Re: [newbie-it] postfix e alias
Maurizio Scaglione wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 11:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti, Ho una casella email con tre alias presso un provider. Con postfix (e fetchmail) vorrei scaricare in locale questa casella. Il problema è: come faccio a dire a postfix di smistare la posta dei tre alias nei tre utenti locali? Grazie, Lo fai fare da fetchmail. Si ma come? E' sufficiente indicare le 3 caselle locali? -- -- Ciao, Lux Linux User # 266688 It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.
Re: [newbie-it] scelta di avvio del sistema operativo
Caricati con il tuo editor preferito il file /etc/lilo.conf. Finito di aggiungere la riga che ti interessa, salva, esci e lancia il comando lilo -v. Ciao Il lun, 2002-11-25 alle 11:22, Enrico Teotti ha scritto: Salve a tutti, ho installato la versione mandrake 8.1 sul mio PC su un harddisk primario. Ho un altro HD con installato Windows2000 Professional. Adesso per selezionare quale sistema avviare faccio una scomoda attivazione/disattivazione degli HD nel BIOS. Sò che LILO è l'applicativo dedicato alla scelta in avvio quando ho installato Linux. Qualcuno sapreppe darmi qualche dritta su come modificarlo per far vedere anche l'altro sistema operativo e proporlo all'avvio? Grazie mille, Enrico _ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plusref=lmtplus
Re: [newbie-it] Help Wine
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:42:47 +0100 Luigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leggere la documentazione sul sito da cui hai scaricato il pacchetto, è tanto difficile? :-) http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/help.php#mandrake un po' difficile e', visto che di inglese capisco molto poco comunque grazie A te serve la prima frase, al massimo la seconda: a. Mandrake You should install a package called X11R6-contrib. You can find that on rpmfind as well. Non serve un corso intensivo di inglese per capirle :-)) ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 20:02, lunedì 25 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 13:24, lunedì 25 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, per maggior comodità nelle fasi di masterizzazione, ho messo anche il lettore CD in emulazione scsi. Ho fatto le dovute modifiche a LiLo ed al file /etc/fstab, e tutto funziona. Però ora XMMS non riesce a vedere i CD audio (che sono, invece, regolarmente ascoltabili usando KsCD)... c'è una soluzione, o per qualche motivo XMMS non digerisce i lettori finti scsi? Al solito, grazie della risposta! Daniele Credo che Xmms faccia riferimento a /dev/cdrom... Prova a modificare, se non lo hai già fatto, il link simbolico /dev/cdrom facendolo puntare a /dev/dispositivo cdrom emulato scsi (scd1 forse)... Fammi sapere perché non ho avuto ancora il coraggio di fare l'emulazione per via di sta storia dei link simbolici e devfs... ciao Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che suggerisci funziona in KsCD (con cui, infatti, riesco tranquillamente a sentire i CD audio). In XMMS, invece, per sentire un CD audio si punta su /mnt/cdrom come fosse una qualsiasi cartella contenente file musicali, ed il CD viene eseguito. Almeno, *veniva* eseguito. Ora il navigatore dell'XMMS mostra solo una cartella vuota, come se il CD non fosse nel lettore... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 15:11, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che suggerisci funziona in KsCD (con cui, infatti, riesco tranquillamente a sentire i CD audio). In XMMS, invece, per sentire un CD audio si punta su /mnt/cdrom come fosse una qualsiasi cartella contenente file musicali, ed il CD viene eseguito. Almeno, *veniva* eseguito. Ora il navigatore dell'XMMS mostra solo una cartella vuota, come se il CD non fosse nel lettore... Uhm... Scusa la domanda assolutamente banale... ma /mnt/cdrom fa riferimento al dispositivo scsi emulato no? a scd1 per intederci e non più ad hdc... Perché se è così non saprei davvero cosa fare... Forse è un problema di permessi, devi essere root per leggere /mnt/cdrom?? Ma ciò sarebbe davvero molto strano Boh! Non resta che sperare nell'aiuto di un professionista di linux... ciao
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 19:40, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 15:11, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che suggerisci funziona in KsCD (con cui, infatti, riesco tranquillamente a sentire i CD audio). In XMMS, invece, per sentire un CD audio si punta su /mnt/cdrom come fosse una qualsiasi cartella contenente file musicali, ed il CD viene eseguito. Almeno, *veniva* eseguito. Ora il navigatore dell'XMMS mostra solo una cartella vuota, come se il CD non fosse nel lettore... Uhm... Scusa la domanda assolutamente banale... ma /mnt/cdrom fa riferimento al dispositivo scsi emulato no? a scd1 per intederci e non più ad hdc... Perché se è così non saprei davvero cosa fare... Forse è un problema di permessi, devi essere root per leggere /mnt/cdrom?? Ma ciò sarebbe davvero molto strano Boh! Non resta che sperare nell'aiuto di un professionista di linux... ciao Sì, certo. Ho modificato /etc/fstab, così ora /dev/scd0 viene montato in /mnt/cdrom e /dev/scd1 in /mnt/cdrom2... e infatti lettore e masterizzatore funzionano normalmente. Ma XMMS non suona... Non è nemmeno un problema di permessi (posso montare ed accedere al CD anche come utente). Quindi aspetterò un professionista di passaggio! ;) Grazie per l'aiuto, comunque... Ciao! Daniele
Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:40:24 +0100 From: Emiliano La Licata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 15:11, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che suggerisci funziona in KsCD (con cui, infatti, riesco tranquillamente a sentire i CD audio). In XMMS, invece, per sentire un CD audio si punta su /mnt/cdrom come fosse una qualsiasi cartella contenente file musicali, ed il CD viene eseguito. Almeno, *veniva* eseguito. Ora il navigatore dell'XMMS mostra solo una cartella vuota, come se il CD non fosse nel lettore... Scusa se ti utilizzo da cavia da laboratorio ma ormai hai fatto il salto dell'emulazione e insomma vediamo che succede; potresti per favore vedere se grip funziona bene poiché anche questo fa riferimento a /dev/cdrom e dunque in linea teorica da quello che mi dici dovrebbe funzionare... ma sai, non dire gatto se non ce l'hai nel sacco (Trapattoni) !! Potevo spedirti l'e-mail personalmente ma credo interessi le persone che vogliono emularti... ahahah... Ciao :)
Re: [newbie-it] Consigliatemi una distro
At 18.11 23/11/02 +0100, you wrote: Mi hanno appena dato/regalato un vecchio pc con processore K6 64Mb di ram (non conosco la frequenza del processore) 3Gb di HD e vorrei farlo resuscitare con linux. Chi mi sa consigliare una distro che giri bene sul suddetto pc senza essere impossibile da usare per chi ne sa abbastanza poco? Grazie anticipatamente Junk. Un nome su tutti: Debian Woody 3.0 r0 Se decidi di usarla fammelo sapere che posso anche spedirti i 7 cdrom Paride
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 20:10, martedì 26 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Sì, certo. Ho modificato /etc/fstab, così ora /dev/scd0 viene montato in /mnt/cdrom e /dev/scd1 in /mnt/cdrom2... e infatti lettore e masterizzatore funzionano normalmente. Ma XMMS non suona... Non è nemmeno un problema di permessi (posso montare ed accedere al CD anche come utente). Quindi aspetterò un professionista di passaggio! ;) Grazie per l'aiuto, comunque... Ciao! Daniele OK, mi scuso. Mi sento un po' idiota, ma la soluzione era sotto i miei occhi... a mia discolpa posso dire che non avevo avuto troppo tempo per verificare e provare a risolvere il problema. Probabilmente, era quel che volevi dire tu (ma non ti avevo capito): ho controllato la configurazione del plug-in di lettura del CD audio... e ho corretto la periferica di destinazione... :) Ciao, e grazie ancora! Daniele
[newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek
Ola lista Qualcuno sa se il su detto modem adsl abbia una ben che minima speranza di funzionare con linux? Ho fatto una ricerca con santo Google ma non ho trovato nulla! é il modem che viene dato in dotazione con i nuova abbonamenti di tiscali. dimenticavo è ovviamente usb :) sperando in un miracolo aspetto notizzie. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 20:10, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Alle 19:40, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 15:11, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao Emiliano, la modifica che suggerisci funziona in KsCD (con cui, infatti, riesco tranquillamente a sentire i CD audio). In XMMS, invece, per sentire un CD audio si punta su /mnt/cdrom come fosse una qualsiasi cartella contenente file musicali, ed il CD viene eseguito. Almeno, *veniva* eseguito. Ora il navigatore dell'XMMS mostra solo una cartella vuota, come se il CD non fosse nel lettore... Uhm... Scusa la domanda assolutamente banale... ma /mnt/cdrom fa riferimento al dispositivo scsi emulato no? a scd1 per intederci e non più ad hdc... Perché se è così non saprei davvero cosa fare... Forse è un problema di permessi, devi essere root per leggere /mnt/cdrom?? Ma ciò sarebbe davvero molto strano Boh! Non resta che sperare nell'aiuto di un professionista di linux... ciao Sì, certo. Ho modificato /etc/fstab, così ora /dev/scd0 viene montato in /mnt/cdrom e /dev/scd1 in /mnt/cdrom2... e infatti lettore e masterizzatore funzionano normalmente. Ma XMMS non suona... Non è nemmeno un problema di permessi (posso montare ed accedere al CD anche come utente). Quindi aspetterò un professionista di passaggio! ;) Grazie per l'aiuto, comunque... Ciao! Daniele Scusate un momento.io non ricordo ci fossero stati problemi quando avevo emulato in scsi il lettore.. controlla una cosa..apri la playlist e poi clikka su add e seleziona dir selezionagli cdrom..e il gioco dovrebbe essere fatto cmq è normale che il navigatore ti mostri una cartella vuota..il navigatore a quanto ho capito funzia come mozi-konq-galeo...non avendo fsistem non viene visto :) facci sapere. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi
Alle 23:00, martedì 26 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: Alle 20:10, martedì 26 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Sì, certo. Ho modificato /etc/fstab, così ora /dev/scd0 viene montato in /mnt/cdrom e /dev/scd1 in /mnt/cdrom2... e infatti lettore e masterizzatore funzionano normalmente. Ma XMMS non suona... Non è nemmeno un problema di permessi (posso montare ed accedere al CD anche come utente). aspè tu monti da user perchè in fstab dichiari il dispositivo, altrimenti nisba.. [CUT] Ciao Mike, grazie per la tua risposta. Come spiegato nell'altra mia email, problema risolto! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek
Alle 23:43, martedì 26 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Ola lista Qualcuno sa se il su detto modem adsl abbia una ben che minima speranza di funzionare con linux? Ho fatto una ricerca con santo Google ma non ho trovato nulla! é il modem che viene dato in dotazione con i nuova abbonamenti di tiscali. dimenticavo è ovviamente usb :) sperando in un miracolo aspetto notizzie. Ciao , Tom Domanda di getto: hai provato a fare questa domanda al servizio di assistenza tecnica di Tiscali? Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek
Alle 00:14, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Alle 23:43, martedì 26 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Ola lista Qualcuno sa se il su detto modem adsl abbia una ben che minima speranza di funzionare con linux? Ho fatto una ricerca con santo Google ma non ho trovato nulla! é il modem che viene dato in dotazione con i nuova abbonamenti di tiscali. dimenticavo è ovviamente usb :) sperando in un miracolo aspetto notizzie. Ciao , Tom Domanda di getto: hai provato a fare questa domanda al servizio di assistenza tecnica di Tiscali? Daniele Certo! ecco ke mi hanno detto. - Buon Giorno, attualmente la Nortek che è la casa produttrice del modem in questione,non ha fornito driver per far funzionare questo modem su Linux. In attesa di un suo riscontro , Cordiali Saluti Stefano Cossu quell in attesa di un suo riscontro mi suona tanto come un : se lo trovi fammelo sapere che mi stanno facendo una capa tanta anche gli altri! Poi ho scritto 2 volte anche all sig. Nortek in personoa ma ancora non si è deganto di rispondernima stiamo a vedere! Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek
Alle 00:44, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Certo! ecco ke mi hanno detto. --- -- Buon Giorno, attualmente la Nortek che è la casa produttrice del modem in questione,non ha fornito driver per far funzionare questo modem su Linux. In attesa di un suo riscontro , Cordiali Saluti Stefano Cossu --- - quell in attesa di un suo riscontro mi suona tanto come un : se lo trovi fammelo sapere che mi stanno facendo una capa tanta anche gli altri! Poi ho scritto 2 volte anche all sig. Nortek in personoa ma ancora non si è deganto di rispondernima stiamo a vedere! Ciao , Tom Beh, dovresti scoprire almeno su che chipset è basato. Altrimenti, rivolgiti ad un altro ISP... (ma prima scriviglielo chiaro) Ciao... Daniele
Re: [newbie] OT avi to mpeg?
