Re: [newbie-it] 7.2 e ISDN
Il 11:53, sabato 19 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Salve, ho provato a fare quanto descritto nel file che Germano mi ha gentilmente indicato ma purtroppo ho ancora dei problemi: ho configurato manualmente il file /etc/isdn/profile/link/myisp (e comunque era stato configurato correttamente, credo, dal DrakConf) ho configurati il File '/etc/isdn/profile/card/mycard' utilizzando i parametri che ho in windows System e cioè: I4L_IRQ=09 I4L_MEMBASE=0x1000 I4L_PORT=0x1000 ed ho fatto un tentativo sia con I4L_IRQ=09 I4L_MEMBASE=0x1000,0x10FF I4L_PORT=0x1000,0x1007 (visto che in realtà trovavo degli intervalli in Widows) ed un altro tentativo con I4L_IRQ=09 I4L_PORT=0x1000,0x1007 visto che in teoria il parametro MemBase non dovrebbe essere necessario per la ASUSLINK in base a quanto descritto nel FILE: usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn/README.HISAX il problema è che quando testo il MODPROBE ottengo il seguente, per me criptico, risultato: [root@localhost /root]# modprobe hisax io=0x1000 irq=09 mem=0x100 type=12 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/isdn.o: unresolved symbol slhc_compress_Rcfd3a418 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/isdn.o: unresolved symbol slhc_remember_R07972313 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/isdn.o: unresolved symbol slhc_init_R1ca65fca /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/isdn.o: unresolved symbol slhc_free_Rb99033d9 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/isdn.o: unresolved symbol slhc_uncompress_R3bb36b01 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/isdn.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/isdn.o failed/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/isdn.o: insmod hisax failed e questo per qualunque parametro che io passi o non passi al comando. Se qualcuno vuole aiutarmi glie ne sarei infinitamente grato. Cordiali Saluti Giuseppe Foti Se non ho capito male hai una scheda interna ISDN (la stessa che ho io) e dovrebbe essere PCI quindi non devi dare nessun indirizzo IRQ o qualunque altra cosa che una scheda PCI si trova da sola. Devi solo passargli il parametro che indica che tipo di scheda hai (per le asuscom è 12). Qui però potrebbe esserci il primo problema: Karsten Keil (SUSE) , che è il tizio che ha scritto i programmi per Linux che gestiscono l' ISDN mi ha detto che il software della Mandrake ha un bug quindi bisogna provare invece che con 12 con 35 (o 36 non ricordo). Quindi , se stai seguendo i consigli di quel sito, devi modificare il file /etc/rc.d/init.d/isdn4linux, li dentro c'è un pezzo (riga 159) in cui confronta il type con quello che gli hai scritto precedentemente (che dovrai riscrivere), invece di 12 cambi il numero in uno di quei due che ti ho detto (fai un po di prove) e rifai /etc/rc.d/init.d/isdn4linux restart. Non ci dovrebbero essere più problemi. Riscrivi sia che sia andato tutto bene sia che tu abbia riavuto qualche problema. Ciao, Germano
[newbie-it] Scanner
Salve, sul mio PC con scheda ASUS A7V è installato uno scanner EPSON Perfection 1240U (USB). La mia distribuzione è una MDK 7.2. Dove posso trovare le istruzioni per installare e far funzionare il mio scanner sotto Linux? Un grazie anticipato a chi vorrà rispondermi... Daniele
Re: Fw: [newbie-it] Problemi MOUSE nella console PROBLEMI INSTALLAZIONE MDK8
On Sun, 20 May 2001 02:18:11 +0200 Matteo Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1)Ciao, Ops scusate, avevo sbagliato a ricordarmi l'elenco e al posto di FirstMouse+ dovevo scrivere MouseMan+:P (cmq se sbaglio ancora sto intendendo l'unico modello logitech su PS/2 che compare nell'elenco delle scelte) Cmq ho provato a configurarlo come normale e non cambia niente, quando gli do ok... mi accetta la cosa e poi però non mi cambia le impostazioni sul file (credo) perché non mi cambia neanche nell'elenco di DrakConf da console testo... Perche' non provi a mettere la configurazione direttamente nel file di xfree? Io per esempio ho questo, nella sezione # ** # Pointer section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocolimps/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option Buttons5 Option ZAxisMapping4 5 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option ChordMiddle EndSection e va ok, ricorda pero' che se vuoi il mouse in console devi attivare gpm tra i servizi all' avvio. Non ho provato la 8.0 (ho la 7.2) ma credo che sia uguale... -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] Scanner
On Fri, 18 May 2001 12:43:08 + Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve, sul mio PC con scheda ASUS A7V è installato uno scanner EPSON Perfection 1240U (USB). La mia distribuzione è una MDK 7.2. Dove posso trovare le istruzioni per installare e far funzionare il mio scanner sotto Linux? Un grazie anticipato a chi vorrà rispondermi... Ho il tuo stesso scanner e stessa distro:-)) Se usi un kernel 2.4 ricompilato devi attivare il supporto per l' usb e per il device che ti interessa, mentre con il kernel di default (2.2.17) questi moduli dovrebbero gia' essere disponibili. Innanzitutto crea il device mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48 chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner poi inserisci nel /etc/modules.conf le seguenti righe above scanner usb-uhci options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x010b e nel /etc/modules solamente scanner Infine devi aggiungere in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf usb /dev/usbscanner commentando tutto il resto. A questo punto dovrebbe comparire la voce Acquire Image nel menu Xtns di Gimp oppure puoi usare Xsane. N.B.: la voce above scanner usb-uhci nel modules.conf funziona con il kernel 2.4 mentre se hai il 2.2.17 dovrebbe esserci una riga tipo alias char-major 180 usb, eventualmente fai delle prove Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] Giochi per linux
