[newbie] dvdrw drivers
Does anyone have info on the status of dvdrw support for ML? I see only one unit on the hardware compatibility list and I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreds of units being produced now. I have a Philips dvdrw228 and can 'see' cd's and dvd's with the unit but as far as doing anything work or entertainment related the drive is virtually worthless. I plan to put it in one of my Win boxes so I can actually use it but it isn't my first choice. R Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
test to find out why SPAM_Watch is prefixed to my last post. R Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] viagra song (was E-mail sound.)
I shouldn't be surprised that when I did a search for 'viagra parody' there was a long list. This was one I enjoyed: http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/thedrifters4.shtml R On Sunday 16 November 2003 02:41 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: This singing spam thing has me intrigued though -- anyone know any words that rhyme with viagra other than Niagara? He could be on to something here... And I'm getting tired of mashed potato sandwiches 3X a day. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Repairing Perl (was many perl things broken)
Ok, I'm going a little crazy right now. My Linux box hasn't been turned on for 10 days or so which caused 'locate' to give me an error message about the database. I used the command 'updatedb' and then looked for perl5.8.0 once more to insure that I got the directory right. #locate perl5. /usr/bin/sperl5.8.0 Last time I did a locate (11/9/03) there was also a /usr/bin/perl5.8.0 and now there isn't. Ok, fine. I found 'perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm' on CD1 and tried to install it using 'urpmi.' -bash: /usr/sbin/urpmi: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Ok, fine. I tried using 'rpm.' #rpm -Ui perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.0-19mdk is already installed. (serious head scratching here) After a little time with 'man rpm' I tried to query the package. #rpm -q perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm is not installed. Ok, fine. I left the upgrade option out. #rpm -i perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.0-19mdk is already installed. I'm pretty close to doing a third Microsoft moment (erase the hd and reinstall). I would rather learn what has happened but don't seem to be making any headway at all. Are there times, even with this OS, where reinstalling is the wise thing to do? tia Rich B [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/13/03 12:31AM Symlinks are cake, do a `man ln`. You're looking for the -s option (Symbolic Link) Basic usage in your case would be ln -s /real/path/to/perl5.8.0 /usr/bin/perl5 It certainly looks like it's looking for perl 5.6.1, try the new symlink and see what happens. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] broken sym links (was many perl things broken)
here is what I found #ls -la /usr/bin/perl #lrwxrwxrwx1 root root5 Nov 3 07:23 /usr/bin/perl - perl5 #ls -la /usr/bin/perl5 #lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Nov 3 07:22 /usr/bin/perl5 - perl5.6.1 #locate perl5.6.1 #(nothing) #locate perl5. #/usr/bin/sperl5.8.0 #/usr/bin/perl5.8.0 does this mean that the symlink is looking for 5.6.1 and I only have 5.8.0? is it easy to change or replace the symlink? tia Rich B Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] many perl things broken
thanks, here is what I found #ls -la /usr/bin/perl #lrwxrwxrwx1 root root5 Nov 3 07:23 /usr/bin/perl - perl5 #ls -la /usr/bin/perl5 #lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 Nov 3 07:22 /usr/bin/perl5 - perl5.6.1 #locate perl5.6.1 #(nothing) #locate perl5. #/usr/bin/sperl5.8.0 #/usr/bin/perl5.8.0 does this mean that the symlink is looking for 5.6.1 and I only have 5.8.0? is it easy to change or replace the symlink? tia Rich B [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/08/03 05:31AM Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings all, A few days ago I was using K3b and my computer 'stopped responding.' I had a 'Microsoft moment' and foolishly chose to simply reset the pc. I know better. I usually use webmin when this happens and restart the system. The action has apparently done some damage to perl. Some of the error messages during boot up follow: -snip- Building Window Manager Sessions /usr/sbin/fndSession: /usr/sbin/chksession: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/fndSession: line 12: perl: command not found /usr/sbin/fndSession: /usr/sbin/chksession: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ...other lines work fine Loading parallel port printer kernel modules... /etc/rc3.d/S60cups: /usr/sbin/correctcupsconfig: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ...other lines work fine /etc/webmin/start: /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ...other lines work fine -end snip- harddrake also fails and when I try to run harddrake2 from the console I get the following error message: -snip- -bash: /usr/sbin/harddrake2: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory -end snip- Also, I cannot run and XWindow session. I have poked around quite a bit for info on removing and reinstalling perl. There is quite a bit on installing perl modules but I haven't found much on installing the interpreter. Or could I perhaps simply have broken sim links? I took a look at the RPM's on disk 2 of the installation disks and there is a lot there with 'perl' in the name but I do not know which, if any, would repair my situation. A further 'Microsoft moment' prompted me to perform an upgrade using the ML cd's. I ended up with old entries on my lilo menu but the same errors on startup and still no X. The next 'Microsoft moment' will be to reinstall everything from scratch. I am confident this is completely unnecessary but am at a loss as to what to do next. Any help would be appreciated greatly. I am using ML 9.1 on an AMD processor. tia Rich B /usr/bin/perl is usually a simlink As yu can see from my mdk9.0 box: ls -la /usr/bin/perl lrwxr-xr-x1 root root5 Nov 7 2002 /usr/bin/perl - perl5* Its a symlink to perl5 which in turn is symlink to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] validator]# ls -la /usr/bin/perl5 lrwxr-xr-x1 root root9 Nov 7 2002 /usr/bin/perl5 - perl5.8.0* perl5.8.0 the reason for that is pretty simple, /usr/bin/perl should always point to the perl binary on your system, regardless if what perl you have installed. Its possible that you have lost the symlinks.. check to see if they are there. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] many perl things broken
