Re: [newbie-it] Posta elettronica
Giovanni Mazzamati wrote: Perchè non riesco a mandare alle liste un messaggio con l'immagine del pinguino storpiato da zio Bill???:-( Perche' ML e NG si dividono in quelli che accettano file binari ( es. i ng con .bin. nel nome ) e quelli che li respingono (praticamente tutti). Il motivo per cui normalmente i binari sono respinti e` abbastanza evidente comunque lo trovi spiegato dettagliatamente sulla netiquette. Sia nella versione "seria" che in quella faceta di "Emily Post". Entrambi i documenti li trovi facilmente sul NG it.faq. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] rpm di Mandrake non sono OK ?
Mi e` capitata una cosa strana. Ho scaricato la 7.2. Poi, per verificare se fosse tutto a posto ho fatto un test su alcuni file.rpm a caso. Il risultato e` immancabilmente questo: $ rpm --checksig psmisc-19-4mdk.i586.rpm psmisc-19-4mdk.i586.rpm: md5 GPG NOT OK anche testando direttamente sulla rete si ottiene: $ rpm --checksig http://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/dpsftplib-devel-0.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm http://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/dpsftplib-devel-0.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm: md5 GPG NOT OK Se aggiungo l'opzione --nogpg ottengo il sospirato OK $ rpm --checksig --nogpg psmisc-19-4mdk.i586.rpm psmisc-19-4mdk.i586.rpm: md5 OK Quindi il "problema" e` solo di firma e non ha alcuna conseguenza sull'installazione dei pacchetti. Poi mi sono accorto che anche gli rpm della 7.1 avevano lo stesso "problema". Pero`, mi resta la curiosita` di saperne di piu`. Perche' Mandrake non firma correttamente i pacchetti? Non per altro: mi ha fatto venire un coccolone pensando di aver scaricato due interi CD a vuoto :-(( Qualcuno puo` aiutarmi? Per esempio, se qualcuno ha una copia "commerciale" della 7.1, potrebbe verificare se i suoi rpm sono firmati. grazie e ciao, Andrea ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] scusa se mi permetto di
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: - vorrei usare il mio cd writer philips atapi con linux mdk 7.1 - se e' necessario un modulo ide-scsi domanda: come faccio, al primo desderio vedi http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html dove trovo il software ide-scsi E' un modulo del kernel che le Mandrake forniscono gia` compilato. Quindi un "modprobe ide-scsi" basta per caricarlo. Con altre distribuzioni dovresti compilarlo tu a partire dai sorgenti del kernel. E` semplice. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] rpm di Mandrake non sono OK ?
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:22:47PM +0100, Andrea Celli wrote: Fabio Coatti wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Andrea Celli wrote: Mi e` capitata una cosa strana. Ho scaricato la 7.2. Poi, per verificare se fosse tutto a posto ho fatto un test su alcuni file.rpm a caso. Il risultato e` immancabilmente questo: $ rpm --checksig psmisc-19-4mdk.i586.rpm psmisc-19-4mdk.i586.rpm: md5 GPG NOT OK Dubbio: hai scaricato la chiave pubblica della Mandrake?? se non la hai nel keyring di gpg ovviamente non ti funziona la verifica. No, davo per scontato che una distro Mandrake la mettesse di default. Beh, la chiave sul CD credo ci sia, ma almeno un gpg --import bisogna darlo. Se invece scarichi i pacchetti da qualche sito "mirror", magari ti conviene procurarti altrimenti la chiave, per evitare di fare una verifica praticamente inutile. Buona regola è sempre procurarsi la chiave in modo indipendente dai pacchetti ;-) -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione disinstallazione
mercoledì 8 novembre 2000 Alan WROTE . A . come si ripristina quello di Winzoz??? . FDISK/MBR da un disco di ripristino di windows Giorgio Lazzari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] gnome
Ho mandrake 7.1, mi piacerebbe configurare Gnome con un desktop personalizzato con delle icone da me scelte, e far funzionare i suoni. Le icone non cambiano ne da utente, ne da root; i suoni da root funzionano mentre da utente no. Qualcuno sa dirmi come fare ?Ho anche consultato il manuale trovato in un sito di mandrake ma non ho trovato niente. Grazie Caterina Dovrebbe essere un problema di gruppi.. prova a configurare un gruppo AUDIO.. dovresti risolvere il problema
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione disinstallazione
Scusate, ma quando l'installazione mi chiede dove installare il bootloader dove lo devo installare? nel "Primo settore della partizione di boot" o nel "Primo settore del drive (MBR)"? la seconda che hai detto :) E poi, installato Grub, cosa devo fare per avviare Winzoz? un menu mi kiede all'avvio del computer se far partire Winzoz Me o Linux? altrimenti come si fa? ti appare un grazioso menu semigrafico e basta che selezioni la voce corrispondente al SO da avviare e il bello e' che le puoi personalizzare (ovvero avvii il computer e puoi scegliere di avviare "Winzozz Millennium Bug Edition"...hihihihi che stupidata... scusate...non lo faro' piu') Arriviamo alla disinstallazione (neanke l'ho installato cmq...), cosa devo fare? basta che avvii con il floppy di ripristino di windows e, portatoti in c:\ digiti "fdisk /mbr" e magicamente ti partira' windows al nuovo riavvio ciao Alessandro
Re: [newbie-it] Sound Blaster Live.
At 22.57 08/11/2000 +0100, you wrote: Scusami ma cosè l' ESC data? Forse l'opzione reset configuration data? L'ho fatto,ma da sempre lo stesso problema di cui sotto. Ciao Ciao! Insisti,anch'io ho la live,pensa che Mandrake 7.2 mi ha riconosciuto la scheda al boot,incredibile! Mauro
Re: [newbie-it] Sound Blaster Live.
Il 08/11/00, Daniele "Keyser Soze" Surano parlò così: Scusami ma cosè l' ESC data? Forse l'opzione reset configuration data? L'ho fatto,ma da sempre lo stesso problema di cui sotto. ma quando premo OK mi dice che è "impossibile scrivere /dev/dps : periferica inesistente", Ma il probelma non è riguardo l'inesistenza del device /dev/dsp?? -- Davide Cavallari e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The UNIX Guru's view of sex: unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep
[newbie-it] Scheda audio Via
Macchina Acer Aspire con PIII 600 e scheda audio Via 82C686, che non viene riconosciuta all'avvio. Al momento del caricamento compare una scritta che mi dice, all'incirca, che non possono essere caricati i moduli per la scheda Via 82cxxx. Ho provato con sndconfig, sia da dentro che fuori X; la scheda viene trovata, ma al momento del test in entrmbi i cas ila macchina si è piantata e non sono neanche riuscito a farla ripartire in alcun modo, tanto che ho dovuto reinstallare tutto. Qualcuno ha qualche idea in proposito? Grazie P.S. Qualcuno sa dirmi se la 7.2 riconoscerà i modem usb esterni ? (Elsa)
[newbie] LM 7.2 swap file size vs ram?
