Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 04:09 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 07:04:18 -0400 Lee Wiggers wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. Mine exhibits the same behaviour. The workaround I use is that each time I change to a different system I disconnect and then reconnect the mouse from the kvm switch. Mines on an extension cable so that I can keep it within easy reach I solved the same problem by adding psmouse.proto=bare to the append in the lilo.conf. After remember to 'lilo' to reset the boot things worked with the KVM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:17 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: What a pain! Editing text files is particularly irritating because my fingers operate in vi mode reflexively. Get vim for Windows. A decent vi emulator, heck, I use it under Mandrake and on Sun instead of vi. I also find myself cursing over Windows' apparent lack of consistency in terms of where it decides to save things. I could go on... There is a decent shell toolkit for Windows, the name escapes me at the moment but it has ksh and most of the simple command line stuff. MKS Toolkit, perhaps? My main impression of Windows is that it makes a lot of things unnecessarily difficult! Some, certainly, other outright dangerous (registry editing, anyone?). If you ever have to write stuff at the system level it's downright schizophrenic with something like 3 sets of system calls for file I/O (as compared to the UNIX norm of 1 set). True pain on Windows is writing something that's to run like a cron job on UNIX. On UNIX you make it work then toss it into cron, on Windows you basically have to write a service around it, a completely different run environment, and it's impossible to test. Bah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:46 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: I used to use the MKS toolkit version of vi on DOS as well as the Korn shell and awk, grep, sed, et al. It was one of the reasons I never learned DOS properly! vim is cool, though. I don't think there's a 'proper' way to learn MS-DOS. My first conputer was an IBM 360/65 running a timeshare simulator called RAX, heck, the first programming test I ever took was to see if I could hold a 1401 punchboard at arms length, so I'm a proper dinosaur. Eek! (He makes the sign to ward off demons!) I still do most of my software development (bioinformatics in Java, mostly) on my Linux box and move things to the Windows box only for integration testing. The Linux box tends to feel a little slower than the Windows box but development is faster as I don't crash it near as often. While working hard on the Windows platform I'll crash the development environment 2-3 times a day, losing anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour's work each time. At least it's not my money, if they want me to work there they can pay my rates for the time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:54 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:17 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: Editing text files is particularly irritating because my fingers operate in vi mode reflexively. I am looking forward to some day soon being able to say the same thing. :) As long as you don't invoke the dreaded emacs you're all right with me. (There's something wrong with an editor that hauls around an eliza in every instance). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:01 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: As long as you don't invoke the dreaded emacs you're all right with me. (There's something wrong with an editor that hauls around an eliza in every instance). Ok. Would you please repeat that, more slowly this time, and in newbie English? Thanks. Emacs is a honkin' big program that initially was intended to be an editor. The vi crowd always thought that the name stood for Eighty Megabytes And Constantly Swapping. I was making fun of the propensity of the emacs crowd to cram about everything they can into emacs. It's got a lisp environment, and in there it has a program that simulates a non-directive psychologist. The latter program's name is eliza, some folks know it as doctor. All it really does is a simple word analysis of your statements and regurgitates it back at you (or the generic response H if it can't figure out what to say). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 64 bit hardware selection
Is there a list of motherboards, etc. that the 64 bit version of Mandrake is known to run on? I'm thinking it's about time to start putting together a new box and am considering going whole hog. My system is currently host to a couple of mailing lists and is also used as a development and graphics platform, so I am looking for some performance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd mouse behaviour in 10.1
On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:51 pm, A Dude wrote: I should mention that my mouse is actually a Logitech cordless Trackman Wheel that is connected through a KVM switch. I don't know if any of that's a problem or not, but I've run it that way with every version of Mandrake since 9.x without an issue. I would like to retain the comfort and convenience of this set up if at all possible. Basically, it's the KVM. I use a Belkin and it had the same problem. I don't use the mouse on the ttys and suspect a big part of the problem is there since many suggestions centered on removing the console mouse drivers (gpm). You might try stopping and restarting gpm (is it still that on 10.1?) and see if the problem goes away, but that's just a workaround to the problem. I think the long term solution is to replace the KVM. I haven't gotten around to doing the research as I'm also looking for one with a better video - I run a high resolution display and the KVM does muddy it noticeably. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Odd mouse behaviour in 10.1
Yesterday I decided to try and install 10.1 on a Dell C840 laptop that's on my desk, connected via a KVM. The install went well (much better than 10.0 as it actually installed in the dock and sees the Ethernet card), but an old behaviour came back with the install - the mouse freaks and doesn't resync when I switch to and from with the KVM (PS/2 mouse, keyboard works fine). The normal 'trick' is to force the psmouse module to use one simple config for the mouse, but with the new kernel the old psmouse module is not present. Anyone know why the psmouse module is missing? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd mouse behaviour in 10.1
On Saturday 15 January 2005 10:47 am, Russ Kepler wrote: The normal 'trick' is to force the psmouse module to use one simple config for the mouse, but with the new kernel the old psmouse module is not present. Anyone know why the psmouse module is missing? Answered my own question by looking at the kernel config - psmouse is configured into the kernel instead of being a module (duh, and I was just getting used to the module business.) Anyway, adding append=psmouse.proto=imps to the /etc/lilo.conf (and remembering to reload the changed params) and it's back up and running. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox only lauches on first instance with mdk kde
On Monday 03 January 2005 01:55 pm, Paul wrote:
browserPath=/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
Fox=firefox
Client=mozilla-xremote-client
if [ ${1:0:1} = / ]
then url=file://$@
else url=$@
fi
if [ $(ps aux | grep firefox | wc -l) -ge 4 ]; then
exec $browserPath$Client -a firefox openURL($url,new-tab)
else
$browserPath$Fox $url
fi
exit
The browserPath is missing a terminating /, it should be:
browserPath=/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox/
For mozilla I have a more complex invoker named 'mozilla-session':
#!/bin/sh
if /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote ping()
then
if [ $1 = ]
then
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote xfeDoCommand(openBrowser)
else
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote openURL($1,new-tab)
fi
else
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla $@
fi
exit 0
(Sorry for the hard coded paths, I didn't expect to share it).
This opens links given on the command line as a new tab, starts a session if
none was running and starts a new browser window if a session is already
started and nothing is on the command line.
Now if I could just get rid of the blinky when starting from KDE
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Re: [newbie] MPAA goes after BitTorrent
On Thursday 16 December 2004 11:47 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 12:13 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: | Sorry, but I have to call you on this one. Coffee makers make coffee by | boiling water and putting the boiling water through the coffee grounds. | The boiling point of water is pretty much fixed by the altitude (around | here it boils at 202 degF) so the temperature of the coffee is going to | be the same no matter what percolater it comes out of. This is actually not the way it is. Measure the temperature of your coffee makers coffee sometime--mine is 160-165 degrees. That is set by a thermostat inside the maker--and yes, I used to be a repairman for commercial cooking equipment, including coffee makers--the type that restaraunts use. The therm is not normally set at 180 degrees, much less at boiling. I've done that, and I get something very close to 180 degrees. So did a local reporter when he went around and tested some of the same places the plaintiff's attorney said that he'd tested. Like I said, water boils at 202 degF here so the coffee is going to come out at or very near that temperature, if it's coming out lower than that you're using very different equipment than the rest of us. The National Coffee Association suggests brewing with water at 195-205 and maintaining the brewed coffee at 185 (look for Water Temperature During Brewing): http://www.ncausa.org/public/pages/index.cfm?pageid=71 What you may be measuring is the temperature of the coffee after sitting on the thermostatically controlled plate element. I brew directly into a thermos bottle which maintains the brew temperature for some time after the brewing stops. The way I remember the case (from a Slashdot discussion, I think), is that local McDonald's managers had complained to upper management, in writing, that the coffee was being brewed so hot that it was softening the take-out cups. Upper management decreed (in writing, to their later sorrow) that the machines would continue to be set at 180 degrees because more cups could be brewed from a pound of ground with the hotter water. This correspondence was submitted as evidence. I suggest that's anecdotal as even the plaintiff's lawyer doesn't put that out as part of his case on your cite. | I think that McDonalds was being 'burned' by the bad publicity and didn't | much defend the case, nor went with an appeal. The original judgement | was reduced considerably in any event, but the final terms are private so | we'll likely never know what they were. No, they got burned with their own correspondence. The amount of the punitive damages award was a calculation of how much money they made from brewing the coffee at a higher temperature. Without a copy of the trial's transscript and some mind reading we'll never know how much McDonalds's input affected the result of the trial. I'd suggest that the evidence was no where near as strong as you say, this because there were reductions in the penalty and finally a sealed settlement - if the plaintiff's case was as strong as you say none of those reductions would have happened, nor the settlement. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MPAA goes after BitTorrent
