RE: [newbie-it] /etc/modules
Ma che distribuzione usi? Se ti può interessare uso la MDK9 e c'è! Strano! -- Messaggio originale -- From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: M.l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:20:02 +0100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie-it] /etc/modules Ave lista, volevo chiedervi.il file modules è comune a tutte le distro? modules viene richiamato da /etc/rc.d/rc.modules in fase di avvio, e qui (in modules)dovrei inserirci i moduli da far caricareora,in questa nuova distro che sto cercando di far funzionare,non lo trovo! e se lo agiungessi a manina? funzierebbe? grazie gia da ora per le risposte. Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] /etc/modules
Alle 10:58, sabato 14 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ma che distribuzione usi? Se ti può interessare uso la MDK9 e c'è! Strano! Anche io ho la MDK9.0 ma sto cercando di far funzionare la Slack.forse un po troppo complicato per me :) Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] /etc/modules
* tom wrote: Anche io ho la MDK9.0 ma sto cercando di far funzionare la Slack.forse un po troppo complicato per me :) /etc/modules.conf -- syd - LU 285930 * LM 167646 msg10134/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie-it] INSTALLAZIONE SU PARTIZIONI GIA' ESISTANTI!
Alle 17:05, venerdì 13 dicembre 2002, Rocco Geol. Gibilras ha scritto: Saluti a tutta la ML, dopo aver letto nella guida in rete di MANDRAKE al Capitolo 1. [CUT] Ciao Rocco, stai tranquillo: a meno che non glielo dica espressamente tu, Linux non ha alcun interesse a piallarti la partizione di Windows. L'installazione completa, semplicemente, serve ad installare Linux eliminando una eventuale precedente installazione dello stesso SO (o di altri SO), oppure per la prima installazione su un PC; mentre l'installazione di aggiornamento (sconsigliata, in ogni caso) ti consente di *aggiornare* una precedente installazione di Mandrake già presente nei tuoi hard disk! Dal momento che per te si tratta della prima installazione, vai tranquillo con la prima opzione. Per quanto riguarda le partizioni, Linux dovrebbe rilevare automaticamente tutti i dati dei tuoi dischi e presentarti, in fase di installazione, un resoconto grafico di come sono sistemati: a quel punto, dovrai semplicemente porre attenzione a creare le partizioni necessarie nell'hard disk giusto, ed a non dare il comando di formattazione per le partizioni Windows (ma questa opzione è già disattivata di default, quindi non puoi sbagliarti: dovresti dargli *tu* il comando... in sostanza, per darti la zappa sui piedi, te ne devi accorgere!)... ovviamente, come in tutte le installazioni, è bene eseguire prima un bel backup dei dati presenti nel tuo PC che non puoi permettere di perdere (ma questa dovrebbe essere già un'abitudine di chiunque, vista la possibilità - remota, ma esistente - di un guasto hardware, o quella - ben più rilevante: una probabilità... se non una certezza - di un malfunzionamento irreparabile di Windows... Insomma, detto questo... benvenuto! ;) Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
[newbie-it] Masterizzare, device, devfs.
Scusate ma ho un piccolo problema. seguendo il mixcro howto masterizzare..., ho modificato lilo, rilanciato, lanciato il insmode (e provato anche il modprobe) sempre come detto nel mhm, modificato il modules.conf come indicato in CD-Writing-HOWTO. Ordunque non ho nessun device scsi in dev, oviamente scd0 e scd1 non esistono (sarebbero dei SL a file contenuti in /dev/scsi/) e questa directori è vuotà!!! Come crearli! Dov'è l'errore?
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!
Dopo essermi cosparso il capo di cenere ho downloadaTO I TAR scompattati, maketizati e installati e vuoilà ho il logo NVidia sul mio Toshiba Satellite 6100 Professional Ora ho NVidia anche sul PC Home anche se ho dovuto pasticciare un pò coi file Tar non avevo sistemato il kernel e per disinstallarli (non sapendo come cavolo fare con i tar) ho sovrainstallato l'equivalente pacchetto rpm ottenuto dai sorgenti in rpm con rpm --rebuild, MIRACOLO prima di fare un bel urpme ho dato un init 6 e RIMIRACOLO avevo Nvidia sul HomePC. Ri, Rigrazie. PS: E' stranamente lento la fase di lancio di X con diversi secondi di nero molto preoccupante, però dopo il logo che saluta è consolante.
[newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!
Per chi interessasse ecco un link che spiega come installare NVIDIA sul pc senza grosse modifiche: http://linux.html.it/articoli/invidia_linux_1.htm I Driver: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp - Original Message - From: Stefano Sebastiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha più X! Dopo essermi cosparso il capo di cenere ho downloadaTO I TAR scompattati, maketizati e installati e vuoilà ho il logo NVidia sul mio Toshiba Satellite 6100 Professional Ora ho NVidia anche sul PC Home anche se ho dovuto pasticciare un pò coi file Tar non avevo sistemato il kernel e per disinstallarli (non sapendo come cavolo fare con i tar) ho sovrainstallato l'equivalente pacchetto rpm ottenuto dai sorgenti in rpm con rpm --rebuild, MIRACOLO prima di fare un bel urpme ho dato un init 6 e RIMIRACOLO avevo Nvidia sul HomePC. Ri, Rigrazie. PS: E' stranamente lento la fase di lancio di X con diversi secondi di nero molto preoccupante, però dopo il logo che saluta è consolante.
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!
Alle 18:09, sabato 14 dicembre 2002, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: PS: E' stranamente lento la fase di lancio di X con diversi secondi di nero molto preoccupante, però dopo il logo che saluta è consolante. Questo potrebbe dipendere da un import dei Fonts di Windows (se lo hai fatto, ovviamente): io ho notato un rallentamento di alcune fasi del boot, dopo aver importato i fonts di Win (e infatti sto rimuovendo i font meno utili e quelli decisamente *inutili*). Ciao... 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] /etc/modules
Alle 17:17, sabato 14 dicembre 2002, syd ha scritto: /etc/modules.conf Troppo semplice:) ho gia provato cosi! e non funge! :) nella MDK mettevo i richiami ai moduli in modules ora mi tocca farli caricareogni volta a manina da linea :( sono stupidissimi moduli per la skeda audio. Caio , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] /etc/modules
Alle 18:15, domenica 15 dicembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Troppo semplice:) ho gia provato cosi! e non funge! :) nella MDK mettevo i richiami ai moduli in modules ora mi tocca farli caricareogni volta a manina da linea :( sono stupidissimi moduli per la skeda audio. aa cmq ho risolto,ho inserendo la chiamata direttamente in rc.modules! ora la domanda rimane sempre aperta.c'era un modo alternativo? grazie. Ciao , Tom
R: [newbie-it] INSTALLAZIONE SU PARTIZIONI GIA' ESISTANTI!
Ciao Rocco, stai tranquillo: a meno che non glielo dica espressamente tu, Linux non ha alcun interesse a piallarti la partizione di Windows. L'installazione... [CUT] ...di un malfunzionamento irreparabile di Windows... Insomma, detto questo... benvenuto! ;) Daniele OK! Grazie Daniele anche e soprattutto per l'accoglienza! Sei stato abbastanza meticoloso ed altrettanto chiaro nella tua risposta! Saluti a te come a tutta la ML! Rocco
Re: [newbie-it] pinnacle studio dc 10 +
Il sab, 2002-12-14 alle 02:50, francesco.melo ha scritto: Salve alla lista Ho questa scheda di acquisizione ... linux la vede ma non riesco a farla andare... Ho anche una hauppage sintonizzatore tv che con Xawtv funziona alla grande , mentre su win con netmeeting si piantava. Qualcuno e' riuscito a far andare la scheda in oggetto? Ho provato a far caricare i moduli del kernel per questa scheda ma , nulla. Grazie per l'aiuto francesco Ho un po di domande da farti... La Hauppage in questione è la WinTV-GO? Quando registri un canale tv che formati puoi utilizzare? Con che risoluzione? Sul sito dice avi di 388 x 284 a 25 frame al secondo; confermi? Quanto occupa al minuto un file avi con quelle caratteristiche? Scusa per l'interrogatorio. Grazie, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha più X!!!!!
