[newbie-it] Masterizzare e CD-ROM non SCSI
Ciao a tutti Sono alla ricerca di un modo per masterizzare on the fly con linux. Il programma in questione è cdrdao che ho scaricato ed installato unitamente con la sua comoda interfaccia gcdmaster. Ora, se vado a configurare le devices l'ovvio risultato è che il programma ne individua solo una: HP CDWriter 9500 in emulazione scsi (/dev/cdrom /dev/scd0) il problema è che ho un altro lettore CD IDE/ATAPI: è un Pioneer DVD-ROM 105 perfettamente perfettamente identificato dal sistema (mndrk 8.0) (/dev/cdrom2 /dev/hdd) e, soprattutto presente nella lista dei cdrom supportati da cdrdao. Cdrdao mi dice di inserire bus/id/lun ma non so dove troovarli (c'è un file etc?).Se qualcuno sapesse come fare e mi facesse partecipe già sarebbe una buona cosa. Ho letto poi che i lettori IDE/ATAPI possono essere configurati come SCSI, è veramente possibile? che vantaggi porta? Grazie per il costante (ed imprescindibile ) supporto.
[newbie-it] reti windows che fare???
Come faccio a far vedere a Mandrake8.0 le reti Windows? La scheda di rete è config. OK, ma nel momento in cui chiedo di sfogliare la Rete mi dice local host sconosciuto...:-(Come faccio a fargi vederi i vari Worksgroup Ho provato a configurare in Linuxconf la network ma buio totale;-) Grazie a Tutti!
Re: [newbie-it] conti di dipendenze che non tornano
Nell'anno di grazia 11:02, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Davide, avete scritto: ho un problema cercando di installare KDE 2.2 su una MKD 8.0. Utilizzo il CD trovato su LInux C. Ho seguito le istruzioni ma urpmi mi chiede kdegraphics 2.1.1-3mdk per kdegraphics-devel 2.1.1-3mkd. Il mio problema è che quei pacchetti sono già installati. Perchè non li vede? Attento, non e' che non li vede, presumibilmente quella versione di urpmi che hai gia' e' dipendente da quella sola versione gia' installata dei due pacchetti di kdegraphics (e quindi non compatibile con kdegraphics 2.2 o sup.). Quindi dato che urpmi a sua volta e' dipendente dai nuovi rpm e affini, devi installare versioni nuove di _tutti_ i programmi che dipendono dalle dipendenze :) In questo caso, a meno che non vuoi avere un sistema instabile ti consiglio di evitare il --nodeps, e di ricercarti una buona dozzina di pacchetti. Belle le dipendenze vero? :PP -- LU #210970 LM #98222 / MDK 8.2 su 2.4.10-ac9 -Cooker- [Chi e' pronto a dar via le proprie liberta' fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza non merita ne' la liberta' ne' la sicurezza - Benjamin Franklin]
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare e CD-ROM non SCSI
Nell'anno di grazia 15:35, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Marco Canapicchi, avete scritto: (/dev/cdrom /dev/scd0) il problema è che ho un altro lettore CD IDE/ATAPI: è un Pioneer DVD-ROM 105 perfettamente perfettamente identificato dal sistema (mndrk 8.0) (/dev/cdrom2 /dev/hdd) e, soprattutto presente nella lista dei cdrom supportati da cdrdao. Cdrdao mi dice di inserire bus/id/lun ma non so dove troovarli (c'è un file etc?). In questo caso hai bisogno dell'emulazione SCSI anche per il DVD-ROM, aggiungi una riga del tipo hdd=ide-scsi nel menu del bootloader (per lilo presumo che debba essere preceduta da append, io uso grub ...), poi con cdrecord -scanbus appaiono gli identificativi che ti servono [azzardo, ma con tutta probabilita sara' 0,1,0]. Nel fstab devi immettere il nuovo nome di device, ovviamente (/dev/scd1). -- LU #210970 LM #98222 / MDK 8.2 su 2.4.10-ac9 -Cooker- [Chi e' pronto a dar via le proprie liberta' fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza non merita ne' la liberta' ne' la sicurezza - Benjamin Franklin]
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare e CD-ROM non SCSI
LukenShiro wrote: Nell'anno di grazia 15:35, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Marco Canapicchi, avete scritto: (/dev/cdrom /dev/scd0) il problema è che ho un altro lettore CD IDE/ATAPI: è un Pioneer DVD-ROM 105 perfettamente perfettamente identificato dal sistema (mndrk 8.0) (/dev/cdrom2 /dev/hdd) e, soprattutto presente nella lista dei cdrom supportati da cdrdao. Cdrdao mi dice di inserire bus/id/lun ma non so dove troovarli (c'è un file etc?). In questo caso hai bisogno dell'emulazione SCSI anche per il DVD-ROM, aggiungi una riga del tipo hdd=ide-scsi nel menu del bootloader (per lilo presumo che debba essere preceduta da append, io uso grub ...), poi con cdrecord -scanbus appaiono gli identificativi che ti servono [azzardo, ma con tutta probabilita sara' 0,1,0]. Nel fstab devi immettere il nuovo nome di device, ovviamente (/dev/scd1). Ho fatto tutto ciò ma continua ad esserci qualcosa che non torna: Quel che non capisco è come ridirezionare /dev/cdrom2 in modo che non punti più ad hdd ma a scd1. Il mio etc/fstab è /dev/hde6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 ma se sostituisco /dev/cdrom2 con /dev/scd1 non riesco a leggere il contenuto del cd (ovvio, dirai hdd non punta a scd1). Ma allora come posso fare? Grazie mille e scusa ancora la mia ignoranza Marco
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Re: [newbie-it] reti windows che fare???
Per fare quello che dici, hai bisogno del pacchetto samba che implementa il protocollo netbios delle reti microzozz.. - Original Message - From: Christian Orlandelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:16 PM Subject: [newbie-it] reti windows che fare??? Come faccio a far vedere a Mandrake8.0 le reti Windows? La scheda di rete è config. OK, ma nel momento in cui chiedo di sfogliare la Rete mi dice local host sconosciuto...:-(Come faccio a fargi vederi i vari Worksgroup Ho provato a configurare in Linuxconf la network ma buio totale;-) Grazie a Tutti!
[newbie-it] Noatun
Ciao a tutti, qualcuno di voi riesce ad aprire i file wav con Noatun senza che crashi? C'e' un player per waw alternativo nella distribuzione di MDK8.0? Ciao Luigi -- Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Via San Lorenzo 53, 56127 Pisa Tel.: +39/0347/8707210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] samba?
Ok il pacchetto samba ce l'ho ma dove si configuraHo provato da terminale a digitare samba start e mi ha attivato qualcosa, ma ho bisogno di una interfaccia grafica like risorse di rete di winzozz.Grazie
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare e CD-ROM non SCSI
Nell'anno di grazia 20:52, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Marco Canapicchi, avete scritto: Ho fatto tutto ciò ma continua ad esserci qualcosa che non torna: Quel che non capisco è come ridirezionare /dev/cdrom2 in modo che non punti più ad hdd ma a scd1. La soluzione semplice e' quella di cancellare il link simbolico /dev/cdrom2 e crearne uno /dev/cdrom2 - /dev/scd1 [con ln -s] P.S. Controlla che cmq sia davvero /dev/scd1 e non si chiami in altro modo (es. /dev/sr1): lo vedi in dmesg|less Salut, Lk -- LU #210970 LM #98222 / MDK 8.2 su 2.4.10-ac9 -Cooker- [Chi e' pronto a dar via le proprie liberta' fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza non merita ne' la liberta' ne' la sicurezza - Benjamin Franklin]
Re: [newbie-it] Noatun
Nell'anno di grazia 15:14, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Luigi De Pascale, avete scritto: qualcuno di voi riesce ad aprire i file wav con Noatun senza che crashi? C'e' un player per waw alternativo nella distribuzione di MDK8.0? Non mi son mai posto il problema, ma ho visto che crasha anche a me, cmq nel pacchetto sox c'e' un play (testuale) e nel pacchetto SDL_mixer-player (che pare necessitare pero' di XFree-4.1x se non ricordo male) c'e' playwave (sempre testuale), che funzionano perfettamente, per il resto non saprei ... -- LU #210970 LM #98222 / MDK 8.2 su 2.4.10-ac9 -Cooker- [Chi e' pronto a dar via le proprie liberta' fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza non merita ne' la liberta' ne' la sicurezza - Benjamin Franklin]
Re: [newbie-it] winmodem tar impazzito
Ciao, sono nelle tue stesse condizioni, per cui nonostante che nell'utilizzo di Linux sia alla a dell' abc (e penso di non averla capita neanche bene) penso di poterti rispondere. Al momento il nostro modem (o meglio winmodem) non è compatibile con Linux, ovvero non funzia! Il motivo è che non esiste un driver Linux in grado di gestirlo per cui, come fosse cacca! Ho detto al momento perchè il sito della Conexant comunica che un driver dedicato sarà disponibile verso la fine di quest'anno.. per cui, pazientare! Ciao, Fabio - Original Message - From: luigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:54 PM Subject: [newbie-it] winmodem tar impazzito ciao alla lista: qualcuno e` riuscito a far funzionare un winmodem conexant/rockwell softk56? da limodem non c'ho capito un'accidenti! me lo spieghereste passo a passo (versione per uno che non sa neanche i tasti che c son nella tastiera!)? in piu` il tar non mi fa decomprimere i file anche se uso la sintassi giusta (copiata paro paro dal manuale). qualcuno mi sa dire che e` successo al mio tar? (ho una mk8.0 e il tar e` installato) grazie a tutti = aveva la coscienza pulita: mai usata S.J. Lec __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie-it] samba?
