Re: [newbie-it] Scanner Epson 1250
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:12:35 +0100 lele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? hai provato a lanciare xsane da terminale come root? probabilmente, come utente normale non hai accesso al dispositivo. Se il problema è quello, setta il suid a xsane (chmod u+s xsane) ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda audio
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:59, Lele wrote: Ho una scheda audio integrata e una soundblaster e vorrei usare solo quest'ultima, come posso disabilitare l'altra? che s.b. è? da root dai #lspci e vedi che periferiche pci hai montate su (se è isa non comparira nell elenco) una volta scoperto che scheda è possiamo aiutari Grazie per le eventuali risposte Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda audio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 7:59 am, Lele wrote about [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? Beh dovresti certamente dare piu' informazioni. A livello generale comunque, se la scheda integrata non vuoi usarla la soluzione piu' semplice potrebbe essere quella di disabilitarla nel bios. bye - -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://www.marcob.org/go.asp?~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+W4hzJoljSvtxdFkRAtBCAJ0VIO6Ll6ZVLYL+H2eoLdQUajtFjQCfUAbi WoeyGoxOwyXSQ8ccLyecjiw= =P1hh -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] Non c'e' peggior sordo ... [semi-OT]
Scusate la lungaggine, ma come nota di cronaca ritenevo curioso postarla il ML. Trattasi delle e-mail intercorse tra lo scrivente e ACER Italia in riferimento al mio nuovo laptop acquistato (Aspire 1302XV) sul quale ovviamente e' preinstallto XP e, _altrettanto_ovviamente_, sara' installato GNU/Linux ;-) CyberPenguin wrote: Spett. Acer Italia, ho recentemente acquistato presso il megastore MarcoPolo di Forli' il notebook in oggetto identificabile dal numero seriale S/N: LXA03051542410 100DEF00. Su detta macchina sarebbe mia precisa esigenza affiancare al Win XP preinstallato e previo partizionamento dell'HD, GNU/Linux. Gentilmente sarei a chiederVi se detta modifica del contenuto dell'HD incide o meno sulla garanzia di 2 anni prevista per il mio notebook. In attesa di un Vs gradito riscontro, colgo l'occasione per inviare i migliori saluti. Acer Italia wrote: Gentile Cliente, In merito alla sua gentile richiesta, la informiamo che non ci e' possibile garantire la compatibilita' dei prodotti Acer con il sistema operativo Linux, poiche' non sono stati effettuati test a riguardo, pertanto non e' possibile trovare i relativi driver di installazione nei nostri siti. La informiamo altresi' che, Acer, per i motivi specificati in precedenza, non puo' offrire nessun tipo di assistenza (neppure telefonica) per problemi hardware o software in pc che hanno installato tale sistema. CyberPenguin wrote: Spett. ACER, forse non mi sono spiegato :-( Fosse cosi', me ne scuso. Ma non ho richiesto se fornite consulenza o drivers di periferca in ambito GNU/Linux per il notebook da Voi prodotto e dallo scrivente acquistato. Chiedo semplicemente se l'installazione di un S.O. differente da quello preinstallato in origine puo' o meno invalidare la garanzia ufficiale ACER di 2 anni su detto prodotto. Ovvio che se GNU/Linux non mi supporta qualche periferica interna al laptop (testata da Voi in ambiente Win) ne sarei pefettamente consapevole e non richiederei assolutamente assistenza presso i Vs call center. Ma se, per esempio, nell'ambito dei 2 anni di garanzia non funzionasse piu' il lettore DVD? Sarebbe possibile la sostituzione del drive in garanzia? Certo di un Vs interessamento, colgo l'occasione per inviare i migliori saluti. Acer Italia wrote: Gentile Cliente, In merito alla sua gentile richiesta, la informiamo che ogni sistema operativo viene installato in una singola macchina dopo essere stato debitamente testato, per questo motivo Acer da assistenza esclusivamente al sistema operativo che preistalla nelle sue macchine. Cio' nonostante, la informiamo che è possibile installare un altro sistema operativo nel suo notebook, acquistandolo a parte, ricordando che Acer non le puo' garantire un corretto funzionamento e che per l'assistenza software dovra' rivolgersi direttamente alla Microsoft. Per maggiori informazioni le ricordiamo che puo' contattare il call center Acer al numero 0931.469411. CyberPenguin wrote: Ringrazio delle info :-) Preciso garbatamente che GNU/Linux, essendo FreeSoftware, non appartiene a nessuna softwarehouse in particolare. Per l'assistenza software ci si puo' rivolgere direttamente alla comunita' degli sviluppatori o alle innumerevoli ML e NG presenti on line oltre che ai numerosi LUG (Linux Users Group) Italiani. Le mie preoccupazioni, solo in parte sanate, erano rivolte all'eventuale annullamento della garanzia ACER sull'hardware. ---EOF--- Saluti Giovanni ;-) -- (o //\Membro del FoLug - http://folug.linux.it V_/_Red Hat 8.0 GNU/Linux Powered --- There is no system other than GNU. And Linux is one of its kernels.
Re: [newbie-it] Scanner Epson 1250
scusa le banalità e/o/a le bestialità, ma esiste /dev/usb/scanner? (potrebbe essere /dev/usb/scanner0) ha permessi di lettura e scrittura (rw--- se non rw-rw-)? qual' e' l'output del comando scanimage -L da utente e da root? qual' e' l'output del comando sane-find-scanner da utente e da root? ciao. lele ha scritto: 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
Re: [newbie-it] latex e *.jpeg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 09:15, lunedì 24 febbraio 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: 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. ciao anche a te! ora che tutto funzia, salva la configurazione e vedi di capire il motivo per cui poteva non andare (io un sospetto e l'ho..;) 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). condivisa da win$ verso linuccio? Grazie a tutti e buona settimana. Enrico bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+W9yzF/9fksDJ4y0RAgNiAJ40su2RA0ZMDpI58sJWKJqX3QX8lQCfa8Ud yTM/JQc1JxKYhhN127YF18U= =D0OI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] kde3.1
Alle 10:30, lunedì 17 febbraio 2003, Andrea Celli ha scritto: Io ho preso la versione test da MandrakeClub, però dovrebbe essere (più) affidabile anche quella di texstar che, stranamente, manca delle traduzioni italiane. Sulle news del club assicuravano che presto sarebbe stata disponibile una versione stabile per tutti. No ragazzi, state alla larga dalla versione textar, l'ho provata e sono ritornato alla KDE 3.1rc5 (tanto è quella definitiva) Ciao -- IRON Marco Faenzi Vallés ICQ#: 92399781
Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
- Original Message - Un piccolo consiglio (più che altro per te) : Se si scrivono messaggi così lunghi e con domande così diverse tra loro Vero, ma siccome io chiamerei questo thread storia di un'ordinaria installazione su un computer datato penso che spezzettare messaggi per le diverse problematiche rischia di frammentare il tutto, vieversa in questo modo altri che si trovassero o si trovernno nella mia situazione avranno un punto di riferimento con diverse risposte, anche se non tutte. In passato ho scritto per dei problemi con samba in questa lista, ma evidentemente erano troppo tecnici, il problema l'ho risolto in una lista più specifica (grazie! Simo Source), come vedi ci sono i pro e i contro. Terrò sicuramente da conto la tua osservazione per il futuro. Per concludere un consiglio te lo do io, non quotare l'intero messaggio quando rispondi, ma solo le parti strettamente necessarie e pertinenti, mi hai quotato l'intero messaggio quando hai sintetizzato quello che volevi dire in poche righe. L'ho imparato ai tempi di Fidonet C. Alla prossima. Bye Alessandro
Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
- Original Message - 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 Mi spiego meglio. Ho il pacchetto A da installare, ma ha bisogno delle dipendenze B e C, che a sua volta ha bisogno di C1 e C2. C'è un opzione che mi permette di installare A+B+C+C1+C2? Una volta installati i pacchetti, è possibile far verificate le dipendenze dei pacchetti installati? Siccome l'opzione --nodeps l'ho usata per disperazione installando mcc, vorrei controllare che sia tutto a posto. pensando di installare come file manager Nautilus, in effetti è un bel mattone. Ho addocchiato Xfm (the X file manager) o a X Northern Captain o emelFM, ma fanno anche da browser? mi serve per leggere gli howto in html prova a vedere sul sito Mandrake, alla pagina errata, dovrebbe esserci un bug relativo alla costituzuìone del database per urpmi Trovato. Complimenti, che memoria 2 il cdrom Non ho mai avuto a che fare con cd-rom non atapi. Quindi deviseguire quello che ti dicono i sacri testi. Ho provato con i comandi dettati dai testi sacri, ma quando do il comando ln -s /dev/sbpcd /dev/cdrom si freezza il terminale Suggerimenti? Dando il comando modprobe sbpcd ho notato con dmesg che va a scansionare 340 come io invece che 230 Se gli specifico l'indirizzo quando lancio modprobe mi da errore e mi dice che il modulo non accetta opzioni Incomincio dal punto più semplice l'audio Per questo, prova a vedere il sito delle pnp-utils http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ Anche se la scheda NON è PnP? probeall scsi_hostadapters ide-scsi e una cosa simile il lilo.conf in append ... 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 ? Quello volante forse si anche se è atapi, ma ora che l'ho scollegato il vigliacco mi carica lo stesso i moduli anche se ho commentato le righe in modules.conf e rimosso l'append in lilo.conf Ottimizzazione del sistema. Ho letto un howto che ha per argomento installazione e qualche tips su 386 e fossili simili. Tra le varie cose consiglia di ridurre il numero di console virtuali da 6 a 4 o meno per liberare memoria modificando inittab, può essere applicabile anche al mio caso? Stessa domanda per i desktop virtuali in X nè ho 4 se ne tengo solo uno (anche perchè gli altri non sono usati) risparmio risorse? e dove effetto la modifica in questo caso? Bye Alessandro
[newbie-it] rpmdrake
mi sapete dire xké quando lancio rpmdrake-remove per rimuovere i pacchetti installati, dopo avermi chiesto se andare avanti o meno, si blocca sulla schermata sto leggendo il database dei pacchetti (o qualcosa di simile)?