Il sab, 2002-12-14 alle 18:41, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Alle 18:09, sabato 14 dicembre 2002, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: PS: E' stranamente lento la fase di lancio di X con diversi secondi di nero molto preoccupante, però dopo il logo che saluta è consolante. Questo potrebbe dipendere da un import dei Fonts di Windows (se lo hai fatto, ovviamente): io ho notato un rallentamento di alcune fasi del boot, dopo aver importato i fonts di Win (e infatti sto rimuovendo i font meno utili e quelli decisamente *inutili*). Ciao... Succede anche a me (pc nuovo, nessun altro os installato oltre a MDK 9); succede fin dal primo avvio, quindi non deriva da alcuna modifica eseguita a posteriori... Corrado
[newbie-it] audio e moduli
Come posso identificare i moduli utilizzati dalla mia scheda audio (una Sound Blaster Awe 64 Gold)? In modules/sound ne ho una marea, e non credo servano tutti... PS per Tom: riguardo la tua mail sui moduli... ho l'impressione che ti ritrovi a dover lanciare il modprobe ogni volta che riavvii... perche' ho cercato di seguire il tuo consiglio di copiare i moduli della scheda audio nell'apposita cartella della Slack... ma ci sono gia' tutti! E allora perche' sulla MDK funziano e sulla Slack no? Vuol dire che la Slack non li avvia... almeno credo... -- Arwan
[newbie-it] Lame2: i parametri
Ciao ragassi! Mi stavo prodigando alla conversione di mp3 da dare in pasto al mio nuovo lettore, e mi sono ritrovata, controllando la riuscita del processo, con un interrogativo: come si da' il bit rate costante? Credevo d'averlo fatto, ma durante l'ascolto xmms mi mostra diversi valori per il kbps. Ho convertito i file wav da shell, con il comando: lame -h --abr 192 *.wav *.mp3 Il problema e' nato perche' dando --abr 128 mi ritrovo con file col bit rate variabile da 112 a 160, e io non voglio assolutamente scendere sotto i 128... Se imposto a 192, invece, i valori del kbps variano da 160 in su. Qualcuno sa spiegarmi perche' (e il man del lame e' in inglese?) -- Arwan
[newbie-it] script e operazioni su variabili di testo
Sempre cercando di automatizzare il processo di conversione dei file wav in mp3, mi sono trovata con uno script che vorrei migliorare. In pratica ho una variabile TIT che e' del tipo audio_xx.wav, dove xx e' un numero. Vorrei estrarre da questa variabile l'informazione xx, e assegnarla ad una seconda variabile. In pratica, si tratta di togliere da TIT la parte di scritta audio_ e .wav. Sapete come posso fare? -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] smp e apm
Alle 18:24, sabato 14 dicembre 2002, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Qualcuno sà come farli convivere per usarli assieme?!? Direi che non c'e' possibilita' (AFAIK, dato che non ho mai avuto il piacere di utilizzare un dual-processor). Potresti optare per la meno matura ma altrettanto ben funzionante funzionalita' acpi (previo utilizzo delle ultime patch per il kernel, che, come gia' detto in altra sede, ignoro se siano o meno state gia' applicate da MDK ai suoi kernel) -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 ** k 2.4.20-acpi+preempt+arrrgghh LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights did make an airplane.
Re: [newbie-it] newsgroup
Alle 21:49, venerdì 13 dicembre 2002, Nicola ha scritto: Volevo chiedere, se qualcuno conosce qualche buon newsgroup, su linux in generale e/o mandrake, in italiano. it.comp.os.linux.* sono NG in italiano in parte generici e in parte settoriali (per argomento, non per distribuzione) Sul concetto di buono non mi posso pronunciare, non conoscendoli piu' di tanto. -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 ** k 2.4.20-acpi+preempt LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights did make an airplane. E chi ha detto che gli spammer non possano essere bruciati vivi? ;
Re: [newbie-it] audio e moduli
Alle 21:47, sabato 14 dicembre 2002, Arwan ha scritto: Come posso identificare i moduli utilizzati dalla mia scheda audio (una Sound Blaster Awe 64 Gold)? In modules/sound ne ho una marea, e non credo servano tutti... Mi son perso l'eventuale parte precedente del discorso, ma hai installato i driver ALSA (che AFAIR dovrebbero essere all'interno dei sorgenti del kernel, altrimenti vanno scaricati da www.alsa-project.org)? In tal caso il modulo e' snd-sbawe e il procedimento e' questo: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Creative+Labscard=Soundblaster+Awe64+Goldchip=EMU8Kmodule=sbawe Se invece non li usi (e quindi usi gli OSS tradizionali, che accompagnano il kernel attualmente [anche se ancora per poco]), consiglio cmq di dare un'occhiata qui: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/README.awe /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/AWE32 (ovviamente devi aver installato i sorgenti del kernel) PS per Tom: riguardo la tua mail sui moduli... ho l'impressione che ti ritrovi a dover lanciare il modprobe ogni volta che riavvii... perche' ho cercato di seguire il tuo consiglio di copiare i moduli della scheda audio nell'apposita cartella della Slack... ma ci sono gia' tutti! E allora perche' sulla MDK funziano e sulla Slack no? Vuol dire che la Slack non li avvia... almeno credo... Azzardo abusivamente una risposta ;): il caricamento dei moduli e' abbastanza diverso: 1) in slack i due file importanti per il caricamento dei moduli sono /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (in cui mettere i comandi di caricamento dei moduli: modprobe xx) e /etc/modules.conf (in cui mettere gli alias). Nel caso si utilizzino gli ALSA basta copiare a mano il servizio alsasound da qualche parte e farlo richiamare p.es. da rc.local; qui niente si carica da solo :) 2) AFAIR, MDK dovrebbe essere strutturata per auto-caricare una buona parte dei moduli, e quelli che non si auto-caricano, andrebbero messi in /etc/modules; ovviamente anche qui modules.conf ha la stessa configurazione di prima. Se si utilizzano gli ALSA, il servizio alsasound sara' copiato automaticamente al posto giusto in fase di installazione, e potra' essere attivato come ogni altro servizio (es. drakxservices) In ogni caso copiare a manina i moduli non e' mai una buona soluzione ;) -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 ** k 2.4.20-acpi+preempt LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 E chi ha detto che gli spammer non possano essere bruciati vivi? ; Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights did make an airplane.
[newbie-it] Spell-checking
Ciao, come si attiva lo spell-checking in Evolution? Sembra tutto sia installato correttamente, ma dalle opzioni non è selezionabile alcun linguaggio... Corrado
[newbie] configure script failure
while installing some softwares and running the configure script i get the failure message similar to: ' configure : error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found.Please check your installation.' What i am missing as i think i have Qt3 installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Three random GNOME questions
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:03, Noah A Hicks wrote: I have three unrelated GNOME questions. 1. How do I enable/disable the AA fonts? When I boot up, I get logged into GNOME with AA off. If I logout and log back on, AA is on. 2. Why do applications like Galeon and Gnumeric use different font sizes than those set in the GNOME desktop and how can I change this? I have all my fonts set at the 10 size in the GNOME but Galeon and Gnumeric and anything that's not an intergral part of GNOME seems to use the 12 size font. 3. I would like to use the GDM as my logon program. Right now the KDE logon manager is what I see when I logout of GNOME and I would like it to be the GDM. Thanks alot -Noah Hi I don't know much about the fonts questions, I'm afraid, but you can set gdm as your login manager by editing (as root) /etc/sysconfig/desktop and changing KDE to GNOME 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] configure script failure
On Friday 13 Dec 2002 11:58 am, ashutosh wrote: while installing some softwares and running the configure script i get the failure message similar to: ' configure : error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found.Please check your installation.' What i am missing as i think i have Qt3 installed. Hi You need to install the developer source headers for QT. I think they are on the 3rd CD. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba
On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote: OK, I give up. I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba so I can copy files and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others. Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't be seen on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor settings from 800X600 to 1024X768 and got my background sound to work.) That is the only thing that I have done. Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get the errors below logged to the log.nmbd file. I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to find out how to fix it. David snip Hi David. Have a look at your linux settings using webmin first to see if drakconfig decided to switch your linux box's IP addy/change your LAN IP range. This will throw samba off a bit sometimes. [it did when I was installing the nvidia drivers]. Webmin makes a very good base setting 99% of the time. It also gives you the option to restart the samba server from within it's pages. Also worth looking at is your /etc/hosts file to see if you have added your windows boxs and their local.domain.names plus alias's. Let us know how you get on. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] configure script failure
I have following software already installed : libqt3-3.0.5-7mdk libqt3-devel-3.0.5-7mdk Can u calrify what else i need to install,because i don't think any other appropriate Qt packages are on Cds. On Saturday 14 December 2002 02:52 pm, magnet wrote: On Friday 13 Dec 2002 11:58 am, ashutosh wrote: while installing some softwares and running the configure script i get the failure message similar to: ' configure : error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found.Please check your installation.' What i am missing as i think i have Qt3 installed. Hi You need to install the developer source headers for QT. I think they are on the 3rd CD. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:05:07 -0500 Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and ultimately it did not work. I decided, OK, let's try SuSE 8.1. Same thing. Once it hit package selection, it failed. A little web searching seemed to indicate these later versions don't even work with K62. Mandrake had a patch on their site, but I could not get it to work even with the patch. Reading the SuSE box, I found in the hardware requirements, for AMD it only lists Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP and Athlon MP. The Mandrake site also said it would not work with Pentium I. In this case I installed Mandrake 8.1, and it worked great. I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that advantage is being lost. I have the same processor and had no problems with Mandrake 8.2 or 9.0 . HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)
Yeah You are right that Linux is superior to Windows as far as development but most users are using win so I need to test my site on windows. I have to tweak the code to meet win requirements. I do use hand coding. Anyway, how can I get VMWare? How much is it? From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win) Date: 14 Dec 2002 18:30:14 +1100 On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 13:22, Warren Post wrote: El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 11:48, Mr. VLE79E escribió: I am planning to run two boxes. A Linux box to be my http server and a win box for developing web sites... I'm not answering your question, but if you don't mind my jumping in may I suggest you rethink your idea to use a Windows box for website development. I do websites and use Windows only at gunpoint. The apps available in Linux are so far beyond what Windows has to offer that there is no comparison. Code editors? Bluefish and Quanta beat their Windows brethren. Preprocessors? What few there are for Windows are mostly ports or ripoffs from *nix. WYSIWYG? I recommend hand coding, but IBM's Websphere stands up well to Dreamweaver. M$ Runt Page is too unworthy for comparison. Image editors? Gimp compares very well to Photoshop. Granted, if you have a favorite tool that you just can't live without, you might be stuck with Windows if it won't run in Wine. I still need a Windows box around to test my sites in M$IE. And if you do ASP, you may well want your web server to be IIS on Windows. But in general, I think you'll find Linux far superior to Windows for website development. YMMV, as always. For my situation, I just run WinXP Pro in a VMWare window - do everything without ever leaving linux...and yeah, hand coding is better - at least you're IN CONTROL of what code yer throwing on the web... I've also tweaked out my WINE so that I can run some apps under linux - like Fractal Painter 5.0 - currently working on CorelDraw10...just a few more dll's to trace out... In our home network, the linux box is the mail server, internet router/firewall, dns server internally, dhcp server, web server, ftp server, samba server (PDC), newsgroup server (only a few) - the other boxes that ARE Windows are generally for either the wife to check eBay, do mail and play solitaire, or for testing...but all in all, the one linux box is doing the job of two Windows machines - and more... Where else can you run Win98SE, WinXP Pro and OS/2 all at the same time without ever leaving your home environment or having more than one computer? -- Sat Dec 14 18:25:00 EST 2002 6:25pm up 3 days, 10:47, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.12 .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 What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 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] Digital cameras