On Thursday 16 December 2004 12:03 pm, Amy wrote: Granted a lot of court cases turn into a three ring circus here in the states, but the McDonalds coffee case isn't nearly so much of one as the media has made it out to be. Yeah, it was. It also happened to be at a McDonalds about 1 city block away so I'm quite aware of the facts in the case. The reason the lady won the case? It wasn't just normally hot coffee, she got ~third degree burns~ from the frellin' stuff. McDonalds used to serve their coffee extremely hot, so much so that it was way above whatever temperature they were legally allowed to. No one ever said anything about it before then, because most people don't touch their coffee right away, so they'd let it cool down a little bit, and get to it later, and it'd be just about perfect. Sorry, but I have to call you on this one. Coffee makers make coffee by boiling water and putting the boiling water through the coffee grounds. The boiling point of water is pretty much fixed by the altitude (around here it boils at 202 degF) so the temperature of the coffee is going to be the same no matter what percolater it comes out of. More information about that specific case can be found here: http://www.centerjd.org/free/mythbusters-free/MB_mcdonalds.htm Note particularly the 'facts' are According to Stella Liebeck's attorney, S. Reed Morgan - hardly someone expected to be unbiased and as I recall many of these pointe were disputed in the case. As an example the plaintiff's lawyer claimed to have tested the temperature of coffee at various places here in town, finding all other coffee temperatures to be lower than the McDonalds coffee. Had he checked the temperature of the coffee fresh from the maker it would be close to the boiling point of water - as it would have to be since no one I know has a policy of putting fresh coffee aside to cool. So yeah, a lot of the cases in our court system are insane, but that one is hardly what the media has presented it as. Sorry about the side tracking of the thread, but this incorrect coverage of that case and it's outcome is a bit of a hot button issue for a friend of mine, and he's kinda got me started on it too. I think that McDonalds was being 'burned' by the bad publicity and didn't much defend the case, nor went with an appeal. The original judgement was reduced considerably in any event, but the final terms are private so we'll likely never know what they were. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] java problem
On Sunday 19 September 2004 02:57 am, Thereidos wrote: Unfortunately that code doesn't have the same meaning. JAVA_HOME isn't defined or exported (I'm assuming that you meant JAVA_HOME in the first line), and the JAVA_HOME bin directory is now at the end of PATH. Yes, I meant JAVA_HOME. As for the order of appearing in PATH: The point was to first declare and then export. The order was irrelevant. But thanks for pointing me out. I believe you missed the meaning in the second sentence of the paragraph, here's the original that was posted: Unfortunately that code doesn't have the same meaning. JAVA_HOME isn't defined or exported (I'm assuming that you meant JAVA_HOME in the first line), and the JAVA_HOME bin directory is now at the end of PATH. The problem could very well be from a early version of Java that's expecting CLASSPATH and so the new directory should be placed at the start of the PATH if you want to be sure. Putting it at the end is a better solution, but only after making sure that nothing earlier in the PATH will affect it. Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I could have been - I often skip over things when I reply, it's a bad habit when the question/answer cycle is a long one. The problem as originally expressed was that the java executable was being found but the Swing jars weren't being located. In my experience this was likely because older Java versions would expect the jar files (sort of like .so for C or .pm for Perl) to be specified in a CLASSPATH env variable. Later versions of Java have used JAVA_HOME; Java 1.4.2 (at least) seems happy to use whatever path in which the java executable was found and not to require either CLASSPATH or JAVA_HOME (at least on my current installation). So Java was being found, just not the version of Java that he expected. Putting the new path at the end of the PATH variable would have left him looking at the old java executable and one that might not have been compatible with the newer jar files pointed to by JAVA_HOME. The other point was that once EXPORTed a variable does not have to be reEXPORTed, so the export PATH is unnecessary. Some folks get into the habit of using an EXPORT in front of a variable assignment, I try to avoid it as each variable exported fractionally increases the cost of starting a new shell or command. The only variables that you want to export are those you want the child processes to get. But the main point was that the PATH assignment doesn't need to be reEXPORTed. I hope I explained my reasoning better in this reply. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] java problem
On Saturday 18 September 2004 07:13 am, Thereidos wrote: There should be no spaces between variables and '='. It should look like this : export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH That looks correct. But I would do it this way : JAVA=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_5 PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export PATH Unfortunately that code doesn't have the same meaning. JAVA_HOME isn't defined or exported (I'm assuming that you meant JAVA_HOME in the first line), and the JAVA_HOME bin directory is now at the end of PATH. The problem could very well be from a early version of Java that's expecting CLASSPATH and so the new directory should be placed at the start of the PATH if you want to be sure. Putting it at the end is a better solution, but only after making sure that nothing earlier in the PATH will affect it. As a note I'm sure that only the JAVA_HOME will have to be exported as PATH already will be exported. So the final would be: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05 PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature
On Friday 10 September 2004 04:14 pm, Margot wrote: I haven't done much with scripts yet, so this is a whole new learning experience - but it's for a worthy cause, I'm sure it will come in useful for other things too! Try putting a | in front of the scripts name, Mozilla might recognize it as a pipe and execute the command, reading the output. If that doesn't work you could put the command at the end of a named pipe. The link below shows an outline of how to go about doing that. http://jez.hancock-family.com/archives/27_Email_signatures_using_FIFO.html If Mozilla won't accept the name of the pipe it's likely testing it to see if it's a file, and the only remaining option is to refresh the file via. cron as someone else has suggested. Hope this helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: But then how was the first UNIX system created? On a PDP-11, likely using RSTS or RSX-11. It's really a 'bootstrapping' process (called so because you're lifting yourself by your bootstraps). From bare iron you write a loader that loads from something simple - old times it was paper tape. On the first paper tape you have a very simple control program, all it might do is execute other programs and manage devices a bit. Using that you write the machine language code to write an assembler, then use the assembler to write better programs (maybe a disk driver and a file system), then use the improved tools to write a better control program, then an operating system, etc. With outside hardware you can write a lot of the system on another computer and have the advantage of terminals, editors, compilers, linkers - file systems! Build things and put then to a floppy or hard disk, them boot it on the new system. Once in place start putting the tools and such together - for Linux it was nice because there was a whole bunch of GNU stuff that could run. The old term of bootstrapping lives - you 'boot' your system up when it powers up. First the BIOS runs, then it loads a better loader from the hard drive, then the loader load the operating system. (In the old days I had to use the front panel switches to load a simple paper tape loader, then load a loader from paper tape and then tell it to load things from the hard drive. Yup, men were *men* and computers were made of *iron* in those days.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
On Saturday 28 August 2004 06:25 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: But then how was the first UNIX system created? On a PDP-11, likely using RSTS or RSX-11. Damn - missed the model by this: much. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:45 am, Todd Slater wrote: 2. Get unique words to count from masterwordlist. uniq masterwordlist uniqwords 3. Count the number of times a word in uniqwords appears in masterwordlist. for line in `cat uniqwords` ; do echo $line : `grep -c $line masterwordlist` countedwords ; done (that should all be one line) You might consider combining these steps with uniq -c There's probably more n better ways to do it, but that should work. Modify to suit your needs, like if you want to distinguish between A and a. Toss a 'tr [A-Z] [a-z]' into the mix for that. You end up with something like this: tr ' \011' '\012\012' text.txt | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | sort | uniq -c There's still punctuation in the mix. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
On Thursday 19 August 2004 07:43 am, Todd Slater wrote: I did that in step 1. I suppose you could also just use the -i switch to uniq to ignore case, so we might end up with tr ' \011' '\012\012' text.txt | tr -d [:punct:] | sort | uniq -ic That's a new one for me - never noticed the -i in uniq. Thanks. Now, how to sort the results of that so it's as we would expect, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. instead of the computer way? Toss a 'sort -n' on the end of the pipe, 'sort -nr' if you want the high count to show up at the top of the list. I still have the old habit (from glass tty days) of letting the high value stuff show at the bottom of the output and tend to use the first form (and automatically add -r to a lot of ls() commands). 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!
Owain Sutton wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 08:26:03 -0600 Steve Turner disseminated the following: I use and see the advantage of Linux but it will never be a big player as it is too difficult for a layman or typical computer user to use. That would be me and I am doing just fine. I may be massively missing the point, or shifted into another dimesion or something, but isn't this the NEWBIE list? Where the hell do you think Linux newbies come from? I'm trying my hardest to like Linux, but I've found nothing so far that was not easier on XP Ya, viruses were much, much easier to get in XP. I still haven't figured out how to get one in Linux (I'm still a Newbie though, I'm sure I'll get the hang of it). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] UPS for APC (was UPS prog called bulldog?)
When I start apcupsd I get the following error: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 614 Cannot open UPS device The one thing that probably is causing this is that /dev/usb is empty. Do you know how I would get the proper device/drivers I need? Russ B McKee wrote: From: Lee B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:32:00 PM Canada/Eastern To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] UPS prog called bulldog? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Kaufman wrote: Easy to have real test. Just unplug it... Steve Is Bulldog only for Belkin UPS's? I've got an APC UPS. Is there software to shut down my Mandrake Linux 9.2 box on a power outage? I really like http://www2.apcupsd.com/ Works great with my APC unit. Caveat - it's on my RH9 box not my Mandrake unit, but I can't see why that would matter. Link to Mandrake packages on the home page. Check it out! Brian 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] HELP! PLEASE!
Marc Resnick wrote: Relax, done this several times before. Yes Erylon I do have an XP setup disc but the idiots at Compaq didn't give me a serial. I have not been following this thread, but if this is a Compaq laptop you are dealing with, look on the bottom of the laptop for the Windows serial. That is where I finally found my brothers. If it is a desktop, it might be on a sticker pasted somewhere. Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!
