Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in question? I have a Pentium 266 laptop with 144mb, that runs 10.x pretty poorly, well the video stinks, and I have been thinking of running another distro to see if it would be better. 9.2 ran on it pretty well. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 4:42 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is working fine? www.java.com -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The clipboard and the command line.
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 4:40 pm, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I want to manipulate the clipboard from a script. Where is the clipboard (Klipper) stuff? I guess it runs without having an icon in the toolbox now. I was able to find Klipper on the Kmenu under Utilities/More Programs. If you don't find it there, I would run K/settings/Menu Updating Tool. Hope that helps. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ 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 about reinstall
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:58, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. It all depends on what you are doing. For me: / gets 6 Gb 35% free /home gets 13 Gb 94% free /swap gets 500 Mb and it never fills up. I use a fat /home directory, because I do try to edit wav files with Audacity, which can eat room, and a few other things that can take up temporary space. -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:36, Jason Oakley wrote: This all makes it look like the system is totally ready for the mouse: Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Macally Peripherals Evoluent Optical USB/PS2 Vertical Mouse ] on usb-:00 :02.0-1 Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 If there isn't an error message below this, or something else bumping it off, I have no idea why the mouse doesn't work. Sorry. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem
On Monday 28 March 2005 03:10, Jason Oakley wrote: dmesg says: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver Those lines are showing that your mouse is being detected and installed during boot. What does /var/log/messages show after these lines, dmesg and messages should show the same kernel messages in the same order? Does it show that either hid-core, or usbmouse are being dropped for some reason? When your mouse is in a non-detected mode, what does lsmod say? are hid-core or usbmouse there? -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?
On Saturday 26 March 2005 19:36, OOzy Pal wrote: Dears I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform better with Linux do to the Cache. Please help. Yeah, I would move to a Athlon XP+ 2400, but do get the right RAM and mobo for it. Luckily these days, the right video card is cheap. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning
On Friday 18 March 2005 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? I have an old italian cd burning software on my old NT machine that happily does this automatically, is there something similar avaialable? Is K3B too easy to use for you guys? That's what I use to record audio cds from mp3s, on the off chance I need to. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi --fuzzy downloads without asking!
On Sunday 06 March 2005 3:25 pm, JR wrote: when I do urpmi --fuzzy package, it sometimes downloads the package anyway, without giving me a choice. Am I misunderstanding this switch? I expected to be asked regardless how many similar packages there were (even if there was only one) If there is only one match, it will try to d/l it for you. I usually just press ctl-c to kill it, but you can run --test to not allow it to upload anything. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] workgroup
On Sunday 06 March 2005 9:22 am, Michel Leunen wrote: I've shook up my little network at home and changed the workgroup name my machine belongs to. But I can't find in the mcc where to change this name in my mandrake. You don't Linux does not use workgroups. I assume that you are running Samba somehow, as Samba uses workgroup names to meet Windows networking conventions. The Windows machines on a network need to have a workgroup, Linux machines don't have to have a workgroup, but may to fool Windows. -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] floppy error
On Sunday 06 March 2005 3:42 pm, Chris wrote: Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: FAT: invalid media value (0xf6) Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: FAT: invalid media value (0xf6) Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0. This is a bug in 10.1. Mandrake setup 10.1 to use udev, but left some programs out on the lurch, like floppy formatting. I gave up on trying to get it right, I just used a flaptop I have to format the floppies for me. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 8:58 pm, Dennis wrote: Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1? I have found that all virus emails are getting trapped with spamassassin/razor/pyzor working for me. Its like living in a spam free, virus free world. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bison
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 2:54 pm, Mohammed Badran wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 5:05 am, Dennis wrote: Is anyone here encountered the message when installing bison Some package requested cannot be installed bison-2.0.1mdki586 (due to unsatisfied m4) do you agree? you can get bison from ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/10.2/i586/media/main/bison-2.0-1 mdk.i586.rpm and it needs m4 to be installed also from here ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/10.2/i586/media/main/m4-1.4.2-1m dk.i586.rpm bison is also on the CDs for Mandrake 10.1, and can be installed with m4 by entering urpmi m4 bison which will install both from the CDs which will be requested as you need them. If you have set up your urpmi sources, the CDs may be unnecessary. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RSS feeds
On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've been googling and looking at kmail info to see how to add RSS feed. I'm obviously looking in wrong place - can anyone direct me thanks Rosemary The only one I have found for Linux is Liferea, and it works well. rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bison
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 7:05 pm, Dennis wrote: Is anyone here encountered the message when installing bison Some package requested cannot be installed bison-2.0.1mdki586 (due to unsatisfied m4) do you agree? What package is needed when installing bison? That is due to a file such as m4 missing. so you typically have to find out which package it is in. This time it is easy: if you are wanting to run bison-1.875d-1mdk then you will need m4-1.4.1-1mdk. That should be stock for 10.1 since it is that way on my system. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 repair utility, anyone?
