[newbie] Opera for Linux
If anybody is interested in Opera for Linux, you can go to Opera's homepage at: http://www.opera.com/alt_os.html and check on the status. There are ports for BeOS (currently downloadable in Beta 5 form), Psion/EPOC32, MacOS, Linux, OS/2 and they are working on getting started on Amiga. It doesn't look as though there will be a beta version of the Linux/X11 port anytime soon, so I guess I will keep using Fontastic Netscape, but then again, I do have a BeOS 4.5 CD that needs to be installed :-)
Re: [newbie] MS Internet Explorer
VMware is an emulation program that allows you to run another OS, (Windows, DOS, WinNT), inside of Linux. So, in Xwindows you run it just like any other program and it starts up and boots, just like a computer, except it runs whatever OS, you set it up to run. It is like another computer inside your computer. You can try it free, but you have to pay for it after the licese expires. Go to www.vmware.com, they have more information. On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Hugh wrote: What is VMWARE? And how does it allow someone to run windoze programs?
Re: [newbie] Bash and Aliases problem
When I make aliases, I put them into the /etc/bashrc file, so that no matter who I login as, I always have them. Here is how I formatted my aliases: alias ls="ls -Fa --color" This would alias the "ls" command to show all dot files in color. Othere commands should be similar such as: alias rm="rm -rf" This would alias the "rm" command to not ask for permission to delete and do it recursively (including subdirs, maybe a bad thing). On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, prabhakar+nitika wrote: Hi everyone: I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have tried adding them to ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc, but have not had any luck in getting bash to recognize the aliases. Would there be any reason at all that my ~/.bashrc would not get read by bash. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong here?? Thanks prabhakar
[newbie] Still SMP troubles...
I tried the "fix" that Axalon (MandrakeSoft) suggested, but the VMware modules still won't compile, they complain that the header files are a little different than my currently running kernel version, and it quits the compiler. So, I can't get VMware to install. I hate to say it, but I *need* VMware and if I can't get it to install, then I am switching to SuSE, where I know it works. Axalon if you are reading this, I don't know what you mean by, "There are also provided modversions*.h for the different kernel-* packages for those who only want kernel-headers installed." What does that mean? Is there anyway I can get kernel headers for my currently running kernel (2.2.13-7mdksmp)? -- Axalon's Reply -- "Nope means somebody doesn't know what they are talking about much less doing... Edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile add the smp onto EXTRAVERSION, make clean make dep".
[newbie] SMP troubles
Why do i get an error message everytime I try to recompile some program that uses SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing)? For example, I am trying to install VMware's Emulator on my Linux Machine (Mandrake 6.1, kernel version 2.2.13-7mdk) and when I invoke their install script, it gives me the following error message... - Begin Error - What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]? --- I accept the default and it shoudl be correct... The directory of kernel headers (version 2.2.13-7mdk) does not match your running kernel (version 2.2.13-7mdksmp). Consequently, even if the compilation of the module was successful, the module would not load into the running kernel. - End Eror - Did Mandrake drop the ball on this, or is there something I am missing. I have all the kernel source installed and it is in /usr/src/linux/include. Anybody else run into problems on an SMP machine? Help please. I would have posted this to VMware, but i have noticed the same problem with several packages while trying to build and SMP version. I ran into a similar problem while just trying to recompile a new kernel.. -- John
[newbie] getting quake2 to work
I was wondering if anybody on the list has been able to get Quake2, to run in gl mode using acceleration on a Banshee based video card. I have read the HOWTOs, and I've downloaded the files from www.3dgamers.com and installed them correctly, I can even run the test3Dfx program, using sudo, but I cannot get quake2 to run. Oh yeah, I also configured SVGAlib. For some reason, the Device3Dfx RPM does build correctly on my SMP machine, so I had to resort to using sudo. Thanks
RE: [newbie] Kernel Recompile
I found a tidbit of information that may pertain to your situation. Here is the URL for the info: http://www.patoche.org/LTT/kernel/0153.html Basically, the info says that these modules aren't needed. You can safely comment these out in /etc/conf.modules. They are just some compression types for network protocols that were left over and not commented out. original message I am using Mandrtake 6.0 with the s.s.9-27 kernel that comes with it. I recompiled the kernel using the following steps: xconfig -- checked off only the items needed by my computer. make dep make bzImage make modules make modules install The last command, make modules install, automatically installed the new kernel and system map. I know this because the old ones were there too. Lilo was changed with the /sbin/lilo command. However, when i rebooted the new kernel I got the following error message repeated down the screen: can't find module: net-pf-01 My compute is at home and is not hooked up to any network and I thought I told it to not load any of the networking daemons. Any ideas on what may be wrong? Thanx, SA ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
