Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?
Alle 09:23, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Ottima spiegazione, io però ritengo che, per l'utente medio, il journaled file system non è assolutamente necessario ne conveniente. Penso sia molto più importante avere un sistema operativo veloce e robusto in modo da scongiurare per quanto possibile i pericoli di crash. Mah, in quanto a velocità (utilizzo attualmente ext3 convertito da un iniziale ext2) non ho rilevato nessu rallentamento. Diverse volte, in passato, mi si sono creati problemi per interruzioni di energia elettrica, a volte è andata bene, un paio di volte ho dovuto reinstallare linux (non c'è stato niente da fare). Così, per non correre rischi, oltre al citato ext3, ho messo anche un gruppo di continuità (...si rasento la paranoia...:-)) Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?
file system non è assolutamente necessario ne conveniente. mah, io lo uso su un vecchio portatile e non mi ha dato nessun problema Penso sia molto più importante avere un sistema operativo veloce e robusto questo é un altro paio di maniche, effettivamente la mkd installa (anche senza chiedere) tutta una serie di cose la cui utilitá é discutibile =) un conto sono i fronzoli, un conto le cose utili... ciao stefano
Re: [newbie-it] Lilo e win
nicola wrote: l'installazione) oppure usando il cd di installazione, digitando la parola rescue2 e seguendo le procedure per montare il fs di root, in modo da poter il 2 era la seconda coppia di virgolette, immagino :-) Piu` precisamente: - avvii da CD - premi subito F1 - al promt lilo: rispondi rescue - ti assicuri (basta dare mount senza opzioni/argomenti) che la partizione linux sia montata in una dir (es. /pippo) - altrimenti la monti - cambi partizione root (es. chroot /pippo) - lanci lilo ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?
Leonardo Orazi wrote: Ottima spiegazione, io però ritengo che, per l'utente medio, il journaled file system non è assolutamente necessario ne conveniente. Penso sia molto più importante avere un sistema operativo veloce e robusto in modo da scongiurare per quanto possibile i pericoli di crash. E` un'opinione: io penso l'esatto contrario :-) Un server con dati importanti si puo` permettere un robusto gruppo di continuita` che garantisca anche contro interruzioni del servizio. Sul pc di casa e` piu` difficile e meno economico adottare una soluzione del genere per proteggersi da un improvviso black-out o dall'uso contemporaneo di lavatrice+lavastoviglie+phon+...+Pc. Un file system journalized e` un ottimo ripiego. Inoltre, adesso sono diventati abbastanza stabili e veloci. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] errore in compilazione -lXext not found
stavo cercando di compilare xine dopo avere lanciato ./configure, mi appresto al make quando a un certo punto compare il seguente errore /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext collect2: ld returned 1 exit status devo installare qualche libreria? ciao stefano
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 19:19, sabato 9 marzo 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: a questo punto attenzione, perchè il lettore potrebbe aver preso possesso di scd0 (presumo una questione di precedenze hdc-hdd - nel mio caso, almeno - ma aspetto motivazioni più fondate); controlla, quindi vai in /etc/fstab e verifica come sono riconosciute le periferiche (sul mio sono cdrom e cdrom2). Ri posto la mail...non mi pare sia arrivata in lista! o non ho capito nulla o la modifica di grub non ha funzionato! in fastab hdc si sarebbe dovuto modificare in scdX??? questo è quello che c'è in fstab /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 ma la cosa che non capisco è questa. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TEAC' 'CD-532E-A ' '1.0A' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW2100E' '1.0G' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * questo è il risultato del comando cdrecord -scanbus..da qui pare che hdc sia regolarmente emulato!!! e allora perche non mi compare in fstab come scdX??? -- prima di spedire la mail sopra ho fatto alcuni esperimenti ho creato il link come segue ln -s /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd /dev/scd1 e mi sono accorto che ho fatto qualche danno. i dispositivi si sono invertiti cioè...ciccando sul masterizatore monto il CDrom e come se non bastasse ciccando sul CDrom mi da questo messagio d'errore: impossibile montare il dispositivo. l'errore.. /dev/hdc: input/output error mount:l could not determine the filesystem type , and none was specified in poche parole devo aver fatto fuori scd0 ragazzi ditemi che devo fare!!! io nn ci sto capendo piu nulla ;) Ciao ,Tom
R: [newbie-it] problemi con installazione mandrake 8.1 su abit k7 raid
-Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Per conto di Samuele E. Locatelli Inviato: venerdì 1 marzo 2002 1.09 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] problemi con installazione mandrake 8.1 su abit k7 raid Ho un problema con linstallazione della mandrake 8.1 sul mio pc fisso: possiedo una scheda abit k7a raid con appunto controller raid e 2 hd da 40Gb già configurati a livello di bios della motherboard. (il resto: amd athlon 1700+XP, 1gb ram, scheda video ati serie 7000) Premesso che ho installato winxp che funziona a dovere, non riesco a sfruttare il raid x installare linux: vede i 2 hd separati e non come unico driver già raid come fanno tutti i so win e si che già pregustavo un linux con il turbo x trovar la stessa differenza che sul portatile mi ha entusiasmato ringraziando anticipatamente chiunque possa aiutarmi, saluto! . Purtroppo pare che Mandrake non supporti le funzioni Raid del controller ABIT (x windows ci sono i driver ide-raid inclusi nell S.O.) Nel sito www.highpoint-tech.com (il sito del controller raid HPT della scheda Abit KT Raid ) puoi cercare eventuali aggiornamenti nella sezione LINUX. Per altre distribuzioni (SUSE, CALDERA, etc.) sullo stesso sito si possono trovare i driver adatti e gli aggiornamenti del bios. Non li ho però provati personalmente. A quando i driver anche per la migliore distribuzione del mondo (Mandrake J)
Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:47:20 +0100 From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], nicola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 22:02, martedì 12 marzo 2002, nicola ha scritto: Alle 19:25, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Ciao, scusate se mi intrometto, ma l'argomento è molto interessante, ed ho provato anche io a emulare scsi il mio cd, ma incorro in un problema, non esiste il dispositivo /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd da te indicato, devo crearlo con mknode? Quale Major,minor usare? SCUSA MA MI SONO INCASINATO CON LE MAILLA RISPOSTA ERA QUESTA:)) anche da me non conpariva il dispositivo! (non ricordo se in target1 o target0) se ho capito bene hai gia modificato lilo e fastab..giusto? ora non devi far altro che creare i link simbolici in /dev controllando prima in fastab la giusta sequenza #ln -s /dev/scdx /dev/cdromx se ti puo essere d'aiuto questo è come risultano ora a me #cdrecord -scanbub scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TEAC' 'CD-532E-A ' '1.0A' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW2100E' '1.0G' Removable CD-ROM /etc/fastab /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 Ciao , Tom ---
Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?
Alle 09:26, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Mah, in quanto a velocità (utilizzo attualmente ext3 convertito da un iniziale ext2) non ho rilevato nessu rallentamento. Per curiosita.per passare da ext2 a ext3 che dovrei fare? se è troppo complicato da spiegare qui, mi potresti rimandare a qualche documentazione in italiano? Grazie. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] supermount
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:10:01 +0100 (CET)
Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ma, alla fine ho deciso di passare alla 8.1, ma i
miei
problemi non sono migliorati...
...Ma nella 8.1 non c'e' il supporto al supermount.
Che problema ti da?
se il problema è evitare di aprire un xterm e digitare mount /cdrom, potresti
aggiungere una voce mount (umount) al tuo Window manager.
Per esembio in /usr/X11R6/share/Blackbox/menu (oppure in /home/utente/.blackboxrc) io
ho aggiunto la seguente sezione:
[submenu] (Misc)
[exec] (mount) {rxvt -e mount /cdrom konqueror /cdrom}
[exec] (umount) {rxvt -e umount /cdrom}
[end]
Et voilà il gioco è fatto!
Analoga cosa si può fare in windowmaker (se ti serve ti spiego come).
Kde non lo uso quasi mai, ma credo tu possa utilizzare questo concetto anche lì.