[newbie-it] problemi di audio
come posso configurare la mia scheda sonora ESS1868 ISA senza usare sndconfig (che si blocca dopo aver premuto su ok)? posso farlo tramite isapnp? e se si, come?
[newbie-it] Avvio automatico Seti@Home
Ciao a tutti, so che quella che sto per fare e' una delle piu' banali domande che si possa fare, ma non so come risolvere la questione e non ho idea su dove trovare la risposta nella documentazione: ho installato [EMAIL PROTECTED] e vorrei farlo partire all'avvio (di qualsiasi utente), come posso farlo? Grazie in anticipo. Di Fresco Marco
R: [newbie-it] latex e *.jpeg
Ciao Mike, condivisa da win$ verso linuccio? Yes, of course. La stampante è una Epson Multifunzione CX3200. Ho controllato su www.linuxrinting.org (credo sia +/- questo il sito) e mi dice che è una delle stampanti che meglio funziona sotto linuxHo provato a fargliela vedere come Epson C62 (come consigliato sul sito stesso) ma niente da fare. Quando tento di fargli stampare una pagina di prova, si inchioda tutto brutalmente. Vabbè queste sono finezze, ora posso sempre trasferirmi i file sotto win e stmaparli dall'altro PC, però se si riuscisse a fare anhe questa cosuccia, non sarebbe male. Buona giornata a tutti Enrico P.S: Per inciso il montaggio delle risorse samba da Mandrake Control Center mi funziona solo a volte, quindi ho per il file system aggiro l'ostacolo facendolo a mano, per le stampanti non mi sembra così semplice... -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] conto di miKe Inviato: martedì 25 febbraio 2003 22.14 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] latex e *.jpeg -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 09:15, lunedì 24 febbraio 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: 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. ciao anche a te! ora che tutto funzia, salva la configurazione e vedi di capire il motivo per cui poteva non andare (io un sospetto e l'ho..;) 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). condivisa da win$ verso linuccio? Grazie a tutti e buona settimana. Enrico bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+W9yzF/9fksDJ4y0RAgNiAJ40su2RA0ZMDpI58sJWKJqX3QX8lQCfa8Ud yTM/JQc1JxKYhhN127YF18U= =D0OI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] problem with ./configure installation
I am just new person in LInux.I have problem when try to installpackage ib my Linux Mandrake 9.0 O/S. When I type ./configure (as the instruction said) no respond, it said command is not recognized. Is ./configure a script file or a command? If yes where about it located and how to configure it? Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more
Re: [newbie] problem with ./configure installation
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 8:06 am, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: I am just new person in LInux. I have problem when try to install package ib my Linux Mandrake 9.0 O/S. When I type ./configure (as the instruction said) no respond, it said command is not recognized. Is ./configure a script file or a command? If yes where about it located and how to configure it? configure is the name of a script in the directory of the application you are trying to install. If you have downloaded a tarball (.tar.gz file) then uncompress it either by clicking on it in konqueror and drag/drop the folder inside to your home directory, or else in a terminal enter tar -xvzf filename Then 'cd' to the applications directory and then enter ./configure BTW what application are you trying to install? The chances are that there is already an RPM package for that application either already on your CDs or easily downloadable. For a newbie RPMs are *lots* easier to install than tarballs. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linneighbourhood installation dead end
Robin, Do you mean I have to use urpmi Linneighbourhood and everything will be installed automatically? Seems too easy to be true. Thanx From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linneighbourhood installation dead end Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:30:47 +0200 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 _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix screws up cron.daily
This is a bit arcane, but it might help someone. I think Anne was asking recently why some cron jobs were not running correctly. This info might shed some light. The directory /etc/cron.daily contains a list of jobs to be run each day. The default runtime is 4am so unless you leave the computer on 24/7 they will only be run if the anacron RPM is installed to schedule the jobs to run when the computer is powered on. If an email address is given in /etc/crontab you will be alerted to any cron job that fails. When a job in the cron.daily list fails execution stops and any remaining jobs are not run. I was getting emails daily informing me that the 'makewhatis' job was failing due to certain files not existing. Because of this failure later jobs such as 'mdkupdate' were not running so my automatic system updates were not working. Makewhatis is an application to make a database of manual pages. It is not particularly important so the job could safely be deleted to allow the other jobs to run. However I researched a bit deeper and found that the culprit was Postfix. If Postfix is installed, then cron.daily will fail because makewhatis does not like the name of 3 postfix files. Rename these files, and it all works OK /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.bz2 to .../aliases.5.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.bz2 to .../mailq.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.bz2 to .../newaliases.1.bz2 I have checked and 9.1RC1 works OK because symlinks have been put into the folders. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linneighbourhood installation dead end
Yes. But you have to spell it the American way, and use the correct capitialization LinNeighborhood derek On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 8:40 am, ivette brusselmans wrote: Robin, Do you mean I have to use urpmi Linneighbourhood and everything will be installed automatically? Seems too easy to be true. Thanx From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linneighbourhood installation dead end Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:30:47 +0200 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 _ -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] www.TrueMajority.com
I just joined the February 26 Virtual March on Washington and hope you will too. Here's the story: Win Without War Coalition Organizes Virtual March Day Of Faxes, Phone Calls, and Emails Register Now and We'll Send Your Fax on Feb. 26 (If you are already a member of TrueMajority, you can send free faxes to your Senators by just clicking Reply and then Send. We'll hold your faxes until Feb. 26. Please forward this message to your friends, family and colleagues! If this message was forwarded to you or if you'd like to edit your letter, click this link to send your faxes:) http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2467ms=virt3 The New York Times reported yesterday that global anti-war protests have put the White House on the defensive. Between the strong case for tough inspections and the growing domestic and international opposition to war, the hawks in the Bush Administration are on the run. We need to keep them there. We've marched in the streets of New York. We've marched in over 600 cities around the world. Now it's time to bring that noise to Washington, where the President and Congress can't escape it. On February 26th, you can join a massive march on Washington without leaving your living room. To learn about all the ways you can march go to: http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/ The Virtual March on Washington is a first-of-its-kind group effort from the Win Without War coalition. Working together, we'll direct a steady stream of phone calls -- about one per minute, all day -- to every Senate office in the country, while at the same time delivering a constant stream of emails and faxes. Think of it like a march -- one by one, we'll be passing through our Senators' offices and the offices of the White House to let them know how we feel about this war. Like a normal march, the success of this campaign depends on how many people participate. All you need to do is make three phone calls -- it won't take more than 15 minutes of your time. But together with tens of thousands of others, it'll make a huge impression: on February 26th, in every Senate office and in the White House, the phones will be ringing off their hooks. If you can't make calls on the 26th you can still register today to send free faxes. We'll hold them for you until the 26th You can sign up for your time to call or place a free fax right now at: http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/ Then forward this to everyone you know who might be interested. Here's what Tom Andrews, a former Member of Congress and the National Director of the Win Without War Coalition has to say about the February 26th Virtual March: Believe me, political leaders in Washington will get the message when their phones and fax machines light up -- and stay lit up -- from morning until night. They will know that there are a lot of us, that we care deeply about this unnecessary march to war, and that we are organized. Our message will be heard. But, we absolutely need you to make this work. Last Saturday, millions of us in hundreds of cities around the world voiced our opposition to a war on Iraq. Please help us bring this dissent to Washington on February 26th, by taking part in the Virtual March. Sincerely, Ben Here's a copy of the letter we'll send to your Senators: Dear Senator: I am a constituent of yours and I write today as a participant in Win Without War's Virtual March. I am one of the majority of Americans concerned that President Bush's rush to war is dangerous and unnecessary. Our nation needs to support tough United Nations inspections. Going to war with Iraq will kill thousands of civilians and soldiers, create an atmosphere that breeds terrorists, and divert money from programs that can really create a safer and more just society. Please do everything you can to support the inspections process and resist our nation rushing to war. Sincerely, (We'll add your name and address here) For more information, and to take action on this issue, please visit: http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2467ms=tafref=153674 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hams on the list
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip 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 Add me to the list! Cheers (or should I say 73) Keith G4JVX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
Chris M0BOP 73 On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip 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 Add me to the list! Cheers (or should I say 73) Keith G4JVX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ACL
Hello! I want to use samba 2.2.6 MDK 9.0 with ACL options, does the MDK9.0 kernel support this solution? And one more how I can start ACL in Samba Serwer. Greet Kris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDEInit error
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:34, Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I am getting the error KDEInit could not launch 'kfmclient' when I try to access my 'Removable media' shortcut from my KDE 3.1 desktop. I may have deleted something to make this happen but quite frankly I don't know what it may have been. I looked up kfmclient using KPackage and found some database stuff and KDesktop stuff I didn't understand. Here is the question -- Should I rely on my M$ training and: a) Delete and reinstall KDE. The list of dependencies is very intimidating and I fear I will do more damage than can be repaired. b) Reinstall KDE. Since M$ overwrites and updates things without asking permission this works on their systems. Does it work with ML? c) Live with it. I can read some of my removable media some of the time and other times Konqueror locks up and I must XKill it and restart my computer. It's just like the old days with Windows! I feel that there must be a Linux way to approach this but I'm concerned about doing more damage. I have made the grave error of getting to the point where I depend on this computer and I don't want to kill it. Any help is appreciated. Any config stuff you need to know please tell me how to retrieve it. tia R Umm... either c) or go back to KDE3?? I don't know about other versions of KDE3.1 but this is a known issue with KDE3.1 from texstar which is where I got mine from (and same problem). Haven't had time to sort it out yet, but I know that this problem was mentioned in textstar's forums. There may have been a fix posted, but like I said, I haven't had time to look it up. It doesn't bother me since I rarely access my cdrom, floppy or zip drives via konq anyway. At least you're not alone... ;) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today -- Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] choosing a HDD