On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 4:30 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Dec 2002 6:36 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Digital cameras OK - I bought the camera and went away for a few days holiday. Now I have to try to get the pics. On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 5:48 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Fuji Finepix runs fine using the usb-storage module. This is the way I configured a Fuji FinePix S602 to run under Mandrake 9.0 via usb A) Be sure you have the next modules loaded: usb usb-core usb-storage usb-scsi How do I check if these are loaded? Do lsmod in a console It seems I have usb-storage usb-uhci (unused) usbcore [usb-storage printer usb-uhci] So if I need usb and usb-scsi how do I get them running? I thought maybe the Services menu would list them and I would need to start them, but they don't seem to be there. I've no more ideas on how to go about this. I'm also very confused about how Mdk handles these special devices. I wrote to this list that I had lost my LS120 which had been sda, and it stayed lost for some considerable time (by which I had got desperate enough to start a paid Expert session, though that has not got me any replies), but coming back yesterday I find it is recognised again. There are some problems, which I'll tackle in another thread, but I can't understand what has changed. After all, I've been away and no-one else has been using the machine. So it begs the question How does a special device get recognised? What can be done to initiate this process? As I said earlier, my LS120 is sda, so I expect the camera will become sdb, but it's not there. Am I presuming wrongly? Should I be looking for something else? Anne Following a comment from John, I tried cat /proc/scsi/scsi with the following result: [root@anne-linux anne]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: CANONModel: IX-27025ERev: 1.13 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: LS-120 VER5 00 Rev: F523 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-48X9TERev: 1.0C Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Model: Rev: Type: NULLANSI SCSI revision: The final entry must be the camera, I think. Under /dev I see my Mitsumi as scd0 and the LS120 as sda. I have had no success yet with the Canon - that can wait until later. Does this output give any pointers as to where I should find it? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] v9.0 -out, v8.2 -back in... :-(
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 01:18, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, i give up. After about 3 days of fighting with v9.0 (3 CD download edition) I'm calling it quits and reinstalling v8.2. I tried noapic, I tried noacpi, etc, etc... Occasionally, I could actually boot up, after doing rescue (all installations go just fine - its that first reboot - forget it - locks up hard). Even then, it usually would not boot up 2 times in a row without locking up. Also, 1 time I got it to shutdown or reboot using shutdown -r or -h now. Every other attempt would up with a: sending all processes the TERM signal OK sending all processes the KILL signal... and nothing - locks up there. Whats so frustrating is that this same 3 CD set installed perfectly on a much older computer here with far less specs. This one, my main computer is only about a year old. Go figure. Now, some may say bad memory, bad HD, etc,etc,...okay maybe - altough like I said its all brand name and less than 1 year old. Besides that, it was perfectly stable with v8.2, and I'm back with 8.2 right now and its as stable as a rock. (booting up fine, shutting down fine). Correct me if I'm wrong, but have you not been running heavy duty games on this system under 8.2, like Diablo 2, Quake 3, etc. If this is your premiere system and it's been doing what I think it's been doing, then I can safely say that you can forgo the memory diags, cause you have a known good system. Since you have a known good system, you have basically troubleshot the problem down to an incompatibility between an aspect of the hardware and 9.0. The problem sounds like a piece of code that's close to the kernel (like a driver) that's dying when the system starts up, and then cannot be killed when the system is shut down. It is somewhat likely that there may be some kind of motherboard bios faux pas that has been corrected since the mobo was released. My best suggestion is to go to the Shuttle website and download the latest greatest bios for your mobo, and flash the bios. (under vanilla dos) It's possible that there may be a firmware incompatibility between 9.0 and the mobo; Which begs the question of the rest of the peripherals. Has your Nvidia card been flashed with the latest firmware? Or other peripherals? I note your hardware list: Shuttle motherboard 384 megs ram AMD Athlon 900 cpu (Probably a 900 Tbird like mine) Nvidia Geforce 2/64 megs ram (Probably a Bladerunner like mine) SoundBlaster Xgamer Live sound card (shame on you for buying Creative..) Adaptec 2930 SCSI card (3940U Dual channel RISC version here) WinTV tuner card Linksys network card Toshiba DVD (scsi) (Toshiba DVD/CDRW Combo here) Plextor CDRW (scsi) Iomega Zip internal/IDE (SCSI version here) The SCSI card looks like an older one, therefore I remember a warning that Civileme mentioned some time ago about using the wrong version of the Adaptec SCSI driver. I myself had been doing this for some time without (consistent) bad results under 8.2, and wasn't aware I was doing so until Civileme mentioned the problem. HOWEVER, this may be a bigger problem under 9.0 than it is under 8.2. And, of course, this may not even be the real problem. My best suggestion is to check all versions of firmware on all peripherals (and mobo) that are flashable, and update them to the latest firmware. Including your Toshiba DVD. I don't need to remind you that you should be careful when doing this ;) and always attempt to use the dos version of the firmware updates when available, and a vanilla dos boot with no smartdrive.exe loaded. This to me seems the most reliable route. I have a firmware update site for all DVD and Combo's. If you need it I asked for support from Mandrake - Zero replies so far. (still got my fingers crossed there). I've got the 9.0 DVD/manuals ordered (and they have already cashed my check). I sure hope that it does better than the download edition! Ahh, yes. As you well know I could go on about this, but I will just say that I've been very patient so far since my paypal card was debited by Mandrakeclub in October while I fondle the 9.0 mandrake boxes at Best Buy. Nuff said? In the past, I've noticed that problems I encountered with download editions tended to disappear with the Powerpacks. I'm hoping the same is true, otherwise, I'll be stuck with a useless DVD. If anyone else can shed light on this, please...put me out of my misery. :-) When I actually had it installed/running (as long as I didn't shutdown/reboot!), v9.0 looks really great. I like it - I hope I actually get to use it here... Catch everyone later... -- /\ Dark Lord L8r on, holmes... LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User
Re: [newbie] Change hostname?
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 08:36, RichardA wrote: Can I change my hostname without causing problems? I ask because there is a file in KDE called kdontchangethehostname. I think in theory it gets set from a file at boot (/etc/hosts?), a variable gets set and everything else should reference that variable rather than be hard coded. In theory. Richard If you want to you can use the hostname command to temporarily change the hostname of the system for that session, and it should return to normal with a reboot or a reuse of the hostname command. Do 'man hostname' and check it out. :) l8r, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question
I suggest you forget the drake firewall stuff... download and install gShield.. you will never look back.. its so easy to configure and once it is, you don't have to touch a thing ever again.. and its totally predictable. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2002 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question Hi, When I launch my firewall configurator in the Mandrake Control Center, I get the following message: make sure you have configured your Network/Internet access with drakconnet before going any further Well, I have not. I installed Mandrake 9 on a laptop with a modem, so I could not configure any connection during the inital installation since my laptop came with a so-called Winmodem. I had to hack it with with a Linmodem RPM to get any internet access at all. Now all works fine. I connect to my ISP with a dial-up (slow: 28) using kppp. At no stage did drakconnect ever get involved. Does this mean that I cannot install the firewall offered by Mandrake 9 or that I need at all costs to use the Mandrake connection utility rather than KDE kppp? From my (very limited) understanding of firewalls all that the Mandrake firewall does is block certain ports (such as telnet or ftp) and if this is so - why this warning message? Who cares how my connection was configured as long as the right ports are closed? Thanks for any help with this! Cheers, Andrei _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 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] rm and the -i option
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 10:24, Robin Turner wrote: Joseph Braddock wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:36, Ken Walker wrote: In LM9 when i try and do a rm -rv *, i keep being asked if i want to delete this, for all and every file. How do i turn the -i option off. Doesn't -f work? Sir Robin I can assure you it does. (wink-wink) --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure
Hell, I am running mandrake 9.0 on a couple of 233mmx machines, with 128 and 160Mb ram... neither is a speed king, but both are bearable.. in fact, the one with 160mb is also a samba server, a mail server, a web server a firewall and NAT server.. (on my home network) Its got an uptime of months and its even usable in KDE.. so I was impressed. 8.2 wasn't as fast... ram is important.. if you think you have enough, slap yourself around abit and then get some more.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2002 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:05:07 -0500 Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and ultimately it did not work. I decided, OK, let's try SuSE 8.1. Same thing. Once it hit package selection, it failed. A little web searching seemed to indicate these later versions don't even work with K62. Mandrake had a patch on their site, but I could not get it to work even with the patch. Reading the SuSE box, I found in the hardware requirements, for AMD it only lists Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP and Athlon MP. The Mandrake site also said it would not work with Pentium I. In this case I installed Mandrake 8.1, and it worked great. I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that advantage is being lost. I have the same processor and had no problems with Mandrake 8.2 or 9.0 . HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla 1.2.1 from cooker won't run
Hi, Anybody here installed Mozilla 1.2.1 from cooker and got to work? I have tried on to separate machines and it simply doesn't work. If I try strace mozilla, it reports a --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- which does not make me much wiser. I am at a loss. I have a fairly standard 9.0 installation as far as I know, and I have never had a problem like this before. I don't know if it's related, but at about the same time OpenOffice stopped showing page previews and the help files (images are shown, as well as text larger than 16pt). Even if this is unrelated, I'd appreciate help on this as well. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)
I had a problem where my pppoe connection was lost two or three times a
day..
