Re: [newbie] TNT2 on X4.0..
The Nvidia drivers work great on my machine. I followed the instructions on the linuxnewbies.org site and they worked flawlessly. Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly? -Chris On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Does anyone have a tnt2 set up on X4.0 with opengl working correctly. All of my mesa demos work just fine but Soldier of Fortune and Quake 3 are terribly slow. The mouse cursor hardly moves across the screen. I can set the gl driver with command like "./sof +set gl_drver gldriver" but it does no good. I have tried the new nvidia drivers using Avartar's NHF on Linuxnewbies.org but then I get dumped to a command prompt when I try to run and opengl stuff. Any suggestions? ;-)
Re: [newbie] TNT2 on X4.0..
7.1. Although I did have them working on 7.0 until I accidently reinstalled Mesa. Once I did that I was screwed and I wasn't able to get it back until I installed 7.1 cleanly. Try removing all *.mesa and untill the Mesa RPMs. Remove all of the Nvidia stuff. Then install Mesa and follow the NHF. Maybe that will help. Sorry I can't be of much help... -Chris On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Positive. The only difference is that I'm running 7.1. Are you running 7.0 or 7.1? Necrotica wrote: The Nvidia drivers work great on my machine. I followed the instructions on the linuxnewbies.org site and they worked flawlessly. Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly? -Chris On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: Does anyone have a tnt2 set up on X4.0 with opengl working correctly. All of my mesa demos work just fine but Soldier of Fortune and Quake 3 are terribly slow. The mouse cursor hardly moves across the screen. I can set the gl driver with command like "./sof +set gl_drver gldriver" but it does no good. I have tried the new nvidia drivers using Avartar's NHF on Linuxnewbies.org but then I get dumped to a command prompt when I try to run and opengl stuff. Any suggestions? ;-)
Re: [newbie] why is this?
I would take an educated guess and say the TCP/IP stack in Linux is far more optimized. -Chris On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: Actually I get a better connection in linux on my 28.8 modem then in windows. :) - Original Message - From: Fred Banana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:40 PM Subject: [newbie] why is this? I often have noticed that I get a continuesly higher download speed in linux than in windows. the speed in windows averages about 3.4 kbits/seconds and that seems as fast as we get. in linux I get an average of 5.5 kbits/seconds with spikes around 12 or 15 kbits/second. The same dialup isp and modem and I am using a pci modem from actiontec, (call-waiting model) and I was wondering if anyone might have a clue as to why? are these numbers accurate or is the software averaging the difference and showing me what Uncle Bill and Uncle Linus want me to see? sure SEEMS faster in linux... heck, maybe I can get my win-blows setup to work better to.
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
...if you run it as a daemon. I, however, don't want the overhead of YADR (yet another daemon running). -Chris On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Michael H. Collins wrote: My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for checking in fetchmail itself. Necrotica wrote: Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run as a cron job, which will fetch your mail at a specified interval (which is nice if you telnet into your machine from a remote location to check your mail). If you just want to check in when you're logged in locally under X there are numerous ways to do it. KDE has an applet, but I forget what its called (I use Gnome). Gnome has a mail check applet that you can add to your taskbar. You can also run gkrellm (a very nice system monitor) to fetch it for you too. I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my interval is 4 minutes. Works great... -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm curious about something. Is it possible to get fetchmail to automatically check your pop3 server and fetch the mail on the server when one boots up and Xwindows starts? I'm finding that programs like Pine and fetchmail are so much faster and efficient than the GUI based programs at taking care of most e-mail. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Everett wrote: To those who helped THANKS! I found the problem. When I installed mandrake 7.0 it did not install procmail. I installed procmail and all is fine. - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ - Original Message - From: Everette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM Subject: [newbie] About to give up. Hello again I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing qpopper. Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't get any of thm to work. When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have 0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it. Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am about to give up. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Make errors
This is a tricky question to answer, because it partially depends on what you're trying to compile. Most software cource that you download comes with a script called configure that checks your system, makes sure you have all the pre-requisites installed, etc. and creates special directive files to tell the compiler how to compile the software on your machine. Does this software have a scipt called configure in it, and did you run it by typing: ./configure first? There is something important that you should know before your continue trying to compile whatever it is that you're trying to compile. Mandrake is an RPM-based distribution. RPM stands for Redhat Packager Manager. Its a system where you can download a .RPM file and easily install it by selecting it from a utility like Kpackage within DrakConf. The nice thing about it is that you can easily uninstall RPMs if you need to, whereas if you compile straight source code it can sometimes be a big pain in the rear to uninstall because files can easily get thrown all over the place and they can be impossible to track down. I like compiling my own software too, so I generally download SRPMs, which are special RPMS that contain the source code. You can compile them by typing rpm --rebuild --target i586 name.rpm. If there are dependencies needed, it tells you. Once its built you can install the RPM as you normally would. If you are new to Linux, and it sounds like you are, I would strongly suggest to either download a binary RPM of the software you are trying to compiler, or downloaded the SRPM and compile it using the above command. Trust me, it will make your life