the linux kernel stores files to the hard drive. Depending on which filesystem you have, your computer will save files, keep track of files, move them around, etc, differently. On normal ext2 filesystems (not journalized), records are not kept of hard drive activity. This means that if you lose power or the computer is not cleanly shut down, it may take a LONG time for the computer to restore itself. With a journalized FS, after the power loss, the computer can restore the filesystem structure quite easily. Ext3 is a type of Journalized FS. Other kinds of Journalized FS's include XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, and Reiser4 (still in development, but 50% faster than the others). If I did a crummy job of explaining this, maybe someone else could help me out. John -- Mon Jan 12 16:02:58 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 When we talk of tomorrow, the gods laugh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 23:40:31 -0500 Charles A Edwards wrote: The version of mozilla that is required is dependent upon the version of mozilla installed on the system when galeon is built. Mozilla-1.5 is also avaiable from my site. There had been reports of problems with it so I removed both it and galeon from the hdlist so urpmi would not auto install them. Both can still be manually dled and installed from the 9.2 page. One question, Charles - is your Mozilla 1.5 rpm gtk2 enabled with antialiased fonts? Thanks, John -- Sun Dec 28 18:25:45 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enabling hyper threading.
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 05:08:16 + Steven Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am about 85% sure that Mandrake 9.2 has hyper threading support. If Mandrake 9.2 does have hyper threading support will someone tell how to enable it? Use the 2.6 kernel with HT technology enabled: http://kernel.org Instructions for building your own kernel can be found on google. Follow them carefully. If something goes wrong, your whole system could be fried. -- Sun Dec 28 18:29:57 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:28:28 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Eckert) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 01:17 schrieb yankl: Is it download version of MDK? If so then it does not have Nvidia drivers. But he told us the KDE jingle is heard. If the nvidia driver would cause this, wouldn't then KDE be not loaded at all? Gruß / regards This sounds like an X server problem. If there is no video right from the get go (after selected in lilo), then I'm not sure. But if he can see stuff until it tries to load X, then he might want to check the settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. There might be a bad monitor setting or something. Try booting failsafe, and choosing text mode with network. Then su to root. Check the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file for any errors and act accordingly. John -- Sun Dec 28 18:43:54 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache2
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:24:13 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey list... I thought Apache served index.html by default. Evidently not, though. My hda died, fubar beyond help last weekend and piecing everything together I noticed that now aeis.tv/Before which always went to aeis.tv/Before/index.html now gives me an error. If I specifically ask for aeis.tv/Before/index.html, it serves the page. Where, pray tell, do I set the default? Lee I would like to know this also, but, it never worked for me. You have to append the end / after the directory. I would like to know if it is possible to omit it, but so far it seems not. Oh and btw, your year is one off. It thinks its 2002. John -- Tue Dec 23 19:16:52 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:10:10 -0500 (EST) Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a general question also relevant to the particular case of XFCE4.0.2: If i choose to install xfce through mandrake installtion, does it automaticly remove the older version. I am asking this because when i high light this option as the current install version it says none. So it seems it does not understand that i have already installed an older version xfce 3.8.18. Thanks, Ramin Nice thing about xfce4 is that you don't have to uninstall old 3.8 versions. They can both be installed at the same time and everything will still be happy! grin John -- Tue Dec 23 21:03:50 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:11:20 -0500 (EST) Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. I assume this means that KDE automaticly adds an option for XFCE 4 beside XFCE 3. However my question has been more general. For example, i would like to upgrade to Gimp 1.3 and again the mandrake installer does not recognize that i already have Gimp 1.2.5. So does it mean that eventually i will have two versions of gimp and if so, which one is integrated to the whole desktop like when i click on open with gimp which version open up the picture The same question for Mozilla that i would like to upgradde from 1.4 to 1.5. Best regards, Ramin Once again, both gimp versions can be installed at the same time. The binaries are gimp-1.2 and gimp-1.3. When you type just gimp in a terminal, it will most likely still open Gimp 1.2.5. To make it open gimp-1.3, follow these steps: 1. become root (su) 2. install both gimp versions if necessary 3. rm -rf $(which gimp) 4. cd /usr/bin 5. ln -s $(which gimp-1.3) gimp As for mozilla, it should uninstall mozilla-1.4 first if necessary John -- Tue Dec 23 22:21:22 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 2.6 kernel help
I think I successfully compiled my own kernel. These are the steps I followed: 1. download kernel 2. move it to the directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.0 3. do a make xconfig, choose my options, save, close. 4. make all 5. make modules_install 6. cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.0 7. add lilo.conf entry: image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.0 label=linux2.6 root=/dev/hdc5 append=noapic acpi=off read-only 8. lilo When I reboot into the new kernel, it goes pretty far until it tries to mount the root fs. At this point it has an error: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on /dev/hdc5 This is a ReiserFS filesystem, and ReiserFS was built into the kernel. Right before the error it seemed to be doing something with RAID, which I don't have. Thanks for any suggestions. John -- Mon Dec 22 14:44:33 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Am I on the blacklist for this list?
