Re: [newbie-it] grazie mike
--- Fabio Manunza [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: vga=normal = bingo! Tutto qua. Gli altri problemi sono scomparsi con l'avvio da HD, come subodoravo... Il sottoscritto c'ha mdk8.1 con 2.4.16. Effettivamente una bella soddisfazione.. Grazie Fabio Acc, sono arrivato tardi...! Si, probabilmente nel tuo LILO avevi conservato l'impostazione vga=788, che pero' richiede l'attivazione del framebuffer nel kernel. Ciao! Steo. __ Dillo con una cartolina! http://it.greetings.yahoo.com/
[newbie-it] Configurazione Stampante
Salve a tutti!!! Ho installato Star Office 5.2 Primo problema: come stampante configurata risulta una generica. Ora io ho una HP 690C, la quale viene regolarmente riconosciuta da Mandrake 8.1, infatti con KWord, per fare un esempio, è la stampante predefinita. Come posso fare per convincere Star Office che ho una HP? Grazie mille Gigi
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete
Alle 23:08, sabato 26 gennaio 2002, mike ha scritto: cut allora aggiungi in /etc/modules.conf la riga: alias eth0 8139too al riavvio avrai l'ethernet caricata cut ricompilare non ti serve, a meno di problemi particolari di instabilità, di mancato supporto, o volontà di attivare cose che ora non usi. Inserire il modulo nel kernel è un metodo efficace ma non ti è necessario, visto che il caricamento riesci a farlo. Abbandonata la mia insana idea di agire sul kernel (grazie anche a te, Andrea) ho apportato la modifica indicata da mike. Risultati.. strani: 1)E' vero, al riavvio ho potuto verificare da shell (ifconfig lisci e non) di avere eth0 caricata (ma resta sempre durante il boot in modalità grafica quella insolita scheda nell'angolo basso sinistro dello schermo, la stellina di natale invece è scomparsa; nel tool di configurazione di hardrake mi risponde sempre di essere impossibilitato a.. locate module eth0) 2)Volendo comunicare il risultato alla ml mi sono connesso e con mia grande.. gioia.. ho scoperto di viaggiare alla velocità di 0,0 kbs. Per essere più preciso: ero connesso ma kmail restava inchiodato sulla trasmissione dal primo pop e col browser non andavo da nessuna parte qualunque fosse l'indirizzo digitato. Ho controllato le impostazioni della connessione e del modem, quest'ultimo provandolo anche con windows e qui verificandone il normale funzionamento. Quindi ho eliminato la modifica al /etc/modules.conf consigliata da mike e la navigazione è tornata normale. Sottolineo che ho più volte aggiunto e tolto la stringa alias eth0.. al file indicato e il risultato è stato sempre lo stesso: con alias eth0.. ho la scheda ethernet (ex shell) ma non posso navigare nonostante sia connesso, senza alias eth0.. non ho la scheda caricata ma posso navigare tranquillamente. Ai posteri l'ardua sentenza... Continuo a spulciare tra howto e siti vari ma se vi viene in mente qualcosa... Dimenticavo: io un'altra scheda non la compro! -- syd
[newbie-it] [OT] star office 5.2
Ho scaricato star office 5.2 dal sito della sun, ma il file è in formato *.bin; che cosa posso utilizzare per masterizzarlo? Stefano
[newbie-it] SUSE 7.3
Anche se questa mail-list e' dedicata a Mandrake volevo porre un quesito sulla distribuzione di Suse. Sto cercando di scaricare Suse 7.3 da uno dei siti italiani (ftp.uniroma2.it/linux/suse/suse/i386) ma noto che la quantita' di MB da scaricare e' enorme ( molto piu' di un singolo CD forse bisognascaricare solo alcune Dir) ed inoltre non ho alcuna idea su come iniziare l'istallazione ( a parte un file setup che pare funzioni sotto DOS )e infatti non so come fare per organizzare questi files in uno o più CD di installazione ( non c'e' un file iso ...) . Qualcuno che ha pratica con Suse potrebbe aiutarmi a risolvere questo quesito? Francesco
Re: [newbie-it] grazie mike
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 19:55, domenica 27 gennaio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] grazie mike, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: vga=normal = bingo! Tutto qua. Gli altri problemi sono scomparsi con l'avvio da HD, come subodoravo... Il sottoscritto c'ha mdk8.1 con 2.4.16. Effettivamente una bella soddisfazione.. Grazie Fabio non ringraziare, il lavoro l'hai fatto tu! - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VdmZYp6jtgQnzC0RAiW9AKC8KaaQ3N+sFw4QDGEMDW7Huz2+PACfTILI wydKeNyTFLgYZ7D+yFFs5pw= =36BW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 15:32, lunedì 28 gennaio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete, syd ha scritto: Alle 23:08, sabato 26 gennaio 2002, mike ha scritto: 1)E' vero, al riavvio ho potuto verificare da shell (ifconfig lisci e non) di avere eth0 caricata (ma resta sempre durante il boot in modalità grafica quella insolita scheda nell'angolo basso sinistro dello schermo, la stellina di natale invece è scomparsa; perchè non dsattivi aurora per vedere che tipo di errore hai? poi, #dmesg cosa ti dice? l'errore è di caricamento o di assegnazione dell'indirizzo? o di rotta? $vi /var/log/messages per vedere eventuali errori nel caricamento #route (ad eth up e eth down) così controlli come hai settato le rotte nel tool di configurazione di hardrake mi risponde sempre di essere impossibilitato a.. locate module eth0) il tool non usarlo! se hai la scheda caricata perchè cerchi di ricaricarla, se non la trova c'è poco da fare, devi andare a mano... 2)Volendo comunicare il risultato alla ml mi sono connesso e con mia grande.. gioia.. ho scoperto di viaggiare alla velocità di 0,0 kbs. se ti connetti ad internet col modem, avere o meno eth0 non c'entra proprio ... Per essere più preciso: ero connesso ma kmail restava inchiodato sulla trasmissione dal primo pop questo potrebbe proprio essere un problema di DNS.. ti basta aggiungere un - - search tuodominio nameserver tuonameserver - - in /etc/resolv.conf e col browser non andavo da nessuna parte qualunque fosse l'indirizzo digitato. idem, con un IP uscivi? Ho controllato le impostazioni della connessione e del modem, quest'ultimo provandolo anche con windows e qui verificandone il normale funzionamento. Quindi ho eliminato la modifica al /etc/modules.conf consigliata da mike e la navigazione è tornata normale. ok, il caricamento della rete ti carica la rotta che hai impostato, generalmente eth0 diventa il GW per la tua rete, ma tu, a meno di avere un router, navighi con ppp0 come GW devi settare kppp in modo che ppp0 diventi default gateway quando (e solo allora) sei connesso, sostituendo anche i dns locali con quelli assegnati dal provider - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VdmkYp6jtgQnzC0RAqCtAKCK687D2n0RDk+a9ggUGDEDtoxAJgCgpsKh mR6HHcjg7uxUwCrKTddS8Z0= =IdnH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] Mandrake 7.0: can't install rpm files
Hi all, here are some specs. *Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz-133 *Intel 845E Chipset *512 MB RAM *80GB IDE HardDrive *TNT2 M64 32mb Video Card *Linux Mandrake 7.0 *Linux-kernel 2.2.14 *I recently purchased a new PC and installed linux Mandrake 7.0 using DrakeX. The PC has been partitioned as follows. Win98 partition 5Gbytes /boot / 17Gytes swap 1024Mbytes /home about 50Gbytes (the rest) Description of Problem When I try and install any additional packages within linux using any one of the rpm package manages (i.e. kpackage, drakerpm etc) I get an error reading: package name is for a different architecture. Ive tried many packages that came within the CDs (including i586 rpm files). The same error was given following each attempt. In addition I uninstalled several packages already installed during the DrakeX installation and attempted to reinstalled them. I got the same problem. I need to install additional packages in order to run a research software package. I dont understand why Im getting this architecture incompatibility problem. Is the Intel 845E chipset incompatible with mandrake 7.0? Do I need to upgrade to Linux Mandrake 8.1? I eagerly look forward to a reply. Manuel http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running a shell script at boot
Put it in the /etc/rc3.d directory and label it as starting with S and it will be run at startup. This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1012203894-762-3426 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have written a shell script I would like to run as root at boot time. Where do I put the command to run it? thanks Brian =_1012203894-762-3426 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1012203894-762-3426-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re Fax programs
Is anybody aware of a simple Linux fax program that will work with a group 1 fax modem (Hayes Accura external). I have tried to use Hylafax but found the setup impossible. -- For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. -- Frequent Flyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage
I would like to make a few terminals, and these will only be used for running Rdesktop. I wanna be able to mount the root as RO and what ever else is required so even if the user turns the power off, the install would not be affected, nor run fsck at bootup. Can anyone advise on all the procedures to do this? I am only presuming that root needs to be RO, but like I said, all the needed procedures should be outlined, I am just learning Linux now. The terminals are all IDE disks. Thank you, jlc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Redirecting OpenOffice.org old files
I am using 641C and it leaves the annoying viewdbg.txt each time I close OpenOffice in the ~/ I would suggest to make some script to delete this file. I have no idea what the purpose it of it... Greetings Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: hi, whenever i finish using openoffice.org i get small tmp files, a viewdbg.txt, and a wc file in my home directory. is there a way for me to redirect OO.O to use the /tmp for its temporary files? or is this fixed in latest release? btw, im using the 641B snapshot. thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Redirecting OpenOffice.org old files
yeah, i have one with deletes it together with all the *tmp files that it leaves scattered in the home directory. but this approach is like stemming the effect without curing the cause. ciao! On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:07:03 +0100 (CET) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I am using 641C and it leaves the annoying viewdbg.txt each time I close OpenOffice in the ~/ I would suggest to make some script to delete this file. I have no idea what the purpose it of it... Greetings Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: hi, whenever i finish using openoffice.org i get small tmp files, a viewdbg.txt, and a wc file in my home directory. is there a way for me to redirect OO.O to use the /tmp for its temporary files? or is this fixed in latest release? btw, im using the 641B snapshot. thanks! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re Fax programs
