Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: [Golem] Resistenza culturale
miKe wrote: Empoli, 7 dicembre 2002. L'informatica e' piu' strategica di quanto possa sembrare anche dopo un'attenta valutazione. Si tratta di una meta-tecnologia ovvero una tecnologia che serve a crearne altra: ogni oggetto o Gli strumenti di formazione (culturale, sociale, personale) delle giovani generazioni sono controllati da altri. Sono pensati, progettati, costruiti da altri. Sono conosciuti, nel loro funzionamento, da altri. Pensate! Proprio ieri ho convinto il preside del Liceo dove lavoro ad installare LINUX nel nuovo laboratorio di informatica! Devo anche dire che ho un server linux che mi fa da proxy/firewall che è acceso da 5 mesi e funziona a meraviglia, ed un server con apache, mysql, postfix, samba, per la intranet che rispetto al server 2000 (che ne ha sempre una...) è almeno 10 volte più veloce. A parte i soliti blocchi da parte degli insegnanti, qualcosa si muove. -- -- Ciao, Lux Linux User # 266688 It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:15:47 +0100 giamgax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sei sicuro che il router utilizzi pppoe e non pppoa? ciao, Andrea Ho provato entrambe le soluzioni, purtroppo ciccia :-(( cos'altro potrebbe essere? più che provare, dovresti vedere cosa c'è scritto sul contratto con il tuo provider :-) Se non delimiti bene il problema è difficile che tu arrivi ad una soluzione. Di solito, che io sappia, i router vogliono pppoa. ciao, andrea PS. se ti consola, io riesco ad usare il mio modem con Linux, ma non con win2k. Mia moglie è un po' arrabbiata ;-)
[newbie-it] Problemi con Open Office
Da quando utilizzo mdk 9.0 Open Office non funziona correttamente: se apro un documento scritto con Word, non appena cerco di compiere una qualsiasi azione all'interno del documento, il programma si chiude bruscamente, si oscura lo schermo e mi chiede di ri-digitare il nome e la password. Tutto tranquillo invece se lo utilizzo io per creare nuovi documenti o per aprire nuovi documenti. non .doc. Prima tutto ciò non succedeva. che fare? (ho una mole impressionante di documenti .doc!!) Capisco l'allergia per i prodotti della Microsoft :-D . ma non ci si può comportare come loro!! Ciaooo Gigi
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con Open Office
Alle 11:32, mercoledì 11 dicembre 2002, Emma e Gigi ha scritto: Da quando utilizzo mdk 9.0 Open Office non funziona correttamente: se apro un documento scritto con Word, non appena cerco di compiere una qualsiasi azione all'interno del documento, il programma si chiude bruscamente, si oscura lo schermo e mi chiede di ri-digitare il nome e la password. Tutto tranquillo invece se lo utilizzo io per creare nuovi documenti o per aprire nuovi documenti. non .doc. Prima tutto ciò non succedeva. che fare? (ho una mole impressionante di documenti .doc!!) Capisco l'allergia per i prodotti della Microsoft :-D . ma non ci si può comportare come loro!! Ciaooo Gigi Ciao, capitava anche a me (solo aprendo i file .doc allegati a qualche email, però). Prova ad aggiornare col Mandrake Update le KDE-libs: da quando ho installato l'aggiornamento, non lo fa più. Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:46:38 +0100 giamgax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve Lista! Qualche giorno fa avevo postato (in maniera molto incasinata!) un quesito simile. Ho proseguito con i tentativi ottenendo molto poco. Riassumo Ho installato su una macchina che fa parte di una piccola rete locale. L'accesso al web è garantito da un router ADSL collegato ad un hub. Ho impostato al scheda di rete come eth0, impostato come gateway l'indirizzo IP del router ed il protocollo pppoe. Riesco a pingare da shell sia questo che l'IP del provider ma Konqueror non vede nulla. C'è qualcosa che mi sfugge, ma cosa? Grazie e saluti anticipati. G.Paolo __ Yahoo! Foto: salva, ritocca, condividi e ordina stampe professionali http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.photos.yahoo.com Se hai pppoe prova a digitare adsl-status e dalla risposta puoi capire dove sta il problema.Poi digitando adsl-start e se non si collega rifai adsl-setup e lo configuri. saluti rino
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
Se hai pppoe prova a digitare adsl- status e dalla risposta puoi capire dove sta il problema.Poi digitando adsl- start e se non si collega rifai adsl-setup e lo configuri. saluti rino Scusate, forse non mi è ben chiara una cosa. Espongo le mie considerazioni: Se il router funziona e da pc si riesce a pingare l'ip del provider (così ha scritto giamgax nella sua e-mail iniziale) ... cosa c'entra adsl-status (che, ritengo, sarebbe logico con un modem adsl collegato al pc e non con un router ...) e cosa interessa se usa pppoe o pppoa ... se riesce a pingare vuol dire che è connesso e basta. L'unica cosa è che non riesce ad aprire le pagine col browser dal pc con linux (e, se non ho capito male, dovrebbe riuscirci con windows) ... quindi se ha settato bene l'ip del router come gateway forse non ha messo i dns in /etc/resolv.conf ... non credo possa essere altro ... Per sapere qualcosa di più bisognerebbe vedere cosa si ottiene dai comandi ifconfig e route? Cosa ne dite? Ciao Marco _ http://www.linuxland.org
[newbie-it] protocolli java
Collegandomi con Konqueror ad un sito ho il seguente messaggio d'errore: Java VM version: 1.2.2 Java VM vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. Unable to load JSSE SSL stream handler, https support not available java.lang.ClassFormatError: ryDropper (Local variable name has bad constant pool index) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:438) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:97) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletClassLoader.findClass(KJASAppletClassLoader.java:314) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletClassLoader.loadClass(KJASAppletClassLoader.java:335) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletStub$1.run(KJASAppletStub.java:82) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:475) Che fare? Grazie e un saluto. Ps ho visto le precedenti mail relative a java ma con nessuna di quelle indicazioni ho risolto.