much easier and m ake it much easier for you to maintain your system. If the software that you are trying to compile does not come in RPM format, check rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/ and look in the cooker and contrib directories to see if someone elese made an RPM for it already. The only thing that I use that is not in RPM format is WIN, so chances are until you become more familiar with the Linux environment you should be able to find everything you need in RPM format. My humble opinion. -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Fred Hamilton wrote: Well, with the help of everyone that responded to my cry for help, I am now able to use tar. Now... HELP again. I am receiving these errors when using make. make[4] *** [install-data-local] Error 255 make[3] *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2] *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1] *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make: [install-recursive] Error 1 What do these compile errors mean and what do I do to fix them? I tried this using two different archived files and I received the same error both times, so I am assuming it is not a programming error, but I am missing something in my Linux configuration? I reinstalled the make rpm package and tried again but no luck. Any help would be appreciated Thanks to all who have helped so far.. Fred
Re: Compiling source, was RE: [newbie] Make errors
First, upgrade your version of libstdc++. Also, I would upgrade your version of xpm (I just checked and I'm running at xpm-3.4k-8mdk). With any luck that will help. The main thing is upgrading libstdc++ - thats what is causing your compiler to tell you that it cannot compile an executable. -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Kaplan, Paul wrote: N- You seem quite knowledgeable about the rebuilding process so I will put to you a question that I asked on one of the redhat lists and has yet to be answered. I am trying to re-compile a recent wine release from a src.rpm file. The ./configure script trips when it tries to find the file X11/xpm.h, insisting that I should install xpm and xpm-devel packages, and then quits. The packages xpm-3.4k-1 and xpm-devel-3.4k-1 are both installed on my system and the file /usr/X11R6/inlcude/X11/xpm.h exists. On someone else's suggestion, I tried to CFLAGS ="-I$CFLAGS /usr/X11R6/include". Then ./configure returns: checking whether the C compiler (gcc /usr/X11R6/include ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables I also tried to CFLAGS ="$CFLAGS /usr/X11R6/include"...(without the -I) and ended up with the same response I initially had. Any thoughts? Paul Kaplan
RE: Compiling source, was RE: [newbie] Make errors
Do you have the devel packages installed for both? If so, technically, it should work. Perhaps the solution is to install Mandrake. :P -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: Thanks, As I indicated in another reply, I'll admit to running RH 6.0, not a Mandrake distro. My xpm is 3.4k-1, which is a RH6.1 i386 rpm. libstdc++ is 2.95-1_2.10.0-3, the latest contrib rpm for a RH6.1 distro. Wine should compile for RH60. Yes? Paul -Original Message- From: Necrotica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 4:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: Compiling source, was RE: [newbie] Make errors First, upgrade your version of libstdc++. Also, I would upgrade your version of xpm (I just checked and I'm running at xpm-3.4k-8mdk). With any luck that will help. The main thing is upgrading libstdc++ - thats what is causing your compiler to tell you that it cannot compile an executable. -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Kaplan, Paul wrote: N- You seem quite knowledgeable about the rebuilding process so I will put to you a question that I asked on one of the redhat lists and has yet to be answered. I am trying to re-compile a recent wine release from a src.rpm file. The ./configure script trips when it tries to find the file X11/xpm.h, insisting that I should install xpm and xpm-devel packages, and then quits. The packages xpm-3.4k-1 and xpm-devel-3.4k-1 are both installed on my system and the file /usr/X11R6/inlcude/X11/xpm.h exists. On someone else's suggestion, I tried to CFLAGS ="-I$CFLAGS /usr/X11R6/include". Then ./configure returns: checking whether the C compiler (gcc /usr/X11R6/include ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables I also tried to CFLAGS ="$CFLAGS /usr/X11R6/include"...(without the -I) and ended up with the same response I initially had. Any thoughts? Paul Kaplan
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
Yes. You can set up fetchmail to run as a cron job, which will fetch your mail at a specified interval (which is nice if you telnet into your machine from a remote location to check your mail). If you just want to check in when you're logged in locally under X there are numerous ways to do it. KDE has an applet, but I forget what its called (I use Gnome). Gnome has a mail check applet that you can add to your taskbar. You can also run gkrellm (a very nice system monitor) to fetch it for you too. I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my interval is 4 minutes. Works great... -Chris On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm curious about something. Is it possible to get fetchmail to automatically check your pop3 server and fetch the mail on the server when one boots up and Xwindows starts? I'm finding that programs like Pine and fetchmail are so much faster and efficient than the GUI based programs at taking care of most e-mail. Mark Never wish for anything bigger than you can carry home in your pocket. Disappointment is almost always guarrenteed. Especially if your pants don't have any pockets in them. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Everett wrote: To those who helped THANKS! I found the problem. When I installed mandrake 7.0 it did not install procmail. I installed procmail and all is fine. - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ - Original Message - From: Everette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM Subject: [newbie] About to give up. Hello again I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a complete install doing away with every thing I setup in 6.1 includeing qpopper. Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't get any of thm to work. When I use telnet it logs onto the mail server fine and tells me I have 0 massages, my mail client software logs in fine but tell's me I have no new massages this afther I have sent about 20 or 30 test mail to it. Please if any one has any idea what's going on please let me know I am about to give up. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Window manager(KDE,Enlightenment,BlackBox...)
