Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:41 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: screen #0: dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (374x302 millimeters) resolution:87x86 dots per inch depths (7):24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 I didn't try measuring in mm as I don't have a ruler that measures that well. Neither do I. I measured in inches an then Googled for 'distance converter'. FWIW, for most video card/monitor combinations it's best to use 24 depth. XFdrake is fairly smart, it'll probly default to 24x even if you choose 32x. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I'll try that. I probalby have it in 32. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Bug in Mozzila 1.6
I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this or not. I'm using MDK10CE and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115. When I close the browser it closes all mozilla windows, including mail. I'm running it on Gnome. Here are the steps to replicate. Open Mozzilla messenger click the little blue box on bottom left to open browser. click on file quit from the browser menu -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:15, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: SNIP idea to reboot after doing that (on the command line, type reboot) - then ya should be good to go from there. /SNIP Reboot is back? WOW!! I haven't seen reboot since MSDOS 3.1 ;-) Being a runlevel 3 person (I truly hate graphical logins and the lack of control you have) you have: * poweroff (turns off the computer - duh) * reboot (obvious as hell) * halt (well, here you want to know some switches) ...and the ever popular - PULL THE PLUG OUT DA WALL ...some things will never change. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Dead? No excuse for laying off work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com cool, thanks for the tips. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux on xp
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 02:23 am, Lanman wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guys, Check this out, it turns out that we can modify the boot logo and logon image with our own. This my xp logon screen becomes: http://www.arinet.org/download/xplogon-linux1.jpg LOL, Fajar. Fajar; Vey nice graphic Fajar! Is there anywhere that I can get that graphic?? Is it on a site or can you send it to me? Lanman I've just rebooted from XP, and here's the resource I found last night: to make our own image file: http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/ very simple and SAFE program to load those images: logon loader http://software.deviantart.com/details/240/ url of many logon screen (mind the word wrap): http://www.themexp.org/listings.php?type=loginview= http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=26 and here's a bunch of many beautiful linux logon images: http://www.themexp.org/search.php?view=searchmode=simplestring=linuxop=descripsearch_themexp=Search HTH, Now I love winxp better :)) thanks to Linux. downloaded and installed that logon GUI last night. LOVE IT.! - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 10:13 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Tom, while we're on the topic of Monitors, When I have to switch between XP and Linux I always have to hit the auto button. Can that be stopped? Also, anyway to make the fonts clearer? I've got the XFT set to 140 which is what I measured with GIMP. They are better now then they were before doing that. I don't know how some y'all are comin up with very high dpi numbers... xdpyinfo: screen #0: dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (382x313 millimeters) resolution:85x83 dots per inch If I do the Gimp calibration I come up with about 87 dpi. I measured the viewing area with a measuring tape an it was as 'xdpyinfo' reported, 382x313 mm. Maybe your 191T is a little better than my 191N but that much !? I don't have any font issues at 85x83. I also just use the fonts that come with the Mandrake distro. Usually Luxi Sans and Courier 10 Pitch. As to the 'Auto' button, it's not an issue for me ... no Winsux on the system. IIRC tho, the (old) fix was to run 'xvidtune' and use the modeline it suggests to put in yourXFree config file. I always thought it'd be simpler to use the 'Auto' button. Why trash Linux to be as screwed up as Winblows? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com does it matter that xdpyinfo says I'm using the default monitor? I got pretty much that same as what you got... screen #0: dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (374x302 millimeters) resolution:87x86 dots per inch depths (7):24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 I didn't try measuring in mm as I don't have a ruler that measures that well. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux on xp
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 11:21 am, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: WOW!! I love it! I want one too!! But this brings up a question. how can you have linux on XP? I just installed XP and then Installed 10 and it works great, but of course I have the grub loader when I first boot. Should I have installed from XP instead of from boot? Is there an advantage/disadvantage to doing either? Hi Troy, What do you mean by installing from XP instead of from boot? All we have to do is to download a program called Bootloader (read my previous email), and download the logon images we want to. That's all. Boy, there are many great logon images out there. I just can't have enought. HI Let me explain how I installed everything. Don't know if its necessarily the right way but it worked. I installed xp in 2 partitions.. one for the OS and one for data. The OS partition is NTFS the data is FAT32. I left the 3rd partition blank for MDK. then I put the mandrake cd in and it opened a box to install... I closed that and rebooted. when the partition section came up, I put /boot /swap into the small 329M partition that I had left at the front of the drive, and then after windows put linux. Did the install and choose GRUB for the boot system. It worked perfectly. Then last night after I got your email, I went to TQDN and downloaded the logon menu, ran riddler and *POOF* life is good :D I didn't know what installing linux from the xp partition would do, thats why I closed the box and just rebooted into the mdk cd. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
Langsley T Russell wrote:
Hi all.