Nell'anno di grazia 21:11, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Christian Orlandelli, avete scritto: Ok il pacchetto samba ce l'ho ma dove si configura Hai dato un'occhiata al SMB-HowTo? nella distribuzione c'e' e pure in italiano ... -- LU #210970 LM #98222 / MDK 8.2 su 2.4.10-ac9 -Cooker- [Chi e' pronto a dar via le proprie liberta' fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza non merita ne' la liberta' ne' la sicurezza - Benjamin Franklin]
Re: [newbie-it] winmodem tar impazzito
Nell'anno di grazia 16:49, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Fabio Manunza, avete scritto: averla capita neanche bene) penso di poterti rispondere. Al momento il nostro modem (o meglio winmodem) non è compatibile con Linux, ovvero non funzia! Il motivo è che non esiste un driver Linux in grado di gestirlo per cui, come fosse cacca! Mi sembra che devi affidarti ad un modulo esterno, dai un'occhiata a: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO/index.html (ma solo perche' non riesco ad accedere stranamente a www.pluto.linux.it, che dovrebbe avere la versione italiana abbastanza recente credo, quindi non posso controllare ...). Ovviamente non avendo quel modem non rispondo di esplosioni-implosioni-cataclismi e funghi di Bill che escono dal case :PP -- LU #210970 LM #98222 / MDK 8.2 su 2.4.10-ac9 -Cooker- [Chi e' pronto a dar via le proprie liberta' fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza non merita ne' la liberta' ne' la sicurezza - Benjamin Franklin]
Re: [newbie-it] Noatun
Nell'anno di grazia 17:04, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer luigi pinna, avete scritto: in teoria ci sarebbe installato anche xmms il clone di winamp ma a me dalla mk8.0 non parte... Non parte perche' devi polverizzare il file /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/xmms.o (dato che nella vers. 1.2.4 c'e' un baco nella localizzazione italiana) -- LU #210970 LM #98222 / MDK 8.2 su 2.4.10-ac9 -Cooker- [Chi e' pronto a dar via le proprie liberta' fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza non merita ne' la liberta' ne' la sicurezza - Benjamin Franklin]
Re: [newbie-it] winmodem tar impazzito
Nell'anno di grazia 14:54, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer luigi pinna, avete scritto: il tar non mi fa decomprimere i file anche se uso la sintassi giusta (copiata paro paro dal manuale). qualcuno mi sa dire che e` successo al mio tar? (ho una mk8.0 e il tar e` installato) Che errori da' in specifico? Sicuro che gli archivi da scompattare siano integri e non corrotti? per i tar.gz usi tar xvzf e per i tar.bz2 usi tar xvjf, no? Casomai aggiorna ad una versione piu' recente il pacchetto tar (ma non credo proprio che il probl sia quello ...) P.S. in generale, cercate di fare il favore di mandare tutti i dettagli conosciuti relativi ad un problema, evitiamo una serie di battute a colpi di mail che fan perdere tempo e basta ... -- LU #210970 LM #98222 / MDK 8.2 su 2.4.10-ac9 -Cooker- [Chi e' pronto a dar via le proprie liberta' fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza non merita ne' la liberta' ne' la sicurezza - Benjamin Franklin]
[newbie-it] Gestionale
Salve, qualcuno conosce un gestionale robusto per linux? Ovviamnte non mi aspetto di trovare programmi GPL e/o gratuiti anche perchè c'è l'esigenza dei continui aggiornamenti per l'adeguamento alle normative. Saluti Max
Re: [newbie-it] reti windows che fare???
On Friday 19 October 2001 14:47, you wrote: Per fare quello che dici, hai bisogno del pacchetto samba che implementa il protocollo netbios delle reti microzozz.. - Original Message - From: Christian Orlandelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:16 PM Subject: [newbie-it] reti windows che fare??? Come faccio a far vedere a Mandrake8.0 le reti Windows? La scheda di rete è config. OK, ma nel momento in cui chiedo di sfogliare la Rete mi dice local host sconosciuto...:-(Come faccio a fargi vederi i vari Worksgroup Ho provato a configurare in Linuxconf la network ma buio totale;-) Grazie a Tutti! Ti consiglio di usare LinNeighborhood, cercalo su www.rpmfind.net
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare e CD-ROM non SCSI
LukenShiro wrote: Nell'anno di grazia 20:52, venerdì 19 ottobre 2001, Voi, Messer Marco Canapicchi, avete scritto: Ho fatto tutto ciò ma continua ad esserci qualcosa che non torna: Quel che non capisco è come ridirezionare /dev/cdrom2 in modo che non punti più ad hdd ma a scd1. La soluzione semplice e' quella di cancellare il link simbolico /dev/cdrom2 e crearne uno /dev/cdrom2 - /dev/scd1 [con ln -s] P.S. Controlla che cmq sia davvero /dev/scd1 e non si chiami in altro modo (es. /dev/sr1): lo vedi in dmesg|less Salut, Lk ok ho fatto tutto ma si salta da dubbio in dubbio. Mi spiego: lancio dmsg|less ed ho: (nella situazione /dev/cdrom2 /dev/hdd) .. autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=3 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 696k freed Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1) scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: HPModel: CD-Writer+ 9500 Rev: 1.0e Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850 MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=3 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 696k freed Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1) scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: HPModel: CD-Writer+ 9500 Rev: 1.0e Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850 .. non si parla neanche di un altra emulazione: c'è quella e basta. Ho fatto alcuni tentativi ma il risultato non cambia. Scusa la pedanza ma l'appetito vien mangiando. Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Noatun
--- Luigi De Pascale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, qualcuno di voi riesce ad aprire i file wav con Noatun senza che crashi? C'e' un player per waw alternativo nella distribuzione di MDK8.0? Ciao Luigi in teoria ci sarebbe installato anche xmms il clone di winamp ma a me dalla mk8.0 non parte... prova: da kde mi sembra sia o in multimedia o in suono = aveva la coscienza pulita: mai usata S.J. Lec __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
[newbie-it] quanto puo essere lungo
Quanto pu essere lungo il collegamento tra due schede di rete utilizando per il collegamento un cavo coassiale? Ciao claudio
Re: [newbie-it] quanto puo essere lungo
At 13.55 18/10/01, claudio duchi wrote: Quanto pu essere lungo il collegamento tra due schede di rete utilizando per il collegamento un cavo coassiale? 192 metri, se non ricordo male. Ciao, Lux.
