Re: [newbie-it] Rotellina mouse in Netscape 4.78
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:53:35 +0100 e/tacc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come far funzionare la rotellina del mouse su Netscape 4.78 Ciao Elio Questa versione di Netscape non supporta nativamente il wheel mouse, come invece fanno Mozilla/Galeon e Gnome per es., ma si avvale di un programma esterno chiamato imwheel. Quindi dovresti controllare di averlo e provare a lanciarlo. Ciao -- Sebastiano
Re: [newbie-it] C'è l'ho fatta finalmente !!!!!!
[cut] Grazie a tutti. Nicola MT Complimenti... bravo!!! ;-)
[newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] C'è l'ho fatta finalmente !!!!!!
Scusa Nicola se tichiedo che modem ADSL hai; io sono un 38-enne stanco anch'io delle angherie di windows; ho il modem Alcatel ADSL Speedtouch USB, ci sto picchiando da più di due mesi ma non c'è verso di farlo collegare su Linux 8.0 e 8.1; Io la mailing list ancora non la posso ringraziare perchè il mio unico problema è stato ed è il collegamento internet ADSL, ma ormai spesso non ricevo nemmeno risposte perchè probabilmente sono l'unico sfigato che ha simili intoppature e domanda spiegazioni su dei messaggi di errore sul log-messages veramente variegati. ciao Marco - Original Message - From: Nicola Minutiello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: [newbie-it] C'è l'ho fatta finalmente !! Sono un Newbie di 41 anni stanco di lavorare con windows da circa tre mesi mi sono picchiato per installare e (sopratutto far funzionare) linux MDK 8.1, dopo aver reinstallato almeno una ventina di volte il SO adesso finalmente funziona, almeno per le funzioni di base e soprattutto riesco a far funzionare il mio hardware modem ADSL, scheda grafica Radeon 7500 e scanner. Sono proprio sodisfatto. Linux mi piace molto. Volevo ringraziare tutti i partecipanti all ML, perche grazie anche a voi sono riuscito nel mio intento. Adesso il prossimo passo sara trovare programmi per poter trasferire tutto il mio lavoro su linux. Grazie a tutti. Nicola MT
[newbie-it] da mp3 a wav ed altro sugli audio
Visto che finalmente sono riuscita a masterizzare un CD audio, vi chiedo: che programma posso usare per convertire un file da mp3 a wav? E poi: e se volessi registrare, tramite la scheda audio, dei file wav? Cosa consigliate? Ho provato con aRts (o come cavolo si chiama quello di KDE) ma non ci capisco un tubo... -- Arwanmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.
Re: [newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] C'è l'ho fattafinalmente !!!!!!
Il dom, 2002-02-17 alle 15:06, Marco Fortini ha scritto: Scusa Nicola se tichiedo che modem ADSL hai; io sono un 38-enne stanco anch'io delle angherie di windows; ho il modem Alcatel ADSL Speedtouch USB, ci sto picchiando da più di due mesi ma non c'è verso di farlo collegare su Linux 8.0 e 8.1; Io la mailing list ancora non la posso ringraziare perchè il mio unico problema è stato ed è il collegamento internet ADSL, ma ormai spesso non ricevo nemmeno risposte perchè probabilmente sono l'unico sfigato che ha simili intoppature e domanda spiegazioni su dei messaggi di errore sul log-messages veramente variegati. Ciao, se hai BBB, fatti semplicemente cambiare il modem con quello ethernet. Fai prima e ti rompi meno la testa col sistema. ;) Un saluto.
[newbie-it] togliere GRUB
Salve, ho un problema: non so come togliere GRUB dal hard disk. Vorrei accedere al Linux soltanto tramite il floppy. Ho cercato informazioni a riguardo, ma invano. Qualcuno puo' darmi una mano? Grazie Dimitri -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: VolaSMS, il software più completo per inviare e ricevere SMS dal tuo PC Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=276d=17-2
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con CD Audio
Alle 17:26, domenica 17 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: Uso la Mandrake 8.1 e ho modificato i parametri di boot come più volte consigliato (devfs=nomount nobiospnp). In questo modo sono in grado di leggere i CD. Il problema è, relativo ai CD Audio. Se lo faccio partire direttamente dal lettore funziona perfettamente. Se invece uso programmi specifici (Xmms o CD Player) non lo vede. l'Xmms non vede nulla nella directory /mnt/cdrom; il CD Player mi da il seguente messaggio Errore di lettura o accesso al CDROM (o manca disco). Assicurati di avere i problemi di accesso a: /dev/cdrom. Come posso fare a risolvere il problema? Grazie a tutti. A mio avviso ti manca il device /dev/cdrom Controlla in /etc/fstab qual'è il tuo dispositivo CDROM (da me è hdc) poi apri un terminale e ti sposti in dev (cd /dev) quindi dai il seguente comando ln -s hdc cdrom (varia hdc se nel tuo caso il cdrom è un dispositivo diverso) e vedrai che il tuo problema si risolve! Ciao Marco la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una !!! KMail powered by Linux Mandrake 8.1 -- la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una !!! KMail powered by Linux Mandrake 8.1
Re: [newbie-it] togliere GRUB
Alle 16:42, domenica 17 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: Salve, ho un problema: non so come togliere GRUB dal hard disk. Vorrei accedere al Linux soltanto tramite il floppy. Ho cercato informazioni a riguardo, ma invano. Qualcuno puo' darmi una mano? Grazie Dimitri fdisk /mbr ...Perlomeno con Lilo funziona... Fabio
Re: [newbie-it] Rotellina mouse in Netscape 4.78
Alle 11:56, domenica 17 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:53:35 +0100 e/tacc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come far funzionare la rotellina del mouse su Netscape 4.78 Ciao Elio Questa versione di Netscape non supporta nativamente il wheel mouse, come invece fanno Mozilla/Galeon e Gnome per es., ma si avvale di un programma esterno chiamato imwheel. Quindi dovresti controllare di averlo e provare a lanciarlo. Ciao Ti ringrazio del aiuto, l'ho provato però non mi piace come funziona. Ciao Elio
[newbie-it] XawTV
Mandrake 8.1 mi ha installato il programma XawTV. Con la cam vedo l'immagine mezza verde e mezza grigia. Con l'ingresso composito vedo l'immagine Tv solo in bianco nero. Ciao a tutti Elio
Re: [newbie-it] togliere GRUB
Il 10:42, domenica 17 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: Salve, ho un problema: non so come togliere GRUB dal hard disk. Vorrei accedere al Linux soltanto tramite il floppy. Ho cercato informazioni a riguardo, ma invano. Qualcuno puo' darmi una mano? Grazie Dimitri Giustamente... fdisk /mbr, ma prima vai in mdk control center e fatti un floppy per far poi partire il sistema.
[newbie-it] Come si pronuncia Linux?!?
Buona Sera a tutta la ML!!! Ho scoperto una cosa che trovo molto carina (non particolarmente utile.. ma simpatica :-) ) E' questa: esiste in Linux un file audio nel quale Linus Torvalds in persona insegna la corretta pronuncia di Linux. Problema questo che non riguarda noi italiani (io non ho mai sentito pronuncie strane) ma... some where in the world... Cmq, digitate al prompt della shell: cat /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au /dev/audio e ascoltate... Buona Continuazione Manuela -- scrutare[AT]genie.it
Re[2]: [newbie-it] da mp3 a wav ed altro sugli audio
Scrive Sebastiano: (Sunday, February 17, 2002, ore 7:33:28 PM, a proposito di [newbie-it] da mp3 a wav ed altro sugli audio) SC decodifico tutti gli mp3 contenuti in una dir con uno script che si SC chiama MP3do (credo che sia qui http://spazioweb.inwind.it/stefko). Puoi SC farlo anche a mano con mpg123 -w song.wav song.mp3 (uno alla volta!) SC ma lo script automatizza il tutto se lanciato con l' opzione -s *.mp3. Ottimo, grazie. SC Se intendi dire registrare dal line in della scheda audio io ho usato + SC volte GramoFile per masterizzare delle musicassette. E' un prog per SC console (semigrafico) ma e' molto intuitivo e funziona bene; non ricordo SC il link ma dovresti trovarlo su freshmeat. Proprio quello che intendevo. Vado a caccia e provo :-) (se non mi sentite borbottare piu' vuol dire che ce l'ho fatta :-))) ) -- Arwan There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.
