Re: [newbie] FIXED: Fixing an application--?
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 06:02, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, all. Wasn't sure how to title this post, as I've never run into this situation before. snip I am not familiar with this app, but normally your user configuration will be stored in a hidden file or folder in your /home. Set konqueror to show hidden files and you will be able to find it (They start with '.') If it is a KDE based app, then the set up file will be somewhere in ~/.kde/share/config or maybe in ~/.kde/share/apps If you delete the user config file a new one will be automatically created next time you run it with default configuration. You know-- I just didn't think to look in the .kde directory... I guess I've been using XFce for too long. ;) Problem solved. I deleted the bookcaserc file, and the application ran. It crashed again when I tried to load my data file, so there was apparently some kind of corruption in that. Luckily, it only had a few entries in it; most of my library is in storage (I never thought I'd be _happy_ to be separated from my books...). It's working great again with fresh config and data files. Sorry this one was so elementary. Thanks! Marv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FIXED: Fixing an application--?
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 06:02, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, all. Wasn't sure how to title this post, as I've never run into this situation before. snip I am not familiar with this app, but normally your user configuration will be stored in a hidden file or folder in your /home. Set konqueror to show hidden files and you will be able to find it (They start with '.') If it is a KDE based app, then the set up file will be somewhere in ~/.kde/share/config or maybe in ~/.kde/share/apps If you delete the user config file a new one will be automatically created next time you run it with default configuration. You know-- I just didn't think to look in the .kde directory... I guess I've been using XFce for too long. ;) Problem solved. I deleted the bookcaserc file, and the application ran. It crashed again when I tried to load my data file, so there was apparently some kind of corruption in that. Luckily, it only had a few entries in it; most of my library is in storage (I never thought I'd be _happy_ to be separated from my books...). It's working great again with fresh config and data files. Sorry this one was so elementary. Thanks! Marv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Fixing an application--?
Hello, all. Wasn't sure how to title this post, as I've never run into this situation before. The application in question is Bookcase (v.0.6.6-1; I believe the applciation is now called something else). It's kind of a specialized thing, so I'm hoping that whatever is happening to me is a generalized problem and has a general solution. Basically, it won't run any more. I made the apparent mistake of trying to open a second data file before the first had been saved, and when I hit Cancel the program crashed. Now when I try to run it, I get the same error from the KDE crash handler that I got at the initial crash: 'The application Bookcase (bookcase) crashed and cause the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).' The following is my terminal output: Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 QCheckBox::property( title ) failed: property invalid or does not exist [the above is repeated seven times] WARNING: BookcaseDoc::loadDomDocument() - unsupported collection type! WARNING: Bookcase will probably crash at some point! QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key QGDictIterator::toFirst: Dictionary has been deleted I went looking for some kind of configuration file, or dotfile or .directory that I thought might be related to the program, but couldn't find anything. I uninstalled the program (via RPMdrake) and reinstalled, but I'm getting the same behavior. Any ideas? All guidance is greatly appreciated in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble with Nvu 0.90
I guess 9.2 just doesn't have the stones to do Nvu any more. Ah, well. 0.70 works _fairly_ well for me, though there are plenty of bugs. Thanks. Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:02:24 -0500 Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't strictly a Mandrake issue; and I apologize beforehand if this has been recently addressed-- I've only just rejoined the list. Hopefully, there's someone here who's familiar with Nvu (http://nvu.com). I'm having a heck of a time with any version of Nvu since 0.70 on Mdk 9.2. I've been all over their website, and it appears as though any Linux-specific installation tips have disappaered. When I try running either of the scripts 'nvu' or 'nvu-bin', I get nothing-- no program, no output to the terminal. When I skip straight to 'run-mozilla.sh', I get the following: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The thing is, libmozjs.so is sitting right there in the distribution directory. I thought I'd be clever and take a look at the run-mozilla.sh script fpr myself, and it makes no reference whatsoever to libmozjs.so (though I'm not so naive as to believe that this means anything). Basically, I'm stumped. Can anyone offer any guidance? Thanks very much in advance. I cranked up a new box on 10.1 just for nvu. Also couldn't install it on 9.2. Works great on the new box, though. BTW 10.1 is ok too. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Trouble with Nvu 0.90
This isn't strictly a Mandrake issue; and I apologize beforehand if this has been recently addressed-- I've only just rejoined the list. Hopefully, there's someone here who's familiar with Nvu (http://nvu.com). I'm having a heck of a time with any version of Nvu since 0.70 on Mdk 9.2. I've been all over their website, and it appears as though any Linux-specific installation tips have disappaered. When I try running either of the scripts 'nvu' or 'nvu-bin', I get nothing-- no program, no output to the terminal. When I skip straight to 'run-mozilla.sh', I get the following: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The thing is, libmozjs.so is sitting right there in the distribution directory. I thought I'd be clever and take a look at the run-mozilla.sh script fpr myself, and it makes no reference whatsoever to libmozjs.so (though I'm not so naive as to believe that this means anything). Basically, I'm stumped. Can anyone offer any guidance? Thanks very much in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] A GIMP 2.x RPM for Mdk 9.2?
Hello, all. You've all heard me gripe about my difficulties in compiling from source and upgrading existing applications, so I won't rehash all that. Does anyone know where I can find a GIMP 2.x RPM for Mandrake 9.2? I've tried all of my various sources and searches with no luck. Many thanks in advance, Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Need definitive help in building installing from source
Hello, everyone. Some of you may recall my whining in earlier posts about how I've never been able to build and install anything from source on my Mandrake 9.2 system. Until now, I've been content to use RPMs to install older versions of the softare I want, but it's clear that I will NEVER be proficient in Linux until I've conquered this problem I seem to have with source. I'm familiar with the whole ./configure-make-make install thing. That's not the problem. Time and again, I end up with errors (lately, with autoconf supposedly not being installed. This is wrong; I _have_ autoconf installed). Source packages are claiming to not be able to find the stuff they need, when I KNOW I have everything necessary installed. I think the main problem is that I have no clear idea of where to drop my untarred source directories. I've read that they absolutely _must_ be in /usr/src-- and that they _must_ be in /opt/src; or /usr/local/src, or... You get the picture. I haven't been able to get a clear answer to where my sources should live. I've tried them all, and nothing has ever worked. I've read tutorial after tutorial, and all they seem to say is 'unpack the tarball, then cd to the directory, then run ./configure, then...' Unpack _where_? I know a lot of you get frustrated having to spoon-feed newbies, but this is driving me crazy. If it's all been done before, I'm sorry-- but can someone please walk me through this step-by-step? (Again, this is on Mdk 9.2.) Let's say I have source package n00bsource-1.0.0.tar.gz. Where do I unpack it, and what should I be doing to make sure that the thing will successfully build, install, and run? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated-- I _think_ that this is my last real obstacle to getting the most out of Linux. Thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] My last attempt at pixieplus...
