[newbie] cpufreq problem
Hello All, When trying to load powernow-k7 (or speedstep-centrino on my laptop) I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# modprobe powernow-k7 WARNING: Error inserting processor (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko.gz): No such device FATAL: Error inserting powernow-k7 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.ko.gz): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) in dmesg Access to /proc/cpufreq is deprecated and will be removed from (new) 2.6. kernels soon after 2005-01-01 powernow-k7: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance powernow-k7: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance ACPI is OFF -BIOS too old- (by the way, is this related ?) I was wondering if the kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk (Mandrake 10.1) was supporting this feature ? Could someone confirm or comment ? Many thanks, Patrick PS: btw, first post on this forum :-) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] WinAmp 5 clone
Hi Folks, Can anyone point me in the direction of a linux clone on winamp5, I've been using xmms for years to play my mp3's and such. But the other day while working on a windows machine I discovered that winamp provides lists of radio tv stations that stream(?) their stuff and I was wondered if such tool existed on linux? Thanks in Advance, Paddy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone
On Saturday 13 March 2004 22:59, Alaa The Great wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:38:29 + Can anyone point me in the direction of a linux clone on winamp5,... try streamtuner from contrib Thanks that's what I was looking for. Paddy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone
On Saturday 13 March 2004 23:40, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:25:48 + It gets better. Install streamripper, and you can record the streams to your HD as MP3. Things just get better and better :o) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community available to club members...
On Friday 05 March 2004 16:50, Tom Brinkman wrote: Search the archives for this list or expert. Many includin myself have explained how to limit upload bandwidth. Hint: you need to reserve some of your upload width, in order to download at full speed. Would someone please post the optimum (for each type of connection e.g 1M/512K 512K/256K 512K/128k etc.) download.py files for each type of connection to the wiki or even those with a good balance. Thanks, P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Working Rendition V2200 Driver for 9.2?
Try startx -- No luck, same error. The error is: redition_drv.o received improper signal, I think. It tells me it's 'signal 4'. That's about it. (sigh) Looks like I need to root my Banshee out of storage. - Patrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Working Rendition V2200 Driver for 9.2?
Hey everyone. I recently did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 from the 3-disc ISOs which I downloaded. The install was to a system running 192 MB of PC100 Ram, a Motherboard that I no longer have the specs for [ashamed face], a AMD K6-II 400 Mhz processor, and a Quantum 6.something gig HDD. The sound is onboard and the videocard is a Hercules Thriller 3D running the Rendition V2200 chipset. The install went fine, and I specified the system to boot to KDE, because I've worked with KDE a smidgen in the past, and it seemed like something I wanted to mess with more. However, I got dropped to the terminal prompt after the install and reboot and upon typing "KDE" I get an error message indicating that the driver (with rendition in the name) doesn't work. The card in question has had the BIOS updated to the latest Rendition version that was available, and everything else is running smoothly. Anybody have any suggestions? Thank you. - Patrick
Re: [newbie] 9.2 now: 10.0 later?
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:54:36 -0700 Floyd Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to 10.0rc1 from 9.2 with urpmi without any problems. However, seeing as 10.0rc2 is about to hit the mirrors, you might as well skip the upgrade and just go straight to 10.0RC2. Unless you're waiting for the Official release, that is. Could you provide pointers on how to do this? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:24:15 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try Sylpheed-Claws and you'll really flip out. Thanks for the tip, Sylpheed-Claws seems to be the most functional email client I used on linux. Much, Much better than kmail/evolution. Thanks again. Paddy pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [newbie] graphical login - again
Hi Bill, I believe the file you would be looking for is /etc/inittab, This is the file that specifies if you boot to the command prompt or a graphical login. The line your looking for is: id:X:initdefault: where X is the runlevel, 5 would be the graphical login so it should read id:5:initdefault: Well, I hope that helps. --Pat From: Bill W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] graphical login - again Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:18:43 + Hi everyone, I've been trying to track down the reason that my machine won't boot into a graphical login manager. Remember, my machine is set to boot graphically in MCC and it seems to trya blue screen appears for a moment then flashes offthis occurs twice. I checked the boot.log and there was no mention of any failed steps. Can anyone tell me which file contains the boot config? I should take a look and see if it is ok. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get a FREE online virus check for your PC here, from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems
Tom Brinkman said:
Before starting the torrent, I edit
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.py
(your python version might be different, mines current cooker)
... and limit upload bandwidth by editing
defaults = [
('max_uploads', 2,
the maximum number of uploads to allow at once.),
... and
('max_upload_rate', 4,
'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
Thanks tom this was just the information I was looking for.
Talk to you soon,
Take care,
Paddy
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If it happens twice, it's a feature.
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[newbie] bittorrent problems
Hi Folks, I've been trying to download the cooker iso's using bt for the last day or so but running bittorrent slows my internet connection to a crawl my connection is a cable modem 600K Down / 128K Up). After googling about it looks like I need to preform some traffic shaping on my connection but that looks a bit hairy and not really something I what to tackle at the minute because I've only just got my Mandrake 9.2 nice and comfy for everyday use. So, after reading through the BT website and wiki it appears that I just need to start bt passing in a --max_upload_rate option (If I'm reading and understading the docs correctly) however when I try to start bt using the following command line, [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter explanations. Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Is there an rc file somewhere that I should set this in? Talk to you soon, Take care, Paddy If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. Linux user #140084 | http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems
Richard Urwin said: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter explanations. Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Is there an rc file somewhere that I should set this in? Off the top of my head, try using hyphens- rather than underlines. Nope, doesn't seem to like that that either [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max-upload-rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent These errors occurred during execution: [23:47:11] error: option --max-upload-rate not recognized run with no args for parameter explanations After a bit more experimenting it does appear that --max_upload_rate is what it is looking for because it does appear to be parsing it and it is expecting a number. I'm really stumped now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100k MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent These errors occurred during execution: [23:47:43] error: wrong format of --max_upload_rate - invalid literal for long(): 100k run with no args for parameter explanations Talk to you soon, Take care, Paddy If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. Linux user #140084 | http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT -Frozen Bubble
Phil Savoie said: Has anyone noticed that Frozen Bubble crashes with Mandrake 9.2? It does this everytime I start it. I have a radeon 9000 video card. It wouldn't be a big deal except it is one of my and my wifes favorite games. If there is any more info needed please let me know. Have you tried starting it up in a konsole window with the nosound option? [EMAIL PROTECTED] patrick]$frozen-bubble --nosound Talk to you soon, Take care, Paddy If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. Linux user #140084 | http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT -Frozen Bubble
Phil Savoie said: Have you tried starting it up in a konsole window with the nosound option? [EMAIL PROTECTED] patrick]$frozen-bubble --nosound Hi Paddy et al, That was it! Thank you very much! Something about the sound card which is on-board and works with everything else -- go figure. The error message is as follows: [SDL Init] ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy [Graphics...] [Levels] Ready. Now all I have to do is figure out what it *really* means and then try to fix it. Phil, are you running totem or anything else that uses sound (e.g. xmms, mplayer, xine). Thats what usually causes it to crash on my machine. No real idea why it should cause it though. Perphaps someone on the list can provide a bit more light? Talk to you soon, Take care, Paddy If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. Linux user #140084 | http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD
