Re: [newbie-it] problemi con scheda audio
Alle 23:54, domenica 21 aprile 2002, hai scritto: Questo è strano, sembra che la scheda non sia configurata per niente. Fai una cosa, fai il login come root, apri una shell (lo puoi fare dal pannello del desktop) e lancia il comando: sndconfig. Questo comando ti permette di configurare la scheda audio, segui le istruzioni che ti da a video. Scusa ma faccio command sndconfig e nulla e sono sicura di essermi connessa come root anche ho provaso solo con sndconfig ma nulla. Mi sono accertata di avere una finestra di shell. Dunque, dato che non riuscivo a capire tale comportamento strano ho fatto una prova. Ho installato mdk 8.1 sul mio portatile (su cui in precedenza avevo installato rh7.2 - senza nessun problema). Ebbene mi succedono le stesse cose che succedono a te (mi riferisco alla scheda audio). Questa (anche se è diversa dalla tua) viene rinososciuta ma non funziona, se apro il mixer non mi da nesun cursore, se lancio sndconfig mi dice, dopo aver riconosciuto il chip della scheda che questa non è supportata. Questo è un caso diverso però. Dato che so per certo che la sndblaster 128 è pienamente supportata Il procedimento, passo passo, è: fare il login come root aprire una shell (fai un clic sull'icona del pannello inferiore (in kde) dove è rappresentato il monitor) dentro digita il comando: init 3 (ti permette di passare dalla modalità grafica a quella testuale) una volta che si avvia l'ambiente testuale dovrai di nuovo fare il login come root e dare la tua password. Prima ti chiederà Login poi password dopo aver fatto il login dai il comando sndconfig a questo punto o ti da un messaggio di errore, perchè non trova il programma sndconfig oppure si apre sndconfig (che funziona in modalità testuale, ti ricordo) che ti chiederà: sndconfig is a configuration tool for sound cards. A probe will now be performed for any pnp cards. e quindi i tasti OK e Cancel sotto Il tasto preimpostato è OK quindi premi il tasto (della tastiera) Invio. Apetta un po di tempo fino a che non ti da un messaggio e segui le istruzioni, dovrebbe farti anche dei test per sentire dei suoni. Prova e fammi sapere. Per quanto riguarda il boot loader credo che tu abbia lilo e non grub. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con scheda audio
Alle 23:54, domenica 21 aprile 2002, hai scritto: Che cosa devo fare per sapere che bootloader ho? OOPS mi sono scordato di risponderti su questo punto. Vai nella directory /boot quindi devi vedere se è presente un file chiamato lilo.conf. Se è presente significa che utilizzi lilo e non grub. In questo caso le modifiche le devi fare a questo file (vedi uno deimiei messaggi precedenti). ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
Re: [newbie-it] domanda...
Il giorno 12:36, lunedì 22 aprile 2002 hai scritto: Salve a tutti, ho bisogno di installare la Mandrake Single Network Firewall su una macchina piuttosto vecchia. Ve la descrivo: Pentium 133 32 MB SIMM HD 1.5 GB Sch. Video: Ati Mach 64 Sch audio... ??? Bene. Anzi male. Quando arriva al fatidico punto del Second stage install non va oltre. Domanda stupida: hai verificato che il CD di installazione non sia difettoso? La prima volta che provai ad installare la 7.2 si piantava esattamente nello stesso punto, e dipendeva da un CD scaricato male... Altrimenti prova a dare un'occhiata a questo articolo dal sito MandrakeForum: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=619lang=en Ciao... Daniele
[newbie-it] manta
Ciao a tutti, qualcuno usa il modem speed touch usb? Mi interesserebbe soprattutto il comtenuto file /etc/ppp/peers/adsl, per controllare i parametri. Grazie a tutti ENx -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Una vetrina tutta tua per i tuoi prodotti? Diventa Supervenditore bid.it! Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=315d=22-4
Re: [newbie-it] domanda...
Il lun, 2002-04-22 alle 13:52, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Domanda stupida: hai verificato che il CD di installazione non sia difettoso? La prima volta che provai ad installare la 7.2 si piantava esattamente nello stesso punto, e dipendeva da un CD scaricato male... Altrimenti prova a dare un'occhiata a questo articolo dal sito MandrakeForum: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=619lang=en Ciao... Daniele Pensando proprio a questo ho riscaricato la SNF... Cmq ora vedo il link. Grazie e ciao.
[newbie-it] Koffice 1.1.1
Salve ragazzi, In Koffice 1.1.1 su Mandrake 8.1 quando do il comando anteprima di stampa per un documento appare una schermata con tutti i caratteri illeggibili e non cambia molto quando si stampa il documento. Per le immagini invece l'anteprima è ottima. Qualcuno ha un suggerimento per risolvere il tutto? Grazie Emiliano
[newbie-it] Login come root
Salve, Avrei un problemino di login da sottoporre. Su una macchina con 3-4 utenti non si riesce piu' a loggarsi come root. Il comando su funziona bene mentre il login diretto no. Qualcuno sa cosa guardare per capire cosa non va? 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] domanda...
Il lun, 2002-04-22 alle 14:07, Brunini Alessandro ha scritto: Il lun, 2002-04-22 alle 13:52, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Domanda stupida: hai verificato che il CD di installazione non sia difettoso? La prima volta che provai ad installare la 7.2 si piantava esattamente nello stesso punto, e dipendeva da un CD scaricato male... Altrimenti prova a dare un'occhiata a questo articolo dal sito MandrakeForum: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=619lang=en Ciao... Daniele Dunque: 1) Con il nuovo CD il problema si ripete 2) Con altre modalità di installazione si pianta al solito punto 3) Solo una volta tentando di installare come expert noauto parte l'installzione grafica ma poi si blocca dopo la scelta della lingua. Ritentando con il solito modo si pianta a second stage install anche in questo modo. 4) Non credo che sia un problema di hardware perchè la Mandrake 7.2 si installa, per di più in modalità grafica... 5) La SNF vuole assolutamante anche una scheda di rete in fase di installazione o si può installare anche dopo? Grazie e un saluto.
