Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. My frozen bubble is exactly the same, but I can play it fine using the cursor keys, space bar and esc. I've always assumed that there isn't meant to be mouse control. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting a video camera
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 14:52, Auke Jan Kroon wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 10.0 on my aunt's computer (can be upgraded to 10.1 if necessary) and she bought a Sharp VL-Z1S video camera with DV/IEEE1394/Firewire output. I don't have a video camera, so my knowledge about this is close to zero. Can anyone tell me which (brand and type of) Firewire card she should buy to connect the camera to the PC? I cannot find anything on the hardware compatibility list. In addition, can anyone point me to documentation about how to get it to work? Thanks, AJ I don't know too much about this but my experience for what it's worth is :- I have a panasonic DV camera and I plug it into the firewire port on my Audigy sound card. I use Kino to handle the video, to make it work I had to add raw1394, dv1394 and video1394 to /etc/modprobe.preload. This worked fine on 10.0 but when I first installed 10.1 udev did not make device node /dev/raw1394 and I had to do it manually, however there has since been an update to udev which fixes this. You may need to change the permissions for /dev/raw1394 so that a user can access it, tip if so add /dev/raw1394 to the camera line in /etc/security/console.perms. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Which Kernel For 10.1 ?
I have recently installed MD 10.1 using the 3 download CDs. I now would like to update the kernel and see in the Updates that there are a number of options I can use. I guess the version I want to update is to 2.6 and see there a couple. Which one do I need to go for ? Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDevelop in 10.1
I have just noticed that the download version of MD 10.1 dose not include KDevelop. Is this the case or can't I see for looking ? Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MD 10.1 System Halt During Boot.
Hi Mikkel, Installed and runs fine without the USB in place. I have conducted all the updates but still no luck booting with the USB mouse in place. For the time being I have placed a PS2 mouse to get me though until we can work out how to sort this one out. Pete On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 19:49 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Pete Moscatt wrote: I have just installed MD 10.1 using the download version ISOs that come with a magazine I purchase. The installation was without error until it come time to reboot. During the boot process I see it stopping at the point where I am assuming its trying to detect USB devices. Regardless of how many times I boot, it always stops at the same point. I am using a Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse which happens to be USB. This is the only USB device I use. I have had a quick look in the archives and get the impression that MD 10.1 suffers from USB issues. What is needed to get the installation I have up and running ? Regards Pete Moscatt I would boot without the mouse plugged in, and see if it boots. If it does, then plug the mouse in. Then make sure you have all the updates installed. After installing the updates, see if the system boots ok with the USB mouse plugged in. If not, let us know, and we can explore other options. Mikkel Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] email problems
On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 08:32, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: By the way. What file precisely does kmail/konqueror say it cannot find? derek /var/temp/kdecache-rosemary\krun\0.427.0 The print is tiny in the box that comes up - but I think that's it. Rosemary I had this problem when using Firefox to open URL's, The solution was to go to SystemconfigurationKDEcomponentsFile associationstexthtml and edit the mozilla firefox entry by changing the application command from soundwrappet /usr/bin/mozffremote to :- /usr/bin/mozffremote %u This fixes the problem until you do anything to update the menus when the command gets changed back, in order to fix this you need to make the same adjustment in usr/lib/menu/mozilla-firefox HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 05:13, John Rye wrote: Hi all, Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can only be described as an interesting discovery There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst several others: glibc-devel-2.3.3-21mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-build-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-python-4.2.2-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-rebuilder-0.20-1mdk.noarch.rpm, rpmlint-0.62-1mdk.noarch.rpm are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution Anyone else noted this Sorry to have my day ruined Cheers John Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they are all on the main mirrors so it's not much of a problem once you know to set up a main source. -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
Hi Guys, Complete linux newbie here. I've just got past the installation of MDK 10.1 without too much trouble (on an AMD laptop, partition with WinXP), but my problems start when booting into linux. It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around the web, I've found some other reports of this error [1] One solution I found[2] was to add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. append = parport=0x378,7 I'd like to give this a go (hey, it might work for me), but am a bit lost as to how to go about it. Any help would be much appreciated. [1] http://jmz.iki.fi/blog.php/en/article/1057989236 [2] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.3/0861.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around the web, I've found some other reports of this error [1] One solution I found[2] was to add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. append = parport=0x378,7 I'd like to give this a go (hey, it might work for me), but am a bit lost as to how to go about it. Hi Peter, You can pass that line into kernel booting. When the boot loader screen shows up, press esc, and type that line. append = parport=0x378,7 Continue booting. Once inside linux, you can make that permanent in the /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo on the console to update the conf. I've tried pressing esc when booting in linux, linux-nonfb and failsafe, but I can't type anything at the prompt, it just hangs after this line: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger It hangs at this line now even when i don't press anything. Looking up the log, the only message I can see that might be related to this is: checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no spio magic); looks like an initrd ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found! Could this have been an error cause by a mistake config at installation, and if so, should I just reinstall? Thanks again, Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
Peter wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around the web, I've found some other reports of this error [1] One solution I found[2] was to add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. append = parport=0x378,7 I'd like to give this a go (hey, it might work for me), but am a bit lost as to how to go about it. Hi Peter, You can pass that line into kernel booting. When the boot loader screen shows up, press esc, and type that line. append = parport=0x378,7 Continue booting. Once inside linux, you can make that permanent in the /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo on the console to update the conf. I've tried pressing esc when booting in linux, linux-nonfb and failsafe, but I can't type anything at the prompt, it just hangs after this line: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger It hangs at this line now even when i don't press anything. Looking up the log, the only message I can see that might be related to this is: checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no spio magic); looks like an initrd ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found! Could this have been an error cause by a mistake config at installation, and if so, should I just reinstall? Did an upgrade/install and disabled ACPI in the Boot config, now linux is booting up fine. Thanks anyway. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Create device at boot SOLVED
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 23:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: Thanks for the responses guys. However I have stumbled across the answer to my problem. In /etc/rc.d/rc.local mknod -m 666 /dev/raw c 171 0 does not work, but /bin/mknod -m 666 /dev/raw c 171 0 works I can only surmise that this is something to do with when $PATH is set Many Thanks -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Create device at boot
I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it does not exist After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a root terminal creates the device and that it works. mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 Now I would like the device to be created automatically on boot up so I have put the above command as the last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, unfortunately nothing happens ie the device is not created. anyone know how I can create /dev/raw1394 automatically TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Create device at boot
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it does not exist After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a root terminal creates the device and that it works. mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 Now I would like the device to be created automatically on boot up so I have put the above command as the last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, unfortunately nothing happens ie the device is not created. anyone know how I can create /dev/raw1394 automatically TIA Maybe you can create an alias in bash environment instead? It's not automatically,. but saves you from typing the whole command. as root, put this in /root/.bashrc alias mycamera=mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 good idea - thanks -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File tree organisation
There was a post recently asking for information about the file tree structure. I've just stumbled across the 10.1 documentation on the mirrors and chapter 7 gives a good description of the structure for mandrakelinux Hope that helps someone. -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM
