Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:59:30 + "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 09:00 am, Julie Sloan wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:30 am, riccardo wrote: > > > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:19 am, Julie Sloan referred: > > > >> handy, to have entire duplicate system > > > > > > ~ for example . . . have cron daemon, once-a-week, run script :- > > > > Thanks riccardo, I will add this and your "run daily" script into that file > > of notes I mentioned to Rosemary. > > > > FWIW, the lazy way I take notes: > > first, if I think there is something I need to learn *at this stage*, I > > hang on to the email for a little while. then later, cleaning out my > > mailbox, I review it again, deciding if this is something I should make a > > note of. If so, I mark it some way. Another few days goes by and I'll get > > the pertinent information out of each of these marked emails and paste into > > this one big confusing file. I reread the file every week or two, grepping > > a little more each time. :) > > > > It works for me but might not for everyone else. > > > > Julie > > I've got this: > > /home/darklord/Documents/Linux Refs/ > > where every e-mail that has been valuable to me gets stored. > > Yes Julie, it does work. :-) > Great subject line this - difficult to hijack the thread! The various notepad facilities can be helpful as well. Drag and drop work for all I have tried. There is xpad for sticky notes - maybe a bit messy after a while, and my favourite - gjots. I have an icon on the panel so that it can be accessed from any workspace and fullscreen application. It is a one level hierarchical notepad, simple, clean, and functional. KDE has something similar; kjots maybe? -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:48:42 + David G Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with > > mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and > > DVD media is by far a complex topic when comparing the actual media and > the technology relating to the -R and +R system. The DVD players (PC > drives or consumer TV recorders) do not always support all available > technologies. I have a DVD recorder in my PC which supports all formats, > it writes to -RW disc just fine, but my Panasonic DVD player struggles > to play them (spec says it does support it). Give it a +RW disk and > everything is great! > > I think most people buy small packs of diff types of disk until they > find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. > Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the > equipment :-( This recorder will only accept DVD-R and DVD-RAM. For playback the type of drive seems to be the issue because I found that the Sony DVD rewiter in my laptop accepted the disks without complaint. So I'm happy. Thanks for your reply. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:48:42 + David G Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > Hi lads and lasses > > > > Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with > > mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and > > recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on > > the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at > > all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. > > Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would > > DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 > > year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. > > > > The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that > > libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. > > An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk > > in > > the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions > > problem > > (there isn't). > > > > Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this > > particular topic on the web. > > > > > > DVD media is by far a complex topic when comparing the actual media and > the technology relating to the -R and +R system. The DVD players (PC > drives or consumer TV recorders) do not always support all available > technologies. I have a DVD recorder in my PC which supports all formats, > it writes to -RW disc just fine, but my Panasonic DVD player struggles > to play them (spec says it does support it). Give it a +RW disk and > everything is great! > > I think most people buy small packs of diff types of disk until they > find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. > Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the > equipment :-( > > HTH > > PS: http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk this is my supplier for what its worth. > Thanks for the encouragement; I will probably do the same, i.e. experiment. And thanks for the link. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk in the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions problem (there isn't). Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrakelinux Mailing List Etiquette
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:58:37 -0500 JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you use Reply to get up a form, then erase the subject and type in > > something different, you are hijacking. > > > > If you use View > Headers > All Headers on this message you will see a line > > that starts with 'References;' . Since your message has the ID > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] that will be in the line. > > In other words, my answer to you is connected by thread. When you hijack, > > your 'new subject' retains that thread connection. This makes for > > difficulties: > Thanks, thats the area I wasn't clear on. I thought the mails were only > threaded on the subject, hence a change of subject wouldnt cause a problem. > > 1) The thread becomes fragmented and difficult to follow. > > > > 2) Many people follow or ignore a thread according to their own interests > > and time available. If the original thread was being ignored by the person > > best able to help you he will not see it. > > > > > I dont deal with common sense much so I said I'd ask :) > > > > Asking *is* common sense. I hope it's clearer now ;-) > It is indeed. Thanks again Anne. > > Jarlath Don't feel too bad about it. I had been using email for 25 years and I still got caught out on the subject != thread business. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] oooqs and GNOME - for information only
On 17 Jan 2005 07:45:38 +0100 frengoGorgia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il lun, 2005-01-17 alle 01:39, Len Lawrence ha scritto: > > Under GNOME and Mandrake 9.2 I have managed to get OpenOffice to start up > > in > > 3 or 4 seconds, which is fine. But, out of curiosity I installed oooqs > > from the > > PowerPack DVD and invoked it. The first problem was that it started > > kbuildsycoca, > snip - > Quoted from > > SegFault's KDE Projects : OpenOffice.org Quickstarter > > http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/index.php?content=oooqs > > OpenOffice.org Quickstarter is a small application that runs in the KDE > SystemTray. > > So this is a KDE stuff . > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55323&package_id=50803 > > here is an old Gnome/Ooo stuff called "evolvendoo", there is also a > gnome applet . Mille grazie. It pays to do some prior research. Thanks for the links. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where is libdvdcss?
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:41:41 +1100 John Layt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:59, Rhein Christophe wrote: > > > > > Ok I installed all the packages and still I get the error message. How > > can I know where the libdvdcss2 is installed on my machine? > > Where should it be locateted? > > Thank you > > Christophe > > Very strange. Should be in /usr/lib. > > John. > As John says. Look for /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so On my system libdvdcss.so.2.0.3 installed from libdvdcss2-1.2.4-1plf. Your version numbers may differ. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] oooqs and GNOME - for information only
Under GNOME and Mandrake 9.2 I have managed to get OpenOffice to start up in 3 or 4 seconds, which is fine. But, out of curiosity I installed oooqs from the PowerPack DVD and invoked it. The first problem was that it started kbuildsycoca, which always takes time and usually spits out a dozen error messages, so it is obviously designed for KDE. The second problem was that it hung after reporting several KIO connection errors, which probably means that it is incompatible with GNOME anyway. This is the first time I have ever hit such an obstacle. I wondered if there were any other KDE applications which fail under GNOME. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:54:47 + Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 07:11, Len Lawrence wrote: > > libxfree86-devel > > Hi Len, > Thanks for the suggestion. I d/l'd the libxfree86-devel from rpmfind.net and > tried to install it with rpm -Uvh ... the following dependencies arose. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bill]# rpm -Uvh libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk.i586.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > XFree86-libs = 4.3-32.3.100mdk is needed by > libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk > fontconfig-devel >= 2.1-4mdk is needed by > libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk > devel(libexpat) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk > devel(libfontconfig) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk > devel(libfreetype) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk > devel(libXpm) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk > devel(libz) is needed by libxfree86-devel-4.3-32.3.100mdk > > It seems the whole XFree86 system is required. > > Question: if I install these xfree86 files what are the chances it will break > my Xorg installation? Pass. I cannot really offer any advice from the viewpoint of a 9.2/XFree user but since xorg is a fork from XFree the two might be able to coexist. Any xorg libraries should have distinctive names and may reside in their own subdirectory. Might be worth poking around in your system. Does xorg use XF86Config? Other people on the list must have some idea how backwards-compatible xorg is. Sorry I can't help. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:07:07 + Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am running 10.1 Official on a Dell Inspiron 9100. When I try to 'make' > xdesktopwaves 1.3 I get a screen full of errors. The first dozen lines > follow > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] xdesktopwaves-1.3]$ make > gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -DXDW_MAX_OPTIMIZATION=2 -c xdesktopwaves.c -o > xdesktopwaves.o > xdesktopwaves.c:31:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory > xdesktopwaves.c:32:23: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory > xdesktopwaves.c:33:23: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory > xdesktopwaves.c:34:34: X11/extensions/shape.h: No such file or directory > xdesktopwaves.c:64: error: syntax error before "xdwOptEnd" > xdesktopwaves.c:64: warning: data definition has no type or storage class > xdesktopwaves.c:76: error: syntax error before "xdwOptDoubleBuffer" > xdesktopwaves.c:76: warning: data definition has no type or storage class > xdesktopwaves.c:78: error: syntax error before "xdwOptIdle" > xdesktopwaves.c:78: warning: data definition has no type or storage class > xdesktopwaves.c:83: error: syntax error before "xdwOptWavesByMouse" > xdesktopwaves.c:83: warning: data definition has no type or storage class > xdesktopwaves.c:84: error: syntax error before "xdwOptWavesByWindows" > xdesktopwaves.c:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage class > > There are a couple hundred more error lines. I kind of think the issue is in > the first four lines. Has anyone managed to get it working on 10.1? Can > anyone figure out what I'm missing? > Have you installed libxfree86-devel? You might need other packages but that is a start. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 64bit architectures
A bit OT this; however Is Mandrake correct about Linux being the first OS to support 64bit architectures? I can remember VMS running on 64bit DEC Alpha machines at ROE (the Royal Observatory Edinburgh) back in the early 1990s. VMS on a 200 MHz machine, and from 1993 DEC OSF/1 UNIX. Later in the decade we had 600 MHz Alphas when the fastest PC was a 32bit 200Mhz Pentium Pro. They produced bulky code but they were fast man, for their day. Fairly sure that both RedHat and Mandrake supported the Alpha processor. -- Len Lawrence -- It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] fuji finepix in LM10
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 08:47:21 -0400 Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to setup my Fuji Finepix 2400 in LM10. I did not have any problem > doing this in earlier versions and in 9.1 there was an automatic setup. > However in 10 it seems that I have to set it up manually again. > I have made a /mnt/camera directory and put a line in fstab to use it > > /dev/sda0 /mnt/camera vfat ro,noauto,user 0 0 > > However when I try to mount /mnt/camera it gives me this > > mount: special device /dev/sda0 does not exist > > I seem to remember that someone on this list uses a Fuji. Can anyone help me > out with this? I have included the results of more /proc/scsi/scsi > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bill]# more /proc/scsi/scsi > Attached devices: > Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: Fujifilm Model: FinePix 1400Zoom Rev: 1000 > Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > > I know that it is improperly recognized but this has always been so, even in > all earlier Mandrake versions. It still usually works great as a simple usb > mass storage device. > Yes. I am using an S7000 under Mandrake 9.2, which mounts fine manually, but always at /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1 Out of curiosity I tried mount /dev/sda1 because there is an entry in my fstab for /dev/sda1 on /mnt/removable with autodetect. That worked fine as well. /proc/scsi/scs looks much like yours. I usually mount manually mount -t vfat /dev/sd?1 /mnt/camera because I am always swapping USB storage devices. harddrake2 shows what device corresponds to which scsi emulated disk. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Casio QV3500 digital camera
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:32:38 +0100 David Trethewey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent Voois wrote: > > > > > > > David Trethewey wrote: > > > >> I have a Casio Qv-3500 digital camera. Using Mandrake Linux 10.0, I > >> have tried to download photos from it (by copying the files using the > >> command line). It recognises it as a removable drive. It will copy > >> the files, but very very slowly. Anyone had a similar problem? > > > > > > A little add-on info to get David better on tracks: > > Casio Qv 3500 copies the file through a serial com-port connection > > probably right? (I had one myself in the past) > > In the back of my head i recall a tty default speed-setting upon your > > comports are being automaticly set to 9600 baud or some sort it had > > had to be changed somewhere in a config file... > > It can operate using serial ports, but I was using usb at this time. > > David This sounds familiar. My Fuji Finepix acted the same way recently under 9.2, not when first installed, but later after other USB mass storage devices had been mounted and unmounted, pen drives and the like. They also ran slowly and the desktop suffered from a plethora of problems which appeared to be totally unrelated. Some odd messages appeared in some of the system logs (don't remember which) indicating that there was trouble with supermount. Ah ha I said, let's disable that. Disabled supermount and ALL those problems vanished, and I had been at the point of reinstalling the whole shebang. That may not be your problem, but it would be worth looking at if you use supermount. I hope you find a solution. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpinRite 6.0
