Re: [newbie] Boot manager
On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:09, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several > OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together > with a Drive Overlay. > > Teilhard. Grub ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows (Curios)
Just seen the April Fool stories on Linux Today and I see that some of them are dated/timed AFTER midday on 1st April, in my part of the world (Derby, U.K) tradition has it that the trick must be played before noon, anyone playing the trick after noon is traditionally "the Fool". does the tradition change according to which part of the world you are in ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 15:35, Anders Lind wrote: > Bubbai troll > - Original Message - > From: "Josenildo Marques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:32 PM > Subject: [newbie] back to Windows > > > I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I > > can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! > > And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, > > which I have never used. > > Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! > > > > -- > > Josenildo Marques > > ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ > > Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip > > usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 > > 11:27:49 up 15:09, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.25, 0.26 > > ** > > "O que não se pode falar, deve-se calar." Ludwing Wittgenstein But strangely, if you look at his website he has taken the trouble to include linux links and he has written about it at some length, although I'm afraid I don't read his language. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] way of deleting the history of bash commands
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 15:24, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Is there some way of deleting the history of bash commands? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul Yes, just look in /home and you will see file called .bash_history - note the . it's a hidden file, open it with the editor of your choice and well, edit it. If you are using Kde just left click on the file and it will open with Kwrite allowing you to edit it as you wish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] New Naming convention & release cycle
Just came across this (cross posted to expert) http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005032100826NWBZMD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 March 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: > Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. > > Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? > > TIA > -- > Charles DVD burners can be picky with the brands they will work with e.g. the Optorite in my PC will not work with Datawrite branded DVDs but my Lite-on DVD recorder attached to the T.V is quite happy with them, conversely Phillips branded ones work in the PC but not DVD Recorder. A lot of DVD writer manufacturers list compatable media on their websites, if yours does it's worth checking before buying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT humour
If this is old I apologise but it's new to me. http://nolte-net.de/en/article/unix_hotline.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD burning - this might be useful
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW
On Thursday 06 January 2005 07:18, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:37:31 +1100, John Layt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:55, julie wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:59 am, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > > > > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:44:37 +0530 > > > > > > > > Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ::Does anyone know a software that can open ".cdr" files created by > > > > ::CorelDRAW? I'm interested in printing them. Editing and all > > > > > > Curt responded > > > > > > > Maybe Scribus? > > > > > > Nope, I just tried with Scribus 1.2 (Aug 2004), it won't import the CDR > > > format let alone open it. You might try Inkspace since CorelDraw > > > produces vector images. > > > > > > Julie Owens, Portland, Oregon > > > > Inkscape: No to open or import > > Karbon14: No to open or import > > OpenOfiice.org Drawing: Not sure, but looks to be no to open or import > > Gimp: Nope, not there either... > > Google: Nope... > > > > Dunno about StarOffice, it has extra filters than OpenOffice, but the > > website doesn't make it clear what. > > > > Guess you'll need to find a Windows app to convert them to a Linux > > compatible format, sorry. Or you could track done a copy of the very > > very old and very very bad CorelDraw for Linux (quote: "It's only good > > for converting .cdr files to something usable"). > > > > John. > > > > - > > Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the > > Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp > > UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm > > Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp > > NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > Looks like I'm going to have to run CorelDRAW from Wine Does > anyone know where I might get CorelDRAW 9 for Linux? CorelDRAW 12 > requires WinXP, so I'm doubtful I'll be able to run it via Wine > > Thanks folks. Grabbing at another straw http://www.xnview.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VCR -> PC -> DVD
Since VCR appears to be rapidly being overtaken by DVD, I would like to transfer quite a few VHS tapes to DVD in anticipation of the day when my VCR dies and I need to replace it with a DVD recorder. I have plenty of HD available, AMD 2400xp & 512mb so the pc should be up to it, what I don't know is what I need to actually transfer the VHS tapes to the HD in the first place. Do I need a T.V. card or do I need a graphics card with video & audio in jacks ? Also, what software to use. BTW I am not pirating, these are "old classics" home recorded from T.V. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Integritycheck of the disks
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 06:59, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > Sometimes the power goes,and my PC is brutaly shut down. When rebooting I > press [esc] to get informative mode when strarting the system. Then I can > press [Y] to confirm the system shall start an intergritycheck of my hda* > partitions. > > Can I set this option to start automaticly whenever the PC is killed by > powerdown? > > Regards Vegard My experience has been that if you power up and leave it alone it will pause for a few seconds and fsck anyway -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Maybe this is old news
But came across this http://www.google.com/linux, gives a search box which only searches for matters which are Linux relevant . There are others for microsoft, bsd, mac, firefox -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Java and konqueror
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:37, Paul Kaplan wrote: > I installed jre-1.5.0 from sun onto mdk 10.1. I am able to get the java > plugin to work for firefox 1.0 and for opera 7.54, but not for konqueror. > I tried having konqueror look for the java plugin > in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0/plugins/ > /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/ and /usr/java/jre1.5.0/lib/i586 (the > way opera handles java), but no luck. > > Any suggestions? > TIA > Paul Being a dinosaur I'm still on 9.1 (really just not had time to migrate everything yet) but in Konqueror 3.1.0 using the same Sun jre 1.5 my path to java is /usr/java/jre1.5.0/bin/java - this seems to work for me -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 05:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: > Hi everyone > > >>On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: > >> > >> > >>I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 > >>and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks > >>at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware > >>compatibility on the Mandrake site. > > I have been using a Liteon DVD-RW/CDRW on Mandrakes 10.0, 10.1beta2 and > 10.1 Community with no problems whatsover. I would recommend these > drives to anyone. > > cheers > Duncan I don't know about other burners but although my Optorite works properly it is very picky about which brand of media I use, might be worth you making up a shortlist and then looking at the manufacturers website to see if they recommend particular brands [anyone want a pack of 10 Datawrite DVD+RW coasters :-)] -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD-RW Problem
On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 23:09, BJ Tracy wrote: > Hi All, > > Well I have been trying to copy a couple of Cmas CD's to play in my > vehicle and don't seem to be having any luck(running MDK 10.0). > > Every time it gets 91% done and gives the following: > unknow error 254 listed below is the copy of the failure. > > Track 10: 30 of 37 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 98%] 4.0x. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 2A 00 00 05 B7 6E 00 00 1B 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 D2 > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) actual retry count 0 > resid: 63504 > cmd finished after 3.601s timeout 200s > /usr/bin/cdrecord: A write error occured. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. > write track data: error after 32196528 bytes > Writing time: 623.826s > Average write speed 4.4x. > Min drive buffer fill was 94% > Fixating... > Fixating time:0.003s > /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 6385 puts and 6322 gets. > /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 6311 times full, min fill > was 96%. > > I'm a real newbie here so PLEASE don't reply as you would to one of your > Linux colleagues. > > Thanks for all your help. > > B.J. Tracy > > > > Registered Linux User 364157 > http://counter.li.org Can't offer anything specific, I haven't made the move up from 9.1 yet but You don't say how you are trying to burn them - Command line, X-CDRoast, K3b ? but a brief browse of the mailing list archives - find them at - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie&r=1&w=2 suggests that K3b should work for your purpose -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB keys/Kde in 10.1 - Workaround
Found this on the forums and it does work, you get an error message popup when you start/restart kde but it can be ignored and closed. Go to usr/share/services/kded/ and edit the last line of mountwatcher.desktop from X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=true to X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=false The author, hzarrouk, says this tip has already been posted on Mandrakeclub but I missed it, so thanks to hzarrouk and the original author -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official
On Tuesday 02 Nov 2004 09:57, Richard Gelling wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:14 +, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > > Hi > > > > 4 CD set from the club installed and working without incident. > > > > Impressed so far. > > > > :-) > > > > Plain text document attachment (message.footer) > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > > Just out of curiosity have you tried a USB pen or similar? It caused all > sorts of problems on my install. Works fine under community though which > I reinstalled. Don't know what changed between the two. > > Richard G. I've also had problems with 2 USB pens, a PNY Attache and a Disgo, same problem with both. Hotplug is running, neither are detected, run harddrake from mcc and close it when it detects them, now they are mounted but Konqueror won't open. Appears that Kded is running in circles so kill Kded and Konqueror opens, pens are mounted and useable, restart kded less than ideal :-) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 20:27, frankieh wrote: > Ian wrote: > > On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: > >>Okay bug stuff up... > >> > >>What does a > >>"lilo time stamp" error mean? > >> > >>i can't boot now. > > > > Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing "rescue" ? > > This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. > > I've just burnt an ISO of G4L (Ghost for Linux) > > Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just > select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will > clone one onto the other.. > > seems pretty cool.. it has a heap of partition tools and stuff on it as > well. (including partimage) > > rgds > > Franki Franki, Can I pre-empt Anne here, as "How do I clone a disk" is asked so often here (and elsewhere for that matter), when you are familiar with it could you put something on the Wiki please ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Creating an installation DVD
