Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
Thanks folks. Yes, I thought I might get more flack for my message than I did. As far as the port, I have since looked at the site for thunderbird, which BTW works on win/mac/linux and it looks like it should be easy to move the mail. I haven't tried it yet, and will certainly return here if I need help with it. I do appreciate peoples willingness to offer help, even though the purpose is unsavory. I will give you a short idea of why I am thinking of moving back to win. I came to mandrake linux from being a long time mac user and occasional windows user. I was using an ancient mac with ancient OS and wanted a much faster computer. So i built a a very modest box which is vastly better than what I came from. I would have stuck with mac if I had the money, but not really NEEDING any highend mac software (video, sound editing etc) I decided to give linux a try. (yes, I know there is a tons of great linux software.) The experience has been good and in a lot of ways I really liked mandrake. However I had a lot of problems installing new software and generally trying to change things around. It was terrific when I used the software that came with the installation. But installing other things was really difficult for me. For instance, I got my ipod working under mandrake but I couldn't transfer aac files. I successfully installed a program that aloud me to me encode to aac but it appeared not to be compatable with the program I needed to move the files to the IPOD. That is there seemed to be two different software programs that aloud for use of AAC files. I installed one of them and got the encoding to work. But then I seemed to need another one for GTKPOD to be able to transfer the files to the ipod. This is just an example. I know there was a solution and I am sure people would have helped me to find it eventually, but this is the kind of problems that I was having. I can definitely reccomend Mandrake to people switching who want to do basic computer functions and not install allot of new software and change things around. Installation was easy and the system and software were very usable. Unfortunately I never tried the mandrake club service. I understand that might have helped allot in providing ready made rmps of a lot of software. I did want to try it but was just never ready to spend the money on a six month subscription. I wish they offered a very short trial subscription so that one could see its usefullness. I certainly would have paid $5 for instance to use it for a day or a few days in order to try it out. Thanks again! PS: just out of curiosity, is there a way to have both mandrake and windows running at the same time on a single processor? I realize that this would greatly affect system resources, if it is even possible, but I was just wondering. I currently have a dual boot setup. Gideon On Friday 08 October 2004 08:30 pm, g2 wrote: Hi folks, I am in a situation where I would like to move all the saved messages I have in KDE mail into a program under windows. I think I might be using the mozilla thunderbird. I do have a fat32 partition that I can see from both the linux and windows environments. Can anyone explain how I might go about importing the mail from KDE under linux into thunderbird in windows xp? Thanks a bunch! Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
Anne, Thanks for your message. Yes, I had set up urmp with some additional sources, I am pretty sure including a plf source. However I still found it difficult to browse for software. What I found myself wanting, no doubt from my past experiences with other OS's, were lists of software by type with easy to understand explainations of what they did. I found this quite dificult. I will check out urpmi.org/easyurpmi I am not completly giving up on linux. I am however probably switching my primary OS to win xp. I will keep the dual boot and continue to play around with linux when I have the time. Perhpase I will switch back sometime. Thanks again! PS: does the rmp software depository at the mandrake club offer something important over that of other sources, such as ones I might find at easyurpmi? Perhpase just beyond MORE software? Such as easier browsing, better catagorization etc? Gideon On Saturday 09 October 2004 01:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 17:43, g2 wrote: I can definitely reccomend Mandrake to people switching who want to do basic computer functions and not install allot of new software and change things around. Installation was easy and the system and software were very usable. As I'm sure you realise, linux is not only good for basic needs. However, the problems you have met spring largely from having pre-conceived ideas (we all have them if we have used a different OS) and having to learn new ways of doing things, as well as being adventurous in trying things out. Sometimes things get broken that way ;-) There's usually plenty of help in sorting them, but, of course, it takes time. Unfortunately I never tried the mandrake club service. I understand that might have helped allot in providing ready made rmps of a lot of software. I did want to try it