I have two icons on my desktop for CD-RW (/dev/hdc) and DVD-ROM (/dev/hdd). How can I get rid of them. If I right click on them there is no delete option. I'm trying to get back to the good old days when I mounted and unmounted removeable devices when I wanted to instead of having magicdev or supermount muck it up and refuse to allow me to unmount or eject. Also both of these drives are listed twice in X-CD-Roast once as ATA and once as ATAPI, they also appear twice in kwikdisk. Anyone know why this is? TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 22:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same libmplex2-1.6.so.0 error. Next I tried mjpegtools-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm from sourceforge but this fails due to unsatisfied libpng.so.2. I have a libpng.so.3 installed so I tried a symlink but it still wont urpmi. I don't know how to resolve this, has anyone got any advice how to get a working mjpegtools with 10,1 OE please. Peter, I installed mjpegtools last thing yesterday in 10.1 Official, and today used lavrec and glav without problems. I've shut everything down for the night now, but in the morning I'll check out whether I'm using libmplex2-1.6. I didn't do anything fancy to get it, that's for sure. This is the Mandrake version of the tools. Under 10.0 I had to use the sourceforge version, as sdl was not supported in the Mandrake version, but this looks much better. Anne Anne and Joe Thank you both for your positive responses. I have been having so many problems with 10.1 that last night I was feeling despondent and seriously considering going back to 10.0. However this morning after reading your replies and feeling more optimistic I tried again, this time libmpegtools was proposed instead of failing with unresolved dependencies and the installation went ahead perfectly. No idea what went wrong last night., perhaps a glitch with the mirror? Many thanks -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 10:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same libmplex2-1.6.so.0 error. Next I tried mjpegtools-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm from sourceforge but this fails due to unsatisfied libpng.so.2. I have a libpng.so.3 installed so I tried a symlink but it still wont urpmi. I don't know how to resolve this, has anyone got any advice how to get a working mjpegtools with 10,1 OE please. Peter, I don't understand this. I searched my drives for libmplex and found that on the partitions that had the old install it's there, but I don't appear to have it at all in the new install, where I was happily using mjpegtools yesterday. urpmq -i mjpegtools tells me that I am running mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk but the same search on libmplex says that there is no package called libmplex. I'd go with Joe - use easyurpmi.zarb.org to set up some additional sources. I think maybe contrib is the one that will provide these packages, but I'd set up one for each category just to be sure. I didn't note where I got mine from, but as I said it just installed and worked out of the box. Sorry I can't be more specific Anne Anne As I said in an earlier post that I have now got mjpegtools installed, but like you I have no libmplex. I really don't understand what was going wrong last night but thanks again for all your help Regards -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xscreensaver
My screensavers in KDE don't work! All the screensaver executables are there in /usr/X116R/lib/xscreensaver/ and if I click on one it runs fine in a window. However when a screensaver is supposed to start by itself I just get a blank screen. If I run xscreensaver-demo from a terminal it tells me that the xscreensaver daemon is not running and asks if i want to start it, if I say yes then the mandrake slide show screensaver works fine but none of the others work. Next time I boot up the xscreesaver daemon is not started and nothing works. Grateful for advice on how to start xscreensaver daemon at boot and/or how to get the other screensavers working. By the way, in Gnome everything works perfectly, the xscreensaver daemon runs automatically and all the screensavers work. The only thing is I can't work out how to change the time before a screensaver comes on, I don't feel comfortable with Gnome and would like to get this working in KDE if possible But is it possible that xscreensaver only works with Gnome? TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mjpegtools dependencies
Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same libmplex2-1.6.so.0 error. Next I tried mjpegtools-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm from sourceforge but this fails due to unsatisfied libpng.so.2. I have a libpng.so.3 installed so I tried a symlink but it still wont urpmi. I don't know how to resolve this, has anyone got any advice how to get a working mjpegtools with 10,1 OE please. TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache not starting?
Adolfo Bello wrote:
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 15:06 -0500, Peter Davis wrote:
I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting.
When I try to browse to "localhost", I just get a Google search page.
Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work.
The system log says:
Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/commonnhttpd.conf:
Invalid command 'lfModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module
not included in the server configuration
It should be "IfModule" (an I instead of l). Change that and start
Apache. It should work.
Thanks. I'm trying that now. That's pretty puzzling, though. The
config file had
lfModule mod_access.c
.
.
/lfModule
So it was wrong in two places. I don't know how that could have
happened.
Thanks,
-pd
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[newbie] Apache not starting?
I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting. When I try to browse to localhost, I just get a Google search page. Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. The system log says: Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/commonnhttpd.conf: Invalid command 'lfModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The module in question is mod_access.c I'm pretty certain this used to work when I first installed the system, so possibly something I've done since has broken it. I haven't messed with Apache at all, but I tried to install UW IMAP, and later Courier IMAP. Any suggestions? Thanks, -pd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache not starting?
Fajar Priyanto wrote:
On Saturday 27 November 2004 03:06 am, Peter Davis wrote:
I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting.
When I try to browse to "localhost", I just get a Google search page.
Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work.
The system log says:
Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/commonnhttpd.conf:
Invalid command 'lfModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module
not included in the server configuration
The module in question is mod_access.c
I'm pretty certain this used to work when I first installed the system,
so possibly something I've done since has broken it. I haven't messed
with Apache at all, but I tried to install UW IMAP, and later Courier
IMAP.
Hi Peter,
I think the easiest way is to uninstall apache and re-install it again.
Yes, I could try that. I didn't install it in the first place. It was
pre-installed on the system. But it's worth a try.
How to you un-install something?
-pd
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[newbie] Buying a 10.1 set?
I want all the Powerpack CDs, with all the associated software, etc. Where can I buy this? The only place I've seen it is on linux-mandrake.com, and the price is only listed in Euros. Is there someplace in the U.S. to get this? Thanks, -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with kino and /raw/dev1394 UPDATE
On Monday 22 Nov 2004 12:12, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2004 05:43 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I recently posted a question about a problem using kino in capture mode because I do not have a /dev/raw1394, as I had no replies I have been fiddling about and made some progress. Something I have done is causing my box to use devfs instead of udev, I'm not sure what. However using devfs kino works perfectly. It appears that udev makes far fewer devices under /dev than devfs does and in particular does not create any raw devices at all, hence my problem with /dev/raw1394 which it appears needs /dev/rawctl to be set up. I think that this is a bug with udev but I would be grateful if anyone who is using 10.1 and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk could let me know if they have a /dev/raw containing devices raw1 raw2 etc (up to raw255 in my case) and rawctl as it is also possible that this is a problem with my box I took a look in dev on my box and I have no raw at all. Not one. Sorry it is the same kernel as yours though. Thanks Dennis - its reassuring to know that its not just me. I'll keep searching for the solution -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with kino and /raw/dev1394 UPDATE
I recently posted a question about a problem using kino in capture mode because I do not have a /dev/raw1394, as I had no replies I have been fiddling about and made some progress. Something I have done is causing my box to use devfs instead of udev, I'm not sure what. However using devfs kino works perfectly. It appears that udev makes far fewer devices under /dev than devfs does and in particular does not create any raw devices at all, hence my problem with /dev/raw1394 which it appears needs /dev/rawctl to be set up. I think that this is a bug with udev but I would be grateful if anyone who is using 10.1 and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk could let me know if they have a /dev/raw containing devices raw1 raw2 etc (up to raw255 in my case) and rawctl as it is also possible that this is a problem with my box TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with kino and /dev/raw1394
I'm trying to set up kino using 10.1 OE and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk but it won't go into capture mode and shows error message WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394! Under /dev there is no device /dev/raw1394 at all. However I have added raw1394 to /etc/modeprobe.preload and lsmod shows:- lsmod: video1394 15244 0 ohci1394 30788 1 video1394 raw139424492 0 ieee1394 292056 4 eth1394,video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 Also in /etc/security/console.perms I have the line camera=/mnt/camera* /dev/usb/dc2xx* /dev/usb/mdc800* /dev/raw1394 /var/log/messages includes the following lines ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized petebox rawdevices: succeeded petebox drakxservices[5964]: running: chkconfig --add rawdevices All the above looks ok to me. The problems seem to be that when I boot the scrolling messages on the screen shows Start sevice raw devices Assigning raw devices: Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such device or directory As it says there is no /dev/rawctl in /dev, but this error message does not show up under dmesg or /var/log/messages Also Control centre Systemservices shows service rawdevices stopped although it is checked to start at boot, if I click the start button the error message about no /dev/rawctl is repeated. I'm sorry for such a rambling explanation but if anyone has any idea what is wrong and how to fix it I'd be most grateful. My hunch is a kernel problem but I'm out of my depth knowing what to do next TIA -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] fsck on boot
Where do I set how often the HD's get fsck'd on boot. TIA -- Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup
For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie half of the time I am unable to connect to the internet with dialup and half I am not. I have disabled the firewall to make sure that is not the problem and checked everything that I can think of in my config files to no avail. Interestingly ifconfig and route -n both give exactly the same output whether I can connect or not. I am at my wits end, If Derek or anyone else has any advice I would be most grateful. TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 16:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 13:12, Peter Watson wrote: For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie half of the time I am unable to connect to the internet with dialup and half I am not. I have disabled the firewall to make sure that is not the problem and checked everything that I can think of in my config files to no avail. Interestingly ifconfig and route -n both give exactly the same output whether I can connect or not. I am at my wits end, If Derek or anyone else has any advice I would be most grateful. TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland So Pete when it fails, you do connect to your ISP and get an IP address? And 'route' shows the default route is via dial up? How about /etc/resolv.conf ? Does it help if you 'down' eth0 first? Is there a gateway defined in /etc/sysconfig/network ? I am not sure what might have changed in 10.1 that could affect it. Except maybe it is something to do with IPV6. You could try disabling IPV6 by putting 'alias net-pf-10 off' in /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting. derek Thanks for the quick reply. I think I have found the cause of the problem without understanding it. The only difference I could find between 10.0 and 10.1 was that with 10,1 I had network starting at boot, I have stopped that and so far it seems to work every time, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Many Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IMAP server?
