Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?
An easier way is to just make a boot disk (you can use the dd command or the Mandrake Control Center). After installing Windows, boot into GNU/Linux using your boot disk. After you log in, become root and type: /sbin/lilo -v That will reinstall lilo. On Sunday 27 October 2002 12:46 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:00:54 -0700 joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know XP is going to take over, how can I get a boot loader back without installing mandrake again? Can I just use the update option on the cd and not choose any packages to install? Yes, just run it as an Expert/Upgrade. Since this involves a hd change the install may ask which is your / partition. Be sure you know and input it correctly or you will screw your drive. Charles --- Life's too short to dance with ugly women. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No rear sound, SBLive!
Try AlsaMixerGUI. On Sunday 27 October 2002 02:40 pm, Miark wrote: With 8.2, Kmixer had a slide control that changed the volume of my rear speakers for my SoundBlaster Live! value card. Now, running 9.0, I have no rear sound, and none of the KMixer controls is helping. Ditto with Aumix. Any suggestions? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] learn to system program Linux
This book is a must have for any UNIX system programmer: http://www.textbookx.com/product_detail.php?detail_isbn=0201563177type=keywords=advanced+programming+in+unix+searchtype=stdstart_num=0order_by= Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment Stevens, W. Richard ISBN: 0201563177 Published: Addison Wesley Publishing Company 06/1992 On Sunday 27 October 2002 03:05 pm, harry wrote: ...what is the best way to learn Mandrake Linux System programming? should I take a class in college? but the course such as this is quite stressful... I am in my last semester, hoping to have easier workload... Is there a good book teach us about system programming such that we don't really need to take a class for it? thanks so much Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
I was saying to make a symbolic link in /usr/include so it could find the gtk.h file. You said you did that but got like 20 errrors. So, I wondered if maybe you made your sympolic link point at the gtk.h of the wrong gtk version. Mandrake 9.0 has both. I don't know which you need. On Saturday 12 October 2002 02:30 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: Linked to the wrong version of GTK?...uhh...How would I do that? I followed the same steps I always did... ./configure --this went fine... make --bombed here make install I'm giving up on this for now, maybe someone out there has a similar problem, maybe not, and maybe...oh well, maybe a future release of the code will work with my installation. Kind of upset though...would still like input as I have the files sitting here ready to compile at moments' notice. Thanks.. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Todd Flinders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory Is it possible when you made the link that you linked to the wrong version of gtk? On Saturday 12 October 2002 09:17 am, Ralph M. Los wrote: Lots more (about 12 screens full) of parse errors. I'm not sure what to do with this. Like I said, ld.so.conf has the correct path to my libraries, etc..I've made sure there aren't any permissions problems accessing the directories, and again, gtk-config shows paths that are within my ld.so.conf. How could it POSSIBLY be not seeing my gtk/gtk.h file?! There are TONS of files that are necessary in this compile, and they all exist and live in the paths on my system. What's the deal?! GEE GOLLY! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Todd Flinders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory Well, you may have got more errors, but that's okay. You will never compile if you can't find the gtk.h file you need. What were the errors you received? On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:34 am, Ralph M. Los wrote: Well, I've already tried that :( which is kinda crappy because it caused more errors to fly by than the original problem! I just don't get it...is there something wrong with this intallation? Is gtk screwed up? Is there something wrong with the source potentially? Is there anything else I could send into the list to help diagnose and solve this problem? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Todd Flinders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 3:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory Well, I'm not sure what it is that you're trying to compile, but it seems like it is expecting the gtk.h to be located at /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h. That is not where your gtk.h file is located. So, if possible you need to determine whether whatever you are compiling is hoping to use gtk 1.2 or gtk 2.0. Then when you find out, you can make a temporary link in /usr/include to satisfy this make file. ln -s /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk /usr/include/gtk -or- ln -s /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk /usr/include/gtk I'd probably
Re: [newbie] kernel configuration
linux is just a symbolic link that should point to the most current installed kernel. This makes more sense if you imagine yourself having multiple kernels installed (testing? Maybe different kernels for different purposes?) On Saturday 12 October 2002 12:44 pm, Noah Hicks wrote: Thanks a lot. That clears things up. On more question if anyone cares do discuss. I see that there are two similar sub dir: [root@localhost src]# ls linux linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ RPM/ Both /linux and /linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ seem to have the same substructure. Is the linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ dir a mandrake specific kernel? Just wondering Noah On Saturday 12 October 2002 10:14, Todd Flinders wrote: You're not in the correct directory. You need to be in the directory that holds the Makefile. cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:38 am, Noah Hicks wrote: This must be a stupid question but I am going to ask it anyway. Is it not true that to configure your kernel your supposed to run make menuconfig? Why isn't this working? [root@localhost noah]# make menuconfig make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. [root@localhost noah]# Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar files
Have you told Konqueror via its settings to display hidden files? On Sunday 13 October 2002 11:23 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Just curious, does this work for hidden files and directories as well. Konq will go into a tar but not see the . files. On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:49, Franki wrote: simple way to do it is to install mc (Midnight commander) its a console tool that has a simple GUI and can enter tar files just like directories.. so you an go into a tar file, and copy its contents out to a real filesystem. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Saturday, 27 October 2001 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] tar files Is there a program I need to use to install tar files? or am I just not doing it right. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
Well, you may have got more errors, but that's okay. You will never compile if you can't find the gtk.h file you need. What were the errors you received? On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:34 am, Ralph M. Los wrote: Well, I've already tried that :( which is kinda crappy because it caused more errors to fly by than the original problem! I just don't get it...is there something wrong with this intallation? Is gtk screwed up? Is there something wrong with the source potentially? Is there anything else I could send into the list to help diagnose and solve this problem? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Todd Flinders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 3:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory Well, I'm not sure what it is that you're trying to compile, but it seems like it is expecting the gtk.h to be located at /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h. That is not where your gtk.h file is located. So, if possible you need to determine whether whatever you are compiling is hoping to use gtk 1.2 or gtk 2.0. Then when you find out, you can make a temporary link in /usr/include to satisfy this make file. ln -s /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk /usr/include/gtk -or- ln -s /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk /usr/include/gtk I'd probably delete the link once you successfully compile this. Note that there may be a more elegant way of dealing with this problem. On Friday 11 October 2002 10:12 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: Huh?! I sure do have a /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h file! All the other libraries are there too! Yea, I've already run my updatedb (as root)...no dice. Issuing a `gtk-config --cflags --libs` yields -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm error output of `make` command cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H `libnet-config --defines` -c main.c -o main.o In file included from firepack.h:41, from firewalk.h:38, from main.c:39: gtk_main.h:4:21: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory In file included from firepack.h:41, from firewalk.h:38, from main.c:39: gtk_main.h:17: parse error before GtkWidget gtk_main.h:17: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union gtk_main.h:18: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_main.h:19: parse error before '*' token gtk_main.h:19: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_main.h:20: parse error before '*' token gtk_main.h:20: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_main.h:21: parse error before '}' token In file included from main.c:46: gtk_pack.h:37:21: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory In file included from main.c:46: gtk_pack.h:44: parse error before GtkWidget gtk_pack.h:44: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union gtk_pack.h:45: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:46: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:46: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:47: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:47: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:48: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:48: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:53: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:53: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:54: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:54: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:55: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:55: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:56: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:56: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:57: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:57: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:58: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:58: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:59: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:59: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:60: parse error before '*' token gtk_pack.h:60: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_pack.h:61: parse error before '*' token
Re: [newbie] kernel configuration
You're not in the correct directory. You need to be in the directory that holds the Makefile. cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:38 am, Noah Hicks wrote: This must be a stupid question but I am going to ask it anyway. Is it not true that to configure your kernel your supposed to run make menuconfig? Why isn't this working? [root@localhost noah]# make menuconfig make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. [root@localhost noah]# Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
Is it possible when you made the link that you linked to the wrong version of gtk? On Saturday 12 October 2002 09:17 am, Ralph M. Los wrote: Lots more (about 12 screens full) of parse errors. I'm not sure what to do with this. Like I said, ld.so.conf has the correct path to my libraries, etc..I've made sure there aren't any permissions problems accessing the directories, and again, gtk-config shows paths that are within my ld.so.conf. How could it POSSIBLY be not seeing my gtk/gtk.h file?! There are TONS of files that are necessary in this compile, and they all exist and live in the paths on my system. What's the deal?! GEE GOLLY! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Todd Flinders [mailto:flindet;attbi.com] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory Well, you may have got more errors, but that's okay. You will never compile if you can't find the gtk.h file you need. What were the errors you received? On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:34 am, Ralph M. Los wrote: Well, I've already tried that :( which is kinda crappy because it caused more errors to fly by than the original problem! I just don't get it...is there something wrong with this intallation? Is gtk screwed up? Is there something wrong with the source potentially? Is there anything else I could send into the list to help diagnose and solve this problem? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Todd Flinders [mailto:flindet;attbi.com] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 3:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory Well, I'm not sure what it is that you're trying to compile, but it seems like it is expecting the gtk.h to be located at /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h. That is not where your gtk.h file is located. So, if possible you need to determine whether whatever you are compiling is hoping to use gtk 1.2 or gtk 2.0. Then when you find out, you can make a temporary link in /usr/include to satisfy this make file. ln -s /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk /usr/include/gtk -or- ln -s /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk /usr/include/gtk I'd probably delete the link once you successfully compile this. Note that there may be a more elegant way of dealing with this problem. On Friday 11 October 2002 10:12 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: Huh?! I sure do have a /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h file! All the other libraries are there too! Yea, I've already run my updatedb (as root)...no dice. Issuing a `gtk-config --cflags --libs` yields -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm error output of `make` command cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H `libnet-config --defines` -c main.c -o main.o In file included from firepack.h:41, from firewalk.h:38, from main.c:39: gtk_main.h:4:21: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory In file included from firepack.h:41, from firewalk.h:38, from main.c:39: gtk_main.h:17: parse error before GtkWidget gtk_main.h:17: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union gtk_main.h:18: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_main.h:19: parse error before '*' token gtk_main.h:19: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_main.h:20: parse error before '*' token gtk_main.h:20: warning: data definition has no type or storage class gtk_main.h:21: parse error before '}' token In file included from main.c:46: gtk_pack.h:37:21: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory In file included from main.c:46: gtk_pack.h:44: parse error before
Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:
No, this is not hardware specific. 8.2 worked fine in this machine as well. Plus many other 9.0 users on the list reported similar problems. I'm almost certain it's a 9.0 supermount problem. Disabling supermount allowed me to immediately install those same CDs without problem. My guess is that maybe there's a type of copy protection or maybe the a difference in manufacturing with certain types of CDs that supermount isn't liking. But I don't know for sure. But yes, using 8.2 I get the same reliable results as you do. The issue was dealing specifically with 9.0. On Friday 11 October 2002 12:28 am, Erylon Hines wrote: On Wednesday 09 October 2002 03:41 pm, you wrote: Several of my GNU/Linux native games from a variety of vendors (Loki, LGP, etc) had problems installing from the CD-ROM as well. When I disabled supermount, they all installed flawlessly. Something is definitely up with supermount. But it seems to be working fine for small day-to-day tasks. I think this must be hardware specific. I have 5 machines here, all but one running 8.2 (it runs 8.0 due to adaptec scsi issues), and supermount works, dragging to floppy and zip drives works, and dragging to flashcard readers even works, and dragging from CD to anything also works. One machine is all scsi, one is mixed scsi and ide, and the rest are all ide (3 have ide CDR's, and 2 of those also have plain ide CD drives). The only time I ever had a problem was with 8.1 when it shipped with supermount broken. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:
This seems silly to me, but I happen to have a Pioneer DVD-115 and a Yamaha 8/8/16. Again, it seems like you're missing this. Supermount worked perfectly on this exact hardware with 8.2. As soon as 9.0 was installed, certain CDs could not be read by supermount. Lots of testing showed this to be consistant with those certain CDs. Disabling supermount immediately allowed the CDs to be read. Two of the biggest offending CDs were Loki's Kohan and LGP's Creatures 3. I also had grief reading Baldur's Gate using WineX 2.1 and Microsoft Office using Codeweaver's Crossover Office. There is a large audience claiming problems with 9.0's supermount. Just because supermount is working in 8.2 does not mean it is working perfectly in 9.0. And again, for normal day-to-day small tasks it works fine. Even browsing the CDs that give me grief works fine. It's not until a lot of work is done with the CDs (for example trying to install the program) that the problem shows up. It's about half-way through, I'd guess. And then the CD becomes unreadable. Transgaming has warnings about Mandrake 9.0's supermount in their WineX 2.2 release as well for further evidence. On Friday 11 October 2002 08:11 am, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 11 October 2002 06:16 am, you wrote: No, this is not hardware specific. 8.2 worked fine in this machine as well. Plus many other 9.0 users on the list reported similar problems. I'm almost certain it's a 9.0 supermount problem. Disabling supermount allowed me to immediately install those same CDs without problem. My guess is that maybe there's a type of copy protection or maybe the a difference in manufacturing with certain types of CDs that supermount isn't liking. But I don't know for sure. But supermount apparently works with some systems (it doesn't appear that everyone has this problem). What is the common denominator for those that have broken supermounts? The only places to look are file structure and then hardware (cd media is hardware). Everybody with broken supermount--who manufactured your cd drive, and what media are you using? Hopefully, Mandrake wouldn't release with broken supermount (not after doing it with 8.1). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0
This probably won't help, but check in the laptop's BIOS and make sure that Plug Pray OS is turned off (if applicable). It sounds like it's having difficulty detecting your hardware. Turning this off should help. On Friday 11 October 2002 02:07 pm, Jason Drushel wrote: Hi guys, new to the list, and to Linux in general. (obviously, or I wouldn't be posting here) I finally decided to take the plunge and get into Linux, but I'm playing it safe and installing on an old (5 years or so) laptop I've had lying around not doing much. I don't want to risk losing data on my desktop systems just yet. Anyway, I was told Mandrake would be a good distro to start with since I know nothing about Linux. Here are some problems I've run into trying to install 9.0... First of all, system specs. It's a Dell Inspiron 3200, P2-233 with 32mb RAM, 4gb HD, Neologic or somesuch video card. Ok onto the problems. When I first popped in the CD and booted from it I got a menu to hit F1 or Enter to run setup. I hit Enter and it loaded up. I saw a list of command lines, then it brought me to a grey pattern screen with an X cursor. And there it sat. Perpetually. I was forced to reboot after 10 minutes of that. So I'm thinking ok, maybe it was a fluke, I'll just try running setup again. Same thing. I then tried other installation options. I tried vgalo first, no dice. I then tried expert, and voila. The grey pattern screen came up, but this time it was quickly followed by a blue screen. (I also tried text mode, but not until later on) Here are where the real problems started. It asked me about third party kernels, which I said no to, then it brought me into the installation screen, or second stage install ,whatever you want to call it. It got through PCMCIA detection just fine, but when it hit IDE detection I got an error message. An error has occurred insmod'ing module sr_mod failed. I clicked OK a few times and eventually it detected the hard drive. I was now at the partitioning section. First attempt yielded a failure to format after the partitions had been selected. Second attempt everything worked. Great, now I got to pick my packages I wanted to install. Next came copying files, I was finally on my way. Then halfway through it kicked me out to the command prompt (or whatever it's called in Linux) with some error messages that I didn't write down. At the time of this writing, it's a di-roll whether I can even get to the sr_mod failed error message. Sometimes it locks before the grey pattern screen, sometimes it locks at the grey-pattern screen, sometimes it gets to the sr_mod failed error, sometimes I can even get to the partition section. But never past that. I first thought there was something about this laptop's hard drive or possibly IDE controller that Mandrake didn't like, but a quick Google search showed that some people were successfully running Mandrake (version 8.1, but still) on their Dell Inspiron 3200s. They didn't say if they had to do anything special to get it working, but it was working. So what am I to do? I'm at my wit's end here and I'm almost ready to give up and reinstall Windows 98. But not yet... Any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compile rdesktop on PPC?
