Re: [newbie-it] immagini
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] immagini ormai utilizzo win sempre meno e per cose sempre meno importanti, fondamentali... per me win sta diventando una specie di videogioco... Su, su non fartene una colpa ognuno ha le proprie croci da portare... eh eh eh scherzavo Non caziatemi ;-)
[newbie-it] ctrl+alt+canc versione linux
Esiste una combinazione di tasti in linux che svolga il lavoro del ctrl+alt+canc di win?
Re: [newbie-it] ctrl+alt+canc versione linux
Esiste una combinazione di tasti in linux che svolga il lavoro del ctr l+alt+canc di win? man ps ciao Marco
Re: [newbie-it] ctrl+alt+canc versione linux
Alle 15:08, venerdì 12 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Esiste una combinazione di tasti in linux che svolga il lavoro del ctrl+alt+canc di win? Kill Questa funzione ti permette di terminare, in maniera più o meno violenta, il processo indesiderato. Ti rimando, ovviamente, a man kill (e visto che ci sei, anche a man sex; l'ho scoperto l'altro giorno - il man, non il sex..) -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] passaggio da win a linux
vorrei togliere definitivamente win, c'e' un modo per portate i messaggi di poste OE ad un gestore di posta sotto linux? cià Caspar Bisogna avere in sé il caos per partorire una stella che danzi. Home Page http://caspar.interfree.it/caspar.htm
[newbie-it] Avvio da dischetto e risoluzione vga
Premetto che con lilo sapevo modificare la risoluzione della sessione modalità testo in lilo.conf dando un valore appropriato alla riga vga, per esempio vga= 0x0318. Ora in una fase d'installazione avendo scelto di installare il s.o. Linux con avvio da dischetto senza nessun bootloader non so più dove andare a variare la risoluzione suddetta. Inoltre vorrei sapere con Grub (sul relativo man non l'ho visto) come e dove va inserita la stessa informazione. Saluti da Giuseppe.
Re: [newbie-it] passaggio da win a linux
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, caspar esclamo': vorrei togliere definitivamente win, c'e' un modo per portate i messaggi di poste OE ad un gestore di posta sotto linux? Con Kmail c'e' un apposito programma convertitore che importa le mail dal formato utilizzato da OE -- L.U. #210970 L.M. #98222 S.U. #12583 - K 2.4.18-puro [Slackware 8.1]
Re: [newbie-it] Win modem motorola sm56pci (fwd)
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, tom esclamo': Building driver... `/usr/local/sm56/sm56.o' - `/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o' Creating device /dev/sm56... Pointing /dev/modem to /dev/sm56... Adding SM56 to /etc/modules.conf... Ecco, perfetto: ti ha creato il modulo(driver) dove sono conservati gli altri moduli (/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk.); tieni presente che finche' quel modulo non viene caricato, il sistema non potra' gestire la periferica che fa riferimento al dispositivo /dev/sm56. Fai in modo che prima di connetterti col modem quel driver venga caricato (p.es. con modprobe sm56, dopo aver dato un depmod -a) -- L.U. #210970 L.M. #98222 S.U. #12583 - K 2.4.18-puro [Slackware 8.1]
Re: [newbie-it] Win modem motorola sm56pci (fwd)
Alle 20:44, venerdì 12 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Fai in modo che prima di connetterti col modem quel driver venga caricato (p.es. con modprobe sm56, dopo aver dato un depmod -a) Ho fatto come mi hai detto, ma la shell mi da delle risposte poco rassicuranti per quel che ne capisco io! --- [root@XYX H2O]# man depmod [root@XYZ H2O]# depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o [root@XYZ H2O]# modprobe sm56 Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o will taint the kernel: no license /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o: invalid argument syntax for country: 'c' modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o failed modprobe: insmod sm56 failed --- Che ne dici c'è qualche speranza? o visto che ho il case aperto faccio aprire le ali della motorola al modem? Ciao , Tom
[newbie-it] come difendersi dai barbari
Sabato e domenica... i giorni da dedicare a linux (per mettere a posto problemucci vari) Orbene: il problema della settimana e': se io volessi condividere il mio PC con una seconda persona, che *non deve* usare linux e, soprattutto, *non deve* avere alcuna minima possibilita' di mettere le mani sui miei dati, tanto meno (soprattutto incidentalemente, visto che e' un principiante assoluto) rischiare di cancellarli... che devo fare? Pensavo innanzi tutto di spostare tutta la mia roba sulla partizione di linux; in secondo luogo di darle l'accesso al solo Win$ (tanto e' li' che deve imparare ad usare il PC e guardarsi i suoi CD rom). Ma se per caso facesse un format C o qualcosa di simile, un detree, qualsiasi disastro... che rischi corro? (Tranquillo Mike: non e' un portatile, non lo puo' surriscaldare tantomeno sballonzolarlo acceso qua e la'. e' un big tower da 70 cm). Per ora ho un disco fisso unico (il secondo e' talmente piccolo che non fa testo) con tre partizoni, quella principale di Win$ (la piu' antica), la ext2 e la swap (quelle piu' care :-) ); sarebbe meglio forse che comprassi un secondo disco fisso e impedissi l'accesso ai dati via hardware? O non ne vale assolutamente la pena, e ci sono altri metodi sicuri? E se per caso la suddetta persona si beccasse un virus, su Win$??? -- Arwan
[newbie-it] Finestre a spasso simili
Ogni volta che riaccendo KDE e lancio konqueror, la finestra mi appare in alto sulla destra (e la vorrei in centro). Stessa cosa quando dico nuova mail da mkail: come posso dire a kde che voglio le nuove finestre in centro allo schermo? E poi (questa e' una cosa che mi fa andare veramente in bestia): la colonna di sinistra di konqueror, quella che sfoglia le cartelle, e' sempre troppo piccola, e devo ogni volta allargarla. In piu' mi mostra file e cartelle come icone (non le sopporto), mentre vorrei, anzi, *voglio* vedere il tutto come dettagli. Mi tocca cliccare ogni volta il pulsantino apposito... come glielo dico, a kde, che questo non mi va bene, e che deve fare tutto come l'ho lasciato l'ultima volta che ho chiuso una finestra di konqueror? -- Arwan
[newbie] Fw: installation
- Original Message - From: Alexandre To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:51 AM Subject: installation Bonjour, Comment installer une Mandrake 8.2 ? Je n'ai pas de graveur de cd, suis-je obligé de télécharger tout le répertoire /mandrake et /install qui pour volume fait 2 giga et non pas 1 giga comme décrit sur le site ou puis je tout de même télécharger les images iso et lancer une installation à partir de disque dur ? Je téléchargeais de belnet belgium (pour les 2 giga). Je ne peux pas m'offrir les cd pour l'instant. aidez moi. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] systime running slow
Hi, I am running Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome on my Laptop for about a week now and everything is working just right. Well, everything but the systime, it is running slow, about 10 Minutes an hour. The hwclock though is working fine, but on reboot, the system seems to set the hwclock by systime, so on the next bootup the time in the hwclock is wrong, too. Does anybody know this problem? Or can somebody tell me, where I should take a look at to solve this problem? Many Thanks Holger __ FreeMail in der Premiumversion! Mit mehr Speicher, mehr Leistung, mehr Erlebnis und mehr Pramie. Jetzt unter http://club.web.de/?mc=021105 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installation
Bonjour! D'abourd, pourriez-vous eviter d'ecrire en HTML. Merci. > Comment installer une Mandrake 8.2 ? > Je n'ai pas de graveur de cd, suis-je obligé de > télécharger tout le répertoire /mandrake et /install; > qui pour volume fait 2 giga et non pas 1 giga comme > décrit sur le site ou puis je tout de même télécharger > les images iso et lancer une installation à partir > de disque dur ? > Je téléchargeais de belnet belgium (pour les 2 giga). > Je ne peux pas m'offrir les cd pour l'instant. aidez moi. Le plus simple, si vous n'avez _vraiment_pas_ les moyens d'acheter les CDs est soit de trouver une personne qui vous les telecharge et vous les grave, soit emprunter un graveur pour le faire vous meme. Ceci dit, le lot de 3 CDRoms coute tres peu par exemple chez cheapbytes: http://www.cheapbytes.com Un extrait de la page: > Want to Order Mandrake Linux 8.2? > 3 CD-ROM Install Set > Now Shipping! $5.99 Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop question
