[newbie-it] latex e *.jpeg
Ciao a tutti: eccomi nuovamente qui! Per quanto rigurda Latex, sto scrivendo un manuale di una macchina, e lo sto facendo con Latex: qualcuno sa dirmi se ci sono controindicazioni nell'uso di immagini *.jpeg (ho letto che sembra che ci siano dei problemi con il convertitore dvi e pdf): è vero? Se no, posso usare \includegraphics? Ho provato a caricare (sempre con \includegraphics) una immagine a colori *.eps ma il compilatore mi restituisce degli errori. Se anzichè una immagine a colori gli do in ingresso una immagine in bianco e nero, tutto va a buon fine, qualcuno sa spiegarmi il perchè? (può essere legato ai driver della stampante che è una laser b/n)? Un saluto a Mike (con il quale ho condiviso i miei dolori della rete): ci sono riuscito finalmente a rifar partire la connessione dial-up (con mezzi un po' barbari, ho cioè rinstallato tutto perchè ormai avevo perso il segno di tutte le modifiche che avevo fatto) e nonstante avessi letto tutta la doc (howto) non ci cavavo i piedi. Ora sono anche riuscito a far funzionare l'eth e persino samba! Evviva. L'unica cosa che prorpio non vuol sapere di funzionare è la stampante condivisa che (nonstante tutti i tentativi di mounting manuale) non viene riconosciuta (sarà un problema di driver, visto che è una stampante nuova di palla). Grazie a tutti e buona settimana. Enrico
Re: [newbie-it] latex e *.jpeg
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On Monday 24 February 2003 09:15, you wrote:
Ciao a tutti: eccomi nuovamente qui!
Per quanto rigurda Latex, sto scrivendo un manuale di una macchina, e
lo sto facendo con Latex: qualcuno sa dirmi se ci sono
controindicazioni nell'uso di immagini *.jpeg (ho letto che sembra
che ci siano dei problemi con il convertitore dvi e pdf): è vero? Se
no, posso usare \includegraphics?
Si` puoi usare includegraphics ma deve fare un´operazione per fargli
convertire al volo l´immagine da jpg in eps (quindi tu risparmi lo
spazio su disco ma spende qualche tempo in piu` in compilazione).
Questo e` tratto dal manuale Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e:
13 Compressed and Non-EPS Graphics Files
When using dvips, users can specify an operation to be performed on the
le befo
re it is inserted. Making this operation a decompression command allows
compress
ed graphics les to be used. Making this operation a
graphics-conversion command
allows non-eps graphics les can be used. Since dvips is currently the
only dvi
- -to-ps converter with this capability, everything in this section
requires dvips
. Users need to pass the dvips option to the graphicx package. This can
be done
by either specifying the dvips global option in the \documentclass
command
\documentclass[dvips,11pt]{article}
or by specifying the dvips option in the \usepackage command
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
Specifying the dvips option in \documentclass it is preferred because
it passes
the dvips option to all packages.
When using an operating system which supports pipes,
the\DeclareGraphicsRule (se
e Section 9.2) specifies a command which operates on the file. Making
this comma
nd a decompression command allows compressed eps files to be used.
Making this
command a graphics-conversion command allows non-eps graphics files to
be used.
When using operating systems which do not support pipes, such
on-the-fly conver
sion is not possible and all graphics must be stores as uncompressed
eps files.
13.1 Compressed EPS Example
The steps for using compressed eps files are
1. Create an eps file (file1.eps for example)
2. Store the BoundingBox line in another file (file1.eps.bb)
3. Compress the eps file. For example, the Unix command
gzip -9 file1.eps
creates the compressed le file1.eps.gz. The-9 (or -best) option speci
es maximu
m compression.
4. Include the proper \DeclareGraphicsRule command before the
\includegraphics c
ommand in the LATEX file. The\DeclareGraphicsRule command informs LATEX
how to treat the particular suffix (see Section 9.2). For example
\documentclass[dvips]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.eps.gz}{eps}{.eps.bb}{`gunzip -c #1}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3in]{file1.eps.gz}
\caption{Compressed EPS Graphic}
\label{fig:compressed:eps}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
In this particular case, the \DeclareGraphicsRule command is actually
not necess
ary because it happens to be one of the graphics rules pre-de ned in
dvips.def.
If another compression program or suffixes were used, the
\DeclareGraphicsRule c
ommand would be mandatory. For example, if the BoundingBox file had
been stored
in file1.bb, the corresponding \DeclareGraphicsRule would be
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.eps.gz}{eps}{.bb}{`gunzip -c #1}
Ho provato a caricare (sempre con \includegraphics) una immagine a
colori *.eps ma il compilatore mi restituisce degli errori. Se
anzichè una immagine a colori gli do in ingresso una immagine in
bianco e nero, tutto va a buon fine, qualcuno sa spiegarmi il perchè?
(può essere legato ai driver della stampante che è una laser b/n)?
No, devi solo caricare il pacchetto color e tutto funzionera`
tranquillamente
Grazie a tutti e buona settimana
Enrico
Prego, Gigi
Ps. Mi sa che quella parte del manuale ha reso questa mail troppo lunga!
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[newbie-it] openoffice via via piu' lento
ciao a tutti ormai sono diversi mesi che ho abbandonato win e uso openoffice per lavorare ho notato che è diventato piu' lento a partire (non era mai stato un fulmine ...), mentre nell'account di mia figlia parte come prima che puo' essere? un saluto pigi
Re: [newbie-it] openoffice via via piu' lento
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:49:47 +0100 pigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ciao a tutti ormai sono diversi mesi che ho abbandonato win e uso openoffice per lavorare ho notato che è diventato piu' lento a partire (non era mai stato un fulmine ...), mentre nell'account di mia figlia parte come prima che puo' essere? È un po' poco per dirti qualcosa di sensato, non trovi? prova a farlo partire da xterme non da menu/icona e vedi se ti dà dei messaggi d'errore. Altra cosa, controlla di non avergli impostato di partire in qualche modalità strana e particolarmente pesante. Quale? Difficile a dirsi senza vedere cosa succede realmente. Prova a rinominare la tua directory di configurazione personale in qualcosa.bak e farlo ripartire come se tu non lo avessi mai usato prima. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Variabili di ambiente
Il 17:48, domenica 23 febbraio 2003, Pollo ha scritto: Mi sembrava di aver capito che per modificare una variabile di ambinente a livello globale (cioè al boot del sistema e per ogni utente) bisognasse modificare il file /etc/profile. Ho cercato di farlo con la Mandrake9.0 ma tale file non esiste; esiste la directory /etc/profile.d/ con a suo interno una serie di file *.sh e *.csh (penso siano shell script). Cosa devo fare per apportare le modifiche alle variabili di ambiente? Grazie, Pollo. Che non ci sia mi pare strano, fa parte del pacchetto 'setup'. Comunque aggiungi alla fine del file /etc/bashrc la/e seguente/i riga/he export TUA_AV_RIABILE=quello_che_vuoi Questo se usi bash o derivati della Bourne Shell Per l'altra famigliola Il file è csh.cshrc ed il comando invece di ecport è setenv Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] Mouse Ottico e Senza Fili
Il 18:25, domenica 23 febbraio 2003, Corrado ha scritto: Direte: nient'altro?! ^_^ Allora, è possibile debba cambiare mouse, se qualcuno sa darmi buone dritte su mouse ottici e/o senza fili che funzionino senza problemi con Mandrake e siano comunque di buona qualità, mi farebbe un favore! ^_^ Corrado In questo momento uso un mouse ottico della Logitech USB con adattatore PS2 senza problemi. Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:16:35 +0100 Alessandro Piaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non c'è un'opzione da inserire dando rpm in modo che chieda se installare o meno anche le dipendenze? si rpm --nodeps (vedi man rpm) ma poi non è detto che il pacchetto ti funzioni, potrebbe mancargli qualche libreria essenziale Forse troppi, così ho guardato meglio cosa c'è nei cd della distro e stavo pensando di installare come file manager Nautilus, ma non vorrei appesantisca troppo il sistema. in effetti è un bel mattone. A proposito di Nautilus, lanciando rpmdrake non lo trovo né nei pacchetti da installare né in quelli da rimuovere, molto strano da cosa potrebbe dipendere? strano, dovrebbe esserci prova a vedere sul sito Mandrake, alla pagina errata, dovrebbe esserci un bug relativo alla costituzuìone del database per urpmi se, invece, è disponibile, ti basta agiungere modprobe nome-esatto-modulo al file /etc/modules.conf Tornando sull'hardware, sintetizzo in due punti 1 sb16asp 2 il cdrom Non ho mai avuto a che fare con cd-rom non atapi. Quindi deviseguire quello che ti dicono i sacri testi. Incomincio dal punto più semplice l'audio Per questo, prova a vedere il sito delle pnp-utils http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ e seguire le istruzioni che trovi per configurare a manina la scheda. essenzialmente è quello che fa sndconfig o draksound o simili, ma così controlli tutto personalmente. attento che le schede sound-blaster sono spesso chiamate Ensoniq E cosigliabile che segua le istruzioni che ho trovato e ti ho esposto? Ultimissima cosa in modules.conf originariamente avevo solo una riga questa probeall scsi_hostadapters ide-scsi e una cosa simile il lilo.conf in append ... presumo facciano riferimento al cdrom atapi che ho collegato per fare l'installazione, pensavo di commentarle una volta tolto. E' una buona idea? a occhio sembra un'emulazione scsi per un dispositivo ide o di altro tipo. Non è che il tuo cd venga visto come /dev/scd0 ? ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
