Re: [newbie] P2P Application?
Sevatio wrote: Can you recommend a good p2p application for sharing files across the internet? Sevatio dcgui-qt has always worked good for me :-) http://dcgui.berlios.de/ and plf also has .rpmshttp://plf.zarb.org/packages.php warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open office or Mozilla firefox - and no way of installing rpms or removing the lastest rpm i installed before the reboot. All the packaging Options have been removed from the menu... along with all the open office software menus. Is there anyway i can use the control center if the menu items have been removed. I have checked the /usr/bin for firefox and it gone so i am assuming that the mandrake control bits in there are now missing too. Any ideas appreciated. Cheers, Warren 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 Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root mcc if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type updatedb update-menus Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]# mcc bash: mcc: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]# thats all i get :-( 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 Control Center Missing and unable to installRPMs
PM wrote: what does /usr/bin/menudrake (as root in a terminal windows) give you? the menu manager came up - but still no way of adding the missing bits ( firefox is no longer in /usr/bin and i am guessing neither is the Open Office or Mandrake control utilities) I tried to install firefox again by clicking on the .rpm and where it usually asks for a root password this time it just asked what i would like to open the file with. 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 Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to urpmi the name of the mandrake rpm package installer to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know what the name of that is? 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 Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
PM wrote: Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to urpmi the name of the mandrake rpm package installer to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know what the name of that is? urpmi IS the mandrake rpm package installer. sorry, i should rephrase the question. I now have the control center back, and when i open it up i only have 6 options in the GUI menu, Boot, Hardware, Mount Points, Network, Security and System. now before I ballsed things up, I used to have a menu iten for software installation in this MCC menu. How do i get this back? 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 Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
Derek Jennings wrote: urpmi rpmdrake If anything else is missing the command urpmq drak should give you some clues. Software Management option is BACK!! Thanks Derek, Aron and PM. :-) Goodnight gentlemen (it´s 1am New Zealand time). Warren 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 Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
PM wrote: When I check (using ls /usr/bin/drak* ) I get the results: /usr/bin/drakbug* /usr/bin/draklocale@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-remove@ /usr/bin/drakconf*/usr/bin/drakrpm@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-update@ /usr/bin/drakhelp*/usr/bin/drakrpm-edit-media@ Do you get the same? I now get exactly the same - thanks :-) bash-2.05b$ ls /usr/bin/drak* /usr/bin/drakbug /usr/bin/draklocale /usr/bin/drakrpm-remove /usr/bin/drakconf /usr/bin/drakrpm /usr/bin/drakrpm-update /usr/bin/drakhelp /usr/bin/drakrpm-edit-media Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xsessionerrors file growing
hi all, while trying to work out why i couldnt burn dvds i happened to check the .xsessionerrors file which wouldnt open. Eventually i opened it with tail -f and it spewed forth: ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372) and proceeded to do so at the rate of 3 or 4 lines a second. I have just recently installed MDK 10 on a new HDD. Every day as soon as i turn my machine on the file starts to grow, and although it only grows by MB or so an hour this cant been good for things. Any ideas? -- Warren Knott PO Box 300-400, Albany, New Zealand. +64-272-500-100 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on windows. Gateway only supports windows and they do not and will not support Linux on that machine. The warranty states no third party software or hardware is not supported and will not be supported by gateway. Dell and most other vendors have similar clauses in their warranty agreements...they will not and do not have to replace anything if it will run under windows. the court case will go nowhere if the case is based on the machines inability to run Linux. Marc wrote: I had the same problem with a friend of mine who wanted to try Linux. I also had a spare harddrive that had linux already on it. We took his out and put mine in and it would start to boot and then just stall. Couldn't get into the BIOS at all. We put his old disk in and it was recongized just fine but had to reinstall windows. This is a 3 year old gateway. He tried to install linux on the original harddrive and all went well until reboot. Again we couldn't get into the bios. Now that I know what the problem is I can reformat his drive with partition majic and he can use the restore disk. Although it doesn't surprise me in the least, gateway and gates, both suck. Moureen I seem to be getting close to the bottom of this. From what I have found it is NOT a problem with linux. I have spent a lot more time troubleshooting than I really should have. If I was to put any reasonable value on my time I could have purchased a couple of new motherboards by now. I guess I just don't like to be beaten by a POS hardware problem or a low life company that sells junk like this. This is what I have found so far. I installed a old Seagate 8 geg HDD model ST38410A in the Gateway, ML 10.0 installed , rebooted and ran just fine. I then downloaded Powermax from Maxtor and did a low level format on the Maxtor HDD from Gateway to insure that any and all hidden partitions and all data that Gateway had on it was 100% removed. I then tried it again and got the same old result. After installing ML the BIOS could no longer see the HDD. I did another low level format and again installed the drive in the gateway the BIOS could again detect the drive but this time I ran the diagnostic utility on the powermax disk and got the result of a ERROR BIOS Extension support failed. After this I have to conclude that Gates way is selling some models of computers where the BIOS on the MOBO does not fully or correctly support the hard drives supplied with the computers. At this moment the owner of the gateway machine is on the phone with gateway demanding a replacement MOBO or a replacement drive of the same size that is 100% supported by his MOBO or a full refund. If he meets to much resistance from gate way he is going to inform them that this matter will be taken to small claims court and that the papers will be filed in Mountain Home Arkansas the town that we live near. After doing some research into Arkansas law if we understand it correctly a representative from gateway will have to appear in court in Mountain Home AR or a automatic judgment will be made against Gateway. The closest Gateway office is in Little Rock, over a 100 mile drive so someone from gateway will have to spend at least a full day at this or they will have to hire a local lawyer. Yeah this guy is a bit Pod but he has been hung up on by Gateway tech support no less than 3 times in the last few days. I by no means claim to understand the law but in my mind their is a valid legal point here. Gateway is selling systems built with hardware that is NOT supposed to be installed together. This would be like Ford selling a car with rims that were 15 X 8 and putting on tires that were recommended by the manufacturer to go on a rim no smaller than 15 X 10 , I would assume that when the tires failed to preform correctly ford would be forced to rectify the parts mismatch. Also if the system that you are talking about Moureen is about 3 years old Gateway could have a BIG problem here, possibly a class action law suit. If they want to sell third rate hardware to customers that do not know any better they deserve it. Any legal prows out there with any opinions? Marc -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the 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] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
