Re: [newbie-it] File Midi
Il 10:57, giovedì 4 aprile 2002, Sebastiano Cordiano scrisse: Mi sembrava di aver capito che non bisognava ricompilare il kernel, ma forse vuole avere lo stesso i sorgenti o almeno la struttura di directory. Ma i moduli dove sono? Sono spaesato, devo procurarmi i sorgenti del kernel che sto usando? Forse ti mancano gli headers del kernel, controlla con rpm -q kernel-headers (e kernel-sources) se non li hai installali dai cd di mdk e crea il link linux in /usr/src che punta ai sorgenti. Ciao ho trovato questi pacchetti installati: $ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.8-26mdk kernel-headers-2.4.8-26mdk kernel-doc-2.4.8-26mdk Purtroppo, (confermatemi) i sorgenti non fanno parte dei miei 3 dischi della mandrake 8.1 Mi sembra comunque strano che li cerchi alsa-driver. Ho anche notato che nel pacchetto kernel della mandrake, c'è una /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/alsa piena di files. Non si potrebbero usare questi? ciao e grazie, Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] ICQ
In effetti purtroppo il Licq non funziona piu' bene da quando quelli dell'icq originale hanno cambiato le cose. Ora io uso con successo gnomeicq, che comunica perfettamente anche con icq2002a. On Thursday 07 March 2002 11:44, you wrote: Ho provato ad aggiornare LICQ alla 1.1 ma dopo aver aggiornato anche le Qt mi dice che Licq richiede alcune librerie ( tra cui le libssl.so.1) mentre io ho le libssl.so.0, da cui dipendono a loro volta una miriade di programmi importanti. Ora, premesso che più di tanto non me ne frega di LICQ, cosa dovrei fare: forzare l'upgrading oppure farmi gli affaracci miei? Ciao, Germano Il 21:22, mercoledì 06 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 11:31, mercoledì 6 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Io ho sia LICQ 1.04 (compilata) che la precedente ( con rpm) e anch'io ho alcuni problemi sia quando spedisco messaggi ( non sempre arrivano ) che ad inviare files ( ma non a riceverli). Può darsi che alcuni problemi derivino dal fatto che posso ricevere connessioni dirette. La cosa strana ( penso ) è che, essendo dietro un firewall, dovrei essere io ad avere problemi nel ricevere e non chi riceve i miei files. Ciao, Germano Il 00:49, mercoledì 06 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Il mer, 2002-03-06 alle 00:21, Vittorio ha scritto: Sisi.. anche su win.. e da lì non è mai un problema (o quasi) (ma molto meno spesso) Bè, a questo punto vorrei sapere se qualcuno ha evidenziato problemi simili; comunque che versione hai installato? Corrado Ciao! con licq ci sono dei problemi da quando alla mirabilis hanno deciso di cambiare il protocollo (spero di non dire una idiozia). Qualunque sia il problema, licq 1.04 non funziona bene. Devi scaricare la versione 1.1. io l'ho trovata in rpm (non ricordo se su www.rpmfind.com o su rpm.pbone.net). Molte cose non funzionano neanche con quella come consentire alla gente di aggiungerti alla contact list ecc... ma almeno riesci a comunicare! spero di esserti stato un po' utile! Ciao, Beppe
Re: [newbie-it] ICQ
Che versione hai di GnomeIcu? Io ho la 0.96.1 e continua a darmi problemi. Che sia dovuto comunque al Firewall? Ciao, Germano Il 10:56, venerdì 05 aprile 2002, Sergio hai scritto: In effetti purtroppo il Licq non funziona piu' bene da quando quelli dell'icq originale hanno cambiato le cose. Ora io uso con successo gnomeicq, che comunica perfettamente anche con icq2002a. On Thursday 07 March 2002 11:44, you wrote: Ho provato ad aggiornare LICQ alla 1.1 ma dopo aver aggiornato anche le Qt mi dice che Licq richiede alcune librerie ( tra cui le libssl.so.1) mentre io ho le libssl.so.0, da cui dipendono a loro volta una miriade di programmi importanti. Ora, premesso che più di tanto non me ne frega di LICQ, cosa dovrei fare: forzare l'upgrading oppure farmi gli affaracci miei? Ciao, Germano Il 21:22, mercoledì 06 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Alle 11:31, mercoledì 6 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Io ho sia LICQ 1.04 (compilata) che la precedente ( con rpm) e anch'io ho alcuni problemi sia quando spedisco messaggi ( non sempre arrivano ) che ad inviare files ( ma non a riceverli). Può darsi che alcuni problemi derivino dal fatto che posso ricevere connessioni dirette. La cosa strana ( penso ) è che, essendo dietro un firewall, dovrei essere io ad avere problemi nel ricevere e non chi riceve i miei files. Ciao, Germano Il 00:49, mercoledì 06 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Il mer, 2002-03-06 alle 00:21, Vittorio ha scritto: Sisi.. anche su win.. e da lì non è mai un problema (o quasi) (ma molto meno spesso) Bè, a questo punto vorrei sapere se qualcuno ha evidenziato problemi simili; comunque che versione hai installato? Corrado Ciao! con licq ci sono dei problemi da quando alla mirabilis hanno deciso di cambiare il protocollo (spero di non dire una idiozia). Qualunque sia il problema, licq 1.04 non funziona bene. Devi scaricare la versione 1.1. io l'ho trovata in rpm (non ricordo se su www.rpmfind.com o su rpm.pbone.net). Molte cose non funzionano neanche con quella come consentire alla gente di aggiungerti alla contact list ecc... ma almeno riesci a comunicare! spero di esserti stato un po' utile! Ciao, Beppe
Re: [newbie-it] mp3
Brunini Alessandro wrote: Salve, qualcuno conosce un buon programma (Frontend) per la conversione da mp3 a wav? Ho scaricato adesso l'ultimo eroaster (forse e` anche sui CD di Mandrake) che scrive i CD convertendo al volo da mp3 a wav. Era quello che ti serviva? ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] Cambiare moduli al volo.
Qualcuno sa come si fa a informare il sistema di un cambiamento nel modules.conf senza fare un reboot? 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] Grave--Aspetto coferma e/o smentita
On 5 Apr 2002, Brunini Alessandro wrote: Ho installato StarOffice 5.2 sulla nuova MDK 8.2 Ebbene si sta ripresentando il problema che era della MDK 8.0 e che era scomparso nella 8.1. Di cosa sto parlando? Dei caratteri che sembrano mangiati dalle tarme... Qualcuno può confermare e/o smentire? Smentirei le basi: io non ho avuto il problema ne nella 8.0 ne nella 8.1. 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] File Midi
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:28:58 +0200 Tommaso Leddi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ho trovato questi pacchetti installati: $ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.8-26mdk kernel-headers-2.4.8-26mdk kernel-doc-2.4.8-26mdk Purtroppo, (confermatemi) i sorgenti non fanno parte dei miei 3 dischi della mandrake 8.1 Mi sembra comunque strano che li cerchi alsa-driver. Ho anche notato che nel pacchetto kernel della mandrake, c'è una /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/alsa piena di files. Non si potrebbero usare questi? Mi sembra strano che non ci siano i sorgenti sui cd di mdk, comunque puoi usare benissimo gli alsa precompilati, lascia perdere tutta la parte della compilazione e metti solo la configurazione nel modules.conf, oppure lancia lo script alsaconf (mi pare si chiami cosi') che dovrebbe generarti tale configurazione. La differenza sta nel fatto che quelli di mdk sono la serie stabile (0.5.x) e non hanno tutte le features dei beta, sopratutto se hai una sblive... Ciao -- Sebastiano
Re: [newbie-it] Grave--Aspetto coferma e/o smentita
Salve alla lista. Ho installato StarOffice 5.2 sulla nuova MDK 8.2 Ebbene si sta ripresentando il problema che era della MDK 8.0 e che era scomparso nella 8.1. Di cosa sto parlando? Dei caratteri che sembrano mangiati dalle tarme... Qualcuno può confermare e/o smentire? Grazie. Un saluto. Smentisco ank'io, l'ho istallato sulla 8.2 e nn mi dà alcun problema. Ciao Luca
Re: [newbie-it] Grave--Aspetto coferma e/o smentita
Il ven, 2002-04-05 alle 15:04, Luigi De Pascale ha scritto: Smentirei le basi: io non ho avuto il problema ne nella 8.0 ne nella 8.1. Luigi Bè... ne parlavano anche alla Mandrake ai tempi della 8.0... Cmq a quanto pare il problema sembra essere mio :(( Qualcunoi sa dirmi come mai, quando apro un documento per scrivere, non mi compaiono i font installati (es. verdana...). Grazie.
R: R: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?
