[newbie] Access to win partitions
I posted yesterday about changing access rights to my windows partitions but i'm not sure it came up as i never actually received it! anyway, since reinstalling 8.2 i cannot get write permissions to my windows hard drives where basically all my documents that i need are stored etc. The 1st time i installed 8.2 i didn't have to do anything to get both read/write access to my windows drives so i can't work out how to get it now. I tried changing permissions using chmod a+w win_c but that doesn't give me write permissions, so either something is up or i'm using the wrong commands - probably the latter!! Can anyone help me as this is a real pain as i've just got most things working in Linux and was about to change Linux to my default o/s. Also does anybody else have any problems with Open Office.org 1.0 crashing loads under Ximian-Gnome? Cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Access to win partitions
Ok so now i have edited the fstab file but when i do 'mount -a' i get told line 7 and 8 in the fstab are bad. Line 7 and 8 are about my 2 windows partitions and looks like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,umask=0,defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,umask=0,defaults 0 0 Can anybody tell me why i get this message and what i need to do sort it out so i can read/write to both my windows partitions. Thanks again Matt On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 14:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:31 am, Manuel Soto wrote: I the same problem w/ 8.1 and rw partitions /dev/hda1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850) /dev/hdc1 on /mnt/win_c2 type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850) Add 'user' and 'umask= 0' to /etc/fstab, eg, (mine) /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,umask=0,defaults 0 0 [FWIW, /mnt is a lousy place for win partitions. I always move /mnt/win_c to a dir I create called simply /c ] Then, after a 'mount -a' (as root), type 'mount' and you should see /dev/hda1 on /c type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=0) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Handspring Visor
How do i get mt Handspring Visor working in 8.2 and Ximian Gnome - it is on a USB port. First of all, am i correct to do a symbolic link from /dev/pilot to /dev/usb ? Secondly if i try and sync by saying i have used other syncing software with the pda before - which i have in windows it cannot find a connection. How can i make it find a connection using the settings i had on windows and therefore transferring all my data straight over to linux? Or do i need to completely reinstall everything on my PDA to get it to work in 8.2/ I also posted the other day about how to inport my Ms Outlook .pst settings and Outlook Express address book - any ideas from anybody how i can do this? Thanks Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange problem with the mouse/screen
Thanks for that Kaj, it's been bugging me for ages - and i do indeed have a Trident Cyberblade. cheers Matt On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 00:49, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 01:05 am, Matt Blake wrote: Every now and again using any windows manager - mainly gnome or kde, i get a strange problem with the mouse - it is as if the area the mouse can move in shifts 2cm to the right but the actual screen stays in the same place. So for example when i want to click on the gnome icon to go into the main menu i have to click the mouse about 2cm to the right of the actual icon. The only way to stop it is a complete reboot - which is obviously pretty annoying! For various reasons i reinstalled mandrake 8.2 and the problem is the same. Does anybody have any idea why this is happening or how i can solve it? thanks for any help Matt Matt, this is a bug in some Trident chipsets, especially cyberblades. The solution is surprisingly simple : pass the option sw_cursor to the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 To do that, open a console and become root. Now, fire up a text-editor of your choice, for example type : mcedit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (without the quotes, of course). Scroll down the file until you find *Section Device*. A few stanzas down that section, remove the hash-mark (#) in front of *Option sw_cursor*. Save the file, un-root yourself and restart the X-server (or logout and in again). Done. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Importing address book and outlook pst settings
Now that my linux system is up and running properly and i'm happy with how everything works i want to use evolution instead of ms outlook for my calendar/tasks/mail etc. How can i install my outlook .pst files into evolution? Also how can i import my address book from outlook express - i have got the mail by importing it into mozilla and then to evolution - there's probably a simpler way but i couldn't find it. Cheers for any help offered Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Instant Messengers
Does anybody know which (if any) instant messengers are compatible with MSM Messenger on Linux? Seeing as most people still use windows, it would be useful to have something that is. cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Instant Messengers