[newbie] Recording/burning question
Hi All People, I have downloaded Mandrake-Linux 8.1 ISO Images from Internet to a Windows PC for preparing the installing discs Burning software : Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum Burning speed of CD Writer : 2X, 4X, 8X Kindly advise 1. To select which record mode a) Track-At-Once b) Disc-At-Once 2. To select which write speed a) 2 x (300KB/sec) b) 4 x (600KB/sec) c) 8 x (1200KB/sec) 3. Can I use CD RW disc for multi-record CDROM for software installation 4. How to check the recording condition of the CD after burning. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Minimising applications
Hi Guys When I minimise any application, such as KMail or Gabber, it used to dock into the panel. Now however it disappears completely and I must restrt the application, losing anything in progress. Has anyone else found this and have they fixed it ? This is using 8.1 by the way. Regards Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Corrupted files -RPM
Hi All People, I have downloaded Mandrake-Linux 8.1 ISO Images from Internet to a Windows PC and burt 3 installation discs with Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum. During installing following files were found corrupted xmms-kjofol-skins-1.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm xmms-more-vis-plugins-unsafe-1.4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm xmms-skins-1.0.0-11mdk.noarch.rpm I checked RPMNet but could not find them there. Kindly advise where can I have them downloaded. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount LM8.1 - Getting it to Work - FYI
Sorry it took so long to reply. Have you tried creating an icon on your desktop for your zip device? That icon should have the eject option to make it more convenient. Unless of course you like using the terminal. Sevatio Original Message On 10/15/01, 11:49:54 AM, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Supermount LM8.1 - Getting it to Work - FYI: On Thursday 11 October 2001 18:34, thou sayeth unto thee: Sorry, I don't have any zip drives. Just fool around with the line responsible for your zip drive in /etc/fstab . Perhaps you could post that line for us to see and then we can make some educated guesses. Sevatio This is what I've modified my /etc/fstab to say about my zip drive: /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/hdd4,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 It still mounts and accesses ok, but it is not supermounted. I cannot eject the zip by pressing the eject button. I have to umount /mnt/zip to eject my zip disk. This is an internal IDE 100 MB zip drive. -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician / Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. Everything seems fine except for my zip drive. HardDrake shows it is on /dev/hdb. When i insert a zip disk and click on the zip icon, I get the following message: mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist Anybody know why i have this problem? I can't seem to solve it. I never had this problem when I tried Suse 7.1... Computer spec: K6-2 500 HP CDRW IBM 15gig HD Seagate 20gig HD Creative AWE64 WinTV Nokia Game is on again. Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new all media adventure before November 3rd. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still Yurik
On Thursday 18 October 2001 09:38, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:13, michael wrote: Am I the only person still getting these Bounces back from Mail Delivery Subsystem regarding [EMAIL PROTECTED]? No, I am still getting them also. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson It is a blocked-domain message and I have written to the postmaster who has it blocked and he suggested a solution which I have passed on to our folks and to Yurik. Civileme QA team [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Corrupted files -RPM
During installing following files were found corrupted xmms-kjofol-skins-1.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm xmms-more-vis-plugins-unsafe-1.4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm xmms-skins-1.0.0-11mdk.noarch.rpm Kindly advise where can I have them downloaded. Hi Stephen, http://www.xmms.org/skins.html http://matrix.linux-help.org/skins/ That should get you somewhere. Remember: www.google.com/linux is your friend! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Friday 19 October 2001 03:27 am, Khairil Osman wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. Everything seems fine except for my zip drive. HardDrake shows it is on /dev/hdb. When i insert a zip disk and click on the zip icon, I get the following message: mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist Anybody know why i have this problem? I can't seem to solve it. I never had this problem when I tried Suse 7.1... Computer spec: K6-2 500 HP CDRW IBM 15gig HD Seagate 20gig HD Creative AWE64 WinTV Well, I can tell you what I did to get mine to work, ymmv. Mine is an ide 250. Fstab had it listed as a /dev/hdd4 but harddrake saw it: /dev/hdd I changed /etc/fstab to: /dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0 and now I can mount it. I have supermount disabled still at this point. I'm just happy I can manually mount everything now. :-) So anyway, try changing your /etc/fstab to /dev/hdb and mounting it. hth, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /dev/ttyS3
Hello, I repost this message as I've got no reply, and I need to be sure about that stuff to solve another problem. I would like to know whether or not ttyS3 and ttyS03 are the same thing ? dmesg | grep tty, gives me : ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A but I don't have a device ttyS03 but ttyS3. Why does it give me 03 instead of 3 ? Thanks. Francois Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/ttyS3
I would like to know whether or not ttyS3 and ttyS03 are the same thing ? dmesg | grep tty, gives me : ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A but I don't have a device ttyS03 but ttyS3. Why does it give me 03 instead of 3 ? Thanks. Francois I am no expert on this but I guess that it is the same thing. ttyS3 is com port 4. ttyS03 is on the address and IRQ level of com port 4. Probably this is just a difference in representation. I checked this at my home linux box, and came to the same conclusions through grep as you posted here. ttyS00 does not exist either in /dev/ttyS*, ttyS0 does. S0 is com port 1, and S00 shows the address and IRQ level for com port one. That matches in the same way as S3 and S03. So my educated guess is that this is okay. They are the same. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] printer
I set up a printer using printtool. After that, I can print file by typing lp file1.ps but I cannot print webpage from netscape by selecting file- print? Can you advice me what is the problem? Many thanks Dechao Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printer
I set up a printer using printtool. After that, I can print file by typing lp file1.ps but I cannot print webpage from netscape by selecting file- print? Can you advice me what is the problem? In the prefs of netscape, check if the proper printer things are set up, if you can find those. I have to admit I never did any printing from Netscape. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bastille Firewall pop-3
Thanks, I think it was causing me trouble because of the mispelling. :) -Paul Rodríguez On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 06:46, Paul wrote: In reply to Paul Rodriguez's words, written Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:22:34 -0700 (PDT) How important is adding pop-3 to the list of TCP services to audit in InteractiveBastille? It would be pop3, and if you don't allow that to go through, you won't be able to get mail from a pop3 server. If you only do webmail that would be fine. Paul -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. =_1003467146-1734-1436 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie]
Title: RE: [newbie] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of s Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] On Friday 19 October 2001 03:27 am, Khairil Osman wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. Everything seems fine except for my zip drive. HardDrake shows it is on /dev/hdb. When i insert a zip disk and click on the zip icon, I get the following message: mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist Anybody know why i have this problem? I can't seem to solve it. I never had this problem when I tried Suse 7.1... Computer spec: K6-2 500 HP CDRW IBM 15gig HD Seagate 20gig HD Creative AWE64 WinTV Well, I can tell you what I did to get mine to work, ymmv. Mine is an ide 250. Fstab had it listed as a /dev/hdd4 but harddrake saw it: /dev/hdd I changed /etc/fstab to: /dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0 and now I can mount it. I have supermount disabled still at this point. I'm just happy I can manually mount everything now. :-) So anyway, try changing your /etc/fstab to /dev/hdb and mounting it. hth, -s I just did a right click on the zip icon and selected propertiesexecute clicked on the drop down arrow and reselected the device and it filled in the proper location and such. then OK and out and the icon functions as it should. HTH Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] setting up printer
mandrake control centre i.e. DrakConf - Original Message - From: dechao wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:04 AM Subject: [newbie] setting up printer where can i find the instruction for setting up printer? Dech Nokia Game is on again. Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new all media adventure before November 3rd. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Minimising applications
Just a guess from my experience...: With KDE 2.2, I have this problem as well (sometimes). Do you happen to have any special applets on your KDE panel running? That KSysguard/System resource-type meter seems to be the culprit sometimes... btw, if your program disappears, instead of ending up on the panel, you can still ALT+TAB and access the program. Maybe someone else on the list knows more. pesarif - Original Message - From: Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Minimising applications Hi Guys When I minimise any application, such as KMail or Gabber, it used to dock into the panel. Now however it disappears completely and I must restrt the application, losing anything in progress. Has anyone else found this and have they fixed it ? This is using 8.1 by the way. Regards Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount LM8.1 - Getting it to Work - FYI
On Friday 19 October 2001 04:13, you wrote: Sorry it took so long to reply. Have you tried creating an icon on your desktop for your zip device? That icon should have the eject option to make it more convenient. Unless of course you like using the terminal. Sevatio Thanks for the help Sevatio! I had to recreate the zip drive icon on my KDE desktop for things to work properly. Once I did that, I could mount and unmount the zip drive properly. One minor annoyance left is that when I unmount the zip disk, I still have to manually eject it, but it's better than it not working at all! :-) -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture [EMAIL PROTECTED] 434.982.3047 -- Registered Linux User #218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good solid stable sound editing software?
