Re: [newbie] 10.0
Greg, if you downloaded 10 Community, put the 2nd CD in first, which will boot you in to Mandrake. Then, remove that CD, put in CD1 and you'll be able to install. It was a bug that's since been resolved. On Thursday 29 April 2004 10:02 pm, Greg wrote: i have a spare puter and i was thinking of trying out 10.0 is it worth it or should i wait i tried to download and burn the cd but i cant get it to work right so i was thinking of buying the cd thanks greg -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] install button not active in rpmdrake
When I browse software install packs in rpmdrake, if I select packages to download, the install button remains greyed out. I'm specifically trying to install packages from contribu and plf. I can install via urpmi in terminal, but not rpmdrake, where it's handier to read info about each pack and then select multiple ones to donwload at once. Any ideas? Thanks, ~Rory 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 button not active in rpmdrake
By the way, yes, I'm actually checkmarking the packages to download. :) Intall box still remains greyed out. On Tuesday 27 April 2004 11:22 pm, Rory wrote: When I browse software install packs in rpmdrake, if I select packages to download, the install button remains greyed out. I'm specifically trying to install packages from contribu and plf. I can install via urpmi in terminal, but not rpmdrake, where it's handier to read info about each pack and then select multiple ones to donwload at once. Any ideas? Thanks, ~Rory -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] APT for Mandrake
I, too, would love to hear more about this. I've been off playing with Debian Sarge for a couple of days and although there are a number of things I prefer about MDK, I must say that I was completely seduced by Apt, along with the GUI, Synaptic. Much better than urpmi and MDK's GUI tools. Typing apt-get update and apt-get upgrade without any of the issues of MDK was just great. Being able to browse through 13,000 programs/files I could install was also amazing. But, installing and updating them was just too smooth for words. apt-get install openoffice telling me I had it installed and then upgrading to the newest version was great. But, it was installing Firefox and Superkaramba via apt-get install superkaramba (nothing more) was too sweet for words. On MDK, both were a pain for different reasons. MDK clearly still has a much better install process (Debian's new installer still has lots of room to grow). MDK also has much cleaner config tools through the Control Centre. Add in something like Up2date like Fedora (MDK seems to be moving in that direction) and Apt to find and install and update open source programs outside of MDK and MDK would be perfect. As an aside, it's nice to be able to actually compare these distros and see strengths and weaknesses, between them. I could never do that with XP. Rory On Sunday 25 April 2004 8:57 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded APT from Mandrake10 Contrib, and have tried to get it working. It attempts to access the APT repository at Sunet, but says it can't. Does anyone know if APT is now back with Mandrake? It used to be and then disappeared. If so, where is the repository, please? Even if it does work, there may be no packages from it, which are not available from the urpmi sources. I though it was worth looking at, though. Many thanks Keith -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Are there any AAC(.m4u) plugins for Linux?
Ogg is difficult to support on digital audio players, since it's such a resource hog and a battery drain. The Xiph foundation really hasn't focused on it being a portable format yet, which is hindering adoption on the portable player market. iRiver has had a lot of problems integrating it. The only player that has successfully integrated it is the Rio Karma, which is the only player that has also integrated Ogg gapless playback. If you have an iPod, I would suggest ripping in MP3 LAME rather than AAC, as it's more versatile and you won't be locked in to Apple hardware. The reason that iTunes is likely ripping so quickly as it's not taking its time to properly encode. Try ripping in MP3 LAME 3.95 (anything after 3.90 supports gapless in MP3). The Standard setting is a good one. Tracks are around 200 bits and sound great. It will take a long time to rip in LAME but it's worth it. It's taking its time which means fewer artifacts. For those who pick products based on politics and philosophy, AAC, WMA and MP3 will never suit you. But, WMA and AAC are actually good sounding codecs and it would be a rare occasion if someone could tell the difference between them and Ogg at circa 200bits. The problem with WMA and AAC is they lock you in (Steven Jobs and Bill Gates just can't seem to find a new song to sing after all these years), which is why I avoid them. Rory At 11:51 PM 22/04/2004, you wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2004 11:44 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Yes Greg, after selling some of my old games and running around looking for spare change, I did manage to buy a 10gig 3g like new iPod off of ebay =). I let the coolness factor tempt me for about 10 seconds before I opted for my iriver. No matter how cool a product, I am really having a hard time lately accepting anything that includes an attempt at proprietary lockin. This has nothing to do with open source or GPL philosophy, just open standards. Hopefully in future firmware updates, Ogg Vorbis will be supported. Don't hold your breath :-o -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ~Rory 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 DVD w/ Linux Magazine
There's an MDK 10 DVD with Linux Mag for May. Does anyone know which version of MDK? I'm assuming it's Official, of course. But, does anyone know if it would be the MDK Powerpack or MDK Powerpack+, etc? http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/42 ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10
On Saturday 17 April 2004 9:53 am, Ian MacGregor wrote: I have been using a download edition which I purchased from almostfreelinux.com about 3 months ago for $10.00 US. I'm familiar with almostfreelinux.com. Are there other CD-purchase sites people can recommend? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!