Since I use it to host works stuff. I needed it to be able to reconnect
itself..
so I wrote this script.. it needs a few perl modules installed.. but it
works great..
Its rough, but it works..
It goes and checks if it can access both google and yahoo and if it can't
get one.. (it doesn't need to be able to get both.)
it will restart the connection and email you to tell you it did..
copy everything from the start to the end lines.. and put it in a file.. put
it in /usr/bin or similiar.. and make it executable.. then put an entry in
contab like this:
-0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /usr/sbin/monitor_connection /dev/null
That will run the script every ten minutes., and fix the connection if it
goes down..
I have another version that monitors a dialup connection on another box..
### START OF SCRIPT
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET);
use MIME::Lite;
my $url = 'http://www.yahoo.com';
my $url2 = 'http://www.google.com';
my @email_address = ('[EMAIL PROTECTED]');
my $SMTP_server = '127.0.0.1';
my $response = LWP::UserAgent-new(env_proxy = 1)-simple_request(GET
$url);
unless ($response-is_success)
sleep 15;
my $response2 = LWP::UserAgent-new(env_proxy = 1)-simple_request(GET
$url2);
Bunless ($response2-is_success)
{
our $date = get_date;
my $message_txt = ADSL connection was down and was restarted at
$date;
system('/usr/sbin/adsl-stop');
sleep 5;
system('/usr/bin/killall -9 adsl-connect');
system('/usr/bin/killall -9 pppd');
sleep 5;
system('/usr/sbin/adsl-start');
foreach my $mailer (@email_address)
{
mail_data('[EMAIL PROTECTED]',$mailer, ADSL WARNING!
$date, $message
}
}# end of unless2
} # end of unless1
#email and date subs follow.
sub mail_data
{
#usage: mail_data(mail from address,Mail to address,
subject, message_txt);
my $from_address = shift;
my $to_address = shift;
my $subject = shift;
my $message_txt = shift;
# Start the email body details.
my $email_msg = MIME::Lite-new(
From= $from_address,
To = $to_address,
#Cc = '[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]',
Subject = $subject,
Type='TEXT',
Data= $message_txt
);
$email_msg-send('smtp', $SMTP_server);
} # end of mail_data;
sub get_date
{
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst,$date);
my @days = ('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday',
'Friday','Saturday');
my @months =
('January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','Septembe
r','Oc
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
if ($hour 10)
{
$hour = 0$hour;
}
if ($min 10)
{
$min = 0$min;
}
if ($sec 10)
{
$sec = 0$sec;
}
$year += 1900;
$date = $days[$wday], $months[$mon] $mday, $year at $hour\:$min\:$sec;
return $date;
}
exit(0);
END OF SCRIPT ###
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson
Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2002 9:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
On Friday 13 Dec 2002 10:18 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing
linux behind a router?
I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some
fiddling but its all good now.
So any special caveats, instructions, advice? warnings?
Thx
-
FemmeFatale
Good Decisions You boss Made:
We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
character from Peanuts.
- Source: Dilbert
FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The
changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no
problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no
problems
emerged either.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a
non-issue.
HTH
Anne
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Re: [newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure
On Saturday 14 December 2002 05:02 am, you wrote: I have the same processor and had no problems with Mandrake 8.2 or 9.0 . HTH, -Frans 9.0 and 8.2 works great with my sons AMD K6-III @ 475mhz... (which ticks me off - I can't get 9.0 to work with my Athlon@900mhz!) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rm and the -i option
On Saturday 14 December 2002 10:56 am, you wrote: If you don't want to change the alias, because it will change it for all users, you can use /bin/rm when you don't want the -i option. I believe Mandrake uses the alias to keep people from accidently deleting everything. Well, if you change the alias in that users /home directory it only affects *that* user, not any others. There is a file you can change the alias in that affects all users, but really you don't want to do that. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer??
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[newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer??
Greetings everyone, Whenever I try to open a midi file, I get the following error message: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer. Probably there is another program using it. Well, I can't even find /dev/sequencer on my system. Anyone have any advice as to how I can get midi files to play on my Mdk 9.0 system? TIA for any help. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.2.1 from cooker won't run
I installed 1.2.1 about a month ago. No problem installing. However the plugins did not work and the spellchecker in E-mail did not work although it was installed. Switched to Texstar's Mozilla-xft-1.2.1 and as a browser it works great including plugins. The composer in E-mail will not word wrap properly and the spellchecker does not work. Attachments in incoming e-mail are not displayed. I am using xft-1.2.1 as the browser and Kmail for E-mail. Gary On Saturday 14 December 2002 01:30 pm, Tom Ekeberg wrote: Hi, Anybody here installed Mozilla 1.2.1 from cooker and got to work? I have tried on to separate machines and it simply doesn't work. If I try strace mozilla, it reports a --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- which does not make me much wiser. I am at a loss. I have a fairly standard 9.0 installation as far as I know, and I have never had a problem like this before. I don't know if it's related, but at about the same time OpenOffice stopped showing page previews and the help files (images are shown, as well as text larger than 16pt). Even if this is unrelated, I'd appreciate help on this as well. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] v9.0 -out, v8.2 -back in... :-(
On Saturday 14 December 2002 12:33 pm, you wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but have you not been running heavy duty games on this system under 8.2, like Diablo 2, Quake 3, etc. If this is your premiere system and it's been doing what I think it's been doing, then I can safely say that you can forgo the memory diags, cause you have a known good system. Yea, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, Half-life, Rune, Soldier of Fortune, Terminus smile My best suggestion is to check all versions of firmware on all peripherals (and mobo) that are flashable, and update them to the latest firmware. Including your Toshiba DVD. I don't need to remind you that you should be careful when doing this ;) and always attempt to use the dos version of the firmware updates when available, and a vanilla dos boot with no smartdrive.exe loaded. This to me seems the most reliable route. I have a firmware update site for all DVD and Combo's. If you need it I've never update the MB's (or peripherals) BIOS. Its always worked fine. You might be onto something there. Ahh, yes. As you well know I could go on about this, but I will just say that I've been very patient so far since my paypal card was debited by Mandrakeclub in October while I fondle the 9.0 mandrake boxes at Best Buy. Nuff said? ;-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer??
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 20:10, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings everyone, Whenever I try to open a midi file, I get the following error message: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer. Probably there is another program using it. Well, I can't even find /dev/sequencer on my system. Anyone have any advice as to how I can get midi files to play on my Mdk 9.0 system? Excuse me if you already know all this, I don't know where you're at with MIDI but: MIDI files contain information to control synthesizers and other hardware so that they carry out certain actions, like playing sounds. MIDI files don't contain any sound information themselves, just the parameters for peripherals designed for that interface. So there's no way a computer will play a MIDI file as it does, for example, a .wav or .mp3. It needs special hardware, at least a synthesizer. Regards. Meliton. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer??
On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 7:51 pm, Meliton wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 20:10, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings everyone, Whenever I try to open a midi file, I get the following error message: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer. Probably there is another program using it. Well, I can't even find /dev/sequencer on my system. Anyone have any advice as to how I can get midi files to play on my Mdk 9.0 system? Excuse me if you already know all this, I don't know where you're at with MIDI but: MIDI files contain information to control synthesizers and other hardware so that they carry out certain actions, like playing sounds. MIDI files don't contain any sound information themselves, just the parameters for peripherals designed for that interface. So there's no way a computer will play a MIDI file as it does, for example, a .wav or .mp3. It needs special hardware, at least a synthesizer. Regards. Meliton. Now that's confused me, for sure. So how, exactly, do we play midi files on a computer? (Not smart-arsing - genuinely want to know) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Peripheral help needed - usb storage
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about losing my LS120 drive, which had previously been recognised as sda. For no obvious reason, it is now recognised again as sda, but it appears to be having trouble mounting. I have tried it with and without supermount, but would prefer to keep the supermount if it is possible. I have had it mount, yesterday, and read a file and write a file, but every operation took many times as long as it should. Today it seems reluctant to mount at all. Any opening of the /mnt branch of the tree causes it to start spinning up, and it spins, and spins, and spins and After about 2 minutes I get an error message saying The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly I presume that I have something wrong with the settings, but can't imagine what. My fstab and mtab are attached. Can anyone advise me? Anne /dev/hdf1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hde6 /mdk8_2 ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdf6 /mnt/Data vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,user,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/LS120 supermount dev=/dev/sda,fs=auto,--,user,sync,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hda,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hde8 /mnt/graphics vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,user,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdg5 /mnt/temp ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,user,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hde5 /oldhome ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdf5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdf1 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /home ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hde6 /mdk8_2 ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /mnt/Data vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/LS120 supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,dev=/dev/sda,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,dev=/dev/hda,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hde8 /mnt/graphics vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdg5 /mnt/temp ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hde5 /oldhome ext3 rw 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer??