Stephen Khn wrote: On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 04:06, Peter Davis wrote: So after a month, I haven't had time to make much headway in getting an IMAP server set up. I'm starting to think I should just buy the Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack. It seems to come with Cyrus IMAP, and even Kolab. Any comments on this? Will it be easy to get this up and running from the CD set? At some point, I'd like to learn the ins and outs of installing all this software by hand, but in the meantime, I'd like to get the server up and running so I can use it. Thanks, -pd Try this: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html Thanks. This still looks like a fairly involved, error-prone procedure, but I'll give it a shot. I think I can do without Postfix, as I'm not planning to get incoming mail sent directly to my server. Rather, I'll be fetching mail from other POP3 servers. Thanks! -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com The artwork formerly shown as prints List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html
Re: [newbie] IMAP server?
Peter Davis wrote: I've been using e-mail for over 2 decades, and even though I haven't saved everything, I have several Gb of mail stored up in various formats (basically MH or mbox). I continue to get hundreds of messages a day, and after killing the spam, I keep maybe half of what's left. One thing I'd really like is to be able to keep all my e-mail, old and new, in a single, searchable archive that gets backed-up regularly. I've been thinking that a good way to do that is to run an IMAP server on my Mandrake 10.0 box, so I can access the mail from anywhere (Windows, Palm, etc.). My first choice would be to convert all the mail to MH format, but I'm open to other formats. I understand the Univ. of Washington IMAP server supports MH, and I assume there are others. Do IMAP servers typically provide any search or indexing capabilities? I imagine that would have to be on the server side. Anyone have any experience setting up a machine like this? How painful is it? So after a month, I haven't had time to make much headway in getting an IMAP server set up. I'm starting to think I should just buy the Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack. It seems to come with Cyrus IMAP, and even Kolab. Any comments on this? Will it be easy to get this up and running from the CD set? At some point, I'd like to learn the ins and outs of installing all this software by hand, but in the meantime, I'd like to get the server up and running so I can use it. Thanks, -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com The artwork formerly shown as prints List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Inet6 address
On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 09:27, Ronald Ip wrote: For more information, check out the IPv6 HOWTO to further understand how IPv6 works. Ronald. Will do Many Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Inet6 address
The NIC in my MDK 10 box has an IP address of 10.0.0.1 which I set myself in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. However ifconfig shows that eth0 also has an inet6 address of fe80::205:5dff:fe74:e3d3/64. lo also has an inet6 address of ::1/128. None of the other boxes on my lan, Win 98, XP-Pro and Peanut Linux have an inet6 address. The question is where did these inet6 addresses come from in Mandrake. TIA Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Problem with detectingmodem, Scanmodem
Mandrake 9.1 cannot detect my modem intel(r) 536EP V.92 I downloaded ScanModem, to detect what modem I have. After unpacking and addint +x permition when run from console ./ScanModem there is a massage: WARNING: lscpi not found - exiting Please install the package: pciutils How to install this package? What else shoud I do to make my modem work under linux! I have an intel 536EP modem. I did manage to get it just about working under 9.0 and 9.1 using the drivers from Intels site, but it was a gruesome task and involved a convoluted detection routine using minicom after each boot-up. Under 9.2 and 10.0 I have never been able to get it working at all. I know that it is not what you asked for, but my advice would be to ditch this modem and get an external serial modem which will just work out of the box with no hassle at all. I eventually did this and then kicked myself for all the time I had wasted on the 536EP HTH Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format
On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 10:57, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have got dozens of text files (which are the output of a simulation program) containing tables of numbers. I would like to convert them into a format readable by a spreadsheet program (OpenOffice Calc, for instance), so that each number in the original text file can be transformed in a spreadsheet cell. Is there such a converter? Thanks in advance, Paul OpenOffice.org calc will open text files containing tables directly using it's import/export filter. Go to File Open, from the file type drop down box select Text/CSV, select the name of the file and press open, select the appropriate seperator, check from the preview pane that the format is ok and then press ok. The file should open. Any problems read up under importing in OOo help HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotlabd PS please lose the reply to address in your headers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache2
On Monday 13 September 2004 06:19, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Do you realize that you just hijacked a thread? Probably not, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention. :) LX I`m really sorry for hijacking. I wasn`t aware I was doing it, I should have read the list etiquette first... Anyway, thanks for the advice given to my question, I`ll try the urpmi command. Kathy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Apache2
Hi, I`ve downloaded the latest Apache version httpd-2.0.50, but when I try installing it with ./configure, I get the foloowing message: configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH [...] configure failed for srclib/apr. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Kathy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IMAP server?
Tony S. Sykes wrote: I've been using e-mail for over 2 decades, and even though I haven't saved everything, I have several Gb of mail stored up in various formats (basically MH or mbox). I continue to get hundreds of messages a day, and after killing the spam, I keep maybe half of what's left. One thing I'd really like is to be able to keep all my e-mail, old and new, in a single, searchable archive that gets backed-up regularly. I've been thinking that a good way to do that is to run an IMAP server on my Mandrake 10.0 box, so I can access the mail from anywhere (Windows, Palm, etc.). My first choice would be to convert all the mail to MH format, but I'm open to other formats. I understand the Univ. of Washington IMAP server supports MH, and I assume there are others. Do IMAP servers typically provide any search or indexing capabilities? I imagine that would have to be on the server side. Anyone have any experience setting up a machine like this? How painful is it? Derek has got a good write up on how to install a mail server www.jennings.homelinux.net hope that helps. Thanks for the pointer. It looks pretty comprehensive. Thanks! -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Book recommendations?
I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have the patience for that anymore. I like the orderly explanations that a good book can offer. Unfortunately, I'm finding that my *n*x experience (DEC Ultrix, SGI Irix, etc.) is too far in the past, and too dissimilar to Mandrake, to be helping me much. Thanks, -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com The artwork formerly shown as prints List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Book recommendations?
I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have the patience for that anymore. I like the orderly explanations that a good book can offer. Unfortunately, I'm finding that my *n*x experience (DEC Ultrix, SGI Irix, etc.) is too far in the past, and too dissimilar to Mandrake, to be helping me much. Thanks, -pd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake/WIndows file sharing, etc.