Senti anche il LUG piu` vicino a te. Scusa, cos'è un LUG? Linux User Group http://www.linux.it/LUG/ vedi il telug(Teramo) anche se e` lontano mi sembra si fossero organizzati per spedire CD (?) Gli darò un'occhiata! Grazie. Di Fresco Marco _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
R: [newbie-it] [REPOST2] [LUNGA e 1/2 OT] Lettere drive in Win dopo installazione linux
Nel pannello di controllo sotto la voce Sistema ho trovato il modo di assergnare la lettera ai drive, ma al ravvio non cambiava niente. non c'e` anche un'opzione memorizza/rendi permanente/... ? C'è la voce Applica, ma quando la clicco (cliccavo) mi chiedeva di raviare il PC, ma non cambiava niente! A volte mi capitava che si cambiavano le lettere anche quando Win era da solo (di solito dopo aver formattato il PC e alla re-installazione dei driver dello ZIP), ma applicando questo metodo funzionava. Di Fresco Marco _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie-it] Sorgenti Linux
x Andrea Celli, grazie del consiglio e della disponibilità.. Vengo spesso a Roma ma non so neanche il CNR dove sia Aspetterò la versione 8.2.. A proposito... appena sai che è stata allegata a qualche rivista fammelo sapere.. Saluti Massimiliano --- dovrebbero essere in un file kernel-sources-bla.bla.rpm che credo sia nel secondo cd. :-( puoi controllarlo con il mandrake-software-center Non mi consigliate di scaricare il kernel dal web perchè x 20 Mb dovrei restare collegato tutta la notte (ricordate che ho un linmodem 56K). puoi sempre scaricare a rate con wget -c -np ftp://sito/../kernel-source..rpm; blocchi quando vuoi e riprendi da dove hai lasciato. In pratica lo metti in kppp da lanciare alla connessione. Pero` ti consiglio di aspettare che le riviste siano piene di Mandrake-8.2 ciao, andrea PS mi rifiuto categoricamente di andare in posta a fare spedizioni!!! ma se stai a Roma e passi dal mio istituto ti posso regalare un doppione del secondo (e forse terzo) CD
Re: R: R: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?
At 20.56 05/04/2002 +0200, you wrote: Senti anche il LUG piu` vicino a te. Scusa, cos'è un LUG? Linux User Group http://www.linux.it/LUG/ vedi il telug(Teramo) anche se e` lontano mi sembra si fossero organizzati per spedire CD (?) Gli darò un'occhiata! Grazie. Di Fresco Marco _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Ciao,guarda anche il mio annuncio su it.comp.os.linux.annunci , per mandrake e TUTTE le altre distro uscite negli ultimi 5 anni Mauro
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?
Se non hai un buon collegamento e hai fretta di averla, puoi cercare tra i vecchi messaggi di it.comp.os.linux.annunci. C'e` parecchia gente che spedisce a casa, per un prezzo ragionevole, i cd scaricati delle varie distro. Se ne trovi uno della tua citta`, risparmi anche sulle spese postali Qualcuno di voi che l'ha già scaricata studia al Politecnico di Milano? Ciao, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] Grave--Aspetto coferma e/o smentita
Il giorno 14:54, venerdì 5 aprile 2002 hai scritto: Salve alla lista. Ho installato StarOffice 5.2 sulla nuova MDK 8.2 Ebbene si sta ripresentando il problema che era della MDK 8.0 e che era scomparso nella 8.1. Di cosa sto parlando? Dei caratteri che sembrano mangiati dalle tarme... Qualcuno può confermare e/o smentire? Grazie. Un saluto. Ciao, mi unisco al coro delle smentite: io ho usato SO sia sulla 8.0 che sulla 8.1 (che ho ora); e non c'erano caratteri tarmati (che intendi?). Comunque, puoi aggirare il problema in (almeno) due modi: 1) scaricati l'ultima versione di OpenOffice, ha fatto passi da gigante ed è ormai alla vigilia della release 1.0; 2) se proprio ti serve SO, puoi acquistare il package di Mandrake 8.2 (o abbonarti al Mandrake Club in versione silver): troverai incluso SO 6 ... Daniele
[newbie-it] Variabili di ambiente?
Mi piacerebbe sapere come linux gestisce le variabili di ambiente (penso che si chiamino così, correggetemi se sbaglio) tipo PATH, CLASSPATH ecc. Ho capito che per aggiungere directory dalla bash devo usare ad esempio export PATH=/home/pollo/bin, ma come faccio a togliere delle directory? Inoltre, le directory che aggiungo manualmente devo riaggiungerle ad ogni riavvio della macchina o vengono salvate da qualche parte? Conoscete un link con spiegazioni dettagliate sull'argomento? Grazie in anticipo, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] Variabili di ambiente?
Ciao Pollo, tutto ciò che riguarda le variabili d'ambiente è abbastanza lungo da spiegare e non credo di esserne all'altezza, ma ti dirò quello che so. Le variabili di ambiente servono per memorizzare dei valori che potranno servire al sistema e ai programmi. Per esempio $PATH contiene tutte le directory dove linux cercherà i i programmi eseguibili, la variabile LD_LIBRATY_PATH contiene la directory con tutte le librerie. Soprattutto quest'ultima è usata dai programmi per reperire le librerie di cui fanno uso. Con export PATH=/home/pollo/bin non aggiungi, mi pare, una directory, ma sostituisci il valore della variabile con quello che gli dai tu. Dovresti scrivere così: export PATH=$PATH:/home/pollo/bin. I : servono per dividere le directory. Il comando export significa che un'eventuale shell aperta su quella corrente erediterà la variabile PATH con quel valore. Se tu non dovessi metterlo all'apertura di una nuova shell perderesti la variabile fin quando non chiudi la shell. Questo perchè le variabili d'ambiente sono usate dalle shell e ogni shell usa le sue opportunamente inizializzate. se digiti env di appariranno una lista di variabili che memorizzano delle info che servono al funzionamento del sistema! Per attribuire un valore ad una variabile in modo permanente devi fare in modo che questo assegnamento avvenga al boot time. Per questo devi aprire un file che si chiama .profile o .bashrc che sta nella tua home. Lì trovi le variabili e i valori che vengono lo assegnati al boot time. Non so se sono stato esauriente, purtroppo non conosco un link sulla materia. Ciao ENx Pollo wrote: Mi piacerebbe sapere come linux gestisce le variabili di ambiente (penso che si chiamino così, correggetemi se sbaglio) tipo PATH, CLASSPATH ecc. Ho capito che per aggiungere directory dalla bash devo usare ad esempio export PATH=/home/pollo/bin, ma come faccio a togliere delle directory? Inoltre, le directory che aggiungo manualmente devo riaggiungerle ad ogni riavvio della macchina o vengono salvate da qualche parte? Conoscete un link con spiegazioni dettagliate sull'argomento? Grazie in anticipo, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] Variabili di ambiente?
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 23:49, venerdì 5 aprile 2002, Voi, Notabile Pollo, avete dipinto: Ho capito che per aggiungere directory dalla bash devo usare ad esempio export PATH=/home/pollo/bin, ma come faccio a togliere delle directory? Inoltre, le directory che aggiungo manualmente devo riaggiungerle ad ogni riavvio della macchina o vengono salvate da qualche parte? Aggiungo solo che se vuoi una configurazione particolare per un solo utente (usando la bash) la modifica [di qualsiasi variabile di ambiente, non solo $PATH] va inserita nel file '$HOME/.bash_profile'. Se viceversa vuoi una modifica per tutti gli utenti va messa in /etc/profile (meglio se in coda). -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK 8.3-cooker - 2.4.18 puro
[newbie] samba
Hi all, having a small problem with samba. when trying to access my winxp box from lm8.2 server (using gomba) I get the following error... Error returning list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED this box is the only one that is setup to fully log on to the domain controller, and is the only one that other boxes can't browse. the other boxes, w2k, winxp, win98 are all accesable thru samba, but are not members of the domain (no machine account) It appears that I have to change permissions somewhere on the winxp box, but cant figure out where. any ideas? -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3 test
I followed the civileme way (message in newbie list): First of all I haven't enought spaces in my /opt directory, so I did: mv /opt /usr/share/opt and then ln -s /usr/share/opt /opt. then cd /directory with the kde3 packages, in my case /disk/kde3 urpmi unixODBC (civileme wrotte unixodbc but it doesn't run) urpmi postgresql urpmi MySQL (the MySQL-devel package is not in the 8.2 3cds distribution, I had to download it from rpmfind.net rpm -ivh *rpm (still some dependences, I installed it and start finally the kde3 installation) Messages: warning: group nobody does not exist - using root ¿WHAT THE MEANING OF THIS MESSAGE? After to that I start Xtart and a new 11 elemente (KDE) appeared. If I start kde2 (option 1) not problems. Then out form KDE 2 and again Xtar; 11 and kde3 starting: Sound Server: error while initializing: no kde sounds :-( 2 Trash icons, one could be deleted. ¤ has dessapeared from kde applications :-( No Spanish language selection possible, menu and messages in English :-(; not language possible selection other than English. After close kde3 if I try to run kde 2 (startkde) it is not possible; a message says: KPERSONALIZER: CANNOT CONNECT TO X SERVER. If I try to run kde2 from Xtart (option 1) after have runed at least 1 time kde3, I get a kind of hybrid windows manager, with the kde 3 introduction screen, but icons of kde 2, not kde sound and english menus and messages :-( Not more kde2 pure :-( I decided to install a second 8.2 in my /object directory to test kde3 and I uninstall all kde3 packages from my main 8.2. Also this could well for new test, for instance that Civileme ask for xcdroast because I solved the multiple xcdroast problems in 8.2 downgrading to 8.1 implied packages (cdrecord, cdrecord-dd2wav, mkisofs and xcdroast), so I will test the original one in this second package. IMPRESSION: kde3 looks great, but still some bugs to solve, so more test are needed and perhaps 3.1 could be a good final package; if those or similar problems appear in other distribution, they are mad to put it directly, as Suse said. I will send more comments about kde3 after work with it for a while. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)
Hi, I haven't installed cdparanoia yet, but just reading about it, it doen't seem like it encodes the wav-files in the mp3-format, but just outputs the wav-files? Is this wrong? If not cdparanoia does not live up to my criteria (input cd, output mp3s), and I would like a reference to an alternative that does, please. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 04 April 2002 21:22, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, Where to get? Well Jesper, if you are om MDK 8.x, I'm pretty shure you've got most everything already. To find things on your HD, an easy way (there are scores, of course) is to issue the command : locate whatever (without the quotes). To find things on MDK - CD's : run Software Manager, click installable. To find things on other CD's : shuffle it into the cupholder, then mount it, and open a file-manager and use it's find-utility. To find RPM's on the net : open a browser and point it to http://rpmfind.net Easy, eh ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)
Hi, I got the answer elsewhere: use cdparanoia to rip the cd, use Lame to encode. Thanx anyway. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I haven't installed cdparanoia yet, but just reading about it, it doen't seem like it encodes the wav-files in the mp3-format, but just outputs the wav-files? Is this wrong? If not cdparanoia does not live up to my criteria (input cd, output mp3s), and I would like a reference to an alternative that does, please. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 04 April 2002 21:22, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, Where to get? Well Jesper, if you are om MDK 8.x, I'm pretty shure you've got most everything already. To find things on your HD, an easy way (there are scores, of course) is to issue the command : locate whatever (without the quotes). To find things on MDK - CD's : run Software Manager, click installable. To find things on other CD's : shuffle it into the cupholder, then mount it, and open a file-manager and use it's find-utility. To find RPM's on the net : open a browser and point it to http://rpmfind.net Easy, eh ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:16:16 +0200 Gerard van Winssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled inquisitively: Next question is; when dialling in, there must be a '0' dialled first to get on the external phone network followed by the rest of the phonenumber of the ISP. How do I configure this in Kppp?? == When adding the phone #, just start with a 0 folowed by a ,. The , will create a brief pause, allowing the outside line to be activated. then just put the # to be dialed right after the ,. HTH, Mike -- The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love... ...and be loved in return. --Nature Boy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unavailable Space on dos-format floppies
