[newbie] Sharing address-books
I would like to use (exploit, modify) the Mozilla address books that are on the Windows partition when I use Mozilla on the Linux partition. Any idea? -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] eth0
How do I neutralise temporarily the ntework services of my notebook? When I'm not connected to any lan at boot time, the booting process hangers on on the awakening of eth0. Thanks. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] pb at boot
I installed Mandrake 9.2 (dvd) on an Inspiron 500m. (Thanks to this maillist I solved preemptively the X-window problem, downloading the 855 patch on the windows partition, before installing linux). The problem now is that at the Lilo stage, I can boot only linux-nonfb (what does nonfb mean?); when I boot shere linux, everything stops and Iget the message: "You passed an undefined mode number". What this refers to I cannot imagine. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RpmDrake
I downloaded an rpm-package for Realplayer. Can I use RpmDrake in order to install it? It looks as if the only available packages for RpmDrake are those contained in a list, probably coming from the installation cds, and I do not understand how to add a new package to this list. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Inspiron 500m
Has anybody installed Mandrake 9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 500 m? Are there known problems? Are there known solutions? Thanks -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hostname
Where are the hostname and domainname stored in Mandrake (9.2)? I tried to edit file /etc/hosts butnothing changed, even after rebooting . Thanks. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin
Alle 15:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Anne Wilson ha scritto: > Glad you got it sorted. Don't suppose I could persuade you to write > it up for the TWiki site? Sure Anne, but keep in mind that the problem is only partially sorted since now I can watch QuickTime trailers off the Apple website, but only for the first few seconds. Once the cache buffer gets filled the player gets stuck and stops playing (though it keeps downloading off the Apple website). The mplayerplugin website says that a line with cachesize=nnn (where nnn is the size in KB of the cache) should be added to the /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf file. I did that with no results... Anyway, once (if) I get it sorted, I'd be happy to share my experience with fellow Mandrakers... on Twiki, though I'm not exactly sure how to do that. I just wonder why Apple doesn't release a Linux version of their QuickTime player... they got the Safari browser from us... time to get us something back! -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin
Alle 19:05, giovedì 13 novembre 2003, Anne Wilson ha scritto: > I don't use 9.2, so I have to tell you what works in 9.1 and let you > try for it. [...] It seems that I have solved. My problems (mplayerplug-in > 0.8 not playing Quicktime movies) were caused by the generic rpm I downloaded from sourceforge. I tried do download and compile the tarball instead and... ta-dà! It works! Now I have what I need: RealMedia handled by RealPlayer 8 and QuickTime movies played by mplayerplug-in. I just need to teach the plugin to fully cache the movie before playing them (the cachesize=65535 line in the /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf config file doesn't do much). After fixing this glitch, then I can finally enjoy again the trailers on Apple website! -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin
Alle 15:19, giovedì 13 novembre 2003, Derek Jennings ha scritto: > Maybe not the answer you are looking for but Opera is a stonking good > browser ;-) Thanks for the tip... but I'd rather keep using mozilla... ;-) -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new kernel and dvd drives. was: 9.2 and kernel sources...
Alle 23:09, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Piero Piutti ha scritto: > Alle 17:20, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Derek Jennings ha scritto: > > I had the same issue. With that kernel some makes of DVD drive do not > > work with scsi emulation. Set it back to IDE and it should be OK > > mine is an Asus. still puzzled about how the new kernel fixed the LG issue > but introduced this new one. I reverted to the "stock 9.2" kernel (2.4.22-10mdk) and the DVD drive functions correctly again, so there is definitely something wrong with the 2.4.22-21mdk kernel not liking my Asus E612 dvd drive when it's scsi emulated. I would like to report this inconvenience to the "people in charge" so that this can be fixed in the next kernel update, but I'm unaware of the correct procedure. Any suggestion? Thanks for your patience. -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] new kernel and dvd drives. was: 9.2 and kernel sources...
Alle 17:20, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Derek Jennings ha scritto: > I had the same issue. With that kernel some makes of DVD drive do not work > with scsi emulation. Set it back to IDE and it should be OK mine is an Asus. still puzzled about how the new kernel fixed the LG issue but introduced this new one. anyway, I don't think I'll want to give up to scsi-emulation on the dvd drive as I need it to use it with k3b, so I think I'll get back to the 2.4.22-10mdk and wait for the 2.6 final to upgrade. thanks for your help. -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 and kernel sources: where are them?
