Re: [newbie] Quotas :o(
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:20, Ken Walker wrote: So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, so why are there two different groups. Why not just have one called mandrake-users It how you try to answer in newbie one probably try to give more info about subject be as guiish as possible. In expert one probably will assume that simple things was done. One would assume you know vi and cli. It not about even answerer but about one who asked a question. You better RTFM and google before you ask your question in expert. Other wise question will not be answered or you will be insulted with RTFM. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Thursday 24 February 2005 19:17, SOTL wrote: Each computer has internet capability and is fully operational in that I can and do get web sites and e-mail to and from each. Neither computer can ping the other. Does computers have public or private IP addresses? ifconfig from cli and look for inet addr: if number after it lokks like 10.X.X.X or 192.168.X.X then you have private addresses. First question: Do I need to install share? [Mandrake Control Center - Network Internet - Internet connection Sharing] No you do not need it. Second Question: How do I set up computers so that they maintain DSL addressing and are able to ping eachother? They must bee in same subnet and workgroup. Third question: Would it be better to use a firewall/router instead of a hub or would that add an unnecessary complication, which I do not need at this time, to my networking attempts [attempts based on past failures]? Fierwall is allways better linksys router would be a good start. Thanks Frank -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:33, h k ball wrote: Kaj ... ... I'm in Atlanta, the bean counters are destroying us all on every front You may be a Redneck if your Linux system boot in CLI. What part of Atlanta. I may be can call you since I am in Marietta. E-mail me off line. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
On Monday 24 January 2005 05:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 05:32, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP There are instruction on compiling new kernels in the manual http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Command-Line.html/comp il ing-kernel-chapter.html But be aware Mandrake apply lots of patches to the standard kernel.org kernel and if you use a standard kernel you might find bits of your system may not work quite the same. Is there a particular reason you want 2.6.10 or is it just for fun? BTW: The latest Mandrake kernel for 10.1 is 2.6.8.1-12mdk and 2.6.10.1-1-1mdk is on the development 'cooker' mirrors. Installing 'Cooker' packages is not advised on a production system as they can have nasty bugs and may require an awful lot of dependencies. derek Derek, I have a Radeon 9800. The driver installs correctly but all the programs go very very slow. I think that upgrading to the latest kernel or one not far behind it may fix the problem. If I can't use the 2.6.10.1-1-1mdk because it is still in the cooker then will you tell me how to upgrade to the 2.6.8.1-12mdk? Thks. From, Mike Chalmers To answer this question and the similar question from Bill Mudry :- For a given Mandrake release MandrakeSoft will support a specific kernel. For Mandrake 10.0 that is 2.6.3 , and for 10.1 it is 2.6.8.1 So you will not find any updates for other kernels on the update servers. (BTW: New kernels do not appear in the MandrakeUpdate GUI. You will only see them in the MandrakeInstall GUI when you filter on 'kernel') I am not saying that installing a 2.6.8.1 kernel in a Mandrake 10.0 system will not work. I am simply saying it *may* not work because of differences between a 10.0 and a 10.1 system. In the same way, there is nothing stopping you installing a 2.6.10 kernel from Cooker. If it does not work there is no point complaining to anyone. Similarly there is nothing stopping you compiling and installing your own kernel from kernel.org. Just do not be surprised if your system behaves differently. (For example Mandrake includes some drivers not in the standard kernel) To install a kernel from an ftp mirror, simply navigate to the mirror using konqueror and click on the kernel you wish to install. For example, go here for Cooker :- ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/med ia/main and for a 2.6.8.1 kernel try :- ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main The new kernel will become the default, but your existing kernel can still be accessed through your Lilo menu at boot time. If the new kernel does not work simply remove it again. What you should **not do** is to declare Cooker to be a urpmi source. Nor should you declare a 10.1 urpmi source if you are using 10.0. If you do declare a Cooker urpmi source, then every time you install software your system will by definition find the newest version on the Cooker mirror and will try to install it as well as all its dependencies. In the best case you will end up installing many hundreds of MB of dependencies and your computer will end up as a 'cooker' system. In the worst case you could get stuck in 'circular dependencies' and get totally confused. It is possible to upgrade from one Mandrake version to another simply by changing urpmi sources (as described in the wiki), but it is probably not the sort of thing a new user should try since there are always a few packages that get stuck in circular dependency. I will leave the issue with ATI Radeon for others to answer since I do not have an ATI card, but are you aware you need to install the proprietary ATI drivers? None of the kernels will contain them by default since they are not OpenSource. derek IMHO kernel upgrade will not fix your problem. However, their possibility to upgrade to next kernel version with no pain at all. DANGER YOU CAN KILL YOUR SYSTEM BY FOLLOWING MY INSTRACTIONS. READ AND PRINT INSTRACTION BEFORE ACTUALLY USING IT. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ASK UBEFORE/U USING. 1.Download from ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS; file named kernel-2.6.8.1.20mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm. 2.Then go to command line by pressing alt+ctrl+f1. 3. Login as root 4. type: cd /place_you_saved_the_file_to. 5. type: urpmi kernel-2.6.8.1.20mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm 6. type: cd /etc/ 7. type: vi lilo.conf (you may need to read man for lilo.conf) 8. check if everithing is ok in the lilo.conf file (it should be) 9. quit vi by pressing esc and then type :q 10 type: lilo 11. reboot by pressing ctrl+alt+del or typing reboot. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
On Sunday 23 January 2005 19:44, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: Quick question: when I type 'man man' in Konsole, and I don't want to read it, but instead I want to go to 'man rpm', how do I do that? The only way I found to do that now was starting a new Konsole session... there surely must be a better way, no? Thanks! type man rpm instad of man man -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
On Sunday 23 January 2005 18:39, Mike Chalmers wrote: I currently have kernel 2.6.3-7mdk installed. I want to update to 2.6.10. I downloaded the file patch-2.6.10.bz2 from kernel.org. I also installed patch-2.5.9-2mdk.i586.rpm. I don't know how to install the 2.6.10 patch. Will someone tell me the command to use to update the kernel to 2.6.10. From, Mike Chalmers _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Unless you like to go through the pain you will be better using urpmi to install kernel. Try to find kernel rpm on rpm repository and urpmi it. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to compare two files?
On Friday 17 December 2004 17:33, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Suppose that a large text file has been slightly modified by another person, and I want to find out 'a posteriori' what changes were done. Is there a linux command (or set of commands) that can compare the two files and tell what lines are different from one another? Thanks, Rodolfo Try diff from command line: $diff file0 file1 Or kompare will give you GUI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installed perl modules list
On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:24, Chris wrote: I've installed all my perl modules via webmin. I'm going to be upgrading to 10.1 during the holidays and want to have a list available of what I've installed already. Is there a file that has these listed? I'd rather print out a file than do a screen print from webmin. rpm -q will give you a list of all files you have currently. so from cli $rpm -q allfiles.txt or if you need only perl files $rpm -q | grep perl allperlfiles.txt -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installed perl modules list
On Friday 17 December 2004 18:36, RickSisler wrote: yankl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:24, Chris wrote: I've installed all my perl modules via webmin. I'm going to be upgrading to 10.1 during the holidays and want to have a list available of what I've installed already. Is there a file that has these listed? I'd rather print out a file than do a screen print from webmin. rpm -q will give you a list of all files you have currently. so from cli $rpm -q allfiles.txt or if you need only perl files $rpm -q | grep perl allperlfiles.txt yankl, $ rpm -q | grep perl rpmq: no arguments given for query so minor correction: add -a for all may want to sort it too, $ rpm -qa |grep perl |sort perlrpms.txt Sorry my fall just had long week. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache
On Thursday 09 September 2004 18:31, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:19:03 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: Does anyone happen to know what needs to be configured in Apache so that the trailing / doesn't need to be in a URL in order for the page to load? currently, if I type in http://www.mysite.org/mypage, I get an error message saying that I don't have access to /mypage. If I type in http://www.mysite.org/mypage/ the page loads just fine. Any ideas on how to fix this? You need to have a default page to load, probably. Should be called 'index.html', off the root of the server, ie. /var/www/html/index.html (or .php or whatever). ...sorry, not off the root of the server...me not reading good :-\ The thing is, http://www.mysite.org/mypage is looking for a page to load called 'mypage', which of course does not exist, it's a directory. Loading www.mysite.org automagically looks for 'index.html' or the like, but as soon as you add a dir off the root, you need to add that trailing /. I'm not sure this is something to be 'fixed', I believe it is normal behaviour. Blast me to hell if I am wrong ;-) Read about trailing slash at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html.en#directoryslash -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning files to a cd from the console
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 18:59, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:39:59PM -0400, SiNiStEr Nation wrote: I've installed Mandrake about week to two weeks ago and slowly learning the system. My question is I have several files that I have downloaded, and was wondering what's the process of burning these file to a cd? I know I could use K3b, but I would like to learn on how to do things using the console or the command line(interested learning some old school stuff before the desktop enviroments came into linux). I had already learn how to compile programs that isn't in a RPM. Google is your friend. http://www.sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/cdcommands/ I'm also making a site of command line stuff that I'm always forgetting on a wiki; you're welcome to contribute as you learn: http://wiki.webonaire.com/cheatsheetki Todd tldp.org is the linux documentation progect. it have excelent howto on cd burning. reed cd-writing article. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PHP and Mysql Question
