[newbie-it]
BUONGIORNO A TUTTI MI SERVE UN PIACERE CHI SA COME CONFIGURARE IN LINUX MANDREKE 9.0 LE PERIFERICHE SCSI HO MI DA UN SITO DOVE SCARICARE LE FAQ. GRAZIE
[newbie-it] Gvim
Ho installato la Mandrake 9.0 e la sto usando con grande soddisfazione. Ho notato che manca la versione grafica di vim, che nella versione precedente aveva il nome di gvim. Qualcuno sa dove trovarla? Al massimo, la reinstallo dai vecchi CD... grazie, g. Guido Milanese -- Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua, Genova, Italy GAUDETE IN DOMINO SEMPER
Re: [newbie-it] Gvim
Alle 09:47, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Guido Milanese ha scritto: Ho installato la Mandrake 9.0 e la sto usando con grande soddisfazione. Ho notato che manca la versione grafica di vim, che nella versione precedente aveva il nome di gvim. Qualcuno sa dove trovarla? Al massimo, la reinstallo dai vecchi CD... grazie, g. ...Uh?? Anch'io ho la 9.0 ed il vim è lì, tra i vari editor, bello installato di default...Prova a controllare tra i pacchetti installati e quelli da installare... -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it]
Alle 09:23, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, zucca francesco ha scritto: BUONGIORNO A TUTTI MI SERVE UN PIACERE CHI SA COME CONFIGURARE IN LINUX MANDREKE 9.0 LE PERIFERICHE SCSI HO MI DA UN SITO DOVE SCARICARE LE FAQ. GRAZIE In lilo.conf aggiungere in append hdx=scsi , dove x = lettera che contraddistingue la periferica in questione. Dare da root lilo -v ti scrive il nuovo lilo su MBR. Dare il comando cdrecord -scanbus Individua le periferiche emulate SCSI Segnarsi il secondo numero della terzina indicante le periferiche. In /etc/fstab modificare dev scrivendo dev=/dev/scdx con x=numero della terzina precedentemente segnato. E' tutto. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Re: applet java
Alle 22:31, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, gianni piazza ha scritto: Chi saprebbe dirmi come fare per abilitare le applet java in modo da poter vedere immagini animate con conqueror?grazie in anticipo!ciao! Presumendo che tu abbia java correttamente installato, per avere il tutto funzionante anche da konqueror, devi abilitare la funzione dalla finestra di configurazione - sezione web browser, se la memoria non m'inganna - indicando il percorso per l'eseguibile java; consiglio prima di verificare la correttezza dell'installazione di java con mozilla (o netscape). Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] si cominicia...
ciao a tutta la lista... recuperato un buon PIII 500, 128Mb...ed ora sono pronto per cominciare questa stupenda avventura linux! Specifico da subito che di tutto ciò non ci capisco un tubo...ma staremo a vedere! Primo piccolo problema... Ho installato mandrake 9 Installazione tutto ok (su disco scsi)... Poi, quando ho iniziato a lavorare con il desktop gnome, ogni tanto...lo schermo diventa di colpo nero... qualche secondo...e poi...tutto ok di nuovo... Questa cosa la fa spesso... cosa potrebbe essere? grazie a tutti per il vostro aiuto francesco
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek
Alle 02:58, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: Sta per Concurrent Version System, in parole molto grezze e' un sistema di creazione e modifica di sorgenti in modo distribuito, cio' permette a piu' programmatori a distanza di collaborare allo stesso progetto ad un livello organizzato e sincronizzato. Grazie! Se un progetto e' ancora in CVS, molto probabilmente e' agli esordi o cmq non ha raggiunto quel grado di maturita'/stabilita' necessario in vista dell'uscita di una (iniziale o nuova) release principale pubblicamente utilizzabile; per lo scaricamento dei file di solito e' necessario utilizzare l'apposito comando 'cvs', seguendo le istruzioni per l'autenticazione e per lo scaricamento fisico dei file. supposizioni mie In ogni caso, _se non mi sbaglio_, mi pare di capire che la parte usermode e' qualcosa di piu' di un driver, riunisce in se' un programmino di configurazione e una serie di immagini (.bin) modificate del firmware del modem. Occhio che, _se e' cosi'_, il caricamento del firmware e' cosa estremamente delicata (come lo e' del resto l'aggiornamento di un qualsiasi BIOS): attenzione a portare a buon fine integralmente il processo di aggiornamento e NON interrompere o spegnere l'apparecchio prima della fine, altrimenti e' molto probabile dire addio all'apparecchio ... (direi che e' una delle operazioni piu' rischiose ... dopo quella di riuscire ad avere un sistema win* stabile per mesi ; Come!! il mio win è stabilissimo ormai da mesi,è li a fianco al cd di unrial!! La parte kernelmode dovrebbe invece essere un normale modulo per il kernel (ma al momento e' in piena fase alpha ...) /supposizioni mie Non so se hai visto la sezzione modems? c'è tra modems peut-ètre supportés il Nortek 2020.ecco questo ke vuol dire? che posso rischiare con i CVS? Ciao , Tom
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek
Alle 12:35, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Non so se hai visto la sezzione modems? c'è tra modems peut-ètre supportés il Nortek 2020.ecco questo ke vuol dire? che posso rischiare con i CVS? Ciao , Tom MAGIA!!! ho ricontrollato sul sito...giusto cosi per cercare di capire un po di piu!! e magai delle magie..questa mattina il Nortek2020 è suportato!! quindi posso scaricare il driver!!! si ma quale?? LukenShiro tu che mi hai praticamente messo in piedi Linux :-).che mi consigli? Ciao , Tom
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek
Alle 12:35, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: (direi che e' una delle operazioni piu' rischiose ... dopo quella di riuscire ad avere un sistema win* stabile per mesi ; Come!! il mio win è stabilissimo ormai da mesi,è li a fianco al cd di unrial!! Azz ... strano :P c'è tra modems peut-ètre supportés il Nortek 2020.ecco questo ke vuol dire? che posso rischiare con i CVS? Ehm, veramente io lo vedo tra i supportati, non tra i forse supportati http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/modems.php?lang=frmodem=31 La versione 0.6-stabile, quando uscira', supportera' indifferentemente (secondo quanto detto sul sito), tutti i modem con chip Globespan. Al momento il tuo non e' riconosciuto dalla 0.5-stabile, ma dalla versione di transizione (in CVS appunto), di cui _non_ e' garantita la stabilita' ... se te la senti .. prova -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 § LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 ... A morte quegli schifosi spammer coreani e i siti compiacenti che li appoggiano ...
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek
Alle 12:45, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: ho ricontrollato sul sito...giusto cosi per cercare di capire un po di piu!! e magai delle magie..questa mattina il Nortek2020 è suportato!! quindi posso scaricare il driver!!! si ma quale?? anche ieri sera lo era :P Prendi la documentazione e la leggi attentamente ;) Cmq senz'altro la version de developpement (0.6-pre5) e quei .bin a cui mi riferivo: les fichiers de synchro(nization) http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/download.php Per ora evita il kernelmode, che e', a detta loro, super-instabile. -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 § LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 ... A morte quegli schifosi spammer coreani e i siti compiacenti che li appoggiano ...
[newbie-it] file wav
Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? Pollo.
[newbie-it] ICQ su Mandrake 8.1
Ciao, volevo sapere se qualcuno sà se per usare ICQ (con utente già registrato) su Linux Mandrake 8.1 ci sono dei passi particolari da seguire. Grazie! 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] Re: applet java
Alle 11:11, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 22:31, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, gianni piazza ha scritto: Chi saprebbe dirmi come fare per abilitare le applet java in modo da poter vedere immagini animate con conqueror?grazie in anticipo!ciao! Presumendo che tu abbia java correttamente installato, per avere il tutto funzionante anche da konqueror, devi abilitare la funzione dalla finestra di configurazione - sezione web browser, se la memoria non m'inganna - indicando il percorso per l'eseguibile java; consiglio prima di verificare la correttezza dell'installazione di java con mozilla (o netscape). Vale. Grazie mille per la risposta!! Ho fatto come hai detto e tutto funziona!!! Ciao Gianni
Re: [newbie-it] file wav
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : newbie-mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: 28 Nov 2002 14:55:18 +0100 Subject : [newbie-it] file wav Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? Pollo. Hai provato con il comado cat? Esempio: cat file1.wav file2.wav file3.wav file99.wav Saluti Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.libero.it/mlodirizzini (o_ Membro del FoLUG //\ Forlì Linux Users Group V_/_ http://folug.linux.it Linux Mandrake 8.2 su Celeron 733
Re: [newbie-it] file wav
Il gio, 2002-11-28 alle 17:23, Mario Lodi Rizzini ha scritto: -- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : newbie-mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: 28 Nov 2002 14:55:18 +0100 Subject : [newbie-it] file wav Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? Pollo. Hai provato con il comado cat? Esempio: cat file1.wav file2.wav file3.wav file99.wav Saluti Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.libero.it/mlodirizzini (o_ Membro del FoLUG //\ Forlì Linux Users Group V_/_ http://folug.linux.it Linux Mandrake 8.2 su Celeron 733 Ho provato subito questa soluzione ma non funziona... I file effettivamente li concatena ma quando riproduco l'unico file viene riprodotto in realtà solo il primo file. Ciao, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] file wav
Alle 14:55, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Pollo ha scritto: Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? Pollo. Dovrebbe funzionare con un semplice: cat *.wav unico.wav Ciao! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Gvim
Alle 09:47, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Guido Milanese ha scritto: Ho installato la Mandrake 9.0 e la sto usando con grande soddisfazione. Ho notato che manca la versione grafica di vim, che nella versione precedente aveva il nome di gvim. Qualcuno sa dove trovarla? Al massimo, la reinstallo dai vecchi CD... La versione grafica di vim nei cd (nel power pack, ma sarebbe davvero troppo strano se non ci fosse nella standard edition) si chiama proprio vim, poi quando lo apri scopri che il vero nome è gvim
Re: [newbie-it] comando lpr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:16, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] comando lpr, mk ha scritto: Ciao! ciao! unable to print file: client-error-not-found anch'io ho avuto lo stesso problema, e dopo smanettamenti e smadonnamenti, ho scoperto che si trattava solo di settare bene i parametri della mia stampante attraverso cups: http://127.0.0.1:631 controlla da li i vari parametri della stampante... la pagina di prova te la stampa? fammi sapere! Bye - -- - - jv - ~~~ @ mdk 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 l.u. # 245448 l.m # 126972 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE95OSUoD2O62YfgMARAqlHAJ9y2dakzqOTdYjYVTBgHtFlw8Hf1ACdFHNh K+kvkjnHAVqyo7tnlhyaS34= =+HTQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Gvim
On Thursday 28 November 2002 9:47 am, Guido Milanese wrote about [newbie-it] Gvim: Ho installato la Mandrake 9.0 e la sto usando con grande soddisfazione. Ho notato che manca la versione grafica di vim, che nella versione precedente aveva il nome di gvim. Qualcuno sa dove trovarla? Al massimo, la reinstallo dai vecchi CD... mh sulla mia mdk 9 c'e' il gvim. l'rpm dovrebbe comunque essere vim-X11-6.1-21mdk bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] si cominicia...