Alle 15:20, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Greg Meyer ha scritto: > I can hardly believe you missed this with all the controversy this caused. > They are not on the CD's (oversight) but are available on any Mandrake > mirror in the Main branch. They are NOT in contrib. Thanks for clearing my doubt. Indeed I've been away form this list for a while and re-joined only recently, that's why I missed all the fuss! My fault. Anyway, I have upgraded to the 2.4.22-21mdk kernel and as soon as I rebooted I've noticed a trouble with my dvd drive which worked fine until yesterday (/dev/scd1 - it's actually hdd, scsi emulated): I cannot access to any cd/dvd I put into the drive. When I type: # cd /mnt/cdrom2 it spins up and seems to read the contents but when I type # ls the discs are empty! I'm puzzled. Even 'cos my other drive (hdc, /dev/scd0) works just fine. Could it be a just occurred hardware fault or something to do with the new kernel? -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
Yesterday I accidentally erased my "Documents" folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.5 ~ KDE 3.1 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW
On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:12, Harv Nelson wrote: > Is there some sort of backup/restore utility that I can use to make backups > using the CD-R on my machines? CD-R's cost about a dime each these days. > That price makes that media much more attractive than investing in a big > tape drive and tapes.. Mondo Rescue: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It should suit your needs perfectly. -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.5a ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with RealPlayer 8
I uninstalled RP 7 and installed RP 8 (rpm-s). When I call /usr/bin/X11/realplay, or when I call it through Netscape (4.75), I just get a black xterm whith "realplay" written on top, which stys on my desktop for a few seconds, then desappears, as a std-error message appears saiyng : "segmentation fault". Any idea? Piero.
[newbie] Installing Rpm packages
I'm working with Mandrake 7.0 and Rpm 3.03-43mdk. I tried to install two new packages: qt2.2 and Rpm-4.0.7. In both cases rpm refused to do it, and the error message went: "Only pacages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM" Have you any Idea of what this means and of what should I do? By the way, I downloaded those packages using Kfm (I use Kde as a Gui), but could not download them using Netscape (4.73); is there any other way to download them? Thanks Piero.
[newbie] Balsa
Is it possible to use Balsa with Kde, or daoes it have to used in the Gnome environment?
[newbie] How to install Netscape ?
I just down loades Netscape 4.73. It's a src.rpm and I never installed such
packages. What do I have to do? Thanks.
--
Piero
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Dr Piero Caracciolo
Ecole Normale Superieure
...humani nihil ...
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: > For anyone who would like to have the ReiserFS in 7.1, and at the sametime > do the much easier automatic install, here's what worked for me: First > select expert install, and when you get to where you setup your partitions, > select ReiserFS as the filesystem type. After it formats the partitions, go > back to the 'installation class' selection in the left hand menu and select > automatic install. It'll skip the partition setup since it was already done > (or you can just leave it as is and tell it to NOT format anything!) From > there on it's an easy install, and you'll have the ReiserFS to boot! > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Which are the advantages of the Reiser Fiel system? -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm
step a) rpmfind.com step b) Go directly to the rpm database step c)rpm indexed by name step d) packages bedinning by Q step d) qt2.1.1-1mdk step e) download -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
Re: [newbie] Packages
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, you wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 06:02:50 -0400, you wrote: > > >I have a question on packages that are on Linux. Is there a web site that > >gives details of what the package is and etc?? I would like to be able to > >know what to install and what I don't need. I think I am wasting space by > >taking everything that is offered in the install. > >This way I will know what is what as to everyday use of Linux. > > > >Thanks > >Robert F. Trettel > > Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:42:19 > > I had the same Question Robert, all those strange names are quite > meaningless unless you already have experience...I found that the > descriptions in the KDE package tool are very helpful.. > > Click on a package name and a description shows up in the > right hand panel...Providing you have a linux loaded of courseIf > you have the space though ,load it all and then you can search through > it and learn about it for next installation...or any thing that you > don't need you can trim out... > > If you don't load all the development material you cannot > manage to make and install some other RPM downloaded later. or do > compiling and the like. > > the site http://mandrakeuser.org/ has been big time helpful to me. > Olly P > Biloxi I have also been disconcerted, at first, by the overwhelming amount of packages I found in the Linux distributions (RH first, then Suse and finally Mandrake). I feared that it would invade my hd and that I would never be in control of such a number of programs. It would take a whole live just to understand what they were meant for, and in a little time, much shorter than the amount of time I'd need in order to be back in