[newbie] Re: Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005
John Zoetebier wrote: I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts that look coarse. I have tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the fonts stay the same. Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font system ? Font anti-aliasing seems to be working now. However it seems you have to reboot ypur PC (or X server). These are the settings for my system: - switch anti-aliasing on - leave exclude range off - use subpixel RGB hinting, style medium -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005
I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts that look coarse. I have tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the fonts stay the same. Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font system ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2
After upgrading Mandriva LE 10.2 from Mandrake 10.1 the wheel on my mouse is not working anymore. It is a wireless Microsoft USB wheelmouse. Worked fine in Mandrake 10.1 with some ACPI options like: append=noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht With the above settings the USB mouse did not work at all in Mandriva. So I changed it to: append=splash=silent Mouse is working now, but not the wheel. Wheel on PS2 mouse is not working either. I looked in Xorg.0.log and found these error messages at the top of the log file: 1) Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 2) (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5964) rev 1, Mem @ 0xe000/27, 0xff5f/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff5c/17 (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5d44) rev 1, Mem @ 0xd800/27, 0xff5e/16 However Xorg seems to have detected my ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. Any ideas ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2
John Zoetebier wrote: After upgrading Mandriva LE 10.2 from Mandrake 10.1 the wheel on my mouse is not working anymore. It is a wireless Microsoft USB wheelmouse. Worked fine in Mandrake 10.1 with some ACPI options like: append=noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht With the above settings the USB mouse did not work at all in Mandriva. So I changed it to: append=splash=silent Mouse is working now, but not the wheel. Wheel on PS2 mouse is not working either. I looked in Xorg.0.log and found these error messages at the top of the log file: 1) Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 2) (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5964) rev 1, Mem @ 0xe000/27, 0xff5f/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff5c/17 (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5d44) rev 1, Mem @ 0xd800/27, 0xff5e/16 However Xorg seems to have detected my ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. Any ideas ? Suddenly the wheel is working again :) The only thing I remember having changed is in MMC change font size to 10 in stead of 12. This may have changed the Xorg settings and as a side effect the mouse is working now. After rebooting the PC I discovered that the wheel was working again. It am just guessing though -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 03:29, John Zoetebier wrote: In the mean time I found a partial workaround. In the BIOS I can set USB to USB 1.1 only, disabling USB 2.0 Now I can use my printer and USB mouse, but obviously not my USB 2.0 card reader. Are you sure? Usually USB2 devices are backwards compatible, and work, but just slower, in a USB1 slot. How incredible it may sound, but this is how I got USB 1.1 working on my PC. An other option that works is USB 2.0 in FullSpeed mode. However as soon as I use HighSpeed mode I can see that module ohci-hcd is waiting for something and see an error message in messages.log. The advantage of USB 2.0 is that I can use USB 2.0 devices that can run on reduced FullSpeed, not my card reader. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 01:55, John Zoetebier wrote: I'm stabbing in the dark, but if this were me I'd go now to Mandrake Control Center Hardware and have it re-read the hardware list. I would guess that it will now configure your ethernet to eth0. Try it and let us know what happens. Makes not difference, still eth1. John, this needs someone with more knowledge than I have, but in preparation for better help could you please post the output of ifconfig (from a root console) I think that will be needed by anyone who can help. Sorry I can't help more. Not a problem. In the mean time I found a partial workaround. In the BIOS I can set USB to USB 1.1 only, disabling USB 2.0 Now I can use my printer and USB mouse, but obviously not my USB 2.0 card reader. This is not a huge problem as I can link the card reader up to an other PC. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Quickbooks on wine
JR wrote: Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install fine, but I really want to know if it will 'work'. I dont know enough about the package to test it myself unfortunately. Happy holidays. Did he ever try Quasar from http://www.linuxcanada.com ? It is more reliable than Quickbooks and has everything a small business user needs. One user license is free of charge. I have used Quasar now for over 2 years and never encountered a single problem. Something I cannot say of QuickBooks. A GPL version is in the make. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 07:03, John Zoetebier wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe this is relevant too. Mandrake 10.0 did not recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor. Mandrake 10.1 did recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor and put it on eth0 I got eth0 working in the past, but it dod not work reliably under high speed. That's why I have removed it from the connections, but somehow it still does show up with interrupt 3. I added a network card, which is eth1 now. Did you disable the on-board ethernet in bios? It was not disabled, but it is disabled now. This is result from cat /proc/interrupts : = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 213744 XT-PIC timer 1:637 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9:113 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, EMU10K1 10: 2 XT-PIC ehci_hcd 11: 13290 XT-PIC eth1, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0 12: 6865 XT-PIC i8042 14: 8518 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1664 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# = When I plug-in the USB mouse, I can see the light on the receiver switched off immediately after loading the USB drivers. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 22:17, John Zoetebier wrote: It was not disabled, but it is disabled now. Good - so now you only have one ethernet port. This is result from cat /proc/interrupts : = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 213744 XT-PIC timer 1:637 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9:113 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, EMU10K1 10: 2 XT-PIC ehci_hcd 11: 13290 XT-PIC eth1, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0 12: 6865 XT-PIC i8042 14: 8518 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1664 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# = I'm stabbing in the dark, but if this were me I'd go now to Mandrake Control Center Hardware and have it re-read the hardware list. I would guess that it will now configure your ethernet to eth0. Try it and let us know what happens. Makes not difference, still eth1. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
John Zoetebier wrote: My USB mouse (infrared Microsoft mouse) was working properly under Mandrake 10.0 After installing Mandrake 10.1 it is not working anymore. Any ideas ? This is my dmesg output: = [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# = In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time. Also, my USB card reader is not working anymore. It looks like USB in Mandrake 10.1 is terribly broken. It was all working just fine in Mandrake 10.0 My PC has AMD 64 3400+ processor with 1024 Mb RAM. Output from dmesg with USB mouse working and printer not: = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 2 usbcore: registered new driver hiddev drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -32 received input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse® 1.0A] on usb-:00:02.1-1 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# = -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote: John Zoetebier wrote: In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time. That sounds like a shared interrupt. You may need to put an APIC statement into your /etc/lilo.conf. Please copy to us the append line from your main boot stanza in lilo.conf. This is the entry from lilo.conf: = image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic nolapic acpi=ht splash=silent read-only = I compared it with the old version, but nothing has changed. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Just installed 10.1 official from 3 ftp'd isos
Deep Thinker wrote: Hello everyone, Happy Holidays. I have just installed Mandrake 10.1 official from 3 iso discs downloaded. Question 1. The machine is a Gateway profile. The only network/Internet connection will be through a 3Com PCMCIA Card (3CRPAG175). What steps do I need to take to make this work, or should it be autodetected? I had a 3COM PCMCIA card many years ago and it was detected straight away. Question 2. This machine will primarily be for kids learning about computers, how to type, word processing, and of course, playing games. I noticed that the Firefox browser is not included in this installation. How do I go about getting this, and the other programs I may need safely installed on the machine. You can download firefox from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Just follow the easy installation instructions. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 22:57, John Zoetebier wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Dec 2004 08:41, John Zoetebier wrote: John Zoetebier wrote: In the mean time I discovered that I can either use the USB Epson printer OR my USB mouse, but not both at the same time. That sounds like a shared interrupt. You may need to put an APIC statement into your /etc/lilo.conf. Please copy to us the append line from your main boot stanza in lilo.conf. This is the entry from lilo.conf: = image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic nolapic acpi=ht splash=silent read-only = I compared it with the old version, but nothing has changed. What does cat /proc/interrupts give you? = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0:1669557 XT-PIC timer 1:111 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 166070 XT-PIC eth0 5: 0 XT-PIC ohci_hcd 9: 1666 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, eth1 10:111 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, EMU10K1 11: 122857 XT-PIC [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0 12: 19481 XT-PIC i8042 14: 10754 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4688 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# = Maybe this is relevant too. Mandrake 10.0 did not recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor. Mandrake 10.1 did recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor and put it on eth0 I got eth0 working in the past, but it dod not work reliably under high speed. That's why I have removed it from the connections, but somehow it still does show up with interrupt 3. I added a network card, which is eth1 now. -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Is it safe to upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 using ISO images ?
