Re: [newbie] Where to post on reply
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 00:44, aronsmith wrote: I always thought it was meeeow! Is your spelling French or something? Danish :-) I thought Great Danes went Woof-Woof LOL :-) -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where to post on reply
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:36, Johan wrote: Hi, Hi! Have I missed a new rule about posting on reply (top - middle -bottom)??? In between I prefer top - why - when I open mail there already visible the reply. Wrong. Ya like Jeopardy? It's a cat! What miauws? See my moo point? Maybe it just of preference. Unfortuanly yes, but clear netikette states correct quoting like I've demonstrated. And not how people prefer! :-) And.. remember to cut away what's not needed. -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where to post on reply
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 22:38, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 03:12 pm, Martin L. Johansen wrote: It's a cat! What miauws? I always thought it was meeeow! Is your spelling French or something? Danish :-) -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? Not for a desktop. Only servers handling web services and lot'sa lot'sa users, or a sound/video studio. So unless you're Walt Disney or Dream Works, 512MB is overkill. 'Course if you've got more ram, Linux will try an use it all, and maybe still bump into /swap but the memory management scheme in kernels that can address over 860MB of ram, also slow things down. I've heard about 7%, I believe in the few days I've used an enterprise kernel, it's even more than that for normal desktop use. OK. Thanks m8. -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Danish government woken up !
On Friday 24 October 2003 00:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: http://www.tekno.dk/subpage.php3?article=969survey=14language=ukfront=1 That was about time!! :-) -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 21:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit swap...so I'd have to agree...unless you're doing something really intensive like video editing or somesuch. Yeah, but I just understood it, that a bug caused the system to run better with less than 1024.. maybe I'm off wrong. -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions for Windows partitiion
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 12:48, John wrote: I have two windows partitions, one of which I want to use for shared files under Mandrake Linux. I can read all the files, but want to have write access to one of the partitions. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it? Make sure they are in FAT32. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UserDrake problem
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 15:56, Ken Walker wrote: You could write a very simple script and call it summat like MyUserDrake that deletes the said mentioned files and then runs UserDrake. But does anybody know why it does this They occur when you forget to hit save... So the solution is to delete them once, and then remember to hit save whenever UserDrake is started.. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Difference between 8.0, 8.2, 9.x
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 06:35, Jason Guidry wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 23:18, Fish Fash wrote: What is the difference between ver 8.0, 8.2, 9.x? 8.2 works. use it. 9.0 works. Use it. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating libraries
On Monday 09 December 2002 08:55, Ray Henry wrote: Yeah, that's what started all this trouble. Over 8 hours to finally get it installed, after having to figure out that Mandrake was lying to me. And now, more hours to get the modem working again :/ Bummer :/ Here my Quanta worked from day one. Have you installed your dist. from 3 CD's or only the first one? If only the first one, then I'm not surprised that your having problems. Actually, I was dual-booting with W98/RH 7.4, and didn't want to spend time getting all my toys working under RH. They work under MDK just fine. Too bad so much other stuff doesn't. I would probably been better off getting everything working under RH. Nah, Mandrake is better. Many things are easier under MDK as Redhat tend to be a little to MS'ish. Eg. the missing Mp3 support is a big no-no if they wanna survive the battle. MDK is gaining in on the market. It's got a long way to go before it's OS/2, though. At least for the end user. Sure, with server applications, Linux rocks. But to use as a desktop OS, it fails miserably at this point. I have never tried OS/2, so that I can't say, but Linux as a desktop OS would be better IF...the hardware manufactures would go support it! Somehow MS is the only one exisiting in their universe, and it's a pitty. But the way it is now, desktop with Linux could be easier, but it aint impossible :-) After a day of MDK'ing, I've experienced more frustration than I have since someone slipped a disk with the stoned.empire.monkey virus into my W95 machine about 5 years ago I didn't give up then, either. That's the problem: 1 day only. I said the same thing as you did the first week, I nearly cried myself to sleep (well not exactly, but