[newbie-it] driver stampante
Qualcuno sa se è possibile far funzionare la stampante laser Canon LBP-800 su mandrake 8.1? Esiste il driver? Se si dove posso trovarlo? Avevo provato ad installare Suse, lì il driver c'era. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #147054457 Ni hau, Cerchietto La radice della pazienza è amara, il frutto è dolce -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
[newbie-it] come visualizzare cdrom e floppy (II Parte)?
Ragazzi, scusate se vi annoio ancora con questo problema che non riesco a risolvere. Putroppo non sono esperto...anzi non so quasi niente di linux etc.. Andrea Celli mi ha detto questo: ...apri il file /etc/lilo.conf e dovunque vedi una riga del tipo append= devfs=auto ... modificala in append= devfs=auto nobiospnp ... esci e lancia il comando lilo. Al prossimo avvio dovrebbe essere tutto ok. Ora vi incollo il contenuto del file /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=Windows(Xp2000) keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda9 append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows(Xp2000) table=/dev/hda cosa dovrei modificare?? Grazie 1
[newbie-it] installazione di PostgreSQL
Ho provato ad installare dei pacchetti RPM, ma mi da il seguente messaggio d'errore, qualcuno sa che vuol dire? [root@localhost RPMS]# rpm -i postgre*.rpm error: failed dependencies: sfio is needed by postgresql-7.1.2-19mdk -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #147054457 Ni hau, Cerchietto La radice della pazienza è amara, il frutto è dolce -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Re: [newbie-it] come visualizzare cdrom e floppy (II Parte)?
Alle 12:18, sabato 6 aprile 2002, hai scritto: tipo append= devfs=auto ... modificala in append= devfs=auto nobiospnp ... esci e lancia il comando lilo. Al prossimo avvio dovrebbe essere tutto ok. VEDI la riga sotto che inizia con append? root=/dev/hda9 append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount read-only DEvi modificarla con append= devfs=auto nobiospnp ... 2 domande perchè la monti in read only?! perchè la monti in leggi soltanto?
Re: [newbie-it] driver stampante
Il giorno 11:14, sabato 6 aprile 2002 hai scritto: Qualcuno sa se è possibile far funzionare la stampante laser Canon LBP-800 su mandrake 8.1? Esiste il driver? Se si dove posso trovarlo? Avevo provato ad installare Suse, lì il driver c'era. Ciao, hai provato a dare un'occhiata nella lista dell'hardware supportato, sul sito di Linux Mandrake? Daniele P.S.: la versione corretta della frase che citi («La radice della pazienza è amara, il frutto è dolce») è «Le radici dell'educazione sono amare. Ma il frutto è dolce.» (Aristotele). ;)
Re: [newbie-it] come visualizzare cdrom e floppy (II Parte)?
Alle 12:18, sabato 6 aprile 2002, Alesk ha scritto: ...apri il file /etc/lilo.conf e dovunque vedi una riga del tipo append= devfs=auto ... modificala in append= devfs=auto nobiospnp ... esci e lancia il comando lilo. Al prossimo avvio dovrebbe essere tutto ok. Ora vi incollo il contenuto del file /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=Windows(Xp2000) keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda9 append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows(Xp2000) table=/dev/hda cosa dovrei modificare?? Grazie 1 La riga da modificare è quella evidenziata con la doppia e alla fine ti dovrebbe risulatre cosi append= hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp devfs=mount Ciao , Tom
[newbie-it] Problemi con Mandrake 8,2 e iptables
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
Re: [newbie-it] come visualizzare cdrom e floppy (II Parte)?
At 14.05 06/04/2002 +0200, you wrote: DEvi modificarla con append= devfs=auto nobiospnp ... 2 domande perchè la monti in read only?! perchè la monti in leggi soltanto? bhooo! non so cosa vuol dire..cosi l'ho installato! :-) Grazie 1000 per le risposte!!
Re: [newbie-it] modem interno.... e altri problemi
At 08.28 05/04/2002 +0200, you wrote: Alle 23:58, giovedì 4 aprile 2002, hai scritto: Cari amici, questo è il mio primo giorno da pinguino, sono molto entusiasta ma naturalmente cominciano i problemi per un utente assai inesperto quale sono io... ...dunque il problema è che il sistema non legge il modem interno del mio pc che fare?? il modello del modem è MOD, MDM, DFAX, V90, GVC, DIM trascrivo ciò che leggo nella ricevuta inviatami dalla DELL Vi ringrazio di già.. Dovresti darci più indicazioni su marca e modello. Genericamente i modem interni (chiamati anche winmodem) mancano sostanzialmente di una parte hardware che viene sostituita dal driver specifico per il modello. I driver, il più delle volte sono sviluppati solo per l'ambiente windows. Fanno eccezione alcune marche ed alcuni modelli, quali, ad esempio, Lucent con la serie LT che è pienamente supportata. Dovresti, inoltre, farti un giro sul sito www.linmodems.org dove si può accedere alle spiegazioni e al download dei driver pèer i modelli disponibili. Dunque... il modello del modem è Conexant HSF V 92 56 K Data Fax PCI Modem... sono andato nel sito e ho scaricato il driver che ancora devo imparare ad installare Ma, mentre facevo queste operazioni mi sono accorto che quando tento di aprire il floppy c'è questo messaggio di errore: Impossibile montare il dispositivo, l'errore riportato è mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /mnt/floppy ed ho inoltre notato che dal desktop KDE manca del tutto l'icona del cd-rom sono andato in Mandrake Control Center per vedere se il sistema aveva visto il dvd e il masterizzatore del mio computer e Hardrake dice sotto cd: _ NEC CD-RW NR - 7900 _ NEC DV - 5800 A _ NEC NR - 7900 A dunque credo abbia ricosciuto il tutto e allora che fare... che stress!!! Potrò mai utilizzare Linux per benino??? Vi ringrazio per la pazienza verso gli utenti inesperti
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con Mandrake 8,2 e iptables
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 15:31, sabato 6 aprile 2002, Voi, Notabile Alberto, avete dipinto: 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. Azz, nella sfera di cristallo non c'e' scritto niente, come faro'? ; Spiegazioni, prego, con relativi messaggi di errore possibilmente ... Prova cmq (da root) con 'service iptables restart' oppure '/etc/init.d/iptables restart' I moduli del kernel che servono a iptables sono stati compilati (se per caso hai fatto una ricompilazione fai-da-te)? Con il comando 'lsmod' ti risultano poi caricati (es. ip_tables e iptable_filter)? C'e' una rara possibilita' che il cd sia danneggiato e/o il pacchetto di iptables in tuo possesso sia corrotto, prova casomai a riscaricare il pacchetto rpm da http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/iptables-1.2.5-1mdk.i586.rpm e rifare un'installazione forzata. Bauz, LK -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK 8.3-cooker - 2.4.18 puro
[newbie-it] condividere connessione
Quali sono i passi con la 8.0 per utilizzare internet non solo da root ma anche come utente normale? Grazie.