what sort of things are you trying to do? i have used DAP: www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~richardk/ there is a binary rpm which works fine on my system, it has sometimes crashed out with files over 100MB in size but that may be because i didn't have enough ram and/or swap there is also an rpm for audacity, have you tried that? bascule On Friday 19 October 2001 6:03 pm, you wrote: Please help me, the programme is too hard. I installed wx windows I am very upset at the results, I was told that this is a good programme, yet it fails, what gives? Neither the rpm works or the damn source code compiles! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DSL and 8.1
I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and thouroughly enjoy it. I'm trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on a standalone Linux box. I'm a bit confused by the set up process using the Mandrake Control Center. It detects my NIC (3com 3c90x) without a problem, but it gives me set up options that I don't understand: under the NetworkInternet - Connection settings of the Control Center, it has one section called Internet Access and another called LAN configuration. Now, I'm on a standalone machine. Do I need to configure both of these to get to the Internet thru the DSL modem attached to my NIC? When I try the wizard or the Expert mode, I can't get the thing to connect. I also tried Roaring Penguin's software. It appears to connect, but then I can't actually ping anything or use any of the browsers that come with Mandrake. Also, if this isn't too much to ask, I'd also like to know the _process_. That is, in M$Windows, I know what files are involved in the TCP/IP configuration, and I know where to look. I don't have a clear idea of the same thing on Linux, and a lot of the man pages and HOWTOs appear to be written with a lot of *nix knowledge assumed. Thanks, -Paul Well, how did I get here? Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 October 2001 12:17, Paul Schwebel opined on the topic: [newbie] DSL and 8.1 I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and thouroughly enjoy it. I'm trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on a standalone Linux box. Is the DSL modem an external modem/router/bridge, or an internal card? I will assume an external DLS modem... I'm a bit confused by the set up process using the Mandrake Control Center. It detects my NIC (3com 3c90x) without a problem, but it gives me set up options that I don't understand: under the NetworkInternet - Connection settings of the Control Center, it has one section called Internet Access and another called LAN configuration. Now, I'm on a standalone machine. Do I need to configure both of these to get to the Internet thru the DSL modem attached to my NIC? Just use the LAN Configuration. Ignore the other options. I also tried Roaring Penguin's software. It appears to connect, but then I can't actually ping anything or use any of the browsers that come with Mandrake. Using the LAN connection setup, you don't really need PPPOE. Also, if this isn't too much to ask, I'd also like to know the _process_. That is, in M$Windows, I know what files are involved in the TCP/IP configuration, and I know where to look. I don't have a clear idea of the same thing on Linux, and a lot of the man pages and HOWTOs appear to be written with a lot of *nix knowledge assumed. I have DSL at home, with an external DSL modem/router, and it works like this: The DSL router (which is really what it is) acts as my default gateway. It connects to my ISP all by itself, and it contains all the user, password, etc. information it needs to do this automatically. I can completely ignore it. My various PCs (one Windows, one RedHat Linux server that does DHCP for me plus some other services, one Mandrake 8.1 laptop) all use the DSL router as their default gateway (this option is assigned by the DHCP server). They are all connected via a hub, and the router is also on the hub. Pretty basic, right? You are even more basic, just a single PC with a crossover ethernet cable connecting you to your DSL router/modem. I need to make another assumption: your DSL modem is also acting as a router, and not a bridge. This means that it is also acting like a mini-firewall, masquerading your internal network (even if it is just one PC) from the external Internet. If it were a bridge, then your PCs would all need to have public IP addresses, and you would want a real firewall in place to protect them. Your router is probably also set up to do DHCP for you (mine was, but I disabled it) on your internal network. Therefore, you can choose a LAN Connection, and simply tell Mandrake to use DHCP for your NIC. And that's it. The DSL router (acting as a gateway and DHCP server) takes care of the rest. If you want the nitty-gritty on exactly which config files are used to set up your networking, consult the networking-howto. Hope this helps, Dave -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE70GSHA68l26XsZUYRArr8AJ92Z4AH0tJOYhfYTFu00IHVAjnKhACbB3OU UTK9nqZMjzew5h1IYTyVQDU= =EW72 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0
In reply to Bernard Victor's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:52:49 +0100 I am using Mandrake 7.1 without any problems, however when I tried to update to Mandrake 8.0 I could not connect to my ISP as I gather they do not use PAP. Is there any way I can get around this. Is there anyway I can get around this. The same thing happened when I tried SUSE, so I presume later versions of kpp only recognise PAP based ISP's. Bernard Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] A tip (I had to figure this out a while ago): set up minicom as root if you have not done that already. Then log in as yourself, and use minicom to dial your isp. (atdt phonenumber) Write down the exact prompts you see and also the exact things you type in there. When you are logged on, press alt-h to hang up and alt-z x to quit minicom. Then go into kppp and in the isp add a script thingy that is exactly as you saw in minicom. So: expect login send loginname and so on. I admit, it is not professional, but this way it works. Setting up the script it not difficult, it shows itself. Paul -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slight printing problem
In reply to Terry's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:01:58 -0400 Guess that would help some, huh? :-) The printer I have configured is a HP LaserJet 4/4M Plus PS using the Mandrake-supplied driver for it. If I look at the properties for the printer in KUPS, there is no driver listed. It is a network socket printer (damn window$ print server won't let me connect to it, so I had to just bypass it completely). If I click on the printer icon on the desktop, and go to properties, there is no Advanced tab or button for me to click on. First set it up as a HP Laserjet series 2. That is also a PCL printer, and that's quite nicely what you want. I think the advanced stuff there should do your trick. Paul -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1
If you're using a standalone computer, you don't need to setup any LAN settings. I'm not sure whay you would be having trouble connecting using the Control Center. Did you set the primary and secondary DNS numbers that your DSL provider gave you? Using the roaring penguin software, check to see whether the ping/browsing problem is ocurring just as a regular user or as root as well. It may be a problem with firewall settings. Also, as far as documentation, check out the man pages for adsl-setupand adsl-start. -Paul Rodríguez On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 13:17, Paul Schwebel wrote: I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and thouroughly enjoy it. I'm trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on a standalone Linux box. I'm a bit confused by the set up process using the Mandrake Control Center. It detects my NIC (3com 3c90x) without a problem, but it gives me set up options that I don't understand: under the NetworkInternet - Connection settings of the Control Center, it has one section called Internet Access and another called LAN configuration. Now, I'm on a standalone machine. Do I need to configure both of these to get to the Internet thru the DSL modem attached to my NIC? When I try the wizard or the Expert mode, I can't get the thing to connect. I also tried Roaring Penguin's software. It appears to connect, but then I can't actually ping anything or use any of the browsers that come with Mandrake. Also, if this isn't too much to ask, I'd also like to know the _process_. That is, in M$Windows, I know what files are involved in the TCP/IP configuration, and I know where to look. I don't have a clear idea of the same thing on Linux, and a lot of the man pages and HOWTOs appear to be written with a lot of *nix knowledge assumed. Thanks, -Paul Well, how did I get here? Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com =_1003511917-1734-1565 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Uninstall Netscape?
How can i remove Netscape from the hard disk. I installed it with a .tar.gz file in /usr/local/netscape but I can't find a uninstall file.
Re: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0
On Friday 19 October 2001 5:52 pm, you wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.1 without any problems, however when I tried to update to Mandrake 8.0 I could not connect to my ISP as I gather they do not use PAP. Is there any way I can get around this. Is there anyway I can get around this. The same thing happened when I tried SUSE, so I presume later versions of kpp only recognise PAP based ISP's. Bernard Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same problem as my ISP uses CHAP. Have you tried to select CHAP ? HTH Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Netscape?