I thought I sent this message this morning, but it doesn't seem to have shown up. I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get file sharing to work across systems. I can't seem to see a WinXP system from Mandrake, or vice versa. A couple of observations: 1) Samba doesn't seem to start automatically on boot. I have to start it by hand. Can I make it start automatically? 2) Likewise for ftp. 3) My HOST env var is set to my system, but when I look at the DHCP client table on my router, there's no name for the Mandrake box. (The WinXP boxes are named correctly.) So this suggests the Mandrake box is not declaring its name correctly somehow. Any clues on that? 4) I inadvertently specified an incorrect domain name when I installed the system. I think I've cleared that in the network settings, but I'm not sure. Somehow, the two WinXP machines are in different workgroups, and there's no workgroup for the Mandrake box. Any comments, suggestions, or even good jokes would be appreciated. Bad jokes I can supply myself. Thanks! -pd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Real newbie stuff
I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Dell XPS T500 last week. I've used various flavors of *n*x in the past, but this is my first experience with Linux. So far, I'm very pleased, but I have a few questions. 1) Is there a way to get the KDE terminal icon to bring up a terminal with tcsh instead of bash? 2) I've tried installing various rpms from various network sites, but the installer always tells me there some component or other missing. Is there anything like cpan, where installing will automatically install all the required software? I installed nmh 1.1 RC3 by hand, but I'm trying to get sylpheed-claws, SpamAssassin, and various other things. 3) How come there's no link -s? All I can find is plain link. Is this a hard or soft link? Thanks. I'm sure there will be thousands more as I proceed. -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com The artwork formerly shown as prints List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Real newbie stuff
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:01, Derek Jennings wrote: From your MenuSystemConfigurationConfigureYourComputer Otherwise known as Mandrake control Centre or 'mcc ' from a terminal. Aha! Thanks very much. BTW: Could you read the page on mail list etiquette on the Wiki and then remove the Reply To in your Evolution settings please. Sorry. -pd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LG HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B
Dale Kosan wrote: One person mentioned having trouble with this drive, any one else? I was thinking of purchasing one but do not want junk. Thanks in advance. I have had an LG GCE-8160B CD burner for 3 years, running under windoze98. So far, it has been problem-free. Don't buy an LG front-loading washing machine though, unless you are prepared to chain it to a wall . . . they cannot balance the load adequately before spin dry. We now have an Asko. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] copying slides from PDF
Hi, could anyone tell me how to copy-paste entire slides/graphics from PDF to other documents, e.g. OpenOffice Writer? I`ve got Adobe, KPDF, XPDF and GhostView installed. When using the icon to select an entire slide in Adobe and selecting copy, I get the following message: There was an error while copying to the clipboard. Segmentation violation caught. I`d be grateful for suggestions. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] difficulty reconfiguring Kwallet under mdk 10.0
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 03:41, g2 wrote: I am running Mandrake 10.0 Official. Somehow I accidentally set a password for the Kwallet, despite really not needing one. Now each time I start up kmail, the mail program I use regularly, I have to enter in the kwalltet password. I get a dialog box explaining that the application has requested access to the kwallet, and prompts me for the password. I would like to get rid of this extra step so I don't need to enter this. Before it was a minor annoyance not worth the effort to get rid of, but now I want kmail to launch apon boot, so i really need to get rid of the password problem. I tried getting into kwalett by accesssing it via the menu under kde system:configure:other:kwallet. The system seems to be trying to do somthing for about a minuet, and then nothing ! Not sure whats wrong, why I cant get in to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. PS once I get this problem solved, how do I set kmail to automaticly launch apon system startup? Thanks a bunch. Gideon Run /usr/bin/kwalletmanager then open kwallet from the icon in the system tray and you will be able to access the configuration settings and un-enable kwallet. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Boot Floppy
Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 won't execute
I embarked with Mandrakelinux 7, which came in the back of Sam's Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours book. It installed itself OK, but then it wouldn't recognize my on-board modem, my LG CD Burner files, nor my Canon scanner, and although it could tell me what model of Canon printer I have, attempts to print did not work. Escape from the swampy Winduck (ie short legs) archipelago was looking like a long expedition. But then I found the website where one can download Mandrakelinux 10.0 Beta for AMD64 . Perfect ! Thinks I. Latest version might have the missing hardware patches, and is optimized for my Athlon 1.2GHz cpu as well. Certainly big enough to contain a kitchen sink for every room in a large hotel. So I barter with a friend to download the mind-boggling 2.5GB of executable files via their broadband connection. And tonight we sit down to run these 3 CD ROMs full of arcane code with an ISO file extension (never heard of it). The file manager recognizes the files on the CDs as executable, but they cannot be induced to execute. What I need is a stable, efficient operating system that uses the hardware that I already have, and does not have the self-destructive file-corrupting monotheistic personality attributes of Winduck, and preferably without being susceptible to the anonymous malice of demented hackers and their poxy proxy viruses. It is unlikely that I will ever do any programming or systems development. Just a nice, reliable, obedient machine will do me fine. I am prepared to put in the time and endure the pain that it takes to start again in a foreign cyberscape, but be aware that last time I worked directly with an operating system, it was 1985 and my Morrow MD11 cp/m machine with its 32kB operating system would blow the doors off an IBM XT, so be gentle with me. Peter Mann Self-trust is the essence of heroism. It is the state of the soul at war, and its ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents. It is generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations and scornful of being scorned. It persists ... its jest is the littleness of common life. Ralph Waldo Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to fix linmodem for 2.6 kernel
On Sunday 23 May 2004 00:42, murallo wrote: Hi, I'm an improving newbie - that means I can do most of the things that linux deems to be essential like downloading weird libraries and recompiling kernels without having to ask too many questions from the helpful folk online. However I'd appreciate it anyone out there can answer this one. I have an internal linmodem (Intel v92ham) which I have installed sucessfully under several different linux releases using various 2.4 kernels including this one (slackware 9.1 with 2.4.22 kernel) But all attempts to run this modem with a 2.6 kernel seem doomed to failure. First the script only allows compilation with 2.4 kernels and second I think that 2.6 requires the resulting modules to be of type .ko. So, can I compile my old sources under 2.6 and convert them to .ko somehow? Can I get new sources compatible with 2.6? Do I buy a new modem? New system is mandrake 10 (from linux format magazine) with 2.6.3 kernel K7S5A board with athlon 2000 256 MB memory (onboard sound), GEForce FX5200, Dell 18 LCD And it all works a treat, except for that dratted modem Oh, and the scanner - but that's another story Best Regards Harry Anderson I have the same modem, which worked fine under Mandrake 8.2 but doesn` t under 10.0. I posted to the linmodem list, and have copied the essential parts of the thread below. Unfortunately, it doesn` t look very promising... I` m using an external modem now. I`d be pleased to be informed if anyone finds a better solution. Kat Peter, kernel compilation will NOT help!! Winmodem code comes with a pre-compiled component, that is NOT being updated. The HaM chipests will NEVER be functional under Linux 2.6.3 code MarvS Many thanks for letting me know. I`ll get by using an external modem until I learn kernel compilation then. Kat On Thursday 29 Apr 2004 16:20, vbm linux wrote: Yes, Sorry but HaM is not maintained anymore. And it is getting harder each day to convince my managers to let me keep 536ep up to date as well. (everything is about the 537 softmodem now) -dorian Kat, Sadly as expected below -- The 453 code release is also the last for this older chipset (relates Intel maintainer Dorian Araneda). Thus HaM code failures can be expected under the emerging 2.6.nn kernels. - From our experience with the Lucent DSP modem code, it is a LOT of expect work in even the Open Source code component to achieve a 2.4 - 2.6 migration I am copying to Dorian Araneda, should he have any further information. You will need a 2.6.n supported modem chipset. ModemData.txt.2 relates the current options. Condolences, MarvS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KPPP: Kernel PPP support
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 01:16, et wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 01:55 am, Katinka Peter wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2004 09:26 am, Katinka Peter wrote: Since I`ve updated from 8.2 to 10.0 Official, I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I try to connect using KPPP, the modem dials but then I get the following error message: pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status 4 (On man pppd, the explanation is: 4: The kernel does not support PPP, for example, the PPP kernel driver is not included or cannot be loaded.). Details: unable to open the /dev/ppp device. You need to create the /dev/ppp device by executing the following command as root: ^lmknod /dev/ppp c 1808 0 When I do this, I get the message: substitution failed, so I don`t have ppp in the /dev folder. I`d be grateful for help. Thanks, Kat Did you do a clean install of 10.0 or a upgrade? I had LOTS of problems with 10.0 after upgrades and internet connections was one of them. Marc I`ve only done an upgrade, which might be the problem. I`ll do a clean install instead and hope it`ll work then. Thanks for your advice, Kat install kdenetwork Thanks, it worked without problems after a clean install. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
