[newbie] Appologies for mail trouble.
Hi, some of you probably got some bounced mails from me. Well, they're reconfiguring the network over here, modifying the dns-maps etc... and I realized a bit late that I had to change both my machinename _and_ the forward address on my mail-forwarder in order to keep receiving mails. So to those who got some annoying bounces from my address: I hereby appologize for my stupidity and shortsightedness. I'll commit suicide as soon as possible in order to limit the damage done to my honour. Naah. Seriously though, sorry for the trouble dudes & dudettes. ;) -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee...
Re: [newbie] modifying multiple image settings in /etc/lilo.conf
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that, you can set a "default" line in there, and a "timeout" line as well, so that after the specified timeout it starts up the default image. In my example it defaults to the "test" image, after a timeout of 50 (seconds I believe). But if I want to boot the mandrake secure kernel, I can just type in "secure" at the lilo prompt. And yes, changes are made as root, and don't forget to run lilo afterwards. Good luck. On May 18 Romanator wrote: > Hello Rial, > > When you have many image sections in your /etc/lilo.conf, do you have to > type in a specific command? > That is, do you have to type anything other than Linux at your boot > prompt? Or. is their another switch to use for another image? > I assume that you do all of your changes at ' root '... > > Roman > > Rial Juan wrote: > > > > On May 16 Romanator wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > How do you access 'Console Mode' from within X windows? > > > > You don't have to be in real console mode; an xterm will do just fine. If you > > really want console mode, press CTRL-ALT-F1 for the first console (CTRL-ALT-2 > > for the second and so on...) > > > > > In addition, can I review and make modifications from the desktop i.e. > > > checking my RAM. I think the command line is: /sbin/lilo.conf > > > > If you want to check your ram, type the following line in console or xterm > > free > > To modify lilo options, edit the file /etc/lilo.conf with an ascii-editor. To > > activate the changes, in console or xterm type "lilo", as root. > > > > > Should this be done from ' root ' ? > > > > Due to file permissions only root can edit /etc/lilo.conf, and only root can > > activate lilo options. > > > > > I have an IDE drive. Should I type in: > > > append=hda=ide_scsi mem=128M > > > > If it's a harddisk, I don't think it's necessary. The only reason you want to > > use ide-scsi mode would be to be able to write on a cdr or cdrw drive, and > > perhaps it's nice to have your regular cdrom work in ide-scsi mode as well, if > > some application demands it. the only app I ever encountered that didn't want to > > read from atapi-cdroms was xcdroast. > > > > Anyway, the line you were looking for is: > > append="hda=ide-scsi mem=128M" > > ^ ^ ^ > > > > But I'd drop the 'hda=ide-scsi' part. Not necessary, and probably even > > dangerous. > > > > If you're smart, you add another image-section to your /etc/lilo.conf, and leave > > the old one alone. This way you can test new settings on the new kernel image, > > without modifying your old config, and thus making it impossible to boot if you > > screw up. As an example, I'll paste my /etc/lilo.conf below. Notice how I test > > all new kernels, and all new lilo settings on the "test" image. > > > > ** > > > > boot=/dev/hda > > map=/boot/map > > install=/boot/boot.b > > vga=0x030C > > default=test > > keytable=/boot/be-latin1.klt > > prompt > > timeout=50 > > message=/boot/message > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-test > > label=test > > root=/dev/hda6 > > append="mem=128M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" > > read-only > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 > > label=linux > > root=/dev/hda6 > > append="mem=128M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" > > read-only > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdksecure > > label=secure > > root=/dev/hda6 > > append="mem=128M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" > > read-only > > image=/boot/vmlinuz > > label=linux-up > > root=/dev/hda6 > > append="mem=128M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" > > read-only > > other=/dev/hda2 > > label=dos > > table=/dev/hda > > other=/dev/fd0 > > label=floppy > > unsafe > > > > ** > > > > -- > > > > Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 > > ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> > > > > The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. > > That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... > > > > > > > > Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html > > Help bring us more Linux Drivers > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] How do you access console mode from within X to change lilo.conf
On May 16 Romanator wrote: > Hi, > > How do you access 'Console Mode' from within X windows? You don't have to be in real console mode; an xterm will do just fine. If you really want console mode, press CTRL-ALT-F1 for the first console (CTRL-ALT-2 for the second and so on...) > In addition, can I review and make modifications from the desktop i.e. > checking my RAM. I think the command line is: /sbin/lilo.conf If you want to check your ram, type the following line in console or xterm free To modify lilo options, edit the file /etc/lilo.conf with an ascii-editor. To activate the changes, in console or xterm type "lilo", as root. > Should this be done from ' root ' ? Due to file permissions only root can edit /etc/lilo.conf, and only root can activate lilo options. > I have an IDE drive. Should I type in: > append=hda=ide_scsi mem=128M If it's a harddisk, I don't think it's necessary. The only reason you want to use ide-scsi mode would be to be able to write on a cdr or cdrw drive, and perhaps it's nice to have your regular cdrom work in ide-scsi mode as well, if some application demands it. the only app I ever encountered that didn't want to read from atapi-cdroms was xcdroast. Anyway, the line you were looking for is: append="hda=ide-scsi mem=128M" ^ ^ ^ But I'd drop the 'hda=ide-scsi' part. Not necessary, and probably even dangerous. If you're smart, you add another image-section to your /etc/lilo.conf, and leave the old one alone. This way you can test new settings on the new kernel image, without modifying your old config, and thus making it impossible to boot if you screw up. As an example, I'll paste my /etc/lilo.conf below. Notice how I test all new kernels, and all new lilo settings on the "test" image. ** boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=0x030C default=test keytable=/boot/be-latin1.klt prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz-test label=test root=/dev/hda6 append="mem=128M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 label=linux root=/dev/hda6 append="mem=128M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdksecure label=secure root=/dev/hda6 append="mem=128M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-up root=/dev/hda6 append="mem=128M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=dos table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe ** -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Saving what appears in console
dmesg output is also logged to /var/log/messages. If you want to save output from a command to a file, type "> filename" after the command, eg: dmesg > kernel.log And if it's just some stuff on screen you wish to copy into a file, just select the text you want to save with the mouse, open up an ascii-editor, and click the middle mouse button (or both right and left buttons simultaneously if it's a *yuch* 2 button mouse) On May 16 mcoady wrote: > Is there a simple way to save to a file what a command like 'dmesg' gives me > on the screen? > > Michael Coady > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] UDMA-66 in Mandrake 7.1
Just insert a blank floppy, and mandrake will create a bootdisk for you, then tells you that it needs to reboot (click OK) and reboots from the floppy (if it's set in the BIOS). Not that hard now, is it? All you had to do is click "OK" when it told you that it needed to make a boot disk, and then follow the instructions. Come on, pal. Where's your sense of adventure? ;-) On May 15 Garron Moore wrote: > I was under the impression that Mandrake 7.1 beta was supposed to support > UDMA-66. My Abit BP6 motherboard w/ onboard HPT-366 doesnt even show up > during the install. At least in mandrake 7.0 it told me that i would have to > make a boot disk to install on a udma-66 drive. Can someone help me? > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] OT /3dfx (& Quake)
3dfx is still best supported under linux, although there's some others which will run acceptably (or so I heard) in openGL mode. Some matrox cards for example. You'll have to install openGL drivers for the card though. Just like windows games won't run without DirectX, openGL apps won't run acceptably without proper drivers for your card. Try checking out the utah-glx site on http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ , perhaps they're working on the rage fury. On May 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello again! > > This is an extra installment to my previous question about 3dfx. I > just bought a copy of Quake 2 for Linux and had some disapointment. I'm > using an AMD k6-3 450 w/192 MB RAM and an ATI Rage Fury 32MB Vid card; > I'm only able to use a max window size of 640x480 before the sound > starts cutting out and frames start dropping. Is this to be expected > with non-3dfx cards? If not, what should I adjust? I'm also using a > 19" monitor, but I have the res set to 800x600 and I tried bringing the > color down to 16bit from 32bit, but that had almost no effect. The > window that the game plays in is oddly cut in half; one side has the > game, the other side is just black. I've never played Quake before, so > I don't know how it should work, but it would seem that with as much > memory as I'm using it should be ok. Any gamers out there care to > enlighten me? It would be much appreciated! > > ~Mike > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] attn Michael
On May 16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul, Ok, I'm not this Paul, but I'll respond anyway, since too much replies is better than too few, right? > Thanks for the heads up. I only venture forth into Bill's world when > forced. So you use Pine, eh? I am comfortable with NS' mail program; > guess if comfort was my criterion I wouldn't be on this list, though, so > where would you point me to in terms of help files, to be able to get it > (Pine)up and running? Well, I use pine as well, and it's pretty simple to use. It has a nice help-function built in, and it's pretty easy to set up. While setting it up, if you don't understand a topic, you can just type "?" to get some explanation about it. It stores its mail in a different folder than netscape though. Netscape stores in ~/.nsmail; pine in ~/mail. Also, pine is console-software, so don't expect any graphical stuff. It might be overwhelming at first, but after a while when you're used to it, it behaves pretty well. Only thing I use netscape mailer for is for newsgroups. -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Burn ISO download with CDRWIN
This is what I do in linux: go to the console, log in as root, and type: cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -v image.iso Works nice too, saves me a reboot. If you want to burn bin/cue combos, you can either use cdrdao (or so I heard) or convert them to a .iso with bchunk (but always mount the result first, sometimes bchunk screws up). On May 15 Y u r i wrote: > that's what I do with CDRWIN in NT environment: > > - > 1. Press "File Backup and Tools" button > > 2. Select "Record an ISO9660 Image File" >from the topmost pulldown menu. > > 3. Type in (or browse to... using three dotted button) >the file path in "ISO9660 Image File" field. > > 4. Hit the "Start" button. > > -- > > We could exchange similar tips for burning downloaded .iso > distro files for various applications and platforms, e.g. > Nero for WinX/NT, Toast for Macs, etc and put a link in a FAQ. > > ______ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 / IM
