Re: [newbie] Changing Color Depth
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Adam Stark wrote: How do I change the color depth for KDE/Xwindows? I seem to be stuck with 8-bit, but I would like to change it to 16-bit. In the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config, under Section "Screens", add a line like : DefaultColorDepth 16 -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] I have problems with Xsane an tar.gz files
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote: mandrake 7.0I download Xsane and type tar -zxf xsane-..tar.gz and extract fine At this point, did you cd to the directory that was created by the tar, probably xsane-... ? If you have done that and it still doesn't work, look inside the configure file. SOmetimes, it wants you to specify the architecture, ie, linux, . ./configure mmake in this line say "make ***no target. stop." what i have to do? Fernando Camacho Olmo -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] sorry,modem is busy
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote: %_Hi everyone !! I have problem with Kppp and minicom . I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy . What modem? Hopefully not winmodem. -- Ronald
RE: [newbie] RE: your mail
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Will Trepanier wrote: vi is one of those tools that you love to hate. The NGs are filled with flames on the pros and cons. It has a rather steep learning curve and is especially daunting to newcomers, but if you are serious about learning *nix, it is a good tool in your arsenal. I reckon that once you have mastered vi's use, you have mastered about 15% of *nix, as you will have been introduced to sed, awk and grep. Also, you would be able to sit in front of any *nix box and feel comfortable. It is most useful for 5-fingered typists. It's one of those oldies but goodies. I even know a guy who refuses to use vi as he prefers to use ex Depends on your usage; if you are only editting small files, and making small edits, any editor will do. But, if you are editting text files of about 50Mbs each, and placement of each digit/character and padding is important, then vi something to keep handy. My 2 cents. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] FILE PERMISSIONS!
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, vishal bansal wrote: Hi folks; I am using linux mandrake 6.1. As a user I cannot write to files, but as a root I can. How do I assign permissions for the users to do so? As a general rule, users are only allowed to write to files within the $HOME and subdirectories. This makes good sense from a security point of view; that is why you seldom see *nix viruses. To change permissions, "man chmod". BUT, be aware of the security implication before going about it blindly. There are lots of directories that users SHOULDN'T be allowed write access. Not only are there security implications, this should prevent "fingering problems". Imagine a user issuing "\rm -r *" from /. End preaching mode. -Vishal. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Open Ports (Again, sorry)
Hi Paul, Closing down services is in /etc/inetd.conf /etc/hosts.deny is more to deny particular hosts On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Paul H wrote: After a post saying, open /etc/hosts.deny, and comment out any unwanted services, I did this and it worked fine. But I had to do a reinstall and I again, I find my system open to services I don't want it to be :( So, I opened /etc/hosts.deny but there are no services listed. Are there any other files I can use to close these connections (FTP, POP3, Auth)? Thanks for any help -- Best Regards, Paul -- Ronald
RE: [newbie] Email programs?