RE: Re: [newbie] Changing the Window Manager
If you want to use WindowMaker you have to choose AfterStep, using the method below and then in AfterStep you can swith to WindowMaker from the menu at the bottom left corner. I think it says something like "switch to..." You can run `desktopcfg` from the command-line, or (from KDE) click on the K Menu, then Utilities Desktop Switching Tool. This will let you choose bewteen Gnome, KDE, and AnotherLevel. The command-line tool gives you a few more options. For even more control, you could just put the window manager directly in your .xinitrc file. If you're interested, I can explain it, but otherwise I don't want to take up bandwidth with a bunch of stuf nobody wants to read. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Steve Spiller wrote: This may seem like a dumb question, but I have only run Linux-Mandrake for 1 week. When I run startx, it automatically boots into KDE. This is fine, but I would like to test the other Window Managers that I installed. How do I use startx to boot into WindowMaker (for example)?
[newbie] nVidia TNT/TN2 Drivers
Anybody looking for TNT/TNT2 drivers for Linux go here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html nVidia has developed an SVGA for their TNT/TNT2 chipset.
[newbie] Motherboard question
I was wondering if anybody else is using the Abit BH6 motherboard. I am having a problem with Linux where the mouse works fine in the console (text only, not in Xwin) and then when I start Xwin my mouse craps out and just jumps around all over the screen. I have tried stopping the GPM service and then restarting Xwin and that doesn't help, I have also tried different mouse protocols. BTW, the mouse is a PS/2 Generic Mouse (intellimouse clone). I have another linux box with Mandrake on it and the mouse works fine on that one, so I was wondering if it may be the motherboard, this is a new machine.
Re: [newbie] Trashed Linux installation
Tom's root boot disk is good,that is what I use. It has saved my neck a few times. * Original message from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] newbie@linux- mandrake.com On 17 Aug, Andy Goth wrote: What kind of errors are you getting? I got a bunch of I-node table errors. Since I've been working on it (reinstallations), I don't have them anymore. I guess what I'm looking for is a way to boot from a floppy without depending on a wrecked installation. All I need to do is fix the disk. Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ: 35256413 ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.- "``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.- "``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell Look at Tom's root boot disk: http://toms.net/rb/ -- -Matt Stegman
Re: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!
I have Winblows98, Linux and Beos 4.5 on my computer and out of the three, I would say that BeOS is the best, but then again, there aren't near as many apps for BeOS as there are for Linux. So, I am using Linux. Of all the Linux Distributions I have tried, Linux-Mandrake is the best for newcomers, and believe me I have tried them ALL. * Original message from: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caymen wrote: It is just Microsofts way of saying that WINDOWS is the ONLY OS to have. Tom Ken Wilson wrote: Windows will not recognize your Linux partitions. Also, your drive designation in Windows is not arbitrary. If you remove a drive it once had by partitioning it for another file system it will just redesignate the drives that are left, keeping them in alphabetic sequence. I think it's a good thing. My linux system works. I don't want MS messing with somethings not broke. If I could access my Linux partitions with MS, I bet it would brake them. I recently installed Be, and Be sees the linux partitions, haven't tried to access them yet.. BeOS seems to me to be some sort of 'nix. = == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] About other unices
I did some work on a Sun SparcStation 20 and I must say that using Solaris is like pulling teeth compared to using Linux. Although, I did like that 21" monitor and some of the utilties that came with OpenWindows. * Original message from: "Jeanette Russo" newbie@linux- mandrake.com I have tried Solaris for Intel and Sco Unix and neither is very good for a desktop OS. Haven't tried FreeBsd but have heard good things about it. Sco and Solaris are both more difficult fo configure than Linux and the hardware support is much more limited. You have not had fun until you try to setup Solaris to dial into the internet and try to download a compiler since Sun doesn't give you one and you can't install any software to use it without it. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Lorenzo Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:10 AM Subject: [newbie] About other unices Hi all. Being sometime here and reading about which distribution of Linux is best, and talking about if Linux is for the average user, I want to talk of what do you think about other flavors of unix. What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html ). They have linux apps compability. Do you think is better to switch (Mandrake has many problems with the hardware). Just to make conversation, not flames! Lorenzo
