[newbie-it] scanner
ciao ragazzi ho collegato uno scanner ( mercury ) al pc alla parallela. come dfaccio per farglielo rivelare , mi occorrono dei driver? dove posso trovarli? by luca.
Re: [newbie-it] Disinstallare un kernel
Grazie, effettivamente ho risolto il problema. Ciao Il mer, 2002-10-23 alle 12:12, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 09:00, mercoledì 23 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Salve ragazzi, ho un problema. Ho installato un'altra versione di kernel, mantenendo sempre quella vecchia, infatti quando parte lilo le vedo tutte e due. Il problema Ú che adesso ne volglio eliminare una, perchÚ non mi serve più. Sapete dirmi come si fa da riga di comando??? Grazie a tutti. Penso che basti rimuovere vmlinuz e System.map (i file, non i link simbolici) del kernel che vuoi eliminare, ed i moduli presenti in /lib/modules relativi alla suddetta configurazione. Modifica poi lilo, togliendo i riferimenti al vecchio kernel. Attendo smentite... -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Permettere agli utenti di un sistema di connettersial pc in ssh
Devi attivare in servizi di sistema, il demone ssh. Dopo basta che vai sul cient e digiti: ssh -l root xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 'Le x sono l'IP della macchina dove ti devi collegare. A questo punto ti chiederà la password di root, gliela inserisci e sei dentro. Comunque se non vuoi farlo entrare con root, basta che crei un utente, ed il comando è lo stesso. Ciao Il mer, 2002-10-23 alle 13:43, Luca ha scritto: Salve a tutti, il mio problema è questo: vorrei consentire agli utenti del mio pc di connettersi (digitando regolarmente login e psw) ad esso usando una connessione ssh. Qualcuno potrebbe cortesemente spiegrami come si fa? Qual'è la porta che va aperta per questo tipo di connessione? Grazie in anticipo Ciao Luca -- --- Giannuzzi Luca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.0 @ Acer TravelMate Kernel 2.4.19 mdk R.U. #287353 L.M. #168794 Modena (IT) erlug.linux.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- __ Mio Yahoo!: personalizza Yahoo! come piace a te http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.my.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] compilatori
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:06:25 +0200 Giorgio Griffon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 15:22, martedì 22 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: ho una serie di programmi in turbopascal e in gwbasic di una decina di anni fa che funzionano benissimo e che vorrei integrare in linux. dove trovo gli strumenti per usarli? . Ho trovato nei dischi del Mandrake 8.2 il p2c: si tratta di un traduttore che dovrebbe convertire i file sorgente da Pascal a C++. Purtroppo finora non sono riuscito a tradurre un bel niente dei miei gloriosi programmini in turbo pascal: ci sono problemi specialmente quando nel sorgente originale vengono richiamate librerie accessorie (tipo la unit crt). Se scopri qualcosa, avvisami! Ciao Giorgio Tutti (o quasi) i compilatori per Linux sono elencati a: http://sal.kachinatech.com/F/1/ ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] scanner
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:48:42 +0200 Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ciao ragazzi ho collegato uno scanner ( mercury ) al pc alla parallela. come dfaccio per farglielo rivelare , mi occorrono dei driver? dove posso trovarli? Bisognerebbe sapere se è riconosciuto da SANE (http://www.mostang.com/sane/) Comunque, visto che Mandrake include una release abbastanza recente di SANE, lancia mcc, cerca il menu di configurazione dello scanner e vedi se il tuo è tra quelli elencati e auguri :-). Ricordati che gli scanner paralleli supportati sono pochissimi, perché utilizzano interfacce proprietarie. Se ti va bene, ricordati che puoi usarlo solo da root, cosa che fa arrabbiare xsane:-) Quindi usa xscanimage o, meglio, cercati un po' di howto e fai un'installazione come servizio di rete. Se il tuo scanner non è elencato tra quelli riconosciuti da Mandrake, cercane notizie sul sito SANE e su groups.google.com. Magari basta scaricare un aggiornamento di sane o configurarlo con un altro nome. Spesso ditte anche importanti vendono con proprio marchio apparecchiature fatte da altri. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] PROBLEMA CON MODEM HSF
ciao a tutti , ho un SM56 Conexant modem , sotto la mndrake 9.0 . ho scaricato l'rpm per installare il modem , tutto ok. solo che quando lancio hsconfig al termine della procedura mi dice che il modem è accessibile tramite /dev/ttyHSF0 ... ma purtroppo questa "directory" non esiste .. esistono solo le tradizionali /dev/tty , /dev/ccua etc .. cosa posso fare?
Re: [newbie-it] PROBLEMA CON MODEM HSF
Alle 10:24, giovedì 24 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: ciao a tutti , ho un SM56 Conexant modem , sotto la mndrake 9.0 . ho scaricato l'rpm per installare il modem , tutto ok. solo che quando lancio hsconfig al termine della procedura mi dice che il modem è accessibile tramite /dev/ttyHSF0 ... ma purtroppo questa directory non esiste .. esistono solo le tradizionali /dev/tty , /dev/ccua etc .. cosa posso fare? Non è una directory, è un dispositivo a caratteri. Per tutto ok, cosa intendi? Il modem funziona? Prova a vedere a cosa punta /dev/modem; se effettivamente questo è un link simbolico al dispositivo suddetto, non c'è alcun problema. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Permettere agli utenti di un sistema di connettersi al pc in ssh
Il programma si chiama Exceed ed è a pagamento ma devo dire che è anche molto bello, un ciccinino pesante ma molto bello. (Alla fine non solo ho fatto pubblicità ma lo ho anche schifosamente lecchinato). Ciao, Germano Alle 23:56, mercoledì 23 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Sul come si fà è semplice: il tuo potenziale utente digita sulla sua macchina ssh -l login-name nome-macchina-server Se a questo tuo utente dovesse servire anche il display grafico fornito dalla tua macchina (e spero per lui che abbia un sistema Unix-like perchè se ha winzozz si deve installare un programmino a pagamento [ma non farò pubblicità]) Purtroppo il problema è proprio questo, il sistema del mio amico monta proprio Win$ Il programma che uso (ttssh) per farlo connettere a me non gli fa andare tutti i programmi che richiedono interfaccia grafica kde incluso!!! Dovresti farmi il favore di dirmi qual'è questo programma a pagamento, se ti scoccia dirlo alla ML fallo inviandomi una mail privata, è l'unica soluzione ai miei problemi!!! Scusa se sono stato logorroico. Ciao, Germano Niente, mi sei stato di grandissimo aiuto Grazie Ciao Luca
Re: [newbie-it] PDF
Alle 21:46, giovedì 24 ottobre 2002, Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: Ho provato infatti a trasformare in pdf dei file scritti con openoffice usando l'opzione stampa su file: ne sono risultati dei pdf che si Risolto l'arcano, se provi a stampare lo stesso testo una volta come .ps e una volta come PDF, vedrai che i file sono esattamente uguali (entrambi postscript); probabilmente e' un baco di OO o una funzionalita' non ancora implementata (per la cronaca uso la versione 1.0.1) E' meglio quindi che stampi come file in formato .ps e poi lo converti a manina. possono leggere solamente con il visualizzatore PS/PDF KGhostView, ma non con Xpdf, né tantomeno con Acrobat Reader sotto windows. Be', effettivamente questi ultimi due non sono lettori di file .ps Poi ho letto le pagine di manuale relative a ps2pdf e ps2pdfwr, ma mi sono servite a confondere le idee il formato del primo comando e' generalmente abbastanza intuitivo ps2pdf nomefile.ps nomefile_nuovo.pdf Una volta trasformato dovresti essere in grado di visualizzarlo bene. Qualcuno sa se e come si possono ottenere da openoffice dei pdf compatibili con Acrobat? Vedi sopra. -- GNU/Linux *** Slackware 8.1 + un po' di 9.0beta1 L.R.U. #210970 L.R.M. #98222 S.R.U. #12583
Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 9:39 pm, Giorgio Griffon wrote about S%: io mi connetto in genere per pochi minuti al giorno, e che se avessi qualche visitatore inopportuno sarebbe del tutto occasionale (non credo che il mio computer sia un obiettivo importante!) questa e' la parte piu' importante infatti prima di collegarmi smonto dal file-system tutte le partizioni del disco fisso dove risiedono i miei documenti. be' sinceramente non serve a molto, finche' lasci un sistema operativo. basterebbe riuscire ad installare una volta un rootkit, qualcosa cioe' che modifica gli eseguibili piu' noti, e ogni volta che sei collegato l'attaccante monta smonta e fa tutto quello che vuole. Ma l'ip dinamico tiene in effetti lontano la maggior parte degli hacker. E parlo per sola conoscenza teorica. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] NON MI SEMBRA VERO!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 03:57, mercoledì 23 ottobre 2002, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: .. e trovare un modo per far funzionare xinerama con 2 schede s3, ma questo è un problema marginale che problemi hai? 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 iD8DBQE9uGIPF/9fksDJ4y0RApqkAJoDHDy2EePajYrh24A495emgn7u/gCgnzdi v6UQUTQ8OCz9DLStS8Gg1MY= =5h/w -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] PROBLEMA CON MODEM HSF
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 14:44, giovedì 24 ottobre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: ... solo che quando lancio hsconfig al termine della procedura mi dice che il modem è accessibile tramite /dev/ttyHSF0 ... ma purtroppo questa directory non esiste .. esistono solo le tradizionali /dev/tty , /dev/ccua etc .. cosa posso fare? Non è una directory, è un dispositivo a caratteri. giusto, dai una letta ai README, vedrai anche altri dati relativi al dispositivo, poi devi solo controllare che il programma di connessione, (esempio kppp) possa raggiungere il modem quindi se puoi impostaci a manina dev/ttyHSF0 , altrimenti crea un link /dev/modem che lo punti, e imposti questo in kppp 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 iD8DBQE9uGMEF/9fksDJ4y0RAjZJAJ9XvWSgAzn9EUL0v9lx6bGHkG2jtQCgojx3 pUM1iCJzcpDpxj3Nc+Ub0CE= =VD0O -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:18, giovedì 24 ottobre 2002, freefred ha scritto: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 9:39 pm, Giorgio Griffon wrote about S%: ^? forse intendevi %S...;) io mi connetto in genere per pochi minuti al giorno, e che se avessi qualche visitatore inopportuno sarebbe del tutto occasionale (non credo che il mio computer sia un obiettivo importante!) questa e' la parte piu' importante infatti sei comunque a rischio worm o di diventare un trampolino dDoS, consiglio : servizi server (e ralative porte) chiusi tcp wrappers, firewall (semplicissimo, chiudere tutte le connessioni, tracciando lo stato di quelle richieste dall'interno, consentendo solo a quste di accedere alle porte, comunque non privilegiate, del PC) prima di collegarmi smonto dal file-system tutte le partizioni del disco fisso dove risiedono i miei documenti. be' sinceramente non serve a molto, finche' lasci un sistema operativo. basterebbe riuscire ad installare una volta un rootkit, qualcosa cioe' che modifica gli eseguibili piu' noti, e ogni volta che sei collegato l'attaccante monta smonta e fa tutto quello che vuole. vero.. al consiglio aggiungiamo quindi un ids, e libsafe (sei avvisato se qualcuno prova a connettersi o se il contenuto dei binari è variato, contro script kiddies è ben più che sufficiente) Ma l'ip dinamico tiene in effetti lontano la maggior parte degli hacker. gli hacker sicuro!! :) i cracker forse, non sei remunerativo, i lameroni che si divertono solo a fare portscanner su porsioni di rete, per poi applicare pezzi di codice rubati in internet, no rischi che un baco noto venga usato contro di te senza che nemmeno chi ti lancia l'attacco sappia cosa faccia lo script che ha lanciato, purtroppo è così.. (n questi giorni ad esempio si parla molto di slapper, che usa per propagarsi dei problemi (fixati) in mod_ssl e in apache oppure di xinetd (appena fixato anche questo) che aveva una vulnerabilità ai DoS o (poi smetto, ma vi consiglio l'upgrade) delle kdelibs, a rischio cross-site scripting attack :O 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 iD8DBQE9uGkDF/9fksDJ4y0RAj3BAJwJu7edz3KnRH4cJwX4nrwhtzST+QCgvhYJ 5UKMe02tSeDT/GOinZFxrsE= =hMNl -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:41, giovedì 24 ottobre 2002, miKe ha scritto: (n questi giorni ad esempio si parla molto di slapper, che usa per propagarsi dei problemi (fixati) in mod_ssl e in apache ..ho fatto appena in tempo a dirlo... :) *** Messaggio firmato da Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory __ Package name: mod_ssl Advisory ID:MDKSA-2002:072 Date: October 24th, 2002 Affected versions: 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, Single Network Firewall 7.2 _ Problem Description: A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in mod_ssl by Joe Orton. This only affects servers using a combination of wildcard DNS and UseCanonicalName off (which is not the default in Mandrake Linux). With this setting turned off, Apache will attempt to use the hostname:port that the client supplies, which is where the problem comes into play. With this setting turned on (the default), Apache constructs a self-referencing URL and will use ServerName and Port to form the canonical name. It is recommended that all users upgrade, regardless of the setting of the UseCanonicalName configuration option. __ *** 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 iD8DBQE9uHgXF/9fksDJ4y0RAm6YAJ9UeA0t2dzPuD92/ZwiVtRYrb9SiQCeIey9 2B8dHcFtWNpgsU2jdT3S3BI= =TsGu -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] NON MI SEMBRA VERO!
- Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] NON MI SEMBRA VERO! -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 03:57, mercoledì 23 ottobre 2002, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: .. e trovare un modo per far funzionare xinerama con 2 schede s3, ma questo è un problema marginale che problemi hai? semplicemente che non appare l'opzione xinerama in fase di configurazione, ho provato con circa 500 versioni diverse dei files di configurazione del serverx, ma l'unica volta in cui si accendono entrambi gli schermi è quando lancio xf86cfg . sull'altro pc invece, con una sys agp e una s3 pci lo xinerama funziona alla perfezione, tranne per il fatto che l'uscita videocomposite (TV) della scheda non funziona. le due schede s3 pci dei 2 pc sono uguali (virge dx gx), per cui ho copiato i files da un pc all'altro, cambiando solo la parte riguardante la scheda agp (copincollata dal file che mi fa funzionare la scheda agp s3 da sola; anche i monitors sono uguali), ma non funziona, anzi mi dà errore e non parte il modalità grafica è possibile invece (e mi sarebbe molto più utile dello xinerama) avere su un monitor il server x e sull'altro una consolle testuale, o meglio i logs di quello che accade sul server x? 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 iD8DBQE9uGIPF/9fksDJ4y0RApqkAJoDHDy2EePajYrh24A495emgn7u/gCgnzdi v6UQUTQ8OCz9DLStS8Gg1MY= =5h/w -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Crash!
Alle 09:00, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Crash!, miKe hai scritto: Alle 22:45, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, Arwan ha scritto: Buonanotte... nel vero senso della parola! ..sento puzza di guai.. Annusi bene, ma col bruciato che c'e' in giro non ci vuole molto... :-) non è che per caso hai aggiunto della ram? mi puzza di moduli dimm difettosi... L'ho aggiunta, ma quando mi ha mostrato la sua ostilita' la ram era sulla scrivania... praticamente innocua... Al prossimo crash che devo fare??? NON VOGLIO REINSTALLARE... ci credo bene.. Ho riesinstallato. La cosa, per una volta, e' stata utile, visto che sono riuscita a far partire KDE dalla Slack... ;-))) -- Arwan
[newbie-it] Samsung ML 1210
Dopo il crash, ho cambiato l'alimentatore... e pare che tutto funzioni, ora. Speriamo bene. Ordunque, il motivo della mia mail e' questo: ho acquistato una stampante laser, la Samsung ML 1210, con driver per Linux compresi. Nelle note di installazione c'e' scritto di aggiornare il ghostscript con quello fornito, ma la mia versione (la 6 e rotti) e' gia' piu' nuova di quella che mi hanno dato con la stampante. Non ho toccato nulla. Poi dicono di copiare in una cartella un file .ppd. Fatto. Il sistema non aveva ancora stampanti, per cui ho lanciato aggiungi stampante etc etc; MDK ha riconosciuto in automatico la samsung. Solo che, quando lancio delle stampe, escono righe e fasce grigie o nere. Ora vorrei sapere: - come dire a MDK che deve andarsi a prendere il ppd che ho messo io; - se devo installare il gs piu' vecchio, ma fornito dalla Samsung - dove trovo la pagina per la configurazione della stampante, dove dirgli la qualita' di stampa, regolare l'uso dell'inchiostro, impostare in modo predefinito la stampa in multipagina e tutte queste cosine qui. Grazie, e alla prossima... -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] Nikon 2000
Alle 15:53, mercoledì 23 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] Nikon 2000, Mavricijo Babic hai scritto: Salve e una machina foto grafica dela Nikon, pero non ho nesun software per scaricare le foto soto Linux. Cosa poso fare? Io ho una Nikon 775, e non e' supportata da Gimp. Se non hai ancora risolto, scrivimi in privato che ti mando due allegati ceh ti potrebbero aiutare. (Si', sempre i soliti...) -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] PROBLEMA CON MODEM HSF
Alle 10:24, giovedì 24 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] PROBLEMA CON MODEM HSF, Simone_Colombo hai scritto: ciao a tutti , ho un SM56 Conexant modem , sotto la mndrake 9.0 . ho scaricato l'rpm per installare il modem , tutto ok. solo che quando lancio hsconfig al termine della procedura mi dice che il modem è accessibile tramite /dev/ttyHSF0 ... ma purtroppo questa directory non esiste .. esistono solo le tradizionali /dev/tty , /dev/ccua etc .. cosa posso fare? Dopo aver lanciato l'rpm coi driver vai (da shell) su /dev e: - cancella il file modem - lancia ln -s ttySHSF0 modem da kppp - nel dispositivo metti /dev/modem - nella finestra modem deseleziona attenti tono di chiamata Appunti brutalemente scopiazzati dalle istruzioni di Mike (merito suo se ora uso kmail) -- Arwan
Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE
- Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE If it were mine I'd put the two CD drives on secondary IDE with CD-RW as master, and the hard drives on the primary as master and slave in whatever order you like. Depending whether you want to re-install your operating system of course. If not the 3.2 will have to stay as master on the primary IDE channel since most versions of Windows won't boot from anywhere else. I've heard that Laplink will clone your drive. If I understand this correctly I can clone my 3.2 gig HD to my new 30 gig HD and then make the 30 gig master and it should boot into Windows. Does this also clone Lilo and my MDK 7.0 partitions? If so it would be great but if it at least clones the Win partition that would be OK as I don't mind reinstalling MDK as I was going to upgrade to Ver 8.2 anyway. Any info would be appreciated. George Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...
On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 4:52 pm, Rainer wrote: after using mdk 8.2 for almost 8 months, i still seem to be unable to get the x server and my nvidia card to coexist peacefully. it took me a couple of months to get it to be relatively stable after the first install. i got the glx and kernel rpms at that time and i believe i had to reinstall the kernel drivers from tar.gz. my news readers still froze after this (pan, mozilla, knode) but the rest seemed alright. recently, i had to reinstall mdk 8.2. i got the latest drivers and my x server won't start at all. checked all the documentation i could find, nvidia readme, mandrake user nvidia section and i'm still at a loss, the config-4 file was fine. after spending about 10 hours on this the easiest thing to do seems to be to reinstall. but i don't want to go through that again unless i have a pretty good idea about what the problem is, and a relatively straight forward solution (this is a newbie speaking!) does 9.0 deal better with the nvidia geforce2 mx/mx 400? i installed red hat 8.0 and the graphics are rock solid so far. i would like to continue with mandrake because i've spent some time with it and know it better but not at the expense of a monitor that freezes regularly. i'd appreciate an honest answer, i know how these distribution biases color peoples judgement. thanks Firstly, I apologise for the long message. rant Well... today I have just spent from 7.15am to 6.45pm (minus 1/2 hour lunch break) trying to get the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 AND STILL NO GO! Didn't have a problem in 8.1. I have been trying to get the drivers working on and off for weeks! I ended up installing RH7.3 (dual boot) just so I can play Quake3 and UT2003. I've tried (and retried each many times), the club rpms, source rpms and the tarballs. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but I'm using the enterprise kernel (1024 MB RAM). I did get the club enterprise rpm with urpmi. After installing the drivers (and editing XF86Config-4) I can start FluxBox, BlackBox, Enlightenment, etc but I can't start Gnome or KDE (I use KDE). I get the following error when trying to start KDE as root or user: msg There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. Tthe message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list: /home/sharrea/.DCOPserver_tbird.tux.nz__0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running! /msg Then the system takes forever to try to recover when I CTRL+ALT+Backspace but it usually ends up hanging and I use the ALT+SysRq combinations to end process, sync and reboot. Also the KDE apps like kedit, kmail, etc won't run in the other WMs but I can play tuxracer and UT2003. I checked (many times) that the libglx*, libGL.so* and libGLcore* files are installed correctly. I tried all the different options for NvAGP and added all sorts of things to /etc/modules.conf. One thing I noticed is that I only have nvidia0 and nvidiactl in the /dev dir (I don't get nvidia1, nvidia2 or nvidia3, etc). And another thing I noticed is that stopping the devfsd service on boot and editing /etc/lilo.conf to devfs=nomount (+ running /sbin/lilo afterwards) then rebooting doesn't stop devfsd from starting at boot! I've been searching all over the net for answers and trying suggestions given to others with a similar problem but like I said, no go. Anyway I've rebooted and shutdown about 30-40 times today and I've just about had enough so I think I'll just give up on the nvidia drivers for 9.0. Guess I'll just have to use RH : ( /rant OK, having said all that, many others have got the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 without a hitch. Oh, I'm so envious. 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] serial console question?