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con scheda audio
Dunque, dato che non riuscivo a capire tale comportamento strano ho fatto una prova. Ho installato mdk 8.1 sul mio portatile (su cui in precedenza avevo installato rh7.2 - senza nessun problema). Ebbene mi succedono le stesse cose che succedono a te (mi riferisco alla scheda audio). Questa (anche se è diversa dalla tua) viene rinososciuta ma non funziona, se apro il mixer non mi da nesun cursore, se lancio sndconfig mi dice, dopo aver riconosciuto il chip della scheda che questa non è supportata. Questo è un caso diverso però. Dato che so per certo che la sndblaster 128 è pienamente supportata Il procedimento, passo passo, è: fare il login come root aprire una shell (fai un clic sull'icona del pannello inferiore (in kde) dove è rappresentato il monitor) dentro digita il comando: init 3 ( ti permette di passare dalla modalità grafica a quella testuale) una volta che si avvia l'ambiente testuale dovrai di nuovo fare il login come root e dare la tua password. Prima ti chiederà Login poi password dopo aver fatto il login dai il comando sndconfig a questo punto o ti da un messaggio di errore, perchè non trova il programma sndconfig oppure si apre sndconfig (che funziona in modalità testuale, ti ricordo) che ti chiederà: sndconfig is a configuration tool for sound cards. A probe will now be performed for any pnp cards. e quindi i tasti OK e Cancel sotto Il tasto preimpostato è OK quindi premi il tasto (della tastiera) Invio. Apetta un po di tempo fino a che non ti da un messaggio e segui le istruzioni, dovrebbe farti anche dei test per sentire dei suoni. Prova e fammi sapere. Per quanto riguarda il boot loader credo che tu abbia lilo e non grub. Ciao Sandro Ti devo dare una bella notizia NON FUNZIONA nemmeno sto sistema sto sndconfig nn eSISTE mah meglio che ci rinuncio! No, continuerò fino a quando il mio caro pc nn deciderà di esalare l'ultimo respiro stanco di nn funzionare (lo so è tutta questione di abilità mah!) Ciao e Scusatemi Martina
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con scheda audio
Alle 01:21, martedì 23 aprile 2002, hai scritto: Ti devo dare una bella notizia NON FUNZIONA nemmeno sto sistema sto sndconfig nn eSISTE mah meglio che ci rinuncio! No, continuerò fino a quando il mio caro pc nn deciderà di esalare l'ultimo respiro stanco di nn funzionare (lo so è tutta questione di abilità mah!) Ciao e Scusatemi Martina Dai, non ti perdere d'animo. Probabilmente sndconfig non è installato. Basta prendere il primo cd di mdk8, metterlo nel lettore poi avviare il Software Manager di mandrake. Qui fai una ricerca con la stringa sndconfig e quando lo trova gli dici di installarlo. Se non sta sul primo cd ti chiede di mettere quello giusto. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
[newbie-it] linux win98
Vorrei dedicare il mio primo disco (primary master) di 40GB a linux, ed installare win98 sul secondo da 6GB. Come faccio a far capire a win98 che deve installarsi sul secondo hard-disk? Lo capisce da solo? (Non penso!) Grazie, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] linux win98
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 21:14, lunedì 22 aprile 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] linux win98, Pollo ha scritto: Vorrei dedicare il mio primo disco (primary master) di 40GB a linux, ed installare win98 sul secondo da 6GB. Come faccio a far capire a win98 che deve installarsi sul secondo hard-disk? Lo capisce da solo? (Non penso!) non lo capisce ma si adegua... se sul primo disco non trova partizioni vfat usa il secondo (che per lui è C e basta..) Grazie, Pollo. bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8xGY0F/9fksDJ4y0RAoCeAKC6/9zTUDj5opYqLh5ScPsLNtrVwQCdF5fw IuglAvhyqlOhQTC7nU6TBrY= =YtaP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] linux win98
Il lun, 2002-04-22 alle 21:36, miKe ha scritto: non lo capisce ma si adegua... Scusate se invio una mail per non dire nulla di concreto, ma... miKe, questa battuta è DA INCORNICIARE! Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] [Forse OT] PHP Nuke
Il sab, 2002-04-20 alle 10:15, Giovanni Mazzamati ha scritto:
Alle 04:22, venerdì 19 aprile 2002, Brunini Alessandro ha scritto:
E' propio necessario abilitare il virtual hosting? In fondo è solo una
prova qui sulla mia macchina.
Non è asolutamnte necessario, ma così impari più cose, altrimenti dovevi
crearti una subdir e mettere tutto li, del tipo
http://localhost/subdirnuke/
La cosa che non ho ASSOLUTAMENTE chiara è phpMyAdmin: cosa è e a che
serve (e quindi cosa ci devo fare e come lo devo fare).
E' un'interfaccia in PHP verso MySql, quindi vale lo stesso discorso che è
stato fatto per PHP Nuke. Io non ho, per ora, installata la MDK 8.2 e non so
se è previsto un pacchetto che gestisca phpmyadmin.
Per ora ho seguito le guide di spaghettibrain.
Qualcosa ho ottenuto.
alla pagina http:localhost/admin.php mi parte uno pseudo portale con
numerosi messaggi di errore tutti che indirizzano ad un file solo:
/var/www/html/includes/sql_layer.php
Inoltre al primo accesso non dovrei avere la richiesta di userID
epassword dell'amministratore (che la prima volta dovrebbero essere
God e Password)?
Mi sono scordato di postare il messaggio di errore:
Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
Questo accade perchè non riesce a connettersi a MySql.
Una cosa che devi fare è creare l'utente MySql e poi il DataBase
Di seguito inserisco il suggerimento datomi da Pieruigi Fiorini tempo fa
...
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start
[se non è avviato mysql al boot]
mysqladmin -u root password 'password_di_root'
mysql_setpermission -u root
[ti chiede la password di root]
[scegli 2 dalla lista e crea un utente, un database, dagli una password
all'utente e scegli localhost come server, dopo esci con 0 se non erro]
edita /etc/my.cnf scrivendo
[mysql]
user=root
pass=password_di_root
...
Come si aggiungono altri utenti non l'ho ancora provato...
Ora devi creare il db per Nuke. Ti consiglio di usare phpmyadmin (che
ovviamente deve essere configurato attraverso il suo config.inc.php)
...