Careful with this topic - it can sometimes start wars. :) KDE is too much like Windows for me. Gnome is unnecessarily bloated. I use straight Enlightenment, mainly because it looks nice and is extremely configurable (almost too configurable). Very fast and very slick. -Chris On Wed, 17 May 2000, you wrote: Who uses which for what? It seems each of the "session types" ie. WindowMaker, After Step, Enlightenment,Gnome, KDE,etc has its proponents. I'd like to know what you guys think is the best . -- -michael brower- "Dancing with Penguins" Registered Linux User #175480 Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
Boot to a Windows boot disk and type fdisk /mbr. -Chris On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote: How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] IE and wine
I had it working under WINE a couple of WINE versions ago. Ran pretty good, except the rendering was slow and it didn't support java (since java is a VxD in Windows). You need to use -winver win95 -dll commctrl,comctl32 as WINE parameters to get it work properly. Since moving to WINE 04302000 IE doesn't seem to work anymore though -Chris On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: I know, don't everybody attack at once! I was reading someones post a couple of days ago and I'm not sure if it was sarcasm, but I would like to know if anyone has really tried running Internet Explorer on wine under Linux and if it works. I highly doubt that this would work. I-Exploiter is for some 80% incorporated into the Ms-OS. It uses a lot of Win-core functionality. Wine cannot handle all that. Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Compiler trouble...AGAIN!!
Try reinstalling the libsdc++ and libsdc++-devel RPMs -Chris On Wed, 10 May 2000, James McLaughlin wrote: I am trying to install some programs that require a g++ compiler. When I goto compile HTDIG. I get this error returned : checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. 2nd line from the bottom is the error ..I was wondering if anyone could tell from this output what the problem is...I am stuck :( katana
Re: [newbie] WinAmp for Linux??
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Thanks very much for the information . . . I tried XMMS and it played the file just fine. I tried to set up Netscape to automatically bring up XMMS with this type of file but had no luck. Could you please give me the settings under Mimetype and extension so I can plug them in. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks again! Thats a "feature" of XMMS - it doesn't automatically edit the MIME types. You can either edit them manually (which is long and tedious) OR download and install Freeamp. Freeamp is another very good MP3/Shoutcast player. When you run it for the first time it will ask if you want it to change the MIME types. Say Yes, then you're done. If you still want to use XMMS, at this point go into Netscape-Edit-Preferences-Navigator-Applications and change all of the freeamp %s to xmms %s. Thats what I did and it worked fine -Chris
[newbie] Startup Services: No List
Hello, I recently made a backup of my root partition before installing XFree86 4.0. I was very unimpressed with it, and after trying to remove it everything went down hill. Rather than fight with it for a week I decided to restore from backup. The restore went great and everything seems back to normal, except one thing. I can't do anything with my Startup Services in DrakConf. At first I would get a list of services. I would try do disable it, but when I did an init 1/init 5 the service would still start. For some reason or another the change wouldn't stick. I then remembered that I had some freshly compiled drak-related RPMS on my system. I upgraded the RPMs and now I don't even get a list of services when I click on the Startup Services icon in DrakConf. I don't care if I have a happy GUI way to get at configuring the services, but does Mandrake provide a console utility to start/stop services? If not, does anyone know how I can rebuild the list? Thanks... -Chris
[newbie] Mandrake Hanging
Hello, Over the last couple of days Mandrake has been hanging on me for no apparent reason. In the last 2 hours it has hung on me 3 times, forcing me to power off my machine. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why its happening. Where is a good place to start troubleshooting this? I am starting to get real frustrated with it and would like to get it fixed. Are there logs that I can go through? Anything at all? Thanks... -Chris
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hanging
Larry, Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that I have tried the cntrl-alt-F2 combination and its dead in the water. The only thing I can do is power the machine off. I have been doing some thinking and its *possible* that I have found a common thread when the machine hangs. I'm beginning to think that it happens when I'm reading/writing for a relatively long period of time to my Windows 98 partition (ie: downloading large Windows files, etc.). I'm going to test it a little and see if thats the case. -Chris On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: Try hitting the ctrl-alt-F2 to see if that will bring up the text logon screen. If it does, then hop back into your previous session with an ctrl-alt-F7, to see if you're "unhung". One other thing I've noticed, sporadically, is that some process will just seem to go nuts, something like ld-lo.so2 or something, and will take up nearly 100% of your cpu and memory. If you can bring up another destop and a terminal window and run TOP, you'll see this guy and his pid. Do a kill -9 on that pid and, while your Netscape session (in my case, usually) will suddenly disappear, at least it's better than powering off. Why does this happen? I don't know, just as I don't know why sometimes the cursor will suddenly freeze, forcing me to do the F2-F7 dance. I wish someone would find a cure for the problem rather than the symptoms! -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