R: [newbie-it] XawTV
In questi giorno sto sperimentando un problema analogo. Ho una sccheda con ingresso composito, super-video e antenna. Con il collegamento videregistratore-computer tramite antenna ho immagini perfette, con gli altri due mezzi immagini scarse ( quasi in bianco e nero). Potrebbe dunque essere un problema hardware, più che software. Luca Mandrake 8.1 mi ha installato il programma XawTV. Con la cam vedo l'immagine mezza verde e mezza grigia. Con l'ingresso composito vedo l'immagine Tv solo in bianco nero. Ciao a tutti Elio
[newbie] Icon Question
I'm running Mandrake 8.1. How does one change the icon for an individual app on the desktop? I can change the icons of groups (all *.exe, I.E.), but not individuals. Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Icon Question
Hi Rich. Right click on the icon (on desktop).click on properties...then click on the icon. Mark On Sunday 17 February 2002 10:42, you wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1. How does one change the icon for an individual app on the desktop? I can change the icons of groups (all *.exe, I.E.), but not individuals. Rich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Icon Question
On Sunday 17 February 2002 12:42, Rich wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1. How does one change the icon for an individual app on the desktop? I can change the icons of groups (all *.exe, I.E.), but not individuals. Depends on your window manager. In KDE you just right-click the icon and select Properties. Robin -- Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth. 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
Re: [newbie] Icon Question
One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other icons or you can choose a .png or .xpm file. Pick up a new icon and it's done. Hope it helps you, regards. Rodrigo Rich wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1. How does one change the icon for an individual app on the desktop? I can change the icons of groups (all *.exe, I.E.), but not individuals. Rich 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] Charset in Star/Open Office
RT I'm sure this one must have been asked and answered before, but I RT can't find it in the archives RT How do you get Star / Open Office to use a different charset? I need RT Latin5 (iso-8859-9) encoding and can't find anything there to set it RT (choosing language as Turkish has no effect either). Is there some RT environment variable to set this or what? RT Robin Honestly I could not also realize what choosing Turkish does, either. The display problem is caused by the default fonts of openoffice/staroffice lacking iso8859-9. To correct this, there is a utility in the main folder of the office, spadmin. Spadmin manages printers and fonts. Just open it up and show openoffice new truetype (ttf) fonts to use, that supports iso8859-9. Choosing use symlinks/softlinks will prevent wasting space for fonts. Regards Onur Kucuk _ 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] programm for scsi streamer?
Hi! As I have an external SCSI Streamer 4GB which I want to use, I am looking for an nice tool (GUI) for using it. I know there is good old tar, but are there any nice graphical tools? thanxs Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM File Installation
You can try rpm -ql package_name (see man rpm or rpm --help). It will list all the files inside the package and in which directories they are placed. When you are installing it with software manager, before the installation, manager shows the files of the package. Before pressing next to complete the installation, take a look at files. Rodrigo Tonton wrote: I download a file from download.com, a java editor with its filename jedit-3.2.2-1.noarch.rpm, when I right-click this file, and I open it with software manager, after a few minutes, it says that the software has been successfully installed. My question is, how do I know where does software manager install this java editor? __ www.edsamail.com 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] Running slow.
I personally use icewm to do all my desktop stuff on the slower servers.. (my home sshd, samba, postfix, fetchmail gateway and firewall machine, is a 233MMX with 160mb of ram, and although its not what you'd call lightning, its certainly fast enough to serve its purpose,, I also use it to browse or read mail if I can't be bothered starting one of my desktop machines.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane Sent: Friday, 15 February 2002 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Running slow. On Friday 15 February 2002 01:49, you spoke unto me thusly: If speed and footprint are concerns, then Blackbox or Windowmaker might be even better choices. I believe Blackbox *might* be the lightest either blackbox or fvwm is the lightest would be my bet, but i have nothing to back that up ;-) i recommend e first cause i kinda like it. nothing more. while not as light as others it does more. always trading off. -- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! 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] Charset in Star/Open Office
On Sunday 17 February 2002 13:32, Onur Kucuk wrote: RT I'm sure this one must have been asked and answered before, but I RT can't find it in the archives RT How do you get Star / Open Office to use a different charset? I need RT Latin5 (iso-8859-9) encoding and can't find anything there to set it RT (choosing language as Turkish has no effect either). Is there some RT environment variable to set this or what? RT Robin Honestly I could not also realize what choosing Turkish does, either. The display problem is caused by the default fonts of openoffice/staroffice lacking iso8859-9. To correct this, there is a utility in the main folder of the office, spadmin. Spadmin manages printers and fonts. Just open it up and show openoffice new truetype (ttf) fonts to use, that supports iso8859-9. Choosing use symlinks/softlinks will prevent wasting space for fonts. I tried that, both as root and user. It still defaults to iso8859-1, as far as I can tell. A quick fix was to download and install a couple of Turkish only fonts, but I'd still like to be able to choose between character sets for existing ttf and Type 1 fonts. IMHO, Open Office would be a better (and smaller!) program if it stopped trying to duplicate things that are already done perfectly well by the existing system. I realise this is extra work if you're developing a cross-platform application, but why not just use the existing X-fonts, use CUPS or lpd for printing, and even Qt/Tk for widgets etc.? (I suspect the answer would be If you want that, use KOffice, but KOffice, although it's an impressive application, is really not my cup of tea.) Robin Robin -- Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth. 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
Re: [newbie] Icon Question
I've received 3 identical answers, but it doesn't work here! Nothing happens when I click on the icon in the dialog box. I can change the icon by right clicking and then selecting Edit File Type. Unfortunately, this also changes all of the other, similar, non-embedded icons on the desktop. Rich On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:43, Rodrigo wrote: One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other icons or you can choose a .png or .xpm file. Pick up a new icon and it's done. Hope it helps you, regards. Rodrigo Rich wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1. How does one change the icon for an individual app on the desktop? I can change the icons of groups (all *.exe, I.E.), but not individuals. Rich 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:52:41 +0800 Tonton [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: When I go to KDE, my desktop in Gnome automatically open in my KDE desktop, what should I do to remove this? Open kpm and look for an instance of gmc running. kill that instance and any others running and that should take care of the problem. In the future when you use the Gmc file manager be sure to exit the program via the exit menu command as opposed to just hitting the X in the upper right of the window. When you use the latter method to exit the program that leaves the process running and as you can see there are side-effects to this. -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 8:05am up 1 day, 11:42, 2 users, load average: 1.15, 0.52, 0.35 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM File Installation
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 08:58:44 -0300 Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: You can try rpm -ql package_name (see man rpm or rpm --help). It will list all the files inside the package and in which directories they are placed. When you are installing it with software manager, before the installation, manager shows the files of the package. Before pressing next to complete the installation, take a look at files. Rodrigo Tonton wrote: I download a file from download.com, a java editor with its filename jedit-3.2.2-1.noarch.rpm, when I right-click this file, and I open it with software manager, after a few minutes, it says that the software has been successfully installed. My question is, how do I know where does software manager install this java editor? If you open up Kpackage and find the package in the list then click on the package name to highlight the package information will come up in the right pain of the app. That should tell you where the binary was placed that runs the app. -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 8:05am up 1 day, 11:42, 2 users, load average: 1.15, 0.52, 0.35 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:33:51 -0600 Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I had trouble with 8.1, mandrake 7.1 through 8.0 were blazing fast for me, then came 8.1 download edition, slow and unstable, Some people have had great luck with 8.1, other's like ours have sucked and cause me to use a different distro for now. I hope 8.2 will be better mark wow! thats unfortunate. I've had nothing but good experiences with 8.1. In fact it appears to be the most stable version of Mandrake I've used yet, although that could be because I've learned more about running things better and not breaking them as much. -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 8:05am up 1 day, 11:42, 2 users, load average: 1.15, 0.52, 0.35 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTP370 raid controller