$cfgServers[1]['host'] = 'localhost'; // MySQL hostname
$cfgServers[1]['port'] = ''; // MySQL port - leave blank
for default port
$cfgServers[1]['socket']= ''; // Path to the socket - leave
blank for default socket
$cfgServers[1]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; // How to connect to MySQL
server ('tcp' or 'socket')
$cfgServers[1]['stduser'] = ''; // MySQL standard user
settings (this user must have read-only
$cfgServers[1]['stdpass'] = ''; // access to the
mysql/user and mysql/db tables)
$cfgServers[1]['auth_type'] = 'config'; // Authentication method
(config, http or cookie based)?
$cfgServers[1]['user'] = 'root'; // MySQL user
$cfgServers[1]['password'] = 'password'; // MySQL password
(only needed with 'config' auth)
$cfgServers[1]['only_db'] = ''; // If set to a db-name, only
this db is displayed at left frame
...
Cosi non ti verrà chiesta la password all'avvio di phpmyadmin.
Ho volutamente omesso altre informazioni che reputo secondarie, ma ho notato
che lo spirito di asplorazione non ti manca, quindi fammi sapere se avrai
bisogno di ulteriori notizie.
Comunque sia fammi sapere...
Ciao...
dunque: per non creare casini mi sono installato in una partizione
apposita una Mandrake in uno spazio partizionato creato per queste
situazioni.
Ho installato Nuke, php e phpMyAdmin, oltre che SQL.
Ho creato l'utente root con il comando
mysqladmin -u root password.ecc
in pratica ho fatto tutto fino a quando mi dici:
Edita /etc/my.cnf
Non c'è quel file :
Lo devo creare io?
Poi:
Se apro un browser a http://localhost/phpMyAdmin
ottengo numerosi errori che rimandano alla riga 255 del file lib.inc.php
Ho modificato tale riga aggiungendo l'utente root e la sua pswd.
Con phpMyAdmin non riesco ad aggiungere il file config.php...
mi dà errore.
Plz help me.
Un saluto e grazie.
Re: [newbie] dual boot with XP
Norman, You don't need to edit boot.ini LILO will boot XP for you. Did you install XP first or second? If Linux went in last, your boot loader install should have given you a lilo entry for both XP and Linux. If this isn't the case (sounds like it), then you can either add whatever lilo entries are not there manually and then run lilo as root, or you can boot off the install cd again, select expert and upgrade, and let the installer fix it for you. Here is my /etc/lilo.conf in case you want to do it the first way: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda6 append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=nomount quiet vga=788 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windoze table=/dev/hda This is for 8.1, so devfs is switched off. You will probably want to leave it on with 8.2 All you need is two entries like those above pointing as the right partitions and you will be in business. HTH Brian On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 17:48, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I am trying to dual boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 with XP. XP runs on the primary disk, and LM 8.2 runs on the secondary disk. They are both on the IDE slot 1. I put LILO on hdb. Would someone please tell me how I can edit boot.ini to make it boot for both OS? Regards, Norman 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] apm mand. 8.1 misworks
OK, if all is well APMwise under W$, then don't touch the BIOS. Any Gnome users out there who can field this one? Brian On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 09:50, Paul Larkin wrote: Thanks, Brian. Your reply goes with something I also read recently somewhere. I don't like dinkin' w/BIOS, since this is a dual HD (1 linux, 1 Win98) the win APM is set by the OS works fine. But if I have to... And I'm using Gnome, and there seems no evident power control center in the Gnome or Mandrake Control centers such as you have in KDE. --- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, You may like to check out your BIOS settings. I have found that the power saving features there are more likely to cause these sort of problems than the OS. You may also like to visit the KDE control center assuming you are using KDE. There's a power control section in there. Try turning it all off maybe? HTH Brian On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 23:04, Paul Larkin wrote: Hi, how can I get my mandrake 8.1 setup to restore properly, after APM kicks in? -What actually happens: if nothing is input to the PC (let's say I leave the room for dinner for 20 min. or so, so there's no mouse or keyboard input), there are 3 beeps heard, the screen goes blank. When I come back and hit a key or move the mouse -- nothing! The screen does not restore to where it was, there's no restore at all. I have to press reset button, and fsck has to do its thing on reboot. --How do I access APM (if that's the issue)? There's files for apm, apmd, and hddparm that I've briefly looked over the man pages for. Are any of these relevant, providing the info to make the fix? Thank you. = __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.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] What would be the standard document format?
Randy Kramer wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: There's something else I just noticed, too: Richard Stallman's group must feel like we do, because The GNU C Library Reference Manual volumes 1 and 2 were done with the proper 2 space sentence separation. I've got them right here on the desk. Alright!! Randy Kramer (vowing not to post anymore to this thread ;-) So having read the graffiti on both sides of the fence, i guess i'll just sit on it and say i'm 40'ish and we can all follow our own personal preferences. Mine is for ease of typing and simplicity as shown. LOL, fortune tossed in it's vote below! It's completely random, honest. Michael -- I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] abiword in MDK8.2
I can't seem to find abiword in MDK8.2. Was it left out on purpose? If so, anyone can suggest a lightweight MSWord reader (I use OpenOffice for the full feature set)? regards, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTS / Audio Codec97 / and VT8233 Audio Chip configuration
On Sunday 21 April 2002 19:40, you wrote: It seems you succesfully loaded the ALSA driver modules for your sound(card), including the OSS emulation modules snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss :) Can you use K - multimedia - sound - Sound Mixer? Can you hear an audio CD with the KDE CD player afterwards? What happens when you try XMMS? Thanks, The mixer modules are there to be used,depending upon which Alias in modules.conf one enabled. In the examples given previously the OSS driver install that DrakX created for you the mixers come up set midway on the volume contoll sliders. The manually enabled alsa driver produces a mixer control whose setting come up initially as nil volume, I manually reset them and have the new volume levels set as default. However should the wrong aliases be enabled in modules.conf there is no mixer utility at all, it is greyed over. See examples listed previously for details of the settings employed that work. In the DrakX OSS install I have sound from Kstart-Multimedia-Sound-CD Player only , no sound on any other device whatsoever. The devices themselves do seem to be playing,there is the usual number counter clocking up it's numbers as the tune is played in those devices that display as such, and those with the Horizontal slider bars invariably slide.They look as though they are outputting something , but sound is not heard. That includes Xmms. Both drivers do not create any KDE sound jingles.There is nothing to indicate the system 's own OS sounds are configured at all. regards, John In the manually configured alsa install Nothing at all works. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:16:12 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 April 2002 18:53, you wrote: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:38:10 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 April 2002 20:47, you wrote: big snip Thanks, I have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 Mobo which has via 8233 AC97 soundchip built into the board. Upon install LM8.2 seems to configure an OSS driver which works,but only with one item, namely the CD player. Nothing else seems connected to the system. There is no Mandrake sound for the OS, no Xcdroast , no midi player, you name it it doesn't work. It does not seem to be anything to do with unmuting. So what am I to do, several suggestions later someone said configure the alsa sound driver, instead of the OSS driver,which I think I have achieved. Certainly kernel configure and KDE sound believe it is running. It makes no difference whether ARTS is enabled or disabled. There does not seem to be any sndconfig command line facility. The website mentioned previously says add alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-via8233 post-install snd-slot-0 snd-pcm-oss to modules.conf, but although this does help to bring alsa to live as a driver It appears in the boot script now, Nothing including the CD player works. I don't actually have any sound at all. However I think it should work, something is amiss, but I am fast running out of ideas. Installing the latest alsa driver was just one idea. Reconfigure the modules.conf file to include lines about amixer set Master 22 unmute amixer set Master Mono 22 unmute amixer set Input Gain 22 unmute amixer set Aux 22 unmute amixer set Line 22 unmute amixer set PCM 22 unmute was another, but when I do this I get lots of failed script at boot time, with comments about line this and that being unrecognised. The only clue I can find is in configure KDE-info-sound, two lines, synth dev:not enabled in config midi dev : not enabled in config possibly modules.conf needs additional lines to achieve this ? I suspect the alsa sound driver is there and running but no sound device is connecting with it. Is it anything to do with AC97 ? I don't know ? regards, John Uhm, what modules are loaded (check with '/sbin/lsmod')? And what's in /etc/modules.conf? Can you use K - multimedia - sound - Sound Mixer? Good luck getting this to work! -Frans Thanks Frans, At the risk of being over informative I list everything I can think of,except file permissions.:- THIS IS WITH OSS DRIVER CONFIGURED AS PER MANDRAKE INSTALL This gives a Working CD player, nothing else [root@localhost root]# /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted via82cxxx_audio18144 1 uart401 6336 0 [via82cxxx_audio] ac97_codec 9568 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 57292 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] soundcore 4068 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound] parport_pc 22088 1 (autoclean) lp 6464 1 (autoclean) parport23968 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean)
Re: [newbie] abiword in MDK8.2
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 17:15, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I can't seem to find abiword in MDK8.2. You can find and download it in a minute from the Abiword web site If so, anyone can suggest a lightweight MSWord reader (I use OpenOffice for the full feature set)? I have found that KWord does everything that AbiWord does, especially in the handling of M$Word docs. That should be included in your basic LM 8.2 installation. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword in MDK8.2
It's also on rpmfind.net, I downloaded it ,installed it and found it messed up my fonts, there is a section in help that tells you how to resolve this but as I don't use a word processor very often I uninstalled and will stay with Kword until I have time to sort out the fonts issue. On Monday 22 April 2002 10:27 am, Charles Muller,wrote : On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 17:15, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I can't seem to find abiword in MDK8.2. You can find and download it in a minute from the Abiword web site If so, anyone can suggest a lightweight MSWord reader (I use OpenOffice for the full feature set)? I have found that KWord does everything that AbiWord does, especially in the handling of M$Word docs. That should be included in your basic LM 8.2 installation. Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Poogle. Derby,England Linux MDK 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6 mdk using Kmail 1.3.2 12:47pm up 16 min, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.31, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Monitor
It depends on your video card configuration. If you have a card with dualhead built in, then it's usually just proper drivers from the manufacturer. It seems that 8.2 automatically installs and recognizes dualhead on a video card. I'm running the Matrox G400 MAX. My business partner's running the G550 I believe. He installed 8.2 on that machine recently and it saw in the install that he had dual display support, installed the driver. All he had to do was install Matrox's software to configure the dual display. If you're going to use two video cards, things can be much different and at times more difficult. But it's possible. I've toyed with the idea of putting a second video card in my workstation to stretch my display total to 3, but not sure it's worth it. It is very do-able. It's been possible for a while now as I understand it. Just depends on how you go about implimenting it. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | How do I go about configuring Dual Montiors. It's now the only thing keeping | me from going full linux and throwing my windows copy in the garbage. Anyone | know how I go about settting up dual monitors.. Please help | | Jesse Angell | | 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] abiword in MDK8.2
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 20:49, poogle wrote: It's also on rpmfind.net, I downloaded it ,installed it and found it messed up my fonts. Yes, I also have this problem with AbiWord, and couldn't understand the instructions on how to fix it. I also have another problem with it, where after saving a file in .abw, .htm, .doc, or any kind of format, half the time when I go to reopen the same file, AbiWord tells me that it's an invalid document. Although it converts Word documents nicely, it sure seems buggy. Chuck -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Poogle. Derby,England Linux MDK 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6 mdk using Kmail 1.3.2 12:47pm up 16 min, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.31, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] dual boot with XP
you have to put /boot on /dev/hda, I put my in the first 150mb of my hard disk and then I created a Partition for Windows XP about 5gb and then the rest is for Linux / /home /var /swap /tmp etc... and then I use LILO as my boot manager. Also make sure you use FDISK to make the 150mb partition active or else LILO won't load. At least this is what I had to do. As for editing the boot.ini As 'root', edit '/etc/lilo.conf': the first line of lilo.conf reads boot=hda, change the 'hda' to where ever the '/boot' partition is located (find out with mount). Run lilo Make a copy of the new boot sector with dd if=/dev/hda[x] bs=512 count=1 of=linux.lnx Note: 'hda[x]' is whatever the '/boot' partition is. Copy linux.lnx to the windows 'C: drive' cp linux.lnx /mnt/windows_c Modify the 'boot.ini' on the 'C: drive' by appending a line for Mandrake pointing to the location of the copied LILO boot sector: [boot loader] timeout=5 default=C:\ [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT=Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro /fastdetect C:\= Microsoft Windows 98se C:\Linux.lnx=Mandrake 8.0 Reboot. Login to Win98SE. Open a command line window and run: fdisk /mbr to restore the Windows boot sector. -Original Message- From: Norman Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] dual boot with XP Hi, I am trying to dual boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 with XP. XP runs on the primary disk, and LM 8.2 runs on the secondary disk. They are both on the IDE slot 1. I put LILO on hdb. Would someone please tell me how I can edit boot.ini to make it boot for both OS? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword in MDK8.2
