Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
Dennis Myers wrote: 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. 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... Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! 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)
JR wrote: 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 I haven't had time to dig out a serial mouse to play with, but I hope to get a chance later today. But I don't think that the joystick is your mouse. Even if you do not have a joystick hooked up, there is still a joystick interface on the card. This is probably what you are seeing. Kind of like a serial port with nothing attached - it is there, but you cann't do much with it without a device attached. Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Using the rm command
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 -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
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? 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] comparing mandrake based linux distributions
Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while encouraging a gang mentality on their mailing lists. dissent and open discourse is not welcome there. the PCLinux lists suffer from a lack of warmth. and MandrakeSoft/Mandriva is too commercial for me. comparing the products though, what do you recommend ? i like email, web, p2p, multimedia and simple but complete. kind regards philippe Hmmm. I've started to play with PCLinuxOS and enjoy all things there to date and you can look at it as a LiveCD first. Still, for a complete system and the most helpful list I've been on, then here, with Mandrake, remains unbeatable. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 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 Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:24:17 -0500, Mikkel 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. 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] 400MHz enough video power?
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). -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:58:17 up 47 days, 20:05, 7 users, load average: 0.11, 0.16, 0.35 +++ The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death. -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:30, mike wrote: Ahh... thanks Steven. Never happened to me before at least since I been using Linux. I guess I thought I was safer than I really was. Not sure how to turn that off in mozilla will look around. Again thanks, Mike Not quite sure in Mozilla Mail - but it's there somewhere. If it was Evolution I could tell you right off the bat... -- stephen kuhn I found out what the problem was, it seems to be a bug with the particular version of Mozilla I _was_ useing, tried different version with no problems.(I think anyways) Still going after the no html solution though. 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] Using the rm command
On Saturday 09 April 2005 06:29 pm, SnapafunFrank 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 Wouldn't a pipe do the trick? As in: locate string | rm string I suspect I don't have the syntax correct so you might want to test it a little before you blame me for hosing your system. 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] Using the rm command
Paul Kaplan wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 06:29 pm, SnapafunFrank 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 Wouldn't a pipe do the trick? As in: locate string | rm string I suspect I don't have the syntax correct so you might want to test it a little before you blame me for hosing your system. Paul I don't think you can use a pipe, as the rm command is not expecting file names from standard in. You could probably do something like: for i in $(locate string ; do rm $i ; done or for i in $(locate string ; do rm -i $i ; done or for i in $(locate string ; do rm -f $i ; done Use at your own risk... 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] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
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 -- 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] Creating a website with video
Sorry this is a little off topic, I have a friend that wants to add some video to a website he has and wants me to help - but I've never done this before. So far I have been using Mozilla to edit his site and I've got no html knowledge at all. Is there someone who can point me in the right direction? -Aidan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. Rosemary, I'm no expert so this may be the blind leading the blind here. Sometimes I've had problems with the latest packages of insert program name here that I download using urpmi. I've had some luck by disabling all 'net' sources and only leaving the Mdk disks to force it to install from the CD. Of course you'll need to remove the copy you currently have installed first. -Aidan. 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 8, 2005 4:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has me stumped. If you did not try to mount the drive as a user, then you should not have gotten the error message. The standard hotplug settings will mount a flash drive on /mnt/removable unless it things the drive is realy a camera, and then it mounts it on /mnt/camera. Now, if you had clicked on a desktop icon, and it generated this message, then I would want to start looking deeper at the window manager configuration. At this point, unless someone else has a better idea, I think we are going to need to know more of the secquence when you plug in the flash drive. Plug in the drive ... ... Get the user can not mount /dev/sda1 message We need to know what goes on between plugging in the drive, and you getting the message. Well, Mikkel, I just plug my flash drive and afterwards an icon appears on the desktop. Then, I click on the icon and soon that message shows up. To answer Greg: I am not running at all Mandrake 10.2; I am using Mandrake 10.1 and KDE 3.4. 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 8, 2005 10:12 AM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has me stumped. If you did not try to mount the drive as a user, then you should not have gotten the error message. The standard hotplug settings will mount a flash drive on /mnt/removable unless it things the drive is realy a camera, and then it mounts it on /mnt/camera. Now, if you had clicked on a desktop icon, and it generated this message, then I would want to start looking deeper at the window manager configuration. At this point, unless someone else has a better idea, I think we are going to need to know more of the secquence when you plug in the flash drive. Plug in the drive ... ... Get the user can not mount /dev/sda1 message We need to know what goes on between plugging in the drive, and you getting the message. Well, Mikkel, I just plug my flash drive and afterwards an icon appears on the desktop. Then, I click on the icon and soon that message shows up. To answer Greg: I am not running at all Mandrake 10.2; I am using Mandrake 10.1 and KDE 3.4. I would like to add that if run, as root, the command mount /media/usbdisk then, I can access to my flash drive by clicking on its desktop icon. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla
Dear All I am trying to use the Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla. However, I get the following error message, in spite of having Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed: Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment. If the problem persists, please reinstall the application. You can download Adobe Reader 7.0 for Unix from www.adobe.com Any ideas? 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] Creating a website with video