I kinda recall having problems getting my fax to work. Eventually I got it working with KdeprintFax using EFax as the back end with this as the command line used in 'Settings' /usr/bin/fax 'NAME=%user' DEV=%dev PAGE=%page 'FROM=%from' send %res %number %files You can test if your serial port is working OK if you open a terminal and type echo ath1 /dev/modem That should cause your modem to go Off Hook. (ath0 to go On Hook again) If /dev/modem does not work try /dev/ttyS0 HTH derek = Original Message From Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Is anybody aware of a simple Linux fax program that will work with a group 1 fax modem (Hayes Accura external). I have tried to use Hylafax but found the setup impossible. -- For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. -- Frequent Flyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rw
With which program did you use to burn to the cd-rw in Windows? I know that Adaptec has this wonderful way of dragging and dropping through your Explorer to add files to it, and if you did it in this way, ONLY Adaptec can read the file. I had this problem one too about 3 years ago. It freaked me out, so the first thing I did then was to copy all my files to the HD via Windows, uninstall Adaptec (basicallt threw it straight in the bin afterwards), and then used Nero. Shortly afterwards I began with Linux and never looked back. Ralph On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Redirecting OpenOffice.org old files
But I have no other tmp files in my home directory Maybe it's to do with the 641C version, I can't remember. Yes I aggree, why these files are there in the first place baffels me. If they were to be put in the local OpenOffice install directory I could understand.. Oh well, maybe 641D won't have this, we can only hope ;-) Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: yeah, i have one with deletes it together with all the *tmp files that it leaves scattered in the home directory. but this approach is like stemming the effect without curing the cause. ciao! On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:07:03 +0100 (CET) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I am using 641C and it leaves the annoying viewdbg.txt each time I close OpenOffice in the ~/ I would suggest to make some script to delete this file. I have no idea what the purpose it of it... Greetings Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: hi, whenever i finish using openoffice.org i get small tmp files, a viewdbg.txt, and a wc file in my home directory. is there a way for me to redirect OO.O to use the /tmp for its temporary files? or is this fixed in latest release? btw, im using the 641B snapshot. thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re Fax programs
Derek Jennings wrote: 20020128103634.TBFE7206.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@there"> I kinda recall having problems getting my fax to work. Eventually I got it working with KdeprintFax using EFax as the back end with this as the command line used in 'Settings'/usr/bin/fax 'NAME="%user"' DEV=%dev PAGE=%page 'FROM="%from"' send %res %number %filesYou can test if your serial port is working OK if you open a terminal and typeecho "ath1" /dev/modemThat should cause your modem to go Off Hook. (ath0 to go On Hook again)If /dev/modem does not work try /dev/ttyS0HTHderek = Original Message From Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Is anybody aware of a simple Linux fax program that will work with agroup 1 fax modem (Hayes Accura external).I have tried to use Hylafax but found the setup impossible. Thanks Derek. But I tried to get Efax working one time but it seems that it does not recognise group 1 fax modems. Unless you know different, I don't think this is the way to go. --Graham WatkinsFor me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer)
Re: [newbie] Redirecting OpenOffice.org old files
amen to that... *grin* anybody know when 641D will come out? if its within 2 months time then i will have to put off downloading 641C. thanks! On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:54:31 +0100 (CET) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: But I have no other tmp files in my home directory Maybe it's to do with the 641C version, I can't remember. Yes I aggree, why these files are there in the first place baffels me. If they were to be put in the local OpenOffice install directory I could understand.. Oh well, maybe 641D won't have this, we can only hope ;-) Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: yeah, i have one with deletes it together with all the *tmp files that it leaves scattered in the home directory. but this approach is like stemming the effect without curing the cause. ciao! On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:07:03 +0100 (CET) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I am using 641C and it leaves the annoying viewdbg.txt each time I close OpenOffice in the ~/ I would suggest to make some script to delete this file. I have no idea what the purpose it of it... Greetings Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: hi, whenever i finish using openoffice.org i get small tmp files, a viewdbg.txt, and a wc file in my home directory. is there a way for me to redirect OO.O to use the /tmp for its temporary files? or is this fixed in latest release? btw, im using the 641B snapshot. thanks! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running a shell script at boot
Thanks Hal, That did the trick. cheers Brian On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 20:26, Hal Wigoda wrote: Put it in the /etc/rc3.d directory and label it as starting with S and it will be run at startup. This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1012203894-762-3426 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have written a shell script I would like to run as root at boot time. Where do I put the command to run it? thanks Brian =_1012203894-762-3426 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1012203894-762-3426-- 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
[newbie] Errors on boot up -vs-13048
I have suddenly encounted multiple errors on booting my system running 8.0. the following error occurring is vs-1308: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. stat data of (6 17826) not found. this appears several times with the number in brackets incrementing each time. Can any one help me sort this out or will I be losing valuable data? TIA David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] copying files from cd
FLYNN, Steve wrote: I've never used Nautilus, so I can't comment, but what you are doing sounds correct. or at least plausible. No ida why it gives you an empty file though. Any Nautilus users who can comment? I'd like to know what happens when the original poster just plain drags 'n drops a file between an open home window and his CD window? Also, boot into KDE and try it there as well...see if its in both desktops or just Gnome/Nautilus... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] Automatic Windows Mount
Hi, My windows driveis automatically mounted when I go into Linux. How do I turn this off? comment the entries in your /etc/fstab by placing # marks before each line. I wonder, what should I do so that the drives don't get mounted but I can mount them with a simple mount /mnt/win_c without specifying all the filesystem type and the like options? A simple user,noauto in the options? putting 'noauto' in the option list ought to do the job I think. Check out 'man fstab' and 'man mount' for a full list of options. Thanks, I already did that, just nitpicking if there is a way to mount my windows drives using mount -a and don't have them mounted at boot time. Thanks again Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] HP Printers
Hi, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and support? I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would like to have a bit I am not a fan of HP for Linux printing...They are not really into supporting the drivers nor do they want to get 'into' the game. A better choice is Epson or Lexmark. They are both very Linux friendly companies and their devices and software work with Linux. Correctly. I disagree... according to www.linuxprinting.org their suport is fine. Let me quote, As for the DeskJets, HP recently released an open-source driver kit for the bulk of its modern consumer DeskJet line. After finishing a lengthy patent search, with version 1.0.1 they made it free software by removing the for usage with HP products only from the BSDish license. So HP is near the top of the heap in terms of free software support for its inkjet devices (Free software driving Epson Photo printers still produces better color quality). (taken from http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html#hp ) I personally haven't tried their HPIJS driver yet, but I think HP is on a good way. Epson might have better quality (under Linux), though. Good luck anyways Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] cd-rw
Hi, I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. With which program did you use to burn to the cd-rw in Windows? I know that Adaptec has this wonderful way of dragging and dropping through your Explorer to add files to it, and if you did it in this way, ONLY Adaptec can read the file. I had this problem one too about 3 years ago. It freaked me out, so the first thing I did then was to copy all my files to the HD via Windows, uninstall Adaptec (basicallt threw it straight in the bin afterwards), and then used Nero. Shortly afterwards I began with Linux and never looked back. You formatted the CD as UDF, either using DirectCD od PacketCD. As this works nice in Windows, I am not sure how to make it work in Linux. The two files there ensure that a proper driver for reading the CD is installed when the disc is inserted into a non-CD-RW drive under Windows. So you have two choices - either you check the docs (man) for mount and see if there is some kind of UDF file system mentioned and try to mount it with that, or you access the CD under Windows, copy the files to disk, perform a long or full format of the CD and then burn it the traditional way, using either WinOnCD, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning Rom or similar programs. If you have more questions I'd be glad to help you. Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD-ROM settings...(Byte size)
