[newbie] Re: Lost KDE login
Russell Butler wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 13:45, Russell Butler wrote: This rings faint bells - I'm sure that error has been discussed before, so google should be able to find it. Try something like linux recognise .png icon. Anne Thanks, Anne No joy thus far on that. Error is: Couldn't recognise the image file format for file '/usr/share/icons/drakconf.png' at /usr/lib/libDrakX/mygtk2.pm line 248. and no luck googling bits of that message, either. Russell Just to keep the archives complete, solved by downloading complete DVD and reinstalling. Fortunately I had learnt to make a separate /home partition so fairly painless. Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
[newbie] Re: Win2k is hijacking my network
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Jul 2005 12:23, Lee Wiggers wrote: All of a sudden a rogue win2k box on my net is assuming master and screwing up assigned ip's. Anyone know how to unfang the pos? I have a gun, but the box is my brothers. Check your /etc/samba/smb.conf. Make sure that the master entries are set to yes, and raise the value in os level = . The default is 34, I think, and at that the boxes will fight it out. HTH Anne Set os level to 65 and it will outrank every M$ box and win every fight, atleast for now... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
[newbie] Re: Lost KDE login
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 13:45, Russell Butler wrote: Hi all Sorry for what will probably be very simple, but I can't find a working solution other than a reinstallation, which I would like to avoid if possible. Acer laptop, just installed Mandriva 2005LE Mini. I did not notice that the AC adapter was unplugged, and everything crashed. After this I could not log in to KDE. Moved .Xauthority, and I now log in to a shell and can run startkde but would like to go straight in to the desktop. For some reason MCC fails - unable to recognise a .png icon that's paraphrasing the error, Any and all advice gratefully received. This rings faint bells - I'm sure that error has been discussed before, so google should be able to find it. Try something like linux recognise .png icon. Anne Thanks, Anne No joy thus far on that. Error is: Couldn't recognise the image file format for file '/usr/share/icons/drakconf.png' at /usr/lib/libDrakX/mygtk2.pm line 248. and no luck googling bits of that message, either. Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
[newbie] Lost KDE login
Hi all Sorry for what will probably be very simple, but I can't find a working solution other than a reinstallation, which I would like to avoid if possible. Acer laptop, just installed Mandriva 2005LE Mini. I did not notice that the AC adapter was unplugged, and everything crashed. After this I could not log in to KDE. Moved .Xauthority, and I now log in to a shell and can run startkde but would like to go straight in to the desktop. For some reason MCC fails - unable to recognise a .png icon that's paraphrasing the error, Any and all advice gratefully received. Thanks Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
[newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWriter problem
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 12:37, Paul Kater wrote: On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:22, Anne Wilson said: open the template under Templates Edit and simply change the name, saving it with a new name. I can't do that. For some reason it says that the text is read-only. Very strange! Can you open the template as a new document (file - new ... )? Yes. Perhaps you can then use the new document, based on the template, and save that as a new template. I tried that as well, but got the same message. I should have said that the business card uses a table for layout, so it could be something to do with the table settings, but it's far from obvious where the problem lies. I did all the work on it last night, and could edit the fields then without any problems at all. What worries me is that if I have to start again from scratch to make the second one it's extremely doubtful that I could make it exactly like the first. Anne Hi Anne Some templates are saved under ~OOo/share/ and you may not (as user) have write permissions to that directory. Can you Save As under a new name and edit the new copy? Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWriter problem
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 13:18, Russell Butler wrote: Some templates are saved under ~OOo/share/ and you may not (as user) have write permissions to that directory. It's in my home directory - I found it and checked the permissions, all of which look fine. Can you Save As under a new name and edit the new copy? Tried that - same problem :-( Thanks for the suggestions Anne Anne, Which version of OOo are you using? If the file is not confidential, if you like to send it to me off list, I can try opening it and saving as a document format (rather than template) and see if that helps. I have OOo 1.1.4 and 1.9.104 available. Regards Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005
John Zoetebier wrote: I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts that look coarse. I have tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the fonts stay the same. Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font system ? Font anti-aliasing seems to be working now. However it seems you have to reboot ypur PC (or X server). These are the settings for my system: - switch anti-aliasing on - leave exclude range off - use subpixel RGB hinting, style medium -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005
I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts that look coarse. I have tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the fonts stay the same. Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font system ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2
After upgrading Mandriva LE 10.2 from Mandrake 10.1 the wheel on my mouse is not working anymore. It is a wireless Microsoft USB wheelmouse. Worked fine in Mandrake 10.1 with some ACPI options like: append=noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht With the above settings the USB mouse did not work at all in Mandriva. So I changed it to: append=splash=silent Mouse is working now, but not the wheel. Wheel on PS2 mouse is not working either. I looked in Xorg.0.log and found these error messages at the top of the log file: 1) Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 2) (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5964) rev 1, Mem @ 0xe000/27, 0xff5f/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff5c/17 (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5d44) rev 1, Mem @ 0xd800/27, 0xff5e/16 However Xorg seems to have detected my ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. Any ideas ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2
John Zoetebier wrote: After upgrading Mandriva LE 10.2 from Mandrake 10.1 the wheel on my mouse is not working anymore. It is a wireless Microsoft USB wheelmouse. Worked fine in Mandrake 10.1 with some ACPI options like: append=noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht With the above settings the USB mouse did not work at all in Mandriva. So I changed it to: append=splash=silent Mouse is working now, but not the wheel. Wheel on PS2 mouse is not working either. I looked in Xorg.0.log and found these error messages at the top of the log file: 1) Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 2) (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5964) rev 1, Mem @ 0xe000/27, 0xff5f/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff5c/17 (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5d44) rev 1, Mem @ 0xd800/27, 0xff5e/16 However Xorg seems to have detected my ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. Any ideas ? Suddenly the wheel is working again :) The only thing I remember having changed is in MMC change font size to 10 in stead of 12. This may have changed the Xorg settings and as a side effect the mouse is working now. After rebooting the PC I discovered that the wheel was working again. It am just guessing though -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: keyboard
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Can believe I have this wrong again! Went into MCC but can find the corect palce to change to whatever I am supposed to have. Chose US Intl but obviously need just US! Hi Rosemary Does Hardware - Keyboard work? Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: keyboard
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Thanks Russell - I think I have it correct now. Things slowly falling inot place. part from my spelling! I note you are using Thunderbird, try Edit-Preferences-Composition and there is a check box there for Check spelling before sending I pick up lots of my typos there. :-) HTH Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: KDE or Knome or ?