On Sunday 27 February 2005 1:49 pm, Glenn wrote: Does anybody know of a quick and easy MP3 repair utility, please? I've got a set of MP3s that are showing the wrong bit rate (showing the minimum bit rate of a VBR file, that being 32), and is showing total lengths in the range of about 18-25 mins (whereas they're all in the 2.5 - 5 min range). MP3_check is showing the correct info for the files, but Amarok is reading the incorrect data (and just for these files). You can use Konqueror, audacity, or EasyTag to replace the data in the tags of those mp3s. That's all that's wrong it seems as you are not complaining about sound quality. If they have sound quality problems, then I would just rerip them using grip, as I have never had a problem with that software. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
On Saturday 26 February 2005 5:29 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, I'm still running v9.2 here so some things may be different, and if they are, I apologise for wasting the bandwith but... here...if I use spamd it takes a lot longer to d/l my e-mail. If I use spamc on the other hand, all is well. Just a random observation there. PS This however, is not with postfix, just running it through kmail. Spamc is just a wrapper for spamd, so spamd has to be up and running. But if you want real email filtering you really need to be running spamassassin with more than just the basic rules. That caused me to fetchmail/maildrop/spamassassin/razor/pyzor all my mail before kmail picks it up all marked locally, and its not a hard configuration. The checking of each email with this setup is about 1 to 2 seconds each with my XP-2100, so the hit on Kmail would be serious. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux books
Linux Etudes is also good but very basic For very beginners there's Linux For Non-Geeks by Rickford Grant. It's based off of Fedora, but much of the information can be gained from it. It's written in a very informal style. For a more in depth, but not too in depth, I liked Linux Administration: A beginner's Guide by Steven Graham and Steve Shah. It gives a few Red Hat information, though they confesses to love and use Mandrake, but what I love is that he also shows how to administer using the actual configuration files. My personal favorites that have not been mentioned are Linux+: In Depth An excellent book on using linux as an administrator, with not much mention of the graphical side. Multitool Linux- Practical Uses for Open Source Software A great book on how to use the tools in Linux to do what we want to do from managing and dealing with graphic images, networking, sound, remote CD burning, and more Its my most recent find, and I am quite excited. Linux! I Didn't Know You Could Do That An older beginner minded text that covers the basics. The Complete Reference to Linux, 5th Ed. 5th ed covers the 2.4 kernel, and its based on RH 8.2, but there is alot of good information there. It deals with Linux with more of a server mentaility, but is a good reference on the nuts and bolts. One thing for sure, is to not worry about getting stuff that is a little older say for the 2.4 kernel, as program names don't change and their root usages stay the same, so in an older book you will learn the basics, and in a man page you will learn the details. -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] logging off
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: This just an idle question really ... Over the years people have told me how stable their linux set ups are, and that there is no need to log off, or shut down each day. How valid is this? In Windows I always used to shut down at end of the day. WinXP wasn't so bad, but both 95 and 98 required lots of reboots. I did have mandrake going all night last night as I had been to the easyurpmi site and it took forever to update the data base. Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time? My monitor is turned off in 20 minutes. My computer stays up for days on end. Right now uptime is saying: uptime 02:16:54 up 8 days, 2:43, 1 user, load average: 2.40, 2.27, 2.11 Shut down the screen, leave the computer on, and run something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] for it to do on its down time. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Amy wrote: I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and trustworthy. I'd really like to be able to walk into a store, pick up the drive, and install it when I get home... I don't want to have to wait on it being shipped, but will make due with that if I really really have to. I wouldn't sweat it at all. I have a no name 16x DVD ROM that has worked great from day one without a hitch. And I got it through www.pricewatch.com. Get it anywhere you want. Fry's, CompUSA, or a local Linux friendly retailer. Your LUG may have such a list on its website. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS warns of 'rootkits'
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 6:39 pm, Chris wrote: Hm, if the authors of chkrootkit and rootkit hunter can come up with a windows version they'd give MS some competition. http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,99843,00.html Kinda looks like MS wants the world to embrace Longhorn, and love that the processor will be checking for only MS Certified Software on their machines. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Default Browser.
On Thursday 17 February 2005 5:39 am, Lanman wrote: The only 'bug' is that Konqueror stays open after the request has been passed to Firefox. Is there a way to prevent this? If I open hyperlinks in any other program or from any other source (ie; from documents, Howto's or links embedded in applications), Konqueror doesn't even appear. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction on this. Check out this site: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SetMailtoEvent Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Task Manager
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:48 pm, Trevor wrote: On February 8, 2005 10:03 pm, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: As a old Windows user, I find really useful the Windows' Task Manager utility, where I can close applications, check resources, etc. I actually don't know if there is a similar application already developed, but I'm willing to make one, based on the /proc files and kernel stuff. However, this email is for asking if some already knows of an application as the Task manager, so I don't waste time programming such application... I like gnome-system-monitor although I am sure there are others as Start System Monitoring KDE System Guard..for us KDE users. :-) Control Esc (much quicker) Jammin! I learn something new every day! -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer
On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to record realaudio streams? I tried using mplayer but either set it up incorrectly,or,because I use'tkpppoe' and an external modem, which uses ethernet, I wasn't able to connect. I don't know about a direct method, but there is a hack I know of. Get Gramofile, it will take a stream of sound on your computer and save it to a wav file. Its a console program that is pretty easy to use, but you will also need to use a mixing board like Aumix to get your recordings right. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:13 am, Danesh Daroui wrote: No its Mandrake 10.1 Community, Is Mandrake 10.1 Official more stable ? Personally, I stopped running the community versions. I only upgrade to the Official ones. They seem to be more stable and functional. To me anyway. Ya'll can run what you want. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux on the rise
I found this article interesting and thought it would be good to share. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2577377,00.html This has to be the single most positive article I have ever read on Linux that was published in the regular press. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kpilot Palm Tungsten T5
On Sunday 05 December 2004 11:13 am, David Little wrote: Hi, Can't access my T5 with KPilot. Messages shows it's on /dev/ttyUSBn but KPilot can't link to it. When HotSync on the T5 times out or is cancelled, the next time the T5 attempts to connect it's on a different port. Anyone got this working on 10.1? My Handspring Visor Edge works just fine with default configuration in 10.1, so that I have not even checked my kernel messages. Now the Knotes conduit is broken, but that is another story. Output from tail -f /var/log/messages Dec 5 18:49:51 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 10 Dec 5 18:49:51 tosh kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Dec 5 18:49:51 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB4 Dec 5 18:49:51 tosh kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB5 Setting Device as /dev/ttyUSB4 in KPilot doesn't work If I Cancel on Palm and press HotSync again the palm is attached to ttyUSB6 and ttyUSB7 How have you configured KPilot? I would suggest that you use the default /dev/pilot. If you can't find /dev/pilot in the directory, don't sweat it, as it is created on the fly by hotplug at sync. All you should need to do is open Kpilot, and press your cradle button to sync. Check for the note about not being able to find /dev/pilot before you sync, that will tell you that the Kpilot daemon is running. -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
