[newbie-it] problema modem adsl digicom
Ciao a tutti ! Ho installato da poco la Mandrake 8.2, purtroppo non riesco a configurare il modem Digicom Michelangelo USB. Il programma di configurazione hardware lo vede con tanto di caratteristiche; ma quando provo a configurare la connessione adsl non lo mette tra le voci di modem da usare per la connessione.. Come fare ? Premetto ho appena cominciato a conoscere l'universo di Linux. Grazie a tutti ! ___ IncrediMail - il mondo della posta elettronica si è finalmente evoluto - Clicca Qui
[newbie-it] Proxy socks
Ho Mandrake 9 e lo utilizzo come proxy per una connessione ADSL condivisa da varie macchine. Il proxy è stato fatto utilizzando Squid, che purtroppo non supporta il protocollo socks e quindi addio a chat, winmx e varie. mi è stato detto di montare un server socks. qualcuno mi sa dire dove trovarlo e come installarlo? io ho scaricato una versione da www.nec.socks.com (forse l'indirizzo non è corretto) ma non so come installarlo. Mi hanno detto che devo scaricarne uno come RPM. Da dove? E poi come si installa? Grazie in anticipo per quanti vorranno rispondere!
Re: [newbie-it] accesso a partizioni... di altre distribuzioni
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:51:30 +0100 giamgax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buona giornata alla lista. Ho installato la 9 su di un nuovo hd (hdb). Ho voluto mantenere la 8.2 sull'altro hd (hdb3, 5, swap) in comproprietà con win$ . Ci sono troppi b :-) Per fissare le idee mi riferisco a hda=disco-vecchio e hdb=disco-nuovo Sul Lilo ho aggiunto la possibilità di accedere a hdb3, e qui cominciano i problemi. 1. Lilo mi propone solo l'immagine del kernel nuovo - la 8.2 va ma senza parecchi servizi (audio, supporto fat ecc.) 2. Come posso fare per accedere alle partizioni della vecchia versione dalla nuova? Credo si possa fare tutto graficamente da mcc. Comunque per vedere le altre partizioni, a mano, occorre: - creare in mndk-9 una directory per ogni partizione da montare, ad es /mnt/home82 per hda5 - aggiungere in /etc/fstab una riga per ogni partizione, ad es. /dev/hda5 /mnt/home82 ext2defaults1 1 - lanciare mount -a Mentre, per sistemare lilo, occorre: che sia montata la partizione di 8.2 che contiene /boot (ad es. /mnt/root82) a questo punto puoi usare mcc o - aprire /etc/lilo.conf e controllare che l'immagine del kernel da cui viene lanciata la 8.2 abbia l'indirizzo completo: NON devovono esserci /boot/... ma solo /mnt/root82/boot/... - chiudere /etc/lilo.conf e lanciare lilo per trascrivere le modifiche su MBR ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Linux su un secondo HD - DualBoot
. Guarda che non ci sono problemi, se dovessi fare una operazione del genere basta togliere grub o lilo dall'mbr prima di staccare il secondo hd. Per toglere grub o lilo dall'mbr devi avviare con il cd di windows 2000 e giunto alla schermata iniziale delle scelte scegliere l'opzione per ripristinare w2000. C'è anche un altro metodo: usare il loader di win2k per lanciare anche Linux. Come fare è spiegato nel mini-howto Linux+Nt-loader che trovi tradotto in italiano in molti posti, ad es. ildp.linux.it In sintesi: - installi Linux senza toccare MBR, in modo che parta con un floppy di boot - entri in Linux e copi il settore di boot della partizione Linux su un file e lo metti su un floppy - entri in w2k copi il file in C:\bootsect.lnx - apri il file boot.ini e aggiungi una riga chedice di avviare Linux da C:\bootsect.lnx ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Linux su un secondo HD - DualBoot
Ciao e grazie per la velocissima risposta!!! Nel frattempo ho scaricato la Mandrake User DocSection dal sito mandrake user e nella sezione System Recovery Ho letto una cosa interessante ma non so se è valida anche per la distribuzione 9.0 ( questi documenti si riferiscono direttamente alla versione 8.2)!!! Nella sezione System Recovery--The Mandrake Linux Rescue System si legge che facendo boot con il Fd di boot è possibile premendo F1 e digitando rescue al prompt, avere accesso a molte opzioni interessanti per effettuare Recovey ... 1.. Re-install Boot Loader. This is useful if you've recently (re-)installed another operating system which erased the boot loader installed by Mandrake Linux. This operation will revert this so that you can start every configured operating system from the boot loader menu again. 2.. Restore Windows Boot Loader. Upon installing the boot loader, Mandrake Linux makes a backup copy of the previous boot code. This operation writes this backup copy back to the boot sector, thus erasing the boot loader installed by Mandrake Linux. ... L'opzione 2 è quindi equivakente con quella da te proposta?? Sai se è disponibile anche per la versione 9.0?? Grazie! Ale
Re: [newbie-it] Linux su un secondo HD - DualBoot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:05, martedì 5 novembre 2002, hai scritto: [cut] 2.. Restore Windows Boot Loader. Upon installing the boot loader, Mandrake Linux makes a backup copy of the previous boot code. This operation writes this backup copy back to the boot sector, thus erasing the boot loader installed by Mandrake Linux. L'opzione 2 è quindi equivakente con quella da te proposta?? Sai se è disponibile anche per la versione 9.0?? Grazie! Ale Sinceramente non lo so. La procedura descritta da me riguarda l'utilizzo di windows 2000 (ossia della sua opzione di ripristino), mentre nel punto 2 che riferisci si parla di una funzione di mdk che non ho mai provato. Bisogna fare attenzione perché il ripristino del bootloader è diverso tra windows 9.x /Me e la famiglia NT (NT, 2000, XP). Nel primo (win 9.x) caso è sufficiente dare il comando fdisk /mbr, nel secondo, ovviamente, no. Bisognerebbe sapere a quale situazione si riferisce il punto 2 cioè se comprende anche una installazione NT. In passato su una macchina avevo installato sia windows 2000 che mdk 7.1 e ho utilizzato l'opzione che ha sintetizzato Andrea Celli per installare il boot loader (lilo in quel caso - dato che lilo non gestiva la partenza di un sistema nt, o almeno erano queste le notizie che circolavano in giro) e ho utilizzato la procedura descritta nel post precedente per ripristinare una situazione senza linux. Ti posso assicurare che funziona. Attualmente, invece, su un'altra macchina ho Mandrake 9.0 e Windows xp e il tutto viene gestito con grub installato nell'mbr. Se ti posso dare un consiglio: Per l'installazione (e convivenza tra w200 e linux) installa pure nell'mbr Per la rimozione vai con la soluzione che ti ho dato, che ho verificato che funziona. Ciao Sandro - -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - A.I.P. n° 2075 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 8.2 on PIII 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9x5Hu/ayi1TbZzlQRAqdpAJ9zy7+U3DeFiWVpI5vV4Nk7KXhWjQCeLYRG Cxwr4hUzodvIGJldv7wT/4c= =Rv5O -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] kooka
scusatemi,ho 2 problemi,come faccio ad aquisire immagini da scanner con KOOKA ha riconosciuto lo scanner ,ma come faccio a dirgli aquisisci!!? problema2:come faccio a spedire un fax con K, oppure indicatemi un buon programma alternativo,stò tentando di usare MDK in ufficio con un vecchio disco da 4giga devo dire che ne sono abbastanza sodisfatto,volevo ringraziarvi tutti per la disponibilità grazie ancora mario
[newbie-it] MDK 9.0 nei negozi
Ciao, scrivo per un rilevante problema tecnico... ;) Qualcuno ha già trovato il PowerPack della nuova Mandrake in qualche negozio di Roma? Io la sto cercando nei negozi di informatica e nelle librerie che vendono software, ma ancora non ne ho trovato una copia... forse qualcuno è stato più fortunato di me. Grazie in anticipo per le eventuali risposte ed indicazioni! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] problema modem adsl digicom
- Original Message - From: gandalf virgilio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: [newbie-it] problema modem adsl digicom Ciao a tutti ! Ho installato da poco la Mandrake 8.2, purtroppo non riesco a configurare il modem Digicom Michelangelo USB. Il programma di configurazione hardware lo vede con tanto di caratteristiche ma quando provo a configurare la connessione adsl non lo mette tra le voci di modem da usare per la connessione.. Come fare ? Premetto ho appena cominciato a conoscere l'universo di Linux. Grazie a tutti ! Visto che vedo che comunque puoi accedere a internet, hai provato a guardare qui? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/it/user.html/draknet.html PS: guarda che il formato html x i messaggi alle liste e' assolutamente deprecabile!