Angus Auld wrote: I've noticed the same thing here with Kaffeine too Nate. Once you call up the program once, it will run in the background, even if you exit the program. I have to kill Kaffeine in KDE System Guard in order to get it to exit. I notice that it is eating approx. 30% to 50% cpu cycles too. I would have to assume this to be a bug. Anyone else out there seeing this? Any solution besides not using Kaffeine? I guess I should add myself to the kaffeine problem. I was looking at the cvs snapshot of kaffeine and noticed a memory leak patch dated May 2nd. I wonder if the problem still exists on a cooker box. -- Anthony Brooks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: NTLDR Missing Error -- Dual Boot
I'm not sure what I did, but I just tried re-installing everything on the same drive and it seems to work. Thanks. -- Frank Michel Leunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank L wrote: I just did a fresh install of XP Pro and Mandriva 10.2. Everything seemed to work fine, but when I tried to start XP I got the error message NTLDR is Missing Press Ctl Alt Del to restart. If I try to restart Windows I get the same error message. I don't think this is related to your fresh install of Linux. Did you by chance format the windows partition with Fat32 system? If it's the case, look at this it could help you: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q255220ID=KB;EN-US;q255220 Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] NTLDR Missing Error -- Dual Boot
I just did a fresh install of XP Pro and Mandriva 10.2. Everything seemed to work fine, but when I tried to start XP I got the error message NTLDR is Missing Press Ctl Alt Del to restart. If I try to restart Windows I get the same error message. -- Frank L Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] New Install Questions
I am about to install Mandriva Linux as a dual boot with XP Pro. Before I jump in, I would like to make sure I am doing everything correctly. I have a Pentium III 800mhz w/500MB RAM and three hard drives: 40GB, 110GB and 200GB. Here are my questions: 1.Is it best to install XP and Linux on the same drive or separate drives? I have a small preference do it on one drive, but it doesn't really matter to me. 2.How do I format the 110GB and 200GB drives? I assume FAT32, but should I use Linux or the disk utility that came with the drives? a)The 200GB drive is too big for my computer's BIOS, so some disk utility loads at startup to allow XP to see the entire drive. Will this be a problem under Linux? b)All my music is on the 200GB drive. That drive is currently formatted NTFS, so I am in the process of copying the contents to the other drives, reformatting the 200GB drive as FAT32, then I will recopy the music back to the 200GB drive. When I format the 200GB drive as FAT32, is there anything I should be conscious of regarding partition sizes? 3. What order of steps should I take. I was planning on the following: a)Load XP on the 40GB drive (other drives will not be plugged in). b)Load Linux on 40GB drive (with all drives plugged in -- I assume this will recognize XP on 40GB drive for dual-boot and 200GB/110GB drives for storage) Any help would be appreciated. -- Frank L Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: mandrake 10.1 on hp pavilion 7935
Michael Dancy wrote: So I installed mandrake 10.1 on my HP Pavilion 7935.. AMD 1300 256mb ram.. the usual crappy hp machine. It has onboard memory and I cant seem to find a video card in the selection that will work. I keep getting an error and when I run the test to check it out.. it just blanks out. Any ideas? Since I blew out the proprietary info on the C drive.. and cracked it open.. I cant tell what kind of card it is. Even the HP site isnt specific. Im not sure if this is going straight to a forum or to someone.. so any advice would be appreciated. The HP docs here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?cc=usdocname=bph06799lc=en tells you it's integrated graphics, so you need to check out the chipset, wich is VIA KL133. If you then check out the Via site here: http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=40STypeID=3 you will see that it's the chipset also known as Apollo KL133 If you look here: http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5ArticleID=68P=5 you will see that the integrated graphics is named: KPLE integrated graphics and the Northbridge is VT8364... Unfortunately here the fun seems to stop as I can't really find any proof that the xorg will support your card with any specific driver, but you should be able to use the standard VESA driver... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: 2005LE can't find hardware modem
Mike Adolf wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 07:37 pm, ET wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 06:46 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: After doing a network install of 2005LE, my modem is not detected. (I also have a broadband connection but need my modem for faxing). Windows shows it on COMM 3, and a modem query in XP returns the following: ATQ0V1E0 - OK AT+GMM - +GMM: V90 AT+FCLASS=? - 0,1,1.0,2,8 AT#CLS=? - COMMAND NOT SUPPORTED AT+GCI? - +GCI: B5 AT+GCI=? - +GCI: (B5) ATI1 - 212 ATI2 - OK ATI3 - V3.210-V90_2M_DLP ATI4 - Creative Modem Blaster Flash56 DI5601 ATI5 - B5 ATI6 - RCV56DPF-PLL L8571A Rev 36.00/36.00 ATI7 - OK Why can't Mandriva see it? Mandrake 10.1 found it! /dev had no entry for /dev/modem, so I created an s-link to /dev/ttyS2 (com3). It did not help. How do I start to solve this problem? Mike was your 10.1 install by chance the powerpack and your le2005 install download? powerpack has the drivers for some winmodems that the gnu version will not have Thanks for the reply, but the Modem Blaster is not a winmodem. It has a hardware controller. My 10.1 was a 4CD set (official) purchased from CD Then it may be one of those that are only supported by linuxant drivers, wich AFAIK are on the Official CD4, but due to licensing cant be in the download edition... discount site. LE was installed by downloading boot.iso. When booting from it, the install is done over the broadband connection. Please post the output of cat /var/log/dmesg and lspcidrake -v -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: fstab queries
WauloK wrote: When my PC boots up, I get the error: May 2 20:25:54 starbug mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, May 2 20:25:54 starbug mount:or too many mounted file systems Here's the entry created by Mandrake: /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 notail 1 2 And the other question: Why are all my Windows partitions on my other drive mounted as accessible only to ROOT? I chmodded the mount points to 550 but when you mount them, they change back to 500. So I can't access the files. Any clues? Thanks! The permission on a mount directory have nothiong to do with the pêrmission on the mount point . They are determined by options in /etc/fsab. If you want everyone to be able to read your windows partition; use umask=000. See man mount to have more information. Olive Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Beware
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:32:29 -0400, JoeHill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: Let all be aware, I just received a post that purported to have come from my ISP. wanting me to verify my registration information. DO NOT fall for this blatant lie. Don't even visit the site. I am positive it was phony because no ISP would send out such a poorly format difficult letter to read. Although my isp is earthlink, that doesn't mean you AOLers won't get one from aol. Don't be stupid. Don't fall for this trick. Jeez, and I thought I'd left all the virus/scam warning/hoax e-mails behind years ago when I dumped WinSux. Phishing is cross-platform. Jonesy -- | Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux | Gunnison, Colorado | @ | Jonesy |OS/2 __ | 7,703' -- 2,345m | config.com | DM68mn SK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Partition 2nd hard drive
Peter Watson wrote: Hi folks I've just installed a second hard drive and was about to partition it with fdisk so I had a peek at the man page, it recommends using cfdisk instead. Has anyone got any pointers on whether fdisk or cfdisk is preferable? I've only used harddrake before but this time I want to use the CLI. fdisk is preferable at my opnion. You have more control on what you do. Note cfdisk is not really a command line program it is a menu driven program Olive Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mandriva future?