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:24:46 +0100 rino favretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:46:38 +0100 giamgax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve Lista! Qualche giorno fa avevo postato (in maniera molto incasinata!) un quesito simile. Ho proseguito con i tentativi ottenendo molto poco. Riassumo Ho installato su una macchina che fa parte di una piccola rete locale. L'accesso al web è garantito da un router ADSL collegato ad un hub. Ho impostato al scheda di rete come eth0, impostato come gateway l'indirizzo IP del router ed il protocollo pppoe. Riesco a pingare da shell sia questo che l'IP del provider ma Konqueror non vede nulla. C'è qualcosa che mi sfugge, ma cosa? Con un browser riesci ad aprire http://63.209.80.235 (sito Mandrake)? Se ci riesci, vuol dire che c'è qualche problema nella configurazione del DNS. Prova anche ad aprire il link Errata sulla home page di Mandrake, troverai: Error scenario: You have an ethernet card for the local LAN and a modem for internet access and you can't reach the internet. Why: Drakconnect wrongly asks for a gateway, and ppp can't set your modem connection as the default route. Solution: As root, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and manually remove the GATEWAY entry. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:58:49 +0100 Marco Forti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . L'unica cosa è che non riesce ad aprire le pagine col browser dal pc con linux (e, se non ho capito male, dovrebbe riuscirci con windows) ... quindi se ha settato bene l'ip del router come gateway forse non ha messo i dns in /etc/resolv.conf ... non credo possa essere altro ... Per sapere qualcosa di più bisognerebbe vedere cosa si ottiene dai comandi ifconfig e route? Cosa ne dite? Che forse dovrebbe guardare http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3#gateway: Error scenario: You have an ethernet card for the local LAN and a modem for internet access and you can't reach the internet. Why: Drakconnect wrongly asks for a gateway, and ppp can't set your modem connection as the default route. Solution: As root, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and manually remove the GATEWAY entry. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
Il Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:58:49 +0100 Marco Forti [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Scusate, forse non mi è ben chiara una cosa. Espongo le mie considerazioni: Se il router funziona e da pc si riesce a pingare l'ip del provider (così ha scritto giamgax nella sua e-mail iniziale) ... cosa c'entra adsl-status (che, ritengo, sarebbe logico con un modem adsl collegato al pc e non con un router ...) e cosa interessa se usa pppoe o pppoa ... se riesce a pingare vuol dire che è connesso e basta. L'unica cosa è che non riesce ad aprire le pagine col browser dal pc con linux (e, se non ho capito male, dovrebbe riuscirci con windows) ... quindi se ha settato bene l'ip del router come gateway forse non ha messo i dns in /etc/resolv.conf ... non credo possa essere altro ... Per sapere qualcosa di più bisognerebbe vedere cosa si ottiene dai comandi ifconfig e route? Cosa ne dite? Ciao Marco Perfetto, il gateway e gli altri indirizzi li ho presi da win con route print e ipconfig. Quello che mi spiazza è che non so dove trovare i dns... e non posso chiederlo al provider e tanto meno all'amministratore di rete ;-) Avete idea di dove si può andare a ravanare per trovarli? Sparo una cta: potrebbero essere i primi indirizzi (dopo i miei) che trovo usando neotraceroute? Cominciano con 80.xxx ciao e grazie Gpaolo __ Scarica il nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: con webcam, nuove faccine e tante altre novità. http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.messenger.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
Perfetto, il gateway e gli altri indirizzi li ho presi da win con route print e ipconfig. Quello che mi spiazza è che non so dove trovare i dns... e non posso chiederlo al provider e tanto meno all'amministratore di rete ;-) Avete idea di dove si può andare a ravanare per trovarli? Sparo una cta: potrebbero essere i primi indirizzi (dopo i miei) che trovo usando neotraceroute? Cominciano con 80.xxx ciao e grazie eccoti dns funzionanti (alice di telecom ... ma funzionano comunque anche se hai altri abbonamenti): dns primario 212.216.112.112 dns secondario 212.216.172.62 ciao Marco _ http://www.linuxland.org -- la mente è una cosa meravigliosa, tutti dovrebbero averne una!!! KMail powered by Linux Mandrake 9.0
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:43:17 +0100 giamgax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quello che mi spiazza è che non so dove trovare i dns... e non posso chiederlo al provider e tanto meno all'amministratore di rete ;-) Avete idea di dove si può andare a ravanare per trovarli? Sparo una cta: potrebbero essere i primi indirizzi (dopo i miei) che trovo usando neotraceroute? Cominciano con 80.xxx ciao e grazie Gpaolo Non dovresti averne bisogno: basta aggiungere a ppp un'opzione tipo usepeerdns (non ricordo lo spelling esatto, comunque viene messo quasi di defaualt). Se lo chiedi al tuo provider te lo dice. Spesso è scritto direttamente sul sito internet. Puoi usare un dns qualsiasi, di un qualsiasi provider. Sarà solo meno efficiente, perché deve fare più strada per risolvere i nomi. Ad es. http://assistenza.tiscali.it/faq/parametri.html dice DNS (primario):195.130.224.18 - DNS (secondario): 195.130.225.129 http://internet.libero.it/aiuto/conf_parametri.phtml DNS primario*: 212.245.255.2 - DNS secondario: lasciare vuoto . ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] come eseguirescript all'avvio
Ho creato uno script per mascherare gli indirizzi ip della rete locale quando mi collego ad internet. Come posso far in modo che esso venga esuito al boot del sistema? Grazie, Pollo.
[newbie-it] man-it
Ciao a tutti, il mio problema è questo: nel cd-rom di linux Mandrake 8.0 che ho installato non c'è il man versione italiana, è possibile reperire questo da qualche parte e quindi installarlo? se si come? grazie a tutti Gaetano
Re: [newbie-it] come eseguirescript all'avvio
Non vorrei dire una CAVOLATA ma credo dentro il file modules.conf che si trova in /etc , con una riga tipo sh /posizione/momefile . - Original Message - From: Pollo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie-mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie-it] come eseguirescript all'avvio Ho creato uno script per mascherare gli indirizzi ip della rete locale quando mi collego ad internet. Come posso far in modo che esso venga esuito al boot del sistema? Grazie, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] come eseguirescript all'avvio
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 7:22 pm, Roberto C 2 wrote about Re: [newbie-it] come eseguirescript all'avvio: Non vorrei dire una CAVOLATA ma credo dentro il file modules.conf che si trova in /etc , con una riga tipo sh /posizione/momefile . no, in quel file ci vanno i moduli da caricare all'avvio per le varie periferiche (scheda audio, di rete ecc.). Lo script da far eseguire al boot puoi metterlo invece in /etc/rc.local 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] come eseguirescript all'avvio
CAVOLI, hai ragione, da li puoi anche montare i dischi !!!...ma io quello preferisco farco da fstab . - Original Message - From: freefred [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] come eseguirescript all'avvio On Wednesday 11 December 2002 7:22 pm, Roberto C 2 wrote about Re: [newbie-it] come eseguirescript all'avvio: Non vorrei dire una CAVOLATA ma credo dentro il file modules.conf che si trova in /etc , con una riga tipo sh /posizione/momefile . no, in quel file ci vanno i moduli da caricare all'avvio per le varie periferiche (scheda audio, di rete ecc.). Lo script da far eseguire al boot puoi metterlo invece in /etc/rc.local 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] registrare suoni
Alle 20:33, martedì 10 dicembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] registrare suoni, Giorgio Griffon hai scritto: P.S. Attendo con trepidazione di sapere quale enorme e complicatissimo programma Arwan mi costringerà ad installare. Risposta ovvia: snd. Gia' te l'avevo detto, mesi fa, no? Quello con tutti i lancettoni... Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] router ADSL
PS. se ti consola, io riesco ad usare il mio modem con Linux, ma non con win2k. Mia moglie è un po' arrabbiata ;-) anche il mio modem isdn non funziona con me,xp,nt,2k, ma solo con 95,98,98se e da 2 mesi anche con linux, grazie ai consigli della lista
Re: [newbie] USB hubs
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 00:12, Jonathan wrote: I'm using LM 9. Has anyone had any experience using those USB hubs to add more USB ports to your system? Any experience would be helpful, also whether or not you used an external power supply or got by with the power from the USB port. I have been using a USB hub with my Linux system for quite a while. I did not have to do anything to make it work. All devices connected to the hub work fine. In my case I do have the hub plugged into an external power supply, just to make sure there is no shortage of power. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba with NT domain
Hello -, Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 6:23:45 PM, you wrote: n I've been trying to join a Windows 2000 server domain but when I do a n smbpasswd -j home -r netserver -U Administrator Have you checked this page ? http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba6.html -- Best regards, Colinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7:00pm up 15 days, 2:10, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 1.05, 1.03 Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays. -- Robert Parker, quoted in Murder Ink, ed. D. Wynn ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba with NT domain
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 18:23, - netmaniac - wrote: I've been trying to join a Windows 2000 server domain but when I do a smbpasswd -j home -r netserver -U Administrator I get: Password: Error connecting to netserver Unable to join domain The machine netserver is up and running and the win98 and winXP machines can log into the domain perfectly. My computer has an account on the server and the ping netserver works fine. Here's my smb.conf file: [global] encrypt passwords = yes security = domain workgroup = home password server = netserver I would appreciate any help. netmaniac It's best to already have the machine added to the domain prior to doing a login from that machine TO the network domain. You might also want to get some info from the SAMBA list - I'm part of that as well -heaps of awesome information...BTW, here is a sample /etc/samba/smb.conf that a mate sent me for EXACTLY that same purpose... --- [global] workgroup = CCGM netbios name = CCGM-SERVER netbios aliases = server-ccgm server string = Samba Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = Yes null passwords = Yes pam password change = Yes username map = /etc/samba/smbusers unix password sync = Yes admin log = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 time server = Yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat domain admin group = @smb-admin domain guest group = @users add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u domain logons = Yes os level = 64 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No wins support = Yes guest account = guest valid users = @smb-admin @ccgm @satyagra admin users = @smb-admin read list = @ccgm @satyagra write list = @smb-admin printer admin = @smb-admin printing = cups - Of course, you're going to have to snip/edit some things here and there - but you also might want to make use of SWAT to do your basic configurations for SAMBA - it's a beautifully powerful tool mate... Cheers! -- Wed Dec 11 20:30:00 EST 2002 8:30pm up 12:52, 5 users, load average: 0.30, 0.35, 0.38 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I lay my head on the railroad tracks, Waitin' for the double E. The railroad don't run no more. Poor poor pitiful me. [chorus] Poor poor pitiful me, poor poor pitiful me. These young girls won't let me be, Lord have mercy on me! Woe is me! Well, I met a girl, West Hollywood, Well, I ain't naming names. But she really worked me over good, She was just like Jesse James. She really worked me over good, She was a credit to her gender. She put me through some changes, boy, Sort of like a Waring blender. [chorus] I met a girl at the Rainbow Bar, She asked me if I'd beat her. She took me back to the Hyatt House, I don't want to talk about it. [chorus] -- Warren Zevon, Poor Poor Pitiful Me Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unsupported Camera