This is directed to all the CD users out there... I've got 2 SCSI devices, my DVD drive and a CDRW. My question is, what settings is everyone using on their jumpers? Specifically, I'm wondering about the byte size option. Either 512 or 2048 are offered. Both of mine are now using 512. Does anyone use 2048, and if so can you can give reasons/advantages as to why? Thanks much! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Gnome
Hi, I have just upgraded Evolution from 0.13 that came with mandrake 8.1 to Evolution 1.0.1 I think it is all looking quite good. I used gnorpm to install the downloads. I usually run KDE and Evolution keeps taking me into the gnome Control Center - and suddenly my KDE screensaver desktops disappeared etc. (They came back on a reboot). What is the best way to use these two control centers? I'd like to use lager fonts in the Gnome style aps - can I configure gnome to read the kde settings instead of sawfish? Walter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rw
It's Adaptec. And I did drag and drop. I'll check out Nero, thanks for the help. -Jeff On 28 Jan 2002, you wrote: With which program did you use to burn to the cd-rw in Windows? I know that Adaptec has this wonderful way of dragging and dropping through your Explorer to add files to it, and if you did it in this way, ONLY Adaptec can read the file. I had this problem one too about 3 years ago. It freaked me out, so the first thing I did then was to copy all my files to the HD via Windows, uninstall Adaptec (basicallt threw it straight in the bin afterwards), and then used Nero. Shortly afterwards I began with Linux and never looked back. Ralph On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] cd-rw
Roman, thank you for your help. I was thinking there was something wrong with the setup of Mandrake, I really have so much to learn. I will check out the other Win programs for burning, I was just hoping to be lazy and transfer some files from my win box. -Jeff On 28 Jan 2002, you wrote: Hi, I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. With which program did you use to burn to the cd-rw in Windows? I know that Adaptec has this wonderful way of dragging and dropping through your Explorer to add files to it, and if you did it in this way, ONLY Adaptec can read the file. I had this problem one too about 3 years ago. It freaked me out, so the first thing I did then was to copy all my files to the HD via Windows, uninstall Adaptec (basicallt threw it straight in the bin afterwards), and then used Nero. Shortly afterwards I began with Linux and never looked back. You formatted the CD as UDF, either using DirectCD od PacketCD. As this works nice in Windows, I am not sure how to make it work in Linux. The two files there ensure that a proper driver for reading the CD is installed when the disc is inserted into a non-CD-RW drive under Windows. So you have two choices - either you check the docs (man) for mount and see if there is some kind of UDF file system mentioned and try to mount it with that, or you access the CD under Windows, copy the files to disk, perform a long or full format of the CD and then burn it the traditional way, using either WinOnCD, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning Rom or similar programs. If you have more questions I'd be glad to help you. Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3 and Mandrake 8.2
On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:16 pm, Miark wrote: - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nope. I mean I dunno, an' I've been usin 8.2 most all this year ;) Still don't have a clue ; My best guess, is kde2.2.2,.. 2.2.17, maybe 2.2.18 kernel, That would be somewhat of a regression, don't you think? :-) Mike Well, if you mean the kernel, it's currently 2.4.17 with some parts of 2.4.18 included. (yeah, brain fade on my part for typin 2.2.17 ;) As for KDE3, Mandrake just announced on the cooker list that 8.2 will not have KDE3, but it might be included on the extra CD's. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage
Well, what I am actually after is a single floppy with a slim FB kernel (ip, and video mode hard coded) nano-X, and rwin. I am a complete win2k/XP enviro, so I don't have NFS. This is a temp solution till I figure out how to make the floppy! I forgot about about tmp...If I mount my root as RO, I cant start X, and run rdesktop could I? jlc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:43 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage I think you are going to be wanting to read up on NFS to mount your server / as a read-only partition. You may also want to set these terminals up as diskless, and have /tmp mounted as a ram disk. Step 1 - read up on NFS. It can be quite complicated so you want to get this bit nailed down first... -Original Message- From: Joe L. Casale [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:57 AM To: Mandrake List Subject:[newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage I would like to make a few terminals, and these will only be used for running Rdesktop. I wanna be able to mount the root as RO and what ever else is required so even if the user turns the power off, the install would not be affected, nor run fsck at bootup. Can anyone advise on all the procedures to do this? I am only presuming that root needs to be RO, but like I said, all the needed procedures should be outlined, I am just learning Linux now. The terminals are all IDE disks. Thank you, jlc File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re[2]: [newbie] cd-rw
Daft question, but what is UDF? I've never understood some of the odd types of CD you can create. -Original Message- From: Roman Korcek [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:15 PM To: Ralph Slooten Subject: Re[2]: [newbie] cd-rw Hi, I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. With which program did you use to burn to the cd-rw in Windows? I know that Adaptec has this wonderful way of dragging and dropping through your Explorer to add files to it, and if you did it in this way, ONLY Adaptec can read the file. I had this problem one too about 3 years ago. It freaked me out, so the first thing I did then was to copy all my files to the HD via Windows, uninstall Adaptec (basicallt threw it straight in the bin afterwards), and then used Nero. Shortly afterwards I began with Linux and never looked back. You formatted the CD as UDF, either using DirectCD od PacketCD. As this works nice in Windows, I am not sure how to make it work in Linux. The two files there ensure that a proper driver for reading the CD is installed when the disc is inserted into a non-CD-RW drive under Windows. So you have two choices - either you check the docs (man) for mount and see if there is some kind of UDF file system mentioned and try to mount it with that, or you access the CD under Windows, copy the files to disk, perform a long or full format of the CD and then burn it the traditional way, using either WinOnCD, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning Rom or similar programs. If you have more questions I'd be glad to help you. Roman File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
that is the laptop i've got. tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 20:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 I think you have a Pentium 90, check this page too see if it fit what you have in hand http://www.seindal.dk/rene/linux/echos.php3 You mentioned that you hit Enter at the main menu, have you tried F1? Type test or vgalo at the prompt. Just a thought, can you use boot disk and start install with the 2nd disk? Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 h... i don't know what machine i have got, how do i find out? i would rather not install previous versions because i got this one packaged in a shop which cost £30! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 18:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Didn't you get a LILO: prompt on screen? If so, try typing Linux, or just hitting enter again. If your machine hung, then I suspect you might be trying to install a 586 compiled distribution on something which isn't quite a 586! If you are desperate, I can burn you a copy of mandrake 6.5 which I think would install onto a 486 based machine... -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
i have 40mb of ram. here is what the bios says about the processor (copied exactly): CPU [90mhz]: Pentium i don't know whether that means pentium 1 or not but the website robin suggested says that i have a Pentium 90. tom. p.s. i was worried that i would have to use another version but i don't know whether PC WORLD would give me a refund and if they don't i would rather not just chuck it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 20:35 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Upon boot-up, when the BIOS messages are being displayed, there are normally messages informing you of the CPU speed, the type of processor detect, the amount of detect RAM and so forth. What type of processor is detected? A Pentium II hopefully. Also, how much ram is installed in this laptop - you really want 32+ meg, and ideally 64 or 128 if you wish to use some of the prettier window managers. I'm afraid we're going to be telling you that you should take the package back to the shop and obtain a refund! :( -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 h... i don't know what machine i have got, how do i find out? i would rather not install previous versions because i got this one packaged in a shop which cost £30! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 18:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Didn't you get a LILO: prompt on screen? If so, try typing Linux, or just hitting enter again. If your machine hung, then I suspect you might be trying to install a 586 compiled distribution on something which isn't quite a 586! If you are desperate, I can burn you a copy of mandrake 6.5 which I think would install onto a 486 based machine... -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it!
