[newbie-it] Cercasi consigli per gli acquisti
Ciao a todos. Qualcuno potrebbe consigliarmi un buon libro su cui apprendere seriamente il funzionamento di Linux? Avrei bisogno di qualcosa che parta proprio dalle basi ma che non si fermi a quelle. Mi spiego: ora non so molto di Linux, ma vorrei conoscerlo in maniera piuttosto approfondita, non solo per passione personale, ma anche per il mio futuro lavorativo di ing. informatico (ammesso che riesca a laurearmi...). Penso sia più facile trovare libri specifici per diversi target (newbie, medium, hard ;-), ma se volessi partire praticamente da zero (o quasi) e arrivare a una buona conoscenza? Sarei anche disposto all'acquisto di 2 libri (non contemporaneamente... troppe palanche :-), ma ne preferirei uno solo completo. Accetto numerosi consigli. Grazie CaMiX P.S. Se non chiedo troppo, potreste sinteticamente dirmi pregi e diffetti di eventuali libri segnalati? Scusate se rompo in questo modo... ma il pinguino lo voglio capire...
[newbie-it] Ancora una cosa su Konq
Scusate, ancora una cosa: ma voi con Konqueror li vedete gli accenti e le virgole? Perché io vedo solo punti interrogativi... Devo installare qualche pacchetto particolare? Cmq personalmete trovo migliore Opera, solo che non lo uso per via del fastidioso e invadente banner... (avevo un certo serial per winopera ma...) Adios CaMiX
Re: [newbie-it] Comandi AT per cellulari
Aiutoo.lo sono che non centra molto con questo newsgroup, ma devo costruire un programma, per pilotare un cellulare attraverso un collegamento seriale. So che i cellulari vengono comandati con i comandi AT come per il modem, ma vorrei trovare una maggiore quantità di informazioni e reference. Spero tanto che qualcuno di voi mi possa aiutare ad esempio indicandomi un sito o un newsgroup. Il mio 7110 ha una serie di comandi at, cerca sul sito nokia, trovi qualcosa di sicuro
Re: [newbie-it] nvidia driver
il primo consiglio e' di scaricare dal sito della nvidia i src.rpm e compilare quelli in con il comando rpm --rebuild per ottenere un pacchetto rpm per la tua mdk, nel caso tu avessi un altro kernel installato. Ti sara' cosi' piu' semplice disinsallarli quando vorrai farlo. Altrimenti puoi scaricare direttamente i drivers gia' compilati per la mdk 8.0 Se proprio vuoi compilare i sorgentiecco come devi fare: controlla di avere installato, e in caso contrario fallo, i sorgenti del kernel nella dir /usr/src se e' cosi', dopo aver dato tar xvfz e aver dato il comando cd /Nvidiablabla dai il comando make per il pacchetto GLX prima. Non dovresti avere problemi. Dopo fai lo stesso per l'archivio NVIDIA_kernelXXX ma dai questo comando: make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux/include in questo modo l'archivio viene compilato per i tuoi sorgenti. il resto della procedura e' lo stesso. ricordati di editare il file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 altrimenti il tuo sidtema non usera' i drivers . ciao Gigi --- bellotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ho un problema con l'installazione dei driver nvidia , quando tento di compilare i sorgenti mi da il seguente errore : /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use Kernel-headers system hearders, /usr/include/linux/modeversions.h:1:2: #error but from headers from an appropriate Kernel-source make:***[nv.o] Error 1 siccome non sono molto esperto come mi devo comportare la versione dei driver sono 1.0 , ho cercato di seguire le istruzioni di Linuxc ma mi sono fermto al comando make install. Se qualcuno potesse aiutarmi glie ne sarei grato . Grazie Ciao Lele _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] permessi come utente
Salve, ho da poco installato mdk 8.0 e ho configurato oltre a root un'altro utente.So che quest'ultimo non ha tuuti i privilegi come su ma vorrei avere la possibilità di visionare i cdrom. Posso vedere la cartelle contenute nel cdrom, ma mi viene negato, l'accesso ai file ! come posso fare? Grazie Mario
[newbie-it] Problema Xfree 4.10 e Mandrake8
Ho provato ad installare il mandrakefreq2 che contiene il nuovo xfree, ma non mi riconosce l'usb dell'asus cusl2 (e quindi nemmeno il mouse). Ho provato quindi da Mandrake8 ad installare solo i pacchetti delle xfree come aggiornamento e anche in questo caso al riavvio non viene più riconosciuto l'usb, mentre xfree risulta installata correttamente (da control center si rileva xfree4.10 installata). Inoltre Aurora non riesce a chiudersi correttamente non rilevando più le periferiche usb. Qualcuno di voi sa come potrei risistemare la cosa (oltre che a reinstallare la mdk8)? ~~~ Francesco Aldrovandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~
Re: [newbie-it] Comandi AT per cellulari
Il 14:00, giovedì 19 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Aiutoo.lo sono che non centra molto con questo newsgroup, ma devo costruire un programma, per pilotare un cellulare attraverso un collegamento seriale. So che i cellulari vengono comandati con i comandi AT come per il modem, ma vorrei trovare una maggiore quantità di informazioni e reference. Spero tanto che qualcuno di voi mi possa aiutare ad esempio indicandomi un sito o un newsgroup. Ciao e grazie ancora W Linux forever!!! Tosato Diego Sei vagamente OT. Ti consiglio di frequentare il Newsgroup it.comp.os.linux.iniziare Ciao cara.
[newbie-it] nvidia driver
Ho un problema con l'installazione dei driver nvidia , quando tento di compilare i sorgenti mi da il seguente errore : /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use Kernel-headers system hearders, /usr/include/linux/modeversions.h:1:2: #error but from headers from an appropriate Kernel-source make:***[nv.o] Error 1 siccome non sono molto esperto come mi devo comportare la versione dei driver sono 1.0 , ho cercato di seguire le istruzioni di Linuxc ma mi sono fermto al comando make install. Se qualcuno potesse aiutarmi glie ne sarei grato . Grazie Ciao Lele _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Card
check whether sound modules are loaded by cat /proc/modules as root. if it is there check mixer settings by default alsa is mute. On July 19, 2001 07:48 am, Paul wrote: It was Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:43:15 +0530 when Alwan Sadagopan wrote: Very strange. Sounds like a problem in IRQ's, when a soundcard hangs up a system. See what cat /proc/interrupts shows, perhaps there is something in it that tells more. Shared IRQs are possible, but not all systems/cards like it equally. Paul Nope i get no sounds in the wav files also. I use an C8738 sound card from cmedia. During installation this was auto detected. I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0. I am unable to play mp3 music. When i launch the XMMS window and submit a MP3 file for play the system hangs (No response, Key board and the mouse become non functional), Any suggestion to get XMMS stuff going??? -- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -Confucius http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042
Re: [newbie] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity. - original press release included
At 11:34 PM 7/19/01 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:27, Charles Oriez wrote: so it is. I went back and looked. It is in Geelong, with seems to be near Melbourne in Victoria. Can't get any further south than that without ending up in Tasmania. The LUG I sent a note to was http://www.linuxsa.org.au/ They're in Adelaide. Sorry, I don't mean to be picky but Geelong has nothing to do with the charity or with Fairfax. Adelaide is in the state of South Australia, which is next to Victoria, where Melbourne and Geelong are. The Register's article simply mentions that the charity is in South Australia. Chances are that it is in Adelaide, South Australia's capital and largest city. Fairfax is a national publisher, with its largest offices in Sydney (Australia's largest city, in the state of New South Wales) and Melbourne (Australia's second-largest city, in Victoria). BTW, I live in Sydney :-) I rechecked the original story, and the charity was very definitely named as PCs for Kids. No phone listing in Adelaide. Phone listing in Victoria at 151 High Street, Belmont. Wilkins Tourist Maps online map of Geelong, and the Australian white pages database, says Belmont is within Geelong. They also have a web page at http://www.pcsforkids.org E-mail contact is mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I dropped them a note, and got a copy of their original press release almost immediately: MICROSOFT BRINGS CHARITY TO ITS KNEES Direct actions by Microsoft in Australia have forced Australia's largest Computer Refurbishing Charity down on its knees. Pc's for Kids Inc, a Geelong based non-profit organisation helping less fortunate kids obtain their first home computer, has been installing older versions of Microsoft's operating system to aid disadvantaged children. Founder of Pc's for Kids Colin Bayes visited Microsoft in Sydney after being issued with a letter stating this practice of hard loading is a breach of Microsoft's copyright. Mr Bayes held meetings to try to obtain assistance from Microsoft, which unfortunately fell on deaf