[newbie-it] disinstallare StarOffice 5.2
ciao a tutti! come si intuisce dall'Oggetto, ho installato SOffice 5.2 seguendo la procedura di installazione qualche tempo fa ... ora non essendo soddisfatto della versione 5.2 vorrei provare OpenOffice sperando ke sia migliorato ... volevo sapere: 1. OpenOffice è usabile? quindi conviene installarlo? 2. come faccio a disinstallare SOffice? non sembra esistere nessuno script predefinito ... questo vuol dire che basta cancellare manualmente la directory di installazione? grazie a tutti! ciao! -- * * * Fratelli, perchè c'è bisogno del leone nello spirito? Perchè non basta la bestia da soma che rinuncia e venera? Creare nuovi valori - ciò non può fare ancora neanche il leone: ma crearsi libertà per un nuovo creare - ciò può la potenza del leone. (F. Nietzsche da Così parlò Zarathustra) Massimo Di Casola Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] condividere connessione
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 19:45, sabato 6 aprile 2002, Voi, Notabile Augusto, avete dipinto: Quali sono i passi con la 8.0 per utilizzare internet non solo da root ma anche come utente normale? Sia nel PPP-HowTo (che con tutta probabilita' hai gia' installato sotto /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/it) che nell'archivio della lista (http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie-it@linux-mandrake.com/) e' illustrato. In aggiunta anche qui http://ildp.pluto.linux.it/LDR/ldr5.html#title315. Per puro scrupolo, per comprendere il senso di quello che stai facendo (della serie: non fare mai niente senza aver controllato che cosa significano le informazioni ricevute e qual e' il loro scopo), http://ildp.pluto.linux.it/AppuntiLinux/a293.html#title1131. SaluT, Lk -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK 8.3-cooker - 2.4.18 puro
Re: [newbie-it] modem interno.... e altri problemi
Alle 17:25, sabato 6 aprile 2002, hai scritto: Dunque... il modello del modem è Conexant HSF V 92 56 K Data Fax PCI Modem... sono andato nel sito e ho scaricato il driver che ancora devo imparare ad installare Ma, mentre facevo queste operazioni mi sono accorto che quando tento di aprire il floppy c'è questo messaggio di errore: Impossibile montare il dispositivo, l'errore riportato è mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /mnt/floppy ed ho inoltre notato che dal desktop KDE manca del tutto l'icona del cd-rom sono andato in Mandrake Control Center per vedere se il sistema aveva visto il dvd e il masterizzatore del mio computer e Hardrake dice sotto cd: _ NEC CD-RW NR - 7900 _ NEC DV - 5800 A _ NEC NR - 7900 A dunque credo abbia ricosciuto il tutto e allora che fare... che stress!!! Potrò mai utilizzare Linux per benino??? Vi ringrazio per la pazienza verso gli utenti inesperti Allora, iniziamo dalla fine: Le icone del cd-rom fattele tu: tasto destro sul desktop, crea nuovo -- dispositivo cd-rom, e riempi tutti i campi tenendo conto del tuo /etc/fstab. Floppy: sempre in /etc/fstab, vedi un po' come il sistema vede il tuo floppy; controlla che ci sia l'opzione noauto; in caso contrario inseriscila. Modem: per installarlo dovranno essere presenti sul tuo sistema i sorgenti del kernel; se non mi sbaglio sono sul secondo cd della distribuzione (kernel-source qualcosa..) come pacchetto RPM; una volta installato troverai i files in /usr/src/ ; potranno servirti in futuro quando ti diletterai a ricompilare il kernel ;-). Coraggio, la strada è lunga e le soddisfazioni poche, ma il divertimento è assicurato! Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] Epson Stylus Scan 2000
Domandona da un milione di euro!!! Ho installato Linux (Mandrake 8.1) sul mio computer al quale ho collegata una Epson Stylus Scan 2000. Orbene non sono riuscito a stampare nemmeno una riga Non so se è colpa della stampante oppure il sistema non "vede" in modo appropriato le porte. Sul computer ho due parallele (una integrata sulla matherboard e l'altra in uno slot PCI). Windows me le vede come LPT1 (interrupt 7 0378-037F) e LPT2 (0278-027A) e la stampante nonchè scanner funge benissimo in entrambe le modalità! Come posso verificare che le porte siano state installate bene e siano perfettamente funzionanti??? (diritti e proprietari inclusi) Devo dire che il Printing How-TO non sia molto esaustivo sull'argomento! Vorrei capire quali sono i files e le righe in quelli di configurazione che dovrei trovare sulla mia partizione Linux Grazie e.. speriamo di stampare prima o poi
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con Mandrake 8,2 e iptables
Il giorno 6-04-2002 19:37, LukenShiro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Spiegazioni, prego, con relativi messaggi di errore possibilmente ... Prova cmq (da root) con 'service iptables restart' oppure '/etc/init.d/iptables restart al momento non lo ho + si dusco, ho dovuto mettere 8,1 per necessita', e non so dire di preciso.comunque al ìpsto di partire dice che devo cambare o iptables o il kernel ed aggirornarli ' I moduli del kernel che servono a iptables sono stati compilati (se per caso hai fatto una ricompilazione fai-da-te)? no ho usato l'rpm della mandrake Con il comando 'lsmod' ti risultano poi caricati (es. ip_tables e iptable_filter)? non ho potuto controllore C'e' una rara possibilita' che il cd sia danneggiato e/o il pacchetto di iptables in tuo possesso sia corrotto, prova casomai a riscaricare il pacchetto rpm da http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/iptables-1.2.5-1m dk.i586.rpm e rifare un'installazione forzata. Fatto anche questo ma nulla Mi hanno detto che non istallando completamente ipchain tutto si sirsolva che ne pensate?