Scusate ma questa volta scrivo sopra il citato. Un piccolo consiglio (più che altro per te) : Se si scrivono messaggi così lunghi e con domande così diverse tra loro succede che 1) Chi legge dopo un pò si stufa e non risponde (il che è male per te) 2) Chi volesse avere aiuti sugli stessi argomenti non li troverà mai se l' Oggetto si riferisce ad uno solo dei molti argomenti trattati all'interno del messaggio (il che è male per gli altri) Scrivi tanti piccoli messaggi con un oggetto pertinente piuttosto che uno lungo e non esaustivo (l'oggetto). E' solo un consiglio, libero (ovviamente) di fare come vuoi. Ciao, Germano Il 01:16, lunedì 24 febbraio 2003, Alessandro Piaser ha scritto: - Original Message - Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:19 AM Durante l'installazione sono stati installati dei componenti per la rete, ma non ne ho nessuno come faccio a sapere quali sono e a togliere quelli inutili? vedi nel MandrakeControlCenter. C'è una sheda relativa ai servizi avviati al boot. Per ogni servizio c'è una breve descrizione. Disattiva senz'altro NFS, NIS, Samba controllo batterie Poi rimuovi i pacchetti relativi dal MandrakeControlCenter. OK sono riuscito ad installare il MandrakeControlCenter e i relativi pacchetti dipendenti, ma caspita che casino per capirci qualcosa, mi sono dovuto trascrivere tutto. Non c'è un'opzione da inserire dando rpm in modo che chieda se installare o meno anche le dipendenze? Ovviamente ho disabilitato anche i relativi servizi come mi avevi suggerito tu. Installato MCC con rpmdrake ho installato con più facilità i pacchetti che mi servivano e così lo spazio occupato è arrivato a 380Mb. Abiword e Gnumeric non girano male anzi direi che girano bene anche se è meglio aprire solo una finestra alla volta se non si vuole far frullare il disco e far girare tutto più lentamente. Ho installato anche Ical un organizer per X penso leggero. Ho notato però che i sottomenù di Ical e Cups per esempio, me li ha installati solo nel menù dell'utente normale e non in quello di root, è normale? caso opposto per IceWMCP se cerchi file manager su freshmeat ne trovi parecchi Forse troppi, così ho guardato meglio cosa c'è nei cd della distro e stavo pensando di installare come file manager Nautilus, ma non vorrei appesantisca troppo il sistema. A proposito di Nautilus, lanciando rpmdrake non lo trovo né nei pacchetti da installare né in quelli da rimuovere, molto strano da cosa potrebbe dipendere? Ho già provato ad aggiornare le sorgenti, ma non è cambiato nulla, ovviamente il pacchetto è presente sul cd. se, invece, è disponibile, ti basta agiungere modprobe nome-esatto-modulo al file /etc/modules.conf Dunque, non vorrei essermi sbagliato la volta precedente, ma i moduli sono in /lib/modules/2.4.x/kernel/drivers/nomecategoria(cdrom) nella forma nomedriver.o.gz e penso che sia fin qui tutto a posto. Tornando sull'hardware, sintetizzo in due punti 1 sb16asp 2 il cdrom Incomincio dal punto più semplice l'audio . Ultimo il cdrom. . come penso che debba essere, mi da errore dicendo che o non ha paramentri o che sono sbagliati io o irq. negli howto ho trovato solo casi di ricompilazione del kernel o patchare il kernel e in questo caso inserire sbpcd=0x230,1 da cui deduco che i valori che ho dato potrebbero teoricamente essere giusti. Ho provato anche ad inserire la riga append=sbpcd=0x230,SoundBlaster in /etc/lilo.conf ma anche qui picche. . Ultimissima cosa in modules.conf Grazie ancora e a presto Bye Alessandro
Re: [newbie-it] problema driver scanner HP2200c - UPDATE
no devi remmare anche la parallel port section. ti allego il mio file di configurazione. però nonostante funzioni ho ancora 2 problemi: 1) anche a lampada calda prima di ogni scansione attende il tempo di warming up (30 secs) 2) per motivi misteriosi, appena avviato, le prime due o tre o quattro scansioni si fermano ad 1/4 della scansione senza completarla. poi, a suo piacimento, scanna tutto il foglio. se e quando trovo una soluzione (che finora non ho ancora cercato) la posto. se la trovi tu per favore fai altrettanto. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: # Plustek-SANE Backend configuration file # For use with Plustek parallel-port scanners and # LM9831/2/3 based USB scanners # # For parport devices use the parport section # #[parport] #device /dev/pt_drv # # leave the default values as specified in /etc/modules.conf # #option warmup-1 #option lOffOnEnd -1 #option lampOff -1 # # The USB section: # each device needs at least two lines: # - [usb] vendor-ID and product-ID # - device devicename # i.e. for Plustek (0x07B3) UT12/16/24 (0x0017) # [usb] 0x07B3 0x0017 # device /dev/usbscanner # # additionally you can specify some options # warmup, lOffOnEnd, lampOff # # For autodetection use # [usb] # device /dev/usbscanner # # NOTE: autodetection is safe, as it uses the info it got # from the USB subsystem. If you're not using the # autodetection, you MUST have attached that device # at your USB-port, that you have specified... # [usb] 0x03f0 0x0605 # # options for the previous USB entry # # switch lamp off after xxx secs, 0 disables the feature option lampOff 0 # warmup period in seconds, 0 means no warmup option warmup 30 # 0 means leave lamp-status untouched, not 0 means switch off # on sane_close option lOffOnEnd 0 # # options to tweak the image start-position # (WARNING: there's no internal range check!!!) # # for the normal scan area # option posOffX 0 option posOffY 0 # for transparencies option tpaOffX 0 option tpaOffY 0 # for negatives option negOffX 0 option negOffY 0 # # for adjusting the default gamma values # option redGamma 1.0 option greenGamma 1.0 option blueGamma1.0 option grayGamma1.0 # # and of course the device-name # device /dev/usb/scanner0 # # to define a new device, start with a new section: # [usb] or [parport] #
Re: [newbie-it] Sun One Studio 4 CE
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Enrico Teotti wrote: IDE Sun One Studio 4 CE. [..] ./nomefile Il fatto è che la seconda istruzione genera un errore. Non saprei, prova a dare un'occhiata a: http://forte.sun.com/ffj/knowledgebase.html P.S. colgo l'occasione per ricordare che piu' particolari si danno, piu' e' probabile riuscire a trovare con maggior facilita' una soluzione ai problemi -- GNU/Linux Slackware current *** 2.4.20
[newbie-it] Installazione su 486 denza lettore cdrom
Sto cercando di installare la mandrake su un vecchio 486 che è sprovvisto di lettore cdrom per cui ho deciso di optare per una installazione via rete tramite NFS. Gli ho montato una scheda di rete 3Com 3c905B e hocreato il disketto di boot opportuno. Appena dopo il boot mi riconosce la scheda di rete ma poi si pianta. Guardando i messaggi di logs (Alt+F3) c'è il seguente messaggio: * have to insmod af_packet * needs af_packet La cosa strana è che con un pentium sono riuscito a fare l'installazione tramite NFS con la medesima scheda di rete e lio stesso server. Avete suggerimenti? Grazie, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione su 486 denza lettore cdrom
Pollo ha scritto: Sto cercando di installare la mandrake su un vecchio 486 che è sprovvisto di lettore cdrom per cui ho deciso di optare per una installazione via rete tramite NFS. Gli ho montato una scheda di rete 3Com 3c905B e hocreato il disketto di boot opportuno. Appena dopo il boot mi riconosce la scheda di rete ma poi si pianta. Guardando i messaggi di logs (Alt+F3) c'è il seguente messaggio: * have to insmod af_packet * needs af_packet La cosa strana è che con un pentium sono riuscito a fare l'installazione tramite NFS con la medesima scheda di rete e lio stesso server. Avete suggerimenti? Che versione di mandrake stai cercando di installare? Le versioni dalla 8.0 in poi sono per 586 quindi dubito che riuscirai ad installarle su un 486 Grazie, Pollo. -- --- Giannuzzi Luca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Slackware 8.1 @ Acer TravelMate 512T Kernel 2.4.20 R.U. #287353 L.M. #168794 --- __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
Re: [newbie-it] Mouse Ottico e Senza Fili