Hello, Installed 7.2 today. After install going into Netscape or Koffice seems to take a very long time. Can hear the hd churning like it is trying to load program eventually it does. Machine is a 533 w/64 mb ram 15gig hd. partions are swap hda5 137mb.62.8 free roothda63.85 gig2.36 gig free home hda73.63 gig 3.44 gig free I have ordered more ram will put that in tomorrow. Is the swap partion about the right size? Another thing I noticed when running Kdiskfree it shows /proc/bus/usb with 0% free. Is this normal? Any suggestions are appreciated. thanks, dkunz
Re: [newbie] Sound ?
Thank you , I will try it Best Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound ? It was Nov 7, 2000, 00:18, when SK.LIM keyboarded: Hi Can someone tell me how to configure my sound card in Linux Open a terminal, su to root, and run 'sndconfig'. If your soundcard is supported, it will be detected and activated. Paul -- Bustard (n.): a very rude Metrobus driver. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] 2.4 and ipchains
Yeah I think its better. The xconfig screen under network, then netfilter options has an option to include iptables that uses the new netfilter screen. Unfortunately its greyed out and I cannot figure out what will enable it. Thanks, Jon *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/9/00 at 12:33 AM Mark Weaver wrote: Jon, To my knowledge you can't compile 2.4 with ipchains support. I've tried a few times and stopped trying. This kernel employs a new type of filtering called "iptables" instead of ipchains. I've heard that it's a better type of packet filtering although I haven't yet started to figure out how it works. (other more pressing problems at the moment) There does seem to be quite a bit of documentation on the net about iptables though. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Tue, 7 Nov 2000 Jon Greisz had this to say! I'm using pmFirewall which uses ipchains. I want to switch to 2.4, but cannot figure out how to get it to work with ipchains. When I do a make xconfig, within the netfilter section there is a ipchains 2.2 section at the very bottom, but it is greyed out. How can I compile a 2.4 kernel with ipchains support. Thanks, Jon Greisz
RE: [newbie] wuftp question
I believe that it always defaults to the home directory of the ID you logged in as. If you only want uses to see from that directory down you can setup their home directory like: userid:x:100:100:Test ID:/home/userid/./pub:/bin/noshell in your passwd file - this will only allow them access to the pub directory and they will not be able to move above that directory. Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] wuftp question I have wuftp enable on my system and it is working great I was just wondering where I can set the default dir to log in under. Right now I have it defaulted to my home dir! Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] How to change graphical environment in 7.2
I think KDE2.0 is great and all, but how do I change my default window manager to Enlightenment, or maybe even GNOME? Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 had a utility called "switchdesk" but I can't find it in 7.2... HELP!!! Get FREE Email/Voicemail with 15MB at Lycos Communications at http://comm.lycos.com
Re: [newbie] Problems updating 7.1 to 7.2
I, also, have encountered network trouble with 7.2 after using the update function. Before my update, my network was working fine and my DSL connection was live and kicking. After the update, no network, no DSL. Any ideas? Drew Lane - Original Message - From: "Joergen Traun" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:02 AM Subject: [newbie] Problems updating 7.1 to 7.2 Hi Yesterday I updated one of my machines from mandrake 7.1 to mandrake 7.2. When i ran the instalation program I used the update funktion, but when finished I have got following problems: 1 - I have to start the network manual every time i reboot the machine. 2 - KDE is not updated the right way, no KDE program (beside konsole) works. Can anybody tell me how I fix those problems? - Joergen Traun.
[newbie] No icons...
I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is appreciated... Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2
It was Nov 7, 2000, 11:25, when Marcia keyboarded: Hi Marcia, I hear many different things from updates. I have never had any problems with that, though. My start was redhat 5.2, and upgraded that through RH 6.0, MDK 6.1, MDK 7.0 and MDK 7.1. And I have the MDK7.2 cd's ready for the next upgrade. I don't expect any problems, but it is up to you to see what you want to do. I would go for the upgrade, though. That keeps all the settings and such in place. Good luck, Paul If I decide to install or upgrade to 7.2 will that mess up everything or some things that I have working finally? Will my ethernet cable modem continue to work properly? It took me 4 months to figure out how to make it work. What is better , fresh install or upgrade? I read that the fresh install was fast however the upgrade was taking 5 hours or more. Any suggestions? Thank you for your help. Marcia -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] Which Filesystem?
What is the difference between the ext2 and ReiserFS filesystems? What are the pros cons of both? I going to be doing a fresh install on a computer, and want to find out which I should pick.
[newbie] un-remove
Does anyone know how to get a file back that has been deleted via "rm"? Thanks, Scott
Re: [newbie] Sound ?
On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, you wrote: From the command line (don't do this from a console in X) type sndconfig and then follow the screen prompts. Just wondering why you are not supposed to do this while in X? I did and it worked just fine, it warned me not to run it in X but again it worked fine, so what is the resoning behind this?
Re: [newbie] un-remove
It was Nov 8, 2000, 17:42, when Scott D. Pletcher keyboarded: Does anyone know how to get a file back that has been deleted via "rm"? If you know what was in the file: start typing. If you can download it from somewhere: go and download. None of the above: do you have a backup somewhere? Not even that? No chance... Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Which Filesystem?
It was Nov 8, 2000, 07:51, when Grant keyboarded: What is the difference between the ext2 and ReiserFS filesystems? What are the pros cons of both? I going to be doing a fresh install on a computer, and want to find out which I should pick. I have no idea on the benefit of either one. I use ext2 and I am happy with that. Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Upgrade from within Linux
It was Nov 8, 2000, 13:40, when Ashley Moore keyboarded: Can anybody tell me if its possible to initiate the upgrade / install process off the CD from within Linux I would not know how to initiate that. After all, there are core items from the system that need to be replaced, and when they are in use (loaded into memory with links to disk) that is not possible. The way I like is to boot from the CD and use that to upgrade. The only alternative that I know is to boot from a messydos floppy and go through the autoboot process in the /dosutils directory. Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Must have sound. I'll do anything.
