Re: [newbie-it] portatile - consigli
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:06:50 +0100 Guido Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dovrei comperare un notebook sul quale installare la Mandrake che uso a casa con il desktop. Qualche consiglio? Il database della Mandrake non è molto utile, dando come 'tested' solo prodotti della Asus e della Clevo. Ci sono dei siti specifici, ad es: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Comunque, stai attento alle componenti effettivamente presenti sul laptop che stai acquistando. Per es. in Istituto abbiamo acquistato in più riprese dei laptop di uno stesso modello: i primi avevano un soft-modem utilizzabile, l'ultimo una scheda combo audio+modem configurable solo come audio. Ufficialmente, sulle caratteristiche tecniche del produttore, c'è scritto solo che il pc contiene un modem. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] JDBC
Salve a tutti, quale programma si usa per gestire i database con JDBC?? Sotto winzoz esisteva una icona nel pannello di controllo chiamata tipo controllo ODBC (per ODBC), io cerco l'equivalente linux per JDBC!! Grazie a tutti e ricordate FATE L'AMORE E NON FATE LA GUERRA (Fatelo anche da soli, ma non rompete il c**o al modo) -- \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://utenti.lycos.it/santarellawebmaster/index.html Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Leggere un archivio web (.MHT) di microsoft
ho ricevuto via posta elettronica un file contenente archivi web in formato .mht in pratica sono una fusione di html e delle immagini in un unico file il sistema operativo (MDK 9)li identifica come messaggi di posta elettronica quindi mi chiedevo se esiste un modo per leggerli Come posso fare? mannaggia a questi file strani di Win$! ciao a tutti __ Tiscali ADSL, fino a 9 MESI GRATIS sull'offerta Tiscali ADSL Light Mega! Tiscali ADSL non teme confronti! Abbonati subito. http://point.tiscali.it/adsl/index.shtml
[newbie-it] Kmail e predefinito
Ave lista, la domanda è piuttosto banale. come si fa per cambiare l'indirizzo predefinito in Kmail? sara che sono a casa con la febbre e non ho un cXXXo da fare, ma cercando cercando non ho trovato nulla :-) Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ nel dubbio coricati majaSlack 8.1-2.4.20 Linux user Tattari_manna
Re: [newbie-it] Kmail e predefinito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:06, lunedì 24 marzo 2003, tom ha scritto: Ave lista, la domanda è piuttosto banale come si fa per cambiare l'indirizzo predefinito in Kmail? sara che sono a casa con la febbre e non ho un cXXXo da fare, ma cercando cercando non ho trovato nulla :-) Ciao , Tom Hai provato a trasformare la cartella Mail in un link simbolico alla cartella che vuoi usare tu? O intendevi l'indirizzo email che spedisci con kmail? In tal caso crei una nuova identità dal menù Impostazioni--configura kmail. A quel punto potrai scegliere nella mail con che identità spedire (te lo troverai sopra il campo del destinatario. Gigi Ps. Ma sei di Sassari? - -- Colmo delle suore: prendere un cappuccino a letto. -- Da it.hobby.umorismo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fzVXTvJtVxCNwP4RAkTFAJ9TJV2okjZAZkyIO8MPkCEwxqMU1QCgjrS9 2nLVBRLeoXrdlzM9aEQAYBA= =L36J -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Kmail e predefinito
On Monday 24 March 2003 17:41, Luigi Pinna wrote: O intendevi l'indirizzo email che spedisci con kmail? In tal caso crei yes una nuova identità dal menù Impostazioni--configura kmail. A quel punto potrai scegliere nella mail con che identità spedire (te lo troverai sopra il campo del destinatario. tnx , ora provo.. Gigi Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ nel dubbio coricati majaSlack 8.1-2.4.20 Linux user Tattari_manna
Re: [newbie-it] consigli per un'installazione
Alle 22:12, sabato 22 marzo 2003, Arwan ha scritto: Alle Saturday 22 March 2003 16:02, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] consigli per un'installazione (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: Giorgio ___ http://digilander.iol.it/conchiglieveneziane Mitico... (ragazzi, non sapete in che razza di posti vada a pescare quelle cose li' che ci sono sul sito...) Accipicchia, grazie per la pubblicità!
[newbie-it] connessione con modem ADSL
Chiedo aiuto!! Sono passato recentemente alla connessione con ADSL, pacchetto fornito da ALICE con modem Telindus Arescom ND220. Uso la Mandrake 9.0. Ho un riconoscimento della porta USB a cui è connesso (uno dei due lem del modem si accende), per configurarlo però è tutta un'altra storia. Il riconoscimento automatico mi propone la scelta tra una lista di driver di rete!?Il mio PC non ha nessuna connessione di rete! Come mi devo muovere. Sono un newbie assoluto! Grazie a chi vorrà aiutarmi!
Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers
On Monday 24 Mar 2003 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive me if this post comes across with html formatting, I am accessing my email account thru AT$T's web site and I cannot find anywhere to change the settings. I finally decided to upgrade my nvidia drivers (again - seems to happen as often as Mandrake releases!) but this time I am receiving alot of unresolved symbol errors. Mandrake 9.0 GeForce2 MMX w/64 ram NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.tar.gz NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.tar.gz From what I can find, it appears that my kernel does not match my kernel-header version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk kernel-source-2.4.19-24mdk NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up kernel-doc-2.4.19-24mdk I tried this as well (but not too sure the path was correct) make install SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-24mdk with no luck. What advise would anybody have? remove the kernel-source-2.4.19-24mdk and install kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk? Wait till 9.1 is out? (without startx till then...) Thanks for any help and or advise Steve It will be the kernel-headers causing you problems. kernel-headers-2.4.19-16mdk will be on your CDs derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Radio
How to run my PixelView Station BT878p+ with Fm ? I have instaled gradio and it doeasn't work, typed that the devises don't exist what should i write: ln -s /dev/? /dev/radio And the 2nd problem is how to run my tv card ? -- Help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just another cd burning question!