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 16:59, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 12 October 2004 07:53, Poogle wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 12:41, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 12:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > > > Thanks for trying Anne but I can't see it there > > > > > > My mistake - it was Bryan that wrote up how to do it (sorry Bryan). > > > See http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MakingOwnDVD > > > > > > Anne > > > > Thanks again Anne, I'm not sure that it's quite what I was looking for > > though, I'll study it and see if I can use it to create a DVD from the 3 > > iso's. > > You are correct, in that what I provided will work for a local repository > of the files, however, the script that I mentioned in my reply will create > the local repository on the fly, from the 3 ISO images and then build the > installation DVD from that. Pretty much the same thing that my write-up > does, only with the added step of mounting the ISO's in loopback and > copying the files. > > I can post a modified version of the mkdvdiso.sh script that works for me, > you would need to create the temporary directories for the file copies > yourself or change my script to match your own temporary directories, or > you can download the mkdvdiso.sh script and alter it yourself to work for > Mandrake. Either will build a bootable installation DVD from the ISO > images. > > Also, I will try to go in and update the twiki entry for building from > ISO's along with putting my copy of that script there as well if you want > to check it again later. Thanks Bryan, I'll keep checking the twiki -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Creating an installation DVD
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 12:41, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 12:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > Thanks for trying Anne but I can't see it there > > My mistake - it was Bryan that wrote up how to do it (sorry Bryan). See > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MakingOwnDVD > > Anne Thanks again Anne, I'm not sure that it's quite what I was looking for though, I'll study it and see if I can use it to create a DVD from the 3 iso's. John -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Creating an installation DVD
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 11:03, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 10:45, Poogle wrote: > > I'm downloading 10.1 Community iso's and would normally create > > installation CDs, but I'm sure I've read that it's possible to create 1 > > installation DVD, Google has not been my friend here (probably me rather > > than Google) so could someone point me in the right direction please ? > > IIRC, Derek has a how-to on his site. Try > http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/ > > Anne Thanks for trying Anne but I can't see it there John -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Creating an installation DVD
I'm downloading 10.1 Community iso's and would normally create installation CDs, but I'm sure I've read that it's possible to create 1 installation DVD, Google has not been my friend here (probably me rather than Google) so could someone point me in the right direction please ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 20:31, Margot wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>OK then I bow to experience. > >>Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC > >>still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without > >>those answers it don't work. Of course that is trying to set up a > >> network. > >> > >>I just don't find it clear whether setting up a router/modem plus > >>ethernet can be done with nothing more than getting the devices > >>recognised by the system, or that you also have to have the beginning of > >>a network as well. > > > > Most router/modems work based upon dhcp, which means that they > > automatically assign an IP address, netmask, broadcast, gateway, (some > > even do the domain name) to the cards that are plugged into their > > systems. So, simply letting the MCC wizard detect the card and then > > using the default selections (they default to DHCP IIRC) should result in > > a working network configuration. That is pretty much why I suggested the > > router/modem route. Otherwise, you have to configure the USB device, but > > then you are also going to have to configure the Network connection with > > ID/password, etc to get the DSL connection running. And I don't know of > > any standalone router device so, if you want to share the network > > connection, you have to set that up on the machine too. > > > > Again, to each his own, but I can't imagine any situation where the USB > > one would be "easier" than ethernet. > > We seem to be drifting a bit here... > > As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't > involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME > - the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that > installing anything that involves taking the case off the box is > beyond my capabilities. > > As I understand it, an ethernet card would be installed inside the > box - which means that I'd have to pay not only for the card but for > the installation of it, and of course there's the inconvenience of > having to take the box to the shop etc...plus the cost of the router > which appears to be considerably more expensive than the USB modem. > > Right now, I can afford the broadband service plus the USB modem. > I'd have to save up for another 2-3 months to go for the other > option. I'd appreciate your opinion on this - will the ease of use > of the ethernet option be worth the wait and the extra expense? > > Thanks > Margot Margot, Following all the recomendations that you do not go the USB route, just a suggestion here, if there is no LUG near you, how about a call for a volunteer to install an ethernet card for you, if you like the idea just ask and say which city/town you are in - you never know one of us might live near you. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote: > I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and > reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they > assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech > support didn't scream in horror when I asked!). > > They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will > definitely work with Mandrake 10 (and with Win 98SE, as I'm now dual > booting)? Preferably an external one, as I'm not confident with > screwdrivers! Or, are there any I should definitely avoid? > > Margot Margot, This might be further option to confuse you :-) I know nothing about their ethics or service level but http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/broadbandaccess/ offer various options at 1Mb download speed (if your exchange does not support 1Mb you wil get the 512k service). They have options of 2Gb monthly d/l limit for £17.99, 6Gb for £22.99 and 30Gb for £27.99 they don't mention whether VAT is included. (if your exchange does not support 1Mb you wil get the 512k service) They do offer a free modem & connection. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Saturday 28 Aug 2004 13:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > > That is one good reason there are others. Have you considered > > Win4linux or Crossover Office? > > > > Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other > applications then the most common, such as Office. "Derive" is a > very special beast. > > Never mind Hoyt, Lyvim, John and all you nice people. My daughters > Windows box stays off the net, she uses Linux for networking, > there's peace in my home, in my mind and - hopefully on this fine > list too. > > Have a good week-end, all. > > Kaj Haulrich. Out of curiosity some time ago I looked at Derive. I got version 5 running using Crossover Office. I don't recall how well it ran as having got it to run my curiosity moved on to other things. You can d/l a trial version of Crossover Office and give it a go -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] W32.Netsky -> Linux really better protected than windows? [OT]
On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 23:45, Vincent Voois wrote: > Hmmz, i had a collegue with MCSE certificate that considered servers on a > hardware technical base were the same as desktop pc's. The guy was fired > after he excuted the system erase utility on a Compaq system, taken by the > hand by third level helpdesk engineering remotely instructed through phone. > The guy was blindly executing key-sequences he got on command and made one > terrible mistake in the main smartstart environment by executing system > erase utility instead of array configuration utility. I mean, why don't > people really READ and OBSERVE what they are doing. > > I don't have MSCE, MCA/MCP and i don't intend to qualify myself for such > papers either, though i read and learn the material and on each job i learn > something new if i see examples being processed by system admins that do > the real job. > I recently bought a box from a small local supplier on behalf of a company I "consult" for, I needed it upgrading from the original spec. Their system builder was unavailable so they asked if I'd do it myself in their workshop, I asked if it would affect the warranty ? They asked if I had an MSCE and when I replied "No" they said "that's alright then the warranty will not be affected" :-)) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Friday 20 Aug 2004 16:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 20 August 2004 07:54 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Friday 20 August 2004 07:38 am, PM wrote: > > > You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ > > > > > > Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15)& they will give > > > you a serial number to run at full speed. > > > > > > Basically, Conexant won't release the information & Linuxant have > > > bought a license from them to sell drivers. > > > > If you are going to spend $15 for the Conexant driver anyway, you would > > be much smarter to do a quick search at http://pricewatch.com for > > "external 56k modem" and buy one of the external cendyne serial modems on > > sale for about $18 or even less, including shipping. Same price, better > > modem, no driver issues and they work seamlessly under Linux. > > Bryan: > That's excellent advice for those of us who only use desktop machines, but > what is a laptop user supposed to do? Schlepping around an external modem > and its associated wires and power wart would be a real pain. > -- cmg For the laptop- a bit more than $15 ($29 inc shipping at pricewatch) - Zonet 56KB V.92 Fax Modem - Intel Chipset/Hardware -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] New Printer = bios error
Saw an HP PSC2175 printer/copier/scanner at a greatly reduced price, I expected a bit of a challenge getting it working in 9.1, but no, it was a no brainer to get printing and scanning working, the cardreader slots work as well- I can even read smartmedia from it. However if the printer is already on (nothing in the card slots BTW) and I try to boot the computer I get a "post" error where the boot process hangs at memory testing. I suspect there is something in my bios (Phoenix Award) that I need to change but I can't see it, also if I power up the printer while I am in bios setup the keyboard locks. I can live with it but if anybody's got any ideas I'd be please to hear them. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] We can close this list - we're all experts now :-))
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Re: [newbie] Perl module
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 17:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > Poogle wrote: > > ./check-updates.pl > > Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'. > > Please install this module and try re-running this script. > > (Hint: man CPAN) > > > > Fatal error. Exiting... > > > > I can't take the Hint as I can't find man CPAN and I can't find the > > appropriate RPM which includes the above mentioned module. > > Google would be my friend here but unfortunately the site is currently > > down :-( > > Try installing the perl-libwww-perl package (it's part of the standard > MDK installation). > > raffaele Yes, that was the one, thanks -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Perl module
Just updated to the latest f-prot and the old check-updates.sh script has been replaced by one called check-updates.pl. Upon issuing as root ./check-updates.pl I get the following error ./check-updates.pl Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'. Please install this module and try re-running this script. (Hint: man CPAN) Fatal error. Exiting... I can't take the Hint as I can't find man CPAN and I can't find the appropriate RPM which includes the above mentioned module. Google would be my friend here but unfortunately the site is currently down :-( -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful
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Re: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.
