Re: [newbie-it] driver nvidia
Brunini Alessandro wrote: E se la risposta è la seconda, sapete quando escono, visto che sul sito non ci sono ancora? scaricati i sorgenti.rpm dei driver. Poi assicurati di avere installati i sorgenti del kernel e lancia rpm --rebuild NVIDIA.x.src.rpm questo ti costruisce il corrispondente rpm adatto per la tua macchina Lo mette in /usr/src/non ricordo. Pero` ti dice lui dove lo ha messo. Poi li installi come rpm normali. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] firewall
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, SkyHeart wrote: Ciao, vorrei configurare un firewall semplice, semplice (nn ho particolari esigenze..ma vorrei imparare) cosa mi consigliate? link? software? Grazie Ciao, io uso ipchains che piu' che un firewall e' un sistema che permette di filtrare i pacchetti. E' molto interessante e si impara un mucchio di roba. (Magari se interessa potrei postare un file di configurazione tipo) C'e' il solito man ipchains per sapere come funziona. E c'e' un modulo ipchains da inserire nel kernel. Per capire quali porte devi chiudere potresti usare nmap. Tutto e' nella distribuzione base. Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8.2
Francesco Speranza wrote: Salve a tutti, ho visto che alcuni siti come http://www.italsel.com/ hanno già disponibie per la vendita , la versione di MDK 8.2 Powewr Pack . E' mai possibile che sia gia' arrivata nei negozi in cosi' breve tempo ??? ( qualcuno mi consigli.) probabilmente e` un pre-ordine: prendono i soldi subito e ti spediscono il pacchetto quando lo riceveranno ;) ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] driver nvidia
Andrea Celli wrote: scaricati i sorgenti.rpm dei driver. Poi assicurati di avere installati i sorgenti del kernel e lancia [cut] quindi in fase di installazione devo cercare una voce del tipo kernel sources? Grazie mille :))
[newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Salve a tutti. Ho un portatile su cui vorrei installare una distribuzione Linux. Ho provato con Mandrake ma non ci sono riuscito, ho provato con Red Hat e mi dice che la memoria RAM non è sufficiente (ne ha 16 M). Con Suse la stessa cosa!!! Insomma che distribuzione dovrei installare? Non voglio che lo zio d'America continui ad entrare nel mio portatile. Ciaoo Gigi
Re: [newbie-it] driver nvidia
Brunini Alessandro wrote: Andrea Celli wrote: scaricati i sorgenti.rpm dei driver. Poi assicurati di avere installati i sorgenti del kernel e lancia [cut] quindi in fase di installazione devo cercare una voce del tipo kernel sources? si Ovviamente ti serviranno anche il compilatore C (gcc) e make Io, di solito, metto una crocetta sui programmi di sviluppo e questi vengono inseriti automaticamente. Essendo strumenti basilari, forse vengono installati sempre. Ma non ci metto la mano sul fuoco. In ogni caso e` roba che sta sicuramente sul primo CD e puoi anche installarli dopo. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] E` arrivata la 8.2 :-)
Il giorno 23:41, martedì 19 marzo 2002 hai scritto: Il mar, 2002-03-19 alle 14:00, Asgro][ ha scritto: No, dovro aspettere(56k non bastano per scaricare i files iso) Facci sapere! Sono freneticamente ansioso!! :) Io la 8.1 la scaricai con un 56k... :-))) Okay, preparate la camicia di forza... Corrado Preparatene due. La mia prima copia di Linux (quando ero ancor più giovane ed inesperto, e mai avrei pensato che addirittura si potesse trovarle in edicola, su semplici riviste... per la serie Windows ti instupidisce) la scaricai anche io con il mio modem 56k. Ci misi una quantità impressionante di ore, ed alla fine mi trovai con un CD buggato (causa difetti nel download) che si inchiodava durante l'installazione. Ci sono persone che ancora mi prendono in giro. Giustamente. :) Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] konqueror-netscape-mozilla-galeon
Scusateche versione di netscape vien installata con mdk8.1 download editio?? Nella mia piena ignoranza ho fatto l'upgrade a 6.2.1 e ora sembra che fili tutto liscio.ho fatto la prova pure con siti che erano stati presi ad esempio qui in ML e si vede tutto perfettamente ecetto uno in cui mi dice di scaricare un plugin per flash.che c'è gia. Ora come si fa per far condivider il tutto a mozilla?? Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] E` arrivata la 8.2 :-)
Preparatene due. La mia prima copia di Linux (quando ero ancor più giovane ed inesperto, e mai avrei pensato che addirittura si potesse trovarle in edicola, su semplici riviste... per la serie Windows ti instupidisce) la scaricai anche io con il mio modem 56k. Ci misi una quantità impressionante di ore, ed alla fine mi trovai con un CD buggato (causa difetti nel download) che si inchiodava durante l'installazione. Ci sono persone che ancora mi prendono in giro. Giustamente. :) Daniele Quindi quando lo facevo io con ISDN singolo canale non conta... Ora poi con ADSL... Sigh... sob... :))
Re: [newbie-it] Periferica Hub?
Alle 08:42, mercoled 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Renato wrote: Alle 14:48, marted 19 marzo 2002, hai scritto: cut che hub sti usando viger Boh! In fattura c' solo un Hub e sulla scatola c' un generico per pc e i-mac. Quando l'ho comprato non pensavo ancora d'installare linux. Comunque a suo tempo ho inviato per mail il report come da istruzioni di hardrake e nessuno mi ha risposto. Harddrake segnala che un: Texsas Instruments Model TUSB2040 HUB KERNEL MODULE UNKNOW BUS TYPE USB Grazie dell'interessamento ku68 Alcuni hub esterni sono ingrado di controllare mouse, tastiere, ma non web-cam, scanner ecc. per il semplice fatto che non hanno abbastanza corrente dal pc, ad es. il mio hub esterno Trust ha un connettore per collegarci un alimentatore supplementare per usare webcam che ad es hanno bisogno di piu' corrente. ciao viger
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:30:14 +0100 Emma e Gigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti. Ho un portatile su cui vorrei installare una distribuzione Linux. ] Io ho installato giusto 2 settimeane fa mdk 8.1 su un vecchio portatile (pentium 166, 32mb ram, 1Gb hd) avevo provato con red-hat 7.2, ma effettivemente per rh un giga di hard disk era uno scherzo ho provato con debian e funzionava alla perfezione, solo che io non sono ancora abbastanza scafato per fare tutto (ho perso un paio di giorni solo per installare X) Con mdk tutto bene, anche se all'inizio dell'installazione dice subito che ho poche risorse... ora... se tu hai un 486, allora per la mandrake non ci sono speranze (contiene codice ottimizzato x i pentium e sotto non si installa) altrimenti in fase di boot, dai F1 digita text e premi invio, chissá con l'installazione in modo testo magari funziona! ps: mdk o debian che sia scordati gnome, kde, netscape e simili peró ti posso dire che con i programmi giusti (blackbox e dillo, per esempio) sembra una vera scheggia!
[newbie-it] linux e lan locale
Ciao a tutti. Sono l'unico user di linux all'interno di una rete con Windows98. COme faccio a vedere le periferiche condivise e che sono in server Win? In particolare stampanti, files, connessione ad internet su server proxy? Grazie a tutti Fabio Betti
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Alle 17:07, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:30:14 +0100 Emma e Gigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti. Ho un portatile su cui vorrei installare una distribuzione Linux. ] Io ho installato giusto 2 settimeane fa mdk 8.1 su un vecchio portatile (pentium 166, 32mb ram, 1Gb hd) avevo provato con red-hat 7.2, ma effettivemente per rh un giga di hard disk era uno scherzo ho provato con debian e funzionava alla perfezione, solo che io non sono ancora abbastanza scafato per fare tutto (ho perso un paio di giorni solo per installare X) Con mdk tutto bene, anche se all'inizio dell'installazione dice subito che ho poche risorse... ora... se tu hai un 486, allora per la mandrake non ci sono speranze (contiene codice ottimizzato x i pentium e sotto non si installa) altrimenti in fase di boot, dai F1 digita text e premi invio, chissá con l'installazione in modo testo magari funziona! ps: mdk o debian che sia scordati gnome, kde, netscape e simili peró ti posso dire che con i programmi giusti (blackbox e dillo, per esempio) sembra una vera scheggia! La mdk 8.2 richiede 64 MB per l'installazione minima, se la avvii in text dovresti installarla. ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Floppy formattati
Alle 15:23, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Mi sono accorto che, una volta che formatto dei floppy con ext2fs, non riesco più a montarli correttamente, e ricevo il messaggio di filesystem errato, troppi filesystem montati, ecc.. Il fatto strano è che quelli formattati DOS riesco a vederli normalmente, così come quelli in cui avevo copiato un kernel di prova. In fstab l'opzione per il floppy è auto; presumo perciò che stia al sistema l'interpretazione del filesystem. Chi sa dirmi di più? Ringraziamenti anticipati, of course.. fdformat /dev/fd0u1444 mkdosfs /dev/fd0u1444 ciao
Re: [newbie-it] linux e lan locale
Alle 15:42, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. Sono l'unico user di linux all'interno di una rete con Windows98. COme faccio a vedere le periferiche condivise e che sono in server Win? In particolare stampanti, files, connessione ad internet su server proxy? Grazie a tutti Fabio Betti Samba. ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Emma e Gigi wrote: Salve a tutti. Ho un portatile su cui vorrei installare una distribuzione Linux. Ho provato con Mandrake ma non ci sono riuscito, ho provato con Red Hat e mi dice che la memoria RAM non è sufficiente (ne ha 16 M). Con Suse la stessa cosa!!! Insomma che distribuzione dovrei installare? Non voglio che lo zio d'America continui ad entrare nel mio portatile. Ciaoo Gigi Forse è il caso di rivalutare il buon vecchio win98, nonostante tutto.non vedi che le distro fanno acqua da tutte le parti ?