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:09:28 -0400 Allan Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 07 September 2004 01:29, Len Lawrence wrote: > > > This is a bit off-topic maybe. Somebody mentioned SpinRite the > > other day in the context of disk recovery so I investigated the > > grc.com site. Apparently SpinRite 6.0 supports Linux filesystems > > via a DOS program, but the user does not need to own DOS. It > > sounded like worthwhile insurance, so I paid for the licence and > > downloaded the .exe and went back to the site for information on > > how to use it. Nothing doing, so I emailed support only to get > > the runaround. No actual help, just a pointer to the author's > > email service. On closer inspection it turns out that he does > > not answer individual queries, so support is actually > > non-existent. > > Len: > > Apologies for inserting this response several days after your > original post. Perhaps I can clarify a little bit about your > perception that SpinRite 6.0 does not work as advertised with Linux > filesystems. Both SpinRite 5.0 (which I've used) and SpinRite 6.0 > actually run off a bootable floppy disk, and are totally > independent of the operating system you have installed on your hard > drive. The floppy uses FreeDOS as the environment it works in on > the floppy, but that has nothing to do with (i.e., is independent > of) what OS is on your computer. It's a self-contained tool on the > floppy. You do not have to have Windows installed or be a Windows > user to use the program and its tools. > > Regarding support and help: there are excellent support forums at > GRC (which Steve Gibson does monitor and participate in) the > following newsgroup server: news.grc.com. If I recall correctly, > there is a group specifically for SpinRite 6.0 issues (there are > Linux forums as well). The people there are friendly, helpful, and > knowledgable. These are excellent forums (actually newsgroups) > even aside from any discussion of SpinRite (in my opinion). > > I'm not trying to tell you what to do (about asking for a refund), > but your stated reason for wanting the refund (that the SpinRite > program requires Windows, or is exclusive of Linux) wasn't quite > accurate. Good luck no matter what you choose. > Thanks for the clarification. That is the kind of information I had been looking for. On a quick search I had not found any Linux support links and could not spare any more time. Anyway, GRC were kind enough to give a refund so I shall leave it there. Cheers -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpinRite 6.0
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:28:57 +0200 Vincent Voois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Len Lawrence wrote: > > > This is a bit off-topic maybe. Somebody mentioned SpinRite the other >- snip - > The grc.com is directed to Windows users and all tools are written for Windows users. > I don't think the author expected Linux users would download it as well. > > The Q&A section is still answering Spinrite 5.0 related questions, and the answer > upon if Spinrite supports Linux in that case > is ofcourse wrong, yes 5.0 does NOT support Linux, 6.0 does, but the executable > currently only works with windows. Yes, I picked up on that. Presumably the forthcoming documentation will address the problems of Linux partitions. Meanwhile, support should have the grace to provide the information needed. > It can be used to create a bootable floppy where it installs the Spinrite disk > examinator. The floppy boots with FreeDOS and > gives you the opportunity to recover or maintain your harddrive. > (Like recovering erased files that weren't supposed to be erased) > Mr. Gibson may need some notice that his tool is not only acquired by Windows users. > > It may or may not work under Wine, i don't know for sure, but one who has SR 6.0 can > test this. > I have SR 6.0, but currently i don't have XWindows installed anymore (sorry, > installed Trustix... I have contacted sales about a refund - and I was very polite. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SpinRite 6.0
This is a bit off-topic maybe. Somebody mentioned SpinRite the other day in the context of disk recovery so I investigated the grc.com site. Apparently SpinRite 6.0 supports Linux filesystems via a DOS program, but the user does not need to own DOS. It sounded like worthwhile insurance, so I paid for the licence and downloaded the .exe and went back to the site for information on how to use it. Nothing doing, so I emailed support only to get the runaround. No actual help, just a pointer to the author's email service. On closer inspection it turns out that he does not answer individual queries, so support is actually non-existent. And, his last email bulletin dates back to the beginning of 2002, before SpinRite 6 and before Linux support. ?? My assumption was that the file should be turned into an ISO and burnt to CD. That would leave the question of DOS. The files at bootdisk.com all seem to be .exes, which I assumed are self-extracting versions of DOS to be copied to a floppy, which would require Windows or DOS to run, and a FAT partition as well. So, should I ask for my money back? -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla misbehaving
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:09:33 +1000 Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 00:37, Len Lawrence wrote: > > I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop > > at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) > > runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2 and on the Sony VAIO > > laptop with Mandrake Download Edition 9.2. There is a problem with > > saving pages or images on the laptop from mozilla. Right click and > > choose Save As and nothing happens, no popup and no download manager. > > Does anybody know if there is a way to enable saving in the browser? > > When I had this problem on the desktop I took it to the expert list > > but nobody there could explain it. They said they had never seen or > > heard of such behaviour. Using GNOME on both machines. > > > > Cheers > > I'd advise to blow out the ~/.mozilla directory or rename it and try > again; else, just upgrade to Firefox (faster, better, more features) Right Stephen, tried blowing out .mozilla. No dice. I had to revert to the tried and tested solution of reinstalling mozilla. It is working for now. Upgrades I shall leave until I progress to 10/10.1. More features probably not needed - all I do is browse, download and save, but if Firefox is guaranteed not to break down in this way it would be worth getting I guess. Does it support the mailto protocol? 1.4 doesn't. -- Len Lawrence -- Xerox never comes up with anything original. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla misbehaving
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:53:03 -0500 Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:37, Len Lawrence wrote: > > I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked > > my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version > > of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2 > > and on the Sony VAIO laptop with Mandrake Download Edition > > 9.2. There is a problem with saving pages or images on the > > laptop from mozilla. Right click and choose Save As and > > nothing happens, no popup and no download manager. Does > > anybody know if there is a way to enable saving in the > > browser? When I had this problem on the desktop I took it to > > the expert list but nobody there could explain it. They said > > they had never seen or heard of such behaviour. Using GNOME > > on both machines. > > > > Cheers > One of the I dont know crowd I am running 1.6 and firefox 0.8 no > problem with saving anything. Mine is mozilla 1.4 and it works most of the time on the desktop machine. In the past, whenever the corruption, or whatever it is, occurred, the only way to clear the fault was to uninstall and reinstall mozilla, which seemed a pretty brain dead solution but I could not find any other way to repair it. No clues from /var/log/messages or .xsession-errors. -- Len Lawrence -- Xerox never comes up with anything original. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mozilla misbehaving
I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2 and on the Sony VAIO laptop with Mandrake Download Edition 9.2. There is a problem with saving pages or images on the laptop from mozilla. Right click and choose Save As and nothing happens, no popup and no download manager. Does anybody know if there is a way to enable saving in the browser? When I had this problem on the desktop I took it to the expert list but nobody there could explain it. They said they had never seen or heard of such behaviour. Using GNOME on both machines. Cheers -- Len Lawrence -- Xerox never comes up with anything original. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 03:04:03 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:40:56 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, I did understand what it meant, but thanks for the > > clarification. What I meant was that not cloning allows you to make > > changes within the LAN, like changing the NIC or adding machines, > > without BlueYonder needing to know, so that your quota of MACs is > > unaffected. > > > > TTFN > > > > > I don't think you know how cloning works. Once you use it to set the > MAC address of the router, that MAC address stays fixed, unless you go > through the cloning process again. So you can change things on the LAN > side, without changing what Blue Yonder sees. What is is for is when > you have registered a NIC with your ISP, you can add the router in > between that NIC, and the cable/DSL modem, without the modem knowing > anything has changed. Even if you later change the NIC connected to the > router, it still "pretends" to be the original NIC, as far as the modem > in concerned. Yes I did understand your point, but you explained it better. Thanks again. -- Len Lawrence -- The only difference in the game of love over the last few thousand years is that they've changed trumps from clubs to diamonds. -- The Indianapolis Star -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:40:56 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > > Further to that. The router is now plugged in and running fine. > > Apart from service network restart there was very little action > > required. The hostname reverted to localhost.domain so /etc/hosts > > needed to be modified, and that was that. I am impressed. > > > > I did not bother to clone the MAC address. Using the router MAC > > allows for more flexibility on the LAN side without bothering > > Telewest. > > > > Thanks again for all the advice. > > > It is nice that you didn't need to clone the MAC address. But I feel I > should clear something up. Cloning the MAC address has no affect on the > local lan. What it does is change the WAN interface MAC address to > match the computer doing the configuration. (Or the MAC address you > specify on some routers.) What this does is make the router look like > it is the same network card that used to be connected to the modem > before you installed the router. > > Conputer NIC > Cable Modem > 00-E0-29-6A-C6-33 > > 00-25-EF-0D-AC-10 > > Computer NIC Router > Cable Modem > 00-E0-29-6A-C6-33 00-30-BD-C7-48-0600-E0-29-6A-C6-33 > 00-25-EF-0D-AC-10 > > I hope my crude drawing helps... > Yes, I did understand what it meant, but thanks for the clarification. What I meant was that not cloning allows you to make changes within the LAN, like changing the NIC or adding machines, without BlueYonder needing to know, so that your quota of MACs is unaffected. TTFN -- Len Lawrence -- The only difference in the game of love over the last few thousand years is that they've changed trumps from clubs to diamonds. -- The Indianapolis Star -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:04:37 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Len Lawrence > Sent: Thu 8/5/2004 10:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: > Subject: Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router? > On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:50:22 +0100 > Kevin Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -- big snip --- > > > > > > > Hi Len > > > > With blueyonder your ip will be dynamic, so it changes regular unless > > you specify you want a static one, not sure how much it cost though. > > the Dhcp manages your clients automatically locally on your network. > > How far have you progressed then with the router? Are things working? > > > Haven't had time today - 24/7 job looking after invalid wife - probably > have a go tomorrow morning. Thanks to you and everybody else for hints and > encouragement. > > Cheers > -- > Len Lawrence > > > > No Probs Len > > We all like to chipin ;) > > Further to that. The router is now plugged in and running fine. Apart from service network restart there was very little action required. The hostname reverted to localhost.domain so /etc/hosts needed to be modified, and that was that. I am impressed. I did not bother to clone the MAC address. Using the router MAC allows for more flexibility on the LAN side without bothering Telewest. Thanks again for all the advice. -- Len Lawrence -- The only difference in the game of love over the last few thousand years is that they've changed trumps from clubs to diamonds. -- The Indianapolis Star -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:37:00 -0500 Chuck MATTSEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- snip snip snip > As it happens, TkSETI is what I ended up going with, and it's quite > easy to use, I've found, now that I've got the program itself going. > :*) (There are days when I /need/ patronizing, believe me, and this > was obviously one of them.) I may take a look at the others that > showed up in urpmi (ksetispy and ksetiwatch, if I remember > correctly), just to see how they compare. But, yeah, TkSETI is nice. > > Back in my heavy Windows-using days (which wasn't very long ago at > all), I briefly ran some protein analysis program (United Devices, > or something similar). I may look into it again soon. (If you're > referring to a different outfit, yes, please repost the link.) My > only concern right now is that, though I've got CPU cycles to spare, > I'm a little paranoid about the high CPU drain with respect to the > heat it seems to produce on this relatively new laptop. :) Know what you mean. My laptop overheats as well. Watching DVDs is a pain on my Sony VAIO because it freezes after an hour or so into the film. I rarely run mine anyway for longer than two hours. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] link is http://folding.stanford.edu -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:52:14 -0500 Chuck MATTSEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Okay, I'm feeling even denser than usual today. Could someone point > me to a good, comprehensive site for all things SETI under Linux? I > know it's a CLI version, and there are various monitoring programs > for it (including gkrellm, which is what I'd like to use), but I > really need a site that gives me a step-by-step from start to > finish, if there is one. So far, I've not found anything that dumbs > it down to the degree that I apparently need today. > Don't know about ALL things SETI but there is a good graphical interface called TkSETI - http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/tkseti/tkseti.html. This allows pausing, stopping and starting the setiathome client and displays a history of your largest spikes, gaussians, triplets etc. and also gives you an equatorial sky map showing all the regions you have processed and the location of spikes etc. what have you. Setiathome supplies xsetiathome, which may be similar. Presumably you have a link for that. AFAIK you need a setiathome directory under /home/user for the current workfiles and the binary installed somewhere in your PATH. Hope this isn't too patronizing. While you are looking to use spare cpu cycles you might consider the protein folding project at Stanford University, which has the probable advantage of being more useful in the long run. I think it was Joe Hill who originally recommended that. Will repost the link if you are interested. -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:50:22 +0100 Kevin Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- big snip --- > > > > Hi Len > > With blueyonder your ip will be dynamic, so it changes regular unless > you specify you want a static one, not sure how much it cost though. > the Dhcp manages your clients automatically locally on your network. > How far have you progressed then with the router? Are things working? > Haven't had time today - 24/7 job looking after invalid wife - probably have a go tomorrow morning. Thanks to you and everybody else for hints and encouragement. Cheers -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:30:41 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > > This simpleton needs help again! > > > > desktop: Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack - stock kernel 2.4.22-10 laptop: > > Mandrake 9.2 download edition - empkernel 2.4.22 > > > > I have a desktop system connected via a D-Link cable modem to > > BlueYonder and an EmperorLinux laptop with an Orinoco wireless > > network card. In nine months I have never got round to networking > > the laptop but I did get a Belkin broadband/DSL gateway router. > > After nine months I think it is time I used it. The problem is I > -- chomp chomp > > I am hoping that the new MAC address will be registered with > > BlueYonder automatically when the router is plugged in (?). > > > You may have to go to the setup screen on the router, and tell it to > mimic the MAC address of the desktop. This is covered in the router > instructions. If your desktop is set up to use DHCP, (it probably is.), > you should be all set. The desktop will get its settintgs from the > router instead of from the cable modem. The wireless setup should be > easy as well. Make sure you can connect from the laptop first, before > playing with WEP. It makes troubleshooting easyer if you do things one > step at a time. Besides, if you log into the router from the laptop, > and then generate the key, you can cut and past the key before > sctivating it, so you don't have to type it. (I hate it when I mistype > a 128bit key!) > > Mikkel Thanks for the advice. Much simpler than I expected - and yes, one step at a time is definitely my default mode. WEP - could not find a definition for that but worked out that it probably means Wireless Encryption Passphrase. The laptop side should be easy as you say. The system logs show that EmperorLinux managed a successful wireless connection before dispatch. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 02:40:20 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mate > > I'm with blueyonder, register your wireless router on blueyonder, before you use it. > I guess you have Modem ---> router > lan setup or something like that. Me > Cable Modem --> router --> lan > | > | > wireless accesspoint. > > Works a treat for me. If your router is allocating ip address via dhcp you should > be alright. Can you tell me what the name of the router you are using. Failing > that get me on gaim doggieukD. I'll try and talk you throuh the process. I'm > working nights and come off my shift Friday morning before I can help you out. Thanks for the response Kevin. I don't have a clue how to register the router with BlueYonder - that is why I hoped it would be automatic. From what Mikkel and the user manual says cloning the MAC address would get past that hurdle. My setup would be: desktop ---> router ---> cablemodem | | wireless | laptop Don't know about gaim - have never talked online. That's a whole new kettle of fish. When I first connected to broadband using DHCP, BlueYonder would change my hostname every few days, which meant my having to edit the /etc/hosts file by hand (names like dhcp285), but some time ago this changed and the hostname has remained fixed at x1-6-00-05-5d-47-9a-4a ever since. This is the ifcfg-eth0 file: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no NEEDHOSTNAME=yes and /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost x1-6-00-05-5d-47-9a-4a The router I shall be using is the Belkin Wireless Cable/DSL Gateway Router with 802.11b Wi-Fi access. -- Len Lawrence 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 set up a wireless router?
This simpleton needs help again! desktop: Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack - stock kernel 2.4.22-10 laptop: Mandrake 9.2 download edition - empkernel 2.4.22 I have a desktop system connected via a D-Link cable modem to BlueYonder and an EmperorLinux laptop with an Orinoco wireless network card. In nine months I have never got round to networking the laptop but I did get a Belkin broadband/DSL gateway router. After nine months I think it is time I used it. The problem is I cannot find any simple instructions anywhere to guide me through the install and I have spent many hours googling, and checking archived emails and HOWTOs on the disk. The first step would be to connect the desktop through the router but what is required? Would DrakConnect help? I don't want to try it until I am sure what to do otherwise I could be cut off from the list. I believe that the desktop should be assigned a local inet address - I don't know what configuration file to edit for this or what address range to use. The router has its own inet address which can be used to access the onboard web based interface and I assume it would need the inet and MAC addresses of the network cards. I am hoping that the new MAC address will be registered with BlueYonder automatically when the router is plugged in (?). -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] what is vcsa
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:43:59 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:46:12PM -0400, Greg wrote: > > hi everyone i was going thru my list of users in the log in manager and found > > vcsa listed as a user i never made a user with that name any ideas on what it > > is and how it got there how do i get red of it > > thanks greg > > > It's the Van Council of Southern Australia: > http://users.esc.net.au/~vcsa/ > > These bad-asses have obviously compromised your system; a reformat and > reinstall is in order. Sorry! > > Todd >From my /etc/passwd file: vcsa --- virtual console memory owner. -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] BATCH FILE
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:57:20 +0200 Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2004 21:13, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Thursday 10 June 2004 10:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > is it possible to create (save ) automatic files ( like batch > > > files in Windows) in Linux ? How ? > > > > > > I want to use this not to do always the same things in console. > > > > yes, you can put the commands you want automated in a text file. > > If there's a sequence of commands give each command it's own > > line. > > > > Run the file thus: "source name_of_file.txt" without the > > quotes and they'll get run. > > > > Good luck, > > HarM > > Just to show off as a wise guy : > > I don't think you can "run" a text file just like that. But you can > create a small script, as follows : Oh yes you can, at least under tcsh at the console. And the text file does not need executable permissions. Not to be recommended as a general method though. HarM's advice is sound. > In a text editor, type : > > #! /bin/bash > first command here > second command here > third command here > . > . > last command here > exit > > As a very useful example : > > #! /bin/bash > rpm --rebuilddb > updatedb > urpmi.update -a > ldconfig -v > update-menus -v > exit > > > When finished entering commands, save the file with some descriptive > name, like - as in the above example - "updateall". Then, go back > to the command prompt, and make this file executable. In the above > example the commands need to be run as root, so in order to make it > executable by root, first become root and then : > > chmod 777 updateall > > which will give unlimited access to the file (which doesn't matter > here). > > Now, you can run the file. If it is not in your path, just cd to the > directory containing the file and type : > > ./updateall > > That's all. > > HTH > > Kaj Haulrich. > -- > * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * >* http://www.haulrich.net * > * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * > > -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Fri, 21 May 2004 00:27:33 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg) wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:23, Greg wrote: > - snip - > Is there any way to monitor network traffic > Greg > > You could try /usr/sbin/net_monitor. -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:48:18 -0400
Mike Adolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> If I do 'df' if get
>
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7
>49G 755M 48G 2% /home
>
> Says I have 48G free.
>
> If I run a C program calling statfs("/home", &fs), I get:
>
> type of filesystem = 61267
> optimal transfer block size = 4096
> total data blocks in file system= 1510072
> free blocks in fs = 905771
> free blocks avail to non-superuser = 829062
> total file nodes in file system = 768544
> free file nodes in fs= 631185
> file system id = 0
> maximum length of filenames= 255
>
> 3710038016 bytes left
>
> The numbers don't add up. What am I missing? I'm running 10.0 CE.
Aye, you are right, they don't add up. Just out of interest I tried the
function under 9.2 and the result looked OK. The filesystem type is the
same as yours (ext2/3)
#include
#include
#include
int main ( int argc, char * argv[ ] )
{
int status;
struct statfs partition;
status = statfs( "/home", &partition );
if ( !status )
{
printf( "filesystem type: %0X\n", partition.f_type );
printf( "block size : %ld\n", partition.f_bsize );
printf( "free blocks: %ld\n", partition.f_blocks );
}
return status;
}
=
df -h /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
35G 5.6G 30G 17% /home
Program output :
filesystem type: EF53
block size : 4096
free blocks: 9070563
Your numbers look as if they have been divided by 12.5 = 8%.
Could somebody else check this out under Mandrake 10?
--
Len Lawrence
--
The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else
are fast women and slow horses.
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Re: [newbie] Kernel update woes
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:44:58 +0200 "Pablo Vitoria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I experienced exactly the same when updating from 2.4.22-26 to 2.4.22-28. > I searched the web and this list looking for answers and I found none. After > several attepmts to run 'lilo' with different options (all unsuccessful with > the same error message), I decided to be brave (I have a full back up of my > system) and rebooted. To my surprise, all went well, but the system started > with the old kernel. I guess this is because, as lilo failed, nothing was > changed. So I think the links in /boot are used by LILO to update the boot > loader, but the real paths to kernel, etc, are used in the boot loader. > Then I entered 'lilo -v' (after changing all links in /boot to point to the > new kernel), and this time there was no error. One more reboot and now I am > running the latest kernel. > | On advice from Mandrake Expert I have just installed the 2.4.22-28 kernel > to > | replace the 2.4.22-10 supplied with Mandrake 9.2 ProSuite. > | When the RPM installed via urpmi an error occurred at the /sbin/lilo > stage: > | error regenerating lilo > | The lilo.conf looked OK so I ran /sbin/lilo again and it returned > | Fatal: volid read error. > Thanks for the encouragement Pablo. Will give it a go. -- Len Lawrence -- QOTD: "Every morning I read the obituaries; if my name's not there, I go to work." -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel update woes
On advice from Mandrake Expert I have just installed the 2.4.22-28 kernel to replace the 2.4.22-10 supplied with Mandrake 9.2 ProSuite. When the RPM installed via urpmi an error occurred at the /sbin/lilo stage: error regenerating lilo The lilo.conf looked OK so I ran /sbin/lilo again and it returned Fatal: volid read error. Anybody know what that means? It could be a disk corruption I suppose, something in the MBR sector, so I should be worried right? I cannot risk a reboot with things the way they are because several links in /boot have been reassigned in the direction of the new kernel, which would probably lead to a kernel panic. The next stage would be to try and restore the old links. -- Len Lawrence -- There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. -- Arthur C. Clarke -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] compile asm in C
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:14:33 -0500
Chungwei Hsiung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello guys
> I have a question. I've seen things like that being done on some
> articles, but somehow it doesn't work on my machine. If you know how to
> solve this problem, please let me know. I really appreciate it.
> I would like to know how to compile a C file when there are assembly
> code in it like the following:
> void main() {
> __asm__("
> move $0x0, %ebx
> move $0x1, %eax
> int$0x80
> ");
> }
> I tried to compile it, and it doesn't work. Do I miss any library or
> what can I do to resolve this problem???
>
> btw, mine is MDK9.2
OK, Mandrake 9.2.
I tried it like this and it compiled without errors.
int main() {
__asm__(
"mov $0x0, %ebx\n"
"mov $0x1, %eax\n"
"int $0x80\n"
);
return 0;
}
--
Len Lawrence
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Re: [newbie] compile asm in C
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:14:33 -0500
Chungwei Hsiung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello guys
> I have a question. I've seen things like that being done on some
> articles, but somehow it doesn't work on my machine. If you know how to
> solve this problem, please let me know. I really appreciate it.
> I would like to know how to compile a C file when there are assembly
> code in it like the following:
> void main() {
> __asm__("
> move $0x0, %ebx
> move $0x1, %eax
> int$0x80
> ");
> }
> I tried to compile it, and it doesn't work. Do I miss any library or
> what can I do to resolve this problem???
