[newbie] test
This is just a test to see if I can receive mail -- Chad Young (a.k.a Skidley) Registered Linux User 195191 01:01:00 up 6:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Linux 2.6.5-1.tmb.1mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 04:47:40PM -0600, Chris wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 10:24 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:08, bascule wrote: try using echo -e and using \\n to represent a newline, thus: #bin bash echo -e Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN \\n echo -e Registered Linux User #346519 \\n echo -e `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel `uname -r` \\n echo `uptime` Now /that/ looks familiar; similar to the way my random sig quotes file needed to be formatted for Pegasus, back in my Windows days. Will have to try that, as well. Thx. If I read the thread correctly you want to have a sig similiar to mine? If so, why not use a little perl script called makesig.pl If you want it I'll send it over or just google/linux for it. I am interested in makesig.pl so I grabbed the rpm and installed it. I just type makesig.pl at the command line and it just hangs there doing nothing it seems. There's not much documentation on how to use it.How does it work? -- Chad Y. (aka skidley) Registered Linux User #195191 Linux 2.6.3-7mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, RCN Mail wrote: I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place would be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be greatly appreciated. 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? [~40] 2. What is your age? [29] today actually! :) 3. Sex? M/F [M] 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? [dialup 56k] 5. How many computers do you own? [2] This is for a Elementary Statistics course for a project I am doing. It's a wintersession course and I need to collect this information ASAP. I need a total of 50 people to respond. Thanks again if you decide to answer these questions. -- . --- .. |o_o | /_ 0 | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird \_| // \ \ Use Linux / \ (| | ) | ) | | | /'\_ _/`\ | ) | | | \___)=(___/ |_) (_) | Chad Young \__/ Registered Linux User #195191 (___| @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.18pre1 #2 Fri Dec 28 14:41:58 AST 2001 i686 unknown 7:55pm up 50 min, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.12 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 03 January 2002 22:30, you wrote: skidley wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, RCN Mail wrote: I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place would be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be greatly appreciated. 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? [~40] [15 -20] 2. What is your age? [29] today actually! :) [83] 3. Sex? M/F [M] [M] 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? [dialup 56k [dialup 56K] 5. How many computers do you own? [2] [1] Happy Birthday, mine was yesterday, well actually alot of yesterdays ago. : ) Thanks Dennis :-) You're 83 and a linux user, That's great! We have a fairly wide age range here on the list but can't not many teens, strange but maybe good :P -- . --- .. |o_o | /_ 0 | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird \_| // \ \ Use Linux / \ (| | ) | ) | | | /'\_ _/`\ | ) | | | \___)=(___/ |_) (_) | Chad Young \__/ Registered Linux User #195191 (___| @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.18pre1 #2 Fri Dec 28 14:41:58 AST 2001 i686 unknown 1:20am up 6:15, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar error?
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Jon Doe wrote: I have this in a script: OF=/home/jon/backup-$(date +%m%d%Y).tar.gz tar -cZf $OF /home/jon/backups and when I run it, it works but I get this: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? If I am reading what you have there correctly I think you may need th -C option because your are tarring it to a /home/jon/backups( a different dir than /home/jon/. If I am not understanding what u are doing correctly disregard this :) -- . --- .. |o_o | /_ 0 | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird \_| // \ \ Use Linux / \ (| | ) | ) | | | /'\_ _/`\ | ) | | | \___)=(___/ |_) (_) | Chad Young \__/ Registered Linux User #195191 (___| @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.18pre1 #2 Fri Dec 28 14:41:58 AST 2001 i686 unknown 1:35am up 6:30, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, poogle wrote: I may be completely off base here but I'll try anyway, I have an Olympus USB camera which uses Smartmedia cards but is not recognised by any of the photo packages. Thanks to Ric Tibbets I am able to download from it by doing the following:- modprobe usb-storage mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/cam (where /mnt/cam is the mountpoint I created) Checking Hardrake it shows my camera as a disk called /dev/sda, note it does not show it as /dev/sda1 which it is but then HDs are shown as /dev/hda /dev/hdb, again no drive number. It may be that you need to modprobe usb-storage and then mount it as /dev/sda1 BTW, I don't know anything about saving to such a device. A drive doesn't have a number, partitions have numbers. -- . --- .. |o_o | /_ 0 | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird \_| // \ \ Use Linux / \ (| | ) | ) | | | /'\_ _/`\ | ) | | | \___)=(___/ |_) (_) | Chad Young \__/ Registered Linux User #195191 (___| @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.5.2-pre5 #1 Mon Dec 31 01:36:55 AST 2001 i686 unknown 3:30pm up 53 min, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Change Time
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Ed Kasky wrote: But does it work??? ;-) I forgot to mention before to look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm for an explanation of how the time server strata works and for any special requirements when using any of the public time servers. Ed At 03:21 PM Friday, 12/28/2001, you wrote -= On Friday 28 December 2001 11:01, you wrote: If you are connected to the internet all the time you can add a cron for rdate - I have found ntpdate(from the ntp pkg) more useful than rdate. When I searched for servers supporting the RFC 868 protocol it seems alot are not supporting RFC 868 anymore but are using Network Time Protocol. -- . --- .. |o_o | /_ 0 | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird \_| // \ \ Use Linux / \ (| | ) | ) | | | /'\_ _/`\ | ) | | | \___)=(___/ |_) (_) | Chad Young \__/ Registered Linux User #195191 (___| @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.18pre1 #2 Fri Dec 28 14:41:58 AST 2001 i686 unknown 3:20pm up 35 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.04, 0.02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jesse Angell wrote: i personally think that x windows is a complete ram hog.. As a 166mhz 32ram cannot run it... That's strange I have X on a 486SX/20, 16MB RAM with slackware 3.4 and it works. It is slow but it works :P -- . --- .. |o_o | /_ 0 | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird \_| // \ \ Use Linux / \ (| | ) | ) | | | /'\_ _/`\ | ) | | | \___)=(___/ |_) (_) | Chad Young \__/ Registered Linux User #195191 (___| @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.18pre1 #1 Wed Dec 26 22:44:12 AST 2001 i686 unknown 1:25pm up 25 min, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.17, 0.21 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or On?