Well, this is odd that you would get a .c by itself. You should normally have a configure script and a Makefile. If you do, you should also have a file called INSTALL which is a textfile with installation instructions. If you don't have INSTALL most compilations and installations using Makefiles are as follows: ./configure make make install You probably need to be root for make install unless you pass a --prefix flag and change where the program will be installed. But with that out of the way, since you said you only got a .c (which is very odd), you can compile a simple .c program with the following: gcc -Wall foo.c -o foo However, depending on the complexity of the program, this may not be enough. You may need to use -I flags to include files not in the expected paths. You may need flags like -lrt or -posix4. It all depends on what the program is doing. On Thursday 10 October 2002 01:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't help you with compiling .c sources, however, using http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=rdesktop I have found some rpms you could download and install instead. The latest version here is 1.1.0-5 (there's even mandrake specific rpms!). Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Gabe Knuth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 21:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] compile rdesktop on PPC? Hello, I've downloaded this application called rdesktop for connecting to Microsoft Terminal Services sessions. My issue is that it came down as a .c file and I need to compile it - something I've never done before. Can anyone point me in a direction? Thanks, Gabe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windblows
If the military makes changes to OOo and the binaries of those changes stay in-house, then they are not violating the GPL if the code stays in-house as well. The violation would only occur if they distributed the binaries, which in your scenario of a raised security classification wouldn't happen. They would not distribute the binaries or the source. So, all is still well as far as I can tell. On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:18 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:08:06 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: ...the last asset, money, is startiong to get tied up between courts, payed off poloticians, dropping economy, and great ventures like the xbox... Excellent commentary on M$, Shane. About the _only_ thing you left out was this beautiful dash of salt: the latest cancer OS by Mandrake has spread to said xbox ;-) Well ... I work on a military project which is specifying a combination of off-the-shelf and bespoke software. I was handed a paper today which studied in great detail (50 pages) the security of Microsoft Office. It was damning and stated it _could never_ be secured and that an alternative was _mandatory_ if anything other than unclassified information were to be on the same PC. The suggested alternative was OOo and the clincher was the availability of the source code; if insecure it could be secured. (This adds an interesting wrinkle to the GPL; if these security fixes increase the security classification of the software the updated source code cannot be redistributed!) So the fortress has already fallen but nobody can hear it fall ;) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windblows
Well, first of all I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 that runs Mandrake 8.2 great. I plan to convert it to 9.0 over the weekend. Of course, it's the GeForce 2 version. To get over Outlook, try Evolution. It's very similar. For a Visio replacement try Kivio. Both of these programs are available on your Mandrake CDs. I'm not familiar with the Checkpoint software or object management consoles. So, I don't know what the GNU/Linux equivalent might be. I also don't understand your Radeon problems. Can you give a description of what's wrong? On Thursday 10 October 2002 06:48 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: I've converted my laptop to Mandrake 9 now, but still find it mandatory to use my old WInXP partition (although I hate it more every day) only because I am so heavily dependant on Outlook (MAPI messaging/scheduling/groupware), and things like the CheckPoint mgnt console, other security-object management consoles which are built for Winblows, etc. At home I'm still using XP because I like my ATI Radeon 7500+remote card and haven't been able to find a place on the web that describes how to get that working well...and ATI sure doesn't support LINUX too well, heh. I'm hoping that the tide starts to turn even faster so that my Inspiron 8100 can be converted entirely to LINUX from my pathetically unstable WinXP platform. If anyone can recommend some good software to reduce my dependance on Outlook, Visio, etc, PLEASE DO SO, I'm open to suggestions. I'm in one of those positions to recommend...we have a couple fortune 10 clients at work...one of them is quite dependant on us for their security as well as other intiativesI only regret that this is the best place I've found for LINUX support.there aren't very many active message boardssure mandrake-user.org has posts but...you get one reply every, what, week? Thanks guys - let's keep the ball rolling!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Todd Flinders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windblows If the military makes changes to OOo and the binaries of those changes stay in-house, then they are not violating the GPL if the code stays in-house as well. The violation would only occur if they distributed the binaries, which in your scenario of a raised security classification wouldn't happen. They would not distribute the binaries or the source. So, all is still well as far as I can tell. On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:18 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:08:06 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: ...the last asset, money, is startiong to get tied up between courts, payed off poloticians, dropping economy, and great ventures like the xbox... Excellent commentary on M$, Shane. About the _only_ thing you left out was this beautiful dash of salt: the latest cancer OS by Mandrake has spread to said xbox ;-) Well ... I work on a military project which is specifying a combination of off-the-shelf and bespoke software. I was handed a paper today which studied in great detail (50 pages) the security of Microsoft Office. It was damning and stated it _could never_ be secured and that an alternative was _mandatory_ if anything other than unclassified information were to be on the same PC. The suggested alternative was OOo and the clincher was the availability of the source code; if insecure it could be secured. (This adds an interesting wrinkle to the GPL; if these security fixes increase the security classification of the software the updated source code cannot be redistributed!) So the fortress has already fallen but nobody can hear it fall ;) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:
Several of my GNU/Linux native games from a variety of vendors (Loki, LGP, etc) had problems installing from the CD-ROM as well. When I disabled supermount, they all installed flawlessly. Something is definitely up with supermount. But it seems to be working fine for small day-to-day tasks. On Wednesday 09 October 2002 06:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: transgaming also has a warning about running supermount while installing/running games from CD on 9.0. apparently supermount has problems beyond any specific mountpoint for now. --- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A: I think is a supermount problem; with 9.0 and supermount dissabled you can copy files between two konqueror windows, one of them with the floppy and the other with cdrom or the harddisk. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Sean Goh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Lunes, Octubre 7, 2002 4:06 pm Asunto: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A: ok how do i use the cp command? i tried cp file a: but it doesn't worki looked at the man pages and it doesn't show me how to copy to a drive. Also how to i disable supermount? Regards, Sean Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:42 am, you wrote: This is a known problem with Konq. The solution: don't do it! ;-) Presumably fixed in 9.0 - haven't tried it. Midnight Commander or the good old cp command in a console are both good alternatives. HTH Brian Or disable supermount - then Konqueror works just fine - drag 'n drop with no problems whatsoever... :-) --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- == = = How can One who is merciful, and who is also infinite in power, tolerate such injustice and oppression? This is a question with which we have nothing to do. God has given us sufficient evidence of His love, and we are not to doubt His goodness because we cannot understand the workings of His providence. - The Great Controversy, E.G.White == = = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XBOX media player and the GPL
The problem is that if they started with GPL code, it is not entirely their work and they must honor the license of the code they chose to incorperate. I don't know much about this situation, but if they distributed code in binary form that included GPL'd code nested within their logic then they must also provide the applicable source code to the recipients of the binaries. They also cannot restrict what the recipients do with the source code other than keeping it Free. There is no clause in the GPL that allows exceptions for beta tests. They certainly don't have to provide source to the public, but if they put out binaries with nested GPL code to beta testers, the beta testers have a right to the affected code. They also have a right to pass the code on to others if they choose. Obviously, I'm no lawyer. But that's my understanding of the situation. On Monday 07 October 2002 09:41 am, Charlie wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2002 04:41 pm, Damian wrote: Hi people. I chose to bring this up because it pissed me off a bit, and i think we can do something about it. There's this new program called Xbox Media Player which appears to be in clear violation of the GPL. i'm not quite sure what this program does, but i think it's purpose is playing DivX movies on an Xbox or something... Anyway, it takes code from FFMPEG (http://ffmpeg.sf.net) and XVID (http://xvid.org) which are both licensed under the GPL, and the developers of this XboxMediaPlayer have not released the source for their program, and when asked for a copy, they clearly demonstrate they give a s*** about the issue. A member of the MPlayer-users list has emailed them concerning this issue and got the following reply: --- We are not obliged to release our source until we reach our first stable public release version 1.0 - I've made our position about this quite clear. If we continue to get any more such demands we shall simply stop releasing public betas, and release version 1 and the accompanying source 6-12 month from now. --- Now, this got me thinking ( and i've already posted my ideas to MPlayer list) how about we all *make* them stop releasing their betas? i.e. we *all* keep asking for the source untill they choose to give us their oh-so-very-feared-punishment and quit releasing programs in clear violation of the GPL? lemme know what you think :o) I think you should keep that response in an archive of some sort; as it seems to be a public promise to release the source code. When development is done. But I don't see this clear violation that you speak of. Distributed open source code used to make a product means the finished product must also be open sourced, no? Or do you just want them to stop developing altogether? Apparently you got your wish then: Latest News 07-10-2002, 13:09 (Post by RUNTiME) Development suspended Following a number of complaints made to us development on the player is suspended until further notice. We remind you that we have not officially released any binaries to the public, and as such no source will be forthcoming either. You can send your letters of thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why they wouldn't release the code as it is now, and hope other developers would also take an interest and help refine the software, is anyone's guess. But nobody else's business I suppose. It should also be the author's privilege to control their own work in my opinion. Any artist should always have control of their own work, and the ablility to decide what the public sees and when. With respect to the Free Software Foundation, or Open Source Community; if the author of a particular program/application wants to hold onto their work until _they_ consider it a finished product, what's the problem? I thought the rule was that if a product is released that uses any open source code the end product code also must be released as open source code. If it's still alpha or beta work where's the trouble? That would seem to mean there isn't any finished code to release yet. Under the from the sublime to the ridiculous heading; have you ever beta tested for any proprietary software development? If you're still in testing phase in most cases you're bound to not even admit it. Source code? Hell you're lucky if there's an admission that there _is_ code. It's all done by magic ya know. Black Magic in some cases. :-) Developers may be a strange breed but they have my respect. I can't do what they do since I don't have that much interest in the field; and so would never devote the time to learn the required languages and skills. To my mind that means I have no right to criticize their behavior if it doesn't harm me. If cutting them a bit of slack (if that even applies here) is what it takes for them to release a *free* finished product that I may not even have known I wanted or needed then where's the problem? Want to
Re: [newbie] p2p programs
There are tons of them. I believe kazaa has a linux version itself. Check http://www.google.com/linux and http://freshmeat.net On Sunday 07 October 2001 09:53 am, Robert Beach wrote: Is there a program for linux that you can use for finding mp3's or movies. Sorta like Kazaa or Morpheus? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XBOX media player and the GPL