command of my computer, new versions would become available... A maelstrom of programs was going to drag me away... Things went rather differntly, though, and I would like to reassure both Robert and Olly, and all those who feel the same disconfort with packages. First, through utilities such as kpackages or rpmdrake, one can explore the packages installed on ones machine, and have a little explanation of what they are supposed to do. Secondly, as time goes by, you get invlved in properly installing licq, or configuring imwheel, or tying to understand whether wine is able to execute something alse as sol.exe. And you just forget the packages problem. Better: as Bambi says, you feel lucky when you discover that something you 'd like to test is already installed on your computer. As for pruning away the pakages that you do not need... Well, just think that you will do it one day. The idea that it is not impossible to do it (better, that through kpackages it would be very easy to do it) is very reassuring: than, you don't really need to do it . Just think taht you can. It's largely enough. Something would be very useful, though: a dictionary, or encyclopedia on line, that would allow one to understand such expression as "gui", or "api", or what a program like "Doom" is meant to do... But may-be it exists. Has anybody got any idea about this? -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
Re: [newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote: > > >Hi Al, > > > >I agree with you wholeheartedly. I am thankful for this > >group. I have been directly help and indirectly helped > >through others experience and solutions. > > May I agree too! This list is great. Imagine the number of people that > would not be helped if it does not exist. > Together we know a lot, but not everything. (Just give us a few more > months though... ;-) > > Paul > I 'd join this eulogius choir! -- Piero
[newbie] Mail Reading
I use to read mail either through Netscape Messenger or Kmail. I'd need a third
program. Could you please tell me how such sort of programs is called ?
I don't thing they have anything to do with the Linux administerd resdident
mailbox and the relative programs (fetchmail, sendmail, and so on), do they?
Is there one that you strongly prefer?
Thanks,
Piero
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Ecole Normale Superieure
...humani nihil ...
Re: [newbie] Administration Question
Yes, It's hardly understandable. And from the little I can understand, I think it better stays in its rude, uncivlised darkness. -- Piero. Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Stephen Weltman wrote: > I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever > encountered! I don't think that your intended receiver got what you meant > clearly. > > Good luck with future posts!! > > > > > Bob wrote: > > > > > > Why do I think that the message below has anything to do with me, and > how > > > many others have wondered the same thing. It would be appreciated if > people > > > could consider if what they are replying to has meaning to everyone on > the > > > list. Thank you. > > > > > > Bob Root
[newbie] Netcape/ftp
A couple of days ago, I decided to download a recent version af LICQ and the corresponding version of Qt. Using Netskape i contaced the coresponding sites and, whithin these sites, their ftp direcories. At this point, the location toolbar of Netscape showed a line beginning by ftp:// . Fine. But, instead of letting a slave window appear, asking if I wanted to save the downloaded file, and in which directory, and under wihch filename, the Communicator window started to become filled with lots of apparently meaningless characters. I restarded everything a couple of times, but got the same result. Finally, I waited until the communcator window was totally full, then I went to the file menu and choose the "save page" command. Very happily so, since the saving resulted in a .tar.gz file in one case, and in a .rpm file in the other case, and I have been able to use them in order to install what I wanted to install. Now, was all this normal? Or do I have to settle a ftp plugin in Netscape in order to have a more "transparent" ftp behaviour? And, in this case, what should I do? Thenk you for leaning on this question. -- Piero ------ Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
Re: [newbie] Netscape Addressbook - Where?
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Can anyone tell me which file contains netscape addressbook information > under linux? I've found all the other bits and pieces but this one - I'd > like to back it up instead of recreating it each time I do a new install > etc. > > Nev .netscape -- Piero ------ Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
Re: [newbie] Modifying PATH(adding directories)
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, michael wrote: > > > > >How do I get /usr/local/bin into my path as root? > > >I try PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin and it works for awhile but after rebooting i > > >always have to append it again. -- > > >-michael- > > > > edit .bashrc (if you use bash) in root's home directory. There's a path > > command there, that you can add the desired directory to. > > > > Paul > > You should also add, also in .bashrc, (in a lower line) export PATH -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
[newbie] DISCUSSION Poor Support
In a formaer mail, I suggested that MK should improove client support, and I
complained that the franch support team has never been able,
or willing, to answer one of my questions.
This was hyperbolic, but just slightly so. Denis asked me which were my
questions: here are a couple of them.
- How can I manage to make a bootdisk using an LS-120 device?