Re: [newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems
Alan, Interesting that you brought this up. I just noticed today that my system seems a little flaky when accessing my Windows partion under Linux. It has been locking up solid and the only common thread I could think of was that I was accessing my Windows partition at the time. Based on your quoted email I am going to change the name of the mount point - seems like a strange solution, but I'm used to strange after the vga=0x0301 kernel parameter riddle. :P Do you remember anything else from that discussion thread a couple of months ago that you can add? Thanks... -Chris On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: CivilemeI thought that there was a problem when the mount point contained uppercase characters? At least this is what I remember when we were discussing the prevention of lockups when accessing vfat partitions a couple of months ago. Alan
[newbie] Device Under SCSI bus?
Hello! What device under /dev would be the SCSI bus? The reason I ask is because I am trying to give my regular non-root user access to burn CDs. I added it to the cdwriter group, so it does have access to /dev/scd0 (the CD burner device itself) and can burn CDs under Linux. However, I would like to be able to use CDRWIN under WINE. Alas, CDRWIN scans the SCSI bus when it runs, thus a non-root user can't use it. Any ideas? Thanks! -Necro
Re: [newbie] Netscape Fonts
Go to www.mandrakeuser.org. You can find instructions on how to download and install Mozilla fonts from there. Hope this helps... -Necro On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Michael A. Kellogg wrote: Hi Folks! Last week I saw a post regarding a place where we might get extra Mozilla fonts for Linux. Would anyone have that address . . . I've got the instructions to install but am unable to find the file! Thanks for your help! Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] DOS naming vs Linux recognition
Surround the path name with quotation marks and use two backslashes. Like this: wine "c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe". Remember, its case sensitive too... -Necro On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Don W. Jenkins wrote: I have a question regarding the DOS convention of naming files with spaces, such as C:\Program Files. When I use a program like Wine, Linux can't follow a path that includes spaces, so I'm wondering if there is a way to write the file names so Linux can recognize them, or do I have to copy the programs to folders and give them names that don't include spaces? Thanks! Don J. -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] MS Word
...of course, if you really need MS Word itself, it works great under WINE... -Necro On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Martin Solms wrote: I am looking for software that can open Word documents - I don't want to keep rebooting to read my bosses documents!! Thanks Martin
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Petty issues like this should be taken to private email, kids -Necro On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Joe Perry wrote: This may also depend on whether you're allowing only root to write or make changes to the dos partitions, or also allowing users. I don't give users access to my dos partitions, albeit it's a standalone system and I'm the only user anyway. The umask parameter in /etc/fstab is the inverse of the chmod permission mask for all files in this directory. By default the files are readable and writeable by the user mounting the partition(if root mounts the partition, either on boot or later, then root is the ONLY user that can read and write to this directory). Your non-root user does not have access, this is irrespective to the permissions before mounting. umask = 0 : this directory is writable by everybody( permissions 777) umask = 7 : this directory is writable by the owner and his group ONLY; umask = 77 : this directory is writable by the owner ONLY; I would choose one of these based on who and when the partition is mounted and who you wish access to. I would not recommend the first one on a networked computer. You can override the owner and group of the mounted partition using the uid and gid parameters. Joseph H. Perry Oracle DBA Columbus State University 4225 University Ave Columbus, GA 31907-5645 (706) 568-2063 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] MS Word
Absolutely. StarOffice works pretty good (I use it myself). But since no one else had mentioned it in the thread I thought I'd throw it in (to show how wonderful Linux is...blah blah blah). For a lot of my professional documents, though, I stick with Word 97 under WINE. That way I know for sure that there won't be any kind of conversion problems whatsoever. -Necro On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Dan LaBine wrote: Dear Necrotica; Just jumped into this thread (haven't seen previous posts to this topic), but just a quick thing here,...Wouldn't StarOffice do the trick?? It's available for Windows and Linux, and handles all MS Office documents, spreadsheets, etc. Just a thought. Dan LaBine - Original Message - From: "Necrotica" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Word ...of course, if you really need MS Word itself, it works great under WINE... -Necro On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Martin Solms wrote: I am looking for software that can open Word documents - I don't want to keep rebooting to read my bosses documents!! Thanks Martin