[newbie-it] Avvartimento
Se non ti piace linux sei invitato cordialmente a cambiare ml e fraquentarne una per windows.
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Alle 17:53, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Emma e Gigi wrote: Salve a tutti. Ho un portatile su cui vorrei installare una distribuzione Linux. Ho provato con Mandrake ma non ci sono riuscito, ho provato con Red Hat e mi dice che la memoria RAM non è sufficiente (ne ha 16 M). Con Suse la stessa cosa!!! Insomma che distribuzione dovrei installare? Non voglio che lo zio d'America continui ad entrare nel mio portatile. Ciaoo Gigi Forse è il caso di rivalutare il buon vecchio win98, nonostante tutto.non vedi che le distro fanno acqua da tutte le parti ? E' una battuta o vuoi creare problemi. .\___/.
Re: [newbie-it] konqueror-netscape-mozilla-galeon
metodo gorillesco ma forse funziona (mi sembra di avere fatto qualcosa di simile): prova a copiare /usr/lib/netscape/plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins tom wrote: Scusateche versione di netscape vien installata con mdk8.1 download editio?? Nella mia piena ignoranza ho fatto l'upgrade a 6.2.1 e ora sembra che fili tutto liscio.ho fatto la prova pure con siti che erano stati presi ad esempio qui in ML e si vede tutto perfettamente ecetto uno in cui mi dice di scaricare un plugin per flash.che c'è gia. Ora come si fa per far condivider il tutto a mozilla?? Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Linux su portatile
Ci mancano i troll anche qui... alla prossima mi scappa un... *plonk* ;)
Re: [newbie-it] Avvartimento
Alle 19:06, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Se non ti piace linux sei invitato cordialmente a cambiare ml e fraquentarne una per windows. Scusa Renato, ma con chi ce l'hai? Nicola.
Re: [newbie-it] configurare porta parallela
Alle 22:20, mercoledì 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: hello boys nessuno sa dirmi come posso riconfigurare la porta parallela? ciao a tutti Perché devi configurarla? Forse non hai accesso alla porta da user? Ciao Renato
[newbie-it] Re: Avvartimento
Renato wrote: Se non ti piace linux sei invitato cordialmente a cambiare ml e fraquentarne una per windows. Rispondo all' Avvartimento (forse avvertimento ?) con il dispiacere di non essere stato capito o, più probabilmente, di essermi spiegato male. Per prima cosa, non è vero che non mi piaccia linux. Uso linux per hobby, ma ho fatto molti sforzi per cercare di usarlo e di capirlo, nei limiti del poco tempo libero e delle mie competenze informatiche. Del resto se sono qua non è solo per aumentare la bolletta telefonica. I motivi per cui non piaccia windows possono essere molti e possono essere condivisibili. Però non si può dire che faccia schifo, questa sarebbe un'idiozia. Basta un pò di attenzione col registro, col disco, evitare applicazioni che causano problemi e il sistema va bene e praticamente non si blocca mai. Sopratutto non si presentano tutte le difficoltà a cui si va incontro con linux e su questo non credo ci sia niente da obiettare. E' questo che volevo dire. Ho un vecchio 486, si dice che va benissimo per linux, non è vero (lo so, esistono altri metodi, che però ne limitano le funzionalità).. Vado per installare Mandrake e non va perchè progettato dal pentium in su, altrove la scheda audio non è riconosciuta, la tale applicazione è meglio non usarla perchè non è stabile, quell'altra ha un bug e bisogna aggiornarla e via così. E le centinaia di richieste di aiuto di gente che ha installato linux, pensando che fosse una passeggiata e che invece non riescono a fare funzionare quelle cose che con windows sono molto più facili, sono lì a dimostrarlo. Che poi linux sia in certi casi, ma non in tutti, molto più efficiente è un altro discorso. Ma bisogna precisare che lo è in mani esperte, anzi molto esperte. Questo è un punto che si deve riconoscere apertamente: oggi linux è ancora un sistema per esperti, per gente che ha molto tempo libero o che ha, almeno, una discreta preparazione informatica o che lavora nel settore. Anche il contributo, spesso disinteressato, di molti competenti allo sviluppo di linux non va sottovalutato, ma anzi apprezzato e stimato. Basterebbe ricordare, è il primo esempio che mi viene in mente, gli Appunti Linux di Giacomini che, in modo del tutto gratuito, ha messo a disposizione di tutti una raccolta eccezionale di informazioni che in una libreria costerebbe almeno 50 euro. Allora, se uno che può benissimo essere una persona ugualmente intelligente, dice di avere un mucchio di problemi nell'installazione e nell'uso di linux (come era il caso del messaggio all'origine della questione), non si può dirgli che può considerare l'uso di windows come alternativa ? Mi sembra che il discorso sia molto chiaro e semplice. Per quanto riguarda l'avvartimento, mi sembra veramente fuori luogo. Questa non è una società segreta e se qualcuno vuol esprimere la sua opinione lo può fare senza chiedere il tuo badiale permesso, basta non offendersi a vicenda. Se invece qualcuno pensa, dall'alto della sua competenza informatica, di appartenere ad un'elite intoccabile e di poter disprezzare gli altri distribuendo avvartimenti, allora forse è lui ad essere fuori posto. Io ho fatto il medico in cambio di vitto (??) e alloggio (??) per tre anni in un paese disastrato ma avvartimenti non ne ho mai dati a nessuno e credo che in quell'ambiente, uno che ne avesse dati sarebbe stato molto, ma molto, mal visto. Saluti, Fer.
Re: [newbie-it] Periferica Hub?