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: LM8.1 supports PNP, 8.0 did not. While turning PNP off is a good suggestion if you are having difficulties, you should not resort to this until a problem arises. Leaving PNP on helps in dual boot situations too. I use ReiserFS on ALL of my part ions except a small /boot partition to house the Kernel (32megs in size). ALL except the /boot folder/partition can be journalized. By creating a separate initial /boot partition all of the others work fine. I do not see fsck's anymore even if I've unplugged the system by mistake. However a UPS is still a good idea! -JMS hmmm thats strange I have a reiserfs /boot partition? why wouldn't /boot be able to be reiserfs? -- . --- .. |o_o | /_ 0 | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird \_| // \ \ Use Linux / \ (| | ) | ) | | | /'\_ _/`\ | ) | | | \___)=(___/ |_) (_) | Chad Young \__/ Registered Linux User #195191 (___| @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.17 #1 Fri Dec 21 17:44:05 AST 2001 i686 unknown 11:20pm up 5:15, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Wendy Nexcom wrote: # This is Linux. not windows. it will never be windows and I # seriously doubt it will ever do anything like windows. Some Right, but this OS should bring easy way. # any Linux system will Never do the .exe thingy and RPMS are forever. No problem if Linux still use RPMS, but should provide easy way to install. Why put long version number and processor type in the file name? I think better put it in the file itself. Example: when execute \mnt\cdrom\kde\install.exe the installation program will tell you what version and processor supported. About dependency problem while install RPMS, I think this problem should be not USER problem but the VENDOR problem. The Vendor of the program should provide 2 kind of file installation: 1. Complete. You will have no dependency problem because every file already provide. 2. RPMS for Expert. You should find the dependency file before run well. Just use windows for god's sake. If you want Linux to be like windows why the hell bother when you can just use windows. The day Linux ever has an install.exe I'll stop using it. And your litlle survey is a load of crap. Of course they will say Windows is easier as that's what they have trained on and always used. Very subjective and biased. These things you would like to see would make mandrake a 6 cd set rather than 3, hell 3 is alot but look at all the things you get. -- . --- .. |o_o | /_ 0 | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird \_| // \ \ Use Linux / \ (| | ) | ) | | | /'\_ _/`\ | ) | | | \___)=(___/ |_) (_) | Chad Young \__/ Registered Linux User #195191 (___| @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.17-rc2 #6 Tue Dec 18 22:12:59 AST 2001 i686 unknown 1:25pm up 27 min, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.06 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Newbie wrote: When is this damn useless compiler going to work? I have Mdk 8.1 and the default compiler is useless, 2.96 is a piece of trash, so I took it off and put on gcc3, again TRASH, so I try to put on 2.95 and all it can give me is the same bullshit over and over WHEN IS THIS STUPID ASS THING going to WORK?? I am very coselgjyuh to going back to readhat. fuc, the typos i'm pissed off I don't know wtf you are talking about I use 2.96 and have compiled many kernels, many applications from source (including the infamous mplayer that says 2.96 is crap, which is funny because mplayer compiled w/o a hitch and works fine) and have never had a problem whatsoever. So wtf gives you the right to blame mandrake. That's bullshit. Go back to RedHat, at least we won't have to hear your petty rantings and blaming mandrake. Then you can blame RedHat for your problems and since RH 7.x there has been many problems. Never jump to conclusions or blame the distribution. Just say a few curse words and move on. And by the way I have upgraded all of the stuff you listed with an rpm -Uvh of all the rpms needed at once. Maybe you need glasses or need to be tought how to use the man command. -- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird // \ \ Use Linux (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.17-rc1 #5 Thu Dec 13 18:25:16 AST 2001 i686 unknown 6:45pm up 3:38, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linmodems
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Franki wrote: in its simplist terms, a winmodem is a modem where half the hardware has been replaced by software.. so certain stuff that would normally be done by the modem itself is done by your PC's CPU via the driver software.. The problem is that not many winmodem manufactures make linux drivers or even supply the specs so that one may be written. makes it hard to get them working properly. a linmodem is generally one that either had linux drivers supplied for it, or someone has worked out how to write one for it themselves and have released it.. a winmodem is basically a soundcard -- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird // \ \ Use Linux (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.17-rc1 #5 Thu Dec 13 18:25:16 AST 2001 i686 unknown 2:00pm up 41 min, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what provides libjabber and libxcde?