Alle 12:28, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, mailing - effem ha scritto: ciao a tutta la lista... recuperato un buon PIII 500, 128Mb...ed ora sono pronto per cominciare questa stupenda avventura linux! Benvenuto! Sicuramente non te ne pentirai... io ho installato Linux (la Mandrake 7.2) un paio di anni fa per curiosità, e per la disperazione indotta da anni di Windows... che ora se ne sta lì tranquillo tranquillo nella sua parte di hard disk (che si riduce ad ogni nuova installazione di Linux)... senza venire usato praticamente mai! Specifico da subito che di tutto ciò non ci capisco un tubo...ma staremo a vedere! Tranquillo, siamo in tanti qui a non capirci un tubo. Ma tutti insieme non ci capiamo un tubo collettivo, e i problemi spesso si risolvono lo stesso! ;) Primo piccolo problema... E te pareva! Mai che qualcuno spedisca una email in lista solo per dire sono a Sharm-el-Sheik, vi invio una foto da quaggiù! Saluti... Ho installato mandrake 9 Installazione tutto ok (su disco scsi)... Poi, quando ho iniziato a lavorare con il desktop gnome, ogni tanto...lo schermo diventa di colpo nero... qualche secondo...e poi...tutto ok di nuovo... Questa cosa la fa spesso... cosa potrebbe essere? grazie a tutti per il vostro aiuto francesco Giusto per avere qualche informazione in più... lo fa solo con GNOME, o anche con KDE o altro? Ciao... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Gvim
Alle 11:06, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: ...Uh?? Anch'io ho la 9.0 ed il vim è lì, tra i vari editor, bello installato di default...Prova a controllare tra i pacchetti installati e quelli da installare... sì, vim c'è, ma non trovo gvim, una comoda interfaccia grafica che avevo nella 8.2. g. -- Guido Milanese -- Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua, Genova, Italy GAUDETE IN DOMINO SEMPER
Re: [newbie-it] si cominicia...
Alle 12:28, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, mailing - effem ha scritto: Poi, quando ho iniziato a lavorare con il desktop gnome, ogni tanto...lo schermo diventa di colpo nero... qualche secondo...e poi...tutto ok di nuovo... Questa cosa la fa spesso... cosa potrebbe essere? Lo fa anche con kde? Perchè a questo punto potrebbe essere affaticamento da gestione grafica (l'ho inventato adesso...); gnome, come kde, sa essere pesantuccio... Prova un po' a vedere; beninteso, questa è solo un ipotesi, sono pronto ad essere smentito... -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] file wav
Alle 18:03, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Pollo ha scritto: Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? ... Hai provato con il comado cat? Esempio: cat file1.wav file2.wav file3.wav file99.wav Ho provato subito questa soluzione ma non funziona... I file effettivamente li concatena ma quando riproduco l'unico file viene riprodotto in realtà solo il primo file. ti credo! wav contiene delle intestazioni che lo definiscono per usare cat dovresti avere un formato raw prova soxmix file1.wav file2.wav ...filen finale.wav Ciao, Pollo. bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
[newbie-it] Fwd: [Security Announce] MDKSA-2002:083 - Updated sendmail packages fix smrsh insecurities
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: [Security Announce] MDKSA-2002:083 - Updated sendmail packagesfix smrsh insecurities Date: 28 Nov 2002 16:40:53 - From: Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory Package name: sendmail Advisory ID:MDKSA-2002:083 Date: November 28th, 2002 Affected versions: 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0 Problem Description: A vulnerability was discovered by zen-parse and Pedram Amini in the sendmail MTA. They found two ways to exploit smrsh, an application intended as a replacement for the sh shell for use with sendmail; the first by inserting specially formatted commands in the ~/.forward file and secondly by calling smrsh directly with special options. These can be exploited to give users with no shell account, or those not permitted to execute certain programs or commands, the ability to bypass these restrictions. _ References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1165 http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt _ ... To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package from one of our FTP server mirrors and upgrade with rpm -Fvh *.rpm. A list of FTP mirrors can be obtained from: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command: rpm --checksig filename All packages are signed by MandrakeSoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrake Linux Security Team from: https://www.mandrakesecure.net/RPM-GPG-KEYS Please be aware that sometimes it takes the mirrors a few hours to update. You can view other update advisories for Mandrake Linux at: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/ MandrakeSoft has several security-related mailing list services that anyone can subscribe to. Information on these lists can be obtained by visiting: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/mlist.php If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_linux-mandrake.com --- bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie-it]
Alle 09:23, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, zucca francesco ha scritto: CHI SA COME CONFIGURARE IN LINUX MANDREKE 9.0 LE PERIFERICHE SCSI che tipo di periferiche? controller scanner dischi masterizzatori ... ?? mandaci l'output di cat /proc/pci e intanto su google cerca SCSI-Howto GRAZIE bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!
Alle 23:03, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Sto leggendo l'how-to sul kernel... Nel frattempo, escludendo la possibilità di ri-compilare il kernel esistente, che sarebbe la cosa migliore.. ;) potrei installare il nuovo kernel che pare risolvere il problema acpi sui portatili acer... Chiedo quali sono i passi per l'installazione? premetto che non ho mai installato un kernel precompilato su mandrake, sul quale ho sempre ricompilato il linus liscio poi patchato preemptive (che su mdk ho visto portare parecchi miglioramenti) mi sono trovato a aggiornare il 2.4.5 di una RH ad un recente corso, i passi sono semplici si scarica il kernel pacchettizzato per la propria distribuzione e architettura si legge cosa altro serva (es modutils, iptables, ecc..) si scarica tutto il necessario si copia in una dir tampone e da questa rpm -ivh *.rpm PRIMA si copiano lilo.conf, moduli vmlinuz-xxx e System.map perchè la buona RH ha pensato bene di sovrascriverli (nonostante i e non U)... quindi si rimettono a posto e si aggiorna lilo per avere i due kernel disponibili (se il nuovo dovesse dare problemi...) Ciao grazie a tutti bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
R: [newbie-it] si cominicia...