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:05:41 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer?? On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 7:51 pm, Meliton wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 20:10, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings everyone, Whenever I try to open a midi file, I get the following error message: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer. Probably there is another program using it. Well, I can't even find /dev/sequencer on my system. Anyone have any advice as to how I can get midi files to play on my Mdk 9.0 system? Excuse me if you already know all this, I don't know where you're at with MIDI but: MIDI files contain information to control synthesizers and other hardware so that they carry out certain actions, like playing sounds. MIDI files don't contain any sound information themselves, just the parameters for peripherals designed for that interface. So there's no way a computer will play a MIDI file as it does, for example, a .wav or .mp3. It needs special hardware, at least a synthesizer. Regards. Meliton. Now that's confused me, for sure. So how, exactly, do we play midi files on a computer? (Not smart-arsing - genuinely want to know) Anne *** Thanks for the replies, I don't understand too much at all about midi. But, is there a way to get my Mdk system to produce the required sounds that are indicated in a midi file? I haven't been able to get a peep out of Mdk on the e-cards that I receive that contain a musical segment in midi format. I have TiMidity and instruments and all of the multimedia stuff that I can think of installed, but no midi tunes. :-/ Could there be something that has to be configured? I'm at a loss. It's not anything I need, but I was able to hear midi in MS. :-( Do you have the same problem trying to hear midi Anne? --Angus The noblest instinct of them all is the reverence for life. --Albert Schweitzer -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Weird Cron job problem
I've got a problem with a cron job that just seems so weird to me. It has to do with fnews, which I loaded up yesterday... if I run '/usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups' from the terminal everything runs just fine fnews pulls my injects and passes them to my mailing list. But if I try to run this all from cron I get the following error: -Forwarded Message- From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@mail sh /root/news/cronrun Date: 14 Dec 2002 14:30:01 -0500 Connecting to news.cavtel.net at port 119: .. done. fnews: //news/rec.arts.comics.dc.universe: cache create error: No such file or directory Disconnecting from news.cavtel.net: done. /etc/crontab 01 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups I also tried this 01 * * * * root sh /root/news/cronrun /root/news/cronrun /usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups Any idea why this works from the terminal, but not in cron?? Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer??
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 21:05, Anne Wilson wrote: Now that's confused me, for sure. So how, exactly, do we play midi files on a computer? Well, MIDI is just a protocol. There are a series of events, such as a note, with parameters, such as the volume or pitch of said note. All events are arranged vertically (several sounds at the same time) and horizontally (one thing after the other). This is what the famous sequencer does, it's used to record/edit/replay the sequence of events and accompanying parameters in the correct manner. All this information is passed to a synthesizer which contains samples. A sample would be, for example, the sound of a violin playing a single note. The MIDI synthesizer, acting as slave, is cotrolled by the sequencer, which passes along the information. When you play the file, thus, you need a sequencer with the file loaded, as master (this is just software) and a synth as slave (hardware). There are all sorts of different additional pieces of hardware which can be usefully controlled by MIDI, but that is the minimum setup. Think of a MIDI file as a score sheet, which in fact is exactly what it is. Score sheets don't sound, you need a musician (sequencer) and an instrument (synth). I believe there are synths which are just a PC card, and you could use that plus the appropriate software. But the actual sound you are going to hear depends on your synth, and it requires a very good one and an awful lot of work to make it sound nearly natural. You do NOT hear what the author of the file hears on their system, you have no way of really knowing what they hear unless they attach the make and model af their synth, what samples they use, and how they're tweaked. And you happen to have the same model synth to reproduce it all. If what you want is just to listen to music, stay away from MIDI. MIDI is not music, it's just a sort of musical notation. Hope that explains it. Meliton. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer??
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 21:41, Angus Auld wrote: I have TiMidity and instruments and all of the multimedia stuff that I can think of installed, but no midi tunes. :-/ Seems like I'm way out of date on this. I've been quickly checking out this TiMidity thing you mention, and it seems as if somebody has worked out how to convert MIDI to sound, a sort of software synth. I know nothing about this, I fear. I stopped working in the music field about eight years ago, when such a thing wasn't possible. But I'll take a look (this stuff takes me back, so I don't mind) and if I find anything useful I'll get back to you. Meliton. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems emerged either. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a non-issue. HTH Anne Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine I chose DHCP connection as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss. Fiddling with things with both the expert novice controls I found out that I had to disable DHCP/Bootp enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes no sense, and I had to put in gateway DNS numbers (the routers IP sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK something is amiss... but what? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker
First off: Can't seem to run KDE LICQ from the KDE Start menu. Haven't tried it from a term yet so I don't know the error. Secondly, anyone try windowmaker yet? I've never really given it a chance but decided to see if it was different now. It isn't much, but the Panel you get doesn't come up I get some strange error about it not being installed? Always before in 8.2 my right mouse button was exactly that,my right mouse button. Now its my wheel button that needs to be pushed in, clicked as it were, to operate as a mouse2 button. ERM OK I chose the right mouse... M$ Intellimouse... anyone else with this troubling little problem? And I'm not sure if that just affects Enlightenment yet... KDE Seems to find my right mouse button fine... Unless I'm misinterpreting my little experiments. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)
At 02:39 AM 12/15/2002 +0800, you wrote: I had a problem where my pppoe connection was lost two or three times a day.. Since I use it to host works stuff. I needed it to be able to reconnect itself.. so I wrote this script.. it needs a few perl modules installed.. but it works great.. Its rough, but it works.. It goes and checks if it can access both google and yahoo and if it can't get one.. (it doesn't need to be able to get both.) it will restart the connection and email you to tell you it did.. copy everything from the start to the end lines.. and put it in a file.. put it in /usr/bin or similiar.. and make it executable.. then put an entry in contab like this: -0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /usr/sbin/monitor_connection /dev/null That will run the script every ten minutes., and fix the connection if it goes down.. I have another version that monitors a dialup connection on another box.. snip out (ir)relevant scripting :) Thx Frank. If I need it I'll use it. :) You don't say which Perl libs though? Care to enlighten us? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:22 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems emerged either. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a non-issue. HTH Anne Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine I chose DHCP connection as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss. Fiddling with things with both the expert novice controls I found out that I had to disable DHCP/Bootp enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes no sense, and I had to put in gateway DNS numbers (the routers IP sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK something is amiss... but what? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Sorry, I have lost track of this thread, but do you have both the DHCP server and client installed on your machine? Not sure but think you need both. (Oh, I get so confused, he,he.) Mostly it is somehymers. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] v9.0 -out, v8.2 -back in... :-(, Small OT
At 12:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: snipper with some hedge trimmers I have lying around It is somewhat likely that there may be some kind of motherboard bios faux pas that has been corrected since the mobo was released. My best suggestion is to go to the Shuttle website and download the latest greatest bios for your mobo, and flash the bios. (under vanilla dos) It's possible that there may be a firmware incompatibility between 9.0 and the mobo; You mention flashing an Nvidia card ... I have yet to figure out how to do so?! Wanna email me off list (or on, your choice ofc) about how to go about this? Mines a creative labs ( ya ya I know you hate em, so shoot me... and btw suggest a diff frigging soundcard I can get thats compatible with most of todays games? Hercules will no longer make sound cards which is what I was planning to buy :( ) GeForce2. So is my g/f's. Any advice? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)
sure, This written at the top of the script.. sorry, should have been more precise... use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET); use MIME::Lite; so just go to seach.cpan.org and use the search facility to find: LWP::UserAgent MIME::Lite HTTP::Request the download links will be on the search results.. Though there are probably mandrake RPM's for this on the disks or contribs... MIME::Lite is for sending the email and LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Request are for getting the google/yahoo request... Thats all you need.. I use variations of this script for monitoring our work servers and telling me when they are down as well. very handy.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Sunday, 15 December 2002 5:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.) At 02:39 AM 12/15/2002 +0800, you wrote: I had a problem where my pppoe connection was lost two or three times a day.. Since I use it to host works stuff. I needed it to be able to reconnect itself.. so I wrote this script.. it needs a few perl modules installed.. but it works great.. Its rough, but it works.. It goes and checks if it can access both google and yahoo and if it can't get one.. (it doesn't need to be able to get both.) it will restart the connection and email you to tell you it did.. copy everything from the start to the end lines.. and put it in a file.. put it in /usr/bin or similiar.. and make it executable.. then put an entry in contab like this: -0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /usr/sbin/monitor_connection /dev/null That will run the script every ten minutes., and fix the connection if it goes down.. I have another version that monitors a dialup connection on another box.. snip out (ir)relevant scripting :) Thx Frank. If I need it I'll use it. :) You don't say which Perl libs though? Care to enlighten us? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Couldn't open /dev/sequencer??