Anne; i can understabd your concern, but hopefully consumers will simply take advantage of Microsoft if they start giving Windows away (Wouldn't that be poetic justice? Consumers taking advantage of Microsoft instead of the other way around?), and then migrate to open-source products when M$ tries to gouge them on Office, etc.. MS is already allowing consumers to take advantage of MS. It's called pirating CDs. MS has quietly practiced a strategy of allowing CDs (and floppies, originally) to be easily copied between people and installed for free on different machines. It's been one of their tactics to enhance marketshare. One poster made a comment about MS giving away their products until Linux is beaten. How do we define beaten? Forcing MDK in to Chapter 11, again? Buying them out? Forcing Novell out of the Linux business. No. Open source is here to stay. Push the corporate players out and others will rise up. Beaten means marketshare, as open source can't be bought out or put out of business, only certain Linux players can be. I think MS has plans to run a much leaner operation one day, relaying in 60% marketshare. Mature industries usually have a #1 player about around 50-70%, a #2 player at 20%-40% and everyone else carves up what's left over. MS know this will happen with the OS industry and they just want to be that #1. I'm fairly optimistic that consumers will recognize Microsoft's give-away strategy for what it is and exploit Redmond until the feebie's ends. Also, it could be legally argued that Microsoft is using it's domination in the global market to unfairly change it's pricing and marketing strategies. Wouldn't surprise me if some of the other big companies started a class-action suit against M$ if they tried to give Windows away. Still, Windows would finally be priced in direct relation to it's actual value! Lanman -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] soundcard woes
On Friday 16 April 2004 1:10 am, Roland Hughes wrote: This maybe a dumb question but have you checked the mixer and sound levels it is set to? Roly Not a dumb question at all. Sometimes the simplest oversights cause the biggest problems. Yes, I've checked all of those things in kmix. No mute. High volume. All levels active. As well, it's not on the hardware end, as everything blasts when I pop in the MandrakeMove CD. I'm wondering if this is a conflict with the support of ALSA drivers in the 2.6 kernal, given that my card's recommended driver is the OSS driver. I've tried the alternate ALSA driver with no luck, though.Humph On Thursday 15 April 2004 09:46 pm, Rory wrote: Hi folks, No luck on other venues I've tried, so I'll give newbie@ a shot. I'd love if someone could give me some clues on this one. I've posted more info than less, in hopes that something will trigger a solution for someone more familiar with MDK than me. I can't get sound activated since loading MDK 10.0. Here's the odd thing: the MandrakeMove LiveCD (9.3) always triggers sound, which I verified once again, yesterday. Here's an even odder thing: MandrakeMove and MDK 10.0 appear to both recognize my soundcard identically in Control Centre. I've also unplugged soundcard completely and re-inserted it in hopes it would be recognized the second time, but no luck. I'd really like to hammer out this sound issue, as I can't watch video/movies or listen to music without it. Here's some basic info: Creative Soundblaster PCI 128 default driver: OSS1371 **which works on MDKMove but not on 10.0** alternate driver: ALSA snd-ens 1371 **I've tried this but it didn't work** I also tried the debugging options (I'm doing my best to be self-reliant when solving Linux problems) available under Hardware in Control Centre. Below is the ouput: Any ideas? Rory === root@ - lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO es1371 : Creative Labs|Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V AudioPCI128 MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO (vendor:1274 device:1371 subv:1274 subd:8001) root@ - grep sound-slot etc modules.conf *NO RESPONSE-OUTPUT* root - grep sound-slot etc modules.conf *NO RESPONSE-OUTPUT* root@ - sbin chkconfig --list sound sound 0-off 1-off 2-on 3-on 4-on 5-on 6-off *0,1,6 OFF???* root@ - sbin chkconfig --list alsa alsa 0-off 1-off 2-on 3-on 4-on 5-on 6-off *Again 0,1,6 OFF???* root@ - aumix -q bash: aumix: command not found *NO RESPONSE/OUTPUT* root@ - sbin fuser -v dev dsp *NO RESPONSE-OUTPUT* root@ - sbin lsmod Module Size Used by lp 12200 0 parport_pc 32832 1 natsemi 23840 0 sd_mod 16800 0 snd-pcm-oss 51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss binfmt_misc 9960 1 sg 38044 0 sr_mod 17060 0 md5 3872 1 ipv6 232352 15 af_packet 20520 2 ide-floppy 18752 0 ide-tape 34864 0 ide-cd 40548 0 cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd floppy 59444 0 supermount 37876 1 ext3 111016 1 jbd 54680 1 ext3 intel-agp 17372 1 agpgart 31016 1 intel-agp tuner 17292 0 bttv 146956 0 video-buf 20388 1 bttv i2c-algo-bit 9512 1 bttv v4l2-common 6144 1 bttv btcx-risc 4712 1 bttv i2c-core 23044 3 tuner,bttv,i2c-algo-bit ppa 12296 0 imm 12360 0 scsi_mod 114744 5 sd_mod,sg,sr_mod,ppa,imm parport 38952 4 lp,parport_pc,ppa,imm snd-usb-audio 64672 0 snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-usb-audio snd-seq-device 8008 1 snd-rawmidi snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-usb-audio snd-page-alloc 11972 1 snd-pcm snd-timer 24484 1 snd-pcm snd 52484 7 snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-usb-audio,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device,snd-pc m, snd-timer audio 45568 0 soundcore 9248 3 bttv,snd,audio pwc 49776 0 videodev 9536 2 bttv,pwc joydev 10240 0 tsdev 7168 0 evdev 9504 0 usbmouse 5216 0 hid 53312 0 ehci-hcd 24196 0 ohci-hcd 18692 0 uhci-hcd 29104 0 usbcore 99132 10 snd-usb-audio,audio,pwc,usbmouse,hid,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd,uhci-hcd rtc 11576 0 For anyone that's taken the time to read this and respond... Thanks a lot!! Rory -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] soundcard woes