Greetings all, A few days ago I was using K3b and my computer 'stopped responding.' I had a 'Microsoft moment' and foolishly chose to simply reset the pc. I know better. I usually use webmin when this happens and restart the system. The action has apparently done some damage to perl. Some of the error messages during boot up follow: -snip- Building Window Manager Sessions /usr/sbin/fndSession: /usr/sbin/chksession: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/fndSession: line 12: perl: command not found /usr/sbin/fndSession: /usr/sbin/chksession: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ...other lines work fine Loading parallel port printer kernel modules... /etc/rc3.d/S60cups: /usr/sbin/correctcupsconfig: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ...other lines work fine /etc/webmin/start: /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ...other lines work fine -end snip- harddrake also fails and when I try to run harddrake2 from the console I get the following error message: -snip- -bash: /usr/sbin/harddrake2: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory -end snip- Also, I cannot run and XWindow session. I have poked around quite a bit for info on removing and reinstalling perl. There is quite a bit on installing perl modules but I haven't found much on installing the interpreter. Or could I perhaps simply have broken sim links? I took a look at the RPM's on disk 2 of the installation disks and there is a lot there with 'perl' in the name but I do not know which, if any, would repair my situation. A further 'Microsoft moment' prompted me to perform an upgrade using the ML cd's. I ended up with old entries on my lilo menu but the same errors on startup and still no X. The next 'Microsoft moment' will be to reinstall everything from scratch. I am confident this is completely unnecessary but am at a loss as to what to do next. Any help would be appreciated greatly. I am using ML 9.1 on an AMD processor. tia Rich B Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hooray for rescue
I just (foolishly) installed something called ArkLinux which overwrote my boot loader. Thanks to ML 9.0 and the rescue option I was back up in no time. I really love this os! R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] trouble with sis900 onboard ethernet
Greetings, I am trying to get my SiS900 10/100 onboard ethernet to work with ML 9.0. I came across a howto at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/K7s5a-HOWTO and typed 'dmesg | less' as they suggested. I get three lines for eth0 as follows: eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 1. eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 11, 00:0a:e6:4d:21:62 My question is this. If the PHY transceiver is unknown (I assume this is the network chip) then how can ML identify it two lines later? The howto also states that I can add sis900.o to etc/modules if everything goes ok. When I look at etc/modules the only item in there is scsi_hostadapter. I suppose the short question is really do I have a good chip on this mb or not? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cervisia
Thank you Sharrea for your help on my kdeinint problem, it works beautifully now. I also have something in my Preference Order called Cervisia. Just wondering if anyone knows what this is? R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] KDEInit error
Hmmm... Interesting because I had no problems accessing these initially. I first noticed the problem when I could no longer mount a Samba share. If you don't use Konq, what then, Nautilus? R On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:34, Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I am getting the error KDEInit could not launch 'kfmclient' when I try to access my 'Removable media' shortcut from my KDE 3.1 desktop. I may have deleted something to make this happen but quite frankly I don't know what it may have been. I looked up kfmclient using KPackage and found some database stuff and KDesktop stuff I didn't understand. Here is the question -- Should I rely on my M$ training and: a) Delete and reinstall KDE. The list of dependencies is very intimidating and I fear I will do more damage than can be repaired. b) Reinstall KDE. Since M$ overwrites and updates things without asking permission this works on their systems. Does it work with ML? c) Live with it. I can read some of my removable media some of the time and other times Konqueror locks up and I must XKill it and restart my computer. It's just like the old days with Windows! I feel that there must be a Linux way to approach this but I'm concerned about doing more damage. I have made the grave error of getting to the point where I depend on this computer and I don't want to kill it. Any help is appreciated. Any config stuff you need to know please tell me how to retrieve it. tia R Umm... either c) or go back to KDE3?? I don't know about other versions of KDE3.1 but this is a known issue with KDE3.1 from texstar which is where I got mine from (and same problem). Haven't had time to sort it out yet, but I know that this problem was mentioned in textstar's forums. There may have been a fix posted, but like I said, I haven't had time to look it up. It doesn't bother me since I rarely access my cdrom, floppy or zip drives via konq anyway. At least you're not alone... ;) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today -- Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cell phone faxing
Greetings, Has anyone gotten a serial connection to work with their cell phone under Linux? In my case I need cellular faxing. It is one of the last M$ hooks still in me. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
Actually, I think it would run on this toaster just fine: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/toasterpc/ ;-) R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware -snip- anything with 64 MB or more of ram and a large enough hard drive for all the options that you want to install. Well anything with in reason don't try to run it on a toaster or can opener. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4