Ciao a tutti, sono finalmente riuscito a installare i drivers Nvidia per la mia scheda su linux. Ho provato i demos della loki e funzionano. Qualcuno sa dirmi dove potrei acquistare le versioni complete? Grazie e ciao a tutti Gijii __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
I got it mounted using fstab which is what I wanted. However using the following: /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0 it is browsable but read only... Am I missing something to make it writeable?? Ed ~~ At 09:26 PM Friday, 5/18/2001, Dave Sherman wrote -= Yep. Dave On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, thus spake Ed Kasky: If it's an ntfs formatted partition do I use ntfs in place of vfat? Ed At 01:20 PM Friday, 5/18/2001, Dave Sherman wrote -= Try this: /dev/hde1/mnt/windows vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 It should give you full read/write access. Dave -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
RE[newbie] java. why doesn't it go? (still no joy)
thanks to everyone who has helped me with this. i've now managed to extract the tar file but the instructions say to add the location of the sdk to the PATH settings. Where do i find path to modify it? i'm slowly but surely getting the hang of this. Looking forward to getting this up and running now. mike I have not followed this discussion, but if you have a tar.gz file and you unzip it first, then you don't need the 'tar xvzf' command, but just the 'tar xvf' command (since it is just a .tar file) To unpack a tar.gz in one command you could use 'tar xvzf' See 'man tar' for more information. Concerning this java sdk .bin-file: This is a shell script, which automatically extracts the files for you, so try chmod to 755 and then execute it. Regards, Leander ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.mp3.com/pherellcommunic8ns TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com
Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel
On Friday 18 May 2001 09:45, John Clark wrote: I understand how the controller works, I just want a driver that works with it. I don't care how the drives come up I just want to be able to use them, software raid or not. From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:28:34 -0700 On Thursday 17 May 2001 07:32, John Clark wrote: I have a MSI 694D motherboard with onboard VIA 686a chipset ide controller and Promise FastTrak 100 w/ lite bios. I also have an additional Promise FastTrak 66 with full bios. I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0 Well, the best thing to do is write to Promise and encourage them to issue more information on their controller. There may be a driver for RH by now that will work with kernel 2.4 but all 2.4s seem to be having some trouble with Promise FasTraks, especially since 2.4.3-ac5. You can read about it in the kernel-traffic mailing list. The point is, if Promise doesn't write one, and doesn't provide enough information to others to write one, there will be no driver. Other distros might enter a Non-Disclosure Agreement and provide a binary-only driver, but if we did something like that, we would lose most of the folks who help us, overnight. We have to be part of the culture that made us. Finally, that VIA bug is a real bug, with the chipset, and it can be corrected and worked around by setting up the PCI resources differently in the BIOS-I urge you to update the BIOS before you try copying several hundred megabytes between disks. It is a logic race condition between competing IDE channels. Civileme
Fwd: Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 128/512
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 128/512 Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:13:58 -0400 From: Brandon Caudle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if your not doing gaming keep the sb 16 i have them in all of my machines (home + school) their the easyiest to configure brandon caudle From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 128/512 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:28:43 -0500 Yeah, I bought one for about 35 bucks about 6 months ago and for some reason it sounded pretty bad in Mandrake and Caldera. (Bad-bad, not bad-good). It was an oem, and I was worried it may be defective. But I recently put it in my son's machine running win98 and he loves it. It sounds great. So I don't know what the deal in linux was, but might as well go a few more bucks and the get the Sound Blaster LIve - Value. (The value is the same basic hardware as the x-gamers and platnium, it's just the software that makes the price and name difference.) Others may have had better luck, I don't know. -s On Friday 18 May 2001 02:11 pm, you wrote: As I mentioned earlier, I'm building a new machine this weekend. I wanted to know if anybody has used or had good dealings with SoundBlaster 128, or SoundBlaster 512 in their Mandrake 7.2, or Mandrake 8.0 machines. I've found a place that has them for a pretty good price, and was wondering if I should just stick with the SoundBlaster 16? Any input would be appreciated! Thanx! tdh _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ---
Re: [newbie] menu editing again!