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
I usually setup my partitions like this for a workstation/smb server install. I have two 4 GB HDDs. swap - 128MB / - 300MB /usr - 3GB (depending on the size of your HDD) /home - 4GB the rest usually around You might want to have more mount points if you are using the server for web serving or a hardcore server. You are most likely to get a little extra security if you put the files you are serving on a seperate HDD than your Linux system files, i.e. if you are serving out of /home/httpd, then mount that on a seperate HDD. * Original message from: Victor Richardson newbie@linux- mandrake.com Thanks for the info, I've beating my head against a wall for a week now. I won't be hosting websites, but it will be doing file/printer/email/internet routing. I'll just adjust the files accordingly. Did you mount "/usr" , "usr/src",and "/usr/local" within the "/" partition? How about a "/tmp"? Vic Brett Jones wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: Would the same parameters hold true for a server? Vic I've got a server with 1 4.5 gig SCSI drive, and 1 8.4 gig IDE drive. This is what it's tables looks like. 4.5 /boot 20 m / 850 m /var400 m /home 600 m /home/httpd 1500 m /home/ftp bal. 8.4 /home/httpd/vhost bal. This box is going to host web sites for myself, and hopefully many others. This partition table is what made sense to me, I'm sure others have there own ideas. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Taking the plunge..
I guess for some people that *really* need to learn the basics of Linux quick this might be a good idea, but for me I just got all the material off of the Internet I could read and learned all the goods about Linux through that. All I spent was the time to learn all the material. That only too me 3 years to do. * Original message from: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] $1000 sounds WAY too steep. a good $30 to $50 book and some practice would give you just as much im sure. if you want to give me $1000, i could show you a few things :) :P Toby Sheets wrote: OK folks: I now have Linux working except for my sound card or SCSI stuff but the main part of the system is at least stable enough for me to poke around. I don't really know what to do with it all except for play some of the new fangled games. Anyway, there's a huge class coming to town teaching Unix and Linux. It's $1000 for 2 8 hour classes with tons of hands-on labs. Now, I can get around DOS and consider myself a quick learner, especially with computers, so I'm not really concerned with sensory overload in a long class like this. Does anyone have an opinion on whether the price is reasonable or should I look elsewhere for some really in-depth quick training? They are also offering another 2 day course right after the first one for the same price. Their web page for the course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=640 and the Level II course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=670 Any opinions would be appreciated. Toby PS: If anyone remembers about a week ago a gentleman offered to mail me his external modem for free since I had a winmodem that would not run under Linux. Well, I got it yesterday. I didn't save his email so I don't know who it was but THANK YOU! ...and I *will* pass it on to someone else for free once I have purchased a new USR 56K. Petey wrote: Is there any support for DVD kits with MPEG-2 cards within Linux? If so, what brands are Linux compatible? If not, will there be any support in the near future, say in the 2.4 kernel? Thanks for the help. Jason Peterson
Re: [newbie] Ethernet Question (was 10/100 Ethernet)
Since you are using 10/100 NICs, why not use a 100baseT Hub? You can find them pretty cheap off of the internet and would probably give you the speed boost you want. Like it was said below, 10Mb/s is only 1.25 MB/s, not 10 MB/s. So on a 10baseT network you are running at a MAX of 10 MegaBITS per second. * Original message from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] newbie@linux- mandrake.com 10megabit=1.25megabyte actual speed transferred isn't 1.25 megabyte... its less than that maybe about 1megabyte tops per second. so 425 megabyte transferred in about 8 minutes is pretty reasonable [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/18/99 01:57:53 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Hamka B Hj Suleiman/SKO/PCSB/Petronas) Subject: [newbie] Ethernet Question (was 10/100 Ethernet) I have a simple three user ethernet at home, and all is well. I just have on question concerning speed. I have 10/100 baseT NIC`s and a 10baseT hub. I know that the speed will only go as fast as the hub, but is seems realy slow. For instance, it takes around 8 minutes to transfer 425 megs. And the thing is, these computers are in my room, at the max only 15 feet apart. In a week they have to be more than 200 feet apart. Whats the hold up ? They are all good computers too. (PII`s) thanks jerrud
Re: [newbie] HOORAH!