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Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
tom wrote: .. questo è quello che c'è in fstab /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 ma la cosa che non capisco è questa. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TEAC' 'CD-532E-A ' '1.0A' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW2100E' '1.0G' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * questo è il risultato del comando cdrecord -scanbus..da qui pare che hdc sia regolarmente emulato!!! e allora perche non mi compare in fstab come scdX??? A questo punto, io metterei /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto poi farei gli opportuni link simbolici ln -s /dev/sdc0 /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/sdc1 /dev/cdrom2 per tutti quegli oggetti che puntano direttamente a /dev/cdromX
Re: R: [newbie-it] Mandrake in crisi!?
credo che sia arrivato il momento di contribuire economicamente, se non vogliamo cambiare distribuzione. Penso che se lo meritano. Io mi comprerò la distribuzione era già da un pò che ci stavo pensando. Comunque se tutti o quasi collaboriamo secondo le nostre possibilità possiamo aiutarli. - Concordo pienamente. Linux l'ho scopeto quasi un anno fa, ma per vari motivi (tra cui poche opportunita' di stare sul pc) l'ho studiato poco. Ho provato un po' di distribuzioni, Mandrake e' quella che da subito mi e' piacuta. Ora finalmente mi compro un portatile ed all'uscita della nuva distribuzione Mandrake 8.2, mi compro la distribuzione completa (e poi incomincero' a stressarvi con richieste di aiuto) ;) Dimitri -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Ti è capitato di cercare un libro e non riuscire a trovarlo? E' attivo il servizio TrovaLibri di Airbook.it Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=345d=14-3
Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?
Alle 13:49, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 09:26, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Mah, in quanto a velocità (utilizzo attualmente ext3 convertito da un iniziale ext2) non ho rilevato nessu rallentamento. Per curiosita.per passare da ext2 a ext3 che dovrei fare? se è troppo complicato da spiegare qui, mi potresti rimandare a qualche documentazione in italiano? Grazie. Ciao , Tom Devi utilizzare il comando tune2fs, per esempio con la seguente sintassi: tune2fs -j /dev/hdxx Dove, ovviamente, devi sostituire hdxx con la tua partizione (ad esempio: hdb1, hdb2, o che altro). L'unico cambiamento visibile è che viene creato un file .jourmal nella directory root (ovviamente nascosto). Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?
Alle 13:49, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 09:26, giovedì 14 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Mah, in quanto a velocità (utilizzo attualmente ext3 convertito da un iniziale ext2) non ho rilevato nessu rallentamento. Per curiosita.per passare da ext2 a ext3 che dovrei fare? se è troppo complicato da spiegare qui, mi potresti rimandare a qualche documentazione in italiano? Grazie. Ciao , Tom Devi utilizzare il comando tune2fs, per esempio con la seguente sintassi: tune2fs -j /dev/hdxx Dove, ovviamente, devi sostituire hdxx con la tua partizione (ad esempio: hdb1, hdb2, o che altro). L'unico cambiamento visibile è che viene creato un file .jourmal nella directory root (ovviamente nascosto). Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
Re: [newbie-it] Xscreensaver GL
Alle 21:03, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutta la ML, a quanto pare non riesco a stare un giorno senza trovare un piccolo problema da proporvi. Oggi ho voluto provare alcuni salvaschermi GL di xscreensaver, e con mia sorpresa non vanno. Premetto che ho una geforce2, e che sotto RH7.1 questo problema non si verifica, e che inoltre usando le librerie MESA i suddetti screensaver funzionano. Vorrei chiedervi se qualcuno si è già imbattuto in questo problema. Vi allego i messaggi che ottengo dal demone xscreensaver. Se devo postare altro, tipo il log di XFREE o il file di configurazione, fatemelo sapere. Messaggi al lancio del Demone xscreensaver: xscreensaver-gl-helper says the GL visual is 0x21 (the default). xscreensaver: initialization of Kerberos passwords failed. xscreensaver: running on display :0.0 xscreensaver: vendor is Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17mdk), 4010 xscreensaver: useful extensions: xscreensaver: MIT Screen-Saver xscreensaver: Shared Memory xscreensaver: Double-Buffering xscreensaver: Power Management xscreensaver: GLX xscreensaver: XF86 Video-Mode xscreensaver: screen 0 non-mapped depths: 16 xscreensaver: not using server's lame MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension. xscreensaver: consulting /proc/interrupts for keyboard activity. xscreensaver: using default visual 0x21 (TrueColor, depth: 16, cmap: default) xscreensaver: saver window is 0x1e1. xscreensaver: selecting events on extant windows... done. Messaggi di errore al lancio di salvaschermi GL xscreensaver: DEMO 121 ClientMessage received. xscreensaver: demoing 121 at Sat Mar 9 20:26:45 2002. xscreensaver: grabbing keyboard on 0x53... GrabSuccess. xscreensaver: grabbing mouse on 0x53... GrabSuccess. xscreensaver: limited pid 3454 address space to 50M. xscreensaver: spawning gears -root in pid 3454. gears: couldn't create GL context for visual 0x21. xscreensaver: child pid 3454 (gears) exited abnormally (code 1). xscreensaver: unblanking screen at Sat Mar 9 20:26:48 2002. xscreensaver: ungrabbing mouse (was 0x53). xscreensaver: ungrabbing keyboard (was 0x53). xscreensaver: awaiting idleness. Grazie a tutti! Be spero di non sembrare troppo strano se mi rispondo, forse a qualcuno può interessare che ho trovato la soluzione sul sito di MDK. Basta settare la memoria per lo screensaver a 0M. Ciao !!
RE: [newbie-it] Xscreensaver GL
mitico!!! -Original Message- From: nicola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Xscreensaver GL Alle 21:03, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutta la ML, a quanto pare non riesco a stare un giorno senza trovare un piccolo problema da proporvi. Oggi ho voluto provare alcuni salvaschermi GL di xscreensaver, e con mia sorpresa non vanno. Premetto che ho una geforce2, e che sotto RH7.1 questo problema non si verifica, e che inoltre usando le librerie MESA i suddetti screensaver funzionano. Vorrei chiedervi se qualcuno si e gia imbattuto in questo problema. Vi allego i messaggi che ottengo dal demone xscreensaver. Se devo postare altro, tipo il log di XFREE o il file di configurazione, fatemelo sapere. Messaggi al lancio del Demone xscreensaver: xscreensaver-gl-helper says the GL visual is 0x21 (the default). xscreensaver: initialization of Kerberos passwords failed. xscreensaver: running on display :0.0 xscreensaver: vendor is Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17mdk), 4010 xscreensaver: useful extensions: xscreensaver: MIT Screen-Saver xscreensaver: Shared Memory xscreensaver: Double-Buffering xscreensaver: Power Management xscreensaver: GLX xscreensaver: XF86 Video-Mode xscreensaver: screen 0 non-mapped depths: 16 xscreensaver: not using server's lame MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension. xscreensaver: consulting /proc/interrupts for keyboard activity. xscreensaver: using default visual 0x21 (TrueColor, depth: 16, cmap: default) xscreensaver: saver window is 0x1e1. xscreensaver: selecting events on extant windows... done. Messaggi di errore al lancio di salvaschermi GL xscreensaver: DEMO 121 ClientMessage received. xscreensaver: demoing 121 at Sat Mar 9 20:26:45 2002. xscreensaver: grabbing keyboard on 0x53... GrabSuccess. xscreensaver: grabbing mouse on 0x53... GrabSuccess. xscreensaver: limited pid 3454 address space to 50M. xscreensaver: spawning gears -root in pid 3454. gears: couldn't create GL context for visual 0x21. xscreensaver: child pid 3454 (gears) exited abnormally (code 1). xscreensaver: unblanking screen at Sat Mar 9 20:26:48 2002. xscreensaver: ungrabbing mouse (was 0x53). xscreensaver: ungrabbing keyboard (was 0x53). xscreensaver: awaiting idleness. Grazie a tutti! Be spero di non sembrare troppo strano se mi rispondo, forse a qualcuno puo interessare che ho trovato la soluzione sul sito di MDK. Basta settare la memoria per lo screensaver a 0M. Ciao !! ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
[newbie] Apache user directory
I tried to set up my Apache web server that all the user can have their own web pages under their home/user/public_html I put this line in httpd.conf UserDir public_html However, when I tried to access user's web page by typing http://www.mywebsite.name/~username/ The web server gave me a error message said: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~username/ on this server. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Thank you! Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?