I bought a beautiful new Samsung 191T plus 19 inch TFT LCD monitor. It
has a resolution of 1280X1024 @75Hz. I'm running MDK 9.2. When I attach
the new monitor and reboot everything goes fine through the entire boot
process, then just as x starts to load (at least I think that's what's
happening) the screen goes black and I get a dialogue box saying
unusable signal. I don't see any way around this.
Is there some way to setup my system using my CRT monitor so that when I
attach my LCD monitor it will produce a usable signal? Or is there
some way with the LCD monitor connected to do some sort of configuration
of my system to make it usable? The monitor came with Linux setup
instructions but I'll admit I don't really understand them and if I
can't get a picture at all how can I configure anything?
Thanks for any insight you can provide
LTR }}:{(
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I had this same problem, and also have a 19 TFT LCD monitor. What was
strange was the solution. when you go to install 9.2 and you get to the
last screen where you configure your location for time, and your network
and all that? Well, you'll notice that it thinks its got your screen
all figured out. IT DOESNT!! Its lieing to you. It has everything
right, but for whatever reason you have to go in there tell it test
also physically choose the same video card/monitor again. I don't know
why I had to do that. Maybe its just me. But once I did that it worked
first time, everytime. With 10 all I did was go there hit test and
*POOF* it worked.
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Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 07:01 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote:
Hi all.
I bought a beautiful new Samsung 191T plus 19 inch TFT LCD
monitor. It has a resolution of 1280X1024 @75Hz. I'm running
MDK 9.2. When I attach the new monitor and reboot everything
goes fine through the entire boot process, then just as x
starts to load (at least I think that's what's happening) the
screen goes black and I get a dialogue box saying unusable
signal. I don't see any way around this.
Is there some way to setup my system using my CRT monitor so
that when I attach my LCD monitor it will produce a usable
signal? Or is there some way with the LCD monitor connected to
do some sort of configuration of my system to make it usable?
The monitor came with Linux setup instructions but I'll admit I
don't really understand them and if I can't get a picture at
all how can I configure anything?
Thanks for any insight you can provide
LTR }}:{(
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've had a Samsung 191N for several months now. Originally
with 9.2-cooker 10.0, now 10.0CE+updates. Never had a problem.
I briefly looked at the instructions that came with the monitor.
Then threw them in the trash. To damn complicated, an looked to
be incorrect anyhow ;)
So when I first used the monitor I rebooted and when the lilo
screen came up I hit Esc and ran 'linux 3'. Actually I had
several kernels installed so I used 'kernel version init 3' to
get to a level 3 prompt (text based). I then logged in as root
and ran 'XFdrake', selected Generic Flat Panel @ 1280x1024,
made sure everything was as I wanted and saved/exited.
Rebooted and the monitor was set up as you say at 1280x1024 @
75Hz. which is it's native resolution. IIRC, I also had to press
the Auto button on the front panel to correctly center the
screen. With the Mandrake Move live CD, the monitor starts at
1600x1200, and then I haft'a use XFdrake to resize it. So even
with the wrong XF-config settings the 191T should startup.
BUT, what you see on the monitor (any system) is a product of
your motherboard/PSU, your video card, and your monitor workin
together. Your problem doesn't sound like it's the monitor. I
have a nVidia GeF4 using the XFree 'nv' driver, on a Asus A7V600
(kt600 chipset) with a 430w Antec PSU. If you want, I'll send
you my XFree config file, 'ddcxinfos', and 'xdpyinfo' (offlist).
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Tom, while we're on the topic of Monitors, When I have to switch between
XP and Linux I always have to hit the auto button. Can that be
stopped? Also, anyway to make the fonts clearer? I've got the XFT set
to 140 which is what I measured with GIMP. They are better now then
they were before doing that.
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Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal
Stephen Kuhn wrote: SNIP idea to reboot after doing that (on the command line, type reboot) - then ya should be good to go from there. /SNIP Reboot is back? WOW!! I haven't seen reboot since MSDOS 3.1 ;-) -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux on xp
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 04:33 am, David B. Carter wrote: Where could one find instructions on how to do such modifications? Lanman said: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guys, Check this out, it turns out that we can modify the boot logo and logon image with our own. This my xp logon screen becomes: http://www.arinet.org/download/xplogon-linux1.jpg LOL, Fajar. Fajar; Vey nice graphic Fajar! Is there anywhere that I can get that graphic?? Is it on a site or can you send it to me? Lanman Well, it's not my own creation. I got it from http://www.themexp.org/ (if I'm not mistaken, I'll have to check it in my XP bookmark, I found so many sites yesterday). As for the image, you can search it Linux in the site. Many great graphics. I'll boot into xp and let you know where to get the program to modify it. IIRC, http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=26 and the program is called stardock http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/ See you, Fajar. WOW!! I love it! I want one too!! But this brings up a question. how can you have linux on XP? I just installed XP and then Installed 10 and it works great, but of course I have the grub loader when I first boot. Should I have installed from XP instead of from boot? Is there an advantage/disadvantage to doing either? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk10 urpmi problems
Fajar Priyanto wrote:
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 11:17 am, Troy Thomas Hall wrote:
I know tom just posted the other day the rest of this info and I tried
to search the club knowledge base but when I put [newbie] mdk10 urpmi
problems in even with tom brinkman in , it just returns a list of
2281 messages. What am I doing wrong. I lost the original replys that
tom sent.