>
> btw, mine is MDK9.2
OK, Mandrake 9.2.
I tried it like this and it compiled without errors.
int main() {
__asm__(
"mov $0x0, %ebx\n"
"mov $0x1, %eax\n"
"int $0x80\n"
);
return 0;
}
--
Len Lawrence
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB not functioning
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:12:29 -0500 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2004 05:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > Yes, good thinking, > > I think usb-ohci,and usb-uhci, actually refers to usb ports that > > are either built into the mobo or are, how do you call it, on a riser > > board, and are attatched by cable to the mobo(not PCI). In my case two > > attatched ,4 floating, so to speak, but which is USB1 and USB2 is > > questionable. the manual is not clear, so I am still guessing that maybe > > whether something is usb1 or usb2 depends upon the hardware ? > > The 2.0 plugs should be in a different spot depending on your case and where > you have connectors. I have a riser board on mine that puts plugs in one of > the expansion bays on the front of the machine. Since they are backwards > compatible, a 1.1 device should work fine but the hardware is not the same > and should give you different readings. If you have KDE, go to > Configuration, KDE, Information, USB Devices and you can see a list of your > hubs and information about them. > > > As for ehci-hcd I haven't a clue ? This, from the netBSD manual: The ehci driver provides support for the USB Enhanced Host Controller Interface, which is used by USB 2.0 controllers. EHCI controllers are peculiar in that they can only handle the USB 2.0 protocol. This means that they normally have one or more companion controllers (i.e., ohci or uhci) handling USB 1.x devices. Consequently each USB connector is electrically connected to two USB controllers. The handling of this is totally automatic, but can be noticed since USB 1.x and USB 2.0 devices plugged in to the same connector appear to connect to different USB busses. > The ehci-hcd is the module for USB 2.0 Controller Hub on my machine. UHCI is > the one for 1.1 Hubs. The KDE Info module shows a Speed of 480Mbs for USB > 2.0 on my machine but previous reading suggested that the 2.4 kernels don't > support true USB 2.0 speeds. I don't have any 2.0 devices for testing. > Same here. usbview reprts "high" speed and names the ehci-ocd module. Have you any idea how you would test the actual transfer speed? I have an Amacom USB2.0 drive. It would be interesting to see how close to 480Mbs it gets. -- Len Lawrence -- I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. -- Alan Bennett -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bmp to jpg?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:03:10 -0500 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:17:52 -0800 > Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 22 February 2004 11:48 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > Happy Sunday > > > > > > Anyone know an easy (?) way to convert a batch of .bmp's to > > > .jpg's? > > > > > > I have to do the same 20 pages of schematics every weekend for > > > the next forever. > > > > > > Resolution isn't much of an issue but the bmps are 300 dpi. > > Gimp > > > > > > Lee > > > > > > > mogrify command looks like it should work, but doesn't with my > .bmp's. Give the following error: > > mogrify: Length and filesize do not match > (9_3L4_UL_DM_PX_TriStarHydraulicControl.bmp). > > > When I open one in gimp it gives me the .tif save option, but not > the .jpg. I can save as a .tif then mogrify the tif to a .jpg fine, > but that's more of a pain than leaving them as .bmp's. > > I appreciate the help. No doubt the problem is the brain dead > program that made the .bmps in the first place. There aren't any > options on "Export to .bmp" or they probably would have had an > export to .jpg or .ps in the first place. > > Customers will just have to chew on the big files. > > Thanks for the help. > > Lee How about that - non standard BMP files. I tried mogrify on one of the small BMPs which comes with OpenOffice.org; no problem. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bmp to jpg?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:48:40 -0500 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Happy Sunday > > Anyone know an easy (?) way to convert a batch of .bmp's to .jpg's? > > I have to do the same 20 pages of schematics every weekend for the > next forever. > > Resolution isn't much of an issue but the bmps are 300 dpi. > > Lee > mogrify -format jpeg *.bmp Check the man pages for mogrify and ImageMagick (the parent package for mogrify). -- Len Lawrence -- I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. -- Alan Bennett -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:09:31 -0500 Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:08 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:15 am, John Richard Smith > wrote: > > > I will want to be looking to construct afresh. Whats > > > your thinking about 64 bit architecture. I read > > > recently AMD have a chip that runs both 32 and 64bit > > > though I don't know what mobos will suit. Will Mandrake > > > keep up with this developement ? Will anyone be > > > shipping OS's for 64 bit by this time next year? > > > > There's already 64bit OS's includin Mandrake. You'll > > need somebody else to comment tho. I'm not interested in > > 64bit at this time. I think until there's a > > preponderance of software ported to 64bit, you're better > > off with 32bit hardware. > > > > > I just don't have enough time to do the searching for > > > equipement and such like, tend to leave > > > that to others, and take advice, > > > > I'm afraid you'll need to do some of your own > > research. As I said before, to settle on a board that > > fits your requirements. As Charles' reply to this thread > > points out, 3d/acell for KT600 chipsets is a Linux > > (kernel) problem. Doesn't affect me cause I avoid closed > > source proprietary drivers. Actually there's a whole > > lot'a hardware that's goin to be a problem for a while > > with 2.6.x kernels and closed source drivers and > > software. > Do you really actually gain anything with 64 bit? 32 bit is > fast, and 64 bit can claim to be faster, but you're still > executing larger instructions. It may be doing it faster, > but the instruction is still larger, so is their actually a > noticeable speed increase? I doubt most people who are > running off to buy these have any clue what the hell they > are talking about lol. This being faster is just like using > the analogy for a road. The speed limit may be 64, but how > many lanes does it have? Remember, a road with a smaller > speed limit but more lanes will out perform as long as the > speed limit isn't a LOT lower ;) Linux Format Magazine has a supplement called Linux Pro which has recently summarised the case for 64-bit computing. Their general conclusion is that the average desktop user does not need it - yet. It is inherently slower than 32-bit at present because of cache size limitations; a cache of a particular size will hold twice as many 32-bit addresses as 64. As in all things PC, the choice depends to a large extent on the the main job of the machine. 64-bit has an advantage when dealing with huge data sets, especially if those require more than 4 gigabytes of RAM (the limit for 32-bit). At work (Royal Observatory Edinburgh) back in the early 1990s we used some DEC Alpha machines as UNIX workstations and those did seem to run faster than the Sun hardware; but they did have the advantage of 500+ MHz processors. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lpr problem in 9.2
Another printing problem. Running Mandrake 9.2 with on my new laptop ( from EmperorLinux ). OpenOffice.org prints a document without problems, the test page comes out fine, but trying to output a PostScript file with lpr produces a page which is approximately 60% of the required size, something which did not happen on my desktop system under 9.1. I tinkered with the -o scaling=<% value> option to lpr but this was totally ignored. Does anybody know if there is a solution for this? As an aside, the localhost:631 interface allows root to modify a printer but not to configure it - the latter raises a server error (? CUPS ?). -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:12:41 - (UTC) "Patrick Dempster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anne Wilson said: > > One thing I would advise, > > though, is when you get to the partitioning screen, create a separate > > partition for /home - and make it a reasonably big one. If you feel > > the need to reinstall at any time you will be able to keep all the > > data and config files that are in /home, whereas if you don't do this > > you will lose everything, just like in a windows re-install. > > Is this a good idea? I had always thought that the config/data files > should be removed (perphaps a hangover from my windows days) so that you > are working from a "clean" install? It is always a good idea to keep your user files separate from system files so a separate /home partition is highly recommended. If you forget to backup all your personal stuff, like images, email folders, word processor documents, scripts and settings, it saves a lot of grief. Then there are the occasions when something goes disastrously wrong and you are forced to reinstall - it happens. But you are correct about the system files, but even there it may help to make copies of some of the configuration files for future reference, particularly for X, printer description files (ppd), and networking. Look in /etc for these. Also if you import any fonts, keep copies of the original files somewhere safe together with Fontmap and fonts.*, again for reference. Don't worry about that side of things though. Just keep it simple, / and /home as Anne says. Have a good Christmas, and the same goes for everybody on the list. And my personal thanks to everybody who contributes and makes this such a welcoming environment for new and older hands. Merry Christmas -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake preinstalled systems
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:26:28 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2003 03:15 pm, Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Are there any companies that sell new systems with MD preinstalled here > > in the US? I found a few with Red Hat. > > > > Thanks > > Russ > > Googling "mandrake linux preloaded systems" gave this: > > http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2315 > > http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux_News03/HP-Mandrake-Linux-Desktop-PC_Story01.html For laptops/notebooks you could try http://www.emperorlinux.com/. Installing Mandrake 9.1 just now. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD regions
Hi gang. This has probably been aired before, but is it possible to get past the regional encoding restriction with Xine, Ogle, or Mplayer? The problem is, Amazon has a copy of a DVD I hoped to buy which is only available for region 1. The UK belongs to region 2. Amazon UK cannot help so it probably is only available for North America. -- Len Lawrence -- I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. -- Brigid Brophy -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Googling
Is Google still alive? For several weeks, or maybe months, mozilla here has been timing out on www.google.com, so some of the links posted in the list have been failing. Has anybody else seen this problem? -- Len Lawrence -- Sometimes I simply feel that the whole world is a cigarette and I'm the only ashtray. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:11:20 +0200 "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:49, Len Lawrence wrote: > > working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 > > and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under > > DHCP. > > That was all he needed. > The hardware (mac adress) registers itself and gets an IP adress assigned by > the cable company. > Mdk does that faster...the guy's a nitwit. Me as well. Should have known it is a lot simpler than he made out. > > Just connect and let MCC do the rest. > It usually takes some time to register the first time up. Thanks to everybody who replied in this thread. -- Len Lawrence -- There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] list nazi: hijacking
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:46:13 +0100 Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > > > Hijacking a thread is when a list member wants to start a new thread, > > but instead of making a new mail, s/he reads a newbie mail and hits > > reply, erases the subject line and writes a new subject. > > > > This has always annoyed me since I like my MUA to display list mail in > > threads. But a real danger for folks who hijack is that their posts > > might get ignored or deleted. (I always delete hijacked posts on general > > principles.) Currently I use my mail's "delete thread" function to delete > > topics that don't concern me. If a lister hijacks one of those threads, > > then they are decreasing the number of eyes that might read that mail and > > amount of brains that might answer a question. That's because that mail > > gets counted as part of the thread, even though it's a totally different > > topic. > > > > I don't get worked up about it but it *is* bad manners. Or simple ignorance. It was in my case - did it several times before getting my knuckles rapped. -- Len Lawrence -- There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:11:20 +0200 "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:49, Len Lawrence wrote: > > working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 > > and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under > > DHCP. > > That was all he needed. > The hardware (mac adress) registers itself and gets an IP adress assigned by > the cable company. > Mdk does that faster...the guy's a nitwit. > > Just connect and let MCC do the rest. > It usually takes some time to register the first time up. > Thanks HarM. Awaiting a response from Telewest right now. -- Len Lawrence -- Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. -- Len Lawrence -- Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD encryption
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:19:36 -0600 Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 06:54:00 +0100 > Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Its a joke on a band called "Tears for Fears" that I dearly love. > > > I'm corrupting their band name. shrugs. And I'm queer. So why not? > > > > > > Thx. > > > > > > Femminux > > > > > And the rest of us are very odd! > > > > Len Lawrence > > heh Len. I'm just having fun. I try not to offend... but if I do > well..shrugs not much I can do is there? > > Sides just signing your nick is > BORRIING! > > Flowers for Femme > > Hi Heather. Who's offended? I just meant that you are in good company - we Linuxers are all out on the edge of the bell curve. We look forward to your transmissions. -- Len Boringoldfart Lawrence -- program, n.: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD encryption
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:21:24 -0600 Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 01:01:32 +0100 > Michael Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Once the divx codecs are installed you should be able to play them > > with any player ie xine or mplayer > > > > You may also want to ownload the win32 codecs too > > > > What's with the "Queers For Fears " stuff? > > > > Mike > > > > > Its a joke on a band called "Tears for Fears" that I dearly love. I'm > corrupting their band name. shrugs. And I'm queer. So why not? > > Thx. > > Femminux > And the rest of us are very odd! -- Len Lawrence -- I just got out of the hospital after a speed reading accident. I hit a bookmark. -- Steven Wright -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome out to get X?
