[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 update wrecked my system.
Recently, my monitor died and the process of finding a suitable replacement led to a series of new problems. Someone at Mandrake told me that I really needed to update my 8.1 system (which had been working just fine), and the process of installing the updates royally messed everything up. Now, when I try to boot up with Linux or Win4Lin, after the system goes through all the usual start-up processes, a shell login appears on the screen for less than second and then the screen goes black and there is nothing I can do except hit reset on the box. If I boot up with either Linux-nonfb or failsafe, the computer starts up fine and everything works fine, except I cannot start up Win4Lin. I have been trying for more than two weeks to solve this problem, without any progress. I am willing to pay a reasonable fee for a satisfactory solution, but feel that the Mandrake 8.1 updates are responsible for my problems and it irks me to have to pay for a solution that Mandrake caused. My system worked just fine before doing the Mandrake updates. Since I am not currently subscribed to receive all the newbie mailing list mail, please respond directly to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Joe Lowder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mesa, Arizona Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to get CD Player to work?
How can I get CD Player to work? Got the following error message: CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to /dev/cdrom There is a music CD in the CD drive There is no file /dev/cdrom file on my system, but I do have a Sony CD-RW and I can mount and umount, read and write to it. Also tried XMMS but can't play a music CD on it either, and cannot find any help-button on the control window that XMMS starts. The XMMS control window image is way too tiny to read, anyway. Also, how does one access this list's archives? I've saved about a thousand messages in my Kmail Linux folder, but can't find any on CD Player. joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?
How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already recorded or burned just a few files? After reading volumes of messages on this list, plus the recommend HOWTO on this subject, I finally figured out how to burn a CD under Mandrake 8.1. It's regrettable that there seem to be so many extra hoops that Linux users have to jump through to get some of these very basic tasks to work. I still do not have either xcdroast or Gcombust working because they each require nuisance configuration steps. But I prefer command line operations, anyway . . . once I can finally get the correct syntax worked out. In this case, the most concise and helpful explanation came from Tom Brinkman, although even his required some interpretation and adjustment. Tom described his approach this way: 'bdcd' cd_image 'bacd' (in the dir where the wav's are) or 'biso' filename.iso alias bdcd=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -data (need to make cd_image first, eg, 'mkisofs -r -o cd_image dir') alias biso=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 alias bacd=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -pad -audio *.wav From Tom's examples, I derived the following two key lines which I put in a shell script that I named burncd mkisofs -r -o cdimage /home/joe/data cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0 cdimage But I had to omit the word eject because I got this error message: cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for 'eject'. Can anyone explain why this error message and how to get eject to work? Also, would someone please explain why dev=0,0 works but dev=0,0,0 (which other examples use) does not work? In my shell script burncd I have actually built in some additional functions including variable input options and a log to automatically keep a record of all of the CD's I burn, etc. But it is really neat that those two simple lines are all that anyone really needs to burn a CD. Thanks, Tom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to install Open Office?
I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes, but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD. How does one install Open Office from this CD? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install Open Office?
On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:52, you wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes, but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD. How does one install Open Office from this CD? Josef, can list for me the contents of the CD? Here are the most relevant ones (I assume): On the CD: total 0 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 May 14 21:01 binaries/ -rw-r--r--1 root root 974 May 14 21:14 ls-lR.txt -rw-r--r--1 root root 971 May 14 21:13 README.1ST drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 May 14 21:01 solver/ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 May 14 21:01 source/ -r--r--r--1 root root 298 May 14 21:16 TRANS.TBL In the binaries directory: total 0 -rw-r--r--1 root root 69877656 Apr 30 14:23 OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 71883979 Apr 30 17:25 OOo_1.0.0_SolarisSparc_install.tar.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 51315508 Apr 30 16:41 OOo_1.0.0_Win32Intel_install.zip -r--r--r--1 root root 230 May 14 21:16 TRANS.TBL Contents of the README.1ST file: Welcome to the Cheap*Bytes OpenOffice Version 1.0.0 About this CD-ROM ~ This CD-ROM contains the installation, solver and source files for the following versions of OpenOffice: Linux Solaris Win32 Contact: Cheap*Bytes P.O. Box 2714 Lodi, CA 95241 FAX: 209-367-8518 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.cheapbytes.com Please see our web page for updates and additional information. A large collection of Linux related products is available at www.cheapbytes.com Copyrights: ~~~ Sun, Solaris, Java, Jini, StarOffice, Sun ONE Webtop, the Butterfly Logo, and all StarOffice based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. If you find anything on these CD's that should not be distributed commercially, please notify us. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install Open Office?