On Monday 24 de March 2003 04:03, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: In onother machine I have a cd-rom and a DVD! I want to remove the cd-rom, place de dvd on it's place and add a cd-burner! The question is: How about the upmi and alike? Do I have to rebuild the database ? If so, how? AFAIK no. The plain replacing of cd to a dvd could work? yeah. There is no scsi emulation! you will have to add it manually. Editing /etc/lilo.conf and adding hdx=ide-scsi to the append line and running lilo is enough. (replace hdx with the real name for the cd-rw device) Ricardo Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] supermount
I have been trying a few things, thinking the mounting had something to with it. Well maybe it does. I found that both, supermount and user worked the same (9.0). In fact I got so confused with mounting and rights, I ended up re-installing mandrake. After that I logged in as root and gave myself rights to all removable-media drives (keeping mounting option as supermount). It is working like a dream now. Also boot in grub, it made a difference to me Oren Tsur -Original Message- From: R.L.M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2003 19:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] supermount If turning off supermount is applied right away (which I assume is the case), no, it didn't work. I was trying to make a boot disk with no luck, turned off supermount, tried again -without- re opening the control center or anything, and it still didn't work. R On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:00, Miark wrote: On 21 Mar 2003 16:41:25 -0500 R.L.M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both my CDROM and Floppy are set to supermount. CDROM works fine, but my Floppy is giving me errors... input/output error, you do not have permission, etc. Any idea why my floppy isn't working (I just got a new one thinking it was the floppy itself..)? Are you able to manually mount it (after turning off supermount) ? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Rachel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of RachelDesigns.com -- - Are you a Christian Mother? Please come and join us at.. --- www.Christian-Mommies.com --- Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
I followed Miark's suggestion and made the change to lilo.conf append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi . It did not make a difference. When starting my x-cd-roast my DVD-ROM was still undetected, But then, AHAAA!!! I changed my booting agent to grub. PRESTO Everything is working tralala!!! So, ideas anyone? Every time I start my computer I get more confused, but that is well cool! Learning innit? Oren -Original Message- From: Pilaga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2003 00:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast El Jue 20 Mar 2003 08:05, Tsur, Oren escribió: Hi All Before I start, I am using KDE under MDK 9.0 - 1) How do I get X-CD-Roast to see my DVD-ROM drive? I want to use it as primary or secondary reading device. When I go into set up it shows my cd-rw as the recording device (which is fineda) but in the reading device I can only see the recorder drive again. Many thanks, Oren Oren: From www.xcdroast.org, download the last version (0.98alpha13), and you don't need SCSI emulate your DVD reader. Suerte. pilagá -- Taken from FAQ: /28. That new ATAPI mode causes problems! Should I use it?/ That new ATAPI mode is enabled by default in X-CD-Roast on linux. It requires a kernel 2.4.x and is able to access ATAPI devices directly through the IDE driver, without the help of SCSI emulation. However, that mode is still experimental and causes some problems. Using a CD writer in that mode is not recommended - please use always SCSI emulation here. The ATAPI mode on a writer will cause great delays in all X-CD-Roast operations, because communication with a device takes much more time. You will also notice a lot of driver errors in your system log files. This seems to be normal. You can tell X-CD-Roast to ignore the ATAPI mode when you start it with the -a option. There is also no DMA transfer supported at all though the ATAPI interface. On some not correctly installed machines X-CD-Roast will find your devices both via SCSI emulation and via ATAPI - they are displayed double in the setup. Things could work nevertheless, but use the scsi-emulated devices only then. (The devices without the ATAPI:-marking) Conclusion: Use your writer only with SCSI emulation, but a normal CD/DVD-ROM drive as read only device will work fine in ATAPI mode. This is also the default setup for many Linux distributions. Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
Tsur, Oren wrote: I followed Miark's suggestion and made the change to lilo.conf append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi . It did not make a difference. When starting my x-cd-roast my DVD-ROM was still undetected, But then, AHAAA!!! But did rou run /sbin/lilo in a terminal to get the changes to /etc/lilo.conf adopted ? I changed my booting agent to grub. PRESTO Everything is working tralala!!! Oren -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:39, Guy Rouillier wrote: Well, I can't help with your original question - sorry. But I bought a pack of the cheapest CD-R's available - Optimum - got a 50 pack for 94 **cents**. And I haven't had a single error on the 10 that I've burned so far. Before you toss your Memorex blanks, I would give one to a friend to test. Maybe your CD-RW just doesn't like them for some strange reason. At first I was really alarmed thinking that something might be wrong with my CD burner. To make myself sure I also burned them (the 9,1 CD's) in another box with the same outcome. I will try today in one of the company PC's. Gracias -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swith off!
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:13, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: After the upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9.0 the shutdown or halt commands are not switching off the computer anymore! The screen holds on: Power down And then I have to switch off mannually. Any help? TIA Ricardo I also had this kind of problem. What I did was to recompile the kernel turning ACPI on. (a few days ago somebody said that it has nothing to do with it. But it worked for me) Saludos -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /home ownership changes itself
Hello! I have installed Mandrake 9.0. Yesterday I installed ALT Linux Junior (Russian Mandrake derivative) on an empty partition. Both installations share one /home partition. Problem is, if I have used ALTLinux and reboot to Mandrake, my home directory belongs to another user. If I use Mandrake and reboot to ALT Linux my home directory belongs to user 501. In both cases I have to log in as root first, change directory ownership and only then log in as user. What is the problem and how to cure it? Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:09, Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Toshiba 5005-S504 and my mouse is working nicely. It was detected as a USB wheel mouse by Mandrake. Mine is a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. Anyway, go to Mandrake Control Center-Hardware-Mouse and try different ones. Maybe you find the right one in there. Suerte -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!