On Friday 08 April 2005 04:42 am, Aidan Holmes wrote: Sorry this is a little off topic, I have a friend that wants to add some video to a website he has and wants me to help - but I've never done this before. So far I have been using Mozilla to edit his site and I've got no html knowledge at all. Is there someone who can point me in the right direction? -Aidan. just like you add an image with img src=pathtoyour.jpg an mpg or avi can be added with embed src=pathto.mpeg autostart=true loop=true OR should you want the page to load quickly, and not have to wait until the video downloads you might want to offer a 'click here' spot to see the video of course the video will only be able to be seen in browsers that have the proper plugins for the video and video codec used in the video. -- 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
Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla
On Friday 08 April 2005 11:54, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to use the Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla. However, I get the following error message, in spite of having Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed: Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment. If the problem persists, please reinstall the application. You can download Adobe Reader 7.0 for Unix from www.adobe.com Any ideas? Paul Yes. If you dig down the directory Adobe 7/Browser/intellinux, you'll find you'll find a script : install_browser_plugin. Run it for every browser you have. Kaj Haulrich. -- *Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free workstation* *Running Linux Mandrake 10.1* 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 8, 2005 11:27 AM, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to use the Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla. However, I get the following error message, in spite of having Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed: Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment. If the problem persists, please reinstall the application. You can download Adobe Reader 7.0 for Unix from www.adobe.com Yes. If you dig down the directory Adobe 7/Browser/intellinux, you'll find you'll find a script : install_browser_plugin. Run it for every browser you have. Thanks, Kaj. I had already done that before asking for help. 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 Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla
HI Paul, Could the AR 7.0 itself be launched? If not you might need to reinstall it. Or I guess you didn't import it into your PATH. What will a which acroread in command line say? I remember I made a symbloic link ../AR7.0/bin/acroread to /usr/bin/acroread to insure it's in my PATH. Or check http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html, you may find something useful there. 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] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla
On Apr 8, 2005 12:18 PM, Q.H. Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could the AR 7.0 itself be launched? If not you might need to reinstall it. Or I guess you didn't import it into your PATH. What will a which acroread in command line say? I remember I made a symbloic link ../AR7.0/bin/acroread to /usr/bin/acroread to insure it's in my PATH. Or check http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html, you may find something useful there. Thanks, Q.H.. AR 7.0 can be launched correctly from the command line and which acroread gives me /usr/bin/acroread. Any further ideas? 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 Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla
Hi Paul, Are you sure that the nppdf.so in your $mozilla/plugins is the 7.0 one. I didn't use the script to install the plugin, instead I manually did that. I am not sure what's your problem because I installed the AR 7 through RPM, but after the installation when I opened some pdf files embeding in FireFox, it directly went the old version AR 5. I have to manully removed the 5.0 one and installed the 7.0 one of nppdf.so. Also, you may find something useful at Adobe.com http://busca.adobe.com/search?site=AdobeComclient=AdobeComfilter=0output=xml_no_dtdrequiredfields=getfields=proxystylesheet=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adobe.com%2Fspecial%2Fsearch%2Fadobecom.xslrestrict=Adobe_comq=plug-in+not+found+errorx=0y=0 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
Hi Paul, There are some posts discussing exactly your problem at http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=136543st=15#entry596612, But I don't know whether that's gonna solve your problem. 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] ark rar
Hi Folks, I have tried to use ark to extract a rar file but failed. It reported something like the file compressed using x-rar-compress and then failed. At that moment I used the ark along the Mandrake 10 KDE3.2. I remember its version is 2.4.x or so. Then I downloaded an ark-3.4-x RPM from rpmfind.net. but after installing it, the run of ark gave me a relocation error: XXX. I have to remove it. Where could I download a right version of ark? Or is there some other good tool for rar? Many thanks for any help. 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] ark rar
Op Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100 schreef Q.H. Wang: Or is there some other good tool for rar? Many thanks for any help. http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.5.b1.tar.gz :-) -- A weapon? Isn't that an extension of your fear? - Loesje 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] ark rar
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:26:53 +0200, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100 schreef Q.H. Wang: Or is there some other good tool for rar? http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.5.b1.tar.gz Even easier: urpmi unrar 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] ark rar
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100, Q.H. wrote: I have tried to use ark to extract a rar file but failed. It reported something like the file compressed using x-rar- compress and then failed. Ark will complain because it doesn't think x-rar-compress = rar but if you specify rar in the dialog, it'll likely open it without further complaint. 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] Adobe Reader
On Apr 8, 2005 5:06 PM, Q.H. Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some posts discussing exactly your problem at http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=136543st=15#entry596612, But I don't know whether that's gonna solve your problem. Thanks, Q.H.. It did not help, unfortunately. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
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! Thanks in advance, 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] ark rar
Many thanks gangs. I've just installed unrar, it's working perfectly. Thanks again. 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
Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. 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] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer
Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:10 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power to USB, because it happens even when its power switch is off, but so far not when i disconnect it from electricity. i will visit my electrician friend and see what he can measure :-) Tell him to look for ground loops Take a multimeter set it on voltage with the mouse unplugged measure between the computer and the external drive case to case if there is *ANY* voltage potential between the two you have an improperly wired power supply most likely on the external drive Get this fixed asap it is dangerous that was excellent advice, thank you, Aron and the other helpers. my friend measured voltage flowing through usb to the ground while the harddisk case was connected but off. i was disappointed to have to pressure the large dealer to let me buy a replacement (a different, slightly more expensive model: maxtor onetouch 2, heavy, unpolished sharp edge, fanless, quiet); he only wanted to ship the case to the manufacturer for repair ... i cited the experts from the mandrake list and succeeded :-) 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] Web page hints?