Hello, everyone. I've been having a heck of a time getting pixieplus to work on my system (Mdk 9.2). It's the one 'must-have' (for me) app that I haven't been able to use in some form or another. Compiling from source didn't work (I forget why, it's been a long time-- though I _never_ seem to be able to compile _anything_ from source). None of the other RPMs I've tried would work; they were unhappy with my version of ImageMagick (5.5.7). The closest I've come to success is with pixieplus-0.5.4-6mdk.i586.rpm, which installed-- but trying to run the application gives me this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] marv]$ pixie pixie: relocation error: /usr/lib/pixie.so: undefined symbol: _ZN11KMainWindow4showEv I'm completely without a clue on this (could you tell? ;) ). Does anyone know what this means, and whether or not it's something I can fix? Alternately, has _anyone_ running 9.2 managed to get a working version of pixieplus? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] My last attempt at pixieplus...
Derek Jennings wrote: I don't think pixieplus is being maintained any more which is a pity because I liked it too. There is an RPM in contrib, which sorta works if you install an old ImageMagick from 9.2 Indeed a pity. I was hooked on ACDSee under Windows, and pixieplus looked to be the closest thing to it for Linux The RPM I've installed and tried to use is from 9.2 contrib. Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by 'sorta works'? As for an old ImageMagick from 9.2, that's probably what I have, as I'm running 9.2. Have you tried an alternative? Digikam is very nice if you want to organise pictures. http://digikam.sourceforge.net/ I have some rpms on my download page which I hope will work for you. derek Digikam looks promising-- but your RPMs are for 10. Still, I have the 0.5.1 RPM on my installation discs, so I may just give the older version a try. Perhaps I'm just being silly about all this. I _suppose_ I have everything I need in gqview, gThumb, and the ImageMagick suite (not to mention the GIMP), but pixieplus sure looked cool. Thanks, Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] My last attempt at pixieplus...
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 16 August 2004 09:55 am, Marv Boyes wrote: would work; they were unhappy with my version of ImageMagick (5.5.7). The closest I've come to success is with pixieplus-0.5.4-6mdk.i586.rpm, I recall running PixiePlus on 9.2 and I think there was a package in the contrib tree for it. Is that where this came from? Yes, it did. Can't understand why it won't work. You haven't upgraded major components of your system beyond 9.2, have you? I mean things like KDE and QT. Since PixiePLus is a QT app, if you upgraded QT, you may have trouble without recompiling. Aside from installing a lot of new stuff, my setup is a 'stock' 9.2 PowerPack. Now, there's no telling what some of the new things might have done, but I haven't outright replaced anything major (I don't dare, since nothing I've tried to compile and install from source has ever worked). Thanks, nonetheless. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewers that display GIMP .xcf format files?
Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 07:27:59PM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, all. Can anyone recommend an image viewer in the same vein as gThumb or gqview that displays GIMP .xcf files without hassle? snip Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're after, but here are a few thoughts. Basically, I was looking for a gqview clone that handles .xcf files. [Read on...] If you're in a directory of images, you can do: display 'vid:*' A-HA! This is _exactly_ what I was looking for! (or, rather, close enough that I can use it). It would never have occurred to me that ImageMagick would have what I needed. I've been spoiled by the menubars of too many GUI apps. ;) You see, I do a _lot_ of editing in the GIMP, and leave a lot of in-progress stuff laying about in .xcf format (and, shame on me, my filenames aren't always terribly descriptive). gqview ignores them, Gthumb, Konqueror, and Nautilus won't display them, and hunt-and-peck with the GIMP is a pain. ImageMagick's display, properly managed, is just about right. And of course, the contents of .xvpics didn't occur to me, either. You've suggested a lot of possibilities for .xcf image management here. Thanks! Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie
Just a quick aside, somewhat on-topic: I'm glad to see others using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] software, even if it is sloppy. ;) My mother-in-law died of Huntington's disease in February, and my wife is still deliberating over whether or not to be tested for the gene. The protein-folding research represented by [EMAIL PROTECTED] is about the best shot we have at understanding Huntington's, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and related disorders. And I was tempted to turn this into a political rant about better-informed and more mature governmental attitudes toward stem cell research here in the USA, but I suppose it would be in bad taste for this list. ;) I just wish that [EMAIL PROTECTED] enjoyed the kind of worldwide popularity that [EMAIL PROTECTED] presently does. Anyway, as someone whose family may just benefit from protein-folding research, thanks for your interst. On Friday 06 August 2004 10:31:10, C. Tresenriter wrote: I must have misunderstood you. I have kde set to save the session when booting up and had the folding client running in a terminal on an unused desktop but on rebooting it didn't start. Obviously there's something else I need to do. What is it I'm missing? Curt Sloppy software the uni is offering for people trying to help. If started by the method mentioned in my previous post the program runs, but not in the directory it lives in. It starts all over again and clutters the home directory. Maybe because I didn't register a user name and have been doing the units anonymously. Use the script I think. I don't like surprises. Could you tell? g Charlie -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Image viewers that display GIMP .xcf format files?
