Re: [newbie-it] Scheda audio
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:00:40 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti. girovagando per il sistema ho fatto la tristissima scoperta che la scheda audio non funziona :-[[[ ho lanciato un file *.mp3, mi si è aperto un programmino simile a winamp ma dalle casse usciva il nulla. Prova a mettere tra le opzioni del boot nobiospnp Puoi farlo da mcc - boot - linux -opzioni o aprendo il file /etc/lilo.conf (se usi lilo) e aggiungendo nobiospnp alle righe del tipo append=. Nel secondo caso,poi devi lanciare il comando lilo. Altrimenti, devi aprire il BIOS (tieni premuto il tasto canc durante l'accesione del PC) e disattivare l'opzione sistemi che supportano pnp. Al successivo riavvio lanci sndconfig, draksound, mcc, .. qualsiasi tool che ti permette di configurare la scheda audio. guardando in configurazione\hardware\hardrake ho visto che la periferica pci che ha rilevato come scheda audio è una Ensoniq ... io ho una soundblaster 128. potete aiutarmi? Ensoniq e SoundBlaster sono la stessa cosa, due denominazioni industriali/commerciali dello stesso prodotto. Non ricordo se Ensoniq abbia acquistato SB, o viceversa. Oppure se SB faccia schede audio con chipset Ensoniq. Oppure se . qualcosa di simile. Insomma, è normale che i due nomi vengano scambiati. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll
Ciao ragazzi. Innanzitutto vi ringrazio per le innumerevoli risposte... Dunqueieri sera ho provato a lanciare una masterizzazione dalla rica di comando,non avendo nessun programma installato ( nelle applicazioni mi manca il pacchetto! non l'ho installato?) dovevo masterizzare una immagina di un cd in formato *.iso dopo avere fatto un check bus e avere trovato l'indirizzo del mio masterizzatore ( 0,2,0 ) ho scritto una sintassi che mi ha fatto partire qualcosa.ma alla fine mi ha dato un errore (la masterizzazione non è partita) devo forse montare il cd? (se si come? mount? se vado in ambiente grafico in mnt , vedo che sul cd e sul drive a c'e' un lucchettocosa significa? ciao e grazie Luca. la cosa mi sta prendendo veramente bene..
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda audio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:00, mercoledì 16 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. girovagando per il sistema ho fatto la tristissima scoperta che la scheda audio non funziona :-[[[ ho lanciato un file *.mp3, mi si è aperto un programmino simile a winamp ma dalle casse usciva il nulla. guardando in configurazione\hardware\hardrake ho visto che la periferica pci che ha rilevato come scheda audio è una Ensoniq ... io ho una soundblaster 128. La rilevazione è giusta, il chip della sndb 128 è Ensoniq (è anche la mia scheda). Hai provato a vedere sui volumi del mixer come sono messi? Una domanda: ma non ti eri mai accorto del non funzionamento della scheda, da quando hai installato linux? Ciao Sandro - -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - A.I.P. n° 2075 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 8.2 on PIII 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9rmn3/ayi1TbZzlQRAljBAJ97DtQAx1ri22A2mlPISD2gGP+/wgCg2Pn4 jXD7Nwp9G8CRtN1QJrEmRyI= =QQEl -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll
Alle 09:48, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao ragazzi. Innanzitutto vi ringrazio per le innumerevoli risposte... Dunqueieri sera ho provato a lanciare una masterizzazione dalla rica di comando,non avendo nessun programma installato ( nelle applicazioni mi manca il pacchetto! non l'ho installato?) EEHH?? Cioè in Applicazioni - Archiviazione - Masterizzazione CD non c'è nulla?? Sarebbe la prima volta che Mdk si permette di fare una cosa del genere... dovevo masterizzare una immagina di un cd in formato *.iso dopo avere fatto un check bus e avere trovato l'indirizzo del mio masterizzatore ( 0,2,0 ) ho scritto una sintassi che mi ha fatto partire qualcosa.ma alla fine mi ha dato un errore (la masterizzazione non è partita) devo forse montare il cd? (se si come? mount? se vado in ambiente grafico in mnt , vedo che sul cd e sul drive a c'e' un lucchettocosa significa? ciao e grazie Luca. la cosa mi sta prendendo veramente bene.. Che errore? Da riga di comando dovresti avere le informazioni necessarie ad individuare il problema... Il lucchetto significa che il tuo device al momento non è montato; se inserisci un CD vedrai che, ritornando in ambiente grafico, il lucchetto sarà sparito e potrai accedere al suo contenuto. Un consiglio: non fare passi più lunghi della gamba; a tua disposizione hai una ricca documentazione (i famosi How-To), che può aiutarti a districarti da problemi del genere. Per esempio, dvresti avere un CD recording How-To, che ti spiega passo-passo tutta la procedura. Leggi prima quelli, poi magari la documentazione del programma da te utilizzato (se da riga di comando prova con un bel man nomeapplicazione), e solo dopo imbarcati nell'impresa. A proposito, con il modem come va? -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] firewall firestarter porte e servizi.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:07, mercoledì 16 ottobre 2002, paolo brusasco ha scritto: ciao a tutti. ho installato firestarter (0.8.2) su e da mdk 8.2download. uso internet per semplice navigazione e posta domestica, connesso via modem. non mi è chiaro quali porte devo lasciare aperte e per chi. leggi il netfilter howto spiega come configurare un firewall generico in generale comunque, non essendo un server, la tua macchina deve chiudre TUTTE le porte verso l'esterno, a meno di avere instaurato LEI una connessione, sono 3 linee di iptables... ** Administrator@mdk:~$ cat /etc/rc.d/firewall #!/bin/sh echo Attivazione Firewall... chain=DROP # policy predefinita DNS=#inserire ip del dns echo Azzero le chain iptables -t filter -F iptables -t filter -X # echo Make Policy iptables -t filter -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -t filter -P INPUT $chain iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT # echo Abilita log.. iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -j LOG # echo Accetto le connessioni aperte dall'interno RELATED/ESTABLISHED ... iptables -t filter -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT # echo Accetto risposte DNS iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p udp -s $DNS --sport 53 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p udp -s $DNS --sport 53 -j ACCEPT # echo Accetto ICMP type 0,3,11 ... iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 3 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 11 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 15 -j ACCEPT iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 16 -j ACCEPT # echo Done. ** non è che usando programmilli semivisuali ti complichi solo la vita? in particolare, ricevo continui accessi sulla porta 137 servizio netbios-ns, che significa? hai una lan domestica con macchine win$? grazie fin d'ora per le noccioline. ciao. paolo brusasco. bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 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 iD8DBQE9rlzIF/9fksDJ4y0RAqEnAJ4otTdadvnQcLJ5IJSaLiydfV96qwCfYeyP gr7lxIU5F9g3ky1ZzkviPjc= =n+oi -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Modem - Installazione
beh do solo risposte grossolane- devi farlo da root- in una installazione standard dovrebbe aprirlo ed installarlo. l'ho già fatto un paio di volte e va bene. pqcps (per quello che può servire..) ciao miKe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:54, mercoledì 16 ottobre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti. ho scaricato i driver per il mio modem conexant dopo avere controllato che fosse un modem HSF e non HCF come mi avevate detto. io mi trovo un file in formato rpm se gli clicco sopra mi appare una scheramta apri con... ho provato a vagabondare per il menu ma senza esito...come faccio? qualcuno di voi mi ha detto di lanciarlo dalla riga di comandoma come si fa? #rpm -i /path/nomepacchetto.rpm scusate di nuovo la mia gnoranz! leggi gli appunti di informatica libera e tutti i man che puoi!! mandrake ha degli ottimi manuali, perlopiù in italiano, poi per ogni dubbio, S.Google .. by grazie Luca bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ 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 iD8DBQE9rl1CF/9fksDJ4y0RAqXjAJ9C/7r35tZxuusSyrLHRNIhLApeaACgl74z ebzAHekqz4Y9xBIBlaBrgeE= =Obcv -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda audio
Hai provato a vedere sui volumi del mixer come sono messi? Una domanda: ma non ti eri mai accorto del non funzionamento della s cheda, da quando hai installato linux? Ciao Sandro Ciao Sandro. sinceramente non mi sono accorto perchè lo installato e non ho acceso le casse preamplificate. Mi è venuto il sospetto 2 giorni fa..e come volevasi dimostrare ora provo a tigliere dal bios la configurazione di rilevamento automatico PnP...poi vediamo.sinceramente non so che pesce prendere! ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll
a tua disposizione hai una ricca documentazione (i famosi How- To), che può aiutarti a districarti da problemi del genere. Per esempio, dvresti avere un CD recording How- To, che ti spiega passo- passo tutta la procedura. Leggi prima quelli, poi magari la documentazione del programma da te utilizzato (se da riga di comando p rova con un bel man nomeapplicazione), e solo dopo imbarcati nell'impresa. A proposito, con il modem come va? -- Ciao Fabio. Grazie per aiutarmi. allora col modem sono ancora ap iedi,...ho scaricato i diriver e ho provato ad installarli. stassera provo con i consigli che mi avete detto,ieri mi si apriva una finestra apri con e li buonanotte! per il masterizzatore stassera provo con un bel man cdrecord (è cosi vero?!) ieri mi è partito tutto ma mi ha dato un problema dopo avere scritto poche righe. stassera riprovo e se ricapita vi faccio sapere cosa mi dice! by e grazie!
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll
Ciedo scusa ma non trovo la pagina per Iscrivermi/Cancellarmi dalla mailing list. Posso avere un aiuto ? Grazie in anticipo - Original Message - From: Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie-it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll a tua disposizione hai una ricca documentazione (i famosi How- To), che può aiutarti a districarti da problemi del genere. Per esempio, dvresti avere un CD recording How- To, che ti spiega passo- passo tutta la procedura. Leggi prima quelli, poi magari la documentazione del programma da te utilizzato (se da riga di comando p rova con un bel man nomeapplicazione), e solo dopo imbarcati nell'impresa. A proposito, con il modem come va? -- Ciao Fabio. Grazie per aiutarmi. allora col modem sono ancora ap iedi,...ho scaricato i diriver e ho provato ad installarli. stassera provo con i consigli che mi avete detto,ieri mi si apriva una finestra apri con e li buonanotte! per il masterizzatore stassera provo con un bel man cdrecord (è cosi vero?!) ieri mi è partito tutto ma mi ha dato un problema dopo avere scritto poche righe. stassera riprovo e se ricapita vi faccio sapere cosa mi dice! by e grazie!