Tweeter: I have a SBLive! MP3 card (new) and had a SBLive! Value. Both were successfully autodetected in 7.1 and 7.2. You might switch PCI slots...don't have it in the first one or the last one...and when you reboot, it should find it. If it does 7.1 will autoconfigure it. On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:15, tweeter wrote: I am at a loss, in Drake 7.1 and 7.2 my system completely locks up when I try to play any kind of sound. Be it an mp3 or a wav, in any player. I have tried all I know. I miss my mp3's man. This is week 4 w/o sound. If anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know. This is really starting to get to me. Eagerly awaiting your responses, Tweeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
I am trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 to work with my Diamond Viper V770 (nvidia TNT2) video card. Has anyone sucessfully installed Mandrake 7.2 with the nvidia drivers from their website for TNT2. Any help is much appreciated. Joe
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2
Dear All and Paul, Thank you for the advice about installing or upgrading to Mandrake 7.2. I am probably going to get the CD's and upgrade afterall. I looked into Cheapbytes website and saw the CD's but do not understand the difference between the two kinds offered really. Someone mentioned that you can download the ISO to your HD , make a boot disk, then install it that way without the need to burn it to a CD. Does anyone know about this procedure and exactly how to do it? Thank you all for your help. Marcia
Re: [newbie] CUPS challenge
Check out www.linuxprinting.org TC --- -michael- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an epson stylus scan 2000 printer that I would love to have on line while using linux but can't seem to find a driver in the CUPS directory that will even make it burp. Anyone out there got an idea as to where I could look? -- ;-) -michael- __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] un-remove
Paul wrote: It was Nov 8, 2000, 17:42, when Scott D. Pletcher keyboarded: Does anyone know how to get a file back that has been deleted via "rm"? If you know what was in the file: start typing. If you can download it from somewhere: go and download. None of the above: do you have a backup somewhere? Not even that? No chance... Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Paul (welcome back - how was your trip?), there was an article floating around about how to do that, but it involved immediately unmounting the drive that the file in question is on, and a small program that finds the file(s), then you have to manually rename them from a "raw" format (I think). I'm not really sure but I'm thinking it was in LJ or LM... -- /\ DarkLord \/
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
I have installed 7.0 - 7.01 - 7.02- and 7.2 with no problems with my viper 770 -- it alread knows it it is listed in the video cards and i got my screen size and 32bit colors after that also Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Collard Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia I am trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 to work with my Diamond Viper V770 (nvidia TNT2) video card. Has anyone sucessfully installed Mandrake 7.2 with the nvidia drivers from their website for TNT2. Any help is much appreciated. Joe
RE: [newbie] un-remove
where was that tar file on tape you made the night before ;-) Short of not having thatyou're (the file) is toast. Mark -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] un-remove It was Nov 8, 2000, 17:42, when Scott D. Pletcher keyboarded: Does anyone know how to get a file back that has been deleted via "rm"? If you know what was in the file: start typing. If you can download it from somewhere: go and download. None of the above: do you have a backup somewhere? Not even that? No chance... Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] un-remove
Thanks for the advice. :) However, I did find something useful called "recover" at http://www.linuxave.net/~recover/ It asked me some questions and successfully recovered my file. Gotta stop using rm -f so much! Thanks again, Scott Paul wrote: It was Nov 8, 2000, 17:42, when Scott D. Pletcher keyboarded: Does anyone know how to get a file back that has been deleted via "rm"? If you know what was in the file: start typing. If you can download it from somewhere: go and download. None of the above: do you have a backup somewhere? Not even that? No chance... Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- -- PLEASE NOTE NEW INFORMATION! Scott D. Pletcher Department of Biology Wolfson House 4 Stephenson Way University College London NW1 2HE email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (44) 207 679 5063
[newbie] XFCE not included in Mandrake 7.2?
After upgrading from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2 I discovered that XFCE is no longer one of the default choices on graphic login. Anyone know if it has been dropped? If not, how does one add it to the option list? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] Open GL included in Mandrake 7.2?
Is Open GL or Mesa GL included in Mandrake 7.2? I have some apps that need it that worked in Mandrake 7.1 but not in 7.2 and someone suggested that GL may not be installed. How do I find out? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Which Filesystem?
At 07:51 AM 11/08/2000 -0500, you wrote: What is the difference between the ext2 and ReiserFS filesystems? What are the pros cons of both? I going to be doing a fresh install on a computer, and want to find out which I should pick. What I have read on the various lists and URLs is the following: Reiser "keeps a copy" of everything until it is written to a file, so it can survive power failures much better, and the equivalent of fsck runs a lot quicker. Reiser is slightly slower in operation. (I don't know where it keeps the copy, or how.) The MSWin program Explore2fs probably does not read Reiser. (If anyone knows better, please let me know.) There are times when E2fs is very useful to me, so I have not used Reiser myself. --doug
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
I installed Mandrake 7.2 with an nVidia RIVA TNT2 M64 card, and all went well. I haven't tried any of the drivers from NVidia. - Original Message - From: "Joe Collard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 12:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia I am trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 to work with my Diamond Viper V770 (nvidia TNT2) video card. Has anyone sucessfully installed Mandrake 7.2 with the nvidia drivers from their website for TNT2. Any help is much appreciated. Joe
Re: [newbie] MODEMS
Take a look at www.linmodems.org --- TiGereYe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, Once somebody posted a web page that listed modems and if they are real modems or winmodems and if there is any linux drivers for them... does anybody have it?. plus i have a question...if it is a winmodem and there is no linux driver for it...is it basically rendered useless in linux? Yes! TC thanks TiGereYe - Accept No Substitutes - - Dont Start Racin Or I will Start Racin...Bets On That You'll Be Disgracin. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [[newbie] Which Filesystem?]
"Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between the ext2 and ReiserFS filesystems? What are the pros cons of both? I going to be doing a fresh install on a computer, and want to find out which I should pick. The principal "benefit" of the ReiserFS is that it is a journaling file system. I believe it is much less susceptible to problems if inproperly shutdown. There is another file system being worked on called ext3 that I believe will be a journaling file system also. Some time duirng the 2.4.x kernel one of these (or another journaling file system) might become the default of recommended, instead of ext2. for now, I use ext2 for my Linux boxen. Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] Look who is running on AS/400 again (fwd)
Hi list, You will have to forgive me for forwarding this message to the list, but it was just too precious to keep all to myself! This is absolutely awesome. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:09:59 -0500 From: James Sieling III/Mechanicsburg/IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: AS/400 Colleagues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Look who is running on AS/400 again In the November issue of Midrange Technology Showcase there is an article on the front page entitled "IBM's Frank Soltis, Uncensored". Below is an excerpt from that article that references a very large software company on the west coast that used to run their business on AS/400, switched over to NT, and now is back to AS/400.I'm still gloating over it!!! Please read on... ...Jim ** Dr. Frank Soltis, the IBM engineer who has been called "the AS/400's Elvis," recently shared a success story during a keynote speech at a user conference in Florida. This particular company was in the software distribution business and at one point had 23 AS/400s located around the world. The company was a very good customer, went from CISC to RISC, and was always one of the first to upgrade to new technology, he said. Then came the Year 2000 problem, and despite five years of dedicated service during a period of great revenue growth, the company decided that it was time to move off the AS/400. So in June of 1999, the company unplugged its AS/400s and powered up 1200 NT servers it needed to replace them. But things didn't quite go as planned. "They found they couldn't make it work," Soltis told the crowd. "Today, one year after unplugging their AS/400s, they're back on the AS/400." That company is Microsoft. "They viewed that as a point of embarrassment," Soltis said. "We thought it was kind of funCan you think of a company with greater incentive to move to NT, and they couldn't do it?" ** Jim Sieling iSeries 400 Specialist IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5267 E Simpson Ferry Rd Phone: 717-796-3475Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 Fax:717-796-3408Tie: 437-3475
Re: [newbie] un-remove
It was Nov 8, 2000, 13:34, when Ronald J. Hall keyboarded: Paul (welcome back - how was your trip?), there was an article floating around Thanks for the welcome, I had a great vacation, thanks! And thanks too about the info about the article :) Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
Joe Collard escribió: I am trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 to work with my Diamond Viper V770 (nvidia TNT2) video card. Has anyone sucessfully installed Mandrake 7.2 with the nvidia drivers from their website for TNT2. Any help is much appreciated. Joe I haven't had any problem with the drivers that come with 7.2 distribution... what's the difference between both drivers?? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] un-remove
It was Nov 8, 2000, 18:43, when Scott D. Pletcher keyboarded: Thanks for the advice. :) However, I did find something useful called "recover" at http://www.linuxave.net/~recover/ It asked me some questions and successfully recovered my file. Wow, fabulous!! Congratulations!! This is a link for my linux-page :) Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
Can you get the game tuxracer or spacecup to work? Drew Lane wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.2 with an nVidia RIVA TNT2 M64 card, and all went well. I haven't tried any of the drivers from NVidia. - Original Message - From: "Joe Collard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 12:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia I am trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 to work with my Diamond Viper V770 (nvidia TNT2) video card. Has anyone sucessfully installed Mandrake 7.2 with the nvidia drivers from their website for TNT2. Any help is much appreciated. Joe
[newbie] New to list
Hi All, I am new to the list. Just installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 over my Windows 2000 Professional. Everything seems to be working well, however I see some differences I am curious about. Last year I fooled around with Linux for a few weeks and I remember that one of the CD's had several RPM packages of themes which you could install very simply. I can find those no where, except on the web as tar or gz files. Installing them as RPMS was easy as it placed them where they belonged. As a zipped package, where do I place the files to enable the theme and where can I get the theme manager? I downloaded the two ISO images from the Linux Mandrake site and create CD's, so maybe I am missing something? Thanks for any help, and one more thing. What is the most popular email program? I am now using KMail, but would like to use something that allows you to compose HTML messages, and I do not want to use Netscape. Thanks, Fred Hamilton
Re: [newbie] No icons...
