Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
Chris wrote: Works great on stand-alone .pdf's. Looking at the mozilla plugin it seems to only have v5 of AdobeReader. How would one get mozilla to work with v7? Install the Mozilla plugin rpm. acroread-nppdf-7.0.0-1mdk.i586 The plug-in has always been a separate install. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 07:54 pm, Chris wrote: Thanks Rick, and where did you obtain this from? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi acroread-nppdf-7.0.0-1mdk.i586 no package named acroread-nppdf-7.0.0-1mdk.i586 Add the Mandrake Club testing urpmi source. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1
Bill Winegarden wrote: Is there a build for 10.1? I went looking and when I tried to install an older version I entered the 'dependency' loop. Yes, there is a version for 10.1 It's called kdeadmin-kpackage, and you can urpmi it or install it from MCC. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Thanks Rick et al. I tried to urpmi kdeadmin-kpackage and I got 'no package named kdeadmin-kpackage'. I haven't changed any urpmi settings (that I can recall). I also checked in mcc and it can't find it in the software install or remove utilities. hmm.anything else? Here's a direct link to D/L, though the line may get split, watch for that if clicking fails... http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake/official/10.1/i586/media/main/kdeadmin-kpackage-3.2.3-7mdk.i586.html You'll need kdeadmin too. Do you have all of the urpmi sources set up? Tell us which software sources you have setup in Software Management Media Manager of Mandrake Control Center. If not, go here and set up some sources for your distro, then try again. http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Mirrors-list Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics
On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:17 pm, john wrote: Put nvidia in etc/modprobe.preload Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] k3b autostarting on DVD insertion help?
I've almost got things sorted out on this new machine and new 10.1 installation. I've got sound working finally, but have a small issue I don't know where to remedy. Upon insertion of a pre-recorded commercial DVD, k3b pops up on autostart. I'd expect a DVD player to run rather than a recorder, as the disk(s) is not blank. I checked the /etc/dynamic/user-scripts directory and edited the video_dvd.script file by moving the order of the called players listed there to place vlc at the top of the list. But none of the players were getting launched anyway. I can successfully watch DVDs by opening them up from a player, i.e. Kaffeine (Xine) VLC, Mplayer, etc, but a player never gets launched on autostart. From the command line the commands entered in the script (with variables replaced with actual devices for the test) runs each app fine. I don't believe this script is ever getting called. I am trying to discover where k3b intercepts the DVD insertion. I've checked kdeglobals, but found no references to any devices there. I'd sure appreciate a pointer to where k3b is getting called on DVD insertion. Thanks in advance, Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia card
On Saturday 05 February 2005 06:04 pm, john wrote: I have a nvidia xfx graphics card that I cannot get to work properly. I installed the proprietary driver from nvidia. I started x right after installation and it worked fine. When rebooting though, it would not load the driver. I saw the os drivers listed but didn't see any read me on what to install and how to configure the xorg.conf file. Nvidia's driver worked ok with 10.0 and the xf86 system. I need the 1.0-6629 driver. Using the os drivers, do i install the nvidia glx and nvidia kernel? Any help would be greatly appreciated. john Make sure you have nvidia in the file etc/modprobe.preload It might be the only entry in the file. If it isn't there add it in lower case to the bottom of the file. The Nvidia driver needs to be preloaded. Here are the contents of my own modprobe.preload file: --- # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY # for old kernel use /etc/modules nvidia via-agp -- You may not have the via-agp part, but you need the nvidia entry. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10.1 supported high-end soundcard?
It looks like I'll pull my Audigy 2 Value and look for a good high-end sound card that is supported in Mandrake 10.1. I'd sure appreciate some recommendations of cards that work well and are decently supported. I don't want to pick up another non-usable card again. Many thanks in advance, Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audigy 2 not recognized 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: The problem with Creative cards is that they sell cards with one model name but several possible chipsets. You think you are getting the same card, but you are not. I've been bitten by that one too. The only thing I can suggest is to try Mandrake Control Center Hardware Hardware then select the unrecognised card and attempt to run a manually installed driver (Run Config Tool Let me pick any driver). There is an Audigy driver, snd-emu10k1 and emu10k1. The first two are alsa drivers, I believe, and the last one an OSS driver. If none of them work you are probably stumped. I did open up the MCC and selected the run config tool, but got the error that it found no recognized card, and wouldn't allow me to set any alternative drivers at all. Is there any way to get this to run manually? I also opened up a console and ran alsaconf. It reported no compatible card. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audigy 2 not recognized 10.1
Frans Ketelaars wrote: Support for Audigy 2 Value was added only recently and is not in your alsa 1.0.6. Upgrade to newer alsa. Ah, excellent, thank you. It looks like I'll be attempting to compile and install Alsa tonight. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Tips on installing Alsa 1.08 on MDK 10.1
It looks like I'll have to install Alsa 1.08 on Mandrake 10.1 to get support for my Audigy 2 Value card. I'd appreciate any tips anyone may have on this process. I had planned to install from sources on the Alsa site, unless someone can suggest an easier way. The install looks pretty straight forward, but I am wondering if there are any gotchas? I see 10.2 has Alsa 1.08 installed, but I need sound prior to the Official 10.2 release. Thanks in advance, Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Audigy 2 not recognized 10.1
I'm hoping someone can point me to some ideas on the sound issues I am having. This is a fresh MDK 10.1 install. The soundcard is an Audigy 2 Value card, and works correctly on Windows 2k (this is a dual-boot machine.) The motherboard (DFI PM12-TL) also has an integrated AC97 sound card (VIA chipset drivers), but I have it disabled in BIOS. The BIOS is set to non plug-and-play OS. Lsmod does not show any sound modules loading, so I am guessing MDK didn't load them, thinking with no sound card, they wouldn't be needed? On a hardware scan from MCC, I get this output? Identification Vendor: (null) Description: Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 0 PCI device #: 10 PCI function #: 0 Vendor ID: 4354 Device ID: 8 Sub vendor ID: 4354 Sub device ID: 097 Driver Module: unknown I am wondering what steps I might take to get the card recognized? I Googled aplenty and the card seems to be a supported card (that's why I bought it), but does not get recognized. I don't know if having the motherboard sound card disabled is contributing to the issue or not, but when I enabled it, it did not appear in the hardware list either (the previous output was the same), and the only effect was a failed indication when the new hardware test scrolled across the screen during boot up. I've installed a lot of soundcards in Mandrake Linux, and have had a few issues over the years, but this one has me stumped. Ideas and thoughts will be greatly appreciated. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:39, Andy Yankovich wrote: Hi Stephen, Before the file installed a message said it hd bad signatures. I clicked install anyway. (1) should I have not gone ahead with installation? (2) what does bad signatures mean? Andy The bad signature error is usually because either the rpm isn't signed with a gpg key, or it is and you don't have the key. There should have been something in the error message saying something like MD5 OK and something more on the key. If the MD5 is bad, don't install as the rpm is corrupted. If the key is missing, you have no way of knowing if the rpm is legit. If you know and trust the site, decide if you want to install it. Usually there are keys to be installed for any repository doing much with rpms. If so, just install the keys. The keys are there to make sure that no modified rpm gets slipped into your system under the guise an official or trusted one. It doesn't sound like you did any damage. Just be sure of the source of any rpm you decide to install, and evaluate the risks from there. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Playing god with friends new laptop (Moral question)
On Saturday 22 January 2005 03:42 pm, JR wrote: I think what I'll do is make her windows environment as linux-like as possiblel firefox, thunderbird and so forth. Then I'll install linux (she has plenty of disk space) and show her how easy it is. She will always have the choice - but she will surely find linux easier. I dread going near her laptop with windows on it and it's brand new! What a shame. Coming in at the end of this thread, some of this may have been commented on earlier... I did exactly as you did with my wife's laptop. In Windows I installed Firefox with a bunch of excellent extensions , and Thunderbird. After I described some of the extensions and let her experiment with how much better browsing is with Firefox, it became the browser of choice. Thunderbird does email nicely, and the switch was painless. I've a bunch of machines here that dual-boot, so I began having her walk through the Windows update procedures on them while I watched. The idea was to get her familiar with the pain that updating Windows is. Once she became familiar with the browsing and email programs on Windows, I had her boot into Mandrake and begin using the programs there. I did show her Kmail, which she prefers to T-Bird. Once she got over the double-click madness of Windows and learned how to single-click, everything went smoothly. All of my machines run so much faster under Mandrake than they do under Windows with all of the protection apps running, that it was really noticable to her. A bit later I showed her how to update Mandrake using MCC, and she never fails to comment at how easy keeping her machine up to date is. (I go over the updates usually yet on one of the machines, but she happily offers to update the other Mandrake machines, and does a fine job.) Soon, she'll be on her own. I've used a few wireless cards under 10.0 and 10.1 and earlier releases. Orinoco and Avaya cards (all cards 802.11b) worked fine, as did Prism 2.5 cards and IBM's mini-PCI based Prism cards. I haven't done anything with g yet. I don't know if anyone mentioned yet, but Mandrake has Mandrake Move available, a CD-ROM based distro that runs without installing anything on the computer, and one of the versions will support a USB memory stick, so your values , passwords, and configuration can be saved across boots. You could experiment with Linux without installing it, if all of your hardware is supported under the limited set of supported hardware of Move. It isn't as sweet as a real install, but it is non-intrusive. I've used lilo as a boot loader for years without issues on my dual-boot machines here. One thing you may want to look at is getting a recovery disk set for the new laptop. That way, should something go wrong, at least you'll be able to restore the original setup. I always get them for machines I have, and had to use them but once, for a non-Linux related issue. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Media sources setup - PLF updated packages not listed as updated?