Re: [newbie] cd-rw
Don't forget to copy everything from the CD onto your HD before you install Nero as it WILL uninstall Adaptec. Nero and Adaptec, actually anything and Adaptec cannot live in harmony :-) Good luck Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's Adaptec. And I did drag and drop. I'll check out Nero, thanks for the help. -Jeff On 28 Jan 2002, you wrote: With which program did you use to burn to the cd-rw in Windows? I know that Adaptec has this wonderful way of dragging and dropping through your Explorer to add files to it, and if you did it in this way, ONLY Adaptec can read the file. I had this problem one too about 3 years ago. It freaked me out, so the first thing I did then was to copy all my files to the HD via Windows, uninstall Adaptec (basicallt threw it straight in the bin afterwards), and then used Nero. Shortly afterwards I began with Linux and never looked back. Ralph On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde 2.2.2
Hello. kde was upgraded to 2.2.2 on the 21st November, yet MandrakeUpdate doesn`t have it available. why ? Yes, I know I can install it manually, but if I wanted to do it that way, I would have picked a basic distribution and isntalled it all from source. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Console Colors
First of all, I'm new to the list. I had been running Mandrake 7.1 for a few years, and just this weekend went ahead an upgraded to 8.1. Even though I've been running the Linux for a few years, I rarely used it. I originally had it set up as a router and firewall for my internal network, and so for the most part it just sat over in the corner. I've recently moved everything to a LinkSys router, and no longer need the firewall or routing capabilities of this machine. Instead of wasting the machine, I figured I'd tackle learning some of this Linux stuff, and that brings me here. Todays question is dumb, it's not a very technical questions at all, just something of a pet peeve. In my console, running in Mode 0x0122 (set in lilo.conf), when I do a ls listing, the blue has this irritating line over it. I've gone into DIR_COLORS and tried changing the values there, but no matter, where-ever blue text falls, there's this line over it. For the time being I've removed all the references to blue, and have changed them to other colors, but I'd like to use the blue for some other console things. How do I get rid of that line? It's not there if I run in regular 80x25 mode, but then everything is just so gosh durned big... thanx... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage
Is there any reason why the workstations have to be runing under slim kernel and nano-X. I think there are packages out there which allow an X desktop ontop of Windows - all of the processing is done on the servers - the client just displays the X desktop environment. If you don't need X, you can simply ssh or telnet into your server from within windows, but from your description it sounds like you want to run an X environment. -Original Message- From: Joe L. Casale [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage Well, what I am actually after is a single floppy with a slim FB kernel (ip, and video mode hard coded) nano-X, and rwin. I am a complete win2k/XP enviro, so I don't have NFS. This is a temp solution till I figure out how to make the floppy! I forgot about about tmp...If I mount my root as RO, I cant start X, and run rdesktop could I? jlc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:43 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage I think you are going to be wanting to read up on NFS to mount your server / as a read-only partition. You may also want to set these terminals up as diskless, and have /tmp mounted as a ram disk. Step 1 - read up on NFS. It can be quite complicated so you want to get this bit nailed down first... -Original Message- From: Joe L. Casale [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:57 AM To: Mandrake List Subject:[newbie] Mounting an install of 8.1 or 8.2beta as RO to prevent any damage I would like to make a few terminals, and these will only be used for running Rdesktop. I wanna be able to mount the root as RO and what ever else is required so even if the user turns the power off, the install would not be affected, nor run fsck at bootup. Can anyone advise on all the procedures to do this? I am only presuming that root needs to be RO, but like I said, all the needed procedures should be outlined, I am just learning Linux now. The terminals are all IDE disks. Thank you, jlc File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Startup sound in KDE?
Hi list, I am using KDE in LM 8.1. Each time I logged out I had the option checked to save and restore session next time. Then one evening, logging out in a hurry I accidentally unchecked it. the result was the next time I logged in my startup sound didn't play, and all the background images were gone on the desktops. I realised I had used the default option when I logged in. So now the question is, how do I get the startup sound to play again, (I liked it) and do I have to set the background images and so forth again also? Or, is there a way to access a log file lurking somewhere? Thank you. Mick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Startup sound has stopped?
Hi list, I am using KDE in LM 8.1. Each time I logged out I had the option checked to save and restore session next time. Then one evening, logging out in a hurry I accidentally unchecked it. the result was the next time I logged in my startup sound didn't play, and all the background images were gone on the desktops. I realised I had used the default option when I logged in. So now the question is, how do I get the startup sound to play again, (I liked it) and do I have to set the background images and so forth again also? Or, is there a way to access a log file lurking somewhere? Thank you. Mick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kmail and Abiword problems mandrake 8.1
Hello again. Well, I`ve already addressed the kde 2.2.2 upgrade question as Mandrake 8.1 comes with kde 2.2.1. Originally, I had Mandrake 7.2. Everything worked pretty well, printing etc. Instead of doing an upgrade which I dislike in any OS, I removed the 7.2 H/D and put in a new H/D for the 8.1 installation. It looks good, prints web pages really nice and PDF files. Super. So, this morning, I tried to do some WP with KWord. Looks O.K. on the screen, ah, a preview button (new). Garbled mess. I print it out and the text is really close together, no spaces (that I can see) and in bold. This works fine in 7.2 kmail by the way. So, highlight cut and paste into AbiWord. Refuses to paste. I check the clipboard, yes it`s there. It pastes into other text editors but not AbiWord. Paste DOES work in AbiWord in Mandrake 7.2. Anyone else seeing :- a) print problems from Kmail (v1.1 kde 2.2.1) b) pasting problems into AbiWord (v0.9.2 ditto) Does kde 2.2.2 fix these problems ? Why isn`t kde 2.2.2. available via MandrakeUpdate ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP
On Saturday 26 January 2002 10:27, you wrote: On Saturday 26 January 2002 09:53 am, Andre Dubuc wrote: I've installed (in LM 8.0) all the appropriate Apache programs and modules, and all the PHP related stuff. In the LinuxConf - Service Control, I notice that apache is not listed, and both httpd and webmin are running. What do I have to do to get a working server so that I can test any code that I write in html/php? (Can I use my only computer as a stand-alone server, and access it as a client? I assume that I should be able to do something like that especially since freeciv sets up server/client on my machine.) If someone could point me in the right direction, it would save me wading through tons of documentation that assumes I have Apache up-and-running! Help? Andre, I'm a newbie too, but I think this is one question I can answer! If you have httpd running, then Apache is running. By default it installs the web documents in the directory /var/www/html. There is also /var/www/cgi-bin where all the scripts can go. You can access your web stuff by typing http://localhost in your browser. If you know your IP address, you can type that in as well. You should get a page telling about the version of Apache that you are running. That's just to let you know that the server is running. To avoid having to be root to add/change to your web directory, you have to add yourself to the group Apache. This can be done using UserDrake. Then, you should give the group write access to /var/www. Do this by typing chmod g+w /var/www. That gives the group write permissions to the directory. You may have to log out and back in for that to take effect, I'm not sure. Then you should be able to edit and write new stuff in your /var/www/html directory. If your users want to have web pages, they have to create a directory in their home directory called public_html. That's where they put all their web stuff. Then the user has to issue the command chmod 755 ~USERNAME. Then the user's directory can be reached by http://yourip/~username;. HTH, Todd Hi Todd, I've been struggling with the PHP module trying