I wonder if it is safe to upgrade directly from Mandrake 10.0 to 10.1 using Mandrake 10.1 Official Edition without uninstalling KDE. I have downloaded the ISO images and burned them on CD. Any suggestions welcome. -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Is it safe to upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 using ISO images ?
John Layt wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:06, John Zoetebier wrote: I wonder if it is safe to upgrade directly from Mandrake 10.0 to 10.1 using Mandrake 10.1 Official Edition without uninstalling KDE. I have downloaded the ISO images and burned them on CD. Any suggestions welcome. Depends. If you mean putting the CD's in and doing a normal upgrade, then no problems, as you will just get upgraded to the default KDE3.2 version. If you then want to upgrade to KDE 3.3 after the initial system upgrade, then there can be issues. The OE version of the RPMs are better than the CE version, but better yet are the 3.3.1 ones from Club testing or Thac: ftp://ftp.proxad.fr/mirrors1/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrakelinux/devel/testing/Mandrakeclub/10.1/i586 ftp://ftp.proxad.fr/mirrors1/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrakelinux/devel/testing/Mandrakeclub/10.1/noarch http://rpm.nyvalls.se/index10.1.html These work well, but can be a little temperamental installing :-) Basically, uninstall all the Quanta, Util, Addon and KMPlayer RPMs first before trying. There may be a couple more as well, but I leave those to you to work around. John. Installation of Mandrake 10.1 did not go well. The first thing I noticed was that the mouse did not work during the install. I should have stopped then After installation of the second CD the system frooze and I had to force a reboot. After reboot I could not login to KDE. However, I could fix the installation be a second install in text mode. My wireless Microsoft mouse is still not working. Initially there was also a problem with my USB Epson CX3100 printer. However after rebooting with printer on, it was recognizes and is working now. -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1
My USB mouse (infrared Microsoft mouse) was working properly under Mandrake 10.0 After installing Mandrake 10.1 it is not working anymore. Any ideas ? This is my dmesg output: = [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# = -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How does Totem Add Proprietary Plugins work ?
Totem Add Proprietary Plugins button shows Galeon file manager for folder totem-addsons. I see lot of icons, but have no idea what to do with it. The icons are links to DLL files in /usr/lib/win32. Totem help does not explain anything about what to do with these links. Some suggestions would be helpful. -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to import fonts ?
I want to import Windows true type fonts via MCC. Select folder with fonts, add folder, then click on install fonts The fonts import hangs on initial step : Reselect correct fonts. What could be wrong here ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Konqueror extremely slow in resolving hosts on Mandrake 10.0
After installing Mandrake 10.0 I noticed that Konqueror was extremely slow in resolving hosts. Once a host was found the Konqueror was at maximum speed. It took me some time to figure out what the problem was, but found a solution here : http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2135 == There seems to be alot of this going on lately. The consensus seems to be that ipv6 is causing it. If you want to disable ipv6 you just add the following line to either /etc/modules.conf for 2.4 kernel or /etc/modprobe.conf for 2.6 kernel. alias net-pf-10 off == This solution works for me. -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to install Mandrake 10.0 using a SCSI NEC CD-ROM ?
