Re: [newbie] HP 1350 and what OCR and scaning software to use?
On May 3, 2004 03:49 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, I bought a HP psc 1350 multifunction for the school and I want to use it under linux... The scanner work strait out of the box under MDK9.2 Then I used PrinterDrake to setup the printer and he found a lazerjet 1300... I waited and waited for the print test. So I run the wizard again and chose the psc 1200 (there is just a small difference with 1350) The computer asked for the MDK cds to install some packages I gess and now it is printing. One small problem: If I turn on the printer after I started the computer, I get a test paper printed out every time. Does any one have the same problem? Is it coming from the fact that I setup not exactly the psc 1350 driver? What software do you recommend for scanning pictures and for text? I googled and found xsane, kooka and GTK-ocr (they are also on the MDK 9.2cds)... Is there a way to save strait to PDF format? Any comments? Bye Christophe If i understand correctly Kooka uses the same engine as xsane: they both use sane! Have you run the printerdrake? What driver options is it giving you? I would suggest to look at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility for my comments on a HP multifunction laserjet 3330. I was having a similar slow printing problem. I switched the driver from postscript to HPIJS+ghoastscript and it solved the slowness! Ramin -- Linux user #310496 ¨The greatest weapon of the fascist, Is the tolerance of the pacifist.¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?
Hi, I have recently got an HP3330 printer, scanner, copier, fax. Look at the twiki page on how to set it up: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/LaserJet. Regards, Ramin On March 29, 2004 10:21 am, rhein wrote: Hello, I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copier) like HP, Lexmark or Canon. I checked on the boxes in the shop but nothing is mentioned about linux. Does any one on this list have any experience with it? Thank you Christophe -- Linux user #310496 ¨The greatest weapon of the fascist, Is the tolerance of the pacifist.¨ 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 kill printer queu?
In the terminal: lpq Gives the list of print jobs. Then either lprm ¨print job #¨ or cancel ¨print job #¨ cancel the job. I don´t remember the exact format. But it is essentially like those. Try also man lprm man cancel man lpq man lpr Regards, Ramin On March 29, 2004 07:32 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I'm having a HP deskjet 3325 attached at a usb port and it runs like a charm. But a while ago I had major problems printing documents and had to breack it of. Now it seems that there is still a lot of pages in the queue, so for the last half hour my cartridge is getting waisted on stuff I don't need. Does anybody know how to find out if there's more to come and most importantly, how to cancel it? I'm running mdk 9.1 by the way. Cheers, Marco -- Linux user #310496 ¨The greatest weapon of the fascist, Is the tolerance of the pacifist.¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community available to club members...
On March 17, 2004 04:01 am, Tim wrote: The last time I checked, the silver membership was $120 USD per year. Ramin wrote: blockquote type=cite cite=[EMAIL PROTECTED] pre wrap= I wonder if you meant to buy the boxed versions while you were a club member? So you really wanted to help Mandrake, right? Otherwise you could just go either way but not both? SO i donacute;t understand the point of the complaint when it was your decision to support Mandrake. I also decided to support Mandrake so i became a club member but did not want to over-support them by buying the boxed versions! Overall being a club member has advantages over buying the boxed version in particular if you have broad band internet connection. This way you can better keep your system up-to-date in particular nowadays that very often a newer version of some application appears! Besides with a yearly silver membership, you almost gain three consecutive versions of Mandrake for $60 which is just a bit more than the price of the powerpack version. If you buy two powerpack boxes each year , you will pay about $110 each year! So being a club member is very economical. Regards, Ramin Sorry, my typo mistake! You are right: $120/year. When i purchased my silver membership for one year, i calculated that i have 9.2 available right now, and before my membership expires, i can have two more versions of Mandrake. That makes it 3 versions of Mandrake for $120. Though now i am not that willing to update to 10, as i have spent some time and have downloaded a lot of packages and i will have to do things from first if i decide to install 10! Besides i am not quite sure all packages that i want, are available now for 10. But a better advantage of club membership to buying a box, is perhaps constant access to up-to-date ready-made packages through club download sites. Even if one wants to compile an application from the source, as i did recently with Gimp 2.0pre4, i could easily find all necessary libraries to compile Gimp on my machine without any error. Regards, Ramin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail again; unable to send
On March 17, 2004 01:48 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Okay, please bear with me; I seem to be having one of my stupid days ... :-\ So, I found and installed Kmail, looked around, and decided it just might meet my needs better than Evolution has. Fine. I'm receiving mail just fine, filtering it, blah, blah, blah, blah ... however, I just went to send a message and I get errors. (See below) I know this isn't rocket science, and I've successfully set up a multitude of e-mail clients for SMTP before, but for some reason this is just escaping me. With every attempted send, I get: Sending failed: Unknown error Unexpected server response to EHLO command. The server responded: Unknown command The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. The following transport protocol was used: and that's it. I'm just using my standard smtp address for my ISP's server (and have double- and triple-checked for spelling errors there), and the server doesn't require any special log-in procedure of which I'm aware (didn't set any up when I was in Evolution), so I'm just at a loss as to what stupid thing I may be overlooking, or if there's some quirky setting in Kmail that I'm just not seeing. Any ideas as to what I'm glossing over? (And, since you will theoretically shortly be receiving this via a send from Evolution, I think we can rule out server difficulties...) TIA ... Once i had a similar problem, and i found out that that far left icon i was clicking on (the standard location for send the mail, i think) was not for sending email, but for some thing else. So just in case, make sure you´re clicking on the right icon to send your email! Ramin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community available to club members...