On Saturday 24 Jul 2004 00:24, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > anybody find the mp3 file? > > I gotta get that one! Wonder how long before someone starts whining > about it! > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:33:42 -0400 > > Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I think that Linspire is just trying to open some doors. > > > > Bill > > > > On Friday 23 July 2004 06:28 pm, Jeff Reid wrote: > > > I LOVE IT!! :-) > > > > > > Thanks for the laugh! > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Kaj Haulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:10 PM > > > Subject: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy. > > > > > > > > > Friends, although it is Linspire, it´s still Linux : > > > > > > http://www.linspire.com/RunLinspireFlash.php > > > > > > Turn your sound volume up and have a good laugh. > > > > > > Kaj Haulrich. And another - http://info.linspire.com/LindowsRock/ -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitoring quantity of internet usage
On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 12:29, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 10:44 am, Margot wrote: > > I'm considering upgrading to a broadband service sometime later in > > the year. > > > > Many of the packages available seem to be limited by *size* - eg > > Wanadoo has a package for 17.99 a month with a limit of 2GB per > > month and a package of 15GB per month for 27.99. > > Not all of them do. OTOH, the cheap ones probably do moreso. > > I strongly suggest you check out ADSLGuide: > > http://adslguide.org/ > > They have a very good ISP comparison feature. > > > Before deciding > > which package to go for, I need to know how much I'm using now - and > > then add a bit for safety! I don't really want to download or upload > > much more than I do already, but I just want to do it faster! > > An always on, always fast connection has ways of subverting your intent > > :-) > : > > Presumably somewhere in Mandrake (10CE currently) there's some sort > > of log which will tell me how much I upload/download daily, so I can > > check it over the course of a couple of months. > > What am I looking for, and where am I likely to find it? > > For a quick and dirty solution you could just use "ifconfig" (as root). > Since I don't know how your network is built, I can't say if the stats > it gives are the ones you want. > > You could check out ntop. That does what you want, and a hell of a lot > more. You might find installing and using it a challenge; there's no RPM > that I could find, the source is only available in CVS, there are > several dependencies and no real tutorial. Having said that I had no > real trouble getting it up and running. > > http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html I was looking for the same thing when I saw Margot's post, I've found RPMs at http://rpm.pbone.net - downloading now and will be trying it shortly -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript
On Saturday 10 Jul 2004 11:55, Martin Foster wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin Foster wrote: > >> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:26:21 +0100, Margot > >> > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Martin Foster wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK > > ATM1L1 > > OK > > ATDT147008089916080 > > Why are you using "1470" in front of your ISP's phone number? > > Judging by your email address, your ISP is FreeServe. When I had an > account with them, it was unnecessary to use "1470". > >>> > >>> Freeserve is now Wanadoo - or, judging by their service, Wanadon't! > >>> I use the same number for dialup, and queried this with them - they > >>> said the 1470 is an essential part of their dialup number, or I'd > >>> get charged for the call by BT! > >> > >> H, here's the result of a search for "1470" on BeeTee's Web site: > >> > >> "A customer with Permanent Number Withhold on their line can release > >> their number on a per call basis by dialling 1470 before dialling the > >> number of the person they would like to call. This means that the > >> person they are calling will be able to see the caller's number on > >> Caller Display or be told it through the free 1471 service." > > > > Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, > > > > - > >-- > > > > Dear John, > > > > Thank you for your email. > > > > The 1470 is only needed if your caller identity is witheld - it usually > > will not cause any problem whether the number is witheld or not. > > > > If you have any further queries then please do not hesitate to get in > > contact with us again. > > > > Kind Regards > > > > Wanadoo Technical Support > > REF:WOOTS > > > > > > Original Message Follows: > > > > I'm currently using, > > 147008089916080 > > 147008089916164 > > > > But is the 1470 strictly necessary, > > - > > > > And so I'm flabbergasted. > > Never would of thought it. > > But there it is. > > > > > > and so you think I should remove 1470 then ? > > I don't see any harm in removing it. > > However, I don't think that's what causing the problems. > Have you had a look at my other suggestions yet? Shot in the dark here as it's a long time since I was on dial up but I needed to use 1470 with BT Internet . I needed to put 2 commas between 1470 and the rest of number so it dialled 1470,,0845 the ,, creates a pause (IIRC each comma is 1 second) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT Typing program for linux
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 07:19, Greg wrote: > Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Monday 05 Jul 2004 07:22, Greg wrote: > >> Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >On Sunday 04 July 2004 01:25, PM wrote: > >> >> On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 09:08, Greg wrote: > >> >> > Hi evryone i hope evryone is having a nice weekendIs there > >> > > >> >typing program like mavis beacon teaches typing for linux or some thing > >> >like it > >> > > >> >> > I have not done any searches on it yet Just wondered if any one > >> > > >> >could recommend one they like Thanks Greg > >> > > >> >> probably not as flashy as M. beacon, but try gtypist. > >> > > >> >I am running 10.0 and have ktouch installed. It appears to be a > >> >beggining typing program. > >> > > >> >-- > >> >Regards; > >> >Hoyt > >> > >> That was the only one i looked at but could not find a download link > >> for it greg > > > >I believe that from 9.1 ktouch is included as part of kdeedu, also > > gtypist is just called typist (but to launch it from the cl it is still > > called gtypist)- kdeedu is included in 9.2 PowerPack and is included in > > 10.0 club. > > > >They are both on the club downloads page - or for non-members they are on > >http://rpm.pbone.net > > > >ktouch is indeed "flashier" than typist/gtypist > >-- > >http://www.poogle.co.uk > > i will just wait then i am still running 9.0 ( no i am not kidding) i do > plan to upgrade real soon Greg If you don't want to wait, I don't have my 9.0 final cd's to hand but kdeedu was included on my 9.0 beta3 cd's, if it's not on your cd's you can still get it from rpm.pbone.net - I just downloaded 3.0.3-7 to make sure, it's about 7mb. There are 2 versions for 9.0, 1 is an updated version http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/426190/com/kdeedu-3.0.3-7mdk.i586.rpm.html or for the update http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1274307/com/kdeedu-3.0.5a-1.1mdk.i586.rpm.html each link takes you to a list of mirrors - take your pick. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror history
On Wednesday 30 Jun 2004 17:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 11:05, David Robertson wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 18:26, Poogle wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 Jun 2004 14:05, Poogle wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 16:33, David Robertson wrote: > > > > > I may be missing something here, but one of the things that > > irritates > > > > > > me with Konqueror as a web browser is the fact that it doesn't > > seem to > > > > > > maintain a drop-down list of recently visited sites from the > > address > > > > > > bar, nor can I find a history list. > > > > > > > > > > Am I just being stupid and missing these somehow, or do I need > > to tweak > > > > > > the configuration in some way? > > > > > > > > > > By the way, I'm using 10 Official, KDE 3.2. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > In Konqueror click on Help -> Konqueror Handbook andgo to chapter > > 7, it > > > > > explains how to use history in the Navigation Panel. > > > > As for the drop down list, it does maintain a list but it does not > > > > display them - I don't know why, if you right click in the > > location field > > > > > and select auto completion it will auto complete from URLs you > > have > > > > > visited, not ideal but the best I can suggest. > > > > > > Following up my own post, to resolve the issue of the blank drop > > down list > > > > try right clicking within the white location area, then click on > > text > > > > completion and change it none, then change it back to dropdown list > > (or > > > > whatever your preference) - there must be a better way but this > > seems to > > > > work. > > > > Yes, it does! > > Thanks for that. > > Now if someone can stop those pop-up adds it might be useful as a web > browser. It must be at lease as good as mozilla. Doesn't this do that ? Settings, Configure the behaviour of Java &* JavaScript, JavaScript Web Popups Policy, Deny http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror history
On Wednesday 30 Jun 2004 14:05, Poogle wrote: > On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 16:33, David Robertson wrote: > > I may be missing something here, but one of the things that irritates me > > with Konqueror as a web browser is the fact that it doesn't seem to > > maintain a drop-down list of recently visited sites from the address bar, > > nor can I find a history list. > > > > Am I just being stupid and missing these somehow, or do I need to tweak > > the configuration in some way? > > > > By the way, I'm using 10 Official, KDE 3.2. > > > > Thanks > > > > David > > In Konqueror click on Help -> Konqueror Handbook andgo to chapter 7, it > explains how to use history in the Navigation Panel. > As for the drop down list, it does maintain a list but it does not display > them - I don't know why, if you right click in the location field and > select auto completion it will auto complete from URLs you have visited, > not ideal but the best I can suggest. Following up my own post, to resolve the issue of the blank drop down list try right clicking within the white location area, then click on text completion and change it none, then change it back to dropdown list (or whatever your preference) - there must be a better way but this seems to work. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror history
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 16:33, David Robertson wrote: > I may be missing something here, but one of the things that irritates me > with Konqueror as a web browser is the fact that it doesn't seem to > maintain a drop-down list of recently visited sites from the address bar, > nor can I find a history list. > > Am I just being stupid and missing these somehow, or do I need to tweak the > configuration in some way? > > By the way, I'm using 10 Official, KDE 3.2. > > Thanks > > David In Konqueror click on Help -> Konqueror Handbook andgo to chapter 7, it explains how to use history in the Navigation Panel. As for the drop down list, it does maintain a list but it does not display them - I don't know why, if you right click in the location field and select auto completion it will auto complete from URLs you have visited, not ideal but the best I can suggest. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z33
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 06:34, Marc Lijour wrote: > Hi > > Any of you had some luck with the Lexmark Z33. > I tried to install it with the driver provided to the Lexmark site. > 1) I disabled CUPS and installed LPRng > 2) I run the driver from lexmark > > Problem: it does not print when it says it should > The jobs show on the queue, but /dev/usb/lp0 is not recognized. > (It was picked up by the driver but then something happened.. or not > happened) > > Help appreciated. It's been a while so this is from memory and the odd scribbled note. I had success with a *Z25* USB , this is what I needed to do so it may help you with the Z33 or it may be of no relevance whatsoever, note that the package references are for the Z25 *NOT* the Z33 Firstly I did not use printerdrake to set it up, it just didn't work. I tried this route with no success so I went back into printerdrake and uninstalled whatever it/I had set up. For the Z25 I needed to have Enscript and Ghostscript installed I also need the TCL/Tk libraries installed, so it was a matter of just URPMI tcl and URPMI tk then, tar -xzvf CJLZ35LE-1.0-1.TAR.GZ and then as root I ran the resulting script - something like sh CJLZ35LE-1.0-1.TAR. sh the Lexmark installer script then ran, it gave 1 error message about something not being found and asked if I wanted to continue, I said yes, and then followed all of the other instructions. If it is the same as the z25 this might help, if only to give you inspiration. I succesfully printed from Kmail, Konqueror and OpenOffice. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Emergency Reboot tricks