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:07:35PM -0800, Ibly Piblo wrote: Sorry if this is OT. Is there an avi to mpeg converter for linux that is easy? Already tried a few which were useless, mjpegtools proved to be trash, as it just spit out useless errors instead of actually converting the file. lav2wav Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi ++ WARN: Input file Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi is not in JPEG 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 format **ERROR: File Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi has 23.976000 frames/sec, choose norm with +[np] param This tells me nothing, and it did not convert the file. I hope that there are some better ones out there. Thanks. Ibly Hmm, this is a bit like calling your toaster trash because it won't make coffee! lav2wav is for extracting/splitting sound from a video. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rsh not working...
Hi All! I have installed rsh on my Mandrake 9.0, but it isn't working: i get permission denied on the command rsh -l wim 192.168.240.60 My setup: both hosts have the same users (wim). My /etc/hosts.equiv contains wim + File permissions: -rw-r--r--1 root root6 Nov 26 13:36 /etc/hosts.equiv What am I doing wrong? Cheers! Wim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] oops .. forgot the attachment
Dear Anne, Friends, Thanks for your mail regarding this. How can I check whether I did install the cdread ? Where did you get the cdread you mention below ? Thx, Ongkie From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] oops .. forgot the attachment Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:46:53 + On Monday 25 Nov 2002 12:14 pm, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Stephen, Friends, I can hear MP3 from XMMS without any problem. I did as well try to set the volume level in KMIX. Maybe it is because I use DVD pioneer as a player/drive instead of CD ? I haven't been following this thread, but I use my cd/dvd player with xmms and can play both mp3s and cds. However, I did have to install cdread to do it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't connect to Texstar
I have been trying to enhance the Mandrake9 fonts using the Getting libqt3 compiled with Xft-2 instructions on Derek's site, but can't connect to the Texstar site to download the necessary packages. I get an error message with each package:- FTP user password incorrect. I have no problems connecting to other sites and have connected to Texstar a few days ago. Wanting a password is a new one on me. How do I get the correct password, and where do I install it, please? I can really recommend Derek's site: it contains some very useful information. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net Thanks Derek! Many thanks for any help, as always. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] supermount
From: Anne Wilson No, but I wanted the convenience of being able to read from the dvd and write to the cd-rw, but XCDroast couldn't see it. I understand k3b (I think it's called) could do it anyway, so I'll look at that when I've a moment. I haven't tried burning 'on-the-fly' with Linux, as yet. I can tell you it didn't work for me under Windows 98 SE. Then again, it's not like I have a lot of horsepower here. The pair of AMD K6-2/500's I have, have long since lost their prime in running modern tech stuff. :-( I haven't tried K3b yet. It sounds like a good alternative to eroast. I have never been able to get XCDroast to work for me. I am content to create image files of my CDs, then burn a CD-R from those image files. I am not extracting content from a CD very often. I was under the impression, too, that it would not work for dvd film (as distinct from data) if it was not scsi emulated. Is this not so? I am not sure that I know what you are implying, but if it is about extracting material from a DVD to go out onto a CD-R, I can tell you a little of what I learned. Some of this is very OT and controversial, so you can take that up with me off the listserv, if you want. You can extract DVD movies and place them onto a CD-R, becoming VCD's in the process. This means 'ripping' the content, decoding it, and then copying the extract to a CD-R. You lose some quality, but the outcome is superior to VHS. The contraversiality is obvious: in whether it is something you should do. This can be done 'on-the-fly' under the Windows environment, but I have not been able to do so, probably due to a lack of horsepower. I have never tried ripping a DVD in Linux. I doubt that I could do it on-the-fly. A multi-stage process is the only way it will work for me. The other use is pulling program data, like the contents of an MDK 9.0 distro. I believe (I REALLY am guessing, as I have yet to acquire any DVDs that have programs on them for the purpose of installing or providing computer data) that you should be able to read that data as you would any off a CD-ROM. Maybe those here that have installed from a DVD can tell you for sure what to expect. It would seem that the only thing proprietary about the contents of a DVD is in regards to movie format, not the filesystem, or format of the volume. My take, as uninformed as I am. Keep in mind that in a perfect answer, it is not best to put two devices such as these on the same IDE channel. Some here have said they do it all the time and never have problems. It could be because they are running very fast systems that can accept the data flow without interruption. The hardware is part of it, too. Some ROM drives go into sleep mode too early for the likes of a reading CD-RW trying to write on-the-fly. The slower the write speed, the greater the chance you will have the data ROM drive sleep and neglect that CD-RW's data buffer. Using DMA on both drives probably helps a lot here. There are some variables that go into what units work best with others, and so forth. I wouldn't say that anything can be said for certain for all cases without someone coming back with having made it work otherwise. BTW - is your Liteon drive coupled with a cd-rw? I'm curious after my parts supplier talked of some incompatibilities. Yes, I do run my Liteon on the same IDE channel as another ROM device. The Liteon is master, the Phillips CD-RW is slave. As far as I can tell, they both work as expected. The results I get in using both drives in MDK 9.0 is pretty much the same as in Windows XP Pro. The only noticeable difference is with the DVD in playing DVD movies. I found that WinDVD in XP outperforms anything I have used in Linux so far. Less choppy and more stable. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Read errors
I, for one, have no need for anything that fast. If I was using the drive to house a massive data store, and needed to access that from a program in a timely manner, I could see the benefit. Still, I think that such a need is a very small percentage of users. This is where marketing hype gets in the way of what consumers really want and need. Most of us just want a reliable, 'quiet' running drive that reads fast enough for installations to be quick and multi-media to run smoothly. Is a 52X CD-ROM needed? Is faster always better? Not if speed has gone up and the mechanics have stayed the same. Try buying a 32X CD-ROM drive at your local department store or computer shop. The manufacturers keep hyping the need for speed to make CD-ROM drives comparable to hard drives, as well as other removable media options. I'm sure that there are surpluses on the Web for slower drives, but you will pay nearly as much as for them as you would for a 52X. What would be nice it to have software controls on how fast the drive spins. Then you could dial-in your max, and save wear and tear on the drive, your computer (from the vibration) and on your nerves! T - Original Message - From: JoeD In some cases the problem may be the cd label but a recent article that I had read (don't remeber where) had put the blame on the way that the newer faster drivers clamp and hold the cd's by putting the blame on poor mechanical design. The comment was to use a better quality lower speed drive. CD's have been found to shatter in the new 52X supersonic drives due to being off balance and or manufacturing defects with the cd and also due to the inability to clamp down the cd properly. 32X is fast enough for me and I don't have to listen to 747's taking off. JoeD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
Brian, I tried doing what u said, doing a clean installation of mandrake, but it still gave me the exact same error. Firstly, i used fdisk to delete all my partitions. I then tried to install m8.2. Can't. Then i thought maybe i should format the partitions, so i did using format from a bootable dos disk. Loaded in m8.2 setup and gave me the same error. I couldn't use auto allocate or wizard coz it doesn't solve it even. This is what i got just before i clicked no to enter into the place where i could create, resize, mount partitions.Choosing yes was not an option coz it gave me the same message so i had to choose no. i can't read the partition table, it's too complicated fr me i can try to go on blanking bad partitions (all data will be lost) The other solution is to disallow DrakX to modify the partition table.(the error is ask_before_blanking:unknown partition table format.) Do you agree to loose all the partitions? From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue 26/11/2002 8:2 PM GMT+08:00 To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP OK - we are into trial and error territory! I've had some success with this approach when all else fails: - boot the mandrake install CD - take it as far as the partitioning - tell diskdrake to delete all partitions - create some FAT32 partitions for later use with XP plus the required linux paritions - either complete the linux install, then install XP, then boot the install CD again and rewrite the boot loader, or exit the install, do XP and come back to mandrake later. XP will install on partitions created by diskdrake (reformat them during the XP install though). This may work around your problem, but I don't pretend to understand what's going on. HTH Brian On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 21:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd partition unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2 partitions with NTFS and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake setup couldn't seem to detect it properly and gave me those error messages. That's all i guess. Sean The replies I've seen to this so far seem to have ignored the unknown partition table format message. This would be a cause of concern to me. Sean, can you tell us how you did the original partitioning? Did you start with a raw disk and use XP to partition during the install, or did you use another tool, like Partition Magic? If you don't mind reinstalling your XP system, I would suggest the following: - boot the XP install disk - use the XP installer to delete all partitions - create your 1st partition on which XP is to be installed using either FAT32 or NTFS (I would choose FAT32 unless you feel the need for the extra security - create your 2nd partition as FAT32 so you can share data with linux - leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned and do the XP install - then install Mandrake, letting it handle it's partitioning HTH Brian 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 -- Brian Parish [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
Re: [newbie] Can't connect to Texstar
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 2:30 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have been trying to enhance the Mandrake9 fonts using the Getting libqt3 compiled with Xft-2 instructions on Derek's site, but can't connect to the Texstar site to download the necessary packages. I get an error message with each package:- FTP user password incorrect. I have no problems connecting to other sites and have connected to Texstar a few days ago. Wanting a password is a new one on me. How do I get the correct password, and where do I install it, please? I can really recommend Derek's site: it contains some very useful information. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net Thanks Derek! Many thanks for any help, as always. Keith You will make me blush. As for Texstars download site. It does that every now and again. Just try again later and it will be OK. (In fact it is working now - but a bit slow) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install from XP over network?