Dear community, After the merge, what happents to the distro? Will be any free version available? I used MDK for 2 years... I've started to love it! Best Regards, Mihai Sorin Dobrescu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mandriva future?
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 12:04, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Dear community, After the merge, what happents to the distro? Will be any free version available? I used MDK for 2 years... I've started to love it! quote Q1. Will the Limited Edition 2005 distro be split into several flavors, like Discovery and PowerPack? A download Edition (3CD available on public mirrors) will be released? A1. There will be only one version available through the Mandrakestore. Club members will have access to several different versions, and there will be a Download edition as before. /quote There will be one download free version per year, with additional material available to club members. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpwDrMxfmM9k.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Re: OpenOffice Beta 2 Installation Mandrake 10.1
SOTL wrote: Hi All HELP! I am attempting to install Open Office Beta 2 m02 on a Mandrake 10.1 system and I have a few questions as I do not understand the installation instructions. A copy of the installation instruction along with my questions follows. Reply sent to ooo-users, Frank Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install
frengoGorgia wrote: Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed --- I was upgrading from 3.2 on MD10.1 desktop. Is there a fix for this or should I reinstall earlier version? Thanks in advance for help. probably /etc/menu/menudrakeentry was breaked by the upgrade post that file in list so we could read it. maybe this help. -- Regards, Francesco Hello Francesco I went through a series of problems and ended up starting x from the command line. Everything seems to be working ok from there. It doesn't start with mandrake display manager and switches to konsole login with kdm. Googling showed that it had to do with the different login managers. Will use as is. Thanks for responding. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Getting Xine to play .avi files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I just upgraded to 10.1 and I am still having trouble getting xine to play avi files. I have been having this problem since 9.0. Can anyone tell me what settings I need to verify or change to get this to work? Right now when I double click on the .avi file xine launces and then it gives me an unrecognizable fuzzy picture that is majority blue color and without sound. Thanks for any help. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCWovQIlvJWEz8eXQRAkqtAJ9SCZe++L9a7w683fZYC/UoL93B5gCghVxm jnvHgRWv5iPMNId8Ydhuty0= =XCb3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting Xine to play .avi files
On Apr 11, 2005 3:38 PM, Lovell Mcilwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to 10.1 and I am still having trouble getting xine to play avi files. I have been having this problem since 9.0. Can anyone tell me what settings I need to verify or change to get this to work? Right now when I double click on the .avi file xine launces and then it gives me an unrecognizable fuzzy picture that is majority blue color and without sound. Lovell, Try urpmi xine-win32 and then use totem. Not 100% guaranteed, but worthy to give a try. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting Xine to play .avi files
On Monday 11 April 2005 09:38 am, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I just upgraded to 10.1 and I am still having trouble getting xine to play avi files. I have been having this problem since 9.0. Can anyone tell me what settings I need to verify or change to get this to work? Right now when I double click on the .avi file xine launces and then it gives me an unrecognizable fuzzy picture that is majority blue color and without sound. Thanks for any help. Do you have avifile installed? Last one I saw was avifile-0.7-0.7* HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mandriva future?
On Monday 11 April 2005 05:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 11 Apr 2005 12:04, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Dear community, After the merge, what happents to the distro? Will be any free version available? I used MDK for 2 years... I've started to love it! quote Q1. Will the Limited Edition 2005 distro be split into several flavors, like Discovery and PowerPack? A download Edition (3CD available on public mirrors) will be released? A1. There will be only one version available through the Mandrakestore. Club members will have access to several different versions, and there will be a Download edition as before. /quote There will be one download free version per year, with additional material available to club members. Anne Hi Anne Do you think there will be (free) updates available for the download version as it is now? I suppose the same urpmi soruces will be available? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kontact Question (how to)
On a shut down I got a strange yellow screen, had to power down. On reboot I had disk errors. I let the boot loader 'fix' them (with risk of lost data). After reboot, some task icons and desktop icons were missing and Mozilla lost it settings/bookmarks. I was able to recover OK except for Kontact. I have two mail accounts. Prior to the 'crash' the new message/reply screen allowed me to select the 'from' account from a drop down, now it doesn't. I browsed the configuration panels but did not see anything related. All else with Kontact works normally. Any ideas? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mandriva future?