Marc Resnick wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:57 am, Russ wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: Relax, done this several times before. Yes Erylon I do have an XP setup disc but the idiots at Compaq didn't give me a serial. I have not been following this thread, but if this is a Compaq laptop you are dealing with, look on the bottom of the laptop for the Windows serial. That is where I finally found my brothers. If it is a desktop, it might be on a sticker pasted somewhere. Russ That's the compaq serial. I mean the Windows XP serial code. Oh well, no biggie. That is what I meant. I was reinstalling XP on his Compaq laptop and I finally found the Windows XP serial code on the bottom of his laptop. I literally searched through everything he had several times. Why they chose to hid that stupid thing under there is a mistery to me. Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] K menu icon
I was told to do it on a per user basis then this is the one to replace: /home/user name/.kde/share/icons/theme/size/apps/kmenu.png I did this and it works. I changed mine, but the rest are still the default. Notice also that /.kde is a hidden directory. This is suppose to change it globally: /opt/kde3/share/icons/theme/size/apps/kmenu.png and go.png Paul Kaplan wrote: The mandrake rpms for kde 3.2 that recently appeared changed the K-menu icon from a K to a mandrake yellow star. Where is the icon for this panel button located? I'd like to either re-use the K or create my own. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error while doing Mandrake Update
I have tried to install the Bugfix "libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk" multiple time now at different times of the day but I continue to get the same error: The following packages have bad signatures: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldn't open file) Do you want to continue installation? Russ Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ignore the past and you will fail Ignore the future and you have already failed. - Original Message - From: "Russ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie e-mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 23:22 Subject: [newbie] Error while doing Mandrake Update When I do a Bugfixes updates and select the following updates I get errors. Updates: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk libqt-devel-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk qt3-common-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk First error: The following packages have bad signatures: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldn't open file) Do you want to continue installation? I reply yes!! Second error: There was a problem during the installation: libqt3 = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by libqt3-devel-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk libqt3 = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by qt3-common-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk qt3-common = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by (installed) libqt3-3.1.2-15.2.92mdk unable to install package ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/./libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm Any help would be appreciated Russ I'm going though it too Russ just click install untill it downloads all of the rpm's you have selected. You will likely get this sequence more than once just go through it and click install again. Finally it will install everything and you will be happy. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Error while doing Mandrake Update
When I do a Bugfixes updates and select the following updates I get errors. Updates: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk libqt-devel-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk qt3-common-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk First error: The following packages have bad signatures: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldn't open file) Do you want to continue installation? I reply yes!! Second error: There was a problem during the installation: libqt3 = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by libqt3-devel-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk libqt3 = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by qt3-common-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk qt3-common = 3.1.2-15.3.92mdk is needed by (installed) libqt3-3.1.2-15.2.92mdk unable to install package ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/./libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm Any help would be appreciated Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boot/Sound Problem
Hi, When I boot up Linux I keep getting the following error: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Does anyone know what needs to be done to correct this error. permissions on /dev/dsp are 666. Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot/Sound Problem
I made a mistake in permissions for /dev/dsp, they are 555. Russ Russ wrote: Hi, When I boot up Linux I keep getting the following error: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Does anyone know what needs to be done to correct this error. permissions on /dev/dsp are 666. Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing Linux porblems.
Replacing my HD fixed my Linux install problem!! :-) Thanks for the help Steve. Russ On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 03:05:11 +, Steven Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am not sure if this is the same problem that I had, although it may be and if it isn't then this is one possibility. Linux uses hard drives very precise, Windows doesn't use the hard drive as precise as Linux. I had a Western Digital hard drive that worked on Windows but didn't work on Linux. The W.D. hard drive was a little bit faulty and Linux could not not install. Linux would install and then not work at first, then after a while when I would try to reinstall, it would freeze when the partition was being formatted. I think the problem is you need to get a new hard drive. I am not 100% sure but that is most likely the case. From, Steven From: Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing Linux porblems. Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:37:46 -0800 Hi, I have been trying to load Linux on a HP Pavilion which has 12 GB of disk space and 288 meg of memory running at 400 mhz. In the process of installation it just stops loading. If I restart install by just erasing disk and starting over it stops sooner then before. The last time I did a custom disk partitioning, cleared all, then had system auto allocate. That time it stopped at the point that it stopped the first time. The auto allocate is allocating 5.8 GB to hda1 and 4.8 GB to hda6 Does anyone know what I can do to correct this problem? Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Worried about inbox overload? Get MSN Extra Storage now! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es -- Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Linux porblems.
Hi, I have been trying to load Linux on a HP Pavilion which has 12 GB of disk space and 288 meg of memory running at 400 mhz. In the process of installation it just stops loading. If I restart install by just erasing disk and starting over it stops sooner then before. The last time I did a custom disk partitioning, cleared all, then had system auto allocate. That time it stopped at the point that it stopped the first time. The auto allocate is allocating 5.8 GB to hda1 and 4.8 GB to hda6 Does anyone know what I can do to correct this problem? Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
Hi All, I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to be a tricky thing to accomplish. Here is what I did: New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a 160 gig HD and made it master and the 80 a slave (XP has the whole 80gig drive). On the 160 I put Win98se on the first 40, then swap, then SuSE and finally Mandrake. Both SuSE and Mandrake are in their own single partition (I did not separate / and /Home). Steps; I installed Win98se, then I installed SuSE. The Win98 drive did not show up arigionally in Grub but I edited it and it worked fine then. My XP drive did show up but Grub will not boot it because it does not recognise the file system (is there a workaround for this?). I then installed Mandrake 9.2 and told it to skip the boot loader. Went back into SuSE and edited Grub again but no dice. Here is what I have: === # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 26 06:12:33 2003 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message timeout 8 default 0 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: SuSE### title SuSE kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Mandrake### title Mandrake kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: XP_Home### title XP_Home root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Win98se### title Win98se root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd === Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Here are the partitions: hda1 FAT32 Win98se hda2 swap hda3 SuSE hda4 extended hda5 Mandrake hdb1 XP Home NTFS Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
Did that, didn't work. :-( Went through the install with Mandrake again so I could use it's boot loader. Now Mandrake boots but no SuSE. Although I do not understand all of what came up on the screen when I tried to boot SuSE but, there were a couple of lines that I noticed. It said something to the effect of no ext3 found. SuSE is on a Reiser file system and Mandrake is on an ext3. These were the defaults for each distro. I decided to let them do their thing. Is this a problem? Thanks Russ - Original Message - Change the Mandrake line to vga=normal and see if it works. I'm not sure what the problem is. Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Multi-Boot Set-up (for the nth time probably)
Hi All Johan, I specifically mentioned you Johan because I see in another email that you are doing what I think I want to. This has probably been discussed countless times on this list (sorry). I am also doing my own searching on the subject, but this is such a great source of info that I thought I'd throw it out there. You can email me directly if you do not wish to clog the list or start a no it's better this way stupid flame war. I recently bought a new comp and I want to have multiple OS's installed. In the past I have dual booted Win98/MDK9.x and done so successfully. Now I want to really play. I have XP home edition on an 80gig HD right now. This is what I want to do: I am going to get another HD (160 or 120) I want to run XP, Win98, MDK9.2, SUSE, Debian, RH/Fedora, and I would like to try BSD too (don't know anything about this one so I might nix it). I have never used anything but Mandrake so I wanted to branch out and play My question is how do you divvy up your drives (size wise) and can the Linux distros share any partitions (like swap and Home?) I am still in the planning stages here so any suggestions would be much appreciated. I am asking for real world this is how I did it (sizes and order) as well as some sites with some _good_ howto's and what nots. I have found several sites that address the subject but not very well in my opinion. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson All-In-one