I wonder if you meant to buy the boxed versions while you were a club member? So you really wanted to help Mandrake, right? Otherwise you could just go either way but not both? SO i don´t understand the point of the complaint when it was your decision to support Mandrake. I also decided to support Mandrake so i became a club member but did not want to over-support them by buying the boxed versions! Overall being a club member has advantages over buying the boxed version in particular if you have broad band internet connection. This way you can better keep your system up-to-date in particular nowadays that very often a newer version of some application appears! Besides with a yearly silver membership, you almost gain three consecutive versions of Mandrake for $60 which is just a bit more than the price of the powerpack version. If you buy two powerpack boxes each year , you will pay about $110 each year! So being a club member is very economical. Regards, Ramin On March 5, 2004 06:07 am, Walt Frampus wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 04:07, Derek Jennings wrote: If Club members have absolutlely no privileges, not available to non members then they would be whining instead of you. Not surprisingly MandrakeSoft want to please the people who actually pay something. Let's see, I purchased MY copies of mandrake since 1999. I have every version BTW, since then. I guess beta testing and reporting bugs means nothing. I don't see the point in a 'club' anyway, I am not going to pay for something twice. I will either wait for the boxed set or move on to another distro, which is what linux is all about, freedom of choice. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] S.O.S: Help with full root directory!
On March 7, 2004 06:15 pm, Timothy W. Powell wrote: I have been experiencing a similar problem with a full root directory and was wondering if you could share with me the cause of your problem. I also use Mandrake Linux and any insight you might offer would be appreciated. Thanks, Tim Powell I posted the problem on the expert list and some body helped me out of the problem. I am quoting two of his answers here: ¨On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Ramin M wrote: This is /etc/fstab. By the way, it is always telling the line three in /etc/fstab is bad at boot time or when i run mount -a!? I had changed the line three because by default a user was not able to login into his/her account due to not having write permissions by default! So i added umask=0 0 0! /dev/sdb1 / jfs defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/sda6 /home jfs defaults umask=0 0 0 Bingo! The /home partition is failing to mount (because umask is not a valid option for jfs filesystems, AFAICT - and even if it is, the syntax would need to be defaults,umask=0 to be valid). This could lead to files that are intended to be written onto /dev/sda6 ending up within the /home dir on /dev/sdb1 instead (see my other message). Use mount by itself to determine exactly what is - and isn't - mounted at any given moment. This fstab line should be corrected, to: /dev/sda6 /home jfs defaults 1 2 Permissions on individual files and dirs within that partition should be adjusted with chmod/chown, once the partition itself is mounted properly. To determine what may be within /home on /dev/sdb1 - and being hidden once /dev/sda6 is mounted - your best bet may be to boot to the rescue system on Mandrake CD #1 (type F1 at the first splash screen, then rescue at the prompt), and go to the console *without* mounting your partitions first. Then mount /dev/sdb1 on /mnt, like so: mount -t jfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt And have a look around in what will now be /mnt/home. A Knoppix CD would also be a good choice for this task, if you have one handy.¨ and ¨On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Ramin M wrote: Actually i was downloading mandrake 9.2.1 iso images when this problem arose. The download destination was /home and they are still there. During that half an hour i finished the download. Does this mean these files (which are large are hidden somewhere in / directory? Yup, within the /home directory (instead of on the partition that is customarily mounted as /home - which is where they belong). However /home is not among the /mnt directories. Do you recommend to do the same for /home (unmount and remount)? Yes, but that's not the easiest thing to do on a running system - you should either a) reboot using a rescue disk, a Knoppix CD, or similar, or b) type init 1 at a root prompt, to bring the system down to runlevel one (a.k.a. single-user mode). The former method may be somewhat easier, all things considered - especially the Knoppix option. Also you mention each of the mount point directories should be empty before i remount it. Does this mean i have to format my windows directories before to empty them? I will do it if i have to but then i have to re-install windows again. No, not at all - what I mean is that the mountpoints themselves (which are directories) should be empty before mounting the partitions (which contain your data) onto them. Perhaps an example is in order here ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /mnt/hdb1/ 542xvgal.exe* modems/ Program Files/ Bin/ Multimedia Files/ Recycled/ download/ My Documents/ System Volume Information/ fromlinux/ My Download Files/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo umount /mnt/hdb1 Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /mnt/hdb1/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Note that once I have unmounted the partition that I customarily mount at /mnt/hdb1, the mountpoint - the directory /mnt/hdb1 itself - is empty. Now, let's create a file or two there: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo touch /mnt/hdb1/file1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo touch /mnt/hdb1/file2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo touch /mnt/hdb1/file3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /mnt/hdb1/ file1 file2 file3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Okay, let's mount the partition back on there, and look at the results: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /mnt/hdb1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /mnt/hdb1/ 542xvgal.exe* modems/ Program Files/ Bin/ Multimedia Files/ Recycled/ download/ My Documents/ System Volume Information/ fromlinux/ My Download Files/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ The files we created are now hidden *under* the mounted filesystem. Of course, they have 0 length (because I used touch to create them), but if they were larger, it would make no difference; I still wouldn't be able to see them, but they still would exist ... and whatever space they take up would be space considered in use on the root filesystem. So, the point is that anything now on your various partitions can be left alone - it's what's *beneath* them, on the *root
[newbie] omposer is missing from the menus: what is the command for running it?