You were right! After adding the PLF software source and updating Mplayer it worked like a charm. Thank you very much! --pat From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:47:11 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:11 pm, Patrick Coffey wrote: hello, I can't play DVD's under MDK9.2. When using totem it says The movie 'Error reading NAV packet.' could not be read. I looked around for some settings but all I found that looked interesting was under preferences, the optical devices and it displays my DVD drive there. I then tried to use MPlayer to play the DVD but it just locked up. I have a Samsung DVD-Rom. Has anyone had this problem before? --Pat P.S. It does work under windows so the hardware works. ;-) That P.S. is of little value for the simple reason that this ain't Windows. (-; Off the top of my pointy head I'd say you need the decoders and codecs that can't be included in GPL operating systems to do what you're attempting. Go to: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ and add a PLF software source repository, then upgrade the mplayer, xine, and other multimedia packages. You may get lucky. Then come back to post any specific questions. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 13:39:08 up 2 days, 1:11, 1 user, load average: 1.21, 1.23, 0.77 We gotta get out of this place, If it's the last thing we ever do. -- The Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/329PZqvqlrLPr5YRAoqyAJ0dK2GDQ1Wa7BqEghbkpzc4MWOqHgCgnBwJ Pa7LG2iKQ82NCS1OCrCu7m0= =BkAA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Enjoy the holiday season with great tips from MSN. http://special.msn.com/network/happyholidays.armx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD
I already had a PLF and Contrib software repository setup. Once I updated Mplayer it worked fine. The site you listed, although a bit out of date still had good information on it. Thanks for the help --pat From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:38:20 -0500 On Tuesday 16 December 2003 03:11 pm, Patrick Coffey wrote: hello, I can't play DVD's under MDK9.2. When using totem it says The movie 'Error reading NAV packet.' could not be read. I looked around for some settings but all I found that looked interesting was under preferences, the optical devices and it displays my DVD drive there. I then tried to use MPlayer to play the DVD but it just locked up. I have a Samsung DVD-Rom. Has anyone had this problem before? Take a look at this link, slightly outdated but it should still work for 9.2 http://www.lavigna.us/dvd/ BTW, Google is your friend. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Make your home warm and cozy this winter with tips from MSN House Home. http://special.msn.com/home/warmhome.armx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
FW: Re: [newbie] Missing Screensavers
Do you remeber what packages you updated or did you just update all of them? --pat From: Brandon Erik Bertelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Missing Screensavers Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 21:09:32 -0500 Patrick Coffey wrote: Hello, I just installed a fresh copy Mandrake 9.2 with KDE, when I go to Configure Desktop and go under screensavers there are none listed. I've installed just about every KDE rpm I could find and I couldn't find a solution that worked in the archives. Does anybody have an idea? --Pat _ Take advantage of our best MSN Dial-up offer of the year six months @$9.95/month. Sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com When you update, they show up. It worked for me :). It's in the Mandrake Control Center... -- Software Packages ( or something like that ) --- Update Packages ( or something like that ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Browse styles for all ages, from the latest looks to cozy weekend wear at MSN Shopping. And check out the beauty products! http://shopping.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: FW: Re: [newbie] Missing Screensavers
Nevermind, I updated all the packages and one of them did the trick. Thanks for the help. --pat From: Patrick Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Re: [newbie] Missing Screensavers Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:15:59 + Do you remeber what packages you updated or did you just update all of them? --pat From: Brandon Erik Bertelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Missing Screensavers Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 21:09:32 -0500 Patrick Coffey wrote: Hello, I just installed a fresh copy Mandrake 9.2 with KDE, when I go to Configure Desktop and go under screensavers there are none listed. I've installed just about every KDE rpm I could find and I couldn't find a solution that worked in the archives. Does anybody have an idea? --Pat _ Take advantage of our best MSN Dial-up offer of the year six months @$9.95/month. Sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com When you update, they show up. It worked for me :). It's in the Mandrake Control Center... -- Software Packages ( or something like that ) --- Update Packages ( or something like that ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Browse styles for all ages, from the latest looks to cozy weekend wear at MSN Shopping. And check out the beauty products! http://shopping.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Wonder if the latest virus has gotten to your computer? Find out. Run the FREE McAfee online computer scan! http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.2 Install Good Update Bad
Greetings, My partner and I have now installed the Download version of MDK 9.2 on two different boxes. (PII 450 ABIT BH6 Athlon 1800 ASUS A7V333) Both of the installs went very well as we have come to expect with Mandrake. We noticed significant speed improvements over 9.1 on both boxes. When using the Mandrake Control Center to update the installation, things went bad. I installed the security updates first and there seemed to be no problems. However when bug fixes were selected, certain packages caused some unexpected problems. Both machines ended up with many items removed from the Kicker menu after the updates. Konsole seemed to missing altogether. Other programs that had been previously installed could not be found anywhere. Some packages, including Konsole would report a bad signature when attempting to re-install via the Mandrake Control Center. But would then install fine using urpmi. Is it possible to download and install bug fixes using the urpmi command instead of the Mandrake Control Center? PA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Java programming question?
Hi, I'm still relatively new to linux so I was hoping someone might know a quick answer to this question, when I try to run a very simple program I wrote it gives me the error: Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: lab1/java It didn't give me any errors when I compiled it, so I figure it must be something I'm doing wrong. Any thoughts? _ bGet MSN 8/b and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about my built in Network Adapter
good thinking, worked great. Thanks From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Question about my built in Network Adapter Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:22:56 -0400 On Monday 07 July 2003 01:12 am, Patrick O. Coffey wrote: Hi, I have two NIC's. One is built into the motherboard(an ASUS) nForce2 MCP Network Adapter, The other is an SMC card(SMC2-1211Tx) when I run the wizard in Mandrake Control Center it only configures the SMC card. Now it lists the built in adapter with the SMC under network adapters in the hardware list so why can't I configure it? Thanks in advance. Probably because it is an nForce2 onboard nic which does not have open source drivers. Did you install nVidia's nForce2 drivers? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Question about my built in Network Adapter
Hi, I have two NIC's. One is built into the motherboard(an ASUS) nForce2 MCP Network Adapter, The other is an SMC card(SMC2-1211Tx) when I run the wizard in Mandrake Control Center it only configures the SMC card. Now it lists the built in adapter with the SMC under network adapters in the hardware list so why can't I configure it? Thanks in advance. V/R pat
[newbie] Network question
Hello, I have a quick question, I just recently got rid of my cable modem and now get internet access through my LAN, but now I have a local IP address (I.E. 192.168.0.22) So I'm wondering how would I telnet into my computer from outside the LAN. And please keep in mind I don't know much about networking. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Optimizing my system
Thanks, works great now! From: Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Optimizing my system Date: 09 Jun 2003 18:47:02 +0200 Install the nvidia drivers. You can find them @ www.nvidia.com there should be info about how to install... If you start X, you first get a NVIDIA splash-screen. If you don't see that, the correct drivers are not installed. Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:36, Patrick Coffey wrote: My question is pretty simple, I downloaded Quake III:Arena demo the other day to compare how it played in linux and in windows. To my surprise the intro and menus were very slow and choppy and the game pretty much didn't play it was so slow. So my question is, how do I check to see if I have the right video drivers loaded, and how else could I optimize my system. I'm running an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.6Ghz with 256 MB DDR and a GeForce 4 ti 4200 with 128mb. _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail __ 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 _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Optimizing my system
My question is pretty simple, I downloaded Quake III:Arena demo the other day to compare how it played in linux and in windows. To my surprise the intro and menus were very slow and choppy and the game pretty much didn't play it was so slow. So my question is, how do I check to see if I have the right video drivers loaded, and how else could I optimize my system. I'm running an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.6Ghz with 256 MB DDR and a GeForce 4 ti 4200 with 128mb. _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?
