Re: [newbie] S3 Savage 2000 and XFree86 4.2.1 problems
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:49:15 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, shipahoy, what version of Savage do you have? I have the Savage 2000 w/ 64 MB RAM. When I used the 1.1.25t driver, my screen colors looked like someone took a garden rake to them and Xine takes a dump a moment after starting up. I ended up copying back the original savage_drv.o file and now the quality is back, but I still can't get Xine to stay open now. sigh I done broke it, I think. Any ideas how to bring life back to Xine? It played my DVDs the best of the bunch. Sorry for the delay in replying. I have the savage4. From reading the probo.com site again it seems that some things on the Savage 2000 are still broken. I suppose eventually it will get sorted out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kdm problem
Hi I did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.2, but without installing KDE2. I then installed KDE3. This went well, and KDE3 is great. My problem is that now I can't get into KDE3 from kdm. It takes me to IceWM instead. Now, gdm does take me to KDE3, and Xstart gives me the option of 11KDE which also correctly takes me into KDE3. So I think I've screwed up a config file for kdm somewhere. I twigged the /etc/X11/prefdm file by adding the path to /opt/kde3 which loads kdm. The problem is that kdm has an entry for KDE which points to IceWM. Question: How do I setup kdm as default chooser for window managers? And how do I get it to point correctly to KDE3? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:48:47 -0500 sda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/index.html I don't think it's intended to be anything but well, Scribus. You're not kidding about being in the early stages - have you actually tried it? It's quite `rough', and if it's trying to emulate PageMangler than that's just too bad. PageMaker is not a bonafide publishing app, and is targeted towards more of the office secretary market. Adobe has InDesign as their flagship layout app - not bad, v2 is quite elegant and intuitive, especially if one is used to Illustrator. I like it, but then I like Illustrator. I don't think Scribus is going anywhere in the next five years, if I remember correctly there's only one guy working on it. I gave it a workout a couple months ago - terrible, I'd rather use TeX. ;) I did try it briefly. I tried to import a text file and it hung. It might one day be quite useful for small businesses and home users who only need basic features. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:00:37 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, anyone here used TeXmacs? It claims to be much better than LyX and totally WYSIWYG (if recent /. posts are anything to go by) but I'm skeptical. TeXmacs is very, very impressive, but it is aimed squarely at the hard-core maths and science folks. Its similar to LyX in having classes such as book, article, letter etc,. and it does itemise, enumerate, description, tables etc just like LyX but without the easy to use pull-down menu. One thing that does stand out, compared with other Linux apps and especially LyX, is the interesting way it handles fonts. I haven't tried to use it to write a large text document, and from what I have seen, it would not be as easy to do it in TeXmacs as in LyX. Still, its one to keep an eye on, even if you are not a mathematician. Definitely give it a try. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:48:02 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think Adobe (or any software house) will ever be convinced they can make $ out of Linux (hardware firms have woken up to the potential, but that's a qualitativey different situation). However, we will probably see Linux apps which can produce Quark or FrameMaker-compatible documents soon -- after all, KWord is modelled on FrameMaker, I think (possibly one reason why I'm not terribly keen on it - I just can't think in terms of frames). Robin Scribus is intended to be the Linux equivalent of Adobe PageMaker, Quark or Adobe Indesign. It looks promising, is progressing nicely by the looks of it, but is still in the very early stages of development.. http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/index.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Major Display Bug
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:29:18 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get the driver for the ProSavage. It is not fully supported by XFree. In 8.1 it would not work at ALL on a number of boards. Civileme Presumably this is the latest 1.1.23t savage_drv.o from probo.com as recommended by Via. If it is it has no effect on the problem in my system. According to a German Linux site: http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=3243 The problem is with PCI latency. Google translation of one post: I the problem meanwhile located. It lies indeed to the PCI Latency. I do not have yet the exact evil author, but if one exchanges the Kernelfiles pci irq.c and pci pc.c with the older files from 2.4.15/16 - and naturally again compiled -, disappears strip/runs it. I did not notice any instabilities or losses yet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:31:36 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, LyX is a bit of a brainteaser at first, because it's so different. However, for most purposes you only really need to learn a small subset of what is possible with the program (actually, the same goes for something like Word - if I had the time to learn all the features in Word 2000, I'd spend it learning C++). I have a very basic guide at http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/lyxguide.pdf Nice tutorial. Of course, another reason to use LyX over proprietary applications is that the data is not locked away in a file format that might be unrecoverable, or only recoverable with great difficulty, within a few years. That will probably be the case with WordPerfect files one day. But LyX files are human readable in any plain text editor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Major Display Bug