On Saturday 16 February 2002 11:22 pm, Eric Paynter wrote: I'm thinking about getting a mainboard with a High Point HTP370 IDE RAID controller to use RAID1. I can't find it listed in the compatible hardware list. Can anybody share any success/failure stories with this controller? Thanks, -Eric You probly should read, http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1379lang=en http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1097lang=en http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=450lang=en For more, just go to mandrake forum and search 'raid'. I believe you'll change your mind about considerin a win-fake-raid motherboard. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
On Sunday 17 February 2002 15:46, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:33:51 -0600 Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I had trouble with 8.1, mandrake 7.1 through 8.0 were blazing fast for me, then came 8.1 download edition, slow and unstable, Some people have had great luck with 8.1, other's like ours have sucked and cause me to use a different distro for now. I hope 8.2 will be better mark wow! thats unfortunate. I've had nothing but good experiences with 8.1. In fact it appears to be the most stable version of Mandrake I've used yet, although that could be because I've learned more about running things better and not breaking them as much. I too found 8.1 rather slow, but not at all unstable. Previous posts on this list indicate that the speed problem may lie with the kernel. Upgrading your kernel might help, but since Mdk 8.2 will be out soon, it's probably better to wait for that. Robin -- Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth. 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
[newbie] How do I get out of X-Windows
I know how about the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp part, but when I do that it only brings me back to the X-Windows (KDE) logon screen and not to the prompt. Even restarting the PC does not make it stop at the prompt. It goes straight to the KDE. Also, how do I change my displayresolution in X-Windows. Thanks for all info
Re: [newbie] How do I get out of X-Windows
Go here and see if this helps you. http://192.168.1.65/books/Computer/MandrakeUserArchives/xwin/xset.html prontomail[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/17/02 3:10:00 AM I know how about the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp part, but when I do that it only brings me back to the X-Windows (KDE) logon screen and not to the prompt. Even restarting the PC does not make it stop at the prompt. It goes straight to the KDE. Also, how do I change my display resolution in X-Windows. Thanks for all info Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I get out of X-Windows
On Sunday 17 February 2002 10:10, prontomail wrote: I know how about the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp part, but when I do that it only brings me back to the X-Windows (KDE) logon screen and not to the prompt. Even restarting the PC does not make it stop at the prompt. It goes straight to the KDE. Depends on the version of Mandrake you're using. In 8.1, the shutdown command on the login screen gives you an option to go into command-line mode. If you just want to set up another session in command line mode without killing your KDE session, Ctrl-Alt-F* will access different virtual sessions. I don't know if there's a way to kill X and go into command line mode directly from a KDE session. Also, how do I change my display resolution in X-Windows. Control Centre - Hardware - X If you have more than one resolution set up, Ctrl-Alt-+ will cycle through them. BTW, it's X-window, not X-windows -- Windows is that other operating system! Robin -- Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth. 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
Re: [newbie] Desktop
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 08:25:43 -0500, daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:52:41 +0800 Tonton [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: When I go to KDE, my desktop in Gnome automatically open in my KDE desktop, what should I do to remove this? Open kpm and look for an instance of gmc running. kill that instance and any others running and that should take care of the problem. In the future when you use the Gmc file manager be sure to exit the program via the exit menu command as opposed to just hitting the X in the upper right of the window. When you use the latter method to exit the program that leaves the process running and as you can see there are side-effects to this. If you start gmc with the --sm-disable option, you won't have this problem. Also, to prevent it from trying to draw on the desktop, use the --nodesktop option. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Internet cannot be removed from your Desktop. Do you want to delete the Internet now? -- Microsoft Windows 95 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SbLive
I am not trying to get the spidif jack to work. I want the speaker output jack to be set for digital output so that it can run digital speakers. On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 04:31, Paul Pak wrote: In Case you are using the alsa sound drivers do the following: as root enter the command: alsactl store it will create the file /etc/asound.conf. Open asound.conf with an editor look for the spdif output line and change it to true. Mine looks like this: switch(S/PDIF output, true) Now save asound.conf and enter the command: alsactl restore , SPDIF out should work now if it is not working maybe you are not using alsa Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2002 23:43 schrieben Sie: How do you switch the analog output on the soundblaster live to digital? In windows there was creative software to do it. I am running digital speakers as it is and now have no sound. Thanks. =_1013938409-13086-1186 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] How do I get out of X-Windows
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:10:00 -0800, prontomail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know how about the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp part, but when I do that it only brings me back to the X-Windows (KDE) logon screen and not to the prompt. Even restarting the PC does not make it stop at the prompt. It goes straight to the KDE. Also, how do I change my display resolution in X-Windows. These can all be adjusted in the Mandrake Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself.' That's it. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 vs. SuSE 7.3
Any thoughts on how they compare? What is the Mandrake equivalent of the SuSE Online Update? Thanks. geno Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I get out of X-Windows
Leonard W.Miller wrote: Go here and see if this helps you. http://192.168.1.65/books/Computer/MandrakeUserArchives/xwin/xset.html Leonard, I don't think that will work for anybody out on the Internet -- that is a private IP, and does not work for me. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I get out of X-Windows
oops http://64.78.107.79/books/Computer/MandrakeUserArchives/xwin/xset.html how about now Randy Kramer[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/17/02 10:41:58 AM Leonard W.Miller wrote: Go here and see if this helps you. http://192.168.1.65/books/Computer/MandrakeUserArchives/xwin/xset.html Leonard, I don't think that will work for anybody out on the Internet -- that is a private IP, and does not work for me. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 8.1 freezes during new install
Hi, I have a recurring freeze problem during installation of Linux MDK8.1 on a PC with Win98SE. Partition during install runned ok. I partitioned half of my HD for Linux with approx 4 GB for the '/' mount en approx. 15 GB for the '/home' mount. Freezing occurs during further installation. Mostly during installation of files, but not necessarly always at the same point. I tried 'text'mode install with same freezing event(s) I tried install from boot diskette with same freezing event(s) I tried to install with another CD-ROM installed : same result... I tried to install with SCSI card removed: same result. Can anybody recognise the problem or point me to more relevant info? Thanks for your time ! Hardware: - AOpen AK73(A) motherboard, on-board sound - AOpen CD-ROM - NVidia TNT2 M64 32MB video card - 512 MB RAM - Adaptec AHA 2930AU SCSI card - Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC - Seagate HD 40 GB, 20 GB for Win 98SE and 20 GB for Linux. * Gilbert Desmet mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem PCTel
Thank you very much ! It's working pefectly !!! :-D The last doubt is, I am not sure about where I should put the following commands: insmod pctel insmod ptserial Should I put them in /etc/profile or there is a better place for them ? Thanks again, Rodrigo Joseph Braddock wrote: Go to www.linmodems.org and from there select the link for Jan's PCTel Resources. Her site will have the latest drivers for the PCTel modems (I'm using them now). If you have problems, let me know and I'll try and help you through it. Joe On Thursday 14 February 2002 09:09 am, you wrote: Does anyone know any driver for the PCTel Platinum V90 HSP Micromodem that works in Mandrake 8.1 ? Thanks, Rodrigo 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] par for linux?