Ok... finally got the manual stuff to run smoothly... Samba and Webmin are working fine. Thx to all who helped! PM On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:43 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:16 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 13 2003 09:35 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Let us - very politely - ask the proponents of the new rpmdrake/urpmi/gurpmi how they manage to get rid of unusable/disappeared/outdated sources ? Tom : are you here ? Kaj Haulrich. Well, here's how I do it. su to root in a terminal and type 'edit-' then hit the Tab key. The command will auto complete to 'edit-urpm-sources.pl', and press Enter. That starts Software Sources Manager (SSM) as root. Then you can use the little GUI to remove the source(s) by hi-liting them (IIRC, one at a time), and pressing the 'Remove' button. When you're done, you must press the 'Save and quit button'. Yes, been there, done that. However, the sources are still displayed and somehow still interacts with *urpmi.update -a. What we want - that's Patrick and me - is to get rid of the sources and start over. Patrick seems to have problems getting the sources right, possibly because the script I provided somehow messed things up on his system. I feel guilty and I'm trying to mimic his problem. You can also just uncheck the [ ] box by the source under the 'Enabled?' heading, to disable that source. Again you must exit with the 'Save and quit button', otherwise you've done nothin ;) OK, but that doesn't get rid of the sources either. Similar scenario for adding or editing sources. My usual user errors with sources are typo's (damn little gtk fonts!), or not realizing the mirror I chose is the problem. I've also found that when udating from mirrors, unless you need the installation CD's as sources, it's better to disable or remove them. Agreed. Especially those damned differences about the points (../) from source to source. I have to go to the actual site every time to find those *hdlist.cz*'s. But I don't havt'a fool with sources very often, and I've always added them on the CL (urpmi.addmedia). Since the last time I've become aware of a new tool, urpmi.setup. You'll need the rpm for it, urpmi.setup-0.4.2-1mdk, which I believe is for 9.1. I suspect it'll most likely run fine on older Mdk versions. I plan to switch to using it next time. For one it does an automatic mirror lookup appropriate for your system, including non-Mdk ones like PLF. IE, no need to paste URL's into SSM, or onto the CL. It'll also remove sources. I think urpmi.setup just might replace SSM, at least for me ;) Well, I'll try to get hold of this *urpmi.setup* knowing that some people here had big-time troubles installing something from 9.1 upon 9.0. But what the heck, 9.1 will enter my box very soon anyway :-) Thanks Tom. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === -- I'd rather be upside down in my kayak than right side up at my desk - bumper sticker, 72 Volvo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?
Tried the new one, same result... Permission denied I'll try the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php option. Regards, PM On Wednesday 12 February 2003 10:01 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:55:22 + From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 12 February 2003 03:50 pm, you wrote: When I tried to run this script, I got permission denied... I definitely have problems with my urpmi update sources, as I can't get libxml2 installed either. Any ideas? And thanks for all the help... PM Hmmm... there was a *private* thing in the original script, I'll attach an updated version. Try it. If that doesn't work either, point your browser to : http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php where you can define sources in a very *GUI* way. BTW : You posted to me off-list. Why ? - You see, most of us here on the list are *partial* experts, so when someone - me for instance - can't help you out completely, chances are that someone else has the exact key. Many listers read all the posts, so in this way you increase chances by some orders of magnitude. That's why I post this answer to you as well as the list. - OK ? HTH Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === -- I'd rather be upside down in my kayak than right side up at my desk - bumper sticker, 72 Volvo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?
Yes... I get the following error: error unable to inspect list file for update_source, medium ingored unalbe to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u) into account... /error Basically, the same error I have been seeing. Yes, I am looged in as root. Any thoughts? PM On Wednesday 12 February 2003 12:05 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 12:10 pm, Patrick Miller wrote: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php did you try the one this one creates? and remove all the others? -- I'd rather be upside down in my kayak than right side up at my desk - bumper sticker, 72 Volvo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless
Hi All, After a bit of playing and the purchase of a new pci-pcmcia adapter I have a single beep when cardmanager starts followed by a low tone. I guess the adapter is recognised but not the wireless card. Can anyone help me with that. Running a skynet global roamabout wireless lan card. - Original Message - From: Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Patrick. Do you hear the 'beeps' when pcmcia service starts? No Have a look in syslog (/var/log/syslog) for messages relating to pcmcia What do they say? starting pcmcia succeded yenta_socket no such device Is this a laptop or a desktop with a pcmcia-pci adapter? Desktop with a plx pci-pcmcia adapter What happens if you type pcic_probe in a root terminal window? command not found derek On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 2:32 am, Patrick Griffin wrote: Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat You need to install the pcmcia_cs and wireless-tools RPMS from your CDs Then next time you reboot yor pcmcia sockets should be detected and become active. You will hear two beeps from your computer when the pcmcia slots are enabled. Two beeps of different tone means your oricoco card was detected OK. Two beeps of same tone means it was not. Go through the Mandrake Control Centre Networking wizard. It should have detected your card and installed the 'wvlan_cs' driver. In the wizard you can set the wireless parameters (encryption key rate etc) after you complete the wizard with OK, DO NOT exit the GUI with OK. A bug means that it will write your old configuration back again. You must exit the GUI with 'Cancel' Your card should now be working. If it is not it is most likely a problem with encryption key or essid (Note ASCII encryption keys have to be entered in the format s:key_name ) You can use the command 'iwconfig eth0' in a root terminal window to set up the wireless card by hand, and 'man iwconfig' will give you all the parameters. HTH derek -- - - 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 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] Wireless
Install the pcmcia-cs-x11 RPM and then type cardinfo in a terminal. What do you see? Is this a package in 8.2 I can't seem to find it If you Open Mandrake ControlCentreNetworkConnection do you see the interface and driver listed in the panel near the bottom of the screen? no only the lan card Also do you have the wireless-tools and RPMs installed? yes What happens if you type iwconfig in a root terminal? lono wireless extensions eth0no wireless extensions derek 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] rescue
Hi Paul, Unfortunately the cd rom is not bootable. I booted from the floppy and typed rescue at the prompt but none of the available options seem to be of any help I can list the file systems on each hd but that just confirms what I already know. - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] rescue In reply to Patrick's mail, d.d. Sat, 9 Nov 2002 22:37:00 +1100: Boot from the first setup cd, hit ESC at the graphics screen and type rescue. That will boot you into linux. From there you are root and you can fix things up. Paul Hi All, I'M running mandrake 8.2 and have just installed squid and set it up to cache on my second hd. All was going well then the hd crashed and now the system won't boot it says that sdb5 does not contain a valid ext2 file system. How do I repair this I have another hd replkacement but the same problem exists. help please -- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. -Thornton Wilder http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.3 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! 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] Wireless
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Patrick. Do you hear the 'beeps' when pcmcia service starts? No Have a look in syslog (/var/log/syslog) for messages relating to pcmcia What do they say? starting pcmcia succeded yenta_socket no such device Is this a laptop or a desktop with a pcmcia-pci adapter? Desktop with a plx pci-pcmcia adapter What happens if you type pcic_probe in a root terminal window? command not found derek On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 2:32 am, Patrick Griffin wrote: Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat You need to install the pcmcia_cs and wireless-tools RPMS from your CDs Then next time you reboot yor pcmcia sockets should be detected and become active. You will hear two beeps from your computer when the pcmcia slots are enabled. Two beeps of different tone means your oricoco card was detected OK. Two beeps of same tone means it was not. Go through the Mandrake Control Centre Networking wizard. It should have detected your card and installed the 'wvlan_cs' driver. In the wizard you can set the wireless parameters (encryption key rate etc) after you complete the wizard with OK, DO NOT exit the GUI with OK. A bug means that it will write your old configuration back again. You must exit the GUI with 'Cancel' Your card should now be working. If it is not it is most likely a problem with encryption key or essid (Note ASCII encryption keys have to be entered in the format s:key_name ) You can use the command 'iwconfig eth0' in a root terminal window to set up the wireless card by hand, and 'man iwconfig' will give you all the parameters. HTH derek -- - - 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PPC installation problems with GeForce Video Card