I'm wondering what the best way to go about setting up my media sources to insure that updated packages on PLF show up in updates inside the Mandrake Control Center's Software Updates utility screen. I have PLF added as a source, but for example, in the latest Xine updates, the PLF updated packages didn't show up as updates when I did the rest of the latest round of updates. I had forced a PLF update prior to running MCC, and did check that the Xine packages were actually there on the PLF mirror I have setup, but they never appeared as updates. I received notification about the security updates via the Mandrake security email list, so I knew to look for the updates. When I used the MCC Install utility, there the packages were, and I installed them without a hitch. Is there some way to get these PLF updated packages to show up as updates? Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Media sources setup - PLF updated packages not listed as updated?
Derek Jennings wrote: Personally I only define the official update mirror as an update source because I have a cron job to automatically install updates, and I do not want to automatically install anything other than official updates. A simple way to check for updates to PLF and other sources is to use the Software Install GUI. Click on the 'Update Media' button to refresh the list of packages in all the sources, and then filter on 'All packages : By update availability' You will then see what updates are available from PLF and can choose whether to install them' Fantastic... just what I was looking for. I didn't know that option was there! I'll not be adding the update source as you suggested, seeing what gets listed this way, the various other packages that I don't want showing up in Updates. Thanks again, Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
Bibletime is a really great package. It's available on the club in contribs and requires some Sword packages as well, also available on the club in contrib. It works with Sword modules, of which there are tons available. I'll bet you'll be impressed with it. Make sure you have your contribs mirror setup in urpmi, then install it from MCC. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] nearly newbie - problem installing 10.1
Hi all, I've used Mandrake on and off for a while, and I decided to use it more. So I joined the Mandrake Club and downloaded 10.1 ISOs. I also upgraded my PC hardware - new hard disk, new mobo/processor (Asus A7N8X Athlon processor). It runs Windows XP very well. When I came to re-install 10.1, replacing the 9.2 I already had, I created new partitions (easy with my new disk) and installed 10.1 apparently with ease. Then I booted it and the problem appeared. Everything seemed to start up OK except for the X server. When it has booted, the screen goes black and stays black. I tried ctrl-alt-everything but the X server was stuck. I tried replacing my 17 1024 70Hz monitor with another with different specs but it showed the same. I can boot in failsafe mode and get to a command line. I had a look in the error log file (can't see it at the moment - I'm using the Windows boot) and I didn't see anything obviously wrong. Can anyone help? R. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Soundblaster Live! 24-bit supported in 10.1?
Does anyone have the Creative labs SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit card running in Mandrake 10.1 under alsa? The Mandrake supported hardware matrix has model numbers that don't seem to correspond to any model numbers on the Creative web site. I am in the market for a new low-end sound card and considered this card. I know the Live! 5.1 card works with the emu10k chipset, but these don't seem to be available any more. Other recommendations and advice welcomed? TIA, Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! 24-bit supported in 10.1?
Dan Gordon wrote: I am using the live value as it was called from about 6 or 7 years ago without any problems. I have that same card in another machine and it's based on the emu10k chipset. It works great. As far as i know the live cards should work without problems under 10.1 Aside from the occasional volume level problem which is easy solved this card has always worked for me. I am hearing that the 24-bit Live! card uses another chipset and not the emu10k driver. I am wondering about support for the 24-bit card. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do you get rid of enigmail from thunderbird?
