Re: [newbie-it] Stabilità
gigi pinna wrote: Ma a voi va tutto??? a me non funziona lo scanner... per il resto funziona tutto Fosse solo per quello ... sarei entusiasta! Del resto il mio scanner non mi veniva visto neppure dalla Mdk 8.0 eppure quella non mi si e' mai inchiodata spontaneamente ... semmai qualche volta l'ho fatta inchiodare io. la mdk 8.2 NON E STABILE No. Ho grossi problemi allo spegnimento della macchina ... non lo fa sempre ma ogni 5/6 volte si pianta! E (per me) non c'e' piu' nulla da fare se non resettare! :- anche io avevo quel problema: non si spegnva da solo e tutte le volte doveva recuperare il filesystem; io ho risolto passando da ext2 a ext3. da quel momento ha improvvisamente smesso di dare problemi! Il filesystem ext3, sulla mia macchina, l'ho scelto gia' in fase di installazione. La mia 8.2 ha sempre funzionato (?!) con ext3 ... ed ho sempre avuto il problema sopraelencato :-(( Cmq grazie per la tua esperienza :-) Bye Giovanni ;-) P.S. Vi posto, per conoscenza, la descrizione dei problemi della mia 8.2 che inviai gia' 10 gg fa in altra Lista: apparentemente la mia Mdk 8.2 funziona bene, ma da quando essa e' installata posso oramai asserire che, ciclicamente dopo 5 o 6 logout/halt/reboot, invece di eseguire quanto io chiedo mi si presenta un finto prompt di login (testuale) dal quale NON ne riesco piu' ad uscire (o entrare). Complicato vero? Vedro' di spiegarmi ;-) Innanzi tutto, il difetto mi si presenta dopo che io ho eseguito l'input di logout/halt/reboot, a fine lavoro quindi. Il difetto non e' associato solo a logout come non e' associato solamente ad halt e reboot, ma dopo aver richiamato uno di questi tre comandi (anche alternati) quasi con cadenza fissa mi si ripresenta. Quindi, mi ritrovo con lo schermo nero ed il seguente prompt: Mandrake Linux Release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk on an i686 / tty1 localhost login:_ Ne deduco sia un finto prompt perche' sull'underscore posso digitare qualsiasi cosa (anche la password!) che mi viene visualizzata in chiaro senza produrre nessun output! Ora vi dico cosa ho provato di fare: 1) Ho provato di spostarmi su di un'altra console Alt+F2 Mandrake Linux Release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk on an i686 / tty2 localhost login:_ ma anche qui, al prompt, non mi viene visualizzato nulla e non mi restituisce nulla in output :-( 2) Ho provato di spostarmi su di un'altra console ancora Alt+F3 - ma niente da fare 3) Ho tentato di scrivere sul disco i dati non salvati: LeftAlt+SystRq+s 4) Ho inviato un segnale di fine operazioni a tutti i processi ad eccezione di INIT: LeftAlt+SystRq+e 5) Ho tentato di montare nuovamente tutti i filesystem gia' montati in modalita' di sola lettura: LeftAlt+SystRq+u 6) Ho tentato di riavviare il sistema: LeftAlt+SystRq+b - MA NON SI RIAVVIAVA NULLA! A questo punto ... prima di premere mestamente il pulsante di reset ... ho provato la classica combinazione di tasti Ctrl+Alt+Del e dalla terza console mi e' apparso, rimanendo visualizzato, quanto segue: Mandrake Linux Release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk on an i686 / tty3 localhost login:_ INIT: switching to runlevel 6 INIT: sending process the TERM signal INIT: sending process the KILL signal INIT: Pid 2546 [id10] seem to hang _ ...e qui mi son dovuto rassegnare :'-( Reset! Preciso che sulla mia Mdk 8.2 NON ci smanetto molto, anzi molto poco. Per gli smanettamenti ho un muletto apposito :-p L'ultima volta che mi e' accaduto questo (20 min fa) avevo avviato Linux *solo* per leggere la posta delle M.L. e gli avevo chiesto chi chiudere e spegnere la macchina. -- GNU/Linux Powered --- Software is like sex ... it's better when it's free ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] Gruppi di indirizzi in KMail
Alle 11:03, sabato 1 giugno 2002, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Anche io ho un problema simile, vorrei creare dei gruppi a cui corrispondano una trentina di indirizzi al fine di potere, con un solo clik, inviare una news letter associativa, ma non sò come operare con kmail. Chi mi può aiutare? Ciao Stefano, Dovresti ricorrere alle liste di distribuzione presenti nel menù file della rubrica di kmail Funziona allo stesso modo della creazione dei gruppi con outlook di winzozz. Bye.
Re: [newbie-it] Stabilità
Alle 19:43, sabato 8 giugno 2002, hai scritto: la mdk 8.2 NON E STABILE Salve alla lista. La mia MDK 8.2 funziona PERFETTAMENTE, anche se devo dire che ho subito sposato ext3 non appena è uscito. L'unico problema è quello già menzionato del floppy. Ho girato la domanda a Mandrake Expert, visto che ho un PowerPack e quindi diritto all'assistenza. Per ora non hanno capito la domanda (mi hanno girato ad un indirizzo della SuSE: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fschmac_sofloppy.html). Sto insistendo. Un saluto.
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[newbie-it] Fwd: Chat
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Chat Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 09:02:18 +0200 From: fabrizio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao Ragazzi, Chi di voi è riuscito a trovare un prg per chattare fra due computer uno con Linux l'altro con Winzozz. Non mi dite ICQ perchè non mi piace... Mi garberebbe molto un prg tipo C6 Attendo news.. Fabrix ---
Re: [newbie-it] Stabilità
On Sunday 09 June 2002 02:37, CyberPenguin, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] Stabilità wrote: apparentemente la mia Mdk 8.2 funziona bene, ma da quando essa e' installata posso oramai asserire che, ciclicamente dopo 5 o 6 logout/halt/reboot, invece di eseguire quanto io chiedo mi si presenta un finto prompt di login (testuale) dal quale NON ne riesco piu' ad uscire (o entrare). potrebbe essere ma e' solo la prima cosa che viene in mente, qualcosa legato alla sicurezza. a che livello sei di norma? potrebbe essere l'msec che ti porta il pc ad un livello di sicurezza di tipo paranoico non permettendoti (come fanno immagino alcuni server) ne' di spegnere o riavviare, ne' entrare o uscire. potresti provare a non far partire l'msec (dovrebbe essere in un cron) e vedere se continua a farlo. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Stabilità
Il problema riguardo il congelamento del sistema con i salvataggi sul floppy è quasidel tutto risolto grazie al supporto Mandrake, stasera vi dirò. Un saluto.
[newbie-it] Floppy [era Re: Stabilità]
Il problema del blocco di sistema tentando di salvare su floppy è dovuto ad un errore in una linea di /etc/fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 basta correggere nel seguente modo: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=msdos,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 e tutto magicamente tornerà a funzionare. :)) Un saluto.
Re: [newbie-it] Stabilità
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, CyberPenguin esclamo': apparentemente la mia Mdk 8.2 funziona bene, ma da quando essa e' installata posso oramai asserire che, ciclicamente dopo 5 o 6 logout/halt/reboot, invece di eseguire quanto io chiedo mi si presenta un finto prompt di login (testuale) dal quale NON ne riesco piu' ad uscire (o entrare). [..] INIT: switching to runlevel 6 INIT: sending process the TERM signal INIT: sending process the KILL signal INIT: Pid 2546 [id10] seem to hang Bisognerebbe almeno cercare di capire a cosa corrisponde il process id 2546 che blocca lo spegnimento. Da root e prima di impartire uno dei tre comandi fatali, dai un ps -auxfw nomefile_a_caso Poi all'avvio successivo guarda in quel file a cosa corrispondeva. -- L.U. #210970 L.M. #98222 S.U. #12583 K 2.4.18-puro * Slackware 8.1-rc2
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[newbie-it] MDKe usb
Salve a tutti io ho un problema. Alla porta usb del notebook toshiba sul quale ho installato MDK 8.1 è collegato lo Speedtouch Alcatel. La connessione è buona, ma quando finisco la sessione(e quindi chudo il programma di connessione), esco da linux,durante i processi di chiusura si blocca su : disconnect usb device 1 disconnect usb device 2. A quel punto non posso fare altro che spegnerlo forzatamente con l'interruttore con la conseguenza che ad ogni nuovoavvio parte lo Scandisk. Aggiungo che quando è uscita la MDK 8.2 ho fatto l'aggionamento ma non sono più riuscito a connettermi ad internet.perciò ho reinstallato la 8.1. Spero per chileggerà che sono stato chiaro e ringrazio in anticipo chi volesse aiutarmi. Pino
[newbie-it] RINCORRERE IL SO O??????????????????'
Ciao a tutti ,io mi trovo in difficolta con la rete(modem). HO cominciato con mdk80 e le difficolta con l'hardware che puntualmente non riconosceva,in particolarmodo il modem sm56 motorola. Poi riuscito a farlo funzionare (non con poca fatica) ,ho installato mdk81 che mi sembra molto stabile e funzionale per un principiante. Ma pultroppo con mio grande stupore il mio modem non viene supportato (ho provato anche una modifica ai sorgenti del kernel e ricompilato ma non partiva neanche linux,se qualcuno vuole provare posso inviare le istuzioni in italiano)e sconsolato mi sono fatto l'adsl con l'alcatel che funziona a meraviglia. Ma colto da curiosità oltre che da speranza ,installo 82 che non ha uguali per la configurazione di stampanti scanner .ma non vuol saperne di far funzionare nessuno dei due modem in mio possesso. Ma perche quando qualcosa funziona nella versione sucessiva non funziona piu??? Se prendo il pacchetto in vendita ho ancora questi problemi??? sconsolato [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Re: Re: [newbie-it] RINCORRERE IL SO O??????????????????'