Femme, Might not be a burner problem. An old Toshiba laptop of mine refused to read CDs I had burnt (ML 8.0 download). I had used CD-RWs, which had worked fine on my newer computers. I then tried using plain CD-Rs and the Tosh was fine. Just a thought, Ron. --- FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Spatz wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 19:10, Femme wrote: Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Femme, Mine did the same thing to me, although I do have both drives. I found out that my burner wasn't doing the CD right. I bought a set from linux-for-less, another one of the cheapbytes online thingies, and it booted right up with those. Bill Well Bill I'm baffled. Truly...because the CD's I stuck into that lapdogs CDRom are the same ones I used to load MDK on my desktop machine. HOwever, in the interest of scientific curiousity, I shall try loading MDK 8.0 which is a store bought copy. If it works I know its a burner problem. Thx for the idea! I'll let the list know. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop question
Ron Bouwhuis wrote: Femme, Might not be a burner problem. An old Toshiba laptop of mine refused to read CDs I had burnt (ML 8.0 download). I had used CD-RWs, which had worked fine on my newer computers. I then tried using plain CD-Rs and the Tosh was fine. Just a thought, Ron. --- FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Spatz wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 19:10, Femme wrote: Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Femme, Mine did the same thing to me, although I do have both drives. I found out that my burner wasn't doing the CD right. I bought a set from linux-for-less, another one of the cheapbytes online thingies, and it booted right up with those. Bill Your suggestions perfectly valid Ron. One kink: I use only CD-R's. I never use CDRW's. Mostly b/c other CDRoms won't read them an my desktop doesn't have a burner, but my g/f's does. So I just use CDR's which the desktop reads fine. Thx though ;) Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] systime running slow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 July 2002 7:41 am, Holger Neven wrote: Hi, I am running Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome on my Laptop for about a week now and everything is working just right. Well, everything but the systime, it is running slow, about 10 Minutes an hour. The hwclock though is working fine, but on reboot, the system seems to set the hwclock by systime, so on the next bootup the time in the hwclock is wrong, too. Does anybody know this problem? Or can somebody tell me, where I should take a look at to solve this problem? If it were the other way round (hwclock influencing systime) the most likely explanation would be the clock battery on the motherboard running low. No idea what's causing the observed behaviour. Failing that, xntp is an easy way to (semi)automatically set the systime via a time server; urpmi xntp will install it and its home page is: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ I don't bother with the daemon but, every so often, do ntpdate ntp0.strath.ac.uk 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 iD8DBQE9Lov5Cv59vFiSU4YRAqrNAKCyICsg/ZCSkeLjjeLliONmvRp3UACglO3g +4/8DD/hUJajcUL4edFmuAg= =l6St -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.
On Friday 12 Jul 2002 7:50 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Thanks for the rersponse. When I did this kde3 kdm starts. butit doesn't have the kde option. Hence kde2 is started. Because of this I reverted to old condition and added in loginconfig/sessions kde3. Then I did the above to get kde3 kdm. However i could change clock etc, but not background. Why? Yes That is my experience too. I can change anything about KDM except the background. My assumption is that it either has a bug, or is looking in the wrong place for the backgrounds. Since it is quite a pretty Blue background I decided to just not worry about it :-) There is another issue with KDE3 KDM which has caused me problems, which is that root user appears in the user list even if I configure kdm to only show users in a range of UIDs. I had to explicitly name root as being excluded from the list to get rid of it. (I have not checked to see if Kde3.0.2 has fixed this bug) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] systime running slow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.07.02 09:59:45: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 July 2002 7:41 am, Holger Neven wrote: Hi, I am running Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome on my Laptop for about a week now and everything is working just right. Well, everything but the systime, it is running slow, about 10 Minutes an hour. The hwclock though is working fine, but on reboot, the system seems to set the hwclock by systime, so on the next bootup the time in the hwclock is wrong, too. Does anybody know this problem? Or can somebody tell me, where I should take a look at to solve this problem? If it were the other way round (hwclock influencing systime) the most likely explanation would be the clock battery on the motherboard running low. No idea what's causing the observed behaviour. Failing that, xntp is an easy way to (semi)automatically set the systime via a time server; urpmi xntp will install it and its home page is: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ I don't bother with the daemon but, every so often, do ntpdate ntp0.strath.ac.uk 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 iD8DBQE9Lov5Cv59vFiSU4YRAqrNAKCyICsg/ZCSkeLjjeLliONmvRp3UACglO3g +4/8DD/hUJajcUL4edFmuAg= =l6St -END PGP SIGNATURE- Hi Scott, thanks for the answer, I will try this. At least I can get my systime right with this Holger __ WEB.DE MyPage - Ohne Computerkenntnisse in nur 5 Minuten online! Alles inklusive! Kinderleicht! http://www.das.ist.aber.ne.lustige.sache.ms/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fw: installation
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:14, Alexandre wrote: Bonjour, Comment installer une Mandrake 8.2 ? Je n'ai pas de graveur de cd, suis-je obligé de télécharger tout le répertoire /mandrake et /install qui pour volume fait 2 giga et non pas 1 giga comme décrit sur le site ou puis je tout de même télécharger les images iso et lancer une installation à partir de disque dur ? Je téléchargeais de belnet belgium (pour les 2 giga). Je ne peux pas m'offrir les cd pour l'instant. aidez moi. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonjour, Peut-être vous pourriez essayer Mandrake 8,1 à la place (1.3GBs d'ISOs), l'installer du disque dur ou du réseau et télécharger les paquets mis à jour pour seulement de ce que vous avez besoin (par exemple KDE, Koffice), pour obtenir la même fonctionnalité que Mdk8.1. You peut trouver quelques paquets à www.rpmfind.net. Espoir vous trouvez ceci utile! Bonne chance, _nasturtium PS: Je ne parle pas français, seulement anglais et chinois. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Is Impossible