Il lun, 2003-02-24 alle 07:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: se vuoi un prodotto buono Logitech di sicuro...io cercavo una tastiera senza filo,ma le danno solo con il mouse allegato e non ho intenzione di seperarmi dal mio trackball :-) Non ho dubbio che i prodotti Logitech siano validi, per quanto tenda a dare la preferenza a quelle aziende che supportano Linux :) Scriverò alla Logitech facendo loro notare che è proprio questa la ragione per la quale finora li ho evitati :-D Bè,la mancanza di supporto è un vantaggio, in fondo, dato che è una discriminante in più per poter scegliere fra centinaia di prodotti con prezzi e prestazioni simili :) Corrado
[newbie-it] Scanner Epson 1250
Ho provato a configurare il mio scanner epson 1250 photo come da istruzioni sul sito mandrake, cioè inserendo usb/dev/usb/scanner in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf scanner in /etc/modules options scanner vendor=0x4b8 e product=0x10f in /etc/modules.conf Sul desktop ho l'icona di xsane, nell'elenco delle periferiche usb ho lo scanner, ma se tento di lanciare xsane mi dice che non ci sono dispositivi disponibili, e anche con iscan, scricato dal sito Epson, ricevo la risposta impossibile inviare comandi allo scanner. Qualcuno ha qualche idea ? Manca qualcosa? Grazie per le eventuali risposte http://web.tiscali.it/lele.fotografia
[newbie-it] Scheda audio
Dopo l'installazione di mdk9 nonriesco a sentire i suoni di sistema nè i cd musicali. Ho una scheda audio integrata e una soundblaster e vorrei usare solo quest'ultima, come posso disabilitare l'altra? Grazie per le eventuali risposte -- ___ http://web.tiscali.it/lele.fotografia
Re: [newbie] Another one...
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 21:02, LeaAnne Kolp wrote: You can get the java here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/ Once you download it, follow the instructions in the ReadMe. Everytime I had a question about Linux my husband would tell me to read the manual. Seemed harsh at the time, but now I know, it just taught me more. :) LeaAnne Don't forget that there is an MDK rpm on Mandrakeclub for the jre. Also for flash as well. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.21pre4-6mdk Mandrake 9.1 RC1 Enlightenment 0.16.5-12mdkEvolution 1.2.2-1mdk 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] Kmail and any others?
On Monday 24 February 2003 01:31, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:13:07 -0500 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:01 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I like the crisp and open feel of kmail and last but certainly not least: Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec laptops because it fires up so quickly when using other desktops like xfce or icewm. It just takes a few secs to have it up and running contary to almost half a minute for evo, kmail and mozilla. oh cool. I was needing a suggestion for a p75/40mb laptop and was thinking I'd have to do mutt or pine, but will try sylpheed since you suggested it for low spec machines. any other mail clients for low spec machines that you know of? I can get X going with icewm on it and use a few apps. I was thinking link-graphic for browser and maybe slrn for news. Unless you know of a light gui news client that can talk to news server directly? thanks for your input. -s Sylpheed again! I can't vouch for its functionality with binary attachments and such, but for text-based news reading and posting it's quite nice. Todd Yep, and for graphical desktops that don't hog too much mem take a look at busybox, xfce (my personal fancy) or windowmaker as well. Do take as much load off the ram as possible by turning off as many deamons (at boot) as you can, depending on the functionality you're wanting. If it's still too slow for your liking: I get some very nice extra speed using slackware8.1 instead of mandrake(at the cost of some nice toys) but as always each distro has it's specific pro's and cons. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WAY OT and further - Problem with threads
On Monday 24 February 2003 06:33, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 16:32, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Sunday 23 de February 2003 22:46, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 12:10, Adolfo Bello wrote: Why am I getting totally different subjects within a thread? Or is it that some people instead of launching a new thread just reply to a mail and change the subject? Is it my MUA? Or is it some people laziness? People are: 1.) Lazy 2.) Lackadaisical 3.) Unenergetic 4.) Unethical 5.) Immoral 6.) Lazy ... i spent the last 10 minutes making up a post for this thread... man i laughed while i was making it.. but thinking it twice... i decided spare you guys. Don't mention it. You are welcome. :o) Damian So you just scored a 1,3,4,5...almost human! Aaah, now I get it.this is what they call evolution! HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet
Assuming that you have the telnet server installed, you need to start it (Mandrake Control Center, System tab, Services icon). Also, I had a similar problem on the MDK PC I use at home, where I have a modem Internet connection. I looks like if you don't connect to internet, loopback port is not enabled by default, so you get the error below. I had to issue a # ifup lo as root, then it worked ok. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi when ever i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 port i get Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused in /etc/hosts.allow i wrote telnet : 127.0.0.1 what should i do? Gil 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] Xwindows Stability
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Now, as I read this, we passed a command to set to 0 the time interval to nought, the powersave and powerdown to disable.. If I'm correct , it refused on the powersave issue. you are correct. [see below] Now some 10-20 minutes later , another blank black screen , with a click to desktop when mouse is mouved. blank screen, and no glitch yet. hmmm. I will now do the same test all over again but with monitor2 the M8.1 known working one, same make and model monitor. The same result, and what is more it goes to blank black screen, which returns with a click to dektop when mouse is wiggled. what version is on 1st system? Mandrake 9.0 also, my forgetfulness again, connect 'glitch' monitor to second system and let it cook there for a while. reason, not sure. just want to make sure... As an identicle comparative test it will not do much, since the screen res and vid card are different, ie less demanding. I really need to prolong this some more to see if I get the involuntary 2 second black screen glitch to desktop, could take a while,for the moment an open verdict.It's been 40 minutes now and no 2second glitch, but as I say not long enough to really tell. burn, baby, burn. ;) seems to me that Monitor2 is ok on both computer as far as the 2 second glitch is concerned.Had it on for some 6 hours of and on so I think it would of occured if it was going to. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Now, as I read this, we passed a command to set to 0 the time interval to nought, the powersave and powerdown to disable.. If I'm correct , it refused on the powersave issue. you are correct. [see below] Now some 10-20 minutes later , another blank black screen , with a click to desktop when mouse is mouved. blank screen, and no glitch yet. hmmm. I will now do the same test all over again but with monitor2 the M8.1 known working one, same make and model monitor. The same result, and what is more it goes to blank black screen, which returns with a click to dektop when mouse is wiggled. what version is on 1st system? Mandrake 9.0 also, my forgetfulness again, connect 'glitch' monitor to second system and let it cook there for a while. reason, not sure. just want to make sure... As an identicle comparative test it will not do much, since the screen res and vid card are different, ie less demanding. I really need to prolong this some more to see if I get the involuntary 2 second black screen glitch to desktop, could take a while,for the moment an open verdict.It's been 40 minutes now and no 2second glitch, but as I say not long enough to really tell. burn, baby, burn. ;) seems to me that Monitor2 is ok on both computer as far as the 2 second glitch is concerned.Had it on for some 6 hours of and on so I think it would of occured if it was going to. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Graphics formats
I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 23:41, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne For all intents and purposes, it's probably best to keep them in JPG format - and if you DO want to make them smaller, lower the colour format down from true colour to either 64k or 32k colours and resize to 800x600 - that, at least, will give you smaller pictures. PNG is such a PITA to deal with -AND- in the end, it's not always compatible across platforms...(IMHO) -- Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:45:00 +1100 11:45pm up 5 days, 12:28, 6 users, load average: 0.08, 0.35, 0.43 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Remember, drive defensively! And of course, the best defense is a good offense! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another one...