Dan, I ordered the disks from cheapbytes and they work fine on my iMac. As I recall, you need a mac boot partition to begin with (I made mine as small as possible) and then you start the install program from your MacOS (8.2 in my case). I didn't keep ML 8.2 on my iMac, however, because I never got the nvida(sp?) driver problem solved. I may try to make the iMac a web server but that project can wait for another day. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4 On Saturday 08 February 2003 05:28 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dan, I think it will be cheaper for you to order from here http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/index.php?PAGE=2 although it's giving up on burning. All my coasters are excellent for my daughters rifle-practice at 300 meters. Kaj Haulrich. Sorry, Dan. I see you live in Canada, try here : http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010812.html HTH Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Merging 2 files
That will append to file1 eh? Not create file C. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net cat file2 file1 Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] knoppix faux pas
Greetings, I did some more research on my knoppix question and found that the distro is based on Debian. :-( I humbly beg the pardon of the entire list. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT-Homeland Security dumps winblows
Are you saying you have servers on M$!! R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Hmmm... If I wanted to test the extent that the Internet could be brought down - extent, speed of chaos, time to recovery - I would pull my servers off M$ and then let loose the fastest worm I could find. But then I have a nasty suspicious mind :) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT
I enjoyed that very much! R http://w3.one.net/~sunlion/linuxriot.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] making an extra hdd bootable
Greetings, I downloaded a nifty bootable Linux CD called Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) and like the distro so I thought I would 'install' it on my spare 1 gig hd. I know I need to create some kind of boot partition and transfer 'system' files there somehow but haven't seen/found a lot of info on this subject. Can I partition the 1 gig with ML, do some neato magic to make the boot partition bootable and then just copy the contents of the cd to the remaining partition? I don't need to worry about lilo since I will be using cmos settings to make the 1 gig the primary boot disk. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] newbie qustion on ISO images
I've seen a number of posts to this list that indicate the cd is simply a written copy of the iso. No insult intended but have you used the command that Tom Brinkman suggested? That should make you a bootable cd. If your still having problems perhaps your cmos will let you disable the hd as a bootable device. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of AndrewD Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:02 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] newbie qustion on ISO images OK I have burnt the CD placed it in the CD Rom of the other computer, but it is still loading Linux (the PC currently has mandrake 9) and not the CD (and yes the PC does boot the cd first) so my next question is how do I now use the CD with the new ISO do I need to make it 'bootable' somehow. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] or..
Got it, ML is much nicer. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Taylor Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] or.. or, you could just get over it and find another suitable os? freebsd perhaps? logik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] why china likes linux
Interesting article in my local paper. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3582809.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] safari browser
I came across this article on the safari browser but don't understand how it can be touted as fast. I thought KDE and Konqueror were both rather bulky (by comparison to something like IceWM and Mozilla) in order to appear Windows like. If safari is based on this code, how can it be 'fast?' jus wondering R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-07-022-26-OS-KE-SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Personal database use
FYI for the group. I have used Approach since before Lotus bought it and it's much more like Filemaker/Filemaker Pro for those of you who have used that. Each of the tables is actually stored as a single table database and linked together rather than the Access method of a single database with multiple tables. It may make a difference in someone's recommendation, it may make no difference at all. I have yet to find or have recommended to me a Linux database that is anything like Lotus Approach, Filemaker, dbase Ix or Access. I have never used FoxPro, 4D, Redbrick or the like but I think the Linux stuff is more like these eh? While the learning curve many not be steep I think the basic concepts will be markedly different. Jus my 2c R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Personal database use I have a large quantity of data collected over a long time in Lotus Approach databases. These are in many respects like Access, I think, with Lotus Approach supplying the front-end, relational engine, forms designer and query tools which act on .dbf database tables. I have opened one of the tables successfully in StarCalc, so I know they are readable. I want to migrate these files to linux - at present I'm using Win4Lin to access them. MySQL looks over the top for a single user app, and as far as I can see Katabase is still in early development. I have done a tiny bit of SQL work, so the idea doesn't panic me, but I wonder if it is the best solution. Has anyone any comments? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ML 9.0 update mirrors don't work
Ok, I'll bite. How does one 'grab the urpmi update file?' R I had this problem as well. Grabbing the urpmi update file after the initial install corrected the problem. I had some other issues the motivated me to re-install anyway. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis
They what? You gave it away! I haven't seen that movie yet! ;-) R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 2:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 2:15 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: I had heard a cast member was going to be killed off...from the looks of it Will was going to be it. LOL I actually cried when that cast member was finished off! Don't forget that they killed of Spock, but it didn't end anything Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi error (was installed/installable...)