If you are using LILO, the better way would be to edit /etc/lilo.conf and remove 'quiet' from the append= line. save and then type lilo (with out the quotes) and click enter. After that, you should see all startup and shutdown messages. HTH Erik On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 23:51, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I added 'console=ttyS0' to lilo.conf and can see what's going on during system startup. But I keep getting the following message: ioctl VT_GETSTATE: Invalid argument How can I get rid of them? Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MLdonkey
There are RPMs for MLDonkey 2.0 on PLF now. I tried it out but found the user interface incomprehensible. How do you use it? derek On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 6:28 am, Miark wrote: This is strictly in the context of eDonkey 2000, but 1) Visit http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mldonkey/stable/ 2) Download the tarball that applies to you. 3) Untar it. 4) cd into the directory, and run ./mldonkey_gui Miark BCSoft@TowerTraining [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Ok, explain what this is to me. I download a lot of stuff and would love the increased speed. R Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...
that error is not an nvidia error, i could be wrong but open a console and delete the following ~/.DCOP* yo should find that kde now starts, at least that what i have done when i had that error, i also emptied /tmp but i don't think that is necessary bascule On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 7:57 am, Sharrea wrote: On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 4:52 pm, Rainer wrote: after using mdk 8.2 for almost 8 months, i still seem to be unable to get the x server and my nvidia card to coexist peacefully. it took me a couple of months to get it to be relatively stable after the first install. i got the glx and kernel rpms at that time and i believe i had to reinstall the kernel drivers from tar.gz. my news readers still froze after this (pan, mozilla, knode) but the rest seemed alright. recently, i had to reinstall mdk 8.2. i got the latest drivers and my x server won't start at all. checked all the documentation i could find, nvidia readme, mandrake user nvidia section and i'm still at a loss, the config-4 file was fine. after spending about 10 hours on this the easiest thing to do seems to be to reinstall. but i don't want to go through that again unless i have a pretty good idea about what the problem is, and a relatively straight forward solution (this is a newbie speaking!) does 9.0 deal better with the nvidia geforce2 mx/mx 400? i installed red hat 8.0 and the graphics are rock solid so far. i would like to continue with mandrake because i've spent some time with it and know it better but not at the expense of a monitor that freezes regularly. i'd appreciate an honest answer, i know how these distribution biases color peoples judgement. thanks Firstly, I apologise for the long message. rant Well... today I have just spent from 7.15am to 6.45pm (minus 1/2 hour lunch break) trying to get the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 AND STILL NO GO! Didn't have a problem in 8.1. I have been trying to get the drivers working on and off for weeks! I ended up installing RH7.3 (dual boot) just so I can play Quake3 and UT2003. I've tried (and retried each many times), the club rpms, source rpms and the tarballs. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but I'm using the enterprise kernel (1024 MB RAM). I did get the club enterprise rpm with urpmi. After installing the drivers (and editing XF86Config-4) I can start FluxBox, BlackBox, Enlightenment, etc but I can't start Gnome or KDE (I use KDE). I get the following error when trying to start KDE as root or user: msg There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. Tthe message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list: /home/sharrea/.DCOPserver_tbird.tux.nz__0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running! /msg Then the system takes forever to try to recover when I CTRL+ALT+Backspace but it usually ends up hanging and I use the ALT+SysRq combinations to end process, sync and reboot. Also the KDE apps like kedit, kmail, etc won't run in the other WMs but I can play tuxracer and UT2003. I checked (many times) that the libglx*, libGL.so* and libGLcore* files are installed correctly. I tried all the different options for NvAGP and added all sorts of things to /etc/modules.conf. One thing I noticed is that I only have nvidia0 and nvidiactl in the /dev dir (I don't get nvidia1, nvidia2 or nvidia3, etc). And another thing I noticed is that stopping the devfsd service on boot and editing /etc/lilo.conf to devfs=nomount (+ running /sbin/lilo afterwards) then rebooting doesn't stop devfsd from starting at boot! I've been searching all over the net for answers and trying suggestions given to others with a similar problem but like I said, no go. Anyway I've rebooted and shutdown about 30-40 times today and I've just about had enough so I think I'll just give up on the nvidia drivers for 9.0. Guess I'll just have to use RH : ( /rant OK, having said all that, many others have got the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 without a hitch. Oh, I'm so envious. Sharrea -- `The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...' - The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
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[newbie] stuck with a (external) modem...
I tried them all, I'm out of resources... I have a Trust 56K external modem. It worked fine with MDK8.2 and kppp dialer, still works fine with Windows. Doesn't work with Linux since I upgraded to MDK9.0. I did not manage to configure the internet access using the control center. Modem dials out and connects but then drops the line after 10 seconds. So I tried with gnome dialer - same result. I told to myself, these are only front ends, let's try with the command line utilities. Issuing the #pppd debug call something I see from the syslog that chat reaches the CONNECT state and returns control to the pppd. pppd starts sending LCP ConfigRequests, but gets no answer form the remote and hangs up after 10 retries, with the serial line not clean merror message. The LCP options included in the ConfigRequests sent by the linux ppd are the same that the Windows dialer uses (i.e. async map 0xa, protocol compression and address+control field compression), as seen from the windows ppp session log. But for some reason, the ppp on the ISP does not seem to send me the ConfigRequest back when I dial from linux. I tried the kdebug 7 on the pppd command line, to see the binary packet content, but I don't get anything more than what I get with the usual debug option, so I am not really sure of what packets pppd is generating. Why doesn't this option work as documented? Do I need some form of support in the kernel? I also tried to install kppp. rpmdrake reports that some sources are missing from the download CD. grrr. The worst part is that my wife still browses the Internet with Windows, with an ironic smile on her face... Sorry for the long post, any help gratly appreciated. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 10:51 pm, you wrote: It's like an .exe file in Winsux--just run it: ./whatever.bin Enter You may have to be root. Miark On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:18 pm, andy wrote: How do you install .bin files? For some .bin files I had to do something like : 1 - chmod 700 awesomeprogram.bin enter 2 - ./awesomeprogram.bin enter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VNC uninstall install
uninstalled VNC with rpmdrake. When I try to install it again, get the message that it is already installed. But I can't find the icon anywhere in KDE. And when I type vncserver in console, nothing happens. 1 mandrake box server 1 win98 box client with VNC installed and running How come? Doesn't KDE make an icon automatically when program is installed? thanx _ Je kan ook Messenger berichten op je mobiele telefoon ontvangen! http://www.msn.nl/services/hotmailsmsv271551/messenger/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice....
You need to create symlinks from /usr/bin to wherever the tarball has put the application e.g. ln -s /path_to/oowriter /usr/bin/oowriter and similarly for oomath ooimpress oocalc derek On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 3:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed OO from the .tar.gz file and can run it if I go to the directory it is in but when I try to use the menu editor to put a (what shortcut, alias?) on the menu bar I get an error message saying the executable can't be found. Won't the K menu (yep, using KDE) handle a script? R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice On Wednesday 23 Oct 2002 1:12 pm, DaveA wrote: Hi y'all. Just installed my first program - OpenOffice 1.0.1 (and learnt heaps along the way!) Being a refugee from the Windoze world, and VERY new to Linux, I sort of expected that the install would automatically create some shortcuts in the Start Menu, but I can's see anything. Maybe I need to logout and back in or somethin'? TIA, DaveA. It would do if you had installed OpenOffice 1.0.1 from the RPM on your 9.0 install CD. But if you install from the .tar.gz file from OpenOffice.org it will not. The Mandrake RPM version will also be better at picking up system fonts, and printers. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] galeon fonts
On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 12:58 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 22 Oct 2002 9:04 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 22 Oct 2002 2:37 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: In my home pc I could see windows fonts in galeon(mdk 9), but not in my office pc. I have installed windows fonts in both pcs using control center and both pcs are having winme dualboot with mdk9. Any clues? Yes. It seems 9.0 still has the same bug that 8.2 had which is that drakfont does not list perlftlib as a dependency, and without that RPM it cannot make the font directories. You can confirm this if you run chkfontpath If it does not show /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf as one of the paths, then it was unable to add your Windows True Type fonts correctly Try installing perlftlib and then use drakfont to install your Windows fonts again. Then check chkfontpath again. Thanks. How to add additional windows fonts installed later. just run drakfont again and import the Windows fonts again. If it cannot find the fonts used the advanced setting to point to a specif font file/files derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...
Thanks bascule, but I already did remove ~/.DCOP* and /tmp/* (countless times) but that made no difference. Also removed ~/.ICEauthority ~/.mcoprc ~/.mcop/ - also didn't help. Obviously, one of the files that Gnome and KDE use is getting stuffed up. Thanks for the reply tho. Ah well... Sharrea On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 8:37 pm, bascule wrote: that error is not an nvidia error, i could be wrong but open a console and delete the following ~/.DCOP* yo should find that kde now starts, at least that what i have done when i had that error, i also emptied /tmp but i don't think that is necessary bascule On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 7:57 am, Sharrea wrote: snip I get the following error when trying to start KDE as root or user: msg There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. Tthe message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list: /home/sharrea/.DCOPserver_tbird.tux.nz__0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running! /msg Then the system takes forever to try to recover when I CTRL+ALT+Backspace but it usually ends up hanging and I use the ALT+SysRq combinations to end process, sync and reboot. Also the KDE apps like kedit, kmail, etc won't run in the other WMs but I can play tuxracer and UT2003. snip -- 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] VNC uninstall install
ivette brusselmans wrote: uninstalled VNC with rpmdrake. When I try to install it again, get the message that it is already installed. But I can't find the icon anywhere in KDE. And when I type vncserver in console, nothing happens. 1 mandrake box server 1 win98 box client with VNC installed and running How come? Doesn't KDE make an icon automatically when program is installed? Not normally. Some programs are KDE integrated, so they will automatically add themselves to the system menu (not necessarily your own user menu - that depends on your preferences, I think) but I've never known a program automatically add an icon to your desktop, and I wouldn't really want them to. I think your problem may be a corrupted RPM database (VNC was uninstalled but not removed from the database). As root, type rpm --rebuilddb That _might_ fix it. Sir Robin -- You almost never hear that word computer anymore, do you? They're part of everything now. They used to be boxes with keyboards, you know. - Tad Williams 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] Kmails New Mail Beep
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:42:41 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to replace the annoying 'beep' with You've Got Mail but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it. Any help would be appreciated. -- Regards Chris Settings configure kmail network receiving new mail notification check execute command line and uncheck beep :-) If you are using KDE's artsd soundserver this is a possible command: artsplay something.wav. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
./filename.bin when you are in the directory of the file, otherwise type the full path of the file. The reason you must include ./ when running executables from the current directory is security. Imagine someone plants a harmfull executable called 'cp' in some directory. When you want to use the copy command, while in that directory, the executable in the current directory would take precedence. ./ makes sure you want to run the executable in the current directory and not a globaly set command. From: andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] .bin Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:18:23 -0500 How do you install .bin files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free! Try MSN. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
also, make sure you have the execute permission set for yourself for that file, since it most likely will not have that set by default when downloaded. since it's most likely an install script of some sort, chmod 700 (rwx--) if you want only yourself to do anything at all with it, otherwise, whatever modes are appropriate for your environment. --- Original Message --- From: Hesham Khonji [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] .bin ./filename.bin when you are in the directory of the file, otherwise type = the=20 full path of the file. The reason you must include ./ when running=20 executables from the current directory is security. Imagine someone plant= s a=20 harmfull executable called 'cp' in some directory. When you want to use t= he=20 copy command, while in that directory, the executable in the current=20 directory would take precedence. ./ makes sure you want to run the=20 executable in the current directory and not a globaly set command. From: andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] .bin Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:18:23 -0500 How do you install .bin files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free!=A0 Try MSN.=20 http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 and Gnome config