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:34:44 +0200 Giorgio Carrara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciedo scusa ma non trovo la pagina per Iscrivermi/Cancellarmi dalla mailing list. Posso avere un aiuto ? Grazie in anticipo Guarda gli headers/intestazioni complete di un qualsiasi messaggio della lista. Oppure vai a www.mandrake.com --- mailing lists ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] Connessione
ciao a tutti dimenticavo di chiedervi una cosa di rilevante importanza... ammesso che riesca a installare il modem (altrimenti saro sempre qui ma ce la dobbiamo fare) dove trovo da fare la connessione ? cioè dove imposti numero del provider, tcp/ip,dns.e tutti i vari ammenicoli? speriamo bene! By Luca
[newbie-it] Kisocd II
/configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for Cygwin environment... no
checking for mingw32 environment... no
checking for extra includes... no
checking for extra libs... no
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for a C-Compiler...
checking for gcc... no
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checking for xlc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
Re: [newbie-it] firewall firestarter porte e servizi.
grazie a tutti, mike e freefed. non penso di avere attive condivisioni di rete locale win o samba, o almeno la scelta services di menudrake control center non le evidenzia. è attivo solo il servizio internet. il pc è standalone. le richieste su 137 arrivano da una vasta gamma di indirizzi. vorrei solo capire se i dati dalla navigazione standard arrivano su una porta fissa da un idirizzo fisso o meno. per il resto, e questa non è una critica, veramente, si, mi complico la vita con robe semigrafiche. si, penso o spero che questa roba che uso possa essere o diventare semplice da usare. si, se deve essere o diventare semplice da usare deve essere grafica. si, anzi, spero che possa diventare presto a comando vocale. si, anzi, dovrebbe diventare a prova di idiota. si, io sono e voglio essere per scelta l'utente idiota. idiota dal punto di vista tecnico, spero non dal punto di vista concettuale. per me e per quello che ho capito il valore aggiunto di questo sistema non sta nel controllo o nelle conoscenze che IO ho sul sistema. sta nel controllo COLLETTIVO sul sistema. ovvero, suppongo che se migliaia di persone capiscono i sorgenti, se ci fosse qualcosa che non va si leverebbe almeno UNA voce ed IO potrei intercettarla. ho installato 8.1 power e sopra 8.2download. senza installare tutto, mi sembra allocare 90.000 files solo in root. secondo me nessun utente domestico può tenere il controllo personale su un simile sistema. non penso neanche che un utente professionale possa farlo senza fare atti di fede o compromessi o delegare o fare perte di un team di decine di persone. non raccontiamoci frottole. per questo cerco soluzioni grafiche interattive e banali. non sono il solo. vedo altri messaggi che cercano soluzioni banali. c'è un pubblico attuale ed un pubblico potenziale per simili argomenti. grazie a chi ha esperienza e allo stesso tempo pazienza per seguire anche queste richieste. perdonatemi l'ennesimo sfogo, con affetto a tutti, ciao, paolo brusasco.
[newbie-it] NON MI SEMBRA VERO!
Ciao a tutti! innanzitutto un grandissimo ringraziamento a tutti voi che mi avete supportato e aiutato..ma siamo solo algi albori! sto scrivendo da quidal mio nuovo sistema operativoho installato l'audio.ho masterizzato e il modem ...voilà! sembra un sogno...no...invece è lui! LINUX! be a questo punto. WINZOZ ADDII! ciao a tutti e grazie! scusate ma sono felice come una pasqua!
Re: [newbie-it] Modem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:51, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, francesco.melo ha scritto: apri una shell e controlla il contenuto di /etc/fstab se hai delle linee tipo: Administratormdk:~$ cat /etc/fstab | grep vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/fat_c vfat defaults,auto,users,showexec,umask=000 0 0 oppure Administratormdk:~$ cat /etc/fstab | grep ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs ntfs noauto,users,umask=000 0 0 hai già tutto a posto ... (il mountpoint in genere, per mandrake, è una cosa tipo /mnt/windows. ...) ... per raggiungere la partizione windows è molto più semplice: ci si mette sul desktop si cliccka col tasto destro e si sceglie crea nuovo / disco rigido si da il nome all'icona ( io l'ho chiamata win_C ) con kde sai che esistono altri n gestori di finestre o desktop environment... già con gnome le cose sono un pelino diverse si sceglie il dispositivo che normalmente è hda1 o 2 cmq i numeri più bassi che ci sono ed il gioco è fatto abbiamo a nostra partizione montabil econ un semplice click :))) bella filosofia... non vuole essere polemica la mia ma le interfacce grafiche, le finestre serviranno a qualcosa? ad interfacciare, appunto... ..ma se sotto non hai il sistema configurato, non vanno.. ;-) io ho spiegato come capire se il problema dipendesse dalla mancanza di una icona o dalla mancanza del mountpoint !!! o dalla mancata configurazione di fstab !! o peggio dalla mancanza dei moduli del kernel !. (i punti ! indicano quante volte si sbatte la testa al muro dopo che qualcuno ti ha detto ma non ci avevi pensato?) bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 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 iD8DBQE9rqzzF/9fksDJ4y0RAoYaAJ9Ae0QDE5mutj7Y+9Nbi/ZlitbRVgCdEp42 RljXnfZ0mU6T/K5kfqX+FQk= =13tz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus
Mi sento talmente frustrato ed insicuro con Linux che non ci faccio ancora niente. Non so quando arriverò a decidermi a migrare completamente l'attività internet su Linux. Un giorno lo farò, ma è storia futura. Mi permetto di rispondere con un incoraggiamento anch'io: la mia testimonianza è valida proprio in quanto sono uno degli ultimi arrivati. E' normale trovarsi un po' spiazzati quando si ha a che fare con un sistema nuovo; ma tieni conto di quello che linux offre: le poche volte che il sistema si pianta riesce a risistemarsi da solo, mentre con uindous non si è mai sicuri di poterlo usare ancora senza reinstallarlo. Non si è più schiavi di virus e di antivirus. I programmi non costano niente e non ci sono problemi di diritti, pirataggi e altro. Io quando vado in rete smonto le partizioni con i miei dati e navigo col puro sistema operativo: anche se qualche bastardo entra nel computer non trova proprio niente da vedere, per cui ho smesso di usare i firewall e farmi un mucchio di paranoie. Infine (ciliegina) openoffice, quando si pianta (raramente), prima di chiudersi salva i documenti: meglio non fare paragoni con l'altro. E poi, dopo un po' si comincia a prendere la mano e non si è più così spaesati (è successo perfino a me!) Insomma, provaci... Ciao Giorgio
[newbie-it] Passaggio a Linux [Ex (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus]
- Original Message - From: Piero Piutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus Mi sento talmente frustrato ed insicuro con Linux che non ci faccio ancora niente. Non so quando arriverò a decidermi a migrare completamente l'attività internet su Linux. Un giorno lo farò, ma è storia futura. Ti senti frustrato perchè non ci hai ancora provato seriamente. (SKIP) Saluti, e facci sapere! Ho perso il conto di quante distro ridotte, prese da LC, o da qualche altra parte, ho installato con successo sul mio PC, salvo avere dei problemi di funzionamento proprio con qualche Mandrake. L'ultima che ho installato, per la cronaca è la RH7.3. Non sono mai riuscito ad installare in Linux un soft preso da Internet o da un CD di rivista. Ci ho riprovato più volte, ho provato a chiedere aiuto. L'ultima volta è stato per MPlayer e MEncoder, a forza di e-mail di aiuto, ci sono arrivato vicino, ma non sono riuscito a vedere questi due programmi in azione. Tutta questa storia è servita a caricarmi di frustrazione ed a stancarmi. Ultima speranza: Mi è giunta una soffiata circa un corso che un professore di una scuola pubblica della mia città (Taranto) vuole tenere l'anno prossimo proprio su Linux. Chissà che non sarà la volta buona.
Re: [newbie-it] Kisocd II
On Thursday 17 October 2002 5:09 pm, Mavricijo Babi wrote about S%: /configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for Cygwin environment... no checking for mingw32 environment... no mah qua sembra che ti cerchi il cygwin che serve per lanciare programmi unix sotto windows (e' piu' complesso, lo ammetto) checking for a C-Compiler... checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for xlc... no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH qua fondamentalmente non ti trova il compilatore, ovvero il gcc che ti serve per compilare i programmi in sorgenti. che programma stai installando? che distribuzione usi? -- 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] NON MI SEMBRA VERO!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:56, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, Luca ha scritto: Ciao a tutti! innanzitutto un grandissimo ringraziamento a tutti voi che mi avete supportato e aiutato..ma siamo solo algi albori! sto scrivendo da quidal mio nuovo sistema operativoho installato l'audio.ho masterizzato e il modem ...voilà! sembra un sogno...no...invece è lui! LINUX! ok a questo punto spiega passo passo il come :-) bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 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 iD8DBQE9rw59F/9fksDJ4y0RAlw7AJ92V4rjQ+NMk3amd4CjPzlZlz6IjwCfUK9S n++YjVkVdnLrZKKXaLN6G4U= =Ih9m -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] firewall firestarter porte e servizi.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:07, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, paolo brusasco ha scritto: grazie a tutti, mike e freefed. non penso di avere attive condivisioni di rete locale win o samba, o almeno la scelta services di menudrake control center non le evidenzia. perfetto ti ho chiesto se avevi una lan, proprio per capire se le richieste sulla 137 TCP provenissero da un tuo pc o da fuori le richieste su 137 arrivano da una vasta gamma di indirizzi. installa iptraf ti permette di loggare le richieste di connessione e di analizzarle con calma vorrei solo capire se i dati dalla navigazione standard arrivano su una porta fissa da un idirizzo fisso o meno. ?? per il resto, e questa non è una critica, veramente, si, mi complico la vita con robe semigrafiche. ... non ti criticavo mica... solo che è _veramente_ più semplice, veloce e immediato, prendere uno script pronto (tipo quello che ti ho allegato, non a caso, che uso sul portatile) e usarlo, per poi capire bene cosa dica il programma che volevi usare, in realtà, non era così semplice da usare, se ti ha creato problemi mentre lo script dovevi solo lanciarlo, e faceva tutto da solo. ho installato 8.1 power e sopra 8.2download. senza installare tutto, mi sembra allocare 90.000 files solo in root. secondo me nessun utente domestico può tenere il controllo personale su un simile sistema. non penso neanche che un utente professionale possa farlo senza fare atti di fede o compromessi o delegare o fare perte di un team di decine di persone. non raccontiamoci frottole. per fortuna i file di configurazione sono infinitamente meno.. per questo cerco soluzioni grafiche interattive e banali. non sono il solo. vedo altri messaggi che cercano soluzioni banali. c'è un pubblico attuale ed un pubblico potenziale per simili argomenti. mandrake ha avuto, ed ha tuttora il pregio di aver ideato delle utilità che rendono il sistema più facile da configurare, è vero e occorre prenderne atto. Ma se per fare una cosa è sufficiente scrivere due righe o lanciare un comando, perchè inventare un'interfaccia pesante e magari pure complicata ? io sono per il metodo più semplice se questo è grafico, bene se non lo è, idem con affetto a tutti, ciao, paolo brusasco. bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 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 iD8DBQE9rxGTF/9fksDJ4y0RAgBnAKCp4nJVnB7x2RZKgBA9X8Ss4lBR/gCePEGs Yw5MLIY3+4+prc6smpRZXLA= =63zH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] Differenza tra cc gcc
Qual'e' la differenza di questi due compilatori \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://www.santarella.too.it Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] NON MI SEMBRA VERO!