does anyone know where I can find the parchiver utility? I had it before but I can't find it now. It rebuilds rar files that are missing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
I would like to say thank you to all who replied to my inquiries as to 8.1 operating slow on my P120. I have made some notes from your comments and thus will try an older dist or lighter X application. On the other hand I may just upgrade the machine...things to ponder. As to my 700Mhz machine running slugish, from scanning the system log I see several things that raise serious questions (things that I know not the meaning of yet) that I must address. Thanks again to all, you have been most helpful! Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 vs. SuSE 7.3
first the disclaimer, one mans theology is another mans belly laugh. a must have distro for me may be unusable for you, but... the 2 highest rated distros in most of the current reviews i have found are, you guessed it, suse and mandrake. most place them the same, a few give a slight edge to mandrake, one a slight edge to suse. i am sorry i have not bookmarked all the pages this comes from, but this was my overall impression. in my opinion, the downfall of suse is no simple iso download. the only iso files for i386 suse are live cd. while i really like the live cd idea (and would like to see mandrake release one, hint hint nudge nudge to everyone how reads this at mandrake) i also want the easy iso download for the real install. on the plus side, if you want to try out suse, you can do so (assuming you machine is fairly new) directly from cd, with no haddrive modification needed. in short, i have 2 machines in the office, if i didn't need win2k on the one my wife uses for work i would have one mandrake and one suse machine, and happily pay for both. since i can only have one, i run mandrake. YMMV On Sunday 17 February 2002 07:43, you spoke unto me thusly: Any thoughts on how they compare? -- 'Windows for Dummies' is much more than a book title, it's a Microsoft way of life! 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
[newbie] Realplayer 8
Hi, I've had problems with Realplayer 8 Basic, I don't get any audio playback from it. Some times when launching it, I get this message: cannot open the audio device. another application may be using it. I disabled the KDE sound server at startup but the problem remains the same. It plays video OK, without audio. Is there a way to fix it ? I am using MDK8.1 and KDE 2.2.1. Thanks, Rodrigo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6.2 Installation
Hi Chuck, The big question: did you keep Netscape 6.2? Is it worth the trouble? -- I'm developing a website and I'm just curious to see how it compares to the Netscape 4.xx that came with LM 8.0. I use Konqueror almost exclusively. (I'm not fond of all the clutter in Netscape.) Regards, Andre On Saturday 16 February 2002 23:37, you wrote: When I installed Netscape 6.2, I had problems with conflicts with Mozilla. I have seen this problem mentioned on other lists as well. Regards, Chuck On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:31:04 + rsch77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Hi Andre, I am a newbie also : ), so I can't help you much with installing it as an ordinary user. I installed Netscape 6.2 as root and I can run it as a normal user. If that is your worry, don't worry anymore. You could try installing it in another directory which you have permission to write, but I've never done it, can't help again. Good luck, Rodrigo Instead of download just the installer grab the entire package from the Netscape FTP server and then run the installer on your system instead of using their net installer. problem solved. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.2beta1 - 10:16am up 17:44, 2 users, load average: 1.05, 1.01, 0.91 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- 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] Set Backup
Charles Muller wrote: I had thought that I could run this file by going to the /chuck directory and typing the file name. But it doesn't run. I get the response: bash: backup: command not found Can someone tell me what I am missing here? I am sorry to be so slow. Thanks again, Chuck Hi. It might not make any difference at all, but have you tried it with: ./yourfilename Just a thought. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I get out of X-Windows
Leonard W.Miller wrote: http://64.78.107.79/books/Computer/MandrakeUserArchives/xwin/xset.html how about now Leonard, Much better! Is there also a domain name for that IP address? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Icon Question
Rich wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1. How does one change the icon for an individual app on the desktop? I can change the icons of groups (all *.exe, I.E.), but not individuals. Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're using KDE, then right click on the icon in question, pick properties, then click on the icons under general and device. When you click on those icons, it will bring up a display where you can pick diff. icons. Hope this helps! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCMCIA not detected
I am in need of help. I thought I would install Mandrake on my Sony laptop but it didn't go all that well. The installation kept freezing on the check for pcmcia devices. I ended up installing by using the linux noauto option. So, now I have no pcmcia support. I don't know if it was the right thing to do but I installed the kernel-pcmcia rpm, but still not working. I have no idea what to do to get this working. Any suggestions as to what to do? Thanks, Vern Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CHanging WindowManager
Just out of curiosity I thought I'd take a look at some of the other WindowManagers that come with LM8.1. I did not originally install them when I installed LM though. So using the Software Manager in the Mandrake Control Center I installed Blackbox. Now however, I'm completely unsudre how to change my default WindowManager when I start an X session. I type startx, and it goes into Gnome. I tried typing startx blackbox but I got the twm manager running installed. When I try typing startblackbox, blackbox or exec blackbox I get the following messages: failed to open catalog, using default messages BaseDisplay:BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed I generally have no problems going into Gnome whenever I need to by typing startx. In Gnome, using the Gnome Control Center under WindowManagers all I see listed in Sawfish (current) and twm, I don't see blackbox listed at all. So what do I need to do to get Blackbox running as my defauly WindowManager so I can check it out, then switch back to Gnome when I want to??? Thanx!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager
Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:38:13 -0700: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, JSheble [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: So what do I need to do to get Blackbox running as my defauly WindowManager so I can check it out, then switch back to Gnome when I want to??? If you're using the 'startx' approach instead of gdm/kdm, I don't think you can change WMs on the fly (although there is something in the Mandrake menus, under configuration, which may allow this. To run your favorite WM from startx, edit your .xinitrc file like so: #!/bin/sh exec fvwm # or blackbox, or xfce or enlightenment, etc... - Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager
not really what you are asking, but a Cool Thing that might help. from your current manager, do a ctrl alt F6 (or F whatever ya want) to get a different term and login. then type xinit -- :1 this starts another instance of X windows, it will run on F8 while your original was on F7 (i believe that is the default anyway) in the plain X windows box you get then, type the name of the manager you want to try, like blackbox or enlightenment. you will then have GNOME or KDE or whatever on F7 and E or whatever F8. though this does take a fair chunk of RAM, it is not only good for playing around, but demonstrating the sheer power of the X system and your Linux box. heck get a good fast CPU and a gig or so of RAM and run 4 X sessions each with a different manager. just change the xinit number. invite your friends over, build dumb network terminals, serve X over the network to them, become an admin, take over the world! muahahaha... errm, sorry i have no idea where that came from. On Sunday 17 February 2002 09:38, you spoke unto me thusly: failed to open catalog, using default messages BaseDisplay:BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed -- ...in a world without walls or fences, we wouldn't need windows or gates. 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
[newbie] LM 8.1 - Mouse focus rightshift problem
Would appreciate thoughts/suggestions on fixing this weird problem I am having with my mouse. Every so often, the focus rightshifts by about 0.5 inches. One cause (unconfirmed) might be opening up more than a certain number of applications (any combination - xterms, Netscape, xmms, etc). It is very annoying because only a reboot makes this go away. xrefresh or restarting the Xserver does not help. So if I don't want to reboot, I have to train my brain to click 0.5 inches to the right of the intended target... My system particulars: Compaq w/ AMD K6 533Mhz Compaq MV720 monitor set to 1024x768 70hz Logitec optical wheel mouse (I changed mice recently and still have this problem) First saw this in LM 8.0. Hoped it would go away in 8.1, but no luck. Thanks in advance. Regards Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 vs. SuSE 7.3
Thanks for your help. - At 09:12 AM 2/17/2002 -0800, you wrote: first the disclaimer, one mans theology is another mans belly laugh. a must have distro for me may be unusable for you, but... the 2 highest rated distros in most of the current reviews i have found are, you guessed it, suse and mandrake. most place them the same, a few give a slight edge to mandrake, one a slight edge to suse. i am sorry i have not bookmarked all the pages this comes from, but this was my overall impression. in my opinion, the downfall of suse is no simple iso download. the only iso files for i386 suse are live cd. while i really like the live cd idea (and would like to see mandrake release one, hint hint nudge nudge to everyone how reads this at mandrake) i also want the easy iso download for the real install. on the plus side, if you want to try out suse, you can do so (assuming you machine is fairly new) directly from cd, with no haddrive modification needed. in short, i have 2 machines in the office, if i didn't need win2k on the one my wife uses for work i would have one mandrake and one suse machine, and happily pay for both. since i can only have one, i run mandrake. YMMV On Sunday 17 February 2002 07:43, you spoke unto me thusly: Any thoughts on how they compare? -- 'Windows for Dummies' is much more than a book title, it's a Microsoft way of life! 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] (OT) LAN/network hardware requirements
Hi list This is a bit OT, but... I have ordered a pc that has a mobo with an integrated Network Card - Realtek 8100. My question is what other hardware is required to connect my current linux box to the new pc? Do I need to purchase a network card for my current pc also? What sort of cabling? The new pc is for surveillance purposes only and will be approx. 20-25 metres away from my current pc. Unfortunately it will be running Win98SE until I find suitable software in linux for video capture that will work with a motion sensor and has masking capabilities - haven't even begun to look for this sofware yet. Before I got ML in June last year, I had already purchased the cameras, video capture card and Windoze software (software cost NZ$750!!). No monitor will be connected to the Win pc so I really need to sort this LAN thing out pront-haste. Any advice is greatly appreciated. TIA skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA not detected
Have you read this?
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3#vaio
HTH
Charlie
On February 17, 2002 10:15 am, Vern spoke these words:
I am in need of help. I thought I would install Mandrake on my Sony laptop
but it didn't go all that well. The installation kept freezing on the check
for pcmcia devices. I ended up installing by using the linux noauto option.
So, now I have no pcmcia support. I don't know if it was the right thing to
do but I installed the kernel-pcmcia rpm, but still not working. I have no
idea what to do to get this working. Any suggestions as to what to do?