You mean this?
On Friday 12 March 2004 03:26 pm, Marc Resnick wrote:
I can't seem to do anything with urpmi anymore on Mandrake 10.
I'm using RC1, but if I just do a urpmi --auto-select won't it
update automatically? Anyway, I can't do anything with urpmi,
including MandrakeUpdate.
Also, where can I get proper mirrors for main and contrib?
Easyurpmi is no longer updated. Does anyone have any good ones?
--Marc
Cooker mirrors. use the cooker, not stable directory
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3
/RPMS/ is main, /RPMS2/ is contribs. If you previously had
cooker sources installed, you may need to delete and re-install
them. I did, after the mirrors rearranged to allow for the stable
fork.
I've never used easyurpmi, instead adding sources by pasting
the ftp url (obtained from going to the site with a browser)
ending in RPMS/ EG,
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/
onto the CL in the form,
urpmi.addmedia (nickname) (ftp url...RPMS/)
with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz
Mirrors have been in a terrible state for quite some time,
and still are. So you'll need several sources, and use Software
Media Manager to en/disable them. Sort'a like playin musical
chairs ;) Here's a rule of thumb guide to mirror status
http://manu.agat.net/mandrake/mirrors_state.html
up to date means the mirror is in sync with the hdlists on it
at the time given in the right column. It can still be there's
files missing to completely update to current. connect error is
sometimes false, you can connect to the mirror (and vice versa).
The link is mainly good for checking to see the date and time of
the (synthesis) hdlist. The time is at the mirror, so allow for
difference to your time zone.
If your urpmi.cfg doesn't have this at the top of the file
{
downloader: wget
}
... either add it (make sure you have the wget rpm installed),
or use the --wget switch for urpmi. EG, I use
alias cook='urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --no-verify-rpm
--wget --auto-select -v'
If you stick with updating til 10-Official is released,
you'll have a lot of 10-Community bug fixes along the way, and
you'll end up with the final Official release. There's been
important fixes to kde, drake* tools, some system packages and
other apps since 10-Community was released. You can check on the
exact updates by checkin the Cooker and CHRPM (Changelog)
archives http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/
yep, thanks tom, that helps alot. Would you recommend adding the upall
to a cron job?
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Re: [newbie] mdk10 urpmi problems
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday 13 March 2004 03:44 pm, Troy T. Hall wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday 13 March 2004 08:55 am, et wrote:
hey Tom, can you repost your update_all alias too?, I bet
some folks (me) could use that too...
Thanks
Ed
alias upall='rpm --rebuilddb updatedb update-menus -n
ldconfig'
also, after large updates, specially for KDE, Gnome,
libs, etc. It's helpful, often mandatory to log out of your
desktop, might as well also re-start X (Ctrl+Alt+BkSp), and
log back in.
where does this go?
At the end of a bashrc file. It then becomes a system command.
~/.bashrc for an individual user, /etc/bashrc to make the command
global. I'd suggest global for a one user desktop, so that the
command is available to both user and root. Of course some
commands like 'upall' require root privledge, and if run as user
will just return Permission denied or Command not found. Be
extra careful with 'root' privledged commands.
Google 'bash aliases' for the whole story.
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I know tom just posted the other day the rest of this info and I tried
to search the club knowledge base but when I put [newbie] mdk10 urpmi
problems in even with tom brinkman in , it just returns a list of
2281 messages. What am I doing wrong. I lost the original replys that
tom sent.