Greetings, I've been following the installed/installable thread between Angus and Charles and got the following error when I tried urpmi --auto-select: unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)] exists Can't call method arch on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Resolve.pm line 14 Well...of course I would like to know what all this means. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ML 9.0 update mirrors don't work
Greetings, I am trying to run Mandrake Update in ML 9.0 and get the dialog box (in Gnome) which asks if I am connected to the Internet and would like to select a mirror. I am and I would so I click ok. The list of mirrors appears without a problem but none of them can be added successfully. I have been through every mirror on the list and none work. I know it isn't my Internet connection since I can surf and get email. Where else can I check to begin troubleshooting this problem. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IceWM themes don't stay
Greetings, I have recently tried IceWM and I like the clean interface. I also like the themes that installed with it but when I logout the theme I have chosen is lost and IceWM returns to it's default. Is this normal behavior? Also, is there a way to change just the wallpaper without changing to a new theme? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Using a Cyrix cpu with MMX
I had the exact same problem with the exact same cpu (different mb no doubt, you couldn't have the pos I have). It turned out I needed more memory. Not knowing a lot about the mb or the chips I bought I'm still trying to figure out why two 128mb chips give me 65mb of memory. The happy part is ML 8.2 runs very well and installed flawlessly (keeping in mind that I only wanted a file server so no heavy graphics or multi-media stuff is installed). On the other side of the fence is the fact that I shouldn't be putting money into this old mb and I need a bigger hd anyway so I will no doubt replace the mb with something that will like my chips, find a used 20g hd somewhere and only keep the case and it's accoutrements (cdrom, cdburner, floppy). It was a fun project though! R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 5:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Using a Cyrix cpu with MMX On Friday 27 Dec 2002 2:33 pm, Poogle wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 1:32 pm, Poogle wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: How likely is it that I could get 9.0 or 8.2 to install with this cpu? Has anyone got a working system with this architecture? Anne Anne, I installed it on a Cyrix box without problems (something like a 366 IIRC but I don't have access to it to check at the moment) Well, I tried it this morning. It's a 233 with MMX, so it's at the bottom end of supportable hardware, and it failed utterly. I got as far as F1 for options, F2 to install, then a blank screen, and absolutely nothing. I'm not sure it's worth spending too much time, and certainly not money, on this machine. If anyone knows a likely cause, I'll have one more try, but I'm not too hopeful. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] manipulating xwindows
Greetings, My file server occasionally doubles as a guest computer. May sound crazy but it works with my setup. I have created an account called 'guest' and would like to cause the xwindow login dialog to appear from the command line without logging in. It would be as if I selected 'automatically start xwindows on startup' from the Mandrake Control Center but I want the flexibility of remaining at the command line 90 percent of the time and letting a guest into x 10 percent of the time without going into x myself, reconfiguring and then restarting. Sowhat is being run before login that produces the graphical login screen? Andcan it be run 'by hand?' tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dave vs pcmaclan
Greetings, I saw a post previously about Dave for connecting Macs and PC's. As I recall the poster was a Mac person. That being the case I would recommend PCMacLan rather than Dave. I connected my Dad's iMac to his Pentium II last year using Dave and found that it refused to relinquish control of file sharing permissions. While this may be acceptable for a PC network that has the occasional (tolerated) Macintosh it was just terrible when we wanted to share other folders or files between the iMac and his Performa. Installing PCMacLan made the Pentium II the 'adulterated' machine and left his iMac alone which was much more acceptable to him. I also seem to recall that you are going to take a laptop to a number of locations so installing PCMacLan in all of the locations may not be possible. FWIW Rich - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2 (a little OT)
Check out Creator (http://www.creatorsoftware.com/). When I worked for them they were exclusively Macintosh and were working on Windows and Unix versions. I know the Windows version is shipping and I know the Unix version is client/server, not standalone workstation like the Mac and Win stuff is. It's a solid product which, to it's loyal user base, beats Quark and Indesign hands down. There is also a user group at http://www.wacondatrader.com/creator/ which is not affiliated with the company but will give you an idea of the problems the production people face. Be aware that the majority of the long term users are Mac people and will have little experience with the Unix product. I know several of the programmers monitor the list though. Rich and if there is a linux equivalent to freehand or illustrator, or to page layout software such as indesign and quarkxpress, i haven't been able to find it so as much as i'd like to use linux for a professional color design workstation, the software just isn't there ... yet. MYO, kenn --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:35 am, Aurélio Diniz wrote: I want the same has you! To work with inDesign, Freehand and Photoshop in Linux. Download the Gimp .pdf and browse it. Gimp is a lot more powerful than you first think. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lindows
Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed in Wal-Mart for taking it. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine?