On Sunday 23 February 2003 10:17 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: On Sunday 23 February 2003 15:05, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 7:04 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried several different pages, and all the different settings, I can improve it somewhat by using my own fonts, but still far inferrior to Galeon's display of the page fonts. Maybe Galeon has access to fonts not available to Opera. Any ideas? Dan I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried several different pages, and all the different settings, I can improve it somewhat by using my own fonts, but still far inferrior to Galeon's display of the page fonts. Maybe Galeon has access to fonts not available to Opera. Any ideas? Dan FilePreferencesDocumentMinimum font size You can also change the default fonts there. derek In Opera near the top right of the page you should ess a icon to increase magnafication, change from 100% to 120 or 150% and you will find most pages dislpay much better, if you like the new setting it can be made permanate in File/ Preferances/ somehere I cant remember the details. Marc -- 8:13am up 12 days, 22:08, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.07, 0.02 Thanks, that fixed it. Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Monday 24 de February 2003 09:41, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne Because JPG is lossy compression, based on some weird smoked algorithms that have something to do with fractals and the way the human eye perceives colours... PNG being a lossless compresion, like you said, takes up more space. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 07:00]: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? No, you are right. If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Because .png IS a lossless compression. Your camera is using a lossy format, .jpg, to reduce your images to 397 KB. If you then save it as a .png, you are saving the already lossy image in a lossless format, resulting in a much larger file. The .png you make does not contain any additional information than what was in the original .jpg, so it is questionable how useful that is. So why use .png at all? Well, I use it a lot for screenshots for training. One thing .jpg does NOT do well is represent typical application program screenshots. Areas that should appear all the same color often have artifacts (distortions) when saved in .jpg format. Actually, photos do too, but usually they are less obvious. Another good use for a lossless compression like .png is when you will be using a photo editor to edit the file. If you edit a .jpg, you take an already lossy image, edit it ... all photo editors I know use a lossless compression technique internally, at least while they are editing the image ... and then save it. If you save it as a .jpg, the image is compressed in a lossy manner, and these losses can accumulate. The GIMP's native format, .xcf, is lossless, and can get HUGE, but that's the expense of using lossless but better quality compression. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:41:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne As a general rule of thumb, .jpg for photos, .png for computer-generated graphics/images. As somebody else pointed out, .pngs are superior to .jpgs for screenshots. And use .pngs to replace .gifs, typically for web graphics (buttons, banners etc.). Regarding your query, lossless means bigger files. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another one...
On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 7:04 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried several different pages, and all the different settings, I can improve it somewhat by using my own fonts, but still far inferrior to Galeon's display of the page fonts. Maybe Galeon has access to fonts not available to Opera. Any ideas? Dan I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried several different pages, and all the different settings, I can improve it somewhat by using my own fonts, but still far inferrior to Galeon's display of the page fonts. Maybe Galeon has access to fonts not available to Opera. Any ideas? Dan FilePreferencesDocumentMinimum font size You can also change the default fonts there. derek In Opera near the top right of the page you should ess a icon to increase magnafication, change from 100% to 120 or 150% and you will find most pages dislpay much better, if you like the new setting it can be made permanate in File/ Preferances/ somehere I cant remember the details. Marc Now that You have Opera to the point where a page displays nice take the time to dig around and find all the other nice features in Opera You will probably become hooked on Opera. The z zmd x buttons are super handy keyboard shortcuts for back and forward espically when useing a laptop. and it is cross platform. Works on about every OS around. Also BTW Dan your email address looks like a ham call Great to see another amature radio fan on the list. I wonder how many more hams are here. Enjoy Marc KM5KW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 1:22 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 07:00]: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? No, you are right. If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Because .png IS a lossless compression. Your camera is using a lossy format, .jpg, to reduce your images to 397 KB. If you then save it as a .png, you are saving the already lossy image in a lossless format, resulting in a much larger file. The .png you make does not contain any additional information than what was in the original .jpg, so it is questionable how useful that is. So why use .png at all? Well, I use it a lot for screenshots for training. One thing .jpg does NOT do well is represent typical application program screenshots. Areas that should appear all the same color often have artifacts (distortions) when saved in .jpg format. Actually, photos do too, but usually they are less obvious. Another good use for a lossless compression like .png is when you will be using a photo editor to edit the file. If you edit a .jpg, you take an already lossy image, edit it ... all photo editors I know use a lossless compression technique internally, at least while they are editing the image ... and then save it. If you save it as a .jpg, the image is compressed in a lossy manner, and these losses can accumulate. The GIMP's native format, .xcf, is lossless, and can get HUGE, but that's the expense of using lossless but better quality compression. Though I suppose that if I want to make progressive saves while working on a picture, then it would be well worth it, but then make the final save in jpg format again? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 1:43 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:41:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne As a general rule of thumb, .jpg for photos, .png for computer-generated graphics/images. As somebody else pointed out, .pngs are superior to .jpgs for screenshots. And use .pngs to replace .gifs, typically for web graphics (buttons, banners etc.). Regarding your query, lossless means bigger files. Todd I had thought that it could only record what the jpg was already giving it, so had expected the compression to come out at a similar size. As an experiment I took a jpg that had been saved as a png, then saved it again as a bmp. I had thought 2.7 MB was bit, but the bmp came out at 5.5 MB, so I guess png is doing quite a good job of compression where data preservation is important. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:30:10PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 1:43 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:41:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne As a general rule of thumb, .jpg for photos, .png for computer-generated graphics/images. As somebody else pointed out, .pngs are superior to .jpgs for screenshots. And use .pngs to replace .gifs, typically for web graphics (buttons, banners etc.). Regarding your query, lossless means bigger files. Todd I had thought that it could only record what the jpg was already giving it, so had expected the compression to come out at a similar size. As an experiment I took a jpg that had been saved as a png, then saved it again as a bmp. I had thought 2.7 MB was bit, but the bmp came out at 5.5 MB, so I guess png is doing quite a good job of compression where data preservation is important. Anne I like .tif for compatibility. That would probably rival .bmp for size. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] choosing a HDD
I'm thinking of replacing my current pair of 20 GB HDDs by a pair of 40 GB drives. Maxtor offer the Fireball @5400rpm and the Diamondax Plus 8 @7200rpm. Are there any problems associated with these faster drives? This Asus board is one equipped with 2 udma connectors in addition to the normal pair of ide ones. It is getting on for two years old, I guess, so was probably a fairly early adopter of udma. Although I have not had any problems with this 9.0 setup, I do wonder if anyone else has concerns about using these early udma connectors? Unless I hear reasons against it, I think I shall use them again. I do realise that if I use the standard ide connectors I will not be getting the speed, so it's a waste of money going for the faster ones, but security is more important than speed. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another one...