As a matter of fact, there is a better way... Since people keep asking this on the list, I saved this old mail of me in a file, and here's the contents of that file: ### BEGIN ### Ok, Quite a few people here asked how to run this new netscape, and the answers generally were: "cd into the newly created dir and type ./netscape or ./mozilla". However, there is an easy way to running it from any dir. First, move the newly created dir to wherever you want it, and rename it if you like (really, they could have come up with a more descriptive name than "package", right?). In my case I moved everything to /usr/local/netscape-v600/ so I'll be using this one as example. Then, in this new dir, edit 2 files. The first file to edit is the file called "netscape" which is in fact a simple shell-script. There you must change these lines: (originals are the ones starting with "#") # dist_bin="" dist_bin="/usr/local/netscape-v600" # MOZILLA_BIN="./mozilla-bin" MOZILLA_BIN="$dist_bin/mozilla-bin" Then save this file and open the file called "run-mozilla.sh" and change this: # MOZ_DIST_BIN="" MOZ_DIST_BIN="/usr/local/netscape-v600" Now you should be able to start it without cd'ing into the mozilla dir. Handy for creating a desktop button that launches "/usr/local/netscape-v600/netscape". If you want your old bookmarks under the new mozilla, simply copy your ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html to ~/.mozilla/PROFILE-NAME/bookmarks.html (where PROFILE-NAME is the name of the profile you created. Go look in the ~/.mozilla dir if you forgot what you named it. You'll loose the new mozilla bookmarks, but then again. Who ever uses the preloaded bookmarks that come with the browser? If you really want to have them, well... Do some html-editing to merge both files in one. I crossposted this to the expert list as well, although nobody asked about it there. I figured some of the experts might be interrested as well. ### END ### On May 14 bluebottle wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: > > > > > > This NS 6 you talk about, is that the preview that is available on the > > Netscape site? > > > > Paul > > Hi Paul > > That's the one - I've used it since it was released and it's not bad. I run it > from a command prompt but there may be a better way. The IM works perferctly. > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] changing back to kde
make a file called .xinitrc in your homedir, containing the single line: kde On May 13 Bruce Endries wrote: > I re-installed Mandrake 7.0-2 today, and found that somehow I had > configured X to start up with gnome. I want the kde desktop. Is > there an easy way to change it to kde? > > > Thanks, > > > Bruce Endries > Bruce Endries Consulting > (607) 433-2677 > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] X-Chat "No Ident response"
Quick guess: uncomment the line: auth stream tcpnowait nobody/usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -l -e in /etc/inetd.conf On May 13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I am checking things out I fired up X-Chat and told it to connect to > EFNet right off the user menu on the tool bar and I get; > > irc.efnet.net.. > irc.efnet.net (199.3.235.130> port 6667 > Now logging in > Looking up your hostname > Found your hostname, cached > Checking Ident > No Ident response > Closting Link: 206.xxx.xxx.xxx (You are not authorized to use this > server) > Disconnected. > > How do I configure my Ident response? > > Thanks, > > b/web > Wade > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
hmm... Let's see what "man man" says about this... -t Use /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc to format the manual page, passing the output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc may need to be passed through some filter or another before being printed. so... man -t manpage > /dev/lp0 or man -t manpage | lpr or perhaps even man -t manpage | /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc > /dev/lp0 or man -t manpage | /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc | lpr might do the trick. Are you ready to risk wasting a couple of pages of paper to try? ;-) ps: it looks like crap on screen, and I don't have any clue what it'll give on paper since I'm at home where I'm stuck with a win-printer. So experiment. Also the manpage is pretty unclear about it, and since I can't experiment with it right now I suggest you also take a look at the man-howto (if it exists). I'd do it for you, but not with this piece of cr@!* 14k4 modem. On May 12 Piero wrote: > What do you do when you wnat to print a man page? > > Is there a site where you can find the whole man in a printable format? > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Parental Control
Hmm. just adding my two cents: I've been watching porn since I was like... uhhm... 6 or so. Ok, at that age I didn't understand what it was all about, except that married people did those kind of things, but anyway... It hasn't made me a less responsible, or more perverted human being. As a matter of fact, I kind of dislike porn nowadays, since I regard most of it as cheap filth. Some porn goes beyond the average "get two ugly people in bed and film the action as explicitly as possible" style that governs the market, but that kind of "quality porn" is scarce. But anyway, porn right now can't really attract my attention anymore, and I usually even change the channel when yet another stupid cheap erotic movie is playing. Not to say I don't enjoy sex, but just not all the cheap rubbish they show on TV, or what's to be found on all major XXX-sites. Of course I can only speak for myself, but I regard myself as the living proof that watching porn doesn't make you a pervert. So why bother about your kiddies becoming perverts just 'coz they watch porn on the web? Ok, at first they'll be very interrested, they'll download tons of pics and movies, even print some out, share with their friends, and probably play with themselves while watching it. So what? It's just a stage they have to pass trough, and we all know that kids in their puberty find their way to porn one way or another anyway, or do you think my parents realized how much of that shit I have looked at in my life? But ask yourselves this question: what do you prefer? A 13-year old kid that watches tons of porn, and experiments with himself while watching it, only to realise when he matures that it's actually cheap rubbish, and then when he's passed that stage can enjoy a normal healthy sex-life with his partner of choice, or do you prefer creating a human being that will engage in a relationship so insecure about intimity because he's always regarded it as something of a taboo, and even something evil? Probably even an individual who's been so frustrated all of his life because he always heard stuff about it, but never really knew what it was all about. This individual will never enjoy sex in his whole life. Oh yes, he'll _have_ sex, but he won't _enjoy_ it, odds are he won't be able to keep a decent relationship for long either, since he'll be one hell of a screwed up person (ok, I'm going into extremes here, but you get my point). I don't believe in forcing porn upon young kids just to have them realise the facts of life, but I also don't believe in this rigid censorship which has ruined more lives troughout the years than drugs has. I believe that when a 6-year old kid comes asking you what words like "vagina" and "condom" mean, you should have an open conversation in which the kid doesn't get the impression it's something of a taboo, or evil/perverted. Of course, if I had a 6-year old daughter and she came up to me asking "Daddy, what does 'sodomize' mean?", I would be baffled at first too, and I don't really know if I would have an answer for her right away, but then again, it's these moments that make parentship such a fun job, I suppose. ;-) Note, I don't have any kids, nor am I married myself. So these opinions are not the ones of a parent, but the ones of the child of parents who always have had an open policy about sex and sex-related questions. I turned out quite OK, and so will many other kids if you give them a chance to prove they're actually more mature than you'd think. Besides, censorship doesn't work, there's always classmates who bring porn-mags into school etc... I'd prefer if my future kids would learn about sex from me and my future wife, than from the other kids in school. On May 7 Marc wrote: > finally some one says some thing about hate pages other than porn pages. i > mean yes it is bad for a kid to see porn at a young age but what about > seeing a hate filled sign? i guess morally any more porn is worse than hate. > sorry for going off the topic but props to Del > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] VMware 2 run Linux/Win together!
Yes, my neighbour uses it and it works. After the 30-day trial, it stops working, I believe. Wouldn't know since I don't use it. Basically what it does is offer you a virtual machine on which the other OS can be installed and run. For example: you can boot linux, fire up a vmware, and in there boot windows 3.11 or windows 95, or even another version of linux (for example for testing purposes). This way you can have the best of both worlds (linux/win9x), or try out new kernels (running a second linux in vmware). It runs slower due to the emulation though, and because there's 2 OS'ses running instead of just one, so don't expect to play Starlancer in vmware or anything fancy like that. On May 11 Drake X wrote: > Anyone know anything about VMware? I was looking at their website > (vmware.com) recently. They say you can run both Linux and MS Windows on 1 > computer at the same time in their own virtual desktops! They have a 30 day > Linux trial copy to download. I don't know what happens after the trial > period ends though. > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02
With that kind of attitude, I suggest you stick to Microsoft products. Go ahead, remove mandrake from your computer, see if anyone cares. If that's supposed to be a threat, it's definately a hylarious one... Keep it up, you're funny. > Hey, if you guys don't make this any clearer(easier?) I will be forced to > remove this mdk stuff from my computer and either switch to redhat for which > i can at least buy a distro-specific book, or just give up and use > Microsucks products. > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] OT - Quake
On May 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Cool, thanks! One sidenote; what do you do with an .gz.sh file? I > haven't come across this file type before (I've used .tgz, .tar.gz, > etc.) a .sh file is a shell-script. .gz.sh means: it's compressed (.gz) and it's executable from the shell (.sh) --> a self-extracting archive I suppose. Anyway, to run it, simply do this: sh filename.gz.sh or make it executable (chmod +x filename.gz.sh) and then run it like this: ./filename.gz.sh and it should start installing. -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] D-Link 220-P network card not recognised
All I know about this card is that I ran it as a "ne-2000 compatible" last year. Choose that driver, then fill in the right settings if it doesn't autodetect, and it *should* work. On May 5 Neil Tancock wrote: > Hi' I' trawled through the archives before asking this question and can't > find anything there to help. > > I have a D-Link 220 ISA Network card that Linux-Mandrake 7.0 cannot see. I > have re-installed Windoze just to get a few of its settings (Base Address > 0240 - 025f, IRQ 11) but it still will not work. Any suggestions? > > Many thanks, > > Neil > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] CD's + burner for audio
ok, lame as it sounds: read the CD-Burning HOWTO, it explains everything you'll need. Short version: cdrecord (yes, the command-line tool to which X-CDroast is just a frontend) accepts .wav files as input for audio-CD's too. It's also covered in the cdrecord manpage. I haven't tried burning audio CD's with X-CDroast yet, but are you sure it doesn't accept .wav files as input? If not, perhaps you might want to give krabber a try, I haven't tried that one either, but I've seen it has input filters for .wav, .mp3 etc... So you have the choice: do it the hard way with console cdrecord, or try and figure out how the hell krabber works (coz it's a weird app, that one)... On May 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 May 2000, KompuKit wrote: > > > > >is thereor is there not...a application/program > > >in mandrake...for creating/copying CD's using a > > >CD-R or CD-RW ROM DRIVE? > > > > > >If so, what's it called...and where is it on the CD? > > > > On the distro there are files called CDRECORD... and MKISOFS... > > You need to install those. After that, get a decent graphical front-end > > like XCDRoast or Gcombust. That makes life a lot easier :) > > I know the XCDRoast - but does anybody know a program that can > convert/burn wav-files to an audio-CD. I know how to make a copy of an > music-CD but I am trying to make CD's out of my LP-collection. > Regards > Mogens Jæger > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Xfree86 4.0 / Nvidia GeForce DDR
Ok, problem solved. On http://linuxgames.com I found the solution: untar the source, and add this to the DEFINES line in the Makefile: "-D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES". There's more hints there, and you can ask for help in the #nvidia channel on openprojects. On Apr 27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > By the way, did you get the kernel module to compile? Here it dumps on some > kernel-side includes... Apparently there's something wrong with my > /usr/include/linux/fs.h which isn't needed by the driver at all, AFAIK, but it > gives me errors on parsing this file... > > More info: I use a regular 2.2.14 kernel (not the one on the mandrake CD, but > the one from kernel.org). I custom-built, compiled and installed it. The box is > a dual celeron 500 one, running an SMP-kernel. > > A little excerpt (or however one spells that) from the errors: > > /usr/include/linux/fs.h:262, > from /usr/include/linux/capability.h:13, > from /usr/include/linux/binfmts.h:5, > from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:8, > from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4, > from nv.c:58: > /usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: parse error before `ino_t' > /usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union > /usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:12: parse error before `:' > > etc... -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Homemade Router/Switch... Being cheap.