Thanks Charlie for this info (and the link). I was looking at the CX5200 but they are out of stock and so is Amazon. I think the cx5200 is being fazed out and being replaced with the 5400. Since they are the same price with an additional rebate for the 5200. Looking at the specs they seem to be the same printer. Russ Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 22 November 2003 5:12 pm, Russ wrote: I was just wondering about the compatibility of Epsons all in one printer scanners? http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/ProductCategory.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yeso id=-8182 They do not show up in the Mandrake compatible hardware list. I am interested in the Epson Stylus CX5400 Thanks Russ The CX5200 is one of the few recommended All-in-Ones. http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html - From that page: Multifunctions are generally a combination of scanner and printer, sometimes with a fax modem; they work as a copier, printer, fax machine, and scanner. For a working multifunction device, consider the Epson CX3200 and CX5200 (use kernel 2.4.21 or newer); or one of the HP OfficeJet or PSC devices supported by the HPOJ project such as the PSC 2150 or PSC 750. Avoid Lexmarks, Canons. and Brothers. Good luck Russ. Regards; Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson All-In-one
Thanks for the heads up. Russ Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 23 Nov 2003 12:51 am, Russ wrote: Thanks Charlie for this info (and the link). I was looking at the CX5200 but they are out of stock and so is Amazon. I think the cx5200 is being fazed out and being replaced with the 5400. Since they are the same price with an additional rebate for the 5200. Looking at the specs they seem to be the same printer. Russ Be careful. I was bitten recently by an Epson scanner. The same price newer model changed well-supported to is-not-and-never-will-be-supported. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SCSI Tape drive tuning
I have an HP SureStore 12000e tape drive I use for backup, and while it should be capable of 1MB/s it generally performs lower than that, most of the time at or around the 400KB/s rate (using 'dd bs=1M' to time things). Is there someplace I could look for tuning ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Needed file
Hi All, I tried installing a program using an rpm for 9.1 (which I am running) but it says I am missing a file libXm.so.3 I did a search and came up empty. Does anyone know where I can find this file? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Needed file
Well, I installed lesstif but no dice. As you noted below, it only has libXm.so.2 and I need 3. I found a version that had 3 but it was for Red Hat. I tried to install that one but too many errors. Oh well. thanks for the help Russ David E. Fox wrote: I tried installing a program using an rpm for 9.1 (which I am running) but it says I am missing a file libXm.so.3 I did a search and came up empty. That's Motif. Per urpmf libXm it's provided by lesstif, so install that. But here (9.2 cooker) I only see libXm.so.2. Currently (per rpm -qa | grep lesstif) I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep lesstif lesstif-0.93.49-3mdk Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
Try Konquerer, it does large files just fine and even resumes a failed download. Just a thought Russ Jason Greenwood wrote: I HIGHLY suggest you use gFTP or another ftp client instead of Mozilla. Browsers were never designed to download large files Cheers Jason Sharrea Day wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Sorry, don't know much 'bout downloading with mozilla which I don't have much luck with anyway, but... From what I've heard, using a browser to download large files is not a good idea. Use and ftp client or a downloader app like d4x. Personally I use d4x (Downloader for X) which I've never had a problem with and supports resuming downloads. Sharrea Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] website test, please
It seems to work fine for me in Mozilla and Konq (MDK 9.1) Russ Eric Huff wrote: Would someone test www.topica.com for me? On konq, opera and firebird i get almost none of the links. If i boot into windoze, it works fine on IE. I imagine it's crappy html code, but want to make sure. And, on that note, what's your favorite mailing list site? I have been on and adminned groups at topica, and it's easy to use, but it won't be it i can't get it to show up. At the moment I am not up for running one at home... thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.2 questions
Hi All, I am looking into getting a new computer and I want to run MD9.2 on it but I have a few questions. I like to have a good printed manual for reference. Is The Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux going to be updated for 9.2? Is this guide any good? How about the manuals offered in the boxed sets: Discovering Mandrake Linux guide (is this any good) Starter guide (is this one any good) Reference manual (how about this one) Is there any way to get the above manuals without getting the boxed sets? (are they on the CD's as html or pdf?) What does it mean CrossOver Office 2.0 'limited'? Does 'limited' mean an evaluation copy or is it just a fully operational light version? If so, what is missing? How about VMware workstation? is this a fully operational version of vmware? (Win4Lin too) btw what exactly is this LG cdrom problem? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mozilla 1.3.1
Hi All, I am having problems opening Mozilla now. My computer froze (with Mozilla mail running) and after I rebooted everytime I want to start Mozilla (browser or Mail) it tells me it is already running and to choose another profile. I only have one profile and that is Default. I tried deleteing it (saving the settings) and create a new profile (Default) but it still tells me it is already running. Anyone have a fix for this? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake preinstalled systems
Hi All, Are there any companies that sell new systems with MD preinstalled here in the US? I found a few with Red Hat. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice upgrade
Hi All, I was wanting to upgrade Open Office to 1.1 (I currently have 1.0.2 - on MD 9.1) I dl the tar ball and untarred it. Now I have some questions about the instillation. Should I replace my existing installation or install it in another directory (which is what I think it is trying to do)? Where is the existing directory? If I install it into another directory, should I then uninstall the older version? Is 1.1 even stable (should have been my first question ah :-)) Thanks for any help Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host
Hi Rob, The 2 that Mozilla won't go to anymore are Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) and Umpqua Bank (www.umpquabank.com). I use Yahoo BillPay and of course Umpqua is the bank I go through. I have been to both sites with Mozilla. Why would it suddenly say say nope? MD 9.1 and I hook to the net via cable (if that makes a difference) Russ Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 10:30, Russ wrote: Hi All, What would cause Mozilla (1.3.1) not to load a page (resolving host) but Konq goes right there? These are pages I go to all the time (in Mozilla). Suddenly it wants to be stubborn and refuses to open the pages (plural, more than one). Yet other pages open fine. In Windows there was a file (can't remember the name) that if the site was named, then you could not go to that site. Is there a file like that for Mozilla (doesn't seem to be affecting Konq)? Humm Very interesting. I have similar problems, but in reverse. What pages are you talking about? What version of Mandrake are you running? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host
Hi Rob, Thanks for the post. Umpqua seems to be down right now. I cannot open it in Konq either. However, this was not the case yesterday. Mozilla refused to access it but Konq did just fine. Same with Yahoo. Anyway, clearing the cache seems to have worked for Yahoo. Mozilla finds it just fine now (didn't till I cleared the cache). I will keep checking for Umpqua whenever their system comes back up. Thanks Russ Rob Blomquist wrote: I cannot resolve the host with umpquabank.com. Yahoo should be easy, and it was for me with both browsers. With Yahoo, I would try clearing Mozilla's catch: Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache/Clear Cache. With Umpqua Bank, I would try giving them a call and seeing if they need to reboot their web server. If this does not fix it, I would check with the Mozilla project folks, because they may be more familiar with it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla - resolving host
Going to answer my own post Umpqua is back up and I can get to it with Mozilla. I wonder why the cache was preventing me from getting there? h Russ Russ wrote: Hi Rob, Thanks for the post. Umpqua seems to be down right now. I cannot open it in Konq either. However, this was not the case yesterday. Mozilla refused to access it but Konq did just fine. Same with Yahoo. Anyway, clearing the cache seems to have worked for Yahoo. Mozilla finds it just fine now (didn't till I cleared the cache). I will keep checking for Umpqua whenever their system comes back up. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe tar.gz
Hi Dennis, After I untared it, I read the README file and it said run the INSTALL script. End of help. It sort of left me hanging. Thanks Russ Dennis Myers wrote: Russ, more info, I assume you did a 'tar -xvzf adobe.tar.gz or whatever the file is. After the untaring is complete did you read the text file for specific installation instructions? You should see it in konqueror in the directory you untarred in. It is INSTGUIDE.TXT and says to use the comand ./install. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe tar.gz
Hi Derek, This did the trick. Also, I could not find the rpm on Texstar's page. What did he call it? Well anyway, I got it working on mine. It will not print in landscape mode either (bummer dude). However, I did get a workaround with this one that the others choked on. I was able to rotate the page (without chopping it up like the others wanted to do) then printing it (printed great then). A question though. Why won't these little buggers let me print in landscape mode? (very annoying to say the least). Nonetheless thanks again for the help Russ Derek Jennings wrote: You do not need to compile acroread. It is a programme binary. Al you have to do is make the install script executable with chmod +x script_name and then execute it with ./script_name (Do that all as root) Or install Texstars RPM instead. If you are running 9.2 you should still be able to use the 9.1 version. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla - resolving host
Hi All, What would cause Mozilla (1.3.1) not to load a page (resolving host) but Konq goes right there? These are pages I go to all the time (in Mozilla). Suddenly it wants to be stubborn and refuses to open the pages (plural, more than one). Yet other pages open fine. In Windows there was a file (can't remember the name) that if the site was named, then you could not go to that site. Is there a file like that for Mozilla (doesn't seem to be affecting Konq)? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PDF printing in landscape mode
Hi All, I am trying to print a document (pdf) in landscape mode but it doesn't seem to be cooperating. I am running MD9.1 with a Canon s750 printer with TurboPrint up and running. I have tried xpdf, Ghostview, kghostview and all seem to chop up the document. Open Office has no problems printing in landscape mode (but it will not view pdf's). Any ideas or is there another pdf viewer out there that will give me better luck? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adobe tar.gz
