Re: [newbie-it] Fine iscrizione
Il 21:08, sabato 26 Maggio 2001, Mr_Brain scrisse: Il 20:50, venerdì 25 Maggio 2001, Sebastiano Cordiano ha scritto: On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:09 +0200 Sapete dirmi perche' da un po' di tempo (da meta' aprile mi pare) questo sympa non mette piu' l' indirizzo della lista nel campo Reply-to ma lascia quello del mittente? Almeno da me e' cosi' ed e' mooolto scomodo.. Anche qui e` cosi`, usando la funzione ``Reply-All'' dovrebbe funzionare bene :)) Ecco una spiegazione, che consiglio a tutti di leggere :-)) http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie-it] EXT2 sotto Win9x
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[newbie-it] Installazione flash media 5.0
Ho installato completamente mandrake linux 8.0 (versione 2 CD) e ho eseguito l'update. Non si attiva il plug-in flash Media 5.0 su alcuni siti; ho eseguito il download e da terminale inserito il comando: $HOME/flash_linux/flashplayer.so /usr/lib/netscape/plugins e mi ha dato l'errore impossibile creare file normale flashplayer.so. Questo sia con browser netscape 4.77. Sarei grato se mi venisse indicato per esteso cosa debbofare per vedere tale plug-in. Enrico N. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie-it] IceWm
Mr_Brain wrote: Il 17:06, domenica 27 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao, sto provando Gnome sotto Ice; mi sembra che sia più veloce che sotto Sawfish... Se ti interessa la velocita`, prova Xfce... in quanto a velocita` e leggerezza non ha paragoni :-P L'ho fatto ieri... è sorto un problema: quando ho tentato di reimpostare Sawfish come WM di default, non ci sono riuscito... cioè, Sawfish mi appariva come WM current, ma in realtà vedevo bene che stava girando Xfce! Alla fine ho dovuto disinstallare Xfce; ma quando ho impostato Sawfish come WM, mi è apparso il mex che non sarebbe Gnome compatibile... Ho dovuto riavviare X e reimpostare ancora Sawfish come WM di default e allora tutto è tornato a posto... Xfce mi piace, ma vorrei non dover avere problemi di questo tipo Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] Fine iscrizione
On Mon, 28 May 2001 09:54:01 +0200 Fabio Coatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il 21:08, sabato 26 Maggio 2001, Mr_Brain scrisse: Il 20:50, venerdì 25 Maggio 2001, Sebastiano Cordiano ha scritto: On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:09 +0200 Sapete dirmi perche' da un po' di tempo (da meta' aprile mi pare) questo sympa non mette piu' l' indirizzo della lista nel campo Reply-to ma lascia quello del mittente? Almeno da me e' cosi' ed e' mooolto scomodo.. Anche qui e` cosi`, usando la funzione ``Reply-All'' dovrebbe funzionare bene :)) Ecco una spiegazione, che consiglio a tutti di leggere :-)) http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Innanzitutto grazie: il documento e interessantissimo. Devo dire pero' che non sono per niente d' accordo con le motivazioni dell' autore sul fatto che il gestore di una lista non debba cambiare il Reply-To. Prima dice che cio' non aggiunge niente di nuovo poiche' (tutti) i client hanno la funzione Reply-All ed il gioco e' fatto (come ha detto anche Mr_Brain). In questo modo pero' all' autore arrivano ogni volta 2 messaggi uguali e se fosse uno molto attivo in lista non so quanto cio' possa fargli piacere.se ad una mia domanda rispondono in DIECI io dovrei ricevere VENTI messaggi?? E poi dicono dello spamming.. Poi addirittura (e questa e' peggio:-) tira in ballo la Freedom of Choice: Il munging del Reply-To limiterebbe la liberta' di scelta, se rispondere all' autore o in lista. Ma le risposte vanno SEMPRE mandate in lista (a meno che sia espresso diversamente dall' autore) altrimenti sarebbe ingiusto nei confronti degli altri iscritti; che senso ha iscriversi ad una ML se poi ci postiamo privatamente? Insomma secondo me il traffico di una lista si svolge al 99% tra una persona e la lista quindi il client si deve comportare di conseguenza, per il restante 1% si puo' anche fare un copia/incolla:-))) Questa e' solo la mia opinione e non vuole assolutamente essere polemica: ringrazio ancora Fabio Coatti per avermi dato l' occasione di esprimerla. -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
The buzz going 'round is to uninstall your abiword fonts, install mozilla-fonts through software manager, install windows fonts thru drakfont, and make sure antialiased is checked in control center looknfeel styles. -s On Sunday 27 May 2001 08:28 pm, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and the fonts in all my browsers (Netscape, Mozilla Konquerer) are terrible to the point of being nearly unreadable. It doesn't seem to matter which font I select in the Preferences, they all look awful. What's the trick to getting fonts to look halfway decent? Thanks, -Todd
Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
hy, i dont know if there are special drivers for linux but the asus a7v133 has 4 ide channels. 2 are normal ide's, so they work under linux for sure. the other 2 are controlled by a promise chip (for win98 you need a driver from promise for them). the connectors can be used to access 4 ide peripherals, or the 2 primary ide's can be used to build a raid-0 array. regards mp Am Montag, 28. Mai 2001 00:37 schrieb Brandon Caudle: htmlDIV Pthe maximumis 4 ide devices//P Pnbsp;/P Pbrandon caudleBRBR/P/DIV DIV/DIV DIV/DIVgt;From: Pauwel Demeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard DIV/DIVgt;Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:04:41 +0200 DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;The problem is there are no MB's who have more than 2 IDE-connectors DIV/DIVgt;(as far DIV/DIVgt;as I know, so the best is getting an extra card with again two DIV/DIVgt;IDE-connectors on it) DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;Original Message Follows DIV/DIVgt;From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;Subject: [newbie] A good Motherboard DIV/DIVgt;Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT) DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;Hello DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;Anyone knows a good motherboard that works fine with DIV/DIVgt;Linux and has more than two IDEs (because I have 2 DIV/DIVgt;hard drives, CD, CDRW, and a zip drive, so I need more DIV/DIVgt;than 2 IDEs) DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;OOzy DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;= DIV/DIVgt;Regards, DIV/DIVgt;OOzy DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;What is the purpose of life? DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;__ DIV/DIVgt;Do You Yahoo!? DIV/DIVgt;Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices DIV/DIVgt;http://auctions.yahoo.com/ DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; _ DIV/DIVgt;Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at DIV/DIVgt;http://www.hotmail.com. DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVbr clear=allhrGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at a href=http://explorer.msn.com;http://explorer.msn.com/abr/p/html
Re: [newbie] ip address of ppp0
this is part of ifconfig output, ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:148.221.47.220 P-t-P:148.233.111.228 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:632 errors:22 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:364746 (356.1 Kb) TX bytes:77252 (75.4 Kb) now: A friend give me that: [kheb@dors kheb]$ /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d -f 1 | tr -d [:cntrl:] 148.221.47.220[kheb@dors kheb]$ Hope that help Kheb On Fri, 18 May 2001 14:39:44 -0500, Reggie Burnett said: Can someone tell me how to determine the ip address of ppp0 using script? I have my adsl connection up and running but I have to update dyndns.org manually. I want to update it automatically. Thanks Reggie _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Modems?
hy! any non-winmodem(=every external modem) with a serial connector is easy to use with any linux (with any os)! with usb modems i dont know. external serial modems never need any software, they are all accessible via hayes-codes i.e. atz means reset, atdt 02020 means dial tone 02020, what makes the modem dial the number 02020. the only difference in setup between different external-serial modems is the different init-string the modem need. nowadays a simple atz should work fine for every modem. consider cable or t1, 56k is very slow. regards, mp Am Sonntag, 27. Mai 2001 18:13 schrieb Irv Mullins: On Saturday 26 May 2001 15:29, you wrote: Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? I'm using an Actionrtec 56k internal pci, cost ~$70 at WalMart, of all places. It comes with setup instructions for Linux (no software needed) and works a lot faster than my 'winmodem' , supposedly also 56k. Look on the box to make sure it sez works with Linux. Regards, Irv
[newbie] AdvanSys SCSI Adapter ?
Hello list members ! This is my first time entering the list and installing Linux MDK 8.0. When I try installing it to my new machine, I got this kind of message and I couldn't do anything: An error occured An error has occured - no valid devices were found on which to creat new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. My new PC equiped with: Mainboard: Intel Desktop D850GB CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (1.5Ghz) RAM: 256 Mb 2 SCSI HD: 20Gb for each, are attached to AdvanSys SCSI Adpter. VGA: AGP 32Mb TNT2 GA-622 Sound Card: SB Creative 128bits 2 Networks cards: 3Com-3C90C-TX-M and D-Link DFE 538-TX What's happening ? Could you please help me ? Thanks very much in advance. LinuxKH --- A real newbie learning to swim in *unix sea.
Re: [newbie] nVIDIA TnT
Yes I have the same chip working fine with all linux dist. On Monday 28 May 2001 01:35 am, Carlos Arigós wrote: El Dom 27 May 2001 14:57, escribiste: Hello Guys What do you think about the this video card? Will it work fine with Linux? nVIDIA TnT2 M64 4X 32MB AGP = Regards, OOzy It's OK for me (LM 7.2 8.0) Carlos
[newbie] Please help with net-security setup
hy! i installed mandrake 8.0 without servers. i configured tiny firewall (everything no) with the mandrake control tool. i set security high in this tool, but he doesnt remember that. when logged in as a root this is set to high. logged in as a user i type netstat -l in a xterm: result: tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:blackjack *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:dwf *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:ipp *:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:1024 *:* udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* udp0 0 *:ipp so, i have several servers running? -blackjack,sunrpc etc.. I then tried to use Bastille but it would (logged in as a root, in etc/usr and any other) display: [root@mymachine sbin]# InteractiveBastille Using Tk user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ /usr/lib/Bastille) at /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille line 270. [root@smymachine sbin]# All i want to is to close all ports, but the ones i need to use for pop3,smtp,http,ftp,smtp,irc- no blackjack or stuff i dont know. my cableprovider does port-scans and if a user has some dangerous (spam!) server online the user would be disconnected forever... Thank you very much! Regards, Philipp
Re: [newbie] Modems?