Thanks for those answers - have just picked up CCMSM and am just getting everybuddy - so i'll give them a go. Cheers. Another question: For downloading in windows i was using Get Right which was able to queue up and pause downloads etc and would reconnect automatically when my ISP cuts me off after 2 hours - is there anything similar that is available for linux? Thanks again! Matt On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 21:22, Mark Evans wrote: On Friday 31 May 2002 12:37 am, you wrote: Does anybody know which (if any) instant messengers are compatible with MSM Messenger on Linux? Seeing as most people still use windows, it would be useful to have something that is. cheers Matt Hi Matt I use Gaim for MSN. One thing about Gaim that I found, was that others arn't aware you are on-line Mark Evans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Soundcard freezes mouse
I posted a while ago about my sound card and followed the sueegestions i was givenand i got sound... until i rebooted at which point loading the sound failed and I got a message about my mouse device busy and once X loaded the mouse was just frozen in the middle of the screen. So i have now restored /etc/modules.conf back to how it was and all is ok again well except i still have no sound. Any more ideas as to what i can do? Cheers On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:24:38 GMT Matt Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card: Model: Crystal Codec:GAME The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz: init_module: No such device Well, the opl3 device was not found by the opl3 module ;) modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod synth0 failed Yes, it's about a FM synthesizer for MIDI. But Timidity (on your CD's) can play MIDI just fine (in fact the sound quality of the opl3 based MIDI synthesizer is rather bad AFAIK). It offered me the chance to do all the setting manually, but i don't know what they are. So my questions are: what does the above error mean and if i have to set it up manually then how do i find all the settings for it? 'cat /proc/isapnp' _may_ give you some ideas. It's possible sndconfig made a mistake and shouldn't have tried to load the opl3 module Also, the strange thing is that for the rest of the session after i have run this, the sound card works fine, so i know it works ok, but then i have to run sndconfig again next time i log in, which is quite often at the moment as my modem is not supported yet, but thats another story!! You can check with '/sbin/lsmod' which modules (drivers) are loaded. Let us know. I think sndconfig loaded a driver for your card, then tried to load the opl3 module which failed. Because of that sndconfig didn't add the necessary lines to the /etc/modules.conf file. Cheers in advance and thanks to all the mandrake people for a cool distro Matt HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3
I have followed the instructions from alastair to install KDE3 in 8.2 and all goes fine, but it doesn't appear in the drop down list when i log out and try to log back in. KDE is in the menu but it simply loads KDE2 has before. Any ideas would be appreciated Cheers Matt Original Message On 21/04/02, 21:50:06, Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] KDE 3: On Sunday 21 Apr 2002 8:23 pm, Jesse Angell wrote: Is KDE3 included in mandrake 8.2.. If not, how hard is it to upgrade it.. It's not. But it turns out to be straightforward to upgrade thanks to a little bit of magic from Mandrake (the urpmi command): i. Go to a download location for the Mandrake packages via: http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0/Mandrake/ then the 8.2/RPMS/i586 directory on the server you're automatically directed to. ii. Download _every_ package there - I think there are currently thirty-four of them - to a directory. Don't pick and choose the packages; the next step may not work if you do so. iii. Go to a shell, log in as root (su then root password) then do: cd the folder you downloaded everything to urpmi.addmedia kde3 file://full pathname of that folder [1] urpmi * And, after about 10 minutes, KDE3 will be installed. Log out of KDE2 (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and log back in again, picking 'KDE3' from the drop-down list of window managers on the login screen. That's all. Alastair [1] for example, I put the files in /home/alastair/kde3 so the commands would be cd /home/alastair/kde3 urpmi.addmedia kde3 file:///home/alastair/kde3 -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
Cheers Brian, that's sorted. I now want to upgrade to KDE3. Can i keep KDE 2 though at the same time as it seems like there's still a few bugs, or will it overwirte KDE2 when i insatll it? Cheers everyone Matt Original Message On 22/04/02, 00:38:16, Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Updates: Matt, I assume you are dual booting, so the easiest way is to download to a fat32 partition the RPM's. Now boot linux, and find /mnt/windows or whatever the fat32 partition is mounted as. From there (as root) you can: rpm -Uvh rpm-file-name for updates. Don't do that for a new kernel though! For that it's: rpm -ivh kernelx HTH Brian On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 09:26, Matt Blake wrote: I want to download the updates for 8.2, but due to a winmodem need to do it through windows. Is it better to download the RPM's or SRPM's? How do i then install the updates? Cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Updates
I want to download the updates for 8.2, but due to a winmodem need to do it through windows. Is it better to download the RPM's or SRPM's? How do i then install the updates? Cheers Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card problems