Re: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete
- Original Message - From: Paolo Tomiato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete questo e' il messaggio che ricevo se tento di accedere al mio server linux mdk 9.0 dalle 2 macchine win2000 della mia rete domestica. ...OMISSIS Non e' che mi rispondo da solo ma volevo solo aggiornarvi sugli sviluppi. In questi giorni ho continuato a fare prove su prove e ho anche reinstallato varie volte il SO provando vari livelli di sicurezza e alla fine di tutto ecco che cosa ho scoperto: 1) I vari moduli di configurazione della mkd 9.0 funziono malissimo e in modo approssimativo(come nelle versioni precedenti, del resto). Nello specifico i vari pannelli del Mandrake Configuration Center spesso nn portano a termine correttamente la configurazione ed hanno una loro logica alquanto criptica (ma forse sono io che nn capisco un cazzo ) 2) Un po' + efficaci e funzionali sono le varie voci di drakconf, l'utility di configurazione da shell 3) Alla fine per riconfigurare eth0 correttamente ho dovuto usare il caro buon vecchio linuxconf anche se dichiarato deprecable da red hat e anche se continua a darmi degli errori nei log che nn riesco a decifrare 4) Ma veniamo al mio problema,... ho scoperto che se riattivo il firewall da mdk control center (in modalita' xwindows) si crea in interfaces, sotto /etc/shorewall (spero che il percorso sia giusto ma sono in uff e vado a memoria) una eth0 replicata che impedisce al servizio di startare correttamente al boot (da appunto un messaggio di eth0 replicata) e, quando si verifica cio', le mie macchine win$ vedono e navigano correttamente le risorse condivise in samba 5) Se rimetto le cose a posto a manina, e cioe' modifico il filo interfaces modificando: net eth0 msq eth0 con net ppp0 msq eth0 il shorewall starta ma se riconfiguro la condivisione dell'accesso a internet al reboot successivo tutto come prima: dai clients win$ navigo in internet ma nn in intranet e questo e' quanto
Re: [newbie-it] kooka
scusatemi,ho 2 problemi,come faccio ad aquisire immagini da scanner con KOOKA ha riconosciuto lo scanner ,ma come faccio a dirgli aquisisci!!? quando apro kooka ho in basso 2 pulsanti scansione finale e scansione di anteprima ... e va tutto ok Ho provato anche xsane, pero' spesso mi si pianta! Per quanto riguarda i fax non ci ho ancora provato: se ci riesci fammi sapere! pigi
[newbie-it] openoffice senza help nella 9.0!?
Ho appena istalla to la 9.0 che contiene anche openoffice, ma ho scoperto che la guida in linea non c'e': e' un baco mio o manca davvero? E se manca come la si installa? grazie e un saluto pigi
Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze
Alle 22:07, domenica 3 novembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto...sempre che abbia capito bene!: uno script di shell (e va reso eseguibile): --- #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/wmaker --- Ti chiedo scusa.quali sono i comandi da linea per crearlo? Ciao , Tom
Fw: [newbie-it] openoffice senza help nella 9.0!?
- Original Message - From: Paolo Tomiato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] openoffice senza help nella 9.0!? Adesso sono in office e nn posso esserne sicuro ma se vai nella utilita' di installazione dei pacchetti in ambiente xwindows alla voce [workstation] se il filo della guida c'e' dovresti poterlo installare agevolmente! Bye. - Original Message - From: pigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:47 PM Subject: [newbie-it] openoffice senza help nella 9.0!? Ho appena istalla to la 9.0 che contiene anche openoffice, ma ho scoperto che la guida in linea non c'e': e' un baco mio o manca davvero? E se manca come la si installa? grazie e un saluto pigi
Re: [newbie-it] Linux su un secondo HD - DualBoot
Alle 17:21, martedì 5 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Scusate un attimo..magari sto dicendo una c@@@a !! frustatemi se sbagliook? Se il Boot Manager viene installato nel MBR del primo Hd..che fastidio da al 2° Hd??? Mi spiego meglio..una volta tolto l'Hdb (fisicamente) con MDK,la chiamata al Winz2000 dovrebbe rimanere li!! o no?? Sinceramente io ho avuto solo una volta un problema ed esattamente sul portatile su cui avevo installato sia linux che w98se, però erano entrambi installati sullo stesso disco: tolsi la partizione linux e riestesi la fat32 (con partition magik) e al riavvio non mi permetteva più di fare il boot di w98 - risolsi riavviando da floppy e dando il fatidico fdisk /mbr. Negli altri casi, sia su questa workstation (mdk9.0 - xp) sia sull'altra (w98 - mdk8.2) i sistemi sono installati su dischi differenti. Facendo tesoro dell'esperienza sul portatile, ogni volta che devo togliere linux faccio prima un bel fdisk /mbr (o nel caso di nt/2000/xp l'altro metodo) e poi rimetto a posto le partizioni - ma questo è dovuto, sinceramente, a paura (leggi pure personale fifa nera scaramantica) :-)) e non a considerazioni tecniche approfondite. Diciamo che, comunque, utilizzando il comando fdisk /mbr) prima e togliendo la partizione dopo non si corrono rischi. In effetti, prima dell'esperienza negativa col portatile, rasando la partizione linux prima e facendo fdisk /mbr dopo era sempre andata bene. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 9.0 on Pentium III - 733 Mhz Linux User # 203143 Linux Machine # 175781
Re: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete
Alle 16:03, martedì 5 novembre 2002, Paolo Tomiato ha scritto: - Original Message - From: Paolo Tomiato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete questo e' il messaggio che ricevo se tento di accedere al mio server linux mdk 9.0 dalle 2 macchine win2000 della mia rete domestica. ...OMISSIS Non e' che mi rispondo da solo ma volevo solo aggiornarvi sugli sviluppi. In questi giorni ho continuato a fare prove su prove e ho anche reinstallato varie volte il SO provando vari livelli di sicurezza e alla fine di tutto ecco che cosa ho scoperto: 1) I vari moduli di configurazione della mkd 9.0 funziono malissimo e in modo approssimativo(come nelle versioni precedenti, del resto). Nello specifico i vari pannelli del Mandrake Configuration Center spesso nn portano a termine correttamente la configurazione ed hanno una loro logica alquanto criptica (ma forse sono io che nn capisco un cazzo ) 2) Un po' + efficaci e funzionali sono le varie voci di drakconf, l'utility di configurazione da shell 3) Alla fine per riconfigurare eth0 correttamente ho dovuto usare il caro buon vecchio linuxconf anche se dichiarato deprecable da red hat e anche se continua a darmi degli errori nei log che nn riesco a decifrare 4) Ma veniamo al mio problema,... ho scoperto che se riattivo il firewall da mdk control center (in modalita' xwindows) si crea in interfaces, sotto /etc/shorewall (spero che il percorso sia giusto ma sono in uff e vado a memoria) una eth0 replicata che impedisce al servizio di startare correttamente al boot (da appunto un messaggio di eth0 replicata) e, quando si verifica cio', le mie macchine win$ vedono e navigano correttamente le risorse condivise in samba 5) Se rimetto le cose a posto a manina, e cioe' modifico il filo interfaces modificando: net eth0 msq eth0 con net ppp0 msq eth0 il shorewall starta ma se riconfiguro la condivisione dell'accesso a internet al reboot successivo tutto come prima: dai clients win$ navigo in internet ma nn in intranet e questo e' quanto Confermo ed aggiungo: anch'io ho avuto parecchie difficoltà nel navigare in internet, dopo aver installato e configurato con il MCC 'sto Shorewall (firewall di default di questa distribuzione - anche l'unico...); a proposito, che gli aveva fatto a Mandrake Bastille?? Beh, ho potuto risolvere solo configurando a mano tutto quanto, altrimenti mi si impediva l'accesso in rete per una questione di imposibilità di DNS a risolvere i nomi. Seguo mdk dalla 8.0, ed è la prima vlta che la distribuzione mi lascia alquanto perplesso; ho notato dei passi indietro nella stabilità del sistema, inutili e deleteri sviluppi in applicazioni che si erano rivelate stabili ed efficienti (per esempio le schermate di installazione degli rpm, proliferate inutilmente a discapito della chiarezza), soliti problemi con il supermount e con una visione, diciamo originale, di file basilari come fstab (avete notato che il fs scelto di default per i cdrom è auto? I miei dopo 2 minuti craschavano, impedendomi l'accesso al contenuto dei dischi), per non parlare della scelta dei programmi presenti nei tre cd (quelli di Linux C. per intenderci, anche se qua il discorso è più labile, in quanto sappiamo che la distribuzione in vendita contiene molti più cd); non ho trovato traccia di nessus, di checkinstall (!), ed i file necessari per l'installazione di lyx risultano corrotti. Davvero, molto perplesso... -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Linux su un secondo HD - DualBoot
Grazie a tutti per le info datemi! Ale - Original Message - From: Alessandro Salina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Linux su un secondo HD - DualBoot Questo è il mio problema: Sul mio pc sono presenti 2 HD 1) Master con installato W2000 2) Slave vuoto Ora vorrei installare linux Mandrake 9 sul secondo HD e vorrei avere una sorta di dual boot( ad esempio GRUB) Ora in futuro è probabile che debba staccare uno dei due dischie qui sorgono i primi dubbi Cosa succede se tolgo il secondo HD?? Se installo Grub sull MBR dovrebbe bloccarsi tutto non permettendomi nemmeno di lanciare W2000 o sbaglio??? Come si può eliminare GRUB dall MBR senza compromettere l'esecuzione di W2000?? Come si può ovviare a questo problema?? Devo cercare la soluzione più semplice ed immediata! Per evitare ogni problema ho pensato di installare Linux e creare solamente un Fd di boot ma sinceramente questa idea mi convince poco Qualche suggerimento??? Grazie!!! Ale
[newbie-it] CD MDK 9.0
Ciao a tutti Ho preso sta sera Linux$C per provare come era la nuova MDK. qualche minuto fa cercavo di fa partire l' installazionesenza sucesso mi daca una serie infinita di errori di settori sull hdc (il lettore cd).. quindi deduco che il primo e fondamentale CD di instalazione sia bugato! Se non ricordo male qualche tempo fa era sucessa una cosa del genere! ma non ricordo ne l'oggetto ne (cosa piu importante) la soluzione! Ricordo che i cd erano stati ri masterizzati.se non ricordo male con Nero, ma non ricordo che opzioni erano stae attivate-disattivate Qualcuno mi puo dare una mano! Domani tentero,in alternativa,di sostituire i cd dal mio edicolante di fiducia ;) Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete
Confermo ed aggiungo: anch'io ho avuto parecchie difficoltà nel navigare in internet, dopo aver installato e configurato con il MCC 'sto Shorewall (firewall di default di questa distribuzione - anche l'unico...); a proposito, che gli aveva fatto a Mandrake Bastille?? Beh, ho potuto risolvere solo configurando a mano tutto quanto, altrimenti mi si impediva l'accesso in rete per una questione di imposibilità di DNS a risolvere i nomi. Moolto interessante!!! finalmente una risposta concreta. Quindi mi confermi che il problema interessa il DNS; allora avresti anche la pazienza di spegarmi passo-passo cosa devo fare x fare funzionare il tutto? Guarda, oramai sono cosi' confuso e ammareggiato che sono come un bambino nelle tue mani... Aspetto nuove e x adesso vado a dormire che sono cotto, spero di leggerti al + presto. PS: mi basta anche qualche dritta su cosa andarmi a leggere che la documentazione ce l'ho ma sono talmente frastornato che nn so + da dove incominciare.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake menu
Le mar 05/11/2002 à 04:29, Paul Rodriguez a écrit : Anybody know of a way to get rid of the Mandrake menu on the gnome panel? - Paul Rodriguez In menudrake, you will be able to restore the GNOME default menu. (the same for KDE and other environments) Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies
you can also use the command 'locate xx' in a terminal. the x's being the name of the software you want to find. - Original Message - From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies tek1 wrote: i've been using windows quite a bit, but slowly making the move to linux. :) lately, i installed opera6 on linux. downloading the rpm and installing it was easy, but post-installation, i wasn't able to find where the opera executable was. knowing rpm command line and other commands, it's easy to find where opera was installed, but for someone completely new to linux, i think that they would be lost. one suggestion for improving rpm and other installation programs for linux is to put a icon on the desktop for the user to easily find. also, somehow placing the icon somewhere in the kmenu (for kde) or asking the user in which folder (i.e. applications) a shortcut should be made would make newbies transition to linux a lot easier. this installation problem/situation is not limited to opera, but is related to all gui-based software installed on linux that is to be used in the point-and-click fashion by end users... i think that the above would be one of the first problems faced by individuals and companies making the switch from windows to linux... anyone know if there are future plans for rpm to include an icon on the desktop and/or in the desktop environments' (kde/gnome) folders upon package installation? Menu integration is more to do with the people who write the packages - some packages will add KDE or GNOME menu entries; most do not. Package writers could, I suppose, add icons to be put on the user's desktop, but most people probably wouldn't want this. Remember that Linux is designed as a multi-user system, and a lot of users would object to icons popping up on their desktops every time the sysadmin installed a new program. An easy way to find files in RPM packages is to use the Software Manager (in 9.0 you neeed to select uninstall software; in 8.* you just click on the installed tab). Remember also that nine times out of ten the command to run a program is the same as the name of the package (usually in lowercase). 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] clock help
How about this: an external box connected to an AC outlet, inside an optocoupler with schmitt-trigger(sp?) and a connector for a serial cable? Connect to a spare serial port on your PC, you could get a nice TTL signal on one of the readable pins on the port. That's a nice idea. Give it an IEC plug and socket and it would go between the PC and the AC outlet. In fact it is so simple that it might fit into an IEC plug or socket housing, but those things are a tight fit already. If you could get away without a schmitt-trigger you wouldn't need a power supply for it. Having two opto-isolators each sensitive to a different half-phase would mean you could do the debounce in software: On CTS irq: disable CTS irq, enable DSR irq On DSR irq: disable DSR irq, enable CTS irq It also gives you a 100Hz clock. -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Montage script, was Re: [newbie] The Gimp
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 1:35 am, you wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 21:07:48 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm definitely interested. I've got to get these out quickly, so I'll
be using my old windows program to print the contact sheets, but by next
weekend I hope to have time to really get to grips with this. It sounds
ideal.
Assuming you have your images in subdirectories containing 20 images each
(or at least something manageable--I wouldn't go more than 60), this
script will look at each of those subdirectories and generate a montage.
The resulting montage uses the name of the folder, so test-1 folder
produces test-1.jpg. I also like to store my montages in another
directory, referenced by the variable IndexDir. That and ImageDir--the
main directory containing all the subdirectories--are really the only
variables you have to set up.
Caveats: this does not check to see if the outfile exists--if it does, it
will write over it. Obviously you're going to have to move the directories
out of ImageDir, or you will be generating the same montage every time you
run the script.
HTH,
Todd
#!/bin/bash
# SET UP VARIABLES
ImageDir=/home/todd/fuji/keep
IndexDir=/home/todd/fuji/composites
EXT=.jpg
LABEL=`basename %f`
MYFONT=-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-koi8-ru
# DONE WITH VARIABLES
for folder in `find $ImageDir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d`
do
echo Folder is `basename $folder`
OUTFILE=`basename $folder`$EXT
for i in `find $folder -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.jpg'`
do
WIDTH=`identify $i | awk '{print $3}' | awk -F x '{print $1}'`
HEIGHT=`identify $i | awk '{print $3}' | awk -F x '{print $2}'`
if [ $HEIGHT -gt $WIDTH ] ; then
echo -rotate 90 $i -label %f -noop list.$$
else
echo $i -label %f list.$$
fi
done
montage -geometry 200+2+5 -background white -font $MYFONT -tile 4x5 `cat
list.$$` $IndexDir/$OUTFILE
wait
rm list.$$
done
echo Done!
exit
Thanks Todd. All printed, copied, and ready for the weekend's work.
Anne
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Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies
Of course - we know that now. But the point being made is that competely new users don't. I'm sure it would not be difficult for programmers to write in the option for a link on the desktop. Nor would it be difficult for Mandrake to provide link in the What-to-do menu that tells how to use menuDrak to add entries. Small touches like this would not cause any problem for the experienced, but would greatly help newbies. Anne On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 9:44 am, you wrote: you can also use the command 'locate xx' in a terminal. the x's being the name of the software you want to find. - Original Message - From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies tek1 wrote: i've been using windows quite a bit, but slowly making the move to linux. :) lately, i installed opera6 on linux. downloading the rpm and installing it was easy, but post-installation, i wasn't able to find where the opera executable was. knowing rpm command line and other commands, it's easy to find where opera was installed, but for someone completely new to linux, i think that they would be lost. one suggestion for improving rpm and other installation programs for linux is to put a icon on the desktop for the user to easily find. also, somehow placing the icon somewhere in the kmenu (for kde) or asking the user in which folder (i.e. applications) a shortcut should be made would make newbies transition to linux a lot easier. this installation problem/situation is not limited to opera, but is related to all gui-based software installed on linux that is to be used in the point-and-click fashion by end users... i think that the above would be one of the first problems faced by individuals and companies making the switch from windows to linux... anyone know if there are future plans for rpm to include an icon on the desktop and/or in the desktop environments' (kde/gnome) folders upon package installation? Menu integration is more to do with the people who write the packages - some packages will add KDE or GNOME menu entries; most do not. Package writers could, I suppose, add icons to be put on the user's desktop, but most people probably wouldn't want this. Remember that Linux is designed as a multi-user system, and a lot of users would object to icons popping up on their desktops every time the sysadmin installed a new program. An easy way to find files in RPM packages is to use the Software Manager (in 9.0 you neeed to select uninstall software; in 8.* you just click on the installed tab). Remember also that nine times out of ten the command to run a program is the same as the name of the package (usually in lowercase). Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:05:35 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course - we know that now. But the point being made is that competely new users don't. I'm sure it would not be difficult for programmers to write in the option for a link on the desktop. Nor would it be difficult for Mandrake to provide link in the What-to-do menu that tells how to use menuDrak to add entries. Small touches like this would not cause any problem for the experienced, but would greatly help newbies. I agree to some extent with you Anne...personally I don't use either Gnome or KDE anymore but WindowMaker which I really love and like and there you always need to dock the icon yourself on the desktop and there are no menus like in KDE and Gnome. Just some ranting /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Desktop Switching tool?