Renato wrote: Alle 14:59, mercoled 20 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Hai caricato i module per l'usb? Penso di si tant' che il mouse usb collegato direttamente al pc ha sempre funzionato comunque : ismod usb.c (da Prompt). Ho fatto da terminale come root, ma un msg mi dice ismod command not found. Mah! Ciao ku68
Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit
*S* old debate...don't stir up the old hardware geeks :P IMHO, leave it on. Less stress on the HW. Femme Stojs wrote: I know this is out of topic, but with linux I have the choice not to turn the computers off or restart them to often. What is best for the psu, having the computer running constantly or turning it off everytime you don´t use it (several times a day)? Thanks in advance, Stojs 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] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How to bestsupport Mandrake
john rigby wrote: Ahhh, Is anyone home with you two? Hellooo? The reason that my comms are in Doze is because - **like femme** and a zillion others - the Mandrake installs fail!!. Don't drag me into this horseshit you've got going here John. I don't care to be a part of it. Thx. I don't enjoy struggling but I do to *learn*. I find it does educate enlighten my pea-sized intelligence. I will wait and see what other bad news appears like Femmes re 8.2. (Sigh) like most people most of my things now will tend to be USB like most of the world except the M8.2 distro?? Sadly, John My issues with 8.2 aren't necessarily the last ones to be heard of...nor are they likely the last ones I'll have. That said, it's been a day since 8.2 was released! So... I hate to inform your arrogant/ill-informed ass but frankly there will be bugs that were missed. Wake up, don't be such a wet noodle. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF was (I need your suggestions)
Yippee? Now I need to find it? :\ *I feel like I'm on an Easter egg hunt :)* Femme Michael wrote: Download the source and compiling it for the i486 on the i486 is the best way, given enough room in mem, swap and hd. Instructions come with the source code. It can be tricky though. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2
Hi! I guess this question has been answered for 100's of times, that's why I am asking for a good URL :-) which explains in detail how to get Mandrake working with a cable modem and two network-cards, I guess it isn't that difficult? I can't get it to work with the wizards :-( I hope somebody knows a good source :-) Greets and thanks in advance, Drosera! ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.338 / Virus Database: 189 - Release Date: 14-3-2002
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
Did the betas work on your machine? Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:13:59 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Gad... where do I start? I goto install... get to the Press f1 for other options OR Enter to proceed. I hit either of those *Enter or F1* keyboard works fine. After that, I have NO keyboard OR mouse. :\ I even tried to use the mouse as a ps/2 then picked the USB module... um can we say Frozen mouse? :) Nothing. No joy. So, now I'm thinking I'll just use both as a Ps/2 device it worked but why would I want to use them as PS/2 when I hate that protocol anyway!? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF was (I need your suggestions)
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeSecurity-SNF.src.iso I know it's in the i586 directory, but so is the i486 ISO for MDK 7.0. Go figure. Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:20:38 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Yippee? Now I need to find it? :\ *I feel like I'm on an Easter egg hunt :)* Femme Michael wrote: Download the source and compiling it for the i486 on the i486 is the best way, given enough room in mem, swap and hd. Instructions come with the source code. It can be tricky though. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:01:30 +0200, Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2002 17:26, sda wrote: [snippet] Why are they asking for $ and not emphasizing what the benefits are? Why are they giving away the ISO's for free rather than following SuSE's successful implementation of a preview non-installable iso? If they did this alone, it would cut down on the freeloaders burning the distro and not contributing. Again, there seems to be some unclearness about the nature of free software. Someone who copies, uses or redistributes software is not a freeloader, he/she is a user. If he/she contributes something, such as time, money or code, he/she is a contributor (said Robin, rather tautologically). Even someone who downloads the system, uses it and recommends it to friends is contributing, albeit minimally. There may be people out there who give financial support, write code, document it, and answer questions on mailing lists, but they can probably be counted on your fingers. How many people here actually started their Linux experience by paying for an official distribution (I don't count redistributed CDs from Cheapbytes etc.)? And how many who _did_ earn under $15,000 p.a. (a good wage by world standards, BTW)? Robin Excellent point, Robin. I must admit that I am one of these people. Being a full-time university student, I cannot afford to pay for a Mandrake Club membership (particularly with the crummy $A-$US exchange rate). Instead, I spend my free time helping others to use Mandrake. I would like to think that I have helped people enough to stay with Mandrake, and perhaps even to join the Mandrake Club. In this way, I am hopefully (indirectly) contributing more than $US5 a month to Mandrakesoft. The idea of contributing money towards free software development is a relatively new one. Traditionally, it was customary to devote one's time towards the community as 'payback' for 'services rendered' (i.e. the time the community spends on creating free software), creating a situation where everyone helps each other in some way or other. If you've ever read Eric S. Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar, this corresponds to the 'bazaar' idea. Paying money is fine for inexperienced people, or for people who can afford it, but it does little to help the community as a whole. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan It's not a bug, it's tradition! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] corrupted boot-urgent help needed-solved
Thanks for reply , it's helpful to hear of things that work. i might need them myself one day! Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Hakan Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupted boot-urgent help needed-solved Thanks, Steve. I solved the problem in a different way. I defined same windows partition with another name (dos) by using lilo configuration tool coming with installation CDs and it worked. Than I deleted all the junk options created by several previous lilo configuration attempts. I am afraid I am still more of a windows user who prefers configuration tools to actual editing of .conf files, but I'll get there! In time... Hakan From: Steve Maytum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupted boot-urgent help needed Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:38:46 - Hakan , unless i'm mistaken the answer is quite simple. Shutdown your PC re-boot with a Windows start-up floppy and re-install your Win95. This overwrites MBR but provided you have a Linux boot floppy you can get back into your Linux. Then re-write lilo/conf file (i think) and from a shell Issue command to run /sbin/lilo. Check with others correct file to edit when back in Linux. HTH! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Hakan Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:30 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupted boot-urgent help needed After accidentally updating my kernel (although I knew I shouldn't), I tried to install the original one from the installCDs of 8.1. During that process however, LILO went bad. There was an error reproted about vmlinuz that I don't remember very well now, and setup did not progress any further. To correct (!) the problem, I chose grub instead of lilo, and it seemed to work. At least the setup finished. Then, everything was OK linuxwise; however I can't boot my windows 95 anymore. I tried Webmin, Drakeconf, Linuxconf but nothing seems to work. Is there a way to make it bootable again without loosing the data? Thanks in advance, Hakan _ 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx 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] OK new problem with 8.2
I never tried them... I don't have the time or energy to beta test...much as i'm sure my masochistic side would enjoy it. Femme Miark wrote: Did the betas work on your machine? Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:13:59 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Gad... where do I start? I goto install... get to the Press f1 for other options OR Enter to proceed. I hit either of those *Enter or F1* keyboard works fine. After that, I have NO keyboard OR mouse. :\ I even tried to use the mouse as a ps/2 then picked the USB module... um can we say Frozen mouse? :) Nothing. No joy. So, now I'm thinking I'll just use both as a Ps/2 device it worked but why would I want to use them as PS/2 when I hate that protocol anyway!? Femme 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] SNF was (I need your suggestions)
My lordy! Thankee Miark ! :) *Kisses you* You're a lifesaver Femme Miark wrote: ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeSecurity-SNF.src.iso I know it's in the i586 directory, but so is the i486 ISO for MDK 7.0. Go figure. Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:20:38 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Yippee? Now I need to find it? :\ *I feel like I'm on an Easter egg hunt :)* Femme Michael wrote: Download the source and compiling it for the i486 on the i486 is the best way, given enough room in mem, swap and hd. Instructions come with the source code. It can be tricky though. Michael 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] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How to bestsupport Mandrake
john rigby wrote: Ahhh, Is anyone home with you two? Hellooo? The reason that my comms are in Doze is because - **like femme** and a zillion others - the Mandrake installs fail!!. I cannot since Redhat 5.2 ( nor can anyone else I've ever known) replace the most basic functions of a person who makes a living using a computer.. like writing letters, backing up to a CD, editing a little Website, etc. etc. Strange, II trained 15 secretaries on Mandrake 6.1 and it is still in use at a government office (upgraded to 8.1 now, but using StarOffice and WordPerfect in an all-linux network )inside a state whose government would halt without Microsoft software. That statement you made smacks of FUD and sounds very unprofessional. Here you are on a help list but not looking for help, only complaining without specifics. AND I've had fabulous support and help from the good people on this very List, who tried very hard to help, over what seems decades. I still have not read a cogent argument against a single comment I made. Not a single line of rational, supportable argument. ( BTW: YA Mother wears gumboots! is not a cogent retort, neither is to betray abysmal ignorance of the language and refer to a person as a troll - a distinct entity in English mythology with sound etymology.) Troll--to move the boat slowly along a chum line in search of gamefish. Some folks get off on trolling for flame wars after which they can participate gleefully or sit on the sidelines observing the sparks and incendiaries and mud being slung by the participants. The (unfortunately true) internet legendary flame war included a pregnant participant who posted that she could not properly put her opponents in their places as she had to go deliver her baby... But, never fear, I don't place you in the category of troll. You I would place in two possible categories. One is the fellow who is so sure his view of the world is the _ONLY_ right one that he posts nonsense which makes sense in his own experience but ignores factors he has never observed. Probably such a person has never read W. Edwards Deming, or having read him, understood the dynamics that could be achieved by proper application. The other is that sort of sinister character who sees the problems newbies encounter with linux as an opportunity to spread discouragement and dissent for reasons of his own. I am sad to report that I believe this category likely. My last - thanks to Big Bill's product - which does at least work - communication on the arcane matter of Business Point101. I will wait and see what other bad news appears like Femmes re 8.2. (Sigh) like most people most of my things now will tend to be USB like most of the world except the M8.2 distro?? Well, USB support is much better but will not be perfect. Most USB devices are honoring the standard with lips, not with hardware and making up for it by writing windows drivers. But we've got printers and cameras and non-proprietary scanners and some storage devices including some of the memory devices working pretty well. Crashtesters have been happy on that score. naturally there are bugs, but most of them are elsewhere and often range into the arcane, like when someone chooses a 16-bit character encoding for Samba Shares (which windows doesn't like very much either) but we have targeted the worst and will have the update fixes tested by the time the disks hit the shelves. Sadly, John Anyway, you would never see this level of discussion of problems tolerated on a Microsoft list. In fact it is a LICENSE AGREEMENT VIOLATION on some of their software to use it to criticize Microsoft. And if you don't believe me, just read the End-User License Agreement for FrontPage 2000 or 2002. When the UCITA passes in Washington State, some of Microsoft's critics are likely to find themselves criminals because they use FrontPage to make a web page that criticizes Microsoft. We can take criticism, and we can take you as well, because most list members will see the FUD you spread for what it is, just a very clever twist to make problem-solving seem like something dirty. When one is tryoing to take a complex thing and make it simple, and easy to use, decisions have to be made about excluding cases from the handling of the tools available. Almost all the requests on this list result from lack of knowledge about how to exceed the design of the tools or from failure of the tool to fully protect the user from mistakes. So this list is very important to honing tool design and provides a source of feedback to improve the product. If you really stumbled so totally with Mandrake, then try to install Windows and see how much luck you have--not with the manufacturers install or restore disk but with a fresh system disk. The fact is, right now, we're easier. We're easier than XP and we support more hardware. OK enough said. I won't be
Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 16:30, Derek Jennings wrote: Well it is easy enough to convert a postscript file generated by a Linux application to Pagemaker pdf format. Just use ps2pdf Any KDE application can print directly to pdf using it. For other apps print to a postscript file then convert using ps2pdf in a command line. Unfortunately importing documents in pdf format into a word processor in Linux is not possible AFAIK. Unless you want to convert it to ascii first and lose all the formatting (and if formatting wasn't important, why use PDF?). I here copy-pasting from PDF in KDE is in the offing, though (might even be there already - I'm pretty behind at the moment). Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] And their OFF!!!!! 8.2 is now out!!