Adolfo, For the newbies who are still not very conversant with Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, please can you show (or refer us to a place which will show this) how this is done? With all respect to Linux, it would be nice to use the computer as we all did under M$ Window$. Meaning when you ask your computer to shut down, it actually does it. ;o) Many thanks, Oren -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 12:06 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swith off! On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:13, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: After the upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9.0 the shutdown or halt commands are not switching off the computer anymore! The screen holds on: Power down And then I have to switch off mannually. Any help? TIA Ricardo I also had this kind of problem. What I did was to recompile the kernel turning ACPI on. (a few days ago somebody said that it has nothing to do with it. But it worked for me) Saludos -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!
Recompiling the kernel is not trivial. Most of us can shut down without having to do this, so it should be left until you have no other option. I'm not sure where you can check your power settings - it's not where it used to be - but I'm sure someone will tell you. You may have said it already, but anyway, please tell us what your power settings in bios are. Anne On Monday 24 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Tsur, Oren wrote: Adolfo, For the newbies who are still not very conversant with Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, please can you show (or refer us to a place which will show this) how this is done? With all respect to Linux, it would be nice to use the computer as we all did under M$ Window$. Meaning when you ask your computer to shut down, it actually does it. ;o) Many thanks, Oren -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 12:06 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swith off! On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:13, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: After the upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9.0 the shutdown or halt commands are not switching off the computer anymore! The screen holds on: Power down And then I have to switch off mannually. Any help? TIA Ricardo I also had this kind of problem. What I did was to recompile the kernel turning ACPI on. (a few days ago somebody said that it has nothing to do with it. But it worked for me) Saludos -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] File encryption software
Thanks for all of the replies on this topic.. Still not too sure what is the best way of going really. The reason for encryption is that the files contain personal data which we don't want to pass clear text. In an ideal world the files will unencrypt themselves as the people we are sending the files are idiots ;) so we have to make it as simple as possible for them! The caveat for this is that they us windows so it would need to be an m$ executable file that is created. We already have a tool that can do what I want, but it needs M$ to do the encryption as well, I guess I could experiment using this under dosemu / wine. As the enryption process is done via a script can dosemu be run scripted rather than interactively (ie the program I have prompts for a password, can I feen the password in via the (dosemu) calling script instead?) Thanks for ALL of your help, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2003 18:27 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] File encryption software On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 13:41, David E. Fox wrote: Well, pkzip can create self-extracting executables, of course. But we've had them too for as long as I can remember -- they're callsed shell archives. Still you need some way to encrypt the file. On the other hand, if the OP wants to be able to extract (cleartext) files, why should the archive be encrypted in the first place? In case people aren't familiar with them, shell archives are really kind of neat in that they contain a shell script that extracts the files inside the shell script,via what's called 'here' documents (in shell, this is a 'file' that's embedded in a script.) #! /bin/sh # sample here document extractor cat extracted-file !EOF * this is a test of the emergency broadcast system this is only a test !EOF More recently, we see self-extracting archives where all the (binary) data is embedded in the script -- for example, open office's installer. Good one. Using uuencode/uudecode the problem is solved even for binaries. The only part missing is the encryption. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!
You could also try installing apmd, which handles power management. It's also possible that it's installed, but not running. Check to see if it's activated in your services (Mandrake Control CenterSystemServices) to see if it's activated at boot. If you don't find it in the list of services, it's probably not installed. APMD will usually manage your power-off function by communicating with acpi, but it may also shut your monitor down into standby mode after 15 minutes or so. However, if you don't like that feature, you can edit your XF86Config-4 file found in /etc/X11, and comment out the Option line regarding DPMS. Then restart your X server. Lanman On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 07:54, Anne Wilson wrote: Recompiling the kernel is not trivial. Most of us can shut down without having to do this, so it should be left until you have no other option. I'm not sure where you can check your power settings - it's not where it used to be - but I'm sure someone will tell you. You may have said it already, but anyway, please tell us what your power settings in bios are. Anne On Monday 24 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Tsur, Oren wrote: Adolfo, For the newbies who are still not very conversant with Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, please can you show (or refer us to a place which will show this) how this is done? With all respect to Linux, it would be nice to use the computer as we all did under M$ Window$. Meaning when you ask your computer to shut down, it actually does it. ;o) Many thanks, Oren -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 12:06 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swith off! On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:13, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: After the upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9.0 the shutdown or halt commands are not switching off the computer anymore! The screen holds on: Power down And then I have to switch off mannually. Any help? TIA Ricardo I also had this kind of problem. What I did was to recompile the kernel turning ACPI on. (a few days ago somebody said that it has nothing to do with it. But it worked for me) Saludos Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself
On Monday 24 Mar 2003 12:07 pm, Vahur Lokk wrote: Hello! I have installed Mandrake 9.0. Yesterday I installed ALT Linux Junior (Russian Mandrake derivative) on an empty partition. Both installations share one /home partition. Problem is, if I have used ALTLinux and reboot to Mandrake, my home directory belongs to another user. If I use Mandrake and reboot to ALT Linux my home directory belongs to user 501. In both cases I have to log in as root first, change directory ownership and only then log in as user. What is the problem and how to cure it? Wahur When files are saved in Linux the ownership of the file is saved as the UID number (User Identification Number) of the user. What you have done is assign different UID numbers in each of the two distributions. By default Mandrake will assign UID of 501 to the first user, then 502 etc. Most likely AltLinux does the same, but if you assigned users in a different order when you installed, you will end up with different UID numbering. The solution is to use kuser or Linuxconf to reassign the UID numbers (not userdrake) and then chown all the files in your /home. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!