bascule wrote: i had spotted that, but the point is that no matter what i choose, whether it be system configuration, user configuration, allow mandrake customisation or whatever, there is no effect, i save, wait for the process to finish, run update-menus in a console to be super sure and still nothing, the one time i made a change by manually editing the .desktop file i wanted to alter the properties of, the effect was lost when i logged in again, again i if knew what files and routines were being used in this whole process maybe i could make something happen bascule On Saturday 19 May 2001 02:57, you wrote: bascule wrote: it's such a tiny thing but it's driving me mad, how does one alter a menu item and have it stay changed? basculeK(menu)-Configure Panel-Menu Editor... basculethe info is stored in: ~/.menu/adding_by_menudrake and after changing/adding info to that file then update-menus needs to be run. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0, XF86Config and SiS 630
On Saturday 19 May 2001 07:55, sean gibbins wrote: Hi All. Having installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Pico Graduate laptop (opting for XFree86 3.3.6 + experimental acceleration), I find that only the top left portion of my desktop - approx. 1/6th or 1/8th - is viewable/navigable. I am hoping that it is a simple XF86Config issue, but knowing what a complete pile of dung the first lot of SiS 630 drivers were, I suspect something more complicated. Any thoughts? Cheers, Sean PS I have tried the install without experimental hardware acceleration, to similar effect. Check the SiS site for updated drivers. The 630 and 730 are the most linux-friendly chipsets around, and SiS has started issuing GPL drivers for lots of it. Civileme
[newbie] DNS: No response from server
Can anyone help please. I'm using Mandrake 7.0 I've installed the Bind rpm package from the installation cd. run rpm -q bind has returned bind-8.2.2P5-1mdk which named has returned /usr/sbin/named Then I've run /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start and not recieved any error messages. However when I've tried to do nslookup I've got the message, Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.2: No reponse from server Where I'm I going wrong Thanks Everill
Re: [newbie] Detecting USR Modem
Start herewww.linmodem.org. Then tell us more detail on your modem perhaps...internal..external,pci..isa maybe ? Just makes sure this is still not a winmodem. You can also try going into minicom from a terminal,and querying the modem from there. Lee On Sat, 19 May 2001, you wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup a new USR 56k modem on my system (LM 7.2) I had a winmodem in the system when I installed LM and after beating my head against the wall I went out and bought the USR. I still can't get the modem to work however and I have read and tried every howto, faq, userguide I can find to get it fixed. It shows up on port 0x03e8 (com3) IRQ 4 which is what the jumpers are set to, PNP is disabled in the BIOS and there are no conflicts. seterial shows no problems and detects the UART but I still can't initialize the modem? Anyone have any suggestions? I am getting a little desperate here any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, john Content-Type: text/html; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] Mandrake 8.0, XF86Config and SiS 630
Hi All. Having installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Pico Graduate laptop (opting for XFree86 3.3.6 + experimental acceleration), I find that only the top left portion of my desktop - approx. 1/6th or 1/8th - is viewable/navigable. I am hoping that it is a simple XF86Config issue, but knowing what a complete pile of dung the first lot of SiS 630 drivers were, I suspect something more complicated. Any thoughts? Cheers, Sean PS I have tried the install without experimental hardware acceleration, to similar effect. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RE[newbie] java. why doesn't it go? (still no joy)
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike wrote: thanks to everyone who has helped me with this. i've now managed to extract the tar file but the instructions say to add the location of the sdk to the PATH settings. Where do i find path to modify it? i'm slowly but surely getting the hang of this. Looking forward to getting this up and running now. Edit the file .bashrc(note the leading dot) Add two lines like the following: PATH=/home/irv/euphoria/bin:$PATH export PATH Replace /home/irv/euphoria/bin: with the full path to your sdk probably /home/mike/something/something. Once you logout and back in, the new path will be in effect. Regards, Irv
[newbie] i810_UNSUPPORTED_GTT_FALLBACK
Hi all ! My compie is : P3-700, RAM 128, Mainboard Intel 815, VGA i-815 + Soundblaster 128(detected as Ensoniq but runs properly), both are onboard. I installed Mandrake 7.0 a few days ago and I couldn't set my graphic card properly. I tried to change my vga card to Intel Express AGP 3D (it's for intel 810 and 815, i've gotten the RPM file from Intel-Web site), set res mode to 800x600x16, and then I tested the mode, and I got an error message : Couldn't get memory from gart module, and i810_UNSUPPORTED_GTT_FALLBACK not set. Try changing some parameters. I think it somehow connected with agpgart.o thing. What's wrong with that error message, and where to download the agpgart.o ??? Anybody could help me ? Thanks a lot ! = Tony ^_^x __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Internet Keyboards
Any way to use Internet keyboards with Mandrake 7.2 or 8? I would like to try it.