A friend from work would like to try Mandrake at home. The computer he wants to put it on doesn't have a CD drive, but it is currently on his home network (Windows XP). Is there any way he can install it over the network, using the cd from another computer? TIA, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
On November 26, 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd partition unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2 partitions with NTFS and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake setup couldn't seem to detect it properly and gave me those error messages. That's all i guess. Sean Hi Sean; I'm not quite certain what's causing the aggravating or why, but I spent an unproductive hour (or four) on the phone with a friend last week trying to solve it. Then I got cranky and gave him different instructions and it worked. The instructions were (condensed) as follows: Fresh install, wiping all _OS_ partitions; but keeping any personal data (pictures, music, movies, etc) on a 'shared' FAT32 partition previously available. This is easier for totally fresh installs but the steps are the same: First; boot to Mandrake install disk 1, choose install, expert, any partitions visible in the diskdrake screen except the one that contains the data desired for 'save' are _individually_ deleted, use the desired partition sizes already determined for XP and make those partitions as FAT32 (you'll format these later during XP install anyway, and you wanted to convert one to NTFS but this will be easiest for now), make the desired Linux partitions in whatever file system format you've chosen. ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS, whatever you desire. If you want a seperate /boot be sure it's ext2 or ext3 since you'll only get grief at the make boot disk stage later and you don't want to skip that do you? :-) format **only** the Linux partitions and allow diskdrake to write the partition table to disk, exit the install since you'll have to boot from the Mandrake install disk later anyway and it's a waste of time for now otherwise. XP (like all things Microsoft) doesn't play nice with others in other words, boot from the XP install disk and work only with the FAT32 section of the drive that you allocated for XP install. (2 partitions I believe you said?) Don't allow Windows to touch the rest of the disk except for recognition of any pre-existing shared data FAT 32 partitions. Be careful it doesn't try to format that or you'll hate it later almost as much as I do now. ;) Once finished with that expert install Mandrake as usual, avoiding the XP partitions except for providing mount point information; then install packages as desired. In my friend's situation he wanted XP to be default so that his wife and kids wouldn't freak when exposed to Mandrake. I walked him through editing lilo during a later call. I hope this is of some use. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] supermount
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 2:33 pm, Technoslick wrote: From: Anne Wilson No, but I wanted the convenience of being able to read from the dvd and write to the cd-rw, but XCDroast couldn't see it. I understand k3b (I think it's called) could do it anyway, so I'll look at that when I've a moment. I haven't tried burning 'on-the-fly' with Linux, as yet. I can tell you it didn't work for me under Windows 98 SE. Then again, it's not like I have a lot of horsepower here. The pair of AMD K6-2/500's I have, have long since lost their prime in running modern tech stuff. :-( I used to do it regularly on Nero. I've had a couple of cds ruined by playing them in the car, so I don't risk it any more. I make a copy for car use. I haven't tried K3b yet. It sounds like a good alternative to eroast. I have never been able to get XCDroast to work for me. I find it OK for data, but not for music. I was under the impression, too, that it would not work for dvd film (as distinct from data) if it was not scsi emulated. Is this not so? I am not sure that I know what you are implying, Nothing complicated - just playing dvd movies. Keep in mind that in a perfect answer, it is not best to put two devices such as these on the same IDE channel. Since I have 4 ide connectors (two normal and two udma) I have plenty of space. I don't need to put them together. Some here have said they do it all the time and never have problems. It could be because they are running very fast systems that can accept the data flow without interruption. XCDroast has a message that seems to me to imply that burn-free, or whatever it calls it, is switched on. I wonder if that means the same as it would in Nero? BTW - is your Liteon drive coupled with a cd-rw? I'm curious after my parts supplier talked of some incompatibilities. Yes, I do run my Liteon on the same IDE channel as another ROM device. The Liteon is master, the Phillips CD-RW is slave. As far as I can tell, they both work as expected. I don't know which brands they were talking about, apart from Afreey, but I do know that if they are asked to supply one they now ask what it will be teamed with. As I said, they were not rubbishing the drive, just being cautious about compatibility. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] oops .. forgot the attachment
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 2:11 pm, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Anne, Friends, Thanks for your mail regarding this. How can I check whether I did install the cdread ? Open up xmms. Click on the top left hand corner to get a menu and select options Preferences. The first tab is Audio I/O Plugins. The default installation puts CD Audio Player in. If you have AudioCD Reader installed it will show there. Where did you get the cdread you mention below ? If it doesn't show, use your installer to get xmms-cdread from your Mandrake disks. When it is installed, go back the plugins in xmms as above, click on CD Audio Player, then uncheck the 'enable plugin'. Click on AudioCD Reader and enable it. Done Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi setup
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:11:43 -0600 Carl J. Bauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try changing the directory urpmi.addmedia Distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/9.0/ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz Usually the hdlist.cz or synthesis.hdlist.cz is located in /base, so you use ../base/ to go up a level and into /base and then synthesis.hdlist.cz to get the file with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz (This command on one line) Or some other mirror if you prefer. derek 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] supermount
From: Anne Wilson I used to do it regularly on Nero. I've had a couple of cds ruined by playing them in the car, so I don't risk it any more. I make a copy for car use. Yeah, I have done it for those reasons, too. I refuse to bring originals into the car. I am a real fuss about this, as well as their care and protection. I find it OK for data, but not for music. After I couldn't get it to work, I tried 'eroast', and that has worked flawlessly for me. I guess once something works for me, I tend to stay with it. Since I have 4 ide connectors (two normal and two udma) I have plenty of space. I don't need to put them together. Keep them separate, then. XCDroast has a message that seems to me to imply that burn-free, or whatever it calls it, is switched on. I wonder if that means the same as it would in Nero? Yes, the same in all programs that mention this technology. Basically, it is the use of a special buffer made up in your system's RAM to make sure that the itsy-bitsy hardware buffer in your CD-RW never runs dry while burning. You can still make coasters by having stuff running in the background, or some foolishness, but it's a lot harder to do now. I don't know which brands they were talking about, apart from Afreey, but I do know that if they are asked to supply one they now ask what it will be teamed with. As I said, they were not rubbishing the drive, just being cautious about compatibility. Probably so. However, if you ever speak with those people again, and you think about it, ask them if the Phillips drives are a problem. Thanks. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] oops .. forgot the attachment
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 4:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 2:11 pm, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Done By the way - there is a good bit of useful information about this on Derek's linux pages http://www.jennings.homelinux.net It was Derek who first got me up and running Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] supermount
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 4:47 pm, Technoslick wrote: From: Anne Wilson After I couldn't get it to work, I tried 'eroast', and that has worked flawlessly for me. I guess once something works for me, I tend to stay with it. I looked at that under 8.2, but couldn't get any sense out of it. It looked as though it should have been better, but for some reason I couldn't make it work. There's sometimes a problem when a very capable program has little or no help available - what's intuitive for one user is not for others. XCDroast has a message that seems to me to imply that burn-free, or whatever it calls it, is switched on. I wonder if that means the same as it would in Nero? Yes, the same in all programs that mention this technology. Basically, it is the use of a special buffer made up in your system's RAM to make sure that the itsy-bitsy hardware buffer in your CD-RW never runs dry while burning. XCDroast looks such a simple basic program that you don't expect luxuries like this g I don't know which brands they were talking about, apart from Afreey, but I do know that if they are asked to supply one they now ask what it will be teamed with. As I said, they were not rubbishing the drive, just being cautious about compatibility. Probably so. However, if you ever speak with those people again, and you think about it, ask them if the Phillips drives are a problem. Thanks. Don't see the tech support people often - only if a component appears to be faulty - but I'll bear that in mind. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems w/ Mandrake Update
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:28:42 -0600 Ryan Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any time I try and connect to Mandrake Update it tells me There was an error adding the medium to urpmi. or some such thing. It won't work regardless of which mirror I pick. I've tried looking on the Mandrake site but couldn't really find anything. Thanks Ryan Go to mandrake control center /software management/software sources manager. When your in there you will see one that says update_source . This is where you get your updates from. if you select it and hit edit mine looks like this: URL: ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS Relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz Hope that helps, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix Config
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:03 pm, Franki wrote: configure /etc/postfix/main.cf pay attention to the following: $mydomain $mydestination $myhostname go to dyndns and get yourself a domain name you can use.. its free, or donation based. Please excuse my ignorance, but is it nessaccery to have a domain name? make sure /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and hosts match those in /etc so your mail server can resolve address's. They do match. All of the files in each. reload postfix: service postfix reload see how that goes. Thanks for the help. The thing is, when I had sendmail installed ages ago, that worked fine. But, sendmail is not working either and the configuration files look very scary :-/ Cheers, Jord rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jordan Elver Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 2:37 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Postfix Config Hi, I'm setting up Apache (with PHP), MySQL etc and want to be able to send mail from PHP. I've installed postfix and it's running. When I send mail from PHP, it sends and is added to the /var/spool/mail/postfix file. Inside the file are messages which say something along the lines of: 450 Sender address rejected: Domain not found This box is not a production machine (thank goodness ;-)) but for local development. I do, however need to send external email. I know this is a postfix config error. The machine does not have a domain hosted here, just a fqdn I made up for my LAN. How can I fix it? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMail filters
I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would rather completely delete it. I don't want to use 'bounce' as it gives them the satisfaction of knowing it arrived. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Postfix Config
Stick with postfix, its far easier them m4's and the like... you might find postfix easier if you use webmin.. generially yes, postfix should have a domain name.. you may be able to get it sort of functioning without it.. but its a good idea... do you have a static IP address??? if so, try doing a lookup on it, my ISP gives all its Ip's numeric subdomains.. and they are find for a mail server... when you send mail, (or try to) what is showing up in /var/log/mail/warnings? or info, or errors that info will help us determine whats wrong.. Also, postfix in mdk9 sometimes installs wrong.. so if you don't have a head of symlinks and lib files in /var/spool/postfix/lib then uninstall and reinstall postfix.. I had that problem twice and both times manually reinstalling postfix fixed it. (and strangely enough, postfix gave no real outward sign that there was a problem, it just wouldn't work properly.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jordan Elver Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix Config On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:03 pm, Franki wrote: configure /etc/postfix/main.cf pay attention to the following: $mydomain $mydestination $myhostname go to dyndns and get yourself a domain name you can use.. its free, or donation based. Please excuse my ignorance, but is it nessaccery to have a domain name? make sure /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and hosts match those in /etc so your mail server can resolve address's. They do match. All of the files in each. reload postfix: service postfix reload see how that goes. Thanks for the help. The thing is, when I had sendmail installed ages ago, that worked fine. But, sendmail is not working either and the configuration files look very scary :-/ Cheers, Jord rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jordan Elver Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 2:37 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Postfix Config Hi, I'm setting up Apache (with PHP), MySQL etc and want to be able to send mail from PHP. I've installed postfix and it's running. When I send mail from PHP, it sends and is added to the /var/spool/mail/postfix file. Inside the file are messages which say something along the lines of: 450 Sender address rejected: Domain not found This box is not a production machine (thank goodness ;-)) but for local development. I do, however need to send external email. I know this is a postfix config error. The machine does not have a domain hosted here, just a fqdn I made up for my LAN. How can I fix it? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compiling qt program -- where is libqt.so?