Hi g On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 5:43 am, g wrote: 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? A7V133 what are oem model numbers of drives? Maxtor Fireball HDDMXT040GB54 Diamond Max +8 HDDIDEK2B security is more important than speed. security as in security of operation and not security as in 'hacked' and such? Security in operation, yes. tc,hago. What *does* that mean? g 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 10:04 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 11:19]: 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? Yep, that would be my recommendation. Quite often I'll do something in The GIMP, saving my working copy as an .xcf ... then when I need to actually use it, I'll create a .jpg or .png from the .xcf. I've not come across .xcf. Is this a non-M$ version of a bitmapfile? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix for dummies
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:06, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 07:13, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:06, Brian Parish wrote: Well - one dummy anyway. All I need to do is to set up a server to handle mail on an intranet. No relaying to anywhere and no incoming mail from anywhere else. I would think that this should be easy - it probably is. So I installed postfix and imap. I can check for new mail OK, so pop is working, but no matter what I do, sending mail only results in connection rejected messages from SMTP. I read that mandrake sets up postfix to run chrooted, so I copied the /etc/passwd file over to /var/spool/postfix/etc, casue it said I might need to. I am running with defaults in main.cf because that's supposed to work. I have tried setting things according to the local intranet example on postfix.org - no change. Where do I look to try to work out what's going wrong? TIA Brian Okfirst, when you're sending an email - in whatever email client you're using, did you set it for SMTP or for SENDMAIL? If you are sitting on the local machine when you're sending, you can set the outbound as SENDMAIL (in most programs) and then POSTFIX will send it out generally without a hitch. Now if you're on a machine on your network, and need to send mail out, you're going to have to do some configuration to your POSTFIX server in order to allow for relaying the mail - but that's not hard either. In th POSTFIX configuration, under SMTP Server Options, you can set Allow untrusted routing to yes - which should then allow any client on your network to pass mail though the SMTP server - and should also work on the email client on the local machine. Does that help any, or confuse you more? Give a holler for more! Hmmm. Tried this with no change, but wouldn't that only apply if I wanted the server to route my mail somewhere? All I want it to do is make it available to the clients on the LAN. I guess I need to provide more info here. My /etc/postfix/main.cf file has now been configured by the postfix wizard. The lines it defined are: readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/README_FILES alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = my.fully.qualified.host.name myorigin = $mydomain masquerade_domains = $mydomain virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical relayhost = smtp.my.domain.name To this I added (on Stephen's advice): allow_untrusted_routing = yes and because it seems appropriate given that I want the mail to stay local: disable_dns_lookups = yes I have set up an account in Evolution that sends using smtp to the address given to relayhost and also put this into my hosts file so it can be found. Sending appears to work (at least it goes somewhere). I have installed the imap rpm and evolution happily checks for mail using pop, but none is ever found. If I log in to the server directly and just say: sendmail brian It apparently sends the message, but again, nothing ever arrives. Is there a log somewhere that I can check to see what postfix is doing with these messages? Ideas? thanks for listening! Brian Thought I'd close the loop on this one. Turns out that postfix was working just fine out of the box, but the way I was addressing the mail was a problem. Once I had found /var/log/mail/info, all became clear. I had defined the server's IP address in the client's hosts file: 192.168.0.1 smtp.my.domain and was addressing mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the server (so it could find itself): 192.168.0.1 server.my.domain was in the hosts file. With this setup, the info log shows me that postfix complains that this address causes it to loop back on itself. My solution was to make the server's hosts file read: 192.168.0.1 server.my.domain server and address the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This works, but when the mail comes back it's origin is shown as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] so any attempt to reply falls into the original black hole. I have yet to find time to work on this. Tried changing the way addresses are rewritten using the webmin postfix admin stuff, but only managed to stop it working altogether. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 10:04 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 11:19]: 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? Yep, that would be my recommendation. Quite often I'll do something in The GIMP, saving my working copy as an .xcf ... then when I need to actually use it, I'll create a .jpg or .png from the .xcf. I've not come across .xcf. Is this a non-M$ version of a bitmapfile? Anne GIMPS native format. Similar to .psp (Paint Shop Pro) in that it remembers layers. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 10:31 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 10:04 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 11:19]: 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? Yep, that would be my recommendation. Quite often I'll do something in The GIMP, saving my working copy as an .xcf ... then when I need to actually use it, I'll create a .jpg or .png from the .xcf. I've not come across .xcf. Is this a non-M$ version of a bitmapfile? Anne GIMPS native format. Similar to .psp (Paint Shop Pro) in that it remembers layers. Thank you. That sounds useful 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
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:15:33 +: I've not come across .xcf. Is this a non-M$ version of a bitmapfile? XCF is the Gimp's own format. Like the PSD format that is used by Adobe Photoshop, to preserve all info about layers etc. Paul -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix screws up cron.daily
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 9:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: This is a bit arcane, but it might help someone. I think Anne was asking recently why some cron jobs were not running correctly. This info might shed some light. Noted and saved for reference. Thank, Derek Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix for dummies
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 10:26 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:06, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 07:13, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:06, Brian Parish wrote: Well - one dummy anyway. All I need to do is to set up a server to handle mail on an intranet. No relaying to anywhere and no incoming mail from anywhere else. I would think that this should be easy - it probably is. So I installed postfix and imap. I can check for new mail OK, so pop is working, but no matter what I do, sending mail only results in connection rejected messages from SMTP. I read that mandrake sets up postfix to run chrooted, so I copied the /etc/passwd file over to /var/spool/postfix/etc, casue it said I might need to. I am running with defaults in main.cf because that's supposed to work. I have tried setting things according to the local intranet example on postfix.org - no change. Where do I look to try to work out what's going wrong? TIA Brian Okfirst, when you're sending an email - in whatever email client you're using, did you set it for SMTP or for SENDMAIL? If you are sitting on the local machine when you're sending, you can set the outbound as SENDMAIL (in most programs) and then POSTFIX will send it out generally without a hitch. Now if you're on a machine on your network, and need to send mail out, you're going to have to do some configuration to your POSTFIX server in order to allow for relaying the mail - but that's not hard either. In th POSTFIX configuration, under SMTP Server Options, you can set Allow untrusted routing to yes - which should then allow any client on your network to pass mail though the SMTP server - and should also work on the email client on the local machine. Does that help any, or confuse you more? Give a holler for more! Hmmm. Tried this with no change, but wouldn't that only apply if I wanted the server to route my mail somewhere? All I want it to do is make it available to the clients on the LAN. I guess I need to provide more info here. My /etc/postfix/main.cf file has now been configured by the postfix wizard. The lines it defined are: readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/README_FILES alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = my.fully.qualified.host.name myorigin = $mydomain masquerade_domains = $mydomain virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical relayhost = smtp.my.domain.name To this I added (on Stephen's advice): allow_untrusted_routing = yes and because it seems appropriate given that I want the mail to stay local: disable_dns_lookups = yes I have set up an account in Evolution that sends using smtp to the address given to relayhost and also put this into my hosts file so it can be found. Sending appears to work (at least it goes somewhere). I have installed the imap rpm and evolution happily checks for mail using pop, but none is ever found. If I log in to the server directly and just say: sendmail brian It apparently sends the message, but again, nothing ever arrives. Is there a log somewhere that I can check to see what postfix is doing with these messages? Ideas? thanks for listening! Brian Thought I'd close the loop on this one. Turns out that postfix was working just fine out of the box, but the way I was addressing the mail was a problem. Once I had found /var/log/mail/info, all became clear. I had defined the server's IP address in the client's hosts file: 192.168.0.1 smtp.my.domain and was addressing mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the server (so it could find itself): 192.168.0.1 server.my.domain was in the hosts file. With this setup, the info log shows me that postfix complains that this address causes it to loop back on itself. My solution was to make the server's hosts file read: 192.168.0.1 server.my.domain server and address the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This works, but when the mail comes back it's origin is shown as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] so any attempt to reply falls into the original black hole. I have yet to find time to work on this. Tried changing the way addresses are rewritten using the webmin postfix admin stuff, but only managed to stop it working altogether. cheers Brian The identity attached to a mail is set by the mail client, not by Postfix, so you should be able to have the address anything you like (This is how spammers set false identities) Also try setting your hostname to be server.localdomain I think (but am not sure) the domain name localdomain has special significance as a substitute for a proper FQDN derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
Hi Guys, one more. 73/DX de HA5DI, Bla Chris Slater-Walker wrote: Chris M0BOP 73 On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip 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 Add me to the list! Cheers (or should I say 73) Keith G4JVX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:43, Keith Powell wrote: Add me also, Bill, N7OKD On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip 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 Add me to the list! Cheers (or should I say 73) Keith G4JVX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
Here is Harv, KG9GA, Washburn, Wisconsin, USA. Just retired and re-located to this small northern Wisconsin community on the shore of Lake Superior ( 25 below 0 this morning ... have I made a mistake? :-). Hope to figure out how this Linux stuff works and get my rigs set up to run the digital modes like PSK31, etc. sometime before summer is over. Be lookin for lots of help from you guys and gals. big 73 Harv KG9GA On Tuesday 25 February 2003 03:43 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip 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 Add me to the list! Cheers (or should I say 73) Keith G4JVX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] K-menu settings?