After updating to the lastest version of mozilla (thanks to Charles Edwards), the mozilla composer is missing from the menus. In this situation i have to open mozilla first and from there open the file in the composer which make things a bit uncomfortable. I would like to add the mozilla composer to the menus. However i need to know which command runs it. Can somebody who has it listed in the menus telling me which command would run it? I guess you only need to check this only through the menu editor. Best regards, Ramin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Which application for playing audio files *.cda´s?
Hi, I can´t find which application under Linux can play audio files ending .cda. None of the standard ones like xmms, KsCD, Totem, Kaboodle, or Noatun that i have tried can handle such files. Regards, Ramin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] S.O.S: Help with full root directory!
Hi, I am getting full root directory problem! I was not able to login to KDE due to this, Fortunately i could login to xfce and i uninstalled some applications to free space. through this way i gained about 700MG from my 7.8GB / directory which was %99.9 full! I managed to login to KDE. Shortly later (just less than half an hour!!!), i am again getting %99 full / directory and i am afraid this may very soon cause problems. So what should i do? Strangely when i take properties of each subdirectory, and add the fulled spaces, i get only half full root directory as follows: Total space on / partition: 7.8GB Free space: only %1 ( according to using KDE storage devices or running df ) Taking properties of each subdirectory, i got: /bin 5.6MB /boot 8.4MB /dev 208B /etc 21.8MB /home 4.3GB /initrd116B /lib 61.2MB /mnt 14.4GB /opt 24.7MB /proc 896MB /root 46.9MB /sbin 9.8MB /tmp 932.4KB /usr 2.2GB /var 437.2MB Total without /home and /mnt which are essentially on separate paritions than / : 3716MB or 3.8GB approximately! So what are filling the rest of the root directory?! And why are not they showing in any subdirectory?! As you see /tmp is quite small and /usr/tmp is not that big either. However out of choice i tried to pass the ¨empty /tmp at each boot¨ to the kernel at boot time through hardrake boot configuration utility. But it seems not working!? It does not hold the option as running the boot configuration again shows that box is unchecked again by itself! Why does it not hold the box checked?! Right now i am in Mandrake but i am afraid next time i may not be able to boot up or login again. Best regards, Ramin -- Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Do I need to block these ports
On February 8, 2004 05:29 am, Lanman wrote: Maureen; It would be a good idea to block those ports even though they are fairly safe as is. Head into your Mandrake Control Center and find the Security section, where you can setup your firewall. That should allow you to block off the ports that you don't want open. Lanman I am having two unused ports open. However firewall setup in the mandrake control center, the security section does not give me any option to close those ports. In advance mode, it only gives the option to open ports ¨Which services would you like to allows the internet to connect to?¨ Then some general options such as ftp, ssh or everything are mentioned to be checked or not and a box where i can open the specified ports! Besides i don´t know where is the file where one can add lines for the to close/open ports. There is a file /etc/services which apparently is just for information, right? Regards, Ramin -- Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus problems
I haven´t been in Windows for a while and if i was i never logined to my this yahoo account that is dedicated to mailing list such as this (actually right now only this mailing list). The only email address i have in the address book is of this mailing list and it is not on the server but just on my PC. However i just received two emails about returned emails form me with virus attachments. I don´t know what can be understood from this. Regards, Ramin On February 4, 2004 04:36 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Increasingly, members of this list are being accused of sending virused emails. I know that some of you have no choice but to use windows for part of your life, but PLEASE, if you do, check that you are clean. Our addresses are being picked up from somewhere, and more and more clues point to someone who uses linux mailing lists. The warning I received this morning was from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne -- Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Burning CD´s with K3b: i finally made it.