This looks like very good solid advice. I will try it later today and will let you know;o) Ann Also thank you, I think you are absolutely right. Good solid OS shouldn't be about running to THE CODE all the time. Open source should not be the opposite or not in-line of user friendly! Oren Tsur -Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 13:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off! You could also try installing apmd, which handles power management. It's also possible that it's installed, but not running. Check to see if it's activated in your services (Mandrake Control CenterSystemServices) to see if it's activated at boot. If you don't find it in the list of services, it's probably not installed. APMD will usually manage your power-off function by communicating with acpi, but it may also shut your monitor down into standby mode after 15 minutes or so. However, if you don't like that feature, you can edit your XF86Config-4 file found in /etc/X11, and comment out the Option line regarding DPMS. Then restart your X server. Lanman On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 07:54, Anne Wilson wrote: Recompiling the kernel is not trivial. Most of us can shut down without having to do this, so it should be left until you have no other option. I'm not sure where you can check your power settings - it's not where it used to be - but I'm sure someone will tell you. You may have said it already, but anyway, please tell us what your power settings in bios are. Anne On Monday 24 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Tsur, Oren wrote: Adolfo, For the newbies who are still not very conversant with Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, please can you show (or refer us to a place which will show this) how this is done? With all respect to Linux, it would be nice to use the computer as we all did under M$ Window$. Meaning when you ask your computer to shut down, it actually does it. ;o) Many thanks, Oren -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 12:06 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swith off! On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:13, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: After the upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9.0 the shutdown or halt commands are not switching off the computer anymore! The screen holds on: Power down And then I have to switch off mannually. Any help? TIA Ricardo I also had this kind of problem. What I did was to recompile the kernel turning ACPI on. (a few days ago somebody said that it has nothing to do with it. But it worked for me) Saludos Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Testing that I can post again.
Just over two weeks ago, for no apparent reason, I suddenly stopped receiving anything from either the newbie or the expert lists. After a lot of work and co-operation between Mandrake and my ISP, they appear to have sorted the problems and things now seem to be back to normal. At least, I am now receiving again. Before telling my ISP that all is well, I want to check that I can send to the list. Sorry if this is OT! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] packetCD
Mandrake 9.0 can't read my packetCD, but this probably has to do with the fact that I used packetCD compression, and all the files on the CD appear in Mandrake as programs (cogwheels), with question marks behind them. Thanx From: Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] packetCD Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:59:21 + Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 20 March 2003 05:27 am, ivette brusselmans wrote: Anyone any experience with reading CDrw's in UDF-format (packetCD directCD) in Mandrake. Can't be done yet. It is experimental in the 2.5.x kernel right now. Not so. I've been doing this since MDK 7.2 at least. Up until 8.2 I'd mount them from the command line with: mount -t udf /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom. However, in MDK9 (which I've only been using for a couple of weeks) they seem to mount automatically. Writing to them is a different kettle of worms altogether. So far as I know it can't be done yet. This is a shame because it's one of the very few things that forces me to keep Windoze on my system - well, that and lack of support for my scanner. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Hotmail: je gratis e-mail ! http://www.msn.be/hotmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Radio
On Monday 24 March 2003 05:14 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: How to run my PixelView Station BT878p+ with Fm ? I have instaled gradio and it doeasn't work, typed that the devises don't exist what should i write: ln -s /dev/? /dev/radio Under the Mandrake Control Center, hardware, TV card. You can click the button that enables radio support. And the 2nd problem is how to run my tv card ? It will also setup your TV card with XawTV. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] File encryption software
What about using pgp? It encrypts files end email with a customised privacy level (key lenght)? Leonardo Diciolla --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Thanks for all of the replies on this topic.. Still not too sure what is the best way of going really. The reason for encryption is that the files contain personal data which we don't want to pass clear text. In an ideal world the files will unencrypt themselves as the people we are sending the files are idiots ;) so we have to make it as simple as possible for them! The caveat for this is that they us windows so it would need to be an m$ executable file that is created. We already have a tool that can do what I want, but it needs M$ to do the encryption as well, I guess I could experiment using this under dosemu / wine. As the enryption process is done via a script can dosemu be run scripted rather than interactively (ie the program I have prompts for a password, can I feen the password in via the (dosemu) calling script instead?) Thanks for ALL of your help, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2003 18:27 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] File encryption software On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 13:41, David E. Fox wrote: Well, pkzip can create self-extracting executables, of course. But we've had them too for as long as I can remember -- they're callsed shell archives. Still you need some way to encrypt the file. On the other hand, if the OP wants to be able to extract (cleartext) files, why should the archive be encrypted in the first place? In case people aren't familiar with them, shell archives are really kind of neat in that they contain a shell script that extracts the files inside the shell script,via what's called 'here' documents (in shell, this is a 'file' that's embedded in a script.) #! /bin/sh # sample here document extractor cat extracted-file !EOF * this is a test of the emergency broadcast system this is only a test !EOF More recently, we see self-extracting archives where all the (binary) data is embedded in the script -- for example, open office's installer. Good one. Using uuencode/uudecode the problem is solved even for binaries. The only part missing is the encryption. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)