Yeah, I know THAT, but what I mean is...even though Gnome is running perfectly out of the box, I can't find the place it keeps its settings (menu in particular) as I want to copy it into my BlackBox configuration. Can someone help me out? -Original Message- From: Steve Jeppesen [mailto:ampster40;attbi.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 11:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 and Gnome config just open up a console and type vi .xinitrc then enter what ever you want in there and to save it type :w to save it then :q to quit. Make sure you are in your /home/yourhomedirectory/ when you create .xinitrc restart x and you should be on your way. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:13:56 -0400 Ralph M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I just got into this install I've got and figured, hey, let's change window managers, right? So I figured I'd find and edit my .xinitrc file and see what I could find in it and do exec blackbox or something. Well, much to my surprise I don't have an .xinitrcso where and HOW does gnome get it's menu configuration, marching orders, etc, etc? Thanks, trying to dig deeper into the linux world Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
Yea it seemed to work too when i typed in something like su ./file.bin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Advice-Setting up a dedicated server
Thanks for your insight. What kind of horsepower do you have currently in the Win2k server? I am opting to stay away from any Internet related services since my Lynksys router seems to do a decent job of it and I don't want to bottleneck the file server. However, I like the added protection of a software firewall/proxy that tells me what's going on. I question whether my tired and old server could do that plus file serve. Are you planning on using bind or any DNS? Are you going to statically address or let your linux server provide DHCP services? Thanks T - netmaniac - wrote: I'm not an expert on linux server but I have one win2k server that i'm wanting to change for a linux one. Because of this, I've been doing some researches about this subject. In my opinion, the basic server services are: the SAMBA to share files with windowze machines, maybe an NFS service to share files with linux machines, and other common services like apache (httpd), ftpd, and so on. I'm going to change the win2k directory service to samba and put the squid (proxy server) to share my internet connection (adsl/256k). Until now, everithing seems to work fine. Netmaniac OK, boys and girls. I really would like your advice before I embark on this needed journey. I have been without my NT 4.0 server for a few weeks now and am getting really antsy without file sharing capabilities. Yes, I could have easily set that something temporary, but this has to be done on a permanent basis so I might as well wait until I am ready to redo the server. Here's what I have in the network environment: 2- Win 98 SE 1- MDK 8.2 2- MDK 9.0 1- RH 6.1 (soon to be TurboLinux 3.0.1) * and guest PCs of either Win 95 and up, or Linux 1- cable modem Internet access provider coming into a Linksys 4-port EtherFast Cable/DSL Router BEFSR41 providing DHCP, routing and firewall protection. 1- Kingston Workgroup Hub EtheRx 8-port hub (connects to the output of router and serves connectivity to all the PCs and server. 1- Intel NetportExpress 10/100 Print Server providing printing capabilities for all PCs (both Windows and Linux), statically addressed and accessed as an LPD resource. One laser and one color ink-jet printer. 1- Dedicated server (MDK 8.2 or 9.0?) that is solely a file sharing resource. Specs for the server are meager, so this is another reason for asking advice. I do not want to load it up with unnecessary overhead: Intel P233 MX, 256 MBs SDRAM, 15 GB IDE HD, Wimpy Jaton TV-67 Video w/ 1 MB RAM, Kingston KNE-120TX/20 NIC What I would like to hear from anyone with some thoughts on what services are minimally needed to set up a solid file server. I am interested in MySQL at some point in the future, so it can be installed, but isn't as important as file sharing. No printers will be run off this server. It will not be doing IP forwarding, firewalling or proxying the Internet connection for the PCs (I really don't want to bog down the server with heavy downloads, especially with printing services running over TCP/IP on a slow network -- 10 Mbs throughput.) The Lynksys router has been managing DHCP quite nicely, so I am of a mind not to fix what isn't broken, but would like to know whether there is any advantage to having the server take that responsibility over when its only purpose is to be a file server. And of course, should I be running DNS services (bind)? (I never ran WINS or DNS on the NT 4.0 server) Will doing so conflict with the DHCP services of the hub and the Internet connection provider? I definitely do not want any Web serving. This is a closed system file sharing server. So, I guess I would like just a list of services, maybe a brief idea why you think that I should run them, but I do not expect any actual instructions. I really am looking for direction. Once I have that, I am happy to muddle through the particulars and only ask for help when I need it. At this point in time, I need to ask everyone to work within the specs I have listed. There's no chance that I will be adding or upgrading hardware right now. And above all, remember that I am not experienced in Linux. :-) Thanks so much for your opinions. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] S3 Savage 2000 and XFree86 4.2.1 problems
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:49:15 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, shipahoy, what version of Savage do you have? I have the Savage 2000 w/ 64 MB RAM. When I used the 1.1.25t driver, my screen colors looked like someone took a garden rake to them and Xine takes a dump a moment after starting up. I ended up copying back the original savage_drv.o file and now the quality is back, but I still can't get Xine to stay open now. sigh I done broke it, I think. Any ideas how to bring life back to Xine? It played my DVDs the best of the bunch. Sorry for the delay in replying. I have the savage4. From reading the probo.com site again it seems that some things on the Savage 2000 are still broken. I suppose eventually it will get sorted out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] S3 Savage 2000 and XFree86 4.2.1 problems
Oh, well. :-( T shipahoy wrote: On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:49:15 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, shipahoy, what version of Savage do you have? I have the Savage 2000 w/ 64 MB RAM. When I used the 1.1.25t driver, my screen colors looked like someone took a garden rake to them and Xine takes a dump a moment after starting up. I ended up copying back the original savage_drv.o file and now the quality is back, but I still can't get Xine to stay open now. sigh I done broke it, I think. Any ideas how to bring life back to Xine? It played my DVDs the best of the bunch. Sorry for the delay in replying. I have the savage4. From reading the probo.com site again it seems that some things on the Savage 2000 are still broken. I suppose eventually it will get sorted out. 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] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++
I want to get back into learning to program in C/C++, but want to do so in Linux. I am a bit comfused about library and program conflicts, so I am asking anyone with experience in programming within Linux to recommend the best overall GUI-driven program(s) that would track well with SAMS books that are referring to M$ Visual C++ in the learning process. I think text-editor creation and command-line compiling for me is a down the road thing. I have looked through the 8.2 and 9.0 download distribution (3 CD set), but I am not sure of what I am looking for, or what libraries and supporting apps need to be loaded to get a complete, working programming environment. TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] linux documentation!?
Hi all! Anybody knows where i could find linux documentation (pdf or anything else) besides www.tldp.org I am trying to make a library of books that i can't afford to buy from the stores! thanks a lot! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MD5SUMS
If, md5sum psyche-i386-disc1.iso returns, b087f9c628bfb5e2c69b05424c65b731 psyche-i386-disc1.iso does it mean it has failed, when, d7b16b081c20708dc0dd7d41793a4177 psyche-i386-disc1.iso is the key supplied. Ought not there to be some explanation ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] linux documentation!?
Mandrake Linux allows you to download PDFs (user guide reference guide) from their web site. There are other PDFs available for free such as advanced Linux programming, Linux administration... Contact me offline if you want me to mail them to you. Tadimeti Kesav KEANE INDIA Ltd. E9 - E12, SDF NEPZ NOIDA - 201 305 U.P, INDIA Telefon: +91-120-456 8210 (211) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dimitris Adamopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 4:12 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] linux documentation!? Hi all! Anybody knows where i could find linux documentation (pdf or anything else) besides www.tldp.org I am trying to make a library of books that i can't afford to buy from the stores! thanks a lot! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++
Hi, there are several options. You can use KDEVELOP as a GUI under X, or RHIDE which is a character oriented console IDE, like BORLAND's TURBO C or TURBO PASCAL. Another possibility is BORLAND's KYLIX3 which support C/C++, not only DELPHI/PASCAL. Béla - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++ I want to get back into learning to program in C/C++, but want to do so in Linux. I am a bit comfused about library and program conflicts, so I am asking anyone with experience in programming within Linux to recommend the best overall GUI-driven program(s) that would track well with SAMS books that are referring to M$ Visual C++ in the learning process. I think text-editor creation and command-line compiling for me is a down the road thing. I have looked through the 8.2 and 9.0 download distribution (3 CD set), but I am not sure of what I am looking for, or what libraries and supporting apps need to be loaded to get a complete, working programming environment. TIA, T 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] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++
Béla, Thanks for such a speedy reply! Here's what I have currently loaded and showing off of the 'Development' menu of KDE (MDK 9.0): Off of 'Development environments' Glade IDLE Off of 'Tools' Bug-buddy Cervasia (CVS Frontend) Gdb KBabel (Translation Tool) Kbabel - Catalog Manager KBabel - Dictionary KBugBuster (KDE Bug Management) Kdbg Kompare (Diff/Patch Frontend) I have no idea what most of these are for; my guess is that some are for developing the KDE environment and others are related to some acts of programming (debugging tools.) I do not see KDevelop under any of my menu choices, so I must not have picked it when I was choosing what packages to install. Am I assuming correctly that by installing that program, all necessary applications that support it will be also installed, like a dependency? I will check into Rhide, but would rather stay away from console-level management of my programming until I am comfortable with my skills and understanding of the creation process. Otherwise, I would be able to use the GNU stuff that is so readily available, right? Is Kylix3 a commercial product that will need to be purchased? I have never known Borland to ever give anything away for free. I will do a Web search on this, as well. Thanks, Béla. I have a starting point. If you have any follow-up suggestions, or new ideas, please let me know! :-) (You can send that via my email address, unless someone else is interested in this?) T Bela Markus wrote: Hi, there are several options. You can use KDEVELOP as a GUI under X, or RHIDE which is a character oriented console IDE, like BORLAND's TURBO C or TURBO PASCAL. Another possibility is BORLAND's KYLIX3 which support C/C++, not only DELPHI/PASCAL. Béla - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++ I want to get back into learning to program in C/C++, but want to do so in Linux. I am a bit comfused about library and program conflicts, so I am asking anyone with experience in programming within Linux to recommend the best overall GUI-driven program(s) that would track well with SAMS books that are referring to M$ Visual C++ in the learning process. I think text-editor creation and command-line compiling for me is a down the road thing. I have looked through the 8.2 and 9.0 download distribution (3 CD set), but I am not sure of what I am looking for, or what libraries and supporting apps need to be loaded to get a complete, working programming environment. TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] log analyzer for squid? can't get calamaris to work
i have my transparent proxy working now (thanks in no small part to the generous of some you on this list) ... all that remains to be done now is to find a log analyzer that works ... i've tried calamaris running from webmin, but i can't get it to display my logs ... i've set the path for my log to var/log/squid/access.log, but it's not working ? is calamaris installed by default? how can i find out if it's running? does anyone know what i'm doing wrong? thanks in advance ... __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.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
I finally got around to installing my external Zip 100 drive to one of my MDK boxes... Before I tried to manually install it on my MDK 8.2 computer, I looked at several references, one of which from Iomega's own Web site (you pointed me there, indirectly.) Those instructions conflicted a bit with another set that came up as a high score in Google for what I was looking for. I tried it both ways, neither of which helped me get the drive to be recognized. I eventually ended up reinstalling 8.2 because I think I may have messed up my symlinks and got so terribly confused. On install, 8.2 found the drive and took care of everything for me. Phew! I have been following the numerous supermount problems others have been having in the listserv, so I know that it can get flaky. Here's what I noticed on mine: 1) If I try to do a listing of the contents of a newly inserted Zip disk from the console prompt, it either tells me there is an 'input/output error' or that the device does not exist. Which one depends on whether I have accessed the drive through X-windows prior to doing this at the console level or not. 2) If I go into KDE and click on the Zip drive icon, it tells me I do not have permission to access the device. 3) If I then go into Konqueror and try to access '/mnt/zip', it happily does so without a problem. As long as I switch to another folder outside of '/mnt', switch my zip disks, then go back into '/mnt/zip', Konqueror has no problems automounting the disks as I change them. 4) Once I exit out to the console level, doing a listing gives me the error as stated in 1). However, I can CD over to the Zip disk and do a listing easily enough. I guess it comes down to knowing the rules of the game, huh? Have you noticed about the same, Sharrea? T Sharrea wrote: On Sunday 20 Oct 2002 10:01 am, Technoslick wrote: So, your external zip drive was automatically recognized during install? Is it USB or parallel port? I have an old parallel port zip drive that I have cursed as much as used in the past. (really don't like the things) I haven't interacted much with Iomega, so I can't complain about them. I was just never impressed with the way their software always screwed up my printers and caused what seemed like random lock-ups... I wonder if it would be worth giving it a go in Linux? Does yours work pretty reliable under MDK? Mine is an old parallel port zip drive (250MB) and yeah, I don't like my zip drive much either... too slow. However it works flawlessly in linux, no problems whatsoever. A few months back Tom (at least I think it was Tom) had suggested mounting your zip drive somewhere other than under the /mnt dir so you don't have to wait while the zip disk is read when browsing other mounted devices in the /mnt dir. Seems like a good idea to me, I just haven't gotten around to doing so. Actually, I'll go do it right now! Get back to us if you have any problems installing your zip drive. Sharrea 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] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++