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 18:04, Mike Adolf wrote: quote Q1. Will the Limited Edition 2005 distro be split into several flavors, like Discovery and PowerPack? A download Edition (3CD available on public mirrors) will be released? A1. There will be only one version available through the Mandrakestore. Club members will have access to several different versions, and there will be a Download edition as before. /quote There will be one download free version per year, with additional material available to club members. Anne Hi Anne Do you think there will be (free) updates available for the download version as it is now? I suppose the same urpmi soruces will be available? I don't have any insider info, but I was in the chat room when this was said. I got the impression that security updates etc will continue to be freely available. New material, possibly including major updates, will be confined to club members. That's only my impression, though. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpDCu1TILkFe.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] USB 2
Hello, I'd like to know if I can connect an iPod to my computer. iPod uses USB2: how can I know which USB is the one I have? Hardware identification gives this for USB controllers: Identification Vendor: VIA Technologies Description: VT82C586B USB Media class: SERIAL_USB Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 0 PCI device #: 7 PCI function #: 2 Vendor ID: 4358 Device ID: 12344 Sub vendor ID: 2341 Sub device ID: 4660 Misc Module: usb-uhci And this for USB ports: Identification Vendor: Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk uhci_hcd Description: UHCI Host Controller Media class: Hub Connection Bus: USB Bus PCI #: 2 (*and 1 on the other*) PCI device #: 1 Vendor ID: 0 Device ID: 0 Misc Module: hub Any help greatly appreciated. -- Pablo Ortzar 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 2
On Monday 11 April 2005 11:10 am, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: Hello, I'd like to know if I can connect an iPod to my computer. iPod uses USB2: how can I know which USB is the one I have? Hardware identification gives this for USB controllers: Identification Vendor: VIA Technologies Description: VT82C586B USB Media class: SERIAL_USB Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 0 PCI device #: 7 PCI function #: 2 Vendor ID: 4358 Device ID: 12344 Sub vendor ID: 2341 Sub device ID: 4660 Misc Module: usb-uhci And this for USB ports: Identification Vendor: Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk uhci_hcd Description: UHCI Host Controller Media class: Hub Connection Bus: USB Bus PCI #: 2 (*and 1 on the other*) PCI device #: 1 Vendor ID: 0 Device ID: 0 Misc Module: hub Any help greatly appreciated. Don't have an Ipod (think they're kinda silly) but there is this http://ipodlinuxinstl.sourceforge.net/index.shtml 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 2
On Monday 11 April 2005 20:10, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: Hello, I'd like to know if I can connect an iPod to my computer. iPod uses USB2: how can I know which USB is the one I have? Hardware identification gives this for USB controllers: PS: /proc/bus/usb/devices D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk uhci_hcd S: Product=UHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=:00:07.3 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk uhci_hcd S: Product=UHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=:00:07.2 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: [Cooker] Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and Nvu
Frederic Crozat wrote: Hi guys, hello Frederic, how are you doing under the new flag :-) ? following marketing decisions, we are switching from Mozilla application suite to Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu. -firefox, thunderbird and nvu will move from contrib to cooker main. I try to integrate all currents patches/features which are in mozilla to those packages (which will mean doing work 3 times instead of one :() you know i liked these 3 because i thought they have the greatest backing in open source world. but now i see that mozilla.org is dragging their feet, the big deficiencies and hundreds of important bugs for example in thunderbird are mostly being ignored, even when privacy is exposed by webbugs in spam etc. nvu on the other hand is, while still very much lacking, is currently the best free wysiwyg web editor. now my question: i have all 6 easyurpmi sources, but software manager does not find NVU in 10.1. do i have to install it from somewhere else ? kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Linux Ghost
Does anyone know of a free Linux program that is like Nortan Ghost, and bootable from either a Floppy or CD? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 00:02, JoeHill wrote: I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). I'm not sure this is true, Joe. My Matrox card has only basic drivers and can play DVDs. I doubt if the 400 MHz processor is up to it, though. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpDK5mEU75v1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Using the rm command
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:29:32 +1200
SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only.
I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at
installing the later.
I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by
me. The README advises: To uninstall Acrobat Reader 5.0.9, simply
delete the directory where it was installed.
However, in doing a search :
# slocate acro
I have found that it is spread through quite a number of directories.
Though I am prepared to track them down and remove them all
individually I was wondering if there is a way to use the rm
command to search and remove them all at one time ?
And even better ~ if there was a way to check everything rm wanted
to remove first without having to say Y to every file one by one ?
Still, this is only a thought and not essential but if you know then
please share.
TIA
Regards
SnapafunFrank
Frank,
I think the find command is what you are looking for.
As root, run
find / -name acroread* -exec ls {} \;
to find the files you are looking for. (acro* gives too many false
positives, at least on my machine.)
Use
find / -name acroread* -exec rm {} \;
to remove the files..
find / -name acroread* -exec rm -i {} \;
gives you the possibility to skip certain files, and
find / -name acroread* -exec rm -r -i {} \;
also works recursively.
Then go on to search for Acrobat instead of acroread.
Björn
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Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
Hi, I remember playing DVDs on a 466Mhz Celeron with a 4MB Matrox Millenium. I suppose it sould at least play (if not smooth) on your Machine. Regards *Sebastian Martin* Heinrich - Heine - Str. 2c 35039 Marburg a.d. Lahn Deutschland / Germany Tel.: +49 6421 897200 Mobil: +49 177 232 5 686 ICQ: 19221771 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne Wilson schrieb am 10.04.2005 08:40 das Folgende: On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 00:02, JoeHill wrote: I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). I'm not sure this is true, Joe. My Matrox card has only basic drivers and can play DVDs. I doubt if the 400 MHz processor is up to it, though. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Apr 9, 2005 11:51 PM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my system, a stock 10.1, with the standard upgrades, but not with KDE upgraded to a newer version, plugging in a flash drive results in it being mounted on /mnt/removable, and I am able to access it without problem. But people that have upgraded KDE have run into problems because of the other packages that need to be upgraded to use the new KDE packages. It seams to break the 10.1 hotplug setup... When you upgrade to Thac's KDE, it also installs the HAL daemon which is responsible for changing the mount points, etc. I understand HAL is a good thing, but it's really annoying if you're not expecting its changes. The good news is that after installing Thac's KDE, you can uninstall HAL without uninstalling everything else KDE. Actually, it is not a big deal to mount manually the flash drive. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