On Monday 28 May 2001 11:12, you wrote: hy! any non-winmodem(=every external modem) with a serial connector is easy to use with any linux (with any os)! with usb modems i dont know. external serial modems never need any software, they are all accessible via hayes-codes i.e. atz means reset, atdt 02020 means dial tone 02020, what makes the modem dial the number 02020. the only difference in setup between different external-serial modems is the different init-string the modem need. nowadays a simple atz should work fine for every modem. consider cable or t1, 56k is very slow. regards, mp Am Sonntag, 27. Mai 2001 18:13 schrieb Irv Mullins: On Saturday 26 May 2001 15:29, you wrote: Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok. Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux? I'm using an Actionrtec 56k internal pci, cost ~$70 at WalMart, of all places. It comes with setup instructions for Linux (no software needed) and works a lot faster than my 'winmodem' , supposedly also 56k. Look on the box to make sure it sez works with Linux. Regards, Irv MOST external modems are hardware/Hayes modems - there are a few external Winmodems appearing -- Poogle
[newbie] make: commnand not found
I dont have 'make' command installed (Mandrake 8.0) Can you tell me how to install it (specifically which package I have to install and how) thanks for any help paul _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] Sapphire
I've downloaded and installed the rpm (sapphire-0.14.1-0.i386.rpm) - can anyone tell me how to make it work please. I'm using Kde as my default in MD 8.0 and would like to have it as an option along with Gnome, Enlightenment etc when I log in Thanks -- Poogle
[newbie] Common errors
Here are some common errors in linux-mandrake that we see repeated often. 1. Eating my memory Nope, it tries to keep all memory in use. If ever you type free and see a lot of memory available, SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG. The system makes extensive use of otherwise unallocated memory as cache for disk files to make the system run faster. Unused memory, in linux, is WASTED memory. 2. kapm-idled eating my CPU cycles Nope. kapm-idled is a kernel routine to count idle cycles for other measurment purposes. Top and kps and other routines need to be modified so kapm-idled doesn't show as a process because it really isn't. 3. Maximum of 4 ide devices Way way wrong. Before jernel 2.4 the device numbers existed for 16 ide devices but only the first four channels were autoprobed, which meant no installs were possible to drive i or higher. With kernel 2.4, all eight ide channels are probed and the maxiimum number of IDE devices is 16. 4. Can Use IDE-RAID from plug-in cards or on-board controllers Sorry. IDE-RAID in hardware exists mostly in the minds and words of merketeers. The only true full hardware implementation is from 3ware, and it does have GPL drivers for linux. The others? Well they can usually run with RAID turned off with some loss of functionality in linux, like maybe running one channel or one drive per channel. Some run fine with RAID off, like the CMD 640 series or the HPT 370, but Promise FasTraks are notorious for one drive per channel (Actually, you can gimmick a RAID1 that way, install to one disk and then let the RAID controller copy to an identical disk, and everything, mysteriously, works). Another IDE-RAID approach is to use ordinary IDE controllers and set up linux software RAID in the desired flavor RAID0, 1 4, or 5. It doesn't even care if the drives are the same size or speed or if you use part or all of any given drive. 5. A very low chance of error means that I can use it No no no. A very low probability of error means you can use the Poisson distribution to calculate when to expect the error to occur. Computers are VERY high speed idiots that do repetitive tasks til something bad happens. If it can, it will. This means that you have wrecked your data if you run a VIA686B southbridge without a BIOS updrade to corrct the setup bug. use a WD drive above UDMA2 And if the wreck hasn't happened yet and you do nothing about it, it is only a matter of time, which could be one mimute from now. I don't care if your data has been intact for three years; if you do not take these simple protective steps, you know what sort of name a certain linux-ide expert will apply to you when your lack of action blows up in your face. (I'm too polite to use it.) 6. LILO won't work above 1024 cylinders Ummm, someone needs to strip that text or change it in fdisk. LILO since 7.1 at least has had no limit, and GRUB has never had one. 7. Linux is secure Well it is reasonably so if you stay updated. Viruses generally do not work unless you are doing something grossly negligent like IRC as root. Even then, the mechanism of infection is normally blocked. Some trojans and worms exist for many packages, and we are very active in closing holes and posting updates. And if you are cracked by an exploit we posted a fix for six months ago, someone will apply a very impolite label to you. 8. Mandrake should include binary-only drivers We have enough sins on us without compounding them. We are working hard to make only free software available on the first two CDs, and we will complete the task soon, we hope. We invite users to write to the companies that do binary-only drivers and ask them to wake up annd make it LGPL or GPL, so we can include it. Civileme
[newbie] suspend to ram
under linux mandrake 8 possible? thank you
[newbie] Solucionado lo de KDE
Holas El fin de semana llegue a mi casa y solucione todos los problemas que tenia, gracias a todos de todas formas Les explico, lo del KDE creo que era porque habia quedado mal instalado o algo asi y en cuanto a que el pc se apagaba, era porque tenia que configurar en mi bios que no se apagara, solo eso, lo extraño es que cuando trabajaba con guindous no se apagaba, pero que mas da, el problema ya esta resuelto. Gracias a todos
[newbie] hang on boot right after install
I have tried 4 times to install Mandrake 8, with the same problem each time. The installation runs fine (always recommended, but I've selected a variety of options - no networking, minimal apps, etc). I've installed on two different machines. Each time, after the installation runs (no errors) the machine restarts, and I get the following three lines: LILO 21.7 boot: loading linux After that the system just sits there. Is there something stupid I'm missing? Is there perhaps a problem with the install CD? Is there a way to check out a log file? Any help is greatly appreciated. leon adato -- There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. - Maya Angelou, poet (1928- ) -- GLOBE ESM Team Nestle 440-264-6136
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
Am Montag, 28. Mai 2001 00:10 schrieb s: The buzz going 'round is to uninstall your abiword fonts, install mozilla-fonts through software manager, install windows fonts thru drakfont, and make sure antialiased is checked in control center looknfeel styles. -s On Sunday 27 May 2001 08:28 pm, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and the fonts in all my browsers (Netscape, Mozilla Konquerer) are terrible to the point of being nearly unreadable. It doesn't seem to matter which font I select in the Preferences, they all look awful. What's the trick to getting fonts to look halfway decent? Thanks, -Todd try drakfont, install windows fonts and choose them in your web browser. regards
Re: [newbie] Sapphire
On Monday 28 May 2001 09:07, poogle wrote: I've downloaded and installed the rpm (sapphire-0.14.1-0.i386.rpm) - can anyone tell me how to make it work please. I'm using Kde as my default in MD 8.0 and would like to have it as an option along with Gnome, Enlightenment etc when I log in Thanks Well I have Sapphire running, but only for my own machine. Making it work as a wm is fairly easy, but integrating it into the menu system is not for the faint of heart. Expect a package in six weeks or so. Civileme This goes in /etc/X11/wmsession.d as filename 12sapphire between the === lines only === NAME=Sapphire ICON= EXEC=/usr/local/bin/sapphire DESC=Simple WM SCRIPT: exec /usr/local/bin/sapphire Yes, please use 12... I am reserving 11 for pointless window manager
Re: [newbie] Setting up a DNS server
Michael, I notice that since my one message you've been mentioning the point about small font sizes when email contain HTML. Thanks, I appreciate that! Randy Kramer Michael D. Viron wrote: Brett, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails, as they can either have a lot of extra html stuff or make the font size very small on some e-mail clients (making the message difficult to read). As for setting up bind, you can try the DNS howto available from http://www.linuxdoc.org -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:03 PM 05/28/2001 +1000, Brett - InfinityOnline wrote: Can anyone point out a good reference guide for setting up a primary and secondary name server. I'm assuming Bind is the best way to go, unless anyone else thinks differently?. Regards, Brett size=2
Re: [newbie] Early Install problem mandrake 8
I know this might sound like a winders type of solutition,,, first step is to go into Bios, and turn off (set to NO) Plug and pray aware OS, and turn off any bios level virus protection, if that was allready done and/or made no difference, I would remove all the cards from my computer execpt the video card and retry. I would also like to say that more information about your computer would be helpfull here.. what MB, what brand and model HD, network card, modem, sound card, what irq and DMA channels memory sticks, speed etc CPU, Bus, mem, in other word still need more info you could try removing On Sunday 27 May 2001 00:51, you wrote: I am now attempting to install from purchased mandrake 8.0 CDs from the powerpack. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing snip Any ideas what else I could try?
Re: [newbie] Modems?