On Monday 15 November 2004 07:22 pm, Jack wrote: I don't use it and the damn thing pops up everytime I open an email in Thunderbird. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? - Jack Download the enigmail and enigmime files and re-install them as root (on top of the existing files). Shut down and restart Thunderbird. Open extensions and uninstall these both (again as root). Shut down Thunderbird and re launch it and enigmail should be gone. For some reason you can't uninstall the extensions even as root until they are re-installed as root. It appears they were installed as root when the rpm was built. I am not sure these should have been included in the rpm by default as they are so easy to add as a user if required. Enigmail as installed by the rpm didn't seem to work for me. It may have been a file permission issue with the files installed by the rpm. I didn't try it after the reinstall, just removed it. It wouldn't retain it's configuration entries for me. Maybe someone else can recommend an alternate method to uninstall the extensions. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader
Adolfo Bello wrote: BottomFeeder looked pretty rough for me here on Linux. Any advantage over RSSowl ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl/ ) ? I've been using RSSowl and find it works well. Sage an add-on for Firefox, Mozilla, or Thunderbird also does the job. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
Jack wrote: I think xosl is now called osl2000, which is the boot manager I'm using... - Jack From what I can gather from the osl2000 web site, XOSL is an entirely different boot manager. I haven't tried the osl2000 product, but based on the screenshots, I'd still prefer XOSL. It looks like the original web site is down, but is mirrored here, including the download section as well as the docs and screenshots. http://www2.arnes.si/~fkomar/xosl.org/ I wasn't able to discover whether osl2000 fits inside the MBR, though I am guessing that it does because it claims not to need a FAT or NTFS partition to install into. Based on what I read, XOSL does a better job of hiding partitions, and since it does not have to fit into the MBR, offers the ability to have multiple backup copies of changed MBRs as well as lots better graphical setup and configuration screens. Take a look at XOSL and let me know what you think, you've got osl2000 experience and I don't. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)
them. I have had multiple Windows versions, several Linux distros, and Solaris installed on a single hard drive using this scenario. (*Always* create the Solaris slices (Sunspeak for partitions) last if you ever need to mix it with other operating systems.) Keeping operating systems separate and some oblivious of others is easy. Even without a complex install, having the MBR safe might make this scheme attractive. When you change your Linux distro, it never writes to the MBR and can't foul up your M$ OS. It works across multiple drives, too. I've also done a lot of dual-boot installs using lilo as the bootloader and not had issues either. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Telnet
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 07:28 pm, Elliot Somers wrote: I did try the telnet command, however my shell comes back with a not valid command message. I will attempt ssh, assuming you can use secure shell, if it's just a telnet interface. I am also planning on going into the mandrake configure to see if I didn't install a package that would allow telnet. Open the Mandrake Control Center (configure Your Computer in SystemConfiguration in the menu) and go to Software Management then Install, enter telnet into the search box and see what comes up. You may be missing something. Is the telnet to the standard port? If not this will do the trick telnet 123.456.789.123 200 (The space and 200 tells telnet to use port 200.) Change the port as appropriate. I don;t think that this your issue if telnet is not being seen as a valid command. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet
Elliot Somers wrote: I am new to linux, I need to telnet into the server at school. Can someone tell me if I need a seperate telnet client or what commands might one use to telnet? Tere should be a shell telnet menu item in your NetworkingRemote access section You can telnet directly from a console window... telnet your.school.edu Gtelnet is another command line telnet/ssh/rlogin client. If you want something else with a split window for separating typed text and output from your school's telnet server, with double split-screen scrollback, take a look at Kmuddy. Version 0.7 pre4 was just released. You'll need to build it yourself if you want the latest version, but it's worth it. The home page for Kmuddy is here: http://www.kmuddy.org/download.php It is actually a mud client, but with the mud stuff disabled in preferences, it makes a great split-screen telnet client as well as a decent talker client. I like the separation of incoming and outgoing text, though it's probably not worth installing unless you do a lot of telnet stuff. You didn't mention what you were intending to do. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Friday 17 September 2004 06:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also want to look at a package called kvirc this is what I use and prefer. If you do a google search you should find a package for Mandrake 10. Kvirc is also my favorite IRC client. Rather than installing the Mandrake 10 rpm, I'd suggest installing the CVS version. The client is under active development and there have been lots of changes, additions, and bugfixes lately. It's been evolving steadily for years. It's a great client, has excellent scripting support, and a nice systray icon too. There are also pop-ups that can be enabled in the newest CVS that pop up on the desktop when there is certain activity. There is good DCC and voice chat capability too. If you need any advice on obtaining the CVS version of Kvirc and dealing with the cvs and compilation/installation, let me know. I have a couple of recipes that I can send along to make it easy to install. If you're going to go with the CVS (which you can keep up to date easily too), don't install the rpm. Compiling from CVS isn't hard at all. And you can just cut-and-paste commands into a Konsole window. You'll have to deal with a few package dependencies when you read the output of the ./configure command the forst time you get ready to compile, but with urpmi sources set up it isn't difficult. And the CVS version is worth the extra work. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
M.Schild wrote: Updates I dont think 9.1 gets updates anymore. Yes, it does. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Unable to update 5-15 Drak* updates
Updates of the drak utilities of 5/15 via the Mandrake Update Center fail to install with the error message - unsatisfied perl and unsatisfied perl(ugtk2) The balance of the released updates installed just fine. Any ideas as to why the required perl package(s) aren't available to install from the community distro directory or what may be wrong? Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Community updates in distro directory or not?
After the updates posted to the Mandrake secure list yesterday, I took a look at the file dates of the files in the distribution directory for 10 Community and did not see either the file date the same as the 10 Official updated files, or the .100 extension added to the file names. Are these 10 updates really added to 10 Community or not? From what I am seeing, I don't believe they are. If not, how do we get these updates? I was under the impression that these files should have made their way into the 10 Community distribution directory and have been picked up by Mandrake Update or urpmi. This apparently isn't the case this time. I have the correct Mandrake-Release file for Community and the correct Community distribution directory added as a distro entry and again as an updates directory. It looks like we aren't seeing any updates to Community now. Any idea as to why not? Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Recent Updates not available for Community?
After receiving the notifications of the recent updates to 10 I saw nothing in either urpmi or Mandrake Update under Community. The rpms in the distro directory for 10 Community do not have the same .100 extensions as the 10 Official Updates. Are these rpms in Community updated? The files in Community don't have the same dates as the updated files for 10 Official. I do have the correct mandrake-release installed, the system is Community, and I have proxad entries correctly setup in urpmi for the distro directory as well as an entry for the distro directory as an update source. Shouldn't these updates have appeared in the Community distro directory? Previously updated files have been available for Community in the distro directory. That does not appear to be the case this time for some reason. Any idea as to what's up? Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:00 am, Margot wrote: I kept getting emails from Mandrake about available updates, I finally found a working mirror, but still didn't get any updates through MCC, so I checked the list of updates against the list of packages I had installed and found that the updates were for packages I didn't have installed! Maybe you have the same situation? MCC 'Update' only gives you updates for packages where you've got an out-of-date version installed. If you decide later that you do need these packages, go to 'Install' rather than 'Update' in MCC and you can then download the newest version from the updates mirror. Margot I thought the same thing too, but I did a check of one of the packages, xine-ui of yesterday. I have an old version of the package installed. The new version is on the updates mirror I have configured. I have the updates mirror configured correctly using the --update switch of urpmi, so it is actually recognized as an updates mirror. The path of the mirror is correct. If I enter xine into the search box of the update utility of MCC after it has run, showing nothing, the updated xine package appears in the package list, as I expected it to with the update check. But it won't appear during an update check, nor do any of the other packages that should. I am beginning to think that Mandrake Update is broken on 10? Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 updated just fine on several other of my boxes after I corrected the mirror info. No such luck on 10. There isn't any reason I can think of that the updates shouldn't show up in Mandrake Update. This one has me stumped. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise. I am still a bit leery about not knowing what is getting updated after my inadvertent trip to Cooker a few weeks ago, and the reinstall afterwards. I have a feeling that urpmi may be working, but not Mandrake Update. Any idea as to how to force urpmi to display a list of it's proposed updates? I did a lot of Googling, but couldn't seem to discover anything. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