- Is it possible to use a laptop as a second terminal of the computer that runs
Linux?
As I already told, some of the recipients of the mail list has been able to
answer them, or to direct me toward an answer; but, as [EMAIL PROTECTED] says,
"Poor support makes Mankrake look bad".
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Ecole Normale Superieure
...humani nihil a me alienum puto.
[newbie] Prtition Magic
There's a grate talking of Partition Magic around... Do we have it on the MK
CDs?
Piero.
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Ecole Normale Superieure
...humani nihil a me alienum puto.
Re: [newbie] Command Execution
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command. > > If I am in the directory where the programme resides and type the programme > name, I get a: > "bash: programme name: command not found" message > > If, from the same directory I type ./programme name everything works as > advertised. > > Thanks > > Barry Wherever you are, when you type a command name, the command interpreter (say bash) looks for this command in a certain set of directories : the list of the names of such directories is associated to the (environment) variable PATH. If none of these direcories contains the wanted command, the anwer of bash is "command not found". On the other side, when you type ./programme, you tell explicitly bash not to look for programme in the PATH listed directories, but in the present working directroy. The environment variable PATH recieves its value through a certain number of initialising files : /etc/profile ; ~/.profile ; ~/bash_profile ; etc. On the other side, in the bash/sh/csh/etc. world, the character "." indicates the directory in which you are, i.e. the present work directory. Piero. -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil a me alienum puto.
Re: [newbie] netscape files
You mean you can actually share your mailboxes across Windows and Linux? How 'd you do? I share the address books, and i works all right. If I could share the mailboxes, it 'd find it useful. > You could, but a shared directory would have to be on the win partition > to be read and written by both win and linux, plus permissions changed > on the win partition to allow nsmail to write. Possibly not worth it > unless you are still using win a lot. > > Bill > > bascule wrote: > > > > i will try this > > thankyou, > > does this mean that i can have a shared directory for win and linux > > netscape? perhaps only for subfolders where mail is filtred to? > > > > bascule > > > > Bill Gerber wrote: > > > > > > Sorry, I missed this thread before. You CAN copy your windows netscape > > > mail files across to your linux /nsmail directory. It's a simple > > > copy/paste, any filename clashes can be renamed in the process, and they > > > will show as new subfolders next time you open the mail window. I have > > > just done this. > > > > > > Bill. > > > > > > bascule wrote: > > > > > > > > thanks for your replies, i have discovered that i could indeed export my > > > > address book in the ldif format and import it into linux netscape, also > > > > i copied my bookmark.htm file from win98 over to linux and copied it > > > > over bookmarks.html in my user .netscape directory (backing up the old > > > > one of course) this worked fine, messages had to be downloaded all over > > > > again however > > > > > > > > bascule > > > > > > > > J Walker wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I believe you could save your address book, too. If not by copying the file > > > > > itself, try exporting/importing it. > > > > > > > > > > (I myself transferred from MS Outlook to Netscape-Linux with the help of >Yahoo! > > > > > address backup service, a much longer route - and it worked) > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > /J. > > > > > > > > > > Em qua, 24 mai 2000, bascule escreveu: > > > > > > ah well! > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks eric, at least i won't be wasting time trying to do the > > > > > > impossible > > > > > > > > > > > > bascule > > > > > > > > > > > > Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > NO !!! > > > > > > > But you can try to copy your bookmarks > > > > > > > files from > > > > > > > netscape/win to your linux-netscape. > > > > > > > Backup your linux bookmarks before !!! > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > > bascule wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my > > > > > > > > linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer > > > > > > > > bookmarks folders etc.? > > > > > > > > the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my > > > > > > > > netscape directory in my user home directory > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > bascule > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt > > > > > > > you) > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > * Registered Linux User Number * > > > > > *178234* > > > > >
Re: [newbie] How to install StarOffice?
On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: > After a successful (whew) install of the Linux Mandrake 7.0 OS, with > SOUND even I find I'm having trouble installing StarOffice. Following > the directions on the ReadMe file from the StarOffice CD, I'm putting the CD > in the CD-ROM drive, logging in as "root", clicking on Konsole, and at the > command line typing, > > rpm -i StarOffice-5.1a_01-517i8-1.i386.rpm > > I get a message "cannot open file .and it repeats the above. > > Color me confused! :-) > > Nan I used kpackage and all went fine.