Rob, I am able to start KDE if I go to the first virtual console (Crl+Alt+F1) and type: startx -- :1. Can this help to be able to autolog on boot? No, in order to start KDE that way, you first have to login. If you want KDE to log you right in, you need to start the Mandrake Control Center and set it to log you in at boot. Well, maybe its a cross with KDE's Preferences/System Adminstration/Login Manager. So you are still having problems logging in graphically? Have you logged in yet, reinstalled kdebase-kdm, and set the kdmrc file to have the extra line? You should be logging in and out fine if you set that, and reboot X. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo! I wouldn't concern yourself with this one. You are in single user mode, and $HOME is probably not set. Can you make up something of all of this? By the way, I added the line you suggest at the beginning and at the end and of the [general] section and it makes no difference. one easy thing to do is to run urpme kdebase-kdm to uninstall it. Then you should boot into (on reboot) mdkkdm, and that will work normally. Then you can run urpmi kdebase-kdm and make the change to kdmrc from a console prompt. When you exited vi, did you do so with a wq to write and quit? Rob Thanks so much for your feedback. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 7:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Official (Download), and everything went all right except that on boot, I cannot enter into KDE. The boot process reaches only the point of the blue screen with the Mandrake logo in the lower part, and that's it. It doesn't go further from there to enter KDE. I would appreciate if you could help me to solve this. Yep, that's a standard problem with KDE if you are using KDM as your login manager. There is a phrase missing from kdmrc. Just add ServerVTs=-7 to the [general] section of /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc and reboot. Now to get there: at login go to failsafe, and boot the machine. you can either boot kde with a startx command, or open vi at /etc/kde/kdmrc, and figure out the eccentricities of that editor, so that you can add the line. When you are done, you can exit with the command shutdown -r now. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Easy URPMI no longer takes
On Sunday 28 November 2004 9:38 am, Jack wrote: For some strange reason, I can no longer update my media with easyurpmi. It seems to take when I run the necessary commands from root, even giving me messages that contrib has been added to media, etc. But when I go to the media manager, they (plf, etc.) don't show up, and I've done a random sampling of the programs offered for install, and they all only originate from the original cd's. I've done this many times before. I recently re-installed, and cannot understand why it won't do it now... Let me get this right, you use Easy Urpmi to create your sources, but when you open the Media Manager GUI, the sources are not updated? Interesting. Very Interesting. Its not Easy Urpmi, its something about either the Media Manager, /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, or how you are handling the update of sources. cat /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg to see if the sources are updated. This should also be the file that the Media Manager reads sources from. It should be rw enabled for root but r only for every one else. Or maybe it is gook in cat. In that case, I would, in a root window, delete urpmi.cfg. I bet it will be remade the next time urpmi.update is run. Just a thought, you are updating your sources in a root window? Its a job for root, but I don't think anyone else can do it. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] teach me
On Friday 26 November 2004 10:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it doesn't work like that i got an error msg, cannot open this file no plugins to handle it i also tried Xine and still related error There is no demuxer plugin available to handle mnt/cdrom/folder/moviefile.dat I just grabbed my only VCD at home, and stuck it in my CD drive, opened Xine, and used the GUI to press the VCD button. Voila! It works. Here are the list of Xine plugin rpms I have: # rpm -qa |grep xine xine-win32-1-0.rc7.1plf xine-ui-0.99.2-1mdk libxine1-1-0.rc7.1plf xine-faad-1-0.rc7.1plf xine-dxr3-1-0.rc7.1plf xine-plugins-1-0.rc7.1plf xine-flac-1-0.rc7.1plf xine-arts-1-0.rc7.1plf I am pretty sure that the VCD is in the libxine1 rpm. You may also want the win32 plugin if the CD is made with Windows code imbedded in it. Note that these are all from PLF, which needs to be included as a source for urpmi to find it. You can configure urpmi for PLF at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/, just follow the instructions. And instead of typing the commands, you may copy and in the Konsole window, right click, and paste from the context window. Then hit enter to run the commands. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Webmin / Certificate??
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:51 am, Paul wrote: Op Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:45:22 +0100 schreef Wojciech Podgórni: It seems that your current certificate for localhost is different that the certificate memorised by your browser. It happens when you reinstall webmin. I think you should just delete the memorised certificate and accept a new one. (At least it solved my problem which was similar to yours). and so where is the certificate found?? -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] teach me
On Monday 22 November 2004 9:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats up, does anyone here used to watch VCD movie with TOTEM player directly from a source CD? i mean without saving it first in the hard drive. please teach me... I have done it with Xine. But I don't use totem or any others. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Faster mirrors?
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:13 pm, Eric Scott wrote: I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. Anybody know of a particularly good mirror? Or a bittorrent/jigbo download like there is for Debian? I tried to download 10 earlier with no success (20KB/s download didn't cut it for me), and I'm now downloading the testing version of Debian to tinker with instead (Gettin' my fulll bandwidth from them, via FTP too). I always check a mirror by FTPing with Konqueror to see if the site has a decent download speed. There are some real dogs out there. Even though I am on the Pacific Coast of North America, my best downloads come from European sites, and one American one. Once you find a site that works well, use it for all the sources that it can handle. you will be happiest that way. -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...
On Sunday 07 November 2004 1:59 am, ali tig wrote: dear rob, i solved the problem. it result from my LG Flatron Monitor. when the installation, i take out the Monitor's cable, and then press the enter, after that i put on the cable to the machine againe. then the problem solved. now i'm trying to upgrade and discover my new mandrake :-) Interesting. I have never heard of that problem before. Is the monitor too recent to be used by linux? Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...
On Sunday 31 October 2004 12:02 am, ali tig wrote: dear carroll, my system is below. Asus K8V deluxe motherboard AMD 64 processor ATI Rodeon 9800 pro 1 GB ram 2*120 GB SATA harddisk(one of them for windows xp pro) The other thing that we need to see is what happens at boot to stop X from running when the system boots Another thing you could do is attach a copy of /var/log/messages to an email and send it to me, or someone else (it might be a bit big for the list) and we can look it over and send the revalent part to the list, which will problem get you up and running. Your system can probably run Linux without problem. Are you running Mandrake for 64 bit, or standard? Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 12:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: H.J. - Now I dared to connect my camera, but with the usual result : my system went completely bezerk. Here I the output from /var/log/messages : Oct 26 21:05:45 0x50c63c55 kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Oct 26 21:05:46 0x50c63c55 kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized Oct 26 21:05:46 0x50c63c55 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Oct 26 21:05:46 0x50c63c55 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 26 21:05:46 0x50c63c55 kernel: Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: C740UZ Rev: 1.00 Oct 26 21:05:46 0x50c63c55 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Oct 26 21:05:46 0x50c63c55 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Oct 26 21:05:46 0x50c63c55 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. .And it goes on and on forever. Furthermore, lsmod mentiones nothing about a camera. There is no camera listed by lsmod, as your camera is seen as a hard drive, nothing more. See up above about the USB Mass Storage support. Mine is too. That is normal for many cameras on the market. What happens if you disable supermount with a supermount disable command at root? There is also another tool like supermount that installs with Gnome, but I forget what it is. I uninstalled it long ago. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Need some help with updating.