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: Can you have mulitple pop collections with Netscape? Nope, unfortunately. It only supports multiple IMAP accounts. Try using fetchmail and such if you want to use multiple accounts; and then use Netscape to pull it off your mailbox -- Ronald
Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: I have been trying to access my hda1/windows drives from a simple user, not root, when I saw someone suggest logging on to linux as a single user system, linux -s, will this give me access to the hda1/windows drives? You don't have to go down to init 1 to access your hda1/windows drives. Try putting something like the following in your /etc/fstab file: /dev/hda1 /dosc vfatrw,uid=501,gid=501,perm=660 1 2 (change accordingly to suit your own installation) This then gets mounted everytime you bootup -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Log file question
On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, sean F wrote: Well, i added the IP to my list of "input DENY" files, Could that have gotten through? None of my WinXX boxes went down, and if it did get though would the WinXX box blue screen or just crash apps.? TIA Somehow, I don't agree that it is a winnuke attempt. The fingerprint doesn't match. As for winnuke, I think, it is not effective against any Win 95 boxes patched to SP1 or 2. I have tested it against some internal Win boxes and only one box actually bluescreened, but hitting any key apparently brings the box back to life. It's more of an irritant than anything. If it is winnuke, look for Nukenabber, then you know you've got the loser. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] telnet
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Agi Subagio wrote: How to activate telnet daemon in Linux Mandrake 6.1? I presume you mean that you want to run the telnet server? Make sure the package is installed; edit /etc/inetd.conf to make sure that the line starting with telnet is not commented out; restart inet with: /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart Good luck. -- Ronald
[newbie] kppp and modem wait state
Hi, I have an irritating problem: During peak hours I have a lot of difficulty dialing up to my ISP, so I want kppp to dial continuously. But, after 3 BUSY replies, my kppp login script debug window shows that it is waiting, for I don't know what. It actually communicates with the modem as I can see the lights flashing on the 3Com USR 56K Faxmodem, but it just seems to bring up the modem and the window shows that it is waiting. After a few minutes, it decides to redial again. I have hunted high and low within kppp for any particular fields but to no avail. Has anyone any idea whether it's something with kppp or some AT command settings? TIA -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Remote Telnet; Remote FTP server (they don't work)
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote: Do what you did to turn 'em off. :-) Also, you can re-run "setup" from a console prompt as root and select "system services." Here's where you configure what starts up automagically. Tried that, it didn't work. When I turned them off, I edited the inetd.conf file and commented them out, but now that I want them again, they won't run. Does anyone know what the programs are called? How about trying to restart inet manually, after configuring: /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Randall Randall wrote: Okay, got another issue, now. :) I'm trying to install a system without X, and have to go through and delete packages manually, in "expert" mode. It claims to be installing all the dependencies (including things I don't really want (like X libraries) but apparently MUST have. Every time I give it a root password, and finish the installation, I can't login. No matter how carefully I type, it says: Login Incorrect. Here's the weird part: I can login fine as another user, and use "su" to login as root, and it WORKS. I just can't login initially as root. IIRC, that is a security feature, that you cannot login directly as root. -- Ronald
[newbie] Which package does kmail belong to
Hi, I've tried looking for the package with: rpm -aq | grep kmail and also using 'find package' and 'find file' in kpackage. No joy Anyone can help? TIA -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Alan Snider wrote: Wow!!! Mandrake 7 is the nicest linux package I have had experience with (though the others have been only Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 5.9 and Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 so I am no expert by any means). One big problem: I have a Toshiba Equium 6200M with built-in Crystal sound card. Mandrake 7 did a good job of configuring everything except the soundcard. So now I am in the position where I would like to add the sound card but do not know how(?) Please help me so I can listen to sounds, thanks. Try "sndconfig" w/o quotes as root? -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] FTP Question
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, TRUB wrote: Thanks, that helped a bit, but I still get my computer name in the script at the very top. I have created a new /welcome.msg that is working but I did not include my computer name in the description? How can I kill that unincluded part? Still in /etc/ftpaccess, put a line line greeting brief or greeting terse. Greetin terse just says "FTP Server ready" Can't recall offhand the output of 'greeting brief'. man /etc/ftpaccess ? -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Problem Installing 6.0
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, RICHARD FRIEDMAN wrote: First of all, TIA for any help you can give. A friend of mine is trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on his laptop. He has a 24gb hard drive. Approximately 12GB are dedicated to Windoze. The rest is all free space. Linux has got a restriction that the boot sector must be below 1024. IIRC, that means that the /boot dir has to be within the 8.4 Gb area. If he has any partitioning tools int Win, ie Partition Magic, he should try to created a small partition (20 Mb enough) at the beginning of the Harddisk. That should solve his problem. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] simple question I think?