On October 24, 2002 06:33 am, Technoslick wrote: Another good GUI/IDE is anjuta. It's in the contrib section. I used it a lot when I was parallel compiling in Visual C++ and Linux. Béla, Thanks for such a speedy reply! Here's what I have currently loaded and showing off of the 'Development' menu of KDE (MDK 9.0): Off of 'Development environments' Glade IDLE Off of 'Tools' Bug-buddy Cervasia (CVS Frontend) Gdb KBabel (Translation Tool) Kbabel - Catalog Manager KBabel - Dictionary KBugBuster (KDE Bug Management) Kdbg Kompare (Diff/Patch Frontend) I have no idea what most of these are for; my guess is that some are for developing the KDE environment and others are related to some acts of programming (debugging tools.) I do not see KDevelop under any of my menu choices, so I must not have picked it when I was choosing what packages to install. Am I assuming correctly that by installing that program, all necessary applications that support it will be also installed, like a dependency? I will check into Rhide, but would rather stay away from console-level management of my programming until I am comfortable with my skills and understanding of the creation process. Otherwise, I would be able to use the GNU stuff that is so readily available, right? Is Kylix3 a commercial product that will need to be purchased? I have never known Borland to ever give anything away for free. I will do a Web search on this, as well. Thanks, Béla. I have a starting point. If you have any follow-up suggestions, or new ideas, please let me know! :-) (You can send that via my email address, unless someone else is interested in this?) T Bela Markus wrote: Hi, there are several options. You can use KDEVELOP as a GUI under X, or RHIDE which is a character oriented console IDE, like BORLAND's TURBO C or TURBO PASCAL. Another possibility is BORLAND's KYLIX3 which support C/C++, not only DELPHI/PASCAL. Béla - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++ I want to get back into learning to program in C/C++, but want to do so in Linux. I am a bit comfused about library and program conflicts, so I am asking anyone with experience in programming within Linux to recommend the best overall GUI-driven program(s) that would track well with SAMS books that are referring to M$ Visual C++ in the learning process. I think text-editor creation and command-line compiling for me is a down the road thing. I have looked through the 8.2 and 9.0 download distribution (3 CD set), but I am not sure of what I am looking for, or what libraries and supporting apps need to be loaded to get a complete, working programming environment. TIA, T - --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sylpheed - how to send?
Nothing but problems these days. Hearing that pine is deprecated for Mandrake 9+ I thought I should try to get used to a graphical client and Sylpheed seemed the best bet. It seems awkward after over 10 years of the simplicity of pine, but it is time to join the 21st century community I guess. Postfix is running fine and picks up incoming mail no bother once kppp has connected (and boy is that slow! over a minute compared with the 4 or 5 seconds using a homegrown chat script on my old machine). Sylpheed incorporates the messages OK. The trouble comes when posting to the outside world. An error occurred is reported; no indication what. However, it might be related to the configuration for SMTP servwer (send). What should that be? The manual is too terse to be useful. postfix did not work. My .pinerc file lists smtp-server=localhost, so I tried that. Still no joy. There are a lot of Sylpheed users out there - how did you do it? Waiting hopefully -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++
Thanks for the referral. I took a look at the Anjuti Web site. Very cool looking interface! I will probably stay away from it right now because it is very beta and I wouldn't know as yet whether a problem was my poor programming, ignorance, a program bug, or a combination of all the above. :-) This is what I am looking for, though. Worth checking back to , now and then. It looks like it will be an awesome app when nearly finished. Thanks again. T Spencer wrote: On October 24, 2002 06:33 am, Technoslick wrote: Another good GUI/IDE is anjuta. It's in the contrib section. I used it a lot when I was parallel compiling in Visual C++ and Linux. Béla, Thanks for such a speedy reply! Here's what I have currently loaded and showing off of the 'Development' menu of KDE (MDK 9.0): Off of 'Development environments' Glade IDLE Off of 'Tools' Bug-buddy Cervasia (CVS Frontend) Gdb KBabel (Translation Tool) Kbabel - Catalog Manager KBabel - Dictionary KBugBuster (KDE Bug Management) Kdbg Kompare (Diff/Patch Frontend) I have no idea what most of these are for; my guess is that some are for developing the KDE environment and others are related to some acts of programming (debugging tools.) I do not see KDevelop under any of my menu choices, so I must not have picked it when I was choosing what packages to install. Am I assuming correctly that by installing that program, all necessary applications that support it will be also installed, like a dependency? I will check into Rhide, but would rather stay away from console-level management of my programming until I am comfortable with my skills and understanding of the creation process. Otherwise, I would be able to use the GNU stuff that is so readily available, right? Is Kylix3 a commercial product that will need to be purchased? I have never known Borland to ever give anything away for free. I will do a Web search on this, as well. Thanks, Béla. I have a starting point. If you have any follow-up suggestions, or new ideas, please let me know! :-) (You can send that via my email address, unless someone else is interested in this?) T Bela Markus wrote: Hi, there are several options. You can use KDEVELOP as a GUI under X, or RHIDE which is a character oriented console IDE, like BORLAND's TURBO C or TURBO PASCAL. Another possibility is BORLAND's KYLIX3 which support C/C++, not only DELPHI/PASCAL. Béla - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] GUI-driven Complier/IDE for C/C++ I want to get back into learning to program in C/C++, but want to do so in Linux. I am a bit comfused about library and program conflicts, so I am asking anyone with experience in programming within Linux to recommend the best overall GUI-driven program(s) that would track well with SAMS books that are referring to M$ Visual C++ in the learning process. I think text-editor creation and command-line compiling for me is a down the road thing. I have looked through the 8.2 and 9.0 download distribution (3 CD set), but I am not sure of what I am looking for, or what libraries and supporting apps need to be loaded to get a complete, working programming environment. TIA, T - --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lexmark Z25
I'm trying to get one of these to work for a friend with little success, I d/l the linux tarball from lexmark and installed it, also installed enscript which it apparently needs but then nothing, can anyone offer any suggestions please. MD 9.0 BTW -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MLdonkey
Miark wrote: This is strictly in the context of eDonkey 2000, but 1) Visit http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mldonkey/stable/ 2) Download the tarball that applies to you. 3) Untar it. 4) cd into the directory, and run ./mldonkey_gui Miark Please can you explain , this is not for ordinary dialup modem connection then ? What is edonkey ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MLdonkey
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Please can you explain , this is not for ordinary dialup modem connection then ? You can use it on a dial-up connection. What is edonkey ? Peer-to-peer filesharing. Check out http://www.edonkey2000.com/ Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MLdonkey
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: There are RPMs for MLDonkey 2.0 on PLF now. Neat--thanks. I tried it out but found the user interface incomprehensible. How do you use it? Perform a search under the Queries tab, and the results will come up on the Results tab. Double-click the file you want and monitor the download progress under the Downloads tab. I never use the last four tabs or the Friends tab. I'm not sure exactly what it does to stay connected to servers, but if you want it to scan more servers, click the Connect to More Servers button under the server tab. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE
On October 24, 2002 01:02 pm, Charlie wrote: On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:27 pm, Tony Castro wrote: Norton Ghost would be able to clone your whole hard drive onto the bigger one. I use occasionally to image my hard drive and i've never had problems with it. snip That's correct Tony; it probably would do the job and cause no grief. But for a few minor sticking points: 1.) I'll never tell a user they need to buy proprietary software to accomplish a task that can be done for free using freely available existing tools. The reason is my own but simply put; I don't know whether the budget of the original poster has the flexibility to buy an utility that may only be used once, and not all demo versions of software will accomplish the task(s) required. 2.) Norton Ghost may be quality software; and work adequately well for most people, and give no grief, except it's _Windows software_ and I've seen Windows screw things up just because my face didn't display the correct expression. Or hadn't bowed to the southwest (from here anyway) and recite the Bill Gates is a God mantra three times. GNU/Linux will oops too at times, but that's usually a problem in the CTKI (chair to keyboard interface. *me* in other words) and doesn't usually commit suicide just because it's asked to work from a different address after it's been told the new address and has confirmed it knows the new address. DISCLAIMER: I don't use file sharing software but know some that do. I think it's bad form but that's just my opinion. 3.) If the answer to 1.) above is Are you kidding? I can download it free from KaZaa or edonkey and use it, I don't have to buy it!; I stop giving that individual any help with anything. Developers and programmers have to eat too. I don't think it's the right thing to do and will never advise it. Even as mildly distasteful as I find MS software and operating systems I try to help people that I know, but I won't help anyone that pirates a copy of anything. If they break it they're on their own and good luck to them. Just an opinion; and no I don't just run the download edition of Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSe (8.1 demo), whatever. I buy box sets when they're available and when I intend to continue using it after testing. That usually means every second release or more frequently. Very nicely put Charlie;))) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Preserving /home
i haven't had any problems with that part of upgrading except that a few desktop items lost their icons, and the mandrake control centre icon had the wrong path to drakconf, all fixable by right clicking on them and entering the correct info, i've run kmail, konqueror all okay so far bascule On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 7:23 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, I am about to install 9.0 on my current 8.2 box. I want to keep my /home partition intact. Will any of .kde directories affect the operation of the new KDE installation? I'd like to setup KDE from scratch. Or shall I just rename the directories and then re-install? TIA, Jord -- 'Why don't I feel angry?' GLANDS, said Death shortly. ADRENALIN AND SO FORTH. AND EMOTIONS. YOU DON'T HAVE THEM. ALL YOU HAVE NOW IS THOUGHT. (Wyrd Sisters) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE
On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:27 pm, Tony Castro wrote: Norton Ghost would be able to clone your whole hard drive onto the bigger one. I use occasionally to image my hard drive and i've never had problems with it. snip That's correct Tony; it probably would do the job and cause no grief. But for a few minor sticking points: 1.) I'll never tell a user they need to buy proprietary software to accomplish a task that can be done for free using freely available existing tools. The reason is my own but simply put; I don't know whether the budget of the original poster has the flexibility to buy an utility that may only be used once, and not all demo versions of software will accomplish the task(s) required. 2.) Norton Ghost may be quality software; and work adequately well for most people, and give no grief, except it's _Windows software_ and I've seen Windows screw things up just because my face didn't display the correct expression. Or hadn't bowed to the southwest (from here anyway) and recite the Bill Gates is a God mantra three times. GNU/Linux will oops too at times, but that's usually a problem in the CTKI (chair to keyboard interface. *me* in other words) and doesn't usually commit suicide just because it's asked to work from a different address after it's been told the new address and has confirmed it knows the new address. DISCLAIMER: I don't use file sharing software but know some that do. I think it's bad form but that's just my opinion. 3.) If the answer to 1.) above is Are you kidding? I can download it free from KaZaa or edonkey and use it, I don't have to buy it!; I stop giving that individual any help with anything. Developers and programmers have to eat too. I don't think it's the right thing to do and will never advise it. Even as mildly distasteful as I find MS software and operating systems I try to help people that I know, but I won't help anyone that pirates a copy of anything. If they break it they're on their own and good luck to them. Just an opinion; and no I don't just run the download edition of Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSe (8.1 demo), whatever. I buy box sets when they're available and when I intend to continue using it after testing. That usually means every second release or more frequently. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences: He who has the gold makes the rules. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VNC
installed VNC. How do I start up the programme? When I run Console VNCserver, i get the following message:[luclocalhost luc]$ vncserver Warning: localhost.thuis.com:1 is taken because of /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 Remove this file if there is no X server localhost.thuis.com:1 Warning: localhost.thuis.com:2 is taken because of /tmp/.X11-unix/X2 Remove this file if there is no X server localhost.thuis.com:2 New 'X' desktop is localhost.thuis.com:3 Starting applications specified in /home/luc/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /home/luc/.vnc/localhost.thuis.com:3.log [luclocalhost luc]$ Any ideas? _ Wil je je beveiligen tegen Ongewenste Post? Klik hier voor tips http://www.msn.nl/services/hotmail/ongewenst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux documentation!?