I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ). Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as well. Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work. It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such. Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility ? My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi
For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software manager with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real hassle to do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save and then reinstall afterwards? Thanks. David -- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 01:48, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On 11 Dec 2002 00:05:21 -0600 Ray Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, how does one go about writing commands to the modem to see what it's doing? I've recently lost the use of my WinModem fax modem, and can't for the life of me figure out how to see what's happening. With Windows, you can use Hyperterminal to write requests directly to the modem and see what the responses are. Anything like that in Mandrake 8.2? Minicom :) HTH, -Frans OK, says it's already installed. But it's not in any of the menus, and locate minicom or locate Minicom find nothing. Search on the Internet reveals nothing as to where to find it. How does one find it on the system? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 05:01:06 -0500 Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ). Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as well. Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work. It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such. Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility ? My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ). I think you are shit outta luck here if you are looking of an easy way to do this :-( I just did a bit of searching for you on Google, and the first thing that came rolling out (german page), tanslated via google on http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=deu=http://www.gnustuff.com/pub/doc/hpps315-howto/hpps315.htmlprev=/search%3Fq%3DHP%2B315%2Blinux%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8 Actually reading it, I'm not sure if it's hard. Depends whether the Mandrake default kernel has certain things compiled in, but give it a shot :-) Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi
On 11 Dec 2002 09:54:59 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software manager with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real hassle to do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save and then reinstall afterwards? Thanks. David Yeah, Backup /var/lib/urpmi/ :-) I think it should work replacing it, but I'm not sure if after replacing it you have to run some command or another. Probably with the first start of urpmi or rpmdrake, it'll reload everything. Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 21:13, Ray Henry wrote: OK, says it's already installed. But it's not in any of the menus, and locate minicom or locate Minicom find nothing. Search on the Internet reveals nothing as to where to find it. How does one find it on the system? If you run: updatedb ...you should be able to then do a locate minicom and find it. Otherwise, if you know you HAVE it, just open up a terminal and type: minicom ...then wait for a few secs...it should pop right up...then you can configure it to your liking... What are you trying to write to the modem, anyways? -- Wed Dec 11 21:40:00 EST 2002 9:40pm up 14:02, 5 users, load average: 0.18, 0.63, 0.53 .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 It's important that people know what you stand for. It's more important that they know what you won't stand for. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] utf-8
Hi, I have several distributions in use, not really make up my mind yet :-) I like Mandrake 9.0 very much, it is trouble free and runs smoothly. One little problem I do have, at some situations Kmail uses utf-8 when I reply messages and utf-8 messes up scandinavic locales (äåö) in unreadable mode. This same problem is in RH8.0 also and there it is caused by system fonts, however I think that is not the case with Mandrake 9.0. How do I prevent sending utf-8 ever at any case? Tuija Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] urpmi
No, You have to urpmi.update -a and it updates the files and lets it work. -Original Message- From: Ralph Slooten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi On 11 Dec 2002 09:54:59 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software manager with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real hassle to do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save and then reinstall afterwards? Thanks. David Yeah, Backup /var/lib/urpmi/ :-) I think it should work replacing it, but I'm not sure if after replacing it you have to run some command or another. Probably with the first start of urpmi or rpmdrake, it'll reload everything. Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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
Re: [newbie] urpmi
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:54, David Robertson wrote: For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software manager with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real hassle to do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save and then reinstall afterwards? /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg seems to be what you are looking for -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12:13, Ray Henry wrote: With Windows, you can use Hyperterminal to write requests directly to the modem and see what the responses are. Anything like that in Mandrake 8.2? Minicom :) HTH, OK, says it's already installed. But it's not in any of the menus, and locate minicom or locate Minicom find nothing. Search on the Internet reveals nothing as to where to find it. How does one find it on the system? If it is installed, you should have /usr/bin/minicom and /usr/bin/xminicom If they are not there, try (as root, from an xterm) rpm -e minicom urpmi minicom and then try to find it again with which minicom -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] urpmi
Let me be a bit clearer on this, you need the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file which holds all the connection information, there may be an easier way but I then overwrite the /var/lib/urpmi directory with the new stuff (this holds the lists for the sources set-up in the config file), and then do an urpmi.update -a. I tried it before I did the urpmi.update and it didn't work for some reason, but once I updated it, it was fine. I have only done this twice so far, but it seems to work fine though. Tony. -Original Message- From: Michel Clasquin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:54, David Robertson wrote: For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software manager with a lot of extra ftp/http sources and it would be a real hassle to do it all again. Is there a config file that I could save and then reinstall afterwards? /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg seems to be what you are looking for -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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] NIC Card set-up details
Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program. Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine. Many Thanks Mr Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details
Ken; Most NIC's, hubs switches, etc. will display the speed of your connections by using 2-color LEDS. The general rule-of-thumb is that a 10Mb connection will show an amber or yellow LED color on the NIC, hub, etc., and a 100 Mb connection will show a green LED. The owners manual for your NIC, hub, etc., will also tell you whether or not they support this standard. So, tests are not required, just a little bit of light reading. Hope this helps(?). Lanman On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:19, Ken Walker wrote: Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program. Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine. Many Thanks Mr Smiley __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:19, Ken Walker wrote: Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program. Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine. Many Thanks Mr Smiley If you do an ifconfig from a terminal window, you should see the following: __ eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:18:8C:2C:81 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:36194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:117638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:6991327 (6.6 Mb) TX bytes:82379827 (78.5 Mb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xaf00 Where you see the txqueuelen:100 - that's your speed...now when you want to get DEEPER than that, you'll have to find out what your module reports when loading - or find out if there are switches to use with that module when it loads... You can make the direct modifications to the cards module in the /etc/modules.conf file...JUST BE CAREFUL and make a backup of the file prior to playing... You can remove a mod from running with: rmmod modulename You can insert the module again with the switches you want to add with: insmod modulename -iobase=X irq=X switches=X (but consult that modules readme or other info before playing...) -- Wed Dec 11 22:45:00 EST 2002 10:45pm up 15:07, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.27, 0.40 .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 Fresco's Discovery: If you knew what you were doing you'd probably be bored. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Different problems with Mandrake 9.0
Hello! Recently I finally did it - dumped my perfectly working 8.2 and installed 9.0. After two weeks I have list of problems: 1. Sound. My mp3 collection plays OK. Sound effects in KDE work OK. But games like Maelstrom and few others are broken - in KDE sound comes hacked, in other WMs there is no sound at all. 2. Freeciv. There seem to be two modes of play. In better case everything works, but every move is accompanied with a weird sqeaking sound. In worse case there is no sound at all and every move just takes ages, causing finally lost connection to server (I've been playing only with localhost server). 3. Midnight Commander. It works OK in terminal window, but when changing to different virtual screen with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I get a warning message like this: [gpm.c(857)]: Failed gpm connect attempt by UID 501 for vc /dev/vc/0 last=/home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c /home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c src/liblow.c liblow.c info [liblow.c(446)]: Warning: Closing connection Machine is new and shiny. Sound card is some integrated piece (VIA 8233), sound driver is ALSA v0.9.0rc2 emulation code. It's exactly as it was automatically configured during the install. Graphics card is GeForce2 DDR. Because there are no nVidia drivers for 9.0 yet, its using some generic drivers probably. Is this the problem? Vahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:17, Dennis Myers wrote: A friend gave me one of those cases that you can put a spare hard drive in and it uses a parallel port connection. It is generic and has no FCC # on it, but the box says it works for hard drives. Anyone have any idea how to access it to format and read/write to it? It runs on a seperate power supply and shows up in hard drake as an SBLive joystick. ( I think). Is this thing useless or what? Any help is appreciated. If you don't have the parallel IDE support in the kernel (i.e. module) you're not going to be able to access it properly. Check if you've got that module (lsmod to view loaded modules) and see what's listed as parport (parallel port). If you DON'T see any modules for the parport, you might try loading 'em (insmod parport_pc, insmod parport) and trying again... The parallel port IDE device module is paride Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