snip I've been around the block with browsers, and I can tell you that Opera is the best one I've ever seen. Plus the fastest. It beats all the others hands down. Latest version for Linux and the QT libraries is 6.11. The java and flash rpm's are available on mandrakeclub for download. LX snip I have been a long term user of Opera too, both with Win2K and Mandrake. I find it really fast and easy to live with. It has a good set of keyboard shortcuts and some great mouse gestures. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Problem with threads
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 20:10, Adolfo Bello wrote: Why am I getting totally different subjects within a thread? Or is it that some people instead of launching a new thread just reply to a mail and change the subject? Is it my MUA? Or is it some people laziness? Probably because some people always view their email as a flat list by date instead of by threaded view, therefore they have no concept of how stupid they look when they post a new message as a reply to an in-progress thread. It compromises the entire purpose of having a thread, which is to maintain focus on a subtopic. So, yeah, you're not the only one that's noticed it. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.21pre4-6mdk Mandrake 9.1 RC1 Enlightenment 0.16.5-12mdkEvolution 1.2.2-1mdk 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] dead pppd (was OT: M$: Bugs are cool)
On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:49 am, robin wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:49:46 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the hope that the bug will be fixed that occasions the need to reboot 8.2 every couple of days; pppd goes into a sulk and refuses to get off the machine. Are you sure that isn't just a kpppd-pid file not getting killed? Might be something like that. I am using gnome-ppp but the same thing occurred with kppp. Not sure where to look but will search for a pid file. If this is the cause the question is then why?. It's probably somewhere like $HOME/.gnome/gnome-ppp/gnome-ppp-pid - just a guess by analogy with kppp. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it's worth checking out. Sir Robin might be the lock file that is an option in kppp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpmfind doesn't fill in package list
I've used RedHat casually for a couple years, but would like to try to make Mandrake 9.0 my regular OS. Under RedHat, I got used to using gnorpm to do a webfind to see if any of my currently installed packages had newer versions. What is the equivalent function with the Mandrake packaging tools? I brought up the Upgrade Software tool under Packaging, but that appears to only look for security-related updates. I installed trusty old gnorpm, but when I did a webfind, it just hung - never filled in the list with any packages. I looked at the destination, and it is going to (rpmfind.net something or other)/RDF. Is that RDF on the end correct? While I'm on the subject of packaging tools, I like the way Mandrake keeps a database on the hard disk, and prompts you to insert the appropriate CD when installing a package. But I find having separate install and remove tools very inconvenient. If a package is not listed in the install tool, that means either (1) it's already installed or (2) it doesn't exist in the distribution. To determine which of these is true, and to identify which version is installed, I have to bring up the remove tool, even though I have no intention of removing anything. I'd prefer to have a unified packaging tool. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmfind doesn't fill in package list
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 5:20 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I've used RedHat casually for a couple years, but would like to try to make Mandrake 9.0 my regular OS. Under RedHat, I got used to using gnorpm to do a webfind to see if any of my currently installed packages had newer versions. What is the equivalent function with the Mandrake packaging tools? I brought up the Upgrade Software tool under Packaging, but that appears to only look for security-related updates. I installed trusty old gnorpm, but when I did a webfind, it just hung - never filled in the list with any packages. I looked at the destination, and it is going to (rpmfind.net something or other)/RDF. Is that RDF on the end correct? While I'm on the subject of packaging tools, I like the way Mandrake keeps a database on the hard disk, and prompts you to insert the appropriate CD when installing a package. But I find having separate install and remove tools very inconvenient. If a package is not listed in the install tool, that means either (1) it's already installed or (2) it doesn't exist in the distribution. To determine which of these is true, and to identify which version is installed, I have to bring up the remove tool, even though I have no intention of removing anything. I'd prefer to have a unified packaging tool. The Mandrake Update tool will list not only security updates, but all other updatable packages. Just click on the radio buttons for bugfixes' and 'Normal Updates'. Alternatively open the 'Install Software' GUI and select 'All packages' by 'Update Availability' (The tool to update the source database should be run first) Alternatively from a root terminal enter urpmi.update -afollowed by urpmi --update --auto-select Alternatively Click on the 'Mandrake Update' icon on your desktop to schedule updates overnight. As you see there are a lot of choices :) While you are thinking about updates. Visit here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and learn how to add more sources to your system. Adding a source for 'Contrib' and 'plf' is *very* useful, and will give you access to hundreds of applications not on your CDs. As for a unified package management tool. That is how it was in Mandrake 8.2, and lots of people would prefer it to be unified again. :-( HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another one...
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 10:18, Rob Lindsay wrote: I have been a long term user of Opera too, both with Win2K and Mandrake. I find it really fast and easy to live with. It has a good set of keyboard shortcuts and some great mouse gestures. Rob Haven't really looked into the mouse gestures; don't really even know what the advantage is. Once I activated them by accident and was unable to get opera to do anything sane until I managed somehow to turn them off. :) Do they speed you up in your operations, save steps, or what? LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.21pre4-6mdk Mandrake 9.1 RC1 Enlightenment 0.16.5-12mdkEvolution 1.2.2-1mdk 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] Kmail and any others?