On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:35 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a small amount of web space, and need to separate a part of it. A subdirectory call Design will be under the index page. I want to make it appear the root, but I can't remember how it's done. Nor can I find anything in either of the books I have. Can anyone either point me at suitable reading, or talk me through it off-list? Thanks Anne 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? -- 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] comparing mandrake based linux distributions
hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while encouraging a gang mentality on their mailing lists. dissent and open discourse is not welcome there. the PCLinux lists suffer from a lack of warmth. and MandrakeSoft/Mandriva is too commercial for me. comparing the products though, what do you recommend ? i like email, web, p2p, multimedia and simple but complete. 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] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)
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! Thanks in advance, Jarlath Did the adapter come with the mouse? Does the mouse work with the adapter on other computers? Other OSs? The reason I ask is that I have run into this before, where someone has a mouse, and they have an adapter from a different mouse, and they do not work together. The problem is that the PS/2 to serial, and PS/2 to USB adapters just convert the plug, without changing the signal levels. They work with the mouse they came with because the mouse uses different signal levels, and possible protocols, depending on how it is plugged in. For a mouse that works with a PS/2 to serial adapter, it works with ttl level (0 to +5 volts) signals when plugged into a PS/2 port, and with RS-232 levels (any ware from +/-3 to +/-35 volts.) A PS/2 only mouse, or a PS/2 and USB mouse will not work with on a serial port even though it will plug into the adapter. It doesn't have the circuits for it. Now, if the mouse is one that will work on a serial port, then we can work on getting Mandrake to work with it... But Mandrake usualy finds a serial mouse without help. 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] Adobe Reader
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:23:26 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open Reader, it gives me that same PATH complaint. 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] comparing mandrake based linux distributions
On Friday 08 April 2005 03:53 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while encouraging a gang mentality on their mailing lists. dissent and open discourse is not welcome there. the PCLinux lists suffer from a lack of warmth. and MandrakeSoft/Mandriva is too commercial for me. comparing the products though, what do you recommend ? i like email, web, p2p, multimedia and simple but complete. kind regards philippe I have been playing with DSL linux although you will have to compile multimedia in xmms,grip,lame etc. it's only a 50Mb download too :-D 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
On Apr 9, 2005 12:26 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open Reader, it gives me that same PATH complaint. 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. 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] comparing mandrake based linux distributions
On Saturday 09 April 2005 01:38, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 08 April 2005 03:53 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while encouraging a gang mentality on their mailing lists. dissent and open discourse is not welcome there. the PCLinux lists suffer from a lack of warmth. and MandrakeSoft/Mandriva is too commercial for me. comparing the products though, what do you recommend ? i like email, web, p2p, multimedia and simple but complete. kind regards philippe I have been playing with DSL linux although you will have to compile multimedia in xmms,grip,lame etc. it's only a 50Mb download too :-D Is DSL mandrake based?..could've fooled me!;) I love Slackware for it's robustness and clarity but: for day2day desktop stuff my family likes to doMANDRAKE IS UNBEATABLE..for crying out loud:) Mandrake (or driva) is the one and only MsWindows_killer out there (not counting macOSX) and it has been for quite a number of years! -- 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] weird frozen bubble problem
On Friday 08 Apr 2005 20:59, Aidan Holmes wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. Rosemary, I'm no expert so this may be the blind leading the blind here. Sometimes I've had problems with the latest packages of insert program name here that I download using urpmi. I've had some luck by disabling all 'net' sources and only leaving the Mdk disks to force it to install from the CD. Of course you'll need to remove the copy you currently have installed first. -Aidan. Yes - I think the first install used the CDs and then went to the net. When I had problems I uninstalled and reinstalled, and I *think* the second install was from CD only, but it still didn't work. Am waiting for 10.2 so will install games before I set up urpmi and see how that goes. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 10:53, Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Yes the people here are very warm-hearted and helpful. I've experienced some rather nasty comments as a newbie on other lists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while encouraging a gang mentality on their mailing lists. dissent and open discourse is not welcome there. the PCLinux lists suffer from a lack of warmth. and MandrakeSoft/Mandriva is too commercial for me. comparing the products though, what do you recommend ? i like email, web, p2p, multimedia and simple but complete. 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] ark rar
Q.H. Wang wrote: Many thanks gangs. I've just installed unrar, it's working perfectly. Thanks again. Bests, Q.H. Now 'urpmi parchive2' and you'll be able to use it (par2) to repair corrupted or missing .par's if you also have the par2 files for the archive. Another hint: 'urpmi file-roller' for a good GUI for handlin rar's. You will need to copy or link /usr/bin/unrar to /usr/bin/rar as file roller looks for a 'rar' binary. -- 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] mkisofs - data cd's with directories