[newbie-it] scheda audio yanaha opl3-sax sound MDK8.2
[Ri posto la mail per la quinta volta tutte le altre volte a me non arriva! scusate se ci saranno doppioni pare che questa mail non debba arrivare alla lista (le mail a cui rispondo arrivano regolarmente questa non ho capito che ha..a voi è capitato?)] Salve lista Ho terminato poco fa l'installazione della 8.2(cancellando totalmente la 8.1) e dopo aver rimediato agli stessi problemi che avevo trovato con la 8.1 sono arrivato alla scheda audio (yamaha opl3-sax sound sistem) che come previsto non fugeva.(è sempre riconosciuta dal os. ma non funzia) Quindi ho inserito alcune stringhe in modules.conf e se l'altra volta era andata a buon fine.questa volta nisba!! con lsmod ho notato che non sono stati caricati i moduli nel kernel. questi sono i moduli che credo abbiamo a che fare con il suono. ad1848 21408 0 (unused) sound 57292 0 [ad1848] soundcore 4068 2 [sound] Che ne dite? Utilizzando sndconfig mi da questo errore: si è verificatoun errore accedendo a /dev/audio Come posso recuperare informazioni dal sistema per sapere cosa non va? Grazie degli eventuali consigli. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie] questions
On Saturday 06 April 2002 04:16 am, you wrote: 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 In a terminal xine showed: This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.8 (c) 2000, 2001 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team. Built with xine library 0.9.8 [Die 22 Jan 2002 06:30:08]-[gcc version 2.96 2731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.71mdk)]-[Linux 2.4.16-6mdksmp i686]. Found xine library version: 0.9.8 (0.9.8). Display is not using Xinerama. main: probing SyncFB video output plugin video_out_syncfb: aborting. (unable to open device /dev/syncfb) load_plugins: video output plugin /usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_vo_out_syncfb.so: init_video_out_plugin failed. main: probing Xv video output plugin video_out_xv: using Xv port 51 from adaptor Trident Backend Scaler for hardware colorspace conversion and scaling. video_out_xv: port attribute XV_COLORKEY value is 2110 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_SATURATION value is 80 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_BRIGHTNESS value is 45 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_HUE value is 0 video_out_xv: port attribute XV_CONTRAST value is 4 video_out_xv: this adaptor supports the yv12 format. video_out_xv: this adaptor supports the yuy2 format. load_plugins: video output plugin Xv successfully loaded. main: probing audio drivers... main: trying to autoload 'oss' audio driver: audio_oss_out: Opening audio device... audio_oss_out: using device /dev/dsp audio_oss_out: using SNDCTL_DSP_GETODELAY Segmentation fault - 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 I am really new to linux and I have no idea how to solve this problem but, my /etc/fstab is: none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepa$/mnt/floppy2 /mnt/floppy2 supermount dev=/dev/fd1,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,code$/dev/hda1 and the /etc/lilo.conf: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda10 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda10 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi read-only Thanks a lot to Robin and to Civileme, Oder. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ipchains and Mandrake
Hi, the problem was that Mandrake did not install ipchains during its installation during expert mode, select individual packages and medium security. It didn't have any check box for ipchains at all. ipchains did nt figure in list of packages. I had to install it thru' rpm on CD and then when I ran ipchains -A forward -j MASQ it said protocol: protocol not found. I am sure ipchains was not in the list for packages during install, as me and a friend were on lookout for it. thanks and bye. -Payal --- Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 01:34 am, Payal Rathod wrote: 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. Please restate the problem, and yes you should be able to use ipchains on 8.X, although it is recommended to use iptables on 2.4x kernels -- 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 4:46am up 15 days, 13:11, 3 users, load average: 0.83, 1.00, 1.19 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
[newbie] abiword not in 8.2?
Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? - 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: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.2/X-CD-Roast Configuration Problem
John snip The short answer is I don't know. SetUID lets a program run as a user other than the person launching it, but I've just looked at 'info ls' and I can't tell what 'ls -l' would show for something with the SetUID bit set. You'll have to hope someone with a clue picks up on this, or just paste commands from a text file onto the command line when you want to use them. Sorry, I was only 2.5 minutes ahead of you, and now you've called my bluff :-) Richard -- I'd like to live inside a lead-lined room -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 08:17 pm, Tom opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: On Saturday 06 April 2002 12:46 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. Very true, but keep in mind most problems are user, then hardware. 'Least ways I've found that the interface between the keyboard, mouse and chair accounts for ~85% of my difficulties, 'bout 10% hardware. When I keep this in mind, problems seem easier to resolve. Approaching from the opposite direction and assuming the OS or software involved is the culprit, makes problems damn near, if not impossible to fix. too true! i must be special, i have had less trouble with every install. 8.1 was nearly perfect, and 8.2 has _one_single_problem_ so far as i can tell. well 2 if i count that scanner i have that has no linux driver yet, but since it is plugged into my daughters toy machine i don't mind it much -- 'Tis some script kidd3z, I muttered, tapping at my server port- Only this, and nothing more. - Edgar root Poe. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?
On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to be cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is damn near useless now personally i use it somewhere between rarely and never, but it does install on 8.2 very easily. did it from the 8.1 CD's. -- Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?
shane wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to be cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is damn near useless now It's too bad people perceive it that way. AbiWord seems to be a fairly active development project especially considering the small number of developers and time available for each. They are currently concentrating on several bugfix releases prior to releasing 1.0, which will *not* have tables and some other features people desire. After releasing 1.0 they intend to embark on some extensive changes which may mean that post 1.0 releases are in a state of disarray for some time. However, I think the changes will be worth it -- they include tables, (IIUC) replacing the rendering engine, and incorporating something like Pango to better support things like Unicode and internationalization. Some of the fairly recent changes which are in AbiWord now include styles (and templates) including a wide selection of bulleted and numbered list styles. Also, as you may know, AbiWord is crossplatform, working on Linux and Windows (and other systems), and using the same file format on each platform (XML). Also, it is international available in and handling many other languages and things like bidirectional text. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Removing/neutralising URW fonts
Is there any way to remove the URW fonts set without breaking Ghostscript and Image Magick? Like the abisource fonts (which I just removed), I find they don't seem to play nicely with some applications. Alternatively, is there any way I can tell Mandrake to only use these fonts as a last resource (e.g. so that any time a document specificies times it will use Adobe Times, not URW)? Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?