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:55:31 -0400 HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pcli This really is bad news if it is true. Much as I like Gnome (1.4) and dislike KDE, this kind of action can only fracture the OSS community and slow down the acceptance of Linux as an alternative for the desktop. From the correspondence on this list it looks like KDE is a major reason why MS Windows refugees find it easy to slip on their new coat. Forking X, the kernel, or whatever, sounds like a recipe for chaos. Like Linux really needs more choices! -- Len Lawrence -- Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world. Everyone thinks he has enough. -- Descartes, 1637 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:06:34 +0100 Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- section deleted - > Javascript is not Java. It has nothing to do with your Java installation. Back > in the old days (mid '90s) Netscape called their scripting facility > Javascript to sound 'hip'. MicroSoft then 'embraced and extended' it with > lots of proprietary crud. The result is lots of places on the web which only > work with IE. Mozilla is pretty good at making sense of the IE stuff, but it > ain't perfect. > > Of course its possible your Bank *is* using Java. If you go here > http://java.sun.com/openstudio/applets/clock.html > If a clock appears on your screen Java is working. > > > If it does not work make sure you have the libjavaplugin_oji.so file in your > /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins folder Here we go again. Never been able to get Java plugin installed. Tried again a few months ago, and again yesterday on the clock applet link. Although the blurb says downloading takes 19 minutes on a 56 kilobaud modem, in reality it takes well over an hour, $2 worth of connect time at best, $6 at worst. At the end of that hour it blithely informs me that download was unsuccessful - error 202. What the hell is error 202? And is there a chance that the file could be cached somewhere? Apologies for hijacking the thread. -- Len Lawrence -- Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing wm with gnome2
On 29 Jul 2003 08:38:55 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the tricks is to run the gnome-session utility - replace where > is says metacity with sawfish - logout, login; keep in mind that it will > choke and puke a few more times until it realises that you've got a > different wm...(really sucks, but the Gnome people have removed > configuration ability in the hopes of everyone being happy not being > able to configure it further...go figure that one...) > > Another way of doing it - and this is really a hack - is to rename > /usr/bin/metacity to something else, and then make a link to > /usr/bin/sawfish called /usr/bin/metacity - yeah, it's a sucky hack, but > it does work... > > Bear in mind, too - Gnome will occasionally puke with Sawfish as the wm > for whatever reason...still can't figure that one out... Well, I don't know what happened, but while faffing about trying to configure Gnome 2.2 and Sawfish it all came together. Nautilus is dead, the logout button on the panel now works as intended, the session is saved automatically, and whatever Stephen's reservations are about Gnome 2.2 there doesn't seem to be much that affects the way my desktop is set up. A good point is the accuracy of the save sessions function. Until now it had always been a bit hit or miss. All I have to do now is get it to talk PPP. There was one odd occurrence; somewhere along the line aumix stopped working for lcl, still OK for root. It turned out that all the permissions in /dev/sound were 600 - had to chmod them to 666. OK after that. (Maybe aumix is supposed to be run suid root.) Thanks to everybody for your helpful suggestions and for putting up with my moaning. Will make a note of your suggestions Stephen in case of trouble later. Cheers everybody, and long live Gnome && Mandrake. -- Len Lawrence -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing wm with gnome2
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:32 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:08:17 +0100, Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > killall -9 metacity > > No process killed (or something like that) > > > > The 'exec sawfish &' failed with "Cannot run two window managers" - no > > surprise there. > > The recommended way to use another window manager in GNOME is to use the > WINDOW_MANAGER shell variable. If you use bash, add the line > > export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish > > to your ~/.bashrc file. Then run > > source ~/.bashrc > > (or logout/login) to update your shell variables from the file. I use tcsh, but same difference. Tried setenv WINDOW_MANAGER sawfish in .login and restarted. Came up in sawfish as before. xterm -> printenv WINDOW_MANAGER came up blank. Same rigmarole using the logout button after creating the panel and no way of saving the session. So, it looks like I am stuck with my Mandrake 8.2/Gnome 1.4 combination for the duration. Mandrake 9/Sawfish is unusable at present. > > > Another question: is there a sawfish configuration tool somewhere, like > > under GNOME 1.4? > > Run sawfish-ui (it should be in /usr/bin/ or /usr/X11R6/bin/). Thanks. Found that in the latter. -- Len Lawrence -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB 2.0? 1.1?
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 0:12:34 -0400 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All, > > I'm in the early stages of preparing a system to build at the end of August. I'm > eyeing various hardware configurations and seriously considering (for the first > time) a tape drive as well as one of those neat-looking USB key flash memory things > (ie Pen Drive). The pen drives are offered alternately for USB 1.1 and 2.0, and the > tape drive-- which I would like to get USB if possible-- is obviously only available > in 2.0 because of the necessary speeds. I've googled around and seen various claims > about the status of 2.0 for Linux. Is this a viable option? Here are my options: > > Pen Memory Thing: 1) get the slower, 1.1 version > 2) get the sweet, 2.0 version > > Tape Drive: 1) get the $300 20GB internal (ATA) > 2) get the $400 40GB internal (ATA) > 3) get the $400 20GB external (USB 2.0) > > The pen drive isn't such a big deal, but the tape backup would be great to have > external because I could share it with family, friends, etc. Is USB 2.0 currently > well-supported on Linux, and specifically on Mandrake? Better yet, are any of you > currently using these products and what kind of success are you experiencing? I'd > appreciate any feedback. Thanks and have a great night. USB 2.0 appears to be well supported, particularly for mass storage. I have been using a pen drive and 20 Gb Flash2Disk on USB 2.0 with a Mandrake 8.2 system without any problems. Installation, reformatting went without a hitch. These can also be plugged in to my USB 1.1 ports on another machine running 8.1 and 9.1, but Mandrake 9.1 is a little fussier about the internal settings of the pendrive. I had to delete an entry in /etc/fstab to get past the readonly hurdle. No experience of tape drives. Other people may know, but the omens are good. -- Len Lawrence -- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RAID slot => IDE
A new problem. Asus A7V333 motherboard with RAID disabled - Promise controller. Only ide0 and ide1 visible to the BIOS. I need to plug in an old IDE drive in ide2 or ide3. I assume that RAID has to be enabled for the BIOS (and Linux) to see these slots, but I do not want to use RAID. Just want to have a third IDE slot. The manual only talks about setup for RAID proper and all the discussions on the net seem to assume that people will always want RAID 0, 1 or whatever. First, is it possible to bypass the RAID setting, and second, will changing the jumper wipe or damage the data in any way, on either ide0 (hda) or ide2 (hdc)? -- Len Lawrence -- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Flash disk
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:39:07 -0400 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2003 04:44 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > Bought one of those little usb pendrives M9.1 reconizes it but it is read > > only any body know how to reset it to r/w ? > > I recall this happened to me somewhere and I recall right-clicking the device > somewhere and being able to select whether I wanted to change it to > read/write mode. Perhaps in the file management view of konqueror. Did you ever get this to work Aron? As I said earlier, mine worked out of the box under Mandrake 8.2, but have just installed 9.1 on the older PC and found that mount would only bring it up as read only. There was a suspicious entry in /etc/fstab for the pendrive (auto in the line and kudzu in the attribute list). Having deleted that entry I could mount it fine from the command line mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /z An earlier attempt, before modifying fstab, was mount -t ext2 -w /dev/sda1 /z which failed with a message indicating that the device was write protected. It objected to the -w option. This implies that 8.2 either does not check for write protection or ignores it. -- Len Lawrence -- The most serious doubt that has been thrown on the authenticity of the biblical miracles is the fact that most of the witnesses in regard to them were fishermen. -- Arthur Binstead -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:34:38 -0700 eric huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu June 12 2003 09:07 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > nohup gkrellm & > > That definitely gets added to my bag of tricks... > > Thanks for the tip, Joe! And to mine. You are the bee's knees Joe (don't ask - ancient UK colloquialism). -- Len Lawrence -- "Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning." -- Marlo Thomas -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?
On 12 Jun 2003 17:40:14 -0400 Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:44, Derick Schmidt wrote: > > Hi > > > > Use ln -s > > > > for example > > > > ln -s /mnt/win_d > > Aren't you missing the name of the link in your syntax? Not necessarily. If no name is specified the last component of the file name is used. In this particular case the link will be named win_d in whichever directory the command is invoked. -- Len Lawrence -- "Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning." -- Marlo Thomas -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:31:40 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I like KDE. In fact I can't get on with Gnome at all. I was wondering if > its because I started out as a windows user and migrated to *nix as I > had a friend who really raved about Gnome and he was from a Unix > background) > --- snip Probably a lot of truth in that. Reading between the lines on this list, many of those using KDE, and liking it, seem to have Windows backgrounds. My roots are in Unix, and I hated Windows from the start, so fvwm, Gnome1.4/Sawfish|Enlightenment felt comfortable. KDE made me shudder, but I guess you don't have to use it like Windows (file managers, floating icons, system menus, and all that jazz). Gnome 2 is awful, the only reason I cannot migrate from Mandrake 8.2 to 9. It is certainly good that KDE is there to give Windows refugees some familiar landmarks. Without it there would be little hope of Linux providing a viable alternative. By the way, what was the subject of this thread? -- Bob Hope on being 80: 80; that's the age when even your birthday suit needs pressing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SanDisk USB CF/SM readers work?
On Sat, 31 May 2003 00:34:00 -0400 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the device is USB 2, but your puter only handles USB 1.1, > does that mean that the device will not work, or that it will > work at the lower 1.1 speeds? USB2 should be backwards compatible with USB1.1. My two USB2 disk drives, Flip2Disk and Zennox memory pen drive, both work on either interface, but you are correct; data transfer is noticeably slower on 1.1. -- Len Lawrence -- Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs
On Fri, 30 May 2003 19:41:11 +0100 Michael Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm Royal Observatory Edinburgh? > > Do you know George Sherrifs undergrad or Meric who works there? > No, sorry Mike. I retired 4 years ago. If they were there then I would have been too busy with the Michelle project to get to know anybody new. Cheers. -- Len Lawrence -- Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BlueYonder
On Fri, 30 May 2003 09:05:53 -0600 Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quoting Len Lawrence's missive of Thursday 29 May 2003 11:37 pm: > > Need your help again folks! > > > > Been swithering for months about taking up Telewest on their > > BlueYonder offer. Already have TV and telephone on cable. Next year > > I may be able to afford a high end notebook, which I would use for the > > broadband connection, leaving my 2 PCs upstairs on the 56K modem > > connection to Demon for email. > --- snip --- > > If the pages that I linked below is any indication the service will work with > Mandrake just fine: > > http://www.ordior.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BySwFAQ.html#sw7 > > Also this one with references to Mandrake: > > http://www.by-users.co.uk/faqs/linux/ > > and finally here: > > http://www.wellsted.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/config-linux.html > > snip -- > Let's look at a case shall we? A downstairs neighbour subscribed to the > service a few months back. She was running a box with Windows 98 SE and was > told she had to pick up the modem and NIC, install the card into a PCI slot, > connect the power cord and RJ45 cable then; "Load the install disk and run it > to configure the system which changes the browser branding and configures the > operating system, mail client, and network card" etc and so on. Or set up an > appointment to have a tech come out to do it for her. Sure she did. I had to > show her how install a set of drivers for her NIC, then manually set up > (winipcfg) entries for the DNS servers (memorized) etc., then argue with > Windows a bit since it's been such a long time since I helped anyone set up > any connection under Windows. After finally getting a connection, optimizing > it, and fiddling to set up the initial e-mail account I rebooted her system > and ran it from a Knoppix 3.2 disk. I had to do _nothing_ to have a > connection, the system found and configured what was needed automagically. > > So did Mandrake 9.0. Just had to give it the (memorized) mail server names. I > don't think there would be a difference with 9.1; at least I haven't had to > do anything weird with the 21 systems I have helped people install it on. All that is very encouraging. > Mandrake is smarter than any version of Windows, more configurable after the > fact, and you can count on the people here to help more than you ever could > any Windows forum/list/user news group. Right? Right on. > Just as an aside that 2.0MB service seems to be about equivalent to what my > ISP here calls "Shaw Lite" which denotes a lower bandwidth service roughly > equal to what's available from the phone company for aDSL at the same > (roughly +/- $5) price of CDN$29.95 per month. 1.5 MB download, 756 KB upload > speeds. The regular cable or "Shaw High Speed Internet" is rated at 8.0 MB > down and 1.5 MB up. The cost is CDN$42.95 per month, or that plus digital > cable for CDN$89.95. One must purchase the set top digital cable box for an > additional CDN$89.95 for that though. Or (barf!) rent it monthly. > > I'm only comparing prices etc for the simple reason that I think you poor > benighted souls in the U.K. pay far too much for service. Amongst other things. > I'm also wondering when the provider here will start bundling telephone > service as well. I hope some of this helps you. > It sure does Charlie. Will go right ahead and order the service. Thanks for your help, and thanks to the other posters as well. -- Len Lawrence -- Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Greetings to the mandrake community!