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 06:42 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Not so much a Mandrake question, but I collect data off of a server and I want to show the data in a graph on the web. I assume the best way is import the data into mysql and present it using PHP. Does anybody do this at the moment? How easy difficult is it to show the data in a graph. Any links are much appreciated. Thanks, Tony. PHP and GD library search internet for that. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 07:07 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 14:51, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Where can one find a Mandrake rpm for Real Audio Player? I have already looked for it at www.real.com, but with no success. Thanks in advance, Paul Paul, if you're running LM 10 it's on one of the install CDs, the plugin as well as the standalone program. -- Jonathan Dlouhy = Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake 10.0 Try http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=search,021204r1cp__dlrhap_bb -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PDF to IMG (JPG, GIF, etc)
On Monday 14 June 2004 12:54 am, OOzy wrote: Is there a program incldued in LM9.2 distro that converts PDF to IMG i.e. JPG, GIF, etc? try from command liene: $ pdf2ps somefile.pdf (convert pdf to ps file) $ pstopnm somefile.ps (convert ps to ppm file) at that point for each page you will get somefile001.ppm somefile002.ppm , etc for each file run $ pnmtojpeg somefileXXX.ppm (replace XXX with 001,002,etc) -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good PHP Editor
On Friday 11 June 2004 08:35 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: OOzy wrote: Hi all I know that I am asking alot of dump questions but I have to. I am switching from MS Win to Linux and I need to have all functionality of windows in Linux. Any how anybody knows a good PHP Editor? Have you tried Quanta Plus? I like it. Actually it is loaded question. Are you looking for something that have PHP syntax highlight? Then I like bluefish. If you are looking for IDE Kdevelopment have capability for PHP development. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 04:32 pm, OOzy wrote: I have LM9.2. On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:19, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:54:48 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a ScanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB USB flash drive. How can I install/mount it. On 10.0, when I put a memory card in a card reader, Mandrake automatically mounts if for me - I don't have to do anything. Check /mnt/removable - that seems to be the default location. Thx In console: $su $password $modprobe usb-storage $mount -t vfat /dev/sg1 /some_directory -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop choice
On Friday 04 June 2004 05:00 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 8:36:36 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/06/04 Fri AM 08:10:16 EDT To: [Newbie] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Laptop choice Hi laptop users, Please .. if you should have the chance to a buy a new laptop..what make..model..etc..would be top of your list. This is for linux use..like mandrake..suse. It was suggested to me that IBM laptops are ..very..linux friendly? Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I have a Compaq Presario that works like a champ with ML10. Only I have not tried to use the onboard modem as I have a cable connection and use the PCMCIA slot for NIC card. HTH Dennis M. My elcheapo Dell 1100 works fine on 10.0. Lee John, Have had no problem with Toshibas (Tecra and Satelite). If you look on the list their are several issues that hunt laptop users: 1. Video 2. Sound 3. Shut down. I had no problem with them on toshibas. Go to http://www.linux-laptop.net/. It is a helpfull place with setting laptop. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] displaying exif comments in jpg files
On Friday 30 April 2004 05:00 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:40, Job Evers wrote: Does anybody know of an image viewer that will also display exif headers? I know that I can use jhead to look at the headers of each individual file, but it would be nice to be able to view the image at the same time. Thanks. If you use ImageMagick's display to view JPG's, you can get the image info by clicking on the image, choosing MISCELLANY, then IMAGE INFO. Should be already installed on your system. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool. -- Menander pixieplus -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can not ssh to Mandrake 10 as non-root
On Thursday 08 April 2004 09:11, Jason Valli wrote: I am unable to ssh to a Mandrake 10 pc with my non-root accounts. They are nis accounts. I can login locally with the nis accounts. Any Ideas. Jason Valli I am assuming that you check hosts and have sshd all entry. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?
On Monday 05 April 2004 05:46, Andrew Archibald wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 15:31, frankieh wrote: I have next to no knowledge of making rpms, but if nobody with more experiance pops up their heads and volenteers.. I will give it a shot and make it publically available.. Interestingly a story about the latest version of XPde has cropped up on slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/03/2322233mode=thread; tid=106tid=185tid=189 I don't have any experience but from some browsing the installation instructions are: General installation instructions: -Decompress the tar.gz in /usr/share as root -Edit the .xinitrc file of the user you want to run XPde and put this line: /usr/share/xpde/bin/startxpde -Start X http://support.xpde.com/ If you're looking to build an rpm, you'd presumably have to write a script, which does some of the above. I've heard that checkinstall is very good for capturing the behaviour of the script and putting it all together, if you work out how to write the script! I'm not quite sure what you would do for the user specific stuff- maybe do it system wide in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ? Or leave it to the user to actually enable it if they want? Perhaps this software needs some adapting to work with a package based system! Good luck! A. Check this page it specific to Mandrake. http://support.xpde.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=32 -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Playing DVDs in Mandrake 9.2
On Thursday 01 April 2004 20:18, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I am having a hard time playing DVDs. I can put in a DVD and open Totem (or Xine). It will start to play and will even give me the correct title of the DVD. Then I get an error stating: The movie 'Error reading NAV packet.' could not be read. Does anyone know what this means? Thanks! check http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/vlc-devel/200106/msg00040.html for nav packets information. Try to use Ogle as DVD player. It is on plf. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] External Projector
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:42, Adolfo Bello wrote: I'm trying to use a Epson PowerLite S1 external projector with Mandrake 9.1 on a Toshiba laptop which has a NVidia card. I am using the open driver that comes with Mandrake. I am having some problem making this thing to work. .- I have to boot with the projector hooked to the laptop. This is an annoyance, not a real problem. .- Booting with the projector connected to the laptop means loosing the output to the LCD monitor, no matter how many times I use the Fn-F5 keys to switch between LCD, Projector or LCD/Projector. (I didn't expect it to work because this Toshiba laptop uses a Windows program to control the BIOS!!). .- To have any output projected, resolution has to be set at 800x600 (the projector can work at 1024x768) .- There is no mouse cursor on the projection. Googling around I have found out that these types of problem are not uncommon, but I haven't had any luck finding answers that point to the solution of these problems. No problem using the projector with Windows but I need to make some presentations with Mandrake or SuSe. Has any body had these sort of problem and solved some of them? Any hint or tip will be truly appreciated. Adolfo Check the http://www.linux-laptop.net/toshiba.html. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE animated cursor
On Thursday 22 January 2004 14:12, Poogle wrote: On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 14:47, Doug wrote: Hi all I was wondering, is there a way to get KDE to use animated cursors? I have looked a bit, but have not found any docs that might explain a way to use them, or for that matter any ani cursors out there on KDE's site. The one thing I do like about Winblow$ is the ability to easily use animated cursors. I do have a collection of them and was wondering if it was possible to use them in KDE. I would appreciate any info, or pointing me in the direction of some docs. I am currently using KDE 3.1 on MDK 9.1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. Thanks for any help. You could go to http://www.rpmfind.net and download cursor_themes it has a number of different cursors, but the only animated one is Tux Check on kdelook.org under cursors -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] telnet question
On Saturday 17 January 2004 18:54, racerpup2 wrote: If I telnet into my site host what command could I use to find out where my site is located on their server. I need to figure out exact server path to a perl script. TIA walt try pwd -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused
On Sunday 28 December 2003 16:05, John P. Santucci wrote: I am having a problem that has me stumped! I have a machine running Suse 9.0 flawlessly. I decided to replace Suse with Mandrake 9.2. The install goes perfectly. UNTIL the system reboots and I get a BLACK screen. I heard the KDE jingle, but no image. I have TRIED every setting with NO luck. System: Asus A7V33 MB, AthlonXP 2100 CPU, 512 Meg RAM, NVidia G4 Ti4200 vid card. Monitor is a vpr Matrix 17 LCD. Reloaded Suse and it works fine. Yes, the drive was reformated before and after. So what doesn't Mandrake like about this system that Suse likes? Is it download version of MDK? If so then it does not have Nvidia drivers. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 03:44, Genady Oliash wrote: ?? . ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? ? ? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? Linux, ??? ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. ??? The message is in Russian my apology to the list: Genady, Voprosj na etom liste jelatel'no zadavat' na Angliskom.:) poprobuite zagruzit' module sk98lin. Iz komandnoy stroki zdelaite sebja rootom i potom modprobe sk98lin Esly u vas est' voprosj mjl'te na prjamuiu. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpm name for crossover plugin.
Hi All, Have a powersuit box set. On the top of the box it say that it's include a crossover, but I can not see it on the DVD. What is the name of rpm for crossover plagin? -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Archive have the last post on 11/15/2003 WHY?
If you will go to http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/2003-11/date.php the last post is on 11/15/2003. What happend? Did archive moved to other place or e-mail to newbie stoped been archiving. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Converting DVD to CD-Roms
Hi all, Any HOWTOs for converting ML9.2 DVD to CDs -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HP PSC1110V
Hi All, Have anyone have any eperience with $subj printers on ML9.1 or 9.2? Any place to look? -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
test -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
test. if you see it send me e-mail off list -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] halt / reboot options at login screen
On Thursday 06 November 2003 12:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Excuse if this is a duplicate, but I don't see my original appearing on the list. My system is a dual boot win2k / LM9.1 laptop. If I start my machine it defaults through lilo to linux and the login screen. Very occasionally I miss the lilo options and the machine starts up linux to the login screen. I may want to reboot immediately to win2k but there are no options appearing in the reboot / halt options at the login screen. However, if I login to my account then immediately log out, the options appear ( linux, safemode, windows etc.) Is there some way to set these options at boot up so I don't have to login and out to get them to appear? Thanks and regards, Bill W. Install kdm (urpmi kdm) and replace your display manager to kdm. MCC - System -Couse Display Manager. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how can I make a lan ( connection ) between linux-Mandrake 9.2 machine and Windows XP notebook.