Re: [newbie] Problems with the RAM
This is very easy to fix: 1) Login as root (or su at a command prompt) 2) Edit the file /etc/lilo.conf 3) Under the "label = linux" line add the line: append = "mem=xxxMB" 4) Save the changes 5) run "lilo" (without the quotes) at the prompt. Just adding the append statement to lilo.conf isn't enough. You still have to run lilo against it to make the changes final. -Necro On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Charles Wackerman wrote: Fernando García Arranz wrote: I've got a problem with the memory of my PC in Linux. I've got 128 Mb but Linux just recognize 64Mb. What can I do ? I've tried to insert the line "append=128M " into the lilo.conf file , but it doesn't work. Could you give an answer, please. I've got the same problem, only with 192Megs. I read the "Where's the Ram" piece and tried to follow it, but it didn't help at all. The only thing that works is to log in from the Lilo prompt with "Linux mem=192M". That always works. Since my bios is a 2000 copyright and the entire system is new, it doesn't appear to be a bios problem. Funny thing is, Redhat 6.2 does recognize the memory but not some of the cards.. Driving me slowly crazy. Charles Wackerman
Re: [newbie] Sendmail, fetchmail and gnus
I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to accomplish, but if you're using fetchmail to get your mail from your ISP's mail server you can process the incoming mail a lot easier just by using procmail. This eliminates the need to configure sendmail or postfix makes life much easier. This is what I do for every day use. This only works well, of course, if you're not running a multi-user host system. -Necro On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm trying to use Eric Raymond's fetchmail. However, I think I have a sendmail problem. fetchmail (which I've used before on RH5.2 and on SunOS) gets the pop mail fine, but then seems to have trouble giving it to sendmail. When I run "mailq" I see the messages in there, but they don't get delivered to /var/spool/mail Sendmail does appear to be running - if I telnet to port 25 on my machine I get a Postfix message. Any ideas? t " please don't make me read the sendmail book..." k
[newbie] Mozilla Fonts in Netscape
Something weird is going on here. I downloaded the Mozilla fonts for Netscape and followed the instructions for installing them per www.mandrakeuser.org. The next time I start Netscape I can see the Mozilla fonts and everything is wonderful. The problem is, the next time I log back in I don't have the Mozilla fonts. They're not listed, I can't select them, and the only way I can get them back is by doing another xset fp+. Any ideas on how I can get these fonts to permanently stick? -Necro
RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows handsdown on stability!!
My Athlon system is rock freakin' solid with Linux Mandrake, as well as other Linux distros I have tried -Necro On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Lane Lester wrote: Vic said: I usually recomend an AMD processor to windows users, but I'm biased in favour of AMD, but a Pentium does run nicely when its running linux instead of windows in my experiences. I think you can recommend AMDs for Linux as well. I'm running a K6-2/400 (I can't remember what punctuation is right for that), and it works great with Linux. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [newbie] installing ICQ
First, be aware that if you downloaded an ICQ for Linux in .tar.gz format it is probably source code and needs to be compiled before it can be installed. Installing software by compiling the sources and installing it is good in some respects, however it can lead to a "messy" computer. I would suggest you look for an .rpm of the ICQ app that you want to run. RPMS are great because you can easily upgrade and uninstall them as you wish. Good luck trying to completely uninstall something that you compiled/installed from source code. Take on compiling stuff when you become more familiar with the Linux environment. In the meantime, download the RPM of the ICQ app and install it that way. -Necro On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, J.Carson wrote: I downloaded icq for linux, it is in a tar.gzip format, how do I unzip it and install it, could someone please list the steps, i have no idea where to even begin. I am running mandrake 7 or if someone can name a site will it will tell me how to do it, in very easy steps, that would be helpful, much appreciated )( Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/jaroca ICQ: 35152653 )(
Re: [newbie] Prob2- Netscape
If you go to www.mandrakeuser.org there is a section on how to implement Mozilla fonts into Netscape. They actually work pretty good... -Necro On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, vern wrote: Here's My Nutscrape gripe! What can we do with those dirty, nasty, little unreadable fonts that come on Nutsrcape?? I know you can alter the size, but man those are some gnarley little pixel blobs! Thanks Vern
RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems.