I would go for Kword, it does most things competantly. I miss is not being able to add images . John On Monday 22 April 2002 09:15, you wrote: I can't seem to find abiword in MDK8.2. Was it left out on purpose? If so, anyone can suggest a lightweight MSWord reader (I use OpenOffice for the full feature set)? regards, raffaele -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (in desperation, I repost) 52MB limit
From: Jon Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to do a network install. I can mount the CD in another box and make a network connection to it but I get an error message stating that 52MB RAM is needed. Jon -- you'll need to use NFS rather than FTP to do a network install on that machine. There's a good how-to at linuxnewbie.org which can walk you through setting it up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apm mand. 8.1 misworks
Hi, how can I get my mandrake 8.1 setup to restore properly, after APM kicks in? -What actually happens: if nothing is input to the PC (let's say I leave the room for dinner for 20 min. or so, so there's no mouse or keyboard input), there are 3 beeps heard, the screen goes blank. When I come back and hit a key or move the mouse -- nothing! The screen does not restore to where it was, there's no restore at all. I have to press reset button, and fsck has to do its thing on reboot. Seems to me I ran into this once in Gnome, and got out of it by entering my password with the screen blank, and it was restored. ? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Changing Window Managers
First off i'm using Mandrake 8.1 Standard KDE is pretty sluggish so i decided to change to a more light weight window manager. So i downloaded and installed FVWM (on a side note, if someone could recommend a better one that would be helpful.) Anyway FVWM installed fine so i restarted X and tried to log in with the WM set to FVWM but it just starts up KDE like every other time. A little help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Window Managers
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:06:48 -0400 Kirtis wrote:
KDE is pretty sluggish so i decided to change to a more light weight window
manager. So i downloaded and installed FVWM (on a side note, if someone
could recommend a better one that would be helpful.)
Anyway FVWM installed fine so i restarted X and tried to log in with the WM
set to FVWM but it just starts up KDE like every other time.
How did you 'set' the WM to FVWM? Did you set that up in ~/.xinitrc?
If you want a light WM that has lots of features, you could look into
BlackBox, or XFCE (which is what I am running, see
http://nlpagan.net/images/screenshot.jpg )
And if you are interested in a translation of the text on the screen, let me
know *grin*
My .xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
#
### Added by xfce_upgrade version 3.8.12 ###
# Set up additionnal fonts that ship with Xfce (Change id38121117)
xset fp+ /usr/local/share/xfce/fonts
### End of changes version 3.8.12 ###
#
#!/bin/sh
#
# xinitrc file for XFce 3 startxfce script
# Some distro needs to allow even localhost to use the display
# Uncomment this if you experience Can't open display when running
# programs from xfce. BEWARE this is considered as a vulnerability !
#
# xhost +$HOSTNAME
#
xsetroot -solid black -cursor_name watch
# Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
# (as it seems to be the new standard)
if [ -d $HOME/Desktop/Autostart ]; then
for i in `ls -1 ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 2/dev/null`; do
if [ -x $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i ]; then
$HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i
fi
done
fi
# Launch xscreensaver (if available)
# xscreensaver -no-splash -lock-mode
# start Autolock
# xautolock -time 10 -locker xlock -mode blank
#Xmodmap for Euro's etc
xmodmap .xmodmaprc
# Finally, launch window manager
#exec startkde
#exec enlightenment
exec xfwm
# end of .xinitrc
Paul
--
To err is human. To forgive is against company policy.
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[newbie] Taskbar plots too slow
Hi, I successefully upgraded from LM8.0 to LM 8.2 by making a clean install (without the /home partition being reformatted). I noticed one problem that I would like to share: when launching an X application, e.g. gnome shell, the Ktaskbar correctly plots this application, but also plots another one as if the system was launching the former application (hourglass moving). However, the application is clearly there and working. Only after a certain amount of time does the second entry in the Ktaskbar disappear. Any idea? Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LimeWire
Hi all, I can't seem to get LimeWire installed. When I run the bin file as root, it displays the following error. I have j2re installed (1.4.0--the new one), as well as Kaffe (1.0.6). So java is up- to-date as far as I can tell, but these LimeWire errors are all Java-related. What am I doing wrong? tia, Miark Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx50331648'. Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'. Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX) Stack Trace: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGcf at ZeroGcj.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86d5d74) at ZeroGb3.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86cf54b) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8662cf1) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.b(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86471c1) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x85b2281) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:native) at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82ac9d6) at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x825cbcb) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Window Managers
On Monday 22 April 2002 01:06 pm, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: First off i'm using Mandrake 8.1 Standard KDE is pretty sluggish so i decided to change to a more light weight window manager. So i downloaded and installed FVWM (on a side note, if someone could recommend a better one that would be helpful.) Anyway FVWM installed fine so i restarted X and tried to log in with the WM set to FVWM but it just starts up KDE like every other time. A little help? XFCE and Blackbox are strongly recommended. If you've got the CD's, they are there. If not, try : http://rpmfind.net HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LimeWire
j2re 1.4 is ok ! but uninstall kaffe !!! btw : look at the www.limewire.com help forum they got a thread about that whole java thingy wich helped me too ... btw : limewire ist fucking resource eating ... Am Mon, 2002-04-22 um 19.53 schrieb Sevatio: I wonder if that j2re is too new. Try one of the 1.3.x. Miark wrote: Hi all, I can't seem to get LimeWire installed. When I run the bin file as root, it displays the following error. I have j2re installed (1.4.0--the new one), as well as Kaffe (1.0.6). So java is up- to-date as far as I can tell, but these LimeWire errors are all Java-related. What am I doing wrong? tia, Miark Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx50331648'. Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'. Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX) Stack Trace: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGcf at ZeroGcj.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86d5d74) at ZeroGb3.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86cf54b) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8662cf1) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.b(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86471c1) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x85b2281) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:native) at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82ac9d6) at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x825cbcb) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bios setting