On Monday 24 February 2003 03:23 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: certainly not least: Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec oh cool. I was needing a suggestion for a p75/40mb laptop and Unless you know of a light gui news client that can talk to Sylpheed again! I can't vouch for its functionality with binary attachments and such, but for text-based news reading and posting it's quite nice. Oh man, it's getting nice. I installed it last night on my desktop to scope it out. I had checked it out a while back, but it even seems stable now. And it didn't do news then. Thanks for the suggestion. If I could get aa fonts in it I'd might use it all the time on my /fast/ machine. :) Yep, and for graphical desktops that don't hog too much mem take a look at busybox, xfce (my personal fancy) or windowmaker as well. I've tried xfce and windowmaker before, they seem okay. I've been hearing alot about this busybox lately tho. I just might have to check it out! :) Do take as much load off the ram as possible by turning off as many deamons (at boot) as you can, depending on the functionality you're wanting. fer sure! If it's still too slow for your liking: I get some very nice extra speed using slackware8.1 instead of mandrake(at the cost of some nice toys) but as always each distro has it's specific pro's and cons. yeah, I had slack 8.1 running on it too. I didn't try to set X up on it tho, thinking it was gonna be a cli only box. Then I wanted to try mandrake adn during the text install I thought what the heck, see what it'll do. So after reboot, when X started up first try, I thought cl!!! :D thanks for your input, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability
John Richard Smith wrote: As an identicle comparative test it will not do much, since the screen res and vid card are different, ie less demanding. may be identical. but, is an assurance that there is no problem with 1st monitor. but using system that is working correct, you will prove that there is not some conflict with video card. as i stated before, linux monitor drives are not up to snuff. that is, video card may not be sending correct signals to monitor. it is a remote possibility that 1st monitor will work on 2nd system, purely because of video card diff and 1st monitor being in some type of 'weakened' state. ie, it is going bad. just to be sure from my end, i am going back into linux with this system and other 2 systems to see just what state monitors go into. primarily, i want to see what time delay is when monitors wake up. in a true green state, i should see monitors come up slow to full screen output. if it is almost instant, then it is not true green. green signal received by monitor, is when h v sync are inactive. faux green is a blanking by 0 video level. this is a confusing point held by many, and i want to see if video driver writers know what it is about. if they are not writing correct drivers for resolutions, they may not be correct in way they are doing green. seems to me that Monitor2 is ok on both computer as far as the 2 second glitch is concerned.Had it on for some 6 hours of and on so I think it would of occured if it was going to. from what you have said in passed, i tend to agree. putting 1st monitor on second system is confirmation. I have now been using Montitor2 for about 2 hours solid without a single 2 second glitch event. I think it would of occured within that period if the replacement, monitor2 had been influenced by the OS in any way. I am therefore compelled to admit it looks like the monitor is problem. i tend to agree. but, due to what will be involve in servicing monitor, 'if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it'. ==+== What was is causing the powerdown I know not. My monitor manual says nothing much about popwer management. The only comment it gives is that power(monitor) management complies with VESA DPMS standard. when the system is idle (off mode) the monitor automatically cuts it's power consumption by up to 95%. In order to do that then the monitor surely would have to be capable of monitoring cursor and keyboard activity , I would of thought, or at least talk to the CPU as to what it is doing, I don't know. The manual is not very helpful. But I cannot see what else might be contolling things. 'green' modes are controlled from kernel and is a command passed to video card. command is interpreted by video card and determines what signals are sent to monitor. commands control output of video level, horz and vert sync. green is in full effect when horz and vert sync are inactive. state of green should be covered in monitor manual and is usually indicated by colour of 'power on' led. if your monitor led does not change colour, then it either does not change colour, is not supposed to, or video card is not configured correctly for your monitor. green state will be noticed by time lapse of 'wake up'. short time is faux green, 3 to 5 sec or more, is true green. this can be noted by time of wake up when mouse is moved or keyboard action. i will be out for 4 or 5 hours today. you may not hear from me again until your tomorrow. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail and any others?
On Monday 24 February 2003 18:23, s wrote: yeah, I had slack 8.1 running on it too. I didn't try to set X up on it tho, thinking it was gonna be a cli only box. Then I wanted to try mandrake adn during the text install I thought what the heck, see what it'll do. So after reboot, when X started up first try, I thought cl!!! :D That was my nicest feat.getting slack8.1 on a 386 with 8Mb ram. CML only, including apache and it's been running fine as a webserver (for a select small group) for over 6 months now. Smooth, fast and no hitches yet;o) I saved myself a lot fuss by installing on a faster PC and then moving the HD to the 386 box, only needing to edit the /etc/fstab file. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Remote printer question
Hey guys. I've never played much with remote printing under Linux, but my 2 boys were wanting to print out a few pictures from their comps to my Epson C62 printer on my main comp, so I tried it. I setup remote printing on their comps via the printer wizard (Cups) and it worked fine. For awhile. Now, whenever I drag 'n drop a picture or even ASCII text to the printer icon (I created it - pointing to kprinter) on their desktops, I get an error message like this: An error occured while retrieving the printer list: client-error-not-found I had changed nothing. The printer still works fine from my main computer. Any ideas anyone? Thanks! PS While I'm on the printing subject, why do I get a message about an ASCII text file being an unknown type, and having to be converted before printing? Its just plain text from Kedit -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remote printer question
What kind of Os do the boys run ? windows? Maybe they are not still connected on their end. Sometimes my wifes win 98 box will lose it's connection to the network and she forgets to re-logon. and sometimes even has to reboot to re-establish the connection. ( never tried to figure out why though ) Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey guys. I've never played much with remote printing under Linux, but my 2 boys were wanting to print out a few pictures from their comps to my Epson C62 printer on my main comp, so I tried it. I setup remote printing on their comps via the printer wizard (Cups) and it worked fine. For awhile. Now, whenever I drag 'n drop a picture or even ASCII text to the printer icon (I created it - pointing to kprinter) on their desktops, I get an error message like this: An error occured while retrieving the printer list: client-error-not-found I had changed nothing. The printer still works fine from my main computer. Any ideas anyone? Thanks! PS While I'm on the printing subject, why do I get a message about an ASCII text file being an unknown type, and having to be converted before printing? Its just plain text from Kedit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta3 with Kde 3.1; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 ~~ If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another one...
On Monday 24 February 2003 03:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 7:04 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried several different pages, and all the different settings, I can improve it somewhat by using my own fonts, but still far inferrior to Galeon's display of the page fonts. Maybe Galeon has access to fonts not available to Opera. Any ideas? Dan I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried several different pages, and all the different settings, I can improve it somewhat by using my own fonts, but still far inferrior to Galeon's display of the page fonts. Maybe Galeon has access to fonts not available to Opera. Any ideas? Dan FilePreferencesDocumentMinimum font size You can also change the default fonts there. derek In Opera near the top right of the page you should ess a icon to increase magnafication, change from 100% to 120 or 150% and you will find most pages dislpay much better, if you like the new setting it can be made permanate in File/ Preferances/ somehere I cant remember the details. Marc Now that You have Opera to the point where a page displays nice take the time to dig around and find all the other nice features in Opera You will probably become hooked on Opera. The z zmd x buttons are super handy keyboard shortcuts for back and forward espically when useing a laptop. and it is cross platform. Works on about every OS around. Also BTW Dan your email address looks like a ham call Great to see another amature radio fan on the list. I wonder how many more hams are here. Enjoy Marc KM5KW Yes, I've been a ham since 1991. A friend, kc4ubu, suggested Opera. He has the windows version 7 I think. I've been trying to get him to try Linux. I installed Mandrake 9.0 on his son's computer and the boy really likes it. His dad said he is reinstalling windows today because all the files he downloads are corrupted. Reinstall reboot reboot reboot. I got tired of that and started using Linux a few years ago. Dan KD4JDL -- 2:36pm up 13 days, 4:31, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another one...