Thanks for the suggestions, Anne. Does HardDrake say that it is using the es1371 driver? I had a card like that in one box, and it didn't work with the SB driver, but was fine with the es1371 driver - mind, that was not 10, but still Yes, Harddrake says it's using the driver: Vendor: Creative Labs Alternative drivers: snd-ens1371 Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1274:1371:1274:8001 Location on the bus: 0:a:0 Description: Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V/AudioPCI128 Module: es1371 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Is aumix installed? If not, install it, and check carefully. Aumix causes or cures (not sure which g)a lot of problems. No, aumix wasn't installed by default. Just installed it now. Still, no luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# aumix -q vol 59, 64 pcm 64, 64 speaker 64, 0 line 64, 64, R mic 64, 0, P cd 64, 64, P igain 64, 64, P line1 64, 64, P phin 64, 0, P phout 64, 0 video 64, 64, P Any other ideas?? :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] No ADSL after upgrade
On Friday 16 April 2004 2:29 pm, Philip Cronje wrote: Strange how some people have no end of troubles, while the most trouble I had was figuring out that CD2 was bootable on my machine while CD1 was not. Well, it could simply be that I'm running MDK on an older computer. I've never had this volume of issues installing any OS before. But, I must say, MDKMove seemed to have a better handle on things. By the way, I believe there are some acknowledged issues with the 2.6 kernal when it comes to ADSL that they've been sorting out during the last couple of revisions. ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Yet another mdk 10.0 sound problem
Nothing works except ksCD, and somebody wrote that it's because it cabled (but it won't work with any other dirver). Ahh, very interesting. This is *exactly* the same pattern I have. Something definitely broke between 9.x and 10.0. It is very discouraging when upgrading an OS Absolutely. The help of people on these forums has been most impressive, though. I've search MDK Bugzilla and haven't really found a bug filed that fits this problem, so it may not be seen by the developers as a priority. ~Rory 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?
On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:29 am, Rick Kunath wrote: 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. Interesting, Becasause yesterday, urpmi did prompt me to install 2.6.3-8mdk. So, I did, noting that people on this forum had said that you don't install kernals that way. Everything seemed to go fine. But now, I can't find 2.6.3-8. I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Rory 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?
Here's the output. No luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.6.3-4mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:26:13 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# ls boot.0200 initrd-2.6.3-4mdk.img message-text boot.0301 initrd-2.6.img@System.map@ config@ initrd.img@System.map-2.4.25-2mdk config-2.4.25-2mdk kernel.h@ System.map-2.6.3-4mdk config-2.6.3-4mdk kernel.h-2.4.25-2mdk us.klt diag1.img kernel.h-2.6.3-4mdkvmlinuz@ diag2.img mapvmlinuz-2.4.25-2mdk grub/ message@ vmlinuz-2.6@ initrd-2.4.25-2mdk.img message-graphicvmlinuz-2.6.3-4mdk Yes, it did prompt me to install, I selected yes and it then urpmi went to work. Hmm... Interesting, Becasause yesterday, urpmi did prompt me to install 2.6.3-8mdk. So, I did, noting that people on this forum had said that you don't install kernals that way. Everything seemed to go fine. But now, I can't find 2.6.3-8. I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Rory, in a terminal, type uname -a or take a look inside the drectory /boot. Better yet, edit (as root) your /etc/lilo.conf where you can change the default line to your new kernel. Don't forget to run lilo when done. Kaj Haulrich. -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] soundcard woes