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add at least all the information should be here :o) Hardware Configuration ABIT VP6 mother board Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz 512Mb ram 1 x 40 Gb drives 1 x HP CdROM RW 1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F 1 x Travan SCSI tape 1 x GE Force 2MX video card 1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital Software Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked 7.2 Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I hoped it would self-configure the sound. The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on and off. It's currently on Information Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though there have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned. My /etc/modules.conf is : alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 3c59x Output from lsmod is: Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 1 snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean) lp 6624 0 (autoclean) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 4452 7 [snd] nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean) lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean) ipchains 38440 0 usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 0 rtc 6680 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 172032 6 advansys 86668 0 (unused) sd_mod 11512 0 (unused) scsi_mod 96060 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi advansys sd_mod] The relevant line from ps reads: 2737 ?S 0:09 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -b 16 -s 1 -m artsmes Running drakxservices shows that both Alsa and Sound are started at boot and running. Checking further I find that in Control Centre my board is recognised as an Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI using kernel module es1371 (which was why I used this module when setting up modules.conf) The configuration tool produces nothing however and neither does sndconfig. The IRQ is 11 and is shared between advansys, usb and ensoniq The ports are cc00-cc3f Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI Interestingly the PCI report states: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 8001 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at cc00 [size=64] Capabilities available only to root The last line certainly makes me gnash my teeth because I can't see why that would be the case, however... I am at the end of my tether. The card appears to be recognised and has a module available but has defied all my efforts to get a peep out of it. If there are any suggestions I would be more than willing to hear/try them out. As I say, after 4 hard weeks I figure I'm out of ideas and patience. The only thing I can say for certain is that there are plenty of people writing to a variety of ngs
[newbie] Sound Is Impossible
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add at least all the information should be here :o) Hardware Configuration ABIT VP6 mother board Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz 512Mb ram 1 x 40 Gb drives 1 x HP CdROM RW 1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F 1 x Travan SCSI tape 1 x GE Force 2MX video card 1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital Software Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked 7.2 Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I hoped it would self-configure the sound. The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on and off. It's currently on Information Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though there have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned. My /etc/modules.conf is : alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 3c59x Output from lsmod is: Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 1 snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean) lp 6624 0 (autoclean) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 4452 7 [snd] nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean) lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean) ipchains 38440 0 usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 0 rtc 6680 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 172032 6 advansys 86668 0 (unused) sd_mod 11512 0 (unused) scsi_mod 96060 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi advansys sd_mod] The relevant line from ps reads: 2737 ?S 0:09 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -b 16 -s 1 -m artsmes Running drakxservices shows that both Alsa and Sound are started at boot and running. Checking further I find that in Control Centre my board is recognised as an Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI using kernel module es1371 (which was why I used this module when setting up modules.conf) The configuration tool produces nothing however and neither does sndconfig. The IRQ is 11 and is shared between advansys, usb and ensoniq The ports are cc00-cc3f Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI Interestingly the PCI report states: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 8001 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at cc00 [size=64] Capabilities available only to root The last line certainly makes me gnash my teeth because I can't see why that would be the case, however... I am at the end of my tether. The card appears to be recognised and has a module available but has defied all my efforts to get a peep out of it. If there are any suggestions I would be more than willing to hear/try them out. As I say, after 4 hard weeks I figure I'm out of ideas and patience. The only thing I can say for certain is that there are plenty of people writing to a variety of ngs
Re: Re: [newbie] systime running slow
Note ntpdate is in the ntp RPM on your install CD It works fine in a cron job derek On Friday 12 Jul 2002 9:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.07.02 09:59:45: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 July 2002 7:41 am, Holger Neven wrote: Hi, I am running Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome on my Laptop for about a week now and everything is working just right. Well, everything but the systime, it is running slow, about 10 Minutes an hour. The hwclock though is working fine, but on reboot, the system seems to set the hwclock by systime, so on the next bootup the time in the hwclock is wrong, too. Does anybody know this problem? Or can somebody tell me, where I should take a look at to solve this problem? If it were the other way round (hwclock influencing systime) the most likely explanation would be the clock battery on the motherboard running low. No idea what's causing the observed behaviour. Failing that, xntp is an easy way to (semi)automatically set the systime via a time server; urpmi xntp will install it and its home page is: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ I don't bother with the daemon but, every so often, do ntpdate ntp0.strath.ac.uk 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 iD8DBQE9Lov5Cv59vFiSU4YRAqrNAKCyICsg/ZCSkeLjjeLliONmvRp3UACglO3g +4/8DD/hUJajcUL4edFmuAg= =l6St -END PGP SIGNATURE- Hi Scott, thanks for the answer, I will try this. At least I can get my systime right with this Holger ___ ___ WEB.DE MyPage - Ohne Computerkenntnisse in nur 5 Minuten online! Alles inklusive! Kinderleicht! http://www.das.ist.aber.ne.lustige.sache.ms/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop question
Well Bill I'm baffled. Truly...because the CD's I stuck into that lapdogs CDRom are the same ones I used to load MDK on my desktop machine. HOwever, in the interest of scientific curiousity, I shall try loading MDK 8.0 which is a store bought copy. If it works I know its a burner problem. Thx for the idea! I'll let the list know. Femme Same symptoms here. Although my lappy is a Toshiba. My burned ones worked fine with everything but this laptop. Bill --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 07/01/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Gnome 2.0
Hi Sridhar, Now, the question would be, what do I need to download in order to upgrade Gnome to v2.0? Gnome.org points to Cooker which contains many gnome-* files, however, which ones are 2.0 ones? Some of them are new, some are from March. Which ones do I need? With KDE3 one knew he had to download all the kde*3-* files, but there is nothing like that for Gnome, some RPMs are 2.something, some are 0.96... GNOME 2.0 RPMs built specifically for Mandrake 8.2 are currently being made by MandrakeClub volunteers. If I were you, I'd wait until those are released (you don't need to be a member of the Club). OK, thank you very much for the answer. -- Greets Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: What is NTP?
