[newbie] How to use the fax?
Hello, I would like to send faxes from my notebook using my modem and OpenOffice. I have KsendFax, KdeprintFax and Kfax installed. I tried to use them but with no success. Is there a way to type my texte in oppenoffice and then send it from there? What file format shall I use for sending a faxs? How shall I setup the software to use my modem? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OCR software?
Hello, I want to scan french text with my HP psc 1350 multi fonction device. I have Xsane installed. It works great for scanning pictures but the text reconition is bad. Is there a solution under linux? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] still no DVD
Charles Lee Ying wrote: Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I removed xine and all the other packages I installed and started a new installation but with no success...(I installed also libdvdcss again) I got that at the console: libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x014d libdvdread: Elapsed time 4 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x01cd libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB (0x01cd) libdvdread: Elapsed time 2 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x01ff libdvdread: Elapsed time 1 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x001ff7d7 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB (0x001ff7d7) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x001ffa0f libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB (0x001ffa0f)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x001ffa30 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB (0x001ffa30) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x001ffa7d libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB (0x001ffa7d)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x00200231 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB (0x00200231) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x0020027e libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB (0x0020027e)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x002002e7 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB (0x002002e7) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x00200334 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB (0x00200334)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x00200385 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB (0x00200385) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x002003d2 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB (0x002003d2)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x00200427 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB (0x00200427) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x00200474 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB (0x00200474)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB at 0x002004d6 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB (0x002004d6) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB at 0x00200523 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB (0x00200523)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_0.VOB at 0x00200590 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_0.VOB (0x00200590) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB at 0x002005dd libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB (0x002005dd)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 1 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_0.VOB at 0x0020065c libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_0.VOB (0x0020065c) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_1.VOB at 0x002006a9 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_1.VOB (0x002006a9)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_0.VOB at 0x00200725 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_0.VOB (0x00200725) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_1.VOB at 0x00200772 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_1.VOB (0x00200772)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 11 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 8 And then I get this error message: error opening vrsN=-1 domain=2 Hope that someone can help me Christophe what is your setting for CSS decryption method in the Xine control panel (if you can't see the media tab or this option under that tab, set your xperience level to 'Expert') charles Hello, It reades key and I tried the 2 other propositions but with no success. I really don't know if it comes from the fact that it is a DVD burner combo (MATSHITAUJ-831D) or that I got the notebook from France because I can watch the Zone 2 Pal DVDs and that is it! Really strange and I need to watch some movies for my classes. Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] still no DVD
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 21:31, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, It reades key and I tried the 2 other propositions but with no success. I really don't know if it comes from the fact that it is a DVD burner combo (MATSHITAUJ-831D) or that I got the notebook from France because I can watch the Zone 2 Pal DVDs and that is it! Really strange and I need to watch some movies for my classes. Did you find the place in xine's configuration where you tell it which zone you are going to be watching? Sorry, I can't remember where it is, and I don't have xine installed at the moment. Anne Yes it is in the Media panel and I changed it to 2 because all my DVDs are French or bought in Turkey. Still no progress Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] how to restore my medias in MDK 10.1
Hello, I wanted to upgrade my medias in MDK center so I typed urpmi.removemedia -a In a console and now I have no media. What did I do wrong? How can I get the medias back because all are locked? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] still no DVD
Hello, I removed xine and all the other packages I installed and started a new installation but with no success...(I installed also libdvdcss again) I got that at the console: libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x014d libdvdread: Elapsed time 4 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x01cd libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB (0x01cd) libdvdread: Elapsed time 2 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x01ff libdvdread: Elapsed time 1 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x001ff7d7 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB (0x001ff7d7) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x001ffa0f libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB (0x001ffa0f)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x001ffa30 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB (0x001ffa30) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x001ffa7d libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB (0x001ffa7d)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x00200231 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB (0x00200231) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x0020027e libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB (0x0020027e)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x002002e7 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB (0x002002e7) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x00200334 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB (0x00200334)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x00200385 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB (0x00200385) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x002003d2 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB (0x002003d2)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x00200427 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB (0x00200427) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x00200474 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB (0x00200474)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB at 0x002004d6 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB (0x002004d6) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB at 0x00200523 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB (0x00200523)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_0.VOB at 0x00200590 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_0.VOB (0x00200590) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB at 0x002005dd libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB (0x002005dd)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 1 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_0.VOB at 0x0020065c libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_0.VOB (0x0020065c) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_1.VOB at 0x002006a9 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_1.VOB (0x002006a9)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_0.VOB at 0x00200725 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_0.VOB (0x00200725) libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_1.VOB at 0x00200772 libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_1.VOB (0x00200772)!! libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 11 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 8 And then I get this error message: error opening vrsN=-1 domain=2 Hope that someone can help me Christophe 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 restore my medias in MDK 10.1
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 Jan 2005 21:38, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I wanted to upgrade my medias in MDK center so I typed urpmi.removemedia -a In a console and now I have no media. What did I do wrong? It did exactly what you asked it to - it removed all your media. How can I get the medias back because all are locked? It depends, really, on whether you have a broadband connection. If you do, go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and set up sources for main, contrib and all the other options that it gives you. The instructions on how to use it a very clear and you should have no problems. You will not need your cds again, as you will download the latest packages of everything available to you. If you don't have broadband you will want your cds back. To get that, put CD1 into your drive and in a root console type urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom It will set up sources to match your set of CDs. Anne - -- Thanks I did it! Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where is libdvdcss?
John Layt wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:38, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I have still the same problem watching DVDs other then type 2 PAL on my Acer Aspire 1680 with DVD combo burner. I have now Kaffeine, Xine, MPlayer, Totem installed and none is working. I installed libdvdcss2 on the notebook but nothing happenes. Where should I install this package because when I urpmi it I can't find it after. Is there a setting to do in the xine software? I need to use some movies for my job and I don't want to have to install windob. Thank you Christophe I'm assuming you have libdvdcss installed from PLF, or did you compile it yourself? If you compiled it yourself, where did it get installed? It may not be on your lib path. If so, I recommend installing from the PLF instead, at http://plf.zarb.org/, you can configure a urpmi source for it at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. If you used PLF, do you also have all the PLF versions of Xine MPlayer installed? Here's what I have installed (not all are needed for DVD's, but it means you get most Win formats supported as well): libdvdcontrol - from plf libdvdcss2 - from plf libdvdnav4 - from mdk libdvdplay - from mdk libdvdread - from mdk libcss - from plf libxine1 - from plf mplayer - from plf mplayer-gui - from plf real-codecs - from plf xine-arts - from plf xine-faad - from plf xine-flac - from plf xine-plugins - from plf xine-ui - from mdk xine-vcdx - from mdk xine-win32 - from plf win32-codecs - from plf xanim-codecs - from plf I think that about covers it :-) John. Ok I installed all the packages and still I get the error message. How can I know where the libdvdcss2 is installed on my machine? Where should it be locateted? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Where is libdvdcss?