bascule Thanks, This all works now like a dream. Peter On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 00:45, bascule wrote: to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner is not root and the group audio then do: chown root.audio * (assuming you are in the /dev/sound directory, you will need to do the same for files in /dev/snd there are files outside these directories but there are symlinks and you shouldn't have to touch them for audio stuff bascule On Monday 10 May 2004 5:15 pm, Peter wrote: f you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the console.perms, and commenting out the sound line results in BOTH users losing sound, is this because audio group needs the rw perms. ( I,m learning, honest I am!) Peter On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:29, bascule wrote: i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave started a second session, if you look in /etc/security/console.perms you will see a list pertaining to what permissions device get assigned when someone logs in and the default perms when you log out, note that all the sound devices will be owned by the first logged in user and stay that way if someone else logs on in the meantime, to fix this you can comment out the relevant lines, and then make your users members of the audio group, also make sure that you alter the perms of the file to give the audio group rw perms, do this for other device files that the other user might need access to, although this works for me to allow my daughter to log on and play music, i would appreciate if some expert could explain why it is that the references (in my case) to the device files for my nvidia card don't need to be changed for another user to log on, how does that work? bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there
Derek, Yes it works fine if I log out, and log dominic in, but i *would* like to just switch session for him. If you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:29, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58, Peter wrote: Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the console.perms, and commenting out the sound line results in BOTH users losing sound, is this because audio group needs the rw perms. ( I,m learning, honest I am!) Peter bascule It it works then there is no need to do anything with the perms. As I said, it is not normally required. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Setting up a 2nd user
Hi All, Been running MDK 10.0 (CE) for about a week, and beginning to get used to it. (Thanks to Derek for his help). Still VERY new to Linux, so will be asking questions. I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing 'dominic' to use sound. It says 'permission denied', do I need to set permissions, or can I do it from 1st user (where setting up sound etc. is fine). Th reason for setting up 2nd user is to allow my son (dominic who is disabled), to use the PC, with sound, and other input devices (joystick, tracker ball, Accessible features), seperate from me. Please help ( in simple terminology at the moment!) Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] newbie - help with gnomemeeting
Hi All, Have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Laptop, as a Linux newbie, finding my way around it. question about gnomemeeting: can't connect to other users, get 'abnormal termination message' also how do i install programs/updates downloaded from the net (i try to use the software manager, but it won't let me install) Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KPPP: Kernel PPP support
Since I`ve updated from 8.2 to 10.0 Official, I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I try to connect using KPPP, the modem dials but then I get the following error message: pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status 4 (On man pppd, the explanation is: 4: The kernel does not support PPP, for example, the PPP kernel driver is not included or cannot be loaded.). Details: unable to open the /dev/ppp device. You need to create the /dev/ppp device by executing the following command as root: ^lmknod /dev/ppp c 1808 0 When I do this, I get the message: substitution failed, so I don`t have ppp in the /dev folder. I`d be grateful for help. Thanks, Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KPPP: Kernel PPP support
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 09:26 am, Katinka Peter wrote: Since I`ve updated from 8.2 to 10.0 Official, I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I try to connect using KPPP, the modem dials but then I get the following error message: pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status 4 (On man pppd, the explanation is: 4: The kernel does not support PPP, for example, the PPP kernel driver is not included or cannot be loaded.). Details: unable to open the /dev/ppp device. You need to create the /dev/ppp device by executing the following command as root: ^lmknod /dev/ppp c 1808 0 When I do this, I get the message: substitution failed, so I don`t have ppp in the /dev folder. I`d be grateful for help. Thanks, Kat Did you do a clean install of 10.0 or a upgrade? I had LOTS of problems with 10.0 after upgrades and internet connections was one of them. Marc I`ve only done an upgrade, which might be the problem. I`ll do a clean install instead and hope it`ll work then. Thanks for your advice, Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not supported. I`d be grateful for any suggestions. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] AVI - MPG (VCDs)
On Monday 23 Feb 2004 2:44 pm, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi guys, I have some video files in AVI format that I would like to convert to VCDs -- what *free* software is available for Mandrake to do this ?? Ta, Jamie Transcode and VCDImager HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] missing /boot/boot.b
I am trying to make a bootable CD using mindi. However it complains that I have no /boot/boot.b and offers to use /boot/boot.0300 instead. I am sure that I used to have a file called /boot/boot.b and a line in /etc/lilo.conf install=/boot/boot.b but this has gone also. I do have the /boot/boot.0300 file which mindi refers to. I can only think that something must have gone wrong when I updated my kernel as this is the only time I can remember doing anything which would affect /etc/lilo.conf. Anyone know what has happened here? Thanks Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail word wrap
I've got this problem with Kmail. Word wrap is set at col 75 and in the composer window this works fine. But when I see my messages after they are delivered they are not wrapped at all. Anyone got ant ideas? Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi to svcd programs?
On Thursday 29 Jan 2004 5:53 am, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:31:48 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found mencvcd, just trying it now with a DVD. A couple fits starts, but we'll see what the results give. Following up on my own post (/slap): Well, I experimented a few times with that mencvcd script, found a few options that worked, and ended up with 2 files in /tmp: one's a mpa and the other one is an mpv file. 'file' says one is mpeg 2 audio (MP2, 224k) and the other one is an mpeg video stream. So far, that's probably what I want, right, for VCD encode? Seems like the next step is to take those two files and make a disk image (or two, as they both are larger than a single CD). What's my next step -- is this something that vcd imager or k3b is going to be able to do ... i.e., split the files up into cd-sized chunks, write out the right directory structure including a DAT file for the movie? (That's what I see when I mount some VCDs that my brother did in Windows). David I haven't used mencvcd but when I make VCD's using transcode I end up with 2 files, one video -.mpv, and one audio -.mp2, the next step for me is to multiplex them into one mpg file using mplex. After that I use vcdimager to create the right structure and cdrdao to burn. Maybe you need to multiplex your files next. If you want to cut files up into smaller chunks I would suggest you look at mpgtx, this is what I use. In the past I have had good results with avidemux, but for me it seems flaky under 9.2 HTH Regards PeteArdnamurchan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Yes, that's a pretty accurate description of what happened, except that I'm running 8.2. To restore the links I ran mknod disc b 3 0 in /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 and similar commands for the partitions. Then I linked them all back to /dev using ln -s path hda1, etc. That didn't work, and here I am. bascule wrote: have you lost the link to the drive if you are using devfs? i don't remember the earlier posts but if you have 9.2 and are using devfs then you will find that /dev/hda etc are symbolic links, i.e.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 bascule On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 3:11 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. 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] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
As requested: # /etc/mtab /dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 #/etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # block devmount pointtypeoptionsdump pass #-- --- --- /dev/hdb2/ext2defaults11 none /dev/ptsdevptsmode=062000 none /dev/shmtmpfsdefaults00 /dev/hdb4/homeext2defaults12 none/mnt/cdromsupermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom2iso9660 iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyvfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhide 0 0 /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfatdefaults 00 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_dvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_gvfatdefaults00 /dev/hda3 /mnt/win_evfatdefaults00 none /procprocdefaults00 /dev/hdb3swapswapdefaults00 I'm in the middle of playing around with my CDRW drive too, so that entry may look weird. Pete et wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) cat /etc/mtab and cat /etc/fstab Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need to recognize it in order to run LILO so I can start playing around with my own kernels. E. Hines wrote: I see linux partitions only on /dev/hdb (hdb2,hdb3, and hdb4). You have no Linux partitions mounting on hdaX at all. You need to figure out which partition is the linux partition on hda (as root# fdisk -l /dev/hda is your friend) and create manual entries for it: /dev/hdaX /some_name ext2 rw 0 0 I have one that looks like this: /dev/hda9 /backup ext2 defaults 1 2 On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:39 am, Peter Simko wrote: As requested: # /etc/mtab /dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 #/etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # block devmount pointtypeoptionsdump pass #-- --- --- /dev/hdb2/ext2defaults11 none /dev/ptsdevptsmode=062000 none /dev/shmtmpfsdefaults00 /dev/hdb4/homeext2defaults12 none/mnt/cdromsupermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom2iso9660 iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyvfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhi de 0 0 /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfatdefaults 00 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_dvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_gvfatdefaults00 /dev/hda3 /mnt/win_evfatdefaults00 none /procprocdefaults00 /dev/hdb3swapswapdefaults00 I'm in the middle of playing around with my CDRW drive too, so that entry may look weird. Pete et wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) cat /etc/mtab and cat /etc/fstab Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live (solved)