Re: [newbie] Enabling Screensaver in KDE
--- Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awhile back, someone gave the terminal command for enabling the screensaver in KDE. I thought I had saved a copy of that, but I haven't been able to find it. I also came up empty with a search of the archives. Can someone repost that? Although I have set up the screensaver in KDE config., I have yet to see it come up automatically. Barry I don't know about a terminal command, but to do it in the KDE Desktop you do the following: CLick the K (or right click on the screen) Then click CONNFIGURATIONS Then click KDE (not KDE SETUP) Then Click LOOKNFEEL Then Click SCREENSAVER = Richard Wegner - Linux User - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Derek Rayne is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER this is just an e-mail address I chose! I don't do Windows me (Proud Linux User) ICQ #: 12781393 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] i810_UNSUPPORTED_GTT_FALLBACK
On Saturday 19 May 2001 05:56, Tony Prawiro wrote: Hi all ! My compie is : P3-700, RAM 128, Mainboard Intel 815, VGA i-815 + Soundblaster 128(detected as Ensoniq but runs properly), both are onboard. I installed Mandrake 7.0 a few days ago and I couldn't set my graphic card properly. I tried to change my vga card to Intel Express AGP 3D (it's for intel 810 and 815, i've gotten the RPM file from Intel-Web site), set res mode to 800x600x16, and then I tested the mode, and I got an error message : Couldn't get memory from gart module, and i810_UNSUPPORTED_GTT_FALLBACK not set. Try changing some parameters. I think it somehow connected with agpgart.o thing. What's wrong with that error message, and where to download the agpgart.o ??? Anybody could help me ? Thanks a lot ! Yeah, try a newer version of mandrake with XFree-3.3.6 or 4.0.1 Versions 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0 are all easily available. Civileme = Tony ^_^x __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Laptops
Anyone ever install Mandrake on a IBM Thinkpad 760XL laptop? I am thinking of doing this but have yet to see any documentation on it. The docs on laptops is dated and of little help.
Re: [newbie] Installing apps under linux
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ujang wrote: I've downloaded few applications with extension tar.gz but dont really know how to install it. I understand that there's command to install it. Could someone guide me how to install the applications under linux? My PC running Linux Mandrake 7.1. If you are using KDE, just right-click on the downloaded file, and select 'Archiver'. That will open a window showing a list of files which are included in the package, and a click on the little 'magnifying glass' , (or menu selection File-Extract To) will extract the files to a location of your choice. Once complete, navigate to that location using KFM. What you need to do from there depends upon how the package was prepared. There should be a readme file explaining what to do. Many packages need to be compiled, which is pretty simple. Others can be run without compliing. The instructions should be included, or available on the website from which you downloaded the package. Regards, Irv
RE: [newbie] what is this secret code?
This is just a probe of the Super/IO chip on the motherboard. If you want more info on it see: http://www.winbond.com/e-winbondhtm/partner/b_2_d_2.htm -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeffrey M. Reed Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] what is this secret code? i'm getting this at my login prompt when i boot. anyone else seeing this weird stuff? Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=52 devrev=f4 oldid=ff Winbond chip type 83977EF / SMSC 97w35x Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=00 Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3 Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0 Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=Standard (SPP) and Bidirectional(PS/2) SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... i think this could mess up security a bit...no? :) -- +- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508)792-6070 +-
Re: [newbie] Installing apps under linux
THis type of file is commonly called a tarball, and generally it is in source format. What you need to do is, run (in a terminal window) the command tar -xvzf mytarball.tar.gz You will see a bunch of lines scroll by in your xterm as the file is decompressed, then you will have your command prompt again. If you type ls you should now see a new directory in your current directory, typically named the same as the tarball, except without the .tar.gz extension. Thus is my example, your diretory is called mytarball/. If you now cd mytarball/ to get into this directory, you should see at the very least a README file, and probably also an INSTALL file, which will give directions on compiling this application and installing. Usually, all you need to do is ./configure make su (must be root to actually install) make install exit (to get out of root) Then run your new program. Hope this helps, Dave On Saturday 19 May 2001 00:35, thus spake Ujang: I've downloaded few applications with extension tar.gz but dont really know how to install it. I understand that there's command to install it. Could someone guide me how to install the applications under linux? My PC running Linux Mandrake 7.1. a Linux Newbie -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
Re: [newbie] very slowly