the only time you get the error is when trying linux from what i can tell..which as i stated before is not supported by gateway. No analogy is going to convince a judge otherwise. you can try this court case but i do not think you are going to get anywhere..just my .02 Marc wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:03 am, William Warren wrote: just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on windows. Gateway only supports windows and they do not and will not support Linux on that machine. The warranty states no third party software or hardware is not supported and will not be supported by gateway. Dell and most other vendors have similar clauses in their warranty agreements...they will not and do not have to replace anything if it will run under windows. the court case will go nowhere if the case is based on the machines inability to run Linux. Marc wrote: My views are based on the fact that the Maxtor diagnostic software says that the hard drive suppled by Gateway is not properly supported by the BIOS on the mother board suppled BY gateway. Upgrading a operating system is a routine thing that most computer owners due themselves or hire a tech to due at one time or another. After all we all know plenty of people who have upgraded from win 95 to 98 or from win 98 to ME or XP. Upgrading is a routine thing that almost everyone expects to be able to due when purchasing a PC. Once again using the auto analogy parallel parking is something that most people would assume that any car they purchased would be able to due weather or not the manufacturer stated in their warranty that the car was capable of parallel parking or not. One would assume the manufacturer would be held responsible if a car was unable to to due such a routine function even with a skilled driver. One would also assume that if the problem with the car being impossible to parallel park was caused by a mismatch of the tires and rims that was not recommended by the maker of the tires. Would the auto maker not be responsible for using components that were designed to work together to preform basic routine functions? The BIOS in the gateway computer does NOT properly support the hard drive that Gateway installed with it. The software supplied by the maker of the HDD says so in so many words. Because of this parts mismatch the computer is unable to preform a basic routine function, a upgrade. If the HDD was able to preform as the manufacturer intended it to a simple routine upgrade would not be a issue but this machine was supplied with BIOS that is NOT able to control the hard drive properly so a routine function like a upgrade may be impossible even to the next OS that windoze comes out with. If this was a matter of the MOBO having a chipset that was not supported by linux that would be one thing but this is much more basic. One piece of gateway hardware doe's not properly support another piece of Gateway hardware supplied in the same system by Gateway. Furthermore win or loose the guy that owns the GW is retired and has nothing better to do with his spare time. He feels that it is not to much to ask gateway to supply BIOS that will work properly with the hard drive that they supplied. If they would rather waste a amount of time and effort that far exceeds the value of the computer and perhaps suffer from similar customer dissatisfaction and PR in the future he feels that would be all right also. The folks at gateway have already spent at least 4 hours of tech support time debating this issue. That had to cost a few bucks. If they want to continue to supply mismatched hardware let them also put up with the consequences that go with it. For that matter let them at least hire tech support people that the average English speaking public can understand. 2 of their tech support people had such bad English you would need a translator to understand more than half of what they said!!! I have doubts if they could understand all of what we told them. The whole situation with gateway failing to admit that they could have a hardware mismatch is nothing short of ridiculous . Marc -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the 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] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
My wife has a Solo 5300 that we bought a year ago refurbed. The first one got damaged in shipping..but Gateway replaced it withou problem..since then it has been rock solid..even better than the desktop i once had. frankieh wrote: Marc wrote: I also had a gateway some time ago, I sold it to a friend about 3 years ago. I think it was probably one of the last decent machines gateway made. It had a full mid tower case that was made well. A real graphics card as well as a creative labs soundblaster sound card. It even came with a floppy drive, It seems like gateway quit installing those as standard equipment some time ago. I have worked on computers for a lot of people around the area that I am in. To the best of my knowledge I am the only person for at least 15 miles around that builds or repairs computers so I have seen a lot of gates ways since I first got mine and every one has been at the lower end of the quality spectrum. I must have had one of the last reasonably good ones that they made because I have had my fingers into many of them since then and every one has had some shortcomings with quality but this BS with the one that I helped my neighbor with this week is in my mind a whole new leval of crap for Gates way. I have probably done over a hundred ML installations and have seen more than a few problems along the way but this is the first machine where I have seen something that screwed up. Marc Gateway went bust in australia and pulled out... Starting to see why.. I had cause to deal with gateway laptops several years back.. it seemed a solid if uninspired design.. wonder what the modern versions are like. -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the 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] mdk10 community wont boot to install
known issue with the 10.0..boot from 10.0 disc 2 then switch back is the official workaround LtCdData wrote: hi the cd1 of mdk 10.0 community fails to boot up to the installer on one of my computers but does on the other ok however if i put in a 9.2 cd the intaller boots ok from that ok but fails on the 10.0 disk i have redone the cd1 at a slower speed and changed the cd drives around trying to fix it but still to no avail does anyone know if there is an issue with the mdk10.0 on this?? LtCdData -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2
I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have been trying for the past couple of months to get this working and it is beyond me..:) the directory i want to share is /files/server/calendar i am not worried about outside access as this is internal to my lan and i have astaro security linux specifically set to not allow this server on the net. This server also runs samba and shares out an 80 gig drive(the one the calendar will be on)...how do i get webdav working? the clients will be mozilla 1.x with the calendar module add-on installed..:) William Warren -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2
FYI i do have sshd running and webmin running so i can do this either way..:) William Warren wrote: I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have been trying for the past couple of months to get this working and it is beyond me..:) the directory i want to share is /files/server/calendar i am not worried about outside access as this is internal to my lan and i have astaro security linux specifically set to not allow this server on the net. This server also runs samba and shares out an 80 gig drive(the one the calendar will be on)...how do i get webdav working? the clients will be mozilla 1.x with the calendar module add-on installed..:) William Warren -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2
Any takers on this one?..G William Warren wrote: FYI i do have sshd running and webmin running so i can do this either way..:) William Warren wrote: I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have been trying for the past couple of months to get this working and it is beyond me..:) the directory i want to share is /files/server/calendar i am not worried about outside access as this is internal to my lan and i have astaro security linux specifically set to not allow this server on the net. This server also runs samba and shares out an 80 gig drive(the one the calendar will be on)...how do i get webdav working? the clients will be mozilla 1.x with the calendar module add-on installed..:) William Warren -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing .bashrc for root (Mandrake 9.2)
El vie, 06-02-2004 a las 03:59, Alexander Shupliakov escribió: Could anybody please mail a copy of the original /root/.bashrc file? This is from 8.2, not 9.2, but for what it's worth: [EMAIL PROTECTED] warren]# cat /root/.bashrc # .bashrc # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin ENV=$HOME/.bashrc USERNAME=root export USERNAME ENV PATH -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Finally, a socially responsible virus
This story caught my eye: MyDoom Virus Could be 'Linux War' Weapon http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3304311 I wonder if it would run under Wine? :-) -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copn, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Web host query
El lun, 19-01-2004 a las 09:53, Todd Slater escribió: Can anybody recommend a reasonably priced Web hosting company? I'm having a hard time finding one that will let me install a not-so-common Apache module. Transfer and storage requirements are minimal. I use and recommend Pair Networks http://www.pair.com/. They are reasonably priced and very supportive of Open Source. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TIP: cups and cups-common-1.1.18-2.1 break printing on 8.2
At least it did on my box. cups and cups-common-1.1.14-2mdk, which come on the 8.2 disks, work fine. But cups and cups-common-1.1.18-2.1-mdk, which are on the update mirrors, cause all printing to silently fail. Replacing the older packages fixes it. (Easier said than done in my case, as I had updated a boatload of packages the same day. Tracking down which packages were responsible was no fun. But at least broken updates are reversible, unlike that other OS.) -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Running programs at startup