On Monday 24 February 2003 13:46, Daniel Anderson wrote: Marc Now that You have Opera to the point where a page displays nice take the time to dig around and find all the other nice features in Opera You will probably become hooked on Opera. The z zmd x buttons are super handy keyboard shortcuts for back and forward espically when useing a laptop. and it is cross platform. Works on about every OS around. Also BTW Dan your email address looks like a ham call Great to see another amature radio fan on the list. I wonder how many more hams are here. Enjoy Marc KM5KW Yes, I've been a ham since 1991. A friend, kc4ubu, suggested Opera. He has the windows version 7 I think. I've been trying to get him to try Linux. I installed Mandrake 9.0 on his son's computer and the boy really likes it. His dad said he is reinstalling windows today because all the files he downloads are corrupted. Reinstall reboot reboot reboot. I got tired of that and started using Linux a few years ago. Dan KD4JDL Maybe you need to state the facts in a way a fellow ham will understand. Try to compaire things this way Windoze and Linux compaire in a similar mannor to CB and ham radio that will probably make a linux convert of him before the end of the day LOL. Hope to hear you on 17 OR 160 Meters sometime. 73s Marc KM5KW -- Powered by Mandrake Linux 9.0 and Kmail. This is a 100%Windows and microsoft free computer For a superior OS, virus and crash resistant go to http://www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: As an identicle comparative test it will not do much, since the screen res and vid card are different, ie less demanding. may be identical. but, is an assurance that there is no problem with 1st monitor. but using system that is working correct, you will prove that there is not some conflict with video card. Take your point. as i stated before, linux monitor drives are not up to snuff. that is, video card may not be sending correct signals to monitor. it is a remote possibility that 1st monitor will work on 2nd system, purely because of video card diff and 1st monitor being in some type of 'weakened' state. ie, it is going bad. This is interesting. One, both monitors , monitor on M9.0is now on M8.1 for 6 hours, no 2 second glitch event monitor2 on M8.1is now on M9.0 for 6 hours, no 2 second glitch event. two, monitor2 on M9.0 is giving mouse cursor troubles, the cursor seems less than smooth, and often jumps right across screen to bottom lefthand corner task bar. where , just because there are a number of programme icons it sets them off involuntary, without having to click on them. I replaced the mouse with a known working device , makes no difference. I doubt if it is anything to do with it, but it all happened around the time we gave the setterm commands and first swapped the monitors over,, yesterday. just to be sure from my end, i am going back into linux with this system and other 2 systems to see just what state monitors go into. primarily, i want to see what time delay is when monitors wake up. in a true green state, i should see monitors come up slow to full screen output. if it is almost instant, then it is not true green. I suspect it's either , and both, meaning it depends how long it has been down. green signal received by monitor, is when h v sync are inactive. faux green is a blanking by 0 video level. this is a confusing point held by many, and i want to see if video driver writers know what it is about. if they are not writing correct drivers for resolutions, they may not be correct in way they are doing green. The thinking fits the feel of events. seems to me that Monitor2 is ok on both computer as far as the 2 second glitch is concerned.Had it on for some 6 hours of and on so I think it would of occured if it was going to. from what you have said in passed, i tend to agree. putting 1st monitor on second system is confirmation. I have now been using Montitor2 for about 2 hours solid without a single 2 second glitch event. I think it would of occured within that period if the replacement, monitor2 had been influenced by the OS in any way. I am therefore compelled to admit it looks like the monitor is problem. i tend to agree. but, due to what will be involve in servicing monitor, 'if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it'. I can definately say is that the green LED is on most of the time, indeed , the only time I observes an amber LED is final shutdown to total blank black screen ,sleep mode, and only then in darkness, because it aint a strong light, like the green LED . The LED itself is a couple of mm accross, it's not one of those 5 mm jobs and it doesn't glow all that bright even in green, not like say my speeker LED's Well, monitor (originally on M9) has been on M8.1 now for most of the day without a 2 second glitch event. This computer is on 16 hours a day 5/6 days a week, and the OS is an Old install, since it first came out, It's somewhat bullet proof and does the job I use it for but it's days are numbered. Not enough hourse power by current needs. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What happened to APMI Support?
I loaded up 9.1RC1 over the weekend and noticed that APMI support seems to have dissapeared. I've loaded 9.1RC on my laptop, so now when I poweroff my laptop no longer powers off. I had 2.4.20-2mdk loaded under 9.0 previously and APMI worked just fine under that Cooker kernel. Now I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.21pre4-10mdk from the 9.1RC 2.4.21pre4-6mdk kernel. Still no APMI support. Anyone know where it went?? :) -- Anthony Abby http://www.comicsnsuch.com | http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion | PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] printing and kdmrc
I have been having a couple of problems with kdm and printing i was hoping someone could help me out with. first off..whenever i reboot linux, i have to readd the printer every time. i have yet to figure out why. my printer is detected properly and prints the test page during mandrake installation and after i reinstall the printer with printtool, but every time i reboot, i have to remove and readd the printer with printtool. i have an hp officejet 570, using the driver reccomended by printtool. Secondly, i have been trying to add a window manager (fluxbox) to the kdm login menu. everything works fine until i reboot and my modified kdmrc is apparently overwritten. until i reboot, everything is fine and it's on the menu, but once i reboot, the changes to kdmrc are gone. after modifying it again and restarting kdm its fine again so i'm pretty sure that's that only problem. i have sifted through /etc/rc.d/* with regrep and haven't found the problem yet. i followed a few leads from there to a few other files but still haven't found a script that overwrites kdmrc. can someone offer me some insight on this problem? thanks in advance _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing and kdmrc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 04:48 pm, sean jacobs wrote: I have been having a couple of problems with kdm and printing i was hoping someone could help me out with. first off..whenever i reboot linux, i have to readd the printer every time. i have yet to figure out why. my printer is detected properly and prints the test page during mandrake installation and after i reinstall the printer with printtool, but every time i reboot, i have to remove and readd the printer with printtool. i have an hp officejet 570, using the driver reccomended by printtool. Print tool is probably not saving the configuration info, try printerdrake Secondly, i have been trying to add a window manager (fluxbox) to the kdm login menu. everything works fine until i reboot and my modified kdmrc is apparently overwritten. until i reboot, everything is fine and it's on the menu, but once i reboot, the changes to kdmrc are gone. after modifying it again and restarting kdm its fine again so i'm pretty sure that's that only problem. i have sifted through /etc/rc.d/* with regrep and haven't found the problem yet. i followed a few leads from there to a few other files but still haven't found a script that overwrites kdmrc. can someone offer me some insight on this problem? Add it through the session manager applet in the KDE Control Center instead. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WpgbGu5uuMFlL5MRAi4MAJ4yOTxTuU9SWbIaJfTsRLVhM08QoQCfa/pT ug+vJnYgDx1YeDmr5X4Arzg= =bawz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linneighbourhood installation dead end
Tried to install Linneighbourhood rpm, but got the message that it needed Gettext. Tried to install Gettext rpm, but got the following message: rpm -U --replacepkgs //home/luc/Downloads/gettext.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: ld64.so.1()(64bit) is needed by gettext-0.10.36-61 libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by gettext-0.10.36-61 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)(64bit) is needed by gettext-0.10.36-61 RESULT=1 Installed GLIBC_2.2 from download CD-rom 3 but what about ld64.so.1 and libc.so.6 and... ? Help! _ Hotmail: je gratis e-mail ! http://www.msn.be/hotmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linneighbourhood installation dead end
ivette brusselmans wrote: Tried to install Linneighbourhood rpm, but got the message that it needed Gettext. Tried to install Gettext rpm, but got the following message: rpm -U --replacepkgs //home/luc/Downloads/gettext.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: ld64.so.1()(64bit) is needed by gettext-0.10.36-61 libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by gettext-0.10.36-61 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)(64bit) is needed by gettext-0.10.36-61 RESULT=1 Installed GLIBC_2.2 from download CD-rom 3 but what about ld64.so.1 and libc.so.6 and... ? They may be in libraries which are part of your Mandrake distro. Use urpmi instead of rpm -U, and it will install the required packages for you, if they're on your CDs or an FTP source you've enabled. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] d-link dwl-520 wireless card problem