Alle 14:39, domenica 9 giugno 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: No è lo speed touch alcatel usb. La connessione è la bbb grazie del consiglio. http://www.linuxland.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1 Funziona ottimamente con Mandrake 8.2 ... come vedi ;-) Ciao -- la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una !!! KMail powered by Linux Mandrake 8.2
[newbie-it] programmi
salve a tutti! qualcuno conosce qualche programma per spezzare file.mp3 in più parti? altra cosa: qualcuno conosce il modo per far leggere i xine i file .asf? grazie a tutti __ MMS: prova i nuovi messaggi multimediali! http://mobile.lycos.it/mobile/local/mms/
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scusate l'intromissione ma sono vivamente interessato anch'io al problema. con la mndk8.1 andava tutto a meraviglia. con la 8.2 in fase di installazione del sistema operativo mi dice che è intervenuto un errore e che non ha trovato il file mgmt rpm. al che io ho inserito nella cartella USRSHARESPEEDTOUCH il file mgmt.o, che avevo su un dischetto e che usavo con la MNDR8.1 : ha funzionato solo un paio di volte ( anche se usciva FALLITO quando cercava di collegarsi all'avvio, si collegava) ed ora non funziona più. Sono andato sulla pagina di linuxland con l'articolo di Marco Forti e per la premura di rispondere subito alla mail non l'ho letto completamente ma mi pare riguardi la 8.1 o sbaglio? E' possibile reperire da qualche parte il mgmt rpm che manca ? Grazie per qualsiasi aiuto giocarra - Original Message - From: Marco Forti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Re: Re: [newbie-it] RINCORRERE IL SO O??' Alle 14:39, domenica 9 giugno 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: No è lo speed touch alcatel usb. La connessione è la bbb grazie del consiglio. http://www.linuxland.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1 Funziona ottimamente con Mandrake 8.2 ... come vedi ;-) Ciao -- la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una !!! KMail powered by Linux Mandrake 8.2
[newbie-it] Il demone esound rinnega Gnome.
Gnome v1.4 non si carica regolarmente a causa di esound :-( . L'avvio di gnome stalla, l'audio alla fine non funziona e la sessione gnome alla fine risulta molto rallentata. Spesso succede che gnome non viene neppure caricato e appare subito la riga di comando con la richiesta di login e il sistema si mette a funzionare in modo solo testo. Altrettanto spesso avviene il contrario che gnome si carica normalmente e che tutto funziona a meraviglia ... Non sapendo cosa fare ... :-\ , ogni dubbio su permessi e proprietà files sono caduti, ho voluto provare, sotto gnome caricato senza audio, ad aprire una shell e forzare il caricamento di esd ma ecco la risposta : Failed of fix owner of /tmp/.esd Esound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: /tmp/.esd/socket The socket is not accessible by esd Ho provato allora con il comando esd -trust ma niente da fare, allora ho digitato su, sono diventato superutente e finalmente il comando esd l'ha preso e l'audio si è collegato e gnome d'incando ha ripreso il suo funzionamento spedito e regolare. Sono andato allora a curiosare nel log di sistema e ho potuto notare un paio di righe sempre su l'audio: linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Preciso che da bios ho disattivato sulla scheda madre l'audio integrato AC97 e i relativi codec audio in quando ho preferito installare una scheda sound blaster Creative più performante su una slot PCI che linux ha riconosciuto e configurato perfettamente e che con KDE funziona regolarmente e occasionalmente anche con gnome come suddetto. Per completare allego anche il contenuto del file esound.conf: [esd] auto_spawn=1 spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 2 spawn_wait_ms=100 Siccome non ci sto a capì più niente, perchè a volte il demone esound collega regolarmente l'audio ... cosa mi suggerite di fare per risolvere questo inconveniente ? Saluti da Giuseppe e grazie anche per aver avuto la santa pazienza di leggermi ;-) .
[newbie-it] Programma Chat
Salve, cerco un programma per chat simile a c6 della tin, esiste??
[newbie-it] Il demone esound rinnega Gnome.
Gnome v1.4 non si carica regolarmente a causa di esound :-( . L'avvio di gnome stalla, l'audio alla fine non funziona e la sessione gnome alla fine risulta molto rallentata. Spesso succede che gnome non viene neppure caricato e appare subito la riga di comando con la richiesta di login e il sistema si mette a funzionare in modo solo testo. Altrettanto spesso avviene il contrario che gnome si carica normalmente e che tutto funziona a meraviglia ... Non sapendo cosa fare ... :-\ , ogni dubbio su permessi e proprietà files sono caduti, ho voluto provare, sotto gnome caricato senza audio, ad aprire una shell e forzare il caricamento di esd ma ecco la risposta : Failed of fix owner of /tmp/.esd Esound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: /tmp/.esd/socket The socket is not accessible by esd Ho provato allora con il comando esd -trust ma niente da fare, allora ho digitato su, sono diventato superutente e finalmente il comando esd l'ha preso e l'audio si è collegato e gnome d'incando ha ripreso il suo funzionamento spedito e regolare. Sono andato allora a curiosare nel log di sistema e ho potuto notare un paio di righe sempre su l'audio: linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Preciso che da bios ho disattivato sulla scheda madre l'audio integrato AC97 e i relativi codec audio in quando ho preferito installare una scheda sound blaster Creative più performante su una slot PCI che linux ha riconosciuto e configurato perfettamente e che con KDE funziona regolarmente e occasionalmente anche con gnome come suddetto. Per completare allego anche il contenuto del file esound.conf: [esd] auto_spawn=1 spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 2 spawn_wait_ms=100 Siccome non ci sto a capì più niente, confuso dal fatto che a volte il demone esound collega regolarmente l'audio ... cosa mi suggerite di fare per risolvere questo inconveniente ? Saluti da Giuseppe e grazie anche per aver avuto la santa pazienza di leggermi ;-) .
Re: [newbie-it] RINCORRERE IL SO O??????????????????'
cut Se però vuoi risolvere i tuoi problemi ti consiglio di passare a Red Hat 7.3 scaricabile da internet (3 CD)... E' in edicola con internet.news di giugno assieme a openoffice :-) Ciao ku68
Re: [newbie-it] RINCORRERE IL SO O??????????????????'
Alle 21:03, domenica 9 giugno 2002, hai scritto: cut Se però vuoi risolvere i tuoi problemi ti consiglio di passare a Red Hat 7.3 scaricabile da internet (3 CD)... E' in edicola con internet.news di giugno assieme a openoffice :-) Ciao ku68 Io l'ho provata e sinceramente era un disastro! non funzionava NIENTE non sono neanche riuscito ad installare i driver per la mia nvdia: erroi su errori anche nella tabella delle partizioni partition magic ha rilevato errori e una volta corretti il mio masterizzatore in emulazione scsi sparito.. mi fermo qui... meglio.. b sarò io..
Re: [newbie-it] RINCORRERE IL SO O??????????????????'
Alle 21:03, domenica 9 giugno 2002, hai scritto: cut Se però vuoi risolvere i tuoi problemi ti consiglio di passare a Red Hat 7.3 scaricabile da internet (3 CD)... E' in edicola con internet.news di giugno assieme a openoffice :-) Ciao ku68 Io l'ho provata e sinceramente era un disastro! non funzionava NIENTE non sono neanche riuscito ad installare i driver per la mia nvdia: erroi su errori anche nella tabella delle partizioni partition magic ha rilevato errori e una volta corretti il mio masterizzatore in emulazione scsi sparito.. mi fermo qui... meglio.. b sarò io..
[newbie-it] Icone
Lo so lo so... E una banalità per molti di voi ma io vorrei aggiungere delle icone al mio kde per ritrovarmele poi nel database del menudrake.. come cavolo posso fare dal momento che ci sono icone ovunque? dove sono quelle la? e dove ne posso reperire di nuove? Ad esempio ho installato openoffice, ho creato il link ma la sua icona non la vedo eppure nella sua cartella ci sono tutte Con il comando sfoglia li riesco a dargliele ma non nel menudrake e comunque poi mi piacerebbe raccoglierle tutte ciao e grazie a tutti anticipatamente GIGI
Re: [newbie-it] programmi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 17:45, domenica 9 giugno 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] programmi, gigi pinna ha scritto: salve a tutti! qualcuno conosce qualche programma per spezzare file.mp3 in più parti? $split file.mp3 divide qualsiasi cosa poi ricostruisci con $cat fileaa fileab fileac . filenn file.mp3 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 iD8DBQE9A7+tF/9fksDJ4y0RAkZEAKC9/k9sEDJhMLR2SvNmjvQnZ1gLmgCfdJqh T2fFtTuyplycQqQwEcrC9fU= =QEKb -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] Applicativo KWord
Dopo aver fatto l'aggiornamento di Mandrake passando dalla versione 8.0 alla 8.2 non riesco più a far partire l'applicativo Kword che prima funzionava benissimo. Devo dire che ho anche istallato OpenOffice che funziona e che l'altro applicativo di KDE vale a dire KSpread funziona. Cosa posso fare ? Grazie e saluti. Francesco
Re: [newbie-it] Applicativo KWord
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, F.Manini esclamo': Dopo aver fatto l'aggiornamento di Mandrake passando dalla versione 8.0 alla 8.2 non riesco più a far partire l'applicativo Kword che prima funzionava benissimo. bastardic mode on Tutte le settimane gioco al superenalotto, ma stranamente non azzecco mai neanche un numero, c'e' qualcuno che mi sa spiegare perche'? ; bastardic mode off Senza offesa, ma siamo quasi allo stesso livello .. Dato che gli elementi che fornisci sono prossimi allo zero, purtroppo c'e' un'unica risposta possibile: _non_lo_so_. Avvialo da riga di comando, leggi quello che appare e aggiungi qualche particolare (non e' detto che serva, ma puo' darsi di si'). -- L.U. #210970 L.M. #98222 S.U. #12583 K 2.4.18-puro * Slackware 8.1-rc2
Re: [newbie] OT: Censorship
Yeah. Well some messages just plain didn't show up. I always send using the right account. But thanks. GO RED WINGS! On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:46 pm, you wrote: D. Olson wrote: Is this board censored? I noticed that some of my posts haven't been showing up... What am I posting that is wrong Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com No. tis not censored or moderated, but it must come from the email you subscribed from and it may hang in the queue for a while while more recent posts go right on through. I don't think Mandrakesoft has ever kicked anyone off the list; however, I did see some folks frozen out by being universally ignored. They were being personally abusive to others, in each case I observed. Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] run windows executable in Linux ...