ntp is to do with syncing time, there are two ways to use it, everynow and then you can run: $ntpdate timeserver which will connect to the specified timeserver and sync your system time with that of the timeserver, the other way is to run ntp or its earlier incarnation xntp as a daemon, this will compare the timekeeping of your system with that of a specified timeserver(s) and calculate how slow or fast your system is, your system will then use this 'drift' factor to adjust how it keeps time, because the latter can take quite a while to bring a machine's time into sync most systems running ntp as a daemon will also run ntpdate on bootup. any machine running (x)ntp as a daemon to sync loacl time can alos be used a timeserver by other machines, a much better explanation of all this can be found here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/ as to your problem the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers is one of the files that ntp can use, why its non-presence should cause your 'upgrade' to fail i don't know but perhaps if you uninstalled ntp first then tried an upgrade you might have better luck, it's possible that you have a misconfigured ntp setup, the upgrade may be detecting that your system is trying to use ntp and presenting that to you in the summary you mention, another tack might be to click on the timesetting option and re-choosing the necessary option, iirc that is the timezone selection is it not? followed by 'do you want to use ntp'? it is completely optional whether to run ntp in either of its guises, of course those without an 'always-on' connection can only benefit at those time they are on line, to remove from an 8.2 system - assuming it was installed via rpm, run (as root): #rpm -e ntp hope this helps bascule On Thursday 11 July 2002 9:19 pm, you wrote: Last night I somehow lost my printer setup. I booted off the install cd to reinstall it. When the install got to the summary showing the keyboard, moust, printer, and time setting, I clicked ok. I then got an error: output in file /mnt/etc/ntp/step-tickers failed. no such file are directory. The kind person who helped me setup my dsl said it has to do with syncing time. I didn't have this when I upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2. Is this necessary? It doesn't seem to be since it caused me to have to hit the reset switch to reload mandrake, and if its not necessary how do I remove it? Thanks Chris --- -- 'It's easy to hold everything in common when no one's got anything.' (Maskerade) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba logs
I hav just found the Samba logs. They seem to indicate that everyone is trying to log on as nobody (I think that's the guest a/c, isn't it). Here are the last few lines of each: log.smbd [2002/07/09 21:02:24, 0] smbd/server.c:main(698) smbd version 2.2.3a started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002 [2002/07/09 21:03:23, 0] smbd/server.c:sig_hup(384) Got SIGHUP log.nmbd Samba name server ANNE_LINUX is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.0.1 * [2002/07/09 20:49:50, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:sig_term(63) Got SIGTERM: going down... [2002/07/09 21:02:25, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(783) Netbios nameserver version 2.2.3a started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002 [2002/07/09 21:02:29, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(236) find_response_record: response packet id 15323 received with no matching record. [2002/07/09 21:02:29, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(236) find_response_record: response packet id 15324 received with no matching record. log.nigel (the W2K machine) = [2002/05/28 15:00:30, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(872) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody [2002/05/28 15:32:32, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(872) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody [2002/05/28 15:32:35, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(872) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody [2002/05/28 16:04:37, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(872) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody log.micky (a Win98 m/c) = [2002/07/11 12:29:15, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(872) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody [2002/07/11 12:29:15, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(872) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody [2002/07/11 12:29:20, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(872) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody [2002/07/11 12:29:20, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(872) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Success of a sort!
I now have two printers and three directories shared sucessfully, after a fashion. The problem is that clearly they are logging in as nobody, so that they do not have the correct permissions. I have checked that Micky can read from Anne_Public, write to it, but she can't delete - I think it is probably best kept that way. All the home directories are there, but can't be written to, even by the owner - presumably caused by faulty login. I'm reading like mad - O'Reilly's Samba book - but so far I can't spot what's causing the login problems. Meanwhile, thanks for letting me keep coming back to you. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't
Joe Harkins wrote: So, if someone has some practical advice that can get an installed and functioning and stable Mandrake, I will be truly grateful and ready to give it one more try. But if not, at least (God forgive me saying this) I have a stable and functioning WIN XP on the primary HD. TIA for any help that works. Joe, don't despair. Can we start from the beginning. Could you tell us please, a) how many hard drive, there size, and what's on them by way of partitions. so some sort of partition table would be useful. b) what partition tools you have besides mandrake cd1, if any. c) I cannot remember which mandrake version, remind me. d) Is this a single install of mandrake with windblows. or, on it's own. e) Any particular hardware that you think may be difficult, ie some usb devices can be awkward. Some makes of hard drives too. we ought to know what mobo,processor,memory, etc you have. f) You keep mentioning text installs , is your mouse not being recognised ? if so what make ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 on Compaq Armada 7800 (sound problem)
I have done the install on this laptop already, my question is how do I go back and configure the soundcard without reinstalling the OS again. TIA Tom Tom Buzek Reliant Resources, Inc. IT Corporate Systems FileNet Administrator Office 713.934.5260 Mobile 713.582.1165 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 102.4 Mb limit with ftp?
Marc Sorry it took me a while to answer this one. You need to fix /etc/security/limits.conf There is a setting in there that sets the file size limit to 100mb. just change that to something more acceptable to your situation, and all will be fine. Ric -Original Message- From: Marc Audard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 5:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 102.4 Mb limit with ftp? Hi When connecting on the LAN of my working institute, I can transfer files with ftp (much faster than sftp) up to 102.4 Mb, then connection is closed. This is apparently true for sftp as well. I remember that there was a limit in old kernels, but since I use Mandrake 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6, this wonders me. Can somebody give a hint how to get rid of the limit? Please CC me since I am not registered to the mailing list. Regards Marc PS: Is there any rcp in the Linux distr? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Now the fun part: Ric's tid-bits
et; Took me a while to see this. I've been busy, and the e-Mail got backed up. No offence taken. ;) Seen it before, in many variations. FWIW: Posting seems to be working better these days. Ric -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Now the fun part: Ric's tid-bits Now the fun part: This is like a lottery: Will this actually post or not. I haven't had any luck lately. I've almost given up trying. we got this one (hope you ain't offended by the play on your name,,, I bet you NEVER heard that one b4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Backgrounds for Gnome on LM8.2??