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 6:35 pm, Michael Theel wrote: I am running Mandrake Community 10 and I'm having a problem when I try to do updates from the Mandrake Control Center. No matter with mirror I goto it says that the hdlist has failed to download. Why is this? Many sites are pretty flakey to download from regularily. I suggest that you just try another FTP site to update from, then things may work well. And if you test it with Konqeror or any other FTP program, you will learn how fast it is before you commit. -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update
I will second Margot's words, but also add that another problem can be timeouts from the server you are connecting to. I always connect to the server with Konqeror before I add it to my sources, and I avoid .edu sites as they seem to shut down sites on the weekends. And I also use the lists at mandrakeclub, as a link to the files is provided, and I can easily check the speed of the server. Rob On Monday 25 October 2004 1:47 pm, Margot wrote: To obtain the updates, instead of using the GUI you must use urpmi. Open a root terminal, give the following command: urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum urpmi --auto-select This will update all your media, and show you a list of updated versions of any packages you have installed. -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 updates loses Kontact Kmail
On Sunday 24 October 2004 7:09 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I managed an update from a couple of differnt mirrors and both times lost kontact and kmail, but a slocate and trying urpmi shows that those packages are there. Suggestions for making contact with Kontact? I am using Thunderbird for this message, but have not become used to it and would like my Kmail back without having to do a reinstall. TIA for any help. Ok, so you are using KDE, and you have lost the icons from your desktop and KMenu, I gather. You say the rpms are installed, right? Did you use urpmq or urpmi? Not that it matters, but urpmq was built for asking if something is installed. What you need to do is add apps to your Kmenu, then they will be available for the Panel. So, in K(Star)/Settings/Menu Updating Tool, hit Scan, and programs will appear, the ones you check the box of, will be installed on the KMenu. If you want to do it manually, then you can right click the KMenu (Star) button, and choose Menu Editor. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 1:40 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated rpms for Mdk 10.0 Thank you good sir, I was jonesin' for the spamassassin rpms. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT Apologys
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 9:22 pm, aron Smith wrote: Hate to bring it up but i have another system dual booting Mandrake 10.0 and windows 2000 the display 180 X 1024 in linux is great (jetway 17 LC monitor) the best resolution I can get in Win$ux is 800 X600 is there a Generaic driver out there I can use ? If so what is the name so I can chase it down? I hate to say it, but there is one known solution to all Windoze problems. As root type rm -Rf Winsnooze partition replacing Winsnooze Partition with the actual folder it is mounted in. :-) Couldn't resist. -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Postcard
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best wishes, your friend. Ok, so, fess up, who clicked the .pif? Time for the truth to be told, and time to run Mdk full time, the easy way is to login in a root. go to your windows partition and fire off, rm -Rf *. That is a great virus prevention method, for the time being. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS
On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. You installed it using rpm, no? Under mandrake one needs to use urpmi, as its urpmi that is having the problem. I am not sure how to correct this problem, if there is one. Now, let the configure your hardware stuff alone, Use the Cups software to configure it all. Point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and fire away. The CUPS web interface should come right up. If you have problems with that, and its a pretty simple interface, then you can click the on-line help link to get help from the cups website. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ 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 little OT - iRiver iHP-140
On Monday 30 August 2004 3:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! One of the things about ogg players is that there aren't any car players that will play them. Sort of hacks me off, but I reripped my 20Gb to mp3s to satisfy my need last fall. I have tried my brothers ipod FM sending unit, and it stunk in my car. Sliding all over the place and reception was lousy. Mp3s in my car are my #1 need, so ogg support, while I would prefer to use oggs, is not that important. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 8:03 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ sensors Can't access procfs/sysfs file Unable to find i2c bus information; For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and done 'modprobe i2c_sensor'! For older kernels, make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'! [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# modprobe i2c_sensor [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# sensors No sensors found! [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# sensors-detect No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# /mkdev/mkdev.sh bash: /mkdev/mkdev.sh: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# Before mandrake released the version of lm_sensors for my board, Asus A7N8X, I tried to compile it for use with Mandrake's kernels. I had no luck at all. One needs to both compile i2c and lm_sensors along with the kernel sources to get it right. Its really time to read the instructions, something I was having a hard time doing before the rpm came out. I personally think lm_sensors is about the hardest program I have ever tried to get to work thanks due to the rpm, I don't have to suffer anymore. I believe that it is also possible to go back to the 2.8.4 that you just had lousy readings from, and adjust the sensors so they read correctly. BTW, I believe that the path /mkdev/mkdev.sh is meant to be within the source code folder, so that a program that usually runs during make or make-install is run. -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.
On Monday 23 August 2004 2:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed lm_sensors-2.8.5.tar.gz and everything went ok (no errors). But when I run sensors-detect the following happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# sensors-detect No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. I dont have a clue about that. Unless you have a mobo that needs 2.8.5 uninstall it. a 'make-uninstall' may do it for you. If you wonder if you need it, or what you need, there is a full list on the lm_sensors, and i2c sites. Quite frankly, they are a pain to properly install from source. The rpm is far easier. just get a fresh copy of the mdk package of lm_sensors, and install it via urpmi. Then run sensors-detect, and all should be fine. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tip on urpmi.
On Sunday 22 August 2004 2:03 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I just completed installing everything I thought I might like using drakeinstall. Approx 4 times the system failed to complete installation due to various reasons which I could do nothing about. I.E. working in the w's a gimp package is causing a problem. You can't deselect it or remove it without loosing a 300MB download. I found a way to save the 300MB. In a terminal window as root issue the following command: 'urpmi /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/*'. You may be left with 1 or 2 rpms that will not install or any problems with them may be resolved. Anyway its better than redownloading 300MB again. Actually, if the package is in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ and you are running 10.0, it searches for the package there before uploading. At least on my system, as I have seen it happen time and time again. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!
On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely loath reading anything of any length in a console window. Is there a more user friendly (read as newbie friendly) way for one to be able to read the man pages? Yes, you can enter man:/command_name or # command_name in Konqueror to read man pages within the browser. But really, learn to love the console. Embrace and hug it, as there is mucho power there that is not in the GUI. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Login restrictions by time
Has anyone run across a rpm/program that can restrict a user from loging into a box based on time? I remember that Novell/Windows allows you to configure this, thought it would be very nice to help restrict younger children. Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin(offtopic)
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:28 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: My #kmail --version Qt: 3.1.2 KDE: 3.1.3 KMail: 1.5.3 With 9.2. #/~/Mail directory isn't hidden. For what reason would the developers hide it? So that we don't have to look at it every time we look into our home directory? -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Email Client
Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be used for both Windoze and Linux? I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is getting ugly. My ISP doesn't support IMAP so thats out.. Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin
On Monday 09 August 2004 9:33 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: I beg to differ. The Mail directory for K-Mail since (I believe) 3.1 *is* a hidden directory, while the sub-directories in it are not. No point hiding those is there, they live in a hidden directory. The rest of what you advised is probably accurate. I wouldn't know and don't intend to discover since spamassassin and I have never been more than coldly cordial to one another. I use bogofilter, far less horsepower required, easily configured, while just as accurate. I just thought I would toss out that I use a little (poorly written) bash script called spam-learn that resides in ~/bin and is made executable. echo SpamPile sa-learn --spam ~/.Mail/SpamPile/cur/ echo inbox sa-learn --ham ~/.Mail/inbox/cur/ echo Ads sa-learn --ham ~/.Mail/Ads/cur/ I run it daily after my new mail arrives, and it works great, as I rarely have to handle this manually. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:45 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 12:33 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: I beg to differ. The Mail directory for K-Mail since (I believe) 3.1 *is* a hidden directory, while the sub-directories in it are not. No point hiding those is there, they live in a hidden directory. The rest of what you advised is probably accurate. I wouldn't know and don't intend to discover since spamassassin and I have never been more than coldly cordial to one another. I use bogofilter, far less horsepower required, easily configured, while just as accurate. Charlie Hmm, Charlie I've got 9.2, KDE 3.1.3 here, and Kmail uses Mail in my users directory. Maybe it changed right after that? I think it was 3.2, not 3.1. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] wallpaper: pipes
On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:58 am, Marques wrote: Some time ago a thread about pipes gave me this idea. http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/pipingthrough.png Lovely. Just a little separation from the horizontal lines, and the bottom lines of the letters would make it spiffier in my opinion. -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Crashing Kmail
On Sunday 08 August 2004 3:44 pm, Thereidos wrote: Maybe someone here could explain to me why Kmail started to act so strangely crushing after clicking on any post (something wrong with the date). Here's what running in a terminal showed up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thereidos]$ kmail kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null. kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8068250 ): KAccel object already contains an action name kmail_copy [EMAIL PROTECTED] thereidos]$ QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 1920-1110529040-134597072 Here's mine: $ kmail kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/slick/ group not valid. kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/slick/ group not valid. kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null. kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8068540 ): KAccel object already contains an action name kmail_copy $ kmail: WARNING: KMMessagePart::bodyDecoded(): body is binary but used as text! So, I think that maybe the invalid date has something to do with it. But often kmail problems can be fixed by shutting down kmail, and going to .Mail/ and deleting any .index and .ids files. Then restart, and the index files will be regenerated. If you are like me, and have other parent folders, you will need to go into the parent folder and you should have a folder there that has more ids and .index files to be deleted. BTW, all the files I am mentioning are . files, and are hidden in Konq unless you show them. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 to WAV in K3b?