Having come from a RedHat and Slackware background, I personally don't have a problem in changing my desktops/window managers - but after loading Mandrake 9.0, I wasn't able to locate a tool/utility to do so via the GUI - not that it took me too much effort to manually edit the ~/.xsession file to reflect my preference - but is there something I'm missing? Am I looking in all the wrong places? I *thought* that I had checked through all the menu options in both KDE and GNOME, but still, I couldn't find anything that would allow me to change wm's easily. So, that being the case, and me never being maniacal enough to say I know it all, I'd really like to know from anyone if there's a trick I'm missing... Really appreciate! Cheers! Stephen November 3rd 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! Mashed potatoes can be your friend. ! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool?
There's a drop-down list on the login dialog box... -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: 05 November 2002 11:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool? Having come from a RedHat and Slackware background, I personally don't have a problem in changing my desktops/window managers - but after loading Mandrake 9.0, I wasn't able to locate a tool/utility to do so via the GUI - not that it took me too much effort to manually edit the ~/.xsession file to reflect my preference - but is there something I'm missing? Am I looking in all the wrong places? I *thought* that I had checked through all the menu options in both KDE and GNOME, but still, I couldn't find anything that would allow me to change wm's easily. So, that being the case, and me never being maniacal enough to say I know it all, I'd really like to know from anyone if there's a trick I'm missing... Really appreciate! Cheers! Stephen November 3rd 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! Mashed potatoes can be your friend. ! !! This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool?
Hmmmdrop down list - well, I'd say I see one, but ya know, I really hate logons with GDM/XDM/KDM - so I generally opt to logon and start X manually anyways...only time I like XDM's is on a Solaris/Irix/HPUX box...and this it ain't! (grin) Nah...I don't want to go that route. I really like the control of a text-based logon, but would like to change the WM preference INSIDE of a GUI - in RedHat, you have the switchdesk script which is easily modified to incorporate quite a number of different desktops or wm's - that's what I was looking for - otherwise, I can just create a script to change my ~/.xsession - which I don't mind writing, but I really didn't want to reinvent the wheel as it were. And actually, the more I think about it, I might be able to copy the switchdesk application/scripts from one of my RH vm's and modify it to work with MDK...hmm ...any other suggestions mate? Appreciate that one for sure... November 5th 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! The other cat's food is automatically ! !preferable to their own.! !! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Richard Urwin Sent: Tuesday, 5 November 2002 10:22 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool? There's a drop-down list on the login dialog box... -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool?
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:49:33 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmmdrop down list - well, I'd say I see one, but ya know, I really hate logons with GDM/XDM/KDM - so I generally opt to logon and start X manually anyways...only time I like XDM's is on a Solaris/Irix/HPUX box...and this it ain't! (grin) You may already have it installed, if not install Xtart. From init 3, as usr run command Xtart and a numbered menu listing of the WMs you have installed will be shown. Then select by # the WM you wish to launch. Charles It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool?
Gollygee, that worked! Must say, gotta give ya a big Thanks for that one, Mr. Charles - and for all the years I cussed BellSouth...(grin) Now I feel more at ease with my MDK install - now I just gotta get all my nifty little tools/utilities and scripts done up in it and I'll be even happier! (Hated not having pico right off the bat...almost had a heart attack!) Peace from Oz! Stephen November 3rd 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! Mashed potatoes can be your friend. ! !! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Tuesday, 5 November 2002 11:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool? You may already have it installed, if not install Xtart. From init 3, as usr run command Xtart and a numbered menu listing of the WMs you have installed will be shown. Then select by # the WM you wish to launch. Charles It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool?
load an app called Xtart, its from a console, you type Xtart, it detects what wm are installed and gives you a nice list.. It was written by Civilme, formerly from mandrakesoft... very handy. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, 5 November 2002 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool? Hmmmdrop down list - well, I'd say I see one, but ya know, I really hate logons with GDM/XDM/KDM - so I generally opt to logon and start X manually anyways...only time I like XDM's is on a Solaris/Irix/HPUX box...and this it ain't! (grin) Nah...I don't want to go that route. I really like the control of a text-based logon, but would like to change the WM preference INSIDE of a GUI - in RedHat, you have the switchdesk script which is easily modified to incorporate quite a number of different desktops or wm's - that's what I was looking for - otherwise, I can just create a script to change my ~/.xsession - which I don't mind writing, but I really didn't want to reinvent the wheel as it were. And actually, the more I think about it, I might be able to copy the switchdesk application/scripts from one of my RH vm's and modify it to work with MDK...hmm ...any other suggestions mate? Appreciate that one for sure... November 5th 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! The other cat's food is automatically ! !preferable to their own.! !! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Richard Urwin Sent: Tuesday, 5 November 2002 10:22 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool? There's a drop-down list on the login dialog box... -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] M9.0 / Grip V 3.0.1
M9.0, Grip v 3.0.1 track info display problem One of Grip's more endearing features is it's ability to read the track info of wave file on a CD and display the track information like artist,and song title. Try as I may I cannot get this function to display on M9.0 Grip v3.0.1 with discs known to have this information on them and proven to work in M8.2 's version Gripv2.98.6. The excellent help file , which sets the standard on how help files are written has not helped me solve the problem. Is there a bug with this Grip 3.0.1 version or am I not configuring it right, any suggestions welcomed , as this was a very useful and enduring feature of this programme. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] detachable menus in gnome
I haven't tried it to see if it works. I did try to do the tip about the transparent panels, but got far too complex for me to deal with (I'm still fairly new in the Linux world), so I decided not to mess with things, and leave them as they are. Perhaps someone else out there has gotten things working with it, and can help shed some light on it for you. Terry Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, terry. I tried this, but it didn't work. Is it working for you? - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:29, Terry Sheltra wrote: Paul, If you go to the website: http://art.gnome.org Under the tips section (I believe), there is an walkthrough explaining just that. Terry Paul Rodriguez wrote: Anybody know how I can get the menus to be detachable in Gnome? - Paul 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 -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Composed on a 100% Micro$soft-free PC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scanimage error
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:45 am, Pilagá wrote: El Lun 04 Nov 2002 19:08, escribió: I have astra 2000P got working after installing sane-backends-1.0.9 tar file. Now it works only as root. When I set +s to scanimage and use as user, I get following error. [lvgandhi@localhost lvgandhi]$ scanimage --format out.tiff ... [umax_pp_low] SendWord failed got 0xE8 instead of 0xC0 or 0xD0 (umax_pp_low.c:2588) [umax_pp_low] Blindly going on . [umax_pp_low] Unexpected reg19: 0xE8 instead of 0xC0 or 0xD0 (umax_pp_low.c:3283) [umax_pp_low] CmdSetDataBuffer(initbuf) failed ! (umax_pp_low.c:5251) scanimage: no SANE devices found For xscanimage I get the following error xscanimage umax_pp:0x378 Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper program instead. For further details, see: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html Refusing to initialize GTK+. How to make it work both as user? This is what developers said: Note that the backend needs to run as root. To allow user access to the scanner run the backend through the network interface (See saned(1) and sane-net(5)). A more relaxed solution (security wise) is to add suid bit to the fron tend (See chmod(1)). The backend drop root priviledges as soon as it can, right after gaining direct access to IO ports. Also, Stef Voltz tell me: Try usin gthe ppdev mode. With latest version, you may launch xsane as: xsane umax_pp:/dev/parport0 , and then run as normal user. Provided that ppdev device is usable by user, and exists in MDK 8.2 (which should be the case). Also, you may edit umax_pp.conf in /usr/local/etc/sane.d to have a 'port' option which points to /dev/parport0. Here's an excerpt from my umax_pp.conf: # DEVICES # # specify the port your scanner is connected to. Possible are 0x378 (lp0) # 0x278 (lp1) #port 0x378 port /dev/parport0 # the following options are local to this scanner You can contact Stef (developer) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks for the info. Which distro you are using now. I don't have /dev/parport0. I have mdk9. I installed scanner using control center. I edited dll.conf and also umax_pp.conf for port 0x378 as I didn't have /dev/parport0. Then I did rpm -e sane-backends-1.0.8 and compiled src 1.0.9. Now it works as root. How to get /dev/parport. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sylpheed 0.8.5-compilation problems
Hello friends, now with the keen help of this list I have managed to solve my NFS-problems and now I encountered something else: I wanted to upgrade my Sylpheed-version to 0.8.5 from 0.8.2 that I am using today. RPM misses a lot of dependcies and I don't wanna work through them all so I decided to try and compile it myself instead (Kvirc3 took about two hours to compile on my Pentium 166 (I don't want to think about how long a kernel compile would take LOL)) but when I run ./configure on this MDK 8.2-system I get the following error: Checking for GLIB-version = 1.2.6... no The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG enviroment variable to the full path to glib-config Now I have a couple of questions. This has been tried on two MDK 8.2-machines with the same result which leads me to think that GLIB is strangely installed if at all installed on 8.2 (Please note that I do not have Gnome installed, but I have Gnome-libs and so on installed). I tried to download a glib-RPM but only with the result that there was a conflict if tried to upgrade (Which should mean that glib is installed I guess) If I do whereis glib I cannot find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what I should and can do Best Regards, Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake startup
When Mandrake starts up, a list of various drivers/modules/devices scrolls on the screen. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about. Strangely enough, the first time I installed Mandrake Linux, this list was displayed in the text console. Since I reinstalled Mandrake, the list scrolls past in a X-Windows graphical screen. Does anyone know why that is? What happened to change that behaviour? Thanks for any input! -Law Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Switching tool?