Thanks,
Vern
--
If you install SuSe Linux {German Distribution}
in a dual boot system, does your windoze
partition go under /mnt/Scheis?
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[newbie] can't access rpmdrake or DrakConf
Hi list, After running LM-8 for 3 to 4 months with near flawless performance, I have suddenly begun having many strange problems. My X session will often freeze, along with the keyboard, forcing me to do a reset. I have re-installed several times, to no avail. Now I can't get rpmdrake or DrakConf to run, either from the KDE desktop, or from the shell. I get the following message from the shell: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Sun Feb 17 14:31:45 2002 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 at /usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf.real line 53. I have completely reformated my disk when re-installing, allthough I don't know if that actually removes any corrupt data. I dual boot with Win 98 on a seperate drive, LILO is the boot loader. I hope this is enough info. Please help! Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Stan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:46:23 -0500 Jeffrey Madore [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I would like to say thank you to all who replied to my inquiries as to 8.1 operating slow on my P120. I have made some notes from your comments and thus will try an older dist or lighter X application. On the other hand I may just upgrade the machine...things to ponder. As to my 700Mhz machine running slugish, from scanning the system log I see several things that raise serious questions (things that I know not the meaning of yet) that I must address. Thanks again to all, you have been most helpful! Jeff good heavens! i thought you were talking about it being slow on a 700Mhz machine and not a P1-120. it's no wonder it's slow. sheesh! you're asking a dinosour to run something designed for newer machines. of course it's going to be slow. I get fair results running 8.1 on a P1-133, but no matter how much ram i shove in that thing KDE runs a bit slow, however usable. -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 2:05pm up 1 day, 17:42, 2 users, load average: 0.78, 0.87, 0.83 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to resize partitions
Several people on this list have asked how to resize partitions. I, for example, needed to shrink /home and grow root. The answer is Parted, available at Freshmeat or at: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted Not only does it work, but the documentation is very newbie friendly. Highly recommended. Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) LAN/network hardware requirements
skinky wrote: This is a bit OT, but... I have ordered a pc that has a mobo with an integrated Network Card - Realtek 8100. My question is what other hardware is required to connect my current linux box to the new pc? Basically listed below -- a network card for your existing computer, cables, or cables plus a hub or switch. Make sure the cables are rated for the network speed or higher -- 10 or 100 megahertz. Do I need to purchase a network card for my current pc also? Yes, assuming you don't have one. I'm assuming the Realtek 8100 is a 10 BaseT or 100 BaseT card (twisted pair, not coax), so you want to buy a card that is compatible, maybe a 10/100 BaseT card, which will use twisted pair and an RJ-45 connector. What sort of cabling? You can either: Get a hub or switch, and two ordinary RJ-45 twisted pair cables totalling the length you need. or Get an RJ-45 twisted pair crossover cable of the length you need (may be hard to find) or Get an RJ-45 twisted pair crossover cable of any length, get an RJ-45 coupler (Radio Shack, I believe, carries them), and an ordinary RJ-45 twisted pair cable to make up the remaining length. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) LAN/network hardware requirements
PS: Re cabling: Or make your own crossover cable of the proper length -- it's no more difficult than putting the ends on a cable yourself (with the proper crimping tool), but you interchange a few leads. If you decide to go that way, you can find instructions on the Internet, or somebody can help you find them. Randy Kramer wrote: skinky wrote: This is a bit OT, but... I have ordered a pc that has a mobo with an integrated Network Card - Realtek 8100. My question is what other hardware is required to connect my current linux box to the new pc? Basically listed below -- a network card for your existing computer, cables, or cables plus a hub or switch. Make sure the cables are rated for the network speed or higher -- 10 or 100 megahertz. Do I need to purchase a network card for my current pc also? Yes, assuming you don't have one. I'm assuming the Realtek 8100 is a 10 BaseT or 100 BaseT card (twisted pair, not coax), so you want to buy a card that is compatible, maybe a 10/100 BaseT card, which will use twisted pair and an RJ-45 connector. What sort of cabling? You can either: Get a hub or switch, and two ordinary RJ-45 twisted pair cables totalling the length you need. or Get an RJ-45 twisted pair crossover cable of the length you need (may be hard to find) or Get an RJ-45 twisted pair crossover cable of any length, get an RJ-45 coupler (Radio Shack, I believe, carries them), and an ordinary RJ-45 twisted pair cable to make up the remaining length. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unzip not in path
Hi, Thanks to all. Archiver needed 'zip' in order to work. Rest assured that I can use the CLI but I just wanted to be able to see inside an archive quickly. In any case, thanks to all once again, Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 16 February 2002 09:07 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2002 09:29 pm, you wrote: Hi, I did the rpm -qa and it appears that unzip, gzip, bzip and libbzip are all installed. When I click on a zip file it opens archiver but archiver returns the 'not in your path' error. I do not know how to check if something is, or isn't 'in my path'. newbie thing.. Thanks, Bill W. oh man, just do it the easy way. open a terminal and type: unzip whatever.zip -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager
Thank you, this did what I needed... So what do I need to do to get Blackbox running as my defauly WindowManager so I can check it out, then switch back to Gnome when I want to??? If you're using the 'startx' approach instead of gdm/kdm, I don't think you can change WMs on the fly (although there is something in the Mandrake menus, under configuration, which may allow this. To run your favorite WM from startx, edit your .xinitrc file like so: #!/bin/sh exec fvwm # or blackbox, or xfce or enlightenment, etc... - Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't ping from or to Mandrake box
Could someone please tell the best How-To resource available for Linux on the net? In the meantime, why is it that I can't ping my new Mandrake installation. I know connectivity is there because I access the web from this box through my MSWindows-hosted internet sharing. I just need a way to prove that I can talk to/from this box from/to other boxes on the network. This is the first Linux box on the network. Thanks for the help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:38, JSheble wrote: Just out of curiosity I thought I'd take a look at some of the other WindowManagers that come with LM8.1. I did not originally install them when I installed LM though. So using the Software Manager in the Mandrake Control Center I installed Blackbox. Now however, I'm completely unsudre how to change my default WindowManager when I start an X session. I type startx, and it goes into Gnome. I tried typing startx blackbox but I got the twm manager running installed. When I try typing startblackbox, blackbox or exec blackbox I get the following messages: I think the actual name of the BlackBox program is bb, so you need to either do startx bb, or put exec bb in your .xinitrc file. Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER
I have new kit :- Bios : Fastrack100Lite TM Bios v 1.31.1.(build30) with AMI Bios setup, Case : MS-6380 ATX Mainboard Motherboard : MSI KT7266 Pro2 DDR with Raid, with 4 no. USB2, and 4no USB1 ports. Sound: Audio chip AC97 audio/on M/board Memory : 512 MB DDR PC2100, Processor : Athlon XP 1800 (Palomino) Proc.fan : Global Win WBK38(Skt A Cooler), Graphics : Excalibur Geforce 3 T1200, Rom : Pioneer x16x40 DVD OEM, Writer : Mitsumi CR 4809 TE,24x12x40x, Harddrive : 40Gb Maxtor DiamondMax D740X more planned. Motherboard : VIA VT8366chipset(552BGS), graphics, Chipsets : VIA VT8233chipset(376BGA), IDE : Promise 20265ROn-Board ,IDE RAID Harddrive: hda1 ,203mb , linux boot configuration: hda3 , 4.8gb , W2KNTFS : hda5 , 4.8gb , spare NTFS partition, : hda6 , 4.8gb , LM8.1 , /root : hda7 , 1.04gb , Linux swap, : hda9 , 4.8gb, Linux native spare, : hda9 , 4.8gb, NTFS spare : hda10,4.8gb, NTFS spare : hda11,6.7gb, NTFS spare Windows2000 went in first , bog standard install, a OK there. The Linux Mandrake 8.1 next , I formatted the /boot. /root,and /swap partitons, 2.3gb of OS installed , nothing untoward reported. No X windows test failures,USB printer tested OK, modem detected etc etc. Then comes the moment of truth, the final reboot, Grub displays full menu, including W2k which boots OK. Then attempt to boot LM8.1 ..nothing , a black screen job ..cannot even ctrl+Alt + del to reboot, so , it's a reset job and into linux failsafe, certain amount of script , ending in BAD EIP Value (EIP:0068:[8382] ) kernel panic: Attempt to kill init Boot disk does the same. I tried repair , via F1 in no1 install disk, besides saying something about a sound driver needed , all is fairly ordinary looking. No special warnings etc. Can anyone kindly explain what is happening here, in particular what does bad EIP value mean . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Attempt to fake stamp??