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 06:42 am, Damian wrote: I'm sure your interpretation of it is the correct one Todd. I just don't think the correct answer was to force development to stop by being obnoxious. I was not advocating anyone being obnoxious. I also had nothing to do with the original post. I just wanted to try to clarify some of the ideas that were expressed about the GPL (not that I'm an expert, of course). I also don't feel the original poster was advocating people to be obnoxious. S/he was advocating making a voice about what s/he that was a GPL violation. Taking action to stop a GPL violation is not necessarily obnoxious. ..uhm, i think i got the terms of the GPL wrong, then. I mean, if these guys are releasing a program (does it matter if they call it a beta if it's available for widespread use?) taking code from a GPLed project, and NOT releasing the source, is it not a violation? or is it only when they call the release stable? the latter doesn't make a lot of sense to me.. what keeps them from calling every release a beta time and time again? To the best of my understanding (and I'm pretty confident in this) if the binaries are released as betas then the beta testers are entitled to the source code. The exception would be if the beta testing was done in house. Regardless of the state of the code, if binary code is distributed to another entity, that entity is entitled to source code. The external entity must either be supplied with the source or given reasonable access to acquire the source. With that being said, the original team can beta test all they want in house without releasing source code. They are only obligated to release the source when they distribute binaries to external entities. On top of that, I believe they are only obligated to give the source to those they gave the binaries. However, they are NOT allowed to take away the freedoms offered by the GPL. The recipient of GPL source and binaries is entitled to the same freedoms as the distributor. So, for example, the external beta testers who received the binaries (if any) are entitled to the source code and may distribute at no cost or commercially the code to world+dog if they so choose. Again, I am no lawyer. With no development, and no application being done, there's no code being released anyway. It may actually have been something useful but we may never know that now. Strict interpretation of rules and regulations; while not a bad thing at all, may itself be judged as draconian as the Everlasting Usurious Leasing Attack used by a certain proprietary software company. Hey, if my choice is no package or a package that violates the GPL then I'll go with no package! That being said, my understanding was that the development was continuing but that they would simply not being distributing binaries or source until they reached a stable point. If that's how they choose to do it, that is their right. We should be happy that the GPL will not be violated. the point is, the player was able to play DivX files. And to do that, it took code from Xvid and FFMPEG. the authors admitted to it, but kept making closed-source releases and telling people to wait at least six months for the source (maybe it's ok because they were only betas?) If the binaries were distributed to external beta testers, than those testers were entitled to the source. and now they aren't. Temporarily apparently. The problem seems to be (according to the FAQ they have posted) that they won't release the application to the general public until there's a GPLed compiler This may be a problem with the licensing of available compilers. This is not a GPL problem. There is nothing about GPL compilers or source code covered by the GPL that mandates a GPL compiler. Therefore, this choice of compiler must be for other reasons. We should applaud them for holding out for Free Software solutions. i think closed-source software is very necesary, even in Linux. And i also believe that most GPL die-hards will have to learn to live with that. I'm too much of a recently-arrived foreigner in the Linux community to turn into a insert license/product/belief here-diehard, but still, the way i understood the situation, i felt a little pissed off. Closed-source software is philosophically flawed, but that's an entirely different debate. (and i'm going to add a question here: is GPL's legal validity proven yet? as in lawsuits or something? i think some time ago i read something about it not being really tested for in-court real value) While the GPL has not made it to court, let's recall that it has a strong lawyer influence and that many GPL violations including those from some substantial companies have been settled in the favor of Free Software. The GPL is not something to be taken lightly or dismissed as legally unsound. Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Re: [newbie] -Question about Java Applet and Browser Upgrade and Flashplayer
Hi, Eric: Just hit the space bar to go past the more. It's going to make you page through the entire license so that you have the opportunity to read it before it will create the .rpm file for you. When that's done just type: rpm -ivh j2sdk*rpm On Saturday 05 October 2002 09:41 pm, Eric S. Dye wrote: Hi Todd and Dennis, More Questions.. I downloaded the sun java file. can you tell me how to execute the file, install it, and agree to the license. i got to the license but it doesn't show the whole thing. it shows more, but i can't get any farther that the more. i got the flashplayer installed, but the cards still will not open. could you go to www.castlemountains.com, then try to open the Daily Reflections applet. its a small angel and see if it will open for you. if it doesn't can you explain further what i have to do. i am lost at the moment. where do i execute the commands. i apologize for the stupidity, but i would appreciate any help. thank you, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
I'm not familiar with Komba, but I do set up Samba networks. In Komba there's probably a place to send your username and password. Make sure that is correct. In your Samba Configuration, I believe you need to tell it to send encrypted passwords. If memory serves me correctly GNU/Linux won't connect to Windows unless you do this. You might try mounting some Windows shares by hand to make sure you can indeed see the Windows box and that Samba is set up correctly. Then once you know it is definitely working, play with any specifics of Komba. Following is a command to mount a Windows share: mount -t smbfs -o username=USERNAME //WINDOWS-IP-ADDRESS/SHARE-NAME /mnt/LINUX-MOUNT-POINT If all is working correctly, you will be prompted for a password before the mount actually occurs. On Sunday 06 October 2002 03:03 am, Lee wrote: Hi All: I've been mostly lurking for two years now, and have (with your guidance) gotten most everything done in Mandrake that I wanted, but. My home network. I have 1 MS ME 586, 1 MS WIN98 586, 2 MS WIN2K 586's, 1 LEXMARK Optra LX+, and 1 MDK 586 all through SMC 7004ABR and DLink routers with another Lexmark Optra LX+ attached and to a Cable internet connection. One 2K is FAT32 and the other is one of each 40 Meg drives. Also assorted printers including and Epson 8000 in there somewhere. Never ever have I had all talking to all. Right now the network printer is not seen by any of the machines although I specifically assigned it to 192.168.2.5. Not a major problem and may be hardware although I see that Komba2 indentifies one of the WIN2K boxes as 192.168.2.5. Anyway I can fix that (Probably) Real Problems: 1. Komba2 displays ?Error returning t:NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED from both WIN2K boxes. 2. With the MDK box, I have not ever had the use of any of the printers that are attached to the other computers or the network, or the one on the parallel port on the router. All except as noted above work fine shared through the Windows boxes. 3. WIN2K boxes say incorrect passwork or unknown username for :\\Supertux when I attempt to browse in that direction. Now that I'm about to upgrade (reinstall actually) to 9.0, I would like to do it right the first time and end up with a network that I can expect to wean off of MS this next year. I am assuming that as I added and subtracted from this mess, I named things and assigned passwords long forgotton, but I don't know how to get it all back to reality short of major surgery. (Not an option, please) I do know all the admin passwords 'cause they're all the same. (It's all my stuff, after all.) All comments graciously appreciated. TIA Lee Registered Linux user #223705 Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sympa???
A lot of programs are indeed missing. I think this was done to make room for the Internationalization on the 3rd CD and to keep a 100% separation in the distro between Free and non-Free software. I have found that MOST (not all) of the missing software is found under the contrib section of the FTP mirrors or at the Mandrake Club. On Saturday 05 October 2002 01:53 pm, Franki wrote: Hi guys, I finially decided to install Sympa figuring if its good enough for mandrake, its good enough for me... so i went to my mdk9 box and typed urpmi sympa it gave me a package not found error... so I walked over to an 8.2 box and typed the same, and low and behold, it installed Sympa.. So my question is,,, where did it go from nine?? was it considered not useful? has its license changed? was it an accident? did mandrake include an alternate mailing list ??? any ideas anyone? regards frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake
Go to: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 Assuming you are using an Athlon or a Pentium, click on Mandrake 9.0/i586 ISO Image. Choose a mirror closest to you and then download: README md5sums.90 Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso You only really NEED the first iso to get a working GNU/Linux, but I'd highly encourage you to grab the first two. If you have high speed internet access, you might as well grab all three. When you've downloaded the files, type the following in the directory you downloaded in: md5sum -c md5sums.90 This will take a while to calculate, but it will confirm that the download occurred successfully. If you are going to burn these ISO from a non-GNU/Linux machine, refer the README file for instructions. I also don't know how to check the md5sum from a non-GNU/Linux OS. To burn from GNU/Linux type: cdrecord -scanbus Not which device points to your burner. In my case it's 1,3,0. Then use this information to burn the CD. cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=1,3,0 Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Replace the values with your own, of course. On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:29 am, Mike Eastaugh wrote: Hi'ya Am completly new to this, so could someone help me here. I'm just looking to download a copy of mandrake from the FTP site and install it by booting from CD. Can someone please tell me what I need to download. Any help much appreciated Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake
It's been a long time since I've used Windows, but in Adaptec there will be an option of some sort to to from an image/iso. That's what you want. The README file you'll find on the FTP site you download the .iso's from will actually have instructions on how to burn using Adaptec. Once you burn the iso as an image, it expand into a normal CD. The first one is bootable for install. The second (I believe) is bootable for rescue and such. If you end up with CDs that just have the .iso file on them, then a mistake was made in the Adaptec configuration before the burn. On Sunday 06 October 2002 09:57 am, Mike Eastaugh wrote: Thanks Dennis and Todd, Am indeed doing this from a win 2k or 95/98 machine probably using adaptec cd creator. From what I can make of the mandrake website I need to write the ISO files to CDs as raw data. So are files with the .ISO extension bootable then? Many thanks again, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: 06 October 2002 16:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:29 am, Mike Eastaugh wrote: Hi'ya Am completly new to this, so could someone help me here. I'm just looking to download a copy of mandrake from the FTP site and install it by booting from CD. Can someone please tell me what I need to download. Any help much appreciated Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com Mike you need the following 3 .iso's the first two are nearly 700 Mb so you need 80 min CDs to burn the image. Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd2-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso When you get on one of the ftp sites, if you do not see these files then click up on the directory to the next higher level until you see a folder with iso as it's label, go there. I think they have fixed the links to go to the right place now. Welcome to adventure called Linux, it is worth the trip. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror and Realplayer
I would check your /etc/pluggerrc file and make sure nothing screwy is going on there. Then check in Konqueror's Settings under File Association for any of the Realplayer associatations. Make sure RealPlayer is at the top of the General and Embedding tabs. On Sunday 06 October 2002 12:36 pm, Noah Hicks wrote: Does anyone know how to make Realplayer open the audio/video streams from Konqueror? I was able to to it in Mozilla and Galeon by placing a plugin file in the proper dir but I can't seem to do it with Konqueror. Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another Voodoo enigma? 3.3.6 installed.
Or try: XFDrake -expert --- Carl Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 8.0 on a celeron 433, 128 ram and voodoo3 2000 tonight. I wasn't given a choice of versions concerning XFree86 and it installed 3.3.6. I have a K6-2 450 with Voodoo 3 2000 that installed fine (although I have had problems with past Mandrakes). Try: Xconfigurator -expert as root. You should get three options at the start: XFree 4.0.3 with 3D hardware acceleration; XFree 4.0.3; and XFree 3.3.6. ...Carl __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] How to uninstall GRUB OS switcher
Using your windows boot disk type the following at the prompt: fdisk /mbr --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. I'm having a big, big problem. I can uninstall LM just fine, but after I do I'm stuck with a computer that refuses to boot! It comes up with that GRUB program, but it can't boot Windoze! I have to reinstall LM in order to boot to Windoze again! Please help! Is there a way I can get it to go back to booting straight to Windoze? Please tell me because I need to get this back to Windoze because I will be getting a more powerful comp and giving this one to my mom's office. Thank you all in advance! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] looking to buy new hd, size an issue?