Thanks for the tips. I'm sticking with 8.1 for now because I've heard/read of so many problems with 8.2 and kde 3 and I can't take the risk of messing up my stable install. ;)) On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:33, you wrote: Extract the files from this tarball and you'll likely find a file named setup, install, or configure that will, or should be made executable. can't be sure though without knowing whats inside that archive. extract the files into a directory and see what comes out. to initiate the install process then you would do something like this on the command line: ]# ./configure However, you might have saved yourself the trouble since OpenOffice is included on the Mandrake 8.2 install CD's. don't remember which one of the three it's on, in fact I myself just found it over the weekend when i did a fresh install on a workstation at home. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits
You're absolutely right, Todd. Everyone deserves to be reasonably compensated for the creative and productive value-added work that they do. Sadly, there seem to be three extremes that get in the way: 1) Greed -- some (like monopolistic, anti-trustworthy Microsoft and grossly over-paid athletes, actors, corporate CEOs, etc.) who excessively, disproportionately, and unreasonably profit from whatever value-added they contribute to society; 2) Theft -- those who steal the value-added of others' work, whatever it may be, without being willing to pay reasonable compensation; and 3) rip-off-artists who profit disproportionately on the work and productivity of others. (One has to wonder-out-loud what value-added lawyers, packagers, and the advertising industry provide to society. For a $5.00 box of cereal a farmer gets what, 9-cents? It could be argued that the computer software shareware concept and the GNU-Linux open source initiatives just might be among the most significant developments in the history of mankind. For in this we see the very best of humanity -- many, many talented people freely sharing their best efforts for the good of all -- and many appreciative users supporting those efforts in various ways. But then, sadly, there are too-many who want everything free and contribute nothing to anyone. Perhaps the web will remedy this problem in creative new ways that we have not yet seen. On Friday 05 July 2002 12:13, you wrote: While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to see a distribution system in which the artist could reap the benefits of his/her labor more than the record label. It's great to share as in free software, but you are projecting your ideas about sharing onto others. How do you make your living? Shall we all of a sudden decide that your labor should be shared for free, without any input from you? People who develop free software do so willingly. I don't think it's fair to project that onto others so you don't have to spend $15 on a crummy CD. Lately I'm having a hard time finding music I want to purchase anyway. That's the fault of the record labels and FM radio. Blah!! I know this will be an unpopular position on this list, so let me practice moving side to side and ducking . . . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Browser compatibility.
The protest message I send to offending websites: Do you realize that limitations you have built into your website cut off more than half the world from being able to access your website? How savvy is that? Why in the world would you design your website to require visitors to use any one type of browser (and/or specific add-on functions like flash) when more than half of the computer users in the world cannot access your website as a consequence? -- Furthermore, when they require a bunch of personal info that I do not want to provide, I just put X's in each field and for an email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;)) On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 9:35 am, you wrote: Michael Adams wrote: I tried to visit this site. http://www.bet365.com The result upset me so much i sent them this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] let's keep it to the list to help others - Screen capture
Thanks for all the helpful tips. I'm just looking for the most efficient way to do things with Linux. Joe Todd Slater wrote, in part: Copying the text of the bash script I provided will require one mouse click-and-drag, and pasting it into a new document may require a click to focus your text editor's window, and a middle-button click to paste. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] print/capture screen
Alastair wrote: There's an easier way from KDE - do Alt-F2 then type ksnapshot. The snapshot is grabbed immediately you press Return, then the ksnapshot window appears and you can do what you like with it. This is helpful . . . however, my original question was: is there any way to do a Print Screen in Linux . . . which would be comparable in simplicity and ease-of-use . . . to the way it works with MS windows? Again, I want to emphasize that I am definitely pro-Linux, however when something as useful and basic as Print Screen works as well and efficiently as it does under MS windows, then I would hope that the Linux community would be eager to develop an equal or superior functionality for Linux. In this case, it seems that what has been suggested for Linux thus far is not nearly as simple and efficient as as the MS Print Screen feature. Simplicity and easy of use is not subjective. It is determined by how few steps (keystrokes and separate manual operations) are required. In the case of MS Print Screen, there are only two steps: #1. Press the Print Screen button. #2. Press paste in any application program in which one desires to place the captured image. I use it numerous times almost every day, capturing screen prints and pasting them in LView (the most easy-to-use, versatile, graphics tool I have), or in Paint or in Paint Shop Pro or in Pagemaker or in any other application program where I can quickly and easily crop, resize, or edit the captured image. For comparison, using Ksnapshot with Linux, there are literally dozens of steps and keystrokes involved in saving a captured image to a file then opening that file within any given application program. Why is it not possible, with Linux, to use the Print Screen key to simply capture a screen image into memory (as MS clipboard apparently does) so that it can be pasted, from memory, into any given application program without having to go through all the extra steps of saving the captured image to a file first and then several more steps and keystrokes to import the saved file into any given application? Surely there must be a way to do this. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BIG trouble - (a reference for the legally blind?)