If it is installed, you should have /usr/bin/minicom and /usr/bin/xminicom There was a mini_commander_applet there, no minicom or xminicom. If they are not there, try (as root, from an xterm) rpm -e minicom urpmi minicom Yes! That did it! Installed the very same one I was trying to directly from the CD... :) Thank you! :) and then try to find it again with which minicom So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands except dialing out... :/ Thanks again. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error
I think it is rather weird that it does this, but then it isn't that big a deal for me to stay away from that rodent until shutdown (or maybe, in your case, boot-up) is finished. Problems like these I can live with as long as I find the source of the problem and see something I can do keep it from happening. I wonder if Mandrake is already aware of this issue? You mentioned that USB hasn't been very reliable under 9.0. I never used USB in the short time that I had 8.2 running, so I have no comparison on my end. The other USB devices I have tried to us with this particular box (IBM Webcam and DCS Pro Digital Camera) have both failed to be recognized or usable. I am sure that it is a combination of my lack of understanding, the proper software loaded and device incompatibility with Linux. So, what else is new? :-) I guess I really can't be sure that I am having any problems with USB to defend or deny the issues. As for the use of USB in a mouseI wouldn't hesitate, if I was you, to buy new mice USB capable. I think most come with a USB -- PS/2 adapter, so you get the choice as to how you want to make it work. You gotta love modern technology. It's about choices that weren't there before. However, I wouldn't throw your PS/2 rodent away as yet. If you are experiencing the same problem/result as I am, there's no need to buy a replacement. Let me know if what is happening with you is the same as with me? It makes me feel a little more confident that my box isn't just getting pissy with me from time to time. ;-) Yes, I do believe all my computers have it in for me. Doesn't everyone feel the same about theirs? T :-) - Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:51:47 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error At 11:19 PM 12/9/2002 -0300, you wrote: ** Thanks for the reply Femme, I was actually under the impression that it would easier to use the MS Intellimouse as a PS/2. I haven't tried it as USB. It's working OK really, just the occasional error comes up. I am dual-booting an MS system too...no probs with the mouse there. Shouldn't be either...after all it's an MS mouse! I do have a free USB port. You think it would be better to try that? Mdk 9.0 hasn't been the most USB friendly system. I had quite a battle to get my Epson USB printer up and printing! :-( I did get it working though, after a scrap. Works OK now. Thanks for the help. All the best. --Angus Success is the art of being who you are. Dear Sweety: Some info for you tho: USB is faster in its polling rate than PS/2/2. Once you try it you never want to go back, especially if you game! Caveat: It can be a bit hard to setup. Email me off-list for help if you wish. Finally, USB Offers a way of working around IRQ's their conflicts, should that be a problem... as it is all daisy chained off of one central HUB. Hard to explain but basically think of a pinwheel. The centre is the Master HUB controller chip on the mobo. From there it will allocate addresses Space for each USB Device in use at any one time. The explanation can be more complex of course, but you get the idea. As for it being better in terms of performance, see above. And honestly I've had nothing but smooth sailing on anything from 8.0 - 8.2 on MDK. Haven't tried it on 9.0 yet tho. So I will load that today See for ya. The Only time i had trouble was in 8 or 8.2 I think when I had to have the mouse be on a PS/2/2 port to install the system. After that I ran Mousedrake in a term set it to USB. So... have fun! --- Femme Thanks for for your insights and explanation FemmeFatale (fatal woman...hmmm). I'm not having any IRQ conflicts or anything like that, and I'm not a gamer. Is there any noticeable difference in performance between USB PS/2 when just doing regular non-gaming computing? I will wait to hear how your USB mouse works with Mdk 9.0. Maybe I'll switch to USB too. Thanks for your kind offer of off list help too. You're definitely a sweety ;-) I think Technoslick is on to something about jarring the mouse causing the error. I usually reach down to turn on my sub-woofer when booting up (vice-versa when shutting down), and I do bump the drawer that my mouse and keyboard are on sometimes! That is a very likely explanation Technoslick. I'll watch out for that! Best regardsand thanks a bunch. --Angus Happiness and success is to find and develop our special gifts found inside each of us. And true mastering is achieved when these gifts are shared with others. *** *Reg. Linux User #278931*
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
Daniel Buchanan wrote: ok i got it working most of the way. I see what my problem was. Lilo is compiled and i had assumed it was outo compiled and not only on demand. No wonder nothing seemed to work exactly the way i wanted it to. Now my only problem is how to keep the system from locking my cd trays. :) I'm not sure I know what you mean by not compiled, do you mean , /sbin/lilo had not been run. Incidentally, what does cdrecord -scanbus now say. Can you mount both writer and rom directories . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Different problems with Mandrake 9.0
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 05:57, Vahur Lokk wrote: Hello! Recently I finally did it - dumped my perfectly working 8.2 and installed 9.0. After two weeks I have list of problems: 1. Sound. My mp3 collection plays OK. Sound effects in KDE work OK. But games like Maelstrom and few others are broken - in KDE sound comes hacked, in other WMs there is no sound at all. 2. Freeciv. There seem to be two modes of play. In better case everything works, but every move is accompanied with a weird sqeaking sound. In worse case there is no sound at all and every move just takes ages, causing finally lost connection to server (I've been playing only with localhost server). 3. Midnight Commander. It works OK in terminal window, but when changing to different virtual screen with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I get a warning message like this: [gpm.c(857)]: Failed gpm connect attempt by UID 501 for vc /dev/vc/0 last=/home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c /home/flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c flepied/RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c RPM/BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c BUILD/gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c gpm-1.20.0/src/liblow.c src/liblow.c liblow.c info [liblow.c(446)]: Warning: Closing connection Machine is new and shiny. Sound card is some integrated piece (VIA 8233), sound driver is ALSA v0.9.0rc2 emulation code. It's exactly as it was automatically configured during the install. Graphics card is GeForce2 DDR. Because there are no nVidia drivers for 9.0 yet, its using some generic drivers probably. Is this the problem? Vahur Check out this site to fix your sound: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1491 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote: So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands except dialing out... :/ I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it. If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the modem can detect it or not... In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/' Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
Dennis Sue wrote: I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ). Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as well. Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work. It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such. Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility ? My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ). If your camera is not supported then it's not supported. most of the chepies are not. Mine included. there are three possible solutions, Try to get it to work as a mass storage device. Mount any windblows OS and then having used windblows software to download onto that OS, merely transfer the files over to linux. Buy yourself a usb smartcard reader. Quite possibly the best long term way of doing it, since it is likely to be an ongoing problem, because not only your camera but your friends and relatives will all have their own unsupported versions, so cut the problems down to size , and use a smartcard reader, end of problems. Not that I actually have one to confirm this, but I'm certainly going to get one oneday. Actually this is quite a larger question really, because there are various kinds of usb card readers, many models can actually read various types of mass storage media. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:37, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote: So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands except dialing out... :/ I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it. If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the modem can detect it or not... In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/' Just tried that, still get NO DIALTONE. Tried pausing before dialing, still no good.. :/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)
I have CDR and CDRW The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0 And the CDR in dev/hdc When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I press the detect reader it detects again the CDRW. What to do Thanks gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:35, Ralph Slooten wrote: I think you are shit outta luck here if you are looking of an easy way to do this In that case I suggest getting a usb compact flash reader (I have San Disk, which I got for about $23 at Best Buy - works great in Linux). Be sure you have the usb-storage module loaded, which I think recent Linux distros do automatically (if not, type modprobe usb-storage), then mount your CF with mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash (or whatever mount point you have created) and you can copy the photos from the CF to your PC. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly in Mandrake 9.0