Well i was not able to burn, copy or write to CD´s and i was losing Cd´s one after one.! There were many configuration options that i had to test to see which one would work for me. For writing to a CD from hard drive: it turned out that i had to switch from DAO mode to TAO mode. It then worked. For burning on the fly even though i had done SCSI emulation for my dvd-rom following the instructions i had got from this mailing list but still no success. It turned out that i need to pass some commands to cdrdao to have it use special drivers for the specific cd writer and dvd rom that i have. Looking at the file /usr/share/cdrdao/drivers which gives the list of drivers for various cd writers and roms, i found out what drivers cdrdao needs to use. Then i created a file .cdrdao in my home directory and wrote these lines in the file: write_device: 1,0,0 write_driver: generic-mmc-raw read_device: 1,1,0 read_driver: generic-mmc. Now i am able to burn on the fly directly from cd to cd. -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XCDRoast goes belly up!
Have you tried the followings: 1- delete the .xcdroast directory from your home directory and run xcdroast set-up again? And if it does not help: 2- uninstall xcdroast and reinstall it. Regards, Ramin On February 1, 2004 01:01 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all I've been using XCDroast for burning music CDs for the last 3 years or so and found it a brilliant program to use. However, in the last couple of days it has been unable to read CDs, telling me that there is no CD in the drive. At first, I thought that maybe the CDRW hardware was f***d and was on the verge of buying a new one (it's fairly old and slow) but I have still been able to burn CDs using Adaptec software under Windows (something I would prefer not to have to do). The following is an excerpt from dmesg which may or may not be relevant: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. (There is) sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sr0: CDROM not ready yet. sr0: CDROM not ready yet. sr0: CDROM not ready yet. sr0: CDROM not ready yet. sr0: CDROM not ready yet. sr0: CDROM not ready yet. sr0: disc change detected. sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. I'm totally lost with this. The hardware, a Mitsumi CR-4802TE, is apparently sound under Windows and until a couple of days ago it did the business under MDK 9.2 Any ideas? Cheers, -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AlsaMixer settings not saved after reboot
On January 31, 2004 12:51 pm, Cane Kostovski wrote: Hello, I have a Sound Blaster Live! sound card. I didn't have sound until I openned a Konsole, SU, and ran the command alsamixer and increased the volume on the Master Column and hit the m key to unmute it. Now it works great, BUT when I reboot, it mutes again. How can I save the ALSA Mixer settings so that I have sound when I reboot? Thanks in advance for any help I can get. TrekJunky In Kmix there is an option to save the current setting as default. -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2
To know if you CD-ROM is emulated as scsi, you may run the following command (as root): cdrecord -scanbus. On January 30, 2004 11:35 am, Viking Skull wrote: Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a week now, but I'm having a major problem. Whenever I try to access the CD-ROM drive it just freezes the desktop.. I cant play music CD's and i cant do anything with data CD's either. The CD-ROM drive is a HP one and is recognised by Linux.. it just seems to crash it whenever I access it. It also crashes when right-clicking on it. The weird thing is, is that somewhere Mandrake told me it was a SCSI drive, when in fact it's an IDE drive. Can anyone help me!? Thanks, Viking _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working
You can simply remove the icon and add a new one for your home directory. After adding the icon and opening your home directory, you probably need to run configure view profiles (in settings) to save your setting so that next time when you click on the icon, it opens you home directory. Ramin On January 27, 2004 06:39 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated. TIA Steve -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working
Before re-installation, you could try more simpler things. You could for example remove the KDE directory from the home directory. It should create a new one once you login again. If this problem is only for one specific use, you could even remove that user and add a new one. Ramin On January 27, 2004 08:08 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Thx Dennis. I don't know what I did but a lot of things wern't working. I lost my browser which is why the window would not open. I could not open the desktop config either. Since I had no idea what I messed up I just reloaded the entire install. I had just put this in over the weekend so it was no big thing. I need to keep track of what I play with so I can recover next time. On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:39 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated. TIA Steve Sounds like a permissions problem. Did you change security level or add a user etc? Try resetting the permissions to you. HTH -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bittorrent: which version on 9.2?