Hi Y'all Another dumb newbie question. I have this here floppy disk formatted for dos, with an entire website on it. According to readings under both Windows and Linux it is 41% full. Anyway in my tireless quest to do all my work in Linux and rid my box of Windoze forever, I did some work on the site using Netscape Composer which involved adding a new page and graphics to the site. So far, so good. However, when I tried to save work to this disk, or copy files onto it, I got messages informing me that the disk was full. I copied the entire site onto an ext2 formatted disk without any problems and carried on working, all worked saved and files copied, no problem. But I really wanted to have this stuff on a disk accessible by Windows - not for myself so much as for other less enlightened people who need to see the work before it goes on the web. So I tried to copy the whole lot onto a blank floppy and woe is me, it still would not fit even though df told me that about 40 odd percent of the disk had been used. Is this usual, or am I doing something wrong? Maybe something is reading these disks as though they were 720k disks, then again maybe not. Any info gratefully received. Power to the Penguin! -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java in Mandrake 8.1
tek1, On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 00:31, in Re: [newbie] Java in Mandrake 8.1, you wrote: before installing sun's jdk, you might want to uninstall kaffe via mandrake's software installer. you might have to tell konqueror and some other programs where sun' jdk is though after installing it... Oops - too late. I have just installed j2sdk-1_4_0-linux-i386-rpm.bin - and it is working - tried a demo that came with it - looks Great! I wonder if it is still worth un-installing I have yet to configure browsers etc. Walter -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GPRS on linux
Op woensdag 3 april 2002 01:14, schreef u: I am trying to do this on a timeport 250 You need to use the infra red link in my case to my laptop running 8.1 Try infra red howto and mobilix.org I havent cracked it yet. But once you have the ir link working the kppp part should be straightforward. Let us know how you do and I will let you know if I have success. I don't have infrared, I use the serial cable. Using Kppp wasn't straightforward. ;-( I replaced the ATX init string with the 'APN' string, this is before the dialling. That returned with a OK. Then dial: *99# After this nothing happens anymore. -- Gerard van Winssen Error: Keyboard not connected Hit any key to continue Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp
Title: RE: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerard van Winssen Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:16 AM To: Mandrake-Newbie Subject: [newbie] Dialin in Kppp Hi, I installed MDK 8.2 on a compter of a bussiness partner of me who wanted to get rid of virusses yesterday. (Yeah, anonther one!! hèhè ;-)) They have an isdn terminal adapter Elsa tango 1000, wich is an external, serial device. As far as I understand this TA should be configured as a normal analog modem in for instance Kppp, am I right? Next question is; when dialling in, there must be a '0' dialled first to get on the external phone network followed by the rest of the phonenumber of the ISP. How do I configure this in Kppp?? TIA -- Gerard van Winssen Error: Keyboard not connected Hit any key to continue As per previous answer if one , (without the quotes) doesn't give enough pause for the connection to come up, you can do two or three, each , is a fixed amount of time (can't remember if it is .5 seconds or what) so just make a string of them long enough to get the dial tone and then your dial-in number. HTH Dennis M.
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.2/X-CD-Roast Configuration Problem
On Thursday 04 April 2002 19:23, you wrote: John Google says This permission warning and the following set-uid bit warnings can be safely ignored, if you want to run X-CD-Roast as root only. ...and... So do as root something like that: (and read the Manual) chown root:cdwrite /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap; chmod 2755 /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap And google is never wrong. Richard -- Thank you again Richard, Sorry if I am being a little slow on the uptake but I am not a little confused. [root@localhost root]# ls -l /usr/bin/xcdroast -rwxrwxrwx1 root root 526008 Feb 27 13:30 /usr/bin/xcdroast* [root@localhost root]# ls -l /usr/bin/mkisofs -rwxr-xr-x2 root cdwriter 371640 Feb 28 15:30 /usr/bin/mkisofs* [root@localhost root]# ls -l /usr/bin/readcd -rwxr-s---1 root cdwriter 106776 Feb 28 15:30 /usr/bin/readcd* [root@localhost root]# ls -l /usr/bin/cdda2wav -rwxr-xr-x1 root cdwriter 189176 Feb 28 15:30 /usr/bin/cdda2wav* Which suggests that all four files are owned by root, with root as the group user of xcdroast, but that mkisofs,readcd, cdda2wav all have group user as cdwriter. Now I would of thought since they are ancilliary programmes to xcdroast , this seems OK to me. but , [root@localhost root]# xcdroast -d /usr/bin/xcdroast ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/mkisofs ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/readcd ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/cdda2wav So, then there is something wrong with the uid of group user of the three files ? If I understand this correctly uid means user identity. Is the problem then to correctly define uid of cdwriter ? so does chmod command change uid of group owner cdwriter, but O'Rilley implies chmod changes the attributes of users. I am utterly confused right now.I don't know what I need to do, and why, let alone understand the commands you so kindly exampled. but the fact is that xcdroast is failing to cashe audio files.Whoever the owner is,and whether the group user of these files is root or something else. All this is terribly confusing. I need this taking one step at a time. Ideally Xcdroast ought to be owned by root, with named group users and named individual users. I thougfht that the last section in settings of xcdroast was about helping do that. All the ancilliary programmes like mkisofs,readcd,cdda2wav and many more, ought to be owned by root, and have group users which includes cdwriter.and named users ? All I want to do is be able to cashe and write audio files in xcdroast. John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removal from Mandrake Mail List
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Skhumbuzo Mhlongo wrote: Hi All I need to be deleted from mandrake list please HELP John Have you tried throwing away your PC? ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the originator of this message. ** -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] divx again ...
Have you tried Xine? On 4 Apr 2002, - addy [ISO-8859-1] däudsch - wrote: good eve to all of you a divx content question again i have mplayer , correctly installed . i can play mpeg 1/2 and normal avis w/o probs ... everything is working but i can't play divx ... i downloaded divx4linux50-20020304 from the divx.com site and installed it with root looked ok but if i play divx avi in mplayer onley the sound works :) help me ! ... -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unavailable Space on dos-format floppies
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:20:33 +0100, Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Y'all Another dumb newbie question. I have this here floppy disk formatted for dos, with an entire website on it. According to readings under both Windows and Linux it is 41% full. Anyway in my tireless quest to do all my work in Linux and rid my box of Windoze forever, I did some work on the site using Netscape Composer which involved adding a new page and graphics to the site. So far, so good. However, when I tried to save work to this disk, or copy files onto it, I got messages informing me that the disk was full. I copied the entire site onto an ext2 formatted disk without any problems and carried on working, all worked saved and files copied, no problem. But I really wanted to have this stuff on a disk accessible by Windows - not for myself so much as for other less enlightened people who need to see the work before it goes on the web. So I tried to copy the whole lot onto a blank floppy and woe is me, it still would not fit even though df told me that about 40 odd percent of the disk had been used. Is this usual, or am I doing something wrong? Maybe something is reading these disks as though they were 720k disks, then again maybe not. Any info gratefully received. Power to the Penguin! Did you try to store all the files in the root directory of the disc? FAT filesystems have a limit on the number of files that can be stored in the root directory. Try storing things in a subdirectory. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. -- Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: *laughs* Damian flaked on me, so Civilme to the Bat-Rescue! Into the KDE-Mobile my linux comrades! Now thats *got* to be a major blow to the ego, eh, Damian? ;-) -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word defenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I got: defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. Oh, ghod, that was _awful_! Quick! Defenestrate him! 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window. 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. I don't have any disk space left. Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps? 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the screen). Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon. 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux). Can anyone verify this? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Jennifer Lopez = JLo (pron: Jay-Low). Bill Gates = BGa (pron: Be-Gay). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, What's a good MP3-ripper? One that just takes a cd as input and outputs the MP3s. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen My personal favorite is a command line ripper that will rip the CD, query CDDB, do all the name change, etc, and convert it to either .mp3 or .ogg. It's called Rip, and you can get it from rip.sourceforge.net. -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
I can comment on Defenestrate, and that is correct to throw something out of a window, as for the other, looks like artistic license. Tony. -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 April 2002 14:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing... I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word defenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I got: defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. Oh, ghod, that was _awful_! Quick! Defenestrate him! 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window. 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. I don't have any disk space left. Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps? 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the screen). Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon. 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux). Can anyone verify this? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Jennifer Lopez = JLo (pron: Jay-Low). Bill Gates = BGa (pron: Be-Gay). -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify me immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd, unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
Hi Sridhar, I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word defenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I got: defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. Oh, ghod, that was _awful_! Quick! Defenestrate him! 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window. 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. I don't have any disk space left. Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps? 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the screen). Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon. 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux). Can anyone verify this? Which part would you want to be verified? The Czech assasination method, that's true, however I wouldn't use the word assasination. Defenestration was an act in which angry citizens threw the lords or aldermen (can't think of a better translation) out of the windows of the town hall. As this act has proved effective it has been practised a few more times. The term itself is probably derived from the German word Fenster (window). Actually, the text you posted is an exact copy of what is found in the Jargon File, http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/defenestration.html . HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] divx again ...
