Re: [newbie] Highlight colours in Kmail
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 01:47 am, Sharrea wrote: Magic - thanks, I can see the text clearly now. much appriciated... On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:53, Stephen Kitchener wrote: Does anyone know how to change the colour that the highlight bar is in Kmail, you know the bar that appears when you either select the folder or the item of mail. You can change the colours in KControl (KDE Control Center): Kmenu What to do? Administer your system Configure KDE, under LookNFeel Colors, under Widget Colour click the down-arrow and select Selected Background, click the colour below that. Sharrea -- O o _\_ o \\/ o\ . //\___= '' Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:42:40 +0100 22:42:40 up 14:25, 4 users, load average: 2.17, 2.12, 2.04 In the course of reading Hadamard's The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, I have come across evidence supporting a fact which we coffee achievers have long appreciated: no really creative, intelligent thought is possible without a good cup of coffee. On page 14, Hadamard is discussing Poincare's theory of fuchsian groups and fuchsian functions, which he describes as ... one of his greatest discoveries, the first which consecrated his glory ... Hadamard refers to Poincare having had a ... sleepless night which initiated all that memorable work ... and gives the following, very revealing quote: One evening, contrary to my custom, I drank black coffee and could not sleep. Ideas rose in crowds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. Too bad drinking black coffee was contrary to his custom. Maybe he could really have amounted to something as a coffee achiever. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking
On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 23:14, Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mark Weaver wrote: Are you still getting the spontaneous reboots with b3? I haven't in 2 days, 19 hours, and 40 minutes... Excuse me for butting in - where is rc3 at, I can only find rc2 on my local servers -- O o _\_ o \\/ o\ . //\___= '' Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:32:51 + 11:32pm up 14:52, 0 users, load average: 2.14, 2.08, 2.02 The great secret in life ... [is] not to open your letters for a fortnight. At the expiration of that period you will find that nearly all of them have answered themselves. -- Arthur Binstead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD movies
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 22:14, Roger Sherman wrote: There's also a prog called vlc On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely different program. Did you look at plf.zarb.org I've been using a DVD player called Ogle...can't remember where I got it, but I'm sure a quick googling will take care of that. I like it better than mplayer for DVDs. -- O o _\_ o \\/ o\ . //\___= '' Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:27:52 + 10:27pm up 13:16, 0 users, load average: 2.09, 2.05, 2.01 Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life. -- Marvin the Paranoid Android Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
On Friday 28 Feb 2003 15:40, Harv Nelson wrote: A really good Idea On Friday 28 February 2003 09:09 am, A V Flinsch wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:24 pm, Larry Williams wrote: And another 73 DE N1POP Almost enough of us to start a Mandrake-Hams list If there are enough of us around, maybe we can get Mandrake to include a bunch of the ham specific software on the CD's (stuff like PSK31, etc) 73 Harv KG9GA -- O o _\_ o \\/ o\ . //\___= '' Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:56:50 + 5:56pm up 9:24, 0 users, load average: 2.05, 2.01, 2.00 There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses smoking in the men's room. -- W. Bossert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 19:12, Alan Dunford wrote: And Me G6DZJ Another here - G3XOF. 73 and 88 Alan -- O o _\_ o \\/ o\ . //\___= '' Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:29:50 + 8:29pm up 11:56, 0 users, load average: 2.35, 2.11, 2.08 Danger, you haven't seen the last of me! No, but the first of you turns my stomach! -- The Firesign Theatre's Nick Danger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm database gone walkies
On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 00:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hi Stephen, On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:30, Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, I have a small problem, the rpm database on my Makdrake 9.0 machine has gone. I have tried rpm --rebuilddb, I got an io error on the db file, I can't remember the full error as it has gone out of the scope of the buffer. I then tried rpm --initdb followd by rpm --rebuilddb, but the promp returns almost immediatly and when I do an rpm -qa | grep for an rpm that I know is installed, it dosn't find anything, is there a way for me to force a rebuild the db please. Before going into a complete pommie-panic, you might want to double check your path statements - both in the system profile and in your /etc/ld.so.conf and rerunning ldconfig then doing a reboot - JUST IN CASE...you might find that there may have been an aberration somewhere that just needed to be resolved...if that fails, THEN PANIC. Ok I am now panicking, (:-P) Before I tried the first rpm --rebuild I was trying to ask rpm if a certain package was installed. I then got the io error. Before all this the system had been sitting quiet for some time and had recently been fixed with the security/update rpms from Mandrake. All the updates performed with out probelms. I do this via the command line as I like to see what is going on. /etc/ld.so.conf contents are as follows /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt3/lib and ldconfig produced no errors. -- Stephen Kitchener The best way to accellerate a win9x machine is at 9.81m/s2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpm database gone walkies