Title: RE: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly in Mandrake 9.0 I built a PC to be our home-entertainment-system (replacing TV, CD Player, DVD Player and Tuner while adding MP3/OGG Player, Video Recorder, and Digital Video Player) All of it's working except the FM tuner and the DVD playback -- where the video and audio get out of sync in the first 10 minutes or so. The TV tuner took lots of fiddling under 8.2, but Mandrake figured it out by itself when installing 9.0 -- I had to manually tune the channels in XawTV since I'm on antenna, and all signals are too weak for the autodetect. Does anyone have the FM tuner working? Does anyone have advice on troubleshooting my DVD playback? --Matthew -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:15 AM To: Mark Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly in Mandrake 9.0 On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:50, Mark wrote: Thanks I have it working now I was using the wrong card identifier in my module.conf Now all I need to do is get the FM tuner up and running. Cheers Mark I could NEVER get the FM to work properly - and being now that the card was sold to a customer who happily sits and watches tellie on his worktation, I shan't venture to try it again. Spent way too much time playing with it only to end up deciding that watching Fawlty Towers, surfing the net and compiling proggies didn't fit very well. -- Wed Dec 11 16:10:00 EST 2002 4:10pm up 8:32, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.21 .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 Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. -- H.R. Haldeman
Re: [newbie] Right's problem - second try
Yes, I gave it a root password and can log in as root with red screen and all. What I can not do is install packages and change config files without getting a message to the effect that I do not have the rights to do it. Thanks for the reply. Roly On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 14:09, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:03 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: I have recently upgraded/installed Mandrake 9.0 on a 700Mhz Duron, 512 of memory and a 40 Gig drive. It was a fresh install with formating etc. Below are my Fstab and pci output. The problem I am having is that the system thinks root has no rights to things such as drives and various configuration files. This is logging in as root or su'ing a terminal window. I have looked at various setting such as security etc but everything seems ok. The security level is standard/normal as I am on a dialup. Thanks in advance, any help appreciated. Roly boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount quiet mem=nopentium hdc=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount failsafe read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] System Controller (rev 37). Master Capable. Latency=120. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe800 [0xebff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed9fe000 [0xed9fefff]. I/O at 0xd600 [0xd603]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] AGP Bridge (rev 1). Master Capable. Latency=120. Min Gnt=10. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ISA (rev 1). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev 7). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ACPI (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=120. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB (rev 6). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=16. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffe000 [0xefffefff]. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 0). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xefff]. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 8). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. Bus 0, device 9, function 1: Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 8). Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xde00 [0xde07]. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 1). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed9ff000 [0xed9f]. I/O at 0xda00 [0xda1f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefe0 [0xefef]. Bus 1, device 5, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX) (rev 178). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee00 [0xeeff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xdfff]. This is probably a dumb question, but, did you give a root password during install? If not I'm not sure how you do it after the fact, but someone on the list will know I'm sure. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- The box said to install windows 2000 or better! So I installed Linux!! Linux Counter #241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ardour M9.0
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 2:14 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: The only package I could find, rpm -rebuild ardour-0.107.3-1mdk.src.rpm Installing ardour-0.107.3-1mdk.src.rpm error: failed build dependencies: alsa-driver = 0.9.0beta2 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk alsa-lib-devel = 0.9.0beta2 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk gdbm-devel is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk libgtkmmext-devel = 2.9.0 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk libguileconfig-devel = 0.2.0 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk libmidi++-devel = 1.5.0 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk libpbd-devel = 1.2.2 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk libxml++-devel = 0.11 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk libaudioengine-devel = 1.1.0 is needed by ardour-0.107.3-1mdk There's no sign of these of ardour website, and besides searching with www.rpmfind.net which doesn't often come up with the correct choice of packages for each dependency, what is one to do. clearly i do have such things as alsa sound drivers installed, but not apparently the correct ones. Seems like I need a better package, any suggestions John Ardour is available in RPM format for 9.0 at Mandrake Club. It is currently in testing phase, and is therefore not on the public servers yet. derek I guess I will have to wait then. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] particition magic etc.
Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think that the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. My husband has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set up Linux on. He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the time to figure out where we went wrong. In other words start from scratch. As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something similar to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and get my files 2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program) Many thanks in advance, Alexa
[newbie] curious
Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just a thought
Re: [newbie] curious
In reply to Don's mail, d.d. Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:58:41 -0800: Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just a thought It is a setting in most mail programs. This is not something from the list, but something from the poster of the mail. Paul -- Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. http://nlpagan.net - OS:Linux Mandrake 8.2 - E-mail:Sylpheed 0.8.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nForce2
Is anyone here using the Asus A7N8X motherboard, or any motherboard with the nForce2 chipset? I am interested in this MB, but want to make sure Linux will work with it without a lot of hassles. Thanks. TC __ 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] Eroaster (was CDR)
Enable SCSI emulation on the CD-R drive in lilo. This will make /dev/hdc /dev/scd1 and ERoaster will see it. Miark On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:57:20 +0200 Gil Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have CDR and CDRW The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0 And the CDR in dev/hdc When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I press the detect reader it detects again the CDRW. What to do Thanks gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache htdocs
How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work on one directory. c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details
Run a graphical network monitor such as gkrellm or kcpuload. Then upload and download and download a large file at the same time. Put the monitoring on the quickest update possible--100ms or whatever. If it's not clear doing that, upload (or download) the same file and time it. Miark On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:19:00 - Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program. Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine. Many Thanks Mr Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] curious
Probably because they are using Outlook and have the Request delivery receipt or read receipt box checked. I don't think that it is anything sinister. Just don't send the receipt notification. If you can identify the user, you could send them an email about it, because they probably aren't even aware it's on. Joeb ---Original Message--- From: Don and Alexa Pongracz Sent: 12/11/02 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] curious Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just a thought Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
You can get an AFS cluster up, but i dont see why you want this setup are you running windows and linux on one box? On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:12 am, Fish Fash wrote: How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work on one directory. c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473 2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] utf-8
On December 11, 2002 03:50 am, Tuija wrote: Hi, I have several distributions in use, not really make up my mind yet :-) I like Mandrake 9.0 very much, it is trouble free and runs smoothly. One little problem I do have, at some situations Kmail uses utf-8 when I reply messages and utf-8 messes up scandinavic locales (äåö) in unreadable mode. This same problem is in RH8.0 also and there it is caused by system fonts, however I think that is not the case with Mandrake 9.0. How do I prevent sending utf-8 ever at any case? Tuija In KMail; click on the settings button, chose configure KMail, click, then in the left pane click on composer, then in the Char set tab remove utf-8 click apply, then OK. Then close and reopen KMail and the settings should be changed. In Mandrake (GNU/Linux operating systems for the most part for most things) settings changes that require a reboot in Windows only need closing and reopening the application being modified after settings are changed. Sometimes not even that much. You should be good to go. I think. ;-) Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org World tensions have, if anything, increased in the quarter century since H.G. Wells uttered his glum warning: There is no more evil thing on earth than race prejudice, none at all. I write deliberately -- it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. -- Sydney Harris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] curious
Its a good way to get confirmed address's if you are a spammer... rgds Frank -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don and Alexa PongraczSent: Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:59 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] curious Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just a thought
RE: [newbie] nForce2
There was talk of this on the expert list... check the archives... apparently there have been some success's and failures.. Nvidia have nforce2 linux drivers available.. the expert list gave some advice on how to get it up and running. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of T C Sent: Thursday, 12 December 2002 1:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nForce2 Is anyone here using the Asus A7N8X motherboard, or any motherboard with the nForce2 chipset? I am interested in this MB, but want to make sure Linux will work with it without a lot of hassles. Thanks. TC __ 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] curious