lo fa con entrambi... ma a volte anche durante la maschera di login grafica... schermo nero anche per parecchi secondi... da cosa dipenderà??? configurazione della scheda video, conflittiboh... una cosa è certa...un attimo straziante a lavorare :-) vabbé...vuol dire che imparerò da linea di comando! :-) dicono che bisogna cominciare da li! hi hi hi grazie a tutti per chi vuol contribuire! ciao francesco PS...possibile che un pc con certe caratteristiche possa soffrire l'aspetto grafico?? fino a ieri girava un w2000...che credo e spero sia molto più legnoso notte -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di Daniele Micci Inviato: giovedì 28 novembre 2002 20.09 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] si cominicia... Alle 12:28, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, mailing - effem ha scritto: ciao a tutta la lista... recuperato un buon PIII 500, 128Mb...ed ora sono pronto per cominciare questa stupenda avventura linux! Benvenuto! Sicuramente non te ne pentirai... io ho installato Linux (la Mandrake 7.2) un paio di anni fa per curiosità, e per la disperazione indotta da anni di Windows... che ora se ne sta lì tranquillo tranquillo nella sua parte di hard disk (che si riduce ad ogni nuova installazione di Linux)... senza venire usato praticamente mai! Specifico da subito che di tutto ciò non ci capisco un tubo...ma staremo a vedere! Tranquillo, siamo in tanti qui a non capirci un tubo. Ma tutti insieme non ci capiamo un tubo collettivo, e i problemi spesso si risolvono lo stesso! ;) Primo piccolo problema... E te pareva! Mai che qualcuno spedisca una email in lista solo per dire sono a Sharm-el-Sheik, vi invio una foto da quaggiù! Saluti... Ho installato mandrake 9 Installazione tutto ok (su disco scsi)... Poi, quando ho iniziato a lavorare con il desktop gnome, ogni tanto...lo schermo diventa di colpo nero... qualche secondo...e poi...tutto ok di nuovo... Questa cosa la fa spesso... cosa potrebbe essere? grazie a tutti per il vostro aiuto francesco Giusto per avere qualche informazione in più... lo fa solo con GNOME, o anche con KDE o altro? Ciao... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Gvim
Alle 22:11, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Guido Milanese ha scritto: Alle 11:06, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: ...Uh?? Anch'io ho la 9.0 ed il vim è lì, tra i vari editor, bello installato di default...Prova a controllare tra i pacchetti installati e quelli da installare... sì, vim c'è, ma non trovo gvim, una comoda interfaccia grafica che avevo nella 8.2. g. Se installi il pacchetto vim che trovi nella distro e poi da kde clicchi sull'icona parte gvim.. diciamo vim con supporto grafico Se da console digiti vim parte vi senza supporto grafico, se digiti gvim parte ciò che cerchi... Se clicchi sull'icona vim e sei sotto WM o Ice WM credo parta vim e non gvim... almeno così sembra funzionare
RE: [newbie] Missing PINE
wine isn't normal GPL license... so mandrake pulled it out.. use rpmfind.net to look for a mandrake RPM.. someone always builds it.. I have it on all my 9.0 boxes. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 9:12 AM To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] Missing PINE Why isn't PINE in the Mandrake distribution? I realize mutt is, but what takes the place of PINE? -- Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list address and my email address in To: * Signed, SoloCDM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run into a spot of trouble trying to set up LinNeighborhood. Now, I downloaded the LinNeighborhood rpm, and it seemed to install ok, leaving me with some entries at the root. I found a web page detailing what must be done to properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, which is: tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5 ./configure make make install The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip format' message. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. This is where I've ground to a halt. I installed bzip2 from files from a webpage, couldn't get it to work. Then tried to install bzip2 from the Mandrake cd, it reported that bzip2 was already installed. I changed the 'file associations' to point any .gz or bz or bz2 files towards the bzip2 app, but still no joy. Where am I going wrong? Why is it that bzip2 doesn't appear anywhere on the start menu, or why is it that if I create a desktop link to /usr/bin/bzip2, nothing happens when I click on it? And if bzip2 really is installed, why can't I get past the 'not in gzip format' bit. Why doesn't bzip2 unzip the file instead of gzip refusing to? I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 for the first time 10 days ago. I'm using the KDE gui. The pc is a Compaq EVO P4, with 256mb ram. Please help a Linux novice out? All the best Ronnie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run into a spot of trouble trying to set up LinNeighborhood. Now, I downloaded the LinNeighborhood rpm, and it seemed to install ok, leaving me with some entries at the root. I found a web page detailing what must be done to properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, instead, why not download and install the mdk9 rpm file from one of our 'contrib' mirror directories like the one below: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/LinNeighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk which is: tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5 ./configure make make install The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip format' message. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. This is where I've ground to a halt. I installed bzip2 from files from a webpage, couldn't get it to work. Then tried to install bzip2 from the Mandrake cd, it reported that bzip2 was already installed. I changed the 'file associations' to point any .gz or bz or bz2 files towards the bzip2 app, but still no joy. Where am I going wrong? Why is it that bzip2 doesn't appear anywhere on the start menu, or why is it that if I create a desktop link to /usr/bin/bzip2, nothing happens when I click on it? And if bzip2 really is installed, why can't I get past the 'not in gzip format' bit. Why doesn't bzip2 unzip the file instead of gzip refusing to? I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 for the first time 10 days ago. I'm using the KDE gui. The pc is a Compaq EVO P4, with 256mb ram. Please help a Linux novice out? All the best Ronnie -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
The page details how to uncompress the files if they are in .tar.gz format -- going through the options for tar: x - extract z - unzip (via gzip / gunzip) v - verbose f - use file following this flag To unbzip2 a compressed file, you'll have to do: x - extract j - unbzip2 (for newer, 8.0 and above releases) v - verbose f - use file following this flag (so that command would be tar -xjvf Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 without the quotes). For more info, do a man bzip2, man tar, and man gzip without the quotes. -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online At 08:24 AM 11/28/2002 +, you wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run into a spot of trouble trying to set up LinNeighborhood. Now, I downloaded the LinNeighborhood rpm, and it seemed to install ok, leaving me with some entries at the root. I found a web page detailing what must be done to properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, which is: tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5 ./configure make make install The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip format' message. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. This is where I've ground to a halt. I installed bzip2 from files from a webpage, couldn't get it to work. Then tried to install bzip2 from the Mandrake cd, it reported that bzip2 was already installed. I changed the 'file associations' to point any .gz or bz or bz2 files towards the bzip2 app, but still no joy. Where am I going wrong? Why is it that bzip2 doesn't appear anywhere on the start menu, or why is it that if I create a desktop link to /usr/bin/bzip2, nothing happens when I click on it? And if bzip2 really is installed, why can't I get past the 'not in gzip format' bit. Why doesn't bzip2 unzip the file instead of gzip refusing to? I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 for the first time 10 days ago. I'm using the KDE gui. The pc is a Compaq EVO P4, with 256mb ram. Please help a Linux novice out? All the best Ronnie 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] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
Hi Ronnie, Your problem (I gather) is fairly simple. Just re-read your mail with my comments. Hope this helps... Tadimeti Kesav KEANE INDIA Ltd. E9 - E12, SDF NEPZ NOIDA - 201 305 U.P, INDIA Telefon: +91-120-456 8210 (211) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found a web page detailing what must be done to properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, which is: tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5 ./configure make make install The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip format' message. [Kesav] Try downloading this again. Unzipping with BZIP2 won't help. BZIP2 is a different Zip program with a different extension (.bz). It looks to me like you did not download properly. Download in binary format. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. [Kesav] No need to install bzip2!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run into a spot of trouble trying to set up LinNeighborhood. Now, I downloaded the LinNeighborhood rpm, and it seemed to install ok, leaving me with some entries at the root. I found a web page detailing what must be done to properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, instead, why not download and install the mdk9 rpm file from one of our 'contrib' mirror directories like the one below: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/LinNe ighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk whoops, sorry that wasn't quite the link :) http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/LinNeighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk.i586.html which is: tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5 ./configure make make install The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip format' message. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. This is where I've ground to a halt. I installed bzip2 from files from a webpage, couldn't get it to work. Then tried to install bzip2 from the Mandrake cd, it reported that bzip2 was already installed. I changed the 'file associations' to point any .gz or bz or bz2 files towards the bzip2 app, but still no joy. Where am I going wrong? Why is it that bzip2 doesn't appear anywhere on the start menu, or why is it that if I create a desktop link to /usr/bin/bzip2, nothing happens when I click on it? And if bzip2 really is installed, why can't I get past the 'not in gzip format' bit. Why doesn't bzip2 unzip the file instead of gzip refusing to? I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 for the first time 10 days ago. I'm using the KDE gui. The pc is a Compaq EVO P4, with 256mb ram. Please help a Linux novice out? All the best Ronnie -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Symbolic links
How do you remove a symbolic link. neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
Miark wrote: dia On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:22:52 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Miark, I will check it out, have downloaded a tat ball, now looking to see if we have an rpm vesion Is there a possibility of a nice little pdf file manual , do you know. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
Thanks! The j switch did the job and unzipped the bz2 file, creating the
LinNeighborhood directory without problem.
However, when I then try the following commands, I get error messages
./configure
make
make install
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# ./configure
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
Any advice?
Out of curiosity, what is the LinNeighborhood executable called, I'm
guessing (bravely enough) that it's Linneighborhood dot something?
I think I read that it should be in /usr/local/bin, though there's nothing
at all in that directory.
Thanks to all who gave me advice, it was and is greatly appreciated.
Ronnie
Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 28/11/2002
08:49:30
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Subject:Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work..
The page details how to uncompress the files if they are in .tar.gz
format -- going through the options for tar:
x - extract
z - unzip (via gzip / gunzip)
v - verbose
f - use file following this flag
To unbzip2 a compressed file, you'll have to do:
x - extract
j - unbzip2 (for newer, 8.0 and above releases)
v - verbose
f - use file following this flag
(so that command would be tar -xjvf Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 without
the quotes).
For more info, do a man bzip2, man tar, and man gzip without the
quotes.
--
Michael Viron
Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations
General Education Online
At 08:24 AM 11/28/2002 +, you wrote:
Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has
recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because
I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our
training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run
into a spot of trouble trying to set up LinNeighborhood. Now, I downloaded
the LinNeighborhood rpm, and it seemed to install ok, leaving me with some
entries at the root. I found a web page detailing what must be done to
properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, which
is:
tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz
cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5
./configure
make
make install
The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip
format' message. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. This is where
I've ground to a halt. I installed bzip2 from files from a webpage,
couldn't get it to work. Then tried to install bzip2 from the Mandrake cd,
it reported that bzip2 was already installed. I changed the 'file
associations' to point any .gz or bz or bz2 files towards the bzip2 app,
but still no joy.