Of course. IP-masquerading is the thing you'll want. I haven't been playing with this myself, but a pal 'o mine does it at his place, and it works very well. On Apr 27 George Jones wrote: > Ok... I have a question for all of you network geniuses out there. I have > been contemplating the purchase of a switch for my home network. I have 3 > PC's that need to be connected to the internet with my cable connection. I > had thought to buy that Linksys Cable router, but I realized that I have > quite a few network cards and enough parts to build another PC (p200mmx) > and thought that maybe I could throw all of the extra NIC's into this new > box, drop Linux on it and use the machine as a proxy/router/switch. Is > something like this feasable? > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Xfree86 4.0 / Nvidia GeForce DDR
By the way, did you get the kernel module to compile? Here it dumps on some kernel-side includes... Apparently there's something wrong with my /usr/include/linux/fs.h which isn't needed by the driver at all, AFAIK, but it gives me errors on parsing this file... More info: I use a regular 2.2.14 kernel (not the one on the mandrake CD, but the one from kernel.org). I custom-built, compiled and installed it. The box is a dual celeron 500 one, running an SMP-kernel. A little excerpt (or however one spells that) from the errors: /usr/include/linux/fs.h:262, from /usr/include/linux/capability.h:13, from /usr/include/linux/binfmts.h:5, from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:8, from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4, from nv.c:58: /usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: parse error before `ino_t' /usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:5: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union /usr/include/linux/hpfs_fs_i.h:12: parse error before `:' etc... On Apr 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oliver Stieber wrote: > > > > apparently xfree4 has lower memory usage than 3.x, and runs quicker. > > mandrake 7.1 beta is using xfree4, so you could do some beta testing as well > > as getting a more light weight desktop. > > Yes this is true. Nvidia has finally released OpenGL support for > there video cards under linux now!! I have had the GeForce DDR > since January and had to play Quake 3/Unreal Tournament on a > small win partition that I was keeping just for that purpose. > > Now I can *finally* install my quake 3 METAL box (linux version) > and delete that windows partition (the most important issue).. > > should be great.. My friend has been playing under linux for > some time, but with a V3-3000 that looks like shit. However > the V5-5500 (which 3dfx is taking pre-orders for now) should > be a great advancement for them.. problem is.. Nvidia has been > waiting for 3dfx to release it, so it can release it next > generation card and crush them again!! 3dfx has great linux > support, and I was a big fan of the V2-SLI configuration, but > hate the V3 series.. hopefully 3dfx will pull out of this > slump its in. > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] OT-HTML
Although I agree with you, I also believe it would really add to the richness of email if every mail client would understand at least a subset of the HTML language (no scripting, no funny shit, just the basic tags), or otherwise ignore HTML tags. This would aid people to better structure their emails. Ok, not neccessary for short messages, but it could be handy for longer letters, so the readers can see the structure of the email at the glimpse of an eye. Anyway, the responsibillity lies with the programmers of the mail-clients here. They should incorporate the functionality into their programs. As long as this still sin't the case, I consider mailing in HTML generally a bad thing also. From the moment all email readers understand HTML though, I see no reason why people shouldn't mail in HTML. The few people who refuse to upgrade and then whine about not being able to read these mails can go... Well, you know... Do the physically impossible thing... ;) But... Mailing in HTML has some disadvantages as well. For some reason these HTML-mails always have a font tag to specify the font size... Wouldn't be so bad if it were _relative_ font size, but for some reason they use _absolute_ font sizes... Well, I gotta tell you... These small fonts overrule my kmail settings, and they look very nice in 1600x1200... If you have microscopes for eyes that is!!! Bottom line: My feelings about this are mixed... I generally consider it a good thing, as soon as it becomes standard functionality in all email clients. Untill then, it's a no-no for lists at least... On Apr 25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HTML is for web pages, not for mailing lists. > > many of the people waiting to help you on this list do not have > or use mailers that respond to HTML > > I have a filter that throws away HTML messages > > I notice since rejoining this list that my trash fills up with > newbie list messages at breakneck speed. > > Please check your mailers and send in plain text if at all > possible. > > Best regards, > > Civileme > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Netscape
That's called the "splash screen". To disable it, change your shortcut to start netscape with the "-no-about-splash" option, or make it a system-wide alias in /etc/bashrc (put it together with the other predefined aliases): alias netscape="netscape -no-about-splash" This disables the automatic loading of the splash scren. On Apr 25 Glenn Johnson wrote: > Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It > always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the > preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, > then it goes to the home page. > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] AARGHHH! - I killed windows - can I get it back?
Ok, is the windows partition corrupt or not? Because if it's corrupt, there's not much of a chance your average joe can retreive the data that was originally on it. If you can get to the data (for example on /mnt/DOS_hda1 or whatever mandrake calls it by default), and all is still there, your partition probably ain't corrupt. What made you think the partition is corrupted anyway? The fact that your machine boots in linux now, and you have no clue how to get back in windows? In that case, try taking a look at /etc/lilo.conf, and determine what the windows boot-option is called (eg:"dos"). Than, at the lilo boot prompt, type in "dos" and the machine will boot in windows. You can set windows to default by changing the value of "default" from "linux" to "dos" like this: default=dos Then the machine will always boot in windows, except if you specifically type in "linux" at the lilo boot prompt. I appologise if all of this seems utterly trivial to you, but judjing from what I read here your partition doesn't seem to be corrupt, so in my view the most logical explanation is that you don't know enough about linux yet to know that you can choose what to boot in at the lilo prompt. If this is not the case, please provide with some more details so we can figure out what went wrong. ps: what does the boot-floppy have to do with all of this? On Apr 25 Connell McMenamin wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed Linux 7 using the cover CD from PCplus magazine. > Since doing this I discovered that I should also have downloaded a > floppy image to do the install. :-( > > Since I didn't do this I seem to have corrupted my Windows partition - > nice. > > Any way I can get this back? or any suggestions on the best way to start > to rebuild my system? > > I was planning on getting any critical data off the C: drive by copying > the files using Linux to floppies. After this I am planning on > reformatting the hard drive - reinstalling all my windows software and > then reinstalling Linux. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated - thanks > > Connell > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Kit, please... I'm an atheist and a metal freak. No softie-talk *cough* for me please ;-) On Apr 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just couldn't let this one escape...a word or two > > This is exactly why God HATES pride and ego... > > 1. because it stops us from becoming all that God wants us to be. > 2. because it eventually leads to arguments...and hate for each other. > > "satan"...is the enemy here...not yourselfs...realise this... > and stop this bickering. -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
On Apr 20 Gerald E Peck wrote: > That's all I'll say to the list. > If you really have the time we can play in E-Mail. Place me in the 'cc'-field; I'm actually enjoying this ;-) -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
[newbie] mswordview: woops, my mistake.
Hmm, seems like the images didn't get scaled down to mere thumbnails, but that my netscape just has an odd way to handle .png's. Anyway, when viewing the pics with gqview, I _do_ get them at an acceptable size, so I was wrong about it. That damn little app actually _does_ work! :-) -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] unsuscribe
Keep up the good work; women love a guy who knows how to spel words corectly ;) On Apr 18 f wrote: > unsuscribe > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] FTP to FTP
No, it definately exists. Under Windows you can use a program called "Flash FXP" to transfer directly between 2 FTP-accounts without having to pump all the data trough your own machine. I don't know how it works, I didn't believe it at first either. But I've seen people with crappy network connections pump files over at 5 times the speed their lines can theoretically reach and seeing is believing ;) Appartenly some newer FTP-daemons (or has this always been an option?) have some extra commands built-in to initiate network transfers to other FTP-accounts directly. And why not? After all, FTP is just a combination of telnet with some file transfer socket. I searched for "fxp" on http://freshmeat.net the other day, and I believe I found some interresting stuff, but I'm not sure since I haven't checked anything out yet. Perhaps you could look for such a program there, Dreja? On Apr 18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dreja Julag wrote: > > > > Is there an FTP program for X that will allow you to transfer files > > from one FTP server to another without having to d/l them first? > I don't think you can do that with FTP. But what you can do, if you have > a user account on 1 of the boxes is to telnet to this one and then issue > the FTP commands from this box. > > HTH > Flupke > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] dumber than a door nail
A tar.gz file is a gzipped tar file. A tar file is a "tape archive" file, which basically is an uncompressed kind of archive, meaning: it contains a lot of files, but doesn't compress them. So basically what happens upon creating a tar.gz file is: all input files get put into one big file, and then this file gets compressed to occupy less space. What you have done is: you've unzipped the tar.gz file, and thus extracted the tar file that was inside. However, you didn't extract anything from within that tar file. In order to extract all files from a tar.gz file you must use the following: "tar -zxvf blabla.tar.gz" (you forgot the x). If you've previously unzipped a tar.gz file, and now only have the tar file, just do "tar -xvf blabla.tar" and then remove the tar-file (after you checked everything went ok!) See the "tar" manpage for more info. On Apr 15 Leanne Leith wrote: > Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the > sub-folders in them. I tried to use tar -zvf without luck, and tar -z all > sorts of other combinations. what am I doing wront? > > Not enough hours in the day to learn all this stuff! > > > *** > chickclick.com > http://www.chickclick.com > girl sites that don't fake it. > http://www.chickmail.com > sign up for your free email. > http://www.chickshops.com > boutique shopping from chickclick.com > *** > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
RE: [newbie] Thank you.
On Apr 9 Mike Perry wrote: > 1.Generally less secure Not when done with SSL, which is IMHO the way to go when you're providing web-based email. How secure do you think pop3 is anyway? Everything gets sent over in cleartext, including your username/password. Not much of an issue for people at home with modems, I suppose, but for people like me who sit on a lan, it makes us vulnerable to sniffers on the subnet. > 2.Often Slower Probably not if he's referring to web-based email provided by his ISP; instead of waiting for all messages to be retreived at once (pop3), you'll only have a slight pause when opening the next one. Potentially web-based email can be even faster, since long attachments don't get downloaded automatically; you have the choice now. > 3.Often much more restrictive on attached files Again: not when it's your ISP's web-based email. It's the same account, so the same restrictions apply. > Note: this applies only to my experience with places > like hotmail and other sites offering "free web based > email", so maybe I am just talking total bullshit :-) Nope, when it comes to hotmail/bigfoot/... I couldn't agree more with you. I hate those too. But not all web-based mail has those disadvantages, although I prefer mail being forwarded to my box directly (unfortunately impossible when at home due to high internet fees). -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Thank you.
Alternatives are: * Netscape messenger: some people dislike it because netscape is "bloatware" and 'cause the standard settings are not netiquette-compliant. * pine: Most old-school linux users use either this one or elm. It's console software though, meaning: no GUI. But oh-my-God, how customizable this baby is. ;-) I read somewhere about something called X-pine, which would give pine a nice GUI frontend, I believe it was on freshmeat. But I could be mistaken and have dreamt it all up last night as well. When one sleeps as little as I do, reality and fantasy tend to blend into each other every now and then... ;) There's more stuff too, but I haven't tried them. Just go look around on linuxberg or freshmeat. Sure you'll find lots of stuff there. ps: I used Eudora too back in my windows-era... It's one of few programs I miss in linux. What do you think, gang? Perhaps we should start a petition to port it to linux as well? Slim chance of it being open-source then though, _if_ at all the author decides to do it in the first place... On Apr 7 Glen M. Chambers wrote: > Hello all, > > I must admit I've only been on this list for a short time and I have had so > much help from lots of people. > > Thank you. > > BTW, is there a "better" Email client available apart from KMail. I'm used > to Eudora for Windows which is feature rich. > > Thanks all agaain. > > Glen > > -- > ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
On Apr 7 bluebottle wrote: > Am I missing something or can it only be run from konsol. See my post titled "How to run Netscape 6 from any dir!" -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] problems with wine
Well, it shouldn't. But try referring to the app with it's linux name, like this: wine /extra/winprograms/soundstuff/kjofol.exe and I don't know if wine is case-sensitive about this... On Apr 7 wolfen999 wrote: > i am trying to run wone and keep getting the following error wine: can't exec > "program name " file not found wine: no executable found i have tried wine > program.exe where program = the what i am trying to run i have tried wine > c:\programfiles\ e.t.c. and c:/program files with spaces and underscores with > / mnt with forward and back slashes and it keeps giving me the same dumb error > > GET THE BEST FREE INTERNET ACCESS > * Free Email * Free Support * Software* > * No Credit Check * Privacy Guaranteed* > GOTO http://www.HomeFreeWeb.com > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Good book required
Cheers, pal. I'll drink to that. :-) On Apr 7 bluebottle wrote: > Might I suggest that "The Complete Idiots Guide to getting off Mailing Lists" > could be a top seller. > > -- > Regards > > John the Nadger > > http://www.mklinux.co.uk > > http://www.nadger.uklinux.net > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Setting up 128MD RAM at lilo.conf
> append = "mem128M" Should be: append = "mem=128M" Works here -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
[expert] How to run Netscape 6 from any dir!