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Re: [newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0
Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be everything installed but when I try to open it the hourglass flips for a while and then goes away, leaving my original desktop. I thought permissions might be messed up but can find nothing like the right file to change. Funny, tuxracer won't start either, it makes my system logout, not a reboot just a logout. Guesses for grabs? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com yep, OO works fine for me in 10 -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sane Mandrake 10-
What controls wether sane will work in mdk or not? I notice that my scanner is in the sane list but yet when I install it it says its unsupported in Mandrake linux. This seems odd. If sane supports it why would mdk not? Others have had the same problem with cannon scanners Mines a canoscan D646U -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
Raffaele Belardi wrote: Martin, I had already noticed that, a linux-formatted FAT32 partition was not recognized by Windows. I had to format it with DOS or Windows native tools. I don't know why, I assumed it was some slight incompatibility in the linux tools, but did not investigate. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to both of you. Now i just gotta find out why my windows boot doesnt detect my FAT32 partition which i created in Linux a while ago (before i installed win boot). Ill be back with more problems soon :) Martin Brandt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com yes, I've seen this same thing many times. Its extremely frustrating. FAT32 should be FAT32 *sigh* -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with installing Windows fonts
Paul Smith wrote: I am trying to install my MS Windows fonts, by using drakfont. (I have got a dual machine - with MS Windows and Mandrake.) However, I get the following errors. Could somebody here please help me? Paul, did you solve your problem? Some time ago I also tried to import the fonts from my Windows 2000 partition. It seemed to be ok while doing the installation, but after that my user's account lost its 'native' fonts (it got some strange signs instead of the characters). I couldn't resolve that issue, even after re-creating that one user's account from scratch. At the end, I had to re-install the system again. What about your experience? Misko, I did not experienced such a big problems as you did. I was trying to install those fonts to have Mozilla browser looking better, as it looked horrible. However, meanwhile, somebody advised me to install Mozilla for Linux with Xft font anti-aliasing, what I did. Now, it looks superb and I do not have to be concerned with importing windows fonts. This is not very helpful to you - I guess -, but it is all my experience. Regards, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com how did you install the anti-aliasing? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake community
Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2004 12:56 am, John Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 8, 2004 11:18 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: The problem is _unaware_USERS_ that refuse to read bittorrent documentation, FAQ's, and take suggestions (the archives of the Mandrake list's). Also, maybe even worse is _greedy_USERS_ who get their iso's from the torrent and then refuse to stay online uploading to others. Currently those tryin to d/l outnumber those willing to remain as uploaders, by over 3 to 1. http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ That explains the crappy speeds most of the day then. :-( And it answers a question I posted elsewhere. ttfn John (who will remain as an uploader) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFATWq6kxLVEWCTiQ8RAjFvAJ9B/JSt2zFdtOsYo/dge4C+IiB7ygCfWt8u qtu+cQ+pfmT3bUu1PHzD3rA= =tt2g Right, you have to Star symbol was Ksy -END PGP SIGNATURE- I left mine running, came home from work tonight and it had stopped uploading and I can not get a connection back. Like the servers are down all over the world. ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com nope, I'm still running bittorrent gui after its done dl'ng. So you should be able to get it from me at least. Troy -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
Greg Meyer wrote: I do it in runlevel 5 all the time from the command line. Log out of KDE and then when you see th egraphical login greeter, hit ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console and do your urpmi --auto-select from there. When done, hit alt-F7 to get back to the greeter. Restart the xserver and then login. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Is this documented somewhere? I never knew before how to get to console from the graphical greeter. Maybe this should be in Twiki? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with sharing ADSL on mdk 10
SNIP Yes, my internal ethernet subnet is 192.168.0.0. I configured windows but it didn't help, I even allowed pinging (from MCC) but i still can't ping my box. And dhcpd daemon is running and is configured (with DHCP configuration wizard). I liked to get it work like mdk 9.x had (DHCP auto configuring windows). I had a problem similar to this when I tried to configure my system. And it was because the silly wizard installs tmdns (?) even though you have bind installed. The result being tmdns takes over and bind never gets to do its job. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bit torrent
Rich and Cheryl Swanson wrote: Ok, I paid my 60 bucks to join the club. My bit torrent client says I downloaded 2085 megs in two files. One file is 256k and the other is 0k. Easy CD creator finds three .iso files of 0k. What did I download and where are they? Is there an ftp site where these iso's can be found? Bit torrent is a terrible way to distribute data. Thanks, Richard Swanson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I don't know what you did wrong, but here's how bittorrent is working on my system. When I click on the bittorrent download icon it opens another web page. there it shows several files the first two of which are the distribution ISO's. I click on the first one which is about 2.8G This opens a dialog which asks me where to put the files. By default it will put them in a Mandrake 10 folder. Once I've chosen the proper place it starts the process. This will take a VERY long time. Currently I have both the first set of CD's and CD4 downloading simultaneously. Its been doing this for about 36hrs now. Everything is progressing smoothly. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keeping bittorrent alive