On Thursday 06 November 2003 02:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody , I want to make a lan ( connection ) between linux-Mandrake 9.2 machine and Windows XP notebook. I have internet dial -up connection on my notebook. ( this means modem adapter is on notebook , on XP machine ) . I want to make a small - home connection and get to internet through my XP machine ( notebook ) How can I do that ?? , hoce can I make linux and XP speak to each other Thanks in advance !! Hertas You need to have network card in each machine and cross 0over cable. Connect and set up Internet sharing on your Win XP box. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download Managers
On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:09 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:51, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:06 am, Johan wrote: Hi, I use Flashget in XP to down load - 3 similtanious at 5 channels each. Would there be something similar in linux I could use with same results? I would really like to do this inMDK 92. Appreciate some pointers Thanks Johan d4x (Downloader for X). It's on your CD's, or you can get it from any Mandrake mirror. I don't know what you mean by 'channels' (multiple sites?), but yes, simultaneous d/l's are easy to do (if the site allows it) and from differnet sites. Supports drag'n drop. d4x-2.4.1-2mdk.i586.rpm is the latest. http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ to learn more about it. Multiple channels: when you split a single download in 2 o more chunks and start downloading them simultaneously, building them together when all are done. Supposedly it can accelerate your downloads, mainly when download sites give you a bandwidth quota. Some sites consider this an abusive practice. Used by Download Accelerator and GetRight under Windows. Adolfo Try prozilla http://prozilla.genesys.ro/. I plf have a rpm. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing scripts (small) in MDK
On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:11 am, Johan wrote: Hi, Kindly suggest a script language to use and maybe to difficult to learn. This come to mind - phyton - perl - ??? At this time I use text gedit for * dos batch like files * Thanks Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 Since Perl is a ductape of the Internet I would suggest starting from it. There is a ton of tutorials on the Internet. In addition Perl have most liberal syntax so it is easy to learn. Php is an other one to try and the tutorial on the php.net is very good. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printer config ques
On Saturday 18 October 2003 06:22 pm, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:33:43 +0100 Subject: Re: [newbie] printer config ques snip Thanks for the reply Anne, much appreciated. I tried as you suggested, with xpp and the margins increased several points from the default 36 up to 44, to no apparent avail. I even increased the bottom margin further to 52...still lost lines. Do I have to run xpp su'd to root to make these margins changes?? The alterations I made thus far seem to have had no effect at all. I tried updating my TurboPrint driver to the latest (I think latest). No help there. Can you give further of your kind advice dear Anne? :-) I found this a frequent problem with some apps but not others. What app are you trying to print from? Is there another that you could try for the same job? Would you like to post a file that gives you this problem, telling us what you were using to view/print it? Anne *** Thanks yet again Anne. I seem to be having this problem from a variety of apps. It has occurred thus far with Konqueror, Kmail, KWrite, Opera, and with various files. I have been using .xsession-errors as a test file. I thought I had the latest version of TurboPrint, but I did not. So, I installed their latest turboprint-1.84-1.i386.rpm. Now it seems that in the latest version they have decided to have a TurboPrint banner ad print on each and every page that you print.obscuring part of your document! It states: This is TurboPrint FreeEdition. To print without this logo, please purchase a license key at www.turboprint.de This would occur in previous versions when you made a choice of high quality output, but now it is appearing in the default setup. :-( I will re-install the older version (1.83-1). I am very frustrated right now, and I am going for a walk. I have been trying to sort this out for hours now, and my anxiety level is higher than it should be. (my ink is running low too;-)) I will resume this at a later time. Thank you Anne for your assistanceyou are a living treasure indeed. :-) Regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** It could be a problem with page setup, i.e,, US letter vs A4. My father had this problem. Make sure that your printer (internal) and your cups settings are the same. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: how to tell where i got an rpm?
On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:55 am, Eric Huff wrote: Is there any to tell where a particular rpm came from (or where it is available now)? I know i could un install it, and then select reinstall and that would tell me, but that's a bit excessive. Usu i need to do this when someone asks me where i got a particular program from... Likewise, how would i get the description, etc, for an rpm at the cli. For example, if you select a2ps in the add software section, you get this info: Name: a2ps Version: 4.13b-1mdk Size: 2243 KB Source: main Currently installed version: (none) Summary: Converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM) Description: The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM). a2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), and medias. - Is there anyway to get that at the cli? Commands like urpmf --description a2ps kind of help, but only if the name is in the description, and it's still only part of the answer. Thanks, eric $rpm -qi name_of_pakage will give you a lot of information on this subject. Make sure you just put the name not the rpm name. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] yankl]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] yankl]# rpm -qi rpm Name: rpm Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 4.2 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 19mdk Build Date: Thu 09 Oct 2003 04:06:23 AM EDT Install Date: Thu 09 Oct 2003 10:38:09 PM EDT Build Host: hp6.mandrakesoft.com Group : System/Configuration/Packaging Source RPM: rpm-4.2-19mdk.src.rpm Size: 4917558 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 09 Oct 2003 05:35:07 AM EDT, Key ID e7898ae070771ff3 Packager: Gwenole Beauchesne [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.rpm.org/ Summary : The RPM package management system Description : RPM is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. Notice that it contain vendor name. Try to man rpm and look for query section for more switches. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking what version of kernel
On Friday 10 October 2003 11:49 am, Clevenger, Dave wrote: I know this is probably a stupid question, and just a matter of typing a command at in the shell. Here goes any way. How do I check what version my kernel is? Thanks. Ctr+Alt+ F1..6 At the top if you are not login will show the information. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have win98, is hdd1... What I did: Configuration - KDE - System - Boot Manager (LILO) in the second page (OS), Add another SO: boot disk = /dev/hdd1 label = windows98 Ok - Ok... even do that, the option to enter in windows98 does not show in LILO menu... What I miss or what I did wrong ?? thanx in advance... Flávio Henrique Go to the command line and as root run lilo command: #su #lilo -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] squirrelmail on 8.2
Hi all y'all Until several days ago I was running a squirrelmail on my 8.2 server. After update I lost it. It look like it was un-installed. I tried to load latest package but it dose not work. Question is does someone on the list running squirrelmail on vanilla 8.2 install and what is the version of the package (i.e. 1.2.x)? Check out my web page TechTv is in town and I took pictures with Leo and Patrick. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)
On Friday 03 October 2003 06:09 am, Margot wrote: yankl wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:01 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:59:35 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias net-pf-4 ipx alias autofs autofs4 Is this from before or after doing # modprobe snd-via8233 ? Charles Margote, modprobe will load your driver but not setup your moduls.conf. so after every restart you must run modeprobe again or change the modules.conf file. according to one of my coworker, we had hour long conversation today about your problem, if you have on-board modem it could be recognized in rear cases as Live SB sound. he thinks as I sad before that you compiled live sb in your kernel. Also, Do you have /dev/dsp linked to /dev/sound? [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# ls -l /dev/sound total 0 Thanks for talking to your coworker - I need all the help I can get! This talk of compiling kernel is worrying - I have never knowingly compiled a kernel. Does this happen automatically on reinstall? Can I have done it by accident, without noticing? what was the SB Live line in your lspsidrake, the archive server hided your post? Check the number on the web at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/. [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# lspcidrake unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|CPU-to-PCI Bridge unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) emu10k1-gp : Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] usb-uhci: VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB snd-via8233 : VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] unknown : S3 Inc.|VT8751 [ProSavageDDR P4M266] VGA Controller unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Epson Corp.|USB Printer [Printer|Printer|Bidirectional] [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# SB Live seems to appear twice in this list, once as audio and once as joystick. I haven't got a joystick on my system. I checked the webpage you suggested, couldn't find any entry for emu10k1 or 10k1 - was I looking for the right thing? Margot I was looking for lspcidrake -f -v it have a vendor number and a page I reference you to is vendor number collection. For example: ohci1394: Texas Instruments|TSB12LV26 OHCI-Lynx PCI IEEE 1394 Host Controller [SERIAL_FIREWIRE] (vendor:104c device:8020 subv:1235 subd:8020) Vendor 104c Texas Instrument. Device 8020 TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link) Modeprobe will load driver in memory if it is fine you should have no messages unless you will run it with -v option. About SB live appearing twice, this what give me a clue about having phisical card installed since card usualy have gameport on it. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] SMS message