I have a Dell PowerEdge server with a SCSI NEC CD-ROM : 465 This CD-ROM is not detected during setup by Madrake 10.0 I probably have to supply a driver durign setup, but do not have a linux driver for this CD-ROM. In the past I installed SuSE Linux 8.2 without problems, so there must be a driver. Is there a way to get the driver from the SuSE CD-ROM ? Is there an other option to install with Manadrake ? -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to install Totem plugin ?
Under preferences there is a button for plugins. After clicking on the button it starta Nautilus. How to proceed next ? -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Epson CX3100 multi-function printer, scanner, copier drivers available ?
Does anyone have the Epson CX3100 multi-function printer installed on Mandrake Linux 10.0 ? -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Microsoft patents sudo.
franki wrote: Have you guys seen this yet? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=/netahtml/srchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=6,775,781.WKU.OS=PN/6,775,781RS=PN/6,775,781 Microsoft has patented the technology behind sudo. Wonder if they will have any issues hiding the prior art on this one. Microsoft is in a patenting frenzy. They know that their days are numbered as they simply cannot compete with the quality and price of Linux. In addition, upcoming industrial giants like China prefer most definitely Linux for reasons of national security and to build their own software industry. Microsoft hopes that one day their patents may serve as a cash cow. As the SCO case is proving, this is probably an illusion. John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Remote CVS working folders not supported
When I click on the floppy icon on my desktop I get this message: Remote CVS working folders not supported This title is Cervisia. It looks like Cervisia tries to open the desktop link in stead of Konqueror. How can I get Konqueror to open the desktop link ? -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] When clicking on CD ROM icon Cervisia starts, not konqueror
When I put a CD ROM in the PC an icon is shown on the desktop. When clicking on CD ROM icon Cervisia starts, not konqueror. And I get this error message; remote CVS working folders not supported This is the entry from /etc/fstab: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 How can I get konqueror to start from CD ROM icon ? -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Setting up Java
Thereidos wrote: Dnia pon 19. lipca 2004 22:33, Marco Verheul napisa?: Hi all, I'm looking for clues on how to set up Java (runtime environment) on my mdk 10.0 box in such a way that: 1. multiple applications can use it (Opera / BitTorrent client...) 2. I know where to find it, in other words, where/how to install it Cheers, Marco I've done it this way: Downloaded J2RE from their site (Sun's ?) in a rpm package.. installed it and added to $PATH variable in ~/.bash_profile line : /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin Now It looks like this : PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin export PATH You'll have to logout and login to your user account to make it work, or after adding the above to ~/.bash_profile you can type : export PATH=$PATH::/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin You'll have to add same path to $PATH variable for each user account... Of course in Opera you'll need to type Java path in Preferences -- Multimedia. It's something like this : /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/lib/i386 Make sure to validate java path. I add /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin to ~/.bashrc Then in shell type: source ~/.bashrc Now all changes to bashrc are available in the user environment. -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Xmms crashes
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:24 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: I'd thought it had something to do with the Arts soundwrapper - which I remember solved another problem in the past but removing it from the xmms info in the menu tool didn't help. Seems like I resolved this in an earlier version of MDK but I'm coming up blank this time. Does this behavior sound familiar to anyone? Yes. Install the xmms-aRts plugin and open up xmms, go to Options, preferences and under output plugins, select the newly installed Arts plugin. Change the buffering to your desire and you should be good to go. This worked for me :) -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Arkeia : error opening navigator
I try to follow the instructions in the Quick Start. Added the NullPool, NullDrive, NullPack etc. Then Backup Browse Tree Now I click on the icon for my client tsl010 which runs Mandrake 10.0. An error is shown: Error starting navigator When I click on the server symbol of tsl200 the GUI show a file list, as expected. Does anybody know how to fix this problem ? I have tried to subscribe to the mailing list from Arkeia, but the server never sends a message to confirm subscription. Is it worth continuing with Arkeia ? Does someone know of some user friendly tape backup software on Linux ? -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Elipse 3.0 code completion does not show selected item.