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:23:58 - Andy Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have exactly the same issue, Posted this on the forum earlier this week. http://mandrakeforum.com/comments.php?lang=ensid=2006pid=28120#28134 New comment for Mandrake Linux 8.2: Your first impressions story Re: Mandrake Linux 8.2: Your first impressions ,by Andy70 First system is; Athlon 2100XP MSI 6340 ver 5 KM133 (BIOS = 6.1) Micron 133B1 PC 133 memory Seagate ST 320414A Toshiba SD-R1102 DVD/CD-RW Intel Pro/100 NIC. 32 MB Frame Buffer 32 MB AGP Aperture XFree = 4.2.0 Second System Athlon 1900XP MSI 6340 ver 5 KM133 (BIOS = 6.1) Micron 133B1 PC 133 memory (also tried Samsung memory but don''t have the model to hand) Seagate ST 320414A (different drive from the first) Samsung SD308 Combo drive Intel Pro/100 NIC. 8 MB Frame Buffer 32 MB AGP Aperture XFree = 4.2.0 Standard install on both, as I said you can see the problem almost from the begging of the install. The corruption is horizontal lines moving randomly across the screen that seem to show a distorted image of the current displayed screen. The weird thing is it only occurs if there is drive access. After the install finishes and you sit at the login screen everything looks OK. Until you login and the drive starts to access again. I thought it may be over aggressive BIOS timings, but there set to normal. I'll have a further tweak tomorrow to see if I can sort it. --- - I haven't had chance yet to try a graphics card in them yet, hopefully tomorrow. As for BIOS timings, I reduced everything to minimum and the issue remains. I installed kernel 2.4.8-34mdk under Mandrake 8.2 and the problem does not occur under that kernel., so there must be something in kernel-2.4.18 that is causing this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:03:32 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did my MA dissertation on Word and spent so long setting up styles to do what I wanted, it would have been quicker to have formatted everything by hand (and this was something very, very simple - I just wanted decimal numbered subheadings, blockquotes etc. of the normal type you'd find in the LaTeX article class). After numerous misnumberings and other glitches, I finally got it working long enough to get a printout. Oh well, I thought, it was probably worth the effort, since I can use the same styles in other papers. Then I came back after the summer break, and all my styles were gone. I did my Ph.D dissertation in WordPerfect for Windows. I don't know how many months I wasted in trying to get it to behave properly. It would suddenly decide to screw-up my page numbering, or much worse, decide to reorganise all my footnotes. It would take hours to sort out the mess, and then it would do it again. Word processors like WP and Word are great for short business letters, but they are not designed for writing very large, complex, multi-chapter documents with equations and footnotes. I wish I had known about LyX and LaTeX at the time. It would have saved me a lot of time and trouble. Advanced use of LyX is a steep learning curve, but its the most productive platform there is for writing large, complex documents. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 Major Display Bug
Hi I installed Mandrake 8.2 in a fresh partition and am getting streaky, flickering lines across the screen. It worsens with heavy hard drive or user activity. This started during installation and continues after installation. I have tried various screen resolutions and colour depth settings, tried noframebuffers, and 3.3.6 XFree, but the same thing happens. I think this is the 2.4.18 kernel having a problem with my KM133 based mainboard. Duron 800 My mainboard is: Soltek SL-75MAV with KM133a chipset and Savage4 onboard graphics. I am using exactly the same hardware and settings I have for Mandrake 8.1 which still works flawlessly on this hardware setup. Any suggestions as to how to solve this problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] boot disk doesn't work
Hi My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one made on installation and any I make from Mandrake Control Centre. Trying to boot with them gives this error on boot: Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img The boot disk for my Redhat 7.1 partition works fine. I have AMD Duron 800 Soltek SL-75MAV mobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gnomeppp pppd daemon dies