Hello, all. Can anyone recommend an image viewer in the same vein as gThumb or gqview that displays GIMP .xcf files without hassle? If the GIMP 2 includes a thumbnail browser like Photoshop's, that doesn't necessarily solve my problem-- since I have yet to successfully compile anything from source under Mandrake 9.2, I'm still waiting for a GIMP 2 RPM that will work with 9.2 (if anyone knows where I can find one, though, that would be great-- with or without an integrated file browser. ;) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning
I did a bad, bad thing, and I'm hoping that someone can help me with it. I used Partition Commander to wipe out the Mandrake 9.1 partition on my secondary's machine's hard drive, then gave all of the free space to Windows [not to worry; it's a gaming machine. My primary box is still blissfully MS-free. ;) ]. The problem is that now Windows won't boot. I didn't restore my Windows bootloader beforehand, and when I try to do so now (the only way I know how, from the utility provided by the Mandrake 9.1 installation CD), I can only get so far in the process before Mandrake setup stops being able to read from the CD-ROM drive. So when I turn on the machine, I get this: grub I have no idea what do do with that. And without a /boot/grub/menu.lst, grub has no idea, either. I've been through all the help that grub provides, and none of it suggests an obvious solution. Is there any hope of fixing this, so that I can boot Windows-- as installed --on that drive? Or am I facing a reinstall here? Any help would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning: SOLVED
Everything's cool. ;) You see, the _real_ reason I panicked is that I was certain I didn't have a WinMe (the version, BTW-- sorry I didn't specify) boot floppy anywhere. Or if I did, there was no telling in which cardboard box of other woefully obsolete stuff it ended up in. As it turns out, there was a dusty old boot floppy in a box of diskettes in my bottom desk drawer. Sometimes it pays to be a pack rat. Thanks for your help everyone. Here's hoping I don't post another Windows-related question in here for a very long time. ;) Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 05:44 pm, Marv Boyes wrote: Is there any hope of fixing this, so that I can boot Windows-- as installed --on that drive? Or am I facing a reinstall here? Any help would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. You didn't mention which version of windows you are running. WinXP, 2K, NT - Boot from the Windows CD, Choose Rescue mode and go to console. Type fixmbr and allow it to recreate the windows bootloader. Remove CD and restart. Win98, ME, and other 16 bit versions, Boot from the CD or boot floppy, get to a command prompt and type fdisk /mbr (IIRC) and that should recreate the windows boot sector on the hard drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4
Graham Watkins wrote: Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? Not sure about the other configuration troubles you mention, Graham, but one solution to the menu problem would be to run gnome-panel. I did it for several weeks under Xfce4 (until I decided that I really didn't need it anymore), and it worked like a charm. Since both GNOME and Xfce use gtk, the underlying architecture you need to run gnome-panel is already in place and running; I found that gnome-panel works a lot better under Xfce than KDE's Kicker does, having to load all of the KDE/Qt stuff. Which reminds me of your terminal troubles: personally, I prefer running gnome-terminal under Xfce4, for the same reason I try to avoid KDE apps when there are good GNOME/gtk equivalents available-- the gtk apps seem to be a lot more responsive and (especially) stable under Xfce. Naturally, YMMV. Aterm is another nice (and fast!) alternative, though I stick with gnome-terminal when I need to cut 'n paste stuff. Another benefit of running gnome-panel under Xfce is that you get a fully-functional taskbar; Xfce's own taskbar leaves (IMHO) a bit to be desired, and it took me awhile to get used to the Xfce4 iconbox (which I now use without breaking a sweat. ;) ). If gnome-panel brings more overhead than you want, there's also the MenuMaker script package (http://menumaker.sourceforge.net)-- it produced a servicable right-click menu on my machine, though it missed some programs and categorized others in ways that I personally found odd. It'll do in a pinch, and is probably a lot more configurable than I've given it credit for. After all, anything written in Python can't be all bad. ;) Hope this helps, Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird RPM
Your mileage may vary, EE, but I've been downloading and using Mozilla's static binaries for both Thunderbird and Firefox without any problems since the very early releases. I don't know if you have everything in place that the binaries will expect to find, but you should be able to just dump them into a folder in your home directory and run them. There's an RPM of version 0.3 for Mandrake 9.1 at rpm.pbone.net, but there's a good chance that the binary tarball of 0.7 at mozilla.org/products/thunderbird will work for you. Bear in mind that I'm an utter newbie, and may not have any idea what I'm talking about. ;) HTH, Marv EE wrote: Where can I find Thunderbird RPM? I tried rpmfind but no help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Uninstalling programs compiled from source
Hello, all. I have so far had absolutely rotten luck getting much of anything I've compiled from source to work on my Mandrake 9.2 machine. Luckily, I've either a) decided I can live without the latest bleeding-edge versions of my favorite apps; or b) been able to find Mdk-ready RPMs on rpm.pbone.net and/or RPMFind for most of the stuff I want to use. It really bugs me that I can't use 90% of what I've tried to install from source, as compiling and installing software the way _I_ want it was one of the big draws of Linux in the first place; but I've read everything I can find on the subject and still haven't the vaguest notion of what I might be doing wrong. Anyway, my question (there IS a question) is this-- is there a convenient way to uninstall programs I've installed, or (more often) tried to install, from source? There's probably a lot of crap strewn all over my hard drive, and I'd like to be able to clean some of it up. I'd also like to know for any future failures to run things I've compiled from source. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing 10.0 Official alongside 9.2
My apologies at the outset, since this has probably already been covered. I searched my local list archive back to 23 March, and couldn't find what I was looking for. I have no means of searching the archive site at the moment, so please forgive me if this is an oft-repeated question. I would like to install 10.0 Official alongside my existing 9.2 installation (on a presently Mandrake 9.2-only hard drive). The 9.2 PowerPack has all the tools I need right now, but I'm dying to try the 2.6 kernel while waiting until a 10.2 (or so) release to purchase another PowerPack. Since I haven't been able to locate an official Mandrake version of the 2.6 kernel ready-made for 9.2 (if such a thing even exists), and the prospect of rolling my own 2.6 terrifies my inner newbie, it looks like the side-by-side full-install route is my only option. I use GRUB as my bootloader (I don't trust LILO, as it once ate my partition table, and I prefer GRUB's relatively simple configurability). I would like to end up with full installations of 9.2 and 10.0, bootable from the GRUB menu. Can I simply run the 10.0 install and trust it to install its own copy of GRUB with 9.2 and 10.0 ready to go, or are there other things I need to take into consideration (and be prepared to deal with)? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thunderbird 0.6: switching message formats