but was just never ready to spend the money on a six month subscription. I wish they offered a very short trial subscription so that one could see its usefullness. I certainly would have paid $5 for instance to use it for a day or a few days in order to try it out. I wonder if you had sources set up for additional programs? There are many more available in rpms for Mandrake than those on the cds. If you are interested in looking further, you might like to try urpmi.org/easyurpmi to get additional souces - in particular plf, which is a repository for apps that cannot be included in the distro for licensing issues. There are other useful ones, too, and I'm sure people will give you urls for them if you want them. PS: just out of curiosity, is there a way to have both mandrake and windows running at the same time on a single processor? I realize that this would greatly affect system resources, if it is even possible, but I was just wondering. I currently have a dual boot setup. You can run much of windows software, using wine, win4lin or vmware, but they will only work if you have the hardware working under linux. Good luck! Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
Hi folks, I am in a situation where I would like to move all the saved messages I have in KDE mail into a program under windows. I think I might be using the mozilla thunderbird. I do have a fat32 partition that I can see from both the linux and windows environments. Can anyone explain how I might go about importing the mail from KDE under linux into thunderbird in windows xp? Thanks a bunch! Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] difficulty reconfiguring Kwallet under mdk 10.0
I am running Mandrake 10.0 Official. Somehow I accidentally set a password for the Kwallet, despite really not needing one. Now each time I start up kmail, the mail program I use regularly, I have to enter in the kwalltet password. I get a dialog box explaining that the application has requested access to the kwallet, and prompts me for the password. I would like to get rid of this extra step so I don't need to enter this. Before it was a minor annoyance not worth the effort to get rid of, but now I want kmail to launch apon boot, so i really need to get rid of the password problem. I tried getting into kwalett by accesssing it via the menu under kde system:configure:other:kwallet. The system seems to be trying to do somthing for about a minuet, and then nothing ! Not sure whats wrong, why I cant get in to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. PS once I get this problem solved, how do I set kmail to automaticly launch apon system startup? Thanks a bunch. Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O
On Sunday 23 May 2004 11:59 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: g2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O I am trying to get my ipod (original 5 gig first gen) to work with MDK 10.0 O. I am ussing gtkpod 7.0 I am able to READ from the ipod, that is see the files and play them, but I am not able to write to it. When I try to synch gtkpod reports: Could not open iTunesDB /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB for writing. I have an inkiling that the the file /usr/fstab might have something to do with my problem (just a guess). I include the text of the file below, in case that is helpfull. I also tried changing combinations of the user and group of the whole directory recursively using chown, chgrp, and chmod. I couldnt get this to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks. Gideon /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda5 /fat32 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 I also have yet to get my iPod to work with Linux. GTKPod always crashes, so I've tried GNUPod, but I don't think it works with gen3s. --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com FYI I did finaly get it working, so if anyone else wants more ingo, let me know. Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O
hi folks, i just wanted to put out another request for info. Please see my previous message here. I have yet to resolve the problem and would greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks. Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O
On Sunday 23 May 2004 11:59 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: g2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O I am trying to get my ipod (original 5 gig first gen) to work with MDK 10.0 O. I am ussing gtkpod 7.0 I am able to READ from the ipod, that is see the files and play them, but I am not able to write to it. When I try to synch gtkpod reports: Could not open iTunesDB /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB for writing. I have an inkiling that the the file /usr/fstab might have something to do with my problem (just a guess). I include the text of the file below, in case that is helpfull. I also tried changing combinations of the user and group of the whole directory recursively using chown, chgrp, and chmod. I couldnt get this to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks. Gideon /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda5 /fat32 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 I also have yet to get my iPod to work with Linux. GTKPod always crashes, so I've tried GNUPod, but I don't think it works with gen3s. --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hu, I never had gtkpod crash. I did say i am ussing a first gen ipod. Did you get GNUPod fully working with read and write capabilities? If so, what does your fstab entry look like and what do your permissions look like? Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O
