R: R: [newbie-it] LILO
Purtroppo in modalità rescue non riesco a dare il comando lilo... In che senso non riesci a dare il comando lilo? Forse to basta andare nella directory in cui si trova il programma lilo e dare ./.lilo. Luca
Re: [newbie-it] Scanner
Ciao, grazie delle dritte! Allora, funzionare non funziona ma ora ti sspiego: ho fatto esattamente quello che mi hai detto, i 3 moduli erano caricati, ma quando ho lanciato scanimage mi ha detto che lo scanner non è stato rilevato. A questo punto ho apportatato le seguenti modifiche (quello che ho letto su uno specifico how-to, che però consigliava di non toccare i moduli e di agire sul kernel...): ho aggiunto a /etc/fstab la seguente riga: usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 Poi da root ho eseguito: mount usbdevfs. Ho riavviato e a questo punto, eseguendo scanimage effettivamente lo scanner rispondeva. Peccato che all'avvio successivo il mouse, anch'esso usb, non desse + segni di vita (una cosa non bella per un newbie che non ha familiarità con la console...). Ho provato a ripristinare la configurazione ripetendo i passaggi all'indietro (compreso l'umount), ma niente. Non sapendo cosa altro fare ho reinstallato il sistema e ora è tutto a posto. Però non ho risolto il problema dello scanner. Io non mi azzardo + a rifare quello che ho scritto prima, perché temo possa morirmi il topo ;). Cosa ne pensi delle modifiche lette sull'how-to? Posso fare in qualche altro modo? Ero già felice che lo scanner rispondesse... :( Grazie ancora e sempre CaMiX Il 14:37, mercoledì 04 luglio 2001, hai scritto: On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:10:38 -0400 CaMiX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao! Il SANE l'ho installato, ma il problema è che l'hardrake non mi riconosce lo scanner. L'USB s',, anche perché sennò il mio mouse non funzionerebbe, ma lo scanner nulla. Teoricamente dovrebbe bastare il SANE per fare in modo che l'hardrake me lo veda, o devo fare qualcos'altro? Prova a fare cosi': crea il dev/usbscanner con mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48 attiva l' usb all' avvio tramite il gestore dei servizi (se non e' gia' attivato), metti nel /etc/modules.conf le seguenti righe: above scanner usb-uhci options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x010b e nel /etc/modules solamente scanner Nel file /etc/sane.d/epson.conf ci deve essere SOLAMENTE la riga usb /dev/usbscanner non commentata, le altre devono avere tutte il commento (#). Dopo un riavvio prova a dare il comando cat /proc/modules (oppure lsmod da root) e vedi se tra i moduli caricati ci sono: usbcore usb-uhci scanner Se ci sono tutti e tre dovresti essere a posto. Per vedere se lo scanner e' riconosciuto prova con scanimage -L Se ci sono dei problemi fatti sentire..
Re: [newbie-it] Scanner
CaMiX wrote: Ciao, grazie delle dritte! Allora, funzionare non funziona ma ora ti sspiego: ho fatto esattamente quello che mi hai detto, i 3 moduli erano caricati, ma quando ho lanciato scanimage mi ha detto che lo scanner non è stato rilevato. A questo punto ho apportatato le seguenti modifiche (quello che ho letto su uno specifico how-to, che però consigliava di non toccare i moduli e di agire sul kernel...): ho aggiunto a /etc/fstab la seguente riga: usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 Poi da root ho eseguito: mount usbdevfs. Ho riavviato e a questo punto, eseguendo scanimage effettivamente lo scanner rispondeva. Peccato che all'avvio successivo il mouse, anch'esso usb, non desse + segni di vita Qui dovrebbe intervenire qualcuno con piu` familiarita` con i dispositivi usb... Io non ne possiedo e finora ti ho assistito sulla base di conoscenze generali. Quello che ti e` successo e` che hai assegnato allo scanner e al mouse la stessa risorsa. Per trovare i parametri giusti per far convivere due dispositivi usb bisogna andarsi a quardare un po' di documentazione. Probabilmente trovi quello che ti serve su www.linux-usb.org o www.mandrakeuser.org. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Passaggio al kernel 2.4
At 21.07 04/07/01, you wrote: Qualcuno sa se aggiornando il kernel al 2.4.x si guadagna qualcosa in velocita'?? (nel caso particolare, il passaggio sarebbe dal 2.2.17 al 2.4.2, su una mdk7.2..) Assolutamente si, obbligatorio direi:-)) Perche' non vai direttamente al 2.4.6? Uhm, interessante :)) Peccato che mi sia partito il monitor... Dicevo 2.4.2 perche' lo ho su un cd, LinuxC di qualche mese fa... ma, a quanto ho letto, sono necessari parecchi aggiornamenti (pppd, gcc, make, ecc).. Mi sa che faccio prima a cercarmi una mdk8 :))) -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Scanner