I just asked this question a few days ago. In short, Civileme said one partititon can have up to 128 gigs and multiple partititons and drives can have more. Check the archive for the exact details. The subject was: Can Linux see 90 gigs? --- Paul R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I going to buy a larger hard drive. I was looking at a 75Gb drive. Maybe half shared with Windows. Do I need to worry about having partitions that are too large? What is a reasonable limit? I'll probably be running ReisserFS on them. Thanks. -Paul R _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Problems with CD/RW Samsung SW-408
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ --- Roberto Herrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed LM 7.2 on my brand new desktop with a Pioneer DVD-116 drive and a CD/RW Samsung SW-408. The drives seem to be recognized by the installation, since directories cdrom and cdrom2 hang from /mnt. However, when I insert a disc in the Samsung drive, and try to enter into the cdrom2 directory, the system crashes. If it is helpful, the drives work OK under Windows Me. Thank you very much for your help, Roberto Herrero __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake
In Software Manager change the drop down list (just above the where the packages are listed) to either Updates Only or Uninstalled Only to see only new packages (updates being new versions of installed packages, of course). For updates, I prefer the Flat List tab. --- Marc Audard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, LM8.0 has merged the MandrakeUpdate option in RPMDrake; I have a small question regarding the way it works: my understanding is that I selects the updated package in the Installable lists, click such that they are installed, and everything should be OK. If this is correct, OK but there is apparently a small bug in rpmdrake: in the Installed list, rpmdrake lists both the new and the old packages, while it should only list the new ones! Also, apparently I have a problem installing the updates (apparently glibc), which I tried to do after installing LM8.0 on my laptop...this morning! (you'll probably be flooded by questions this next week). Being a newbie in LM8, which e-mail address is for bug reporting? Regards, Marc -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Problems with CD/RW Samsung SW-408
Type: lsmod and look for ide-scsi --- Roberto Herrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2001 19:22, Todd Flinders wrote: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ I've followed the recommendations in that page. Now, I have lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 May 24 23:43 /dev/cdrom2 - scd0 in my /dev directory. Unfortunately, the problems persist. I suspect that SCSI emulation has not been installed properly. How can I check this? Any other suggestion? Thanks, Roberto Herrero __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake
In Software Manager change the drop down list (just above the where the packages are listed) to either Updates Only or Uninstalled Only to see only new packages (updates being new versions of installed packages, of course). For updates, I prefer the Flat List tab. --- Marc Audard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, LM8.0 has merged the MandrakeUpdate option in RPMDrake; I have a small question regarding the way it works: my understanding is that I selects the updated package in the Installable lists, click such that they are installed, and everything should be OK. If this is correct, OK but there is apparently a small bug in rpmdrake: in the Installed list, rpmdrake lists both the new and the old packages, while it should only list the new ones! Also, apparently I have a problem installing the updates (apparently glibc), which I tried to do after installing LM8.0 on my laptop...this morning! (you'll probably be flooded by questions this next week). Being a newbie in LM8, which e-mail address is for bug reporting? Regards, Marc -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
Civileme: If you ever felt the need to post the results of these tests on a webpage somewhere, that would be really cool. I'd really enjoy being able to browse the database of hard drives/controllers and see their performance. That's probably a hefty project, though. :( --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 12:56, Todd Flinders wrote: Yes, I'm especially interested in Civileme's tool he's working on to install a Maxtor controller card. I wonder if I should get that for RAID 0 instead of the 3ware. 3ware has good support, but only goes up to ATA 66. How important is ATA 100 anyway for RAID 0??? Should I even be concerned about that. I'm think that because I have 2 ATA 100 HDs (IBMs), that it would be a waste to get the 66 controller. Am I just being foolish? Is the 66 fine? My tests on ATA/66 and ATA/100 don't give you much to choose. the hdparm 64M read test seems to peak at slightly under 32 Mb/s for 66 and might go as high as 35Mb/s for ATA100. Both basically transfer data faster than it can spin onto or off the disk itself. My disk optimizer, which is based on a database, searches for a saddle-point where speed retuns diminish and noise immunity drops. The big surprise is that over half the ATA/100 setups I have tested end up with an ATA/66 setting from the optimizer, and most of those actually run faster at 66 (no repeats for channel noise problems). You actually do not need my tool to install using the cheap Maxtor card--it just eliminates a complicated series of steps that are a pain in the ass for experts and probably smoke and mirrors for newbies. Civileme --- Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote: From: Pelle Poluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but at the same time I want speed and a practical UI (read GUI). I need a smooth file manager, easy access to OS, an editor, browser, email client (the usual I guess) and a C++ Java IDE. That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm afraid. Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have reported slowness. My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be usable, but not quite as slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40 seconds, and new apps or windows 10 - 20 seconds. The good news is that KDE 1.x works just fine. Try an older version of Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all plenty fast. Regards, Irv I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a lot of good things about it. So I downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly installed it on my AMD K333 machine (96 mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As I've followed the development of KDE with great interest, I chose KDE as default windows manager (and it has KDevelop). But it's really slow. Just loading Mandrake takes like 3-4 minutes. Some of it, I can understand. In the installation process, I included lots of apps and some of them gets loaded when Mandrake starts (like MySql and postgres, probably some more servers). But that surely doesn't account for the immensly slow loading of the OS. And then I start KDE... It takes another 2-3 minutes. And using it is awful. Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs and everything just crawls. I === message truncated === __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] CD Writer
Um...what? Unless Yamaha has a brand spanking new burner, it is NOT an OEM of a plextor. Yamaha does not have burn proof technology like the Plextor does. And it's latest model is reported to be unstable. Also most of the Yamaha drivers are not supported by the CloneCD software while Plextor is. I strongly believe they are two very different drives. Incidentally, I own a Yamaha and I do not recommend it. It's certainly not the worst drive on the market, but you can get much better for about the same price. Plextor or TDK is the way to go. Plextor is probably the safest for Linux. I haven't heard anything from anyone using a TDK in Linux. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Tue, 22 May 2001 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT) when Todd Flinders wrote: Plextor and TDK's are rated as the best in the Windows' world. I haven't personally tested them in Linux, but when this was discussed before, someone said they were successfully using a Plextor. In a linux hardware newsgroup I heard good things about Plextor. You can also try a Yamaha, which is OEM of the Plextor, but I was told to better go for the Plextor since it is most reliable. Also a bit more expensive though. Paul -- Bowie's Theorem: If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] invulnerable processes
For particularly stubborn processes, use: kill -9 PID --- bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have just had to reboot to kill two processes that i otherwise couldn't kill; cdda2wav and cdrecord, both were left running after xcdroast crashed, and although i issued the command 'kill (pid here)' they were still running, repeating the command did not give the 'no such pid' error and ksysguard still showed them running with the same pid, is there some other guaranteed way to kill processes, i needed to kill them because i was unable to restart xcdroast and it seemed obvious that these two errant processes were the reason why, tia bascule __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] how to install CD writer with Mandrake?
To link ide-scsi to hdd, type: ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom1 Although, this was probably already done for you if the writer was installed during the Mandrake installation. --- John Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2001 05:26, Walter Luffman wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2001 06:21, John Farrell wrote: I have an Acer 10x8x32 CD writer. I have managed to make it readable using /etc/fstab, but how do I write to it? eroaster says I gave it an invalid resource ID. I found: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/feenberg.html but it doesn't seem to be relevant for Mandrake 8. Ta, It might help to provide the list with more information: 1. Is this drive IDE, SCSI or USB? Sorry, it's IDE, and it's /dev/hdd. I have a CD writer on the same IDE channel, so of course it is /dev/hdc. The reader is master, the writer is slave. I believe the driver to use is ide-scsi, but what do I do with that driver? If I insmod it, how does Mandrake know to use that driver for that device? Thanks, John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Sound and Network card setup problems
After you've installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, just use Linuxconf to setup the LNE100TX. Crazy, I know, but that is what worked for me. With Linuxconf, I just chose the tulip driver it offered me in the drop down list. milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 the other night. It went fine. EXCEPT I can't get any sound and can't find where to get it to even find the sound card. Its a Sound Blaster Pro, ISA slot, oldie but it works. Also,the networking card is a Linksys LNE100TX and the floppy that came with it says it has drivers on it but I can't compile them because some file is missing from Linux, does anyone know where I could find these drivers already compiled? Also, how to get sound working? Listen to my shoutcast cable/dsl: http://www.live365.com/stations/153859 56k: http://www.live365.com/stations/235300 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] RE:problems setting up telnet, ftp and ssh on Mandrake Linux
Make sure you have installed and are running the telnet and ftp deamons. For example: service telnetd status --- Diane Mairs-Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have mandrake linux installed on machine that I want to be able to telnet, ftp or ssh into from other hosts on the LAN. So far I have enabled the inetd daemon and commented out the respective lines in the inetd.conf file, for telnet and ftp. I have added the same user on the mandrake box that is on the other hosts. I have not added nor deleted anything from the hosts.allow and hosts.deny or ftpusers files. However I am not able to reach the login prompt with telnet and I cannot establish a connection with ftp. As for ssh I have not tried to configure it since I was having problems with ftp and telnet. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
hdparm -Tt /dev/hda or whatever --- Irv Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2001, you wrote: Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC I wonder if the new kernel is slowing down disk operations? Or something else? How can we benchmark our disk performance with Mandrake 7.1 and again with 8.0 to see if there is a difference? Regards, Irv __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
Yes, I'm especially interested in Civileme's tool he's working on to install a Maxtor controller card. I wonder if I should get that for RAID 0 instead of the 3ware. 3ware has good support, but only goes up to ATA 66. How important is ATA 100 anyway for RAID 0??? Should I even be concerned about that. I'm think that because I have 2 ATA 100 HDs (IBMs), that it would be a waste to get the 66 controller. Am I just being foolish? Is the 66 fine? --- Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote: From: Pelle Poluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but at the same time I want speed and a practical UI (read GUI). I need a smooth file manager, easy access to OS, an editor, browser, email client (the usual I guess) and a C++ Java IDE. That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm afraid. Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have reported slowness. My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be usable, but not quite as slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40 seconds, and new apps or windows 10 - 20 seconds. The good news is that KDE 1.x works just fine. Try an older version of Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all plenty fast. Regards, Irv I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a lot of good things about it. So I downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly installed it on my AMD K333 machine (96 mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As I've followed the development of KDE with great interest, I chose KDE as default windows manager (and it has KDevelop). But it's really slow. Just loading Mandrake takes like 3-4 minutes. Some of it, I can understand. In the installation process, I included lots of apps and some of them gets loaded when Mandrake starts (like MySql and postgres, probably some more servers). But that surely doesn't account for the immensly slow loading of the OS. And then I start KDE... It takes another 2-3 minutes. And using it is awful. Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs and everything just crawls. I just can't use it. I tried Window Maker instead and it worked better. But I don't want to drop KDE just yet. There must be something wrong with the configuration. I also tried Gnome but it started to look for a trash folder which it didn't find. Although I canceled that search, it seemed like it continued to search for the folder because the hd were working really hard all the time and everything worked even slower than in KDE. There are also some more strange things happening: - when I leave the windows manager and come to the 'console', I get a line typed on the screen all the time: Sending ICMP signal...failed (or something like that). It effectively stops me from working in console mode. - it seems like I've lost my internet connection. During installation, I selected 'DHCP-server' when asked for IP address. And I managed to do some surfing using Konqueror. But after installing Gnome and Window Maker, something must have happened to the configuration. - shutting down or restaring the OS always hangs the machine. - when I start Windows instead, using the boot manager, the initial loading process seems to be slower now than before. It's not a big deal because it works fine when Windows is loaded but it might give a clue to why the system is so slow when I start Linux. Please advice! Regards, Pelle Poluha Sweden G! The speed you perceive will be related to the performance of your HDDs more than any other single factor. I am doing fine with a Celeron 366 and a well-tuned disk drive which turns up a read rate of 31.89Mb/s I should have a disk optimizer out next week for testing. It will probably make a world of difference. Civileme __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Fwd: that sucks
Yes, this can be troubling. However, Chris Molnar wrote a reply on Slashdot that was interesting. I'm very bummed that he quit. He was definitely a large help to this list! It was because of him that my KDE 2.1 on 7.2 was so easy. Chris Molnar, Civileme, and Todd Lyons are three developers I'd like to never see leave Mandrake. I wish Mandrake would ask for Chris back. But this is just not a good time for the computer industry in general. I think all distributions, including Mandrake, are likely feeling a serious pinch. I hope they make it. But it was stated repeatedly that it was still too early to worry. But this might be a good time to get around to showing your support. Donate to mandrake (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/) or buy a boxed set. g0g0g0 --- Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope Mandrake doesn't end up like the other Linux companies. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/22/009242mode=thread __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] CD Writer
Plextor and TDK's are rated as the best in the Windows' world. I haven't personally tested them in Linux, but when this was discussed before, someone said they were successfully using a Plextor. --- TezcatlipocA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Creative Labs 4224E. Old and slow but it works. I would recomend you to check the supported hardware list on LM web page. TezcatlipocA On Monday 21 May 2001 12:34, you wrote: Hi, I am going to buy a cd writer soonand I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions or good experiences to share? Thanks, Jord __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences
Ctrl-Alt-F7 is where X is hanging out. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When breaking out of X to go to another virtual terminal (using Ctrl+Alt+Fxx), how do you bring X back up? I noticed that doing this doesn't kill X like doing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, so I would think that there would be a way to get back in. When looking at the man page, I didn't see a key sequence for this. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] kmix labels
Hold the cursor over the meter for a moment (in Sound Mixer) and a help box comes up telling you what the particular meter will adjust. --- bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: having a sound blaster live means having lots of mixer entries that i don't understand, having played around i have found which one is the volume control for my second cdrom and which controls the line-in, it would be nice if there was a way to relabel the sliders to reflect what they control so i don't have to re-experiment each time anyone know if this can be done? bascule __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Fwd: that sucks
You can mail order the boxed set, I'm sure. Yes, here is the URL. It ships at the end of May: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/buyit/getit?wslang=en --- poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 14:40, you wrote: Yes, this can be troubling. However, Chris Molnar wrote a reply on Slashdot that was interesting. I'm very bummed that he quit. He was definitely a large help to this list! It was because of him that my KDE 2.1 on 7.2 was so easy. Chris Molnar, Civileme, and Todd Lyons are three developers I'd like to never see leave Mandrake. I wish Mandrake would ask for Chris back. But this is just not a good time for the computer industry in general. I think all distributions, including Mandrake, are likely feeling a serious pinch. I hope they make it. But it was stated repeatedly that it was still too early to worry. But this might be a good time to get around to showing your support. Donate to mandrake (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/) or buy a boxed set. g0g0g0 --- Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope Mandrake doesn't end up like the other Linux companies. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/22/009242mode=thread __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ I agree with your sentiments, however by the time the boxed sets of 8.0 get to my local Staples/PC World/Whoever in the UK, we will be on 9.* - (they are still selling boxed sets of 7.0 here) - so I guess the donations page is place to go to give something to the company that has given me so much -- Poogle __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Sound setup problems