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, sean wrote: What is the command to see what services are running? I want to shut off SMTP on my IP MASQ. and see what else is running. Try "ps aux" or "ps -ef" -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP server
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jason M. Shatto wrote: I'm looking to download QUITE a bit from an FTP server, In windows, I always used Ws-Ftp, I'm looking for a similiar program or just something graphical would be nice. With Netscape I can only download one file at a time, I want to download directories. For graphical, you can try caitoo, IglooFTP or even kruiser. For command line, try wget. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie]
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Øystein Efterdal wrote: I have installed mandrake 7.0. And i have 128 MB memory and mandrake only see 15MB Please help me Looks more like a memory hole setting in the BIOS. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] problems with gcc commands
On my Dell Inspiron, the install always locks up if I have an external PS/2 mouse connected up during install. Disconnect it, but still choose the correct mouse (Logitech??). After the installation, either power down or use apm and hook up the mouse. Gook luck Stick with it. On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Tony Watts wrote: Well, before I box my Complete linux back up and take it back to whence it came from, I will give this one more try...does anyone know how to fix an install, or even how to install the darn program without it locking up as soon as it recognizes my Ps/2 port on my laptop...if I can't get past this simple task during the installation then I'm taking it back (the software that is)..any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Chip wrote:
/home/chip/.Xclients: exec: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file
or dir.
And sure-enough, there is no .Xclients file to be found.
So, what the heck do I do now? I
How about creating ("touch) the Xclients-default file with just one
line:
exec startkde
and making it executable.
--
Ronald
Re: [newbie] memory problems
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Thomas Fritz wrote: I've just had this problem, but Mandrake 6.1 only recognized 15M of RAM for me, and I have 256M. Here's the advice I recieved from the Cleveland LUG: Add the following line to the global options section of your /etc/lilo.conf append = "mem=128M" I'm surprised that you got it to work. From the description of your problems, I would have thought that the problem is caused by the 'memory hole' setting on the BIOS rather that Linux not seeing 64 Mb. But if it works for you .:-) -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Linux/Windows Network
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Steven P Hull wrote: I've set up the Ethernet card manually and tried to ping the others but no luck. What am I doing wrong? Have I missed something?? For a start, can the Linux box see itself? Try pinging the Linux box from the Linux box using the IP address, instead of 127.0.0.1. -- Ronald
[newbie] PCMCIA and MAKEDEV
Hi, I have an external PCMCIA harddisk which I'm trying to get working with Linux, but with no luck. Basic problem was that it is being detected as hdk. I have written to the author of the pcmcia package and he says that the "current PCMCIA distribution has an updated ide startup script that knows how to create the hdk device files" Does anybody, Axalon maybe, know if the current version in LM capable of it? I hesitant of 'upgrading' just to test, as everything else on my PCMCIA setup is working fine. TIA -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] What's A Quick Way to Assess the Size of a Folder and Its Content?
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: What's a quick way to assess the size of a folder and its content in KDE? "du" in console mode or in xterm. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Changing partitions
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote: Kind of a way of not letting Windows know you're replacing it, or a way of smoothing your transition to Linux only? Just keep shrinking that Windows partition till it doesn't have any virtual memory left, and you finally have to just put it out of it's misery :-) Amen to the last. If only there was an app in Linux for me to upload my CrossPad. Kind of ridiculous to keep a bloated OS around for one sole surviving app. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] setup a firewall
If you're lazy like me, try the page below: http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/ On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Raphael Quoilin wrote: - set up an IP-Firewall, - share a large part of its hard-disk to be used by Win NT 4.0. Do you have advices ? -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Root Password Problem
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Toyswins wrote: I think I discovered the problem. Hinted at it the other message. My / partition ran out of space. It got weird with signing in and some other stuff, so might have something to do with it. A 347 Mb one isn't big enough. I've changed it to 1.2 Gb, and if that doesn't work, nothing will. I've got a 400 and 212 Mb drives as hdb and hdc that hold /usr, /home, swap and so forth. I do not have a direct solution for your problems, but isn't a 1.2Gb partition for / a little too big compared to the other partition? The directories under root are pretty static in terms of size. I would have thought that you would want more space in /usr or /home. (Perhaps someone more knowledgable could chip in here). -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] PPP dialup hangs in the negotiation of connection