In reply to Tom's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:01:42 -0300 How can i remove Netscape from the hard disk. I installed it with a .tar.gz file in /usr/local/netscape but I can't find a uninstall file. Sometimes make uninstall works. No garantuee though -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slight printing problem
Subject: Re: [newbie] Slight printing problem Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:34:11 -0400 From: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 19 October 2001 19:36, you wrote: In reply to Terry's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:01:58 -0400 First set it up as a HP Laserjet series 2. That is also a PCL printer, and that's quite nicely what you want. I think the advanced stuff there should do your trick. Paul I still don't have an advanced tab or button of any sort, even after changing the driver to a LaserJet II Series printer. The only tabs that show up when I click on the properties for the printer are General and Filters. I even removed the printer and reinstalled it, with the same results. Any other suggestions from someone? Thanks in advance, -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture [EMAIL PROTECTED] 434.982.3047 -- Registered Linux User #218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slight printing problem
In Kups the driver is listed in the properties Tab. You can see the print parameters if you press the 'Change' button and select the same driver again. Or else you can configure it using SWAT (localhost:631) There is an Advanced Tab for that printer (KUPS or SWAT will display the options), the bad news is none of the parameters adjust bottom margin. You might like to check out anotherdriver. In KUPS the driver above the LaserJet 4/4M Plus PS is listed as 'LaserJet 4 Series' However if you use SWAT you can see the full name is 'LaserJet 4 Series CUPS plus GIMP Print' I have not tried it since I do not have a LaserJet 4, but everything I have read about print drivers has said the GIMP drivers are usually superior to the standard drivers. Certainly for graphics work. Maybe it will handle the bottom margin differently. If all else fails you might check out the 'Adjust margins and offsets of printed pages ' tool you can see if you select 'K menu' Configuration Printing At least its there in LM 8.1 (I've no idea how to use it) :-) HTH Derek On Friday 19 October 2001 5:01 pm, Terry wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 10:58, you wrote: It may depend on your printer, but with my HP Deskjet all I have to do is click on the Printer icon on the desktop, select Properties, select the 'Advanced Tab', and then top bottom margins etc can be adjusted. It might help if you told us which printer you have and which driver you are using? Derek Guess that would help some, huh? :-) The printer I have configured is a HP LaserJet 4/4M Plus PS using the Mandrake-supplied driver for it. If I look at the properties for the printer in KUPS, there is no driver listed. It is a network socket printer (damn window$ print server won't let me connect to it, so I had to just bypass it completely). If I click on the printer icon on the desktop, and go to properties, there is no Advanced tab or button for me to click on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm appears broken
Anyone know how to fix these errors? $ studio Error in startup script: couldn't execute /usr/lib/SoundStudio/studio_tool: no such file or directory while executing exec $FILE(Tool) diagnostics (procedure CARDSetter line 5) invoked from within CARDSetter (file /usr/lib/SoundStudio/init.tk line 157) invoked from within source $MYFILES/init.tk (file /usr//bin/studio line 33) $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Importing fonts
Hi Guys Where can I find the import fonts utility, I'm sure there was one under 8.0 ? I'm using 8.1. Is there somewhere I can set up a firewall using KDE ? Thanks Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/ttyS3
port one. That matches in the same way as S3 and S03. So my educated guess is that this is okay. They are the same. Thank you Paul, Francois Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Importing fonts
In reply to Mark Annandale's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:59:10 +0100 Where can I find the import fonts utility, I'm sure there was one under 8.0 ? I'm using 8.1. In 8.0you could use DrakFont. I assume it still is there. Is there somewhere I can set up a firewall using KDE ? Sure. Run InteractiveBastille for the big one, or use Tiny Firewall in mcc for a simple setup. Paul -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~
In reply to Valerie Cheng's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:03:44 -0400 Hi Valerie, /boot is EMPTY?? Then somehow you managed to delete everything in there as root user. I am afraid you have to reinstall unless you have a backup. /boot contains all the kernels and such. But wait a few, perhaps another person knows something better. Paul Hi, Please help me... My LILO disappeared.. and when I run lilo to install it, it says that /boot/boot.b is missing... I checked is /boot and it's empty... what do I do??? *sniff sniff* Any help is appreciated~ Valerie -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~
On Friday 19 October 2001 06:20 pm, you were observed remarking: In reply to Valerie Cheng's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:03:44 -0400 Hi Valerie, /boot is EMPTY?? Then somehow you managed to delete everything in there as root user. I am afraid you have to reinstall unless you have a backup. /boot contains all the kernels and such. But wait a few, perhaps another person knows something better. Paul Hi, Please help me... My LILO disappeared.. and when I run lilo to install it, it says that /boot/boot.b is missing... I checked is /boot and it's empty... what do I do??? *sniff sniff* Any help is appreciated~ Valerie Val: My favourite disaster recovery technique is to insert cd1 of 8.1 and choose 'expert' and 'upgrade'...that way all your mail and stuff stays there -- -michael- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0
Title: RE: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Annandale Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] kpp problems on update to 8.0 On Friday 19 October 2001 5:52 pm, you wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.1 without any problems, however when I tried to update to Mandrake 8.0 I could not connect to my ISP as I gather they do not use PAP. Is there any way I can get around this. Is there anyway I can get around this. The same thing happened when I tried SUSE, so I presume later versions of kpp only recognise PAP based ISP's. Bernard Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same problem as my ISP uses CHAP. Have you tried to select CHAP ? HTH Mark The newest version of Kppp on 8.1 recognizes several protocols. Go to the internet icon click setup highlight the connection and click edit or modify(don't remember which. Then look for the authentication protocol and a popup with chap, pap, something else. Try chap then the others till you get one that works. HTH Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] HD spin down
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: OK, I did this: hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? I don't think there's meant to be a space between the S and the number. Here's what I use: hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda You can ignore the c1d1 here. Notice, however, the S242 (242 = 1 hour) on the end of the tag. Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else (including X) running. Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't know about the other journalling FSs. Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1
--- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 12:17, Paul Schwebel I'm trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on a standalone Linux box. Is the DSL modem an external modem/router/bridge, or an internal card? I will assume an external DLS modem... This is an external DSL modem. I'm fairly sure it's not a router, since my PC, formerly WinMe, was responsible for a user ID and password. I'm a bit confused by the set up process using the Mandrake Control Center. It detects my NIC (3com . . . standalone machine. Do I need to configure both of these to get to the Internet thru the DSL modem attached to my NIC? Just use the LAN Configuration. Ignore the other options. I will try this. Also, if this isn't too much to ask, I'd also like to know the _process_. That is, in M$Windows, I know . . . would want a real firewall in place to protect them. Your router is probably also set up to do DHCP for you (mine was, but I disabled it) on your internal network. Therefore, you can choose a LAN Connection, and simply tell Mandrake to use DHCP for your NIC. And that's it. The DSL router (acting as a gateway and DHCP server) takes care of the rest. Again, I will try this, but I think my DSL device is strictly a modem. When I was running WinMe, I had it configured for DHCP. When I first started playing with Linux, I had a SuSE 7.1 install that worked by using rp-pppoe, but I'm still so new at Linux that I don't know what else is required for the connection. When I set up rp-pppoe on Mandrake I still couldn't connect. If you want the nitty-gritty on exactly which config files are used to set up your networking, consult the networking-howto. Hope this helps, Dave Thanks, this is all very informative, -Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 October 2001 15:08, Paul Schwebel opined on the topic: Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1 --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 12:17, Paul Schwebel I'm trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on a standalone Linux box. Is the DSL modem an external modem/router/bridge, or an internal card? I will assume an external DLS modem... This is an external DSL modem. I'm fairly sure it's not a router, since my PC, formerly WinMe, was responsible for a user ID and password. If this is the case, then my advice is probably incorrect. Unfortunately, I haven't dealt with the type of DSL you have, so I don't think I can help... Dave -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE70InTA68l26XsZUYRAjuOAJ9rTYn4dldTePOeNMJaZ6aG6wfqRwCdG0ca KzsBYH7a3mnkpgkqCFM/un4= =uL6V -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1
--- Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're using a standalone computer, you don't need to setup any LAN settings. I'm not sure whay you would be having trouble connecting using the Control Center. Did you set the primary and secondary DNS numbers that your DSL provider gave you? Yes, I set those. Using the roaring penguin software, check to see whether the ping/browsing problem is ocurring just as a regular user or as root as well. It may be a problem with firewall settings. How would I check this? Also, as far as documentation, check out the man pages for adsl-setupand adsl-start. -Paul Rodríguez Thanks, will do. I'm wondering if I have to delete the LAN settings I already have (I have tried several different configurations options, so I think both ADSL and LAN are configured). On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 13:17, Paul Schwebel wrote: trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on a standalone Linux box. I'm a bit confused by the set up process using the . . . files are involved in the TCP/IP configuration, and I know where to look. I don't have a clear idea of the same thing on Linux, and a lot of the man pages and HOWTOs appear to be written with a lot of *nix knowledge assumed. Thanks, -Paul Well, how did I get here? Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
Hi all, Is anyone else having heaps of trouble with mandrake update on 8.1? First of all, its slow, secondly, it insists on scanning the system and its db of all the CD's each time you start it... and since I have to kill it alot because it sits there doing nothing, it takes ages to try again.. Anyone had any luck getting MandrakeUpdate from 7.2 compiled for 8.1? This is a case backasswards development, 7.2's software update was easy to use, easy to configure and it worked, most of all it was simple and obvious. The software update in 8.1 gives you buggar all feedback on what its doing, I am sitting here watching it do nothing,, I started software Installer, selected bugs general updates and security updates, and it found Mozilla, and the SSH packages... I think great, that wasn't that hard, even if it did take ages... (alot longer then 7.2) anyway, I clicked continue, after selecting all the packages except Mozilla, (do that after ssh is updated was my thinking). Anyway I have a screen now that says, Install in progress, you can see below the installation state, and the rest of the window is blank except for the quit, back, next and help buttons none of which are highlighed so that I can click them. Its been like that for an hour, doing absolutly nothing, no CPU or HDD activity, and no net activity. So whats with that? Also, before someone tells me to try another mirror, this is the forth I have tried, and gottn no further with any of them. Most annoying, I'll ask again, has anyone got mdk7.2 SoftwareUpdate working with 8.1 I need a workable solution before I put these things out as servers... rgds Frank === -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 3:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: OK, I did this: hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? I don't think there's meant to be a space between the S and the number. Here's what I use: hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda You can ignore the c1d1 here. Notice, however, the S242 (242 = 1 hour) on the end of the tag. Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else (including X) running. Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't know about the other journalling FSs. Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD spin down