Hi, May i know which version of bittorrent you are using on 9.2? I see there are 3.2.1b-6mdk, 3.3-2mdk, 3.3-3.92mdk, shadowsclient 5.8.7-1mdk available. The first one seems a beta version. The second one refused to install and apparently it is from unsupported. The third one want to remove kdelibs-commons before installing which i think is an important package so i should not remove it. The shadowsclient is an experimental one so not sure if it works OK. So which one would you recommend? Thanks, Ramin -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Computer Options
Have you checked www.ebay.com? Regards, Ramin On January 21, 2004 04:34 pm, Colin O'Connor wrote: Hello, I'm looking to buy a few cheap desktop systems to do development. I like what Dell has to offer in terms of specs and prices. I have one question to start: 1) Is there anywhere I can get a comparable system without Windows, possibly making it less expensive? Thanks, Colin -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Best Softwares
Generally look at http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml On January 23, 2004 03:14 pm, André Tapxure Gabriel wrote: People, I'm trying to substitute Windows in all of my clients by Mandrake. First Step: Install mandrake on my computer and learn how it works By installing mandrake on my computer, I noted that a lot of software is missing or is not in the default installation so I decided to write to this list Somebody can tell me the list of most used software to replace Windows software? Microsoft Office Open office, Koffice, star office (propriety) Microsoft Outlook Mozilla messenger though i am using kmail and evolution. Microsoft internet Explorer Konqueror, mozilla, mozilla firebird, opera, galeon Ahead Nero Corel Draw Photoshop gimp Audio CAtalyst Download Acelerator Imesh Macromedia Studio Quick Time Sound Forge Trillian ICQ MSN MEssenger Kopete, Gaim JPEG Optimizer Thanks André Tapxure Gabriel -- Ramin M Linux user #310496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] photo printers
Hi, I know little about printers and now i need to buy one: I would like to buy a photo printer and i would like to know your opnion on the following: 1- Which photo printers (in terms of brands models) are best supported under Linux and Mandrake in particular? I mean to have the most functionality of the printer . 2- I also need a general purpose printer for printing .dvi, .ps, .pdf and office documents formats. Which printer (brand model) is then recommended? 3- The best for me is a printer that can do both jobs. Is there such a printer available? Any comment is appreciated. I should say that i am not sure if i can simply trust the available hardware support databases. I think hearing about real experiences would more helpful to me. Or you can just tell me which printer you are using and if you are satisfied with it. Thanks, Ramin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] error with Kget
Hi, I am wondering if any body here having problem with downloading files through Kget. Very often it gives the following error: Could not write to /home/raminolta/xfce/bzlkfcwl.csv.part. It is not clear why it want to write to that specific directory in /xfce in /home/raminolta and why it can not do this. I have no problem downloading through other browsers. Regards, Ramin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
Apparently Galeon was the source of problem and by removing it, all the previously malfunctioning clicks are properly working now. I guess i would not really need Galeon as Konqueror, Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird are doing a good job all together. I have also installed Opera 7.50 pre-release version. Font rendering still ugly. I see if i can do some thing about this. Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 06:35 pm, Margot wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, Margot wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so that replies go to the list and not to your own email address, please unset the reply-to in your messages. How do i do it? Ramin In my Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.2 you go to Edit menu, Click on Mail Newsgroups Account Settings, and on the first screen you should see a box marked Reply-to Address (below the boxes marked 'Your Name' and 'Email Address'). The Reply-to Address box should be empty! There is probably something similar in Mozilla 1.5 - I haven't upgraded yet. If you can't find it, let me know off-list and I'll send you some screenshots of my setup that might help. Margot Well, you seem to have got the Reply-to sorted now - so, back to the real problem... which I probably can't help with as I've never encountered such problems myself! Although I'm no expert, it sounds as if your Moz installation is corrupted in some way. How did you install it? Did you use urpmi? I had various odd problems with previous Moz installations where I didn't use urpmi - but since I discovered urpmi I've had no problems. If nobody else has any better suggestions, I suggest you uninstall Mozilla and then reinstall using urpmi. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
Hopefully this is corrected. I was getting two of your each email. However my original problem with Mozilla is not fixed yet :-( Ramin On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, you wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so that replies go to the list and not to your own email address, please unset the reply-to in your messages. How do i do it? Ramin In my Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.2 you go to Edit menu, Click on Mail Newsgroups Account Settings, and on the first screen you should see a box marked Reply-to Address (below the boxes marked 'Your Name' and 'Email Address'). The Reply-to Address box should be empty! There is probably something similar in Mozilla 1.5 - I haven't upgraded yet. If you can't find it, let me know off-list and I'll send you some screenshots of my setup that might help. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, Margot wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so that replies go to the list and not to your own email address, please unset the reply-to in your messages. How do i do it? Ramin In my Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.2 you go to Edit menu, Click on Mail Newsgroups Account Settings, and on the first screen you should see a box marked Reply-to Address (below the boxes marked 'Your Name' and 'Email Address'). The Reply-to Address box should be empty! There is probably something similar in Mozilla 1.5 - I haven't upgraded yet. If you can't find it, let me know off-list and I'll send you some screenshots of my setup that might help. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
Thanks, i will try it. My installation has been through the mandrake standard package installing which i assume is essentially a gui for urpmi. Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 06:35 pm, Margot wrote: Well, you seem to have got the Reply-to sorted now - so, back to the real problem... which I probably can't help with as I've never encountered such problems myself! Although I'm no expert, it sounds as if your Moz installation is corrupted in some way. How did you install it? Did you use urpmi? I had various odd problems with previous Moz installations where I didn't use urpmi - but since I discovered urpmi I've had no problems. If nobody else has any better suggestions, I suggest you uninstall Mozilla and then reinstall using urpmi. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how it performs. I am using XOSL as my boot loader which come with Ranish partition manager and i can install windows2k on the third partition while the first two partitions are FAT or NTFS! I however do not use hidden fat (it may work though, but i don´t remember what was the problem). I record the first two partitions as linux type using RPM even though they are windows type! This way is guaranteed to work for me. Windows98 is older and i think hiding FAT partitions is very likely to work. So if it was me, the first way i would try is using Mandrake partition manager to hide the first two windows partitions and write the setting to the MBR. Then i would start installing Windows98. I should repeat that i have not tried this myself before, but the Mandrake 9.2 partition manager seems very reliable (it was not the case for Mandrake 9.0 to my opinion). Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 09:45 pm, Joe wrote: A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE that doesn't run under XP, havn't tried it under wine...yet). Did a quick search on google and found this page: http://www.vamos.de/english/bootman2.html#dos It is an OS2 tool that can hide a primary partition from windows so that it sees the second partition as c: Is there a way to do this with lilo or grub? Is there an easier way? TIA for suggestions. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
Hello, I would like to know if any of you have had similar experiences with Mozilla: Some of the clicks simply do not respond: If i click file and then click open file, nothing happens. The same if i click save page as !? This is particulary annoying if i am in Mozilla composer, since i can not open a file from from there. If i have Mozilla composer opened and then open Mozilla web browser, it opens a windows for definning a new user profile. The clicks of ¨work off-line¨ and ¨finish¨ do not work either. I have been using a turn around solution like the file i want to open with composer, i first saveit or define it as an html file, then i right-click on it and ¨open with¨ Mozilla composer. This way works. Similar problems: in Mozilla, if i login into my Yahoo email account, i can not send any email since clicking on ¨send¨ simply does not work. This is really restricting the usability of Mozilla for me. :-( Regards, Ramin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?