Hi, I have a small problem, the rpm database on my Makdrake 9.0 machine has gone. I have tried rpm --rebuilddb, I got an io error on the db file, I can't remember the full error as it has gone out of the scope of the buffer. I then tried rpm --initdb followd by rpm --rebuilddb, but the promp returns almost immediatly and when I do an rpm -qa | grep for an rpm that I know is installed, it dosn't find anything, is there a way for me to force a rebuild the db please. -- Stephen Kitchener The best way to accellerate a win9x machine is at 9.81m/s2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde_greet not starting - help
Hi, I have done somthing to my set up and don't know how to fix it, (otherwise this email is a bit pointless :-) ) I hope someone can help. I think that I have pinned it down to kde_greet not starting on boot, I have compared two machines installed the same way and this is the process that is missing. I have checked /etc/inittab and that is set to run-leve5 and that it has the right incantation for starting x ie. x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon In fact the /etc/inittab on each machine is identical. startx works AFTER I have logged in, the bit that is missing from the startup process, is the intial login screen to X, where the user chooes which window manager they want to use etc Clearly /usr/bin/kdm_greet is run as part of the kde start up as I get the error message This program is part of kdm and should not be run manually. But where the call to this program is located I cannot find. Can someone help please ? All help appriciated. -- Stephen Kitchener The best way to accelerate a Win9x machine is at 9.81m/s2. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2
Hi, I have downloaded the new KDE3.0.1 and going on the instructions on Mankdrake's site for 8.2 written for KDE3.0.0 (as the instructions haven't been changed yet) I thought that I would upgrade by issuing the command urpmi * in the directory where I had all the downloade files. All looks ok and when the system askes for Disk 1 from the Pro package, I put it into the CD drive, press return, expecting for it to proceed, but all it does is to ask for the disk again and again and... well you get the idea. The CD isn't even being accessed, it just gets ejected straight away :-( Has anyone else seen this ? - is there a fix ? - is it a known problem ? Any help appriciated -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2
On Thursday 23 May 2002 21:38, Derek Jennings wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for the info - I wasn't aware that it replaced 2.2.2. Did you do the urpmi.addmedia command? no I didn't, but then I didn't when I installed the first KDE3 packages onto this machine. Also note that version of 3.01 will REPLACE your KDE2.2.2 If you do not want to lose your old KDE then wait a few days and a new version will be posted that installs into /opt instead of /usr See www.pclinuxonline.com for a discussion on this. rr - will do derek On Thursday 23 May 2002 9:20 pm, Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the new KDE3.0.1 and going on the instructions on Mankdrake's site for 8.2 written for KDE3.0.0 (as the instructions haven't been changed yet) I thought that I would upgrade by issuing the command urpmi * in the directory where I had all the downloade files. All looks ok and when the system askes for Disk 1 from the Pro package, I put it into the CD drive, press return, expecting for it to proceed, but all it does is to ask for the disk again and again and... well you get the idea. The CD isn't even being accessed, it just gets ejected straight away :-( Has anyone else seen this ? - is there a fix ? - is it a known problem ? Any help appriciated -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2
On Thursday 23 May 2002 22:12, shane wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:20 pm, Stephen Kitchener opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have downloaded the new KDE3.0.1 and going on the instructions on Mankdrake's site for 8.2 written for KDE3.0.0 (as the instructions haven't been changed yet) I thought that I would upgrade by issuing the command urpmi * in the directory where I had all the downloade files. All looks ok and when the system askes for Disk 1 from the Pro package, I put it into the CD drive, press return, expecting for it to proceed, but all it does is to ask for the disk again and again and... well you get the idea. the current 3.0.1 requires that you remove kde 2 first. this may break a few things compiled to run with 2. all it broke in my case was tux racer and another game (forget what) and 3.0.1 is very nice, however if you don't like the risk, wait a bit, they will likely compile a version to go in opt the way they did 3.0. Ok thanks for the info. I wasn't aware that 2.2.2 would be replaced. -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet
On Friday 15 March 2002 01:23, you wrote: Have you applied the security patches to your installation - I had this and and after I had these applied all was ok, Sorry that I can't tell you which as I did the upgrade all at once. Thanks for your reply, but I am still not able to get this working. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:36 pm, you wrote: Hello all, I have Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop and am trying to telnet to a SunOS box. I have tried all the terminals and am having the following problem: I type: telnet IP of server here and press Enter I get: SunOS 5.6 login: After the login I type my username and press Enter, but the cursor just moves to the l of login (on the same line) and does nothing. I never get a prompt for a password and eventually the connection times out. I have been able to login just fine from Windows, but need access to this server from within Mandrake. (it is a dual boot system) Any suggestions are appreciated, Kevin Set your xterm Settings - Keyboard to Linux Console HTH -- Gerald Waugh Connecticut USA --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Lan card and installation problems