Hello, everyone. I recently upgraded to Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6, and am having a hard time finding an option to change a message I'm composing from plain text to HTML. I generally try to stick to plain text for everything, but there are times when an HTML message is more appropriate. If I remember correctly, Thunderbird 0.5 had that option in Options -- Format, but that's not there now. The only way I've been able to find to change my composition format is under my account settings for Composition and Addressing, but this is awfully cumbersome. Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance. -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird 0.6: switching message formats
Magnus Johansson wrote: Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance. Not sure about how to change while editing, but hold down the Shift-key when pressing the Write or Reply-button. This is very cool. Beats the heck out of changing the whole account setting. Thanks! Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets
Hello again, everyone. I've recently started using gdesklets (v0.26.1), but have so far only been able to get the SysInfo desklet to work. Whenever I install and try to run a new desklet, I get two errors (examples from the Calendar desklet): - Could not load sensor 'Calendar' An error occurred while loading a sensor. This most likely means that the sensor is broken or simply not installed. Invalid display file '/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/calendar-0.2.5.2/Calendar.display' The display file contains invalid data and could not be loaded. - I got the same problem early on with SysInfo, but I finally got it to work. The only trouble is, I moved things into so many different directories in an effort to get it to work-- and I kept such poor track of what I was doing --that I can't recall which setup finally worked. This is my fault, obviously, and I hate to keep bothering you fine folks with problems related to my own inattention; but anyway... ;) The main problem is that I can't get a clear and consistent answer for exactly _where_ desklets ought to be installed in the first place. Some sites have users install them in their home directories (I get a flat-out file does not exist error when I try this); others mention setups in the /usr directory tree, but nothing matches my own directory structure well enough for to guess how to adapt the instructions. Is there anyone here using Mandrake 9.2 who can pass along the secret of their gdesklets success? By the way, I'm using Xfce, so the 'drag-n-drop' solution for GNOME won't work for me. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:40:15 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Hello again, everyone. I've recently started using gdesklets (v0.26.1), but have so far only been able to get the SysInfo desklet to work. Whenever I install and try to run a new desklet, I get two errors (examples from the Calendar desklet): - Could not load sensor 'Calendar' An error occurred while loading a sensor. This most likely means that the sensor is broken or simply not installed. Invalid display file '/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/calendar-0.2.5.2/Calendar.display' The display file contains invalid data and could not be loaded. If you read the docs in the archive for any given display, it explains this. Yes, I read that; I also read this: Again in theory this is simple. First you get some desklet, for example a clock desklet. Then you untar its package and run ./Install.bin-script. $ wget http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/files.php?func=gd_downloadfilegd_filename=clock-desklet-0.32.tar.bz2gd_fileid=83; $ bzip2 -cd clock-desklet-0.32.tar.bz2|tar -xf - $ cd clock-desklet-0.32 $ ./Install_Clock_Sensor.bin After ./Install_Clock_Sensor.bin you might get a message The sensor has been installed successfully. gDesklets is now able to use it.. I read it, followed it, got the 'go-ahead' message from gdesklets-- and still they don't work. Though it may not seem like it from some of my posts, I _do_ generally try to exhaust all the documentation I can find before I post here. ;) Thanks for the urpmi tip, though I tend to shy away from online updates/installs-- my dialup connection is unreliable and awful beyond description. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Can't launch apps as root from CLI
Hello, everyone. I've discovered that I suddenly can't launch certain applications as root from the command line anymore. For instance, I've been using Konqueror for more than a year to handle basic file management tasks as root (I'm still very clumsy at the command line; I get all muddled moving from one directory to another, despite liberal use of pwd). Now, when I switch to root and run 'konqueror', I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gdesklets]# konqueror Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed ...and nothing further happens. I can't imagine what I might have done to mess things up, and reboots haven't helped. It's happening with Nautilus, as well-- I'm fast running out of GUI file managers that I can use as root. I know I need to become more proficient at the command line (or look into using something like Midnight Commander), but I wasn't planning on being forced into it when I have work to do. ;) Any ideas? Where ought I to look to see what might have happened? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Need partitioning advice
Hello, all. I've nearly run out of space on / partition at work, and would like to move some free space from the Windows partition. It's a little dicey for me, since my IT people don't (yet) know I've installed Mandrake 9.2 on that machine. I can't afford to screw up the Windows partition; while I haven't booted Win in months, there's no telling when I might have to. I've always used Partition Commander to handle my partitioning tasks at home (a Windows-free machine, which makes life so much easier. ;), and it has never failed me. However, just as I'm preparing to move space from /mnt/windows to / on the work computer, I get a warning from Partition Commander that I'll have to reinit my bootloader if this is a partition that boots Linux. Partition Commander gives excellent step-by-step instructions for doing this for Lilo, but I'm using (and vastly prefer) GRUB. Can anyone give me some guidance here? I'm not necessarily tied to using Partition Commander-- it's just a familiar tool for me. I don't really know DiskDrake all that well, though if this is a better tool I'd certainly appreciate a gentle push in that direction. Please let me know if I haven't given enough pertinent information, and thanks very much in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Xfce4-- running apps vanish
I've been using Xfce4 near-exclusively for a couple of months now, and I've absolutely fallen in love with it-- coming from KDE, I feel like I've graduated, in a way. ;) Unfortunately, I've run into a serious problem in the last couple of weeks and hope that someone can help. Once every day or two, for no apparent reason, every single application opened in a particular workspace will suddenly disappear. It's like I killed them all at once. There's no warning, there are no error messages-- everything in that workspace just vanishes. It has (so far) only happened in whichever workspace is active; applications opened in other workspaces are unscathed. It appears to be random-- I haven't been able to pin the behavior to a particular application or action. Sometimes it happens while I'm working; other times I'll leave the room and return several minutes later to find everything gone. I haven't been able to purposely duplicate the problem. It happens on both my home and work computers, too-- while both are running Mandrake 9.2, the computers themselves basically have only the Intel architecture in common. The two are configured and run very differently. I installed Xfce4 using the same packages on both machines. I had thought that perhaps there was some kind of conflict with software I had installed at home, but that wouldn't explain why I see the same behavior at work. Is anyone familiar with this issue? I've had a quick look at the Xfce4 forums, and haven't seen anything promising. I was going to post this over there, but I worried that perhaps I've been missing something painfully obvious. I've embarrassed myself in this list before, so I know what to expect. ;) Thanks very much in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] About my Zaurus [was: Xfce4-- running apps vanish]