No.. Dreamweaver Can work w/ wine, however it does not work as quickly, nor is it as functional as on windows. (I personally coulnd't get it to install.) I have managed to get a copy of flash5 installed on my windows partition working with wine(using real win95 dlls), its not really usable as wine gets into a knot with the daft palette/tool thingies and spends 90% of its time redrawing them. -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
BEER ??? someone mentioned beer? i could use a guinness myself ... - Original Message - From: Bill Spatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all | Sounds good! | | Bill | Syracuse UT, USA (and no I'm not!) | Could use some REAL beer! | | -Original Message- | From: Hanan Shargi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:49 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all | | | Paul Vortex wrote this on his reply to programs running on wine post, | | and since there is this trend in the past 2 days in the list where people | are | posting things that are not neccesarily == ( never mind the spelling ... | hint would be nice to add a spell checker in Kmail /hint) related to the | list objectivs :) | | Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? | | starter: | | Name: Hanan | Country: Fairfax, VA United States | IP: .. nah ;-) | | - | Hanan AL-Shargi | | | | --- | Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | Version: 6.0.333 / Virus Database: 187 - Release Date: 03/08/2002 | | --- | Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | Version: 6.0.333 / Virus Database: 187 - Release Date: 03/08/2002 | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMail and Opera
Is there any way to make Opera or any other browser the default browser for KMail? I see no setting in the program. Thanks! -- Jonathan Dlouhy Thursday, March 14, 2002 I'm not smart enough to lie - Ronald Reagan Registered Linux user #264482 System powered by Mandrake 8.1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache user directory
Hi Daniel, First of all, sorry for my bad english. Try this: Add this lines in httpd.conf UserDir enabled user_name Alias /~username /~home/username/public_html Create the folder public_html and change permissions as root: chown -R username:apache ~username/public_html chmod -R 711 ~username chmod -R 755 public_html This works in my server. I have installed Linux Mandrake 8.1. By, Daniel At 03:57 14/03/2002 -0500, you wrote: I tried to set up my Apache web server that all the user can have their own web pages under their home/user/public_html I put this line in httpd.conf UserDir public_html However, when I tried to access user's web page by typing http://www.mywebsite.name/~username/ The web server gave me a error message said: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~username/ on this server. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Thank you! Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Daniel Moríñigo Sotelo Profesor Ayudante Dpto. de Ingeniería Eléctrica E.T.S.I.I. Universidad de Valladolid Paseo del Cauce s/n 47071 Valladolid Teléfono: 983423361 Fax: 983423310 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] laptop
Hi Shane, I am running LM8.1 on Dell Inspiron 7500, it worked nicely on it, ever since L.M 7.0 and before trhat I was using Red Hat. and I guess witrh older notebooks you wont have to suffer with uncompatible pieces of hardware ( modems, display cards, .etc.) Just make sure that it doest come with winmodem :). even If it did you can easily buy a real moidem off e-bay, just days ago I bought a LAN 10/100 3Com pcmci off ebay for $14 :)) --- Dell Inspiron 7500 PIII 700 MHz Maestro sound ATI Rage Mobility Psion Gold card ( modem) Genius LAN Fast Ether 3Com LAN ever since LM 7.0 Good Luck. - Q: Why Geeks shouldnt drink ? A: Coz they cant afford to loose greates asset their minds - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE:[newbie] QT libraries
Watches Zaphod's Joo Janta Sunglasses go dead black ooo me like them dead black sunglasses 8-) Umm, your programs have source code for Qt no longer in use. In order to get them to compile, you will have to install OLD libraries. Try to get them from Mandtrake 7.1 which is still around on a few web sites, at least as iso's (ftp.proxad.net for example). thanx civilme... er.. would mandrake 7.2 work?? I have cd's for that... or which rpm's would I need... my dial-up account is no good to dl iso's from...takes over a week !!:( today is tommorrow, is yesterday, but neither is niether. registered Linux user number 265953 machine registration number 149598 _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache user directory
were you on a local lan or thru the internet? what are the permissions or the folder /home/username/public_html? is apache configured for virtual domains? On Thursday 14 March 2002 03:57, you wrote: I tried to set up my Apache web server that all the user can have their own web pages under their home/user/public_html I put this line in httpd.conf UserDir public_html However, when I tried to access user's web page by typing http://www.mywebsite.name/~username/ The web server gave me a error message said: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~username/ on this server. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Thank you! Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lycoris or Mandrake?
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 23:53, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: I am an old windows user that is tired and sick of Microsoft's policies. So I turned to Linux and I now Love this OS and the open source community. I only have one problem with Linux and that's the ease of use. I used to use Red Hat 7.1 for a couple of months and then I found out that it wasn't for me. I was able to find my way trough KDE but couldn't play my VCDs for example. Also I never understood tar files. Now I'm in search for the easiest Linux Distro. I really don't too many software packages or stability ( any Linux Distro is Stable comparing to Windows). I just need the easiest to use Distro. I found out that Mandrake is the Distro that everybody says suits my needs. But I also found out that there is a Company named Lycoris ( formerly known as Redmond Linux) that is making a Distro called Desktop/LX. As far as I can see it's very easy to use. It is very user friendly for windows users and it use WINE ( by default) and also play DVDs and VCDs Automatically ( I really like this). As far as I can see other than Documentation there is no clause for me to use Mandrake.( also I'm a little concerned about mandrake soft's financial problems). Maybe this is not the right place to ask this question because it is a Mandrake mailing list. But I really can't make up my mind in this mater. I am going to buy One of these distros in about a week. Please help me in this. Linux eager Newbie First thing - don't buy Mandrake just yet, wait until 8.2 comes out (which should be very soon). I don't know what DVD/VCD software will be included in 8.2, ut in general the situation is better than it used to be. If nothing in Mandrake serves your needs, there are other downloadable video applications. I don't know much about Lycoris - visited their site about a year ago. they seemed more geared towards business than home users, but that may have changed. As for the financial thing, I bet some people at Mandrakesoft are wishing they'd never sent that mail! As far as I can see, Mandrake's long-term prospects are at least as good as any other major distro, they're just short of cash at the moment and don't want to have to lay off developers (which in the IT world is an unusually humane response. If I were rich, or even drawing a normal First World salary, I'd support them financially; as it is, I just propagandise! Buy Mandrake! Buy Mandrake! Seriously though, if Lycoris is available as a free download or cheap CD order (check out Cheapbytes), why not try both and see which one you like? This is a luxury we have in the Linux world - can you imagine someone saying Well, I wasn't sure whether to upgrade to XP or stick with ME, so I bought XP just to try it out? In contrast, I rememeber Cheapbytes doing a special offer of about half a dozen distibutions at $1 each! Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake security notices
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jeff wrote: %_I posted this a while ago and no one seems to have an answer for me. Yes, I do have the link for ssh update. I am asking if any of the mirrors actually update for these security vulnerabilities? Is there anywhere to get them all at once, or do I have to find a different website for each one? As far as I know you have to go to each website and get them. Some vendors coordinate this and make packages. Mandrake??? -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted
I have a small issue that may be interrupt related. I have XMMS playing (always). At a change of track, it will sometimes stop and issue a message telling me that the sound card is not available and that I should check that I have the correct plugin loaded. Click OK and play again and I'm back in business. This can happens every third track, or every third day depending on what mood it's in. Now I have a couple of ideas on this. Anyone care to comment? 1. It only happens on change of track, so I guess XMMS does some release/acquire of the sound card at that point. 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows: 10: 83875 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712 i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with the usb interfaces. That's the only interrupt that is being shared. Now I know interrupts can be shared, but I wouldn't think that it's a good thing for a sound card. So: 1. Any votes for or against the notion that this is likely to be the cause of XMMS's hiccups? 2. How do I go about changing this? USB is not in use on this machine, so just disabling that is an option. That is, it's not in use under Linux because there seems to be no way I can get my scanner to work - not a SANE support device. No matter. There has to be some reason to have that dual boot XP parition there right? In other words, I am happy to dispense with USB as far as the OS goes, but not disable it in the bios. OTOH there are several interrupts free, so just moving either the USB or the sound card is probably the better option. One last point of info: This is a multi-channel sound card that requires ALSA 0.9 beta5 or greater to work - I'm using beta 10. Forget about any configuration of this card in any of the GUI's. They don't know about it. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE wont start
Hi all, I was foolishly snooting around my MD8.1 system, which was working fine, as root and now KDE wont come up. Never had a problem before with it. It stops with a message at the splash screen. The application The KDE Splash Screen (ksplash) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV). The .xsession-errors file says: kdeinit: DCOPSserver could not be started, aborting. IO error opening ICE Connection! The system boots fine. Its only after I issue the startx command do I have a problem and I can get out of by ctrl-alt-backspaceing. What did I do to it and what can I do to get it working again? Thanks Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support perotsystems(tm) Office: 407 804-3208 Pager: 407-400-0197 Fax:407-804-3340 E-Mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] epcEditor
I don't know how many of you are working extensively with XML/SGML, but I was presently surprised this evening when I downloaded the epcEditor and found that it handled my CJK-English dictionaries on my Mandrake system, flawlessly rendering the mixed Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text in UTF-8. (http://www.epcedit.com) Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary http://www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] laptop -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] laptop does anyone know a good place to buy older/used laptops online? and any recommendations as to what to get? i am only looking for a pent II or equiv, and it has to run mandrake 8.1 (shocked aren't you?) but othere than that i am open to suggestions? recommended brands, resellers, refurbs, etc. thanks! snip -- Take a look at these folks. I haven't bought from them but prices seem reasonable and the equipment is tested most of the time according to what they post. http://www.computersurplusoutlet.com/?AID=1155796=298624 HTH, Dennis M
RE: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish
Title: RE: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, cervix couch wrote: %_ I've been having a problem in Linux and I have no idea where to look for the culprit. My problem is that, periodically, while I'm online (and only when I'm online), the system will get extremely sluggish to the point where I usually have to power down and reboot. When this happens, there are sounds like there's a lot of hard disk activity going on and it never stops. I've tried unplugging the modem, but it doesn't do any good. Does anyone know why this happens? THRASHING!!! You need more RAM Linux is trying to run swapping everything back and forth to the hard drive -- Gerald Waugh Or if you didn't set it up on initial install, you need to add a swap partition at least equal to or twice the ram amount that you have, oops here comes a debate on the size of swap needed. Dennis M.