Paul wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 23:10, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: actually I was going to let the server stay @ 9.2 till I knew 10 was stable. But I will be upgrading the Workstation. When I start X on the server and go to mandrake club and hit the 10 iso the web page says No direct access to this page... Do I have something in shorewall configured wrong? I've taken another look at the club page, and when I clicked on the bittorrent link went to the download page, clicked on the .torrent file it saved without any problem. Maybe if you right-clicked and saved the link? Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com don't know what I changed, but even though shorewall doesn't have those specific ports open, downloading the files from the server is working better then from the workstation. All progressing nicely. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LCD Monitor questions
Ok. This is probably a VERY stupid question but here goes. With a conventional CRT you have specific drivers that you need to use and you have another set of files which control how the color interacts with the monitor and other devices. I forget the extension for these. Now, I am blessed to have a Northgate Innovations 19 LCD flat panel monitor with 1280x1024 resolution. The thing is that the fonts and such are no where near as sharp as they were on my 17 CRT. I've tried to ask Northgate about drivers and how to configure things to work best with programs such as Adobe Photoshop and I'm told there is nothing to configure. I really enjoy working with graphics and touching photo's up and such so this is fairly important to me. When I retouch a photo what I see is GOT to be what comes out the printer ( thats why the color protocol files) I use an Epson C82 printer ( only becuase I can't afford the 2200 ) which is an true CMYK printer, again for the same reason. And an Assylum GeForce FX 5200 128M AGP video card which was the best I could afford and only 1 step down from top of the line when I bought it last year. My system is an Asus A7S333 with 768M pc2100 DDR ram 80G 20G HD, onboard sound (disabled) and an MadDog 5.1 SoundCard -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:50 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Is this documented somewhere? I never knew before how to get to console from the graphical greeter. Maybe this should be in Twiki? This is a very basic feature of Linux nad has been in exitence since forever. maybe it is so basic that everyone just assumes that everyone else knows how to do it. Actually, there are 6 virtual consoles, VT1 through VT6, accessed with a ctrl-alt-Fx sequence where x number of the console you wish to access. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I knew about CTRL+F# through CLI but never knew how to do it from GUI. And I THOUGHT you had to choose permamently between graphical greeter and CLI unless you changed it. Course being the philosophy behind linux I should have known better. TYVM. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bit torrent
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 12:14:19 -0600 Rich and Cheryl Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I paid my 60 bucks to join the club. My bit torrent client says I downloaded 2085 megs in two files. One file is 256k and the other is 0k. Easy CD creator finds three .iso files of 0k. What did I download and where are they? Is there an ftp site where these iso's can be found? Bit torrent is a terrible way to distribute data. Thanks, Richard Swanson So open a mirror and donate the bandwidth for all of us to get 'em from your house. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com sure, just tell me how. I still have bittorrent running. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bittorrent help -- some detail please
Daniel Anderson wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 07:28 pm, John Wilson wrote: On March 7, 2004 02:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 03:09 pm, John Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I have a Bittorent client up and running but running so slowly that I'll be a very old man and we'll be on Mdk 12 or 13 by the time this download completes. The FAQ on the club site sucks and there is no other documentation on this piece of ^*. Strangely there is nothing on Twiki either. I have better things to do than google the world to figure out how this works! I tried it with 9.2 with similar results (I'm currently running with no firewall to see if that works and it's not making me feel good or helping one iota) and ended up waiting till the public release where it was finally placed on FTP. Okay..frustration over. To any I offended, I'm sorry, but this is NOT what I joined the club to get. By the way..torrent just stopped dead...oh what fun Now..does anyone have a point by point set of instructions on setting this god forsaken thing up? And don't point me to the FAQ on the club site, please. It's about as much use as stone knife when trying to cut steel. It seems to work for some but judging from the traffic here and elsewhere it's a frustrating, angering and ultimately bad thing for MDK in the sense of customer satisfaction. Thanks. A very frustrated ttfn John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAS4+IkxLVEWCTiQ8RAkI5AJ9jvcNz6e8ul4pzA5PLC/w+IZDmlACglK2y uXTHYJUvdm1kxv2H+yEzepY= =0uFH -END PGP SIGNATURE- John, what speed connection do you have? cable, t1, phone line, dsl? here is what I put in a command line as user not root: btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 12 mytorrent-yourusername.torrent This will limit the upload and allow a faster download. Once you put that in it will ask where to save the files, I use the bittorent gui which makes it more user friendly for me. Not a cli guy so to speak. Anyway give that a try and see what you get. Also is your computer on a LAN or stand alone? I had to open ports on the router for my set up. HTH ADSL, semi fixed IP, that is in theory I have a DHCP connection but I've had the same IP for about 7 months now. 2048 down 1024 up. Ports wide open. My box is my router so that shouldn't be a problem. It could be that things are just slow today. I'm only seeing 24 peers out there at the moment a decrease of about 40 in the last 10 minutes and my speed has dropped accordingly. Rough estimate now is 2 and one half weeks. I know that SOME people are happy with this arrangement but for the life of me I can't understand why Mandrake wants to put so many people off. All the posts about good speed are in the first couple of days after the distro is announced and then the complaints seem to start because people take their torrents down and leave us latecomers to stew in downloads that are reminiscent of 300bps days. Whoops..down to 18 peers and 3 seeds...this is getting awful :-) ttfn John I'm seeing 97 peers and 41 seeds, dl speeds in the 70's and 80's. I set my upload limit to 13 kBs and opened port 6881 on my smoothwall. My only worry is I may be violating the terms of service agreement with the isp. Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com how r u seeing all these peers and such? Also I tried the shorewall command that was put in the list and shorewall hated it. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems
I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was able to hear audio cd's but nothing else. I double click'd on an mp3 and it opened xmms, which looked as if it was playing but nothing came out. I had previously set kde sound to alsa as thats what I was pretty sure was installed but no luck. So then I started digging in xmms preferences ( right click on the x in the top left corner ) and discovered under Audio I/O Plugins a Output Plugin line which stated OSS DRIVER 1.2.9 libOSS.so there where no other options under the arrows, so I went back to KDE sound and changed it to Open Sound Server and VIOLA!! Aaron Tippin started blasting through the speakers. Hope this helps someone. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound card problems
ok, not quite solved. I have no mpg or mpeg sounds. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:11, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was able to hear audio cd's but nothing else. I double click'd on an mp3 and it opened xmms, which looked as if it was playing but nothing came out. I had previously set kde sound to alsa as thats what I was pretty sure was installed but no luck. So then I started digging in xmms preferences ( right click on the x in the top left corner ) and discovered under Audio I/O Plugins a Output Plugin line which stated OSS DRIVER 1.2.9 libOSS.so there where no other options under the arrows, so I went back to KDE sound and changed it to Open Sound Server and VIOLA!! Aaron Tippin started blasting through the speakers. Hope this helps someone. Could you add this to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SoUnd please? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASaUMkFAvMr/nNX8RAnCRAJoDYeHpb4swPVSk/9dK866I0iCaBACeID2D RH5VHjR+F5+3PryyxsJy27Y= =jF2x -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com sure -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community available to club members...
Chuck Mattsen wrote:
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:07, JoeHill wrote:
Did some searching myself, and found this info from various posts:
- snip -8
Thanks ... you saved me some time, as I was just heading to the
archives. We'll see how it goes though, of course, it's /still/ going
to take me forever to download here in "Podunk," as DSL access in this
tiny town is capped at 256k. I'm used to my big city 1.5down, but
that's a thing of the past for me, at least for now.
Thanks again. I've yet to get Azureus or any of the other non-CLI
interfaces installed successfully, but that'll be the subject of another
thread on another day. :-)
Edit /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.py like so:
defaults = [
('max_uploads', 4,
"the maximum number of uploads to allow at once."),
... and
('max_upload_rate', 8,
'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
or
use --max_upload_rate n and --max_uploads n from the CLI.
Also, make sure ports 6881 to 6999 are open on any router/NAT/firewall you've
got running.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Does this look right? My workstation is on a private ip of
192.168.123.145 with a gw of 192.168.123.163
ACCEPT
Zone inet
Firewall
TCP
Any
6881:6999
--
Troy T. Hall
Registered Linux User #342150
Mandrake Club Member
Abilene, KS.
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[newbie] Keeping bittorrent alive
I'd be willing to keep bittorrent alive for the next 2 weeks on my server which is running mdk 9.2 if someone will be so kind as to explain to me what exactly to do. Its only a DSL connection but it might help someone. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keeping bittorrent alive
Paul wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 22:37, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I'd be willing to keep bittorrent alive for the next 2 weeks on my server which is running mdk 9.2 if someone will be so kind as to explain to me what exactly to do. Its only a DSL connection but it might help someone. As I understand it, just don't close the BitTorrent down when the file is complete. You should be able to e.g. burn isos from the file, but it might be better to copy it to another location and use the copy. Paul m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com so just click on the link and leave the little dialog box up for two weeks? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keeping bittorrent alive
Paul wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 22:37, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I'd be willing to keep bittorrent alive for the next 2 weeks on my server which is running mdk 9.2 if someone will be so kind as to explain to me what exactly to do. Its only a DSL connection but it might help someone. Just realised what a dick-head I am - no doubt you'll want to upgrade before the end of the next 2 weeks. Install M10 re-start the torrent. It will check that the file is complete, and allow others to download. As it is complete, obviously you won't be downloading yourself. Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com actually I was going to let the server stay @ 9.2 till I knew 10 was stable. But I will be upgrading the Workstation. When I start X on the server and go to mandrake club and hit the 10 iso the web page says No direct access to this page... Do I have something in shorewall configured wrong? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scribus
Lanman wrote: I've found the rpms for scribus on 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0. There are two - scribus and libscribus IIRC, and I'm sure they're on the download CD's. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/29/2004 at 9:58 PM Keith Powell wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual screenful of things it can't find and needs. I have almost completely abandoned tarballs, as I can rarely get the things to install. They always stop during ./configure or make with lots and lots of error messages :-( Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com actually there are 4 for scirbus. But two are the doc's and are only in german and french. ;) -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working?