This one has me stumped... I have a pure 10 community install with the correct 10 official updates because I reinstalled Mandrake after the short mistaken trip some of us took to Cookerville. I know the Mandrake updates of the last few days are on the mirror I am using. I know I don't have them already installed. I have the correct Mandrake 10 updates and distribution set up via urpmi. I deleted the update source several times and forced a reload by recreating it. Still, no updates appear in the MCC list. Any idea as to why MCC isn't working. I've never seen this issue through all of the Mandrake distros I ever used. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case is that unlike the behavior in the past, the kernel source was never shown in the update list. In the past, whenever a new bugfix kernel was released, the kernel source would show up in the updates list, prompting the user to install it, then follow that with the installation of the appropriate kernel as you described. The presence of the kernel source was always a good flag that new kernels were available for installation. That didn't happen this time. The other curious thing is that the comments section of the description of the kernels and kernel source (2.6.3-8) read not available. In the past, this section held a description of the kernel, and information as to the bugs corrected by the package. None of this information is there on these kernels. I'd like to know if these are valid kernels, were they released as bug fixes, and why they are described as unavailable. There is something strange about these kernel packages. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Did you inspect your /etc/lilo.conf file to see if a stanza was added for the new kernel? Did you do a lilo -v (you don't need the -v option, but I like to see what's going on as the config is processed) from a terminal as root after installing the new kernel, to write the new lilo to disk? If you didn't do the above, and a stanza was properly added to your lilo.conf file when you installed the kernel, that's why it didn't show up in your lilo list of installed kernels. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
Why are the 2.6.3-8 kernel series present in the Proxad 10 official update directory, but are marked as not available in the comments section of Mandrake Update, though they are listed when doing a MCC update search? The kernel source does not appear as either a bug update or a regular update in Mandrake Update. It appears these are in the Update directory for 10, but are not available for installation for some reason. Any ideas why? Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel update woes
I tried kernels using urpmi also, but have reverted to the way I did them for years... Download and install the kernel sources for the new kernel. Download the rpm's for whichever variety of kernel(s) you want. Logon as root and install the rpms. Open etc/lilo.conf with an editor and make sure the stanza is there for every new kernel. Open a terminal as root and issue a lilo -v command. Reboot and try out the new kernels. If you are satisfied that the new kernel operates correctly, open lilo.conf again and change the default boot entry to the *label* of the kernel you want to boot as a default. As root, open a terminal and issue lilo -v That's all there is to it. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Today's cooker updates and KDE 3.2.1 (bye bye)
These Are Not 10.0 updates. Cooker has reopened and development for the next release has begun. If you have been using cooker to install updates for 10.0CE, STOP. Wait until the New structure has been established on all mirrors and then redefine your urpmi sources. These updates showed up in mandrake-devel/stable/. This is the Mandrake recommended location for 10CE updates. Did the updates for mandrake-devel/cooker/ appear in mandrake-devel/stable/ also? Is this a mistake, or am I missing something here? Shouldn't the updates have appeared in cooker only, if they were cooker development? TIA, Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Today's cooker updates and KDE 3.2.1 (bye bye)
well the problem is mandrake-devel/stable is just a symlink to cooker, so my stable sources now have 2 release packages mandrake-release-10.0-1mdk.i586.rpm mandrake-release-10.1-0.1mdk.i586.rpm I am in that same boat, having updated successfully last night. From discussions in the cooker archives, I see that Mandrake may be planning to freeze 10 Official, but keep 10 CE evolving, receiving stabilized versions of cooker packages? Does anyone know if this is the case? Have those of us who upgraded from devel/stable last night now moved to cooker, or are we still on the (maybe) evolving CE? If I read correctly, Mandrake is planning a rock solid Official 10 release, a continually evolving 10(.x?) CE release with major and minor stable updates moved over from cooker, and a bleeding-edge cooker (10.1?) release. Am I even close to understanding this correctly? Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
Kopete works fine with MSN Messenger, and Yahoo, AIM, IRC, Jabber, and ICQ. It should be installed already with Mandrake 10. Earlier versions of Mandrake will need a Kopete upgrade to work with the changes to the various instant messaging protocols. For an MSN only solution, you can't beat Kmess. It has a few more features than Kopete, but is a single protocol client. There is also a new version of Gaim now 0.76, after a lengthy period with no releases and an inability for Gaim to connect to Yahoo. I did experience the problems connecting to MSN with the new Gaim client, but eventually it did connect, and Yahoo works now. Kopete didn't have any problems connecting. My personal preference is Kopete. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 04:17 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Perhaps I should have qualified. You can have up to 4 primary partitions on a hard drive but only one can be marked active. Windows and DOS will only see the active primary partition and will ignore all others. DOS or Windows /9x/ME won't see the additional primary partitions as you noted. Windows 2k and XP will see the other primaries and happily assign them drive letters if the format is compatible with reading in Windows (along with any logical partitions inside any extended partitions that are readable, subject to your configuration instructing Windows which partitions you want drive letters assigned to.) Here's an example of someone creating a boot and data partition from Windows XP: http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_06.htm And, includes two primary partitions. I often mount Linux ext3 partitions in Windows using an aftermarket driver, and can then read and write to these easily. If they'd make a version of that driver compatible with a ReiserFS I'd be ecstatic. Extended partitions are very useful when one needs them. Keep in mind that a badly messed up logical partition inside an extended partition can foul up other logical partitions inside the extended partition. The data in a primary partition is much safer. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Partition Magic (and the Windows partitioning tool) expect partitions to begin and end on cylinder boundaries. Both make sure this is the way the disks are physically partitioned. Linux has no such limitation, and this is probably the reason for the PM error. Windows partitions will run just fine if not ended on a cylinder boundary, as Linux partitions do also. If you're looking for a good Windows partition utility, I wound up buying Paragon Hard Disk Manager (I've no affilliation with them, just a user), and have used the app on several occasions where PM failed to work. Once you get the error, you can't use PM, it will fail to start. I believe there are some free partitioning tools out there, Ranish partition manager comes to mind, but I haven't used it in years. As was mentioned already in this thread, *do not* use PM to repair the non-error. If you do, you'll have a non-working Linux installation. I believe the utility to access the Linux ext2 and ext3 file systems from Windows is still included with Paragon, if you have a need for such access. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Are the XP utilities to fix MBR OK? Yes, fixboot and fixmbr will do the trick, used from the recovery console, and restore the MBR. After a Linux reinstall, just allow lilo to reinstall iteslf into the MBR as usual. I don't think you really have a problem with your file system though. I am more inclined to believe that you have run up against the PM limitation I described earlier. PM is not a good tool to use along with other partitioning utilities. If you want to use PM, use it and no other utility to partition and format all of your partitions, then install Linux into these pre-partitioned locations. I agree with other advice eariler in the thread, use some other utility without the limitation. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.
On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:38 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I spent a very long time getting my Wireless Network Card to work. Unfortunately, now that it works, It does not obtain an IP address from the access point until I reset the router, then do a service network restart. What does your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (whatever your wireless interface is, eth0, eth1?) file for the wireless interface look like? How did you configure the wireless card? Are you running wireless exclusively, or along with an Ethernet Interface? Once you get a wireless IP, can you use the Internet? Does DNS work? Are you authenticated to the wireless network? Can you surf? Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] audio stream: mms: unregisterd protocol
On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:06 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: I'm trying to listen to an audio stream on http://www.crienglish.com/radio/index.htm The link to the stream is: mms://218.244.243.30/roundtheclock and the player it wants is Windows Media Player 9 (the download player on the front page is the WM9 installer). Is there a way to get this to work with xmms/mplayer/etc? When I click on the link(looks like an'eject' button) I just get an error saying mms: unregistered protocol. I tried using the CLI with mplayerlink but it didn't work. Any ideas? TIA. Jerry The mplayer gui will play it. Open mplayer and enter the url into the open, play URL dialog box. Make sure that you have the latest version of mplayer (1.0 pre3) and the win32 and real codecs. You can get the codecs and mplayer here - ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandrake/9.2/i586/ Also, the mplayer plugin for mozilla (1.0 pre2) will start mplayer from the web page. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] adding menu entry for .pl file?
I have an app that needs to be started from a terminal with a command like ./somefile.pl How do I enter this into the command line so I can create a menu item to start the file from the menu in KDE? entering the path /home/user/./somefile.pl fails as does adding open in terminal with various entries I tried. TIA. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding menu entry for .pl file?