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 05:28, Marty McFly wrote: hey, I was wondering if anybody has come across this problem. I am trying to compile a program using qt. I'm getting this error: ld: cannot find -lqt so I looked in the /usr/lib/qt3/lib directory and there is no libqt.so file. There is a libqt-mt.so and compiling using that works fine, with adding the thread option at compiling. Does anybody know where the libqt.so file is? thanks, bryant You will find that particular libfile at: /usr/lib/qt-3.0.5/lib/libqt.so Check your /etc/ld.so.conf file - you can add the path /usr/lib/qt-3.0.5/lib to it and re-run ldconfig - then try to complile yer proggie again. -- Wed Nov 27 06:40:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I'm thinking about DIGITAL READ-OUT systems and computer-generated IMAGE FORMATIONS ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Harddisk bad block checking tool
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 04:16, Wei Wang wrote: Hi, all, It seems that my harddisk is experiencing some kind of bad block problem. Sometimes the reboot would halt at a point, seems to be checking the harddisk. Is there a hard disk scan program that scans and quarantines bad blocks just like what scandisk in windows does? Many thanks, Wei Have you resolved the issue with lack of space on /dev/hda1 yet? That could be the starting point to more than just a bad block problem... -- Wed Nov 27 06:45:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Power company testing new voltage spike (creation) equipment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FB logo
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 04:11, Damian Gatabria wrote: hi! wassup. I've got a question about frambuffer. I've recently found a howto which explains how to make framebuffer devices, and since i like the way the consoles look in FB mode, i went for it. So far, so good. however this howto does not cover one question. how do i enable the logo on top of the screen? i mean, now that i've enabled FB, while the kernel is booting up i see Mandrake's golden star at the top of the screen, but once i finish booting, the consoles don't have it! what do i need to do to make it appear? thanks much. Damian That's an interesting thought...hmmmwell, when we find out, I'll have to give that a go myself! -- Wed Nov 27 06:45:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Power company testing new voltage spike (creation) equipment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TV Out X Window Problem
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 02:50, Andrew Mann wrote: HI I have just managed to get the tv out working on my NV card (does not support twinview). I altered my XF86Config-4 file and then typed in the command startx -- :1 -screen screen_TVout600 screen-TVout600 is what i called the screen in XF86Config-4 file this worked and gave me a linux desktop , but it is black and white and not colour How do you alter the settings so the desktop is colour , like it is on the monitor ? andrew An nVidia card that DOESN'T support twin-view? Are you sure? Have you checked the documentation? I know that my nVidia GeForce does - as well as cursor shadow/alpha blending...supports the TV-out AND twinview - but according to the docs, you DO have to make some mods to the XF86Config-4 file to get it working properly... -- Wed Nov 27 06:50:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Q: Why was Stonehenge abandoned? A: It wasn't IBM compatible. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rsh not working...
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:13, Wim De Hul wrote: Hi All! I have installed rsh on my Mandrake 9.0, but it isn't working: i get permission denied on the command rsh -l wim 192.168.240.60 My setup: both hosts have the same users (wim). My /etc/hosts.equiv contains wim + File permissions: -rw-r--r--1 root root6 Nov 26 13:36 /etc/hosts.equiv What am I doing wrong? Cheers! Wim Do you have rsh running as a service? Generally, rexec, rlogin and rsh aren't setup to run - you have to configure them to run at boot (or with cron - to start and stop them at particular times) (in a term windows type: service rsh --full-restart ...and try again!) -- Wed Nov 27 07:00:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn DELETE A FORTUNE! Don't some of these fortunes just drive you nuts?! Wouldn't you like to see some of them deleted from the system? You can! Just mail to `fortune' with the fortune you hate most, and we'll make sure it gets expunged. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail filters
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:27, Anne Wilson wrote: I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would rather completely delete it. Have you considered using Settings | Configure pop filters There is an option there to delete the mail from the server before it even reaches you. Of course, that assumes that you are contacting a pop3 server directly, not going via fetchmail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No serial ports
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 07:51, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have encountered a strange problem on my homebox with mandrake 9.0 and any other Linux distribution. It seems that it doesn't detect my serial ports within Linux. In Windows there are no problems. statserial doesn't give me much, but looking under /dev there are no /dev/modem nor /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1. When I look into harddrake there aren't any serial ports nor any modems and insmod of serial.o fails. Anybody can give me any pointers what I should do? /Anders Have you checked your BIOS settings? Sometimes it's worth changing the settings to NO for a PnP-OS...Windows virtualizes everything...linux doesn't...I'd suggest to change the BIOS settings to reflect a non-PNP OS and then do a COLD HARD BOOT and see what linux says after that mate...can't hurt at this point, ya reckon? -- Wed Nov 27 07:10:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called Vespuccia and changed its name to America. -- Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail filters
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 8:11 pm, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:27, Anne Wilson wrote: I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would rather completely delete it. Have you considered using Settings | Configure pop filters There is an option there to delete the mail from the server before it even reaches you. Of course, that assumes that you are contacting a pop3 server directly, not going via fetchmail. Doh! I simply hadn't registered that there are two levels of filtering - one before downloading and one after. That's great, thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 02:08, Sean Goh wrote: Hi there, I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB harddisk and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. The rest i left it for Mandrake. After installing WinXP using NTFS filesystem, i booted M8.2 and ran the setup program. The problem came in when it couldn't detect the partitions or something. An error occured. Ask_before_blanking: unknown partition table format. Anyone knows how to solve this problem? Regards, Sean I'm installing on a laptop 900MHZ with 384 MB RAM and GeForce2. Should have met all the requirements of M8.2 Having to deal with dual-boot systems for clients all the time, I've stuck to a scheme I've used since the days of OS/2 - I create (at least) two partitions. First partition is left blank and unformatted. Second partition gets formatted with DOS (or whatever) and Windows is installed. After Windows is installed, then OS/2 (or linux) is installed on the first partition (of course, it's re-partitioned so that you have a /boot, an / and a swap partition) and lilo is setup to recognize both OS's - and used as the primary boot menu. Being that linux lives below the 1024th cylinder, it generally is a happy camper (and gets the faster parts of the disk). Winblows, er, Windows gets the rest as it ain't quite as picky... -- Wed Nov 27 07:15:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I've noticed several design suggestions in your code. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:50, FemmeFatale wrote: Should you fail to delete your partitions successfully re-reply to the list I'm sure Stephen will help you (he's the most prolific poster today so I'm picking on him). --- Femme Is prolific a bad word? (grin) Oh, wait - I thought that was prophylactic... -- Wed Nov 27 07:15:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I've noticed several design suggestions in your code. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:11, Sean Goh wrote: Hi, Just to clarify, i want to install a dual boot system consisting of WinXP and M8.2. I've already installed WinXP but i have trouble installing M8.2 because of the problem stated earlier. Thanks for replying. Sean Ok - so then the question is this - as this will be the most important factor in this whole exercise: Is the partition for *nix BEFORE or AFTER the NTFS partition? If it is AFTER the NTFS partition, you need to move the NTFS partition to the end of the HD so that the partition for *nix is BEFORE the NTFS partition (or before the 1024th cylinder). If you can accomplish this task, then you should be able to install *nix on the blank partition you already set aside for it without any further problems. -- Wed Nov 27 07:20:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:51, Barry Premeaux wrote: MD8.2 (nor any other Linux distrobution I am aware of) does not read NTFS. I'm not an XP expert, but I believe you can force it to install on a FAT32 partition. If you only need to see personal files on the XP side, then create a FAT32 partition to save them there. MD8.2 will be able to see it. You may want to consider the first option if you want to take advantage of the ttfs fonts that are in MS. Barry You can modify the kernel to READ NTFS partitions (experimental write, but it's dangerous) - so most linux distros - OUT OF THE BOX cannot read NTFS - but if you recompile the kernel (2.4+) and make sure that you add NTFS under FILESYSTEMS, you are then able to read NTFS partitions. -- Wed Nov 27 07:25:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. -- W.C. Fields Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware boot problems
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:52, FemmeFatale wrote: Duct tape. It solves everything. Or so says my friend Red Green *Smiles innocently* --- Femme Even dating problems? -- Wed Nov 27 07:30:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn By golly, I'm beginning to think Linux really *is* the best thing since sliced bread. (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:36, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 02:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote: 3.) Run the proggie and see what happens...core files are easily deleted...(grin) Aha, a fellow graduate of the Crash 'n Burn School of Software Testing! If it doesn't fit - force it. If it breaks, it was faulty -- Wed Nov 27 07:30:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn By golly, I'm beginning to think Linux really *is* the best thing since sliced bread. (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown: difference between stopping and shuttingdown
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:38, FemmeFatale wrote: At 05:33 PM 11/25/2002 +1100, you wrote: Mine never say Stopping or Killing ! (Actually, I've changed all my messages to say things like squashing, stomping, sniping, assassinating - the list goes on... (grin) Stephen, This just proves that you are a sick man with too much time on his hands. ;-) Brian SIck but hilarious! Please enlighten us as to exactly HOW you did this!? Oh Forward to me pvtly if you do too pls, as I'm going off the list for a week again *sigh* I leave town this week so... I don't need 590977888283 messages from you bunch of monkeys on keyboards :P --- Femme I like to poke around in the /etc/rc.d directories - along with the other holy directories (/etc/sysconfig and the likes) - it's easily done to grep any (or all) of the init scripts and make mods to them...just have to pay attention to the detail as you're poking through quite a bit of code... Mostly runlevel 3 and runlevel 5 are the ones most humans use - runlevel 1 is for standalone no networking - which is cool for high-powered gaming, but not for doing normal stuff. Runlevel 6 is reboot (hehehhe...great to play a joke on a sysadmin - set the runlevel to 6 and the machine just consistently reboots - drives 'em crazy) -- Wed Nov 27 07:35:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. -- Alan Watts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mount problem
I know this is too naive. But I got confused of different helps I found on the internet. I get error message when I do mount /dev/cdrom mount: can't find /dev/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab mount /mnt/cdrom gives out: /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type and non was specified /etc/fstab read: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /var/log/messages reads: hdc: DV22E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive One of the helps I found on the internet told me to delete /dev/cdrom and do ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom But I kept rm /dev/cdrom and it doesn't go away. It cannot be deleted. What should I do? The other help told me to mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom I don't know what that means but it gives an error saying: mount point /cdrom does not exist. Any hint what I should do? Many thanks.