Littlefish Operator wrote: This is a stationary mouse with the big red thumb ball. Officially a USB device, it comes with the plug in PS2 adapter. Has anyone gotten this device working under Mandrake? I've been trying to get it configured (as a PS2 device) with no luck. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have the marble mouse USB from logitech and it works great. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE won't start!
Marc Resnick wrote: I use Mandrake 10RC1. I was at the login screen, and I halted, for some reason I thought it did something else. Anyway I started up again, and now when I click on my login name it says Your saved session type 'kde' is not valid anymore. It does not give me the option to choose any other Interface. Is there some temp file I need to delete? I pressed ctrl+alt+f6 to open a new session, and I'm logged in. What should I do? --Marc I had the same problem using the mdkdm. When I changed to the kdedm and then went to default it fixed the problem. I don't know why. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE won't start!
Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Troy Thomas Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE won't start! Marc Resnick wrote: I use Mandrake 10RC1. I was at the login screen, and I halted, for some reason I thought it did something else. Anyway I started up again, and now when I click on my login name it says Your saved session type 'kde' is not valid anymore. It does not give me the option to choose any other Interface. Is there some temp file I need to delete? I pressed ctrl+alt+f6 to open a new session, and I'm logged in. What should I do? --Marc I had the same problem using the mdkdm. When I changed to the kdedm and then went to default it fixed the problem. I don't know why. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Uh...how do I do that? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com from the cli use mcc then display manager From KDE go SystemConfigurationConfigure your computer[root pw]systemdisplay manager -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mozilla configurations lost
I updated the system last night and apparently it updated mozilla. In the process all of the extensions and themes and such that I had installed are no longer active Is it possible to have mozilla search its files for all the .jars and such that are still there and rebuild itself? Or do I have to redownload/install everything over again? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] updating rc1
I updated rc1 via cooker as greg suggested, and for some reason it wants to put kde 3 on there when I am sure I read that its deprecated now. Anyone have a clue? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] updating rc1
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:47 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I updated rc1 via cooker as greg suggested, and for some reason it wants to put kde 3 on there when I am sure I read that its deprecated now. Anyone have a clue? What's the exact error? Current KDE in Cooker s/b 3.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok, I thought it was supposed to be 4.x now. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] update rc1
How does one go about updating rc1? I am a standard-club member. Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] canoscan D646U
Anyone have any experience with this scanner in MDK? Sane says its not supported in this distro even though its on the sane list. Am I doing something wrong? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Linux vs Windos WAS : [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux
I think you've really hit the nail on the head. Allen/SlackWareWolf/GORE wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Walker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Ray Hogaboom" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 6:47:52 PM, you wrote: Example My P3 450 mhz with 120 megs ram running XP Pro would run circles around my wife's Laptop P4 2.3 Gz with 512 megs ram Running XP Home. Hi Ray, My understanding of the Intel processor architecture strategy to push more speed out of there pentium line is to Superpipeline the core to ever increasing degrees (34 stages!! for the latest P4 Prescott architecture) to enable them to reduce the clock cycle. So a P3 running clock for clock is always faster than the P4M because the P4M has a deeper pipeline (cache misses hurt more). It is crazy that a clean architecture like that used in the PowerPC ISA isn't the dominant CPU type on the planet. Just like how Linux plays second fiddle to MS (because of 3rd party support problems). The P4M doesn't have the SSE extensions implemented in hardware. I compile my Linux kernels with the P3 switch for my Laptop (the closest match just now I understand). Also laptops use slow 5400RPM harddisks... When I switch between my P4M laptop and my P4HT Desktop with 15K RPM Ultra SCSI 320 drives it really hurts :-) -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux could be dominant if people used it first. Think about it, when you're in school, you use Windows, when you're at work, Windows, unless you work for people who are into technology, or go to school for *NIX, then you use Windows. People are used to using it so they never switch. I think you've hit the nail on the head. The only way we're going to get things to change permamently is by increasing the number of default installs that utilize *nix. I've been noticing that several companies are now distributing systems to end users with "lindows OS" as the preferred OS. I haven't checked out Lindows yet, but perhaps its a step in the right direction. Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 News and Issues