Hello, I have still the same problem watching DVDs other then type 2 PAL on my Acer Aspire 1680 with DVD combo burner. I have now Kaffeine, Xine, MPlayer, Totem installed and none is working. I installed libdvdcss2 on the notebook but nothing happenes. Where should I install this package because when I urpmi it I can't find it after. Is there a setting to do in the xine software? I need to use some movies for my job and I don't want to have to install windob. Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Watching DVDs with Caffeine and Totem not working
My problem is that I can only watch Type 2 PAL region... Even with lib DVDCSS2 installed... And all my other DVDs work fine with MDK 9.2. Is there something wrong with the packages or the preferences of Caffeine? Christophe Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 23:27, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I have a other problem with MDK 10.1. I can not watch DVDs with Totem and Caffeine. I have installed libdvdcss2 but with no success. Is there something to modify in the configuration? Thank you Christophe I've just finished burning a DVD and went to try it out with kaffeine or totem - - neither would play it, but xine played it perfectly. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB4bJckFAvMr/nNX8RAietAJ99BWHgX7Kh5BqOL4wwrCdNExONTgCePsYy H/Se3gdKmENdlbLeS1Lm7uE= =hB4n -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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
[newbie] Burning music CDs
Hello, Since I use K3B I was never abble to burn a regular music cd that I can play in any regular music box or car player. The cds are playing on my computer but not even on a winBox. What shall I setup before burning? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning music CDs
No there is no problem with the players because I use cds burned with windows Nero. I just used K3B and used make a cd copy. What is the proper setup to burn .wav files? Because when I use the automatic burning mode I can not use the music cd on a regular cd player Thank you Chrtistophe Le dimanche 09 janvier 2005 à 10:19 -0800, Aron Smith a écrit : On Sunday 09 January 2005 10:59 am, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, Since I use K3B I was never abble to burn a regular music cd that I can play in any regular music box or car player. The cds are playing on my computer but not even on a winBox. What shall I setup before burning? Thank you Christophe A lot of CD players will not play CD-R or CD/RE disks but are you burning then as .wav files? pièce jointe Document plein texte (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
[newbie] Watching DVDs with Caffeine and Totem not working
Hello, I have a other problem with MDK 10.1. I can not watch DVDs with Totem and Caffeine. I have installed libdvdcss2 but with no success. Is there something to modify in the configuration? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Back again...Booting slow
Hello, I'm back to the list after not knowing why I didn't access to the list a few months?!! I have a new ACER Aspire 1680 notebook since 2 weeks and I installed MDK 10.1 community. Of course I had Win XP installed on the machine and MDK installed lilo to boot the system. Then I decided to remove XP by erasing the HD by instqlling again MDK. Now I have only linux on my toaster. Question: 1. do I still need lilo to start MDK since I don't use another system? If not how do I remove lilo? 2. When my computer starts I get an Acer page to access the BIOS (F2), is it possible to remove that screen or not? 3. When MDK is loading and checking all the parameters it takes a long time (I think it is after firewire control), is it the same for you because MDK 9.1 was faster? 4. When I power down the notebook I have the finish by pressing the button to turn of the machine. I know there is a trick around but I forgot it. Thanks for your help CHristophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] HP 1350 and what OCR and scaning software to use?
Hello, I bought a HP psc 1350 multifunction for the school and I want to use it under linux... The scanner work strait out of the box under MDK9.2 Then I used PrinterDrake to setup the printer and he found a lazerjet 1300... I waited and waited for the print test. So I run the wizard again and chose the psc 1200 (there is just a small difference with 1350) The computer asked for the MDK cds to install some packages I gess and now it is printing. One small problem: If I turn on the printer after I started the computer, I get a test paper printed out every time. Does any one have the same problem? Is it coming from the fact that I setup not exactly the psc 1350 driver? What software do you recommend for scanning pictures and for text? I googled and found xsane, kooka and GTK-ocr (they are also on the MDK 9.2cds)... Is there a way to save strait to PDF format? Any comments? Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] more K3B problems
I have the following problems: 1. I can not use the audio project in K3B, I tried to burn 26 MP3 songs with it and the preview filed up the cd(about 500MB) and after it hanged for hours trying to burn. Then I took the same files and used file project and I got a clean 50 mb cd! Strange, no?? 2. I use a lot rewritable cds to backup and take them to work... but when I try to add a directory on a cd. I get non stop the erase RWCD message window before starting burning (I have to quickly click between 2 windows to cancel the burning process). So the only way to make it work is to copy all the directories back to my computer and then start from scratch a new project... What a waste of time! Maybe I'm doing something wrong??? Why is it not possible to use a cd-rw like a HD and just drag and drop documents? Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
B McKee wrote: Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe No, it shouldn't touch the software itself. Files and folders in any home directory only affect that user. That's why they are there :-) A program installed in your home folder wouldn't be useable by anybody else on the system. So, most programs are installed in places like /usr/bin or similar, but settings that are personal to you are put in your home folder. They put a period at the start of the file name so you don't have to see them if you don't want to. Removing one of these 'dot' files means that the program launches with the 'factory' defaults the next time and recreates a 'dot' file for your user. It's a good trouble shooting technique when something is not working right to backup the 'dot' file that program uses (e.g. rename the .kde folder to kdebackup) and launch the program again to see what happens. Now, having said all that, I think there is a way to install a 'local' copy of open office. (Exception to every rule) It wouldn't hurt to try 'which soffice' at a command prompt so you know for sure where the open office program itself actually is. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks for this lesson ;-) I removed the directory and now oo starts much faster. Have a nice week-end Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0
Rory wrote: Greg, if you downloaded 10 Community, put the 2nd CD in first, which will boot you in to Mandrake. Then, remove that CD, put in CD1 and you'll be able to install. It was a bug that's since been resolved. On Thursday 29 April 2004 10:02 pm, Greg wrote: i have a spare puter and i was thinking of trying out 10.0 is it worth it or should i wait i tried to download and burn the cd but i cant get it to work right so i was thinking of buying the cd thanks greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I just found the May PCXPERT magazine with 4 cds of Mandrake 10.0, haven't opend it yet... Must be the comunity version... And they give also some linux stickers ;-) in it... publicity, publicity! Just one problem it is sold in Turkey! Hope that in other countries they do the same thing. Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Griping questions
Raffaele BELARDI wrote: rhein wrote: 1. To get the name of the tracks do you have to be connected? I tried Yes, names are not stored on cd-audio format. When you insert an audio cd, the player (i.e. grip) calculates a 'hash' value based on the index of the cd and uses it as a keyword to retrieve the titles from e.g. freedb.freedb.org. If it manages to get them, it stores them on your local disk (typically under $HOME/.cddb) , so next time you play the cd you don't need to be connected to get the titles. 2. If I want to play the mp3 files on a music box or a TV/DVD player what riper and format shall I use? I use xmms for mp3/wav, grip to play/rip/encode audio cd. 3. What is the differences in the encoder: oggenc, mp3encoder, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, gogo, flac? You already got some answers to this. Let me add that lame is not included in the MDK cds for license issues (lame uses an encoding algo which is patented by Fraunhofer Institute). Whenever I need to install it, I download the sources from the official lame site (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) and build them. bye, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks for all your answers now I know how to use grip :-) Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
Miark wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes open two or three apps up at a time, and then OO.o appears slow against the others. Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know if that is fast or slow, but it is fine by me. 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I posted the same problem a few days ago... I open the same file every day and now I need more then a minute to open it! Nothing else then Kde is running and I have more then 500 mb of ram! I stoped using Star office because of the price... since it is free for teachers maybe I will download it! But it still doesn't solve the ooo problem! Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Griping questions
Hello, I'm using for the first time grip and I'm quiet impressed of the speed and stability (I read my mail, download with Kget and rip a audio cd at the same time) But I have some questions after I red the help files: 1. To get the name of the tracks do you have to be connected? I tried first disconnected and I got no names and all the tracks finished in the last track (in fact the following track erased the one before) after I got connected to get my messages I saw the names of the tracks in grip... I concluded that there is something going on. 2. If I want to play the mp3 files on a music box or a TV/DVD player what riper and format shall I use? 3. What is the differences in the encoder: oggenc, mp3encoder, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, gogo, flac? I'm doing that the first time under linux so I'm a little lost with all those acronyms ;-) Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Griping questions
Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2004 10:33 am, rhein wrote: Hello, I'm using for the first time grip and I'm quiet impressed of the speed and stability (I read my mail, download with Kget and rip a audio cd at the same time) But I have some questions after I red the help files: 1. To get the name of the tracks do you have to be connected? I tried first disconnected and I got no names and all the tracks finished in the last track (in fact the following track erased the one before) after I got connected to get my messages I saw the names of the tracks in grip... I concluded that there is something going on. 2. If I want to play the mp3 files on a music box or a TV/DVD player what riper and format shall I use? 3. What is the differences in the encoder: oggenc, mp3encoder, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, gogo, flac? I'm doing that the first time under linux so I'm a little lost with all those acronyms ;-) Bye Christophe stick with lame for MP3s, oggenc for ogg files Lame Aint amp3 Encoder= l.a.m.e oggenc=ogg encoder mp3encoder =mp3 encoder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Ok I tried to use lame but I get this error message: invalid encoder executable. Check your encoder config So I went to the config and ther I have this: Encoder executable: lame Encoder command-line: -h -b %b %w %m Encoder file format: ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.mp3 So what shall I do to get mp3 files? Thank you Christophe ps: What is the ogg format for? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] K3B buffer files
