[newbie] Firewall and Proxy
Starting with Mandrake 7.0 I've now reached Mandrake 8.1 by updating. I'm very pleased with this version: Everything works fine: X with hardware acceleration, tv, parallel port scanner, cups, vmware etc. But there remains one problem: My second pc (pentium 133 mhz with MDK-8.0) uses the proxy wwwoffle, which runs on the 1st pc to connect to the internet. This works fine when I stop the firewall which I set up with DrakConf. But of course I want to use the firewall, because all tests say that it is very effective. How can I open port 8080 just for my 2nd pc? Many thanks for any hints Uli Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?
Am Freitag, 6. Juli 2001 17:19 schrieben Sie: Dear Jeffrey, I am ready to begin installing and running Wine. You are the only one that I have seen on this list who has been able to run MSOffice or Photoshop, etc, with Wine. Could you explain how you did it for your system? I am curious. I have LM8 and I want to install Wine but is the one supplied in the distro the latest and best or is there a better one elsewhere? How long did it take you to get it to work for you the way you wanted? Thanks for your input. Sincerely, Marcia Dear Marcia, I think it's not necessary to compile wine yourself. I use codeweavers-wine-20010305-1.i386.rpm with Mandrake 8.0 and Windows 98. It works very good with MS-Office and many other windows-apps. The installation is very simple. Sincerely, Uli
Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?
Am Samstag, 7. Juli 2001 20:53 schrieben Sie: Dear Uli, I am surprised that you are able to run MSOFFice on it. I am very much a newbie when it comes to WINE. Is your codeweavers-wine-20010305-1.i386.rpm different from the program supplied on the LM8 CD? How did you set up Wine and the MS-Office? Any help or suggestions you or anyone can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia I have got wine from www.codeweavers.com, I think it's different from Mandrake's wine. I start winword and other windows-progs by wine winfile in a KDE-konsole. Then I start the windows application by double click. I have to add that I have a working MS-Office on a windows partition under Windows 98. I don't use winword or excel often with wine so I can't say whether it's really stable. I prefer StarOffice. With 256 meg ram it's quite fast and it is compatible with MS-Office. If you want to use wine I would prefer codeweavers' wine, because I always had problems with Mandrake's wine. Sincerely, Uli
[newbie] Re: [newbie-de] TV unter Linux
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: [newbie-de] TV unter Linux Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:40:41 +0200 From: uli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ingo Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2001 15:28 schrieben Sie: Heiner Faber schrieb: Hast Du auch scantv ausgeführt? Hast Du als Kartentyp 54 angegeben? Öhm, nö, muß man dann wohl. Einfach so von der Befehlszeile? Wo gebe ich den Kartentyp an? Ich habe folgenden Eintrag in /etc/modules.conf # i2c alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options i2c-core i2c_debug=1 options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 # bttv alias tvcard0 bttv alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv card=54 radio=1 pll=1 options tuner debug=1 type=5 post-remove bttv modprobe -r msp3400 modprobe -r tuner post-install bttv /sbin/modprobe -k msp3400; /sbin/modprobe -k tvmixer Damit läuft xawtv-3.46-1mdk (von Cooker) unter MDK 8.0 einfach mit dem Befehl xawtv. Uli ---
Re: [newbie] very slowly
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: [newbie] very slowly Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 19:59:03 +0200 From: uli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Irv Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2001 18:11 schrieben Sie: On Thu, 17 May 2001, Ari Dias wrote: Hello people, I have a question! Why my linux mandraki 8.0 is so slowly that i cant use it! i have a k6 500mhz!!! tks I had the same problem, KDE was so slow that I couldn't get any work done. When I posted this to the KDE list, all I got was flames, but about half of the people on the ALE list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who tried KDE 2 reported similar problems. Some people with 750 mhz machines even reported slowness, so it seems to be not directly related to hardware. My only choice was to go back to 7.2. Regards, Irv It might be a question of RAM. I have a 600 mhz pentium with 256 mb RAM. It is very fast with Mandrake 8.0. Even StarOffice 5.2 is working with a reasonable speed. So I don't think that there's something wrong with Mandrake 8.0. Perhaps you should just buy more RAM (it's as cheap as never before!). P.S. Mandrake 8.0 even works on my old 133 mhz pentium, but there it is indeed slow! Regards Uli ---