You know, this should be simple. Nearly everybody does it, right? ;) Yet I am having trouble with mkisofs getting it to replicate a directory sstructure so that I can just continually go from one directory to the other (it is an audio book set of mp3s) without having to jump all over the resulting CD on my mp3 player trying to figure out what chapter to play next. The files (originally) were structured like: disc1/ - Track01.mp3 disk1/ - Track02.mp3 .. disc2/ - Track01.mp3 disc2/ - Track02.mp3 and so forth; typically, 13-15 mp3s per each disc subdirectory. Obviously, what I'd like is to just have the disc1/*, disc2/* etc, so that each file would follow naturally in sequence. My first effort $ mkisofs -J -r -v -o datacd disc*/* failed (using the Linux cookbook example) because it saw each of those track files conflicting with other file names (that is, track01 in disc1 would conflict with track01 in disc5) -- an obvious sign that it was just going to stuff the files in any way it could without following any directory structure. I also went into the directories to rename the files to more sensible names at this point (damn Windowz no shell users) :( . 'rename' is neat btw, if you figure out how to use it. :) After some reading (again in the Linux Cookbook) I tried using the --graft-points option, and this is saner, but still I ended up with all the files in the main / directory of the resulting data iso. But I did manage to make subdirectories on the ISO. But doing so was horrendous, as I seem to have to do: $ mkisofs -r -J -v -V StarWarsIIIbook -o datacd -graft-points disc1/=disc1 disc2/=disc2 disc3/=disc3 disc4/=disc4 disc5/=disc5 disc6/=disc6 disc7/=disc7 disc8/=disc8 disc9/=disc9 disc10/=disc10 disc11/=disc11 disc*/* One would think wildcards would work here, but it doesn't seem to - mkisofs will complain. I can mount the CD and navigate through the directories, they seem reasonable, but ideally I'd like to be able to do this in my settop mp3 player or portable cd/mp3 player without having to jump all over the disc. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- 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 3:03 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to use the Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla. However, I get the following error message, in spite of having Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed: Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment. If the problem persists, please reinstall the application. You can download Adobe Reader 7.0 for Unix from www.adobe.com Paul, I remember I had a similiar problem after installing 7.0. I solved it by copying the nppdf.so file to the below after running the plug-in install script: /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! 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] Adobe Reader
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:37:14 +0100, Paul wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 12:26 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open Reader, it gives me that same PATH complaint. Are you running KDE 3.4, Miark? Ya, I am. But I get the same problem in XFCE. Cannot it be caused by KDE 3.4? I really don't know. But I sure as hell wouldn't be surprised! I'm not one to jump on the Community Edition when it comes out, but Thac's KDE packages have screwed up my system enough that I'll be among the first in line. 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] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla
On Friday 08 April 2005 09:20 pm, Paul Smith 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! Paul 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 -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 21:37:37 up 2 days, 4:05, 1 user, load average: 0.84, 0.71, 0.59 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk There is always something new out of Africa. -- Gaius Plinius Secundus 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 Thursday 07 April 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All 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 Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul 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 -- 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] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Friday 08 April 2005 09:52 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All 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 Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:51:13 -0700 Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved the same problem by adding psmouse.proto=bare to the append in the lilo.conf. After remember to 'lilo' to reset the boot things worked with the KVM. Well, that works, except that then the wheel doesn't scroll. It works as the third button, but not as a wheel, even in the mouse setup. Wonder if the issue has been resolved in 10.2? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre
Les Thomas wrote: I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Which control centre is missing? Mandrake control centre, or the one for KDE? Is it just missing from your menus? Can you call it up from a terminal? Please try from a terminal - if it doesn't work, please tell us what error message you get. -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse SOLVED
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:51:13 -0700 Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved the same problem by adding psmouse.proto=bare to the append in the lilo.conf. After remember to 'lilo' to reset the boot things worked with the KVM. Pardon the shout, but fixes excite me. (I lead a boring life) psmouse.proto=bare disables the wheel but: looked into it and using the above parameter disables the wheel, but psmouse.proto=imps does not. Lance DeVooght My append line now reads: append=acpi=ht splash=silent psmouse.proto=imps I do notice that the highlight and click mousewheel copy/paste routine isn't working, but I can live with that. Thank you Lance. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. That's because Frozen Bubble is controlled by the keyboard, not the mouse. It does not use a cursor. Navigate using the up/down arrows on your keyboard. WARNING: Frozen Bubble is seriously addictive and has a gazillion levels to work through. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. My frozen bubble is exactly the same, but I can play it fine using the cursor keys, space bar and esc. I've always assumed that there isn't meant to be mouse control. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: RE: [newbie] Compiling the 2.6.11 Kernel ?