Hello, Thanks for the help I installed lame and I could rip audio files to mp3. When I tried to burn the disk with the MP3 files I got this error message in K3B: IO Error Removing buffer files What does it mean? I burned data cds before with no problem... Any ideas? Have a nice day Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4
Hello, I installed XFce4 last night... I don't know if I installed everithing because I downloaded packages untill the rpms installed without error message... :-[ It is a bit confusing the way rpms work! 1. So now I have XFce4 running and it is loading a lot faster then KDE... Is it possible to know the ram used by it? i would like to use it on a 16 MB ram machine. 2. My problem is the following: when I reduse a window (for exemple thunderbird) where is it going and how can I restore it? I tried left and right mouse button and nothing... I now it is something stupid but I could not find it. 3. Is it possible to add directories on the desktop or are all the icons added to the taskbar? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4
Josenildo Marques wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:39, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:58:58AM +0300, rhein wrote: Hello, I installed XFce4 last night... I don't know if I installed everithing because I downloaded packages untill the rpms installed without error message... :-[ It is a bit confusing the way rpms work! snip 2. My problem is the following: when I reduse a window (for exemple thunderbird) where is it going and how can I restore it? I tried left and right mouse button and nothing... I now it is something stupid but I could not find it. I just d/l'd Charles' rpm's for 9.2 for my livecd experiment and I noticed that the option to start xftaskbar4 is commented out of the xinitrc script. I can't remember exactly where that lives, maybe /usr/etc/xfce4/xinitrc ? Just uncomment that line in the script. It's at /etc/X11/xfce4/ ;-) __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Ok I can see know my reduced windows in a panel... In fact I did not install most of the plugins. Now I have no access to my softwares(like Kafeine or openoffice...) because I don't know the comand lines... Do I have to install manualy all links to all my softwares??? Is there not a quicker way? I hope this is comprehensif??? Have a nice day Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Slow openoffice
Hello, Since a few days openoffice hangs when I open saved files... I opened those same files much quicker before. I have about 500 mb of RAM on my machine so I don't think this is the problem. Any idea ? I red about Abiword on this list... what are the differences with oowrite? By the way is Koffice lighter then openoffice? Any user on this list? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] First time I had to go back to XP
Hello, It is the first time in more then one month that I had to use XP again... :-( I tried to burn files to a cd-rom that I burned with K3b last week. when I started the project I set it for multisessions... Today I wanted to add new directories to the same cd... I tried different thinks during one hour and finely I went to nero under XP to do the job. What I still don't get is when I have a date cd in my driver and I click on the cd-rom icon on my KDE desktop, I can see no files at all (I tried to view the hiden files also). I ask again here if there is a help file for K3B because my help file is grayed out in the help menu (maybe there is no help file??) When I make a copy of an audio cd I can not get the titles of the tracks when I ripp them. I hope I can get some help ;-) Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Decent Audio Track Ripper?
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:45 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2004 05:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone know of a decent track ripper/encoder for ripping tracks off CDs? I've used Kaudiocreator, but I was listening today, and I just happened to notice that the sound quality is about equal to that of crap. Right, so anyway, I may sound a bit nitpicky, but it sounds like someone dropped my computer from a third story window a few times. Oh also, I'm sure it's the track ripping, because anything I get off apollon plays fine. --Marc Try grip Or just type 'ripacd' in a term. (alias ripacd='cdparanoia -vB 1- /home/tom/wav/') Can you use grip under KDE without having gnome installed? Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:07, rhein wrote: What I still don't get is when I have a date cd in my driver and I click on the cd-rom icon on my KDE desktop, I can see no files at all (I tried to view the hiden files also). Christope, I don't use k3b, so I can't help much there, but I don't think that k3b is your problem. It sounds to me as though your burner is not set up correctly in fstab. Can you please copy the line(s) from fstab and post them here. I think you have it set so that only root can read and write. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdYwzkFAvMr/nNX8RAq7nAJ9zo8lH0tKPOreoFPhdyTj74TvLAQCgjghm ruvcEyspBa4WXsZXCWDnu5Y= =sxkT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Here you go! By the way what do you use to burn cds? /dev/hda6 / ext2 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/flashdisk supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,--,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:07, rhein wrote: What I still don't get is when I have a date cd in my driver and I click on the cd-rom icon on my KDE desktop, I can see no files at all (I tried to view the hiden files also). Christope, I don't use k3b, so I can't help much there, but I don't think that k3b is your problem. It sounds to me as though your burner is not set up correctly in fstab. Can you please copy the line(s) from fstab and post them here. I think you have it set so that only root can read and write. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdYwzkFAvMr/nNX8RAq7nAJ9zo8lH0tKPOreoFPhdyTj74TvLAQCgjghm ruvcEyspBa4WXsZXCWDnu5Y= =sxkT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I just opened konqueror under rut and I get the same empty window... This time I put a commercial audio cd in the driver. I looked at the properties of my cd-rom and it is all checked. Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:52, rhein wrote: Here you go! By the way what do you use to burn cds? /dev/hda6 / ext2 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Try dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/flashdisk supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,--,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,umask=0,codepag e=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 Thanks Christophe Personally I like XCDRoast - though many people hate it. It doesn't copy audio cds on the fly, which is probably why it's not popular. Instead you have to burn an image to your hard drive, then burn the image to disk. However, audio cds are something I rarely do. It's big advantage, ever since 9.1, is that it can read from an atapi drive, even though the burner must be scsi-emulated. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdZQnkFAvMr/nNX8RAqM0AJ9o7WwIJsDWXsr8/Vw9ykDa/cfzxgCeOhTc fdyHY0vECSKA5P11LJWXDyw= =icQl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Before I modify the file you have to know that I have a DVD/CD-W combo driver. Shall I still modify the line? Well I have to write to the disk before burning with a combo driver... :-( Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Burning cd with k3b
Hello, Is there a help file for the K3b? I checked on k3b website and nothing. In the help menu from K3b I have nothing...no handbook. In fact I try to copy an audio cd on a dvd/rw combo driver and I don't really know what to do. I wanted first to copy the files to a music directory on my computer and then burn from there the cd. In fact I can not see the MP3 files in Konqueror... Strange but I can play the files in Kaffeine for example. I put an other cd with MP3 files in the driver and I can see them in Konqueror... :-( By the way is there a solution to burn strait from the original cd to a new cd without making a manual copy to my HD? I use K3b 0.9 who came with MDK 9,2. Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Playing DVDs in Mandrake 9.2
Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I am having a hard time playing DVDs. I can put in a DVD and open Totem (or Xine). It will start to play and will even give me the correct title of the DVD. Then I get an error stating: The movie 'Error reading NAV packet.' could not be read. Does anyone know what this means? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I had the same error message... So I removed Totem and installed xine and Kaffeine. Still no DVD. I could watch vcds but no DVD... I checked the Kaffeine mailing list and there they suggested to check first my packages to run the DVDs: libdvdread 0.9.4.2 mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.8 lplf libxine1-1.0 rc3.2 plf Still no dvd ... Then I had to check the pass to the dvd player since I have a combo player. So I changed this in my Kaffeine player /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0. Now I can watch DVDs and almost remove win XP. ;-) I paste here the mail I got from the kaffeine mailing list: Open kaffeine and go to Settings-xine engine parameters-input. Is the dvd device correctly set? It should be set to the drive that is used as a dvd. If you have a DVD/CDRW combo it should be something like /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0. Instead you can link /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd (ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd). Hope this helps Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD regions?
Hell His there a limitation with the DVD regions under linux like with XP? I have zone 1 and 2 DVDs. What a stupid thing this limitation since you can buy original region 1 movies in a region 2 country. I looked at Kaffeine and I can change the region in the input section of the xine config window but is there a limit of changes like in XP? Thanks Christophe 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 firefox
Job Evers wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:32:42 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put this script in /usr/bin and tell all my apps to use it for handling Web pages. It opens pages in a new tab, if you want you can use new-window instead. Todd #/bin/bash browserPath=/usr/local/firefox/firefox url=$@ $browserPath -remote ping() # $? = false if running, true if not if [ $? = 0 ] ; then exec $browserPath -remote openURL($url,new-tab) else $browserPath $url fi exit Todd, this script is awesome. Thanks. My browsing experience has been greatly improved. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com How do you tell the other applic to use this script? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Still DVD problem
Hello, I'm still not able to watch DVDs with xine and Kaffeine but I have installed those packages: libdvdread 0.9.4.2 mdk, libxine 1-1.0 rc3.2plf and libdvdcss2-1.2.8. lplf. I can whatch VCDs, lissen to cds and MP3 with xine and Kaffeine. Burn cds, read R-writeble. I found also this on a xine download page: By default, xine expects to find your DVD-ROM at //dev/dvd/. Creating a symbolic link to your device is recommended (for example, //dev/hdc/ or //dev/scd0/). The command below should work for most users: # ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd Since I have a combo driver I don't know how to check the pass to my driver. Shall I use this command and will I not mess up my cd-rom driver? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?