On Mon, 28 May 2001, mp wrote: hy! consider cable or t1, 56k is very slow. regards, mp That would be nice - if we had cable... T1 would be even better, but even if it were available, I don't think I really want to pay over $1,500 per month US for the privilege of reading this esteemed list ;) Regards, Irv
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
mp, I'm not the original questioner, but I've followed part of your advice (several weeks ago) -- I have Windows fonts installed in Linux, and I can use them in non-kde applications, but I can't use them in kde applications (specifically konqueror) -- they don't appear on the list of usable fonts under either konqueror as a browser or konqueror as a file manager. Someone suggested copying the fonts to a specific directory under ~/.kde (I forget now -- maybe share/fonts?) -- anyway that did not help. I'm using kde 2.1 as installed by MandrakeFreq on top of Mandrake 7.2. I'm still a newbie. Any other hints or specific instructions? PS: I'm using XFree 3.3.6 because my video cards (SiS 5597 and SiS 730/630, on board) don't seem to be supported in 4.0.3 -- thus, AFAIK, I can't use anti-aliasing. Thanks, Randy Kramer mp wrote: Am Montag, 28. Mai 2001 00:10 schrieb s: On Sunday 27 May 2001 08:28 pm, you wrote: Sorry, I don't know who you is -- lost track of who is who. I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and the fonts in all my browsers (Netscape, Mozilla Konquerer) are terrible to the point of being nearly unreadable. It doesn't seem to matter which font I select in the Preferences, they all look awful. What's the trick to getting fonts to look halfway decent? -Todd try drakfont, install windows fonts and choose them in your web browser. regards
[newbie] Remote access to Webmin
I have webmin setup but I want to access it from another computer and I can not. If I browse to https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I get my apache page, if I browse to https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1 I don't get anything.. Here is another problem. I currently only have ssh access to my linux box. Does anyone know what file I need to change and how I need to change it to gain remote access. Thanks
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:42, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. It seemed to all get installed. Sincerely, Marcia Marciajust open a console window, 'su -' to become root and execute printtool. The setup is pretty simple and is what you were used to in 7.0 and pervious releases. Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in 7.2. The print is a little too light, wavy, and uneven plus about every 5 lines I get print over print so that it is just a blur. I had this same problem in 7. How can I improve this printing and get rid of the blur? Another question. My cups in 7.2 had worked well and looked good. Would it be possible to install all of the cups files from 7.2 into my LM8? Should that work since the LM8 cups files did not work at all for me? I will not consider this if I can substantially improve the quality of my lpd. Thanks so very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie] Remote access to Webmin
First you need to make sure that webmin is running. At a shell do a : /etc/init.d/webmin status if it comes up with: miniserv.pl is stopped Then webmin is not running. Do this at a shell to get it running (as root): /etc/init.d/webmin start Then it will print out: Starting Webmin [OK] And then to be sure it is running to this again: /etc/init.d/webmin status if webmin is running it will print out this: miniserv.pl (pid 1421) is running... (the pid will vary) There are many many ways to remotely control your machine, command line is all you need. Although webmin makes it alot quicker and easier because you can use it from any machine, even if it don't have an ssh client installed. If you want to use ssh you can run X through an X session, just make sure that x forwarding is enabled in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config. And you can even do this through windows. On my work windows machine I use a combination of SecureCRT and Reflective X. SecureCRT is a windows ssh/telnet client and Reflective X is a windows X server. Now if you are on dial up I do not suggest doing this because it consumes alot of bandwidth. h3rb On Monday 28 May 2001 11:57, David Travis wrote: I have webmin setup but I want to access it from another computer and I can not. If I browse to https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I get my apache page, if I browse to https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1 I don't get anything.. Here is another problem. I currently only have ssh access to my linux box. Does anyone know what file I need to change and how I need to change it to gain remote access. Thanks
[newbie] Re: Digest for list newbie
Here a link for ya'. http://www.mostang.com/sane/ -s On Saturday 26 May 2001 07:10 pm, you wrote: Hi there, I recently upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake 8.0 and boy it works like a charm. I went on the web site called www.linux-usb.org and it mentioned that my scanner (UMAS Astra 1220U) was supported with a certain version of Kernel. Well, I have that version, but how do I configure my system to recognize that there is a scanner on my USB port? The site wasn't really helpful, at least it didn't speak in English where I could understand it. Any help would be greatly appreciated...I am regoing to the web site, maybe it has it clearer (or my head will be) where I can get it. I will post that I got it if that is the case. Please send me the message as a private message. Thanks! As a staring point ... you need the proper USB support in your kernel (or as kernel modules) - this includes the USB scanner module. Also, you need to configure SANE (which is the Linux scanner program) to use the USB port for your UMAX. As an example, I have a Epson 636U (U=USB); I had to add the line usb /dev/usb/scanner0 after setting up the device /dev/usb/scanner0. And I can scan fine. All this info is at the SANE website mentioned above.
[newbie] strange installation issue..
Hi all, I just tried to install sfio-1999-3mdk.i586.rpm onto my 7.2mdk box It gave me this message.. error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by sfio-1999-3mdk so I did did a: locate libc.so.6 and it found it at 3 places.. like so: /lib/libc.so.6 /var/ftp/lib/libc.so.6 /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/libc.so.6 Since it appears to be there... why am I getting this message?? I tryed doing a rpm --rebuilddb to see if it would make a difference, but it didn't. can anyone help me out here...?? I am trying to install the mdk8 version of sendmail, as the 7.2 one is broken... (please don't start a thing about postfix vs sendmail, I have way to many perl scripts setup to use sendmail to change them all over.) I have been unable to rebuild the src rpms for the above with these messages... which I assume is caused by my compiler being to old... so I guess I am going for the binary rpm this is the message I got at the end of the failed compile: + echo 'Patch #0 (sendmail-8.11.0-redhat.patch.bz2):' Patch #0 (sendmail-8.11.0-redhat.patch.bz2): + /usr/bin/bzip2 -d + patch -p1 -b --suffix .redhat -s /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.85517: patch: command not found Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.85517 (%prep) but the other error would be great to know the reason for... many thanks and kindest regards Frank Perth WA
[newbie] Binary News Reader
Hi All, I am an amateur Photog. and in Win I have several threaded binary news readers for getting images from the photog news groups.. I can not for the life of me find one that works with Mandrake 8 Any Thoughts ? Thanks Charley Sparks
Re: [newbie] Installing Quake 3 Arena on Linux Mandrake. How?
Martijn, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list as some e-mail clients will show all kinds of extra html stuff, the font will be too small to easily read, the font will be "grayed" out, or some combination of the three. To answer the question, do an ls -al linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh, and check to make sure it does have execute (x) permission. If it doesn't (which is what it sounds like), do a "chmod 755 linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh" (without the quotes) from a command prompt, and then try to run it. As for what .sh means, typically that is used for shell scripts (or possibly an install script). Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 05:20 PM 05/28/2001 +0200, Martijn de Keizer wrote: Hi all, I am sorry for this question, because you must get it every couple of days or so. One of the games that should work well with Linux should be Quake III. I downloaded the file: "linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh" How to proceed? Linux does not seem to be able to execute it. What does the *.sh extension mean? Thanks, MArtijn, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PS I do not have a 3d card, but installed OPenGl drivers anyway, under WIN 2000 that did the job.
Re: [newbie] Upgrade problem v7.2 to v8.0
Tom, In upgrade mode it will automatically upgrade all packages to the latest included on the CD and will not allow you to deselect these packages. The only way to get around this is to uninstall those applications that you don't need from 7.0, then run the upgrade or to do a full-blown expert install of 7.2 so that you can select individual packages. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 05:25 PM 05/28/2001 +0200, Tom Deprez wrote: Hi, I've a problem here which I also experienced when moving from v7.0 to v7.2. The problem is as follows : All goes well until Mandrake searches for installed packages. After this is done it gives a warning that there isn't enough space. When I then click on 'OK' it returns the same dialog. Over and over again. From previous experience, I know that when I cancel the installation on a very adrupt way (power off), I will have to reïnstall everything. Is there a way to avoid this? And why doesn't it asks me for telling which packages I want to install to reduce the upgrading size?? Thanks in advance, Tom.
Re: [newbie] Binary News Reader
On Monday 28 May 2001 01:04 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I am an amateur Photog. and in Win I have several threaded binary news readers for getting images from the photog news groups.. I can not for the life of me find one that works with Mandrake 8 Any Thoughts ? Thanks Charley Sparks I think KNode is installed by default. I personally like PAN and I got it to install from RPM just fine. -- ICQ# 27396393 Registered Linux User #181996
Re: [newbie] Sapphire
On Monday 28 May 2001 18:43, you wrote: On Monday 28 May 2001 09:07, poogle wrote: I've downloaded and installed the rpm (sapphire-0.14.1-0.i386.rpm) - can anyone tell me how to make it work please. I'm using Kde as my default in MD 8.0 and would like to have it as an option along with Gnome, Enlightenment etc when I log in Thanks Well I have Sapphire running, but only for my own machine. Making it work as a wm is fairly easy, but integrating it into the menu system is not for the faint of heart. Expect a package in six weeks or so. Civileme This goes in /etc/X11/wmsession.d as filename 12sapphire between the === lines only === NAME=Sapphire ICON= EXEC=/usr/local/bin/sapphire DESC=Simple WM SCRIPT: exec /usr/local/bin/sapphire Yes, please use 12... I am reserving 11 for pointless window manager Yes, that did it thanks. Now I can play with it, and mess it up in time to fix it by installing your package :-) -- Poogle
[newbie] News Reader
Thanks for the replies, and I was using Pan .. it's just too slow if I want to save multiple images.. have to see and save one at a time .. plus I have to join segmented binaries by hand
Re: [newbie] New PC (was: nVIDIA TnT2)
It was Sun, 27 May 2001 15:42:18 -0400 when Jeffrey M. Reed wrote: nVIDIA TnT2 M64 4X 32MB AGP http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html Hmmm. Since you're so enthusiastic, it sounds like a good video card for my next computer. Thanks for this, I am starting, since today, to assemble a new machine for myself. So far I got on the list: Athlon 1.2 Ghz An Asus mainboard (probably the a7v133 I saw mentioned here) 128 (or 256?) megs of Ram 2 x 30Gb harddisk Nvidia TnT2 videocard (as mentioned above) Realtek 8139 10/100Mbit Lan card (does the Asus have that onboard?) Plextor CD-RW 12/10/32 (or 40) If someone has a good suggestion for a PCI ISDN card, please let me know. I am sure the old Teles ISA won't work on the new mainboard anymore ;-) Hmm... am I missing something for a decent new computer? (Not a game machine, just want it to be very much okay for Linux :) Paul -- An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] News Reader
On Monday 28 May 2001 01:49 pm, you wrote: Thanks for the replies, and I was using Pan .. it's just too slow if I want to save multiple images.. have to see and save one at a time .. plus I have to join segmented binaries by hand I use PAN 0.9.6 and I don't have to save multiple parts by hand, just right click on the binary you want and select save binary. If you use the Ctrl key you can select several articles at once. -- ICQ# 27396393 Registered Linux User #181996
Re: [newbie] Common errors