to get it to work. I've followed your instructions, but the Apache module doesn't seem to recognize PHP. I ran the test.php (? phpinfo() ; ?) and I just see the text as it is written here. In the docs, they mention that I should ad AddType application/x-http-php .php in the http.conf. I'm not exactly sure where I should add this: I've placed it after the include statement in the Global Configuration. Problem is: in the Mime.types it doesn't show up. I can't get the AddType to work, so of course, PHP is non-functional in any test. I've d/l the newest stable version of PHP, followed all the instructions (with/without, in various combinations, the following: Mysql, Postgresql, Apache. PHP) I've tried the bare-bones approach: only Apache and PHP - installing PHP 1st, then Apache first from LM8.0. Nothing seems to work. I do get the Apache splash screen. I've loaded Webmin, and then removed it with little effect. (I've followed PHP instructions --with-mysql=/path. ...) This is becoming an obsession -- almost like my attempts with HylaFax! If you have any ideas on how to get PHP up-and-running, I'd greatly appreciate your assistance. I can't develop my new web-site until I get PHP functional. Perhaps you could send me a copy of your (working) httpd.conf and php.ini files so I could maybe see what I've messed up. (Btw, in my last LM8.0 install of PHP, I couldn't find php.ini anywhere. Sorry to be so long-winded, but this is . . . sigh! Tia, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
That's a Pentium I I believe. I suspect that the packages it's going to install, if you ever get it to install, are all optimised for Pentium II's. I don't even know if they will work correctly? Would you like me to burn you a copy of MDK 6.5 and post it to you, so you can at least get something installed? -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 i have 40mb of ram. here is what the bios says about the processor (copied exactly): CPU [90mhz]: Pentium i don't know whether that means pentium 1 or not but the website robin suggested says that i have a Pentium 90. tom. p.s. i was worried that i would have to use another version but i don't know whether PC WORLD would give me a refund and if they don't i would rather not just chuck it. ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Printers
Roman Korcek wrote: I disagree... according to www.linuxprinting.org their suport is fine. Let me quote, As for the DeskJets, HP recently released an open-source driver kit for the bulk of its modern consumer DeskJet line. After finishing a lengthy patent search, with version 1.0.1 they made it free software by removing the for usage with HP products only from the BSDish license. So HP is near the top of the heap in terms of free software support for its inkjet devices (Free software driving Epson Photo printers still produces better color quality). (taken from http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html#hp ) I personally haven't tried their HPIJS driver yet, but I think HP is on a good way. Epson might have better quality (under Linux), though. Just feel like putting my $.02 in: Ink jet printer manufacturer's mostly follow the razor blade business model. They practically give away the printer (in some cases) but charge outrageously for the ink cartridges. I consider HP especially bad at this (but maybe Xerox is even worse -- the cartridge my uncle got with his printer looked big, but I had occasion to take it apart (destructively), and the ink reservoir is on the order of 1/10 the size that you might have expected -- but you can's see that until you peel the paper wrappings off the cartridge. The way to get around the problem is to refill cartridges. Some companies (like Hewlett Packard) make that very difficult. Canon (in most cases) makes it fairly easly. I'm now using a Canon BJC-3000 with cartridges that are very easy to refill. For a while, I carried a portable Canon printer (that could be battery powered) -- don't remember the model, but its cartridges were even easier to refill -- take the cartridge out, turn it upside down to expose the sponge, and drip ink unto the sponge. (The Canon BJC-3000 has a sponge exposed at the bottom, but the recommended refill procedure is to inject ink through a hole, then reseal the hole to make it airtight. 16 oz. of ink for $10 goes a very long way (although $10 is still a high price, it's a whole lot cheaper buying it that way than buying 16 oz. in prefilled cartridges. When my uncle went to buy a printer, I gave him a list of a few that looked like they could be refilled through the sponge like the Canon. He chose the Xerox which has been a disappointment -- it's not as easy as I thought it would be. I recommend Canon. (Disclaimer -- I have never tried to do a photo quality print, so I have no basis to judge whether Canon is good or bad for that purpose. For ordinary text, with some graphics and colors, the model I have works great. They do have more expensive printers that are intended to be photo quality.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running a shell script at boot
Cool. This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1012216218-762-3454 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Hal, That did the trick. cheers Brian On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 20:26, Hal Wigoda wrote: Put it in the /etc/rc3.d directory and label it as starting with S and it will be run at startup. This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1012203894-762-3426 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have written a shell script I would like to run as root at boot time. Where do I put the command to run it? thanks Brian =_1012203894-762-3426 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1012203894-762-3426-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1012216218-762-3454 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1012216218-762-3454-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
On Saturday 26 January 2002 13:34, Evert van den Bos wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to install my HP 970 cxi printer in Mandrake but I want to assign it to a tcp/ip port. My printer is not attached to the Mandrake box but to a freesco box acting as a printer server. In windows this is fairly simple. I just install the printer as if it was attached to my PC (ingnoring messages the device is not found). Then I change the assigned lpt1 port to the TCP/IP port ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This port is created with the installment of an AXIS driver. It works great in Windows and I would like to do the same in Mandrake. But I have no idea how, and didn't find any clues on the web yet. Thanks. Evertb If you add your printer using the CUPS web tool (http://localhost:631/printers) you will see one of the options is to use 'Internet Printing Protocol', and then on the next page it shows some example addresses socket://hostname:9100 socket://hostname I've never needed to use it, but this looks like what you need. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
8.1 should work fine, I have a working 8.1 on a P166 with 56MB of RAM. However, what you can do with it is limited, try using a lighter WM. Maybe you want to get a copy of 6.5 or 7 from Steve as I am in Canada (a bit far compared with Steve). BTW, did you ever get the installation started? Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:18 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 That's a Pentium I I believe. I suspect that the packages it's going to install, if you ever get it to install, are all optimised for Pentium II's. I don't even know if they will work correctly? Would you like me to burn you a copy of MDK 6.5 and post it to you, so you can at least get something installed? -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 i have 40mb of ram. here is what the bios says about the processor (copied exactly): CPU [90mhz]: Pentium i don't know whether that means pentium 1 or not but the website robin suggested says that i have a Pentium 90. tom. p.s. i was worried that i would have to use another version but i don't know whether PC WORLD would give me a refund and if they don't i would rather not just chuck it. ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 _ 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] Ram .. Where is it going ??
I have an SMP PIII system running Mandrake 8.1 with (was 512M ram) however while working on an image in the GIMP i was shocked to discovered my ram was at 99% and 7% swap. OK the image was 100M in size but what about the rest. After i have finished and have closed down GIMP etc not all my ram returns. Now i have added another 512 M of ram the system is at 16% in use ... but if i load a large image it goes well over the amount of it needs and after eg 87% however once i close the image and gimp, ram seems only to go down to around 61%. Is there a way to get all this now un-used ram back. On the Amiga there is a command called avail flush which can get back un-used ram, is there something on Linux to do this?? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Benefits of using XFS...