Hi folks, No luck on other venues I've tried, so I'll give newbie@ a shot. I'd love if someone could give me some clues on this one. I've posted more info than less, in hopes that something will trigger a solution for someone more familiar with MDK than me. I can't get sound activated since loading MDK 10.0. Here's the odd thing: the MandrakeMove LiveCD (9.3) always triggers sound, which I verified once again, yesterday. Here's an even odder thing: MandrakeMove and MDK 10.0 appear to both recognize my soundcard identically in Control Centre. I've also unplugged soundcard completely and re-inserted it in hopes it would be recognized the second time, but no luck. I'd really like to hammer out this sound issue, as I can't watch video/movies or listen to music without it. Here's some basic info: Creative Soundblaster PCI 128 default driver: OSS1371 **which works on MDKMove but not on 10.0** alternate driver: ALSA snd-ens 1371 **I've tried this but it didn't work** I also tried the debugging options (I'm doing my best to be self-reliant when solving Linux problems) available under Hardware in Control Centre. Below is the ouput: Any ideas? Rory === root@ - lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO es1371 : Creative Labs|Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V AudioPCI128 MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO (vendor:1274 device:1371 subv:1274 subd:8001) root@ - grep sound-slot etc modules.conf *NO RESPONSE-OUTPUT* root - grep sound-slot etc modules.conf *NO RESPONSE-OUTPUT* root@ - sbin chkconfig --list sound sound 0-off 1-off 2-on 3-on 4-on 5-on 6-off *0,1,6 OFF???* root@ - sbin chkconfig --list alsa alsa 0-off 1-off 2-on 3-on 4-on 5-on 6-off *Again 0,1,6 OFF???* root@ - aumix -q bash: aumix: command not found *NO RESPONSE/OUTPUT* root@ - sbin fuser -v dev dsp *NO RESPONSE-OUTPUT* root@ - sbin lsmod Module Size Used by lp 12200 0 parport_pc 32832 1 natsemi 23840 0 sd_mod 16800 0 snd-pcm-oss 51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss binfmt_misc 9960 1 sg 38044 0 sr_mod 17060 0 md5 3872 1 ipv6 232352 15 af_packet 20520 2 ide-floppy 18752 0 ide-tape 34864 0 ide-cd 40548 0 cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd floppy 59444 0 supermount 37876 1 ext3 111016 1 jbd 54680 1 ext3 intel-agp 17372 1 agpgart 31016 1 intel-agp tuner 17292 0 bttv 146956 0 video-buf 20388 1 bttv i2c-algo-bit 9512 1 bttv v4l2-common 6144 1 bttv btcx-risc 4712 1 bttv i2c-core 23044 3 tuner,bttv,i2c-algo-bit ppa 12296 0 imm 12360 0 scsi_mod 114744 5 sd_mod,sg,sr_mod,ppa,imm parport 38952 4 lp,parport_pc,ppa,imm snd-usb-audio 64672 0 snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-usb-audio snd-seq-device 8008 1 snd-rawmidi snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-usb-audio snd-page-alloc 11972 1 snd-pcm snd-timer 24484 1 snd-pcm snd 52484 7 snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-usb-audio,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm,snd-timer audio 45568 0 soundcore 9248 3 bttv,snd,audio pwc 49776 0 videodev 9536 2 bttv,pwc joydev 10240 0 tsdev 7168 0 evdev 9504 0 usbmouse 5216 0 hid 53312 0 ehci-hcd 24196 0 ohci-hcd 18692 0 uhci-hcd 29104 0 usbcore 99132 10 snd-usb-audio,audio,pwc,usbmouse,hid,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd,uhci-hcd rtc 11576 0 For anyone that's taken the time to read this and respond... Thanks a lot!! Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] No sound
I'm having the exact same problem getting sound on MDK 10.0. Yesterday, I
confirmed, once again, that if I pop in the MDKMove LiveCD, sound works (as
it does with every other LiveCD I tried). However, take MDKMove out and boot
in to MDK10.0 and sound is gone again.
I won't get in to the details and my debugging outputs right now, as I see the
original poster hasn't gotten a response for his permanent fix yet so I don't
want to hi-jack his thread with my details.
However, I've seen other posts about sound issues with MDK10 on other forums.
WIth MDK Official so close, is this something that Mandrake has acknowledged
and is trying to sort out? I imagine it must be a pretty simple fix, given
MDKMove was fine.
Rory
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 6:10 pm, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic -
Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote:
Found a workaround in a post somewhere:
edit /etc/asound.state - find the section that looks like:
control.33 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
iface MIXER
name 'External Amplifier Power Down'
value true
}
and change true to false, then run
alsactl restore
That restores sound for the remainder of the login session. But each
time I log in again, the sound gets muted during the KDE startup process
and I have to run alsactl restore to restore sound.
How can I make this fix permanent?
thanks,
/POL
Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun
Microsystems wrote:
Thanks Kaj,
But alsamixer does not indicate any problem or muted audio. No manner
of fiddling with the levels will get me any sound...
/POL
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 22:47, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr
Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote:
Greetings,
I have a problem with the sound system on my HP nx5000 laptop
with Mandrake 10.0 CE (kernel 2.6.3-7). The driver module is
loaded OK (snd-intel8x0) and the config indicates an operational
sound system.
This particular laptop has a button on the front which (in
Windows) mutes the sound when pressed. It also lights up in red.
When Mandrake 10.0 is running, the mute button is lit. It lights
up during the boot process when ALSA is started, so somehow it
seems that the Mandrake sound system is muting the audio.
I can find nowhere in the system settings where there is any
indication of muted volume; the master setting is at 70%.
Any ideas how I can fix this?
Regards,
In KDE, K--Multimedia--Sound--KMix | Alsamixer-GUI
Or : from a CLI : aumix.
Or : from a CLI : sndconfig
Assuming, of course, that you have those rpm's installed.
I guess it's best to run as root.
HTH
Kaj Haulrich.