Hello, I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copier) like HP, Lexmark or Canon. I checked on the boxes in the shop but nothing is mentioned about linux. Does any one on this list have any experience with it? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Don't get the signature think...
Hello, I installed the urpmi files (update, main and f...)... when I check in Rpmdrake they have a signature. I spend 2 hours downloading packages to run mediaplayer... And than I get the bad signature warning... I continue to install and then an other telling me files are corrupted. How can they be corrupted when I updated the urpmi files last night? I red the Madrake secure pages that one of you mailed a few days ago... I still don't get it... Why if the ftp urpmi files have a signature, the packages can still have a bad signature? Just one last thing, I do not work from a konsole but with rpmdrake. Thanks for your help Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] My public key
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Here is my public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Thanks to Tim for reminding me. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 12:36:22 up 56 min, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAW9l4kp5CsIXuxqURAltVAKC+GimVsRB/L43aCRMBjMDUiWQNvwCgsW3x 0j6BZ/ozCibIPSssKvrLV4M= =OnpC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hello, What is this public key for? :-[ Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...Not finish!
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 Mar 2004 14:50, rhein wrote: Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. checking for gcc... no checking for cc...no checking for cc...no checking for cl...no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH What does it say in english??? :-) that you need to install the package gcc urpmi gcc should do the trick, but if you truely have no development packages installed at all there will probably be more missing dependencies. hint, if ./configure asks for a library try urpmi library_name-devel cheers, Alaa - -- Thanks for the tip but now I have this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] oooqs-2.0.3]# what is it? Not easy installing a small soft! Bye Christophe No. That is why rpms are so nice. Whenever a ./configure fails read the error messages carefully. They will usually mention a file name, or a package name. To find the missing package do urpmf string where string is the file name(or part of it) mentioned in the error message. Then install the '-devel' version of the package which contains that file. In this example it simply says it cannot find X Well obviously X is installed, so it must mean it needs 'XFree86-devel' Install that then try again. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks to Derek I installed the xfree devel package... I started the install over and a new error message asking me to install Qt3... Since I learned that the soft has to be installed I go to rpmdrake to do it... So many entries I choose the main one with the dependencies... After I go back to my console and start over again to install the quick launch... Same error message... So I go back to rpmdrake and select all the Qt3 packages left. And I get the signature error message. I pass and then I get an other error message... end of the story. Could some one tell me what this Qt3 is for and give me the list of the packages to install? I promise to use rpms all the time :-) But in this case there was none! By the way I don't understand why this quick launch is not coming with open office like under windows (Ups I said it ;-) ) In the meantime I'm going paragliding for a change. Have a nice Sunday Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...New error message
Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. checking for gcc... no checking for cc...no checking for cc...no checking for cl...no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH What does it say in english??? :-) that you need to install the package gcc urpmi gcc should do the trick, but if you truely have no development packages installed at all there will probably be more missing dependencies. hint, if ./configure asks for a library try urpmi library_name-devel cheers, Alaa - -- Thanks for the tip but now I have this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] oooqs-2.0.3]# what is it? Not easy installing a small soft! Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...New message
Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. checking for gcc... no checking for cc...no checking for cc...no checking for cl...no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH What does it say in english??? :-) that you need to install the package gcc urpmi gcc should do the trick, but if you truely have no development packages installed at all there will probably be more missing dependencies. hint, if ./configure asks for a library try urpmi library_name-devel cheers, Alaa - -- Thanks for the tip but now I have this error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] oooqs-2.0.3]# what is it? Not easy installing a small soft! Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installing openoffice quick launch
Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. checking for gcc... no checking for cc...no checking for cc...no checking for cl...no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH What does it say in english??? :-) Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ISO cd not starting
Hello, I downloaded Vectorlinux as a iso file... and burned it on a cd-rom. So there is just one big file on it. When I make the desktop boot from the cd, nothing happens. It is the first time I do a iso cd. Is the file corrupted? Is there something to add on the cd? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Xine:cannot find input plugin for MRL
Hello, I can watch VCDs but not DVDs. I removed all the DVD players I had on the MDK and installed Xine...Totem was craching and Kaffeine gave me just a xine missing message. Now I have this error message under xine: Cannot find input plugin for MRL. What I'm suposed to do? Is xine not installing the DVD drivers when you install it new?? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A few ACPI problems.
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 March 2004 07:58 am, Marc Resnick wrote: Okay, so I'm suddenly having a few problems with ACPI on my Compaq Presario 2190US notebook. It's worked fine before, except for the second problem. 1. My KDE battery meter is gone. I looked for the config GUI in the KDE settings, but it's not there. I then tried kacpi, thinking it was the same thing, but it was completely different, and didn't show in the system tray. How do I get this back? It worked fine up until yesterday when it suddenly disappeared. 2. I have no control over the fan. It's always running, and is quite loud. I looked in /proc/acpi/fan, but there are no files. Is there anything I can do about this? In Windows, the fan will stop usually. In Linux, it just keeps going. TIA, Marc Hi Marc, So you're using ACPI on your notebook? I tried that too, but, then the battery indicator's gone from systray. Previously I used apmd, so I tried to run it, but it seemed that when we chose ACPI, linux erased apmd. I don't know why. Also, what is the different between ACPI and apmd? I use apmd now. About the fan, in my Acer TM802LCi, it doesn't always run, but more often that if I'm in windows. Fajar. - -- 11:40:35 up 1:52, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVoYOkp5CsIXuxqURAn0VAKCEHzTM8FYh6ShB1dP4nHT/YV6B9gCfSyle MmhCP10S6rd7Ix4SARurr/E= =ZojM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello, with your help I have my battery running on my compaq nx9005, my fan is controled and when i log out the notebook shuts down alone. I checked my MCC and ACPI and ACPID are running but APMD is stopped. If I remember the differences are depending on the type of computer (newer models use ACPI). My guess is all is connected because my fan was running all the time before setting up the ACPI and getting the battery indicator... Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A few ACPI problems.
Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2004 07:58 am, Marc Resnick wrote: Okay, so I'm suddenly having a few problems with ACPI on my Compaq Presario 2190US notebook. It's worked fine before, except for the second problem. 1. My KDE battery meter is gone. I looked for the config GUI in the KDE settings, but it's not there. I then tried kacpi, thinking it was the same thing, but it was completely different, and didn't show in the system tray. How do I get this back? It worked fine up until yesterday when it suddenly disappeared. 2. I have no control over the fan. It's always running, and is quite loud. I looked in /proc/acpi/fan, but there are no files. Is there anything I can do about this? In Windows, the fan will stop usually. In Linux, it just keeps going. TIA, Marc Hi Marc, So you're using ACPI on your notebook? I tried that too, but, then the battery indicator's gone from systray. Previously I used apmd, so I tried to run it, but it seemed that when we chose ACPI, linux erased apmd. I don't know why. Also, what is the different between ACPI and apmd? I use apmd now. About the fan, in my Acer TM802LCi, it doesn't always run, but more often that if I'm in windows. Fajar. -- 11:40:35 up 1:52, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello, with your help I have my battery running on my compaq nx9005, my fan is controled and when i log out the notebook shuts down alone. I checked my MCC and ACPI and ACPID are running but APMD is stopped. If I remember the differences are depending on the type of computer (newer models use ACPI). My guess is all is connected because my fan was running all the time before setting up the ACPI and getting the battery indicator... Bye Christophe This is a bit odd... When I woke up this morning (I leave the notebook on all the time), the fan was running like crazy, and it was incredibly hot. I shut it down, and when I got home from school(yes, I go to school), I powered it on again. The fan wasn't running. Now of course it is, but the notebook isn't burning like it was before. I still of course have the problem of my ACPI monitor not showing. It's not in the KDE menus either. Anyone? --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello, Did you check if it is starting on boot? I'm going to school now ;-) Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] openoffice zipping
Hello, Since I'm using oppenoffice under linux all my files get zipped when I create them. My old files imported from XP are not zipped even if I modify them. I checked in oppenoffice options but could not find a thing. If compressing the files is ok it is not convenient for working with every day. Where can I turn it of? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE3.2
Hello, Is it worth to upgrade KDE 3.1 to 3.2? Big improvement or not? Thanks Christophe ps: I red the kde website but could not find a clear explanation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xine error: no input plugin
Hello, I removed Totem (it crashed all the time with DVDs) and installed Kaffeine. When I try to run a DVD a get this error message Xine error: no input plugin. What does it mean? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Thank you! It works now and I can see my battery level, the notebook is closing without pressing the power button and my fan is not running all the time... But when I click on the config panel of Klaptop I have this setup ACPI button. What is it for? Shall I use it? (sorry but there is no help on this panel) Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] different vectorlinux iso?