My idiot sheet says: make clean bzImage modules to build the kernel make modules_install install to install the kernel. Hopefully this this put the new kernel in your bootloader, and set it to the default next time you boot. I have had occasional trouble with the default bit. Hopefully it will work! Hugh winmail.dat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kmail problem
Hi Folks, Recently I got a problem that I could frequently receive emails, which, I guess, are supposedly sent to my colleague. Although most of those emails are spam mails, I believe, it's kinda annoying. Because I don't know whether this problem comes from? Could anyone tell something by analysizing the following property from one of those emails. It's a problem of my Kmail, or my mail server or the guy deliberately sent those emails to me. What could give me a hint is, my email box does appear in the X-Real-To area. Many thanks. Bests, Q.H. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Real-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UA-Spam: No X-UA-Spam-Status: hits=1.886 required=5 X-UA-Spam-Level: X Received: from [218.156.21.188] (HELO 193.136.173.3) by frontend2.cgpmail.ua.pt (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 4643576; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:52:17 +0100 Received-SPF: none receiver=frontend2.cgpmail.ua.pt; client-ip=218.156.21.188; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from sb.net ([209.126.192.188]) by hermann.uymail.com (InterMail vK.4.04.00.00 739-974-938 license 6nv866uz8799b7rd7l2wcn8188v9qmy2) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:51:03 +0100 Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:44:03 -0700 From: Chad Valenzuela [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Asset valuation indicates cheap shares won't stay for long Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Status: R X-Status: N X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: X-KMail-MDN-Sent: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kmail problem
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:52, Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi Folks, Recently I got a problem that I could frequently receive emails, which, I guess, are supposedly sent to my colleague. Although most of those emails are spam mails, I believe, it's kinda annoying. Because I don't know whether this problem comes from? Could anyone tell something by analysizing the following property from one of those emails. It's a problem of my Kmail, or my mail server or the guy deliberately sent those emails to me. What could give me a hint is, my email box does appear in the X-Real-To area. Many thanks. That is also probably the answer to your question. The X-Real-To appears to be the MTA's header that signals what it received in the mail header as the target or To: of the mail. The To: line that you see in Kmail is actually part of the body of the mail message, not the mail header. MTA's use the header and not the body to direct mail to the recipient so the body piece is ignored, except perhaps by your Kmail filters and the like. So, it appears that some spammer has figured out that he can send mail to you with a fake To: line in the body and try to avoid spam filters in that fashion. I have had this happen in my system as well with spammers forging From: lines in the body instead in an attempt to bypass spam filters. Since my MTA actually filters on the headers, it doesn't work but I do see the results. You might want to create another filter and make it filter on the body and simply dump all messages that appear to be for your colleague. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] samba wizard
Where do i find the samba wisard that is shown on the screenshots on mandrakelinux.com? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.1/features/8.php3 i can't seem to find it. Regards Isak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kmail problem
Many thanks for both of your answering. I'm gonna got it cracked soon. 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] samba wizard
On Apr 7, 2005 8:54 AM, Isak Lyberth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do i find the samba wisard that is shown on the screenshots on mandrakelinux.com? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.1/features/8.php3 i can't seem to find it. Regards Isak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com You need to install drakwizard - urpmi drakwizard -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. 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
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 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] Mandriva
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:51:11 -0400, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Here's one tidbit that makes the change a bit more palatable: The long-winding trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation has reached a point where we decided it is more reasonable for us to move forward. By adopting a new name, we eliminate the liability attached to the Mandrakesoft name 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] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 22:13, Peter Watson wrote: On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. My frozen bubble is exactly the same, but I can play it fine using the cursor keys, space bar and esc. I've always assumed that there isn't meant to be mouse control. HTH Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Yes - I assumed that but nothing happens. Also I can't close it down - minimising works but when I maximise again I get a black space instead of the game graphics. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 21:45, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. That's because Frozen Bubble is controlled by the keyboard, not the mouse. It does not use a cursor. Navigate using the up/down arrows on your keyboard. Tried that too, no luck. Also can't close it down. Minimises okay, then on maximising again get black space instead of game graphics. WARNING: Frozen Bubble is seriously addictive and has a gazillion levels to work through. Had read how fantastic it is ... derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!
hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this websites is that it is not possible!!! but i found a driver for LTwinmodem (lucent winmodems) for linux.. in the driverguide webpage, is that possible... and maybe the main question is how do i install this driver on my system.? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 4/5/2005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 17:55, Domingo Abrego wrote: hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this websites is that it is not possible!!! but i found a driver for LTwinmodem (lucent winmodems) for linux.. in the driverguide webpage, is that possible... and maybe the main question is how do i install this driver on my system.? You can get Lucent chipset winmodems working on Mandrake (I did), but you must ensure that you have a driver that matches your kernel. As I say I got my winmodem working, but had to drop to an earlier kernel to do it. There are resources on the net which will show you how to go about this task. http://linmodems.org/ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO.html http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/ hth.. -- [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] win modem Lucent...!!!