What icons are you referring to? The ones on the graphical login? or like in KDE? On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote: I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is appreciated... Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
Re: [newbie] No icons...
Weird. I always make the users during install. Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its something like that.). that is where icons go. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: [newbie] No icons... I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is appreciated... Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 07:11 am, Marcia wrote: Dear All and Paul, Thank you for the advice about installing or upgrading to Mandrake 7.2. I am probably going to get the CD's and upgrade afterall. I looked into Cheapbytes website and saw the CD's but do not understand the difference between the two kinds offered really. the CD's for $3.99 are 'production' CD's. They make a whole bunch a one time from a master CD. The CD-R's for $6.99 are 'burned' CD's, recorded from the iso's. My conjecture: if you buy the production CD's, your Cdrom might have minor problems reading them. They are generally not as good quality as the CD-R's. Next is time, unless they have production CD's ready to ship, you'll prob'ly wait longer to get them than CD-R's which are produced 'as needed', ie, you might have to wait till they make another run. BUT this is all rather pointless as www.lsl.com is sellin 7.2 CD-R's for $3.78 + sh. Someone mentioned that you can download the ISO to your HD , make a boot disk, then install it that way without the need to burn it to a CD. Does anyone know about this procedure and exactly how to do it? Thank you all for your help. Marcia Instructions on how to do this are on Mandrake's site. 'Course it also helps to have a fast enough connection to make d/l'g 1.3 gigs of iso's worthwhile ;) If you choose to d/l, be sure to run 'md5sum' on them to verify, re-d/l using rsync if it doesn't match. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
Did you install the nvidia glx drivers from their website. I need opengl support. Alan Todd wrote: I have installed 7.0 - 7.01 - 7.02- and 7.2 with no problems with my viper 770 -- it alread knows it it is listed in the video cards and i got my screen size and 32bit colors after that also Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Collard Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia I am trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 to work with my Diamond Viper V770 (nvidia TNT2) video card. Has anyone sucessfully installed Mandrake 7.2 with the nvidia drivers from their website for TNT2. Any help is much appreciated. Joe
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
Yes I installed nvidia drivers, but I could not get X to come up. Joe Collard wrote: Did you install the nvidia glx drivers from their website. I need opengl support. Alan Todd wrote: I have installed 7.0 - 7.01 - 7.02- and 7.2 with no problems with my viper 770 -- it alread knows it it is listed in the video cards and i got my screen size and 32bit colors after that also Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Collard Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia I am trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 to work with my Diamond Viper V770 (nvidia TNT2) video card. Has anyone sucessfully installed Mandrake 7.2 with the nvidia drivers from their website for TNT2. Any help is much appreciated. Joe
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2
Dear All and Paul, Thank you for the advice about installing or upgrading to Mandrake 7.2. I am probably going to get the CD's and upgrade afterall. I looked into Cheapbytes website and saw the CD's but do not understand the difference between the two kinds offered really. I checked their listing and I agree; it's hard to see any difference between their $4 and $7 disk set. Someone mentioned that you can download the ISO to your HD , make a boot disk, then install it that way without the need to burn it to a CD. This is true, you can mount an iso image that's sitting on your HD. What would be a problem would be trying to use the installer to install anything from the second CD as the installer would expect you to be able to "put" that CD into the same mount location as the first disk. I don't know any way to get past that, though there may be one. If you want to read a bit about how to do the mount, check man mount and look for the "loop" option. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Aurora
Carl Kehley wrote: How does one get Aurora to run at boot? I just installed the download version of 7.2, development install, ReiserFS, using grub. The Aurora package is installed, but I can't find out anywhere how to get it to run. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Carl Kehley ICQ 1412676 http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001108042008 -- Alan
Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2]
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Nov 7, 2000, 11:25, when Marcia keyboarded: Hi Marcia, I hear many different things from updates. I have never had any problems with that, though. My start was redhat 5.2, and upgraded that through RH 6.0, MDK 6.1, MDK 7.0 and MDK 7.1. And I have the MDK7.2 cd's ready for the next upgrade. I don't expect any problems, but it is up to you to see what you want to do. I would go for the upgrade, though. That keeps all the settings and such in place. Good luck, Paul === Am I reading this correctly. Did you upgrade from RH 6.1 to mandrake 7.0? Is it possible to upgrade across distros? Or just with these two? I'm running RH 6.2 in my office. Do you think I can upgrade to L-M 7.2 directly? Thanks, Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
I can get them to run, but they run to slow to be bearable. Very jumpy. Joe Collard wrote: Can you get the game tuxracer or spacecup to work? Drew Lane wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.2 with an nVidia RIVA TNT2 M64 card, and all went well. I haven't tried any of the drivers from NVidia. - Original Message - From: "Joe Collard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 12:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia I am trying to get XFree86 4.0.1 to work with my Diamond Viper V770 (nvidia TNT2) video card. Has anyone sucessfully installed Mandrake 7.2 with the nvidia drivers from their website for TNT2. Any help is much appreciated. Joe
[newbie] rsync
I have been patiently downloading 7.2 from a University server and suffer from getting disconnected when the ftp is deep within the file structure. I want to be sure I get all the files. What are the solutions? Would I use rsync to do this? How does that work? I am downloading using CuteFTP in Win98. If anyone can I help, I'd sure appreciate it!