Meanwhile back at the ranch . . . Seems like I'm getting all sorts of bounced mail again through newbie. The latest returned mail included one that was from: nobody @localhost with Subject: Re: A few changes; From: ert [EMAIL PROTECTED]. [Never heard of him] I checked the logs and saw that localhost procmail had three separate entires on Feb 15th, 16th, and 17th with Attempt to fake stamp by nobody. Btw, does anybody know whether [EMAIL PROTECTED] is ligit? His name appears on all the mandrake bounces as On behalf of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My question: aside from filtering these out of KMail, is there anything I should do? Is this a security threat -- seems like nobody is after me : Any pointers where to read up on this would be appreciated. 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] par for linux?
On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:21 am, Jon Doe wrote: does anyone know where I can find the parchiver utility? I had it before but I can't find it now. It rebuilds rar files that are missing. Just curious. What are rar files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager
On Sunday 17 February 2002 04:06 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:38, JSheble wrote: Just out of curiosity I thought I'd take a look at some of the other WindowManagers that come with LM8.1. I did not originally install them when I installed LM though. So using the Software Manager in the Mandrake Control Center I installed Blackbox. Now however, I'm completely unsudre how to change my default WindowManager when I start an X session. I type startx, and it goes into Gnome. I tried typing startx blackbox but I got the twm manager running installed. When I try typing startblackbox, blackbox or exec blackbox I get the following messages: I think the actual name of the BlackBox program is bb, so you need to either do startx bb, or put exec bb in your .xinitrc file. Dave You could also type start followed by the tab key to see your options. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Icon Question
Try copying one of the other *.kdeink files on your desktop to that filename.kdeink. Then change all the details in that .kdeink icon to suit your file. The problem is generic files like text files don't really have their own icon. The icon is auto created for them. Rich wrote: I've received 3 identical answers, but it doesn't work here! Nothing happens when I click on the icon in the dialog box. I can change the icon by right clicking and then selecting Edit File Type. Unfortunately, this also changes all of the other, similar, non-embedded icons on the desktop. Rich On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:43, Rodrigo wrote: One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other icons or you can choose a .png or .xpm file. Pick up a new icon and it's done. Hope it helps you, regards. Rodrigo Rich wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1. How does one change the icon for an individual app on the desktop? I can change the icons of groups (all *.exe, I.E.), but not individuals. Rich -- Those who don't know, talk. Those who don't talk, know. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd burning trouble
Hi Todd, First off, if there are any errors in this, it's because I had to copy it from the archive. Sigh . . I think your problem is that you've no entry for the /dev/scd0 in fstab. I've tried xcdroast and others, and have found tha gtoaster works the best and is the easiest to set up. Once you add that entry to fstab, reboot. Load Gtoaster and click on Preferences CDROM and Recorder Setup Scan Bus : it should, at least, give you the cdrw. To add the CDROM click Add and manually copy the same info, but uncheck This drive is a CD Writer and,as well, enter the correct Device File (probably /mnt/cdrom in your case) Now, if you don't get this or it refuses to see the wriiter, there's one other thing you can do. Hope it works . . Regards, Andre *** *** [Original Message from Todd Slater:] I've been trying to get xcdroast to work without any luck. I searched the mail archives for some info, tried some tips, to no avail. My CD R/RW is an HP CD-Writer Plus. CD-ROM is a Toshiba. When I run setup in xcdroast, the device scan only shows my zip and CD-R. For the CD Reader configuration, it defaults to the CD-R and will not allow me to enter my CD-ROM. I have also tried to burn WAVs using Gcombust and Gnome-toaster, but get errors. (Wrong scsi settings or no permission to device, but I added myself to the cdwriter group.) Here is an error I get using eroaster: Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.008s timeout 200s cdrecord: Warning: using default CD write parameter data. Mode Select Data 00 15 00 00 05 32 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cdrecord: Cannot open new session. My hardware info as reported by Harddrake: R/RW 4x4x24 Vendor: Unknown Model: R/RW 4x4x24 Device: /dev/hdd Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE Toshiba CD-ROM Vendor: Unknown Model: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6602B Device: /dev/hdc Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE Vendor: IDE-CD IDE-CD R/RW Model: R/RW 4x4x24 Device: /dev/scd0 Bus Type: SCSI My fstab contains: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 Any idears? Thanks, Todd -- Todd Slater Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for even the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. (C.C. Colton) -- 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
[newbie] VCD/Mpeg Application
I'm looking for a VCD playing app alternative to xine. I've been trying to get the xine-ui rpm from sourceforge but the d/l stops dead at 24kb. MTV looks nice but it's _nagware_. Xtheater won't compile on my machine. Anything left out there for me? I'm still using 8.0. TIA. allen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realplayer 8
On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:12 am, you wrote: Hi, I've had problems with Realplayer 8 Basic, I don't get any audio playback from it. Some times when launching it, I get this message: cannot open the audio device. another application may be using it. I disabled the KDE sound server at startup but the problem remains the same. It plays video OK, without audio. Is there a way to fix it ? I am using MDK8.1 and KDE 2.2.1. Thanks, Rodrigo I think I remember reading where you could put: artsplay /the/path/to/executable in the command and it might work. You could try that. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] @ *
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:48:24 +1300
Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me:
Hi,
What do the * and the @ denote after a file - as in the
following listing:
998 walter@psybernet:/sbin (04:45:25)
$ ls
agetty*ether-wake* ifup* killall5*
mkfs.msdos@
this is the result when you pass the switch -F to ls (see for yourself by typing alias
| grep ls ). the -F option presents this explanation from 'man ls':
-F, --classify
append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries
the asterisk means that the file is an executable (its execute bit is set to on ).
the slash means that the file is a directory
the at sign ('@') means that it is a link
the pipe means its a, well, pipe (either named or unnamed).
i dont know about the equals sign but i think it pertains to special files that you
wont meet frequently (check your /dev as there are some files there that have this
indicator.)
ciao!
--
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=
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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
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Re: [newbie] File Sharing
On 16 Feb 2002 17:52:48 -0500 Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Are there any good linux file sharing apps? Something along the lines of morpheus. Lime wire is hard to use because it searches by file name. I want something that will search descriptions. Thanks. PK kazaa has a linux version with an antiquated interface. i heard that some experienced faster downloads than the windows version but, for the life of me, i cant even connect to conduct a simple search! its one of the reasons why i still have windows at home (aside from the gaming). 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] Running slow.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:46:23 -0500, Jeffrey Madore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to say thank you to all who replied to my inquiries as to 8.1 operating slow on my P120. I have made some notes from your comments and thus will try an older dist or lighter X application. On the other hand I may just upgrade the machine...things to ponder. I don't think you should use an older distribution, because then you'll be stuck with old packages. Mandrake 8.1 should work fine, but use light applications and window managers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan 640K ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates, 1981 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] par for linux?