On Sunday 10 April 2005 02:25 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? The reason he cites for wanting windows are all areas mandrake can really soar, so I'm dying to give him his dream machine! Did the adapter come with the mouse? Does the mouse work with the adapter on other computers? Other OSs? snip Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your reply. Yes, the mouse works fine on windows so it must work with serial also. I have no idea how to get mandrake to detect it though Kind regards, Jarlath Try logging in as root, and running drakconf. Select mouse, and then serial mouse. It will help if you know the mouse type, and the port it is connected to. Just remember: Windows Linux COM 1= /dev/ttyS0 COM 2= /dev/ttyS1 COM 3= /dev/ttyS2 COM 4= /dev/ttyS3 Mikkel Mikkel, thanks a million. That did the trick. Selecting from the serial mice worked. I would not have been able to fix that without your help. Thank you again, Jarlath. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 April 2005 05:10 am, Sebastian Martin wrote: Hi, I remember playing DVDs on a 466Mhz Celeron with a 4MB Matrox Millenium. I suppose it sould at least play (if not smooth) on your Machine. Regards *Sebastian Martin* Heinrich - Heine - Str. 2c 35039 Marburg a.d. Lahn Deutschland / Germany Tel.: +49 6421 897200 Mobil: +49 177 232 5 686 ICQ: 19221771 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne Wilson schrieb am 10.04.2005 08:40 das Folgende: On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 00:02, JoeHill wrote: I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). I'm not sure this is true, Joe. My Matrox card has only basic drivers and can play DVDs. I doubt if the 400 MHz processor is up to it, though. Anne I think joe got it part way right, I know I can play dvds all day long on a celery 366, but it also has 640 megs system memory and 128 meg video mem on an nvidia geforce ti4400, so the real answer ain't the cpu, but what else besides the cpu is in the box, and running in the background in the box.. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Citrix ICA Client 32bit on 64bit mozilla
Hi, I'm running MDK AMD64, and using Mozilla 64 bit also, can anyone tell me if I can use the Citrix ICA 32bit client with this setup ? Regards, Tony. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:34:33 -0400 Miark disseminated the following: I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power? I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Miark, do you have the PLF versions of your players an their dependencies installed ? Particularly libdvdcss2-1.2.8-3plf 400Mhz, an 192mb ram should not pose a problem other than takin a little longer to fill the initial cache. Miark, have you tried playin the DVD with mplayer on the CL ? 'mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hd?' (fwiw, I think -dvd-device might be deprecated now, but it can't hurt) And don't try to play the DVD untill the light on your DVDrom has quit blinkin after you insert the DVD. If that light stays on or keeps blinkin, the drive can't read the media. Usually but not always the movie is title 1. You may need to try 2,3,4.. also. Will other DVD's play? I've run into maybe 1:50 commercial DVD's that just won't play on a computer. Couldn't even successfully rip to .avi with (PLF) dvd::rip mplayer will more often play problem DVD's than xine. BUT, every once in a while I've encountered DVD's that xine will play and mplayer won't. Those are the players I would recommend, not totem -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ASUS 54 Mbps 802.11g LAN PCI Card + wifi + MDK 10.1
Hi all, I wanted to create a wireless connexion under linux mdk 10.1 having the 54 Mbps 802.11g LAN PCI Card but i don't succeed in doing that. In fact, someone has indicated me the web site http://linux_wless.passys.nl/ According to this site, it is not supported by linux :-( Does someone knows if it's really impossible to have an internet wireless connexion by the way of this card ?? Thank you a lot by advance. Alexis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq
after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? after configuring konqueror and the screen resolution, installing firefox and thunderbird from mozilla.org, and not seeing my external usb harddisk, i restarted, and now konqueror does not start anymore. so i wanted to uninstall it, but software manager does not find it. is there a faq answering such questions ? kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 16:28, Tom wrote: mplayer will more often play problem DVD's than xine. BUT, every once in a while I've encountered DVD's that xine will play and mplayer won't. Those are the players I would recommend, not totem Side-issue, but interesting. I have one disk that was burned on the hardware, stand-alond dvd recorder, that will not play in either xine or mplayer. It must just be marginal, something about not being able to read some of the ifo files, I think. I can play the individual chapters, launching from konqueror, under xine, but not the film as a whole. On the stand-alone recorder it plays OK - and guess what it's running? Unless I'm very much mistaken that's xine with a few extra menu options. If you request the text menu it is identical to the one I see on this box using the same option! My daughter has a Mustek portable dvd player, and that appears to have the same xine software, too. I've read a lot about embedded linux, but this is the first time that I have been aware of it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpiUJCmI4nPp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] aMule (was: eMule for Mandrake
Paul wrote: Have a look at http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/a/am/amule/aMule-1.2.8-1mdk.i586.html. That is perhaps what you seek. i can't install it on my fresh mandrake 10.1 due to a dependency: libcurl.so.2 what is the best way to install that ? as i understand it we are two class citizens here, the club members and the others. i am not a member (maybe i need to label that in the subject to make reciprocal support easier ?) kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:23:58 up 48 days, 15:31, 7 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kde 3.4 install
Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed --- I was upgrading from 3.2 on MD10.1 desktop. Is there a fix for this or should I reinstall earlier version? Thanks in advance for help. -- John Bryant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) Didn't I read somewhere that DivX files require at least a 500Mhz processor? Although that was for Windoze based systems. Haven't the faintest what a DVD would need, though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:26:16 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) I stand corrected. Just tested it with the nv driver, and the DVD did play, fullscreen and all. I must have been thinking of trying to play movies with my onboard video chip (crap) before I got my GF. Sorry :-( -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:43:46 up 48 days, 15:50, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.08 +++ Behind every great fortune is a crime. -- Balzac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Poor graphics driver
After installing mandrake 10.1 O on a friends pc, I've noticed that his graphics preformance is a little poor. Its a little noticable when moving windows - very noticable when playing mpeg / wmv etc. Is there anything that can be done to improve this? The specs are below. Identification Vendor: S3 Inc. Description: 86c368 [Trio 3D/2X] Media class: DISPLAY_VGA Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 1 PCI device #: 0 PCI function #: 0 Vendor ID: 21299 Device ID: 35347 Sub vendor ID: 65535 Sub device ID: 65535 Misc Module: Card:S3 86C368 (Trio3D/2X) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)
Philippe Landau wrote: if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) now that i installed mandrake 10.1, how do i modify the mbr to be able to boot into the other linux installations ? control center:boot:boot loader says i need to specify a kernel image, but does not show the ones waiting on different partitions. kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] aMule (was: eMule for Mandrake
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:13:28 +0200 Philippe Landau wrote: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/a/am/amule/aMule-1.2.8-1mdk.i586.html. That is perhaps what you seek. i can't install it on my fresh mandrake 10.1 due to a dependency: libcurl.so.2 what is the best way to install that ? That Is Not a Mandrake rpm, it is an SF rpm done by someone possibly involved with the aMule project. As a matter of policy Mandrake does not include Any p2p pkgs in the distro. It Is avaiable though, for Mandrake from any PLF mirror in /free, amule-2.0.0-0.rc8.6plf being the latest. http://plf.zarb.org/ The easiest way is to go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and add plf-free and non-free to your rpmdrake/urpmi sources. Charles -- Well, I'm INVISIBLE AGAIN ... I might as well pay a visit to the LADIES ROOM ... - Mandrake Linux 10.2 on PurpleDragon 2.6.10-3.mm.19mdk-i686-up-4GB http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpi6bjT52zIy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)