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:53:02 -0400 (EDT) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: OK, I did this: hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? I don't think there's meant to be a space between the S and the number. Here's what I use: hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda You can ignore the c1d1 here. Notice, however, the S242 (242 = 1 hour) on the end of the tag. Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else (including X) running. Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't know about the other journalling FSs. Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm appears broken
Check to be sure that the program studio_tool exists in the /usr/lib/SoundStudio directory... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:57 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm appears broken | | |Anyone know how to fix these errors? | |$ studio |Error in startup script: couldn't execute |/usr/lib/SoundStudio/studio_tool: |no such file or directory |while executing |exec $FILE(Tool) diagnostics |(procedure CARDSetter line 5) |invoked from within |CARDSetter |(file /usr/lib/SoundStudio/init.tk line 157) |invoked from within |source $MYFILES/init.tk | |(file /usr//bin/studio line 33) |$ | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Importing fonts
Look in the Control Panel |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Annandale |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:59 PM |To: Mandrake Newbie List |Subject: [newbie] Importing fonts | | |Hi Guys | |Where can I find the import fonts utility, I'm sure there was |one under 8.0 ? |I'm using 8.1. | |Is there somewhere I can set up a firewall using KDE ? | |Thanks | |Mark A | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
Actually it works very well for me. Yes it scans the DB. I ended up dumping all three CD's onto a separate partition, and redirected the setup to them. The updates via download work fine, provided you've defined your sources. Normally if it's sitting there doing nothing, it's because RPM itself has failed... You might want to try an rpm --rebuilddb and have a cup of coffee. BTW: while it's downloading the progress bar does NOT move! So it can look like it's hung up while it is really downloading the files you wanted. Gkrellm showed me it was working fine. |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Franki |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:13 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update | | | |Hi all, | |Is anyone else having heaps of trouble with mandrake update on 8.1? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:13:11 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else having heaps of trouble with mandrake update on 8.1? First of all, its slow, secondly, it insists on scanning the system and its db of all the CD's each time you start it... and since I have to kill it alot because it sits there doing nothing, it takes ages to try again.. Anyone had any luck getting MandrakeUpdate from 7.2 compiled for 8.1? This is a case backasswards development, 7.2's software update was easy to use, easy to configure and it worked, most of all it was simple and obvious. The software update in 8.1 gives you buggar all feedback on what its doing, I am sitting here watching it do nothing,, I started software Installer, selected bugs general updates and security updates, and it found Mozilla, and the SSH packages... I think great, that wasn't that hard, even if it did take ages... (alot longer then 7.2) anyway, I clicked continue, after selecting all the packages except Mozilla, (do that after ssh is updated was my thinking). Anyway I have a screen now that says, Install in progress, you can see below the installation state, and the rest of the window is blank except for the quit, back, next and help buttons none of which are highlighed so that I can click them. Its been like that for an hour, doing absolutly nothing, no CPU or HDD activity, and no net activity. So whats with that? Also, before someone tells me to try another mirror, this is the forth I have tried, and gottn no further with any of them. Most annoying, I'll ask again, has anyone got mdk7.2 SoftwareUpdate working with 8.1 I need a workable solution before I put these things out as servers... PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of another. As to your problem upgrade to rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk from cooker. To prevent the cd db from being scanned each time you can delete them in the source list. When you run Mandrake Update launch it from a terminal as rpmdrake, this will give you an output of what the program is actually doing. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slight printing problem
On Friday 19 October 2001 02:51 pm, you wrote: In Kups the driver is listed in the properties Tab. You can see the print parameters if you press the 'Change' button and select the same driver again. Or else you can configure it using SWAT (localhost:631) There is an Advanced Tab for that printer (KUPS or SWAT will display the options), the bad news is none of the parameters adjust bottom margin. You might like to check out anotherdriver. In KUPS the driver above the LaserJet 4/4M Plus PS is listed as 'LaserJet 4 Series' However if you use SWAT you can see the full name is 'LaserJet 4 Series CUPS plus GIMP Print' I have not tried it since I do not have a LaserJet 4, but everything I have read about print drivers has said the GIMP drivers are usually superior to the standard drivers. Certainly for graphics work. Maybe it will handle the bottom margin differently. I've managed to change the driver to the one you specified, and lo and behold, the 'Advanced' tab appeared! So I tried to print a test page from KMail. It didn't crop the top! But, it still did crop the bottom, but at least reprinted it on the next page. I'm almost there! Any more suggestions? Strange how I didn't have this problem in LM 8.0... -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture [EMAIL PROTECTED] 434.982.3047 -- Registered Linux User #218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
Mine's working well also. I had that problem in 8.0, but with 8.1 (clean install) everything has worked much better. Copying the CDs to the drive helps a lot with speed and keeps me from having to carry my CD pack around all the time. This is on a laptop. On Friday 19 October 2001 13:13, Franki wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else having heaps of trouble with mandrake update on 8.1? First of all, its slow, secondly, it insists on scanning the system and its db of all the CD's each time you start it... and since I have to kill it alot because it sits there doing nothing, it takes ages to try again.. Anyone had any luck getting MandrakeUpdate from 7.2 compiled for 8.1? This is a case backasswards development, 7.2's software update was easy to use, easy to configure and it worked, most of all it was simple and obvious. The software update in 8.1 gives you buggar all feedback on what its doing, I am sitting here watching it do nothing,, I started software Installer, selected bugs general updates and security updates, and it found Mozilla, and the SSH packages... I think great, that wasn't that hard, even if it did take ages... (alot longer then 7.2) anyway, I clicked continue, after selecting all the packages except Mozilla, (do that after ssh is updated was my thinking). Anyway I have a screen now that says, Install in progress, you can see below the installation state, and the rest of the window is blank except for the quit, back, next and help buttons none of which are highlighed so that I can click them. Its been like that for an hour, doing absolutly nothing, no CPU or HDD activity, and no net activity. So whats with that? Also, before someone tells me to try another mirror, this is the forth I have tried, and gottn no further with any of them. Most annoying, I'll ask again, has anyone got mdk7.2 SoftwareUpdate working with 8.1 I need a workable solution before I put these things out as servers... rgds Frank === -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 3:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: OK, I did this: hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? I don't think there's meant to be a space between the S and the number. Here's what I use: hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda You can ignore the c1d1 here. Notice, however, the S242 (242 = 1 hour) on the end of the tag. Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else (including X) running. Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't know about the other journalling FSs. Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~
ok.. The situation was.. My friend found the iso of WinXP.. So I tried installing that.. And I guess WinXP killed lilo.. But I kinda expected that so I had my Linux boot disk ready to use that to come back to linux and run lilo to install it back... And that's what I did... and it acted wierd when it started up and I somehow got linux booted but X can't start.. but I ran lilo anyways.. then that's when it told me it can't find boot.b... so I checked /boot/ and it's *really* empty (took me a while to really believe that it's empty.. and I dunno if it got killed by WinXP)... so I ran upgrade from the Mandrake cd... And it still didn't work. then I ran install w/o formating the / directory... and it still works.. but I'm able to use the boot floppy to get into linux and able start X.. But right now, the only files in my /boot directory are kernel.h and message. And I still can't install lilo since boot.b is missing... So there's no way to install the files for /boot? I'm using MDK 8.0... technically, if I didn't change anything, I could copy my boot files from my laptop (also MDK 8.0) to my desktop? Valerie Onur Kucuk wrote: Hi Valerie, How could you boot, with the boot empty ? Or didnt you boot yet? If you could boot, then most probably you have a partition containing your boot data, but it is not mounted now. Type fdisk -l and compare it with /etc/fstab entries, especially with the line containing /boot . Check if there is a line missing, a partition not mounted etc. And also, if you dont want re-install your system, if you can give us the name which version you have, and if you did not change much in /boot , a copy+paste from a friend would be fine I guess. If it is MDK 8.1 I can send you my /boot/* Onur Kucuk michael wrote: Val: My favourite disaster recovery technique is to insert cd1 of 8.1 and choose 'expert' and 'upgrade'...that way all your mail and stuff stays there Paul wrote: In reply to Valerie Cheng's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:03:44 -0400 Hi Valerie, /boot is EMPTY?? Then somehow you managed to delete everything in there as root user. I am afraid you have to reinstall unless you have a backup. /boot contains all the kernels and such. But wait a few, perhaps another person knows something better. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
Thats what I did, I installed the latest rpmdrake from Cooker. Then I launched it from the console so I could watch the output. It allowed me to add security updates and cooker sources as well. It is also much much faster at loading the 1-2-3 cd database too! Just for grins check your /etc/mandrake-release and make sure it says Mandrake Linux release 8.1 As to your problem upgrade to rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk from cooker. To prevent the cd db from being scanned each time you can delete them in the source list. When you run Mandrake Update launch it from a terminal as rpmdrake, this will give you an output of what the program is actually doing. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of another. --- Oh n! Here comes a top poster versus bottom poster flame war. Franky I LIKE top posters, so I can avoid the lower part of the message if I know what it is in reference to. NOT quoting previous message(s) is rude, sorta like coming into the middle of a conversation... -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
LOL, It Bloody well better say 8.1, I bought the Powerpack off the mandrake store, and got sent these disks as a stop gap until the boxed set get here... Ok, I'll get the cooker one and give that a go... It doesn't help that my test box is a slowish system,, Thanks for the tips... Oh, and too charles, it wasn't my intention to post ontop of a previous post, I usually delete them, I forgot once, so sue me :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Texstar Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 4:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update Thats what I did, I installed the latest rpmdrake from Cooker. Then I launched it from the console so I could watch the output. It allowed me to add security updates and cooker sources as well. It is also much much faster at loading the 1-2-3 cd database too! Just for grins check your /etc/mandrake-release and make sure it says Mandrake Linux release 8.1 As to your problem upgrade to rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk from cooker. To prevent the cd db from being scanned each time you can delete them in the source list. When you run Mandrake Update launch it from a terminal as rpmdrake, this will give you an output of what the program is actually doing. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm appears broken
Ok, it is not there, where should I look to get it? On Friday 19 October 2001 03:51 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Check to be sure that the program studio_tool exists in the /usr/lib/SoundStudio directory... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:57 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm appears broken | | |Anyone know how to fix these errors? | |$ studio |Error in startup script: couldn't execute |/usr/lib/SoundStudio/studio_tool: |no such file or directory |while executing |exec $FILE(Tool) diagnostics |(procedure CARDSetter line 5) |invoked from within |CARDSetter |(file /usr/lib/SoundStudio/init.tk line 157) |invoked from within |source $MYFILES/init.tk | |(file /usr//bin/studio line 33) |$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Weird SSH stuff with Putty and Ixplorer.