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, dfox wrote: I am attempting to install 'everybuddy' and am receiving dependency conflicts. It said something about a missing libjabber and a missing libxcde. I found a jabber rpm and installed that, and resolved another dependency, but still can't find the right package that provides libjabber. I tried some RPM options, but that seems to require a file already present to query against - what to do if the file you need isn't present? Search for the exact libraries like libjabber.so.0.0.0, libxcde in your rpmdrake with search by file and search by description enabled. Or if you want the latest versions search rpmfind.net by just searching for the libraries. Both methods will give you the rpm you need. -- .-. .-. oo| Give Microsoft The Bird oo| /`'\ Use Linux!!!/`'\ (\_;/)(\_;/) - Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. --- Linus Torvalds Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows connection problem
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Matt Greer wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:58 pm, you wrote: When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0% dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and if this is the case, wich one? That's correct. Unix ping will ping forever unless you stop it. Hit CTRL-C to stop it, and it will then clean up the program for you. Windows ping will ping 3 times and then stop. You can do ping -c n where n is number of packets sent. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Monday 03 December 2001 12:54, tek1 wrote: how can you easily tell what version you are running? *running* is problematic, but this command will tell you what is *installed* rpm -q XFree86 XFfree86 -version will do it. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphical program to start at boot
On 29 Nov 2001, Paul RodrÃguez wrote: Hi, what's the best way to get a graphical program to start at boot as user? I'd like to do this via the command line. I know that adding the program to the last line of /etc/rc.local could do it, but as root. Thanks. -Paul RodrÃguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com So I would assume you boot into X. I don't do this and never have but I can start a program when X starts which it shouldn't matter if I startx or it starts at boot. I have an .xinitrc file in my home dir which I can add whatever I want to start, here's an example of mine: #!/bin/bash exec /usr/bin/mozilla exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver exec /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock exec /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox #exec gnome-session #exec enlightenment You can add exec whatever you want to run.The means to run in the background and it seems to be needed to run things because I guess w/o it it would only run that program and not continue on to any others listed in the .xinitrc. Another thing is that it seems the programs you want to run must come before the execution of your window manager, eg. i use blackbox as you can see and for mozilla to run it has to come b4 blackbox. Of course using an .xintrc would assume that it would be read by X when it starts. I'm not familiar with how X works from boot so I don't know but I would think that it should read it or maybe there's another file to add the apps to for starting at boot like a system wide xinitrc or .xauthority -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Newbie wrote: Ok, its stupid question time. Ok, I'm no expert, but I'm not a complete newbie, but I still don't know, should I force install GCC2.95 to end my GCC3 compiler troubles? Or am I skrude until the next mandrake release? I can't seem to backgrade to some compiler without the OS bean-hatching about dependencies. Thanks In mandrake you can have both installed. I would suggest the latest 2.96, it seems to work fine. In 8.1 the /usr/bin/gcc is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/gcc which is a symlink to /usr/bin/gcc-2.96 or /usr/bin/gcc-3.0. You can have both installed and just change the symlink etc/alternatives/gcc to whichever you want to use, even back and forth to each if you want. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer error
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 26 November 2001 09:28 pm, skidley wrote: Otherwise, entering any of these deps in rpmfinds search engine will give you BIG clues ; http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ Ok thanks I already had done what you said by the time I got your reply. I don't know why I even asked. All were on the cds except libpng3 I installed libpng3 and it seems fine. Its not an upgrade from libpng2 both are installed. 'seems fine' ...I don't think so you just haven't discovered all that you just broke ... yet ; http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker Ok but everything works fine. X and all the apps i use in X work. No errors in the logs regarding it. But I got rid of it anyway and the mplayer rpm. Will the mplayer rpm work without libpng3 it says it's needed but I could force it with --nodeps. I guess thats what you did right? -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install newbie
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, caspar kennerdale wrote: I just installed 8.1 on a linux partition (my computer also has win 2k on it) I have two questions- fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want? where do I change it- i've looked in the boot folder and have found a message documsnt but it cant be edited. Also how do I start xwindows or navigate through the installed software. When mandrake opens i give my user and p word on the cpomand line. I can navigate through the folder but most of ot seems to be system files. Thanks in advance For your lilo question, open /etc/lilo.conf with an editor like pico or joe thats easy as you seem to be real new. eg, pico /etc/lilo.conf (as root) Within the first few lines you'll see an option: timeout=50, this is in milliseconds, You can change it to 300 for 30 secs or whatever you want. Save the edited file andthen at command line type lilo and enter to rerun lilo and update it. To start X at the command line type startx. You can use other commands for different desktops but for a start just type startx. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer error