On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so that replies go to the list and not to your own email address, please unset the reply-to in your messages. How do i do it? Ramin Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE
Hi, Just in case: Have you also checked the light/dark green circles above each volume setting? Regards, Ramin On January 9, 2004 02:07 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: Doug wrote: Copied from my /etc/modules.conf probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 Are there any soundcard-like listings when you issue 'lspci' (as root) None Is there a sound entry in 'cat /proc/devices' # cat /proc/devices 14 sound Do you have a /dev/sound directory ? Yes Did you install the updates for 9.1? There are loads of them I used both Mandrake Control Center and urpmi to update this machine each week, or when MDK issues an update email. Many questions, but since you get sound from CD's, I still think your mixer has muted pcm. Could be...so where does one fined and fix the ' muted pcm' problem, if that is the problem? Well, all your tests above suggets that you DO have a soundcard :) No output from lspci indicates, to me, that you have an ISA-cards, or at least not a pci-card. I think you can bypass KDE and mixer-setting by using 'play' if its installed.Try 'play --device=/dev/sound/dsp a_sound_file_in_wav_format.wav' If you get a 'device busy' message, wait a minute and try again Now, if you _do_ get sound then, your physical setting are ok. (which they are since you could play cd's) Then check KMix again. Right-click the icon in the taskbar, show mixer and check the 3rd item from left, wich should be pcm. There's a tooltip at the little icon above each slider. Volume up, and not muted. If it doesn't work, then I have to leave it to some expert, since I'm out of ideas good luck /Björn Thanks for your help Bjorn.. I really do appreciate it. But nothing seems to work at the moment. I did the 'play --device=/dev/sound/dsp a_sound_file_in_wav_format.wav' command as you suggested and the .wav file played nicely. I checked the KMix settings and Pcm is at the same level as my CD and general Volume settings. I open XMMS and try to play a .wav fils...it looks to be runing yet no sound issues from the speakers. I open Kaboodle to try another sound program and the same happensthe .wav files looks to be playing, yet no sound issues from speakers. This is maddening... Any other ideas? Anyone? Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 160487 - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
I got this message. I am myself almost or mostly a newbie so very seldom i may know the answer of some question. Ramin On January 8, 2004 05:37 pm, Warren Post wrote: For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?
Hi, Would you tell me what these options should be in a practical example. For example my internet provider is videotron (videotron.ca). Now I assume localhost is videotron and localhost.localdomain is videotron.ca. Am i right? And if so, what is my hostname and my domain name then? (sorry if my question is kinda too dump.) Thanks, Ramin On January 7, 2004 07:34 am, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: You have to have the 2 lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.1 yourhostname yourhostname.yourdomainname Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?
Overall good. I had initially a lot of freezing which i found out being related to APIC and ACPI. Finally i disabled APIC (while running ACPI) and i haven had any freezing for two days. Other than this the system seems super fast (other than booting time) in particular Konqueror seems the fastest web browser or file manager to me now! Right now my main problem seems to be with some applications itself seem to be buggy. For example the movie/dvd players are far from ideal! Ogle for example just crashes on my machine. Regards, Ramin On January 5, 2004 07:43 am, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? I recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2. I know lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but perhaps most of the bugs have been worked out? Are there any common bugs I should know about? I just returned from a break so I'd be interested what all of you think Thanks Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?