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Wade Buchanan wrote: %_I just installed 6.1 Mandrake Linux on my laptop. Installation was smooth and very nice. I love the KDE environment. I am having a problem getting my dialup to work. I have a Global Village 56k modem. The kppp configuration is setup, when I tell it to connect it dials, the ISP answers there are two sets of tones very long and drawn out and hangs on the tones then the modem will finally disconnect and say no carrier. The ppp package is 2.3.8. Has anyone ran into this problem and what do I do to fix it? Do I need to get a new version of ppp or is it possibly a setting in the modem? I tried to modify the s11 register to speed up the connection, and this did increase the speed in which it dials, but it didn't seem to fix the tone negotiation of the connection. Thoughts? On my desktop system at home, when I set the modem volume to max, I encounter the same symptoms as you do. When I set it to half or no volume, it works fine on kppp. See if this will help you. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] /boot/System.map
Look in your /boot directory. THere should be a System/map file which is linked to your new kernel like: System.map - System.map-2.1.132smp-mdk Or is it still linking to your old kernel? On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: Warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel version when I do things like ps and top. What is /boot/System.map? What do I do to make it compatible with kernel 2.1.132? Is this warning message spelling much greater future problems? Thanks, Ronald
Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux beta out!
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, M Thompson wrote: What's the URL? http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/browsers/opera-19991224.tar.gz RPM version: on its way. ftp://ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming/opera-19991224-1.i386.rpm -- Ronald
[newbie] HP DesignJet 755CM
Hi, Has anybody got a driver for this plotter? I've RTFM (HOWTO) and it points me to some site, but still nothing. I have it sitting in front of me at work and we get to use it like once a month, if we are lucky. I just thought it would be cool to print a tux 36" across. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Netscape questions...
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Sam Roza wrote: How do you get NutScrape to load all images in a web page without having to click them, or right click and ask to have them loaded? Edit-Preferences-AdvanceAutomatically load images and other data types. Oh, one more thing...how do you create a new user from root? # adduser or # linuxconf -- Ronald
[newbie] Kmail and associating URLs.
Hi, Is there any setting to associate URLs in kmail to default to Netscape instead of KFM? I'm presently using the old cut and paste method - not very efficient. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Different fonts/sizes in xterm
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: How can load up an xterm with a larger font (the default is hard to read at high resolution)? I found the -fn switch in the man page but that doesn't work (I tried with several fonts and it didn't find any of them). Make sure the "NumLock" key is OFF. Hold down Ctl key and right-click your mouse ( Ctl +RightClick) -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] KDE and kpanel
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Thought i answered this one but we'll try again. If you look in ~/ at the . files (ls -a) you'll see a file .Xclients-HOSTNAME-:0.0 you need to delete or edit it You're the man, Axalon. Problem solved. Just as an aside. I sent the message 3 times, at about 12 hours apart, 'cos I did not see it on the list. On the last try, I saw the post at the same time as this reply from you. And that was like _within_ 5 minutes of my sending it! I have checked the list archives and saw only one copy of my post. Whatever it is, I love it when the respond from the server and you is so fast. -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] installing L-M 6.1 to new Dell Inspiron 7500
Try http://inspironlin.thot.net/ The list is quite quiet nowadays, but the archives should provide some help on Inspiron issues. HTH On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] enough already
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: I am afraid it is hopeless. I suggest that unsubscribe information be placed on the bottom of every message posted. Jeanette You have my vote there. Also, if I may make a suggestion: Someone who wants to get off the list doesn't have much to lose; any replies to them via the list would have very little effect. They may even have set their mail filters accordingly. Those who would like to stay with the list only get bombarded with useless "unsubscribe" mails and replies and get frustrated. How about writing *directly* to them if they want to unsubscribe? If you get want to unsubscribe and get like 20 emails from ppl, you'd definitely do something about it. -- Ronald
[newbie] KDE and kpanel
I really messed up this time: Running KDE. On a whim, I decided to try out switchdesk. It came up and gave me 2 choices KDE and Anotherlevel. I chose Anotherlevel and clicked on the "Change only applies to current display" It then tells me to restart X. I did that but it then tells me something like "Chosen fwm2, but it does not appear to be properly installed. Using TWM" when I do a startx. It then dumps me into a blank X server. Fortunately, I have an xterm in Autostart which starts up. So I try switchdesk again and selected KDE. After going thru' everything,I get dumped into the plain X server again. I then try a startkde and I get my KDE desktop. But without the kpanel? bar at the bottom, and only one screen. I always boot up into level 3 and start X manually, but when I boot directly into level 5,(just to check) I get the full KDE environment. What's going on here? Is it that "Change only applies to current display" thingy? I would like to have my proper KDE desktop back again with my 6 virtual desktops(starting X manually). Help. Please point me to the files I have to edit, etc. TIA -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] X window remote access?