On Sunday 10 March 2002 07:52, you wrote: Thanks Sebastian, I'll take a look. Hi Stephen, One URL to try is as follows: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet-utils-linux This contains readme files, release notes, and driver files. Cheers, Sebastian From: Stephen Kitchener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Wireless Lan card and installation problems Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:24:57 + Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 and a Cisco 350 Aironet Wireless Lan card, and need to know if anyone has sucessfully installed and used this within Mandrake 8.1. If anyone has URL's or How-to's that are relevent please can they let me know, I would be very greatfull. Thanks. -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] start a program as user on boot
On Monday 04 March 2002 18:07, you wrote: Hi, This sort of program is usually started by an entry in the users crontab, for instance 0 * * * * cd /root/Seti-Dir/Seti/setiathome; ./setiathome -nice 19 /dev/null 2 /dev/null Have a look a crontab in the man pages... Hi, I am trying to start a program as user on boot. But not sure how to do it. I've been trying to use rc.local, but not running the program as root. I have been trying: cd /home/paul/.seti ; su paul -c ./setistack /dev/null 2 /dev/null But this seems to stop my system in boot, and it just stays booting forever. - Paul _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] start a program as user on boot
On Monday 04 March 2002 18:07, you wrote: Forgot to say that you need to edit the crontab of the user that you want the command to run as.. Hi, I am trying to start a program as user on boot. But not sure how to do it. I've been trying to use rc.local, but not running the program as root. I have been trying: cd /home/paul/.seti ; su paul -c ./setistack /dev/null 2 /dev/null But this seems to stop my system in boot, and it just stays booting forever. - Paul _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 7.2 ISO's
Hi, I still have them here if you still need them - but I don't have a server where you can download them, what snailmail address do you have ? On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:11, you wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for an old copy of the 7.2 ISO's. I've tried repeatedly to install 8.0 and 8.1 on my antique beast(133/64MB), however it will only install w/ the 2.2 kernel (it WILL NOT boot the 2.4 worth crap). Now I can get it to install and boot 2.2 but as most of the packages have been optimized for 2.4, as has the install, it does not work that well. If anyone knows where I can grab a copy of 7.2 I would greatly appreciate it. Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can someone explain to me how to.................
On Monday 24 December 2001 04:44, you wrote: When u encounter a tar.gz to tgz file first gunzip it giving th e folowing command at the command line gunzip filename.tar.gz then it will be shortened to .tar file with a lager size we have to now untar it with the command tar -xvf filename.tar the tar will be removed and a directory created with the name of the Actually the tar remains and you could have done the whole operation with tar -zxvf filename.tgz. module. Go to that directory and run ./setup.sh which is usually the case. Alternately read the README file in the directory and forllow the instructions. -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ndvida kernel Module to match upgraded Kernel
Hi, Does anyone know if there is a maching NVidia module for the recently released kernel update ? This is for Mandrake 8.1 and then upgrading I get kernel-smp = 2.4.8-26mdk is needed by NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.8-26mdk-smp-1.0-1512.2mdk When I try and upgrade to kernel-2.4.8-34.1. Looked on cooker and nvidia's site and found nothing that help'd -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Error after KDE starts
Hi, I have this error Sound server fatal Error, CPU overload aborting, inside a KDE error box. from then on there is no system sound, ie sounds associated with actions etc. But the sound card still works and so does the sound from the TV card. I think this is arts that is failing. I did read that it was a KDE problem, but would like to know if others have seen this and if there is an error. The system that I get this on has had the nodevfs option enabled and also the usb fix. The system is a dual 400 MHz machine, so I don't really think that the system's CPU is overloaded, and that there is another fault. This error doesn't always happen, but when It does, the machine doesn't shutdown fully and I have to press reset. At least that's what I have observed. Any help appreciated. -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help
Hi, On Saturday 17 November 2001 03:55, you wrote: I downloaded the mandrake 8.1 ISO from one of your FTP sites. I used winimage to open the ISO and extract the contents to a empty folder. I need burned all of the contents to a CD. When I try to boot from the CD it tells me searching for boot record : None found ISO's are just disk images - they need to be burnt to a CD as-is, they arn't expected to be extracted. I can't seem to get this installed, HELP! Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