David .. wrote: Go and get them yeah! and it's not even April! -- Mark I suppose I should have a pithy saying here... The brain reports all neurons busy processing sub-routines are currently occupied. Retry your query in five minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] And their OFF!!!!! 8.2 is now out!!
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 07:49, daRcmaTTeR opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: David .. wrote: Go and get them yeah! and it's not even April! as swamped as the severs are i may not get it till april! good thing the release canidate works so well.. :) -- I used to be confused, but now I am not that sure anymore.. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect on Mandrake 8.1??????
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 5:18 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 March 2002 08:33, Wm. G. McGrath opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Has anyone had any success installing Word Perfect 8 on Mandrake 8.1? you will need libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm both of which can be found at places like rpmfind.net or tuxfinder. if you can't locate them, and don't mind a 2 MB attachment i can send them to you. Also read forum at Mandrakeuser for fairly good discussion of the same issue. In particular filtrixfix for importing other (.doc) files and to enable printing -l has to go in the Printer Setup, Select Destinations, lpr options box. Regards Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Drosera wrote: %_Hi! I guess this question has been answered for 100's of times, that's why I am asking for a good URL :-) which explains in detail how to get Mandrake working with a cable modem and two network-cards, I guess it isn't that difficult? I can't get it to work with the wizards :-( I hope somebody knows a good source :-) Greets and thanks in advance, this url may help? http://www2.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/howto/mini/mini/Cable-Modem.html -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How tobestsupport Mandrake
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 09:45, ed tharp wrote: Hey Jon, I remeber once befor, you had problems and was writng a book, and I would not alllow you to copy my posts as far as I was concerned, and you filtered me out, so you never got to read the corrections to your problkems since i made a point of answering, and then noteing that you had me filterd well guess what, i know how to work a mail filter in LINUX (of all OSs, go figure) and you have made my list... good bye Ed, you are priceless. (written between rib cramps) :) LX _ 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] I need your suggestions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just an add-on reply. P166 with 32MB should be enough to run SNF, it may not be snappy, but it works, I had it running on a P120. Have you tried text mode install? But why is it that when I'm about to install SNF in my old Intel Pentium 166 at 32MB RAM using BTC 40x IDE CD-ROM drive it asked what modules shall I use for my CD-ROM drive? Also, the GUI installation is very poor and very slow. Thanks in advance. =) __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... How did the install fail? SNF has a newer 2.2 kernel than the original and the newer one overcomes some errors that could be attributed to the strange timing and unique geometry of some WD drives. There is no real reason an SNF install should fail on such a system. I am running it on an IBM PC350 P166 with 32Mb of RAM and two network cards. Of course, I do have to keep a mouse attached so the BIOS will allow a boot, but the video and keyboard were long ago removed. You cannot have any other system on a machine running SNF. Dual-boots are impossible. When I'm about to install SNF in my old Intel Pentium 166 at 32MB RAM using BTC 40x IDE CD-ROM drive it asked me what modules shall I use for my CD-ROM drive? Also, the GUI installation is very poor and very slow. Thanks in advance. =) __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Mandarke User..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed Mandarake Lunix 8.1 in server mode. I am new with linux. Please don't lef. I was using Microsoft OS for 8 yars. Now I started new world for my self. Please let me know where can get more documentation about server configuration for smal network (EMail, WWW, DNS, Samba). Linux Documentation Project http://www.linuxdoc.org/ qmail Mail Server http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ Web Server http://www.apache.org/ djbdns Name Server http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html http://www.lifewithdjbdns.org/ Samba http://www.samba.org/ Squid Proxy Server http://www.squid-cache.org/ PostgreSQL Database Server http://www.postgresql.org/ NAT How-To http://netfilter.samba.org/ HTH. =) __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why would it not support it? mayhaps you had some configuration problem that the fine folks on this list could have helped with, since the hardware you list should be no problem w/ SNF I don't know. AFAIK, when I am about to install SNF in my old Intel Pentium 166 at 32MB RAM using BTC 40x IDE CD-ROM drive it asked what modules shall I use for my CD-ROM drive? Also, the GUI installation is very poor and very slow. Thanks in advance. =) __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get the source and compile it. I'm sorry for asking a very newbie question again but how can I compile the source of SNF if my hard disk drive is fresh? Thanks again... =) __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
So... you're asking whether 8.2 ships with the latest version of Ximian? Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:33:30 -0500, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: While we're on the subject, if I were to upgrade my 8.1 machine which has Ximian Gnome, will I have to re-upgrade it? Or am I better off waiting for now? Terry Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subj: Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2 Type: IPM.Note Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:52 Dave, are you sure your problems don't have other causes? What you went through sounds identical to problems I had last year when some of my RAM went bad. Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:03:50 -0500, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Hey Femme I also got both USB keyboard and mouse. I too had problems (READ: 8 HOURS OF INSTALL!). I haven't had problems like this since RH 6.1! I just played with it for a while ( 8HOURS! ) and now I got it up and running. Where in the install do your problems(USB) start? I had one problem where after I chose my lang(yes the very first step), I froze. I never even see the license screen. I solved that by clicking on a later step that I hadn't gotten to yet! Then went back, and all was good. I didn't even get to the update portion. After I tested my X config (which tested fine), my box froze. I had to do a hard boot. And when I came back up, I had no control over my mouse. I just rebooted and now everything is just peachy. hth Dave On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:40:07 -0700 FemmeFatale FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried to install first time tonight. Nice installer such one complaint I don't have a PS/2 or serial keyboard mouse. They are both USB. NOw this worked fine in 8.0 8.1 installers. So. what gives!? I was forced to use converters to get them onto PS/2 channels... I couldn't even use a text install with them as USB dev's! *ARGH!* So... Ideas? Pass args to the kernel on install?! what must I do which god/dess must I sacrifice a Mandrake developer to? :) *sigh* Also, my LAN *its my internet connection* wouldn't let me update packages, it hung. I gave up, came back to winblows. Ideas? help? Lobotomy? *might keep me from banging my head against a wall right now*. Femme -- °°° 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
[newbie] Eroaster
In a previous 'CD burning' thread the other day I mentioned I had problems with eroaster, but that it seemed to be a favorite of the Mandrake newsgroup crowd. I just got a rpm from Texstar that he said he 'fixed'. And yes, it fixed the problems I had. It's built for 8.2 and available here ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/ I used the i686, eroaster-2.0.12-3mdk I like the GUI, mainly 'cause it's straightfoward and simple, burner detection and configuration is automatic. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HTML in KMail
Hi, KMail isn't displaying HTML messages properly, even though I have selected Prefer HTML to plain text. The text and the layout of the message are displayed properly, but no images are shown. Does anybody know what could be wrong? TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How tobestsupport Mandrake
This was an excellent read. On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 05:28, civileme wrote: Strange, II trained 15 secretaries on Mandrake 6.1 and it is still in use at a government office (upgraded to 8.1 now, but using StarOffice and WordPerfect in an all-linux network )inside a state whose government would halt without Microsoft software. That statement you made smacks of FUD and sounds very unprofessional. Here you are on a help list but not looking for help, only complaining without specifics. Troll--to move the boat slowly along a chum line in search of gamefish. Some folks get off on trolling for flame wars after which they can participate gleefully or sit on the sidelines observing the sparks and incendiaries and mud being slung by the participants. The (unfortunately true) internet legendary flame war included a pregnant participant who posted that she could not properly put her opponents in their places as she had to go deliver her baby... But, never fear, I don't place you in the category of troll. You I would place in two possible categories. One is the fellow who is so sure his view of the world is the _ONLY_ right one that he posts nonsense which makes sense in his own experience but ignores factors he has never observed. Probably such a person has never read W. Edwards Deming, or having read him, understood the dynamics that could be achieved by proper application. The other is that sort of sinister character who sees the problems newbies encounter with linux as an opportunity to spread discouragement and dissent for reasons of his own. I am sad to report that I believe this category likely. like most people most of my things now will tend to be USB like most of the world except the M8.2 distro?? Well, USB support is much better but will not be perfect. Most USB devices are honoring the standard with lips, not with hardware and making up for it by writing windows drivers. But we've got printers and cameras and non-proprietary scanners and some storage devices including some of the memory devices working pretty well. Crashtesters have been happy on that score. naturally there are bugs, but most of them are elsewhere and often range into the arcane, like when someone chooses a 16-bit character encoding for Samba Shares (which windows doesn't like very much either) but we have targeted the worst and will have the update fixes tested by the time the disks hit the shelves. Anyway, you would never see this level of discussion of problems tolerated on a Microsoft list. In fact it is a LICENSE AGREEMENT VIOLATION on some of their software to use it to criticize Microsoft. And if you don't believe me, just read the End-User License Agreement for FrontPage 2000 or 2002. When the UCITA passes in Washington State, some of Microsoft's critics are likely to find themselves criminals because they use FrontPage to make a web page that criticizes Microsoft. We can take criticism, and we can take you as well, because most list members will see the FUD you spread for what it is, just a very clever twist to make problem-solving seem like something dirty. When one is tryoing to take a complex thing and make it simple, and easy to use, decisions have to be made about excluding cases from the handling of the tools available. Almost all the requests on this list result from lack of knowledge about how to exceed the design of the tools or from failure of the tool to fully protect the user from mistakes. So this list is very important to honing tool design and provides a source of feedback to improve the product. If you really stumbled so totally with Mandrake, then try to install Windows and see how much luck you have--not with the manufacturers install or restore disk but with a fresh system disk. The fact is, right now, we're easier. We're easier than XP and we support more hardware. OK enough said. I won't be seeing any more of your posts unless you email me directly. Civileme Good work, LX _ 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] Win4Lin ready for 8.2