On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:09, you wrote: SNIP Not sure I entirely understand. Are you saying that these three commands will, between them, cause a timely and controlled shutdown? This tells you all about it http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html Whoa! Why does the Mandrake 8.2 reference manual come forth with such huge print? When I substitute 81 for 82, I get the Mandrake 8.1 reference manual in a reasonable size, but the 8.2 ref manual has letters an inch high on my screen. What's going on with this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to print screen?
I sent the following question several days ago, and never received any response? Did the message never arrive, previously? Does the keyboard Print Screen key work with Linux in the same way as it does with Windows? ... so a captured screen image automatically goes to a clipboard and can then be pasted directly into any graphics app? I have tried using Screen Capture, but that seems rather cumbersome by comparison, requiring several additional steps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] print screen?
Does the keyboard Print Screen key work with Linux in the same way as it does with Windows? ... so a captured screen image automatically goes to a clipboard and can then be pasted directly into any graphics app? I have tried using Screen Capture, but that seems rather cumbersome by comparison, requiring several additional steps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with Win4Lin and Acrobat Reader 5
Hi Terry ... I have Win4Lin working perfectly on Mandrake 8.1. While I don't have a specific suggestion to solve your problem, perhaps the following info may be of some help: I had some difficulty getting Mandrake 8.1 to work because it failed to recognize my very generic video card (S3 Virge), after I got some partial help from Mandrake tech support and then had to fiddle around for a couple days trying to get command line Xfdrake to work (since it didn't work as advertised), I finally got the video card to work. Downloaded Win4Lin and it installed and ran perfectly on the first attempt ... though I did have to consult with Win4Lin tech support on a couple of fine-tuning issues. They responded same day on the first question and second day on a couple of others, so if you don't get the answers you need from this list, you might try Win4Lin tech support. Please feel free to contact me directly if I can be of any further help re Win4Lin. While I hope to get totally free of M$ Windows, I think Win4Lin is a positively fantastic way to facilitate the transition. Joe Lowder Mesa, Arizona [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 20 June 2002 13:43, you wrote: Hi all .. I am having problems with these applications .. when I run either of these apps (and I'm assuming there are probably more, but don't know for certain), the text used for the menus (file, edit, etc.) shows up as a bunch of rectangles .. no letters whatsoever. I tried installing every font I could find on the CD, but to no avail. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? I even tried wiping out the hard drive and reinstalling LM 8.2, and even that didn't help any. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is there any virus risk with KMail?
I use KMail and would like to know if there is any currently known risk of being infected by a virus on a Linux system from opening any file attachments that might be sent to me. Prior to getting converted to Linux and KMail, I had always avoided opening any attachments to try to avoid getting hit by a virus. Even so, I did get hit with a virus once that wiped out my entire C drive. From time to time, people do send attachments to me and I have continued to avoid opening them, but would like to know if there is some way that I can safely do so with KMail. Joe Lowder Mesa, Arizona USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to set home URL in Konqueror
In KDE 2.2.1, to set the home URL in Konqueror, I start it, click on Settings and then type: file:/home/name/mydata/subdir/newfile.htm then click on Apply and OK ... but the home URL I just specified doesn't take. Instead, one that I had previously set is still the active home URL file:/mnt/windows/subdir/oldfile.htm But when I click on Settings to check what file is specified as home URL, it shows the more recent one I had specified (as first shown above). Very strange. How do I get Konqueror to do what I tell it to do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?
Great! -- Please do tell us how does one turn off pop-ups in Konqueror? On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:43, you wrote: Anne, You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to turn them off. Miark My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't seen any of it, so I don't know how serious it is, but he obviously thinks it undesirable. He asked me what we could do about it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?