Avi Schwartz wrote: What I did was urpmi gnome-control-center --auto-select and urpmi took care of getting and installing all the necessary packages. I am a command line kind of guy :-) I had it already installed, that's why I did not see it in Mandrake installer. Next question: where do you set the GTK themes ? -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Elipse 3.0 code completion does not show selected item.
I have recently intalled mandrale 10.0 and Eclipse 3.0 GTK. Code completion (Ctrl+Space) works properly, except I cannot see which item is highlighted. Probably because both selected item and backgroud are white. I have tried several KDE themes, but this does not seem to affact the color of a selected item in code completion. Any ideas ? -- John Zoetebier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] eth0 failed during boot
When Mandrake 10.0 boots I get this message in /var/log/mesages: == Jun 26 12:52:19 tsl010 ifplugd(eth0)[1148]: ifplugd 0.21b initializing. Jun 26 12:52:19 tsl010 ifplugd(eth0)[1148]: Using interface eth0/00:80:AD:70:20:2D with driver dmfe (version: 1.36.4) Jun 26 12:52:19 tsl010 ifplugd(eth0)[1148]: Failed to detect plug status of eth0 Jun 26 12:52:19 tsl010 ifplugd(eth0)[1148]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'. Jun 26 12:52:21 tsl010 ifplugd(eth0)[1148]: Program executed successfully. Jun 26 12:52:21 tsl010 ifplugd(eth0)[1148]: Exiting. == However the network interface seems to be working properly. Is there a way to get rid of this message during boot ? -- John Zoetebier web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Howto update Mandrake 9.2 to 10.0CE
What is the easiest way to update mandrake 9.2 to 10.0CE ? I have CDs for 10.0. -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Epson printer woes
On Sun, 16 May 2004 08:39:58 -0300, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am having a bit of difficulty getting my Epson StylusColor 480SXU to work on my Mdk 9.2 system. I had managed to get it to work *OK* with the Turboprint driver (v1.86) previously, but I updated to the latest Turboprint driver (v1.87), and I can't for the life of me, get it to work with Turboprint. Even going back to v1.86 proves unsuccessful. What am I doing wrong?? I am now trying to get it to work with the CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5 setup that Mdk provides, but all I can get from my printer for output is a solid black page!! I have used up almost half of a newly filled ink tank trying to get a proper printout. :-/ Can anyone offer any help, or words of encouragement here? TIA for your time and patience. Epson printers work normally flawless on Linux. Did you have a look on linuxprinting.org ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Memory card reader shows carbage
I have a USB cardreader which is mounted automatically on Mandrake 9.2 as /mnt/hd This happens if I plug in the card reader with a multi-media card in it. However when I open de mount I see the card reader reading, red light is flashing, and see many entries with just carbage. When I use the same cardreader on SuSE 8.2 it works just fine. What can be the problem ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Howto restore USB mouse on Toshiba A10 laptop
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:41:23 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Quoting John Zoetebier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - I booted my Toshiba laptop without the USB mouse plugged in. - In stead of detecting there is no mouse attached and using the TouchPad - Mandrake shows a new hardware dialog. - Not knowing what to do with it I click on cancel button. - Now I do not have a touchpad nor a mouse, regardless if I plug the mouse - in or not. - When I login with keybard only I have managed to start the hardware - configuration dialog. - However the tab key is not working in this dialog. - Is there any way I can get the mouse back ? - - -- - John Zoetebier - Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz - -Hi John, -I'm not so sure why your notebook behaves like that. Because in mine, I -usually plug and unplug my usb mouse without any problem. Yes, Mdk usually -will ask about hardware configuration, and I always choose 'cancel'. If we -choose 'Yes' it simply prensents us the configuration menu of the mouse. - -To solve your problem, I think you can use drakeconf, but first it's better if -you do it in text mode since your tab key doesn't work, use Ctrl+Alt+F2 to go -to a console, and execute 'drakeconf' as root. TO go back to X, press -Ctrl+Alt+F7 -HTH, -Fajar. - - That works great, thanks. Both mouse and touchpad work at the same time now. Guys, once you get the touchpad and USB mouse working the way you want it, just go into the Mandrake Control Center, under services and turn off harddrake. Just remember to turn it back on if you do add any new hardware. :-) Mandrake still pops up to configure mouse when USB mouse is not plugged in. Could not find services under Mandrake 9.2. Has this tool been moved somewhere else ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Re: Howto restore USB mouse on Toshiba A10 laptop