I prefer AbiWord because it seems to accept other format documents with the fewest errors. Not perfectly, but very often acceptable. I haven't had good luck with KWord or other provided WP programs. On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:05 am, Randy Kramer wrote: shane wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to be cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is damn near useless now It's too bad people perceive it that way. AbiWord seems to be a fairly active development project especially considering the small number of developers and time available for each. They are currently concentrating on several bugfix releases prior to releasing 1.0, which will *not* have tables and some other features people desire. After releasing 1.0 they intend to embark on some extensive changes which may mean that post 1.0 releases are in a state of disarray for some time. However, I think the changes will be worth it -- they include tables, (IIUC) replacing the rendering engine, and incorporating something like Pango to better support things like Unicode and internationalization. Some of the fairly recent changes which are in AbiWord now include styles (and templates) including a wide selection of bulleted and numbered list styles. Also, as you may know, AbiWord is crossplatform, working on Linux and Windows (and other systems), and using the same file format on each platform (XML). Also, it is international available in and handling many other languages and things like bidirectional text. Randy Kramer -- Registered Linux abuser #223705 Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 5:59 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, Is there a chance that there may be an LM 8.2.x bug fix version.released? Seedkum Why bother? The neat new feature that invites installers to download the errata at the end of the install process in an ideal way to cut out a large proportion of the difficulties newbies suffer. I lost count of how many posts there were about things like my floppy does not work, or my computer hangs in shutdown after closing the usb ports we had with 8.1 because users did not think of checking the errata pages. Some errata have appeared already. Some of the problems fixed have already been aired in this list. While it is doubtless true that some users will find 8.2 has a problem not present in 8.1 I am sure that for the bulk of users 8.2 will be a delight. My personal experience is that 8.2 is a lot faster- My laptop can now run KDE whereas before I had to use a light window manager, and all the Mandrake tools are a lot slicker and execute a lot faster. For example in 8.1 software manager would take an eternity to fill its lists and synchronise to an ftp server. In 8.2 it comes up in a few seconds. Of course there are still issues with 8.2. Two items I have found which have not been mentioned yet on the list AFAIK are:- The checkinstall rpm seems to be broken.- The rpm on the checkinstall site however works perfectly. The kreatecd rpm has been compiled badly so some features will not work. Compiling from source from the kreatecd site is necessary. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper--Install error
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:42:13 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:36:55 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I get this error when trying to install: Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. snip [frans@amd frans]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/CORE/perl.h perl-devel-5.601-7mdk [frans@amd frans]$ This is in Mandrake 8.2 but I think also in 8.1 you can just install the perl-devel .rpm package. HTH, That did it! Thanks, Frans! -- Todd Slater 11:35am up 10 days, 13:02, 2 users, load average: 1.44, 0.66, 0.36 School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency. (H.L. Mencken) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
On Friday 05 April 2002 06:53 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: 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 *? I've done dozens of KDE upgrades, mostly with Texstar's Mandrake rpms (http://www.pclinuxonline.com/). With all updates I regularly d/l them to a directory by themselves (eg, /stor/kde3/) and in that dir as root, with X/Kde runnin, I rpm -Uvh * (-ivh * would work just as well). If any deps are encountered, rpm will list 'em, nothin will be done. IIRC i needed a few, including libunixODBC2-devel-2.2.0-1mdk and a few others that Software Manger took quick care of. A re-run of rpm -Uvh * merrily installed kde3. Then, as with all major installs, I immediately followed with 'rpm --rebuild db', 'updatedb', 'ldconfig -v', and 'update-menus -v'. That followed by a few login/outs to KDE3 before things sort'a kind'a settle down. (sort'a kin'da is an understatement ;) KDE3 is now an option in KDM. Once chosen KDM will remember to go to KDE3 on future logins for that user (me ;). Oh, I almost forgot, I changed (disabled) autologin before I installed kde3. As with previous tries at kde3 (beta's), I found most kde2 settings were imported, some (actually a lot) I had to re-do. I haven't tried going back to kde2.2.2, but with past kde3 trials, going back (kde3 and 2.2.2 are both installed, kde3's in /opt) will necessitate re-doing some configuration all over again. I should mention that many seem to advocate installin kde3 from outside of X/KDE, and renaming /.kde to .kde-old beforehand. I don't bother with both those notions. YMMV 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 Texstar's mosfet-liquid-0.9.2-2mdk works fine with at least his KDE3 rpms. Add in the 'Slick' icons and it's even prettier. I share your thought tho, I suspect KDE3 is what's not quite ready for prime time. Mandrake did well to not include it with ML8.2. If I didn't relish a challenge, I'd go back to my good 'ol solid KDE2.2.2 Still might. I d/l'd some more kde3 updates last night, but I can't figure out yet what, if anything, they fixed ;) -- Tom brinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 01:02 am, you wrote: Damian wrote: 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 Sorry, the broken KDE and GNOME from a single disk install will stand. Itis not an error. You really need at least two CDs and preferably three to make this work with such things as openoffice and java and KDE3. RH has a beta out with three CDs and it will NOT stop install with only one or two. In fact, CD3 contains the kernel, so installing it with less than 3 is impossible. WinXP installs from one CD, but you will have notepad and solitaire for apps. With a linux distro, you get quite a few apps. Peanut linux is still one CD, bt it has exactly two WMs and lacks many applications. Most of what I have seen in the way of difficulties fall into three categories: 1. Incomplete installs, often from the fact that getting a CD or DVD drive to read what a CDRW hath written is problematic, and may have VERY HIGH failure rates, especially for older drives reading 700Mb CDs and for ultra-fast drives which should never have been manufactured (They aren't ultra-fast, just ultra-high spin and do a lot of retries). 2. Lack of knowledge about msec and what it does and why. This is particularly acute right now because we scrubbed some useless firewall configurations to revamp the tools so they teach better and offer more options to people in an understandable way and people are turning to msec which is essentially a static security setup, not as well documented as most experts would prefer, and a mix of bash and Python scripts. Anyway, some things work fine at msec level 2 but not at all on msec level 4, and cannot be made to work at msec level 5 which is for the people who want to run something like BIND safely. 3. Genuine bugs--there are always a few. Three seem to be frequently reported, and a fourth is under crashtester investigation. 4. Supercessions and regressions--Something working in 8.1 isn't in 8.2 because the new kernel was improved for faster virtual memory and not all the drivers have been looked at. This means that folks with SiS630 chipsets cannot easily get sound, and it means that there are NVidia cards that are ahead of even our bleeding-edge curve that folks can buy which simply aren't well supported yet, and it means that folks who can't get SB Audigy cards to run well under Windows are complaining here because they don't run well under linux either. And it means that the drivers Promise sent out for their ATA/133 cards which don't work are to be replaced by Promise's updated drivers in the first kernel update. But we aren't talking about a sufficient number of genuine bugs to warrant a bugfix release. Civileme The answer to item (1) above is probably the following: A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before the install is done. B- Make the installer utility do the memory test (and any other inportant test that may be neseccary) before the install is done. Heck do them also after the install is complete too. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Time Limit
Well not sure your pity is what we need. I would rather you gave me a SCSI controller ;-) As for your problem You do not say what release of Mandrake you are using, nor how you are connecting to the internet. But reading between the lines it sounds like you are on cable or DSL, and your ISP is assigning an IP address under Windows, and when you start using Linux you are keeping the same IP address but it is not being renewed. You should therefore check that DHCP is enabled using Mandrake Control CentreNetworking, and that you have defined a DNS server address. One possible cause of your difficulty is that your ISP may be one which checks the MAC address/hostname of the device attached and refuses to allow a change within a certain time period. NTL in the UK is an example. In the case of NTL you have to leave the cable modem powered off for 4 hours before it will allow a different MAC address to connect. (There are workarounds to make the computer appear identical in linux as it does in windows) You will get the fastest resolution if you provide as much information as you can. HTH derek On Saturday 06 April 2002 3:03 am, John Lynch wrote: 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] ipchains and Mandrake
On Saturday 06 April 2002 09:48 am, Payal Rathod wrote: Hi, the problem was that Mandrake did not install ipchains during its installation during expert mode, select individual packages and medium security. It didn't have any check box for ipchains at all. ipchains did nt figure in list of packages. I had to install it thru' rpm on CD and then when I ran ipchains -A forward -j MASQ it said protocol: protocol not found. I am sure ipchains was not in the list for packages during install, as me and a friend were on lookout for it. ## Masquerading ## Modules to help certain services /sbin/depmod -a /dev/null 21 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /dev/null 21 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /dev/null 21 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /dev/null 21 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_icq /dev/null 21 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake /dev/null 21 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_user /dev/null 21 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive /dev/null 21 ## Masquerading firewall timeouts: tcp conns 8hrs, tcp after fin pkt 60s, udp 10min $IPCHAINS -M -S 14400 60 600 ## Set up kernel to enable IP masquerading echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag ## Set up kernel to handle dynamic IP masquerading #echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr -- 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 11:55am up 15 days, 20:20, 3 users, load average: 0.77, 0.93, 1.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?