Sounds like your computer requires a different keystroke to enter the BIOS at power up. The del key is the most common and usually works for clones, but name brand computers like yours often require you to press a different key to get into the BIOS. Take a good look at the boot message upon power on; most manufacturers tell you there what key to press to get into the BIOS. Failing that check your Compaq manual or check Compaq's web site. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:21:55 -0400 Ron Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on page 5 of the mandrake guide it tells me to set my bios for the pnp, it tell me to hold down the delete key at power up to change the setting. i am running a compaq 7470 windows 98se. when i do this nothing different happens windows still loads,i have tried both ways reboot,power off and then power it back up.help ty Ron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Animated gifs from hell
On Monday 22 April 2002 11:18, Miark opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Some of the sites that I visit with Konqueror have animated icons that drive my CPC through the roof, which I monitor using kcpuload. In fact there's one at Mandrake Club that causes this to happen. When I right-click the offending gif and choose stop animations, then all is fine again. Anyone else experience this? Any comments? (Other than switch browsers :-) actually that is one of the reasons i prefer konq, i can tell it to stop animations. it would be nice if you could set the default to animate once only or something perhaps submit the idea to KDE? -- It is increasingly obvious that our techknowledgy is outpacing our humanity. -Einstein 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] strange printing problem with LM8.2
I guess I can answer this one myself: I'm an idiot. I have an Epson Stylus 600, not 660. After setting the driver to the right one, it works fine now. Sorry for wasting bandwidth... Andy --- Andy Liaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm having a strange problem printing to my Epson Stylus 660 connected to local parallel port. This use to work w/o problem when I was using LM8.0. The problem is that on top of every page, two lines are *always* printed: 284.4 @EJL then it runs out of room at the bottom of the page and prints the last half inch to the next sheet. I've tried changing the drivers (there are 5~6 listed for this printer), all gave the same thing. Can anyone please help? This is really getting to my nerves TIA! Andy = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SAMBA
Is thier a way to have Samba read the smb.conf file without restarting SMBD? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mdk8.2 smp on intel or840 mboard
Anyone have any Intel or840 smp mobo experience? I have dual- p3-800, 1gig mem, sca=50gig, Adaptec SCSI board, Radeon 7500. I Install hangs no matter how simple I make it, generally in the vicinity of the X config. Any Ideas? TIA Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LimeWire - FIXED
Thanks to Derek, Mark, and everybody who responded. Kaffe was the culprit, and making Derek's symlink fixed everything. Cheers, Miark On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:32:29 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should uninstall kaffe remove the link /usr/bin/java and make a new link ln -s /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0/bin/java /usr/bin/java(or wherever java is installed in your system) HTH derek On Monday 22 April 2002 6:31 pm, Miark wrote: Hi all, I can't seem to get LimeWire installed. When I run the bin file as root, it displays the following error. I have j2re installed (1.4.0--the new one), as well as Kaffe (1.0.6). So java is up- to-date as far as I can tell, but these LimeWire errors are all Java-related. What am I doing wrong? tia, Miark Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xmx50331648'. Error: Unrecognized JVM specific option `-Xms16777216'. Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX) Stack Trace: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ZeroGcf at ZeroGcj.init(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86d5d74) at ZeroGb3.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86cf54b) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.a(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x8662cf1) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.b(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x86471c1) at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x85b2281) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:native) at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x82ac9d6) at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(source file unknown:line unknown, pc 0x825cbcb) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SAMBA
service smb reload On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:16:53 -0400 Brian York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is thier a way to have Samba read the smb.conf file without restarting SMBD? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [2] Installing mosfet-liquid theme - the sequal
Hello, I tried once again to install the mosfet-liquid theme on Mandrake 8.1 and it seems for this package to install you also need to install libpng3-1.2.1-6mdk. No here's where things go wrong because this package seems to conflict with a dozen other packages. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I there anybody out there who succeeded in running this theme on 8.1? I also tried the hard way to install from source, but gcc won't cooperate (see my other message Running gcc...). Marco On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 01:35, Joan Tur wrote: Es Dimarts 16 Abril 2002 23:26, en Miark va escriure: Forget the tarball. Use the RPM: http://plf.zarb.org/rpm/8.2/i586/kdemoreartwork-liquid-0.7-1plf.i586.rpm Miark Er... i've installed the rpm but kicker shuts itself down when I move the cursor on the left side icons. Does it work for you? 8-? Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 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] Changing Window Managers
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:06:48 -0400 Kirtis Bakalarczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off i'm using Mandrake 8.1 Standard KDE is pretty sluggish so i decided to change to a more light weight window manager. So i downloaded and installed FVWM (on a side note, if someone could recommend a better one that would be helpful.) Anyway FVWM installed fine so i restarted X and tried to log in with the WM set to FVWM but it just starts up KDE like every other time. A little help? After seeing a reference to Fluxbox on this list, I'm using it now. It's about like Blackbox, but iconified apps get put into something of a taskbar (the toolbar). Also, Fluxbox uses tabs on its windows, so you can middle/3rd button-click on a tab, drag it to another window, and then you can switch back and forth by clicking on the tabs. Easily themes and customized like Blackbox. I've got a screenshot in my gallery (the first one in Linux screenshots): http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/. (BTW, I no longer use the rox filer panel, I just added entries to the Fluxbox menu.) To log in using Fluxbox, I edited ~/.xinitrc and told it to start fluxbox. At the graphical login menu, I select Default, which must read the .xinitrc file, because I didn't go through the trouble of adding Fluxbox to the login menu. I know what you mean about KDE being sluggish. On my AMD K62 @ 500mhz and 384MB RAM, it took about 20 seconds for KDE to start. Blackbox and Fluxbox take about 3 seconds. And, using ROX filer for when I prefer a gui for file operations is sooo much faster than konqueror. HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater 5:38pm up 2 days, 5:01, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.05 Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. (Bertrand Russell) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SAMBA