that's a thought - Original Message - From: Franki To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:46 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] curious Its a good way to get confirmed address's if you are a spammer... rgds Frank -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don and Alexa PongraczSent: Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:59 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] curious Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just a thought
Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
Yes, I am running both. I have to, so I can test my website on windows since most users are using windows. From: Vasiliy Boulytchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:37:51 -0700 You can get an AFS cluster up, but i dont see why you want this setup are you running windows and linux on one box? On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:12 am, Fish Fash wrote: How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work on one directory. c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473 2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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
RE: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)
How do I do that I run lilo with switches ? -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:19 PM To: Newbie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR) Enable SCSI emulation on the CD-R drive in lilo. This will make /dev/hdc /dev/scd1 and ERoaster will see it. Miark On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:57:20 +0200 Gil Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have CDR and CDRW The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0 And the CDR in dev/hdc When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I press the detect reader it detects again the CDRW. What to do Thanks gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem Installation
Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I install it? _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)
On December 11, 2002 05:57 am, Gil Katz wrote: I have CDR and CDRW The system recognize the CDRW in /dev/scd0 And the CDR in dev/hdc When I press on detect writer the Eroaster detects the CDRW but when I press the detect reader it detects again the CDRW. What to do Thanks gil For the record, I won't reply to any more posts to the list that have a Reply To: set after this one. It's a pain in the keister to have to remember to change the address when one only wants to reply to the post _on the mailing list_ in order to try to help. Most of what I've learned regarding the uses of ISOs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs etc in GNU/Linux came from the page at the link below or is linked from there. It's a good place to start. http://www.cpqlinux.com/cdrw.html Eroaster is a front end for cdrecord. It only reads IDE devices that are 'SCSI emulated' and you'll need to add IDE-SCSI to append the stanza in: /etc/lilo.conf that shows your CD-ROM. eg.: hdx=ide-scsi where 'x' is the a, b, c, etc of the drive. All of the editing you want to do there has to be done as super user (su) or root. In your case you should add hdc=ide-scsi for your cd-rom to the append lines. This will sometimes cause it's own troubles too. Once you add the phrase to the append line that's there open a terminal and as su (root) type: sbin/lilo -v then at the new prompt: reboot -n. You should be able to have eroaster recognise the cdrom as a read device after that reboot. Hopefully. If I've made any errors I'm sure one of our list-mates will correct me. Or just find (in any mirror's contrib directory) k3b and install and use that instead for copying disk to disk. This is a link to one place you can find it: ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS and you can use the KDE package manager to install it so it'll appear on the menus. I'm absolutely _not_ certain if any of the above will do you any good since it's not the method I use. If I need to copy a disk I just copy it to a hard drive (any of the 4) and burn the copy from there. Small relatives are bad news on any CDs that aren't backed up; even though they never seem to touch the ones that have been copied and can't get at the originals. When I hear Shiny Frisbee!!! I start looking. Quickly. The little monsters. :-) Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Any news from the President on a successor? he asked hopefully. None, Anita replied. She's having great difficulty finding someone qualified who is willing to accept the post. Then I stay, said Dr. Fresh. I'm not good for much, but I can at least make a decision. Somewhere, he grumphed, there must be a naive, opportunistic young welp with a masochistic streak who would like to run the most up-and-down bureaucracy in the history of mankind. -- R.L. Forward, Flight of the Dragonfly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Modem Installation
There is a linux HCF modem driver now.. http://www.mbsi.ca/mailman/listinfo/hcflinux They have 8.2 drivers.. they work, I have used them.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mr. VLE79E Sent: Thursday, 12 December 2002 2:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem Installation Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I install it? _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT Too funny.
Seems the Spam King has been /.ed. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm Delicious irony, don't ya think? Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Slow day. Practice crawling. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:37, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote: So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands except dialing out... :/ I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it. If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the modem can detect it or not... In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/' Regards, John... Or, to make it wait a tad bit longer (Telstra is Satan) - you can do something like: ATDT ,,, (the comma's are 1 second pauses) ...but I also found that forcing a generic init string to the modem can get better results as well: AT F C1 D2 E1 Q0 V1 ...which can also solve problems with line noise (C1 D2) and proper echo recognition to the modem (E1)... -- Thu Dec 12 06:40:00 EST 2002 6:40am up 23:02, 5 users, load average: 0.18, 0.09, 0.19 .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 Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:50:06 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems the Spam King has been /.ed. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm Delicious irony, don't ya think? Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... LOL. Maybe it's time to clear your cache :D Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Jabber server: http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] palm pilot
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:33, David Williams wrote: I am using the USB cradle. I tried everything that I could think of under Evolution and Kpilot for USB setup and I couldn't get anything to work. I read on some web site somewhere that Jpilot was much more forgiving (read that as easier to install) so I tried it and have been using it ever since. By-the-way, this was on Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 DBW KPilot looks prettier, but I didn't like the way it spread info between different KDE applications. It means a more integrated and convenient desktop, but JPilot keeps the data in one place, so I can back it up, restore versions and so on more easily. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera NO MORE!
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:44, John Richard Smith wrote: If your camera is not supported then it's not supported. most of the chepies are not. Mine included. there are three possible solutions, Try to get it to work as a mass storage device. Mount any windblows OS and then having used windblows software to download onto that OS, merely transfer the files over to linux. Buy yourself a usb smartcard reader. Quite possibly the best long term way of doing it, since it is likely to be an ongoing problem, because not only your camera but your friends and relatives will all have their own unsupported versions, so cut the problems down to size , and use a smartcard reader, end of problems. Not that I actually have one to confirm this, but I'm certainly going to get one oneday. Actually this is quite a larger question really, because there are various kinds of usb card readers, many models can actually read various types of mass storage media. John Y'all know, I've been so sick of not being able to use my QuickCam, that I finally found the driver (and info on how to use it) http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/ Now, I can use my nasty little LogiTech QuickCam Color with XawTV to either record vids or take snaps. EZ as pie to configure, compile and install. HA! I've been waiting for two years to do that... This just goes t'show ya - don't give up. Keep trying. Someone out there's got the same cam you do, and WILL make a driver or proggie to read it... Cheers! -- Thu Dec 12 07:10:01 EST 2002 7:10am up 23:32, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.06 .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 Jim, it's Grace at the bank. I checked your Christmas Club account. You don't have five-hundred dollars. You have fifty. Sorry, computer foul-up! -- The Rockford Files Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write command directly to modem?
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:54, Ray Henry wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:37, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote: So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands except dialing out... :/ I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it. If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the modem can detect it or not... In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/' Just tried that, still get NO DIALTONE. Tried pausing before dialing, still no good.. :/ Have y'all tried: /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kppp/tricks.docbook -- Thu Dec 12 07:25:00 EST 2002 7:25am up 23:47, 5 users, load average: 0.22, 0.28, 0.24 .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 Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:53, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... be nice...not all of us refresh slashdot every 2 minutes. besides, I signed you up for a few enter to win things, too. |:-0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] PV-BT878P+w/FM tv card how do u set it up properly in Mandrake 9.0
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 00:16, Sabin, Matthew wrote: I built a PC to be our home-entertainment-system (replacing TV, CD Player, DVD Player and Tuner while adding MP3/OGG Player, Video Recorder, and Digital Video Player) All of it's working except the FM tuner and the DVD playback -- where the video and audio get out of sync in the first 10 minutes or so. The TV tuner took lots of fiddling under 8.2, but Mandrake figured it out by itself when installing 9.0 -- I had to manually tune the channels in XawTV since I'm on antenna, and all signals are too weak for the autodetect. Does anyone have the FM tuner working? Does anyone have advice on troubleshooting my DVD playback? --Matthew DVD playback is generally an issue with disk I/O - so you can use hdparm to tune the drive. When I watch DVD, I use the following (and mind you, your settings may differ) hdparm -d1 -p4 -X66 /dev/hdc ...then I fire up Mplayer or Xine and that's that. -- Thu Dec 12 07:30:01 EST 2002 7:30am up 23:52, 5 users, load average: 0.37, 0.42, 0.31 .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 Look, Daddy, a whale egg! --Ralph Wiggum Make Room for Lisa (Episode AABF12) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] particition magic etc.