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 26 November 2001 12:38 pm, skidley wrote: gcc3 is not ready for prime time. Mandrake's 2.96 is much better, better than 2.95. BUT, in my experience, compiling from src, mplayer sucks (./configure --disable-gcc-checking). Usin a Mandrake rpm, it's great, works better than avifile. http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ Ok I got the rpm and i get dependency probs. It needs: libggi.so.2 ~ $ wprv libggi.so.2 libggi2-2.0-3mdk libgg.so.0 ~ $ wprv libgg.so.0 libgii0-0.8-4mdk libgii.so.0 ~ $ wprv libgii.so.0 libgii0-0.8-4mdk libpng.so.3 ~ $ wprv libpng.so.3 no package provides libpng.so.3 (I don't remember have'n this dep. I have mplayer-0.50-2mdk. At this point in time, there's a big lipng2 libpng3 controversy. I've managed so far to avoid it. I used the mplayer-0.50-2mdk.src.rpm If I did have this deps, I probly --nodeps it. I'm sort'a reckless like that with rpms ;) If you can't get past libpng3, d/l the ready made rpm an --nodeps it) libvgagl.so.1 ~ $ wprv libvgagl.so.1 svgalib-1.4.3-1mdk libvga.so.1 ~ $ wprv libvga.so.1 svgalib-1.4.3-1mdk I'm not familiar with what package(s) would contain these. Can anyone tell me which packages I would need? 'wprv' is an alias I use in bashrc alias wprv=rpm -q --whatprovides Saves a lot'a typin ; Otherwise, entering any of these deps in rpmfinds search engine will give you BIG clues ; http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ Ok thanks I already had done what you said by the time I got your reply. I don't know why I even asked. All were on the cds except libpng3 I installed libpng3 and it seems fine. Its not an upgrade from libpng2 both are installed. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] thanks...for the fix, and now two or three more question=)
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Alan Carpenter wrote: How can I connect to my server using SSH on the client side? The client is using windows. Do they make any SSH programs for windows? Thanks again... Alan There is one called putty, just google for it. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mplayer error
I am trying to compile mplayer on mdk 8.1, I'm using gcc-3.0-3.0.2-1mdk from the cooker. I get this error when compiling: Dec.o DS_AudioDec.cpp In file included from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cwchar.h:43, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/fpos.h:40, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_iosfwd.h:41, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/stl_algobase.h:77, from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_list.h:61, from /usr/include/g++-v3/list:31, from allocator.h:8, from outputpin.h:8, from DS_Filter.h:6, from DS_AudioDecoder.h:5, from DS_AudioDec.cpp:5: /usr/include/wchar.h: In function `long long int wcstoq(const wchar_t*, wchar_t**, int)': /usr/include/wchar.h:514: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to `const __gwchar_t*' for argument `1' to `long long int __wcstoll_internal(const __gwchar_t*, __gwchar_t**, int, int)' /usr/include/wchar.h: In function `long long unsigned int wcstouq(const wchar_t*, wchar_t**, int)': /usr/include/wchar.h:520: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to `const __gwchar_t*' for argument `1' to `long long unsigned int __wcstoull_internal(const __gwchar_t*, __gwchar_t**, int, int)' make[1]: *** [DS_AudioDec.o] Error 1 I wonder has anyone else had similar errors and how to fix it. Do I need another package or something? -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ethan wrote: that's strange. I am running LM 8.1 and issued the command as root in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ driectory. typing xinetd by itself gets no response. And I believe that xinetd is the default - for without it, ftp and other services cannot run... man xinetd shows that sending the signal SIGUSR2 will cause a hard reconfiguration... but how do you do that. I tried kill -SIGUSR2 xinetd but it does not work. pls advise. thank you. Did you tab out the xinetd like typing /etc/rc.d/init.d/xin then tab, just to make sure it's even there or try /etc/rc.d/init.d/./xinetd restart(or start if it isn't running). See if it is even running: ps -aux | grep xinetd. Other than that it is very strange because it works fine here and I'm using LM 8.1 as well. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ethan Lee wrote: many thanks. that worked, but may I ask why are there 2 differing versions of xinetd ? Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: you are using the xinetd from /usr/sbin. you may have issued xinetd from a directory other than the one specified or you didnot type the fullpath.either go to the directory /etc/init.d/ then execute ./xinetd reloador ./xinetd restart or do it in one swoop /etc/init.d/xinetd [ reload | restart ] HTH There aren't two versions. The /usr/sbin/xinetd is the binary that runs it. /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd is a script used to start, stop, restart. etc. Many services have such init-scripts to initialize them. You'll notice there are many in the /etc/init.d/. Also notice the name of the dir init.d for initializing. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making the cd's
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when making my mandrake cd's from the downloaded files, can i create a data cd as i would burning any other cd? or is there more to it than that? thanks fyi: if this question (or the last one) is in the archives i apologize. my work uses a web blocker and i can't access a lot of message groups because of it. matthew collins web developer www.co.seminole.fl.us You create cd from image. The .iso is a disk image, you need to tell your software that. If you are using windows something like easy cd creator or Nero for example. There is a selection in one of the menus with something like create cd from image or similar. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Mitchell, Edmund wrote: Hello all So I thought I'd be all Tom Brinkman-like, and get the latest kernel. :) Did an rpm -Uvh --test, and it says iptables = 1.2.4-1 conflicts with the 2.4.13 kernel. So I got the latest iptables rpm, and --test 'ed it, too, and it says it needs the 2.4.13 kernel. So I'm stuck in a catch-22, and I'm wondering what's the proper voodoo to make everyone go home happy. All this is happening on a (more or less) stock LM 8.1. Thanks for any help Edmund I had that also and I was able to uninstall the iptables, install the kernel with rpm -ivh and then install iptables again. Although I gave up on this kernel rpm stuff because I wanted the source and I got the source rpm and I did rpm --rebuild and it spent hours building smp and enterprise kernels and the like. I just killed it and went and got the kernel source from kernel.org and built my own. No more kernel rpms for me. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Dan Shackelford wrote: I believe the answer is to install them BOTH, at the same time, i.e. rpm -U (or whatever) KERNAL.rpm IPTABLES.rpm Try that with rpm -Uvh --test and see if the mutual dependencies are solved. At 08:31 AM 11/20/2001 -0800, you wrote: Hello all So I thought I'd be all Tom Brinkman-like, and get the latest kernel. :) Did an rpm -Uvh --test, and it says iptables = 1.2.4-1 conflicts with the 2.4.13 kernel. So I got the latest iptables rpm, and --test 'ed it, too, and it says it needs the 2.4.13 kernel. So I'm stuck in a catch-22, and I'm wondering what's the proper voodoo to make everyone go home happy. All this is happening on a (more or less) stock LM 8.1. Thanks for any help Edmund From what I've been told ya never do rpm -Uvh with a kernel. rpm -ivh will install a new kernel and will still keep the old ones as well. --nodeps is not a good idea -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2001 12:19 pm, skidley wrote: I had that also and I was able to uninstall the iptables, install the kernel with rpm -ivh and then install iptables again. Although I gave up on this kernel rpm stuff because I wanted the source and I got