On Thu, 29 May 2003 21:07:30 -0400 Joe Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just answer the ones that have been answered 10 billion times before! > > copy --> paste > Nice one Joe! -- Len Lawrence -- Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs
On Thu, 29 May 2003 08:33:26 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2003 3:42 am, Joe Hill wrote: > > On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:12:10 +0100 > > > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Right. Now I'm totally ignorant on this. IIRC you started with > 'cvs'? What exactly is this? It seems to be something later than > cooker versions but not yet supported - or am I on the wrong track > altogether? CVS - The VS stands for versioning system I think - the C might be "coordinated" or "cooperative". It is something we used up at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh for software development projects under UNIX. Never really got the hang of it. It is supposed to provide a standardized way for members of a group to maintain, synchronize, and backup their efforts. The system may hold several snapshots of the programmers' work, including documentation, with all the roots and branches, making it possible to recover a complete version at any stage or even summarize the history of the project. I dimly recall that CVS was based on an earlier system called RCS (?). -- Len Lawrence -- Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] BlueYonder
Need your help again folks! Been swithering for months about taking up Telewest on their BlueYonder offer. Already have TV and telephone on cable. Next year I may be able to afford a high end notebook, which I would use for the broadband connection, leaving my 2 PCs upstairs on the 56K modem connection to Demon for email. Telewest state that they do not support connection to a Linux box/network, so basically you plug it in and do all the work yourself. My problem is that I haven't the first idea what is required beyond the MAC address for the network card, and DHCP, which I guess stands for something like "dynamic hosting connection protocol". There are no known HOWTOs on broadband connection and Googling returns about 2 hits for "BlueYonder" +Linux. Haven't turned up anything useful in there so far. One looked promising but started with "First make sure that it all works under Windows". Well, really! So, has anybody here done it for a standalone Mandrake only box? If not, goodbye BlueYonder. -- Len Lawrence -- Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:33:05 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 9:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Len Lawrence wrote: > > >On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + > > > > > >John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Len Lawrence wrote: > > > > > >Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue > > >which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years > > >research I have not been able to find an explanation of how CUPS deals > > >with PostScript fonts then they probably cannot afford the time to follow > > >up my query. It is obviously not something anybody can answer off the > > >top of their head. So I will continue poking around. > > > > > >Thanks also for the information re PCL5 and PCL3. I had not come across > > > that. The printer is an HP Deskjet 940C by the way. > > > > HP deskjet940C ought to be supported, most of the HP > > inkjet printers are. I have an old HP670C which works > > quite well, but is a very noisy shake rattle and roll > > printer, compared to my Lexmark Z51 + Z52's. I would > > be surprized if HP 940C is not supported, or have I > > misunderstood, perhaps it does work but you need more fonts ? > > > IIRC the 940 is a slower version of the 990, which I use. I have no problems > per se, but different programs have different capabilities in handling fonts > and complex layouts. Have you tried the same output in a different package? > It would tell you, perhaps, whether that is the source of your problem. > Oddly enough I find OO.o better on my system than SO6 in handling these > things. Agreed. Importing TrueType fonts into OO.o seemed easier than in StarOffice. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:56:45 +1300 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + > > > > John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Len Lawrence wrote: > > >> > > >> all snipped -- > > > > > > Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and > > > so here is my best try, > > > > > > -- snip snip snip -- > > > > Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old > > ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to > > locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to > > render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem > > - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the > > ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. > > Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in > > Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in > > the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case > > with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the > > wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link > > and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as > > an example): > > > > cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts > > # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType > > ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz > > # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript > > cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript > > # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript > > cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript > > cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript > > > > Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end > > section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: > > > > /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 > > > > The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the > > name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the > > postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document > > generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. > > > > e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont > > > > The line > > %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic > > appears in the document header. > > > > I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution > > to this problem. Time to get a life I think. > > Simple, what weed am i smokin'. I do not understand f a about what you wrote, > except i recognise a full stop at the end of every sentence. > > Seeing as you have just become the authority on the matter could you slow > this down to about half speed. Then poke it on a web space and post a link to > it. Else, give it to me direct, at half speed. I will post it on a website > for you. I'll get back to you on this Michael. And believe me, I'm no expert. Not many people ever have the need to examine PostScript files or look inside the standard printing interfaces. PostScript itself is a dialect of Forth, which only programmers need to know about, a stack based language which I remember vaguely from my lab days testing stepper motors. AFAIK it deals with two stacks, commands and data and comes with a dictionary of prewritten commands and definitions. When loaded it becomes the operating system and can be extended at will. Everything is in Reverse Polish notation, which makes it a little difficult to read. Straying off the point a bit here. Will be in touch. Always short of time. 24/7 care for my wife, stuck in a wheelchair with MS. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:59:46 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Adams wrote: > > >On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + > >> > >>John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>>Len Lawrence wrote: > >>>> > >>>> all snipped -- > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and > >>>so here is my best try, > >>> > >>>-- snip snip snip -- > >>> > >>> > >>Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old > >>ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to > >>locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to > >>render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem > >>- nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the > >>ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. > >> > yep found those. > > >>Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, > >> > /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap, > does not exist in my M9.0 OS > > Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory > file:/usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/Fontmap.GS does not exist. > > >>but in > >>Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in > >> > In mine it points to, ./././ghostscript/5.50/Fontmap.GS > > >>the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case > >>with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the > >>wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. > >> > I should change 5.50 to , what is it, 8.80, I think ? > > >> Anyway, I repaired that link > >>and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as > >>an example): > >> > >>cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts > >> > no such directory > > /usr/share/fonts/9x15.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/bitmap/ > /usr/share/fonts/console8x16.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/default/ > /usr/share/fonts/elmar_scalable/ > /usr/share/fonts/otf/ > /usr/share/fonts/ttf/ > /usr/share/fonts/afms/ > /usr/share/fonts/chinese/ > /usr/share/fonts/console8x8.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/elmar/ > /usr/share/fonts/fonts.dir > /usr/share/fonts/override/ > > >># Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType > >>./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz > >># Copy the font metric file to ghostscript > >>cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript > >># Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript > >>cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript > >>cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript > >> > >>Then, edit the Fontmap file. > >> > /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap > is empty > > >>Insert the following line in the end > >>section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: > >> > >>/Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 > >> > >>The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the > >>name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the > >>postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document > >>generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. > >> > >>e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont > >> > >>The line > >>%%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic > >>appears in the document header. > >> > >>I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution > >>to this problem. Time to get a life I think. > >> > >> > Are you working with M9.0 ? No, 8.2, but 9.0 has the broken Fontmap link. The msfonts directory is one I created to store downloaded MS TrueType fonts. I think that my Fontmap was resurrected from Fontmap.GS in the installed Ghostscript tree. And, yes, the 5.50 is the cause of the broken link. It should be 6.53 in Mandrake 8.2, possibly 8.80 in your case. > -- > John Richard Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:58:55 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:51 am, Len Lawrence wrote: > > > > > Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end > > section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: > > > > /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 > > > > The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the > > name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the > > postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document > > generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. > > > > e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont > > > > The line > > %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic > > appears in the document header. > > > > I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution > > to this problem. Time to get a life I think. > > Are you in a position to test this on 9.1. It needs to be done quickly. Sorry Greg. I am not uptodate yet. Waiting for the wrinkles in 9.1 to be ironed out before buyig it. My preferred system is 8.2 at present. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD movies
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: > > I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I > > just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know > > most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was > > something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely > > different program. > > Did you look at plf.zarb.org > -- > Greg > > Have you got libdvdcss installed? That seems to be important for ogle, xine, and mplayer. The PLF site has RPMs, some specific to ogle. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Len Lawrence wrote: >> >> all snipped -- > Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and > so here is my best try, > > -- snip snip snip -- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > >The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - > >this has turned into quite an essay. > --- big snip > Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and > so here is my best try, > > The natural output of Linux print commands is in > Printer Control Language 5 (PCL5) , while most > dos inkjet printers rastorize the image files in > Printer Control Language 3 (PCL3) to accomodate > this problem Ghostscript converts PCL5 to PCL3. > To speak of ghostscript as drivers is something of > a misnomer, as it's a conversion programme. > > Your dos inkjet printer has a rastor image processor > chip in PCL3 and a certain amount of buffer as well > but as I understand it the control of the page setup > is what PPD does. > > LPD is the local printer daemon and generates the > PCL5 image file , I think? and the image file is > processed through to ghostscript where the conversion > to PCL3 is accomplished, using so called backend filters. > > Somewhere in all this is Foomatic , which I have never yet > come across an explanation of. Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years research I have not been able to find an explanation of how CUPS deals with PostScript fonts then they probably cannot afford the time to follow up my query. It is obviously not something anybody can answer off the top of their head. So I will continue poking around. Let's see, at 3.5 minutes a day, I might be getting somewhere by 2025. You can all look forward to my article on printing and font handling in LX Format then . Thanks also for the information re PCL5 and PCL3. I had not come across that. The printer is an HP Deskjet 940C by the way. The PPD file contains a list of default fonts which is reflected in a set of .pfb files in /usr/share/cups/fonts. It should be possible to use these two resources to add new fonts - not clear how though. Any changes seem to be ignored by CUPS. It is not even possible to get it to accept a change in the default typeface, say from Courier to Helvetica. Cheers mate -- Len Lawrence -- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. There must be somebody here who understands how CUPS references Type1 fonts. I have a problem which has resisted solution for well over two years now. No help from the CUPS documentation, which comes in eleven volumes, nor from www.linuxprinting.org, or from any other source. Linux Format Magazine has refused to respond to two enquiries about this, nor has anybody on this list responded to previous pleas for help. I post this in the hope that some expert might be browsing the list and willing to shine a little light on this shadowy corner of the UNIX world. Any answer needs to be useful in the context of Mandrake and portable from 8.2 to 9.