I'm helping a friend install RedHat7.3. I realize now how good the MDK distributions are! We are trying to have a dual boot with W2K. The problem is that after RH installation, LILO does not show the W2K option. No problem, we think, let's boot in linux and insert in lilo.conf the additional entry, but it doesn't work: lilo refuses to upgrade the MBR because it does not see the partition hda5 (were W2K is). Looking better, we see that hda5 is not mounted at all. So we mkdir /mnt/windows and add a new entry in fstab with appropriate parameters. But now mount /mnt/windows reveals that ntfs is not build into the kernel. We try an insmod ntfs, but the module cannot be located: it's not present in the /lib/modules/.../ directory. :-( My understanding is that lilo refuses to upgrade the bootloader because it first tries to validate the lilo.conf accessing the partitions there indicated, but in our case fails because there is no ntfs support in the kernel and exits. It there a way around this mess? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Suerte, Thanks for your response. I have tried all the mouse options under Mandrake Control Centre. Nothings works so far. Fred -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:11 PM To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:09, Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Toshiba 5005-S504 and my mouse is working nicely. It was detected as a USB wheel mouse by Mandrake. Mine is a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. Anyway, go to Mandrake Control Center-Hardware-Mouse and try different ones. Maybe you find the right one in there. Suerte -- __ / \\ @ __ __ @ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / // celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax : +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com // pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Re: Radio
Is any body know what should symbolic linc include: ls /dev/? /dev/radio -- Help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers
Looks like no choice as to top or bottom posting thru AT$T's web site! Derek, I am at work, so there is no way to confirm that kernel-headers-2.4.19-16mdk is on the cd's - however looking thru the mirrors this morning, I find kernel- headers-2.4.18-41mdk is what is available for 9.0 If you have it or know where I could find kernel-headers-2.4.19-16mdk I would sure be thankfull. I have done a search, and found nothing close to that. Thanks Steve On Monday 24 Mar 2003 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive me if this post comes across with html formatting, I am accessing my email account thru AT$T's web site and I cannot find anywhere to change the settings. I finally decided to upgrade my nvidia drivers (again - seems to happen as often as Mandrake releases!) but this time I am receiving alot of unresolved symbol errors. Mandrake 9.0 GeForce2 MMX w/64 ram NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.tar.gz NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.tar.gz From what I can find, it appears that my kernel does not match my kernel-header version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk kernel-source-2.4.19-24mdk NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up kernel-doc-2.4.19-24mdk I tried this as well (but not too sure the path was correct) make install SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-24mdk with no luck. What advise would anybody have? remove the kernel-source-2.4.19-24mdk and install kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk? Wait till 9.1 is out? (without startx till then...) Thanks for any help and or advise Steve It will be the kernel-headers causing you problems. kernel-headers-2.4.19-16mdk will be on your CDs derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers
Sorry My mistake. I assumed the 2.4.19 kernel headers would be on the CD, but you are correct they are 2.4.18. I do not understand why the kernel headers should be for a different version of the kernel, and I cannot find any other version available. Personally I use the precompiled drivers from Mandrake Club, but this guide might be of some use to you http://www.icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/?c=ttrls/nvidiacli derek On Monday 24 Mar 2003 3:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like no choice as to top or bottom posting thru AT$T's web site! Derek, I am at work, so there is no way to confirm that kernel-headers-2.4.19-16mdk is on the cd's - however looking thru the mirrors this morning, I find kernel- headers-2.4.18-41mdk is what is available for 9.0 If you have it or know where I could find kernel-headers-2.4.19-16mdk I would sure be thankfull. I have done a search, and found nothing close to that. Thanks Steve On Monday 24 Mar 2003 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive me if this post comes across with html formatting, I am accessing my email account thru AT$T's web site and I cannot find anywhere to change the settings. I finally decided to upgrade my nvidia drivers (again - seems to happen as often as Mandrake releases!) but this time I am receiving alot of unresolved symbol errors. Mandrake 9.0 GeForce2 MMX w/64 ram NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.tar.gz NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.tar.gz From what I can find, it appears that my kernel does not match my kernel-header version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk kernel-source-2.4.19-24mdk NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up kernel-doc-2.4.19-24mdk I tried this as well (but not too sure the path was correct) make install SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-24mdk with no luck. What advise would anybody have? remove the kernel-source-2.4.19-24mdk and install kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk? Wait till 9.1 is out? (without startx till then...) Thanks for any help and or advise Steve It will be the kernel-headers causing you problems. kernel-headers-2.4.19-16mdk will be on your CDs derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers
I just became a Mandrake Club member this past weekend so I will go find those precompiled drivers. Will take a look at that link as well. I have installed - then upgraded Nvidia drivers quite a few times now but never ran into this problem. yanc (HTH - some program for tweaking Nvidia drivers) would not install either and I suspect it might be the same problem. Thanks for the pointers Derek, will take a look at those options tonight. Steve Sorry My mistake. I assumed the 2.4.19 kernel headers would be on the CD, but you are correct they are 2.4.18. I do not understand why the kernel headers should be for a different version of the kernel, and I cannot find any other version available. Personally I use the precompiled drivers from Mandrake Club, but this guide might be of some use to you http://www.icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/?c=ttrls/nvidiacli derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)
Raffaele, did you install lilo on your root / partition or on your master partition? Do you want to dual boot your machine or only mount your ntfs partition? If you want to mount it you have to compile the ntfs module at least and then go with modprobe or insmod. That doesn't depend upon Lilo. Leonardo. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I'm helping a friend install RedHat7.3. I realize now how good the MDK distributions are! We are trying to have a dual boot with W2K. The problem is that after RH installation, LILO does not show the W2K option. No problem, we think, let's boot in linux and insert in lilo.conf the additional entry, but it doesn't work: lilo refuses to upgrade the MBR because it does not see the partition hda5 (were W2K is). Looking better, we see that hda5 is not mounted at all. So we mkdir /mnt/windows and add a new entry in fstab with appropriate parameters. But now mount /mnt/windows reveals that ntfs is not build into the kernel. We try an insmod ntfs, but the module cannot be located: it's not present in the /lib/modules/.../ directory. :-( My understanding is that lilo refuses to upgrade the bootloader because it first tries to validate the lilo.conf accessing the partitions there indicated, but in our case fails because there is no ntfs support in the kernel and exits. It there a way around this mess? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Radio
On Monday 24 March 2003 10:21 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: Is any body know what should symbolic linc include: ls /dev/? /dev/radio Here, I have this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls radio* radio@ radio0 radio1 radio2 radio3 radio4 radio5 radio6 radio7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -al radio lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Mar 20 23:24 radio - radio0 Hope this helps. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache permission problems