On Saturday 17 January 2004 11:53 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:46:57PM -0500, Rick Kunath wrote: I have an app that needs to be started from a terminal with a command like ./somefile.pl How do I enter this into the command line so I can create a menu item to start the file from the menu in KDE? entering the path /home/user/./somefile.pl fails as does adding open in terminal with various entries I tried. TIA. Rick Try xterm -e /path/to/somefile.pl Todd Nope... Didn't work... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enabling ide-scsi emulation
Add the following to your lilo.conf file, then issue a lilo -v from a terminal to write the updated lilo to the boot sector. add this to your append line hdc=ide-scsi Like this append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 acpi=ht splash=silent Make sure to change hdc to whatever your cd-rom drive is. Just add it to whatever is there, the example is my own entry line, just as an example. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway config???
On Saturday 27 December 2003 12:35 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: IIRC, you only need GATEWAYDEV if you use a dialup modem (as I do). Mine goes: Not entirely correct... $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 HOSTNAME=tbird.nofish.net.nz I have a machine here with both a network card and a wireless card in it. The wireless card is assigned eth0 and the NEthernet card is assigned eth1. I have set linux not to start either interface at boot time and have a series of menu entries in the main menu which allow me to bring either interface up or down as I wish. Here is an example of the commands I use in the main menu for eth1 - /usr/sbin/usernetctl eth1 up ( this menu entry brings the interface up) /usr/sbin/usernetctl eth1 down (this menu entry brings it down) Change the interface designator as appropriate for the interface you want to control. I have four of these entries to allow for control of the two interfaces. Note that the variable USERCTL=yes must be present in the ifcfg file for the interface you wish to control in this way. Here is my ifcfg-eth1 file - DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.98 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=no GATEWAYDEV=eth1 TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=yes You'll see the USERCTL needed to allow the user to control the interface, and the GATEWAYDEV specifying this interface as the gateway device when it is active. I have found this a handy way to select the interface I wish to use from the main menu of KDE. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi/update problems
I cannot use urpmi to update. When I use the software management in MCC I get an error message there is an error while adding the update medium via urpmi, may be due to a broken or temp.unavailable mirror. This is repeated on all mirrors. If I attempt to updtae via software sources manager, it goes through the updating process but then states it is unable to update. ps -A shows no running urpmi prior to me attempting. I have looked around but found no reference to this. Any advice, please? Paul M I could be wrong, but I would not expect urpmi to be running until you actually try to do something. Try running it on the command-line as root and I think you will fare better with an appropriate error message or timeout. You might just have a proxy set wrong or a down internet connection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you don't mind, please send to the lists at linux-mandrake, not mandrake-linux. I've not taken the time to setup my filters to catch everything (to anyone reading this with the full regexp string to catch the variations this list passes, I'd be very appreciative if you would share). The error sounds like a hardware one. You could have a bad hard disk, bad/flaky controller on the motherboard, or you could have a bad/flaky cable. I've had the problem with the motherboard controller on an old TX-II Pro motherboard (SIS chipset of the 233-300Mhz era). In that case under Windows, the controller would spontaneously reboot the machine every few days and give random data corruption. Linux would rarely run on it, and died very early, often during boot. My best guess is that Windows does not use that hardware as efficiently as Linux and thus shows the problems slower. On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, C. Tresenriter wrote: I just re-booted to hdd - 9.0 install - to look at settings for sylpheed and play with xmms. When I tried to get back into 9.1, it halted with : EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode 259074, block 524290 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Two more attempts gave the same results. On a whim, I shutdown, turned the power off, then removed the power and ribbon cables and replaced them and it booted normally. On a number of occasions in the past, on booting into that other os, I wouldn't see the hd where Windoze lives (during POST or in the boot menu in BIOS) and found that removing and replacing the cables caused it to show up again in both. Would anyone have a clue what might be happening here? BIOS has been flashed with the newest available update. thanks c -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE++F30UMkt1ZRwL1MRAr9ZAKCdGgPtkpIAtH1sQrby0ww5D81fpACghHok dJlsAHhLi2WFZSi6XbkOK+0= =Cgfy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a system running Mandrake 8.0. Support for the 8.0 version was just discontinued and I'd like to keep security updates current. If you really don't want to upgrade your distro, you could strip the install down to the bare essentials and use the SRPMS to recompile the newer, patched versions of the servers and their dependencies. Also, upgrade to a newer kernel. Just download the source rpms of each, install, and then change to /usr/src/RPM/SPECS. Execute rpm -bb specfilename.spec to build the package for your system. If you get a dependency error, either install or rebuild and install the required packages. I think you will find that most of the servers have few dependencies. Don't bother trying to do this with something like KDE3.1 though. Also, read about the various vulnerabilities. Many require a user account on the machine to exploit. This might not be a problem depending on your situation. So, I'm looking into upgrading.. I tried 9.0, but whenever I try to boot from the first CD, I just get a locked up machine with blinking keyboard lights. I experienced this with one piece of hardware under 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1beta2, 9.1beta3, and 9.1rc2 so assume it is still a problem. I don't even know if it is a hardware bug, or a kernel bug. I got this on my PNY Geforce4 Ti 4600 128MB card, even though an Albatron Ti 4400 and Inno3D Geforce2 Pro 64 64MB worked fine. This turns out to be a problem between the BIOS on the video card and the framebuffer. The solution is to always boot with the vga=normal parameter. This needs to be in place during install and as an append in your lilo configuration at the top global section and then again for each kernel entry (or adapt to fix for grub, I don't use it). To get by the install part, try pressing F1 when prompted and then type linux vga=normal. Due to the memory in your machine, I think you should be running the enterprise kernel as well. I like to test things out on my workstation before migrating it to my server.. The server handles PPPoE, NAT, dhcp, email, firewall, http, squid, etc for my home network. I just downloaded 9.1, so I'm gonna try it next. M9.1 looks quite a bit different (new default theme), but I like it. The kernel in particular saves me tons of greif (laptop requiring ACPI). I still have to recompile from the kernel-source package, but can get away with no patches at all. I suggest anyone else with previous laptop problems try this. System configuration is: Workstation: ASUS P4T533-C motherboard Intel 850E chipset Pentium 4 2.53/533 1 gig 1066rdram Sapphire Radeon 9700 Server: Intel PR440FX motherboard Dual Pentium Pro 200 384 meg ECC EDO RAM TNT1 PCI video card -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jGp2UMkt1ZRwL1MRAnJbAJ9akJP3NTaAWkIHHpgdDCfr6KaUcgCeMRAI KukvWh6UWJ7yGLRfWQBrlzY= =wPVg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing host?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, c0ldfusi0n wrote: Hey. I have a stupid newbie question again. Here's the prefix of my bash console: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c0ldfusi0n]$ Is there anyway to change the 'localhost' part (and i don't mean changing $PS1)? Thanks in advance hostname myhost.example.com You can set this via the Mandrake Control Center mcc in the networking section. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jGrbUMkt1ZRwL1MRAj6CAKC0TxUomwddej1s3fqNsxMG6d5YIQCffjDN y9ooSO4xk0HggBnF3zdojTk= =wN29 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install repair help
I have an Internet Appliance (I-Opener) that I have hacked to work with an external hard drive. I'd like to dual boot Win98SE and Linux Mandrake on it. I installed the hard drive in another machine, and copied win98 setup files, and ran the mandrake installation up to the first reboot, and then took the drive out and placed it in my i-opener. I cannot boot into linux mandrake, it's giving me some kind of init not found error message. I've figured out how to use a program call Winux that uses loadlin and at least get into a text version of linux. I've tried to start kde from the command line, but it looks like I don't have any of the environment variables set. Is there any way to repair this from the console line? I'm thinking that maybe if I can get kde running, there might be some sort of user interface to help me repair it? The other issue is that since this is an internet appliance, I don't have a cd rom or floppy drive. Any suggestions on how to tackle this? Thanks, Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help
Since you're in the NY/NJ area, I would suggest that you get in contact with the New York Linux Users group (NYLUG). You can get a lot of help and learn quite a bit from joining a LUG (Linux Users Group). The website is: http://www.nylug.org Rick On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 11:20, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me sufficiently grounded to start real learning. Right now, after weeks of installing Linux Mandrake 8, I am still dealing with the facts that I cannot install my printer, the sound system works for the CD player but for nothing else, I can't install downloaded programs, have not a single clue as to what all these file names and acronyms mean (and since I can't print I have no way of making reference docs and like many people I am screen-dyslexic but can do fine with hard docs) and so on - all of which stand in the way of actually learning and enjoying the system. As I said, if there is a tutoring venue in the NY/NJ area that would ground me in the basics, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it. TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] backup system
