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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