Does anyone have advice on installing Mandrake 8.2PPC on a dual 1Ghz Mac? I have had zero success with installing and using Linux with this system. The system is a Dual 1Ghz Apple (Quicksilver, I think) Video card is a Nvidia GeForce4 MX And it uses the USB sound system and the sound sticks from Harmon Kardon. Also the flat panel display. My two biggest problems that I can as yet identify are: Bootstrap/ patitioning And video support. Any help would be greatly appreciated! J Thanks to all in advance. P.S. My goal would be to have a Linux only MAC. Not Dual boot is that possible? Or must I have a Mac partition first? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vnc
sorry my mistake read all the previous mail on the subject using 8.2 - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] vnc On Monday 04 Nov 2002 11:53 pm, Patrick Griffin wrote: Hi All, I have sucessfully installed vnc and can make it run from the desktop but how do i cinfigure it ti run as a service from start so i can remotley control the terminal from my windows box. If you installed Tightvnc from the mandrake 9.0 RPMs you can start vnc as a service from boot simply by checking the box in Mandrake ControlCentreSystemServices. There is a configuration file in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers entries in there will start 1 or more vnc servers at boot. The syntax to use is VNCSERVERS=1:myusername derek 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] Wireless
Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat You need to install the pcmcia_cs and wireless-tools RPMS from your CDs Then next time you reboot yor pcmcia sockets should be detected and become active. You will hear two beeps from your computer when the pcmcia slots are enabled. Two beeps of different tone means your oricoco card was detected OK. Two beeps of same tone means it was not. Go through the Mandrake Control Centre Networking wizard. It should have detected your card and installed the 'wvlan_cs' driver. In the wizard you can set the wireless parameters (encryption key rate etc) after you complete the wizard with OK, DO NOT exit the GUI with OK. A bug means that it will write your old configuration back again. You must exit the GUI with 'Cancel' Your card should now be working. If it is not it is most likely a problem with encryption key or essid (Note ASCII encryption keys have to be entered in the format s:key_name ) You can use the command 'iwconfig eth0' in a root terminal window to set up the wireless card by hand, and 'man iwconfig' will give you all the parameters. HTH derek 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
[newbie] Wireless
Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat
[newbie] Problem with booting after PPC install
I completed a successful installation of Mandrake 8.0 for PPC on my Apple Powerbook G4. I have two other partitions on my hard drive for Mac OS9 and OSX. After the installation my computer just booted straight to OSX. At the end of the install the installer said that there might be problems booting, and if that happened I should type setenv boot-device hd:4,\\:tbxi into open firmware. I tried that too, but when I restarted I got the blinking folder icon, and then the computer booted into OSX. Can anyone help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X-Server with Geforce2Go
Hi, I just tried installing 8.1 on my Toshiba 3000-400 which has a Nvidia Geforce 2Go Chipset. This worked perfectly well in 8.0, but in the new release I can´t get right configuration. All I see is some colourful lines, when testing the setup. Mandrake Recognizes the card as a Geforce 2 DDR, and the monitor as a standard 1024 at 70Hz. I tried this and a few other possibilities, like Notebook Display, different Geforces, different colour depths and even using the 3.X X-Server, but it just has no effect. I also tried to get the drivers from nvidia dirctly. But there is no rpm for mandrake newer than 7.2 and the srpms don´t work on my machine. Any clue, what else I could try? Thanks in advance, Patrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X-Server with Geforce2Go
Thanks, I´ll try them right away... Robert MacLean wrote: mandrakeuser.org has rpms for 8.1 ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Patrick Meisel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:02 PM Subject: [newbie] X-Server with Geforce2Go Hi, I just tried installing 8.1 on my Toshiba 3000-400 which has a Nvidia Geforce 2Go Chipset. This worked perfectly well in 8.0, but in the new release I can´t get right configuration. All I see is some colourful lines, when testing the setup. Mandrake Recognizes the card as a Geforce 2 DDR, and the monitor as a standard 1024 at 70Hz. I tried this and a few other possibilities, like Notebook Display, different Geforces, different colour depths and even using the 3.X X-Server, but it just has no effect. I also tried to get the drivers from nvidia dirctly. But there is no rpm for mandrake newer than 7.2 and the srpms don´t work on my machine. Any clue, what else I could try? Thanks in advance, Patrick -- -- 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 message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ssh trough firewall (SNF 7.2)
... and yet another ;) I have enabled sshd (openssh) on my Mandrake SNF 7.2 Firewall. I can ssh there without any problem. (ssh port open, any host allowed, see below) When I have logged on localy to the fw I can also access any computer behind the fw using ssh from the fw. The troubles start when I log on to the fw remotely (from outside the fw) and then want to open another ssh taking me to *any* computer within the local network. Allthough I can ping the machine. [root@fw /]# ping 10.0.0.10 PING 10.0.0.10 (10.0.0.10): 56 octets data 64 octets from 10.0.0.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.2 ms 64 octets from 10.0.0.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.8 ms --- 10.0.0.10 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 1.8/2.0/2.2 ms I can not ssh to that very machine :( [root@fw /]# ssh -v 10.0.0.10 OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090581f debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 1 debug1: Connecting to 10.0.0.10 [10.0.0.10] port 22. here ssh waits indefinately. : in /etc/hosts.allow is opne to all: sshd: ALL /etc/hosts.deny is set to ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY any clue? Thank you! Patrick
RE: [newbie] Thank You
Michael D. Viron wrote: ... Please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of the font such that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much more difficult to read. Although I appreciate the fact that you try to get people to stop sending HTML, those replies are always send as (... tada...) HTML! Maybe it's a good idea to send those as plain text, something like practice what you preach!? :-) _ Patrick Hubers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solve IT Postbus 5063 3502 JB Utrecht Nederland
[newbie] FTape modules
Hi, I am trying to get my Iomega QIC tape drive to work under LM8.0. I downloaded the ftape sources, but compilation failed due to what looks like errors in the source code (missing return statements etc.), even thought I can hardly imagine that the code is really that bad. I'd prefer to avoid debugging this stuff, however. But, I found the ftape modules in gzip format under /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/char/ftape. Is it possible to unzip these, put them in the modules directory and simply load them? Or is this not a recommended course of action for some reason? TIA! _ Patrick Hubers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solve IT Postbus 5063 3502 JB Utrecht Nederland fax +31-84-8820913
Re: [newbie] minicom as root
I have changed the owner of minicom as per your suggestion. Still can't access it as user. I receive the following message: "Cannot create lockfile. Sorry." Still works fine logged in as user, then su root in the konsole and run minicom as root. Is there any danger in running minicom as root? Pat the Rat Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Pat: I think I know a solution. I once played with Minicom just for the fun of it and ran into the same root/user problem. The solution is, if I recall, very simple: First in a console type: whereis minicom If I recall, the rpm usually installs into /usr/local Now, using Konqueror as File Manager (as root -- in the console su to root, then type "konqueror" without the quotes), go to /usr/local/minicom or wherever the minicom executable is and go into Permissions. Read, write and exec should be checked for the user. Now change the owner from "root" to "user". That's all there is to it. Now close down Konqueror and launch minicom from your prompt as user: $minicom -c The -c is for color. This should do it. Hope this works. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] minicom as root
Having some difficulty with minicom. While logged in as user, I have to su to root to access minicom. Works fine and I can dial up the local library no problem. I tried adding myself to the uucp (?) group so I could use minicom as a user. This leads to two questions: 1) Are there any security issues in running minicom as root? 2) Why can't I add myself to uucp? (Everytime I try, the setting is not saved. I'm using kuser logged in as root). Pat the Rat
Re: [newbie] NETSCAPE.