Personally I find k3b rock solid. Yikes, I have had bad system takedowns with K3B running in AUTO disk write mode, rather than TAO or DAO right after 10 Official came out. Now its right. Also if you want to go down real hard, run a 2.4 kernel, and upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. Reboot to the 2.6. If you come out alive, you are luckier than I. I lost my whole system, no way back. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LAN problems ...
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 10:02 pm, J Latham wrote: Hi All ... This past weekend I built my first computer ... A nervewracking experience for a newbie but I'm pleased to say nearly everything went smoothly (and was easier than expected - esp with Mandrake 10.0 - Took a few attempts to get WinXP loaded). The only problem now is that I can't get the onboard network card to work with Mandrake 10.0 ... Here are some specs: Mobo: MSI K8N Neo Platinum Chipset: nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ LAN controller: same as chipset note (nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb controller) Its all about the Nforce3 controller. There is no Open Source driver yet, but NVidia has released theirs: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0275 Let us know how it works. When I got my Nforce2 mobo it was only one release to an open source driver, and happyness. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GPhoto is gone
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 10:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: I did my usual urpmi --auto-select -a updatedb update-menus exit all my Camera programs disappeared I stopped doing the --auto-select -a as weird stuff started happening to my machine. Hope you figure it out, but you will need to see what got installed. And thats why I only run --auto-select alone anymore. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
Rob, do you check your inbox and spam folder for FN's and FP's before running your script? I take it you have auto-learn 0 in your local.cf? FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf? I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can figure out what you are asking. Rob FN's = False Negatives, a 'spam' that has been marked as 'ham' by SA FP's = False Positives, a 'ham' that has been marked as 'spam' by SA I have KMail move all my mail that SA thinks is spam into a folder called SpamPile. I let KMail delete any message that is older than 3 days from there. If I get a FP, I put it in the box where it belongs, if I get a FN, I place it in SpamPile. I run a script I wrote called spam-learn that runs sa-learn for various folders, that I have classified as spam or ham. Below is my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: Never edited this one. Literally, all I do is place the FP or FN into the correct box (which rarely needs to be done) and run my_rules_du_jour once a week. I get very few spams in my inbox and about 20 a day are sent to me. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand. I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is only a short pause, and everything is running. -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:26 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Well. I've installed Spam Assassin via the instructions, however since setting it up my inbound spam has dropped considerably :( Drat. No, really, I wanted to sort out the rules... Anyway, it's monday tomorrow and everything is busy in the week. Spamming me is a 9-5 Job? Unlikely but... I filter all my mail with SA through KMail. Which I guess is what you do too, as Kontact just brings up KMail. As you have probably done, pipe all your mail through SA with a filter setup like for all mail less than 250,000 bytes pipe through spamc. Then filter all mail that has X-Spam-Status=yes to your spam box, mine is SpamPile Now, I have a little script that runs spam-learn on my inbox, SpamPile and a few others daily. Mine runs from KAlarm. Now, get and setup my_rules_du_Jour and rules_du_jour. You can get it from the Exit0 SA Wiki Page at http://www.exit0.us/index.php/MyRulesDuJour. Follow the directions there to use up my_rules_du_jour and rules_du_jour. Then all I do is Friday after I get home from work I run a little script manually that updates my_rules_du_jour, and my machine by urpmi. The rules_du_jour part takes about 2 minutes to run. So it takes about 8 minutes a month to control spam with SA. Rob a very happy SA user. -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Sunday 25 July 2004 8:05 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:54 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Now, I have a little script that runs spam-learn on my inbox, SpamPile and a few others daily. Mine runs from KAlarm. Now, get and setup my_rules_du_Jour and rules_du_jour. You can get it from the Exit0 SA Wiki Page at http://www.exit0.us/index.php/MyRulesDuJour. Follow the directions there to use up my_rules_du_jour and rules_du_jour. Then all I do is Friday after I get home from work I run a little script manually that updates my_rules_du_jour, and my machine by urpmi. The rules_du_jour part takes about 2 minutes to run. Rob, do you check your inbox and spam folder for FN's and FP's before running your script? I take it you have auto-learn 0 in your local.cf? FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf? I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can figure out what you are asking. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Print in 10.0 missing chrs
On Friday 11 June 2004 10:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Rob, Saturday, June 5, 2004, 11:45:12 PM, you wrote: RB On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Rob, Since it is over the net, could samba be doing this? Any other ideas to get the first few chrs to print? RB Humm. Then it is probably Samba messing up or something like that. I have had RB problems with printing with Samba, but not this kind. I would say that the RB cups module is having problems with Samba, RB I am not an expert on Samba by any means, but I would check what the printer RB is saying on the printserver, and find out what Samba is saying... For cups, RB point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and check the logs for Samba RB in /var/log/samba/. You will also find logs for cups in /var/log/cups. Thanks for the ideas. I checked all the logs in these dirs, and a few others too. Everything looks just fine - it queues jobs, sends them off, and reports printing them. No errors at all. This is reasonable, in a way, because it DOES print the document, except for the first few chrs in each line. :-((( Any ideas much appreciated. More things to check? Maybe hunt around on the net some more for information. Check the Samba list archives, and linuxprinting.org and see if that helps. Maybe ask the Mandrake Expert email list Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Print in 10.0 missing chrs
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Rob, Since it is over the net, could samba be doing this? Any other ideas to get the first few chrs to print? Humm. Then it is probably Samba messing up or something like that. I have had problems with printing with Samba, but not this kind. I would say that the cups module is having problems with Samba, I am not an expert on Samba by any means, but I would check what the printer is saying on the printserver, and find out what Samba is saying... For cups, point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and check the logs for Samba in /var/log/samba/. You will also find logs for cups in /var/log/cups. You will need to be root for all of the above. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla-Firefox does'nt work
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:13 am, robi wrote: Hello, I have: mdk10 off, P4 1.8,kernel: 2.6.3-13,kde3.2 I downloaded mozilla-firefox from contrib, and installed with urpmi but it does not start when I execute on terminal window, runing from menu is same. I just uploaded it my self, and it works great for me. do you get any messages from the command line after you execute it? What if you execute it from root? Here's the link to the webpage for it, maybe you will find some help there: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0.8.html Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 07:55 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Does anybody out there know of/use/recommend a virus scanning package for linux? I'm hoping to use one to scan clients hard drives without having to leave mandrake and boot into Winblows XP. Spamassasin has prebuilt filters that can be used by it to scan emails that contain virii. I have been using it for months now with kmail, and as I don't run WinBlows anymore, my machine just dumps all virus email as junk. rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.