usually if i want to do a CD-less install I just download Serv-U (an FTP server) and add an anonymous user with the correct permissions mapped out to a directory on the FTP computer and just poing the Linux install program to the Serv-U computer's IP address and it works like a champ. * Original message from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, my CD-less install was a success! Sure, I could have spent 7 dollars and saved hours and hours of irk, but then I wouldn't feel so proud and yet foolish. In case anyone's interested, the correct path for an FTP install is . . . /pub/linux/mandrake/6.0 The first part varies from mirror to mirror, but the important part is to stop after the 6.0, but before the mandrake (this isn't clear from the docs or the install program). Though I haven't even run X or anything, the setup seems to have gone without a hitch. Thanks to everyone for helping me, and to the people at Mandrake for making an install so simple even *I* could do it (with an awful lot of help). - Chris
Re: [newbie] Viruses?
Exactly that is why you can't be infected by a Winblows virus on a Mac platform and vice versa. It also is the same reason you can't run Winbloze apps in Linux without an emulator. BTW, haven't seen too many viruses for Linux lately and how many are there for Winblows, umm ... around 50,000? * Original message from: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Toby Sheets wrote: Is Linux susceptible to the same virii that Windoze is? No, because viruses are written for a particular processor/OS platform, and none of the calls upon which a DOS/windows virus would rely are present in Linux. Of course, if you're running WINE or VMWare, that's another story... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Ethernet Question (was 10/100 Ethernet)
No, it isn't. 10baseT and 100baseT are only specs for the speed data is transferred. Unshielded category 3, 4 or 5 twisted pair cable is limited to 100m cable length. 10base2, or BNC, is limited to 185m. * Original message from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got this hub for free :) Also, I read that 100baseT hubs can be twice as far away as a 10baseT hub. Is this true? jerrud
Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems
I actually tried doing the Lnx4win on my Celeron 400 machine with 128MB Ram and it was so slow that after it installed I almost immediately uninstalled it. Once you have linux on native ext2 partitions running the Lnx4win install will just seem too slow for you. * Original message from: "Martin White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Had absolutely no list activity all day, then got a whole host of repeated items alll at once (!!). Not sure if my post got through during all of that, so i'm forwarding it again as i'd really like to suss this one out. Apologies if it get's received by people more than once - Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:27 PM Subject: Linux4Win Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my Dell Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and shortly after being asked which packages i want, everything bombs out with the following (written down and typed so please excuse any possible typos!): " install exited abnormally -- received signal 7 sending termination signals ... done sending kill signals ... done unmounting filesystems... umount failed /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7 /tmp/rhimage/dev/loop7: No such file or directory TabAlt-Tab Between elements | Space selects | f12 next screen /mnt/proc /proc /mnt /dos umount failed You may safely reboot your system. " Does anyone have any ideas please ? I don't really want to properly partition my machine at this stage as i may need to reclaim the space temporarily from time to time, and it will be handy to be able to just copy the Mandrake directory to the network for safe keeping. I have done MANY Mandrake installs before and can normally sort other peoples problems, but this one seems to be a non-starter !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] USB
The only reason I ask is because when I recompiled my kernel I saw a section for USB called "USB - Not for the faint of heart". I compiled it in as modules, and when I loaded the module it seemed to recognize my USB controller, but I didn't know exactly how to use it. BTW, this was on the 2.2.9-27 build kernel. * Original message from: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] John May wrote: Does anybody have any resources regarding USB in Linux? Particularly on setting up modems. I read somewhere that it was possible. In current production kernels (2.0.x, 2.2.x), there is no USB support. There is _very_ basic USB support in the development kernels (2.3.x; 2.3.11 is the latest), but I still don't think there's enough to actually use a modem. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
RE: [newbie] WindowMaker