Frans, Ok, so i have done all the things you suggested, but to be honest i'm not to sure what i'm looking for in the 'cat /proc/isapnp'. I'll put it at the bottom of this message so if some kind person decided to help me out you can see it but everybody else can ignore thee long post! The '/sbin/lsmod'shows: Module Size Used by Not tainted isofs 25792 1 (autoclean) inflate_fs 19328 0 (autoclean) [isofs] sg 30180 0 (autoclean) (unused) st 27316 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 15160 0 (autoclean) (unused) sd_mod 11644 0 (autoclean) (unused) scsi_mod 92488 4 (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod] autofs4 9252 2 (autoclean) ad1848 21408 0 sound 57292 0 [ad1848] soundcore 4068 2 [sound] nfsd 69536 8 (autoclean) lockd 49344 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 62964 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] lp 6464 0 parport_pc 22088 1 parport 23968 1 [lp parport_pc] af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean) ipchains 35816 0 usb-uhci 21668 0 (unused) usbcore 59072 1 [usb-uhci] nls_iso8859-15 3360 3 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3584 2 (autoclean) vfat 9788 2 (autoclean) fat 31384 0 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 62180 2 (autoclean) tuner 8612 1 (autoclean) tvaudio 10080 0 (autoclean) (unused) bttv 59776 0 i2c-algo-bit 7244 1 [bttv] i2c-core 13568 0 [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev 4896 2 [bttv] rtc 5912 0 (autoclean) ext3 62092 2 jbd 39356 2 [ext3] The /etc/modules.conf file shows: alias autofs autofs4 alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-2 ad1848 alias char-major-81 bttv alias /dev/ttyHCF* hcfserial alias char-major-240 hcfserial alias /dev/ttyCUA* hcfserial alias char-major-241 hcfserial alias /dev/modem hcfserial options hcfserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241 pcivendorid=0x14F1 pcideviceid=0x1035 Ok, so sorry this is so long, but if anyone can help this newbie, i'll be very greatful and can move further away from uncle bill!! Cheers again Matt cat /proc/isapnp Card 1 'CSC4236:Crystal Codec' PnP version 1.0 Product version 0.5 Logical device 0 'CSC:WSS/SB' Device is not active Active port 0x534,0x388,0x220 Active IRQ 7 [0x2] Active DMA 1,3 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x534-0x534, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x220, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5 High-Edge DMA 1 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 0,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x534-0xffc, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x260, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge DMA 1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x534-0xffc, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x220-0x300, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Logical device 1 'CSC0001:GAME' Device is active Active port 0x200 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x200-0x200, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x208-0x208, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Logical device 2 'CSC0010:CTRL' Device is not active Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x120-0xff8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Logical device 3 'CSC0003:MPU' Device is active Active port 0x330 Active IRQ 9 [0x2] Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x330-0x330, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 2/9 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x330-0x360, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 2/9,11,12,15 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x330-0x3e0, align 0x7, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Original Message On 13/04/02, 16:12:24, Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Sound card problems: On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:24:38 GMT Matt Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card: Model: Crystal Codec:GAME The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz: init_module: No such device Well, the opl3 device was not found by the opl3 module ;) modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod synth0 failed Yes, it's about a FM synthesizer for MIDI. But Timidity (on your CD's) can play MIDI just fine (in fact
[newbie] Sound card problems
Hi, I've just installed 8.2 but am generally new to Linux having only used Redmond Linux before. During setup my soundcard wasn't configured properly and the setup told me to run sndconfig later on. So i did that and the ISAPNP Probe Results found my sound card: Model: Crystal Codec:GAME The first sound card test was ok and i heard the sample sound fine. But when it did the second sound card test for the MIDI sample it returned: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz: init_module: No such device modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod synth0 failed It offered me the chance to do all the setting manually, but i don't know what they are. So my questions are: what does the above error mean and if i have to set it up manually then how do i find all the settings for it? Also, the strange thing is that for the rest of the session after i have run this, the sound card works fine, so i know it works ok, but then i have to run sndconfig again next time i log in, which is quite often at the moment as my modem is not supported yet, but thats another story!! Cheers in advance and thanks to all the mandrake people for a cool distro Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