On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:53 pm, frankieh wrote: My question is: Will the chipset itself (nforce2) run ok on mandrake 9.2 and 10 ??? Yep. I have been using a NForce2 (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) mobo since 9.0 and it works great. 9.1 needed to come out to use the onboard LAN, Soundcard, and hardware monitoing had to wait for 9.2 to work properly, but under 9.2 and on, it has worked flawlessly. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kde stalls
On Monday 31 May 2004 06:28 am, Larry Clayton wrote: Using Mandrake 10 my KDE starts loading, giving me a 28, 57, 71, and 85 where it simply stalls. If I click the mouse, I get an empty screen (with the moon and stars) in the lower right hand corner. Tell us more, what do 28, 57, 71, and 85 mean? Error messages? or actual numbers on the screen? We will also need a little more information: Go to a console, log in as root, then try init 3, root will get logged out, and you should be at a command prompt. Log in as yourself, then issue startx. My guess is it fails. If it doesn't, what are the error messages that come up? Write them down, and email them back to us. It can be a million little problems with X or KDE and we need to know what's going on. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] fonts for md10
On Monday 31 May 2004 04:46 pm, John wrote: Hello I am having problems with the fonts looking faded. The message below is from the user log. I have a nvidia graphics card and installed the driver from nvidia. I have tried several differant combinations of resolution and monitor settings but I seem to be making it worse. Would appreciate help on getting straightened out. I had a multitude of problems with 10.0 official, and found that all my troubles went away with the NVidia kernel. There are some nvidia modules that are missing from 2.6.3 without that kernel. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Print in 10.0 missing chrs
On Saturday 29 May 2004 05:11 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, Printing in 10.0 to samba/Win2000 printer. The first 3-4 chrs of every line is missing, and happens with different margin settings. Printer works OK on other machines on the net, including a MD 9.1. How can I get the first few chrs to print in 10.0? In 9.1 the print sys is generic UNIX... and in 10.0 it is CUPS..., but setting 10.0 to generic UNIX... does not help the problem. I would check out http://linuxprinting.org/ and see what's there, next I would check out the www.cups.org and see what they say. I would suspect that either the module that you are using is not quite ready for that printer or that there is a special workaround for your printer. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?
On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: Cool, thanks Mark. I have downloaded this software, the one for Linux with Java. http://www.childhooddiseases.org/dOL/download_instructions.html I try to install it and I get a Java error. I am running 9.2 on a dual boot system. What's the error? Are you installing the bin from a root console or a user console? I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. I downloaded the Starter Guide, but it is still like greek to me. There is not one way to install things on Linux, there are about 42 or so. :-) Several books that I have used include: LINUX: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE, 5/E THE LINUX COOKBOOK LINUX ETUDES RUNNING LINUX One of the problems with Linux books is there current-ness. Many books offered are way out of date. Mandrake is very similar to Red Hat, so a current Red Hat book could be a good buy. But don't leave us, as there is alot of useful stuff that is not documented in books, that only we Mandrake folks know about. I have been running Linux for about 4 years, and finally basic running is pretty easy for me. confusion is normal in the beginning, And I am not an IT professional, even normal folks can run linux, you just have to stick with it. And the pundits that talk about how linux is not ready for the desktop have no idea what they are talking about. Linux has been ready for this desktop for the last 4 years. I run a 100% MS free PC. My processor has never seen MS code. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
On Saturday 06 March 2004 1:02 pm, Thinker pondered and enlightened us with: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I attempt to update everything? What is the safest environment to be in when updating? I am currently running KDE, playing mp3s with XMMS and browsing the web while urpmi --auto --auto-select is working its tail off. Its no big deal using your box while upgrading. If stuff stops working, maybe its time to take a break at let urpmi do its job. I've done this once before, and its just fine. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis
On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:25 pm, Glenn monotonically droned on: Anne; Just saw this on the Iriver site. Possibly they'd have the 350 for less than you were able to find? I see that at www.pricewatch.com, that the best price for the 350 is $101. Now, what about syncing it under Linux? Is support available, or is it just a scsi drive to USB? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C
On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:59 am, Adrian Earnshaw monotonically droned on: Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only hardware I can't get to work. It says that it is supported under the hardware page but no program seems to be able to connect to it. At the moment I am using 9.1 but starting the download of 9.2 eventually! Possibly the biggest help for tough hardware problems is to google your question, in this case I would first try scanner 4400C linux, which scores 410 hits. Including many from the sane-devel list, which is a good thing, as sane is the program that allows scanners to run under linux. I also see that it is a USB scanner. Do you have the USB subsection running properly? Maybe the scanner is being detected, but not set up properly. Rob Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback
On Sunday 29 February 2004 3:04 pm, Marc Resnick monotonically droned on: I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. But I'm going to try to remove it then install it once more. Sorry, Marc, Walt's right, Xine is the way to go, and since this isn't Widows land, that uninstall/install trick isn't going to work. You need to set up Xine properly to use the DVD codecs. I have xine-flac, libxine1, xine-aa, xine-arts, xine-dxr3, xine-esd, xine-faad, xine-plugins, xine-ui, xine-win32, libdvdcontrol9, libdvdcss2, libdvdnav0, libdvdread3, libdvdread-utils installed. For me DVDs work just fine in Xine, you just need to tell it where the DVD drive is, and have most, or all of the above installed. Personally, I have not tried to figure out exactly what is the minimum set of what I need to watch DVDs, I just load the whole banana up and take it for a spin. That's the big unfair thing about DVDs and Linux, that it is not legal for us to use any program to decode DVDs other than the one built by the licensed distributors and they haven't released a version for linux. So our hacked together programs can't be legally preconfigured for us, and we have to upload the stuff from overseas. Piddle. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 RPMs
On Sunday 22 February 2004 11:19 am, Marc Resnick monotonically droned on: On Sunday 22 February 2004 01:47 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:28 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone know where I can get KDE 3.2 RPMs for Mandrake? I know I've seen a thread like this before, but I couldn't find it. Is there a command to just install all of them? I tried to do a urpmi.addmedia but it said it couldn't read the synthesis file. You may have to ftp over to the site in Konq. then poke around to find the synthesis file, then correct where it is so when you run urpmi.addmedia you have it. If you can't find the synthesis file, go to another site. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bmp to jpg?