you get the point), then I started hanging out at freenode and all my greefs became burried one after the other. Help in this universe isn't so far away. Although the experts told me after 48 hours I'd done everything possible, and that the only resolution was to buy a new HD. hmm. Yes, I am a bitter man. I miss my OS/2, and I want it back, dammit! :| :-) Smile The Linux community would be a better place for newbies if, as said before, the manufactures would recognise Linux as an option, and the same with the software developers. If MSI/nVidia made a driverset equals the Windows ones, I wouldn't have to use Windows for TV-Out (I know it's possible under Linux, but last time I tried my X setup went to the basement, and I haven't tried since). And if the game producers made Linux ports the way UT 2003 is for eg., then I wouldn't have to boot MS. But it's coming! It takes time though. MS has it's place in the world, but 3500DKK (that's app. 430USD) for a Windows XP Pro.. that's way to much when MDK9 comes for free and does the same, if not better. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Sunday 08 December 2002 16:44, Jerry wrote: Running 2 computers, main is mdk 8.2, secondary is mdk 9.0. Both have different monitors and different video cards. After a while of inactivity, even when xscreensaver is disabled, the monitor goes blank except for a green flashing D. Not that this is a big problem, per se... it goes away and the screen comes back up when you press a key on the keyboard, but it is a little annoying... (like a vcr clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 lol) Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this? I _think_ it's just under KDE, i don't use other window managers/desktop environments very often so I don't recall if it's happened under Gnome or IceWM, etc. Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
On Monday 09 December 2002 15:50, David Robertson wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:32, Dale Kosan wrote: Well, he states he can read the files so it is not NTFS. --snip-- With the appropriate kernel support, you can read a NTFS partition: its just not a good idea to try to write to it (tho' I've never tried, I must admit). I've tried. Nothing else but cannot write as it's readonly. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Sunday 08 December 2002 17:08, Jerry wrote: Look in Mandrake Control Center -- Powercontrol -- Energy Thanks for the reply, but I've looked in Mandrake Control Center for Powercontrol and Energy on both machines, niether machine has those options on it. Just what I thought. Hmm, I wouldn't know then. I always turn off my monitors when I don't use'em, so I cannot say if it's the same by me. The reason I thought it would be so, is that mine's disabled too by default, so I guessed yours was too, but wanted you to check the option. Anyone else? -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
On Monday 09 December 2002 16:19, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: One time I had problems to write windows FAT32 partitions because the partition had problems; I had to do an scandisk from windows, errors were repaired and again I could be able to write the windows partition from linux. Have you passed and scandisk from windows? Hope this could help It's still NTFS, so scandisk wont help a bit :-) But you're right, if an error persists on a FAT32 part, then scandisk must be run. But regarding NTFS, it's simply not possible/allowed at all to write. Only read. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen oddity?
On Monday 09 December 2002 20:24, Charlie wrote: I had them both open and looked at the title on the wrong window :-) I thought I was the only one to do that kind of thing. :-) :-) -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 01:35, FemmeFatale wrote: Perfectly possible to write ... there is a module/rpm in existence IIRC that allows this. Ed Tharp or Civilme pointed it out once. Hmm, I was not aware of that. Now, do you want to ? That depends... how much do you value your data? It is extremely experimental ATM. Nah, if it's a risk I'll not. I have no need to do so, as my NTFS-drive is where Win2k is installed, and the other FAT32 drive is where I share files between Windows and Linux. so beware I will. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install fails
On Sunday 08 December 2002 02:42, walt wrote: It could be that mandrake 9.0 is not compatible with your machine. I had to put mandrake 8.2 on my computer, which works beautifully, make a boot disk using an older kernel image, boot to that disk and then was able to do an update to 8.2. If I tried a clean install, it wouldn't work. Everything is working fine right now and I am hoping that when a newer kernel comes out I will be able to use it and that my computer will work with it. It is the chipset that is causing problems for me. Same on my newlyfound server. Mandrake will install, but wont boot. Don't know where the problem resides, but I've installed another graphicsaccelerator now, so I'll try to see it it works. It could also me my chipset, I don't know for sure. All I know, is that Linux is more picky than Windows. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Sunday 08 December 2002 11:15, greg wrote: When installing Mandrake, I have selected (when setting up net/internet) the ethernet option, and selected bootp/dhcp instead of entering any details. This is how Red Hat is configured (ethernet connection/dhcp) and works no probs. After this, booting into MK9, internet does not work. When it is booting, the detection of eth0 fails. Running ifconfig in MK9, shows up only the lo details, and eth0 is not running. As a result, obviously no connection. Does not matter how many different ways I configure the connection through the wizard, it still does not work, even when I select ADSL, and choose DHCP. If I run ifup eth0, it fails. When I run 'ifconfig eth0 -pointopoint 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0', it brings eth0 up, but still does no good, and when I run the internet wizard, if knocks eth0 out, and puts it down again. Just one more note, this last time of installing mandrake, I installed only the minimum (980mb something isntall, for a basic internet system, with gnome and kde) just incase something else being installed was interferring with the device. Try another card from another manufacture, but with the same chipset, if it still wont work, then try disabling DHCP (DHCP is satans work, if you ask me) and see if it helps. Remember to disable DHCP in your router as well. I use all static IP's on my LAN and all is working like a charm allways. Many friends tend to use DHCP but they all have problems once in a while. I don't see the trick using dynamic IP's through DHCP, when it's not nessecary (and when is it that?) Third... if it aint working still... try another PCI-bus. You might have a conflict. I had that problem once. I moved the card, and all was a bliss. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Sunday 08 December 2002 12:54, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a table set up on my router with static IP addresses. All the machines use those static addresses, except the laptop which is set to get an address from the router. The router has a fixed address to offer that login, so it works as though it is completely using a static address, but avoids the problem of the laptop being elsewhere and causing conflict by having a static address set. It sounds crazy to mix and match like this, but seems to cause no problem. I would certainly recommend static addressing. The main argument for dhcp in small lans seems to be anonymity on the Internet - but your router's giving you that. Exactly. Third... if it aint working still... try another PCI-bus. You might have a conflict. I had that problem once. I moved the card, and all was a bliss. Well worth a try. Maybe a conflict, and sometimes some slots just don't seem to work smoothly, or seem to be picky with playmates. That was what I found. MDK nor the BIOS was telling me all was fine and Windows (yak) worked like a charm, but MDK just wouldn't configure my card. I then tried another card in another slot and all was good. Huh? I thought... I then put back my old card in the old slot... problems again. Aha I thought... moved the card to the new position and my LAN was up'n'running in no time. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about to give up
On Monday 09 December 2002 04:52, Joseph Braddock wrote: PCI is funny that way. Your plug and play bios and/or OS have to pick some order in which to initialize the cards. If one of the cards has a limited number of IRQs it can use and a different card grabs that IRQ first, then the limited card is stuck. Once the card is assigned an IRQ by the bios, the bios won't change it as long as that card is put in the original slot. I've usually have had this problem with various Winmodems that require a specific IRQ, but another adapter has grabbed it (doesn't matter whether running Linux or Windows). Rearranging the cards usually does the trick. Yeah, but fynny thing for me, is that in Windows it worked, and in Linux it didn't. Hmm, strange. -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating libraries
On Monday 09 December 2002 08:29, Ray Henry wrote: Yeah, well You know I was hoping for something better than Composer... That's an easy one..: Quanta Plus from KDE3 Now I just have to try to figure out what broke my modem in the process. KdeprintFax now returns invalid modem response when I try to send a fax. Ugh Why did I leave MS? :P Pick me! Pick me! I know this one... You left MS for something way better :-) I know MS is giving you less greef, but Mandrake gives you so much more besides greefs. After a few weeks of MDK'ing, I'll never go back to MS as my primary OS. Right now I only use MS for playing games and watching the DVD's that my stationary won't play. Give it a try! -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install fails
On Sunday 08 December 2002 01:38, Dan Cox wrote: This happens almost immediately after I hot enter at the Press enter to install Mandrake screen.I've tried using different disks thinking maybe the disk was scratched and also tried a text install with the same results.Any help is appreciated. Have you checked that the checksum match? Have you tried another drive? -- Martin L. Johansen Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) Spam will be forwared to /dev/null ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