WooHoo! Does anyone know if VMWare 3.0 works on '8.2 yet? -Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:01:13 -0700 Subject: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2 Win4lin users: The 8.2 kernel/patches are now available available via the installer. They'll also be posted to their web site by tomorrow morning. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2
what is the difference between mandrake 6.1 and 8.1 a friend of mine has 6.1 he said i could use, is it worth running Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DCOP broken link
I just reinstalled MD 8.1, reformatting all partitions in the process. The install went fine. I started KDE, then opened a terminal window and did a ls -a and it shows a broken DCOP server link. Why? My .xsession-errors file says: _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOPServer is up and running. _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. The system is running. I have not discovered what is not working as a result of the errors. I've never even run the ICE window manager before if that has anything to do with it. Thanks in advance. Scott Burrows Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2
Mandrake has evolved significantly since 6.1. It has more features, greater performance, greater power, more support for hardware, and more software. You would be wise to install 8.1. Of course, you would be even wiser (yes, sage-like) to try out 8.2 which was just released a couple of days ago. Miark On 20 Mar 2002 14:08:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: what is the difference between mandrake 6.1 and 8.1 a friend of mine has 6.1 he said i could use, is it worth running. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML in KMail
how is your attachment view set? On Wednesday 20 March 2002 10:03, Guilherme Cirne opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Hi, KMail isn't displaying HTML messages properly, even though I have selected Prefer HTML to plain text. The text and the layout of the message are displayed properly, but no images are shown. Does anybody know what could be wrong? TIA, -- Everyone seems so impatient and angry these days. I think it's because so many people use Windows at work. Do you think you'd be Mr. Politeness Man after working on Windows 8 hrs. or more? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eroaster
I am interested in eroaster or similiar. Can you tell me what CD burner your using under this built? It shouldn't make a difference, but I am curious just in case there is another hardware specific issue involved. I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to others - they are more screwed up than you think. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:51 AM Subject: [newbie] Eroaster In a previous 'CD burning' thread the other day I mentioned I had problems with eroaster, but that it seemed to be a favorite of the Mandrake newsgroup crowd. I just got a rpm from Texstar that he said he 'fixed'. And yes, it fixed the problems I had. It's built for 8.2 and available here ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/ I used the i686, eroaster-2.0.12-3mdk I like the GUI, mainly 'cause it's straightfoward and simple, burner detection and configuration is automatic. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas 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] Dalton...how do i get off the newbie mailing list?
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Re: [newbie] HTML in KMail
It is set for Inlined Attachments, but I've also tried Iconic and Smart and none of them work. On Wednesday 20 March 2002 4:27 pm, you wrote: how is your attachment view set? On Wednesday 20 March 2002 10:03, Guilherme Cirne opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Hi, KMail isn't displaying HTML messages properly, even though I have selected Prefer HTML to plain text. The text and the layout of the message are displayed properly, but no images are shown. Does anybody know what could be wrong? TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 8.2
Drosera wrote: Hi! I am sorry for the HTML :-) I can talk to my local network (ping 192.168.0.2 works). so that's not the problem. I think my problem at this moment is a wrong network card (ISA 3Com509B) I will get today another one, maybe then my problems are solved. Can I use the standard DHCP server which comes with Mandrake (I guess so)? I will keep you informed about my progress ;-) Greets, Drosera. What have you got working... divide it into two problems. Can the server talk to the internet ok? Can it talk to the other computer (the client) ok? By the way... you will get growled for using HTML postings to the net. A lot of the top guns will not answer html postings as their e-mail programs are text based. Michael --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.338 / Virus Database: 189 - Release Date: 14-3-2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Yep, that particular ISA card claims to detect and transmits but on some systems does not receive. If you use internet connection sharing, and the two ethernet cards suggest you are thinking of it, the DHCP server will be activated, the eth0 to local will be 192.168.0.1 (that is what to tell the other machines for gateway address) and you can use the dhcp wizard to specify the address range. That setup will also plug 192.168.0.1 as the nameserver for each of your locals and activate a forwarding DNS on the gateway box. If you are doing this with 8.1, then make sure you go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3 and read it. Tiny Firewall is _not_ recommended; use the other solution, lest you cut your gateway out of NFS/NIS and any possibility of functioning as a fileserver and mailserver without hand modification of the firewall rules. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux
Robin Turner wrote: On Thursday 21 March 2002 03:47, Walter Logeman wrote: Hi, I have a brochure i need to produce and the printing place will accept Publisher, Photoshop, or Pagemaker files. Is there a way of generating cmpatable files in some way - we may need to pass the file back forth in email. Best to ask them what file formats they can read. PDF is the obvious choice while you're bouncing stuff between you (it's often used as a lingua franca between PageMaker and QuarkXPress), though for final copy PostScript will of course be better (if the printers say they can't handle PostScript, they're not real printers). Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com You might want to acquire sdf which is a neat little package that will not only allow coding some cool formats but also will do translations to pdf, doc, html, sgml, postscript and other formats. Of course, there are some tools just lying around that do that as well, and some of the word processors will work with them. sdf is simple document formatter or something similar and is easy to find through google. (MIght want to search on the author, Ian Clatworthy) If they accept postscript files, you might benefit by learning to use LyX. Most who do or who learn LaTeX just don't return to standard inflexible, do-everything-with-the-spacebar, WYSIWYG type of word processor. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How to bestsupport Mandrake
shane wrote: On Wednesday 20 March 2002 00:18, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: john rigby wrote: Ahhh, Is anyone home with you two? Hellooo? The reason that my comms are in Doze is because - **like femme** and a zillion others - the Mandrake installs fail!!. Don't drag me into this horseshit you've got going here John. I don't care to be a part of it. Thx. I don't enjoy struggling but I do to *learn*. I find it does educate enlighten my pea-sized intelligence. just curious, does anyone here actually have an email where john said i tryed X, Y happened, how do i fix it? or do we all just have it can't be done, i tried so i know! There was a list of problems, none well detailed, with 8.0 in the archives. It almost seemed like a compendium of others complaints, all happening on a single system, 8.0 which he used had some serious bugs with the kernel and its virtual memory. These were common to all linices that used early 2.4s, but apparently installing and booting kernel 2.2 never occurred to this fellow--most of the thrash the disk stuff was a side effect of early 2.4. He said he did get it installed But could not view a .pdf file could not shut down properly, etc. Now he's jumping on other people's problems saying they will happen to him without even looking. We do test these things, but we don't have access to all the hardware out there. I make sure mine resembles junk as much as possible, hoping that if it works on the really marginnal stuff, like Gateway, Dell, Compaq, eMachines and PCChips (and friends) motherboards, that it will work also on the better stuff. (Yes, it doesn't matter how big the name is, cut corners are cut corners, and they do increase the fail rate, and of course proprietary peripherals are common. An Aureal (Turtle Beach) sound card has a binary only linux driver which works with all the sound cards they made except those they made for Dell, which were subtly different.) But I think your call is correct. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions
Mandrake Newbie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... How did the install fail? SNF has a newer 2.2 kernel than the original and the newer one overcomes some errors that could be attributed to the strange timing and unique geometry of some WD drives. There is no real reason an SNF install should fail on such a system. I am running it on an IBM PC350 P166 with 32Mb of RAM and two network cards. Of course, I do have to keep a mouse attached so the BIOS will allow a boot, but the video and keyboard were long ago removed. You cannot have any other system on a machine running SNF. Dual-boots are impossible. When I'm about to install SNF in my old Intel Pentium 166 at 32MB RAM using BTC 40x IDE CD-ROM drive it asked me what modules shall I use for my CD-ROM drive? Also, the GUI installation is very poor and very slow. Thanks in advance. =) __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Use a different CDROM and use text mode install. You have nothing to gain from GUI install anyway, since the installed version can operate headless and has no local GUI. The poor quality and slow speed of install with the GUI is from your video card which doesn't support framebuffer, so VGA (16 color) gets used instead. Once installed, you use a web browser from one of your local computers to configure the firewall with graphical tools. The firewall itself can run (if the BIOS permits) without monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and possibly with the video card removed. My little IBM P166 runs with only a mouse because its BIOS will stop booting and complain if it is not there on boot. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect on Mandrake 8.1??????