If you look in the archives Civileme wrote about the file systems and had favourable things to say about XFS. I have been using it since 8.1 on all three of my computers, and have had absolutely zero problems with it, even after a non graceful power down. I use it with NFS without any issue, where I believe ReiserFS has some sort of problem. If you network to NT clients with Samba, XFS has some advantages to do with ACL, (but I have never needed to do that) HTH derek = Original Message From ngn [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi folks!!! Due to a not recoverable error I had to re-install LM 8.1 I was doing a very long reading in a lot of docs about differents Journalled FS and I'm wondering which would be the best to use on a workstation in a Seagate IDE drive of 20 gb aprox. However, In accord with the conclusions I have through my readings I think that the best one for either workstations or servers is XFS. I wanna hear your experiences with XFS or your thoughts about using it. Thanks in advance Nicolás Gómez Montevideo, Uruguay --- The Fastest Browser on Earth. Get your FREE download of Opera at http://www.opera.com/download/ --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail and Abiword problems mandrake 8.1
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:33, marvin wrote: [snip] So, this morning, I tried to do some WP with KWord. Looks O.K. on the screen, ah, a preview button (new). Garbled mess. I print it out and the text is really close together, no spaces (that I can see) and in bold. This works fine in 7.2 kmail by the way. So, highlight cut and paste into AbiWord. Refuses to paste. I check the clipboard, yes it`s there. It pastes into other text editors but not AbiWord. Paste DOES work in AbiWord in Mandrake 7.2. Anyone else seeing :- a) print problems from Kmail (v1.1 kde 2.2.1) b) pasting problems into AbiWord (v0.9.2 ditto) If you mean kword (not kmail) then yep, I've had the same problems with both LM8.0 and 8.1. Does kde 2.2.2 fix these problems ? Don't know, still using kde 2.2.1. I gave up on kword because I couldn't get the printing side of it sorted, a real shame because I really liked kword for WP. I use OpenOffice.org instead. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail and Abiword problems mandrake 8.1
On Monday 28 January 2002 19:33, marvin wrote: b) pasting problems into AbiWord (v0.9.2 ditto) You *will* have problems trying to cut and paste between QT and GTK programs. Try this instead: have both apps open. highlight the text you want to transfer. Do NOT press ctrl-c or choose copy from the menu. Click once on the other app to change the focus, but be careful not to click-drag and create a new selection. Now click the middle button and your text will be transferred. If you have a 2-button mouse, click left and right simultaneously. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Multimedia-v.low sound volume?
On Monday 28 January 2002 23:49, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: The man's a genius, sort of! I had the speakers plugged into the headphones socket and sweet nothing was coming from the speakers. At least with the correct hole chosen I can just hear the sound, if I hold the speaker to my ear. Well sounds like you're getting there... umm... I would try running sndconfig again and then open kmix and check the volume settings. The only red light (mute) in kmix should be on microphone. Now that you've got sound, albeit very low volume, check the mailing list archives as I recall others had very low volume and they did find a solution. Good luck skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Printers
On Monday 28 January 2002 01:21 pm, you wrote: Roman Korcek wrote: I disagree... according to www.linuxprinting.org their suport is fine. Let me quote, As for the DeskJets, HP recently released an open-source driver kit for the bulk of its modern consumer DeskJet line. After finishing a lengthy patent search, with version 1.0.1 they made it free software by removing the for usage with HP products only from the BSDish license. So HP is near the top of the heap in terms of free software support for its inkjet devices (Free software driving Epson Photo printers still produces better color quality). (taken from http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html#hp ) I personally haven't tried their HPIJS driver yet, but I think HP is on a good way. Epson might have better quality (under Linux), though. Just feel like putting my $.02 in: Ink jet printer manufacturer's mostly follow the razor blade business model. They practically give away the printer (in some cases) but charge outrageously for the ink cartridges. I consider HP especially bad at this (but maybe Xerox is even worse -- the cartridge my uncle got with his printer looked big, but I had occasion to take it apart (destructively), and the ink reservoir is on the order of 1/10 the size that you might have expected -- but you can's see that until you peel the paper wrappings off the cartridge. The way to get around the problem is to refill cartridges. Some companies (like Hewlett Packard) make that very difficult. Canon (in most cases) makes it fairly easly. I'm now using a Canon BJC-3000 with cartridges that are very easy to refill. For a while, I carried a portable Canon printer (that could be battery powered) -- don't remember the model, but its cartridges were even easier to refill -- take the cartridge out, turn it upside down to expose the sponge, and drip ink unto the sponge. (The Canon BJC-3000 has a sponge exposed at the bottom, but the recommended refill procedure is to inject ink through a hole, then reseal the hole to make it airtight. 16 oz. of ink for $10 goes a very long way (although $10 is still a high price, it's a whole lot cheaper buying it that way than buying 16 oz. in prefilled cartridges. When my uncle went to buy a printer, I gave him a list of a few that looked like they could be refilled through the sponge like the Canon. He chose the Xerox which has been a disappointment -- it's not as easy as I thought it would be. I recommend Canon. (Disclaimer -- I have never tried to do a photo quality print, so I have no basis to judge whether Canon is good or bad for that purpose. For ordinary text, with some graphics and colors, the model I have works great. They do have more expensive printers that are intended to be photo quality.) Randy Kramer Hey Randy For your Dad. I have a xerox workcentre and found the same cartridges of which you speak. My answer was to find a wall directly into the reservoir and drill a small hole. I filled the reservoir through a hypodermic, then screwed a #4 machine screw into the hole, sealing my entry. Bingo! I have contacted xerox (lower case intentional) about Linux support and inferred from the response (none) that my Windows box has a purpose in life until the printer dies. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA
Well first check you have rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs loaded. Next check your pcmcia cards are able to be recognised. In a root terminal type probe You should then be told which model of pcmcia bus adapter you have fitted, and how many sockets. Next open Mandrake Control CenteHardwareNetwork cards Is your pcmcia card shown? If it is and a kernel module is shown then your card almost certainly is already working, you just need to assign IP addresses etc. If it is not listed then look for /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia The first line of this file should read PCMCIA=yes the second line will probably say PCIC=i82365 Next take a look at /etc/modules.conf It should contain the line pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start If that is all OK then your computer should automatically recognise the pcmcia card on boot and insert the correct module. Note : Netconf will NOT show the module. That does not mean it is not working. You can still use Netconf to set IP address etc. HardDrake WILL show the module HTH derek = Original Message From YUKKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi all i wanna use PCMCIA for 3com 5C589C with mandrake 8.1 at Vaio C1XE but it's not working now what i have to check it?? *?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`* Yukki (Yuki Ikuno) Sing a song is my life [EMAIL PROTECTED] *?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`* --- The Fastest Browser on Earth. Get your FREE download of Opera at http://www.opera.com/download/ --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Urpmi Problems
For some reason whenever I add a source to my urpmi database it becomes corrupted in a way that won't let me update it. For example no matter which Cooker source I add, whenever I use urpmi.update to update it I get this back: [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi.update the entry to update is missing (one of ¨K) Now this is really strange because I keep clearing and adding the sources but urpmi can never find them when it comes to updating them. When I use them to install something however it DOES work. --- Avast, Ye land lubbers! --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD burning setup
I'm coming in a bit late here, but here are a couple of suggestions :-
1/ You do not need to use CDwriting software as root so long as you set it up
correctly.
Create a group called cdwriter or somesuch, make yourself and any other
required users members of that group. Edit the permissions of
/usr/bin/cdrecord /usr/bin/cdparanoia /usr/bin/mkisofs /usr/bin/cdda2wav
/usr/bin/mpg123 /usr/bin/readcd
to give read and execute permissions to the cdwriter group.
You can test access to the cdwriter by opening a terminal and typing
cdrecord -scanbus
Try this as a normal user, and as root. It should report the existence of
your drive in both cases.
2/ In some computers the cdwriter will not work with devfs enabled. If
cdrecord -scanbus did not work even as root then amend your lilo to read
append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=nomount
Then run lilo with /sbin/lilo and reboot
If this fixes the problem you might find you can no longer play audio CD's
To fix this new fault create a symlink
ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/cdrom where hdx is the IDE reference for your cd-Rom
HTH
derek
On Saturday 26 January 2002 22:27, you wrote:
I've done mostly as suggested. As mentioned in my original post, 'ls -l
/dev/cdrom' gave 'No such file or directory', so I did this:
# ln /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
# ln /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom2
Edited /etc/modules and /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
/etc/lilo.conf already had 'append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount so I left
it.
Now, running GCombust as root, when I do 'check scsi settings' I get
'cdrecord failed to recognise selected drive (wrong scsi settings or no
permission to device)!'