KDE 3.1 How do you change the number of entries on the top of the K-menu where it shows the most recent programs run? Mine has about 20 entries and it takes up 2/3 of the screen because of it. In 3.0.5a it only had the last 3 shown. TIA Jerry -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (o_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:45:55 + (GMT) Chris Slater-Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris M0BOP 73 On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip 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 Add me to the list! Cheers (or should I say 73) Keith G4JVX Umm, maybe a dumb question, but what is a ham/s? Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:42, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:45:55 + (GMT) Umm, maybe a dumb question, but what is a ham/s? Greetings Ralph Amateur Radio Operator Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Keyboard switcher
Hello list, It seems I am having problems switching between different keyboard layouts in KDE 3.1 under Mandrake 9.1 beta 3. I have chosen the Russian layout, selected a shortcut, but it did not work. None of them. Is there a way to enable a tray switcher in KDE 3.1? I know it was possible with previous versions, but I cannot find this feature now. -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ PGP key: 633F6D07 (1A1C 29F1 2A0C 4C4E 0BDA C8EE 5A1D 9F03 633F 6D07) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Attached%20key ~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] K-menu settings?
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 11:23 am, Jerry Barton wrote: KDE 3.1 How do you change the number of entries on the top of the K-menu where it shows the most recent programs run? Mine has about 20 entries and it takes up 2/3 of the screen because of it. In 3.0.5a it only had the last 3 shown. TIA Jerry K MenuConfigurePanelPreferencesMenus 'Max no of Quick Start Entries' -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix screws up cron.daily
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 12:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: If Postfix is installed, then cron.daily will fail because makewhatis does not like the name of 3 postfix files. Rename these files, and it all works OK /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.bz2 to .../aliases.5.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.bz2 to .../mailq.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.bz2 to .../newaliases.1.bz2 Actually, the problem is not with Postfix itself but with the alternatives links that are not set up properly. If you look in your /etc, you'll notice that aliases is a broken link too. To fix this run update-alternatives on postfix. update-alternatives --auto mta - -- Greg Excellent. Thanks for that info Greg :) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:42, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:45:55 + (GMT) Chris Slater-Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris M0BOP 73 On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip 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 Add me to the list! Cheers (or should I say 73) Keith G4JVX Umm, maybe a dumb question, but what is a ham/s? Greetings Ralph Ham is sort of a slang term for amateur radio radio operator. The hobby dates back to the early 1900s. To sum it up hams speak to each other via radio. In the early days it was done with morse code but even then with the crude equipment if the time communication over several thousand miles was possible in latter years voice communication was possible world wide, Yep world wide without wires or satilites. Today it has progressed to the point where there ar around 30 satilites carrying ham radio transponders, some of us also send video back and forth via the airwaves, there is a thing called packet radio that is kind of like the internet but it is all done over the airwaves without wires or a ISP, and some of us even bounce signals off of the moon. In recent years about half of the space shuttles have carried ham radio equipment and had at least 1 ham on board. The mir space station also carried hams and ham radio equipment and made thousands of contacts with amateur radio operaters around the world. Hams also gennerally supply communications into disaster areas, and allow people in the millitary to sort of phone home via Mars ( millitary amateur radio service ) This is just a VERY BREIF overview. for more detailed information go to http://www.arrl.com Hope this gave you enough information to make some sense of it all. Marc -- 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] choosing a HDD
hello anne, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi g not at this time. bwg what is oem model number of your asus mainboard? A7V133 what are oem model numbers of drives? Maxtor Fireball HDDMXT040GB54 Diamond Max +8 HDDIDEK2B ok. need to make a few checks, a couple of emails and 2 sites. i know several who are using same mainboard and 40g0 drive. not sure about 80g0 drive. should be back with another reply late tonight or tomorrow. Security in operation, yes. just wanted to be sure. you brits have a diff way of saying things. :) tc,hago. What *does* that mean? g take care. have a good one. i was once asked, 'good what?' i replied, 'anything you want a good one of'. sowikno. w.c. [w.c. is not 'water closet'] 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
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:36, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Raffaele it seems that i can't start telnet service when i do service telnet start i get ok but in mcc the status is stop hosts.allow and hosts.deney are empty. Gil 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 -- = So long, And thanks for all the fish. = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.
Tom, Sorry, been away for a bit. I wanted to install d4x using urpmi so my rpmdb is all up to date enabling me to auto update. I don't like using source just yet as I like urpmi to do everything. I wanted to install d4x through urpmi to download the rc1 iso images as it is made for this kind of thing and web browsers download managers are not up to the task (though it did work on all three admittedly). I hope this time I explained it a bit better. Thanks, Tony. -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RC1 and network problem. On Friday February 21 2003 02:08 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Tom, Okay lets start again. I download iso's normally with d4x, but I did not have it installed in beta 3. I had to use mozilla download manager. I was asking about d4x for urpmi as I don't like installing programs from source (lazy I know). Sorry for the confusion. Tony. Well, I'm still confused ...or maybe you are? Maybe we both are ;) d4x for urpmi just doesn't make sense to me. They are designed for two different purposes. The only thing they share is using wget (or with urpmi, 'curl' can also be used) to d/l files. All d4x does is d/l. urpmi, OTOH, searches sources for updates compared to what's on you system already, or new installs by your request. Then it d/l's. Then it either upgrades or installs the files, after having also grabed any needed dependancies, and/or removing any conflicting packages. None of which is applicable for iso images's, except the d/l'ing part. You don't upgrade or install image files themselves, you certainly wouldn't 'urpmi filename.iso'. I don't like installing programs from source confuses me too. I can only suspect that maybe you confuse iso images with programs, or packages, or source code? iso's are none of those, they aren't even a 'file' in it's commonly used sense. When used to describe distro images, they are a raw image that contains files and packages (rpms). They're also used, for example, to contain the sound tracks on an audio CD, among other uses. For bootable distro iso's, they contain an 'El torrito' sector within the image that tells the computer boot me when burned to a CD. Otherwise the image file (iso) on your HDD can also be mounted as loop device (**see man mount, THE LOOP DEVICE) and the files and packages used from within the image (container), or extracted (copied) from it. Either way you need to d/l it to your HDD first. I just happen to like d4x to do this. I try an avoid using browsers as they sometimes (specially Netscape) mangle d/l's. BTW, ISO stands for International Organization for Standards and is just one type of image file. The term is often used incorrectly and/or too generally, as I just have ;) ** I'm sure there's better explainations on websites, than 'man mount' for loop devices. IIRC, it's as simple as 'mount -o loop /path/to/filename.iso /mnt/point/' I'm also positive somebody else can explain all this bett'r than me ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with ./configure installation
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:06 am, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: I am just new person in LInux. I have problem when try to install package ib my Linux Mandrake 9.0 O/S. When I type ./configure (as the instruction said) no respond, it said command is not recognized. Is ./configure a script file or a command? If yes where about it located and how to configure it? Well Kurniawan, here's a very short version : ./configure is part of the ultimate techno-way of installing something in linux. It is a file used to configure how a compiler/install-script should handle a source for installation on a particular machine and/or distribution. Usually you have to download a *tarball* - which is a collection of files ( historically : Tape ARchive ), furthermore compressed into a single file (with an extension like .gz or .bz2). To install, you'll have to de-compress the tarball, find the configuration-file and edit it to your liking. (Always read the .README-file first !). Then run the compiler (*make*) and - finally - install the whole kadoodle with *make install*. All this requires that you have installed the *development* package* (it's on your CD-s). BUT, BUT, BUT : If you are a *rookie* -linuxer, keep away from it until you've earned your stripes ! Instead, use the *rpm* - system of installing. Recently, Mandrake added a very useful feature to this system : the *urpmi* way of installing something. It can be run from the command-line as well from a graphical interface. Start with the graphical, if you don't know how to define FTP-sources. This *urpmi* - thing is FAR more efficient and easy then anything in the past (well, maybe apart from Debian's apt-get) : it automatically resolves dependencies, promts you to insert CD-s and so on. Kurniawan, I don't know if you have a graphical interface, but if so, click the Mandrake Control Center, issue your root-password, go to the software-section, define FT-sources and you are in business. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linuxconf error
I'm running LM 9.0 and whenever I do something in Linuxconf and go to
effect the changes by clicking Do it, I get the error message below.