Glad to hear it worked for you. * Original message from: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks John. I've got 0.60 compiled and it appears to be working. I use appear because I added some of the pentium optimizations to the Makefiles. I used the same optimizations that the Mandrake kernel source used. scottw On 14-Aug-99 John May wrote: First of all, I know what you mean. I have to put up with about 5 WinNT servers at work when 2 Linux boxes could be doing the job of all 5. Ok. WindowMaker 0.52 comes with the Mandrake distribution. You can either install that if you haven't already, or you can go ahead with installing the 0.60 version. To install the 0.60 version, you have download the tar ball and you have to compile it (you said you did this). Besides the 0.60 tar ball you also need a library called libPropList, I think that's what its called, this also comes with Mandrake as an RPM. I don't know if you need all the utilites, but I installed all the C Development and extra utilities, just in case and I didn't get any compile errors, except for a few warnings. I installed the 0.60 version and it isn't all that different, just some bug fixes. If you just want to check out WindowMaker, I would install the version that comes with Mandrake and try that out. There were a lot of configuration issues I had to go through to get the 0.60 version to work. Some things you have to do to install 0.60: 1. Remove the windowmaker RPM from Linux, if installed. Also remove the wmaker-conf RPM if it is installed too. 2. untar the 0.60 tar ball, and run the configure script, can get the configure options if you type: ~#: ./configure --help The configure script will let you know if anything is missing or if something isn't right. Generally if the configure script gives no errors, you should be able to compile without errors and install it ok. If you install WindoMaker (wmaker) into /usr/local/bin, then you will have to add that to your path. You can edit /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc and add the line PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin If you want the program in a different directory, you can edit the Makefile to tell WindowMaker where to install, but by default, it is installed in: /usr/local/bin 3. Run make 4. Run make install Building WindowMaker with Gnome and KDE support won't break anything, it just adds support. That should get you started. I agree with you KDE reminds me too much of Winblows and I want to get as far away from Windblows as possible. There are a lot of things that could go wrong and it might get frustrating, but it's all part of learning your way around linux. 8-) * Original message from: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, I would like to try WindowMaker. I have downloaded the 0.60 tar balls a while back but I don't know if Mandrake comes with all the required libs tools. Do you really need automake, libtool, etc. or is gcc enough? Does the Makefile require modification to put WindowMaker components into the correct directories on Mandrake? I've noticed that both RH SuSE seem customize their rpm's of WindowMaker. When I built 0.60 the resulting config files were in text format. I followed the directions to convert to binary form so I could use the GUI config program but the conversion script gave an error. Is this normal? Does building WM with Gnome or KDE support harm WM's performance any? I assume those hooks are there to load the appropriate libs when a Gnome/KDE app is executed. I have to put up with NT and soon W2k for 8hrs at work. It would be nice to use something completely different. scottw -- E-Mail: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Aug-99 Time: 14:32:13 This message was sent by XFMail --
[newbie] WindowMaker
I use WindowMaker and call me a geek, but I like it better than Gnome and KDE put together. I guess the main reason I like it so much is because of the DockApps that you can use. AfterStep has about the same thing, but I like WindowMaker better. For people that are used to Windoze though, KDE would probably make more sense, but I am tired of Windoze and I want something that looks as different from that as possible I have some experience with WindowMaker, so if anybody has any questions, you can ask. * Original message from: "Carlos Rubinstein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe a command that will change the desktop mgr. is "desktopcfg" from the command line. Have heard lots of good things about WindowMaker; see www.windowmaker.org Brian
Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape
First, check to see if the lpd daemon is running. You might want to go to the command line and as root type: lpc There you can restart the printing daemon bye issuing the command: #lpc restart lp0 ...or... #lpc start lp0 The command to print out of Netscape is lpr. To print out of Netscape on my box, I use: lpr -Php5l I named my queue hp5l because I have a Hewlett Packard 5L, but for you you would use: lpr -Plp0 Hope this helps. * Original message from: "John Connell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried "lpr"--didn't work! Thanks anyway. John - Original Message - From: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape John Connell wrote: Hi All. Can anyone tell me how I can print from Netscape? I have a Canon BJ4000 and can print test pages in L-M6.0, but cannot print from Netscape. My printer is on lp0. It keeps asking for the right print command. I tried -Plp0 plus a few others with no results. Thanks for your responses in advance! John Connell Hi, John, Try 'lpr' as the print command. Good luck, Hidong
Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape
When you type lpr you have to also specify a printer queue, so it would be something like: lpr -Plp0 You substitute lp0 with the name of your printer queue. * Original message from: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I type "lpr" in the command line I get the message "lpr: lp unknown printer" JC
Re: [newbie] How to use Gnome w/Mandrake 6.0?