The messages I send with the email address I'm subscribed with do not get though. I have to use another email address and confirm it. This started a couple days ago, and I have tried sending about 3 messages that have not come through. I am subscribed with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, John -- Fri Dec 5 16:16:57 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Am I on the blacklist for this list?
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:49:05 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:18:24 -0600 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The messages I send with the email address I'm subscribed with do not get though. Do you get bounces when you post as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Or do they just not go thru? I have to use another email address and confirm it. This started a couple days ago, and I have tried sending about 3 messages that have not come through. I am subscribed with [EMAIL PROTECTED] It looks like you are subbed as both of these: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is my dad's but not [EMAIL PROTECTED] This one isn't subscribed at all, but the one that I used to get this message to go through. Which one do youpost with that results in a confirmation message? [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll try sending one more with my account. -- Fri Dec 5 23:47:06 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
messages dont seem to be getting through. please ignore -- Thu Dec 4 17:39:37 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla-1.5
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:47:25 + Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:45:41 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please excuse the silly newbie question. What is the URL for you site? It's in my sig. But for those like Joe Hill who have problems seeing (-: http://www.eslrahc.com I just now realized that it's your name backwards, kind of. Charlse. That's clever. lol John -- Wed Dec 3 16:17:03 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sounds in 9.2
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:26:40 -0800 aronsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone else having trouble getting grip to encode as mp3? lame is installed and selected. Is it making ogg's? Click the config tab, then the encode tab. Change the Encode file format to have an mp3 extension. That should fix it. John Drouhard P.S., your reply-to is not necessary. -- Tue Dec 2 16:18:21 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gaim not working
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:35:39 +1300 anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My gaim just suddenly stopped connecting to msn - has any else had this problem? I tried with 0.73 after it failed on 0.74 but no joy. I am still able to connect from doze so it looks like msn is up... Any ideas? I had it going just before and rebooted - now (and on subsequent reboots) it won't connect. Cheers Anton Look at the FAQ on gaim's site. It may be an ssl problem. See the following: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gaim-ssl.txt There's a fix there. John Drouhard -- Sat Nov 29 21:50:07 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sylpheed and gtk2
Here's a simple question: How can I make sylpheed claws compile with gtk2 instead of gtk1.4? Gtk2 has a slicker interface and is much nicer everyway around. Thanks, John Drouhard -- Sun Nov 16 19:16:33 CST 2003 Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed and gtk2
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:23:41 -0500 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:17:55 -0600 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a simple question: How can I make sylpheed claws compile with gtk2 instead of gtk1.4? Gtk2 has a slicker interface and is much nicer everyway around. Agreed, but it's no simple matter at all, the app would have to be completely recoded to use the GTK2 widget set. There is a Sylpheed GTK2 project on Sourceforge, that's what I use, but I don't know about Claws. I tried it. I complied it with Jpilot support 'cause I thought that sounded cool, but everytime I try to run it, it has a segmentation fault. I did uninstall my other installation of sylpheed-claws first, btw. Oh well, I'll keep trying. John -- Sun Nov 16 20:09:34 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound not working in opengl
Sound is not working in any of my opengl applications. Here is the output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3) Here is my modules.conf: alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci alias eth0 via-rhine probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options adm1021 ignore=0,0x18,0,0x4c,0,0x4e alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia I use ALSA. Using OSS doesn't work either. Thanks. John Drouhard -- Sat Oct 18 13:14:06 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound not working in opengl