[newbie] random dhcpcd drops
I use my linux box as a router (ip-masquerading) for other PC's on my lan. I have two nics, one connected to an external adsl modem and the other one is connected to my switch. I used to have mandrake 7.1 and I didn't experience any problems. When I upgraded to 7.2...I started experiencing connection problems. It seems that my connection to my dsl provider will mysteriously drop for unspecificied amounts of time. Sometimes it will be only a couple minutes, but other times it will be for hours. I can easily fix it by either restarting dhcpcd, or I can just issue and ifdown eth0 command and then follow up with an ifup eth0. What is causing this problem? I remember I used to have the same problem when I used Redhat...and Redhat uses pump instead of dhcpcd. Any help would be appreciated.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2
Dear Tom,Thank you very much for the advice on the CD's. Now, I understand the difference. I will check out that website you told me about. Thank you also, for the ISO info. I think I will just order the CD's afterall. Marcia
Re: [newbie] New to list
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 02:33 pm, Fred Hamilton wrote: Hi All, I am new to the list. Just installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 over my Windows 2000 Professional. Everything seems to be working well, however I see some differences I am curious about. Last year I fooled around with Linux for a few weeks and I remember that one of the CD's had several RPM packages of themes which you could install very simply. I can find those no where, except on the web as tar or gz files. Installing them as RPMS was easy as it placed them where they belonged. As a zipped package, where do I place the files to enable the theme and where can I get the theme manager? Control Center | LookN Feel | Style | Widget Style and theme also use LookN Feel | Colors to further customize There's several included in 7.2 and a few for KDE2 that can be d/l'd from http://kde.themes.org but they need to be installed (easily) by hand. 'Aquatica' has the instructions for doin so. Just 2 steps needed, and the theme is added to LookN Feel. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and nvidia
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 22:48, Joe Collard wrote: Yes I installed nvidia drivers, but I could not get X to come up. Did you load the nvdriver with 'insmod NVidia" ? -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality...
[newbie] WINE Question
Okay, I just completed my wine.conf file and ran Adobe Acrobat with it. I then decided to open up Astroship Evader. I typed in the following: wine /mnt/win_c/Astroship Evader/Astroship Evader.exe I then got the following: cannot find file "/mnt/win_c/Astroship" Obviously, it does like the spaces in the file names. Tell me, how do I overcome this problem? could you please tell me how to retype the above command to launch it? Thanks! Joe
Re: [newbie] WINE Question
I then decided to open up Astroship Evader. I typed in the following: wine /mnt/win_c/Astroship Evader/Astroship Evader.exe I then got the following: cannot find file "/mnt/win_c/Astroship" Obviously, it does like the spaces in the file names. Tell me, how do I overcome this problem? could you please tell me how to retype the above command to launch it? Thanks! Joe Hi Joe, I'm not too sure but have you tried enclosing the astoship evader.exe bit in quotation marks? try both single and double. I believe the single option is the most likely to work. Cheers Stu Foster
Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2]
Mike, I upgraded from RH 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0 with no problem at all. I really don't think there is going to be a problem for you either. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On 8 Nov 2000 Michael Scottaline had this to say! Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Nov 7, 2000, 11:25, when Marcia keyboarded: Hi Marcia, I hear many different things from updates. I have never had any problems with that, though. My start was redhat 5.2, and upgraded that through RH 6.0, MDK 6.1, MDK 7.0 and MDK 7.1. And I have the MDK7.2 cd's ready for the next upgrade. I don't expect any problems, but it is up to you to see what you want to do. I would go for the upgrade, though. That keeps all the settings and such in place. Good luck, Paul === Am I reading this correctly. Did you upgrade from RH 6.1 to mandrake 7.0? Is it possible to upgrade across distros? Or just with these two? I'm running RH 6.2 in my office. Do you think I can upgrade to L-M 7.2 directly? Thanks, Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] WINE Question
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 05:20 pm, Joe Morris wrote: Okay, I just completed my wine.conf file and ran Adobe Acrobat with it. I then decided to open up Astroship Evader. I typed in the following: wine /mnt/win_c/Astroship Evader/Astroship Evader.exe What little I've used wine, it seems to work better if you cd to the apps location, then run the program. I suspect this has to do with DOS's lack of *nix compatible file permissions. I then got the following: cannot find file "/mnt/win_c/Astroship" To cd into a dir that has spaces in the dir name use a '\'. EG, cd /mnt/win_c/Astroship\EvaderThen to run the program you'd typewine Astroship\Evader(the .exe isn't neccesary and it's better not to use it. The backsplash as used above acts as an escape char to replace the space) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Messed up my mouse
awesome! glad I could help. ;) -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 Scott Allan had this to say! Thans so much, got this working! sA Scott Allan On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Scott, At the LILO prompt type linux 3. This will boot the system to runlevel 3 and drop you at a console login. Login as root and at the command prompt type "setuptool". This will allow you to reconfigure your mouse. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 Scott Allan had this to say! I accidentally set my mouse incorrectly in DRAKCONF - now it wont work - where can I change this setting back? (what files should I edit, I have a standard two button serial mouse) Thanks - sA Scott Allan
Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2]
Michael Scottaline wrote: === Am I reading this correctly. Did you upgrade from RH 6.1 to mandrake 7.0? Is it possible to upgrade across distros? Or just with these two? I'm running RH 6.2 in my office. Do you think I can upgrade to L-M 7.2 directly? I upgraded from RH 5.2 to LM 7.0 without any problems what so ever. Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm) RLU # 182668 This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
[newbie] Netscape/kppp
Hello, I am having problems staying connected to the internet through Mandrake. I can get on and surf for 3 to 10 minutes and then the kppp daemon dies unexpectedly. I read something about compression in the archives. Something along the lines of arguments like "nodeflate, nocccomp, noccp, nopcomp..." Is that the problem or is it something else? I am running Mandrake 7.0. Thanks, Andrew
Re: [newbie] Newbie Stops Leaping Forward!