On Sunday 22 February 2004 11:48 am, Lee Wiggers monotonically droned on: Happy Sunday Anyone know an easy (?) way to convert a batch of .bmp's to .jpg's? I have to do the same 20 pages of schematics every weekend for the next forever. I belive that Gimp can do a batch process for you to convert them. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No Outhouse for Linux?! Darn!
Can't imagine why anyone would want to port M$Office to linux - although many would hope that OOo could eventually use access database files. OTOH, when M$ protest loudly. Export all the tables to DB4 then import to the Linux database of your choice. Unfortunately queries are not SQL compliant. But Acce$$ Sux too. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dependency hell
On Monday 09 February 2004 6:30 pm, Roland Hughes monotonically droned on: I am running Mandrake Community(Download) 9.2. I have kept it up to date using urpmi but now have hit a dependency brick wall. The following is what I get when trying to do a update: Some package requested cannot be installed: ImageMagick-5.5.7.15-1.2plf.i586 (due to unsatisfied libMagick5.5.7[== 5.5.7.15-1.2plf]) k3b-0.11.1-3.5mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libk3bplugin.so.1) libMagick5.5.7-5.5.7.15-1.2plf.i586 (due to unsatisfied libjasper-1.700.so.2) libk3b1-0.11.1-3.5mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libFLAC++.so.2) xine-plugins-1-0.rc3a.1plf.i586 (due to unsatisfied libdirectfb-0.9.so.18) (Y/n) y I think this is why Totem Movie Player now crashes. I tried urpmi'ing the dependencies individually but it just goes in a circle with the dependencies and I get no where. These same stop me from installing xine or mplayer. Any help would be appreciated. When I have this problem, I usually hand install via urpmi the program in question. In the case of ImageMagick, I would install libMagick-5.5.7.15-1.2plf.i586.rpm first, then urpmi ImageMagick-5.5.7.15-1.2plf.i586.rpm having both of them in the directory where I am running urpmi from. With the next one, I run urpmi libk3bplugin.so.1 to see if I get an rpm, if not, I go to rpmfind.net and query them for the package, then I hand install it as above. And so on and forthwith with your errors. Yes it is a pain But not nearly the pain it is without urpmi. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suggestions for an email program that can be used from Linux and WIN 2000
On Monday 02 February 2004 2:01 pm, Steve Kaufman droned on: Since I am still so new to this linux environment and have not even gotten past the very simplest of things I am still using my win2K system a lot. I would like to be able to read my email from either system especially this list, and be able to see my folders from either system. Does anyone have any suggestions of an email program that I could use to do this? Kmail stores its email by default using the standard *nix mail folders. Older versions of Eudora also do so. By putting the mailboxes on a server with Samba and NFS running, it would be possible to read from the same place under Win2k and Linux. But maybe a local mail server would be a more stable method, as both would know how to deal with it, and not be surprised as stuff is added and deleted. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resuming down load
On Saturday 17 January 2004 12:51 pm, Dennis Myers droned on: I have found konqueror will resume also, assuming the server allows resume. HTH Konqueror will resume is Kget is installed. If kget is a front end for wget. And they are all part of a basic Mandrake KDE installation. And wget is best installed from Mandrake RPMs, urpmi wget is how to get it, not from source packages. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] realplayer and amazon.com
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 9:53 pm, Todd Slater droned on: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:35:49PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 9:58 am, Todd Slater droned on: Every time I try to listen to song samples on amazon.com using realplayer (both 8 and realone), it aborts with just the message aborted. I'm copying the link location from the browser and trying to open it with File Open Location in realplayer. Humph. I don't have any problems with RealPlayer and Amazon.com. Maybe its missing a library? Did you install RealPlayer from a MDK rpm using urpmi, or some other way? If you did it some otherway, you should try uninstalling it, and reinstalling it with urpmi realplayer at a root prompt. I've installed it using the RPM available from real.com, and using urpmi (uninstalling RPM first). The installed packages are: RealPlayer8-8.0.3-5tex.i586 mozilla-realplayer-1.4-1tex.i586 The error persists. :( Drag, then try the Mandrake ones: RealPlayer-Codecs-9.0-2mdk RealPlayer-8.0-6mdk, and they are working perfectly with mine. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] realplayer and amazon.com
On Sunday 04 January 2004 9:58 am, Todd Slater droned on: Every time I try to listen to song samples on amazon.com using realplayer (both 8 and realone), it aborts with just the message aborted. I'm copying the link location from the browser and trying to open it with File Open Location in realplayer. Humph. I don't have any problems with RealPlayer and Amazon.com. Maybe its missing a library? Did you install RealPlayer from a MDK rpm using urpmi, or some other way? If you did it some otherway, you should try uninstalling it, and reinstalling it with urpmi realplayer at a root prompt. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Sunday 04 January 2004 5:09 pm, José Carlos Cortizo Pérez droned on: Hi: I have a dual opteron 246 system with 4G of ram recognized by the Bios (4096M). But when executing cat /proc/meminfo, i see the system says there is a memTotal of 3073268. It seems one giga is not recognized by the kernel. I've tried mem=4000M on startup but the problem is the same. Someone can help me? The basic kernel cannot see 1Gb of RAM or more, you will need to use the enterprise kernel instead. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Total Newbie on ppc
On Friday 02 January 2004 6:22 pm, Josh Peters droned on: Hi, I'm trying to install 9.1 on a bw g3 ppc, original, 350 processor. So far I have been unable to even get a burned copy of mandrake or yellow dog to even boot. I am burning the iso correctly, mounting the disk, etc. Tried booting from firmware, no luck. I am a complete newbie(moron) at this, if I'm missing something quite simple please let me know. I will gladly give any more info that is needed. 1. Are you setting up the computer to boot off the CD? That's how it should be setup to load Linux. 2. If you are, try one of the other images that allows you to do a installation by booting off a floppy looking for the CDROM. I belive that floppy.img available in the .../images directory. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba inconsistencies
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 10:28 am, David droned on: I have some craziness going on with my Samba. Samba seems to be set correctly. My XP pro box can connect with no problems, but my XP home box will not. Whenever I attempt to add/connect to a Samba share with the XP home machine, I get a login dialog box. The dialog has guest as the login name and it is grayed out. This does not happen on th4e XP pro box. Anyone have any ideas on what's going on here or anything to try? I've pasted my entire smb.conf below my sig. Having just wrestled with my own Samba problems, I'm gonna say that its not Samba giving you the problem, its XP home that is giving you the problem. I found that the O'Reilley Book on Samba was a great time saver for me while I was wrestling with Samba, and it allowed me to win. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Userfriendly!