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 21:41, Angus Auld wrote: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer. Probably there is another program using it. Well, I can't even find /dev/sequencer on my system. It looks like TiMidity has defaults you don't want. Try running it with the -o filename option, where filename is a temporary .wav, and then see if you can play that. I don't know if you have to create an empty file first, manual doesn't say, but I should think not. Good luck. Meliton. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
At 03:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine I chose DHCP connection as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss. Fiddling with things with both the expert novice controls I found out that I had to disable DHCP/Bootp enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes no sense, and I had to put in gateway DNS numbers (the routers IP sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK something is amiss... but what? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Sorry, I have lost track of this thread, but do you have both the DHCP server and client installed on your machine? Not sure but think you need both. (Oh, I get so confused, he,he.) Mostly it is somehymers. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Sweety: I've never needed a DHCP CLient before... why the hell would I need one now? The router itself acts as the DHCP server so it serves up address like: 192.168.1.100 or ... 1.101, etc... What I don't understand is why in winsux, it operates correctly as that DHCP server, yet Linux demands a static address from me, gateway DNS numbers...? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
Femme, For the longest time, I was letting my Lynksys router/firewall/gateway do the DHCP for my mixed O/S network. During that time, my NT 4.0 Server was acting as a Primary Domain Control (PDC) and a secured resource center file sharing between my business and family needs. I had no problems with this set-up, letting my MDK 8.2, 9.0 and RH systems acting as DHCP clients. All that was necessary was to make sure that my router/firewall.gateway was set up correctly to assign addresses as I wanted them to be. Once I set-up the RH 8.0 file sharing server (I had already removed the NT server from the network long before), I had some issues with this set-up using Samba. Instead of playing to much with this, I just went to static addressing all around, making sure that my HOSTS and LMHOSTS files were proper and synchronized. It's been this way since and I have had no problems or complaints to share. With my own network, being down is really difficult for me to accept. Sometimes, it causes me to take the shortest means to my goal and I lose the chance to learn how to get what I want done my way. Sorry, I can't give you any ideas at to why the static addressing was the way that worked for me. However, you can mix and match. Keep the router DHCP server, Windows boxes as clients and make the Linux boxes static. You will need to set-up HOSTS/LMHOSTS files on every machine for the static addressed machines to be seeable by the DHCP clients by their netbios name, and you will need to make sure you set-up the router as your gateway for the Linux machines and your ISP DNS server(s) for DNS. HOSTS and LMHOSTS files only need to be created once and then copied to all machines as needed, so this isn't as messy as it sounds for a small network. Does this help any? T - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems emerged either. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a non-issue. HTH Anne Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine I chose DHCP connection as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss. Fiddling with things with both the expert novice controls I found out that I had to disable DHCP/Bootp enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes no sense, and I had to put in gateway DNS numbers (the routers IP sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK something is amiss... but what? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
At 05:46 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: Femme, For the longest time, I was letting my Lynksys router/firewall/gateway do the DHCP for my mixed O/S network. During that time, my NT 4.0 Server was acting as a Primary Domain Control (PDC) and a secured resource center file sharing between my business and family needs. I had no problems with this set-up, letting my MDK 8.2, 9.0 and RH systems acting as DHCP clients. All that was necessary was to make sure that my router/firewall.gateway was set up correctly to assign addresses as I wanted them to be. Once I set-up the RH 8.0 file sharing server (I had already removed the NT server from the network long before), I had some issues with this set-up using Samba. Instead of playing to much with this, I just went to static addressing all around, making sure that my HOSTS and LMHOSTS files were proper and synchronized. It's been this way since and I have had no problems or complaints to share. With my own network, being down is really difficult for me to accept. Sometimes, it causes me to take the shortest means to my goal and I lose the chance to learn how to get what I want done my way. Sorry, I can't give you any ideas at to why the static addressing was the way that worked for me. However, you can mix and match. Keep the router DHCP server, Windows boxes as clients and make the Linux boxes static. You will need to set-up HOSTS/LMHOSTS files on every machine for the static addressed machines to be seeable by the DHCP clients by their netbios name, and you will need to make sure you set-up the router as your gateway for the Linux machines and your ISP DNS server(s) for DNS. HOSTS and LMHOSTS files only need to be created once and then copied to all machines as needed, so this isn't as messy as it sounds for a small network. Does this help any? T Well honestly theres just me using linux. Its a dualboot machine. Yes I see what you're getting at Slick, and I'm not sure it would be overkill to follow your advice. Using a static address for now works so I'll see what happens If/when I find another answer as to why this is the way it is, I shall post it. Ty for the reply, quite an interesting way to do things. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weird Cron job problem
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 07:38, Anthony Abby wrote: I've got a problem with a cron job that just seems so weird to me. It has to do with fnews, which I loaded up yesterday... if I run '/usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups' from the terminal everything runs just fine fnews pulls my injects and passes them to my mailing list. But if I try to run this all from cron I get the following error: Have you checked WHO the job is running as? You might want to set the owner as root. -- Sun Dec 15 10:10:00 EST 2002 10:10am up 4 days, 2:32, 6 users, load average: 0.26, 0.50, 0.52 .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 Charm is a way of getting the answer Yes -- without having asked any clear question. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] finally going for it
I have enough of mandrake 9.0 working to the point where I can switch it to my main hard drive and just have winxp on my smaller drive and use linux almost exclusively. I do have to have some win programs and once I find comparable replacements, win xp will go completely. I do have to get a new motherboard though because this one will not let me install mandrake 9.0 without using an older kernel. I also can not use my agp vid card for some reason. It has nothing to do with linux, it is the motherboard. I have the elitegroup k7vmm and it is junk!!! I have an AMD Duron 1.2 GHz processor. Any suggestions as to what I should get? I do not want any built in video or sound or lan LOL walt
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:40 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 03:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine I chose DHCP connection as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss. Fiddling with things with both the expert novice controls I found out that I had to disable DHCP/Bootp enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes no sense, and I had to put in gateway DNS numbers (the routers IP sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK something is amiss... but what? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Sorry, I have lost track of this thread, but do you have both the DHCP server and client installed on your machine? Not sure but think you need both. (Oh, I get so confused, he,he.) Mostly it is somehymers. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Sweety: I've never needed a DHCP CLient before... why the hell would I need one now? The router itself acts as the DHCP server so it serves up address like: 192.168.1.100 or ... 1.101, etc... What I don't understand is why in winsux, it operates correctly as that DHCP server, yet Linux demands a static address from me, gateway DNS numbers...? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Ok, sorry, like I said I was behind on the thread. What linux wants is the static IP of your computer the gateway address whether it is your gateway or the IPs gateway and the IPs DNS addresses. So if you set up your internal computer with a 192.168.0.x type address then you should point it at the IP address such as 68.96.13.xxx and give it the IPs primary and secondary DNS numbers. Not real clear but the best explanation I can give. If you have that kind of configuration then I am at a loss as to the problem. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] v9.0 -out, v8.2 -back in... :-(, Small OT
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 16:39, FemmeFatale wrote: At 12:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: snipper with some hedge trimmers I have lying around It is somewhat likely that there may be some kind of motherboard bios faux pas that has been corrected since the mobo was released. My best suggestion is to go to the Shuttle website and download the latest greatest bios for your mobo, and flash the bios. (under vanilla dos) It's possible that there may be a firmware incompatibility between 9.0 and the mobo; You mention flashing an Nvidia card ... I have yet to figure out how to do so?! Wanna email me off list (or on, your choice ofc) about how to go about this? Mines a creative labs ( ya ya I know you hate em, so shoot me... and btw suggest a diff frigging soundcard I can get thats compatible with most of todays games? Hercules will no longer make sound cards which is what I was planning to buy :( ) GeForce2. So is my g/f's. Any advice? Check ya mail... :) LX - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] finally going for it
On Saturday 14 December 2002 05:19 pm, walt wrote: I have enough of mandrake 9.0 working to the point where I can switch it to my main hard drive and just have winxp on my smaller drive and use linux almost exclusively. I do have to have some win programs and once I find comparable replacements, win xp will go completely. I do have to get a new motherboard though because this one will not let me install mandrake 9.0 without using an older kernel. I also can not use my agp vid card for some reason. It has nothing to do with linux, it is the motherboard. I have the elitegroup k7vmm and it is junk!!! I have an AMD Duron 1.2 GHz processor. Any suggestions as to what I should get? I do not want any built in video or sound or lan LOL walt I have both a Soyo and a Gigabyte MB with 1.3ghz Duron and Athlon 1800+ respectively, and they both run well. The Soyo is a K7VTA and the Gigabyte is a GA-7VRX no problems with 9.0 installation and they run like lightening compared to my old K6II processors. Seems like Soyo and Gigabyte both get it right for AMD processors. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:28:04 -0700 To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker First off: Can't seem to run KDE LICQ from the KDE Start menu. Haven't tried it from a term yet so I don't know the error. Secondly, anyone try windowmaker yet? I've never really given it a chance but decided to see if it was different now. It isn't much, but the Panel you get doesn't come up I get some strange error about it not being installed? Always before in 8.2 my right mouse button was exactly that,my right mouse button. Now its my wheel button that needs to be pushed in, clicked as it were, to operate as a mouse2 button. ERM OK I chose the right mouse... M$ Intellimouse... anyone else with this troubling little problem? And I'm not sure if that just affects Enlightenment yet... KDE Seems to find my right mouse button fine... Unless I'm misinterpreting my little experiments. - FemmeFatale * Hi Femme, as to your KDE LICQ issue, check to see if you have the licq-kde-1.2.0a-4mdk plugin installed. If I recall I had the same issue till I installed that plugin. HTH. :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question