the source rpm and I did rpm --rebuild and it spent hours building smp and enterprise kernels and the like. Your mistake, you got the wrong kernel source rpm. kernel-source-2.4.13-8mdk.i586.rpminstalls the source for the Mandrake kernel kernel-2.4.13-8mdk.src.rpmcontains the sources to compile the various kernels from scratch I just killed it and went and got the kernel source from kernel.org and built my own. No more kernel rpms for me. -- Some people perfer using vanilla kernel.org source. Most of those that do don't seem to understand that it's plain beta (even alpha) quality source and they're on their own. At least the Mandrake source or ready made kernel rpms, while still beta, have had quite a bit of prior attention from the Mandrake developers (mostly Juan ;) to try and assure that it won't break Mandrake specific features, and be Mandrake compatible before they're released. That's one of several reasons that kernel.org has 2.4.15 src, and cooker is still 2.4.13. Plus, 2.4.13 kernel src on kernel.org, still has any problems or flaws it was released with. You have to get the next release, or back port fixes from subsequent releases, to 'correct' it. OTOH, and for example, the 2.4.8-26mdk ML8.1 was shipped with, had back ported 2.4.9 fixes incorporated into it. So while YMMV, I'd avoid vanilla kernel.org source like the plague. In either case, I suggest monitoring the linux-kernel ML if you use vanilla src, or the Mandrake cooker ML before using cooker kernels. Sure, even tho I lurk on the cooker list, I've still d/l'd and installed (-ivh) kernels that caused unfixable problems. In that case, I uninstall 'em and wait for a higher (-?mdk) patch level, and when the discussion on the cooker list warrants, try again. Easy to do with rpms ; I always use the vanilla src and haven't had any problems. Thanks for the tip on the kernel-source. What I downloaded was a waste of time. I may try a kernel-source again who knows. So when ya get the source does that have a suitable .config already selected or is it wise to do your own make menuconfig like with vanilla source. I guess that's what I would do as I have one saved that works for me and I would only need to change a couple options. Sorry for the dumb questions but I'm not up on this kernel rpm stuff. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphical traceroute
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Paul wrote: Hi all, Some time ago I ran a program which shows some kind of graphical traceroute. I am sure it was in the standard setup of mandrake. But I can't remember its name anymore!! Does anyone have a clue what I am looking for? Paul -- Immanuel Kant but Kublai Khan. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. xtraceroute -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. You can change it using the command hostname whatever and it will change it for you. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is the only thing in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Sure there is it says your hostname is localhost.localdomain. But I don't believe that is where you set your hostname as I recall. I remember changing my hostname and having to change the hostname in /etc/hosts so that X would work correctly. Just use the command hostname as root -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Warren Cameron wrote: Afternoon All, New Solaris installation, missed step to add to domain. Was hoping someone could tell me where default location for domain name for manual insert should be please. May thanks And what does that have to do with a newbie list for Linux-Mandrake? -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar command ?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, SKLIM wrote: Hi! I like to zip all my /var/named files in one zip files. I need the command how to tar it. Can someone email me the command ? Best regards, SKLIM tar czvf file.tar.gz /var/named -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nickolas wrote: I downloaded the mandrake 8.1 ISO from one of your FTP sites. I used winimage to open the ISO and extract the contents to a empty folder. I need burned all of the contents to a CD. When I try to boot from the CD it tells me searching for boot record : None found I can't seem to get this installed, HELP! Why not just burn the .iso image? You don't need to extract it to a folder. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number of partitions, namely: Root Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) Data (presumably a number of data partitions) My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it for me? You can partition yourself during an expert install or mandrake will partition automatically for a standard install. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: Hello antoine rivoire, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote: i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home.. I have no idea what /ot/home means, but if you say Mandrake will not be able to auto-partition a 2.1 GB Drive, would you suggest I do it manually, and if so just a Root and Data partition with the Root partition being something like 2x my available RAM (64 MB)? Would I have to use Partition Magic, or is this DiskDrake capable of doing for me via manual means? I'd suggest making a /(/ is the mount point for root) swap and /home with such little drive space. You'll want maybe a gig or so for root and pick the packages you want to install wisely and the size of home depends on what you want to do with the box. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: Hello Miark, On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:47 AM PDT, you wrote: You meant swap rather than root, right Nick? Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is installed... The System Files, etc.? Skidley said to make my Root 1 GB which seems rather large if my entire Drive is only 2.1 GB. Besides, Win 98 itself only occupies 350 MB. Is Mandrake 8.1 that much larger? Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? With a Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase Partition Magic? Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. The Root partition is where the apps will be installed, in the /usr tree so you'll need quite a bit of space there. Most Mandrake installs are over a gig but doesn't need to be. You can select a bare minimum of packages if you want. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW problem