* - I gather that there has been a recent change in the way that CUPS and Ghostscript interact. My specific problem is adding more typefaces to PostScript files generated from one of my home grown applications; i.e. the file might reference Andale Mono, Verdana, Tahoma, Densmore or whatever. Yes, I do have a Window$ licence, OS not installed. These are all available to X and to OpenOffice.org but not apparently to CUPS, and CUPS does not appear to have a regular mechanism for importing fonts. Presumably everything has to be done by hand. I have converted the TrueType fonts to Type1 .pfb files and placed these in the /usr/share/cups/fonts directory under the names, for example Verdana, AndaleMono, Verdana-Bold, etc, in imitation of the existing font names (and restarted CUPS) but they still print as the default Courier typeface. The default set of fonts are listed in the PPD file in /etc/cups/ppd but it is not clear how font information should be added to this file. The meaning of the various fields is not documented. This may all be nonsense. Maybe the font files should go somewhere in the Ghostscript font path together with fonts.dir, fonts.scale and fonts.alias files. I really don't have a clue. Before I sign off, this is my impression of how CUPS works: lpr -> CUPS -> GS filter PPD || || pstoraster -> driver | | spooler? -> printer This again may be wrong. Please correct me somebody. In words; a postscript file, for instance, is given to lpr aka lpr-cups which passes it on to Ghostscript for filtering (if it were raw text it would be converted to PostScript format). If the printer is not PostScript capable, the file is fed to the rasterization section which generates a bitmap of the printed page. This then goes to a printer specific driver which converts it into a series of graphics commands native to the printer. The driver may consult the PPD file for defined or allowed options as well and the result is delivered to the spooler which stores it on disk for a while before it, or some other daemon, dumps it to the printer. Somewhere in there the system must try to locate the font resource specified in the PostScript file, but where exactly, and what form does the resource take? All this has taken up far more than the 3.5 minutes I have to spare each day (and I am not kidding) so help would be appreciated and would surely be of interest to other members of the list. -- Len Lawrence -- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dead pppd (was OT: M$: Bugs are cool)
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:49:46 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 > > > On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the hope that > > the bug will be fixed that occasions the need to reboot 8.2 every couple of days; > > pppd goes into a sulk and refuses to get off the machine. > > > > Are you sure that isn't just a kpppd-pid file not getting killed? > Might be something like that. I am using gnome-ppp but the same thing occurred with kppp. Not sure where to look but will search for a pid file. If this is the cause the question is then "why?". -- Len Lawrence -- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -- Mark Twain -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: M$: Bugs are cool
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > at http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html you can read an interview with > Bill Gates, in which he states that new software versions are not meant > to fix bugs. On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the hope that the bug will be fixed that occasions the need to reboot 8.2 every couple of days; pppd goes into a sulk and refuses to get off the machine. Luddites? Yes, if that means refusing to misuse modern technology by installing Window$. -- Len Lawrence -- If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some. -- Ben Franklin -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:12:11 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 11:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: > > OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out > > gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME > > toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the drag-and-drop > > feature for selecting directories. > > I mainly use XCDroast, and could help with general instructions on that if it > will help, but I haven't really tried multisession (I usually have to exclude > less important bits to get all I want on a disk :) ) snipped --- Thanks Anne. I have configured XCDroast but not tried using it yet. Will give it a go. > Undoubtedly your problem is caused by fixating. That effectively closes the > disk from further writes. Most non-burner drives have problems reading a > non-fixated disk, I believe, though I think it is largely a software problem, > as the burner program is the one that handles that. (Could be off-beam here, > though) If GToaster forces fixation then use something else for > multisession. Thanks for the confirmation. Cheers -- Len -- Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] - should have been Multisession CDRs
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:37:32 -0900 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: > > OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out snip snip -- > Ummm if you do multisession CDs, only the drive that is making them can read > them until you have closed all sessions and fixated the disk. That is the > way it works. > Thanks for the clarification, and thanks to everybody else for their comments. And apologies for forgetting the subject line. Old men do forget things. -- Len Lawrence -- The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the drag-and-drop feature for selecting directories. I am only interested in data CDs, preferably multisession, but have not been able to get multisession working properly. First attempt started without the multisession option - you can't invoke it for a second track. Fair enough. Second attempt; first track OK, mounted and read OK. Second track went on but did not seem to have much data. Third track written apparently but by then the disk was unusable - could not be mounted (on my DVD drive) although gtoaster reported three tracks. All the writing was done at 8x after hints in the list about reliability at lower speeds. On another CD I wrote about 500 Mb, specifying multisession at the start. That one is OK but the program cannot write any more tracks. "No usable tracks found" - something like that. So, what is the secret to burning multisession CDRs? I wondered if it had anything to do with fixating. Gtoaster enforces fixate for track at once recording. Could not find out what fixate meant, but found a reference in a freeBSD man page on the net which indicated that it has to do with writing a table of contents to the disk. Does fixating (fixation?) make the disk unwritable once it is done? Are there any in depth descriptions of CD recording anywhere? Most of the documentation seems to be operational, not explanatory. -- Len Lawrence -- The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] jerky DVDs
Apologies for the length of this post. A little while ago somebody
recommended my setting the DVD/CDROM for DMA operation to eliminate
jerkiness when viewing DVDs. I got hold of hdparm and tried it out,
without much apparent success. Does the following mean that DMA is
already enabled for the drive?
[root@localhost lcl]# /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
Model=IDE DVD-ROM 16X, FwRev=V3.10, SerialNo=
Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
(maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
AdvancedPM=no
[root@localhost lcl]# /sbin/hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2)
Segmentation fault
[root@localhost lcl]# /sbin/hdparm -X66 -d0 /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
setting using_dma to 0 (off)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2)
Segmentation fault
But:
[root@localhost lcl]# /sbin/hdparm -X12 -d0 /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
setting using_dma to 0 (off)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
setting xfermode to 12 (PIO flow control mode4)
using_dma= 0 (off)
No segfault with the following but no success either.
[root@localhost hdd]# /sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma= 0 (off)
cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/settings confirms that DMA is disabled.
This is all very confusing. So how to get rid of the jerkiness? This
is a 1.8 GHz Athlon XP 2200+ with the nVidia driver for Mandrake 8.2,
and 512 Mb RAM. The jerkiness was unaffected by installation of the
new video driver. On the old machine, 500 MHz Pentium III with 256 Mb
RAM the disk plays perfectly smoothly, but in that case DMA is enabled,
by default.
Could this be a hardware problem, like a jumper setting? No manual for
the drive. The invoice describes it as a "16X generic DVD drive".
--
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Re: [newbie] Xine - update
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:02:25 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone tell me in terms of xine, what region number am I in when I am > in UK > > John For a DVD bought here in the UK xine reports "maybe region 2". It appears to get that information from the Region mask on the DVD. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xine - update
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:30:06 -0300 Pilagá <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Lun 20 Ene 2003 10:31, Anne Wilson escribió: > > Did that, but the result was the same error message. Under uninstall > > software I see the package xine-dvdnav-0.9.13-1mdk. Isn't that the plugin > > that it says it can't find? > > > > Anne > > Anne: As user (not root) run 'xine-check'. > Thanks for that command Pilaga. Brilliant! -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xine - update
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:31:13 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 20 Jan 2003 1:21 pm, Pilagá wrote: > > El Lun 20 Ene 2003 09:42, Anne Wilson escribió: > > > I found the .xine directory, and within it config and config2. It looks > > > to me as though one is the old version and the other the new one. > > > Problem is, I still don't know just what to look for in there. Anyone > > > help? > > > > > > Anne > > > > Anne: Try deleting 'config', 'config2' and 'catalog.cache', and let xine > > to rebuild them. > > > Did that, but the result was the same error message. Under uninstall software > I see the package xine-dvdnav-0.9.13-1mdk. Isn't that the plugin that it > says it can't find? That's the one. Could you look at your /usr/lib/xine/plugins directory and compare it with this: nvidia_vid.la*xineplug_dmx_mpeg_audio.so* nvidia_vid.so*xineplug_dmx_mpeg_block.so* vidix/xineplug_dmx_mpeg_elem.so* xineplug_ao_out_oss.so* xineplug_dmx_mpeg_pes.so* xineplug_decode_a52.so* xineplug_dmx_mpeg.so* xineplug_decode_adpcm.so* xineplug_dmx_mpeg_ts.so* xineplug_decode_cinepak.so* xineplug_dmx_ogg.so* xineplug_decode_cyuv.so* xineplug_dmx_qt.so* xineplug_decode_dts.so* xineplug_dmx_roq.so* xineplug_decode_ff.so*xineplug_dmx_smjpeg.so* xineplug_decode_fli.so* xineplug_dmx_wav.so* xineplug_decode_lpcm.so* xineplug_inp_cda.so* xineplug_decode_mad.so* xineplug_inp_d4d.so* xineplug_decode_mpeg2.so* xineplug_inp_d5d.so* xineplug_decode_msrle.so* xineplug_inp_dvdnav.so* xineplug_decode_msvc.so* xineplug_inp_dvd.so* xineplug_decode_roqaudio.so* xineplug_inp_file.so* xineplug_decode_roqvideo.so* xineplug_inp_http.so* xineplug_decode_spucc.so* xineplug_inp_mms.so* xineplug_decode_spu.so* xineplug_inp_net.so* xineplug_decode_sputext.so* xineplug_inp_rtp.so* xineplug_decode_svq1.so* xineplug_inp_stdin_fifo.so* xineplug_decode_vorbis.so*xineplug_inp_vcd.so* xineplug_decode_w32dll.so*xineplug_vo_out_fb.so* xineplug_dmx_asf.so* xineplug_vo_out_opengl.so* xineplug_dmx_avi.so* xineplug_vo_out_sdl.so* xineplug_dmx_cda.so* xineplug_vo_out_syncfb.so* xineplug_dmx_film.so* xineplug_vo_out_vidix.so* xineplug_dmx_fli.so* xineplug_vo_out_xshm.so* xineplug_dmx_idcin.so*xineplug_vo_out_xv.so* -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xine
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:37:23 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just downloaded all the xine rpms I could get from plf.zarb.org. Then I > tried xine. I seemto have installed a new copy of the ui, and this one only > offers dvb and vcd - no dvd, so now I can't play anything. Do I need to > uninstall everything I have on xine and start again from the install discs? > If so, how can I avoid selecting the one that does the damage, since the plf > packages will be listed amongs the mdk ones? > My setup is Mandrake 8.2 with Mandrake and PLF sources for xine, and that works. If you have xine-dvdnav installed from the Mandrake CDs you could try "xine -pq -s DVD dvdnav://" from the command line. (The -pq is optional.) Since xine is a multimedia player it needs some kind of clue about the medium you are accessing. That is where MRLs come in - Media Resource Locator(?). The gui does have a comprehensive setup panel but as far as I can see does not provide an option for specifying DVD play by default - dvb and vcd must be built in defaults. I always attach the above command to a GNOME panel icon. Maybe you can do the same in KDE or modify a menu entry. You probably don't need to uninstall anything either. Does that help? -- Len Lawrence -- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium) -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DeCSS
On 17 Jan 2003 18:01:04 -0800 Roland Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The PLF (Penguin Liberation Front (I think)) has a DeCss rpm but I have > not been able to get it working yet. > Roly > > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 14:09, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I would have thought that after the ruling last week that it is perfectly > > reasonable and legal to watch videos that you have bought and paid for, it > > would now be easy to find information about DeCSS, but it turns out not to be > > so. Since I find that my DVD player will play some disks and not others I > > decided that now was the time to look at this, but all the addresses I have > > seen seem to have been taken off the websites, closed down or moved away. > > > > Assuming this is no longer liable to embarrass Mandrake in any way, can > > anyone, on list or offlist, point me at a source? > > I have libdvdcss-1.2.2-fr1 and that works in 8.2. For xine you might also need the xine_d4d_plugin, available from PLF. The Captain CSS website used to be THE place to go but as Anne points out, that and similar sites seem to have gone offline. -- Len Lawrence -- The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On 16 Jan 2003 17:36:09 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 03:15, Terry Sheltra wrote: > > > Len, > > > > > > Thanks for all of your help. I now have mplayer working (sort of), AND > > > keeping my settings! :-) > > > > > > What isn't quite working yet is the audio. I put in a DVD that we have > > > lying around here at the office (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and > > > the movie started to play. I didn't get the DVD navigation menu like I > > > had expected (is there a separate package for this? or does mplayer not > > > even support it?), and the audio track was that of the director's > > > commentary, and not the movie audio track. How can I go about fixing these? > > > > > > Thanks again Len! :-) > > > > > > Len Lawrence wrote: > > > > It's dependent on how the DVD was created. I like "Final Fanstasy", but > > constantly have to muck with the subtitles and the likes to get it to > > play properly - but on the other hand, if I stick in say, "Beetlejuice", > > I get the whole shebang. Same with "Monsters, Inc." > > That's exactly why I use Ogle to play Dvds. It plays the Dvd's in the > same way that the Dvd player would. Except that some of the gui buttons don't work. Have used ogle over a period of two years, different versions - STOP button never worked. > > Mplayer's value to me is in decoding m$ media streams. -- Len Lawrence -- The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Mandrake Financial Problems