Where am I going wrong? Why is it that bzip2 doesn't appear anywhere on
the
start menu, or why is it that if I create a desktop link to
/usr/bin/bzip2,
nothing happens when I click on it? And if bzip2 really is installed, why
can't I get past the 'not in gzip format' bit. Why doesn't bzip2 unzip the
file instead of gzip refusing to?
I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 for the first time 10 days ago. I'm using
the KDE gui. The pc is a Compaq EVO P4, with 256mb ram.
Please help a Linux novice out?
All the best
Ronnie
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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RE: [newbie] Locate utility problem on mndrke 9.0
locate should find them, but locate is updated via cron.. you need to do it manually first.. undatedb In a console should do it. then try locate again. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nathan . Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Locate utility problem on mndrke 9.0 Hello All, I have 9.0 Mandrake installed. I successfully compiled the application on 8.2. I have noticed problems while compiling on 9.0. I am getting compilation errors because somehow the compiler cannot find standard librarires. I have checked for there installation and it is fine. For Example: On 9.0 : The locate utility cannot show all the iostream.h versions although they do exist in 3 places. Moreover it was showing an entry only in one directory. I was of the idea that locate should be able to show all files with iostream.h in there string. On 8.2: it works fine. is there a glitch or am I missing something. Because of this I cannot compile my code. Seems like the system is not able to pickup the correct header files. Please advise Thanks -Nitin _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change to get them back. Help is appreciated. Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in particular that can't see them? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-(
I installed a programme recently, and noticed that the GnoRPM tool asked me where to put a .desktop icon that turned out to put an icon in the main menu. Frustrated at the clumsyness of the menu editors and intrigued that their might be a process as straight forward as (and similar in simplicity to) the mac's apple menu buried somewhere in the system, I went to investigate... So, I logged in as root and went sniffing around in usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus and usr/share/gnome/programs... And, now the main menu has disappeared! No surprise to some I guess? The only thing I changed was the Gnome Color Selector that I opened in gedit: changed the comment [en_GB] and name [en_GB] to Gnome Colour Selector (fair enough, I thought...). I opened some other files with gedit just for a look, but closed them without saving. First, as I was browsing with nautilus in the Programs directory (I may also have been browsing with gedit's file open dialogue) I noticed that all the Mandrake menu's had gone (yup, I looked in usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus before I looked in usr/share/gnome/programs). Then, after I closed nautilus and gedit and logged out of root and back into my account - holding my breath the whole time - I found the whole main menu had gone. I got an error message that the main menu couldn't be found... Any help with my investigation and putting the main menu back would be really appreciated. Thanks, Morgan. -- Morgan Read mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Symbolic links
John Richard Smith wrote: How do you remove a symbolic link. neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it. I've always found rm works fine. What you can't do is directly replace one symbolic link with another. Sir Robin -- You almost never hear that word computer anymore, do you? They're part of everything now. They used to be boxes with keyboards, you know. - Tad Williams Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:32 am, Len Lawrence wrote: . As you point out other distributions would also adopt Gnome 2 so there would be no advantage in switching loyalties. Glad to see that those more knowledgeable are helping you to eradicate the problems. Good luck Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4
I'm trying to tar 8.4Gb to a NT4 machine. But tar stops at 2,097,153. Stating 'File size limit exceeded'. I know that the system partition for NT4 can't be bigger than 2G. I'm Tar'ing to a 36G Raid drive. I'm logging in as a superuser. I know i have the option of taring to specific file sizes, but one big file would be better for me. Anybody come across this before. I know its a NT problem because I've tar'd 4.6G to another LM9 machine. Many thanks Mr Smiley. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4
Mr Smiley, There is file size limitations on Windows. I am not to sure about NT4 but as you have the problem I guess it is. fat32 will not let you do a file bigger then 2gb. Are you using fat32 on ntfs? I would hazard a guess you are using fat32, if not the earlier versions of ntfs might not have been able to do larger than 2gb. Wk2 ntfs can handle it. You will be best checking the MS web for info on nt4 ntfs. Tony. -Original Message- From: Ken Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 10:38 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4 I'm trying to tar 8.4Gb to a NT4 machine. But tar stops at 2,097,153. Stating 'File size limit exceeded'. I know that the system partition for NT4 can't be bigger than 2G. I'm Tar'ing to a 36G Raid drive. I'm logging in as a superuser. I know i have the option of taring to specific file sizes, but one big file would be better for me. Anybody come across this before. I know its a NT problem because I've tar'd 4.6G to another LM9 machine. Many thanks Mr Smiley. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IDE OPTI not compiled in on installation floppy boot
Hi All I am trying to install 9 onto a HP Ominbook 5700CT. The floppy boots up to the point where it tries to talk to the disk and I get the following error message OPTI621: Detected chipset but driver not compiled in! It the proceeds to try to talk to the disk and hangs with the disk light permanently lit when checking partition hda (the drive previously had an old version of Linux on it which worked fine) Is there an alternative boot floppy which may sort this out. I did try installing 9 onto a Toshiba laptop which worked fine and moving the disk across, this time the boot hang before much in the way of messages were seen, but similar scenario with the disk light on permanently. Thanks Peter - Peter Stokes Ashlyn Computer Services Ltd Tel: +44 (0)1636-627900 Fax: +44 (0)1636-627909 Mbl: +44 (0)7977-532320 Web: http://www.ashlyn.co.uk - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] connecting to the net?
I finally managed to get my modem to work, but when i click to connect to the internet, all I get is the dial tone, without it dialing my isp's phone number or anything, any ideas? I have checked the settings for my isp and they are all correct. thanks _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modem question
I convinced a friend of mine to try out mdk9 but she had an HSF modem and couldn't afford to replace it. Googled the link to Marc Boucher's driver for the HSF moden I installed the driver and ran hsfconfig to set the country code etc but kpp could not find the device . simple solution was to make a link in /dev/ to ttySHSF0 and run kpp again this worked like a charm... Works really well and saves going to the added expense of buying a 'hardware' modem. It's often difficult to convince people to try 'nix' if they have to spend money replacing hardware that works (tongue in cheek) with the offerings form M$. It was a useful exercise in demonstrating how flexible linux is and how you can do it yourself to fix problems. Franki wrote: Just download the driver for your kernel version.. http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hsf/archive/hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta0211 0300/hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02110300k2.4.19_16mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm Then just install it.. rpm -ivh hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02110300k2.4.19_16mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm it will do all the work for you from that point... then just run kppp to detect modem or use wvdial whatever... I have done it many times and it works great Marc Boucher did some fantastic work on those drivers. good luck rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard J A Sent: Sunday, 24 November 2002 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] modem question Hi, First off, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing. I installed Mandrake 9.0, and it installed everything alright except I have no idea how to get my modem to work. So until then, I am back on this awful Microcrap XP. I would appreciate any help anyone could give me, and in as easy terms to understand as possible, because all of the help pages I have seem to talk in a language that is far above my head :0( My modem is Conexant Softk56 PCI so I gather I go here http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hsf/downloads-mdk-x86.html and download kernel version 2.4.19-16mdk (I gather) after that I have no idea what to do. How do I install that? I'm used to the simple and pleasurable clicking on an upgrade in windows and letting it self install, but when I clicked on this, it just asked me what to open it with, argh. When I installed it, it would find that I had some other type of modem, Eth(something) and would show I had an LAN whatever. I have no idea what any of that is. Someone suggested I disable that then my modem will show up, but as I don't know what it is and it all came with my computer, I have no idea how to do that, so I'd rather stay away from that. Anyway, if anyone can help me, I'd be very grateful Thanks for you time Take Care Richard 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: [linux] [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4
I'm trying to tar 8.4Gb to a NT4 machine. But tar stops at 2,097,153. Stating 'File size limit exceeded'. 2,097,153k is a signed long (32 bits) on an NT platform, so it's the limit of lseek() which is the API a multi-platform tar would probably use. The win32 API SetFilePointerEx() uses 64 bit integers. Anyone fancy hacking tar? -- Richard Urwin, Software Design Engineer Schenck Test Automation Braemar Court, 1311b Melton Road, Syston, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Walker Sent: 28 November 2002 10:38 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [linux] [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4 I'm trying to tar 8.4Gb to a NT4 machine. But tar stops at 2,097,153. Stating 'File size limit exceeded'. I know that the system partition for NT4 can't be bigger than 2G. I'm Tar'ing to a 36G Raid drive. I'm logging in as a superuser. I know i have the option of taring to specific file sizes, but one big file would be better for me. Anybody come across this before. I know its a NT problem because I've tar'd 4.6G to another LM9 machine. Many thanks Mr Smiley. 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
[newbie] Sourceforge download sites
Is it correct, or my misassumption, that source forge sites do not support resume of the download, from where you were cut off, or is it M9.0 new download manager that fails to keep a record of the download progess and instists on starting all over again. I tried long time ago using NT, or as it is now called d4x, with sourceforge without success. I couldn't het the sourceforge url to be accepted. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and pre-schoolers
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:59, Todd Slater wrote: 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 Bravo! How well thought out mate! BTW, what are you going to do when she understands that CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE kills the desktop? Or when CTRL-ALT-F2 gives her a black screen? (grin) -- Wed Nov 27 21:55:00 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 multicasts on broken packets Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm?