On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 20:06, Edgars Smits wrote: > Someone posted the following info earlier today (of course I already > deleted it) to the effect that if the system freezes the correct > procedure is to use: > ALT+SysReq+r,s,e,i,u,b (I'm assuming not all of them at once) > > Where is this documented? If it's not documented what are the various > options for - r/reboot etc? > > Thanks > > ED http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Starter.html/troubleshooting-system-freeze.html or http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/92/en/Starter.html/troubleshooting-system-freeze.html -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Purchase enquiry
On Sunday 20 Jun 2004 13:40, Terence Golightly wrote: > Poggle, > > What I mean is that not that it might be rebadged, but if I'm correct > there are only a limited number of quality handtool manufacturers in the > world and Sears Craftsman tools are made for them by another to theirs > specs (when has Sears & Roebuck made anything themselves?) that Optorite > and other 'names' contracts their manufacture to another but puts their > name on it. I don't think this is quite rebadging, but? Anybody else > have a comment? > > Terry > > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 05:38, Poogle wrote: > > On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 22:50, Terence Golightly wrote: > > > List, > > > > > > http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=27-182-024&de > > >pa=1 > > > > > > After reading the posts concerning cooling, I started looking around a > > > fans and said well I could use a CD/DVD player and I was just wondering > > > about the above unit. Anybody heard of them? How could I find out who > > > makes that drive? Any additional comments welcome. > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > Terry > > > > > > Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa > > > Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel > > > 2.6.3-9mdk-i686-up-4GB > > > 17:48:14 up 4:07, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.19, 0.18 > > > > > > Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac > > > (and nobody cares about it). -- Bill Joy 6/21/85 > > > > AFAIK Optorite make it, I don't think it is a re-badged product. I have > > a previous model, the OPTORITE DVD RW DD201, have had no problems > > with it. > > Poggle, > > What I mean is that not that it might be rebadged, but if I'm correct > there are only a limited (3) number of quality automotive handtool > manufacturers in the world and Sears Craftsman tools are made for them > by another to theirs specs (when has Sears & Roebuck made anything > themselves?) that Optorite and other 'names' contracts their manufacture > to another but puts their name on it. I don't think this is quite > rebadging, but? Anybody else have a comment? > > Terry > > > > > > Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa > Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel > 2.6.3-9mdk-i686-up-4GB > 08:28:08 up 18:47, 1 user, load average: 2.21, 2.20, 2.08 > > The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody > appreciates how difficult it was. O.K I see what you mean, but by re-badged I meant sub-contracted to another manufacturer and then badged Optorite. Googling on Optorite I found the 1st 4 hits indicate that they are a manufacturer. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Purchase enquiry
On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 22:50, Terence Golightly wrote: > List, > > http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=27-182-024&depa=1 > > After reading the posts concerning cooling, I started looking around a > fans and said well I could use a CD/DVD player and I was just wondering > about the above unit. Anybody heard of them? How could I find out who > makes that drive? Any additional comments welcome. > > TIA, > > Terry > > Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa > Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel > 2.6.3-9mdk-i686-up-4GB > 17:48:14 up 4:07, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.19, 0.18 > > Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac > (and nobody cares about it). -- Bill Joy 6/21/85 AFAIK Optorite make it, I don't think it is a re-badged product. I have a previous model, the OPTORITE DVD RW DD201, have had no problems with it. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 DVD w/ Linux Magazine
On Saturday 17 Apr 2004 17:23, Rory wrote: > There's an MDK 10 DVD with Linux Mag for May. > > Does anyone know which version of MDK? I'm assuming it's Official, of > course. But, does anyone know if it would be the MDK Powerpack or MDK > Powerpack+, etc? > > http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/42 > > > ~Rory From the DVD Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community-download-i586 20040305 18:50 -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Anyone else get this ?
Subject is [newbie] is that your wife? The image.zip attachment (removed) is identified by f-prot as W32/Netsky and is followed by the usual mandrake message footer. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from smtp.mandrake.com ([212.85.147.176]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:12:53 +0100 Received: from smtp.mandrax.org (smtp.mandrax.org [212.85.147.169]) by smtp.mandrake.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4B883C02; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:02:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 65FFC56A08; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 04:31:45 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from linux-mandrake.com (203-213-58-175-syd-ts6-2600.tpgi.com.au [203.213.58.175]) by smtp1.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B0E173466 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 04:21:00 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:59:57 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_NextPart_000_0002_7B8F.61C8" X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: newbie@ X-Sequence: 1301 Precedence: list X-Validation-BY: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] is that your wife? Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-KMail-Identity: 339861157 Status: R X-Status: N X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0002_7B8F.61C8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit schoolfriend? --=_NextPart_000_0002_7B8F.61C8 Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed; name="image.zip" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="image.zip" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 23:58, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:21 pm, Poogle wrote: > > Thanks, but this was bittorrent, md5sums on the ISO's said O.K, > > I forgot to add in my original post that I had tried booting > > from CD 2 and then changing to CD 1 when asked, that gave the > > same result > > Your iso's are only OK, _IF_ you check them before and _AFTER_ > burning. Even then, before I mail sets to friends I make sure > CD1 boots an proceeds. > > md5sum /dev/hd?... and then compare to the appropriate > md5sum in the Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-md5sums.asc > > If they don't exactly match, first place to look is USER > choices (how did you burn?)... hardware (system, burner, media > used). > >Is this with an nForce chipset based system? That's also a poor > USER hardware choice that has many problems. That many problems > such as this are often reported against. See cooker archive. Thanks Tom, I'm learning all the time, Denis got to it with the burnfree issue, however I was unaware that I could md5sum AFTER burning, that tip will no doubt help in the future. BTW it's not nForce, it's VIA KT266. John -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 19:36, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Poogle > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish) All snipped Dennis, Thanks, that did it. Strange though I've always accepted cdrecord's defaults and never had problems before, in fact I hadn't even noticed that burnfree was off. John -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)
I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent worked for me), md5sums checked o.k and then burnt them from the command line using cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject /home/(path snipped)/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Powerpack-CD1.i586.iso CD1 boots to "press enter to install etc" then gives a message "could not uncompress second stage ramdisk, may be a hardware error or kernel bug" After pause I get to the select keyboard, then accept licence, then partion, then to select packages to install now the error message "no kernel available" followed by a string of messages about /usr/bin/per;-install/pkgs.pm.185 and so on. At this point I can do nothing except power off. The problem appears to be caused when I burn the CDs, tried 4 times with different manufacturers (700mb) media, 2 CD-R & 2 CD-RW and get the output below. (I have d/l CD1 iso again and get the same result) output from cdrecord - BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 615 of 693 MB written (fifo 1%) [buf 21%] 1.2x.cdrecord: Input/ output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 04 CE 31 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1.853s timeout 40s write track data: error after 644974592 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 1065.784s Average write speed 4.4x. Min drive buffer fill was 21% Fixating... Fixating time: 91.653s cdrecord: fifo had 10223 puts and 10160 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 5 times empty and 6943 times full, min fill was 0%. I see it says 615 of 693mb written but when I (in konqueror) go to /mnt, right click on cdrom and select properties it calculates it as 690.2mb -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cpuinfo
On Monday 23 Feb 2004 15:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday 23 February 2004 06:44 am, Poogle wrote: > > Does cpuinfo show the actual cpu MHz that the cpu is running > > at or does it only show what it is rated at ? > > What it's actually running at. My 3000+ is rated at 13x166, > 2166Mhz. I run it at 13x173, 2250 MhzEG, > > model name : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3000+ > stepping: 0 > cpu MHz : 2250.146 > Thanks to all for the explanations, I now understand the subject a lot better. As with most things the biggest problem is knowing whether there is a problem. In this case as I didn't know whether cpuinfo reported an actual value or the processor's specification I didn't know whether I had a problem. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Move 9.2 and the key drive
On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 22:48, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:54 am, Bill Lawrence wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Apparently Mandrake Move is quite picky about what USB drive one uses. > > I have a San Disk Cruzer 128 MB and a Lexar Media device that accepts SD > > memory cards. Move doesn't seem to automatically see either of them. > > So, I have a twofold question: > > > > Is there any non-automatic way to get Move to store its configuration > > files on either device, and then on command load them from there? > > > > What USB drives does it like? > > > >> Bill Lawrence > > Bill, the best I can determine it likes only usb 1.1 compatible devices. I > have a usb 2.0 device that is now locked and will not read at all. It > worked the first time and then no more. I took it back to where I bought it > and got another and bang, same thing.. It sits in a drawer now waiting for > a magic wand. I have a PNY Attache 256mb USB 2.0 and a Disgo 128mb USB 1.1, both work -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sort of OT but nice to see
