Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Saturday 02 April 2005 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 13:22, Daniel Anderson wrote: With the original 4k ram ...none of that sissy 16k expansion stuff ;-) Or the 720k drives. Weren't they the double-density ones? I seem to remember 360k in the heady days of my first floppy drive - before that it was stretch audio tape. Of course my Spectrum had 48k RAM, whereas my first computer, ZX81 had 1k on board and 4k on an add-on pack that had to be strapped up with insultating tape to stop it wobbling and whiting everything out. Anne Like my Atari 8bit and the 1010 tape recorder. Awesome stuff! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:43 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hehehe...well, Ronald you might be right there, but then again we get trolls here occassionally. /Anders I know. It just seemed to coincidental... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:51 am, Dennis Myers wrote: carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun just has to be had. Couldn't help it - the old Atarian in me just lives for any excuse to wave the Never Say DIe banner of those who (still) follow the Fuji... grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] More April foolishness... :-)
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-04-01-014-26-OP-CY -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 02:20 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... Actually some really interesting info gets tossed back and forth there - as well as some... stuff. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI module change from 2.6 to 2.4
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:21 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Does anyone know a good way to check for IRQ conflict or have any other suggestion a to why it crashes. Hi Malcom. Just do a cat /proc/interrupts and you'll get the output that should help you determine if there is an IRQ conflict. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quicktime video
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:20 pm, Aron Smith wrote: anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? Aron, you've got PLF setup (both free and non-free) as sources, right? If not, do it. Then just: urpmi mplayer urpmi mplayer-gui and all the dependencies will be taken care of. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cd into file
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that Linux Stuff directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. Linux_Stuff or some such. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Guess I've been lucky but I've never had trouble with filenames with spaces under Linux. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: First you should be installing as a user not root. Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has the right to install or delete (system) software - this is a root privilege, (rpm group?), from my understanding. Of course they can install and delete in their own /home directory. Did I miss something? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled with an rpmbuild command (also as user). Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 which then has to be installed as root. derek Ah, that explains it. Thanks! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 12:36 pm, Aron Smith wrote: personally I wish someone would port Redneck Rampage to linux It's stupid it's violent it's funny hit bubba with a crowbar to advance to the next level :-D Sounds like its on a level with Postal. There is a linux demo for it. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Monday 21 March 2005 10:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, I've been browsing to the package available in mdk10.1, and I find many interesting packages once I click on them and read the description. Right now, I've just passed the packages start with 'b', phew..! I'm now installing many interesting games, such as adonthell, brutal, and.. many rpg like games I forgot the names :) Do you have any recommendation on games that can relieve our stress level? Thanks :) RPG - Neverwinter Nights 1st person shooters - Ut2004, Quake 3, Rune, Doom3 Military - Medal of Honor: Allied Assault If you want to run Transgamings' Cedega software, you can run the likes of: Diablo2-Lord of Destruction, Starcraft-Brood Wars, Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 (Sith Lords), Dungeon Siege, Elder Scrolls-Morrowind, Star Wars Jedi Knight and Jedi Academy, Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne and even World of Warcraft. Of course these are commercial, and there are plenty of free games to play as others have mentioned. Chromium, Critical Mass, and Armagetron spring to mind right away. Lots of options, and many more games than I've mentioned so get out there and get gaming! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 command tutorial
On Friday 18 March 2005 04:36 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: et wrote: snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the commands that start with that letter (it is case sensitive and root gets more choices) Try hitting tab-tab (tab twice) and see what you get. Hmm. I get (immediately) with the first tab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ Display all 2504 possibilities? (y or n) 2nd tab only gets a beep from my system speaker. I tried the tab-tab very fast, very slow and in between. Was something truly exciting supposed to happen and I missed it? :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 command tutorial
On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:35 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 04:23, Julie Sloan wrote: I found a new-newbie oriented tutorial at http://www.linuxcommand.org/ which everyone here probably already knows about. But just in case some lurker doesn't, there's the link. I may not be pestering y'all with questions for a while. I'm busy reading. Dang. Didn't know they taught reading in Kentucky. Julie, meet Stephen. Stephen rarely has anything good (read accurate as well) to say about Kentucky or Kentuckians, as a general rule. You'll get used to it. :-) I had to post pictures of my home and yard before he would believe that there weren't cars up on blocks in the front yard, refrigerators on the porch, blah, blah, blah... -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 command tutorial
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:04 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Paul wrote: Go on Ronald, admit it. That wasn't really a photo of your house was it? 8-) It was probably the guest house. Well, actually it was my house. I guess I should have stood at an angle and got the mailbox (with my name on it) in the pics to convince this lot though. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? Thanks for the reply. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 March 2005 10:43 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? Thanks for the reply. Yep, that k3b-dvd is the one I ment. So that must not be the problem. I am at a loss, all the k3b problems, I use it with CD and DVD and have not had a problem ever. (knock on wood). I didn't either, until I reinstalled. After that, boom!. It still keeps giving the same error messages. Something about an opc and input/output errors. The debugging message gives this: (this version will show up different than what I posted above because its showing after I switched to Charles Edwards RPMs) System --- K3b Version: 0.11.5 KDE Version: 3.1.3 QT Version: 3.1.2 growisofs --- :-( Failed to change write speed: 8310-11080 growisofs comand: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/scd1 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -speed=8 -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.5 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.11.5 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bGYOdLb.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bGpcqTb.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bEnU4yb.tmp So I dunno. I did go back, uninstall and try reinstalling the RPMs from Charles Edwards excellent site, but that made no difference either. I'll keep on plugging at it - there's something I'm missing somewhere. Thanks for the help though! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the package you meant? Thanks for the reply. Checking under Software Uninstaller, under the Archiving group, I have cdrdao-1.1.9-6mdk cdrecord-2.01-1mdk dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-2mdk k3b-0.11.16-3mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.17-0.1010.1 mkisofs-2.01-1mdk Anne Thanks Anne. I'm sure some of the difference reflected there is because I'm still using v9.2 and I think you're on 10.x, right? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML
On Monday 14 March 2005 05:35 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: You won't believe this : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5ObjectID=10115247 I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. Kaj Haulrich. By the Gods, Kaj - don't give them ideas! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:31 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: You know, I've found that occasionally something will monkey with fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab as soon as I get everything working, so I can refer back to it when things go south. (The fstab backup created at changes isn't reliable, because sometimes I don't notice that stuff isn't working for a while, and several changes may have been made). K3b seems to be a big offender (as you have found out). Also, turn off harddrake--you can always turn it back on when new hardware is added. And sometimes, things seem to happen for no good reason that I can determine. I thought that I might be the only one, but I guess not. These are the fstab lines for my CD's with Mdk9.2, no scsi emulation on the reader. If there was, it might make cdrom2 /dev/scd1. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 One thing I know, if you unplug a usb device, and don't reboot when you plug it back in, a second mount point for the same device will be added (my camera does this continuously), and it drives me nuts! Anyone know how to stop this? And finally, I quit using K3b. I have a lot less problems with Eroaster because it doesn't continually lose my devices. I don't have any DVD writers, though, just CDRWs, so I don't know if Eroaster even works with DVDRW. e Hi Erylon, thanks for the reply. Well, see...it was a working setup that I had. Then the problem with my /home occurred and I had to reinstall. I thought I put everything back the way I had it before, but its obvious that I must not have. I use Gcombust here, like it a lot - it works fine with my setup. It does not support DVDs though. K3b did, until now, after the reinstall. So I guess I'll just keep playing with it. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK - that's out, then. What about the fstab line? It feels a long time since I used a 2.4 kernel, so I may be remembering wrongly, but is the cdrom really scd1? I would go to MCC Hardware Mountpoints and check everything there - not forgetting the advanced tab. I usually find that fixes any problems I have. Anne No, its really an IDE device (the Toshiba DVD reader at /dev/scd0 is truly a SCSI device). Before when it was working fine, I had it setup as scd1 in the /etc/fstab file, so I dunno. MCC shows the burner as scd1,/mnt/cdrom2 and the reader as scd0, /mnt/cdrom which is the way it was before. I guess I'll just keep playing with it. Some magic combination works, although I thought I had set it back to exactly they way I had it before. BTW, the CDRW stuff on it works fine - I burnt some CDs, including disk to disk copying with Gcombust just fine. K3b won't even do that though. Something is up with k3b, something I suppose I don't have set just right, that I did before. Thanks for the reply/suggestions Anne. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] K3b help?
Well, I had a fully working k3b setup until I had a major problem with my /home directory (don't ask - long story) and reinstalled. Anyways, k3b now errors whenever I try to burn a DVD. I've got a Plextor 708a, with the following software versions running: libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk cdrecord-cdda2wav-2.01-0.a26.092.1mdk cdrecord-devel-2.01-0.a26.092.1mdk cdrecord-2.01-0.a26.092.1mdk dvd+rw-tools-5.18.4.8.6-0.092.1mdk Here is the /etc/fstab entry (one line): /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Anyone have any idea about where to start? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have a 2.6 kernel, I think. Anne Sorry, should have added: Mandrake v9.2 kernel 2.4.22-36mdk -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Friday 11 March 2005 05:44 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have a 2.6 kernel, I think. Anne Sorry, should have added: Mandrake v9.2 kernel 2.4.22-36mdk and further, here is the error message its giving: System --- K3b Version: 0.11.9 KDE Version: 3.1.3 QT Version: 3.1.2 growisofs --- /dev/scd1: engaging DVD-R DAO upon user request... :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=5h/ASC=2Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error growisofs comand: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/scd1 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -speed=4 -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.9 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.11.9 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bQ2Kytb.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bQb8v9b.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-darklord/k3bYJVCFa.tmp Thanks again. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:49 am, Philippe Landau wrote: This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you like to volunteer? unfortunately, the off-topic list is dominated by people with sectarian views proud of using foul language. also, when people start to compete on the level of which nation/union is better, insights vaporize. the rapid advancement of corporate-fascist take-over is obviously originating in the US and Europe. kind regards philippe -- http://stop1984.com http://AntonySutton.com and I disagree with your general assessment of the Offtopic list. Sure, things get carried away sometimes, but I don't see it to the extent your mentioning. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KMail configuration
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 02:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I never noticed it with the older version of kmail, but now I'm seeing that some kmail users are displaying Mandrake's footer message in full and others have it as an attachment. I presume there's a setting somewhere for this? I'd really rather keep that paper-clip display for things that have a real attachment, and I see that I am one of those mis-using it - if you can call it a mis-use. Anne Not sure Anne, but under View can't you check how this shows up? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Monday 07 March 2005 02:01 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 15:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software Patent from an A-item to a B-item. So friends, that was it : forget about software development in Europe. Kaj Haulrich. That is completely ridiculous. Hell is going to break loose and there are going to be heaps of very mad folks. I don't think they'll get away with it. Huh, this is the kind of dictatorial fascism that Europe is so good at. They have proved it over and over again in the past, so why should this be any different? Greed rather than justice, for ever! Bunch of Nazis! I have two books standing side to side : Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf and the EU Constitutional Treaty Amazing how hard it is to tell the difference. I found one, though : This time a mr. W.Gates KBE has replaced a certain Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, do you believe in reincarnation? (scary thought, huh?) :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] URPMI help
Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Thanks. PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( 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 help
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? Hmm, I thought that I did - maybe I got in a hurry and missed it (multiple times - shaking head at self). I'll go try it again. I just tried it and it works. BTW: The page is quite pretty now isn't it? derek Yes, it is! Big improvement, definitely easier on the old orbs. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:59 am, Julie Sloan wrote: Was it harder adapting to XP, or Linux? Linux was harder, no question about it. Just shows how truly different peoples experiences can be. I started out in computing in 1983 with an Atari 800Xl. Moved up to the Atari ST line around 1985 or so. Kept right on, keepin' on with an Atari Falcon, one of which, in a highly modded form, I have to this day. I ran MINT on it - a Unix, Linux, FreeBSD variant. After Atari Corp folded for good, and I needed something newer, it was almost with a feeling of I'm home that I installed Mandrake v7.0 on my first hand-built PC. Then my sons wanted a Windows 98 partition on their comps for games that weren't available under Linux. Oh my God! - the shock of actually using that POS software. Ugh and a half! So for me, I could never look at Windows as easier. Amazing how different perspectives can be, isn't it? (Not right or wrong, just different).:-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 09:00 am, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:30 am, riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:19 am, Julie Sloan referred: handy, to have entire duplicate system ~ for example . . . have cron daemon, once-a-week, run script :- Thanks riccardo, I will add this and your run daily script into that file of notes I mentioned to Rosemary. FWIW, the lazy way I take notes: first, if I think there is something I need to learn *at this stage*, I hang on to the email for a little while. then later, cleaning out my mailbox, I review it again, deciding if this is something I should make a note of. If so, I mark it some way. Another few days goes by and I'll get the pertinent information out of each of these marked emails and paste into this one big confusing file. I reread the file every week or two, grepping a little more each time. :) It works for me but might not for everyone else. Julie I've got this: /home/darklord/Documents/Linux Refs/ where every e-mail that has been valuable to me gets stored. Yes Julie, it does work. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 Sunday 27 February 2005 06:50 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: 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 Right. spamd is running here. Spamassassin is a service. Again noting that I'm not running postfix, but using it via kmail, that when the filters are setup, if you call spamd instead of spamc, the load and e-mail times are relatively huge. I can't remember how this came up before (but it did), but the simple answer was never to call spamd but always use spamc. I know it made a heckuva difference here, in v9.2. Again, if this has nothing to do with the original post, I apologize - its just what works here. Everyone elses' mileage may vary. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 Vent
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:13 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No cooperation at all in this world of ours. For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The laptop is a toy. Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably due to the 256m memory in the laptop. more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is shared video memory so to get the install, when it askes hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) linux mem=240M (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M) I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. Lee Lee has the same laptop I do - I had to use a small patch to increase video memory from 1 meg (wow!) to my current 128 megs, under v9.2. (I've got 512 total though). Amazingly enough, you can't do it from BIOS. (Dell Inspiron 1100). -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. Unfortunately there is no entry for SpamAssassin. . Can anyone give an incantation to get it there (or even visible in Webmin)? The RPM is SpamAssassin-3.0.2-0.1010.lmdk.i586.rpm. Regards David The service is called 'spamd' I'll correct the document. derek 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. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Thursday 24 February 2005 05:16 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would be very interested to know if you get a response before your new membership expires. Care to place a small wager? Lee Hey Lee - haven't heard from you in a while! :-) Now - about that bet... I actually like low risk, high return bets so I guess I'll uhpass grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote: How about contacting the one person that can help? The webmaster of MandrakeClub. Thought about that. :-) Just thought I'd see if someone knew an easy way to do it from the website. Thanks Greg. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Club membership question?
Well guys, I don't understand something. I just rejoined the Club (I've been in it for a few years now off and on, mostly on) via their recent 25% off offer. I used that offer, paid by credit card (paypal), and just logged back on to see what was what. Only to find that my total remaining days = 171. Yep, 171. Can anyone tell me if the annual fee means something different than it used to? I always thought annual meant 1 year. :-) Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:59 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Er, well my bad. It says that I've got 171 days left, but I have alumni status? i thought alumni was a former club member who had let their subscription run out? Any info appreciated gang! Thanks. Er...slapping forehead never mind - I just checked the e-mails that I saved during the transaction. I didn't realize that they had changed my login/password. I'll go try that now. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:14 am, Gica Strimbu wrote: Does anybody know how to run a windows program in mandrake 9.2. Is an emulator or something for this ? I need to run a small program for decoding a tv card and i don't have a linux version. thanks You could try Wine or Transgamings' Cedega, although its mostly for games. It wouldn't be a DOS program would it, in disguise? If so, you might have to use a DOS emulator. There are several of those about as well. Dosbox is a pretty good one. There are more. Good luck. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, it gave me a whole new account, which is okay, but I'd really like to have my original one. I tried going into my info, but it won't let me change my nick there, so I went to mandrake expert. According to the blurb I can change it there. So I entered everything there, then next it said to click to merge the 2 accounts and apparently it did. Except my user name is HALL RONALD. Not DarkLord. Like its been for a few years now. Advice? Thanks guys. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