Todd Slater wrote: Hi Marv, On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:06:53AM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: I've been using Xfce4 near-exclusively for a couple of months now, and I've absolutely fallen in love with it-- coming from KDE, I feel like I've graduated, in a way. ;) Unfortunately, I've run into a serious problem in the last couple of weeks and hope that someone can help. X-Mailer: sharp pda mailer/5.0[us](SL-5500/1.0) Can't help you with your XFce4 question, but I was curious about your setup with the Zaurus. Are you using the default Sharp ROM? Wireless? Another keyboard? (It pains me to think you typed that message on the Z!) Todd, who mainly plays backgammon and Go on his SL-5500. LOL-- that's the first time I've been sidetracked by interest in my Z. ;) I'm running the stock Sharp ROM (v3.13) right now, Todd; I personally found the migration to OpenZaurus (specifically, hacking apps like Opera and the Hancom Office components) to be too cumbersome. I like what I read about and see in OZ, but I'm just too dependent on the Qtopia apps right now. Then again, I used to think the same thing about my Windows software... I connect to the internet with a plain old CF landline modem; and no, I didn't type those messages on the Z's keyboard. :) Right now (believe it or not), my Zaurus is the only internet-capable computer in my office, so when I have a long message to send I edit it on a desktop machine, transfer it to a Secure Digital card, pop it into the Z, and cut paste. Cumbersome, but I can't exactly ask the company to spring for a real, non-Winmodem modem just because I've clandestinely installed Linux on one of their machines. The Zaurus is a lot of fun and frightening powerful for what it is, but I feel it falls a bit flat as a PDA (in terms of PIM, that is). I still carry a Palm OS handheld for the bulk of my organizational needs, but the Z comes in darned handy when I'm away from my desk and need to edit my staff schedule, or when I'm sitting around the office and need to post a message to a mailing list. ;) Thanks for your interest, Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help
Oops! I guess I forgot (or, perhaps more honestly, never really noticed) that I got that plugin from another source. At any rate, it's a must-have. ;) Sorry for the confusion. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Carl J. Bauman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:15:37 -0500 Carl J. Bauman wrote: Thanks, Marv. Unfortunately the Mini Command Line selection that you mentioned does not seem to exist on my system. I'm now running Xfce 4.0.5 on Mandrake 10.0, installed from Charles Edward's rpm's at http://www.eslrahc.com. You need to install xfce-minicmd-plugin which is available from 10.0 contrib I will state again I do not include rpms on my site which already exist in a current mdk rpm repository Charles O! The light dawns. I guess this means I should go ahead and configure a contrib media source... Thanks, Charles. Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Another Xfce convert!
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 12:09, Marv Boyes wrote: My only gripe is that I can't figure out how to make a particular window always on top-- it's the one feature of KDE I really miss. Xfce's panel will do it; does anybody know if there's a way to make a window do it, as well? RIGHT-CLICK on the title bar, choose STICK Naw, all that does is slap the window up across all of my workspaces. What I meant was, is there any way to have one particular window always on top, no matter which window I'm working in? For example: under KDE, I could have, say, a terminal window open and set it to Always on top, then type something in another window while reading output from the terminal window, which would never be covered by another window (think Xfce's panel layer set to Top). It's not a deal-breaker as far as Xfce4 is concerned, but it was one workspace management feature of KDE that I really liked. Thanks, Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Palm sync out of the box anyone?
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: I am going to buy a Palm pilot, and it is essential for me that I works 100% with Linux and KDE applications such as Korganizer, KAdressBook etc. I am considering Palm Tungsten C or Tungsten E. The latter should work with KPilot: http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/hardware.html#pilot But how well? And what about Tungsten C (with WiFi)? Does anybody successfully use a Palm Tungsten C or Tungsten E with SuSE Linux and KDE? Does it work out of the box? I unfortunately can't comment on the Palm OS 5 experience with Linux, but I've had great success with my OS 4.1 Sony Clie SJ33. Both KPilot and JPilot work like a charm (JPilot is probably the closest you'll get to Palm Desktop on Linux, while KPilot is handy for both managing conduits and quick-installing applications). For awhile, I synchronized both Evolution and KOrganizer without difficulty, but I eventually just went to JPilot as my primary PIM app. I'm even able to directly access the Memory Stick (Sony's proprietary expansion card format, analogous to the Secure Digital you'd have with the T|C or T|E), which appears on my desktop as external mass storage, easily mounted. My Mandrake installation appears to be using modules compiled to support the old Handspring Visor (to my knowledge, the first Palm OS handheld with USB sync capability). I believe these are kernel-level and should be available on SuSE; in fact, you may have something newer. Unless PalmSource have radically changed the way PalmOne devices communicate with a desktop machine, there's a good chance your handheld and your PC should be able to talk to eachother. Whether or not there would be changes in synchronizing with particular KDE apps, I can't say with any certainty. I'm sure there's Palm OS 5-specific information out there somewhere. Best of luck, Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 14 April 2004 18:19, Marv Boyes wrote: John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:47:12 -0400 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. I can't get gaim to show up in my menus, even with the menu editor. XFCE4 uses the Mandrake menu so unless you compiled gaim from source, that shouldn't be a problem. Does it? Pray, tell-- how? ;) I installed all of the xfce4 packages from eslrahc.com, and I'm having a heck of a time getting the contents of my KDE menus transferred over. I can't find anything in XFCE which explicitly addresses the issue (is there some configuration option I'm overlooking, or a package I missed?), so I've been taking notes on my apps' command lines over on the KDE side and making my own menu entries. Quite tedious. XFCE's nifty, though-- I first played with it on my Vector Linux machine, and have been slowly making up my mind that I might just prefer it full-time and long-term on my Mandrake box. [fluxbox is still a sentimental