Robert Gray wrote: On Wednesday 13 March 2002 5:18 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 March 2002 08:33, Wm. G. McGrath opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Has anyone had any success installing Word Perfect 8 on Mandrake 8.1? you will need libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm both of which can be found at places like rpmfind.net or tuxfinder. if you can't locate them, and don't mind a 2 MB attachment i can send them to you. Also read forum at Mandrakeuser for fairly good discussion of the same issue. In particular filtrixfix for importing other (.doc) files and to enable printing -l has to go in the Printer Setup, Select Destinations, lpr options box. Regards Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com And don't forget--blanks in file names are OK in linux, and OK in WordPerfect for windows, but NOT OK in WordPerfect for Linux. I once wasted twenty minutes figuring that out when someone with a Windows Notebook and WP tried to print a file on my Linux WP installation. (Eliminating other possibilities first) Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Trying to install on a Sparc IPX
I haven't received any bites on this, so can someone point me to a email list or newsgroup that might be able to help me out on Sparc/Linux installations? Thanks Paul Landry -Original Message- From: Paul M. Landry Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Trying to install on a Sparc IPX Hello all, I have downloaded the 7.1 ISO images, for Sparc, from the Mandrake site and burned them to CD ROM. I am trying to install onto a Sparc IPX, w/ 1 GB hard drive, and 64 MB of RAM. During the installation process I see a message Error Loading RAM DISK. Later in the process, after defining the layout of the hard drive, and at the point where I'm supposed to pick the o/s software I want installed, I get a message that I have picked the base install packages. Well, no list of available packages ever appears, so I assume it's not being loaded, because of the Error Loading RAM DISk message. I've also tried to run the install using the Text Only version, but with the same results. Can anyone help me out? Thanks Paul Landry Linux Newbie, but learning fast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
Miark wrote: So... you're asking whether 8.2 ships with the latest version of Ximian? Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:33:30 -0500, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: While we're on the subject, if I were to upgrade my 8.1 machine which has Ximian Gnome, will I have to re-upgrade it? Or am I better off waiting for now? Terry Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subj: Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2 Type: IPM.Note Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:52 Dave, are you sure your problems don't have other causes? What you went through sounds identical to problems I had last year when some of my RAM went bad. Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:03:50 -0500, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Hey Femme I also got both USB keyboard and mouse. I too had problems (READ: 8 HOURS OF INSTALL!). I haven't had problems like this since RH 6.1! I just played with it for a while ( 8HOURS! ) and now I got it up and running. Where in the install do your problems(USB) start? I had one problem where after I chose my lang(yes the very first step), I froze. I never even see the license screen. I solved that by clicking on a later step that I hadn't gotten to yet! Then went back, and all was good. I didn't even get to the update portion. After I tested my X config (which tested fine), my box froze. I had to do a hard boot. And when I came back up, I had no control over my mouse. I just rebooted and now everything is just peachy. hth Dave On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:40:07 -0700 FemmeFatale FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried to install first time tonight. Nice installer such one complaint I don't have a PS/2 or serial keyboard mouse. They are both USB. NOw this worked fine in 8.0 8.1 installers. So. what gives!? I was forced to use converters to get them onto PS/2 channels... I couldn't even use a text install with them as USB dev's! *ARGH!* So... Ideas? Pass args to the kernel on install?! what must I do which god/dess must I sacrifice a Mandrake developer to? :) *sigh* Also, my LAN *its my internet connection* wouldn't let me update packages, it hung. I gave up, came back to winblows. Ideas? help? Lobotomy? *might keep me from banging my head against a wall right now*. Femme -- °°° 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 Well, the Ximian functionality has been integrated into the last three releases, only the look and feel wasn't there, but now the drakfirsttime wizard will at least put up the default Ximian theme. And some of their standalone utilities will be found on our disks, but for an official Ximian for 8.2, look for it when 9.0 is being readied for release, if they continue their current trends, and of course I can't read monkey brains very well:-). We are simply not their priority, at least we haven't been. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Ok Shane. How did the upgrade go and how did you go about doing it? I may follow your foot steps; so try not to make me fall in hole. I have downloaded the three 8.2 iso files. How can I mount them on my directory tree? I looked up the man page for mount and I am not any wiser. I would need to go into the images if I were to do a fresh install wouldn't I? I would at least need to put hd.img on a floppy wouldn't I? Thanks, Seedkum On Tuesday 19 March 2002 07:43 am, shane wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:35, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: *smiles giggles* He said snap upgrade in the same sentence! :) I don't believe that till I see it with my own eyes. i have to admit, that is my only problem with mandrake, though it effects all distros i have tried. a fresh install _always_ works better than upgrading i am considering upgrading with 8.2 (both the test machine with 8.2 rc1 on it as well as the 8.1 machine) just to see how much damage i can do. ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2
Jim Dawson wrote: WooHoo! Does anyone know if VMWare 3.0 works on '8.2 yet? -Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:01:13 -0700 Subject: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2 Win4lin users: The 8.2 kernel/patches are now available available via the installer. They'll also be posted to their web site by tomorrow morning. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com VMWare 3.0 (trialware) is included in the powerpack... And is probably accessible to club members now. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MSI K7T266 Pro2 mandrake compatability
Hi, Is anyone out there using the MSI K7T266 Pro2? I'm trying to decide whether I should buy the MSI K7T266 Pro2, the Pro2 RU or to spend 50% more and buy the Soyo Dragon+. The price estimates are $100 for MSI K7T266 Pro2 $120 for MSI K7T266 Pro2 RU. It's a never revision of the same board, has USB 2.0 and the regular useless RAID. $150 for the Soyo Dragon+. [A little too expensive for me, unless the MSI turnes out to be useless] Has anyone had any problems setting the MSI boards up in Mandrake? The review of the pro2 RU at Tom's hardware complains about our D-Link network card only worked in the first and second PCI slots. I'd really be interested in hearing your stories before I start spending any money .-) Thanks, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2
any idea when the power pack 8.2 will be ready to ship? - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2 | Jim Dawson wrote: | | WooHoo! | | Does anyone know if VMWare 3.0 works on '8.2 yet? | | -Original Message- | From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:01:13 -0700 | Subject: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2 | | Win4lin users: | | The 8.2 kernel/patches are now available | available via the installer. They'll also be | posted to their web site by tomorrow morning. | | Miark | | | | | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | | VMWare 3.0 (trialware) is included in the powerpack... And is probably | accessible to club members now. | | Civileme | | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
twice i have simply booted with the cds, and choosen upgrade. KDE generally get pretty messed up for me that way. once i simply formatted everything but /home and installed. again KDE went wild, but less so. i have _not_ yet tried any method with 8.2 as i can't get it yet. all you guys stop downloading so i can, ok? ;-) On Wednesday 20 March 2002 12:52, Seedkum Aladeem opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Ok Shane. How did the upgrade go and how did you go about doing it? I may follow your foot steps; so try not to make me fall in hole. I have downloaded the three 8.2 iso files. How can I mount them on my directory tree? I looked up the man page for mount and I am not any wiser. I would need to go into the images if I were to do a fresh install wouldn't I? I would at least need to put hd.img on a floppy wouldn't I? Thanks, Seedkum On Tuesday 19 March 2002 07:43 am, shane wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:35, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: *smiles giggles* He said snap upgrade in the same sentence! :) I don't believe that till I see it with my own eyes. i have to admit, that is my only problem with mandrake, though it effects all distros i have tried. a fresh install _always_ works better than upgrading i am considering upgrading with 8.2 (both the test machine with 8.2 rc1 on it as well as the 8.1 machine) just to see how much damage i can do. ;-) -- One of the surest signs of intelligent in outer space is that it hasn't contacted us yet. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
can you install as ps/2 and then change to usb and let hardware detection work then? i had to do that with my mouse on 8.0 On Wednesday 20 March 2002 00:13, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: So, now I'm thinking I'll just use both as a Ps/2 device it worked but why would I want to use them as PS/2 when I hate that protocol anyway!? -- of all of the actions humanity has called crimes, blasphemy is the most amazing, with obscenity and indecent exposure neck and neck for second. -heinlein shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KUDZU and IPVS table Boot script failures
LM8.1 New kernel, kv2.4.6-34mdk Boot script displays big red cross against :- 1) IPVS table, says , setsocket opt. failed(big red cross) also, When I removed something ,cann't remember what, it might of been when I disabled ARTS, cannot quite remember, I get: 2) KUDZU_ARGS -t 30 ( big red cross ) and , [root@localhost root]#kudzu , returns Segmentation fault (core dumped ) What are both messages saying, and what do I do about it. I know kudzu is a device detection programme, but I don't seem able to do much with it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
I did that on 8.1 just last week. A friend bathed his USB mouse in coffee. It didn't work at first, so I took it to tinker with. I pluged it into my laptop running 8.1, changed the mouse to USB with the Mandrake Control Center, and it worked. (Both MDK 8.1 and the mouse :-) Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:43:48 -0800, shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: can you install as ps/2 and then change to usb and let hardware detection work then? i had to do that with my mouse on 8.0 On Wednesday 20 March 2002 00:13, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: So, now I'm thinking I'll just use both as a Ps/2 device it worked but why would I want to use them as PS/2 when I hate that protocol anyway!? -- of all of the actions humanity has called crimes, blasphemy is the most amazing, with obscenity and indecent exposure neck and neck for second. -heinlein shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect on Mandrake 8.1??????