On Friday 03 October 2003 01:02 pm, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 3, 2003 04:21 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 19:41, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:12:32 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But then what can we expect from MS software driven by a halfwit? George Bush's foreign policy? /ducks How DARE you insult Microsoft like that! You're both rotten to the core. Don't ever change. G C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 11:01:24 up 13 days, 22 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.27 I'd love to go out with you, but I did my own thing and now I've got to undo it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fauXG11CaRuZZSIRAmRbAKCeCTkssANaDQtHzQbPApWoV2foAQCdEmyk 8q9OerCPbn8VcsnZzU+HGiU= =IQIf -END PGP SIGNATURE- I know I start another flame war on the list but: Am I the only conservative republican on the list? Could some one explain to me why so many people in tech are liberal democrats? You know once on the radio I heard some one say that since he is not lazy and not stupid he must be a conservative. No one, I suspect lazy or stupid on that list, so why that love for communists ideas? -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 03:10 pm, Margot wrote: yankl wrote: I assume you have run lspci or lspcidrak and see just one device in it. If you see tow then you still need to go to BIOS and play with settings before you can reinstall your system. Yankl, I'd never heard of lspci or lspcidrak until you just mentioned them - here are the results: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 04) 00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 01) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8751 [ProSavageDDR P4M266] VGA Controller [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ lspcidrak bash: lspcidrak: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ (Tried it as root as well, but still got command not found) I had another look in BIOS and can't find any other settings to play with that obviously relate to sound. There are some I'm not sure about though, because I don't fully understand what they are: Under PCI Plug and Play Setup - Plug and Play Aware O/S - should this be Yes or No? Also, options to change all settings to Optimal or Best Performance - I opted not to on both these, because it didn't say what it was going to do! Margot lspcidrake. I have a problem some time remember the commands name endings because I use tab too much. From what I remember lspci outputs the /proc/bus/pci/devices. It is shown two cards on your mother board; are you sure that you do not have two cards one on board and one in the pci slot? If you 200% sure that you have one sound card and have not install any new hardware in lets do #lspcidrake -v -f and post it. We are interesting in vendor and device number. I am guessing some other hardware reports it self as audio controller. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 05:15 pm, Margot wrote: snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:0020) emu10k1-gp : Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) [INPUT_OTHER] (vendor:1102 device:7002 subv:1102 subd:0020) that shows a driver snd-emu10k1 running. It possible that you compiled a sound driver in kernel. Unless you like to recompile a kernel, I would sugest to reinstall. However before you do it try to #lsmod it will give you a list of modules your system running. Check if you have snd-emu10kl in the list. If you do, then try to remove it by #rmmod snd-emu10k1 try to listen to some sound. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:03 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:56 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 08:31 pm, yankl wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 05:37 am, Margot wrote: Thanks to all who have tried to help with this. Still no sound, but I don't have any more time and energy to devote to this problem right now. It seems I messed up on my reinstall when I was trying to get the internet connection going - succeeded in that but broke everything else! I'm still running 9.0 - 9.2 will be ready soon, and I can live without sound until then, and then perhaps someone can point me to a checklist so I make sure I get the 9.2 installation right! Thanks again for all your time and patience - even though we din't fix it, I've learned a lot of useful stuff! Margot Margot, I am sorry that you gave up on your sound. I have one more idea may be you like to try it. In the past I had a problem where too much time where assigned for a process to hold a sound device. So in the kde control center (kcontrol not mcc) you need to change parameter in Sound - Sound System. Check mark auto suspend if idle for: and change time to about 1 second . Then in the LookNFeel - Sytem Notification disable all sound notifications. My guess would be that that is not it. She isn't hearing sound from KDE, so more than likely artsd is not accessing the right device either. Yanki's tip may not be relevant to Margot, but it's one worth noting. It got rid of some intermittant annoyances with sound on my system. Anne Glad I could help. And again my name is YANKL NOT YANKI. :) -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lspci
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 05:39 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:09:59 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:58 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: lspci is missing on my new install. Needed by VMware. Any ideas about about what might have been different on the install on this box than the last three I did over the weekend? Just found it in pciutils with a google and installed the rpm but I don't know what I did different in the first place. Is there a dance you have to do after the third install? Lee Lee For future use. If you want to know which package a file is in use urpmf derek Thanks Derek Any thoughts about how I missed the pkg on install. For simplicity I'm using the same vanilla install offered on each box. This one came up different. Lee -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Each package have a priority for install. Depending on the size of / partition Mdk installer will install more or less packages on your system. If you need a specific package to be or not to be installed choose to manually select packages during install. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)
On Monday 29 September 2003 05:37 am, Margot wrote: Thanks to all who have tried to help with this. Still no sound, but I don't have any more time and energy to devote to this problem right now. It seems I messed up on my reinstall when I was trying to get the internet connection going - succeeded in that but broke everything else! I'm still running 9.0 - 9.2 will be ready soon, and I can live without sound until then, and then perhaps someone can point me to a checklist so I make sure I get the 9.2 installation right! Thanks again for all your time and patience - even though we din't fix it, I've learned a lot of useful stuff! Margot Margot, I am sorry that you gave up on your sound. I have one more idea may be you like to try it. In the past I had a problem where too much time where assigned for a process to hold a sound device. So in the kde control center (kcontrol not mcc) you need to change parameter in Sound - Sound System. Check mark auto suspend if idle for: and change time to about 1 second . Then in the LookNFeel - Sytem Notification disable all sound notifications. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Who uses AC97?
On Sunday 28 September 2003 05:26 am, Margot wrote: yankl wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 08:15 pm, Margot wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 05:37 pm, Margot wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Margot is having a problem. If you use AC97 on-board sound, will you please tell us what HardDrake calls your card, and what driver it is using? Thanks Anne I have AC97 on-board running and it uses snd-via82xx as the driver Mine does not work either except I can play the CD with grip, not xmms. Sorry not much help. Might be a route worth following - had a look at grip, and at least it recognises the CD and gives me a track listing, which is more than I get from xmms. Still no sound though You've told us your driver. What sound card does MCC say you have, and how did you get it there? It says my sound card is VIA Technologies VT8233. I did not have to do anything, it was autodetected on install. Have you perchance checked the bios to see if the onboard sound is set to auto and not disabled? Just fumbling in the dark with that, cause I do not recall if you said you had made sure it was turned on. HTH Nobody has mentioned bios yet...how do I check it, and how do I change it if wrong? It all depends on the computer you have. Warning, it could be dangerous to play with your BIOS, if you do not know what specific parameter does do not change it. All following is for DESKTOP ONLY, laptop is an other story. Right after rebooting your PC press on of the following buttons. Not always true. F1- IBM; HP F10 - DELL ESC - Old Gateway F2 - PakardBell Look for a message that say Press some button to access setup You will get insight BIOS settings. BIOS stands for - basic input output system. It's looks like nc or mc. Usually, but not all ways, arrows will move you through the system. Usually, but not always, on board sound is turned off/on in advance menu under pci devices. It is a good idea to reference documentation of your motherboard. Thanks. I had to use Del to access the setup (tried all your options first, then started working my way through the keyboard until something worked!). Have now enabled OnBoard AC97 Audio. Have checked MCC - now showing two soundcards! The original non-existent one, plus VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller using driver snd-via8233. How do I remove the non-existent one from the list and how do I get the CD player etc to recognise the real one? Edit as root /etc/sysconfig/soundcard -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Who uses AC97?
On Sunday 28 September 2003 07:37 pm, Margot wrote: yankl wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2003 06:29 pm, Margot wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 7:38 pm, Margot wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 11:37 pm, Margot wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Margot is having a problem. If you use AC97 on-board sound, will you please tell us what HardDrake calls your card, and what driver it is using? Thanks Anne I have AC97 on-board running and it uses snd-via82xx as the driver Mine does not work either except I can play the CD with grip, not xmms. Sorry not much help. Might be a route worth following - had a look at grip, and at least it recognises the CD and gives me a track listing, which is more than I get from xmms. Still no sound though In xmms, on the left-hand, barely visible menu panel, right-click on the + at the top. Select Play Location, and type in /mnt/cdrom or whatever yours is called. Let us know whether that worked. Anne Partial success: it wouldn't take /mnt/cdrom but I had a look at a helpful page the Derek Jennings suggested on another thread which suggested that it might be under /dev. That worked, so now xmms gives me a track listing, and appears to play the CD, but still no sound. Aumix and Kmix are both unmuted, but still no sound - someone suggested I might need to adjust alsamixergui too, but it isn't working - see attached. Margot If you haven't already done so, check out the Install Software list and install anything that starts with alsa--- Anne I've now installed everything I could find for alsa, and alsamixergui is now visible - but I still have no sound. Have you tryed to run sndconfig again? Yes. Still the same result - it only finds the SB Live card that I haven't got (!) and then tells me the card is not supported. post your /etc/modules.conf -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Netwatch replacement.
I was unable to compile netwatch on the cooker box. Does any one knows good tools which will report same information as netwatch? It is necessary to see packets from/to each computer on the switched network. For people who does not know netwatch is a software for monitoring switched network traffic. Extremely good in monitoring for packet storms. http://www.slctech.org/~mackay/netwatch.html -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cursors - global
On Friday 26 September 2003 11:28 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I was finally able to figure out how to change my cursors (didn't really care for the black arrow). However It only works when I am logged in as me. How can I get it to work globally? When someone else is logged in or when I am logged in as root (never do unless I am told I have to to finish an instillation). Thanks Russ As root extract the cursor files in directory to /usr/share/icons/cursor_them_name. Edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme. Add following: [Icon Theme] Inherits=cursor_them_name -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kicker?