On Monday 28 May 2001 14:27, Civileme wrote: Here are some common errors in linux-mandrake that we see repeated often. 1. Eating my memory Nope, it tries to keep all memory in use. If ever you type free and see a lot of memory available, SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG. The system makes extensive use of otherwise unallocated memory as cache for disk files to make the system run faster. Unused memory, in linux, is WASTED memory. 2. kapm-idled eating my CPU cycles Nope. kapm-idled is a kernel routine to count idle cycles for other measurment purposes. Top and kps and other routines need to be modified so kapm-idled doesn't show as a process because it really isn't. 3. Maximum of 4 ide devices Way way wrong. Before jernel 2.4 the device numbers existed for 16 ide devices but only the first four channels were autoprobed, which meant no installs were possible to drive i or higher. With kernel 2.4, all eight ide channels are probed and the maxiimum number of IDE devices is 16. 4. Can Use IDE-RAID from plug-in cards or on-board controllers Sorry. IDE-RAID in hardware exists mostly in the minds and words of merketeers. The only true full hardware implementation is from 3ware, and it does have GPL drivers for linux. The others? Well they can usually run with RAID turned off with some loss of functionality in linux, like maybe running one channel or one drive per channel. Some run fine with RAID off, like the CMD 640 series or the HPT 370, but Promise FasTraks are notorious for one drive per channel (Actually, you can gimmick a RAID1 that way, install to one disk and then let the RAID controller copy to an identical disk, and everything, mysteriously, works). Another IDE-RAID approach is to use ordinary IDE controllers and set up linux software RAID in the desired flavor RAID0, 1 4, or 5. It doesn't even care if the drives are the same size or speed or if you use part or all of any given drive. 5. A very low chance of error means that I can use it No no no. A very low probability of error means you can use the Poisson distribution to calculate when to expect the error to occur. Computers are VERY high speed idiots that do repetitive tasks til something bad happens. If it can, it will. This means that you have wrecked your data if you run a VIA686B southbridge without a BIOS updrade to corrct the setup bug. use a WD drive above UDMA2 And if the wreck hasn't happened yet and you do nothing about it, it is only a matter of time, which could be one mimute from now. I don't care if your data has been intact for three years; if you do not take these simple protective steps, you know what sort of name a certain linux-ide expert will apply to you when your lack of action blows up in your face. (I'm too polite to use it.) 6. LILO won't work above 1024 cylinders Ummm, someone needs to strip that text or change it in fdisk. LILO since 7.1 at least has had no limit, and GRUB has never had one. HOWEVER, some old BIOSes may impose that limit, as Adrian Smith kindly pointed out. 7. Linux is secure Well it is reasonably so if you stay updated. Viruses generally do not work unless you are doing something grossly negligent like IRC as root. Even then, the mechanism of infection is normally blocked. Some trojans and worms exist for many packages, and we are very active in closing holes and posting updates. And if you are cracked by an exploit we posted a fix for six months ago, someone will apply a very impolite label to you. 8. Mandrake should include binary-only drivers We have enough sins on us without compounding them. We are working hard to make only free software available on the first two CDs, and we will complete the task soon, we hope. We invite users to write to the companies that do binary-only drivers and ask them to wake up annd make it LGPL or GPL, so we can include it. Civileme
[newbie] Installation / Services
All -- I hope everyone is doing well. Now for my questions... I am currently using a product called Linux Router Project (LRP) in order to manage DNS/BIND services for my local network, firewall/routing (ipmasq) services for my connections, and DHCP services for all my machines that connect and require dynamic IPs (workstations on the network). Now, what I have noticed is that this installation is very limited because it uses portions of the system's memory to create a RAM Disk. This RAM disk, in my case is very small ... The machine only has 12MB of RAM and is an old 486 DX2-66 system. I really do not have any other machines at the present to use instead of this machine and would like to setup a newer version of linux to support the forementioned services. Graphical interfaces are not important but would be nice. Can someone suggest an alternative for me. Is there is a flavor of Linux that would fit into this situation nicely? I do have 2 hard drives in that machine. The C:\ is 300MB and the D:\ is approximately 225MB of space. Thanks! Chris
[newbie] Problems with Linux: No keyboard or mouse respose in login screen.
Hi I am having a bit of trouble runing linux mandrake 7.1. The problems started ever since I tried installing the operating system. When I tried installing linux manrake once i got into the graphical installer the mouse and keyboard frose. However i was able to install linux through windows. When i did this i had mouse and keyboard response. However once i restarted my computer after installation i had a similar problem once i got into the graphical interface (password screen). I had no mouse or keyboard response however the system was not totally frosen because the text cursor still flashed. Additionally i am able to run linux in text based mode and work with the console however i would like to get my graphical user interface working. My system configuration is as follows: (dell XPS-400) Pentium 2 -400Mhz 96MB ram, 12GB HD, 40x Cd Rom P/S2 Keyobard (Dell) P/S2 Mouse (microsoft intellipoint) Dimond Viper 770Ultra 56K Modem (US Robotics) Intel Ethernet Express 16 (Old Co-X network card) The system is currently configured as a dewal boot system with windows 98 and linux mandrake (1.5GB dedicated to linux). Linux is installed at the end of my HD however even when installing as a linux only machine i had the same problem (so there probably isn`t a problem with it being on the end of my drive). When in the GUI if i press Ctl-Alt-F1 or what ever the combination is a concel does not come up. The computer just sits there. Simmilar problems also accured when going throught the text based linux installer. I am still pretty new with the linux os and any help to work arround my problem would be greatly aprecciated. Is there any way to boot linux form windows retainig the old drivers (just as the installer did when i installed from windows-when i had keyboard and mouse response). THis would atlest fix part of the problem however i would like to get linux working streight from booting on its own becasue i want to take windows 98 off it. My email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] THanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] News Reader
Have to give that a shot.. thanks .. was really hoping for something like Tifany for Linux .. set it and forget it On Monday 28 May 2001 02:09, Jon Doe wrote: On Monday 28 May 2001 01:49 pm, you wrote: Thanks for the replies, and I was using Pan .. it's just too slow if I want to save multiple images.. have to see and save one at a time .. plus I have to join segmented binaries by hand I use PAN 0.9.6 and I don't have to save multiple parts by hand, just right click on the binary you want and select save binary. If you use the Ctrl key you can select several articles at once. -- ICQ# 27396393 Registered Linux User #181996
Re: [newbie] Remote access to Webmin
Where can I find Reflective X. I can't find it at google or download.com. thanks David - Original Message - From: h3rb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Remote access to Webmin First you need to make sure that webmin is running. At a shell do a : /etc/init.d/webmin status if it comes up with: miniserv.pl is stopped Then webmin is not running. Do this at a shell to get it running (as root): /etc/init.d/webmin start Then it will print out: Starting Webmin [OK] And then to be sure it is running to this again: /etc/init.d/webmin status if webmin is running it will print out this: miniserv.pl (pid 1421) is running... (the pid will vary) There are many many ways to remotely control your machine, command line is all you need. Although webmin makes it alot quicker and easier because you can use it from any machine, even if it don't have an ssh client installed. If you want to use ssh you can run X through an X session, just make sure that x forwarding is enabled in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config. And you can even do this through windows. On my work windows machine I use a combination of SecureCRT and Reflective X. SecureCRT is a windows ssh/telnet client and Reflective X is a windows X server. Now if you are on dial up I do not suggest doing this because it consumes alot of bandwidth. h3rb On Monday 28 May 2001 11:57, David Travis wrote: I have webmin setup but I want to access it from another computer and I can not. If I browse to https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I get my apache page, if I browse to https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1 I don't get anything.. Here is another problem. I currently only have ssh access to my linux box. Does anyone know what file I need to change and how I need to change it to gain remote access. Thanks
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, I remember that my printing was not very good in LM7 but it was better than what I got from cups in LM8. I just do not remember what I did to get it going. I think I used linuxconf which I finally found in LM8. I did find printtool and used it, then I found linuxconf and tried to do a test page from there but nothing happened. It looks like my printer is setup but nothing will print yet. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Marciagood grief! What a time to remember that fact!!! Sorry that my solution didn't help your problem. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] strange installation issue..
Ah, yes, you have libc.so.6, BUT ... I betcha it's just a link to an older version than 2.2! I have received the same message when trying to install certain rpms; tried to fix it by updating my glibc package to 2.2 but there are other dependencies that rpm -Uvh complains about. I guess I'm just going to upgrade to LM8. When it first came out, I saw mostly complaints about incompatibilities, but the 'reviews' are getting better. I hope it supports my USB printer and parallel port scanner ... haven't had any luck with either in 7.2 ... I'll never get the Windows monkey off my back until everything I use is completely supported in LM. Jay Franki wrote: Hi all, I just tried to install sfio-1999-3mdk.i586.rpm onto my 7.2mdk box It gave me this message.. error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by sfio-1999-3mdk so I did did a: locate libc.so.6 and it found it at 3 places.. like so: /lib/libc.so.6 /var/ftp/lib/libc.so.6 /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/libc.so.6 Since it appears to be there... why am I getting this message?? I tryed doing a rpm --rebuilddb to see if it would make a difference, but it didn't. can anyone help me out here...?? I am trying to install the mdk8 version of sendmail, as the 7.2 one is broken... (please don't start a thing about postfix vs sendmail, I have way to many perl scripts setup to use sendmail to change them all over.) I have been unable to rebuild the src rpms for the above with these messages... which I assume is caused by my compiler being to old... so I guess I am going for the binary rpm this is the message I got at the end of the failed compile: + echo 'Patch #0 (sendmail-8.11.0-redhat.patch.bz2):' Patch #0 (sendmail-8.11.0-redhat.patch.bz2): + /usr/bin/bzip2 -d + patch -p1 -b --suffix .redhat -s /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.85517: patch: command not found Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.85517 (%prep) but the other error would be great to know the reason for... many thanks and kindest regards Frank Perth WA -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
Re: [newbie] Please help with net-security setup
hy, i dont know if it was posted so i repost, sorry for any inconvenience. hy! i installed mandrake 8.0 without servers. i configured tiny firewall (everything no) with the mandrake control tool. i set security high in this tool, but he doesnt remember that. when logged in as a root this is set to high. logged in as a user i type netstat -l in a xterm: result: tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:blackjack *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:dwf *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:ipp *:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:1024 *:* udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* udp0 0 *:ipp so, i have several servers running? -blackjack,sunrpc etc.. I then tried to use Bastille but it would (logged in as a root, in etc/usr and any other) display: [root@mymachine sbin]# InteractiveBastille Using Tk user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ /usr/lib/Bastille) at /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille line 270. [root@smymachine sbin]# All i want to is to close all ports, but the ones i need to use for pop3,smtp,http,ftp,smtp,irc- no blackjack or stuff i dont know. my cableprovider does port-scans and if a user has some dangerous (spam!) server online the user would be disconnected forever... Thank you very much! Regards, Philipp
Re: [newbie] Installing Quake 3 Arena on Linux Mandrake. How?