SV: [newbie] No serial ports
Thanks, Stephen, that solved the problem... /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Harddisk bad block checking tool
On Tuesday November 26 2002 11:16 am, Wei Wang wrote: Hi, all, It seems that my harddisk is experiencing some kind of bad block problem. Sometimes the reboot would halt at a point, seems to be checking the harddisk. Is there a hard disk scan program that scans and quarantines bad blocks just like what scandisk in windows does? Install and run badblocks. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems
Help, Please I have a Abit IT7 motherboard and Linux cannot see my hard drives. (WinXP requires my HPT 374 Raid driver disk to see the hard drives). Am I outta luck using this MB with Linux? I looked on Abit's web site but didn't find any drivers for Linux. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mount problem
Maybe the problem comes from the fact you have to be root to do mount -t your_file_type -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom after having create a cdrom /mnt/directory and not beind in when you write your command Florian Wei Wang wrote: I know this is too naive. But I got confused of different helps I found on the internet. I get error message when I do mount /dev/cdrom mount: can't find /dev/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab mount /mnt/cdrom gives out: /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type and non was specified /etc/fstab read: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /var/log/messages reads: hdc: DV22E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive One of the helps I found on the internet told me to delete /dev/cdrom and do ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom But I kept rm /dev/cdrom and it doesn't go away. It cannot be deleted. What should I do? The other help told me to mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom I don't know what that means but it gives an error saying: mount point /cdrom does not exist. Any hint what I should do? Many thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 03:09 pm, Gilligan wrote: Help, Please I have a Abit IT7 motherboard and Linux cannot see my hard drives. (WinXP requires my HPT 374 Raid driver disk to see the hard drives). Am I outta luck using this MB with Linux? I looked on Abit's web site but didn't find any drivers for Linux. Thanks Look at www.highpoint-tech.com for propriatary drivers, and the kernel has support options for Highpoint 372/374 controllers and software raid. Only bad thing is, you cant boot off a raid0 array. I suggest using the highpoint driver to make the partitions, Every time I tried ataraid and hptraid to install (fdisk or even formatting screwed up the master boot record) , it hosed the raid array. There is an ATARAID mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mouse problems at boot
G'day all, I've just got a new P4 box at home, and successfully loaded xp and mandrake 9 onto it. I'm a long-time windows user, but this is my first exposure to linux/mandrake. I have a 2-button ps-2 mouse installed. The machine is developing the habit of sometimes not recognising the mouse when I boot up. This can happen either when I boot into xp or into Mandrake. The mouse just won't work. As I say, it's an intermittent problem. Doesn't happen all the time. I'm pretty confident that the mouse is OK, but will test it anyway. What other possible causes might there be?? Cheers, Gordon Hoabrt Tasmania PS. I changed the lilo.conf so that it boots into xp by default now. A liittle help ( and better understanding) goes a long way! Thanks. This transmission is intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you have received this transmission in error, you may not use, copy or distribute it. Please advise us by return e-mail or by phoning 61 3 62338203 and immediately delete the transmission in its entirety. We will meet your reasonable expenses of notifying us. Despite our use of anti-virus software, Forestry Tasmania cannot guarantee that this transmission is virus-free. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kcpuload
Hi all, I've installed kcpuload twice--once from CD, once from a download site. Whenever I run it, the computer bogs down, kcpuload does NOT appear on my screen. If I run top, kcpuload is listed there and typically running at 30%. kcpuload is supposed to monitor the load, not add to it. Anybody else encountered this? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail filters
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: I would like to completely block certain spam addresses, but KMail does not seem to allow you to simply delete the outcome of a filter. For the moment I have set it to 'move to trash', but would rather completely delete it. I don't want to use 'bounce' as it gives them the satisfaction of knowing it arrived. Anne Anne, using pipes, I think you can send unwanted mail to /dev/null (the void rules!!!) pipe thru /dev/null However, you might want to use the option (if you are sure) that deletes mail from the server before it gets d/l'ed to you. HTHs! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SWAT - Can't connect
Hi all, I'm having trouble connecting to SWAT (http://localhost:901). From Mozilla it actually tries to connect to www.localhost.com and times out and from Konqueror I get the following error message: An error occured while loading http://localhost:901/: Connection to host localhost is broken Now I know this is used to work before since I used SWAT to configure my samba network. But I can't remember when I last used it nor what I have done since that could have messed it up. Also, I am sure it has nothing to do with a firewall or something like that. If anyone can shed some light I would be very grateful. TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix Config
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, Franki wrote: Stick with postfix, its far easier them m4's and the like... you might find postfix easier if you use webmin.. generially yes, postfix should have a domain name.. you may be able to get it sort of functioning without it.. but its a good idea... do you have a static IP address??? if so, try doing a lookup on it, my ISP gives all its Ip's numeric subdomains.. and they are find for a mail server... when you send mail, (or try to) what is showing up in /var/log/mail/warnings? or info, or errors that info will help us determine whats wrong.. Also, postfix in mdk9 sometimes installs wrong.. so if you don't have a head of symlinks and lib files in /var/spool/postfix/lib then uninstall and reinstall postfix.. I had that problem twice and both times manually reinstalling postfix fixed it. (and strangely enough, postfix gave no real outward sign that there was a problem, it just wouldn't work properly.) Thanks Frank. I already had a free sub domain from no-ip.com. As soon as I chaged the hostname etc for that. it worked fine :-) There is something I don't understand though. How does my ISPs receiving mail server know that the domain I supplied is legit? Could I in theory add any domain that is online? Thanks very much for your help, Cheers, Jord Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SWAT - Can't connect
Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi all, I'm having trouble connecting to SWAT (http://localhost:901). From Mozilla it actually tries to connect to www.localhost.com and times out and from Konqueror I get the following error message: An error occured while loading http://localhost:901/: Connection to host localhost is broken Now I know this is used to work before since I used SWAT to configure my samba network. But I can't remember when I last used it nor what I have done since that could have messed it up. Also, I am sure it has nothing to do with a firewall or something like that. If anyone can shed some light I would be very grateful. TIA, if this is 9.0 and you updated swat from one of the update sites then update it again, there was a bug in the updated swat and it was replaced today (along with a whole bunch of other samba rpms) with a new one. -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cgi help
When I call the cgi file given below, I don't get the effects of stylesheet mentioned in the header and also the picture. both the files are in the same folder as that of the cgi file. === #!/usr/bin/perl print End; Content-Type: text/html\n\n html head titletest/title link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=teststyle.css / /head body h1test/h1 img src=gandhi.jpg alt=My picture height=153 width=131 align=left /body /html End == I called the script with test .html given below. htmlheadtitleTest/title/head body a href=cgi-bin/test1.plcsstestabr /body/html What should be done to get the desired effect. -- 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
Re: [newbie] TV Out X Window Problem
Andrew Mann wrote: HI I have just managed to get the tv out working on my NV card (does not support twinview). I altered my XF86Config-4 file and then typed in the command startx -- :1 -screen screen_TVout600 screen-TVout600 is what i called the screen in XF86Config-4 file this worked and gave me a linux desktop , but it is black and white and not colour It may be the cable you are using it may be too long or faulty. Try another cable this worked for me. How do you alter the settings so the desktop is colour , like it is on the monitor ? andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SWAT - Can't connect
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:39, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi all, I'm having trouble connecting to SWAT (http://localhost:901). From Mozilla it actually tries to connect to www.localhost.com and times out and from Konqueror I get the following error message: An error occured while loading http://localhost:901/: Connection to host localhost is broken Now I know this is used to work before since I used SWAT to configure my samba network. But I can't remember when I last used it nor what I have done since that could have messed it up. Also, I am sure it has nothing to do with a firewall or something like that. If anyone can shed some light I would be very grateful. TIA, if this is 9.0 and you updated swat from one of the update sites then update it again, there was a bug in the updated swat and it was replaced today (along with a whole bunch of other samba rpms) with a new one. That did it! Thanks! -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] libalsa2 circular dependency and libasound.so.1 confusions
I am trying to install libalsa2-0.9.0 from binary rpm. Dependency fail reads:error: failed dependencies:libalsa-data is needed by libalsa2-0.9.0-0.8rc2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libarts2-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk(and 13 other similar dependency fails for libasound.so.1 is needed by ...)RESULT=1libalsa-data-0.9.0 rpm install gives dependency fail like this:error: failed dependencies:libalsa2 = 0.9.0 is needed by libalsa-data-0.9.0-0.10rc6mdkRESULT=1As far as the circular dependency between libalsa2 and libalsa-data, maybe I could solve it by install the two rpm together? Like "rpm -i libalsa2 libalsa-data"? Haven't tried that coz I think the libasound.so.1 dependency problem would still jump out. What confused me here is that I have libasound.so.1 in usr/lib/ provided by alsa-lib0.5.10-2mdk.rpm. And also the libarts2, kdelibs, kdelibs-sound, libSDL1.2 etc are alreay installed in my system. Why does the system report libasound.so.1 is needed by these already installed packages? ps. the other libalsa2 dependency fail includes:libasound.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-7mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libsmpeg0.4-0.4.4-3mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_image1.2-1.2.0-2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libao2-0.8.0-3mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by arts-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.1-2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_mixer1.2-1.2.0-3mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_net1.2-1.2.2-1mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by mures-0.4-2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by xmms-smpeg-0.3.4-4mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by nethack_falconseye-3.3.1_jtp_1.9-3mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by rocksndiamonds-2.0.0-4mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by xmms-more-vis-plugins-1.4.0-3mdk
Re: [newbie] kcpuload
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:49:47 -0500 To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] kcpuload Hi all, I've installed kcpuload twice--once from CD, once from a download site. Whenever I run it, the computer bogs down, kcpuload does NOT appear on my screen. If I run top, kcpuload is listed there and typically running at 30%. kcpuload is supposed to monitor the load, not add to it. Anybody else encountered this? Miark ** I have kcpuload-1.9.1-1.i586.rpm installed on Mdk 9.0 and I'm not experiencing any problems. I did have to add an icon to my menu when I installed, but other than that it seems to work OK. When you open the prog initially it appears as an applet on your task bar which you left click on to display a box on your screen. Right click opens config menu. I see Tex has a newer version than 1.9.1-1, here: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/kcpuload-1.91-2borg.i586.rpm Maybe you could try it, if you haven't already. HTH --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ 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
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[newbie] Prolink PixelView linux compatibility
HI! I've found this tv board: Prolink PixelView (PV-BT878+w/fm) a real bargain! THE question is is it supported on MDK9 ? I was just browsing on google and so far nothing was said about being compatible or not! Does anyone know about this? TIA, Ricardo -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A general question about dependency
I am a total newbie to Unix/Linux world. Using the rpms recently, I get lost in the way packages are installed. Sometimes when I try to install a certain package on my system via an binary rpm, I get lots of unsatisfied dependencies. For example, a recent attempt to install kdelibs-3.1.rpm on my Mandrake 8.1 gives out around more than 100 failed dependencies involving around 30 files needed. Do I have to install all these required packages manually, one by one, which is what I've been doing? Is there an automatic tool that installs all the required packages and thus automatically resolve all the failed dependencies? I understand that it's been more than a year between the kdelibs-3.1 and the libraries in Mandrake 8.1. In that case, do I have to keep very closely up-to-date with the new version of packages? Otherwise I would end up facing lots of failed dependencies due to the rapic software/package development? This may sound like a very naive and primitive question. But I have been exhausted by manually iron out the sometimes chains of failed dependencies one by one. Please give a newbie some hint on this. Bunch of thanks.
Re: That solve faxing!!! Re: [newbie] OO.o Printers?