Luca wrote: Ciao a tutti! innanzitutto un grandissimo ringraziamento a tutti voi che mi avete supportato e aiutato..ma siamo solo algi albori! sto scrivendo da quidal mio nuovo sistema operativoho installato l'audio.ho masterizzato e il modem ...voilà! sembra un sogno...no...invece è lui! LINUX! be a questo punto. WINZOZ ADDII! ciao a tutti e grazie! scusate ma sono felice come una pasqua! :) clap clap clap fra.
Re: [newbie] Evolution -spell checker
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:23, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Does anyones Evolution 'spell checker' work. All I get is:- 'No misspelled word found'. That is in spite of glaring mistakes! Malcolm Candlish. Malcolm, There's a problem with the Mandrake installation process regarding Evolution and I don't think I've ever seen it discussed anywhere. But it looks like you've run into the same problem that I have. The anomaly is that if Evolution is installed with the initial Mandrake installation process, the spellchecker never works. If, on the other hand, you omit Evolution from the Mandrake installer and complete the installation, THEN install evolution as a separate package afterwards, the spellchecker works. Rpmdrake installs the dependencies correctly (including the spellchecker package) whereas the Mandrake installer does not seem to. I have fixed this in the past by using Rpmdrake to uninstall Evolution and then reinstall it. Normally I just omit Evolution from the LM9 install process and then install it separately afterwards. Now that we've talked about it and got the problem out in the open, it can be fixed. I probably would have posted this to the cooker list sooner, if I were able to join. Good luck, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?
G_REEPER wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a question, I have had a lot of trouble getting supermount to work correctly. Mainly when installing rpms off of cds other than the mdk disk. Like the sims cd. Just to give you a blow by blow. I place the cd in and open it with the removable media link. It opens it fine and displays the contents of the cd. When I launch a shell to install the rpms I issue the urpmi *.rpms and I get no rpms found. I get the same if I just try to click the rpms. I have copied the entire cd to a drive via winblows and can install it from the shell with no problems. It doesn't seam to be limited to this single cd. As I have yet to get mkiso to make a iso file of any cd. Yet Mandrake's add software works fine for installing rpms on their cds. Any clues?? Check /etc/fstab. A common glitch is to have user enabled in a supermount device. The user option is for manually mounted media (itr allows a normal ser to mount the device). Supermount allows user access by default, and adding the user option seems to make it go loopy. Sir Robin -- The other major kind of computer is the Apple, which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you basically just plug in and use. -Dave Barry Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Perl modules
Gary Armstrong wrote: Disclaimer = Brand new to linux I was looking to do some CGI work. Perl's CGI module doesn't appear to be resident(MD9). I'm a little confused because I thought CGI::* and CGI.pm were part of Perl's base release since 5.6 and this is 5.8. Anyway, I was wondering if: 1) I'm missing something? 2) Are things like Perl's modules likely to be part of some rpm or do I go through CPAN? If it's an rpm, could you point me at the appropriate doc? There are a lot of perl packages on the installation disks - use Software Manager to browse them (or do a find by filename search). A Perl monk with modest needs should find most of the necessary modules there; for the rest, there's CPAN. Sir Robin -- The other major kind of computer is the Apple, which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you basically just plug in and use. -Dave Barry Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access
Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines assures me that there is nothing to configure and remote CUPS printers on the same LAN will magically appear. They don't. I guess this is the usual problem with GUI's - what to do when they don't work. Has anyone met this? Even better fixed it? The setup on the client machines has not been changed, so I guess it's the server which has stopped talking rather than clients not listening. Tried dropping the firewall in case that was interfering, but no change. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Desktop Shortcut
Hi, I'm trying to put a link on the desktop in KDE. I've managed to get it there. I've even managed to get it to run in a terminal. But how do I get the terminal window to stay open long enough to read the output? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] isntalling M9 after M8.2
I have ordered a set of distro disks for M9 and expect it to arrive in a day or so. My box already has M8.2 installed. What is the procedure to install M9 without losing my existing data and settings? Does M9 play well with others and share toys? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let there be sound please?!?
ET wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have setup my /etc/modules.conf as suggested for via onboard 8233 sound and still no sound for mp3, midi, most system sounds. Is there anything else I could check or do? Would I be better off to get the latest alsa source and compile myself? I do not want to go that far if it will not make a difference. I know this can work. I do not give up easily. It certainly worked in 8.2 except I had to do some interesting adjustments to make it work. This time those adjustments do not work in LM9. If I could get this sound to work it would not be a bad distro. I am having alot less problems with it than LM8.2 except for sound and usb.:( Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for all of your suggestions everyone. They did not work yet, and I do appreciate your help. Thanks, Marcia I don't know why it does not work for you, my via 8233 chip works fine for me on my msi mobo, on both LM8.2 and LM9.0 beta2. I'm not sure from the above if you are saying it does not work at all or just some eliments of the sound systems.If later , did you enable aRts , because you will not get multichannel sound streams without it, on the otherhand I do not have any mp3 files to play, and so cannot vouch for mp3 use. On the otherhand Mplayer encodes in mp3 and that works fine Does your via8233 chip come with AC97 codec as well. I don't exactly know what AC97 codec is supposed to do, I think it is some additional eliment of the via 8233 sound chip and is also there to aid multichannel sound streams. So currently what is your modules.conf entries like, and do you have aRts enabled ? John and lets see the output of cat /proc/interrupts as root OK, here it is, [root@localhost root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 629782 XT-PIC timer 1: 2173 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 21373 XT-PIC serial 5: 31 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci 6: 95 XT-PIC floppy 8: 3893 XT-PIC rtc 10:960 XT-PIC VIA 8233 Audio 11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci 12: 216470 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 36365 XT-PIC ide0 15: 26 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [root@localhost root]# Looks ok to me , what do you think ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting up USB
Hi y'all...I need to setup USB on my laptop as I have a few USB devices (External CD-RW, Palm Pilot, etc). When I setup the Operating System the other night (Mandrake-Linux 8.0) it detected my USB wheel-mouse and that tested successfully. When I tried to run X-windows last night, it wouldn't work, but some of the many wonderful subscribers to this list assisted me with mousedrake so that I could get a PS/2 mouse running - Big Thanks guys! - but now I'm wondering how to get into the USB config side of things.. Would usbdrake work? TIA, DaveA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Shortcut
Trevor; If you're trying to read the output of the command, open a console (shell/terminal) , and run the command manually. The output should be the same whether it's in a terminal or not. If you're not seeing any output in the terminal, then the command is completing normally, and is not supposed to generate output. I've run it manually, but would like the ease of having the link on the desktop. Could I have a terminal link on the desktop with the command as the input? Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Shortcut
That can sometimes depend on the command, but, yeah, it should work. How's the weather down under today? Lanman On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 07:48, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Trevor; If you're trying to read the output of the command, open a console (shell/terminal) , and run the command manually. The output should be the same whether it's in a terminal or not. If you're not seeing any output in the terminal, then the command is completing normally, and is not supposed to generate output. I've run it manually, but would like the ease of having the link on the desktop. Could I have a terminal link on the desktop with the command as the input? Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop
On Tuesday 23 Jul 2002 12:53 pm, Leonard W. Miller wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Richard Holt Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop On Monday, 22 July 2002 03:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though you created the mount point, did you mount it? In KDE there should be a icon on the desktop for the zip. mount /mnt/zip I think that is what it is Thanks, yes, I tried it. I get a dialog: X Error Could not mount device. the reported error was: mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist. Apparently something isn't right in the line in fstab, but I've not found a better example. regards, Richard. I know this is 3 months late but I just found the instructions on how to install a parallel zip drive after installing your system. In the past I couldn't do it and had to reinstall the system to get my zip drive working as I read somewhere that you had to use mknod to create the device and I couldn't figure how from the man page (don't understand the minor/major thing). Anyway simple instructions are here: http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10661.html I was surprised at just how simple it is! Took all of 2 minutes! Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.1/Mandrake 9?
Will the Mandrake 8.2 rpm's for KDE 3.1 work without problem on Mandrake 9? Just loaded up Mandrake 9 on a test system yesterday and upgraded to KDE 3.0.4, but I want to take a look see at KDE 3.1. Thx Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up USB
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 12:43 pm, David wrote: Hi y'all...I need to setup USB on my laptop as I have a few USB devices (External CD-RW, Palm Pilot, etc). When I setup the Operating System the other night (Mandrake-Linux 8.0) it detected my USB wheel-mouse and that tested successfully. When I tried to run X-windows last night, it wouldn't work, but some of the many wonderful subscribers to this list assisted me with mousedrake so that I could get a PS/2 mouse running - Big Thanks guys! - but now I'm wondering how to get into the USB config side of things.. Would usbdrake work? TIA, DaveA David To use the Microsoft Intellimouse with usb you have to edit the file /etc/modules and put hid at the bottom of the file. As described here http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5834highlight=usb+mouse This file is a system file, so you need root permissions to edit it:- KMenuApplicationsFileToolsFileManager(SuperUserMode) give root password, navigate to the file you want to edit, rightclick, OpenWithkedit Then run mousedrake again to select a usb mouse. This is why I suggested just leaving it as PS/2. It will work just as well, you just do not have the hassle of editing files :) All your other USB devices will work without any editing. Mandrake uses 'devfs' which means as soon as you plug a device in it will be detected and configured. (Although I am not at all sure that Linux supports USB attached CD writers?) If you have a usb scanner just plug it in and run 'scannerdrake' to set up your particular device (not all scanners are supported though) For a usb printer, just plug it in and run 'printerdrake' (BTW: all these mandrake tools can be found in the Mandrake Control Centre GUI, there is no need to exit to the console like I described yesterday. You only had to do that because you had no mouse :-) HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL
We where replacing them while still in warranty. Roly On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:00:02 -0400 ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:42 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: The Quantum fireball disk drives have a very high failure rate. At work we have replaced every one of them. Roly not really fair to blame quantum, since almost every 10 gig hard drive is about due to fail, however, he should try to auto detect it in bios, and see what happens. On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:55:45 -0700 Dimitris Adamopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need some help here! Yesterday I installed mandrake 8.2 on my oldie. P133 with 72mb RAM and a 10gb quantum fireball. When I finished the installation everything seemed to be right. The system was stable. Only when I had the kde up was a bit slow, something expected of cource. After about an hour the system went on stand by mode and the monitor turned off. When I moved the mouse to wake up the system the monitor turned on but the only think I saw was a stucked screenshot! My system was crashed. I did my best to recover it but the only way to move on was to push the power off button. When I tried to reboot I saw this f.. message: PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL Due to my old BIOS the primary disk it seems to be only 8gb aprox. but during the 8.2 installation progress the disk was seemed to be 10gb(actual size) What happened? I am a new linux user and I would really like to know what went wrong. Thanks .. Until my next crash! -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Shortcut
That can sometimes depend on the command, but, yeah, it should work. Tried it but got an error. I wish knew how to do this stuff. :^) How's the weather down under today? Absolutely bloody beautiful me 'ol china!!! Shame I spent it all at the doctors or in front of my pooter. But I do love my pooter. Does anyone know when 9.0 is going to ship? Not USA, but Australia? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up USB
I did not notice in your earlier post that you were using 8.0. The fix for the intellimouse should still work, but do not count on your palm pilot working with 8.0 derek On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 1:11 pm, David Alford wrote: Hi ET, Yeah, guess I might have to... Apart from that problem it seems to be going like a dream, but still early days, huh? :) Will probably order the Boxed Set of 9.0 (is that the correct terminology?) pretty soon. I can synch the Palm with my Windoze box at present, so its not crucial right at the moment... Hey, thanks for the advice though! ... DaveA On Thursday 17 October 2002 07:43 am, David wrote: Hi y'all...I need to setup USB on my laptop as I have a few USB devices (External CD-RW, Palm Pilot, etc). When I setup the Operating System the other night (Mandrake-Linux 8.0) it detected my USB wheel-mouse and that tested successfully. When I tried to run X-windows last night, it wouldn't work, but some of the many wonderful subscribers to this list assisted me with mousedrake so that I could get a PS/2 mouse running - Big Thanks guys! - but now I'm wondering how to get into the USB config side of things.. Would usbdrake work? TIA, DaveA 8.0 is not the best idea for USB, unless you have a much more current kernel. when 8.0 was new, so was kernel support for USB. it has gotten MUCH better. can you upgrade to a newer version? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Real Newbie security questions
Richard, I don't use a dial up setup but did have fierewall issues initally with 9.0. I uninstalled all the stock firewall tools, shorewall, and didn't use the control center drake tools either. instead, I downloaded firestarter and use it. it is very easy for a newbie, and actually works. it even allows NAT connections, so I can share my cable modem with my wife's box. ( again I didn't use the connection sharing tool or firewall tool in control center as it broke my connection to the internet. ) here is the url : http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ the firestarter there is for LM 9.0 If you have setup any of the built-in firewalling tools, either remove all traces of them, ( unless you can still surf and such ) or don't use them. before someone flames me, I say this because on the four trys to get them to work they kept killing my connection to the internet, or to my LAN and I could not undo them no matter how properly I did it, and would have to reinstall. they even would change my settings to their defaults on reboots. I couldn't find any useful documentation on how I must have set it up improperly or how I may have errors in the settiongs. so I would humbly recommend taking a simple, though not built-in approach. ( my problem maybe hardware or kernel related too ) Anyway, with firestarter, all my ports show stealthed and unwanted packets are rejected, and logged. I send this because I couldn't find any good help for the drake tools and had to figure out myself how to get a running firewall in place. I must say though, that this is the first actually running and secure firewall I've had running since 8.0. In 8.1 and 8.2 I could only get a less than perfect firewall running. anyway again, try it if you dare, it works for me ;-) Richard Urwin wrote: Hi, OK, I'm a newbie at MDK 9.0 i586 of 5 hours standing. I installed at the higher security setting. I enabled the Firewall and depressed all the (other) checkboxes. I then had two issues: Users (except root) couldn't read the documentation. ie start-Documentation-anything failed with access violation. The documents in question were readable, but the directories in which they sat did not have execute permission for 'other'. The firewall did not appear to let through *any* traffic. I checked with my ISP that I was connected and authorised, and routing was correct, but at least ping (UDP/echo?) and DNS traffic were blocked. I have now reverted to standard security and allow everything firewalling. These issues have gone away. -- Mike McNeese ~ currently triple booting win98lite Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 and testing 9.0 Final - Linux registered user # 248955 ~ 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
[newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?
REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc is no longer accessable through Linux unless I reboot. WTF? Isn't there some automounting feature that will take care of this? What about Supermount? What IS that, anyway? I'm sorry to rant, but I'm just blown away by the fact that some sort of automounting isn't already built-in. If anyone knows some options for me, give 'em to me. I'm eager to learn here... -Lawrence Winstead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Real Newbie security questions
On Thursday October 17 2002 03:46 am, Richard Urwin wrote: Hi, OK, I'm a newbie at MDK 9.0 i586 of 5 hours standing. I installed at the higher security setting. It's a good idea, specially with a new install (or upgrade) to set the minimum security level. Then move up later if a higher level is needed. For most all destop systems the 'standard' level is the correct one. Any higher and you only start to lock yourself out of the system. I enabled the Firewall and depressed all the (other) checkboxes. I suppose that'd be shorewall. I couldn't get my head around it. No matter how much I played with it, I couldn't get mail, connect to news, ftp, or surf the web. At least not all at once. I installed guarddog-2.0.0-2mdk and it seems very simple to get a great firewall going, and still be able to use the system ;) All of the scans at http://scan.sygatetech.com/ show me locked up jelly tight, don't even exist ;) FWIW, as I normally do I also have portsentry-1.1-3mdk (compiled from src.rpm) installed and runnin also. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Real Newbie security questions
Richard, I don't use a dial up setup but did have fierewall issues initally with 9.0. Thanks for your reply, when I get back to the machine I'll give your suggestion a try. You seem to be on an ethernet feed from a cable modem? I have an (unconnected) ethernet NIC in the machine. If this was a general problem I would have expected Mandrake to have recognised it, maybe it has something to do with having an ethernet port rather than just a PPP port... -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop
Thanks, Sharrea, Just in time. :-)) After reconfiguring, lost the zip config. I'll check it out. It's a pain to reinstall just to get the zip working. saludos, Richard. On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:13:06 +1300, Sharrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 Jul 2002 12:53 pm, Leonard W. Miller wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Richard Holt Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop On Monday, 22 July 2002 03:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though you created the mount point, did you mount it? In KDE there should be a icon on the desktop for the zip. mount /mnt/zip I think that is what it is Thanks, yes, I tried it. I get a dialog: X Error Could not mount device. the reported error was: mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist. Apparently something isn't right in the line in fstab, but I've not found a better example. regards, Richard. I know this is 3 months late but I just found the instructions on how to install a parallel zip drive after installing your system. In the past I couldn't do it and had to reinstall the system to get my zip drive working as I read somewhere that you had to use mknod to create the device and I couldn't figure how from the man page (don't understand the minor/major thing). Anyway simple instructions are here: http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10661.html I was surprised at just how simple it is! Took all of 2 minutes! Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 5:41 am, robin did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: The other major kind of computer is the Apple, which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you basically just plug in and use. -Dave Barry that is one of the funniest damn things... they should use that in their ads. - -- The only people who like Microsoft are those who don't understand. When people understand what Microsoft is up to, they're outraged. - Tim O'Reilly shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ritWBwq+ZwvIN/oRApneAJ41q6qSVw61poKVADU6qdFkXq0EAgCfXKwR 5hy1bjXHRcSUABQFzIF9l1c= =0zKB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 3:10 am, John Richard Smith did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My fstab has an entry like this none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 but each time I boot I get an error message, mount mount mount /proc/bus/usb does not exist Clearly, it is wrong because there is a /proc/bus/usb and it contains [rootlocalhost root]# cd /proc/bus/usb [rootlocalhost usb]# ls 001/ 002/ 003/ 004/ 005/ devices drivers I should imagine the fstab entry needs adjusting, but to what ? Anyone got a clue ? What do the latest LM9.0 have for fstab entries ? well, this is not my machine with the printer, i can check that later, but i have no entries at all mentioning USB in my fstab and i have a USB memory card that works great. it is listed as a scsi. i will look at the machine with the printer and get back to you. - -- A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ri2DBwq+ZwvIN/oRAmfnAJ0f+MXlc9FQDFOSJLRqChpWRp7DGwCffxsG 0Z3D29hy/usjpxiTgAcw2/k= =pDIf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
if 90%plus of all user run windows, and people fear change, and you sell computers, the people who make windows (MS) say you will sell all your machines with windows, or you will not sell any with it. ...would you give in? My question is more on the legal side. How can _any_ company dictate what their resellers will sell? And that goes _double_ for a monopoly. M$ was taken to court, were they not? What did they do there, bake muffins and played with Barbies in the sandbox? Was anything accomplished in that lawsuit? I believe in life _before_ death. I don't. Nobody as pale as me could possibly be alive. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bad signature..........tex??
I just installed the wallpaper-0.1-3tex.i586.rpm from texstar, and when I urpmi'd the package, I was told that it had a bad signature, and asked if I wanted to continue anyway. Just what does it mean that the signature was bad? Why would a package from tex have a bad sig? I went ahead and installed anyway, thinking that it would be fine being from tex. The wallpapers installed OK, and they are beautiful. Just wondering about the sig thing. I had it happen once before too, on a different package (chkrootkit-0.37-1mdk.i586.rpm I think it was). Is this something to be concerned about? I always get my rpm's from what I believe to be reputable sources. TIA for any thoughts. :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber * *Reg. Linux User #278931* * Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0 -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}
shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 3:10 am, John Richard Smith did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My fstab has an entry like this none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 but each time I boot I get an error message, mount mount mount /proc/bus/usb does not exist Clearly, it is wrong because there is a /proc/bus/usb and it contains [root@localhost root]# cd /proc/bus/usb [root@localhost usb]# ls 001/ 002/ 003/ 004/ 005/ devices drivers I should imagine the fstab entry needs adjusting, but to what ? Anyone got a clue ? What do the latest LM9.0 have for fstab entries ? well, this is not my machine with the printer, i can check that later, but i have no entries at all mentioning USB in my fstab and i have a USB memory card that works great. it is listed as a scsi. i will look at the machine with the printer and get back to you. Shane I think you may have something, I hashed the fstab line out like this #none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 in fstab but leftnone /proc proc defaults 0 0 alone, anyone know what this line does ? I then rebooted to desktop. usb printer in there in kde-info-usb devices USB OHCI Root Hub (1) |_ Lexmark Z53 USB OHCI Root Hub (2) USB UHCI Root Hub (3) USB UHCI Root Hub (4) USB UHCI Root Hub (5) and what is more when I plugged my usb camera in in detected it automatically. USB OHCI Root Hub (2) |__!.3 DigitalCAM It seems like I don't need this none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 line at all. Anyway I will try it like that for a while and see what happens. Just to make sure , [root@localhost root]# cd /proc/bus/usb [root@localhost usb]# ls 001/ 002/ 003/ 004/ 005/ devices drivers These are the same, and , [root@localhost root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 21366 XT-PIC timer 1: 26 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 37 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10:495 XT-PIC VIA 8233 Audio 11: 45 XT-PIC usb-ohci 12: 14302 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 8745 XT-PIC ide0 15: 10 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 which has changed slightly from before ,as follows,note cpu usage, [root@localhost root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 629782 XT-PIC timer 1: 2173 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 21373 XT-PIC serial Gone 5: 31 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci 6: 95 XT-PIC floppy 8: 3893 XT-PIC rtc 10:960 XT-PIC VIA 8233 Audio 11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci 12: 216470 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 36365 XT-PIC ide0 15: 26 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?