On Fri, 18 May 2001, dfox wrote: I wrote: If I open all programs I am going to use, then switching between them seems reasonably fast. However, if one of them needs to open a new window, Does this happen independently of how many windows are already open, or what window manager is being used? For instance, if you open up an xterm (should be pretty instantaneous) on a lightly-loaded system, does it take the same (slow) time as under other situations? With nothing open, an xterm takes several seconds to appear. Using Mandrake 7.1, the same xterm comes up in about half a second. I'm thinking that it might have to do with your X server - since opening a window does take at least some effort from the server, maybe it's eating up a lot of memory and part of it is in swap. That could explain the slow- down. Thanks, I will file this with the other suggestions - some day when I have nothing better to do, I'll re-load Mandrake 8.0 and go thru all the suggested solutions. If I find one that works, I'll be sure to post it here. Regards, Irv
Re: [newbie] Detecting USR Modem
On Sat, 19 May 2001, you wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup a new USR 56k modem on my system (LM 7.2) Which USR 56k modem? If it's the Performance Pro modem (about $80) then it should work. If it's the Internal FaxModem, (about $40) then it clearly states 'Designed exclusively for the Windows operating system' - so no, it won't. Regards, Irv
RE: [newbie] ip address of ppp0
Yep, pppoe. pretty sucky, though I have had good uptime. Actually, I just saw how to do it. I created a perl script and put it at /etc/ppp/ip-up and that works. Thanks for the reply -Original Message- From: David E. Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 10:53 PM To: Reggie Burnett Subject: Re: [newbie] ip address of ppp0 have my adsl connection up and running but I have to update dyndns.org manually. I want to update it automatically. I'm confused. You have adsl, then why are you using ppp? Do you have some kind of PPP over ethernet setup? Also, adsl is pretty much 24/7, so even if you have dynamic IP, it'll be the same until something drops the connection. Reggie David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
solved (i hope) was: Re: [newbie] menu editing again!
hi alan, i looked at that file and i found that are two references to the command i wanted to alter to read 'kdesu' before it, why and how i don't know but after all my faffing about with kmenuefit and menudrake only the first of these was showing a change, i edited the second reference to the command i wanted changing in a text editor and viola! i still had to actually reboot though, 'menu-updates' by itself wasn't enough to explain i have enclosed the last line of my ~/.menu/adding_by_menudrake to illustrate for any one else that this info might help, the following is all one line: ?package(kdeadmin): needs=x11 icon=kpackage.png section=Configuration/Packaging/ title=Package Manager longtitle=kpackage RPM and DEB manager command=kdesu kpackage %u charset=ISO-8859-1 kde_filename=kpackage kde_mimetype=application/x-rpm;application/x-debian-package; kde_opt=\\nDocPath=kpackage/index.html \\nTerminal=0\\nTerminalOptions=\\nPath=\\nMapNotify=true\\nInitialPreference=5 kde_command=kdesu kpackage -caption \%c\ %i %m %u note the two references to 'kdesu kpackage'? that is all i have been trying to do, make kpackage prompt for password rather than open a console or fiddle with alt-f2 crossing fingers the effect stays! :-) bascule On Saturday 19 May 2001 09:48, you wrote: basculethe info is stored in: ~/.menu/adding_by_menudrake and after changing/adding info to that file then update-menus needs to be run.
Re: [newbie] konqueror question
On Friday 18 May 2001 08:29, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear the location bar in Konqueror web browser. I was not able to find anything in their help or on the online FAQ. I am really stumped over this one. Thanks all for looking at this Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Found it ! tucked away in the Konqueror manual is this bit (9.4) it tells you to delete ~/.kde/share/config/konq_history file and Konqueror will create a new, empty one when you next use it. It also says that you can't use Konqueror to delete this file; you have to open a text terminal and do rm ~/.kde/share/config/konq_history but, just to be perverse :-) ,I did it from within Konqueror It will still autocomplete after http:// - if you don't want this right click on the location box (where you would type http:// www.etc.com and deselect auto complete)
Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
My best suggestion is to 'man fstab', and see what it tells you. I'm not sure if there is anything special about mounting ntfs partitions, but I suspect there might be, because of the permissions used in ntfs which are similar to ext2 in linux. Good luck, Dave On Saturday 19 May 2001 01:37, thus spake Ed Kasky: I got it mounted using fstab which is what I wanted. However using the following: /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0 it is browsable but read only... Am I missing something to make it writeable?? Ed ~~ -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
Re: [newbie] netscape sticky bookmarks
http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org/Help___How_To/netscape/netscape.html might work for u. -s On Friday 18 May 2001 10:22 pm, you wrote: Hi everybody, Can anybody help me please. I am wanting to get rid of the bookmarks in Netscape 4.73, i.e. the ones stored in the Personal Toolbar Folder, Webmail, Radio etc Whenever I delete them they just regenerate. TIA
[newbie] install WPO2000 in 8.0?