favorite, though-- I favor it when I know I'm going to be working with a _lot_ of windows, and need the real estate] Thanks, Marv As long as acceleration lasts long enough to acheive 10e6 mps and launched that long until high noon straight up, that should get you close. Eh? I hate to suggest this but have you tried drakemenu. Do you mean menudrake? And if so, wouldn't that screw up my menu configuration under KDE? [BTW, if you're suggesting menudrake as a means of getting command names to configure my xfce launchers, that's exactly what I'm doing. ;) ] Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:44, Marv Boyes wrote: Do you mean menudrake? And if so, wouldn't that screw up my menu configuration under KDE? [BTW, if you're suggesting menudrake as a means of getting command names to configure my xfce launchers, that's exactly what I'm doing. ;) ] Marv Why not just directly edit the /usr/local/etc/xfce4/menu.xml - that way you can trim out what you don't want, put in what you do want, and otherwise optimise it for your liking/needs - ain't like it's rocket science... Yeah yeah yeah-- that's what I'm doing. Was just curious as to whether or not there was a convenient way to do it in more-or-less one go. No need to condescend. ;) Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
Philip Cronje wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:17:24 -0400, Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, next question: how do I uninstall software that I've compiled from source? ;) erk... seems you misunderstood me. when you run rpm --rebuild, it should automagically do the configure-make-makeinstall bit for you. the BUILD directory is where that is done. the *real* product of rpm --rebuild lives in the RPMS directory, more specifically, the RPMS/i586 directory. That's the point of SRPMS. To build an RPM from the sources, all nice and dandy and working, so that you can just go rpm -ivh on that RPM file. Oops-- I thought all that did was generate the makefiles such, tailored to my system and ready for install. So could the problem be that I broke what rpm --rebuild did by manually re-installing over top of its work? And if so, should I make the effort to track everything down by tracing back though the makefile (as Stephen suggested), or would another run of rpm --rebuild be likely to 'just work'? I'm going to grok this stuff some day, I promise. ;) Thanks, everyone. Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox
John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:47:12 -0400 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. I can't get gaim to show up in my menus, even with the menu editor. XFCE4 uses the Mandrake menu so unless you compiled gaim from source, that shouldn't be a problem. Does it? Pray, tell-- how? ;) I installed all of the xfce4 packages from eslrahc.com, and I'm having a heck of a time getting the contents of my KDE menus transferred over. I can't find anything in XFCE which explicitly addresses the issue (is there some configuration option I'm overlooking, or a package I missed?), so I've been taking notes on my apps' command lines over on the KDE side and making my own menu entries. Quite tedious. XFCE's nifty, though-- I first played with it on my Vector Linux machine, and have been slowly making up my mind that I might just prefer it full-time and long-term on my Mandrake box. [fluxbox is still a sentimental favorite, though-- I favor it when I know I'm going to be working with a _lot_ of windows, and need the real estate] Thanks, Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewer
Philip Cronje wrote:
If you do grab the source RPM, you should run the following command
on it: rpm --rebuild pixieplus-0.5.4-6mdk.src.rpm This will build the
pixieplus binary RPM for your system. I think the default RPM
configuration will drop it into /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586.
(If you run 'rpm -ivh' on a source RPM, it extracts the sources to
the /usr/src/RPM/{SOURCES,SPECS} directories)
If you really hit a brick wall on this one, I can always build the
RPM for you on the MDK9.2 system we have here at home and magick it
to you. :)
//philip
Okay, next question: how do I uninstall software that I've compiled from
source? ;)
I did what I _thought_ was the right stuff (./configure, make, make
install), but I've ended up, literally hours later, with nothing. The
application doesn't run; it's like it's not even there (which, I'm
guessing, it isn't). Aside from one file each in
/usr/share/application-registry and /usr/share/mime-info,
all a file search reveals are the original .rpm file, and the stuff that
ended up in /usr/src/[etc].
I configured, made, and installed from what rpm --rebuild gave me in
/usr/src/RPMS/BUILD-- though there was also a .tar.gz in
/usr/src/RPM/SOURCES after the rpm rebuild. Should I have unpacked
_that_ and used it? Or does it make a difference? And why doesn't
anydamnedthing ever work for me? ;)
Thanks,
Marv
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Re: [newbie] Image viewer
I like GQview, but I've been playing a bit lately with GThumb, as well. Very nicely done and well-polished-- but I favor GQview because its 'Edit with the GIMP' option doesn't fire up another instance of the GIMP, as GThumb seems to insist on doing (though I'm sure, if I were more capable, I could figure out a way to get around that). What I _really_ want to try, though, and have been trying to for months, is PixiePlus. I can't get it to run on my system, either compiled form source or installed from dedicated Mandrake 9.2 RPMs, because it insists on my having ImageMagick 5.5.4, while Mdk 9.2 came with v5.5.7. It's a bit off-topic: but can anyone suggest how I might get this thing to run? It seems to be exactly what I've been looking for in an image manager (i.e., something close to ACDSee, the only Windows app I really miss). Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Paul wrote: On 04/10/2004 06:18 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? No, I use it as well, but then Kuickshow does the slide show, which is great for getting a good look at a collection of photos. It's to be hoped they get it sorted, because I'm going to miss it. GQview has a slideshow option also. And otherwise you can use qiv. Run qiv -itsfru dirname for a slideshow of all images in dirname and its subdirectories. Remove the 'r' in the options to prevent images from showing randomly, and the 's' to prevent qiv from following the directory tree downwards. :-) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 10:05, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Guys, What do you think of this: Because you run Mandrake, you didn't invest the 20-30 minutes that most Shorewall users do in learning about Shorewall during the installation process. That is a response I got in the shorewall list. I hate it. In fact, I have been getting those kind of views from many people in the Linux community when they found out that I use Mandrake. What's wrong with Mandrake? Does Linux have to be difficult so that we are proud to be called Linux guru by others? Does the easiness that offered by Mandrake make it's users lazy and stupid? I'm afraid this is the unpleasant stigma that we get in the Linux community. Boy, I hate this. Look, some geeks get their panties in a wad over distros - and it actually shouldln't matter. The reality is that we're not using a Microsoft OS. That's it. Full stop. When someone comes at you with that, counter it with: Should I just run WindowsXP Professional instead? -OR- Everyone has their own opnion on linux distros; is it not enough that I'm running linux in the first place? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs. -- Alfred Hitchcock I got it in person once, in a retail store. I was in the local CompUSA and eventually ended up chatting with one of the store employees about Linux-- he caught me looking at a FreeBSD boxed set, or something, and we ended up talking about Linux/free OSes in general. About five minutes into the conversation, I mentioned that I was running Mandrake 9.2. I have no use for anything derivative of the Red Hat kernel, he said, and walked away. What the HELL was that all about? You'd think I told the guy that I kill puppies in my spare time. Someone's priorities are seriously out of whack if they can afford that kind of snobbery over _code_, for crying out loud. It's a shame it was CompUSA, too-- the one retail store around here that's even remotely Linux-friendly. Principle says, don't go back there. Consumerism says, you ain't gonna find that external hard drive enclosure cheaper anywhere else, or take it home today. ;) Far be it from me to let principle stand in the way of a bargain. But why couldn't it have been a Circuit City, or someplace similarly useless that I wouldn't mind never setting foot in again? ;) Mandrake's a good, solid distro. As long as you're enjoying it, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