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:22:21 -0400 CaMiX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao! Lo scanner finalmente linux lo ha riconoscito! Ho seguito le tue istruzioni e ora va. prima non so perché non andasse (forse perché ho fatto un collage tra quello che mi hai scritto tu e il mini How-To? :)). Mi sono rimasti ancora 2 problemini: 1) Non funziona in modalita user semplice... Come faccio a garantire la possibilità di accesso alla periferica usbscanner a un povero e semplice utente? Sull'How-To c'era scritto di modificare /etc/inetd.conf. Io non ce l'ho 'sto file. Ho invece /etc/xinetd.conf, ma con le modifiche indicate per l'altro file niente... 2) Gimp riconosce xsane come plugin, ma qundo lancio la scansione dopo un po' dà errore. Qualcuno ha avuti un problema simile con Gimp? Non è fondamentale usarlo, solo che è molto + comodo... Dunque andiamo per ordine: quello che hai letto sul mini HowTo non c' entra assolutamente nulla perche' si riferisce al devfs che e' un altro sistema di gestione dei dispositivi e non e' attivato per default quindi non credo che tu lo stia usando. 1) Dai questo comando da root: chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner cosi' diventera' accessibile a tutti. Inetd e xinetd non c' entrano nulla. 2) Il plugin per Gimp non e' Xsane ma xscanimage, che trovi sotto il menu Xtns -- Acquire Image (sempre che lo scanner sia riconosciuto). Xsane e' un' altra applicazione che puoi usare con lo scanner per fare fotocopie, fax ecc... e si avvia da un terminale con il comando xsane. Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] Scanner HP3200c seriale
Sane dovrebbe ora supportare il mio scanner, via Umax_pp; ho letto le info sia alla pagina sourceforge riguardo la patch per Sane 1.0.4, sia le info direttamente dal sito di Sane dopo l'uscita della 1.0.5; nonostante questo, il dispositivo continua a non essere visto da Linux... Se qualcuno fosse riuscito a farlo funzionare, o potesse darmi qualche consiglio... Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] LILO
On Thursday 05 July 2001 17:10, you wrote: Aehm... effettivamente non ho montato l'hd su quale ho Linux... Con mount /dev/... mi dice che non riesce a trovare in fstab l'hda... Che accade? come e' visto il disco o la partzione che vorresti montare? (hda1, hda2 ecc.) che comando dai? cioe' probabilmente dovresti entrare con un floppy o in modalita rescue montare la tua partizione linux con qualcosa come mount /dev/hda_numero partizione /mnt/disk (o altra directory di tua scelta) chroot /mnt/disk e poi dare il comando lilo (man lilo per eventuali opzioni) bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/~freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: R: [newbie-it] LILO
Secondary Master? C'è modo di utilizzarlo su un comp diverso da quello su cui è stato creato? HELP!!! credo proprio di no, perche' il floppy di boot e' legato alla tabella di partizioni del sistema su cui e' stato creato (tantoc he andrebbe aggiornato ad ogni variazione della tabella stessa) ciao Alessandro
[newbie-it] mozilla 0.9 e java plugin
ciao qualcuno sa dove prelevare e come installare il java plugin per mozilla 0.9? ciao e grazie per tutte le risposte Fe
Re: [newbie-it] Scanner
CaMiX wrote:
Ciao! Lo scanner finalmente linux lo ha riconoscito! Ho seguito le tue
istruzioni e ora va. prima non so perché non andasse (forse perché ho fatto
un collage tra quello che mi hai scritto tu e il mini How-To? :)). Mi sono
rimasti ancora 2 problemini:
1) Non funziona in modalita user semplice... Come faccio a garantire la
possibilità di accesso alla periferica usbscanner a un povero e semplice
utente? Sull'How-To c'era scritto di modificare /etc/inetd.conf. Io non ce
l'ho 'sto file. Ho invece /etc/xinetd.conf, ma con le modifiche indicate per
l'altro file niente...
inetd e` stato sostituito da xinetd
Prova a vedere man saned:
If xinetd is installed on your system instead of inetd the
following example for xinetd.conf may be helpful:
# default: off
# description: The sane server accepts requests
# for network access to a local scanner via the
# network.
service sane
{
port= 6566
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= saned
group = saned
server = /usr/local/sbin/saned
}
2) Gimp riconosce xsane come plugin, ma qundo lancio la scansione dopo un po'
dà errore. Qualcuno ha avuti un problema simile con Gimp? Non è fondamentale
usarlo, solo che è molto + comodo...
non saprei.
ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie] ./configure
what is this ./configure i see people talking about? i have tried typing this in be bore i make something and it comes back a command not found? how do i use this command? Joe, This is a command usually used when you want to compile a program from the sources. You untar the file (tar xfvz file.tar.gz), cd to the created directory, and there the configure command is located. This will check the requirements for the compile to succeed (if the linux headers are there, if there is a compiler, if the needed libraries like GTK or TCL are installed etc.). If things are good, then configure will create the so called Make files. These direct the compiler to compile the sources in a certain way. And you type ./configure because the dir that you are in is not in the path. So you tell the computer that it has to look in the current dir (./) for configure. Hope this is clear now. Paul
Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations
steve campbell wrote: Just wonderingdoes anyone know of a floppy distro with reiserfs support? I use toms boot disc and while it is great for hacking my friends broken windows, I can't actually use it on my own Linux..ironic huh? :) http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ :) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations
Fireman71 wrote: Not really related to Mandrake but I am looking for a mini linux distro (under 20 meg and preferably one just one floppy) that i can load onto an old 386 computer and configure to act as an internet masquerading / firewall machine. Anyone have any ideas? TIA, Ian EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/smalllinux/ :) -- Alan
[newbie] smbpasswd with winnt4
Hi! My Samba server in my Linux Server is running just fine. But now I have some problem with NT40. Each user have to login in my NT4 server. Can I synchronize my SAMBA password with NT40. The reason is because all my user have login into Winnt4 with there password. But my LINUX password did not match with the Winnt4 password. Someone please guide me ..what to do Best Regards, SKLIM
Re: [newbie] Opera segmentation fault
The static version has the required QT libraries built into the Opera package. The dynamic version relies on a separately-installed QT package. This makes the download smaller, but dependent on the strengths/weaknesses (compared to the static build) of your installed version of QT. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:26, Juan Carlos wrote: What is the difference between the dynamic and static versions of Opera? On Fri 29 Jun 2001 23:21, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: What version of QT do you have running? The latest is 2.3.1 -- I suggest you get that from a Cooker mirror near you (don't worry, if anything it should be even more stable and usable than the one you have now). Also, try the static version of Opera. On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:05, Siro Belza wrote: Hi, I have downloaded and installed the package opera-dynamic-rh71-5.0-3.i386.rpm from Opera's website. When I try to run opera, the program aborts with a segmentation fault error. Has someone had the same problem? Does someone know what the problem is? Sirocco -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Soundcard problem
Have you tried running sndconfig and/or sounddrake? Also, check your volume levels with aumix. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:53, Roger Sherman wrote: I have a Compaq Presario 5834, which unfortunately has an integrated soundcard on the mobo (an ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive, which apparently uses the snd-card-es1938 module). A couple months ago, about the time 8.0 came out, I bought a Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1. I never actually tried to get it going in 8.0, as I had no luck getting 8.0 online. So, I've finally reloaded 7.2 (interesting story so far, no?), and I have no sound. I do have sound in Windows 98 SE (I'm dual booting), but I just disabled the Solo-1 card in the hardware profile. Can anyone tell me how to get the Soundblaster working in 7.2? I've noticed the module for the integrated card is loaded; would I just have to get rid of that module, and replace it with the module for the SoundBlaster? Or do I have to disable the integrated card on the board? I don't see any jumpers on the board for doing so...and I looked through the BIOS, and didn't see anything there about disabling the soundcard. Compaq tech support was pretty helpful in getting it working in Windows, but not suprisingly, they've been resistant to helping with the Linux problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks! -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie]Odd KMail Problem
The .index files will be rebuilt when you next start Kmail. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:38, s wrote: Will they rebuild themselves? (ie: can I still view the messages indexed there if .index deleted?) -s On Wednesday 04 July 2001 08:02 am, you wrote: Problems like hangs and crashes in Kmail can often be fixed by deleting the *.index files in your ~/Mail directory. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] startx at boot up time
hello: everytime I login I have to run startx to get the xwindows. I believe there is a file where you change this so that this automatically. Which is that file? Thanks Ravi __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] startx at boot up time
hello: everytime I login I have to run startx to get the xwindows. I believe there is a file where you change this so that this automatically. Which is that file? You have to edit /etc/inittab and change the default from 3 to 5. You can also do this through DrakConf, and select the initial startup mode there. That will do the editting for you. Paul
Re: [newbie] ./configure