I am trying to understand the different ways that programs can be run at startup. What has sparked my interest is that I am experimenting with different windows managers, yet I would like some basic things (xmms, xscreensaver, gkrellm, etc.) to be launched upon entry into any window manager. Yet aside from getting specific answers to specific questions, I'm hoping to understand the big picture here. So here's what I understand so far, gleaned from this list's archive. Please help me correct my misconceptions and patch my ignorance: /etc/profile Runs a program upon login of any user, any WM, in or out of X. I have, for example, xmms here so that xmms starts up regardless of user, which is what I want. It tries and fails to launch xmms even if the user is logging in to a console, so I should move this to a file that executes programs only if logging in under X. Is there such a file? If not, is there a way I can condition the launching of xmms (or any program that requires X) upon X being running? /etc/rc.local (- /etc/rc.d/rc.local) Said to do the same as /etc/profile, but I can't get it to work, nor do I understand when one would use this vs. /etc/profile. ~/.xinitrc Runs a program upon a particular user starting X. Only works if you login at a console and then start X manually. ~/.bashrc Runs a program every time a particular user opens a terminal, assuming he uses bash. ~/.bash_profile Runs a program upon login of a particular user, any WM, in or out of X. I haven't mastered this yet as sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. As with /etc/profile, I'd like to find a way to condition the launching of a program that requires X upon X being running. And of course many WMs have their own ways of launching programs on startup, such a placing things in ~/Desktop/Autostart. I'm not considering them here because for the moment I am looking for WM-independent ways to launch programs. So... what else is there to know about running programs at startup? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] boot messages
El sáb, 10-01-2004 a las 10:12, Eric Huff escribió: Where can i find the boot messages displayed while booting (with the [OK]'s and everything? Boot messages are split across two logs. The initial boot messages are written to /var/log/dmesg, and the later messages are written to /var/log/boot.log. The latter is what you're looking for; every line that appeared as [OK] on the screen ends with succeeded in the log. You need to be root to view either of these files. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] edgeSnapThreshold in fluxbox doesn't work - SOLVED
El vie, 09-01-2004 a las 10:34, Warren Post escribió: Several of you have convinced me to try fluxbox, and I love it. One minor annoyance I am dealing with is edge snap. It is easily set in ~/.fluxbox/init (session.screen0.edgeSnapThreshold per the man page), but it doesn't change fluxbox's behavior. Has anyone been able to enable edge snap in fluxbox? Answering my own question, I see on the fluxbox home page http://fluxbox.org/ that window snapping is a planned, not implemented, feature. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
El vie, 09-01-2004 a las 09:39, Anne Wilson escribió: Warren - this was a well-publicised problem with 8.2. The fix was simple, though I can't remember it. It was described on the 8.2 Errata page, and I think it's still available. Actually, it was a problem with 9.0: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90errata.php3#urpmi The fix is unfortunately not applicable to 8.2. I'm thankful that you mentioned it in any case, because now I have the 8.2 errata bookmarked. Several people suggested that I may need to update my sources first. Sorry, I should have mentioned that I had updated everything just last week. Others suggested several variants on urpmi commands, but I am using rpmdrake, the GUI frontend to urpmi. Still, these suggestions gave me the idea of trying urpmi from the command line on the problem packages, and they installed without complaint. So apparently the problem is with the version of rpmdrake that shipped with 8.2, and the workaround is to use urpmi from the command line. Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] edgeSnapThreshold in fluxbox doesn't work
Reposting at Margot's suggestion... * Several of you have convinced me to try fluxbox, and I love it. One minor annoyance I am dealing with is edge snap. It is easily set in ~/.fluxbox/init (session.screen0.edgeSnapThreshold per the man page), but it doesn't change fluxbox's behavior. Has anyone been able to enable edge snap in fluxbox? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Managing downloads and packages
Reposting at Margot's suggestion... * I'm trying to manage better my downloads and packages. From previous posts to this list, I've concluded that I should always prefer an Mandrake RPM, but if a suitable RPM is not available then I should build an RPM from source tarball and install it that way, and that checkinstall is an easy way to do that (with thanks to Derek for that suggestion). If I decide to keep the source after building the RPM, it belongs in /usr/local/src -- correct? And is there any reason to save the source? Charlie suggested in an earlier post that If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there..., which sounds like a good idea. Yet checkinstall does not place the RPMs it creates in a single directory but rather in several subdirectories under /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/, classified by architecture. I am tempted to find how to change checkinstall's behavior to place RPMs in a single directory and follow Charlie's advice, but before I do I'd like to understand what the logic is in having RPMs for different architectures in different directories. This issue becomes more relevant considering that I also download pre-rolled RPMs and want to save them in the same place, and those RPMs come in different architectures (at the moment, I have RPMs for i386, i586, and noarch). It would be more convenient for me to have all my RPMs (both pre-rolled and those I rolled myself, regardless of architecture) in one place, and so be able to define one local source for urpmi rather than many. Perhaps this is all much ado about nothing, but I want to understand what is going on and why before I start messing things up or reinventing the wheel. All advice welcome. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
El jue, 08-01-2004 a las 16:43, Margot escribió: I can see your message. Perhaps the gurus are still recovering from the holidays? Try posting again and see if you get any replies. Will do, and thanks. Perhaps the hangovers are beginning to wear off now. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
Frequently when I try to update my system, rpmdrake (urpmi) tells me that everything is already installed. For example, I have bind-utils-9.2.0-6mdk currently installed. bind-utils-9.2.1-2.2mdk is available on the update mirrors, but when I try to update it I am told everything already installed. If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Managing downloads and packages
I'm trying to manage better my downloads and packages. From previous posts to this list, I've concluded that I should always prefer an Mandrake RPM, but if a suitable RPM is not available then I should build an RPM from source tarball and install it that way, and that checkinstall is an easy way to do that (with thanks to Derek for that suggestion). If I decide to keep the source after building the RPM, it belongs in /usr/local/src -- correct? And is there any reason to save the source? Charlie suggested in an earlier post that If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there..., which sounds like a good idea. Yet checkinstall does not place the RPMs it creates in a single directory but rather in several subdirectories under /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/, classified by architecture. I am tempted to find how to change checkinstall's behavior to place RPMs in a single directory and follow Charlie's advice, but before I do I'd like to understand what the logic is in having RPMs for different architectures in different directories. This issue becomes more relevant considering that I also download pre-rolled RPMs and want to save them in the same place, and those RPMs come in different architectures (at the moment, I have RPMs for i386, i586, and noarch). It would be more convenient for me to have all my RPMs (both pre-rolled and those I rolled myself, regardless of architecture) in one place, and so be able to define one local source for urpmi rather than many. Perhaps this is all much ado about nothing, but I want to understand what is going on and why before I start messing things up or reinventing the wheel. All advice welcome. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver - SOLVED
It's more an ugly hack than an elegant solution, but it works. After
some fumbling, I found that appending -lgdk_pixbuf_xlib to the end of
the line LDFLAGS = -L${exec_prefix}/lib in
/usr/local/src/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/Makefile does the trick. It
makes just fine now.
What gave me the clue I needed was section 17.4.5 (6) of the Mandrake
Linux Reference Manual, which also taught me something about unresolved
symbols. Perhaps this will be of use to others with unresolved symbols.