Or you can just run sh linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh (without the quotes) from a command prompt. I would change the permissions to executable, myself, but this is another option if for some reason you can't do the chmod or are uncomfortable doing so. Jay Michael D. Viron wrote: Martijn, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list as some e-mail clients will show all kinds of extra html stuff, the font will be too small to easily read, the font will be grayed out, or some combination of the three. To answer the question, do an ls -al linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh, and check to make sure it does have execute (x) permission. If it doesn't (which is what it sounds like), do a chmod 755 linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh (without the quotes) from a command prompt, and then try to run it. As for what .sh means, typically that is used for shell scripts (or possibly an install script). Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 05:20 PM 05/28/2001 +0200, Martijn de Keizer wrote: Hi all, I am sorry for this question, because you must get it every couple of days or so. One of the games that should work well with Linux should be Quake III. I downloaded the file: linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh How to proceed? Linux does not seem to be able to execute it. What does the *.sh extension mean? Thanks, MArtijn, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PS I do not have a 3d card, but installed OPenGl drivers anyway, under WIN 2000 that did the job. -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
[newbie] y los modems???
hola lista estube revisando la lista de los hardware soportados por linux y queria saber si mi modem estaba soportado y en esta decia que todos excepto los winmodems, yo tengo un Cnet y no lo reconocio, alguien sabe como lograr eso.. Thanx -=PePE=-
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in 7.2. The print is a little too light, wavy, and uneven plus about every 5 lines I get print over print so that it is just a blur. I had this same problem in 7. How can I improve this printing and get rid of the blur? Another question. My cups in 7.2 had worked well and looked good. Would it be possible to install all of the cups files from 7.2 into my LM8? Should that work since the LM8 cups files did not work at all for me? I will not consider this if I can substantially improve the quality of my lpd. Thanks so very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Marciasure the 7.2 CUPS should work with 8.0. Basically, reverse the process you just did. Uninstall the 5 files you just installed: rpm -e --nodeps lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm rpm -e --nodeps rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm rpm -e --nodeps printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0) rpm -e --nodeps control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2) rpm -e --nodeps mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2) If there are any errors about not being able to delete some associated directories because of there still being data in them then delete them by hand. Then install these files from the 7.2 Installation CD by first copying them to an otherwise empty directory and install them all at once using: rpm -ivh * cups-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk.i586.rpm kups-0.8-24mdk.i586.rpm qtcups-1.0-14mdk.i586.rpm Hopefully you'll not run into any dependency errors and this will fix up all your printing problems to your satisfaction. Good luck! -- Alan
RE: [newbie] strange installation issue..
Well, I am wondering if I have to upgrade it or can I install it side by side with the old one? I don't care what I have to do,, I need to get sendmail sorted, and it appears that the only way to do it is to install a newer one,, and since the newest one seems from reading to be alot more secure then it was, it makes sense to go with that... If I have to force glibc to update, I guess I'm doing it,, don't have a choice... either that or I will just keep downloading the required packages until it stops complaining... Good I wish I had a broadband connection... :-( rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay DeKing Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2001 2:32 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] strange installation issue.. Ah, yes, you have libc.so.6, BUT ... I betcha it's just a link to an older version than 2.2! I have received the same message when trying to install certain rpms; tried to fix it by updating my glibc package to 2.2 but there are other dependencies that rpm -Uvh complains about. I guess I'm just going to upgrade to LM8. When it first came out, I saw mostly complaints about incompatibilities, but the 'reviews' are getting better. I hope it supports my USB printer and parallel port scanner ... haven't had any luck with either in 7.2 ... I'll never get the Windows monkey off my back until everything I use is completely supported in LM. Jay Franki wrote: Hi all, I just tried to install sfio-1999-3mdk.i586.rpm onto my 7.2mdk box It gave me this message.. error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by sfio-1999-3mdk so I did did a: locate libc.so.6 and it found it at 3 places.. like so: /lib/libc.so.6 /var/ftp/lib/libc.so.6 /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/libc.so.6 Since it appears to be there... why am I getting this message?? I tryed doing a rpm --rebuilddb to see if it would make a difference, but it didn't. can anyone help me out here...?? I am trying to install the mdk8 version of sendmail, as the 7.2 one is broken... (please don't start a thing about postfix vs sendmail, I have way to many perl scripts setup to use sendmail to change them all over.) I have been unable to rebuild the src rpms for the above with these messages... which I assume is caused by my compiler being to old... so I guess I am going for the binary rpm this is the message I got at the end of the failed compile: + echo 'Patch #0 (sendmail-8.11.0-redhat.patch.bz2):' Patch #0 (sendmail-8.11.0-redhat.patch.bz2): + /usr/bin/bzip2 -d + patch -p1 -b --suffix .redhat -s /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.85517: patch: command not found Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.85517 (%prep) but the other error would be great to know the reason for... many thanks and kindest regards Frank Perth WA -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
sean gibbins wrote: Hi Randy. Hope you don't mind the intrusion, but I couldn't help noticing you're using a SiS 630 chipset. Don't mind at all! I'm having a sod of a job setting up XFree86 3.3.6 on my laptop; essentially I've ended up with what appears to be an oversized desktop which I view through my LCD panel. I can navigate around the desktop with the mouse, effectively moving the aperture formed by the monitor over the desktop. I'd like a 1024x768 16-bit desktop, but I can't figure out where in XF86Config the glitch is. I'm using XFree86 3.3.6 with experimental acceleration, having installed the latest SiS Linux drivers. From what I can see in Mandrake Control Centre's X Windows section, everything is as it should be from the point of view of monitor, resolution, colour depth, card, etc. I don't know where to go next and I'd appreciate your thoughts if you can spare a minute. I don't know enough to solve the problem for you, but i saw somebody else post about something very similar in the last few days (might have been on the expert list). The suggestion was to change the order of the mon (?) lines in the config file for XFree. (I can't remember the name of the config file -- is it XF86Config -- I can't call it up at the moment, and I don't know the correct name for those lines but they are the lines that specify the parameters for the display at different sizes.) He suggested that the file should be edited so the lines appeared in the opposite order, i.e., if they were smallest to largest rearrange them so they are largest to smallest. (Actually he recommended they be arranged in a specific order, largest to smallest or smallest to largest, but I forget which he suggested.) If you try this and it works, let me know. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
hi... i'm really jumping in the middle of the conversation here, but just wanted to say that i also have a SiS. there is some info regarding the SiS chipsets at mandrakeuser.org, and also the SiS website does have linux drivers and information. might be worth taking a look at. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:00:24 PM 5/28/01 sean gibbins wrote: Hi Randy. Hope you don't mind the intrusion, but I couldn't help noticing you're using a SiS 630 chipset. Don't mind at all! I'm having a sod of a job setting up XFree86 3.3.6 on my laptop; essentially I've ended up with what appears to be an oversized desktop which I view through my LCD panel. I can navigate around the desktop with the mouse, effectively moving the aperture formed by the monitor over the desktop. I'd like a 1024x768 16-bit desktop, but I can't figure out where in XF86Config the glitch is. I'm using XFree86 3.3.6 with experimental acceleration, having installed the latest SiS Linux drivers. From what I can see in Mandrake Control Centre's X Windows section, everything is as it should be from the point of view of monitor, resolution, colour depth, card, etc. I don't know where to go next and I'd appreciate your thoughts if you can spare a minute. I don't know enough to solve the problem for you, but i saw somebody else post about something very similar in the last few days (might have been on the expert list). The suggestion was to change the order of the mon (?) lines in the config file for XFree. (I can't remember the name of the config file -- is it XF86Config -- I can't call it up at the moment, and I don't know the correct name for those lines but they are the lines that specify the parameters for the display at different sizes.) He suggested that the file should be edited so the lines appeared in the opposite order, i.e., if they were smallest to largest rearrange them so they are largest to smallest. (Actually he recommended they be arranged in a specific order, largest to smallest or smallest to largest, but I forget which he suggested.) If you try this and it works, let me know. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
mandrake as early as 7.1 autodetected and setup support for my promise contoller cardworked fineI suspect it would work fine onboard as wellalthough I don'tknow for sure Tazmun - Original Message - From: mp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brandon Caudle [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard hy, i dont know if there are special drivers for linux but the asus a7v133 has 4 ide channels. 2 are normal ide's, so they work under linux for sure. the other 2 are controlled by a promise chip (for win98 you need a driver from promise for them). the connectors can be used to access 4 ide peripherals, or the 2 primary ide's can be used to build a raid-0 array. regards mp Am Montag, 28. Mai 2001 00:37 schrieb Brandon Caudle: htmlDIV Pthe maximumis 4 ide devices//P Pnbsp;/P Pbrandon caudleBRBR/P/DIV DIV/DIV DIV/DIVgt;From: Pauwel Demeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard DIV/DIVgt;Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:04:41 +0200 DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;The problem is there are no MB's who have more than 2 IDE-connectors DIV/DIVgt;(as far DIV/DIVgt;as I know, so the best is getting an extra card with again two DIV/DIVgt;IDE-connectors on it) DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;Original Message Follows DIV/DIVgt;From: OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;Subject: [newbie] A good Motherboard DIV/DIVgt;Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT) DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;Hello DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;Anyone knows a good motherboard that works fine with DIV/DIVgt;Linux and has more than two IDEs (because I have 2 DIV/DIVgt;hard drives, CD, CDRW, and a zip drive, so I need more DIV/DIVgt;than 2 IDEs) DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;OOzy DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;= DIV/DIVgt;Regards, DIV/DIVgt;OOzy DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;What is the purpose of life? DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt;__ DIV/DIVgt;Do You Yahoo!? DIV/DIVgt;Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices DIV/DIVgt;http://auctions.yahoo.com/ DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; _ DIV/DIVgt;Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at DIV/DIVgt;http://www.hotmail.com. DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVgt; DIV/DIVbr clear=allhrGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at a href=http://explorer.msn.com;http://explorer.msn.com/abr/p/html
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
sean, Ah, now I found it -- /etc/X11/XF86Config, and the lines are the ModeLines. Can't be any more specific about his instructions though -- I'd have to do a little guesswork. Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: I don't know enough to solve the problem for you, but i saw somebody else post about something very similar in the last few days (might have been on the expert list). The suggestion was to change the order of the mon (?) lines in the config file for XFree. (I can't remember the name of the config file -- is it XF86Config -- I can't call it up at the moment, and I don't know the correct name for those lines but they are the lines that specify the parameters for the display at different sizes.) He suggested that the file should be edited so the lines appeared in the opposite order, i.e., if they were smallest to largest rearrange them so they are largest to smallest. (Actually he recommended they be arranged in a specific order, largest to smallest or smallest to largest, but I forget which he suggested.) If you try this and it works, let me know. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 installation freezes
I'm finally trying to install Linux on my computer, and chose to use
Mandrake. Once I got the CD's burned from the CD images, I tried
rebooting. It starts, but then hangs up soon after. I believe it's
related to my hard drive, but I don't know (system specs at bottom). Here's
the last part of the output:
output
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33 MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with ide
bus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 11% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1408-0x140f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdd: pio
PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0e.0
PDC20262: chipset revision 1
PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1080-0x1087, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf: pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1088-0x108f, BIOS settings: hdg: pio hdh: pio
hdc: LG CD-RW CED-8080B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: QUANTUM FIREBALL Lm30.0, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0x1420-0x1427, 0x1416 on irq10
/output
At this point, it freezes. The cursor that's usually there disappears,
never reappears, and my computer just stares at me.