How can root not have rights to a device?
How can I get such a range of errors? (I left out all the problems I have
had logging in this evening, kde complaining about failing to set up
interprocess communication, dcop server not running, mouse services and
named failing on closedown, etc.).
Help!
Richard
LPH, Saturday 26 January 2002 18:18:
Hello,
I'm assuming that you have not set up the drive correctly because the
permissions error is shown for almost everything. I'm sorry if that is
the wrong assumption. Also, many Linux burning software programs require
the root (GASP). So, my suggestion is to test your software under root
and see if it works there. If yes, then set permissions for the users
and try there. If it doesn't work under root then follow the steps
below.
* NOTE
I found these steps on the MandrakeUser.org site and combined it with
some other messages from other people. Plus I added my own experiences.
These steps might help you pick through your files to make sure that the
drive is set up correctly.
The girls of TuxReports are writing a much easier to read HOWTO that will
be on the site soon. For now, you'll have to live with my notes (sorry)
__
A Mini-HOWTO
__
1. Find out which is the real device name for your burner.
Type ls -l /dev/cdrom
Usually it will be /dev/hdc (second channel, first device)
If you have 2 cdroms with the burner as slave on the secondary channel it
is usually /dev/hdd.
2. As root, edit the /etc/modules.conf file and add this line:
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
3. As root, edit /etc/lilo.conf add the line
append=hdc-ide-scsi (or if hdd then append=hdd-ide-scsi) to the
section starting with image={}
4. Then type lilo at the console.
5. Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and put the line
modprobe ide-scsi into it.
6. REBOOT
7. This should do it.
Even though I follow the above steps, my scsi emulation still didn't
work. Therefore, after editing the files I ended up using drakconf and
having Mandrake set up LILO there because step 4 added a bunch of garbage
into my lilo.conf.
Now to test the installation:
Place a CD into the burner and mount it as root. mount /dev/scd0 -t auto
/mnt/cd Your IDE drive should be handled like a SCSI CD-RW. Plus you
should be able to use a burner program.
BTW: All of the editing must be done as root. If you do not feel
comfortable with vi or vim, then use Kate. I tried this sequence last
night...while in a terminal window
Kate /etc/lilo.conf ... which brings up in the file in the Kate window.
Hope this helps and good luck! Let us know how things fair.
-- LPH
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:09:29 +
From: RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] CD burning setup
I'm trying to set up GCombust, but I seem to have a problem with
permissions:
GCombust, copying from my DVD (/dev/hdd), gives Could not read number of
tracks from audio CD (but I don't think it's even trying).
'Dump CD' in GCombust gives while opening /dev/hdd :Permission denied
I've set up my DVD drive (slave on second IDE interface) in Gnome
Toaster, but it doesn't list any tracks.
I may have done these while
[newbie] [FYI] Soundblaster Audigy support
You can download a Creative Soundblaster Audigy driver in .tar.gz format: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44773 Have fun! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rw
Thanks Ralph, I am going to search the internet for freeware for cd burning. I have found over the years that often the best solution does not come from a big company. I have to be careful though, as my wife likes the Windows box just the way it is. -Jeff On 28 Jan 2002, you wrote: Don't forget to copy everything from the CD onto your HD before you install Nero as it WILL uninstall Adaptec. Nero and Adaptec, actually anything and Adaptec cannot live in harmony :-) Good luck Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's Adaptec. And I did drag and drop. I'll check out Nero, thanks for the help. -Jeff On 28 Jan 2002, you wrote: With which program did you use to burn to the cd-rw in Windows? I know that Adaptec has this wonderful way of dragging and dropping through your Explorer to add files to it, and if you did it in this way, ONLY Adaptec can read the file. I had this problem one too about 3 years ago. It freaked me out, so the first thing I did then was to copy all my files to the HD via Windows, uninstall Adaptec (basicallt threw it straight in the bin afterwards), and then used Nero. Shortly afterwards I began with Linux and never looked back. Ralph On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Ram .. Where is it going ??
if you load GIMP again you should see that it loads much faster then when it did the first time, that's because of all the cache Linux is using. On the register there is a story about the AthlonXP 2000+ vs. P4 2200Mhz (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23845.html) One of his tests is to see how long GIMP takes to load, he also tests how long it takes to load after it has been closed. this is a good illustration of how caching is used -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars Sent: 28 January 2002 23:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ram .. Where is it going ?? Last Sunday there was a post from Steve Flynn about 'unused memory': As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting task. -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] name of 8.1 install file
You could try a network install. If you have a broadband connection you can create a boot disc and then boot from an ftp site. The boot disc will try to get your Ethernet interface working, and then ask you for an ftp address to load from. Here is one you might try ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS (you might only need ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.1/i586 ) Instructions can be found on the boot CD in the file install.htm Never tried it myself, and it will be ssllooww derek On Monday 28 January 2002 01:52, Brian Parish wrote: Don't think you can get around it that way. Only 2 possibilities I can think of: 1: Get a cable to allow you to connect the CD drive externally while the floppy is installed (if the machine has an external connection you can plug into) 2: Get a BIOS upgrade. Have you looked for these? Even a relatively old bios may have been upgraded to allow a CD boot. Brian On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 04:11, Tom Harris wrote: I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. 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] HP Printers
Sorry, this question was not directed to me, however I have a Canon C80 and it's great :-) Up to 12800x1440 dpi, so pretty much photo-quality I would say. It's a fairly new one, so it would not be the one you bought your mother. Maybe it's misconfigured (although I doubt that)? What's the quality of the printer (dpi)? I still find it hard to believe that any printer bought within the last couple of years would give terrible quality, unless there is something wrong. OK, there is a big difference between fair quality, good quality, and excellent quality, however terrible quality reminds me of my HP DeskJet 670C... now that's bad quality. At least now it it... when I got it text printing was pretty clear, but with wair-and-tear it's deteriorated drastically. Ralph On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Todd Slater wrote: On Monday 28 January 2002 01:21 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: snip I recommend Canon. (Disclaimer -- I have never tried to do a photo quality print, so I have no basis to judge whether Canon is good or bad for that purpose. For ordinary text, with some graphics and colors, the model I have works great. They do have more expensive printers that are intended to be photo quality.) Randy Kramer Just curious, Randy, what model Canon do you have? I bought a Canon bubble jet (don't remember the model) for my mother about a year ago and it prints text miserably--a big disappointment. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mailing list manager help
Has anybody on the list had any luck at setting up mailman or sympa? I'm trying but can't find any documentation (man or help) and the web sites haven't proven useful. TIA Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Printers
Lee wrote: My answer was to find a wall directly into the reservoir and drill a small hole. I filled the reservoir through a hypodermic, then screwed a #4 machine screw into the hole, sealing my entry. Bingo! Lee, Thanks for the response. I'll have to get the model number of the Xerox printer again and then write back to you -- I did something similar before I did the destructive analysis of the cartridge. It seems that we had trouble getting the printer to recognize that the cartridge was full again -- it often acted like it was still empty. Every once in a while I did the right thing and got a refilled cartridge to work ok. Never really found out if had some kind of something built into the cartridge to keep it from being refilled (like eprom or something). Did you have any trouble like that? regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde 2.2.2
i reckon its not yet considered 'stable' and 'relatively bug-free'. dont the cooker sites have it yet? ciao! On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:37:12 GMT marvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hello. kde was upgraded to 2.2.2 on the 21st November, yet MandrakeUpdate doesn`t have it available. why ? Yes, I know I can install it manually, but if I wanted to do it that way, I would have picked a basic distribution and isntalled it all from source. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Transfer Mandrake 8.1 to new computer
I am planning on purchasing a new mobo/processor shortly and was wondering if I should plan on a re-install or not? Any info would be appreciated. Also... any known issues with MSI mobo's? Thanks Eric -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = MadMax99[EMAIL PROTECTED] = = = = The More I learn The Less I Know! = = = =Registered Linux User #248078 = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT AOL and Linux
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:25:59 -0500 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:36:07 -0500 Anuerin G.Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: seems like it AOL was _not_ buying RH, but a merger in the future may happen... http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020122/n22119518_2.html ciao! That is just _SO_ wrong! i think i banged my head on the desk too hard but what was '_SO_ wrong!' ? was the link i posted a FUD? ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WINE In LM 8.0
Hey all. This is actually my first query to this group. =) I am running LM 8.0 alongside Win2K Advanced Server. I am wondering how I can get WINE to work in this setup (ie use 2K's DLLs if possible). TIA! Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rw
It sounds like you have used DirectCD to record your CDRWs. To view them under Linux, make a directory under /mnt called something like udf (or whatever you like). Next, as root, edit /etc/fstab and duplicate the line in it for your CDROM except where it says either auto or ISO9660, change that to udf. Save and exit fstab. I usually mount from a prompt, to do so, you may have to do a umount /mnt/cdrom first and then issue a mount /mnt/udf (or whatever you called it). You should have your files. Joe On Sunday 27 January 2002 05:53 pm, you wrote: Hi. I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT AOL and Linux
or maybe it was just the thought that future AOL cd's mass mailed to the world would, upon insertion in a winbox, say: this will install the AOL internet client, press ok to repartition your harddrive. :-D On Tuesday 29 January 2002 09:25, you spoke unto me thusly: i think i banged my head on the desk too hard but what was '_SO_ wrong!' ? was the link i posted a FUD? -- Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous. shane registered linux user @ http://counter.li.org/ http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/; Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] applixware
well, I'm not talking from experience here but, my understanding is that open office is the u... i can't think of the word it's StarOffice, at least originally, but the code is open to the public to modify and improve. so -- star office is only modifyed and worked on by Sun, but open office is worked on by anyone who wants to get involved. am i right about that?? i have the files to install the latest open office, but i haven't done it or tried it, simply because i have become attached to applix already and don't feel like having to go thru another conversion. by that i mean that my #1 use for my computer is writing, i am a writer. under windows i used WordPro. when converting to linux finding a word processor was my greatest need. at the time i didn't know about open office. i tried applix, star office 5.2, koffice and abiword. i decided on applix and now all my writing is in that format. if you are still looking for something you should check open office. it may be really good. i think star office is getting better better, and open office might be even better simply because it is open to anyone to contribute. it's free and you've nothing to loose. adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Book question.