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:19:00 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gollygee, that worked! Must say, gotta give ya a big Thanks for that one, Mr. Charles - and for all the years I cussed BellSouth...(grin) I think you can also go to the Mandrake control center, boot, and then boot config and change the default gui from there. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed 0.8.5-compilation problems
In reply to Anders's mail, d.d. Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:18:02 +0100: which leads me to think that GLIB is strangely installed if at all installed on 8.2 (Please note that I do not have Gnome installed, but I have Gnome-libs and so on installed). I tried to download a glib-RPM but only with the result that there was a conflict if tried to upgrade (Which should mean that glib is installed I guess) If I do whereis glib I cannot find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what I should and can do Hi Anders, Try re-installing glib again from the MDK CD's. If necessary, use the -force parameter. Then try compiling again. I did a full install of mdk 8.2 on my machine and glib is in /usr/lib good luck Paul -- A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. --Edgar Watson Howe http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.3 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies
who should we direct the feedback about rpm and application icons to? the people who manage rpm or those who manage the windows managers (kde, gnome, etc.), or the companies who create the distributions (i.e. mandrake)? i am a consultant and looking to help companies make the switch from windows to linux, but i know that not knowing *easily* where an application was installed will stop newbies dead in their tracks... i wonder if lindows or the new desktop manager that redhat created has this application icon feature...? still a big supporter of mandrake though! :) At 11:18 02/11/05 +0100, you wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:05:35 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course - we know that now. But the point being made is that competely new users don't. I'm sure it would not be difficult for programmers to write in the option for a link on the desktop. Nor would it be difficult for Mandrake to provide link in the What-to-do menu that tells how to use menuDrak to add entries. Small touches like this would not cause any problem for the experienced, but would greatly help newbies. I agree to some extent with you Anne...personally I don't use either Gnome or KDE anymore but WindowMaker which I really love and like and there you always need to dock the icon yourself on the desktop and there are no menus like in KDE and Gnome. Just some ranting /Anders 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] Defrag?
After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defrag?
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote: After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux is setup (superior), you don't have to defrag -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] starting xmms from menu
I removed soundwrapper from the command for xmms using menudrake, but it didn't make any difference. I suppose I can just make a shortcut on the desktop for xmms and not worry about it, but I'd like to find out why it doesn't work and fix it. The really strange thing about this is that xmms used to work from the menu. TC --- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command called upon from the menu is soundwrapper xmms whereas what you're typing from the commandline is probably just xmms. I don't know what soundwrapper does, but I imagine if you remove that from the menu entry using menudrake, it'll fix the problem. This isn't a great solution. I would want to find out why soundwrapper isn't working properly, but in the meantime this solution won't hurt. Miark On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:12:36 -0800 (PST) T C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I tried to use xmms, starting it from the menu (K - Multimedia - Sound - Xmms). The only thing that happened was an xmms indicator appeared on the panel with the hour glass turning, then after about a minute it disappeared. Xmms did not run. I opened a terminal window and as a user typed xmms at the command prompt (without the quotes of course), and xmms popped up and worked. Tried from the menu again and still won't work. What's happening here and what can I do about it? Thanks. TC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defrag?
After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux is setup (superior), you don't have to defrag What is it about Linux's setup that makes defrag unnecessary? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk
Greetings, I just wanted to pass this along...I thought I would import my MS fonts from my windows partition (winME), after reading about being able to do that with Drakfont. Also, I read that MS fonts are much better than those used by Mdk. I am more partial to readability than style, and I really like just plain old Arial font. Arial was not available in Mdk however. Well, I used Drakfont in the Mandrake Control Center-System Configuration Tool to get windows fonts. Drakfont imported the fonts w/o trouble, and I am now using MS fonts (Arial [Monotype]). I can't believe the difference! The fonts are so much clearer. I will never bash MS for their fonts at least, again ;-) This has made my Mandrake 9.0 look so much cleaner and easier on the eyes. Just thought I would share my observations. :-) All the best. --Angus How do you destroy a righteous person? Give him or her one follower! --ancient Cherokee saying (fr. Earth Medicine by Jamie Sams) *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Windowmanager
Hiya! I've been using KDE for the past few days and now I feel like I could switch to some other Windowmanager ( I was told KDE isnt the best choice when it comes to speed and reliability ), or at least *try* to do so. I remember using WindowMaker a few months ago, but I didn't like it that much. I mean, it *was* fast and reliable, but I had some problems with the interface and unless someone here can recommend a good place to get a tutorial or some additional information, I would think twice before going back at it. Okay, to make a long story short: if anyone could either recommend me a good windowmanager or give me a hint on where I can find some background information on them (WindowMaker in particular), I'd be thankful. Thanks in advance! - Christian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anacron
If you stop anacron/cron then your system will not be able to perform essential maintenance. Your log files will fill up up to infinity, your temporary files will not be erased, and your system will not perform any security checks. What is the problem with having it running? derek On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:20 am, Noah Hicks wrote: I need to know how to get anacron to stop running as often as it seems to be. I have found the task file in the /etc dir but I can't see how to modify it and the man page is hard for me to understand. Could anyone tell me how to do this? Unless there is some task I need it to do, I would like to get it to cease completely. Can I just remove the cron.daily and cron.weekly files? This is what I have now: [noahlocalhost etc]$ cat anacrontab # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron # See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # These entries are useful for a Mandrake system. 1 5 cron.daily run-parts /etc/cron.daily 7 10 cron.weekly run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 30 15 cron.monthlyrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / Grip V 3.0.1
john, are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or cd-text which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup over the net of cddb info bascule On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Don't need to, do I , the info is there on the disc to be read by grip anytime it chooses to do so,which usually is on startup or fresh disc entry.First you get track1, track2, track3 etc etc , then a moment or two later it says something like , track1, artist joe blogs, title when I get up in the Morning. John -- 'What good is a candle at noonday?' (Sourcery) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone else tried Texstar's improved KDE fonts?
Thanks for the recommendation. Just installed the packages along with libqt3-devel and libqt3 and they look great. Real improvement :-) I have only had a quick look though. I'll take a closer look later. Cheers, Jord On Monday 04 Nov 2002 11:03 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Has anyone else tried out Texstars modified fonts for KDE yet? They are absolutely wonderful !! I thought my fonts were good until I tried this... Tex has recompiled libqt3 for Xft-2 which (I think) is what makes RedHat 8.0's fonts so nice. Any KDE (or qt) application will have nice fonts. To get them all you have to do is install libqt3, Xft-2.0, freetype2 and fontconfig from http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distri butions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/ If you have imported Truetype fonts from Windows with drakfont add a path to them in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf by inserting the line dir/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1/dir among the other font paths. Restart the X server and that is it! Beautiful clear truetype fonts. Problems you might get include : Double spacing in konsole : Just select a different font to fix it. Blocky fonts in kdm : Open kcontrol as root and select a different font for kdm in SystemLogin Manager Disclaimer If you are not sure you can recover your system back to its previous state in the event of a problem, then it is probably not a good idea to try this. Tex's forum thread is here http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewto pictopic=265forum=7 derek -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defrag?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux is setup (superior), you don't have to defrag What is it about Linux's setup that makes defrag unnecessary? The best way is to think of your file file system as a bunch of folders with those transparent envelopes for inserting paper. Let's imagine you have a twenty-page report to file. The Windows method is to look for the first empty envelope and start slotting in pages from there. This works well enough in a new folder, but once you start removing pages (deleting files) you end up putting, say, the first ten pages in, then finding the next envelope is full, so you put the next ten pages somewhere else. The more the disk gets used, the more files get split up, so eventually you have to go through and swap all the pages round - i.e. defragment. The UNIX/Linux method is that if you have a twenty-page report to file, you look through the folder for a space which has at least twenty free envelopes. Consequently, files only get split up if they're very big and your disk is very, very full. Logical, really, and not a new technology - this type of filesystem has been around since the 1980s. Defragmentation, like virus-checking, is one of those cures for problems which Microsoft introduced, but which people now accept as an inevitable part of using a computer. 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] Defrag?