On Saturday 27 September 2003 11:28 am, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 27, 2003 05:23 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:06 am, Lance Cummings wrote: Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after upping to RC2. Looks kind of like a little gear. Clicking it produces an error window: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/home/lance/.kde/share/apps/kicker/Welcome.desktop does not exist. Try deleting or renaming the ~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc file. I should have thought to tell him that Greg, thanks. I must have been half asleep again. I must have some loose wires in my cranium again. ^_^ He (and everyone else) probably knows it but the tilde..(~); well it isn't just the go home flag it's often used for. Too much trivia as usual from me. (-: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/04/history_of_the_tilde Also the dot before a file or directory name sets that object's state to hidden. So if Lance is looking for that file he won't find it unless he uses the exact name to find it with an editor or sets his file management browser to show hidden files in the view setting. I should go back to sleep. I'm not sure if any of that made any sense. Or mattered to the state of world peace. g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 09:07:58 up 6 days, 22:28, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.28 if it GLISTENS, gobble it!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/dayfG11CaRuZZSIRAoC0AJ4xsbE0FRbouhi6y8Rb/LcXsvshjQCgkEGI aGLOqxGnSBuqt6gwKG1KQ2A= =FibN -END PGP SIGNATURE- I surprised how quickly this list loosing it attention. :) The original question was should he be concerned if one of the apps on the kicker is not running? The answer is NO. I am guessing, judging by the name of the program, this is a Welcome message from Mandrake. that nether ended up in his .kde folder. The gear icons you see means that system could not find an icon for specific file. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nasty upgrade surprise
On Saturday 27 September 2003 05:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:42 am, Lance Cummings wrote: That is *not*, however, something one expects of an upgrade routine. Lance, anything on Cooker is not at release status, and you install at your own risk. Anne My fair lady. I would call it a bug. Upgrade should recognize that I had kmail and install it. A specially in RC2 that usually a last RC before final. How ever it is not a RC2 or mandrake problem it is KDE issue. KDE start changes in the packaging with out considering the rpm upgrade schema. It like they expect every one to uninstall KDE and then reinstall it from scratch. PS Did you like my poetry? -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nasty upgrade surprise
On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:15 am, robin wrote: Lance Cummings wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 14:02, yankl wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I put Cooker RC2 over my Bamboo last night, and I'm pretty unhappy that I did so. ---8--- Kde packages after 3.1.2 got really segmented first try to run kmail from cli. If you will get an erorr message try to reinstall kdenetwork package. Just urpmi kdenetwork as root. Reinstall of kdenetwork successfull, and thankfully mail database still there. whew That is *not*, however, something one expects of an upgrade routine. (I still have to reconfigure my taskbar application launch buttons, which is kind of rude.) ^_^ Can you explain what you mean by 'got segmented'? I understand the words of course, but not the context as it relates to what happened to me. A lot of things got moved out of the kdebase into different packages. Sensible, since many people use KDE as a dektop environment but don't want every single app that starts with a K ;-) (for example, I use KDE for my desktop, largely because I share it with Windows users, but I use Mozilla for mail and browsing, LyX and OpenOffice for office work, and I connect with vdial rather than kppp). Sir Robin Thanks Sir Robin. Yes the 15 or so packages become I guess 25-30 packages in KDE 3.1.2. So good idea is to do following. From command line in cli as root run : urpmi kde. This will give you all packages that have word kde in it. Look at this list and see if you need anything and then urpmi the proper full name of package. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cursors - global
On Saturday 27 September 2003 03:55 am, Russ wrote: Hi Charlie, This was actually my third attempt at trying to change the cursors. This computer is totally Linux now and I donot miss Win at all. However, even though I love Linux, I really didn't care for the black cursor. I found the flat white ones (ya, the ones from Win) on kdelook.org and followed the install instructions (extract the zip, then navigated to the source folder and typed make install). With Yankl's post: As root extract the cursor files in directory to /usr/share/icons/cursor_them_name. Edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme. Add following: [Icon Theme] Inherits=cursor_them_name (Thanks Yankl) I now have global white cursors (even in the login screen - cool). As an added benefit here, I like using both, Konquere and Mozilla (Mozilla seems to do better on some pages) but I didn't like the little hand that mozilla used when passing over a link. Now it uses the same hand as Konquerer (I know, trivial, but hey - eye candy :-) Charlie M. wrote: Bit of background would probably be helpful but I'll take a swing at it. How did you change your cursors? I installed cursor_themes as soon as Buchan Milne announced it on the cooker list and have been using it since. Close everything you have open in any of the virtual desktops. In a terminal as super user type choose_cursor enter pick the global cursor setting you want accept the offer to restart the X-server and just to be certain, log out and log back in. All users (including root) should now have the same cursor. To set the cursors to be the same for all users may not be a good idea. If you have multiple users on the system some may not want to use the animated penguin as a cursor, or a flaming red one or g Hey, it's your system. Best of luck; Charlie Ah :-) the power of manually changing the script. I love linux for that. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Who uses AC97?
On Saturday 27 September 2003 03:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Margot is having a problem. If you use AC97 on-board sound, will you please tell us what HardDrake calls your card, and what driver it is using? Thanks Anne Anne At some point some one suggest for her to run soundconfig what chipset it reported? -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Who uses AC97?
On Saturday 27 September 2003 04:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 9:55 pm, yankl wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 03:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Margot is having a problem. If you use AC97 on-board sound, will you please tell us what HardDrake calls your card, and what driver it is using? Thanks Anne Anne At some point some one suggest for her to run soundconfig what chipset it reported? As far as I know she hasn't managed to find it yet. I may not be installed, but it's not obviously in the packages available. Anne Sndconfig could be installed from cd-roms. It better in detection of sound cards then sounddrake (sorry mdk). Try to urpmi sndconfig. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Who uses AC97?
On Saturday 27 September 2003 05:31 pm, Margot wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 9:55 pm, yankl wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 03:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Margot is having a problem. If you use AC97 on-board sound, will you please tell us what HardDrake calls your card, and what driver it is using? Thanks Anne Anne At some point some one suggest for her to run soundconfig what chipset it reported? As far as I know she hasn't managed to find it yet. I may not be installed, but it's not obviously in the packages available. Anne Have just done urpmi sndconfig, and run sndconfig. Here's the result: ?? PCI Probe Results ?? ? A PCI sound card was found in ? ? your system. The details are: ? ?? ? Model: Creative Labs|SB ? ? Live! (audio) ? ? ? PCI Probe Results ?? ? ? ? The Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) ? ? is not currently supported. ? ? Does this help? Margot Did you heard Linus speaking? -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Who uses AC97?
On Saturday 27 September 2003 08:15 pm, Margot wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 05:37 pm, Margot wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Margot is having a problem. If you use AC97 on-board sound, will you please tell us what HardDrake calls your card, and what driver it is using? Thanks Anne I have AC97 on-board running and it uses snd-via82xx as the driver Mine does not work either except I can play the CD with grip, not xmms. Sorry not much help. Might be a route worth following - had a look at grip, and at least it recognises the CD and gives me a track listing, which is more than I get from xmms. Still no sound though You've told us your driver. What sound card does MCC say you have, and how did you get it there? It says my sound card is VIA Technologies VT8233. I did not have to do anything, it was autodetected on install. Have you perchance checked the bios to see if the onboard sound is set to auto and not disabled? Just fumbling in the dark with that, cause I do not recall if you said you had made sure it was turned on. HTH Nobody has mentioned bios yet...how do I check it, and how do I change it if wrong? It all depends on the computer you have. Warning, it could be dangerous to play with your BIOS, if you do not know what specific parameter does do not change it. All following is for DESKTOP ONLY, laptop is an other story. Right after rebooting your PC press on of the following buttons. Not always true. F1- IBM; HP F10 - DELL ESC - Old Gateway F2 - PakardBell Look for a message that say Press some button to access setup You will get insight BIOS settings. BIOS stands for - basic input output system. It's looks like nc or mc. Usually, but not all ways, arrows will move you through the system. Usually, but not always, on board sound is turned off/on in advance menu under pci devices. It is a good idea to reference documentation of your motherboard. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing monitor
On Friday 26 September 2003 10:48 am, Anguo wrote: Hello, I currently use an old 14' CRT monitor and I'd like to change to a new 15' or 17' LCD monitor. I can find information on configuration, but what do I do when I want to switch from one monitor to the other? Do I turn off the computer, make the switch and Mandrake will notice the new monitor at boot and configure it (the checking for new hardware is on at boot). Or should I boot in console mode, without X and configure the new monitor from the console. Can you provide some pointers to the general procedure to follow is such a situation. Thanks, Anguo I, and it is me, would log in console and run XFdrake, pick up monitor from menu and proper resolution. Remember that most LCD run in native resolution of 1200X1024 Or if I know parameters of monitor you can edit XF86free-4 file located in /etc/X11/ folder. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keep password broken?