Having problems with file permissions and Apache on a Mandrake 9.0 box. Error message is: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /bookmarks2.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.26 Server at mail.shadowdog.com Port 80 Permissions for the enclosing directories for the site are as follows: drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Mar 17 13:12 home/ drwx--x--x4 shadowdog apache 4096 Nov 19 08:43 shadowdog/ drwxr-xr-x 11 shadowdog apache 4096 Mar 5 10:13 public_html/ I've been through this before, but can't seem to remember what the magic permission combo is. Any help is appreciated. Andy Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 01:36, Mungandi, Fred wrote: Suerte, Thanks for your response. I have tried all the mouse options under Mandrake Control Centre. Nothings works so far. Fred Have you tried running mousedrake from a terminal? You should be able to just choose a generic USB wheel mouse... -- Tue Mar 25 06:35:00 EST 2003 06:35:00 up 3 days, 17:22, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.18, 0.13 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -- Blaise Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Monday 24 March 2003 20:08, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:32, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 24 March 2003 06:30, Adolfo Bello wrote: (Any idea about the 100% processor load?) Saludos That's just konq trying to read the file systems on those CD's and not really getting there. Good luck, HarM It also happened with no CD inside the tray. Thanks for the response. Yeah, well keventd is one or other KDE prog starting up AFAIK. So there is something starting up and not working as it should, probably konq I'd guess. Usually, if I get suspicious of KDE in general I start up an Icewm-session (because of the cpu activity gauge bottom left) just to be sure. Simple enough, if the cpu load is significantly lower (in Icewm) KDE is the chief culprit. Frankly, it usually is due to it's very nature trying to 'feel' like windows/xp. Actually, your 'empty' /boot directory after the power failure is IMO much more discerning. I've had quite a few self brought on catastrofes untill now, but never something like that. Tell us more! The more gory details, the better!;o) Good hunting, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to bounce 'To:' addresses
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 05:21, Ibly Piblo wrote: I have learned how to bounce spam and other unwanted mail back, but I would like to know if anyone here knows how to bounce spam back by the to: address instead of the from domain, or ip address. I am looking to bounce all mail that is addressed to Undisclosed.Recipients@ back to the sender. Wo8uld anyon eknow what I should type in /etc/mail/access ? Or would this be a procmail recipe? If that is the case, (procmail) would some kind soul please tell me what to type in the file and what to name it and how to call procmail? I would me most ever so grateful. Thank you Ibly That would be a job for procmail mate - you'd write a rule/recipe to bounce it either to /dev/null or somewhere else (like to someone's email address that you really don't like) -- Tue Mar 25 06:45:00 EST 2003 06:45:00 up 3 days, 17:32, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.14, 0.11 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** On-line, adj.: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 15:53, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Yeah, well keventd is one or other KDE prog starting up AFAIK. So there is something starting up and not working as it should, probably konq I'd guess. Usually, if I get suspicious of KDE in general I start up an Icewm-session (because of the cpu activity gauge bottom left) just to be sure. Simple enough, if the cpu load is significantly lower (in Icewm) KDE is the chief culprit. Frankly, it usually is due to it's very nature trying to 'feel' like windows/xp. Actually, your 'empty' /boot directory after the power failure is IMO much more discerning. I've had quite a few self brought on catastrofes untill now, but never something like that. Tell us more! The more gory details, the better!;o) Good hunting, HarM I am just googling around and finding information about keventd. Until now I have found this piece of information: fromgoogle http://www.scs.ch/~frey/linux/kernelthreads.html depending on the context of the creator of the threads the new threads may inherit properties from the parent you do not want to have. The new version avoids this by having keventd create the threads. The 2.2. kernel do not have a keventd, so this approach is not implementable there /fromggogle That's the reason why I don't have problem with 2.4.19 and have always had with the 2.4.2 series. Now I have to find out what might be causing keventd to overload my processor the way is doing it. With regard to damaging the /boot partition I didn't gather any additional information. I just reinstalled 9.0. Saludos -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off! - bad spellling?
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 05:42, Miark wrote: On a server, I simply eliminated APM and fixed my reboot/halt problems. On the appropriate append line in /etc/lilo.conf, add apm=off. Mine looks like this: append=apm=off Miark Or when you want things done right: append=tomato=on mayo=on lettuce=on onions=on bacon=on cheese=on meat=medium Today is National SmartArse Day in Aus Tray Ya. -- Tue Mar 25 06:50:00 EST 2003 06:50:00 up 3 days, 17:37, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.14, 0.10 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -- Art Hoppe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Monday 24 March 2003 21:08, Adolfo Bello wrote: Now I have to find out what might be causing keventd to overload my processor the way is doing it. With regard to damaging the /boot partition I didn't gather any additional information. I just reinstalled 9.0. I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real problem but my laptop wasn't useable to my liking. I haven't tried 9.1rc2 (and will not awaiting 9.1 final) so I don't know if the problem persists. In regard to the empty /boot directory: Did you try to do a lilo boot-loader installation/upgrade which failed? Frankly, my desktop runs 9.1rc1 fine and my laptop (which is the real workdog) keeps 9.0 for the time being (and my fileserver is still on 8.2, actually it only gets the x.2 versions:o)). Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off! - bad spellling?
On Monday 24 March 2003 20:52, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 05:42, Miark wrote: On a server, I simply eliminated APM and fixed my reboot/halt problems. On the appropriate append line in /etc/lilo.conf, add apm=off. Mine looks like this: append=apm=off Miark Or when you want things done right: append=tomato=on mayo=on lettuce=on onions=on bacon=on cheese=on meat=medium Today is National SmartArse Day in Aus Tray Ya. Nah! for real work horses you need meat=welldone. Nothing like scraping away black crusts to get you back down to to earth. meat=medium is for white-collars who like to pretend they like it raw;o) Good (smartarse)hunting, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real problem but my laptop wasn't useable to my liking. ...have you tried this from a system runlevel of 3 instead of 5? You might find that the overall overhead is decreased significantly by booting into runlevel 3 and manually starting your Xwindows sessions - and the WM doesn't eat up all that resouce/cpu time... I haven't tried 9.1rc2 (and will not awaiting 9.1 final) so I don't know if the problem persists. Yeppers! -- Tue Mar 25 07:35:00 EST 2003 07:35:00 up 3 days, 18:22, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.09 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Disclose classified information only when a NEED TO KNOW exists. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Final or rc3?