Re: [newbie]Discussion - Fonts - Please,Dacia
The font question is perhaps not "essential", but important: it's a bit depressive to know that you are using a "nobler" os than Windows, yet to have fonts that look dirty and blunt. By the way, the only thing I did when I wanted to "deuglify" them was to insert in Linux some true type fonts; But they do't work neither with Netskape nor with Staroffice. Hence I ask Dacia : do you have a peace of advice? What are the "Mozilla fonts" you talk about? Thanks, Piero.
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION documentation
I would like to be able to submit more useful remarks. There is something, though, which Mandrake should improove: documentation and support. - Manuals are really too poor. - From time to time you discover that an interesting program exists in your system, and you didn't even fancy it was there. - And the (french) support team has never been able to give a satisfactory answer to one of my question, so that I plainly renounced asking them. I got them answered by users on the mail lists. (All's well what ends well, but...)
Re: [newbie] Ports ?
On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote: > Hi everybody, I'm trying out gfcc the port configging app, > so far I'm learning how to use it, I want to block all > the ports except of course the ones I'm using on my server. > > I wish to leave open 21 for ftp, 80 for www, and 25 for mail, > by the way, is the e mail server port just one for smtp and pop > or does pop have one of its own? I am taking my mail directly > off of my mail server with pine so maybe pop does not apply here?? I take advantage of this mail to ask a question I wanted to ask since long : what are these "ports" ? thank you, Piero.
[newbie] licq - garbled lines
When I use licq (the versio I use is the one included in the Mandrake 7.0 distirbution cd) I stumble over the following problem: If the lines I write are longer than a certain number of characters, the beginning and the end of my message are garbled into a chain of meaningless characters, like @@#! Is it a common fault? If not, do you have any clue to what do I have to change? Thanks, Piero.
Re: [newbie] Charset - Thanks, Paul!
On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: > On Sat, 13 May 2000, Piero wrote: > > >I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell > >what's a Charset? > > > > On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: > >> Paul, > >> thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. > >> Eric > > Hi Piero, > > A charset is a Character Set. In most european countries, there are > different character sets in use on computers. Like in French there are > special keys on the keyboard for letter with accents, cedille and so on, > as there are special keys for typical characters for Norwegian and > Swedish. > Of course, pressing such a key has little use if the computer does not > know what character it should display on the screen. Like if you press ^ > and always a = pops up, that is annoying. A character set is a translation > table. Set the machine to characterset 25 (just picking a number), and the > machine knows that when you press the key with scan code 0 113 should show > a ^ sign. Where as in for instance charset 9 the same key would yield a > " sign. > > A good example too is the $ sign. Shift -4 on the standard US keyboard. In > the UK, that $ sign is replaced by the pound-sign (I think). > > Hope this clears things up. > Paul > Thank you, Paul, your explanation is very clear.
[newbie] Wrong Charset ...What's a Charset?
I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell what's a Charset? On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: > Paul, > thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. > Eric > > Paul wrote: > > > > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: > > > > >Hi all, > > >why get I always the message 'KCharset: Wrong charset !'. > > >What did I wrong ? > > >Thanks > > >Eric > > > > I don't think you do something wrong. I assume that the packages that were > > installed were compiled with a different character set loaded than you > > have on your system. Happens to me a lot also, but as long as things work > > fine I don't care. (Should I??) > > > > Paul > > > > )0(---)0( > > > > Life is more than increasing its speed. > > (Mohandas K. Gandhi) > > > > )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( > > http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 > > Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: > How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6; Read Kde help.
[newbie] Precious Site!
At this address there are answers to questions frequently asked in this mailing lis. Very useful indeed! http://sunsite.auc.dk/linux-newbie/Linux_apps.htm
[newbie] Printing man pages
What do you do when you wnat to print a man page? Is there a site where you can find the whole man in a printable format?
[newbie] Cookie Pal
Do you know whethert a program like Cookie Pal exists for Linux?