Okay, okay. We're getting somewhere here. :) Thanks for clearing that up for me, Derek. In the Mount section of the Mandrake Control Center, I enabled Supermount, and disabled user and noauto. I rebooted, and now I can just eject the disc and it'll auto- unmount it for me. Great! But here's the next part: In RedHat, they've got it setup by default to open the cdrom mount point when a disc is inserted. Do you know how to set it to do that? Or will that conflict with Supermount in some way? Thanks! -Lawrence 10/17/2002 10:34:14 AM, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ermm Supermount does do what you ask... If Supermount is enabled you do not have to mount/unmount removable media (In fact if you DO try mounting it, it will screw up the supermount operation) What you are probably experiencing is the issue that if ANY application has a file open on a removable media, then you CANNOT unmount it, or remove it. So if you have konqueror file manager open at /mnt/cdrom, then you have to close konqueror before it will respond to the eject button. You just have to be a little bit disciplined about closing applications before removing media. Sorry but that is just the way it is at the moment. Not everything about Linux is better than Windows :( derek On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 4:09 pm, Flux wrote: REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc is no longer accessable through Linux unless I reboot. WTF? Isn't there some automounting feature that will take care of this? What about Supermount? What IS that, anyway? I'm sorry to rant, but I'm just blown away by the fact that some sort of automounting isn't already built-in. If anyone knows some options for me, give 'em to me. I'm eager to learn here... -Lawrence Winstead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bad signature..........tex??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 9:20 am, Angus Auld did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I just installed the wallpaper-0.1-3tex.i586.rpm from texstar, and when I urpmi'd the package, I was told that it had a bad signature, and asked if I wanted to continue anyway. Just what does it mean that the signature was bad? Why would a package from tex have a bad sig? the sotware manager now allows you to check the gpg sig to make sure your packages are from whom the y claim to be. it is an extra security measure, but you don't need it. you have to add the creators of your packages to your roots key ring for it to work. if you haven't done this, packages not from mandrake will give this error, but should work fine. if you are interested in PGP and GPG security though, it is a useful tool for the paranoid (he says as he signs his message. ;-) - -- If someone tells you they possess the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they possess the *only* truth, run for your life. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rkHCBwq+ZwvIN/oRAlAHAJ9l/m5p5JtPaFsJUdzsJ0fdmTSqawCfRPUF bb7l3BqE1lrmBMh5wyTjP2M= =VzsA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
Miark wrote: if 90%plus of all user run windows, and people fear change, and you sell computers, the people who make windows (MS) say you will sell all your machines with windows, or you will not sell any with it. ...would you give in? My question is more on the legal side. How can _any_ company dictate what their resellers will sell? And that goes _double_ for a monopoly. M$ was taken to court, were they not? What did they do there, bake muffins and played with Barbies in the sandbox? Was anything accomplished in that lawsuit? Here in the UK such a position is illegal, but that doesn't always mean anything can be done about it, it usually means someone rich enough to pay the legal costs has got to take them on in court and win to get their money back, and few people want to try that with M$ ,the UK Government could try such a thing , and they have a body called the MMC , Mergers and Monopolies Commission , and usually they do try, but M$ are so large and UK governemnt is relatively weak in relation to M$, but The European Commission is not weak and it has it's teeth right into M$ currently but just like the wheels of Justice it grinds ever so slowly but ever so surely. My guess, and that is all it is, M$ is even more worried about the European Commission's machinations than it was about the US governments efforts, for one thing the European Commission is less easily bought, no insult intended, in regard to US institiutions, and I think any final settlement will be harder on M$ than the US governemnt has been. Time will tell.Also Europe is a common market of 470 million now and growing , when the next 11 countries join it will be over 500million, and no company no matter how rich and resourceful can ignore the commercial consequencies of it's monoplistic policies will have on resulting sales, especially now that alternatives are a reallity. many of those newer EEC joinee's will be relatively less committed to M$ than current M$ customers, plus in my view M$ have made a fatal marketing error with XP by making the licensce terms even more userous than before. The one thing that puzzles me though is why more smaller firms, the private owner retail computer outfits don't put nice litle linux boxes together and demonstrate them to joe public . I would of though here was a definate commercial advantage for them. They have the technical nouse to perfect an installation and they can get the equipement relatively easy as I can, but they don't. I suppose it's a combination of customer lethargy and commercial inertia. Someday someone with drive and commercial acumen will do it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 8:51 am, Miark did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My question is more on the legal side. How can _any_ company dictate what their resellers will sell? And that goes _double_ for a monopoly. M$ was taken to court, were they not? What did they do there, bake muffins and played with Barbies in the sandbox? Was anything accomplished in that lawsuit? you didn't read up on the trial? after bush put ashcroft in charge, the DOJ decided to purse a harsh penelty. MS is no longer allowed to break the law, for 3 years, and if they do they can't do it again for 2 more. what if they still do? why we will send them back to court. harsh, huh? did MS buy off bush? nah. lets recall they have now been fond guilty 3 times. most importantly they are guilty of not living up to the terms of the first settlement several years ago. for this, the punishment is to spend money for yeas in court dragging the case out till an administration you bought gets in. the good news is that the market is doing what the government won't. 4 major computer companies are shipping machines bundled with corel rather than msworks. linux growth continues. apple (one more *nix) is now as open source friendly as they dare, and mac sales seem to be growing. governments and companies alike are dropping, or considering dropping MS. more important, the mindshare has changed. MS was once seen by CEO types (and some techs) as a provider of cheap good enough software. more and more they are seen as a tyrant. http://news.com.com/2009-1001-961291.html has some good examples. I believe in life _before_ death. I don't. Nobody as pale as me could possibly be alive. computer tan? :-) - -- It is increasingly obvious that our techknowledgy is outpacing our humanity. -Einstein shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rkVPBwq+ZwvIN/oRAuKQAJ0QsnuVERBn1Cn7AI0QVeu+cVeS9wCdHWze iQhha3eJdsNbIknyvH2G48o= =ScRV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:01 am, John Richard Smith did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Here in the UK such a position is illegal, but that doesn't always mean The European Commission is not weak and it has it's teeth right into M$ currently My guess, and that is all it is, M$ is even more worried about the European Commission's machinations than it was about the US governments efforts, for one thing the European Commission is less easily bought, no insult intended, in regard to US institiutions, and I think any final here in the US one good thing happened. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134556724_microsoft17.html Someday someone with drive and commercial acumen will do it. a few stores here in the bay area have boxes for demo, but i have yet to see a choice of distros. each store picks one, and that is all they offer installed. - -- To live is to war with trolls -Isben shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rkZnBwq+ZwvIN/oRAuL4AJ4wawrDci2RkOr2gi/D+TloqjpayQCeKni8 LFTFiMke3IL8UcH9asEyEIU= =vojv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bad signature..........tex??
On Thursday 17 October 2002 9:20 am, Angus Auld did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I just installed the wallpaper-0.1-3tex.i586.rpm from texstar, and when I urpmi'd the package, I was told that it had a bad signature, and asked if I wanted to continue anyway. Just what does it mean that the signature was bad? Why would a package from tex have a bad sig? the sotware manager now allows you to check the gpg sig to make sure your packages are from whom the y claim to be. it is an extra security measure, but you don't need it. you have to add the creators of your packages to your roots key ring for it to work. if you haven't done this, packages not from mandrake will give this error, but should work fine. if you are interested in PGP and GPG security though, it is a useful tool for the paranoid (he says as he signs his message. ;-) - -- If someone tells you they possess the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they possess the *only* truth, run for your life. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rkHCBwq+ZwvIN/oRAlAHAJ9l/m5p5JtPaFsJUdzsJ0fdmTSqawCfRPUF bb7l3BqE1lrmBMh5wyTjP2M= =VzsA -END PGP SIGNATURE- * Thanks for clearing that up Shane. That explains it, except that some of the packages from tex don't bring the same warning :-/ Maybe they had no gpg sig? I'm not paranoid, but after using a MS OS for a while, you can start to think that everyone is out to get you. ;-) All the best. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber * *Reg. Linux User #278931* * Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0 PS. Your sig about truth contains a profound truth. Well said ;-). -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MS BS {John Richard Smith}
On Thursday 17 October 2002 13:30, you wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:01, John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: if 90%plus of all user run windows, and people fear change, and you sell computers, the people who make windows (MS) say you will sell all your machines with windows, or you will not sell any with it. ...would you give in? M$ have made a fatal marketing error with XP by making the licensce terms even more userous than before. The one thing that puzzles me though is why more smaller firms, the private owner retail computer outfits don't put nice litle linux boxes together and demonstrate them to joe public . I would of though here was a definate commercial advantage for them. They have the technical nouse to perfect an installation and they can get the equipement relatively easy as I can, but they don't. I suppose it's a combination of customer lethargy and commercial inertia. Someday someone with drive and commercial acumen will do it. John REPLY Sir John I growed so tired of MS crap... Smalled shops i this area done even have a clue what Linux is, let alone sell it... I went no less than 15 places.. all smaller family types places to query of linux. No one would help me... We are a Microsoft certified repair shop, I was told.. Here is what happeded to me And All true My windows 98 crashed.. I went to do a re-install from CD.. NOW I find my CD badly scratched and unable to do a full install. I have documents ect on hard drive I NEED. So I called MS... and asked of cost of a replacement OS Disk. Oh Sir you will have to buy a NWE OEM for $149 !! We offer no support for Win 98 or ME !!.. Now I say screw that... and chck local shops to see if they would re-install Win 98 from one of theor disks NO WAY unless you pay for FULL OS Being on real tight budget.. I started looking about for Linux, that could access Windows documents stored on Hard disk I found SuSe. I installed and it worked.. I cant boot win 98, but I can sure access all my pictures/docs old email ect ect... I will not suport MS on any product anymore period Bad thing only sore in town had SuSe and nothing else. they knew nothing about program ect... I did alone Had to get rid of winmodemand buy a surplus hayes hard modem. 99% of small stores here wont do Linux... as the techs claim they are Microsoft this and that... One tech told me MS is trying to get certain browsers only to work on a Windos system...and certain programs I made the choice to say screw you Bill Gates. and did But I know nothing about Linux except how to boot up for internet and send email... I will be durn if anyplace gets my business that dont have a choice on OS systems and carry products on ALL And the sales people better know something about Linux.. or i wont shop there. Even when I called Best Buy, a lady manager took my call I was asking about what Linux will do. she said hold on I will go read package... I told her up front if you know nothing about it I dont want it Now if i could just get down loaded programs to work. I started on a Vic 20 eons ago, and was swept up into a MS operator Aint going to happen no more... Mike in farm town U.S.A -- LinuX Power -- LinuX Power Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT meeting
Early evening last night, i drove the 2 hours for the monthly
Computer users Club meeting. almost all are Windows
usersSeveral asked.. Hey mike what system you running
XP
Telling them no.. i was running Linux got me shunned for the rest of
the night {grin}...
Even people I have known in club for years now have no common bond with me.
Questions Like is Linux like windows 3.1 were common and such things as
you cant even play games on that !!
And can you get on internet with Linux.
So when the evening talk came up from Guest speaker on how to do things in
XP.. I stood up to leave and did. the bar was two doors away..
Oh well.