On Monday 29 December 2003 6:12 am, Ronald J. Hall droned on: On Sunday 28 December 2003 03:49 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: - If you don't know what's up, check out the IBM Prodigy Ad. Linux folks can - read it by downloading it from http://www.bkw.org/~brian/misc/, grab the - Prodigy file, either one. - - Yeah, I saw those as well - I follow UF every single day... :-) So do I. Its the homepage on the browsers of both my work and home machines. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new mouse
On Saturday 27 December 2003 10:20 pm, Greg droned on: Hey Everyone I hope everyone had a good Christmas I have a G/E wireless optical mouse ( yes I got it for Christmas ) I have not found any info on getting it to work with Linux So before I give up I figured if any one can help me get it to work It would be from the great family on this list So is it hopeless Thanks Greg I run a wired Logitech optical mouse. The Optical part does not need to be dealt with under Linux. But you need to get the USB side up if it is a USB mouse. Is it a PS/2 or USB mouse? Is its connection different than what you orginally had? Do you have your USB modules up and running if it is a USB mouse? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Userfriendly!
On Sunday 28 December 2003 2:42 am, Ronald J. Hall droned on: You simply must see it today - coolness incorporated! :-) http://www.userfriendly.org Personally, I thought this series was better- http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031217 There are 4 or 5 days of panels. If you don't know what's up, check out the IBM Prodigy Ad. Linux folks can read it by downloading it from http://www.bkw.org/~brian/misc/, grab the Prodigy file, either one. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto a Pentium 266 Laptop, as the CDs were not being read properly. It sounds alot like your problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 3200, that now functions great, but at 266 speeds. Try installing using the network.img image, and setting it up to either upload the files via NFS or FTP. I hope you have a fast connection for either one. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 1:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir droned on: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:56, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto a Pentium 266 Laptop, as the CDs were not being read properly. It sounds alot like your problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 3200, that now functions great, but at 266 speeds. Try installing using the network.img image, and setting it up to either upload the files via NFS or FTP. I hope you have a fast connection for either one. Rob I don't think you have to do that; I had the same problem, now that you mention it. I just burned the cdrom.img to floppy and booted from there; after that I was able to install via CDROM. If you have a CD-ROM that can't read the burned disks (I do.) then it is the only way to get Linux on the machine. And when that was the problem, it acted very similar to what was described. Works for me. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.
On Friday 26 December 2003 10:56 pm, Steven Nelson droned on: Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do you know where else the installation path could be? Try the command which mozilla on your machine. If its in your path, it will tell you where it is. If its not in your path, it will give you a message saying no mozilla in (your path). Which means you will need to install it. And to do that, urpmi mozilla will set you up. And BTW, don't use the FlashPlayer from Macromedia, you will be missing some libraries. Try urpmi FlashPlayer if you are setup to upload from Contrib. And if you aren't setup with it, see Easy Urpmi @ http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php, just follow the directions. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 10:22 pm, Steven Nelson droned on: Am new to Linux. Worked with Linux for about 5 months. I've studied computers for a while. Can understand computers pretty good. Need help configuring Linux though. Will somebody assist me with installing and configuring Linux? Installing and configuring will probably get very technical. it is real easy to install Mandrake. But a few notes: If you have a modem that you use to connect to the Internet, make sure that it will work under Linux. Some are WinModems, but only a subset can become LinModems. If you use DSL or connect to a LAN via a PCI NIC, then you should have no problem. If you connect via a USB connection, see below. Know your actual monitor name. My Sony Trintron Multiscan 17SE is actually as Sony GDM-17SE, as you will be asked to provide that, I don't think it can be auto-detected. If you have anything USB that is important to you, either learn to live without it, or study up on USB and the needs first. My USB mouse, and camera works great, but it took a little tweaking to be right. I would suggest a PS2 mouse to install. During Mandrake's Install, after Hardware detection, you will get a screen that lists all the possible hardware categories on the machine, and how they are set up. Go through each of these, and make sure that they are setup for your machine. One of my biggest goofs was when I breezed by this. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A seasonal blast from the past
Absolutely lovely!
I have not seen this before, but it is beautiful!
Rob
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 6:56 am, Richard Urwin droned on:
From the SunOS4.1 cookie file:
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus north pole town
cat /etc/passwd list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice giftlist
santa claus north pole town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
Merry Christmas everyone.
--
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Re: [newbie] cd-rom
Chage /dev/scd0 to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Anne Hi Changed file and saved according to earlier instuctions. Tried to mount cdrom and got the message can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Thanks john John, did you say you were running 9.1? I've never seen this behaviour in 9.1, though I have seen threads about 9.2 using this kind of naming. Another way around this is to edit /etc/lilo.conf as root, and in the area named linux on the Append= line add devfs=nomount then save it and run lilo at the root prompt, and reboot. My append line looks like this (all on one line): append=devfs=nomount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht splash=silent Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Flash problem
On Saturday 20 December 2003 8:55 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Two 9.2 boxes. Both running Mozilla as included in the distro. Both have the flash files in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins On one, help about plugins shows flash and it works. On the other help about plugins shows no flash and of course it doesn't. Yes, there is one specific file that is missing that urpmi caught for me, and I forget the name. Maybe you can find it in the archives, or maybe you will catch it by doing the install with urpmi. Or maybe you can find it by looking into the dependences with Kpackage and seeing if you have them all. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash player in Mandrake 9.2
Excellent! I am glad to have helped you out! On Saturday 20 December 2003 12:55 am, you wrote: It functioned Obliged for the aid! Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 19 December 2003 8:04 am, you wrote: which the package of installation of pluguim of the flash that you are using? You want to install FlashPlayer, and I believe that you need to get it from contrib. If you have not set up urpmi/rpmDrake with the proper sources, go to Easy Urpmi at http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and set up your selections there, following the instructions on the page. #1 Top Secret tip that the site does not tell you, is that under 3) Type this in a console as root, you don't need to type anything. Just select all the text in the box, and copy it, then when logged in as root in a console window, right click and select paste to paste all that text into the window. And if it doesn't start running immediately, hit enter to start it. You will need to be connected to the internet when it is run. After you get done with that, type urpmi flashplayer in that root console window, and follow the prompts. -- Mountlake Terrace, Washington Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?
From: Lance Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/19 Fri PM 06:33:37 CST To: Mandrake Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install? I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed Hardware: AMD XP 2600+/333 K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek nforce2) 1GB PC2700 DDR333 Maxtor 40GB ATA133 Radeon 9700 ASUS DVD-E616 (16x/48x) LiteOn LTR-48126S (48x24x48) What is the best way to install the nvidia nforce (motherboard) drivers? Their site has several suggestions, has anyone had success with any of them? I am running 9.2 on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo with nForce2 SPP and nForce2 MCP-T chipsets on the north and south bridges, and 9.2 detected and uses all quite well with no trouble. I am not sure that you need to install the drivers from NVidia, as they are precompiled as kernel modules for you to use. Now for NVidia video cards there is something to do to use the NVidia drivers rather than the open source alternative, and we have discussed that around and around here. Rob Rob 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