On Saturday 08 June 2002 02:16 am, you wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 01:23 am, you wrote: Wow. I really don't think someone asking, on a Linux mailing list, if there's free software to do what they want to do is unreasonable. He didn't ask if someone had a cracked version of these programs. He didn't even say he wasn't willing to pay for something. Just seemed to be asking honest question to me. Way to jump down this persons throat. Good grief I wasn't trying to jump down anyone's throat... I always come across that way, and I don't mean to... I need to learn how to type or communicate or something. try remembering that no one can see your face, so add little things to show expresions (big stupid redneck two tooth grin) Sorry. However, he wasn't asking about if there was a free program (which there was and both had been mentioned already), but why a company would charge money for LINUX software... At least that's how I read it... But I guess I am the only one. Sorry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Errors while recompiling the kernel.
On 05 Jun 2002 21:03:57 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a beginner user of linux and I have a beginner's problem which I can't solve. I have Mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer. I tried to recompile the kernel (just as in howto was written), but when making modules I get errors and modules are not not compiled. I've even tried to recompile the kernel with standard configuration, but the same happened. The way I was doing: 1) # make menuconfig I tried with many comfigurations. 2) # make dep 3) # make clean 4) # make modules Errors! I've moved old modules from /lib/modules/ to ~root 5) # make modules_install And there are just a few compiled modules. What am I doing rong? (or what am I not doing?). Please help me. A few questions: what are these errors? Where did you get your kernel sources? I suspect that you just didn't enable very many options to be compiled as modules. Post the errors though and we'll see. Also, you're missing some steps. The correct steps are as follows: make mrproper make menuconfig(or make xconfig if you want a gui config, I'd recommend that one) make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install You could also do: make modulles make modules_install This way make modules_install only happens if there are no errors in make modules. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Divx movies -- yes or no?!
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:56 am, John Richard Smith wrote: You are absolutely correct, I simply applied LM8.2's own Mplayer version which came with the distro which is Mplayer v 0.50-3asp . Now this is no good you are saying? If so which particular version would be better and does it have to be tar ball versions, are there no rpm 's that are just as good ? Yes, tarball, as Mplayer's authors have strongly discouraged anyone making rpm's from their source (PLF use to). The latest (.90pre4) is at http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/just remember to compile with ./configure --disable-gcc-checking as the authors also have strong feelings about usin gcc-2.96, mistakenly thinking that all 2.96 versions are RedHat's. Best movie program ... imature authors. FWIW, I've noticed that some .avi's or .mpg's I have play fine usin the open source 'nv' driver, but fail miserably if I have the closed source secret evil unsecureable buggy half a$$ed binary only 'nvidia' driver enabled. El cheapo Abit Gef2, but I suspect also other cards, YMMV ; -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Divx movies -- yes or no?!
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 16:05, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:03 am, s wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:51 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Ok I found mplayer-0.90pre4-fr1.src.rpm,but as soon as I start to recompile:- [root@localhost pk]# rpm --rebuild mplayer-0.90pre4-fr1.src.rpm Installing mplayer-0.90pre4-fr1.src.rpm error: failed build dependencies: So now I'm stuck. John I ain't never had any luck with plf's files. You're better off going to mplayer's site and download the tarball. jmo, -s I havt'a agree, at least for mplayer. While I always had better results with the PLF mplayer rpms, that has reversed since mplayer .60. FWIW, all the deps John listed are also at the PLF d/l site, but if IIRC I still had trouble getting the src.rpm to compile and produce a working player. I think that was with .90pre2 tho. So now I use the tarball ; -- I've lost the thread about changing my compiler version, which one do I have to have. John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 June 2002 3:44 am, Michael Viron wrote: been having some problems lately with posts not showing on the list. There certainly are. I could probably have printed this out on a sheet of A4 and walked with it from Paris to London more quickly ;) Received: from smtp.mandrakesoft.com (212.43.244.20) by ice.cream.org with SMTP; 9 Jun 2002 08:31:35 - Received: from yavin.mandrax.org (moseisley.mandrax.org [63.209.80.226]) by smtp.mandrakesoft.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g55L0BvQ002023; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 23:00:13 +0200 Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9AxRUCv59vFiSU4YRAox7AJ9Eu8SVnxXi1ZTdmPczbaXRWtuddQCeJVlf GyDWRpsvcqLJ8cYb+IAicT8= =/Xkh -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] package downloads need conversion?
Hi everybody, I'm trying to get my Mandrake 8.0 system online and need to install dhcpcd or pump as a dhcp client. Can I download these packages on a Windows box and install them straight on my Linux box or do I have to convert them into a Linux compatible format? Any advice will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Matthias
Re: [newbie] Re: Open term and run script from icon - working
On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 18:59, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: create the script then invoke the terminal using the -e command like this xterm -e scriptname but be warned that it will exit after finishing the script. not all terminals support this so you better check the manpage. ciao! Michael Adams wrote: How does one get a terminal (Konsole window) to open AND start running a script in one action from an icon? I can run a script from an icon or i can open a Konsole window from an icon. But i can't get the window to load and run the script from the icon. Heres my sample script. --- #!/bin/bash #Start the client as a background task /usr/games/civclient sleep 1 #Start the server /usr/games/civserver --file m.sav.gz --- This server needs to be run in an interactive terminal to start it. Of course it's for work you understand ;-) -- Michael Thanks... this is the method i chose. By adding the xterm -e to the start of the server line it works perfectly from the desktop without a kde.ink icon. By the way for this one the trailing is optional. It is a little more correct with the as without it the script just stays resident in memory but suspended until the xterm is closed. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gimp under Mandrake symbolic link
My new scanner, Epson Perfection 1650, works beautifully under Mandrake 8.2. It was the easiest install I have ever done under any OS. It required a downloaded driver from the Epson site, but it installs without any problems whatsoever. From a shell, running iscan runs a GUI, and the only criticism I could make is that it only offer pnm and png as file types - not a major problem. To run the scanner under gimp, however a symbolic link has to be made. The instructions say it needs ln -s /usr/bin/iscan ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/ The path for iscan is correct, but I need to adjust the gimp path. Can anyone please tell me exactly where gimp plugins go in Mdk 8.2? TIA Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp under Mandrake symbolic link
On Sunday 09 June 2002 10:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My new scanner, Epson Perfection 1650, works beautifully under Mandrake 8.2. It was the easiest install I have ever done under any OS. It required a downloaded driver from the Epson site, but it installs without any problems whatsoever. From a shell, running iscan runs a GUI, and the only criticism I could make is that it only offer pnm and png as file types - not a major problem. To run the scanner under gimp, however a symbolic link has to be made. The instructions say it needs ln -s /usr/bin/iscan ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins The path for iscan is correct, but I need to adjust the gimp path. Can anyone please tell me exactly where gimp plugins go in Mdk 8.2? TIA Anne Exactly where it says ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins ~ means your home directory. When you start gimp for the first time it will create ~/.gimp-1.2 A Tip for you : If you want to find files the quickest way is to use the command line utility 'slocate' It is on the slocate RPM slocate will run a background job daily to maintain a database of where every file resides on your computer. Also with your scanner doesn't it work with xsane or kooka? They will give you all sorts of file formats. Scannerdrake from Mandrake Control Centre lists your scanner as supported by xsane It should be able to configure it without downloading any driver. There is also an xsane plugin for gimp which will allow you to scan from inside gimp. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast help
Heather Reed wrote: Hi all I have just installed xcdroast (together with cdrecord). When I try to open it, I get a message telling me to configure as root, but no info as to what to configure where or how. I can't seem to get to a help file though, and am totally confused :-(( I have looked at various howtos on the net, but they are way above me I'm afraid. Can anyone out there give me, or point me to and idiots guide (and believe me, in this I am an idiot :-))? I am running 8.2, and have a memorex IDE rewriter installed, which is being picked up by harddrake OK. it is my only CD drive, and I hate having to reboot into windows (gr) to burn CDs. Alternatively, a pointer to other CD burner apps that might do the job as well and be easier to get going (if such things exist) would do just as well. Any help would be gratefully received. Ta muchly Heather I don't think it's difficult. Log in to your favourite window manager as root. Open up xcdroast, go into settings and fill in the settings as required. I'd go into more detail if I could remember it. It works for me. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdrecord and bootable cd
I am using cdrecord to cut a bootable iso image to a CD Only the CD I burn will not boot.. I used the following; # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 botablet-image.iso The CD looks normal when I mount and ls the contents. I put it in a system to boot, and the drive activity led flashes a few timea and the PC goes ahead and boots from the hard drive. I have a CD cut by a friend of mine, of a similar iso, using Nero, it will boot. What could I be doing wrong? TIA -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gimp under Mandrake symbolic link
Also with your scanner doesn't it work with xsane or kooka? They will give you all sorts of file formats. Scannerdrake from Mandrake Control Centre lists your scanner as supported by xsane It should be able to configure it without downloading any driver. There is also an xsane plugin for gimp which will allow you to scan from inside gimp. The Epson Perfection 1650 scanner works fine for me in Mandrake 8.2, scanning from within gimp using the xsane plugin. I would recommend that this is probably the best way for you to go. I can let you have the specific configuration details if you need them. But pretty much all I did to set up my scanner was install the sane-backends and libraries rpms and the xsane-gimp rpm. Then if you have a look at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hard-details.php3?F_TYPE=scannerF_ID=344 to check your scanner is set up correctly, you should be pretty much there. Hope this helps Ross - This mail sent through UK Online webmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 3