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 22:45, civileme wrote: And don't forget--blanks in file names are OK in linux, and OK in WordPerfect for windows, but NOT OK in WordPerfect for Linux. I once wasted twenty minutes figuring that out when someone with a Windows Notebook and WP tried to print a file on my Linux WP installation. (Eliminating other possibilities first) That reminds me, is there a simple way to take a bunch of files and strip the blank spaces in a shell (some kind of sed command, perhaps)?. I have about 100 floppies I need to do that to (because the Word to ascci converter I'm using in my script chokes on whitespace). I could probably whell out my rusty Perl knowledge to do something, but I'd rather do everything from bash. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
You're friends got slippery hands... too much Jergens ? :) Thx I will attempt this AFTER I reinstall... Seems Part Magic's Bootmagic won't recognize XFS :( **(YO*Y**^@#$* sigh Oh well chalk up *another* learning experience Femme Miark wrote: I did that on 8.1 just last week. A friend bathed his USB mouse in coffee. It didn't work at first, so I took it to tinker with. I pluged it into my laptop running 8.1, changed the mouse to USB with the Mandrake Control Center, and it worked. (Both MDK 8.1 and the mouse :-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFce in 8.2 ?
Derek Jennings wrote: snip KDE seems to be OK, and the new kernel makes KDE run significantly faster on my laptop than 8.1 did ;-) derek /snip Nice to hear that, Derek. I have an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad 380D with P150/32 MB RAM) that I use as my backup rescue old_faithful-system. Until recently I used OS/2 on it, because I trusted it and it runs incredibly fast. Now - it seems - IBM has stopped supporting it - at least they don't supply updates anymore - so I decided to convert my never_laid_me_down-laptop to linux. Consequently I backed up the whole kadoodle, and - just to try it out - installed Mandrake 8.1. Took an hour or two, but otherwise OK, mouse, trackpoint, soundcard, PCMCIA, modem, printer, screen etc... everything. BUT, of course, it runs slooow. Too slow on KDE to be useful, reasonably fast on XFCe. Snappy on CLI. The kernel is the stock 8.1-one (2.4.8.26mdk). Well, then I decided to go back to OS/2, but - having a spare afternoon - I felt like playing a little. So I found an old Mandrake 7.0 and installed that. What a difference ! Everything works. And fast ! (using it right now). I'll place my OS/2 in a safe place and maybe forget about it. Naturally though, your mail has made me curious : If 8.2 runs faster than 8.1 maybe I'll try that too because, after all I'm a bit addicted to aesthetics, I admit. And here's my question : will 8.2. brake the natural law that dictates every new version to be slower than the previous one ? - IOW : can 8.2 run reasonably fast on my old laptop ? Can I have your opinion, please ? TIA Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
Other than this suggestion, is there a cmd line argument I can use when I go to install it? :) would save me some trouble Femme shane wrote: can you install as ps/2 and then change to usb and let hardware detection work then? i had to do that with my mouse on 8.0 On Wednesday 20 March 2002 00:13, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: So, now I'm thinking I'll just use both as a Ps/2 device it worked but why would I want to use them as PS/2 when I hate that protocol anyway!? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFce in 8.2 ?
SNIP Naturally though, your mail has made me curious : If 8.2 runs faster than 8.1 maybe I'll try that too because, after all I'm a bit addicted to aesthetics, I admit. And here's my question : will 8.2. break the natural law that dictates every new version to be slower than the previous one ? - IOW : can 8.2 run reasonably fast on my old laptop ? Can I have your opinion, please ? TIA Kaj Haulrich Denmark Well Kaj. My opinion is not worth much since I have only been a Mandrake user since 8.0. For sure 8.1 is slower than 8.0, and 8.2 is faster again. How much is hard to judge, but KDE was painfully slow in 8.1 on my 233MHz 96M RAM laptop, while in 8.2 it is fairly lively and quite usable. (Except with Open Office where the display follows 10 secs behind my typing) I'd say give it a go. 8.2 is pretty nice. It has certainly been easier to get fully configured than either 8.0, or 8.1. But then maybe thats just because I have some idea about what I am doing now ;-) BTW: Civileme often recommends using the 2.2 kernel on 'challenged' hardware. So maybe thats why you find 7.0 so fast? Maybe 8.2 with the 2.2 kernel could be the best for you? I have made progress on the problem with XFce. It seems to relate to supermount and xftree. Other file managers do not have a problem, and if I disable supermount xftree is OK. Looks like I'll have to try to get used to some other window manager, or else take advantage of the KDE running so much better and use that. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xfs....... slower than ext3??????
Last evening I installed MD8.2, and reformatted my / and /usr partitions as xfs. Now, just about everything seems to be running slower then MD8.1 on ext3 partitions. Did I smoke too much grass in my younger years or is this a reality? Is there something I maybe did wrong? Is there a check of some type that I could perform to test this? What could be causing this? confused 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
Re: [newbie] OK new problem with 8.2
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:10:17 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I don't know... How would I go about doing so pls? I have never done it could use some guidance? Femme Tres facile: 1) Plug in a PS/2 mouse, and you're USB mouse. 2) Install 8.2, choosing the appropriate PS/2 mouse. 3) There is no step three. Proceed to the next step. 4) When all is installed, run the Mandrake Control Center. 5) Under Hardware, choose Mouse. 6) Open the USB list, and choose the appropriate mouse. (i.e. with or without scroll wheel). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dalton...how do i get off the newbie mailing list?
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 02:45 pm, Dalton wrote: (Not much, actually, but then the subject says it all) Dalton: Go to the linux-mandrake home page. Over in the left hand column there's a link to the mailing lists; click it, and you'll find instructions for unsubscribing. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
I haven't downloaded 8.2 yet, but the release candidate suprised me with perfect recognition and configuration of my Sound Blaster Live card. I haven't had fully working sound since 8.0. Bravo! Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:28:57 -0500, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:37, shane wrote: twice i have simply booted with the cds, and choosen upgrade. KDE generally get pretty messed up for me that way. once i simply formatted everything but /home and installed. again KDE went wild, but less so. i have _not_ yet tried any method with 8.2 as i can't get it yet. all you guys stop downloading so i can, ok? ;-) OK, I'm done downloading!:) I upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 without a hitch. As near as I can tell, everything is OK except Opera 6.0 is now broken, so I'm using Galeon. The new lilo didn't do away with the Windows partition drive letter reference, like it did for me in 8.1. I use Evolution as my mail client and I just realized that the spell checker now works! It never did before... Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Mandarke User..