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 11:35 PM 11/12/2001 -0400, skidley wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus and gcombust can't find it. The ide-scsi driver does get loaded and the drive gets mounted at boot time as read-only. Try it like this (note the space right after the first ) append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet If it's still no go, try changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount There's also a nobiospnp option you can try adding, and make sure your bios is set to 'pnp OS = no (or disabled)' Don't forget you need to run 'lilo' as root to make any edits to lilo.conf take affect, ie, before you reboot. I've tried everyone's suggestions plus copied and pasted some info from the CD-Writing HOW-TO. Maybe I should try recompiling the kernel or do a fresh install? You must have SCSI emulation support, SCSI generic support, SCSI CD-ROM support compiled in your kernel or even as modules you can load. -- I added insmod ide-scsi.o to rc.local and that did load according to lsmod. The SCSI support is compiled into the kernel, apparently, since my SCSI CD-ROM works OK. For some reason, I can't get the CDRW to work and Gcombust can't find it and cdrecord -scanbus can't find it. The CDRW worked in 7.2 but I had sent the CDRW in for repair prior to installing 8.1. I suppose that the simpler solution is to do a fresh install of 8.1 with the CDRW installed this time. If that doesn't get it going then I'm going to reinstall 7.2. I might reinstall 7.2 anyway since I can't get my internet connection sharing working in 8.1 (worked great in 7.2). I'm beginning to believe that there are still some major bugs that need to be worked out of 8.1. It may not help but i suggest using modprobe ide-scsi and you can add it to /etc/modules instead of rc.local as /etc/modules is for any modules you may want loaded at boot that kerenl doesn't already load. Otherwise I really don't know what else to tell you. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] burning ISO CDs
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Gronbach, Paul wrote: Hi all, I have an HP CD-Writer+ 9500. I am trying to create an install CD from the downloaded ISO file. All I get is one file, the ISO file, on the CD. I am sure this is not what is supposed to be there :-) Either the software I have is not capable of this or I am doing something wrong in my attempt to create this CD. I would appreciate any help. TIA! Paul W Gronbach Jr / IS Supervisor Light travels faster than sound, Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc.that is why some people appear bright 500 Hwy 18 W ... Garner, Iowa 50438 until you hear them speak. anon If your using linux cdrecord will burn it fine. If you're using windows cdrwin or easy cd creator work for .iso. You have to select something like burn disc image, or image i'm not sure exactly how it's worded. It just has to know its an image file and not just straight data. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW problem
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus and gcombust can't find it. The ide-scsi driver does get loaded and the drive gets mounted at boot time as read-only. Try it like this (note the space right after the first ) append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet If it's still no go, try changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount There's also a nobiospnp option you can try adding, and make sure your bios is set to 'pnp OS = no (or disabled)' Don't forget you need to run 'lilo' as root to make any edits to lilo.conf take affect, ie, before you reboot. I've tried everyone's suggestions plus copied and pasted some info from the CD-Writing HOW-TO. Maybe I should try recompiling the kernel or do a fresh install? You must have SCSI emulation support, SCSI generic support, SCSI CD-ROM support compiled in your kernel or even as modules you can load. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connection speed
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: Can anyone tell me how to tell what my connection speed is? I had a nice little app called speedgadget in Windows, but there's no way I'm booting into hell just for that ;-) Thanks! gkrellm is a nice little app and very useful as it monitors all kinds of stuff! -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] Pine doesn't send mail unless using the root account.
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: did you chmod the binary to 755? Yes I did of course chmod 755 /usr/sbin/sednmail -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] Pine doesn't send mail unless using the root account.
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: did you chmod the binary to 755? -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] majordomo RPM
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, KompuKit wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a RPM of: Majordomo 1.94.5 or higher for Mandrake 7.2 try rpmfind.net -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] Optical mouse
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, skidley wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: I have just bought an optical mouse (LOgitech and USB) and cannot get it to work under 7.2. Does anybody know how I can get this to work? I just potta new one usb mouse today an Intellyeye fromO Thanks, Wayne go to www.linux-usb there is detailed explantions haow to get usb mice to wor oops sorry typo there: www.linux-usb.org is the correct URL -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] Optical mouse
On 22 Nov 2000, Cyphfer wrote: I use a microsoft USB intellimouse explorer. I use it in the USB port. The mouse is regonized in the BIOS on the TYAN Thunder 100 Dual Pentium II 400 equipped mother board. Mandrake 7.2 recognized it and set it up as a generic 3 button mouse. It works, but the wheel function is ignored. On Wed, 22 November 2000, -michael- wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2000 16:26, you wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: I have just bought an optical mouse (LOgitech and USB) and cannot get it to work under 7.2. Does anybody know how I can get this to work? I just potta new one usb mouse today an Intellyeye fromO Thanks, Wayne go to www.linux-usb there is detailed explantions haow to get usb mice to wor Mine came with a ps2 adapter! -- -michael- Registered Linux user # 195773 mine came with the adapter too but I wanted to get it working usb just because :P and it works just fine :) all ya have to do is make sure the right modules are loaded, most are compiled in the stock 2.2.17-21mdk kernel as modules, so just do read the HOWTO and load ones ya need, add them to /etc/modules so there loaded on boot, and make sure ya create a device for it mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63 and bam ya got usb mouse :) -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] linux can't partition during installation
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Ana Hill wrote: I feel like I'm flooding everyone's inbox with junk.. I just tried to install again and noticed that mandrake 7.2 complete doesn't actually give the choice to do an automatic, custom, or expert install.. I went to look in the installation and user guide for it and it seems it was written for the "Power Pack Deluxe" and that some steps for the "Complete" pack may be different.. I doubt that has anything to do with anything, I think I'm just running around in circles.. I don't want to manually set the partitions though. thanks so much again, Ana From: "Ana Hill" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] linux can't partition during installation Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:35:47 -0600 hi, I must say, this is a little overwhelming but I fear I will get no sleep untill I have this installed and running .. hmmm, ok, I have linux mandrake 7.2 kernel version 2.2.17, I chose to do an auto install , and I have a 10 GB harddrive. I hope that helps a little _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com Hmm thats funny I was given choice of install method. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