Try adding the user(s) to the "audio" group. Worked for me... -Necro On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Seth Hollen wrote: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED I have a MX300 that is unsupported. I had to go to Aureal's website and download the Linux drivers and install them manually. can you try doing the same with your card? ps Lothar still can't find mine. it has some probs but works 90% of the time Seth Hollen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Oliver Stieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 5:28 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. LOTHAR didn't find my card either, Cretive AWE 64, i just ran sndconfig from console, and things work fine. except LOTHAR still can't find my sound card. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 04:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. is your card a PCI...card...? Roy Smith wrote: The sound card is a ESS 1868 I've copied down the IRQ and DMA settings that windows uses and still can't get it to work with Linux. Later... Roy Smith ICQ UIN #265622 -Original Message- From: Seth Hollen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 10:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED what's your sound card? have you tried LOTHAR on the command "soundconfig"? -Original Message- From: Roy Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. Hi! I just got Mandrake Linux installed on my PC and am having problems figuring out how to get my sound card to work on the new OS. Any suggestions? Later... Roy Smith ICQ UIN #265622 -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
Re: [newbie] [NEWBIE] NIC 3C905b problems
Last week I saw 3C905B drivers for Linux right on the 3COM web site. It might be worth downloading them and giving them a try... -Necro On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: Are you working with Mandrake 7.0-2? Seve -Original Message- From: Scala, Lino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:17 AM Subject: [newbie] [NEWBIE] NIC 3C905b problems Hello everyone, this is my very first Linux install and I'm having troubles with the built in NIC card it's a 3Com 3c905b which is listed under all the supported NICs but when I do the auto probe it fails, I've gone to the Dell web site to check if any info on installing the card in Linux was available but no luck, any suggestion?
Re: [newbie] [NEWBIE] NIC 3C905b problems
Makes sense. However, what if the following happened: - Mandrake was installed w/o NIC support - Install driver - init 1/init 5 to restart system - Go into Linuxconf, configure networking manually and enable eth0 - Activate the changes I dunno if this will work or not. Never tried it myself, but *I* would try it anyway just to rule it out (I am pigheaded about exhausting all possible resources, though). In a discussion forum such as this throwing ideas and suggestions around might help. At the very least there may be some information on the 3com web site about how to get it to work. Its easy to forget to check the vendor's resources. -Necro On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: I don't think new drivers will solve anything if the card isn't recognized in the first place... Am I right here?? Pete _ - Original Message - From: "Necrotica" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] [NEWBIE] NIC 3C905b problems Last week I saw 3C905B drivers for Linux right on the 3COM web site. It might be worth downloading them and giving them a try... -Necro On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: Are you working with Mandrake 7.0-2? Seve -Original Message- From: Scala, Lino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:17 AM Subject: [newbie] [NEWBIE] NIC 3C905b problems Hello everyone, this is my very first Linux install and I'm having troubles with the built in NIC card it's a 3Com 3c905b which is listed under all the supported NICs but when I do the auto probe it fails, I've gone to the Dell web site to check if any info on installing the card in Linux was available but no luck, any suggestion?