On Friday 26 September 2003 12:15 pm, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:52:43 +0900, Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. But absolutely no one can get near my computer. ^_^ And I do mean no one. Then put your user account in /etc/sudoers. Don't read man sudoers -- your head will explode. Instead, add this line: username ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL I think this is too extreme, I just do: username ALL = ALL Which means I have to give my password, not root's, to execute a command as root. Also, something happens to the $PATH, (anyone know what?) /sbin doesn't seem to be in it, for example. Richard Bad idea, If your computer connected to the Internet. Even though, the number of viruses/trojans for LINUX is miniscule it not 0. Given all user root rights will increase chance for getting your box compromise. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nasty upgrade surprise
On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I put Cooker RC2 over my Bamboo last night, and I'm pretty unhappy that I did so. When I reboot after the upgrade, my taskbar buttons have been reconfigured. Some, for example KMail, are gone. Others are new. In my opinion new is okay, I can always deal with that. But I cannot come up with any justification for an upgrade routine that subtracts or eliminates anything I've configured. Moreover, and really annoying, my KMail appears to have vanished into the ether. It is not on *any* menu or sub menu (believe me, I have checked and triple-checked them all), and I cannot find it on the drive (which may be that I simply don't know where or how to look). So I'm rather annoyed at the moment, and e-mailing from Windows. I realize a beta is a beta is a beta, etc. But an RC2 is also extremely close to a release version, and many actually be one. The reason I did this, by the way, is that someone else running a P4PE with onboard sound told me it worked in Cooker. Not mine. So this entire exercise was a waste of time, and has apparently set me back rather than moved me forward. Is one able to trust an upgrade routine from Mandrake? To what extent? Where do you suppose my KMail is? Yes, upgrade was selected from the install routine. Lance Kde packages after 3.1.2 got really segmented first try to run kmail from cli. If you will get an erorr message try to reinstall kdenetwork package. Just urpmi kdenetwork as root. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:09 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 11:02 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:13:07 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: By the same logic you seem to suggest tossing a nonswimmer into the 20 foot end of a pool and say swim which is exactly what RTFM is. I agree wholeheartedly. As for the car, was anyone really put into the driving seat, then told to RTFM? This is where this list comes in. I have found that a combination of manpages, howto's, polite advice (without the RTFM), and Stephen Kuhn telling me to wake the fsck up has been most effective in getting me to learn. I like paper. I print out man pages, HOW-TOs, TWiki pages g and everything else that seems to help. I buy books, too. I posted a question about symlinks some time ago because I had followed the instructions in the expensive (£3O) book, and it didn't work. In fact the instructions in the FM were completely wrong, and I had been completely mislead by R'ingTFM. It's never that simple, yanki, and most of us learn by interaction. I talk to a friend off-list, where we swap problems. Often, before a reply comes back I have solved it myself, because articulation of the problem helps tidy up the thinking processes. And experienced people, both on this list and the expert one, have admitted that they have just done the same thing. Anne I like to close this discussion by giving last word to lady. This thread was too long and hopefully some people get something from this discussion. My only hope is that current way we, Linux community, going will not bring us to dad end of do not think but click. In my uopinion/u the man pages, HOWTO, and personal research should come before asking direct question. But maybe this is coming from my main job of all hated IT manager where 50 times a day I hear the question coming to me in line of how to save to the a: drive. I am not disagree that newbie list and twiky page are important; however in the hit of discussion every one forget what my original post was. I posted an instruction for using man pages. But no good did goes unpunished :) And I was slap by the HiywierMac :) Sorry for having my own opinion I will crawl under my desk and hide from every body. :) I can not withstand a pressure of whole Wilson family (Ann, John) :) Just for joke sorry Will \:-() To post, or not to post: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous flamers, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CLI downloading
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 12:21 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just been using Prozilla, and I like it. It's very similar to DAP for windows. However, some sites seem to prevend the use of this kind of download managers (especially CLI ones) by appending a ! at the end of the filename. So, when I type it, the bash will return an error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documents]$ proz http://www.overclockedcafe.com/Sandra_standard/OCCsanMAX3!.zip bash: !.zip: event not found How do I work around this? Thanks - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 11:18:42 up 3:46, 10 users, load average: 2.31, 2.21, 2.44 Quote of the day: I still miss Windows, but my aim is getting better. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/b8pWUrYxG8KGMVERAupwAJ0aFj+c7Rp5GiuwYa4Fb8ZJ/vMYwwCfSx/k MPcl9l/g1QRhK8Zk8uT4fcU= =dGaC -END PGP SIGNATURE- try to put \ in front of ! so the address should read http://www.overclockedcafe.com/Sandra_standard/OCCsanMAX3\!.zip -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:43 am, John Wilson wrote: snip John (who keeps hoping that by flogging this dead horse it will get up and win the Triple Crown) /snip John sorry by by your logic you set a person, with no previous knowledge, in a car and tell him to drive. Not only that, but you put him in the middle of car rally. Before you can walk you need to crawl. Unfortunately, for some unexplained reason we all start assuming that Joe Sixpack must be able to write C++ code with no training at all, why? To drive a car one need to have drives license because one can be one can put 100-1,000 people in a danger. By running web server one can put 100,000-1,000,000 people in danger. (It looks like it is over statement but what if virus gets to some atomic lab for example.) The m$ world was originally created to provide complicated tools to average consumer. Look where it brought us too. Simplification of the computer use could be done with in two schemas. One is to hide from user a complexity of process, or m$ way. Click on this icon and your IIS web server will start in background. Another with education. Read 800 page book and you would be able to setup Apache. By design *NIX are falling in second schema. RTFM is a call to read documentation. For a wile we where a colleague, I thought language to adults and before they could read words they started from studying alphabet. It is impossible to combine two schemas sines they are mutually exclusive. Hence, if one like simplicity and does not like to read documintation, s/he dangerous to *NIX world. Because, s/he drug us close to the cliff of m$ pit fall. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Multilanguage support
On Monday 22 September 2003 05:37 pm, Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote: Ladies and Gents, I would like to be able to use Cyrillic's on KDE 3.0 (md9.0)... Where do I go to, to accomplish this? THANKS! Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies, Inc. http://www.coinfotech.com In the Kde Control Center you need to change country. Simple way to do it to go to cli and type kcmshell language. This will bring interface for language alone. On the first tab change United States to Russia restart kde. Rest is in Russian: Esli ne ponyal napish na mylo. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Monday 22 September 2003 07:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On 22 Sep 2003 06:41:39 -0400 I think my point was not taken properly. I am sorry it probably my English (it not even my second language more like fourth). My point was that people should make a research first and then try to ask questions. By researching you find new tools and new way to do it. By asking and replicating what other told you you box yourself in one correct way and do not know that their are more way to do it. Man pages problem is not often in man pages writers, it is in man pages users. Remember to get correct answer you must ask correct question. And this mean techno talk, jargon, terminology and simple understanding of what you are trying to do. I am not against community support. However, I think that teaching people to understand how to get info from resources provided to them we could help them more then just given them correct answer. My definition of m$users is people who do not think how to do something but just know how to click. Other name I have for them is lifu long index fingers users. Sorry for an other runt. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:19 pm, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 06:51 pm, yankl wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 07:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On 22 Sep 2003 06:41:39 -0400 I think my point was not taken properly. I am sorry it probably my English (it not even my second language more like fourth). My point was that (I'm accepting the language barrier but you seem to be doing amazingly well) a response such as that one would frighten most Windows refugees to death when they're already near to running for the hills. I hope you didn't take anything that I responded the wrong way. We need all of the help we can find around here and you *do* seem to know what you're doing AFAICS. My point was that people should make a research first and then try to ask questions. By researching you find new tools and new way to do it. By asking and replicating what other told you you box yourself in one correct way and do not know that their are more way to do it. I'll agree with that within the limitation that first we have to teach those people _how_ to find the answers. As with almost everything related to Open Source Software, there are many ways to do searches, many sources to do those searches. It always amazes me that so many people that I deal with daily have a hard time finding things on Google, but that doesn't mean I stop trying to teach them. Man pages problem is not often in man pages writers, it is in man pages users. Remember to get correct answer you must ask correct question. And this mean techno talk, jargon, terminology and simple understanding of what you are trying to do. This goes back to the fact that a newbie isn't going to know how to ask intelligent questions until they're taught. Can we agree on that? I am not against community support. However, I think that teaching people to understand how to get info from resources provided to them we could help them more then just given them correct answer. Usually I'll post a link to more information when I answer a question. I've been a bit slack on that score recently due to time pressure; but that's *my* problem. If even half of those reading such responses click the links eventually they'll gain a glimpse of what's available. My definition of m$users is people who do not think how to do something but just know how to click. Other name I have for them is lifu long index fingers users. Really? I call those people politicians(1) usually. g MS users are people that in most cases have never had a reason to think anything else was possible. Sorry for an other runt. OK, now I'm starting to wonder about those weak language skills you claim. In your signature you call yourself Tiny IT guy but that's three times that I remember you have used the word runt when the correct word is rant. Unless it's an intentional pun of course. If it is; good one! :-) ;)Which other runt though? (; Peace; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 18:56:33 up 2 days, 8:16, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.20, 0.37 I've been there. (1) Or wastes of space. Same thing, different day. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/b5+8G11CaRuZZSIRAngDAJ9z68rOTPp7jtmx2RQ1JJ/OQvnqtQCgh32R Aah80KTH5NwVAmW9r/fiixI= =ZcZo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Thanks for correcting me, it is rant. The spell check some time can be an evil creature. I do not think that we need to embrace every person who like to switch to linux. (I see the stones flying in my direction but bare with me for a second) The *NIX OS is designed for responsible people, are we agree on this? NT-2000-XP could be as good as *NIX (I see more stones flying in my direction) but it have two major flows. First, every user is Administrator in the system.Second, its make operation easy by hiding most of the backstage operation from user. Why? Because it is easy OS, i.e., by doing this OS writer eliminate situation where user would need to know underbelly of the system. The idea is that you do not need to know how staff ranning. In opposite in *NIX to survive one need to know how things working and why they working like this. Users who like to run easy OS and like to switch to *NIX will force us to come to the same situation where by default we will try to make a user life as easy as it can be. I see that trend in some kde tools. For example do you know where is settings for mime types association is? Now tell me where is a file where this settings stored and what command is responsible for update of this settings? One Russian general sad that if it is difficult in training, it will be easy in a battle. So unless it is emergency the response RFTM ucould/ be a good one. By the chance -k switch in man is key word switch. To find the man pages related to some word. -- Yankl