And to even take it a little further, it's not so much an issue of the ./configure command, but more of the ./ command. If you go through the steps that Paul pointed out, and untar a program to install, then do a ls -la configure you will see that it's an executable script. For example, here's a app I installed recently. After I cd'd to the directory, I ran the ls -la. [timh@r2d2 enlightenment-conf-0.15]$ ls -la configure -rwxr-xr-x1 2133 2133 174858 Mar 11 1999 configure* As you can see from the -rwxr-xr-x, the x's mean that it's executable. As does the * at the end of the file. Running the ./ command lets the system know that the file you want to execute is in your present working directory. (pwd) Some installs don't even use a configure script. Some have an install script, some are already configured and have the needed make files so there's no need for the ./configure. Other times it's even named config, so you would be using ./config instead. So basically you're running the configuration script that most apps come with when you download the source. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 6:25AM up 9:32, 4 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 | what is this ./configure i see people talking about? i have tried typing | this in be bore i make something and it comes back a command not found? how | do i use this command? | | Joe, | This is a command usually used when you want to compile a program from the | sources. | You untar the file (tar xfvz file.tar.gz), cd to the created directory, | and there the configure command is located. This will check the requirements | for the compile to succeed (if the linux headers are there, if there is a | compiler, if the needed libraries like GTK or TCL are installed etc.). | If things are good, then configure will create the so called Make files. | These direct the compiler to compile the sources in a certain way. | | And you type ./configure because the dir that you are in is not in the path. | So you tell the computer that it has to look in the current dir (./) for | configure. | | Hope this is clear now. | Paul | | --
Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux
On Thursday 05 July 2001 02:48, tazmun wrote: It is not perfect, but relaxation beyond that lets in the sort of nonsense you see in Windows all the time. Ok, I too am curious exactly what is meant here? I've had my computer in windows mode to all the sites I am aware of to check security and as far as I know it is secure as it is possible to be. My systems don't even allow file transfer on TCP/IP, they use another protocol for that so the TCP/IP is only for web access.My knowledge of hacking etc is very limited. It is implied that it is easier to hack a windows system then it is a Linux system...if this is so why and how? Well, for one, Windows 9x through to XP are all single-user systems, but that is not the big reason. Windows NT and Windows 2000 are very crackable _WHEN_ you put Microsoft applications on them though, running standalone, they are probably as secure as any immature unix. You see, when Windows 3.1 was fresh out, WordPerfect held 90% of the word-processor market. How did it come about that just a few years later, Word was king and WordPerfect was incompatible? When you have an operating system, you make Application Programming Interfaces or APIs that other software writers then use to make their programs work with your system. Microsoft did this. But for their own programs, they realized that they could use their special knowledge of their system (and it was truly theirs though the underlying DOS definitely was _not_.) to let Word run faster, more efficiently, and more feature-laden because it did not have to work through APIs for everything, it could _directly_ access the kernel. In linux or unix, a program that can _directly_ access the kernel is a kernel module. There are walls for everything else, and APIs for requesting and receiving kernel services. It would be a cardinal sin to write something that atempted to violate the walls between apps and system. Just as when X crashes, the keyboard is locked, the mouse won't move, chances are the kernel is fine and a telnet or webmin access or ssh into the machine will show it. WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) runs many programs for linux that were designed to run under windows. It does so by providing services through analogues of the Windows APIs. WordPerfect for linux uses WINE, and runs. Microsoft Office programs strangely do not appear to fully run under WINE though sometimes they will show some splash screens and graphics. OK so even IF you get by all the holes and erase the NSA key in your windows replacing it with one of your own, and change the third key as well so that cryptographic services run properly, and no one can load security software on your machine without your knowledge. And if you manage to stay away from sites that contain trojans in the downloads they offer, you are still subject to some horrid things. For example, you might receive a reply from a trusted source you just mailed. SCENARIO: I'll get back to you as soon as I can on the matter. In the mean time, take a look at this There sits an .xls file. Since your mail had nothing to do with numbers, you dump it. TOO LATE! It is a middleware exploit cruising one of the superhighways into the core of your system and it was borne by a variant of the KAK virus (Kagou antiKro$soft says, Not Today). Now what happens? Do you send out weird replies to email? Yes, fro a limited time. Meanwhile next time you are on the internet, this little program opens up and connects to an IRC server, and it goes to a hidden chat room using a secret key and reports to its master. It gives the secret, random port it has chosen for communication with your computer, its secret, randomly generated, name, perhaps accepts a message containing the SUB7 server, and waits for orders. And maybe a few days or years later, your ISP, if he's a good one, and believe me the big ones want to ignore this problem, comes to you and asks if he can inspect your programs because your computer was one of three thousand that participated in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the Bank of America, or some server offering free security software, or Or if you are really unlucky, you get a knock at your door from the FBI because your computer was a relay in a really BIG cybercrime. Up to now, Windows machines were available only with very limited socket capabilities. They can send huge, fragmented UDP packets and ICMP packets with malformations, but their ability to mangle TCP/IP packets and spoof IP addresses just wasn't there. Windows XP changes that. And the crackers and sociopathic juveniles of the world, who were limited to armies of cockroaches before now will find they command cockroaches with nuclear backpacks. And naturally, the folks using the net are saying thin is beautiful and equipping themselves with routers and small devices to handle firewalling. What is going to be