Thanks for the added help, Philip, but even after changing the line in the .ini file I still get the 'Can't find file for package WinDrv' business. There are only two references to WinDrv in the file; the one you mentioned, and then an entire section devoted to it: [WinDrv.WindowsClient] WindowedViewportX=640 WindowedViewportY=480 WindowedColorBits=16 FullscreenViewportX=640 FullscreenViewportY=480 FullscreenColorBits=16 Brightness=0.50 MipFactor=1.00 UseDirectDraw=True UseJoystick=False CaptureMouse=True StartupFullscreen=True CurvedSurfaces=False LowDetailTextures=False ScreenFlashes=True NoLighting=False SlowVideoBuffering=True I don't see any references to SDLDrv, but there _is_ a section devoted to XDrv. Perhaps I'll try that instead. Hey, if nothing else, I'm getting pretty good at using the nano text editor. ;) Thanks again, Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ -- The best way to accelerate a Windows box is at 9.8 meters per second per second. Philip Cronje wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:58:00 -0500, Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I _do_ appear to have used the Loki installer, just mirrored on another site. I suppose it's possible that the version I used was something someone else cobbled together, but the READMEs are identical (I tried the Loki installer long ago, had problems with the CD-ROM drive mounting, and deleted the installer-- but not, for some reason, the README). I've been all over what remains of Lokigames, and I can't find even a reference to the installer. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be delighted. In the meantime, I'll try Philip's suggested fix. ;) OK. Let me do it *right* this time, dammit ;) In that UT directory in your home directory, you should be looking for the 'UnrealTournament.ini' file. Now, scroll down to the '[Engine.Engine]' section. Look for the line that contains 'ViewportManager=WinDrv.WindowsClient'. Change that line so that it reads 'ViewportManager=SDLDrv.SDLClient'. (NOTE: I'm going off the original CD's contents and some guesswork here -- it *may* be that you need to use XDrv.XClient instead of SDLDrv.SDLClient, but I doubt it) This should fix it. If you can't find the .ini file in your home directory, I suppose you can go edit the one the installer put in /usr/local/ut2003/System (or wherever you installed it), and it'll get loaded up when next you start. I hope I help you out *this* time :P //philip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
Philip Cronje wrote: I don't know whether you've gotten it to work yet, but I installed UT today to play it again, so I thought I'd pip my config file over to you. By the way, it lives in the ~/.loki/ut/System directory. //philip It works! Kind of, anyway-- it runs, and the speed and sound are good, but the display is awful. I seem to have only a few colors, mostly deep reds and blues; it's bad enough as to be unplayable. And I don't have the first notion of where to look to (perhaps) fix it. I'm terribly ignorant when it comes to graphics configuration. I really aprreciate all of your help, Philip-- and I's understand if you didn't feel like responding to this. It's been a ridiculously long thread. ;) Thanks again, Marv -- Help in the research to find cures for devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows
Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of advice: do the same. Uninstall Linux and give Windows a second chance. How many chances do you propose a sane person give Windows? My own precious computer was rendered _inoperative_ by Windows; no number of clean reinstalls would fix it. Look at the enourmous after-market industry which has sprung up to produce software which serves no other purpose than to make Windows work the way it should, or to provide simple, common-sense functionality for which no informed person would ever pay extra-- who, for example, would buy a new car knowing full well that the entire exhaust system would have to be replaced within a month? Windows won't even properly defragment its own filesystem, for crying out loud-- and very few affordable third-party applications do a much better job. You know, in the midst of trying to get Windows to work again, I picked up a troubleshooting guide published by Microsoft themselves. In this book, it was clearly stated that Windows is inherently unstable and will, over time, deterriorate to the point that a clean reinstall is inevitable. Nobody should have to lose or even interrupt their work for this kind of shoddy workmanship. It came down to simple mathematics for me-- US$69.00 for a complete, stable OS accompanied by the functional equivalent of thousands of dollars' worth of commercial software, versus US$100.00 for an UPGRADE to the most bloated, dumbed-down, shambling, sluggardly heap of bloatware ever foisted upon the computing public. The choice was clear. Sorry your experience was so negative. Linux isn't for everybody. But calling upon others who've had the patience and commitment to both make Linux work and to contribute to the system's rapidly-growing user base to simply give up because of your disappointing and frustrating experience is in poor taste. I'd be curious to know how many of us, when we finally left Microsoft behind, stormed the Windows e-mail lists and posted flamebait there? Whatever. Have fun downloading your service packs (i.e., patches for alpha-level bugs and stupid oversights) and paying to protect yourself from the next round of e-mail malware. I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer... Good on you. See to it that you erase this list from your address book, as well. Marv Boyes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:17:49 -0500 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: I wonder why the install script didn't take care of this in the first place though? It usually does... Sounds like he used a different installer than the 'usual' one available from Icculus/Loki. Never had a problem with that one, though I always have to disable supermount to get that one to work. I _do_ appear to have used the Loki installer, just mirrored on another site. I suppose it's possible that the version I used was something someone else cobbled together, but the READMEs are identical (I tried the Loki installer long ago, had problems with the CD-ROM drive mounting, and deleted the installer-- but not, for some reason, the README). I've been all over what remains of Lokigames, and I can't find even a reference to the installer. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be delighted. In the meantime, I'll try Philip's suggested fix. ;) Thanks again, everyone. Marv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:33:32 -0500, Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. I hope someone here is familiar with running the Windows version of Unreal Tournament (Game of the Year edition of the original version) under Linux. I used abfackeln's install scripts to install UT-GOTY on my Mandrake 9.2 box. The install worked flawlessly (at least, as far as I could tell), but when I try to run the game I get the following: Unreal engine initialized Failed to load 'WinDrv': Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Failed to load 'Class WinDrv.WindowsClient': Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' appError called: Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError Signal: SIGIOT [iot trap] Aborting. Exiting. The installation was so automatic that I can't recall having seen any reference to this WinDrv thing. I do, however, have the following files in my /usr/local/games/ut/System: WinDrv.est WinDrv.frt WinDrv.int There's a WinDrv.dll on my UT-GOTY disc, but copying it to /usr/local/games/ut/System did nothing (I didn't reasonably expect that it should). WinDrv is the Windows driver for UT. For Linux, you should be using the (I think; this is all from memory) SDLDrv driver. I'd check it out for you right now, but I need to go to university now :P Hope this sets you on the right track, anyway. //philip Well, I have the file SDLDrv.so in /usr/local/games/ut/System... At any rate, I have no idea how to tell the thing to use the one over the other. I wonder if the mere presence of the WinDrv.* files is screwing things up? Can you say whether or not just deleting them would make any difference? Thanks, Marv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Unreal Tournament won't start after install
Hello, everyone. I hope someone here is familiar with running the Windows version of Unreal Tournament (Game of the Year edition of the original version) under Linux. I used abfackeln's install scripts to install UT-GOTY on my Mandrake 9.2 box. The install worked flawlessly (at least, as far as I could tell), but when I try to run the game I get the following: Unreal engine initialized Failed to load 'WinDrv': Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Failed to load 'Class WinDrv.WindowsClient': Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' appError called: Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError Signal: SIGIOT [iot trap] Aborting. Exiting. The installation was so automatic that I can't recall having seen any reference to this WinDrv thing. I do, however, have the following files in my /usr/local/games/ut/System: WinDrv.est WinDrv.frt WinDrv.int There's a WinDrv.dll on my UT-GOTY disc, but copying it to /usr/local/games/ut/System did nothing (I didn't reasonably expect that it should). When I try to run the uninstall script, it exits thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ut]# sh uninstall Product: Unreal Tournament GOTY Installed in /usr/local/games/ut Unable to find component If it turns out that there's no way I can run UT on this machine, it's 500+ megs of HD space that I'd like to get back (the right way, rather than just deleting stuff). Can anyone say what's going on, with either the execution or the uninstall? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
Hello, everyone. I hope someone here is familiar with running the Windows version of Unreal Tournament (Game of the Year edition of the original version) under Linux. I used abfackeln's install scripts to install UT-GOTY on my Mandrake 9.2 box. The install worked flawlessly (at least, as far as I could tell), but when I try to run the game I get the following: Unreal engine initialized Failed to load 'WinDrv': Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Failed to load 'Class WinDrv.WindowsClient': Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' appError called: Can't find file for package 'WinDrv' Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError Signal: SIGIOT [iot trap] Aborting. Exiting. The installation was so automatic that I can't recall having seen any reference to this WinDrv thing. I do, however, have the following files in my /usr/local/games/ut/System: WinDrv.est WinDrv.frt WinDrv.int There's a WinDrv.dll on my UT-GOTY disc, but copying it to /usr/local/games/ut/System did nothing (I didn't reasonably expect that it should). When I try to run the uninstall script, it exits thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ut]# sh uninstall Product: Unreal Tournament GOTY Installed in /usr/local/games/ut Unable to find component If it turns out that there's no way I can run UT on this machine, it's 500+ megs of HD space that I'd like to get back (the right way, rather than just deleting stuff). Can anyone say what's going on, with either the execution or the uninstall? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. Marv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Odd Mouse Pointer Behavior on Ctrl-Click
Hello, everyone. A day or two ago, I noticed an odd behavior in KDE 3.1.3. When I hold down the Ctrl key to select multiple items, my mouse pointer teleports after the first couple of selections: I'll select something, and my pointer will suddenly appear in another, seemingly random part of the screen. Quite annoying, and makes for incorrect selections if I am not extremely careful. The behavior has survived restarts of KDE and my X server, as well as outright reboots of the machine. This has only been a problem for a couple of days; I've been running this installation of KDE since late December 2003. To my recollection, I haven't upgraded/reconfigured/installed/etc. anything related to KDE or X which might account for the glitch. Come to think of it, I haven't upgraded/reconfigured/installed/etc. anything related to KDE or X in quite some time. Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD-ROM drive won't read after enabling scsi emulation
Hello, all. I've had quite an ordeal trying to enable scsi emulation for my DVD-ROM drive. I've finally managed to do it with lots of help from alt.os.linux.mandrake, at least to the point that K3B favors it as a copy source again; but though it mounts with no problem, I get no response to attempts to read from it. I'm running Mandrake 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-10mdk. It's a Samsung SD-608 DVD-ROM. Here's the section of /etc/fstab that refers to the two optical drives I have: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 And the pertinent /boot/grub/menu.lst entry: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht Incidentally, the CD-RW drive (/dev/scd0) reads writes without problems. Today, noticing that a filesystem was specified in my work machine's fstab (as well as in samples offered by people who've tried to help me with this), I added one to my own fstab entry for the device, thus: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Afterward, the drive just spins for several minutes and comes up with nothing. I ran a tail of /var/log/messages during one of the read attempts; this is a bit of what I got: Feb 13 18:08:32 localhost kernel: ide-scsi: expected 2048 got 4096 limit 2048 Feb 13 18:08:32 localhost kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected - discarding data Feb 13 18:08:32 localhost kernel: ide-scsi: [[ 28 0 0 0 0 63 0 0 1 0 0 0 ] Feb 13 18:08:32 localhost kernel: ] Feb 13 18:08:32 localhost kernel: ide-scsi: expected 2048 got 4096 limit 2048 Feb 13 18:08:32 localhost kernel: Unable to identify CD-ROM format. There were several screens' worth of output, and different values for the line 'kernel: ide-scsi: [[numbers numbers numbers]'. So now I know _why_ the drive won't read anything, but I have no clue what to make of it. Desperately hoping someone else does. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