www.themes.org Best resource out there. Ric -Original Message- From: LeaAnne Kolp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Backgrounds for Gnome on LM8.2?? Hello, I'm new to the board, in fact, just joined a few minutes ago. I'm new to linux and was wondering where I could find Themes (backgrounds) for Gnome? I had a theme manager on KDE LM7.2, but I upgraded last night and can't seem to find one on here. Do you know of where I can find them or do I just need to switch over to the KDE WM? Thanks in advance. LeaAnne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problems with /etc/fstab
Thanks to everyone that helped me with my USB 250MB zip drive. Unfortunately, it didn't work automagically as I had hoped, so I had to make a manual entry in my /etc/fstab file. Which leads me to my small problem. I have 3 entries that I manually added to /etc/fstab to mount 2 NFS directories, and my zip drive. Every time I boot my machine, it fails to mount these 3 things. However, once the machine is booted up, I can su in a console, and manually mount them using: mount -a Anyone have an idea? I thought that maybe it had something to do with my using a wireless network card (Cisco Aironet 352) as opposed to the built-in network port, but things worked fine for a couple of days when I first made the 2 NFS entries. As always, any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Perl
On Friday 12 Jul 2002 6:43 am, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 Jul 2002 3:02 am, you wrote: This months issue of Linux Magazine talks about Perl and scripting languages in general. Apologies for the hijack. Is Linux Magazine available here in the U.K.? Or is there a web site or the possibility of subscribing? Linus Format is the only one I have seen here. Anne www.linuxmagazine.com They archive most articles on their site too. Femme Thanks, Femme. I'll take a look Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound
In Xmms options, look at output plugin. If using KDE set for Arts. I can use OSS even though I use KDE. Change the setting and try it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Dear All, I just put together my brand new computer that I had built. I love it so far. It is an Athlon XP 1600 with 512 megs of ram and an Elitegroup ECS Socket A L7VMM mainboard with onboard sound: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller Subsystem: ELitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a76, Flags: medium devset, IRQ 5, I/O ports at e800 [size=256], Capabilities: available only to root and onboard video. Everything worked right away including the the network card, except for some sound. I can play a music CD with no problem and here very beautiful strong sound coming out of my new Altec lansing speakers. However, the sound does not work for xmms. I have no idea how to make it work with xmms. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. I am using LM 8.2. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Friday 12 July 2002 11:45 am, you wrote: In Xmms options, look at output plugin. If using KDE set for Arts. I can use OSS even though I use KDE. Change the setting and try it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Dear Brian, Thank you for your help. I have not been able to get my arts driver to start up. I did change the output plugin to arts in xmms. What can I do to make sure the arts driver starts? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Dear All, I just put together my brand new computer that I had built. I love it so far. It is an Athlon XP 1600 with 512 megs of ram and an Elitegroup ECS Socket A L7VMM mainboard with onboard sound: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller Subsystem: ELitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a76, Flags: medium devset, IRQ 5, I/O ports at e800 [size=256], Capabilities: available only to root and onboard video. Everything worked right away including the the network card, except for some sound. I can play a music CD with no problem and here very beautiful strong sound coming out of my new Altec lansing speakers. However, the sound does not work for xmms. I have no idea how to make it work with xmms. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. I am using LM 8.2. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound
In the KDE Control center, under sound i believe. There is the option to start arts on startup. Other than that I am out of help. I have a SBLive and it works great. Good Luck Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound On Friday 12 July 2002 11:45 am, you wrote: In Xmms options, look at output plugin. If using KDE set for Arts. I can use OSS even though I use KDE. Change the setting and try it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Dear Brian, Thank you for your help. I have not been able to get my arts driver to start up. I did change the output plugin to arts in xmms. What can I do to make sure the arts driver starts? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Dear All, I just put together my brand new computer that I had built. I love it so far. It is an Athlon XP 1600 with 512 megs of ram and an Elitegroup ECS Socket A L7VMM mainboard with onboard sound: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller Subsystem: ELitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a76, Flags: medium devset, IRQ 5, I/O ports at e800 [size=256], Capabilities: available only to root and onboard video. Everything worked right away including the the network card, except for some sound. I can play a music CD with no problem and here very beautiful strong sound coming out of my new Altec lansing speakers. However, the sound does not work for xmms. I have no idea how to make it work with xmms. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. I am using LM 8.2. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doubtless this will provoke some discussion! http://people.trustcommerce.com/~adam/top10/wrong.html Unfortunately, there are several things wrong with the article: i. I don't agree with the argument in 1, which carries the danger of falling into the the 'designed for Internet Explorer' trap; the more 'best browsers' the better. (And 'hurt the user experience' makes me reach for the blue pencil :) ii. 4 is no issue with Mandrake; the 'What to do?' menu item is excellent and a simple solution. iii. I wonder what sort of machine he's using as 5 is not visible here (1GHz PIII, 256MB RAM, built-in i815 graphics) iv. 9 is resolved by nedit, which he evidently isn't aware of. v. 10, although a crowd-puller when implemented, is becoming irrelevant with the advent of flat panel displays; this one runs at 1280x1024 (24-bit colour) and there's _no point_ running at any other resolution. However, 3 and 8 together seem to form about half of the queries to this list, although the author seems to be ignorant of the difficulties caused by forced reverse-engineering. I understand why; as another 'software architect' it's all too easy to fly away and become a cloud-dweller :) 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 iD8DBQE9LxdlCv59vFiSU4YRAlm+AJ9NvFjtsImVgwhee7IHvZMgCEm/jgCfb73U d3gKxp5pEKbMUvt2zPuubx8= =bHjT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xmms for CD
I want to make xmms mydefault player for CDs as well as mp3s. How can I do that? Failing that, is there an easy way to tell it to play the CD after it has been playing mp3s? I've gone twice round the houses trying to do this. I managed it, but I'm not sure how! Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xmms for CD
Choose Play location and enter /mnt/cdrom or wherever you put your CDs. Miark Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I want to make xmms mydefault player for CDs as well as mp3s. How can I do that? Failing that, is there an easy way to tell it to play the CD after it has been playing mp3s? I've gone twice round the houses trying to do this. I managed it, but I'm not sure how! Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Solaris Driver to Linux Driver Portation
Does anyone know some kinda guide to port Solaris devicedriver to Linux device driver? I have so many question related to it.One of them is:How do I find which is a slave slot in Linux which is solaris could be found by ddi_slaveonly(). Please help me. Thanks, Jatin
[newbie] DVD in 8.2
Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? I just tried watching a DVD in 8.2 for the first time (actually, I've never viewed a DVD in any previous Mandrake, or linux, for that matter...), and watching it in Xine crashed X. Is there an updated Xine that I should be using, or a different program? Tnaks -- heh...that was supposed to be thanks...but my fingers slipped... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DVD in 8.2
For DVD playback, I prefer Ogle instead of Xine. Xine can read a lot of different formats, but Ogle for me plays DVD's better. You may want to look at Mplayer even, though I find it a real pain. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DVD in 8.2 Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? I just tried watching a DVD in 8.2 for the first time (actually, I've never viewed a DVD in any previous Mandrake, or linux, for that matter...), and watching it in Xine crashed X. Is there an updated Xine that I should be using, or a different program? Tnaks -- heh...that was supposed to be thanks...but my fingers slipped... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't
Thanks for the good questions that offer some promise of a possible solution. I really am not down on Mandrake. Just frustrated. But I'll get over it. I may not be able to pull the response together until tomorrow but I'll post the info as soon as I can. I'm on my way out the door to attend the 2600 conference and seminars in Manhattan. (I live across the river.) Thanks again for the help. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] directory sizes
Add -a as an option to du. Moshe * Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020711 20:01]: Robt. Miller wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ross Pearson wrote: I'm having difficulty finding a way to display the total size of a directory and all its contents while at a console. Can anyone give any pointers please. du -b -h On my system this seems to show only subdirectories within a directory, not files within a directory. Is this the expected behavior? Alias does not show that du is an alias for some other command. Randy Kramer 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] DVD in 8.2
Well, it's not _my_ preferred app. I like Ogle: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Miark Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux
I am fairly new to linux, I have only been using it for 2 months now and that is not even an everyday thing. It's more like a weekend thing. Anyway I find this article a bunch of crap. There are tons of web browers that work great with linux, even Konq does a good job #2 is not an issue. I have had the power go out at least 5 times and have never had this problem on boot up, and I also have a SPARC20 with Solaris on it -- have had this issue in Solaris but not linux #3. Printing can't argue here as I don't have a printer hooked up to my linux box, I might have to do this though to see what the fuss is. #4. I think the KDE and Gnome menus are very self explanatory, granted they could be laid out a little better but for me the are self explanatory -- catagories like Internet, Office, Toys, Graphics, Games, etc.. self explantory if you ask me. #5. NOw I don't have this problem on my machine (2 x 1GH P3, 784 MB Ram, GeForce 2 64MB video card running Nvidia drivers for Linux) #6. I have never had a problem with this, I thought the man page for ps was helpful #7. I have no need for this -- not an issue here #8. Sound ah a good issue to discuss, as I haven't bothered to configure my sound card, I assume it is already configured during the install (I could be wrong) but I don't have any speakers to hook up to it to test it out. Damn oh well I guess I am not concerned with this at this point (maybe when I get a real job and make some money I can buy speakers.) #9. Type it right the first time -- end of story #10. I have a 21 inch standard monitor -- I run at 1280 x 1024 nuff said anything under this is useless. Just my $.02 worth of input thanks Mike -Original Message- From: Alastair Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doubtless this will provoke some discussion! http://people.trustcommerce.com/~adam/top10/wrong.html Unfortunately, there are several things wrong with the article: i. I don't agree with the argument in 1, which carries the danger of falling into the the 'designed for Internet Explorer' trap; the more 'best browsers' the better. (And 'hurt the user experience' makes me reach for the blue pencil :) ii. 4 is no issue with Mandrake; the 'What to do?' menu item is excellent and a simple solution. iii. I wonder what sort of machine he's using as 5 is not visible here (1GHz PIII, 256MB RAM, built-in i815 graphics) iv. 9 is resolved by nedit, which he evidently isn't aware of. v. 10, although a crowd-puller when implemented, is becoming irrelevant with the advent of flat panel displays; this one runs at 1280x1024 (24-bit colour) and there's _no point_ running at any other resolution. However, 3 and 8 together seem to form about half of the queries to this list, although the author seems to be ignorant of the difficulties caused by forced reverse-engineering. I understand why; as another 'software architect' it's all too easy to fly away and become a cloud-dweller :) 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 iD8DBQE9LxdlCv59vFiSU4YRAlm+AJ9NvFjtsImVgwhee7IHvZMgCEm/jgCfb73U d3gKxp5pEKbMUvt2zPuubx8= =bHjT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] new install success .... But 2 simple question
I have been running mandrake 8.0 until recently and have had fairly good success with it. I recently formated and did a fresh install of the newest version 8.2 (I think:)and everthing went well except for 2 things perhaps someone could help me out for I am new at this! - I have been hosting my own familly web page which is comprised of part HTML and part perl but when I dropped it into place and tried to use the page I get a permission error. even though the permissions are correct. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/search.cgi on this server - I have also been trying to use msn messanger threw samba sharing to a couple of windows machines. the chatting works fine but if you try to use voice or video instead of typing it does not work? If you have any ideas or can direct me to where I can find out it would be greatly appreciated. regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DHCP Revisited
Hi All, I found a great link for setting up DHCP at http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ I ran ifconfig -a as root and received the following message: eth0 Link encap:Ethernett HWaddr 00:A0:24:E9:1F;9C inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast 192.168.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNINGMULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX Packets:620 errors :0 dropped:0 overruns::0 carriers:0 collisions: 0 txqueulen:100 RX bytes:134995 (131.8 KB) TX bytes15790 (15.4 KB) Interrupt: 12 BASE ADDRESS 0XS800 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 16436 RX packets: 550 errors: 0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueulen:0 RX bytes:37216 (36.3 KB) TX bytes 37216 (36.3) Maybe someone can point out where I made a mistake, TIA Frank McKenna True strength les through gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] launching apps from terminal
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:09:26 -0400 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:15:50 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to launch a gui program from a terminal, then have the same terminal available to do other stuff? Sure. Just put a '' after the command to send it to the background. You have to keep the terminal open though, or your app will close as well. Bill Great, thanks! I suppose I should have known that. Now I do! Todd -- Todd Slater What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. (George Bernard Shaw) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] launching apps from terminal
El Vie 12 Jul 2002 19:15, Todd Slater escribió: Is it possible to launch a gui program from a terminal, then have the same terminal available to do other stuff? I think yes. Open a terminal and. by example, type: 'kover ' then type 'xmms' or 'ls' (without quotes). Suerte -- el charlie Concordia, Argentina Linux MDK 8.2, KDE 3.0.1, Kmail 1.4.1 9:31pm up 32 min, 1 user, load average: 0.90, 0.29, 0.13 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] three questions