On Monday 24 May 2004 03:54 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 05:01, g2 wrote: SNIP Thanks derek for the info. Could you provide additional direction? What am I looking at in the urpmf results? libfaad2_0 is the file I am finding out about and the results say this file is in all these diferent packages on my system? So the same file is in all those packages, or all those packages somehow depended on one single copy of the file on my HD? It seems to me like I have lots of faab! The results of urpmf libfaad are below. I am still confused about how to located the missing package. I do believe I have a plf sourse entered in software media manager (urpmi?) my plf entry is: ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0 Result of urpmf libfaad: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aacplugin-1.1.4]# urpmf libfaad libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.la libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.la libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.la libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libfaad.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libfaad.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/faad.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mp4.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mp4ff.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mpeg4ip.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/systems.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.so libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so vlc-plugin-faad:/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libfaad_plugin.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] aacplugin-1.1.4]# Thanks so much for your time. You probably didn't figure I was quite THIS confused ! :) Gideon urpmf libfaad will list all packages containing files with that string in them. As you see that are four different packages. libfaad2_0-static-devel, libfaad2_0, libfaad2_0-devel and vlc-plugin-faad libfaad2_0 is the actual library. We know this because it contains the file libfaad.so.0 The 'so' means 'shared object' i.e. a library. You need this installed to use any application involving libfaad. The two 'devel' packages contain the header files of the libfaad library and are necessary if you want to compile any application that requires libfaad. The 'static' devel package is used when you want to integrate libfaad inside the application you are compiling so it is not necessary to separately install the libfaad package. This is known as 'static' linking. The other 'devel' package is used to compile dynamically linked applications where the libfaad package has to be separately installed. Dynamic linked applications are smaller in size than static ones because they do not need to contain all the dependency libraries. When compiling apps we normally use dynamic linking, so in order to compile your application install just libfaad2_0-devel. You will also need to install libfaad2_0 in order to actually run your application. The last package vlc-plugin-faad contains a library to use faad with the Vlc media player (available from plf) The fact that urpmq lists these packages at all means that your plf source is correctly set up. You can install them either using the software install GUI or from the command line (as root) urpmi libfaad2_0-devel libfaad2_0 If the install fails, then it may be your database for plf is out of date. Refresh it with urpmi.update plf If you want to try out the Vlc player (which supports aac), then :- urpmi vlc vlc-plugin-alsa vlc-plugin-faad kvlc derek Great, Thanks for the clear explanations. I appreciate the primer. The fact that urpmq lists these packages at all means that your plf source is correctly set up. Doesn't it show that those files are already installed on my HD? I did do a refresh of urpmi. and Installed the Vlc player, which is working fine. I tried installing faad from the command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] g]# urpmi libfaad2_0-devel libfaad2_0 Everything already installed Yet when I ./configure I still get: ... checking for main in -lfaad... no configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please install first *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] aacplugin-1.1.4]# Now when I do the ./configure I am ussing the same folder that I tar(ed) before installing a bunch of these packages. Thats fine, right? Its the ./configure command which is rechecking my system to see if i have everything needed, and STILL NOT FINDING FAAD ! In addition, neither libfaad2_0-devel or libfaad2_0 finds anything when searching from rpmdrake. I tried each of the three search methods, by name, file name, and descritpion. Is it not finding anything because I already have them installed? Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from
[newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O
I would like to access and listen to aac files under MDK 10.0 O. I downloaded aacplugin-1.1.4.tar.gz However it answered: configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please install first *** I have not been able to locate this file. I have tried searching from rmpDrake (I have set up urpmi with online sources) as well as sourgeforge and freshmeat. Any suggestions? Thanks Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O
I am trying to get my ipod (original 5 gig first gen) to work with MDK 10.0 O. I am ussing gtkpod 7.0 I am able to READ from the ipod, that is see the files and play them, but I am not able to write to it. When I try to synch gtkpod reports: Could not open iTunesDB /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB for writing. I have an inkiling that the the file /usr/fstab might have something to do with my problem (just a guess). I include the text of the file below, in case that is helpfull. I also tried changing combinations of the user and group of the whole directory recursively using chown, chgrp, and chmod. I couldnt get this to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks. Gideon /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda5 /fat32 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O
On Sunday 23 May 2004 07:46 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 00:14, g2 wrote: I would like to access and listen to aac files under MDK 10.0 O. I downloaded aacplugin-1.1.4.tar.gz However it answered: configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please install first *** I have not been able to locate this file. I have tried searching from rmpDrake (I have set up urpmi with online sources) as well as sourgeforge and freshmeat. Any suggestions? Thanks Gideon Any time you want to know which package a file lives in use urpmf urpmf libfaad You probably need to install libfaad2_0-devel as well as libfaad2_0 derek Thanks derek for the info. Could you provide additional direction? What am I looking at in the urpmf results? libfaad2_0 is the file I am finding out about and the results say this file is in all these diferent packages on my system? So the same file is in all those packages, or all those packages somehow depended on one single copy of the file on my HD? It seems to me like I have lots of faab! The results of urpmf libfaad are below. I am still confused about how to located the missing package. I do believe I have a plf sourse entered in software media manager (urpmi?) my plf entry is: ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0 Result of urpmf libfaad: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aacplugin-1.1.4]# urpmf libfaad libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.la libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.la libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.la libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libfaad.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libfaad.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/faad.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mp4.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mp4ff.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mpeg4ip.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/systems.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.so libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so vlc-plugin-faad:/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libfaad_plugin.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] aacplugin-1.1.4]# Thanks so much for your time. You probably didn't figure I was quite THIS confused ! :) Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
ah yes, ok, that did the trick. Actually I did not know what the . stood for. Thank you for thinnking of the obvious, all set now ! :) GT On Thursday 13 May 2004 12:27 am, John Layt wrote: It should be in your home directory, i.e. /home/yourusername/.Mail Note that it is a hidden directory due to the . in front of the name, so If looking for it under Konqi you will need to go to the View menu and turn on Show Hidden Files. John. On Thu, 13 May 2004 14:49, g2 wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2004 11:59 pm, g2 wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:47 pm, g2 wrote: Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied my old Mail folder to my home directory. I did have a couple of new messages in kmail, before i quit and copied the old mail folder to home, but nothing I needed. Everything is working fine now, EXCEPT that each time kmail starts up, I recieved a dialoge box that announces: The directory .Mail exists. We can't move mail. I need to release this dialogue box before kmail will load. Incidently, the dialoge box is oddly covered up by another box, that announces K KONTACT groupware. I am however able to move the underlying box out in order to click ok and allow the program to continue loading. What should I do to make things right? Thanks. Gideon so why no responses folks? Was my problem not explained clearly, or did it seem like not a big enough problem for people to bother answering? G2 Thanks to everyone who responded. Where might this .mail folder exist? I cannot find it. The mail folder which actually contains my mail data is right in my home directory. I have done a file search on .mail and it doesnt find it. Thanks. G2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cant synch to palm pilot; MD 10.0 OFL