Now wait a minute. She won't have to use the 'little puter.' As a matter of fact, if your going to have the little puter be the server, she should stay off of it! ;-) The ISA slot shortage can be solved by removing the sound card. The server won't need it and you'll have a slot for the new nic (if you can find a 'new' ISA nic!). I haven't finished configuring my old pos as a server yet but certainly isn't the hottest machine I have around. All I need it to do is host a small web site, serve network files and share it's cd burner. Anyone who wants to do real work can just hop on the Pentium II (can you tell I need some new systems?) and use their favorite (linux) apps with access to the internet as well. Summary then -- old puter has cdrom, cd burner, network nic, internet nic and needs a bigger hard drive. I'm thinking about putting the color printer up there but can't decide if it will be more convenient or not at this point. Bottom line -- 'Gosh honey, I love you so much I want you to use your Windows machine -- someplace where guests won't see it. :-)) R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine? Stephen: Thx for the feedback. I'd love to do that but. I can't get a pci ethernet card to work on the 2nd puter and the ISA slots are full. Windows has to be on the main machine since my girlfried has put in half the money for it (including the new 17 monitor) and she won't hear of it if i were to try and get her to use the little puter with only a 3gig hard drive and old hardware plus a sound card that doesn't want to work. If she wasn't so smart i'd just delete the windows partition on the main box and say OOPS honey, there's something wrong with the main computer! windows won't boot! But as she is she'd know exactly what I did LOL. (no i wouldn't really do that... hehehe) So.. is it possible to set this up or do you think i'm going to have to get this machine it's own IP with att? Thanks :-) Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] M$Access substitute
Greetings, I am virtually M$ free but for an email database (the Linux Patch prescribed by my doctor to control the M$ cravings has helped a great deal ;-) The database allows me to import mail from M$Outlook. I do this because I don't trust Outlook's database repair tools (such as they are) and prefer to keep my emails in a real database. I was able to learn M$Access fairly quickly because of the wizards. I don't mind learning a database that takes longer but I don't want to waste my time on something cheesy. I currently only have about 25 thousand records but I expect that to grow over the years (at a hundred a day from this list alone it doesn't take long!). So...what to Linux folks use? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] http install
How can I find what 'drivers' (sorry for the windows language) ML 8.2 is using to connect to the Internet so that I can use them to make a boot disk for doing an Internet install of ML 9.0? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] evangelism part 2
I got an email from my son at 6:56 pm saying he had successfully created a set of ML 9.0 disks and was off 'to kill his computer.' At 8:22 pm I got a second email saying 9.0 was installed and working. He knows nothing about Linux and hadn't even heard of Mandrake until I told him about it a little while ago. If a complete newbie can be installed and online in an hour and a half, that tells my the Mandrake community is doing something right! R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lan installation
I'm trying to perform an internet installation of ML 9.0 on my Cyrix 686 but the installation disk doesn't recognize the Boca Lan 2000 card. I am currently running ML 8.2 and can successfully navigate the web. There must be some way for me to find out what settings 8.2 is using to connect me to the internet and magically cause them to appear on the boot disk for 9.0 eh? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] a little evangelism
Just had to post this from my 19 year old son. He is fed up with WindowsMe and I have been walking him through the process of burning Mandrake cd's. -snip- p.s. please respond soon. I WANT A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM. (sorry but i get excited about this stuff too) -end snip One person at a time, we'll get the job done. ;-) - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
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