[newbie] KDE2 solution
I have a solution for all of your KDE2 problems. Run Enlightenment alone! It leaves KDE2 in the dust when it comes to effeciency, use of system resources, etc. But if yer dependent on a winblows imitating environment stick with your KDE2 bloatware. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] Staples 7.2
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: I found today in Vancouver at Staples Mandrake 7.2 The box contains 7 CDs and it says that includes KDE 2 Beta. Is this the same version as Wall Mart was selling in the States??? The boxed release doiesn't seem like it will have the KDE2 final yet only the d/l version, its a ruash job by mandrakesoft to get boxed pkgs out for christmas- marketing tactics :( and even the Final is buggy I gave up on it, its trying to copy a winblows interface too much in my opinion anyhow. I hate it. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Paul wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Robin Regennitter wrote: On Tuesday 21 November 2000 02:20 pm, you wrote: I think there's a bug with numlock in 7.2. When I boot into 7.2 numlock is enabled as I watched the numlock light come on. but then when I go to kde, the numlock goes off. I just simply have to remember when I go to kde. I just make sure the numlock is on. If you installed the numlock thing, just make a softlink (ln -s) to the numlock-enable program (see my other posts on this), from your Autostart folder. Works fine. Paul I have 'numlock-1.0-10mdk' which came with my Mandrake 7.2. It does not work on my Mandrake 7.2 installation in kde. I also installed the numlock from the 7.2 set of CDs and it made no difference. Numlock did work in 7.1 Something in 7.2 seems to have broken it. First of all there are no folders in Linux. Where is this infamous autostart directory. I run E alone. not into the gnome, kde crap it wouldn't run a paper bag efficiently. I added it to .xinitrc but I realize thats not how .xinitrc works but it was worth a try. Is there an autostart directory for X? -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition(Correction)
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:11:34 -0600, I wrote: In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios 6.1 and doubt that I will be able to live without a separate home at the minimum...I wish they would have given me an option to choose Fdisk. --- Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:58:59 Now that I have looked at this install I see that I was wrong about the above statement...the Home is in a separate partition on the wizard installI would have done some of it different...however what I said was incorrect. Long night grin. Olly P You can create the partitons you want with the diskdrake in intsall, its very eaay to use graphical partition tool if ya ask me. but fdisk is btter of you like commandline partitioning tools instead -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] Registered User
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Dickman, Jeff wrote: How do I become a registered Linux User? Thanks, Jeff http://counter.li.org -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] Optical mouse
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: I have just bought an optical mouse (LOgitech and USB) and cannot get it to work under 7.2. Does anybody know how I can get this to work? I just potta new one usb mouse today an Intellyeye fromO Thanks, Wayne go to www.linux-usb there is detailed explantions haow to get usb mice to wor -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Rune Kallhovd wrote: Paul wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Goldenpi wrote: Number lock keeps resetting. There is a service which will in theory do something but I never saw any effect when I use it. The numlock still resets at each runlevel change. In mdk 7.1 I only needed to run "numlock" In mdk 7.2 it is " /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock" Paul - Original Message - From: "Charles" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 10:36 PM Subject: [newbie] No NUMBER lock? I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo -- Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30 This is apparently a bug in mdk 7.2, and the fix for this should be to run the following from a console: "touch /etc/sysconfig/numlock" How would changing the timestamp fix that? what should this file be? Mine is NumLock and is 0 bytes. it's nothing! I guess this may be the bug? -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Now I dont know about you but I have had nothing but problems with 7.2 and alot of you have as well judging by the posts. So I uninstalled the sucker and reinstalled 7.1 and I am so much happier. I mean dont get me wrong here 7.2 has alot of neato things but nothing works. So what good is that ? So anyways I think Im going to stick with 7.1 as IT WORKS ! Thank you, Chronos. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! That's funny 7.2 works just fine for me. Even my USB mouse works excellent. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 18 November 2000 10:13 pm, pablito wrote: Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command? yes. (su to root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hd*' will read the information from your harddrive's (HDD) firmware (bios). Much of this information is useful in guessing at which hdparm options will best optimize your HDD. Once you've determined the best options by running 'hdparm -tT /dev/hd*', that hdparm line can be added to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to optimize your HDD on every boot. EG (I have this line at the tail of rc.local for my old ata/33 linux HDD), hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -d1 -k1 -a128 /dev/hdb In marginal hardware situations, choosing "hardrive optimization" during LM install can result in boot failure or data corruption, which is why that install option comes with a warning. BUT, the same is true for optimizing your drives 'manually' with hdparm from the CL, so proceed with caution. Most of the time if you have a decent motherboard and aren't (mis)using ata/66 there'll be no problem. Hi Tom I am just wondering about the -a128 setting, mine is at 8 automatically I have a Western Digital AC313000R my MB has a maximum of udma mode 2 but my drive can support udma3(ata/66). I am thinking about setting up these options hdparm -m16 -c1 -d1 -X66(It says for ultraDMA its the mode(2) +64) but I am wondering about the -a option, maybe I should leave it at 8? also the -u option. It says in man it could be dangerous, some drive/controller combinations can't tolerate the increeased I/O latencies. Just wondering what you think about the settings and to get some feedback before i do anything that may corrupt my filesystem. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie] LS-120 problems