On Thursday 07 April 2005 05:55 pm, Domingo Abrego wrote: hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this websites is that it is not possible!!! but i found a driver for LTwinmodem (lucent winmodems) for linux.. in the driverguide webpage, is that possible... and maybe the main question is how do i install this driver on my system.? People have successfully gotten their Lucent winmodems working on linux. Personally, I found it so difficult that I just bought a cheap serial modem (external). This option requires no software installation of anykind, and I dont think there was any configuration involved either. It's guaranteed to work. The choice is yours. I prefered to part with EUR 50 rather than try to get the modem working. Good luck! 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] Mandriva
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 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] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:38 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. Start FZ hit enter to start use your arrow keys - _- to play escape to exit 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
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move it's cool. i like ManDiva, Mantrivia; Mandrilla. Mandrills are great :-) http://www.thebigzoo.com/Animals/Mandrill.asp you know it's funny when it gets better every time :-) and it follows a modern androgynous trend ;-) in any case, you can't complain they lack humour, and a whiff of entertainment can't be bad for our future Windows ... 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] [Newbie] No control centre
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:49, Margot wrote: Les Thomas wrote: I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Which control centre is missing? Mandrake control centre, or the one for KDE? Is it just missing from your menus? Can you call it up from a terminal? Please try from a terminal - if it doesn't work, please tell us what error message you get. Mandrake control centre is missing , I may not be doing it right , but I cant access it from the terminal , I have tried to run it from the run command and nothing . I thought it would start if I just entered MCC in the terminal window , but obviously I´m wrong -- Regards Les Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Lilo on floppy
I am using mandrake 10.1 and need to prepare a floppy for lilo. I found instructions and they say to use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440, however this gives me a error of No such file or directory. I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address. Any help would be appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Web page hints?
I have a small amount of web space, and need to separate a part of it. A subdirectory call Design will be under the index page. I want to make it appear the root, but I can't remember how it's done. Nor can I find anything in either of the books I have. Can anyone either point me at suitable reading, or talk me through it off-list? Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgp7s8vGHwUzb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!
Also, there are several different chipsets used by on Lucent/Agere modems. Check here to see if a driver is available for yours: http://free.hostdepartment.com//g/gromitkc/dips/roster.html You might be able to determine which chipset your (PCI?) modem uses through harddrake and then get the appropriate driver here: http://www.heby.de/ltmodem More good instructions for newbie here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert1313/ltmodem.html I have tried the SV92P (listed as incompatible) and it does, in fact, not work. Good luck Brett --- Domingo Abrego [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this websites is that it is not possible!!! but i found a driver for LTwinmodem (lucent winmodems) for linux.. in the driverguide webpage, is that possible... and maybe the main question is how do i install this driver on my system.? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 4/5/2005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com So anyway, check this out: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/farscape/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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 and 10.2
Well, did they finally put the new KDE in there Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo on floppy
Leroy Britton wrote: I am using mandrake 10.1 and need to prepare a floppy for lilo. I found instructions and they say to use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440, however this gives me a error of No such file or directory. I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address. Any help would be appreciated. With 10.1, udev does not seam to create the additional floppy devices for the different floppy formats. But you should be able to use /dev/fd0 in place of /dev/fd0H1440 and have it work. 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] Lilo on floppy
On Thursday 07 April 2005 06:33 pm, Leroy Britton wrote: I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address. ___ ~ maybe, stick in a floppy then, as root, command :- mkfs.minix /dev/fd0 or mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre
LES wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:49, Margot wrote: Les Thomas wrote: I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Which control centre is missing? Mandrake control centre, or the one for KDE? Is it just missing from your menus? Can you call it up from a terminal? Please try from a terminal - if it doesn't work, please tell us what error message you get. Mandrake control centre is missing , I may not be doing it right , but I cant access it from the terminal , I have tried to run it from the run command and nothing . I thought it would start if I just entered MCC in the terminal window , but obviously I´m wrong From a terminal, the command is mcc, not MCC. If you do it from a user terminal, you will be asked for the root password. Please do it from a proper terminal window, not the run command feature - so, if it doesn't work, we can see what error message you get. -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ Humor in the Court: Q: Are you sexually active? A: No, I just lie there. ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
Dear All 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 Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Error with KDE apps; octet-stream