To get past the freezing, I tried:
boot: linux mem=128M ide2=0x1420,0x1427,10. The first I/O Range listed
in my Windows system configuration is 0x1420-0x1427, the second one is
0x1414-0x1418, which includes the third number on the last line of the
output, 0x1416. I have no idea what that third number means in Linux's
output
However, then it has reading issues because it can't read the drive.
Here's what it says now:
output
ide2: reset: success
hde: set_geometry_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hde: set_geometry_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
hde: recal_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hde: recal_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
hde: recal_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hde: recal_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
hde: read_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hde: read_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
end request: I/O error, dev 22:00 (hde), sector 0
unable to read partition table
RAMDISK Compressed image found at block 0
...
/output
From there, it goes on and keeps loading. I get to the install screen,
select the language, say it's a non-SCSI drive, etc. It goes through the
first part of the installation. The first time it has to read the
harddrive (right after choosing the SCSI/non-SCSI drive, I believe), it
freezes and comes back with the error: test_for_bad_drives: can't even
read (Input/output error)
I know this is related to my drive again, but I can't figure out how to
configure it to get it working. If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it.
If anyone could even interpret some of this stuff, such as what all
these messages mean in my output, I'd greatly appreciate it.
ide1 looks like it's my Secondary IDE Controller (which my CD-RW is on),
since the two addresses match what Windows tells me they are.
What's wierd, though is that the Intel 82371 AB/EB PCI Bus Master that I
have has the same addresses as the Secondary IDE Controler, except the
0x1408-0x140f in the first line starting with ide is 0x1400-0x140f (the PCI
Bus master has the 0x1400-0x140f address instead of 0x1408-0x140f address).
The PCI Bus Master is listed under Hard Disk Controlers in my System
properties in Windows. I don't know if this means anything.
ide2 seems to be my Promise Technology Ultra66 IDE Controller. The I/O
Ranges for the ide2 IRQ value seem to be right.
Computer Specs:
Dell Dimension XPS 800T
Pentium III 800 MHz
30 GB Quantum Harddrive
Promise Technology Ultra66 IDE Controller
SCSI-like controller (other people have used it with Linux)
IRQ: 10
I/O Range: 0x1420-0x1427, 0x1414-0x1417, 0x1418-0x141F, 0x1410-0x1413,
0x1080-0x10BF
Intel 82371 AB/EB PCI Bus Master
IRQ: 15
I/O Range: 0x0170-0x0177,0x0376-0x0376, 0x1400-0x140F
Secondary IDE Controller:
IRQ: 15
I/O Range: 0x0170-0x0177, 0x0376-0x0376, 0x1408-0x140F
2 Built-in USB ports (1 4-port hub connected and 1 printer)
USB hub has Mouse, Keyboard, HandSpring Cradle
NVDIA GeForce 256 AGP Video Card (32MB memory)
3COM EtherLink 10/100 PCI
IRQ: 11
If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it. If you need more information, I
can try and get it. Thanks!
--
Nathan Owens
Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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Re: [newbie] EMACs: How save after editing a text area?
I don't know about emacs itself in terms of editing web pages, but when I edit web pages, I usually have to FTP them to the web server. In emacs, the save command is C-x C-s, as you said, but I've only saved files locally. You may want to check out the O'Reilly book _Learning GNU Emacs_. It has a lot of great tips that I've picked up through reading it. Nathan Owens Anybody out there using EMACs to browse the web and edit textareas? I'm a very newbie to EMACs, but wanted to try that -- don't know what to do to save my edits. After I edit, I can choose save (I forget -- was it ctrlx, ctrls?) but that seems to save only as a local file. How do I send the changes back to the web site? -- Nathan Owens Georgia Tech, Atlanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
[newbie] hsp56 mr winmodem
Hi, I am trying to put my modem (hsp56 mr in a Compaq Armada 100S) to work under LM 8.0. Is there anyone who can help? Thank you. --Pablo García Durán
Re: [newbie] Sapphire
On Monday 28 May 2001 18:43, Civileme wrote: Well I have Sapphire running, but only for my own machine. Making it work as a wm is fairly easy, but integrating it into the menu system is not for the faint of heart. Expect a package in six weeks or so. Sapphire is one of my favorite small window managers, I have been using it for several months now (currently using 0.15.7pre8) and am looking forward to having it integrated into the menu system. -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
[newbie] How do I get off of this mailing list?
Can someone please tell me how to remove myself from this list?
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
Check out these links on Mandrakeuser.org http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cbrowse2.html#Larger The only difference in installing the mozilla fonts is they are probably already installed as an RPM. To check do type rpm -qa | grep mozilla-fonts. If by chance they aren't installed, their on the CD. If they're installed just edit the /etc/X11/fs/config file to add the directory for the mozilla fonts. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xfont.html The preceding is the instructions to reverse the lines in /etc/X11/fs/config. --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sean, Ah, now I found it -- /etc/X11/XF86Config, and the lines are the ModeLines. Can't be any more specific about his instructions though -- I'd have to do a little guesswork. Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: I don't know enough to solve the problem for you, but i saw somebody else post about something very similar in the last few days (might have been on the expert list). The suggestion was to change the order of the mon (?) lines in the config file for XFree. (I can't remember the name of the config file -- is it XF86Config -- I can't call it up at the moment, and I don't know the correct name for those lines but they are the lines that specify the parameters for the display at different sizes.) He suggested that the file should be edited so the lines appeared in the opposite order, i.e., if they were smallest to largest rearrange them so they are largest to smallest. (Actually he recommended they be arranged in a specific order, largest to smallest or smallest to largest, but I forget which he suggested.) If you try this and it works, let me know. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] EMACs: How save after editing a text area?