[newbie] PostFix Errors
Hello, This weekend I decided to re-install Mandrake 7.0. It was running fine, but I wanted to experiment with getting system sounds working under Gnome with my Aureal sound card. Thus, I decided to remove KDE all together and just go with Gnome. The good news is that the system sounds work. :) The bad news is that I ran into MAJOR problems by not installing KDE. I think its an installation bug. First, when I installed, I selected Custom, unselected KDE and Apache, and installed all of the packages. I configured my networking correctly, it went to try and install crypto and I got an error. No problems, finished the install and rebooted. Upon rebooting I got the error: localhost /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80postfix: /etc/sysconfig/network: No such file or directory I noticed a few other errors as well. Mandrake still loaded, I logged in as root, ran DrakConf and noticed there were no networking configured. I configured everything again, tried to activate the changes and was told an error occured. I checked the logs and saw all sorts of error saying "[: =: unary operator expected" I did an init 1/init 5 and still got all sorts of "unary operator expected" errors, but when I got into Gnome I found that my network is working fine. I'm still getting all sorts of these errors when I boot, and although everything works, I'm concerned that something is going to "break." I reinstalled the OS one more time (with a newly burned 7.02 ISO), selected the same options, and am still getting the same errors - yet everything works fine. Any ideas? Thanks... -Necro
[newbie] Window Managers
One last question for the day. :) In Mandrake, how do you configure what the default Window Manager is? When I first start X (and get the graphical logon), if I leave the window manager as "default" then I get Gnome w/Enlightenment. I would like to change this so that my default is just Enlightenment. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks... -Necro
Re: [newbie] Window Managers
Thanks Sujeevan. It works great, however Enlightenment isn't listed as one of the window managers. Rats... -Necro On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote: Necrotica wrote: One last question for the day. :) In Mandrake, how do you configure what the default Window Manager is? When I first start X (and get the graphical logon), if I leave the window manager as "default" then I get Gnome w/Enlightenment. I would like to change this so that my default is just Enlightenment. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks... -Necro use desktopcfg (which is located at /usr/bin/desktopcfg). Its a great tool to change window manager Sujeevan
Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem
OK...I'll bite. How did you do that? Is there a HOW-TO somewhere on it? -Necro On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Elvis Dieguez wrote: That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly. Elvis - Original Message - From: John Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem WINMODEMS cannot work with Linux John - Original Message - From: Emilio Correa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:31 AM Subject: [newbie] how to use a winmodem Hi all of the list, I am new in this list and I am from argentina, so sorry for my english. My question is the following: I have a winmodem (HFlex) and I know that it is impossible to use with linux. If somebody can tell me if exist any way to use it in linux or a place to download a driver please contact me. Thanks Emilio Correa TEL mensajes: 02932-4-21305 o 02932-4-23486 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Now I'm Impressed!
I just have to share this with someone. Ya know, the more I learn about Linux Mandrake the more I love it!! Up until this weekend I ran a dual boot system of Windows 98SE and LM7. I'm an IT professional, and since I need to get certified in it, I decided to blow away my 98 partition and install 2000. What a mistake that was. First, I have to say, if Win2K is Microsoft's best attempt at a stable OS then they need to stop smoking crack. That is the WORST operating system I have ever used, couldn't use my CD burner, and it kept on randomly hanging on me. It truly is pathetic. Personal obervations aside, I do need to run a Microsoft operating system. So I killed 2000 and reinstalled 98 tonight. As suspected, it wrote over LILO and couldn't boot into Linux afterwards. Luckily I created a Linux boot disk, thinking that would easily solve the problem Nope. I learned while installing Linux the first time that there is a conflict between my video card and my HDD controller. Thus, without a special vga boot parameter I get a kernel panic saying it can't mount my root drive. Adding the parameter vga=0x0301 works flawlessly. Unfortunately this parameter does NOT work with the boot disk I created. When I try to use the vga parameter it tells me "valid vga options are ask, enhanced, or a decimal number." I converted 0x0301 to decimal - no go. Tried all sorts of options...still nothing worked. I was one step away from thinking that I would have to reinstall from scratch when I tossed in my CD and did an upgrade. Lo and behold, that upgrade process is the SMARTEST thing I have ever seen. It checked my existing rpm database, found that I had everything already installed, kept my entire configuration, allowed me to put LILO back on, and voila! I'm back in Linux 5 minutes later and I couldn't even tell that it did anything. Brilliance! Pure brilliance! From a technical standpoint thats very well thought out. Anyone feel brave enough to try the same thing with NT or 2000? Its nice to be /home again. -Necro
Re: [newbie] aureal sound help