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 16:31, Charlie wrote: On November 27, 2002 01:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a root console, then typed hdparm - command not found. I tried man hdparm - no manual entry for hdparm. Am I finally, totally over the top? If that wasn't the command, what was? Anne Dunno but: [root@hxx-xx-xxx-xxx nanook]#locate hdparm /usr/share/webmin/fdisk/apply_hdparm.cgi /usr/share/webmin/fdisk/edit_hdparm.cgi /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/1hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/9hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/2hdparm Since I've never bothered with it on this old crate I can't help any further. Sorry. Regards; It's supposed to be on install cd 1, with 8.2 powerpack anyway, but is not there, so it doesn't get installed. Dan -- 9:02am up 2 days, 14:46, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.12, 0.06 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hdparm?
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 2:04 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 16:31, Charlie wrote: On November 27, 2002 01:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a root console, then typed hdparm - command not found. I tried man hdparm - no manual entry for hdparm. Am I finally, totally over the top? If that wasn't the command, what was? Anne Dunno but: [root@hxx-xx-xxx-xxx nanook]#locate hdparm /usr/share/webmin/fdisk/apply_hdparm.cgi /usr/share/webmin/fdisk/edit_hdparm.cgi /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/1hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/9hdparm /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/2hdparm Since I've never bothered with it on this old crate I can't help any further. Sorry. Regards; It's supposed to be on install cd 1, with 8.2 powerpack anyway, but is not there, so it doesn't get installed. Dan The text file is in /proc, and has all the info. (Thanks, Stephen). Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 07:22, John Richard Smith wrote: Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you talking about diagramming, or what actually? Yes , Stephen, Technical drawing on computer, you know round widgets and things. I'm currently looking at gcad, which I take to mean Computer Aided Design. and Dia, both look promissing, I found a help file for qcad , seems to think you know quite a bit already, and the manual doesn't start to get going for some depth, but I trying to make sense of it right now. Dia seems to have a broken help file location so currently cannot make head nor tail of it.I haven't drawn with computers before so this is all new. I need to draw a plan, side, and end view of a device I'm giving to a friend so he can make it for himself. thanks. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing
wrong.
Did the...tar -xjvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2
It creates the LinNeighborhood directory ok, but nothing else.
I'm not sure if executable should be installed at this time in
/usr/local/bin/
I try running ./configure, then make, then make INSTALL, but nothing
happens except:
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# ./configure
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
What am I doing wrong? I have spent around 3 hours trying different
LinNeighborhood rpm's from different sites and the same thing happens at
the same stage, so I figure I must be doing something wrong.
Anyone know what it is? I really need LinNeighborhood set up.
Another thing too, supposedly LinNeighborhood shows up in Networking/other/
but on my menu there is no 'other'. Does that only appear if
LinNeighborhood is installed?
Advice much appreciated.
Ronnie
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RE: [newbie]
Hi Ronnie
The configure program cannot find a compiler in your PATH variable, so you
need to add to your PATH where the compiler is. You may not have gcc
installed, in which case you will have to install it.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronnie Boyd
Sent: 28 November 2002 14:47
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie]
Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing
wrong.
Did the...tar -xjvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2
It creates the LinNeighborhood directory ok, but nothing else.
I'm not sure if executable should be installed at this time in
/usr/local/bin/
I try running ./configure, then make, then make INSTALL, but nothing
happens except:
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# ./configure
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
What am I doing wrong? I have spent around 3 hours trying different
LinNeighborhood rpm's from different sites and the same thing happens at
the same stage, so I figure I must be doing something wrong.
Anyone know what it is? I really need LinNeighborhood set up.
Another thing too, supposedly LinNeighborhood shows up in Networking/other/
but on my menu there is no 'other'. Does that only appear if
LinNeighborhood is installed?
Advice much appreciated.
Ronnie
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Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 2:46 pm, Ronnie Boyd wrote: Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did you get Alan Shoemaker's post? I think you would be well to try it. In case you didn't, here is the important bit: /quote instead, why not download and install the mdk9 rpm file from one of our 'contrib' mirror directories like the one below: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/LinNe ighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk whoops, sorry that wasn't quite the link :) http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/LinNeighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk.i586.html /endquote Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
Hi Erik, Ok, i tried what u said. Downloaded AutoClave and ran it. Did 1 pass since i tot that's enough. Reinstalled xp (NTFS). Later, resized it using PQMagic, having Fat32 and ext2. Booted into Mandrake setup.and Got the same problem!!! I feel it's not the harddisk then. Bios perhaps? I also downloaded the clean up program from fujitsu(my harddisk manufacturer). Ran it and did the same thing, got the same problem. If this goes on i'm going to sue Toshiba. ;) Sean From: Erik Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu 28/11/2002 1:36 PM GMT+08:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP If you are going to use fdisk, ONLY use it if you are going to install XP on a Fat32 partition. NTFS and fdisk don't play together very well. I've had to fix more installs of Win2000 and XP because a customer decided to do it themselves and fdisked. The WinOs installed, but refused to correctly convert to NTFS...and were very unstable. The easiest way to do this is totally clear the disk. I normally use a program called AutoClave 0.3 .. free program on the internet, boots from floppy, can be written to a floppy in windows or linux...is a minix version of linux and you have a 5 level choice from 1 to 25 passes to zero the disk or sterilize it. Once the disk is totally 00 , then M$ XP will think it's a brand new drive and ask to partition/format... and then continue to install. Once you have XP installed, use a trial version of Partition Magic or one of the other partitioning tools that work with XP (NTFS) and resize the partition, leaving room for the Fat32 partition and the linux partition. Create the Fat32 partition and then write it all to disk. Boot into XP to make sure it all works. From there, you should be able to 'restart' and boot the mdk CD1 and load the OS without interference from XP. Mandrake setup should see the NTFS and Fat32 partitions (don't let it do anything to them--use expert mode) and it will see the 'blank' space after those partitions. Because the drive was put in a 00 state, XP will have written the mbr correctly and it should no longer be a problem for mdk. HTH. Erik On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks stephen, but i still got the same problem. i believe there is something wrong with my mbr coz mandrake can't read the partition table. I don't know much about this thing but i'm willing to do it. I read that windows will somehow leave itself on a certain part of the harddisk even if you format the drive. Well, i downloaded the program to zero the harddisk here. It says this This procedure performs a pseudo-formatting to the drive. It erases all of your previous data and reinitializes it to 00 pattern. By performing this task, you will be able to erase the whole user area including your Master Boot Record, Partition Table, FAT (File Allocation Table), and all the files and data it refers to. Use this program if you want to be sure your drive is clean. So my question is, after running this program, can i easily boot up my pc properly? as in, i load in my win98 setup disk? Or will it not load at all and i have to fill up some other parameters? Sean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? 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]
Downloaded from there before, same problem unfortunately. _ Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 28/11/2002 14:51:12 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [newbie] On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 2:46 pm, Ronnie Boyd wrote: Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did you get Alan Shoemaker's post? I think you would be well to try it. In case you didn't, here is the important bit: /quote instead, why not download and install the mdk9 rpm file from one of our 'contrib' mirror directories like the one below: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/LinNe ighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk whoops, sorry that wasn't quite the link :) http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/LinNeighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk.i586.html /endquote 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]
Dear people of mandrake mailinglist, I have a problem with the installation of mandrake 9.0, I used to have a slackware distribution installed but it took too much of linux experience (which i don't really have yet). I was recommended to install mandrake. So i made an install of mandrake: everything went well: I formatted the old linux partition (4.0 GB) and swap space (125 MB) (HD is 40 GB total ~36 GB is used for Win98). I chose everything from the mandrake desktop possibilities to choose from. When the installation was completed successfully the system was rebooted and the linux loader came up. Linux was chosen and then my computer hanged. With the next check line my computer hanged: Finding module dependencies: . And then my computer didn't respond to anything. I did a reinstall and the same problem occured. I did a upgrade and installed some more features and again my computer hanged but with another check line namely: Enabling swap space . And then my computer didn't respond to anything. Every time i did a reboot the system gave an error that my hda3 wasn't completely well mounted so a check force was needed and within 4.7% my computer hangs again What is the problem??? I stayed up till 4 in the morning coping with this problem Please help me!!! Is my swap space too small? Is the hda3 not fully formatted? Is my computer not compatible with mandrake? (I am running windows98 beside mandrake and using a asus a7n266 with integrated nForce video chipset and a AMD athlon 1700+ with 385 MB of DDR ram, plextor writer and a sony cdrom player) I hope u can help me ty in advance, Greetings Wouter Pos The netherlands. __ 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] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
You need to install automake, autoconf, and gcc.
Michael
At 09:48 AM 11/28/2002 +, you wrote:
Thanks! The j switch did the job and unzipped the bz2 file, creating the
LinNeighborhood directory without problem.
However, when I then try the following commands, I get error messages
./configure
make
make install
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# ./configure
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
Any advice?
Out of curiosity, what is the LinNeighborhood executable called, I'm
guessing (bravely enough) that it's Linneighborhood dot something?
I think I read that it should be in /usr/local/bin, though there's nothing
at all in that directory.
Thanks to all who gave me advice, it was and is greatly appreciated.
Ronnie
Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 28/11/2002
08:49:30
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work..