Re[2]: [newbie] laptop
Thursday, March 14, 2002, 9:38:44 AM, you wrote: MDRN -Original Message- MDRN From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDRN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane MDRN Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:25 AM MDRN To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDRN Subject: [newbie] laptop MDRN does anyone know a good place to buy older/used laptops online? and any MDRN recommendations as to what to get? MDRN i am only looking for a pent II or equiv, and it has to run mandrake 8.1 MDRN (shocked aren't you?) but othere than that i am open to suggestions? MDRN recommended brands, resellers, refurbs, etc. MDRN thanks! MDRN snip I don't know where you live, but frequently on the ga.forsale usenet group there are quite a few of what you're looking at. I bought a nice Toshiba Satellite for $600 from a guy in that group. Best of luck! -- Jonathan Dlouhy Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:07:48 AM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail and Opera
On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:25, Jonathan Dlouhy opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Is there any way to make Opera or any other browser the default browser for KMail? I see no setting in the program. if you go to Configuration KDE Filebrowsing File Associations and find html under text, i do believe simply moving opera to the top of the list will change that. it will also make it your default from other KDE apps to though. i may be misremebering though, so play around a bit. hope that helps. -- Remember, to a tree being useful is a terminal illness. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Improve the Mandrake cd-rom install?
Your suggestion of tabbing to installation steps would have saved me hours when I started this trek. When you are bumbling around, flapping your arms, it would be real nice to index to the area you goofed up in and go on. On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:32 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:48:23 -0500 Zlatko Savic [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Hey everyone, I apologize if this is the wrong place to post suggestions since i don't know a better one but i think that 2 important features are missing during the cd-rom installation of MD 8.0 (and later?). First, by no means i could get my mouse working during the installation process (Laptop TP 600E problem). And unfortunately, half of the windows that show up during the installation cannot be tabbed through. Could it be possible to enable mouse pointer control using arrow keys (by default)? Ah yes...you mentioned the magic word... Laptop TP 600E problem. emphasis on Laptop. The real problem here is not with Mandrake Cd install routine(s), rather with the Laptops non-conformity. (where the hardware is concerned). The problem is hardware related and is, depending on the Laptop, hard to gage whether you're going to find the install miserably difficult or mildly amusing. Normally, if you're using a mainstream brand like IBM's ThinkPad or something similar that is well supported by Mandrake, then chances are that you're going to have a fairly amusing time installing the OS. If, on the other hand, you've got a machine that is off the beaten path then your chances of having a difficult time installing Mandrake on that machine are greatly increased. Second, I had sometimes the situation that I forgot to take out the install cd from the drive and it would automatically run upon booting my system. But there is no X or Kill icon that stops the whole installation process and continues booting my computer normally. I don't think there is an exit button durin the cd-rom install process, is there? Please correct me if I am wrong! Zlatko Savic The install script is designed to kick the CD out upon successful completion of the installation. I have seen this fail at times. Again, depending upon the hardware literally getting the signal to eject the disk. It may be that your CDROM isn't getting that signal and therefore isn't ejecting the disk. You may just have to manually eject the disk while the machine is posting upon restart after installation. At this point and purely for your own information it might be a good idea to go back to Mandrake's hardware page to check just how much, or how well your particular machine is supported. Knowing what you've got inside the machine and how well it is or isn't supported may very well make the marriage between Mandrake and your laptop a much happier affair. -- Registered Linux user #223705 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] KMail and Opera
Thursday, March 14, 2002, 9:56:21 AM, you wrote: s On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:25, Jonathan Dlouhy opened a hailing frequency s and transmitted: Is there any way to make Opera or any other browser the default browser for KMail? I see no setting in the program. s if you go to Configuration KDE Filebrowsing File Associations and s find html under text, i do believe simply moving opera to the top of the s list will change that. it will also make it your default from other KDE s apps to though. i may be misremebering though, so play around a bit. hope s that helps. That sounds right. I'll give it a go later today. Thanks! -- Jonathan Dlouhy Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:58:49 AM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. --Ronald Reagan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 01:18, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? OK. Lyvim Xaphir Greenville, North Carolina, USA (2 hours from Research Triangle Park, Raleigh) Running Mandrake v LM81 w/stock kernel _ 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] Improve the Mandrake cd-rom install?
If the mouse doesn't work immediately, why not try the text install? As far as I remember, that can be tabbed through (though it's a long time since I've done one - you used to have to do it with S3Trio cards - framebuffer problem, I think). Robin On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:03, Lee wrote: Your suggestion of tabbing to installation steps would have saved me hours when I started this trek. When you are bumbling around, flapping your arms, it would be real nice to index to the area you goofed up in and go on. On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:32 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:48:23 -0500 Zlatko Savic [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Hey everyone, I apologize if this is the wrong place to post suggestions since i don't know a better one but i think that 2 important features are missing during the cd-rom installation of MD 8.0 (and later?). First, by no means i could get my mouse working during the installation process (Laptop TP 600E problem). And unfortunately, half of the windows that show up during the installation cannot be tabbed through. Could it be possible to enable mouse pointer control using arrow keys (by default)? Ah yes...you mentioned the magic word... Laptop TP 600E problem. emphasis on Laptop. The real problem here is not with Mandrake Cd install routine(s), rather with the Laptops non-conformity. (where the hardware is concerned). The problem is hardware related and is, depending on the Laptop, hard to gage whether you're going to find the install miserably difficult or mildly amusing. Normally, if you're using a mainstream brand like IBM's ThinkPad or something similar that is well supported by Mandrake, then chances are that you're going to have a fairly amusing time installing the OS. If, on the other hand, you've got a machine that is off the beaten path then your chances of having a difficult time installing Mandrake on that machine are greatly increased. Second, I had sometimes the situation that I forgot to take out the install cd from the drive and it would automatically run upon booting my system. But there is no X or Kill icon that stops the whole installation process and continues booting my computer normally. I don't think there is an exit button durin the cd-rom install process, is there? Please correct me if I am wrong! Zlatko Savic The install script is designed to kick the CD out upon successful completion of the installation. I have seen this fail at times. Again, depending upon the hardware literally getting the signal to eject the disk. It may be that your CDROM isn't getting that signal and therefore isn't ejecting the disk. You may just have to manually eject the disk while the machine is posting upon restart after installation. At this point and purely for your own information it might be a good idea to go back to Mandrake's hardware page to check just how much, or how well your particular machine is supported. Knowing what you've got inside the machine and how well it is or isn't supported may very well make the marriage between Mandrake and your laptop a much happier affair. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] Chat list?
On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:00, sda wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:54:48AM -0500, Fred Fraley wrote: There have been some wonderful threads on both the expert and newbie lists in the last few days. I have to agree, though, with a couple of users who were frustrated in wading through everything to get to the tech threads. It seems there is a real desire for a chance to deal with non-technical Mandrake community issues, Linux issues, and just BS a bit Could the powers that be at Mandrake set up another list for such chats? We've got a Cooker, how about a Cooler ? (Americanism -- standing around the water cooler at work, chatting about non-work topics that mean so much to the work community) Why? There is a prefectly fine IRC channel for just this purpose. Someone yesterday posted the information. Some of us live behind school/company firewalls which block IRC. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] QT libraries
***note to self, send mail under right identity or it won't go*** :-) if you know what rpms, i am betting several of us here have old 7.1 cds we can either attach rpms to for you or (with that connection) maybe mail you a whole cd. get back here when you know On Tuesday 12 March 2002 18:23, zaphod beeblebrox opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: thanx civilme... er.. would mandrake 7.2 work?? I have cd's for that... or which rpm's would I need... my dial-up account is no good to dl iso's from...takes over a week !!:( -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Jimenez shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ -- ...in a world without walls or fences, we wouldn't need windows or gates. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RealPlayer plugin
Is there a way to install the RealPlayer plugin for Netscape without installing the whole RealPlayer 8? When I install the whole thing it takes over lots of MIME associations that I never could get to work right again. I just want the plugin so I can see the streaming stuff. Thanks, Jon -- Jonathan Dlouhy Thursday, March 14, 2002 Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a Federal anti-smoking campaign Registered Linux user #264482 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze?