Has anyone figured out how to get around the installation wanting glibc2.1 rather than the 2.2? TIA, -s
Re: [newbie] FTP Log Files
Mike, Even though it's not a Mandrake box still the all the log files should be kept under /var/log. you may want to pay specific attention to the kernel info and warning log files. -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) On Thu, 17 May 2001, Mike Carlson wrote: Where does linux put log files for FTP? I had a box hacked and I am trying to find the log files to get an idea of what happened but I dont know where they get put. The box was running WUFTP I believe on Red Hat 5.2. I know it isnt Mandrake. :-( Any help would be appreciated. I mounted the drive on my Win2k box with a driver that will mount Ext2 partitions in Windows. Thanks, Mike
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0, XF86Config and SiS 630
Civileme wrote: Thanks, this may help me also! Here's a link to the SiS drivers for Linux: http://www.sis.com.tw/support/download/linux.htm (I had some trouble finding their home page. BTW, is tw taiwan?) Randy Kramer On Saturday 19 May 2001 07:55, sean gibbins wrote: Hi All. Having installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Pico Graduate laptop (opting for XFree86 3.3.6 + experimental acceleration), I find that only the top left portion of my desktop - approx. 1/6th or 1/8th - is viewable/navigable. I am hoping that it is a simple XF86Config issue, but knowing what a complete pile of dung the first lot of SiS 630 drivers were, I suspect something more complicated. Any thoughts? Cheers, Sean PS I have tried the install without experimental hardware acceleration, to similar effect. Check the SiS site for updated drivers. The 630 and 730 are the most linux-friendly chipsets around, and SiS has started issuing GPL drivers for lots of it. Civileme
[newbie] IBM X20/Trackpoint
I have an IBM X20 subnotebook with a trackpoint. I heard a rumour to the effect that the Trackpoint isn't yet supported in 8.0. Can anyone confirm this one way or another. In addition: - does anyone have 8.0 working on an X20 - Does anyone have 8.0 working with an X20 and the X20 dock? I am most interested in the trackpoint question, thank Lou
[newbie] DSL issues
Hey all. I'm running a Hewlett Packard Pavilion 733 Mhz pentium 3 with 128 ram and an ATI radeon 32 MB graphics card. So far, so good. LM is installed (Lnx4Win) and seems to be wortking well with my graphics card. The only problem I'm having is setting it up to access the internet. I've tried entering various numbers from my ISP's info sheet, but to no avail. In the Control Panel - Network section of Windows it has two different ones- 3com EtherLink 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) And HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter Both are configured in the same way. When I run the internet configuration program in Linux it says it will restart the device "Eth0" or something of the sort. Why can't I select between these two? Why are there 50 more fields to enter information on Windows than there is in Linux? Is there a way I can get a more *Custom* configuration with Linux that will help me? I am really looking foreword to using Linux as opposed to Windows but I first need to get it on the internet. Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks!
[newbie] kppp
Hi, My son logged off his account without stopping kppp. A few minutes later I logged into my account and found that it was still active. Is there a way to ensure that kppp halts on any users logout? Thanks, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] Network printing problem
Sam, Maybe you (or someone else) can help me. I tried setting up kups last night with no luck. I want to print from my Linux machine to a printer on a Windows machine. I tried setting this up when I installed Mandrake 7.2, and the print test worked. Since then (and after several reinstalls and an upgrade to MandrakeFreq) I still cannot print to the Windows machine. Other info: -No printer on the Linux machine -Samba server is not running (I would not expect to need it, and therefore don't want to run it for security and resource reasons) -I have used a Samba mount (smbmount in fstab) on the Linux box to access files on the Windows machine -When I start the kups configuration dialog (as root) I see the message Can't connect to cups server, check your options -All the fields on the Infos page are blank -On the options page: --I left user and password blank (because my Windows machine does not require a userid and password to access the printer (I print OK from other Windows machines)) --I filled in Host as Office6 (which works on the Windows machines), and I also tried Office6.Home (my workgroup at home) --No idea what port to use so left it at the default 631 --Configuration file is listed as /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and it exists, but it looks like no settings have been entered. In fact, it looks like the only file that appears to have any modifications that might have come from my installation is the printers.conf file. Motherboard is a TX-Pro II with onboard sound and video. WinChip IDT 200 mhz, 128 MB Ram, Realtek 8029 NIC, 8.1 G hard drive. Sound doesn't work but that's because Linux does not support the on board sound chip. Any suggestions? Thanks, Randy Kramer Sam wrote: KUPS is simply amazing - it can scan for a networked printer, and installation proceeds in an entirely point-and-click fashion, without any typing whatsoever (except for printer name..). I hope Mandrake will one day incorporate this ease of use into its Printer configuration applet. :) On Saturday 19 May 2001 05:47, Todd Flinders wrote: Have you tried setting the printers up with kups? That makes it super easy. Configuration-Printers-Kups --- John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a cross-post. I've set up a local network of 2 1/2 machines (well one is only half working til I find some monitor specs grin), and I have no trouble transferring data and using a common dialup connection. My problem is getting printing to work. I can print from any of the machines if a printer is physically connected to the parallel port - that's easy. What I haven't been able to do is print across the network.
Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel
ASAIK Andre GPL'd the driver and it has supposedly been in the kernel since 2.2, but still it doesn't work right. I installed SUSE and it at lease came a bit closer to working but it still only recognized the 1st channel too. So I went back to 2000 just to find out promise doesn't support 2 fasttrak's in one machine in windows. This whole promise fasttrak BS is for the birds, I wouldn't care so much but I got the cards for free (not so free when you consider the time I have spent trying to get them to work) and I don't have $ sitting around for a decent controller (see motherboard cost:)). Well thank's for chatting about it, looks like I am SOL and promise is giving its users the big bird for support. You would think that a company that try's to push off lame soft raid cards for $99 would at least have the decency to support them for the money they are making. I mean is it REALLY to much to ask for a decent driver? Guess so. From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 09:34:58 -0700 On Friday 18 May 2001 09:45, John Clark wrote: I understand how the controller works, I just want a driver that works with it. I don't care how the drives come up I just want to be able to use them, software raid or not. From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M694D, Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fastrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:28:34 -0700 On Thursday 17 May 2001 07:32, John Clark wrote: I have a MSI 694D motherboard with onboard VIA 686a chipset ide controller and Promise FastTrak 100 w/ lite bios. I also have an additional Promise FastTrak 66 with full bios. I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0 Well, the best thing to do is write to Promise and encourage them to issue more information on their controller. There may be a driver for RH by now that will work with kernel 2.4 but all 2.4s seem to be having some trouble with Promise FasTraks, especially since 2.4.3-ac5. You can read about it in the kernel-traffic mailing list. The point is, if Promise doesn't write one, and doesn't provide enough information to others to write one, there will be no driver. Other distros might enter a Non-Disclosure Agreement and provide a binary-only driver, but if we did something like that, we would lose most of the folks who help us, overnight. We have to be part of the culture that made us. Finally, that VIA bug is a real bug, with the chipset, and it can be corrected and worked around by setting up the PCI resources differently in the BIOS-I urge you to update the BIOS before you try copying several hundred megabytes between disks. It is a logic race condition between competing IDE channels. Civileme _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] was install WPO2000 in 8.0? Now: in/sh .5.1 is needed by wpo2000-
Ok, got that. Now I'm getting this error: in/sh .5.1 is needed by wpo2000-... Anyone know what this is or how to fix it? -s On Saturday 19 May 2001 12:47 pm, you wrote: Has anyone figured out how to get around the installation wanting glibc2.1 rather than the 2.2? TIA, -s
Re: [newbie] Detecting USR Modem
On Sat, 19 May 2001, you wrote: No it is not a winmodem according to USR it is model 5687-03 which is controller based. Then look here for instructions: http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/5687-03.html Regards, Irv
Re: [newbie] Is Linux-Mandrake mailing list a Newsgroup?
TezcatlipocA, You're welcome! Randy Kramer TezcatlipocA wrote: Thanks for the explanation Randy. I followed the advice of you guys and I setup a Filter on Netscape. Now all the e-mail about (newbie) goes to a different folder.
[newbie] RE: detecting USR
Thanks for all the help everyone...I am writing this in KMail.