On Friday 25 Oct 2002 11:42 am, Dimitris Adamopoulos wrote: Anybody knows where i could find linux documentation (pdf or anything else) besides www.tldp.org I am trying to make a library of books that i can't afford to buy from the stores! http://www.linuxdoc.org has some good stuff. There's also the Linux Cookbook which a google search should find. 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] X, nVidia drivers ...
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Rainer wrote: Where can I find those old .29xx drivers? thanks. Go to http://www.nvidia.com/ Click on Download Drivers Click on Linux Display Drivers Choose second rather than first driver in list. That will take you to the download page for the 2960 driver files. Good luck! Dale Huckeby - Original Message - From: Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ... . . . OK, having said all that, many others have got the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 without a hitch. Oh, I'm so envious. I've had devfsd problems before, so anymore I just don't install it. I don't know if uninstalling it will have the same benefit, but it's worth a shot. Also, you've probably already been through this, but if you're using the nvidia 3123 drivers instead of 2960, that's likely your problem right there. The newer drivers screwed my and apparently some others' screens up good. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Preserving /home
Hi, I am about to install 9.0 on my current 8.2 box. I want to keep my /home partition intact. Will any of .kde directories affect the operation of the new KDE installation? I'd like to setup KDE from scratch. Or shall I just rename the directories and then re-install? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. --- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE
Norton Ghost would be able to clone your whole hard drive onto the bigger one. I use occasionally to image my hard drive and i've never had problems with it. --- Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 07:24 am, George Baker wrote: - Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE If it were mine I'd put the two CD drives on secondary IDE with CD-RW as master, and the hard drives on the primary as master and slave in whatever order you like. Depending whether you want to re-install your operating system of course. If not the 3.2 will have to stay as master on the primary IDE channel since most versions of Windows won't boot from anywhere else. I've heard that Laplink will clone your drive. If I understand this correctly I can clone my 3.2 gig HD to my new 30 gig HD and then make the 30 gig master and it should boot into Windows. Does this also clone Lilo and my MDK 7.0 partitions? If so it would be great but if it at least clones the Win partition that would be OK as I don't mind reinstalling MDK as I was going to upgrade to Ver 8.2 anyway. Any info would be appreciated. George Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi George; If you're going to reinstall Linux anyway you may be better served by installing the new hard drive and partitioning it with diskdrake (or whatever) being sure you preserve the first partition for Windows, then moving or copying any personal data you want to keep to a partition in that drive. Then wipe and reinstall the operating systems as you like after switching that drive to master on the primary IDE channel. I personally don't trust any software to move data or clone a drive, especially Windows software. I've seen too many people bitten that way. Having said that; the easiest and most reliable way I've seen to clone a Windows system to a new drive is run from DOS, not Windows. Make your partitions on the new drive, leaving room for Mandrake to work of course; then at the prompt in DOS using the tree command: XCOPY C:\ D:\/h/i/c/k/e/r/y/s There's a space between XCOPY and C:\; a space between C:\ and D:\ but NO spaces anywhere else. (the \/ looks as though it's a V but it is actually a backslash and a forward slash next to each other.) This process _must run in DOS_ not a DOS prompt. You know, from the command line. Then from your Windows bootdisk do fdisk and make the new drive active. It should act and appear the way the old one did, just a lot BIGGER. It's been a long time since I touched this kind of process; and my memory isn't what I would deem totally reliable. The syntax may be out of whack. :-) Or I am. But you should be able to preserve all of the files in any directory including the properties thereto (hidden, system, etc) and then be able to do a fresh Windows install on the new drive after appropriate selector switching (master IDE0) and use them to restore your configuration as it is now. I found this link that may help you with your 'cloning' questions and I (vaguely) recalled some of the information from (almost) three years ago; the last time I owned a machine running Windows anything. http://www.valink.com/jeep/harddrives.htm The tree command is on the site! Amazing, I'm not the only one to do it that way in the past apparently. http://www.valink.com/jeep/Harddrives/H-I-C-K-E-R-Y-S.htm Best of luck and I hope some of this stuff helps you. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know. -- Plato, Dialogs, Theateus 191 [Quoted in VMS Internals and Data Structures, V4.4, when referring to image activation and termination.] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Problems with C ++ compiling and LM 9
Just a guess, but I think the new style for includes leaves off the '.h'. #include iostream Good luck Gary -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Herndon Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:15 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Problems with C ++ compiling and LM 9 After upgrading to LM 9 - I tried to compile a test program using c++ and I'm getting an error like In File included from /usr/include/c++/3.2/backward/iostream.h:31, from hello.cpp:1; .#warning This file includes at least one deprecated or antiquated header.etc etc etc Does anyone know what this means? 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
If supermount were disabled, why would the Desktop icon open an unmounted drive? Wouldn't you 'have' to mount the drive, first? T snip Ugh. Its why I disabled supermount. Now I can just click on my Zip icon on my KDE desktop, and boom! up blows a window with the contents... snip 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 Thursday 24 October 2002 10:05 am, you wrote: I finally got around to installing my external Zip 100 drive to one of my MDK boxes... Ugh. Its why I disabled supermount. Now I can just click on my Zip icon on my KDE desktop, and boom! up blows a window with the contents. Or right click and use the mount option in the menu. Or from a shell type mount /mnt/zip. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Sharrea wrote: On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 4:52 pm, Rainer wrote: after using mdk 8.2 for almost 8 months, i still seem to be unable to get the x server and my nvidia card to coexist peacefully. it took me a couple of months to get it to be relatively stable after the first install. i got the glx and kernel rpms at that time and i believe i had to reinstall the kernel drivers from tar.gz. my news readers still froze after this (pan, mozilla, knode) but the rest seemed alright. recently, i had to reinstall mdk 8.2. i got the latest drivers and my x server won't start at all. checked all the documentation i could find, nvidia readme, mandrake user nvidia section and i'm still at a loss, the config-4 file was fine. after spending about 10 hours on this the easiest thing to do seems to be to reinstall. but i don't want to go through that again unless i have a pretty good idea about what the problem is, and a relatively straight forward solution (this is a newbie speaking!) does 9.0 deal better with the nvidia geforce2 mx/mx 400? i installed red hat 8.0 and the graphics are rock solid so far. i would like to continue with mandrake because i've spent some time with it and know it better but not at the expense of a monitor that freezes regularly. i'd appreciate an honest answer, i know how these distribution biases color peoples judgement. thanks Firstly, I apologise for the long message. rant Well... today I have just spent from 7.15am to 6.45pm (minus 1/2 hour lunch break) trying to get the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 AND STILL NO GO! Didn't have a problem in 8.1. I have been trying to get the drivers working on and off for weeks! I ended up installing RH7.3 (dual boot) just so I can play Quake3 and UT2003. I've tried (and retried each many times), the club rpms, source rpms and the tarballs. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but I'm using the enterprise kernel (1024 MB RAM). I did get the club enterprise rpm with urpmi. After installing the drivers (and editing XF86Config-4) I can start FluxBox, BlackBox, Enlightenment, etc but I can't start Gnome or KDE (I use KDE). I get the following error when trying to start KDE as root or user: msg There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. Tthe message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list: /home/sharrea/.DCOPserver_tbird.tux.nz__0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running! /msg Then the system takes forever to try to recover when I CTRL+ALT+Backspace but it usually ends up hanging and I use the ALT+SysRq combinations to end process, sync and reboot. Also the KDE apps like kedit, kmail, etc won't run in the other WMs but I can play tuxracer and UT2003. I checked (many times) that the libglx*, libGL.so* and libGLcore* files are installed correctly. I tried all the different options for NvAGP and added all sorts of things to /etc/modules.conf. One thing I noticed is that I only have nvidia0 and nvidiactl in the /dev dir (I don't get nvidia1, nvidia2 or nvidia3, etc). And another thing I noticed is that stopping the devfsd service on boot and editing /etc/lilo.conf to devfs=nomount (+ running /sbin/lilo afterwards) then rebooting doesn't stop devfsd from starting at boot! I've been searching all over the net for answers and trying suggestions given to others with a similar problem but like I said, no go. Anyway I've rebooted and shutdown about 30-40 times today and I've just about had enough so I think I'll just give up on the nvidia drivers for 9.0. Guess I'll just have to use RH : ( /rant OK, having said all that, many others have got the nvidia drivers working in 9.0 without a hitch. Oh, I'm so envious. I've had devfsd problems before, so anymore I just don't install it. I don't know if uninstalling it will have the same benefit, but it's worth a shot. Also, you've probably already been through this, but if you're using the nvidia 3123 drivers instead of 2960, that's likely your problem right there. The newer drivers screwed my and apparently some others' screens up good. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Preserving /home
On Thursday 24 October 2002 22:08, bascule wrote: i haven't had any problems with that part of upgrading except that a few desktop items lost their icons, and the mandrake control centre icon had the wrong path to drakconf, all fixable by right clicking on them and entering the correct info, i've run kmail, konqueror all okay so far bascule I noticed the same thing and had to change some icons info by adding /usr/bin/ or /usr/sbin/. Strangely enough, after a while they stopped working. Changing the info back to the original cleared that again..go figure?!?!?!? That's about only mishap I had using the 'upgrade' option and frankly this is the first time I've ever upgraded that easily. Standard procedure uptonow: try to upgrade and then repair the mess by doing a new install anyway whilst keeping the former /home partition as home-old.:o) That's progress for ya! Good luck, Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Preserving /home
Thanks for everyones replies. I think I will backup. If I have problems you'll probably here from me again ;-) Cheers, Jord On Thursday 24 October 2002 7:57 pm, Gavin Rollins wrote: On Friday 25 October 2002 03:23 am, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, I am about to install 9.0 on my current 8.2 box. I want to keep my /home partition intact. Will any of .kde directories affect the operation of the new KDE installation? I'd like to setup KDE from scratch. Or shall I just rename the directories and then re-install? TIA, Jord Jord, I'm sure most people on the list will tell you (as they told me..BACK YOUR IMPORTANT FILES UP FIRST!!) can't stress that enough. Next, It's always best to do a FRESH install.. some files might not want to play with each other.. even though they're from the same house...past experience here. Remember, Fresh is always best!! Hope This Helped a bit! good luck!! -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is... :-) --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RedHat email support
On Thursday 24 October 2002 03:49 pm, Robert Beach wrote: Just curious if anyone here knows what the support email address for RedHat Linux would be? Can't seem to find it on Redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/ -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org What!? Me worry? -- Alfred E. Newman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
I just installed ML9. During setup I choose the option of a single user. I set the root correctly, etc. (I had M* so I just repeated what I'd previously setup) Now, on boot, the sys gets to the user login prompt and stops. It does not proceed to open the program. So, after giving al the time it wants and when nothing happens other than a few murmurs from the HD, I enter my user name joe enter password: (I enter my password) and hit enter I get a prompt [joelocalhost joe]$ followed by a blinking cursor and a cursing user. So what does the sys want? And why does it not proceed to autoboot as M8 used to? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed - how to send?