Hi All, I have decided to install Adobe Acrobat to view and print pdf files. So I downloaded the newest version for Linux. It is a tar.gz. I figured no problem I've done a couple of those :-) (ya right). I extracted it but can't seem to get it to install. make and make install don't seem to do the trick. I looked at install --help and man install but don't know enough about this stuff yet to know what I was looking at (or actually what I needed). The instructions say run the install script (very profound eh, - even tried that). What do I have to type this time for the install to go? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing via tar.gz
Hi All, I am attempting to install GnomeSword using a tar.gz. Here is my first snag. I uncompressed the tar.gz then I did a ./configure The entire results are pasted below but here is the end part: -- checking for GtkHTML... checking for pkg-config... /usr//bin/pkg-config checking for gtkhtml-1.1... Package gtkhtml-1.1 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtkhtml-1.1.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtkhtml-1.1' found configure: error: Library requirements (gtkhtml-1.1) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnomesword-0.7.10]$ I did a search for gtkhtml and there are 2 items. A folder was found at usr/lib/gtkhtml and a file was found at usr/lib/menu/gtkhtml pkg-config was found at /usr/bin/pkg-config. I noticed that there are 2 slashes after usr in my results ( /usr//bin/pkg-config noted above), is that suppose to mean something? It suggests consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH but I did a search for PKG_CONFIG_PATH and came up empty. How can I fix this so I can move to the next step? Also, I noted in my results (entire results pasted at the bottom) that there were a few no lines scattered throughout the results: checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking if gcc static flag -static works... no checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for XpmFreeXpmImage in -lXpm... no Should I be concerned about any of these? Any help would be appreciated Thanks Russ Bryan Phinney wrote: Then do a: ./configure make su make install --- My Comments --- Could someone explain what the above is accomplishing Short answer. The ./configure command runs the configure script which builds the Makefile with the options that you specify by passing parameters to the configure script. If you want to build with only defaults, you can simply issue the ./configure command. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] russ]$ cd /home/russ/download/gnomesword-0.7.10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnomesword-0.7.10]$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr//bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr//bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr//bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr//bin/nm -B checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking command to parse /usr//bin/nm -B output... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking for objdir... .libs checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... no checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr//bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking for gnome-config... /usr//bin/gnome-config checking if /usr//bin/gnome-config works... yes checking for orbit-config... /usr//bin/orbit-config
Re: [newbie] Installing via tar.gz
urpmi libgtkhtml1.1_3-devel ok, did that and seemed to work (results pasted at the bottom if needed) Then I moved onto the make step. It did something (alot of something actually) but ended with this: (I'll post the whole thing only if needed, it is long) mkdir .libs libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libcurl.la' make[2]: *** [gnomesword] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/russ/download/gnomesword-0.7.10/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/russ/download/gnomesword-0.7.10' make: *** [all] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnomesword-0.7.10]$ I found libcurl.so.2 but no libcurl.la What do I need to do to cross this bridge? Thanks again Russ HaywireMac wrote: urpmi libgtkhtml1.1_3-devel should do it. Results: [EMAIL PROTECTED] russ]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] russ]# urpmi libgtkhtml1.1_3-devel To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (12 MB): libGConf1-devel-1.0.9-5mdk.i586 libbonobo2-devel-1.0.22-2mdk.i586 libgal21-devel-0.23-1mdk.i586 libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.22.0-2mdk.i586 libgdk-pixbuf2-devel-0.22.0-2mdk.i586 libglade-bonobo0-0.17-6mdk.i586 libglade-gnome-db0-0.17-6mdk.i586 libglade0-devel-0.17-6mdk.i586 libgnomeprint15-devel-0.37-2mdk.i586 libgtkhtml1.1_3-devel-1.1.10-2.1mdk.i586 libnetpbm9-devel-9.24-4.1mdk.i586 liboaf0-devel-0.6.10-3mdk.i586 libxml-devel-1.8.17-3mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) y Please insert the medium named Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... Please insert the medium named International CD (x86) (cdrom3) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS/libnetpbm9-devel-9.24-4.1mdk.i586.rpm http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS/libgtkhtml1.1_3-devel-1.1.10-2.1mdk.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/./libgdk-pixbuf2-devel-0.22.0-2mdk.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/./libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.22.0-2mdk.i586.rpm The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgdk-pixbuf2-devel-0.22.0-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.22.0-2mdk.i586.rpm Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libxml-devel-1.8.17-3mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgtkhtml1.1_3-devel-1.1.10-2.1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgdk-pixbuf2-devel-0.22.0-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgnomeprint15-devel-0.37-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libglade0-devel-0.17-6mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libglade-gnome-db0-0.17-6mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgal21-devel-0.23-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libGConf1-devel-1.0.9-5mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libglade-bonobo0-0.17-6mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libbonobo2-devel-1.0.22-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.22.0-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libnetpbm9-devel-9.24-4.1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/liboaf0-devel-0.6.10-3mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## 1:libxml-devel ## 2:libglade-gnome-db0 ## 3:libGConf1-devel ## 4:libglade-bonobo0 ## 5:libglade0-devel ## 6:libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2 ## 7:libnetpbm9-devel ## 8:libgdk-pixbuf2-devel ## 9:libgnomeprint15-devel ## 10:libgal21-devel ## 11:liboaf0-devel ## 12:libbonobo2-devel ## 13:libgtkhtml1.1_3-devel ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] russ]# Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing via tar.gz
YEES I did it :-) It works :-) btw when I typed urpmi libcurl2-devel it just hung there forever, so I opened Red-Carpet and tried it there and it worked. I redid the make step and got no errors, went to the next step and it worked Thanks all for your help (especially you Haywire for the final tidbits) All the modules I have installed already (I'm using in BibleTime) have shown up in GnomeSword. I am up and running. Thanks Russ HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:25:35 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I found libcurl.so.2 but no libcurl.la What do I need to do to cross this bridge? Those are the shared objects, but you need the header files, contained in the devel packages, I bet. Try: urpmi libcurl2-devel 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] Installing via tar.gz
Hi All, I want to install a program but the rpm's that are available require earlier versions of what I have (Gnome and others). Here is what I want to do. I have Bible Time installed and working on my MD9.1 box. I want to install Gnome Sword which uses the same engine (sword) and modules, just a different UI built around Gnome. It seems to have a few more features (judging by the screen shots). Anyway, I want to intall it and try it. The rpm's won't work because they require earlier versions of everything. The latest seems to want what I have but it only comes in tar.bz. I haven't tackled that one yet. Here is the install readme ---with my comments--- == Basic Installation for GnomeSword 0.7.10 and later = notice === You must have GtkHTML-1.0.1 or later to build gnomesword ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/gnome/unstable/sources/gtkhtml/gtkhtml-1.0.0.tar.gz --- My Comment --- How do I check my version of GtkHTML? I checked in Red Carpet and it says I updated to gtkhtml 1.1.10-2.1mdk but then it shows others in the list too (gtkhtml3.0 3.0.9.0.200310020604-0.snap.ximian.6.1) (libgtkhtml-3.0_2 3.0.9.0.200310020604-0.snap.ximian.6.1) (libgtkhtml1.1_3 1.1.10-2.1mdk) (libgtkhtml2_0 2.2.0-2mdk) (natilus-gtkhtml 0.3.2-5mdk) If I read this correct then what I have will work You need to have the Sword Project (sword-1.5.6) installed. --- My Comment --- I installed this version with an rpm for MD 9.1 when I installed Bible Time. It was it's own rpm. So I am thinking I have this step done. --- You need at least one each text ,commentary and dictionary module also. Sword-1.5.6 and the modules can be found at www.crosswire.org in the Sword Project. --- My Comment --- Have several that are working in BibleTime --- you also need these packages You need gal-0.18.1 or later -- helix ftp://spidermonkey.ximian.com/ximian/evolution-snapshots/distributions/RedHat-6 --- My Comment --- The closest I come to this is libgal21 0.23-1mdk libgal2.0_5 1.99.10.99.0.200310020604-0.snap.ximian.6.1 I'm thinking I need this package. How do I get it. The link doesn't seem to get me anywhere in Konq. --- You need gnome-print-0.31 or later -- http://www.gnome.org/ You need gdk-pixbuf-0.11.0 or later -- http://www.gnome.org/ --- My Comment --- I have gnome-print-0.37-2mdk (so I think I am covered there). However, I do not seem to have the gdk file nor can I find it at gnome.org. This is what I have (gdk-pixbf-loaders 0.22.0-1mdk) (libgdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas1 0.22.0-1mdk) (libgdk-pixbuf2 0.22.0-1mdk) --- == If you want to install into the same prefix as the rest of GNOME, type: gnome-config --prefix gnome-config --sysconfdir and remember the answers, and pass them to configure when building gnome-print, gdk-pixbuf and gal. Eg: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc These are the instructions from the Evolution readme. If you don't use this method gnomesword will likely have problems finding everything it needs.. --- My Comments --- Not really sure what the above means. I would like it to use what I already have installed so I can access the same info regardless of whether I use GnomeSword or BibleTime === gnomesword will use ispell or aspell for spell checking === You must also have gnome up and running. If you are using RedHat you need to have the gnome and gtk dev packages installed. First, be sure to read INSTALL in the root of the Sword project directory for instructions on how to make sure the API libraries are installed and configured properly. --- My Comments --- I believe this is done when I used the rpm (it is running under BibleTime, so I assume it is correct) Then do a: ./configure make su make install --- My Comments --- Could someone explain what the above is accomplishing For spell checking to work aspell or ispell must be in your path. = Thanks for any help Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A new virus for ALL platforms...