My local PC World (Derby, U.K.) has both Discovery & Powerpack on the shelves -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD -RW
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 19:02, Ron Stodden wrote: > Poogle wrote: > > Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW & DVD+RW > > compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with > > cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. > > Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. > > Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K. > > Now here's the problem - Packard Bell DVD-RW's cause a complete lock up, > > Caps lock & Scroll lock flash and only reboot clears it. > > The same DVD-RWs work in Win98 with the supplied software. > > I read that some drives/media/Linux DVD writing software combinations > > don't play nicely together so I'm wondering if it is the DVDs but before > > I buy any more, has anybody got DVD-RWs to work ? > > DVD+RW is the way to go, since it supports random r/w, which means you > can place a file system on a DVD+RW blank and use it as a 4.4GB > demountable medium with the normal file drag & drop, delete, etc. > Optical technology has finally arrived! > > Firstly, alter your /etc/fstab for the DVD writer to provide options rw > and noatime. These work in kernel 2.4, but curiously didn't make it > into 2.6. Secondly, make a file system on it using one of the mk???fs > utilities. I prefer a UDF file system, but you will have to compile > your own mkudffs. UDF is the file system used for DVD movies. > > Also do a google search on 'growisofs' and read all about DVD+RW. > Download the tools.growisofs is an extremely useful and simple DVD > utility and replaces cdrecord, etc for DVDs. Thanks Ron, I'll give it a go when I get a little more time -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD -RW
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 18:24, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:31 am, Poogle wrote: > > Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW & DVD+RW > > compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with > > cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. > > Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. > > Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K. > > Now here's the problem - Packard Bell DVD-RW's cause a complete lock up, > > Caps lock & Scroll lock flash and only reboot clears it. > > The same DVD-RWs work in Win98 with the supplied software. > > I read that some drives/media/Linux DVD writing software combinations > > don't play nicely together so I'm wondering if it is the DVDs but before > > I buy any more, has anybody got DVD-RWs to work ? > > Yes, using a pioneer DVD+/-RW I have written to DVD-RW , verbatim 2X speed > media. Thanks, according to one of the readme's (I forget which I've read so many) the Optorite does work so I will give verbatim a go. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD -RW
Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW & DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K. Now here's the problem - Packard Bell DVD-RW's cause a complete lock up, Caps lock & Scroll lock flash and only reboot clears it. The same DVD-RWs work in Win98 with the supplied software. I read that some drives/media/Linux DVD writing software combinations don't play nicely together so I'm wondering if it is the DVDs but before I buy any more, has anybody got DVD-RWs to work ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandake Move to the rescue
Prepare to snigger... My existing installation was fairly full so I created a new partition for the purpose of creating back ups for burning to dvd. Created on an unused part of /hda using diskdrake, said yes to write fstab and then shutdown and left the house.(I don't leave electrical equipment on when I'm out) Later tried to boot and failed miserably due to fstab trying to mount the new partition - which I'd forgotten to formatooops! Solution, boot Mandrake Move, copy fstab from /hda to floppy,go to /floppy/fstab delete the new line which called the unformatted partition and save. Re-boot to failsafe, wait for error then create a temp mountpoint for floppy and mv /floppy/fstab /etc/fstab, reboot, success. There was probably a better way to do it (I'm sure you will all rush to keyboards to tell me) but my excuse is that I did this after a nightshift and a total of only 8 hours sleep in 48 hours. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE animated cursor
On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 14:47, Doug wrote: > Hi all > > I was wondering, is there a way to get KDE to use animated cursors? I have > looked a bit, but have not found any docs that might explain a way to use > them, or for that matter any ani cursors out there on KDE's site. > > The one thing I do like about Winblow$ is the ability to easily use > animated cursors. I do have a collection of them and was wondering if it > was possible to use them in KDE. > > I would appreciate any info, or pointing me in the direction of some docs. > > I am currently using KDE 3.1 on MDK 9.1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. > > Thanks for any help. You could go to http://www.rpmfind.net and download cursor_themes it has a number of different cursors, but the only animated one is Tux -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 92 iso download problem
On Monday 19 Jan 2004 17:09, Aron Smith wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:59:25 -0800 > > "Michael.Adolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I downloaded cd 1,2,3 iso for 92. The problem is cds 2 and 3 > > are greater than 650 meg. Are there CDs that hold more and > > still writable by the same burner? > > Use CDRs they go to 700 MB > CD/RWs top out at 650 > > > Mike My TDK RW's say 700MB, I've never tried filling them to the max are you saying I would only get 650 on them ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?
On Saturday 17 Jan 2004 03:50, Joe wrote: > I am giving up on getting my friends integrated intel NIC working on his > VAIO under mandrake. He is willing to shell out cash for a network card > that works well with 9.2. A local mom and pop shop here in Edmonton > sells an Asus wl-100 pcmcia nic for $40 canadian. It sounds like a > reasonable deal but, anyone know if it's supported? Anyone want to > suggest other well supported cards (non-wireless only please). TIA. Not tried yet in 9.2 but I have a Zonet (P/N 98-10023-03) which works in 9.1 -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 14:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? > > Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any > drive, until I ran into some problems with my western digital drives on my > raid controller on my SOYO MB. Their recommendation is to use CS for all > Western Digital Hard drives on my motherboard. Turns out, it actually does > work better too. Go figure. I recently came across this too, my local retailer said "always use CS with 80 pin IDE cable", I noted until and disregarded it as I don't have any 80 pins. This link http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_CS.htm seems to support the argument though -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 09:23, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2003 03:17, John P. Santucci wrote: > > I get the Mandrake boot up screen. It loads up till the last > > section of the loading screen and then the black screen and I hear > > the KDE music. This is a 3 disk package I received from Linux > > Format magazine. Not the download version. > > That is the final rc > > Anne Anne, Not quite correct, >From LXF magazine " Note that the screenshots are from an install of Mandrake 9.2 RC2, the final release candidate. This is because the pages were written before Mandrake was able to send us the final 9.2 release for the discs." -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware Advice Please
My partner needs a cheap PC at work, a local supplier offers a base unit as below for £175 +vat - it appears just what they need, the intention is to install 9.1. The PC will be used mainly for sending/receiving e mail and occasional web browsing, I intend that they use OO for word processing. The spec is as below, can anybody alert me to any issues which could cause problems (I don't believe the onboard modem will work but that's no problem as it can be disabled in favour of their existing external modem). I only have a couple of days to decide... AND get it running - no pressure there then :-) The Spec MB is ECS K7SOM+ Sis 640/750 AMD2000 Sound C-media 9738 (not an issue they don't need it) 64mbVid on board SiS 640/750, AGP/Sis Driver 56kModem on board PCTel AMR/CNR NetCard on board SiS PCI Fast EthernetAdapter(not needed) 20gb 256DDR Apologies for cross-posting but I do need to know quickly thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re: is the list down
Thanks to those who replied to me, I only got your CC'd replies. Have subscribed again and will wait nad see Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is the list down ?
Received no posts since yesterday morning (and the archives show no updates since 15 Nov) so I re-subbed and still nothing, if this hits the list can somebody reply to me please? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is the list down?
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 H:00 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > No messages here for several days. Mandrake's archives show nothing since > the 15th (evidently that was the last time that they were updated; MARC > shows just one yesterday (18th) and nada since then. > -- cmg Coming through here -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT] found on the forums
http://www.HImandrake.com/cd_distribution.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2 (SOLVED)
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 H:36 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:26:47 + > > Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > NIC -> Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have > > setup something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though. > > There seems to be a pattern I'm seeing here with 9.2... > > One person had some probs with their prompt similar to yours, but that > was solved by editing the ~/.bashrc: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/ > > Then there's the problem with output from df being abnormally verbose, > not just outputting partition/usage, but hostname/partition/useage. > > I wonder if something was changed in 9.2 to do with either the global > /etc/bashrc config or network settings... > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? Using DrakConnect from MCC, I noticed an option in expert mode that said "enable network hotplugging" having no idea what it did, I checked it and with all dhcp name options set to localhost in drakconnect it works. Now lets see if it survives a few reboots. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 H:45 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:28:47 + > > Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, instead of the login screen saying > > > > "Welcome to localhost" as normal and a terminal prompt showing > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] $" it shows as "Welcome to public1-derb2-..." > > and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which are coming from my ISP. > > All I want is for the normal "localhost" to be displayed at boot and > > in terminals. > > Well, I see in there you've got: > > DEVICE=eth0 > > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > > ONBOOT=yes > > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > > NEEDHOSTNAME=no > > could it be that your ISP's DHCP server is setting your hostname?! I've > never heard of that before, but they might be running some kind of > WINS/Netbios proto that is changing your hostname. > > I don't know enough about that network-scripts setup to advise what to > change, except maybe try putting "yes" for NEEDHOSTNAME, but I would > seriously recommend putting something between your ISP and your wkstn, > like a router firewall that would negotiate the connection for you. > > How are you connecting, is it a DSL/PPPoE connection? NIC -> Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have setup something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hostname in 9.2
I can't make my hostname stick at localhost, my IP is dynamic. I've edited various files (see below) and thought I'd solved it but then I rebooted and it changed back to "public1-derb2-3-" The edited files :- /etc/sysconfig/ network HOSTNAME=localhost NETWORKING=yes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes NEEDHOSTNAME=no and etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?