On Saturday 10 Jan 2004 5:42 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 22:33, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: Ok, I did it ! Now I can play .midi and .kar files in Kmid. I just followed the instructions in the article. First, I installed the awesfx package [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi awesfx OK - done that Then , I copied the sound samples to /etc/midi/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cp /mnt/cdrom/AUDIO/COMMON/SFBANK/8MBGMSFX.SF2 /etc/midi/ Where did you find these sound fonts? Which cd? A Mandrake one? Hi, Anne! I copied them from the Sound Blater installation cd. If you don't have the cd, I can e-mail the sound fonts to you. I have already bzipped them - their size is 6,4M. Can your email handle it ? folks The awesfx rpm includes a sound font, GU11-ROM.SF2, you should find it in /etc/midi HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:31, E. Hines wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 07:30 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. A few things I can think of: hda should be jumpered for Master and it should be (if I recall correctly, someone will correct me if I'm wrong) on the end of the IDE cable. The slave drive should be attached to the center cable connector. Does your bios show both drives being detected and identified correctly? (assuming you don't have a crippled bios like a Gateway or some such). Do you get a message at the first boot screen (right after memory test) that shows the Master and Slave drive being identified? Have you tried moving hdb to ide1, and having hda alone on ide0? Tried booting with only hda plugged in? Lots of stuff you can do to determine what the problem is, but it acts like: 1. hda has no power plugged into it 2. hda is jumpered wrong, or in the wrong position on the cable 3. the IDE cable is bad, not plugged in, or plugged in wrong--red marker not to pin 1 (not impossible to do with some cable/drive combos) 4. the hd has gone bad Above all, I would say make sure that neither drive is jumpered for Cable Select. It causes far more problems than it solves. Anne The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
et wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 02:05 am, Peter Simko wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda. diskdrake as root... me boyo,,, you should be able to make it mount from the gui Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video
On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 7:40 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. However a lot of water under the bridge since then and I'm in a new install of 9.2 for a while now and find myself in the same boat but unfortunatly can't remember what the name of the program was and I can't remember what the name of the thread was either for the archives. Anybody got any recommendations? avidemux should do these easily (you can set the codecs to imort mpeg). However although I have used it fine with previous versions of mandrake my 9.2 version seems borked. Has anyone else had problems with this version ? You may want to try it anyway John, when it works it is a fine tool Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem
On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 3:22 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Wednesday 26 November 2003 7:09 pm, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mine does. Or at least Intel says it will. It's got the Intel 586EP chip set. I put a message on here, asking about getting mgetty to work, but haven't heard from anyone yet. But Intel says specifically that it works with Linux as well as XP. Look for a modem that is advertised as a hardware modem. WinModems use software to share their job with the WinSnooze OS. That's why the WinModems are a tough breed to get working with Linux. The best place to read up on them is http://www.linmodems.org/. I have a 536ep modem and I managed to get it working previously (up to 9.1). However, before it would work with kppp I had to launch minicom, wait for 30 sec, then close minicom and launch kppp. Failing to do this iniialisation with minicom would cause the keyboard to stop responding and the only way out was to press the power button. The same happens in 9.2 but, in addition, the speed is now so low as to make it virtually unusable, It always worked fine with XP, still does. But for linux I have bought an serial modem. First off I bought an el cheapo from ebuyer for GB pounds 15, this worked great for short periods, but after about 15 mins it would slow right down to a crawl, it also got very hot, which I suspect caused the slow down. This week I have bought a Hayes Accura GB pounds 60, so far it is working flawlessly. YMMV but I think the Hayes is worth it for the lack of trouble alone HTH Pete ARdnamurchanSCotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Superuser
On Saturday 22 Nov 2003 4:15 pm, Cenora wrote: Hello, I have just installed MDK9.2. How do I run a terminal under superuser mode, or the file manager under this mode? They just don appear on the menu. Thanks Thiago I don't know if this is the best solution, but I use ALT F2 then enter konsole or konqueror, under options I select run as different user, enter the password and voila. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 19:55, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Question home movies, I am helpless. But you can make vcds with those above programs and vcdimager. OK I'll bite... I've only done a few dvd rips to avi, with some success using mencoder, gmencoder, or dvdrip. right now i'm attempting to do a vcd of a dvd using dvdrip. but i've not used vcdimager or vcdximager - are they stand alone programs or filters that other programs (such as dvdrip) use? is there a step by step guide to burning a vcd on mandrake? i did another test run of a dvd (older classic film with monaural sound) last night but the audio is seriously out of step with the video (i.e., the previous scene's dialogue is spoken when the new scene is being displayed) ;). I'm ripping collateral damage now to vcd with dvdrip. In about 13 hours or so it will be done. THe last time I tried doing it, i think it segfaulted or something :(. I use vcdimager to create VCD images of video from my DV camera. First I import the AVI into Kino and then export it as mpeg1. Vcdimager takes the mpeg1 stream and converts it to the required image files ready to burn with cdrdao. I use vcdimager from the command line and there is good documentation explaining the principles and giving examples at http://www.vcdimager.org/documentation.phtml Vcdimager also has several GUI front ends including qvcd, arson and k3b, but I have never used them, it works great as a standalone program from the command line, the only problem for me is that the quality of VCD is very noticeably inferior to DVD HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/krHnbAtXXQnVtr0RAgycAJ9G6yf2nJoDKn70L1442uiQ7q3NDgCfRWzi mhINzmckcYns85vqbQnuNgM= =Ac9H -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SNIPOn Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority. But just to calm you down a bit : Those of you who live in democratic and free countries may think that it's a real parliament. It certainly is not. The members are not elected, they are appointed by national political parties. The real power lies at the Commission. One of the commissars recently called the EP a Mickey Mouse Parliament - very appropriate. /SNIP For the benefit of any non EU readers the above statement is not actually true. Members of the European parliament *are* elected by ballot and *any* EU citizen can stand. Where Kaj's statement has an element of truth is that, unfortunately, the electors (ie the general public) are pretty well brainwashed to only vote for candidates who represent an established political party, and this does have the effect of filling the parliament with the sort of deadbeats that Kaj describes. However, this is really a reflection of the sheep like mentality of the electors and not a valid criticism of the parliament as such, to put it another way. if you vote for idiots you get idiots in parliament, but is this the idiot's fault or yours Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/csk6bAtXXQnVtr0RApCVAJ9fcBr/rNpl9ihqJ7JJDO6zGnGkZACdE4y2 PvNsNVa2DvNlkr7qI5jpTkY= =Eltz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT}Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 12:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 11:53 am, Peter Watson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SNIPOn Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority. But just to calm you down a bit : Those of you who live in democratic and free countries may think that it's a real parliament. It certainly is not. The members are not elected, they are appointed by national political parties. The real power lies at the Commission. One of the commissars recently called the EP a Mickey Mouse Parliament - very appropriate. /SNIP For the benefit of any non EU readers the above statement is not actually true. Members of the European parliament *are* elected by ballot and *any* EU citizen can stand. Where Kaj's statement has an element of truth is that, unfortunately, the electors (ie the general public) are pretty well brainwashed to only vote for candidates who represent an established political party, and this does have the effect of filling the parliament with the sort of deadbeats that Kaj describes. However, this is really a reflection of the sheep like mentality of the electors and not a valid criticism of the parliament as such, to put it another way. if you vote for idiots you get idiots in parliament, but is this the idiot's fault or yours Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Actually Peter your statement is not quite true either. In the UK and several other EU nations the voter votes for a party *not* a candidate. The party decides who actually goes to the parliment by keeping a 'party list' The proportion of votes cast for a party determines how many people on the list get elected. Anyone whose name appears near the top of the list for a major party are **bound** to get elected no matter how big an idiot ( or crook ) they are. You might as well vote for the 'Monster Raving Loony' party (Yes. There is one!) derek Derek Still not quite true. Any (EU citizen) individual can stand as an independent, ie no party except himself (and obviously be top of his own list). I'll stand if you will promise to vote for me, but realistically independents have zilch chance of being elected, unless perhaps they are really famous. Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ctncbAtXXQnVtr0RAmSjAJ0YGBYtbjM9niTVww5H4p5pNm5VngCfQW+f xRR1tWSt5rsAs50eCKFGPEI= =V1Fa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT}Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 15:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:04 pm, Peter Watson wrote: snip I'll stand if you will promise to vote for me, but realistically independents have zilch chance of being elected, unless perhaps they are really famous. Pete ArdnamurchanScotland /snip OK Pete, please run for the parliament and I promise I'll vote for you, if you could only tell me how ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark. Kaj put an x against my name on the ballot paperg Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ct8ybAtXXQnVtr0RAjjBAJ9Q0xYvKbcJwt7w3jPJvXwUhUHEMgCfaNmh i6C6YZfnacYaEzAaf7p592Q= =8KZN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HDD enclosure
Hi Miark I have used 3 different USB 2 based subsystems similar to this and they all worked first time on 9.1. I have an issue about running at USB 2 speed which is a controller issue I think, but apart from that no problem with either ext2 or vfat32 file systems. Peter On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 17:06, Miark wrote: I'm thinking of buying the hard drive enclosure reviewed here: http://www.modsynergy.com/Review 74.htm It's USB 2, aluminum, equipped with a fan, and supports huge IDE drives. Two questions: * Is there any reason this wouldn't work in Linux? * If my setup only supports 1.1, is this thing still guaranteed to work (albeit slower)? Miark __ 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] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM
Hi e On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:15, Erylon Hines wrote: Still no clues on how to fix this, or even what is causing the problem, but thanks for the insite, so far. Why not try using another email client temporarily and then that will decide if it is your system or maybe the date info has been cleared during relaying from the source? Also if you have two email accounts, try both of them to try to pin point the problem. Peter __ 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] step two: email...
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 17:16, rikona wrote: Hello Merlin, Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 1:53:28 AM, you wrote: MZ Can anyone recommend a good Outlook replacement? MZ * Has to be able to import all my old stuff into folders like it MZ was before, and have rules to put new incoming mail into folders MZ like Outlook does. MZ * Would be nice if I could right-click on a URL in a mail msg and MZ select open or open in new window [or tab] MZ * Be able to read HTML as HTML, without attachments automatically MZ opening... Checkout Evolution from Ximian (shipped with MDK9.1). I moved over from Outlook (not Express) and took my mail with me (email me if you want info on how to get from Outlook) and it works every bit as good as Outlook including rules etc. The delete takes a little getting used to, but am very happy with stability and features. Not sure about the last requirement, but you can stop includes and display as source. Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] laptop install problems
Hello Todd, on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:41:42 -0400GMT (24.08.03, 18:41 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Some of us with older hardware might not be able to boot from cd. I don't know if it's a function of BIOS or cd drive or both, but I know mine won't boot from cd. Neither will mine. Here it is due to 64 MB RAM along with a 200 MHz processor... ;-) -- Cheers Peter Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Winamp currently playing: Barbara Thompson - O My Love, How Long Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to burn *.bin
Hello Paul, on Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:41:15 +0300GMT (07.08.03, 18:41 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : As you've top-posted I'll follow suit, hope it doesn't get too confusing. Top posting is always confusing... ;-( -- Cheers Peter Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Winamp currently playing: Caterina Valente - Wenn es Nacht wird in Paris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
C'mmon guys, Fosters, Tooheys, Rickards - pour it down the drain and use the containers for ballasting. STEINLAGER - the real drink !! Lanman - I STILL haven't touched that email server - it just works ! Cheers Peter Guess I'll understand it when they stop saying that Foster's is Australian for Beer in all the commercials. And we may make the stuff for Americans, but it's not as strong as the beer we have here. It's thinned out for Americans. Eitther way, this is about taking a few days off, flying down to see Stephen Frankie, kickin' back and relaxing, not about beer. Besides, I'm a Rickard's man myself. By the way, call me a schmuck again, and I'll personally fly down there, rip your head off, and puke down the hole. On the other hand, if you can suggest a good beer when I get there, I'll buy the first round, and we'll find a couple of companions to cut his lawn. Your call Richard. Either way, I'm good to go if you are. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 07/08/2003 at 6:12 PM Richard Hackwith wrote: At 01:32 PM 8/7/2003 +0800, you wrote: Lanman, when are you gonna understand.. Fosters is the cats wiz we export overseas for schmucks such as yourself :-) I don't know anyone here that drinks it at all The Foster's sold in the USA is actually made in Canada. Richard *** Richard Hackwith Sacramento CA[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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] kde and konqueror
Hello, on Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:32:19 +0200GMT (31.07.03, 08:32 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : i have a big problem! i changed the colors of kde(controlcenter-lookfeel- style and so on) to a grey. while i'm browsing my harddisk with konqueror(like explorer in windows), there are all files listened up. The first line is grey, the second is just white! the followed line is grey, then white. every second line is just white. if i select all files, the filenames are showed in a different grey(you can have an other color for selecting). Just an idea: can it be that you have set the font color to white, thus producing white text on white background? -- Cheers Peter ' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde and konqueror
Hello linux, on Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:29:02 +0200GMT (31.07.03, 14:29 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Zitat von Peter Meyns: Just an idea: can it be that you have set the font color to white, thus producing white text on white background? defenatly not. i downloaded http://www.kde-look.org/content/download.php?content=5801 this is a theme, just try it. No, I certainly won't, if it causes you trouble already. I'll stick to the KDE defaults... ;-) -- Cheers Peter Tagline for the night: while( !asleep() ) sheep++; Winamp currently playing: Gianmaria Testa / Giovannone, Pier Mario - Sono Belle le Cose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCMCIA doesn't start after reinstall
Hey all, Well, never did figure out why my pcmcia services were going haywire (see [newbie] Runaway pcmcia services -- above). So I thought I would try to reinstall, but now PCMCIA doesn't start at all. I'm not sure if this is the error or not, but the tail end of dmesg is: Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] ds: no socket drivers loaded! unloading Kernel Card Services Any ideas? Thanks. -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible Registered Linux User 246938 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA doesn't start after reinstall
On July 31, 2003 03:54 pm, Peter Pankonin wrote: Hey all, Well, never did figure out why my pcmcia services were going haywire (see [newbie] Runaway pcmcia services -- above). So I thought I would try to reinstall, but now PCMCIA doesn't start at all. I'm not sure if this is the error or not, but the tail end of dmesg is: Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] ds: no socket drivers loaded! unloading Kernel Card Services Any ideas? Thanks. Found the trouble.../etc/sysconfig/pcmcia wasn't configured with yenta-socket...so now I'm back at square one with the runaway pcmcia service as before. Should I take this to the expert list? -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible Registered Linux User 246938 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Runaway pcmcia services
Hi all. I recently got a wireless NIC (Linksys WPC11) card. When starting pcmcia, my system (Mandy 9.1) goes nuts... For about 3 to 4 minutes I get this in the terminal: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: etc. (sometimes at this point there is an error about too many files...) Then, for another 3 to 4 minutes I get this: insmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod pcmcia_core failed insmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod pcmcia_core failed insmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod pcmcia_core failed insmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod pcmcia_core failed insmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod pcmcia_core failed insmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists etc. After that I can insert my wireless card and everything works fine. If I set pcmcia to start on boot, it takes about 6 minutes longer to start. I imagine it's doing the above in the background. Any ideas as to how I can fix this? Thanks. -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible Registered Linux User 246938 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91? - Decision Made!!