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Eric Mings wrote: I have read some information about x window being a server and client program. I was under the impression the server and client could exist on seperate computers. Is it possible to access a machine across a network as root running K desktop and x windows? I clearly do not fully understand how this works. I have used telnet some but that is pretty limited for what I want. It works for me. You can run either as user or root. Running K and MKD 6.0 on my notebook, hidden away in my room. My front end is a Solaris machine at my workplace. Just telnet in and run your apps. I'm not referring to just console type commands. You can run apps like Netscape and kmail (which I'm using now). A friend of mine, right beside me, is running Exceed and SecureCRT on his Windows box and accessing his Linux box in the same way. You may have to play with your DISPLAY env variables. I would like to be able to colocate one of my machines (running Mandrake 6.1 and K desktop) at an ISP and need to know if I can access it for administration across the net with X windows/K desktop. Could someone please clarify this for me. Thanks. Have not run it via an ISP, but you should consider running some form of ssh, if you do. I run secure shell even though all computers are on the same network. HTH -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Anybody got this modem working?
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, JMJ fingered: Hmmm got a "no DNS entry" for that URL. I did manage to get into http://www.thot.net but didn't find any sign of anything Dell- related. Suggestions? www.portablenews.net -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
Even easier if your 'puter is in a place where you don't have to disconnect everything to pull it out. I run my 'puter w/o a cover and vaccum it every so often. Kindred spirit. Can't even remember where the cover for my 'puter is !! Unfortunately, don't do the vaccuming. I thought the dust is supposed to help hold it all together. I don't have much cooling problems too. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Push mail
Hi, I running an internal mailserver and only connect to my ISP to get my mail. My connection time to my ISP is usually quite short. What is the best way to "push'" out my mail when online. Running sendmail 8.9.3 -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Finger
Whenever I try to use "finger" I get an error msg: finger: connect: no route to host The only place with success is my ISP, eg: finger @pacific.net.ph All other services seem to work OK. When I try to traceroute to where I previously cannot finger, it works OK as well. I have tried this from my IP Masqed machine and also the internal machines. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. TIA. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, coin fingered: I had that and it turned out to be a win modem I had to take it out and look at it I do not know if yours is or not The Prolink has been nothing but trouble since it's first iteration. I remember one ISP practically giving it away with a paid subscribtion. I don't know if things have changed much now, but I found out that it could not be used with NT. SOme knowledgable vendors will warn you away from them. Get a real modem - like a 3Com :-) CAn anyone recommend any good simple documentation on connecting to the singapore isp using Mandrake 6.0 ??? You could try kppp. Most ISP's setup shouldn't differ that much. Can't say specifically for Cyberway, but I know of friends who have been able to connect to Singnet and Pacific, with Linux, though I've read that there was some problem with Magix. All you need would be the DNS and dialup numbers which should be available from your Wndoxe setup. Good luck. Luff(x3) coin -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Good FTP prog
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio fingered: How about nt? It supports interrupted d/ls etc. Can't remember where I d/l it from, though. HTH You're right. Igloo can't stop immediately (quite annoying). Right now I'm trying out GFTP. But it lacks a lot of Igloo's features. Do you know of any other graphical FTP Clients that are feature-rich? -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Anybody got this modem working?
