[newbie] CD-Burning
Here's a minor issue I've had since I've started using Linux. It's never been a big deal, so I've usually not worried, but now I have time. Anyhow, when I burn CD's, be it w/ gcombust, X-CD-Roast, or directly with cdrecord (like I'll ever do THAT by choice ;) ), I get an error msg that states something like 'can't get mlockall - permission denied'. But if I su or burn as root, it's ok. Where do I need to change things? Thanks! Ty -- Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26147713
Re: [newbie] Reiser FS
This month's Linux-mag (paper only, or wait 2 months it will be electrons) has one too. On 29 Jul 2000 18:53:09 -, Greg Stewart said: Tjere was a long discussion of this fs onthe xpert board... you might want to check the expert archives. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Richard Kim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 2:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Reiser FS Could anybody give me a full description about what Reiser Filesystem is? (Or at least give me a site to go to.) * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com ! -- Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26147713
Re: [newbie] safe to download to Win95 dir?
I used to do this a lot. The only problem you may have is that sometimes Linux thinks that ANYTHING on a FAT drive is executable. What I usually did was saved it to a FAT hd, then copied it over to an ext2 (RieserFS if you use it) hd and chmod as needed. Ty On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:05:08 -0400, John said: This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e. a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file attributes/permissions? I've got to do this on my home machine as I've got a Winmodem (I know, time to get a real modem) and I'd like to confirm that I can update my Mandrake distro safely. Any help/guidance would be appreciated. -- Attorney, (n.) A person legally appointed to mismanage one's affairs which one has not himself the skill to rightly mismanage. Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary" Registered Linux User #180033 -- Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26147713
Re: [newbie] Running .jar programs
As I recall you have to preface the *.jar with the jre/jdk command line. Something like 'jre byteme.jar' just as you would for a python or pearl proggy. As usual, RTFM (F=freakin' here) ;) I'm pretty sure it's in the jre/jdk readme's/man's/faq's/web pages. Later, Ty On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:35:45 -0500, Barry Willett said: Does anyone know how to run .jar programs? Whenever I run a program, Linux thinks I'm running an archive. I've installed the rpms for jdk1.2.2 and jre 1.2.2 - is there anything else I need to do? Thanks! -- Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26147713
RE: [newbie] Free Internet
Ip config will do that, and it's legal. The problem is that it's a dynamic DNS - it changes each time you long on. Here's a thought tho - see how they connect Windows to the Iway. If it's just a Dial Up Networking connection, we can do that just as easily. But many of them are ad driven, so it's proprietary software. :( -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 2/20/00, 6:01:23 PM, "Foyah Z. Freeman, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: [newbie] Free Internet: I saw it posted somewhere that you can run I believe "ipconfig" under windows to get your DNS once you are connected to your free ip. Whether this is legal and/or works for you I don't know. Foyah -Original Message- From: Mark Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Free Internet Does anyone know of an ISP who provides free Internet AND supports Linux? I just tried Freewweb, but they don't support us!!
Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings
Your best bet is to uninstall the modem in Windows. Then run a file called wmregdel.exe from the Win98 CD. Shutdown the computer Jumper the modem for Com2 Restart the computer Install the modem when it's detected in Windows Then you should have no more worries. Ty -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 2/15/00, 3:53:11 AM, Ron Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings: At 01:38 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote: Is there a way to get linux to detect my USR internal 56k modem when the cards jumpers are set to PnP? Right now I have to set the jumpers to PnP to work with windows and set the jumpers to com2 to get it to work with Linux. Hi, Could you let me know if you get any answers to your PNP problem? I'm having the exact same problem. Thanks, Ron Sinclair AKA NipponDSM __ ICN 3765104 http://members.tripod.com/~WIGGLIT/page2.html http://www.dsm.org
[newbie] default inittab
I've been playing with inittab, and now I get an error that doesn't seem to affect anything, but it's annoying: x Id respawning too fast. Waiting 5 minutes. And as you might imagine it pops up in a terminal every 5 minutes. It's coming from the fact that the x:5:respawn:stuff here line is wrong now. I thought I had backed up the default initab, but I can't find it. :( I'd appreciate it if someone would cut and paste that line from a default inittab so I can correct mine. :) Thanks! Ty -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] set background from command line
Just my $0.02: Make an image file called default.jpg (or whatever). Now set your background to that. Now make a script that dwnlds the latest radar image, then mv's it to default.jpg (overwriting of course). Now make sure you can autorefresh your desktop. :) -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 2/5/00, 9:47:20 PM, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] set background from command line: Is it possible to set the background image from the command line? I've looked around at xview and the like and can't find it. Maybe I'm just too sleepy to find it but I _know_ it must be there. I'd like to wget radar images from a weather site and have the current weather radar then be my desktop background image. dave w
Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
The software is all proprietary, and for Windows only. :( I do wish the FreeDSL ppl would make a version for Linux! :) Original Message On 2/4/00, 12:15:29 PM, George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux: Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux?