Re: Repost: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again. > > - Original Message - > From: Michael E. Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM > Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk. > > > > I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete installed on the following system > > Athlon 500 MHZ > > 64M ram. > > 20G byte IBM hard disk. > > > > I have as a first partition an 8G fat32 partition with Windows 98. DrakeX > > setup a swap partition, a /boot partition (hda5) and a root partition > > (hda7). Boot loader is lilo. > > > > I need to reinstall Windows 98. I understand that if a do this Windows 98 > > setup will remove lilo from the boot sector in favor of its own boot > loader. > > For this reason I am trying to make a boot floppy so I can mount the root > > filesystem and reinstall lilo after I reload 98. > > > > I have tried created boot and rescue disks using both dos (writeraw) and > > linux following the instructions from the documentation. The boot disk > works > > but whenever I select "rescue" from the "boot:" prompt and put in the > rescue > > diskette I get an error. I am not sure but I think the error message is > the > > same as below. > > > > I have also tried to use mkbootdisk to make a boot floppy. When I boot off > > it says it is trying to load the root filesystem off of hda7, I then get > an > > "Error: 0x10" message. > > > > Any suggestions. > > May-be somebody will give you a real bit of advice: let me just express my sympathy. Boot and rescue disks seem to work only in a plathonic space of ideal computers and virtuous users. If you installed Linux from a cd, you can just allow Windows to destroy your boot sector, then make a fake upgrading of Linux from your cd, during which you'll tell it "Oh, yes, I'd love to install a loader! Lilo 'd suit me perfecly well" Nevertheless, If I were you, I would backup everything I 'd think valuable. But I must say that I 'd do that only if I were you: beeing myself, I wouldn't probably be so patient, and I 'd take the risk of loosing everything. Then I would be desperate, and I would have to drink it away.
Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC > TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but > since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments > about S3 cards in general not being "Linux Friendly" - Does anyone know if this > is true for the Viper 550? If so, what card would you recommend? I need speed - > good gaming and 3D performance - I don't have an AGP bus, so it would have to > come in PCI flavor - I've been hearing good things about ATI's > "All-in-Wonder"... any opinions? Why don't you give a look here? It's (possibly) helpful: http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html
Re: [newbie] Disk drives
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer? > And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net? Yes: 1 (easiest) just keep it like this, but make a symbolic link to it : ln -s/mnt/DOS_hda1 /win for instance. 2 (longer) umount /mnt/DOS_hda1 mkdir /mnt/win(or just /win) update the file /etc/fstab, substituting /mnt/win to /mnt/DOS_hda1 mount /dev/hda1 THE END PS: When you update /etc/fstab, pay attention to the file system type (vfat), to the mount mode: user, rw, etc. In my fstab file it is like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,rw,conv=binary 0 0 But, please, read the mount and fstab man pages, in case i missed something. Finally: rm /mnt/DOS_hda1
Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind
"man find" giveves you the answer... > Mogens Jæger wrote: > > > > Hello > > Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all > > partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to > > have your musik cut-off, just because you have to find a > > file > > > > Regards > > > > Mogens Jæger
[newbie] Ugly StarOffice Fonts!
Does anybody have an idea on how to make the look better on the screen?
[newbie] A notebook as an extra console
I'm wondering if it's possible to connect a notebook through one of the serial ports, or otherwise, to my Linux machine, and use it as an extra console, i.e. an extra tty. Does anyboy have an idea how to do it?
Re: [newbie] X problem
At 21:20 05/03/00 -0800, you wrote: >I just did a new install(custom, server) that's set to automatically >start X, and must have misconfigured X. The system boots smoothly, but >when it shows root login and the mandrake logo the screen goes black and >the system locks up. Reboot causes the same thing to happen again. > >Is it possible or how do I get the OS not to launch X, and then how do I >reconfigure it to the proper video card(S3 Trio 3D) and monitor? My >monitor is an old Compag Presario 1500 and I'm not really sure what the >right resolution and refresh rate is, so I think setting it to standard >SVGA 800 x 600 should work. > >Any suggestions appreciated, > >Victor > > > Boot from the boot disk you made during installation. If you didn't make it, use the installation cd and do a fake upgrading. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
RE:Re: [newbie] boot to console
At 18:43 05/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >dmesg | more > >Harald Wolf wrote: > > >> >> Hi, >> >> how can a review the error messages that my new selfcreated kernel >> produces on startup ? >> or >> how avoid start up xdm automatically after boot so i can step back with >> "Shift-Up" to see the exact errormessages ? > > This actually what I usually do. But you don't get ALL boot messages. How to get the other ones? Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] sndconfig problems
At 13:19 05/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >I finally got mandrake installed and everything seems ok except now I'm >having minor hardware problems. I ran sndconfig to try to configure my >SoundBlaster 16 but it detected my AZT PnP modem instead of the SB card. It >then desplays the following error: > >/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/sgalaxy. o: init_module: device resource busy. > > > May be what I'going to say is too naive: did you disable the PnP-system feature in the Bios (as you should have done)? With me, this solved many problems. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] re: Netscape toolbar color