Thank you for that very helpful explanation. I am using KDE 2.2.1 and my version of Konqueror has only three radio buttons, not four: Allow, Ask, and Deny. Deny is too restrictive because there are some good and useful uses of popups such as you described with your banks. Allow is a poor remedy because it is no improvement to have to respond to the nuisance dialog popup -- actually it's easier to just X (close the original popup to which the dialog popup refers. Surely there must be some way to distinguish between intrusive popups and popups which result from selecting a valid option on a website -- such as your bank uses. I also use popups in some of my websites to open a separate window to display something in response to a link on one of my web pages while keeping the original window open. Surely there must be some way to preserve this worthwhile use of a popup window but get rid of unwanted junk-mail popups. Joe On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:53, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 7:55 pm, Josef Lowder wrote: how does one turn off pop-ups in Konqueror? From Konqueror select the Settings menu, then the Configure Konqueror ... item, then, on the window that opens, press the Konqueror Browser icon (left-hand side of window), then select the JavaScript tab (right-hand side of window). At the bottom of this tab there's a set of four radio buttons labelled 'JavaScript Web popups policy'; press 'Deny'. (This may be too restrictive, as it stops all popups and some Web sites, such as my two online banks, put the banking session in a popup; if it is, press 'Ask' instead). The option to turn off popups is not obvious and is described using techno-speak; it should be shouted from the rooftops in plainest English :) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to fax a document?
What are the quickest, easiest, and/or best ways to send a fax from Mandrake Linux 8.1? 1. Is it possible to fax a text file directly from the command line? How? 2. How does one setup the system to fax a document as a print output from the K text editor (or from KWord or from any other text/word processor)? 3. I just installed Win4Lin (terrific program! for only $49) so I can use Pagemaker 6.0 until I can find and figure out how to use something Linux based that would be equivalent to Pagemaker. So, how do I configure a printer so that I can send a Pagemaker document as a fax? Any help anyone can provide on any or all of the above variants of this same question would be very much appreciated. Joe Lowder Mesa, Arizona [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: I hope to get as completely converted to Linux as possible, but until I can achieve that goal, Win4Lin is a fantastic transitional product! Anybody else out there using it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disappearing Kmail sent-mail
Just had several email messages disappear which I had been saving in my Kmail sent-mail folder, and I cannot imagine what happened. I did not delete them. They were there just a few minutes ago. Then I sent two new messages and all the previous messages I had been saving vanished. I am using Mandrake 8.1 (for about a month) and have had no previous problems; have not shut down or rebooted for a couple of days. Any opinions what might have happened? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] file.PUB in LM8.1 ??
I don't know how to open a .pub file, but if you are mainly interested in the text contents and not all the glamorous formatting, you might try opening a shell, su to root, and then using a command-line the command: strings filename | less ENTER to see if you can either find out what kind of pub (publication) it is and to read and/or capture the text out of the file by piping the contents to a text file. On Thursday 09 May 2002 18:21, you wrote: Does anyone know how to open/read a file with a .pub extension while using LM8.1 ?? I just received this file and need to work on it. but can't open it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?
Any suggestions on how to efficiently cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail? I just signed up to the newbie and expert mail lists and I am overwhelmed by the volume of email. I created a new folder named linux and set the post address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinking that perhaps that would cause new incoming mail to go to that folder instead of cluttering up my inbox, but that doesn't work. Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kword Print Preview does not work; and inserted graphics do not print
Thought I sent this previously, but it hasn't shown up. Hope this is not a duplicate. Q1: How do I get the Kword Print Preview to work? It only displays a blank window; although printing the same document works fine. Q2: When I insert a .jpg graphic into a Kword document, the graphic displays correctly, and I can resize it, but when I print the document the graphic is omitted. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Virtual console login issue file
When one switches to F1 thru F6 virtual console screens, the login splash screen generated by /etc/issue has a penguin graphic and a whole bunch of lines of annoying text. I can edit the /etc/issue file so it only shows the screen number (tty#) but every time I reboot, the system overwrites the /etc/issue file that I created with Mandrake's lengthy splash/login screen. How can I modify the system so it will quit doing that? Such a gaudy login screen seems all too much like some M$ nuisance tactic :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to eliminate the Kmail sprinkler head graphic (and) where is Bcc:
How can one eliminate the big Kmail sprinkler head graphic with the big white K superimposed on it in every email message displayed by Kmail? Also, how can one revised the message header arrangement? And is there a Bcc option available with Kmail? Josef Lowder Mesa, Arizona [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