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 05:06 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021105 10:49]: This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux is setup (superior), you don't have to defrag What is it about Linux's setup that makes defrag unnecessary? Jan, in addition to the answers already given : Linux file systems : ext2, ext3, XFS and Reiser don't need defragging. However, the newly ported JFS from IBM is extremely fast and reliable, but needs an occasional defrag. HTH Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when working with images, but have come across a real puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm working with, two directories contain .jpg and .bmp images. Some of the .bmps were written by a windows program, and some by gPhoto. The .jpgs display as thumbnails, but the .bmps don't. In a third directors there are images that were captured from video by a windows application, then trimmed in Gimp. These all show as .BMP. These images do display as thumbnails. All three directories are subdirectories in a fat32 partition, so renaming *.bmp to *.BMP makes no difference. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Anne, BMP's are a lot of things. Essentially it is nothing than a collection of bits. I remember form my OS/2 days a great application - PMView - that gave a thorough explanation of the various .bmp-formats. There IS a big difference between Windows- Unix- OS/2- etc. etc. when it comes to bmp-pics. Regards Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anacron
You can see the daily jobs in /etc/cron.daily Whenever you install an RPM which needs 'maintenance' a file gets dropped in here for the daily processing. For example logrotate will compress your old logs and delete the oldest entries. It will cause a bit of hard drive activity, but not a vast amount (unless you have big logs) The weekly job slocate.cron will cause a lot of harddrive activity, because it compiles a database of every file on your hard drive for use by the slocate command. (If you have it installed) The daily msec job is checking on the file permissions of all your system files, so that could cause a bit of activity. If you find the daily job annoying, why not set it to run at a more convenient time? It is only a matter of editing the /etc/crontab file. For instance in this line 56 10 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily All the scripts in location /etc/cron.daily are scheduled to run at 10:56 every day If you want a nice GUI to setup cron jobs, then there is one in webmin. derek On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:15 pm, Noah Hicks wrote: Well the only problem I'm having is that when it's running, it slows the system down. There's a lot of HD activity and the programs I'm running slow down significatly. This can last for a good 3-4 min. I find it kind of irritating. Seems like it only does it once a day though. I'm just running a laptop for webbrowsing, word processing and data analysis with a few simple console apps. How high do my security settings need to be? Thanks for helping me figure this out -Noah BTW is there something wrong with the list server? I got your reply but I didn't get my own message. On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:24, Derek Jennings wrote: If you stop anacron/cron then your system will not be able to perform essential maintenance. Your log files will fill up up to infinity, your temporary files will not be erased, and your system will not perform any security checks. What is the problem with having it running? derek On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:20 am, Noah Hicks wrote: I need to know how to get anacron to stop running as often as it seems to be. I have found the task file in the /etc dir but I can't see how to modify it and the man page is hard for me to understand. Could anyone tell me how to do this? Unless there is some task I need it to do, I would like to get it to cease completely. Can I just remove the cron.daily and cron.weekly files? This is what I have now: [noahlocalhost etc]$ cat anacrontab # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron # See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # These entries are useful for a Mandrake system. 1 5 cron.daily run-parts /etc/cron.daily 7 10 cron.weekly run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 30 15 cron.monthlyrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone else tried Texstar's improved KDE fonts?
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:00 pm, PBone wrote: The last time I tried this I ran into a problem where bullets wouldn't displasy on openoffice. Has this been fixed? I just tried OpenOffice. 'Text' bullets do not seem to work, but 'graphical' bullets do (FormatNumbering/Bullets). I agree that could be an issue for some people. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defrag?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 05 November 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote: After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux is setup (superior), you don't have to defrag I've known this for some time, but can anyone direct us to an online explaination/description of Linux file systems? TIA Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Best Linux Laptop
I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, but what's the best laptop for the average Linux distro? I had, at first, targeted Compaq's Presario 2800T, but I caught wind that Compaq's suck for Linux. (This could explain my current problems) I'm buying two new laptops for me and my boss, and I'm sorta going with the HP Pavilion ze5000 series, unless I hear really bad things about them. Anyway, I'd be happy to hear everyone's input. Thanks! -Law Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 9:06 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when working with images, but have come across a real puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm working with, two directories contain .jpg and .bmp images. Some of the .bmps were written by a windows program, and some by gPhoto. The .jpgs display as thumbnails, but the .bmps don't. In a third directors there are images that were captured from video by a windows application, then trimmed in Gimp. These all show as .BMP. These images do display as thumbnails. All three directories are subdirectories in a fat32 partition, so renaming *.bmp to *.BMP makes no difference. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Anne, BMP's are a lot of things. Essentially it is nothing than a collection of bits. I remember form my OS/2 days a great application - PMView - that gave a thorough explanation of the various .bmp-formats. There IS a big difference between Windows- Unix- OS/2- etc. etc. when it comes to bmp-pics. Regards Kaj Haulrich and I thought .bmp was a lowest common denominator! As a 'collection of bits' I thought it would be the simplest format, understood by all. The programs I use for editing have no problems with them, but I have seen other problems in windows programs, such as the one that I use for contact-print sheets can't read the .bmps direct from the video capture. If I open them in an editor and re-save there is no problem. Nothing's simple, is it? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware question
I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. There's the possibility of graphic cards with svid input - but I don't want to have to grovel behind my desk. Is there any hardware available that would allow me to have a front panel or desktop connection? If not, can anyone recommend a suitable video card? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Best Linux Laptop
why not get Dells??? more bang for your buck... and compaq's don't just suck for linux, they suck period... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Flux Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 5:02 AM To: Linux Subject: [newbie] Best Linux Laptop I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, but what's the best laptop for the average Linux distro? I had, at first, targeted Compaq's Presario 2800T, but I caught wind that Compaq's suck for Linux. (This could explain my current problems) I'm buying two new laptops for me and my boss, and I'm sorta going with the HP Pavilion ze5000 series, unless I hear really bad things about them. Anyway, I'd be happy to hear everyone's input. Thanks! -Law Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] detachable menus in gnome
Apparently, it only works for certain gnome apps like evolution or gnumeric, and gimp (-useful here). But I was looking for something to make the gnome menus detachable. - Paul On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 08:47, Terry Sheltra wrote: I haven't tried it to see if it works. I did try to do the tip about the transparent panels, but got far too complex for me to deal with (I'm still fairly new in the Linux world), so I decided not to mess with things, and leave them as they are. Perhaps someone else out there has gotten things working with it, and can help shed some light on it for you. Terry Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, terry. I tried this, but it didn't work. Is it working for you? - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:29, Terry Sheltra wrote: Paul, If you go to the website: http://art.gnome.org Under the tips section (I believe), there is an walkthrough explaining just that. Terry Paul Rodriguez wrote: Anybody know how I can get the menus to be detachable in Gnome? - Paul 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 -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Composed on a 100% Micro$soft-free PC 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] Best Linux Laptop
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 02:02 pm, Flux wrote: I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, but what's the best laptop for the average Linux distro? I had, at first, targeted Compaq's Presario 2800T, but I caught wind that Compaq's suck for Linux. (This could explain my current problems) I'm buying two new laptops for me and my boss, and I'm sorta going with the HP Pavilion ze5000 series, unless I hear really bad things about them. Anyway, I'd be happy to hear everyone's input. Thanks! -Law I'd rather give you a link since I don't want to get into the refund the MS tax since my laptop will never boot anything but Linux debate. http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://www.linuxmall.com/refund/ and a site with information about bare (no preinstalled OS) laptops. I think that was the idea, I haven't checked the site for a few months. http://mobilix.org/laptop_manufacturer.html Reagrds -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. -- Hilaire Belloc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defrag?