Mark You can still use 'most' of the applications on your distribution CD's (including xmms) Those applications that use the KDE2.2.2 widget library libqt2 still work because you can keep libqt2 installed alongside the new libqt3. Those applicatons that use the gtk widget set are unaffected by the upgrade. A few applications (like komba2) need to be upgraded, but they are either included in the kde3 rpm or are available from places like Texstars site at www.pclinuxonline.com ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/ Many people have found installing KDE3.0.1 alongside KDE2.2.2 a straightforward experience. However my own experience is that 'disentangling' KDE2 and KDE3 takes a bit of work and even now my KDE2.2.2 comes up as a mixture of the two. Some useful links that may help you are http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=74 http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2310 http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1797 http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1801 The best tip I can give is do not resort to 'forcing' RPMS You will probably regret it. HTH derek On Tuesday 04 June 2002 12:47 am, Mark Evans wrote: Hi Could someone answer a question regarding upgrading KDE from 2.2.1 to KDE 3 under Mandrake 8.1. Will the RPM's on the Mandrake distro disks still install under KDE 3? I have read sonewhere that KDE 2... binaries are not compatible with KDE 3. I don't want to install KDE 3 only to find that I can't install other software, such as XMMS for example. Mark Evans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord and bootable cd
On Sunday 09 June 2002 12:15, Gerald Waugh wrote: I am using cdrecord to cut a bootable iso image to a CD Only the CD I burn will not boot.. I used the following; # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 botablet-image.iso The CD looks normal when I mount and ls the contents. I put it in a system to boot, and the drive activity led flashes a few timea and the PC goes ahead and boots from the hard drive. I have a CD cut by a friend of mine, of a similar iso, using Nero, it will boot. What could I be doing wrong? TIA Did your friend use a similar or the identical iso to cut the disk that works? If it was not an identical one, is botablet-image.iso one that you have made yourself using mkisofs? If so then this could maybe be the place to start looking. /usr/share/doc/mkisofs-1.15/README.eltorito could be of help to you. HTH Ross Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast help
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 10:21 am, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:01 am, Randy Donohoe wrote: Log out of your user account and log back in as root. Open up xcdroast and configure. The most complicated thing is when you set the path. The last tab in configuration is called options or something, but it's where you set permissions for the user accounts, if you're the only user give yourself all the permissions and you won't have to go back to root to change things. Randy [root@gail root]# xcdroast ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/mkisofs ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/readcd I also get dialog box No root configuration file found! Please enter Setup and don't forget to add users who may also use X-CD-Roast Oops, as soon as I hit 'OK' on the dialog box, I got into X-CD-Roast with the Setup Button ready for me... The Device-Scan only shows the CD writer /dev/scd0 [ cdwriter ide 1610] The Reader says the same, I do have a reader CDROM but it doesn't show up -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs
Hi Robin, actually the extract below was mine, not Randy Kramer's. I'm not going to prolong this discussion but will make my FINAL comments directly related to yours. Which are good, by the way. I will make no follow-up public comments or response on this topic. If someone is interested in constructive discussion with me OFF LIST, and is willing to be helpful rather than strictly critical, it will be most welcome. My email address is shown below. I can certainly use the help as I still have networking difficulties. I can not speak for XP as I'm not running it here. I am running Windows 2000 Pro, Server and NT Server 4. You're right, XP would hardly run on 64 MB. 2000 wouldn't run it's best either. It sure wouldn't handle any significant applications. My comparison was between 2000 Server, NT Server and KDE on the same machine with the same hardware configuration. During the install phase of MD8.2 (using the Expert mode) I went in (it's one of the final steps in the process) and turned off a number of services, leaving on only those which appeared to be necessary for operation. I was also very careful (though no guarantee of accuracy) to install those apps necessary for operation of the interface. My hard drive space on that box is limited so I couldn't install all I would have liked to look at. I have no sound card in that machine so I turned off everything related to that, for example. As for security, that is an area of setup I claim scant knowledge of. During the install process, there are a number of default settings. When in question, I followed those suggestions. When it did offer different levels of security, I chose the light one. If I recall, that was the one recommended if the machine is expected to access the Internet. During the operational phases of the so-called test, I was not running any productivity applications. Neither in Linux nor NT (which is currently resident on the machine in a dual boot mode) did I try to run anything not installed as part of the initial install process. I did not try to run any Office apps in KDE for example. I was doing basic functions such as Control Center operations to view/configure various things, or in NT running Control Panel to do the same things within that OS. Likewise in browsing, using Konquerer and some of the other browser devices (file managers) to have a look around, as well as using Explorer in NT. So, perhaps we're not comparing apples to apples. I'm in an operating system, running a desktop and trying to explore the basic tools of that desktop. One desktop being NT's and the other KDE/Gnome. I was certainly under the impression that I was trying to use equivalent (equal or not) tools between the two to perform basic equivalent tasks. Apparently, bringing up the mouse configuration applet in KDE Control Center (or where ever) to configure mouse functions is not comparable to bringing up the mouse configuration applet in NT's Control Panel. Interesting! When responses to comments or questions made in the process of trying to learn something new are on the order of, the reason you can't get it right is because you are a dunce (not your comments, Robin) when the writer of such knows nil of my technical background or intellectual level, certainly forms a suspicious bias in my mind. Dan W. Dooley WB5TKA Bedford, Texas e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web address: http://www.qsl.net/wb9tka May Goddes love blest ye alle - Original Message - From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs Randy Kramer wrote: The other machine I had tried it on some months ago is a much faster one and at the time had 256 meg. of RAM and a much bigger harddrive partition on which I was dual booting between Linux and Win 2000Pro. I like the full featured aspect of KDE and though I haven't examined Gnome that closely, it looks interesting. I would not want to go to something severely stripped down. Not if I'm ever going to think in terms of a Windows replacement, which I'd like to think of. So is it a case of comparing apples and pears (i.e. recent versions of KDE with old versions of Windows)? At least KDE will run on my office machine, whereas I doubt if XP would (it only has 64MB of RAM). Like it or not, desktops and applications that want to be full-featured tend to assume that people have at the very least 128MB of RAM on at least a 500MHz CPU, preferably more and faster. I'd be interested to see performance compared between XP and Mandrake 8.2/KDE, with both boxes running the same kinds of services with the same level of security (well, to the extent that XP can get the same level of security!). Sir Robin, now happily back in KDE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Attempting to re-compile Mandrake vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk
On Saturday 08 June 2002 03:30 pm, Mike Pruden wrote: Need some help re-compiling version 2.4.18-6mdk of mandrake linux. I installed this version from a cdrom onto my laptop. The problem I am encountering is that this version enables automatic power management by default. On my laptop SIS630 this causes my laptop to power down every few secounds. I am familiar with using make -e on tar files and changing the parameters that I need to change, but since I installed this from a cdrom I do not find any tar file in the /usr/src directory, or anywhere else that I can think to look. The only kernel that I can identify is in the /boot directory, and it is listed as vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk. I am not sure how to re-compile this to enable me to turn off the automatic power management option. You need to have kernel-source-2.4.18-6mdk rpm installed. Then see the instructions here http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/index.html#ku You _must_ begin with 'make mrproper' (see page 3). Then copy a config from /boot, eg, (in /usr/src/linux) 'cp /boot/config-2.4.18-6mdk .config' Edit Makefile and change EXTRAVERSION = to your liking. Also uncomment the line export INSTALL_PATH=/boot Then you can run 'make xconfig', and continue on with the compile steps. 'make dep make clean make bzImage make modules' and 'make modules_install make install' The last command, 'make install' will install the proper files to /boot and edit/run lilo for you. So make sure you do the Makefile edits above. Your new kernel will then be an option when you reboot. Have you tried turning off the apm service in Mandrake Control Center? I know practically nothin 'bout laptops, but I suspect compiling a new kernel's not gonna fix your hardware problem. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast and burning CD's.
On Saturday 08 June 2002 11:09 am, you wrote: snip alias bdcd=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -data (need to make cd_image first, eg, 'mkisofs -r -o cd_image dir') alias biso=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 alias bacd=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -pad -audio *.wav Thanks for the reply and the info! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Access to win partitions
I the same problem w/ 8.1 and rw partitions /dev/hda1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850) /dev/hdc1 on /mnt/win_c2 type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850) On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 07:03, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, Perhaps it is mounted without write permission. To check that type mount and check if it says 'rw' in the line corresponding to the windows partition. If that is the problem, you can fix it as follows: umount windows path mount +w windows path If this helps, you can modify the /etc/fstab file for this to happen automatically. See man mount and man fstab for details. Another possibility is that the windows partitions is of type ntfs. In that case, you can't write there, but I guess it's not it, since you say you had write permission before. HTH Moshe * Matt Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020604 13:37]: I posted yesterday about changing access rights to my windows partitions but i'm not sure it came up as i never actually received it! anyway, since reinstalling 8.2 i cannot get write permissions to my windows hard drives where basically all my documents that i need are stored etc. The 1st time i installed 8.2 i didn't have to do anything to get both read/write access to my windows drives so i can't work out how to get it now. I tried changing permissions using chmod a+w win_c but that doesn't give me write permissions, so either something is up or i'm using the wrong commands - probably the latter!! Can anyone help me as this is a real pain as i've just got most things working in Linux and was about to change Linux to my default o/s. Also does anybody else have any problems with Open Office.org 1.0 crashing loads under Ximian-Gnome? Cheers Matt 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] xcdroast and burning CD's.