On Thursday 16 October 2003 08:25 am, Chris Blake wrote: Greetings MDK users, Is Pandasoft a reliable virus package to install...there appears to be a new virus out that affects ALL systems.. http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?lst=vis; idvirus=41263 Or is this an attempt to get ignorant Linux users (who I doubt exist) to buy their software... I don't know if it's deliberate but they're mistaken in saying that it would affect any non-Microsoft system (their tech details list only MS details, none of which would work anywhere else, so I suspect the primary page was just set wrong). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good news .. and a question
I can understand why Aaron would want this. If he has other users on his computer then they would also have access to that wallpaper if it was placed in /usr/share/wallpapers. I ran into the same problem when I started but ended up just creating a folder for them in my home directory as you suggested. Russ John Wilson wrote: As a second example, I downloaded a really nice wallpaper and when attempting to copy the wallpaper to the /usr/share/wallpapers directory I get another access denied message. As someone else has pointed out it's bad form to mess around with permissions outside your home directory. Thankfully you can don't need to. You can set up a directory right in your home directory for wallpapers. In KDE and, I assume, GNOME you don't need to stay /usr/share/wallpapers to get your picture loaded. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Plex86
Has anyone here used plex86 http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86 Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Red Carpet Quit
Hi All, I was using RC to keep things up to date but sddenly it won't start. I run it and it asks me for my password (I give it) then nothing happens. When I rn it from a terminal window, this is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] russ]$ red-carpet Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 81, in ? File iu.py, line 277, in importHook File iu.py, line 362, in doimport File /tmp/bb-daemon.3563/rc-snaps/red-carpet-2/BUILD/red-carpet-2.1.0/standalone/buildred-carpet/out1.pyz/red_main, line 31, in ? File iu.py, line 277, in importHook File iu.py, line 362, in doimport File /tmp/bb-daemon.3563/rc-snaps/red-carpet-2/BUILD/red-carpet-2.1.0/standalone/buildred-carpet/out1.pyz/red_appwindow, line 34, in ? File iu.py, line 277, in importHook File iu.py, line 362, in doimport File /tmp/bb-daemon.3563/rc-snaps/red-carpet-2/BUILD/red-carpet-2.1.0/standalone/buildred-carpet/out1.pyz/red_activation, line 21, in ? File iu.py, line 299, in importHook ImportError: No module named red_services [EMAIL PROTECTED] russ]$ What is with this red_services and how do I get it back? I tried to reinstall it but it won't let me. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
It worked for me. I installed Linux 9.0 on a brand new 60 gig HD then slaved my old 40 gig Win98 drive to that one, pointed Lilo to it and it booted just fine. My Win drive has since crashed altogether so I am totally Linux now. I did my editing in MCC Russ I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. I seem to remember something about Win9x insisting that it be first because of a nasty habit of rewriting the boot sector. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] JavaScript woes (Mozilla Konq)
Hi All, I am having a bit of a problem that someone may be able to give me a hand on. My problem is JavaScript in the 2 browsers. It will work on one browser at one site but not at another, yet the other browser is just the opposite. I am using Mozilla 1.3.1 Konquerer 3.1.0 on MDK 9.1. The two sites I am looking at are these: http://www.dishnetwork.com/ http://www.highlander-official.com/ At the DishNetwork site just above the pictures is a navigation list. As you pass your mouse over it you are suppose to get a drop down list. It works fine in Mozilla but Konq doesn't even show the menu bar. At the Highlander site just below the Highlander logo is the navigation bar. Konq displays that one just fine yet Mozilla just shows the bar but when the mouse passes over it, it does show it as a link but no drop down menu pops up nor does it do anything when clicked. I have checked the settings on both browsers and both seem to be enabled. Anyone know what I can do to make both of these work universally? Thanks Russ PS I did finally get shockwave to work in both browsers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PDF files
Hi All, My default pdf viewer is Xpdf but I cannot get it to print anything (I click print and it goes off into lala land). I can find no configuration tools within Xpdf. However KGhostView works great. How can I make this my default pdf viewer? I guess I am talking about making it default in Mozilla. Konquerer used KGostView but Konq had problems with the page that contained the pdf link and I had to jump though several hoops to get it to load it. Mozilla seems to do allot better than Konq. I can find no place in Mozilla to change the PDF viewer. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MCC thinks I have a Sound Card
Hi Margot, My sound worked perfectly from instillation in MD9.0 but when I reinstalled MD9.1 I got no sound. I was told then (can't remember by who though) that most sound problems are because it is muted. I was told to run Aumix and adjust the settings. I did and it worked. I have since installed MD9.1 2 separate times (fine tuning my setup, I think I got it now) and each time I've had to adjust those setting for sound to work. Don't know if that is your problem, but it may be something to look at. Russ Margot wrote: I don't see that I should need to buy a sound card - this thing, whatever it is, used to work - until I reinstalled. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cursors - global
Hi All, I was finally able to figure out how to change my cursors (didn't really care for the black arrow). However It only works when I am logged in as me. How can I get it to work globally? When someone else is logged in or when I am logged in as root (never do unless I am told I have to to finish an instillation). Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cursors - global
Hi Charlie, This was actually my third attempt at trying to change the cursors. This computer is totally Linux now and I donot miss Win at all. However, even though I love Linux, I really didn't care for the black cursor. I found the flat white ones (ya, the ones from Win) on kdelook.org and followed the install instructions (extract the zip, then navigated to the source folder and typed make install). With Yankl's post: As root extract the cursor files in directory to /usr/share/icons/cursor_them_name. Edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme. Add following: [Icon Theme] Inherits=cursor_them_name (Thanks Yankl) I now have global white cursors (even in the login screen - cool). As an added benefit here, I like using both, Konquere and Mozilla (Mozilla seems to do better on some pages) but I didn't like the little hand that mozilla used when passing over a link. Now it uses the same hand as Konquerer (I know, trivial, but hey - eye candy :-) Charlie M. wrote: Bit of background would probably be helpful but I'll take a swing at it. How did you change your cursors? I installed cursor_themes as soon as Buchan Milne announced it on the cooker list and have been using it since. Close everything you have open in any of the virtual desktops. In a terminal as super user type choose_cursor enter pick the global cursor setting you want accept the offer to restart the X-server and just to be certain, log out and log back in. All users (including root) should now have the same cursor. To set the cursors to be the same for all users may not be a good idea. If you have multiple users on the system some may not want to use the animated penguin as a cursor, or a flaming red one or g Hey, it's your system. Best of luck; Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB Printer
Hi All, I have a USB Printer and I want to know if it is: /dev/usblp0 /dev/usblp1 /dev/usb/lp0 /dev/usb/lp1 It worked when I installed MK9.1 (sort of). The color was really light so I messed with them but still no good. So I installed TurboPrint (decided to just go that route), but now nothing can see my printer. I followed all their howtos (at least I think I did) but still no go. Anyone have a clue? Please don't ask me to uninstall CUPS, the last time I did that I destroyed KDE. Don't ask cause I don't know - Just chalk it up to talent. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla as default email - again
It works!!! it works!!! Thanks Brant Russ Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Apparently I didn't even think before writing that email. No To: in the mailto: link no To: in the email? WTF? Of course there is a To: in the link. That's what the freaking link is. Try this one on for size. Bam!!! mozilla mailto:%t; It's alive!!! It's alive!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] load average
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ricardo's signature wrote this in a message on Saturday morning (00:50:14): =-=-= Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:45:00 -0300 00:45:00 up 2 days, 13:35, 3 users, load average: 1.86, 1.72, 1.37 =-=-= What is this load average? I thought that it was a percentage of CPU use, but then he's at 186%, so that's obviously wrong (unless he typed this as a joke . . .). Also, what are the other 2 values? They seem related to the first, I'm thinking [avg last minute], [avg last hour] A load average of 2 means that there are 2 jobs ready to run whenever the CPU is ready to run one. A load average of .5 means that half the time there is a job to run. Nothing wrong with 1, on my system I run setiathome and use it to consume my spare cycles, giving me uptimes around 1.25 or so most of the time. The numbers reported by uptime are for 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla as default email - again
Hi Carroll, I replied to that email. In my original email I did say mozilla -composer but I meant mozilla -compose (no r). Sorry for the confusion. When I enter mozilla -mail into the field and I click on an email link in Konquerer, Mozilla email program does open (the whole program). When I put mozilla -compose (no r) then an email opens ready to fill out and send. However, I have to fill in the email address and the subject. When I click on an email address in the Mozilla Browser then an email opens ready to compose but the email address is already filled in. Therefore, mozilla -compose is correct for that field but there should be some sort of a string or something that follows it (ie mozilla -compose yada yada yada). I know nothing about strings so I have no idea where to start to experiment with. Yes, mozilla -composer (with and r) does open the HTML editor. I suspect the email editor uses the same engine. Anyway, what I am asking for is the yada yada yada part. Thanks Russ Carroll Grigsby wrote: Russ: What was wrong with Margot's reply of 09/20/03? Mozilla -composer is used to create HTML pages; Mozilla -mail is used to access mail. Or didn't that work for you? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla as default email - again
Hi Brant, even though that string didn't work, that was what I was asking for. Could you tell me what they mean and maybe I can experiment with some others. Maybe even a place the gives a short and easy (remember newbie here) to understand howto on strings (if in fact I am actually using the correct term). Thanks Russ Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I believe that this is what you are looking for. mozilla -compose %t %s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla as default email - again
Hi Brant, Thanks for the reply. The same email link in Mozilla browser opens an empty email with the To: field filled in. That same exact link when clicked in Konquerer opens a blank email with the focus on the To: field but not filled in. However, when I choose Kmail as the default email client and click that same link in Konquerer the address is filled in. Thanks for the help Russ Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: The %t fills in the To: field of the email with whatever is included in the mailto: link. No To: field in the link--no To: field in the email. The same goes for the %s macro. Only it deals with the subject. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot GUI