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 09:58, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi My old parallel port scanner is a no no with MDK according to all the docs I have read and I did try it without success. So on to buying a new one. I have USB 2 interface and have heard that USB scanners work well with xsane etc, but which one to buy? Some recommendations would be welcomed as most/all of the scanners do not have linux compatible notices on the box (some day this may happen). Thanks Peter First, thanks to all of the respondants, and yes I will put this on the twiki if it is not already there. I looked at the ones suggested and then at a few of the USB sites. The end result was to go with an Epson 1260. This arrived new and shiny and worked right out of the box as expected from previous mails. The main reason for going for this one was 1) It was available new in the UK for approx £75 delivered by dabs.com (no personal interest, but have good experience with them) 2) It was recommended (as was the 1250) on the list 3) Epson have actually got their finger out to support under Linux and deserve the credit/benefit. There we go, a happy Linux user complete with scanner. All the best Peter __ 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] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91?
Hi My old parallel port scanner is a no no with MDK according to all the docs I have read and I did try it without success. So on to buying a new one. I have USB 2 interface and have heard that USB scanners work well with xsane etc, but which one to buy? Some recommendations would be welcomed as most/all of the scanners do not have linux compatible notices on the box (some day this may happen). Thanks Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel error
Hi all, good thing this list seems to be up and running again. I went through my KDE settings yesterday and on the module System - Linux Kernel I got the following information (translated from German): from kde Error Your kernel configuration could not be read because of the following error: /usr/src/linux/arch//config.in cannot be opened. Either the source code of your kernel contains faulty configuration rules or you have just discovered a bug in this program. /from kde So what might that mean? Is it the 2 slashes between arch and config.in, and if so where would I fix this? Any ideas? I'm using Mandrake 9.1 installed without changing the defaults, KDE version is 3.1. -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed and GPG
On 10 Jul 2003 08:03:34 +1000 Stephen Kuhn wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : BTW, where would sylpheed - or any other program at that - store its system files (I haven't changed any defaults yet)? Application specific files should be: binaries: /usr/bin defaults: /usr/share/sylpheedX user specific: ~/home/yournamehere/.sylpheed Thank you Stephen, I found them. Not that I could do very much with them right now, but it is good to get a bit of understanding how Linux handles the files. -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sylpheed and GPG
Hi all, I installed sylpheed 0.9.2 from an RPM package on Mandrake 9.1. Now I want it to use GPG, but I don't find where to implement it. The FAQ only offers a way to implement GPG during compilation, but not how to do it with an existing installation. BTW, where would sylpheed - or any other program at that - store its system files (I haven't changed any defaults yet)? TIA -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 21:52:03 -0400 Lanman wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you'd like a work-around for bastille-firewall on Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, let me know. You'll probably laugh your ass off when you find out what I did to get it working! I would, as I'm trying to get it running on Mandrake 9.1, until now without success... -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Library Paths ?
G'Day Stephen, Thanks for the help on this one - didn't realise it was that complex :-) Pete From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting Library Paths ? Date: 09 Jul 2003 14:44:11 +1000 On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 14:13, Peter Moscatt wrote: I have just installed an application (mysql++) which has placed a number of header files in: /usr/include/sqlplus To allow the system to access these headers directly, do I need to append the PATH variable or is there another enviromental variable that needs to be adjusted to include this path ? Pete You might add that path to the /etc/ld.so.conf and then rerun ldconfig just to make sure that it's libraries are set in the lib path cache - you could also place that within the system search path just to make sure it's going to operate properly...(/etc/profile) -- Wed Jul 9 14:40:00 EST 2003 14:40:00 up 2 days, 16:12, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.15, 0.07 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Loud burping while walking around the airport is prohibited in Halstead, Kansas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=clickclientID=174referral=Hotmail_taglines_plainURL=http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed and GPG
Hi Inhabitant, on Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:21:06 +0100GMT (09.07.03, 14:21 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : I installed sylpheed 0.9.2 from an RPM package on Mandrake 9.1. Now I want it to use GPG http://www.tmtm.org/cgi-bin/w3ml/sylpheed/msg/20497 That will explain it all. Thank you, but no, it doesn't. Or maybe it does and all should work fine if I only understood some basics... To me it mainly explains how to set up GPG (which I already have) and the bit from the Sylpheed FAQ to start installation with ./configure --enable-gpgme. I tried and uninstalled Sylpheed 0.9.2 as it doesn't work with gpgme. Then I installed gpgme. I tried the above configure command on an unpacked 0.9.1 tarball and it took quite some time doing this and that until this message came: console checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.6... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: error: Test for GLIB failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help. /console I don't know where GLIB was installed, but on trying to install the RPM it reads Everything already installed... My trivial basic question here is: Where is _my_path_? BTW DON'T ignore the bit about reinstalling Sylpheed I didn't. That's why I don't have a working e-mail client on Linux right now... Good thing I can use The Bat! on Windows, which makes e-mailing a real joy to me. Sylpheed might be able to compete with it, whereas KMail doesn't. ;o) BTW, where would sylpheed - or any other program at that - store its system files (I haven't changed any defaults yet)? Well I am not about to tell you where ever program on Mandrake puts its files! I see, it's the developer's choice, and so can be anywhere. OK. *S* Thanks for your input - I'll keep on learning! :o) -- Cheers Peter There are two infinite things, the universe and human stupidity, but I'm not quite sure about the universe yet. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Winamp currently playing: Guess Who - These Eyes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firewall question
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 00:41, Chris wrote: I've setup firestarter and when I ran the test at www.grc.com all my ports show closed except for 21, 23, and 80. I would think that these should be at least closed. Anyone using firestarter know of how to do this? Thanks Chris I'm running firestarter out of the box and GRC shows these ports closed for me. However, if you run the firestarter GUI there is a tab for rules and under that you can enter port numbers to block or stealth, I would give that a try HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]
Hello FemmeFatale, on Tue, 08 Jul 2003 14:15:09 -0600GMT (08.07.03, 22:15 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : How do I start it? lord i suffered with this when i started with Bastille...its not intuitive so don't fret. Thanks for the encouragement. :-) At a command prompt type Interative-Bastille (or just Inter (then hit the TAB key)) and away you go. I'll try that one tomorrow when I'll be on Linux again. *s* Be sure to get the GUIed ver (TK or Curses version) its far simpler IMO as well. I think it's TK - at least I read something like that... I prefer a GUI myself. *S* -- Cheers Peter Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Winamp currently playing: Kula Shaker - Govinda Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux
Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2003 18:43 schrieb Derek Jennings: If you installed by RPM then you can remove shorewall with urpme shorewall in a root terminal. Thanks! That helped me back to internet connection. :) Shorewall will be installed automatically if you ask the Mandrake Control Centre to set up a firewall for you. I didn't know that, so thanks again! The Mandrake Control Centre however has a habit of mixing up which interface is the Internet, and which the local network, especially with ADSL. If you look in /etc/shorewall/interfaces you can confirm which interface is which. I'll have a look at that too. So far this was composed in KMail. However, I don't succeed to send (or save to templates) with KMail now. It freezes on any attempt at that... So I saved my message to a text file and implemented it here in The Bat! so it won't get lost for a forth time... ;) -- Cheers Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