On Saturday 08 June 2002 04:21 pm, you wrote: Hi, I've had excellent results with xcdroast,last three Mandrake releases. No problems at all. Pentium IV 1.5 gigahertz, GA-81DX mobo,Cendyne 16x10x40x burner.Currently running MDK 8.2. Had a lot of problems before I bought this burner. Just my 2 cents worth. Dan Hi there, Dan! Well, I had used Xcdroast under 8.1 and was very happy with it there, and under 8.2, I used it to burn files to CD's with no probs. either. It was just when I went to duplicate a CD that it fell down. I've got an Adaptec SCSI card, running a Toshiba DVD and a Plextor CDRW. Xcdroast finds both, has them in correct positions on the SCSI chain, but will not read any CD in my DVD drive. It always reports that its an empty CDRW. Gcombust, under this same setup works fine. I even deleted Xcdroasts conf files and started over just in case. Still no go - and this is as root, or with the user I had setup... Don't forget, this same exact setup worked just fine under 8.1 so I dunno... I'm glad its working for you though, I did like it! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord and bootable cd
- Original Message - From: Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 2:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrecord and bootable cd Check your bios and make sure your boot order puts the cd rom before the hard drive. (for example, my boot device order is floppy, cdrom, hard drive, other ATA devices) If the hard drive is before the cdrom it won't boot from the cd without a floppy. Hope that fixes it for ya! :-) Jerry New hat? Forget it. --Laurie Anderson - Original Message - From: Ross Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrecord and bootable cd On Sunday 09 June 2002 12:15, Gerald Waugh wrote: I am using cdrecord to cut a bootable iso image to a CD Only the CD I burn will not boot.. I used the following; # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 botablet-image.iso The CD looks normal when I mount and ls the contents. I put it in a system to boot, and the drive activity led flashes a few timea and the PC goes ahead and boots from the hard drive. I have a CD cut by a friend of mine, of a similar iso, using Nero, it will boot. What could I be doing wrong? TIA Did your friend use a similar or the identical iso to cut the disk that works? If it was not an identical one, is botablet-image.iso one that you have made yourself using mkisofs? If so then this could maybe be the place to start looking. /usr/share/doc/mkisofs-1.15/README.eltorito could be of help to you. HTH Ross -- -- 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] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble
On Sunday 09 June 2002 06:55, etharp wrote: more info about the new MOBO is in order, in particular the IDE controller (is it a HPT win-RAID?) No, I stay clear of the raid controllers... The MSI k7T266 pro2 comes in different flavours and I chose the one which doesn't have any raid controllers. On the motherboard, I have: Primary master: the wd drive, /dev/hde secondary master: a DVD drive, /dev/hdg I also have a PCI controller card and on it I have: primary master: an old IBM hard drive for backups: /dev/hda primary slave: zip drive: /dev/hdb secondary master: CD-writer: /dev/hdc-- /dev/scd0 A correction to the c,h,s count in the bios: it is (19158, 16, 255). Narfi. On Saturday 08 June 2002 10:57 pm, Narfi wrote: In my previous life, I was young and ignorant and I bought a WD drive! ... well, I'm at least not young anymore .-) I installed mdk on this second harddrive of mine and the setup was with (cylinders, heads, sectors,) = (77545, 16, 63) However, after I moved the hard drive to a my new motherboard and installed mdk 8.2, fdisk and diskdrake report the geometry as (c,h,s) = (4865, 255, 63) and fdisk warns that partitions do not end on cylinder boundaries. Can I still use diskdrake to create new partitions on this hard drive? I tried to put a section into lilo.conf: [this is the disk in question. Nevertheless it is on the primary ide0 controller:] disk=/dev/hde sectors=63 heads = 16 cylinders = 774545 But this didn't change the way fdisk and diskdrake saw the drive geometry. If I go into the bios, the geometry is listed with heads = 16 and cylinders some value 4 thousand something (sorry, forgot to write down!) I have lba32 in /etc/lilo.conf and I do not share this hard drive with any other OS. Does anyone have any suggestions? Resize the partitions to conform with heads = 255 using ext2online perhaps??? thanks, Narfi. mobo: MSI k7t266 pro2 /dev/hde: WD400BB fdisk -l /dev/hde Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 164511528+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1014, 15, 63) should be (1014, 254, 63) /dev/hde264 3844 30359448 85 Linux extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hde56496255496+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde696 478 3071848+ 83 Linux /dev/hde7 478 1116 5119600+ 83 Linux /dev/hde8 1116 2901 14335744+ 83 Linux /dev/hde9 2901 3155 2047720+ 83 Linux /dev/hde10 3155 3206409216+ 83 Linux /dev/hde11 3206 3844 5119600+ 83 Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
On Saturday 08 June 2002 13:16, you wrote: As great it is that people try make RPM's of Mplayer for public use, but I still have to see 1 really successful build that works on all systems. In my opinion there is none.. Mplayer builds to YOUR system.. depending on what software / hardware you have. It's not as simple as a simple binary, but a carefully built package designed for performance. You see, they could build DeCss supprt in, but what point does that have if a user doesn't even have a DVD player? Go tho the Mplayer site, download the tarball (new release today) and read the docs, and there should be no problems. Yes it does take time at first, I give you that, but at least then you have a working MPlayer ;-) Greetings Ralph OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. I've just spent 2 hours reading all the bumf on Mplayer website, and I must say there is so much of it it is hard to take it all in in one hit. It seems to me leaving aside esotyeric things like skins, there is only the one MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz file to compile and install. Does this actually mean it's all there, you know, encription, conversion, etc etc, the bits that really do matter and make the programme all it is,because it seems a small download for a tar file and for there to be everything that you might conceiveably want. As I say I'm not particularly interested in sky blue pink graphics but I do want all the really important encription conversion stuff,(eg. DVD to DivX) and preferably in a gui guise. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with install Compaq 56k Modem
i don't know what's hsp? micromodem ? i have a Compaq 56k Modem , and that will support DSL and that's PCI and i think that's a software modem no harware modem but i'm not sure ... thanks bye - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] problem with install Compaq 56k Modem do you have the hsp56k micromodem?
[newbie] Java, Apache, Opera
I thought I had Opera set up to run java--sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It works on the Sun page (http://java.sun.com/), but it doesn't work when I try to play Diamond Mine (http://www.popcap.com/index.php). I'm trying to serve the SOJA applet for serving SMIL presentations--added MIME type to Apache, applet and SMIL presentation work in Mozilla, not Opera. S, I think Apache is OK, but when trying to look at the page in Opera, the Java Console pops up, and I get the gray box that says Java Applet Loading, but that's as far as it gets. The page in question is http://clevername.homeip.net/present/soja.html. Is this a question for the Opera list, or does anybody here have experience with this? I'm running 6.01 static QT. (LM 8.1) -- Todd Slater The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast help
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:55, you wrote: Franki wrote: basically, you need to run it as root and set what users can do with it.. chose setup then go through and set all the various elements.. in particular the users select your username and anyone elses that should be able to use it. and set what they can do... once you finish, save the configuration, then go back and run it as your username.. all should work fine. rgds Frank -Original Message- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]*On Behalf Of *Heather Reed *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 June 2002 7:41 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* [newbie] xcdroast help Hi all I have just installed xcdroast (together with cdrecord). When I try to open it, I get a message telling me to configure as root, but no info as to what to configure where or how. I can't seem to get to a help file though, and am totally confused :-(( I have looked at various howtos on the net, but they are way above me I'm afraid. Can anyone out there give me, or point me to and idiots guide (and believe me, in this I am an idiot :-))? I am running 8.2, and have a memorex IDE rewriter installed, which is being picked up by harddrake OK. it is my only CD drive, and I hate having to reboot into windows (gr) to burn CDs. Alternatively, a pointer to other CD burner apps that might do the job as well and be easier to get going (if such things exist) would do just as well. Any help would be gratefully received. Ta muchly Heather I must say however.. that no cd burning program I have used on linux is as easy as things like Easy CD creator or Nero. xcdroast or gcombust just are a little too unintuitive to use fast and easily - for me anyway. I can use xcdroast.. but it takes me ust too long each time. -- Azrael Just as a matter of general interest, there is one thing that EZCD5 and Nero cannot do that Xcdroast can. That is to copy and write to disc Continuous Multiple Audio Track, that is those audio discs that have many tracks but NO GAPS. About 20 to 30% of the teenage popular music market is sold in this catagory these days. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with install Compaq 56k Modem
theres like 5 that arent compat.
Re: [newbie] problem with install Compaq 56k Modem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: theres like 5 that arent compat. Ok, for those not as minimulistic as you , which 5 exactly are not compatable? names and numbers please. If obstacles are all we see, then we've lost sight of our goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java, Apache, Opera
On Sunday 09 June 2002 5:09 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I thought I had Opera set up to run java--sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It works on the Sun page (http://java.sun.com/), but it doesn't work when I try to play Diamond Mine (http://www.popcap.com/index.php). I'm trying to serve the SOJA applet for serving SMIL presentations--added MIME type to Apache, applet and SMIL presentation work in Mozilla, not Opera. S, I think Apache is OK, but when trying to look at the page in Opera, the Java Console pops up, and I get the gray box that says Java Applet Loading, but that's as far as it gets. The page in question is http://clevername.homeip.net/present/soja.html. Is this a question for the Opera list, or does anybody here have experience with this? I'm running 6.01 static QT. (LM 8.1) I think the www.popcap.com problem is because of the javascript used to launch the applet. Opera does not support some javascript extensions. That site works fine for me in Galeon/Mozilla. - Nice game. My daughter will like that one. As for your homepage, it does not work for me in Opera either, but konqueror/Galeon has no trouble. You might like to mention that on the opera.linux newsgroup (Nice looking kids :-) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with install Compaq 56k Modem
On Sunday 09 June 2002 12:40 pm, you wrote: theres like 5 that arent compat. kwel and OK so what Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with install Compaq 56k Modem
search compaq.com..i know the presarios and alphas are so dont bother looking there.
Re: [newbie] I like this Mozilla1!
Es Divendres 07 Juny 2002 21:40, en Charlie va escriure: June 7, 2002 01:00 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have to say, I really love using Galeon. I never really saw the use in it till I tried it a little. It's just so much faster (being a gtk-native mozilla basically). And I really love having those quick search bars. But after downloading and installing the latest mozilla, galeon crashes as soon as I open it. I tried upgrading, but there were so many dependencies. If I use the mandrake rpm's: error: failed build dependencies: GConf-devel = 1.0.4 is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk libglade-devel is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk gnome-vfs-devel is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk mozilla-devel = 1.0 is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk I've got the following installed: [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ rpm -q mozilla mozilla-1.0-0.rc2.2mdk [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ rpm -q galeon galeon-1.2.1-2mdk [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ That's under 8.2 and using rpmdrake a cooker ftp. Dependencies were solved autimatically. -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears 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
Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs
Es Dissabte 08 Juny 2002 16:09, en Jon Doe va escriure: On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 08:39:28 -0500 Dan W. Dooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the full featured aspect of KDE and though I haven't examined Gnome that closely, it looks interesting. I would not want to go to something severely stripped down. Not if I'm ever going to think in terms of a Windows replacement, which I'd like to think of. I am sure I'll get flamed for this, but I don't think Linux is a replacement for Windows. Linux is a robust *nix clone. I think you can use Linux instead of Windows. But I personally hope that Linux is never a replacement for Windows. I don't like Windows and don't want Linux to be just like Windows. Linux is for me an easy, unexpensive, strong and quick way of doing everything. I don't play games often, and I don't need to make backups of protected CDs so I'm using *almost* linux since april 2000. From 1992 to april 2000 i've been using IBM's OS/2 (purchased 2.11, 3 and 4), but IBM has discontinued supporting it. So linux is not a windows' replacement for me. I've never needed to use windows ;) -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears 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
[newbie] Squid for internet client?