Just got my copy of Linux Format magazine it comes with 9.2 d/l edition on it's DVD. I'm wondering where they got it, could they be subscribed to MandrakeClub ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List weirdness
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 H:02 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:49, mooney wrote: > > I, too, am getting weird responses to mails. > > > > > Finally, I'm off on 2 weeks hols, and I can't seem to unsub from the > > site. > > > > Join the club. I've never found the 'set newbie nomail' work either. > > DougB I use set newbie nomail whenever I am away for any length of time and have no problems (just come back after 3 weeks away to no newbie e mails at all) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine question
> On Friday 15 August 2003 17:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this > > great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had > > Windows on my box - and never will. > > > > But right now I have a problem : My oldest daughter just started > > in college and her math teacher demands her to buy a program > > called *Derive*. It's a math program from Texas Instruments and > > I've visited their website just to find out it's a Windows app > > only - no Unix/Linux version. > > > > Well, my daughters scuttled their preinstalled Windows-crap when > > they bought their computers and are using Linux on a daily basis > > with no problems insofar. So I told them - maybe a little too > > enthusiastic - that Linux can do anything, including running > > Windows applications through an emulator. > > > > So I just installed wine and downloaded the *Derive* program. > > This seems to be a file called *setup.exe*. Then, I typed *wine > > setup.exe* and everything seemed OK until it ask me for a > > *folder* for installation. The screen suggest strange *folders* > > like *c:\programs* etc.. (???) - I don't have such *folders*, so > > I typed : /usr/share/derive (having created that *folder* of > > course. But the program doesn't seem able to find any *folders* > > on my system, no matter what I type. > > > > The man pages for wine do not mention this problem, but I'm > > confident some of you can help me out on this - probably very > > trivial - hiccup. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Kaj Haulrich. you got me curious so I d/l the trial version of Derive, with crossover office 1.3.5 it crashes with an error message about VBOX, so no go there, but with Win4Lin (with Win98) it installs properly and will open and close the included files. As to whether it will "work" I can't comment as it's about 30 years since I studied maths/statistics so I can't remember enough about the subject (hangs head in shame) to try to work with it. HTH -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:07 pm, Poogle wrote: > On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:30 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > > * Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030614 08:24]: > > > Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while > > > it runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat > > > Panel or the onboard sis630 on my PC, I can't even get it to run in > > > text mode - just an "out of range" message from my monitor. Having said > > > that I've not tried very hard yet. > > > > Is that a recent version of Knoppix? I have found Knoppix to be > > excellent at recognizing hardware that other software stumbles over. > > If Mandrake doesn't catch it, I try Knoppix and get the info from the > > XF86Config-4 or whatever. > > It's 3.2 from a coverdisc, I was surprised that it had no problems with my > laptop and it's neomagic video/audio which IIRC earlier versions of > Mandrake did, but then it failed on my PC, or perhaps I would be more > correct in saying my PC failed it. > Having had a quick look at the Knoppix forums it appears that some flat > panels or flat panel/graphics card combinations do not work well but there > are "cheats" as they refer to them to get them working, as I said I've not > really looked at it , when I have time I will set about it properly. Following my own post, I take it back, just had to let it boot and do ctrl>alt>+/- and I got a viewable screen so at least I know it works,I've just got to work a little harder -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:30 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030614 08:24]: > > Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it > > runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel > > or the onboard sis630 on my PC, I can't even get it to run in text mode - > > just an "out of range" message from my monitor. Having said that I've not > > tried very hard yet. > > Is that a recent version of Knoppix? I have found Knoppix to be > excellent at recognizing hardware that other software stumbles over. > If Mandrake doesn't catch it, I try Knoppix and get the info from the > XF86Config-4 or whatever. It's 3.2 from a coverdisc, I was surprised that it had no problems with my laptop and it's neomagic video/audio which IIRC earlier versions of Mandrake did, but then it failed on my PC, or perhaps I would be more correct in saying my PC failed it. Having had a quick look at the Knoppix forums it appears that some flat panels or flat panel/graphics card combinations do not work well but there are "cheats" as they refer to them to get them working, as I said I've not really looked at it , when I have time I will set about it properly. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > Well, when i reboot, i get kernel panic for no INIT= (i think) > > and when i "upgrade" i find that hda6 (which is where /boot is) has > > errors that the install cd can't fix. > > > > Ok, so what should i do now? I have heard people on the list say it is > > not necessary to put /boot on it's own part, so feel free to suggest any > > appropriate options. > > > > I will go off and google now, but i trust you folks a lot more, so > > hopefully someone will know the fix. > > > > As far as i can tell, just getting the /boot dir functional and maybe > > redoing the bootloader should be enough. > > Download and burn a CD of Knoppix and boot off it. That will get you a > running Linux system that you can use to fix the partitions. > > http://www.knoppix.net/ Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel or the onboard sis630 on my PC, I can't even get it to run in text mode - just an "out of range" message from my monitor. Having said that I've not tried very hard yet. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1
> > I wonder where to try next. No use trying me, I've run out of ideas (Big Sigh) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1
On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 H:24 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:11, Poogle wrote: > > > > > > When I do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get exactly that, except for the > > > ProdID that is different from yours e26. My ProdID 0x208f is similar to > > > that shown on http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ so that part seems to be > > > in order. > > > > > > Marco > > > > O.K. > > Make sure that your snape50.bin is executable > > > > Now from the command line type sane-find-scanner > > > > within the output from this you should see these lines (I've taken mine > > and put the id numbers for the e50 usb in) > > > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x06bd, product=0x208f) at /dev/usb/scanner0 > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x06bd, product=0x208f) at libusb:002:002 > > > > Now assuming you see this again from the command line type scanimage -L > > and you should get this:- > > device `snapscan:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a AGFA SNAPSCAN flatbed scanner > > > > If you don't get all or any of these results post your output here. > > Again the output is as you described above. No surprises there. It seems > that whatever I do, my scanner is recognized, but that somehow > Scannerdrake fails to add it to the list of configured scanners. Every > time I try again, it doesn't find any configured scanners, only new > ones. > > Also I noticed that when I boot my machine, configuring the scanner and > starting Xsane performs at a normal speed. When I try again, it takes > much more time. It seems to me the hardware detection takes much longer. > Is this an indication of something familiar? > > Marco I'm struggling now, assuming the following:- you are using .. sane-frontends version 1.0.10 -1mdk sane-backends version 1.0.11 -5mdk xsane version 0.90 -2mdk which come with 9.1 and that you have snape50.bin in your path and executable by you and that sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L correctly find your scanner it should work, this model is reported to work correctly. Have you checked that you have permissions set to allow you access to group usb ? Have you tried to access it as root - TAKE CARE ! Finally a last desperate shot in the dark, is it really a model e50 or is it a newer variation that might not be supported - the e50 has been around for a while and may have been upgraded ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1
> > When I do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get exactly that, except for the > ProdID that is different from yours e26. My ProdID 0x208f is similar to > that shown on http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ so that part seems to be > in order. > > Marco O.K. Make sure that your snape50.bin is executable Now from the command line type sane-find-scanner within the output from this you should see these lines (I've taken mine and put the id numbers for the e50 usb in) found USB scanner (vendor=0x06bd, product=0x208f) at /dev/usb/scanner0 found USB scanner (vendor=0x06bd, product=0x208f) at libusb:002:002 Now assuming you see this again from the command line type scanimage -L and you should get this:- device `snapscan:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a AGFA SNAPSCAN flatbed scanner If you don't get all or any of these results post your output here. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 H:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 1:06 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I couldn't use my flatbed scanner on mdk 9.0 and I still can't on > > 9.1. The scanner is a AGFA SnapScan e50, which is listed by SANE as > > supported. Here is what I did sofar: > > > > From the AGFA CD i copied the firmware to a directory in my home. > > > > As root I opened file /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and changed line: > > > > #-- General -- > > > > # Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if > > # firmware upload is needed by the scanner > > firmware /home/marco/drivers/Snape50.bin > > > > I left file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf untouched > > > > Then I opened Mandrake Control Center -> HardDrake where my scanner > > is listed in the hardware list as SnapScan e50 on port > > /dev/usb/scanner0 > > > > Run config tool -> it does not find ant configured scanner, so I > > do: - Add a scanner manually > > - Choose my scanner from the list > > - Choose /dev/usb/scanner0 as "Device" > > - Press "OK" > > > > I get a dialog "Congratulations! Your AGFA Gevaert NV SnapScan e50 > > has been configured. You may now scan documents using Xsane ... " > > > > Quit Scannerdrake. > > > > Now, for my curiousity, I go to Scannerdrake directly and not via > > tha hardwarelist. It doesn't find any configured scanners(?!) > > > > Well, I startup Xsane anyway and I get a welcom screen where I can > > choose the following available devices: > > > > -AGFA SNAPSCAN flatbedscanner [snapscan:/dev/usb/scanner0] > > -AGFA SNAPSCAN flatbedscanner > > [net:localhost:snapscan:/dev/usb/scanner0] > > > > I pick the first one and press OK. Now the welcom screen freezes > > and disappears after 4 minutes. (Second pick has same result) > > > > Result: still no configured scanner > > > > I'm lost here, any suggestions anybody? Thanks. > > > > Marco > > Sounds like a conflict to me. I think you have installed two drivers > - one from the Agfa disk and one from the Mandrake install. If it > were me, I would try getting rid of the stuff from the Agfa disk, > then go back to Hardware List and run the config tool again. See if > XSane runs it then. > > Anne Referring to http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/, you may or may not need the edit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf in respect of the firmware, but if you do you have edited it correctly. Next do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and you should get something like this :- T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 3 B: Alloc= 17/900 us ( 2%), #Int= 1, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB OHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=d8934000 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=06bd ProdID=2097 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=AGFA S: Product=SNAPSCAN C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=usbscanner E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 8 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=16ms T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 3 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 make sure the lines P - I above are similar to yours, if they are not http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ tells you what you need to do. http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT but amusing (I think)