Re: [newbie] CDwriting questions
On Thursday 05 July 2001 00:32, s wrote: I have some questions about this cd writing thing. (Relatively new to this). 1. With a cdrw, is it necessary to blank it before rewriting over it? (I seem to have to). Yes--see the snswer to 2. 2. What is fixating? This is closing the catalog on the disk, allowing no more writes because the catalog is complete. Usually until this happens, only the originating drive can read the CDRW. 3. What is multisession? (I kinda think this mean different formats on the same cd). No it means you didn't fixate after the first session and more space is left for writing another session. There are mixed music and data CDs, always the product of multisession but not necessarily the only type of multisession product. 4. How does one use a cdrw just like say a floppy or zip? (Where one can add a few files today, and a few more tomorrow, etc.) With linux, you can't. You can do multisesion. What you would want instead is an optical drive or a PD drive or a DVD-RAM which can act like a slow hard disk. There are some ways for this to happen in windows, but no one ever rewrote cdrecord for that purpose, at least not yet. One o my pet projects, at snails pace, is the DVD-RAM. I have the PD working. in all its incarnations. Civileme TIA, -s
[newbie] secure copy
Hey group, Has anyone ever used secure copy? The command for it is scp and I was just wondering if anyone here has had any luck with it or not. I would like to be able to transfer some files from my Linux server to my windows machine and I was wondering if that was really possible at all to do.. Thank you, A -- lawsuit, n.: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage. -- Ambrose Bierce
Re: [newbie] CDwriting questions
Thanks everyone for clarifying those things for me. :-) -s On Wednesday 04 July 2001 07:32 pm, you wrote: I have some questions about this cd writing thing. (Relatively new to this). TIA, -s
Re: [newbie] curious X information
Here's the link: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Jun 23 00:19 X - ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA* --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2001 17:06, Terry C wrote: I am getting conflicting information concerning the version of X I'm running, and the color depth. When I bring up X-Server - KDE Control Module it tells me that I am running XFree86 3.3.6 and a 24 bit color depth. If I run XFree86 -version in a terminal it tells me that I am running XFree86 4.0.1. I tend to believe the info from running XFree86 -version, but why the discrepancy? I need to make sure that I have 4.0.1 running before I install the nVidia drivers, so how can I verify which is correct? Thanks. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Where does /etc/X11/X point? Civileme __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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i would like a free shell acount please, please get back to me asap about it :) _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] secure copy
Andrew Rice Jr wrote: Has anyone ever used secure copy? The command for it is scp and I was just wondering if anyone here has had any luck with it or not. I would like to be able to transfer some files from my Linux server to my windows machine and I was wondering if that was really possible at all to do.. Yes, I've used it, and yes it is possible. I (and many others) use it to transfer files to and from SourceForge, especially to their web server. I do it from Linux, but others do it from Windows (to/from SourceForge, which runs Linux or a Unix variant, AFAIK.) I suspect you would need a server (or daemon) of some sort, and I suspect that's more likely to be available for Linux. (I'd look in the SSH or openSSH package -- the two (SSH and SCP) seem to be closely intertwined.) I know there is client software for Windows -- you might go to SourceForge, then to their documentation pages -- last time I looked it wasn't very clear (to me as a newbie to Linux, SourceForge, webservers, and SSH/SCP), but it seems they started a rewrite project in the last few months. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer PS: If your machines are both, for example, at home, I probably wouldn't go to this much trouble unless I wanted to learn SSH and SCP (setup) for other reasons. I'd first try samba or ftp, and disable the daemons except when I was actually using them.
Re: [newbie] What is the MFT?
/dev/hdb6 15G 9.5G 5.5G 63% /mnt/f Trying to open MFT /dev/hda5 2.0G 1.7G 267M 87% /mnt/nt Notice the Trying to open MFT sandwiched in the middle? What does it mean? Is it important or a warning or something? MFT = Master File Table; it's an MS thing. Is that partition formatted as NTFS, by any chance? -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Pysche closed for renovations.
RE: [newbie] *.GZ
I have tried the Winzip 8.0 with no results and WinRAR with no results. Both tell me that the files (four of them) are in an unknown format. I have redownloaded them with the same results. I am guess I will wait until I get home and have access to my Linux machine and try again. Thanks Boliver -Original Message- From: James R. McKenzie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:39 AM To: Boliver Allmon Subject: Re: [newbie] *.GZ winzip does this very well. The latest version is 8.0. get it from www.winzip.com T H A N K Y O U James R. McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Boliver Allmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Newbie (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:01 AM Subject: [newbie] *.GZ Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does not seem to know what to do with them. Boliver Allmon *Phone: 281-424-0409 K Fax: 281-424-6982 *Location: 58-F36 *e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] *.GZ
I have had no problems using Winzip 8 on .tar's and .gz's Ed At 09:01 AM 7/5/2001 -0500, Boliver Allmon wrote: Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does not seem to know what to do with them.
[newbie] hey mate!!!
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[newbie] irda
Hi, I have installed irda-utils in order to get my Palm communicating with my Inspiron 8000. I also have enabled irda in the bios. Apparently I have to enable it in the start up or kernel. Is there a utility that facilitates this? Thanks, Bill W.
[newbie] Change TimeZone
Where are written LM8 timezone settings? Which file I must edit?