Ok, Quite a few people here asked how to run this new netscape, and the answers generally were: "cd into the newly created dir and type ./netscape or ./mozilla". However, there is an easy way to running it from any dir. First, move the newly created dir to wherever you want it, and rename it if you like (really, they could have come up with a more descriptive name than "package", right?). In my case I moved everything to /usr/local/netscape-v600/ so I'll be using this one as example. Then, in this new dir, edit 2 files. The first file to edit is the file called "netscape" which is in fact a simple shell-script. There you must change these lines: (originals are the ones starting with "#") # dist_bin="" dist_bin="/usr/local/netscape-v600" # MOZILLA_BIN="./mozilla-bin" MOZILLA_BIN="$dist_bin/mozilla-bin" Then save this file and open the file called "run-mozilla.sh" and change this: # MOZ_DIST_BIN="" MOZ_DIST_BIN="/usr/local/netscape-v600" Now you should be able to start it without cd'ing into the mozilla dir. Handy for creating a desktop button that launches "/usr/local/netscape-v600/netscape". If you want your old bookmarks under the new mozilla, simply copy your ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html to ~/.mozilla/PROFILE-NAME/bookmarks.html (where PROFILE-NAME is the name of the profile you created. Go look in the ~/.mozilla dir if you forgot what you named it. You'll loose the new mozilla bookmarks, but then again. Who ever uses the preloaded bookmarks that come with the browser? If you really want to have them, well... Do some html-editing to merge both files in one. I crossposted this to the expert list as well, although nobody asked about it there. I figured some of the experts might be interrested as well. -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Linux client
Search for "napster" on freshmeat. Currently, IMHO, the 2 best clients are "knapster" and "gnapster" (for KDE, resp. Gnome). On Apr 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone here know of a Linux client for Napster? > > I know of this one dude who is trying to make > the app but it does not run, dangbustit, gotta > find some ncurses somewhere. > > Thanx > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive is running
The 4 in there means: "the fourth partition in the first (a) HD". Don't know quite how this applies to ZIP-drives. But then again: if you say it works that way, well... That's the way it works. ;-) On Mar 31 Thorsten Brenner wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Now my Zip-Drive is running. > The peculiar thing is, that the Drive was recognized as /dev/hda. > In a german HOWTO of installing Zip-Drives i read that IDE-Drives can > only be mounted as hdd or hda4. > I turned the hda in my fstab to hda4 and my Zip-Drive works fine. > The stupid thing, I have no other IDE-Drives and i can´t understand > why i have to mount it as hda4. > Has anybody a idea. > > By Thorsten > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB
Indeed; one of the big fish at Iomega stated on American national television that Iomega replaces all COD-drives, even after the warranty has expired. Or so I read. But since the drive isn't clicking yet; just acting weird, I need to verify what the problem is first. But I believe it might be a sign that the drive is about to go dead anytime soon now. On Mar 30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think you can call Iomega and let them hear that click of > death, and they *should* replace it, I heard. > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] CD copying to HD
What do you want to share over the network? The files (contents of CD)? --> just copy them to wherever you want. The iso-image? --> just copy /dev/cdrom (yes, /DEV/cdrom; not /MNT/cdrom) to a file; like this: cp /dev/cdrom /home/httpd/html/iso-images/mandrake_7.0-2.iso these .iso files can be mounted in linux as well, FYI, with the options -t iso9660 -o loop, so you can still access their contents. You can write these isos back to CD as well; cdrecord is the program you need to do this, I believe. If your cdrom is not on /dev/cdrom because for some reason the symbolic link is not set, use /dev/hdb or whatever the device is instead. On Mar 30 Scala, Lino wrote: > Hi, > here at work we would like to copy CD contents to a local hard drive and > make it available over the network, is there such an utility in Linux that > would allow us to do that? > Thanks > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB
FYI, IDE Zip drives exist. I have one, so I should know. Zip drives come in more flavours than just the parallel/USB ones. Anyway, can't help you with your problem though; mine gets recognised OK, but it's acting weird, so I believe a click-of-death is pretty imminent :-( On Mar 28 John D. Herron wrote: > I assume your device is a 100 MB Parallel Zip Drive. If so, it utilizes a > built-in SCSI adapter. Hence, Linux should recognize it not as hda (which > would normally be the primary (boot) IDE harddisk), but more likely as > something like /sdX (where X = its natural position in the SCSI chain > after your SCSI harddisks and CD-ROM). > > So you might perhaps try mounting it with > >mount -t vfat /dev/sdX /mnt/zip > > If it's a 100 MB USB Zip Drive, though, Linux may not > recognize it at all because of difficulties in handling USB ports (maybe > in some future release ?). Good luck ! > > - john - > > > At 09:08 28-03-00 +0200, Thorsten wrote: > > >. > > >I have a SCSI-System runnig. (hard-disks and cd are working super) On > > >my first IDE I have a100MB Zip Drive. The System recognizes it as hda. > > >Now I want to mount it by using: > > > > > >mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/zip (The directory /mnt/zip exists) > > > > > >The following error occures. > > > > > >wrong fs, bad superblock or too many filesystems mounted. > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] question re installing applications
As root you should install staroffice with the /net option. Then, as user, go into the /path/to/staroffice/bin dir, and run the setup located there. Then you can install some personal files (I beliefe it's about 5MB) into your personal homedir. The README file, or whatever docs that came with SO, covers this type of install. See there for more info. On Mar 30 Kirk McElhearn wrote: > I have two users on my Linux box - root and kirk. (I am the only one > using the computer.) > > Under root, I installed StarOffice, and then, later, under kirk, I wanted > to use it, and I had to install it again. Is there any way that > applications can be installed once for all users? Does this have > something to do with permissions and groups? > > I guess I should not have installed it under root, right? What do I do > now to uninstall it? > > Kirk > > > >vice versa > Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing > Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com > Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Re: Netscape 128
Wasn't that export restriction removed like a month ago? Or at least it wasn't illegal anymore, as long as the ppl who wrote the soft registered it with the NSA or something. Well, I don't know the details, so I might be completely off-track here, but at least something happened to that export restriction that made the world cheer in joy. Of course, I wouldn't trust the NSA for one single bit with my crypto-software (should I have written any); too many scandals about them abusing their power and inside knowledge about these algorithms not only to help national security, but also national economy by performing industrial espionage, and some other stuff that's not quite kosjer. But that's politics, and doesn't really belong on this list. On Mar 29 Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > Hello, > Sorry it took so long, I'm in the Windows partition and it does > EVERYTHING slower > > Here's the address for Netscape 4.72 128 bit browser: > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-crypto/RPMS/ > > You'll need both the 'common' and the 'communicator' files (navigator is > built into communicator), and remember that if you're in the United States > it is illegal (last I heard) to export 128 bit encryption If you're not > in the US, make sure it's o.k. for you to have this wherever you happen to > be. > > Michael Holt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster Live!
Yes, I do. No problems with it whatsoever. Only a small issue when recompiling the kernel, but it had an easy workaround. On Mar 29 Dan wrote: > Does anyone use the SoundBlaster Live! card with Mandrake 7.0? > > Thanks, > Dan > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] browser
Oh, please. Never ever give someone the advice to use --force with rpm. I totally screwed up my old redhat 5.2 that way, about a year ago. Instead, identify and download the package that would satisfy these dependencies and install it first. Or just put 'em on the same line alltogether like this: rpm -Uvh netscape-file dependency-file On Mar 28 Anthony Huereca wrote: > You must download this file: >ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/netscape-common-4.72-6.i386.rpm > > and then you can choose either communictor (the full thing, > browser+email+newsreader): >ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.72-6.i386.rpm > or for just the browser: > >ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/netscape-navigator-4.72-6.i386.rpm > > use "rpm -Uvh the_netscape_file" to upgrade. > Or if that doesnt' work (I think it may give you dependency errors), try "rpm > --force -Uvh the_netscape_file" > > > > which file(s) do I download for the 4.72 update... > > will it work on Mandrake...seeing as most drake files... > > are of the i586.rpm format... > > > > steve harris wrote: > > > > > > Someone asked earlier about browsers. > > > > > > Not really anything other than Netscape. Mozilla is getting better though, > > > M14 is the latest I think. > > > > > > This 4.72 Netscape is better on my old machine than the 4.61 and 4.70 > > > "stable" versions. > > > > > > Download the 4.72 stable versions from this ftp site. > > > > > > ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/ > > > > > > The single file versions from the Netscape site itself always seemed to be > > > unstable. > > > > > > fwiw > > > > > > steve > > > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] HP deskjet 710c
I gave up on the 710c after 20 minutes because it was too much trouble and I still had a spare Epson Stylus Color 600 which didn't give me all the headaches the HP 710 does. However, if you really want to get the 710c working, I suggest you check out this site: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi Or go directly to the 710c part which is located at: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=61472 Good luck with getting it to work; I didn't even bother since I had a spare printer laying around, but I can imagine how it feels to pay good money on a printer and not being able to get it to actually print... On Mar 28 Sven Vermeulen wrote: > hello, > > I'm trying to get my HP deskjet 710c running under linux mandrake 7.0 with > aspfilter but whitout succes. Is there anyone who has his 710c running or > can anybody tell me with which HP printer the 710c is compatible? > > bye, > Sven. > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Re: kernel compile
Actually, both RedHat and Mandrake have an option for installing the kernel source. Probably you deselected it during mandrake install, or chose to go with one of the "quick n' dirty" installs instead of custom installation. On Mar 28 K.H.Hughes wrote: > I installed the kernel-source from the install CD and can now compile the > kernel. Why don't Mandrake install the kernel source automatically at > install time like RH does? > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
Uhhm... I'd say there's something wrong there... First of all, let me state that seti@home, even if it consumes all available CPU, isn't neccessarily a drag on the system. I run 2 seti@homes myself on a dual celeron (because one wouldn't grab all available CPU-time since it's not written multithreaded) and I don't even feel it. That's because seti plays nice to other apps. However, if you have a slow computer, it might tie up the processor too much, giving you a somewhat sluggish response. So in fact it depends on what computer you're using. But... The stuff that worries me is: "seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU"... Seti takes all the CPU it can get, meaning that there's only 27% free for seti to grab. Where's the other 73% going into? I think _that_ should be your main concern, and not the seti@home app. If you can eliminate something in the 73% CPU-consumption slice, drastically cutting that one down, and your PC is still slow, try loosing seti@home. ps: to make sure seti plays as nice as possible to other apps, start it with the "-nice 19" option. The highter the number of "niceness", the nicer it'll play to other apps. "Niceness" can range from -20 (maximum priority) to 19 (real nice to other apps). On Mar 27 Mike Fieschko wrote: > >>> "HAL" == HAL 9000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > HAL> nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up > HAL> about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the > HAL> performance?? > > Hello, HAL. > > Yes. > > (Why is _HAL_ running seti@home, anyway ? ;-) ) > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] root
Or, if you want to save yourself the work of reinstalling the system again, just to punch in one stupid password, you might could type "linux 1" at the LILO-prompt, which will take you to a single-user shell with root-access. Then type "passwd" once it's booted, and provide a password. This is from now on the root-password. After having done this, simply reboot (type "reboot" or "shutdown -r now", or just press CTRL-ALT-DEL) and try logging in again. Also note that if your security level is too high, you won't be able to log in as root. That's one of those silly rules the mandrake-team has come up with. On Mar 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When you did your install of Mandrake or what ever one you are using you > are instructed to create a user with a password. You are also told to > put a password on the root access. If you did not then I would recommend > doing the install again and this time WRITE DOWN THE PASSWORD so you can > use it the next time you need it. That is what I have had to do, besides > you learn more about your system and find that more software will be add > the next time you do an install. Why this happens I do not know, you > would have to ask the "GURRUUES" at 'Macmillan' and co. > > don > I thought I knew that I knew what I thought > But now I know that what I thought I knew > Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. > > > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:34:42 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > How do I login as root? At the login I typed in root and no > > password, and it > > rejected it... > > > > > > 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- > > A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' > > -Rush 'Mission' > > > > -Chris > > > > > > > > Rasputin > > http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html > > > > ____ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Regular Expressions
Well, you can learn about them in the "perlre" manpage. "man perlre", FYI. On Mar 26 Lane Lester wrote: > I keep running into references to "regular expressions" in different contexts. > Where can I learn about regular expressions? > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] linux ref book
You can download WinRAR on tucows for example. But you can also download a (console) rar version for linux on www.rarsoft.de Unzip is already distributed with the mandrake CD, so there's no need to reboot for this book. ps, merle: nice job. 1500 pages? Guess that means quite a few sleepless nights, eh? ;-) On Mar 22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Merle, > > I have the files downloaded and even uzipped, each are > linuxref-book1.rar, r00, r01, r02, r03, and r04 but > when I click on the first file (...rar) my WinZip opens and I get the > message there is nothing for it to do. Where is the "winrar" file > referenced on that webpage? > > don > I thought I knew that I knew what I thought > But now I know that what I thought I knew > Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. > > > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 - Ram is read incorrectly - Kernel Panic
There are some pitfalls with SMP kernels. I suggest if you're new to this, that you read the SMP-Howto, and the Kernel-Howto. All HOWTO's are accessible online trough http://www.linuxdoc.org and many other sites. I have a similar setup, except for the network card which is a D-Link DFE528TX O believe (number might be wrong; I'm falling back on my memory here), and the fact I have only 128 MB of RAM, and a 13GB harddisk; UDMA/66 connected to the UDMA/33 bus. Redhat wouldn't find it on the UDMA/66 bus and I found out too late Mandrake does, but don't feel like opening the stuff up again to reconnect it.. I have no problems whatsoever, except for some stability issues which appear to be solved since I swapped the SB Live and the D-link from pci-slot, and some weird kernel messages (very sporadic) about "illegal interrupt vector on CPU0" or something like that. But the default SMP kernel worked perfectly, although I'm running a recompiled stock 2.2.14 SMP kernel now. Perhaps you have selected the wrong module for your ethernet card? Boot the standard UP-kernel (I believe it's installed also), and with "lsmod" see which modules are loaded. Then make sure those are selected when you build a new kernel. On Mar 22 David J. Siu wrote: > I have two slight problems, maybe other people are getting the same problem > or know of a way around it? > > o When I first install Mandrake 7, one of the screens says that it only > sees 64 megs of ram, but I have 192. My bios confirms this and so does > windows, and previous distributions on mandrake. I've tried recompiling the > kernel and that did not seem to work. I've also tried specifying the exact > amount of ram during the installation and that did not help. Any ideas? > > o The other problem that I have is that when I use the default SMP kernel, > I always get a kernel panic when it tries to mount the proc file system. > This did not happen in the previous distributions. When I compile my own > kernel, it seems to not have this prob, but then the networking stuff > breaks but thats just probably a configuration problem... question is, Is > any one having this problem? Does anyone know what is causing this kernel > panic? > > I have the following configuration: > > o Dual Celeron > o Abit BP6 > o 192 Megs of RAM > o Maxtor 10 gig HD > o Sound blaster Live > o Creative Labs TNT 2 Ultra > o Netgear Ehternet Card > > Thanks Everyone! Any help would be appreciated > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Motherboard Monitor for Linux?