The page details how to uncompress the files if they are in .tar.gz
format -- going through the options for tar:
x - extract
z - unzip (via gzip / gunzip)
v - verbose
f - use file following this flag
To unbzip2 a compressed file, you'll have to do:
x - extract
j - unbzip2 (for newer, 8.0 and above releases)
v - verbose
f - use file following this flag
(so that command would be tar -xjvf Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 without
the quotes).
For more info, do a man bzip2, man tar, and man gzip without the
quotes.
--
Michael Viron
Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations
General Education Online
At 08:24 AM 11/28/2002 +, you wrote:
Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has
recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because
I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our
training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run
into a spot of trouble trying to set up LinNeighborhood. Now, I downloaded
the LinNeighborhood rpm, and it seemed to install ok, leaving me with some
entries at the root. I found a web page detailing what must be done to
properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, which
is:
tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz
cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5
./configure
make
make install
The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip
format' message. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. This is where
I've ground to a halt. I installed bzip2 from files from a webpage,
couldn't get it to work. Then tried to install bzip2 from the Mandrake cd,
it reported that bzip2 was already installed. I changed the 'file
associations' to point any .gz or bz or bz2 files towards the bzip2 app,
but still no joy.
Where am I going wrong? Why is it that bzip2 doesn't appear anywhere on
the
start menu, or why is it that if I create a desktop link to
/usr/bin/bzip2,
nothing happens when I click on it? And if bzip2 really is installed, why
can't I get past the 'not in gzip format' bit. Why doesn't bzip2 unzip the
file instead of gzip refusing to?
I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 for the first time 10 days ago. I'm using
the KDE gui. The pc is a Compaq EVO P4, with 256mb ram.
Please help a Linux novice out?
All the best
Ronnie
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Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
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Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change to get them back. Help is appreciated. Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in particular that can't see them? Anne Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change to get them back. Help is appreciated. Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in particular that can't see them? Anne Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. How puzzling! I've just checked and there are 4 versions of Helvetica in my fonts list for KMail. In fact it tells me I'm using a customised font (without indicating which one), and I think I set it to Helvetica, though I can't be sure which one. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. It's curious how many problems we have that really bug some users and simply don't happen to others. Mind you, I think that similar things happened with 8.2 until it settled down. I guess that eventually we'll come to understand the cause of many of these problems. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change to get them back. Help is appreciated. Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in particular that can't see them? Anne Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. Thanks, Dennis - this has just rung a bell. Under 8.2 I had awful problems with fonts after I enabled anti-aliasing. Could that have caused it? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
On Thursday 28 November 2002 03:48 am, Ronnie Boyd wrote:
Thanks! The j switch did the job and unzipped the bz2 file, creating the
LinNeighborhood directory without problem.
However, when I then try the following commands, I get error messages
./configure
make
make install
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# ./configure
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
Any advice?
Out of curiosity, what is the LinNeighborhood executable called, I'm
guessing (bravely enough) that it's Linneighborhood dot something?
I think I read that it should be in /usr/local/bin, though there's nothing
at all in that directory.
Thanks to all who gave me advice, it was and is greatly appreciated.
Ronnie
Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 28/11/2002
08:49:30
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Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work..
The page details how to uncompress the files if they are in .tar.gz
format -- going through the options for tar:
x - extract
z - unzip (via gzip / gunzip)
v - verbose
f - use file following this flag
To unbzip2 a compressed file, you'll have to do:
x - extract
j - unbzip2 (for newer, 8.0 and above releases)
v - verbose
f - use file following this flag
(so that command would be tar -xjvf Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 without
the quotes).
For more info, do a man bzip2, man tar, and man gzip without the
quotes.
Looks like you need a gcc compiler which is on the disks and install the
autoconf , automake, autoheader and aclocal packages, also should be on the
disks. Then give it another go and it should run, he said hopefully.
--
Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. Thanks, Dennis - this has just rung a bell. Under 8.2 I had awful problems with fonts after I enabled anti-aliasing. Could that have caused it? Anne Don't know but I think the main problem was between the keyboard and the scalp. I will check the method I used and try again later when I have more time, the holidays are upon us and time is at a premium. Feeling guilty just sitting here reading the e-mail. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:24:41 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Don't know but I think the main problem was between the keyboard and the scalp. snip -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 At work we call that an ID10T ticket hehe Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
Question here -- is your XP install disk OEM or retail? Some of the OEM disks are incompatible with any sort of dual-boot setup due to adding hidden partitions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP Hi Erik, Ok, i tried what u said. Downloaded AutoClave and ran it. Did 1 pass since i tot that's enough. Reinstalled xp (NTFS). Later, resized it using PQMagic, having Fat32 and ext2. Booted into Mandrake setup.and Got the same problem!!! I feel it's not the harddisk then. Bios perhaps? I also downloaded the clean up program from fujitsu(my harddisk manufacturer). Ran it and did the same thing, got the same problem. If this goes on i'm going to sue Toshiba. ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 28 November 2002 06:46 am, you wrote:
Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing
wrong.
Did the...tar -xjvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2
It creates the LinNeighborhood directory ok, but nothing else.
I'm not sure if executable should be installed at this time in
/usr/local/bin/
I try running ./configure, then make, then make INSTALL, but nothing
happens except:
Hmm, looks like it may be looking in the wrong places. But, why don't you
use the Mandrake LinNeighborhood rpm? I believe it is on the 3rd disk (the
contributions disk), at least with 8.2. I always install it.
If the rpm that is specifically for mdk doesn't work, then we can
troubleshoot it.
e.
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# ./configure
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
What am I doing wrong? I have spent around 3 hours trying different
LinNeighborhood rpm's from different sites and the same thing happens at
the same stage, so I figure I must be doing something wrong.
Anyone know what it is? I really need LinNeighborhood set up.
Another thing too, supposedly LinNeighborhood shows up in Networking/other/
but on my menu there is no 'other'. Does that only appear if
LinNeighborhood is installed?
Advice much appreciated.
Ronnie
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[newbie] Has anyone had trouble
Finding out the status of their order for a boxed set of Mandrake 9.0? I have tried contacting them four times via email now, and even placed a phone call yesterday and left a message. Never received a response, nor have I received my boxed set even though they charged my credit card several weeks ago. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sending email with Cable Connection
1. We're both military and we'll both move within a year so this arrangement is not permanent. 2. I've had my prodigy account for so long that to change for the short term would be an inconvienience. 3. I didn't understand the mechanics of smtp servers until seeing Mr. Jennings' post. Jordan R. Thompson wrote: I guess the question I have is _why_? If the account is in your neighbor's name, you can get him to add a user (I have cable here in Florida and we get up to 6 users, I think.) I don't even use the username that was given to me as it is too hard to remember, so I created one that I can remember and I retrieve my mail from that one. Jordan - Original Message - From: Chris Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Sending email with Cable Connection I recently arranged to share cable internet with my neighbor across the hall. Previously I had been using dail-up and KPPP to establish the connection. Now that I am on his LAN I am always connected, can surf to my hearts's content and recieve email. However, I cannot SEND email without dailing up. Any suggestions on what setting I need to tweak to be able to send email via my cable connection. Every time I try to send (via Mozilla) I get an error to the effect that it couldn't connect to the smtp server: smtp.prodigy.net. -- Chris Edwards Send email for alternate contact information email | aim | icq | postal | cell | phone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Chris Edwards Send email for alternate contact information email | aim | icq | postal | cell | phone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Symbolic links
Erik Farnsworth wrote: rm name-of-linked-file libxyz-0 - libxyz-0.1 rm libxyz-0 On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 03:13, John Richard Smith wrote: How do you remove a symbolic link. neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it. John I did it this way, I cd into directory then , #rm libxyz enter it asked Yes or no, Y enter it seems to remove it. Am I right. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Smartmedia Reader
Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: - Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/sdb host: 3 info: Datafab USB to CF + SM C lun: 00 Media class: hd raw_type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 -- However when I try to mount /dev/sdb /mnt/cardreader I get mount: special device /dev/sdb does not exist What can I do now? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
wouter pos wrote: Dear people of mandrake mailinglist, I have a problem with the installation of mandrake 9.0, I used to have a slackware distribution installed but it took too much of linux experience (which i don't really have yet). I was recommended to install mandrake. So i made an install of mandrake: everything went well: I formatted the old linux partition (4.0 GB) and swap space (125 MB) (HD is 40 GB total ~36 GB is used for Win98). I chose everything from the mandrake desktop possibilities to choose from. When the installation was completed successfully the system was rebooted and the linux loader came up. Linux was chosen and then my computer hanged. With the next check line my computer hanged: Finding module dependencies: . And then my computer didn't respond to anything. I did a reinstall and the same problem occured. I did a upgrade and installed some more features and again my computer hanged but with another check line namely: Enabling swap space . And then my computer didn't respond to anything. Every time i did a reboot the system gave an error that my hda3 wasn't completely well mounted so a check force was needed and within 4.7% my computer hangs again What is the problem??? I stayed up till 4 in the morning coping with this problem Please help me!!! Is my swap space too small? Is the hda3 not fully formatted? Is my computer not compatible with mandrake? (I am running windows98 beside mandrake and using a asus a7n266 with integrated nForce video chipset and a AMD athlon 1700+ with 385 MB of DDR ram, plextor writer and a sony cdrom player) I hope u can help me ty in advance, Greetings Wouter Pos The netherlands. It sounds like a nobiospnp job I have an 1800Athlon with 512mb ddr memory, and experienced the same problem, What you have to do is addnobiospnp to the append= line in /etc/lilo.conf , note must come between the quotes along with anything else that may be in the append= line, seperated by a space for each item in the line. Now how to do that, If you don't mind starting again you can to it in the lilo install script. of drakX, but I suppose you would rather prefer not to, you see you have to get to desktop, and use a text editor to open up /etc/lilo.conf and add that appendage , save and exit, but you cannot get to desktop at the moment. So reboot and at the splash screen hit f1 and run the linux entry with nobiospnp that gets you onto desktop the once and there you can make the necessary change. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TV Out X Window Problem