Why not just select Edit from the Netscape menu, then Prefences-Navigator-Clear History. Clear the cache by Edit-Preferences-Advanced-Cache-Clear Disk (and/or) Memory Cache? Meph Istopheles wrote: Any body knows... What can I do for clean the history of Netscape? I just do: rm ./.netscape/cache/* then: rm ./.netscape/xover-cache/* Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] imwheel
I tried the Autostart directory before and ended up with the imwheelrc text file opened. I will try again. I will also try the interactive bootup suggestion made by Mssr. LaBine. However - as to my original question : IF I wanted to enter the command (imwheel) into the .xinitrc file, what format would it take and where would I locate it? Pat the Rat Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: For GNOME, you can put the command (imwheel) into the startup section of the Control Centre. For KDE, there is an Autostart directory that runs everything in it at startup - just make a link there. If you use XFree86 4.x, the you don't need imwheel at all, just the XF86Config file settings. On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:53, Patrick wrote: Okay, I'm not getting this right. How about a kick in the right direction? I have edited the XF86Config file per the instructions I have (ZaxisMapping 4 5, Protocol IMPS/2) from the MandrakeUser.org pages. Tested it by running imwheel in konsole. Works fine. Now I wish to have imwheel automatically during X startup. The instructions (and the 3 books I have) are unclear on the following: "Restart X, run imwheel and everything should work fine. If it does, you should add this command to your '.xinitrc' or '.xsessionrc' to have it executed automatically on every X startup." Okay, no problem. Works fine. But - exactly WHAT command am I adding to the .xinitrc file? I have tried imwheel, /etc/X11/imwheel, /etc/X11/imwheelrc, exec imwheel, exec /etc/X11/imwheel. Does it matter where I add it? Does it matter how I add it? What basic fact am I missing here? Thankx Pat the Rat -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] imwheel
What a dummy, I linked the correct file this time (/etc/X11R6/bin/imwheel) and Autostart works fine. Tried editing the .xinitrc file with the proper location of said file, still no luck. Pat the Dummy Patrick wrote: I tried the Autostart directory before and ended up with the imwheelrc text file opened. I will try again. I will also try the interactive bootup suggestion made by Mssr. LaBine. However - as to my original question : IF I wanted to enter the command (imwheel) into the .xinitrc file, what format would it take and where would I locate it? Pat the Rat Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: For GNOME, you can put the command (imwheel) into the startup section of the Control Centre. For KDE, there is an Autostart directory that runs everything in it at startup - just make a link there. If you use XFree86 4.x, the you don't need imwheel at all, just the XF86Config file settings. On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:53, Patrick wrote: Okay, I'm not getting this right. How about a kick in the right direction? I have edited the XF86Config file per the instructions I have (ZaxisMapping 4 5, Protocol IMPS/2) from the MandrakeUser.org pages. Tested it by running imwheel in konsole. Works fine. Now I wish to have imwheel automatically during X startup. The instructions (and the 3 books I have) are unclear on the following: "Restart X, run imwheel and everything should work fine. If it does, you should add this command to your '.xinitrc' or '.xsessionrc' to have it executed automatically on every X startup." Okay, no problem. Works fine. But - exactly WHAT command am I adding to the .xinitrc file? I have tried imwheel, /etc/X11/imwheel, /etc/X11/imwheelrc, exec imwheel, exec /etc/X11/imwheel. Does it matter where I add it? Does it matter how I add it? What basic fact am I missing here? Thankx Pat the Rat -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] imwheel
Previous message didn't post - must have made a boo-boo??? Okay, I'm not getting this right. How about a kick in the right direction? I have edited the XF86Config file per the instructions I have (ZaxisMapping 4 5, Protocol IMPS/2) from the MandrakeUser.org pages. Tested it by running imwheel in konsole. Works fine. Now I wish to have imwheel automatically during X startup. The instructions (and the 3 books I have) are unclear on the following: "Restart X, run imwheel and everything should work fine. If it does, you should add this command to your '.xinitrc' or '.xsessionrc' to have it executed automatically on every X startup." Okay, no problem. Works fine. But - exactly WHAT command am I adding to the .xinitrc file? I have tried imwheel, /etc/X11/imwheel, /etc/X11/imwheelrc, exec imwheel, exec /etc/X11/imwheel. Does it matter where I add it? Does it matter how I add it? What basic fact am I missing here? Thankx Pat the Rat
[newbie] imwheel
Okay, I'm not getting this right. How about a kick in the right direction? I have edited the XF86Config file per the instructions I have (ZaxisMapping 4 5, Protocol IMPS/2) from the MandrakeUser.org pages. Tested it by running imwheel in konsole. Works fine. Now I wish to have imwheel automatically during X startup. The instructions (and the 3 books I have) are unclear on the following: "Restart X, run imwheel and everything should work fine. If it does, you should add this command to your '.xinitrc' or '.xsessionrc' to have it executed automatically on every X startup." Okay, no problem. Works fine. But - exactly WHAT command am I adding to the .xinitrc file? I have tried imwheel, /etc/X11/imwheel, /etc/X11/imwheelrc, exec imwheel, exec /etc/X11/imwheel. Does it matter where I add it? Does it matter how I add it? What basic fact am I missing here? Thankx Pat the Rat
Re: [newbie] How to upgrade libstdc++?
Which file should I download, the tar.gz or the src.rpm file? Thanks! On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:38:25 +0100, Peter Lund wrote: The Sourcecode are the basic code for the program, and need to be compiled in order to run. The rpm file are a compiled program made ready for a specific distribution, for your (and me) Mandrake. The problem is that the Licq-rpm are made for Mandreke Cooker, which is not the same as Mandrake 7.2. The sourcecode for Licq can be found at: http://www.licq.com/download.html
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and MicroSolutions
Dan LaBine wrote: Dear Rat (??) Try downloading the ISO images of Mandrake 7.2 Or spend about $80.00 (Canadian) and by the 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe. I don't know where you are on the planet, so I don't know what that converts to in your currency, but it's the best investment you'll ever make ( Except for maybe a BMW or an Espresso machine. It should solve your problems with out a bunch of hassle, and you'll probably get thatCanon 5000 working to boot (wouldn't surprise me at all) . 7.2 runs 2.2-17 out of the box, and comes with a "beta" version of kernel 2.4 , both of which will probably help a lot! On Friday 23 February 2001 02:54, you wrote: Well, this looks like a nice active list! I hope to find answers to my many questions here. The machine: AMD K6 333 clocked to 350 on a FIC/VIA mobo, 256MB RAM, 2 x 10GB Maxtors in drawers, 4x4 NEC CD-R, 1.44/1.2/LS120 FDD, 16MB S540 AGP vid card pushing a 17"CTX, HP7475 plotter, Canon 5000 (useless under Linux) and Canon BJ-200, external 56k Modem Blaster, Sound Blaster, parallel port Backpack CD-RW, using System Commander to triple boot...on and on. My first question: Running Mandrake 7.0. I found some modules on the MicroSolutions web site for my Backpack CD-RW, BUT - - my kernel is 2.2.14-15mdk (is this some weird Mandrake only kernel?) and all I can find that comes close is a module for 2.2.14 or 2.2.14-5. These do not work since the modules are compiled specifically for these kernels. Argh!! What to do? I would really like to be able to use my burner under the penguin so as to continue my migration to a full-time Linux system. Pat the Rat -- Dan LaBine Maximum LAN's Ltd. Registered Linux User #190712 Well, this leads to another question: the reason I'm using LM7.0 is for the Xserver that supports my junky vid card. I had been using RH, but when I upgraded to 6.0 (from 5.2) I found my S540 not supported. LM7.0 has performed flawlessly (for the most part). Will moving up to LM7.2 dick up my video and allow me to use my Backpack CD-RW? Pat the Rat (Huntington Beach ,CA)
[newbie] Mandrake and MicroSolutions
Well, this looks like a nice active list! I hope to find answers to my many questions here. The machine: AMD K6 333 clocked to 350 on a FIC/VIA mobo, 256MB RAM, 2 x 10GB Maxtors in drawers, 4x4 NEC CD-R, 1.44/1.2/LS120 FDD, 16MB S540 AGP vid card pushing a 17"CTX, HP7475 plotter, Canon 5000 (useless under Linux) and Canon BJ-200, external 56k Modem Blaster, Sound Blaster, parallel port Backpack CD-RW, using System Commander to triple boot...on and on. My first question: Running Mandrake 7.0. I found some modules on the MicroSolutions web site for my Backpack CD-RW, BUT - - my kernel is 2.2.14-15mdk (is this some weird Mandrake only kernel?) and all I can find that comes close is a module for 2.2.14 or 2.2.14-5. These do not work since the modules are compiled specifically for these kernels. Argh!! What to do? I would really like to be able to use my burner under the penguin so as to continue my migration to a full-time Linux system. Pat the Rat
[newbie] Xserver will not start
Everytime I install Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a computer with an ATI card the X server will not start. It outputs a lot of stuff and finally crashes stating: FATAL SERVER ERROR no screen(s) found I do not know what to do, or how to proceed. I have emailed the support persons at Mandrake and they basically told me to run the XF86 setup again... which I did... numerous times, trying the most conservative video settings there are... and nothing has worked. If anyone has ever run across this problem and managed to fix it, I would be eternally grateful if you would bestow your wisdom on me. The particulars of my system are below: AMD-Thunderbird 1 Ghz, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB Maxtor HD (7200 RPM), ASUS AV7 motherboard, ATI Xpert2000 video card with 32 MB memory, SoundBlaster 16 PCI, KDS 19" monitor (VS-190). This question has been asked before, but no one responded to it. So please forgive my posting it again but I would really really appreciate some help. I am very new at Linux/unix stuff and I have tried everything I can think of to get the X server working but to no avail. Thanks... Patrick
Re: [newbie] Xserver will not start
Daniel, Thanks for your advice. I followed your suggestions and it's still not working. :-( I have no idea what the problem is. I hate to have to get a different video card when my ATI card is relatively common, not to mention quasi-pricey. lol But I don't know what else to do except revert to a Microshaft product. *sigh* Thanks again, and if anyone else has encountered this problem before and managed to solve it, I would be extremely grateful for more options to try. Thanks! Patrick Everytime I install Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a computer with an ATI card the X server will not start. It outputs a lot of stuff and finally crashes stating: FATAL SERVER ERROR no screen(s) found I do not know what to do, or how to proceed. I have emailed the support persons at Mandrake and they basically told me to run the XF86 setup again... which I did... numerous times, trying the most conservative video settings there are... and nothing has worked. Hey there Try /usr/X11R6/bin/Xconfigurator from the commandline. At the first screen you will given the option of different monitor resoutions, ( I chose non_interlaced Generic SVGA 1024x768 at 60 mhz ) then it will ask to test it, at the next screen choose NO, ( unless of course it looks, ok..g ) after you say no, there will be a section about graphics card, select change graphic cards. there will be a lont list, right in the middle will be something called "other", try "other" and you will be presented with an option for serveral different "X-servers", see if there is one for ATI, I believe there is one ( Mach 64 ?_. If that doesn't work, try XF86SVGA , that might do the trick as well. Sometimes you have to make sure that the correct amount of memory is allocated for your card, make sure that is accurate. Good Luck! Daniel in NJ...:)
[newbie] Why does my laptop always switches off even when not instructed to?