At 14:18 04/03/00 -0800, you wrote: >I changed my color depth to 32bit and that brought back the color on the >netscape toolbar. Thanks for the help :) > > >--dale >"So many idiots.. > so few comets.." > H Henry > > > --- It's not uncommon. Change your depth to 24 bit. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines
At 18:04 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: Yes, Alan, supermount works also with my cdroms. But did you find any dox about it? >Pieroyep, same here with the ls-120. But my zip 100, my >cdrom, and my two floppys (1.44 & 1.2) all work just fine with >supermount. > >Alan > > >Piero Caracciolo wrote: >> >> I'm also puzeld with supermount. >> The fstab entries, automatically made when you install Linux, look >> meaningless; and thy do not work with my LS-120 device. And, worst then >> all, you can't find any useful man page about it. >> I also just replaced it with a classic fstab entry. >> Pitty, because it seems to be interesting. >> >> At 03:40 02/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >> > I'm totally new with this supermount-thing (installed Mandrake for the >> >first time last night,,actually its my first Linux install ever) and I find >> >it very confusing. My box seems to have a big problem with my JAZZ-drive >> >because of this feature. (CD-ROM and floppy are allright). I couldn't boot >> >in linux if I had my Jazz switched on.. >> >When I checked fstab, I found this supermount-feature very confusing. Can >> >anyone explain how to get my Jazz working? Jornt -- >> >From: Alan Shoemaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: 01 March 2000 19:56 >> >To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Subject: Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines I find it to not have >> > Stick a cdrom or floppy in, >> >click on the desktop icon and a bunch of icons appear in a >> > Navigate the window just like any other part of the >> > So, I like it thus far. Alan >> > Lane Lester wrote: >> >> >> >> Am I the only one who finds supermount troublesome? The behavior was too >> >> strange to try to remember, but it's out of my fstab now! >> >> -- >> >> Lane >> >> >> >> Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA >> >> >> >> Getting where I want to be with Linux... >> Piero Caracciolo >> 54, rue de Bourgogne >> 75007 Paris - France > > Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] General Help: Mounting devices & Modem Trouble
At 20:07 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: >Hello! > >I recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Deluxe) on my PII 300. The >installation went smoothly. I configured the partitions, printer, modem, >and dialup connection. The problems begin when I boot into Linux. The KDE >loads fine, and all the programs seem to work.. > >However, when I want to access my CD Rom drive or my Floppy, I begin to get >errors. I have tried several mount commands (as recommended by #linuxhelp >on EFNet), but have had no success. I have two CD Rom drives: a HP CD >Burner (master) and a MITSUMI (slave). > >Since I am new to Linux, I have absolutely no clue about what to do about >getting these things working. Sometimes I get "bad command" and >"Input/Output error." It seems to me that if I installed Linux from a CD >Rom drive that it should be able to be read by Linux. > - Read very carefully man mount and man fstab. If during installation you had any file /etc/fstab automatically created, then change the lines caontaining the supermount feature, which apparently gives more troubles thens advantages, and repalce it with a classic fstab entri (not without having saved first /etc/fstab in case your changes were disastrous). Supposing that one of your cdrom was /dev/hdd and that you had a directory /mnt/cdrom, the corresponding line in /etc/fstab could be: /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,rw 0 0 Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions
At 05:20 03/03/00 -, you wrote: >Hi penguinistas, > >Not sure if this is a Linux or Windoze problem. Thoe,I suspect,the user >needs a thorough debugging. > >Recently installed Mandrake 6.1 dualboot with Win 95 on an IBM deskstar 13.5 >Gb(new) >disk- 2.5 for 95 and 4, I think, for Linux. .All seemed fine and bigfun >seemed assured with trying to coming to terms with Linux. > >Then I had the opportunity to update to Win 98 (it seems a bit more stable) >and I did a clean install and after 2 days of installing programmes and >service packs I tried to boot into Linux without result. Linux will not >even install as it thinks the whole disk is Fat32;thoe 98 still thinks its >only 2.5 in size. I ran disk doctor from Norton Utilities 4 and it finds an >error in the mbr which it tries and fails to correct. Unfortunately the >Partition-It I have does not work with disks larger then 8 Gb's so I'm at a >loss. > >Is their anything I can try before wiping the disk and starting afresh with >hours and hours reinstalling as,doubtless,my well deserved reward. > I have read in several handbooks that one should always install windows first, then Linux, because Windows creates this sort of problems, especially Win 98. Now, I think you could handle it the foll. way. Make a fake upgrading: boot on Linux installation Cd, choose expert mode, confirm the partitions you have, istall one small package (or delete one and reinstall it), then say go!. This would reinstall LILO and you might boot. If partition tables are corrupted, though, this wouldn't be enough. In this case I don't know what to suggest you, apart from reinsalling everything... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] My Mandrake's Broken!