Em Seg 25 Nov 2002 13:21, Derek Jennings escreveu: Glad it helped Ricardo . If you are using StarOffice 5.2 I guess you are using Mandrake 8.2 or earlier. There is a little trick to making fax work in pre 9.0 versions of Mandrake Edit the file /etc/fax.config Hi Derek! I'm still using StarOffice5.2 both on mdk8.2 and 9! The question was about mdk9! It was not necessary to use your suggestion, (yet) I found a 'no lock' options on /etc/fax.config and just commented it out! Tks for your help! How about receiving? It modem does answer but, there no agreement with a plain fax machine and my modem! (US ROBOTICS ISA w/jumpers!!!) rgs, Ricardo find the 'LOCK' parameter and set it to LOCK='-x /tmp/LCK..$DEV' then efax will work correctly. derek On Monday 25 Nov 2002 2:30 pm, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Seg 25 Nov 2002 10:30, Derek Jennings escreveu: TKX! Derek that was not for me but I got my Fax working under StarOffice5.2! And NOW I can see all the pseudo/virtual printers installed! Thanks also for all those who have helped us! The faxing people ! ;-) rgs, Ricardo -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A general question about dependency
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 1:47 am, Wei Wang wrote: I am a total newbie to Unix/Linux world. Using the rpms recently, I get lost in the way packages are installed. Sometimes when I try to install a certain package on my system via an binary rpm, I get lots of unsatisfied dependencies. For example, a recent attempt to install kdelibs-3.1.rpm on my Mandrake 8.1 gives out around more than 100 failed dependencies involving around 30 files needed. Do I have to install all these required packages manually, one by one, which is what I've been doing? Is there an automatic tool that installs all the required packages and thus automatically resolve all the failed dependencies? I understand that it's been more than a year between the kdelibs-3.1 and the libraries in Mandrake 8.1. In that case, do I have to keep very closely up-to-date with the new version of packages? Otherwise I would end up facing lots of failed dependencies due to the rapic software/package development? This may sound like a very naive and primitive question. But I have been exhausted by manually iron out the sometimes chains of failed dependencies one by one. Please give a newbie some hint on this. Bunch of thanks. You need to learn about urpmi http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3558 http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3460 http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg108964.html http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/90/en/Starter.html/software-management.html derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] libalsa2 circular dependency and libasound.so.1 confusions
Looks like you are trying to install a Cooker package. Cooker is the *development* thread of the Mandrake distro. It can vary considerably from the released distro. Installing Cooker packages will very quickly lead you into dependency hell and can easily break your system. Newbies should keep away from them. derek On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 1:10 am, Wei Wang wrote: I am trying to install libalsa2-0.9.0 from binary rpm. Dependency fail reads: error: failed dependencies: libalsa-data is needed by libalsa2-0.9.0-0.8rc2mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by libarts2-2.2.1-5mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-5mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.2.1-5mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk (and 13 other similar dependency fails for libasound.so.1 is needed by ...) RESULT=1 libalsa-data-0.9.0 rpm install gives dependency fail like this: error: failed dependencies: libalsa2 = 0.9.0 is needed by libalsa-data-0.9.0-0.10rc6mdk RESULT=1 As far as the circular dependency between libalsa2 and libalsa-data, maybe I could solve it by install the two rpm together? Like rpm -i libalsa2 libalsa-data? Haven't tried that coz I think the libasound.so.1 dependency problem would still jump out. What confused me here is that I have libasound.so.1 in usr/lib/ provided by alsa-lib0.5.10-2mdk.rpm. And also the libarts2, kdelibs, kdelibs-sound, libSDL1.2 etc are alreay installed in my system. Why does the system report libasound.so.1 is needed by these already installed packages? ps. the other libalsa2 dependency fail includes: libasound.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-7mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by libsmpeg0.4-0.4.4-3mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_image1.2-1.2.0-2mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by libao2-0.8.0-3mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by arts-2.2.1-5mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.1-2mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_mixer1.2-1.2.0-3mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_net1.2-1.2.2-1mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by mures-0.4-2mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by xmms-smpeg-0.3.4-4mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by nethack_falconseye-3.3.1_jtp_1.9-3mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by rocksndiamonds-2.0.0-4mdk libasound.so.1 is needed by xmms-more-vis-plugins-1.4.0-3mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA revisited
On Monday 25 November 2002 08:55 pm, Pilagá wrote: --- (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Do you have kernel-source-2.4.*** installed? this is not always an automatic install and Nvidia needs it for some reason. HTH Yes, Dennis, 'kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk' and 'kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk' are installed. Add this line to /etc/modules: NVdriver if u have an agp card, make sure you have this in XF86config-4: Driver nvidia Option DPMS On Option NvAGP 1 --- add this line. then, before starting X, su to root and type: modprobe NVdriver. HTH, John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
Hi Charlie, Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions. Unfortunately i got stuck after choosing Expert installation where after which it couldn't read my partitions properly. u might want to refer to my mail t stephen for a full explanation. Sean Hi Sean; I'm not quite certain what's causing the aggravating or why, but I spent an unproductive hour (or four) on the phone with a friend last week trying to solve it. Then I got cranky and gave him different instructions and it worked. The instructions were (condensed) as follows: Fresh install, wiping all _OS_ partitions; but keeping any personal data (pictures, music, movies, etc) on a 'shared' FAT32 partition previously available. This is easier for totally fresh installs but the steps are the same: First; boot to Mandrake install disk 1, choose install, expert, any partitions visible in the diskdrake screen except the one that contains the data desired for 'save' are _individually_ deleted, use the desired partition sizes already determined for XP and make those partitions as FAT32 (you'll format these later during XP install anyway, and you wanted to convert one to NTFS but this will be easiest for now), make the desired Linux partitions in whatever file system format you've chosen. ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS, whatever you desire. If you want a seperate /boot be sure it's ext2 or ext3 since you'll only get grief at the make boot disk stage later and you don't want to skip that do you? :-) format **only** the Linux partitions and allow diskdrake to write the partition table to disk, exit the install since you'll have to boot from the Mandrake install disk later anyway and it's a waste of time for now otherwise. XP (like all things Microsoft) doesn't play nice with others in other words, boot from the XP install disk and work only with the FAT32 section of the drive that you allocated for XP install. (2 partitions I believe you said?) Don't allow Windows to touch the rest of the disk except for recognition of any pre-existing shared data FAT 32 partitions. Be careful it doesn't try to format that or you'll hate it later almost as much as I do now. ;) Once finished with that expert install Mandrake as usual, avoiding the XP partitions except for providing mount point information; then install packages as desired. In my friend's situation he wanted XP to be default so that his wife and kids wouldn't freak when exposed to Mandrake. I walked him through editing lilo during a later call. I hope this is of some use. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire 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] Linux and pre-schoolers
I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter who likes to type in OpenOffice, play with Tuxpaint and Stickers, and listen to some .wav's I captured from one of her favorite cartoons. I created an account for her, but never found a desktop/window manager I was happy with and that I was willing to turn her loose in. I wanted something minimal but that would still support desktop icons. I didn't want a panel. I wanted a very fast window manager and file manager. And I wanted to make it as kidproof as possible. Aren't you just dying to know what I've got her using? I'm using ROX as her session manager and desktop. I run it using the pinboard (for desktop icons) but not the panel. I put icons to her favorite apps on the desktop. The file manager is obviously ROX--super fast. And the window manager is Oroborus (http://www.dreamind.de/oroborus.shtml)--very lightweight and easy to configure. The main reason I chose Oroborus was because it doesn't have any root menu, so clicking on the desktop does not bring up a menu of apps and options that I'd have to edit out by hand. Instead, clicking on the desktop gives a harmless ROX dialog. You can see a screenshot here: http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2002_11_26_21_06_50 . It shows the icons and a ROX-Filer inside the Oroborus window manager. I can still do admin stuff if need be by opening her home directory in ROX; from there I can launch xterm. I'm pretty confident that she will not be able to mess anything up, but I'll let you know once we do some more testing! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cgi help
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 04:27, L.V.Gandhi wrote: When I call the cgi file given below, I don't get the effects of stylesheet mentioned in the header and also the picture. both the files are in the same folder as that of the cgi file. === #!/usr/bin/perl print End; Content-Type: text/html\n\n html head titletest/title link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=teststyle.css / /head body h1test/h1 img src=gandhi.jpg alt=My picture height=153 width=131 align=left /body /html End == I called the script with test .html given below. htmlheadtitleTest/title/head body a href=cgi-bin/test1.plcsstestabr /body/html What should be done to get the desired effect. May be you have already checked but it is a candidate for the error. Check for uppercase in the filenames. Cheers -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] supermount
T, i was under the impression that a DVD was only a CD-ROM in linux until it was scsi emulated i.e. won't even read a DVD. On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:26, Technoslick wrote: Hi, Anne, I never noticed your interest in having your DVD set-up with SCSI emulation until now. I am a bit baffled. I have a Liteon DVD-ROM player in my multi-boot XP Pro/Mandrake 9.0 box, so I looked at my fstab to see how mine is set. The Liteon drive is set as /dev/hdc, not /dev/sd0. It works fine, as well as a DVD drive 'can' work in an underpowered box. Can I ask why you want SCSI emulation on the drive? Is it also a burner? I would like to know what you want this set-up. Thanks, T - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] supermount On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 5:54 am, Michael Adams wrote: Anne i have a similar setup (on 8.2) in as far as i have hdc SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F hdd ACER 4X4X32 CD-RW They both work well on supermount although i am carefull with konq when in /mnt , if i try to eject konq closes the tray again. I back out to / before changing media. Hi Michael - I have no problems with supermount, but for some reason it seems to be impossible to get the dvd set as scsi-emulated. I had thought that perhaps it was because it was fairly elderly, and maybe didn't identify itself in the correct way, but now I'm wondering if the fact that it is on the udma connections makes it harder to deal with. I have room on the normal ide connections, so next time I pull the box out I'm going to try moving it. Anne --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Read errors
Whoa - We are dealing with a brand new machine put together commercially for linux. If we can't get this working on the list, then the box goes back to the store for them to replace the CD-ROM. Meanwhile i am checking for suggestions. The suggestion about checking if it will read other disks was valid and proved that it wasn't a balance problem. Turning DMA on has also been suggested but the recent thread on this resulted in a hmm... last resort scenario, it may cause as much as it cures, especially with my know-how level. I am prepared to get them to put it on a separate IDE lead, and if that works i will advise the companies support crew. Is it not possible to govern CD drives top speeds with jumpers or software? Personally i believe any company willing to market preinstalled Linux boxes should be encouraged and coaxed in the right direction. I don't want to slag them for what doesn't work else they may just fold up this avenue of sales. Second as they are loading Mandrake i am keen to see it work and work as well as possible. On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 03:43, Technoslick wrote: I, for one, have no need for anything that fast. If I was using the drive to house a massive data store, and needed to access that from a program in a timely manner, I could see the benefit. Still, I think that such a need is a very small percentage of users. This is where marketing hype gets in the way of what consumers really want and need. Most of us just want a reliable, 'quiet' running drive that reads fast enough for installations to be quick and multi-media to run smoothly. Is a 52X CD-ROM needed? Is faster always better? Not if speed has gone up and the mechanics have stayed the same. Try buying a 32X CD-ROM drive at your local department store or computer shop. The manufacturers keep hyping the need for speed to make CD-ROM drives comparable to hard drives, as well as other removable media options. I'm sure that there are surpluses on the Web for slower drives, but you will pay nearly as much as for them as you would for a 52X. What would be nice it to have software controls on how fast the drive spins. Then you could dial-in your max, and save wear and tear on the drive, your computer (from the vibration) and on your nerves! T - Original Message - From: JoeD In some cases the problem may be the cd label but a recent article that I had read (don't remeber where) had put the blame on the way that the newer faster drivers clamp and hold the cd's by putting the blame on poor mechanical design. The comment was to use a better quality lower speed drive. CD's have been found to shatter in the new 52X supersonic drives due to being off balance and or manufacturing defects with the cd and also due to the inability to clamp down the cd properly. 32X is fast enough for me and I don't have to listen to 747's taking off. JoeD -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [linux] [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!