Hi Frank, Thanks for your posting! Could you be more specific please? Why is this better than Mandrake's firewall? Does it also use iptable or ipchains? and also, where can I get it (preferably in RPM format)? (rpmfind does not have it) Cheers and thanks, Andrei I suggest you forget the drake firewall stuff... download and install gShield.. you will never look back.. its so easy to configure and once it is, you don't have to touch a thing ever again.. and its totally predictable. rgds Frank _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 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] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 11:23, Angus Auld wrote: * Hi Femme, as to your KDE LICQ issue, check to see if you have the licq-kde-1.2.0a-4mdk plugin installed. If I recall I had the same issue till I installed that plugin. HTH. :-) --Angus ...or you can use KOPETE - it's a multi-chat'er for KDE...works like a charm and don't crash. MSN, Yahoo!, AOL/AIM, ICQ, Jabber, IRC...whatever... -- Sun Dec 15 11:20:00 EST 2002 11:20am up 4 days, 3:42, 6 users, load average: 1.21, 0.61, 0.35 .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 At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. Of course, scientists make mistakes in trying to understand the world, but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism: The collective enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking together keeps the field on track. -- Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection, Parade, February 1, 1987 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15 Dec 2002 11:25:39 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 11:23, Angus Auld wrote: * Hi Femme, as to your KDE LICQ issue, check to see if you have the licq-kde-1.2.0a-4mdk plugin installed. If I recall I had the same issue till I installed that plugin. HTH. :-) --Angus ...or you can use KOPETE - it's a multi-chat'er for KDE...works like a charm and don't crash. MSN, Yahoo!, AOL/AIM, ICQ, Jabber, IRC...whatever... ** I find that Gaim meets all of my multi-IM needs. I haven't experienced any problems with it. Nice program. KOPETE sounds interesting. --Angus -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure
I have the same cpu and 8.1 ,8.2 and 9.0 worked jst fine Greg Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:05:07 -0500 Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and ultimately it did not work. I decided, OK, let's try SuSE 8.1. Same thing. Once it hit package selection, it failed. A little web searching seemed to indicate these later versions don't even work with K62. Mandrake had a patch on their site, but I could not get it to work even with the patch. Reading the SuSE box, I found in the hardware requirements, for AMD it only lists Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP and Athlon MP. The Mandrake site also said it would not work with Pentium I. In this case I installed Mandrake 8.1, and it worked great. I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that advantage is being lost. I have the same processor and had no problems with Mandrake 8.2 or 9.0 . HTH, -Frans -- Linux The Number one Os __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Problems with corrupt file system or partitiontable]
I was getting the same message on Mdk9.0 (d/l edition) after installing
a Sony Microvault USB reader, in my case it turned out to be the
/etc/fstab file was being overwritten. Took me a while to figure it out
and one trick I tried worked like a charm. I booted in rescue mode from
CD1 and then mounted the existing partions and then copied my backup
fstab file to /etc.
The system rebooted fine apart from doing a filesystem check. No further
probs since then
I'm not certain but I think that the perl script for drakeupdate -fstab
overwrites the existing /etc/fstab file, I can't be sure but I managed
to recreate the problem and the steps above fixed it.
HTH
Graham
John Richard Smith wrote:
Dennis Reynolds wrote:
I have a Pentium III with 2 small hard disks, and CD ROM and a CD RW
drives which I have recently loaded exclusively with MDK 9.0.
It has been interesting learning about Linux capabilities but now I
have fouled things up while attempting to activate a partition on the
second drive. This was being done in the course of installing the
full turnkeylinuxaudio tarball.
Now when I boot (irrespective of whether I choose Linux, Floppy or
Failsafe) I get into a loop. The system boots as far as checking the
file systems although the option to boot interactively by typingI
doesn't seem to work. Then I get the error messages listed at the end
of this email. [My comments are in {curly} brackets.
If I insert the MDK9 installation disk 1 in an attempt to reinstall,
the CD Rom fails to fire up properly and I simply end up going round
the loop again.
I would be very grateful for advice on what to do. As there is no
valuable data on the system I have no problem with a solution which
wipes the lot and starts afresh.
TIA
ERROR MESSAGES RECEIVED DURING THE BOOT PROCESS.
Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly
Press Y within 1 seconds to force file system integrity check...
Checking root file system
/dev/hda1: clean, 138141/586368 files, 504642/1170297 blocks [OK]
Remounting root file system in read-write mode: [OK]
Activating swap partitions: [OK]
Finding module dependencies: [OK]
Loading sound module(sb): [OK] Checking filesystems
/dev/hda6: clean, 4350/170720 files, 280812/341373 blocks
/dev/hdb1: The filesytem size (according to the superblock) is 202600
blocks
The physical size of the device is 184456 blocks
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
/dev/hdb1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
Failed to check file system. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N)
(beware you can lose data)
y {my input)
e2fsck 1.27ea (14 Mar 2002)
/dev/hda6: clean, 4350/170720 files, 280812/341373 blocks
The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 202600 blocks
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
Abort? yes {There isn't actually a choice it aborts automatically}
[FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):
{at this point I can't type anything but Control D achieves a reboot}
to go through the same cycle again.}
Dennis Reynolds
I think possibly ,
while attempting to activate a partition on the
second drive. This was being done in the course of installing the
full turnkeylinuxaudio tarball.
is the clue here.
Although you have two harddrives, the system looks on them both as one,
and as such you can only have one Active partition.It seems to me
that you have effectively altered the active partition while
attempting to install the abovementioned package.This has the effect
of making the partition table corrupt.
If I am right what you have to do is remake the old partition active
The question is how.
First try M cd1 disc and at the splash screen hit f1 which
has the effect of running you to a terminal, and from there choose
rescue and see whether you can get to fdisk, and
then use that to remake the original partition active, or just
wipe everything out and start again.
An alternative, if you have an old w98 boot disc run it
to the A prompt and type fdisk and use it to remake the
active partition, you have to cancel the current active
partition first.
I'm not absolutely cetain about this so proceed with caution
but maybe you don't have that much to loose.
John
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Re: [newbie] finally going for it
Congrats. IMHO. A linux desktop is much, much nice than a Win desktop. In any event. I would spend a little extra money and buy a ASUS MB. I've had mine for a year. And, have had zero compatability problems with ANY OS that i have tinkered with. As far a video cards. I would stick with NVidia. walt wrote: I have enough of mandrake 9.0 working to the point where I can switch it to my main hard drive and just have winxp on my smaller drive and use linux almost exclusively. I do have to have some win programs and once I find comparable replacements, win xp will go completely. I do have to get a new motherboard though because this one will not let me install mandrake 9.0 without using an older kernel. I also can not use my agp vid card for some reason. It has nothing to do with linux, it is the motherboard. I have the elitegroup k7vmm and it is junk!!! I have an AMD Duron 1.2 GHz processor. Any suggestions as to what I should get? I do not want any built in video or sound or lan LOL walt
Re: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker
At 09:42 PM 12/14/2002 -0300, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15 Dec 2002 11:25:39 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 11:23, Angus Auld wrote: * Hi Femme, as to your KDE LICQ issue, check to see if you have the licq-kde-1.2.0a-4mdk plugin installed. If I recall I had the same issue till I installed that plugin. HTH. :-) --Angus ...or you can use KOPETE - it's a multi-chat'er for KDE...works like a charm and don't crash. MSN, Yahoo!, AOL/AIM, ICQ, Jabber, IRC...whatever... ** I find that Gaim meets all of my multi-IM needs. I haven't experienced any problems with it. Nice program. KOPETE sounds interesting. --Angus Does GAIM just work for AIM .. and if not what else does it support/work for? Thx. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker
At 09:23 PM 12/14/2002 -0300, you wrote: - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:28:04 -0700 To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker First off: Can't seem to run KDE LICQ from the KDE Start menu. Haven't tried it from a term yet so I don't know the error. Secondly, anyone try windowmaker yet? I've never really given it a chance but decided to see if it was different now. It isn't much, but the Panel you get doesn't come up I get some strange error about it not being installed? Always before in 8.2 my right mouse button was exactly that,my right mouse button. Now its my wheel button that needs to be pushed in, clicked as it were, to operate as a mouse2 button. ERM OK I chose the right mouse... M$ Intellimouse... anyone else with this troubling little problem? And I'm not sure if that just affects Enlightenment yet... KDE Seems to find my right mouse button fine... Unless I'm misinterpreting my little experiments. - FemmeFatale * Hi Femme, as to your KDE LICQ issue, check to see if you have the licq-kde-1.2.0a-4mdk plugin installed. If I recall I had the same issue till I installed that plugin. HTH. :-) --Angus Thx, if its on the CD i'll look for it. Hopefully I can find it easily if its not already installed. Do I just install it like any rpm then? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question
On Saturday 14 December 2002 06:25 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi Frank, Thanks for your posting! Could you be more specific please? Why is this better than Mandrake's firewall? Does it also use iptable or ipchains? and also, where can I get it (preferably in RPM format)? (rpmfind does not have it) Cheers and thanks, Andrei I suggest you forget the drake firewall stuff... download and install gShield.. you will never look back.. its so easy to configure and once it is, you don't have to touch a thing ever again.. and its totally predictable. rgds Frank _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Don't see an RPM format but here is the home page http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html and it gives download sites with tgz files. Also Tucows has it and sourceforge. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?