--
Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394
Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras
http://srcopan.vze.com/
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[newbie] Tip: checkinstall on 8.2 broken
Probably no one but me is using 8.2 anymore. But just in case, the version of checkinstall that came on the 8.2 Power Pack seems to be broken, and no update appears on any mirror I checked. The fix is easy: on the checkinstall website http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ is an RPM that works fine at http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.5.3-1.i386.rpm. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver
As I never saw this appear on the list, I am resending it. Warren -Mensaje reenviado- From: Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver Date: 24 Dec 2003 10:27:55 -0600 El lun, 22-12-2003 a las 09:28, cdrack escribió: You have to look at undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file. This function are included into the library GdkPixbuf, so you have to install it first. That's what has me stumped: I've already installed every pixbuf related RPM on the 8.2 Power Pack and all their dependencies. Specifically, I have installed: gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.16.0-1mdk gnome-guile-0.20-15mdk libgdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas1-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf2-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf2-devel-0.16.0-1mdk libguppi16-devel-0.40.3-1mdk pygtk-0.6.9-1mdk rep-gtk-0.15-4mdk rep-gtk-gnome-0.15-4mdk Your comment inspired me to re-run ./configure and take a look at the messages that fly by. Among many other messages I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xscreensaver-4.14]# ./configure (snip) checking for gdk_pixbuf with gdk-pixbuf-config based tests... checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-config checking for gdk-pixbuf includes... -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-1.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include checking for gdk-pixbuf libs... -L/usr/lib -lgdk_pixbuf -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm checking gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h usability... yes checking gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h presence... yes checking for gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h... yes checking gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h usability... yes checking gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h presence... yes checking for gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h... yes checking for gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file in -lc... yes checking for gdk_pixbuf_xlib_init in -lc... yes Looks like pixbuf is already there and usable. Yet when I look at config.log, I notice that the only reference to pixbuf is this line in the Output variables section: gdk_pixbuf_config='' which makes me wonder if I am indeed missing something or have something misconfigured. But what, if everything pixbuf related on the 8.2 disks are already installed? Assuming that I'm missing something, and I install it, do I have to ./configure again before I make? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver
As I never saw this appear on the list, I am resending it. Warren -Mensaje reenviado- From: Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver Date: 23 Dec 2003 12:13:55 -0600 El dom, 21-12-2003 a las 15:01, Kaj Haulrich escribió: Why not just (as root): urpmi xscreensaver ? For 8.2, all urpmi can find is the xscreensaver version I already have. And yes, my sources are up to date with what easy urpmi shows. Someone will ask why I don't move up to 9.2. It's because I'm so happy with 8.2 that I don't see the need, aside from cases like this... and after all, it's time I learn to compile my own from source (and later, roll my own RPMs with checkinstall, but one step at a time, methinks). -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't make xscreensaver
I've decided I just can't live without the xmatrix screensaver. I download the latest xscreensaver tarball from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/, unpack it, and follow the INSTALL and README. ./configure goes fine, but make dies thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xscreensaver-4.14]# make (big snip) demo-Gtk-support.o: In function `create_pixmap': /home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/demo-Gtk-support.c:165: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file' /home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/demo-Gtk-support.c:175: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_render_pixmap_and_mask' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [xscreensaver-demo-Gtk] Error 1 make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver' make: *** [default] Error 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] xscreensaver-4.14]# What should I be looking at to find and correct the problem? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: CSS Editor
El mié, 03-12-2003 a las 05:27, Marco Verheul escribió: Is there a CSS Editor for Linux that comes close to TopStyle? It's not a TopStyle clone by any means, but I've been using Bluefish with great success. Now that I'm used to it, I like it better than TopStyle. Marco, I think you'll want to fix your reply-to header. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?
PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't worry and just give it a go. The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driver for the winmodem that comes on the board. Many folks on this list will tell you that you are better off buying a real modem, and I suppose they're right, but I had no trouble following the instructions for my PCTel onboard winmodem, which works better in Linux than it ever did in Windows. Mind you, I wish I had a decent motherboard and real hardware. But PC Chips installs and works no worse in Linux than it does in Windows. PC Chips puts their mobo model number in tiny print in one of the corners of the board right next to a screw hole. You're looking for something like M748LMRT, which is what the mobo I'm using now says. The PC Chips website is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/. They have a page for every mobo they've made, including the old discontinued stuff. The page for my board, for example, is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M748LMRT.html, which I mention so that you can simply change my model number for yours and go straight to your board's page. There you will find a downloadable manual for your mobo and the latest BIOS to flash if you're a risk taker. In case your modem is a PCTel, http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windows. Hope this helps. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
My principal business is a restaurant http://pizzapizza.vze.com/ and I've been running Linux Mandrake on our office computer since 8.0. The system is more stable and our data is no longer hostage to Microsoft's proprietary formats. One of the reasons that made me look at alternatives to Windows in the first place is that I use the office computer to supply background music for the dining area, but under Windows the system was never stable enough to rely upon. With any player under Windows -- Winamp, Music Match, whatever -- the sound would stutter and crash after a few hours. With Linux Mandrake and XMMS, I don't even have to think about the music anymore. I just turn on the system and it plays, with perfect reliability. The heart of our restaurant's office work is a spreadsheet with a list of raw ingredients that my restaurant uses. It is referenced by another sheet that has all our recipes and calculates costs and prices. It in turn is referenced by a word processing document that has our menu ready to print. Microsoft Office could never get it right: cell references were dropped, formatting was mangled, and files were irrecoverably corrupted constantly. OpenOffice imported the relevant files, converted them, and made everything work out of the box. As a side business I develop and manage web sites. The software available in Linux is so much better than the equivalent apps in Windows. Bluefish, Gimp, gFTP... they blow away the best there is for Windows. I'll never go back to Microsoft. I had opened our town's first Internet café. I have since closed it for business reasons, but at the same time I switched our restaurant to Linux I switched the café as well, renaming it the Tropical Penguin Cybercafé with a logo of Tux wearing a Hawaiian necklace. Steady customers didn't notice that it wasn't Windows but did comment on how much faster and more stable the workstations had become, and how much nicer the desktops looked. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?
PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't worry and just give it a go. The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driver for the winmodem that comes on the board. Many folks on this list will tell you that you are better off buying a real modem, and I suppose they're right, but I had no trouble following the instructions for my PCTel onboard winmodem, which works better in Linux than it ever did in Windows. Mind you, I wish I had a decent motherboard and real hardware. But PC Chips installs and works no worse in Linux than it does in Windows. PC Chips puts their mobo model number in tiny print in one of the corners of the board right next to a screw hole. You're looking for something like M748LMRT, which is what the mobo I'm using now says. The PC Chips website is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/. They have a page for every mobo they've made, including the old discontinued stuff. The page for my board, for example, is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M748LMRT.html, which I mention so that you can simply change my model number for yours and go straight to your board's page. There you will find a downloadable manual for your mobo and the latest BIOS to flash if you're a risk taker. In case your modem is a PCTel, http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windows. Hope this helps. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how many...