Hi again all, I use putty with IXplorer as a windows sshd ftp client for uploading and downloading files via ssh between windows and my linux box's... Since I upgraded to mdk8.1, it doesn't work now, it logs in, but doesn't get a directory listing for some reason. here is its log of activity... Can anyone give me a pointer as to what this might be? using Terra Term works fine, (but doesn't do file transfers.) Successfully started encryption Sent username root Sent password Authentication successful Allocated pty Started session 5:08:01 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] login failure Last line received: [36l]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: /root[root@mail root]# [K Expected remote prompt character: # Regards Frank PS, I have already downloaded the SSH updates for 8.1, installed and restarted sshd, made no difference.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
No, twas my fault, I replied any old post and forgot to delete the previous post from the email.. My apologies to all... I have no desire for a top/bottom debate, what ever works for whoever... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jose M. Sanchez Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of another. --- Oh n! Here comes a top poster versus bottom poster flame war. Franky I LIKE top posters, so I can avoid the lower part of the message if I know what it is in reference to. NOT quoting previous message(s) is rude, sorta like coming into the middle of a conversation... -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Digital Camera Quickie
Just another quickie: Has anyone used a Pretec DC-520 Dual-Mode VGA Digital Camera either as a webcam or as a digital camera on Mandrake, or any Linux for that matter? Or even heard of it? HardDrake doesn't know what it is, it just tells me its a USB device, which is right. How do I go about getting USB Webcams to work on LNX, how do I mount it, or go about mounting it, as I've read on the list? Anybody, any help, any time. TIA. __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm appears broken
Well first determine if it's in the original RPM... (BTW: where did you find the RPM?) In the directory you have the RPM type rpm -qlf SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm | more (or less) and see if the file is listed. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:11 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm appears broken | | |Ok, it is not there, where should I look to get it? | |On Friday 19 October 2001 03:51 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | Check to be sure that the program studio_tool exists in the | /usr/lib/SoundStudio directory... | | -JMS | | |-Original Message- | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie | |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:57 PM | |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Subject: [newbie] SoundStudio-1.0.3-5.i586.rpm appears broken | | | | | |Anyone know how to fix these errors? | | | |$ studio | |Error in startup script: couldn't execute | |/usr/lib/SoundStudio/studio_tool: | |no such file or directory | |while executing | |exec $FILE(Tool) diagnostics | |(procedure CARDSetter line 5) | |invoked from within | |CARDSetter | |(file /usr/lib/SoundStudio/init.tk line 157) | |invoked from within | |source $MYFILES/init.tk | | | |(file /usr//bin/studio line 33) | |$ | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE-Raid
Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2001 05:44 schrieben Sie: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:22:32 +0200, Michael Dannhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have 4 IDE devices (1 CDRom, 3 HDD) in my system integrated. They are connected to the 'normal' IDE-channels. The Motherboard has additional a promise IDE-Raid adapter integrated. On that device I pluged another IDE-hdd. IDE is configured like this: IDE1Master HHD1Linux Slave CDRom IDE2Master HDD2Windows 2000 Slave HDD3data Promise1Master HDD4data (temporarly used for data exchange) Slave none Promise2Master none Slave none Windows 2000 boots-up through LILO. After connecting the Promise IDE LILO bootmanager appears as usual. In windows 2000 the system could boot and asked to install a driver. After that I could work with my system without any problem. When I start the linux system the startup screen appears and stops at the first 2 lines in booting up. Think it tries to mount. When I disable Promise IDE in bios the system boots up an normal. Any ideas? Yes - you have a WinRAID motherboard. This cheap excuse for RAID has been specifically designed to only work in Windos. If I were you, I wouldn't even use it in Windos because of its inferior quality. I doubt that you would see much of a performance improvement (if any). I don't think that RAID is even worth trying with IDE, because of the limitations of the interface. For decent RAID, use SCSI (and be prepared to spend $$$ :-) ). Hi, I don't want to use the raid als a 'real' ide-raid system. But when you have 4 IDE devices build in and need a 5th ide channel to swap data with friend or take work with younat home its quite better than to burn everytime a CD. Certainly scsi is just better. I have some scsi divices too but real scsi disks are quie more expensive than ide (at work we have prof. scsi raid with large hdd) michael. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:22:33 -0400 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of another. --- Oh n! Here comes a top poster versus bottom poster flame war. Franky I LIKE top posters, so I can avoid the lower part of the message if I know what it is in reference to. NOT quoting previous message(s) is rude, sorta like coming into the middle of a conversation... I was not refering to top posting. About it I don't care 1 way or the other. I was refering to the fact that the Man Update question was sent on the top of a completly unrelated post. Charles (-: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Importing fonts
On Friday 19 October 2001 7:59 pm, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys Where can I find the import fonts utility, I'm sure there was one under 8.0 ? I'm using 8.1. Should be in Control Center System Fonts Is there somewhere I can set up a firewall using KDE ? To start with the Tiny Firewall built into Control Center Security Firewall is all you need. HTH Derek Thanks Mark A -- From end of July my cwcom account will no longer function Please update your address book . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 05:06:16 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL, It Bloody well better say 8.1, I bought the Powerpack off the mandrake store, and got sent these disks as a stop gap until the boxed set get here... It was a somewhat of an insider joke. If you should happen to instll Mandrake-release from cooker your version listing will become 8.2 Ok, I'll get the cooker one and give that a go... It doesn't help that my test box is a slowish system,, Thanks for the tips... Oh, and too charles, it wasn't my intention to post ontop of a previous post, I usually delete them, I forgot once, so sue me :-) How much money or property do you have? So I'll know if it would be worth the effort. (-: Charles rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Texstar Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 4:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update Thats what I did, I installed the latest rpmdrake from Cooker. Then I launched it from the console so I could watch the output. It allowed me to add security updates and cooker sources as well. It is also much much faster at loading the 1-2-3 cd database too! Just for grins check your /etc/mandrake-release and make sure it says Mandrake Linux release 8.1 As to your problem upgrade to rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk from cooker. To prevent the cd db from being scanned each time you can delete them in the source list. When you run Mandrake Update launch it from a terminal as rpmdrake, this will give you an output of what the program is actually doing. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update
Nevermind... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:22 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update | | |On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:22:33 -0400 |Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of |another. | | --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD spin down
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: OK, I did this: hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? I don't think there's meant to be a space between the S and the number. Here's what I use: hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda You can ignore the c1d1 here. Notice, however, the S242 (242 = 1 hour) on the end of the tag. Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else (including X) running. Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't know about the other journalling FSs. Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... Sridhar, someone just sent me a note suggesting that my thanks to you was less than sincere...hope you didn't take it that way, since without you I wouldn't even have known about hdparm. Thanks again! peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD spin down
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HD spin down
rgds Frank Hauptle. Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under partitions or something, there is an IDE parameters section.. you can modify your hdparm settings in there, and if they work, (you can test it from there as well) cut and paste the results onto the end of your rc.local file... It works well,, or at least it did for me. I did it on 7.2, and for my second hard disk on 8.1, which drakopt didn't like.. doubled the speed on my second harddrive and no errors... good stuff, and webmin gives you some good info on the vrious options as well. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Distorted Audio with i810 chipset
Hi I've just done my first install of Mandrake 8.1 on a Dell GX110. The mp3 and wav audio on it is horrible, breaking up, popping, etc. CD Audio plays fine. I've been looking around the web for others with the same problem but haven't come up with a solution in the past few days. Mandrake Control Center shows the Sound Card as an Intel 82901AA AC'97 which from what I've read it's an i810 chipset. I'm running KDE and XMMS is not happy. Plenty of memory, 128 MB, and processor load isn't high. Anyone have some input? Thanks, Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HD spin down