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Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10
SInce easyurpmi doesn't have updated mirrors and I'm new to this urpmi thing, I just want to confirm: Would this be the path to the new Stable branch that I should be setting up as Main? ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS Updates are easy to find or urpmi, but not Main (which is the same as core and stable, I guess) Clicking through the FTP site shows a couple of possibilities, so I just want to make sure this is the correct one, before going forward. And I assume what I'd enter in to the console would be: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz Wasn't there a layout of the new mirror structure released somewhere. I'm going back and can't seem to find it. Thanks, Rory On Sunday 11 April 2004 7:14 am, Ronald wrote: Hey all, FWIW, just had 64 megs updates for MDK 10 using the proxad server ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/ looks like this server is in good condition, its on easy urpmi to regards ronald -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Challenge/Response Spam Black
Anyone know of a C/R-based Spam system on Linux, that is driven by White Lists/Blacks and Email verifications to demonstrate the sender is live? This approach has been far more successful for me than these sophisticated filter systems, which always generate false positives and which spammers always find workarounds for. I had found a very good one for XP, but have been out of luck on Linux, so far. Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10
Thanks, Ronald. On Sunday 11 April 2004 3:15 pm, Ronald wrote: Op zondag 11 april 2004 19:28, schreef Rory: SInce easyurpmi doesn't have updated mirrors and I'm new to this urpmi thing, I just want to confirm: Would this be the path to the new Stable branch that I should be setting up as Main? I did urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/officia l/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz copied and pasted from browser to console attachment is the the new mirror structure you were looking for HTH. ronald -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10
Okay, I just checked the following for updates: Official Branch: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz There was nothing to update on my computer, so I removed Main (which I think I'm supposed to do if I'm going to add Community). I then added and checked Community. Community Branch: urpmi.addmedia community ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/devel/community/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz There was nothing to update here, either. Both said, Everything already installed. After adding these sources, in both cases I did: urpmi.update -a The only updates I've done since loading the 10.0 CD ISO's are the few files that were security patches. Shouldn't I have at least gotten updates when I checked the Community branch or does this seem right to people? Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10
And so in the new tree, does this folder in the Community section become the equivalent of CD4? ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/devel/community/contrib/i586 It's basically the same as this folder in the Cooker section (without the bleeding-edge updates), right? ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/contrib/i586 Apologies for the basic yet particular questions. Just trying to figure out my way around and what I should be adding. Thanks, Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi strategies
So, I'm just starting to set up urpmi for the first time. Good timing with all the mirrors down, eh? :) I've set up the Updates, as active mirrors seem to exist for them. Is it okay to set up multiple FTP sites for one source? In this case, updates. I'm doing it in hopes that: 1) if one site is down, the other will be okay. 2) if one site is slightly out of date, the other may be more current. Good strategy or not? Does this set up potential conflicts? Secondly, I'm still deciding if I'm going to stay with Stable or Community when the mirrors are back up next week. In the short term, is it prudent just to update everything from stable/official first? Or, will going straight to CE (I'm not going to do cooker) cover everything under Official and bring me further along, rendering updating from stable first as a pointless excercise? Any other suggestions or tips for a newbie? Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0
which kernel do you boot to? I don't know if you were asking Rory or me. I'm using 2.6 - 2.6.3 ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi strategies
Rory wrote: Secondly, I'm still deciding if I'm going to stay with Stable or Community when the mirrors are back up next week. In the short term, is it prudent just to update everything from stable/official first? Or, will going straight to CE (I'm not going to do cooker) cover everything under Official and bring me further along, rendering updating from stable first as a pointless excercise? Response: seems pointless to me... a lot of changing sources but then again,,, I like to run cooker,,,kinda gives me an excuse to have so much computing power. Part of what I'm asking is wrapped up in me just orienting myself to the concept of updating a product that has three streams over public server. It's new to me. What I'm basically trying to determine is this I'm running off the 10.0 CE ISOs right now with only security updates. So, to catch up, should I be picking the Stable branch this week (which will become the Official, I assume, when the Official ISO's are released) first to catch up and then switch to the Community branch? Or, does just going with the CE branch fully cover the Stable branch, as well? In either case, I'm assuming that once the 10.0 Official ISOs hit the servers, that I won't have to touch them as I'll either be caught up + patches (Stable branch) or slightly ahead (CE branch), right? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads
I'm exploring the comment early on about Jetaudio being able to strip the drm protection. Problem is, it's a windows prog and I'm trying to stay out of that side of my computer. Can JetAudio run in wine? Ah, I had a momentary lapse in OSs. :) Yes, I should have pointed out the JetAudio is Windows-based. I have no idea if it runs in Wine. I have to stick with using XP for all my ripping, downloading (can't get the legal non-WMA DRM site I use to work in anything other than IE - Active X, I assume) and music manipulation, as I test products for a Digital Audio Player company and need to test in an Windows environment. So, that part of my computer experience won't be migrating over to Linux with me. :( ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux
What version of LAME are you running? It should be 3.9X. What app are you using to encode? Rory On Saturday 10 April 2004 5:50 pm, John Wilson wrote: On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 kbps(getting ready for when my iPod comes). When I play it on my MDK 10.0 system, it sounds fuzzy and like it was encoded at 16 kbps. When I booted in Windows and played it, it was fine...almost CD Quality? Can anyone lend me some tips on sound devices or this kind of problem? --Marc A little more information on your machine and setup would be helpful, Marc. :-) Also version number and kernel and that sort of thing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads
A LAME encoded 128 cbr song will sound far better than the radio. However, it will also be clearly distinguishable from a lossless .wav file of the same song, so advertising it as CD Quality is nothing short of misleading. I would think that Wal-Mart is selling WMA DRM, not MP3 format (the DRM can be easily stripped, by the way - JetAudio). M$ politics aside, WMA is a very good sounding codec. A ~64bit WMA VBR sounds just as good if not better than a MP3 128.. Although, WMA appears to produce more artifacts than I would like at higher bit rates. MP3Pro is DOA. It's not a format that has taken off and not worth investing in, imho. What frustrates me is *why* Wal-Mart would sell 128CBR. If they want to advertise CD-Quality, move to 192VBR (not CBR) and rip the WMA file with 2-pass. At that point, most people cannot distinguish between it and a CD. Same goes for Ogg at a comparable rate and MP3 LAME Standard. And people might not like to hear this, but those three formats at those bit rates, if properly encoded, are indistinguable from each other to nearly every listener. I like Ogg, personally, but the problem is that Tremor, the Ogg decoder, is a terrible resource hog. While it and gapless playback have been integrated very nicerly in to Rio 20gb Karma (along with FLAC support), it will shave 2-3 hours off your battery life. The Xiph Foundation just don't appear to see Ogg on portable players as a priority. For the Wal-Marts of the world to rip at ~192VBR, it also doesn't cost them any more money to rip at this bit rate, with the exception of the extra bandwith cost. So, why stick with 128?? Paying 0.88 for a song is still very expensive, imho. Note: The Big 5 record companies are getting all the $, as the margins are very, very thin for these on-line retailers. Plus, they're not paying the distribution costs, manufacturing costs or having to pay a huge cut to the BricksMortar. I don't know the numbers, but I'd guess they're making a killing on downloads, likely more than sellings CDs through BMS's and are completely overcharging. What's new. In Canada, downloading has never been illegal and uploading seemed to get some protection a couple of weeks ago in a Federal court, although it's never technically been illegal here, either. So, maybe buying out of country might be a consideration. allofmp3.com is a Russian alternative (Russia is not signatory to the WTO TRIPPS agreements, so the Big Five don't have a legal leg to stand on, no matter what they say). That sites doesn't have DRM and allows you to pick your codec (WMA, MP3 LAME, Ogg, FLAC, you name it) and bit rate from their huge catalogue. R. On Friday 09 April 2004 7:56 am, Miark wrote: Wal-Mart is selling songs at 88 cents a pop, which is a great price, and advertising the songs as being CD-quality. But when I asked a rep, he said they're at 128 kbps. Is it me, or is that CD quality wording a total crock of Shiite? I've used ogg for so long, I dunno how good the MP3Pro format sounds. But last I listened, a 128 original MP3 sounded much worse than even a good radio. Comments? Miark -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads
The poor guy working at WalMart for next to no money simply is just mouthing was the sales pitch is and just doesn't know any better. He's not trying to mislead anyone, WalMart is. http://musicdownloads.walmart.com/catalog/servlet/TourServlet;jsessionid=A3ICp8GCZkSFea38f5CTunzjBJApRROBLXzjevux938VeolMTMv4!-1915370110?pageIndex=0 Sounds like he's just mouthing the press release. I checked out one of their free downloads. It's WMA CBR 128. Trying to understand the difference between Ogg, WMA, MP3, MP3 LAME, MP3 Pro, 64bit, 128 bit, 192 bit, CBR, VBR is daunting for most consumers and front-line retail staff. Most people just don't know the difference and shouldn't have to. WalMart, on the other hand, knows exactly what it's selling and it's too bad they're selling 128 CBR. CD-Quality it ain't. Is it me, or is that CD quality wording a total crock of Shiite? I've used ogg for so long, I dunno how good the MP3Pro format sounds. But last I listened, a 128 original MP3 sounded much worse than even a good radio. Comments? Miark I'm surprised that you're going to believe anything that would come out of the mouth of a Walmart sales rep. Shame shame, Tux knows your name! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any update site that works?
On Friday 09 April 2004 5:47 pm, Ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 9 april 2004 23:31, schreef John Wilson: On April 9, 2004 08:44 am, Schwartz Avi wrote: Since the switch to the new mirrors hierarchy I am unable to find any sites that actually carry the MDK 10 Community updates. Anyone had any luck? Which site? I've had some luck here for security updates: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0
I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite that fact that MDK appears to recognize it. On Saturday 10 April 2004 3:30 am, robin wrote: I sit just me, or is multimedia totally screwed up in 10.0? I can't even listen to an audio CD. I sorted out my soundcard after a lot of tweaking some time ago, but now I try to listen to a CD and Xine and KsCD give me no sound, and Totem hangs the system and needs a dirty reboot. Sir Robin -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] how to verify that urpmi installed?