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, JMJ fingered: The hardware is a Dell I7K and a 3Com/Megahertz 3CCM156 PCMCIA modem. I'm not sure whether to start checking the PCMCIA stuff, or keep fiddling with the modem settings. So far, I've had no luck trying various options in KPPP, which makes me wonder if there's a PCMCIA problem. Recommend this site: http://dellportables.thot.net Things seem to have quiet down a little on the list there but the list archives should help. The site is centred on Dell Portables but the focus seems to be on the I7K, until the I7.5K came along. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] screenshots
xv ? "Grab" or autograb On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson fingered: Could anyone tell me if there is a way to take a screen shot of the desktop or what software would be useful for doing such? -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Finger
Whenever I try to use "finger" I get an error msg: finger: connect: no route to host The only place with success is my ISP, eg: finger @pacific.net.ph All other services seem to work OK. When I try to traceroute to where I previously cannot finger, it works OK as well. I have tried this from my IP Masqed machine and also the internal machines. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. TIA. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Correct color depth
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, you fingered: Make that DefaultColorDepth 16 Works. Thanks -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Printer lpq unsolved -- data
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear R_Yeo and friends:
Here is the output of a series of commands suggested by you to test my
printer.
The printer itself works fine and the file in question ("shore") printed
perfectly several times. And my printer (Epson Stylus Color 600) passed
the three printtool test with flying colors.
But I still can't get the queueing and dequeueing working. May I ask
what does the data below really mean?
Take a look at "man lpc". It's one of the joys of working
with printing BSD-style. We used too have a farm of about
12 Sun Sparcs running SunOS. It was an everyday occurrence
for individual users to restart the print services.
Seems like the daemon keeps dying (anyone has any
suggestions, contradictions, etc)
--
Ronald Yeo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
Mark Nina Drake wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Check that you have your /etc/resolv.conf set up and pointing to the domain, search and namserver(s) like: domain leading.net207.98.192.90 search leading.net nameserver 207.98.192.90 nameserver (IP add) Hope this helps. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
Jeanette Russo wrote: I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the arcane registration process. Now if they would fix the Java and the printing it would be great. And some fonts would help. Jeanette I have asked this question before, and will try again. Does anyone know specifically what are the "upgrades' from the original SO5.1 to Sun's 5.1a? It takes a hell of a long time to d/l the package over a 64K satellite link shared by a few people, so I'd prefer to know first before I jump. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Printer lpq -- any solution yet?