Sound is not working in any of my opengl applications. Here is the output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3) Here is my modules.conf: alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci alias eth0 via-rhine probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options adm1021 ignore=0,0x18,0,0x4c,0,0x4e alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia I use ALSA. Using OSS doesn't work either. Thanks. John Drouhard -- Sat Oct 18 14:23:34 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:01:42 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# lilo Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# Could you kindly post the entire contents of your /etc/lilo.conf file? It sounds like a problem with another part of this file. John Drouhard -- Wed Oct 8 16:47:59 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:30:58 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. your error might be any part of /etc/lilo.conf, so post the whole thing. Ok... here is my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hdc prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message root=/dev/hdc6 vga=padrã Right here is the problem. Make the line that currently reads vga=padra to vga=788 image=/boot/map label=map root=/dev/hdc6 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label=2.4.21-0.13 root=/dev/hdc6 read-only image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage label=Linux_Compiled root=/dev/hdc6 read-only optional image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 After making the changes, run lilo as root. John Drouhard -- Wed Oct 8 20:01:58 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:31:50 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 After making the changes, run lilo as root. John Drouhard Ok... I made these changes and run #lilo... now the message is the following: Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Added map * Added 2.4.21-0.13 Skipping /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage Fatal: open dev/hdd1: No such file or directory seems to be not right... Ok, let me ask you why you have an entry that will try to boot /boot/map? This is my /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hdc map=/boot/map vga=normal default=linux-mm. keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=80 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht vga=794 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mm.1mdk label=linux-mm root=/dev/hdc5 read-only optional vga=794 append=noapic devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mm.1mdk.img image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe noapic devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe I suggest you model yours after mine, making the necessary adjustments. The syntax is not that hard to understand. Once you have updated your lilo.conf, post it here. Note, the append line will be completely different for you, so I suggest you skip these lines in your file. append=failsafe is required if you want to boot into failsafe, however. HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Oct 8 21:42:48 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:32:29 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. _ _ my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 Make this your windows entry in /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 Save the file, then (without the # sign) #su (enter root password) #lilo HTH, John Drouhard -- Tue Oct 7 21:46:13 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] 9.2 for non-members
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 01:22:33 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 6, 2003 04:01 pm, Anarky wrote: any idea how much later the isos will be available for non members? Read the announcement here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdkisos.php3 aka: You're guess is as good as anyone's. g Apparently the official line 2 weeks after the pre-sold orders are shipped which looks to be around the last week of October. Takes a while for final testing and for manufacture of the disks. that I knew of too :) but still .. if they'll relese them by the end of october ... awesome ... i was just saying how much cooler Mandrake is than SuSE in it's marketing approach in that it offers it's newest version even to the non-members, unlike SuSE who keeps the free legal people in the dark This is OT, but I noticed today that SuSE Linux changed their name to SUSE LINUX. distrowatch.com's weekly newsletter has an article regarding name changes to Linux distro's. I don't know why they would do this, though. John Drouhard -- Mon Oct 6 18:02:24 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pekwm graphical pager
What is wrong with pekwm when I try to use a graphical pager with it? I am using xfce4-panel and pekwm. The desktop that you are currently on displays alot the smaller than the others. When you click on an area below viewable, the entire screen moves and centers on the mouse click. It's hard to explain. Thanks for any help. John Drouhard -- Sat Oct 4 17:14:11 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:13:15 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:27:47 -0500 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What is your startup script for running pekwm, xfce4-iconbox, xfce4-taskbar, and gkrellm? #XFCE4 and Pekwm xfce-mcs-manager #xfwm4 --daemon xfce4-iconbar #xfdesktop xset b off xset m 50/10 3 gkrellm -w xscreensaver exec xfce4-panel Esetroot -f ~/wallpapers/basicbl.png exec ~/cvs2/pekwm/src/pekwm I have succeeded in running xfce4 with pek. It it's pretty awesome! I just have some questions: 1. How can I get new themes? The default purple one isn't to my liking. 2. Is there a way to make xfce4-panel not show up in the iconbar, and have it so that when you switch desktops with it, it stays up. (have it on all the desktops, and not the taskbar.) 