I see a 9.1-rc3 appearing on some of the mirrors. Is this the final or is there to be another round of testing? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Monday 24 March 2003 21:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real problem but my laptop wasn't useable to my liking. ...have you tried this from a system runlevel of 3 instead of 5? You might find that the overall overhead is decreased significantly by booting into runlevel 3 and manually starting your Xwindows sessions - and the WM doesn't eat up all that resouce/cpu time... I have/do on the laptop (never into 5) but it still isn't good enough to keep it for work i.e. trustworthyness. The P4 desktop is for everyone here, so that's KDE (and 9.1) to keep 'm all happy .especially teen-age daughters who are trying to co-erce MSN. Never knew about Xtart though, thanks for the tip and thanks to civileme for making it. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real problem but my laptop wasn't useable to my liking. ...have you tried this from a system runlevel of 3 instead of 5? You might find that the overall overhead is decreased significantly by booting into runlevel 3 and manually starting your Xwindows sessions - and the WM doesn't eat up all that resouce/cpu time... I haven't tried 9.1rc2 (and will not awaiting 9.1 final) so I don't know if the problem persists. Yeppers! I also booted Gnome and processor load was the same. I didn't try Icewm. I thought of booting in runlevel 3 but then I recalled that I didn't know how to look at processor load per process from the cli. Is there any command to do this? Saludos -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?
Mandrake hasn't said yet. On Cooker, a few days ago they said 9.1 was final. For 9.0 they tricked people. They uploaded an RC then renamed it final. This may be what is happening here. The curious thing is that the CD's are all over 650MB which on list I thought Mandrake said it would not do. Cheers Jason Todd Slater wrote: I see a 9.1-rc3 appearing on some of the mirrors. Is this the final or is there to be another round of testing? Todd 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] CDROM takes minutes to mount
Still no joy. On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote: Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices. Miark Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the MCC? If so, autofs wsa not even listed as something to turn on or off. It really seems as though the system is locking up for times varying from thirty seconds to over a minute now and then. Mounting a CD does eventually work (today I mounted an old OS/2 shareware CD flawlessly, except that it took four minutes). Now and then id does a read from the CD (as evidenced by the drive light), with *huge* time delays. I'm used to it doing a few reads in less than a second on the old SuSE system wtill running on the same hardware (dual boot, SuSE and Mandrake) and returning immediately afteward with a successful mount. So I wonder what could cause the delays. I sat and watched in boot Mandrake 9.0 today. The first noticeable delay was a minute and a half or so starting devFS demon. Id announces that it is starting the devFS demon, and about 90 seconds later (times without a clock) it announces success. The only other delays during boot are understandable timeouts:waiting for adsl to come up (the modem was off) and waiting to synchronize the clock (again, no net). Is ninety-seconds a normal time to take to start up devFS? Could startup delay with devFS be related to the slow CD mount problem? Is it possible to reconfigure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but I'll ask anyway.) What does devFS do, anyway? -- hendrik On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:11:45 -0500 Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:45:19PM -0500, Miark wrote: It's simpler to type the following on the commandline as root: supermount disable Well, I did this. and to make it permanent: supermount -i disable And then I did this to make it permanent. Now it takes five and a half minutes to mount the second Mandrake 9.0 installation disk. The problem is still not fixed. Once mounted, however, ls /mnt/cdrom is nearly instantaeous, but ls /mnt/cdrom/Boot took 34 seconds. I unmounted, umount /mnt/cdrom and the umount finished in only 14 seconds. Presumably tht ls /mnt/cdrom could be satisfied from some cache or other, and didn't actually have to consult the CD. In case it is relevant (supermount seems to work by changing /etc/fstab), here's the contents of /etc/fstab: - cut here /dev/hdb8 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda8 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom iso9660 codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy vfat codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,iocharset=iso8859-15,nosuid,user,exec,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /suse ext2defaults1 1 /dev/hdb11 /home2 ext2 defaults1 2 - cot here No mention of supermount anywhere. -- hendrik Miark On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:41:45 -0500 Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved this problem by disabling supermount on my removable drives.You can do this in the Mandrake Control Center - Mount Points. -CD Rom or Floppy - Options - supermount. -- Michael Shinobi Mandrake 9.0 http://lazyalfalfa.tripod.com/ 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:59, Adolfo Bello wrote: I also booted Gnome and processor load was the same. I didn't try Icewm. I thought of booting in runlevel 3 but then I recalled that I didn't know how to look at processor load per process from the cli. Is there any command to do this? Saludos Buenos Dias! You can run top at the console to view it all! -- Tue Mar 25 08:35:00 EST 2003 08:35:00 up 3 days, 19:22, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.06 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** marriage, n.: Convertible bonds. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?
On Tue 2003-03-25 at 09:00:54 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake hasn't said yet. On Cooker, a few days ago they said 9.1 was final. For 9.0 they tricked people. They uploaded an RC then renamed it final. This may be what is happening here. The curious thing is that the CD's are all over 650MB which on list I thought Mandrake said it would not do. They are not: -rw-r--r-- 682164224 2003/03/24 14:17:37 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD1.i586.iso -rw-r--r-- 681279488 2003/03/24 14:19:50 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD2.i586.iso -rw-r--r-- 681574400 2003/03/24 14:22:07 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD3.i586.iso 682164224 = 650.6MB 681279488 = 649.8MB 681574400 = 650.0MB They all fit well on my 74min CD-RW without overburning. Bye, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?
Yup, sorry, just realized I should not be doing math in the morning ;) Cheers Jason Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Tue 2003-03-25 at 09:00:54 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake hasn't said yet. On Cooker, a few days ago they said 9.1 was final. For 9.0 they tricked people. They uploaded an RC then renamed it final. This may be what is happening here. The curious thing is that the CD's are all over 650MB which on list I thought Mandrake said it would not do. They are not: -rw-r--r-- 682164224 2003/03/24 14:17:37 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD1.i586.iso -rw-r--r-- 681279488 2003/03/24 14:19:50 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD2.i586.iso -rw-r--r-- 681574400 2003/03/24 14:22:07 MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD3.i586.iso 682164224 = 650.6MB 681279488 = 649.8MB 681574400 = 650.0MB They all fit well on my 74min CD-RW without overburning. Bye, Benjamin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?