On Monday 22 April 2002 04:16 pm, Brian York wrote: Is thier a way to have Samba read the smb.conf file without restarting SMBD? Read the docs, there is some command that will read and check the file -- 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 6:30pm up 32 days, 1:56, 3 users, load average: 2.21, 2.11, 2.26 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Animated gifs from hell
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:54:14 -0700, shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 April 2002 11:18, Miark opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Some of the sites that I visit with Konqueror have animated icons that drive my CPC through the roof, which I monitor using kcpuload. In fact there's one at Mandrake Club that causes this to happen. When I right-click the offending gif and choose stop animations, then all is fine again. Anyone else experience this? Any comments? (Other than switch browsers :-) actually that is one of the reasons i prefer konq, i can tell it to stop animations. it would be nice if you could set the default to animate once only or something Netscape 4 can also stop animations (but who wants to use that nowadays?). Mozilla and Galeon have an option of animating GIFs only once (or not at all). You can also try a filter proxy like Webwasher or Privoxy. They can (inter alia) make GIFs animate only once. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it! -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dual boot with XP
Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I am trying to dual boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 with XP. XP runs on the primary disk, and LM 8.2 runs on the secondary disk. They are both on the IDE slot 1. I put LILO on hdb. Would someone please tell me how I can edit boot.ini to make it boot for both OS? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Put the boot record on the MBR. Easiest way is to use one CD to run Update, and cancel everything but bootloader then let it put the boot record where it belongs. It works fine dual-booting from there without disturbing the other OS. Of course if you reinstall the other OS you will need to use CD1 as a rescue to get back into linuc and re-run /sbin/lilo. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apm mand. 8.1 misworks
Paul Larkin wrote: Hi, how can I get my mandrake 8.1 setup to restore properly, after APM kicks in? -What actually happens: if nothing is input to the PC (let's say I leave the room for dinner for 20 min. or so, so there's no mouse or keyboard input), there are 3 beeps heard, the screen goes blank. When I come back and hit a key or move the mouse -- nothing! The screen does not restore to where it was, there's no restore at all. I have to press reset button, and fsck has to do its thing on reboot. --How do I access APM (if that's the issue)? There's files for apm, apmd, and hddparm that I've briefly looked over the man pages for. Are any of these relevant, providing the info to make the fix? Thank you. = __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, disable ACPI in the BIOS and things should work OK. ACPI is a standard imposed by Intel and has never been accepted for the linux kernel. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which new IDE cd-burners supported by 8.1 ?
db wrote: Where do I find a compatability list for new acceptable IDE CDRWs? I need to buy one. And where can I find out more about the particulars of setting one up: ide bu and editing the /etc/lilo.conf etc.? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 try that for the first Question. 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
Re: [newbie] Sony 24x CDRW #CRX175A1 8.1 ?
db wrote: Does anyone know if the Sony 24x CDRW #CRX175A1 cdburner will work for sure with Mandrake 8.1? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 go there check 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
Re: [newbie] abiword in MDK8.2
Charles Muller wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 20:49, poogle wrote: It's also on rpmfind.net, I downloaded it ,installed it and found it messed up my fonts. Yes, I also have this problem with AbiWord, and couldn't understand the instructions on how to fix it. I also have another problem with it, where after saving a file in .abw, .htm, .doc, or any kind of format, half the time when I go to reopen the same file, AbiWord tells me that it's an invalid document. Although it converts Word documents nicely, it sure seems buggy. Chuck -- Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Poogle. Derby,England Linux MDK 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6 mdk using Kmail 1.3.2 12:47pm up 16 min, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.31, 0.27 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 And now you know why it is in /contrib instead of on the CD set. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Window Managers
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 22 April 2002 01:06 pm, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: First off i'm using Mandrake 8.1 Standard KDE is pretty sluggish so i decided to change to a more light weight window manager. So i downloaded and installed FVWM (on a side note, if someone could recommend a better one that would be helpful.) Anyway FVWM installed fine so i restarted X and tried to log in with the WM set to FVWM but it just starts up KDE like every other time. A little help? XFCE and Blackbox are strongly recommended. If you've got the CD's, they are there. If not, try : http://rpmfind.net HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com In addition, on the CDs are fvwm, fvwm2, AfterStep, WindowMaker and Enlightenment.--Our WMs are tweaked on the rpm to make a file for the directory /etc/X11/wmsession.d Look at the files there and you can add your downloaded WM with a similar file, or you can download off the CD in the first place. And on the CDs is also Xtart. A more recent rpm is at www.civileme.com/SoftWare ... If you start up in runlevel 3 (console mode) Xtart will give you a menu of available WMs and allow you to choose any one of them. It was designed for people who like to experiment with WMs and need a fast switch mechanism. There is also one that does not require leaving X, at least for some WMs, but it can leave odd artifacts of the previous WM besides the open windows. Civileme But if you login at Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bios setting
On Monday 22 April 2002 02:42 pm, Warren Post wrote: Sounds like your computer requires a different keystroke to enter the BIOS at power up. The del key is the most common and usually works for clones, but name brand computers like yours often require you to press a different key to get into the BIOS. Take a good look at the boot message upon power on; most manufacturers tell you there what key to press to get into the BIOS. Failing that check your Compaq manual or check Compaq's web site. Try F10 -- IIRC, you have to be pretty aggressive about it. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Triple booting - success and a question