ears. In a letter issued to the charity by Microsoft, Microsoft has agreed that no further action would be taken for past loading Microsoft software. But this impasse has now meant the distribution of over 400 computers destined for children in Australia and East Timor has been suspended. Mr Bayes is now appealing to the public to rally behind the program. We need assistance. He said. This action by Microsoft and the follow-up communication has placed our whole project in jeopardy. If we are unable to obtain the operating software it will mean a lot of kids will miss out. We will be forced to close our doors. Over the past two years Pc's for Kids Inc has distributed over 1,000 computers in Australia and has also assisted in the delivery of computers to East Timor and seven other developing countries under the guidance of Rotary's Donations In Kind program. Pc's for Kids Inc has collected over 700 tons in redundant IT equipment and performs a full recycling program with assistance from the Federal Govt's Work for the Dole scheme. Mr Bayes said he feared donors could now revert to sending the old technology back to landfill. Mr Bayes said his loyal team of caring volunteers have more heart than this big multi-national company who have just wiped the smile from many children's faces. We will be sending Mr. Gates some of the letters of disapproval received from children when they hear what has happened, Mr Bayes said. He said the Microsoft Legal Attorney stated in the letter that the charity will have to obtain its own operating system and wished Pc's for Kids the best of luck. Mr Bayes stated: If a computer has been donated to the charity in good faith with its donated operating system, and we reconfigure it to ensure a donors files are removed and reload it back with its operating system, surely Microsoft could consider the needs of our less fortunate. Press Release Issued By: Colin Bayes President / Founder (0402) 149719 Pc's for Kids Inc Ph: (03) 52444146 Fax: (03) 52436026 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcsforkids.org Enc: Friday 13 July 2001 -- Microsoft, Windows, Windows 98, Bugs, Lacking features, IRQ conflicts, System crashes, Non-functional multitasking, the Y2K problem and the Blue Screen of Death are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Redmond, USA.
Re: [newbie] How do I change the refresh rate of my monitor?
Jim, To change the Refresh Rate... Edit the following file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Look for the Monitor Section: (example below) Change the values for VertRefresh and HorizSync Save the file Log Out and press [Restart X] button EXAMPLE: # ** # Monitor section # ** # Any number of monitor sections may be present Section Monitor Identifier Princeton Graphic Systems|Princeton APP520 VendorName Princeton Graphic Systems ModelName Unknown # HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified. # HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a # comma separated list of ranges of values. # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS. HorizSync 60.0 # VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified. # VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a # comma separated list of ranges of values. # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS. VertRefresh 56.0-76.0 -Sevatio Original Message On 7/18/01, 1:15:24 PM, Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] How do I change the refresh rate of my monitor?: I don't see an option for this in Mandrake Control Center in the X Control. Any other way I can do this? The refresh rate should be higher for this monitor. Thanks in advance if you can help me. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] MandrakeSoft to go IPO at the end of the month!!!
Yes, you read correctly. MandrakeSoft is going to be listed on the French Marché Libre on July 30. Here's a link to the MandrakeForum discussion: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1099 Drop by and have a chat with Yama (me) :-) -- 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] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity. - original press release included
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:57, Charles Oriez wrote: At 11:34 PM 7/19/01 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:27, Charles Oriez wrote: so it is. I went back and looked. It is in Geelong, with seems to be near Melbourne in Victoria. Can't get any further south than that without ending up in Tasmania. The LUG I sent a note to was http://www.linuxsa.org.au/ They're in Adelaide. Sorry, I don't mean to be picky but Geelong has nothing to do with the charity or with Fairfax. Adelaide is in the state of South Australia, which is next to Victoria, where Melbourne and Geelong are. The Register's article simply mentions that the charity is in South Australia. Chances are that it is in Adelaide, South Australia's capital and largest city. Fairfax is a national publisher, with its largest offices in Sydney (Australia's largest city, in the state of New South Wales) and Melbourne (Australia's second-largest city, in Victoria). BTW, I live in Sydney :-) Hmmm... The Register article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/20378.html) is wrong then. My apologies. I rechecked the original story, and the charity was very definitely named as PCs for Kids. No phone listing in Adelaide. Phone listing in Victoria at 151 High Street, Belmont. Wilkins Tourist Maps online map of Geelong, and the Australian white pages database, says Belmont is within Geelong. They also have a web page at http://www.pcsforkids.org E-mail contact is mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I dropped them a note, and got a copy of their original press release almost immediately: MICROSOFT BRINGS CHARITY TO ITS KNEES Direct actions by Microsoft in Australia have forced Australia's largest Computer Refurbishing Charity down on its knees. Pc's for Kids Inc, a Geelong based non-profit organisation helping less fortunate kids obtain their first home computer, has been installing older versions of Microsoft's operating system to aid disadvantaged children. Founder of Pc's for Kids Colin Bayes visited Microsoft in Sydney after being issued with a letter stating this practice of hard loading is a breach of Microsoft's copyright. Mr Bayes held meetings to try to obtain assistance from Microsoft, which unfortunately fell on deaf ears. In a letter issued to the charity by Microsoft, Microsoft has agreed that no further action would be taken for past loading Microsoft software. But this impasse has now meant the distribution of over 400 computers destined for children in Australia and East Timor has been suspended. Mr Bayes is now appealing to the public to rally behind the program. We need assistance. He said. This action by Microsoft and the follow-up communication has placed our whole project in jeopardy. If we are unable to obtain the operating software it will mean a lot of kids will miss out. We will be forced to close our doors. I'm sorry, but this statement just makes me mad. It's a whole lot of BS. If these people were _really_ concerned about the wellbeing of the needy in Australia and East Timor they would have chosen to go with an open source solution. By giving M$ products they're just making them depend on M$ products forever. Over the past two years Pc's for Kids Inc has distributed over 1,000 computers in Australia and has also assisted in the delivery of computers to East Timor and seven other developing countries under the guidance of Rotary's Donations In Kind program. Pc's for Kids Inc has collected over 700 tons in redundant IT equipment and performs a full recycling program with assistance from the Federal Govt's Work for the Dole scheme. Mr Bayes said he feared donors could now revert to sending the old technology back to landfill. Mr Bayes said his loyal team of caring volunteers have more heart than this big multi-national company who have just wiped the smile from many children's faces. We will be sending Mr. Gates some of the letters of disapproval received from children when they hear what has happened, Mr Bayes said. He said the Microsoft Legal Attorney stated in the letter that the charity will have to obtain its own operating system and wished Pc's for Kids the best of luck. Mr Bayes stated: If a computer has been donated to the charity in good faith with its donated operating system, and we reconfigure it to ensure a donors files are removed and reload it back with its operating system, surely Microsoft could consider the needs of our less fortunate. Press Release Issued By: Colin Bayes President / Founder (0402) 149719 Pc's for Kids Inc Ph: (03) 52444146 Fax: (03) 52436026 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcsforkids.org Enc: Friday 13 July 2001 -- Microsoft, Windows, Windows 98, Bugs, Lacking features, IRQ conflicts, System crashes, Non-functional multitasking, the Y2K problem and the Blue Screen of Death are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Redmond, USA. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There
[newbie] Best browser for linux?
Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
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RE: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Konqueror works fine for me. Its stable, and seems to render pages well. If you use KDE, the konqueror icon is on your panel. -- From: Ravi Malghan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 July 2001 16:25 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Best browser for linux? Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 META content=MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800 name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ff DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=26.0, it works great but crashes very often.nbsp; Does anybody have any suggestion on/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2which broswer works great?/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Thanks/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Ravi/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML HTMLBODYBR _BR This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star InternetBR delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For furtherBR information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively callBR Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.BR /BODY/HTML _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
My only problem with Konqueror has been with its rendering of floating tables. Aligned tables, no problem, but floating--what a mess. If you're unfamiliar with floating tables, see http://www.prepaid-phone-cards-gbs.com And while you're there, lemme know what you think of my shameless Mandrake/Apache plug at the bottom made my yours truly ;-) Civileme can tell me if I need a trademark or copyright do-dad. Miark - Original Message - From: Adams, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ravi Malghan' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:30 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Best browser for linux? Konqueror works fine for me. Its stable, and seems to render pages well. If you use KDE, the konqueror icon is on your panel. -- From: Ravi Malghan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 July 2001 16:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Best browser for linux? Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi ___ __ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 META content=MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800 name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ff DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=26.0, it works great but crashes very often.nbsp; Does anybody have any suggestion on/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2which broswer works great?/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Thanks/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Ravi/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML HTMLBODYBR ___ __BR This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star InternetBR delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For furtherBR information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively callBR Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.BR /BODY/HTML _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie] Update Programs Via Mandrake Update?
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:13, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my CUPS (as well other programs) to the newest version anyway, when I use Mandrake Update it fails saying that I already have CUPS (or the other programs I'm trying to install) installed. Can someone tell me how I can go about doing this, I assume I could do it manually by a: RPM -Uvh rpmname.rpm The command rpm is lower case. Otherwise this command is correct. But if I could do it via Mandrake Update it'd be much more easier and effective for me. TIA Curtis What version on CUPS do you have? $ rpm -q cups Mandrake Update only provides security and critical bug fixes. Chances are that the newest CUPS version isn't there, or that your chosen update mirror hasn't been updated yet. Do you _need_ the latest CUPS version? Remember, if it aint broke, don't fix it :-) PS Is this posting in HTML format, if so I'm sorry, Hotmail just changed everything and I'm not sure if it is or not, or how I can change it permanently to use non-HTML. Relax, it isn't in HTML :-) I wouldn't be surprised if M$ made Hotmail HTML-only (and non-standard HTML at that), just to annoy people who don't use Outlook/Outlook Express. Of course, it would dramatically increase the load on M$'s Hotmail servers, which are well-known to be crash-prone (especially the newer ones running on Win2K and not FreeBSD). -- 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 I forgot to ask if you know why, Mandrake Update does this as it upgrades some of the programs 100%, but others it says that they're already installed and it doesnt't let me, do you know of a way that I can get it to allow me to upgrade the software, as like I said b4 it'd save me a lot of time then doing it manually. RGDS Curtis _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Update Programs Via Mandrake Update?
Most of the time MandrakeUpdate will work; however, certain programs that handle regular expressions and pattern-matching DON'T work the same when a different locale is in place, thanks to newly-implemented POSIX standards. The resuklt is that the sorting for newer versions fails, seeing the update as the older version which is why it says that the package is already installed. Look at fun with regular expressions on www.mandrakeforum.com to get an idea of the scope of the problem. Civileme Civileme, I didn't understand a word of that posting at Mandrake Forum, anyway, is there a way that this can be fixed or, as like I mentioned above, I like the automated way much better. RGDS Curtis _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX
John-- On Thursday 19 July 2001 02:17 pm, you wrote: Surely somebody's come up against this before. Any hints at which of the libs is likely to be the one? Or should I rpm -U NVIDIA_GLX, then refresh Mesa, then manually delete all the conflicting components, and reinstall NVIDIA_GLX? Any other thoughts or opinions? I had these same problems with my Geforce 2 MX and I never have got it to work. I am thinking likely because my card is PCI. I could not get it to work in win2k either. So I am leaning towards my system being a little too old to handle the card in a decent O/S. I even corresponded with Nvidia for about two weeks trying all kinds of stuff and was finally told I don't know what else to do, sorry. Don't say that! :-O Mine's AGP, and it's in quite a new system (three days old, as a matter of fact). I have a great suggestion from 's', which I'm itching to try out once I get home and put my hands on the machine. So hopefully my luck will be better than yours was. I'll be sure and post any successes I have and the steps that led to it! -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com
[newbie] network thingy
hi I have research for an answered in this matter before, but nothing seems to work. I've been trying to connect my home network. I have a win95 machine and a linux mandrake currently running 7.0 (don't ask). I'vew followed directions in the networking tutorial in mandrake's web site as well as ome linux books i have. all seems to be right. i mean, that settings and configuration files look just like in the tutorials and my books. linux machine can ping itself and live IP addressess, that is, if i am connecte to the internet and i ping mandrake's website i get a response. the problem is when i try to ping the win95 machine. I get no response all setting are correct configuration files are correct cables are new i am out of ideas as to what the ptoblem is what to do to resolve it Thanks in advance for your help
[newbie] Mount Point
I created a new windows partition on my second harddrive. I was going to use diskdrake to set linux to automatically mount it. It won let me mount it at /mnt/win98. How do I get linux to automatically mount a new partition? Thanks, Kevin
Re: [newbie] Mount Point
It was Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:08:06 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote: I created a new windows partition on my second harddrive. I was going to use diskdrake to set linux to automatically mount it. It won let me mount it at /mnt/win98. How do I get linux to automatically mount a new partition? Is the first partition already mounted there? If so, you need to umount that first. Best is to make a /mnt/win98b and mount it there. Paul -- To program is to be. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Sensors
WOW thanx that was quick i really expected some hacking but nope it worx finefinefine! Only gkrellm well i dont like the interface and for some reason it doesnt show me the fans (or then im blind ) id like a kde app for it ill seek and (hopefully) find... there is klm (wich doesnt work on kde2.2) and khealthcare (wich doesnt want to compile either) humh ill seek more. Anyway all sensors work and the install was a piece of cake thanks a lot! Good job! On Thursday 19 July 2001 23:38, civileme wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 17:33, Kernell32 wrote: Hi i was wondering if anyone has managed to get the lm_sensors working in Mandrake i saw there are some sensors available in the kernel but what progs do you recommend (preferably mdks own packages) to use the sensor modules? Im trying to get my temperature and fanspeed sensors working i have a ASUS K7M MOBO using a winbond sensor controler. So what modules do i need to load and how do i start the whole thing (what frontend do i use?) gkrellm would be a good frontend. You must load lm_utils. We do not install it by default and we defang the KDE functions that would use lm_sensors directly because there is ONE brand of notebooks where if you use lm_sensors once, your next act is a factory return for a new motherboard. lm_utils-2.4.3_2.5.5-20mdk Is the package name on the Core System CD http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/doc/useful_addresses.html Is a good place to start for additional applications. Civileme
[newbie] Load visor module at boot
Hello I sync a Handspring Visor (USB interface) with my Linux Mandrake 8.0 system. Everytime I reboot I have to enter the command root $ /sbin/modprobe visor for things to work properly. It's not a big bother, but a bother nonetheless. What do I have to do to have the visor module loaded automatically when I boot? Steve -- Steven Watt St. John's, NF [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.thezone.net/~swam
Re: [newbie] Load visor module at boot
It was Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:08:14 -0230 when Steven Watt wrote: root $ /sbin/modprobe visor for things to work properly. It's not a big bother, but a bother nonetheless. What do I have to do to have the visor module loaded automatically when I boot? Add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and you will be fine. You need to be root to edit that file. Paul -- To program is to be. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
RE: Re: [newbie] Advice on modem purchase
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip AFAIK, all external modems are hardware modems. Swann appears to be a respectable brand (although I've never tried one myself), and I believe that they use Rockwell chipsets (like many other modem makers), which would mean they are good to use. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. === I think what you say is true, but I have heard that there are some USB externals that are, in effect, winmodems. Mike -- Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there. --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
RE: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Ravi Malghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? I like Opera 5.0 VERY much! Mike -- Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there. --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy drives
Civileme wrote: right click the ZIP Icon and select Eject or issue eject /dev/zip in a console. There is no Eject option if I right click on the Zip icon on the KDE desktop. Nor are there options for mount and unmount. I have not changed any icons that were installed by default. There is no eject/unmount option in Konqueror file manager, either. Is there a way to add such a thing? I also checked the Gnome desktop and there was no Zip drive icon, period. The only icons were for my Windows drives C, D, and E. Again--right click [the CD-ROM drive icon] and eject Alas, no CD-ROM icon on the desktop. No eject or unmount option in the file manager. It has to be done from a Run line or console. In general, my CD-ROM drive works by just pressing on the button. Refusal to open seems to be just an occasional thing and I haven't isolated the circumstances yet. though it has happened most often when I've been installing something from one of the two distribution CDs. I see others have also found no such icons on their desktop after a default installation of KDE. --Judy Miner
Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy drives
My /etc/fstab file is quite similar to yours, Dennis. I modified this line: /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 like this: /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 and now I can mount and unmount as user. --Judy Miner
[newbie] Boot Problem
Hello All. I had a dual boot with Win98 and LM8.0. Today I delete Win98 and I install Win98SE. After that I can not choose to boot Linux now. How can I restore the Boot Manager (I belive LILO is its name). TIA.
Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy drives
Sridhar wrote: Have you tried KDE's own help? Certainly. Let me tell you about KDE's own help. There is no search for a keyword. So effectively, you have to page your way through the whole thing trying to find a section that *might* pertain to what you're looking for. If you click on search in Konqueror's left panel when you have KDE Help in the right panel, when you type in a keyword and click on Search nothing happens. If you then click on Update Index, you get a screen telling you you need another program called ht://dig. I clicked on the link to the Web site, figuring I'd download and install it so I could get keyword searches for KDE Help. Alas--the Web site was totally confusing and apparently you need to _compile_ this program if you want to use it. No thanks. I know that true Linuxians love the idea of compiling code, but regular people don't. It seems unrealistic to expect new, non-techie users, who are most likely the ones who will be looking for things in KDE Help, to compile programs in order to do a search in Online Help. I realize that a working keyword search is probably on the agenda for future releases, but for now, KDE Help is difficult to use unless you just want to read through it or are able to pinpoint exactly where the information you're looking for may reside and then click on the hypertext. I don't mean to pick, but I hope you do realise that giving yourself all the permissions I could just defeats the purpose of logging in as a user. You are effectively using the machine as root. I was following suggestions given here about expanding permissions for user when user and root are the same person. If that's still not good enough, so be it. I'll take my chances. The firewall is working and my ports are all stealthed and I go online as user, not root, so I hope my system is not a good target for trojans and worms. su is a good command to use at the console. I do use it. I always have a second desktop with a root console and a Super User file manager open. Then when I need to do something as root that doesn't require a root login, I just switch to that desktop and do the deed. It's tolerable. Remember that I am not familiar with the names of programs I might want to launch as root, so I have problems starting the program in a console unless I either know or can find the program's name in less than five minutes. Today I found lists and descriptions of KDE programs in the KDE Online Help (no thanks to keywordsg). I'll print out those screens and keep them around as a cheat sheet until I learn the ones I use the most. For the full graphical experience, use kdesu. You can even make icons using kdesu, so you will be asked for the root password when you click it. For an example on how this works, go to the Mandrake menu - Applications - File Tools - File Manager (Super User Mode). Look at its properties. Well, first I had to figure out how to see the properties of Super User File Manager. There is no icon I can right-click on to check properties and I had no idea what the program file was called. But what I did was right-click on the K on the bottom left, Panel Menu, Menu Editor (aka MenuDrake) and found the Super User File Manager in the list of Applications. That showed me that the command word is kdesu konqueror (no quotes). I had no idea that this kdesu stuff you and others are talking about meant you were suppposed to type kdesu before the name of the command. That's exactly the kind of information newbies need but don't get and is another thing for John to include in his online book. It would be clearer for non-techies if someone said in a Run line (Alt+F2 shortcut), type 'kdesu plus the name of the program'. Have you tried refreshing the file manager's view after changing discs, or even opening another file manager window to browse the new disc? This can sometimes work. Yes, I did all of that. What I've found out is that you do have to issue either a umount or eject command for /mnt/zip, and before you can see the contents of another disk, you have to do a mount /mnt/zip command. Then it'll read the disk. I have some suspicions about the supermount thing that's used for the Zip, floppy, and CD-ROM drives. I read on MandrakeForum.com that people are finding supermount to be unreliable and troublesome. Is there a way to set up a Zip drive so that simply inserting a disk will mount it automatically, even after the ejection of another disk? I enabled mount and unmount for user by editing /etc/fstab. For both Zip and CD-ROM issues, try the command eject /mnt/disc. Replace disc with what you want to eject. CD-ROMs generally seem to work by just pressing the drive button. The times I can't eject them with the button have been when I have been installing something from my two distribution CDs. Maybe this is related to supermount, too. I just don't know. Thanks for your help. I'm doing a lot better with this latest reinstallation and slowly but surely learning how to
[newbie] Winmodems
For what its worth, have a look at www.linmodems.org where there is a whole heap of advice on modems.. I have been using a winmodem based on a lucent chipset, using a driver from the linmodem site, successfully. If you have a compatable winmodem there is a RPM available for Mandrake 8 avaialble on www.herby.de (I hope the spelling is correct). If you cannot find it mail me direct and i will mail it to you. Regards Mark A
Re: [newbie] Load visor module at boot
On Thursday 19 July 2001 15:38, Steven Watt wrote: Hello I sync a Handspring Visor (USB interface) with my Linux Mandrake 8.0 system. Everytime I reboot I have to enter the command root $ /sbin/modprobe visor for things to work properly. It's not a big bother, but a bother nonetheless. What do I have to do to have the visor module loaded automatically when I boot? add it to /etc/modules on my box it looks like this # # usb # usbcore usb-uhci # # usb zip # usb-storage # # visor # usbserial visor # # radio # videodev dsbr100 # # fs # appletalk vfat # # ftape # ftape zftape scsi_hostadapter scsi_hostadapter1 All that you should need are the usb visor sections -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
[newbie] Browser testing grounds
Strange. I just pointed Konqueror at www.prepaid-phone-cards-gbs.com and not only are the floating tables not floating, but the Mandrake and Apache images at the bottom of the page don't appear at all! The Mozilla trio (Mozilla, Galeon, and Netscape) have no problem. I guess if you need a page to test browsers (I'm thinking of something Civileme said this week) this is a good one. Miark
Re: [newbie] Playing CD's through SB live SPDIF socket
Mark, Thanks for the tip, although messing with the sliding controls had no effect, still nothing when playing a CD. I tried both the digital sliders amongst others. I still believe the EMU10K1 driver (or OSS) require some settings that arn't enabled by default. Thanks again Glen On Wednesday 18 July 2001 5:14 pm, you wrote: From the K menu, select K Multimedia Sound Sound Mixer Mess with the sliding controls--you'll get it. Miark - Original Message - From: Glen Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:34 AM Subject: [newbie] Playing CD's through SB live SPDIF socket Hi, I have my CD drive connected via the SPDIF internal socket to my SB live card. At the moment, I cannot play CD's though linux (LM8.0) Has any one any experience of this, what settings do I need ? Thanks in advance Glen Swindell
Re: [newbie] Which program is Mandrake using for web demos?