Sure. lm_sensors, their homepage is: http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/. It's not abit BP6 specific; should work on most PII's and higher. Don't ask me to give you any help installing it however; I never got around to installing it myself. ps: I use the same mobo. It rocks, doesn't it? :-) On Mar 21 John Catral wrote: > Hi! Is there a CPU monitoring tool for my Abit BP6 for Linux? > > Thanks in advance! > > John > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [[newbie] Can someone please explain..]
Oh, and when you do; put the highest resolution in front. For example: "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480". The X server defaults to the first resolution in the list. Also, when you switch to lower resolutions, you'll notice you still have the big resolution desktop, but you're just zoomed in, and can pan around by "pushing" the mouse against the borders. Don't know (and frankly don't care) if there's a workaround for this. I'm happy with my 1600x1200 and the other resolutions are just there in case some game wants to resize the screen. On Mar 21 Jaguar wrote: > As ROOT have you tried "xf86config" <---w/o quotes, it's a text setup but you > should have very good knowledge of your hardware, vid card and monitor in > particular. When you finally get the settings you want ie:preference of > resolutions edited to the FIRST of each color depth setting > default settings are... > 1: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 8Bit > 2: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 16Bit > 3: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 24Bit > 4: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 32Bit > 5: Change settings > use the "Change setting" to edit your default resolution > eg: 1: 1024x768, 800x600 8Bit > > then goto /etc/X11/xdm/xservers > add a "-bpp 24" <---with this spacing and your color depth > to line "0 local /usr/X11RS/bin/X " > so that it looks like this one > :0 local /usr/X11RS/bin/X -bpp 24 > > HTH > Jaguar > > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've tried various X-windows interfaces and I am amazed to find that after > > browsing through KDE, GNOME, XFCE3, WindowMaker, Afterstep, ICEWM, and > > Plain_X11.. NONE of them have a windows properties selection that allows > > for the editing of screen resolution! Unless it is hidden in some quiet > > corner of the X-windows design of each, there is no such utility! > > > > I am familiar with Xconfigurator, but while using Mandrake 7.02 I have > > found that my configurator will not allow me to set my resolution size > > manually.. it gives me an error even though it works (sort of) if I exit > > after settings have been made. Though, I can't select 800x600 at high > > resolution.. so I have to settle with 8 bit default. > > > > Can someone please tell me why none of these wonderful X-windows programs > > have a setting to change screen resolution like Windows does? Don't get > > me wrong, I am happier with Linux overall than I am with Windows.. but one > > would think the Linux community would have enough brains to make things > > easier to deal with than they currently are. > > > > Ok.. gripe is over. Thanks. > > > > james > > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com. > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Problems with sound and apache
Uhh, haven't been following this thread, but... The standard way to start httpd is as follows: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start Other options besides start are: stop, status, restart and reload. And you might use the System V init editor to start it up every time the PC boots, but I suggest you do some research on System V bootup if it's new to you. On Mar 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > root wrote: > > > Ok, lets get to my point...Ive installed mandrake linux like a month ago > > but after I got used to it I started using its server, apache...I typed > > httpd but when I typed "ps -ef" the two apache processes (nobody > > <--PID)it says [httpd ] 5 times > > > > and another problem... > > > > I cant get my speakers to work and loctus doesnt do the job any better, > > it just frezzes and still no sound...can anyone help me? > > > <---Richard KIm---> > > and I tryed apachectl restart but it didnt work just did the same thing (it > started fine but just says [httpd ]] again on the ps -ef > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] screen-saver for Mandrake
Of course it comes with screensavers. Just check out your KDE config tool if you're using KDE; don't know the name of the corresponding Gnome tool. hint: "matrix" is a pretty cool one, if you've seen the movie :-) On Mar 19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does Mandrake come with a screen saver? Or is this necessary for Linux? > > > 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- > A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' > -Rush 'Mission' > > -Chris > > > Rasputin > http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] check this site out
*** Before I read the complete thread. Oh God, there we go again. Someone makes _one_ mistake on the list, and the flaming starts all over again. Ok, it's not so nice of him to not consider the poor modem-users when posting to the list by sending huge files, and it is quite like you put it: "email bad manners". But aren't you exagerrating a little? Remove him from the list permanently for one mistake? After all, as I remember from the 2 flaming wars waged against me, you people from this list claimed to be "newbie friendly" and "tolerant" and all that crap, which I, according to you guys, wasn't when I told ppl to RTFM before asking questions. So where's your so called tolerance for this fellow now? Who knows, he might be just a newbie who doesn't realise other people need half an hour to download a 2MB file because he has a high-bandwidth connection. *** After I read the complete thread. Ok, by now I've read the whole thread before pressing the "send mail" button, so I know you didn't actually mean it this way and already kind of took back those words you said. Next time try to be more careful with the harsh words though. I for one don't give a rat's ass if you all flame me because I try to get a point accross, but I heard rumours that there's actually a sub-branch of the "homo geekus" whose brain hasn't completely developped into its binary form yet, and who still have some fuzzy-logic algorithms they seem to interpret as feelings. These underdevelopped sub-species of our race should be treated with care since they can still get "hurt" in a non-physical way, leading to decreased efficiency at work due to a state of "depression". Ok, think you got my point ;) On Mar 19 bluebottle wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Mandrake Newbie List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 12:42 AM > > Subject: [newbie] check this site out > > > > > > > > > > www.kmfms.com > > > > > > Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta > > > love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm > > > willing to bet some of you will like. > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my > > > LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to > > > do this as well? > > > > > > I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints > > > please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, > > > is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC > > > ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I > > > get sick of it. > > > > > > ~Jeremy > > > > This is one of the worst examples of email bad manners I've ever seen. What > gives any person the right to post a 2mb file to a mailing list. I hope that > the majordomo will immediately remove this person, permanently, from this list. > > > -- > Regards > > John the Nadger > > http://mklinux.cjb.net > > http://www.nadger.uklinux.net > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] bitchx and creating a signature file
Ok, I don't think anyone answered this one yet, so here's the story: BitchX is a console IRC client, it comes on your mandrake 7.0-2 CD. Don't know about earlier Mdrake versions, but I'm sure it's on those as well. If not, search and download on http://freshmeat.net Signature files are simple: just put the text you want as signature in a file called .signature, placed in your homedir. Mose email clients default to this file for their sig-files. If not, there should be some config option to set it. Practical hint: it's more or less a standard to start signatures with the string "-- " (without quotes) on one line, so _good_ email apps know it's a signature, and strip it off on replying to that mail. Nobody wants replies on replies on replies... with 30 consecutive signatures on it. On Mar 18 root wrote: > someone told me bitchx is an irc client for linux / xwindows just curious if > anyone knows if thats what it is and if so where i can get it also wondering if > anyone can tell me how to creat a signature file for email thanks all :o) > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] check this site out
Yeah, it's possible. I just use ASCII-art at the boot-prompt (the linux logo you get when you type linux_logo at the prompt if you have the package installed). somehow, a "real" graphic must be possible too, since the install does it, but I have no idea how. You can get the ascii-stuff however, by downloading and installing "lilo-colors" or something like that. If you're interrested, and can't find it on freshmeat, I'll forward the RPM to you, just drop me a mail. On Mar 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > www.kmfms.com > > Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta > love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm > willing to bet some of you will like. > > > > Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my > LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to > do this as well? > > I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints > please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, > is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC > ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I > get sick of it. > > ~Jeremy > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] memory above 64 mb ram
Yeah, tons of people. I wonder if someone's keeping a counter on this topic... ;) Solution is simple: see the append lines in /etc/lilo.conf? Edit them like this: append = "mem=128M" That should do the trick. Before you want to do this, you might try booting linux this way at the lilo prompt (just to make sure you don't screw things up if it don't work) : linux mem=128M Not sure if it needs quotes around the mem=128M part; don't think so. If the system boots OK, then put the append line in /etc/lilo.conf On Mar 17 Brent Pathakis wrote: > Question, > > I just installed linux mandrake 7.0 -2. I have a > amd athalon 500 with 128 mb of ram, but linux always > shows 64mb (when I run the free command for the shell, > or r in X). > > Anybody else have this problem? > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] f*cking MOUSE! @#24!! --> Please help!