Mike
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Re: [newbie] MS BS {John Richard Smith}
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 1:35 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My windows 98 crashed.. I went to do a re-install from CD.. NOW I find my CD badly scratched and unable to do a full install. I have documents ect on hard drive I NEED. So I called MS... and asked of snip I found SuSe. I installed and it worked.. I cant boot win 98, but I can sure access all my pictures/docs old email ect ect... I will not suport MS on any product anymore period there is a linux distro that only runs from cd used specifically as a rescue disk to handle problems like that. fits on a credit card sized 50 meg cd. i used to carry one when i was system admin at a school district. people where always impressed i could boot from a tiny card and save their documents to the network before i formatted their drive. i always pointed out it was not MS that allowed it, but their competition. - -- Everyone seems so impatient and angry these days. I think it's because so many people use Windows at work. Do you think you'd be Mr. Politeness Man after working on Windows 8 hrs. or more? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rk/mBwq+ZwvIN/oRAsRhAJ45e9qKLrtYxrkJgVG+v8C+avyAWACfTFKO OuBFcgnushoGZVBpKQF0n4g= =GYi0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] konsole environment vs. desktop environment
Hi all, Questions are numbered 1 2 and 3. I want to configure $PATH and other environment variables and I find that in /etc/profile I have: PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde3/bin EDITOR=emacs HISTSIZE=1000 export EDITOR PATH HISTSIZE And when I open a terminal I have (doing $ set RET): HISTSIZE=500 PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin However nothing in .bashrc changes the value of these variables, and in .bash_profile I have PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin which makes sense because I set at the end of PATH, but why has /usr/X11R6/bin dissapeared? After browsing the web i think the answer is because I don't 'source' /etc/profile in .bashrc yes, did it and now /usr/X11R6/bin is in the path. and what about HISTSIZE? the following looks into /etc and subdirectories (including init.d) [rootbrunos etc]# grep -r HISTSIZE * grep: aliases: No such file or directory grep: gtk/gtkrc.vi: No such file or directory profile:HISTSIZE=1000 profile:export HISTCONTROL HISTSIZE profile~:HISTSIZE=1000 profile~:export HISTCONTROL HISTSIZE grep: sgml/dsssl.cat: No such file or directory zshrc:export HISTSIZE=1000 [rootbrunos etc]# and at home [brbrunos br]$ grep HISTSIZE * [brbrunos br]$ 1-any hint about other configuration files I should check in order to find where HISTSIZE is set to 500? 2-do have programs executed from the desktop have a different environment from those executed in the konsole? 3-if answer is yes, how can I see what the environment for the desktop is? hope i was clear enough. any help is welcome bruno __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X, nVidia problems ...
hello, tried to install some new nvid drivers for man 8.2, went to nvidia, matched the kernel and glx (3XXX) versions. the kernel installed fine, but the glx didn't want to. used the '-e' option outlined in the nvid read me and it installed but now X won't start at boot up! since i'm no expert on the console, i'm in trouble deep. any way to get myself out of this mess that isn't too complicated? any help would be appreciated. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X, nVidia problems ...
is this the first time for installing nvidia drivers? if so then you need to edit /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and find nv in the driver section and change it to nvidia also make sure load glx is added after the freetype reference in the modules section if not then you know this:-) bascule On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:01 pm, Rainer wrote: hello, tried to install some new nvid drivers for man 8.2, went to nvidia, matched the kernel and glx (3XXX) versions. the kernel installed fine, but the glx didn't want to. used the '-e' option outlined in the nvid read me and it installed but now X won't start at boot up! since i'm no expert on the console, i'm in trouble deep. any way to get myself out of this mess that isn't too complicated? any help would be appreciated. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?
Flux wrote: REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc is no longer accessable through Linux unless I reboot. WTF? Isn't there some automounting feature that will take care of this? What about Supermount? What IS that, anyway? I'm sorry to rant, but I'm just blown away by the fact that some sort of automounting isn't already built-in. If anyone knows some options for me, give 'em to me. I'm eager to learn here... It seems posts on mounting fall into two categories: How can I get my drives to mount automatically? and I hate supermount, how do I get rid of it?! The easy way to get your removable media to work automatically is to go to the Control Center then click Mount Points and the medium you want (floppy or CD drive). Click Options then check the Supermount mox and uncheck the User box. If that doesn't work (and it usually does) you need to edit your /etc/fstab file - see recent postings on this. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access
I had same situation you did and here is how I fixed it. When I open up the MCC to share my net connection with the computers on my lan, the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is rewritten so that no one has access to the printer.. not even the root user! So I rewrite it this way: Location / AuthType None Order Deny,Allow Allow From All /Location Location /admin AuthType None Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Allow From All Deny From All Order Deny,Allow /Location So now only the root user can modify the printer config but everyone can see the config (http://127.0.0.1:631) and access the printer. I didn't figure this out all by myself.. the linuxprinting website help a LOT! ..So I recommand everyone having ANY problem with printing to search there. Here is the forum link: http://www.linuxprinting.org/newsportal/ This is where it came from. http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5290highlight= On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:03 am, Brian Parish wrote: Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines assures me that there is nothing to configure and remote CUPS printers on the same LAN will magically appear. They don't. I guess this is the usual problem with GUI's - what to do when they don't work. Has anyone met this? Even better fixed it? The setup on the client machines has not been changed, so I guess it's the server which has stopped talking rather than clients not listening. Tried dropping the firewall in case that was interfering, but no change. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 DVD contents
Anybody have a clue what's on this CD? Mandrakestore doesn't say anything about it. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X, nVidia problems ...
Op Thursday 17 October 2002 20:01, schreef u: Mine worked after first erasing the old GLX files and afterwards installing the new nvidia GLX rpm . Also don't forget to change some setting in your XF86Config-4 (see nvidia docs). hello, tried to install some new nvid drivers for man 8.2, went to nvidia, matched the kernel and glx (3XXX) versions. the kernel installed fine, but the glx didn't want to. used the '-e' option outlined in the nvid read me and it installed but now X won't start at boot up! since i'm no expert on the console, i'm in trouble deep. any way to get myself out of this mess that isn't too complicated? any help would be appreciated. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 DVD contents
On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:49 pm, you wrote: Anybody have a clue what's on this CD? Mandrakestore doesn't say anything about it. Miark I sent an E-mail to Mandrake about it (you are talking about what they call the workstation DVD, right?). They told me it was basically the 7 CD Powerpack with no manuals. So...if you order it, and the separate manual package ($19), you would wind up with the 7 CD Powerpack on DVD. Thats the way I'm ordering. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.0 DVD contents
I was going to buy mdk 9 on DVD, (last one I got was the 8.1 powerpack) decided to pay for 9.1 when it comes out instead.. I like nine, but there are some things that could be better... still, I will support mandrake for trying.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:darklord;darkforce.com]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Friday, 18 October 2002 3:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 DVD contents On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:49 pm, you wrote: Anybody have a clue what's on this CD? Mandrakestore doesn't say anything about it. Miark I sent an E-mail to Mandrake about it (you are talking about what they call the workstation DVD, right?). They told me it was basically the 7 CD Powerpack with no manuals. So...if you order it, and the separate manual package ($19), you would wind up with the 7 CD Powerpack on DVD. Thats the way I'm ordering. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 3:03 am, Brian Parish wrote: Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines assures me that there is nothing to configure and remote CUPS printers on the same LAN will magically appear. They don't. I guess this is the usual problem with GUI's - what to do when they don't work. Has anyone met this? Even better fixed it? The setup on the client machines has not been changed, so I guess it's the server which has stopped talking rather than clients not listening. Tried dropping the firewall in case that was interfering, but no change. Got the exact same problem here. I also tried disabling portsentry and the firewall but no go. Hope someone knows a fix for this, I've wasted many hours playing around with this. Will have another look and the cups config files. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mencoder results and questions
On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:08 am, you wrote: This is a very low bitrate for a video. I have used this only with a 2-Pass encode, as this bitrate with a 1-Pass encode doesn't give me satisfactory results. Yes, I upped it to 900 and was still able to fit it onto a single CD. Video was much improved. I'm not familiar with this Ronion Warriors, or just how long the movie is. I'm presuming you want it to fit on 1 CD? If this is the case, you can download the program I created (DivXCalc) and use it to work out the bitrate needed to achieve a certain filesize. You can find it on http://tuxpower.f2g.net/divxcalc.php I d/l'ed it, thanks! Yes, the lower the bitrate the more noise / artifacting. As I have said, use a higher bitrate, or a 2-Pass encode. I wrote up a tutorial on how to do this on http://tuxpower.f2g.net/mencoder.php which will hopefully give you lots of pointers. Greetings Ralph Ralph, thats a great tutorial. I copied it into a text file for future reference. (hope you don't mind?). One thing. I have never changed my gcc version. Its the stock 2.96 that comes with Mandrake 8.2 - but I've not experienced any problems yet that I know of. I compiled MPlayer with this: ./configure --disable-gcc-checking --enable-gui--with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32 (one line, of course) and added all the files (dependencies) that Mencoder needed from the RPMs at the Penguin Lib. Front web site. Thanks for all your help! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lockup on SCSI detection during installation
I'm trying to install 9.0 on our old server at work. It's got an Adaptec AHA-2940UW PCI SCSI adaptor with a SCSI hard drive and an OnStream SC-50 tape drive. There's also a 40GB IDE drive. Right after selecting 'Expert' and Install, a window pops up that says: Installing driver for disk/scsi|hardware_raid card Adaptec|AIC-7881U Then it locks up hard. Is there any way to block the SCSI detection or force it to recognize the correct device? Thanks, Barry Michels Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:55 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Piero Piutti wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote: another good firewall program that i use is the black ice program and of course norton sells a good one as well. i wouldn't worry about broadcasting your I P address, but if you do a lot of surfing, you should consider a firewall. i think Linux has a built in firwall, doesn't it. if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a firewall, ZoneAlarm is the choice. I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall. With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range of 500 - 700 dollars for a fair system, there are literally thousands of old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and functioning well on a weekend and then not have to worry about whether or not you're protected. You'll know! And for two real good reasons. 1) if you're intelligent enough to install and setup Linux, you're more then able to setup an iptables firewall. To the nicest iptables firewall I've seen is the one that comes with Mandrake 9.0. Shorewall. Using this firewall works best if your gateway/firewall machine is setup with two nic cards. 2) once you've got things setup and running you'll quickly begin to see how things work and you'll appreciate the total hands-on control this kind of setup affords you, the user. Mark If you have a *really* old spare computer, I recommend the LEAF-Bering distribution. It just about fits on 1 floppy and will run on a 386 with 8MB of memory. No hard drive is needed so it is virtually silent. It comes with shorewall firewall just like Mandrake 9.0 Sit it in the corner and forget about it. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't put my AMR V.90 modem to work
I have a Duron 1200 XP, with a PCCHIPS 810 motherboard (with almost everything on-board) and an AMR V.90 win modem. I know that in general Linux systems don't support this kind of modems, but I'd like to find a driver to avoid buying a new modem, as this computer is new. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