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: They are just animated GIF files. Could they be done with a simple screen capture programme? I know both GNOME and KDE have applets designed to do this, and The GIMP can do this as well. KDE 2.2 (IIRC) will have a feature where you can press your Print Screen key and capture your desktop to the clipboard, and Ctrl-Print Screen will capture the current window. On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:17, Romanator wrote: Hi all, I'm interesting in creating additional Linux demos. Does any one know what Mandrake is using to create their demos for their web page? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey -- 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 Do you mean the demos on the Mandrake web page were done with gifs? Interesting. I'll give it a go. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] registration
joneswm wrote: Hello everyone, Having a problem registering my L-M 8.0 Power Pack (US boxed edition). The serial number is supposed to be on one of the disk sleeves, but is not. Is there any way around this, to get a fake number, that will let me register online? Also, when I go to the web page: http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/index1.php I can fill out fields to describe a problem I am having. When I click on Choose Expert to submit my question, Netscape goes to a white screen. I do not receive a screen or an e-mail response saying my problem has been submitted. I believe the website is broken on Mandrake's end, so I hope everyone on the newbie / expert mailing list can help me. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cincinnati, OH Linux user since July 1998 (kernel 2.0.33) 1G8ZJ527X1Z272087 Assembled November 2000, Spring Hill, Tennessee 7901 lifetime miles Hello Mike, The registration number is on an white piece of paper. It's about 8.5 X 11. Get the number from that sheet and register. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX
You need to be root first, then the command is: sh nv_check.sh -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 01:50 pm, you wrote: I d/l'ed that but I'm a newbie and I don't know how to run it, when I try a, ./nv_check.sh from Konsole I get the following error message: bash: ./nv_check.sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Anyway, your help in this matter is appreciated, as I thought I had installed the drivers but I never see a splash screen or what have you. TIA Curtis Yeah, here's an url to a little script that I just love. It checks to make sure the nvidia drivers are loaded, and that you have edited your xf86config file properly, but most importantly (and conveniently) checks for conflicting mesa files. http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A Download and run nv_check.sh and just rm -f all the files it finds -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 07:03 am, you wrote: Partial success, partial failure: So NOW when I launch tuxracer (just for instance--this actually happens with ALL full-screen gl apps), the screen blanks, I hear the monitor tick to a different frequency, my speakers play the first note of the music, and then nothing; I hang with a black screen. The fine manual claims that such errors are caused by old or conflicting versions of GL libs laying around. I guess I have no reason to doubt that, but visual examination of the files (Appendix C of the fine manual) seems to indicate they're all of the nVidia variety. Surely somebody's come up against this before. Any hints at which of the libs is likely to be the one? Or should I rpm -U NVIDIA_GLX, then refresh Mesa, then manually delete all the conflicting components, and reinstall NVIDIA_GLX? Any other thoughts or opinions? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy drives
On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:38 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 11:19, you wrote: My /etc/fstab file is quite similar to yours, Dennis. I modified this line: /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 like this: /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 and now I can mount and unmount as user. --Judy Miner Outstanding, it is a nice feature that is missed when it doesn't function. I'm glad you were able to get it to work. It works like a charm. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] Boot Problem
I hope someone can help you. I too would love to know. Good luck. Regards skinky - Original Message - From: Juan Carlos Conde [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:34 AM Subject: [newbie] Boot Problem Hello All. I had a dual boot with Win98 and LM8.0. Today I delete Win98 and I install Win98SE. After that I can not choose to boot Linux now. How can I restore the Boot Manager (I belive LILO is its name). TIA. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Konqueror is my fave. Opera, mozilla, galeon, and slipknot (or something or other that comes with the power pack) are all adequate enough, but konqueror is undoubtedly the best (imo). And if you like a netscape, get 6.1. It is very stable and useable, cause your right, 6.0 will crash every dern time you open it. If you like text only lynx is neato in a terminal (I like to play with it sometimes and it's handy if your X won't boot - so remember it for future reference), and then there's links. -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25 am, you wrote: Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi
[newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop
Hi all, I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple Link to an application or shortcut on the Gnome desktop. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
[newbie] Tribes 2 for Linux Error Message
Hi, I'm getting the error message below when I try to run Tribes 2. The launcher disappears after I click on the play online option. I see this error message in the terminal window: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Any ideas how to get this fixed? Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Tribes 2 for Linux Error Message
Jim, Have you installed the GLX and nVidia driver RPMs from the nVidia web site? If not, you'll need to. You can download them from http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux and let me know if you want a white-space friendly version of nVidia's sardines-in-a-can instructions. Miark - Original Message - From: Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 5:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Tribes 2 for Linux Error Message Hi, I'm getting the error message below when I try to run Tribes 2. The launcher disappears after I click on the play online option. I see this error message in the terminal window: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Any ideas how to get this fixed? Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity.
- Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity. Microsoft has never been about helping the public. They've always been about helping themselves. I mean they've stolen technology from other companies from day one. Why suddenly work for their billions? This is true. Even the primal MeSsy-Dos that was generated by Bill Gates and his partner (forgot his name) came partially from designs that were found in trashbins from several companies that tried to make something for the IBM PC. Paul Actually dos came from soemthing from cpl? i think (can't remeber the name) they bought it actually from the guy for 10,000US and they stole the GUI from apple which stole it from zerox! ~Brandon Some one correct the name of the os please,!
[newbie] slow performance whist downloading normal ?
Whilst downloading from the internet my general machine performance seems to fall away terribly. the machine is no slouch 900 athlon 512m memory only on a 56k modem too. is this sluggishness normal? What could be wrong ? Thanks Rob
[newbie] Running Executables
Hi all, I've got the L-M 8, and I installed the program from distributed.net to run in the background, and use idle CPU cycles to do work for them. It won't run. When I log in as mike and run the program, BASH responds with dnetc: command not found. Same thing when I log in as root. When I log in as root and type ldd dnetc I get the message not a dynamic executable. I first used ldd, (and the distributed.net program) with Caldera 1.2. ldd lists the libraries that a program is linked or compiled against, in other words, what it needs in order to run. Remember the please check to see that all required libraries are available when running Winbloze? I think this is the same idea. Why won't this program run? I don't think it's a permissions problem, it's not a PATH problem, and I don't think it's a libc5 / glibc issue. Any help is greatly appreciated. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cincinnati, OH mailed from Linux 1G8ZJ527X1Z272087 Assembled November 2000, Spring Hill, Tennessee 7901 lifetime miles
[newbie] One boot off and one boot on
Can anyone help please? I installed mandrake on an old 32mByte machine with two hd's. I have win98 on first (8gig)hd and put linux on second (4gig)hd. Linux did not work so am going to reinstall it on my main 512mByte, 17gig machine. I Intend to partition the 17gig and dual boot with win2000pro/linux. On the old machine, I have tried to reclaim the 4gig harddrive and give it back to win98. Have deleted formatted the hd but did not know how to immobilize the dual boot process - I thought I would deal with that later. That time has now arrived :-) When I now boot the machine the dual boot menu does not appear and it simply boots to display grub as the prompt. Please bear in mind that I am completely stupid where linux is concerned and not much better at windows (although I did my stint with assembler, c and basic in the 8080 days - had to put that in :-) - don't like to appear too stupid ) My questions: On the old machine, how do I immobilize the dual boot process, get rid of the grub prompt, and simply boot straight into windows? On my new machine: will an 8gig partition be large enough for mandrake 8 and do I install mandrake first and win2000 second (win2000 sets up multi boot with w98 fine but will it recognise or 'see' linux) or, do I wait until I learn how to set up multi boot from within linux? Obviously I would prefer that win2000 does it for me so that I can then get into linux quickly and start to learn all these clever linux things :) It's a chicken and egg situation if win2000 won't 'do the dual bit' for me. Help appreciated Sorry if the above is a bit garbled. TIA Dave S. idea.list
Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe the desktop right-click menu option is Launcher, or perhaps New Launcher. Dave On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:33, thus spake Romanator: Hi all, I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple Link to an application or shortcut on the Gnome desktop. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey - -- 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 iD8DBQE7V4rpOiMJhTaLf3MRAnNpAJ9TUmqjCLg5vR4oCequhoU0z+UtpACfYXgw c10A0z5iajDlqSI+4DkO6YQ= =Bebz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Browser testing grounds
On Thursday 19 July 2001 22:36, Miark wrote: Strange. I just pointed Konqueror at www.prepaid-phone-cards-gbs.com and not only are the floating tables not floating, but the Mandrake and Apache images at the bottom of the page don't appear at all! The Mozilla trio (Mozilla, Galeon, and Netscape) have no problem. I guess if you need a page to test browsers (I'm thinking of something Civileme said this week) this is a good one. Miark WorksForMe © -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, XFree86 4.0.3, patch level 11mdk, KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1. Uptime 5 hours 28 minutes
Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop
If you can't find the launcher, can't you do a ln -s /usr/bin/whatever /home/you/Desktop/whatever I used to do it that way a while back, but haven't in a while. You don't get to choose a perty icon. ;-) -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:33 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple Link to an application or shortcut on the Gnome desktop. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] Disk full problem
George, Civilme is right...3 GB is kind of small these days. Anyways, here's a few suggestions: #1. Check to see if there is anything you can remove from /tmp #2. Check to see if you have log files in /var/log that end in .[1-9] or .gz, if you see files that end in either of the above, they can be deleted. #3. Check /var/spool/mail and do an ls -al. Several cron jobs e-mail the root user, so it is possible that the root user's mail queue is large-- su - to root, and delete all the cron job e-mails (it'll say cron in the from field, I think), or for that matter if anyone is e-mailing the george account on your machine directly, your /var/spool/mail/george file might be big. #4. Do an 'rpm -qai /home/george/all.txt' (without the quotes, as george), which will show all packages you have installed and information concerning each package (it will be large). Depending on what you are using the machine for, there should be a least a few packages you might be able to dump. For example, if the machine is a workstation, it shouldn't (usually) have server packages installed (such as apache, mysql, postgresql and so forth). After going through those 4 things, send us an updated 'df -h' (note the -h, not the -k--I've never quite gotten used to seeing things in 1024 byte blocks). If none of the above clear enough room, I would say buy another hard drive (somewhere around 10 GB is the smallest I've seen people buying these days) and move around some of the partitions. (We'll get to the more detailed instructions once we see if any of the 4 suggestions reduce the 98% full significantly.) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:28 PM 07/19/2001 +, civileme wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 19:52, George Baker wrote: Sorry, I am new at this. Here are my partition details: [george@localhost george]$ df -k Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 464585433598 6999 98% / /dev/hda1 2096320 1523840572480 73% /mnt/DOS_hda1 /dev/hda5 7776 827 6548 11% /boot /dev/hda8 472392124795323205 28% /home U! This is a 3G disk. How are your pockets for change? You need either another hdd or a bigger hdd. You are below minimums on / and soon will have a situation where it will not boot unless there are sufficient sections for /, which should be reserved properly in the setup.. You could resize /home a little smaller, and possibly make two partitions there for /var and /usr/local or even three with /tmp added, but there is litle hope of being able to move /usr there /usr/X11R6 maybe. You might be able to shrink DOS a little , say 30k, and put all of /usr there, but that disk looks uncomfortably tight, and if ext2resize isn't there already, you will have to do surgery to make room for it. Sounds like a good exercise for you other helpers [ducks]. Civileme [george@localhost george]$ -- Thanks George Baker South Africa Michael D. Viron wrote: George, It would help us if you posted the partitions you have and what size they are. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:21 AM 07/19/2001 +0200, George Baker wrote: I installed LM 7 on a 1.2 gig extended partition. Now I see that /root partition is nearly full, yet I have 300 MB free in /home. How can I give more space to /root or specifically /usr.
[newbie] How to auto-mount USB digital camera
Hello all, I'm new to this list. I installed Mandrake 8 on a 2nd drive on my P166 machine a few days ago, and am going through it slowly. The installation went through with hardly any problems, except for these: 1. The boot (floppy) disk can't be accessed, either as root or user. 2. Is there a way to auto-mount a digital camera on the USB port -- well, the Smartmedia card, really; it behaves like a removable disk? 3. The modem seems to be connected only at 9600. Is there some way to get the connection at the normal 33.6K? (It does OK in Windows.) All advice appreciated. Many thanks. --
Re: [newbie] Running Executables
Mike, I believe it will be a path problem. I created and installed into /dnetc. I have not created a link to it. When I start dnetc, I type /dnetc/dnetc and off it goes. HTH Bill - Original Message - From: joneswm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Running Executables Hi all, I've got the L-M 8, and I installed the program from distributed.net to run in the background, and use idle CPU cycles to do work for them. It won't run. When I log in as mike and run the program, BASH responds with dnetc: command not found. Same thing when I log in as root. When I log in as root and type ldd dnetc I get the message not a dynamic executable. I first used ldd, (and the distributed.net program) with Caldera 1.2. ldd lists the libraries that a program is linked or compiled against, in other words, what it needs in order to run. Remember the please check to see that all required libraries are available when running Winbloze? I think this is the same idea. Why won't this program run? I don't think it's a permissions problem, it's not a PATH problem, and I don't think it's a libc5 / glibc issue. Any help is greatly appreciated. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cincinnati, OH mailed from Linux 1G8ZJ527X1Z272087 Assembled November 2000, Spring Hill, Tennessee 7901 lifetime miles
Re: [newbie] Running Executables
I first used ldd, (and the distributed.net program) with Caldera 1.2. ldd lists the libraries that a program is In these situations, ldd will report libraries that cannot be found. So, I don't think we have the same scenario as you are referring to in Windows. Not a dynamic executable means exactly that -- the program was not dynamically (run-time binding) linked with its libraries. It is a static executable, with all the requisite library code embedded in the binary. Usually, this is less desirable because of both executable size and code size (dynamic libraries can be shared amongst other executables that use them, static ones cannot), but sometimes it is advantageous, especially in situations where the program author wants to ensure uniformity across a given platform. Why won't this program run? I don't think it's a permissions problem, it's not a PATH problem, and I don't think it's a libc5 / glibc issue. It usually is because you've stuffed the executable somewhere in your home directory and forgotten to prepend the executable with './' - indicating current directory. In Unix, and in Linux, the current directory is not searched by default when you want to run an executable. This is one arena of confusion for people that are coming from a Windows or DOS background. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cincinnati, OH mailed from Linux 1G8ZJ527X1Z272087 Assembled November 2000, Spring Hill, Tennessee 7901 lifetime miles David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] Do the fonts in Start Office 5.2 look a little light to you in L...
Yes... It's extremely annoying to me. I wish I knew how to correct this problem! Konqueror had a similar problem, but I corrected it through settings changes. But, SO52 doesn't have any such settings to change! So, what can we do??? Mike In a message dated 7/19/2001 8:01:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everybody, Is it just me or are the rest of you noticing that the Times Roman fonts in Star Office 5.2 appear light on one side of the font and darker around the edges? The font appear odd when typing up an html document. Star Office 5.1 did not have this problem. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 "su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey"
[newbie] bad magic number
Hi all, After about a week of frustration, I finally got mandrake 8 running on my home network, but I think I might have done something very wrong. I have 2 drives, but hdb5 ? was not mounted. I mounted it and rebooted, and got the message that the superblock could not be read.. and fsck.ext2 Bad magic number in superblock /dev/hdb5 /dev/hda6 when I choose 'yes' to repair, it fails. Does this mean another reinstall, or is there some way of fixing it? Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611
RE: [newbie] Glidepoint?