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:22:28 +0100 (BST) Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing but problems these days. Hearing that pine is deprecated for Mandrake 9+ I thought I should try to get used to a graphical client and Sylpheed seemed the best bet. It seems awkward after over 10 years of the simplicity of pine, but it is time to join the 21st century community I guess. Postfix is running fine and picks up incoming mail no bother once kppp has connected (and boy is that slow! over a minute compared with the 4 or 5 seconds using a homegrown chat script on my old machine). Sylpheed incorporates the messages OK. The trouble comes when posting to the outside world. An error occurred is reported; no indication what. However, it might be related to the configuration for SMTP servwer (send). What should that be? The manual is too terse to be useful. postfix did not work. My .pinerc file lists smtp-server=localhost, so I tried that. Still no joy. There are a lot of Sylpheed users out there - how did you do it? Waiting hopefully Just go to Configuration Preferences for Current Account Basic and under Server Information select None (local) and for SMTP server (send) give your domain. I'm using Sylpheed-Claws 0.8.2, but I think that config doesn't change much from version to version. HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:13:45 -0400 Joe Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed ML9. During setup I choose the option of a single user. I set the root correctly, etc. (I had M* so I just repeated what I'd previously setup) Now, on boot, the sys gets to the user login prompt and stops. It does not proceed to open the program. So, after giving al the time it wants and when nothing happens other than a few murmurs from the HD, I enter my user name joe enter password: (I enter my password) and hit enter I get a prompt [joe@localhost joe]@$ followed by a blinking cursor and a cursing user. So what does the sys want? And why does it not proceed to autoboot as M8 used to? startx? (Speaking about 8.2--go to the control center boot boot configuration and check automatically start x or something to that effect. At least I think that addresses your problem.) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC
ivette brusselmans, Thursday 24 October 2002 20:15: installed VNC. How do I start up the programme? When I run Console VNCserver, i get the following message:[luclocalhost luc]$ vncserver Warning: localhost.thuis.com:1 is taken because of /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 Remove this file if there is no X server localhost.thuis.com:1 Warning: localhost.thuis.com:2 is taken because of /tmp/.X11-unix/X2 Remove this file if there is no X server localhost.thuis.com:2 New 'X' desktop is localhost.thuis.com:3 Starting applications specified in /home/luc/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /home/luc/.vnc/localhost.thuis.com:3.log [luclocalhost luc]$ Any ideas? I think it /is/ starting. Find out with ps -A|grep vnc. Delete those lock files in /tmp/.X11-unix/ and restart it so it will run on X server 1. I launch it with: $vncserver -depth 16 -geometry 800x600 On the other box I do: $vncviewer server i.p.:1 Also, I think /etc/X11/kdm/Xaccess needs a * on one line. RichardA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmails New Mail Beep
On Thursday 24 October 2002 05:20 am, you said, and I quote: On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:42:41 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to replace the annoying 'beep' with You've Got Mail but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it. Any help would be appreciated. -- Regards Chris Settings configure kmail network receiving new mail notification check execute command line and uncheck beep :-) If you are using KDE's artsd soundserver this is a possible command: artsplay something.wav. HTH, -Frans Thanks works great. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org 5:55pm up 3 days, 33 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.14, 0.14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Preserving /home
Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, I am about to install 9.0 on my current 8.2 box. I want to keep my /home partition intact. Will any of .kde directories affect the operation of the new KDE installation? I'd like to setup KDE from scratch. Or shall I just rename the directories and then re-install? I had no problems installing 9.0 with 8.1 home directories. Sir Robin -- A free man ought not to learn anything under duress. Compulsory physical exercise does no harm to the body, but compulsory learning never sticks in the mind. - Plato Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice....
If you installed OO from the .tar.gz file, it installed in the directory you specified, most likely under /usr/share/OpenOffice.org or something like that. The problem is that that directory is not in your path. You have two solutions, either add it to your path or create symlinks under /usr/bin (which is in your path). Actually, there is a third option - download and use the Mandrake RPMS for OO and you won't have to worry about it. The links will show in your menu and the program files will be in /usr/bin. Joeb On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:06:47 -0400 Ralph M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so if I want to make my own menu items, say for the sake of argument I want to use BlackBox...where are the binaries for these? I can't seem to find them...I guess I'm just looking in the wrong places? -Original Message- From: BCSoft@TowerTraining [mailto:bcsoft;towertraining.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice I installed OO from the .tar.gz file and can run it if I go to the directory it is in but when I try to use the menu editor to put a (what shortcut, alias?) on the menu bar I get an error message saying the executable can't be found. Won't the K menu (yep, using KDE) handle a script? R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice On Wednesday 23 Oct 2002 1:12 pm, DaveA wrote: Hi y'all. Just installed my first program - OpenOffice 1.0.1 (and learnt heaps along the way!) Being a refugee from the Windoze world, and VERY new to Linux, I sort of expected that the install would automatically create some shortcuts in the Start Menu, but I can's see anything. Maybe I need to logout and back in or somethin'? TIA, DaveA. It would do if you had installed OpenOffice 1.0.1 from the RPM on your 9.0 install CD. But if you install from the .tar.gz file from OpenOffice.org it will not. The Mandrake RPM version will also be better at picking up system fonts, and printers. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
At 06:19 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: startx? (Speaking about 8.2--go to the control center boot boot configuration and check automatically start x or something to that effect. At least I think that addresses your problem.) Thanks. It's a start. (no pun intended) What it startx got me was a series of lines . . . xauth: creating new authority for /joe/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority for /joe/.Xauthority xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2) :unable to connect to server xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error [joelocalhost joe]$ In other words, it return me to the prompt at which I entered startx. I suspect this the new issue arises because I had work done on my computer and got it back only yesterday. I run Win on the Primary HD. Before that work, the prinary drive was (and remains hdda) slave drive was partitioned as hdd1 through hdd6. The work included installing a CD R/W and the techie installed it as hdd. The slave drive is now hdb. When I installed M9, I only put it on /, leaving /home and the swap as they had been in order under M8 to save the data on /home. So it that configuration the cause of the inability to find /joe/home? Or am I off the mark? Can you suggest how I can fix the problem? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SLIGHT CORRECTION what does it want . . . and why?