Actually, it isn't that hard to remove IE from Windows. The problem is that many *applications* require IE to install, or run with reduced functionality if IE isn't installed. -Original Message- From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:25:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze? On Wednesday 13 March 2002 07:07 pm, Bill Davidson wrote: Anyone think they would do it? http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html Bill Bill: Yeah. Right after pigs learn how to fly and the sun starts to rise in the west. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer plugin
El Jue 14 Mar 2002 06:29, Jonathan Dlouhy escribió: Is there a way to install the RealPlayer plugin for Netscape without installing the whole RealPlayer 8? When I install the whole thing it takes over lots of MIME associations that I never could get to work right again. I just want the plugin so I can see the streaming stuff. Thanks, Jon yes you can. go to www.netscape.com and run a search for netscape realplayer plugin. you will find it in no time. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation: PayPal
http://www.paypalsucks.com/ It seems some people have not had good experiences of Paypal... Richard john rigby, Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:37: Hi Femme, True? No! I think that is put around by the Banks. :-) It is especially useful to small traders trading internationally. It is on Fablor's recommended list. Has done wonders for some of their Academy members. The only real worry is that some operator will take them over. Cheers, John - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation pay pal is also one of the most insecure methods of doing e-business so I'm told by a business friend of mine. True? No? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] linux multi-media keyboards
Anybody know of any multi-media keyboards that I could make use of with Linux? I want to be able to use the exttra keys and functions on those keyboards. Has anybody had any success getting them mapped and working correctly? - paul R _ 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] Filesystems as of 8.2
Civileme (and any othe takers), I'm gonna put 8.2 on a company web/mail/ftp/ssh server that will receive light-to-moderate traffic. I'm not sure what filesytem I should use, though. What are your thoughts on the major journaling filesystems as of 8.2? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
Heck, Ed, you and I are a hop and skip apart, just about. On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:44, ed tharp wrote: Monroe North Carolina, and Miami Fla. On Tuesday 12 March 2002 10:59, you wrote: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... Walnut Creek (bay area) California here and bar hoping would _not_ be a good idea. can see a bunch of rowdy linux geeks in one bar? ;-) LoL... ever hear of Pigdog? Being a Sanfranciscan and all. PV. 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: Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
Actually, you are safer using a credit card online than a debit card (or a 'check card' type credit card that debits from your checking account) because the credit card company is liable for most of the chares in cases of fraud (assuming you inform them of the situation as soon as possible) however it does not cover overdrafts from your bank account. -Original Message- Maybe they do, Maybe they don't, but the internet is NOT a safe place to be entrusting that kind of information to foreign third parties. I hope debit card acceptance proliferates soon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script
On Thursday 14 March 2002 16:02, you wrote: Have you tried ./faxview-2.0b Root does not default with the ability to run things from the current directory. -- Registered Linux user #225209 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script
That would be ./faxview-2.0b not /.faxview-2.0b Miark On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:02:38 +, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Have you tried /.faxview-2.0b Root does not default with the ability to run things from the current directory. -- Registered Linux user #225209 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Filesystems as of 8.2
Civileme--thanks much! I'll definitely go with XFS. Miark On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:14:27 -0900, civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Miark wrote: Civileme (and any othe takers), I'm gonna put 8.2 on a company web/mail/ftp/ssh server that will receive light-to-moderate traffic. I'm not sure what filesytem I should use, though. What are your thoughts on the major journaling filesystems as of 8.2? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Sheesh, it WAS an idiot powersaver on a 60G Maxtor not waking up. XFS is clear and probably the better choice. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
Charlottesville, VA here Original Message- From: Fred Fraley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subj: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all Type: IPM.Note Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 13:25 US - Great Lakes region Akron-Cleveland Ohio area Medina, Ohio, US to be specific But I miss the Eastern Kentucky mountains. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resend: KDE does not come up.
Burrows, Scott wrote: Civilme, I was foolishly snooting around my MD8.1 system, which was working fine, as root and now KDE wont come up. Never had a problem before with it. It stops with a message at the splash screen. The application The KDE Splash Screen (ksplash) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV). The .xsession-errors file says: kdeinit: DCOPSserver could not be started, aborting. IO error opening ICE Connection! The system boots fine. Its only after I issue the startx command do I have a problem and I can get out of by ctrl-alt-backspaceing. What did I do to it and what can I do to get it working again? Also, at the text prompt outside of X how can I install something? Do I need to mount the CDRom drive first then issue an RPM command? Thanks Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support OK let me think... Hmmm try rm -r ~/.kde -f then startx The safe way to start window managers from the console is probably Xtart. There is a bug in the current one, and I am not sure Xtart-1.1 has made it to mirrors so download at http://www.civileme.net/Xtart-1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm Then install with rpm -Uvh Xtart-1.1-6mdk.i586.rpm Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] QT libraries
zaphod beeblebrox wrote: if you know what rpms, i am betting several of us here have old 7.1 cds we can either attach rpms to for you or (with that connection) maybe mail you a whole cd. get back here when you know. I did find the needed rpms.. but... it conflicts with the qt2 install.. so.. I am looking for a more upto date version the program, instead of trying to install the qt1 files.. and possibly breaking something. today is tommorrow, is yesterday, but neither is niether. registered Linux user number 265953 machine registration number 149598 _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com In case that is a fruitless search, 7.2 has a QT1.44 compatibility library which should install alongside Qt2.x Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] partition
hello, ive got a question. I trying to use my windows-xp partitions. I've mounted them and in root i can use them. But when i want to use the partition in let's say user: arjan I get tthe error that i'm not able or i don't have the rights to use the partition. How can i fix this? Another question, when i use realplayer in root i get the errormessages that i can't play audio because the audiodevice is already in use by another device. Please help me with these problems. arjan _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] partition
hello, ive got a question. I trying to use my windows-xp partitions. I've mounted them and in root i can use them. But when i want to use the partition in let's say user: arjan I get tthe error that i'm not able or i don't have the rights to use the partition. How can i fix this? Another question, when i use realplayer in root i get the errormessages that i can't play audio because the audiodevice is already in use by another device. Please help me with these problems. arjan _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] An apology and a round of virtual beer
The rest I won't argue. But English!? I am not Sir ;0 Je suis partiellement francais, c'est vrai. I blame my upbringing for me being only being half-french. And I did grow up in a french community I assure you Kaj. Oh I don't speak my native (though I suppose english is as much my native tongue) much now for lack of a french community where I am. :) Sorry I just had to respond...unless that was meant to provoke me... hm... no I won't bother trying to construct a Heinlein-ian conspiracy ;p Femme Kaj Haulrich wrote: Being the guy who initiated the Minimizing the cult-factor-thread, I've learned a few things : 4. Femme Fatale is english, not french. Cheers, all - I love you more than somewhat ! Kaj Haulrich Denmark 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] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations, working setups, problems...