Pinging uses the ICMP protocol. Make sure you have that enabled if you want to ping. IIRC Firewalls often disable it due to Denial of Service attacks. I tried Shorewall on my standalone system with an unused ethernet card. It closed down everything. No need to reinstall though, Control Centre: Allow Everything switches it off. On my second attempt I listed the iptables generated by the Allow Nothing setting. Nothing should be that complex - especially when it seems to decode as Nothing In - Nothing Out. As soon as I move house and get more time on the system I'm going to be coding the iptables by hand from scratch. The Network Administrator's Guide has a useful chapter on it. -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of magnet Sent: 26 November 2002 06:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux] [newbie] Shorewall - Grr!!! Hi all, After many installs and messing about regaining some usability of this system and network, I used Control Center to install and activate the Internet Sharing across the network. As before, it installed Shorewall, which has been the #1 culprit in causing all these reinstalls as it just shuts the machine down re: internet usage. So I'm turning to the wisdom of the list once more for some serious help in getting this horrible piece of protection to actually work for me and not against me. I've googled the problem looking for advice but so far am just coming up with results about it being a new feature (M$ jargon for software that doesn't work?) of Mandrake 9.0, and very little on deep explaination of configuring it using vi to allow all 6 machines to access the internet via main gateway machine. I am using the standard IP range 192.168.0.XXX format for all machines here: 192.168.0.1 linux1 mdk 9.0 (gateway modem) 192.168.0.2 linux2 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.3 linux3 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.4 linux4 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.5 linux5 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.6 linux6 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.253 laptop Windblows ME As soon as I installed it, local machines went off-line and samba was also blocked across the network. I have followed the recent posting Ports to keep open for samba? and have edited the shorewall rules file to match for now. I still have internet access/browsing/email from the fw machine but local network is still offline. I went to the laptop and tried pinging the other machines, all responded except the fw machine. I have tried pinging from fw machine to the others but it just times out. Any help will be appreciated on how to get this firewall working correctly. Regards magnet 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] MySQL
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 21:23, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to remove the MySQL rpms without KDE disapearing with it? When trying to remove, it also wants to remove the various KDE rpms? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com rpm -e --nodeps pkg But only, if you really want to do this! MfG Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 6:15 am, magnet wrote: Hi all, After many installs and messing about regaining some usability of this system and network, I used Control Center to install and activate the Internet Sharing across the network. As before, it installed Shorewall, which has been the #1 culprit in causing all these reinstalls as it just shuts the machine down re: internet usage. So I'm turning to the wisdom of the list once more for some serious help in getting this horrible piece of protection to actually work for me and not against me. I've googled the problem looking for advice but so far am just coming up with results about it being a new feature (M$ jargon for software that doesn't work?) of Mandrake 9.0, and very little on deep explaination of configuring it using vi to allow all 6 machines to access the internet via main gateway machine. I am using the standard IP range 192.168.0.XXX format for all machines here: 192.168.0.1 linux1 mdk 9.0 (gateway modem) 192.168.0.2 linux2 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.3 linux3 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.4 linux4 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.5 linux5 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.6 linux6 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.253 laptop Windblows ME As soon as I installed it, local machines went off-line and samba was also blocked across the network. I have followed the recent posting Ports to keep open for samba? and have edited the shorewall rules file to match for now. I still have internet access/browsing/email from the fw machine but local network is still offline. I went to the laptop and tried pinging the other machines, all responded except the fw machine. I have tried pinging from fw machine to the others but it just times out. Any help will be appreciated on how to get this firewall working correctly. Regards magnet The problem is not really to do with shorewall, which is in fact a very effective and highly regarded firewall, but is more to do with the Mandrake Firewall GUI which sets shorewall up in a very simplistic manner. I would advise using the GUI to set up Internet sharing, but to then go to editing the shorewall files directly for everything else. If you *open the Mandrake GUI it will alter your files when you exit it* so once you have configured shorewall do not enter the GUI again To learn about shorewall visit www.shorewall.net You will find some very good example configurations there. Basically shorewall is very simple to configure for a simple firewall. The file /etc/shorewall/interfaces gives your interfaces a name. net for the Internet connection, masq for your local network with Connection sharing, and fw for the firewall itself. Next the file /etc/shorewall/policy gives the general policy. Here we see these entries (in my network) masqnet ACCEPT # allows internet traffic from my local network to the Internet fw net ACCEPT # allows traffic from my firewall to the internet net all DROPinfo # Silently Drop all frames from the internet to ANY interface, and log all frames in syslog all all REJECT info # Reject all frames not defined in an earlier rule and log all frames. This basic policy will allow anything out to the internet, but NOTHING in, and NOTHING is allowed to connect from my local network and the firewall. So on its own this configuration would not allow the local network to communicate with a samba or web server running on my firewall. So to expand the applications allowed we use the file /etc/shorewall/rules which allows us to define exceptions to the general policy. Here I have ACCEPT net fw tcp 80,25 -# This allows http (port 80) and smtp email (port25) to connect to my firewall from the Internet using TCP protocol ACCEPT masqfw tcp 8118,ssh,domain,http,https,137,138,139,631,imap,pop3,smtp,nntp,ntp,1 #This allows the following services to connect from local network to the firewall 8118 (privoxy proxy server), ssh (secure shell), domain(53, DNS name server)-, http and https web traffic, 137/138/139 Samba, 631 CUPS, imap email, pop3 email, smtp email, nntp news, ntp time protocol, and 1 webmin ACCEPT masqfw udp ssh,domain,bootps,http,https,137,138,139,631,imap,pop3,smtp,nntp,ntp,1 #similarly for udp protocol - ACCEPT fw masqtcp ssh,631,137,138,139 - ACCEPT fw masqudp ssh,631,137,138,139 # these lines allow the firewall to make connections out to the local networkfor 631 CUPS traffic, and Samba traffic If you do not what services the port numbers correspond to, there is a list in /etc/services Naturally an entry should only be present if the service is actually running. If you simply wanted to open the firewall machine up to the local network, while keeping traffic to the internet restricted, the easiest way is to put two lines in the policies file masqfw ACCEPT fw masqACCEPT After making any change
[newbie] CDROM not found error in installation
Hello all, I am a longtime Mandrake user (~3 years) and I am getting stuck at the first step in installation. I have a Plextor 12/10/32A CDROM/CD Writer. I have been succesfully using it for about 10 months now under Mandrake 8.1/8.2. In fact, I have done OS installs on this machine using this as a CDROM drive. However, I got my PC's motherboard and CPU changed yesterday (old: P-II 350 MHz Tyan motherboard, new: Celeron 1.8GHz, ABIT BD-711 motherboard). And I was not able to boot into Mandrake 8.2. So I decided to reinstall the OS. I have tried Mandrake 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0 Install CDs. All of them boot the machine fine and ask to press Enter to install. When I do that... it starts reading from the CD just fine, but then after a few seconds it displays the following error message in a box: No CDROM device found I may be off on the wording of the above error message as it is from memory. When I choose Ok on this, it asks to choose a SCSI driver. I tried all of them and none worked, as expected. I have never experienced the no cdrom error message before, so I dont know what to do... What could be wrong here? Thanks in advance, Nikunj. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:11, Sean Goh wrote: Hi, Just to clarify, i want to install a dual boot system consisting of WinXP and M8.2. I've already installed WinXP but i have trouble installing M8.2 because of the problem stated earlier. Thanks for replying. Sean FemmeFatale wrote: At 11:08 PM 11/25/2002 +0800, you wrote: Hi there, I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB harddisk and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. The rest i left it for Mandrake. After installing WinXP using NTFS filesystem, i booted M8.2 and ran the setup program. The problem came in when it couldn't detect the partitions or something. An error occured. Ask_before_blanking: unknown partition table format. Anyone knows how to solve this problem? Regards, Sean The replies I've seen to this so far seem to have ignored the unknown partition table format message. This would be a cause of concern to me. Sean, can you tell us how you did the original partitioning? Did you start with a raw disk and use XP to partition during the install, or did you use another tool, like Partition Magic? If you don't mind reinstalling your XP system, I would suggest the following: - boot the XP install disk - use the XP installer to delete all partitions - create your 1st partition on which XP is to be installed using either FAT32 or NTFS (I would choose FAT32 unless you feel the need for the extra security - create your 2nd partition as FAT32 so you can share data with linux - leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned and do the XP install - then install Mandrake, letting it handle it's partitioning HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT avi to mpeg?