Correction: I left out the /home. xauth: creating new authority for /home/joe/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority for /home/joe/.Xauthority xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2) :unable to connect to server xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error [joelocalhost joe]$ In other words, it return me to the prompt at which I entered startx. I suspect this the new issue arises because I had work done on my computer and got it back only yesterday. I run Win on the Primary HD. Before that work, the primary drive was (and remains) hda - ALSO CORRECTED - not hdda - slave drive was partitioned as hdd1 through hdd6. The work included installing a CD R/W and the techie installed it as hdd. The slave drive is now hdb. When I installed M9, I only put it on /, leaving /home and the swap as they had been in order under M8 to save the data on /home. So it that configuration the cause of the inability to find /joe/home? Or am I off the mark? Can you suggest how I can fix the problem? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:18:40 -0400 Joe Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:19 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: startx? (Speaking about 8.2--go to the control center boot boot configuration and check automatically start x or something to that effect. At least I think that addresses your problem.) Thanks. It's a start. (no pun intended) What it startx got me was a series of lines . . . xauth: creating new authority for /joe/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority for /joe/.Xauthority xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2) :unable to connect to server xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error [joe@localhost joe]$ In other words, it return me to the prompt at which I entered startx. I suspect this the new issue arises because I had work done on my computer and got it back only yesterday. I run Win on the Primary HD. Before that work, the prinary drive was (and remains hdda) slave drive was partitioned as hdd1 through hdd6. The work included installing a CD R/W and the techie installed it as hdd. The slave drive is now hdb. When I installed M9, I only put it on /, leaving /home and the swap as they had been in order under M8 to save the data on /home. So it that configuration the cause of the inability to find /joe/home? Or am I off the mark? Can you suggest how I can fix the problem? You're getting beyond my level of experience, but it sounds like you have a problem with the X server. I'd probably try to repair the install, but I'll defer to others here who have more expertise. Sorry :( Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
On October 24, 2002 04:18 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: At 06:19 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: startx? (Speaking about 8.2--go to the control center boot boot configuration and check automatically start x or something to that effect. At least I think that addresses your problem.) Thanks. It's a start. (no pun intended) What it startx got me was a series of lines . . . xauth: creating new authority for /joe/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority for /joe/.Xauthority xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2) :unable to connect to server xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error [joelocalhost joe]$ In other words, it return me to the prompt at which I entered startx. I suspect this the new issue arises because I had work done on my computer and got it back only yesterday. I run Win on the Primary HD. Before that work, the prinary drive was (and remains hdda) slave drive was partitioned as hdd1 through hdd6. The work included installing a CD R/W and the techie installed it as hdd. The slave drive is now hdb. When I installed M9, I only put it on /, leaving /home and the swap as they had been in order under M8 to save the data on /home. So it that configuration the cause of the inability to find /joe/home? Or am I off the mark? Can you suggest how I can fix the problem? TIA I don't know if it will help but we'll try. It sounds like when they installed your burner, they scrambled the location of your partitions. As root do the following. Type 'dmesg' in console. This will give you your exact location of harddrives,cd and burner. Still in console, type 'df -t'. This will give you the location of your partitions. Have a look at /etc/fstab. Does fstab agree with df -t? If not, you can edit fstab with vi. Now if that scares the hell out of you, identify exactly where your /home partition is, re-install ML9 leaving /home untouched. This will also re-establish your X-server (plus give you support for the new burner if you didn't have one before). Good luck and let us know how you make out. Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
At 05:35 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: I don't know if it will help but we'll try. It sounds like when they installed your burner, they scrambled the location of your partitions. As root do the following. Type 'dmesg' in console. Can't do that. Please keep in mind that attempts to boot are not completed. I never get to past the login prompt. Or am I missing something? Is what you describe something that can be done by interrupting booting at some point before that? Thanks, Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
On October 24, 2002 05:58 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: At 05:35 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: I don't know if it will help but we'll try. It sounds like when they installed your burner, they scrambled the location of your partitions. As root do the following. Type 'dmesg' in console. Can't do that. Please keep in mind that attempts to boot are not completed. I never get to past the login prompt. Or am I missing something? Is what you describe something that can be done by interrupting booting at some point before that? Thanks, Joe You can do all of it from the login prompt. When you have the prompt, login as root. Keep in mind that you don't have X so you're automatically in console . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
At 06:05 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: You can do all of it from the login prompt. When you have the prompt, login as root. Keep in mind that you don't have X so you're automatically in console . here's what I get: localhost login: root password: (pw entered) [rootlocalhost root]# (long list of lines, none of which mention hard drives, cd, burner or at least nothing that I recognize as such) followed by: [rootlocalhost root]# dmesg (enter) -bash: df-t: command not found [rootlocalhost root]# By the way, please tell me how to shut down from the root or local prompt without turning off the machine. I've tried quit, exit, q and a whole bunch of familiar shutdown hoepfuls, none of which work. Anyway, as you can see, I'm either not understanding what you are suggesting and not following your advice correctly or something else is happening that isn't supposed to. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
On October 24, 2002 06:35 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: At 06:05 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: You can do all of it from the login prompt. When you have the prompt, login as root. Keep in mind that you don't have X so you're automatically in console . here's what I get: localhost login: root password: (pw entered) [rootlocalhost root]# (long list of lines, none of which mention hard drives, cd, burner or at least nothing that I recognize as such) followed by: [rootlocalhost root]# dmesg (enter) -bash: df-t: command not found [rootlocalhost root]# By the way, please tell me how to shut down from the root or local prompt without turning off the machine. I've tried quit, exit, q and a whole bunch of familiar shutdown hoepfuls, none of which work. Anyway, as you can see, I'm either not understanding what you are suggesting and not following your advice correctly or something else is happening that isn't supposed to. Thanks Alt/Ctrl Backspace should get you back to login. While in root, try startx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
They will be listed as hda through hdd -- it'll look something like: hda: Maxtor 90645D3, ATA DISK drive hdb: MAXTOR 4K060H3, ATA DISK drive hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6302B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: MAXTOR 4K060H3, ATA DISK drive By the way, it's 'df -T' (with a space between the 'df' and the '-T'). The output of this will look something like: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 ext2 1027768129432846128 14% / none tmpfs 321448 0321448 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdb1 reiserfs58631516 8326104 50305412 15% /home /dev/hdd1 reiserfs58631516 30413992 28217524 52% /isos /dev/hda6 reiserfs 3068280 2593576474704 85% /usr /dev/hda7 reiserfs 1662640131240 1531400 8% /var Type in 'shutdown -h now' (and yes, there is a space between 'shutdown' and '-h' and '-h' and 'now'.) to shutdown your computer. Depending on your security level, you may have to be logged in as root to do so. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online At 09:35 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: At 06:05 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: You can do all of it from the login prompt. When you have the prompt, login as root. Keep in mind that you don't have X so you're automatically in console . here's what I get: localhost login: root password: (pw entered) [rootlocalhost root]# (long list of lines, none of which mention hard drives, cd, burner or at least nothing that I recognize as such) followed by: [rootlocalhost root]# dmesg (enter) -bash: df-t: command not found [rootlocalhost root]# By the way, please tell me how to shut down from the root or local prompt without turning off the machine. I've tried quit, exit, q and a whole bunch of familiar shutdown hoepfuls, none of which work. Anyway, as you can see, I'm either not understanding what you are suggesting and not following your advice correctly or something else is happening that isn't supposed to. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
On October 24, 2002 06:35 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: At 06:05 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: You can do all of it from the login prompt. When you have the prompt, login as root. Keep in mind that you don't have X so you're automatically in console . here's what I get: localhost login: root password: (pw entered) [rootlocalhost root]# (long list of lines, none of which mention hard drives, cd, burner or at least nothing that I recognize as such) followed by: [rootlocalhost root]# dmesg (enter) -bash: df-t: command not found [rootlocalhost root]# By the way, please tell me how to shut down from the root or local prompt without turning off the machine. I've tried quit, exit, q and a whole bunch of familiar shutdown hoepfuls, none of which work. Anyway, as you can see, I'm either not understanding what you are suggesting and not following your advice correctly or something else is happening that isn't supposed to. Thanks I stand corrected. 'Exit should return you to login. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
On Friday 25 Oct 2002 2:35 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: snip By the way, please tell me how to shut down from the root or local prompt without turning off the machine. I've tried quit, exit, q and a whole bunch of familiar shutdown hoepfuls, none of which work. To shutdown, at the prompt just type: halt enter To reboot type: reboot enter 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] S3 Savage 2000 and XFree86 4.2.1 problems
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 16:16, Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 21 Octubre 2002 05:51, en shipahoy va escriure: My S3 Savage works well in Mandrake 9.0 with XFree 4.21 once you update to the latest 1.1.25t driver from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html. This driver solved the Zine hang for me and, even better, it adds xgamma. One (newbie) question: the make command doesn't compile the kernel... what should I run to compile it?? 8-) First you configure it using: make config OR make menuconfig OR make xconfig Then, here's the basic sequence of compile parameters that I use (some people use different ones): make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install Then copy the image (/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/bzImage - I think. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.) to your /boot (use a different name probably) and configure LILO/GRUB. TIA - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9twOMok8j9RhtetwRAiWOAJ455mAmDDk9UYDFHEJlXAak5AiFCgCfQ1lB SfXEAZfgj6WhvcVSCYXYH84= =9ccY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Problems with C ++ compiling and LM 9
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 13:02, Gary Armstrong wrote: Just a guess, but I think the new style for includes leaves off the '.h'. #include iostream I think so, but there are reasons to use the .h. i.e. the iomanip library. If you're using the APSTRING class (Advanced Placement Computer Science course - College level course taken in High School), which includes iostream, and conflicts with namespace std, you can't use #include iomanip, because you'd need to declare namespace std, but there's a conflict. If you use #include iomanip.h, a namespace declaration is not needed, so... There are reasons for depreciated headers. Good luck Gary -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Herndon Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:15 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Problems with C ++ compiling and LM 9 After upgrading to LM 9 - I tried to compile a test program using c++ and I'm getting an error like In File included from /usr/include/c++/3.2/backward/iostream.h:31, from hello.cpp:1; .#warning This file includes at least one deprecated or antiquated header.etc etc etc Does anyone know what this means? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dedicated firewall machine
Hi everyone I've got a spare Pentium 200 collecting dust at the moment so I decided to turn it into my gateway box for my home machine.It's got I think what's needed to run Mandrake 9.0, i.e. 64 MB of RAM, 2 Gig disk and an adequate CPU (I think) plus 2 spare NICs I can use (although one is a USB one). Can anyone point me to a place where I can read up on how to go about setting up a gateway box with a single purpose in life of being my firewall or maybe briefly outline what I need to do? A couple of words about my main machine - it's a dual boot Mandrake 9.0/Win XP Pro, I use both systems for my work (Photoshop, Flash on XP) so I guess I need Samba to be running when I'm using XP, I'm connected via a cable through DHCP, I'm planning to run Apache from time to time for testing (I do web development) but no other usual services, they will be all shut down. Any suggestions? Thanks Nikolai PS - my cable connection came with an USB NIC and I had no luck making it work, back then I was running Mandrake 8.2, so I had to replace it with something less fancy. Now I'm wondering, since I'm running Mandrake 9 now if that USB NIC is supported now. It's an SMC 2206 USB/Eth thingy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
snip By the way, please tell me how to shut down from the root or local prompt without turning off the machine. I've tried quit, exit, q and a whole bunch of familiar shutdown hoepfuls, none of which work. Anyway, as you can see, I'm either not understanding what you are suggesting and not following your advice correctly or something else is happening that isn't supposed to. Thanks To shutdown, try typing shutdown now Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi
I have seen a couple mentions in news groups comparing urpmi to apt-get. I have debian on my other box just for learning reasons, and I cant see urpmi being even close. I have tried putting different sources on my list, but it either cant connect half the time or it cant get the required dependacies. Is there anyone with a sample urpmi setup that works well? Thanks, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?
On October 24, 2002 06:52 pm, Michael Viron wrote: They will be listed as hda through hdd -- it'll look something like: hda: Maxtor 90645D3, ATA DISK drive hdb: MAXTOR 4K060H3, ATA DISK drive hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6302B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: MAXTOR 4K060H3, ATA DISK drive By the way, it's 'df -T' (with a space between the 'df' and the '-T'). The output of this will look something like: Oh sigh. I keep forgetting if that option is upper or lower case. Thanks;) FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 ext2 1027768129432846128 14% / none tmpfs 321448 0321448 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdb1 reiserfs58631516 8326104 50305412 15% /home /dev/hdd1 reiserfs58631516 30413992 28217524 52% /isos /dev/hda6 reiserfs 3068280 2593576474704 85% /usr /dev/hda7 reiserfs 1662640131240 1531400 8% /var Type in 'shutdown -h now' (and yes, there is a space between 'shutdown' and '-h' and '-h' and 'now'.) to shutdown your computer. Depending on your security level, you may have to be logged in as root to do so. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MLdonkey
Hmmm Well What I was hoping for is, You see Rich, mldonkey is use for . and is really cool because it but you have to watch out for and it's free! Something like that. ;-) R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MLdonkey This is strictly in the context of eDonkey 2000, but 1) Visit http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mldonkey/stable/ 2) Download the tarball that applies to you. 3) Untar it. 4) cd into the directory, and run ./mldonkey_gui Miark BCSoft@TowerTraining [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Ok, explain what this is to me. I download a lot of stuff and would love the increased speed. R Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail
Actually, I want to create one of these, so I need to know how I access this file. --- Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Squirrelmail Is that what you are looking for ? http://www.squirrelmail.org/ derek On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 4:07 pm, Hot Karl wrote: I'm trying to create a web interface so I can retrieve my mail (kinda like AOL, Hotmail, etc.) The only problem I have is how to access my imap mail file. This is a file that only allows the owner to access it. My question is this: How do I access this file? TIA, Karl __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MLdonkey
So how is this related to the gnutella network? Rich John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Please can you explain , this is not for ordinary dialup modem connection then ? You can use it on a dial-up connection. What is edonkey ? Peer-to-peer filesharing. Check out http://www.edonkey2000.com/ Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