Benjamin Sher wrote: Is your printer's lpq command (and lprm) working? Mine says: no entries. I have checked with others. This seems to be a bug. What's your experience? Try printing something. It means that there is no entries in the queue (to be printed). Try sending something to the printer and it should come alive. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sound
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: The "no boards found" line tells us that pnpdump is not seeing your card (obviously). Your sound card has the same chip set as mine. I read somewhere something about edge detection with respect to setting up the card, so I went into my BIOS settings, and changed the setting for detection from "level" to "edge". Then I was able to set up the card. You have led the horse to the water, now is time to drink it. You just gave me a hint on where to look. I read somewhere during my initial install that I should set the PNP in BIOS to off. (Anyone care to contradict that?). So when I set if to 'on', wallah, I get sound without going thru' sndconfig. But, there's a big BUT there, the notebook doesn't detect my PCMCIA slots, so no network. Back to the drawing board, but I feel I'm getting closer. Turned off the PNP in BIOS and I'm back again. Let me dig thru' the PCMCIA-HOWTO again and I'll get back on the outcome. Any kind soul have any suggestions on what could be the cause of this? -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] PCMCIA IDE/ATA HDD - what a mouthful
Hi, I have the above and when I insert the card, it is detected as hdlx, with the x as partitions on the HDD. I looked in my /dev dir and it only goes to hdhx. Someone told be to use insmod, but I lost the plot when I was asked to input major and minor numbers for the block device. What numbers do I chose? It's a waste of 2Gb of HD if I can't get it going in Linux. It works fine in M$. Any help appreciated, but please go slow. Running KDE1.1.1, MDK 6.0. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Sound
Hi, Running KDE1.1.1, Mandrake6.0. Whenever I boot up my notebook(not often- about once a week), I do not get any sound until I run sndconfig. Everything runs fine on the sndconfig, and then it tells me that I already have a config file and would I like to overwrite. I hit yes and I'm away. It's more irritating that anything else. My initial trouble shooting brought me to realise that one of the problems was because my FDD (external - from the parallel port) and the sound card was like seeing who would get the first DMA. But, if I leave my FDD continuously plugged in, I would still get this problem. Same problems encountered when I was running RH6.0. Any suggestions, anyone? -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Netscape Mail Threading
Hi all, Netscape hgas a habit of putting my message threads in the wrong places, ie sometimes a mail doesn't joing a particular thread and sometimes a totally different message gets appended to a thread. ANd this has not been helped by some posters who either post something twice or their email program foes it for them. Has anyone else seen this, or am I the only one (not the double posting). I have tried to get Netscape to re-sort by first sorting by date and then change to sort by thread, but to no avail. Any workarounds, or any recommendations for a more capable mail client? Oh I miss Eudora, but not the crashes. It seems rather silly if I have to run Eudora in VMware. Any suggestion, recommendations appreciated. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] MacMillan's Complete Linux Operating System 6.5
They said the reason they are calling it Complete Linux Operating System 6.5 is that ANY revision version is automatically incremented by .5. Thus, when Mandrake 6.2 comes out, it's going to be called "The Complete Linux Operating System 7.0" (unless they decide to change their naming convention G) John How does that add up ;-) Ronald Yeo
Re: [newbie] Office Suites
"PSM 0x2710]" wrote: So what is the general opinion of Star Office? Does anyone recommend it seriously or is there something that would do the job just as well? Thanks all! I admire the effort put into StarOffice but I feel it is still quite kludgy. At the same time, we must not forget that pgms like M$Office, WP, etc have gone thru' millenniums of evolution compared to StarOffice. It's biggest selling point (I know it's free) is perhaps its 'ability' to translate M$Office documents. That's what I use it for mostly, although it has a habit of screwing up even your simplest formatting of Excel and Powerpoint. Speaking of which, what is the difference (read, fixes and improvement) of Sun's 5.1a over 5.1? -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Run LEVEL 5
Ctl+Alt+BkSp should get you out of KDE and into a console. Try editing your /etc/inittab and make sure this line is uncommented: id:3:initdefault: If there is a line that says the same thing, but with "5" in it, change it to "3" w/o the quotes. Don't go for the seventh time :-) Good luck. Good luck -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] X server and Accelerated X
I have one of those NeoMagic graphics cards with 2.5Mb RAM running on a notebook(KDE1.1.1 Mandrake6.0). I have tried to use the XFCom servers available from Redhat's site. Only thing it has done for me is disable my backspace and delete keys. Have tried stty erase to no avail. The only solution was to use ^H, so I went back to the XFree SVGA as I could not see any difference. Then I tried using the demo version of Accelerated X. Again, no difference, so I got out of my KDE session and tried to startx again. THe X server refuses to start with a message like "Authentication Failed". The only solution was to uninstall Accel X. My two questions are: What improvements do I expect to see over a generic (SVGA) server? Has anobody got any ideas on the problem I encountered with the Accel X ? If there is a real performance boost(presuming I can get it working) , I would like to get the Accel X package. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