Nathan, Thanks for the response. When twiki.org is back up (on SourceForge), I'll tell you how I've done it using vim -- maybe that will give you a clue as to how I might do it in EMACs. (And, if my library has the book, I'll check that out.) Randy Kramer Nathan Owens wrote: I don't know about emacs itself in terms of editing web pages, but when I edit web pages, I usually have to FTP them to the web server. In emacs, the save command is C-x C-s, as you said, but I've only saved files locally. You may want to check out the O'Reilly book _Learning GNU Emacs_. It has a lot of great tips that I've picked up through reading it. Nathan Owens Anybody out there using EMACs to browse the web and edit textareas? I'm a very newbie to EMACs, but wanted to try that -- don't know what to do to save my edits. After I edit, I can choose save (I forget -- was it ctrlx, ctrls?) but that seems to save only as a local file. How do I send the changes back to the web site? -- Nathan Owens Georgia Tech, Atlanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts
Dan wrote: Check out these links on Mandrakeuser.org http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cbrowse2.html#Larger The only difference in installing the mozilla fonts is they are probably already installed as an RPM. To check do type rpm -qa | grep mozilla-fonts. If by chance they aren't installed, their on the CD. If they're installed just edit the /etc/X11/fs/config file to add the directory for the mozilla fonts. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xfont.html The preceding is the instructions to reverse the lines in /etc/X11/fs/config. Thanks, the links look useful, but the second is not the instructions I was thinking of -- someone posted on the list a problem with being forced into scrolling around their desktop (maybe their screen was set to 800x600 but their desktop was set to 1124X768). Someone else posted that the problem could be fixed by reversing the order of the modelines in, IIRC, /etc/X11/XF86Config. --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sean, Ah, now I found it -- /etc/X11/XF86Config, and the lines are the ModeLines. Can't be any more specific about his instructions though -- I'd have to do a little guesswork. Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: I don't know enough to solve the problem for you, but i saw somebody else post about something very similar in the last few days (might have been on the expert list). The suggestion was to change the order of the mon (?) lines in the config file for XFree. (I can't remember the name of the config file -- is it XF86Config -- I can't call it up at the moment, and I don't know the correct name for those lines but they are the lines that specify the parameters for the display at different sizes.) He suggested that the file should be edited so the lines appeared in the opposite order, i.e., if they were smallest to largest rearrange them so they are largest to smallest. (Actually he recommended they be arranged in a specific order, largest to smallest or smallest to largest, but I forget which he suggested.) If you try this and it works, let me know. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)
On Monday 28 May 2001 14:49, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in 7.2. The print is a little too light, wavy, and uneven plus about every 5 lines I get print over print so that it is just a blur. I had this same problem in 7. How can I improve this printing and get rid of the blur? Another question. My cups in 7.2 had worked well and looked good. Would it be possible to install all of the cups files from 7.2 into my LM8? Should that work since the LM8 cups files did not work at all for me? I will not consider this if I can substantially improve the quality of my lpd. Thanks so very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Marciasure the 7.2 CUPS should work with 8.0. Basically, reverse the process you just did. Uninstall the 5 files you just installed: rpm -e --nodeps lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm rpm -e --nodeps rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm rpm -e --nodeps printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0) rpm -e --nodeps control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2) rpm -e --nodeps mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2) If there are any errors about not being able to delete some associated directories because of there still being data in them then delete them by hand. Then install these files from the 7.2 Installation CD by first copying them to an otherwise empty directory and install them all at once using: rpm -ivh * cups-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk.i586.rpm kups-0.8-24mdk.i586.rpm qtcups-1.0-14mdk.i586.rpm Hopefully you'll not run into any dependency errors and this will fix up all your printing problems to your satisfaction. Good luck! Dear Alan, Thank you for these great instructions. I will give this a try. If I finally get good printing again I will let you all know. Thanks. Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie] sound problems
Got sound functioning on my system now BUT, it tends to freeze up all the time! I mean a total freeze up. What would be causing this to happen? CD Player works fine. I can get XMMS to load and play a song.. but then when I go to load another song it freezes up! The sound is working but it seems to have made my linux setup VERY unstable and causes it to freeze up. Any clue to figure out the problem? Listen to my shoutcast cable/dsl: http://www.live365.com/stations/153859 56k: http://www.live365.com/stations/235300
[newbie] Fixing Ugly Fonts corrected with Verdana ref font in Control Center
Hi all, I fixed my font problem by selecting the KDE Control Center-File Manager-Appearance. Change -Courier or A.D. Mono to Verdana ref. Click on Apply and exit the Control Center. Restart Netscape, Opera and Konqueror look very good. Remember, you should install the Windows fonts to access the extra fonts. That's it. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Freedom Fighter for Penguins Everywhere
RE: [newbie] hsp56 mr winmodem
As far as I know, Win modem is not supported by Linux -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pablo García DuránSent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:35 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] hsp56 mr winmodem Hi, I am trying to put my modem (hsp56 mr in a Compaq Armada 100S) to work under LM 8.0. Is there anyone who can help? Thank you. --Pablo García Durán
Re: [newbie] Fixing Ugly Fonts corrected with Verdana ref font in Control Center
Romanator wrote: Hi all, I fixed my font problem by selecting the KDE Control Center-File Manager-Appearance. Change -Courier or A.D. Mono to Verdana ref. Click on Apply and exit the Control Center. Restart Netscape, Opera and Konqueror look very good. Remember, you should install the Windows fonts to access the extra fonts. That's it. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Freedom Fighter for Penguins Everywhere Just a follow up. Konqueror still need a little work. The fonts are a little funky but I'm getting there. Netscape and Opera are great. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Freedom Fighter for Penguins Everywhere
RE: [newbie] hsp56 mr winmodem
Best thing to do would be head over to lin-modem.org Why you want to use a winmodem anyway, especially when serial externals cost 50 bucks nowdays... ITs not worth the hours you will spend dicking around with it.. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tuan Duc TranSent: Tuesday, 29 May 2001 7:05 AMTo: Pablo García Durán; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [newbie] hsp56 mr winmodem As far as I know, Win modem is not supported by Linux -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pablo García DuránSent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:35 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] hsp56 mr winmodem Hi, I am trying to put my modem (hsp56 mr in a Compaq Armada 100S) to work under LM 8.0. Is there anyone who can help? Thank you. --Pablo García Durán
[newbie] install problem again
On Mon, 28 May 2001, you wrote: I know this might sound like a winders type of solutition,,, first step is to go into Bios, and turn off (set to NO) Plug and pray aware OS, Did that... tried it both ways. and turn off any bios level virus protection, don't see any if that was allready done and/or made no difference, I would remove all the cards from my computer execpt the video card and retry. The only other card I have is the nic card Other things I've tried: - Used more than one CD drive to boot from - same results - Booted from a floppy made with the CD.img as per manual - same results - Tried installing RedHat7 - that started working, now running it on machine in question - tried the mandrake install disks on another computer - they work - tried the install CDs made from a download - same results Anyway you cut it this is a problem unique to mandrake8 - RedHat is installed ok, but I didn't pay $80 for redhat, and I don't want it. it's also unique to this machine because the purchased disks work on my other computer - a laptop which I don't want Linux on. I would also like to say that more information about your computer would be helpfull here.. what MB, 192 MG what brand and model HD, Maxtor 88455d8, 8 gig network card, modem no modem sound card, yamaha opl what irq and DMA channels BIOS says they are all available if memory serves - I don't have any reserved. memory sticks, two 32MG and a 128 to make 192MG Ram speed etc CPU, P 2, 266 Bus data bus width = 64 bits address bus width = 32 bits the computer is a Dell Demension On Sunday 27 May 2001 00:51, you wrote: I am now attempting to install from purchased mandrake 8.0 CDs from the powerpack. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing snip Any ideas what else I could try?
[newbie] weird perl stuff.
Hi all, I have been trying to install the virus protect for sendmail,, and it needed a heap of perl modules that I didn't have,,, so I tried to use the CPAN module to get them. then whenever it fetched them, it gave me heaps of errors about not being able to find perl modules or src, and that headers were missing,,, Does anyone know a way around this that doesnt involve me downloading and compiling perl again? For now I am going to install the modules manually, but its a massive pain in the butt... any suggestions? regards Frank
Re: [newbie] New PC (was: nVIDIA TnT2)
On Monday 28 May 2001 13:28, you wrote: It was Sun, 27 May 2001 15:42:18 -0400 when Jeffrey M. Reed wrote: nVIDIA TnT2 M64 4X 32MB AGP http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html Hmmm. Since you're so enthusiastic, it sounds like a good video card for my next computer. Thanks for this, I am starting, since today, to assemble a new machine for myself. So far I got on the list: Athlon 1.2 Ghz An Asus mainboard (probably the a7v133 I saw mentioned here) 128 (or 256?) megs of Ram 2 x 30Gb harddisk Nvidia TnT2 videocard (as mentioned above) Realtek 8139 10/100Mbit Lan card (does the Asus have that onboard?) Plextor CD-RW 12/10/32 (or 40) If someone has a good suggestion for a PCI ISDN card, please let me know. I am sure the old Teles ISA won't work on the new mainboard anymore ;-) Hmm... am I missing something for a decent new computer? (Not a game machine, just want it to be very much okay for Linux :) go scsi if u can for ur HDs, expensive, but it works.fast and fast is gd :-)) Paul -- An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.
On Monday 28 May 2001 11:31, you wrote: hi, i had a similar probleme with my scsi card, i just unistalled it, made sure that there is no trace of itin the os setup (i was using windows at the time) and reinstalled it in another pci slot. i'm sure there is another way around this, but that worked for me. Okay, if you've been reading my msgs, then you know that I've got an Adaptec 2930cu SCSI card and a Plextor CDRW. Its working, but there are quirks. I may have found part of the problem, and what I need is help on what to do about it. When I go into HardDrake and/or System Info, click on properties, I'm being told that there is a conflict, both my SCSI card and my motherboards IDE controller, are using IRQ3. I went into the SCSI cards configuration (at boottime) but while it shows the IRQ its using, there doesn't seem to be a way to change it, or the IDE controllers. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Re: [newbie] install problem again
Thanks for replying - I do appreciate it a bunch... does your computer have sound and USB and video on board? All the sound stuff plugs into the motherboard. the USB support may have something to do with it, do you use usb? I do have USB jacks, but I don't remember seeing anything about shutting it off in BIOS, and I've spent more time in BIOS this weekend than talking to my kids. :-) Maybe there are jumpers that will disable all this and take it out of the loop? But if that did make install possible would I be able to use it in the future? Thanks, Eric - Original Message - From: Eric Lauritzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: [newbie] install problem again On Mon, 28 May 2001, you wrote: I know this might sound like a winders type of solutition,,, first step is to go into Bios, and turn off (set to NO) Plug and pray aware OS, Did that... tried it both ways. and turn off any bios level virus protection, don't see any if that was allready done and/or made no difference, I would remove all the cards from my computer execpt the video card and retry. The only other card I have is the nic card Other things I've tried: - Used more than one CD drive to boot from - same results - Booted from a floppy made with the CD.img as per manual - same results - Tried installing RedHat7 - that started working, now running it on machine in question - tried the mandrake install disks on another computer - they work - tried the install CDs made from a download - same results Anyway you cut it this is a problem unique to mandrake8 - RedHat is installed ok, but I didn't pay $80 for redhat, and I don't want it. it's also unique to this machine because the purchased disks work on my other computer - a laptop which I don't want Linux on. I would also like to say that more information about your computer would be helpfull here.. what MB, 192 MG what brand and model HD, Maxtor 88455d8, 8 gig network card, modem no modem sound card, yamaha opl what irq and DMA channels BIOS says they are all available if memory serves - I don't have any reserved. memory sticks, two 32MG and a 128 to make 192MG Ram speed etc CPU, P 2, 266 Bus data bus width = 64 bits address bus width = 32 bits the computer is a Dell Demension On Sunday 27 May 2001 00:51, you wrote: I am now attempting to install from purchased mandrake 8.0 CDs from the powerpack. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing snip Any ideas what else I could try?