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:31:52 -0500 Can some Gnome guru out there (I know you're on this list) PLEASE tell be what I have misconfigured, and why it's only a misconfiguration with Gnome ppp. lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: connection. I basically gave up on it and made kppp work..if ya get gnome ppp to work I'd love to know how you did it :-) Lee I'd really like to know this too. Fed up with trying to get gnomeppp to work, I installed the RedHat rp3 dialer which works flawlessly in Redhat, but I can't figure out the permissions to get it work in Mandrake. I can get it to run, minus the full applet functions, as root, but not as normal user. I've searched and searched for an answer, but to no avail. If anyone knows Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:14:52 -0600 Gary Traffanstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for user experiences with Evolution. I'm wanting to switch to it from Kmail only because I like the way it does spell check. I've been using KMail since I first started using Linux and so I know that KMail is quite dependable. Is there anything I should know about Evolution before making the switch? Should I not make the switch and if so, why? Etc., etc., etc. Any input would be most appreciated! I've tried the latest version 0.15 off cooker. I liked the look of the address book which I thought might serve my purposes rather well for listing detailed business addresses. I spent an hour or so carefully filling in addresses, went to create a new category and the machine froze solid putting an end to that experiment. I won't trust it with my data anymore. Evolution is not quite ready for mission critical functions yet. Its also a bit Redmondian for my taste, and I can't figure out how to do *proper* rather than US English in the spell check which makes it less than useless for my purposes. I'll stick with Sylpheed which is in rapid development and coming along very nicely. It handles huge folders (20megs or more) and mailing lists better than any mail client I've ever used. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] port 6000
Hi I did a netstat and noticed that my machine is listening on port 6000. I think this is something to do with the Xserver, and it probably isn't necessary for it to be listening on a single user machine. Any idea how to turn this service off? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] libpng3 incompatibility
Hi I updated to libpng3 as a requirement for mozilla 0.9.5, but now abiword 0.9.4.1-1mdk fails because it wants libpng2. I get this error when running abiword from console: libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.12 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.2.0 libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in application and library ** ERROR **: No such image: scroller-h-trough.png aborting... /usr//bin/abiword: line 68: 2128 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d $@ Is there anyway around this, such as a way to run both libpng libraries, or do I have to stop using abiword until it is recompiled with libpng3? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] libpng3 incompatibility
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:07:10 -0500 Texstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmmm, when I installed the libpng3 rpm it left the libpng2 and libpng2-devel rpm installed on my computer. I haven't tried abiword 9.4.1-1 so I'll check into it. libpng.so.2 is still installed on my system. Running rpm -q --whatrequires libpng.so.2 shows a huge list of apps which are not misbehaving, which suggests that the problem is with abiword-0.9.4.1-1mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus
Hi I did a reinstall of mandrake 8.1 and have lost a setting somewhere. When I used to run Gmome apps like Pan and Sylpheed in KDE the window focus would follow the mouse, now I have to click in a frame to focus it. For example, in Sylpheed if the mouse is in the message view frame, and I scroll the mouse to view the message, the thread frame or folder frame scrolls instead until I click in the message view frame to focus it. Its very annoying. I didn't used to do this. I use KDE not Gnome, and I've tried every setting I think of in Gnome Control Centre to put it to rights, but nothing works. How do I get my scroll mouse to behave properly in Gnome apps? There must be a setting in Gnome that will do this, but I'm damned if I can find it. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome apps mouse focus
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:57:19 +0200 H McM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove a package called imwheel. That worked. Thanks. It makes you wonder why imwheel is there in the first place. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.1 install problem
Yep, i hink you are right, it's a kernel, becouse, when i tried the MDK 8.1 Beta 1 , the 3dfx of mine worked perfect, and it was a different kernel (i think)... Its XFree 4.10. I installed a barebones Mandrake 8.0 and upgraded to 8.1 but kept XFree 4.03. The 2.4.8 kernel accepted the KM133 chipset/graphics fine. The problem is I can''t do a lot because there are a lot of packages that are dependent on Xfree 4.1 such as Drafconf, so I can''t configure my mouse or do anything with fonts. Mandrake 8.1 is not a lot of use to me in this state. Is there any way to get XFree86 4.1 to like a KM133A chipset with integrated onboard S3 SavagePro graphics? -- shipahoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