Hello, I'm ready to download vectorlinux and there are 5 iso files...Witch one is good for an old MMX 200 with 64 MB ram? veclinux 1.8 iso veclinux2-i386.iso veclinux2-pentium.iso vl4.0.iso vlsoho40.iso I know that the 2 last ones are the newer ones but will they work on my old machine? It is the first time I do that so I'm confused with all the versions. :-\ Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Hello, I did what you said and the computer started but no power indicator... When I go to the config panel I have still the message telling me to install the acpi soft. I checked again the installation and it is installed. The lilo config file has the nolapic written in it. So what did I wrong? Thanks Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Marc when you say replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic'. Do you want me to replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic' or do you want me to type 'acpi=nolapic'? Sorry but I'm starting! :-[ Thanks Christophe ps: in my config file there are 3 lines with this acpi, I suppose I change all of them? ps2: What shall I do if the computer is not stating again like last night :-( ? Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: First, download the packages acpi and acpid. Then, go into Control Center and Boot Options. Find your default image, and click modify. In the append line make sure it DOESN'T say 'acpi=off' or 'acpi=ht', and make sure it does say 'nolapic'. Then, reboot, and you should have your battery monitor in the system tray. If it still doesn't want to work, reply and we'll diagnose the problem. --Marc 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 No problem Christophe. Just take out 'acpi=ht' and add 'nolapic'. If you don't add 'nolapic' your laptop will bomb out on boot. For the config file(lilo, i guess you mean) change all of them, just in case. If your computer doesn't boot, press esc at the bootscreen, and type nameofbootchoice acpi=off nameofbootchoice should be whatever choice you normally boot (i.e. linux) --Marc 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] Firewal not working...
Hello, I opened port 80 by typing tcp/80 udp/80 in the advanced panel of the firewall setup. Still no access to the net. I removed all the firewall and I can connect again. What did I wrong? Christophe Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:24 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: And one more... I red the instruction to setup a firewall. I use my machine since the first MDK installation with no firewall. In my case I had just to remove the everything cross and install a package. No problem until I tried to connect to the net or open a website. Nothing works. I go back to the firewall and click in everything and I'm back on the net. What shall I do? Is the firewall not just limiting the access to my machine? Thanks for your help. Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The firewall is blocking all connections in and out, thereby limiting any internet connection. Only block what you'll never use, or specify ports instead. It happens to be a very good firewall. For instance, I was talking through gAIM once, while playing with the firewall. Suddenly, no communication. Interesting, how well it blocks connections. For a starter you will need port 80 open for the web --Marc 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] Linux and power on notebook?
Ok now I have the the laptop power management icon on the right site of my panel but... it sais Laptop power management not available. When I open it I have this written Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM kernel drivers installed - check out the Linux Laptop-HOWTO document for information on how to install APM. How can I verify that ACPI or APM is running? (RPMdrake tells me it is installed) Thanks for your time Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Hello, I did what you said and the computer started but no power indicator... When I go to the config panel I have still the message telling me to install the acpi soft. I checked again the installation and it is installed. The lilo config file has the nolapic written in it. So what did I wrong? Thanks Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Marc when you say replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic'. Do you want me to replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic' or do you want me to type 'acpi=nolapic'? Sorry but I'm starting! :-[ Thanks Christophe ps: in my config file there are 3 lines with this acpi, I suppose I change all of them? ps2: What shall I do if the computer is not stating again like last night :-( ? Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: First, download the packages acpi and acpid. Then, go into Control Center and Boot Options. Find your default image, and click modify. In the append line make sure it DOESN'T say 'acpi=off' or 'acpi=ht', and make sure it does say 'nolapic'. Then, reboot, and you should have your battery monitor in the system tray. If it still doesn't want to work, reply and we'll diagnose the problem. --Marc 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 No problem Christophe. Just take out 'acpi=ht' and add 'nolapic'. If you don't add 'nolapic' your laptop will bomb out on boot. For the config file(lilo, i guess you mean) change all of them, just in case. If your computer doesn't boot, press esc at the bootscreen, and type nameofbootchoice acpi=off nameofbootchoice should be whatever choice you normally boot (i.e. linux) --Marc 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 Try going to Mandrake Control Center, System, Services. That's what it is in MDK10 at least. Anyway, go to services, and find acpid. Check if 'on boot' is checked off. If not, check it. Then reboot. --Marc 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] Linux and power on notebook?
Keith wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, rhein wrote: Ok now I have the the laptop power management icon on the right site of my panel but... it sais Laptop power management not available. When I open it I have this written Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM kernel drivers installed - check out the Linux Laptop-HOWTO document for information on how to install APM. How can I verify that ACPI or APM is running? (RPMdrake tells me it is installed) Thanks for your time Christophe Most likely this is a runtime service. Check your sys v editor for the modules. Like I said the 2 packages are installed but maybe not running... What do you mean by Most likely this is a runtime service. Check your sys v editor for the modules. Could you explain to a beginner like me what to do? :-) Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Hello, The 2 packages where installed... So I went to the bootloader main options in drakboot and clicked and enabled the enable ACPI (there is also a Force No Apic that I do not know I live it...) I restart the computer... and it hangs... no solution I reboot... and again until I unchecked the ACPI at start. So I'm still at the same point... No battery control. Is there a way to run on battery and not on beer :-) ? Thanks Christophe Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: Hello, That's now the second time that my notebook shuts down because I'm not able to see the level of my battery. Good thing I didn't have to start all over because I saved my work a few minutes before. Is there a way to have the battery indicator under MDK 9.2? (by the way I think the battery goes faster then with XP...??) Also when I'm working the fan is running more often then with XP. Is there something to modify? Thanks Christophe ps: I have a Compaq nx9005 Where there's a will, there's a way. First, download the packages acpi and acpid. Then, go into Control Center and Boot Options. Find your default image, and click modify. In the append line make sure it DOESN'T say 'acpi=off' or 'acpi=ht', and make sure it does say 'nolapic'. Then, reboot, and you should have your battery monitor in the system tray. If it still doesn't want to work, reply and we'll diagnose the problem. --Marc 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] Creating bootdisk failed
Hello, I was trying to create a boot disk in drakboot (I clicked in the Advanced bootloader main options) and I get this error message: Installation of Lilo failed. The following error occured: mkbootdisk failed Then I tried using Drakfloppy and the same happened: This time I got this message error: Formating /dev/fd0...done. Copying /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-mdk...cp:writing '/tmp/mkbootdisk/vmlinuz/': No space left on device Error! rm: too few arguments Try 'rm--help' for more information. Installation of Lilo failed. The following error occured: mkbootdisk failed How can I create a bootdisk... I hope I don't have to use it soon but you never know ;-) Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modify my home directory
Me again... I tried to make my home directory bigger... I first shrinked my windows partition (hda1) to obtain 8 Gb... Then I wanted to unmount my home directory (hda8) to make it bigger... When I click on unmount nothing happens... Why? What is the difference between /home and /user directories? What type of file system should I use if I can not modify my /home directory? Thanks Christophe ps: for the moment I'm not giving up ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Marc when you say replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic'. Do you want me to replace 'acpi=ht' by 'nolapic' or do you want me to type 'acpi=nolapic'? Sorry but I'm starting! :-[ Thanks Christophe ps: in my config file there are 3 lines with this acpi, I suppose I change all of them? ps2: What shall I do if the computer is not stating again like last night :-( ? Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: First, download the packages acpi and acpid. Then, go into Control Center and Boot Options. Find your default image, and click modify. In the append line make sure it DOESN'T say 'acpi=off' or 'acpi=ht', and make sure it does say 'nolapic'. Then, reboot, and you should have your battery monitor in the system tray. If it still doesn't want to work, reply and we'll diagnose the problem. --Marc 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] Modify my home directory
Thank you for your answer... But if I mount my empty space to /home MCC asked me if I want to transfer the files to the new partition... SO in that case I do not loose my user files? But will the amount of space add up??? I haven't made any modif for the moment... Not that crazy (more on a kite :-) )! Bye Christophe Raffaele Belardi wrote: Christophe, see below. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me again... I tried to make my home directory bigger... I first shrinked my windows partition (hda1) to obtain 8 Gb... Then I wanted to unmount my home directory (hda8) to make it bigger... When I click on unmount nothing happens... Why? You can't unmount a /home partition on a running system, because it's in use. You need to boot into single user mode for that (no graphic environment, only a shell), or boot from the MDK rescue disk into a shell. What is the difference between /home and /user directories? /home contains the home directories of your users. Standard MDK installation doesn't have /user but /usr. /usr contains almost all the executables - including gnome, kde, X. It does not normally contain user files. What type of file system should I use if I can not modify my /home directory? Resizing the /home partition means loosing all the data there contained. A better option would be to format the freed up space as a new ext3 partition, say hda9, and then mount the new partition somewhere under /home. For example, you might dedicate it to a user (in this case you'd mount it under /home/newuser, for example), or to increase the space dedicated to an already existing user (for example, if userX needs additional space for mp3, you might create a /home/userX/mp3 directory and mount hda9 there). Thanks Christophe ps: for the moment I'm not giving up ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating bootdisk failed
Thanks... So I continue to do it like before using my 2 cds from MDK. ;-) Bye Christophe Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:52:49 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I create a bootdisk... I hope I don't have to use it soon but you never know ;-) You can't. Because of the size of the kernel the image will no longer fit on a floppy. Should the need arise use the installation cd and boot to rescue mode. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Firewal not working...