El jue, 06-11-2003 a las 07:23, Inhabitant of Zion escribió: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb? None, they merely change the standard to darkness and then they upgrade the customers. From the Microsoft Knowledge Base: As noted in the light bulb EULA, no provision has been made for uninstallation of light bulbs. Should you desire to remove a light bulb, it will be necessary to reinstall the system. -- Warren Post Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
One of my boxes does the same thing if I don't get the memory seated just exactly right. If I pull the memory one stick at a time I can isolate which stick was incorrectly seated and fix the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Misreported CPU
My CPU, a 366 MHz Mendocino Celeron, has always been correctly detected. But suddenly it is reported as a 368 MHz Mobile Pentium II. Bogomips remain the same, 730 or so, and the BIOS continues to recognize it as a Celeron. Beats me what I did to screw this up. Is this purely cosmetic or should I fix it? If so, how? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pppd dies
El mié, 22-10-2003 a las 13:01, John Richard Smith escribió: Other factors, Line quality, Well, that's probably it then. The problem is more acute when it's raining, and I'm dialing in over phone lines that our government telco splices with masking tape. Guess I'm just going to have to learn to be more patient. Ah, the joys of government monopolies. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pppd dies
Most, but not every, time that I try to connect to the net, pppd dies within 5 seconds with an exit code #10. /var/log/daemons/errors says: Oct 20 15:03:40 gerencia pppd[2104]: Could not determine local IP address What could cause pppd to be unable to determine a local IP address, and what can I do to correct this? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remotely answer incoming fax?
El dom, 20-07-2003 a las 17:16, JoeHill escribió: On 20 Jul 2003 17:10:43 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Now my fax machine has died and I'd like to do the same thing with my computer's fax modem. So far I can't find any reference to any such feature in Efax or HylaFAX (I'm assuming such a feature would have to be implemented on the backend). Any leads, anyone? try Sourceforge or Freshmeat Sorry, I should have specified that I'm going through all the interesting frontends on Sourceforge and Freshmeat, looking both for this and several other features that I want. So far no luck, but there are many frontends that I have yet to look at. What concerns me more, however, is that I suspect that that this particular feature would need to be implemented in the backend before a frontend could offer it, and I can find no reference to such a feature in the Efax or HylaFAX documentation. Does anyone know if what I am looking for is even currently available in software, or am I going to have to buy a fax machine to get this feature? BTW and OT, my apologies for being so slow in my replies. Shortly after posting the original question I hurt my ankle and am now under doctor's orders to stay in bed for a couple of weeks -- and my computer is at work, not at home, so I'm no longer able to reply to email as often as I'd like. But I do read and reply to your help, even if it takes me a few days to do so. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Recommended laser printer parts vendor
Can anyone recommend a reliable online vendor of laser printer parts? My Brother MFC 4500ML multifunction laser needs a new fuser controller board. Sure, I could Google, but my interest is not so much finding the lowest price as finding a reliable vendor. TIA, Warren -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Splitting a file across floppies
How can I split a large file across multiple floppy disks and reassemble them on another computer? In that other OS, I would use Winzip or a similar tool, but I don't see how to do it either with Gnozip or from the command line. Specifically, here's my situation. I've downloaded a 3 MB Windows executable on my Linux box, which I need to install on a Windows box. I don't have CD-R, so I have to split the file across several floppies. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Human language translation software
Can anyone point me to language translation software, like (for example) English to Spanish? qtrans is on the installation disks but I need something far more robust than that. All I can find on freshmeat and sourceforge are web based services, and I'm looking for something I can run locally and tweak. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This ROCKS
El sáb, 21-06-2003 a las 10:09, Derek Jennings escribió: Question for you Warren Why choose LEAF Dachstein as opposed to LEAF Bering ? Simply because Dachstein was the first I looked at, I liked it, and jumped right in. I have since heard good things about Bering so I can't recommend one over the other. -- Warren Post Your opinion counts! Direct your complaints to /dev/null today. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This ROCKS
El jue, 19-06-2003 a las 21:22, JoeHill escribió: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ It sure does. I put Dachstein LEAF on a client's abandoned 486 and saved them from buying a hardware router/firewall. The client has 25 brand new Windoze machines and the LEAF box is the only reliable 'puter in the building. Ha! -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
El mar, 17-06-2003 a las 09:49, Maurice O'Connor escribió: I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. At least with the version I use (1.0.3), click on Bookmarks | Add a new bookmark to, then navigate to the place in your bookmarks that you want to add the current page to. Easy, once you find it. Some people will find this second method even easier: Bookmarks | Add bookmark. Then later you can edit your bookmarks and move it to where you want it. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] deadkeys usage in keyboard layout.
El lun, 16-06-2003 a las 16:50, manolis escribió: I cannot use the deadkeys on my keyboard (for foreign letters with accents). When I press such a key and after a vowel I get no char. Your keyboard is configured as U.S.-International? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?
El mar, 17-06-2003 a las 09:46, eric huff escribió: Anyone have a favorite ssh program for win2000? PuTTY. I don't have the URL handy; you'll have to Google for it. I put PuTTY on a client's Win2K box to ssh into the Linux box I set up for them as a firewall. Works great. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux drver genius colorpage vivid III scanner
El dom, 08-06-2003 a las 12:27, Johan Scheepers escribió: Hi, I need linux driver for above scanner The Genius ColorPage-Vivid series are rebadged Plustek products, so you need drivers and instructions for Plustek scanners: Drivers and general information: http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html Clear newbie friendly instructions: http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/howtos/NewbiePlustekHowto/node1.html Anyway where is the best place to look for linux drivers The manufacturer's web site is the place to start. Genius's web site http://www.genius-kye.com/ provides links to Linux drivers for their scanners. Failing that, try Google. Failing that, search the archives of this list. I save all the posts to this list for that purpose. Failing that, ask here. Johan, I suggest you remove the Reply-to information from your email client. When I started to reply to your query, my reply was addressed to you personally and not to the newbie list. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes
El vie, 06-06-2003 a las 21:50, Dennis Myers escribió: As the subject implies, I am recording my old cassette tapes to make CDs. Some of them are nearing 22 years old and I don't want to lose them. I am using gramofile since I can't quite get audacity to record to harddrive. Now the question is, what's the best way to do this, do the record as a .wav and then burn as mp3s or record as mp3s and burn CDs as mp3s? I record to .wav, normalize using normalize, and encode as ogg with oggenc. Sounds great. is there a faster way to do the process than just play the tape and record? No. This is not a gramofile limitation, this is a limitation of the analog cassette format. Even pro quality cassette to cassette duplicating machines should be not be run at faster than playback speed if you want the highest quality sound. If you are willing to sacrifice quality, I suppose you could record to .wav at a higher than normal speed (you'll need to find a cassette deck with a high speed dupe function) and later stretch out the .wav's time scale, but methinks that you'll sacrifice a lot of quality to save a little time. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tip: When the Winmodem goes AWOL
El lun, 02-06-2003 a las 20:56, Joeb escribió: On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:47:14 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is only up when I have time to use it. So it gets halted once, and sometimes twice a day. Nearly everytime I bring it back up, the system has lost my Winmodem settings and I have to run hcfpciconfig, the configuration program for the Conexant chipset it uses. (The modem is a Zoom, model 3025). After I run the config everything is back to normal and the modem is usable. Why is the system loosing my config settings? What can I do to make the config settings permanent? I am not familiar with the Conexant chipset modems (since I don't have one), but for the PC-Tel modems, you can insert a couple lines in the /etc/modules.conf that force Linux to load the modules automatically when needed. You might check the readme for the drivers and see if they have similar lines to manually add to your /etc/modules.conf. I'm afraid that I have nothing to add except second Joeb's advice. I had to add my modem's modules to /etc/modules.conf before the modem worked across reboots. HTH. Joeb: Thanks for the service -f devfsd tip. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File viewer (like QuickView for Win)?