I have seen many posts on the archive, but could not find any response to this. I have disabled APM from the BIOS, and disabled it from X, from everywhere. But the machine goes off, I don't know by which magic ?? This is really annoying, because on the way, it completely freezes the system. In this case, the only thing I can do is to force power off, reboot, of cource fsck. My current fix : I force from X a suspend after 20 minutes, in this case it's doing fine, I can resume the machine. However, when I am connected to a LAN, it's not even able to restart correctly the network interface, I have to do it manually and try several times at once ! I first suspected my Hardware, but apparentely it's not, since other people seem to have the same problem on other machines with this distrib (7.2). I have a laptop Fujitsu E Series. Sorry to say that, but in this particular case, Linux mandrake (7.2) is unuseable. Don't tell me that I have to go back to that other operating system, since it has not this problem at all ?? Or should I throw away mandrake and try another distrib (since even when you buy it, official support does not even dare to answer, that another thing really annoys me even more). Patrick Diligent
Re: [newbie] gates gets linux
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, you wrote: h...sounds a vicious rumor based on superstition and hot air since most if not all of windows is written VB these days and leaves little or no room for real coding. i am not saying tht microsoft is actually using the linux code per se, but would it surprise u to learn that microsoft is using linux code sort of like a pattern and designing their code around it.. would it surprise u or not :) lets everybody answer, would it surprise u or not me , one vote, not suprised -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] Performance...
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: I'm running 7.2 KDE on a PII400/288MB and it's a slow as crap! Especially while running with a terminal window, Netscape, Pan, and XMMS. KDE kills the performance. I use xfce, and things go very fast. 128Mb ram and the same processor. 3 netscapes, xmms, Pan, 5 rxvt's (terminals), wordperfect, burning a cd, all at once, no problem. kde may use more resources than xfce, i dont know but compared to windows, its like a dragster which is linux racing a turtle which is windoes, and i much prefer the price of linux. i believe that linux is on a path that no other operating system can match. the performance is continually goin up and up and the price, well it just cant get any better than free :) Paul -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] Date won't stay set
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: Every time I reboot my date reverts back 6 hours. No matter how many times I correct it with the 'date' command it still reverts back after rebooting? What am I doing wrong here? Is your timezone set correctly? Check with linuxconf... Paul -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] Performance...
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, you wrote: Just FYI, I'm running 7.2 KDE on a PII400/288MB and it's a slow as crap! Especially while running with a terminal window, Netscape, Pan, and XMMS. You might be able to run linux the OS on a 486 with 16MB of ram, but my impression is if you want to run a linux "desktop" system, you need some fairly decent machinery. I have a PIII800/256MB at work running the same installation as I do at home, and it's very spunky. But unfortunately I can't afford such an environment... and i thought u said it need DECENT exquiptment. p3 800 yuck rolling on the floor i hope u dont mind if i include this little joke in fiction writing :) -Original Message- From: Vincent Primavera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:50 AM To: Newbie List; Expert List Subject: [newbie] Performance... Hello, I am running v7.2 on a 433 Mhz Celeron with 192 MB of RAM which I recently upgraded from 64 MB. There is an increase in performance, but not major. It is recognizing the RAM. Is there any configuring that I can do to increase performance? Thank You, Vincent A. Primavera -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] Performance...
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, you wrote: Mine is definitely way slower than Windows. When dragging my mouse around the screen it appears to periodically get caught on some virtual "rug", it takes 3 or 4 seconds to iconify and restore a window, it takes about 30 seconds to get the desktop properties. I just don't get it, it's extremely frustrating... do u mind if i ask u where u work :) BeOS seems to run quite nicely tho... -Original Message- From: Dickman, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:25 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Performance... IMO, Your system no doubt seems slower since you have such a beast at work. I have a 21" monitor here, when I go home to my paltry 17" it feels like I'm looking at a 15"... ;-) My Celeron 400i w/ 64MB RAM seems to run MDK7.2 and KDE2 just fine... Faster than Windows - and that's what's really important to me. -JD- -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:09 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Performance... Just FYI, I'm running 7.2 KDE on a PII400/288MB and it's a slow as crap! Especially while running with a terminal window, Netscape, Pan, and XMMS. You might be able to run linux the OS on a 486 with 16MB of ram, but my impression is if you want to run a linux "desktop" system, you need some fairly decent machinery. I have a PIII800/256MB at work running the same installation as I do at home, and it's very spunky. But unfortunately I can't afford such an environment... -Original Message- From: Vincent Primavera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:50 AM To: Newbie List; Expert List Subject: [newbie] Performance... Hello, I am running v7.2 on a 433 Mhz Celeron with 192 MB of RAM which I recently upgraded from 64 MB. There is an increase in performance, but not major. It is recognizing the RAM. Is there any configuring that I can do to increase performance? Thank You, Vincent A. Primavera -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] Printtool errors
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, you wrote: When I started printtool to configure my HP printer, it autodetected my usb printer. But, when I wanted to print a test page this error message came up: Error printing test to queue usb reason:lpr:connect:connection refused jobs queued but can't start daemon. How do I fix this? try this. turn off your printer. then reboot mandrake. go to printtool and delete any printers u have. then find your printer and install driver. then turn on printer. this works for me -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
[newbie] 2 questions
i have 2 questions. 1. is it possible to combine kmail into konquerer and 2. what is magellan -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] cookies in konqueror
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, you wrote: there's a setting for the browser part of Konqourer that you can enable all cookies. I think it's in the configuration-browser. theres a also a setting there for turning off the pictures. i have tried it and the browser flies. there may be a bug in it though. i have had an occasional lock up when i have used it. i do think its an incredible idea. i have in the past went to pages and wanted to read and not see all the pictures. it can come in handy. - Original Message - From: "bascule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 5:10 PM Subject: [newbie] cookies in konqueror it's me again! has anyone noticed if some sites that recognise cookies with netscape don't with konqueror? can cookies be set to only work with certain browsers, i tried to do some online banking but the bank site insisted that i had cookies disabled even though i haven't bascule -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] cookies in konqueror
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, you wrote: it's me again! has anyone noticed if some sites that recognise cookies with netscape don't with konqueror? can cookies be set to only work with certain browsers, i tried to do some online banking but the bank site insisted that i had cookies disabled even though i haven't bascule this is what i have discovered. a couple of weeks ago i browsed to msn to see what gates was up to with konquer and i got a message that they did not support my browser. i then went there a few days later and the page was available to me. this has happened to me several times in the past. im not sure of other sites -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] gates gets linux
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, you wrote: "The Cube" --Corel's email journal for Linux users-- which came out just a few days ago says that they are actively working on a new Linux release. For what it's worth, that's what it says. At 11:06 AM 11/27/2000 -0500, you wrote: I also read an article that says Corel is thinking about spinning off the Linux OS. Cheers, Andy /snip off the rest/ try to become gates for a moment. what do u think is his motivation. to stop wine or corels emulation of windoes ummm. what do u think
Re: [newbie] Virus on Linux?