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:47 pm, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 08:40 pm, yankl wrote: [..] Thanks for correcting me, it is rant. The spell check some time can be an evil creature. I was having a bit of fun Yankl. kidding The use of the word seemed possibly appropriate given that line in your signature. ;) /kidding I have not made a connection until I look at word definition. snip Depends on your desktop environment. Are you after the mimetypes in; /snip talk about kde and on going problem with wma files. I was trying to make a point of hiding setting from users. In days when I started many moons ago, script was a king and you use to have had figure out staff by yourself, and along the way you would find tons of info which would help you in the future. Now days KDE/GNOME becoming dangerously NTish, which could compromise security and stability of *NIX. I guess you haven't tried the Release Candidates for 9.2 then? cooker since it reopen after 9.1 relies snip Smells like protecting the noobs from themselves and I find that slightly distasteful. /snip second this snip It's been an interesting discussion, thanks. :) /snip Yes it was. Hope it all for good. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:03 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable. Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man pages are almost useless for how do I do x. apropos doesn't work because the man pages call it y. If someone tells me use the abc command then I can use man to find out how it works. hence the end of my e-mail man -k. Have any one done their home work? What got me going is some one asking how to uninstall lilo. This is a case where you should go to lilo man page and see how it is done. By typing #man -k lilo one can see what command it relates too. Unless we like to have m$users we need to start using all tools provided by OS. Man is a grate tool too start fooling around with out fear of screwing up something. In my opinion the order of trying to solve something in the *nix should be as following: 1. HOWTO (tldp.org or build in) 2. man page 3. google.com 4. newbie list If one will not try to figure out staff by him/herself we will have to switch to m$ like OS where it is one way to do it and its full of holes because it is more important to make it ease then to make it safe. Sorry for an other runt but this is a subject I feel strong about. Give man a fish and he can eat a day; teach man how to fish and he can eat for life. = Tell man how to do it and he will do it; teach man how to resource and he will nether go back to m$. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing lilo
On Saturday 20 September 2003 08:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from hda and turn booting back over to XP? Thanks, Scott from man lilo snip - u [device-name] Uninstall lilo by copying the saved boot sector back. The '-s' and '-C' switches may be used with this option. The device-name is optional. A time-stamp is checked. /snip so from command line do #lilo -u -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Rant: The man pages
A lot of the questions posted in this group could be avoided if people would read man pages. And yes I understand that it is mostly newbies group. This is why I like to tell people how to use man pages. Man page, from word man(uale). From command prompt type word man followed by command you are interesting in. For exemplae: #man ls will give you following information: LS(1)User Commands LS(1) NAME ls - list directory contents SYNOPSIS ls [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, --all do not hide entries starting with . -A, --almost-all do not list implied . and .. --author print the author of each file -b, --escape print octal escapes for nongraphic characters --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks -B, --ignore-backups do not list implied entries ending with ~ -c with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last modification of file status information) with -l: show ctime and sort by name otherwise: sort by ctime -C list entries by columns --color[=WHEN] control whether color is used to distinguish file types. WHEN may be never', always', or auto' -d, --directory list directory entries instead of contents, and do not derefer ence symbolic links -D, --dired generate output designed for Emacs' dired mode -f do not sort, enable -aU, disable -lst -F, --classify append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries --format=WORD lines 1-58 press q to quit from man page and arrow up down to scroll. Second way to get man is to go to Konqueror and type in address bar: man:/comman_you_interested_in Notice single / after man: As a home work go and try to find what man -k -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test sms response
Test It is look like for each time I post I get an kaluga sms replay to me personally. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test sms response
On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:40 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:39:43 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Test It is look like for each time I post I get an kaluga sms replay to me personally. You just noticed this *now*?! Your previous rant just reached new levels of hilarity. OK is it only me or is it everyone. I getting this kaluga sms messages with in 3 minutes of me posting to group. Please come me down I have a paranoia cripping up mine spine. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:39 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:31:14 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: whack ROTFLMAO! Ok, back to reality, you just wasted 5 minutes of your life you will never get back... ;-) I donate this 5 minutes to the FSF/OSS foundation. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test sms response
On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:49 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:40, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:39:43 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Test It is look like for each time I post I get an kaluga sms replay to me personally. You just noticed this *now*?! I say we blame Yankl for it Your previous rant just reached new levels of hilarity. Yes right. Blame the little guy. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konq
On Monday 15 September 2003 12:50 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:48:19 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 21:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: Appears that I lost all Konq plugins. Specifically, I don't have Image Gallery in my tool selection, but don't seen any of the plugin selections offered anymore. What have I done now? Lee What about renaming your current konq prefs and then seeing if that resolves the issue? /home/yournamehere/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc ?? stephen kuhn - owner Didn't do anything, so I renamed .kde and got into a pickle. Think I fixed everything that I broke, but still don't have Image Gallery. Lee == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Be security conscious -- National defense is at stake. Image Gallery is part of package named kdeaddon, Just try to urpmi kdeaddon. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Systray Icons
Hi All I have a Noia icon them as my default. However in my KDE system tray the icons are not Noia. I just notice that since Noia 1.0 have new kget icon. Since, Noia does not have 24pix icons, according to spec 24x24 is the size of systray icons, this what causing it, so how can I change system tray icons size to 22x22. An other solution I see, is to generate 24x24 size icons out of 32x32 but then I need some script to get 100+ *.png files in several directories to change the size. Where should I dig to solve it? TFM, HOWTOS, Links are welcome. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is just the most heinous idea...
On Saturday 13 September 2003 07:23 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 13 September 2003 06:07 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: HaywireMac wrote: MS fubars the internet, and it's our fault... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=528ncid=528e=3u=/ap/2 00 30911/ap_on_hi_te/digitally_informed If they had a real forum we could tear it up with facts instead of the current paranoia directed at an innocent party. How may of theses vulnerabilities were created by those upon whom they seek to impose a license requirement? Unless the licensee works at MS, not one fscking one! You know the most ironic thing about that, the people who would actually be able to get a license, don't need it and the ones who do need it couldn't get it. You don't need a license to get on the Internet, you should need a license to operate a MS Windows computer, that is where it is needed. If you buy a product any product and its misbehave to the point its harms you or some other people you can sue the manufacture of such product. Sadly, this is not a case with software manufacturers. In the case of the car imagine that oil manufacturers produce an oil that stalls your car when you turn on windshield wiper. The company will be sued in non existence. M$ produce an OS that have problem after problem and who get blamed, users who use it according to specification. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ping
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:00 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: ping 64 bytes from www.fastmail.fm (66.111.4.62): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=124 ms 64 bytes from www.fastmail.fm (66.111.4.62): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=49.8 ms 64 bytes from www.fastmail.fm (66.111.4.62): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=50.8 ms 64 bytes from www.fastmail.fm (66.111.4.62): icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=49.8 ms ^C -- Yankl 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Just bragging.
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:31 pm, yankl wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 03:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since we're bragging: 1:14pm up 487 days, 7:26, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.01, 1.00 --- Original Message --- From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Just bragging. I'm just bragging, because I'll have to shutdown to move the computer sometime soon... 18:54:22 up 70 days, 2:17, 6 users, load average: 0.36, 0.23, 0.12 During that time it has been fully patched about every week, several new applications, etc, etc. At work I rebooted my Win2k system two or three times on Monday alone. -- Richard Urwin Just a note: 8:30pm up 502 days, 8:11, 1 user, load average: 1.01, 1.05, 1.01 By the chance what is, in my case 8:11 mean? -- Yankl 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] palm
On Saturday 06 September 2003 09:42 am, Anarky wrote: does anybody have a palm use it in Linux? I'd be interested if there is a way of transfering pdfs ... reading text novels to read on the palm? I am using palm device for several years. Pdfs need to be converted in text by pdftotext command and then to palm doc format. try: #pdftotext pdf_file.pdf output_file.txt #pyrpub output_file.txt -- Yankl 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Short Message delivery report
On Sunday 24 August 2003 18:47, manolis wrote: Yes it look like city of Kaluga telephone company (mts- Ministry of telephone comunication) in Russia and it is a phone message (sms). I'm getting this too.. 25 2003 01:36, / Chris : Damm, I just got the same thing, are our posts now going through Russia? I believe thats what the .ru is. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Short Message delivery report Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:21:51 +0400 From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no such user (newbie). --- -- Yankl 100 % Micro$oft free. Regestrate linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List Probs
On Sunday 24 August 2003 20:32, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 08:11 pm, Eric Huff wrote: ya, I know my posts tho are getting thru in many cases, because people are replying to them, but I never actually *see* my post weird... Check your filters. That could theoretically be the problem, but it is known that some posts don't make it to everyone. Ooops. I should have done something to indicate I was just pulling Haywire's chain. Anyone know the emoticon for the single finger peace sign? -- cmg \|/ --read between the lines? -- Yankl 100 % Micro$oft free. Regestrate linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] List Probs