At 18:10 02/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >In my fiddling, I seem to have messed something up so that Mandrake >7.0-2 will not boot. I don't know if it was fstab, inittab, or what. > >The boot process goes fine with all OK's until "Starting postfix", and >that's where it hangs. When I Ctrl-Alt-Del, the shutdown and reboot >process begins, and "Stopping at daemon" reports FAILED. > >I sure hope that suggests something to someone, other than that I have >to erase everything and start over. > >Lane > > >Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA > > Dear Lane, It's very difficult to help you, if you don't even know what did you do that resulted in yours being stuck. I would suggest you to reinstall everyhing from scratch and that upon installation you define four different partitions, in that order: /, /swap, /usr/local/, /opt, /home, so that in future, if you have to reinstall (or upgrade)you keep everything apart from / and /swap, where will be istalled programs and packages that will be peculiar to you, and that you won't like to reinstall. Once you are finished with the installation, you take a notebook and - everytime you change something - you write it down, and you do it quickly, before you forget what you have done. That will enable you 1) to ask for help, 2) to undo the changes, 3) to find again, quickely, the mooves that give good results. Apart form this, if you change the contents of a file, do save its pristine contents first. For instance, if you modify file /hell/murder do first cp /hell/murder /hell/murder.old. You will see: life will be much easier. Yours frindly, Piero. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1/ root size
At 01:10 03/03/00 -0300, you wrote: >Hi, >- I want to reinstall StarOffice 5.1 in a particular place where then I >can use it like a user or like root. I have installed it previously like >root in /usr/local but when I log in like a user I can't execute it. I only >can run it like log in like root. Or may be changing the permissions it >can run like any user or root as well. I need help. > Try just to chamge permissions: chmod o+x >- In other side, I want to know what is an appropiate size for my / >partition. Now it is 350 MB (to optimize) but It has only 45 MB free >and the /temp partition may be require more size. >Thanks > I think 350 Mb is too small. How large is your disk? > Piero. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
[newbie] Help formatting LS-120. How?
Has anybody got an idea of how to format a classic diskette (1.4 Mb) on a LS-120 driver? In my case, the driver is given name /dev/hdc. fdformat doesn't work, not even if I rm /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd0H1440 and change them into symbolic links to /dev/hdc. The result is /dev/fd0: not a floppy device (which is at the same true, because now /dev/fd0 points to /dev/hdc, and not true, because /dev/hdc in the LS-120 driver, and cand handle floppies). fdisk and cfdisk didn't wor either; sfdisk worked, in a way, because after I was able to mount the floppy, but did'nt erase the content of the floppy. So I think it did something useful, like creating a partition table, but did not really format the floppy. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
RE: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines
I'm also puzeld with supermount. The fstab entries, automatically made when you install Linux, look meaningless; and thy do not work with my LS-120 device. And, worst then all, you can't find any useful man page about it. I also just replaced it with a classic fstab entry. Pitty, because it seems to be interesting. At 03:40 02/03/00 -0500, you wrote: > I'm totally new with this supermount-thing (installed Mandrake for the >first time last night,,actually its my first Linux install ever) and I find >it very confusing. My box seems to have a big problem with my JAZZ-drive >because of this feature. (CD-ROM and floppy are allright). I couldn't boot >in linux if I had my Jazz switched on.. >When I checked fstab, I found this supermount-feature very confusing. Can >anyone explain how to get my Jazz working? Jornt -- >From: Alan Shoemaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 01 March 2000 19:56 >To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines I find it to not have > Stick a cdrom or floppy in, >click on the desktop icon and a bunch of icons appear in a > Navigate the window just like any other part of the > So, I like it thus far. Alan > Lane Lester wrote: >> >> Am I the only one who finds supermount troublesome? The behavior was too >> strange to try to remember, but it's out of my fstab now! >> -- >> Lane >> ---- >> Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA >> >> Getting where I want to be with Linux... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE
At 09:30 02/03/00 -0300, you wrote: > UNSUBSCRIBE Why did you send that to me? May be just a simple finger error. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