You can choose it out of the drop-down box in the K Login box. If you aren't using that, you can change your desktop with desktopcfg or switchdesk. Type either of the two at the command prompt as your normal user. * Original message from: Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi How do I use Gnome with Mandrake 6.0? I am really happy with KDE except for occasional lockups but would like to try Gnome. Many thanks. Jim
RE: [newbie] WindowMaker
First of all, I know what you mean. I have to put up with about 5 WinNT servers at work when 2 Linux boxes could be doing the job of all 5. Ok. WindowMaker 0.52 comes with the Mandrake distribution. You can either install that if you haven't already, or you can go ahead with installing the 0.60 version. To install the 0.60 version, you have download the tar ball and you have to compile it (you said you did this). Besides the 0.60 tar ball you also need a library called libPropList, I think that's what its called, this also comes with Mandrake as an RPM. I don't know if you need all the utilites, but I installed all the C Development and extra utilities, just in case and I didn't get any compile errors, except for a few warnings. I installed the 0.60 version and it isn't all that different, just some bug fixes. If you just want to check out WindowMaker, I would install the version that comes with Mandrake and try that out. There were a lot of configuration issues I had to go through to get the 0.60 version to work. Some things you have to do to install 0.60: 1. Remove the windowmaker RPM from Linux, if installed. Also remove the wmaker-conf RPM if it is installed too. 2. untar the 0.60 tar ball, and run the configure script, can get the configure options if you type: ~#: ./configure --help The configure script will let you know if anything is missing or if something isn't right. Generally if the configure script gives no errors, you should be able to compile without errors and install it ok. If you install WindoMaker (wmaker) into /usr/local/bin, then you will have to add that to your path. You can edit /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc and add the line PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin If you want the program in a different directory, you can edit the Makefile to tell WindowMaker where to install, but by default, it is installed in: /usr/local/bin 3. Run make 4. Run make install Building WindowMaker with Gnome and KDE support won't break anything, it just adds support. That should get you started. I agree with you KDE reminds me too much of Winblows and I want to get as far away from Windblows as possible. There are a lot of things that could go wrong and it might get frustrating, but it's all part of learning your way around linux. 8-) * Original message from: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, I would like to try WindowMaker. I have downloaded the 0.60 tar balls a while back but I don't know if Mandrake comes with all the required libs tools. Do you really need automake, libtool, etc. or is gcc enough? Does the Makefile require modification to put WindowMaker components into the correct directories on Mandrake? I've noticed that both RH SuSE seem customize their rpm's of WindowMaker. When I built 0.60 the resulting config files were in text format. I followed the directions to convert to binary form so I could use the GUI config program but the conversion script gave an error. Is this normal? Does building WM with Gnome or KDE support harm WM's performance any? I assume those hooks are there to load the appropriate libs when a Gnome/KDE app is executed. I have to put up with NT and soon W2k for 8hrs at work. It would be nice to use something completely different. scottw
Re: [newbie] Checking IRQ settings
A better way to check your interrupts, at least from the command line, is: ~#: cat /proc/interrupts * Original message from: Richard Lamont [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is this done in Linux? On the command line: cat /proc/interrupts In KDE: K-Settings-Information-Interrupts. Note that inactive devices don't always appear. I don't know why this should be. -- Richard Lamont [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonix.demon.co.uk/
[newbie] USB
Does anybody have any resources regarding USB in Linux? Particularly on setting up modems. I read somewhere that it was possible.
Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape
Wow you're right. Is this a possible problem with the package. I typed: lpc after that I typed status and when I did, I get the same seg fault. Can anybody else confirm this? * Original message from: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] John May wrote: First, check to see if the lpd daemon is running. You might want to go to the command line and as root type: lpc There you can restart the printing daemon bye issuing the command: #lpc restart lp0 ...or... #lpc start lp0 The command to print out of Netscape is lpr. To print out of Netscape on my box, I use: lpr -Php5l I named my queue hp5l because I have a Hewlett Packard 5L, but for you you would use: lpr -Plp0 Hope this helps. * Original message from: "John Connell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried "lpr"--didn't work! Thanks anyway. John - Original Message - From: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape John Connell wrote: Hi All. Can anyone tell me how I can print from Netscape? I have a Canon BJ4000 and can print test pages in L-M6.0, but cannot print from Netscape. My printer is on lp0. It keeps asking for the right print command. I tried -Plp0 plus a few others with no results. Thanks for your responses in advance! John Connell Hi, John, Try 'lpr' as the print command. Good luck, Hidong When I entered the cmmands "lpc start/restart lp0"-- I r'cd "Segmentation fault" I have also tried the command "lpr -Plp0" in Netscape to no avail! lpd is running. JC
[newbie] 3dfx VooDoo Banshee
I need more of an opinion on this one. I am getting a new 3D graphics card and I was wanting to know how well the 3dfx VooDoo Banshee chip workes with Xwindows. I am considering, in particular, the Diamond Monster Fusion. Has anybody had any experience with this card? I would appreciate any info. Thanks
Re: [newbie] file structure troubles...
What you do is type in your root password. Once you are at the prompt (#:) you type in the following: # fsck /dev/hda1 (don't type the #) (or whatever partition you want such as /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3) Be sure to check all your ext2 partitions.. If errors are found just say you want to fix them with "y". - Original Message - From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 9:25 PM Subject: [newbie] file structure troubles... When I turn on my system, I get an error message that tells me I need to run maintenance programs on my file structure, but I do not know where these progs are, can anyone help me? The computer won't even boot properly, it asks for a root password, then puts me at a prompt. Nighthawk
[newbie] Retrieving Hotmail E-mail
I would like to retrieve my Hotmail E-mail without going through the web-browser login procedure and I found a program to do it called Hotmole. I tried using the program, but I get an error message the following is the last few lines: --- Hotmole --- Command line processed ok. Examining Hotmail's Front page Redirected to http://lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login loggin in ...1...1st curl failed addr= https://lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/dologin... 1st phase of login failed Error logging into Hotmail. Exiting. Does anybody else use Hotmole to get their Hotmail? I tried the author's homepage, but the url ( http://www.jin-sei-kai.demon.co.uk/hugo/hotmole/ ), doesn't work. If not, anybody have a similar program that will check and download my Hotmail to my local inbox? I looked at the program's, skimpy documentation and it just says that the error means to try again, and I did, but always the same response. Any help would be appreciated.
Re: [newbie] booting to GUI
If i am not mistaken I believe you have to edit your /etc/inittab file and put a 5 in place of the 3 in the runlevel line. - Original Message - From: Stephan Rex To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 8:14 PM Subject: [newbie] booting to GUI Hi all, I updated somefiles yesterday, and now linux only boots to the command line login prompt and not the KDE login. Some which file and what options do i need to change to fix this? TIA Stephan
Re: [newbie] Retrieving Hotmail E-mail
Yes, I installed Curl already. I have already gotten past that problem. - Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Retrieving Hotmail E-mail Did you install curl? ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/curl-5.4-1.i386.rpm
Re: [[newbie] Retrieving Hotmail E-mail]
I would love to do that, but I have the hotmail account from a long time, since before it was owned by Microshaft. The only way to close the account is to not use it for 120 days, and I can't go without checking it for that long. I wish they had a way to forward the mail to a POP3 account, but they don't, so I am stuck, right where they want me. - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Retrieving Hotmail E-mail] = Hotmail is owned by M$. Why not use "Linuxmail.org" or "linuxstart.com"? Either can be directed to forward automagically to your popmail account, thus right to your inbox when you check your popmail account. ;-) Mike
[newbie] Lynx
I am getting an error message when I try to run Lynx, it says: $ lynx metamail: can't open temporary file! $ That's all it says then I goes back to the prompt. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks