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 03:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux is setup (superior), you don't have to defrag What is it about Linux's setup that makes defrag unnecessary? You can run an FSCK from the text console logon...that's basically the whole shebang...otherwise, ext2fs and ext3fs don't need to be defragmented as it were. -- Wed Nov 6 09:20:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Mountain Dew and doughnuts... because breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windowmanager
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 03:57, Christian Goldstein wrote: Hiya! I've been using KDE for the past few days and now I feel like I could switch to some other Windowmanager ( I was told KDE isnt the best choice when it comes to speed and reliability ), or at least *try* to do so. I remember using WindowMaker a few months ago, but I didn't like it that much. I mean, it *was* fast and reliable, but I had some problems with the interface and unless someone here can recommend a good place to get a tutorial or some additional information, I would think twice before going back at it. Okay, to make a long story short: if anyone could either recommend me a good windowmanager or give me a hint on where I can find some background information on them (WindowMaker in particular), I'd be thankful. Thanks in advance! - Christian I was advised that you can try running Xtart (either from the GUI or from text mode) - it's a utility script that allows you to choose between desktop/window manager of your choice. Otherwise, you can manually edit the .xsession file in your home directory. On the last line you will see: exec /usr/bin/startkde which you can change to say, exec /usr/bin/X11/englightenment exec /usr/bin/X11/wmaker exec /usr/bin/gnome-session ...or whatever you desire... If you don't have Xtart already loaded, you can snag it from the CD#1 through the Mandrake Software package installer. -- Wed Nov 6 09:25:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Cecil, you're my final hope Of finding out the true Straight Dope For I have been reading of Schrodinger's cat But none of my cats are at all like that. This unusual animal (so it is said) Is simultaneously alive and dead! What I don't understand is just why he Can't be one or the other, unquestionably. My future now hangs in between eigenstates. In one I'm enlightened, in the other I ain't. If *you* understand, Cecil, then show me the way And rescue my psyche from quantum decay. But if this queer thing has perplexed even you, Then I will *___and* I won't see you in Schrodinger's zoo. -- Randy F., Chicago, The Straight Dope, a compendium of human knowledge by Cecil Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: [newbie] Windowmanager
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 04:43, Anders Lind wrote: Hiya! I've been using KDE for the past few days and now I feel like I could switch to some other Windowmanager ( I was told KDE isnt the best choice when it comes to speed and reliability ), or at least *try* to do so. I remember using WindowMaker a few months ago, but I didn't like it that much. I mean, it *was* fast and reliable, but I had some problems with the interface and unless someone here can recommend a good place to get a tutorial or some additional information, I would think twice before going back at it. I love WindowMaker, it is a nice and smooth windowmanager, there are plenty of documentation on www.windowmaker.org Okay, to make a long story short: if anyone could either recommend me a good windowmanager or give me a hint on where I can find some background information on them (WindowMaker in particular), I'd be thankful. Personally I don't mind KDE either, but on a P 166 Mhz it is sloow. Cheers Anders Why not just settle for something like say, Enlightenment? It's fast, highly configurable, has heaps of themes, low on resource, has heaps of epplets with it...(it is in your package if you want to install it) -- Wed Nov 6 09:30:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | You tried it just for once, found it alright for kicks, but now you find out you have a habit that sticks, you're an orgasm addict, you're always at it, and you're an orgasm addict. -- The Buzzcocks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anacron
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 05:15, Noah Hicks wrote: Well the only problem I'm having is that when it's running, it slows the system down. There's a lot of HD activity and the programs I'm running slow down significatly. This can last for a good 3-4 min. I find it kind of irritating. Seems like it only does it once a day though. I'm just running a laptop for webbrowsing, word processing and data analysis with a few simple console apps. How high do my security settings need to be? Thanks for helping me figure this out -Noah Sounds like it could be updatedb or maybe tripwire running in the background? When updatedb runs, there is quite a bit of disk activity, and the larger the disks, the more the activity... When it happens, why not open up a term and type ps -Ae and see what's the last in the PID list...that might start to point to the villian... -- Wed Nov 6 09:30:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | You tried it just for once, found it alright for kicks, but now you find out you have a habit that sticks, you're an orgasm addict, you're always at it, and you're an orgasm addict. -- The Buzzcocks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Best Linux Laptop
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 08:33, Franki wrote: why not get Dells??? more bang for your buck... and compaq's don't just suck for linux, they suck period... rgds Frank IBM laptops should be notably the best for linux. The current models have drivers, and remember, IBM is working to put linux in the mainstream...(and don't it piss M$ off?)(g) -- Wed Nov 6 09:35:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / Grip V 3.0.1
bascule wrote: john, are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or cd-text which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup over the net of cddb info bascule On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Don't need to, do I , the info is there on the disc to be read by grip anytime it chooses to do so,which usually is on startup or fresh disc entry.First you get track1, track2, track3 etc etc , then a moment or two later it says something like , track1, artist joe blogs, title when I get up in the Morning. John Oh, I am definately talking about the the info that comes from the disc itself nothing to do with the net whatsoever.Most modern CD's come with content info on them , so when you copy the disk in a writer programme for instance , provided that the correct read instructions are given , it copies the disk info as well, xcdroast does this nicely. Grip mere reads this info and displays it as I show you before. Not all CD have this info but from a certain date they seem to of gone in for listing this track song and artist detail on all CD produced thereafter. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / Grip V 3.0.1
bascule wrote: john, are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or cd-text which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup over the net of cddb info bascule On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Don't need to, do I , the info is there on the disc to be read by grip anytime it chooses to do so,which usually is on startup or fresh disc entry.First you get track1, track2, track3 etc etc , then a moment or two later it says something like , track1, artist joe blogs, title when I get up in the Morning. John Oh, I am definately talking about the the info that comes from the disc itself nothing to do with the net whatsoever.Most modern CD's come with content info on them , so when you copy the disk in a writer programme for instance , provided that the correct read instructions are given , it copies the disk info as well, xcdroast does this nicely. Grip mere reads this info and displays it as I show you before. Not all CD have this info but from a certain date they seem to of gone in for listing this track song and artist detail on all CD produced thereafter. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Best Linux Laptop
Eurocom Laptops are some of the few I'm ever seen that are fully certified for Linux. I've personally installed about twenty-five of them with no problems whatsoever. Did I mention that you can purchase them with or without an operating system? www.eurocom.ca Lanman -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:38 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when working with images, but have come across a real puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm working with, two directories contain .jpg and .bmp images. Some of the .bmps were written by a windows program, and some by gPhoto. The .jpgs display as thumbnails, but the .bmps don't. In a third directors there are images that were captured from video by a windows application, then trimmed in Gimp. These all show as .BMP. These images do display as thumbnails. All three directories are subdirectories in a fat32 partition, so renaming *.bmp to *.BMP makes no difference. Any ideas, anyone? Anne What about the name of the files ? John Non-displaying ones are in the order of pic3.bmp and displaying ones are Svid003.BMP. Anne Well I'm not familiar with those file names as such but I do know many windblows file names have to be changed, that is what jhead and chcase are there for, but just as an experiment try changing the name to something all lowercase and see what happens. john -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 Shipped
Just got the boxed set of ML 9.0 today. Just as the Mandrake Store said, they started shipping end of October first of November. Shipping label dated 31 Oct recieved 5 Nov Dublin Ireland to Omaha Nebraska, 6 days, not bad will reinstall on the test machine tonight. Oh, I got the Power Pack Edition. Fun! Watch the mail, kids. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?
I use boot magic as my boot loader. Windows XP must be on the C drive since Boot Magic is a windows application. I just have lilo save to the LINUX partition. Boot Magic locates the windows and LINUX boot loaders. Boot magic is very easy to configure and use.
[newbie] switching video cads (what do i need to do?)
Hi, I just swapped my incompatible ATI 8500 for a more compatible GeForce4 on recommendation of the list. Is there any prepping I need to do to my system before I switch cards? Can I just swap out the cards first and then install the drivers? Or do I need to edit inittab to start are runlevel 3, switch cards, and install nvidia drivers, then switch back to runlevel 5? - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / Grip V 3.0.1
the word 'you' and a ? are missing, the sentence below is a question not a statement! bascule On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, bascule wrote: john, are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or cd-text which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup over the net of cddb info bascule On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Don't need to, do I , the info is there on the disc to be read by grip anytime it chooses to do so,which usually is on startup or fresh disc entry.First you get track1, track2, track3 etc etc , then a moment or two later it says something like , track1, artist joe blogs, title when I get up in the Morning. John -- ...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring... - Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] switching video cads (what do i need to do?)
Just yank the card, replace it, then after a successful powerup, install the nVidia drivers! November 3rd 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! Mashed potatoes can be your friend. ! !! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Paul Rodriguez Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 10:05 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] switching video cads (what do i need to do?) Hi, I just swapped my incompatible ATI 8500 for a more compatible GeForce4 on recommendation of the list. Is there any prepping I need to do to my system before I switch cards? Can I just swap out the cards first and then install the drivers? Or do I need to edit inittab to start are runlevel 3, switch cards, and install nvidia drivers, then switch back to runlevel 5? - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone else tried Texstar's improved KDE fonts?
El Lun 04 Nov 2002 20:03, Derek Jennings escribió: Has anyone else tried out Texstars modified fonts for KDE yet? They are absolutely wonderful !! I thought my fonts were good until I tried this... A little something to add: TRY Texstar's Mozilla packages! (mozilla XFT) ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] switching video cads (what do i need to do?)
Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I just swapped my incompatible ATI 8500 for a more compatible GeForce4 on recommendation of the list. Is there any prepping I need to do to my system before I switch cards? Can I just swap out the cards first and then install the drivers? Or do I need to edit inittab to start are runlevel 3, switch cards, and install nvidia drivers, then switch back to runlevel 5? Harddrake/kudzu will detect your new card and install the XFree86 drivers (worked for me when upgrading from a Trident to a GeForce). Then you can install nVidia's drivers and edit your XF86Config-4 file as per the README. Alternatively, install the nVidia drivers before changing cards, edit the config file and save it to something like XF86config-4.new. Then change cards, boot into runlevel 3, mv your old config file to something like XF86Config-4.panic (don't use .old as that's the default file for old versions and can be overwritten) and finally mv your new file into position. Cross fingers and startx. 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] Hardware question
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV and grabbed stills using KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Best Linux Laptop
Hi Flux, Alway willing to get involved in a slagfest. Count me as one vote for Mandrake! (or 2 if you allow vote fixing) regards, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Flux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:02 PM Subject: [newbie] Best Linux Laptop I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, but what's the best laptop for the average Linux distro? I had, at first, targeted Compaq's Presario 2800T, but I caught wind that Compaq's suck for Linux. (This could explain my current problems) I'm buying two new laptops for me and my boss, and I'm sorta going with the HP Pavilion ze5000 series, unless I hear really bad things about them. Anyway, I'd be happy to hear everyone's input. Thanks! -Law 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] Defrag?