On Sunday 24 August 2003 23:17, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:06 pm, yankl wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 20:32, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 08:11 pm, Eric Huff wrote: ya, I know my posts tho are getting thru in many cases, because people are replying to them, but I never actually *see* my post weird... Check your filters. That could theoretically be the problem, but it is known that some posts don't make it to everyone. Ooops. I should have done something to indicate I was just pulling Haywire's chain. Anyone know the emoticon for the single finger peace sign? -- cmg \|/ --read between the lines? Yanki: Very creative. And nasty. I like that. -- cmg Plz all y'all it is YANKL not YANKI. I am from south, so YANKI is kind offensive :) -- Yankl 100 % Micro$oft free. Regestrate linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down
Am I reading this right? SCO running linux and apache. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.sco.com On Saturday 23 August 2003 16:25, Chris wrote: Was going to send a friend the link to the sco linux faq, however when trying to contact www.sco.com I keep getting operation timed out, gee could the site be down :) -- Yankl 100 % Micro$oft free. Regestrate linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATTENTION: SCO and the FTC
Web site of FTC to submit complaints: https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$solcq.actionview My complaint Success! Complaint Accepted. Thank you for your input. First Name: Yan Last Name: Portnoy Age Range: 30 - 39 Street Address: XX City: Marietta State or Canadian Province: Georgia Country: UNITED STATES Zip Code or Postal Code: 30066 E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Phone: (XXX)XXX3018 Work Phone: (XXX)XXX6825Ext. Subject of Your Complaint: Computers/Internet Services Name of Company You Are Complaining About: The SCO Group Street Address: 355 South 520 West Suite 100 City: Lindon State or Canadian Province: Utah Country: UNITED STATES Zip Code or Postal Code: 84042 Company Web Site: http://www.sco.com Phone Number: (801)7654999Ext. How Did the Company Initially Contact You?: Internet (Other) How Much Did the Company Ask You to Pay?: 1945 How Much Did You Actually Pay the Company?: 0 Explain Your Problem: (Please limit your complaint to 2000 characters.): The SCO Group published on their web page (http://www.sco.com/scosource/linuxlicensefaq.html) that Linux users must pay SCO $199 for each workstation and $699+ for a server. I did not purchase software from SCO.The company that produced software I am using did not purchase it from SCO. It was not marketed or packaged by SCO. Despite this SCO is asking for $199 for PC and $699+ for server. On Thursday 21 August 2003 17:46, Stephen Kuhn wrote: From the RedHat list: Let's get back... -Forwarded Message- Subject: [staph] SCO and the FTC Date: 21 Aug 2003 09:44:59 -0400 [From a Slashdot posting] I just got off the phone with the FTC. If everyone calls and complains then the chances they will investigate SCO goes up. They look for patterns. In other words, if the majority of their calls are about SCO then they will investigate. It is time to take the Slashdot effect to the phones. These are the key points to make: -You did not purchase software from SCO -The company that produced your software did not purchase it from SCO -It was not marketed or packaged by SCO -Despite this SCO is asking for $199 from home users (You) and $699 from business for 1 CPU They will ask for your name, phone number, address etc. That is mostly to verify your identity and citizenship I think. Here is the number: 1-877-382-4357 option 4 They are nice and listen well. The lady I talked to even took the time to get a better understanding of what Linux is. The best quote from her You didn't purchase it from them and they want you to pay them? That sounds crazy. -- Call FTC 1-877-382-4357 opt 4 -You didn't buy from SCO -Vendor didn't either -They want $199 ... Here's some information that may help. They actually asked for this info: The SCO Group 355 South 520 West Suite 100 Lindon, Utah 84042 801-765-4999 phone The guy I spoke with was actually somewhat familiar with what Linux is. One of his first questions was how this company got involved with me, which my answer was Well, that's the problem. They didn't. He eventually asked if SCO has contacted me personally with regard to this situation, which they have not. Don't lie to them. Be completely truthful. At the end of the call I got a reference number, and he said that if SCO does contact me personally, I should call back and let them know. It was very easy to do, and took about 5 minutes of my time. The recording while I wated for the counselor to pick up the phone did say that the FTC does track trends in complaints. If we get enough people to complain, something will happen. Please, take a few minutes and call! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is the Linux for PDA's
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 08:10, Gareth Qually wrote: Try this site: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html Yankl excellent thanks. Ciao... www.slowlymakingsmoke.com www.qually.net Quoting Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gareth, Their are a few PDA's out there with Linux on them. The Sharp Zaurus which has several models in it's range, the Yopy. AMD has just done a new processor and dev kit for a Linux PDA. Google around their is loads of info on the net, including site telling you how to install it on various Windows PDA's. Tony. -Original Message- From: Gareth Qually [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:11 AM To: Linux forum Subject: [newbie] Is the Linux for PDA's I am looking into getting a PDA, and I wondered if anyone has compiled a version to run on any of them? If so which ones? Ciao... www.slowlymakingsmoke.com www.qually.net -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test again my mail does not go to list
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Re: [newbie] HELP!! Video. Startx error message. Mandrake 9.1 Power Pack
On Sunday 10 August 2003 17:32, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 05:58, R. L. Moore wrote: I go to regular command line after boot. After stopping X I tried to restart. I get an nVidia error message. I am A total Newbie and don't know were to get message to print let alone send a copy to list. :~(. My video card is an Elsa Gladiac MX nVidia GeForce 2 MX Rev A. I went to Elsa's Webpage and linux info is in GERMAN. Natually they have M$ info in english. Had Mandrake 7.2 Power pack running on the same machine fine until HD Meltdown. I need step by step help. At a total loss. Internet no help. Neither KDE or Gnome will come up at boot. Always command line. Where do I get a driver? How do I get it? Can I use my M$ machine to get it? How do I install it at command line? Totally fustrated. Please Help!! Run XFdrake and see if you can't get the XWindows settings back to normal - once you've ran that, try running startx again to see if XWindows is going to come up... My apology English is not even my second language. :) Ok for total newbie. Try this first: 1.Login in the as root or from command line type in su enter root password on prompt. 2. To change to X configuration directory type cd /etc/X11/ 3. Star editing XF86Config-4 by typing vi XF86Config 4. By moving with arrow down the file find section like this Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName NVidia BoardName NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic) Driver nvidia Option DPMS EndSection In your case -- Driver nvidia -- line could say something else. 5 Replace word nvidia with nv (Remember to start editing the file you must first press letter i and after finish type :wq to write and quit from file.If you like to quit with out saving type :q! ) 6 type startx and see if it working? Skip next section and go directly to download file section: If it does not work: 1.Login in the as root or from command line type in su enter root password on prompt. 2.From command line type XFdrak ( this will bring you an X configuration) 3. Play with settings running test after every change. (My suggestion write every tried possibility down so you would not do it twice) 4. At some point your test would go through. (try VESA driver it works practically always) Download Nvidia Drivers: 1. Start your Web Browser. 2. go to www.nvidia.com 3. click on download at the top of the page 4. Choose Graphical Driver in first column. 5. Choose Gforce and TNT in second column 6 Choose Linux IA32 in theard column 7. After pressing go web page will take you to download side. 8. Read it from beginning to the end and read all docs they providing links to. (Yes all of them. If you do not like to read doc, tfm, and so you will nether make it in proper OS :) ) 9. Download the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run Installing Nvidia Drivers. 1. You must stop X before you install new drivers. 2. If you used startx just log out from your windows manager (KDE, GNOME, etc) 3. If not press CTR+ALT+F1 4. Login in the as root 5. Type killall mdkkdm (if you have changed to KDM replace mdkkdm with kdm for gdm replace it with gdm-binaries) 6. cd to directory you download Nvidia driver to 7. Type chmod 777 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run (make it executable) 8. type ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run It will run an install and I would suggest restarting PC after install. Yankl If I forget something plz correct me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm question
On Thursday 14 August 2003 05:06, manolis wrote: Hi, I have a package named shadow-utils from system base of mandrake 9.1 that is missing 1-2 files. The files were erased by mistake . Wich command should I use to reinstall the rpm package to update the missing files? thank you in advance... rpm -Fvh --allfiles pack_name.rpm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Searching 101
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 06:07 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 05:41 PM 2/4/2003 +0700, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, 24 January 2003 23:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Searching 101 [...snip] A reminder of resources from time to time is useful, but for a newbie searching is doubly difficult, because often you don't know the question to ask or the term to search on. I'll pipe in here, as an absolute oober-newbie... I've been lurking here for a few weeks now, trying to get up to speed, and considering this is the newbie list, it's all rather daunting. I must say, 99% of the stuff you guys are talking about goes right over my head. Hi Luv If you wish I can send you some URL's I've found in the last year or so that assume NO Prior knowledge. :) Heh I was once in your spot dear, and although I learn at an extremely high rate (Many on this list have told me as much so I may as well believe them!), I too had teh problem of Well... this MAN page says to do x to y add in abc + f... then you're on your way to having accomplished zilch! Why? Because you now must read 30 How-To's 10 websites covering the topics/commands you have run into in this MAN document! Lovely huh? Heh anyway, email me on or offlist. I'll give you some useful sites to prowl. And if you feel overwhelmed feel free to email me pvtly. I'll be happy to help anyway I can luv. Yours sincerely, Heather/Femme - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert May be it will be a good idea to post this links to the list? Yankl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Merging 2 files
On Monday 27 January 2003 04:42 pm, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'd like to merge file A with file B creating file C... how could I do that? I've had a look at cp's man with no luck O8-) Thanks!! One of the way is to use cat. #cat A B C Actuly it work with any number of elements #cat in_file1, in_file2, ... , in_fileN out_file or even #cat * out_file Yankl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My friends don't know better yet (can Mandrake 9 handle a .zip file ?)
On Monday 13 January 2003 08:21 pm, ThinKer wrote: Hello All, A friend of mine sent me some documents today for my review. For some reason she forgot that I am trying to get rid of the Windows in my Life and she sent .doc files zipped up in a .zip file. Of course, when I click on the file to open it on my Linux box, Ark tells me that it can't open it. The utility zip is not in your PATH. questions... 1. Is there a way to get Ark to open this? 2. If the answer to #1 is 'no', what other program can I use to get this open? Thanks, -TP Yes. Do urpmi zip and use ark for zip files. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I finally did it!!
On Saturday 04 January 2003 09:53 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: MPlayer did tell me that my computer was too slow to play DVD's but I had no problems with the DVD ROM on this computer under windows. oh well, back to optimizing my machine... Walt If you find the video lags behind the sound, use the -framedrop parameter when launching MPlayer and your problems will be gone. also, in a terminal, you can use mplayer -vo help to see which drivers you have available. Some may be faster than others. And sound drivers also affect speed Damian Try ogle http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ it is bit better handels the dvd play back when mplayer. Yankl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help getting Sony Clie Working
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 09:25 pm, David Mascot wrote: I have the NR 79 Sony Clie with a USB Cradle. I have tried both the Gnome Pilot and the KPilot programs that came with Mandrake. Neither program seems to see the Clie when I try to configure it. actualy a jpilot works fine. just set up path in the options as /dev/ttyUSB0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