Yeeesss, thank you thank you. I have been all over that goofy thing trying to find that again. Why would they put a login display under hardware? Should be under software or boot would be even better. I actaully prefer the KDM manager (although the screen shots of GDM that Brant sent looked kinda cool). Thanks Russ Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 Sep 2003 4:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I boot the comp it boots to a GUI screen that displays the users. You choose one then enter the password. okay, last time I installed Linux (md9.1) I stumbled onto something that allowed me to change the gui style (not just the color). One was a Gnome style, one was a KDE style and a couple of others. I cannot find this again and I do not like the style I have. If anyone out there has any idea what I am babbling about, could you pleeese tell me where it is at? Thanks Russ MandrakeControlCentreHardwareDisplayManager derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla as default email
Hi All, I want to set up Mozilla Mail as my default email program instead of Kmail. I opened Control Center / Components / Component Chooser and for Email Client I chose use a different email client and typed in 'mozilla -composer'. It worked except for the fact that it does not put the address in the To field when I click an email link in Konquerer. Is there a string I can put after 'mozilla -composer whatever' that will make it do it? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla as default email
Hi Margot, You are sort of correct. Even though I did write composer I meant compose (no r), so it looked like this in the window mozilla -compose. This opens an email ready to fill out (totally blank). If I type in mozilla -mail (which I did at first), all it does is open the email program, then I have to click on the compose button to start a new email. Since the word compose is on the title bar of new emails you are _composing_ I decided to try that in the field (mozilla -compose), and it did the trick. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make it automatically fill in the email address and maybe even the subject line. Thanks Russ Margot wrote: Russ wrote: Hi All, I want to set up Mozilla Mail as my default email program instead of Kmail. I opened Control Center / Components / Component Chooser and for Email Client I chose use a different email client and typed in 'mozilla -composer'. It worked except for the fact that it does not put the address in the To field when I click an email link in Konquerer. Is there a string I can put after 'mozilla -composer whatever' that will make it do it? Thanks Russ You don't want mozilla -composer, that's the bit of moz that creates HTML pages. I think you need mozilla -mail (without the quotes). Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boot GUI
Hi All, When I boot the comp it boots to a GUI screen that displays the users. You choose one then enter the password. okay, last time I installed Linux (md9.1) I stumbled onto something that allowed me to change the gui style (not just the color). One was a Gnome style, one was a KDE style and a couple of others. I cannot find this again and I do not like the style I have. If anyone out there has any idea what I am babbling about, could you pleeese tell me where it is at? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot GUI
Hi Dennis, No that is not it. The deal I remember gives you 4 options. I have been tinkering with the setting you mentioned but all it does is change the color and texture. Now it is entirely possible that I am not doing something right, but it worked for me before and I am about pulling my hair out trying to find it again. Thanks Russ Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:04 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I boot the comp it boots to a GUI screen that displays the users. You choose one then enter the password. okay, last time I installed Linux (md9.1) I stumbled onto something that allowed me to change the gui style (not just the color). One was a Gnome style, one was a KDE style and a couple of others. I cannot find this again and I do not like the style I have. If anyone out there has any idea what I am babbling about, could you pleeese tell me where it is at? Thanks Russ Russ, go into the KDE Control Center and select System Login Manager. The first tab has GUI and color scheme, is that what you want? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot GUI
No, that isn't it either. I have been all through that one. It seems like I am missing something in login manager. When I boot to the login page I have now it does not allow you to typy in anything. The only options are those you have configured and all you can do is double click on one (root is not an option) then it takes you to the password screen. The one I want allows you to type in a user so you can access any hidden ones (like root). I'd hate to have to reinstall this bugger just to get a different login screen, sheeesh. Thanks Russ Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:50 am, Russ wrote: Hi Dennis, No that is not it. The deal I remember gives you 4 options. I have been tinkering with the setting you mentioned but all it does is change the color and texture. Now it is entirely possible that I am not doing something right, but it worked for me before and I am about pulling my hair out trying to find it again. Thanks Russ Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:04 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I boot the comp it boots to a GUI screen that displays the users. You choose one then enter the password. okay, last time I installed Linux (md9.1) I stumbled onto something that allowed me to change the gui style (not just the color). One was a Gnome style, one was a KDE style and a couple of others. I cannot find this again and I do not like the style I have. If anyone out there has any idea what I am babbling about, could you pleeese tell me where it is at? Thanks Russ Russ, go into the KDE Control Center and select System Login Manager. The first tab has GUI and color scheme, is that what you want? Ok, how about drakboot from a console or in the MCC Boot to do how your system boots. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BibleTime 9.1 - sound actually
Ran aumix and BINGO :-) I now have noise Thanks Russ Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 1:56 pm, bigrig64 wrote: However, I have no sound. 9.0 put that in without a hitch. Can anyone tell me where to start? Have you checked out kmix, aumix and AlsMixerGUI if you have it? aumix, in particular, is muted on many systems. Incidentally, the mute switch is misleading in aumix. To me, you have to do exactly the opposite of what you expect. Anyway, you can't do any harm, so experiment with all three if necessary. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BibleTime 9.1 - installing
I installed BibleTime as a user. It installed prefectly (in md9.1) but I had to create a link. I logged in as another user and I was able to run it. I simply downloaded the rpm the doubleclicked on it from Konq (I'm not sure if I was in su mode or not). Thanks Russ Derek Jennings wrote: Also, when I install a program as a user, where does it go? and can other users run it? I guess there is no way to have the link automatically show up on the K-menu (and other manager menus)? It goes wherever you put it within your home directory. Typically ~/bin , or ~/local and No. Programs installed as a user cannot be used by anyone else. (Well not unlesss you fiddle with permissions and then force the Mandrake security system to ignore what you have done) Yes you can get a link in all your Window Manager Menus, simply by running menudrake, defining a menu entry and selecting the option for all WMs What is the application you are trying to install as a user? Any Mandrake RPM will install as root, and will automatically add a menu item. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source - upgrading to MD 9.1
Thanks Richard, all the md5sums were identicle. Russ RichardA wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:03:16 -0700, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the iso's (md9.1) but each one said it stalled instead of finished (I used Konquerer). However, the size of each file was correct and it seemed to burn ok (I can read each disk in Konquerer). Is it safe? Compare the md5sums for the iso's official ones. If they match, the two are the same bit-for-bit. There's a cleverer way, but I just run md5sum name.iso and visually compare the output with the one on the web page. For a home desktop computer, what is the harm in one partition verses 3 (/, usr, home)? I set this up several months ago and left part of my drive open for a Win partition. I do not want to do that now (which is one of the reasons why I just want to redo the whole thing). I want to devote the entire 60gigs to Linux. I don't need to boot into multiple flavors either (Mandrake is just fine). One partition is reasonable for a home user, but if you want to re-install, having /home on a separate partition makes life much easier. Perhaps just do / and /home? Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source - upgrading to MD 9.1
Hi All, Thanks for the help so far. I finally got KDE working again (picky little bugger). Anyway, I am either going to upgrade to MD9.1 or do a complete reinstall before I try installing BibleTime again. I downloaded the iso's (md9.1) but each one said it stalled instead of finished (I used Konquerer). However, the size of each file was correct and it seemed to burn ok (I can read each disk in Konquerer). Is it safe? For a home desktop computer, what is the harm in one partition verses 3 (/, usr, home)? I set this up several months ago and left part of my drive open for a Win partition. I do not want to do that now (which is one of the reasons why I just want to redo the whole thing). I want to devote the entire 60gigs to Linux. I don't need to boot into multiple flavors either (Mandrake is just fine). Thanks for any suggestions Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing BibleTime from source
Hi All, I attempted to install BibleTime from an rpm designed for mdk9.1 because they had none for 9.0 (which I am running). I recieved several failed dependancies. I was able to get an answer from them and was told I would probably need to compile it from a source code. I have never done this but I guess I should learn if I am going to be running Linux. I would appreciate it if someone could kinda walk me through it since I really have no clue as to where to begin. Here is the directory for the downloads: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=954 For starters, do I need the source .bz2 or the source .gz (or does it really matter?) Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source
Although I do not know exactly what an src.rpm file is, I do know that that was in the KDE2.0 list and not the KDE3. However, the directions given to install this from the source do not seem to be all that difficult so I am going to give it a go sometime this evening. I'll let you know how it turns out Thanks for the help Russ Richard Urwin wrote: I notice there's a src.rpm on the website. I've never used one, but might this be a better way to go? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source
One glitch here, how can I tell if this is installed? It may not be since I may have figure this had something to do with writing software when I installed MD and I may have chosen not to. I'm not sure though since it was so long ago that I did it. Thanks Russ Kaj Haulrich wrote: Now, first of all, make sure you have the *development* packages installed, especially gcc (the GNU C Compiler - assuming Bibletime is written in C). Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I think I just shot myself........................