I'm trying to establish if urpmi actually installed the updates that it downloaded. I've checked the urpmi.log, which appears to have every other detail but no confirmation of actual install. Can anyone point me to the right log/file/area? Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 players
Which MP3 player? I have extensive experience with a number of Rio MP3 players. The Rio Karma has a dock with an ethernet cable to hook up to your network to operate under Linux with issue. They're also becoming MSC devices. It sounds like it's a Mass Storage Device, so maybe an iRiver or iPod? They're based on FAT32 systems, I believe. On Thursday 08 April 2004 4:44 pm, Aron Smith wrote: I just bought an mp3 player GTX 2GB Mdk can see the hard drive but I cannot write to it it uses a vfat format any one else have _Any_ experience with mp3 players under Linux? -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users
Isn't it great that the Linux community can build camps around distros, bad mouth other distros and talk about how there's is the best and why??? Over in the MS OS community that I just left two weeks ago, there's none of this talk because... there's no choice. Rory P.S. Make no mistake about it - the distro that is the most user-friendly (MDK still has a long way to go - sorry, but I've been involved in UI development, ease of use and navigation for software and see the shortfalls of MDK as a new user), the easiest to update (read: no need for command lines for those who choose not to use them-MDK is close) and the easiest to install new programs on (read: getting rid of dependency issues. Download, click and install. End of story.) will champion the Linux community in a way that those difficult distros and those snobby Linux insiders will never be able to do. Why? Because that will be the distro that finally gives those MS OS users the choice to leave, try a new OS for the first time in their lives and join a community that is free to argue over the code and implementation of code it is allowed to see, change and make their own. That is a response I got in the shorewall list. I hate it. In fact, I have been getting those kind of views from many people in the Linux community when they found out that I use Mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?
Yes, I did a regular install. I'm not sure what an LSB install is, though. It would have been useful if the install package would have pointed this out at the time. What's the best way to move to 2.6 kernel, after the fact? Through Lilo (which I've never used). Or, could there be unintended consequeces by doing this? Thanks, Rory Greg Meyer wrote: I would suspect you chose an LSB install, which forces the 2.4 kernel because 2.6 is not LSB compliant yet. On Friday 02 April 2004 08:33 am, Rory wrote: Hi folks, Well, I just discovered that when I installed MDK 10 from a freshly formatted HD that had never had Linux on it before, that it appeared to install the 2.4 Kernel, not 2.6. Here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]$ uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.4.25-2mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:39:08 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Can anyone explain why? And how can I upgrade to 2.6? You would think there would have been some huge warning/error screen when I made the selection that defaulted me to 2.4. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?
Okay, based on your comments about the Install warning, I'm pretty sure I did not make that selection when I first installed and probably had 2.6 loaded. I think something must have happened when I was downloading a number of the developer's tools, in an effort to find a dependency so I could install the MDK Online Wizard. After I did a big install, I noticed that the last item that follows was added to my boot options. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# lilo Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe Added floppy Added 2425-2 So, it added a login option of 2425-2, which is the kernel in question. I've never booted in to it and only booted in to the first option, above, but I guess this is the root of my issue. I just downloaded 2.6.3-7 and installed it. Everything seemed to go fine. I rebooted but I still have 2.4 active. I guess both are installed and I just have to switch to 2.63 somehow. From the sounds of it, Lilo is the way to do it. Off to figure out what that it and how to set it up and use it. Yes, early days as a Linux user. I look forward to being able to look back on these posts and have a good laugh some time down the road. Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sound in mdk 10
Something does appear to be funky with sound card recognition in 10.0. My card is found and listed in 10.0 but no sound. However, when I pop in the Mandrake Live CD, it always activates sound. Hmm... Rory On Tuesday 30 March 2004 6:06 pm, Wayne Petherick wrote: Stevie, I wish! It doesn't exist at all, in fact the arts sound server crashes on startup. It only really gives me two options for the sound card. I am going to reinstall and try again today. Wayne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sweeney, Stephen Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2004 8:35 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] sound in mdk 10 Hi, I had the same sort of problem with my Vaio... Let me guess - XMMS won't play, KDE crashes on startup, Mplayer is flakey? Check your sound driver in DrakConf (go to Hardware and configure the sound driver from there). I noticed that the sound driver that Mandrake was using was different to the one I had used to MDK9.0... I picked the original one and rebooted. Everything works perfectly now. (I also screwed about with sound other things, but it's likely was I barking up the wrong tree). Stevie :) -Original Message- From: Wayne Petherick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] sound in mdk 10 All, I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but frustratingly am missing the sound. Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get around this? Mdk picks it up as a Intel Corp ICH4 845 G/GL Chipset AC97. It is the only aspect (apaer from my soft modem) that I can't get to work. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Wayne --- - -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Internet stopped working