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Joseph Markham wrote: Dear Friends, LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not since it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com, and civileme mentioned the problem in LM7.1. Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working? My configuration is : P3 500 on a BX mainboard Pri Master: EIDE HDD Pri Slave: Zip drive EIDE Sec Master: LS-120 EIDE Sec Slave : CD-RW EIDE Many thanks to whoever knows how - I've installed LM 7.2 at least 10 times to try and get around the problem to no avail. Maybe this option is passed to the kernel by lilo or grub(whatever you use): append=" hdc=ide-scsi" Check your lilo.conf. also do a ls -l /dev/cd* and see what you get. If /dev/cdrom is using scsi emulation you will get something like /dev/cdrom - scd0 (cdrom being a symlink to the secondary master scsi device). I have both my IDE drives, my cdrom and burner scsi emulated and they work quite well and it's better for burning on the fly i'm told and mine burns on the fly flawlessly. One solution if your Cdrom is scsi emulated (/dev/cdrom - scd0) is to run modprobe ide-scsi. If ya don't want the drive to be scsi emulated but it is(hence /dev/cdrom - scd0) do the following as root: cd /dev, then rm -f cdrom, then ln -s hdc cdrom(makes cdrom a symlink to hdc(secondary master ide). then make any necessary changes to /etc/fstab= make sure ya have /mnt/cdrom and its /dev/cdrom and get rid of the append=" hdc=ide-scsi"line in /etc/lilo.conf or/boot/grub/menu.lst. That should cover what you need to do. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
[newbie] fstab
Ok my fstab ended up majorly screwed somehow and i don't know why. I had to enable supermount again, but the options for the cdrom drive and burner are screwed up, i have like nosuid, noexec, noauto, etc. It worked excellent before on the standard way it was setup after install. Please help me get my settings back to normal. I know there was rw in both now they are ro, also the floppy is screwed too. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie] [OT] mixing memory
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: I know this if off topic, but I don't know where else to ask and I trust you folks better... Can I mix memory, for example, can I mix a 128 PC100 8ns and a 32 PC100 8ns? Or is it best not to do this? It depends on the board I can have 66MHz and 100MHz(PC100) DIMMs together on my board, but the amount doesnt matter its the bus speed you will ahve to check on for your board. Chad -- Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie]7.2 gnapster
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, root wrote: Dear All, Has anyone tried any of the napster clones with 7.2 yet? I have the gnapster and it seems to get the music fine . Unfortunately Kaiman does not work at all for playing the music. The Xmms player works except the music fades in and out. I do not know if the problem is with KDE2 downloading music or with the players themsselves. I certainly would like this up and running well in 7.2. The music player in 7 worked very well. Is there another player I can try? Thank you. Marcia I personally prefer mpg123 at the command line. One great option is -b size sets up a buffer however big ya want so that when ya start up a pig like netscape or something it doesn't effect the music. Kinda like antiskip on a portable cd player. Stores a few seconds ahead in buffer. neat feature. And it uses far less memory and cpu resources than xmms which is a pig! -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie] is this 7.2 with2.4 or not
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, patrick wrote: http://lsl.com/ there is a 7.2 cdr (2) set. which is it please It's Mandrake72-inst.iso(Install) and Mandrake72-ext.iso(Extension) -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749
Re: [newbie] (...) Burning ISO
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Krulo wrote: So all i have to do is burn the iso to a CD?? and then what happens? I dont understand what I'm doing... what the cd looks like after a ISO burning... could you tell me some hints? thx An ISO is a disc image,an iamge of a CD-ROM it will be whatver yer burning, will have directories etc.
Re: [newbie] (...) Burning ISO
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Krulo wrote: So all i have to do is burn the iso to a CD?? and then what happens? I dont understand what I'm doing... what the cd looks like after a ISO burning... could you tell me some hints? thx sorry my first reply wasn't thorough enough i don't think. You will need software that can burn an ISO image if you are in windows Easy CD creator for example or Linux any of them will do it i'm sure, cdrecord at command line is what i prefer.
Re: [newbie] (...) Burning ISO (again...)
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Krulo wrote: ok, so I burn the CD (yes I have a burner in windows and a software too(eazy cd creator)) and I get a boot cd right? but that boot cd is a boot cd that I can start? because for example my bios cannot boot with a cd... only floppy and hdd... so I was wondering if... maybe I could start it from dos...? R U understanding me...? You can easily make a boot floopy from the cd in windows if ya need it. run the program rawritewin.exe in dosutils/ on the cd and point it to images/cdrom.img on the cd put a floppy in your drive and you've got a boot disk for installing from cd. Take a look at the README in the dir images/ it explains it nicely. :)
Re: [newbie] (...) MDK 7.2 is 664 Mb...
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Krulo wrote: Is it possible to burn the Mandrake72-inst.iso to ONE cd?? the file is 664 Mb and the ususal CD's are 650Mb... No problem?? It's not 664 MB it's 650 MB
RE: [newbie] 7.2 install help
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Romanator wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:59 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] 7.2 install help I currently have 7.02I'm downloading the iso then burning it... which method should I do? UPGRADE or INSTALL I've got majordomo lists...which have members I always recommend a clean install, but you can do it without formatting your home dir depending on how you set up your partitions. If you have one /home your set that way you can keep all your settings or of course you can backup yer home dir as well or if ya don't care wipe it. Just my 2 cents worth hehe
Re: [newbie] sound card again
What sound card do ya have? mdk 7.2 comes with alsa try thisyou can even compile it from source which also comes with 7.2(d/l ISO anyhow). Go to alsa-project.org to see if yer card is supported and get all the info on alsa. also you must have sound.core module(this is basic kernel sound support you should have it anyhow) On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again- How do you enable audio devices ? What command ? How do you enable synth devices ? What command ? How do you enable midi devices ? What command ? How do you enable mixers devices ? What command ? I am trying to get the stupid sound card to work. What permissions ? Again snd config does not work. Drak config does not work. Moving the card to another slot does not work. Turning off pnp does not work. I am not a stupid user. Chronos. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