So are you saying that the new ATA100 cables have to plug into 2 seperate interfaces? I have not seen one of the new drives or cables for them. I looked at Abit's KA7-100 spec.sheet, but it wasn't very insightful as to what those extra slots were for. Just assumed they were like the KT7-RAID. Guess that's what I get for assuming. :) And I thought I got over assuming things after I assumed Micro$oft would fix their software!! Hehe they act just like regular IDE controllers.. two drives per port. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] 7.2 ISO's
Dennis Myers wrote: I have downloaded the 7.2 ISO disks ( took about 24 hours total) and now I'm like the proverbial car chasing dog, I've caught em, but now I don't know what to do with em. The install disk does not appear to be bootable. I burned it as a iso9660 file rather than the Joliet system. It shows up ok as an executable on the cdrom but it is not a self starter. Should I use my 7.1 boot disk to start it or do I have to make a new boot disk somehow? Can't find anything in the archives or in the other help sites that tells me. Somebody point me in the right direction, please, thankyou, -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 i just love this post. such honesty :)
Re: [newbie] Aurora
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 05:55, you wrote: How does one get Aurora to run at boot? I just installed the download version of 7.2, development install, ReiserFS, using grub. The Aurora package is installed, but I can't find out anywhere how to get it to run. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Carl Kehley ICQ 1412676 you can use either tksysv (it runs as a service) or linuxconf with the ability to modify the way services start enabled. set it to run first before anything else. S01 -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] so5.2 and fonts
Larry Marshall wrote: _IF_ you install and run Drakfont _BEFORE_ installing Staroffice it finds and can use those pesky Windows fonts. Useful? Useful...I left this msg, removed SOffice and started this process: 1) load Drakfont 2) Get Windows fonts 3) Checked with Netscape font manager and they're available 4) Installed SOffice using 7.2 rpms 5) Loaded new document 6) checked fonts available and was disappointed that the TTF fonts aren't there. What step did I miss? Are you doing anything other than defaults with xfs? I don't think you 'missed' anything.. My re-install process has settled down to the following steps. ( I am still using the 7.0(Air) cd ) 1. Tar off home directories and other hard-to-fix data to a windows-shared partition on a removable hdd. 540mb maxtor 2. powerdown and remove ribbon cable from said hdd as safety precaution. 3. reboot from installation floppy and do clean developer install using defaults 3. login as first user - I have three other than root - su and set the link for reading cdrom - check it works. 4. check that uid and gid numbers are same as previous installation!! 5. setup pppd from drakconf 6. setup kppp for each user 7. run netscape 4.73 for each user as user and do the edit-preferences thing. 8. SHUTDOWN - POWEROFF - RESTART (habit from years back with any installation.) 9. access net from each user to prove it. 10. su and remove netscape 4.73 - install 4.75 from rpms. 11. step 9 repeated 12. install numlockx and reboot to prove. 14. massage /etc/fstab to include 'safety hdd' 13. shutdown and reconnect safety hdd which has the user data and other apps. 14. reboot and install pmfirewall and portsentry. Then start installing other software in no particular order - mix of rpms and tars. At this point I still haven't recovered the user data. Up til now I've been quite happy with so5.1 which I have as a bunch of tars. Previously, I would have installed drakfont at some other random point, as in when I got sick of trying to read times roman text in kedit, but for some reason I did it early in the recovery process. At this point during re-install #28 I decided I'd get so5.2 and the java 1.18-v3 files - again as tars. Took almost 20 hours on my variable speed variable quality string-between-2-cans phoneline!! And installed them - jdk stuff first. It was during the preferences setup after installation that I noticed that the Arial font from Windows was there, and consulted my checklist and saw that drakfont was already in. Now I'm not entirely sure about this but certainly ttf fonts didn't show up in so5.1, maybe so5.2 reads the X11 font structure where so5.1 didn't? Due to a problem in trying to get kernel 2.2.17 compiled I'm about to start on re-install #29 because I cannot get rid of an error which occurs during booting. I shall test and advise. Cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] How to change graphical environment in 7.2
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 09:33, you wrote: I think KDE2.0 is great and all, but how do I change my default window manager to Enlightenment, or maybe even GNOME? Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 had a utility called "switchdesk" but I can't find it in 7.2... HELP!!! add "exec gnome-session" or "exec enlightenment" or "exec wmaker"(without the quotes of course) to your .Xclients-default file -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] How to change graphical environment in 7.2
Open up a terminal window and type switchdesk At 09:02 PM 11/08/2000 -0500, you wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2000 09:33, you wrote: I think KDE2.0 is great and all, but how do I change my default window manager to Enlightenment, or maybe even GNOME? Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 had a utility called "switchdesk" but I can't find it in 7.2... HELP!!! add "exec gnome-session" or "exec enlightenment" or "exec wmaker"(without the quotes of course) to your .Xclients-default file -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244 Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] New to list
When did I say "for posting HTML in groups?" I am a newbie to Linux, not the Internet! I know about netiquette. Now, if you only answered my question instead of lecturing me. Gee Fred, maybe a switch to decaf would help. Tom's one of the sharpest guys here. You just might need his assistance at some point. I nearly wrote exactly what he did but decided it wasn't worth the time. You'll find people answer questions here when they feel like it and growling isn't going to stimulate that activity. BTW, I use Pine as my email tool and it don't do HTML I'm happy to say. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] 7.2 ISO's
The install disk does not appear to be bootable. I burned it as a iso9660 file rather than the Joliet system. It shows up ok as an executable on the cdrom but it is not You have to go one step beyond choosing a file system format. You didn't mention what software you're using so I've got to stay generic with advice but what you need to do if find the option that lets you "create an image", "create a raw image" or something like that. a self starter. Should I use my 7.1 boot disk to start it or do I have to make a new boot disk somehow? Can't find anything in the archives or in the other help sites Jump into your bios and set things up so you can boot off the CD and do that. Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] Network advice
I am putting together my home network, and have some questions I hope someone can answer... Layout is somehthing like: Linux Box 1 NE2K Net card conecting to ADSL via PPOE working 1 Tulip Net card connecting to hub, connecting to Windoze box (my wife's) working 1 PCMCIA Wireless Network Card connecting to laptop over wireless not yet setup I think I am going to have to set the PCMCIA card up as a second gateway in order to have the laptop work - is this correct? If so, how do I add a second gateway - is it just a second entry in /etc/sysconfig/network? Or, can I use the existing gateway (the NIC that is connected to the hub)? Should I number the PCMCIA segment within the Class C as the other segment? Are there any drawbacks to this? Thanks! sA Scott Allan
Re: [newbie] New to list
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 21:12, you wrote: I nearly wrote exactly what he did but decided it wasn't worth the time I think your statement says it all! If it isn't worth the time then why bother posting? The very name of this reflector says it all. When someone comes in and asks a question, by all means everyone that has something pertinent to say concerning the question should start typing. If you have nothing to say about the persons question, then ignore the message and read on to try to help someone else, don't waste the time of the reader or the subscribers by adding more useless traffic. THEN he insinuates that I have been "flooding" the reflector with HTML messages because of my question, when I only subscribed today. I can do without that kind of help. Just my 2 cents worth, and no growling was intended
Re: [newbie] Graphics card/monitor not detected correctly
Bill Sanders wrote: about all I know... oh and apparently its model # TCM 1764S according to the back. Go with Tom's suggesstion re the monitor that can do.. but also check and see if it matches a CTX-brand monitor with same number. -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Apache UserDirs
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 22:48, you wrote: Hi, I have installed 7.2 which I really like. I am having trouble getting the user dirs to work. I have created public_html in my home directory, but when i try to access it, apache tells me I do not have permission. What do I have to do to get it working. What I do is the following as root edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and change UserDir public_html to UserDir /home/httpd then chmod 755 /home/httpd mkdir /home/httpd/$USER chown $USER:$USER /home/httpd/$USER chmod 755 /home/httpd/$USER ln -s /home/httpd/$USER /home/$USER/public_html This chamges the default directory from /home/$USER/public_html to /home/httpd/$USER and creates a symlink to the users home directory. It has the side effect of not making the user home directory available via the browser
Re: [newbie] XFCE not included in Mandrake 7.2?