still doesn't work , did as i am told cvs the libavcodec ... configure mplayer, and the configure file said that libavcodec is enabled now ... make and make install but still doesn't work ... some avi's goes even some divx but most of them make mplayer crash an my console freeze ... ara Xine can't handle my divx either Am Fre, 2002-04-05 um 16.05 schrieb Roger Sherman: Have you tried Xine? On 4 Apr 2002, - addy [ISO-8859-1] däudsch - wrote: good eve to all of you a divx content question again i have mplayer , correctly installed . i can play mpeg 1/2 and normal avis w/o probs ... everything is working but i can't play divx ... i downloaded divx4linux50-20020304 from the divx.com site and installed it with root looked ok but if i play divx avi in mplayer onley the sound works :) help me ! ... -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.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] MP3-ripper (cdparanoia)
On Friday 05 April 2002 05:24 am, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I got the answer elsewhere: use cdparanoia to rip the cd, use Lame to encode. Thanx anyway. http://plf.zarb.org/rpm/8.2/i586/notlame-3.91-3plf.i586.rpm it's called 'notlame' for quasi legal reasons. There's notlame for ML 8.1 at this site too. Actually there's many files at the PLF that can't be included with Mandrake for one reason or another, mostly legal B$. Main site is http://plf.zarb.org/ -- Tom brinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:30:50 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sridhar, I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the worddefenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I got: defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. Oh, ghod, that was _awful_! Quick! Defenestrate him! 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window. 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. I don't have any disk space left. Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps? 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the screen). Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon. 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux). Can anyone verify this? Which part would you want to be verified? The Czech assasination method, that's true, however I wouldn't use the word assasination. Defenestration was an act in which angry citizens threw the lords or aldermen (can't think of a better translation) out of the windows of the town hall. As this act has proved effective it has been practised a few more times. The term itself is probably derived from the German word Fenster (window). Actually, the text you posted is an exact copy of what is found in the Jargon File, http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/defenestration.html . HTH Roman By verify I was simply asking if anyone could reproduce my odd results. I know what the word really means (as you have explained above), but I was quite amused to see this definition on the main dict protocol server. I thought this might be some kind of joke on the part of the dict.org developers. I've worked it out now. I had gdict set to search a variety of databases, which includes both The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing and The Jargon File. The definition I received was derived from those. So I guess the joke's on me then ;) -- 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] ICQ linux
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:07:06 +0200, Baka Attila Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I had a problem with all icq clients eversince I used Linux. They seem to work, BUT most of the messeges do not arrive to me and most of what I send do not arrive to the recipents. I have no firewall and when I had WiDows, icq worked. ICQ lite works, but I don't like it. Have you tried GnomeICU? That works fine for me for everything except file transfers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nine out of ten voices in my head can't be wrong, can they? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ICQ linux
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:25, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:07:06 +0200, Baka Attila Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I had a problem with all icq clients eversince I used Linux. They seem to work, BUT most of the messeges do not arrive to me and most of what I send do not arrive to the recipents. I have no firewall and when I had WiDows, icq worked. ICQ lite works, but I don't like it. Have you tried GnomeICU? That works fine for me for everything except file transfers. all new win icq clients ( 2000a + ) have an option that comes enabled by default, to not accept connections from older clients. kinda forcing people to keep upgrading. if Licq or GnomeICU are not working for you, you can try telling your whole contact list to turn the feature off, ( it's in ICQ menu, security and privacy ) or you can use Gaim. Gaim works perfet for messages, but it has little or no extra functions. ( no chat function, etc... ) if you configure it using Oscar protocol, using your ICQ UIN as your screenname, and set the login server to login.icq.com on port 4000, you will have no probems at all with sending and receiving messages. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 11:11, Roger Sherman escribió: On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: *laughs* Damian flaked on me, so Civilme to the Bat-Rescue! Into the KDE-Mobile my linux comrades! Now thats *got* to be a major blow to the ego, eh, Damian? ;-) ;oP anyway it wasn't my fault, i had to go to jail yesterday afternoon, that's why i didn't reply. however i did reply when i escaped, later on... ( btw by jail i mean the university ;o) See ya. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 auto-login
How do I configure my box to auto-login in 8.2? Right now it auto-logs-in to generic X, I want it t o get into Gnome. - Paul R _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removal from Mandrake Mail List
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 11:03, Roger Sherman escribió: On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Skhumbuzo Mhlongo wrote: Hi All I need to be deleted from mandrake list please HELP John Have you tried throwing away your PC? ..or changing your email adress! ;o) .. or even RTFM'ing? post an empty message with the word REMOVE as subject. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 14:08, Damian escribió: El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 11:11, Roger Sherman escribió: On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: *laughs* Damian flaked on me, so Civilme to the Bat-Rescue! Into the KDE-Mobile my linux comrades! Now thats *got* to be a major blow to the ego, eh, Damian? ;-) ;oP anyway it wasn't my fault, i had to go to jail yesterday afternoon, that's why i didn't reply. however i did reply when i escaped, later on... ( btw by jail i mean the university ;o) See ya. Damian oh and i'm going to jail today, too, so you will have some more flaking from me! ;oP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB TV BOX (MPEG USB TV Station).
Hi, Just wanted to ask if somebody has a KWORLD MPEG USB TV Station. Does it work in Linux?How can I configure it?? Thanks for help. Greetings, Tomek Tego nie znajdziesz w zadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ]
Re: [newbie] Sound problems with Dell OptiPlex GX1
On 03 Apr 2002 13:40:03 -0800 James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.2 yesterday hoping that it would properly detect and configure my CS4232 based sound card. When this didn't happen my heart sank and I began to cry Why GOD!!!? Why doesn't it work!!? After my brief escape from reality I attempted to configure it using harddrake and kudzu. harddrake sees the sound card but has problems with the MPU stating it can't find isa-pnp module. Ok maybe this wouldn't work and I thought I should try running sndconfig. When I run sndconfig it properly detects it as a CS423x based card and then does the wave test where linus speaks. I can here this but when it tries midi it bombs out and asks me to manually configure it. I've tried all combinations I can think of and it doesn't work. I can't for the life of me get this working. I'm sure it's simple and I'll prolly wanna shoot myself in the head because of it. _ALL_ help is very much appreciated. BTW: I'm not running windows so I can't get any settings that way as per some GOOGLE searches recommend. Any chance that this card will be detected properly in future releases. Below is the output of a pnpdump # $Id: pnpdump_main.c,v 1.27 2001/04/30 21:54:53 fox Exp $ # Release isapnptools-1.26 # # This is free software, see the sources for details. # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK # # For details of the output file format, see isapnp.conf(5) # # For latest information and FAQ on isapnp and pnpdump see: # http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ # # Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DHAVE_PROC -DENABLE_PCI -DHAVE_SCHED_SETSCHEDULER -DHAVE_NANOSLEEP -DWANT_TO_VALIDATE # # Trying port address 0273 # Board 1 has serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e # (DEBUG) (READPORT 0x0273) (ISOLATE PRESERVE) (IDENTIFY *) (VERBOSITY 2) (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING # Card 1: (serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e) # Vendor Id CSC6835, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0xB6. # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.1 # ANSI string --CS4236B-- snip FYI: ALSA (in LM 8.2) has a snd-card-cs4232 and a snd-card-cs4236 driver. But let's first try OSS: what happens if, as root, you 'modprobe cs4232'? Do you get sound working after that? HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
Hello Ed, Thanks for the response, but afraid I can't follow it. - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical? I have now even bought a Jetway moboard as I was told it was lux friendly. SIS 630T chipset It has O/b video AGP4x shared mem amount immaterial as I've seen so far. WRONG... THIS is your problem, you need to specify the ram being used video as subtracted from the overall ram,ie linux mem=118 (this being a machine w/128 ram chip, and 8 meg for video ram and a little extra to be safe. Specified where? I don't recall it coming up in the install proc. The system at last fallover had 384 Megs RAM. What I meant by immaterial was that any change in the allocated Video RAM under Doze made no difference in anything noticeable, so I left it at the default 8. Cheers, John --- _ All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 2/04/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Michaels Minutes (WAY OT)
Ha folks, Well, the awful truth is that if it simply plugs in and works.. Years ago my own Technicians used to go into major installations and avoid the what's the password routine by looking on the side of the monitor or the deskpad, first. Amazing how many times it was there. Shane is correct even in jest - I STILL haven't had the chance to even see if I could install the RPM - never had a working User System. AND unless it does simply Pn'P, it is a dud. Constantly read of semi-Geeks (at least) saying how a simple install/upgrade broke their previously working system, on this very list. Remember, this is a marketing exercise, not a hobby one for Michael. Although I seriously doubt from what I've seen so far that he really gets it, either) Cheers, John - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Michaels Minutes (WAY OT) On Thursday 04 April 2002 03:45 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Does anybody seriously think this will be a good thing for Linux and free software? I most certainly don't. Why pay US$99 when you can get CodeWeavers CrossOver Office for $54.95, which you can install on mostly because the average person won't be able to install an RPM of codeweavers. just ask john. ;-) root password. All we need are a few easily-written exploit scripts for this poor excuse of an OS and open source as a whole (not just Lindows) will be given a bad name. GNU/Linux virii will become a widespread reality (on Lindows, that is), fueling opposition to open source. --- _ All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 2/04/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