El dom, 01-06-2003 a las 21:37, JoeHill escribió: beatcha to it... You sure did. That happens to me a lot. I can only connect once a day (and that only if our lousy government run ISP happens to be working) so I often answer threads that unknown to me have already moved on. I must be on several people's twit filters by now for this. ...but he wants to view many types of files, not just pr0n. So I see now. Sorry, rikona, can't help you there. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dreamweaver equivalent linux
El lun, 02-06-2003 a las 06:07, ivette brusselmans escribió: Is there a dreamweaver equivalent in linux? The most Dreamweaver-like app for Linux is IBM Websphere. I'm not the best person to review it, as I prefer hand coding, but if I were to use a WYSIWYG tool I would prefer Websphere to Dreamweaver. Websphere is a lot cheaper than Dreamweaver, and last time I checked you could get a 30 day trial version. Personally I use Bluefish, which is head and shoulders above anything in its class in Windows. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File viewer (like QuickView for Win)?
El sáb, 31-05-2003 a las 13:13, rikona escribió: Hello, Is there a file viewer for MD, perhaps similar to QuickView for Windows, that allows one to browse dir trees files, and can display the files (without opening them) as you scroll through them? gqview is much lighter and faster than Nautilis, Konqueror, et al. Works great even on an older system. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tip: When the Winmodem goes AWOL
My Winmodem (PCTel HSP Micromodem, CM8738) has always worked better in Linux than in Windows. But yesterday it suddenly stopped working. It took me a full day to find a solution, but is so simple that I'm posting it for the benefit of others. All I did was remove the modules and device files, and then recreate and reload. Duh! In my particular case: rmmod ptserial rmmod pctel rm /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem mknod /dev/ttyS15 c 62 79 chgrp uucp /dev/ttyS15 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS15 ln -s /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem insmod pctel insmod ptserial HTH someone. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail enhancements
El vie, 28-03-2003 a las 04:26, Owen Berio escribió: I'm presently using KMail but I can't find any way to enhance text such as hi-lighting, underline, italicize, etc. What you are referring to is called HTML mail. I don't use KMail but take a look in KMail's preferences for some way to activate HTML mail. The use of HTML mail is frowned upon by most lists (including this one) and many users. My mail filters, for example, throw away all HTML mail unread, as the only HTML mail I receive is spam. So I would encourage you to use HTML mail sparingly or not at all. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video for Linux
I'm looking for newbie oriented HOWTOs and basic information about desktop video. Our church, which tapes its weekly services on video, wants to switch from VHS to CD or DVD as a recording and storage format, and I've been asked to find out how. I know nothing about this, but I do know that if I can come up with a Linux based solution I ought to be able to finally replace Windows with Linux on the church's computer, something I've been trying to do for a year. I've been Googling but all I've found is either too far over my head or so Windows-centric as to be useless. So, anyone have any URLs for me? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Updating Mozilla
I now have Mozilla 0.98 and Galeon 1.0.3, which came as RPMs with Mandrake 8.2. I need to update them to more recent version. In the case of Mozilla, I need also to install the Spanish language pack, which I have been unable to do with 0.98. As best I can tell from reading previous messages on this list, I should: 1. Download recent Mozilla and Galeon RPMs, preferably mdk specific ones. Perhaps from Texstar's site? 2. Upgrade Mozilla and Galeon. Test. 3. Install the Spanish language pack for Mozilla. If anyone sees a problem with this plan, please speak up. I normally prefer the trial and error approach, but this particular job must be completed today without error or fail. I've already downloaded Mozilla 1.2.1 and Galeon 1.2.8 as tarballs, but after reading previous posts on this list I get the impression that I would be better off with RPMs. One of these days I'll learn how to roll my own RPMs from tarballs, but today's not the day. The reason I need to upgrade Mozilla is not so much the limitations of 0.98 as the fact that I can't get the Spanish language pack to install and I need a Spanish Mozilla working by OOB tomorrow for a course I'm teaching. Rather than fight the language pack install with an old version, it seems wiser to just upgrade to the current version. Does anyone see any gotchas, or have any tips? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla
So far, so good, with thanks to Raffaele and Todd for suggesting that I use a tarball and not RPM. I had to kill my /user/.mozilla file before the Spanish language pack would work, but that's no problem. Thanks again. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What the sHell is foo ? ;-)
El lun, 24-02-2003 a las 04:59, Josenildo Marques escribió: And why is it used so much in examples ? The story as I've heard it is this: Long ago, coders began to use the acronym fubar (F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition), which later evolved into the more phonetic foobar used today. Being a popular term, both foobar and its shortened form foo have since become common placeholder terms in examples, to keep examples clearer and less obtuse. Thus if you were to ask me, say, How can I read a man page?, I might reply To read man page 'foo', enter 'man foo' at the console. It's clearer, if less precise, than replying man [options] [section] [title]. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
El dom, 16-02-2003 a las 17:18, Jim Snyder escribió: Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? XMMS has lots of eye candy like you're looking for. Select Options | Preferences | Visualization plugins, and play around. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?
El mar, 11-02-2003 a las 09:31, Angus Auld escribió: Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an easy to use HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented toward the inexperienced user. While my personal preference is Bluefish, you might like Mozilla Composer. It lets you switch between WYSIWYG and directly edit the code, so it's easy to, say, do something in WYSIWYG you don't know how to hand code, then see and tweak the code to learn how it's done. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] If I have to have MSIE...
I have to have MSIE. I don't like the browser, but I do a little web design and I need to have MSIE handy (and multiple versions, no less) to test my work in -- as I learned the hard way last week. :-( Given that Bill's Bad Browser isn't and will probably never be available for Linux, how have others on this list with the same need handled this? Ideally I'd buy VMWare, but economically that's not an option right now. Which leaves me with setting up multiple Windows partitions (one for each version of MSIE I need) and reboot every time I want to test my work, or run multiple versions of MSIE in an emulator. Thoughts? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:58:30 +0200, Gil Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any HTML e-mail client like outlook express? There are several. If you're familiar with Outlook Express you'll feel right at home with Evolution. It does everything Outlook does except propagate viruses. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kalle.saarinen@acte.fi
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:00:02 +0200, Silent Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how to display disk space in commad line? Used/free etc. df, or if you need more information, du. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:56:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I get something like this almost every 2 weeks... Only one every two weeks? What's your secret? I get two or three a day. Shall I forward my extra ones to you? :-) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution Sending
El sáb, 18-01-2003 a las 01:47, Russ escribió: While we are at it, is there a way to have all messages sent to Outbox until I choose to send/receive instead of directly sending? Upon opening Evolution, click the connected cables icon in the lower left corner to put Evolution into offline mode. In offline mode, messages you write will go to the outbox until you explicitly chose to send and receive messages (you do not need to switch to online mode to send and receive). -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues
El sáb, 11-01-2003 a las 19:16, Andrei Raevsky escribió:
1) I have a US keyboard on my laptop. I would like to type in French
letters with accents (such as é or à)..