On Sunday 07 April 2002 12:05 am, Randy Kramer opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: shane wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to be cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is damn near useless now It's too bad people perceive it that way. AbiWord seems to be a fairly active development project especially considering the small number of developers and time available for each. They are currently concentrating on several bugfix releases prior to releasing 1.0, which will *not* have tables and some other features people desire. i agree, and if nothing else it provides one more office app choice. more choice is always good. i am only pointing out what i recall a few posters saying. it may have even been another list. if only kword and staroffice could better open some of my older files, as well as share files better. -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 04:17 am, you wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 12:46 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. Very true, but keep in mind most problems are user, then hardware. 'Least ways I've found that the interface between the keyboard, mouse and chair accounts for ~85% of my difficulties, 'bout 10% hardware. When I keep this in mind, problems seem easier to resolve. Approaching from the opposite direction and assuming the OS or software involved is the culprit, makes problems damn near, if not impossible to fix. It gets old. When 7.2 was released, many were sayin 7.0 was fine, installed great, but 7.2 won't, I'm waitin for 7.+ Update a year or so and replace 7 with 8 in the above. Next year use 9. SOS-DD Mandrake's got it goin on in that they are free. Proof's in the puddin, new releases are made available (along with source), before the boxed sets even get to the stores. I'd feel guilty as heck if it weren't for the Mandrake Club. If you wanna run the best posible Linux currently available, you might wanna update your chair or hardware. Micro$oft has a better idea in this respect. They make their OS and software so that it's even worse than the K/M/C interface and/or sloppy hardware. Works OK for ~90% desktop users and Dell, who have low expectations to begin with. I've yet to find but a few situations that weren't solved by upgrading the chair or changin frequencies (yep, your computer is just a different kind'a radio set). With Linux you can change channels at will. YMMV This only confirms that most of the users are fools like me, and that Linux needs to be fool proof. There is nothing wrong with Linux. The fools are the problem. Rigby FUD says Linux is the problem. Fools will fall in love with Linux if it becomes fool proof. Linux could do with an injection of hormones. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
Seedkum Aladeem wrote: A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before the install is done. B- Make the installer utility do the memory test (and any other inportant test that may be neseccary) before the install is done. Heck do them also after the install is complete too. I like the idea of including these on the install, but making them optional. Point A raises a point -- AFAICT, the md5sum on a burned CDROM is different than the md5sum of the downloaded ISO (I've pretty well convinced myself of this). Even worse, the md5sum *may* differ depending on which software you use to burn it, and which options you choose. I have a page on WikiLearn dedicated to learning more about these points: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Md5sumsAfterBurning Look it over, and if you can contribute any data points or understanding, please feel free to do it yourself as it is a wiki, or write to the list or me and I will edit the page. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3 sound server problem
On Friday 05 April 2002 04:39 pm, Linux Maniac wrote: 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 -- http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1801 didn't fix it for me tho, 'cause sound was fine before (onboard AC97). Well sort'a, usin xmms to play music now works better now usin the aRts driver. OSS is/was the problem. hehehe 'bout the only thing kde3 seems to have right ;) I'd recommend stayin tuned into Texstar, and his kde3 'fixes'. MOF, I recomend visitin his site regularly. Good ol' Houston hand, and one of the best Mandrake/Linux advocates goin. One of these days I'm gonna look'm up and hand him some beer $$ ;) -- Tom brinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.2/X-CD-Roast Configuration Problem
Richard, If you go to the properties of mkisofs,cdda2wav,and readcd,in /usr/bin/ and click on permissions, and place a X in set UID and Set GID,then, [root@localhost root]# xcdroast -d /dev/scd0 no ** WARNINGS ** at all, However, X-CD-Roast dialog window shows error reading audio track 1/20 0%Fatal error: did not drop group privilege. 2%child reader sem request failed W Child exited with 1 and so while this seems to cure the setuid warnings, it does not enable an audio cd write in xcdroast, that must be a seperate problem here . John On Saturday 06 April 2002 16:19, you wrote: John snip The short answer is I don't know. SetUID lets a program run as a user other than the person launching it, but I've just looked at 'info ls' and I can't tell what 'ls -l' would show for something with the SetUID bit set. You'll have to hope someone with a clue picks up on this, or just paste commands from a text file onto the command line when you want to use them. Sorry, I was only 2.5 minutes ahead of you, and now you've called my bluff :-) Richard -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:06, Paul wrote: Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? How about the 8.2 Power Pack, is it in there? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 09:00 am, you wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before the install is done. B- Make the installer utility do the memory test (and any other inportant test that may be neseccary) before the install is done. Heck do them also after the install is complete too. I like the idea of including these on the install, but making them optional. Point A raises a point -- AFAICT, the md5sum on a burned CDROM is different than the md5sum of the downloaded ISO (I've pretty well convinced myself of this). Even worse, the md5sum *may* differ depending on which software you use to burn it, and which options you choose. I have a page on WikiLearn dedicated to learning more about these points: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Md5sumsAfterBurning Look it over, and if you can contribute any data points or understanding, please feel free to do it yourself as it is a wiki, or write to the list or me and I will edit the page. Randy Kramer I am not familiar with the ISO format, but if the ordering of the information inside the ISO is not standardized, then even without any padding bytes mentioned in the WEB page you refer to, the check sum would not be reproducible. As I said, I am not familiar with the ISO format but I am making this inference using my early background in encryption, data compression and error correction. The md5sum would be much more useful if the information ordering inside the ISO is standardized (e.g. alphabetical ordering of files and directories etc.). By the way, I am not familiar with the md5sum either. I never looked inside it I just used it. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Errata List for 8.1 ??
Hi, Is there an errata list for 8.1 available? All I can find is for 8.2. Thanks, Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Errata List for 8.1 ??