Hmm... I just thought of something. What have you tried to get the sound working? Because I recall that the KDE that came default out of the box had sound issues. I don't think this affected xmms or CD playing, though. But you might upgrade KDE using MandrakeUpdate if you haven't already done so. Then this may fix the sound for KDE. What applications have you tried for sound? --- milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:29 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: After you've installed Linux Mandrake 7.2, just use Linuxconf to setup the LNE100TX. Crazy, I know, but that is what worked for me. With Linuxconf, I just chose the tulip driver it offered me in the drop down list. Thank you. I managed to get Linux setup to use my cable modem. I STILL can't get sound to work! I can't understand why! I've had a few times before where I have installed Linux and the sound worked without a hitch. I've disabled plug n play OS in my BIOS. I've tried looking for sndconfig and could find no such file anywhere. Harddrake won't see it its a Soundblaster Pro, old as dirt but it WILL see my USB Webcam! I don't understand what needs to be done to get my sound card to work! Anyone got any ideas? Please help! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Archiver
gunzip filename.zip -or- gzip -d filename.zip --- Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcia, do you mean using Archiver with .ZIP files in LM8? You'll first have to install the zip package using Mandrake Software Manager - it isn't installed by default. On Monday 21 May 2001 06:14, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I have LM 8 and I just tried to use the archiver. It said sorry that it was not in my path. How can I use this again? It worked well in 7.2. Also, how does one unzip a file with the .zip on the end by hand? Thank you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Looking for a Notebook to run dual boot LM 8.0 and W indows
You could also buy a notebook with Linux already loaded. Therefore, you could expect everything to work without hassles. One such place to purchase Linux notebooks is the following: http://www.qlitech.net/products/laptops/index.html I believe that Dell now also offers notebooks with Linux loaded. --- Clarkson, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I've never really touched Linux beofre, but after reading the review on Littlewhitedog.com I thought I'd give it a go. How easy was it ? I couldn't believe it. Now all I have to do is work out what to do with it ;) Everything seemed to install OK, I even got it browsing the web through our firewall at work. Sound worked too. And I know NOTHING about Linux. Well a tiny bit now. I'm impressed I have to say. My laptop FYI is a Dell Latitude CPx (I think that's the model). Nick -Original Message- From: Scott Canady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 May 2001 05:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Looking for a Notebook to run dual boot LM 8.0 and Windows Hey everyone. Have any of you installed a dual-boot Linux Mandrake 8.0/Windows XX on a notebook? If so, and if the install was fairly painless (or if you could describe the pain), would anyone be able to recommend a brand to me? I'm fairly clueless about notebooks in general (this will be my first one), so any info. you could give would be helpful. Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Boxed Set
Yeah, complete is simply a workstation install. It does have some stuff that the download version doesn't have. The download version is ONLY GPL software. The Complete boxed set will have non-GPL software (like Star Office and Real Player). However, the linux itself is a bit slim because it is geared toward workstation users only. Most of us on this list would prefer the PowerPack. If you're going to purchase a boxed set, the PowerPack is probably for you. If you don't want to spend the cash, download or purchase (for dirt cheap) the GPL version. I purchased the Complete version before too. It was a bit disappointing. It's not the end of the world, though, because you can download what you need. But it was easier to just scratch my Complete install and use the GPL version. I intend to buy the Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack set soon. --- Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was in the same boat as you. I bought 7.2 thinking it was a full and complete package and only later found out it wasn't. At the time I didn't have an high speed Internet connection, so purchasing was my only recourse. This time, however, I downloaded it first and checked out what I was supposed to be getting and then bought it. It's all there. I believe this to be a complete package. And, I'm not sure if they did this or not, seems a little more stable than the version I downloaded. Not sure if it could just have been a better installation. Riker On Sunday 20 May 2001 09:42 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 16:54, you wrote: [snip stuff about box sets] I hope it's better than the 'Mandrake 7.2 (in)Complete' box set that I had the misfortune to buy. Quite how Mandrake think I will willingly part with cash for an incomplete product that I can download for free is beyond me. The manuals were a waste of paper, and at least one of the pdf books touted on the box was not included. Sean __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Boxed Set
Do they offer the PowerPack at Walmart? --- Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Quincy, IL in the Midwest of the US. It was there as of Saturday and was sold out today. They had five copies on the shelf when I purchased my copy. Riker On Sunday 20 May 2001 12:25 pm, you wrote: what wal-mart...where? what countrys? etc Riker wrote: I just bought the boxed set from Wal-Mart of 8.0 for $25.00 and the only thing that has really disappointed me are the lack of CDs. There are only three this time instead of four. I can't complain too much, though, you still get a lot more with Mandrake than you do with $indwos. Riker __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] rebuilding redhat src package for a mdk system. (netcfg)
Yes, I successfully installed netcfg several months ago on 7.2. It should work. In fact, every Red Hat RPM that I've tried has worked with my Mandrake so far. If you have the choice, get the mdk rpm. However, Red Hat rpms do tend to work. Afterall, mandrake does claim to be red hat compatible. To be safe, simply add the --test option to your rpm command, like so: rpm --rebuild --test netcfg*src.rpm -or- rpm --ivh --test netcfg*i386.rpm That should warn you of any serious problems. --- Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone,, I really miss redhats netcfg package, having used RH from version 4.3 up until 7 when I switched to mdk7.2 I have used netcfg for nearly everything up until now... and now I don't have it anymore. I personally think it is far better then mandrakes effort on 7.2 (dunno about 8 yet) particularly with things like dialup and stuff, netcfg lets you see what you have already, something missing from the Network and Internet configuration from Mandrake I want it back, so I was wondering if I downloaded the rebuildable rpm from redhats site... and rebuild and install it on a mandrake system,,, will it work?? I find myself wanting to try this, but I don't want to risk it either... I am not writing this to put down mandrake, I just want netcfg back can anyone help?? has anyone tried this? regards Frank __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Bind-RPM-ICS
The bind package you installed was the source code. You need to compile it. To compile it, go to the directory where you download it to and type the following (as root): rpm --rebuild bind*src.rpm That should compile the source code and if all goes well it will create a binary file of bind for you to install. Where this binary file will be located will depend upon the architecture of your system. If you have a pentium III it is referred to as i686. If you have an AMD, it may be i586. You will need to know what architecture you are using. You can see this when your system boots or in any of the various system information tools. For example, your binary may be located in: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686 -or- /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 You can just navigate to /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ and see where the file is. If you pay attention to the compile, there will be a BUILD statement at the end that tells you which directory the binary file is being placed in. Navigate to that directory. Then (as root) install the new bind binary you created: rpm -ivh bind*rpm --- cbulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a Brand New Newbie.. Running Mandrake 7.2 I didn't have my Mandrake cd1 with me and wanted to set-up Internet connection sharing..ofcourse I couldn't wait till I got the cd back and started fiddling with it...attempting to install - It said it needed BIND for IPCHAIN... Not exactly knowing what I was doing, I attempted to install a version of bind through the package manager off of an FTP.. (apparently the incorrect version...it said .src in place of i586)... also I further screwed it up by attempting to update bindutils through the software update...(Which I got an error from and now it know longer shows in the list as something I can update..) Now, When I try to setup the internet connection sharing, it starts to install software and says: Problems installing package bind. If anyone could offer any insight I would be grateful. Thanks, Kris. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Accidentally deleted files installed with an RPM, want to get them back
Try rpm -Fvh rpmname.rpm -F freshens. So, it should only update with files that are newer and replace missing files. --- brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you still have the original rpm, you can do a: rpm -qpil rpmname and that will show you what files the rpm has it will also tell you where it installes them to On Fri, 18 May 2001, Scott Canady wrote: Hey all, I accidentally deleted some files that were installed on my system via an RPM last night. I tried to reinstall the RPM with rpm -U theRPMName, but the rpm utility told me that the rpm was already installed. If it's possible, I'd like to get access to just those files that I accidentally deleted, so that no files are overwritten that shouldn't be. Does anyone know how this would be done? If I were to do a forced install, would I accidentally overwrite more recent versions of files? The rpm I'm using is the XFree86-devel RPM from LM 8.0, and I accidentally deleted the header files in /usr/X11R6/include/GL. If it's easier, could someone send me a gzipped tarball of these files? Thanks in advance to whoever can help solve my little hiccup (I'd give you an explanation as to how this happened, but it would be too embarrassing). __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] lost lilo
edit /etc/lilo.conf to include windows 98. Then run /sbin/lilo See this page for details: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/iboot.html --- marshall weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2. I can no longer dual boot between linux and Win 98. No lilo. How do I get the lilo back? Thanks. Marshall __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Is Linux-Mandrake mailing list a Newsgroup?
Yes, all messages sent from this list will have [newbie] in the subject line. Therefore, you should be able to create a filter based on that and have the newbie messages go to their own folder. --- TezcatlipocA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, Please excuse my Newbieness but I have a question regarding these e-mails. Is this service (LM mailing lists) of all e-mails supposed to be setup as a newsgroup? I have never been subscribed to a newsgroup but, for all the mail I get now I wonder if this is supposed to be in a newsgroup folder or different location within my Inbox so I don't have all the e-mails with the rest of my non-LM e-mail. Thanks, TezcatlipocA __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Firewall - Your Personal Choice
Also try http://www.bastille-linux.org --- brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use a firewall, but I found this one: http://www.astaro.com/products/index.html it seems to have a nice graphical interface to configure with. Hope it helps you.. Brandon On Fri, 18 May 2001, Rod Upfold wrote: Right now I am using PMFirewallmainly because it was used by Mandrake in their firewall tutorialbut is there a better firewall than PMFirewall and I am also not too sure if the firewall is up and running...ther is no indication if it is running or not. What is your personal choice of a firewall ( I am using a DSL connection) and does your choice give you some kind of indication that it is up and running...?? Rod __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Network printing problem
Have you tried setting the printers up with kups? That makes it super easy. Configuration-Printers-Kups --- John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a cross-post. I've set up a local network of 2 1/2 machines (well one is only half working til I find some monitor specs grin), and I have no trouble transferring data and using a common dialup connection. My problem is getting printing to work. I can print from any of the machines if a printer is physically connected to the parallel port - that's easy. What I haven't been able to do is print across the network. Cups has an amazing amount of documentation but for the life of me I cannot work out what I need to configure where. Three machines running LM8 and Cups 1.1.7, 3 printers (HP Laserjet 4p, HP Deskjet 500, 15 Epson Dotmatrix) M/c #1 IP = 192.168.0.1, called Tom.localhost.localdomain (HP4P) M/c #2 IP = 192.168.0.2, called Dick.localhost.localdomain (DJ500) M/c #3 IP = 192.168.0.3, called Harry.localhost.localdomain (Epson) Reading the various parts of the Cups documentation seems to keep coming back to implementations where the printers are individually addressed by unique IP and MAC addresses, which to me suggests that each printer has networking hardware built in, and that's certainly not the case here. Can someome point me to a HOWTO or webpage with a step by step process for doing this? Cheers John -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] java. why doesn't it go?
Okay, first of all, Mandrake comes installed with kaffe which is basically a clone of Java 1.1 (I think). It's old and tends to be rather inconvenient these days. You want to remove that before you install the new java. Well, maybe you can have both, but I always remove kaffe. rpm -e kaffe You may have to do: rpm -e --nodeps kaffe Now I would install the newer java. Most people agree that the Blackdown java is one of the best for Linux. On the Konqueror site they actually recommend Blackdown over the others and state their are sometimes problems with IBM's and Sun's latest 1.3. I use Blackdown and so far it has been very successful for me. When you install the SDK, it should install the JRE for you. Therefore, you should not need the jre. You can get the blackdown java for linux here: http://www.blackdown.org/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Forgot wheel mouse thing
I have a Logitech cordless Mouseman+ which gave me wheel problems. As a work around, I was able to get the mouse to work by first selecting the Logitech Mouseman driver. Then I cancelled out and chose the Generic PS/2 with Wheel driver. That worked perfectly. If I chose the generic driver before the logitech driver, all hell broke loose. This is weird, but it worked for me. Choose logitech, cancel, and choose generic with wheel. Give it a shot. Who knows? --- Chubby Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I got a new Logitech optical 3 button mouse, and it worked without config, except the wheel. How does one get the wheel function activated? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] unsubscribing.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Be sure to check unsubscribe after entering your email address. --- manic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir, how do I get off the mailing list as I am being innundated with E-mails. manic. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] java. why doesn't it go?
Actually, I wondered about that too. rc1 will mean Release Candidate 1 which means it is not the final release. It is past beta testing, but not considered final. I don't know what FCS is. It had the more current date and it is what I am using. To uncompress a .bz file do the following: bzip2 -d somefile.bz __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] How to set up Diamond Viper V770D on LM 8.0
You have to load the NVIDIA_kernel driver AND the NVIDIA_GLX driver. The fact that you only mentioned the GLX driver makes me suspicious. In a terminal type: lsmod And see if you the driver Nvidia is listed. If not, you do not have the kernel module loaded. You need to install NVIDIA_kernel first, then NVIDIA_GLX. Before instsall the GLX be sure to remove the conflicting Mesa files as detailed on nvidia's site. And you need to make sure you are using X 4 or else nvidia's drivers will not work: X -version __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Stop and then restart iptables
Probably: service iptables restart --- Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I stop then restart iptables? -- ICQ# 27396393 Registered Linux User #181996 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support
You MAY get X 3.3.6 to load with the nv driver using a GeForce 2 MX, but if you want 3D accelartion (Open GL), you must use Nvidia's drivers from nvidia.com. Nvidia's drivers REQUIRE X 4 to work. The instructions on the site specifically state that they will not work for X 3. So, you are probably out of luck with that. --- Tycho Bizot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a newbie to but it sounds like a solution that might work. does anyone know if a geforce 2 mx runs under XFree86 V3 Thanx, Tycho -Original Message- From: Terry Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vrijdag 11 mei 2001 17:35 To: Tycho Bizot Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support I'm a true newbie, which means I know very little (if anything) :-)), but I have the same problem with VMWARE. When I told this to my linux guru (our network guy) he said that he suspects that VMWARE is not compatible with XFree86 v. 4***. Perhaps going to version 3 would solve the problem. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA Tycho Bizot wrote: I am already using vmware 2.04 with the suppert for kernel 2.4 it was a clean install..and i didn't get any errors -Original Message- From: Roger Pithers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 10 mei 2001 14:32 To: Tycho Bizot Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] troubleshooting vmware Xfree86 DGA support On Thursday 10 May 2001 10:51, you wrote: I just installed VMware 2.04 in mandrake...it run's. there is only one thing i can't figure out when i start Vmware it gives the following message : ! no xfree86 DGA support for this X-screen ! ! xfree86 Digital Graphics (DGA extension) initialisation failed ! and when i run a virtual win98 machine it says the following : ! The virtual machine will not be able to run in full-screen SVGA mode, because your X-server does not support the Xfree86 DGA extension for direct-to-frame-buffer graphics or because DGA is supported but the virtual machine cannot use it ! I am running mandrake 8.0 with XFree86 4 anyone has a clue? thanx in advance Tycho Try going to VMware's web site, I believe that there is an update available fot the 2.4.x kernel which might fix the problem. Roger __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Chmod chown and files with spaces in their names..