I have done what others before have done: mucked about in file associations and screwed something up. Brian McKee apparently did the same thing in January: When I try to open KDE apps, I get an error message: Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. I followed Brian's thread, made a copy of /home/cam/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/x-octet-stream.desktop and then deleted it. But I deleted the original by mistake (or was it a mistake). Now I can't even start Konqueror or other KDE apps at all. And I can't find the copy that I made; where would this copy have been put? I believe the original I deleted was an executable file.(Big OOPS!) How do I get this back?? What have I done TIA Cam in Seattle -- Closing the Windows in my life Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] min spec's for 10.1
Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Its for my mother, who wants to have a go on the Internet, I set her up with my old pc as above running XP but its infected with spy ware after only 2 days from a clean install, Mum forgot to start zonealarm before she went online. Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error with KDE apps; octet-stream
Il gio, 2005-04-07 alle 23:42, Cameron MacDonald ha scritto: I have done what others before have done: mucked about in file associations and screwed something up. Brian McKee apparently did the same thing in January: When I try to open KDE apps, I get an error message: Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. I followed Brian's thread, made a copy of /home/cam/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/x-octet-stream.desktop and then deleted it. But I deleted the original by mistake (or was it a mistake). Now I can't even start Konqueror or other KDE apps at all. And I can't find the copy that I made; where would this copy have been put? I believe the original I deleted was an executable file.(Big OOPS!) How do I get this back?? Hi CAM, attached to this post there is my original file ,which isn't x-octet-stream.desktop but is octet-stream.desktop so you would save this and put in /usr/share/mimelnk/application hope this help you -- Regards, Francesco octet-stream.desktop Description: application/gnome-app-info Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
On Thursday 07 April 2005 23:14, Tim wrote: Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Its for my mother, who wants to have a go on the Internet, I set her up with my old pc as above running XP but its infected with spy ware after only 2 days from a clean install, Mum forgot to start zonealarm before she went online. Tim Well my laptop is running 10.1 on a 233MHz Pentium I with 96MB of RAM, and it still runs (very slowly) if I set the RAM to 32MB. KDE is very slow, but IceWM or other lightweight window managers work acceptably. You would have to pick your applications carefully. Avoid any KDE app. I find good apps to use are Opera - browser (Faster than Firefox on a low end machine) Sylpheed - email client (although the email client built into Opera is also OK) Rox - file manager xmms - media player abiword - word processor (forget OpenOffice on this spec) You will need to select the kernel-i586-up-1GB kernel on a Pentium I. It will not boot with the standard kernel. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
- Original Message - From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:14 AM Subject: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1 Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Its for my mother, who wants to have a go on the Internet, I set her up with my old pc as above running XP but its infected with spy ware after only 2 days from a clean install, Mum forgot to start zonealarm before she went online. Tim I have Mandrake 9.1 running on a Penntium 200 with 64Mb Ram. It's a little sluggish running KDE but I'm sure one of the lighter window managers would work pretty quick. HTH Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error with KDE apps; octet-stream
frengoGorgia wrote: Il gio, 2005-04-07 alle 23:42, Cameron MacDonald ha scritto: I have done what others before have done: mucked about in file associations and screwed something up. Brian McKee apparently did the same thing in January: When I try to open KDE apps, I get an error message: Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. I followed Brian's thread, made a copy of /home/cam/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/x-octet-stream.desktop and then deleted it. But I deleted the original by mistake (or was it a mistake). Now I can't even start Konqueror or other KDE apps at all. And I can't find the copy that I made; where would this copy have been put? I believe the original I deleted was an executable file.(Big OOPS!) How do I get this back?? Hi CAM, attached to this post there is my original file ,which isn't x-octet-stream.desktop but is octet-stream.desktop so you would save this and put in /usr/share/mimelnk/application hope this help you -- Regards, Francesco Thanks, Francesco. Overwrote my file with yours, also saved it to /home/me/.kde/share/mimelnk/application and now everything is wonderful again. Off-topic: Are you a cyclist?? No, I don't think everyone in Italy rides a bicycle, but Just thought I'd check. I ride a Fondriest. Peace Cam -- Closing the Windows in my life 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
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move Well, maybe there is a method in this madness. Anyone knew anything about thouse trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation? Rafa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error with KDE apps; octet-stream
Il ven, 2005-04-08 alle 00:58, Cameron MacDonald ha scritto: Off-topic: Are you a cyclist?? No, I don't think everyone in Italy rides a bicycle, but Just thought I'd check. I ride a Fondriest. I'm not a cyclist, i only ride bicycle in my spare time , and for little travel too . Maurizio Fondriest, he is a champion , one of the big of the last 20 years http://www.fondriestbici.com/pubblicazione/fratelli.htm Here in europe, italy too, soccer + cyclism + basketball are popular sports, there are lot of Amateurs too. P.s. hey look at the hot-spot http://www.uci.ch/ Peace Cam 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
On Friday 08 April 2005 01:14, Rafa Kamraj wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move Well, maybe there is a method in this madness. Anyone knew anything about thouse trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation? Rafa MandrakeSoft have been in dispute with the owners of the rights of 'Mandrake the Magician' a 1920's comic strip for some time. The use of the wand and stars in Mandrake's old logos did not exactly help their case. (now only the stars remain) IMO the name is not important, they may as well change it if only to get that magician off their backs. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!