Charlie Mahan wrote: Monday 23 February 2004 10:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Is it time to start a 10.0 News and Issues page on the twiki like the one for 9.2. There is probably a lot of good info here for starting out even though that page is a work in progress itself. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux10ReleaseNotes I'll start the 10.0 page by copying the 9.2 page here http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/Version10News Yeah, I have an issue, but I have no time to even file a bug right now, let alone add the info to the page. Sorry. Mandrake 10.0 (snapshots, betas, RC1) will NOT install or boot a 2.6 kernel from/to a hard drive formatted and using SGI XFS set during a previous 9.2 install. I've attempted it on 7 different machines, including this one. This sucks. )-: Thanks for making a start on the page Greg. Regards; Charlie More fodder for the twiki page. When I installed rc1 ontop of 9.2 I went very smoothly EXCEPT there was no next button on any of the installation screens. I chose the upgrade option and it installed the 2.6.3? kernel. I then had problems getting the mouse to work after the install was complete ( it worked fine during ) But I rebooted into the old-linux kernel and it found the mouse told me about it, and then when I rebooted it was fine. I have only been able to get sound when playing a music CD and not with any other kind of sound, but I didn't have sound working properly in 9.2 either. I do have some intermittent freezes when closing some applications. Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 08:54 am, di di wrote: Well Mr. Lanmanaccording to you.it might be time to be switching from my 9,2 mdk to this one you are sayingor should I wait for a more stable version? if not, would you give me the mirror for downloading??? I´ll install it on a compaq presario laptop k6-2 366mhz and 160 mb in ramwill these requirements fullfill? Saludos Fabian Wow! Mister Lanman ? Gee, I feel like I should be wearing a tie! Anybody wanna buy a bridge ? Grin! This is the page where you can find the download links. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100beta.php3 I can't say for sure whether or not it will work well on your system, but if you back up your files and home folders before starting an install, you can always re-install 9.2 and copy your data back - if needed. If your install goes as well as mine did, I think you'll enjoy it! You should see a difference in performance as well. Remember to set / for 2.5 Gb's and /usr for at least the same amount. /var can live with 1.5 Gb's, and you should make your swap file at least 400 Mb's. On a side note, I wanted to ask the list about something I just discovered. When I did my 10.0 RC1 install, I created a 4 Gb root partition ( / ), a swap and /home partitions as well. However, the /usr partition used up almost half of that. The next time I went to install an application, I found out that I was out of space onn the / partition. Having some left over space on my drive to be used as storage, I deleted the storage partition, and added a new /usr partition. This is where it's gets a little sexy. As soon as I selected /usr for the mount point, diskdrake popped up a new window asking me if I wanted to transfer the data from the /usr directory ( still sitting on the / partition ), to the new /usr partition i was creating. It then procedded to transfer the data without a problem, updated /etc/fstab, and it was done! Is this a feature that everyone knew about? Or is this a new feature in 10.0 ? Has anyone had this happen before? This was slick! I've never heard of an auto-transfer before! Almost felt like Artificial Intelligence! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dan, 9.2 did that for me when I needed to expand the partition. It was slick. Also, just as an fyi, my update of 10 on top of 9.2 went smooth as silk once I figured out that the next buttons were missing... ewww Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1
Charlie Mahan wrote: Thursday 19 February 2004 9:33 am, Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 11:09 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: That's been a feature since at least 9.2. Probably earlier, I can't recall precisely when I first encountered it Maybe 9.0 or 9.1? I thought everyone knew about it. Regards; Charlie Not everyone Charlie. Sigh! But it IS pretty kewl, eh? When I start thinking like that (I thought everyone knew...) it reminds me that I'm assembling, installing, upgrading, and configuring, _*way too many*_ systems again. Hobby? Yeah.sure...if you say so. g Always for other people. One of these days, maybe, if I find the extra cash and the time I like what I've seen of Mandrake 10 so far. Except I'm not seeing any smoking performance increase and I can't make a 2.6 kernel boot under any circumstances on this old POS. I had a problem with the 2.6 kernel not booting after I did the first boot after the upgrade. I rebooted into the old-linux kernel which came up as 9.2 and it then said that it found a mouse. I told it ok, and viola, been using 2.6.2-3 ever since. Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB not functioning
Lee B. wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: Linux is not XP. Agreed. You might also try to turn off PNP in the BIOS of the motherboard, that sometimes helps. Also, try to issue the lsmod command as root from the command line and see if it lists a usbcore module. If not, you might try checking the /etc/modules.conf file to see if you are loading a module for usb support. Already had PNP turned off in the bios, thanks. lsmod does not show a usb module. /etc/modules.conf has no reference to usb. I looked at the bios again and didn't see anything about APIC. My Asus board was relatively popular in its time, and isn't all that old. Bios revision is current. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Lee, what ASUS board are you using? I have 3 of them and have USB running easily on all 3. I will ASSUME, you have USB turned on in the bios? Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