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
Tomas Krivda wrote: Hi, where and how can I change my screen resolution and refresh rate? Tomas in drake config
Re: [newbie] *.GZ
Hi Boliver: You can tray Winzip 8, Winrar 2.7 or 2.8. If this not work, you should download your .GZ file again. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Boliver Allmon wrote: Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does not seem to know what to do with them. Boliver Allmon *Phone: 281-424-0409 K Fax: 281-424-6982 *Location:58-F36 *e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
Miark, Just for your info, this and the previous message do not appear to be HTML. Maybe it just looks like it on your mail client? Hope this helps, Randy Kramer Miark wrote: Damn it. $*%^$#*#$ Okay. No more HTML--I promise :-)
RE: [newbie] RPM manager
I like the idea, however I am attempting to upgrade within 7.1. I believe that this is the best build I can get with GNOME native archetecture. IF I were to upgrade the libraries, would it be feasable to re-compile, or somehow get the newer RPM to do a staic link, soley? -Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 13:23 To: TinyHoffman; Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM manager On Thursday 05 July 2001 14:29, TinyHoffman wrote: o.k. I am running mdk7.1, I want to upgrade a few parts, now that I have a solid footing on the OS. I attempted to upgrade my pppd to IV, fom II, but found that my RPM would not take a package = 3(major number)... the RPM archives at redhat suggested that I upgrade to 3.0.6 (from the stock 3.0.4), and then to 4.0.x... Now the 3.0.4 won't upgrade without a glibc =2.1.3. a: can I safely run two libraries? b: Is there a better way of upgrading my RPM manager? or c: am I just approaching the bull from the wrong end? -Chris Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is easy to break your system by having two libraries because the links have to be managed very very carefully. We took care of that in 8.0 by changing library naming and packaging policies. 7.1 is a stable system with only one serious bug in the script to rotate logs which is fixed by removing a * at the end of a line. It is also arguably the most beautiful mandrake release ever done. Theme support is still not back to what it was before the inception of KDE2. On Mandrakefroum you can find an article anout two mandrake systems on the same computer dual-booting. I would really suggest that alternative. Get an 8.0 for the rpm4 stuff and keep your classic OS. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=473lang=en Civileme
Re: [newbie] *.GZ
The way I hear ityou should never open a .gz under windows On Thursday 05 July 2001 18:43, Boliver Allmon wrote: I finally got the files by using the HTML download format, and telling the computer to open it from its present location. WinRAR opened it and I told it to extract it to my computer. Perhaps the *gz files are bad on the website. Boliver -Original Message- From: Ed Kasky [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 11:00 AM To: Boliver Allmon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] *.GZ I have had no problems using Winzip 8 on .tar's and .gz's Ed At 09:01 AM 7/5/2001 -0500, Boliver Allmon wrote: Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does not seem to know what to do with them.
[newbie] Font Questions
I have searched all the font How-To's and online sites I could find and cannot find the answer to this question. Can anyone help? How do you enter nonkeyboard characters into something like KWord? By nonkeyboard characters, I mean accented letters, fractions, em dashes, bullets. true typographic apostrophes and quotation marks, opening single quotation marks, and so forth. In Windows you hold down Alt and type the character code number and you see the character on screen and in your printed output. What do you do in X, KDE, and Gnome? I know about the character maps for KDE and Gnome, but click and copy is a completely impractical way to deal with extended characters. Surely there must be ways to type extended characters on the keyboard. I think it's passing strange that NOWHERE does any documentation mention this. Moreover, I looked through the entire Linux book section at Barnes and Noble and not one book had such a thing indexed. Even the 1600-page monsters had exhaustive sections on networks, consoles, Emacs, kernel building, yada-yada, but NOTHING WHATEVER on how to get a damn extended character typed!! Related question: how do you get a character set other than ISO-8859-1? That set is useless for document creation because it does not include essential typographic characters such as true quotation marks and true apostrophes. Without these characters, letters, reports, and other documents look amateurish and ugly. Surely there must be some way to get a proper character set in Linux. I do have my own Type 1 fonts and some TrueTypes installed and they are showing up--except not yet in StarOffice or WordPerfect. I am also in process of trying to dump the fonts that came with the system that I don't want. I have TrueTypes for screen display, but I prefer to use Type 1 for creating and printing documents. StarOffice includes directions for getting more fonts into it. The downloadable version of WordPerfect 8 apparently does not include the font installer utility, so you seem to be limited to the fonts that come with the program. If that is the case, I'll remove it from my system. Worthless! Answers to my questions most gratefully received! --Judy Miner
Re: [newbie] Netscape mail
ivan miranda wrote: Hi all, I use Netscape messanger for e-mail.My problem is that the format of the date for the mails i receive differs,some show only time,some mails show day and time,some show all(mm/dd/yy) as a result when new mails come ,they are not arranged in an orderly mannerso it's very irritating,this was an old netscape mail problem,I tried to switch to monzilla mail,which is much better but i gave up when it started crashingany one who can help me on this Thanks ivan -- Ivan Miranda General Instrument Engineer/IT support Po Box 8746,Doha,Qatar Ph:974-4402524/4402773 Fax:974-4323380 Ivan, Try out Kmail or Opera. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] Spell checker in Kmail is not working??