On Saturday 19 February 2005 07:30 pm, Paul wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 11:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote: MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html Didn't the US authorities do something because they cut out Netscape, and the European authorities because they cut out RealAudio? Some people never learn. I have to agree with you Paul - I think MS deserves so much more than the proverbial slap on the wrist. :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 Friday 18 February 2005 07:12 am, Lanman wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: 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 Rob; Thanks but that's not what I'm trying to solve. I've been using that particular fix for a while now. Your suggestion is designed to allow me to open my email client when I click on an email link in a webpage. What I'm trying to do is to open a web-link when it's included in an email. For instance, the link you provided above. When I click on it, Firefox should open and take me to the correct page. In fact, this DOES work, but in the process of opening Firefox, KDE launches Konqueror FIRST, (which shows the web-page link which I had previously clicked on), then it passes the link to Firefox, which also opens the link. The minor problem I'm having is that Konqueror stays open and I'm not so sure that it should be opening in the first place. That's what I'm trying to prevent, or as an alternative, I'd like to have Konqueror close itself after passing the hyperlink to Firefox. Hope that clears up the confusion and Thanks again for trying to help! Lanman, did you try looking at KDE, Components, File Associations and seeing what is listed there for Text, HTML? Another old trick I use sometimes: Right click, create a blank HTML file. Name it whatever you want, doesn't matter. Now, right click on that file, and pick Edit File Types. From that list, put whatever you want at the top - I usually delete the rest of the list if I think that I'm not going to be using any other app with this type of file. Under Embedding, I usually pick Show File In Separate Viewer as well. (this really brings up basically the same screen/settings, just from different approaches) HTHS! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm - Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: Misc New devfs device: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 Old device file: /dev/hdd4 Model: ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy Disk controller: - Mike Ok - now we are making progress. If you put ide-floppy in /etc/modprobe.preload, then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround, you could try doing this: mkdir /mnt/ZIP edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped here!) none /mnt/ZIP supermount dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change... Mikkel It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the correct one. Thanks for all you help. Mike This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it. Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so that the ZIP data partition becomes /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4. Did the disk you used have other files on it? Are you able to access files on other ZIP disks? If you boot without a disk in the drive, does it detect when you put in a disk? Does it detect when you change the ZIP disk? In any case, I would hold off on the Twiki entry for a while - it sounds like a bug report may be in order here. If the entry in /etc/fstab is being created for you, but is the wrong one, then that has to be fixed. One other small point - you do not have to reboot for changes in /etc/fstab to take affect. The file is read as needed. Hotplug adds entries on the fly when you plug in USB storage devices... Mikkel Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that 4 there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that 4 there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. No /dev/hdd would be the entire drive. /dev/hdd4 would be the 4th partition on it. But the 4th partition on the ZIP drive normally is the entire free space on the drive. It is a small difference, but it is an important one. I expected the same thing here. Are you running 10.1 Official with the latest updates? Does the system automaticly detect when you change cartridge in the drive? Or are you manually mounting/unmounting the drive? Mikkel Hi Mikkel. I know /dev/hdd is the entire drive, but every Mandrake release I've used, up to my current, v9.2, I've had to use /dev/hdb4 for my zip drive, or its not performed like it should. I always disable supermount or anything like it, then just have an icon on the desktop that I click to mount it and show the contents. I manually (right click, eject) to remove it. I've never had good luck with supermount, or the like except on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, where it has worked great. Here are some examples of the zip entries I've used in /etc/fstabs over time (Top entry is current, last entry is a stock, default install entry): /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/hdc4/mnt/zip vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto sync,nodev,user,noauto,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Hope this gives some ideas? See ya. -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 Off-topic
On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 Off-topic
On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) Beat ya to the punch ya redneck! Ha! Huh? I read my reply quite some time before I read this reply. Try harder. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to download all the files on a http address
On Friday 11 February 2005 08:49 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http address? For instance, consider the following address: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Can't remember the syntax Paul, but I believe that wget will do what you want. man wget maybe will show something? HTHs. -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 Off-topic
On Friday 11 February 2005 09:25 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 02:37, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) Beat ya to the punch ya redneck! Ha! Huh? I read my reply quite some time before I read this reply. Try harder. :-) Mine was written on THE 12TH, yers on the 11th...ha... Don't care when you wrote it there, sport...my reply beat yours to the mailing list and I read it quite some time before yours... Go be a good lad and take your medication now. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 Off-topic
On Saturday 12 February 2005 03:55 am, Hugh Dixon wrote: Beware anyone not called Stephen? H and paranoid, conspiracy theory types. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Flashplayer problem
On Monday 07 February 2005 07:03 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When trying to open shockwave flash apps, I can get the movie but no sound. The error says : There was an error loading the module Netscape plugin viewer. The diagnostics is: Library files for libnsplugin.la not found in paths ??? - I don't have Netscape installed, only Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror and Opera. Same problem. Furthermore, I can't find this libnsplugin.la with locate or rpm -q --whatprovides libnsplugin.la Ideas, anyone ? Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, here its in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ locate libnsplugin.la /usr/lib/libnsplugin.la It looks like kdebase-nsplugins-3.1.3-79.2.92mdk.rpm provides it here, under v9.2. If you're running 10.x, it might be slightly different. HTHs. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Flashplayer problem
On Monday 07 February 2005 08:19 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'll fiddle with it until I bork the box...;-) Kaj Haulrich. Box-borker...hmm, I think you've just coined a new, politically (in)correct label... grin Seriously, I hope you get it fixed soon. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site