On Saturday 06 April 2002 7:59 pm, Bob Read wrote: Hi, Is there an errata list for 8.1 available? All I can find is for 8.2. Thanks, Bob Well its harder to find now, but can still be found in Mandrake Forum http://mandrakeforum.com/search.php?query=8.1+errata derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.2/X-CD-Roast Configuration Problem
The SetUID bit appears as an 's' where the executable permissions are, as in: rwsr-xr-x James ps. Is there any reason sometimes the reply-to address goes to the sender of the mail rather than the list? snip The short answer is I don't know. SetUID lets a program run as a user other than the person launching it, but I've just looked at 'info ls' and I can't tell what 'ls -l' would show for something with the SetUID bit set. You'll have to hope someone with a clue picks up on this, or just paste commands from a text file onto the command line when you want to use them. Sorry, I was only 2.5 minutes ahead of you, and now you've called my bluff :-) Richard -- I'd like to live inside a lead-lined room -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dhcpd.conf
Hello, I have successfully set my M Linux as a DHCP server, however my dhcpd.conf file is still very basic (just one subnet and that's all). I seem to have trouble to find a detailed guide on the net, could someone please give me a good link/document/whatever? Thanks, Alexandre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SM56 in Mandrake 8.2
I have a modem SM56, and until the version 8.0, this modem functioned without problems, I Istalled the driver gotten directly of motorola. http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/SM56_5.1_I386.rpm I reinstalled de Mandrake Linux 8.2 and now the modem not is located. In the win2000 the modem is found in COM3 / IRQ9 (D700 - D7FF). The LinuxConf dont't obtain to find the correct pattern. The HardDark to recognize the sm56 modem, but I don't obtain to use the modem. For more information under this modem I visited this site: http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/SM56_DRIVERS.html T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! Empregos O trabalho dos seus sonhos pode estar aqui. Cadastre-se hoje mesmo no Yahoo! Empregos e tenha acesso a milhares de vagas abertas! http://br.empregos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ext3 + kernel22
Hi, I had a problem with kernel 2.4 disliking any cdrom I attach do my ide interface, so I'm using LM 8.2 with kernel22. The question I have is about using kernel22 with ext3 filesystem. I have two partitions, / and /home, both ext3. My mount log: [bart@spiff bart]$ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda5 on /home type ext2 (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) My /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850,noa$ none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 It looks like partition / is on ext3, but during boot I get some errors saying that kernel dosen't have module tmpfs and that tmpfs isn't a valid file system, so it looks like kernel22 dosen't support ext3 right? If so, is there a kernel 2.2 that runs well on mandrake 8.2 that supports ext3? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WordPerfect
On Sunday 07 April 2002 03:38 am, Lee opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Today I installed WordPerfect in only 10 hours, to find I paid 10.00 for a 90 day demo. maybe i don't understand, but are you talking abou the problem with the filters? if so, wp8filtrixfix.tar.gz will fix that. what WP version do you have, and is it the full suite? i was not aware they had a timed version -- If someone tells you they possess the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they possess the *only* truth, run for your life. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install for a laptop
I have just recently purchased a laptop. It is a Gateway Solo1200. It came with an integrated winmodem so I was able to pick up a Pcmcia modem card. I have tried to recompile the kernel with no luck. Keep getting errors. I have been reading up on pcmcia cards and there seems to be a way to install Mandrake with a parameter to use the pcmcia kernel. This would allow me to not have to rebuild a kernel to get the modem to work. (hopefully :)). Can someone help this newbie, I am at a complete loss. I am currently using Mandrake 8.1 but I have pre-ordered 8.2. the Solo has a ten gig hd, no dual boot, on board sound AC97, S3 video, and a Rhino etho 10/100 card built in. I eventually want to network it with my desktop, also running Mandrake 8.1. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WordPerfect
On Saturday 06 April 2002 01:23 am, shane wrote: On Sunday 07 April 2002 03:38 am, Lee opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Today I installed WordPerfect in only 10 hours, to find I paid 10.00 for a 90 day demo. maybe i don't understand, but are you talking abou the problem with the filters? if so, wp8filtrixfix.tar.gz will fix that. what WP version do you have, and is it the full suite? i was not aware they had a timed version It's Release 8.0.0073 from 6/23/98. Was quite the exercise to make it work on lm8.2. Especially at my level of newbiedom. After I got it working, I followed links in its' Help and found that Corel has turned it over to another outfit who is about to release a later version. Maybe that'll happen before my 90 days expires. Never a dull moment, but one step closer to defenestrating. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install for a laptop
The standard Mandrake kernel can handle pcmcia cards without any compilation. If Kde Control CentreInformationpcmcia is not showing your pcmcia cards try checking the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia In 8.1 it should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 in 8.2 pcmcia card support changes and the second line should read PCIC=yenta_socket I have just inserted a pcmcia modem card in my Sony VAIO laptop and 8.2 has picked it up on boot. I can see it in kde control centre and the Internet dialler kppp has found it when I selected 'Query Modem' although it is NOT listed in harddrake. If pcmcia is not working in your laptop it may be a manufacturer specific problem in which case checking out the pcmcia HOWTO and the forums at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/ is a good move. HTH derek On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:42 pm, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I have just recently purchased a laptop. It is a Gateway Solo1200. It came with an integrated winmodem so I was able to pick up a Pcmcia modem card. I have tried to recompile the kernel with no luck. Keep getting errors. I have been reading up on pcmcia cards and there seems to be a way to install Mandrake with a parameter to use the pcmcia kernel. This would allow me to not have to rebuild a kernel to get the modem to work. (hopefully :)). Can someone help this newbie, I am at a complete loss. I am currently using Mandrake 8.1 but I have pre-ordered 8.2. the Solo has a ten gig hd, no dual boot, on board sound AC97, S3 video, and a Rhino etho 10/100 card built in. I eventually want to network it with my desktop, also running Mandrake 8.1. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DrakGW only on restart
I saw this question recently, but couldn't find the message. When I set up my gateway using drakgw, it works fine untill I reboot. After restarting my computer I need to run drakgw again. How can I solve this? - Paul _ 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] Bug fix release.