Woops, my bad. linuxconf worked for the mouse in redhat, I seem to remember, but not in mandrake. Use mouseconfig instead. On Mar 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > $HOME and ~ are the same, it's the location of your homedir (in my > case: /home/nighty/). So copying XF86Config to ~ means to copy it into your > homedir. > > However, what Jon suggests doesn't work. It only works for users with uid=0, in > other words: root. It does not work for regular users. So I guess you must find > another workaround, or work as root all the time. Working as root all the time > is highly discouraged for security reasons, but it's up to you. > > But just out of curiosity: does the mouse work correct in a console? Perhaps you > have gpm using one type of mouse, and have defined another one for X. Don't know > if this can cause trouble or not, but it's not unlikely. You can manually edit > the mouseconfig in /etc/sysconfig/mouse, or fire up a linuxconf and set the > right mousetype in there. If you're not used to meddling with config files, go > with linuxconf. ;-) > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Virtual Desktops and Theme Manager
Sure it's possible, just use kde control center in your kde start-menu. As for the second problem: remove them as root. If you can't do it from within kde, then locate the themes in a console, and delete them from the command line. Can anyone confirm that last bit, please? I didn't try removing the themes, so I don't know if it won't break anything, although I doubt it. But best to make sure. On Mar 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greets all, > > I would like to change from 4 ( KDE default ) virtual desktops to two... > is this possible? > > Also, I would like to delete some of ( read : most of ) the themes that > came with Mandrake v7.0 but unfortunately they have the "Remove" button > disabled for the pre-installed ones? Any ideas? > > > Thanks a bunch, > > > bosco(). > > > ( This is a great list... A true testament to the Linux Community ) > > > Translation : > > ( A great place for slackers to hang out! :p ) > > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] f*cking MOUSE! @#24!! --> Please help!
$HOME and ~ are the same, it's the location of your homedir (in my case: /home/nighty/). So copying XF86Config to ~ means to copy it into your homedir. However, what Jon suggests doesn't work. It only works for users with uid=0, in other words: root. It does not work for regular users. So I guess you must find another workaround, or work as root all the time. Working as root all the time is highly discouraged for security reasons, but it's up to you. But just out of curiosity: does the mouse work correct in a console? Perhaps you have gpm using one type of mouse, and have defined another one for X. Don't know if this can cause trouble or not, but it's not unlikely. You can manually edit the mouseconfig in /etc/sysconfig/mouse, or fire up a linuxconf and set the right mousetype in there. If you're not used to meddling with config files, go with linuxconf. ;-) On Mar 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the tips.. That's something I haven't tried and I'm certainly > willing to try ANYTHING.. :) But, excuse me for being a newbie.. When you say > copy it to ~ what do you mean? And also, I've heard people speak of $HOME, > but I'm not sure where it hides.. :) > > > Thanks, > > bosco(). > > > "Linux, it's like throwing everything you know away... But worth it.. " > > > Jon Hunter wrote: > > > bosco wrote: > > > > > Greetings all, > > > > > > I wrote once before of the problems I'm having with this blasted mouse. > > > Everything I change in my centrally located /etc/X11/XF86Config file > > > seems to take. I just got done swapping my 75dpi and 100dpi fonts around > > > and they work like a charm.. > > > > > > However, FOR SOME REASON, my mouse WILL NOT stay configured.. After I > > > "startx" it's not working. If I run "XF86Setup" in a "konsole" and > > > configure my mouse and hit apply it starts working. But it WILL NOT stay > > > configured.. > > > > > > I've tried as root and user.. I've changed permissions, write and read > > > access, hand editing and other not so wise things.. PLEASE HELP.. this > > > is driving me MAD.. BTW, on previous installs of this EXACT same ISO ( > > > mandrake v7.0 ) I've configured it to work fine.. Accck! I > > > > > > I love Linux soo much.. yet sometimes... > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > bosco(). > > > > Get it working once and cp /etc/X11/XF86Config to ~ > > > > One of the oh so helpful fixits like linuxconf is probably changing it > > back. Had lots of problems with linuxconf changing my settings to what it > > thought was right. So annoying I finally disabled it. If you have a copy > > of XF86Config in $HOME it will take precedence over the one in /etc/X11 > > > > Jon > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] CHOWN of FAT32 partition
No, it's because fat32 partitions don't have any notion of "ownership". It's just not built into the filesystem. On Mar 15 Sevatio Octavio wrote: > I am not able to do a chown on a mounted fat32 partition. It is still owned by >"root". Is this because it is a fat32 partition? > Or is there another way to chown a fat32? > > Seve > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Video Card
Oh, hey. Was about to answer this, but not sure if I did already, so here goes. I installed redhat 6.1 on a laptop for a friend today, and was looking at the card list, and the mystique is definately supported. If redhat has drivers for it, surely mandrake will have them too. On Mar 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm just considering installing Mandrake 7.0 and have never used Linux. One of > the required items for installing is a VESA 2.0 compliant graphics card. I have > a Matrox Mystique card. Can someone tell me if that meets the requirement? The > following is from the documentation for the card: > > "The MGA Windows 95 driver supports monitor profiles from either the Windows 95 > monitor list or Matrox's own monitor list. It also supports Plug-and-Play > monitors at the VESA DDC-2b level." > > Thanks, > > Garland > > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Shutdown Poweroff
To poweroff you need to type either "shutdown -h now" or "halt". The computer then shuts down, and in the case of an ATX board, powers down (if it's built into the kernel, but stock kernel should have it). In the case of an AT board, you get the message that tells you to power off the computer, comparable to the "It is safe now to turn off your computer message" you get after a windows shutdown. On Mar 15 Gerald Davies wrote: > Are there any quick ways of shutting down / poweroff'ing a linux box that > isn`t running X? ... > > The machine boots at runlevel3 ... so i issue the shutdown command, which > takes it to runleve1 (single user) ...then i have to issue poweroff... > > is this due to my AT board?... > > can all of this be automated? .. are there any keyboard shortcuts... etc? > > > TIA, > > Gerald. > > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] RPM
Friends of mine reported this too. Seems like the AMD's are not totally 586 (pentium) compatible. Well, that's all I know of it, perhaps somebody else might be able to tell you more about it. On Mar 15 X-Mailer wrote: > I have mandrake 6.1 installed, on an AMD 133 mhz, and everytime I try to > install any rpm from the mandrake CD, with an i586 extention, it says that > the package is for a different architecture. > Any ideas what I can do? > (i386 files install fine) > > > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] SB Live Configuration
Got mine running, but with a few probs too. The soundcard worked out of the box, but broke down after a kernel recompile. In the kernel-source tree (/usr/src/linux) I noticed a subdir called "emu10k1". Tried to recompile that and reinstall, no go. So I just downloaded a standard kernel from kernel.org, and compiled that one (read the kernel-HOWTO if that sounds like chinese to you), and then compiled and installed the creative labs driver I downloaded from the web. It now works like a charm. Broke automount though, since automount needs a patch applied to the kernel, and I never bothered to look for it on the net. I'm used to mount my stuff manually for more than a year with redhat, so automount is not really much of an issue to me. Perhaps more stuff is broken, but my system works without problems, so whatever... On Mar 14 Brian Sieradzki wrote: > I just installed Mandrake 7.02. After a lot of > effort, everything works except my sound card. When I > boot up it says "Can not locate module sound." When I > run /usr/sbin/sndconfig it detects my SB Live but then > says "Module used for your sound card emu10k1.0 is not > in your module search path. Please verify that your > kernel modules are configured correctly." I've tried > using the RPM that Dell has, but that failed. I then > tried downloading the driver from Creative Labs. That > didn't work either. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Brian Sieradzki > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
Just 2 things: a) The only point I'm trying to get accross is to try and help yourself before asking others to solve your problems for you. That means: read the manual. It's written on purpose, you know? b) Read the original post on which mine was a reply. If he calls us dumb because we didn't answer his questions, is it then so bad when I say he makes a pretty stupid remark by saying noone wants to help? For some reason whenever I open my mouth to correct someone, everybody starts flaming me. What the heck is wrong with telling people to try and solve their own problems before they ask for help? What the heck is wrong with stating that administrating linux is _NOT_ for people with no technical background whatsoever? But then again, for some reason my opinion is not the most popular in teletubbie-land, so I get all the flames and insults. When I help somebody out on the list or in private, nobody seems to notice, but when I tell someone to read the manual before asking for help, or to use to-the-point subject lines instead of "HELP", or to stop flooding the list with complete offtopic BS, I'm the great nazi-enemy. Well, good. I'll be your nazi-enemy for you to step on. Hope it makes you all feel so much wiser and tougher. On Mar 14 bluebottle wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > > Mr. Rial Juan, > > > > I can only say that thank God I entered the world of linux before you started > > spewing forth your rhetoric otherwise I would never have become as excited about >the > > challenges of learning linux. It's a shame that you have forgotten the help and > > assistance you no doubt received when you first started. > > > > To the original poster, please accept our appologies as this is in no way an >example > > of the fine help you'll usually find here. If you're unwilling to post again > > please, feel free to contact me privately and I'll do the best I can (I'm no expert > > but I manage). > > > > Mr. Rial Juan, welcome to my trash filter. > > > Joseph S. Gardner > > Well said, Joseph. If linux is going to reach the wider market we don't need > people like him pontificating to someone who is just starting. Some of us, me > included, will never be experts but we can still achieve a lot with the system. > It's also very nice to repay the help received when we first started. > > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
Kiddo, before you even start THINKING about running linux, you must be well aware that it's a pretty hard OS to master for those with absolutely no technical background. Linux is an operating system that tries to hide nothing for the user, unlike MS Windows. If you have no basic understanding of how a computer works, and I don't mean knowing your way around in WordPerfect or something like that, I mean: how a computer works internally, well, if you don't have a basic understanding about that, then linux is not for you. Also, what's that stupid remark about "too much technical jargon" anyway? This is a hacker's OS, what did you expect? If it's too technical for you, well... Nobody forces you to run it. What pisses me off the most is people who don't even know how to upgrade their graphics card, insist on running linux because they heard some hype about it, and then get all frustrated when it's not as easy as baking an egg. Also, nobody cares to read manuals anymore. Everybody on this list claims to have read all the apropriate manuals/docs, but found nothing, so they ask here. And then they expect us "guru's" to solve their problems. Meanwhile the thing they're asking is usually explained in detail somewhere between the second and seventh paragraph in the man-page of the program that's causing them trouble. But that means they have to type in "man rpm" or something, and that's too hard. I wonder what the heck makes people decide to run linux anyway, if reading some documentation is too hard, or too much to ask? I for one don't even bother answering questions to which the answers are trivial, or easy to look up. I have enough work looking up the solutions to my own problems. Kit: "noone wants to help..." Now let's say you sell your car. Someone comes over and buys it. Then a week later he's at your door again. "How do I shift up or down?" --> "Manual page 15 and where the heck did you get your driver's license?" Then 3 days later he comes back "And how about reverse, does my car have one?" --> "Still manual page 15, and of course it has one, you moron!" Then 4 days later he comes back "How do I turn on the radio?" --> "Explained on page 4 in the radio manual. Never seen an on/off swicth before?" Then a few days later "I heard rumours that you can slide the seat to the front or back so you can reach the pedals better. Is that true? Is it worth the effort? Won't it degrade the lateral tire-pressure? My feet won't get stuck in the engine, will they?" I think you'd grabbed a big gun by the third time the dude comes over, shot the bastard trough the head, hid the body, and sold the car again. This time to someone with an IQ higher than that of a carrot. On Mar 13 Kit wrote: > BOY, I agree...with you BIGTIME...noone wants to help...they just > want to > tell you to go somewhere and read...well, thats what I've been > doing...and doing > and doing...but it still does no good...most all tutorials are > very poorly written. > they use too much technical jargon...they don't remember that > HELP means you must > help them on the persons level of understanding...if they had > technical knowlegdge, > they wouldn't be asking questions...they would of fix their own > problem...man, what > a bunch of dum people...for knowing so much as they do... > -- Rial Juan<http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] .sh files