Jeff Malka wrote: After upgrading from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2 I discovered that XFCE is no longer one of the default choices on graphic login. Anyone know if it has been dropped? If not, how does one add it to the option list? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 JeffIt's there in mine. Additions and deletions to the list can be made, as root, in the Control Center -- System -- Login Manager -- Sessions. -- Alan
[newbie] CD-ROM problems
A few months ago, I bought a copy of Linux-Mandrake 7.0 with the intent to install it on my then-new computer. However, I ran into a major problem. When I used the included tool to partition my hard drive, the partition worked, but my computer would no longer recognise my CD-ROM drive (it just didn't appear anywhere), so I couldn't install Linux, and I had to remove the partition. My computer worked fine after that, but I was unable to install Linux, so I put the Linux CDs away. Now, for some reason, I've decided to try to install again. What is wrong with my CD-ROM drive that it's doing this? My computer is a HP Pavilion 9694C. I don't know much about the specs on my CD-ROM drive tho..altho it is a combination CD-ROM/DVD drive. Can anyone help this clueless newbie? __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM problems
Amuro Rei wrote: A few months ago, I bought a copy of Linux-Mandrake 7.0 with the intent to install it on my then-new computer. However, I ran into a major problem. When I used the included tool to partition my hard drive, the partition worked, but my computer would no longer recognise my CD-ROM drive (it just didn't appear anywhere), so I couldn't install Linux, and I had to remove the partition. My computer worked fine after that, but I was unable to install Linux, so I put the Linux CDs away. Now, for some reason, I've decided to try to install again. What is wrong with my CD-ROM drive that it's doing this? My computer is a HP Pavilion 9694C. I don't know much about the specs on my CD-ROM drive tho..altho it is a combination CD-ROM/DVD drive. Can anyone help this clueless newbie? I'll give it a burst - I have 28 7.0 installs under my shirt!! First - is your machine able to boot from the cdrom?? If so does it do so for this cd? You may have to go to your bios settings and juggle the boot settings so that the cdrom is higher in the stack. ie set it up so that the order is say: cdrom, floppy, harddrive. If you cannot boot from the floppy I suggest you find your way into the dosutils/autoboot subdirectory on the cd and try it that way. My machine is pretty old and won't boot from the cd drive so I use the autoboot system - it's much more 'reliable' than the floppy boot method. Come on back now eh? Cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] New to list
I only subscribed today. I can do without that kind of help. Fred, I dare say that you'll not likely have to worry about getting any kind of help from either myself or Tom. Good luck with Linux; it's a great operating system. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM problems
Hello, Will it install windows to a blank drive? It is an IDE device right? A proprietary device wont work. You may have to boot using a boot floppy. Instructions are included in the book on how to make one. If all else fails try finding an old 8x cd rom at a used computer supply and installing that. I picked one up the other day for $30.00 w/ a sound card. Andrew "Remember this always for it is the doom of men that they forget" Merlin..Excalibur - Original Message - From: Amuro Rei [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:36 PM Subject: [newbie] CD-ROM problems A few months ago, I bought a copy of Linux-Mandrake 7.0 with the intent to install it on my then-new computer. However, I ran into a major problem. When I used the included tool to partition my hard drive, the partition worked, but my computer would no longer recognise my CD-ROM drive (it just didn't appear anywhere), so I couldn't install Linux, and I had to remove the partition. My computer worked fine after that, but I was unable to install Linux, so I put the Linux CDs away. Now, for some reason, I've decided to try to install again. What is wrong with my CD-ROM drive that it's doing this? My computer is a HP Pavilion 9694C. I don't know much about the specs on my CD-ROM drive tho..altho it is a combination CD-ROM/DVD drive. Can anyone help this clueless newbie? __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Network advice
Scott Allan wrote: I am putting together my home network, and have some questions I hope someone can answer... Layout is somehthing like: Linux Box 1 NE2K Net card conecting to ADSL via PPOE working 1 Tulip Net card connecting to hub, connecting to Windoze box (my wife's) working 1 PCMCIA Wireless Network Card connecting to laptop over wireless not yet setup I think I am going to have to set the PCMCIA card up as a second gateway in order to have the laptop work - is this correct? If so, how do I add a second gateway - is it just a second entry in /etc/sysconfig/network? Or, can I use the existing gateway (the NIC that is connected to the hub)? Should I number the PCMCIA segment within the Class C as the other segment? Are there any drawbacks to this? Thanks! sA Scott Allan On the linux box there will only be one gateway - the network interface connected to the net. On the laptop set the gateway ip to what ever ip you configured the PCMCIA interface to. Sorry I can't help you out with setup of this interface (never used one). I'm interested in how you got ADSL working as it is soon to be available in my area (Melbourne, Australia) and of course the crappy company insists on setting it up on a doze box. I can give you more help with your home network if you like, as I have just got mine working recently. cheers, Scott.