Thanks for your comments. I've been surfing for more details on these WinTV cards... quite a variety it seems, but very scant on whether or not they can decode a terrestrial channel by simply plugging an ariel lead into the back and tuning them. I have seen there are several drivers available tho for the range so that doesn't seem to be a problem. Also it seems you have to make sure you get one for the UK transmission system [PAL] which seems to limit you, for some reason, to a mono audio signal and also no wide-screen mode reception, unless I read it wrong? The US-spec cards seem to have a multitude of extra features on them. Comments welcome until this is sorted ;-) magnet yes, any wintv pci card should work great, as long as the card supports PAL the software will too, the brooktree drivers (BTTV84X chips) work fine in my mandrake setup, and have in every version since 7.0, right out of the box. On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:10, you wrote: System: Mandrake 8.0 running on a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 mobo, Athlon 1.2GHz, 256MB ram and a 20Gb HDD. Very stable atm :) I would like to know if there is a PCI card that would enable me to view terestrial television broadcasts like bbc1, bbc2, bbc4, bbc knowledge, itv1, itv2, channel 4 and channel 5 using the signal from my ariel? I'm not interested in satellite or pay-to-view channels, but just the standard channels and the free digital-via-ariel channels. It would be great to use the linux box rather than buying a whole new television or buying a set-top-box for my old television, allowing me to view true widescreen output on a crisp monitor display. Do such cards also offer the possibility to capture programs onto the harddrive allowing for saving or just viewing later [digital VCR effectively]? Teletext would be a bonus, but not essential ;-) Hope you can help me with this question :) magnet 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] Interrupts and being interrupted
Hmmm. Thought was miraculously immune to the my posts don't show up thing, but maybe not as this one hasn't bounced back to me after 10 hours. Sorry if this is a repeat performance. -Forwarded Message- From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Interrupts and being interrupted Date: 15 Mar 2002 00:49:25 +1100 I have a small issue that may be interrupt related. I have XMMS playing (always). At a change of track, it will sometimes stop and issue a message telling me that the sound card is not available and that I should check that I have the correct plugin loaded. Click OK and play again and I'm back in business. This can happens every third track, or every third day depending on what mood it's in. Now I have a couple of ideas on this. Anyone care to comment? 1. It only happens on change of track, so I guess XMMS does some release/acquire of the sound card at that point. 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows: 10: 83875 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712 i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with the usb interfaces. That's the only interrupt that is being shared. Now I know interrupts can be shared, but I wouldn't think that it's a good thing for a sound card. So: 1. Any votes for or against the notion that this is likely to be the cause of XMMS's hiccups? 2. How do I go about changing this? USB is not in use on this machine, so just disabling that is an option. That is, it's not in use under Linux because there seems to be no way I can get my scanner to work - not a SANE support device. No matter. There has to be some reason to have that dual boot XP parition there right? In other words, I am happy to dispense with USB as far as the OS goes, but not disable it in the bios. OTOH there are several interrupts free, so just moving either the USB or the sound card is probably the better option. One last point of info: This is a multi-channel sound card that requires ALSA 0.9 beta5 or greater to work - I'm using beta 10. Forget about any configuration of this card in any of the GUI's. They don't know about it. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...
If I may add my 2 cdn cents (worth bout .5 cent on the open market), Hauppage tv cards AFAIK right now are not a very good buy. At least this is what I've read. Only because they seem to have issues with certain types of installations. Damn, wish I'd kept the article. Please read up on it if you are considering that card. Just an opinion though. Femme Len Lawrence wrote: On 13 Mar 2002, magnet wrote: I recently installed a Hauppage WinTV-Go card (40 pounds sterling from PC World or Dixons). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Anti-spam measures
Does anyone know a way I can bounce mail? I receive masses of spam from Korea, for reasons that totally baffle me, and I would like a way to send back anything written in Hangul, preferably with a message like This is the spamfix prgram at localhost.localdomain. Your mail was not able to be delivered for the following reasons: 1. The recipient doesn't speak Korean. 2. the recipient does not appreciate unsolicited e-mails. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted
Hi Brian On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:49, you wrote: 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows: 10: 83875 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712 i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with the usb interfaces. Normally the sound card should use IRQ 5 or 7. If they are free on your system, use either of them for sound card. Boot to window$ and check how the interrupts are shared there. Leave IRQ 10 for USB as you may need it in the future (usb-mouse, printer, etc.) and IIRC it is some sort of recommendation to use that IRQ for USB devices (like 5 or 7 are for sound cards and 3 and 4 for serial devices ). And it's less likely for your system to behave oddly if you keep the config close to specs. Cheers, J. 2. How do I go about changing this? USB is not in use on this machine, so just disabling that is an option. That is, it's not in use under Linux because there seems to be no way I can get my scanner to work - not a SANE support device. No matter. There has to be some reason to have that dual boot XP parition there right? In other words, I am happy to dispense with USB as far as the OS goes, but not disable it in the bios. OTOH there are several interrupts free, so just moving either the USB or the sound card is probably the better option. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] partition
Arjan, Regarding the partition question - you need to check two things: 1. That the permissions on the mount point are set to allow user access. Type: ls -l /mnt (without the quotes). You will see a list of mount points, one of which corresponds to each W$ partition. Check that the permissions are set similarly to this example. If not, you can change them as root using the chmod command. man chmod will teach you al you want to know about that. Note that you'll need to unmount the partition before changing the permissions. As root: umount /mnt/win_c or whatever it's really called. mount -a will remount it for you. drwxr-xr-x2 root root 48 Mar 15 10:46 win_c/ 2. Have a look at your /etc/fstab file. cat /etc/fstab Your windows mounts (assuming they are FAT32) should look something like: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,user,auto,umask=0 0 0 The user bit is probably the thing that's most likely not set. To change it: umount /mnt/win_... cp /etc/fstab ~/ edit /etc/fstab with your favorite editor mount -a If this creates a problem you can't solve and you want to put fstab back the way it was: cp ~/fstab /etc/ HTH Brian On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 09:27, Arjan Petersen wrote: hello, ive got a question. I trying to use my windows-xp partitions. I've mounted them and in root i can use them. But when i want to use the partition in let's say user: arjan I get tthe error that i'm not able or i don't have the rights to use the partition. How can i fix this? Another question, when i use realplayer in root i get the errormessages that i can't play audio because the audiodevice is already in use by another device. Please help me with these problems. arjan _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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] Interrupts and being interrupted
Thanks Jussi, That seemed the best way to go to me too. But how are the interrupts set? Are you talking bios settings here? I guess not as W$ would inherit them too. I have set this stuff in W$, but not in Linux. thanks again Brian On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 10:55, Jussi Aalto wrote: Hi Brian On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:49, you wrote: 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows: 10: 83875 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712 i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with the usb interfaces. Normally the sound card should use IRQ 5 or 7. If they are free on your system, use either of them for sound card. Boot to window$ and check how the interrupts are shared there. Leave IRQ 10 for USB as you may need it in the future (usb-mouse, printer, etc.) and IIRC it is some sort of recommendation to use that IRQ for USB devices (like 5 or 7 are for sound cards and 3 and 4 for serial devices ). And it's less likely for your system to behave oddly if you keep the config close to specs. Cheers, J. 2. How do I go about changing this? USB is not in use on this machine, so just disabling that is an option. That is, it's not in use under Linux because there seems to be no way I can get my scanner to work - not a SANE support device. No matter. There has to be some reason to have that dual boot XP parition there right? In other words, I am happy to dispense with USB as far as the OS goes, but not disable it in the bios. OTOH there are several interrupts free, so just moving either the USB or the sound card is probably the better option. TIA Brian 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] Anti-spam measures
On Thursday 14 March 2002 06:53 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Does anyone know a way I can bounce mail? I receive masses of spam from Korea, for reasons that totally baffle me, and I would like a way to send back anything written in Hangul, preferably with a message like This is the spamfix prgram at localhost.localdomain. Your mail was not able to be delivered for the following reasons: 1. The recipient doesn't speak Korean. 2. the recipient does not appreciate unsolicited e-mails. Robin Don't bother. Most of the time it'll just get bounced back to you and you'll be wasting your own bandwidth. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted
Have a look at /etc/modules.conf. I think that's where you set that stuff. Here is an example of the entries for my sound card. alias sound opl3sa2 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1 mpu_io=0x330 HTH, Bill On Thursday 14 March 2002 07:09 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Thanks Jussi, That seemed the best way to go to me too. But how are the interrupts set? Are you talking bios settings here? I guess not as W$ would inherit them too. I have set this stuff in W$, but not in Linux. thanks again Brian On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 10:55, Jussi Aalto wrote: Hi Brian On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:49, you wrote: 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows: 10: 83875 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712 i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with the usb interfaces. Normally the sound card should use IRQ 5 or 7. If they are free on your system, use either of them for sound card. Boot to window$ and check how the interrupts are shared there. Leave IRQ 10 for USB as you may need it in the future (usb-mouse, printer, etc.) and IIRC it is some sort of recommendation to use that IRQ for USB devices (like 5 or 7 are for sound cards and 3 and 4 for serial devices ). And it's less likely for your system to behave oddly if you keep the config close to specs. Cheers, J. 2. How do I go about changing this? USB is not in use on this machine, so just disabling that is an option. That is, it's not in use under Linux because there seems to be no way I can get my scanner to work - not a SANE support device. No matter. There has to be some reason to have that dual boot XP parition there right? In other words, I am happy to dispense with USB as far as the OS goes, but not disable it in the bios. OTOH there are several interrupts free, so just moving either the USB or the sound card is probably the better option. TIA Brian 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] System Getting Sluggish