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 06:07, Ibly Piblo wrote: Sorry if this is OT. Is there an avi to mpeg converter for linux that is easy? Already tried a few which were useless, mjpegtools proved to be trash, as it just spit out useless errors instead of actually converting the file. lav2wav Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi ++ WARN: Input file Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi is not in JPEG 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 format **ERROR: File Wallace_and_Gromit.The_Wrong_Trousers.en.avi has 23.976000 frames/sec, choose norm with +[np] param This tells me nothing, and it did not convert the file. I hope that there are some better ones out there. Thanks. Ibly Both mencoder and transcode will do this, but neither is easy. You will probably benefitf rom reading Ralph's DVD ripping tutorial at http://tuxpower.f2g.net/mencoder.php which gives a good starter as to how mencoder works. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
Hi Brian, I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd partition unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2 partitions with NTFS and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake setup couldn't seem to detect it properly and gave me those error messages. That's all i guess. Sean The replies I've seen to this so far seem to have ignored the unknown partition table format message. This would be a cause of concern to me. Sean, can you tell us how you did the original partitioning? Did you start with a raw disk and use XP to partition during the install, or did you use another tool, like Partition Magic? If you don't mind reinstalling your XP system, I would suggest the following: - boot the XP install disk - use the XP installer to delete all partitions - create your 1st partition on which XP is to be installed using either FAT32 or NTFS (I would choose FAT32 unless you feel the need for the extra security - create your 2nd partition as FAT32 so you can share data with linux - leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned and do the XP install - then install Mandrake, letting it handle it's partitioning HTH Brian 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] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 9:51 am, Derek Jennings wrote: The problem is not really to do with shorewall, which is in fact a very effective and highly regarded firewall, but is more to do with the Mandrake Firewall GUI which sets shorewall up in a very simplistic manner. I would advise using the GUI to set up Internet sharing, but to then go to editing the shorewall files directly for everything else. If you *open the Mandrake GUI it will alter your files when you exit it* so once you have configured shorewall do not enter the GUI again I'm not sure what GUI you are refering to here? I used vi to look at the files in /etc/shorewall/ and had the shorewall site up in the browser for reference. To learn about shorewall visit www.shorewall.net You will find some very good example configurations there. Basically shorewall is very simple to configure for a simple firewall. The file /etc/shorewall/interfaces gives your interfaces a name. net for the Internet connection, masq for your local network with Connection sharing, and fw for the firewall itself. Next the file /etc/shorewall/policy gives the general policy. Here we see these entries (in my network) masq net ACCEPT # allows internet traffic from my local network to the Internet fwnet ACCEPT # allows traffic from my firewall to the internet net all DROPinfo # Silently Drop all frames from the internet to ANY interface, and log all frames in syslog all all REJECT info # Reject all frames not defined in an earlier rule and log all frames. This basic policy will allow anything out to the internet, but NOTHING in, and NOTHING is allowed to connect from my local network and the firewall. So on its own this configuration would not allow the local network to communicate with a samba or web server running on my firewall. So to expand the applications allowed we use the file /etc/shorewall/rules which allows us to define exceptions to the general policy. Here I have ACCEPTnet fw tcp 80,25 -# This allows http (port 80) and smtp email (port25) to connect to my firewall from the Internet using TCP protocol ACCEPTmasqfw tcp 8118,ssh,domain,http,https,137,138,139,631,imap,pop3,smtp,nntp,ntp,1 #This allows the following services to connect from local network to the firewall 8118 (privoxy proxy server), ssh (secure shell), domain(53, DNS name server) -, http and https web traffic, 137/138/139 Samba, 631 CUPS, imap email, pop3 email, smtp email, nntp news, ntp time protocol, and 1 webmin ACCEPTmasqfw udp ssh,domain,bootps,http,https,137,138,139,631,imap,pop3,smtp,nntp,ntp,1 #similarly for udp protocol - ACCEPTfw masqtcp ssh,631,137,138,139 - ACCEPTfw masqudp ssh,631,137,138,139 # these lines allow the firewall to make connections out to the local networkfor 631 CUPS traffic, and Samba traffic If you do not what services the port numbers correspond to, there is a list in /etc/services Naturally an entry should only be present if the service is actually running. If you simply wanted to open the firewall machine up to the local network, while keeping traffic to the internet restricted, the easiest way is to put two lines in the policies file masq fw ACCEPT fwmasqACCEPT After making any change restart shorewall with service shorewall restart Hope that is all understandable - Just remember GUI bad, edits good :-) derek I did an iptables -L in su console to check everything is ALLOWed, after uninstalling the firewall for now to regain some control, restarted the samba server, rebooted the laptop (stupid thing!) and still samba isn't working. I also now have no ftp access to this box from any other machine on the LAN. This is the point I start to lose my temper with linux. You think you have uninstalled everything, get a reply that all traffic restrictions have been lifted to flow again, even rebooted and still you can't stop something that manages to cause failure of previously working functions, and not know what is causing it. I need some light shed on this problem coz I'm close to giving up after double-figured re-installs. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!
SNIP I did an iptables -L in su console to check everything is ALLOWed, after uninstalling the firewall for now to regain some control, restarted the samba server, rebooted the laptop (stupid thing!) and still samba isn't working. I also now have no ftp access to this box from any other machine on the LAN. This is the point I start to lose my temper with linux. You think you have uninstalled everything, get a reply that all traffic restrictions have been lifted to flow again, even rebooted and still you can't stop something that manages to cause failure of previously working functions, and not know what is causing it. I need some light shed on this problem coz I'm close to giving up after double-figured re-installs. Regards magnet If shorewall is removed completely, then your IP masquerading will not be configured and you will not be able to get out from your local network to the Internet. (Unless you set it up by hand) Maybe you would be happier with a GUI based Firewall like firestarter (for KDE) or guarddog(for Gnome) (both available in Contrib)) Firestarter is quite nice. It is very similar to zonealarm in Windows. You should also check your security level. If it is too high you will have all sorts of difficulty. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
OK - we are into trial and error territory! I've had some success with this approach when all else fails: - boot the mandrake install CD - take it as far as the partitioning - tell diskdrake to delete all partitions - create some FAT32 partitions for later use with XP plus the required linux paritions - either complete the linux install, then install XP, then boot the install CD again and rewrite the boot loader, or exit the install, do XP and come back to mandrake later. XP will install on partitions created by diskdrake (reformat them during the XP install though). This may work around your problem, but I don't pretend to understand what's going on. HTH Brian On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 21:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd partition unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2 partitions with NTFS and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake setup couldn't seem to detect it properly and gave me those error messages. That's all i guess. Sean The replies I've seen to this so far seem to have ignored the unknown partition table format message. This would be a cause of concern to me. Sean, can you tell us how you did the original partitioning? Did you start with a raw disk and use XP to partition during the install, or did you use another tool, like Partition Magic? If you don't mind reinstalling your XP system, I would suggest the following: - boot the XP install disk - use the XP installer to delete all partitions - create your 1st partition on which XP is to be installed using either FAT32 or NTFS (I would choose FAT32 unless you feel the need for the extra security - create your 2nd partition as FAT32 so you can share data with linux - leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned and do the XP install - then install Mandrake, letting it handle it's partitioning HTH Brian 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 -- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] supermount
Hi, Anne, I never noticed your interest in having your DVD set-up with SCSI emulation until now. I am a bit baffled. I have a Liteon DVD-ROM player in my multi-boot XP Pro/Mandrake 9.0 box, so I looked at my fstab to see how mine is set. The Liteon drive is set as /dev/hdc, not /dev/sd0. It works fine, as well as a DVD drive 'can' work in an underpowered box. Can I ask why you want SCSI emulation on the drive? Is it also a burner? I would like to know what you want this set-up. Thanks, T - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] supermount On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 5:54 am, Michael Adams wrote: Anne i have a similar setup (on 8.2) in as far as i have hdc SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F hdd ACER 4X4X32 CD-RW They both work well on supermount although i am carefull with konq when in /mnt , if i try to eject konq closes the tray again. I back out to / before changing media. Hi Michael - I have no problems with supermount, but for some reason it seems to be impossible to get the dvd set as scsi-emulated. I had thought that perhaps it was because it was fairly elderly, and maybe didn't identify itself in the correct way, but now I'm wondering if the fact that it is on the udma connections makes it harder to deal with. I have room on the normal ide connections, so next time I pull the box out I'm going to try moving it. Anne 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] CD Read errors
In some cases the problem may be the cd label but a recent article that I had read (don't remeber where) had put the blame on the way that the newer faster drivers clamp and hold the cd's by putting the blame on poor mechanical design. The comment was to use a better quality lower speed drive. CD's have been found to shatter in the new 52X supersonic drives due to being off balance and or manufacturing defects with the cd and also due to the inability to clamp down the cd properly. 32X is fast enough for me and I don't have to listen to 747's taking off. JoeD On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:05:23 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following the First -Suspect Me Thread with interest. My Case... Brand new store bought V9.0 pre-installed computer. It has a 52x CD on hdb (fstab was set up for hdd but i corrected that). The supplied disks are recorded download edition 9.0 40x recordable. The disks have an envelope address size sticker plastered on them. The CD will read any package ok after repeated attempts. Which solutions will help reduce read errors the most. 1. Buy another IDE cable and put the CD on hdc. 2. Remove the stickers incase they are causing speed wobbles. 3. A software method of throttling back the top read speed. (Does this exist and what is it?) 4. Other suggestion...? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] supermount
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 12:26 pm, Technoslick wrote: Hi, Anne, I never noticed your interest in having your DVD set-up with SCSI emulation until now. I am a bit baffled. I have a Liteon DVD-ROM player in my multi-boot XP Pro/Mandrake 9.0 box, so I looked at my fstab to see how mine is set. The Liteon drive is set as /dev/hdc, not /dev/sd0. It works fine, as well as a DVD drive 'can' work in an underpowered box. Can I ask why you want SCSI emulation on the drive? Is it also a burner? I would like to know what you want this set-up. No, but I wanted the convenience of being able to read from the dvd and write to the cd-rw, but XCDroast couldn't see it. I understand k3b (I think it's called) could do it anyway, so I'll look at that when I've a moment. I was under the impression, too, that it would not work for dvd film (as distinct from data) if it was not scsi emulated. Is this not so? BTW - is your Liteon drive coupled with a cd-rw? I'm curious after my parts supplier talked of some incompatibilities. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 12:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP I did an iptables -L in su console to check everything is ALLOWed, after uninstalling the firewall for now to regain some control, restarted the samba server, rebooted the laptop (stupid thing!) and still samba isn't working. I also now have no ftp access to this box from any other machine on the LAN. This is the point I start to lose my temper with linux. You think you have uninstalled everything, get a reply that all traffic restrictions have been liftedto flow again, even rebooted and still you can't stop something that manages to cause failure of previously working functions, and not know what is causing it. I need some light shed on this problem coz I'm close to giving up after double-figured re-installs. Regards magnet If shorewall is removed completely, then your IP masquerading will not be configured and you will not be able to get out from your local network to the Internet. (Unless you set it up by hand) Maybe you would be happier with a GUI based Firewall like firestarter (for KDE) or guarddog(for Gnome) (both available in Contrib)) Firestarter is quite nice. It is very similar to zonealarm in Windows. You should also check your security level. If it is too high you will have all sorts of difficulty. derek Hi Derek, I dont mind getting dirty in a text editor, usually vi, but it's the confusing way these website help pages assume you are rather well versed in iptables before you have even started to read their page, therefore defeating the objective of what I consider a help page should be. Also, they all seem to assume the user has 2 ethernet cards, one for the lan and the other to a cable modem, none ever mention using the modem or the local IP range 192.168.0.xxx.. I'm currently trying to make some sense of http://support.ddts.net/doc/shorewall-doc/html/shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm but not getting very far as yet. I was running this 7 machine home network fine using 8.2 on linux boxs and winME on laptop, all set up by hand and functioning. OK, so I may have been lucky and didn't get compromised once in all that time, but as soon as I have gone near any sort of firewalling for the linux gateway I seem to be hitting this brick wall of problems. Security has always been set at Standard here, apart from at one reinstall, but the nvidia drivers gave grief on any other setting so I reverted back to using the lowest level offered at install. Firestarter and guarddog... yeap, been there, tried them, both failed, both resulted in re-installs, twice for guarddog and 3 times for firestarter. Totally screwed this system over. As a fellow linux user I speak to most nights will confirm, this system doesn't seem to like anything that would be considered normal installing or run-of-the-mill commands without throwing a wobbler and breaking something here. I have yet to work out why though :( I need to stick with this shorewall for now simply as I have run out of options for anything else. At least this time it has installed partially and is allowing an internet connection to be used. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