Try putting quotes around the directory's path. --- Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have put my script for chmod and chown of /var/www in cond.daily When it runs, it errors on alot of directorys because some of the old web sites have spaces in their directory or file names.. I stopped doing that along time ago, but there are still files and directorys in there that have spaces in their names.. as such, the script errors for those files/directories, as it is reading only the first word, and then comes back with file/directory does not exist Is there a way to make allowance for this ? or do I have to modify those pages.??? many thanks rgds Frank __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] HP 840 setup : CUPS, LPD ?
Try KDE's kups. I find that easiest for me to set up printers. My HP 850C works fine. You'll likely get about 3 drivers to choose from. It will behoove you to try them all and pick the best for your default. I understand you can tweak them and certain drivers are better at certain tasks. But it is my experience that one (I believe the foomatic or something like that..haha) tends to be much better than the others. --- jmichel-p.martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, what shall I do in order to properly configure a local HP840C printer ? I have used the DrakConf application and : - went through the 'Select Printer Connection' pannel - through the 'Printer Option' pannel then nothing... and I got the small 'clock icon' instead of the normal mouse arrow. Shall I better use CUPS or lpd ? Both are active with my mandrake 7.2 conf. And should'nt I better make use of the HP drivers which I believe should be fine now ? How ? I thank you very much in advance, Jean-Michel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (simple check log : jmm@localhost jmm]$ ps -A |grep cups 1478 ?00:00:03 cupsd [jmm@localhost jmm]$ ps -A |grep lpd 589 ?00:00:00 lpd [jmm@localhost jmm]$ ) ps : on a previous install of the same distrib. I had it working almost fine, but had to go through the DrakConf utility after each reboot in order to be able to print. pps : config : tekram board, P200MMX, 96MoRAM, Parallel connection to the printer __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
I have sent the CDs. You'll have them in a few days. They're on their way. Enjoy. --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll send it to you. I assume you want it sent to the address at the bottom. You should have it in a few days. --- Bob Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading the mail in here for a couple weeks. I've tried getting both disks via modem but my 28.8 connect isn't getting the job done. I've signed up on the Mandrake page to receive the 2-CD set when available. I run Win2K Pro and have been interested in Linux for awhile now. I live beyond the limit for any high speed internet connect and was wondering if any one of you would send me a copy of the two CDs that you have downloaded. Of course I'll pay shipping and handling and what you think is fair for your time and media. Send any details you need to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd sure appreciate it! ThankYou Bob Barnes RR2 Box 44 Bardwell, Kentucky 42023 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Networking
Yes, use eth1 for the second card. One card should be hooked up to the DSL. The other card should be hooked up to the internal private network. This server with the two cards can act as the router and the firewall. Give eth1 similar information as eth0. It's probably easiest to get them both the same subnet, but they will need two different IPs. The windows machines will use the server as their gateway. They can use the DNS from the ISP. --- Rod Upfold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are changing over from using 3 modems to a DSL. I am trying to set up a home network to use one DSL connection. I followed the tutorial on networking at Mandrake. The author of the tutorial talks about two network cards in the linux server...the one card would be eth0what about the other card...I suspect that it is for the DSL modem to plug into itbut what do I do with this card in the Linuxconf setupis it eth1?what info do I put in...the same type of info that I used for eth0 but different numbers? My internal home network will include 2 Win98 machines (my kid...can't convince them to switch over to Linux and my dual operating computerand my Linux router/gateway machine. What information do I need to put into Win98 networking menu? IP address - specify an IP address or obtain an IP Gateway - Do I enter the Gateway address that I put on my Linux server?...or leave it blank? Do I disable the DNS or enable and use the DNS numbers that you get from the DSL provider? Right now I have the Gateway machine and a Win98 machine hooked up together and I can ping back and forthbut thats as far I have gotten. I am going back to Mandrake 7.2 - I loaded up version 8 last night and my machine bogged down and is much faster with version 7.2 and it has less automatic setup programs that you can't learn with. Thank - I shall probably be back with more questions. Thank you again Rod __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?
Yeah, I did build the .src.rpms. They have worked with everything except for smpeg which Shogo appears to need for the movies. Well, I sort of think that ldconfig makes everything else work while maybe smpeg is hard coded to expect the drivers in a certain location. I don't know. It's peculiar. I still have to talk to Loki. I'll get back to you. You and I appear to have the same setup with the drivers. Have you compile smpeg for your system? If so, did it see your GL? --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very interesting since I've been using the newest NVIDIA drivers built from .src.rpm on my mdk 8 system with no problems for a few weeks now ;-) Try downloading the src.rpms and rebuilding them yourself. Abe --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I just found out some more. Avatar from evil3d.net posted that there was a problem with nvidia's source installs with Mandrake 8.0. He says to use the 7.2 rpms or manually edit the install script. I guess the tar.gz and src.rpm are putting the files in the wrong directory. It is wrong that they are showing up in /usr/lib and should supposedly be in /usr/X11R6/lib (which makes more sense to me). Anyway, I'll test it tonight and get back to you. I already tried linking the files, but I wonder if there's any issues with ldconfig that I haven't resolved. smpeg didn't find the files when I compiled it. Avatar also suggested that my Tcl may be out of date. I doubt that, but I'll install the latest version to be safe. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh. Sounds like you got it undercontroll man. Loki's a great company. You shouldn't have any problems getting some help from them with smpeg. good luck! Abe --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Abe: Thanks for the advice. I am using the nvidia drivers. I did rebuild them from source and I did remove the conflicting mesa files. I am VERY confident that X is loading the Nvidia driver and GLX. I definitely have the libGL files. However, they are in my /usr/lib directory. I believe smpeg is expecting them elsewhere (I'm not sure). I made links from /usr/X11R6/lib (where I believe the mesa files were originally) to the files in /usr/lib, but this did not help. I have compiled the latest SDL (1.2) and smpeg (4.3). They are optimized for i686. I have found that if I disable the movies, Shogo will work fine in OpenGL mode. It seg faults upon exit, but the game is functioning. Comparing the game to software mode, I have not (yet) noticed any missing movies. Because of this movie issue, I am especially suspicious that my problem lies with smpeg and my nvidia GL driver. I get a message during the smpeg compilation that says it is disabling OpenGL movie playback support. Compiling the previous 4.2 version gave me an error that it couldn't find GL or GLU. This is why I think that maybe smpeg is expecting my files in a location other than where nvidia installed them. I intend to write Loki (they made smpeg) tonight with the details and hopefully they will have time to help me. I'll write back if I find more details. As an aside, I am also having issues with Sin. Sin is made by Hyperion who also made Shogo. Well, they ported the games anyway. Hyperion says that my problems with Sin have to do with a bug in nvidia's latest driver. For that they said I either had to go back to an older driver or wait for nvidia to fix it. I'm still looking into this problem. Just like Shogo, Sin works fine in Software mode (albeit ugly and a tad slow). Other games like Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena, GLTron, Tuxracer, etc all work fine with OpenGL support. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, I'm using my new freebsd box right now so I can't tell you exactly what those files are ;-) Do you have the NVIDIA drivers installed on your system? Sounds to me like you either don't have them installed or they aren't installed correctly. You can find them here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html I like to download the src.rpms and build 'em myself. You MUST have these installed to get good 3d acceleration under X with an nvidia card. Before you install the GLX part you should remove all conflicting files of which there is a complete list here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/linux_geforce-07.html if your using the rpms you're
Re: [newbie] Where are all the games in 8.0
Or better yet just use the Software Manager to install the games packages. --- Darin Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/10/01 12:11 PM, A. Rick Anderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are all the games located? I've only loaded KDE (ie no Gnome). In previous releases, they were located under a games menu option. Now, even though the package manager says that they are loaded, they don't show up. Now, this is critical. My kids love Linux, cuz they like its games :-) Did you select the Games package when you installed? You have to select it, it is deselected by default. If they are not there then they just didn't install. You can check it by running it from the command line. Open a terminal and type: kasteroids kmahjongg /usr/games/civclient if you get command not found, it didn,t install. try installing again and check the games package when it asks you which packages you want to install. Darin -- WIN A TRILLION: $1,000,000,000,000.00 at MoonBughead.com http://MoonBughead.com/contest/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Where are all the games in 8.0
Then for whatever reason you missed games during install. Use the Software manager to install the games. Software Manager will have everything organized in a tree format. So, games should be fairly easy to find. Let us know if you can't find them. --- A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that. All I get is Toys and five really dumb demo-type games. According to package manager, I should have freeCiv and a bunch of others loaded. They ain't showing up. At 03:25 PM 5/10/2001 -0700, Todd Flinders wrote: They are under Amusements. Right at the very top of the K Menu. --- A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are all the games located? I've only loaded KDE (ie no Gnome). In previous releases, they were located under a games menu option. Now, even though the package manager says that they are loaded, they don't show up. Now, this is critical. My kids love Linux, cuz they like its games :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
I saw in the CVS that WineX is working on getting Black White to run. Check out www.transgaming.com for more details. --- Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2001 15:49, matty mo wrote: are any of the following available for linux? i'm willing to buy them if they are... civilizationII FreeCiv is a damn awesome game. They started before CivII was made, aiming to make a CivI clone. This can be seen in the design, with many elements taken from both CivII (e.g. advances units) and CivI (e.g. non-isometric view). It's great to play online or over a network. The main thing I miss about it, however, is its lack of support for diplomacy (which pretty-much means you're at war all the time with the computer). It's clear that the developers have focussed on multi-player support, unlike CivI and CivII which are single-player games. Call to Power is also available for Linux. Many on-line stores sell it. simcity3000 Try this: http://www.floot.demon.co.uk/lincity.html. It's nowhere near as good as SimCity 3000, but it isn't bad for a GPL clone. dreamweaver There are several WYSIWYG HTML editors out there. Besides Netscape Composer (which doesn't even hold a candle to Dreamweaver), there is IBM WebSphere HomePage Builder (http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/linux/index.html) and Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/). WebSphere HomePage Builder is a port from the Windos version, and quite a good programme. Just be wary: it *doesn't* work with XFree 4.x, only 3.x. I only found that in a readme file after it had trashed my font server a few times. IBM should've been more clear about this. Amaya isn't a very pretty app, but it is designed by the W3C, which means it is 100% HTML standards-compliant. Probably the best thing you can do is to use a combination of these programmes, using each for its strengths. For raw coding, Quanta+ and SCREEM (both included in Mandrake 8.0) are great. photoshop6 Many professional designers swear by The GIMP, saying it is even better than Photoshop. This is a classic GPL success story, and its toolkit (GTK) forms the basis for many X applications, including GNOME. black and white This game is fairly new, so you may have to wait a while before someone makes a Linux port/clone of it. matt Also, don't forget WINE, VMware and Win4Lin. I haven't had much success with WINE yet, but I play some games (I *love* Risk II!!!) in VMware. YMMV. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?