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:38:46 -0500 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:21 am, Jon Doe wrote: does anyone know where I can find the parchiver utility? I had it before but I can't find it now. It rebuilds rar files that are missing. Just curious. What are rar files? hey yeah! what the heck are they? -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 9:05pm up 2 days, 42 min, 2 users, load average: 0.83, 0.95, 0.93 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:10:52 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:46:23 -0500, Jeffrey Madore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to say thank you to all who replied to my inquiries as to 8.1 operating slow on my P120. I have made some notes from your comments and thus will try an older dist or lighter X application. On the other hand I may just upgrade the machine...things to ponder. I don't think you should use an older distribution, because then you'll be stuck with old packages. Mandrake 8.1 should work fine, but use light applications and window managers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan 640K ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates, 1981 you know...I bet a fella would play hell getting parts for something that old. -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 9:05pm up 2 days, 42 min, 2 users, load average: 0.83, 0.95, 0.93 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CHanging WindowManager
its really amazing that few people know about the small package Xtart. it allows you to choose your WM from the commandline. i like it better than booting to runlevel 5 (GUI) to select my WM. its in the installation CDs or you could just search it from rpmfind as it is a little file. I just installed fluxbox and it was automatically added to the list of WMs. ciao! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:56:39 -0700 JSheble [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Thank you, this did what I needed... So what do I need to do to get Blackbox running as my defauly WindowManager so I can check it out, then switch back to Gnome when I want to??? If you're using the 'startx' approach instead of gdm/kdm, I don't think you can change WMs on the fly (although there is something in the Mandrake menus, under configuration, which may allow this. To run your favorite WM from startx, edit your .xinitrc file like so: #!/bin/sh exec fvwm # or blackbox, or xfce or enlightenment, etc... - Chris -- 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] Transparent Menu
Hi, how to create transparent menu in Mandrake 8.1 kde 2.2.1 ?? Sanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dual boot restore
I have a dual boot system. Windows on the first partition and the Linux and Swap partitions follow. I had to reformat and reinstall the Windows-98 partition; what else is new! Anyway, when I use to reboot the computer it would boot the Linux system; unless windows was typed at the boot prompt. Now it only boots Windows, unless I have the Linux dual boot floppy in the floppy drive. How do I get my dual boot to work off the Hard drive without having to reinstall Linux. Thanks, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] par for linux?
On Sunday 17 February 2002 18:22, you wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:38:46 -0500 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:21 am, Jon Doe wrote: does anyone know where I can find the parchiver utility? I had it before but I can't find it now. It rebuilds rar files that are missing. Just curious. What are rar files? hey yeah! what the heck are they? .rar files are compressed/archived files. Thing .gz, .zip, .sit (for any mac-heads out there) http://www.rararchiver.com/ --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd burning trouble
Hi Andre, I did have /dev/scd0 in my fstab. BUT, I went ahead and added the CD-ROM in gtoaster, and was able to see the audio tracks. When I tried to burn WAVs to CD, I got a dependency error something about Disk At Once, so I just unchecked that in preferences, and I got it to work fine. Thanks! Todd -- Todd Slater What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau) On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:15:48 -0500 Andre Dubuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, First off, if there are any errors in this, it's because I had to copy it from the archive. Sigh . . I think your problem is that you've no entry for the /dev/scd0 in fstab. I've tried xcdroast and others, and have found tha gtoaster works the best and is the easiest to set up. Once you add that entry to fstab, reboot. Load Gtoaster and click on Preferences CDROM and Recorder Setup Scan Bus : it should, at least, give you the cdrw. To add the CDROM click Add and manually copy the same info, but uncheck This drive is a CD Writer and,as well, enter the correct Device File (probably /mnt/cdrom in your case) Now, if you don't get this or it refuses to see the wriiter, there's one other thing you can do. Hope it works . . Regards, Andre *** *** [Original Message from Todd Slater:] I've been trying to get xcdroast to work without any luck. I searched the mail archives for some info, tried some tips, to no avail. My CD R/RW is an HP CD-Writer Plus. CD-ROM is a Toshiba. When I run setup in xcdroast, the device scan only shows my zip and CD-R. For the CD Reader configuration, it defaults to the CD-R and will not allow me to enter my CD-ROM. I have also tried to burn WAVs using Gcombust and Gnome-toaster, but get errors. (Wrong scsi settings or no permission to device, but I added myself to the cdwriter group.) Here is an error I get using eroaster: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] par for linux?
Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:22:08 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:38:46 -0500 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:21 am, Jon Doe wrote: does anyone know where I can find the parchiver utility? I had it before but I can't find it now. It rebuilds rar files that are missing. Just curious. What are rar files? hey yeah! what the heck are they? http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/freshrpms/guinness/rar/rar-2.80-2ur.i586.html RAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ and others. RAR offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a better price as well as supporting long file names, disk spanning and self-extracting file creation. RAR introduces an original compression algorithm. It allows higher compression ratios than other PC archiving tools, especially on executable files, Object libraries, large text files, etc. I think the rar-2.80-2ur.i586.rpm is on the contrib CD. Check one of the mirror sites, as well. - Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot restore
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:59:14 -0500 (EST) JOHN HEMMER [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: I have a dual boot system. Windows on the first partition and the Linux and Swap partitions follow. I had to reformat and reinstall the Windows-98 partition; what else is new! Anyway, when I use to reboot the computer it would boot the Linux system; unless windows was typed at the boot prompt. Now it only boots Windows, unless I have the Linux dual boot floppy in the floppy drive. How do I get my dual boot to work off the Hard drive without having to reinstall Linux. Thanks, John === As root, go to a terminal and type /sbin/lilo w/o the quotes. that *should* fix things for you. Windows wiped out you boot partition. Surprised?? Mike -- He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you., he really is an idiot. -Groucho Marx _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VCD/Mpeg Application
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 00:32:07 -0800, Allen Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a VCD playing app alternative to xine. I've been trying to get the xine-ui rpm from sourceforge but the d/l stops dead at 24kb. Try the PLF packages at http://plf.zarb.org/. MTV looks nice but it's _nagware_. It costs money, and it isn't very good anyway. Xtheater won't compile on my machine. Again, look at http://plf.zarb.org/. Anything left out there for me? I'm still using 8.0. There's avifile (only plays AVI files), which you can get at http://plf.zarb.org/. IMHO, the best player is mplayer, available at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe--they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information needed a different program to access it. -- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] par for linux?
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:22:08 -0500 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:38:46 -0500 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:21 am, Jon Doe wrote: does anyone know where I can find the parchiver utility? I had it before but I can't find it now. It rebuilds rar files that are missing. Just curious. What are rar files? hey yeah! what the heck are they? its a type of compressed files, like zip, lha, arj, etc. they are common in windows (better compression?) and the WinRar application is better than the Winzip app, IMO. I think there is a rar package in the LM8.1 installation CDs but have not installed it as there is no pressing need for it in linux. 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] Running slow.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:23:53 -0500, daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:10:52 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:46:23 -0500, Jeffrey Madore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to say thank you to all who replied to my inquiries as to 8.1 operating slow on my P120. I have made some notes from your comments and thus will try an older dist or lighter X application. On the other hand I may just upgrade the machine...things to ponder. I don't think you should use an older distribution, because then you'll be stuck with old packages. Mandrake 8.1 should work fine, but use light applications and window managers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan 640K ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates, 1981 you know...I bet a fella would play hell getting parts for something that old. Well, I've got an IBM PC XT (circa 1984) that features 640KB of RAM, a 4.77MHz Intel processor and (wait for it...) _no_ hard drive (only two 5.25 360KB floppy drives). Last year, when the 20th anniversary of these machines was celebrated (they were initially released in 1981), I posted to the related Slashdot story asking if they were worth any money. The general consensus was that they are worth next-to-nothing in monetary terms, since so many were made. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is- Fatal Exception Error in MSBORG32.DLL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] par for linux?