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:00 am, you wrote: After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux is setup (superior), you don't have to defrag What is it about Linux's setup that makes defrag unnecessary? It does its own housekeeping so that a defrag is unnecessary. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
Bryan, I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? T - Original Message - From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV and grabbed stills using KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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] X not shutting down cleanly
Hello, i have lm 8.2 and set it up for run level 5, medium security. for one of my user id's whenever I log out the system just hangs. the only thing that works to get the system to respond is ctrl-alt-f1, then i have a logon again, su to root, then reboot the machine (because if i try to do startx it tells me an x session is still running). if i log on as other users things are fine. i log on. i log off. back to the graphical log on screen as expected. thoughts? _ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lm 8.2 boot configuration
hello, in the boot section of the mandrake control center i can choose to have the machine auto logon, what user id to use, and have kde be invoked as the window manager. problem: one of my user id's doesn't show up (and wouldn't you know it that is the one i want to use since it is the one that exits cleanly when i log out). thx in advance. _ Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scanimage error
El Mar 05 Nov 2002 19:53, escribió: thanks for the info. Which distro you are using now. I don't have /dev/parport0. I have mdk9. I installed scanner using control center. I edited dll.conf and also umax_pp.conf for port 0x378 as I didn't have /dev/parport0. Then I did rpm -e sane-backends-1.0.8 and compiled src 1.0.9. Now it works as root. How to get /dev/parport. I'm sorry, but I can't go beyond. My Astra 2000 is dead, and I can't check it under MDK 9.0. As I said, some time ago work very fine with MDK 8.2. But feel free to write to Stef, a very good guy that help me a lot. Suerte. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 9:44pm up 34 min, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:01 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Just got the boxed set of ML 9.0 today. Just as the Mandrake Store said, they started shipping end of October first of November. Shipping label dated 31 Oct recieved 5 Nov Dublin Ireland to Omaha Nebraska, 6 days, not bad will reinstall on the test machine tonight. Oh, I got the Power Pack Edition. Fun! Watch the mail, kids. Dennis: Thanks for the heads up. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anacron
Ok thanks Derek, that helps my understanding alot. I got that line in crontab. It shouldn't be as much of a problem. I wonder if anyone could make this program run in smaller parts over the course of a whole day. Wouldn't that make it much more inconspicuous on the system? oh well thanks for the tips -Noah On Tuesday 05 November 2002 14:16, Derek Jennings wrote: You can see the daily jobs in /etc/cron.daily Whenever you install an RPM which needs 'maintenance' a file gets dropped in here for the daily processing. For example logrotate will compress your old logs and delete the oldest entries. It will cause a bit of hard drive activity, but not a vast amount (unless you have big logs) The weekly job slocate.cron will cause a lot of harddrive activity, because it compiles a database of every file on your hard drive for use by the slocate command. (If you have it installed) The daily msec job is checking on the file permissions of all your system files, so that could cause a bit of activity. If you find the daily job annoying, why not set it to run at a more convenient time? It is only a matter of editing the /etc/crontab file. For instance in this line 56 10 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily All the scripts in location /etc/cron.daily are scheduled to run at 10:56 every day If you want a nice GUI to setup cron jobs, then there is one in webmin. derek On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:15 pm, Noah Hicks wrote: Well the only problem I'm having is that when it's running, it slows the system down. There's a lot of HD activity and the programs I'm running slow down significatly. This can last for a good 3-4 min. I find it kind of irritating. Seems like it only does it once a day though. I'm just running a laptop for webbrowsing, word processing and data analysis with a few simple console apps. How high do my security settings need to be? Thanks for helping me figure this out -Noah BTW is there something wrong with the list server? I got your reply but I didn't get my own message. On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:24, Derek Jennings wrote: If you stop anacron/cron then your system will not be able to perform essential maintenance. Your log files will fill up up to infinity, your temporary files will not be erased, and your system will not perform any security checks. What is the problem with having it running? derek On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:20 am, Noah Hicks wrote: I need to know how to get anacron to stop running as often as it seems to be. I have found the task file in the /etc dir but I can't see how to modify it and the man page is hard for me to understand. Could anyone tell me how to do this? Unless there is some task I need it to do, I would like to get it to cease completely. Can I just remove the cron.daily and cron.weekly files? This is what I have now: [noahlocalhost etc]$ cat anacrontab # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron # See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # These entries are useful for a Mandrake system. 1 5 cron.daily run-parts /etc/cron.daily 7 10 cron.weekly run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 30 15 cron.monthlyrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:01 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Just got the boxed set of ML 9.0 today. Just as the Mandrake Store said, they started shipping end of October first of November. Shipping label dated 31 Oct recieved 5 Nov Dublin Ireland to Omaha Nebraska, 6 days, not bad will reinstall on the test machine tonight. Oh, I got the Power Pack Edition. Fun! Watch the mail, kids. Anyone know when it will hit the stores in the USA Don't know why I would want to buy it though, can't get 9.0 to install on my computer anyway..have a conflict that I can't find...have no problems with 8.2. Tried installing redhat 8.0 and the installation stopped at the same point and redhat support gave me some ideas on how to get it to install including doing a web search to see if anyone else had the same problems. LOL (so useful) I love mandrake and have been following each build in anticipation of it being my only OS but alas, winxp has to stay on. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 12:24, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:01 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Just got the boxed set of ML 9.0 today. Just as the Mandrake Store said, they started shipping end of October first of November. Shipping label dated 31 Oct recieved 5 Nov Dublin Ireland to Omaha Nebraska, 6 days, not bad will reinstall on the test machine tonight. Oh, I got the Power Pack Edition. Fun! Watch the mail, kids. Dennis: Thanks for the heads up. -- cmg Dang...and to think that I got my MDK 9.0 on Monday...(for $9.80AUD along with my APC mag from the newsagents)...is Australia really that far ahead of the rest of the world? (g) Cheers! -- Wed Nov 6 12:45:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | I've been there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped
Anyone know when it will hit the stores in the USA Don't know why I would want to buy it though, can't get 9.0 to install on my computer anyway..have a conflict that I can't find...have no problems with 8.2. Tried installing redhat 8.0 and the installation stopped at the same point and redhat support gave me some ideas on how to get it to install including doing a web search to see if anyone else had the same problems. LOL (so useful) I love mandrake and have been following each build in anticipation of it being my only OS but alas, winxp has to stay on. Walt so if you tell us here and what the error was, maybe we could help? what have you done so far to find the conflict? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped
Dang...and to think that I got my MDK 9.0 on Monday...(for $9.80AUD along with my APC mag from the newsagents)...is Australia really that far ahead of the rest of the world? (g) Haven't you noticed that at times when installing it will ask for the 3rd CD, the internationl one? That you don't have? And neither do I, as the third CD that comes with the mag is not the third CD it's asking for. I'd rather have the full version as this one is just a stopgap measure. Nice though. :^) Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine
When I received errors like that, it was because I was trying to run a program via WINE from a directory that wasn't mapped in WINE. In other words, you're trying to run a program in directory A, but there is no Drive mapping in the WINE config file for directory A. I'm having trouble getting one program to work. It's called Homecook from Mountain Software. It's the last thing keeping me with M$ on a second machine. If someone can tell me how to get that working under Wine I'd be ecstatic. Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine
That is the same reason I ask I have a cad I need,this weekend some of the guys in our local LUG want to try it in Crossover Office. Joe Barron When I received errors like that, it was because I was trying to run a program via WINE from a directory that wasn't mapped in WINE. In other words, you're trying to run a program in directory A, but there is no Drive mapping in the WINE config file for directory A. I'm having trouble getting one program to work. It's called Homecook from Mountain Software. It's the last thing keeping me with M$ on a second machine. If someone can tell me how to get that working under Wine I'd be ecstatic. Regards Trevor 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] 9.0 Shipped
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 13:13, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Haven't you noticed that at times when installing it will ask for the 3rd CD, the internationl one? That you don't have? And neither do I, as the third CD that comes with the mag is not the third CD it's asking for. I'd rather have the full version as this one is just a stopgap measure. Nice though. :^) Regards Trevor Well, ya know, being an ex-Yank, I figgered that I'd stick to yank-English - so the International stuff didn't mean much to me...but I would like to get the SOURCE CD...which I'm hoping a mate will d/l for me and burn...overall, though, being that I get APC all the time anyways, it was a nice addition to the package...so I won't whinge too much about it...if I don't like it, I can delete the VM and load something else! (Nice thing about VMWare!) -- Wed Nov 6 13:40:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Television is now so desperately hungry for material that it is scraping the top of the barrel. -- Gore Vidal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped
I have that as well, but thats ok, I had already gotten the download edition, and it has the 3rd CD. why don't you just download it its only 450mb, you got the two big 700mb ones with the mag. even on dialup, 450mb is only a couple of days rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Trevor Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped Dang...and to think that I got my MDK 9.0 on Monday...(for $9.80AUD along with my APC mag from the newsagents)...is Australia really that far ahead of the rest of the world? (g) Haven't you noticed that at times when installing it will ask for the 3rd CD, the internationl one? That you don't have? And neither do I, as the third CD that comes with the mag is not the third CD it's asking for. I'd rather have the full version as this one is just a stopgap measure. Nice though. :^) Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:53, Technoslick wrote: I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? I am still on Mandrake 8.1, but I did not need to do anything special to view my camcorder on KWinTV. I would say this program is OK for creating video clips if you don't need sound. I have only been able to record silent video clips with KWinTV, despite the presence of a video + audio option. KWinTV cannot be used for video editing as far as I know. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.0 / Grip V 3.0.1
bascule wrote: the word 'you' and a ? are missing, the sentence below is a question not a statement! bascule On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, bascule wrote: john, are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or cd-text which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup over the net of cddb info bascule On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Don't need to, do I , the info is there on the disc to be read by grip anytime it chooses to do so,which usually is on startup or fresh disc entry.First you get track1, track2, track3 etc etc , then a moment or two later it says something like , track1, artist joe blogs, title when I get up in the Morning. John It's read from the disc. Here is one read by grip v2.98.6 from a commercially bought disc , not a copy,with no internet involved. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot41.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