Use the Mandrake Control Center to change your keyboard to U.S.
International. Now the apostrophe (') and quotation mark () keys are
dead keys that are used to create accented letters. To type é, for
example, press the apostrophe followed by the e. To type an apostrophe,
press the apostrophe key twice. Once you get used to it you will find it
a much easier way to type than those silly alt codes in Windows.
2) How can I rapidly change keyboards? I could use the Mandrake Control
Center's hardware menu to change keyboards, but this would also be very
slow...
Can't help you with this one. Anyone else know?
--
Warren Post
Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras
http://srcopan.vze.com/
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Re: [newbie] Linux W2000
El mié, 01-01-2003 a las 16:38, Smiley escribió: What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... FAT32 or NTFS? If the latter, I can't help you. But if the Win2K partition is FAT32, then try parted, available at Freshmeat or at: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted I used parted to shrink my Win95 partition and grow my Linux EXT2 partitions several times as I weaned myself from Windows. If you use the boot disk version, you can resize partions that are normally in use, like root and /home. It works, and the documentation is very newbie friendly. Highly recommended. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 11:48, Mr. VLE79E escribió: I am planning to run two boxes. A Linux box to be my http server and a win box for developing web sites... I'm not answering your question, but if you don't mind my jumping in may I suggest you rethink your idea to use a Windows box for website development. I do websites and use Windows only at gunpoint. The apps available in Linux are so far beyond what Windows has to offer that there is no comparison. Code editors? Bluefish and Quanta beat their Windows brethren. Preprocessors? What few there are for Windows are mostly ports or ripoffs from *nix. WYSIWYG? I recommend hand coding, but IBM's Websphere stands up well to Dreamweaver. M$ Runt Page is too unworthy for comparison. Image editors? Gimp compares very well to Photoshop. Granted, if you have a favorite tool that you just can't live without, you might be stuck with Windows if it won't run in Wine. I still need a Windows box around to test my sites in M$IE. And if you do ASP, you may well want your web server to be IIS on Windows. But in general, I think you'll find Linux far superior to Windows for website development. YMMV, as always. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PHP Editor
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: Anyway knows a good PHP Code Editor that support indentation and text highlighting Bluefish. It's on your installation disks. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. You can edit the configuration file manually (/etc/lilo.conf) as root or use the GUI tool in the Mandrake Control Center, under boot. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation
El mié, 11-12-2002 a las 12:30, Mr. VLE79E escribió: Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I install it? See http://www.winmodem.org/ and look up your modem. Some work quite well, some are flakey, and some don't work at all. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening - SOLVED
El dom, 01-12-2002 a las 21:21, Warren Post escribió: OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down... Thanks to everyone who offered ideas. The solution is to edit the OOo startup script (/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/soffice) and add this line: unset SESSION_MANAGER That fixes it. Gory details at: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4494 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81762 -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening
OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down. No message of any kind appears in the terminal window I launch it from, I am simply returned to the prompt. ps ax afterward shows no lingering traces of OO, so at least it shuts down cleanly. This happens perhaps 75% of the time I try to open any component of OO. The other 25% of the time OO remains open and works normally. The behavior is the same if opened from a menu vs. a terminal window, and regardless of WM used, user, or previously running apps or daemons. Clue #1: When I run the OO repair tool (/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/setup as user and select repair), that user does not suffer this problem for a day or so. Clue #2: Before I installed OO on 8.2, I installed StarOffice 6.0 from the rpm on the Power Pack. I never could get StarOffice to work, so I uninstalled the rpm prior to installing OO. Any ideas of what I should be looking at to fix this? I'd rather not rerun setup every day from now on. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issues
El vie, 29-11-2002 a las 10:11, Ralph M. Los escribió: 1. What's a good file manager type application? Nautilus plain sucks. I like XWC: fast and light. It's on your installation disks. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS hangup
El jue, 14-11-2002 a las 14:34, Anne Wilson escribió: For some peculiar reason every time I try to print I am having problems. The printer starts OK, but hangs part way down the page. It is as though the print is not spooling, and drawing direct so that the slightest thing interferes with it. Has anyone got a fix for this? My printer (a Brother MFC 4500ML) would also hang midpage with anything but the most simple documents. It turns out that I didn't have enough memory in the printer, and installing more solved the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution folder repair
Perhaps this will help someone. I had a mail folder in Evolution become corrupt. Evolution's error message went so far as to declare the entire folder irrecoverably lost. Not true! It's easy to fix: I closed Evolution and went to the relevant directory (/home/username/evolution/local/foldername/). There you will find several files, among which are mbox (the messages themselves) and mbox.ev-summary (a summary of the contents of mbox). This summary file became corrupt and had to be rebuilt, so I renamed mbox.ev-summary. Then I reopened Evolution and accessd the folder in question. Evolution rebuild the folder's summary file and the folder worked fine. To clean up, I then deleted the renamed mbox.ev-summary file. Easy. Perhaps this fix will work with other mbox based email clients as well. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 07:02, Anne Wilson escribió: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus sign and Ctrl-Alt-minus sign are what you want, I think. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 16:49, Peter Spotts escribió: Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four to six pixels. The side-to-side alignment seems OK. I have the laptop set up as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on the other side of the no-byte zone. The problem doesn't exist on that side of the divide. I also made sure I selected the appropriate driver when I installed MDK8.1 (ATI Radeon). Any thoughts as to how I can get an exact fit of desktop to screen? I had a similar problem: the X display was off center. Outside of X the display was centered correctly. I solved it by running xvidtune, which among other things lets you align the X display horizontally and vertically. Try it and let us know if the problem persists. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't start a program at boot
I have been trying unsuccessfully to launch XMMS automatically on boot, or alternatively whenever any user logs in. I use several different windows managers so a wm-specific solution such as using ~/Desktop/Autostart won't work for me. I've searched this list for ideas, and have tried: * xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in /etc/rc.local. I've tried it both as the last line and as the next to last line. Fails silently. * exec xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in ~/.xinitrc. Fails silently. * xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in ~/.bashrc. Works, but annoyingly restarts XMMS ever time I open a terminal, which is often. Yes, the command xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u given manually in a terminal does work. What else might I try? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adding to OpenOffice gallery for all users