I just want to apologize if any of you personally received my spam dam challenge yesterday. I killed the mouse in MDK 10.0 and had to boot back in to XP and do a system restore there, too, with the intent of getting on the net and finding out how to use the keyboard in MDK to navigate to harddrake to get back mouse control. In the confusion, I let my Challenge/Response spam system, (Steven), activate before I had white listed the two Mandrake lists I subscribed to while in Linux. It's actually a perfect little C/R Spam system, unless there's user-error. So, my apologies. All is back to normal and that shouldn't happen again. On a good note, I finally got all the development tools installed to compile and installed superkaramba and some themes - boy, Linux is great! On the down side, I'm still getting the following error when I do a software install of an RPM: Some package requested cannot be installed: mdkonline-1.0-1mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon)) do you agree ? I can't seem to find the right package for perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon to download). If anyone can point me in the direction of the specific package, you'd make my day! Rory On Monday 29 March 2004 8:01 am, you wrote: --- Rory [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, This is Rory. Actually, it's an auto-response message from Rory's Spam Dam. Your email to me, with the subject '[newbie] Internet stopped workin / Internet ha dejado de funcionar', is being temporarily held to ensure it is not spam. In order for it to be released to me, please simply reply to this email and hit 'send'. Do not type a response or modify this email in any way, as I will not see it. Once your validation reply is received by my Spam Dam, your email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], will be permanently added to my Accept List and your original email will be immediately delivered to me. You will only receive this email validation request once. Thanks for you patience! Rory's Spam Dam --- - Details of Your Original Message: To: Rory, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-28-2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Internet stopped workin / Internet ha dejado de funcionar (!STAMP:040328223403:4951|) (!ID:25032729|) ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online
Hi folks, I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I'm trying to install the Mandrake Online Wizard found at: https://www.mandrakeonline.net/index.php couple of questions? I'm assuming this will allow automatic on-line updates for Mandrake? I only ask this as I assumed that such a feature would just be bundled. Or, is this just an updated version of Mandrake Update (which never works properly, due to server load, I assume.) I tried installing the four files by saving to disk, right-clicking on each one and choosing software installation. However, during the process for each one I got the following error: Some package requested cannot be installed: mdkonline-1.0-0.6mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon)) Does any know why? Thanks, Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online
Hmm... interesting... I keep getting error. At least it's working for someone: Some package requested cannot be installed: mdkonline-1.0-0.6mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon)) The file says owner: rory group: rory Could this be a privilege/access issue I'm having? I've been also trying to install superkaramba and get stopped at ./configure with the following error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH I'm wondering if these two issues are related... Rory On Sunday 28 March 2004 7:52 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: [un-hijacking the thread and starting anew here...] On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 05:00, Rory wrote: Hi folks, I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I'm trying to install the Mandrake Online Wizard found at: https://www.mandrakeonline.net/index.php couple of questions? I'm assuming this will allow automatic on-line updates for Mandrake? I only ask this as I assumed that such a feature would just be bundled. Or, is this just an updated version of Mandrake Update (which never works properly, due to server load, I assume.) I tried installing the four files by saving to disk, right-clicking on each one and choosing software installation. However, during the process for each one I got the following error: Some package requested cannot be installed: mdkonline-1.0-0.6mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon)) Does any know why? Thanks, Rory I /think/ this is a feature/service in development and not quite ready for primetime, but I may be wrong. But, what the hey ... I went and grabbed the installer (clicked on the link for 10.0 in the right-hand column), and it installed the required perl/TrayIcon module, so not sure why your install was crapping out. In any case, after installing, uploading my configuration and personal data, the icon sits in the tray saying, Service deactivated. Waiting for payment. Supposedly a free service, but perhaps they forgot? :-) -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online
You sure you have gcc installed? Well, I'll go one better than that - what's gcc?? :) I installed Mandrake 10.0 - 3 discs. So, I assumed it would have installed what I needed but it looks like I'm wrong. Where can I find it? One of the discs? I'm taking a look now but don't see anything. Does installing the Mandrake RPM and the superkaramba program both need gcc? Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online
Okay, I'm looking through the development tools right now. I was just going to install the whole package, but a number of them give you a choice of which tool for a sub-group. Any suggestions? I must have missed an option during install, I guess. R. On Sunday 28 March 2004 9:19 am, Rory wrote: here can I find it? One of the discs? I'm taking a look now but don't see -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online
Okay, I installed the Mandrake recommended development tools first. Didn't do the trick. Then I went back and installed the rest of the package, which didn't have any sub-group options long (save a choice between sendmail and something else), as the first install must of take care of that. So, I think I'm back on the right track. Thanks! On install, I seem to remember a choice for installing development tools and I didn't select it as I thought it was specifically for developers. If you need some of those tools to install an RPM, shouldn't it be a required part of the install? Rory On Sunday 28 March 2004 9:28 am, Rory wrote: Okay, I'm looking through the development tools right now. I was just going to install the whole package, but a number of them give you a choice of which tool for a sub-group. Any suggestions? I must have missed an option during install, I guess. R. On Sunday 28 March 2004 9:19 am, Rory wrote: here can I find it? One of the discs? I'm taking a look now but don't see -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online
Okay, I just installed a tonne of stuff from development tools. No luck. Can anyone recommend specific packages I should run to get this thing going? Thanks, R. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] need bootloader each time I start-up - how to stop?
Summary: My question now is HOW do I fix things so I don't need the bootloader each time I start-up? Details: I just installed Mandrake 10.0 and am very impressed with KDE 3.2. However, the post-install was a nightmare. This board helped me navigate a number of headaches: For example, having to insert CD2 before CD1 (How odd). I installed on a freshly formatted extra HD in my computer, as I didn't want to partition. So, I've just disconnected my XP drive and am running straight off of my second Mandrake-only drive. The install went perfectly, except for the noted CD2. HOWEVER, on reboot, I got the dreaded flashing cursor. I changed my BIOS from Auto to LBA, as suggested. However, that didn't work. Fortunately, I had made a bootloader during installation, so that got me in. My question now is HOW do I fix things so I don't need the bootloader each time I start-up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. By the way, I'm brand new to Linux, so talk to me like I'm a Windows Lemming because I am! Thanks, -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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