Hi, Abe: Thanks for the advice. I am using the nvidia drivers. I did rebuild them from source and I did remove the conflicting mesa files. I am VERY confident that X is loading the Nvidia driver and GLX. I definitely have the libGL files. However, they are in my /usr/lib directory. I believe smpeg is expecting them elsewhere (I'm not sure). I made links from /usr/X11R6/lib (where I believe the mesa files were originally) to the files in /usr/lib, but this did not help. I have compiled the latest SDL (1.2) and smpeg (4.3). They are optimized for i686. I have found that if I disable the movies, Shogo will work fine in OpenGL mode. It seg faults upon exit, but the game is functioning. Comparing the game to software mode, I have not (yet) noticed any missing movies. Because of this movie issue, I am especially suspicious that my problem lies with smpeg and my nvidia GL driver. I get a message during the smpeg compilation that says it is disabling OpenGL movie playback support. Compiling the previous 4.2 version gave me an error that it couldn't find GL or GLU. This is why I think that maybe smpeg is expecting my files in a location other than where nvidia installed them. I intend to write Loki (they made smpeg) tonight with the details and hopefully they will have time to help me. I'll write back if I find more details. As an aside, I am also having issues with Sin. Sin is made by Hyperion who also made Shogo. Well, they ported the games anyway. Hyperion says that my problems with Sin have to do with a bug in nvidia's latest driver. For that they said I either had to go back to an older driver or wait for nvidia to fix it. I'm still looking into this problem. Just like Shogo, Sin works fine in Software mode (albeit ugly and a tad slow). Other games like Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena, GLTron, Tuxracer, etc all work fine with OpenGL support. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, I'm using my new freebsd box right now so I can't tell you exactly what those files are ;-) Do you have the NVIDIA drivers installed on your system? Sounds to me like you either don't have them installed or they aren't installed correctly. You can find them here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html I like to download the src.rpms and build 'em myself. You MUST have these installed to get good 3d acceleration under X with an nvidia card. Before you install the GLX part you should remove all conflicting files of which there is a complete list here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/linux_geforce-07.html if your using the rpms you're only interested in removing the files in the list in the middle of the page. Once that is done then you can install the NVIDIA_GLX rpm. Need I say that you should be doing all this from the console with no X running? After those two are installed you need to change a few things in your x server config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4): under Load dbe add Load glx change driver nv to driver nvidia and add Option NVagp 2 (this part I'm not entirely sure of read the readme for the nvidia drivers to be sure. Basically you are telling X to use the nvidia agp implementation here. Make sure your default color is set no higher then 24bit. Save and reboot your system. You should have working 3d acceleration after all that. If it is flaky (IE crashes a lot try setting it to use agpgart, you'll probably have to compile it into your kernel though.) Good luck and feel free to write me again if you have more questions. Shogo is an AWESOME game. I can't wait to have the full version. Abe oh yea, smpeg and stuf too. I'm using the version that comes with mdk8.0 but I rebuilt it from source to use i686 optimizations. Gives a lot clearer picture and uses less cpu time! --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abe, I am using a GeForce 2 GTS like you are. However, my Shogo immediately crashes complaing about SDL when I try to use OpenGL mode. It works under Software Mode, but obviously that is undesirable. Since Shogo is working for you, would you be so kind as to post what version of SDL and SMPEG you are using? A listing of your relevant installed rpms would be very nice. Thanks for the help! --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to toss in my .02 here, I haven't had any problems running quake3, shogo or heavy gear on mdk 8.0 in full screen mode. I have a geforce2 card. While this doesn't help with the peoblems with the 3dfx cards it does comment on the general problem of no fullscreen gaming. I haven't done anything extra or weird to my system other then to install the two nvidia driver packages. If your games are runing really slow you are probably using Mesa and not glide libraries for your 3d acceleration. There are various ways to fix
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
Civilization II is not out for Linux (AFAIK), but you can play with freeciv. It came with your Mandrake and it is very similar. Also, there is Civilization: Call to Power. You can purchase that here: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=6id=77856nc=989531480 You can purchase SimCity 3000 here: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=18id=77856nc=989531480 To replace photoshop, use The Gimp which came with your mandrake. It is VERY similar to Photoshop. In some ways it is better. It is VERY good. You will be pleased with it. Some things it can't due because of codecs Photoshop uses. But most likely, you will be very happy with The Gimp. To replace Dreamweaver you have vi. hahah.. No, this last one is a joke, I guess. There are some HTML generators for Linux here and there, but none as good as Dreamweaver that I know of. --- Rog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well under Wine, but I'd stll like one ported for Linux. Fortunately, I sent Forte an email about it, and they said they were considering a linux port for Agent 2.0. On Thu, 10 May 2001 08:49:44 -0700 (PDT), Rog kept his cool as you frantically scribbled: are any of the following available for linux? i'm willing to buy them if they are... civilizationII simcity3000 dreamweaver photoshop6 black and white matt = cosmic systems intertwine astral bodies drip like wine all of nature ebbs and flows ...why does all creation rejoice? - mad donna http://www.gardenprimitive.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ peace, Rog __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Where are all the games in 8.0
They are under Amusements. Right at the very top of the K Menu. --- A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are all the games located? I've only loaded KDE (ie no Gnome). In previous releases, they were located under a games menu option. Now, even though the package manager says that they are loaded, they don't show up. Now, this is critical. My kids love Linux, cuz they like its games :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Help on getting 2cd set of LM 8.0
I'll send it to you. I assume you want it sent to the address at the bottom. You should have it in a few days. --- Bob Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading the mail in here for a couple weeks. I've tried getting both disks via modem but my 28.8 connect isn't getting the job done. I've signed up on the Mandrake page to receive the 2-CD set when available. I run Win2K Pro and have been interested in Linux for awhile now. I live beyond the limit for any high speed internet connect and was wondering if any one of you would send me a copy of the two CDs that you have downloaded. Of course I'll pay shipping and handling and what you think is fair for your time and media. Send any details you need to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd sure appreciate it! ThankYou Bob Barnes RR2 Box 44 Bardwell, Kentucky 42023 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?
Yeah, I just found out some more. Avatar from evil3d.net posted that there was a problem with nvidia's source installs with Mandrake 8.0. He says to use the 7.2 rpms or manually edit the install script. I guess the tar.gz and src.rpm are putting the files in the wrong directory. It is wrong that they are showing up in /usr/lib and should supposedly be in /usr/X11R6/lib (which makes more sense to me). Anyway, I'll test it tonight and get back to you. I already tried linking the files, but I wonder if there's any issues with ldconfig that I haven't resolved. smpeg didn't find the files when I compiled it. Avatar also suggested that my Tcl may be out of date. I doubt that, but I'll install the latest version to be safe. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh. Sounds like you got it undercontroll man. Loki's a great company. You shouldn't have any problems getting some help from them with smpeg. good luck! Abe --- Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Abe: Thanks for the advice. I am using the nvidia drivers. I did rebuild them from source and I did remove the conflicting mesa files. I am VERY confident that X is loading the Nvidia driver and GLX. I definitely have the libGL files. However, they are in my /usr/lib directory. I believe smpeg is expecting them elsewhere (I'm not sure). I made links from /usr/X11R6/lib (where I believe the mesa files were originally) to the files in /usr/lib, but this did not help. I have compiled the latest SDL (1.2) and smpeg (4.3). They are optimized for i686. I have found that if I disable the movies, Shogo will work fine in OpenGL mode. It seg faults upon exit, but the game is functioning. Comparing the game to software mode, I have not (yet) noticed any missing movies. Because of this movie issue, I am especially suspicious that my problem lies with smpeg and my nvidia GL driver. I get a message during the smpeg compilation that says it is disabling OpenGL movie playback support. Compiling the previous 4.2 version gave me an error that it couldn't find GL or GLU. This is why I think that maybe smpeg is expecting my files in a location other than where nvidia installed them. I intend to write Loki (they made smpeg) tonight with the details and hopefully they will have time to help me. I'll write back if I find more details. As an aside, I am also having issues with Sin. Sin is made by Hyperion who also made Shogo. Well, they ported the games anyway. Hyperion says that my problems with Sin have to do with a bug in nvidia's latest driver. For that they said I either had to go back to an older driver or wait for nvidia to fix it. I'm still looking into this problem. Just like Shogo, Sin works fine in Software mode (albeit ugly and a tad slow). Other games like Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena, GLTron, Tuxracer, etc all work fine with OpenGL support. --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, I'm using my new freebsd box right now so I can't tell you exactly what those files are ;-) Do you have the NVIDIA drivers installed on your system? Sounds to me like you either don't have them installed or they aren't installed correctly. You can find them here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html I like to download the src.rpms and build 'em myself. You MUST have these installed to get good 3d acceleration under X with an nvidia card. Before you install the GLX part you should remove all conflicting files of which there is a complete list here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/linux_geforce-07.html if your using the rpms you're only interested in removing the files in the list in the middle of the page. Once that is done then you can install the NVIDIA_GLX rpm. Need I say that you should be doing all this from the console with no X running? After those two are installed you need to change a few things in your x server config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4): under Load dbe add Load glx change driver nv to driver nvidia and add Option NVagp 2 (this part I'm not entirely sure of read the readme for the nvidia drivers to be sure. Basically you are telling X to use the nvidia agp implementation here. Make sure your default color is set no higher then 24bit. Save and reboot your system. You should have working 3d acceleration after all that. If it is flaky (IE crashes a lot try setting it to use agpgart, you'll probably have to compile it into your kernel though.) Good luck and feel free to write me again if you have more questions. Shogo is an AWESOME game. I can't wait to have the full
Re: [newbie] OT: OEM Hardware
Well, Retail vs OEM will require research. Sometimes they are identical. Sometimes there are vast differences. However, I will say that the Plextor is BY FAR superior to the Yamaha. This is especially true of Yamaha's latest drive. I own a Yamaha and I would gladly switch to Plextor. The Yamaha has received bad reviews in different magazines and has complaints about stability. The Plextor keeps getting awards after awards. A Plextor will burn almost anything and is known for being exceptionally stable. If you decide to go OEM, that might be okay, but I would prefer the Plextor over the Yamaha. Of course, you want to research Linux support for these drives. If you can easily return them, great. Otherwise, I'd make sure they work. My Yamaha 8/4/24 worked fine in 7.2, but hasn't worked yet in 8.0. I haven't spent much time tweaking with it yet, though. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was doing some price comparisons on CD-ROM Burners (similar spec'd Plextor and Yamaha IDE drives). When I go to a site like pcprogress.com, I get a $204.00 price while on pricewatch.com I see OEM units listing for $142-150. I was wondering if there is any real quality difference between the OEM vs. the of the shelf consumer version?The OEM's come with a 1 year warranty, so you still get the manufacturer support. Opinions? Barry :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?
Abe, I am using a GeForce 2 GTS like you are. However, my Shogo immediately crashes complaing about SDL when I try to use OpenGL mode. It works under Software Mode, but obviously that is undesirable. Since Shogo is working for you, would you be so kind as to post what version of SDL and SMPEG you are using? A listing of your relevant installed rpms would be very nice. Thanks for the help! --- abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to toss in my .02 here, I haven't had any problems running quake3, shogo or heavy gear on mdk 8.0 in full screen mode. I have a geforce2 card. While this doesn't help with the peoblems with the 3dfx cards it does comment on the general problem of no fullscreen gaming. I haven't done anything extra or weird to my system other then to install the two nvidia driver packages. If your games are runing really slow you are probably using Mesa and not glide libraries for your 3d acceleration. There are various ways to fix this depending on the game. Sometimes you just have to edit a config file so it points to the right libs. Other times you actually don't have the right libs installed (in which case you must figure out which ones you need and install them) or the game cannot use the libs that you do have installed. (In which case you are F**ked) My brother has a V5 and runs mdk 8.0. We've spent more then a few hours trying to figure out how to make it work for full screen acceleration. I had a v5 around x 4.01 time (and I suppose you could use the x 4.01 packages from the old linux.3dfx.com if you could find em but they wouldn't be much better then what you got right now ;-) and I finially ditched it so I could have some good performance and regularly updated drivers in linux. I sincerely doubt that there is some conspiracy in mandrake to make 3d acceleration only work partially folks. That's just silly. If we keep working on this we'll figure it out. Abe --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a Voodoo problem, seems to affect more video-card.Is a kdm problem when DRI (3d acceleration is activated). It appears using XFree86 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 with KDE 2.1 and DRi (graphical acceleration) activated. a) if 3d-games run so slow, then you have not DRI activated and not full screen problems. :-( SOLUTION: install 3d acceleration. b) if 3d-games run fast, DRI is activated and then kdm make the switch between resoultions (by hand (CTL+ALT+(*) or by the game when it runs) crashes X. SOLUTION: start linux in console mode and after login, startx activate the X and you will be capable of play games in full screen mode. Another more complicated solution is use a graphic login different of kdm, for example gdm or xdm. NOTE: the problem seems to affect not only Voodo but other video-cards. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 9, 2001 2:02 pm Asunto: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes? Strange, I don't seem to have any crashing problems running some of the full screen games on my 8.0 machine with my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI video card. I do have a problem with them running reeally slow; too slow to even play. I had no idea that there were issues with them. I certainly learn something new every day on here. :-) Terry Sheltra On Tuesday 08 May 2001 19:24, you wrote: On Monday 07 May 2001 10:05 pm, you wrote: Yeah same here, Voodoo3 crashes when start a full-screen games in Mandrake 8.0. I posted a complaint about it in the forum and they immediatley took it off. I guess they cant stand getting embarssing, Rob s wrote: I haven't heard much news from the Mandrake front lately. Why so quiet? Main reason for posting: Has anyone heard about any fixes, patches, upgrades forthcoming for the voodoo3 problems? -s Hi. U having problems too? Games running in full screen? Can't get mine to do it... ;-( = Jesus saves. Allah forgives, Cthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. -- See my digital art at: http://www.foramenmagnum.net/images.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Quake for linux ?
You can get Quake 1 here, but you'd better check for availability (Note that this link is the publisher): http://www.macmillansoftware.com/detail_software.cfm?item=1575952718 You can get Quake 2 here, but again, check availability (This is also the publisher): http://www.macmillansoftware.com/detail_software.cfm?item=1575952726 You can get Quake 3 here, but it is on back order at the moment: http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categories/products/product.asp?pf_id=176184mscssid=ref=1PromoCode= You can get Quake 3 Team Arena here, but it is sold out for now. I would write them for availability: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=59id=107867nc=989468778 Hmmm.. guess it's not a good time to buy Quake. :( --- Danny Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where i can get Quake for linux ? -- Regards, Dan Gordon __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Military time on clock under 8.0...