It's easy enough to add items to OpenOffice's gallery for one user. But how do you add items so that they will be available to all, without having to install the same items separately for each user? I copied a number of images to subdirectories of OpenOffice's shared gallery directory, /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/share/gallery. These images can now be installed in each user's gallery, but each user has to do this installation by hand. How can the installation be done once and for all for all users? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing 8.1 packages on 8.2
I've just switched from 8.1 download edition to 8.2 Power Pack and like it. But there are some 8.1 packages that I'd like to use in 8.2, for example: * Blackbox (present on the 8.1 disks, not on 8.2) * findutils (the 8.1 package contains slocate, 8.2 does not) * Some themes for IceWM and XMMS that 8.2 doesn't have * sane 1.0.5 (which works with my scanner's module; 8.2 ships with sane 1.0.7 which breaks the module) ... and so forth. Given that I already have these packages on my 8.1 disks, is there any reason why I should not install these 8.1 packages on my 8.2 system? Could I simply define my 8.1 disks as additional sources? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stop %^$#@$% print job
El jue, 10-10-2002 a las 01:21, Dale Huckeby escribió: I seem to recall there was a brief discussion on either the newbie or expert list not too long ago on how to stop a print job and clear the printer's memory (don't want to waste 70 or 80 pages worth of ink), but I haven't been able to find it. Can anyone point me to it, or offer some suggestions? Here's what works for me: Delete the files in /var/spool/cups and /var/spool/cups/tmp Service cups restart -s Reboot the printer (not the computer) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Formatting from boot disk
El lun, 07-10-2002 a las 11:43, Julie escribió: I recently recieved a free 133mhz machine for free from a friend and I decided to install the Mandrake 8.0 I had bought some time ago. Unfortunately I didn't check out the system fully before trying to install, and after I finished and rebooted, it loaded and the log in screen came up completely stuffed. I could barely see a portion of the screen and couldn't click on anything so was unable to log in. It looked fine during setup, but looked as if it were only in 16 colors. I've tried reinstalling three times with the same result. Can I possibly boot up from the floppy somehow and format the drive so I can load Windoze on temporarily just to make sure there are no hardware problems? I've tried booting from a Windoze98 startup disk but it's a no go. Aside from whatever problems your Mandrake installation might have, it sounds like the Windows startup disk you used is damaged. Assuming the BIOS is set to boot from the floppy, a Windows startup disk should boot any PC into DOS, regardless of what is on the hard disk. Try a different startup disk, or download a DOS boot disk from the net (there are several, try Google). Or perhaps the floppy drive is dirty or dead. The Mandrake symptoms you describe may be a configuration problem: wrong video adapter selected, wrong version of XFree86, etc. Give the list some details about your video hardware and configuration. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I
El mié, 02-10-2002 a las 17:41, Edward Reynolds escribió: I would like to know if there is a tool that will allow me to resize my Windows partition, without loosing the data on that partition. I have about 5 GB of free space on that partition. Partition Resizer. Free from tucows.com but not open source. DOS based floppy. Parted. Free from freshmeat.net and open source. Linux based floppy. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution and recurring tasks
El mar, 01-10-2002 a las 02:20, Brian Parish escribió: I have a mission to convert my sister to Mandrake. Evolution is an important part of this. She asks how to do something fairly simple: create a recurring task. It certainly aint obvious to me. Can it be done? This is my biggest gripe with Evolution. You can't make a recurring task, only a recurring appointment, at least not with 1.0.2 which I am using. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of Mandrake Linux on an old machine
El jue, 26-09-2002 a las 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I installed on an old Compaq Deskpro 566. I have 32MB of ram. I also have two disk drives. One is a 500MB drive and the other is a 1G drive. I installed the root on the 500G drive with swap and home on the 1G drive. Problem: I installed KED. I saw it install but when I boot up all I get is the text only command window. Do I need more memory? Thanks, Dave Capuano I'm not sure what the minimum requirements are, and we would need to know which version of Mandrake and KDE in any case. But I can say that with your older system KDE is not an option. You will find a lighter window manager like IceWM or Blackbox to be much faster and probably more stable. If you can put more memory in the box, do it. Linux uses RAM very efficiently and so there's no such thing as too much RAM. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
El vie, 27-09-2002 a las 12:42, Andre Stevens escribió: Are there any sites that explain how to set up internal modems and printers for Linux? For printers, see http://www.linuxprinting.org/. For modems, you'll have to first identify it. I have a sinking feeling that you have a so-called winmodem, so take a look at http://www.winmodem.org/. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The print job that wouldn't die - SOLVED
El lun, 23-09-2002 a las 15:01, s escribió: delete the files in /var/spool/cups /var/spool/cups/tmp then service cups restart. -s That, plus rebooting the printer (not the computer) finally took care of it. Thank you! -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Won't boot if headless
This is a hardware problem, not a Linux problem. But perhaps someone has faced this problem before. I've amazed my friends by setting up a Linux-firewall-on-a-floppy in our city hall on an ancient 486 that was retired ages ago. But when I try to run it headless, it won't boot unless I plug a keyboard back in. As a workaround I've got an old keyboard that doesn't work very well plugged into the box, but that is both an inelegant solution and a temptation to idle fingers. Nor is this an idle complaint: our frequent power outages mean that the box must reboot often and reliably. I suspect that the problem is hardwired and the only solution is to change the motherboard. (I see no BIOS settings that should affect the keyboard.) But somebody prove me wrong, please. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The print job that wouldn't die
I have a print job I want to kill, but not even a stake through it's heart seems to work. I have tried: * Killing it with the CUPS web admin tool (localhost:631). CUPS now says there are no jobs pending, but the printer keeps printing. * ps ax. There's nothing obvious to kill. * lpq. It says lp is ready and no entries * cancel lp. It says cancel: cancel-job failed: client-error-not-possible What else can I try to kill off this monster? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smiley faces
To send, type a smiley emoticon, which is: :-) The receiver needs to have enabled display emoticons as graphics, which in Mozilla is at Edit | Preferences | Mail and Newsgroups | Message Display. Warren El jue, 12-09-2002 a las 07:43, Marcia escribió: Dear All, How does one add those cute sunshine faces to email? I have LM8.2 and use Mozilla messenger. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE
Actually there are many more options than just these two. Each has its advantages, so try 'em all and see which one(s) you like the best. When you install Linux, you'll be asked which graphical environment(s) you want to install. Choose 'em all. Upon each login you will be able to choose which one you want to try for that session. Pretty soon you'll see just how limiting Windows is with only one graphical environment. Warren El mar, 27-08-2002 a las 21:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: was wondering what is better, Gnome or KDE for Windows Manager. Let me know ur comments :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download manager for LINUX?
Several. I use NT, but there are others as well. When I'm looking for software, I almost always find what I need either on the LM install disks (open Software Manager and search the descriptions) or on freshmeat.net, which is to Linux what Tucows is to Windows. It's remarkable how much high quality software there is for Linux, and a lot of the best is already on your installation disks. Warren El vie, 30-08-2002 a las 00:32, Markus Bela escribió: Hi, is there a download manager available, like FLASGET, DOWNOAD ACCELERATOR, etc? Béla Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