Hi Civileme, Thanks for the info. However, you didn't answer some of the points such as re getting FROM text to GUI via the command line. Is there a way? Couple of others I've prefaced with if you wouldn't mind. 2. As I paid for the presentation of 1000's of programs with the retail Powerpak, is there a chance that I could use say a 2 disk minimalist set of 8.1 ( or 2) to get a start and then install the programs I want from the 8.0 Set? Would this be safe? 3. What is the vote nowadays - my figures show 50/50 for 8.1 and 8.2 re user install/working satisfaction. *** Re above question - and should I go for 8.1? 4. If Mandrake can't for some reason detect a graphics card, should it not say so? Or will it simply default to a Terminal/text install? As this has happened before, I would like to know this info. I have a Jetway 630TCF with the SiS 630 chipset. Install comes up Graphic without any effort on my part since the video supports Framebuffer. With the 530 and 8.0 there are some problems on some implementations usually solved by setting options in You said problems with 530. Did you mean 530 or slip from 630? It makes no sense for the install to come up text without any graphics. But if the install does, then your CDs are seriously damaged (at least one run of the pressed CDs had trouble with a RAMDisk). It might try to come up text if you have less than 64M RAM since the 630 shares 8M of main memory with video memory which makes a 32M setup really offer only 24M to the system. In that case you would be fortunate to install at all. * Well, I had 512 on the last system and 384 on this one, so RAm wasn't a problem. There may be a disk problem - although there was no failure evident - everything else went according to schedule except it won't run as GUI. Thanks, John --- _ All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 2/04/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] questions
I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; in the desktop I have 2 icons of floppy - Floppy and Floppy2 - why Floppy2? in the boot session I have winxp, linux and linux-nonfb - what is it linux-nonfb? what program do I need for DVD and CD-RW? Thank you for any help you may be able to provide. Oder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
PMFJI late, but have you tried typing startx from the command line? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Likely dumb questions...but
Howdy; I now have MD 8.2 (single boot, no other OS) on this old clunker and it seems everything works... well mostly.. sort of. Specs: ABit BX6 Rev.2 PIII 500 MHz 512 MB SDRAM Riva TNT 16 MB Soundblaster Live! Value Digital (2) Maxtor HDD 13 GB (original) and 60 GB Liteon 40X CD-ROM Mitsumi CD-R/RW Internet connection via cable modem NIC (10/100) No LAN (stand alone machine.) Partitioned thus: /boot (ext2) (500 MB, too big probably but I ain't short on drive space ;-)) /, swap, /usr, /var, on 13 GB drive, /home and /store (MP3s, pictures, other personal junk) on 60 GB using Reiser FS (all but swap of course) The network configured at install, sound works, XFree 4.2 did what it was supposed to do. E-mail and the rest of the trivial crap installed and configured as it should, but... I remembered reading that 8.2 doesn't include Tiny Firewall as previous versions did so, I requested Guarddog while picking packages. It's there but how the devil do I configure it? I've been here: http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/manual2/ and the first thing I see says that there should be access through Configuration/Networking/Guarddog which is supposed to be there and isn't. I'll read some more to find why it isn't where it's supposed to be but even from a terminal (superuser mode), or the console as root I can't access the program. Just get error messages. re: An error occurred while reading the protocol database. Details: XML Parse error: Line: 674, Column: 52 , , tag mismatch Line: 674, Column: 52 , , error while parsing element Line: 674, Column: 52 , , error while parsing content 3 repetitions of this (4 total) then: Line: 674, column: 52 , , error while parsing main element Second silliness that I'm sure is something simple: I can read and write to preformatted floppies but can't get a CD to open in either drive. Even as 'su' You do not have enough permissions to... What have I messed up? Hints would be greatly appreciated. TIA Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] courier-imap pop3d says AUTHFAILURE
Every time I try to start courier-imap's pop3, I get a message AUTHFAILURE, and that was all. I did a search on their FAQ, I can only come up with it's a authentication problem. Can anyone give a me clue? Thanks Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where are the old versions?
Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] very scary stuff. Your rights ARE vanishing - being assasinated...
Hello folks, This is not off-topic! This is a probable reason that we are all having more and more email problems. One of my fears about the development of the fabulous tool we call the Internet is the prediction made by Kilneth nearly a decade ago: Without positive loop feedback it can rapidly become a Cyberbog. It is going that way... please read this a.s.a.p. http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html Everything needs a positive feedback loop, from teaching children good behaviour, to the Sydney Opera House - a project which had no control by feedback. It was projected to cost $1-1.5 Million Dollars. Now we all know that such things will over-run. but it finished up costing the community $105 MILLION a HUNDRED times as much! Because there was no feedback control - it had no limits. It was funded by a Lottery! Thus, there was no upper limit on what could be spent. It was insane - worse, it finished up being project-managed by a committee and it ended up useless as a true Opera House. Cheers? John --- _ All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 2/04/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Clearly missing something
I recently acquired the source code for an Intel NIC card driver (from an Intel web site). The documentation tells me to use make install to compile/install the driver. Unfortunately, that command gives me the message bash: make not found or something like that. Likewise, man make produces No manual for make or whatever. You get the picture. I gather I am lacking some fairly basic program. What does it seem to be and how do I get it? Any hints would be much appreciated. = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?
Bruce Zink's message on Friday 05 April 2002 02:15 pm, stated: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ You can always try here: http://www.linuxiso.org/mandrake.html HTH Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lost messages on VC12 - RESOLVED
Michael wrote: Thanks Jim, i wanted to know how that worked. Thanks for the update. Paying attention Femme? Jim Fazio wrote: List, Just in case anyone else is interested. My problem stemmed from the fact that I must have chosen LOW as my security level, instead of MEDIUM. On msec level 3 or greater the syslog messages are written to /dev/tty12 by default. So to solve my problem of the missing messages, I just ran `msec 3` in a console as root. Afterward I was able then to figure out that the real fix was adding the line `*.* /dev/tty12` to the end of my /etc/syslog.conf file. This is what redirects all *.* syslog messages to /dev/tty12. Thanks, Jim er um... *puts the comix away* ;) Yes... I was interested in that...but deleted it by accident. :P Thx, I get it now. Femme -- Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video editing using Linux
I want to do some video editing, e.g. record the hour long home videos onto hard drive and cut the 58 or so minutes of boring footage out, then recording it back to videotape. I don't need anything too fancy, just basic edits and perhaps some simple character generator capability. I assume I can do this with the appropriate software if I add a video capture card to my Linux box. (I have a 1GHz Athlon, currently at 256MB but it will probabaly be upgraded to 512MB by the time I aquire the necessary hardware and software.) Does anyone have any experience doing this under Linux? If so, what software/hardware should I use? Or would I be better off dual-booting into (gasp!) Windows for video editing? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Instant monitor stanby button
Baka Attila Tamás wrote: Hi! I'd like to make an instant monitor standby button for my (KDE) desktop. I know that there is lock, but I'd like to use some buttons like 'b' for changing music in xmms. HOW? Baka Attila Tamás This is what I found in a small web surf on Mandrakes site itself: http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca/article.php?sid=475mode=order=0 Femme -- Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE3 sound server problem
Hi! I installed kde3 from rpm. When it boots, it says that it can't start the sound server (I guess arts). I think oss works fine as mplayer and xmms works fine. What can be done? BAT -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Likely dumb questions...but
Second silliness that I'm sure is something simple: I can read and write to preformatted floppies but can't get a CD to open in either drive. Even as 'su' You do not have enough permissions to... What have I messed up? Hints would be greatly appreciated. TIA Charlie no idea about your firewall, but this may be caused by supermount not mounting your cd's.. try inserting a cd in your drive and, in a terminal, type: mount /mnt/cdrom and see if you can check it then. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[OT] Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
On Friday 05 April 2002 17:30, Roman Korcek wrote: a few more times. The term itself is probably derived from the German word Fenster (window). Probably from Latin fenestra - same idea. I vaguely remember the Defenestration of Prague, when the Czechs applied their traditional vote of no confidence to some Austrian (?) officials, as one of the events causing the Thirty Years War. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?
On Saturday 06 April 2002 00:15, Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? Check out the mirror sites. Our local one ( sunsite.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ) has versions 7.0 onwards. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper--Install error
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:19:11 -0500 (EST) Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My personal favorite is a command line ripper that will rip the CD, query CDDB, do all the name change, etc, and convert it to either .mp3 or .ogg. It's called Rip, and you can get it from rip.sourceforge.net. I get this error when trying to install: Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case, please build and install your perl from a fresh perl distribution. It usually solves this kind of problem. (You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/CORE/perl.h) Is building and installing perl difficult or tricky? Will I have to worry about it conflicting with anything else on 8.1? Tanks, Todd -- Todd Slater 5:59pm up 9 days, 19:27, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.11, 0.11 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening...The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role. (William Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3 sound server problem
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 19:39, Linux Maniac escribió: Hi! I installed kde3 from rpm. When it boots, it says that it can't start the sound server (I guess arts). I think oss works fine as mplayer and xmms works fine. What can be done? BAT just try disabling aRts, you probably just don't need it, and it comes enabled by default.. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 auto-login
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 13:11, Paul Rodríguez escribió: How do I configure my box to auto-login in 8.2? Right now it auto-logs-in to generic X, I want it t o get into Gnome. - Paul R well, if you log out, it gets to the graphical login manager, right? if so, you can select Gnome from the drop-down menu, and from that moment on, your default session will be gnome. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install the Sources?