Randy Kramer wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before the install is done. Point A raises a point -- AFAICT, the md5sum on a burned CDROM is different than the md5sum of the downloaded ISO (I've pretty well convinced myself of this). Even worse, the md5sum *may* differ depending on which software you use to burn it, and which options you choose. I have a page on WikiLearn dedicated to learning more about these points: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Md5sumsAfterBurning Look it over, and if you can contribute any data points or understanding, please feel free to do it yourself as it is a wiki, or write to the list or me and I will edit the page. Randy Kramer I found the most common md5 sum program for windows sucks. For me, MD5Summer * I kid not, thats its name* Just rocks ;p Newbie-stupid works fast. It will even generate sums, b/c i cannot figure out how to use the sums LM provides properly...and when I've tried it fails. Shrugs. YMMV 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] New USR External modem
I have been trying to get my brand new external USER modem working, it dials up but (in Mandrake 8.1) waits at expecting ogin as part of my connect script. it connects fine in M$win. I am guessing that I have some init (AT) or modem commands wrong, since it connects for years with a few different internal modems. if anyone knows the correct init string (or where to find the M$ string) I would appreciate at. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? 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 I'm working with and IBM Aptiva, AMD K-6 350 MHz, 192MB RAM. I've tried installing 8.2 and 8.1 now (thanks for the help, guys) and will soon try 8.0. Both 8.2 and 8.1 boot, ask if I want to install, and then tell me they are Unable to uncompress 2nd stage RAMdisk because of some sort of hardware error. 7.1 installed without any problem. Yes, I did burn the CDs on another computer. Anywork around there that you can think of? I don't understand what you mean by booting from CD2 and selecting an alternate CD image. Where can I read about that? = - 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] New USR External modem
Ed Tharp wrote: I have been trying to get my brand new external USER modem working, it dials up but (in Mandrake 8.1) waits at expecting ogin as part of my connect script. it connects fine in M$win. I am guessing that I have some init (AT) or modem commands wrong, since it connects for years with a few different internal modems. if anyone knows the correct init string (or where to find the M$ string) I would appreciate at. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It couldn't be so easy that it's really expecting login instead, could it? -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, James Thomas wrote: 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 OK...that sounds easy enough, I'll go with that. Thanks, 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 -- 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] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 05:16 pm, you wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before the install is done. Point A raises a point -- AFAICT, the md5sum on a burned CDROM is different than the md5sum of the downloaded ISO (I've pretty well convinced myself of this). Even worse, the md5sum *may* differ depending on which software you use to burn it, and which options you choose. I have a page on WikiLearn dedicated to learning more about these points: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Md5sumsAfterBurning Look it over, and if you can contribute any data points or understanding, please feel free to do it yourself as it is a wiki, or write to the list or me and I will edit the page. Randy Kramer I found the most common md5 sum program for windows sucks. For me, MD5Summer * I kid not, thats its name* Just rocks ;p Newbie-stupid works fast. It will even generate sums, b/c i cannot figure out how to use the sums LM provides properly...and when I've tried it fails. Shrugs. YMMV Femme Femme, for MD5SUM this is how I have used it for the .iso files and it should work for any type file this way: in a console : cd to the directory the files are in such as on a cdrom disk cd /mnt/cdrom then at the prompt type: md5sum nameoffile.i586.iso or whatever it could be nameoffile.1mdk.i586.rpm in any case once the file name is typed then hit enter and it will chug away for a while and then spit out the alpha numeric string 32 bit I believe that you can compare to what was shown on the download site . It has worked for me every time. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
Seedkum, Thanks for the response! Randy Kramer Seedkum Aladeem wrote: I am not familiar with the ISO format, but if the ordering of the information inside the ISO is not standardized, then even without any padding bytes mentioned in the WEB page you refer to, the check sum would not be reproducible. As I said, I am not familiar with the ISO format but I am making this inference using my early background in encryption, data compression and error correction. The md5sum would be much more useful if the information ordering inside the ISO is standardized (e.g. alphabetical ordering of files and directories etc.). By the way, I am not familiar with the md5sum either. I never looked inside it I just used it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
FemmeFatale, Thanks for the response. The common programs in Windows work Ok for me, but I haven't found a way to get the md5sum of a cdrom (in Windows). Randy Kramer FemmeFatale wrote: I found the most common md5 sum program for windows sucks. For me, MD5Summer * I kid not, thats its name* Just rocks ;p Newbie-stupid works fast. It will even generate sums, b/c i cannot figure out how to use the sums LM provides properly...and when I've tried it fails. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 05:47 pm, you wrote: Well I do my major d/ls stuff in windows still. However I hadn't realized the ISO is what you had to check! DUUH K I will go get a dunce cap now. *sigh* I kept checking the actual MD5Sum file. :\ Can we say NOOB? I knew you could boys girls ;p Femme Femme, for MD5SUM this is how I have used it for the .iso files and it should work for any type file this way: in a console : cd to the directory the files are in such as on a cdrom disk cd /mnt/cdrom then at the prompt type: md5sum nameoffile.i586.iso or whatever it could be nameoffile.1mdk.i586.rpm in any case once the file name is typed then hit enter and it will chug away for a while and then spit out the alpha numeric string 32 bit I believe that you can compare to what was shown on the download site . It has worked for me every time. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 06:10 pm, you wrote: FemmeFatale, Thanks for the response. The common programs in Windows work Ok for me, but I haven't found a way to get the md5sum of a cdrom (in Windows). Randy Kramer FemmeFatale wrote: I found the most common md5 sum program for windows sucks. For me, MD5Summer * I kid not, thats its name* Just rocks ;p Newbie-stupid works fast. It will even generate sums, b/c i cannot figure out how to use the sums LM provides properly...and when I've tried it fails. Well that program I mention does generate them for a CDRom ISO, image/whatever you need it for. Thats why I use it. I don't do alot of MD5Sum stuff in linux yet. So I searched that out. ;p Icq me if you wish to get the little program and don't want to search. Email me for my #. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New USR External modem
On Saturday 06 April 2002 18:32, Larry wrote: I have been trying to get my brand new external USER modem working, it dials up but (in Mandrake 8.1) waits at expecting ogin as part of my connect script. It couldn't be so easy that it's really expecting login instead, could it? Looking for ogin is customary so that it won't matter whether the ISP is sending a capital L or lower case l. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boat Anchor???
Hi all, I have following this list for some 8 or 9 months now and have obtained a lot of useful advice and tips. I'm now operating what is close to becoming a boat anchor. I have an AMD K6-2 running at 420 MHz in an ASUS P5A motherboard. Most everything else is standard, SB16, Nvidia TNT2, 160MB Ram, two 20 Gig Maxtor drives, Ricoh CD-RW and generic CD-reader. I have been fighting a weird problem the last couple of weeks. I loaded MD 8.2 and really liked it, but could not get a printer installed. Whenever I ran PrinterDrake, it asked me for Disc 1 and tried to install something. My computer would freeze solid during install, responding only to the reset button. I tried a fresh reinstall of MD 8.2. Same. Tried a fresh install of 8.1. Froze during the install. Civileme suggested a bad CD. I burned a new one. Same. I tried installing from a different CD-drive. Same. I pulled my soundcard and every other non-essential card and disk drive. I was able to reinstall MD 8.2. I ran PrinterDrake. It wanted to install some package again (CUPS and Foomatic, I believe). Out of frustration, I just hit cancel and you guessed it, it worked! I now have a printer. I thought I was home free. Remember the soundcard I pulled? I reinstalled the card and tried to run soundcfg. Not there. I ran software manager. Froze. Solid. At this point, I'm at a loss, other than tying it to a boat. Any suggestions? Has anyone had good experiences with an ECS K7S5A motherboard? Thanks for bearing with my rantings and ramblings. Even if I don't figure it out... I feel better. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SM56 in Mandrake 8.2
Look at /proc/interrupts and see what IRQ Linux is finding it at or if something else is using IRQ9. Then, maybe you can change the settings on the modem or whatever is using the interrupt. Joe On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:02:07 -0300 (ART) Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a modem SM56, and until the version 8.0, this modem functioned without problems, I Istalled the driver gotten directly of motorola. http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/SM56_5.1_I386.rpm I reinstalled de Mandrake Linux 8.2 and now the modem not is located. In the win2000 the modem is found in COM3 / IRQ9 (D700 - D7FF). The LinuxConf dont't obtain to find the correct pattern. The HardDark to recognize the sm56 modem, but I don't obtain to use the modem. For more information under this modem I visited this site: http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/SM56_DRIVERS.html T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! Empregos O trabalho dos seus sonhos pode estar aqui. Cadastre-se hoje mesmo no Yahoo! Empregos e tenha acesso a milhares de vagas abertas! http://br.empregos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bash script to enter su password?