[newbie] Need Fetchmail Mailing List
If anyone knows of an excellent fetchmail mailing list, would you send me the information? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM
Re: [newbie] New to list
Last year I fooled around with Linux for a few weeks and I remember that one of the CD's had several RPM packages of themes which you could install very simply. I can find those no where, except on the web as tar or gz files. Installing them as RPMS was easy as it placed them where they belonged. As a zipped package, where do I place the files to enable the theme and where can I get the theme manager? in addition to what others have posted about gtk themes i thought i would mention (since you mentioned themes in an older version) that KDE 2 doesn't have the same kind of theme manager as KDE 1. the old theme selector doesn't work in KDE 2. that's why the lack. -x. -- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but for him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore" - Howard Phillips Lovecraft ICQ 4841244
Re: [newbie] Graphics card/monitor not detected correctly
Bill, I notice you are using Windows Eudora, if you are in win9.x, then goto My computer - Properties - Device Manager - Display Adapters - Print - selected class or device - OK; do the same with monitor. You will get all the specs; I printed my whole system. HTH At 04:09 PM 08-11-2000 -0800, you wrote: What if you don't have your specs? Or any way of getting them? I'm using a second hand monitor (probably closer to 5th hand) and I've got none of the info on it... it says "Techmedia" on the front and its 17"... thats about all I know... oh and apparently its model # TCM 1764S according to the back. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I'm stuck using windows right now. Bill
Re: [newbie] New to list
Hey Larry, I've been following the exchange between you and Fred (excerpts below) with interest. I don't know what kind of tag team you've got going with Tom; I guess you can speak for him. This is written on behalf of myself; it's clear Fred can speak for himself :-D As a newbie, I find Tom's unnecessary, condescending remarks about Grandma and clueless and color schemes to be offensive. No one, that I could see, was asking what you or Tom thought about HTML. Propping yourself up by knocking somebody else down is not helping. If it is your intent to deny me access to your juicy, desirable knowledge unless I embrace your supercilious swaggering and, metaphorically speaking, kiss your ass, so be it. I welcome the solitude. Here's a clue: I didn't come here looking for a girlfriend :-D Cheers --- Rolf Fred Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2000 18:04, you wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2000 02:33 pm, Fred Hamilton wrote: Thanks for any help, and one more thing. What is the most popular email program? I am now using KMail, but would like to use something that allows you to compose HTML messages, and I do not want to use Netscape. Unfortunately, Kmail in KDE2 handles html very well. Let me remind you tho of the message (excerpt below, particularly since it's the _No.1_ rule) that you were sent when you joined this list (or prob'ly any other list). Netiquette strongly discourages the use of html for email, especially forbids it and attachments on mailing lists. It's for sendin pics, and lavender text on a yellow background to your Grandma (and then only if she's clueless too ;) ... Welcome to the newbie List. * Please, try to keep the folowing general rules in mind before posting: 1) Use straight ASCII (TXT) format. Many people do not like "HTML" "RTF", or any other weird format you may send. ... I'd add that it never looks as good on our monitors as you might believe it does on yours ; When did I say "for posting HTML in groups?" I am a newbie to Linux, not the Internet! I know about netiquette. Now, if you only answered my question instead of lecturing me. Gee Fred, maybe a switch to decaf would help. Tom's one of the sharpest guys here. You just might need his assistance at some point. I nearly wrote exactly what he did but decided it wasn't worth the time. You'll find people answer questions here when they feel like it and growling isn't going to stimulate that activity. BTW, I use Pine as my email tool and it don't do HTML I'm happy to say. Cheers --- Larry On Wednesday 08 November 2000 21:12, you wrote: I nearly wrote exactly what he did but decided it wasn't worth the time I think your statement says it all! If it isn't worth the time then why bother posting? The very name of this reflector says it all. When someone comes in and asks a question, by all means everyone that has something pertinent to say concerning the question should start typing. If you have nothing to say about the persons question, then ignore the message and read on to try to help someone else, don't waste the time of the reader or the subscribers by adding more useless traffic. THEN he insinuates that I have been "flooding" the reflector with HTML messages because of my question, when I only subscribed today. I can do without that kind of help. Just my 2 cents worth, and no growling was intended I only subscribed today. I can do without that kind of help. Fred, I dare say that you'll not likely have to worry about getting any kind of help from either myself or Tom. Good luck with Linux; it's a great operating system. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Graphics card/monitor not detected correctly
Bill, I notice you are using Windows Eudora, if you are in win9.x, then goto My computer - Properties - Device Manager - Display Adapters - Print - selected class or device - OK; do the same with monitor. You will get all the specs; I printed my whole system. HTH Ok tried that... problem is that Windows doesn't even recognize my monitor! so all it prints is: Class: Monitors Device: (Unknown Monitor) No resources used. and thats it... heh... I already tried the setting 'monitor that will do 1024x768 at 70hz' and that didn't work either... I'm beginning to think that something else is up... when I try to choose a monitor setting (I don't know if it did this by typing "Xconfigurator" at the Command Line or not) I catch a brief glimpse of 10 or so lines, and the last one says "Device is busy" or something similar... is there any way to print out the results of that so I can post it here? for the record, here's my Video Card: Class: Display adapters Device: Revolution(tm) 3D (HawkEye, DirectX) Resources: IRQ: 11 I/O: 03B0h-03BBh I/O: 03C0h-03DFh I/O: D000h-D0FFh Then a ton of MEM's which I'm snipping for brevity I'm going to try the other ideas listed here later, but any more feedback would be *greatly* appreciated... I really want to try to become less attached to Windows if at all possible Thanks for all the help, guys Bill -- "Lazy is good when there's nothing to do. But Lazy is even better when something needs to be done." -Llie Rion California, n.: "calor" meaning "heat"; "fornia" for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex"
RE: [newbie] Graphics card/monitor not detected correctly
First, I would follow the advice from L.H. Loo. If that doesn't work, check out the specs I got from monitorworld.com. Model: TCM1764 Max Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Sync Type: Separate Sync H Freq/ V Freq: 30-64 Khz/47-104 Hz Tube Manufacturer: Not Available Monitor Type: Multisync/Multiscan Tube Model: Not Available Tube Size: 17" Connector: HD-15 http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/techmedia/TCM1764.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of L. H. LOO Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Graphics card/monitor not detected correctly Bill, I notice you are using Windows Eudora, if you are in win9.x, then goto My computer - Properties - Device Manager - Display Adapters - Print - selected class or device - OK; do the same with monitor. You will get all the specs; I printed my whole system. HTH At 04:09 PM 08-11-2000 -0800, you wrote: What if you don't have your specs? Or any way of getting them? I'm using a second hand monitor (probably closer to 5th hand) and I've got none of the info on it... it says "Techmedia" on the front and its 17"... thats about all I know... oh and apparently its model # TCM 1764S according to the back. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I'm stuck using windows right now. Bill
Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2]
It was Nov 8, 2000, 15:42, when Michael Scottaline keyboarded: Am I reading this correctly. Did you upgrade from RH 6.1 to mandrake 7.0? Is it possible to upgrade across distros? Or just with these two? I'm running RH 6.2 in my office. Do you think I can upgrade to L-M 7.2 directly? Thanks, Yes, Mandrake evolved from Redhat 5.2 so ugrading was no problem at all. Paul -- Balderdash (n.): a rapidly receding hairline. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] Cups server problems
Hello, After running the Mandrake printer configuration tool I can print from Koffice and Konqueror but not from any other application. The desk top printer icon doesn't show any printers and when I run Kups I receive and error message "Can't connect to cups server. Check options.". The options look correct and I have a standard (not a beta) 7.2 installation. Any ideas? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Improving Xwindows on my laptop
I have a Compaq Presario 1230 laptop with a NeoMagic MagicGraph 128ZV+ display adapter and an 800X600 display panel.I have installed 7.1 and I have not found info on how to configure KDE X to be very readable on my laptop. The setup stuff that I find assumes monitors and not panel displays. I would appreciate some assistance. Thanks...Jim I also don't see the JBL sound card in any list but that is not as critical as a GUI with legible text.
[newbie] Network problems
Hi, my name is Christopher Tyler I have just got Mandrake 7.1, to use it as a "internet server" for a small network we have at home(4 machines) Here is my problem. I have a 3com 3c509b(I think thats what its called) network card. Drakconf, detects it, so does the start upbut it shows the following message on startup: Bringing up interface eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/nc.0 init module device or rescource busy Delaying eth0 initialization And on shutdown: Shutting down interface eth0 ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 240 I read the network howto, but that didn't have my problem When I tried writing "ifconfig eth0" it says there's no device found. My friend who is a linux buff said it might be a conflict, but the card works perfectly in Windows 95 on the same machine. Its settings are i/o=240(though it was originally set to 210) IRQ=5 I don't know what I am doing anymoresince I have just got Linux Any other needed details? 200Mhz CyrixInstead(CPU.Linux says its 150Mhz tho?) 2gig Western Digital HDD Sis 6326 4MB AGP video card No sound card Oh, its also an ATX case I hope thats enough info Thanks Chris __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