Alan, Here are the steps: How to Add ABC Spellchecker to Kmail 1. While in Kmail, select New message 2. Navigate to Settings-Configure Toolbars. A Configure Toolbars window will appear 3. Under Available actions window, select the ABC Spelling icon 4. Click on the arrow pointing to the right and add it to the Current actions window 5. Click on Apply and OK. That it! Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Alan Smith wrote: Hi All How do you add the ABC spellcheck button to the tool bar. Step by step instructions if you wouldn't mind. Regards Alan Smith On Sunday 01 July 2001 02:39 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 14:17, you wrote: Hi Kmail users, For some bizarre reason, the Spellchecker is not working. Is there something that is not configured correctly in Kmail? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Happy Kmailer by Tux Sons. Is Ispell or Aspell installed? Dennis, Ispell is installed but Aspell is not. However, I just fixed it! By default, Kmail does NOT add the Spellchecker button to the toolbar. You must add the ABC Spellcheck button to the toolbar. Then, click on the Spellchecker button to begin the spellcheck. Roman
[newbie] Tuxracer on HP Pavilion 5450
I have just installed 8.0 on a Pavilion n5450 and it went GREAT.. everything was detected and working. Haven't messed with the nic card yet though. When i try Tuxracer I receive this error Tuxracer error: Couldn't initalize video: Couldn't find matching GLX visual (Success). I have the S3 Savage/ix w/MV video card. I have the latest driver, but do no where to copy it to after I untar it. Any help will be greatly aappreciated. Thanks Don __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Playing videos
Dear All, My brother sent me a video that says vmail.vid.exe. I thought I could play it on Linux with RealPlayer but it does not play it. I have already played it on my Win98 on my laptop. I was wondering if there is a Linux program that would play a video file like this. I have tried xmovie but did not work. Thanks for any suggestions. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Playing videos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcia, Standard comment re: html mail applies... (kmail automatically made my reply in html, even though I default to plain text!). What is the file format of the video? An exe is not a video format. What Windows program did you use to play it? Dave On Thursday 05 July 2001 19:46, thus spake Marcia Waller: Dear All, My brother sent me a video that says vmail.vid.exe. I thought I could play it on Linux with RealPlayer but it does not play it. I have already played it on my Win98 on my laptop. I was wondering if there is a Linux program that would play a video file like this. I have tried xmovie but did not work. Thanks for any suggestions. Sincerely, Marcia - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7RRigOiMJhTaLf3MRAuOHAJ0Ydarz1qgDC1E87HY2R+bPEFGYQQCcDIyh oRUsEuxic2aCyWlL6t04R68= =XbNR -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Playing videos
On Thursday 05 July 2001 21:47, Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcia, Standard comment re: html mail applies... (kmail automatically made my reply in html, even though I default to plain text!). What is the file format of the video? An exe is not a video format. What Windows program did you use to play it? Dave My brother filmed it with his Logitech QuickCam. I am checking the stats on my Windows98 and it says the Inernal name is lvmplay.exe. This is called a Logitech Video Email. My brother said I should be able to use RealPlayer to play it but that did not work. Yes, I know that the .exe extension usually does not mean a video but it seems to in this case. The icon that sits on my Windows98 desktop says vmailvid. I would love to be able to run this on my Linux box if possible. Thanks for your help. I hope this information helps, because I cannot tell what program is playing it on my Win98. Thanks. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Playing videos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 WHen you double-click the file, does an app (like RealPlayer for Windows) launch? Or does the file seem to play itself -- in other words, is a player embedded in the file? Dave On Thursday 05 July 2001 20:10, thus spake Marcia Waller: On Thursday 05 July 2001 21:47, Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcia, Standard comment re: html mail applies... (kmail automatically made my reply in html, even though I default to plain text!). What is the file format of the video? An exe is not a video format. What Windows program did you use to play it? Dave My brother filmed it with his Logitech QuickCam. I am checking the stats on my Windows98 and it says the Inernal name is lvmplay.exe. This is called a Logitech Video Email. My brother said I should be able to use RealPlayer to play it but that did not work. Yes, I know that the .exe extension usually does not mean a video but it seems to in this case. The icon that sits on my Windows98 desktop says vmailvid. I would love to be able to run this on my Linux box if possible. Thanks for your help. I hope this information helps, because I cannot tell what program is playing it on my Win98. Thanks. Marcia - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7RR9VOiMJhTaLf3MRAo42AJ9+fGZ1yoX5kqb2kxeIlgeUyz9olQCaAh8w PlAsZhNFZwMdesgtA+nSeWw= =M5VL -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] irda
Hi, LM8 on a Dell laptop. How do I check to see if IRDA is enabled on this machine. I want to be able to sync my palm pilot. IRDA is enabled in bios. Thanks, Bill W.