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:20, Alejandro Fernandez escribió: Hi! I don't know why, but the kernel sources are not installed in my machine. I installed everyhing from scratch selecting developent instalation but the sources are not there. Which package includes the sources? Can I install them from the Software MAnager? REgards, Casco the package name is kernel-source, just do a urpmi kernel-source . HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
On 4 Apr 2002, tester wrote: Now do these urpmi unixodbc (and from the reply install every match with urpmi Let me make sure I understand...I type the above, and it shows me this: The following packages contain unixodbc: libunixODBC2-devel unixODBC-gui-qu unixODBC unixODBC-gui-gtk libunixODBC2. So I install those packages before all the rest? Won't that create a ton of dependancy problems, installing just those few before everything else? Why is this method preferable to just doing rpm -ivh *? urpmi postgresql (same activity again, and include all the -devels) urpmi MYSQL (go at it again, installing everything) NOW rpm -ivh *rpm Take notes, you will get some instructions. The procedure will hang on a warning message, refusing to tell you it is completed. Hit the Enter key once for the system prompt. That's it... It will show up as KDE3 on the kdm login screen and it will show up as 11 KDE on the choices Xtart presents from a console. Unles you save the session, it will ask for styles EVERY time you login which can be a pain. The soundserver is, to say the least, flaky. Programs like xmms will continue to work but don't bother reporting known bugs about KDE sound. Some of the login messages and panels may crash with a crash message if your security is High or Higher. KDE3 is making too many assumptions about permissions and open sockets. About par for the course for a .0 type release from KDE. Some things will improve with 3.1, but the new KDE is for the most part, smooth and nice. Liquid is not ready or KDE3 is not ready for liquid at this time. Some beautiful theming from Mosfet will just have to wait a little longer. Civileme -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2
I didn't see that v42 there, but here's my config files are attached. - Original Message - From: Blood Slap [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2 It is not mobility or pro, it's just an ATI Expert 2000 Rage 128, but I will check the config file. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2 On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 09:57:44 -0700 Michael Kovary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now done a clean install of 8.2, and most of the problems from before are gone, but while running KDE and Gnome (might in other window managers but not so far) the entire machine will freeze except for my mouse and sound if music was playing at the time. And I'm forced to use the reset button. Is this just a bug in 8.2 that can be fixed? Will I have to update something? Is yours a straight Rage128 card? Not a mobility or Pro or some other variation. It should not be there but just in case check your /etc/X11/X86Config-4. In the module section if there is an entry for v41, either # it out or remove it. Restart X and your problem will be gone. If the above was not the cause of your problem please post your XF86Conf-4. Charles -- -- 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 # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section ServerFlags # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom # This allows the server to start up even if the # mouse device cant be opened/initialised. AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection # ** # Input devices # ** # ** # Keyboard section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option AutoRepeat 250 30 Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection # ** # Pointer section # ** Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 # Option Emulate3Buttons # Option Emulate3Timeout 50 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice # Option ChordMiddle EndSection Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Load dbe Load glx Load dri # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod #Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load type1 Load freetype EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection # ** # Monitor section # ** # Any number of monitor sections may be present Section Monitor Identifier NEC MultiSync XV15+ VendorName NEC ModelName Unknown # HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified. # HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a # comma separated list of ranges of values. # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITORS # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS. HorizSync
Re: [newbie] questions
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:07, Oder wrote: I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; try run it from a terminal, it will say something there if there was an error in the desktop I have 2 icons of floppy - Floppy and Floppy2 - why Floppy2? in the boot session I have winxp, linux and linux-nonfb - what is it linux-nonfb? I believe nonfb means no frame buffer, with frame buffer you can run text console with different resolution. Not all video card supports it. what program do I need for DVD and CD-RW? Thank you for any help you may be able to provide. Oder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clearly missing something
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 18:21, Bruce Zink escribió: I recently acquired the source code for an Intel NIC card driver (from an Intel web site). The documentation tells me to use make install to compile/install the driver. Unfortunately, that command gives me the message bash: make not found or something like that. Likewise, man make produces No manual for make or whatever. You get the picture. I gather I am lacking some fairly basic program. What does it seem to be and how do I get it? Any hints would be much appreciated. if you were trying to make install as a normal user, it's a possibility that you don't have /usr/bin in your PATH, so /usr/bin/make wasn't found. try /usr/bin/make install or make install logged in as root. if this doesn't do it, ... open a terminal window. su to root. that is, enter the su command. it will ask for your root password, enter it, then you will become root. ( anyway forget about this if you are already logged in as root ) type urpmi make it will ask for your mandrake cd's so keep 'em handy. see if that helps. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] questions
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 16:07, Oder escribió: I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; in the desktop I have 2 icons of floppy - Floppy and Floppy2 - why Floppy2? in the boot session I have winxp, linux and linux-nonfb - what is it linux-nonfb? what program do I need for DVD and CD-RW? Thank you for any help you may be able to provide. Oder i suggest you run xine from a konsole so when it hangs you will be able to read what the error was, and post it here. this way the list will be more helpful. about floppy2, looks like the installation detecting two floppy drives. if you don't need floppy2, just delete it. linux-nonfb is, i think, no frame-buffer. a different video mode. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
Hi Bob, Thanks. No! I assumed there *was* a way - but no amount of playing with Help possibilities came up with *that* destruction! Will go try on the other machine when I get a second. Cheers, John - Original Message - From: Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 5:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical? PMFJI late, but have you tried typing startx from the command line? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- _ All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 2/04/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Likely dumb questions...but
Damian's message on Friday 05 April 2002 04:24 pm, stated: no idea about your firewall, but this may be caused by supermount not mounting your cd's.. try inserting a cd in your drive and, in a terminal, type: mount /mnt/cdrom and see if you can check it then. HTH Damian Thanks Damian. I get the message; mount: can't find /mnt/cd-rom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. That doesn quite seem right though since the fstab shows; /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 and; /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Probably on the right track though, since I don't think that's the way it should read. Or is it? Permissions problem, right? What should I edit please? Thanks in advance; Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[OT] Re: [newbie] very scary stuff. Your rights ARE vanishing - being assasinated...
On Saturday 06 April 2002 00:22, john rigby wrote: Hello folks, This is not off-topic! This is a probable reason that we are all having more and more email problems. Well strictly speaking it _is_ off topic. Off topic doesn't mean useless or completely irrelevant (obviously that shouldn't be posted at all); it means anything which the poster thinks will be of interest to at least some members, but is unrelated, or only tenously related to the topic of the list. AFAIK, the email problems we've been having are not related to filters (I've had some, and I'm not with a commercial ISP or free webmail service). And now for my own off-topic comment ... One of my fears about the development of the fabulous tool we call the Internet is the prediction made by Kilneth nearly a decade ago: Without positive loop feedback it can rapidly become a Cyberbog. It is going that way... please read this a.s.a.p. http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html Everything needs a positive feedback loop, from teaching children good behaviour, to the Sydney Opera House - a project which had no control by feedback. Call me a pedant, but what you seem to advocating is not a positive feedback loop, but a negative one. Positive feedback is what happens when part of the output is fed back as input, so the signal, motion or behaviour increases. Unless you're a rock guitarist, it's generally a bad thing. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Go back to 8.1???
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 12:58 pm, you wrote: Tim Cruikshank wrote: On Tuesday 02 April 2002 23:17, you wrote: Hi all, I recently installed MD 8.2 on my computer. Many things went well, but I cannot run PrinterDrake or any followon installation from the CD's. Locks up everytime. I checked the installation logs and had a LOT of errors during installation. I'm surprised the computer runs as well as it does. Anyway, I'd like to go back to MD 8.1 (which worked well on my computer). My only hesitation is in some of the packages that come with 8.2. GnuCash worked out of the box in 8.2. It took me *days* to satisfy all the dependencies for GnuCash in 8.1 via many downloads. Is there a way to use MD 8.1 and the rpms from 8.2 discs? or save the installed packages when I go back? Thanks Linus Linus Rather than going through a complete reinstall , why don't you post the error messsages here, and I'm sure someone should be able to help you sraighten things out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com From what you described it appears your burn does not read on the CD drive that well. I would suggest trying different media or a different CD drive before retreating. I had a similar problem here with a DVD reader on one machine. Turned out that CDs I burned at 1x, 2x, 8x and 12x would all fail, but if I burned at 4x they would read. The DVD rreader, brand new, had its own problems--like refusing to recognize CD2 and CD3 during install though it did so post-install. Sorry the hardware story on CDs is so crappy, but then they are seriously driven too fast in rate of spin for no valid engineering reason. At least we don't have 70X CD readers out there any longer and the worst of the manufacturers seem to have died off. Civileme I don't think that's it. I don't have any trouble with any other CD's. I have an old Ricoh 4X burner that has a max read speed of 20X. It's worked perfectly with everything else. I believe that I have bad hardware, or just a combination of stuff that doesn't work. I'll try 8.1 again. If that fails, I'll probably be looking at a new motherboard. Thanks for all of your help. I skim through many of the posts, but I always read the ones from Civileme. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. -Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas's message on Friday 05 April 2002 03:41 pm, stated: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Yep! I got the very same answer on kdict! For those like me to that use regurlaly dictionaries Beware. Just for a slightly different take on it. A bookmark that I use frequently and the official definition from there; http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=defenestrate Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?