And one more... I red the instruction to setup a firewall. I use my machine since the first MDK installation with no firewall. In my case I had just to remove the everything cross and install a package. No problem until I tried to connect to the net or open a website. Nothing works. I go back to the firewall and click in everything and I'm back on the net. What shall I do? Is the firewall not just limiting the access to my machine? Thanks for your help. Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Hello, That's now the second time that my notebook shuts down because I'm not able to see the level of my battery. Good thing I didn't have to start all over because I saved my work a few minutes before. Is there a way to have the battery indicator under MDK 9.2? (by the way I think the battery goes faster then with XP...??) Also when I'm working the fan is running more often then with XP. Is there something to modify? Thanks Christophe ps: I have a Compaq nx9005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Hello, I don't have it... This is the message written: Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM kernel drivers installed - check out the Linux Laptop-HOWTO document for information on how to install APM. when I click on the linux Laptop Howto I get a error message... I will try with google. Bye Christophe Mark Kirschner wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:26:00 -0500 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, That's now the second time that my notebook shuts down because I'm not able to see the level of my battery. Good thing I didn't have to start all over because I saved my work a few minutes before. Is there a way to have the battery indicator under MDK 9.2? (by the way I think the battery goes faster then with XP...??) Also when I'm working the fan is running more often then with XP. Is there something to modify? Thanks Christophe ps: I have a Compaq nx9005 Christophe, I'm only running 9.1, so I'm not sure how relevant it is to your situation. I have the battery indicator on mine. I'm running KDE and found you can set it this way: Click the K menu Click Configuration Click KDE Click PowerControl Click Laptop Battery You should see a check box for Show Battery Monitor. Make sure it's set. You may want to look for something similar. As for life in XP vs, Linux, I don't see much battery life difference between the two on my laptop. Perhaps it has somehting to do with power settings in each? XP may have a more conservative power use profile. Just some thoughts Mark 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] vectorlinux? Too much choices
Hello, Thank you for all your answers and now I'm confused with all the solutions... Not used to that after all the years with windows ;-) If I get it wright I can use MDK also with that config... and I have it already on cd. (save a lot of download time). I need a Xwindow program like Kde... If not my wife will kill me :o because it is here computer that I want to modify! And last of all I'm really a beginner with linux... see all the messages I mailed to the list the last weeks! Thanks Christophe Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:40 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:31 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? Thank you Christophe Absolutely, but on those specs a Slaclware9.1 would run acceptably (maybe even faster) too. Without the heavy weight Windowmanagers like KDE and Gnome even Mandracke9.1 will run OK providing there's not too many unnecessary services running. Good luck, HarM Slackware is a better choice. DebianAny version of Linux can run fine on the hardware you said, but yes, Slackware would be much better. Or Free BSD. If you can install Slackware, you can install Free BSD, they look the same and act almost exactly a like. 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] Questions with storage devices
Hello, Last night I was looking to create a usr partition using diskdrake under Mandrake Control Center...Then I could not understand why I have a mnt hda5 partition called win_d (it shows /r on the file system. So I went to see my storage devices and there I found this: Device Type Size MountP Free Full% /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 ? 6,3GB /home 5,7GB 9,8% /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 ? 5,8GB / 4,2GB 27% /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 ? 512,2MB/mnt/win_d 4,2GB 0,2% /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 ? 14,6GB / mnt/ win_c 4,2GB 25,3% /dev/hda8 ext3 N/A/home 0B N/A /dev/hda6 ext2 N/A/ 0B N/A /dev/hda5 vfat N/A/ mnt/win_d 0B N/A /dev/hda1 vfat N/A/ mnt/win_c 0B N/A 1/ The 4 last devices are not mounted when I click on it. So what is this? 2/ There is no such D drive on my win partition. I have one big 14,6 GB for windows. Where does it come from?? 3/ By the way is the root partition not too big with 5,8 GB and only 27% used? There is a lot of free space and I will not install a lot of new softs. 4/I would like to shrink my windows drive (starting slowly to remove XP) is there any trick to do it or can I unmount and resize it in the control center with no risk? Thanks for your help Christophe ps: it is snowing here...a good day for snowboarding again ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Firewall
Hello, I tried to setup a firewall since my notebook will be personal... I went to mandrake control center and removed the cross in no firewall at the Drakfirewall.(I left all the boxes blank... hope this is good so) Then It asked me if I want to install the shorewall package. I clicked ok. I put cd1 like it requested. And then Mandatory package missing. I browsed the cd and I found a package called /shorewall-1.4.6c-2mdk.noarch.rpm/ If that is the package it is already installed. So how can I then setup the firewall? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices
Hello,
My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5 called
/mnt/win_d with 525 MB.
When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2 directories:
= a system volume information with a file
_restore{2F3FC359-5C9C-424F-B0EF-325C191C6F2E}
= recycled with a nprotect directory in it.
What shall I do? remove it?
Thanks
Christophe
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 06 March 2004 15:21, rhein wrote:
2/ There is no such D drive on my win partition. I have one big
14,6 GB for windows. Where does it come from??
It's small - could this be one of those systems with a hidden restore
partition?
OTOH, I don't see a swap partition mounted. You didn't format the swap
partition as fat32 did you? I'm not sure how that could happen,
though.
Anne
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Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices
Ok
Thanks for the tip
Christophe
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 06 March 2004 21:01, rhein wrote:
Hello,
My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5
called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB.
When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2
directories: = a system volume information with a file
_restore{2F3FC359-5C9C-424F-B0EF-325C191C6F2E}
= recycled with a nprotect directory in it.
What shall I do? remove it?
Thanks
Christophe
That sounds like the hidden restore partition I mentioned - the sort
that compaq have used for a long time and more oems are using now
with XP. I'd leave it alone. Just don't have any mount point
specified in your fstab, and ignore it. You don't need the space, I
think.
Anne
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[newbie] Using CD-RW with K3b
Hello, I used fro the first time my cd burner with K3b. I created a backup cd-rw with different files. I wanted to erase a directory on the cd-rw, no permission... Then I thought it was a permission problem and I did this in a prompt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# chmod 777 /mnt/cdrom chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/cdrom': Read-only file system How can I get all the files to be read by the user and the root? Thanks for your help Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpmdrake
Hello, I try to use rpmdrake to add a medium (contrib file) and I get this error message after a long time of waiting... Unable to update medium... Errors: urpmi database locked urpmi database locked retrieve of source hdlist failed no hdlist file found for medium contrib problem reading synthesis file of medium contrib Does it say there is a problem with the ftp server or my computer? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chmod?