[newbie] antialiasing / nautilus
I'm very pleased with Mandrake 8.0. I have one fresh installation with very good hardware detection on a 133-MHz pentium. On a 600 MHz pentium I've upgraded MDK 7.0 - cooker - MDK 7.2 - cooker - MDK 8.0. Mandrake 8.0 is without any doubt the best linux I ever had (I started with DLD-5.4). Until now I found two problems: 1. when I activate antialiasing KDE doesn't start correctly: with startx I get: (II) R128(0): Acceleration enabled ... (II) Keyboard Keyboard1 handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse1 (type: MOUSE) kdeinit: Shutting down running client. - It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/uli/.DCOPserver_siemens_:0 and start dcopserver again. - KDE Daemon (kded) already running. Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kmixctrl path = unknown QSocketNotifier: Multiple socket notifiers for same socket 6 and type read KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kwin path = unknown KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kdesktop path = unknown ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kicker path = unknown ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2 ... KCrash: Application Name = konsole path = unknown ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2 kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 xinit: connection to X server lost. waiting for X server to shut down (0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (0): [drm] unmapping 4096 bytes of SAREA 0xc3d2d000 at 0x40026000 kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. 2. nautilus stops with: ** ERROR **: file io-bmp.c: line 282 (DecodeHeader): assertion failed: (State-LineBuf != NULL) aborting... Thx for any hints! Uli
Re: [newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners
Meph wrote: I don't know anything about Silitek but the Plustek parallel port scanners work very well with linux (even better than with windows because the system is not blocked during scanning). You should install the following rpms: sane-1.0.4-1mdk sane-frontends-1.0.4-1mdk libsane1-1.0.4-1mdk sane-backends-1.0.4-1mdk Then get from http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/plustek.html the appropiate driver plustek-sane-0_37_23.tar.gz put this file in a new directory e.g. plustek tar zxvf plustek-sane-0_37_23.tar.gz cd plustek_driver make su make install read the INSTALL-File for the modification of /etc/modules.conf Do you know where I can get sane 1.0.4-1? I can find from sane's site an ftp for lm rpm's, but that has only 1.0.3-2 rpmfind has the same. I use the cooker-RPMs. To use them with ML 7.2 you probably must take the src-RPMs and rebuild them.
Re: [newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners
Meph Istopheles wrote: Morning, Now it's my turn to ask about scanners. I have two I've yet to get working in either Linux or W2k (I may be onto something with the Silitek in W2k, but I'm waiting on a response from someone on that). In any case, in lm7.2, everything, of course, is rpm. Trouble is, the module for the Plustek (parallel) requires first installing the module into the sane directory then recompiling sane. Uh, is there a way to do that with an rpm? Otherwise, which tar version of sane would I get? The doc on the module doesn't go into that. Then, for the Silitek (usb), I've come by so little (Silitek doesn't really know what support is, their site doesn't open any longer). Anyone know how I could get either (or both) of these working? Meph I don't know anything about Silitek but the Plustek parallel port scanners work very well with linux (even better than with windows because the system is not blocked during scanning). You should install the following rpms: sane-1.0.4-1mdk sane-frontends-1.0.4-1mdk libsane1-1.0.4-1mdk sane-backends-1.0.4-1mdk Then get from http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/plustek.html the appropiate driver plustek-sane-0_37_23.tar.gz put this file in a new directory e.g. plustek tar zxvf plustek-sane-0_37_23.tar.gz cd plustek_driver make su make install read the INSTALL-File for the modification of /etc/modules.conf Uli