Might I suggest you take a look at Mondoarchive? Check out the website at http://www.mondorescue.com. With it, you can run differential backups as well as incremental. Rick On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:45, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: There are literally hundreds of solutions out there ... a quick search at sourceforge is what prompted me to post in hopes of finding a backup utility quickly. Unfortunately many are alpha or beta releases. And it take quite a bit of time to wade through all the hits. Currently we have only one linux machine (sad isn't it, but I am working on it). Today the sysadmin was supposed to install legato's backup system ... then he read the documentation and mandrake-linux is not supported. I've got a big fat tarball on a machine that is backed up so I have that at least. I was hoping to find a backup system that did incremental backup and is preferably client-server. A nice interface would be nice. It's pretty hard to convince windows junkies that a non-gui based piece of software is worth using. Still reading ... Jeanie -Original Message- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] backup system Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. Jeanie Depends on what your backup needs are. If they're extensive, run a search on any Linux software site for solutions; if they're simple, just write a little script to do the job using tar. The simplest would just be to tar and zip all home directories, then ftp to another computer or move to a backup device such as a zip drive. The following, for example, would back up all home directories to another machine (assuming you have ncftp installed, which I wholeheartedly recommend - it's far and away my favourite ftp client). tar zcf - /home | ncftpput -c -X /home/me/junk anotherbox.mycompany.com /home/me/backup.tar.gz In this case /home/me/junk is a file listing the types of file that you don't want included (you probably don't want to back up everybody's Netscape cache, for example). See man ncftpput for details. Sir Robin __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. LOL -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] samba config
I have a cable modem and a small 4 port router hub. I just plugged the cat5 from my lm8.2 machine, into the router/hub and mandrake was able to go one without a hitch (much easier than the win2k machine). But I wanted the two machine to be able to share files. I went through the samba config app (it said if you don't know what you are doing take the default - I took the default). But now I can't get out to the internet. My guess is that samba wants a static ip address not dhcp - just my guess. So I think that part is setup dhcp and part is static and no part of the network works ( I have a netnowork setup appartenly). Is this fixable so that I can get out using my little router? Or should I try to go back to the way it was before setting up samba? Thanks Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] samba config
On Tue, 13 August 2002, mike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gt; gt; I have a cable modem and a small 4 port router hub. I gt; just plugged the cat5 from my lm8.2 machine, into the gt; router/hub and mandrake was able to go one without a gt; hitch (much easier than the win2k machine). But I gt; wanted the two machine to be able to share files. I gt; went through the samba config app (it said if you don't gt; know what you are doing take the default - I took the gt; default). But now I can't get out to the internet. My gt; guess is that samba wants a static ip address not dhcp gt; - just my guess. So I think that part is setup dhcp gt; and part is static and no part of the network works ( I gt; have a netnowork setup appartenly). gt; gt; Is this fixable so that I can get out using my little gt; router? Or should I try to go back to the way it was gt; before setting up samba? how many Network cards do you have in the box and can you send a copy of your etc/smb.conf file? just one. I will get you a copy this pm. thanks -- Mike McNeese currently running Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 Linux registered user # 248955 quot;If obstacles are all we see, then we've lost sight of our goal!quot; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] failed on bootup lm 8.2
I get a few error on boot up. Here they are. turning on procerss accournting [failed] starting processing acounting[failed] I can't remember the exact verbage of this one. eth0 [failed] I do not have anything plugged into the nic, could that be the problem. I am using the usb on my cable modem. Do I need process acounting? Maybe I should just turn it off. Any suggestions? Thanks Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages
Usually when someone recommends me to download such-and-such a package, with such-and-such a version number, I go to Red Carpet and not only find that it is there, but in a newer version. So far, I have not had a single problem with anything that I have installed through this service. I find their upto 2 months behind current versions for somethings, (except for security updates) -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?
No.. Dreamweaver Can work w/ wine, however it does not work as quickly, nor is it as functional as on windows. (I personally coulnd't get it to install.) I have managed to get a copy of flash5 installed on my windows partition working with wine(using real win95 dlls), its not really usable as wine gets into a knot with the daft palette/tool thingies and spends 90% of its time redrawing them. -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network
Have a look at vnc. It come with md8.1. It lets you take control of the desktop of one from the other. Great tool. And it is free. You will have to download the version for the win machine. Rick On Wed, 13 March 2002, quaylar wrote: At 18:59 12.03.2002 +, you wrote: Hello all, I have my network up and running great. I can access the Linux machine from the win box. Could some give me a point in the right direction on how to access the win box from Linux? Thanks -- Registered Linux user #225209 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com samba is your friend ;) ! www.samba.org http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba.html --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:26, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: I hope that this poisoned letter of yours ... Well, you were the one who posted in HTML :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: ximian gnome
I've started to agree Shane. Gnome just keeps pissing me off. for me its the other way round, gnome is perfect duck -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor
What do you think StarOffice and OpenOffice do? I haven't found a ppt,xls, or doc file that it can't read yet, keeping the format intact. There is more to word docs than just the text and its formatting. Once you have grasped that you will realise that NON of the linux wordprocessors open word docs to anything more than the most basic standard. -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 01:49, FemmeFatale wrote: In a different post I agreed with Dvorak however I did forget why I still use M$, games. Gaming on Linux will only happen when there are enough boxes on desks. loki and the like failed because the market is just to small (that and once you have quake who cares right) Besides PC's make expensive game stations, better to buy a PS2 (etc) and buy games matched perfectly for your hardware. -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor
So (beat me with a stick) I have to have a Windows box right here next to my Linux box. VMWare :) -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] network md8.1 w/ w2k for lan and internet
ya'll will have to type real slow because I am from deep in the piney woods of east texas and can't read very fast. In fact so far back in the woods that chickens wear overalls. I have a toshiba cable modem that uses usb (mandrake set it up and it works. Yea!). I have a nic and with a crossed cat5 to my w2k machine (no hub). I want for the w2k machine to be able to get to the internet. With very little knowledge on the subject, what should I do. Thanks Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor
(Linus said the very best thing he has going for him is that he is not Bill Gates) Linus also said 'I am you're God' .. -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Voodoo5 How-To for RH 7.x
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 04:38, FemmeFatale wrote: I think this might work for Man. 8.x. Try reading it. I post this for the persona asking about voodoo 5 cards. http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/3dfx/redhat7/ Great, that worked a treat - thanks! -- -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] programs running on wine
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 17:27, Stojs wrote: I have now decided to have a go with linux. Not all the way since I would not trust it to run 3ds max like I would like it to. I bought the mandrake 8.1 power pack. Is there a list anywhere of windows programs tested running wine successfully (and not successfully)? Wine (in a nutshell) 1. Your mileage will vary 2. Don't hold your breath 3. (see 1 2) www.codeweavers.com - there is a wine applications database somewhere on that site for the record, i have got it running Textpad, WinZip, WinRar, Rhinoceros 1.1 (yay!!) and .. um ... notepad you could run max in vmware, but seriously, who would want to - dual boot and replace your windows shell with max :) -- -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor
1. Adobe Photoshop. This is my most controversial assertion. or brainless. i will take gimp over photoshop for 85% of everything you can do in either. better off if he brought up games. He is right, Linux needs some ass kicking productivity\creativity applications and for most photoshop is king of the hill. Gimp!=Photoshop by any stretch of the imagination -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware 3D (Voodoo5) ?