i'm a big fan of books. first, i recently discover the linux cookbook do a google search, the whole text is available on the internet. it's great. second -- 'linux in a nutshell' from o'reilly. this book is the bomb. if you get no other, this is the one. it has most all the commands in alphebetical order. it also assumes you have an idea of what you are doing. it explains each command and all the opions for it, but assumes you know which command you are looking for. it also has section on KDE, GNOME, package managers, LILO and other things. third -- 'linux command instant reference' from Sybex. it's organized in sections, such as archiveing, text files, audio, etc, so if you know what you are trying to do you can just flip to that section. just my opinons i could be full of it =) adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT AOL and Linux
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:58:56 -0800 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: or maybe it was just the thought that future AOL cd's mass mailed to the world would, upon insertion in a winbox, say: this will install the AOL internet client, press ok to repartition your harddrive. :-D On Tuesday 29 January 2002 09:25, you spoke unto me thusly: i think i banged my head on the desk too hard but what was '_SO_ wrong!' ? was the link i posted a FUD? -- Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous. ah! ok, thinking it that way AOL would be a greater demolition tool for Linux. hmmmnn, sounds like another good makings for a conspiracy theory. ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Printers
On Monday 28 January 2002 07:13 pm, you wrote: Lee wrote: My answer was to find a wall directly into the reservoir and drill a small hole. I filled the reservoir through a hypodermic, then screwed a #4 machine screw into the hole, sealing my entry. Bingo! Lee, Thanks for the response. I'll have to get the model number of the Xerox printer again and then write back to you -- I did something similar before I did the destructive analysis of the cartridge. It seems that we had trouble getting the printer to recognize that the cartridge was full again -- it often acted like it was still empty. Every once in a while I did the right thing and got a refilled cartridge to work ok. Never really found out if had some kind of something built into the cartridge to keep it from being refilled (like eprom or something). Did you have any trouble like that? regards, Randy Kramer I have read that there are smart cartridges out there. Given that the whole idea of cheap printers is to sell expensive ink, it makes a sort of warped sense, doesn't it! Anyway, there's no surprises in mine except the shape fills 80% of the apparent ink space with air. What a rip off. I did find out that you need to fill the cartridge befor it is completely empty or right when the computer warns of impending doom. I let it go dry the first time and the printing was iffy for days after. Being my first refill try, I thought it was the ink I bought, but it cleared up and has worked fine through several more refills. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
I'm sure this is a very easy question to answer and I'm being very brain deaded about it How do you copy a file to a floppy drive via terminal? Is it cp filename /mnt/floppy? Everytime I try this and I do an ls in the /mnt/floppy directory, it shows up. However when I bring it to a Winblows machine, I can't see the file. Help??? __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
The cp command is cp filename /mnt/floppy/ The forward slash is very important otherwise you are trying to create a file called floppy in the /mnt directory. The directory entry floppy in /mnt is a symbolic link (in terms of winblows as short cut) to the actual device /dev/fd0. This is assuming that your floppy is drive A. Hope this helps. David Cooper Senior Computer Systems Officer Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 08 9486 3157 Fax : 08 9486 3162 This correspondence is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information or both. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this correspondence in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/01/02 15:06:17 I'm sure this is a very easy question to answer and I'm being very brain deaded about it How do you copy a file to a floppy drive via terminal? Is it cp filename /mnt/floppy? Everytime I try this and I do an ls in the /mnt/floppy directory, it shows up. However when I bring it to a Winblows machine, I can't see the file. Help??? __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:06:17 -0800 (PST) Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I'm sure this is a very easy question to answer and I'm being very brain deaded about it How do you copy a file to a floppy drive via terminal? Is it cp filename /mnt/floppy? Everytime I try this and I do an ls in the /mnt/floppy directory, it shows up. However when I bring it to a Winblows machine, I can't see the file. Help??? you have to mount the floppy first ( something like mounting a CD). mounting places the 'mounted space' over the 'mounting point'. Whatever files in the 'mount point' is hidden until the 'mounted space' is unmounted. as of linux kernel 2.4.x, IIRC, you can use a mount point multiple times. to illustrate the point, assuming that you have test.txt on the directory /mnt/bogus and you will mount the windows partition (drive c:) on that directory. here is the sample output [root@Ronin bogus]# pwd /mnt/bogus [root@Ronin bogus]# ls test.txt [root@Ronin bogus]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/bogus [root@Ronin bogus]# ls test.txt [root@Ronin bogus]# cd .. [root@Ronin mnt]# cd bogus [root@Ronin bogus]# ls autoexec.001* command.com* msdos.---* scandisk.log* videorom.bin* autoexec.bat* config.sys* msdos.sys* setuplog.old* windows/ AUTOEXEC.BAT.bak* detlog.txt* My Documents/ setuplog.txt* autoexec.nai* dosime.sys* netlog.txt* setupxlg.txt* bootlog.prv* Downloads/Program Files/ suhdlog.dat* bootlog.txt* io.sys* recycled/ system.1st* [root@Ronin bogus]# umount /dev/hda1 umount: /mnt/bogus: device is busy [root@Ronin bogus]# cd .. [root@Ronin mnt]# umount /dev/hda1 [root@Ronin mnt]# cd bogus [root@Ronin bogus]# ls test.txt notice that when i mounted the drive c to the current directory, i was still able to list the contents of the /mnt/bogus. but when i moved to the parent directory and changed back, the listing shows the contents of my drive c. test.txt is still on the /mnt/bogus under the windows drive and was again visible when i unmounted my drive c. am i talking sense? ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Perl problem
This got bounced back to me for some reason . Every time I've tried to install a perl program/module I get the following message: Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code This despite the fact that Mandrake (8.1) seems to have installedPerl in one of the locations looked for by the make program. I trawled the archives for this one - could find the similar questions, but no answers. Robin -- Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted. Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