The changes always seem to go through, but I'm wondering why I get this
message and how to stop it. I've looked at the file in question but I
don't really know how to edit it.
What should I do to stop this error message?:
Executing some Sysv init scripts
? The following command told me something had to be done
? /etc/rc5.d/S10network probe
Executing: /etc/rc5.d/S10network Usage: /etc/rc5.d/S10network
{start|stop|restart|reload|status}
* sh: line 1: restart: command not found
* sh: line 1: stop: command not found
* sh: line 1: reload: command not found
* sh: line 1: status}: command not found
* return 127
? The following command told me something had to be done
? /etc/rc5.d/S14nfslock probe
Executing: /etc/rc5.d/S14nfslock restart
Stopping NFS lockd:
Stopping NFS statd: [ OK ]
Starting NFS lockd: [ OK ]
Starting NFS statd: [ OK ]
? Service saslauthd is not running
Executing: /etc/rc5.d/S40saslauthd start
saslauthd already running
* return 1
? Service httpd is not running
Executing: /etc/rc5.d/S85httpd start
Checking kernel configuration
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Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Monday 24 February 2003, Anne Wilson asked about graphic formats but didn't say what the end use of the file was to be. I have an Olympus digital camera with options of saving in three different jpg compressions or tif format. I generally use the best jpg format but sometimes use the tif. The files are downloaded from the camera and I look at each for quality, discarding those which are hopeless grin and just close the ones I wish to keep for future use. I don't close these files with the save command for two reasons. One, the Olympus files contain meta data (the f/stop, ISO, etc., data for each shot) and if saved, the info is lost. The other reason for just closing and not saving is that unless I am using the tif format, saving will cause the loss of some information. So, I just copy the original camera files to a CD for storage. When I want to edit or otherwise use the picture, I open a copy of the file (from the CD) in the GIMP and do whatever I want without fear of loosing any data because I still have the original on CD. How I save the copy, altered in the GIMP, depends on final use. If I'm just sending it in an e-mail to someone or using it on a web site, I use jpg. If I am using it for print publication, I use tif. I save the tif files at a resolution suited to the needs of the print publication... newsprint needs a much lower resolution than a glossy magazine or high quality inkjet photo paper and I base the saved resolution on the paper quality. Then I save a copy of the final graphic on yet another CD ... one set of CDs for originals with meta data and one set for edited files. Yes, I have a lot of CDs, but they are inexpensive. Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet
Gil, you should provide more details in your message for us to be helpful! A cut and paste of the output of shell commands, in particular, could help understand what's going on on your machine. Does ping 127.0.0.1 work? You should see something like 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1:... repeated on the screen until you press CTRL-C. Understand that telnet is composed by a client (invoked as # telnet) and a server (named telnetd, note the final 'd'). Normally the server is _not_ installed by default. On MDK9.0 the server package is named telnet-server-krb5-1.2.5-1mdk To make sure the server is installed, type # urpmi telnet-server-krb5 You should get a message like everything already installed. I installed the telnet server on my MDK to check. First of all, it's a xinetd service, so it will not normally be shown by ps (I was wrong on this regard in my previous message). xinetd is a daemon that monitors the incoming calls on all ports and starts the registered services on request. So, try this: # service xinetd start Do you get an OK? To double check, type # ps -ax | grep xinetd you should see two lines. Then, go to /etc/xinetd.d and do an ls. Do you see there a file named telnet? This is the telnet server configuration file read by xinetd daemon when it detects an incoming request on the telnet port. Open it with a text editor and check that it contains the line disable = no (it means that the telnet server is enabled). Finally, open /etc/xinetd.conf and check that it _does_not_ contain any only_from lines. If it does, delete them. There's not much more to telnetd configuration. good luck, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:36, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Raffaele it seems that i can't start telnet service when i do service telnet start i get ok but in mcc the status is stop hosts.allow and hosts.deney are empty. Gil 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
Re: [newbie] choosing a HDD
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 12:40 pm, g wrote: what are oem model numbers of drives? Maxtor Fireball HDDMXT040GB54 Diamond Max +8 HDDIDEK2B ok. need to make a few checks, a couple of emails and 2 sites. i know several who are using same mainboard and 40g0 drive. not sure about 80g0 drive. They're both 40 Gig - just different models. The Max+8 is faster. . Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] K-menu settings?-fixed
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:23:30 -0700 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KDE 3.1 How do you change the number of entries on the top of the K-menu where it shows the most recent programs run? Mine has about 20 entries and it takes up 2/3 of the screen because of it. In 3.0.5a it only had the last 3 shown. TIA Jerry -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (o_ //\ V_/_ Nevermind... I poked around for (well... quite a while) and finally found it in a tab under the panels section of kcontrol. Seems like an odd place to put it but that's where it is. Jerry. -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (o_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What happened to APMI Support?
On Monday February 24 2003 03:18 pm, Anthony Abby wrote: 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?? :) Search the cooker mailing list archive. There's been much discussion of acpi and apm on laptops. http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/ If you're going to run cooker, it would be best to subscribe to and read the cooker list. If you're not willing to do that, then you should always check the archive for any issues you might have. If you've got a broadband connection, you should really use urpmi to get current with cooker, as many problems are fixed with updates, and there's been a ton of 'em since RC1. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another one...
snip Ref Mouse gestures... Do they speed you up in your operations, save steps, or what? LX Lyvim, They are great if your want to quickly open a new window or indeed if you want to get rid of a window. To be honest I only use the new window gesture on a regular basis. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix screws up cron.daily
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:12:42 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Postfix screws up cron.daily snip If Postfix is installed, then cron.daily will fail because makewhatis does not like the name of 3 postfix files. Rename these files, and it all works OK /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.bz2 to .../aliases.5.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.bz2 to .../mailq.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.bz2 to .../newaliases.1.bz2 I have checked and 9.1RC1 works OK because symlinks have been put into the folders. derek *** Hi Derek, I'm running 9 with kernel 2.4.19-24, with postfix installed (but not running) and I seem to have the sym links that you make mention of. My cron.daily seems to be working OK. In /usr/share/man/man5 I have a symlink called aliases.5.bz2, and in /usr/share/man/man1 I have symlinks mailq.1.bz2 and newaliases.1.bz2 The links point to, respectively: /etc/alternatives/mta-aliasesman /etc/alternatives/mta-mailqman /etc/alternatives/mat-newaliasesman Could you have missed an update perhaps? Regards. --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* *** -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Printer Hell (long post)
Well, folks - I'm having a heckuva day. Last night, I tried to print out a simple ASCII text file, created in Kedit, of a short story my 12 yr old had written for his Literature class. The teacher wanted it in a 20 pt font size. I've never tried printing that large before and never imagined all the difficulties I would have. I set the font to 20, hit the print icon, got the usual ASCII is an unknown format, have to convert message and it began printing. In such large letters that only a few words would fit on each line. So, I saved the file, dragged 'n dropped it onto my printer icon (linked to Kprinter). Now, the font size is shrunk to about 12. Go figure. So I assume there is some way to do this, just that I can't find it. So I try, in order, Webmin, printerdrake, and kups. The printout also had some headers (date, page number, etc) so I use lpoptions -r prettyprint to try and remove that. Finally, now - every file I print causes the printer (Epson C62-USB, less than 2 months old) to print a solid black page, from top to bottom. After about 4 sheets like this, I'm convinced. grin I go back to printerdrake, reset everything, everything seems to be found. Still doesn't work. Now, I've got a red light on my printer. I use Mtink, because I figure after all those solid black printouts, and since its the original black ink cart that came with the printer, that I'm out. Well, Mtink shows 8 percent. I wasn't sure about what minimum it starts giving errors on, so I change it. Except that the red light still does not go off (yes, it has paper, and the USB cable is still hooked up). I recheck everything. Again. I disconnect the printer from the system, try to do a self-check with printout. Won't work. Look for paper jams. Can't see any. I go ahead and change the color cartridge, just in case, even though Mtink said it was okay. Still no difference, red light stays on. So I shutdown for the night, gave up. Restarted this morning, green light and red light (solid not blinking) both on. USBview says its there, control centers say its there, tried to print a file, got this error message: A print error occured. Error message received from system: cupsdoprint -P 'Printer' -J 'exports' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'darklord' -o ' Contrast=1.000 Cyan=1.000 Density=1.000 Magenta=1.000 StpBrightness=1.000 StpGamma=1.600 StpSaturation=1.000 Yellow=1.000 copies=1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies' '/tmp/kde-darklord/kdeprint_89dtCWl' : execution failed with message: server-error-not-accepting-jobs Go back to Webmin, it says the printer is idle, rejecting jobs. Anyone have any idea what I did wrong/happened? Better yet, how to fix it? Otherwise I guess I'm going to have to check my warranty papers. For the life of me, I can't figure out what I did to cause all this. Thanks, and sorry for the long post... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keyboard switcher
Privet, Yes there is - use kxkb from the command line and then ctrl-alt-k and it will switch between the keyboards you have selected in KDE. I use it for Russia-English-French without any problems. Vsego dobrogo! Hello list, It seems I am having problems switching between different keyboard layouts in KDE 3.1 under Mandrake 9.1 beta 3. I have chosen the Russian layout, selected a shortcut, but it did not work. None of them. Is there a way to enable a tray switcher in KDE 3.1? I know it was possible with previous versions, but I cannot find this feature now. -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ PGP key: 633F6D07 (1A1C 29F1 2A0C 4C4E 0BDA C8EE 5A1D 9F03 633F 6D07) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Attached%20key ~~ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.