SubstructureNotifyMask SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask number of visuals:4 default visual id: 0x23 visual: visual id:0x23 class:TrueColor depth:16 planes available colormap entries:64 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f significant bits in color specification:6 bits visual: visual id:0x24 class:TrueColor depth:16 planes available colormap entries:64 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f significant bits in color specification:6 bits visual: visual id:0x25 class:DirectColor depth:16 planes available colormap entries:64 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f significant bits in color specification:6 bits visual: visual id:0x26 class:DirectColor depth:16 planes available colormap entries:64 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f significant bits in color specification:6 bits -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to change X resolution
I've heard about a keys combination to change resolution windows-style (on the fly). This was CTRL+ALT+ + but it's not working... Maybe it was for X v.4 (i'm using v.3 to use experimental 3D on my Ati Mobility M1) ? 8-? Try Ctrl Alt + on the numeric keypad only and Ctrl Alt - on the keypad as well. No good for laptops sorry. that also sort of works on Xinerama Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows
I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into Linux from within Windows without rebooting?? I wonder if you could use VNC to access the other drive. They do have a Windows client as well as a Linux one. VNC is a client-server application. viewing a linux machine from windows requires that the Linux VNC server be running (which means you have to be running a Linux machine to run VNC on) things to concider as alternatives - lnx4win, vmware and a handful of linux filesystem viewers for windows (just dont hold your breath) Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] profile_bash
Well, i know a little about sco. .profile runs when a user logs in. What does the same type of thing as that or profile_bash, when using an xterm. I have a modifed PATH etc. Another question - is the alias. How is it set for an xterm? alias seems to loose its values as child shells are created. How would one over come this problem? Thanks Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] logout of kde - screen hangs
I have m8.1 and go to a console. startx works fine. But I can't get back to a console screen (ctrl alt F1 or F2 etc) while kde is running. Even loging out, the screen just hangs. Now, interesting enough is that shutdown and reboot works just fine. Any suggestions? Thanks Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux machine in an NT environment
Let me ask... Using Samba, is it possible to have a Linux box, dial into, and logon to, an NT domain? And, once having logged on, is it then possible to browse the NT network? How is this done? Thanks, Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. Mark Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to set up SAMBA, your Linux box will then appear on your NT network as an NT4 box. You can even setup samba to make the Linux box your PDC. It's really quite straight forward and pretty cool when you get it all going. Check out www.samba.org Mark - Original Message - From: george Pitcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:13 AM Subject: [newbie] Linux machine in an NT environment Hi all, I have setup a laptop in an NT environment and I would like to be able to swap files directly, just as I can with my last remaining Mac. I haven't a clue where to start. I have an NT Worgroup with 4NT clients (all running NTServer4) one Win2K laptop and a Mac with MacOS9. Any pointers? If it helps, I can use SMB to connect to a network printer within the workgroup. MTIA George in Edinburgh _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1
OK... I think I just learned something about RPM... Do I understand Mr. Slooten correctly? By using RPM with a --rebuild option on a SRC.RPM, you'll create a binary build of the SRC RPM?? Hmmm... At the console, rpm --help doesn't even list --rebuild (of course, it lists --rebuilddb but that's different). Yet, if I enter rpm --rebuild (with no package mentioned) I receive the message: rpmb: no packages files given for rebuild This seems to imply that the --rebuild option does, indeed exist. So... will this create a binary build RPM from a SRC RPM?? Thanks, Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They offer src.rpm's om the nvidia site... why not make your own rpm's? rpm --rebuild NVidia_blaah_blaah.src.rpm Greetings, Ralph Terry S. wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only one NVidia offers is an RPM for an i686, but I can't use it since I don't have an 686 processor. I have searched RPMfind.net, and they didn't have one either. Thanks! Terry -- Homepage: http://www.tuxpower.f2s.com/ __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building a PC.
FYI, if you use Windows 98, don't bother with more than 512 mb of RAM, 2k will address up to 3 gb. Linux I don't know, but after about 512mb even in linux I'd bet you won't see a huge performance boost ;p Unless you do intense grafx work with GIMP. I'm sure someone else can correct or confirm this for the moment at least, having more than 512mb mem is overkill for most activities, image editing perhaps (either huge images, or a large undo buffer), or rendering\raytracing. perhaps a ram drive Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Laptops
I'm considering getting a Sony Vaio FXA-36 laptop which will run both Windows and Mandrake 8.1. Does anyone here have any experience with the Sony laptops, or with laptops in general? http://www.linux-notebook.org/laptops/by_brand/?searchbrand=sony http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclientq=linux+viao http://groups.google.com/groups?q=linux+viaonum=100hl=ennewwindow=1sa=N; tab=wg Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Can anyone recommend a good Howto site? I'm looking to set up an anonymous ftp (proftpd) and my samba server. you may have all the doc's installed anyhow - have a look in /usr/share/doc Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Moving Linux to a larger HD
OK... currently, my Linux installation is on an 8GB hard drive. I would like to put it on a 20GB hard drive. I know how to partition the drive. My question is simply, once the 20GB drive is ready, can I just do a straight copy of the existing filesystems to the new drive? Then I would connect the new drive as /dev/hda. Would this work? Or is there something special I have to do? Thanks, Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XMMS CDs
OK... I'm sure the answer to this is so simple that it is staring me in the face. How do I get XMMS to play an audio CD? For the life of me, I can't figure it out. I assume that it can do so since you can set it to check CDDB. Someone make me feel stupid and tell me how! :) Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows CE and Linux
why not try it and find out? Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] networking internet woes...
Hi all, I have one of those usb alcatel modems, which works perfectly. my problem is that when i have eth0 enabled as well, i loose dns resoloution, i can ping the outside world and retreve web pages if iknow the ip address of the site. i can ping my internal lan (on eth0) fine etc. disbable eth0 and dns suddenly works any ideas? Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.comPOV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.ukTEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Keyhttp://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA
Re: [newbie] Zip drive Access
might be an idea to make sure the drive works under windows, and the disk your trying is not a duff. zip drives are not the most reliable beasties Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.comPOV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.ukTEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Keyhttp://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA - Original Message - From: Richard Bartlett To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:45 AM Subject: [newbie] Zip drive Access Hi guys I have installed an internal zip drive into my Mandrake 8.1 machine and I am having dramas getting access to the drive Using hardrake I can find that the zip drive is there as /dev/hdd However if I try to use the mount (i.e. under KDE on the desktop I make a new floppy device link where the device is /dev/hdd and mount point is /mnt/zip) I get an error saying no device or could not mount the device /dev/hdd does not exist Using an article from linuxnewbie.org I was told to modify the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file with: Insmod parport Insmod ppa And also modifying the fstab file with the same line as on my other computer /dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 Can someone please let me know what I am doing wrong Thanks for your help Rick J PS once I have sorted this I may or should I say will need help in setting up my USB zip drive and USB printer so if you have any pointers for that please let me know, thanks again
Re: [newbie] networking internet woes...