Overall good. I had initially a lot of freezing which i found out being related to APIC and ACPI. Finally i disabled APIC (while running ACPI) and i haven had any freezing for two days. Other than this the system seems super fast (other than booting time) in particular Konqueror seems the fastest web browser or file manager to me now! Right now my main problem seems to be with some applications itself seem to be buggy. For example the movie/dvd players are far from ideal! Ogle for example just crashes on my machine. Regards, Ramin On January 5, 2004 07:43 am, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? I recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2. I know lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but perhaps most of the bugs have been worked out? Are there any common bugs I should know about? I just returned from a break so I'd be interested what all of you think Thanks Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] power down
I am having the same situation! I have disabled ACPI and now at the final moment i have to push the power button to turn off the computer. However i don´t have any complaint about this. It is quite normal to do this! With ACPI on, the Mandrake was able to physically turn off the machine. Apparantly Mandrake can not handle ACPI on my machine and it was freezing like hell. NOw very rarley it freeze. So just push that button at the end. It is so easy! Regards, Ramin --- Gary Schauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed 9.2 on my old machine a pentium2 with an intel motherboard,it when i go to shut down it goes through the entire process but will not shut of the computer. I reinstalled suse and it works good. Does anybody know a fix for this as I want to reinstall mandrake 9.2 on the old machine -- Gary Schauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enabling hyper threading.
What is hyper threading? Regards, Ramin --- Steven Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am about 85% sure that Mandrake 9.2 has hyper threading support. If Mandrake 9.2 does have hyper threading support will someone tell how to enable it? From, Steven _ Expand your wine savvy and get some great new recipes at MSN Wine. http://wine.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Thanks David for the tip. I willcheck if i need to recompile the kernel for usb support. I hope not because i am not that knowledgeable in these. Regards, RaminDavid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
I simply did this through the hardware control center where it has an option for activating/disactivating ACPI. The output is /etc/lilo/conf is acpi=ht. Regards, Ramin --- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:55:58 -0500 (EST) Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Just out of curiosity, how did you disable ACPI, is it in /etc/lilo.conf, in the append line, ie. ACPI=off? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.-- Timothy Leary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
My main problems have been 1- freezings: that were solved by disactivating ACPI. 2- no sound: solved by switching to ALSA (in KDE control center) and raising the sound volumes in kmix. 3- I connected a USB multi card reader. Though it is seen by Mandrake, but nothing happens (and i don´t know what to do next. More minor problems: 1- I still don have sound from the back speakers (i have a 5.1 system). 2- I had to reinstall the Mandrake once again for some reason and noticed that if i do the upgrades from another server, the menus in KDE do not break. 3- I am going to test CD burning performance in Mandrake and will let you know about the result. Regards, Ramin --- P J Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still waiting to install 9.2 but after reading all the problems with 9.2 I am undecided. Any feedback on this would be helpfull. - Original Message - From: Ramin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 11:55 PM Subject: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often Hi, I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Thanks to all those who tried to give me some hints. Regards, Ramin __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2
This is a general question also relevant to the particular case of XFCE4.0.2: If i choose to install xfce through mandrake installtion, does it automaticly remove the older version. I am asking this because when i high light this option as the current install version it says none. So it seems it does not understand that i have already installed an older version xfce 3.8.18. Thanks, Ramin --- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake 9.2 rpm for xfce-4.0.2 are now available from my site. 4.0.2 is a bug-fix release. Changes: * Improve window manager responsiveness * Various bug fixes in file manager, window manager and panel * More 64bit clean up * New translations added: Azerbaijani I have not updated the webpage index yet so you will need to use urpmi. Charles -- If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. - Woody Allen -- Mandrake Linux 9.2 Registered Linux user #182463 Machine: TallBoy #184143 http://www.eslrahc.com -- ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2
Thanks for the reply. I assume this means that KDE automaticly adds an option for XFCE 4 beside XFCE 3. However my question has been more general. For example, i would like to upgrade to Gimp 1.3 and again the mandrake installer does not recognize that i already have Gimp 1.2.5. So does it mean that eventually i will have two versions of gimp and if so, which one is integrated to the whole desktop like when i click on open with gimp which version open up the picture The same question for Mozilla that i would like to upgradde from 1.4 to 1.5. Best regards, Ramin --- John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 Nice thing about xfce4 is that you don't have to uninstall old 3.8 versions. They can both be installed at the same time and everything will still be happy! grin John __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Hi, I finally found the source of the problem! It was not because of dri module as E. Hines suggested. I just disabled the ACPI at boot time and now all the freezings are gone! Now i can feel the strength of 9.2! It is so fast; it seems even faster that windows XP. Konqueror has seen a dramatic change in speed: it just pops up once you click! Thanks to all those who tried to give me some hints. Regards, Ramin --- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with the Mobility version of this card on a laptop. There is something wrong with the dri (direct rendering) implementation with the drivers, but I haven't heard that the problem extends beyond the mobility chip. My lockups would occur at shutdown, however, and only very rarely during use. Just as a test, you might try commenting out the # Load dri line in your xconfig-4 Module section, to see if the problem might go away. GLX doesn't look too good if your system acts up running gears, either, but one thing at a time. Perhaps SuSe is writing the xconfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat differently than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use Mandrake because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. e On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
--- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Sorry, is this in reply to my problem? Why should i turn off this in BIOS? Regards, Regards, Ramin __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
It is getting better now as the lockup´s are less frequent than before but still they happen. A few minutes ago, i was typing a message that the OS suddenly rebooted the machine with no apparant reason! Yes i am dual booting with windows. Regards, Ramin --- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, how long does it take to freeze? and is it dual booted with M$? i have no lockup problems at all ever... -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux http://counter.li.org AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
--- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday Have any other users out there noticed that the /home/username directory isn't user writable after installation? I haven't seen that one before (and I installed 9.2 on a friends laptop last week). The lockups are happening less than before, though this is the second time that i am writing this message! The first time, when i was typing, the OS suddenly rebooted the machine! Actually there were some there (perhaps minor) problems during the installation like when during partitioning i mount a particular partition and then i decide to unmount it because i forgot the format the partition, it gives me error and does not unmount the partition. Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner I haven yet got time to check if my scanner is detected and works under mandrake. Nor have i checked if the how properly my cd burner and dvd/cd rom work. The sound is by default mute. I have to change the sound to advanced linux sound system to have it work and unmute the sounds! Yeah, people have been complaining about this for over a year. . Right now my main problem is that it freezes so often. It freezes when i am just in konqueror or mozilla serfing the web! The whole OS freezes. No mouse, or keyboard functioning! Even ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to run level one does not work. It freezed also once after i ran a command in the terminal to add a ftp address to the list of download mirror sites. If somebody can tell me where to look for the source of problem and what i can do in this regard, i would be very grateful. Please tell me if you are experiencing similar problems or not and if so, what you have done to remedy the situation. This sounds very much like a hardware problem. My first guess, from the symptom, is that it is an issue with the video card/driver combination. Tell us about your hardware. I'm still using 9.1, because it works flawlessly on numerous desktop and laptop systems where I've installed it (although I had to do some tweaking on a couple of them because of hardware issues), and I just can't see a reason to upgrade--yet. e. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
I have heard that nvidia graphic cards usually work better under linux and mandrake already includes them in the power pack version like the ati drivers. Do you know about if they are trouble free unlike the ati cards? I am thinking to buy one and sell out my ati card. Financially this is not much loss. Regards, Ramin --- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with the Mobility version of this card on a laptop. There is something wrong with the dri (direct rendering) implementation with the drivers, but I haven't heard that the problem extends beyond the mobility chip. My lockups would occur at shutdown, however, and only very rarely during use. Just as a test, you might try commenting out the # Load dri line in your xconfig-4 Module section, to see if the problem might go away. GLX doesn't look too good if your system acts up running gears, either, but one thing at a time. Perhaps SuSe is writing the xconfig-4 file for the Radeon somewhat differently than Mandrake does it? For the record, I like SuSe a lot, but use Mandrake because I like the Mandrake config tools better than YAST. e On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:46 am, Ramin M wrote: Another problem during the installation was that the second time that i installed mk9.2 (i had to do this for some reason), it detected two graphic cards on my machine (on pci buses 1:5:0 and 1:5:1) where there is only one graphic card. Running glxgears after the first installation was giving me 2600fps and now after the second installation it gives 1900fps. Besides running glxgears now causes lines of lights flashing on my monitor and make the OS very unstable. I just removed the lines related to the second graphic card in etc/x11/xconfig-4 file and the xwindows is still working. So the problem might be related to this bad detection of the graphic card! My hardwares are as follows: motherboard: Asus A7M266-D CPU: MP2000 dual processor sound card: sound blaster live! (dolby 5.1) graphic card: ATI 9000pro scsi adapter: Adatec 29160 U160 three scsi hard disks from fujitsu and seagate 15k and 10k rpms. minolta scan elite scsi scanner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd the powerpack 3 CD version and installed it. The installation seemed very smooth much better than 9.0 where erased the entire partion table on my machine several times. THe only wrong thing with installtion was that on default the users are not given write permision to the home directory! So i have to first log in as root and change the write permission. The sound is by default mute. I have to change the sound to advanced linux sound system to have it work and unmute the sounds! Then i did upgrading through internet. About 300MB download. Right now my main problem is that it freezes so often. It freezes when i am just in konqueror or mozilla serfing the web! The whole OS freezes. No mouse, or keyboard functioning! Even ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to run level one does not work. It freezed also once after i ran a command in the terminal to add a ftp address to the list of download mirror sites. If somebody can tell me where to look for the source of problem and what i can do in this regard, i would be very grateful. Please tell me if you are experiencing similar problems or not and if so, what you have done to remedy the situation. I am overall very happy with the speed of the OS. It is as fast as windows XP on my machine (other than the boot process!) Konqueror is now so nice and fast to use comparing to suse 8.1, redhat8.0 and libranet 2.7 and 2.8 that i have tried. It seems that they have removed some of the KDE configuration options. I hope they are not going the way of removing even more configuration options. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