[newbie] Error When Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader
I'm having problems installing the above, I've agreeded to the agreement and accepted the directory and got it to create it and then I did a: ./INSTALL And then got the following messages: Installing platform independent files ... Done Installing platform dependent files ... Done ./INSTALL: ed: command not found I assume that means that my installation failed, or? If someone could tell me what I do from there to get this program working with Mozilla etc., it'd be greaty appreciated. RGDS Curtis _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Playing videos
It was Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:10:54 -0400 when Marcia Waller wrote: What is the file format of the video? An exe is not a video format. What Windows program did you use to play it? You prolly have to load winders or run the program through WINE. Some webcams have this option to pack a video into an EXEcutable so you can run the video without an additional player. Paul -- Did you ever meet a normal person? And? Did you like it? http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.0pre3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Error When Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader
It was Thu, 05 Jul 2001 21:15:28 -0700 when Curtis Matthiesen wrote: Installing platform dependent files ... Done ./INSTALL: ed: command not found I assume that means that my installation failed, or? If someone could tell me what I do from there to get this program working with Mozilla etc., it'd be greaty appreciated. Looks like you don't have ed installed. ed is a very basic editor. You can find the rpm that has ed by looking for it in the file list part of rpmdrake. Paul -- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.0pre3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] Vacationouncement
Hi folks, This evening I will go nomail for a week and be off on a week of rr, vacation, doing nothing. Just so you know that I did not drop off the edge of the world. So don't worry, I'll be back! Paul -- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.0pre3 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] samba security=domain
Hi! I am having problem configure my samba server with my NT4 server.Below is my smb.conf setting [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = Leader_pg server string = Unix File Server security = domain password server = leader_pg When I try to join my NT4 server to my Samba server I was unable to join it. Below is my errror message. Need HELP [root@dns samba]# smbpasswd -j dns -r leader_pg modify_trust_password: Can't resolve address for LEADER_PG 2001/07/06 13:54:10 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change password f or domain DNS. Unable to join domain DNS Best Regards, SKLIM
Re: [newbie] *.GZ
Boliver Allmon wrote: Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does not seem to know what to do with them. Boliver Allmon *Phone: 281-424-0409 K Fax: 281-424-6982 *Location: 58-F36 *e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Download Netzip. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] secure copy
I use scp all the time. We have 5 *nix boxes on our network that all have direct IP. We use scp to transfer software, we use sftp as often as possible for security. Now you can download and install SFTP clients on your Windows box, and then use SFTP to transfer files. There's also program that will allow you to ssh to a Windows machine and get a DOS prompt. However it only works in Windows2000 last I heard. http://www.vandyke.com/download/index.html Is where to find the software, that's not shareware, but I'm sure a crafty person like yourself can find a means to a serial number! :0) But even if you install the shell on the Windows machine, I'm not sure if the scp command will send files/information across. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 10:38AM up 13:44, 4 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 | Hey group, | | Has anyone ever used secure copy? | | The command for it is scp and I was just wondering if anyone here has | had any luck with it or not. | | I would like to be able to transfer some files from my Linux server to | my windows machine and I was wondering if that was really possible at | all to do.. | | Thank you, | | A | | | -- | lawsuit, n.: | A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage. | -- Ambrose Bierce | --
Re: [newbie] Star office problem
Okay. That's what I did and I now have many more fonts to choose from. Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Mark Weaver wrote: No...Roman they are the fonts from the windows installation that lives on the disk/computer with mandrake. DrakeFonts finds the windows/font folder, reads the fonts that live there and copys them to your Mandrake installation. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Drakfont provides its own Windows font but I don't think that they are fonts provided by Microsoft. Microsoft would never provide Linux with their fonts. However, if you find some sort of workaround, please let me know what steps you took to import them into your Linux box. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: actually, you can. In mandrake 7.2 this is accomplished using Font Manager in drakeconf. At the moment I can't recall the name of the utility that performs this in mandrake 8.0, but I'm sure someone here on the list will remember. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Hi Ivan, To the best of my knowledge, you cannot copy Windows fonts from Windows to Linux. This is most likely why you got the error. When selecting Windows fonts by using Drakfont, click on the Windows fonts button and select the Force option. You want to uninstall the present fonts and reinstall the Windows font via Drakfont. You have to remember that these Windows fonts in Drakfont were hacked. This is due to the fact that Microsoft owns the fonts. Since they have spent millions of dollars to get them just right, they will NOT share them or offer them to Linux. As far as mounting the NTFS partition, this is still under development ( as fas I am aware ). However, there are plans to add this to a later kernel. I think further investigation is needed. Roman ivan miranda wrote: Hi Romanator, I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install any windows fonts (i have win2k on NTFS).How can i mount an NTFS partion ?.However i copied some fonts from widows m/c, all are *.ttf font,but while i was trying to install those fonts, drakfont gives error message like this for all fonts: font /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/78640___.ttf: unknown usWeightClass 5 How can i proceed now ? Thanks in advance Ivan ivan miranda wrote: Hi all, I have installed a power pack version of LM8.Staroffice works fine,java okay,but the fonts...awafullhow can i correct this.Earlier,i have corrected the fonts problem in LM8 and the browsers,by removing the existing abisuite and installing a newer version.The second problem is that i have an HP5000 series laser printer on the network.The staroffice printer menu does not include this how can use this printer?The same printer was configured in cups is working fine(samba printer).Thanks in advace for the help Ivan Ivan, Select the Software manager and download the drafont 0.5-13mdk update TrueType Fonts manager. Install the Windows fonts. Navigate to Control Center-Look'N'Feel-Fonts. For fixed width I'm using lucidatypewriter. I also use a combination of Helvetica and Verdana 10 and 11 pts. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility -- Ivan Miranda General Instrument Engineer/IT support Po Box 8746,Doha,Qatar Ph:974-4402524/4402773 Fax:974-4323380
Re: [newbie] Star office problem
Hi Randy, I did it and I have many more choices when it comes to fonts. Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Randy Kramer wrote: Romanator wrote: Okay. But I have to figure how to import them into Linux. I use kde on Mandrake 7.2 with the MandrakeFreq from 20010315. Start drakfont (it should be on your menu -- in my case it it is under configuration - other - drakfont). You can do this from a user account -- it will prompt you for the root password. After you start drakfont, click on the button labeled Get Windows fonts -- hopefully it will be self explanatory from there. Like I said, I got them to Linux and can use them for many applications, but I haven't been able to use them in any kde application. If you get stuck after the Get Windows fonts button, write back. (I'm trying to reconstruct what I did from memory.) Hope this helps, Randy Kramer