Op Tuesday 26 November 2002 16:50, schreef u: 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 i think it has something to do with the cable , or it is possible that the video card gives an output signal with an offset voltage and the color info gets lost on the input of your television . To eliminate this offset voltage there are a few solutions build with just a few electronic components. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run into a spot of trouble trying to set up LinNeighborhood. Now, I downloaded the LinNeighborhood rpm, and it seemed to install ok, leaving me with some entries at the root. I found a web page detailing what must be done to properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, instead, why not download and install the mdk9 rpm file from one of our 'contrib' mirror directories like the one below: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/Lin Ne ighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk whoops, sorry that wasn't quite the link :) http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ LinNeighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk.i586.html arggg!!! ok, i'm gonna' go to bed now, but here is the correct link: ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/LinNeighborhood-0.6.5-1mdk.i586.rpm which is: tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5 ./configure make make install The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip format' message. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. This is where I've ground to a halt. I installed bzip2 from files from a webpage, couldn't get it to work. Then tried to install bzip2 from the Mandrake cd, it reported that bzip2 was already installed. I changed the 'file associations' to point any .gz or bz or bz2 files towards the bzip2 app, but still no joy. Where am I going wrong? Why is it that bzip2 doesn't appear anywhere on the start menu, or why is it that if I create a desktop link to /usr/bin/bzip2, nothing happens when I click on it? And if bzip2 really is installed, why can't I get past the 'not in gzip format' bit. Why doesn't bzip2 unzip the file instead of gzip refusing to? I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 for the first time 10 days ago. I'm using the KDE gui. The pc is a Compaq EVO P4, with 256mb ram. Please help a Linux novice out? All the best Ronnie -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Symbolic links
On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:35 am, robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How do you remove a symbolic link. neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it. I've always found rm works fine. What you can't do is directly replace one symbolic link with another. Sir Robin rm -f symbolic-link will remove the link (non-interactively), if you have the permission. I often re-direct symbolic links with; ln -sf target symbolic-link the -f option will force an effective overwrite of the existing link. Robin Ballantine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compare Disks
Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Unix? What's that? Is that like Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 November 2002 11:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: - Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/sdb host: 3 info: Datafab USB to CF + SM C lun: 00 Media class: hd raw_type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 -- However when I try to mount /dev/sdb /mnt/cardreader I get mount: special device /dev/sdb does not exist What can I do now? Anne Anne, I think it wants to know about the partition, try doing : mount /dev/sdb1 and then look at /mnt cardreader or if you use Konqueror look at /mnt and see what is mounted there. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb, and the card was recognised as sda. Then I tried to mount it: --- mount /dev/hda /mnt/cardreader mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found [root@anne-linux anne]# umount /mnt/cardreader umount: /mnt/cardreader: not mounted I presume that this means that it is finding the CF slot, for which I don't have a card, and not the SM slot, in which I have placed a card. Is that your interpretation? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compare Disks
Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord Xcdroast will verify a disc write for you, of cause that assumes that the original cashing up is done write, but not withstanding an accurate read it does a fair job of ensuring the finish write to CD is a true and fair copy of the cashed up . I don't see why there shouldn't be a command line way, of reading the disk and comparing with the written disc , in the way you describe . It would be interesting to know if anyone has a method. If xcdroast a gui front end can read a harddrive and compare it with a disc then Igues the same programme can read on cd and compare it with another CD. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:57 am, you wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: - Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/sdb host: 3 info: Datafab USB to CF + SM C lun: 00 Media class: hd raw_type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 -- However when I try to mount /dev/sdb /mnt/cardreader I get mount: special device /dev/sdb does not exist What can I do now? Anne try to mount the /dev/sda with the partition number 1 -- /dev/sda1 (or try /dev/sdb1 if that doesn't work). All my cardreaders have required that I add a partiton number in the /fstab mount line -- I have no idea why the install never writes /fstab for cardreaders with a partition number. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 8:05 pm, erylon hines wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:57 am, you wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: - Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/sdb host: 3 info: Datafab USB to CF + SM C lun: 00 Media class: hd raw_type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 -- However when I try to mount /dev/sdb /mnt/cardreader I get mount: special device /dev/sdb does not exist What can I do now? Anne try to mount the /dev/sda with the partition number 1 -- /dev/sda1 (or try /dev/sdb1 if that doesn't work). All my cardreaders have required that I add a partiton number in the /fstab mount line -- I have no idea why the install never writes /fstab for cardreaders with a partition number. No, I still get exactly the same message. It's frustrating to feel that I am so near, but still not getting there. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] changing the dial tone
could someone please tell me how to change the settings with the modem, from pulse to tone? thanks _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How can i config firewall to allow the client to send file through outside when use msn or icq
How can i config firewall to allow the client to send file through outside when use msn or icq ? My network have 5 computer clients and 1 mandrake linux server That the mandrake linux server act as the GW and many service server . Now all of my client can use internet normal such as www , chat and other .. But have one thing that can' t do :: ie :: When my client use the messenger program like msn , icq : It can ' t send file to others When use --- send file to ... ( other people who use msn or icq ) Any one can help me to solve this problem ? more information :: My linux server :: ip = 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 My Client :: ip = 192.168.0.2 - 6 netmask 255.255.255.0 :::; Thank u for advance ::: sir pratchaya Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] changing the dial tone
On Thursday 28 November 2002 12:46 pm, you wrote: could someone please tell me how to change the settings with the modem, from pulse to tone? thanks _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Try the initialization string ATDT befor the number. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to use use XIM input method
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 1:53 am, Wei Wang wrote: I just installed chinput and don't know how to use it. I ran /usr/bin/chinput but nothing happened. Having used windows for years, I was naively looking for a little icon in the corner of panel but didn't find one. ;-) Anyone give me a hand? Many thanks. Wei If you do not know how to use a package there are a few simple ways to find out. 1/Google - linux search http://www.google.com/linux The nice people at Google have a special linux search facility. If you use Opera or Galeon browsers you can get a Google/linux search field in your command bar. There is plenty on chinput, but as it is all in Chinese I cannot help further on that :( 2/ Kpackage - If you install an RPM and want to know what files are in it. Use the search facility in kpackage to find the package and you will see a list of the files in the package. The executable is normally in /usr/bin and the documentation is usually in /usr/share/doc and/or /usr/share/man 3/ The manual pages - Just type 'man packagename' or 'man executable_name' will often start you off. 5/ The slocate facility - Install the slocate RPM, type updatedb (as root) and a database of every file on your system is created. Then type 'slocate string' to find any file containing that string almost instantly. 6/ Search at SourceForge/Freshmeat The majority of OpenSource projects use Sourceforge to host them. A search at http://sourceforge.net/ or http://freshmeat.net/ will find all sorts of interesting stuff. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb, and the card was recognised as sda. Then I tried to mount it: --- mount /dev/hda /mnt/cardreader mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found [root@anne-linux anne]# umount /mnt/cardreader umount: /mnt/cardreader: not mounted I presume that this means that it is finding the CF slot, for which I don't have a card, and not the SM slot, in which I have placed a card. Is that your interpretation? Anne Anne, was that a typo above or did you really mean sda? Again it has to have a partition designation. Try mount /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 whichever is the smart card device. Just type in that and see what it returns. Then if you cd to /mnt /cardreader it should show you data as in photos by doing ls.HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb, and the card was recognised as sda. Then I tried to mount it: --- mount /dev/hda /mnt/cardreader mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found [root@anne-linux anne]# umount /mnt/cardreader umount: /mnt/cardreader: not mounted I presume that this means that it is finding the CF slot, for which I don't have a card, and not the SM slot, in which I have placed a card. Is that your interpretation? Anne Oh, one other thing, look in you file browser, at the /mnt partition and see if it shows something there. Mine shows memory_card. I did not make that file, the system did when it saw I had a card reader attached. So if yours shows something different than cardreader try mounting what the system made up for you and see what happens. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse problems at boot
Steve, Are you saying I should try disabling the PNP in the BIOS? I'll try it and see how it goes. Yes the mouse is plugged into a PS2 port. Thanks! Gordon Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/11/02 14:01:54 On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:46, Gordon Bradbury wrote: 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 There is a known issue with mice in the extreme southern hemisphere. Due to solar flares, Hobart is subjected to extremely high doses of anti-two-button-mouse rays and Victoria Bitters... Nah...sorry - what about checking your BIOS settings? I'm assuming that you're plugging into a PS/2 mouse port, correct? If you have the BIOS set for PNP OS's, you might be getting the intermittent problems from that - miscommunication through the port... -- Thu Nov 28 14:55:01 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 The little town that time forgot, Where all the women are strong, The men are good-looking, And the children above-average. -- Prairie Home Companion 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
Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 01:48, John Richard Smith wrote: Yes , Stephen, Technical drawing on computer, you know round widgets and things. I'm currently looking at gcad, which I take to mean Computer Aided Design. and Dia, both look promissing, I found a help file for qcad , seems to think you know quite a bit already, and the manual doesn't start to get going for some depth, but I trying to make sense of it right now. Dia seems to have a broken help file location so currently cannot make head nor tail of it.I haven't drawn with computers before so this is all new. I need to draw a plan, side, and end view of a device I'm giving to a friend so he can make it for himself. thanks. John John, Regarding qcad, check this out to get you started: http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article132.shtml HTH Brian Oh thanks very much Brian, that is a far better written manual than I had. There is something a lot easier about the way it's done. I've created 3 view diagrams with my first brief encounter, of course nothing is to scale and I've got to figure out how you do that , there does not appear to be rulers as such thought you can set calibration and scaling. It seems to me you really want a very large monitor for commercial technical drawing , and some hole lot better screen resolution would aid display especially as far and straight lines are concerned which often come out looking slightly stepped on screen, though not otherwise. Now one further question. Is the qcad file format at all compatible with anything in windblows, do you know ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb, and the card was recognised as sda. Then I tried to mount it: --- mount /dev/hda /mnt/cardreader mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found [root@anne-linux anne]# umount /mnt/cardreader umount: /mnt/cardreader: not mounted I presume that this means that it is finding the CF slot, for which I don't have a card, and not the SM slot, in which I have placed a card. Is that your interpretation? Anne Anne, was that a typo above or did you really mean sda? Again it has to have a partition designation. Try mount /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 whichever is the smart card device. Just type in that and see what it returns. Then if you cd to /mnt /cardreader it should show you data as in photos by doing ls.HTH A typo, but not sure whether it was in the email or the command, so I plugged in again and rebooted. This time I realised that it had added sda, moved the LS120 to sdb and also added sdc - that is, according to MCC. However, when I booted I got a message that sda had been added - no mention of sdc. I should also say that the boot hung for a long time at 'finding dependencies', re-starting as soon as I disconnected the cardreader, which I immediately re-plugged. I suspect that it is identifying the CF reader and loading the appropriate drivers, but can't cope with the SM. The root console now gives me: [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sdc /mnt/cardreader mount: special device /dev/sdc does not exist [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/cardreader mount: No medium found Konqueror does not show any entries under /mnt/cardreader. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb, and the card was recognised as sda. Then I tried to mount it: --- mount /dev/hda /mnt/cardreader mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found [root@anne-linux anne]# umount /mnt/cardreader umount: /mnt/cardreader: not mounted I presume that this means that it is finding the CF slot, for which I don't have a card, and not the SM slot, in which I have placed a card. Is that your interpretation? Anne Anne, was that a typo above or did you really mean sda? Again it has to have a partition designation. Try mount /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 whichever is the smart card device. Just type in that and see what it returns. Then if you cd to /mnt /cardreader it should show you data as in photos by doing ls.HTH A typo, but not sure whether it was in the email or the command, so I plugged in again and rebooted. This time I realised that it had added sda, moved the LS120 to sdb and also added sdc - that is, according to MCC. However, when I booted I got a message that sda had been added - no mention of sdc. I should also say that the boot hung for a long time at 'finding dependencies', re-starting as soon as I disconnected the cardreader, which I immediately re-plugged. I suspect that it is identifying the CF reader and loading the appropriate drivers, but can't cope with the SM. The root console now gives me: [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sdc /mnt/cardreader mount: special device /dev/sdc does not exist [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/cardreader mount: No medium found Konqueror does not show any entries under /mnt/cardreader. Anne Ok, here is evidence that smart cards work, Miark's post may help, this is from the newbie maillist archives: newbie -- Chronological -- Find -- Thread -- Re: [newbie] Mounting SmartMedia From: Dennis Myers Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting SmartMedia Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:34:59 -0700 On Thursday 29 August 2002 05:34 pm, Miark wrote: It would run if it were so smart, eh? Anyway, I got my USB reader today, plugged it in, did a mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sm and blam! I was in business! One less reason to depend on Winsux-- I love it. A couple of questions, though: * How hot-swappable is this beast can I yank it out anytime it's not writing, or do I have to unmount it before I pull the card out, or the reader out of the USB port? * Does supermount have anything to do with this? * Should I put anything in /etc/fstab? Thanks, Miark HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse problems at boot
No, not necessarily, that depends on your windblows/bios relationship, you may need it. No, I'm saying mandrake does not need to look at your bios settings for pnp instruction, and the method I have described is the way to stop it doing it. John Gordon Bradbury wrote: Steve, Are you saying I should try disabling the PNP in the BIOS? I'll try it and see how it goes. Yes the mouse is plugged into a PS2 port. Thanks! Gordon Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/11/02 14:01:54 On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:46, Gordon Bradbury wrote: 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 There is a known issue with mice in the extreme southern hemisphere. Due to solar flares, Hobart is subjected to extremely high doses of anti-two-button-mouse rays and Victoria Bitters... Nah...sorry - what about checking your BIOS settings? I'm assuming that you're plugging into a PS/2 mouse port, correct? If you have the BIOS set for PNP OS's, you might be getting the intermittent problems from that - miscommunication through the port... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:34 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb, and the card was recognised as sda. Then I tried to mount it: --- mount /dev/hda /mnt/cardreader mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found [root@anne-linux anne]# umount /mnt/cardreader umount: /mnt/cardreader: not mounted I presume that this means that it is finding the CF slot, for which I don't have a card, and not the SM slot, in which I have placed a card. Is that your interpretation? Anne Oh, one other thing, look in you file browser, at the /mnt partition and see if it shows something there. Mine shows memory_card. I did not make that file, the system did when it saw I had a card reader attached. So if yours shows something different than cardreader try mounting what the system made up for you and see what happens. BTW - is there any way to deal with this swapping identities? I have just realised that fstab is attempting to mount /dev/sda as /mnt/LS120 - but Konqueror is showing it with a padlock, like a fd or cdrom with no disk in - which again suggests to me that it is seeing the CF card. Anyway, if I unplug the cardreader - I would not normally have it plugged in - my LS120 will be on the wrong drivename. And when I reboot it will return to its own sda. How is the name derived? Is the position on the usb hub relevant? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:34 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Oh, one other thing, look in you file browser, at the /mnt partition and see if it shows something there. Mine shows memory_card. I did not make that file, the system did when it saw I had a card reader attached. So if yours shows something different than cardreader try mounting what the system made up for you and see what happens. There is a directory /mnt/disk which I did not make. I have tried substituting disk for cardreader, but get exactly the same messages. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 01:48, John Richard Smith wrote: Yes , Stephen, Technical drawing on computer, you know round widgets and things. I'm currently looking at gcad, which I take to mean Computer Aided Design. and Dia, both look promissing, I found a help file for qcad , seems to think you know quite a bit already, and the manual doesn't start to get going for some depth, but I trying to make sense of it right now. Dia seems to have a broken help file location so currently cannot make head nor tail of it.I haven't drawn with computers before so this is all new. I need to draw a plan, side, and end view of a device I'm giving to a friend so he can make it for himself. thanks. John I did notice that the Dia with MDK wasn't setup quite correctly - the Dia on my RH box has all the proper help files and the likes - and when I did the upgrade, I did it via tarball. Did you, that explains it, I used rpm's , I think off the website or was it an rpmfind found site I cannot remember. I will take a look at that, I found some help pages on the net but I really wanted something I could either download as say a pdf file and store on a spare partition, like I do with gimp, then i can just look it up anytime, or builtinto the app itself. John There's been several CAD style proggies floating around - seen at either Icewalk, Apps.kde.org, LinuxApps, PlanetMirror, Gnome.org, Sourceforge.net and Freshmeat.net... Have you taken a bounce around there to check it out? (Remember, CAD programs were first run under UNIX...) -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compare Disks
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 7:42 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord Xcdroast will verify a disc write for you, of cause that assumes that the original cashing up is done write, but not withstanding an accurate read it does a fair job of ensuring the finish write to CD is a true and fair copy of the cashed up . I don't see why there shouldn't be a command line way, of reading the disk and comparing with the written disc , in the way you describe . It would be interesting to know if anyone has a method. If xcdroast a gui front end can read a harddrive and compare it with a disc then Igues the same programme can read on cd and compare it with another CD. John I thought as much. I would like a way to do this, I don't seem to get on with many of the gui cd burning software available and would like a quick command line for it. I'm sure there must be something. Thanks for the reply, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk A good messenger expects to get shot. --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] any ideas?
I have no idea how to get my modem to connect to the internet. All I am getting is my computer picking up the, the dial tone, then it wont dial. This is the script or whatever that happens when I try to connect ATZ OK ATS11=22 OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT087303030 Then it does nothing more than that. If anyone can help me, I'd be grateful, otherwise I think I will go back to microsoft until I get DSL thanks _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any ideas?
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 11:20, Richard J. wrote: I have no idea how to get my modem to connect to the internet. All I am getting is my computer picking up the, the dial tone, then it wont dial. This is the script or whatever that happens when I try to connect ATZ OK ATS11=22 OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT087303030 Then it does nothing more than that. If anyone can help me, I'd be grateful, otherwise I think I will go back to microsoft until I get DSL thanks Have you tried using the following: ATZ AT F C1 D2 E1 ATDTW 087303030 Give that a go and see what happens mate! -- Fri Nov 29 12:25:00 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 One possible reason that things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan in the first place. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