Hello, All my computer is in FAT32... was not able to use NTFS file system to create a partition for linux. Here what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 8192 déc 31 1969 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# Is it ok or not? Bye Christophe anton wrote: You can use Konq to go to /mnt/win_c/, right-click on it, pick properties, permissions to see if it did what you want. It should have. $ls -ld /mnt/win_c will tell you the permissions on a folder. The reason you don't have write access is almost certainly because the win_c partition is NTFS, which does not have native linux support. You can get support for writing to NTFS, and some claim it is safe, but I would not trust them! FAT32 is ok for writing to in 'nix but not NTFS. HTH Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be prosecuted. 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] vectorlinux?
Hello, I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chmod?
Hello, I don't understand what you try to tell me? Thanks Christophe bascule wrote: christophe, to recursively change perms use: chmod -R bascule On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 12:30 pm, rhein wrote: Thanks for the trick. Since I'm the only one using the machine and soon will remove XP... I thing there is no problem to open the win_c drive. When I red the properties of the subfolder Doc Windows the write permission was not granded. Does it mean that the subfolders are not included in the permission of the main folder (win_c)? Thank you Christophe 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] 2 Problems with my firefox navigator
Hello, It is like this already... My problem is when I want to use the menu on the bank website( ones I'm registered) nothing works... I click and no action. Bye Christophe Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:55, rhein wrote: Hello, I have still 2 problems with my firefox navigator: - I can not use the menu on my banking accounts websites. Do I need a special java plug in? (It works with Explorer) - When I open a link from Thunderbird it opens Konqueror... I changed the file association in the configuration panel and I added the shell script provided by the list members. No change! Is there something else to change? Christophe, many on-line banks depend on pop-ups for their authentication process. Mine does, and yours may do. If you have turned off pop-ups you should temporarily switch them back on, then note the bank's url and go back to the pop-upsettings. Turn them off again, but mark the bank's url as an exception. I did this in Mozilla and it worked fine, so I would think that you can do much the same in firefox. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFARZEgkFAvMr/nNX8RAhrsAJ4qQwEF4Pn6FEIxRqqOBOg06wN79gCcDTm2 E7qZGpqqcCwmT/An5CaxMYg= =XM2h -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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] chmod?
Hello, I tried to make my win driver open to all user (me) but I don't know if I succeeded... Here is what I get when I hit return in the terminal emulator as root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# chmod 777 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# Does it mean that it is done if there is nothing ? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totem
Hello, That's what I get in MCC: /Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0:0 Drive capacity: burner DVD Channel: 00 New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Old device file: /dev/scd0 Floppy format: SONY CD-RW CRX830E Media class: cdrom/ I don't know if it helps Bye Christophe JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 06:34:35 -0500 rhein disseminated the following: I tried to watch a DVD with Totem and I get this error message: The movie '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0' could not be read. I tried also with other DVDs and I get the same answer. Music cds are playing but DVDs. Make sure 'Drake recognizes the drive as a DVD player. Check in MCC under Hardware. I tried also to drag and drop, under root, files to a RW cd and it doesn't work. I tried then by opening K3b software and there I can not add directories to my rw-cd without reformating the cd. DO I need a different software or is something wrong in the settings? ...don't know about that one, don't use RW's at all, since blank CD's are about 50 cents each (which now, thanks to GWB, is about 51 cents American ;-)) 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] message test?
Hello, I sended messages last night with thunderbird and I didn't see them on the list? Just checking if it works under kmail. Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...
Hello, I have this script allready in the XF86config-4 file. When you plug your USB mouse in the usb port ones KDE is running is it suppose to work strait away? Thanks CHristophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 11:17, Olivier Esser a écrit : Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I did what you sad about opening mousedrake and changing my mouse... but it didn't work. I still couldn't use my notebook glider. What I did this morning I pluged again the Usb mouse and it was ok... I unplug it with mandrake running and I could use it. I closed my computer and started it again. Here again i got mandrake telling me that some thing is changeg in my config and I chose to cancel the modifications... And so I got my mouse back and I have also now the USB one. Well I don't try to understand... I just use it! Christophe Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and configure it on the way I show below; remove all other references to a mouse (all other Section InputDevice refering to a mouse). Note that one mouse must have the option CorePointer and the other SendCoreEvents (see the Section ServerLayout). After having changing this file, log out, press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart the X server. Olivier Esser Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse2 Driver mouse Option Protocol PS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer InputDevice Mouse2 SendCoreEvents Screen screen1 EndSection 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] Mouse back in a strage way...
Hello, That's what I get at the USB devices display: USB Mouse Manufacturer: Darfon Class 0 (Interface) Subclass 0 Protocol 0 USB Version 1.16 Vendor ID 0xd62 Product ID 0xa100 Revision 1.0 Speed 1.5 Mbit/s Channels 0 Max. Packet Size 0 Does it help? Bye Christophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 12:33, John Richard Smith a écrit : Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I did what you sad about opening mousedrake and changing my mouse... but it didn't work. I still couldn't use my notebook glider.What I did this morning I pluged again the Usb mouse and it was ok... I unplug it with mandrake running and I could use it.I closed my computer and started it again.Here again i got mandrake telling me that some thing is changeg in my config and I chose to cancel the modifications...And so I got my mouse back and I have also now the USB one.Well I don't try to understand... I just use it! Christophe I'm only guesing, but since you say you have a usb mouse, which you didn't mention before, maybe the problem has less to do with the mouse configuration than maybe the usb setup itself. KDE - information - USB Devices, displays the usb hubs, does the mouse show up there ? If so, what does it say . John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cirque Glidepoint Cruise Cat touch pad
Hello, I'm using the touchpad on my notebook (compaq nx9005) without any additional driver. Mandrake9.2 installed the touchpad as a standard PS2 mouse. It works great. The only thing missing is the scrolling (I thing it's like the wheel on a regular mouse) that I have with XP. I don't know if it helps?? Bye Christophe Le Mercredi 25 Février 2004 07:44, Tim a écrit : I don't think it's a sensitivity issue. The mouse cursor jumps randomly around the screen. By the way I do have the Glidepoint mouse driver loaded. Has anyone had success using Glidepoint touch pads with Mandrake? Lanman wrote: On February 24, 2004 08:29 pm, Tim wrote: First timer!! I'm having trouble getting a Glidepoint touch pad with Mandrake v9.2 (download version). Basically, the mouse cursor jumps all over the screen every time I try to move the cursor. The touch pad works fine on my Win2000 machine. I'd like to migrate my five machines over to Mandrake. Tim Have you tried adjusting the sensitivity of the touchpad in Mandrake to your liking? 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] buzip??
Hello, I've got this message when I try to install thunderbird: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls thunderbird thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# buzip2 thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 bash: buzip2: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# what did I wrong? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Totem not reading
Hello, I tried to watch a DVD with Totem and I get this error message: The movie '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0' could not be read. I tried also with other DVDs and I get the same answer. Music cds are playing but DVDs. I tried also to drag and drop, under root, files to a RW cd and it doesn't work. I tried then by opening K3b software and there I can not add directories to my rw-cd without reformating the cd. DO I need a different software or is something wrong in the settings? Thanks for your help. Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Still problems with firefox
Good evening, I installed Thunderbird and when I click on link in mail. Konqueror opens it. I changed my mane browser in the file associations tab in the desktop config to Firefox. I installed also the file launch_firefox in usr/bin directory to force the link to open in firefox... No change! When I use kmail firefox is used as web navigator... Strange! Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] turning of the notebook
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Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...