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:15:01 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin - your posts are valued, but do me a favour. In your browser turn off > html and then try to read one of your posts. It is VERY difficult. Please > try not to use html here. Anne, This is very strange. Colin's message appears in Sylpheed without the HTML codes but if "saved as" the text contains the codes. The included part of your reply also shows up as HTML. So it looks like Sylpheed takes care of HTML automatically for the original message. Perhaps that is why so few people complain about HTML postings. But, obviously, HTML should be avoided. -- Len Lawrence -- On the subject of C program indentation: "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:45:49 -0500 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 +0000 > Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on > > my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi > > really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which > > may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in > > the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic > > video driver rather than Nvidia's own. > > If DMA is not turned on for your harddrives, it'll cause the picture to > be really jerky, too. Do a "hdparm -d /dev/hda" as root to see if it's > on. If it's not, do a "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" and see if that makes a > difference. > OK, thanks Miark. Will have to download hdparm I guess. Hope it is a standalone. -- Len Lawrence -- On the subject of C program indentation: "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:14:46 -0500 Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like you've gotten further with things than I have. I am not > able to get Xine (off the MDK CDs) to work properly with any DVD I own. > All I can manage to do is make it crash, even after installing every > codec and plugin available from the PLF website. Pretty much the same > for me with Mplayer. It will run, but does not keep my settings, and > trying to play a DVD results in a window full of garbage, again after > installing all the plugins available via PLF. If you happen to come > across a way to get either of these two progs working, please let me know. > Sorry to hear that you are having so much difficulty with these applications. Each newer version of these multimedia programs seems to get more difficult to install and get running but that is the price you pay for greater functionality and improved performance. Ogle always seems to be easier to manage, but its gui is not fully functional - several dead buttons. I installed Mandrake's xine from the 8.2 download CDs so kindly provided by Shane and had endless trouble trying to get it going by downloading RPMs and doing rpm -ivh installs. Urpmi certainly makes life easier and so does PLF. Needless to say I cannot remember exactly what the prescription was for xine but it involved libxine, xine-gui, win32 codecs and xine-plugins. Have you tried invoking it with the command "xine -s DVD dvdnav://" or "xine -pq -s DVD dvdnav://" to play immediately and quit when finished? There are other things to check like the settings in ~/.xinerc and the rawdevices service (which is probably running by default) and /dev/dvd. Then there are the skins - haven't sorted that one out yet. The same goes for mplayer. Poked around on the PLF site to see what was available and, like you, downloaded several packages. Had trouble choosing a video driver but x11 worked. If your settings don't stick maybe you need to create a ~/.mplayer/config file (copy from /etc/mplayer.conf perhaps?). It works on DVDs for me with "mplayer -dvd 1" (or 2 or 3...). Also, there is a short tutorial on the net about getting DVDs to play under one or other of these applications, reported on this list very recently: http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Maybe you have already seen that. Sorry if this does not help. I have been shooting in the dark a lot lately. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:26:25 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralph Slooten wrote: > > >On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 +0000 > >Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on > - snip - >>Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for > >>anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, > >>a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that > >>stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a > >>problem. > -- snip --- > I would just like to echo Ralph's comments, he helped me get the cvs > version on and > working and I must say the result has been worth it. It performs all > it's gmplayer/ > mplayer , mencoder functions flawlessly, and fast. There are a number of > issues with > M9.0 to be sorted but gradually one by one they were resolved. Ralph has > mentioned > libavcodec , there may be a question of lame having libmp3lame, > depending upon > which version of lame you have, I also found you needed a further gcc > compiler > rpms to get full compiling, and in addition you may need a symlink but > the starting > point for a successful build is reporting the output errors from the > gmplayer command. > I am holding back on 9.0 for the time being but am making a note of all this. Thanks -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:41:59 -0500 Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for > > anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, > > a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that > > stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a > > problem. > snip > > i had problems with the gui when building from source, but when using the plf rpm's >gmplayer worked fine. on 8.2 the only way i could get it to work was by upgrading my >gtk+ to 2.0x (along with atk, pango, and a couple other deps all supplied at gtk.org) > You might try that. Best of luck... mplayer a nice little ap, even without the gui >but that does make it much easier to deal with for windoze expats. Thanks Jerry, Ralph and Stephen for your advice. More for the todo list. And nope - never been a Windoze user - been using X, Motif, guis, and Tcl/Tk etc. from years back on Sun Solaris. -- Len Lawrence -- Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mplayer gui
Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic video driver rather than Nvidia's own. It happens with all three programs whereas xine and ogle have always run very smoothly on my old 500 MHz Pentium III with the Voodoo 3 2000 card and Mandrake 8.1. Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. Len Lawrence -- There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds hurtling through the sky And it's no good whining About a silver lining For we know from experience that they won't roll by... -- Noel Coward -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Contribs - 8.2
Good morning(?) lads & lasses Have just started investigating urpmi since everybody recommends it so highly. Successful addmedia for PLF but could not find contrib source for Mandrake 8.2. Mandrakesoft only seems to have version 9.0. Anybody know where to find contribs for 8.2? ---- Len Lawrence -- The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:43:54 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 4:30 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 13 Dec 2002 6:36 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson > > > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:18 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Digital cameras > > > > > > > > > OK - I bought the camera and went away for a few days holiday. Now I > > > have to > > > try to get the pics. > > > > > > On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 5:48 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > > > > Fuji Finepix runs fine using the usb-storage module. This is the way I > > > > configured a Fuji FinePix S602 to run under Mandrake 9.0 via usb > > > > > > > > A) Be sure you have the next modules loaded: > > > > usb > > > > usb-core > > > > usb-storage > > > > usb-scsi Have never seen usb-scsi listed anywhere. > snip snip snip -- > The final entry must be the camera, I think. Under /dev I see my Mitsumi as > scd0 and the LS120 as sda. I have had no success yet with the Canon - that > can wait until later. Does this output give any pointers as to where I > should find it? Not at all sure what is going on in your system Anne - from your posts it would appear that SCSI emulation is working. Does /sbin/lsmod list scsi_mod and ide-scsi? The earlier tip about mounting the partition is important (/dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 rather than the device /dev/sda or /dev/sdb). My serial digital camera needs to be set to SETUP for downloading images. Does PLAY correspond to SETUP on your camera do you know? PLAY sounds correct; could mean playback. As for the error messages from your LS120 without the medium, that is probably normal. dmesg gives similar warnings when my JAZ disk is not loaded. Any type of drive supporting removable media should report the same when the storage medium is absent. Are you saying that the LS120 is not working any more or have you just now noticed the warning messages? Cheers Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 20:35:53 -0600 Steve Jeppesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:29:22 + > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- big snip --- > > I am sooo much a newbie when it comes to Linux, but I was under the > impression sda meant "special device",... just a guess, but did you try > sda1, or sda2 or 3 or 4 even? What about sdd and/or sdd1, 2, 3 or 4? > I am just pulling straws here maybe. And also, maybe omitting-t vfat > may have something to do with that? Maybe you have done something > so you can omit -t vfat when you mount, unknown to me. No, the "sd" bit means SCSI disk. IDE drives come up under /dev/hd*, SCSI under /dev/sd*. /dev/sg* seems to refer to SCSI graphical devices like scanners. > ... -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb diskonkey
On 03 Dec 2002 12:47:31 +
Azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't have an sda or whatever tab in diskdrake..
Ulp! Mine just appeared, possibly because I already have a SCSI device in the
system. For reference, these are all the items from an /sbin/lsmod listing
which could be relevant for USB to SCSI emulation:
Module Size Used byTainted: P
usb-storage52236 1
usb-uhci 21668 0 (unused)
usbcore59072 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci]
ide-scsi8032 0
aic7xxx 114676 0
sd_mod 11512 4
scsi_mod 93244 6 [usb-storage sg sr_mod ide-scsi aic7xxx sd_mod]
You can ignore the aic7xxx if you don't have any SCSI cards but you should have
ide-scsi and scsi_mod loaded I think.
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 07:25, Len Lawrence wrote:
> > On 02 Dec 2002 19:49:06 +
> > Azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a tiny usb diskonkey hard drive type thingy, and want to know hwo
> > > to get it working in mandrake9.
> > >
> > > usbview says this about it:
> > > -- snip --
> >
> > I have a 20 Gb Flip2Disk, USB 2.0 device, which gives a very similar listing
> > under usbview. If you have usb-storage loaded as a module then your device
> > should be emulated as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or whatever; /dev/sda if you have no
> > other SCSI devices on your system. My drive came preformatted as VFAT I think
> > and the first step was to reformat it to ext2. If you wish to do the same,
> > go to diskdrake as root and hit the sda tab (or whatever) - PLEASE be extremely
> > careful at this stage - and reformat and create partitions as required.
> > I found that ext3 would not take - ended up as ext2.
> >
> > After that it should be a simple matter to create a mount point and mount the
> > thingy.
> > mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/thingy
> > or
> > mount -t vfat(?) /dev/sda1 /mnt/thingy
> >
> > Let us know if this helps.
> --
> Azrael
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Re: [newbie] Has anyone had trouble
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:32:09 +0200 "Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Abby wrote: > > > > Finding out the status of their order for a boxed set of Mandrake 9.0? > > I have tried contacting them four times via email now, and even placed a > > phone call yesterday and left a message. Never received a response, nor > > have I received my boxed set even though they charged my credit card > > several weeks ago. > > > > Anthony > Hi Anthony, > > I have also had problems in finding out where my Mdk 9 boxed set is. I > wish there was an email contact I could use to find out or even a > website but alas Mdk aren't that USER friendly, dare I say like M$? To be fair, you cannot really compare a tiny tiny operation like Mandrake's with a multi-billion dollar giant like Microsoft. Mandrake is struggling to survive and probably have very few staff with the time to oil the wheels. On a related track; we may bitch about deficiencies and awkwardness in the software and packages like Gnome2 and Nautilus (mea culpa) but most of this stuff is put together and developed by very small groups of dedicated people without renumeration and little personal recognition. > Considering I am so far south from the distributor i.e. South Africa, > all I'm doing is waiting for them to debit my credit card for the order. > All I'll be able to do then is wait for the postage, which normally > would take anything from 2-5 weeks from Europe. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm?
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:26:46 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a > root console, then typed hdparm - command not found. I tried man hdparm - no > manual entry for hdparm. > > Am I finally, totally over the top? If that wasn't the command, what was? No, you still have all your marbles Anne. I found it in /sbin on an 8.1 installation but nowhere in 8.2 or 9.0. It must be in some package on the installation disk(s). You could try rpm -q --whatprovides on the CDs. No time to check that myself. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing PINE
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:11:43 -0700 SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why isn't PINE in the Mandrake distribution? I realize mutt is, > but what takes the place of PINE? It is missing from Mandrake 9.0 because of licensing issues apparently. I had used it for years, back before Linux, but have got used to Sylpheed now. Don't know what you could use as a direct replacement but you could try installing pine from an older distribution or even download the latest version and agree to the licensing terms. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