hmm. And you're sure they're executable? (if not: chmod +x filename.sh). Or you could just type: "sh math/to/sh-file.sh". On Mar 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I have Mandrake v7.0 and run KDE. I downloaded the Linux binaries for > Quake3 Arena. They end with .sh but I can't seem to get anything to > happen. Could someone provide some insight into what I need to make this > file work?! > > > > Thanks, > > > bosco() > > > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] BIOS, sound, and modem
Well, a friend of mine also has one of these "brand PC's" with weird BIOS that doesn't follow the "press DEL to enter BIOS" convention. So what I basically do is this: from the instant you power on the box, press and hold down a key (I usually take DEL, but any key should work). Then it'll detect some keyboard malfunction and ask you to press F2 (probably differs on your HP) to enter BIOS. This trick might work, or perhaps not. Worth a shot though. ps: perhaps the BIOS is password protected (some vendors do this so they don't have to fix what you screw up). In this case you should call the helpdesk for the password, but I 've seen some vendors that cancel your warranty if you do. So watch out ;) On Mar 6 Matthew Loschmann wrote: > I have some problems with setting up my sound card and modem, somebody > emailed back and said that you have to turn off PnP in the Bios settings. I > have a newer computer HP Pavilion and when it boots up it doesn't give you > and option to enter into bios so How do I get into BIOS? > > Matt > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] boot to console
On Mar 5 Harald Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > how can a review the error messages that my new selfcreated kernel > produces on startup ? dmesg (or if the list is too long: dmesg | less ) > or > how avoid start up xdm automatically after boot so i can step back with > "Shift-Up" to see the exact errormessages ? > replace the line "id:5:initdefault:" in /etc/inittab with "id:3:initdefault:" -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] RPM question
Of course they're compatible. rpm is just a package format. What you're asking is similar to "are zip-files downloaded from www.gamecenter.com compatible with the ones downloaded from www.gamespot.com?" (I'm not mocking you; this was the first, although stupid, example that came to mind). RPM is just the box containing some binaries, and info on where they should go on the system, and some after-install scripts. The standard is pretty well defined, and the linux-community is known for its respect for standardisation, unlike Microsoft for example. Only thing is perhaps you need to install other packages to satisfy dependencies, but the install procedure will tell you which ones they are. On Mar 1 burlington john wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to install rpms from the mandrake 7.0 distribution > in a mandrake 6.1 distribution ? > I am shure for system parts that isn't a good idea, but i want to > upgrade kdevelop. m6.1 has the beta version of kdevelop, m7.0 has the > 1.0 version. > Can I download the rpm from the 7.0 directory on ftp.mandrake.com > and install it on my mdr 6.1 ? > Can I do this with other applications like wwwoffle, or aren't the > 7.0 rpms compatible with the 6.1 rpms ? > > Another question that i have is, that kdevelop asks for kdoc, > but the mandrake distribution hasn't a kdoc rpm. > Where can I get the right rpm of kdoc ? > Kdevelop asks for the source files of kde to generate > some documentation, where can I find the right source > files for my mandrake distribution ? > > What aboput the new kde 2.0 ? Will upgrade packages appear > for the 6.1 mandrake or only for the mandrake 7.0 distribution ? > > > > Best regards, > burlington mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] sound configuration
AFAIK it is not possible (correct me if I'm wrong, coz I'm curious myslef). Anyway, even if you succeed... The sound will probably get out of sync with the game. The sound is a continuous stream of 1.4112 kbit/s. That's not much, but every now and then your network will generate some "lag" when sending something over the cable, and the continuity of your stream is not guaranteed. Result: the sound that's being played (the sound that just came in trough the network cable) is sound that was emitted by your gaming-machine seconds ago. Synchronisation is lost... You die, and 5 seconds later you hear the grunt creep up on you. But then again, all of this only aplies if it _were_ possible to export sound to another machine, which I seriously doubt. Best thing to do is to just buy a new soundcard for the gaming-system. They're not that expensive. On Feb 29 SPECTRE wrote: > This may seem like a wierd question, but can you redirect sound output to a > remote box, I have two boxes, one main box, and one thinclient, with a > soundcard, I use it for playing mp3s at the moment, would it be possible > for me to use the soundcard on the thinclient to play sounds that on on my > main box, e.g. When I am playing Quake, I don't have sound, would it be > possible for me to redirect the sound to the thinclient? > Perhaps by linking /dev/dsp to steve.nl.net:/dev/dsp? > > Fran > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Ram dectection
Uhh, sure Steve ment /etc/lilo.conf, right Steve? ;-) On Feb 29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Start linux with either "linux mem=128M" or > > As root, edit /etc/config > > and code a line like the following in each stanza: > > append="mem=128M" > > Now run /sbin/lilo and next time you restart you'll have your full 128 meg > available > > > Steve Flynn > IBM MVS Operations Analyst > > > > Lincong Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 29/02/2000 16:39:46 > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) > Subject: [newbie] Ram dectection > > > > > > Hello. everyone > > I have an Athalon 600 computer with 128Mb Micron PC100 memory. > Somehow Linux can only recognize about 64 Mb. Can anybody tell me how to > fix it. > > Thanks in advance > > Lincong Wang from Ann Arbor MI > > > > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse
Try adding the line imwheel -k & to your .xinitrc file. Put that line before the other line that's already there. If there's more than one line in it, put it before the last one. On Feb 29 Eunice Thompson wrote: > I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been > opening a terminal window and typing 'imwheel -k' and then everything works > OK. > I noticed the 'Autostart' folder and tried to put a link in there for the > imwheel, but when I restarted X , I received an error message stating there > was no executable for the program---where did I go wrong? > > > Thanks for your help > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Windows on the same drive
It's perfectly possible. I usually make a fat16/32 partition with fdisk under dos, and leave the rest of the drive alone (you might consider making a small 16 MB partition at the very beginning of the disk as boot-partition, then later convert it with the partition editor in the mandrake install). Then I pop the CD in the drive, and proceed with my linux install. Of course, it must be possible to tell mandrake you wish a primary Fat32 partition too, but after having had quite some problems with RedHat's tool (DiskDruid) which always placed my primary win-partition in an extended partition area, I finally gave up and did it the way described above. On Feb 28 Pieter Smith wrote: > Hi > > A drive is limited to having 4 primary partitions. Windows gets around > this by placing a lot of drive letters in a single primary extended > partition. > > When Mandrake installs, it creates four primary partitions on its own: > The boot, root, home and swap partitions. All four of these partitions > are primary, leaving no room for a primary C: FAT32 partition. How do I > get around this problem? Is there a way to get both OSes on the same > drive? > > Regards, > Pieter Smith > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Pine
On Feb 29 Russell Simmons wrote: > I'm not so crazy about n.s.'s mail, and i would like to try Pine to send > and retrieve mail on my Linux partition. I am using MD 6.0. Is there > an rpm for pine on the distro? If not, could someone tell me the steps > I would need to take to get and use Pine? Any info would be much > appreciated. > Now really... How hard is it to check your installation CD yourself to see if there's an rpm for pine? I know the 7.0-2 has it, and I suppose every other mandrake version probably has one too, since pine is a standard application found on every linux system. > tia > russell > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] TELNET
Perhaps inetd is not running (I believe it doesn't start at boot time when you set the security to medium or high). Check if it's running: /etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd status If it says it's not running, add it to your system V init scripts (using the SysV init editor found in your start menu under "'system" I believe). ps: it might be nice if you read some info on the System V init script workings before you start meddling with it. On Feb 28 Villaitodo, Daniel wrote: > I've installed Mandrake & when I try to telnet this machine over the LAN > the host refuse the connection. The host respond to ping, the service > telnet is in the /etc/inetd.conf & all the other tcp services are > running OK. What can I try? > > Thanks for you time > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Login
Heheh... I believe you're mistaken. The password is not something like a CD-key or anything; it's the password used to protect your account. If you entered the correct username and password, but it gets rejected, you might try booting in single-user mode to change the password. This is also good for changing the password of root (= superuser; system administrator; the big chief with unlimited access... Hey yes... YOU!) To do this, at the LILO prompt, type "linux single" without the quotes, of course. This drops you to a console root shell without having to enter a password of any kind. There you can change root's password with "passwd", or another user's (let's say joe) password with "passwd joe". It is generally discouraged to do regular stuff as root. Create a regular user for doing stuff that has nothing to do with system-maintainance. Regular users can only screw up their account; root can screw up the whole system. If you haven't defined a secondary user yet (I'd doubt it, since the install asks you to), you can create one in the root-shell with "adduser joe" and then "passwd joe". ps: you don't need to boot in single-user mode every time you need to set up a new account, or do other maintainance stuff. Just log in as root with the correct root-passwd, and to it in an xterm, or trough the graphical sys-maintainance utils. Well, hope this answered your question, and helps you on the way with your new operating system. On Feb 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, so I have the installation done, and am able to get to the opening page > which says: local host login and right below that, password. I put the > information is, and it gets rejected. How do I get past this point? Also, > why do I need a password in the first place? I got the CD in the mail and > proceeded to spend 4 hours installing it. I'd sure like to use it sometime > to see what all the fuss is about. I sure don't like Windows, and would > like to have an alternative that works smoother. > > John Houll > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Blackbox Window manager
Hya. I use BB for the moment. It's easy to autostart apps, regardless which windowmanager you use. Just edit the file called .xinitrc in your homedir to start some processes in the background. Let's say I'd like to start an xterm, an xosview and a netscape together with blackbox, then my .xinitrc file would look like this: xterm & xosview & netscape-communicator & #or whatever the command is blackbox As you can see, all commands except blackbox start in the background. At least one program must run in "foreground", otherwise the script will terminate. Read the apropriate man-pages (man startx) for more info. On Feb 27 Paul Hendrick wrote: > Is there anyone who uses the BlackBox window manager, who can tell me > how to autorun applications, when BB is started? > > TIA. > > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] Which Version Do I Have: 7.0 or 7.02?
On the CD-Rom there's a file called "VERSION" (I believe; don't have the CD with me right now. But it's a name that clearly states the file's purpose.); view that file with an ASCII-editor. It has the version info of your Mandrake distro. On Feb 25 Lane Lester wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, "Pittman, Merle" wrote: > > I had this same problem in 7.0 but when I tried 7.02 the problem went > > away?? > > Which leads to this question: How can I determine if the supplier sent me > 7.02 as they claimed? The text logon says, "7.0". > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] kde
Easy. Make a file called .xinitrc in your homedir, with the line "kde" in it. Not sure if you need to leave a blank line after it (many config files do) but I do it just in case. It's also possible to start up xterms and stuff trough this file, so they open up on every X session. View the startx manpage for an example. On Feb 24 Pittman, Merle wrote: > I installed mdk 7.02 last night. the install went smooth without a > hitch really. I setup X during install and I choose o install the window > managers such as kde, gnome, etc. Went asked if I wanted to boot directly > in X mode I said no. When the system comes up, I type startx and it just > loads the tdm (a couple of xterms ona blue background). > > How can I get it to load KDE??? Or gnome for that matter. > > BTW. I was having major problems getting hardware to work (mouse > video NIC) while installing mdk 7.0, last night I installed 7.02 and > everything went without a hitch :) well except for the kde of course which I > assume is my fault not mdk. > > > Merle Pittman > TEL: 724-7598 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly.