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 03:43, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think that the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. My husband has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set up Linux on. He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the time to figure out where we went wrong. In other words start from scratch. As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something similar to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and get my files 2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program) Many thanks in advance, Alexa If you've got a second drive you can stick in the machine, you can boot with the MDK CD and use the repair feature - which will let you chroot to the partition, then you can copy the files necessary to the second drive... If you take the drive out of the P2 and put it as secondary to the drive in the computer that crashed - that should do the trick for ya mate. -- Thu Dec 12 07:50:01 EST 2002 7:50am up 1 day, 12 min, 5 users, load average: 0.94, 0.85, 0.62 .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 Rube Walker: Hey, Yogi, what time is it? Yogi Berra: You mean now? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 04:12, Fish Fash wrote: How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work on one directory. c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs You're not going to be able to see the Apache docs via Windowsunless you copy the docs dir to the Windows partition under the specified directory...but if you're doing it from linux, that's different as you can use ln to link directories. -- Thu Dec 12 07:55:00 EST 2002 7:55am up 1 day, 17 min, 5 users, load average: 0.54, 0.59, 0.55 .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 Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-null bottles of beer, You take one down, and pass it around, Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 05:30, Mr. VLE79E wrote: Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I install it? You can get HCF/HST modem drivers source code and compile the drivers as per your system. On Sourceforge.net, there is a set of three drivers precompiled that just came out within the past three days - but overall, surf to: www.linmodems.org ...that will show ya... I think most of the people that are using linux now are using winmodems - so you're not alone in the crowd... I have an HCF and it works like a charm - better even than under XP/Win98/ME/Win2k... -- Thu Dec 12 07:55:00 EST 2002 7:55am up 1 day, 17 min, 5 users, load average: 0.54, 0.59, 0.55 .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 Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-null bottles of beer, You take one down, and pass it around, Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 06:50, Charlie wrote: Seems the Spam King has been /.ed. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm Delicious irony, don't ya think? Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Slow day. Practice crawling. Damn...and I know where these people live...used to live rather close to that (within 5 miles). -- Thu Dec 12 08:00:00 EST 2002 8:00am up 1 day, 22 min, 5 users, load average: 0.44, 0.49, 0.51 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle. (alt.fan.pratchett) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation
i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux, since windows takes care of modulation/demodulation part, not the chip on the modem. On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:30 am, Mr. VLE79E wrote: Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I install it? _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473 2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
I was thinking an AFS cluster, but yeah, its is the worst way to test windows/linux website interoperability. And I tell you, linux will run more than an IIS server, I will stand behind my words. And if you bring ASP, I will have to slap you around. hehe On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:57 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 04:12, Fish Fash wrote: How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work on one directory. c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs You're not going to be able to see the Apache docs via Windowsunless you copy the docs dir to the Windows partition under the specified directory...but if you're doing it from linux, that's different as you can use ln to link directories. -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473 2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:17, Dennis Myers wrote: A friend gave me one of those cases that you can put a spare hard drive in and it uses a parallel port connection. It is generic and has no FCC # on it, but the box says it works for hard drives. Anyone have any idea how to access it to format and read/write to it? It runs on a seperate power supply and shows up in hard drake as an SBLive joystick. ( I think). Is this thing useless or what? Any help is appreciated. If you don't have the parallel IDE support in the kernel (i.e. module) you're not going to be able to access it properly. Check if you've got that module (lsmod to view loaded modules) and see what's listed as parport (parallel port). If you DON'T see any modules for the parport, you might try loading 'em (insmod parport_pc, insmod parport) and trying again... The parallel port IDE device module is paride Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation
although, i have tried installing one on slack 3.blah back in the old days when I understood nothing. I cant speak about todays modem drivers, since I havent set one up in ages. On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:11 pm, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux, since windows takes care of modulation/demodulation part, not the chip on the modem. On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:30 am, Mr. VLE79E wrote: Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I install it? _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473 2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: So the system finds the device ok , but that's as far as it goes. John Hmm, what is it, then? Some weird proprietary file system? I wish I could tell you , I plucked up courage just now and decided to try formatting the card in the camera in fat32, but when it came to actually do the job it baulked, said it could not read the partition table. so I thought why not give it a go from the command line ? [root@localhost root]# mkfs /dev/sda mke2fs 1.27ea (14-Mar-2002) /dev/sda is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) y Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 4096 inodes, 16384 blocks 819 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 2 block groups 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 2048 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 8193 Warning: could not read block 0: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read Writing inode tables: done ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while creating root dir So my guess is , especially as it's only a month or so old is that it uses some file system mandrake cannot understand, but then if that's the case then how come windblows can read the card. Intersting don't you think. Is there a new denser file system on the block ? Has someone got more into less , perhaps the file system is somehow different . I don't know, but it's a shame, the cameras all right really. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the Hp data sheet: Images saved as JPEGs to CompactFlash (Type I) memory cards This is the same thing that My Kodak uses and I have been able to access via usb with a PNY CompactFlash card reader. You can do a mount /dev/sda1 and then find the card with files mounted under /mnt/memory_card, works great. I have gphoto2 working but the battery toll is high so I use the card reader instead and save batteries. HTH Dennis M. Well I tend to agree, I think a reader is the best route because you will inevitably want to use all sorts of peoples cameras , and well a readers means you can. The only thing is that there is quite a lot more to readers than meets the eye. At first I went out looking for a smartcard readers. I soon found that in fact there are quite a few readers that can read all sorts of removable media types in the one device. I been looking for the right one, might as well get one that handeles just about eveything, then I'm equiped for the future so to speak Funny thing is they are not much more expensive. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Did you load the usb-storage module? El Mié 11 Dic 2002 16:37, John Richard Smith escribió: Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:01:06AM -0500, Dennis Sue wrote: I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ). Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as well. Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work. It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such. Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility ? My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ). I could never get my Fuji Finepix 4700 to work with Gphoto, but my 8.1 and up systems always knew the camera was there. When I set it up in 8.1, I connected the camera and turned it on as if I were going to transfer files. I then ran MCC and in the hardware/mount points section, it recognized the camera there as well. I just clicked it and gave it a mount point. After that, I could mount it without any problem. I don't know if that will work in 9.0. The important thing would be to see which device it is, probably /dev/sdb1. The line in my fstab is: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fuji vfat user 0 0 I type mount /mnt/fuji, and I can copy all the files from there. I would say your chances are good since the system knows it's there. But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if I were totally wrong! Todd Well this is what my camera throws up in MCC, Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/sda host: 1 info: 1.3M DigitalCAM lun: 00 Media class: hd raw_type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 usb_bus: USB usb_description: ViewQuest Technologies Inc.|1.3M DigitalCA usb_driver: unknown usb_id: 4880 usb_media_type: Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip) usb_pci_bus: 2 usb_pci_device: 2 usb_vendor: 1843 vendor_name: ViewQuest Technologies Inc. To I run configure, and , I can't read the partition table of device sda, it's too corrupted for me :( I can try to go on, erasing over bad partitions (ALL DATA will be lost!). The other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition table. (the error is unknown partition table format on disk /dev/sda. ) Do you agree to loose all the partitions? I say no, and that's it So the system finds the device ok , but that's as far as it goes. John Yep, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A big thank you
I have been on this list for a few months and have saved all messages I thought were important. Today I installed a new hard drive and moved MDK over to it and resized the partitions without one problem. All due to the advice given this list. George Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 073 3172714 The world is your oyster.but the future's your clam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.