On Tuesday February 25 2003 08:12 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Tom, Sorry, been away for a bit. I wanted to install d4x using urpmi so my rpmdb is all up to date enabling me to auto update. I don't like using source just yet as I like urpmi to do everything. I wanted to install d4x through urpmi to download the rc1 iso images as it is made for this kind of thing and web browsers download managers are not up to the task (though it did work on all three admittedly). I hope this time I explained it a bit better. Thanks, Tony. OK, I think it was me that misunderstood. Mea culpa. If d4x is on your CD's, a simple 'urpmi d4x' should install it. IIRC, I got it from contribs (/RPMS2/ on any Mandrake mirror). But for just one package it's hardly worth setting up FTP sources. Just bring up a Mandrake mirror for your current version in a browser (Konqueror does a good job) and d/l the d4x-2.4.0-1mdk rpm. Once you've got d4x installed and configured, you won't need to d/l with a browser any more ;) You might as well wait a few days to get 9.1 iso's tho. I suspect RC2 will be on the mirrors soon. People who install from the current cooker mirrors are reporting that the installer already says it's RC2. Then if you setup main (/RPMS) and contrib (/RPMS2) ftp sources and use 'urpmi.update -a --wget urpmi --auto-select' to periodically get current with cooker, by the end of March, you'll have 9.1 final ;) You'll do well to either subscribe to and read the cooker mailing list, or at least check the list archive, while using cooker. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hams on the list
Not just a ham, but also a ham/linux developer. -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] help making a CRON job
Hi I thougt that making a crom job would solve my prooblem only question howto make it. I need to check the permissons of /proc/usb and if the permissons there are not 777 then the script would change that to 777 and I need it to be run every X minutes. Any advise would be needed how a newbie can make that. I need that because of some USB device. reason is that every time the device is pluged in or out the permissions get changed also. I need to have there full permissions to any user. Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix screws up cron.daily
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:56:40 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:12:42 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Postfix screws up cron.daily snip If Postfix is installed, then cron.daily will fail because makewhatis does not like the name of 3 postfix files. Rename these files, and it all works OK /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.bz2 to .../aliases.5.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.bz2 to .../mailq.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.bz2 to .../newaliases.1.bz2 I have checked and 9.1RC1 works OK because symlinks have been put into the folders. derek *** Hi Derek, I'm running 9 with kernel 2.4.19-24, with postfix installed (but not running) and I seem to have the sym links that you make mention of. My cron.daily seems to be working OK. In /usr/share/man/man5 I have a symlink called aliases.5.bz2, and in /usr/share/man/man1 I have symlinks mailq.1.bz2 and newaliases.1.bz2 The links point to, respectively: /etc/alternatives/mta-aliasesman /etc/alternatives/mta-mailqman /etc/alternatives/mat-newaliasesman Could you have missed an update perhaps? Regards. --Angus Greg offered the wisdom that the symlinks do not get created until the command update-alternatives --auto mta is executed. I do not know why it did not get run when the RPM was installed, but I have two computers with the same issue. It is interesting though how things inter-relate. My MandrakeOnline was not working because of a symlink associated with a mail server :) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help making a CRON job
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:02 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi I thougt that making a crom job would solve my prooblem only question howto make it. I need to check the permissons of /proc/usb and if the permissons there are not 777 then the script would change that to 777 and I need it to be run every X minutes. Any advise would be needed how a newbie can make that. I need that because of some USB device. reason is that every time the device is pluged in or out the permissions get changed also. I need to have there full permissions to any user. I believe you can set up a rule in msec to do just that. There is a msec applet in the Mandrake Control Center to let you set up things like that. I have never used it, and I am not in a position to try it right now, but you might want to look into that while you are waiting for others to comment. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+W6ZqGu5uuMFlL5MRAjnGAJ4vgysO4b42mqmI0xq0+sRmivxCQQCbBNYu InOjlNrt9sEMOSVXW49YSWo= =eE4c -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Hell (long post)
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:21 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Go back to Webmin, it says the printer is idle, rejecting jobs. Anyone have any idea what I did wrong/happened? Better yet, how to fix it? Otherwise I guess I'm going to have to check my warranty papers. For the life of me, I can't figure out what I did to cause all this. Can't help with the printing from nfs, but for the 'rejecting jobs' have you tried the 'CUPS WWW admin tool'. I'm pretty sure it can be re-set from there. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:50 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: If I recall correctly, you need to purchase the server version of Mandrake. That version will allow memory to be used higher than 1 GB. Of course, if I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will be more than happy to set me straight. ;-) You are correct in that you need the kernel that was intended for servers, but this kernel is included in 9.0 download edition and teh package name if I recall is kernel-enterprise. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+W9yWGu5uuMFlL5MRAguKAJ0Sr6s+esnoPJmM36PlNRTY27AXdwCcD0m5 0rEcD7wQMcH0kYmnvzUtwSI= =cbcY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:19:29 +: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:50 pm, Paul wrote: * When booting, Linux does not see all physically installed memory: e.g. you have 196 megs of RAM and linux only 'sees' 64Megs. As root, you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the line append=mem=196M to the kernel-line. Paul - I have mem=nopentium in my append line. Can this take the mem=512M at the same time? Hi Anne, Yes. That would make it append=mem=512M nopentium You have to put it all in 1 line, there can only be 1 append line per Lilo option. Paul -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] KDEInit error
Hmmm... Interesting because I had no problems accessing these initially. I first noticed the problem when I could no longer mount a Samba share. If you don't use Konq, what then, Nautilus? R On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:34, Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I am getting the error KDEInit could not launch 'kfmclient' when I try to access my 'Removable media' shortcut from my KDE 3.1 desktop. I may have deleted something to make this happen but quite frankly I don't know what it may have been. I looked up kfmclient using KPackage and found some database stuff and KDesktop stuff I didn't understand. Here is the question -- Should I rely on my M$ training and: a) Delete and reinstall KDE. The list of dependencies is very intimidating and I fear I will do more damage than can be repaired. b) Reinstall KDE. Since M$ overwrites and updates things without asking permission this works on their systems. Does it work with ML? c) Live with it. I can read some of my removable media some of the time and other times Konqueror locks up and I must XKill it and restart my computer. It's just like the old days with Windows! I feel that there must be a Linux way to approach this but I'm concerned about doing more damage. I have made the grave error of getting to the point where I depend on this computer and I don't want to kill it. Any help is appreciated. Any config stuff you need to know please tell me how to retrieve it. tia R Umm... either c) or go back to KDE3?? I don't know about other versions of KDE3.1 but this is a known issue with KDE3.1 from texstar which is where I got mine from (and same problem). Haven't had time to sort it out yet, but I know that this problem was mentioned in textstar's forums. There may have been a fix posted, but like I said, I haven't had time to look it up. It doesn't bother me since I rarely access my cdrom, floppy or zip drives via konq anyway. At least you're not alone... ;) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today -- Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 9:11 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:19:29 +: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:50 pm, Paul wrote: * When booting, Linux does not see all physically installed memory: e.g. you have 196 megs of RAM and linux only 'sees' 64Megs. As root, you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the line append=mem=196M to the kernel-line. Paul - I have mem=nopentium in my append line. Can this take the mem=512M at the same time? Hi Anne, Yes. That would make it append=mem=512M nopentium You have to put it all in 1 line, there can only be 1 append line per Lilo option. Paul Thanks, Paul. I'll do that. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:50, Paul wrote: In reply to Fred's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:44:17 -0600: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory, so I think the machine sees the memory, but for some reason Linux is not seeing it all. Do I need to change some setting on my system? Hi Fred, Here a tip directly from my Linux page (saves me a lot of typing!) * When booting, Linux does not see all physically installed memory: e.g. you have 196 megs of RAM and linux only 'sees' 64Megs. As root, you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the line append=mem=196M to the kernel-line. After that run lilo to make the change known to the boot loader (use lilo -v to make lilo tell some more about what it does). It still is not right? Set the amount of megs down by 1 or 2 in lilo.conf through the same procedure. Sometimes that helps. Apparently here are some mainboards that gobble up some installed RAM for use with video cards. Paul -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Not only that, but that standard kernel won't recognise more than 1 GB of RAM. You need to install the enterprise kernel. Its on the first cd: kernel-enterprise-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm but note that there was a security update on the kernel packages 05 February 2003 - now using kernel-enterprise-2.4.19.24mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm. A word of warning: if you have a nvidia graphics card and intend to use the nvidia drivers, you _may_ not get them working with the enterprise kernel, even though there are nvidia drivers specifically for the enterprise kernel. I have tried nvidia's enterprise, source and tarball drivers, as well as Mandrake Club's enterprise drivers and Ranger's drivers all to no avail. And yet a separate installation with the standard kernel works with absolutely no probs. Its difficult to find help with this matter because very few people use the enterprise kernel. I've given up looking for a solution. Cheers Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux -- Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ethernet Interface