Re: [newbie] serial mouse and X problems
The file "XF86Config" should be located in /etc/X11/. See if it's there, and if you have read permissions to it (can't find any reason why not, but still...) If it ain't there, you can re-create it by running one of those XF86-config tools such as "XF86Setup" or "xf86config". Make sure you select the right mouse type. If it's one of those generic 3 button serial ones, try selecting "MouseSystems" ps: you don't have to run the XF86-Config tools every time you need to change a little feature; you can manually edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file instead. On Feb 23 Pittman, Merle wrote: > I've installed MDK 7.0. The mouse (generic serial) didn't work from the > start of install onwards. The wouldn't work so I had to do a text install, > it went fine until I got to the Xconfig. It returned and error and wouldn't > move on. I can boot to linux but no X support. I tried installing XFree86, > configured it successfully. But when I try to run startx, it says it can't > find XF86Config file ??? I am using a PII with voodoo 3 2000 video (whcih > is supposed to be supported with the 3.3.6 XFree86 I am using. > > Please help !!! > > thanks > > ____ > Merle Pittman > TEL: 724-7598 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly.
Re: [newbie] Information of unsubscribing to the list
Hmm. Not to tick you off, but I believe I have a better idea. How about the list maintainers set up their majordomo to append a "signature" to every mail passing on this list with the unsubscribe info in it? This is how a lot of lists do it, and is the most elegant solution IMHO. On Feb 23 Jackal wrote: > Hi ... I have been following the thread of mails on this list about people not > knowing how to unsubscribe from this list. This is what I have to say and my > suggestion to solve this problem. > so might I suggest that someone (I am willing to do it) sends a short mail to > the list every now and then ... (I was thinking one or two days) ... the > subject line of this instruction can be made clear to everyone already on this > list so that they can procmail or filter it off ... -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly.
Re: [newbie] Wine
Instructions can be found on www.wine-hq.com and in the wine.conf manpage (which for some reason ended up in the wrong dir in Mdrake 7.0-2). To view the manpage do "man /usr/doc/wine-991212/wine.conf.man" (without the quotes of course). If you're running a different version, and if "man wine.conf" doesn't work, you can find the wine docs this way: "locate wine |grep doc". On Feb 23 Billy Noel -Jacob- wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone explain what should be in /etc/wine.conf to configure wine > correctly? (My /etc/wine.conf is empty). Or, and that might be more easy, > could someone give an example of a correctly /etc/wine.conf ?? > > Thanks in advance, > BillyNoel > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly.
Re: [newbie] suggestion
And how about people stop saying things like "Thank you, I followed your advice and it worked" or "Mandrake is a great distro" or other ridiculus stuff like that on the list? If someone helped you out, you can thank him in a private mail. If you think mandrake is a great distro, nice. So do most people on this list, so you're telling us nothing new or interresting. What are you all? A bunch of internet-newbies exploring the wonders of electronic mail? Why not send in some chain-letters and silly jokes as well, while you're at it? If you're looking for a way to get famous, spamming mailing lists is not the way to go. Start up a rockband or shoot some sick adult movies with you and a donkey on LSD in the lead roles. And last but not least READ YOUR FRIGGING SUBSCRIPTION CONFIRMATION MAILS on how to unsubscribe. I'm tired of getting these stupid mails in my mailbox. Ok, so this _IS_ a newbie list, but come on... Newbie doesn't necessarily have to mean stupid, ignorant or idiot. I have nothing against high-traffic mailing lists since I skim these lists anyway, deleting all uninterresting mail prior to reading anything. But the silly stuff that passes by on this list is really really sickening. A little bit of netiquette would be nice, people. On Feb 22 Shane T. Ferguson wrote: > Unsubscribe if it's too much for you. If you have a question, then you can > email the list but ask the person to cc it to you. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Kit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mandrake Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 7:20 PM > Subject: [newbie] suggestion > > > > Man, this is getting ridiculous... > > everytime I check my mailI get tons of linux newbie list mailings... > > > > I think we should ask for a private chatroom for newbies...so that we > > enter when we want > > and not have to put up with so many mailings...all the time...what do > > you think? > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ICQ# 7110071 > > > > HomePage: > > http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg > > > > http://kompukit.dyndns.org > > (personal webserver,does NOT run 24/7) > > > > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org> Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly.
Re: [newbie] Numlock
I have found a file called "NumLock" in /etc/sysconfig. Try this: "touch /etc/sysconfig/NumLock" and see if numlock turns on after a reboot when you log in. If you want the numlock to turn on before logging in, there's a trick also. it involves editing /etc/inittab, and adding an option --noclearto every line containing "mingetty". Example of first mingetty line: Before: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 After: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 On Feb 21 Ernst-Jan Bach wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Mandrake 7.0 and I cant find it where can set my numlock to > go on when I run xwindows... > I hope someone can help me > > Thanx > Ernst-Jan Bach > > > > > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
Re: [newbie] steve flynn
PDF is also known as the Adobe Acrobat format. There's quite a few linux programs that can read it (xpdf is the first to come to mind), but they can't read all pdf files for some reason. Just like xanim can't show all avi's, depending on which codec they use. Anyway, if you have a windoze box as well (or a dual-boot option) you can easily view these files with the adobe acrobat reader. I believe it can be found on tucows, and if not, try the adobe website. On Feb 21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to steve flynn > > You gave me some good hints and tips in the Linux-newbie group, thank > you for that. > You told me about a newbie book in PDF you could e-mail me, well source > on the disk is no problem, but I,m not shure if I have a reader for it. > If PDF is some ordinary internet standard (as you might allready > assume, I'm a Newbie in Internet also), I propably have one, cause I > installed the whole Power-Linux-Mandrake 6.5 packet with all features > (just to find out how computers work in this century), and there are > many readers for standards and protokols I have'nd heard of bevore. > Otherwise you might could send me the book, with a reader (hope I'm able > to install it, without reading the book first!)? > I would be lucky to have it! > > thanks a lot, > > > P.S. disn't reach your e-mail adress, so I try over the mailgroup > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
Re: [newbie] WINE help
Try starting on www.winehq.com On Feb 21 Altern8 wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have installed 6.1 on my system and it works just perfect. ATM I have a > dual boot between W98 and Mandrake. I understand that I can use windows > programs under WINE. > > Can anyone tell me or show me a url, how how to run WINE and use windows > programs under it. Its on the man pages somewhere, but I must of missed it. > > Cheers Kev > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
Hey, list admins. Isn't it about time you guys put a lid on this? I'm subscribed on the list for some 2 days now, and I already had like 5 emails with a topic "unsubscribe". Apparently some yokels actually think they should send the unsubscribe-mail to this list instead of sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doesn't anyone read their subscription confirmation mails anymore?) Of course I could set up my procmail to automatically send this to /dev/null, but it would be better if you guys sent this to /dev/null instead of to all the people subscribed to this list. We'd all appreciate it. -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 Ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
Re: [newbie] Software Questions
I don't know of any such program, but I use ripperX (X frontend) in combination with cdparanoia (CD-ripper) and lame (mp3-encoder that dan encode with variable bitrate too). cdparanoia and lame come included with Mandrake. ripperX doesn't (or I just overlooked it during the install), but you can find it on http://freshmeat.net (where you can find most linux apps). On Feb 20 Paul wrote: > I was wondering if anyone can recommend some software that will let me > create MP3s from my CD's? Hopefully, a standalone program that > doesn't need x, y and z installed already to work. > > I've also been looking for the latest GIMP RPMs (Devel version). I > can't get the source to compile :( > > Last, but not least: can PAN .7.5 read offline? > > > Thanks for any info. > > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
Re: [newbie] Installing tar.gz files
And if you just want to view the contents; tar ztvf filename. See the manpage for tar for more info (man tar) On Feb 20 Paul wrote: > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 2/20/00, 7:17:42 AM, Adam Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding > [newbie] Installing tar.gz files: > > > > I downloaded a file that was tar.gz assuming that it was not unlike a > zip file > > but soon realized that I had no idea how to install on of these files. > Any > > help is appreciated > > tar xzvf filename.tar.gz > This will extract the file into a sub-directory, for example Program/ > . So cd Program, then read the README file. It'll probably tell you > to ./configure then make and finaly make install. This usually puts a > binary in /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin. To execute, just do > /usr/local/bin/program > > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
Re: [newbie] Irreversible Partioning -- When?
Partitioning is "irreversible" from the moment the partition table gets written to disk. Don't know exactly when this is in the MDK-install. For example: as root you can start fdisk, and start deleting and creating partitions. But if you don't actually write it to disk before you quit fdisk, nothing will change. And not even that is really true... Partitioning _is_ still reversible, as long as you haven't formatted your partitions. Just delete all partitions, and re-create the original ones (of course, you need to know exactly where their start and endsectors were on your disk). This is because when you repartition, only the MBR gets overwritten, but the data doesn't. so if you can get the MBR back to its original state, you can still salvage your old partitions (providing you haven't formatted the newly created partitions). This already saved many gigs of Data in our local network ;) On Feb 18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear friends: > > Using Mandrake 7.0. > > Documentation for partitioning says that "partitioning is irreversible". > > Question: Exactly when is it irreversible: > > 1) After you have created the partitions with the mount point, size, > etc., > > or > > 2) After you click on the "Done" button at the bottom of the > partitioning screen > > or > > 3) Only after actually formatting the partitions, which appears on the > next screen? > > > Since this is such a critical point during the installation, it might be > a good idea to clarify this in the documentation to us lay people. > > Thank you. > > Benjamin > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
Re: [[newbie] Soundblaster Live]
Well, it worked here (Mandrake 7.0-2). That is... Untill I recompiled the kernel. For some reason even the original source from the creative-site didn't work (unresolved symbols). I had to resort to compiling a standard 2.2.14-kernel from www.kernel.org instead of the secure kernel shipped with mandrake, and then recompiling the emu10k1 driver I downloaded from the creative labs opensource site before it would work again. Currently it's happily busy playing my mp3's again ;-) ps: next time you post to a list, make sure you choose a relevant topic. Soundblaster-problems are the last thing I expect when I read a topic like "Re: [[Newbie] audio cds]". *grin* On Feb 19 Ken Haynes wrote: > Just installing Linux and noted that Sound Blaster Live will not work due to > driver licensing restrictions. ...despite OS 'recognition' > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
Re: [newbie] Question never answered.
I fear I have to correct you on that though. You're mistaken with the "wake-on-lan" function. The "boot from lan" option is used to boot a diskless client over a LAN. Instead of booting off its own harddrive, it will boot off a harddrive of another machine connected to the LAN. It requires you to place a boot-ROM on the NIC. I don't know the precise details on this, since I've never used this function, and I don't know anyone else that has. Check the manual of your NIC for more details. Anyway, the machine just sitting there waiting for something is very normal behaviour. There's no machine connected on the LAN that acts as a boot-server, and probably your NIC doesn't even have a boot-rom (they usually don't come included). Anyway, I don't know a whole heck of this, so there might be some slight misinformation in this reply, but the basic idea is there though. ;-) On Feb 18 rharvey wrote: > jeff, > at work we have compaq's they have a little wire that we plug from the nic > to the main board. with the option you are taking about turned on. we can > turn on and boot up a pc remotely. > > robert > - Original Message - > From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 5:01 PM > Subject: [newbie] Question never answered. > > > > > > As I have been playing around, getting to know linux. I have discovered > > allot of neat things. > > > > But as I have been playing I have discovered in my bios that I can set > > it to boot from the LAN. > > > > What I am wondering is, what do I have to do on the LAN in order to do > > this? > > I have tried it and the system just sits there waiting on something. > > > > Does anyone here have any experience with doing this ? > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > -- Rial Juan <http://nighty.ulyssis.org> e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator <http://www.ulyssis.org>