On Friday 04 February 2005 01:23 pm, Lanman wrote: Personally, if I had to use the FUBAR howto, I'd rather just re-install. It's less painful and allows me to get rid of unwanted stuff in the process. Of course, I back up my important stuff everyday, just like everyone else on this list, right? *snicker* Of course. Didn't you read the requirements before joining these mailing lists? You have to swear that you will do daily backups before even being allowed to post here. Hehehehehe :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ 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 advice needed (1)
On Friday 04 February 2005 04:47 pm, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote: I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it. I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect. did you run (as root) updatedb ? yes, still no joy. Paul, do you use KDE? If so, use the GUI manager for urpmi, and *if* you can find the package in question listed, in either remove or install, look at the file listing in the right plane. You might be able to use that list, to go see if the files are actually there, and delete all of them, then start over trying to install it. Good luck. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site
On Thursday 03 February 2005 10:33 pm, Lanman wrote: Yo, Gang. I just found this site (in Canada of course! Grin!), which has some very nice howto's on configuring a variety of Mandrake services and applications. You might want to have a look. It seems to deal with Mandrake 10.0, but I suspect that many of the howto's will also work with 10.1. Hope it helps. http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/linuxhowtos.html Of course, if everyone already knew about it, then please disregard this email. Thats a pretty handy site Lanman, thanks! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site
On Friday 04 February 2005 12:32 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:33 pm, Lanman wrote: Yo, Gang. I just found this site (in Canada of course! Grin!), which has some very nice howto's on configuring a variety of Mandrake services and applications. You might want to have a look. It seems to deal with Mandrake 10.0, but I suspect that many of the howto's will also work with 10.1. Hope it helps. http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/linuxhowtos.html Of course, if everyone already knew about it, then please disregard this email. I can definatly use the FUBAR how to :-) Is that FUBAR as in Fscked Up Beyond Any Recovery Aron? grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:33 pm, Paul wrote: A lot has been said about urpmi already, these days, but still I dare ask: how do I update the urpmi database? Thanks, Paul If you have good reliable sources Paul, then usually: (as root) urpmi.update -a works fine here. HTHs. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:55 pm, Paul wrote: IP-forwarding the hard way, I guess ;-) Thanks for the help! Paul I like your indomnitable spirit though! :-) Seriously, find better mirrors, then try it again. Patience may be required. I've had this same problem, then a day later, the site would be back up and all would be fine. PS Did you go to plf and set your sources there? Those are usually good ones, and offer alternatives. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Hi Tom. Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent file) by really clueless Winblow$ users. Some are redirects to WaReZ sites. Some are malicious, not a worry for Linux, as they are targeted to fsck'up Win$ux boxes. I've got 800 megs of swap, and 25 gigs of HD space free on /home. I also had the upload rate limited to 6. Using these cautions, I haven't encountered too many bad torrents.. yet. But if seeds disappear, a bad torrent could still tryin keep messin with you. IMO, torrents are the least desirable way to get movies. Without the 'bad' problems, some are only an archive of corrupt .rars, with no par files for repair. Avoid 'cam' movies too. Many Windoze user torrents are erroneously encoded (aspect ratio), and you'll need to use mencoder to fix 'em. I agree here - 99% of cam movies suck royally. :-) So next time you try a torrent, monitor memory use (top), and monitor the d/l directory's partition for disk space (df) from early on. 'kdirstat' is also useful for this. Also check your ~/.xsession-errors file to make sure it's not inflating rapidly. I'll keep all these suggestions in mind, thanks much. Don't know though - after all this trouble I think I'll just buy the darned DVD. grin If you want further opinion, you'll need to send me the torrent file. Thats just it - I don't have it - I believe it was the odd file that reiserfsck kept deleting, when --rebuild-tree ran. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a guess : the message bad info on file + shorewall stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware, uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order to scare people off. On the other hand, it's unlikely they could come up with something able to run on Linux. I doubt that too... :-) Another guess : were you running out of space on the /home partition ? - Some movies consume more than 2-3 GB ? - Do you have partmon running. No - it was a roughly 800 meg file. I've got a 120 gigger, lots of space on home, and partmon -is- running. When I use bittorrent I always open ports 6xxx only. Never had a problem and I often leave it running for a considerable time after finishing the download. I don't know what happens if - let's say - you've only one peer and that one suddenly shuts down ? I'm not sure what happens then either. Did you get the problem fixed somehow ? Kaj Haulrich. I won't know I guess - until/if it happens again. (heavers forbid!). As far as recovery, yes, I was able to use CD1 to fake an update, deselect all packages, reformat /dev/hda8 (home) and reinstall from backup CD/DVD. I guess it could have been worse. Any crash you walk away fromright? :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:43 am, et wrote: /home or /tmp or where ever bt is storing the download until it writes to the completed file? As far as I know - it usually (but not always) creates (it asks) a folder on /home that it d/ls the file to. I've probably got 20 gigs free on /home, so really, I don't think thats it. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:34 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Any crash you walk away fromright? :-) Agreed. On the other hand, under those circumstances it should be doable to fix a corrupt partition by using reiserfsck. Dark Lady in the machine, perhaps ? - Anyway, I'm glad you got it fixed. Kaj Haulrich. And thats the 2 million dollare question! Why wouldn't reiserfsck fix it? What was the file that it (apparently) deleted everytime I ran it, and why would it lockup hard after 80% completion on --rebuild-tree everytime? When I first did the rescue attempt with CD1, it couldn't/wouldn't even mount /dev/hda8 after that little episode. (I guess because --rebuild-tree hadn't completed). -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Odd experience