I'm trying to get a d-link DWL-520 PCI wireless card (2.5 prism chipset) working in 9.0. I have installed kernel-wlan-ng-pci-0.1.15-6.i586.rpm and kernel-wlan-ng-0.1.15-6.i586.rpm. On boot errors went by something like modprobe cannot find fb0 module and insmod: invalid I0 or IRQ There was also an SMC ethernet PCI card installed and I thought maybe they were fighting over the same IRQ, so I took out the SMC card --that's the 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.25. One of the error messages said to look at dmesg, so here is the result of that. Thanks for any help, Scott Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 0c00 (usable) BIOS-e820: fffe - 0001 (reserved) 192MB LOWMEM available. Advanced speculative caching feature not present On node 0 totalpages: 49152 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 45056 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=345 devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi No local APIC present or hardware disabled Initializing CPU#0 Detected 379.024 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 755.30 BogoMIPS Memory: 191992k/196608k available (1176k kernel code, 4228k reserved, 444k data, 136k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008021bf 808029bf , vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 0002 CPU: After generic, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 0002 CPU: Common caps: 008021bf 808029bf 0002 CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: AMD K6 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa114, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0586] at 00:14.0 Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized devfs: v1.12a (20020514) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev a1 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586b (rev 45) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:14.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2420-0x2427, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2428-0x242f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.0AT, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 32049H2, ATA DISK drive hdc: PCRW804, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: LS-120 COSM 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 23547888 sectors (12057 MB) w/69KiB Cache, CHS=1557/240/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2646/240/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 51k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:49:04 Sep 20 2002 usb-uhci.c: High
Re: [newbie] Remote printer question
On Monday 24 February 2003 02:41 am, mycal62 wrote: What kind of Os do the boys run ? windows? Maybe they are not still connected on their end. No, this is straight Linux to Linux. Thanks. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What the sHell is foo ? ;-)
e,, don't you mean fubar? as in Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition? some time called Fucked Up Beyond All Repair? maybe Foo being the cleaned = That's part of the etymology. For the horse's mouth (jargon dictionary) definition, try http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/foo.html. It says in part: Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, especially programs and files. Also used as a standard metasyntactic variable. For instane: int foo; /* could be anything else, but foo is only an example name */ A metasyntactic variable is a name used in examples and understood to stand for any random member of a class of things under discussion. If the above example were used to show how an integer variable is declared in C, then 'foo' would just be an example of any integer variable (the class) - it is understood that 'foo' is probably not the name for the actual variable(s) in question. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I've lost disk writer plugin for xmms
I planned to wait until I upgraded to 9.1 to learn urpmi, that's why I'm saving all those messages. I'm on 8.2 now. And yes, been using Windows too much (at work, mind you). :^o You might want to :). I'm using 9.0 (with added cooker upgrades) and have found much better success using urpmi with it than with previous versions of Mandrake. Then again, it could be pilot error, as brain finally clicked when it came to defining sources and how to update sources after 9.0 was installed :). Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crontab in 9.0
i'm jumping into this a little late, but these are my observations. hope they help cron (in 9.0 specifically. dunno about the rest) seems to run itself every hour, or rather, check for new tasks every hour. i was going nuts trying to find out why my script which was supposed to run every minute doesn't, when i've APPEARED to have set it up correctly. eventually, i restarted cron, and my script runs. ah fine! so apparently i'm not doing anything wrongly, so i created a new one, and this time, i logged the times the script runs to a text file. the text file shows the first run of the script on the hour mark. hopefully someone can confirm/refute this. -- Given the opportunity, i'd love to frame you, shoot you, then hang you on a wall. - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] crontab in 9.0 I set up a cron jobs to play a real stream at a certain time. It didn't. Then I set up a job to run a Perl script every 15 minutes. It seemed like it wasn't doing it, but when I did a ps ax at the specified times, it turns out it _was_ doing its job. realplay still isn't doing its job, but I've verified cron is working, so at least I know where to concentrate my diagnostic efforts. Miark On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:02:58 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell us more, please? Anne On Monday 17 Feb 2003 9:16 pm, Miark wrote: Okay, I got it working. Thanks. Miark On 17 Feb 2003 12:20:31 -0500 Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 12:18, Miark wrote: Have their been any issues with crontab in 9.0? I can't get it to do anything as a user or as root. I use cron all the time. I run it for backups nightly. No issues here. -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP -- Registered Linux User No.293302 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] choosing a HDD
Anne Wilson wrote: I'm thinking of replacing my current pair of 20 GB HDDs by a pair of 40 GB just for a point of understanding on my end, what is oem model number of your asus mainboard? what are oem model numbers of drives? security is more important than speed. security as in security of operation and not security as in 'hacked' and such? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability
John Richard Smith wrote: Take your point. i was hoping you would see where i was going. This is interesting. One, both monitors , monitor on M9.0is now on M8.1 for 6 hours, no 2 second glitch event monitor2 on M8.1is now on M9.0 for 6 hours, no 2 second glitch event. let them cook some more. i know it may appear, a waste of time, but... two, monitor2 on M9.0 is giving mouse cursor troubles, the cursor seems less than smooth, and often jumps right across screen to bottom lefthand corner task bar. where , just because there are a number of programme icons it sets them off involuntary, without having to click on them. I replaced the mouse with a known working device , makes no difference. I doubt if it is anything to do with it, but it all happened around the time we gave the setterm commands and first swapped the monitors over,, yesterday. check back with 'man setterm'. as i read it, '-powersave' and '-powerdown' are only a 'per session'. there are other arguments to make permanent changes. pull screws, or do what ever it takes to remove cover on mouse. you should find 2 bars that mouse ball rides against. these bars will have disk with small holes in them at 1 end. aka, encoder disk. bars need to be totally clean, as do encoder disk. also, check settings for mouse movement. for acceleration i use 7 and 4 for detection. ymmv. just to be sure from my end, i am going back into linux with this system and other 2 systems to see just what state monitors go into. did not get a chance to do this. will today. I suspect it's either , and both, meaning it depends how long it has been down. not true with my monitor. i know that at cli i get instant wake up. in green state, it takes 4 - 5 sec to see any video, and up to full bright in 10 - 15. i am starting to note a slightly off tint white as monitor first worms up. not good as it is an indication that crt is starting to weaken. in reality, monitor can only go to green states when monitor is given correct signals. there is no way that cpu can directly interface to monitor. all 'states' are passed from cpu to video card, then 'signals' are sent to monitor via vid level and h v sync. as per, green signal received by monitor, is when h v sync are inactive. faux green is a blanking by 0 video level. this is a confusing point held by many, and i want to see if video driver writers know what it is about. from indications your are giving as to colour of led, it may be, if they are not writing correct drivers for resolutions, they may not be correct in way they are doing green. The thinking fits the feel of events. good to see our thinking is synching. :) I can definately say is that the green LED is on most of the time, indeed , the only time I observes an amber LED is final shutdown to total blank black screen ,sleep mode, and only then in darkness, because it 'final shutdown' would in fact, only happen when main power is removed. for monitor to power up when you turn cpu on, is an indication that monitor still has power so it can video and sync. if you turned off main power switch, monitor would not wake up because it is powered off. to me, this does tend to lean towards driver problems. that is, when screen blanks and comes back on an instant after mouse movement or keyboard key pressed, video card was sending sync and no video level above 0.0. and the OS is an Old install, since it first came out, It's somewhat bullet proof and does the job I use it for but it's days are numbered. Not enough hourse power by current needs. may be that you need to give much thought before you try upgrading. anyway, let both monitors cook some more. before doing so, can you get me oem, model, and vlsi chip number for both video cards? in case you are not aware, vlsi = very large scale integration, aka, big chip. there will also be another chip of lesser size, may even be socked, that should be a prom and may be labeled with a typed id, instead of silk screened. it holds firmware for video cards. this could also lead to interesting info, like early code that has been updated. i have early morning work to do. need to cut things short and get some rest so i can get up. will check email before i head out. btw. are you reading 'Subject: Re: [expert] ACPI and kernel-2.4.21pre4'? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet
I would: 1. make sure interface is up (ping 127.0.0.1) 2. make sure you have the telnet server package installed (Mandrake Control Center) 3. make sure telenet server is up and running (ps -axl) 4. check /etc/xinetd.conf for any ONLY_FROM lines 5. check that /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are empty The last two are the least probable causes, unless you have messed up with the security scripts. What level of security are you running? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 February 2003 11:33, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Didn't work any other idea's? Gil Assuming that you have the telnet server installed, you need to start it (Mandrake Control Center, System tab, Services icon). Also, I had a similar problem on the MDK PC I use at home, where I have a modem Internet connection. I looks like if you don't connect to internet, loopback port is not enabled by default, so you get the error below. I had to issue a # ifup lo as root, then it worked ok. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi when ever i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 port i get Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused in /etc/hosts.allow i wrote telnet : 127.0.0.1 what should i do? Gil 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