The glidepoint will appear as a PS/2 mouse, and I believe that there exist Linux specific drivers for it... Don't waste your time though. Unless you -REALLY- have a compelling reason to use one you are better off with a mouse, tablet, or at worst a trackball. Using the Glidepoint is tedious. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Glidepoint? Hi everyone, on my continuing search for input devices, now the Glidepoint has my attention. Does anyone know if this is supported in Mandrake? On the MDK site I can find that all mice and keyboards are supported, but this is a bit of an off device (I think), so I think I'd better ask. And more important, does someone use it? And if you do, what is your experience with it? Thanks for any feedback, on list or private mail. Paul
[newbie] Advice on modem purchase
Hi All I'm looking at buying an external modem because I currently have a poxy HSF Conexant Soft56K WINMODEM (ugh!). Am I right in assuming that all external modems are compatible with Linux? The modem that I'm considering is a Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem (serial) - the reason being that I can purchase it with my Telecom TalkingPoints... well free, I guess. I checked out the BIG list at http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/20010604b.html but this brand is not even mentioned. I also checked out the manufacturers webiste at http://www.swann.com.au/products/modems/speed_demon.htm# but there is no mention of Linux compatibility or it having a hardware controller. I also checked http://www.56K.com and http://www.linux.com/enhance/hardware/ to no avail. Anyone here tried a Swann SpeedDemon External Modem? Thanks skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Modular Sound Enabled Kernel
Hiya All, Im still trying to get my sound card working. Its a Yamaha OPL3-SA2. I have been informed that this can be configured with the sndconfig utility as Harddrake no longer detects it. When i start sndconfig it complains that i do not have a moduler kernel or sound loaded as a module, how would i do this? Someone once mentioned to me to check that i have soundcore.o loaded, which it appears i have. Would it make a difference if i have ALSA and SOUND initialising at startup? should i switch one of them off? Does ALSA have any tools to configure it? Jamie Adams Housing Assistant Home Housing Association LTD T: (01723) 507543 41 Castle RoadF: (01723) 355862 ScarboroughE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
[newbie] Enlightment windows manager
Hello, I want to setup Enlightment windows manager in my system, but I can't find it in my system. I made countless searches but is nowhere. Each time I am trying to reinstall it the software manager is telling me that it is already installed... Maybe you give me a hint. Thanks, Alex Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year!http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Enlightment windows manager
When you log onto your machine, does it go in and give you a graphical prompt to login to? IF it does, it should give you the option. Enter in your userID, passwd and then select the Windows Manager from list. If you don't login in that way. And actually login and then type xinit, then here's what you need. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat .xinitrc exec enlightenment Create that file, and make sure it looks like that. If it says it's installed, then you should be good to go. Something else I'd suggest you install would be enlightenment-conf which should be on the Mandrake CDs as well. It's a very usual configuration too for Enlightenment. Hope that comes in handy. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 6:00am up 10:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | | Hello, | | I want to setup Enlightment windows manager in my system, but I can't find it in my |system. I made countless searches but is nowhere. Each time I am trying to reinstall |it the software manager is telling me that it is already installed... Maybe you give |me a hint. | | Thanks, | | Alex | | - | Do You Yahoo!? | Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! | http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --
[newbie] where is curses.h?
I am trying to compile a program and an getting a message saying that there is no such file or directory as curses.h. What package do i have to install to get that file? Thanks Preston --- Betti Ann Preston Smith Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGB RV Owners
RE: [newbie] where is curses.h?
Hiya, you have to install the NCurses packages. They should be on your first CD. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 July 2001 10:23 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] where is curses.h? I am trying to compile a program and an getting a message saying that there is no such file or directory as curses.h. What package do i have to install to get that file? Thanks Preston --- Betti Ann Preston Smith Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGB RV Owners _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie] Advice on modem purchase
I'm looking at buying an external modem because I currently have a poxy HSF Conexant Soft56K WINMODEM (ugh!). Am I right in assuming that all external modems are compatible with Linux? The modem that I'm considering is a Swann SpeedDemon 56K V.90 External Modem (serial) - the reason being that I can purchase it with my Telecom TalkingPoints... well free, I guess. If you can find out if the modem is decently Hayes compatible, you should not have any problem. Paul
Re: [newbie] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity.
Well, if your point was that it would be a good tax wrtie-off, I agree. It just amazes me that Bill et al can't see an opportunity even when it's being stuck in their faces. Were these people born stupid, greedy, and arrogant, or what? I think this whole issue clearly demonstrates how heartless Redmond can truly be! Maybe it's a petty attempt to get back at the world for something? I'm a firm believer in common sense. That's one of the reasons I like Linux. It just makes sense. And Microsoft stopped making sense a long time ago. What's next? Can these heartless pukes possibly screw up any more? Dan LaBine
Re: [newbie] Update Programs Via Mandrake Update?
Ok today came the security update for openssl and my mirror has it (i checked) it has the same name as the installed package only a .1 is added at the end of the name mandrake update wont see this it actually appeared in the installed section of mandrakeupdate but if i do a : # rpm -qa | grep openssl openssl-0.9.6-7mdk (MandrakeUpdate shows both as installed) it is NOT installed so i downloaded it manually and did : rpm -Uvh openssl-0.9.6-7.1mdk.i586.rpm and it updated fine . I mentioned this problem before cause i think it is important, cause it renders MandrakeUpdate absolutely useless since it is made for security updates . So we will have to leave MandrakeUpdate to the developers and get back to comandline and kpackage ... sad cause i think MandrakeUpdate is a great idea for a prog. If im missing something here please tell it to me cause i LOVE MandrakeUpdate and i would really like to use it. Btw. the update funktion in SNF still shows me an empty list even tho a few updates have been released since i installed it. Cheers On Thursday 19 July 2001 15:18, civileme wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 03:13, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my CUPS (as well other programs) to the newest version anyway, when I use Mandrake Update it fails saying that I already have CUPS (or the other programs I'm trying to install) installed. Can someone tell me how I can go about doing this, I assume I could do it manually by a: RPM -Uvh rpmname.rpm But if I could do it via Mandrake Update it'd be much more easier and effective for me. TIA Curtis PS Is this posting in HTML format, if so I'm sorry, Hotmail just changed everything and I'm not sure if it is or not, or how I can change it permanently to use non-HTML. Most of the time MandrakeUpdate will work; however, certain programs that handle regular expressions and pattern-matching DON'T work the same when a different locale is in place, thanks to newly-implemented POSIX standards. The resuklt is that the sorting for newer versions fails, seeing the update as the older version which is why it says that the package is already installed. Look at fun with regular expressions on www.mandrakeforum.com to get an idea of the scope of the problem. Civileme
Re: [newbie] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity.
Well look at it this way. How much of a tax write off do you think there is for giving way Windows9x? About 2% of what they would gain if the OS was bought legally. Even then, we all know that Microsoft has used very aggressive tactics with dealing with competition. So going after a few lowly charities, making them pay out the noise wit legal fees shows the rest of the competitors that they mean business. That if you step to the plate you'll get done up as well. Microsoft has never been about helping the public. They've always been about helping themselves. I mean they've stolen technology from other companies from day one. Why suddenly work for their billions? tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 7:20am up 12:03, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | Well, if your point was that it would be a good tax wrtie-off, I agree. It | just amazes me that Bill et al can't see an opportunity even when it's being | stuck in their faces. Were these people born stupid, greedy, and arrogant, or | what? I think this whole issue clearly demonstrates how heartless Redmond can | truly be! | | Maybe it's a petty attempt to get back at the world for something? I'm a firm | believer in common sense. That's one of the reasons I like Linux. It just | makes sense. And Microsoft stopped making sense a long time ago. | | What's next? Can these heartless pukes possibly screw up any more? | | Dan LaBine | --
Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX
Partial success, partial failure: On Wednesday 18 July 2001 11:55 am, Miark wrote: The nVidia drivers that come with Mandrake are not 3D capable. You'll need to go to nVidia's web site to download the proper driver RPMs and the Installation Guide. Okay, so now I'm clearly using the nVidia X module; I now get a pretty nVidia splash screen when X starts up, and I have a bunch more screen depths and resolutions to choose from. So that's great, and an excellent example of the successes one can have from reading the fine manual. So NOW when I launch tuxracer (just for instance--this actually happens with ALL full-screen gl apps), the screen blanks, I hear the monitor tick to a different frequency, my speakers play the first note of the music, and then nothing; I hang with a black screen. If I hit esc and ctrl-alt-del enough, I eventually get back to my desktop, having triggered the Log me out function in KDE, I guess. Sometimes I get KDE's Really? dialog, and other times I log all the way out and see KDM instead. The fine manual claims that such errors are caused by old or conflicting versions of GL libs laying around. I guess I have no reason to doubt that, but visual examination of the files (Appendix C of the fine manual) seems to indicate they're all of the nVidia variety. Surely somebody's come up against this before. Any hints at which of the libs is likely to be the one? Or should I rpm -U NVIDIA_GLX, then refresh Mesa, then manually delete all the conflicting components, and reinstall NVIDIA_GLX? Any other thoughts or opinions? -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com
Re: [newbie] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity.