Re: [newbie] what is a compressed image?
A ramdisk is sort of like a virtual hard drive that the installer creates in memory. It creates this so there is a mountable drive for use during the install process. I believe it boots from this, but I am not sure. Someone more expert would know better then me. Sometimes it takes a few seconds for this stage to finish. The next step should be something like entering second stage install or something like that. At times it could appear to lock up at that point. Are you not waiting long enough or is it really locking up? Windows ME has nothing to do with what you are seeing. Wiping your hard drive will not help! Thanks for the reply and the info. I've already wiped the hard drive - oh well, I'm sick of windows too. I do wait a long time, but I know it's locked cause the ligts on the keyboard all locke up and the system is completely unresponsive. The longest I've waited is maybe 5 minutes - is it possible it would take longer? Thanks, ERic David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A compressed image or ramdisk or something seems to be causing my computer to lock up during install. I'm trying to set it up to dual boot with Windows ME. It always locks up shortly after: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing I'm wondering if it may have something to do with ME's system restore thing. If I ran fdisk and wiped my hard drive clean would this solve my problem for sure? Would that get rid of this compressed image or ramdisk or whatever? or is that somewhere that fdisk wont touch? Thanks, Eric
Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again
U really should use a downloader. Netscape seems to convert binarys to ascii or some sh*t. Anyway, nt webdownloader is a good one. Go to rpmfind and do a search for nt. It's an easy rpm install and straightforward gui controls. -s On Monday 28 May 2001 07:48 pm, you wrote: Dear All, I printed out and gathered all of my Lime Wire info from earlier messages and proceeded to install. I used the LimeWire.bin file and when I attempted to install I got an error message: The included VM could not be uncompressed. Please try to download the installer again and make sure that you download using 'binary' mode. Please do not attempt to install this currently downloaded copy. Does anyone know what I can do now? I have downloaded the LimewireOther.zip file but I just do not understand the classpath instructions. I know that I have Kaffe installed. I have LM8. How would I download using 'binary' mode? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely,
Re: [newbie] Windows Font Installer takes a very long time to install fonts in LM8
Naw, it's broke. I believe I read where it was broken in the earlier downloadable versions. I did a recent network install, and it's working now. But I have other problems -s On Monday 28 May 2001 07:45 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install the Windows fonts in Mandrake Control Center. I have been waiting 15 minutes and it is still installing. Is this normal?
Re: [newbie] Windows Font Installer takes a very long time to install fonts in LM8
On Monday 28 May 2001 20:45, Romanator wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install the Windows fonts in Mandrake Control Center. I have been waiting 15 minutes and it is still installing. Is this normal? The version of drakfont included with 8.0 takes a very long time to do the install, The version from cooker is faster. kfontinst is faster than drakfont, and has the ability to add/preview and remove fonts The fastest way is to do a ttmkfdir mkfontdir from the commandline and then edit /etc/X11/fs/config -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
Re: [newbie] Fixing Ugly Fonts corrected with Verdana ref font in Control Center
Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi all, I fixed my font problem by ... Remember, you should install the Windows fonts to access the extra fonts. Just wondering if there is a way to install the windows fonts from the Windows CD Rom on my desktop, which is a Linux only box. I did the Get windows fonts on my laptop, which is half and half Win 98 and LMD 8.0 and it seems a little better. Is there maybe a way to copy the fonts and transfer them? ShalomOut Chal
[newbie] CPU Context corrupt on text install
Everyone is probably tired of my email if not filtering it out, but here is another symptom I see when I try doing a text install - it seldom gets this far with a linux expert install. It looks like this: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing. this is where it uaully locks up Uncompressing.0CPU 0: Machine Check Exception 004 Bank 0: f280 Bank 3: b2000a01 Kernal panic: CPU context corrupt What does CPU context corrupt mean? Does this have any bearing on my other symtoms? Does it mean the image is uncompressing ok, but something else is wrong? Once in a while it gets farther than this, but not often. I've now tried, among other things I can't remember now: -swapping out RAM -disabling everything that can be disabled in BIOS -enabling everything that can be enabled in BIOS -removing the nic card -using multiple drives, floppy and CD to boot from, -tryihg other install disks -intalling other distributions (did so successfully) -running the install program on andother PC (did so successfully) -praying -cursing -patting my head and rubbing my tummy while I hit the reboot button with my toe If it's my computer, why can I install windows and Redhat7? If it's the CDs (both sets) why do they work on my laptop? Can I get my money back when I buy free software? Thanks for any help, Eric
[newbie] Tiny Firewall
Hi All: Can anyone tell me where the script, which the Tiny Firewall configuration tool writes, is then stored? I am interested in seeing how the script compares with IPChains and IPTables scripts. Thanks, Dennis in Waco
[newbie] copy and varify [cp] [diff]
If I understand correctly the following is the most optimal way to copy a directory structure with its files and then verify that those directories and files copied ok without being corrupted: cp -a sourcedir destinationdir diff -arq sourcedir destinationdir Please enlighten me if there is a more optimal way or if I am doing something that doesn't make sense or is just plain wrong.
[newbie] Solve: Why bootup shows L 02 02 02....?
Hi, For the record and benefit people who might meet such a problem in the future (problem is described below), I will post how I managed to solve it. In short, I solve the L 02 02 02 ... bootup problem by _re-partitioning_ my Linux drive. I have 2 hard drives, 1 for Win98 and 1 for Mandrake. The Mandrake drive initially had Mandrake 7.2 installed. There were 4 partitions on it: 1 for /boot; 1 for /; 1 for swap; and 1 for /home. When I upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0, I selected the option Keep existing partitions. This worked beautifully when I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.2, but gave me the LILO problem here. So in the end, I re-partition my Linux drive and like magic, the LILO problem went away. Hope the above will help others in the future. BTW, Nautilus is VERY, VERY slow, even though my machine is Duron 750, 256MB RAM. Konqueror is much better speed wise. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Viboon Chaojirapant Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 2:38 AM To: Linux Newbie Subject: [newbie] Why bootup shows L 02 02 02? Hi Linux users, I finally took the plunge into v8.0 yesterday evening (upgraded from v7.2). However, after the smooth installation, I almost got a heart attack when LILO showed L 02 02 02 02 02 02 02. to infinity. Has anyone else got this problem? I assume not, since I didn't find any L 02 problem in the archive. Can someone tell me how to solve this problem? Any ideas will be appreciated. Thank you. -- Cheers, Viboon -Original message ends- -- Cheers, Viboon
Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again
On Monday 28 May 2001 21:54, s wrote: U really should use a downloader. Netscape seems to convert binarys to ascii or some sh*t. Anyway, nt webdownloader is a good one. Go to rpmfind and do a search for nt. It's an easy rpm install and straightforward gui controls. -s I went to several websites and the file was there but when I tried to download I got a message that the file no longer exists. I then decided to try the LimeWireOther.zip however I just do not understand the instructions for installing. I have Kaffee installed which I was told would work with LimeWire. Can anyone give me step by step instructions for this. I am not understanding the classpath at all. I have read all I can about it but just do not understand how to figure out what classpath to put in the install script. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have LM8 . I have Kaffee installed and LimeWireOther.zip downloaded. Thanks, Marcia
Re: [newbie] AdvanSys SCSI Adapter ? - OK
Hello again ! Thanks a lot Civileme and all. Woo-Hoo...it works great ! Just do: '# modprobe advansys' Now, it's time for more advantures on the way to set it up as a multi services (Firewall, Apache, Squid, DNS, Samba, NFS,...) server for a LAN of 30 PCs. So, some more questions would be later... LinuxKH --- A real newbie learning to swim in Linux sea On Mon, 28 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Monday 28 May 2001 03:30, you wrote: It is not seeing the Advansys SCSI adapter, possibly because the initrd is not loading properly. This may be an error in media or in the driver itself. DO this At the splash screen hit F1 and type rescue without the quotes. then type # modprobe advansys If that does not work, then we have a kernel driver problem. To alleviate this, we have alternate install images Look at the CD with a running system, in the folder /images/alternatives and find the file cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 copy it to a floppy with dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 of=/dev/fd0 Or under dos, get to the directory and use the program rawrite to move that image to a floppy. A dos window on 95 or 98 will work just as well. rawrite versions do not appear to work under WindowsME. And then use that floppy to begin installation--it should find and load the advansys.o module. Once the installation is done, the initrd.img should have the advansys drive in it, so that booting should not be a problem. Civileme
Re: [newbie] [expert] any bug in RPMDRAKE...
Dear hoyem, somehow I am unable to get software manager working for me. I did as you have said. I have deleted the CD1 and CD2 from the source list, which were there earlier ... how to get them back...I tried all the possible ways... If I select http, and click update list ...it never shows up anything... at this step I am stuck.. can you suggest me any thing more.. I dont know , some problem...at my end I believe... do suggest me any information if its there... thankyou for the help.. prasad. On Mon, 21 May 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: Launch the Software Manager, click on Define Sources and New. For type of source, select http and click the update list of mirrors and wait while the list is being added to the list of sources, takes awhile. Once it is updated, under the Installable tab toggle the All to Updates Only. Click the Flat List to better see the list of available updates. --- B.V.L.S.Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to add a new HTTP source to RPMDRAKE for live updating my packages.but once I click okaythe site is lost and only CD1 and CD2 sources are back again...the 3rd source(i.e http site) is not sought for updating.. why is this so ?? or how to go about can any one give a small example: I have read the howto and help ... but its not working... is this a bug with rpmdrake or my flaw..somewhere ... can any body help...int his regard... thanks in advance... bye prasad. Happy Day, Prasad, B.V.L.S., Research Scholar. * AIM OF SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURE : NATURE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY * _ __ ___ ___ ___ |Thought| | Fourier| | | |Different| | Fourier | |Structure| | waves |--|Analysis|--|NATURE|--|Forms of |--|Synthesis|--| of| | | || | | |Knowledge| | | | NATURE | |___| || |__| |_| |_| |_| * [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ...Shiva * __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