Thanks to Civileme's recent note (and some old ones as well) I finally have my triple boot (RH 7.1/Mandrake 8.2/Win98) system set up. Pretty straightforward really once the wisdom from the list has a chance to ferment a bit! I do have one problem, however. When I installed Mdk 8.2 I used a XFS filesystem for the / partition. RH can't see it. I know that I can find a module for the RH kernel and add it (although I don't know how to do it). I could also backup the Mandrake partition, which is on hda to hdb, and reformat the hda partition. I tried doing that by invoking another clean install (leaving /home intact). I ran DiskDrake (well it was invoked during the installation), selected the ext3 filetype and told it to reformat. Everthing looked fine but when I rebooted after the installation I got a kernel panic and frozen machine. I couldn't figure a way around it so reinstalled by reformatting the partition XFS. Is there some residual config file, pointer or kernel configuration that's telling the system that I have an XFS partition even after reformatting it ext3? More generally, what's the best way of dealing with this? I'm afraid if I do a tar of the all the directories in / I may have a problem with the /proc or /dev directories when I restore. I don't think DD would work as a backup mechanism in this instance as (I think) it will do a binary copy and just copy the old journaling system (XFS) back onto the new one (ext3). Thus, I'm left with reinstalling Mandrake but we've got this residual XFS hangup. Any thoughts guys and gals? Terry Smith Cape Cod USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Window Managers
Kirtis, I use the XFCE window/desktop manager (www.xfce.org). It's on the 8.1 PowerSuite. I'm not sure that it came with 8.2 (still exploring) but you can always download it from the xfce site. BTW, there was a bug with the Xscreensaver package in the Mandrake distributionprevents the screensaver daemon from loading automatically. If you do go to XFCE and run into this, drop me a note. I have an old email around here somewhere with the bug fix. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 13:06, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: First off i'm using Mandrake 8.1 Standard KDE is pretty sluggish so i decided to change to a more light weight window manager. So i downloaded and installed FVWM (on a side note, if someone could recommend a better one that would be helpful.) Anyway FVWM installed fine so i restarted X and tried to log in with the WM set to FVWM but it just starts up KDE like every other time. A little help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Epson Stylus C60 print problems with LM 8.2 download edition
Hello, I had been using an Epson Stylus C60 inkjet printer with LM 8.1 with no problems. Connection is via the parallel port on my PC (ECS K7S5A motherboard, Athlon 1600+ CPU). Yesterday I did a fresh install of LM 8.2 (download edition) and now I cannot get my printer to work correctly. The test page prints, but there is no blue and no black in the output, so the color wheel test page comes out in various shades of red and pink! I am using CUPS and GimpPrint (tried the other available choice with no luck there, either). I tried both 3 color composite and 4 color choices in printer options, neither works properly. I set up the printer with the Mandrake tool both as an Epson Stylus C60, and as an Epson Stylus Photo 1200P, which used to work with LM 8.1, but in both cases I only get red/pink output. The printer works normally under Windows, so it's not a hardware problem or missing ink. Anyone else have an Epson Stylus C60 working properly with LM 8.2? Can you tell me how it is set up, or how to fix my problem? TIA, -JV _ 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
Re: [newbie] Changing Window Managers
I downloaded the source and did the old ./configure make make install... And
since the option was available at the login manager i assumed it was all
hunky dory. Apparently not...
I checked and i actually don't have an .xinitrc. So is there a really
specific format or can i just use the exec fvwm part?
On Monday 22 April 2002 01:19 pm, you wrote:
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:06:48 -0400 Kirtis wrote:
KDE is pretty sluggish so i decided to change to a more light weight
window manager. So i downloaded and installed FVWM (on a side note, if
someone could recommend a better one that would be helpful.)
Anyway FVWM installed fine so i restarted X and tried to log in with the
WM set to FVWM but it just starts up KDE like every other time.
How did you 'set' the WM to FVWM? Did you set that up in ~/.xinitrc?
If you want a light WM that has lots of features, you could look into
BlackBox, or XFCE (which is what I am running, see
http://nlpagan.net/images/screenshot.jpg )
And if you are interested in a translation of the text on the screen, let
me know *grin*
My .xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
#
### Added by xfce_upgrade version 3.8.12 ###
# Set up additionnal fonts that ship with Xfce (Change id38121117)
xset fp+ /usr/local/share/xfce/fonts
### End of changes version 3.8.12 ###
#
#!/bin/sh
#
# xinitrc file for XFce 3 startxfce script
# Some distro needs to allow even localhost to use the display
# Uncomment this if you experience Can't open display when running
# programs from xfce. BEWARE this is considered as a vulnerability !
#
# xhost +$HOSTNAME
#
xsetroot -solid black -cursor_name watch
# Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
# (as it seems to be the new standard)
if [ -d $HOME/Desktop/Autostart ]; then
for i in `ls -1 ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 2/dev/null`; do
if [ -x $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i ]; then
$HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i
fi
done
fi
# Launch xscreensaver (if available)
# xscreensaver -no-splash -lock-mode
# start Autolock
# xautolock -time 10 -locker xlock -mode blank
#Xmodmap for Euro's etc
xmodmap .xmodmaprc
# Finally, launch window manager
#exec startkde
#exec enlightenment
exec xfwm
# end of .xinitrc
Paul
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[newbie] pine problem?
Hi I have installed Mandrake 8.2 and was just wondering how to use the default Pine [4.44] work for Maildirs. I have qmail installed and all my mails are delivered to ~/Maildir/new. How can I get Pine to read them? Thanks a lot and bye. -Payal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [2] Installing mosfet-liquid theme - the sequal
On 22 Apr 2002 23:27:27 +0200 Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried once again to install the mosfet-liquid theme on Mandrake 8.1 and it seems for this package to install you also need to install libpng3-1.2.1-6mdk. No here's where things go wrong because this package seems to conflict with a dozen other packages. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I there anybody out there who succeeded in running this theme on 8.1? I also tried the hard way to install from source, but gcc won't cooperate (see my other message Running gcc...). Marco you probably tried to install the rpm built for kde 3.0 and are using 2.2.2? check kde-look.org .. the liquid RPM they have there is for 3.0. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Window Managers
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:28:02 -0400 Kirtis wrote:
If you have 'exec xfwm' in it at the end, that should get you into XFCE.
That is, if you run startx after logging in with runlevel 3 (text login).
Again, you can use the .xinitrc I put in below (without the of course)
and see what that gives you.
Good luck!
Paul
I downloaded the source and did the old ./configure make make install...
And since the option was available at the login manager i assumed it was
all hunky dory. Apparently not...
I checked and i actually don't have an .xinitrc. So is there a really
specific format or can i just use the exec fvwm part?
#!/bin/sh
#
# xinitrc file for XFce 3 startxfce script
# Some distro needs to allow even localhost to use the display
# Uncomment this if you experience Can't open display when running
# programs from xfce. BEWARE this is considered as a vulnerability !
#
# xhost +$HOSTNAME
#
xsetroot -solid black -cursor_name watch
# Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
# (as it seems to be the new standard)
if [ -d $HOME/Desktop/Autostart ]; then
for i in `ls -1 ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 2/dev/null`; do
if [ -x $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i ]; then
$HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i
fi
done
fi
# Finally, launch window manager
exec xfwm
# end of .xinitrc
--
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who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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