On Thursday 07 April 2005 09:55 am, Domingo Abrego wrote: | hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to | use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did | some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this | websites is that it is not possible!!! | | but i found a driver for LTwinmodem (lucent winmodems) for linux.. in the | driverguide webpage, is that possible... and maybe the main question is how | do i install this driver on my system.? Very likely. BUT, the driver you use must match the running kernel--it is possible you will need to compile to do this--get ready to install kernel-source or kernel-headers. And, if you upgrade your kernel it will break the modem and you will need to compile the driver again. I've gotten lucent chipset modems to work with several kernels, but you know what??? It really isn't worth the bother. Get an external serial modem (not usb!) and save yourself the frustration. If you insist,http://www.linmodems.org Also, the scanModem tool (do a Google for it) will identify your chipset and probably tell you what driver you need, if there is a precompiled one for it. Good Luck e 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
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 7, 2005 11:59 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Mikkel. Dumb question time - did the flash drive get mounted automaticly on /mnt/removable? This is what usualy happens when you plug one in. If you plug in a second one, it gets mounted on /mnt/removable2 or something like that. I use only one flash drive. If that did not happen, how did you try to mount the flash drive that generated that message? I simply plug my flash drive. Some information that would be helpfull: What version on Mandrake? 10.1. What is the output of cat /etc/fstab? $ cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=501,codepage=850,gid=501,umask=007 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 $ Regards, Paul Paul, This has me stumped. If you did not try to mount the drive as a user, then you should not have gotten the error message. The standard hotplug settings will mount a flash drive on /mnt/removable unless it things the drive is realy a camera, and then it mounts it on /mnt/camera. Now, if you had clicked on a desktop icon, and it generated this message, then I would want to start looking deeper at the window manager configuration. At this point, unless someone else has a better idea, I think we are going to need to know more of the secquence when you plug in the flash drive. Plug in the drive ... ... Get the user can not mount /dev/sda1 message We need to know what goes on between plugging in the drive, and you getting the message. 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] min spec's for 10.1
On Thursday 07 April 2005 03:14 pm, Tim wrote: | Hello all, | | | Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum | requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually | running 10.1 on this pc. | | Also, | | Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on | a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. | | Cheapbytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com) has Mandrake disks back to 7.0.8.2 might also work with that system with KDE and all the eye candy turned on. But the 7.x series will fly on that old hardware. Newer distros and Xfce should work o.k., maybe excellently, but it will take some getting used to because that is quite a departure from the Winsux desktop look. I run DSL (damn small linux) on a P233 laptop with 64 megs and it works really excellent. I used DSL because I wanted the complete system and a couple hundred megs of free space on a 300 Meg partition. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in question? I have a Pentium 266 laptop with 144mb, that runs 10.x pretty poorly, well the video stinks, and I have been thinking of running another distro to see if it would be better. 9.2 ran on it pretty well. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in question? I have a Pentium 266 laptop with 144mb, that runs 10.x pretty poorly, well the video stinks, and I have been thinking of running another distro to see if it would be better. 9.2 ran on it pretty well. Rob Have you considered the time an install would take, compiling all the packages, on a Pentium 233? (Let me see - if I remember right, figure 3-4 hours for the kernel itself...) 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] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:12 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details If you have this in your /etc/fstab, you can't be running 10.1 , since this is provided by hal and that is a feature in 10.2, and is non-existent in 10.1. Are you sure you are not running one of the beta's or rc's for 10.2. If you are, there was a bug in hal that prevented some devices from being automounted, you should upgrade to the latest hal and make sure gnome-volume-manager is set to mount removable devices automatically. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
On Friday 08 April 2005 12:25 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in question? Well, probably because Gentoo would take about 5 years to compile on that machine. Despite all the optimizations, running Gentoo on anything less than a 1.5-1.6 GHz machine is IMO crazy, since everything has to be compiled. It takes forever on anything slower. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:49, WauloK wrote: Yes! Definitely! Thanks :) Now you can get back into IRC and tell'em how great having TWO resources for Mandrake issues is, eh? (g) YankDownUnder -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 23:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles Ctl+Alt+F1 only moves you to a text console temporarily. It will not affect any future boot. If your computer will only boot to text then you have screwed it up in some other way. (Ctl+Alt+F7 will bring you back to X from a text console) derek Many thanks to all for the helpful advice. I have Xwindows back now, but still some problems to sort. Charles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 05/04/2005 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 10.2
Am Dienstag 5. April 2005 16:37 schrieb Miark: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not by default AFAIK. This should go for most if not all of your 'data', depending on how you have your disk partitioned. This is true if /home is its own partition, but what if it's on the same partition as /? Will it not get wiped on a new install? Well, in my opinion it is better if you create seperate partitions for /, /home and /tmp. Than you don't loose your data even if you have to make a clean installation (which might happen). 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 text
Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files, but I got no luck. What I got in the text files are some mess. Could you please show me more on how to use it? Thanks. Not much to it, really. I just type 'pdftotext filename.pdf' which generates filename.txt. Feel free to e-mail me the file offlist if you'd like me to take a crack at it. you could also open the pdf in kWrite. this will import the text too. the pdf format is proprietary and often weird. text can therefore come out mangled and out of sequence. 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] Site for testing JVM
On Apr 6, 2005 3:44 AM, Alberto Omar Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is working fine? Try this http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml Thanks to all who answered my question. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