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I far as I know, there is only 1 virus for Linux, which is actually a Trojan Horse. Plus, This Trojan Horse only affects the kernels below 2.2.15 As for fiewalls, I don't have a clue, but I would be very surprised if you couldn't get one. 8) The best firewall (or, in other words, the one that I use ;-)) is IPchains. You can use another nice program called PMFirewall to configure it. and i would say the only problem would be installing it. unless of course u are linux genius :) -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] slow internet connection
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, you wrote: I have recently got my computer to connect to the internet after a month of agrivation trying to get it to work. Rather annoying when you find out all you had to do was change the authorisation protocol. Anyways now that i can connect i am experience slow connections and was wondering if anyone new what the problem might be and how to rectify it. Any help here would be greatly appreciated - check to see what your kppp speed is set to. if u have a 56k modem set it to i think its 15500. set it faster than your modem/ -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
Re: [newbie] Test of Wine with Win98 and WinMe
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, you wrote: Sorry about cross-posting, but note: anyone who was thinking of upgrading to Windows Me. i would think that most of penguins would not want to upgrade to win me. interesting though I tested Wine build 2909.1mdk.i586.rpm on a computer with win98 installed, and my computer with Windows Me installed. Results: Wine worked a lot better with Windows 98. I got some programs running and almost got MSWord running without fooling with the wine.conf file. All of the simple Windows programs worked fine. Tested with Windows Me, Wine doesn't run anything. Everything crashes, even the program sol.exe that the Wine people tell you to use as a test fiel, even with extensive tweaking of the windows.conf file. I also tested the latest build wine-cvs-stripped 112500-1.i386.rpm from Dataparty on both computers. result: Got lots of programs running on the Windows 98 machine including microsoft excel! On the Windows Me machine, I was able to run solitare without crashing (sol.exe) but nothing else would run. -- Love is all u need, and a little Linux too for good measure
[newbie] no access to cd
with my 7.2 mandrake i do not have a cd icon to work with as root. of course i cant install from cd as user. what must i do. i got a feeling u'r gonna tell me something i dont want to hear, but tell me anyway :) -- Love is all u need
[newbie] newbie testing
hi, i just mandrake 7.2 and am testing to see if im still here -- Love is all u need
Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :)
Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, you wrote: patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :) I agree with the external modems work in linux. I have a Best Data ext Modem that worked very well until recently. It still works in windows but I keep getting a "Modem does not respond". I have tried to reset, unplug, reconfig, etc. To no avail. The modem is plugged into com1 i.e. ttyS0 and works in windows, but no response in 7.2. It does not show up in harddrake either. Any suggestions out there. Oh, I am on the Linux only box right now using a Best Data internal modem which also works very well and says Linux compatable on the box. Thanks for any help with this puzzle. try ttys1.his might be it and then in ppp query the modem. hope that helps -- Love is all u need
Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, you wrote: Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? external modems are real modems, just like linux is a real operating system. penguins can be a little honary sometimes though patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :) -- Love is all u need
Re: [newbie] Connection speed
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to tell what my connection speed is? I had a nice little app called speedgadget in Windows, but there's no way I'm booting into hell just for that ;-) if u'r using kppp just click details on the connection . its there Thanks! -- Love is all u need
Re: [newbie]penguin
pablito wrote: seems like a penguin is an unfortunate mascot for Linux -- a bird that looks cute but can't fly, or a Southern Hemisphere bird that people may think lives in Linus Thorvald's Finland but doesn't exist there outside of a zoo. On the other hand, a Window is a great image for Windows, a big fancy frame with nothing much inside. no its not. we all love penguins now that we have linux. i can understand your felelings towards windoes though. are u having a bad day. if u are i would suggest several penguin toys to cheer u up :)
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
Goldenpi wrote: Easy one: I have the old 1024 cylinder problem with lilo un 7.1. Will installing 7.2 fix it? it seems to me that installing 7.2 messes up more things. the old 1024 cylinder will go away :) but there will many many new problems to contend with. happy thanksgiving.
Re: [newbie] Processor question
Eddie Torres wrote: I am running a P3-550 but I'm thinking about upgrading it to a 800mhz processor. Will this affect any of my linux system? -- Eddie Torress www.veloct.net if its a thunderbird, it will improve inux :)) birds of a feather and all
Re: [newbie] 7.2 lack of xserver
Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I burned a new Install CD for 7.2. This time I got a complete copy based on the total bytes transfered. Funny thing, this time around Aurora doesn't come up by default and on boot up I get no Xserver. I am totally unimpressed since this is the same machine that 7.0 and 7.1 loaded on without a hitch. Cups was installed and when I said ok to print a test page ( My old Epson 800 Stylus esc wasn't listed so I chose generic) I got about ten pages of garbage and it didn't act like it was going to stop there so I shut the printer off. I would have to say that I am totally unimpressed with 7.2. It seems like Mandrake Soft has taken a couple of steps backwards for ease of installation. At least for me. I think I will save my money and buy some more ram or something and not waste it on 7.2. Maybe they will get 7.3 to be more user friendly. Yes, I did try the xf86config and that just made matters worse. No xserver to be had. Bummer, It seems to me that there is a lot of disparity in the success people are having with the installation. That to me is not the mark of a good distribution. That's my rant, I'm tired and going to bed. If any one has a idea as to why I can't get an xserver this time around, I'm willing to listen, being the stubborn sort, I don't like to give up. Night all. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 is is possible because of the (major) change to kde 2.0 that we will have some problems for awhile
Re: [newbie] mp3's don't play right
Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have brought this up before but have not found a way to remedy this. I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with KDE2. I have gnapster which works well however none of the mp3 players work right. I do not think that it is the players since the music problem of waving in and out is the same in all of them. When I had 7.0 with the previous KDE version the mp3's from gnapster worked great. I believe that the problem is with KDE2. Someone mentioned getting normalizer which I do not know where to get that or if it could possibly work. Does anyone know about this? Because of these problems, I decided to purchase the Suse 7. that I just found at a bookstore today. I am looking forward to trying it. If it can play my Hearts game(worked in 7 but not in 7.2) and if I can play mp3's then that will cover what is missing for me in 7.2. I will probably make a partition on this box for it and keep both distros. Marcia can u let us know if suse has the complete x screen saver
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
Robin Regennitter wrote: On Friday 17 November 2000 12:49 pm, you wrote: well, I have a secret I see dead windows using windows 98 now tell me if I'm not crazy. ur not :) but after u realize that we are all gonna have buy another linux real soon u might be after all :) http://maximumlinux.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I tell you a secret? I see dead people. "Admiral" Ian Bridgeman 8) u have been watching too many movies. take your windoes discs and stomp on them. u will then be fine :) we'll do some more psycho stuff next week by
Re: [newbie] (...) FINALLY!!!
Krulo wrote: I am a happy man! finally I made it to install mandrake 7.2 and running net with him! :)) I just wanted to ask 1 more thing. I keep having problems with startx with every linux I installed. what console tool can I use to configure my startx (other than xf86config) when I for example put a too high resolution and then the monitor doesnt work in startx? what tool can I run to configure it? (XF86Setup doesnt run... command not found... so...) thx for all the help I got and keep up with the good work! [[[]]] i am really glad to see u are so enthused. how does conuerer look. let us know
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: onepatrick i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ? GAPrichard I have this friend ah, i see. please ask your friend to see me :) Ed Liear. LIER, Lier we all Know NO-ONE named PAtrick would have ANY friends (just a joke) Ed rolling on the floor He won't come in, he's afraid. He's been having these nightmares. This Blue Screen (of Death) comes out of the monitor and engulfs him. What can we do to help him? Buy him a pair of Blue Blocker sunglasses. He hasn't had nightmares about a GREEN sreen of death, has he? :o) The Blue Blockers didn't work. Monsters emerge from the screen screeming "FATAL ERROR, MS32.DLL". What does it mean? well im not yet sure, what it means, but i have a cure for it anyway. tell your friend to install linux. i bet his problems wiill completely disappear :) of course u must handle your firiend with care. becuase he is about to get a whole bunch of new ones. dont forget to check outt maximumlinux.com and see how they are planning to make us buy another linux soon.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and Promise UATA 100 Controllers]
G Shaw wrote:
Okay, I spent yesterday jumping through hoops, and finally got things to fit
together so that they work not too badly.