I am looking to make a script that can be run as a normal user in su mode with out having to enter su password. Basically I want to be able to mount my usb digital camera without having to log in as root. Any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bash script to enter su password?
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:58:51 -0500 Jon wrote: I am looking to make a script that can be run as a normal user in su mode with out having to enter su password. Basically I want to be able to mount my usb digital camera without having to log in as root. Any suggestions? It would be much easier to add your login name to the group that is assigned to the digital-camera group... Paul -- A closed mouth gathers no feet. 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] bash script to enter su password?
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:58 pm, Jon Doe wrote: I am looking to make a script that can be run as a normal user in su mode with out having to enter su password. Basically I want to be able to mount my usb digital camera without having to log in as root. Any suggestions? sudo? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boat Anchor???
On Sunday 07 April 2002 11:29 am, Linus Drouhard opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: MD 8.2 and really liked it, but could not get a printer installed. Whenever I ran PrinterDrake, it asked me for Disc 1 and tried to install something. My computer would freeze solid during install, responding only to the reset button. I tried a fresh reinstall of MD 8.2. Same. there is a bug fix for printerdrak, but i think it only applies to HP's. Tried a fresh install of 8.1. Froze during the install. Civileme suggested a bad CD. I burned a new one. Same. I tried installing from a different CD-drive. Same. I pulled my soundcard and every other non-essential card and disk drive. I was able to reinstall MD 8.2. I ran PrinterDrake. It wanted to install some package again (CUPS and Foomatic, I believe). Out of frustration, I just hit cancel and you guessed it, it worked! I now have a printer. I thought I was home free. Remember the soundcard I pulled? I reinstalled the card and tried to run soundcfg. Not there. I ran software manager. Froze. Solid. just curious, but what type of conection is the printer? could your bios be attempting to use an IRQ for the soundcard that the printer is using on an lpt port? that is just shooting in the dark though as software manager would not freeze for that, rather you would think you simply would not get sound or not print. you say you burned a new cd, was it from the same download? did you checksum it? last but not least, if it is the software manager, have you tried installing the needed packages from the commandline? not much help really, but a place to start. -- Microsoft: The company that made web browsing dangerous. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ATI Radeon, XFree 4.2 and Mandrake 8.2: Are they getting along?
Hi With Mandrake 8.1 [and XFree86-4.1] all the 3D games or programs worked fine. After installing Mandrake 8.2, some of these applications do not work, some of these games make my system freeze completely. I have an ATI Radeon 68 DDR card. By the way if i want to watch dvd, i have now to disable Xv when compiling vlc , if not the movies go very slowly. [I cannot watch dvd with the Mandrake xine packages]. Thank for help! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing/neutralising URW fonts
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:35:55 +0300, Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to remove the URW fonts set without breaking Ghostscript and Image Magick? Like the abisource fonts (which I just removed), I find they don't seem to play nicely with some applications. Alternatively, is there any way I can tell Mandrake to only use these fonts as a last resource (e.g. so that any time a document specificies times it will use Adobe Times, not URW)? Sir Robin I am assuming that you use xfs to manage your fonts, as most people do (I don't, though). First, open the file /etc/X11/fs/config in an editor. In the catalogue section, you will see a bunch of font paths (one per line). These are ordered from the most preferred font path (top) to the least preferred path (bottom). All you need to do is rearrange the order of the paths, ensuring there is a comma at the end of every path except the last. You can also add, remove, or disable (comment out) font paths. Save the file, then run 'service xfs restart' as root. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. -- Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compaq Laptop (Presario 1925) with NM256AV..no sound at all :-(
HI! Since last october, when I installed LMDK 8.1, no sound has came out of my laptop. I know that the sound card NeoMagic NM256AV has been a headhache for some newbies like me. I already used pnptools, sndconfig, alsa..you name it! and no positive results, yet. Some CD music but no MP3s. Anyway, I would be very thankful for a good advice. My detect: CPU:GenuineIntel:Celeron (Mendocino):398:[HAS_FPU:HAS_MMX]:794.62:(none) MEMORY:191084:3512:456:13092:82736:225668:249440 BRIDGE:PCI:Intel Corporation:440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge:ignore BRIDGE:PCI:Intel Corporation:440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge:ignore BRIDGE:PCI:Intel Corporation:82371AB PIIX4 ISA:unknown BRIDGE:PCI:Texas Instruments:PCI1225:i82365 BRIDGE:PCI:Texas Instruments:PCI1225:i82365 IDE:PCI:Intel Corporation:82371AB PIIX4 IDE:unknown USB:PCI:Intel Corporation:82371AB PIIX4 USB:usb-uhci USB:PCI:NEC Corporation:USB:usb-ohci USB:PCI:NEC Corporation:USB:usb-ohci DISK:ATAPI/IDE:Unknown:TOSHIBA MK2016GAP:/dev/hda:39070080:240:63:2584 FLOPPY:Floppy Drive Controller:Unknown:1.44MB 3.5:/dev/fd0 FLOPPY:SCSI:IOMEGA:ZIP 100:/dev/sda CDROM:ATAPI/IDE:Unknown:TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202:/dev/hdc VIDEO:PCI:Neomagic Corporation:(laptop/notebook)[MagicMedia 256AV]:[Card:NeoMagic]:256:(null):(null) SOUND:PCI:Neomagic Corporation:[MagicMedia 256AV Audio]:[]:nm256 MOUSE:PS/2:Unknown:Unknown:/dev/psaux MODEM:PCI:Lucent Microelectronics:56k WinModem:Not Available:-1:unknown PARALLEL:/dev/lp0:LPT0 SERIAL:/dev/ttyS0:COM0 PRINTER:USB:Unknown:Unknown:Not Available OTHER:80867113:PCI:Intel Corporation:82371AB PIIX4 ACPI:ignore OTHER:103300e0:PCI:NEC Corporation:Unknown:Unknown OTHER:0149c1ab:PCMCIA:Unknown:Unknown:Unknown OTHER:04511446:USB:Texas Instruments:TUSB2040 Hub:unknown OTHER:085a0001:USB:Unknown:Unknown:Unknown OTHER:085a000b:USB:Unknown:Unknown:Unknown OTHER:045e0059:USB:Unknown:Unknown:Unknown OTHER:NMX2210:ISA:Unknown:Unknown:Unknown OTHER:NMX2220:ISA:Unknown:Unknown:Unknown FREE_IRQS:6:11:12:13: FREE_DMAS:0:1:2:3:5:6:7: __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