On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:02, you wrote: Hi all, I have one of those usb alcatel modems, which works perfectly. my problem is that when i have eth0 enabled as well, i loose dns resoloution, i can ping the outside world and retreve web pages if i know the ip address of the site. i can ping my internal lan (on eth0) fine etc. disbable eth0 and dns suddenly works any ideas? disable routing. you have the default route set to eth0 and not PPP0 and I do that in which file? Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing 8.1
i only have about 1gb which is nowhere near enough. is there not a way of installing Linux manually a floppies worth at a time? I would also be interested if there is as I am getting a old laptop soon (read no cd at all!) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mozilla for mdk ?
Kenn, You can try the RPMs for Mozilla 0.9.7 that are in Cooker. The exact path to the RPMs is: ftp://ftp.wayne.edu/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. Kenn Yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greetings ... after reading of security problems with older versions of galeon and mozilla (the versions that came on my mdk 8.1 power pack), i'm attempting to update them ... i needed three things: galeon, gnome and mozilla ... i found new i586 rpms of galeon and gnome at www.rpmfind.com, but i can't find an i586 make of the latest mozilla ... can someone point me in the right direction? thanks, kenn _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] boot disk doesn't work
ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shipahoy wrote: Hi My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one made on installation and any I make from Mandrake Control Centre. Trying to boot with them gives this error on boot: Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img The boot disk for my Redhat 7.1 partition works fine. I have AMD Duron 800 Soltek SL-75MAV mobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Yes mine did not either. The initrd.img file is missing in /boot. You need to run mkinitrd (see man mkinitrd or just enter mkinitrd for help). My command looks looks this: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8-26mdk 2.4.8-26mdk. After the initrd.img file is made, you must copy it to your boot floppy. HTH Charles I found that if I open a terminal I can create a boot disk that works fine, simply by using the mkbootdisk command as follows: mkbootdisk 2.4.8-26mdk I also had the problem with the boot disk made during the installation as well as by using Drakfloppy. Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Soundcard not working
I'm having another problem after my installation of 8.1. I cannot get my soundcard to work. My soundcard is a Crystal 4236. It worked fine when I had RH 7.1 installed. Mandrake 8.1 doesn't seem to recognize it. I ran Harddrake and tried to configure it and I get a popup message that says: modprobe: Can't locate module isa-pnp. I try to configure it manually (using the info from the other OS I have on my machine) but it still will not work at all. I tried running sndconfig but it pretty much chokes on it too. Any ideas? Why would RedHat 7.1 have absolutely no problem with the card but Mandrake does?? Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Booting From Floppy
Yesterday, I installed 8.1 on my PC. It is installed on the second hard drive (/dev/hdb). When I installed it, I chose to use the EXT3 journaling filesystem. I would like to use a boot floppy to boot into Linux. So, during the installation, I created a bootdisk. However, now, when I try to boot with it, it comes up with a kernel panic message and says I should use the init= parameter. I am getting the impression that it may have something to do with the file system I have chosen. Does anyone know if that is the case? If so, what can I do about it? Do I need to repartition everything as EXT2 in order to use a boot floppy? Thanks in advance, Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (212) 894-3753 x1212 - voicemail/fax He's dead, Jim. You get his wallet. I'll get his tricorder. __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux
At present I use both 8.1 and Win98SE and IMHO in every area where it counts 8.1 is better with the exception of installation of software. As you said what we need is some standardized features including an installer along the lines of those used in Windows. The rest of the time the diversity of Linux is one of the things I like about it because no matter what you want to do Linux does it better (excepting playing games). You only have to look at how much better / easier installing Linux is now compared with what it was not that long ago. at the moment the diversity of Linux is its downfall, why should anyone want one killer app when you can have 5 half finished ones, 2 main desktops toolkits, several office suits (none of which talk the industry standard MS office) ad nausea sure Linux is simpler to install now, but excuse me for being more interested in the end result its like every Linux distro feels the need to offer the same end product in a different way, and the same can be said for most of the competing applications frankly, at the moment Linux is a fragmented mess Different distros are not like different releases of windows and should not be compared in that way. Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux
First, the 'hunting for libraries' complaint is moot: I have yet to look any further than my own LM install disks for libraries-- LM is probably better than many distros out there as they actually provide you with more than one install CD and all the stuff they offer has been compiled for a Mandrake system so it's going to work. HAHAHA ROFL ...Mandrake going to work Thats the best yet :) Second, no one says you *have* to install the latest kernel and it isn't even necessary unless you're adding brand new hardware that didn't exist six months ago-- how many of you out there are installing kernels just because it has a higher number? or becasue the one your using has been declared the biggest pile of (official) turkey poo (or is it greased chicken) to be released to date By-and-by the install process is standard-- using RPMs is easy enough and for the odd times when I have to compile there's always an install.sh or configure.sh-- that fail because MDK like to put required things in silly places and another silly thing that even comes with Windoze installations: README files-- how many of you have failed to install something properly because you didn't read the instructions. and how many instructions have you read that simply didnt work? Bottom line: If you want something 'Just like Windows' then use Windows. There is no such thing as out-and-out replacing an OS. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. Linux will get there, its come a long way in the last 2 years And while we're at it the day Linux starts acting completely like Windows is the same day I have to defragment my ReiserFS partition after I do a virus scan because my firewalling software didn't work. virus's will happen (or at least more trojans worms) as Linux gets more popular on the desktop and no firewalling software is 100% Linux is different. Get over it! I really don't care if my neighbour is using it or not, I just want Linux to be there so I have a choice in how I use my PC. Period! but different doesn't have to mean it cannot be user friendly (or at least a little less newbie painful) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux
newbies shouldn't have to use the shell prompt to install something. exactly - we dont have GUI's just for fun, if the GUI tools dont provide the power of there shell counterparts, then why the hell not!! windows is almost exclusivly gui, and there is no end of extremly complicated and powerful software. one other point, man pages are good, but may be difficult for a linux newbie to interpret. documentation needs to be in a easy-to-use help gui inside of the gui application, or formatted as easy-to-understand .html files that the newbie can just click around in. (fortunately, mandrake has made a good effort on this end). MDK have made the effort, but they still managed to include quite a few duff links (links to other pages in the docs - not on the web) again, if linux is to become mainstream on the desktop, it needs to overcome the above hurdles, namingly making everything extremely simple and easy for the new computer/linux user. and that's the problem - there are loads of Linux users who share this dream, and there is an equal number trying to go in the opposite direction and keep Linux as Unix as possible. Everybody is developing to their own ideals, no definite direction or purpose, forcing users to have both the super GUI and the Unix installed at the same time as neither do everything 100% Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux
Rick, you remind me of a child of say,,sixteen, who believes the world they have seen is it, and views the universe as beeing all from their (limited) perspective. M$winders is not how _I_ think the world should look, _I_ want to decide, and I am willing to allow that one mans cluster f#ck is a nother mans orgy so maybe...just maybe...the folks that reallly enjoy being a sheep, can. and those who think that they might have to learn to paint to keep the cave from being like every other cave can also RTFD to keep their virtul cave as they need it to be. oop!, Linux Nut alert!! Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release
I guess I'll just go and please myself.. that's a little more information than we needed Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT M$ Win and RAM
Rant over... thanks for listening and be warned... you would be better using win2000 for dual booting, as it really is a very different beast compared to the 9x series, and as a result will give you fewer headaches Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