On Friday 05 April 2002 07:47 pm, Robin Turner wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 00:15, Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? Check out the mirror sites. Our local one ( sunsite.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ) has versions 7.0 onwards. redhat 6.2 was a good OLD version of Linux -- Gerald Waugh : Registered Linux user # 255245 http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com Front Street Networks LLC - ph. 203.785.0699 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, United States of America 7:15pm up 15 days, 3:40, 3 users, load average: 1.58, 1.32, 1.43 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT] Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
On Friday 05 April 2002 05:10 pm, Robin Turner wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002 17:30, Roman Korcek wrote: a few more times. The term itself is probably derived from the German word Fenster (window). Probably from Latin fenestra - same idea. I vaguely remember the Defenestration of Prague, when the Czechs applied their traditional vote of no confidence to some Austrian (?) officials, as one of the events causing the Thirty Years War. Sir Robin Robin: Considering that it happened in the early 17th century, you're entitled to be a little vague on the subject. ;^) -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet Time Limit
Hello, my exams have finished so I am now messing around with Linux. I pity you all. When I boot up Mandrake, the internet works fine for a set time, at which point it stops working completely. However this imposed time limit ONLY exists if I have booted up Windows XP than Linux, otherwise the internet doesn't work at all. WHY does this happen? and how can I fix it? The errors I get alternate between Timed out and couldn't find server Thankyou very much for all your help. John _ 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
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
I actually just downloaded and installed KDE 3.0 and have been playing with it for a bit. Anyway, all I did was download all of the KDE 3.0 files for Mandrake 8.2 (there's a link from kde's main site). Then I (as root) cd'ed into the appropriate directory and just did: urpmi *.rpm and it fixed all the dependencies I didn't have installed for me - all I had to do was insert Disk 1 when it asked for it. James From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE3.0 Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:53:23 -0500 (EST) On 4 Apr 2002, tester wrote: Now do these urpmi unixodbc (and from the reply install every match with urpmi Let me make sure I understand...I type the above, and it shows me this: The following packages contain unixodbc: libunixODBC2-devel unixODBC-gui-qu unixODBC unixODBC-gui-gtk libunixODBC2. So I install those packages before all the rest? Won't that create a ton of dependancy problems, installing just those few before everything else? Why is this method preferable to just doing rpm -ivh *? urpmi postgresql (same activity again, and include all the -devels) urpmi MYSQL (go at it again, installing everything) NOW rpm -ivh *rpm Take notes, you will get some instructions. The procedure will hang on a warning message, refusing to tell you it is completed. Hit the Enter key once for the system prompt. That's it... It will show up as KDE3 on the kdm login screen and it will show up as 11 KDE on the choices Xtart presents from a console. Unles you save the session, it will ask for styles EVERY time you login which can be a pain. The soundserver is, to say the least, flaky. Programs like xmms will continue to work but don't bother reporting known bugs about KDE sound. Some of the login messages and panels may crash with a crash message if your security is High or Higher. KDE3 is making too many assumptions about permissions and open sockets. About par for the course for a .0 type release from KDE. Some things will improve with 3.1, but the new KDE is for the most part, smooth and nice. Liquid is not ready or KDE3 is not ready for liquid at this time. Some beautiful theming from Mosfet will just have to wait a little longer. Civileme -- peace, Rog registered linux user #190719 ICQ #56469198 http://www.toddstheory.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ipchains and Mandrake
Hello all, Me and my friend have installed Mnadrake 8.0 3 times and all the times we found out that ipchains was not getting installed at all. 2nd and 3rd time anticipating this problem we were on lookout for ipchains package to be ticked. We install in expert mode with security level to medium and option select individual packages ON. We had to install it from source and then we found that the kernel did not have masquerading support build in cos' when we gave ipchains -A forward -j MASQ we had an error Protocol: no such protocol Is this a known problem with Mandrake 8.0? Thanks and bye. -Payal __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FIDO - The grandaddy of the Movement.......
A number of people expressed interest in the early days of Pre-net when FIDO happened. A wonderful example of what people can do together. Here is I didn't interact much with FIDO, but I remember that I almost was going to be a fido node once. I had gotten the software and was printing out the manual - that alone took many hours on my 9 pin dot matrix printer, ca. 1985 or so :). I was involved more with PC Board, Uninet (kinda similar, but independent and even was a moderator for one or two 'conferences' - which were kind of like Usenet newsgroups) back in about 1988 or so, before I even knew that the Internet or Usenet existed. Interestingly enough, I first heard about Linux while lurking around in PC Board and RIME Unix conferences. Eventually I was trying to do a mini-newsfeed on my old 386 clunker of RIME/PCBoard stuff, and I started getting more and more interested in Linux because DOS was just not up to that task. One thing that got me hooked on Linux early was the disk access speed - file manipulation and such. Of course, FIDO is rather horse-n-buggy today, but it was and is a miracle for the poor. It's still much like Usenet / UUCP store and forward mechanisms, which I used up until about 1995. (I basically converted my old 386 clunker that was spending over an hour just thrashing the disk to an infinitely more flexible *small* usenet host running Cnews/UUCP, in fact). John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake
ipchains is the old stuff - iptables is used now. HTH Brian On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 12:45, Payal Rathod wrote: Hello all, Me and my friend have installed Mnadrake 8.0 3 times and all the times we found out that ipchains was not getting installed at all. 2nd and 3rd time anticipating this problem we were on lookout for ipchains package to be ticked. We install in expert mode with security level to medium and option select individual packages ON. We had to install it from source and then we found that the kernel did not have masquerading support build in cos' when we gave ipchains -A forward -j MASQ we had an error Protocol: no such protocol Is this a known problem with Mandrake 8.0? Thanks and bye. -Payal __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.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] Video editing using Linux
El Vie 05 Abr 2002 19:30, escribió: I want to do some video editing, e.g. record the hour long home videos onto hard drive and cut the 58 or so minutes of boring footage out, then recording it back to videotape. I don't need anything too fancy, just basic edits and perhaps some simple character generator capability. I assume I can do this with the appropriate software if I add a video capture card to my Linux box. (I have a 1GHz Athlon, currently at 256MB but it will probabaly be upgraded to 512MB by the time I aquire the necessary hardware and software.) Does anyone have any experience doing this under Linux? If so, what software/hardware should I use? Or would I be better off dual-booting into (gasp!) Windows for video editing? Thanks in advance. Bcast2000 (disc 2, MDK 8.2). Supported hardware www.heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.html Carlos -- Carlos Arigós Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina Linux MDK 8.1 5:46pm up 39 min, 2 users, load average: 0.43, 0.34, 0.20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake
unless i'm wrong, the new kernels don't have 'built-in' support for ipchains. which isn't to say you can't use ipchains with the new 2.4 kernels...but you'll probably need to build a new kernel with ipchains support or try loading ipchains as a module. and, i would recommend that you get acquainted with netfilter...which uses iptables. shane chen has some decent (slightly outdated) stuff at: www.knowplace.org - he wrote some nice how-to's on building iptables firewalls. it's a good start. good luck and if you want to try, load ipchains as a module and see what you get - i'm not sure what will happen since i'm a big debian user. as root, modprobe ipchains ; insmod ipchains -jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unavailable Space on dos-format floppies
I have this here floppy disk formatted for dos, with an entire website on it. According to readings under both Windows and Linux it is 41% full. Hmm. The way you describe it there's probably two places where you're losing space: 1) ext2fs needs somewhat more overhead than FAT does 2) ext2fs is reserving areas for root, typically 5%, although that is configurable. If you're intending the disk to be a one-shot (you're not going to be adding files once you've put the contents there) you can get away with setting the reserved percentage to zero. But you still have the extra overhead that maybe getting in the way, and for a low-use diskette ext2fs is probably overkill, although you still have the permissions, which is probably a good thing. You might as well go back to using FAT for floppies - it's not at all good for hard disks, but OK for floppies if you don't think the permissions are necessary. Minix is possible, but I'm not sure most Mandrake kernels ship with minix enabled -- probabbly most people don't use it that often. Another option is that you can tar your archive directly to the diskette, bypassing any file system at all. Tar would basically treat your diskette media as a (smallish) tape. Then to get at your files, you simply untar from the diskette like you would a tape drive. This is a good move when you have a set of data that is close to a diskette's worth of capacity (if less, you lose space) and in situations when you are just planning on taking the data off the diskette. I don't think Windows is going to like either of these approaches. Graham Watkins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake
On Friday 05 April 2002 09:57 pm, Brian Parish wrote: ipchains is the old stuff - iptables is used now. does 8.0 have a 2.4 kernel, if not than ipchains is what he needs! -- Gerald Waugh : Registered Linux user # 255245 http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com Front Street Networks LLC - ph. 203.785.0699 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, United States of America 10:16pm up 15 days, 6:41, 3 users, load average: 1.29, 1.24, 1.39 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:39:03 +1000, john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ed, Thanks for the response, but afraid I can't follow it. - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical? I have now even bought a Jetway moboard as I was told it was lux friendly. SIS 630T chipset It has O/b video AGP4x shared mem amount immaterial as I've seen so far. WRONG... THIS is your problem, you need to specify the ram being used video as subtracted from the overall ram,ie linux mem=118 (this being a machine w/128 ram chip, and 8 meg for video ram and a little extra to be safe. Specified where? I don't recall it coming up in the install proc. The system at last fallover had 384 Megs RAM. What I meant by immaterial was that any change in the allocated Video RAM under Doze made no difference in anything noticeable, so I left it at the default 8. In the example Ed has given, you need to type linux mem=118 instead of just linux at the LILO boot prompt. You have shared system and video RAM, so you need to substract your video RAM from your total RAM to calculate your system RAM. All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 2/04/02 I don't use Windows. I don't need that rubbish ;-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Oh definitely -- Bill Gates, when asked does your computer ever crash? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake
Hi, Thanks for the mails. But I can use ipchains properly with Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2 without any kernel recompiling, then why not with 8.0? has anybody faced such a problem with 8.0? Thanks and bye. -Payal --- Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002 09:57 pm, Brian Parish wrote: ipchains is the old stuff - iptables is used now. does 8.0 have a 2.4 kernel, if not than ipchains is what he needs! -- Gerald Waugh : Registered Linux user # 255245 http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com Front Street Networks LLC - ph. 203.785.0699 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, United States of America 10:16pm up 15 days, 6:41, 3 users, load average: 1.29, 1.24, 1.39 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
john rigby wrote: Hi Civileme, Thanks for the info. However, you didn't answer some of the points such as re getting FROM text to GUI via the command line. Is there a way? Couple of others I've prefaced with if you wouldn't mind. 2. As I paid for the presentation of 1000's of programs with the retail Powerpak, is there a chance that I could use say a 2 disk minimalist set of 8.1 ( or 2) to get a start and then install the programs I want from the 8.0 Set? Would this be safe? It would be safe as long as you don't use --force in the install options. OTOH, it may or may not work. ViaVoice will _not_ work. 3. What is the vote nowadays - my figures show 50/50 for 8.1 and 8.2 re user install/working satisfaction. *** Re above question - and should I go for 8.1? No, 8.1 has several bugs in the supermount and in a couple of the install scripts and is generally more of a pain to install than 8.2. 8.2 is much faster, due to an improved virtual memory algorithm, and many of the complaints for 8.2 can be attributed to bad burns for downloadable CDs or trying to install from CD1 only, which will not work. One integrated Chipset (with a ProSavage inside) is having video problems during disk access (real bug) and Samba will not unmount if you encode the mount filenames in a 16-bit or higher character encoding scheme (works fine if filenames are in iso 8859-1). 4. If Mandrake can't for some reason detect a graphics card, should it not say so? Or will it simply default to a Terminal/text install? As this has happened before, I would like to know this info. First Mandrake tries to estabvlish a Framebuffer driver. The Framebuffer device is a virtual device providing up to 1024x768 graphics with 16-bit(65535-color) color which works off of most modern video cards. If that is unsuccessful, the first fall-back is a VGA 640x480 16-color graphical install, and only then is the retreat to text employed. This is why it is weird, because the 630/540/730 SiS chipsets ALL support framebuffer. May I ask if this Mainboard has been otherwise tested? You may have a serious problem with it in a hardware sense. Frankly I would suspect the CDs first because you have reported problems that looked like incomplete installs on other machines with those CDs. I have a Jetway 630TCF with the SiS 630 chipset. Install comes up Graphic without any effort on my part since the video supports Framebuffer. With the 530 and 8.0 there are some problems on some implementations usually solved by setting options in You said problems with 530. Did you mean 530 or slip from 630? There is a series for Pentium II and III called the 620 which has a super socket 7 counterpart tagged the 530 in the same way that the much more modern 630(for PII PIII Celeron and Via C3) has a super socket 7 equivalent called the 540. I definitely meant 530, which is also an integrated chipset but with earlier and less sophisticated capabilities though still 3D acceleration capable. It makes no sense for the install to come up text without any graphics. But if the install does, then your CDs are seriously damaged (at least one run of the pressed CDs had trouble with a RAMDisk). It might try to come up text if you have less than 64M RAM since the 630 shares 8M of main memory with video memory which makes a 32M setup really offer only 24M to the system. In that case you would be fortunate to install at all. * Well, I had 512 on the last system and 384 on this one, so RAm wasn't a problem. There may be a disk problem - although there was no failure evident - everything else went according to schedule except it won't run as GUI. It could also be a hardware problem. Does this show graphics on ANY system? 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 show OK on my 630TCF, and on a laptop based on the 630 handled by one of the crashtesters. The sound portion is something requiring special tweaks in 8.2 though it runs out of the box on 8.1 and as I recall, does not run on 8.0. Thanks, John Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. It might be a good idea to have a bug fix release before the boxed version comes out. If only to blunt possible smear campains that may come from Redmond. And besides, many complain that Linux requires users to be more computer savvy than for the Redmond OS. Making possible converts go through rpm updates may not help dispel the perception that Linux is for geeks. Many may return to Redmond never come back again. Just read the Rigby FUD. Personally, I would not mind a delay in the release of the boxed version if need be. Seedkum On Friday 05 April 2002 09:53 pm, Damian wrote: El sáb, 06-04-2002 a las 01:59, Seedkum Aladeem escribió: Hi, Is there a chance that there may be an LM 8.2.x bug fix version.released? Seedkum ... you think we may need one? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no subject
El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 19:43, Alberto escribió: Salve a tutti. Ho riscontrato dei gravi problemi con iptables sotto manndrake 8,2 realise. In sintesi dopo n'istallazione pulita partendo da disco formattato il servizio iptables non si avvia. Ho cercato tra i servizi attivi e non ci sta. Ho provato a farlo partire e non parte. Ho dato dei comandi per settare il nat alla solita maniera , in 8,1 va da 6 mesi circa, ma nulla!! Mi dice che devo aggiornare o iptables o il kernel. Ho anche prvato a disistallare iptabe e a reistallarlo sempre dai cd di Mandrake 8,2 ma non cambia nulla. Mah! Come posso risolvere? Qualcun'altro ha riscontrato problemi simili? Anche altri mei amici hanno avuto lo stesso problema. Io posseggo un Athlon 800 che con Mandrake 8,1 é sempre andato a gonfie vele. Grazie. Alberto uhm.. have you upgraded your kernel? looks like your kernel and iptables versions are mismatch.. has your friend installed Mandrake 8.2 from the same cd's? maybe it's a faulty CD. pretty much everyone here has at least tried iptables, and this is the first time i read of a problem like this. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?
Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com What sort of machine? Did you try booting from CD2 and selecting an alternate install image? 8.2 is far better than the other two, and most problems we have seen is that a machine will not read well what another burned (wither media or the devices preparing or reading it). You can find older ones at a limited selection of sites like ftp.proxad.net Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ftp problems in 8.2
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 16:07:30 +0100 Jamie wrote: I found that i had to change the ftpd.conf file and change it to inetd instead of standalone mode.(one of the directives is set to 'standalone' change it to read 'inetd'). Also i found the proftpd and wuftpd don't like to live on the same machine. i think the xinetd processes need restarting after the conf file changes. (it was a few weeks ago when i changed it, i've slept since ;) I have tried to get ProFTPD running also, with the options you mentioned here. But alas, to no avail. When I switch from 'standalone' to 'inetd' and restart things, ProFTPD complains that there is a socket problem: Starting proftpd: tbird.merlijn - Fatal: Socket operation on non-socket tbird.merlijn - (Running from command line? Use `ServerType standalone' in config file!) Any clues? It would be nice to have FTP running again. Paul -- It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it. -Paul Johnson http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.7.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
El sáb, 06-04-2002 a las 03:46, Seedkum Aladeem escribió: Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. It might be a good idea to have a bug fix release before the boxed version comes out. If only to blunt possible smear campains that may come from Redmond. And besides, many complain that Linux requires users to be more computer savvy than for the Redmond OS. Making possible converts go through rpm updates may not help dispel the perception that Linux is for geeks. Many may return to Redmond never come back again. Just read the Rigby FUD. Personally, I would not mind a delay in the release of the boxed version if need be. i agree that 8.2 seems to be a little more problematic, ( judging only by amount of posts. personally i had about 0 problems ) but, including a post from civileme stating that an installation using only Download disc 1 leaves you with a broken KDE... however i assume that the greater amount of glitches is due to the introduction of new features. it's only natural. next release will probably be less innovative but will work better... anyway i guess Mandrake is better off ( and probably already ) working on 9.0 ( or will they release 8.3? ) in any case, i wouln't make a new release of the distro just to avoid FUD.. if the guys at MDK feel they need to fix stuff, they will. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] questions
Robin wrote: On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:07, Oder wrote: I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; try run it from a terminal, it will say something there if there was an error in the desktop I have 2 icons of floppy - Floppy and Floppy2 - why Floppy2? in the boot session I have winxp, linux and linux-nonfb - what is it linux-nonfb? I believe nonfb means no frame buffer, with frame buffer you can run text console with different resolution. Not all video card supports it. what program do I need for DVD and CD-RW? Thank you for any help you may be able to provide. Oder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, I am getting a DVD/CDRW to play with, so we will see. _Some_ IDE DVDs will not function properly under ide-scsi, a methos that makes an ide device emulate SCSI (which is necessary to make cdrecord work, a program that is behind all the Graphical frontends in linux for CD burning) It is likely that you can make a dual-boot situation for the SAME system, one in which hdc=ide-scsi is in the LILO append line for making CD-Rs or CDRWs and another in which the Append line has hdc=ide-cd for viewing DVDs... (And for both the entry in /etc/fstab for /mnt/cdrom has the stanza dev=/dev/hdc in the options) I hope to find a way of integrating this, but right now it seems to be a serious deficiency in some DVD players that they will not function properly under SCSI emulation (Several DVD players do well in SCSI emulation mode). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