Re: [newbie] chmod/chown problems
I have an FTP dir that I do the same with and here is the commands I use, as root: chown -R nobody.users /FTP (or /common for you) That makes it so that no one owns it and is thus usable by everyone. Then: chmod -R a+rwX just to be sure that everyone has read write and execute status for everything. The capital X means that if it's already +x for anyone make it +x for all and if it's not +x for anyone don't add +x. Keeps plain text files, or anything else, from suddenly becoming 'executable.' Hope it helps Ty -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 2/4/00, 1:56:50 PM, "Lothar Mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] chmod/chown problems: Is there some special trick to chmoding and chowning in Linux-Mandrake? The reason I ask is that I can't get either to work. One partition of my hard disk, named "/common," is dedicated to files I would like all users to be able to share. Unfortunately, its permissions are drwxr-xr-x. I would prefer them to be drwxrwxrwx. You'd think that "chmod 777 common" would take care of that. When I use the chmod command, though, exactly nothing happens. I also have some files which I don't think it's necessary to be root to write to. As it is, they belong to root, and since I can't chmod them, I have to be root to work with them. Normally, I'd solve this with the chown command, but that doesn't work either. When I try the chown command at least something happens however: I get an error message saying "Operation not permitted." Apparently either chmod and chown are used differently in Linux than in Unix, or there is something wrong with my system. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! (fwd)
I had something like this happen, under NT 4. The only difference is it worked fine (showed my root NT drive as D:) for a while, then quit. I have NO idea how to change the drive designation. You can try using something like Partition Magic to move the Windows Partion to what is now the c: drive tho, maybe. Ty Original Message On 1/31/00, 11:39:39 AM, Marc Herms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! (fwd): You said you can "see and access your data via Linux." If you are able to see all the directories on your Windows partition, then "it is a great day!" yep, finally something great today! :-) I can see ALL my partitions, actually, using a Windows boot floppy, I can also ACCESS them, but my old C: is now D: and vice versa, so I cannot boot Windows !! If the above is true, then LILO has replaced the generic Microsoft IPL (initial program loader) with the LILO IPL. 2) Install and setup a boot manager (I recommend XOSL) I HAVE already a boot manager (Boot Magic), but I cannot access it.. that means, it does NOT start. I had installed it under Windows. But I didn`t know I could install it under Linux, as well... ?! so, my main problem is now to EXCHANGE the current drive D: with the drive C: so that I could run windows. My partitions seem fine... I can see PRI-DOS using fdisk. marc
Re: [newbie] Openint tar files
You're not completely crazy - that's what tar did to me too. But MC worked fine. I dove into the tarball, copied what I needed (a whole directory) to my /usr/local. Not sure what the not local means. And now that the tar error has been independently reproduced, I can call it a bug. :) -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 1/30/00, 6:25:08 PM, kwf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Openint tar files: I downloaded a file that was "tar.gz" I have no problem getting it unzipped. But I cannot extract it for anything. I can enter: tar -x [filename] Then I can hit return. Then my cursor returns to the next line and won't let me do anything after that. I have to exit the window and try again, getting nowhere. When I try to do it in "Midnight Commander" it tells me the file is not local. I cannot find anything about "local" vs "non-local" files. Any ideas? What am I an idiot about? Alaskan Ken
[newbie] Sound wierdness with Crystal chipset
Midi's play fine, but wavs seem to be muted. In xmms the eq goes up and down, but all I get from the speakers is a click. The spkrs are fine (work in Windows), and I can play midis (at least the one that sndconfig plays), but not mp3's either. Any ideas? -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
RE: [newbie] typing in licq
I'm running licq .75 and don't have that problem. I did have problems compiling it tho. What I had to do was uninstall all qt and qt-devel. Then install qt 2.x and qt-devel 2.x. Compile as per the read-me's. rpm -U --old-package qt-1.44 . . . Then Licq and kde ran fine. :) -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 1/27/00, 1:12:50 AM, Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: [newbie] typing in licq: I have exactly the same problem with licq... Haven't found a workaround/fix yet.bet someone else has though :-) Rgds: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: David van Balen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 27 January 2000 9:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] typing in licq Has anyone else had trouble typing in licq? Whenever I type anything that goes over a line in length, everything I've typed until that point disapears and is replaced with junk. I have to hit enter every time I get to the end of the line which is quite annoying. Any known way to fix this? DvB
[newbie] Epson 740 UniPrint Drivers
I once sent the link out to someone else for those drivers, and now that I recently reformated and installed I find that I no longer have the link, or that the site is down. If someone still has the drivers, or knows where to find them, I'd really appreciate it if you'd e-mail the drivers to me, or send the link. Thanks, Ty -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] The text!!! HELP!!!!
I had the same problem under 6.1 (Helios?) with my SiS 559x chipset. I had to use the 6.0 SVGA server to get it to work. 7.0 works fine however. I'd suggest either run the 7.0 server, or do an rpm --U --oldpackage last server that worked.rpm -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 1/23/00, 10:17:35 AM, "^*Tim*^ *^Seedorf^*" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] The text!!! HELP: Ok,I installed and everything works fine,but one thing. The text has like a black highlight over it that won't go away! I can read anything,or see what some icons look like,help! and please tell me if anyone else has the same problems!! thanx! Tim __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] BinChunker for Linux
I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that will take a bin/cue file combination and turn it into an iso like BinChunker does for windows? If so, I'd appreciate the link, or even a few good search terms. Thanks! -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