Civileme, Hmmm. I can see that bdflush is running on my system, but bdflush is not found either as root or as a normal user. locate can't track it down either. Software Manager says it's installed, but all I find is the man pages. Looking at these, the command is certainly documented as you suggest. Any ideas? There's no problem here, but I get curious when little inconsistencies like this come up. Brian On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 08:36, civileme wrote: Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, cervix couch wrote: %_ I've been having a problem in Linux and I have no idea where to look for the culprit. My problem is that, periodically, while I'm online (and only when I'm online), the system will get extremely sluggish to the point where I usually have to power down and reboot. When this happens, there are sounds like there's a lot of hard disk activity going on and it never stops. I've tried unplugging the modem, but it doesn't do any good. Does anyone know why this happens? THRASHING!!! You need more RAM Linux is trying to run swapping everything back and forth to the hard drive -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com What browser are you using? Several will fill the memory with cache and not flush. The command line bdflush -d will display the settings for the flush. Share them and we will know more. If the message is command not found, INSTALL bdflush and start it without parameters at boot time--put the line bflush as the next to last line of /etc/rc.local Civileme 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] need to re-install OS
Dave, yes, that's easy - just don't let the installer format /home or /usr during the install. Choose expert mode and you'll get the option to leave these as is. Note however that it's possible that this approach will create some inconsistencies you may need to work around. e.g. If you have applied updates, some settings in the paritions you leave unformatted could possibly conflict, but you are unlikely to see serious problems from this. If your need to reinstall is because of problems, maybe trying to fix them is also an option. Plenty of help available here if so. HTH Brian On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 09:25, David wrote: I need to re-install OS. Can I do so without having to re-install all my apps? Is it possible to save some of my setting? If it matters my partitions table is as follows: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 489992299049165643 65% / none 79456 0 79456 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda11 7218432 3329464 3522288 49% /home /dev/hda10 3020140844508 2022216 30% /usr Also what is that partition @ mnt point /dev/shm? I didn't put that there. tia Dave -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk KDE 2.2.1Sylpheed 0.7.2 David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepage www.davidlsteiner.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] °°° 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] Installing a program via a shell script
I posted the correction a few minutes after I sent the first one. I was still half asleep when I posed it. Thanks for correction anyhow, I would not want to steer anyone wrong. On Thursday 14 March 2002 21:33, you wrote: That would be ./faxview-2.0b not /.faxview-2.0b Miark On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:02:38 +, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Have you tried /.faxview-2.0b Root does not default with the ability to run things from the current directory. -- Registered Linux user #225209 -- Registered Linux user #225209 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: you guys are making me sick with your temperatures!!! Why wasn't I born in a warm environment!? Damnit I'm lucky if i'll see -10C today! Femme Femme: Simple fix: Move. -- cmg (who cut his grass today -- it'll be too hot tomorrow 80F) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish
Brian Parish wrote: Civileme, Hmmm. I can see that bdflush is running on my system, but bdflush is not found either as root or as a normal user. locate can't track it down either. Software Manager says it's installed, but all I find is the man pages. Looking at these, the command is certainly documented as you suggest. Any ideas? There's no problem here, but I get curious when little inconsistencies like this come up. Brian Brianthe bdflush executable is named 'update'. :) -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet
Thanks for your reply, but I am still not able to get this working. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:36 pm, you wrote: Hello all, I have Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop and am trying to telnet to a SunOS box. I have tried all the terminals and am having the following problem: I type: telnet IP of server here and press Enter I get: SunOS 5.6 login: After the login I type my username and press Enter, but the cursor just moves to the l of login (on the same line) and does nothing. I never get a prompt for a password and eventually the connection times out. I have been able to login just fine from Windows, but need access to this server from within Mandrake. (it is a dual boot system) Any suggestions are appreciated, Kevin Set your xterm Settings - Keyboard to Linux Console HTH -- Gerald Waugh Connecticut USA 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] Sound Card Troubleshooting
I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card. I properly read the readme and had it working on a prior installation. However, now it won't "compile" (correct me if i am wrong) when I run a "make install" command as indicated. If I were to layout a troubleshooting procedure what if any tools are available for this? I am of course a newbie so all and everything that could help determine where a problem would be or how to narrow down my problem would be nice.
Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...
On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:05, FemmeFatale wrote: If I may add my 2 cdn cents (worth bout .5 cent on the open market), Hauppage tv cards AFAIK right now are not a very good buy. At least this is what I've read. Only because they seem to have issues with certain types of installations. I have used Hauppage WinTV in 5 different Linux systems and never had any problems. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVIDIA cursor shadow
I just have installed NVIDIA 2802 driver (kernel 2.4.18-5 and Gforce2 MX), and trying to enable the cursor shadow in XF86Config-4 with the following options, I only get the standard mouse pointer. What is going wrong here, and what 'boolean' mean? Thks. Carlos # ** # Pointer section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolMicrosoft Option Device /dev/ttyS0 Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout50 Option CursorShadow boolean Option CursorShadowAlpha 64 Option CursorShadowXOffset4 Option CursorShadowYOffset2 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option ChordMiddle EndSection Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Civileme, Hmmm. I can see that bdflush is running on my system, but bdflush is not found either as root or as a normal user. locate can't track it down either. Software Manager says it's installed, but all I find is the man pages. Looking at these, the command is certainly documented as you suggest. Any ideas? There's no problem here, but I get curious when little inconsistencies like this come up. Brian Brianthe bdflush executable is named 'update'. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Darn! I forgot I had it aliased Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake security notices
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The notice comes out when the update is available... Usually at the same time as it is set for reading by the mirrors, so there may be a delay before it appears on your chosen security mirror. Since most of our mirrors are volunteer and since there are still some glitches in SM, (mostly occurring when a download breaks for connection reset reasons) there is not always a single site that will answer your questions or get you your updates. I do not recommend the one you are using and I suggest you delete it, even if it requires reinstalling SM. If you are using 8.0, then update to 8.2 where the SM is finally pretty stable. The most glaring problem in 8.1 is that it still _updates_ kernels and fries the eyebrows off of thoose who don't read the security notice before they hit the button. Civileme Yes, on the kernelsBeen there done thatdoh! I plan on updating from 8.1 to 8.2 when the final version is released. but until then I have to keep current. Thanks for the help. Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
I wonder if they would stop requesting e-mail receipts if everyone on the list clicked yes - send the damn receipt. I must admit though you do get frustrated when you send an email or two to the same person and they don't reply for weeks. Michael Napier New Zealand Starting Autumn FemmeFatale wrote: Please change your email to not ask for a receipt? Thx Femme chingasman wrote: snippity snip -- Put your best foot forward. Or just call in and say you're sick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email Service
SMTP is the default setup in Mandrake for mail service. Although postfix and fetchmail will talk to ISP POP3 accounts, I have never seen anyone talking on the list about setting up a POP3 server. Do you specifically need POP3? Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:17:39 -0800 (PST) Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Forgive if this message appears twice, but I don't see it on the list. Question: How do I set up my computer as a POP3 account? When I try to send a message to my account on my Linux machine, I get the following bounce back: 554 email addr: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied 554 5.0.0 email addr... Service unavailable I have my IP address configured correctly on the DNS end and I have the proper port forwarding on my router. How can I check to see if POP3 service is running? If it is running, what could be the problem? My problem is that once I fix something, I never remember how I did it :( So, are you running Postfix or some other mailer? Have you verified that the service is running either through Webmin or the Control Center? If you are running a firewall, make sure you don't have your mailer blocked. Can you send mail to an outside addy using your local account? Todd -- Todd Slater What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau) -- Put your best foot forward. Or just call in and say you're sick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interrupts and being interrupted