Hallo! I was wondering if it was a good idea for a computer that's used to surf through internet without acting as http server for any other computers to install squid. Maybe it would do the same work as the browsers' cache ? I'm just not sure of what squid does. Thanks in advance ;) -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears 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
Re: [newbie] Squid for internet client?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 June 2002 5:44 pm, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I was wondering if it was a good idea for a computer that's used to surf through internet without acting as http server for any other computers to install squid. Maybe it would do the same work as the browsers' cache ? I'm just not sure of what squid does. It's in effect a big shared cache ... which is pointless if only one computer is 'sharing' the cache as its browsers have perfectly good local caches. That said, the question is a useful one, as http://www.squid-cache.org/ doesn't make that point clear. (As an aside, this http://wwwcache.ja.net/ is an interesting read and shows what's involved in running huge Squid caches 'in real life' - JANET is the United Kingdom universities' network). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9A5arCv59vFiSU4YRAsQXAKCHPv5IptslaLJpAXSO8W17Kew49wCfeniM BjBM+RaQCp/+WP/KbOGTOZQ= =2ylG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs
Es Dissabte 08 Juny 2002 18:49, en shane va escriure: seriously, to windows, cpu rules. to linux it is RAM. That's right. My laptop's battery life is always longer with linux than any windows -98, 2000, XP-... -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears 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
Re: [newbie] I like this Mozilla1!
June 9, 2002 10:07 am, Joan Tur wrote: Es Divendres 07 Juny 2002 21:40, en Charlie va escriure: June 7, 2002 01:00 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have to say, I really love using Galeon. I never really saw the use in it till I tried it a little. It's just so much faster (being a gtk-native mozilla basically). And I really love having those quick search bars. But after downloading and installing the latest mozilla, galeon crashes as soon as I open it. I tried upgrading, but there were so many dependencies. If I use the mandrake rpm's: error: failed build dependencies: GConf-devel = 1.0.4 is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk libglade-devel is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk gnome-vfs-devel is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk mozilla-devel = 1.0 is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk I've got the following installed: [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ rpm -q mozilla mozilla-1.0-0.rc2.2mdk [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ rpm -q galeon galeon-1.2.1-2mdk [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ That's under 8.2 and using rpmdrake a cooker ftp. Dependencies were solved autimatically. ~~ Thanks Joan; I would probably have waited for the cooker Mozilla1 release, since I was already running the same one you are, but got in a rush to try it. It's working, and as I mentioned previously, I avoid most of the Gnome apps including Galeon. I'll give it a stab though just to see if it's improved much over what caused me to avoid it back in 7.2 Freq. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org The Moral Majority is neither. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I like this Mozilla1!
Charlie wrote: June 9, 2002 10:07 am, Joan Tur wrote: Es Divendres 07 Juny 2002 21:40, en Charlie va escriure: June 7, 2002 01:00 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: I have to say, I really love using Galeon. I never really saw the use in it till I tried it a little. It's just so much faster (being a gtk-native mozilla basically). And I really love having those quick search bars. But after downloading and installing the latest mozilla, galeon crashes as soon as I open it. I tried upgrading, but there were so many dependencies. If I use the mandrake rpm's: error: failed build dependencies: GConf-devel = 1.0.4 is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk libglade-devel is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk gnome-vfs-devel is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk mozilla-devel = 1.0 is needed by galeon-1.2.1-2mdk I've got the following installed: [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ rpm -q mozilla mozilla-1.0-0.rc2.2mdk [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ rpm -q galeon galeon-1.2.1-2mdk [quini@quinipt .netscape]$ That's under 8.2 and using rpmdrake a cooker ftp. Dependencies were solved autimatically. ~~ Thanks Joan; I would probably have waited for the cooker Mozilla1 release, since I was already running the same one you are, but got in a rush to try it. It's working, and as I mentioned previously, I avoid most of the Gnome apps including Galeon. I'll give it a stab though just to see if it's improved much over what caused me to avoid it back in 7.2 Freq. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Red Carpet has galeon, mozilla, and nautilus updates. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Restoring deleted files with MC
On Sunday 09 June 2002 02:10, you wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 10:24:18 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I know where Midnight Commander is, I want to use it to restore a deleted file that has not been either written over or formatted. Some kind soul suggested MC can do this, but how. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the Pulldown Menus *its a F# key you hit to get them, then there is an Undelete function in there for Ext2 ONLY! :) Femme Ahmm, well yes, I found that,but I cannot get it to restore, even an ext2 file set up and deleted as a test. Any guesses ? John -- John Richard Smith -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Importing netscape's address book
Hallo! I've now been using kmail for about 1,5 years, but now I need an email that's in a file called ./netscape/pab.na2 (netscape's 4.x address book). I've tryed to import it using mozilla but it only recognizes LDIF, .tab, .csv and .txt formats 8-? Thanks in advance ;) -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears 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
Re: [newbie] Gimp under Mandrake symbolic link
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 June 2002 10:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: , however a symbolic link has to be made. The instructions say it needs ln -s /usr/bin/iscan ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins The path for iscan is correct, but I need to adjust the gimp path. Can anyone please tell me exactly where gimp plugins go in Mdk 8.2? Exactly where it says ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins ~ means your home directory. When you start gimp for the first time it will create ~/.gimp-1.2 Since I hadn't got my old scanner set up I had never run Gimp under this install. So *that's* why I couldn't 'locate' it! Also with your scanner doesn't it work with xsane or kooka? They will give you all sorts of file formats. I'm still exploring the options. xsane appears to run with Gimp, and I can scan and save with that (once I remembered that someone said right-click for everything in Gimp). Kooka looks interesting, with lots of options like scan to OCR. I could get the preview but then couldn't find how to get the scan proper. It also seems to point at a hidden directory for image file saves. This isn't exactly intuitive. I'm pleased with progress so far, but feel that I'm missing important bits. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WTF?????
D. Olson wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 01:41 pm, you wrote: Have you got 2 ISP accounts? Something like this happens if you are connected on one ISP's account and trying to use the smtp of the other one. Nope... I got two incoming POP3 accounts, but I only have one outgoing... Don't ask why, that's my college's dumb policy. I'm not sure I understand. You have 2 inward POP3 a/cs, say POP3_1 and POP3_2. When you get these error messages 1) Which account are you connected to - i.e. which is the paid ISP that you are using at that time? 2) Is the smtp address for outgoing mail on the same account? If not, that is the likely cause of the problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD Recording with no sound??
Hi all, I already had 2 instances that I tried to burn an audio CD that after burning had everything right, but there was no sound on it. CDPlay crashes with an error, the CDplayer in the stereo plays the cd but no sound at all. MDK 8.2, 1.2Ghz Athlon, 256Mb Ram, 2 x 30Gb ATA100 disks. TDK D-view 650Mb CD_R's, Plextor CD Rewriter 40x16x12. Command: cdparanoia -vB 1- ~/tmp/name cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,0,0 -pad ~/tmp/track * In ~/tmp: [paul@tbird paul]$ ls tmp/track* tmp/track01.name tmp/track04.name tmp/track07.name tmp/track10.name tmp/track02.name tmp/track05.name tmp/track08.name tmp/track03.name tmp/track06.name tmp/track09.name Anyone have a clue what's wrong?? Paul -- Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. -James Russell Lowell http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.7.5 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java, Apache, Opera
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 18:06:21 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 June 2002 5:09 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I thought I had Opera set up to run java--sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It works on the Sun page (http://java.sun.com/), but it doesn't work when I try to play Diamond Mine (http://www.popcap.com/index.php). I'm trying to serve the SOJA applet for serving SMIL presentations--added MIME type to Apache, applet and SMIL presentation work in Mozilla, not Opera. S, I think Apache is OK, but when trying to look at the page in Opera, the Java Console pops up, and I get the gray box that says Java Applet Loading, but that's as far as it gets. The page in question is http://clevername.homeip.net/present/soja.html. Is this a question for the Opera list, or does anybody here have experience with this? I'm running 6.01 static QT. (LM 8.1) I think the www.popcap.com problem is because of the javascript used to launch the applet. Opera does not support some javascript extensions. That site works fine for me in Galeon/Mozilla. - Nice game. My daughter will like that one. As for your homepage, it does not work for me in Opera either, but konqueror/Galeon has no trouble. You might like to mention that on the opera.linux newsgroup (Nice looking kids :-) derek Thanks--just the youngest is mine, but we've got another that will be here soon! I did mention it on opera.linux. I read a bunch of posts regarding java. The interesting thing (to me) is that it loads in Opera fine when run locally, but when I try to pull it over the web, nothing. -- Todd Slater To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. (Thomas Jefferson, 1777) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde3.0.1 and kdm