On 11 Dec 2002 14:32:41 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:53, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... be nice...not all of us refresh slashdot every 2 minutes. besides, I signed you up for a few enter to win things, too. |:-0 Nice one :-) -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Jabber server: http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.
On December 11, 2002 12:53 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:50:06 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems the Spam King has been /.ed. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm Delicious irony, don't ya think? Yeah, it was funny... about a week ago (6/12) when it got /.ed... LOL. Maybe it's time to clear your cache :D Greetings Ralph You're probably right Ralph. It may also be time to leave the ring off on the telephone 'til after the holidays so I'll have time to read some news rather than spend time talking to *spatial anomaly* friends that break things then want my help fixing them. :-) As if I knew anything about anything anyway. *Also known as space/time distortions. Or maybe quantum singularities. Black holes?* Can you tell I'm looking forward to Friday and the release of Star Trek Nemesis? grin Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham, The Circle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Well I tend to agree, I think a reader is the best route because you will inevitably want to use all sorts of peoples cameras , and well a readers means you can. The only thing is that there is quite a lot more to readers than meets the eye. At first I went out looking for a smartcard readers. I soon found that in fact there are quite a few readers that can read all sorts of removable media types in the one device. I been looking for the right one, might as well get one that handeles just about eveything, then I'm equiped for the future so to speak Funny thing is they are not much more expensive. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, use caution, I have been seeing discussions about multireaders having trouble in linux. We need some input from the list here, anyone have a smartcard/flashcard reader working? Successful ones I have seen are one or the other not a combo. I/O from the group would be good here. Dennis M. Yes, we want some well made , not earthly expensive, muliread usb reader testing out properly, and reported so that we can all focus on the right equipement. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] particition magic etc.
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 10:43, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think that the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. My husband has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set up Linux on. He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the time to figure out where we went wrong. In other words start from scratch. As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something similar to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and get my files 2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program) If you've got another HD you can install Linux on, set it up, and the one you're trying to get files from as either a slave or stick it on the secondary IDE channel. then you should be able to access the drive. I;m assuming of course, that you don't make a bott floppy after installing MDK. I cringe at using Partiticion Magic, as it's really DOS based. I have used it, but finds it likes to set Linux partitions as DOS. I don't recommend using it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 14:11, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:01:06AM -0500, Dennis Sue wrote: I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ). Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as well. Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work. It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such. Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility ? My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ). I could never get my Fuji Finepix 4700 to work with Gphoto, but my 8.1 and up systems always knew the camera was there. When I set it up in 8.1, I connected the camera and turned it on as if I were going to transfer files. I then ran MCC and in the hardware/mount points section, it recognized the camera there as well. I just clicked it and gave it a mount point. After that, I could mount it without any problem. I don't know if that will work in 9.0. The important thing would be to see which device it is, probably /dev/sdb1. The line in my fstab is: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fuji vfat user 0 0 I type mount /mnt/fuji, and I can copy all the files from there. I would say your chances are good since the system knows it's there. But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if I were totally wrong! Todd My Fuji FinePix 2600 is not supported by Gphoto but it works fine under LM9.0 as a mass storage device. it comes up automagically as /dev/sda1. You need module usb-storage loaded, I added it to /etc/modules, and a mount point created, mine is /mnt/camera. also a line similar to above in /etc/fstab then just plug in, type mount /dev/sda1 and there it is. Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
No No, I am not using IIS. I am using Win Apache. Anyway, one guys mentioned the ln command. How to use it and where can I find the htdocs? From: Vasiliy Boulytchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:16:00 -0700 I was thinking an AFS cluster, but yeah, its is the worst way to test windows/linux website interoperability. And I tell you, linux will run more than an IIS server, I will stand behind my words. And if you bring ASP, I will have to slap you around. hehe On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:57 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 04:12, Fish Fash wrote: How can I link the Apahce htdocs to my window Apache htdocs so I can work on one directory. c:\WebDev\Apache\htdocs You're not going to be able to see the Apache docs via Windowsunless you copy the docs dir to the Windows partition under the specified directory...but if you're doing it from linux, that's different as you can use ln to link directories. -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473 2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Hard drive on Parallel port.
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:58 am, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:17, Dennis Myers wrote: A friend gave me one of those cases that you can put a spare hard drive in and it uses a parallel port connection. It is generic and has no FCC # on it, but the box says it works for hard drives. Anyone have any idea how to access it to format and read/write to it? It runs on a seperate power supply and shows up in hard drake as an SBLive joystick. ( I think). Is this thing useless or what? Any help is appreciated. If you don't have the parallel IDE support in the kernel (i.e. module) you're not going to be able to access it properly. Check if you've got that module (lsmod to view loaded modules) and see what's listed as parport (parallel port). If you DON'T see any modules for the parport, you might try loading 'em (insmod parport_pc, insmod parport) and trying again... The parallel port IDE device module is paride Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port. Regards, John... Thanks, found the documentation and am doing the homework. Sometimes with this stuff it is just knowing what man to call for or what search term to use. A lot of that is not intuitive involved. Thanks for the Help guys, I will let you know how it goes. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:54, Charlie wrote: Can you tell I'm looking forward to Friday and the release of Star Trek Nemesis? grin Regards; -- Charlie Are you going to watch it because A.) You know that Nemesis was created on a render-farm of linux boxes? B.) You know that most of the image design was done on linux boxes? C.) You're hoping to see Kirk die again? D.) You're a Trekkie? E.) You want to hear Piccard say No. 1, you have the bridge yet again? (BTW, I'm a Trekkie and just bloody can't wait!) -- Thu Dec 12 09:45:00 EST 2002 9:45am up 1 day, 2:07, 6 users, load average: 0.06, 0.19, 0.28 .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 And they told us, what they wanted... Was a sound that could kill some-one, from a distance. -- Kate Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:16, Mr. VLE79E wrote: No No, I am not using IIS. I am using Win Apache. Anyway, one guys mentioned the ln command. How to use it and where can I find the htdocs? If you're using Windows' Apache, cain't help ya mate. Don't do Windows unless I absolutely have to (or else if I'm getting paid to do Windows) -- Thu Dec 12 09:50:01 EST 2002 9:50am up 1 day, 2:12, 6 users, load average: 0.01, 0.09, 0.21 .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 In a whiskey it's age, in a cigarette it's taste and in a sports car it's impossible. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Broken rpm?
OK, since updating my libraries, my modem has stopped functioning. I can use minicom to send commant to the modem, and everything responds well until I go to dial out. Then I get a no dilatone error. This is incorrect. The modem is a conextant winmodem, and I got it going using the rpm mbsi.ca. Now, when I try to rpm -e the rpm, it says it's not installed. when I try to rpm -i, it says it's installed. when I urpmi it, it says everything is installed. I'd like to remove this, and re-install it. How does one go about removing an rpm MDK doesn't think is installed? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
i get payed not to use windows On Wednesday 11 December 2002 03:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:16, Mr. VLE79E wrote: No No, I am not using IIS. I am using Win Apache. Anyway, one guys mentioned the ln command. How to use it and where can I find the htdocs? If you're using Windows' Apache, cain't help ya mate. Don't do Windows unless I absolutely have to (or else if I'm getting paid to do Windows) -- Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. (719) 473 2800 x15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:14, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: i get payed not to use windows Well, same here, but at least I do things in linux out of LOVE for the OS...as opposed to Windows... ...who joyfully does what they hate to do? (Married men need not answer) -- Thu Dec 12 10:20:01 EST 2002 10:20am up 1 day, 2:42, 6 users, load average: 0.79, 0.63, 0.62 .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 Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 16:11, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: i dont believe winmodems are supported by linux Actually, a surprising number can work in Linux, although my personal preference is to just get an external hardware modem so I always know it will work. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