Thanks Bill, I checked under W$ and it's running the card at irq 5, so I added the line: options snd-card-ice1712 irq=5 to modules.conf. modprobe fails after that with: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/misc/snd-card-ice1712.o: invalid parameter parm_irq I think maybe I'll have to re-install the alsa driver as it sounds like something in the way it was set up is dictating the irq. If you have any more thoughts they are welcome. Otherwise I'll re-read the alsa docs and look in that direction. thanks again Brian On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 11:41, Bill Davidson wrote: Have a look at /etc/modules.conf. I think that's where you set that stuff. Here is an example of the entries for my sound card. alias sound opl3sa2 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1 mpu_io=0x330 HTH, Bill On Thursday 14 March 2002 07:09 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Thanks Jussi, That seemed the best way to go to me too. But how are the interrupts set? Are you talking bios settings here? I guess not as W$ would inherit them too. I have set this stuff in W$, but not in Linux. thanks again Brian On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 10:55, Jussi Aalto wrote: Hi Brian On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:49, you wrote: 2. cat /proc/interrupts shows: 10: 83875 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ICE1712 i.e. my sound card (that's the ICE1712) is sharing interrupt 10 with the usb interfaces. Normally the sound card should use IRQ 5 or 7. If they are free on your system, use either of them for sound card. Boot to window$ and check how the interrupts are shared there. Leave IRQ 10 for USB as you may need it in the future (usb-mouse, printer, etc.) and IIRC it is some sort of recommendation to use that IRQ for USB devices (like 5 or 7 are for sound cards and 3 and 4 for serial devices ). And it's less likely for your system to behave oddly if you keep the config close to specs. Cheers, J. 2. How do I go about changing this? USB is not in use on this machine, so just disabling that is an option. That is, it's not in use under Linux because there seems to be no way I can get my scanner to work - not a SANE support device. No matter. There has to be some reason to have that dual boot XP parition there right? In other words, I am happy to dispense with USB as far as the OS goes, but not disable it in the bios. OTOH there are several interrupts free, so just moving either the USB or the sound card is probably the better option. TIA Brian 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] need to re-install OS
Brian, Well, I already did the re-install lastnight. I went ahead and formatted / and /usr, and just redid the whole deal. Thats always the best wasy to do it anyway. But since you mentioned fixing the problems.. The problems I had were: 1- could not su 2- could not run program as root 3- could not login as root in CLI, just GUI 4- could not mount or umount as user All this came from an OS _upgrade_ that I did to fix a problem I had with my LILO due to dicking around with my partitions. I posted them and the best thing I got was to re-install. So I did. If you have a clue what could have fixed these, I'm sure a lot of ppl here would love to know. Dave On 15 Mar 2002 11:42:45 +1100 Brian Parish Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave, yes, that's easy - just don't let the installer format /home or /usr during the install. Choose expert mode and you'll get the option to leave these as is. Note however that it's possible that this approach will create some inconsistencies you may need to work around. e.g. If you have applied updates, some settings in the paritions you leave unformatted could possibly conflict, but you are unlikely to see serious problems from this. If your need to reinstall is because of problems, maybe trying to fix them is also an option. Plenty of help available here if so. HTH Brian On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 09:25, David wrote: I need to re-install OS. Can I do so without having to re-install all my apps? Is it possible to save some of my setting? If it matters my partitions table is as follows: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 489992299049165643 65% / none 79456 0 79456 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda11 7218432 3329464 3522288 49% /home /dev/hda10 3020140844508 2022216 30% /usr Also what is that partition @ mnt point /dev/shm? I didn't put that there. tia Dave -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk KDE 2.2.1 Sylpheed 0.7.2 David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepagewww.davidlsteiner.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk KDE 2.2.1 Sylpheed 0.7.2 David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepagewww.davidlsteiner.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Troubleshooting
El jue, 14-03-2002 a las 22:29, chingasman escribió: I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card. I properly read the readme and had it working on a prior installation. However, now it won't compile (correct me if i am wrong) when I run a make install command as indicated. If I were to layout a troubleshooting procedure what if any tools are available for this? I am of course a newbie so all and everything that could help determine where a problem would be or how to narrow down my problem would be nice. are you sure you are running make install as root? use the su command to log in as root and then do a make install. that's probably the issue. like this ]$su enter password: ( enter your root password here ) ]$make install HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA cursor shadow
El jue, 14-03-2002 a las 23:01, Carlos Arigós escribió: I just have installed NVIDIA 2802 driver (kernel 2.4.18-5 and Gforce2 MX), and trying to enable the cursor shadow in XF86Config-4 with the following options, I only get the standard mouse pointer. What is going wrong here, and what 'boolean' mean? Thks. Carlos # ** # Pointer section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolMicrosoft Option Device /dev/ttyS0 Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout50 Option CursorShadow boolean Option CursorShadowAlpha64 Option CursorShadowXOffset 4 Option CursorShadowYOffset 2 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option ChordMiddle EndSection a Boolean expression is one that can take only true or false values. try with a Y in that section. like this. # ** # Pointer section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolMicrosoft Option Device /dev/ttyS0 Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout50 Option CursorShadow Y Option CursorShadowAlpha 64 Option CursorShadowXOffset 4 Option CursorShadowYOffset 2 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option ChordMiddle EndSection if the Y doesn't work, try differently. like y, yes, or 1. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] translucent shell window
I was wondering how I could get the shell window to appear translucent. Thanks in advance, Mithrilhall * * Mithrilhall's Linux* * Server * * AMD-K2 350MHz* * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net * * _ 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] Shame we live in diff countries and all
I wish... *sigh* Maybe in the future I will move to a warmer clime. With luck, Australia? :) Femme Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: you guys are making me sick with your temperatures!!! Why wasn't I born in a warm environment!? Damnit I'm lucky if i'll see -10C today! Femme Femme: Simple fix: Move. -- cmg (who cut his grass today -- it'll be too hot tomorrow 80F) 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] NVIDIA cursor shadow
On Thursday 14 March 2002 08:01 pm, you wrote: I just have installed NVIDIA 2802 driver (kernel 2.4.18-5 and Gforce2 MX), and trying to enable the cursor shadow in XF86Config-4 with the following options, I only get the standard mouse pointer. What is going wrong here, and what 'boolean' mean? Thks. Carlos Well, I'll just post mine: Option DPMS on Option NvAGP 1 Option NoLogo on Option CursorShadow on #Option CursorShadowAlpha 64 (the default) Option CursorShadowXOffset 2 Option CursorShadowYOffset 1 I comment out that one line cause mine'll freeze up. But you can try it. But the other few lines makes a nice shadow cursor for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Pascal, try "KreateCD". Way easier. If it isn't on your distro, try : http://www.kreatecd.de/download.php They have a "ready-to-go" RPM for Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1. I suppose it's on the cooker as well. Thanks! I'll try it this week-end. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] xfice
Hello civileme, Friday, March 15, 2002, 8:56:19 AM, you wrote: c Colin Jenkins wrote: It looks like I have really stuffed something up here. (lm8.1) I followed some instructions I came across for booting up with Xfice (I was using kde). everything appeared to work ok, but when I next rebooted, I was no longer able to start kde or gnome. if I use startx kde -- :1 it still starts xfice. Where do I start looking to fix this? c If you have 8.1 load Xtart and you have access from console to all wms c Civileme Thanks for the answer civileme, I will note that down for next time :) I finally reinstalled to fix it. -- Best regards, Colinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Troubleshooting
If you've tried as root and it doesn't work, look for a configure.log (or something like that) in the installation directory. If it's there, it'll probably identify exactly what went wrong. Miark On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:29:44 -0800, chingasman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card. I properly read the readme and had it working on a prior installation. However, now it won't compile (correct me if i am wrong) when I run a make install command as indicated. If I were to layout a troubleshooting procedure what if any tools are available for this? I am of course a newbie so all and everything that could help determine where a problem would be or how to narrow down my problem would be nice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
Amen, to that. It seems like I get more of those receipts than I get spam on losing weight or gaining weight. - Original Message - From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all I wonder if they would stop requesting e-mail receipts if everyone on the list clicked yes - send the damn receipt. I must admit though you do get frustrated when you send an email or two to the same person and they don't reply for weeks. Michael Napier New Zealand Starting Autumn FemmeFatale wrote: Please change your email to not ask for a receipt? Thx Femme chingasman wrote: snippity snip -- Put your best foot forward. Or just call in and say you're sick. 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] Shame we live in diff countries and all
Been to Virginia once before. Fell in love with the state. Plan to move there someday, probably retire there. - Original Message - From: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all Charlottesville, VA here Original Message- From: Fred Fraley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subj: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all Type: IPM.Note Sent:Wednesday, March 13, 2002 13:25 US - Great Lakes region Akron-Cleveland Ohio area Medina, Ohio, US to be specific But I miss the Eastern Kentucky mountains. 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] 8.2 Release date
Does Anyone know when will Mandrake Linux 8.2 Gold be officially released? I am very eager to purchase it.
Re: [newbie] translucent shell window
On Friday 15 March 2002 09:24, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: I was wondering how I could get the shell window to appear translucent. Depends on your console. If you're running Konsole (the default in KDE) it's Settings - Schema, then take your pick of the various transparent styles. Robin -- Give me the views, and I'll give you the arguments. - Chrysippus 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