Derek/Anne Thanks a lot for your replies. Last weekend I brought home an old pc from work and installed Mandrake 9.0 to test my router/NIC cards and even got hold of an another NIC (3com 905 tx). On that old PC the installation went perfect and in a minute I could surf the web through my router. Then I went back to my current machine and just used one NIC(3com 905 tx). It didn't work so I looked at the irq (as suggested by Derek and Anne) in the KDE control centre information. I could not see the NIC listed there, but the USB was shown on irq11 which was also used by the NIC. I went back to the BIOS and disabled the USB and tried to look for the PnpAwareOS but could not find anything like this. Disabling the USB allowed the NIC to be seen in the KDE controlcentre information on irq11 but irq11 was still used by something else, it looks as if irq11 is used for plenty of stuff. I tried to move the NIC to another PCI slot, it did made the NIC to have a different irq number but another device still used the same irq. I looked in the bios to see if a could force one specific irq number to the nic only but it's look like it is not possible with my motherboard. I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble with motherboard ecs k7s6a (chipset SiS 745 with AC 97 audio codec) and found that you (Derek) had similar troubles with a ecs k7s5a. How did you managed to have this issue resolved in the end? What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq? I will really appreciate your experience on that one. JP OK...Some random thoughts You have 2 NICS. Are you sure you are configuring the correct one? Could eth1 be the device to use? Your NIC is on irq5 is anything else using irq5 ? An Interrupt conflict can cause funny things to happen. (KDE ControlCentreInformationInterrupts will show you) If there is a conflict, play with your BIOS settings or move the card to a different slot (if it is not built in) Disabling unused devices in the BIOS will also cause Interrupt lines to be be reconfigured. Also set the BIOS parameter PnpAwareOS=No What do you see if you type 'route' in a root terminal? Is the default route set up to use that interface? If not then delete the current default route with 'route del default' and create a new one with 'route add default dev eth0' HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory, so I think the machine sees the memory, but for some reason Linux is not seeing it all. Do I need to change some setting on my system? You need to either, install the 'enterprise' kernel, or compile your existing kernel from source and config the 'high memory' option. There's good reason why this is not in the 'regular' kernel. Kernel memory management above 1 gig is slower. If you don't just have to have 1.5 gigs of ram (video editing?), you'd be better off leaving the regular kernel as is. Yes, the enterprise kernel will see all your ram with no problem, but your system will be slower. Probly be a better idea to take one of those 512mb sticks out and sell it ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] www.TrueMajority.com
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:22 am, Adolfo ortiz wrote: It's good you're attempting to do something constructive, and that's all fine and well Adolfo. I just don't think this list is the place for it. I might be the only one who thinks this, and if so, Well then I guess I'll go ahead and start posting some links, and political rants as well. Ok people, shall we begin this, or end it gracefully ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
Tom you make a great point. I run mandrake linux with 256 megs of PC 133 Ram on an Athlon 1600 XP with no problems. So Fred sell all your 512 sticks and go get 256 and you will be fine. Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interested in a home based buisness? Go Shopping without leaving your house http://www.acnmall.com/sirduron Lastly would you be interested in saving money on products and services you already use if so please contact me. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Memory limit? On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory, so I think the machine sees the memory, but for some reason Linux is not seeing it all. Do I need to change some setting on my system? You need to either, install the 'enterprise' kernel, or compile your existing kernel from source and config the 'high memory' option. There's good reason why this is not in the 'regular' kernel. Kernel memory management above 1 gig is slower. If you don't just have to have 1.5 gigs of ram (video editing?), you'd be better off leaving the regular kernel as is. Yes, the enterprise kernel will see all your ram with no problem, but your system will be slower. Probly be a better idea to take one of those 512mb sticks out and sell it ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas 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] Memory limit?
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 10:44 am, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory, so I think the machine sees the memory, but for some reason Linux is not seeing it all. Do I need to change some setting on my system? TIA, Fred You need to change more than a setting OPen a terminal $ su password: (your rootpassword) # urpmi kernel-enterprise # exit Now boot with kernel-enterprise and you will see the extra memory The kernel is compiled specifically for a certain memory model (up to 1G) and for others you need other compiles. Kernel-enterprise covers 1G-64G Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory, so I think the machine sees the memory, but for some reason Linux is not seeing it all. Do I need to change some setting on my system? You need to either, install the 'enterprise' kernel, or compile your existing kernel from source and config the 'high memory' option. There's good reason why this is not in the 'regular' kernel. Kernel memory management above 1 gig is slower. If you don't just have to have 1.5 gigs of ram (video editing?), you'd be better off leaving the regular kernel as is. Yes, the enterprise kernel will see all your ram with no problem, but your system will be slower. Probly be a better idea to take one of those 512mb sticks out and sell it ;) Pretty soon all the PCs and laptops will need to have more than 1GB of RAM. What is happening here is probably an early signal for the kernel developers to revamp memory management. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] www.TrueMajority.com
Dennis Sue wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:22 am, Adolfo ortiz wrote: It's good you're attempting to do something constructive, and that's all fine and well Adolfo. I just don't think this list is the place for it. The place for it is the Mandrake OT list. Come and join the fun! 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] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?
Found this interesting, thought I'd pass it on. (Is the future really now?) Jerry. -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (o_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:14 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: Found this interesting, thought I'd pass it on. (Is the future really now?) Jerry. Personally, I can't find it interesting, since I don't know where or what it is -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lanThe problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert mode). And afterwards, KDE launching speed was unusable, as any other program launch. What might be happening? Do the kernel have to be tweaked in some way? Any incompatibilities? Thanks in advance, Rodolfo Lima.
Re: [newbie] Printer Hell (long post)
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:21 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Go back to Webmin, it says the printer is idle, rejecting jobs. Anyone have any idea what I did wrong/happened? Better yet, how to fix it? Otherwise I guess I'm going to have to check my warranty papers. For the life of me, I can't figure out what I did to cause all this. Can't help with the printing from nfs, but for the 'rejecting jobs' have you tried the 'CUPS WWW admin tool'. I'm pretty sure it can be re-set from there. Anne Hey Anne. Thanks for the reply. Yep, I tried that - it reports that the printer (and it does report the correct model) is ide - rejecting jobs. I can reset it, and nothing changes :-( -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
Rodolfo Lima wrote: Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert mode). And afterwards, KDE launching speed was unusable, as any other program launch. What might be happening? Do the kernel have to be tweaked in some way? Any incompatibilities? Thanks in advance, Rodolfo Lima. You need a lot more RAM or a much lighter window manager (IceWM, Fluxbox ... take your pick). There is no way you can run KDE 3.0 on 32MB of RAM - you need 128MB for even tolerable speeds, and 512MB would be necessary to give full performance. As a comparison, 32MB is barely enough to run Windows 98, and Mandrake 9.0 is not the equivalent of Win98, it's more like XP (except that it doesn't give the world access to your computer, and you don't have to sell your soul to install it). On the bright side, processor speed is not so important in Linux. My rather old computer with a Pentium II, 266MHz CPU has been running at tolerable speed under Mandrake and KDE since I bumped up the RAM to 128MB. 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
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:04 pm, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:14 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: Found this interesting, thought I'd pass it on. (Is the future really now?) Jerry. Personally, I can't find it interesting, since I don't know where or what it is I think Jerry was referring to this http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1717223 - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XCf4Gu5uuMFlL5MRAnCQAJ9uvopvQZH/xnp5WaOTv2w70CR6eACfQdIt tud5yR/oWK56iw6dN6A/POQ= =rqpp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:02 pm, Rodolfo Lima wrote: What might be happening? The computer has insufficient horsepower to do what you are trying to do. Although I have dual Pentium Pro 200MHz with 160MB RAM that makes a great home server, but a desktop it is not. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XCirGu5uuMFlL5MRAtAPAJ9AE7j09r7QVukM4LElVkMVMimNrQCdF0zr Ujan2og1PBErTdBgCJyKo0A= =YDhD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:28, robin wrote: Rodolfo Lima wrote: Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert mode). And afterwards, KDE launching speed was unusable, as any other program launch. What might be happening? Do the kernel have to be tweaked in some way? Any incompatibilities? Thanks in advance, Rodolfo Lima. You need a lot more RAM or a much lighter window manager (IceWM, Fluxbox ... take your pick). There is no way you can run KDE 3.0 on 32MB of RAM - you need 128MB for even tolerable speeds, and 512MB would be necessary). Large Snip I must beg to dissagree because of first hand experance. Right now I am running Mandrake 9.0 on a IBM thinkpad 266 MHZ and 64 MB of ram and often use KDE 3.0 and the speeds are tolorable. Slower than win 98 on the same machine but not all that much slower. I tried 9.0 on a Toshiba Tecra laptop with a 133 Mhz P1 and 80 mb of ram it was MUCH slower. I would guess about 20% or less the speed of the 266 mhz thinkpad even though the Toshiba had more ram. The installation on the toshiba also took AT LEAST 2 and probably 3 times longer than on the thinkpad. All that I can assume is that there was something going on with the hardware on the toshiba useing up lots of memory and or other resorces I never did figure out what the problem was the Toshiba was too much of a worn out piece of crap to invest much time and effort in But I can say due to some kind of hardware difference the IBM with only 64 mb of ram runs at a reasonable speed witn ML 9.0 and KDE 3.0 where as the toshiba with 80 MB was all but unuseable with LOTS of crashes. It sounds to me like Rodolfo may be having a similar problem however I will admit that 32 MB of ram is a bare minimum. As far as 32 MB being barley enough for Windoze 98 i have seen win 98 running on 3 machines with only 16 MB of RAM. It is VERY slow but I have seen people run for years like that at least for basic simple tasks. BTW I did just receive another 128 MB of Ram and will be installing it in the IBM in the next day or so. I am thinking about doing some sort if benchmark test to see how big a differance 3 times the memory makes Marc -- 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] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:02 pm, Rodolfo Lima wrote: Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert mode). And afterwards, KDE launching speed was unusable, as any other program launch. What might be happening? Do the kernel have to be tweaked in some way? Any incompatibilities? Thanks in advance, Rodolfo Lima. That is a very marginal machine for such an advanced OS. Try using Mandrake 7.2 for real speed or add memory, lots of it. You would want at least 128Mb for a P200 to put out acceptable speed. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
I would agree with the other respondents... you're way underpowered on RAM if you want a useable machine, especially with KDE. I have a Pentium 200 MMX with 64 MB of RAM. My installation took just about 1 hour- 4 times better than yours with only twice the RAM. But I'm not looking for performance, either... I was just looking for a machine that would work so I could learn Linux and see what's what. The research I did beforehand said that Mandrake 9.0 was the only distro that would run in graphics mode with only 64 MB of RAM- and I'm running Gnome, not KDE. Red Hat needed 128 MB in graphics mode. Not sure how- but maybe you could run in text-only mode and bag the graphics? Set up a little server (HTTP, FTP, mail, etc.) and use telnet or SSH to get in. A Pentium-II or Pentium-III with 128 or 256 MB of RAM should not be THAT expensive at this point, and would give you a half way decent workstation... just a thought. Regards,Marlo MontanaroCNERegistered Linux User 303184"There are 10 kinds of people in the world:Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Rodolfo LimaSent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:03 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200 Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lanThe problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert mode). And afterwards, KDE launching speed was unusable, as any other program launch. What might be happening? Do the kernel have to be tweaked in some way? Any incompatibilities? Thanks in advance, Rodolfo Lima.
[newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed a lot of people want to have OT discussions, so I created a mailing list for off topic discussions for anyone here to join. if you would like to join here is the URL: http://www.edificationweb.com/lists.html Hope to see everyone soon - -- David M. Edification Web Solutions http://www.edificationweb.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XDx/AulWMV3BRjARAvuDAKCwCPieXlkJH6J3+agnMmpEl0PXFgCfVLY3 Jn7CzTF9kHss6q1we+IJXMA= =lDGU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?
Subject: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete? Very similar to www.linuxbios.com capabilities. There are a few companies starting to use Linux kernel as its bios now. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
On Tuesday 25 de February 2003 23:02, Rodolfo Lima wrote: Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert mode). And afterwards, KDE launching speed was unusable, as any other program launch. What might be happening? Do the kernel have to be tweaked in some way? Any incompatibilities? Thanks in advance, Rodolfo Lima. I have installed Mandrake 9 on a Pentium 233 with 32 MB RAM with no problems. _BUT_ you'll have to choose light and small software for everything. -Fluxbox, IceWM, or other lightweight window manager. (Fluxbox loads in less than 3 seconds and works with no problems.) -Sylpheed for e-mail and news (Same. Loads in 2 seconds.) - Phoenix (or Opera) for the web. (About 5 seconds loading time for Opera, which is also more responsive than Phoenix) - Gaim for IM (Same as all. 2 to 3 secs.) -AbiWord and GNUmeric for text and spreadsheets. (about 5 to 10 seconds loading time, pretty responsive.) -Xmms for audio and MPlayer for video (as usual) (these two are just geat. MPlayer's loading time can be near-zero in certain circumstances.) With those, i had a really usable machine and it was actually a much better performer than Windows, as it culd have a lot of webpages open in Opera, Xmms playing some MP3s, Sylpheed open, and Gaim, all at the same time. On Windows 98, even trying to give it that much load would bring it to it's knees. Unfortunately the process which would take up the most RAM is the one you cannot replace -- the X server. (resident, taking up 12MB constantly) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:35 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:04 pm, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:14 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: Found this interesting, thought I'd pass it on. (Is the future really now?) Jerry. Personally, I can't find it interesting, since I don't know where or what it is I think Jerry was referring to this http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1717223 Interesting, but seems to be very little difference from my old Commodore 64 and OSI C1 days. -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What the sHell is foo ? ;-)
El lun, 24-02-2003 a las 04:59, Josenildo Marques escribió: And why is it used so much in examples ? The story as I've heard it is this: Long ago, coders began to use the acronym fubar (F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition), which later evolved into the more phonetic foobar used today. Being a popular term, both foobar and its shortened form foo have since become common placeholder terms in examples, to keep examples clearer and less obtuse. Thus if you were to ask me, say, How can I read a man page?, I might reply To read man page 'foo', enter 'man foo' at the console. It's clearer, if less precise, than replying man [options] [section] [title]. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200
I have a Pentium 200 MMX with 64 MB of RAM. My installation took just about 1 hour- 4 times better than yours with only twice the RAM. But I'm not I used to run a Pentium 100 with (at first) 16 megs of RAM, but that was back in 1996. Resource demands were less then. As I recall, Afterstep worked well as a lightweight and usable window manager. There are other choices as well. After I upgraded, in a series of steps, to 96 megs, kde was pretty tolerable, but some applications such as kmail were extremely slow in loading, window drawing, and so on. I also used a P-100 at work at that time (mid 2000) running Windows 98, 64 megs RAM. It was acceptable provided you don't try doing very much with it. In other words, 64 megs were enough to do email and play Solitaire in. But trying Excel and largish spreadsheets - forget it. I would sit idle at work for nearly 2 hours at a time watching that thing swap, and oftentime I would haev to leave it up at night to return in the morning to see it complete. I finally got them to give me a faster machine, but still it was unusable at times due to the excessive HD activity. And unlike Linux, when you swap on Windows, you can't do anything else. Not sure how- but maybe you could run in text-only mode and bag the graphics? Set up a little server (HTTP, FTP, mail, etc.) and use telnet or A good idea - 32 megs of RAM is more than enough for text/console work and you can do a lot with that, thanks to virtual consoles and so forth. If graphics are a needed feature, try a lightweight window manager, since KDE needs a boatload of RAM to do its thing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] www.TrueMajority.com
The place for it is the Mandrake OT list. Come and join the fun! IOW another list for the spammer to spam. Has the poster posted here before? It seems like a blind spam at a harvested mailing list to me. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?
In reply to Greg's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:35:36 -0500: I think Jerry was referring to this http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1717223 Interestingly enough, last week I read something on /. about regular software taking the place of BIOS chips, since BIOS chips were becoming too limited for what is needed from them. Talk about opposite worlds... PaulS -- I have already told you more than I know. http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Opera7
i guess if your machine is overspec'ed and blazing fast, opera(7) may not offer considerable (performance) advantages compared to other browsers. in answer to the qn, for most pp, Opera will probably be faster than Konq. IMO however, on any botherline machines, say 500mhz down and 128mb or less, opera is just about the best browser around. this is from a feature/performance/conformance standpoint. the beauty of opera isn't so much in it's features, but from intuitive and efficient way it allows you to work, ie, your workflow. eg. CTRL-N to open a page, type in url, and hit '2' to read prev with new page loads. eg2. browse with graphics off, visit www.foo-photoalbum.com hit g to turn on all graphics. CTRL-SHIFT click on 30 photos, and all pages browsed from this page loads with graphics. all others remain as per default (graphics off). /IMO now, if only i can wean myself off Outlook Express for my email. - Original Message - From: Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Opera7 How does O7 compare w/ Konqueror 3.1 for speed, appearance, compliance? I preferred O6, and now O7, on W2K to other browsers, but my feeling is that there isn't any advantage of O6.1 over K3 M9.0. Paul On Sunday 23 February 2003 11:46 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: The recent discussion encouraged me to give the Opera7Beta a trial under Mandrake9.0. It seems to work quite well. There are chunks of functionality missing from the Beta, but there are some interesting new features. The fonts are beautiful compared to the Opera 6.03 I was using, and if you hit Shift-F11 you can see Opera's new narrow page formatting. Not of much use on a desktop, but it is easy to see how useful it would be on a PDA. The EMail client is also very interesting. The automatic grouping of mails from all accounts into folders like 'unread', 'containing images' , 'from contacts' etc is useful, as well as the spam detection which seems to work. (Is it Beynsian I wonder?) derek Static RPM from http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/353-20030214-P1/ 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