Hi Folks, I have three questions that I can't seem to figure out with Mandrake 8.2. 1.) How do I change the name of my machine? While I was installing Mandrake, I didn't put in a name, and the default was dhcppc5. I would like to change it to something more suitable. 2.) How do I edit the shutdown script so I don't see KillAll [failed] on the Mandrake shutdown screen when I turn the box off. I have been running this Mandrake PC for a month and it has been great. I am convinced that if I could edit this command out of the shutdown script, it would cure the problem. 3.) How do I edit Apache so I can run Perl CGI scripts on my box. I am using the Mandrake default Apache set-up and I cannot seem to get CGI scripts to work. I have tried using the scripts in the cgi-bin and elsewhere and I keep getting an error message like the 403 error below. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/first.cgi on this server. Also, I want to thank everyone on this list. I have been lurking for the past month and I have learned a great deal here. - Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux
On Friday 12 July 2002 12:52 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: Doubtless this will provoke some discussion! http://people.trustcommerce.com/~adam/top10/wrong.html Unfortunately, there are several things wrong with the article: The article takes most things from a 'the situation is an OS fault, then hardware, then user' approach. Unfortunately most users (any OS) do also. I've found when situations are approached just the opposite as most likely a user, then maybe hardware, and lastly OS deficiency, I tend to have better experiences. I don't believe Adam feels any differently. I got the distinct impression he's just playin the usual journalistic card and pretending to be the Devil's advocate. So. 1) is a user problem too many IE users :o, non standard html, and of course, M$ 2) user problem. Choosing ext2 in this day and age is. Not havin an UPS (any OS) comes in second. 3) user problem. Old computers printed everything. Save trees, get rid of your printer (I don't have one). ... and quit buyin books too. Better to burn everything from coal to uranium to communicate. 4) user problem (any OS). The real problem is when you have a problem, you don't know what to ask, or have enough understanding to realize when you find the answer. (I fall too often into this group.) 5) user problem. Buy a better cpu/cache/ram, video card, monitor. The ones you believed the advertising/win-reviews about sort'a suck, but you're the one that bought into it. Using only incandescent or candle light in the vicinity of your computer screen might help. 6) Extreme user problem, obviously he's advocating killing children and/or their activities here ;( 7} user problem again, 'cept this time it's me. I haven't a clue as to what he's complain'g about. 8) OK, we finally got a problem that's not all user. This one is win-hardware and OS. Sound in Linux sort'a kind'a sux, even more than the user errors mentioned in #5 9) user error, 'cept' not me, I believe he's the one without a clue. 10) user error, hasn't he heard of Crl+Alt+/- (also see #5) So, according to his top 10, it works out to roughly 90% user is the problem. 'Course if you ask most sysadmins, or support personel, they'd probly just say user - user - user (IOW's 100%). I'll stick with user - hardware - OS (any OS)) in that order. I suppose next week he'll publish a 1 Things Wrong with Windows article ?? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: What is NTP?
On Friday 12 July 2002 06:42 am, you wrote: ntp is to do with syncing time, there are two ways to use it, everynow and then you can run: Thanks very much, I'll give your suggestions a try and see what happens. Applogies that I posted this same question another time or two, it didn't show up from me the first time so I just thought it didn't make it to the list. Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.
I think user problem can be solved by running configuration/KDE/System/login manager as root and selecting user tab. In this tab copy users from remaining users to selected user only users that are going to login. Then in show users select radio button selected users. This works for me. Even I have png files of users in folder /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users. This shows users picture. On Friday 12 Jul 2002 8:29 am, Derek Jennings wrote: There is another issue with KDE3 KDM which has caused me problems, which is that root user appears in the user list even if I configure kdm to only show users in a range of UIDs. I had to explicitly name root as being excluded from the list to get rid of it. (I have not checked to see if Kde3.0.2 has fixed this bug) derek -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xmms for CD
On Friday 12 July 2002 06:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I,ve tryed the same thing I was told to use ART driver then told use OSS driver my CD player work,s ,I have sound but nothing work,s in Xmms if you get it please let me know. I tried that, but it didn't work. At least it didn't list anything or appear to recognise the disc. Anne On Friday 12 Jul 2002 7:46 pm, you wrote: Choose Play location and enter /mnt/cdrom or wherever you put your CDs. Miark Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I want to make xmms mydefault player for CDs as well as mp3s. How can I do that? Failing that, is there an easy way to tell it to play the CD after it has been playing mp3s? I've gone twice round the houses trying to do this. I managed it, but I'm not sure how! Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I had the same kind of problem and finally solved it by uninstalling the alsa player and alsautils packages. Sound in KDE is set on Autodetect . Then all the various cd players worked. I have a Soundblaster live! audio card. YMMV -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] three questions
On Friday 12 July 2002 09:08 pm, Stephen Britton wrote: Hi Folks, I have three questions that I can't seem to figure out with Mandrake 8.2. 1.) How do I change the name of my machine? While I was installing Mandrake, I didn't put in a name, and the default was dhcppc5. I would like to change it to something more suitable. 2.) How do I edit the shutdown script so I don't see KillAll [failed] on the Mandrake shutdown screen when I turn the box off. I have been running this Mandrake PC for a month and it has been great. I am convinced that if I could edit this command out of the shutdown script, it would cure the problem. 3.) How do I edit Apache so I can run Perl CGI scripts on my box. I am using the Mandrake default Apache set-up and I cannot seem to get CGI scripts to work. I have tried using the scripts in the cgi-bin and elsewhere and I keep getting an error message like the 403 error below. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/first.cgi on this server. Also, I want to thank everyone on this list. I have been lurking for the past month and I have learned a great deal here. - Steve 1. Run linuxconf in a su terminal. i.e. open a console and type su and then give the root password. then type linuxconfnetworkingHost name and IP network devices. Change the host name there. Then click on the dismiss buttons till you are back to the console and type in exit and exit. Your machine name should be changed. I don't believe you need to do anything more than that. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)