Microsoft has never been about helping the public. They've always been about helping themselves. I mean they've stolen technology from other companies from day one. Why suddenly work for their billions? This is true. Even the primal MeSsy-Dos that was generated by Bill Gates and his partner (forgot his name) came partially from designs that were found in trashbins from several companies that tried to make something for the IBM PC. Paul
Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX
Yeah, here's an url to a little script that I just love. It checks to make sure the nvidia drivers are loaded, and that you have edited your xf86config file properly, but most importantly (and conveniently) checks for conflicting mesa files. http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A Download and run nv_check.sh and just rm -f all the files it finds -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 07:03 am, you wrote: Partial success, partial failure: So NOW when I launch tuxracer (just for instance--this actually happens with ALL full-screen gl apps), the screen blanks, I hear the monitor tick to a different frequency, my speakers play the first note of the music, and then nothing; I hang with a black screen. The fine manual claims that such errors are caused by old or conflicting versions of GL libs laying around. I guess I have no reason to doubt that, but visual examination of the files (Appendix C of the fine manual) seems to indicate they're all of the nVidia variety. Surely somebody's come up against this before. Any hints at which of the libs is likely to be the one? Or should I rpm -U NVIDIA_GLX, then refresh Mesa, then manually delete all the conflicting components, and reinstall NVIDIA_GLX? Any other thoughts or opinions?
[newbie]: printing address book
Dear All I use kmail. Can't remember which option I chose for address book layout but I can edit the address book in addbrowser. My machine is being repaired so I have no address book. This is a stupid situation - relying on one's computer is not good. When my computer comes back I want to print out my address book, if possible, in a decent and reasonable format. How can I do this. Ideally it would be good to transfer the Kde address book to some data base where is can be manipulated and laid out to print in A5 format (approx 1/2 standard letter size) and periodically revise the data base with the changed info and reprint those changed pages or add additional pages as the case may be. Using mdk8.0 Thanks Alan Smith South Africa
Re: [newbie] imwheel = no mouse
Thanks Sevatio! I feel like a right dork! I switched mice (plugged in the cordless Intellimouse), flicked the switches on both the mouse and its receiver, and it went haywire again (flickering along the top of the screen). I then rebooted the computer, and whaddayaknow? BINGO, I now have a mouse and scroll wheel! Why I didn't try switching the buttons before, I'll never know. Another problem solved. Thanks again. Cheers skinky - Original Message - From: Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 5:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] imwheel = no mouse Sorry, I just caught the tail end of this thread... You mention that you're having trouble with your cordless intellimouse. It should behave just like a regular mouse with a wheel. Have you tried pressing the Connect button on the mouse and its receiver? Or, if you have Windows installed, does the cordless mouse work there? Sevatio Original Message On 7/17/01, 3:12:43 PM, skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] imwheel = no mouse: Thanks...: To Charles and Siro Thanks for your help. Just getting to a terminal without a mouse was great! I didn't uninstall imwheel but as Charles suggested, I ran mousedrake and reconfigured my standard PS/2 mouse which is now working fine again. Had another go at trying to get the cordless intellimouse to work but no luck yet. At least I can use my std mouse in the meantime. I'll get around to the intellimouse someday ;-). Meanwhile, I just want to get to know Mandrake and learn more console commands. Thanks again. Cheers skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] bpermissions
There are some files and directories in /etc that only the root user is allowed to view. This is for security. If you want to back up /etc you should so so as root (just su to root from a console, or open a file manager in root mode). On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:51, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi, I'm trying to back up my /etc/ from a win98 box but some files get copied and others don't. Is this just a matter of setting permissions? if so what do I change them to. 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] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity.
Making donations to charity (either made by Microsoft or by The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation) is the best way for M$ to simultaneously create
good PR and gain new customers and revenue. Remember, software costs
basically nothing once its created. What people pay to buy software will
cover production costs (i.e. pay developers, etc.) and make the company a
tidy profit.
M$ can give away, say, 100 copies of Windos to a school. If the retail cost
of each copy of Windos is $100 then M$ can say that they gave 100 x $100 =
$10,000 worth of software to that school. In reality, since M$ _owns_ the
software, the real cost to them is the cost of the media and the cost to
print licenses. This would easily be less than $US 1 per copy, since they
mass-produce the stuff.
Now what about the hardware they donate? Doesn't M$ lose money on that? Well
they do, initially. Hardware is obviously needed for software to run, and
these poor schools cannot afford to buy any of this stuff on their own. M$
provide the hardware and the software, and make sure that the computers are
used in a productive way in the school so that they become indespensible. Now
what happens when a new version of Windos or M$ Office comes out? The schools
now feel compelled to upgrade their systems to the latest and greatest. After
all, there's no point in teaching children old technology, is there? This of
course costs money, something which these schools don't have very much of. M$
then make a profit by charging exhorbitant rates (even educational prices
are ridiculous) to upgrade the systems to the new software. Often, especially
in M$-Land, new software requires new hardware, so M$'s hardware partners
benefit. A computer network obviously needs administration and maintenance,
so the school must hire someone, preferably with an MCSE, to do the job.
Of course, in the centre of this are the impressionable minds of
schoolchildren. They learn at school (often indirectly) that M$ products are
good and that M$ is a nice company because it gave them the opportunity to
use computers at school (by donating them). When they go home, they convince
their parents and family friends that M$ products are good, and so they buy a
Windos computer for themselves, complete with M$ applications. And so the
cycle contuinues. The users grow used to M$ products and as a result do
not have any wish to change to something better. If they ever use something
else they just get annoyed that it isn't Windows (i.e. it doesn't behave
_exactly_ like Windows).
Anyway, I'll cut my rant there. I'm sure you all get my point.
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:16, Lanman wrote:
Here's an extra FYI for anyone following this thread. I heard somewhere
that Bill Gates and his wife were involved in a charity that gives
computers to kids in schools. You'd think that Bill would jump at the
chance of getting some good PR for a change, and help these schools. He can
certainly afford it! Good tax write-off too. Oh, well, maybe the whole
thing was a PR sham on his part ! HHm!
Dan LaBine
On July 18, 2001 06:45 am, you wrote:
At 02:32 AM 7/16/01 +1000, you wrote:
This is about a *charity* that is giving computers to *poor* people.
Chances are that these people have hardly ever touched a computer,
leave alone owning one (no insensitivity intended). Do you think they
can afford a copy of
Gotta add to this as this is a subject dear to my heart.
I recall reading/hearing somewhere that these _donated_ computers come
from the donors (typically large companies) with Windblows already
installed. Now I'm not sure of the fine print but haven't the donor
companies _already_ paid for the licence ?
Thus MS is effectively asking for payment twice for the same piece of
software. Most business I know realise that once you have paid for an
item _once_ you own it (case in point : when you buy pavers for your
house and then you sell your house, Boral doesn't expect the new owner to
pay for the pavers a second time).
Couldn't the donor companies just sign a bit of paper saying donated -
one old computer complete with windows installed ?
Or is M$ a special case ??
Once again M$ have led the field in the ever increasing race to screw
everyone. Starting with the people who can _least_ afford it.
It's a bloody charity M$ need to give a little and just say
naughty. We won't take it any further, if you just stop doing
it. Alternatively they could get a heart and allow the charity to
install win95 on machines that _dont_ come pre-loaded (remember these are
old machines so they probably won't run 2000/XP) subject to a 'cap' of
{say} 200 a year.
Alternatively, the charity could be innundated with offers of support
from the linux community asking if they have considered linux / open
office. And pointing out that the support offered by mailing lists is
very good...
Possibly even the local