I am not getting my palm pilot to sync. I did a clean install of 10.0 official and would like to get my palm pilot to work. Its a clie peg sj22, it connects via usb. I was able to do some type of sync under 9.2. I'm not sure I had that working 100% correctly, but i know it was at least syncing to some degree. I have tried under both jpilot and pilot. I have received the message: Warning (gpilotd) Unknown pilot- no pilots matches ID -1073745932 Use gnomecc to set pilots ID Whats that? How do I get there? Is it referring to pilot under the applications:office:communications menu? I tried that. I tried getting ID from pilot. Doesn't seem to work. I haven't tried sending ID to pilot as I would still like to be able to sync with me windoZe machine. I tried copying the full message from jpilot, but i could not figure out how to copy the text. ctrl c didn't seem to work and there was no copy function on the menus. I also got the msg: Could not open /home/g/.jpilot/saved preferences pilot settings do say usb. After nothing worked, I tried ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot as root. Now when I get id from pilot and then push sync on the pilot itself, something seems to happen because the pilot says its syncing, and then it says finished, cleaning up and that its all been synced. But when the desktop returns to control, there is still no ID in that field, actually it fills in a zero. But now the pilot doesn't just hang without a connection, so it seems like something is happening, but it isn't syncing. Any advice would be appreciated. yea, I'm a newbie :) Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 11:59 pm, g2 wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:47 pm, g2 wrote: Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied my old Mail folder to my home directory. I did have a couple of new messages in kmail, before i quit and copied the old mail folder to home, but nothing I needed. Everything is working fine now, EXCEPT that each time kmail starts up, I recieved a dialoge box that announces: The directory .Mail exists. We can't move mail. I need to release this dialogue box before kmail will load. Incidently, the dialoge box is oddly covered up by another box, that announces K KONTACT groupware. I am however able to move the underlying box out in order to click ok and allow the program to continue loading. What should I do to make things right? Thanks. Gideon so why no responses folks? Was my problem not explained clearly, or did it seem like not a big enough problem for people to bother answering? G2 Thanks to everyone who responded. Where might this .mail folder exist? I cannot find it. The mail folder which actually contains my mail data is right in my home directory. I have done a file search on .mail and it doesnt find it. Thanks. G2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:47 pm, g2 wrote: Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied my old Mail folder to my home directory. I did have a couple of new messages in kmail, before i quit and copied the old mail folder to home, but nothing I needed. Everything is working fine now, EXCEPT that each time kmail starts up, I recieved a dialoge box that announces: The directory .Mail exists. We can't move mail. I need to release this dialogue box before kmail will load. Incidently, the dialoge box is oddly covered up by another box, that announces K KONTACT groupware. I am however able to move the underlying box out in order to click ok and allow the program to continue loading. What should I do to make things right? Thanks. Gideon so why no responses folks? Was my problem not explained clearly, or did it seem like not a big enough problem for people to bother answering? G2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Nvidia problems
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:57 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, My system is an Asus a7n8x-deluxe with 1gb ram, 2x 120gb sata drives and Nvidia 5700u with 17 tft. I am installing with noapic nolapic acpi=off and everything seems to install correctly. I can configure xdrake during and after install but no matter what I do I am unable to get GUI to work. I have no TV card but the error I get from X is that it can't find a res for tv1. It won't use nv and the Nvidia 5336 run scripts compiles and everything seems okay but comes up with this error when run. This is with both versions of 10. Has anybody else got a similar config working? I have tried depmod -a and a few other things I have found on lists and around the net but to no avail. I am getting seriously stressed as I have little time to dig into this at the moment (hence the amount of time before I have posted this mail). I am using the 2.6 kernels with both versions of 10 and have tried all the 2.6 kernels that are installed. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com I cant offer much help, I am probably more newbie than you. But I can let you know that I installed 10.0 Official on my A7n8x-x asus board (no onboard video) with a nvidia Geforce2 MX/MX 400. I did a clean isntall and everything just worked, no need to install any other drivers or anything. This was better than my expeirience with 9.2 which did require me installing a driver. Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied my old Mail folder to my home directory. I did have a couple of new messages in kmail, before i quit and copied the old mail folder to home, but nothing I needed. Everything is working fine now, EXCEPT that each time kmail starts up, I recieved a dialoge box that announces: The directory .Mail exists. We can't move mail. I need to release this dialogue box before kmail will load. Incidently, the dialoge box is oddly covered up by another box, that announces K KONTACT groupware. I am however able to move the underlying box out in order to click ok and allow the program to continue loading. What should I do to make things right? Thanks. Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official
Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD 10.0 and setting up my mail account, I copied my old Mail folder to my home directory. I did have a couple of new messages in kmail, before i quit and copied the old mail folder to home, but nothing I needed. Everything is working fine now, EXCEPT that each time kmail starts up, I recieved a dialoge box that announces: The directory .Mail exists. We can't move mail. I need to release this dialogue box before kmail will load. Incidently, the dialoge box is oddly covered up by another box, that announces K KONTACT groupware. I am however able to move the underlying box out in order to click ok and allow the program to continue loading. What should I do to make things right? Thanks. Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 09:06, Nelson Bartley wrote: It's not that it's quiet, it's just those people w/ problems appear to be waiting for 9.0 as it'll be out in 30 days or less. I know the cooker list has been unusually busy this past week, and will be even more busy next week when beta 2 comes out. Or maybe, civilme has put up a new mailing list there is where everyone is emailing their questions. :) -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent; Common sense, not common at all. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PC restars when i press b
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 16:11, civileme wrote: snip Civileme thanks! you're right it was a hardware problem. It was the SDRAM, it was not properly inserted in the SODIMM. now my laptop is doin ok. hey I read ur leavin, what a loss, hope you'll be back soon, but if not I wish you goodluck on your next voyage. thanks! -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NO DESKTOP ICONS IN GNOME
hi, Help! how come my gnome starts without the DESKTOP ICONS? Also right clicking and Left clicking on the desktop does nothing. Grrr!, my KDE 3.0.2 suddenly logs outs, now I have no desktop icons on my Gnome. i wonder what will happen next? any more desktops out there? -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sudden Logouts
hi, I haven't fixed my KDE 3.0.2 Sudden Logouts that is why Im switching temporarily to GNOME, the problem is, I find KDE more user friendly than GNOME for example in creating shorcuts to applications, I cant seem to figure out yet how to make one in GNOME without dragging from Nautilus, unlike in KDE where i just have to right click and voila, a create link to application menu. Switching between desktops sucks, just when i get used to KDE, that darn sudden logouts occur. is that a known bug? or am just one of the few lucky user to experience that? what's the latest stable version of GNOME? I read GNOME 2 is just on a beta version. HYH -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sudden Logouts of KDE
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 08:04, s wrote: Shoot, that dern wizard is going to run every single time without changing anything! :D And the ~/.kpersonalizerc didn't stop mine. So, I cut it off at the roots. I used to comment out that whole section in startkde, but now I highlight it and delete it. :D I hope the OP don't have to resort to that, but just in case. where exactly is that .kpersonalizerc file located? I'm not a fan of grep, guess because I'm not sure how to use it. Is there a FIND command in KDE or GNOME or XWINDOWS? -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sudden Logouts! NOT FIXED
hi, false alarm, just when I thought my SUDDEN LOGOUT problems was fixed by deleting the files in tmp/ i was wrong. after the sudden logout of my KDE 3.0.2, F7 now displays and does not respond to anything not even STARTX. now what?...Help. -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] yahoo messenger having problems ...