Philippe Landau wrote: Philippe Landau wrote: if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) now that i installed mandrake 10.1, how do i modify the mbr to be able to boot into the other linux installations ? control center:boot:boot loader says i need to specify a kernel image, but does not show the ones waiting on different partitions. kind regards philippe There a several ways to do it. One way it to have each distribution install its boot loader to its root partition, instead of the MBR, and then use one boot loader to give you a menu of distributions. This boot loader just loads the distribution's boot loader, and lets it take it from there. You can use LILO, Grub, or another boot loader of your own choice for this. You would use the same format as you do for booting Windows from the boot loader. For lilo, it would be something like: other=/dev/hda1 label=windows other=/dev/hda5 label=mandrake other=/dev/hda7 label=debian You can usualy specify where you want the boot loader installed as part of the install. If you want to do it later, you have to edit the config file. For lilo, edit /etc/lilo.conf and change boot=/dev/hda to boot=/dev/hda5 if you want lilo to install to partition 5. Then run lilo to do the install. The advantage of doing it this way is that when you upgrade a kernel, the kernel install scripts will update the boot loader for you. Otherwise you have to keep track of the kernel changes for each distribution in the distribution that the boot loader is installed in. The disadvantage is that you are using 2 boot loaders to boot your Linux distribution. Another way is to have one /boot partition that has the kernels for each distribution. Each distribution mounts it, and the boot loader knows where to find each kernel/inital RAM disk. But it can be fun keeping the names steight. A third way is to mount each /boot or / partition, and give the full path to the kernel for each distribution, based on the mount point. In other words, if you mounted the Debian root directory on /debian, then the kernel would be /debian/boot/debial kernel. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installation (program) problems
Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( ... Later It helps if you change the attributes to exectuable :( :( [fx: hangs head in shame] Now installed :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems
Elwyn York wrote: Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( ... Later It helps if you change the attributes to exectuable :( :( [fx: hangs head in shame] Now installed :) Elwyn Dumb question: is the script executable? Try sh /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:05:57 +0100 Elwyn York wrote: Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( use # sh /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh Charles -- But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast to the nearest gas station. - Mandrake Linux 10.2 on PurpleDragon 2.6.10-3.mm.19mdk-i686-up-4GB http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpRTSVTMOIiN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) There must be other factors, Joe. As I said, they play on my old Matrox card without acceleration, and this box has an NVidia card, but I'm using the nv driver only. Xine plays them here, too. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgphrxad92YmO.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] cant unsubscribe
Everytime i try i get an error no email from the mandrake site can you please un sub me -- AIM: FucPsSht Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cant unsubscribe
On Apr 10, 2005 10:06 PM, Positive Negative [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime i try i get an error no email from the mandrake site can you please un sub me You can unsubscribe to list by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe newbie in the body of the message. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq
On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? after configuring konqueror and the screen resolution, installing firefox and thunderbird from mozilla.org, and not seeing my external usb harddisk, i restarted, and now konqueror does not start anymore. so i wanted to uninstall it, but software manager does not find it. is there a faq answering such questions ? kind regards philippe I gather from your post you are very new to linux in general. Try not to expect the same handling as you did in windows. Do not (just)uninstall what doesn't seem to work for you, you might need it again later. Take your time to look around at what you've got installed...it's more than you think or can see at a first glance. Yes, I would certainly advise to _only_ install via the software managerthat will save some disappointments, depencies_wise. For tips, tricks and faq's check the twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install
Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed --- I was upgrading from 3.2 on MD10.1 desktop. Is there a fix for this or should I reinstall earlier version? Thanks in advance for help. probably /etc/menu/menudrakeentry was breaked by the upgrade post that file in list so we could read it. maybe this help. -- Regards, Francesco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? is there a faq answering such questions ? I gather from your post you are very new to linux in general. not really new, but not at home, right :-) Try not to expect the same handling as you did in windows. Do not (just)uninstall what doesn't seem to work for you, you might need it again later. in debian a troubleshooting trick is to remove completely, including the configuration files, through synaptic, and then reinstall. can mdr software manager remove config files too ? Take your time to look around at what you've got installed...it's more than you think or can see at a first glance. Yes, I would certainly advise to _only_ install via the software managerthat will save some disappointments, depencies_wise. i will try then. For tips, tricks and faq's check the twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome ah great, thank you. now on: http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/ Getting started points to the beautifully done http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ that i needed today. and everything done by the kind souls helping so much on these lists too. thank you all. kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installed perl modules
Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've installed. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 18:34:39 up 20:41, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.32, 0.33 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Everyone's head is a cheap movie show. -- Jeff G. Bone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
Ian wrote: On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) Didn't I read somewhere that DivX files require at least a 500Mhz processor? I'd heard that rumor too Although that was for Windoze based systems. There is no reality comin from Windoze, either the users or M$ Haven't the faintest what a DVD would need, though. Ian, while not on DVD, I took some CD's burned with .vobs ripped from DVD up to my daughter an g'kids when I went up to Houston for Christmas. She has my old PII 350 (that I oc'd to 467 the whole time I had it). Mostly an experiment to see how the videos played, or even if they would. Her system has ancient ram in it, from an even older P90 system I use to have. Rated for 66mhz I guess, it was from before the PC66 standard was invented. I ran that old ram at 133+. When I gave the system to my daughter, I had to keep it at 100mhz to match the default PII 350 FSB. That ram, 64mb's (2x32), is old an 'rode hard an put up wet'. The video card is an old S3 'Virge'. Also previously oc'd to the limit, but not in her system. Which other than the ancient ram, is run at default speeds now. It's a system runnin Linux, an the last time I updated it for her, it was to 10.1, KDE, w/PLF additions. That 350, w/o 3d/accel, only 64mb overan worn out ram played the .vob's just fine usin (PLF) mplayer. So I gave her some $$'s to go to Wal*Mart and buy a DVDrom drive (ata) and some DVD's for the kids. The Cdrom was old an tired anyhow (also a carry over from my my ancient P90). Installed the DVDrom, an played the DVD's for the kids. 350Mhz, overstretched 64mb ram, no hardware accel on an ancient 2mb video card. It did take close to a minute to fill the cache an start playin the movie tho. (64mb, 250 /swap). After the wait, it played flawlessly. I suppose it is time to build another system for myself an give her an the g'kids this old XP3000+, no 3d/acell. Just with an old 512mb stick of ram I've got layin around in it ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing new monitor
I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor
Carroll Grigsby wrote: I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Run drakxconf and update the monitor settings. Then change the resolution. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! 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
Il lun, 2005-04-11 alle 01:36, Chris ha scritto:
Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms
in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've
installed.