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:22:08 -0500, daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:38:46 -0500 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:21 am, Jon Doe wrote: does anyone know where I can find the parchiver utility? I had it before but I can't find it now. It rebuilds rar files that are missing. Just curious. What are rar files? hey yeah! what the heck are they? RAR is a compression/archiving format, used extensively in the DOS/WinDOS world. See http://www.rarsoft.com/ for more details. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992, writing to Linus Torvalds. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Icon Question
Which window manager are your running? On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 07:59, Rich wrote: I've received 3 identical answers, but it doesn't work here! Nothing happens when I click on the icon in the dialog box. I can change the icon by right clicking and then selecting Edit File Type. Unfortunately, this also changes all of the other, similar, non-embedded icons on the desktop. Rich On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:43, Rodrigo wrote: One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other icons or you can choose a .png or .xpm file. Pick up a new icon and it's done. Hope it helps you, regards. Rodrigo Rich wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1. How does one change the icon for an individual app on the desktop? I can change the icons of groups (all *.exe, I.E.), but not individuals. Rich 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 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Sharing
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:02:41 -0500, Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Feb 2002 17:52:48 -0500 Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Are there any good linux file sharing apps? Something along the lines of morpheus. Lime wire is hard to use because it searches by file name. I want something that will search descriptions. Thanks. kazaa has a linux version with an antiquated interface. i heard that some experienced faster downloads than the windows version but, for the life of me, i cant even connect to conduct a simple search! its one of the reasons why i still have windows at home (aside from the gaming). The Kazaa GNU/Linux client has been deactivated since the technology was sold to Sharman Networks. For the short time it was working, it was great. For other file sharing services, take a look at http://www.afternapster.com/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6.2 Installation
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 14:11, Andre Dubuc wrote: Hi Chuck, The big question: did you keep Netscape 6.2? Is it worth the trouble? -- I'm developing a website and I'm just curious to see how it compares to the Netscape 4.xx that came with LM 8.0. I guess a big difference here is that my LM 8.1 also came with a recent version of Mozilla, which is basically equivalent, as far as I can see, to Netscape 6.2. I also set up Red Carpet, where the most recent releases of Mozilla keep appearing. After I began to notice that Mozilla and Netscape 6.2 were getting confused with each other, I got rid of Netscape and kept Mozilla, because I figured it would be easier to keep getting updates through Red Carpet. But to answer your original question, there is simply no comparison between Netscape 4.7 and 6.2. This has been especially true in my case, since I am working on the development of multilingual web-based XML Unicode dictionaries (see www.acmuller.net; if you want to dig into this deeply, you will need a password, so just write to me and I will give you one.). Netscape 6.2 (and of course, its Mozilla equivalent) handles UTF-8 and XML very well. Netscape 4.7 handles Unicode poorly, and does not recognize XML at all. Netscape 6.2 is easy to install, but as someone already suggested, it is better to locate and download the whole RPM file rather than try to use their installer app. Also, when Netscape 6.2 installs itself, it does not recognize itself as an upgrade of 4.7, and thus does not get rid of 4.7. I would therefore suggest that you uninstall 4.7 first. If you don't, when you set your HTML file associations to Netscape, it will continue to call 4.7 rather than 6.2. HTH Chuck - Charles Muller Digital Dictionarie of Chinese and Buddhism www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mail domains
Hi, I am trying to send mail from a mail server using sendmail. Emails sent to me@address1 and mails sent to me at me@address2 both seem to get to me. That box also serves web pages for www.address1 and www.address2. When I ssh in and use elm or mutt or pine, I can set my email address to be address2, the one that I want it to be. But whenever people recieve my email, they always get it from me@address1. Is this sendmail mangling the envelopes, or is there something that I can do to get the mail address that I want? (Hope that made sense.) - Paul Rodriguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: We are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is- Fatal Exception Error in MSBORG32.DLL BAH-HA-HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA SNORT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That's very funny thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Already asserted ?!?!
Hello .. i've reinstalled linux completely due to some minor inconveniencies and i'm trying to reinstall vmware workstation. during the vmware-config.pl file you have to run after the rpm installation, i get some weird compilation warnings... like this. cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done command line: warning: cpu re-asserted command line: warning: machine re-asserted cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done command line: warning: cpu re-asserted command line: warning: machine re-asserted cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done and then fatal: make[2]: Cambiando a directorio `/root/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.17-16mdk' command line: warning: cpu re-asserted command line: warning: machine re-asserted In file included from .././linux/driver.c:38: /lib/modules/2.4.17-16mdk/build/include/linux/malloc.h:4:2: warning: #warning linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead. cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.17-16mdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:10, from .././linux/driver.c:35: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include/stdarg.h:43: parse error before `__gnuc_va_list' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include/stdarg.h:43: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include/stdarg.h:110: parse error before `va_list' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include/stdarg.h:110: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from .././linux/driver.c:35: /lib/modules/2.4.17-16mdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:72: parse error before `va_list' /lib/modules/2.4.17-16mdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:72: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /lib/modules/2.4.17-16mdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:75: parse error before `va_list' /lib/modules/2.4.17-16mdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:75: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /lib/modules/2.4.17-16mdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:79: parse error before `va_list' /lib/modules/2.4.17-16mdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:79: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype .././linux/driver.c: In function `Warning': .././linux/driver.c:1110: `va_list' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c:1110: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once .././linux/driver.c:1110: for each function it appears in.) .././linux/driver.c:1110: parse error before `args' .././linux/driver.c:1115: warning: implicit declaration of function `__builtin_stdarg_start' .././linux/driver.c:1115: `args' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c:1117: warning: implicit declaration of function `__builtin_va_end' .././linux/driver.c: In function `Log': .././linux/driver.c:1138: `va_list' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c:1138: parse error before `args' .././linux/driver.c:1143: `args' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c: In function `Panic': .././linux/driver.c:1176: `va_list' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c:1176: parse error before `args' .././linux/driver.c:1178: `args' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [driver.o] Error 1 make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/root/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.17-16mdk' make[1]: *** [driver] Error 2 make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/root/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only' make: *** [auto-build] Error 2 make: Saliendo directorio `/root/tmp/vmware-config5/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please have a look at http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html;. Execution aborted. now, what is re-asserted? it's the first time i see those coming up on vmware-config, which is used after every kernel update... besides, all those warnings.. and this doesn't look like a gcc problem anyway. i tried using gcc 2.96 and 3.0.1. exactly the same issue. any help greatly appreciated, as always ;o) thanks!! Damian _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running slow.
the school i worked for had 45 of them when i started their as sys admin and forced them to upgrade to pent 133's! every year the 6th grade did an eggdrop, ya know try to wrap an egg so you can drop it off the roof (two stories at our school) and it doesn't break? after they finished that year, i dropped one of those. wish i had photos, it was great. :-) On Sunday 17 February 2002 19:00, you spoke unto me thusly: Well, I've got an IBM PC XT (circa 1984) that features 640KB of RAM, a 4.77MHz Intel processor and (wait for it...) _no_ hard drive (only two 5.25 360KB floppy drives). Last year, when the 20th anniversary of these -- If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. 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
[newbie] Restarting dead processes
Hello all, I have a quick question about monitoring processes. I have a process (adsl-connect) which should be running if the connection is live. Most of the time the connection is dropped by my ISP after about a week of online time. I'd like to write a shell script that can check and see if this process is running and if not, restart it. Here's a shell script that I've come up with, but can't get it to work: #!/bin/sh foreach DAEMON ( adsl-connect ) ps -e | fgrep $DAEMON:t | cut -c1-8 /dev/null if($status 0) then echo Restarting $daemon #code to restart daemon endif end Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Sharing
Paul, Are there any good linux file sharing apps? qtella - seems ok, very like grokster i used on windows. But it is not as efficient - maybe i need to tweek it somewhere. -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot restore
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Michael Scottaline wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:59:14 -0500 (EST) JOHN HEMMER [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: I have a dual boot system. Windows on the first partition and the Linux and Swap partitions follow. I had to reformat and reinstall the Windows-98 partition; what else is new! Anyway, when I use to reboot the computer it would boot the Linux system; unless windows was typed at the boot prompt. Now it only boots Windows, unless I have the Linux dual boot floppy in the floppy drive. How do I get my dual boot to work off the Hard drive without having to reinstall Linux. Thanks, John === As root, go to a terminal and type /sbin/lilo w/o the quotes. that *should* fix things for you. Windows wiped out you boot partition. Surprised?? Mike Mike, That was easy! Thank you very much. No, I am not suprised, windows wipes itself out all the time. The only reason I restored was because Road-Runner would not set up their bad modem in Linux. Thanks again! John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enlightenment oops
Michael wrote: I was having a look around enlightenment and i pushed the virtual desktop windows right over to the right where they seemed to sit better. Then i rolled them up - right off the side of my screen... now how do i get them back? Yes i have RTFM, at least i scanned it looking for an answer. I think that in my home directory there should be a setup file i can delete that will be replaced when i restart enlightenment again. Can anybody please tell me what/where this file is and can i delete it ok? MDK V7.1 and enlightenment V0.16.3 TIA Michael with egg on his face truth be told, i cannot comprehand what the problem is. try doing the reverse of what you did, roll them down and push them left, turn around and clap your hands :o) OR, you can try the foll: ctrlaltleft_or_right_arrow key to change between desktops altshiftarrow keys to change between *virtual* desktops of the *same* desktop. this may help you roll them back down. alternatively push your mouse right to the edge and that virtual desktop will *roll* into view. ctrlmiddle_click_of the mouse -- select the desktop -- click on the app, that may bring it into view. if you can see even a bit of the window, then left click that portion, press alt and move the window back into view. you may also post your query to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will need to suscribe over there first. HTH, Regards, mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