Hello, I created the firefox file to always opening my links in it. When I try from as root from a shell konsole to execute the script I get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# chmod 0755 /user/bin firefoxbugfix chmod: failed to get attributes of `/user/bin': No such file or directory chmod: failed to get attributes of `firefoxbugfix': No such file or directory The file and the directory exist what is wrong? What is the chmod 0755 for? Thank you Christophe Le Dimanche 22 Février 2004 16:41, Todd Slater a écrit : On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:07:08PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: How do I do that? No idea how to do a script??? Is it creating a file? Thanks and good night! Christophe Just copy and paste the script into your favorite editor (the script starts with #!/bin/bash and ends with exit). Edit paths as necessary. Save it and then make it executable by opening a terminal and giving the command chmod +x scriptname where scriptname is whatever name you gave the script when you saved it. Todd Le Dimanche 22 Février 2004 03:32 PM, Todd Slater a écrit : On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:18:50PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I installed, with your help Firefox but now I have this problem: When I click on a link I have the Firefox profile manager that opens (I clicked on the Don't ask at startup) and since firefox is allready open... I can not open the link (exept pasting it). Where can I desactivate the profile manager? Thank you Christophe I put this script in /usr/bin and tell all my apps to use it for handling Web pages. It opens pages in a new tab, if you want you can use new-window instead. Todd #!/bin/bash browserPath=/usr/local/firefox/firefox url=$@ $browserPath -remote ping() # $? = false if running, true if not if [ $? = 0 ] ; then exec $browserPath -remote openURL($url,new-tab) else $browserPath $url fi exit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konqueror and Kmail
Hello, Since I'm using firefox and soon Thunderbird (when I have finished downloading the soft... It is slow here in Ankara), can I remove konqueror and Kmail? Shall I keep Konqueror for opening and looking at my files? Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...
Hello, I did what you sad about opening mousedrake and changing my mouse... but it didn't work. I still couldn't use my notebook glider. What I did this morning I pluged again the Usb mouse and it was ok... I unplug it with mandrake running and I could use it. I closed my computer and started it again. Here again i got mandrake telling me that some thing is changeg in my config and I chose to cancel the modifications... And so I got my mouse back and I have also now the USB one. Well I don't try to understand... I just use it! Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] turning of the Notebook?
Hello, Under linux I have to manualy turn of the notebook (Compaq nx9005). Is there a way to have it done by the computer? (it works on the other partition with XP). Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...
Hello, Here is a snapshot of my directory with the folder... Do you have to put a space between 0755 and /user? Hop I can solve it because I can not open my links strait in firefox! Bye Christophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 11:03, Todd Slater a écrit : On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:24:37PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I created the firefox file to always opening my links in it. When I try from as root from a shell konsole to execute the script I get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# chmod 0755 /user/bin firefoxbugfix chmod: failed to get attributes of `/user/bin': No such file or directory chmod: failed to get attributes of `firefoxbugfix': No such file or directory The file and the directory exist what is wrong? What is the chmod 0755 for? Thank you Christophe Do you really have a directory called /user? You also have to separate directories/files with a slash, i.e. /user/bin/firefoxbugfix. Todd attachment: capture1.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...
How do you turn of the hardware detection? Thanks Christophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 12:37, Bryan Phinney a écrit : On Tuesday 24 February 2004 12:33 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I'm only guesing, but since you say you have a usb mouse, which you didn't mention before, maybe the problem has less to do with the mouse configuration than maybe the usb setup itself. KDE - information - USB Devices, displays the usb hubs, does the mouse show up there ? If so, what does it say . I can't look at it either but with Mandrake hardware detection routines run at boot up and if you constantly plug devices in and then unplug them, the hardware detection routines are going to continually try to change your configuration, including removing some drivers, installing others repeately. For some devices, it is often better to just hook them up, get the drivers working and then turn off the hardware detection service so that your configuration just stays the same until you decide to change it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...Thanks!
Thanks for the link I will read it little by little:-) CHristophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 16:17, Charlie Mahan a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 24 February 2004 4:50 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Here is a snapshot of my directory with the folder... Do you have to put a space between 0755 and /user? Hop I can solve it because I can not open my links strait in firefox! Bye Christophe Here's a bit of reading material for you: Directory of Linux Commands; http://www.onlamp.com/linux/cmd/ You don't _have_ a /user/bin directory, you have a /usr/bin directory. DON'T try to execute anything with the former, use the latter. If you don't have the permissions already so screwed up that the system is locking you out of things that should be available to you just follow the syntax you are offered by the people on the list and be sure to type URLs as they actually appear, not as you *think* they appear. Do you really have a directory called /user? You also have to separate directories/files with a slash, i.e. /user/bin/firefoxbugfix. Todd I'm not sure why you're trying to change permissions on a file anyway. Let alone an entire system directory/partition. I haven't been paying attention. Then again I'm not the one having so much difficulty, am I? (-: Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc4.1mdk 14:07:56 up 1 day, 10 min, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.08, 0.09 Lost: grey and white female cat. Answers to electric can opener. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAO79YZqvqlrLPr5YRAtDQAJ4wDa7jKbhrJ2i4MHi3BAXB0RXxIQCfTAXj G9y4XqVXIDKEeXhYlEjI7ig= =EMZK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No network connection
Hello, I tried again to connect to the school LAN and nothing works. What I did is opening the configuration panel and used the internet network wizard with the notebook connected to the LAN. All the network is under Windows 98 with no server. I have also installed LINneighberhod. Wrankly I do not now how to do it and what to fill in the different config pannels. Thanks for your help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script???
Hello, I have still the same problem I can not save a file in the folders other then my home folder. How can I get rid of this limitation? Bye Christophe Le Dimanche 22 Février 2004 16:41, Todd Slater a écrit : On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:07:08PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: How do I do that? No idea how to do a script??? Is it creating a file? Thanks and good night! Christophe Just copy and paste the script into your favorite editor (the script starts with #!/bin/bash and ends with exit). Edit paths as necessary. Save it and then make it executable by opening a terminal and giving the command chmod +x scriptname where scriptname is whatever name you gave the script when you saved it. Todd Le Dimanche 22 Février 2004 03:32 PM, Todd Slater a écrit : On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:18:50PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I installed, with your help Firefox but now I have this problem: When I click on a link I have the Firefox profile manager that opens (I clicked on the Don't ask at startup) and since firefox is allready open... I can not open the link (exept pasting it). Where can I desactivate the profile manager? Thank you Christophe I put this script in /usr/bin and tell all my apps to use it for handling Web pages. It opens pages in a new tab, if you want you can use new-window instead. Todd #!/bin/bash browserPath=/usr/local/firefox/firefox url=$@ $browserPath -remote ping() # $? = false if running, true if not if [ $? = 0 ] ; then exec $browserPath -remote openURL($url,new-tab) else $browserPath $url fi exit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip
I don't get it! How can I drag and drop files to a folder when I'm user? For the moment all I can do is write in my home directory. When I open KDE config panel as root there is no way to move files around. I think I missed something! Christophe ps: what is gksu and kdesu?? Le Dimanche 22 Février 2004 19:40, Jerry Barton a écrit : On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:46:46 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try going into a terminal, and typing 'su', then your password. Then, from the terminal, open whatever program you were using to move the files(i.e. if you were using konqueror, type 'konqueror'.) This is a root version of the program. Also, if you want to make the folder writeable for all users, type su in the terminal, your password, then type 'chmod 777 /path/to/folder'. --Marc Just as a tip to include: the gksu package allows you to run apps as root with a little gui to type in your password like kdesu but it's not a kde app. For those who don't use KDE there is a non-kde replacement :) to install just urpmi gksu. Then you can go to Run Command (or like in icewm, use the command input on the taskbar) and just put gksu programme name. I just found it myself a few days ago. Before that I was using kdesu but it would take forever to come up. Hope that's helpful to someone! Jer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] for the moment it works!
Hello, I want to thank everybody who helped me to get linux running on my notebook... For the moment I fixed the following: 1/ the winmodem is running with linuxant drivers 2/ I got rid of the desktop bug... The hardest part for me because it came back even after loading the patch. I installed several times mandrake (it is much easier then with MS) and finally I put the English version this time with two user and straight after I downloaded the patch for the bug... I don't know why but it works! 3/ Wine is running but not my Toolbook software... I will try the toolbook mailing list or the wine list 4/ I installed Firefox and it opens as my main browser. I have never had such quick answers as on this list... I'll have more soon questions:-) Thank you Christophe ps: it was my weekly thank you mail from Turkey! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with firefox
Hello, I installed, with your help Firefox but now I have this problem: When I click on a link I have the Firefox profile manager that opens (I clicked on the Don't ask at startup) and since firefox is allready open... I can not open the link (exept pasting it). Where can I desactivate the profile manager? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] access denied
Hello, I have to write a file in my Firefox defaults profile folder but I get access denied message. I saved the file in my home folder and tried to move it to the same profile folder and same message. what can I do? Is it a security problem? (I did not setup any special level) Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Who tried Thunderbird 0.5?
One question... Who tried Thunderbird 0.5 with linux? Any problems? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