As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error message. I had to kill it via controlaltesc. Nothing seemed to come of this for a few moments - then I started losing my system. I couldn't right-click on the desktop and get a popup menu, then icons wouldn't respond. Finally, the taskbar kinda faded out. I went for the KDE task manager to see if something was grabbing all my resources and kill it, but it wouldn't open up. Finally, I killed the x server with a control backspace. I was dropped to a prompt, instead of the graphical login I usually get. (this all happened pretty fast folks). I decided not to take any chances and reboot. I su'ed and 'shutdown -r now but it wouldn't go past the shutdown message. I let it set for about 10 minutes before trying to go to another console, but by this point - everything was locked up hard. So...I gritted my teeth and powered off. (I should mention that I tried the raising skinny elephants bit first). Starting backup, it goes fine until reiserfs starts complaining about not having shutdown correctly (expected), but where normally this is recovered and the boot process continues - it drops to a prompt, where you can login as root. So I did. Started doing the usual reiserfsck stuff, --check, --rebuild-tree and all that. Everything is fine until we get to /dev/hda8 (home). It gets to about 80% complete - then says there is a file that has to be deleted - it reports it does, but then locks up there every time. I tried about 3 times like this, reboots always gives the error that --rebuild-tree did not finish (duh). Anyways, so in a complete reversal of what usually happens, where you keep home and have to redo everything else, I had to do the upgrade, select no packages - and format hda8 (home). Odd. Fortunately, I do have recent backups so I didn't lose anything vital but I wold appreciate comments on what anyone thinks may have happened and why reiserfsck, which has been ultra-reliable here, couldn't handle whatever happened to my home directory. Thanks guys! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ? Kaj Haulrich. It does, doesn't it? The error message was something about time out, bad info on file or somesuch. It was Lokitorrent, and it was a movie. :-) Yes, I had done a service shorewall stop (I know, I should set it to open the individual ports). So the 6xxx ports should have been open. Besides, I've d'/led other bittorrent files this way, no problem. I still don't see what it did to my /home directory that the reiserfs couldn't handle. :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd experience
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:30 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: What I would have done is to boot with the installation CD and do a linux rescue - then run the reiserfsck all ReiserFS partitions. I experienced something similar a few months back on a workstation here - bootup reiserfsck choked and puked, whereas when I did it from the linux rescue the errors got fixed and all was well and good after that. IME, that is. Er, I did - forgot to mention that - it gave that same error after about 80% completion on --rebuild-tree. Same thing about deleting a file right before the lockup. One time it segfaulted though. I don't know. Gremlins, I guess! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] using k3b to append files to a cd -rw
Hi, I am pretty new to burning CDs. I was wondering if there is a way to use k3b (or some other tool) to append files to a cd-rw. I thought this would be easy, but if I drag and drop a new file onto a cd-rw it wants to erase the disk first. Any suggestions? Thanks, R Haynes Dr. Ronald Haynes Mathematics and Statistics Acadia University HSB 153
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: No problem, I think it went to the list last time. However, if you get no video output at all, not even a bios listing on start up, then it has to be the card or a connection. Let us know how the windows boot disk goes. You know, I'd reseat the card for sure, and check the cable (again) if I was getting no video at all. I had this problem with my sons comp once. The Nvidia video card, for all intents and purposes, looked like it was solidly seated but a component on the card itself was hitting a capacitor (or somesuch) on the MB, not letting it seat fully. I just had to 'angle' the card slightly and it went on in, just a hairs difference - but enough. Also, before I found the problem, the MB Bios gave a beep that it normally didn't. Just a random thought. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firewall
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:34 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:03:10 -0800, John wrote: I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly when he knows you use Mandrake. Oh well, perhaps it's just me :) You just have that effect on people YOU ASSHOLE! ;-) Miark I'm subscribed to the Shorewall list and found Tom E. to be very helpful. He helped me, even though he knew I was using Mandrake. He did make the comment that Mandrake did a few things in a non-standard way. He is very direct, but he didn't insult me. As with so many things Linux, he does expect a person to read all the FAQs and docs, *before* posting a question. Just my experience. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities ;-) Anne Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws? big grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MPAA goes after BitTorrent
On Thursday 16 December 2004 04:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It was bound to happen, as it's being used for film and music sharing as well as legitimate uses. I can't see it succeeding in Europe, as it is just the agent, and it is the use that can be illegal. It would be like suing the Post Office for carrying messages posted by criminals. In USA, of course, common sense does not prevail. Sorry if that offends anyone, but I think that most who have been following events re patents etc will agree. Anne I'm not offended Anne, its true. The patent situation here in the US is a mess. :-( -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How is doing this? Firefox won't be default browser
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:25 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, This is really got me into my nerve. I've made Firefox 1.0 as my default browser using KDE menu File Association txt html, and use %U in the application command so that it can open url correctly from Kmail. But, every time I run Firefox, it always asks whether it wanted to be default browser, I answer Yes everytime. The problem occurs when somehow I open Konqueror to browse local file, etc... This WILL BROKE the %U option, thus Firefox won't open url from Kmail correctly. Can I make the %U permanent? Does KDE refuse to let us kill it's konqueror as default browser? Thanks. You know, this sounds awfully familiar. It seems like I had that same problem with Mozilla under v9.2 of Mandrake here once. If I remember correctly, there was a .netscape directory that I deleted, and I'm not sure if I deleted the hidden folder for Mozilla or not, then restarted it. You could move .mozilla (or whatever firefox is using) to a safe backup, then try it. This of course, was all in my normal users home directory. HTHs. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
My 13 year old son was playing Doom3 the other day when he came rushing in and said that he smelled something burning (electrical). Now, he thinks the game is very realistic but he knows that it doesn't include smell so he attempted to shutdown but his system locked up (hard) before he could. After I got in the room and did a complete power off/restart, it would boot back up to a KDE desktop, then moments later, lockup, or spontaneously shutdown/reboot. All with burnt electrical smell. Then, after a short while, it got to where it would turn on, but we couldn't even get to BIOS. Now, this sounds like the power supply is going/gone bad, doesn't it? I've had it happen before, and his case-P/S combo is about 2-3 years old now, generic 250w, that gets heavy gaming use. So it seemed to fit. I had a spare P/S, so I replaced it yesterday and tried to boot up. Nada. Same symptoms. Now I was puzzled. Surely the CPU hasn't fried?-I thought. Well, I happened (thank goodness for spare parts from past upgrades!) to have a lesser CPU, so I pulled the suspect CPU and put this one in. Same thing. Same symptoms. Now I was getting worried. I'm thinking something on the MB (Soyo) had died and fried. Before I did anything about that though, I did go back and check all connections, just in case. I pulled his Nvidia Geforce 4 4200 video card and reseated it. I put a different monitor on his setup, just in case it was something like that. Well, to make this long story short, I finally stuck his old video card (a Geforce 2) in there, and it took right off. I put the 4200 back in there, bang-no boot. I examined the fan on the card, blew dust out of it, cleaned the AGP slot connectors, reinstalled it, and let it sit there. There is a small black chip in the upper right hand corner of the card that gets so hot that I can't keep my fingers on it. Its this way just moments after power hits it. First time for me, a video card burning out. :-( Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. Thanks. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:49 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I would however have a serious look at the power supply to make sure it is not the cause. Regards, Dan Gordon Well, I replaced the P/S. That was my very first thought as well. It didn't make any difference as to the symptoms. Only replacing the video card returned it to a usable system. As I said, its the very first time I've had a video card fail. It just doesn't seem to happen. Can I blame it on Doom3, since he was playing it when it happened? :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:45 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I'm sure if you return it to the store it was purchased from they will replace it. As far as I know this is very uncommon. Regards, Dan Gordon Have to check my box of receipts but I'm pretty sure its out of warranty, and it came from Tiger-Direct. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:42 am, Dan Gordon wrote: I would still try and return the card you never know. I've got the receipt/manuals, so I'm gonna give it a shot. Ya never know, I might get lucky. Can I blame it on Doom3, since he was playing it when it happened? :-) Yeah doom3 most defiantly can burn stuff out, umm especially the mind. Keep an eye on him :-) Regards, Dan Gordon lol yeah, 13 years old - I keep a pretty close eye on him anyways. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 03:04 pm, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:46:25 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean package xmms-diskwriter? In Mandrake 10.1 it is in the main Mandrake package repository. You just have to install it. Unfortunately i use 9.1 but I guess I can find it on rpmfind /Anders Anders, if you have your sources setup then: urpmi xmms-diskwriter should do it. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ 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 Tuesday 23 November 2004 12:50 am, [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... thanks... tats of philippines Have you tried Mplayer or Kaffeine? I have had better luck with these 2 than using Totem. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Xdesktopwaves...
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124346 If you've not seen this yet, give it a glance. Its pure eye candy but pleasing, none-the-less... :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:52 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the new drivers or should the old one work? At a loss and any help is appreciated. I am not finding anything on wiki or forums about this so it must be me. : ( Dennis, you're using 10.x right? Did you remember to change mod.preload (I hope I got that right, I'm still using v9.2). Here, under 9.2, the latest Nvidia drivers (6629) work great. I get the warning about RIVA support being on in the kernel but other than that, it works fine. It even gave me a few more FPS in DOOM3, and better stability. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Which distro do you use? (humor)
:-) http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/137 -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Inet6 address
Hi Peter
Peter Watson wrote:
The NIC in my MDK 10 box has an IP address of 10.0.0.1 which I set myself
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
However ifconfig shows that eth0 also has an inet6 address of
fe80::205:5dff:fe74:e3d3/64. lo also has an inet6 address of ::1/128.
None of the other boxes on my lan, Win 98, XP-Pro and Peanut Linux have an
inet6 address. The question is where did these inet6 addresses come from in
Mandrake.
The addresses are automatically generated by IPv6 enabled machines/NICs.
For more information, check out the IPv6 HOWTO to further understand how
IPv6 works.
Ronald.
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Re: [newbie] urpmi's md5sums
Hi,
Thereidos wrote:
Sorry to bug ya 'bout this but how can I add pgp signature to urpmi
without adding whole hdlist.cz via urpmi.addmedia?
I want to add http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/CAE.asc so that rpms I've
downloaded manually from Charles' page wouldn't show up wrong signatures
when installing.
I believe I've seen the command to do so somewhere on web but I cannot
find it.
How about just:
rpm --import file.asc
Ronald.
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Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Monday 11 October 2004 07:26 am, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm roflol! So what other list are you posting such drivel to? (and by a man who was on Saddams payroll, no less!) Good call there, PM. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Monday 11 October 2004 01:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:38, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 11 October 2004 07:26 am, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm roflol! So what other list are you posting such drivel to? (and by a man who was on Saddams payroll, no less!) Good call there, PM. :-) It was accidentally posted to the Newbie list. I'm re-directing this to the OT list. To be totally honest, I never noticed what list PM accidentally posted it to first. If I had noticed that it was the Newbie list, I would have redirected it then. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting wlan0 connection timeout
On Friday 08 October 2004 05:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I have wired and wireless PCMCIA cards in my laptop. At home I connect wireless, at work, I am wired. The wired interface, eth0, fails almost instantly on boot at home - good. At work the wireless interface, wlan0, takes a couple of minutes to fail - bad. Is there anything that I can do to make the wireless interface fail more quickly? Thanks, Brandon (currently wired at work:) Brandon, put this in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 DHCP_TIMEOUT=5 This of course, assumes that you are using DHCP. You can play with the value (5) to get the best performance. HTHs. :-) PS If nothing else, compare what is in ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-wlan0. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to Capture Text Mode Output?
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 08:01 am, David B. Carter wrote: I don't know if my subject line made any sense, but what I'm trying to do is this: I recently switched from booting in runlevel 5 to runlevel 3. I'm using Xtart to give me a choice of window managers. Since I started doing that, I am noticing several errors and warnings fly by in text mode before the screen switches into graphics mode and launches my window manager of choice. When I log out of my window manager session, some of the info (plus additional output generated during my session) is visible on the screen, but much of it has already scrolled off the top. I want to know how I can capture all that info so that I can look at it after my session is over. I tried using the pause key to pause before the screen switches to graphics mode, but no dice. So, is there a way that I can either page up and see the text mode output that has already scrolled up or redirect the output to a file or something like that? Thanks. Open up a terminal, then type: dmesg dmesg_output.txt (or whatever name you want to give it) It *should* include all you need to see. Putting it in a text file gives you a record. Also, you should run dmesg as soon as you finish booting up, so that nothing gets overwritten later. HTHs. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Doom 3 for Linux is out!