On Thursday 21 March 2002 03:31 am, Mandrake Newbie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed Mandarake Lunix 8.1 in server mode. I am new with linux. Please don't lef. I was using Microsoft OS for 8 yars. Now I started new world for my self. Please let me know where can get more documentation about server configuration for smal network (EMail, WWW, DNS, Samba). Linux Documentation Project http://www.linuxdoc.org/ qmail Mail Server http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ Web Server http://www.apache.org/ djbdns Name Server http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html http://www.lifewithdjbdns.org/ Samba http://www.samba.org/ Squid Proxy Server http://www.squid-cache.org/ PostgreSQL Database Server http://www.postgresql.org/ NAT How-To http://netfilter.samba.org/ HTH. =) __ www.edsamail.com And never, ever forget the ever popular mandrakeuser.org! -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions
Ugh... great suggestions But I do lack $. *Sigh* I will keep forging ahead with SNF *have yet to set it up*, and if that fails I will investigate LRP. Thanks Gerald, as always your info is useful. Femme On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 18:33, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wednesday 20 March 2002 05:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Gerald Waugh wrote: Someone recently posted a URL for source. In your case you will have to install some kind of a Linux distro, maybe LM 7.X, then compile it.??? Having looked at the issues for a while, I don't think SNF is the thing for a 486. I would get LRP on an IDE flash disk. search google for LRP Linux Router Project why do you recommend that particular solution whats a flash disk? Femme LRP is a very small system that does routing and firewall among others It will actuall fit on floppy. It is very stable. An (IDE) flash disk is a solid state disk, you plug it in just like a hard disk. You can get flash disk with LRP installed (I think). -- Gerald Waugh http://frontstreetnetworks.com New Haven, 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
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Be happy, I don't have sound at all. Dave On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:47:56 -0700 Miark said onto me: I haven't downloaded 8.2 yet, but the release candidate suprised me with perfect recognition and configuration of my Sound Blaster Live card. I haven't had fully working sound since 8.0. Bravo! Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:28:57 -0500, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:37, shane wrote: twice i have simply booted with the cds, and choosen upgrade. KDE generally get pretty messed up for me that way. once i simply formatted everything but /home and installed. again KDE went wild, but less so. i have _not_ yet tried any method with 8.2 as i can't get it yet. all you guys stop downloading so i can, ok? ;-) OK, I'm done downloading!:) I upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 without a hitch. As near as I can tell, everything is OK except Opera 6.0 is now broken, so I'm using Galeon. The new lilo didn't do away with the Windows partition drive letter reference, like it did for me in 8.1. I use Evolution as my mail client and I just realized that the spell checker now works! It never did before... Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- °°° 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] OK new problem with 8.2
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 18:43, Miark opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:10:17 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: 1) Plug in a PS/2 mouse, and you're USB mouse. 2) Install 8.2, choosing the appropriate PS/2 mouse. 3) There is no step three. Proceed to the next step. for me step 3 was reboot, and unplug the ps2 mouse, let mandrake find the USB, but i think his is most likely to work :) -- At first they burn books, eventually they burn people. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit
I never had much luck leaving the system running The most i could get was a week or to two weeks then the system would either be locked or would act funny until I rebooted Greg FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *S* old debate...don't stir up the old hardware geeks :P IMHO, leave it on. Less stress on the HW. Femme Stojs wrote: I know this is out of topic, but with linux I have the choice not to turn the computers off or restart them to often. What is best for the psu, having the computer running constantly or turning it off everytime you don´t use it (several times a day)? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux The Number one Os __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How to bestsupport Mandrake
On March 20, 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: john rigby wrote: Ahhh, Is anyone home with you two? Hellooo? The reason that my comms are in Doze is because - **like femme** and a zillion others - the Mandrake installs fail!!. Don't drag me into this horseshit you've got going here John. I don't care to be a part of it. Thx. I don't enjoy struggling but I do to *learn*. I find it does educate enlighten my pea-sized intelligence. I will wait and see what other bad news appears like Femmes re 8.2. (Sigh) like most people most of my things now will tend to be USB like most of the world except the M8.2 distro?? Sadly, John My issues with 8.2 aren't necessarily the last ones to be heard of...nor are they likely the last ones I'll have. That said, it's been a day since 8.2 was released! So... I hate to inform your arrogant/ill-informed ass but frankly there will be bugs that were missed. Wake up, don't be such a wet noodle. Femme you go girl! ;-) moose. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions
i personally on a 486-8mb ram, no HDD only floppy have had better success with freesco than LRP. http://www.freesco.org LRP is htpp://www.linuxrouter.org moose. On March 20, 2002 10:05 am, you wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Mandrake Newbie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get the source and compile it. I'm sorry for asking a very newbie question again but how can I compile the source of SNF if my hard disk drive is fresh? Someone recently posted a URL for source. In your case you will have to install some kind of a Linux distro, maybe LM 7.X, then compile it.??? Having looked at the issues for a while, I don't think SNF is the thing for a 486. I would get LRP on an IDE flash disk. search google for LRP Linux Router Project -- Gerald Waugh Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 Major Display Bug
Hi I installed Mandrake 8.2 in a fresh partition and am getting streaky, flickering lines across the screen. It worsens with heavy hard drive or user activity. This started during installation and continues after installation. I have tried various screen resolutions and colour depth settings, tried noframebuffers, and 3.3.6 XFree, but the same thing happens. I think this is the 2.4.18 kernel having a problem with my KM133 based mainboard. Duron 800 My mainboard is: Soltek SL-75MAV with KM133a chipset and Savage4 onboard graphics. I am using exactly the same hardware and settings I have for Mandrake 8.1 which still works flawlessly on this hardware setup. Any suggestions as to how to solve this problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 requirements
Just wondering if I should upgrade, I am currently running Mandrake 8.0 on my home PC. The PC being a 300mhz with 64 meg Ram, how badly will it crunch along if I goto Mandrake 8.2 Andrew D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eroaster
El mié, 20-03-2002 a las 16:37, Pena Family escribió: I am interested in eroaster or similiar. Can you tell me what CD burner your using under this built? It shouldn't make a difference, but I am curious just in case there is another hardware specific issue involved. well, please someone correct me if i'm wrong, but all of these burning tools ... aren't all of them -including eroaster- GUI interfaces for cdrtools command-line burning program? i think eroaster detects hardware by cdrecord --scanbus command, just like all others, so there should be no problem with it. i can only think of one that doesn't use cdrtools, it's called Fireburner, but it's not free. you can only burn to 1X with a demo version. and even tho it's a nice small app, it sucks compared to eroaster. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fw: [newbie] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How to bestsupport Mandrake
- Original Message - From: john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How to bestsupport Mandrake Ahhh, Is anyone home with you two? Hellooo? The reason that my comms are in Doze is because - **like femme** and a zillion others - the Mandrake installs fail!!. I cannot since Redhat 5.2 ( nor can anyone else I've ever known) replace the most basic functions of a person who makes a living using a computer.. like writing letters, backing up to a CD, editing a little Website, etc. etc. AND I've had fabulous support and help from the good people on this very List, who tried very hard to help, over what seems decades. I still have not read a cogent argument against a single comment I made. Not a single line of rational, supportable argument. ( BTW: YA Mother wears gumboots! is not a cogent retort, neither is to betray abysmal ignorance of the language and refer to a person as a troll - a distinct entity in English mythology with sound etymology.) My last - thanks to Big Bill's product - which does at least work - communication on the arcane matter of Business Point101. I will wait and see what other bad news appears like Femmes re 8.2. (Sigh) like most people most of my things now will tend to be USB like most of the world except the M8.2 distro?? Sadly, John - Original Message - From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NewbieMandrake-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT,How to zing like the best. RE: Was: How to bestsupport Mandrake On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 03:37, FemmeFatale wrote: OW ! *zing!* cute Lyvim ;p -- -- 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] OK new problem with 8.2
OK I did all that ! God I feel stupid... I thought it out before I got this message. So I guess i'm not that stupid. ;0 Thx to everyone whos' helped. I got it working. I'm typing this email in Evolution as we speak. :) Now, if only I can figure out how to just put msgs into the trash instead of marking for deletion then having to manually empty the trash to do it. Femme On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 19:43, Miark wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:10:17 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I don't know... How would I go about doing so pls? I have never done it could use some guidance? Femme Tres facile: 1) Plug in a PS/2 mouse, and you're USB mouse. 2) Install 8.2, choosing the appropriate PS/2 mouse. 3) There is no step three. Proceed to the next step. 4) When all is installed, run the Mandrake Control Center. 5) Under Hardware, choose Mouse. 6) Open the USB list, and choose the appropriate mouse. (i.e. with or without scroll wheel). Miark 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] OK new problem with 8.2
I did as you did one thing at a time. I did the mouse first, letting mandrake detect it...then the keyboard :) Merci to you too Shane. Now if only we can find out *why* this is happening! Femme On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:31, shane wrote: On Wednesday 20 March 2002 18:43, Miark opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:10:17 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: 1) Plug in a PS/2 mouse, and you're USB mouse. 2) Install 8.2, choosing the appropriate PS/2 mouse. 3) There is no step three. Proceed to the next step. for me step 3 was reboot, and unplug the ps2 mouse, let mandrake find the USB, but i think his is most likely to work :) -- At first they burn books, eventually they burn people. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ 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] OK new problem with 8.2
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 21:22, Femme opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: I did as you did one thing at a time. I did the mouse first, letting mandrake detect it...then the keyboard :) Merci to you too Shane. as a character in one of my daughters favorite cartoons says, hey helping beautiful dames errr damsels in distress is my specialty. Now if only we can find out *why* this is happening! because USB is not a very well followed or tight standard. :-) -- If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. -Bill Gates, 1994 shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution, deleting msgs and using the spell checker
I went through the help files in Evolution. Nice little package. No joy on figuring out how to automatically delete something once I hit the Del key though. Nor does it mention how to automatically enable a spell-checker for my emails. Any ideas!? Come on! I'm 3/4 of the way there to not buggin the list again real soon! :) Oh shanes a cutie, thx love. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anybody already on 8.2?
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 12:09 am, you wrote: u uptime of almost 24 hours. It's pretty sweet. -s 4:16pm up 1 days, 20 hours, 14 min, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.38, 0.31 And it's sweet. Not a huge difference between rc1 and release. But it's nice. Good candidate to take over the best mandrake yet (held by 7.2 for the longest time) -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reading ISO files.
Hi, I down loaded the LM 8.2 CD ISO files and I am about to do an upgrade from hard disk. I need to read the hd.img file from the first CD ISO and write it onto a floppy disk but I could not find out how. It was not obvious to me how to mount the ISO files; the mount man pages were no help. I read the messages on this list related to installing and upgrading and also the documents on the Mandrake web site and the linuxdoc web site and there was no explanation as to how to mount the ISO files. I used to mount ISO files on other OSs but not Linux. Can somebody please give me a hint? Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions
why do you recommend that particular solution whats a flash disk? Femme Gerald Waugh wrote: Someone recently posted a URL for source. In your case you will have to install some kind of a Linux distro, maybe LM 7.X, then compile it.??? Having looked at the issues for a while, I don't think SNF is the thing for a 486. I would get LRP on an IDE flash disk. search google for LRP Linux Router Project -- Gerald Waugh 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