Hi All, I attempted to install the developement packages but kept getting an error that read: The signature package is not correct - no GPG signature in package. I choose 'yes' to install anyway. In the middle of the whole final install show, it pops up with some unresovled dependancies (from my CD mind you) and says instalation aborted. Now, no KDE. I tried to reinstall the KDE stuff (have no clue why or how it broke) and got the same signature error in several of them so I canceled it. (What is that goofy error anyway?) In my tinkering with linux these past few years, this makes the second time I have killed KDE (kinda sensative isn't it?). I'm thinkin maybe I should just dl 9.1 and start from scratch. For a personal home computer, what is the advantages of haveing multiple partitions intead of one big one? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software install rpm (failed dependancies)
Thank you very much for the help. I went there but I really do not know what I am suppose to do there. If you are trying to get me to update what I have, I have already done so. I am running MDK 9.0 with all updates patches available (Through Red Carpet and MDCC updater). Can you tell me what urpmi is suppose to do and how it relates to rpm? Thanks Russ HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:47:37 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Anyone know what these are and how I can fix it? 1. Go here and configure all your sources: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php 2. then as root, urpmi [packagename] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software install rpm (failed dependancies)
okay, opened a console in su, typed in urpmi bibletime and it began to install, then gave me this error: The signature of the package 'bibletime-1.3-mdk9.1.i386' is not correct. No GPG signature. Do you want to install anyway? and when I say 'yes' it gives me another window giving me the same list of bad files. So might this be a problem with the rpm I dl or what? Thanks Russ PS I am relatively new to Linux (tinkered with it some in the past), but this time I am commited to making it work. My Win drive self destructed (literally) and I just decided to trash it altogether. Decided not to reinstall Win at all. HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:47:37 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Anyone know what these are and how I can fix it? 1. Go here and configure all your sources: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php 2. then as root, urpmi [packagename] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software install rpm (failed dependancies)
okay, followed the instructions and all seemed to go well. Then I tried to install again, in the end it failed again only this time it only listed 3 files instead of 6. I saved a copy of the text for the install attempt if anyone wants to look at it. I did the source update and the install in the same console but it seems to have chopped the source update section off. Anyway, this is the failed part: Installation failed: libcrypto.so.0.9.7 is needed by bibletime-1.3-1 libssl.so.0.9.7 is needed by bibletime-1.3-1 libsword.so.3 is needed by bibletime-1.3-1 Any ideas please Thanks Russ HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:59:49 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Can you tell me what urpmi is suppose to do and how it relates to rpm? Just follow the instructions on the page, it's very simple, step 1, step 2, etc. it has nothing to do with having all the updates and patches, it has to do with having all of your *sources* configured, urpmi will take care of all dependencies for you, as opposed to rpm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading a huge file - burning an ISO
The answer to this is yes. It downloads it to a tmp directory in /. I only have 691 megs of free space there and the file is 694. I couldn't figure out how to bypass the temp file transfer. I remember someone saying something about Konquerer being able to act like a file transfer over the net (with split windows). I tried that and it worked flawlessly (he was right, Konquerer rocks). Konquerer will even resume a failed download whereas Mozilla dl manager does not. The reason I do not use Konquerer as my main web browser is that some of the links appear in yellow and vry hard to read. I cannot figure out how to fix it (any ideas?). Anyway, how do I burn an ISO image in Linux? Thanks Russ Eric Huff wrote: I can't remember: does mozilla dl manager download directly to you desired location, or does it do the dl to tmp then move dance? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Downloading a huge file
Hi All, I am trying to dl Knoppix so I can try it on a laptop we have. However, it gets to about 20 secs left to go then tells me that there is not enough disk space left. I am dl it to my home directory which is 19gigs (mostly free), the file is only 650megs. Can anyone tell me why this won't let me do it? I am using Mozilla dl manager if that matters. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing - TurboPrint or New Printer
ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:59, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 2:41 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have a Canon S750 which doesn't work well at all under CUPS. I am debating whether I should buy an inexpensive printer that is support under CUPS (and hooking my Canon up to one of my other 3 Win Boxes). Anyone have any suggestions for a decent replacement printer? It needs to be relatively inexpensive since TurboPrint is only $25. what does an ink cartridge cost for it? I can't remember what I paid for them but I have 2 of each of the colors and 4 of the black bought ahead. The printer prints at photo quality. I will use it on one of these computers. I'm just debateing if I should use it on this one though. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing - TurboPrint or New Printer
Thanks for this link. I did some checking and I think I may end up just buying an Epson Stylus for this comp and using my Canon on one of the others. One of the reasons I got the Canon is because of the individual ink tanks. Epson has that too. Thanks Russ Look at www.linuxprinting.org They recommend HP or Epson in most cases. Not least because they are good partners to the linux community. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printing - TurboPrint or New Printer
Hi All, I have a Canon S750 which doesn't work well at all under CUPS. I am debating whether I should buy an inexpensive printer that is support under CUPS (and hooking my Canon up to one of my other 3 Win Boxes). Anyone have any suggestions for a decent replacement printer? It needs to be relatively inexpensive since TurboPrint is only $25. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virus
This brings up an interesting question that I would like to ask. I was having a discussion with an avid Mac user about viruses. He claims there are no viruses for Macs because of the built in security features (Mac is also a Unix based system like Linux). The Mac OS does have a huge following so these script kiddies could target them as well. They don't because they can't get in. Windows vulnerability is what makes it the target, not it huge user base (thats just icing on the cake). Any truth to this? Thanks Russ On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:55:21 +0100 DrewMartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Hi All, Before this turns into a flame war between those of us how still use Windows to some degree(or are forced to for various reasons). = No need for a flame war, but I'd suggest that those who still, for whatever reason, use some iteration Windows, try to avoid using the virus magnet known as Outlook or Express. There are numerous alternatives that will work on that platform without the dangers to self and others imposed by Outlook usage. It is a well know fact that the script kiddies who write these insidious pieces of code only do so, because Windows is such a wide spread OS in the world out there.If/when Linux(or Macs) become the OS of choice for the world at large,then the will start writing viri for these OS's too. Yes I do know for a virus to have full affect in Linux you must be running as root,but some clever bastard out there will one day work out how to rip thought that level of secretly. === That will likely involve quite a bit more skill than writing one for a platform with little if any security built in, no?? Best, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can not choose to log as 'root' anymore in graphic mode
Hi Cristian, root does not show up in the list (it's hidden), just type it in and give the password and your in (You can also hide other users so they do not show up either). When you added the user, at the bottom of the box was the area for password. You need to go back into MCC and delete that user, then add it again. If you edit it, I see no place to give a password (Just delete it and start over). Hope this helps Russ Cristian Papp wrote: Hi! As root, I've added a new user using the graphical utility provided in Mandrake Control Center. As I've found no edit-field for entering an initial password, I assumed that the new user would be allowed to set a pasword upon the first login. I also didn't add the new created user to any groups. Then I logout root account and try to log as the newly-created user. However, I could not log, as empty password or arbitary passwords were not accepted. The worst is that the login dialog box (I've choose to boot in graphical mode) doesn't provide the opportunity to specify another account (i.e root) anymore. The choices are: log as the new user (with what password?), reboot or halt the system. Even worse (as the worst) is that upon re-booting, I have the same logging screen, with no opportunity to change user. 1. What can I do? 2. What I've done wrong? Thanks in advance! Cristi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cursors
Hi All, I have been trying to change my cursors (KDE theme as well) but I haven't been having any luck. I went here http://www.kdelook.org/content/show.php?content=5377; and downloaded the cursor theme CursorCraft I then followed these instructions: (I think) - just run the install.sh script, and the set will be installed on ~/.icons/CursorCraft add a file .Xdefaults to your home directory if not exist, and these two line into it: Xcursor.theme: CursorCraft Xcursor.size: 39 then restart X and enjoy it! - Any time I tried to run the install.sh script I either didn't have permission or it couldn't find the install script, so I manually created the folder /home/russ/.icons/CursorCraft Transfered all the files over, created the file .Xdefaults and added the lines. Logged out and logged back in (nothing). Rebooted (since I wasn't really sure if logging out restarted X), nothing. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] beginners guide to users?
Open MCC and go to Boot then make sure that autologin is unchecked (You want to check no,I don't want auto login. Then when you reboot you should get a login screen. Russ Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, I just logged out and back in again after creating a new user, but it just puts me back in as myself. Can anyone tell me where to find the instructions to make it ask which user to log on as? I thought it was only logging on as me just because I was the only username on it, but now even though there's two users it still just starts up as if it's only me. [did any of that make sense?] :) [oh yeh - Mandrake 9.0, just using whatever defaults it suggested when installing...] -- Merlin Zener. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker
Hi Margot, You hit the nail on the head here. I am running 1.4 on 9.1 and I installed the spell checker too. However, it didn't show up in 1.4. On a hunch (due to what you wrote here) I decided to check the older version of Mozilla (1.1) that came with MD 9.1 (I installed 1.4 in a different directory). Anyway, I ran M1.1 and there it was. I either need to figure out how to point the spell checker to the 1.4 directory or remove 1.1. I opted to install 1.4 in a separate directory for two reasons: 1. I heard that some programs use some of Mozillas files and some do not like it when they ar updated. I elected to leave 1.1 intact. 2. I didn't know where it was anyway. Thanks Russ Hmmm...strange. I'm running mozilla 1.4, but on Mandrake 9.0 - maybe I need to upgrade to 9.1? Thanks for trying, Charles. Margot 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] NEC 1100A DVD+R burner
Can anyone give me some basic instructions on how to mount this (once it's connected to my firewire card) in Mandrake 9.1, and then how to burn to it? I've got a Fat32 drive that I need to backup. TIA, -Russ- * Get your free E-Mail and Homepage Go to http://www.networld.com * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