The description at leaf says, it's primarily used as a gateway/ router/firewall for Internet leaf sites. What's a leaf site? Miark Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:55 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: If you have a *really* old spare computer, I recommend the LEAF-Bering distribution. It just about fits on 1 floppy and will run on a 386 with 8MB of memory. No hard drive is needed so it is virtually silent. It comes with shorewall firewall just like Mandrake 9.0 Sit it in the corner and forget about it. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall. With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range of 500 - 700 dollars for a fair system, there are literally thousands of old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and functioning well on a weekend and then not have to worry about whether or not you're protected. You'll know! And for two real good reasons. 1) if you're intelligent enough to install and setup Linux, you're more then able to setup an iptables firewall. To the nicest iptables firewall I've seen is the one that comes with Mandrake 9.0. Shorewall. Using this firewall works best if your gateway/firewall machine is setup with two nic cards. 2) once you've got things setup and running you'll quickly begin to see how things work and you'll appreciate the total hands-on control this kind of setup affords you, the user. Mark I'm smart enough to setup this thing you call a firewall (not yet...still hammeringa way at the silly thing with my li --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall. With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range of 500 - 700 dollars for a fair system, there are literally thousands of old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and functioning well on a weekend and then not have to worry about whether or not you're protected. You'll know! And for two real good reasons. 1) if you're intelligent enough to install and setup Linux, you're more then able to setup an iptables firewall. To the nicest iptables firewall I've seen is the one that comes with Mandrake 9.0. Shorewall. Using this firewall works best if your gateway/firewall machine is setup with two nic cards. 2) once you've got things setup and running you'll quickly begin to see how things work and you'll appreciate the total hands-on control this kind of setup affords you, the user. Mark Hell i hope that last one didn't send... I meant to say only that i can't get SNF setup so far. Simple? Hm not as simple as a straight linux install so far :) heh And i'm not stupid. But my (un)related question is: How do you determine if you need a gateway? Or a comp that acts as one as well as a firewall. I was reading MDKs site for docs it says (in my case from what i got) I don't need one. Someone care to enumerate clearer more concise guidelines? Ty --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop
At 01:13 AM 10/18/2002 +1300, you wrote: I know this is 3 months late but I just found the instructions on how to install a parallel zip drive after installing your system. In the past I couldn't do it and had to reinstall the system to get my zip drive working as I read somewhere that you had to use mknod to create the device and I couldn't figure how from the man page (don't understand the minor/major thing). Anyway simple instructions are here: http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10661.html I was surprised at just how simple it is! Took all of 2 minutes! Sharrea -- Thx Sharrea! I was about to ask how to do this or hunt the web... whichever came first. My question is related tho... I've ripped out hte floppy on my desktop machine (don't ask why ... long story). So now when i install MDK It asks do i want to add packages selection to a floppy drive. Well YES I BLOODY WELL DO! But I have no floppy... so will a zip drive work in this situation?! I don't think it will but maybe someone can point me to how to do this? or if its been done before? --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Vaio GRX560
Has anyone on the list installed Mandrake on the Vaio GRX560/570? I found a site on the net for instructions on installing Red Hat 7.3, you have to build a new kernel with some additional packages. Tried this practice with Mdk 9, but it failed. The patches were designed for kernel 2.4.18 and 9.0 has 2.4.19. Anyway, the issues are the sound card, audio is horrible, can't access the memory card slot, etc. Any ideas, let me know. Thank you! I would be happy to install 8.2 if that works. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9? [Replied]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pardon me while I catch up with the responses. 1. Yes oddly enough the urpmi *.rpm command does indeed work. 2. While flattered, I hadn't been considered a newbie since slackware 1.0 or so but thanks for making me feel young again. While moving software manager up on the list is a nice tip I still see no reason to use it while I can type in a shell. I Mean talk about overkill. ;-) 3. Francisco Alcaraz disabling does indeed allow access to the files on the drive again, although I was fishing for a way around that. Thanks a lot for the reply. At least those with this problem have a fallback that does work. 4. Sir Robin user isn't enabled. I checked but, this is a vanilla install of MDK 9 without any or at least not too much. Yet. Once again thanks for the response. Thanks for all the responses G_REEPER Registered Linux user #157565 http://counter.li.org/ All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -- Galileo Galilei -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9r1pROlVWW3RT7qwRAkIuAJ4qUEAqhCqzCw6V4JpbvKJ5GYCBHACdEP9t ChqRkoSjuISnp77oVA6eUCU= =UV86 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:32 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall. Agreed. [snip] heh And i'm not stupid. But my (un)related question is: How do you determine if you need a gateway? Or a comp that acts as one as well as a firewall. I was reading MDKs site for docs it says (in my case from what i got) I don't need one. Someone care to enumerate clearer more concise guidelines? Ty You need a firewall. Think of it as being a good neighbor. Granted, you may have nothing you consider of interest on your hard drive. Granted, linux is not the target of choice amongst the s'kiddies. There is a (very small) danger is that someone who has a clue will crack your box and use it to crack others. At that point, there's an (even smaller) chance that you'll get to explain your approach to security to the FBI or local equivalent. So, do a cost/benefit analysis -- a small amount of exposure vs an old Pentium firewall (with attendent bother of setting it up) or a $51 Linksys 4-Port Cable/DSL Router (price after rebates on Amazon, may be other cheaper products, the 1-port is only $47). --- Femme Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Denied Access
Hi People, I have 2 servers running mandrake 8.2 and am experiencing the following problem. My ip address that I am coming from is a static ip froma different range of that the server is on. Whenever I try to connect to the server via any method I cannont get access to it. However if I connect to the server from an ip address within the same range as the server I get access. I have checked through my hosts.deny - nothing in there. All the log files seem to show no reason for this. The border router is allowing the traffic through to the server, so its not the firewall on that. I don't have a firewall running on the server in question. What could be the cause of this and how can I correct it so I can get access to the server from this other ip range again? Cheers, Shannon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Digital Choice and Freedom Act
Done. roly On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:02:39 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is great, Todd, thanks. My wife sent a letter to our representative asking him to support the act. If anybody out there want to write their representative but doesn't know how, do this: 1) Connect to http://www.house.gov/writerep/ 2) Enter your state and zip code to determine your representative. 3) Enter your address info (so they know you're a real voter. ;-) 4) Write your letter and click Send your message. Miark P.S. In case you're interested, here's a copy of what we sent: My husband and I own a growing collection of DVDs. Our main family computer is more than capable of playing DVDs, but we have been unable to view them because we use the Linux operating system which, for licensing reasons, cannot include DVD-decryption code. What is one to do? There are two alternatives. The first is to spend $100 or more on a different operating system, then another x dollars on DVD software that can decrypt and display DVDs legally. This is a gross injustice because it forces my family to waste much money for nothing more than the legal right to watch what we've already paid for and legally own. The other solution for Linux users is to use DVD software that illegally incorporates DVD decryption code. While both easy to do, and free, it's also illegal, and therefore unacceptable. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place, but that could change. U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of 16th Congressional District, California is promoting the Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002 to re-introduce the concept of fair use as it concerns commercial digital content. This legislation would effectively eliminate my dilemma, so I urge you--as strongly as possible--to do anything you can to support and promote this act. Yours, Sherry Clark Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: If you're a US citizen, I urge you to write your representative to voice your support for this anti-DMCA bill. The story: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,587514,00.asp Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren's press release: http://www.house.gov/lofgren/press/107press/021002_release.htm The bill: http://www.house.gov/lofgren/press/107press/021002_act.htm Regards, Todd -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't put my AMR V.90 modem to work
On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:39 pm, Charlie wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:41 pm, Pablo Gallo wrote: I have a Duron 1200 XP, with a PCCHIPS 810 motherboard (with almost everything on-board) and an AMR V.90 win modem. I know that in general Linux systems don't support this kind of modems, but I'd like to find a driver to avoid buying a new modem, as this computer is new. Thanks! Howdy Pablo; Ever hear of Google? ;-) If you can't find what you need at this link you probably won't find it. http://www.modem-help.co.uk/chips/smlhamr.html Scroll down about 2/3 of the way to see driver links. There are probably how to links from there too, just check it out. Once you confuse yourself thoroughly someone will probably take pity and tell you (how) if it's possible. Pablo: Charlie's link looks promising, but here's two other sites to further confuse you: linmodems.org www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Good luck. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS BS {John Richard Smith}
On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33 pm, you wrote: shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 1:35 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My windows 98 crashed.. I went to do a re-install from CD.. NOW I find my CD badly scratched and unable to do a full install. I have documents ect on hard drive I NEED. So I called MS... and asked of snip I found SuSe. I installed and it worked.. I cant boot win 98, but I can sure access all my pictures/docs old email ect ect... I will not suport MS on any product anymore period there is a linux distro that only runs from cd used specifically as a rescue disk to handle problems like that. fits on a credit card sized 50 meg cd. i used to carry one when i was system admin at a school district. people where always impressed i could boot from a tiny card and save their documents to the network before i formatted their drive. i always pointed out it was not MS that allowed it, but their competition. I found that Knoppix also does the same thing, but with a full sized distro from a full-sized CD. It is also excellent at picking up hardware and automagically setting up networks, printers, etc. If Windows pukes, or a machine is virus infected, there is no substitute for a Linux distro that will boot and run from cd-rom. Now, how do they do that BG. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X, nVidia problems ...
On Thursday 17 October 2002 03:03 pm, Bart Salien wrote: Op Thursday 17 October 2002 20:01, schreef u: Not Quite on the subject but pretty close. I have 9.0 installed and my GForce 4 is using the generic Nvidia driver right now. All I found at the nvidia site was for 8.2. I'm probably guessing right, but I'm not able to use those drivers. Correct? I've downloaded them but haven't done anything yet until I get a yes or a no on this. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank You. Mine worked after first erasing the old GLX files and afterwards installing the new nvidia GLX rpm . Also don't forget to change some setting in your XF86Config-4 (see nvidia docs). hello, tried to install some new nvid drivers for man 8.2, went to nvidia, matched the kernel and glx (3XXX) versions. the kernel installed fine, but the glx didn't want to. used the '-e' option outlined in the nvid read me and it installed but now X won't start at boot up! since i'm no expert on the console, i'm in trouble deep. any way to get myself out of this mess that isn't too complicated? any help would be appreciated. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?
G_REEPER wrote: snip Just to give you a blow by blow. I place the cd in and open it with the removable media link. It opens it fine and displays the contents of the cd. When I launch a shell to install the rpms I issue the urpmi *.rpms and I get no rpms found. I get the same if I just try to click the rpms. I have copied the entire cd to a drive via winblows and can install it from the shell with no problems. It doesn't seam to be limited to this single cd. As I have yet to get mkiso to make a iso file of any cd. Yet Mandrake's add software works fine for installing rpms on their cds. I found that sometimes supermount caused problems if you cd into the CD-ROM/CD-RW directory but issuing commands from any other directory giving the CD-ROM/CD-RW path worked fine. And since I like supermount I decided to just get used to it and I have. Haven't had a problem since. What is your fstab entry for the device? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Let there be sound please?!?