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Re: [newbie] slightly OT Random Lockup
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 H:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Friday February 21 2003 04:06 am, Poogle wrote: > > Now to the point, yesterday while typing an e mail the screen froze > > on the standalone MD system but the recently installed network > > which runs through a new UPS was unaffected. About 1-2 mins later > > an employee noticed that the clock on the wall was running > > backwards. > > I think this confirms my doubts about the building's power supply > > but before I recommend investigation in this area I would > > appreciate any thoughts. > > You aren't situated in either the Twilight Zone or the Bermuda > Triangle ? otherwise I suspect the clock is a low volt DC one. > An UPS always helps, cept maybe for the clock ;) Random lockups and > freezes are most always either hardware or power problems. If it's a > power problem, and left unfixed with an UPS, it'll sooner or later > become a hardware problem also. Thanks Anne & Tom, Until recently they had 2 x Win2000 PCs peer to peer, they also randomly crashed, now their new "proper" network which is protected by UPS appears to be stable, the only PC still affected is the standalone for which they are not prepared to invest in a UPS - I can understand that as it's not essential to the smooth running of the business, they only use it for e mail and occasional browsing (not gone all e-commerce yet). So having put UPS into the equation and now factoring in the twighlight zone clock it does appear to be the power supply, to this end they have been advised to get the power company to check things out - that should really screw things up :-)) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] slightly OT Random Lockup
For some time my partner's company were experiencing system crashes using Win98/2000, I persuaded them to install MD 8.0 on one lesser used PC to hopefully eliminate the problem. It didn't work as I expected, the MD PC didn't crash but sufferred from random screen freezes. As the building takes it's electricity from a sub-station shared with an industrial unit which uses fairly heavy electric motors I suspected the power supply to the building was to blame and suggested a good UPS - they didn't take up this suggestion but about a year on they had a new network installed which is protected by a UPS. Now to the point, yesterday while typing an e mail the screen froze on the standalone MD system but the recently installed network which runs through a new UPS was unaffected. About 1-2 mins later an employee noticed that the clock on the wall was running backwards. I think this confirms my doubts about the building's power supply but before I recommend investigation in this area I would appreciate any thoughts. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT Nigerian spam scam
IIRC someone on this list collected these scams, I've got a new variant which is allegedly from Angola if you want it for your collection please e mail me off-list -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Openoffice printing with Lexmark Z25
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 H:43 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:25, Poogle wrote: > > I have set up a friend with MD 9.0 and a Lexmark Z25 printer, the printer > > needs Lexmark drivers and is not compatible with CUPS and requires the > > use of LPR, I managed to get this set up and printing both B&W & Colour > > form other apps but I cannot get it to print using OpenOffice. A print > > job appears to have been accepted but the printer does nothing and > > nothing is in the queue, It is essential that my friend be able to open > > and print Word docs which is why OpenOffice was installed. I have googled > > and looked at archives to no avail, any ideas please ? > > If the printer is available in KDE Control Centre, you can send the > print job to kprinter - so, like in my OO setup, my printer is defined > as: > > kprinter --stdin > > ...works like a charm! Thanks Stephen, I'll give at a go next week when I next visit -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Openoffice printing with Lexmark Z25
I have set up a friend with MD 9.0 and a Lexmark Z25 printer, the printer needs Lexmark drivers and is not compatible with CUPS and requires the use of LPR, I managed to get this set up and printing both B&W & Colour form other apps but I cannot get it to print using OpenOffice. A print job appears to have been accepted but the printer does nothing and nothing is in the queue, It is essential that my friend be able to open and print Word docs which is why OpenOffice was installed. I have googled and looked at archives to no avail, any ideas please ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - Civileme
I'm surprised nobody has already commented on his return, so I'd like to just say "Welcome Back" -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 H:30 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Mandrake has filed for bankruptcy... > > Follow this link... :-( > > http://lwn.net/Articles/20061/ And on a more positive note http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2405 -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT]: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which i s better:KDE or Gnome?]
On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 H:10 am, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:33, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: > > On the other hand, I believe Bush is going to war in the hope that it > > will revive the economy. Preperations for the war will boost the defence > > industry, and when the war is over lots of contracts (notably petroleum > > ones) will go out to the US industry. I guess that is his solution to > > revive the economy. I wonder what made you folks vote Bush. > > > > Bush (and I am sure any other president) is doing his job, that is, to > > repay in kind the "donations" various companies give to the republicans > > and the democrats. > > [Kesav] >>>What gets me is that the whole Iraq thing is over the oil. > > In fact, the Bush administration has already divided it up amongst the > > oil companies. [Kesav] >>> (primarily american I'm sure) > > > > cheers... > > That sounds good to me. I've got a gas-lovin Camaro and could use some > cheap oil. ;) > > Seriously, we've got our problems like any other country, and it's a > wonderful thing to discus them. But if this war destroys just one > terrorist supporter, I'll consider my tax money well spent. And if it > destroys saddam, I may even consider voting for Bush. > > > ~Brandon I think this would be a good point to end this thread, there are many who hold strong views about this subject and I fear that to continue to express them here could lead to a falling out of members. It goes without saying that it is a very emotive subject, many of us will have strong views which will differ widely dependant upon such factors as country of residence, political persuasion, religious belief etc. Let's remember that the members of this list are spread around the globe with the common aim of helping other Mandrake users and promoting Mandrake generally, so let's not spoil it by expressing political opinions which are of no relevance to this list and could concievably lead to alienation of valued members. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Club (Troll)
After all of the recent proclamations of undying support for Mandrake, why are there (nearly) alway more guests than members online ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using a Cyrix cpu with MMX
On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 1:32 pm, Poogle wrote: > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > How likely is it that I could get 9.0 or 8.2 to install with this cpu? > > > Has anyone got a working system with this architecture? > > > > > > Anne > > > > Anne, > > I installed it on a Cyrix box without problems (something like a 366 IIRC > > but I don't have access to it to check at the moment) > > Thanks, Poogle. I'll try for it in a day or two. > > Anne Anne, FWIW, I installed it on PC that crashed several times daily just to prove that Linux is more stable than the user's existing operating system, the result it continues to crash daily !!! But recovery is a merely matter of rebooting. Although I haven't had the opportunity to find out why, I suspect that the solution would be new MB, Processor, Ram, Case, PSU. :-) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using a Cyrix cpu with MMX
On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > How likely is it that I could get 9.0 or 8.2 to install with this cpu? Has > anyone got a working system with this architecture? > > Anne Anne, I installed it on a Cyrix box without problems (something like a 366 IIRC but I don't have access to it to check at the moment) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: > > > I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out > > > Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? > > > Or, is this a matter of personal preference? > > > David > > > > Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla. Although it is not as small > > or as fast as Opera, it works with more IE oriented sites like Mozilla. > > It is gaining a lot of fans. > > Texstar has RPMs on his download site. > > It will cost you nothing to try it out :) > Have you seen Dillo ? http://dillo.cipsga.org.br/ -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:28 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the > crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. > List: > > UNITED KINGDOM > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > John<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CANADA > Ingo Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > UNITED STATES > Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Lower Atlantic Seaboard > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Midwest US > Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Upper Atlantic Seaboard > > What exactly is left of the crashtest team? Not sure - a handful still post to the list How was it organized? Civileme issued us with tasks, for example when he wrote Xtart he put it on his website and asked us to d/l it, try it and report back my e mail to the crashtesters list, similar things with a program to test (to near destruction in some cases) journaled file systems What was the format for the bug reports? See above How do we integrate the crashburners with the crashtesters? Difficult, it needs co-ordination and predefined objectives by someone who really understands the inner workings of MD, both in terms of the product and the company's intentions > > Is it too early to be thinking about this? Possibly because of your next question. Should the question really