for an alphabetic list of module with full path you can try this script
the author page is here
http://www.perl.it/documenti/faq/view.html?pag=3faq=4lng=en
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Find;
my @file;
find sub { push @file, $File::Find::name if -f _ /\.pm$/ },
@INC;
print join \n, @file;
if you want , there is a tool named perl-pmtools packaged
http://language.perl.com/misc/pmtools-1.00.tar.gz.
and a Fedora rpm too (for mandrake don't ask me, request it to
Club-contrib packagers)
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/perl-pmtools-1.00-1.noarch.html
--
Regards,
Francesco
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Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor
On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:02 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Run drakxconf and update the monitor settings. Then change the resolution. Mikkel Mikkel: That did it -- thanks for your help. My problem was that I hadn't seen the Monitor heading and just tried changing the resolution. Just another senior moment here. -- cmg 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
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:36:52 -0500, Chris wrote: Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've installed. rpm -qa | grep -i perl Hope that helps, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web page hints?
On Friday 08 Apr 2005 23:47, et wrote: have you installed drakwizard? just run the apache web server wizard from mcc, and when it asks you to put in the root, just change it to /var/www/html/Design. or are you asking about editing /etc/www/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf? as root and restarting apache? Hi, et. My small webspace is on my isp's server, so I can't do anything with apache. I;ve had some off-list help which I hope to implement over the weekend. If all goes well I'll report back in the hope that it helps someone else. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpgRn9jgl0yS.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] No Sound in Kaffeine with Mary Gauthier video
Hi folks, This music video (which is Quicktime - I think) gives me pictures but no sound when played in Kaffeine. Sound is OK with other music vids and CDs. Is there some add-on that I need to download, or any way of tweaking the program? Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla
On Apr 9, 2005 3:38 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.5/plugins/nppdf.so /home/chris/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so /root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so It automatically installed in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ when I used the (2) option when I ran the script. You were luckier, Chris: your procedure did not succeeded here! I assume that help About Plugins shows this in Mozilla: Adobe Reader 7.0 File name: nppdf.so The Adobe Reader plugin is used to enable viewing of PDF and FDF files from within the browser. MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled application/pdf Portable Document Formatpdf Yes application/vnd.fdf Acrobat Forms Data Format fdf Yes application/vnd.adobe.xfdf XML Version of Acrobat Forms Data Format xfdf Yes application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml Acrobat XML Data Packagexdp Yes application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml Adobe FormFlow99 Data File xfd Yes You assume it correctly, Chris. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So I set the append line in lilo to noapic nolapic and on boot with the device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable. HTH Oh man, if I would read and not jump.. any chance you went to console and typed in as su mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk ? or look in MCC and see what harddrake calls the device. HTH Thanks, Dennis, but I do not understand quite well what you mean. Yes, if I run the command mount /media/usbdisk then, I can use my flash disk. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problems with streaming audio/video in Xine
Hi again, Just installed Xine in the hopes of overcoming the limitations i seem to have with Kaffeine. However still no sound with .mov files. Also, when I try to connect to radio stations, I get the following error: Error loading library: cook.so.6.0 These libraries are installed in /home/graham/codecs along with all the others. What, if anything, can I do about these problems? -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with streaming audio/video in Xine
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi again, Just installed Xine in the hopes of overcoming the limitations i seem to have with Kaffeine. However still no sound with .mov files. Also, when I try to connect to radio stations, I get the following error: Error loading library: cook.so.6.0 These libraries are installed in /home/graham/codecs along with all the others. What, if anything, can I do about these problems? Further to this, when starting gxine from the command line, I get the following message which may be relevant (or not): lirc: lirc_init failed. Make sure that you have lircd running lirc: and that you have the permissions to connect to the socket This occurs whether running as user or root so somehow I don't think it's a permissions issue. What is lircd anyhow? -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: ark rar
Q, if you delete your reply-to address, it would be easier for people on the Mandrake/Mandriva lists to respond to your posts. Hi Miark, Many thanks for your suggestion. Now I have removed my address from the reply-to. In fact I don't realize that. What problem does it cause? Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
Are you running KDE 3.4, Miark? Cannot it be caused by KDE 3.4? Well, it is just a suspicion, because I think I have tried everything to get the Acrobat Reader plugin working, but with no luck. Hi Paul, I guess your doubt might be sound as I use KDE 3.2 and AR 7.0 does work well with me. You got complaint it to KDE development gangs;) Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 and Skype.
Hi all, does anyone have Skype running on 10.1? If so could you help me get my microphone working? Thanks, Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: ark rar
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 11:52, Q.H. Wang wrote: Q, if you delete your reply-to address, it would be easier for people on the Mandrake/Mandriva lists to respond to your posts. Hi Miark, Many thanks for your suggestion. Now I have removed my address from the reply-to. In fact I don't realize that. What problem does it cause? This, and several other issues that cause problems, are explained on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Do take the time to explore the Community TWiki, while you're there. There's a huge amount of useful information, although you may have to browse the index to see where it is. The search facility is a bit primitive, but it does bring up a list of pages where your search term is mentioned. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpShLPKXZdvr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Re: ark rar
Many thanks Anne. I really don't realize it's the problem of replying posts directly to me, not the list. I thought it has caused some other problems. Now I'm clear. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:04:05 +0100 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, does anyone have Skype running on 10.1? If so could you help me get my microphone working? I don't use Skype, but let me guess: you're motherboard is nforce2 based...? If not, does your microphone work with other applications...? -- Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 13:23, Smiley wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:04:05 +0100 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, does anyone have Skype running on 10.1? If so could you help me get my microphone working? I don't use Skype, but let me guess: you're motherboard is nforce2 based...? If not, does your microphone work with other applications...? -- Smiley Hi Smiley, yes it is nforce2 and no, I haven't got the mic working with any other applications. Si. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)
if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OpenOffice Beta 2 Installation Mandrake 10.1
Hi All HELP! I am attempting to install Open Office Beta 2 m02 on a Mandrake 10.1 system and I have a few questions as I do not understand the installation instructions. A copy of the installation instruction along with my questions follows. Hope some one can help. Thanks Frank Usage: install [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST (1st format) What does DEST mean? Destination? or: install [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY (2nd format) For multiuser installation which DIRECTORY should be used? For single user installation which DIRECTORY should be used? I am assuming SOURCE means the directory the OpenOffice install file is located in. If the command prompt is in the directory does one have to include DIRECTORY in the command? or: install -d [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... (3rd format) See note under -d In the first two formats, copy SOURCE to DEST or multiple SOURCE(s) to the existing DIRECTORY, while setting permission modes and owner/group. In the third format, create all components of the given DIRECTORY(ies). Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. --backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file -b like --backup but does not accept an argument -c (ignored) What is being ignored? Does -c mean ignore all following options or is this reserved for future usage? -d, --directory treat all arguments as directory names; create all components of the specified directories If one treats all arguments as directories what does happens? -D create all leading components of DEST except the last, then copy SOURCE to DEST; useful in the 1st format -g, --group=GROUP set group ownership, instead of process' current group -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), instead of rwxr-xr-x -o, --owner=OWNER set ownership (super-user only) -p, --preserve-timestamps apply access/modification times of SOURCE files to corresponding destination files -s, --strip strip symbol tables, only for 1st and 2nd formats -S, --suffix=SUFFIX override the usual backup suffix -v, --verbose print the name of each directory as it is created --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit The backup suffix is `~', unless set with --suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be selected via the --backup option or through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values: none, off never make backups (even if --backup is given) numbered, t make numbered backups existing, nil numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise simple, never always make simple backups Report bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org.
Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:41:19 +0100 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Smiley, yes it is nforce2 and no, I haven't got the mic working with any other applications. A lot of people had (and still having) this problem with Mandrake and mike with nforce... Other distros does work, instead; alas I think the only way to solve your problem is waiting for Mandrake 10.2 (or Mandrake 2005 Limited Edition, or Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition, or... ahem...) I'm running 10.2 RC2 just now and microphone is finally OK... -- Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Email and Firefox
Hello How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Connecting parallel printer through USB - parallel converter
Hello, I have an old HP DeskJet 560C printer which I used under Mandrake through a standard parallel port connection. Now I tried to connect the printer via a USB to Centronics 36 cable connector to be able to print throgh the USB port (by the way, this works when printing under XP, WinUAE Amiga OS 3.9 and under MorphOS, so there is no problem with the converter or the printer). Under Mandrake (10.0 Kernel 2.6) I created a new printer with Harddrake2, went to the dialoque (choosing printer model, port and so on, the same stuff I did when I configured it for the parallel port in the past) and it seems to be okay. But as soon as I want to print (from any application), the print dialogue hangs, the application seems to freeze and nothing prints. I have to kill the application or to reboot Mandrake. Any ideas what it could be? Cheers Yvan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? The reason he cites for wanting windows are all areas mandrake can really soar, so I'm dying to give him his dream machine! Did the adapter come with the mouse? Does the mouse work with the adapter on other computers? Other OSs? snip Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your reply. Yes, the mouse works fine on windows so it must work with serial also. I have no idea how to get mandrake to detect it though Kind regards, Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:14 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So I set the append line in lilo to noapic nolapic and on boot with the device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable. HTH Oh man, if I would read and not jump.. any chance you went to console and typed in as su mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk ? or look in MCC and see what harddrake calls the device. HTH Thanks, Dennis, but I do not understand quite well what you mean. Yes, if I run the command mount /media/usbdisk then, I can use my flash disk. Paul Right, this seems to be the way 10.1 works. It must first have a removable drive mounted and then it will allow it to be read. 10.2 has changed this and works much better for hotplugging. 10.2 should be out in a few days now. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
On Saturday 09 April 2005 03:09 pm, JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? The reason he cites for wanting windows are all areas mandrake can really soar, so I'm dying to give him his dream machine! Did the adapter come with the mouse? Does the mouse work with the adapter on other computers? Other OSs? snip Hi Mikkel, Thanks for your reply. Yes, the mouse works fine on windows so it must work with serial also. I have no idea how to get mandrake to detect it though Kind regards, Jarlath I've just learned that harddrake has detected a SBLive joystick. There is no joystick so I think it is really the mouse. It is filed under 'Unknown/other' in harddrake. Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox
Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:55:45 -0400 schreef john: How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. I use 10.0, hopefully things have not changed too much: Open gnome-control-center, click Advanced and then doubleclick filetypes and programs. In the new window scroll down to INternet services, click the triangle and find E-mail at the bottom. Click that, click the 'Edit' button on the right, and there point the service to thunderbird. Good luck! Paul -- What part of 'no' don't you understand? Is it the 'N', or the 'Zero'? http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox
Paul wrote: Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:55:45 -0400 schreef john: How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. I use 10.0, hopefully things have not changed too much: Open gnome-control-center, click Advanced and then doubleclick filetypes and programs. In the new window scroll down to INternet services, click the triangle and find E-mail at the bottom. Click that, click the 'Edit' button on the right, and there point the service to thunderbird. Good luck! Paul Paul Thanks for response. I changed the mailer to thunderbird but I need to know the correct command to fill in. Evolution was evolution %s (w/o quotation marks). Thanks again in addvance John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 14:18, Smiley wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:41:19 +0100 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Smiley, yes it is nforce2 and no, I haven't got the mic working with any other applications. A lot of people had (and still having) this problem with Mandrake and mike with nforce... Other distros does work, instead; alas I think the only way to solve your problem is waiting for Mandrake 10.2 (or Mandrake 2005 Limited Edition, or Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition, or... ahem...) I'm running 10.2 RC2 just now and microphone is finally OK... -- Smiley Thanks for the info Smiley. I will be looking forward to solving this problem as I hate having to go onto Windows to run Skype. Regards, Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox
Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 12:58:04 -0400 schreef john: Thanks for response. I changed the mailer to thunderbird but I need to know the correct command to fill in. Evolution was evolution %s (w/o quotation marks). Thanks again in addvance You'll then need to enter the entire path to thunderbird. I don't know where it is installed on your machine, so 'locate thunderbird' might give you a clue. Adding the %s will add the e-mail address of the person to whom you are sending e-mail that is in the link. Paul -- What part of 'no' don't you understand? Is it the 'N', or the 'Zero'? http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PGP Package
Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) that I need to access, please help :-) Reagrds, Tony. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PGP Package
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 20:18, Tony wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) that I need to access, please help :-) Reagrds, Tony. Install gnupg and KGpg. Regards, Simon -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PGP Package
Great, thanks :-)) On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 21:30, Simon wrote: On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 20:18, Tony wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) that I need to access, please help :-) Reagrds, Tony. Install gnupg and KGpg. Regards, Simon -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