On Friday 12 July 2002 04:20 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: Hi Tom, Howdy yourself ethical? as in Micro$soft ? Gosh, no. Their complete lack of ethics is the reason I abhor Microsoft. There ya go [ Optional, but requested, is quit buyin Dells. Then they wouldn't have so damn much of y'alls money to spend on those irritating TV commercials. (more than they put into the actual hardware) Dude, you're gettin (stuck with) a Dell ] This made me smile. There ya go ;) It's what they don't say, or out right hide that'll kill ya. Not sure what you mean 'as if the two were mutually exclusive.' Yah, I could've been clearer, sorry. I mean the assertion, explicit or implied, both of which I've seen frequently on the list, that closed source software cannot be quality software. I think this more than anything is what set me off on all this. It's not that it can't be, and I didn't mean to imply that it always isn't. You can infer tho, that it will taint an otherwise wide open and auditable system to suspicion, if not conflict. Civileme seems to believe even HDD corruption. Mea culpa, maybe inclusive? I'll just say again, and this applies to nVidia as much as any other closed source stuff or vendors (Aureal), 'the drivers _will_ taint your kernel, and possibly (probly) introduce unfixable, untraceable conflicts and security issues.' ... or be orphaned or asimilated into the rest of the wintel gang. I guess it's the juxtaposition of the notion of tainting your kernel and the pragmatic concerns (security, conflicts, etc) that has me confused. It sounds like you feel your kernel is tainted by the prescence of non-open source drivers both in an ethical and a functional sense. Perhaps I misunderstood? We can leave ethical out of it for now. Functionally they will taint, or at least render the kernel/system unauditable. Any errors, security vulnerabilities, or conflicts that may or may not be present can't be discovered, managed, or fixed because of the introduced closed source, by it's very nature. Also, Linux as with any other software/OS is a work in progress. New kernels are released regularly. Even the most trusted closed source vendor, could inadvertently cause errors, security vulnerabilities, or conflicts with newer kernels, or even existing ones for that matter. I smile when the same people on this list (or other venues), say in one thread that they need/want a stable system, no beta software or versions for them. Then turn around in another thread and say how great closed source drivers, or software (eg, StarOffice) are. Me, I run a cooker system, and avoid as much as possible closed source drivers/software. I believe I'm much better off. Addressing 'ethical', we havt'a get more into opinions. Mine are that those vendors who refuse to open their drivers/specs on the grounds of not wanting to expose they're intellectual property ... lie. They've got handshake agreements, in black'n white, or under the table with the powers at be, not to, and they go along. Some of it's quasi legal, as in cross licensing, some of it's just plain colusion and conspiracy. I only think proprietary drivers taint my kernel by introducing the possibility of functional problems. If the driver in question has no open source alternative with comparable quality/performance/features and I consider the functionality it provides essential then I'm fine with using it. I can accept that I am perhaps slightly more at risk of orphaned hardware. In no case am I going to be 'assimilated.' When I said assimilated, well a good example would be 3dfx. A true open source friend, free release of drivers and tech specs to the Linux community. They got killed for it by the wintel gang, namely by nVidia, but the gang was behind it also. 3dfx got assimilated. Linux Voodoo users past the V3 got abandoned. As far as quality/performance/features. Well partner, I'm usin an nVidia card. With Linux I use the open source XFree 'nv' driver', no problemo. Every once in a while when I wanna fly my Cessna 310, I boot W98 and use the card with the latest nVidia 29.80 winblows drivers. The 'quality/performance/features' of which are far superior to those that they manage to furnish for Linux**. Even include oc'ing capabilities. nVidia's Widoze drivers are regularly updated and are feature full, quite good. Their Linux drivers cause problems and suck. And yes, you can infer that this is intentional on their part. **( every so often I compile a 'sacrifice' kernel and taint it with nVidia's latest secret drivers to try out FlightGear. Last go around was the 29.60 drivers from src.rpms. Neither nvidia or FlightGear 0.7.10 seemed up to par ... yet) Gettin back to assimilated, I'd bet the house that if nVidia ever defied the wintel gang, and really started to support their hardware with anything but winwoes,
Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux
i. I don't agree with the argument in 1, which carries the danger of=20 falling into the the 'designed for Internet Explorer' trap; the more=20 Neither do I. konwqueror is pretty good, and so is mozilla. Basically I use either one, depending on what I need to do. And IE can't browse cvs like konqueror can ;) (although I need to figure out just how to do that.) I haven't had konqueror crash ofteh, but only once in a while -- compare that with IE's track record on Windows :)... when it comes to his point about 'stuck' processes well, maybe -- these two last konqueror sessions strangely enough weren't killable by 'kill' or other methods, and I had to exit out of X and get back in to free them up. But that's a rare exception - most times 'stuck' processes aren't stuck. In response to issue #2 - fsck -- with reiserfs, I've never had to do that. Even Windows forces a filesystem check upon reboot upon an improper shutdown. His point about having to do it on servers is untenable, simply because you don't reboot servers, and if they go down, it's probably due to a back hoe :) or power failure. And if you have to do it, it's a feature, if you have a FS that checks; your data is more valuable than the time it takes to fsck your disk. He makes a good point about needing to fix via 'fsck' with its arcane 'fix inode' prompts --- but that is one fsck in maybe a hundred or more where it has to drop to manual mode. For the Joe Average user, it may be difficult to understand, but most things are fixed by answering 'y' to the prompt. His comment would weigh better if he contrasted it with what hoops a user of DOS (FAT) filesystems has to do when encountering a disk full of cross linked clusters. This type of scenario is really an administrator and not a user issue. ii. 4 is no issue with Mandrake; the 'What to do?' menu item is=20 excellent and a simple solution. Yeah, and the K menu (or the gnome foot) is just as featureful in offering choices as is the Windows start menu or right click on the desktop. Of course, kde offers more things. One can easily edit the menus to a more 'english' like set of tasks (like saying 'write a letter' instead of 'kword'). Part of the learning experience is learning what application does what, which admittedly is something that is not always apparent by looking at the names of the programs. But windows doesn't have 'apropos' either. :( As far as printing is considered - messing with /etc/printcap is not all that necessary anymore as it used to be. cups is very easy IMHO to set up. iv. 9 is resolved by nedit, which he evidently isn't aware of. And vi, and emacs. He just hasn't figured out the right keystrokes or modes to set word wrap -- like M-x text-fill-mode in emacs. v. 10, although a crowd-puller when implemented, is becoming irrelevant=20 with the advent of flat panel displays; this one runs at 1280x1024=20 naa you just run two copies of X at different resolutions and toggle between them :). Seriously I don't see it being an issue. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
and onboard video. Everything worked right away including the the network card, except for some sound. I can play a music CD with no problem and here Marcia - hey great that you got a new computer :). It's faster than mine :(. Anyway, if xmms doesn't work maybe the kde media player, or playing a sound file in konqueror itself, might work. I don't remember ever having an issue with arts conflicts here - my current sound card is a sb live 5.1, and before that I had a Mozart iSA card, which worked fairly well most of the time (for a while I used OSS sound drivers). I think you have to type 'artswrapper xmms' but not having to need that myself, I haven't had to figure that out. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] launching apps from terminal
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:15:50 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to launch a gui program from a terminal, then have the same terminal available to do other stuff? Sure. Just put a '' after the command to send it to the background. You have to keep the terminal open though, or your app will close as well. Not quite true. The application should launch as a detached process. Just tried ogle from gnome-terminal and it stayed put when the xterm closed down. The terminal window will display messages from the application while it exists - don't know what happens to them after xterm exit though (xsession-errors?). -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86
Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake 8.2? Andrew
Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86
Nope, i have run a GeForce 2 GTS and GeForce 3 Ti200 without any problems.. Nvidia's drivers work great Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake 8.2? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