Paul Kaplan wrote: I decided to install the first set of kde 3.0.1 rpms onto LM8.2 (the ones that install into /usr). After uninstalling the previous 3.0 rpms (that install into /opt) and the 2.2.2 rpms, I discovered that kdm was broken and the system now defaults to gdm as the login manager. /usr/bin/kdm is still installed on the system. It is my impression that kde3.0.1 launched from gdm is noticibly slower than 3.0 launched from gdm. Has anyone else noticed this? Any ideas how to reactivate kdm? TIA Paul Hi Paul, you will have to edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop and replace gdm with kdm, reboot and you're good to go with kdm. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. I've just spent 2 hours reading all the bumf on Mplayer website, and I must say there is so much of it it is hard to take it all in in one hit. It seems to me leaving aside esotyeric things like skins, there is only the one MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz file to compile and install. Does this actually mean it's all there, you know, encription, conversion, etc etc, the bits that really do matter and make the programme all it is,because it seems a small download for a tar file and for there to be everything that you might conceiveably want. As I say I'm not particularly interested in sky blue pink graphics but I do want all the really important encription conversion stuff,(eg. DVD to DivX) and preferably in a gui guise. John download the tarball ( it contains MPlayer and Mencoder and it will do everything you say you need ) and at least one skin. ( the skin works for MPlayer, but for Mencoder you will still have to use CLI for now. ) oh and you will probably need the codecs, too. download the package named win32 codecs unpack it and copy all of it's contents to /usr/lib/win32 unpack the mplayer-0.90pre5 tarball, enter it's directory, and do this: ./configure --enable-gui make make install once you have done this, you unpack your mplayer skin to /home/(your-user)/.mplayer/Skin ( note the capital S on Skin ) and put the skin in a subdirectory. (i.e. if you downloaded default skin, copy it to /home/(user)/.mplayer/Skin/default/ as you have compiled and installed MPlayer as root, make sure you give your user permission to read the skin files. otherwise mplayer will report it didn't find any. chmod +777 -R /home/(user)/.mplayer ... and i think that's all there is to it. MPlayer is a huge program, but all of those tons of information will be severely reduced once it compiles in your machine and excludes all the stuff your computer doesn't need. don't worry. once all is done, you can launch mplayer ( CLI ) or gmplayer ( GUI ) mplayer's biggest problem for a newbie is choosing the video output ( vo ), since you may found better features/speed with some drivers depending on your videocard. some video drivers installed may not even work. However SDL or X11 seem to work for almost everyone. ( mplayer -vo sdl moviefile.avi ) you can also play net streams, or to dump them to disk ;o) ( mplayer -vo sdl mms://server.net/moviefile.asf ) and ( mplayer -dumpstream mms://server.net/moviefile.asf will create a stream.dump file that you can then rename to *.asf ) and mencoder ( CLI ) encodes movie files in virtually any format available. notice, however, that mencoder requires very precise parameters in the commandline, so it requires some reading... HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surround Sound
I have an audigy too, and for me the rear (just a regular pair of powered computer speakers) work fine, I would check the plug. On Sunday 09 June 2002 08:18 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:35:06 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to play audio CDs with good sound. I have an Audigy card, and CDPlayer (Mandrake 8.2) plays the CDs, but only on front speakers. No rear speakers, no sub. Is it the app that can't cope, or do I need to do something to configure the sound card? Anne http://opensource.creative.com/ Try there for drivers for the Audigy. The reason you're not getting sound beyond 2 speakers is b/c MDK drivers are compiled coded for normal speaker setups. You obviously have 5.1 or 4.1 surround. Give that site a look Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surround Sound
I have an SB Live! 5.1, which appears to use the same drivers, and it does the same thing. I get sound in the rear speakers. Now, I have a question about it... This sound in the rear speakers is only mirrored stereo, right? Or is it true surround sound (4 speaker) that I get? IE: in games and stuff, should I get 4 separate channels of audio? On Sunday 09 June 2002 08:58 pm, you wrote: I have an audigy too, and for me the rear (just a regular pair of powered computer speakers) work fine, I would check the plug. On Sunday 09 June 2002 08:18 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:35:06 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to play audio CDs with good sound. I have an Audigy card, and CDPlayer (Mandrake 8.2) plays the CDs, but only on front speakers. No rear speakers, no sub. Is it the app that can't cope, or do I need to do something to configure the sound card? Anne http://opensource.creative.com/ Try there for drivers for the Audigy. The reason you're not getting sound beyond 2 speakers is b/c MDK drivers are compiled coded for normal speaker setups. You obviously have 5.1 or 4.1 surround. Give that site a look Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). - Original Message - From: Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query download the tarball ( it contains MPlayer and Mencoder and it will do everything you say you need ) and at least one skin. ( the skin works for MPlayer, but for Mencoder you will still have to use CLI for now. ) oh and you will probably need the codecs, too. download the package named win32 codecs unpack it and copy all of it's contents to /usr/lib/win32 unpack the mplayer-0.90pre5 tarball, enter it's directory, and do this: ./configure --enable-gui make make install once you have done this, you unpack your mplayer skin to /home/(your-user)/.mplayer/Skin ( note the capital S on Skin ) and put the skin in a subdirectory. (i.e. if you downloaded default skin, copy it to /home/(user)/.mplayer/Skin/default/ as you have compiled and installed MPlayer as root, make sure you give your user permission to read the skin files. otherwise mplayer will report it didn't find any. chmod +777 -R /home/(user)/.mplayer ... and i think that's all there is to it. MPlayer is a huge program, but all of those tons of information will be severely reduced once it compiles in your machine and excludes all the stuff your computer doesn't need. don't worry. once all is done, you can launch mplayer ( CLI ) or gmplayer ( GUI ) mplayer's biggest problem for a newbie is choosing the video output ( vo ), since you may found better features/speed with some drivers depending on your videocard. some video drivers installed may not even work. However SDL or X11 seem to work for almost everyone. ( mplayer -vo sdl moviefile.avi ) you can also play net streams, or to dump them to disk ;o) ( mplayer -vo sdl mms://server.net/moviefile.asf ) and ( mplayer -dumpstream mms://server.net/moviefile.asf will create a stream.dump file that you can then rename to *.asf ) and mencoder ( CLI ) encodes movie files in virtually any format available. notice, however, that mencoder requires very precise parameters in the commandline, so it requires some reading... HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NSA / PGP
On Friday 31 May 2002 9:46 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: -pgpenvelope processed message On Friday 31 May 2002 8:36 pm, shane wrote: i doubt that. it is simply a matter of raw math. http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html Ah, but they don't use (general purpose) supercomputers. They use _very_ specialised computers; I read somewhere that the NSA has its own chip in short if they had a super computer than can only be imagined today (not built) it would take hundreds of years to guess a key. Ah, but they don't use (general purpose) supercomputers. They use _very_ specialised computers; I read somewhere that the NSA has its own chip fabrication plant ... Your code cracker will likely be a PCI card inside a common-or-garden PC, not a black box performing the breaststroke in a lake of liquid nitrogen. (And the standard PC could be running Linux ;) And it may well use algorithms nobody in the 'free world' knows about. There's a known precedent: one of the most astonishing things I've read for ages is that the RSA algorithm was invented in secret about a decade before it was 'invented in public': http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html Alastair -- Alastair, that is some awesome information. thanks for the link. So, it was the Brits who did it first? Yes, according to Simon Singh in his The Code Book pages 284 on -- public key cryptography was first formulated by Clifford Cocks, a young Cambridge graduate in 1973, that is four years before Rivest, Shamir and Adleman and their RSA asymmetric cipher. He was working at GCHQ (that is the British Government's Communications HQ ) at Cheltenham and I quote Cocks himself:- ... From start to finish, it took no more than half an hour. I was quite pleased with myself. I thought, Ooh, that's nice. I've been given a problem and I've solved it. The book goes on to say that he did not fully appreciate the significance of his discovery. on P288, though, Singh goes on to say By 1975, James Ellis (who had set Cocks the original problem after he and many others had wrestled with it for years), Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson had discovered all the fundamental aspects of public-key encryption, yet they all had to remain silent.. Cocks was finally allowed to publish his work in 1997. Cocks is still around and was interviewed on TV fairly recently. Thought you might like to know. -- Alan Dunford, Derby, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft-free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:30:41 -0400 Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). no problem. glad it worked. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 3
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 1:05 am, Mark D. Weaver wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Just as I pressed 'send' on that last message I realised you are upgrading from Mandrake 8.1 with KDE2.2.1 You can still upgrade to KDE3, but you will not be able to use any of Texstars' KDE3 RPMs since they are for 8.2 derek Derek, I realize this is a few days late, but I thought I'd add my two cents to this thread. I've got Mandrake 8.2 running and it took three installs, the last one being done without kde at all in order to get kde301 installed and working on this machine. I don't know what they've done to KDE to make thing so miserable the packages so impossible to install, but I'd love to find out. The first two attempts completely destroyed the X server rendering the box concole only. The last install, as I mentioned was done on the machine where KDE didn't exist at all and even then it was a HUGE pain in the ass to get the packages to install. two days worth of dependency issues to resolve and even after ALL the dependency issue were taken care of would run the package install with the --test argument and it would tell me that it such and such a package conflicted with one of the kde3 packages I was trying to install. (as I mentioned I installed the system without KDE). the fact that it was complaining about file conflicts between a non-existant kde installation and the one I was attempting to UPGRADE to was more then I could bear. Since I knew there weren't any real reasons for there to be a problem I decided to go ahead with the install. while I didn't have to use the --force argument I did have to use a very similarly forceful means to get the packages to install. and through it all urpmi not only was NOT my friend but was completely useless. the final command with which to install everything looked like this: rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles --nodeps *.rpm So, my one and only question here is what in the world happened to kde and those packages that they're so miserable to install these days? I was expecting the texstar packages to be faster performing, and they are, but as they are a newbie would never be able to get these things installed without killing their system and wanting to walk away from this bad experience forever! Mark Yes, the experience of installing KDE3 has been mixed for many people. With my install it took me the best part of 2 days to get everything installed. Most of that time was spent 'disentangling' KDE2 and KDE3 (Try looking at the 'About' tab in applications like kmixer for example) Moving KDE3 to /opt has caused a lot of the problems. Many of the scripts still call applications in /usr so you end with a mixture of KDE2 and 3. Texstar has got a revised 'startkde' script which resolves that. Also if you want to use KDE3's version of kdm :- Edit /etc/X11/prefdm to set the PATH PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin on the next boot it will find kde3 kdm KDE3 is clearly still 'work in progress', which of course is why Mandrake were right in not including it in the 8.2 release. Be prepared to spend some time struggling with it. derek Thankfully, since the install is complete it's been fine since. not a bit of trouble. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surround Sound