[newbie] LM 8.0 + Cyrix 150Mhz
My system is a Cyrix 150Mhz with 64mb Ram Linux Mandrake 8.0 hangs sometime. In Bios PNP+APM is off I have try: kernel-2.4.3-20mdk.i586.rpm and 2.4.4 Please help me.. Herbert
Re: [newbie] help
Roberto Fonseca wrote: I'm new using linux and I installed mandrake 7 but I'm having trobles configuring my sound card(ESS 1868) because the lotus said that ther is a a wrong file but there is noting wrong aperently and the drake dosen't detect my modem What can do ? please help me i wil apresiate.thanks! = 78' cyberbob [:] _ Hola Roberto, Look, I'm new using Linux too but, since your about to get desperate I will tell you anything I can to help you. First of all are you talking about Linux Mandrake 7 or LM 7.2 Because if it's 7 maybe that's why is not detecting your sound card. You should try to get LM 8.0 or 7.2. About your modem if it's an internal modem (probably a WinModem) it will not detect it. They don't work on linux. Go to this web page and check if your modem is a winmodem, a linmodem (winmodem that works under linux) or an external (which all should work) Suerte, TezcatlipocA
Re: [newbie] kppp
I found that kppp would not even hang up the phone line unless I shut down the machine. I couldn't get gnome's ppp client to work at all; now I'm using xISP and all is good in the world. Jay Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, My son logged off his account without stopping kppp. A few minutes later I logged into my account and found that it was still active. Is there a way to ensure that kppp halts on any users logout? Thanks, Bill W. -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
Re: [newbie] help
Roberto Fonseca wrote: I'm new using linux and I installed mandrake 7 but I'm having trobles configuring my sound card(ESS 1868) because the lotus said that ther is a a wrong file but there is noting wrong aperently and the drake dosen't detect my modem What can do ? please help me i wil apresiate.thanks! = 78' cyberbob [:] _ It's me again I forgot to include the address in the last message. here it is. Winmodems are not modems: http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html TezcatlipocA
Re: [newbie] Forgot wheel mouse thing
On Thu, 17 May 2001 23:45, Jim Dawson wrote: I've had a wierd problem with my M$ wheel mouse. When I select 'M$ Intelimouse PS2' during setup, the mouse pointer goes crazy (moves to the upper right hand corner of the screen every time I try to move it). If I go back (via keyboard) and re-select Intelimouse everything works fine. Me too. I have an MS Trekker mouse. I followed the directions here: http://www.freezer-burn.org/stories.php?story=24 and it works beautifully until I restart the X server. I suspect a bug in XFree 4.0.3. Please let me know if you sort this out. John
Re: [newbie] was install WPO2000 in 8.0? Now: in/sh .5.1 is needed by wpo2000-
Hi, you might want to check out the new install script available at http://linux.corel.com I didn't get any error msgs using it. On Sunday 20 May 2001 03:59, s wrote: Ok, got that. Now I'm getting this error: in/sh .5.1 is needed by wpo2000-... Anyone know what this is or how to fix it? -s On Saturday 19 May 2001 12:47 pm, you wrote: Has anyone figured out how to get around the installation wanting glibc2.1 rather than the 2.2? TIA, -s
Re: [newbie] menu editing again!
Alan Shoemaker wrote: bascule wrote: i had spotted that, but the point is that no matter what i choose, whether it be system configuration, user configuration, allow mandrake customisation or whatever, there is no effect, i save, wait for the process to finish, run update-menus in a console to be super sure and still nothing, the one time i made a change by manually editing the .desktop file i wanted to alter the properties of, the effect was lost when i logged in again, again i if knew what files and routines were being used in this whole process maybe i could make something happen bascule On Saturday 19 May 2001 02:57, you wrote: bascule wrote: it's such a tiny thing but it's driving me mad, how does one alter a menu item and have it stay changed? basculeK(menu)-Configure Panel-Menu Editor... basculethe info is stored in: ~/.menu/adding_by_menudrake and after changing/adding info to that file then update-menus needs to be run. -- Alan Hi Everyone, Today I was just editing my Menu with DrakeMenu. I downloade IMICI and installed it but since it didn't put any entry on the menu I had to do it with DrakeMenu. I did it as root and did it as System menu so it would appear for all users. When I was finish I noticed that there was no entry for the root or any other user. I did it 3 more times until I found out that if you don't put an icon for the application you are adding , it won't add it. Since there was no icon for IMICI I just picked any icon. After loggin the application entry was on the menu. TezcatlipocA
Re: [newbie] Laptops
Never done it on a 760, but my ThinkPad 1400 runs great with Mdk 7.2. Dave On Saturday 19 May 2001 08:18, thus spake Jose Mirles: Anyone ever install Mandrake on a IBM Thinkpad 760XL laptop? I am thinking of doing this but have yet to see any documentation on it. The docs on laptops is dated and of little help. -- ...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Cor 1:23-24)
Re: RE[newbie] java. why doesn't it go? (still no joy)
On Sat, 19 May 2001 23:34, Irv Mullins wrote: Edit the file .bashrc(note the leading dot) Add two lines like the following: PATH=/home/irv/euphoria/bin:$PATH export PATH Replace /home/irv/euphoria/bin: with the full path to your sdk probably /home/mike/something/something. Mike, when you want to change your CLASSPATH, you do that in exactly the same way, except that you won't already have a CLASSPATH line in the .bashrc file. The path setting is a list of directories separated by colons (in case that wasn't clear), and $PATH means 'whatever PATH is already set to'. So the statement PATH=/home/irv/euphoria/bin:$PATH means 'change PATH to be /home/irv... followed by whatever it already was'. The export statement tells the shell that when it starts another program (e.g. java) to pass on the value of the PATH variable. If you don't export PATH, java won't be able to see it. For more details on shell variables, you can do 'man bash', but shell manuals are usually VERY long. John