3. Have the mouse acceleration not quite as fast. 4. Make gkrellm not appear in the taskbar, and have it on all desktops. make the menu appear on right click, and nothing on left click. Thanks so much! John Drouhard -- Tue Sep 30 19:06:09 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:40:45 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:37:43 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nice Joe! how'd ya do that? And what is Pek? Pekwm, it's a really cool WM, I'm running the latest CVS, they just added the necessary Freedesktop.org compatibilities so I can run Pekwm instead of XFWM. So I run the XFCE panel and mcs-daemon and stuff, but Pekwm takes care of the windows. Pekwm allows for autogrouping of windows (like you see in the shot, I can move through those grouped terms with my mousewheel!), preset framegeometries, etc. Kinda like Fluxbox but on steroids. What is your startup script for running pekwm, xfce4-iconbox, xfce4-taskbar, and gkrellm? Also, how can I make the menu the same as Mandrake's menu? I would like to try this combination (right now I use all the XFce4 parts together: mcs daemon, iconbox, taskbar, desktop, xfwm...) Thanks, John Drouhard -- Mon Sep 29 21:25:28 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 2.6 kernel
How can I get ALSA to work with the new 2.6 kernel. Or any sound at all would be okay. When I first fired up the new kernel it had some sound errors. I cant remember any of the others, but there were some. I hope to completely migrate over to it if I can get everything to run nicely. I use Cooker (newest as of last night). Thanks John Drouhard -- Sun Sep 14 13:26:21 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2.6 kernel
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:43:27 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:28:00 -0500 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get ALSA to work with the new 2.6 kernel. Or any sound at all would be okay. When I first fired up the new kernel it had some sound errors. I cant remember any of the others, but there were some. I hope to completely migrate over to it if I can get everything to run nicely. I use Cooker (newest as of last night). Thanks John Drouhard John, did you install the new programs required to load the failed attempt of 2.6, or just blindly descide to download, compile and run it? I believe this would be modutils, however the newer version cannot load old versions (2.4 etc) and actually has problems loading the 2.6 too. But then again, I guess you just blindly descided upon this. What are you trying to achieve by running an unstable, incomplete and a very badly talked-about kernel version? Just know what you are getting yourself into before doing it, as you are more likely to run home crying that to get everything working the way you want ;-) Many things do not work in the 2.6, and also many things work differently in this release. It is not a matter of updating and running, but I guess you knew this before hand ;-) Well, I am running cooker, and I just merely installed the kernel from the mandrake rpm on the contrib source. I guess I wanted to try it because it is supposed to be faster in loading applications such as mozilla. I guess I'll just have to wait until everything has moved to the 2.6 kernel permanently. Thanks anyway. John Drouhard -- Sun Sep 14 15:48:07 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommend a laptop
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:34:02 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List Trying to decide on a dual boot laptop for win2k (sorry) and mdk 9.1 Any suggestions (besides offing the win2k). Lee Try going to linuxcompatible.org. I'm not sure you'll find anything but it's worth a try. John Drouhard P.S. Athlon based systems are cheaper for the same performance. -- Tue Aug 19 13:47:49 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lightweight text editor
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:16:19 +0100 Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:22:38 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at Nedit (www.nedit.org), this is part of the 9.1 distro and probably earlier but I'm a new convert. No tabs though. Gedit does have tabs. It should be include on the Mandrake cd's. urpmi gedit if it's not already there. do you by any chance know of a cool lightweight text editor (hopefully wiht tabs) ? -- a la Editpad classic if u've ever used it in windows. John Drouhard -- Mon Aug 18 18:09:26 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] realaudio player
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:26:18 -0700 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, I am going to be needing a realaudio player for my LM9.1 installation. I have downloaded the rp8 file but I was wondering if there are any further developed clients available. Or is there an alternative client for .rm and .ram files? tia, Bill W. Xine. http://xine.sf.net. John Drouhard -- Fri Aug 8 22:03:20 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] oss emulation through alsa
I have Mandrake 9.1, and would like to run OSS emulation through ALSA. The reason for this is that when I try to run games with wine, it only works with OSS. The problem with that is, Shockwave Flash doesn't work at all on the internet. I would like both of these to work at the same time, and I thought that this would do the trick. Here is my modules.conf. I have and intel 810 based onboard sound card. probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-ohci alias eth0 sis900 above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia Thanks a lot. John Drouhard -- Mon Aug 4 11:47:19 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