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:20:28 -0400 D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an SB Live! 5.1, which appears to use the same drivers, and it does the same thing. I get sound in the rear speakers. Now, I have a question about it... This sound in the rear speakers is only mirrored stereo, right? Or is it true surround sound (4 speaker) that I get? IE: in games and stuff, should I get 4 separate channels of audio? Technically speaking you get whats called 4.1 Discrete surround sound environments. In english it means that each audio channel that is piped to a diff speaker has its own sound coming out of it. Example: In a dungeon room, water dripping to your right, your Upper RIGHT speaker will pipe that sound if its to your upper right in a game. With Older technology *IE before the SBLIVE! series* this wasn't possible. They fooled the ear by piping the same audio to all channels muting certains sounds out ... a very wasteful useless thing to do because itmeans the cards are working 2x as hard as they have to. If you have a 5.1 surround... Bonus! Because you also get a centre channel that gives ambient immediate sound signals your ears will interepret as unidirectional sounds... IE, a bomb blows up in front of your face, your ear will hear see it as being directly in front of you as well as the ambient echos going to all the other speakers :). I envy ya for your sound setup. My lover has a Hercules XPGamer, comes with a great breakout box...and she's got a nice soundcard that comes with it. Wonderful alternative to SbAudigy cards. And just has one plugin on the card for a huge cable to use, the other end hooks up to the external breakout box. Heh I hear her games all the way to the 3rd floor of our house. *sighs enviously* Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Saturday 08 June 2002 05:34 pm, D. Olson wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 02:51 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 01:10 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 10:46 am, you wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 12:11 am, D. Olson wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 11:50 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 23:12:01 -0400 D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 07:33 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 00:24, you wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 06:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 00:23, Derek Byram wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 15:03, you wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jay wrote: Oh tks! ;-) But as someone has mentioned before... this kind of thread is only possible due to the subscribers maturity level as well as nice sense of humor and fellowship! Ricardo Castanho I can't help but laugh at what this thread has become Some file permisions needed fixing and a setting in postfix On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jay wrote: I was having problems sending to the list, but I fixed it. fixed what? ;-) On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:31 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:24, D. Olson wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 09:47 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 06:32 am, Jay wrote: test It works. -- cmg What works? Jays test works. Jay who? What thread??? Don't push it ;o) Don't push what Why can't anyone speak coherently? PS Why can't you leave my sig in the mail ;p What sig??? i told you, everyone. this thread belongs to the expert list now we are all confused.. What expert list? New record for posts per byte. Brevity rules. What record? You guys crack me up! ROTHFL What guys? Huh? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 June 2002 09:21 pm, Femme wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:36:04 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Dan W. Dooley wrote: snip I have been using Fluxbox for the last 5 months now or so, and it's so damn fast compared to Gnome. Simple and Sweet. This is not an andertisment for Fluxbox, as there are many simplified Desktop managers around. Maybe give another one a try, and see if your performance increases? Just my 2.2 Euro-cents ;-) Greetings Ralph Ralph, would you be willing to email me either off list or on-list to help me setup Flux box!? I followed the directions precisely on their website for installing for newbies. No joy! :( I cannot locate the Executable they tell you to find, nor do i understand how to edit the files they want me to edit. They don't exist or I cannot find them. :( Any all help would be a godsend at this point. I did compile/make it correctly I believe...however Im willing to start from scratch with better instructions *Is nearly in tears over this ... was supposed to be very simple from the Docs I found which are here: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/newdoc.starting.php#top * Ty Verymuch...and if anyone else can help, Please chime in! Sorry if this is piggybacking on another thread... I know its bad form. TIA all, Femme I assume here you are running version 8.2 of Mandrake if so from a virtual console you should be able to enter the command Xtart and get a list of all available window managers. one of which will be fluxbox: WELCOME to Sessions Selector 1 KDE 2 Gnome 3 WindowMaker 4 Enlightenment 5 blackbox 6 XFce 7 IceWM 9 fvwm2 10 Fvwm1 11 KDE 15 afterstep 16 fluxbox Which do you choose? (number) at this point you would enter the number 16 and fluxbox will start ??? Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 10:03pm up 1 day, 2:22, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.14, 0.15 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David M.Kufta (n3meq) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://n3meq.dynip.com:8080 Wilmington,Delaware USA My GnuPG Public key is available at http://www.keyserver.net/ Key ID: 6038413478BA7657 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9ArikYDhBNHi6dlcRAh/QAJwPXSQhdk6ermLCWtG5F80LxvP5xACeN4ms wSyOVgdiqngJuWFs6MbvrDM= =oFTf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror / NT downloads
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:57 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Your right , I got there just ahead of you, and did the same, it revealed the list of files and directories , and amoungst them were two files something.html which looked suspicious to me and I zapped them with the remove command , that allowed me back into download2 directory via Left mouse clicking etc., where all my downloaded files were pleasantly sitting there, phew ! But there ought to be someway of stopping konqueror/NT from doing this. I bet it's something quite simple, but what. NT doesn't seem to have anything in options to define what files to allow to download like getright has. Konqueror has file associations, but what do I do ? what to add , or what to omit , or what to rearrange ? I know not. Perhaps some of you out there can suggest ? This, I think, is an interesting user interface problem; what do you do when there's a _redirection_ to a file you're trying to download. If I click on a file in Konqueror called 'bloggs.zip', which is linked to directly, it asks 'do you want to open it in Ark?'. If I click on a URL which points indirectly to a file called bloggs.zip (typically via a CGI script which points to a mirrored server) it asks 'what do you want to open it with?' This behaviour with direct download (particularly annoying with RAM files when you're trying to play an audio file) is probably a bug, but what happens when you drag and drop is hard to get round. If you drag and drop to the desktop, how does Konqueror 'know' that you want to save the ZIP file rather than the CGI file? (In that instance it's obvious - 99 per cent of time the ZIP file - but there are surely other instances where it's not). I think the HTML files you found are a result of all this. Alastair Yes, I'm no expert but it sounds right. You see , quite often you go to a download website and see something like download zxcvb.src.rpmall highlighted in another colour you move your cursor over the highlighted text and the usual little white hand appears, and so you think you are on the actual download file, you drag it across to the NT desktop icon and it loads perfectly nicely into NT window and eventually the download is completed. Turns out you did not download the file you thought you were downloading because the download zxcvb.src.rpm was not a file but a link to another website, the result is that you favourite download directory has become a copy of that website. All right, so now I know how to get back into the directory and I'm not so pertubed anymore. Still , perhaps I have been a little unfair on konqueror, maybe the real problem is NT. As I say in getright you have a whole configuration section given over to what kind of files to allow to download. There, the problem, if you can call it one , is that quite often you come across a new type of file that needs additing to the list so that they don't get rejected. NT it would seem is an open book, you can dump amything at all on it and it will accept it whithout question. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
- Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry On Tuesday 04 June 2002 05:28 am, Scott Wagner wrote: Hi I've copied the patch numerous times and each time I try the install when it comes to the part where you partition the hard drive the floppy drive starts to work and it just works and works and nothing happens until I finally exit the install. What should the file type of the copied patch be? Windows saves it as a text file and I wonder if this is a problem. Thanks, SW Scott, what do you mean by windows saves it as a text file? Do you mean, that windows saves patch.pl as patch.txt ? - In that case it's no wonder everything goes awry. I can only think of one way that could happen : if you use M$-file-explorer (I'm not sure of the name) to drag'n drop the file from the harddisk to the floppy. As far as I remember, this explorer-thingy doesn't show file-extensions, but nevertheless I doubt that even a M$-app could behave that stupid. No, I think the problem is that the first time you tried to install 8.2 you created a file-system on your HD. Then you reached the select-packages part and everything stopped. Now, when you try another install, this time with the patch in place, the installer finds an alien partition-table and panics. May I recommend : Do an expert install, and choose to delete all partitions except the windows-ones. Then, create linux-partitions once again to your liking. Remember to have the floppy in place. If still in trouble, repost to this list, I'm sure there are people here to help you through this. I'm sure it's only some minor issue. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Here's a description of my latest attempt:: I attempted to reinstall Mandrake 8.0, because using the patch I cannot get to the disk partitioning step in 8.2. I chose an expert install. When I got to disk partitioning I chose the wizard and clicked on erase entire disk and erased the hdb disk that my I'm installing linux on (I have Windows on a seperate hd). I then went back and manually partitioned the drive and chose to format each new partition. Install appears to go normally untill packages are almost all installed and then it fails saying: Some important packages were not installed properly. Either your cdrom drive or your cd is defective. Check the cdrom in an installed computer using 'rpm-qpl Mandrake/RPM/*.rpm' (I dont have another computer available. I'm assuming this won't work on windows.) After I click OK another error message appears: No hdlist found. I checked the hardware list and my cdrom drive, Philips cdrw 800 series is listed as being reported to work with Mandrake 8.0 by someone in the community. So I installed 7.2 again, as much to have a bootloader as for any other reason. And that's where I'm at. Is it time to look for another cd drive? Any suggestions welcome. Well, almost any. Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Upgrading LM8.2
Dear All, I have been told that I have maximized my memory with 128 MB of ram since I have a Pentium II MMX processor at a littlle over 200 megahertz. I feel like I am either ready for a new computer or upgrading. I want to have 512 MB of ram. Is there anyway that I can add that to my system now or must I upgrade my motherboard and cpu? If I must upgrade I would like to go with the Athlon-maybe one of the motherboard cpu combo kits. Which one is a very good one that can handle at least 512 MB of ram, and of course work well with Linux Mandrake 8.2? Thanks. Marcia The motherboard is a GenuineIntel and I was told that the maximum memory is 128 megs. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. Have you tried PLF's packages? http://plf.zarb.org/rpm/ They work fine for me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming language -- The Microsoft Timeline http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/museum/timeline.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Q] Free X Server recommendation for Mandrake 8.2
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 21:47:51 -0300, Patricio Cassain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey ! My name is Pato from Argentina, I'm a newbie Mandrake user running version 8.2 I would like to get your opinion/recommendation based in your experience about what free X Server to install into Mandrake 8.2 I don't know anyone who _doesn't_ use XFree86. There are others, but XFree86 reigns in the desktop arena. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds, after a hard drive crash. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