Thank you for your help. I changed my /etc/modules.conf to what was suggested by someone on this list to: alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss and I turned off the soundserver where arts was enabled. After that now I have the startup system sound and probably I will have other system sounds when I apply them. However, there is no sound for my mp3's yet and no midi. I checked my sound driver in control center and this is what I got: Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.9rc2 emulation code) Kernel: Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.4.19-16mdk#1 Fre Sep 20 18:15:05: CEST 2002 i686 Config options:0 Installed drivers: Type 10:ALSA emulation Card config: VIA 8233 at 0xdc00, irq 9 Audio devices: 0:VIA 8233(DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG MIDI devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Timers: 7:system timer Mixers: 0: mixer00 How would I enable the synth devices and midi? What else can be done to enable my mp3 players, etc? Thanks for any help here. Sincerely, Marcia John Richard Smith wrote: ET wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have setup my /etc/modules.conf as suggested for via onboard 8233 sound and still no sound for mp3, midi, most system sounds. Is there anything else I could check or do? Would I be better off to get the latest alsa source and compile myself? I do not want to go that far if it will not make a difference. I know this can work. I do not give up easily. It certainly worked in 8.2 except I had to do some interesting adjustments to make it work. This time those adjustments do not work in LM9. If I could get this sound to work it would not be a bad distro. I am having alot less problems with it than LM8.2 except for sound and usb.:( Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for all of your suggestions everyone. They did not work yet, and I do appreciate your help. Thanks, Marcia I don't know why it does not work for you, my via 8233 chip works fine for me on my msi mobo, on both LM8.2 and LM9.0 beta2. I'm not sure from the above if you are saying it does not work at all or just some eliments of the sound systems.If later , did you enable aRts , because you will not get multichannel sound streams without it, on the otherhand I do not have any mp3 files to play, and so cannot vouch for mp3 use. On the otherhand Mplayer encodes in mp3 and that works fine Does your via8233 chip come with AC97 codec as well. I don't exactly know what AC97 codec is supposed to do, I think it is some additional eliment of the via 8233 sound chip and is also there to aid multichannel sound streams. So currently what is your modules.conf entries like, and do you have aRts enabled ? John and lets see the output of cat /proc/interrupts as root OK, here it is, [root@localhost root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 629782 XT-PIC timer 1: 2173 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 21373 XT-PIC serial 5: 31 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci 6: 95 XT-PIC floppy 8: 3893 XT-PIC rtc 10:960 XT-PIC VIA 8233 Audio 11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci 12: 216470 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 36365 XT-PIC ide0 15: 26 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [root@localhost root]# Looks ok to me , what do you think ? John 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] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 1:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 01:13 AM 10/18/2002 +1300, Sharrea wrote: snip Anyway simple instructions are here: http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10661.html I was surprised at just how simple it is! Took all of 2 minutes! Thx Sharrea! I was about to ask how to do this or hunt the web... whichever came first. My question is related tho... I've ripped out hte floppy on my desktop machine (don't ask why ... long story). So now when i install MDK It asks do i want to add packages selection to a floppy drive. Well YES I BLOODY WELL DO! But I have no floppy... so will a zip drive work in this situation?! I don't think it will but maybe someone can point me to how to do this? or if its been done before? Femme I have done that in the past but not by choice. The sh*tty IBM Deskstar hd I had at the time was causing all sorts of hw conflicts and when installing MDK (8.0 I think), the install process didn't recognise my floppy drive and kept writing my boot disk, etc, to the zip drive instead. The strange thing was that after the initial reboot the floppy drive did indeed show up every time! (had that happen 3-4 times) I don't know how you would actually _tell_ the installation to use your zip drive, but perhaps with no floppy drive present, it will just do it automatically anyway(?) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPC
Not currentlyhowever, did install mdk 8.2 on iMac (first DVD/CDROM model) and it installed like a dream ... provided I added video=riva (for Nvidia card) on the install line and I set up the /boot partition between the basic MacOS and mdk. Now that Jaguar is out (10.2),OS X is MUCH more friendly and usable. Overall, I still prefer mdk. Currently run mdk8.2 on a pc and OS X on an ibook. Erik On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 05:44, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ok, i have seen a few posts about PPC mandrake, but they are seldom answered and few. i am considering getting a notebook computer, and i would rather get a mac and dual boot Mandrake/OSX than get a windows machine. the question i guess is is anyone out there successfully running Mandrake PPC? and how does she run? - -- No one is free when others are oppressed. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9p/0TBwq+ZwvIN/oRAk1lAJ9AeXSy3EcEYLdKR/eJPBXzga+VTACfeMkC eZJzvb7a4JA1PTjzR8xELgw= =ehh2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ident server
Can anyone help me out with setting up an ident server on Mandrake 9.0? I found a HOWTO on it, except that it says to configure /etc/inetd.conf which I do not have ( got xinetd ) -William __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS BS {John Richard Smith}
Funny you should mention it; I just finished downloading Knoppix myself. I really want to download Virtual Linux because it's based on Mandrake, but releases have stopped in anticipation of MDK 9.0. I guess they're working on that now. That'll be cool if it works well. Miark Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33 pm, you wrote: shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 1:35 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My windows 98 crashed.. I went to do a re-install from CD.. NOW I find my CD badly scratched and unable to do a full install. I have documents ect on hard drive I NEED. So I called MS... and asked of snip I found SuSe. I installed and it worked.. I cant boot win 98, but I can sure access all my pictures/docs old email ect ect... I will not suport MS on any product anymore period there is a linux distro that only runs from cd used specifically as a rescue disk to handle problems like that. fits on a credit card sized 50 meg cd. i used to carry one when i was system admin at a school district. people where always impressed i could boot from a tiny card and save their documents to the network before i formatted their drive. i always pointed out it was not MS that allowed it, but their competition. I found that Knoppix also does the same thing, but with a full sized distro from a full-sized CD. It is also excellent at picking up hardware and automagically setting up networks, printers, etc. If Windows pukes, or a machine is virus infected, there is no substitute for a Linux distro that will boot and run from cd-rom. Now, how do they do that BG. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:55 am, Mark Weaver did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and functioning well on a weekend and then not have to worry about whether or not you're protected. You'll know! And for two real good reasons. mandrakes Single Network Firewall runs on a p90 with 500 hdd and runs well here.. - -- If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ruPgBwq+ZwvIN/oRArvZAJ4zXxnGAhEhI4eOSJldLk3w8MhdWACfTDVN a0dn7AMzwV6qwOVYTLnrhjY= =cCFI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to make a clicked link open in a tabbed Netscape window
How does one make a clicked url link open in a new tabbed window in Netscape. I already have html text files associated to open in Netscape but each time a link is clicked in the KNewsTicker, KDE wants to open an entirely new session/profile of Netscape rather than just simply loading the link into a new tabbed window in the background. i586 based PC Mandrake 9.0 KNewsTicker v0.2 Netscape 7.0 -- Chris Edwards Send email for alternate contact information email | aim | icq | postal | cell | phone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
At 09:22 AM 10/17/2002 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:55 am, Mark Weaver did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and functioning well on a weekend and then not have to worry about whether or not you're protected. You'll know! And for two real good reasons. mandrakes Single Network Firewall runs on a p90 with 500 hdd and runs well here.. - -- If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. shane besides the downloadable manual for SNF in PDF format I haven't been able to find much information on it. Is there something else I missed after perusing the Mandrake Website? --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X Problem on Compaq Presario 2710US
I forgot to mention the video card is an ATI Radeon Mobility LY (AGP). I've tried the generic Radeon driver, the Radeon Mobility driver, and the Radeon Mobility what_ever_it_is driver. I've run a search in google for Mandrake and radeon mobility ly and came up with only one hit that was close to my problem, but it was in regards to Mandrake 8.2 with an older kernel. There suggestion was to upgrade the kernel, well this is a newer kernel, similiar problem. I wish there was a search engine on the list archives but I have been looking through the past few months of posts... I just don't see anything else close to my problem. Hope someone out there can point me in the right direction. Thanks Anthony -- Original Message -- From: Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:32:13 -0400 I'm having a problem getting X to start up properly on my Compaq Presario 2710US laptop. X actually starts but the colors are all off. If I log in as root the background is a hideous shade of light blue. The colors are almost washed out. The KDE splash screen is actually gold! I've run XFdrake several times and tried different combinations... such as generic flatscreen - 1024 x 768 and also generic 1024 x 768 screen. I have color depth set to 24-bit but also tried 16-bit. Both result in the same color depth problem. In either case though, if I TEST the settings before restarting X, the color bars look just fine. It's only when I 'startx' that this color problem occurs. Has anyone heard of this problem or know what I might do to fix it? I already checked out http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xtroub.html. Thanks for any help. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
Piero Piutti wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote: another good firewall program that i use is the black ice program and of course norton sells a good one as well. i wouldn't worry about broadcasting your I P address, but if you do a lot of surfing, you should consider a firewall. i think Linux has a built in firwall, doesn't it. if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a firewall, ZoneAlarm is the choice. I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall. With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range of 500 - 700 dollars for a fair system, there are literally thousands of old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and functioning well on a weekend and then not have to worry about whether or not you're protected. You'll know! And for two real good reasons. 1) if you're intelligent enough to install and setup Linux, you're more then able to setup an iptables firewall. To the nicest iptables firewall I've seen is the one that comes with Mandrake 9.0. Shorewall. Using this firewall works best if your gateway/firewall machine is setup with two nic cards. 2) once you've got things setup and running you'll quickly begin to see how things work and you'll appreciate the total hands-on control this kind of setup affords you, the user. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
Michael Adams wrote: Hands up all those that have had major isues trying to uninstall Bonzai Buddy from computers when it had been inadvertently downloaded. This would be a lot less of a problem in Linux even if the buddy came in an RPM. heh! :) well...you could always convert the source code and port it to Linux. NOT!!! sorry...couldn't resist. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] damn mandrake apache.!!! nothing in logs to tell mewhat the problem is.
Sharrea wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 1:42 am, Franki wrote: anway, the source of my problem is that apache is giving me no feedback on why it won't start. apachecrl configtest passses both httpd.com and httpd-perl.conf I have looked in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages and /var/log/httpd/error_log nothing in any of them to even indicate it tried to start. when I try, I get this: service httpd start Starting httpd:[PASSED] [PASSED] [PASSED] nothing shows up in the logs, hell, nothing shows up anywhere.. surely there must be some way of getting a verbose start log.. anyone?? I have uninstalled rpmdrakes php rpms, and put the old ones back, and I did likewise with the conf files.. still gives me [PASSED] mesages and no feedback at all as to why. Please, Does anyone have any idea how to get this thing working again? I'm in the shitter if I don't get it sorted before its needed tomorrow.. Incidently, I am doing this remotely over ssh with X forwarding.. not that that should make any difference. franki, don't know if this makes a difference (probably not, but woth a try): # apachectl start or # apachectl graceful to restart Sharrea You may also want to try this: service httpd status or service httpd extendedstatus (for more verbose info) Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New HD
Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi all, I have installed a new HD as a pri mast on my pc and moved the old pri mast to sec slave. It was a dual boot mdk9 and w2k. I have created the same on my new disk, but I cant get it to boot from the new mbr without the boot disk. It tries to load from the old mbr. How do I get rid of the old mbr on the sec slave and use the mbr on the pri master? I am wanting to keep the old one in the machine for a few weeks for moving stuff across. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:David.Hamnett-Taylor;BCPSoftware.com immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Tony, You're going to have to make the old primary drive the master again and this time before moving back to being a slave you will have to wipe the mbr with this command after booting from a windows floppy boot disk: fdisk /mbr Replace the new primary master drive and move the other drive back to being the primary slave and you should be set. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
ivette brusselmans wrote: Ah! shiza...you failed the test. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
Todd Slater wrote: In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962085.html Now if some of the biggies would just sell some puters without an OS! Todd Todd, You can order them from Dell that way. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