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:20:20 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 04:29 am, John Zoetebier wrote: -Mandrake still pops up to configure mouse when USB mouse is not plugged in. -Could not find services under Mandrake 9.2. -Has this tool been moved somewhere else ? Mandrake Control Center - System - DrakXServices - uncheck harddrake. That should do it. :-) Works great, thanks. -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:33:54 -0700, Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 18, 2004 12:31 pm, JoeHill wrote: Despite the problems above, I must say that I have re-affirmed my trust to Mandrake Linux. All previous Mandrakes were filled with dissapointment for me, but this time I believe MandrakeSoft has created something that is much-much better than in the past. If MandrakeSoft pulls it off and fixes the problems above, they got a winner. In fact, I believe that this is the highest score I ever gave to any Linux distro so far. Link: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6327 Better than 9.2? Wow. I must be missing something, cuz 9.2 is (until I send this) pretty rock solid, and I can't think of anything I'm missing. Must...resist...urge...to...upgrade... I wasn't overly enamoured of 9.2 to be perfectly honest. While it was an improvement over 9.1 in many ways there were things that I didn't find user friendly. Some of the repetitive problems/posts on this and other lists are evidence of that IMHO. rant mode Don't_need_to_resist_urge_to_upgrade._ Not all is coming up roses for everyone, and I'd be a total jerk if I didn't mention my weekend. Mandrake 10 will not install at all on my system. Period. One of the systems that RC1 installed on without trouble died a horrible death when I tried to upgrade it to 10.0 Community Edition on the weekend. I then tried to upgrade via ftp to full cooker with even less success. It self destructed to the point that it corrupted the partition table beyond recognition and that wonderful trick destroyed the Windows install that was on the disk as well. Recovery required a full low level format and re-partitioning of the hard drive with the manufacturer's disk utilities, and a re-install of Windows. Since the customer no longer had the RC1 disks, and since Community Edition and trying an ftp install from the (then) current boot.iso both tried to do the same thing all over again they are running Windows only for now. They're using a Knoppix disk to satisfy their GNU/Linux jones. I thought the idea was to get rid of the rest of the FSCKING bugs by using Community as a final testing/bug hunting release, then having an Official Release, not screw up what was already working. sigh I'll give it the rest of this week and next; but after that if the same shit is happening Mandrake can colour me gone. Along with my friends/customers/acquaintances/family. /rant mode Apologies for the rant. Mandrake web site mentiones explicitly that people who want a rock solid release should wait for Mandrake Official, which is relase 2 - 3 months after Community edition. Mandrake Community Edition is for the explorers under us. I recently tried mandrake 9.2 for the first time since years on a Toshiba laptop. I am very impressed with the stability (zero defects) and the quality of the display under KDE (just is good as Windows 2000, more user friendly than Windows XP) Regards, -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Where does services panel get its status information from ?
When I go to Mandrake Controle Center System Service the panel shows service slmodem stopped. This service is started at boot. When I check if service is running with: /etc/init.d/slmodem status it shows that slmodem is running. This is correct as I can query the modem. Where does services panel get its status information from ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Howto select user-defined menu icon
Hi list, I tried to assign a user-defined icon to a menu item. However all files are greyed out, regardles of extension, like xpm, png etc. I use menudrake for creating menus. How can I assign a user-defined icon to a menu ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