The HDPARM GUI test is buried in one of the CDs somewhere. It's amazing how many programs are NOT installed off the 3 CD set, even if you've selected everything. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Franki |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:48 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down | | | | |rgds | | |Frank Hauptle. | | | |Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under |partitions or something, there is an IDE parameters section.. | |you can modify your hdparm settings in there, and if they |work, (you can test it from there as well) cut and paste the |results onto the end of your rc.local file... | |It works well,, or at least it did for me. I did it on 7.2, |and for my second hard disk on 8.1, which drakopt didn't like.. | |doubled the speed on my second harddrive and no errors... good |stuff, and webmin gives you some good info on the vrious |options as well. | | | | |rgds | |Frank | | | |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On |Behalf Of Roger |Sherman |Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down | | |On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: | | | | Try installing drivetweak. | It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. | Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the | syntax being wrong. | |Charles (-: | | |I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) | | | | | | | |peace, | |Rog | |The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of |times before I hit him | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord speed question
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Miark wrote: Rog, your burner uses a feature called PoweRec. Plextor describes it thusly: At the beginning of every recording, in addition to the use of running OPC, the PlexWriter 16/10/40A automatically determines the media manufacturer, its part number and disc characteristics and then sets the appropriate laser power and write speed for any given disc. This process guarantees that the written disc has the highest quality playback. This is likely why its ignoring you. You'll have to check Plextor's web site for information on if and how to disable this feature. Miark OK, thanks Miark. - Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 9:54 AM Subject: [newbie] cdrecord speed question Can anyone tell me how to make cdrecord burn at speeds of higher than 4x? I have a Plextor 16x10x40A, and while I don't really need to write at 16x, I'd like to at least be able to do it at 8x. Ah screw it, I want to know how to do it at 16x, even if I never actually want to burn at that speed! Generally, I use a command like cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -audio whatever.wav but no matter what I put for speed, if its over 4, it ignores it, and just burns at 4x. Any tips? peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Distorted Audio with i810 chipset
I encountered this same problem on a new install last night... same chipset. It worked fine in 8.0. I had improved results, but not correct, after running harddrake from Mandrake Control Center. Apparently the probing it does had some effect. On Friday 19 October 2001 04:55 pm, you wrote: Hi I've just done my first install of Mandrake 8.1 on a Dell GX110. The mp3 and wav audio on it is horrible, breaking up, popping, etc. CD Audio plays fine. I've been looking around the web for others with the same problem but haven't come up with a solution in the past few days. Mandrake Control Center shows the Sound Card as an Intel 82901AA AC'97 which from what I've read it's an i810 chipset. I'm running KDE and XMMS is not happy. Plenty of memory, 128 MB, and processor load isn't high. Anyone have some input? Thanks, Marc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help~ lilo is gone~
Thanks everyone for helping me out. :) My lilo is back alive. :) (and I'm never gonna touch ms windows again...) Valerie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HD spin down
Nope, you have got it,, test it, then try something and test it again, and so on and so forth... it may take a while but keep a record of what you do and what paramaters you are passing hdparm, and watch for error messages on the box... keep a record of your best results and use those parameters.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under partitions or something, there is an IDE parameters section.. OK so far... you can modify your hdparm settings in there, and if they work, (you can test it from there as well) cut and paste the results onto the end of your rc.local file... OK, there are two buttons here...one that says apply to disk, the other says Test Speed. When I hit that button it says: Speed test results Buffered: 25.75 MB/sec Buffer cache 2.63 MB/sec Nothing about whether or not the hdparm setting would have any effect. Is there another testing procedure I'm not seeing? It works well,, or at least it did for me. I did it on 7.2, and for my second hard disk on 8.1, which drakopt didn't like.. doubled the speed on my second harddrive and no errors... good stuff, and webmin gives you some good info on the vrious options as well. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HD spin down
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Nope, you have got it,, test it, then try something and test it again, and so on and so forth... it may take a while but keep a record of what you do and what paramaters you are passing hdparm, and watch for error messages on the box... keep a record of your best results and use those parameters.. OK man, thanks! :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under partitions or something, there is an IDE parameters section.. OK so far... you can modify your hdparm settings in there, and if they work, (you can test it from there as well) cut and paste the results onto the end of your rc.local file... OK, there are two buttons here...one that says apply to disk, the other says Test Speed. When I hit that button it says: Speed test results Buffered: 25.75 MB/sec Buffer cache 2.63 MB/sec Nothing about whether or not the hdparm setting would have any effect. Is there another testing procedure I'm not seeing? It works well,, or at least it did for me. I did it on 7.2, and for my second hard disk on 8.1, which drakopt didn't like.. doubled the speed on my second harddrive and no errors... good stuff, and webmin gives you some good info on the vrious options as well. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: Try installing drivetweak. It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the syntax being wrong. Charles (-: I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him peace, Rog Registered Linux user #190719 The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Backup conventions
Is using a swung dash in front of the file name the only usual UNIX/Linux backup convention (using ~filename as a backup for filename) The reason i ask is i can see a possible visual conflict here with the use of the swung dash as home directory. User sees - User misreads - User complains about all the stuffups they made Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup conventions
Is using a swung dash in front of the file name the only usual UNIX/Linux backup convention (using ~filename as a backup for filename) There really is no convention for backup file names. Unlike DOS/Windows, extensions do not exist as such in Unix -- the '.' is a filename character like any other. In DOS/Windows, it's a separator. Of course, habits con- tinue :) and putting 'extensions' after the '.' can still serve some useful purpose, although Unix doesn't care. That being said, the only software I know that uses the '~' to mean that it's a backup file is Emacs, so that's hardly a convention, in any sense (apologies to Richard Stallman, of course :). The reason i ask is i can see a possible visual conflict here with the use of the swung dash as home directory. Not really: the tilde ~ is always used at the *beginning* of a filename / directory, never at the end. - User misreads There's always that possibility. One thing I found irksome in the beginning was the 'convention' of file names- particularly for versions of software, that tend to be quite long and are intermixed with periods, dashes, and underlines - like foopackage-1.2.0-1._whatever_.something.rpm :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ayudemen
he probado de todo pero no puedo salirme no quiero mas email
Re: [newbie] Returning zip icon
Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi all! I changed all of my removeable drive icons to the old way, like in 7.2, where you click on them to mount the drive, and right click and umount from the menu, no supermount stuff. Anyway, this works great, but now everytime I reboot, it puts a zip drive icon on the desktop, which I delete, but it comes back every time. How do I get rid of the icon for good? I guess I should say that this is 8.1 and I am using KDE. Thanks, Fred Fredyou'll find that elusive little Zip icon in /usr/share/mdk where you can kill it off after which it won't reappear on your desktop after reboot any more. :) -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Returning zip icon
On Friday 19 October 2001 10:12 pm, you wrote: Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi all! I changed all of my removeable drive icons to the old way, like in 7.2, where you click on them to mount the drive, and right click and umount from the menu, no supermount stuff. Anyway, this works great, but now everytime I reboot, it puts a zip drive icon on the desktop, which I delete, but it comes back every time. How do I get rid of the icon for good? I guess I should say that this is 8.1 and I am using KDE. Thanks, Fred Fredyou'll find that elusive little Zip icon in /usr/share/mdk where you can kill it off after which it won't reappear on your desktop after reboot any more. :) Thanks Alan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 14:06, you wrote: Will Cable modem work with mandrake 8.1?? I am updateing my box and I am curious if a cable modem will work and if so which specific kinds work.. I am just too far outside of DSL, now that I moved.. So let me know your feedback.. I am located in Richmond VA. If any one has had good luck with one kind of ISP please post..Mark I'm running fine with Cox@Home in Norfolk. --Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What is i386, i586, i686?
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 16:45, Charles wrote: I'm totally newbie in linux. ¿What's the meaning of i386, i586, i686, scr? I want to download rpm files, but the extensions of the files that i found for the same program were .i386.rpm, .i686.rpm, .scr.rpm Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:28:21 -0700: i386 = intel 80386 and compatible. i486 = intel 80486 and compatible. i586 = anything built on intel Pentium technology, including Pentium MMX. i686 = anything built on intel Pentium Pro technology, including Pentium II/III and Celeron. So what about PowerPC? --Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