I didn't have any problems at all installing the driver. Are you running make install as root?? -Necro On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, you wrote: I have been crying for help for a few days now concerning aureal vortex driver install for sound card. I have unzipped the tar file into a new dir and tryed everything . It seems I am missing something with the command line..not sure, After cd to the driver dir I type " make install" and it will not work. Has anyone downloaded the aureal linux driver for the 8830 chip set? if so did ya get it to work? I have installed the "make" files and all seems to be in place. help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] help me please
Assuming you are using KDE do the following: - Clean up and delete any driver-related files you have right now in your home dir (except the tarball) - Click on the home directory icon on your taskbar - Right-click on the driver tarball file - Select Archiver - This will open Archiver. Click on the magnifying glass icon to extract. Don't change any of the defaults, and hit OK - The make files for the driver will now be in their own directory. - Open a terminal icon and change into the newly created directory - Type su to become root - type make install (or whatever you need for your type of card) That should do it. Have fun -Necro On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, you wrote: Just installed mandrake 7 a few days ago running daul boot with w98. So far I enjoy playing around with a NON microsoft op BUT I cant get my aureal vortex2 sound card to 8( i downloaded the linux driver and un zipped it to my home dir and followed the instructions. It says to change into the dir you have the files in as the root and type " make install" for my type chipset but nothing happens ..sniff sniff.. I am not a real hard core programmer but can follow ddirections i think was hoping someone would save me some time and may my wife from leaving me sitting up all night with new toy thanks John Dipolito [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Warren Doney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 5:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] People who get LI at boot up rather than LILO BOOT: Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm still a bit puzzle about this "LI" freeze on bootup instead of LILO BOOT. This is on a lin/win box dual boot using lilo... the "LI" thing is in the doc's IIRC "man lilo" "man lilo.conf(ig?) "/usr/doc/lilo" I've had it several times when I fscked a Kernel compile or Installed a new distro. Just boot off a floppy rerun lilo (check etc/lilo.conf(ig)1st) -WBD
[newbie] New Kernel
As I was going through the cooker archives on Rufus I saw that there are new RPMs of the 2.2.15 kernel for Mandrake. Anyone tried them out yet?? -Necro
Re: [newbie] Gender Problem
Login as root, open the KDE Control Center, go to Applications-Login Manager. Hope this helps... -Necro On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to change the icon on the Mandrake login screen. My Penguin has pigtails, and I am a guy. Not a huge problem but it does look a little silly, Thanks Dave O'Braden Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] kdelibs, compiling, and you
Ok, I got another problem that seems to have me stumped. I have recently downloaded a couple of KDE programs, namely WebMaker and KXICQ and am trying to compile both of them. To begin with, when I ran ./configure with either of them I would get an error message telling me that it couldn't find QT. I reinstalled all of the QT rpms from the CD numerous times but kept on receiving the same error message. I finally gave up, downloaded the most recent version of the QT sources from troll, compiled/installed, and that particular error message went away. Then, when I tried to run ./configure I would get the following messages: ... checking for KDE paths... compiling checking for KDE headers installed... yes checking for KDE libraries installed... configure: error: your system fails at linking a small KDE application! Check, if your compiler is installed correctly and if you have used the same compiler to compile Qt and kdelibs as you did use now. "Ok," I thought. "Perhaps compiling my own QT screwed things up." So today I went to rufus (which I would have never had known about if it weren't for this list - thanks!) and downloaded ALL of the QT and kdelib rpms, installed them, rebooted, and tried a few Gregorian chants. No luck. I'm still getting the same error about it failing to link a small KDE application. Anyone ever experience this problem before? Any ideas on how I can get around this so I can get back in action here? I gotta say, I love Linux. I have learned a lot about it over the last month or so but I have a lot to go. The power, and most of all, the kinship of the users really do it for me. I may not take part in a lot of the help/discussions on this list because I don't feel I can add anything of value yet. But I sure have gotten a lot out of it and read every single message. I'm an IT professional certified in a couple of "inferior" NOSs, and frankly, my home computer life was becoming very boring. I'm 28 years old and have owned a computer nonstop since I was 10. Alas, work really took away my hobby. With Linux I feel as though I've got my hobby back and I couldn't be happier. -Necro
Re: [newbie] Linux RealPlayer????
Yes, if you go to www.real.com you can download a Linux version of the G2 player. Works pretty good too! -Necro On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, you wrote: I thought I saw an article about a RealUdio player for Linux anyone any ideas???
[newbie] Question about Executables
OK...I'll bite... Lately I've downloaded a coupld of "executable" programs, such as the RealPlayer G2 for Linux. For some reason or another I can't do anything with them. If I'm logged in as a normal user and try to ./ it, I get permission denied. Same thing if I just type in the file name. If I'm logged in as root I get "command not found" if I ./ it, and get "permission denied" if I just type in the file name. Lately I've been getting around this by downloading the sources and compiling them, but I can't always get the sources for the software (ie: Real Player). I'm stumped. Anyone have any ideas? I'm using Mandrake 7.0. Thanks... -Chris