Your math is wrong - 650M = 1024*1024*650 = 681574400bytes. 680M would be 1024*1024*680 = 713031680bytes :D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right place to find the disks. I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said about this, but I think it was so. It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems? H, not sure about the software installer issue exactly, although I've never had a problem. However, I always make the following changes after I scsi emulate my DVD-ROM drive: (as root) vi /etc/devfs/conf.d/dvd.conf (then in vi):%s/ide/scsi/g :wq vi /etc/devfs/conf.d/rdvd.conf :%s/ide/scsi/g :wq service devfsd restart %s/ide/scsi/g substitutes all instances of ide in the file with scsi and ensures that /dev/dvd correctly points to your DVD drive. Btw, I initially began making this change for the benefit of Xine, not XCDroast or the software installer... I hope this helps, Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:38, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:59, Adolfo Bello wrote: I also booted Gnome and processor load was the same. I didn't try Icewm. I thought of booting in runlevel 3 but then I recalled that I didn't know how to look at processor load per process from the cli. Is there any command to do this? Saludos Buenos Dias! You can run top at the console to view it all! Buenos Dias, friend. Gracias again. (spanglish at its best) -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] startx/Xtart?
Greetings, I have a question regarding something quite mysterious, and I wonder if anyone out there can help me to understand what is going on here. I have been using Mdk Linux for several months now, and I have always had it configured to boot into X at start...a runlevel 5. Well, just today I thought I would change that and set it to start a runlevel 3. I am not quite so afraid of the cl now as I once was. :-) Anyway, what I have noted is that if I start x with the command Xtart, and then choose my default KDE, when KDE starts I get a black screen with the KDE3 graphic centered and then my familiar KDE desktop. What is different though is my fonts. They are very nice and crisp, and the same typeface as previous...except smaller. If I start x with the command startx, when KDE starts I get the familiar blue default background with the KDE3 graphic centered, and once more my familiar KDE desktop. This time however my fonts are larger. What is causing this? I actually increased the size of the fonts after the first start using Xtart. Is this being caused by differing screen refresh rates, or what? Where can I look to find my current refresh rate? (etc/X11/XF86Config-4 I can't fathom) I would truly appreciate any insight into this differing behaviour from Xtart to startx. TIA. Best 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 Get OperaMail Premium today - USD 29.99/year Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real problem but my laptop wasn't useable to my liking. ...have you tried this from a system runlevel of 3 instead of 5? You might find that the overall overhead is decreased significantly by booting into runlevel 3 and manually starting your Xwindows sessions - and the WM doesn't eat up all that resouce/cpu time... I haven't tried 9.1rc2 (and will not awaiting 9.1 final) so I don't know if the problem persists. Yeppers! I just finished installing kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk using urpmi. First time that I booted it, X didn't start. I decided to take a look at processes using top. Again, 100% processor load, with keventd hogging 99% of it. Keeping my search with google, I found some guys reporting the same problem, related to kapm-idled, which is supposed to save battery. I also read that turning apm=off might help solving this problem, so I added apm=off to append in lilo.conf. Now, when I select that kernel at the lilo menu the machine turns off almost instantaneously. Isn't that amazing? Next step is recompiling this new kernel turning APM off. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB memory stick
I have access to a Fujifilm 256Mb USB memory stick. Anyone know what device type should be used to call this in /etc/fstab? Since it is readable by default from win98, I assume it is formated as vfat. Can anyone confirm. So: mount -t vfat /dev/??? /mnt/removable Y/N? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself
change directory ownership and only then log in as user. What is the problem and how to cure it? Have a look at /etc/passwd on both distributions and synchronize them - at least for the users. It would seem to me that one distribution uses different user numbers for the users; for instance, mandrake starts at 500, the other distro might start at 100. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email them to you now. Basically you need to use the send core events argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse. I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW, they are found in /etc/X11/ Cheers Jason Greenwood Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Jason, Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file. Thanks, Fred Mungandi -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email them to you now. Basically you need to use the send core events argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse. I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW, they are found in /etc/X11/ Cheers Jason Greenwood Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] USB memory stick
On Monday 24 March 2003 02:02 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: I have access to a Fujifilm 256Mb USB memory stick. Anyone know what device type should be used to call this in /etc/fstab? Since it is readable by default from win98, I assume it is formated as vfat. Can anyone confirm. Don't sweat about that if you have hotplug running. When you plug it in, it should recognize it, and mount it for you. My camera, a Fuji FinePix 2650 with xD memory is recognized as MSDOS. Now, if you really want to hand mount it, then try using auto. Now for both these operations, you will learn alot by running (as root), tail -f /var/log/messages when you stick the memory stick in. That is, if USB is configured for your memory stick. If not, check www.linux-usb.org for more answers. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)
That's what I thought, and I did exactly as you write. But, running lilo to update the bootloader, we got the error message partition not found or something alike, and the bootloader was not changed. Thanks for the link, I was quite surprised seeing that ntfs is not included in RH. I guess MDK sets expectations too high. Anyway, the problem is partly solved: reinstalling RH, we noticed that there was an error in the way we configured the bootloader, and that's why the windows entry did not show up in the lilo menu. thanks again, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Irregardless of whether the kernel has NTFS built into it, you should still be able to get lilo to recognise the partition and boot to it. Your lilo should have an entry like: other=/dev/hda5 label=windows table=/dev/hda You HAVE to rerun lilo after modifying the /etc/lilo.conf - but this should work. If you want to mount the partition, you can find the NTFS modules at: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ They require no recompiling of the kernel - just run the RPM package suitable for your kernel and you're all set. Just remember that writing to NTFS partitions is NOT a good idea under anything than Windows... HTH! 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] lilo troubles (RH-related)
Leonardo, we installed lilo on the first sector of the /boot partition, as reccomended by the RH help for NT-linux coexistence on the same disk (in case of W95/98-linux coexistance it reccomended to put lilo in MBR instead), but I admit I did not understand why. What's this difference between W2K and W98m in terms of bootloader? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele, did you install lilo on your root / partition or on your master partition? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