On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:29, vangala sarma wrote: Hi I have the linux version of yahoo messenger installed in my system (MAndrake 8.1). It displays the messenger window and then the screen is stuck like that. The only thing I can do next is close the screen. Can anybody tell what the problem is and how can I rectify that. There are no error messages being displayed either. Well, the last couple of days, I cannot connect to YM with a winsux box or my linux box. I think they are having problems. Bill if you're using a Yahoo Messenger as a normal user, you should first copy the .ymessenger directory to your User's home directory $cp -r .ymessenger /home/USER $chown USER:USER .ymessenger -R Did you install the Mandrake Version? HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sudden logouts
snip well that really is an open question, but just for fun, what desktop (and version) are you useing? i noticed the same thing in the first release of kde 3.0.2 but they updated it on the 10th, and using that i see no problems. yet. :) I just found out this sudden logouts only happens with KDE. I'm using KDE version 2.2.2, Release 2.4.18-6mdk. It's the default version of Mandrake 8.2. So how do I fix it? I'm not sure how to update my KDE Desktop. yeah, I probably be googling first. - -- If I admit I was wrong, I am only saying I am wiser today than yesterday. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9NutmBwq+ZwvIN/oRAru+AJ0dJRyd6MSD62/gvDFMldNVULasIQCfZdwW IjhJkyOb2E+kJ+zS0cOCKIc= =RnYa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sudden logouts
hi, can you give an idea on what to deal with because Im having this strange logouts whenever my xwindow is idle specially when Im in the virtual terminal console. whats got to do with this? my resolution config? my power saving? my screensaver? I did tried changing these but it didnt fixed it. -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] missing charsets
hi, what caused this? Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: charsets in FontSet creation I already changed my charset in Look and Feel but this continues to appear. how can I fix this? -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: Warren Post wrote: How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make sense of the man page. Warren I would also like to know more about changing locale. KDE 3 relies on it to correctly encode characters (I don't know why don't they encode everything into Unicode). So any help would be appriciated. -- Live long and prosper! I had the same problem once, but I was wanting to install Japanese. Try to install kinput2 and freewin RPMS but I think these are for Japanese. Spanish use roman letters right? if yes then you dont have to install another set of fonts. In my case I installed Japanese fonts. Run localedrake it runs either on the command line or in xwin. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: Warren Post wrote: How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make sense of the man page. Warren I would also like to know more about changing locale. KDE 3 relies on it to correctly encode characters (I don't know why don't they encode everything into Unicode). So any help would be appriciated. hi! run #localedrake then choose the language you want to use. HTH (Hope This Helps) -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing locale
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 10:28, Warren Post wrote: Thanks, that did it. The closest localedrake could get me was es_MX, but that's close enough. Now when I install a new package or force an upgrade of an existing package, it appears in Spanish. The only app I'm afraid to do this on is my email client, Evolution. If I force an upgrade, will I lose my mail, address book, and the like? hmm, i dont think your Evolution files will be lost cause it's in different directories. When I remove my yahoo messenger, it also removed the evolution and gkhtml RPMs I thought I was in trouble of losing my files. What I did was reinstall those two RPMS and presto, back as it was, nothing was lost. the problem is, my evolution and other word processor apps cant still display japanese characters, i dunno why. I still haven't fixed it yet, so i guessHelp? My envionment is in English, I just want to make Japanese available when I need it. Warren On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 02:48, g2 wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: Warren Post wrote: How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make sense of the man page. hi! run #localedrake then choose the language you want to use. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet Connection Sharing
Hi, can you help me on how to setup a private network. My linux server has 2 NICs and I want to share my internet connection to my subnet. I did some googling, read some howtos and visited mandrakeusers.org but I cant seem to make it work. I run mcc, and enables Internet Sharing, I chose eth1 as the one connected to my LAN. I think I have a problem my routing table. from the client side, well I can ping the IP Add of eth0 as well as the IP Add of eth1. hereis my ifconfig : eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:36:42:45 inet addr:158.202.49.147 Bcast:158.202.49.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14759 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5596 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2 collisions:306 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:4874410 (4.6 Mb) TX bytes:663386 (647.8 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:40:0A:0F:EA inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:101950 (99.5 Kb) TX bytes:80060 (78.1 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:117535 (114.7 Kb) TX bytes:117535 (114.7 Kb) And my route table 158.202.49.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 158.202.49.10.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 when i do [root]#route add -host 192.168.0.1 gw 158.202.49.147 eth1 it says Network Unreachable. Is this what is suppose to have? eth1 will have eth0 IP Add as its gateway. client (subnet) pc will have eth1 IP Add as its gateway. help. g2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enlarge a linux partition?