M/B: ASUS A7V/KT133
Issue: Linux Mandrake Doesn't Undertand the Promise ATA/100 on the M/B
Here's the procedure I used:
* NOTE: This procedure ASSUMES that you attach the disk to the primary
UATA/100 device
1) Disconnect the UATA/100 Win2K disk
2) Attach the new disk to the IDE controller
{NOT the UATA 100 controller - there are 2 sets of disk controller
ports on the M/B)
3) Drop the Mandrake 7.2 CD into the CD/R drive.
4) Boot the system from CD
5) Do a bare bones install of Mandrake {don't even bother with X)
6) After the install is done, log in as root
7) Execute the following command: % cat /proc/pci
8) Somewhere in there, you will get a piece of output that has 5 hex
addresses listed. These should be the I/O range for the UATA/100 controller.
In my case the first two were 0x9000 and 0x8800.
9) Record those numbers.
10) Shut down
11) Disconnect the drive from the IDE controller and hook it to the UATA
controller.
12) Reconfigure the BIOS to boot from CD first rather than HDD.
13) Boot the box up - when the first Mandrake screen comes up, press 'F1' to
get into the alternate boot screen.
14) At the command prompt provided, type in 'linux ide2=0xy,0xz'
computing y and z as: high start address from step 8, and z as the second
start address + 2. On my box this turned out to be ide2=0x9000,0x8802.
15) At this point, everything should be happy, and you can go ahead with a
full install.
16) When you get to configuring GRUB, use the same numbers you used in step
14.
I haven't yet tried patching the kernel - that's next. But this was enough to
get moving forward.
Glenn
skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17 Nov 2000, G Shaw wrote:
I am attempting to install LM 7.2 on a "clean" system {e.g. raw,
unformatted
disk} and seem to be encountering a nasty little problem related to the
Promise Ultra ATA 100 controller on my system.
System:
M/B: ASUS A7V KT133 w/Promise UATA 100 controller
CPU: 900 Mhz Athlon
Memory: 256Mb
Disk 20Gb Quantum (I think?)
I know when I installed Win2K on a separate disk, I had to provide W2K with
a
disk containing new drivers to that the W2K install could talk to the
Promise
Ultra ATA 100 controller.
Having searched through newsgroups and the Mandrake site, I have found
several
other people claiming to have made this work, but no-one has ever clearly
documented the procedure they used.
If you have actually succeeded in installing LM 7.2 on an ASUS A7V using
the
Ultra ATA 100 disk controller, could you please let me know what the
procedure
was you used?
Thx,
Glenn
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I haven't installed one but I am getting one and I have researched it a
bit and there is a way to do it although I've been told that 7.2 has the
kernel patch for the card. Here's a URL for the HowTo which describes a
little trick you may need to
do: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-5.html#ss5.2 You can get
the latest ide patch(if ya even need it) at
ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick .
--
Chad Y.
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Registered Linux Box #86749
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Re: [newbie] graphical boot up
Paul wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Paul wrote: I wouldn't know about Aurora and 7.1. I do know about the bugs in 7.2. Paul...they're not bugs...they're features. :) Mark I wish someone had pointed them out to me before the upgrade destroyed all partitions on the harddisk... Paul u just gotta start fressh with mandreade 7.2. yep. thats what u gotta do :) -- We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is- Fatal Exception Error in MSBORG32.DLL http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] [OT] mixing memory
patrick wrote: Shawn Daniel wrote: Yes! Size doesn't matter...it is the bus speed to watch. ok, whatever u say shawn :) -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:22 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] [OT] mixing memory I know this if off topic, but I don't know where else to ask and I trust you folks better... Can I mix memory, for example, can I mix a 128 PC100 8ns and a 32 PC100 8ns? Or is it best not to do this? sometimes u can. try it. u will have to set your bios for your slowst memory. by by and dont worry about the topic this is a place where we sometimes talk about everything :)
[newbie] group psychologist
i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Windows gives me nightmares. Is that normal??? quite normal. its gates that abnormal Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message----- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
Dale Kosan wrote: Was I abused as a child,lmao u must realize that parents have done many wrong things to their chidlren. take no responsibily and have not guilt. we all love u. come to us :) - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:59 PM Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Sometimes I wake in a cold sweat. I feel like I have been running from a big monster. What's that mean? it means that u are now a linux newbie. just relax relax relax i would recommend that u souround yourself with at least 3 linux penguin toys. this will cure u :) -Original Message----- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Windows gives me nightmares. Is that normal??? quite normal. its gates that abnormal Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
Dale Kosan wrote: OKAY,I WILL FIT IN, PROMISElmao... wonderful - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist Dale Kosan wrote: Was I abused as a child,lmao u must realize that parents have done many wrong things to their chidlren. take no responsibily and have not guilt. we all love u. come to us :) - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:59 PM Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
patrick wrote: Dale Kosan wrote: Was I abused as a child,lmao u must realize that parents have done many wrong things to their chidlren. take no responsibily and have not guilt. we all love u. come to us :) hmmm, i think i misread your statement. remember i am your psychologist not a psychic :) - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:59 PM Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Oh, thank you. you are a god-send! well thank u. some of us as u can see are rather grouchy. i will address in the future. -Original Message----- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Sometimes I wake in a cold sweat. I feel like I have been running from a big monster. What's that mean? it means that u are now a linux newbie. just relax relax relax i would recommend that u souround yourself with at least 3 linux penguin toys. this will cure u :) -Original Message- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Windows gives me nightmares. Is that normal??? quite normal. its gates that abnormal Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I tell you a secret? I see dead people. "Admiral" Ian Bridgeman 8) u have been watching too many movies. take your windoes discs and stomp on them. u will then be fine :) we'll do some more psycho stuff next week by
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes...why is it that some want to pollute the list with messages that are illegitimately concieved on nepheriass software such as Outhook Compress? this situation really causes me a lot of anxiety. I feel as though I'm harboring a great deal of hostility towards these people. dazed and confused... the problem is with microsoft. dont feel dazed and confused any longer. i think thats the master plan :) From: patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:59:12 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
[newbie] is this 7.2 with2.4 or not
http://lsl.com/ there is a 7.2 cdr (2) set. which is it please
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick, I still have latent hostility towards anything Micrsoft. What can I do about this? I promised I would only do it until I needed glasses, but I fear that it's too late now. I feel so...well, dirty. Mark the first thing u should not do is go to comp usa and spend 999.99 dollars for microsoft nt for 5 servers. if udo not do this u will be fine. remember we are always here to help u the first thing u should do is to be sure u have mandrake 7.2 with 2.4. its the only game in town, unless of course u cant fint it From: "Dale Kosan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:15:38 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist OKAY,I WILL FIT IN, PROMISElmao... - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist Dale Kosan wrote: Was I abused as a child,lmao u must realize that parents have done many wrong things to their chidlren. take no responsibily and have not guilt. we all love u. come to us :) - Original Message ----- From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:59 PM Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
Re: [newbie] is this 7.2 with2.4 or not
skidley wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, patrick wrote: http://lsl.com/ there is a 7.2 cdr (2) set. which is it please It's Mandrake72-inst.iso(Install) and Mandrake72-ext.iso(Extension) -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749 thank u but what i meant was does it have kernal 2.4. thanks pat
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
Paul wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, patrick wrote: i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ? Why? to be or not to be. i think that is the question :) -- We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is- Fatal Exception Error in MSBORG32.DLL http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this friend ah, i see. please ask your friend to see me :) In a message dated 11/17/2000 2:50:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ?