Thats right, the binary for Linux/Doom 3 has been released by ID Software. The Linux Games Tomb and Linux Games web sites are reporting it. Hurrah! (now if I could just get in to IDs ftp site!!!) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thats a relief!
The US Patent office has *rejected* all claims by Microsoft to the FAT filesystem. :-) http://linuxtoday.com/news/2004093003026NWLL -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors
On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:14 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:20:35 -0400 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: Don't forget what I said about running a cron job to take care of your .xsession-errors file getting too big. Isn't that the purpose of 'logrotate'? Not to be picky or anything ;-) No problem Joe - I didn't know if he had logrotate setup or not. I probably should have mentioned it to him. Thanks. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...
On Saturday 25 September 2004 11:29 am, John Wilson wrote: Out of nothing, at this point and keeping fingers crossed, did you check to see if the phantom MAC address on your son's card was duplicated in one of the other cards on your LAN? snip Thanks for the reply, John. Actually, I did - I checked each with ifconfig and I also logged into my Dlink router to see what was registering there - thats how I found that his had a different MAC address than it did before. I still don't know what happened but it could be easily something similar to what you said. After all, this is an adventuresome (read click-happy) 13 year old. grin Anyways, I'll watch it for awhile and if it does it again I'm replacing it. (about $10 for a Linksys at the local Wal-mart). -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors
On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:54 pm, Chris wrote: This file is bugging me! I have yet to figure out anything its telling me and it seems to grow some every 10minutes or so. I've checked the archives and there is one entry on it but it really doesn't explain anything at all. Is it something to be concerned about, or should I just ignore it and carry on? Any help would be appreciated I wouldn't worry about it unless its referencing some specific problem. You're not having problems with X are you? Anyways, AFAIK, everytime you reboot or power down/up, that file starts fresh so it won't keep growing (unless you keep you system on for 365 days a year). :-) PS and if thats the case, make a small cron job to rm and recreate it every so often. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors
On Saturday 25 September 2004 05:23 pm, Chris wrote: Not that I know of, although when trying to look at the 16mb+ .xsession-errors file last night Konqueror locked up the system, of course that was probably because I was reading the file at the same time it was probably being written to. Thats huge for that file - you must have up for a long time. :-) So, when I notice its getting too large, I can just delete it and then create .xsession-errors manually? I am confused about the errors below though, I checked the archives and couldn't gleam much information from either them or google/linux. I also have these BadAtom errors, any idea what those are? The only thing in /etc/security/fileshare.conf is RESTRICT=yes Yes, you should be able to rm .xsession-errors and then touch .xsession-errors without any problems, AFAIK. KDirWatch: /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file. Use addFile! Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy I get that first line occasionally in my .xsession-errors file but it doesn't really seem to affect anything. I also get the 2nd line - usually right after I run Kwrite, as su, from a shell/terminal. Again, doesn't seem to really affect anything. Don't forget what I said about running a cron job to take care of your .xsession-errors file getting too big. HTHs. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Odd Internet problem...
Okay, all of a sudden my 13 year olds comp refuses to get on the Internet. This is a system loaded with v9.2 (download editon) of Mandrake. I've got cablemodem service, with a DLink router. I've always used static ip addresses and MAC addresses assigned to each comp on the Lan. My 13 year olds is: darkforce2.ky.org 192.168.0.101 When he boots up, he can ping himself, or any other comp on the LAN. When I run ifconfig as root, it shows his ip address above, and it looks just the output from ifconfig on the other comps on the LAN (noting of course, the diff. mac and ip addressess). This was a reliably working setup, for over a year now and I can't for the life of me figure out what changed. He swears that he didn't touch or change anything. I looked at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and it looks like its supposed to, identical to the other comps on the LAN, noting the diff. in ip addressess again. Okay, after further scouting around we did notice something really odd. The hardware address for his NIC is now different than it was before. Why would this change? I tried going into the config page for my router and changing it to the new hardware address then restarting everything but it made no difference. Any ideas anyone? Any directions or leads? Thanks, a very confused - -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:57 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: ...and I'm sure you checked the GATEWAY= bit, too, yeah? ...and the /etc/resolv.conf ? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Hey Stephen. Thanks for the reply. Yep, sure did - all appears to be normal. Its very odd, this. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...
On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:12 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: Yep, sure did - all appears to be normal. Its very odd, this. Ethernet card is bad. -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Thought about that possibility - that would explain the hardware (MAC) address changing on its own maybe? Thanks. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...
On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Does he have onboard 10/100 and is it a Broadcomm chip? Seems I remember reading that the mac addresses for onboard stuff could be changed...somewhere. I thought it interesting at the time but right now I can't remember exactly what the context was. Nope, its an actual NIC, a Linksys, which is what I've got in all 3 comps on my LAN - they've been rock solid until now, but they are anywhere from 3 - 5 years old. Yes. There is a command to change how the actual hardware address of the NIC is reflected (this is with the IPX tools installed: ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 0x12345678 Quite some time since I used it - it was primarily in conjunction with trying to get an earlier version of Starcraft to work with networking. Thankfully, the later updates to Starcraft allowed networking, and not having to use IPX as the protocol. Check the route via the route command and make sure he has the right gateway. Don't depend on the config files, use route and see what's there from the command line. LX He's in bed asleep now - I'll try it first thing in the morning. Thanks! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ 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 - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Thursday 16 September 2004 12:02 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hey,hey,hey, I have one of those PB's sitting in the corner and it is not mickey mouse. It's .bita bang.. Tinkerbell hardware. The case is tough though.: ) Bet my Atari Falcons (circa 1992) rack mount case is tougher! (18 lbs *before* anything is added inside). :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:27 pm, David Trethewey wrote: Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what is configured wrongly? David David, what error message does it give when you type in startx? -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