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 23:01, Zlatko Savic wrote: Hey everyone, my question is simple but solution might not be. I have installed some time ago MD 7.2 and have only / and /home mounted on two partitions. I need to enlarge my / (root) partition because I continue adding applications but there is not much space left. Should I simply use Partition Magic and enlarge it, or maybe create another partition and mount it on /usr or /etc or any other space-consuming partition? I had the same problem before I installed Mandrake 8.2. What I did was I installed System Commander its for windows though, but in case you dont know, well it runs in the MRB so you have to reinstall or configure your linux again. With System Commander I was able to reduce the size of my windows partition (who needs it anyway). It works fine plus a very good GUI so Im sure you'll be having no problem. When you're through, just uninstall it then reconfigure your Mandrake. HTH -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] enlarge a linux partition?]
Hey everyone, my question is simple but solution might not be. I have installed some time ago MD 7.2 and have only / and /home mounted on two partitions. I need to enlarge my / (root) partition because I continue adding applications but there is not much space left. Should I simply use Partition Magic and enlarge it, or maybe create another partition and mount it on /usr or /etc or any other space-consuming partition? I installed System Commander. Plus ofcourse, it helps if you do a disk defragging so the available spaces are intact and together -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent RLU # 278414 ---BeginMessage--- On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 23:01, Zlatko Savic wrote: Hey everyone, my question is simple but solution might not be. I have installed some time ago MD 7.2 and have only / and /home mounted on two partitions. I need to enlarge my / (root) partition because I continue adding applications but there is not much space left. Should I simply use Partition Magic and enlarge it, or maybe create another partition and mount it on /usr or /etc or any other space-consuming partition? I had the same problem before I installed Mandrake 8.2. What I did was I installed System Commander its for windows though, but in case you dont know, well it runs in the MRB so you have to reinstall or configure your linux again. With System Commander I was able to reduce the size of my windows partition (who needs it anyway). It works fine plus a very good GUI so Im sure you'll be having no problem. When you're through, just uninstall it then reconfigure your Mandrake. HTH -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent RLU # 278414 ---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal? YES MINICOM
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 23:07, Randy Kramer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an app that will alow me to configure routers, switches etc via serial console connections? Well, I know there is, I've just never tried it from Linux. Don't know if telnet would do the job, if not there are some tools with tty in the name (like mintty, etc.??) that might do the job. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will answer you! hi I happen to experienced that problem, try using minicom, a very good terminal emulator that can connect to your serial devices. you have to configure it first by running #minicom -s. if you have any problems using it, Ill be happy to help. HTH Randy Kramer -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ipv6
hi, does Mandrake linux 8.2 supports ipv6? g2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Japanese Input
Hi, its me again. i successfully installed kinput2 and freewin RPM on my Linux Mandrake 8.2 as well as the Japanese fonts, but shift+space and ctrl+/ is still not working. how can i input hiragana, katakana and kanji? what applications do they usually can be used for? i tried it on advnace editor and kWord but still not working. is there something i missed? my default language is English and I just like to make Japanese available for my console cause my job requires some Japanese documents. also, i already configured my keyboard to 106 japanese but none of those extra keys work. I tried to edit the key binding configuration but it cant detect the extra keys. is the windows key really not working in mandrake? any suggestions? last. how can i have my own Linux User number? Do i have to pay for that? thanks! -- g2 "intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] external USB Logitech HD cant mount
hi, im having problems mounting my Logitech HD connected thru USB 1.1. i already installed USBview and USBmodule RPMs on my Mandrake Linux 8.2 and it was detected successfully. the problem is, i cant mount it. there is no /dev/sda file only /dev/usb/ but its not a valid mounting file. I run, service usb start and /etc/init.d/usb start, and it said the status was ok. is sda file for that device or should i mount another file? do i have to install a driver because i dont have one for linux right now. I read the howto on USB, it said it treats USB lik SCSI but then how come i dont have sda* files? How can I also use my USB Logitech:logicool webcam? are drivers still needed for those? if so, does Linux have a drivers list on the web. any suggestions? thanks! -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Japanese Input
Hi, how can I input Japanese characters in Mandrake Linux 8.2? Is there something like IME where in i can choose my input locale? what RPMs should I install? thanks! -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