Hi Dale, Dale Huckeby wrote: On 13 Dec 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Is there anybody on this list that has NOT recieved their LM90 preorders? Besides me? I ordered three sets of technical manuals in October and I have not seen them yet. Anybody else going thru this? I pre ordered my PowerPack set on the 8/11/2002 and have also received the email of being able to track it. I was also initially caught by the French on the tracking page but after I clicked on the British flag the language changed on the page to English. If the package does not get to me in South Africa by the 31/12/2002, I have spoken to my credit card company and will be able to reverse the payment to them, not that I want to but still I feel no goods=no pay. HiH -- === Hylton Conacher - Registered Linux user # 229959 Licenced Windows user Using Linux Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1 on a 2.4.3-20mdk#1 kernel === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Workgroups in linux?
Have sort of sorted out a dual PC, 1 dual boot linux and Win and the other linux, connection problems. Both are networked together and provided I am using linux on both machines I get positive feedback from the ping command. On checking the hostname on both machines I can confirm there are no errors there. However if the dualboot system is booted into Win95 and the other box into linux I then cannot access the Windows hard drive. I am thinking that as they both have the same subnet and IP's are 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 perhaps the workgroup 'feature' on Windows is playing a role. How do I configure/view the workgroup under linux? -- === Hylton Conacher - Registered Linux user # 229959 Licenced Windows user Using Linux Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1 on a 2.4.3-20mdk#1 kernel === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] finally going for it
El Sáb 14 Dic 2002 20:59, Dennis Myers escribió: I have both a Soyo and a Gigabyte MB with 1.3ghz Duron and Athlon 1800+ respectively, and they both run well. The Soyo is a K7VTA and the Gigabyte is a GA-7VRX no problems with 9.0 installation and they run like lightening compared to my old K6II processors. Seems like Soyo and Gigabyte both get it right for AMD processors. HTH Hola, Dennis. What graphic card do you have in your K7VTA? Saludos. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 11:47pm up 2:02, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] finally going for it
On Saturday 14 December 2002 08:56 pm, Pilagá wrote: El Sáb 14 Dic 2002 20:59, Dennis Myers escribió: I have both a Soyo and a Gigabyte MB with 1.3ghz Duron and Athlon 1800+ respectively, and they both run well. The Soyo is a K7VTA and the Gigabyte is a GA-7VRX no problems with 9.0 installation and they run like lightening compared to my old K6II processors. Seems like Soyo and Gigabyte both get it right for AMD processors. HTH Hola, Dennis. What graphic card do you have in your K7VTA? Saludos. Have an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400, runs very well using the .src.rpm I can play UT2003 with no jerkiness, Oh, and the box Power Pack set of ML9.0 has the commercial drivers available during install. I believe they are a good card except for not being gpl'd. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Workgroups in linux?
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 02:15, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Have sort of sorted out a dual PC, 1 dual boot linux and Win and the other linux, connection problems. Both are networked together and provided I am using linux on both machines I get positive feedback from the ping command. On checking the hostname on both machines I can confirm there are no errors there. However if the dualboot system is booted into Win95 and the other box into linux I then cannot access the Windows hard drive. I am thinking that as they both have the same subnet and IP's are 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 perhaps the workgroup 'feature' on Windows is playing a role. How do I configure/view the workgroup under linux? -- === Hylton Conacher - Registered Linux user # 229959 Licenced Windows user Using Linux Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1 on a 2.4.3-20mdk#1 kernel === You can use SAMBA to configure a workgroup under linux - the actual config file lives in /etc/samba/smb.conf - so you can manually edit the file and set it up the way you want, or you can use Webmin to do the configuration via Webmin and SWAT. It works like a charm once you get it up running - you can configure the linux box as either another peer on the workgroup, or you can actually use Samba to act as if it's an NT domain controller...very powerful... -- Sun Dec 15 15:05:00 EST 2002 3:05pm up 4 days, 7:27, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.31, 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 Here I am at the flea market but nobody is buying my urine sample bottles ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 11:42, Angus Auld wrote: I find that Gaim meets all of my multi-IM needs. I haven't experienced any problems with it. Nice program. KOPETE sounds interesting. --Angus I like GAIM under Gnome (cuz you can dock it in the panel) and Kopete under everything else (Enlightenment, WindowMaker, AfterStep, XFCE, Fluxbox, Oroborus, Rox, KDE, amiwm and mlvwm) But, ya know, GnomeICU does it's job, too - but only for ICQ...too bad we don't have Trillian for linux... -- Sun Dec 15 15:05:00 EST 2002 3:05pm up 4 days, 7:27, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.31, 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 Here I am at the flea market but nobody is buying my urine sample bottles ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] finally going for it
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:24, kjc wrote: Congrats. IMHO. A linux desktop is much, much nice than a Win desktop. In any event. I would spend a little extra money and buy a ASUS MB. I've had mine for a year. And, have had zero compatability problems with ANY OS that i have tinkered with. As far a video cards. I would stick with NVidia. Asus and nVidia rock. Solid as a rock. Rock'n'roll. As dependable as a southern preacher preachin' bout hellfire. Works as hard as an ambulance chaser and stays cool as a cucumber. -- Sun Dec 15 15:10:00 EST 2002 3:10pm up 4 days, 7:32, 6 users, load average: 1.08, 0.62, 0.33 .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 She ran the gamut of emotions from 'A' to 'B'. -- Dorothy Parker, on a Kate Hepburn performance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some odd errors with LICQ, Mouse Windowmaker
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 13:49, FemmeFatale wrote: Thx, if its on the CD i'll look for it. Hopefully I can find it easily if its not already installed. Do I just install it like any rpm then? - FemmeFatale It is on the CD(s), but you're going to have to install gcc9, recompile the kernel or install the 2.6.87 kernel, get a multi-USB-to-PS/2-back-to-serial converter with smart card capabilities, a quantum flux converter, two warp coils, and a plasma venting capitulator with multi capacitor inversion flux component. After compiling the code, you have to pipe it through the quantum flux converter prior to adding some ATS code. -- Sun Dec 15 15:20:01 EST 2002 3:20pm up 4 days, 7:42, 6 users, load average: 0.05, 0.25, 0.27 .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 History tends to exaggerate. -- Col. Green, The Savage Curtain, stardate 5906.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files,cable connection between two boxes
I was thinking of either a plain old hub (don't have the money for a router), or another NIC. Next most important consideration is ease of use, for a newb like me. Will be using either mdk 7 or 8.2 on one box (old pentium) and 9.0/XP on the other. TIA for any suggestions, words of wisdom. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice
I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's operating as a DHCP server and I'm not having any problems accessing the internet at all. But then, I also have dhcpcd version 1.3.22pl1-3mdk installed. The description from the rpm is as follows: dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-09 (when -r option is not speci- fied) and RFC1541 (when -r option is specified). It gets the host information (IP address, netmask, broad- cast address, etc.) from a DHCP server and configures the network interface of the machine on which it is running. It also tries to renew the lease time according to RFC1541 or draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-09. From that description it seems clear that I need a DHCP client if I'm expecting to receive and use a dynamic IP from a DHCP server. Personally, I think you probably would too but it's up to you. ;-) Regards, Carl FemmeFatale wrote: I've never needed a DHCP CLient before... why the hell would I need one now? The router itself acts as the DHCP server so it serves up address like: 192.168.1.100 or ... 1.101, etc... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files, cableconnection between two boxes
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 16:01, joe wrote: I was thinking of either a plain old hub (don't have the money for a router), or another NIC. Next most important consideration is ease of use, for a newb like me. Will be using either mdk 7 or 8.2 on one box (old pentium) and 9.0/XP on the other. TIA for any suggestions, words of wisdom. Joe. 1 x Crossover cable to go from the linux box's NIC to the XP box's NIC; use SAMBA to configure a workgroup. Setup a mail server, ftp server, web server on the linux box as well. Connect printers to the linux box. Share printers on linux box with XP via Samba and Windows smb protocols. It's easier than you think - and if you're going to dive into linux, might as well go for it. BTW, use the linux box as your internet connection sharing box with the XP box so that you have the best available firewalling and routing. You can also setup fetchmail to gather all your outside email to live on your linux box, and setup the client on the XP box to grab mail from the linux box. Less hassle. -- Sun Dec 15 16:45:00 EST 2002 4:45pm up 4 days, 9:07, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05 .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 should be fixed, but it won't be easy and it won't be fast. If you want to help - wonderful. But keep in mind that it will take months of wading through the ugliest code we have in the tree. If you've got a weak stomach - stay out. I've been there and it's not a nice place. - Al Viro on fixing drivers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