be, where's the money? Should we concentrate on raising fundage for > Mandrake from Lugs and christmas presents first? Would praying help? > > Where's the beef? Can somebody else weigh in on this? Darklord? > Civileme? > > LX Note I've inserted myself into the UK section above hope you don't mind me tampering with your post :-) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote: > > I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new > > releases and reporting back to Mandrake in a concise and relevant way. > > > > While all feedback is important I see a problem in an individual > > obtaining a beta or rc and reporting issues directly. In some cases it is > > reported on this or other lists that "my scanner/camera/cd > > rom/package/whatever doesn't work" followed by a number of posts which > > resolve the issue with "mine does, you need to do this" in these cases > > the limited time available to Mandrake developers would be misdirected > > and if the issue was raised without resolution on these lists and then > > submitted to Mandrake it is possible that the next beta would be out and > > Mandrake developers would be tempted to ignore it as it referred to a > > previous release. > > Poogle, > > I have a solution/suggestion. One or more persons could take the > responsibility to burn and mail out new releases to the 75 or more > crashtesters. I would be willing to try to help, if I didn't have to > buy the CD's. You figure 75 people, with a three CD distro, that's 225 > CD's burned per release. This responsibility could be divided up > between two or more peeps with broadband access (like me.) I've got the > equivalent of a T1 here, so I can download ISO's in short order. > > The "Burners" could each be assigned mailing lists with peeps that are > close to their area of residence. In my case, crashtesters on the > eastern seaboard of the United States would be my "customers". A > "Burner" could be assigned to a sector of Europe, or Australia. You get > the idea. > > A FedEx or UPS account that's owned by Mandrakesoft could take care of > the mailing charges. When the CD mailer goes out, it's just assigned to > the Mandrake UPS or Fedex account. > > This would resolve the problem of getting corrected test distros out to > the crashtesters in a minimum amount of time. > > --LX Hmmm, I'll think about this one a little. My first reaction is that it could work, a fellow crashtester burnt CDs for me until I got a fast connection, my only reservation at the moment is the time factor involved. Given the speed of beta releases I often found myself a little behind in the process even though my "benefactor" was only based 15 miles away, by the time he had got home from work d/l, burnt and mailed the CDs 2-3 days had passed since release - with ver 8.x releases this was in some cases half a beta lag. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 H:35 am, Joseph Braddock wrote: > Jerry, > > Maybe you would be willing to contribute some of your time to improve > Mandrake's stability. There were numerous beta and release candidates for > Mandrake 9.0. If you are having stability issues, the time to have them > fixed is prior to the release being official. When Mandrake 9.1 is in beta > and release candidate status, maybe you can download a copy (or buy one > from cheapbytes) and submit the problems you've been experiencing to the > development team. > > This is by no means an effort to slam you, it's simply that if we want the > distro to work flawlessly and support all kinds of hardware combinations, > then the more who join the testing effort the better. > > Joeb > Apologies for jumping in here and snipping the thread but to comment (ramble ?)on the above I believe that one of the major contributions to the stability of 8.0 to 8.2 was Civileme's Crashtesting team. For those not aware of this, Civileme recruited a group of around 75 volunteers who tested all the betas and rc's on their own hardware which, while not encompassing every possible hardware configuration, did embrace a wide variety of hardware . Some Crashtesters were experts, some were newbies and this gave a mix of feedback from the point of view of user friendliness of features (thinking of such issues as software installer here). This was a co-ordinated effort targetted specifically at quality testing of new releases, indeed the principle aim was to take something such as a beta release and try to break it and then report back to one Mandrake employee who then reported to the developers where appropriate - in some cases it was not appropriate, merely a case of error between chair & keyboard . I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new releases and reporting back to Mandrake in a concise and relevant way. While all feedback is important I see a problem in an individual obtaining a beta or rc and reporting issues directly. In some cases it is reported on this or other lists that "my scanner/camera/cd rom/package/whatever doesn't work" followed by a number of posts which resolve the issue with "mine does, you need to do this" in these cases the limited time available to Mandrake developers would be misdirected and if the issue was raised without resolution on these lists and then submitted to Mandrake it is possible that the next beta would be out and Mandrake developers would be tempted to ignore it as it referred to a previous release. My solution - I don't have one. Crashtesters was IMHO a valuable effort but in these financially difficult times Mandrake are damned if they spend money on this sort of exercise and damned if they don't. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 H:51 am, Sascha Noyes wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm considering upgrading to silver membership. Not sure yet though. > > Sascha > > On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Mandrake got slashdotted today, I just saw the article, then I saw an > > email from the Mandrake team. > > > > http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/20/1815214.shtml?tid=147 > > > > I also read > > > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/future.php3 > > > > After reading that, and considering how much Mandrake linux has come to > > mean to me, I've decided to upgrade my membership. I was wondering, how > > many peeps here are going to either join the Mandrake club or upgrade > > their membership? I'm just curious, and was looking for a show of hands. > > ?? > > > > --LX Just my hand showing here, I was a "donator" but just upgraded to silver -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scanner problems
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 H:38 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:38, Andy wrote: > > On Monday 16 December 2002 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: > > > > Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo > > > > I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my > > > > digital camera and scanner (or my usb in general. But i'm not > > > > worrying about that). Soo what the problem is, I suppose linux knows > > > > that I have a scanner (since theres a file on my desktop linking to > > > > it) but it cant seem to load it at all. If you wanted to know, I have > > > > a HP ScanJet 3300C, and im running Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3. The file > > > > on my desktop is called 'XSane /dev/usb/scanner0', and when i try to > > > > click on it, it opens and says that theres no devices available. > > > > Since im a big newbie at linux, I have no clue whatsoever how to fix > > > > this. When I try to open my scanner configuration in the control > > > > center, it says its downloading something, and freezes up. Can > > > > someone please help me with this? > > > > > > What happens if you just open up XSANE without a configuration attached > > > to it - does it detect the scanner, or still freeze up? (BTW, what > > > kinda digi-cam ya gots?) > > > > I have a Intel Pocket PC Camera. The little digits on the camera show up > > soo obviously it can detect that also. And with XSANE, no matter what i > > do, it wont open. I call it in a terminal, and it brings up a user > > agreement, and I agree to it. Then a error window pops up saying it cant > > detect any devices whatsoever. > > ...ok...hmmm...you should be able to "mount" the camera as an actual > "file system"...there was talk of this a week back - so you might want > to dig through the messages and find the one pertaining to the USB > camera... > > ...now with SANE/XSANE - this is strange. It appears to have already > detected the scanner, but ain't doin' a thing now...what about when you > reboot - are the modules loading - or does the scanner "re-appear" ? Quoting Colin Rose's post here --- The problem is that somehow a typo is introduced in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. If you get the error 'no devices found' then edit the above file and change the word 'SnapScan' to 'snapscan' and it should work. I may be way off here but I seem to recall reading somewhere that this can affect scanners other than snapscans. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Now the good news
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 H:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > Today I found this comment: > > It's been a few weeks since Civileme started taking care of MandrakeExpert > support. > > Good to see him back. > > Anne Sounds too good to be true, where did you see it ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)
On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 H:02 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > Hi, > > This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and > not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks > around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of > etiquette: > > I was given an old Quantex N30W-15 (on which Mandrake 9 runs without any > problems, by the way - except for the Winmodem which one can easily fix > with the RPMs available on the Linmodem.org site). It runs on a BAT30WL > Lithium Ion Battery (rated 11.1V-4800mAh). > > I used my laptop at home 99% of the time so I do not need to run it on > batteries. > > How should I best use this battery? Should I keep it plugged in and > constanting charging, should I always use it on battery and thereby empty > the battery daily, or is there anything else I should do to maximize my > battery's life? > > Thanks in advance for your advice and sorry for the off-topic question, > > Andrei Have a look at this http://www.mbi.panasonic.co.jp/oembatteries/english/e_ion/out_eion/atteion.htm -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KAddressBook
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 H:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for > > > KAddressBook stored? > > > > > > TIA, > > > > /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab > > > > Don't forget you will need to 'show hidden files' > > > > Anne > > That is not it, at least not for me. That directory > (/home/gui/.kde/share/apps/kab) is completely empty here even though I have > lots of entries under KAddressBook. Does anybody know where else the > entries could be stored? Have a look in /home/put yourname in here /.kde/share/apps/kabc note the c on the end if they are there they will show as std.vcf, you can open it with kaddressbook but if it's anything like mine it will have a load of blank lines before the first entry -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
Yes in the UK, IIRC it was from PC World but I've just had a look at http://www.dabs.com and they can get them in 3-4 days at £35.25 or http://www.digitalfirst.co.uk show them at £29.99 but I've never heard of the company, got their name from the microtech website. HTH On Friday 29 Nov 2002 H:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:46 am, Poogle wrote: > > In a word yes. > > I have a Zio USB SM reader which is RW in Windows but read only in Linux > > - (Pauses to plug it in, insert SM card and check that it is readable) > > That sounds good enough to me - I can erase in the camera. I presume you > bought it in the UK? I'll google for it, but if you can point me at a > vendor I'd be grateful. > > Anne -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