Oh, I forget the exact steps, but basically right click on the time and choose Edit Date and Time (or something like that). It will bring up a window. There is a country selection that defaults to Africa (I guess it's in alphabetical order?). Change that to US and it will be fine once you restart KDE. --- Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you change the (default) military time (I want a 12 hour clock) on the panel clock in v8.0? Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Creative USB WebCam III
Here's the info for Webcam II. It MIGHT be useful: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/usbcreativevideoblaster.html Here's something else that MIGHT help: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/ezwebcam.html --- Lúcio Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody. Can anyone tell me something about compatibility between Web Cam III (USB) Creative Labs and Mandrake 8.0 ? I Have this Web Cam and I can't use it in Linux. Help me, Please. Lúcio Costa São Paulo/Brazil _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Military time on clock under 8.0...
In KDE: Right click on the clock. Click Date Time Format. For country select United States of America (us) (assuming you are US for desiring this time). --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald How do you change the (default) military time (I want a 12 hour Ronald clock) on the panel clock in v8.0? I pressed the right mouse button while the pointer was over the clock display and selected the desired entry from the format submenu. This is under Gnome. YMMV w/ KDE. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Mounting windows partition
Okay, again, I am in NT. :( I wish I had received this message while I was still at home. You need to add the user parameter toward the end of the entry in your /etc/fstab and you will have what you want. It will mount the partitions upon bootup and it will be accessible to normal users. Because I am at work, I cannot look at my fstab at home. However, the following entry should be able to be added to your /etc/fstab without any problems. If the syntax happens to be wrong, it should be very close: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user 0 0 --- Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, This is what my fstab file looks like: /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 What do I need to add to be able to properly access my windows partition on boot up, so I don't have to type the mount command every time I login? I was finally able to figure out how to allow myself access (w/o being root) to the windows partition by doing: mount -w -t ntfs -o uid=501 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows but am still unable to have write permissions, even as root. Thanks for the help .. almost there! :-) Terry On Friday 04 May 2001 04:27 pm, you wrote: You can add this mounting to your /etc/fstab file. This will cause Linux to mount windows upon booting. You need to add the users permission to allow users to mount/umount the drive. I don't remember the exact syntax (unfortunately, I am in NT right now), but you will see others in /etc/fstab with that option. Just mimic them. If you do not want to add /mnt/windows to your /etc/fstab, then read the mount man page search for the users option to learn the appropriate syntax. man mount /users __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie]
Try an md5sum on your .iso files to make sure the download went okay and that the files weren't corrupt. I would expect X to work fine with your video card. Something peculiar is happening. --- Per Einar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have downloaded the 2 Mandrake 8.0 CDs, and burnt them correctly (I hope). Now, when I boot up with the inst-cd, the graphical installation gives me very weird colors, I can hardly see anything, the colors are mostly black, with some green in some places. It's impossible to install Mandrake this way. I tried playing around with my contrast settings and all, but that didn't solve anything. I tried the text installation too, but it gave me a segmentation fault after selecting the printer, and I would really prefer to use the graphical installation. My graphics card is a Voodoo3 2000, but I am unable to find enough info about my monitor for it to be of any help, it's a Packard Bell one. If I don't succeed with this, do you have any pointers to a good linux distribution with the 2.4 kernel, Xfree 4 and KDE 2, that is easy to install? Thank you, Per Einar Ellefsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] sharing printer
First set up smb-client so that Linux can access the Windows machine. You can do this easily under Networking-Samba Configuration. Then load kups (I think it's Configuration-Printer)and (if your samba is working) it will easily install the windows printer. --- Mike G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to share a printer with Win2k pro and Mandrake 8.0 I have a HP deskjet 722c and my current setup is use a linksys dsl cable router for sharing RR with both the win2k pro pc and the linux pc now I would like to be able to print to the printer I know the win2k pc has to be on for this to happen since it is master ie the printer is plugged into it. Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Getting Java to work
Fonts: Konqueror-Settings-Configure Konqueror-KDE Web Browsing-Appearance KDE Control Center-LookNFeel-Fonts Anti-Aliasing: KDE Control Center-LookNFeel-Style __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] mount win files
If D: is the second partition on that drive it is hda2. If it is the second hard drive, it should be hdb1. --- kaab kaoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way how to unmount :() I mean if i delete the mounted files does it delete from windws ? :( how to mount D drive ?cause when i typed mount -w -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ it has mounted only C drive. Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Mounting windows partition
You can add this mounting to your /etc/fstab file. This will cause Linux to mount windows upon booting. You need to add the users permission to allow users to mount/umount the drive. I don't remember the exact syntax (unfortunately, I am in NT right now), but you will see others in /etc/fstab with that option. Just mimic them. If you do not want to add /mnt/windows to your /etc/fstab, then read the mount man page search for the users option to learn the appropriate syntax. man mount /users __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Lines going across screen in X
This is an NVidia driver error. I've never experienced it, but I've read about others with it. Try older drivers, read the troubleshooting section of the README, and contact Nvidia. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff
They do have an alias. I don't remember where it's defined, though. Until you find it, you can do rm -f, but please be careful. --- Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? I thought there might be an alias in .bashrc but I can't see anything in there? Any ideas? TIA, Cheers, Jord __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] rebuilding the kernel
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html --- Carlos Berardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all 1. What packages do i need to download to rebuild my kernel 2. Where can i find a guide or how-to to rebuild my kernel Carlos Berardi __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Missing /var/log/XFree86.***.log file??? (Mandrake 8.0 rc1)
X -version --- Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just trying to find this so that I could check to see which version of X I am running, and to my surprise, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't seem to have one??? I am running the Release Candidate 1 (FWIW). Thanks, Steven __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Hard to read fonts in text editors. [OT]
Steve, First of all try turning on Anti-Aliased fonts. Bring up the KDE Control Center. Click LookNFeel. Click Style. Click the Use Anti-Aliasing for fonts and icons checkbox. Click Fonts on the left. Go through the listed fonts replacing them with the fonts you prefer. Note that you can change the default fonts sizes here too if you would like to. Now, bring up Konqueror. Click Settings. Click Configure Konqueror. In the new window that pops up click File Manager. Click Appearance. Make the selections you prefer for your default fonts in this area. Click Konqueror Browing on the left. Click Appearance. Again, make your fonts selections. Note that you can also mandate a minimum fonts size here. This may come in handy. As a tip, I changed my Fixed Font to be Nimbus Sans L. I personally found that to be much better than the default. I don't know how to clean up Netscape. And your error may be causing you other issues. However, this is what I did and my fonts now look very nice (minus Netscape). --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve: Since you brought up the subject of hard-to-read, please turn off the HTML. Plain text works much better for e-mail. Your HTML is real squinty and gray in Netscape; for people that use some other mail readers, they have to wade through all of the HTML tags. A lot of them don't, thereby reducing your chance for getting a good answer to your problem. -- cmg Steve wrote: When I used Konqueror to view a file or open one up using a gui text editor the fonts are almost unreadable. I have no idea where I am supposed to change the font settings. I am pretty sure that Courier is beinig used for the Fixed fonts in text files. I am using Mandrake 8.0. I did notice an error after installing that showed up in my install.log drakfont-0.58-11mdk.i586.rpm CD1 Installation CD (x86) drakfont: error while loading shared libraries: libXi.so.6: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory Could this have something to do with it? I am using XFree 4.0.3, is this file not getting installed? Thank you, Steve Helder __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Missing /var/log/XFree86.***.log file??? (Mandrake 8.0 rc1)
Or, you can simply type: X -version from either the terminal or the console. [pj_hooker@flindet pj_hooker]$ X -version XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 16 March 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.4.1-20mdksmp i686 [ELF] Module Loader present [pj_hooker@flindet pj_hooker]$ --- chengyu sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be using XFree86 3.3.x. XFree86 3.3.x does not use /var/log/XFree86.***.log (or at least not on LM7.2), which might be the reason why those files are not there. To find out which version of X you're running, try two things: a) ls -al /etc/X11/X. /etc/X11/X is a symbolic link, and if it's linked to XF86_SVGA, you're running 3.3.x (3.3.6 I think). b) startx 2 out. 2 out will redirect the startup messages of the X server to the file out. The first line of out should tell you the version of X. - Steve --- Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just trying to find this so that I could check to see which version of X I am running, and to my surprise, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't seem to have one??? I am running the Release Candidate 1 (FWIW). Thanks, Steven __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Read from CD-RW Drive
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ --- Jim Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone tell me how to configure LM7.2 to read from a IDE CD-RW drive? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
Okay, now that you have that Aureal file, copy it to a directory where you would like to expand it. For example: cp Aureal*tar.gz /home/g-couch/ Then you can execute the following command to expand the compressed file and it should place everything in it's own subdirectory: cd /home/g-couch tar -xvzf Aureal*tar.gz It's been a few years since I've installed an Aureal driver, so I can't properly instruct you from memory. There will be a README and/or INSTALL file in the new Aureal directory. Read that carefully for installation instructions. If you are using an Aureal chip, you will have success with that driver. If you run into issues, write back with the steps you were executing and the errors/complications you received. To read README and/or INSTALL (whatever their called) do something like the following: less README less INSTALL --- g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim - I stand corrected - I should not have been flippant with Mumbo jumbo and by no way meant offense to all the fantastic Linux users. I am envious of their learning prowess. i am sure there are others like me who are venturing over to Linux and have a hard time even spelling it, let alone doing terminal work (probably 1% of the Linux population). Thankfully you are all kind enough to put up with us and try and help us. My Linux learning is on the backside of the bell curve, hey someone has to occupy those far end end points. somewhere around 5 standard deviations away. The HardDrak doesn't list any sound devices, so I am soundless. i dowloaded the Aureal file, (tar.gz), Todd was kind enough to send me the url, but don't know what to do with it, or how to install it. I have a Crystal Semiconductor for the sound card and Altec lansing speakers. Again my apologies to the Linux community. As a suggestion though. Stop looking at the console as Linux terminal command Mumbo Jumbo. That's where the real power of Linux can be found. That's where you really start to dig into the system and become an expect. To start working with the shell, editing and keeping a 150 line .aliases file, and other things. Also a lot of the people that help you with problems on this list, are the people that love the console work, and some of us don't even bother X windows. We do everything from the console. Right down to play MP3s, chatting, and playing games! Wouldn't want to offend them by calling it Mumbo Jumbo. :0) Hope ya found that helpful, and be kind to your penguin! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * g [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010427 09:01]: | Wow what a great feature for us Non Linux versed, Windows point and click | types. In response to the IP Flooding w/PMfirewall: | | Using LM 7.2, KDE, | I get to my message log by just clicking on the Home Icon at the bottom | of the screen, it brings up the file tree, | click on Root, | then click on Var, | then click on Log, | then click on messages Icon (the one with the pencil showing). | it displays the message log right on the screen. Scroll to the bottom to | see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo | Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. | | Works great for us Windows refugees hanging out on Linux, nothing beats a | good ole Point and click. | | To Edit the log file | While it is displayed on the screen: | I Click on Edit at the top of the screen | Click on Open with Advanced Editor | and walah - i can edit the file. | | You can use any of the editors it lists but so far i only tried the | Advance Option. | | Cool, this Linux stuff is getting better all the time ;-0 | | Now if I could just get my sound system to work... via point and click... __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
You're trying to execute messages which (correct me if I'm wrong) is a log file. You said you want to read it with more so type this instead: more /var/log/messages Or even better, use less: less /var/log/messages --- g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 27 April 2001 01:51 pm, David E. Fox wrote: see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. Umm what's wrong with more /var/log/messages ? [root@dhcp-196-2 /]# /var/log/messages bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied [root@dhcp-196-2 /]# I am logged in as root, but for what ever reason (Linux challenged) I can't get to it this way.:-( __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Re: Retain MBR (reload GRUB?)
I've had problems with this as well. I select grub during install, but I usually get LILO anyway. Once it installed grub, but did not load the console with the resolution I requested. I have tried several times with Mandrake Control Center to load Grub and it always boots with Lilo. I try to manually install Grub and there isn't even a /boot/grub/install.sh. menu.lst is there, but install.sh is not. It's weird. I suppose I can use LILO, but I am very curious about this. I think there is indeed a bug here. --- philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about posting what is in your menu.lst - maybe its not booting from the proper kernel image ?? philomena At 10:38 PM 4/26/01 -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure that menu.lst was correct) - I still get stage1 Read Error. What am I missing here? GRUB ran fine when I installed Mandrake 7.2, then I had a Win98 disaster and had to completely format hda1. Linux is on hdb. I should think that there would be a way to get GRUB working again without reinstalling Mandrake. Here is how my drives are set up: hda is Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives; hdb is 40gigs, Mandrake 7.2, split up into /, /home, /usr, /var, and swap; hde is also Win98, partitioned into two 15gig drives. 100 gigs of space and I'm booting off a floppy. Sheesh. Jay philomena wrote: the file is actually in /boot/grub, and is called install.sh - just run it from the command line and grub will be installed. The grub info grub uses is in the file menu.lst - take a look at that and make sure it points to the proper partitions. cheers, philomena -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Toshiba PCX1100U USB cable modem on linux?
I am using LNE100TX flawlessly in all of those environments. There must be some sort of conflict with your LNE100TX and the onboard network card??? Can you disable it? You should be able to use both, but something weird is happening to you. LNE100TX certainly works in Linux and Windows. --- Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know or have experience with whether or not the Toshiba PCX1100U USB cable modem will work with Mandrake? Any links to info? My Motherboard NIC doesn't work and installing my Lynksys LNE100TX just frezes both Win98SE, WinME and Hardrake in 7.2 and 8.0. This is my last ditch effort to put Linux-Mandrake back on here, hate that M$ crap. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
